Louder with Crowder - ASH WEDNESDAY: Girl Problems, Favorite Movies, and Quarantine Reading Material

00:00:00.000 You're a strange animal, that's what I know You're a strange animal, I have to follow

00:00:27.000 I'm a spirit Oh

00:00:32.000 That's called the I'm Sitting Perfectly Straight.

00:00:34.000 Do I look like I'm moving, Half-Asian Lawyer Bill?

00:00:36.000 No, not at all.

00:00:38.000 Half-Asian Lawyer Bill Richmond is here today and he's very sick.

00:00:41.000 I am.

00:00:41.000 He is very sick.

00:00:42.000 He's a trash can right off camera.

00:00:43.000 But you know what will make me happy?

00:00:45.000 Is if you do the Hawk Neck Challenge.

00:00:45.000 What?

00:00:47.000 Oh, is that where you can move your body but not your head?

00:00:49.000 Yeah, you're failing.

00:00:49.000 Yeah.

00:00:50.000 Total epic.

00:00:51.000 No!

00:00:51.000 Can you do it?

00:00:52.000 Look how fat my head is.

00:00:53.000 Please don't ask me.

00:00:54.000 I can do it if my head fills the entire screen.

00:00:56.000 Is it a hawk, though?

00:00:57.000 I thought it was a different bird that does the... I don't know.

00:00:59.000 Chickens do it, too.

00:01:00.000 I mean, an owl.

00:01:00.000 All birds do it, I think.

00:01:01.000 A fowl.

00:01:02.000 Even turtle doves do it.

00:01:02.000 Why?

00:01:04.000 Something to do with flight.

00:01:05.000 But I don't understand, like, why do they decide... In other words, you could just start them anywhere in space, but they decide that, oh, this is where my head is supposed to be.

00:01:11.000 Like, why couldn't your head be down there?

00:01:13.000 Why don't you just readjust?

00:01:15.000 They want it to be even.

00:01:16.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:01:17.000 They can recalibrate.

00:01:18.000 So when they're flying, they can do this and turn without having their head crossed.

00:01:21.000 Steven Crowder destroys birds.

00:01:22.000 I mean, he already hits the ground, Al.

00:01:24.000 So they can do this and fly directly into the other cardinal that they see in the window.

00:01:29.000 Hashtag avians too.

00:01:31.000 There's a cardinal right outside of my window, outside of my garage, and every time we're in there doing jiu-jitsu, he just...

00:01:38.000 He wants to learn.

00:01:38.000 Wow.

00:01:39.000 Window he wants to learn and then when I pulled a car in And then I found out today. He was actually dive-bombing

00:01:45.000 into my neighbor's car Wow I don't know and like the thing is I kind of like him. I'm

00:01:51.000 gonna miss him when he's gone Yeah, you know he's a vivacious little prayer. I've got it

00:01:56.000 Red communist.

00:01:56.000 All right, so we are going to have an Ash Wednesday.

00:01:58.000 Are you going to smoke a pipe or anything at all?

00:02:00.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:02:00.000 Sounds like a horrible idea.

00:02:02.000 Are you kidding?

00:02:03.000 I came into the show and he brought in one of those energy drinks.

00:02:06.000 I was like, oh man, I'm really dragging.

00:02:08.000 He's like, yeah, you can have.

00:02:08.000 Can I have a sip?

00:02:09.000 And then it was one fluid motion.

00:02:10.000 He goes, yeah, you can have.

00:02:11.000 Don't drink it.

00:02:12.000 I'm actually really sick.

00:02:14.000 Don't take it.

00:02:15.000 Not good.

00:02:16.000 You don't look sick.

00:02:17.000 That's because I averagely look sick.

00:02:19.000 No, you look like you have some color.

00:02:22.000 Yeah, you don't look pale.

00:02:22.000 Oh, thank you.

00:02:23.000 It's yellow, thank you.

00:02:24.000 Well, yeah.

00:02:26.000 It's tough to tell.

00:02:27.000 It's just a tinge of rose.

00:02:29.000 Okay, so we'll get to An Ash Wednesday, but before that we're going to be talking about the Black Sit.

00:02:33.000 So, question of the day, have you heard of the supposed Black Sit that's occurring with black Americans?

00:02:38.000 They're leaving the United States, moving back to Africa.

00:02:40.000 It's being advocated by a lot of black activists.

00:02:43.000 Do you know anyone personally?

00:02:45.000 Do you think blacks need to leave?

00:02:46.000 Because, not me, this is what they are advocating over at Essence Magazine.

00:02:51.000 I think we have this article right here from Essence.

00:02:54.000 There's this increasingly sort of common claim that black Americans... Can we say blacks?

00:02:59.000 Is blacks okay?

00:03:01.000 I feel like that's wrong.

00:03:02.000 You're not supposed to say blacks.

00:03:03.000 African Americans?

00:03:04.000 People of color?

00:03:05.000 A lot of them aren't African American.

00:03:07.000 They don't like it.

00:03:08.000 You read me the riot act when I said African American.

00:03:10.000 Blacks!

00:03:11.000 That's true.

00:03:12.000 Coloreds are fleeing the United States to get away from racism.

00:03:17.000 This is what they wrote about in Essence magazine, even saying that this is a viable solution right now.

00:03:21.000 It's being suggested by black activists under the rule of Trump.

00:03:26.000 So just to give you a feel, by the way, for the author of this article, it's kind of gone

00:03:29.000 viral and it's been echoed by places, I think like the New York Times and maybe it was Huffington

00:03:34.000 Post.

00:03:35.000 Kristen Kirsten, Kristen Kirsten, they've got a thing like that, Savali, I want to make

00:03:38.000 sure I get her name right.

00:03:39.000 She claims that in America, black Americans will go with that.

00:03:42.000 That sort of feathers it up.

00:03:44.000 Black Americans took half from African Americans.

00:03:46.000 You know, what's happened since then?

00:03:48.000 Black Americans that they're supposedly living in occupied territory and that

00:03:52.000 the police are giving them, specifically under Trump, the right to kill them with

00:03:56.000 impunity. That's part of the premise. Let's hear from her.

00:03:58.000 We talk about what's happened since Ferguson. You know, what's happened since then, what's happened since the

00:04:04.000 inception of police departments.

00:04:06.000 There is a continuum of slave patrols who were meant to bring enslaved black people back to plantation.

00:04:13.000 Where the crime was not dehumanizing institutional violence of slavery, it was actually people seeking freedom and they were meant to bring them back.

00:04:21.000 So again, we're talking about occupied territories.

00:04:24.000 We're talking about oppressed communities.

00:04:26.000 We're talking about militarized police departments who have been given the right to kill with impunity.

00:04:31.000 And it happens over and over and over again.

00:04:33.000 Does your character have a hairnet?

00:04:35.000 No.

00:04:36.000 Wait.

00:04:40.000 Guess who?

00:04:43.000 I raised it back up.

00:04:43.000 There we go.

00:04:44.000 We all played Guess Who, right?

00:04:46.000 OK.

00:04:46.000 Yeah.

00:04:47.000 I really should get an actual prompter and then apparently start using it.

00:04:50.000 Oh, look what happened here.

00:04:52.000 This whole thing just shut down.

00:04:53.000 Thank you.

00:04:53.000 None of you can run prompter?

00:04:56.000 Think about this.

00:04:57.000 Do you think that Sean Hannity has to do this?

00:05:00.000 No, he reads exactly what is written for him by somebody else.

00:05:03.000 Offscreen.

00:05:04.000 Okay, so that's Kristen Seballe.

00:05:06.000 Let's take a look at some of these claims, though, that I think are pretty important.

00:05:08.000 One of the claims, okay, and you see this in the article, not all from that clip, that the Founding Fathers, they encoded dehumanization and oppression into the Constitution to preserve their privilege.

00:05:18.000 These are all direct quotes from Essence.

00:05:19.000 I highly recommend that you go read them.

00:05:20.000 Here's the truth.

00:05:21.000 That's bullcrap.

00:05:22.000 Okay?

00:05:23.000 The entire world employed slavery.

00:05:25.000 By the way, not just African Americans, okay?

00:05:29.000 Sorry about that.

00:05:31.000 Amtrak thanks you.

00:05:32.000 The point is...

00:05:34.000 All of human civilization practiced slavery since the beginning of time to one degree or another.

00:05:39.000 A lot of the world still does.

00:05:41.000 We ended it.

00:05:42.000 And this is something that's just shouted out a lot and so people accept it as true.

00:05:47.000 The Founding Fathers, they were actually very troubled, deeply troubled by the idea of slavery.

00:05:51.000 And they were already taking steps to try and pave the way to change the course of history and end slavery long before most other people were thinking about it.

00:05:58.000 So, the continuation of slavery was actually one of the primary gripes against King George before we declared independence.

00:06:04.000 I have a quote here from Thomas Jefferson.

00:06:06.000 King George III, lest you be confused, has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

00:06:23.000 That's always a good word.

00:06:25.000 Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this extricable commerce.

00:06:35.000 That is, he has opposed efforts to prohibit the slave trade.

00:06:39.000 Pretty clear.

00:06:40.000 Now, again, keep in mind, this is something that was not only legal, but it was enforced at this point.

00:06:45.000 Right now, let's say that there's an unjust law you disagree with.

00:06:48.000 Often you'll hear people say this to the right.

00:06:49.000 They go, well, if you disagree with this taxation, why aren't you actually violent?

00:06:53.000 Or why aren't pro-life people being more violent with abortion clinics?

00:06:56.000 Because that's not what we advocate.

00:06:57.000 We believe in working within the law.

00:06:59.000 We believe in respecting the rule of law, even as we try to change it through the system of law that we have.

00:07:05.000 So let's keep that in context.

00:07:06.000 Benjamin Franklin.

00:07:07.000 He said, a disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the king for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more into that colony.

00:07:20.000 This request, however, will probably not be granted as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

00:07:26.000 Now let's go to some of the personal actions.

00:07:27.000 Again, read the Essence Magazine.

00:07:29.000 It's predicated on the idea that our founding fathers were pro-slavery and wanted to continue it.

00:07:33.000 George Washington.

00:07:34.000 He made it so that his slaves could be freed.

00:07:40.000 I'm talking like her.

00:07:42.000 It's a continuum.

00:07:45.000 He wanted his slaves to be freed upon his death.

00:07:48.000 It was illegal, by the way, to do so while he was alive.

00:07:51.000 Jefferson, by the way, he maintained a strong anti-slavery stance throughout his entire life.

00:07:54.000 By his death, state laws had stiffened so much it was pretty much impossible for him to free the slaves as Washington had.

00:07:59.000 But Washington did that.

00:08:01.000 Upon his death, he freed his slaves.

00:08:02.000 Here's another claim you see from Essence Magazine, and blacks it.

00:08:06.000 Isn't it crazy?

00:08:07.000 Think about this for a second.

00:08:09.000 If I were to actually say with a straight face, blacks need to leave, that would be terrible.

00:08:14.000 But someone like her writing for Essence Magazine, where a far cry from Ebony and Ivory is, she's going, blacks need to leave!

00:08:24.000 But she lives here.

00:08:26.000 Yes, she does.

00:08:26.000 I think she splits her time between here and Ghana.

00:08:29.000 She has a nice cottage in Ghana.

00:08:32.000 Avoid the warlords.

00:08:33.000 A lot of miles there.

00:08:35.000 It is remarkable.

00:08:36.000 They always talk about this too with Canada.

00:08:37.000 Blacks should move to Canada.

00:08:40.000 It's pretty much the United States, only with worse health care.

00:08:43.000 Or back in the day when they talked about slavery, like, we escaped to Canada.

00:08:46.000 They would just say, hey, great, more slaves.

00:08:48.000 OK, get in line right here.

00:08:49.000 Hope you enjoy your shackles.

00:08:50.000 As though the United States is the only place where slavery has existed.

00:08:54.000 Another claim she makes, there is no corner in the United States where it's safe to be black.

00:08:59.000 Here's the truth.

00:09:00.000 Bullshit!

00:09:01.000 It's not even close.

00:09:04.000 No place in the United States where it's safe to be black?

00:09:07.000 Plano, Texas.

00:09:08.000 Burlington, Vermont.

00:09:09.000 Cedar Rapids.

00:09:10.000 Take your pick, Miss Guess Who.

