Louder with Crowder - Fact-Checking the Media's Trump-Lysol Lies | Dan Crenshaw Guests | #12 Good Morning MugClub

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00:00:15.000 Now, I should warn you, that is not from our wonderful coffee sponsor, Black Rifle Coffee.

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00:00:25.000 They gave you this as like a palate cleanser.

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00:00:30.000 And palate cleanse.

00:00:31.000 And we have Dan Crenshaw on the show today.

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00:00:32.000 Looking forward to that.

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00:00:35.000 I cut you off, but you seem like it's okay.

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00:00:39.000 No, I am talking.

00:00:40.000 I said I loved him.

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00:00:41.000 I'll say it again.

00:00:42.000 I love you!

00:00:43.000 Porter Black Garrett, Gerald A., half-Asian, lighter-billed, rich kid. How are you, sir?

00:00:48.000 I'm wonderful, but I cannot deal with Gerald Morgan's pirate fetish in the morning.

00:00:53.000 Hey, we might get a call from YouTube about that.

00:00:58.000 Be careful of that.

00:00:59.000 Another one?

00:00:59.000 Referring to Trent Shaw as a pirate.

00:01:02.000 Hey, and I really appreciate the kind words from yesterday's show to everyone out there, but you can stop with them because I'm not a homosexual.

00:01:07.000 So, mug club quarantine is a hashtag.

00:01:10.000 I'm always panicked.

00:01:11.000 We're doing this through the end of the month the final show will be next Thursday where we watch a press briefing

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00:01:33.000 chat a little bit later audio Wade looks panicked or we know he's

00:01:36.000 So I should warn you Very angry this morning. Yes

00:01:42.000 Yeah, why Very pissed.

00:01:45.000 I wanted to do the CNN fact check now.

00:01:50.000 I was in the room with my wife this morning in my office, and I have a TV, and I watch on Hulu.

00:01:56.000 I watch CNN because I have to, and I assume that they don't get the ratings from Hulu.

00:01:59.000 I don't know.

00:02:00.000 If I could sneak into a movie theater without paying, but doing it with television programming, I would do it.

00:02:07.000 Right.

00:02:07.000 That's what would contribute to that number.

00:02:09.000 With every Michael Moore film, I would be like, I don't know, I'll pay two for Blade 3.

00:02:13.000 I don't care.

00:02:15.000 You paid your money, you should be good.

00:02:18.000 But then I was on record paying for Blade 3.

00:02:21.000 I hope no one gets my tax return.

00:02:22.000 I guess that's better.

00:02:23.000 Because as an actor it was a write-off.

00:02:24.000 I'm like, oh wow, you spent $200 on Blade 3?

00:02:27.000 Hmm, big Ryan Gosling fan.

00:02:30.000 Anyway, it's Ryan Reynolds.

00:02:31.000 Again, I'm not homosexual.

00:02:34.000 And let me ask you, though, a question.

00:02:35.000 Do you think that the Cuomo family is the perfect example of celebrity privilege and everything that is wrong with this country?

00:02:42.000 Because we will be talking about Christina Cuomo, that is Chris Cuomo's wife, and of course we don't want to cross any boundaries because she has her own health blog, has nothing to do with the fact that she is Chris Cuomo's wife.

00:02:52.000 So I want to make sure that within the bounds of...

00:02:56.000 Propriety?

00:02:56.000 Yeah, propriety.

00:02:58.000 I don't know if propriety meant it was like proprietary.

00:03:00.000 I think those are different words.

00:03:02.000 But I was so mad this morning that I was in my office watching it on CNN.

00:03:07.000 My wife came in and they were saying, there was someone on CNN saying, do not, please, a medical professional, drink or inject Lysol or bleach as the president prescribed.

00:03:17.000 And I was going...

00:03:19.000 And I told my wife, I said, babe, I love you.

00:03:24.000 I am not mad with you or mad at you, but right now I really feel, and I mean this, urge to whip my mug at the television screen, so I think you should leave the room.

00:03:36.000 And then I hit the heavy bag for like 30 minutes, and then, you know.

00:03:39.000 Get rid of the energy.

00:03:40.000 Can I tell you, I was reading this this morning, and I had to stop reading, because I, you know, I started reading the reports when I was on the crapper.

00:03:46.000 And it prevented me from going.

00:03:49.000 You got locked up?

00:03:50.000 No, because I read it and I thought, oh my gosh, he must have said some terrible things.

00:03:55.000 And of course you're reading the articles over and over again and you're like, where's the actual quote?

00:03:58.000 They just like take one word and then they add, you know, to the beginning and the end.

00:04:02.000 So then you gotta dig and you gotta dig.

00:04:04.000 Couldn't find it on CNN.

00:04:05.000 So then I'm like digging more and I'm like, alright, where's the actual transcript?

00:04:08.000 Just give me the paragraph!

00:04:09.000 Give me the full sentence! 0.95

00:04:10.000 And then I read the sentence and realized, Holy crap, they're not even trying to be honest now. 0.95

00:04:16.000 It's pretty absurd at this point. 0.99

00:04:17.000 This is CBD, so don't give me crap. 0.99

00:04:21.000 Oh my gosh. 0.96

00:04:22.000 Hey, can we get like the heavy bag in here for you next week when we do the Thursday show?

00:04:25.000 Oh god, we're gonna need it.

00:04:26.000 Because we're gonna need a stress reliever for you in the middle of that four hour mess. 0.78

00:04:30.000 Hey, Gerald, can we do an acting class? 0.99

00:04:31.000 I hope that is not FDA approved, because that's not doing shit! 0.95

00:04:35.000 So, for those who don't know, who haven't been following, of course we'll get to this in a second, where they're blaming Donald Trump for even implying that you should be drinking or injecting Clorox Lysol. 0.82

00:04:45.000 Name brand products, by the way.

00:04:47.000 All of it, yeah.

00:04:47.000 We gotta do name brands.

00:04:48.000 It'd be like if Donald Trump said, there are certain grains and cereals that they're finding right now might have antibodies, and they go, unlike the president, we do not believe that specifically General Mills products cure COVID-19.

00:04:59.000 Don't look for the big G. Do not.

00:05:04.000 You do not, in fact, gotta have your pots.

00:05:08.000 The captain will not, according to the FDA, make it happen. 0.98

00:05:14.000 Back to you, homosexual Anderson Cooper. 1.00

00:05:16.000 Lied from your firehouse that you repurposed for five million dollars in the West Village. 0.98

00:05:21.000 Wow.

00:05:21.000 You walking taint!

00:05:25.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, why are you insulting taints?

00:05:27.000 There's nothing wrong with a good taint.

00:05:30.000 My god, everyone's got one of those. 0.96

00:05:32.000 Not everyone is a white ghost terrible host guy. 0.93

00:05:35.000 Whoa, that's great. 0.98

00:05:37.000 Let's hope the quality of the insults improve.

00:05:40.000 That's not exactly a cipher I'd want to put on a highlight reel.

00:05:43.000 That was pretty bad.

00:05:44.000 Alright, I won't enter the fray.

00:05:47.000 Your honor, I arrest my case.

00:05:49.000 Yeah, just give me a give me a loss.

00:05:51.000 Give me a guilty verdict.

00:05:54.000 Alright, so let's kind of walk through this before we get to the Lysol and bleach and thank you guys so much for watching, tuning in.

00:06:01.000 We love spending the morning with you.

00:06:02.000 We'll be doing more of this as we go forward.

00:06:03.000 So the Trump presser yesterday brought good news.

00:06:06.000 We didn't stream it.

00:06:07.000 I almost want to just stream them every day now, but I know we can't. 0.93

00:06:10.000 He was back to He was back to kicking reporters' asses, really, by delivering good news, which they didn't want to hear.

00:06:18.000 So, turns out, like we've been talking about, sunlight, high temperatures, and high humidity actually does, in fact, kill the coronavirus. 0.93

00:06:27.000 You're the president and people tuning into these briefings, they want to get information and guidance and want to know what to do.

00:06:33.000 They're not looking for rumors.

00:06:35.000 I'm the president and you're fake news.

00:06:37.000 You know what I'll say to you?

00:06:38.000 I'll say very nicely.

00:06:40.000 I know you well.

00:06:41.000 I know you well because I know the guy.

00:06:43.000 I see what he writes. 0.98

00:06:43.000 He's a total faker. 0.98

00:06:45.000 So, are you ready?

00:06:46.000 Are you ready?

00:06:48.000 It's just a suggestion from a brilliant lab by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant man.

00:06:54.000 He's talking about sun, he's talking about heat, and you see the numbers.

00:06:59.000 So that's it.

00:07:00.000 That's all I have.

00:07:01.000 I'm just here to present...

00:07:02.000 Talent.

00:07:03.000 I'm here to present ideas.

00:07:05.000 Because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.

00:07:07.000 And if heat is good, and if sunlight is good, that's a great thing as far as I'm concerned.

00:07:12.000 Go ahead.

00:07:12.000 By the way, what I love with Donald Trump is when he says, perhaps, brilliant.

00:07:16.000 I'm just presenting talent.

00:07:17.000 What he's saying is, you are an antonym.

00:07:21.000 Yes.

00:07:22.000 Talent?

00:07:23.000 No.

00:07:24.000 Brilliant? 0.99

00:07:25.000 Gay bald catfish. 0.99

00:07:27.000 Faker. 1.00

00:07:27.000 And your boyfriend fakes it. 1.00

00:07:32.000 I do like how he just is very remedial with them.

00:07:36.000 He's like, just so you know, that's a smart person.

00:07:40.000 Now let me reiterate, there's talent.

00:07:43.000 Exactly.

00:07:44.000 And the funny thing is, too, he has, again, when we've done these press briefings, he has experts there.

00:07:50.000 Most of these quotes from Donald Trump's medical experts come from the briefings.

00:07:54.000 Because he goes out, gives a general layout of what it is they'll be discussing, and then they make sure to fine-tune it, correct it, because anyone can get things wrong when you're dealing with them.

00:08:03.000 What did I have to have you Google this morning?

00:08:04.000 And you know that I... Glutathione.

00:08:07.000 Glutathione, because I've read about this for a long time.

00:08:09.000 You drink You take wine, you take NAC, we've talked about it, it's what they give you when you go to the hospital and you have some kind of acetaminophen toxicity.

00:08:17.000 It's a medical tool that's used that you can also purchase as a supplement.

00:08:21.000 Creates glutathione, but I've never actually heard it pronounced.

00:08:24.000 I've only read about it.

00:08:25.000 Right? 1.00

00:08:25.000 So I misspeak, but I'm also dumber than Donald Trump. 1.00

00:08:29.000 Let's be honest here. 0.99

00:08:30.000 If you were Donald Trump, you'd have been accused of prescribing some drug made in South America.

00:08:35.000 Right.

00:08:35.000 That's illegal.

00:08:36.000 No, they probably have some stuff that's pretty good.

00:08:38.000 We should open up the border.

00:08:40.000 The Hondurans are making great strides in the medical field, folks.

00:08:44.000 Got a morning regimen that we don't know about?

00:08:46.000 I just buy my meds from a food truck, but it's a caravan.

00:08:50.000 It's a Honduran caravan.

00:08:51.000 It's like the movie Chef.

00:08:54.000 Just to look it up and see.

00:08:55.000 So, to be clear, by the way, UV light kills, I think it was within 60 seconds, if it's 95 degrees or higher, with 80% humidity.

00:09:04.000 Alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, works more effectively than bleach.

00:09:08.000 If it's airborne particles, UV light kills it very quickly.

00:09:11.000 And then on a surface, it kills it within several hours, depending.

00:09:14.000 I don't think we have necessarily the overlay.

00:09:15.000 But this is undeniable.

00:09:17.000 That's a good thing.

00:09:18.000 That also means, by the way, that you are most likely safer at a Florida beach than on the L train in New York!

00:09:26.000 Which is... Why is no one else in Chicago?

00:09:28.000 You know the L's in Chicago, right? 0.90

00:09:29.000 No, there's the L train in New York.

00:09:31.000 Yes, it comes in from Canarsie, Brooklyn.

00:09:33.000 I know this because I stayed in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

00:09:35.000 Hey, Brooklyn's fake news.

00:09:36.000 I don't believe it exists.

00:09:38.000 Exactly.

00:09:39.000 I went to the Brooklyn Cultural Center, and I was one of the only white people, and I rode the L train, and I remember thinking, like, there's a very strong chance that I'm gonna get harmed.

00:09:49.000 Very much so.

00:09:50.000 Because it's the furthest stop on the L train.

00:09:52.000 The last one.

00:09:53.000 Rockaway Parkway.

00:09:55.000 You know what, New Yorkers, fact check my lawyer. 0.86

00:09:57.000 Let me get a win here. 0.97

00:09:58.000 The L train goes out to Rockaway Parkway, and it sucks.

00:10:01.000 It's a subway, and then it's above ground, and it's terrible, and this is... But why are they allowing it to be open in New York?

00:10:07.000 Well, because it's essential.

00:10:08.000 Oh, oh, okay.

00:10:09.000 But the beaches in Florida, in a beach town, are not essential?

00:10:13.000 It's only essential because the workers require the subway to get to work?

00:10:16.000 What are you saying?

00:10:17.000 That New Yorkers' jobs are essential, and the guy who runs the Tiki Hut in Florida, it's... his doesn't matter.

00:10:22.000 Non-essential income.

00:10:23.000 But I gotta say, AOC has been very consistent here.

00:10:26.000 She doesn't want people working now. 1.00

00:10:28.000 She didn't want people working at Amazon.

00:10:29.000 She didn't want those. 0.99

00:10:30.000 I mean, at the very least, she has been consistently anti-American.

00:10:34.000 So, you know, they're the little wins that we can have right now.

00:10:37.000 And, you know, people are flipping and flopping, but she is just consistently communist.

00:10:42.000 You know, I realize when I'm in a rage spiral, I have less of a sense of humor.

