On this week's episode of Drunk Tank, the crew talks about a preemie baby with Asperger's, Joe Biden, and the Ukraine crisis. Plus, we have a new segment called "Chat Thursday" hosted by Gerald A. and Dave Landau.
00:04:35.000So, by the way, if we're never on YouTube, and we have no idea because they're never going after TikTok, we're talking about the CDC, we're talking about masks, we're talking about Russia, these things can become a problem.
00:04:44.000We are live Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:05:04.000That's why, like, Dave has a problem, you know, going from, like, when he's doing the gigs on the weekends back when he used to have to do more, like, you know, five shows in a weekend and then coming back to doing stuff in the morning.
00:05:14.000You know, I thought he had narcolepsy for a while.
00:05:51.000That's the best thing, again, you can do for the YouTube algorithm, but it also helps us kind of get a good idea, because people are torn on this.
00:05:56.000Do you support censoring the Russian media?
00:05:59.000Do you think that's a good idea right now to try and squeeze them and get rid of Russian media on social platforms right now?
00:06:07.000Or do you think that just ends up again driving them into the arms of people who could be more evil, creating the idea as maybe we want to revolt and dissent against the Russian government from the Russian people, but...
00:06:17.000Does it just make them hate America more, like we've seen in the past?
00:06:20.000So I think you know where I line up, but maybe you don't.
00:06:23.000Before we move on to that, I think we'll also be talking about, by the way, I don't know if you know this, Sam Elliott joined the Westboro Baptist Church.
00:10:02.000The new CDC guidelines encourage everyone to mask up in the event of a nuclear explosion.
00:10:08.000It says, when you have reached a part of your household, if possible, wear a mask if you're sheltering with people who are not a part of your household.
00:10:16.000So if there's a nuclear explosion occurring... This is the science, by the way, just to be clear.
00:14:15.000Here's one thing too, I just want to talk about it with Russia before we go in.
00:14:18.000This is something that's been really bothering me, is you either need to be all in or all out with war.
00:14:23.000And if you look at the actions that we're taking, we have the economic sanctions and now the censoring that's taking place of Russian media, and also other actions that will harm Russian citizens, we're basically We're basically committing acts of war without waging war.
00:16:31.000I love that he didn't, you know, sometimes you have people like, look, I just, you know, I think some people should wear masks and then just say, no, it's stupid.
00:17:11.000We'll talk about the science, we'll talk about some of the new updates that have taken place, but what's funny is most of the kids obviously you saw were stoked, they were excited, probably because they've read the science, or the anti-science, however you want to refer to it.
00:17:22.000But there still was one mom who apparently hasn't gotten the memo, and this is the problem with the country right now.
00:17:29.000When people say, oh, we're divided ideologically.
00:19:17.000There is a religion now of fear and of COVID, and there are certain people who, no matter how much it changes, they have to hold on to it like this mother, and they have to try and make it miserable for everybody else.
00:19:29.000By the way, while you're saying that you're frustrated that as a parent, an authority figure, you're saying is doing your job for you, where are you on critical race theory?
00:19:35.000Where are you on public schools teaching morality issues to kids?
00:20:40.000And its location, its risk base, you can bring up the overlay.
00:20:43.000Also there's this Danish study and a Bloomberg article, both of which said that masks Basically make little to no difference, okay?
00:20:51.000Now here's my... I can't make that point.
00:20:53.000We can't make this point because on YouTube you can be removed.
00:20:55.000So in other words, if you're a scientist and you actually say, well, you know what, if we look at masks and we look at the way that people are wearing them, they're not really effective.
00:21:01.000So Bloomberg, in a Danish study, Daneland, wrote these articles, which were very compelling.
00:21:10.000Hey, you know who else must have read these articles?
00:23:00.000It's certified fresh, which is a stupid term.
00:23:05.00094% of critics gave it a positive review on Rotten Tomatoes, but Sam Elliott is actually, he's really not a fan, he was asked about it recently on a podcast, and some of the comments are hysterical, but you had a point that you wanted to make.
00:23:16.000Yeah, well, I mean, look, I think Hollywood is totally missing the boat here.
00:23:19.000If you've watched Yellowstone, if you've watched, what is it, 1883 or whatever, the other one after that, they're thinking, alright, let's just make as many westerns as we can make, but when I watch that, when my wife watches that, We look at it and we're like, oh man, they're saying stuff that we agree with.
00:23:32.000There's scenes where they're talking about tough love for kids and making them into pets because you're giving them too many things and it's not gonna be a good thing.
00:23:39.000And then there's just the toughness of being a man and having to go out and be a cowboy and work hard for a living.
00:23:45.000And Hollywood is like, oh, well let's just make more westerns with none of those elements involved in it at all.