00:09:12.000 As a matter of fact, do you know where black Americans are safer in general in the United States?

00:09:17.000 Can you guys take a guess as to where black Americans are safer in this country?

00:09:20.000 No.

00:09:20.000 Where?

00:09:22.000 What is it?

00:09:22.000 Tell us.

00:09:23.000 Could it possibly?

00:09:24.000 They're safer in white areas, predominantly white areas than black areas, as they're far less likely to be the victim of crime from the hands of white Americans than fellow black Americans.

00:09:33.000 I take no joy in that.

00:09:34.000 That's a statistical reality.

00:09:36.000 But I won't.

00:09:37.000 I bet you won't.

00:09:37.000 You're not going to hear that on the SPLC's latest hate crime email newsletter.

00:09:41.000 Instead, they'll be talking about Proud Boys getting into a bar fight with some guys in bandanas around their face.

00:09:47.000 I find interesting that there's no bit of irony to think about how we're going to change the system and say, okay, didn't have a black president apparently, have never had any black Americans in any level of government, kill with impunity.

00:10:01.000 I think that's the one that should be considered the most offensive from a truth standpoint, is the idea that if America has always been based on the idea of oppression and dehumanization Is what you're saying you want to go to Venezuela?

00:10:16.000 Or how about the Congo?

00:10:17.000 Well, even worse than that, when you say kill with impunity, that implies that white people,

00:10:22.000 and by the way, is there any worse generalization you can make about an entire race of people,

00:10:26.000 and let's include white people here, outside of they want to kill anything that looks different

00:10:31.000 Right.

00:10:31.000 from them?

00:10:31.000 And so the insinuation that all white people are just aching to, when no one's looking,

00:10:36.000 kill black people, gruesomely, for no reason. I mean, you really...

00:10:41.000 That is to assume that we have no humanity, that we have no empathy for our fellowmen.

00:10:45.000 It's just not the case.

00:10:46.000 And by the way, to tie that to race is also inaccurate, because many slaves were sold from African slave traders, as a matter of fact.

00:10:53.000 Eighty to ninety-five percent, according to leftist sources.

00:10:56.000 It's not even close.

00:10:57.000 The irony of someone saying, I'm going to look at you based on your race and decide that you have so little love and compassion in your heart, based solely on the color of your skin, that you will create an oppressive nation and make no corner of that entire country safe, is literally the personification of racism that she is allegedly trying to combat.

00:11:20.000 What was the budget to get the breakfast at Tiffany's Mickey Rooney lookalike here in the studio?

00:11:26.000 By the way, if you want to check this, as to black Americans being safer in white areas, all the aforementioned cities, they're all safer for black Americans than predominantly black cities.

00:11:36.000 You can look at the list of safest cities in the country.

00:11:38.000 By the way, for both white and black Americans, you can look at those stats.

00:11:41.000 Then, if you wanted to find the least safe cities for black Americans, you would have to take that list, scroll down, Keep scrolling.

00:11:48.000 Keep scrolling.

00:11:49.000 Yep!

00:11:50.000 That would be Detroit and St.

00:11:52.000 Louis.

00:11:53.000 And I don't know which one.

00:11:55.000 I think Detroit is worse, but you guys have it pretty bad.

00:11:58.000 This is the part where you argue for the check and you say, no, no, no, St.

00:12:02.000 Louis is worse.

00:12:03.000 Louis is definitely not worse.

00:12:03.000 Yeah, St.

00:12:05.000 But deep down, we all know it's Detroit.

00:12:08.000 But I will say, for example, historically there are parts of northern St.

00:12:11.000 Louis, which is actually in Illinois.

00:12:11.000 Louis or east St.

00:12:13.000 Yes, I got stranded outside of there.

00:12:14.000 My Ford Taurus blew the transmission.

00:12:17.000 Wow, not good.

00:12:18.000 Yeah, Tauruses are bad in that regard.

00:12:18.000 That was terrible.

00:12:20.000 Yeah, Tauruses are really bad.

00:12:22.000 I've never been to Detroit, but I've done a lot of research and looked into it and frankly hear a lot of stories from your dad about it.

00:12:28.000 Papa Trotter always talks about it.

00:12:31.000 But when you think about it, I think some people will hear what we're talking about and draw a conclusion that, oh, it's a race issue as to why African Americans are safer Statistically, in a white community, but it has actually nothing to do with race.

00:12:45.000 It has to do with cultures that either are concerned about lives or not concerned about lives.

00:12:50.000 That value human lives or don't value human lives.

00:12:53.000 And when you go to any city in America, whether it's Compton, whether it's some borough in New York, whether it's Detroit, or whether it's St.

00:12:59.000 Detroit is definitely worse.

00:12:59.000 Louis.

00:13:02.000 It's not even close.

00:13:03.000 You're going to find people who just say, I don't value human life.

00:13:06.000 And by the way, yeah. And a good point is that's not a race thing,

00:13:08.000 but I'll tell you what is where you could attribute something here to race.

00:13:12.000 You could attribute the voting block and not black Americans,

00:13:14.000 because you look at the changes in the voting block under Donald Trump,

00:13:17.000 but the activists like this writer for essence magazine and like the activists

00:13:21.000 who've tried to speak for the black community to instate policies that have

00:13:25.000 systematically destroyed them.

00:13:27.000 The problem is a lot of these people are not really representative of black

00:13:29.000 Americans. Go ask black Americans right now, if you could pay for a free ticket for them to go to any

00:13:34.000 country outside the United States to live forevermore, no one would take it.

00:13:37.000 So someone like this, let's be really, really clear.

00:13:39.000 She doesn't speak for most black Americans, nor do the BuzzFeed boldly lesbians.

00:13:44.000 We need to be really clear about this.

00:13:45.000 I feel like black people in the media, unfortunately, are often represented by social justice warrior leftists and not the true average black American voice who is probably the moderate base of the Democratic Party today.

00:13:56.000 Right, more to the center than anyone would consider them, either based on values or a deeply religious history.

00:14:02.000 I mean, so much of what I've learned personally about Black History Month is the connection to religion that sustained families who were coming out of slavery.

00:14:10.000 That's a huge thing.

00:14:12.000 The main message you hear is, nope, definitely religion is for white people.

00:14:16.000 Schooling is for white people.

00:14:17.000 These are all the young ones.

00:14:20.000 All the young, like millennials and younger.

00:14:24.000 What I would say is not, it's not all of them.

00:14:26.000 It's what you're seeing in the vocal minority, when people like Pearson Savalia are saying, look at how bad this is.

00:14:31.000 Look, let's all stand up and go.

00:14:32.000 And I say, make it like the club.

00:14:34.000 One in, one out.

00:14:35.000 You want to go?

00:14:36.000 All right, great.

00:14:37.000 We're going to let someone else come into the country who is excited to be here and they know that their skin color doesn't matter to their ability to be successful.

00:14:44.000 Right, but it matters to Kristen Zavalli.

00:14:46.000 Because how many Guess Who characters are going to fold down when you get to the point you're just winning, you're stacking the deck?

00:14:51.000 So yes, listen, even though you, let's be clear, you may run into The occasional, let's say, white racist farmer in Cedar Rapids.

00:15:00.000 I don't know.

00:15:01.000 I'm not familiar with Cedar Rapids.

00:15:02.000 If there's one farmer who's like, I don't know.

00:15:03.000 Listen, don't lump me in.

00:15:05.000 Let's call it your neighbor.

00:15:05.000 I don't know.

00:15:06.000 But a black American is far safer, say, in Burlington, Vermont, or Frisco, Texas, or Cedar Rapids than Chicago.

00:15:14.000 It's not even close.

00:15:15.000 And the good news is, black Americans, you can move to any of those places and you can still get BET.

00:15:20.000 Yeah.

00:15:21.000 What about the O Network?

00:15:22.000 I'm not entirely familiar with the O Network, but I know who she is, but I've never watched it.

00:15:28.000 That being said, I'm sure there's a package available for that.

00:15:31.000 See, all the white people, they get to watch their Matlock, and you, black Americans, Christians, you can watch your Family Matters or your Mo apostrophe Nique.

00:15:39.000 Big Tech has something for everyone.

00:15:40.000 By the way, hit the notification bell.

00:15:43.000 If you're subscribed, because subscriptions don't mean a whole lot these days, hit all notifications.

00:15:48.000 And we also have the channel Crowder Bits up on YouTube, which is ironically, I think, monetized, and this channel is not.

00:15:55.000 Can't make sense of it?

00:15:56.000 Don't even try to.

00:15:57.000 We're funded by mugs, not a foreign caliphate.

00:15:57.000 Mug Club.

00:15:59.000 Here's another claim.

00:16:01.000 The term Blacksit is used, and she uses this in her article, in essence, and talks about it.

00:16:06.000 The term Blacksit is used to describe black Americans leaving the country due to racism to live Somewhere else.

00:16:11.000 And this is important because this person is brought on to television programs to talk about the black sit.

00:16:17.000 You know, and of course, everything used to be a gate.

00:16:20.000 After Watergate, now everything's a sit.

00:16:22.000 After Brexit, it was like Brexit, black sit.

00:16:26.000 Bop it.

00:16:28.000 That was a fun, flick it, spin it.

00:16:30.000 What about the bump it?

00:16:31.000 Bump it's a hair thing.

00:16:31.000 The bump it?

00:16:32.000 Is that a hair thing?

00:16:33.000 It goes under your hair.

00:16:34.000 Makes you have a bump in your hair.

00:16:36.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:37.000 Why would you want a bump under your hair?

00:16:38.000 I don't know.

00:16:38.000 You're going to have to ask.

00:16:39.000 Someone says, ah, I want the hematoma look.

00:16:41.000 Country ladies.

00:16:43.000 Can I look like I just went four rounds with Buster Douglas and someone has to put cold stainless steel compress here?

00:16:48.000 I feel like that'll really work for me.

00:16:50.000 This is a good look.

00:16:50.000 It's going to catch on.

00:16:52.000 No, not bump it.

00:16:53.000 We were talking about Bop it?

00:16:55.000 Blacksit.

00:16:57.000 Somebody it's!

00:16:58.000 That's the point.

00:16:59.000 Let's go back to Gate.

00:17:00.000 Blackgate.

00:17:00.000 No, that's worse.

00:17:01.000 Blacksit.

00:17:02.000 Let's go Blacksit.

00:17:05.000 Was that the prison in Dark Max?

00:17:07.000 Come on, Blackgate!

00:17:10.000 Arise, Blacksit with me!

00:17:14.000 Okay, so this term is used, and what does that assume?

00:17:16.000 It assumes that it's actually going on.

00:17:18.000 A Blacksit, which is coined by activists.

00:17:20.000 Statistically, there is no Blexit.

00:17:20.000 It's not!

00:17:23.000 Funny story, actually.

00:17:24.000 Funny you should ask, viewer who I can't speak with but I can spy on your webcam because you don't have a sticky note or use ExpressVPN.

00:17:29.000 Under President Donald Trump, the single fastest growing group of illegal immigrants is...

00:17:36.000 African!

00:17:37.000 With a number of African immigrants growing at a rate of almost 50% from 2010 to 2018.

00:17:41.000 And a third of those were just Obama's half-brothers!

00:17:47.000 So much family.

00:17:48.000 A lot of family.

00:17:49.000 He doesn't even know all that much.

00:17:50.000 It's a big family.

00:17:51.000 That's great.

00:17:52.000 Dreams of his father.

00:17:53.000 Paternity test from his father.

00:17:55.000 So by the way, in this country immediately following, this is important to know, the

00:17:58.000 abolition of slavery, some free slaves were offered travel back to Africa where there's

00:18:02.000 a designated plot of land for the people who wanted to leave partially funded by Congress.

00:18:07.000 Most free slaves were, they were not thrilled with it.

00:18:10.000 They decided, you know what?

00:18:12.000 You keep your one way.

00:18:13.000 You know what?

00:18:14.000 I have heard of Blacksit, though.

00:18:15.000 Actually, no joke.

00:18:15.000 Really?

00:18:17.000 Actually, the article I read today about Blacksit was about the number of African-Americans who are deciding that they cannot be a part of the Democratic Party if it's going to support socialism.

00:18:28.000 Yes.

00:18:29.000 And just saying, this doesn't stand by our values.

00:18:31.000 Our values are more aligned on the conservative side, or at least in the independent.