00:10:45.000 You do.

00:10:46.000 Because I should be laughing, but I was just angry with you.

00:10:48.000 No, it's okay.

00:10:49.000 It's okay.

00:10:49.000 I wanted to throw this wonderful, girthy, hand-etched mug and see if it left a louder-with-crowder-shaped imprint on your forehead, like Marv with the heating iron.

00:10:58.000 Which, by the way, also kills COVID.

00:10:59.000 It's worth trying.

00:11:00.000 It does, yes.

00:11:01.000 I feel like President Trump could also be accused, based on CNN's reporting so far, No, pretty much.

00:11:06.000 If you slice yourself in half and go out and sit in the sun, you could be cured from COVID-19.

00:11:11.000 I feel like that's what they would say and be like, he said, we got to get it in the body. 0.60

00:11:14.000 Well, just cut yourself open. 0.98

00:11:15.000 Go stand outside. 0.90

00:11:17.000 They would count that as news.

00:11:18.000 They'd be like, well, that's what he said.

00:11:20.000 That's what he said to do.

00:11:20.000 Yeah.

00:11:21.000 And he was really just talking about the circus brothers.

00:11:24.000 What are the names of those brothers, the circus brothers?

00:11:25.000 Barnum and Bailey.

00:11:26.000 Oh, that's it.

00:11:27.000 Brothers?

00:11:28.000 Here's something else, by the way.

00:11:30.000 We've talked about the Los Angeles County study, USC, Santa Clara County, right?

00:11:35.000 We said that at the high, high end, it looks like the death rate is 0.5%.

00:11:39.000 And then for people who are healthy, who are of average or middle age, it could be as low as 0.01.

00:11:45.000 But at the high, high end, I think we even said 0.7.

00:11:48.000 Well, guess what?

00:11:49.000 We have that in Los Angeles.

00:11:51.000 Now we have it in New York City.

00:11:52.000 They did the antibody testing.

00:11:54.000 And New York, it's complete.

00:11:55.000 Instead of 250,000 cases, they're actually saying now that it's closer to 2.7 million.

00:12:01.000 And that means the death rate is 10 times lower than expected.

00:12:04.000 Their quote, not mine.

00:12:06.000 I calculated the numbers and I came up with close to 0.7.

00:12:09.000 Cuomo said 0.5% death rate in New York.

00:12:12.000 So now we have three.

00:12:13.000 Santa Clara County, we have Los Angeles, USC, and New York.

00:12:17.000 The highest possible mortality rate is 0.5.

00:12:21.000 Keep in mind, all of these projections were based on what?

00:12:23.000 What?

00:12:23.000 3-5% death rate.

00:12:25.000 Wow, and in Italy it was trending at 10%, right?

00:12:27.000 Yeah.

00:12:27.000 So we were thinking, oh my god, we're going to end up like Italy.

00:12:29.000 Well, it's probably higher in Italy because everyone is old and unproductive. 0.99

00:12:32.000 Well, right, but everybody was scared because of Italy, if you remember early on in this crisis.

00:12:35.000 Oh, come on, what?

00:12:36.000 That's going to offend people?

00:12:37.000 What has Italy contributed to the global economy in the last 30 years?

00:12:40.000 Spaghetti, but it wasn't from them!

00:12:40.000 Aside from Geppetto.

00:12:42.000 Noodles were not from them.

00:12:43.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:12:44.000 It was from your people, I know!

00:12:46.000 It was from your people, and fireworks, and coronavirus. 1.00

00:12:49.000 So you guys, you're two for three.

00:12:50.000 Chinese copyright and IP theft these days is just making up for Marco Polo stealing spaghetti. 0.63

00:12:56.000 Oh gosh, here we go.

00:12:58.000 You're oppressed by the imperialist powers, right?

00:13:01.000 Throughout history.

00:13:01.000 The problem is he didn't patent the noodles.

00:13:05.000 There's a patent on a lot of intellectual property theft.

00:13:09.000 Look, I don't need your facts.

00:13:10.000 It would have been a good idea, maybe, earlier on.

00:13:14.000 The problem is, right now, CNN is on, and so, by osmosis, we're all just prone to lying. 0.99

00:13:19.000 Dumber, as well. 0.69

00:13:21.000 We're prone to saying, well, Donald Trump told me to eat biscuits, and that'll cause COVID to go away. 1.00

00:13:27.000 It's ridiculous.

00:13:30.000 It is hard not to be very angry because because here's the thing is so many people are going about their lives when you talk about a single mom at home right now with kids and she turns on the news and she goes hey I'm gonna kind of figure out what's going on or she goes well you know maybe I don't believe what I heard on the news so I'm gonna go look at the article and then they dig to another article and they go to another article and that all says the same thing and then they go now I gotta go feed my kids breakfast and they walk away With this panic and this false idea of what's going on right there.

00:13:56.000 And then they get told there's no leadership, nobody's paying attention.

00:13:59.000 And they ignore the fact that this was a quote from a conference where a medical doctor and another medical doctor were talking to the president about possible solutions.

00:14:10.000 And instead they go to CNN for Real News and they click through and they find themselves at Chris Cuomo's wife's blog selling healing crystals.

00:14:16.000 Oh, really?

00:14:16.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:14:17.000 I heard it work.

00:14:18.000 Christina Cuomo.

00:14:19.000 The words Chris Cuomo will not leave my... I would never actually want to, in any way, attack somebody's wife.

00:14:25.000 Christina Cuomo is a public figure who in no way is capitalizing on her husband's platform to sell dangerous... I don't think that's true, Steven.

00:14:31.000 You attack Brian Stelter all the time.

00:14:32.000 This is absolutely true.

00:14:34.000 He is a beautiful wife.

00:14:36.000 It doesn't apply to power bottoms.

00:14:40.000 I didn't read that.

00:14:40.000 By the way, hey, while we're speaking about this, Sweden, you guys know this, Sweden, they didn't do a full lockdown and right now the capital, Stockholm, is expected to reach herd immunity in a few weeks.

00:14:51.000 This is something that shouldn't be new to anybody.

00:14:52.000 They even thought this was an idea originally in the UK that they thought they might want to do.

00:14:56.000 The problem with herd immunity is you have to be all in, not one foot in, one foot out.

00:15:00.000 But certainly, if you look at the numbers for Sweden, they're not worse than the rest of Europe.

00:15:04.000 Certainly not as bad as the UK, or Belgium, or France.

00:15:08.000 So, this does matter.

00:15:09.000 When people say, oh, the social distancing worked!

00:15:11.000 Well, hold on a second, the numbers started declining before social distancing would have kicked in, and you would have to look to Sweden as well.

00:15:17.000 The point is, there's a lot of information that we don't have.

00:15:20.000 Something that we do have, definitively now, is the death rate is less than a tenth of what we were told, and that's what all the models were based on.

00:15:28.000 Now, if you think that we should shut down the economy, that we should have 22 million jobless claims, as we've had now in the previous weeks.

00:15:35.000 By the way, did you know one in five suicides is linked to unemployment?

00:15:39.000 So if you think that's worthwhile, for a 0.5% death rate, Including 80-year-olds and people who are on CPAPs before they get COVID, then fine.

00:15:49.000 You can make that decision.

00:15:50.000 But you have to make the decision based on the actual information, and it is remarkable to me that nobody is.

00:15:57.000 And I will say this, we'll move on to it in a second, but honestly, it hurts my soul, my heart. 0.93

00:16:01.000 I thought Donald Trump was a prick in the primaries, okay?

00:16:04.000 But the character assassination that's taking place right now, it would be like us right now saying, hey, not saying that you shouldn't shut down, that you shouldn't social distance at all, not saying that you shouldn't wear masks, not saying that you shouldn't wash your hands, but maybe this has been overblown and someone goes out and says, Steven Crowder says don't wash your hands, and then everyone facts checks, man, something I didn't say. 0.90

00:16:25.000 It's so sinister at this point.

00:16:27.000 You can't claim ignorance.

00:16:29.000 We are beyond the point of claiming ignorance. 0.99

00:16:30.000 No, you have to claim assholerence. 0.96

00:16:33.000 That's what's happening. 0.96

00:16:34.000 Right?

00:16:34.000 And it's a colossal waste of time.

00:16:36.000 When every moment should be devoted to something important, Donald Trump has to field questions about, did you say that we should inject this?

00:16:43.000 Right?

00:16:43.000 And why would you tell Americans that we need to do that?

00:16:45.000 We need you to be our leader.

00:16:47.000 He's got to field those questions instead of, what's going on with the virus right now?

00:16:50.000 What kind of treatments are we coming out with?

00:16:52.000 I want to go back to Sweden real quick, though.

00:16:53.000 They did exactly what you said.

00:16:54.000 I've never been to Sweden.

00:16:56.000 I'm going to go back there mentally.

00:16:56.000 I've been.

00:16:57.000 It's amazing.

00:16:57.000 Have you been to Sweden?

00:16:58.000 No.

00:16:58.000 Yes?

00:16:59.000 I went there for a wedding.

00:17:00.000 Really?

00:17:00.000 It was incredible.

00:17:00.000 I can't go to Europe because I'll be killed.

00:17:02.000 Well, that's true.

00:17:03.000 But in Sweden, they did exactly what we had talked about doing.

00:17:05.000 They made sure that they protected the oldest people. 1.00

00:17:07.000 Also, it's shit. 1.00

00:17:08.000 All of Europe is pure shit. 1.00

00:17:10.000 I don't know if it's pure. 1.00

00:17:12.000 It's true.

00:17:13.000 It's adulterated. 0.91

00:17:13.000 Porn infested. 0.91

00:17:14.000 It's an adulterated shit continent. 1.00

00:17:17.000 They make good wine. 1.00

00:17:18.000 Just kidding.

00:17:18.000 I went to Ireland.

00:17:19.000 I liked Ireland.

00:17:19.000 It was nice.

00:17:20.000 But you couldn't... I can't go to the UK or France.

00:17:23.000 Are you kidding me?

00:17:23.000 Here's why.

00:17:24.000 And I want you to go back to Sweden, but here's... People think that I'm joking.

00:17:26.000 You know why I can't?

00:17:27.000 You know this.

00:17:27.000 This is not a joke.

00:17:29.000 I have no defense.

00:17:30.000 If I go there, there's enough ammo on me, because Bob Ross painted Muhammad, where they can jail me, and unlike in the United States, no one can defend me, because free speech isn't a thing.

00:17:39.000 If I go to Europe, I can walk off the plane, be hauled off in zip ties in a paddy wagon, and you never see me again, because all of these countries that we want to love—until now, of course, I think the House of Cards has come down with socialized health care—I don't come back.

00:17:53.000 And for me, that's enough to say, I hate your continent.

00:17:56.000 Not the people. 0.99

00:17:57.000 I hate your continent. 1.00

00:17:58.000 I think it's shit. 1.00

00:17:59.000 I think it's shit that you don't allow your people to cover kung fu fighting without being arrested from a karaoke bar. 1.00

00:18:03.000 I don't like you. 1.00

00:18:04.000 We don't need you.

00:18:05.000 That's why we left.

00:18:06.000 Talk about Sweden.

00:18:07.000 All right.

00:18:07.000 So Sweden, they did everything that we said would be reasonable.

00:18:10.000 They did social distancing.

00:18:11.000 Nobody is complaining about social distancing right now.

00:18:13.000 Nobody is complaining about taking precautions, washing your hands, making sure that you're not visiting older people if you could potentially be sick or even just cutting off those visits.

00:18:21.000 It's a vacation.

00:18:22.000 Everybody is complaining about locking down the economy and completely getting rid of all of work and all of school.

00:18:28.000 They didn't get rid of school either.

00:18:30.000 Kids in high school and below, I think, were still going to school as well.

00:18:34.000 They did a phenomenal job at this, and everybody was like, oh my gosh, you're going to do just terrible.

00:18:37.000 Everybody's going to die.

00:18:38.000 Well, they have the same death rate as people around them.

00:18:40.000 Actually, lower than a lot of places.

00:18:41.000 Belgium and Denmark are half the size of their country, and they have half the death rate, or not death rate per capita, but half the death number.

00:18:47.000 Per capita is much lower than that.

00:18:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:18:49.000 In a couple of weeks, they're going to be good.

00:18:51.000 Can I give a quick example?

00:18:52.000 Not if you're going to try and sell us some kind of new disease preventative because you create the disease and then sell us the cure.

00:18:59.000 That's what you do.

00:19:00.000 And it's not racist.

00:19:01.000 That's what you do.

00:19:02.000 Bill Richmond, not Bill Gates.

00:19:03.000 Get off my back.

00:19:04.000 Fair.

00:19:05.000 So if CNN is going to report on what Gerald just said, the quote would read, Gerald supports meatballs as a cure to COVID.

00:19:13.000 I mean, that is exactly what just happened.

00:19:16.000 Ikea has inventory shortage.

00:19:19.000 Also, I'm locked in Ikea.

00:19:21.000 Anderson, please send help.

00:19:23.000 The arrows just lead to more arrows.

00:19:25.000 What am I going to do with 500 tea candles?

00:19:30.000 But my bed folds into a bookcase.

00:19:31.000 That's awesome.

00:19:31.000 Efficient.

00:19:33.000 It's like Transformers.

00:19:34.000 Sweden has also contributed very little, by the way.

00:19:36.000 You know what's one interesting thing?

00:19:38.000 Fish.

00:19:40.000 This is actually true.

00:19:42.000 If you were to go to... What were you telling us before this, by the way, when you said this is actually true?

00:19:46.000 That's my concern when someone says, let me be honest for a second.

00:19:48.000 Hold up.

00:19:49.000 No, that's a fair point.

00:19:51.000 Although the rest of that was true.

00:19:52.000 Meatballs are a cure for COVID.

00:19:54.000 Not true.

00:19:55.000 Not true.

00:19:55.000 I really do.

