Louder with Crowder - GOING OUT WITH A BANG! #MUGCLUBFOREVER | Louder with Crowder

00:00:03.000 Well, Merry Christmas!

00:00:05.000 We do this here every year at the Ladder with Crowder program.

00:00:09.000 Let's deliver some Christmas joy.

00:00:11.000 All of you, what a wonderful family.

00:00:13.000 Now, she's home for Christmas this year.

00:00:14.000 She is.

00:00:15.000 We spent four months in the hospital, but she's doing well.

00:00:18.000 What's your family name?

00:00:19.000 Chops.

00:00:20.000 The Sharps! 0.84

00:00:22.000 And you're a Sharp one, too.

00:00:24.000 Sammy, are you going to be the one to leave out the milk and cookies for Santa?

00:00:27.000 We can do that.

00:00:28.000 Santa is going to be sending you a check to help your family as you get through this Christmas season.

00:00:39.000 Merry Christmas!

00:00:40.000 We'll see you when we see you.

00:00:42.000 ♪ You're a strange animal, that's what I know 0.74

00:01:04.000 You're a strange animal, I've got to follow I'm gonna speed it up

00:01:14.000 I'm gonna speed it up Alright everybody, thank you for joining us.

00:01:20.000 I appreciate you being here.

00:01:21.000 I'm obviously not Steven Crowder.

00:01:24.000 He is out sick right now.

00:01:25.000 He had 104 temperature, I think.

00:01:28.000 My goodness.

00:01:29.000 Very sick.

00:01:30.000 It's been a long year, guys.

00:01:31.000 We've got a lot of fun stuff to talk to you about today.

00:01:31.000 We're excited, though.

00:01:33.000 We're going to talk about COVID and how it's wrecking China again, and maybe their policies aren't that great.

00:01:38.000 Across the board, we're going to talk about some Twitter files that dropped, a little bit of Avatar.

00:01:44.000 Speaking of dropping, dropping the stock price of certain companies.

00:01:49.000 We're going to dive into that because those guys have a lot of money to make back to be able to get to positive territory.

00:01:49.000 We'll see.

00:01:54.000 Two billion dollars that they have to make just to break even?

00:01:54.000 What is it?

00:01:57.000 Then we're going to have some chat, right?

00:01:59.000 We got to end the year.

00:02:00.000 So this is our last full show.

00:02:02.000 Of the year, the normal kind of show.

00:02:04.000 We're going to do about 20 minutes today and then go to mostly Mug Club segment and then tomorrow we have our end of year Christmas special.

00:02:10.000 Look, if you don't have the holiday cheer in your heart right now, get it.

00:02:16.000 And if that means you have to watch Die Hard to get it because it is a Christmas movie, then you do it.

00:02:22.000 Whatever it takes.

00:02:24.000 I can't wait to see the number of sales on this shirt in the merch store.

00:02:29.000 Listen, this is not a cash grab, okay?

00:02:31.000 Or lack thereof.

00:02:32.000 Well, no, I think some people already tweeted out some things about buying it just to mess with Steven, which I love.

00:02:38.000 Thank you.

00:02:39.000 Just for Steven to go.

00:02:42.000 He admitted three years ago.

00:02:43.000 Three years ago, that's true.

00:02:44.000 We did have video footage.

00:02:46.000 Yes.

00:02:46.000 So by the way, sitting in my chair right now, we have Token Owen.

00:02:50.000 Thank you for joining us here, sir.

00:02:51.000 Of course.

00:02:51.000 I can make you three promises.

00:02:53.000 One, I will not be as well-spoken as you.

00:02:53.000 You can.

00:02:53.000 Yeah.

00:02:56.000 Two, I won't be as funny as you. 0.95

00:02:57.000 But three, I'll be less gay. 0.99

00:03:01.000 They even did dings for you. 0.99

00:03:02.000 I don't get it.

00:03:04.000 It's incredibly disrespectful.

00:03:06.000 It is disrespectful.

00:03:07.000 It's impossible to be less gay than I am. 0.98

00:03:11.000 You would be negative gayness. 1.00

00:03:12.000 Negative gay, that's right. 1.00

00:03:13.000 Which is not possible. 0.99

00:03:16.000 Anyway.

00:03:18.000 It's going to be a soundbite show.

00:03:19.000 It's going to be me arguing with me, essentially.

00:03:25.000 This is my life.

00:03:26.000 Everything I say gets used against me by people who love me, which is weird.

00:03:30.000 Usually it's the outside attacking, but not today.

00:03:32.000 Alright, so we have I don't know which nickname you like.

00:03:36.000 I like that for this segment we have Layne the Brain sitting in third chair over there.

00:03:41.000 You know, Layne is very smart.

00:03:44.000 Hold on.

00:03:44.000 But there's a microphone and the concept of a microphone is that it has to be in front of your face.

00:03:48.000 There we go.

00:03:52.000 Layne did this right here.

00:03:57.000 I don't know.

00:03:58.000 Don't do that.

00:03:59.000 That's a screenshot that everybody's going to have now.

00:04:01.000 It sure is.