00:18:36.000 The 95-year-old Jewish curmudgeon who tips 12% doesn't do anything for them?

00:18:40.000 He doesn't have his finger to the pulse of black America?

00:18:40.000 Nothing.

00:18:43.000 He doesn't.

00:18:44.000 Someone tell him he needs to watch Precious.

00:18:46.000 Oh, that's true.

00:18:47.000 That's it.

00:18:48.000 He's just a little bit out of touch.

00:18:49.000 We all have our blind spots.

00:18:52.000 Yeah, that is true.

00:18:52.000 Here's another claim.

00:18:53.000 Is that the Candace Owens Blacksit thing?

00:18:54.000 And now they're trying to... Yeah.

00:18:55.000 Blacksit.

00:18:56.000 Oh, Blacksit.

00:18:56.000 Blacksit.

00:18:57.000 So this is Blacksit.

00:18:59.000 Blacksit, yeah.

00:18:59.000 You just changed a letter!

00:19:01.000 Ugh!

00:19:01.000 I know.

00:19:02.000 Now, not saying Blacksit.

00:19:04.000 Not that blacks who are leaving are lazy.

00:19:06.000 You, Sabin Ali, are lazy.

00:19:08.000 You just changed one letter to get on CNN in a quadrant view.

00:19:12.000 Come up with a new name!

00:19:13.000 All right.

00:19:14.000 Here's another claim.

00:19:15.000 This is from the article.

00:19:15.000 According to the SPLC, you hear this a lot, the number of hate groups has risen.

00:19:20.000 Truth?

00:19:21.000 Bullsh**.

00:19:23.000 Very much so.

00:19:25.000 The SPLC includes churches, some of which I think are actually at least

00:19:29.000 half black churches and groups like the Proud Boys, which is a glorified drinking

00:19:33.000 club. There aren't more actual hate groups, they've just broadened their definition.

00:19:37.000 Second, a review using the same methodology that we're talking about here,

00:19:41.000 is these widely touted hate crime studies.

00:19:43.000 Here's a surprise, here comes some cold water.

00:19:45.000 It showed that Clinton's rallies were linked to an even greater rise in

00:19:50.000 So, either the methodology is flawed, or Hillary is 100% neo-Nazi.

00:19:55.000 She just saw Dershowitz, she has that Gestapo look in her eyes, someone get the valium pen, calm her ass down.

00:19:59.000 I mean, it's just remarkable to me.

00:20:00.000 We're supposed to believe that Hillary Clinton is Ed Furlong in American History X?

00:20:04.000 I don't believe that's the case.

00:20:06.000 I don't think that Hillary Clinton having a rally where nobody shows up or Elizabeth Warren is equivalent to someone being curb stomped in a hate crime.

00:20:13.000 But if we're using your standards, you're worse.

00:20:18.000 Here's another point.

00:20:18.000 Yeah.

00:20:18.000 Okay.

00:20:20.000 The article, right, it goes on to cite that black Americans living in places like Ghana and Qatar, that they should be places where black Americans maybe should move to to achieve a higher standard of living and less discrimination.

00:20:31.000 They argue that some black people have moved to these countries.

00:20:34.000 Black people from the United States.

00:20:35.000 This is the problem with this.

00:20:36.000 This is the divide and conquer.

00:20:38.000 I'm sorry, even in my own head right now, I'm not gonna lie to you.

00:20:40.000 I wanna say black, blacks, African-Americans, I keep correcting, no, I'm just gonna say blacks because you know my heart and I don't really care.

00:20:46.000 I can't say African-American when we're talking about a black American who went to Qatar.

00:20:50.000 Fuck you, black people, white people.

00:20:51.000 That's an easier descriptor for this right now.

00:20:54.000 You wanna say that that's racist?

00:20:55.000 Okay, just like when I watch the UFC or boxing and they describe one guy in the red trunks and one guy in the black trunks.

00:21:00.000 Well, how we describe the guy in the black trunks He's black, and him is white.

00:21:04.000 It's a white guy and a black guy fighting.

00:21:06.000 Why do we have to act like we're going by the trunks?

00:21:07.000 We're all going by the melanin.

00:21:09.000 Doesn't mean we hate the white guy.

00:21:10.000 Tyson Fury?

00:21:11.000 I dig him.

00:21:12.000 So, the truth.

00:21:14.000 And I don't not like Deontay Wilder because he's black.

00:21:18.000 Actually, Deontay Wilder, period.

00:21:20.000 The truth about all, it's complete bullcrap.

00:21:22.000 The quality of life is far, far lower in places like Qatar, despite what Clock Boy tells you.

00:21:27.000 And they still have indentured servitude to this day!

00:21:30.000 What happened to the slavery argument?

00:21:33.000 Under the Qatar, they have these things called sponsorship laws, okay?

00:21:36.000 Sponsors can, I want to make sure I get this right, cancel workers' residency permits, prevent them from changing employers, deny them permission to leave the country, and they can report them to the police if they do so.

00:21:45.000 There are similar laws in the UAE, other countries, and the Gulf states.

00:21:48.000 Yikes.

00:21:49.000 Are you familiar?

00:21:50.000 It's very extensive.

00:21:51.000 Yes.

00:21:52.000 I mean, this is decades long, and the growth of UAE and other Gulf states, I mean, it especially affects sub-continental Asia, like India, Pakistan, and some of the Southeast Asian countries, where people come over being told the exact lies that Kristen Cavalia, whatever her name is, is saying, oh, it's going to be great, the standard of living is going to be excellent.

00:22:14.000 And it's like, yeah, if you're the person hiring the indentured Their slave trade was much worse than the American slave trade.

00:22:20.000 Like, the death rate was under 10%.

00:22:24.000 Like, 10% lived.

00:22:25.000 Oh, really?

00:22:26.000 You mean the survival rate was 10%?

00:22:27.000 Yeah, the survival rate.

00:22:28.000 Yeah, I was gonna say, that's actually not a bad death rate.

00:22:30.000 That's a bad survival rate, though.

00:22:33.000 It's less than 90.

00:22:33.000 If you flip the numbers.

00:22:35.000 No, it's true, though.

00:22:36.000 People don't understand this because they've just been saturated with the idea that the Americans created the slave trade.

00:22:42.000 No, in these countries, there is no Harriet Tubman because she's not even allowed to drive a choo-choo.

00:22:47.000 Also, there are no ju-jus.

00:22:51.000 What?

00:22:52.000 Ben's never been there?

00:22:54.000 I don't know, because he was sued by Clock Boy.

00:22:55.000 How funny would that be if Ben had to be extradited to be sued by Clock Boy?

00:23:03.000 They'd just snatch him up in a clandestine mission.

00:23:06.000 That's another hoax that no one really reviews.

00:23:09.000 Remember when we remembered Clock Boy?

00:23:10.000 If you don't remember, it was all over the news.

00:23:12.000 People were like, how dare this school kick him out?

00:23:14.000 Turns out it was a total hoax.

00:23:15.000 A kid put a Phillips alarm clock in an old Samsonite.

00:23:18.000 Now we don't revisit it.

00:23:19.000 Okay, good for you.

00:23:20.000 It's good that you guys, meaning the leftists, it's good that you control the media because you never have to pay for your mistakes.

00:23:27.000 By the way, women in prison in Qatar, while we're not just talking about people of different

00:23:31.000 races, women sentenced for being raped,

00:23:33.000 sentenced to prison for being raped.

00:23:34.000 I wanna make sure I'm clear, this is not hyperbole at all.

00:23:36.000 An actual quote, a court handed down a suspended one year imprisonment

00:23:40.000 sentence for engaging in extramarital sex and deported her.

00:23:43.000 It also sentenced the man accused of raping her with 100 lashes for having extramarital sex

00:23:48.000 and 40 lashes for drinking alcohol.

00:23:51.000 So she, and this is what's important, not just that she was punished for being raped.

00:23:57.000 They acknowledged that she was raped because they punished the man for raping her,

00:24:01.000 but he was punished less severely than the woman who was raped.

00:24:04.000 And 40% of that same punishment was just because he drank alcohol.

00:24:08.000 Right, exactly.

00:24:09.000 So if you just like do the, like, I don't know, transitive property,

00:24:13.000 raping is, if you drink two puddles of alcohol in that nation, it's the equivalent of rape.

00:24:19.000 Listen, I just want to figure out my risk-reward ratio here.

00:24:23.000 If I rape her, I will be punished about two shots of Jagermeister.

00:24:28.000 Okay, okay, that seems like a fair trade.

00:24:30.000 Forty lashes, alright, okay, this is going to hurt.

00:24:35.000 That didn't get too dark.

00:24:37.000 This whole segment is dark.

00:24:38.000 I hate that we even have to talk about this.

00:24:39.000 I hate that I have to acknowledge someone who's a leftist activist claiming to speak for black Americans, telling black Americans they should leave this country because people like us want to harm black Americans without impunity.

00:24:52.000 It is just mind-numbing to me.

00:24:53.000 That breeds more hatred with young black Americans.

00:24:53.000 And you know what that does?

00:24:56.000 If they see their people in charge saying that all the time, they're going to believe that people like us Hate black Americans and want to harm them.

00:25:03.000 We don't want to see that for anybody.

00:25:03.000 We don't want that.

00:25:05.000 The exact point here is to create division, right?

00:25:08.000 Her entire point is you should be scared of anyone who looks or you think looks white, right?

00:25:16.000 Bill's sick today.

00:25:17.000 He's a little more pale.

00:25:18.000 All right, you're gonna be afraid of him.

00:25:19.000 Most days, he's totally fine.

00:25:21.000 No big deal.

00:25:22.000 You and John Henry, good buddies.

00:25:24.000 But no, that's the problem is, her entire mission is to be able to create division.

00:25:30.000 Without that division, no one gets her on the news.

00:25:33.000 So anytime anyone puts her on there, they are literally saying, I want to make sure that this message of division, based on false facts, is spread.

00:25:40.000 Right.

00:25:41.000 Now, it's a good point.

00:25:41.000 And by the way, also, the proponents, speaking of Asian, and I appreciate that you look whiter today because of your violent illness, they set examples of blacks living in Egypt, Vietnam.

00:25:50.000 So, let's go.

00:25:50.000 The average yearly income in a place like Vietnam is $2,300.

00:25:53.000 Egypt, you up it a little bit, $2,800.

00:25:53.000 For Ghana, it's $2,100.

00:25:54.000 That's annual income.

00:25:55.000 Egypt, you up it a little bit, $2,800.

00:25:58.000 That's annual income.

00:26:00.000 So let's get this straight.

00:26:02.000 This author and proponents of the Blacksit movement and the people on the media who host them

00:26:06.000 and their little, you know, three sectional views despite them being in the same studio.

00:26:09.000 They never tell you that story?

00:26:10.000 I don't know if I can say the name.

00:26:12.000 I think it was CNN.

00:26:14.000 It might have been Fox News.

00:26:15.000 This was years ago.

00:26:16.000 And they put us in different, like, quadrants, you know?

00:26:19.000 But we were in the same studio.

00:26:20.000 And toward the end I said, all right, and it was Doug Schoen.

00:26:22.000 I said, all right, Doug, high five.

00:26:23.000 And I reached into his quadrant.

00:26:26.000 And I got torn apart by the brass, like, do not do that!

00:26:31.000 We have to keep the illusion alive that we're important!

00:26:33.000 They need us!

00:26:35.000 They'll think they don't need us if they don't know that you're not in a quadrant from different locales!

00:26:40.000 They thought you were in Iowa, man!

00:26:44.000 The whole house of cards comes crumbling down if your hand goes in their quadrants.

00:26:51.000 Doug Schoen, my god, he's one of the best!

00:26:56.000 He's not quite Lonnie Davis, but he's right up there!

00:26:58.000 So hold on a second, let me get this straight.

00:27:01.000 Was that a slight?

00:27:02.000 Little bit.

00:27:03.000 Let's get this straight.

00:27:05.000 This author and these people are advising blacks to move to places not only where slavery is effectively still practiced, but where the yearly income is less than $3,000 a year.

00:27:16.000 While the median yearly income in the United States has increased more than $4,000 under Trump.

00:27:16.000 Right?

00:27:21.000 It's increased more than the total salary.

00:27:23.000 Total income of people in these countries.

00:27:25.000 And I get it, but if you go over there, where are you going to buy your sweet cakes?