00:19:56.000 Is if you went to an embassy for one of these countries that has these laws, you could be arrested at the embassy inside of the country that you're in.

00:20:04.000 So, you know, all these invitations we get from young Turks to go speak at the UK embassy.

00:20:10.000 Right.

00:20:10.000 Oh, wow.

00:20:12.000 There's something more sinister afoot.

00:20:14.000 Okay, so while we're talking about this and the unemployment and the shutdown of the economy, and the economy, by the way, not everything is shut down.

00:20:21.000 It just comes down to what you consider essential.

00:20:23.000 And now we understand.

00:20:24.000 People working in New York City, getting on subways, essential.

00:20:26.000 People who want to work in Florida and be on beaches where the UV light kills and sanitizes.

00:20:30.000 Not essential.

00:20:31.000 We understand it.

00:20:32.000 And you wonder why people think you're elitist. 0.99

00:20:34.000 Well, let me present to you, as your people, not Asians, lawyers, would say, exhibit B for bitch. 1.00

00:20:41.000 Only in America does the president, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work? 0.94

00:20:47.000 When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say no.

00:20:56.000 We're not going back to that.

00:20:58.000 We're not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.

00:21:09.000 First off, she looks like the blonde musician Muppet had dyed her hair. 0.63

00:21:19.000 The up angle for cameras is also not very flattering.

00:21:22.000 And I know it's ad hominem, but it's okay just because I have disdain for her.

00:21:26.000 That's all wrong, by the way.

00:21:27.000 That's all incorrect.

00:21:28.000 The average American workweek—I don't have this in front of me, but I'm going by rote.

00:21:31.000 I'm sure we can bring this up.

00:21:32.000 You can go look it up in a previous video—is 30-something hours a week.

00:21:34.000 I think it was 34, 36 hours.

00:21:36.000 34.4.

00:21:36.000 Not 70 hours.

00:21:37.000 By the way, people who say I work 80-hour workweeks all the time, they're lying.

00:21:39.000 It's very difficult to do.

00:21:40.000 I've done it once or twice, but I regularly work 60-hour workweeks.

00:21:43.000 People exaggerate all the time.

00:21:45.000 She is lying.

00:21:46.000 She is—I guarantee you, AOC has never, ever worked a 70-hour work week in her life.

00:21:53.000 Americans working 70-hour work weeks are not barely scraping by to put food on the table.

00:21:57.000 And she says, you know, we want to get back, go back.

00:21:59.000 No, people don't want to go back to their jobs.

00:22:02.000 Actually, most Americans do.

00:22:04.000 When they talk about Republicans pandering to the rich base, no.

00:22:08.000 Republicans and conservatives pander to the gainfully employed base, to people who want to work.

00:22:14.000 AOC wants people on the public dole.

00:22:17.000 She wants people to be hopeless.

00:22:19.000 She wants people to feel like they are valueless and they are tools of the government, that

00:22:22.000 they rely on the government to sustain themselves.

00:22:24.000 She doesn't actually have anything.

00:22:26.000 She cannot relate to Americans who want to work. 1.00

00:22:29.000 Guess what? 0.98

00:22:30.000 Sometimes work sucks.

00:22:31.000 But I want to work. 0.72

00:22:32.000 I want to do this job.

00:22:34.000 I would be miserable if I didn't work at all.

00:22:36.000 Now, you do need to frame in your life balance with work and your personal life, your family, of course.

00:22:40.000 But if you want to talk about being out of touch, think about this for a second.

00:22:44.000 Donald Trump, the man who was raised effectively a billionaire, okay, has never gone a day in his life without being in the lap of luxury, has more in common with the average working-class American than AOC from Westchester. 0.57

00:23:00.000 I believe that may be wrong, but I think I feel like saying it.

00:23:02.000 So AOC, I hope you lose.

00:23:06.000 Yeah, I hope she gets taken out easily from a political standpoint, right? 1.00

00:23:10.000 But people want to go to work.

00:23:12.000 They want to make a living.

00:23:13.000 They want to be able to put food on the table.

00:23:14.000 That's obvious.

00:23:15.000 But you know where you get a lot of your self-worth from sometimes?

00:23:17.000 Being productive.

00:23:18.000 Going out and putting a hard day's work in and producing something, providing a service to somebody.

00:23:23.000 You get a lot of your social interaction from that.

00:23:25.000 You get a lot of your friend groups from that.

00:23:27.000 It's a great thing to be able to go and have a job.

00:23:30.000 If you sit on the public dole for a long time, like you said, there's health risks for doing that.

00:23:34.000 Right.

00:23:35.000 Because you're not out interacting.

00:23:36.000 Your suicide rate goes up, right?

00:23:37.000 Yeah, that's important.

00:23:39.000 One in five suicides are linked to unemployment.

00:23:42.000 And that's not a surprise, by the way.

00:23:43.000 We knew a guy in Montreal.

00:23:45.000 Remember I told you there was one wealthy family?

00:23:47.000 Let's not say the name.

00:23:47.000 There was one wealthy family that I knew.

00:23:49.000 And it was like, oh my gosh, their family makes $100,000 in Canada.

00:23:51.000 I was like, woo!

00:23:53.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:23:55.000 Is that Canadian dollars or US?

00:23:56.000 It doesn't matter.

00:23:58.000 Any dollars.

00:24:00.000 Actually, no, it probably would be under six figures.

00:24:01.000 I don't know why I said it didn't matter.

00:24:02.000 It's just because I'm angry, so my thoughts are fragmented.

00:24:06.000 But one of the guys, so their dad, I played hockey with the two sons, their dad killed himself because he lost his job.

00:24:13.000 And there's actually, there's the Eaton Center, for people in Montreal who know this, they call it, I believe they call it like the second city, because there's a whole underground city in Montreal.

00:24:21.000 Where you can literally never come above ground, and it goes like four or five floors deep.

00:24:26.000 Wow!

00:24:26.000 Subterranean, where there's shopping, there are food courts, there are offices.

00:24:30.000 So you get off, so I would be across, I would be across the St.

00:24:33.000 Lawrence River.

00:24:34.000 Yeah.

00:24:35.000 On the south shore, Villa Moine and Greenfield Park, St.

00:24:37.000 Lambert.

00:24:37.000 I would get in a subway, I would get to downtown Montreal, like going from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and I could go anywhere that I needed to in all of Montreal without popping my head above ground.

00:24:48.000 And there was a guy, so when you think about the subterranean, right, like a food court in the Eaton Center.

00:24:52.000 So you're looking down and you're looking down about four stories, maybe five stories.

00:24:56.000 It almost looks like that scene, I think they shot a scene in Blade Runner in Montreal, if I'm not mistaken.

00:25:00.000 Oh really?

00:25:00.000 Oh probably, yeah.

00:25:00.000 Do you know what I'm talking about?

00:25:01.000 That weird room where it's like going up and you can see up?

00:25:04.000 So this is the Eaton Center in Montreal.

00:25:06.000 This guy lost his job and he jumped inside in the Eaton Center.

00:25:10.000 Oh wow.

00:25:10.000 And landed in the food court.

00:25:12.000 But you know what is so disturbing?

00:25:14.000 They looked at the security camera footage, and they saw him the entire week pacing back and forth on that top railway.

00:25:21.000 Really?

00:25:21.000 Before jumping.

00:25:23.000 Because he knew that he was getting laid off, and then they looked into it, and he was trying to see what his insurance would cover.

00:25:28.000 He had tried to apply for other jobs, and then I think it was on the fourth or fifth day, he just tipped right over.

00:25:33.000 And I say that because that's anecdotal, but statistically, that is verifiable, that suicides increase with unemployment.

00:25:41.000 I go to a therapist, I go to an executive and a sports psychologist, and she's talked about how this has been very, very difficult for a lot of people.

00:25:47.000 Her clientele is growing rapidly because people are going out of their minds.

00:25:52.000 To act like people who believe in reopening the economy within this This multi-phase program, Don't Care About Lives Lost, is disingenuous, and it's also to throw people off the scent that THEY will create more of a death toll.

00:26:07.000 Yeah.

00:26:08.000 And you know, one of the most harmful things for your overall health is stress.

00:26:11.000 Right.

00:26:11.000 Can you imagine how stressed people are right now that are just trying to get by, saying, I can make it another week, I can't make it another month?

00:26:17.000 Don't make us get fat.

00:26:19.000 Stress is bad, but the worst thing?

00:26:21.000 Cyanide.

00:26:21.000 Okay?

00:26:23.000 Do not exaggerate, Gerald. 1.00

00:26:25.000 Congress is a killer! 0.98

00:26:26.000 And then the most ridiculous part about it is, you know, it's never been, hey, ignore the health, only focus on the economy. 0.99

00:26:32.000 But the opposite argument is being made every day like the AOC is making, which is, or like what Rachel Maddow said, we can't think about reopening, we never should open, anyone talks about opening, wants people to die, is excited for people to die, when that's not the case.

00:26:46.000 The case is, it is a thorny mess and we do need to have specific ways that we open parts of the country or parts of the economy.

00:26:51.000 And she's in a municipality where they have the subway!

00:26:55.000 Think about it!

00:26:59.000 And she supports public transit because she doesn't want people driving their own cars! 1.00

00:27:03.000 You can't make this stuff up! 0.94

00:27:04.000 You want to know how I know they're hypocritical? 0.90

00:27:06.000 As a kid, I found out I was a Republican at a very young age because I did the Arthur Show. 0.89

00:27:10.000 Yeah.

00:27:10.000 And my dad showed me.

00:27:11.000 It was almost like Halloween candy, where he goes, OK, this is your check.

00:27:14.000 And then he would cash it and go, this goes to the government.

00:27:18.000 I don't think they tax you under 18.

00:27:19.000 I'm not exactly sure how it works.

00:27:20.000 But he said, if you're over 18, I don't know about Canada.

00:27:22.000 You're not a Canadian lawyer.

00:27:23.000 Oh, Canada?

00:27:24.000 You probably have some family there.

00:27:25.000 They took it all for taxes then.

00:27:26.000 But he would be like, this goes here.

00:27:27.000 This goes to health care.

00:27:28.000 And then he would say, and this is what you're left with.

00:27:30.000 I was going, what?

00:27:31.000 He goes, yeah, these people are called socialists, and the United States are called Democrats.

00:27:37.000 And I remember hearing about after Columbine and for a long time hearing about guns.

00:27:42.000 Never fired a firearm until I was 20 years old because there was like one person who had a magical mystery handgun of death that was in a closet that was like a World War II relic.

00:27:49.000 Boomstick.

00:27:50.000 And everyone was terrified of it. 0.99

00:27:51.000 But do you know how you know that the left is hypocritical?

00:27:54.000 There is one state One state that I know of, okay, where you can go and legally purchase a firearm without any kind of restriction at that point.

00:28:04.000 You don't need a permit, and as long as you pass that background check as you would pass in any other state, you can walk out, carry it open or concealed forevermore.

00:28:11.000 And the same state also doesn't have sales tax on items like clothing and a lot of luxury items.

00:28:16.000 You know what state that is? 1.00

00:28:17.000 Vermont, assholes! 1.00

00:28:19.000 It's Vermont! 1.00

00:28:21.000 You want to tell me that Bernie Sanders, where he's championing gun control, why didn't he do anything?

00:28:25.000 No one would bat an eye if he just said, OK, you need a permit.

00:28:28.000 People are like, oh, yeah, OK, that's fine.

00:28:29.000 Makes sense.

00:28:30.000 They do that in pretty much every other state, with the exception of Arizona.

00:28:33.000 I think there's maybe three states.

00:28:35.000 Vermont.

00:28:36.000 Purchase a firearm, thank you.

00:28:37.000 Put it on your hip like you're Rick Grimes or hide it if you want to.

00:28:41.000 And I remember going there and being like... Do whatever you want.

00:28:43.000 Oh, so I have to calculate 15% sales tax because that's what we had in Canada.

00:28:46.000 And they're like, no, no, no, there's nothing.

00:28:47.000 I'm like, what?

00:28:48.000 I don't have any tax on these crappy carpenter jeans at Old Navy where no two pairs with the same waist size resemble each other in any way?

00:28:55.000 I pay nothing?

00:28:56.000 No tax?

00:28:56.000 No sales tax?

00:28:57.000 So handcrafted.

00:28:58.000 So true.

00:28:58.000 Handcrafted.

00:28:59.000 The sizes.

00:29:01.000 Didn't make any sense.

00:29:03.000 This is an extra-large?

00:29:04.000 Yeah.

00:29:04.000 What's this?

00:29:05.000 Okay.

00:29:05.000 Extra-large?

00:29:06.000 I'll take your word for it.

00:29:08.000 There's a little variant.

00:29:10.000 Subway Jared. 0.98

00:29:12.000 Pedophile. 1.00

00:29:12.000 Rapist. 1.00

00:29:13.000 That guy.

00:29:13.000 Federal prison, Jared.

00:29:15.000 Oh, by the way, we know that many of you are affected, of course, during this quarantine, which I think is not going to be as long-lived for everybody as people thought.

00:29:23.000 So there's a lot of silver lining there.

00:29:25.000 And hopefully when I'm mad, you know, I entertain you.

00:29:27.000 I deal with the pain so you don't have to.

00:29:30.000 But we do want to help people who are inconvenienced, and so I think it's time to go

00:29:33.000 to our traffic report with our senior traffic correspondent, Tommy Finnegan.

00:29:37.000 All right, Thomas Finnegan, are you there, sir?

00:29:50.000 Tell us what's going on this morning.

00:29:51.000 I am here, Stephen.

00:29:52.000 Thank you for having me.

00:29:54.000 Well, after I crash-landed my helicopter, I was challenged to a duel by the local tribe's leader, who goes by the name of... I have successfully usurped his authority.

00:30:06.000 Okay, but do we have any idea what's going to be affecting people's morning commute?

00:30:11.000 No news on that, but I do have a new wife, and her name is Okay, well I guess we wish you the best, Thomas Finnegan.