00:04:02.000 And that's going to be a bit of a problem here.

00:04:04.000 You get it?

00:04:05.000 There we go.

00:04:06.000 Yeah?

00:04:06.000 I should have put that stuff on that, uh, what's that called?

00:04:09.000 Makeup.

00:04:09.000 That.

00:04:10.000 Yeah.

00:04:11.000 I got a shiny forehead.

00:04:12.000 It shows off to a great start.

00:04:14.000 Thank you for watching.

00:04:15.000 We appreciate you still staying here.

00:04:16.000 Oh, wait.

00:04:17.000 You mean you've all left?

00:04:18.000 Oh, okay.

00:04:19.000 Got it.

00:04:19.000 All right.

00:04:20.000 So this is the question of the day.

00:04:22.000 I want you guys to comment about this.

00:04:24.000 What do you think is going to happen with the recent surge of COVID in China and how do you think that is going to impact the rest of the world?

00:04:30.000 There's a lot of doomsday prognosticators out there saying that this is the beginning of the end. 0.91

00:04:35.000 The sky is falling and everything's going to crap. 0.91

00:04:38.000 So I want to hear what you have to say about that.

00:04:40.000 But before we do, I just want to let you know why Steven is out today.

00:04:44.000 This has been an incredibly stressful year.

00:04:46.000 When we get to the end of the year, we're kind of all running on fumes a little bit, right?

00:04:52.000 I usually get sick after we do that because the adrenaline stops kind of running.

00:04:57.000 I hit a wall pretty hard last Wednesday.

00:04:59.000 Steven's been hitting a wall for quite a while, but he doesn't have the luxury of not coming in and doing the show as often because he wants to make sure that he is giving you what you've paid for and making sure that he is performing.

00:05:10.000 But this is not a show where we just come in and talk, right?

00:05:14.000 It's easy if you do that, and I'm not taking anything away from anybody who does that for a living and just kind of talks into a microphone, because that's not hard, it's not to say that that is an easy thing overall, but it's easy in comparison, because basically what we're doing is doing kind of a Saturday Night Live sketch, like we have comedy, we're doing late night, we're doing news, we're doing all of these things kind of pushed together, and the prep time for that and the intensity level that you have to maintain just at some point takes a little bit of a toll, and then throw in all of the other stuff that we're doing right now.

00:05:43.000 Uh, and so, you know, there's actually, you know, we want to make sure that the hashtag save Steven, uh, starts going around.

00:05:48.000 In fact, some people have already gotten an advance start on this and there was some, I saw some pictures of the, the, the water tower actually somebody did.

00:05:55.000 So save, save Steven.

00:05:55.000 So yeah.

00:05:57.000 Right.

00:05:57.000 So hashtag save Steven.

00:05:58.000 Stephen, we hope you're feeling better very soon.

00:06:00.000 He typically tries to watch a little bit here and there, but I think he's feeling pretty bad right now.

00:06:04.000 Yeah.

00:06:05.000 But hey, MugClubForever.com.

00:06:05.000 So we'll see.

00:06:08.000 Make sure you go there.

00:06:08.000 Again, if you are a Mug Club subscriber right now, or you would like to be a Mug Club subscriber, go there, enter your email address for us.

00:06:17.000 Make sure you do that right now.

00:06:18.000 That is the way that we know that we can keep in touch with you once we make this transition and kind of figure out what we're going to do in the new year.

00:06:26.000 Make sure you do that right now for us guys.

00:06:27.000 Do it and make sure that you have an email in there so that we can get in touch with you in the new year.

00:06:34.000 So with that said, thank you to everybody who has done that.

00:06:38.000 But like we found out the other day, you're not going to get a newsletter.

00:06:40.000 This is not going to be like hot tips on where to do fine dining around the country.

00:06:44.000 This is not something where you're going to get crowded.

00:06:46.000 Anything.

00:06:47.000 This is just for people who are interested in joining Mug Club when we and if we find a new home that is a suitable location for us.

00:06:56.000 So, with all of that said, we're going to jump into the show.

00:06:58.000 We're going to start off with a Watch & React that's a little different.

00:07:01.000 We're not going to jump into some of the heady politics or anything like that.

00:07:06.000 It's the end of the year.

00:07:07.000 We want you to relax with us.

00:07:08.000 And this trailer just dropped.

00:07:12.000 I mean, it's still serious.

00:07:14.000 It's about a nuclear bomb, so... Well, we got an anti-China segment, so we might as well put a nuclear bomb trailer.

00:07:23.000 Interesting juxtaposition.

00:07:25.000 So, is this Christopher Nolan, I guess, is doing this, and this is not about time?

00:07:29.000 It probably will be.

00:07:31.000 Is the bomb gonna make them travel back in time?

00:07:33.000 No, I'm just saying he likes to use it as a storytelling device, that's all.

00:07:37.000 Stay in the same time?

00:07:38.000 Probably.

00:07:39.000 Let's watch.

00:07:40.000 Hmm.

00:07:45.000 I mean, it's not T2, but we'll take it.

00:07:51.000 Not yet, anyway.