00:27:29.000 Where will she get those hoop earrings and hairnets?

00:27:31.000 I have no idea.

00:27:33.000 I don't know.

00:27:34.000 I assume that there they can probably steal them from an indentured servant.

00:27:37.000 Yeah, that's exactly it.

00:27:40.000 By the way, that's humanizing.

00:27:42.000 Those are shower curtain rings.

00:27:43.000 A lot of people don't know.

00:27:44.000 She's resourceful!

00:27:46.000 Recycling.

00:27:48.000 Oh man, good for the environment.

00:27:49.000 So, I think you will see this narrative, by the way, we do have to get going to the Ash Wednesday.

00:27:53.000 I think you'll see this narrative increasing as we go into the election.

00:27:57.000 Especially, by the way, if Bloomberg is still in the race because the argument on race will, I think it'll become even more heated if it's Bloomberg.

00:28:05.000 If it's Pete Buttigieg, expect more accusations.

00:28:06.000 The argument will center around homophobia.

00:28:08.000 Just like, remember everyone who voted against Obama was branded a racist and then that switched to sexist overnight when Hillary Clinton was running?

00:28:15.000 If the gay Alfred E. Newman lookalike secures the nomination, then they're going to play the gay card for Pete Buttigieg.

00:28:20.000 But I think those are more sexism and homophobia.

00:28:24.000 They're more seasonal.

00:28:27.000 They're more seasonal, right?

00:28:28.000 Like pumpkin spice.

00:28:29.000 The race card is always The ace up their sleeve.

00:28:33.000 The race card is like the star on the menu that this is chef's recommendation all the time.

00:28:39.000 It's a concept, yeah.

00:28:41.000 Hey, I use mine all the time.

00:28:42.000 Anytime someone's like, oh, Bill should drive.

00:28:43.000 I'm like, Asian?

00:28:44.000 Nope.

00:28:45.000 Not doing it.

00:28:45.000 Right.

00:28:46.000 Unsafe.

00:28:46.000 And then, for some reason, then sometimes you claim that you're a cholo.

00:28:46.000 Exactly.

00:28:50.000 I am definitely a cholo.

00:28:51.000 You've told me stories that have confused you, and you just didn't correct them.

00:28:54.000 Why?

00:28:55.000 Why not?

00:28:55.000 It kept me safe.

00:28:57.000 I mean, why?

00:28:58.000 Why would I correct it?

00:28:59.000 I've watched him respond with, yeah, essay.

00:29:01.000 I'm like, why are you doing that?

00:29:03.000 He was actually just writing an essay, is what he was doing.

00:29:06.000 He goes to night school still.

00:29:08.000 So here's my preemptive question.

00:29:11.000 Let me ask you this.

00:29:12.000 Genuine question.

00:29:14.000 Where on earth, right now, today, in 2020, do blacks have it better than in the United States?

00:29:20.000 Let me be clear.

00:29:21.000 Is there some discrimination?

00:29:22.000 Of course.

00:29:23.000 To what degree?

00:29:23.000 That's a conversation, and it's one that I think that we should have.

00:29:25.000 That's where it's a productive conversation.

00:29:27.000 Are there individual racists?

00:29:29.000 Absolutely.

00:29:30.000 Quarterback Garrett is proof.

00:29:32.000 Slavery was awful.

00:29:33.000 Of course.

00:29:34.000 Got it?

00:29:34.000 Right?

00:29:34.000 I have to be really clear.

00:29:35.000 You have to say this 20 times as a white person if you're even touching the subject of race.

00:29:38.000 What's your opinion on slavery?

00:29:39.000 Slavery was terrible.

00:29:40.000 It was awful.

00:29:41.000 Don't make me have to repeat myself so that someone cuts it out of context.

00:29:44.000 You're going to have to be on my defense team.

00:29:44.000 You're my lawyer.

00:29:45.000 You don't want those kinds of hours.

00:29:47.000 Slavery was awful.

00:29:50.000 Got it?

00:29:51.000 After we abolished slavery in the United States, it was still awful.

00:29:56.000 In the continent of Africa.

00:29:57.000 And it's still awful to this day!

00:30:00.000 In parts of Africa, it's worse.

00:30:01.000 But in all of Africa, it's still worse than the United States.

00:30:03.000 But see, all of these things, all of the above can be true.

00:30:06.000 Black Americans can face different forms of discrimination and still be living in the best place in the world for someone of their skin color.

00:30:15.000 Period.

00:30:16.000 Maybe that's my blind spot talking.

00:30:17.000 White privilege.

00:30:18.000 Let's go to Ask Schwedensday.

00:30:19.000 That right there is the one expensive item I own.

00:30:37.000 Lighter for my wife.

00:30:39.000 She got a great deal on it for our anniversary, and she wanted to get me something special.

00:30:39.000 My wife got it.

00:30:43.000 And she always gets mad when I say my wife got a great deal on it for our anniversary.

00:30:46.000 Just like I got her... Oh, nice of you to join us there, Gerald A. Gerald!

00:30:50.000 Honey Frank!

00:30:51.000 Sorry, guys.

00:30:52.000 Because apparently this time around his pants would not suffice.

00:30:55.000 He makes it for the Ash Wednesday.

00:30:56.000 I love how we're covering for the fact that we just didn't tell him the episode started.

00:31:01.000 By the way, I also grew a beard.

00:31:03.000 My wife hates me telling this story that I got her engagement ring on Craigslist.

00:31:13.000 That's a great deal.

00:31:14.000 I got a great deal.

00:31:15.000 Did I ever tell you this story?

00:31:16.000 I think you did.

00:31:17.000 I know bits and pieces.

00:31:18.000 And by the way, for Ask Wednesday, you guys can send in your videos.

00:31:20.000 We take your video questions at loudmouthcutter.com slash ask.

00:31:23.000 That's right.

00:31:24.000 Ask slash ask.

00:31:25.000 You can send in your videos.

00:31:26.000 So what happened was I decided I wanted to propose to my now wife, then girlfriend.

00:31:29.000 Right.

00:31:30.000 Follow.

00:31:31.000 And I went on, at this point I didn't really know anything.

00:31:34.000 So I said, let me look on, someone said, go check out the rings on Craigslist.

00:31:39.000 I said, that sounds good.

00:31:40.000 Yeah.

00:31:40.000 So why didn't I check it out?

00:31:41.000 And there was a woman who said, this is confirmed, has the, uh, Zales, like, code, they put them underneath the little diamond, looking under, you know, this thing?

00:31:49.000 It's not a microscope, but what is this thing?

00:31:50.000 A loop.

00:31:51.000 A loop?

00:31:52.000 A jeweler's loop.

00:31:52.000 That's it?

00:31:53.000 That doesn't sound scientific at all.

00:31:55.000 A microscope, a telescope, what are you, I need a loop!

00:31:59.000 No.

00:32:00.000 What?

00:32:01.000 It's a loop, she can... What are you, sending Muppets to Fantasy Island?

00:32:01.000 Like off 121?

00:32:06.000 I can't help you.

00:32:07.000 This is your language, America.

00:32:11.000 Touché, right.

00:32:12.000 And in China, it would be like 19 syllables.

00:32:14.000 By the way, I have a question for you about Wencheng tonight.

00:32:16.000 Perfect.

00:32:17.000 So, what happened is it says, okay, this is a legitimate ring, and it's a steep discount, because I don't know if you know this, but diamonds are valueless, effectively.

00:32:25.000 It's just the way that it works, the way the industry works.

00:32:26.000 So, diamonds from last year are like nothing this year, which is weird to me, because it doesn't seem seasonal.

00:32:31.000 It's not like bell-bottoms.

00:32:33.000 It's a rock.

00:32:34.000 They say diamonds are forever, not like diamonds are for the spring season, for swimsuit season.

00:32:39.000 Nobody would see that James Bond movie.

00:32:41.000 No, not at all.

00:32:44.000 Um, and, uh, though, you know, what do we know?

00:32:46.000 I didn't think that octopussy would ever be allowed on a poster.

00:32:49.000 That's right out there.

00:32:49.000 Right.

00:32:49.000 Yeah.

00:32:50.000 Great point.

00:32:50.000 Think about that.

00:32:51.000 But don't worry.

00:32:51.000 Good point.

00:32:52.000 Think about that.

00:32:53.000 It's squid vagina.

00:32:53.000 It's like, what's this?

00:32:55.000 That is what, it's not even suggestive.

00:32:59.000 Steven, you know an octopus is not a squid, right?

00:33:01.000 I, well, okay.

00:33:03.000 Yes, and a whale shark's not a whale.

00:33:06.000 That's correct.

00:33:08.000 I'm glad you learned that lesson finally.

00:33:10.000 It's been years.

00:33:13.000 All squares are rectangles.

00:33:19.000 True!

00:33:20.000 They're just short, even rectangles!

00:33:23.000 So let me get to the story that my wife hates, because we had a slight disagreement this morning, and I really just want to dig the knife in right now.

00:33:29.000 So she hates me telling the story that I had a great deal on her engagement ring.

00:33:34.000 So I meet this lady, and I notice what's happening.

00:33:37.000 She's faking, like she's on the phone, because she's posting ads on Craigslist for these diamonds.

00:33:42.000 So she's under the impression that I might rape her.

00:33:45.000 What?

00:33:45.000 And so she's on the phone talking like, yeah, sweetheart, I'll be home soon.

00:33:49.000 And I'm sitting there and I'm like, no, no, I'm not going to, I'm not, I don't want to,

00:33:51.000 I'm not going to rape you.

00:33:52.000 I just want the diamond.

00:33:53.000 And, and then, you know, and then I found out that diamond is a slang term for ladies.

00:33:58.000 And I was like, no, the, the, the rock.

00:34:01.000 And then that's a slang term for drugs.

00:34:02.000 Right.

00:34:03.000 This part is not real.

00:34:04.000 I mean, it's true, but this wasn't what was most important.

00:34:07.000 So I went into Zales, and I said, hey, do you guys use your loop?

00:34:10.000 And they said, yeah, we'll confirm.

00:34:12.000 Yeah, that's from last year's diamond.

00:34:14.000 And they were trying to sell me on this year's diamond collection.

00:34:16.000 I think that's a lie.

00:34:17.000 I said, no, thank you.

00:34:18.000 So it was confirmed.

00:34:19.000 I purchased it at like 50% off the purchase price.

00:34:23.000 Nice.

00:34:23.000 And my wife thought it was the sweetest thing that she had ever received until I told her the story, and she was very pissed.

00:34:28.000 It doesn't matter where you got the ring.

00:34:30.000 You put a lot of thought into that.

00:34:30.000 Yeah, come on.

00:34:32.000 She just didn't like that I'm more enthusiastic about the discount than the engagement.

00:34:36.000 Alright, so now we've gotten to the meat of the matter.

00:34:39.000 You saved that money to spend on her in other ways.

00:34:41.000 Yeah.

00:34:43.000 Or an old Ford Taurus.

00:34:45.000 At the time I didn't have any money.

00:34:47.000 Also doesn't work.

00:34:48.000 I saved the money for you, honey.

00:34:50.000 She's like, no, fine, cash, right now.

00:34:52.000 Boom, bring me, give me the discount.

00:34:53.000 Because apparently my wife's a hooker.

00:34:55.000 Uh...

00:34:57.000 What am I, picking her up off the 405 like Eddie Murphy?

00:35:00.000 Wait, hold on. You're saying your wife doesn't demand cash from you?

00:35:03.000 I told... I told mine that time.

00:35:05.000 You come from a weird... the wet markets are the least of your worries.

00:35:08.000 It is a bizarre culture.

00:35:09.000 They sell wives too.

00:35:10.000 Do they?

00:35:11.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:35:12.000 Mail order. Who knew?

00:35:14.000 They respect the man of the household.

00:35:14.000 And you know what?

00:35:16.000 I will say that.

00:35:17.000 They should.

00:35:17.000 I did know a guy who actually did get a Filipino mail order bride, and he was like 90-something.

00:35:22.000 What?

00:35:22.000 And I tell you what, they loved each other until the day he died.

00:35:24.000 Wow.

00:35:25.000 It was a brief window.

00:35:26.000 Three weeks later, yeah.

00:35:27.000 But she was really sweet.

00:35:28.000 Then she married Cheryl.

00:35:29.000 You get a ticket to America.