00:30:19.000 Is there anything else?

00:30:21.000 No questions.

00:30:22.000 Thank you very much!

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00:31:15.000 We may need to.

00:31:17.000 Then we had a big sponsor coming that was a CBD sponsor, but it turns out it's a violation of YouTube's guidelines.

00:31:21.000 So everyone who thinks, all you potheads who think that they're your friends, not so much.

00:31:26.000 It's just CBD.

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00:31:29.000 But they can't be a sponsor.

00:31:31.000 That's revenue I'll never get back.

00:31:32.000 No, never, ever.

00:31:33.000 They're taking a lot from you.

00:31:34.000 By the way, that Finnegan guy, he's going to want to stay on the payroll, by the way.

00:31:36.000 You can't let him go.

00:31:37.000 Yeah, I'm sure he will.

00:31:38.000 Yeah, but it sounds like he's a chief now.

00:31:40.000 You know, it doesn't matter.

00:31:42.000 Chief doesn't pay as much as you think anymore.

00:31:43.000 I don't know.

00:31:44.000 He has a new job.

00:31:45.000 Let's let him do it.

00:31:47.000 Technically, he never actually ever did his old job.

00:31:50.000 That was that one sock you reported on, but that was it.

00:31:53.000 Gotta tell you, I was hoping the mood would improve this morning.

00:31:55.000 Not for me.

00:31:59.000 Hey, I've heard if you throw that mug right at Audio Wade, it'll make you feel better.

00:32:04.000 There's a lot of tech over here doing that.

00:32:06.000 They're doing studies on that.

00:32:07.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:08.000 They're not clinical trials.

00:32:09.000 They're observational studies.

00:32:11.000 But how will you know with our empirical evidence?

00:32:14.000 Science demands that you throw that mug at Gerald. 0.69

00:32:16.000 Maybe I should ask Chris Cuomo's wife.

00:32:19.000 Sorry, Christina.

00:32:20.000 Christina Cuomo.

00:32:21.000 Christmas short?

00:32:22.000 I don't know.

00:32:23.000 A very serious lady in her own right.

00:32:24.000 I thought it was crystal.

00:32:26.000 Oh, it's just what she's selling.

00:32:26.000 Is it crystal?

00:32:27.000 No.

00:32:31.000 Healing crystals!

00:32:32.000 They heal you, they align your body's energy.

00:32:36.000 I don't know anything.

00:32:37.000 So, uh, okay.

00:32:39.000 This is what was getting me so upset this morning, and I'm going to try and calm... How long is the clip quarter-blank, Garrett?

00:32:44.000 It is 50 seconds.

00:32:45.000 Oh boy.

00:32:46.000 Alright, so for 50 seconds I won't be on camera and I can practice my breathing exercises.

00:32:46.000 Okay, good.

00:32:49.000 Let's do it.

00:32:51.000 So, this morning everywhere on CNN, and I'm sure we'll even see it as we go to... Oh my gosh, what is happening on CNN right now?

00:32:58.000 The lady couldn't just, like, pick up her stuff? 1.00

00:33:00.000 It's like Sadness Behar from Tybee Island.

00:33:03.000 No, no, no, that's Florence from Florence and the Machine.

00:33:05.000 She's become a mayor since her career collapsed. 0.99

00:33:08.000 If you're going to be on national television, and I mean I use national television in the loosest sense of the word, she must just not be concerned with putting away cardboard boxes because of viewership.

00:33:20.000 Tidey Island, is that a big place?

00:33:21.000 Just Tidey, what?

00:33:22.000 You said Tidey?

00:33:23.000 That's where she's the leader of. 1.00

00:33:24.000 Apparently it's not Tidey Island.

00:33:29.000 Martha Stewart, she is not.

00:33:31.000 Okay, so this morning on CNN, they had medical experts saying, do not in any form drink bleach or Lysol or inject it directly into the body according to President Donald Trump's directions.

00:33:31.000 That's brutal.

00:33:46.000 This is everywhere right now.

00:33:47.000 It's trending on Twitter.

00:33:48.000 If you go to Reddit Politics, which there just needs to be a coup with conservatives going in there.

00:33:52.000 Keep it respectful, but just make your voices known.

00:33:55.000 This is all based on...

00:33:58.000 And you tell me if you see it from the President Trump press briefer last night where he talked about how sunlight, UV rays kill COVID.

00:34:05.000 He talked about which sanitization products work and then was turning to, as you'll see, medical experts regarding some experimentation that they might be doing.

00:34:14.000 You tell me if this sounds like inject yourself with Lysol.

00:34:17.000 Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light.

00:34:26.000 And I think you said that has image.

00:34:28.000 Ultraviolet or powerful.

00:34:30.000 And I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.

00:34:37.000 And I think you said you're going to test that too.

00:34:39.000 Sounds interesting.

00:34:41.000 Right.

00:34:42.000 And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute.

00:34:47.000 And is there a way we can do something like that?

00:34:50.000 by injection inside or almost a cleaning.

00:34:55.000 Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.

00:35:00.000 So it'd be interesting to check that.

00:35:01.000 So that you're gonna have to use medical doctors with.

00:35:04.000 But it sounds interesting to me. 0.99

00:35:07.000 Oh, sorry, I was injecting Clorox into my dick. 0.99

00:35:09.000 Oh, does it work? 1.00

00:35:12.000 Per the president's direction.

00:35:14.000 I jumped the gun a little bit there.

00:35:16.000 So, uh, did anyone hear him say, inject this, by the way?

00:35:19.000 Inject Clorox.

00:35:21.000 Now, let me go through.

00:35:22.000 You shouldn't have said the disinfectant thing.

00:35:23.000 You should have separated his words.

00:35:24.000 But he did do that with UV light.

00:35:27.000 Now this is important.

00:35:28.000 Why?

00:35:28.000 Because I've actually been in a little bit of a tiff with my wife lately.

00:35:31.000 Oh, really?

00:35:31.000 Because after I had knee surgery, right, they used infrared light.

00:35:35.000 They use it on my knee.

00:35:35.000 It's very typical.

00:35:36.000 Anyone out there, if you've ever done it, they use this, and it's actually approved for certain therapies.

00:35:40.000 Not a cure for coronavirus.

00:35:41.000 I wanted to get an infrared sauna, but my wife was like, well, then you'll be infertile, and I was trying to make this argument. 1.00

00:35:45.000 Actually, it's not nearly as hot as a Finnish sauna, and you can turn it down.

00:35:48.000 You can get the benefit of infrared light into your tissue without actually having to get really hot.

00:35:53.000 And she's not a fan, so I can't do it.

00:35:55.000 Okay, fine.

00:35:56.000 But the point here is we know that it works.

00:35:59.000 Right now, run a search on infrared light.

00:36:02.000 There's actually a shortage on infrared saunas because people, for whatever reason, think that it helps with coronavirus.

00:36:07.000 I'm not saying that it does, but it does raise the body's temperature, and it has been shown in medical studies to help with immunity.

00:36:14.000 So a lot of people have been looking into that.

00:36:15.000 He said UV light or some other powerful light force.

00:36:18.000 Maybe we could, well, guess what?

00:36:20.000 Infrared light penetrates deep into tissue.

00:36:22.000 He could be referring to that or the non-harmful UV rays.

00:36:25.000 He's simply saying, we know that this works, that it kills it if it's airborne.

00:36:28.000 Would there be a way to experiment with this to see if it could help people?

00:36:31.000 And they're talking about that.

00:36:33.000 That is totally valid.

00:36:34.000 He didn't say, go out in the sun and look like skin cancer lady, sunbed lady, because that's going to kill coronavirus.

00:36:40.000 He didn't say that.

00:36:41.000 He didn't prescribe that.

00:36:42.000 And he was looking to medical professionals.

00:36:44.000 By the way, we're talking about disinfectant in the body.

00:36:47.000 Do you know what chemotherapy is?

00:36:50.000 Now it's not Clorox, it's not bleach, it's not Lysol, but you are putting something in your body that kills things, and that's why people get really sick.

00:36:58.000 This idea that, hey, is there some kind of a chemical that we could maybe extract to clean out the lungs, which is what he's talking about.

00:37:06.000 Worded well?

00:37:07.000 Probably not.

00:37:08.000 But then the media goes out and they use the brand name.

00:37:12.000 Lysol.

00:37:13.000 Donald Trump said inject Lysol, which he didn't to the point that Lysol actually issued a statement saying, don't.

00:37:20.000 And I hope people look up the board at Lysol and their political contributions because that seems a little bit fishy to me.

00:37:25.000 Oh my gosh.

00:37:26.000 It's a great cleaner, but don't put it inside your body.

00:37:28.000 And by the way, like you said, he did look over to the doctor.

00:37:31.000 They're looking into these things.

00:37:31.000 He said, I don't know.

00:37:33.000 Basically, what he said is, we have found a weakness with this virus and many other viruses.

00:37:37.000 How do we translate that to something that can go in the human body that won't kill us, but will kill the virus?

00:37:41.000 That's essentially what he's saying.

00:37:43.000 They gave him no leeway, no benefit of the doubt whatsoever in his comments at all.

00:37:48.000 Gerald, can I correct you?

00:37:48.000 You can.

00:37:49.000 He didn't essentially say that.

00:37:50.000 He actually was just asking.

00:37:53.000 The entirety of that exchange was saying, you're looking into these things, right?

00:37:57.000 Are you looking into these things that could disinfect the body?

00:38:00.000 Was that a poor choice of words?

00:38:01.000 Sure.

00:38:02.000 The guy who's a real estate mogul and not a doctor is saying the word.

00:38:05.000 Do we expect the president to be a scientist?

00:38:06.000 And do you know what he did?

00:38:07.000 I understand.

00:38:08.000 Before and after?

00:38:09.000 Brought up doctors.

00:38:10.000 Right.

00:38:11.000 He kept saying, well, he kept literally not only looking at the doctor, but saying the

00:38:14.000 word doctor while talking to a doctor about, hey, are you looking into these things?

00:38:19.000 And you would have to use a medical doctor.

00:38:19.000 Yeah.

00:38:22.000 Right.

00:38:23.000 At the very end, I don't know.

00:38:23.000 And he goes, I don't know.

00:38:24.000 Sounds interesting to me.

00:38:26.000 And by the way, they are constantly researching light therapy, and in some cases it helps, in some cases it doesn't.

00:38:34.000 That's not quackery, we'll get to that in a second.

00:38:37.000 They use it in incubators, infrared light therapy.

00:38:41.000 It is used in the medical... I don't know if that's what they're doing, but I guarantee you right now as they explore all these options, they're probably looking into approved non-invasive therapies if they could potentially help.

00:38:51.000 Especially when you consider that UV and infrared light are both a part of the rays that you feel when you go out into the sun.

00:38:57.000 And there is a way to harness this with it being beneficial and not harmful.

00:39:02.000 Does it benefit someone if they have coronavirus?

00:39:05.000 President Trump doesn't know.

00:39:05.000 I don't know.

00:39:07.000 He said he doesn't know.

00:39:08.000 Could it cure it?

00:39:09.000 Probably not.

00:39:09.000 Could it be beneficial as a preventative?

00:39:11.000 Maybe so.

00:39:12.000 These are conversations that people should be having.

00:39:15.000 And if he doesn't, guess what?

00:39:17.000 They say no answers from President Donald Trump right now as this virus continues to spread.

00:39:21.000 Of course.

00:39:21.000 no way and the character assassination that takes place here right now going

00:39:26.000 out there in fact checking something he never said right is so upsetting well

00:39:30.000 and I would it's probably gonna be what about five minutes ten minutes until we

00:39:33.000 get the first story of somebody who's a woman who poisons her husband I mean 1.00

00:39:37.000 accidentally gives her husband the wrong thing oh yeah the clorox by the way did 1.00

00:39:41.000 No, no, not Chloroquine.

00:39:42.000 We're now into Lysol and Clorox.

00:39:43.000 He said inject it.

00:39:44.000 So the next homicidal maniac who wants to get rid of her husband says, hey honey, I injected myself. 0.69

00:39:48.000 I'm fine. 0.86

00:39:49.000 Right.

00:39:49.000 Here's yours.

00:39:50.000 Right.

00:39:50.000 Well, you know what else?

00:39:51.000 The guy, remember the guy, uh, the guy who took the Chloroquine?

00:39:54.000 Yeah.

00:39:54.000 His wife, yeah.

00:39:55.000 He was an engineer. 1.00

00:39:56.000 Oh, so really dumb, right? 1.00

00:39:57.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:39:58.000 Yeah.

00:39:58.000 In other words, like, you don't, you think an engineer might have a question like, hmm, you're having me drink fish tank clear?

00:40:04.000 Hmm, I guess that's like sleepy time tea.

00:40:05.000 No.

00:40:07.000 He was poisoned!

00:40:07.000 He was allegedly poisoned!

00:40:12.000 This lady who hates Donald Trump, who tried to divorce him, who has a history of mental health disorders, who didn't seem to suffer any symptoms herself, and said she drank it because Donald Trump told us to, and her husband is an engineer, drops dead immediately.

00:40:28.000 Why is there no investigation?

00:40:30.000 The Lysol injection defense is about to become a thing.

00:40:33.000 Carol Baskin is saying, hmm, that's severe.

00:40:37.000 Wouldn't have gone that far.

00:40:38.000 So Donald Trump did not push this, by the way, as though it was a guaranteed cure.

00:40:42.000 He did not.

00:40:43.000 And there is a danger, of course, we all agree, in pushing quackery and unverified medical claims.

00:40:46.000 Absolutely.

00:40:47.000 Which brings us to Christopher Cuomo's wife, Christina Cuomo.

00:40:51.000 Now, again, I want to be really clear, none of us would ever just attack someone's wife because they are a public figure, that wouldn't be right, it would be uncorrect, it would be crossing a line.