00:07:52.000 There's more.

00:07:54.000 They won't fear it Until they understand it deep

00:08:02.000 There's more and they won't understand it Until they've used it

00:08:13.000 Did they blow the Sun up They did.

00:08:21.000 That was their bad.

00:08:31.000 Interesting.

00:08:32.000 Yeah.

00:08:34.000 So, Lane, we obviously had to cut the trailer short.

00:08:36.000 It was 17 hours long because Christopher Nolan makes long movies.

00:08:41.000 The score is going to be fantastic.

00:08:43.000 Like the soundtrack to that movie is going to be phenomenal.

00:08:46.000 Christopher Nolan movies typically have pretty epic soundtracks.

00:08:49.000 Hans Zimmer.

00:08:50.000 Hans Zimmer is typically the guy I would love, love that stuff.

00:08:54.000 But what do you think?

00:08:56.000 Well, as far as the movie goes, I think the casting is on point.

00:09:00.000 Cillian Murphy is one of the most underrated actors working.

00:09:03.000 I feel like Matt Damon is going to be in it.

00:09:05.000 um, playing General Groves.

00:09:07.000 He plays Leslie Groves, who was the general that was in charge of overseeing the Los Alamos,

00:09:14.000 the Manhattan Project.

00:09:15.000 But as far as making this movie, I'm really happy it's being made because, in my opinion,

00:09:21.000 and this just isn't a hot take, I really believe this, that he is arguably the most important

00:09:25.000 person that's ever lived.

00:09:27.000 Oppenheimer?

00:09:28.000 Yes.

00:09:29.000 I think he's had more impact on the world than any mortal human that's ever lived.

00:09:35.000 Really?

00:09:35.000 Yes.

00:09:36.000 Why?

00:09:37.000 Because the invention of the atomic bomb changed calculation for everything that happened after it.

00:09:44.000 He's responsible for the protesters who think nuclear suck?

00:09:48.000 Is that what you're saying? 0.93

00:09:49.000 The environmentalists?

00:09:50.000 Sure, that, but any geopolitical calculation, anything that you think is amazing like AI or whatever it is.

00:09:59.000 I don't care.

00:10:00.000 It doesn't matter because all of that could be wiped out in half a second because of the discovery that he made.

00:10:07.000 Now you can say somebody would have eventually made that, but that's the retroactive case for anything.

00:10:13.000 Can I make a prediction about the movie?

00:10:14.000 You can.

00:10:15.000 I think it's going to end with a bang.

00:10:19.000 So, uh, I don't know who predicted Hans Zimmer, but the actual, I guess, composer is Ludwig Göransson?

00:10:28.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:10:28.000 Sounds Hans Zimmer.

00:10:31.000 Zimmer, Göransson, whatever.

00:10:33.000 Just as long as it's awesome.

00:10:35.000 That's all I really care about.

00:10:36.000 No, I think I can't wait for this movie.

00:10:38.000 I think it's going to be fantastic.

00:10:39.000 I think it's going to be awesome.

00:10:40.000 I really want to see the angle because he made a point there that they won't understand it until they use it.

00:10:45.000 And so I mean, that's a fair point to make, because until you do that, you don't understand the ramifications of what you've done.

00:10:45.000 Yes.

00:10:45.000 Right.

00:10:51.000 You can kind of game plan that out a little bit and go, OK, yeah, but to your point, it set us on a different course.

00:10:57.000 And maybe they hoped it would.

00:10:58.000 Yes.

00:10:59.000 But they didn't necessarily understand exactly how that was going to play out.

00:11:01.000 Well, for all intents and purposes, the world has been as peaceful as it ever has for the last 75 years since it was tested.

00:11:08.000 Because mess around and find out?

00:11:09.000 Yes.

00:11:10.000 I mean, you can't.

00:11:11.000 I mean, you use the destructive power once and people seriously have to change considerations.

00:11:16.000 Listen, sorry Japan, but not sorry. 1.00

00:11:19.000 No, listen, look, I get it, but it's war.

00:11:21.000 You attacked us first.

00:11:22.000 We ended the war.

00:11:24.000 People complain about the atomic bomb, and I understand why, because it's one of these seminal moments in history where something that had never happened before and destruction on that scale from that kind of a device had never been seen before.

00:11:35.000 But when you look at the firebombing, it was far more destructive, and I believe more people died during the firebombing than did during the atomic.

00:11:41.000 I could be a little bit off.

00:11:42.000 No, many more died during the nuclear firebombing.

00:11:43.000 Many more?

00:11:44.000 Okay, I think so.

00:11:45.000 Basically, you found a city full of paper houses and said, well, here's a match. 0.97

00:11:48.000 Right.

00:11:50.000 And if you've seen any of those pictures, the stories, it's just horrific.

00:11:55.000 Yeah.

00:11:56.000 And look, I get it.

00:11:58.000 That's war. 0.51

00:11:59.000 You don't fight wars to prolong them.

00:12:02.000 You do it as quickly and swiftly as possible.

00:12:04.000 And we understood very, very clearly that it was going to cost a lot of lives, both on their side and our side, if we were going to do a land invasion of the mainland.