00:35:30.000 She did, but she stayed with him.

00:35:33.000 What does everybody Wang Chun tonight mean, by the way?

00:35:35.000 I wanted to ask you that.

00:35:36.000 I'm only half Asian.

00:35:37.000 You said you speak Chinese!

00:35:38.000 I can't confirm.

00:35:39.000 The only words I know in Chinese are hurry up, you're in trouble, you're fat, get over here.

00:35:45.000 Because those are the things that were yelled at me when I was a kid.

00:35:47.000 Your mom yelled at you?

00:35:47.000 My mom, my grandma, my aunts.

00:35:50.000 I felt loved.

00:35:50.000 Everybody, okay.

00:35:51.000 How tastes piano key?

00:35:54.000 She jammed piano key.

00:35:55.000 Bamboo.

00:35:56.000 No, no, no.

00:35:56.000 Those go in the ears.

00:35:57.000 They go in the ears.

00:35:58.000 You don't taste that.

00:35:59.000 You sound flat.

00:36:01.000 White people, terrible children discipline.

00:36:04.000 And I'm not going to spring for cochlear implant.

00:36:08.000 That's just rude.

00:36:09.000 It's a double whammy.

00:36:10.000 Your cruelty and your frugality.

00:36:15.000 All right, so louderwithcrowder.com slash ask.

00:36:19.000 We have some video questions today for Ash Wednesday.

00:36:21.000 Do we have a pairing, by the way?

00:36:23.000 Oh, a pairing of the week.

00:36:23.000 We have a pairing.

00:36:24.000 Let me see the pairing of the week.

00:36:25.000 There's a domo and some buffalo traces.

00:36:27.000 They didn't even send a picture.

00:36:28.000 I don't believe them.

00:36:28.000 No picture.

00:36:29.000 I think they're a teetotaler who lies, and they want us to believe that they're a man, but they're not.

00:36:34.000 Mormon.

00:36:35.000 Let's go to the first video from the fans and start off Ash Wednesday.

00:36:38.000 Hey, guys.

00:36:40.000 How are you guys doing?

00:36:41.000 I've been watching you guys a little bit.

00:36:43.000 It's been fun.

00:36:44.000 I hope you guys like the brewing set over here in New Hampshire.

00:36:47.000 I just want to say I appreciate you guys doing that segment with Rhett and Link.

00:36:53.000 My thing I had said, I'm kind of walking throughout life with a kid who is struggling with his faith.

00:37:01.000 I brought up a lot of the same things that they're bringing up, and I've listened to their thing, too, because that's a big thing with the high schoolers.

00:37:07.000 I lead a high school ministry right now in my town, and that's a lot of things that are coming up right now with faith deconstruction and stuff like that.

00:37:17.000 So I really appreciate you guys diving into that tonight.

00:37:21.000 Love listening to you guys.

00:37:22.000 Man, I'm just praying for you guys.

00:37:25.000 It's been pretty tough right now.

00:37:29.000 Hope you guys are staying safe.

00:37:30.000 If you guys have any advice on, you know, what maybe are some good books to kind of go to during this time, especially for high schoolers.

00:37:43.000 Yeah, I appreciate that, but stay safe.

00:37:46.000 Be good.

00:37:47.000 See you soon.

00:37:48.000 Well, I really appreciate the, I don't think we got a name, but I really appreciate the video as far as which books to go to, how to edit.

00:37:57.000 Yeah.

00:37:58.000 Well, and I think he made a thread at the end.

00:38:00.000 See you soon.

00:38:01.000 Yeah.

00:38:02.000 Really?

00:38:03.000 That was a very nice video.

00:38:03.000 No, no, no.

00:38:04.000 But I do, I do find it odd when he was like, I hope you like the Boston Bruins hat.

00:38:08.000 Why?

00:38:08.000 First off, why would we like it?

00:38:11.000 And why would you hope?

00:38:12.000 Yeah.

00:38:12.000 Isn't there other, like you can hope for other things.

00:38:14.000 A lot of other things.

00:38:14.000 You know, that you don't get the, The thing, you know.

00:38:18.000 You can hope for two things at the same time.

00:38:20.000 Yeah, but why would you waste a hope on hope you like the Boston Bruins hat?

00:38:24.000 Because I'm from New Hampshire.

00:38:25.000 First off...

00:38:27.000 Okay.

00:38:27.000 What?

00:38:29.000 I'm not sure what the connection might be.

00:38:30.000 But I do appreciate, as far as books, I assume that he means like books on apologetics.

00:38:34.000 That's really more Gerald and Audio Wade's territory.

00:38:38.000 And I actually, you know, you taught me a lot about that when we had to do the whole sort of talk Islam rebuttal, which by the way, I appreciate you going into bat for me against the Pakistani government.

00:38:48.000 For people who don't know, follow me on Twitter.

00:38:50.000 I had a formal complaint and request of removal to Twitter from not someone in Pakistan, but Pakistan.

00:38:57.000 All of Pakistan got together and wants to kill Steven.

00:39:01.000 And I didn't even need to open the tweet in question that was reported as a violation.

00:39:05.000 I'm pretty sure it's the painting Mohammed.

00:39:08.000 It's gotta be.

00:39:09.000 Let me narrow it down.

00:39:10.000 Spoiler alert.

00:39:11.000 There you go.

00:39:12.000 Do you have books?

00:39:14.000 I do.

00:39:15.000 In line with a lot of this quote-unquote deconstruction thing, it frustrates me.

00:39:19.000 I understand the movement.

00:39:20.000 I hate that language.

00:39:21.000 I do too.

00:39:22.000 That's where I'm going.

00:39:24.000 People right now are bringing up a lot of arguments.

00:39:26.000 He's not a heathen asshole, he's deconstructing!

00:39:29.000 That is a better way of saying it, I guess.

00:39:32.000 Synonym!

00:39:33.000 Marian Webster says, hellbound!

00:39:37.000 Interesting, didn't know that.

00:39:38.000 Is that one word?

00:39:39.000 So, it's two words.

00:39:40.000 I think it's hyphen.

00:39:41.000 We're a little loose with the hyphenation.

00:39:43.000 Yeah, we are, yeah.

00:39:45.000 So, I think one of the best books that I've come across that really helps you understand the Christian faith from a non-Christian perspective is, and this is out there and everybody talks about it, C.S.

00:39:55.000 Lewis wrote a book.

00:39:57.000 Mere Christianity.

00:39:57.000 Yeah, Mere Christianity.

00:39:58.000 It's fantastic.

00:39:59.000 So, it's a great place to start for a lot of people who don't want to read a Christian-y type of book, right?

00:40:04.000 Something that's just, you know, big on the language.

00:40:06.000 I was going to say that, but I figured you guys had something like that.

00:40:08.000 I figured that would be sort of the vanilla.

00:40:10.000 Well, it is.

00:40:13.000 Stephen's saying he thought you would have a better answer.

00:40:15.000 I do have a better answer.

00:40:16.000 I think that's a great answer, but I know it's a very common answer.

00:40:18.000 Yeah, this is the beginning of the answer.

00:40:19.000 What would you say to their audio, Wade?

00:40:21.000 Yeah, I'd also recommend another C.S.

00:40:22.000 Lewis book called Miracles.

00:40:24.000 I really, really enjoyed that one.

00:40:25.000 It's more of a philosophical bent kind of thing.

00:40:27.000 Not to be confused with that sh**ty John Travolta film.

00:40:29.000 No, that was bad.

00:40:30.000 Please don't confuse the two.

00:40:31.000 Wait, was that Miracle, or is that... Wait, what am I... Miracle.

00:40:33.000 Kurt Russell.

00:40:34.000 Was that Miracle?

00:40:34.000 No, I'm thinking of Phenomenon.

00:40:36.000 Phenomenon, yes.

00:40:36.000 There was Phenomenon, and then Michael.

00:40:39.000 Both very similar covers.

00:40:41.000 Both terrible.

00:40:43.000 Another really great book, it's actually a debate book between Christopher Hitchens and a guy named Doug Wilson, and they wrote articles back and forth.

00:40:49.000 we're supposed to be impressed. We're not. Nor was the Swedish masseuse.

00:40:54.000 And another really great book, it's actually a debate book between Christopher Hitchens

00:40:58.000 and a guy named Doug Wilson, and they wrote articles back and forth. It's called Is Christianity

00:41:02.000 Good for the World? Very short little book, but it really, really highlights a lot of

00:41:06.000 really important points.

00:41:08.000 Another one would be God in the Dock.

00:41:11.000 So I gave you the basic answer first and this is a little bit more.

00:41:15.000 Don't spend too much time on it.

00:41:16.000 This isn't Oprah's book club.

00:41:19.000 Summary.

00:41:20.000 Well, no, I was going to say, give me a summary.

00:41:22.000 No, no, no.

00:41:22.000 It's, it's, it's articles back and forth, essentially for a debate club.

00:41:25.000 Like you would bring up a question and then later, uh, the, I think it was the next week, the other person would have a chance to rebut, right?

00:41:31.000 So they gave you time to actually go.

00:41:32.000 It's not like a Johnny on the spot thing.

00:41:34.000 Like you have to know the answer right now to rebut this.

00:41:36.000 It's what's actual truth out there.

00:41:37.000 What can we go find?

00:41:38.000 Yeah.

00:41:39.000 And I think those books are really good, and I would say often watching debates on, you can watch them on YouTube, that's one thing that you didn't really have access to for a long time.

00:41:45.000 You think about like college professors either lecturing or debating, and you can watch that.

00:41:50.000 And something that I've done quite a bit, as far as, if you're talking about obviously a knowledge base, a biblical knowledge base in theology, you need to read a book.

00:41:57.000 But if you're talking about sort of I guess putting that in an environment or making it appropriate, you know, having appropriate information at the ready for a debate, that's where watching debates live, and what I'll often do is watch debates live, try and find the person who I think is probably the best on the opposing side of, opposing point of view, and I'll pause it.

00:42:17.000 So what I'll do is I'll have them answer like it's real time, pause it, and then answer as though it's in real time.

00:42:22.000 My wife knows that I'll do that before, whether we do a change of mind or have a debate here, an actual debate on the show, where I'll just be in my office for, because listen, I'm not a very skilled debater at all.

00:42:31.000 I kind of fell ass backwards into this.

00:42:33.000 I'm not someone like a Ben Shapiro or Thomas Sowell, but that is a really useful tool.

00:42:38.000 And you just say, I am not going to allow myself to stammer.

00:42:41.000 I'm not going to allow myself to buy any, you just act as though you are in front of that lecture hall.

00:42:48.000 Pause it, answer in real time.

00:42:50.000 I'd say one other thing is a lot of folks are familiar with... That's what I was about!

00:42:56.000 Why are you stepping on my joke?

00:42:58.000 Now the Chinese audience knows the punchline, but for the Americans, what I was gonna say... Wade likes the racism a little bit.

00:43:05.000 So much!

00:43:05.000 I know!

00:43:06.000 We bond over it, what can I say?

00:43:08.000 I used to hate audio, Wade.

00:43:09.000 I was like, I hate audio.

00:43:10.000 I hate Wade's.

00:43:11.000 It's a terrible combination.

00:43:12.000 I hate everything about you.

00:43:15.000 Is to actually go back, because there's a lot of folks who will say, oh, you know, I read Mere Christianity, and maybe they read it in, you know, he's leading a high school ministry, which is excellent, but some folks may have read this, or read parts of it, or read it in a time where they weren't ready for the message, and I do find that going back to reading some of these books, if you've read any of the ones that were suggested, you should go back and try it again, and read it again, because I think you will have a different perspective.

00:43:36.000 Yeah.

00:43:37.000 So that's, even at the very least, even if you're someone who's like, I don't want to read a new book, just go back and revisit the old ones.

00:43:41.000 So, it'd be a good opportunity.

00:43:43.000 I saw that Joel has something to say, but I will say, hey, by the way, my cigar today is the Rocky Patel Sun Grown Maduro.

00:43:50.000 It was rated, I think, number two in Cigar Aficionados Cigar, was it 2017, 2018?

00:43:55.000 But the point is, you know it's not my favorite cigar.

00:43:57.000 That remains a mystery.

00:43:59.000 I've never gotten more requests than on social media for people saying, can you please tell me about the cigar?

00:44:03.000 I've literally said, one thing I want to keep for me.

00:44:05.000 I tell you everything else!