00:40:59.000 But Christina Cuomo, so you can forget about Chris Cuomo for a second here, Christina Cuomo is a lifestyle blogger and health advocate. 0.59

00:41:08.000 I think it's The Purist. 0.69

00:41:14.000 That's Christina Cuomo, where she did actually go through the Cuomo Chloroquine Regimen.

00:41:19.000 So, Christina Cuomo, a separate human being, entity, public figure, all in her own right. 1.00

00:41:24.000 That being said, Chris Cuomo's wife is an idiot. 1.00

00:41:29.000 This is going out there. 1.00

00:41:30.000 While we're talking about something that Donald Trump never actually said, she wrote a whole blog post of their protocol.

00:41:39.000 One is she advises baths with Clorox to combat metals in her system and to, quote, oxygenate the cells.

00:41:47.000 Well, guess what the Clorox website says?

00:41:48.000 And this wasn't issued as a specific statement for Chris Cuomo's wife.

00:41:51.000 This was longstanding issue because people have been making these claims that are unverified for a very long time.

00:41:56.000 Now, I know, you can probably put Clorox in a bath and be fine.

00:42:00.000 But her claim is that she was doing it because it oxygenates the cells. 0.67

00:42:03.000 That doesn't work. 0.97

00:42:05.000 That's bullcrap. 0.97

00:42:06.000 Do you know how I know? 0.99

00:42:07.000 Clorox says don't do it.

00:42:09.000 And do you know what else doesn't oxygenate cells?

00:42:12.000 Oxygen!

00:42:13.000 It actually doesn't work!

00:42:14.000 When you inhale oxygen, they banned it in sport, they realized that circulating oxygen levels in the blood actually did not increase.

00:42:20.000 There used to be this thing called perfect water that was oxygenated water.

00:42:22.000 No, it doesn't work because your body can limit it, right?

00:42:25.000 If you want to oxygenate your cells, you need to go into a hyperbaric chamber.

00:42:28.000 This is what happens when people get, what's it called?

00:42:31.000 The bends.

00:42:31.000 When they come up, right?

00:42:32.000 That's what they use.

00:42:33.000 Sea divers, you know what else can increase oxygenation of the blood?

00:42:35.000 Infrared light therapy!

00:42:37.000 Up to 7%!

00:42:38.000 That's recognized by, I believe, the FDA!

00:42:40.000 That's another form of light.

00:42:41.000 Right, it's another form of light.

00:42:42.000 Oh, I may have mentioned.

00:42:43.000 Maybe you forgot the word.

00:42:44.000 Clorox baths to oxygenate the cells.

00:42:47.000 Oh my god.

00:42:47.000 You know what it also says at the very end of that statement in the overlay that we put up in the highlighted text?

00:42:51.000 At the very bottom it says, don't use this in a bath.

00:42:54.000 It has not been approved by the EPA.

00:42:55.000 We never recommend for you to do that.

00:42:57.000 Right.

00:42:58.000 Ever.

00:42:58.000 Right.

00:42:58.000 Ever.

00:42:59.000 Yeah, but Christina Cuomo says that it does.

00:43:03.000 She knows better.

00:43:04.000 Wait, do you add the crystals?

00:43:05.000 Yeah, that's a different post.

00:43:06.000 Yeah, crystals.

00:43:07.000 Healing crystals.

00:43:08.000 Which, if you're wondering, like, has it been peer-reviewed?

00:43:11.000 It's not been reviewed.

00:43:13.000 No peers.

00:43:14.000 No, no, there are negative reviews.

00:43:17.000 I guess there's probably a crystal house somewhere where there are a few Yelpers like, this didn't do anything. 0.99

00:43:23.000 And the lady was really snooty. 1.00

00:43:24.000 Her husband kept coming out of the basement like he was Jesus Christ.

00:43:28.000 I'm like, what is going on?

00:43:29.000 Three days I shall be.

00:43:31.000 She goes on to talk about their regimen.

00:43:33.000 And by the way, we know that Christopher Cuomo, you all saw his video where he came out from the basement and like he's

00:43:38.000 been quarantined there.

00:43:38.000 No, we know that you were threatening cyclists to the point that they had to file police reports, Christopher Cuomo.

00:43:44.000 But let's get back to your wife. 0.94

00:43:46.000 So, she says that it's all about, in her website, it's all about helping the immune system and eliminating radiation.

00:43:53.000 Because, quote, we're all exposed to radiation, cell phone, Wi-Fi, and it agitates our cells.

00:44:01.000 Guess where we get more radiation?

00:44:02.000 The Earth!

00:44:04.000 Yeah, we should get rid of that.

00:44:04.000 On a daily basis, from the atmosphere and cosmic rays.

00:44:08.000 Definitely get rid of that.

00:44:09.000 So she's getting on these energy pads and she's talking about these medicines and barks that are not proven at all, by the way, and advocating it as a regimen.

00:44:19.000 You cannot find Donald Trump advocating two people, without the care, under the supervision of a doctor, advocating completely unproven methods.

00:44:27.000 No.

00:44:28.000 The closest thing that you can find, and the media was furious about, including Christopher Cuomo, by the way, was Donald Trump saying, if you're looking at a ventilator, ask your doctor.

00:44:37.000 I would try the chloroquine.

00:44:38.000 What do you have to lose?

00:44:40.000 That's not nearly as bad as electromagnetic therapy pads and crystals.

00:44:46.000 Clorox baths.

00:44:46.000 Don't forget the baths.

00:44:47.000 Clorox baths to oxygenate the cells!

00:44:49.000 You know, can I make a prediction?

00:44:51.000 Can I make a prediction?

00:44:52.000 Someone's gonna come out with an article that's like, Donald Trump's family owns $7 in stock in the sun.

00:44:58.000 Doubting unproven therapies.

00:45:02.000 Expecting it to get bigger and bigger.

00:45:03.000 Something shady.

00:45:05.000 And then Joe Biden's gonna be like, can we create like a catapult that'll block the sun?

00:45:11.000 So that I plunge the world into darkness all but guaranteeing my Who stopped?

00:45:16.000 That was actually a really bad impression, because he would never put those many words in.

00:45:24.000 His wife was on CNN this morning, like, Jill Biden, like, where's Joe?

00:45:31.000 He's under the table asleep, curled up like a dog.

00:45:34.000 She looks at the floor, nowhere.

00:45:35.000 Nowhere?

00:45:36.000 And she's like kicking down. 0.98

00:45:38.000 He gets sensory overload.

00:45:41.000 We have them in a flotation tank pretty much 24-7 until it's time to come out.

00:45:46.000 And then we change out the salt water.

00:45:48.000 It's a mess.

00:45:49.000 Too much radiation.

00:45:51.000 Here's another thing that Christopher Cuomo's wife said.

00:45:55.000 She also says that vitamin C in IV kills viruses like corona and she advises zinc.

00:46:00.000 I want to be clear about this.

00:46:00.000 Now let me be really clear actually.

00:46:01.000 Vitamin C Intravenously, there is some information that shows that it can benefit viruses, and you can't take enough of it orally, right?

00:46:10.000 Your body doesn't actually use it, you excrete it.

00:46:11.000 So, I don't want to say that everything she's saying is completely unproven, but if we are using the standard that they are trying to use with President Donald Trump or any conservative, then absolutely you would have to throw this out along with magnolia bark or whatever else the hell it is that she's talking about, like electric pads.

00:46:25.000 I don't even know what half the stuff is. 0.96

00:46:26.000 Vagina candles. 1.00

00:46:28.000 Oh gosh, we had to go there.

00:46:32.000 It's the same genre.

00:46:35.000 Look, some folks are going to go, oh, you know, the president should be held to a higher standard.

00:46:40.000 Of course he shouldn't be, you know, touting electric pads.

00:46:42.000 Y'all go back and read the transcript.

00:46:45.000 Look at the whole video.

00:46:46.000 He's talking to a doctor, asking, are you going to be doing these kinds of studies to check into these kinds of therapies based on the fact that we know that there are these analogies outside the body?

00:46:58.000 Is there some way for us to figure this out?

00:47:00.000 Talking directly to them.

00:47:02.000 I know!

00:47:02.000 Also, I've seen anecdotal evidence and studies about this drug.

00:47:06.000 I wonder if you're at the very end of your rope and you're about to be put on a ventilator because you can't breathe, is it possible for a doctor to try this?

00:47:13.000 And he stands to gain nothing as opposed to Christopher Cuomo's wife who wants to sell you bed spreads.

00:47:18.000 So I just want to be really clear here.

00:47:19.000 There's a conflict.

00:47:21.000 That's what if you were to go to PubMed would say.

00:47:23.000 There's a conflict of interest because this non-peer-reviewed study only included two subjects and it was funded by Christopher Cuomo.

00:47:31.000 So you should take it with a grain of salt.

00:47:34.000 Also, it's untrue.

00:47:36.000 So she says that vitamin C, an IV virus, so she goes through magnolia bark, electromagnetic pads, Clorox, baths, all the crystals are sold on the website.

00:47:45.000 You know, all the stuff that doesn't really work.

00:47:46.000 Like, unilaterally, there are some supplements that work.

00:47:48.000 Of course.

00:47:50.000 Nothing cures coronavirus, but there are some supplements out there that could prove to be useful for people.

00:47:54.000 She recommends almost all of the wrong ones.

00:47:56.000 I would encourage you to go and look it up.

00:47:58.000 But vitamin C, specifically, and like turmeric and stuff, which she talks about, ayurvedic medicine, ayurvedic medicine, really?

00:48:06.000 You can nary a corona case found in India.

00:48:09.000 It sounds familiar though, like... Those words.

00:48:11.000 Wouldn't that be... Didn't someone say that might be a problem?

00:48:15.000 Raising authoritative information.

00:48:17.000 But then we also talk about removing information that is problematic.

00:48:22.000 Of course, anything that is medically unsubstantiated, so people saying like, take vitamin C, take turmeric, those will cure you.

00:48:32.000 Those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy.

00:48:36.000 Yeah.

00:48:37.000 So I expect it to, I mean, she didn't write it on YouTube, but I expect the Purist blog to at least be removed from search.

00:48:42.000 It should be.

00:48:46.000 And that's all I have to say about that.

00:48:49.000 That being said, of course, I wish Chris Cuomo's wife the best in recovery.

00:48:52.000 Just stop dispensing dangerously bad medical advice and killing people.

00:48:55.000 Why do you not care about lives?

00:48:56.000 That's really my main concern here.

00:48:58.000 We have Dan Crenshaw.

00:48:59.000 Representative Dan Crenshaw, I know, will be probably about 10 minutes late.

00:49:03.000 And before that, we have one more story about Osama bin Laden, actually, who had an assassination attempt on Obama to make Biden president.

00:49:09.000 We'll talk about that.

00:49:10.000 But first, actually, it's time to go to our good friend, correspondent.

00:49:14.000 Pan, tell us.

00:49:15.000 Tell stories.

00:49:20.000 So I see that a lot of you are still looking at all the negatives with this whole COVID thing.

00:49:24.000 But look at the positives.

00:49:25.000 Look at the scientific breakthroughs.

00:49:26.000 I don't know if you guys saw, but in Italy, in Venice specifically, since there's no more people, the dolphins are back.

00:49:32.000 The dolphins took over, right?

00:49:33.000 That's a discovery.

00:49:34.000 We had no idea that dolphins, much like the Germans, were disgusted by Italians.

00:49:39.000 I'm not saying it's right for these dolphins to be racist, but we would have never known had this not happened.

00:49:43.000 You go to the Arab world. 0.91

00:49:44.000 It's a religious time for them now. 0.67

00:49:45.000 People are sad because the streets of Mecca are empty, right?

00:49:48.000 But on the bright side, rapes are down 95% from last year.

00:49:53.000 Now, domestic abuse is up in the region.

00:49:55.000 But you know, you win some, you beat some.

00:49:57.000 Those are the rules of the COVID game.

00:49:59.000 Stay positive.

00:50:04.000 Alright then, thanks Pantelis.

00:50:06.000 Did you notice that the Mounties were like busting his door down to arrest him for making those jokes?

00:50:12.000 We have to get him out of there.

00:50:14.000 It's gonna be not without my Pantelis just putting him in a shawl across the... No, no, we're gonna put him like the Nissan CEO.

00:50:21.000 We're gonna put him in some music boxes and ship him transatlantic across the St.

00:50:25.000 Lawrence.

00:50:27.000 So here's another story that is just, it's just too funny to pass up.

00:50:32.000 Did you guys hear about Osama bin Laden had a plot to kill Barack Obama?

00:50:36.000 Not funny, of course.

00:50:36.000 I wasn't a fan of Barack Obama, but he's our sitting president.

00:50:38.000 Of course I would defend him because I'm Team America, especially when compared to, you know, terrorists.

00:50:43.000 But the reason that Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate Obama is gut-bustingly funny because he thought that, bring that back up, Joe Biden was so ill-equipped To be president that it would thrust the American public into chaos.

00:50:59.000 So when people talk about the Russians getting $3,000 on Facebook ads, you know, for using nasty words about Hillary Clinton, just think about this for a second.

00:51:07.000 Public enemy number one, Osama bin Laden was going to pop his head out of his cave to try and take out our president just because he was so supremely confident Joe Biden is out of his mind.

00:51:19.000 And this was Joe Biden 10 years ago.

00:51:22.000 Much more lucid Joe Biden.

00:51:24.000 He is not a fine wine.

00:51:25.000 He does not improve with age.

00:51:27.000 He's more like an apple that's been put in a brown paper bag.

00:51:30.000 But I think the Democrats knew this and they've enacted his plan.

00:51:33.000 What he was trying to do as a terrorist attack, they have done through the nomination process.

00:51:37.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:51:37.000 I'm not a Muslim, but I think I might have been wrong about all of this because it seems like Osama Bin Laden was clairvoyant.

00:51:43.000 So, maybe he was just communicating with demons, you know, like Muhammad thought with Satan, and then they were like, no, no, that's Gabriel.