00:12:12.000 Right, and I don't know if you've read the book Hiroshima, which just details first-hand accounts of that morning.

00:12:18.000 You know who else understood?

00:12:20.000 Wolverine, because he was there.

00:12:21.000 Well, he was, but the Japanese in Hiroshima.

00:12:24.000 They were asked about it, and the general consensus after the bombing was, it is what it is.

00:12:30.000 What?

00:12:31.000 Yes.

00:12:32.000 Wow.

00:12:32.000 They understood what was going on.

00:12:34.000 They said, we kind of deserved it?

00:12:36.000 That's weird.

00:12:36.000 It was war.

00:12:37.000 They understood.

00:12:37.000 They were in a total war effort.

00:12:39.000 They understood.

00:12:41.000 And yeah, where the firebombings killed more people, those were a series of campaigns over and over, but one second... Terrifying.

00:12:47.000 One second dropping a bomb into a valley, essentially, that is a bowl for this, you know, nuclear implosion to take place in.

00:12:55.000 Or the sun.

00:12:55.000 Basically, yes.

00:12:56.000 The heat of the sun.

00:12:57.000 By the way, we hope we don't open a black hole up and destroy the entire Earth, but we'll see.

00:13:01.000 And the thing, just a real other thing I want to add about Oppenheimer that's really interesting is many of the scientists that he was working with and dabbling with they were like communists.

00:13:09.000 And he was watched very very closely as a communist for most of his time developing the bomb.

00:13:16.000 Rightfully so, you commies! 0.99

00:13:18.000 Where other scientists in his community were like, this should never be used ever.

00:13:23.000 He was the one that understood and even encouraged the use of the bomb because he knew, based 1.00

00:13:31.000 on that quote, he knew what it would take to never use it again.

00:13:34.000 It mean using it.

00:13:35.000 Yes.

00:13:36.000 Right.

00:13:37.000 You know, not once, obviously we used it twice, but using it in one kind of situation.

00:13:40.000 Imagine if Russia had developed the bomb first. 0.94

00:13:43.000 Yeah.

00:13:44.000 Do you think they would have been as tactful?

00:13:45.000 Imagine if five years before the end of the war, three years before the end or two years

00:13:49.000 before the end of the war that Hitler had developed the bomb.

00:13:52.000 Like the bomb in the wrong hands with nobody else to be the power check is the truly terrifying

00:13:58.000 scenario.

00:13:59.000 Having some check in the system is great.

00:14:02.000 Now, look, I know that puts us in the position of saying we're better to do it than anybody 0.97

00:14:05.000 else and to that I would say, damn straight. 0.97

00:14:07.000 Yes. 0.98

00:14:08.000 Look at what we've done.

00:14:09.000 All right.

00:14:10.000 We used it.

00:14:12.000 Plenty of instances where we kind of wanted to.

00:14:14.000 But anyway, speaking of people that we don't really like, actually I'm going to get into the China story in just a second because this kind of freaked me out yesterday and I immediately, anytime I think of anything Chinese, including food, I talk to Lane because he has some on-the-ground China reporters.

00:14:30.000 He has not slept with a Chinese spy yet that we know of.

00:14:33.000 We're still doing some background checks to make sure where he's getting his information.

00:14:37.000 He's very quiet about it.

00:14:38.000 But yesterday we talked about this, and we had this incredible acoustic soundtrack, 61 second long promo, so if you listen to podcasts anywhere, go and listen to our podcast, Apple, Spotify, Android, whatever you do, 61 seconds of this beautiful sound of Joe Louis.

00:14:56.000 Produced by Hans Zimmer.

00:14:59.000 I think it was Ludwig.

00:15:01.000 Hans Zimmerpupp?

00:15:04.000 Alright, that was a terrible joke.

00:15:06.000 But listen to that for us.

00:15:07.000 So on podcasts, we can't necessarily like subscription.

00:15:10.000 It's about people listening to stuff.

00:15:11.000 That's the only number that we can really get.

00:15:13.000 We thank you for everybody who did that yesterday.

00:15:14.000 But please, if you have not, or if you just want to hear it again, let us know by going and listening wherever you have your podcast, because that's something that Steven may do a little bit of while we're kind of figuring out our next steps here.

00:15:26.000 So you might hear some podcasts that he drops, but we're not gonna be doing the full show

00:15:32.000 after tomorrow's Christmas special.

00:15:34.000 We love you and you need to get in the Christmas spirit.

00:15:36.000 And to do that, we need to bash China for just a few minutes. 0.97

00:15:39.000 So for nearly three years, it's like two and a half, but the BBC says three,

00:15:44.000 so we have to say nearly three years.

00:15:46.000 China has had intense, I mean, intense COVID lockdowns.

00:15:50.000 You guys have heard about it with some of the videos that we've seen.

00:15:54.000 We've got a little bit of a montage and it's actually terrifying.

00:15:58.000 But after all of the unrest, you remember when we reported on the unrest and were like, this is something different.

00:16:01.000 This is happening across the entire populace.