00:23:51.000And instead what they should be doing is going, huh, there's this giant segment of America that's being missed.
00:23:55.000And I think you were making the point that Sheridan, the guy who wrote it, is basically what he has tapped into is that through line through all of his stuff is that there is a segment of America that's been left behind that these movies really do speak to and these shows really do speak to and it makes him feel like oh you know what that's right there are some bad things that we have to get rid of in society for sure but these things are great these things are conservative values and some of the tough love that we don't have anymore he was also in Tombstone which is my money my favorite Western
00:24:25.000Whatever, but it was also considered kind of a dead medium.
00:28:05.000Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
00:28:10.000Like making a film with Benedict Cumberbatch and chapless ass pants getting pegged by whoever won't even get a second look for Best Supporting Actor.
00:28:36.000Which one do you think is the most gay?
00:28:39.000Well, I think you'd have to take into account that the Hulk, when he switches from Bruce Banner, a wimpy-ass queer scientist, into the world's most powerful superhero, all his clothes rip off except his pants.
00:30:53.000And I certainly won't put them in a Western.
00:30:56.000Alright, look, I'm gonna take one moment, even though I'm not happy to have to do it, but I'm contractually obligated to push this queer shit.
00:31:07.000Apparently, Steven Crowder and Dave Lando are on tour, because that's still allowed in this country.
00:31:14.000Dave's gonna be at the Funny Bone in Hartford, Connecticut, March 18th through 19th.
00:31:21.000Then in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 14th, Colorado Springs, June 18th.
00:31:48.000I don't have to be comfortable with myself to not be comfortable with a couple of queers on the range who have never ridden a horse in their life.
00:31:55.000They wouldn't know what to do with a saddle if it was pegged up their own asses.
00:36:33.000It's always tough, like, they have to put his lower third because, like, is that the second richest, or whatever, richest man in the world?
00:37:59.000He said, you know, that these people now who are claiming that they're right, these people now who are claiming that they're right, well, sure, but you were wrong 15 times.
00:38:24.000When Fauci said that AIDS was airborne and kids could catch it in their home at their breakfast nook, were there other scientists at that time saying it's wrong?
00:38:32.000We didn't just make some wild prediction here on this show, and I'm not a scientist.
00:38:36.000We did make an inference based on all the data available.
00:38:38.000So when people try and say, oh, well, you're right now because Bill Gates says it, Apparently he's a scientist.
00:38:43.000They say, well, you're right now, but it doesn't mean that you were right then.
00:38:49.000You were trusting people simply because they were authority figures and you've decided now that you believe in authoritarianism as it relates to science because it's not a...
00:39:00.000But at that time, was there scientific data and were there dissenting scientists saying, actually it's probably a better idea to let Omicron spread at this point because it's the best we can hope for with a variant?
00:40:48.000And what do you do when you're dishonest and you don't allow voices of multiple voices, dissenting voices, differing opinions at the table?
00:40:55.000You end up scapegoating someone or something that doesn't deserve to be scapegoated.
00:41:15.000But what I am saying is, anytime you decide, you decide for some reason, especially when it's arbitrary, on an authority figure who you will follow blindly, or in this case, a group of authoritative figures who you will follow blindly.
00:41:29.000That's how it becomes very easy to other people, meaning to create a class of others.
00:41:35.000And by the way, isn't this an irony that the left is so obsessed with diversity, you know?
00:41:40.000We have to have enough people with afros on this board of ethnobotany.
00:41:45.000I thought ethnobotany was a ficus and a fro.
00:41:50.000But the point is, they have to have all the different colors and shapes and if someone's 350 pounds, they get some kind of a Pell Grant.
00:41:57.000But when it comes to science, Which is supposed to be the practice of testing a hypothesis every which possible way to come to the most accurate conclusion.
00:42:07.000We don't care about the intellectual diversity at all.
00:42:09.000If intellectual diversity in science is not a- then don't act- then diversity is not a thing.
00:43:23.000The Chinese citizens when Americans trust the Chinese labs, government funded.
00:43:27.000Of course, because they look at it as if it's racist because they don't understand that the Chinese government and Chinese citizens are two different things.
00:43:34.000They just go, oh, you hate Asians, and they leave it as a blanket statement.
00:44:44.000You spend so much time building something beautiful and keeping up appearances and lying to the world.
00:44:49.000Lying to the world, whether it's, you know, about the fact that kung fu actually, I don't know, works, or that COVID came from a bat in nature.
00:44:57.000Kung Fu works, just doesn't help you get out of a noose.
00:45:29.000Bans on things like Russian products, services, organizations.
