On this week's episode of Loud and Crowded with Gerald and Wenndy, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the recent release of some hostages from the Dakota Access Pipeline. We also discuss the latest in the Me Too movement and the scandal surrounding former Baylor University football coach Art Briles.
00:02:36.000He's been cleared, and we're going to dive a little deeper into that, and maybe do a little bit of a deep dive in revisiting Me Too and all the carnage and wreckage that that has wrought on people's lives.
00:02:46.000Rape bad, 100% sexual assault bad, 100%.
00:02:48.000We want to bury those guys under the courthouse, but ruining people's lives and not having any evidence and just doing it for PR is a really, really bad thing.
00:02:57.000Now, my question of the day before I introduce the guests here is, you guys miss, like, the relative global tranquility that we experienced under Donald Trump?
00:03:07.000Comment below if you would prefer to have that instead of, as a lot of people are saying right now, sleepwalking our way into World War III.
00:05:16.000And I've realized that, you know, I've always talked about one of the things is you talk about being in the middle or talk about being reasonable.
00:05:22.000I'm not going to talk about that anymore.
00:05:39.000And look, by the way, some of the stuff that we say here is not necessarily fit for, you know, the communist hellhole that is YouTube, and I don't really know why you're still there.
00:05:48.000Do me a favor and go over to Rumble right now.
00:05:52.000But look, if at any point we start diving into a subject That maybe could be, I don't know, a foul of their stupid guidelines that they leave open to interpretation.
00:07:20.000You'd think the drill sergeant would go through the bag and find a makeup brush and kick the crap out of him.
00:07:25.000Well yes, unless, yeah, unless it's today's military with all of the, you know, issues that we have facing us in the world and we're more concerned with protecting people's ability.
00:07:35.000Look, if you want to dress up in drag and do bad makeup and like put a fake makeup beard line in that makes you look like some
00:07:41.000weird freaking futuristic character in a show fine just don't do it on our dime and
00:07:46.000certainly I 100 listen everybody has a right to serve hmm I think they should see
00:07:53.000action if action is had because that is what they signed up for just a wall
00:07:59.000yes I'm of I just don't just yeah I just I don't feel safe with that person
00:08:04.000on my wall that's my real question but that person is the wall how do we know
00:08:08.000that that's a real military when we see these I don't know questions are real
00:08:11.000because where are we seeing these tick-tock right
00:08:30.000I do think our military is better than that, and I'm never, by the way, messing with the entire military.
00:08:36.000It's just like when we talk about the FBI or the CIA or, you know, Washington or, you know, a lot of these other giant agencies that are out there.
00:08:43.000I think there's a lot of great soldiers.
00:08:44.000I just think the leadership is promoting some really bad stuff.
00:09:00.000Well, based on some of the policies, based on some of the things that we've heard them say and their focus, look, I think your focus should be on fighting and winning wars.
00:09:09.000And I'll get off this, but if you have two seconds to consider if this is a PSYOP, it would make sense, because what you need to do is degrade public trust in the institution of the military, and it is.
00:09:19.000It is at its lowest since 1997, since we were in the middle of the Balkan Wars, I believe.
00:09:25.000But as soon as you degrade public confidence, then no one wants to support the military, then you don't actually have confidence in what they're doing, and it's kind of this vicious circle where you can't succeed, and no one wants to join it.
00:09:37.000So why would the largest operator of anti-American propaganda, the CCP, not want to take advantage of their platform that is our largest social media network for young people?
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00:11:45.000undercover thing. Anyway, so let's get to the Israel story right now. One of the biggest things
00:11:52.000in the news is that Hamas apparently has released a couple of hostages and that's I want more than
00:12:28.00079-year-old and 85-year-old were released to Egyptian authorities, and it says that their husbands are remaining in captivity.
00:12:35.000And basically, I think we were going to trade Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and AOC, but Hamas took that as an act of aggression, and so they decided to release these two prisoners to us because they were tired of changing their depends.
00:13:07.000And I don't think you get a gold star for going and releasing people that you took hostage in the first place, especially in a lot of cases where you killed their children in front of them.
00:13:50.000They probably kidnapped them on accident?
00:13:52.000My favorite is apparently they were treated well, as in, we kept you in a spiderweb of tunnels but we did give you a mattress and some pita.
00:14:01.000It's bloodstained mattress because, you know, those are in short supply.
00:15:39.000I don't think we play around with hostage takers.
00:15:41.000I think every time they take hostages, they need to know that the most sophisticated military force that the world has ever known is hunting them down.
00:15:48.000I think that's a really good motivation.
00:15:49.000You're talking about taking the profit out of that behavior.
00:16:05.000So, Hamas actually has a hostage-taking strategy lane.
00:16:10.000This is something that you guys kind of pulled in and I really appreciate it because I hadn't seen this.