00:16:05.000 Beijing did a complete 180 on its zero COVID policy and it resulted in a very predictable mass infection.

00:16:14.000 A price is being paid for the reversal of the toughest measures.

00:16:17.000 In the last seven days, China has had its biggest wave of infections since the pandemic began three years ago.

00:16:23.000 This is the very latest from Beijing.

00:16:26.000 Most riveting report I've ever heard.

00:16:28.000 Lines have been forming outside Beijing's clinics after an explosion of infections.

00:16:33.000 He's talking about deaths.

00:16:38.000 Hospitals have increased their fever ward capacity, expecting a huge influx of patients.

00:16:44.000 People in this country have been used to going to hospital to treat any illness at all.

00:16:48.000 But now they're putting massive pressure on the system. 1.00

00:16:51.000 More appropriately, OH DAMN THEY SICK! 1.00

00:16:54.000 Right? 1.00

00:16:54.000 You need to be like, give me a little bit more! 1.00

00:16:56.000 You're like, and the weather off the coast is going to be 42 and sunny with north-northeast winds at 5.

00:17:04.000 That is high energy.

00:17:06.000 Give me something a little more.

00:17:09.000 Exactly.

00:17:10.000 You could have been talking about anything. 0.98

00:17:12.000 The note on the newscaster, he looks like the why are you gay guy. 0.99

00:17:16.000 Well, one boring guy tossed to another more boring guy to cover the story that is anything but boring. 0.98

00:17:28.000 You kind of screwed that one up, guys.

00:17:29.000 But for most of the pandemic, you've seen videos that we were referring to just a second ago, like all these montages coming out on social media.

00:17:35.000 And, you know, look, we always try to vet these things to make sure that they're real.

00:17:35.000 Yeah.

00:17:38.000 It seems like we've done this.

00:17:40.000 We've got a lot of this information from some very reliable sources, and I'll talk to you about that here in just a second.

00:17:46.000 But here's some of the videos of the archaic lockdowns that are going on in China, or that were.

00:17:53.000 Looks fun.

00:17:59.000 For the guy doing it.

00:18:00.000 Oh, no! 1.00

00:18:03.000 RoboDog kill you! 1.00

00:18:06.000 Well, that's a bum rush. 1.00

00:18:09.000 He was a bad tipper.

00:18:12.000 River Breeds.

00:18:13.000 Can they not make, like, bow and arrows and take care of this problem?

00:18:20.000 Well, yes.

00:18:21.000 So basically, the last clip was the people who had been shut in and forced to stay in their apartments, whether it was because of the welding the doors closed, which I think is a fire hazard, but I don't know.

00:18:31.000 I mean, if you're trying to get rid of COVID, I guess burning people's fine.

00:18:36.000 That's what started the whole unrest, was the people that were shot in their apartments and they died because of a fire.

00:18:40.000 So that was them yelling, kind of, as a community, which was a lot of people, to be let out, basically.

00:18:40.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:18:47.000 So that was a form of protest by them, right?

00:18:50.000 And, you know, the Communist Chinese Party did a bit of a 180, right?

00:18:54.000 We gave them a lot of credit for this, but we said that this was going to be a problem from the beginning, but now videos in China mostly look like this.

00:19:05.000 That's a line in a hospital.

00:19:07.000 To get in and out of a hospital, right?

00:19:12.000 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

00:19:14.000 So he's counting the bodies right now?

00:19:18.000 Yeah.

00:19:18.000 So he's counting the bodies right now?

00:19:20.000 Yeah.

00:19:22.000 Well that's...

00:19:24.000 That's it.

00:19:26.000 Now, we're not laughing that there's dead bodies, we're...

00:19:32.000 We just don't know the language.

00:19:35.000 He said 17, 18, 19.

00:19:37.000 Yes.

00:19:37.000 Really?

00:19:38.000 You know that?

00:19:39.000 Yes.

00:19:39.000 You lie!

00:19:40.000 Well, I know how to count.

00:19:41.000 Oh.

00:19:42.000 Yeah, but in Chinese.

00:19:43.000 Mandarin.

00:19:43.000 There is no Chinese, I guess.

00:19:47.000 Alright, so, we... Get off your high horse.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:51.000 I can count.

00:19:52.000 I can count to 20.

00:19:53.000 Yeah.

00:19:55.000 You know, my 5 year... my 5 year old.

00:19:57.000 Gosh, I don't even have that yet.

00:19:58.000 If I did have a 5 year old, they'd know how to count too.

00:20:02.000 I thought I was here to add value.

00:20:03.000 Am I not?

00:20:04.000 Is this not the trust?

00:20:05.000 I'm just saying, Steven drops one French phrase and everyone thinks it's awesome, and I say 19 and everyone freaks the hell out.

00:20:12.000 Yeah, because he doesn't say a number.

00:20:14.000 He says a word.

00:20:15.000 You know that?

00:20:16.000 Bainte.

00:20:19.000 That's 20, I think.

00:20:21.000 You knew 19, I knew one better.

00:20:23.000 China's funeral homes are now swamped with pent-up demand, which sounds like a really weird way of saying people are dying in mass.