00:45:34.000So there's been a proactive approach now across the board from the world's biggest companies to publicly try and stifle Russia's ability to do commerce, right?
00:45:46.000And also embarrass them on the world's... We've almost seen this in history before, and it not working out well.
00:46:47.000Olympic and Paralympic Committee is now joining the IOC and Global Olympic Community in calling for a complete ban on all Russian athletes competing because of the invasion of Ukraine.
00:48:15.000To use Google as an example, Google, YouTube, not only doesn't ban propaganda from the Communist Chinese government, they will actually adhere to the rules of the Communist Chinese government and not allow certain content to be viewable in those countries.
00:48:29.000This is a country that commits genocide!
00:48:34.000I just, again, the whole idea, this is grandstanding.
00:48:37.000This is virtue signaling on the international stage.
00:48:54.000It's that whole point that you are allowing misinformation and disinformation, and so now you get to just say, well, this side doesn't get to get their point out.
00:49:02.000And look, I am pro-Ukraine in all of this.
00:49:05.000But the information coming out of Ukraine is not necessarily reliable either.
00:49:09.000We've seen like four or five stories that have been put out that have been like, well, that's not quite what happened, or that didn't actually happen at all the way that they said it.
00:49:17.000And so I don't know that Ukraine is trying to put out misinformation or disinformation, but I guarantee you there is a war for hearts and minds of people around the world right now, and it would be stupid of them not to highlight some of these cases and go, see what the Russians are doing, it's bad, come to our aid.
00:49:29.000And it would be stupid for Russia not to say, see, here's what we're doing.
00:49:32.000If their goal is to go in and take over the country, Just let people see it.
00:49:36.000People can go back and watch the State of the Union stream that we did.
00:49:39.000What did former Vice President Biden, what did he spend, a minute and a half on China?
00:51:28.000Felonies have been committed and my point here is look don't think it's always funny to me like we've talked about with Pfizer and we heard in the Biden speech it was oh great vaccines and then oh horrible big pharma and then you have to go back to great vaccines.
00:51:42.000For some reason now people who talk about campaign finance law and Citizens United and people complain about corporate interests Don't see the card game with Google, with Apple, with Twitter, with Facebook?
00:51:55.000Do you really think that these same people who let the Ayatollah and Hamas and the Communist Chinese Party... By the way, the ambassador from China who said that the United States military created COVID.
00:52:07.000In case you've forgotten that, these companies who allow that and ban Parler, a conservative app, and ban the sitting president of the United States, they do nothing with Communist China.
00:52:20.000And right now they want you to go, oh, wow, look, well, they're really taking a stand, you know, really taking a stand here with Russia.
00:56:51.000It's always been fantastic when you put the power of what information is allowed in the hands of, I don't know, four companies.
00:56:58.000And Jen Psaki threatens them on the stage.
00:57:00.000She's like, I'm not trying to affect private companies, but if you want to come to our wine mixer, looking at you, looking at you, whatever the guy's name is at Apple who's not Steve Jobs.
01:00:20.000Okay, I understand creating sanctions, so maybe it makes it tougher to fight, but creating crippling economic sanctions for the government and for its people while, by the way, doing nothing, nothing to curtail the relationship that's growing with Russia and China?
01:00:36.000So you're not going after the head of the beast.
01:00:39.000You're not even going after the beast.
01:00:40.000You're going after the citizens who have nothing to do with it.
01:00:43.000So I don't know what the play is here.
01:01:34.000So if you sanction somebody like that, you have to understand, one, they've probably thought, OK, when I do this, they're going to do that.
01:02:02.000Send more police forces into the streets to make sure you quell any dissenters.
01:02:07.000I don't know if that's the case, though.
01:02:09.000I think they might be upset with the Americans.
01:02:10.000They might become upset with the American West.
01:02:11.000Because he might go to them and say, look, the American West won't let, because of former Vice President Biden, your diners club no longer work.
01:02:20.000Yeah, but he'll make that argument and it'll work for a minute.
01:02:23.000But then people will just get pissed off that life sucks now and that the government isn't making the payments that they're supposed to make and take care of you with those bread lines that we know are so fantastic.
01:02:39.000Sometimes before they come for his head, they see it as a benevolent authoritarian government, and they think that he'll protect them.
01:02:45.000And right now, especially when he's sort of presenting that he's looking out for Russia's national interest, which, by the way, to a degree he is.
01:03:10.000That's a problem because not only does it drive the Russian government into the arms of China, which is a problem internationally, just to keep... Again, keep your eye on China and Taiwan.
01:03:18.000Just so you know, if I seem like I'm a non-interventionist, I believe if a single missile is fired at Taiwan from China, it needs to be the most swift and violent military action from the United States that, well, It's not been seen since World War II and our Navy needs to be right on their shores.