00:44:06.000 The best coffee!

00:44:07.000 The best fire!

00:44:08.000 I might as well just give away my favorite things for free, but it's a limited run of cigars, and I know that's how... We're a victim of our own success.

00:44:19.000 We advertise things, they sell out.

00:44:21.000 Rocky Patel's Sun-Drawn Maduro.

00:44:23.000 It's good, but it's not that good.

00:44:25.000 Your point.

00:44:26.000 All right, so this is a broader point.

00:44:28.000 When you're leading a ministry like this, these are not new arguments that people are coming up with.

00:44:32.000 Rhett and Link, those guys, they're not coming up with new things that they're talking about.

00:44:37.000 You can get caught flat-footed sometimes and like, well, have you ever heard about the Egyptian Horus or something like this?

00:44:42.000 This all existed before, right?

00:44:44.000 You need to go out and watch somebody who is, and I know I sounded a little like Alex Jones there on accident.

00:44:50.000 I don't want to let the cat out of the bag here and there's a good chance that I won't be here tomorrow if right people or wrong people see this broadcast.

00:44:58.000 They're trying to control you through the tail of Horus, folks.

00:45:02.000 The good news is the mind control chemical agents do not function if you purchase Colloidal silver also effective against coronavirus.

00:45:08.000 That's correct.

00:45:10.000 Exactly.

00:45:10.000 So I think go out and watch somebody who is making the arguments.

00:45:14.000 There's plenty of people out there, the atheists, that are making these arguments about, you know, that the Bible isn't accurate, it can't be trusted, and all these different things.

00:45:21.000 Don't just read up on Christianity Today's website or something like that.

00:45:25.000 Somebody who's out there saying, oh no, it's totally fine.

00:45:27.000 Go read what people are saying to these people so that you can understand the arguments that you're going to face, right?

00:45:31.000 It's kind of like when you prep for Change My Mind.

00:45:34.000 You go through all of the best arguments that somebody can make, and you're like, well, what do I think about these things?

00:45:38.000 It's a little different, and I will say the Change My Mind approach, and you know, I know we should write the book and get this out, and people have been kind of asking for it, and I want to get it out to you.

00:45:47.000 If you join up at Mug Club, it allows us to do all of these things and give them away at, effectively, up the price of cost.

00:45:52.000 But Change My Mind is a good approach because it's a Socratic method where people often say, oh, the debate.

00:45:57.000 Well, no, we've actually debated plenty of people on the show.

00:46:01.000 And we have calls out to professors.

00:46:02.000 As a matter of fact, the last Change My Mind we did, we were called out by a professor.

00:46:05.000 We said, well, let's do a debate.

00:46:06.000 And then, you know, they don't want to do it.

00:46:08.000 But Change My Mind is not a debate.

00:46:09.000 It really is, ironically, about trying to change somebody else's mind and allowing them

00:46:13.000 to approach you and change your mind.

00:46:15.000 So it sets it up in a non-confrontational manner, especially with issues of faith.

00:46:18.000 I think that's a good way to handle it.

00:46:21.000 Yeah, like a conversation.

00:46:22.000 There are two things that I, you know, in kind of doing research, like when we do a

00:46:24.000 meat segment, you know, my brilliant researcher, Reg, who's just so much smarter than I could

00:46:28.000 ever hope to be, and I'm, thank Christ, he's on our side.

00:46:32.000 And I mean that.

00:46:33.000 I literally sometimes go, Jesus, thank you.

00:46:35.000 Thank you for Reg.

00:46:37.000 Thank you.

00:46:38.000 hate me. Yeah. Because he could destroy everything that I hold dear.

00:46:42.000 So not using the Lord's name in vain, I actually say that prayer.

00:46:46.000 Literally.

00:46:46.000 It's the Crowder prayer.

00:46:48.000 And we kind of do when we do research for the meat segment, we go, OK, what's the fastest route to victory?

00:46:53.000 What is the need to know?

00:46:54.000 That's very, very different from trying to convince someone as to why your point of view might be valid.

00:47:01.000 That's a long ball approach.

00:47:04.000 It takes kind of guiding them down the path, getting them to question their points of view first.

00:47:08.000 And I think, especially with faith, because at a certain point, as bold as some Christians out there want to be, There's always an element of faith.

00:47:14.000 Not everything can be answered, and so you have to be prepared for that, and you have to create some kind of a connection before you go into some kind of information that you think is a trump card, and anyone who tells you it's easy or it's simple has never done it in real life, because it is not easy or simple, and you can be caught flat-footed, especially if you, like, that's what happens with Trump in debates.

00:47:32.000 They prepare, you know, Ted Cruz, I guarantee you, was prepared for all curveballs.

00:47:35.000 He said, your dad killed JFK.

00:47:37.000 What the fuck?

00:47:37.000 What happened?

00:47:38.000 You can't prepare for that.

00:47:39.000 You can't prepare for that.

00:47:40.000 And look at Curly Fiorita's face.

00:47:44.000 All right, let's go on.

00:47:45.000 We have another one at lottothedder.com slash ask.

00:47:48.000 ♫ Hey, Steven, this is a fan here.

00:47:57.000 I want to ask you a quick question.

00:48:00.000 I'm currently on my toilet, as I should be.

00:48:04.000 So I just asked this girl prom, and she said yes, thankfully.

00:48:08.000 But I don't know what to do next.

00:48:11.000 I don't know if I should talk to her, get a text?

00:48:17.000 I don't want to pursue a relationship with her at all.

00:48:20.000 Yeah.

00:48:23.000 That's kind of all that I have to say.

00:48:26.000 So thank you for all you do.

00:48:28.000 See you later.

00:48:29.000 Bye.

00:48:47.000 Otherwise, I have so many questions about the question.

00:48:51.000 There are a lot of presumptions.

00:48:53.000 I'm in the bathroom, as I should be, along with my Boston Bruins cap.

00:48:58.000 That would have completed you.

00:48:59.000 Did you crap in your Bruins cap?

00:49:00.000 How funny would it be if he was just wearing a New Jersey Devil's cap and his toilet was one big Boston Bruins?

00:49:05.000 That would be great.

00:49:07.000 That would be a connection.

00:49:08.000 So he asks a young lady to prom that he does not want to pursue anything with, which is fine, whatever.

00:49:14.000 If you're going to treat it that way, you're going to treat it that way.

00:49:16.000 But why would you, if you're going to do that, why would you continue to What's the question, man?

00:49:21.000 Just take her to prom and don't take her to prom.

00:49:22.000 Oh, he's gay!

00:49:23.000 It's gotta be a beard.

00:49:23.000 It's a beard.

00:49:24.000 That was where I was gonna go with this.

00:49:26.000 I had a girlfriend in high school.

00:49:28.000 She was a sweet girl.

00:49:30.000 She did nothing wrong.

00:49:32.000 She was very pretty.

00:49:33.000 Out of my league.

00:49:33.000 And what happened was I just wasn't over my other girlfriend.

00:49:36.000 I dated a girl for like five years and we broke up for a period of about a year.

00:49:39.000 And so I asked her out and then I realized that I still had feelings for my ex-girlfriend and I just avoided her.

00:49:47.000 Oh no.

00:49:47.000 for like a month and a half and I still feel bad about it because she did nothing wrong

00:49:52.000 and I wanted to, I didn't want to be unfair to her and build up a really intimate relationship

00:49:57.000 and then cut it off and so I just tried, and I should have just broken up with her.

00:50:00.000 So maybe he's coming at it from that angle where he didn't really want to go to prom

00:50:03.000 with her but maybe he felt that she was lonely and he's gracing her with that punim.

00:50:09.000 She should be so grateful.

00:50:11.000 Well, here's the thing, you know, kind of silver lining, proms aren't happening this year, so I guess you're off the hook, Chief.

00:50:11.000 Right, exactly.

00:50:17.000 That's true, yeah.

00:50:18.000 Wait, is this a setup?

00:50:20.000 Maybe that's what it is.

00:50:21.000 Cough on her door handle and call it a day.

00:50:23.000 Who sent in a question about asking someone to a prom that's not happening?

00:50:26.000 I think he's a liar.

00:50:27.000 I think there's a lot going on here.

00:50:29.000 I don't know, that was a toilet.

00:50:30.000 I think that was a glorified bidet.

00:50:32.000 A bidet.

00:50:33.000 A bidet is in a toilet.

00:50:34.000 Alright, someone else talk.

00:50:36.000 So, do we have any other questions?

00:50:38.000 Yeah, we have plenty of other questions.

00:50:40.000 I guess we ran out of runway on that one pretty quickly.

00:50:44.000 If that was a runway, that was an Eastern African completely deserted bombshell runway of a question.

00:50:51.000 Why it's gotta be African?

00:50:52.000 Could be in the Yunnan province.

00:50:53.000 Haven't you seen Lord of War?

00:50:54.000 Come on.

00:50:55.000 But if that's the question, maybe it's like... Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:50:57.000 Hold that thought, hold that thought.

00:50:59.000 The guy whose favorite film is Constantine just referenced the shittiest Nicolas Cage film.

00:51:05.000 No, no, no.

00:51:06.000 That's not the shittiest Nicolas Cage film.

00:51:07.000 You should be switching.

00:51:08.000 No.

00:51:09.000 Hold on.

00:51:09.000 That is a shittiest movie.

00:51:10.000 Yes.

00:51:10.000 But that is not the shittiest.

00:51:12.000 Not that Nicolas Cage has done.

00:51:12.000 Yeah, that is not.

00:51:14.000 He has done some bad ones.

00:51:15.000 Are you?

00:51:15.000 My God, that's middle of the road for him.

00:51:17.000 Yeah, okay.

00:51:18.000 But for your, in your best picks, it's Upper Echelon.

00:51:22.000 Yeah, that's.

00:51:22.000 Oh yeah, it's a top five.

00:51:24.000 It's not Warlord.

00:51:26.000 Oh, right.

00:51:27.000 I'll just try to assume that he's asking a reasonable question, which is, I asked a girl to prom.

00:51:33.000 Don't you love how Wade, Audio Wade, is like the friendliest, most polite guy?

00:51:37.000 But he delivers the biggest gut punches of anyone.

00:51:40.000 I know, I know.

00:51:41.000 He just assumes everyone's an idiot.

00:51:42.000 Yeah, I like you guys.

00:51:44.000 Yeah, so I'm assuming that he means I asked a girl to prom.

00:51:50.000 Prom's cancelled.

00:51:51.000 I guess he left that out.

00:51:52.000 And then now what do I do?

00:51:54.000 Because I feel like I have initiated something with her, but I don't want to continue anything.

00:52:00.000 Maybe that's what it is.

00:52:01.000 Did you just raise your hand?

00:52:03.000 I did, because this man just raised his hand.

00:52:08.000 He needs to learn how to communicate better.

00:52:09.000 If that is the actual question that he had for us, he needs to spell it out a little bit better.

00:52:14.000 That's the first step.

00:52:16.000 Communication skills in a relationship are going to be really important.

00:52:19.000 Yeah.

00:52:20.000 Just leave six feet away.

00:52:21.000 Just say, I can't talk to you anymore.

00:52:23.000 I don't want to get COVID.

00:52:24.000 Does anyone get the feeling that Gerald identifies with the girl in this question?

00:52:28.000 He's like, just tell me.

00:52:30.000 Just tell me what you want to do.

00:52:31.000 I don't.

00:52:32.000 I don't at all.

00:52:33.000 He watched Never Been Kissed and was like, so true.

00:52:36.000 That's me.

00:52:39.000 It looked at the poster, I guess.

00:52:40.000 Yeah, it cried at the poster.

00:52:42.000 And I don't mean Mr. Arquette.

00:52:44.000 Ah.

00:52:45.000 What's his name?

00:52:46.000 Will Arquette?

00:52:47.000 David?

00:52:47.000 David Arquette.

00:52:48.000 That's right.

00:52:49.000 Patricia Arquette is the other one.

00:52:50.000 Meow.

00:52:52.000 And it's Arn't Time for Equal Pay!

00:52:54.000 That was Patricia Arquette, right?

00:52:56.000 It's Arn't Time!

00:52:57.000 Take your 77 cents and shut up.

00:52:59.000 It's true.

00:53:00.000 Do it.

00:53:01.000 Count yourself lucky.