00:20:31.000 It's like, there's a lot of demand right now!

00:20:34.000 Okay, I guess technically.

00:20:36.000 But in Chongqing, a city of 30 million, did I get that one right?

00:20:40.000 Chongqing. 0.98

00:20:41.000 I know that sounds fake.

00:20:42.000 It's a Q!

00:20:43.000 How does that CH?

00:20:47.000 In silly Chinese city name of 30 million people, a crematorium worker said they had run out of space to store bodies.

00:20:53.000 Seems like that problem's easy to solve, your crematorium. 0.91

00:20:56.000 Yeah.

00:20:56.000 And one staffer at a crematorium in... Guangzhou.

00:21:00.000 Guangzhou said, it's three or four times busier than in previous years.

00:21:04.000 We are cremating over 40 bodies per day, when before it was only a dozen or so.

00:21:09.000 So that, uh, that seems, that seems pretty bad.

00:21:11.000 Well, I mean, they act really surprised that this was going to happen.

00:21:15.000 Lockdowns are always going to end in this.

00:21:17.000 It's a temporary fix on something, and once you lift it, it's always going to end up in mass infections.

00:21:22.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:21:23.000 Don't they have the vaccine?

00:21:26.000 Can we?

00:21:27.000 We're still on YouTube right now, right?

00:21:28.000 Yeah.

00:21:28.000 We'll talk about that afterwards.

00:21:30.000 You're right.

00:21:30.000 Okay.

00:21:30.000 No, no, no.

00:21:31.000 That's fair.

00:21:32.000 I appreciate that.

00:21:32.000 Thank you.

00:21:33.000 That's why you're in here.

00:21:34.000 Vaccines work perfectly.

00:21:36.000 That is also true.

00:21:36.000 They do!

00:21:38.000 Okay.

00:21:38.000 Both things are true.

00:21:42.000 Four months, the Chinese authorities were shipping positive cases off to their infamous COVID camps, basically. 0.76

00:21:48.000 They were like, well, we've got the Uyghurs in camps, and so might as well do this with people who have COVID when we can't. 1.00

00:21:54.000 You can't weld everybody into their apartments.

00:21:56.000 It's just logistically impossible to do that.

00:21:58.000 You're like, oh yeah?

00:21:59.000 Not enough welders?

00:22:00.000 I mean, come on.

00:22:02.000 There's not enough people to do it.

00:22:03.000 You know how hard it is to weld when there's just brick on either side?

00:22:06.000 You got to put something there, and then you got to make sure you don't electrocute.

00:22:08.000 Especially when no one's going to trade school these days.

00:22:10.000 No!

00:22:12.000 Chinese patrol dogs that are robots that have a bullhorn that could easily be fitted with a turret.

00:22:17.000 But the bullhorn is just duct-taped to the top.

00:22:19.000 That's the best part.

00:22:20.000 Yeah, exactly right.

00:22:22.000 But last week, China's top infectious disease expert Zhang Nanshan changed his tune, telling state media that, quote, Omicron has become significantly less pathogenic, with the mortality rate recently falling to around 0.1 percent, about the same as that of the Flu.

00:22:39.000 Influenza.

00:22:40.000 Weird.

00:22:41.000 In most cases, patients do not need to go to the hospital and can stay home.

00:22:44.000 Well, that's good when you lock them in their homes and tell them that they can stay home, China. 1.00

00:22:49.000 That's fantastic consistency in policy.

00:22:52.000 But if you want to see the biggest flip-flop, check out this foreign shill here. 1.00

00:22:57.000 Taiwan opened up and over the first six months had 20,000 deaths.

00:23:01.000 If China opens up starting now... I hate these people. 0.98

00:23:04.000 God bless all of you smart Western people who know better than Xi Jinping, who know better than Mario Fernando, who know better than the Arshadah 20th National Congress. 0.87

00:23:14.000 So he's on Chinese state media right now. 1.00

00:23:16.000 How stupid we all are! 1.00

00:23:17.000 This loud guy from Brooklyn? 1.00

00:23:18.000 Yeah, that's what they do.

00:23:23.000 And in the next six months, 1 million Chinese citizens will die!

00:23:28.000 Hey, I'm boosted here!

00:23:31.000 So China has been spending three years evaluating and assessing this evolving pandemic and the evolving variants and finally saw this result in Shanghai.

00:23:45.000 Most recently, Chongqing with many thousands of cases, Guangzhou with many thousands of cases, confirming Shanghai, very, very low death rate.

00:23:54.000 So the government finally could say, wow, we can now pivot this 100% focus on protecting health.

00:24:02.000 Now, unfortunately, we can't because people are getting frustrated.

00:24:06.000 Now we can pivot back to a more balanced It's people like you that are the problem.

00:24:17.000 You're going out there and carrying the water for the CCP, basically extolling the virtues of Dear Leader, you know, in basically their language, and saying that, yes, you guys don't know better.

00:24:27.000 Zero COVID policy is fantastic.

00:24:29.000 Forget the wailing of citizens.

00:24:30.000 Forget people burning alive in this.