00:51:51.000 So maybe that's what's happening with Osama Bin Laden, but maybe back then he saw vision, or maybe in his hat with like the Islamic terrorist seer stones. 0.57

00:51:59.000 So maybe he saw back then what we see now, like this interaction.

00:52:06.000 I just had to shoehorn this in.

00:52:10.000 Current presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and previous presidential nominee, Al Gore.

00:52:17.000 Watch.

00:52:18.000 What's happening?

00:52:19.000 We're not organizing, and if we don't organize the world, who organizes it?

00:52:23.000 Who organizes it?

00:52:24.000 And so there's so much, I think, anyway, look, one more question here.

00:52:32.000 Is it too late to address the climate change in a meaningful way?

00:52:40.000 Aggress. 0.93

00:52:42.000 Aggress?

00:52:42.000 Aggress.

00:52:43.000 Yeah.

00:52:44.000 I mean, he misspoke.

00:52:45.000 And Al Gore is making a face like, I need to get to a Swedish massage parlor with a man named Sven two N's quickly. 1.00

00:52:52.000 I actually thought Al Gore was thinking, dang, I got a shot.

00:52:56.000 Is it too late to get in?

00:52:57.000 I shouldn't have retired.

00:52:58.000 I should come back.

00:52:59.000 I wish Florida didn't go increasingly red.

00:53:05.000 I do wonder, do you think the Russians are coming?

00:53:08.000 They're going to come and they're going to be like, man, we thought we were going to mess up America by getting Trump as president.

00:53:14.000 That didn't work.

00:53:15.000 So you know who we're going for next?

00:53:18.000 Joe Biden.

00:53:18.000 Well, I guarantee you they want Joe.

00:53:20.000 So what happened with Trump back then when we talk about the Russians is just no one gave President Trump a shot.

00:53:24.000 Remember the night we did the election stream, they had a 99% chance of Hillary Clinton winning.

00:53:27.000 No way he was going to win.

00:53:28.000 So they wanted to undermine Hillary Clinton, the person who they thought would be the sitting president.

00:53:32.000 Either way, if Donald Trump was a heavy favorite, I guarantee you they would have tried to undermine Donald Trump.

00:53:35.000 He was a long shot, and he won.

00:53:37.000 And since they just want to basically wreak chaos on the American public, what better way than to just... I mean, you don't even need to create an ad set, like on Twitter or Facebook.

00:53:46.000 You don't!

00:53:47.000 Take a clip and add a million dollars to put it in everyone's feed of Joe Biden and just watch the magic unfurl.

00:53:55.000 What Joe Biden is trying to do right now, get in front of you, is all they would have to do to destroy America.

00:54:01.000 They think, in their minds, Joe Biden as president.

00:54:03.000 Hey, can we show the screen real quick?

00:54:04.000 What screen?

00:54:05.000 CNN.

00:54:05.000 Oh, the CNN?

00:54:06.000 Oh, what's going on?

00:54:07.000 Hey, look at the, look at the chyron at the bottom.

00:54:09.000 Eclipse is 50,000.

00:54:11.000 And then look at the number.

00:54:12.000 One inch away.

00:54:14.000 One inch away?

00:54:15.000 Hey, that might be an inch and a half away, depending on the size of your screen.

00:54:19.000 But, guys, they can't even just look at their own screen.

00:54:23.000 Look, the injecting thing, again, disinfectant.

00:54:28.000 Dangerously suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment.

00:54:31.000 It looks like an improvement from this morning where they said Donald Trump says inject Lysol.

00:54:36.000 I am offended by the fact that Pence and Trump have the same tie on.

00:54:39.000 Yeah.

00:54:39.000 That was pretty... Yeah, it was a little bit rough.

00:54:41.000 You know, they both showed up and Donald Trump was like, shit. 1.00

00:54:45.000 One of us has to change. 1.00

00:54:47.000 Damn you, Pence. 1.00

00:54:47.000 And then Pence was like, oh, that's okay, Mr. President. 1.00

00:54:51.000 I can just go without a tie.

00:54:52.000 No, you look fantastic open collar.

00:54:58.000 You won't have it.

00:54:59.000 You know why they can't do that?

00:55:00.000 This is the problem.

00:55:00.000 They're unionized at Sand.

00:55:01.000 They're old school.

00:55:02.000 So they can't change that ticker on the right, even though it said 50,000 deaths on the bottom, until the guy who actually has vinyl scorecard flips it over and someone with a megaphone says, 50,000!

00:55:13.000 And the boy goes, oh boy, extra, extra!

00:55:17.000 And runs up to Anderson Cooper and he pats him on the butt and he goes, bump it to 50,000, Anderson!

00:55:22.000 Otherwise, they can't do it!

00:55:24.000 You can't blame them for this!

00:55:25.000 I like how they're not relying on their own source.

00:55:29.000 I mean, they couldn't even just wait, right?

00:55:30.000 They were just, like, so excited.

00:55:32.000 They're like, guys, are you ready?

00:55:33.000 Are you ready?

00:55:34.000 Are you ready?

00:55:34.000 Do it!

00:55:35.000 Just hit the button!

00:55:36.000 It's over 50.

00:55:37.000 We're ready.

00:55:38.000 Extra!

00:55:39.000 Extra!

00:55:39.000 Read all about it!

00:55:40.000 CNN is wrong!

00:55:42.000 And that's the thing, is that a young Christian Bale from Newsies?

00:55:45.000 Clicking his heels in the air?

00:55:48.000 Yeah, as opposed to Fox News's young Christian Bale from Empire of the Sun, where he's just going, Right.

00:55:53.000 And then there are planes.

00:55:55.000 Alright, do we have him on the line?

00:55:56.000 We do, yes.

00:55:56.000 Okay, so we actually have our guest on the line, which is really why you guys tune in, let's be honest.

00:56:00.000 Of course!

00:56:00.000 He's a representative, of course, here in the United States.

00:56:03.000 He's made a lot of us proud recently.

00:56:04.000 Yes.

00:56:05.000 His new book is called Fortitude.

00:56:07.000 It's on the New York Times Best Seller list.

00:56:08.000 Number five, I believe, yesterday.

00:56:11.000 Let's get it to number one.

00:56:12.000 You know him, you love him, he's a friend of the show.

00:56:13.000 Mr. Dan Crenshaw, how are you, sir?

00:56:16.000 Hey, Steven, good to be with you, man.

00:56:17.000 I'm doing well.

00:56:18.000 How are you? 0.96

00:56:19.000 Uh, crappy.

00:56:19.000 So, um, I do want to play a clip for anyone who is... I'm just really mad because I injected Lysol this morning and it didn't work out.

00:56:28.000 So, you know, I was following the very specific name brand prescription that I was told President Trump espoused.

00:56:35.000 And, uh, just so you know, uh, it's not, it's not a cure.

00:56:38.000 I mean, you don't know that.

00:56:41.000 You're not a scientist.

00:56:44.000 This is true.

00:56:45.000 For people who haven't seen it, Mr. Crenshaw, I do want to play a clip, because we've had you on the show quite a bit, but oh my gosh, I think, I'm not a fan of Bill Maher, maybe you two have a friendly relationship, but I don't know, I can't, if you don't have anything nice to say...

00:57:00.000 Roll the clip.

00:57:01.000 There are still people coming in from China.

00:57:03.000 He only stopped foreign nationals.

00:57:05.000 Let me address that because I know that's what people are saying right now.

00:57:09.000 But the reality is about 40,000 people came in after that.

00:57:12.000 These are U.S.

00:57:13.000 citizens and green card holders and passport holders being repatriated.

00:57:17.000 US citizens. So you have to make the argument then that we shouldn't allow them in. 0.99

00:57:22.000 And it sounds to me like you're fully agreeing with President Trump on this when everybody else disagreed with

00:57:27.000 him.

00:57:28.000 And if you're saying that you wish that that travel restriction was more extreme, okay fine.

00:57:33.000 I mean, you apparently had the foresight back then, but when nobody else did... Okay, okay, okay.

00:57:39.000 Um, okay.

00:57:40.000 Please get this book to number one, just because I want you to go back on.

00:57:43.000 So I've been present and known quite a few people who've been there for Bill Maher's tapings, and a lot of it, like, there's a crowd animator at most late night shows, and then at Bill Maher, it's like, you better clap, or you are out of here.

00:57:54.000 It's a threat.

00:57:55.000 And he uses that power of the audience.

00:57:57.000 We've never seen Bill Maher perform this poorly.

00:58:01.000 He usually portrays himself as a genius.

00:58:04.000 Let me ask you, do you think that it helped you that you were both on equal footing as opposed to being in his studio with his audience?

00:58:11.000 Did that embolden you?

00:58:13.000 Equal footing is always good.

00:58:16.000 I've never been in his studio with his audience, so I've got nothing to compare it with.

00:58:20.000 Um, you know, the conversation could have gone totally differently if it was about a different topic.

00:58:24.000 Also, the reality is on this particular topic, we have all the evidence on our side and they don't.

00:58:31.000 So they're at a total disadvantage.

00:58:34.000 I do think Bill Maher is a smart guy.

00:58:36.000 You know, I do.

00:58:36.000 And I do have some respect for him.

00:58:38.000 He does a lot of things that Like, I really don't like either.

00:58:42.000 I mean, we probably have the same opinions, but he is... No, no, I don't have much respect for him.

00:58:46.000 I do think he's smart, but I don't have much respect for him.

00:58:48.000 So I want to make sure that you're not tarred and feathered because of my lack of respect.

00:58:51.000 Yes.

00:58:53.000 Yeah, I mean, I just, you know, I try to give everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people the most benefit of the doubt that I can.

00:59:01.000 And he takes I appreciate anybody who who goes after their own progressive left wing.

00:59:07.000 That's true with left wingers to the extent that he does.

00:59:11.000 And, you know, I like like I told him on the show, and I meant it, I do see him as this as a liberal, not a leftist.

00:59:18.000 And I think there's a difference.

00:59:20.000 I think he's wrong on almost everything he says, but at least he's willing to debate it and bring somebody like me on and present his facts the best way he can and allow me to present mine.

00:59:34.000 Yes, with that being said, I think that you have a skewed view because, right, this was run in its entirety, and again, often what happens in his studio is he cuts the parts that he doesn't like.

00:59:45.000 That's the problem.

00:59:46.000 We've actually only ever edited, in the history of this show, two interviews, and that was by—one was by request, and the other one was because the guy was on drugs and didn't remember it, and we thought, well, it wouldn't be fair to run this.

00:59:58.000 Outside of that, we never change it.

01:00:00.000 We let the cards fall where they may.

01:00:01.000 It was Artie Lange.

01:00:02.000 It's no secret.

01:00:03.000 And I love Artie Lang, and I didn't want him to get in trouble.

01:00:05.000 This was before, you know, he's sober now, so that's a good thing.

01:00:07.000 We can celebrate it.

01:00:09.000 So your experience is more of an even debate.

01:00:12.000 That doesn't happen in the studio.

01:00:13.000 That being said, my primary gripe with him is that he's painfully unfunny.

01:00:17.000 And I don't have that with, like, Jon Stewart, even Stephen Colbert.

01:00:19.000 You know, Bill Maher's punchline is, right, right, and someone with an applause sign.

01:00:23.000 And so when you take that away from the equation, I mean, you were daddy.

01:00:28.000 Yeah, again, I just I don't know what it's like to have the audience there.

01:00:33.000 I don't know that it would have changed all that much.

01:00:35.000 It kind of depends on your personality.

01:00:38.000 To an extent, I'm a bit emboldened by by even more adversaries.

01:00:42.000 Right.

01:00:43.000 And, and they're not, they're not all that distracting to me.

01:00:48.000 Uh, you know, you put a lot of effort and preparation into any interview.

01:00:52.000 You kind of know what the topics are going to be.

01:00:54.000 Uh, again, they're fair.

01:00:56.000 Like they say, Hey, we're going to talk about this stuff, but I can tell you what our questions are, or I can tell you what angle we're coming at it from.

01:01:02.000 We're going to generally tell you what we're talking about.

01:01:04.000 So, um, you know, even if they hadn't told me that.

01:01:07.000 Of course I know it's going to be about Trump having blood on his hands, right?

01:01:10.000 Of course I know that.

01:01:11.000 Because that's what everybody's talking about all the time during that week.

01:01:15.000 Notice it stopped.

01:01:16.000 Notice that line, that narrative hasn't bubbled up a whole lot recently.

01:01:20.000 I think it was so thoroughly debunked.

01:01:24.000 And the Washington Post tried to do a fact check on me.

01:01:27.000 They did their best.

01:01:29.000 There was no fact checking in there, just quibbling.

01:01:32.000 And then Guy Benson, our friend, Oh, he's not my friend.

01:01:37.000 I hate him.

01:01:39.000 Guy Benson slept on my couch, actually.

01:01:43.000 What's funny is, I swear, this is a true story.

01:01:45.000 Guy Benson.

01:01:46.000 He will confirm this.

01:01:47.000 Very nice guy.

01:01:48.000 I've always had good... I used to do his show all the time.

01:01:50.000 I was living with the booker for Red Eye in Chelsea, New York, which is... I was the only straight man for four straight blocks.

01:01:57.000 At this point, Guy Benson wasn't out of the closet.

01:01:59.000 And so, we were on a Fox panel together, and I was like, well, you don't have to pay money for a hotel.

01:02:03.000 Yeah, we can stay on the couch.

01:02:04.000 He's like, oh, thank you.

01:02:05.000 I'm pretty sure that at the time, he probably thought I was gay.

01:02:07.000 Gay roommate in Chelsea. 0.52

01:02:09.000 And then afterwards, he was like, he came out of the closet.

01:02:12.000 I was like, oh, yeah.

01:02:13.000 All right, cool.

01:02:14.000 Well, how do you feel about him not giving you a pass?

01:02:17.000 He didn't even try.