00:53:02.000 If we assume this guy's asking a reasonable question, then my thought is, And he doesn't want to pursue anything.

00:53:08.000 He should just not text her.

00:53:09.000 There's no prom.

00:53:10.000 That's the worst advice.

00:53:12.000 The first answer here was the right one.

00:53:17.000 Touch her teats and see what happens.

00:53:19.000 In our assumption, they can't see each other.

00:53:20.000 They're not going to prom.

00:53:21.000 How is he going to do that?

00:53:22.000 Our assumption, they can't see each other, they're not going to prom.

00:53:26.000 How is he going to do that?

00:53:27.000 Logistics, Steven.

00:53:29.000 Gerald, did you say teat?

00:53:32.000 I did.

00:53:32.000 Oh my gosh.

00:53:33.000 And I don't want you to give me a hard time about it.

00:53:34.000 What was the correct word?

00:53:35.000 Gerald, I want to hear you say it.

00:53:36.000 What was the original word?

00:53:38.000 Breast.

00:53:39.000 That's not the word at all.

00:53:40.000 No.

00:53:41.000 Teton.

00:53:42.000 I really appreciate the look of disappointment that you have.

00:53:45.000 Like a father who caught his 14-year-old child scrambling porn from the dish.

00:53:50.000 What?

00:53:51.000 The cable dish.

00:53:51.000 Satellite dish.

00:53:52.000 Descrambling.

00:53:53.000 Kids don't understand this nowadays.

00:53:54.000 They have it all accessible and it's disgusting.

00:53:58.000 I think this is one of those deals where really just be straightforward and just let her like, hey, sorry, prom's off.

00:54:05.000 Thanks.

00:54:06.000 Have a nice life.

00:54:06.000 That's it.

00:54:07.000 You know?

00:54:07.000 And then she's just like, oh, am I cute?

00:54:10.000 Say, no.

00:54:11.000 And then just go on your merry way.

00:54:12.000 That's a good, that's actually a good point.

00:54:13.000 Yeah.

00:54:14.000 Just tell her that.

00:54:15.000 Just tell her, listen.

00:54:16.000 Just regard all the other things you said.

00:54:17.000 Just say, I only date 10s.

00:54:19.000 Hey, hey, even better, just send her a link to this video.

00:54:23.000 There you go.

00:54:23.000 Timestamp.

00:54:24.000 Steven said.

00:54:25.000 Now I feel bad about everything we've done.

00:54:28.000 I don't.

00:54:28.000 She's watching this.

00:54:30.000 Hey, hey, hey, if you're watching this, young lady, You could do better.

00:54:34.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:54:35.000 There we go.

00:54:36.000 You saw the video questions.

00:54:37.000 He was a kid in a bathroom.

00:54:38.000 The toilet, man.

00:54:39.000 And he didn't even have any hockey... Paraphernalia.

00:54:42.000 Paraphernalia.

00:54:43.000 I mean, he could have been a nice guy.

00:54:45.000 No hockey accoutrement.

00:54:47.000 Accoutrement.

00:54:48.000 Alright, let's go to the next question here.

00:54:50.000 Man, these are... These are not questions that really give us a lot to mine right now.

00:54:54.000 Not top tier.

00:54:55.000 Next one.

00:54:56.000 Hey everybody, I just wanted to get all your opinions.

00:54:56.000 So long.

00:54:59.000 Accept your lays.

00:55:01.000 Uh, but I really want, and I have to ask Mark from Bill Richmond, what are some of your favorite classic action movies?

00:55:07.000 And also, I have something pretty cool to show you, so check this out.

00:55:12.000 So, let's get started.

00:55:14.000 Okay, before we go into anything, hold on.

00:55:42.000 Do you see this?

00:55:45.000 See, smoking is cool.

00:55:49.000 I don't know what that was.

00:55:49.000 Kids, listen up.

00:55:55.000 It was a faithful, a faithful recreation of the drama.

00:55:59.000 Listen, he's doing his best!

00:56:00.000 I appreciate it.

00:56:01.000 I know he wants half Asian bills, it's probably Lord of War, but my favorite, like, as far as bad action film, because I think most action films are terrible and people deceive themselves into thinking that they are good.

00:56:11.000 Yeah.

00:56:12.000 Cobra is what it is.

00:56:13.000 It is the ultimate terrible film, because there's a little hint of self-awareness, but not enough to make the bad not a level worth appreciating.

00:56:22.000 You are a connoisseur of bad films.

00:56:27.000 So contextually, actually, growing up, I only watched one action movie, and I watched it over 30 times, because it was the only video that we had on tape at my house that was an action movie, and I was grounded the rest of the time.

00:56:40.000 Couldn't watch TV, we didn't have cable, obviously there was no YouTube at that time, or whatever else you could use to steal movies.

00:56:47.000 So I watched Speed.

00:56:49.000 Over 30 times.

00:56:50.000 Is that an action movie?

00:56:51.000 That's because you saw a portion of yourself in Keanu.

00:56:54.000 And Sandra Bullock, too.

00:56:54.000 I did.

00:56:58.000 Both of them.

00:57:01.000 Unfortunately, I have not seen a lot of what people consider to be the classic action movies.

00:57:04.000 I didn't see Top Gun until I was in college.

00:57:09.000 At that point, I was still like, I get why people like it, but I don't personally like it.

00:57:14.000 So, speed.

00:57:17.000 Speed, not bad.

00:57:18.000 Cobra is right up there for me as far as action films.

00:57:21.000 I think as far as the best kind of action film, it would be Terminator 2.

00:57:26.000 I don't know how James Cameron did something right, that's the only time that I can think of.

00:57:30.000 And yes, I am including the alien films.

00:57:32.000 Comment below, I don't give a rat's ass.

00:57:35.000 I was told not to answer by this prick, but nonetheless.

00:57:40.000 Hey, obviously we don't have any respect for the people that ask the questions.

00:57:42.000 Yeah, we love you!

00:57:43.000 You know we love you!

00:57:44.000 We gotta give you a hard time.

00:57:45.000 It's like you're on the show.

00:57:46.000 No, I love Terminator 2.

00:57:47.000 That's the very, very, very best.

00:57:49.000 But, like, as the bad ones that are kind of funny, like Tango and Cash was, like, badly funny.

00:57:53.000 You know what I mean?

00:57:54.000 And then, uh, I actually like Predator.

00:57:56.000 A lot.

00:57:56.000 Yes!

00:57:57.000 Original Predator.

00:57:58.000 Actually, the most recent Predator was the best in the series.

00:58:01.000 Which, uh, with Ian Peel?

00:58:02.000 Or with, uh, Peel, is that?

00:58:04.000 Yeah, they're two separate black gentlemen.

00:58:04.000 I can't remember which one it is.

00:58:06.000 I know they are, but they...

00:58:07.000 The name... I don't know which is which.

00:58:09.000 I really don't.

00:58:10.000 Is it Keegan?

00:58:11.000 Mr. Hall and Oates?

00:58:12.000 And I know they're not black.

00:58:13.000 Keegan-Michael Key.

00:58:14.000 Yeah, which one?

00:58:15.000 Keegan-Michael Key.

00:58:16.000 Keegan-Michael Key.

00:58:17.000 I thought it was actually very good.

00:58:18.000 I thought it was reading predator because it didn't take itself seriously and was kind of a wink and a laugh at the previous franchise.

00:58:23.000 Yeah, it was.

00:58:24.000 Audio?

00:58:25.000 I don't think you've seen it yet.

00:58:25.000 Well, as far as classic action stuff, I really like the old In Mission Impossible TV show.

00:58:30.000 I really enjoy that one.

00:58:32.000 Oh, you must have...

00:58:33.000 Do we need to replay that 19-minute question video?

00:58:36.000 He did say movies.

00:58:37.000 Films, yes.

00:58:37.000 He said films.

00:58:38.000 Films.

00:58:39.000 Well, yeah, fine.

00:58:39.000 I don't have enough.

00:58:42.000 Well, you got me there, Steven.

00:58:44.000 So that's the thing.

00:58:45.000 Once you get Wade off of his sort of pre-written through line of crapping on everybody, he's not so quick on his feet.

00:58:52.000 What action films do you like?

00:58:54.000 I like old westerns, but those aren't really action films.

00:58:58.000 They are westerns.

00:58:59.000 Yeah, so like an old John Wayne movie, like, you know, Rio Bravo, that kind of thing.

00:59:03.000 That doesn't count as an action movie.

00:59:05.000 I like the John Wayne films.

00:59:06.000 I like the Shootist.

00:59:07.000 The Shootist is great.

00:59:08.000 Shootist is not really an action film, but I feel it's sort of like the Heath Ledger scenario with John Wayne films.

00:59:15.000 He was riddled with cancer, he was dying in real life, and he was dying in the film, and it just kind of captured everything at that moment in time really well.

00:59:24.000 So I do like that film.

00:59:25.000 A lot of people remember John Wayne films as better than they were.

00:59:30.000 Some of them are good, but a lot of them were crap.

00:59:33.000 I agree.

00:59:34.000 But some of them are great.

00:59:34.000 The best ones, I mean, Searchers and stuff like that.

00:59:36.000 Yeah, Searchers is great.

00:59:38.000 Yeah, I think it's always among, usually when you look at top Westerns, I think it's usually Searchers or Unforgiven or Interchangeable.

00:59:45.000 And I do prefer Unforgiven, but Searchers is great.

00:59:45.000 Sure.

00:59:47.000 Yeah, same writer.

00:59:48.000 I'm gonna do one.

00:59:50.000 Predator.

00:59:51.000 Die Hard.

00:59:51.000 Yeah.

00:59:52.000 Alien.

00:59:53.000 Die Hard's awesome.

00:59:54.000 Alien is the sequel.

00:59:56.000 The second one.

00:59:57.000 The first one was more of a thriller, horror movie.

01:00:00.000 The second one was an action movie.

01:00:02.000 I'll give you that.

01:00:03.000 You know what bothers me about action films?

01:00:05.000 People always get mad about this.

01:00:07.000 I think they really sometimes take men for granted and just assume that men are dumber

01:00:12.000 than they are.

01:00:13.000 Now, we all like some action films.

01:00:16.000 Obviously, all of us here have action films that we like, but for some reason, just like crappy rom-coms where they're like, ah, women will like this no matter what, they just assume that we can make Terminator 19 and guys will just accept it because there are guns that go off.

01:00:29.000 There was a kid, I was no longer friends with him, because of this conversation.

01:00:33.000 I won't even use his name, because I don't even want to give him the benefit.

01:00:37.000 I built this platform, Mr. Gaul.

01:00:40.000 I won't give him a first name.

01:00:40.000 That's his last name.

01:00:42.000 Oh, Steven.

01:00:43.000 Hold on.

01:00:44.000 A friend was talking about Triple X, and I was at the theater Cinema Guzzo, which was where I was raised in the south shore of Greenfield Park, the next town over.

01:00:53.000 And totally, by the way, also connections with the mob.

01:00:56.000 Like exactly what we would think with Cinema Guzzo.

01:00:59.000 And they were going to see Triple X, and then I was seeing something, anything other than Triple X. Yeah.

01:01:06.000 And I remember a kid saying, my other friend Adam saying, well, is this what we're going to see?

01:01:11.000 Is it any good?

01:01:12.000 And the kid goes, yeah, there are boobs in it!

01:01:16.000 And then the other kid goes, no, no, trust me.

01:01:16.000 I was like, oh my god.

01:01:18.000 You're going to look at all these cool guns and blah, blah, blah.

01:01:20.000 I was like, well, no, no, no.

01:01:21.000 What about the plot?

01:01:22.000 What about the storyline?

01:01:23.000 And they just assume that all guys are like this 13-year-old Mr. Gall, who just goes, are there boobs in it?

01:01:30.000 Are there guns?

01:01:30.000 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:01:31.000 And maybe that works for people who don't have access to a lot of really cool guns in real life.

01:01:36.000 I don't need to watch Vin Diesel with horrible trigger discipline and breasts on screen, in which he could not be less interested, by the way.

01:01:44.000 It's just like, if action is a part of it, then great.

01:01:48.000 But I don't like it when they just think, ah, let's just toss action in it and guys will pay for the ticket.

01:01:54.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:01:55.000 If you're not mixing the action in with the story itself, it does definitely lose audience.

01:02:00.000 At that point it's, what do they call it, gun porn or action porn?