00:24:32.000 Forget taking away rights that I guess they technically don't have over there because We don't have the same rights as we do here, right?

00:24:37.000 But it's supposed to be a country that can produce a lot of goods for the rest of the world, and so I guess we'll just turn a blind eye to it, and then 10 days later say, well, they've reversed course because they found new information.

00:24:37.000 Right?

00:24:47.000 It's 12 days later now!

00:24:49.000 What are you saying now?

00:24:51.000 I told you so.

00:24:51.000 See?

00:24:53.000 We shouldn't do this.

00:24:53.000 But what about this video?

00:24:54.000 That video doesn't exist.

00:24:55.000 That's not me.

00:24:56.000 That's AI.

00:24:58.000 I didn't say that.

00:24:59.000 I yell when I talk.

00:25:00.000 That guy's just talking.

00:25:01.000 Probably British. 0.98

00:25:04.000 He just scrubs it.

00:25:05.000 The video never existed.

00:25:07.000 It doesn't even exist anymore.

00:25:09.000 So look, I know that we're talking about COVID again and people are like, yeah, whatever, COVID in China.

00:25:13.000 But this was a policy Problem from the very beginning.

00:25:17.000 Because this is going to happen when you open back up completely, right?

00:25:20.000 It should be noted, this is what the Fauci's of the world and the United States wanted.

00:25:24.000 If it wasn't for Republican governors in certain states really pushing back... Lockdown, you mean.

00:25:27.000 The lockdown restrictions that they had in China.

00:25:29.000 They wanted that level.

00:25:30.000 Yes.

00:25:31.000 Right.

00:25:31.000 Maybe we just don't have the robot dogs with the megaphone.

00:25:34.000 We could get some!

00:25:35.000 Yes. 0.99

00:25:36.000 Well, I mean, Fauci would probably stick them in a fly cage and have them killed too, but... I don't think the sand flies can eat the metal.

00:25:44.000 I don't think it works the same way, but I understand your point.

00:25:46.000 Chinese sand flies.

00:25:48.000 It's fair.

00:25:48.000 I don't know.

00:25:49.000 It's like the Day the Earth Stood Still flies, those things, they can eat metal.

00:25:49.000 Think about it.

00:25:53.000 That would be seriously scary.

00:25:55.000 I did not see that.

00:25:56.000 I missed that movie.

00:25:57.000 With Keanu Reeves?

00:25:57.000 What?

00:25:58.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:25:59.000 What the hell's the matter with you people? 0.97

00:25:59.000 No. 0.97

00:26:00.000 Whatever.

00:26:01.000 That was the Day the World Stood Still.

00:26:01.000 Anyway.

00:26:03.000 I said the Day the Earth Stood Still and you corrected me?

00:26:05.000 Yeah.

00:26:06.000 World and Earth not close enough for you?

00:26:10.000 Yeah, Google won't auto-complete that one.

00:26:14.000 You're right.

00:26:14.000 Totally different movie where they don't have flies that eat metal.

00:26:20.000 So one of the reasons that we brought this up was that this, you know, I started hearing a lot about the doomsday predictions and then we're going to go to Mug Club here in just a minute.

00:26:28.000 We're going to talk more about the Twitter files.

00:26:29.000 I'll give you kind of a briefer on it.

00:26:31.000 It's worse than you think.

00:26:32.000 Yeah.

00:26:32.000 But the economic issue right now on top of the people issue.

00:26:36.000 The people issue is primary, right?

00:26:37.000 We care about the Chinese people.

00:26:39.000 We hate the Chinese government because it oppresses their people.

00:26:42.000 We don't want them to have to deal with stuff like this and we've been saying for a long time like, hey, these kind of shutdowns are going to lead you to some really dangerous times eventually.

00:26:50.000 Eventually, right?

00:26:51.000 Now we'll talk about the 100% effective vaccine that I'm sure these people were forced to take and why there are issues when there cannot possibly be any issues, trust the science, but one of the things we're gonna have to deal with is the economic fallout from this, right?

00:27:08.000 So there are a lot of people worried that we're basically just kind of crawling out of this supply chain issue, right?

00:27:15.000 Where this pent-up demand, blah, blah, blah, the Biden administration completely screwing up every possible thing that they could.

00:27:21.000 And us kind of heading into a recession, being in a recession, how deep is the recession going to be?

00:27:26.000 How much is the Fed going to screw up the recession to now?

00:27:28.000 Oh no, China's basically losing tons of its citizens and people may start closing down again.

00:27:33.000 People may start restricting travel again.

00:27:36.000 It just is this never-ending cycle of issues that we're going to deal with.

00:27:40.000 And the World Bank actually cut China's growth target to 4.3%.

00:27:43.000 Now that's, again, that's China's number. 0.91

00:27:46.000 Their other target before that was 5.5%, right?

00:27:50.000 We're gonna see some issues with the manufacturing and supply chain.

00:27:55.000 And like I said, we're just now getting out of that.

00:27:57.000 That just helps us understand a little bit more that maybe we shouldn't be dependent on one country alone

00:28:02.000 for production the way that we are with China.