01:02:18.000 Yeah, I know.

01:02:18.000 I felt a little insulted.

01:02:19.000 I was like, you're sleeping on my couch.

01:02:22.000 My door didn't have a lock.

01:02:24.000 So, uh, no, I love Guy Benson.

01:02:26.000 And, uh, if I were you, Mr. Crenshaw, do you prefer Representative Crenshaw?

01:02:31.000 Mr. Crenshaw?

01:02:33.000 Danny.

01:02:34.000 Definitely not Danny.

01:02:40.000 Dan, something I do appreciate about you that you just said, all kidding aside, is you said, you know, you prepare for the interviews.

01:02:47.000 There are some people in the conservative movement, and frankly, I'm smart enough, but I always over-prepare.

01:02:52.000 So, for example, if we do a Change My Mind or something like that, which Quarter Black Garrett, Audio Wade, Gerald, you know, it can be. 0.65

01:02:57.000 Four or five hours of anyone who comes up.

01:02:59.000 I will spend each hour of Change My Mind averages out to about 10 hours of prep.

01:03:05.000 And there are a lot of people who take pride in saying, I don't prepare.

01:03:09.000 I'm just that good.

01:03:10.000 And I think that you're obviously very smart.

01:03:11.000 You're a sharp guy.

01:03:12.000 But you telling people that you take it seriously and prepare, that's not always the most popular marketing angle.

01:03:19.000 And does it frustrate you when you see other people who you know prepare thoroughly, but they act like it comes naturally?

01:03:26.000 Huh.

01:03:27.000 I haven't really thought about that.

01:03:28.000 I don't really believe anybody that's just, uh, honestly, if they, if they are genuine, I, all I see is the outcome, right?

01:03:34.000 So if you're genuinely good at debate and you've anticipated counter-arguments, um, and you've got a list of facts, then clearly you've prepared.

01:03:43.000 Now, maybe you memorized it faster than, than somebody else said.

01:03:46.000 Maybe it only took you 30 minutes, right?

01:03:48.000 Maybe you do this so often that really you didn't prepare.

01:03:51.000 Um, there's plenty of heated debates that I go into that I honestly don't prepare for.

01:03:56.000 But that doesn't mean I haven't been preparing for years.

01:03:58.000 Right.

01:03:59.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:00.000 You're living in preparation.

01:04:01.000 Yeah, right, right.

01:04:02.000 So I don't know.

01:04:03.000 I haven't really thought about that too much.

01:04:06.000 No, I think it's valuable.

01:04:08.000 I think young people who look up to you, and there are a lot of people who look up to you, sometimes people think like, oh, my hero or someone I admire.

01:04:15.000 And I'm not saying you're my hero.

01:04:16.000 I like you, but let's pull back the reins a little bit.

01:04:19.000 But for some people, That may be the case, and it's good for them to see, like, oh, he takes this seriously.

01:04:25.000 He prepares.

01:04:26.000 He understands that he can be caught flat-footed.

01:04:29.000 That makes it more accessible, which is what I want to see.

01:04:31.000 So it's a sense of humility.

01:04:32.000 Yeah.

01:04:32.000 I think you're pretty humble.

01:04:33.000 Right, right.

01:04:34.000 And, you know, chapter two is called, Who is Your Hero?

01:04:37.000 And it's a question, and you would answer it, Dan Crenshaw.

01:04:42.000 And Bill Maher would answer, well, he would scratch out hero and write daddy.

01:04:45.000 Here's the thing, you have to understand, I never, and my lawyer, half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman has a question for you, but I never made it past the screener with Bill Maher.

01:04:57.000 I spoke on the phone with the screener and they asked me, I remember this was when the Russia thing was going on.

01:05:03.000 And I said, well, what do you want to talk about?

01:05:05.000 I said, well, I don't know.

01:05:05.000 What do you want to talk about?

01:05:06.000 And they said, well, you have to... I said, well, I just saw Beauty and the Beast last night, and I thought it was pretty funny that in colonial France they had black royalty and powdered wig and white face, like if we're talking about hashtag Oscars so white, you know, can't you chalk this up as a win? 0.51

01:05:20.000 And she goes, so you want to come on a political show and talk about Beauty and the Beast?

01:05:24.000 I said, No, I just told you what pissed me off yesterday.

01:05:27.000 I saw the film.

01:05:27.000 What do you want to talk about?

01:05:28.000 And she goes, Russia.

01:05:29.000 I said, Okay, well, listen, what do you got aside from conjecture?

01:05:32.000 And she said, We'll call you back.

01:05:35.000 I'm not as I'm not as smart as the folks who make it on the show.

01:05:39.000 I can't hold a candle to the the SC cups and Lorenzo the world.

01:05:42.000 I would love to see you and Bill hang out.

01:05:45.000 I think it'd be hilarious.

01:05:46.000 No, but so So yeah, I do think preparation support.

01:05:50.000 I do talk about that in my book quite a bit.

01:05:52.000 And in a serious way, I did bring up that chapter called who is your hero, because you have to be when you look up to people, it shouldn't be a person, somebody will always disappoint you.

01:06:00.000 Right.

01:06:02.000 And, but you should look up to attributes.

01:06:04.000 And you should, you know, my my debate, the guy that I look up to as as a debater, who's always anticipating the arguments and knows how to frame the argument Gallagher, you probably guess.

01:06:15.000 Ben Shapiro.

01:06:18.000 Okay.

01:06:20.000 He's pretty good.

01:06:22.000 Yeah.

01:06:22.000 I mean, very good.

01:06:23.000 And framing the argument is incredibly important.

01:06:27.000 The way I framed the argument for Bill's show was this.

01:06:30.000 It's a simple question.

01:06:31.000 Are you trying to make Trump look bad or are you trying to get to the truth?

01:06:34.000 Right.

01:06:34.000 Because there's two different answers there.

01:06:37.000 And I think the best way to debate the left oftentimes is to expose what they're doing in that moment.

01:06:44.000 And so here's an example, right?

01:06:48.000 Lately, we've been debating whose fault it was that the small business funding got delayed.

01:06:52.000 Well, the Democrats will claim that they're on a moral high ground because all they wanted to do was add more money to it, right?

01:07:01.000 And so they fought for that, and they're fighters for the American people, and they're fighters for our hospitals and the testing.

01:07:07.000 But here's the thing.

01:07:09.000 They're fighting for money that Doesn't need to be replenished.

01:07:13.000 Right.

01:07:14.000 You know, the funding that we've already allocated is not even close to being spent yet.

01:07:19.000 Should have spent the small business.

01:07:20.000 We should have replenished the small business funding over a week ago and then figured out how to spend the rest of the money.

01:07:26.000 But here's how to frame that argument and expose what they're doing.

01:07:29.000 They're attaching the size of their heart to dollar signs.

01:07:32.000 Right.

01:07:33.000 So just say that, right?

01:07:34.000 That's just one example.

01:07:35.000 And important, they're attaching the size of their heart to dollar signs from somebody else's pocket.

01:07:40.000 It's not their dollars.

01:07:41.000 Exactly.

01:07:42.000 That's something that people often miss.

01:07:43.000 And I will say, listen, I don't consider myself a skilled debater at all, but the one thing that I've always talked about, and this was a book that I pitched, funny enough, to conservative publishers back when I was at Fox News.

01:07:53.000 It became, changed my mind.

01:07:54.000 And they said, this isn't going to work.

01:07:55.000 The Obama blueprint was a big book, so if you have a doomsday Obama thing, that'll sell. 0.99

01:07:59.000 But this won't work to try and convince people to your way of thinking, and I always Listen, this was before Social Justice Warrior was a term, this was before Snowflake was a term, so I referred to them as sort of, I think I referred to them as modern leftist progressives and the American idiots, meaning the sort of Green Day used that against conservatives, and I meant American idiots, people who are liberal by default. 0.89

01:08:19.000 People who watch TV, who tune into CNN, who every radio show they listen to, every band they like tells them to be left-wing. 0.90

01:08:24.000 And I said there are two different approaches. 0.97

01:08:26.000 You need to change the mind of these people, these sort of ignorant Americans who've taken this position by default. 0.95

01:08:31.000 And that's where you take an approach, use the Socratic method, have them walk through their own arguments. 0.96

01:08:35.000 That's usually most productive.

01:08:37.000 Someone like a Bill Maher or Nancy Pelosi, like you're saying, what you have to do is highlight what they're saying.

01:08:42.000 Make an example of them so that then you can convince the people who have taken the position by default.

01:08:46.000 And identifying the two different kinds of people with whom you're speaking is, I think, a very important skill set.

01:08:53.000 And I think you handled it very well with Bill Maher.

01:08:55.000 That's a great point.

01:08:56.000 Yeah, well, because the entire you're not going to convince Bill on his show to see your way that that's not the purpose of the show.

01:09:03.000 The purpose is to is to have a debate for an audience and convince other people that way.

01:09:09.000 What you do with change your mind is really great.

01:09:11.000 And I love that you put a lot of preparation into it.

01:09:13.000 You have to because you have to anticipate every angle that somebody is going to come from, right, every personal experience that they might bring up.

01:09:20.000 And, and I think you do a good job of anticipating that it also helps when You're trying to support an argument that, frankly, you've got a lot of evidence on your side for.

01:09:29.000 And I think it's important to have those because I guarantee you that if Bill Maher and I were to sit down and talk, for example, when we've had mayors in the show, Naomi Wolf, it's more hostile in the sense that when someone is coming on saying I'm wrong, well, listen, I'm going to match the intensity.

01:09:42.000 So it's important for me, for people to see me speaking in a very civil, respectful way and trying to convince people, bring them to my way of thinking so they understand the difference between that and handling what is effectively a character assault.

01:09:54.000 Because I'm not always going to be meek.

01:09:57.000 My half-Asian lawyer, did you have a question there?

01:09:59.000 I did, yeah.

01:10:00.000 So Representative, thanks so much for being on the show.

01:10:03.000 One of the questions I have right now is we know that there's a lot of different counties and states that are opening, taking some measured approaches to try and get people back to work, allow the economy to partially restart.

01:10:12.000 You know, are there any particular thoughts you have about those counties and is there any part about your book Fortitude that you think speaks to what's going on right now and the kind of debates we're having over the controversial topic of letting some people safely go back to work?

01:10:27.000 Yes, definitely.

01:10:28.000 So what I talk about a lot in the book, it's a prevalent theme throughout, which is personal responsibility, owning your own destiny.

01:10:36.000 And, and, and I make a very strong argument against this idea of victimhood culture, where you actually remove agency from people's ability, or from people and remove their ability to control their own lives.

01:10:49.000 When you tell somebody you're a victim, that's effectively what you're doing, you're disempowering them.

01:10:54.000 This is pretty applicable to how we open up our society.

01:10:57.000 We have to trust the American people to make the right decisions, to live with this sense of duty.

01:11:03.000 Another thing I talk about in the book is the fact that the government's job is to protect your rights, but there is an exchange there, an exchange of citizenship, an exchange to To live responsibly and to live dutifully and morally.

01:11:19.000 We don't talk about that enough.

01:11:20.000 We don't talk about the idea of citizenship and doing the right thing.

01:11:24.000 And that is more important than ever as we reopen the economy.

01:11:28.000 It's just it's you have to trust people.

01:11:30.000 And I'm I'm going against our county judge here in Harris County because she wasn't she she gave a directive and all too sensible. 0.94

01:11:39.000 That suggests that we wear masks in public.

01:11:43.000 That's fine.

01:11:44.000 But then added $1,000 fine if you don't do it.

01:11:46.000 Right.

01:11:47.000 That's not fine.

01:11:48.000 Right.

01:11:48.000 Like, you know, and it's just totally unnecessary.

01:11:50.000 Allow Americans to do the right thing.

01:11:53.000 You know, we were already socially distancing before it was it was a directive from the top down.

01:11:58.000 And we can do this to let businesses figure it out.

01:12:01.000 OK, let let let businesses figure out how to restructure their office space or their restaurant space.

01:12:07.000 So that we can get back to normalcy.

01:12:08.000 There is no choice but to return to some sense of new normal.

01:12:11.000 There's no choice.

01:12:12.000 And this false dichotomy between staying home forever and letting people die, that's a false choice.

01:12:19.000 It's not true.

01:12:19.000 Never has been.

01:12:20.000 Only political opportunists are making it sound like that.

01:12:22.000 It disgusts me.

01:12:25.000 But to get back to that new normal, we have to act like good Americans.

01:12:30.000 And I'll say this last thing.

01:12:32.000 One, talking about the Harvard that took the money but returned it, and the Shake Shacks that took the money but returned it. 1.00

01:12:39.000 If you're a business out there whose revenue hasn't really changed, shame on you for taking the small business loans that we're giving out.

01:12:47.000 It's very hard, from a policy perspective, to put proper limits on those.

01:12:51.000 It's extremely difficult, because as soon as you do, you start making it even harder for the smaller businesses.

01:12:57.000 You know, I think we also understand that the problem becomes, like John Stossel has talked about this, he had some kind of a federal grant subsidy where his home built on stilts effectively in the ocean washed away like two times. 0.97

01:13:08.000 He goes, I know that some people say I'm a hypocrite for taking the state funding, but I'd be an idiot not to.

01:13:15.000 And there is a problem where if small businesses are still even operating on an honest profit margin, well, if they don't take the loans that are available, they're going to be competing with bigger businesses that are, and they'll fall further behind. 0.97

01:13:26.000 Yeah, and totally get it, but un-American and they should be ashamed of themselves. 1.00

01:13:30.000 Period.

01:13:31.000 Full stop.

01:13:32.000 So when I got out of the military, I read about this in my book too, when I got out of the military, and this feeds into the victimhood culture and there's a reason why.

01:13:39.000 When I got out of the military, I was eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance.

01:13:43.000 They actually promoted it in the military.

01:13:46.000 Like, hey, not only are you getting medically retired because you're injured or something's wrong with you, but as soon as you get out, Oh.