01:03:45.000We've done nothing to make them less powerful on the world stage.
01:03:50.000If anything, we've made them more powerful by allowing them to be on all of these social media apps.
01:03:55.000They're so emboldened right now that they're doing the heavy lifting for the Russian government, right?
01:03:59.000They're the ones going out condemning Americans for sanctions.
01:04:02.000So Russia says, oh, our Russia Today can't have a YouTube channel.
01:04:07.000Meanwhile, the Chinese ambassador, ambassador is whatever the role is, Xi Jinping, they can go out and say whatever they want, condemning the United States, supporting Russia and the Russian citizens.
01:04:16.000That's what they have access to, is that information.
01:05:44.000No, we don't do that because we're not the kind of empire that, by the way, established these other countries.
01:05:49.000This is something people don't understand.
01:05:51.000And this is, for me, not only war, but I would like to hear you, because the stream was really long on the night of the State of the Union, but this is something I feel very strongly about.
01:06:02.000And I know people will say it's harsh.
01:06:07.000I think the NATO spending increased $50 billion under Trump for the first time.
01:06:10.000The reason why is NATO, right, the promise if you join NATO, is you spend 2% of your GDP on effectively, you know, military that's available to NATO.
01:06:20.000All references are available at lateralscouter.com.
01:06:22.000The United States, I believe, I'm going by rote, put in 3.4% and there were only two other countries, I believe it was Greece and one other country that put in more than 2%.
01:06:58.000If they attack another country whose tab is 100% paid in full in NATO, you don't get to say that you're a part of NATO, which is really just by proxy going to the United States saying, please, please, please help us if you didn't pay for your shit.
01:07:48.000I mean, when the other country in the world that's a superpower is picking up the heavy tabs and you're just like, oh, we're just going to take care of our citizens and make sure that they get all the free stuff they want.
01:07:56.000Listen, we're not the people with the problem with Russia.
01:07:59.000We weren't the people with the problem with Germany.
01:08:01.000There's a reason that we came to your aid.
01:08:03.000Yes, we don't want these things to happen.
01:09:01.000Like we're a sole proprietorship, we're an independent contractor, we're the Suge Knight of the world and we'll dangle Putin over a balcony like vanilla ice.
01:09:16.000The only reason that these other countries in the modern world, anytime you point to an example of a successful socialist model, which by the way isn't actually socialist like Denmark or the Nordic model, it only exists because of the veil of protection provided by the United States.
01:09:33.000And I think that veil of protection needs to be removed because guess what?
01:09:39.000Some of these other countries won't be, and it's time for you guys to start picking up the tab.
01:09:43.000It's time for you guys to start paying for your own defense.
01:09:45.000It's time for you guys to stop mocking the United States and looking down your nose when you provide a bunch of free shit to your citizens because your military is just a bunch of guys in tugboats with shotguns.
01:09:56.000Speaking of this, here's a clip from Sean Hannity who just said something that I think is very silly about the Russian convoy that's approaching Kiev.
01:10:06.000This is the kind of, and I don't think Sean Hannity's a bad guy, don't get me wrong, but it's the kind of mindset that gets us into Iraq.
01:10:17.000You know, if we can see on satellite imagery where the convoy is, I don't know, maybe some smart country, maybe NATO might take some of their fighter jets, or maybe they can use some drone strikes and take out the whole damn convoy.
01:11:17.000Don't go into war unless you plan to win.
01:11:20.000Has anyone asked, what does a win look like?
01:11:23.000And I know where you're, but even you, Gerald, because you're not as non-interventionist as I am, what does a win look like if we get involved in this conflict?
01:11:31.000Because to me, the only win is we have Russia's oil, And they start speaking English and we convert them to
01:13:01.000But then tell us what bigger is, and tell us what a win is.
01:13:04.000This is where I think Americans have a problem with this sort of foreign policy.
01:13:09.000People say policing the world, and I know we're not really doing any.
01:13:13.000We haven't taken military action against Russia yet.
01:13:16.000But it's basically a declaration of war without declaring war when you're starving out citizens, you're squeezing them from daily life.
01:13:23.000And then, if we're a part of NATO that basically only benefits from our membership, and you attack a convoy and not take credit for it, as Sean Hannity says... Well, what did you think happened, my top oligarch advisors?
01:16:01.000Yeah, he at least felt some level of dignity and power, and I'm not saying that he deserves that, but you kind of want that in another leader.
01:16:16.000I mean, I hate to use this because everyone acts as though there's somehow this brilliant military strategist when they quote Sun Tzu, but he's not wrong.
01:16:27.000Says, build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across, right?