00:28:04.000 We should probably diversify that.

00:28:05.000 We should probably bring as much of that back to the United States.

00:28:08.000 I understand unions.

00:28:09.000 If you're in a union out there, you're part of the problem a lot of the times.

00:28:12.000 I don't dislike you, I dislike the people that run the unions.

00:28:15.000 I don't think it's a problem for you to have a voice with management.

00:28:18.000 I don't think that's an issue at all, but I think in today's world, when you start to have unrealistic expectations, i.e.

00:28:25.000 $15 an hour, $25 an hour, a living wage, and nobody out there is willing to take those jobs, I could not believe it when $15 an hour was put forth and they're like, we'll just put these little kiosks in McDonald's.

00:28:36.000 Yeah.

00:28:37.000 Most of our people get in fights, it seems, because those are all the videos that you can't punch.

00:28:40.000 You can punch a kiosk.

00:28:41.000 It just isn't going to do anything. 0.64

00:28:42.000 We can put somebody's face on it.

00:28:44.000 It's going to make you feel any better.

00:28:45.000 But that's the kind of thing that it leads to.

00:28:46.000 It's like, well, fine, we'll just innovate.

00:28:47.000 And then you'll be pissed off that there's not enough jobs and the government's going to have to give you money.

00:28:51.000 Right.

00:28:51.000 So it is a double edged sword.

00:28:53.000 If the Chinese economy doesn't open, the global economy will suffer with tourism and exports.

00:28:59.000 But resurgent Chinese economy will likely lead to more inflation as well.

00:29:03.000 So we've got some issues to deal with with this story.

00:29:06.000 We'll update you guys at some point but I'm betting it's going to all work itself out by the time we come back and you'll have a lot more of that information.

00:29:14.000 So it's hard for us to say tune in again next week because we're here next week to be able to give you the rest of the story.

00:29:20.000 We are gonna go to Mug Club only.

00:29:22.000 Again, if you haven't entered your email address yet, make sure that you do that.

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00:29:33.000 This is the way that we will stay in touch with you.

00:29:35.000 You will get one email on the offer.

00:29:37.000 You may get like a double opt-in email, right, to make sure that you're not a bot.

00:29:40.000 You have to do the capture thing to make sure that, again, you're not a bot.

00:29:43.000 We're not getting just random email addresses.

00:29:45.000 This is what it's for.

00:29:47.000 The other news and information you can get from our social media stuff, we'll provide updates there.

00:29:51.000 That's what the social media stuff is going to be for, but this is specifically if you want to join Mud Club.

00:29:55.000 So make sure that we hear from you, and make sure that you go and listen to Joe Lewis's sweet, sweet vocal chords as he howls with the... Yeah, that right there.

00:30:06.000 It's actually fun to be near him when he does that.

00:30:09.000 Yeah.

00:30:10.000 Takes the room.

00:30:11.000 He does a better job than...

00:30:15.000 We're gonna talk about Twitter files so let me just summarize what this looked like.

00:30:23.000 These dumps sometimes, what is it like 50 some odd tweets?

00:30:25.000 Yeah.

00:30:26.000 And then a ton of articles and then videos linked in there.

00:30:29.000 It's a time-consuming effort.

00:30:31.000 It's really bad.

00:30:34.000 If you are a Republican, great.

00:30:36.000 Democrat, great.

00:30:37.000 Independent, great.

00:30:38.000 Somebody who has no clue, please stay out of politics.

00:30:41.000 But great, right?

00:30:43.000 You need to be concerned about what this reveals.

00:30:47.000 Hunter Biden had no, had zero understanding of international finance.

00:30:54.000 When his dad becomes Vice President of the United States, he goes and does deals in Russia, in China, and in Ukraine in international finance.

00:31:05.000 Makes money from it in ways that make no sense, provides no real service, provides no products Doesn't have a business that's set up to run prior to this that's just a continuation, like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner do, where they actually make clothing in China.

00:31:22.000 That's a business deal.

00:31:22.000 That's the only real lucrative business deal that they have in China, is production.

00:31:27.000 Or build hotels around the world.

00:31:28.000 That's a physical building.

00:31:29.000 That's a product.

00:31:30.000 That's a business.

00:31:31.000 Yes, they have to be scrutinized.

00:31:32.000 Absolutely.

00:31:34.000 Not even close to the same thing.

00:31:37.000 And then the FBI sets up a scenario so that Twitter can be ready for the misinformation that they think is coming down the road that is absolutely chilling because it is almost exactly what then happens.

00:31:52.000 How could they possibly do that?

00:31:54.000 Just a training exercise.

00:31:55.000 They already had the laptop.

00:31:57.000 That's how.

00:31:58.000 We're going to get into more of that here in just a minute.

00:31:59.000 Everybody, we love you.

00:32:00.000 We hope you have a very Merry Christmas.

00:32:02.000 Watch the Christmas special tomorrow morning.

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00:32:06.000 Fill your heart with Christmas cheer.

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00:32:09.000 If you don't watch it, you hate Christmas.

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Louder with Crowder - December 20, 2022

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