01:02:03.000 It's just literally where you're doing it for the reaction of the action itself.

01:02:07.000 Explosions.

01:02:08.000 Which takes away from it.

01:02:09.000 I like some of the films that I really like, and some of my favorite films, which I know is kind of, people say, well, you don't like action films.

01:02:15.000 A great film that I think is very, very underrated, and I don't know if I put this on my list of, did we ever do a list of top five most underrated films?

01:02:21.000 Maybe not.

01:02:21.000 I think we may have.

01:02:23.000 We may have on Ask Wednesday.

01:02:24.000 Let me know if we have.

01:02:25.000 You can comment and let me know.

01:02:26.000 Obviously, The Edge is my favorite film.

01:02:27.000 I think it's criminally underrated.

01:02:29.000 But there's a film with Kurt Russell called Breakdown.

01:02:33.000 Did you ever see that film?

01:02:33.000 Yeah, I did.

01:02:35.000 Oh my gosh.

01:02:36.000 It's so good.

01:02:37.000 White button-down shirt.

01:02:38.000 Yeah, his wife, their car breaks down, and they stop to make a phone call, and then his wife is gone.

01:02:43.000 This is 90's Kurt Russell?

01:02:44.000 Yeah, 90's Kurt Russell thriller.

01:02:46.000 And that's a genre of film that doesn't exist a whole lot anymore.

01:02:49.000 You know, that's sort of like basic instinct, fatal attraction.

01:02:51.000 And Breakdown is very underrated in my opinion.

01:02:53.000 It's more of a suspense thriller film, but those films kind of, they're not Marvel Universe, and they're not cheap indie crap that goes on Netflix that, you know, maybe at 1030 at night you go, Alright.

01:03:03.000 It's somewhere in between, and that sort of doesn't exist anymore.

01:03:08.000 And that's really kind of my favorite genre.

01:03:10.000 My wife and I, people often talk about how my wife wants to watch a rom-com, and I'm like, no, I actually like romantic comedies.

01:03:15.000 Some of my favorite films are romantic comedies.

01:03:16.000 But both my wife and our favorite films typically are that genre of sort of suspense thriller, which usually includes action, but it's not just, hey, like, listen, I have so many guns.

01:03:29.000 It's not that, like, I have an obscene amount of guns!

01:03:32.000 So one movie that I think you liked that might be considered an action movie was Hell or High Water, relatively recently.

01:03:38.000 Oh, Hell or High Water was fantastic.

01:03:39.000 I loved that one.

01:03:41.000 I would consider that an action movie that I really enjoyed that was almost, it wasn't big budget like that, but it also wasn't You know what, that's probably why I like it.

01:03:49.000 It's one of the rare sort of exceptions.

01:03:51.000 If you haven't seen Hell or High Water, and talk about, and this is one thing I will say about Hell or High Water, Ben Foster, everyone knows what a great actor he is, and honestly the least impressive performance in there was Bridges because he's kind of doing the parody of Jeff Bridges now.

01:04:06.000 And Chris Pine for a guy who's sort of considered a pretty boy, and come on.

01:04:10.000 Just those, I get lost in them.

01:04:13.000 But he's a very good actor, and he's on screen with people who would be typically seen as character actors, and people would sort of say, well, he's the eye candy to sell, he's sort of the leading man.

01:04:23.000 He never gets upstaged by people, and I don't think he gets enough credit for that.

01:04:26.000 I think he's a really good actor.

01:04:28.000 It was excellent.

01:04:28.000 It does seem like we have a lot of extremes with films now.

01:04:31.000 Like you said, the Marvel Universe and then the other stuff kind of at the bottom end.

01:04:34.000 I do miss those really good, fun, easy-to-watch movies that kind of surprise you a little bit.

01:04:40.000 It doesn't have to be a thriller that surprises me or something like that, but something that's better than I think it will be.

01:04:45.000 And usually it's the overhyped, over-budgeted movie or something that's really crappy.

01:04:51.000 Maybe this is a good question.

01:04:52.000 Is there a movie you guys have seen recently in the theaters that you were like, oh, well that's... I just recently saw Richard Jewell.

01:04:58.000 It was good.

01:04:59.000 And one thing I'll say, Clint Eastwood always brings the best performances out of his actors, but he's very reliant on sort of his director of photography, because there's some scenes where, like, ooh, that lighting really looks amateurish, or American Sniper, where they have the rubber baby.

01:05:12.000 You know what I mean?

01:05:13.000 There are little things like that, because Clint is just, you know, he doesn't even say action.

01:05:18.000 When you feel like taking it.

01:05:21.000 Take it.

01:05:22.000 So he's really focused on performances, which is great.

01:05:24.000 And he always comes in under time, under budget.

01:05:26.000 But he needs to be surrounded.

01:05:28.000 And that's why you can see some inconsistency in sort of the technical acumen, maybe, in some of his films.

01:05:32.000 He needs to be surrounded with technical geniuses, who also need someone like a Clint Eastwood.

01:05:35.000 But Richard Jewell, there's some points in that film where Sam Rockwell and I forgot the name of the guy.

01:05:41.000 We just saw him in an old Key & Peele sketch from I, Tonya, the guy who plays Richard Jewell.

01:05:45.000 There's a scene at a diner.

01:05:47.000 Where you just go, oh, all right.

01:05:48.000 If they were to mail him the Academy Award here, it wouldn't be out of line.

01:05:51.000 Yeah.

01:05:52.000 So it's very good.

01:05:53.000 If you haven't seen it, I do recommend Richard Jewell.

01:05:55.000 Is there anything you guys have seen recently?

01:05:56.000 You have to get going, but anything recently you recommend for people to see?

01:05:58.000 Especially during the Mug Club quarantine right now.

01:06:00.000 It may have been two years ago.

01:06:01.000 So it's out now, and obviously on every platform.

01:06:03.000 Honestly, it was two years ago.

01:06:04.000 It's out now.

01:06:05.000 Sorry.

01:06:06.000 So I think it was A Quiet Place.

01:06:08.000 I haven't gone back to re-watch it, but in the theaters, that was very different.

01:06:11.000 I love how he says, like, he's letting people, like, he's giving them the inside lane.

01:06:14.000 I know.

01:06:15.000 There's this little note.

01:06:15.000 You guys heard it.

01:06:16.000 Everybody knew about that.

01:06:17.000 It was a limited theatrical release to only 9,400 venues.

01:06:23.000 Just a little movie.

01:06:23.000 It's called Avatar.

01:06:25.000 I don't know if you've seen that.

01:06:26.000 It was good.

01:06:27.000 I was very surprised by it in the movie.

01:06:29.000 It was just great because it brought me in in a way that I haven't felt in a lot of movies.

01:06:33.000 Have you seen the really crappy version with Stanley Tucci on Netflix?

01:06:36.000 It's called something like... I don't know what it's called.

01:06:39.000 Someone please let me know.

01:06:40.000 I forgot the title of it.

01:06:41.000 But here's the thing.

01:06:41.000 It's basically the same thing.

01:06:42.000 If you talk, the monsters see you, but they're like little bats.

01:06:45.000 And I was going, oh my gosh, think about ripping something off.

01:06:50.000 Turned out, that was actually adapted from the original novel.

01:06:54.000 And A Quiet Place was the one that ripped it off, but it got to theaters more quickly.

01:06:57.000 Well, good.

01:06:57.000 But this one, I mean, you think, OK, Stanley Tucci, he's almost never in something bad.

01:07:01.000 I'm like, you know, you're a folk hero, Nicolas Cage.

01:07:04.000 And this is so bad.

01:07:07.000 It might have been called, like, the place that is silent.

01:07:09.000 It was that place.

01:07:11.000 What were you going to say?

01:07:12.000 So one movie, it's older, that I really enjoy the action in, even though some of the other parts of the movie are weak, is Equilibrium with Christian Bale.

01:07:19.000 It had really, really good action in it.

01:07:21.000 I like that movie a lot.

01:07:22.000 It's got cool philosophy.

01:07:23.000 Yeah, the themes themselves are really interesting.

01:07:25.000 I don't think they execute on the story as well.

01:07:27.000 Some of it is a little disjointed, and a little bit's a little campy.

01:07:31.000 But I thought the action in that was really good.

01:07:33.000 And some of the stuff was science fiction in a way where you're like, ooh, I could see that happening, or some of those interesting things.

01:07:39.000 Kind of a...

01:07:40.000 I have that too!

01:07:42.000 And you know what's funny?

01:07:44.000 I've talked about how terrible I am with names, but I have, just the way my brain works, I never forget a face, I never forget a voice.

01:07:50.000 When I think of Equilibrium, I think of, and maybe someone can bring this up or look, I think of that film, was it Daybreakers, Daywalkers, with Ethan Hawke?

01:07:58.000 The cover looks the same, just like Sphere and Event Horizon, or like Broken Arrow and Face Off, John Travolta, that's another, we could do a whole meat segment on that shit.

01:08:08.000 Yeah.

01:08:08.000 That's a phenomenon.

01:08:09.000 It's a phenomenon that no one else has caught.

01:08:11.000 So that's what I think of equilibrium.

01:08:13.000 But what was equilibrium?

01:08:15.000 I don't know anything about it.

01:08:15.000 So it's in the future, people take these, there's like a dictatorship that overtook the government.

01:08:20.000 It's kind of like Big Brother.

01:08:24.000 I'm just joking.

01:08:26.000 It's really good.

01:08:27.000 It's good.

01:08:29.000 It's got Taye Diggs.

01:08:30.000 He looks like such a sad panda.

01:08:31.000 Taye Diggs?

01:08:32.000 Taye Diggs is in it.

01:08:33.000 Taye Diggs is in it.

01:08:34.000 He's 100% terrible.

01:08:35.000 He's a future dictator, so kind of a... Yeah, so you take medicine to make you happy, and then some people are like, wait a minute, I don't want to take the medicine anymore, and one of the guys who's one of the elite guards takes a different path.

01:08:45.000 Oh, is this the one where you put in your eye the medicine?

01:08:48.000 Yes.

01:08:48.000 You squeeze it like eye drops?

01:08:49.000 Yes.

01:08:50.000 No, it's like a...

01:08:52.000 Is there a scene where someone comes home and it's basically, long before Alexa, but a whole Alexa apartment reminding you to take your medication?

01:09:02.000 Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

01:09:03.000 That actually does happen, but I don't think it's an eyedropper, and I think I know what you're talking about and it's a different movie.

01:09:08.000 Oh, I think I'm thinking of Black Carbon, that show.

01:09:10.000 Altered Carbon.

01:09:14.000 See, I'm horrible with names, but how do I remember that?

01:09:16.000 I have no idea.

01:09:17.000 If you go and watch it, you'll be like, oh, that's the exact scene.

01:09:20.000 Yeah.

01:09:20.000 And just because I watched it and I thought, oh, there was something wrong.

01:09:23.000 Are you talking about Upgrade?

01:09:24.000 Oh, Upgrade is awesome.

01:09:26.000 Upgrade is pretty cool.

01:09:26.000 I watched Upgrade.

01:09:27.000 With the eyedrops?

01:09:27.000 No, this is a guy who's in a computer.

01:09:29.000 There was an election kind of thing that tells him to take his medication and he stops taking it.

01:09:32.000 But yeah, his whole body is, he's a paraplegic.

01:09:34.000 I recommend Upgrade.

01:09:35.000 Excellent.

01:09:36.000 And he gets a chip and makes his body like superhuman and it takes over his mind and stuff.

01:09:39.000 It's actually really good.

01:09:40.000 Is that the one with the guy who played the brother in the OC who kind of looks like Tom Hardy but isn't Tom Hardy?

01:09:43.000 Yes, he's like low-rent Tom Hardy.

01:09:45.000 Low-rent Tom Hardy.

01:09:46.000 I did not like that film.

01:09:47.000 Okay.

01:09:47.000 I liked that film.

01:09:49.000 Nor Lord of War.

01:09:50.000 Dang it.

01:09:51.000 Warlord.

01:09:52.000 I'm a lord.

01:09:53.000 I hope you need to purchase some guns.

01:09:56.000 Thank you so much.

01:09:58.000 This has been Ash Wednesday.

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Louder with Crowder - April 09, 2020

ASH WEDNESDAY: Girl Problems, Favorite Movies, and Quarantine Reading Material | Louder with Crowder

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