01:13:54.000 Sorry. 1.00

01:13:54.000 I'm such a jerk, man. 1.00

01:13:56.000 I apologize. 0.98

01:13:59.000 I'm sorry. 0.99

01:14:00.000 I'm such a jerk, man. 0.97

01:14:01.000 I apologize. 0.99

01:14:02.000 Do you, though?

01:14:03.000 No.

01:14:04.000 That's going to be a highlight.

01:14:09.000 Okay, sorry, but continue.

01:14:10.000 Yeah, they were promoting Social Security.

01:14:11.000 Yeah, I know this.

01:14:13.000 Yeah.

01:14:13.000 And so it blew my mind.

01:14:17.000 This was after I got my, you know, eye blown out.

01:14:20.000 And so the other thing about that moment was...

01:14:25.000 Yeah, in case you were wondering what happened.

01:14:30.000 But in that classroom full of other Navy sailors, I was honestly wondering what had happened.

01:14:35.000 Every single person in there looked fine, from the outside at least.

01:14:39.000 Nobody had been in combat.

01:14:40.000 These were not a bunch of fellow special operators by any means.

01:14:43.000 This was not Army, Infantry, or Marine Corps.

01:14:46.000 None of that.

01:14:46.000 Everybody was getting medically retired for some reason.

01:14:50.000 There's a lot of reasons you can get medically retired or just choose to go through the medical retirement process.

01:14:55.000 Yeah.

01:14:55.000 And the government will take care of you afterwards.

01:14:58.000 I think I believe generously.

01:15:00.000 Some might disagree with me.

01:15:01.000 I believe that it's very generous.

01:15:02.000 Yeah.

01:15:03.000 But to also get Social Security disability insurance, which most Americans believe is for Americans that are so disabled they can't work.

01:15:10.000 Right.

01:15:11.000 So they need SSDI.

01:15:13.000 I could have gotten up to $2,000 extra a month, especially after I got out and I wasn't full-time working.

01:15:19.000 Remember, I went back to school.

01:15:21.000 I didn't take it.

01:15:22.000 I refused to apply for that.

01:15:26.000 I could have, and by economic sense and by the straight economic sense that you're describing and that a lot of businesses are using to justify taking money that they don't need, I could have taken that.

01:15:37.000 I refuse because that's not who I want to be.

01:15:39.000 And this goes into the conversation about who your heroes are and what we should applaud in America.

01:15:45.000 I was more so just pointing out the issue that in this case it's appropriate because the government stepped in and said, we're going to effectively put you out of business.

01:15:52.000 They said, don't be a patron of this business anymore.

01:15:54.000 Don't support them.

01:15:55.000 So this is different from stimulus.

01:15:57.000 Yeah, but my point is that this is what ends up happening when the government, let's say more so, it would be more appropriate with the stimulus under the Obama-era presidency, where you're effectively picking winners and losers.

01:16:08.000 Then everyone says, well, if I have to compete, it becomes like the steroid argument, and it's not a good thing.

01:16:12.000 That's why we just should have government involved as little as possible.

01:16:15.000 Final question.

01:16:15.000 I know you have to go.

01:16:17.000 Regarding your book Fortitude, which is available everywhere books are sold, if you can find a bookstore anymore, but certainly digitally on Amazon.

01:16:24.000 You talk about in the book like how to find strength and fortitude and obviously it's reminiscent of Jocko quite a bit who's been on the show and I think it's a message that's very much needed.

01:16:32.000 How would you respond to this claim that's going out quite a bit that Generation Z believe they've lived their entire lives In crisis.

01:16:41.000 And so they've lost hope.

01:16:42.000 I mean, this is front page at a lot of different news outlets, as though they've had it worse than any generation before them.

01:16:48.000 And then when polled, they are more defeated and hopeless.

01:16:52.000 And that mindset, to me, is frankly very scary as they enter the workforce.

01:16:57.000 Yeah.

01:16:58.000 The best reference for this phenomenon with Gen Z is Jonathan Haidt's book, The Coddling of the American Mind. 0.89

01:17:04.000 I reference that book quite a bit in my book.

01:17:07.000 My book is a set of solutions to the problem.

01:17:09.000 I'm not diagnosing the problem itself.

01:17:11.000 I reference good authors that have done so, and The Coddling of the American Mind, I think, is the premier place to look if you're looking for why Gen Z is that way. 0.98

01:17:21.000 And there's a lot of reasons.

01:17:22.000 College campuses basically reinforcing these bad ideas that your feelings actually matter.

01:17:28.000 I mean, they matter, but like the feelings that make you right.

01:17:32.000 Right.

01:17:32.000 Like over reason and over logic.

01:17:36.000 And, you know, the coddling that has occurred both on campuses and in the household.

01:17:41.000 You know, there's good data on this to show that Gen Z was only allowed to leave the house to go to a friend's house much later in life than, say, even Millennials or Or Gen Xers.

01:17:51.000 And really quickly, if I can say too, what's really scary though is they have a legitimate gripe that they're entering a more competitive workforce than previous generations.

01:18:01.000 Like that is something that now it is hyper-specialized.

01:18:03.000 So you have a generation, and I would say more so Millennials and Generation Z. It seems like they might actually be a little bit better, some of the stats that we're seeing.

01:18:10.000 But they are being coddled growing up and then being thrust into a hyper-competitive, exponentially evolving workplace.

01:18:19.000 And that That seems like a recipe for disaster.

01:18:21.000 Because there is validity to them going, like, I don't know how I'm going to do this.

01:18:25.000 Yeah, and there is validity, just like when the millennials have complaints about basically graduating into a financial crisis.

01:18:32.000 I get it.

01:18:32.000 There's some validity to these issues.

01:18:34.000 There's some validity to the complaints that housing is more expensive, health care is more expensive.

01:18:39.000 And college is more expensive relative to past generations.

01:18:42.000 It is.

01:18:43.000 Everything else, though, is much better.

01:18:45.000 Does it cancel each other out?

01:18:47.000 I'm not so sure.

01:18:48.000 Can you move to a place where housing is cheaper?

01:18:50.000 Yeah, you can.

01:18:51.000 Millennials like to live in places where housing is more expensive. 0.58

01:18:55.000 Also, better jobs are there.

01:18:56.000 So, I get it.

01:18:58.000 There are pressures that we do have to, I think, acknowledge.

01:19:02.000 And Gen Z, I think we have to acknowledge, too, that yes, they are starting their early careers right now in the midst of this crisis.

01:19:10.000 I do think we bounce back from this rather quickly, and so that would be my message of hope to them.

01:19:15.000 Yeah, I mean, message of hope is imagine France surrendering and going like, oh, pretty much all of Europe is lost except for one guy, Churchill, putting up a fight, and we have a choice between communism or fascism.

01:19:26.000 I think that probably would be a little bit scarier than a According to Cuomo, the highest estimate now is a 0.5% death rate.

01:19:34.000 Every life lost matters, but it's not the depth of despair and hopelessness for every Generation Z American.

01:19:40.000 Okay, the book is Fortitude.

01:19:42.000 Mr. Representative Dan Crenshaw, I appreciate you being here, brother.

01:19:46.000 Stay well, and let us know next time you're on Bill Maher's show.

01:19:50.000 I will.

01:19:50.000 Thanks for having me, Steven.

01:19:51.000 Always good to be with you.

01:19:52.000 Be well.

01:19:53.000 All right.

01:19:53.000 Hang up on him.

01:19:54.000 He's so smug.

01:19:58.000 That was great.

01:19:59.000 Very helpful.

01:20:00.000 And the book is Fortitude.

01:20:01.000 It's available anywhere books are available, frankly.

01:20:05.000 Let's get to a couple of chats, and then let's play this out.

01:20:07.000 Can I point out something very quickly?

01:20:10.000 Since we were live-stream bitching about the numbers being off on CNN, they've now corrected it, and they're sources themselves.

01:20:19.000 They're now like, well, we got some data from Johns Hopkins University, but then also we quoted ourselves.

01:20:26.000 That used to be Johns Hopkins only down there as the source.

01:20:28.000 So now they're like, no, no, no, we're better than Johns Hopkins.

01:20:32.000 And why do they have the expert right now staring at the Ark of the Covenant?

01:20:37.000 I hear it cleanses.

01:20:40.000 It's painful, but it cleanses us.

01:20:43.000 Should've closed his eyes.

01:20:44.000 Let's read a couple of chats.

01:20:46.000 The promo code is QUARANTINE30 off ladderwithcreditor.com slash MugClub and you'll be able to chat with us as well because YouTube pays us not.

01:20:52.000 Go ahead.

01:20:53.000 We've got one here.

01:20:54.000 Good morning, all.

01:20:54.000 I joined MugClub today.

01:20:56.000 Thank you!

01:20:57.000 I am a truck driver and enjoy listening to you guys on Spotify.

01:21:00.000 I was wondering if there is any way to hold the press accountable, either legally or otherwise, for their negligence or lies.

01:21:06.000 Lies like your name? 0.99

01:21:08.000 Your stage name, Mickey Fig?

01:21:09.000 Mickey Fig!

01:21:12.000 This one will probably go to Bill, but I think I know the answer.

01:21:15.000 So there's a very, very high standard when it comes to going after new sources.

01:21:21.000 As you can imagine, they've lobbied a long time to make sure that the precedent is such that unless you are intentionally or maliciously going after someone with fake information, which again requires you to have a mindset, but certainly there's a pattern.

01:21:36.000 A lot of what you look at for intent and maliciousness It's what we call mens rea or the mind and if you have done enough acts then you may be able to interpret that this is mens rea.

01:21:46.000 I have mens rea!

01:21:47.000 No!

01:21:48.000 Not mens rea!

01:21:50.000 Love it.

01:21:50.000 Gene Wilder, you remember that?

01:21:53.000 So it's going to be real hard, but you know who actually has the most power?

01:21:56.000 Don't click on CNN.

01:21:57.000 Yeah.

01:21:58.000 Don't go to the sources that you don't like.

01:22:00.000 Don't go to the purist.

01:22:02.000 Yeah, don't go to the purist unless you really, really need an electric pad. 0.79

01:22:05.000 Go to crazyasswitchdoctorbitch.com. 0.93

01:22:08.000 That's my preferred holistic, natural path. 0.78

01:22:13.000 Same advice.

01:22:13.000 All right, final chat.

01:22:14.000 Let's read it.

01:22:16.000 John H., question for everyone.

01:22:17.000 In your opinion, what is the worst thing that the Democrats have done or said since Trump became president?

01:22:24.000 A lot of options.

01:22:25.000 A lot of options. 0.99

01:22:27.000 I think the overarching idea is that Donald Trump wants to kill Americans.

01:22:33.000 When it's repealing the Obamacare laws that weren't really working, they're saying that when he wants to reopen the economy in a three- or four-phase program.

01:22:41.000 They say it... I mean, take your pick.

01:22:44.000 When he has a meeting with Kim Jong-un, they're always like, he doesn't care about the lives of Americans.

01:22:50.000 And I think when you look at, again, his comments and when he tries to... The reason he's doing the press briefings is because he wants to speak directly to the American people, right?

01:22:57.000 And when he does that, he tends to actually register better with the American people.

01:23:01.000 His poll numbers go up.

01:23:02.000 When Cortez is speaking directly from her webcam, people go, ugh, someone primary her.

01:23:08.000 So the idea that Donald Trump and, of course, all conservatives—be aware, by the way, every attack on Donald Trump, even if you didn't support him like me in the primaries, I had someone else—an attack on him is really an attack by proxy on all conservatives.

01:23:21.000 That's what they're trying to do right now.

01:23:22.000 They're trying to say, Republicans, if it weren't Donald Trump, if it were Rand Paul, if it were Carly Fiorina, if it were Ted Cruz, they'd be saying the same thing.

01:23:28.000 You don't care about lives.

01:23:30.000 Unless you support our policy like making sure the stimulus sends money to Planned Parenthood.

01:23:34.000 So that to me is really probably the worst because, listen, I even think I say kind of tongue-in-cheek when I say why don't you care about the lives lost by keeping the economy shut down because one in five suicides are related to unemployment.

01:23:47.000 I don't think that they want Americans to die.

01:23:50.000 I just think they're being disingenuous and their policies will absolutely, verifiably result in more deaths than a systematic opening of the economy in a responsibly phased program.

01:23:59.000 Yeah, I would say Russia real quick, just because basically spending essentially billions of dollars trying to undermine his presidency from the get-go so that everything he says later is through the lens of a puppet president who's illegitimate, who's being controlled by somebody else. 0.53

01:24:13.000 Right.

01:24:13.000 I think the worst thing they said is, presumptive nominee, Joe Biden.

01:24:19.000 If he makes it that far.

01:24:20.000 Some might argue that's the best thing because it's going to be hilarious when we get to debates.

01:24:24.000 Why do you want more Americans to die?

01:24:28.000 By making Joe Biden president.

01:24:30.000 You have any idea what will happen?

01:24:32.000 The guy will just forget to pay the debt bill.

01:24:35.000 Like, oh, all right.

01:24:37.000 Who stopped?

01:24:38.000 Hey, hey, you owe us money.

01:24:40.000 Who's that?

01:24:41.000 What?

01:24:42.000 I don't order takeout!

01:24:44.000 Al Gore?

01:24:45.000 He's too busy getting himself.

01:24:47.000 Thank you guys so much.

01:24:47.000 We are going to see you Monday morning with more Good Morning Mug Club and then of course shows every night in the live stream on Thursday with a press briefing followed by live fact-checking of CNN.

01:24:57.000 Oh god.

01:24:58.000 Through their primetime clock.

01:24:58.000 It's gonna be tough.

01:25:00.000 Appreciate it.

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Louder with Crowder - April 24, 2020

Fact-Checking the Media's Trump-Lysol Lies | Dan Crenshaw Guests | #12 Good Morning MugClub

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