00:16:14.000I've been looking for it on this and right now CNN can only trip over their smiles about how happy they are that Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in the Georgia election case to kind of strike a plea deal and they're trying to make this like, Flip it on Donald Trump!
00:16:27.000We'll get to some of that over the next few days as more information comes out, but there's a hostage-taking strategy.
00:16:33.000This is part of their game plan, right?
00:16:35.000So they have an abduction manual, they being Hamas, and it was obtained by the IDF, and it basically highlights how important taking hostages is to the overall strategy, right?
00:16:45.000So here's a few things that would be found in this document, right?
00:17:32.000Israel knew that the narrative would be taken over and that people would start to say that in fact babies weren't beheaded and burned and people weren't actually killed.
00:17:42.000And so what happens is what they did was, remember, Hamas wore body cam.
00:17:56.000So that the press couldn't also jump on this sort of moral equivalency bandwagon, which they've done, by the way.
00:18:04.000They've still done it, and people on Twitter have done it.
00:18:06.000And look, I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand.
00:18:10.000Look at me for one second and just give me your attention.
00:18:13.000Anybody out there right now who is saying that I or anybody else on this team is pro-war just because we want Israel to be able to defend themselves is a moron.
00:18:23.000It doesn't mean that we want conflict.
00:18:26.000I'm just saying when conflict comes a-knockin', we're not backing down.
00:22:42.000He's like, no, you need to suffer a wee bit more.
00:22:45.000I kind of think that's what should happen to these barbaric animals that took the hostages in the first place.
00:22:51.000I think that the big thing that's really being undervalued here that needs to be discussed, that needs to be handled, is the Qataris in this situation.
00:23:06.000They need to say, you turn over this leadership of Hamas, you get the Hamas leadership, Ismail Haniyeh, in your Four Seasons Hotel in Doha to say, you release these prisoners right now, or these hostages, or you're going to be extradited to the United States.
00:23:21.000What's really going on is that the Iranians are being talked to.
00:23:26.000Yeah, but the problem here is... So the Israelis used to make a distinction between Hamas's political wing and their military wing, and now they're not.
00:23:36.000So anybody who is part of Hamas's political wing or military wing, including those in Qatar, are on what's called a hit list.
00:23:57.000That's more than we're giving to them directly.
00:23:59.000All of the Gulf states were pressuring Qatar.
00:24:02.000The Saudis had a blockade on them up until 2020 that was basically choking them out and saying you have to stop supporting terror or your economic lifeline is done.
00:24:15.000They wanted this Gulf unity because they were worried about Iran.
00:24:18.000We need to leverage our relationship with the Saudis against the Qataris.
00:24:22.000Say, you do what we say, or we're going to let the Saudis come in and do whatever they want to you.
00:24:26.000Because the Saudis would take Qatar like that if they could.
00:24:30.000Only problem is, what I told George, we need to tell the Saudis, we're going to let you do this, but we're going to have Mickey Mouse selling churros under the clock tower in Mecca.
00:25:00.000Look, we can leverage our relationships a little bit better, but right now it seems like what we want to do is just give them more money, which I don't know why we would do any of that.
00:25:07.000But look, last week, if you're a part of Mug Club on our Friday show, you actually got a little bit of a brief discussion on this.
00:26:30.000Is there like a like button, a thumbs up?
00:26:32.000Give me a thumbs up, give me a like, give me something.
00:26:34.000If you want us to break down and explain more legislation like this so you can see what our government is doing, and I think, Lane, the reason that you're saying that is because we get these packages that are not clear.
00:26:45.000On the surface, they title them in ways, they're very good at marketing, right?
00:26:51.000They title them in ways that look good.
00:26:53.000They throw out dollar amounts that just, you become numb to seeing billion after a number now.
00:26:58.000Well I would get into this bill and we can a little bit later.
00:27:00.000It's poor marketing on their part because this gives fodder to kind of the right on Twitter to say 105 billion that's a lot of cash they're spending your money but if you break it down it might actually make a little bit more sense where the money's going.
00:27:12.000I'm not saying it's a great bill No, I know.
00:27:38.000So remember, when they say $105 billion to Ukraine and to Israel, what it actually means is that they're sending weapons, food, and other supplies.
00:27:48.000But those weapons, foods, and food and other supplies are made here in the United States.
00:27:53.000So that money actually goes to American companies that make the products and then send them.
00:28:01.000It's kind of a secret way that both Republicans and Democrats keep their constituents in their areas happy because what they do is they kind of- And they do give them some money as well.
00:28:11.000Yes, they do, but actually most of it goes to American companies who make the goods, the weaponry and everything else, and then send it.
00:31:27.000We're going to start pricing things in terms of border walls it could have bought us.
00:31:32.000So $105 billion is roughly five border walls plus some leftover money to make sure there's enough people to man it with the turrets and the guns.
00:32:44.000This would be my biggest problem with this entire budget breakdown.
00:32:49.000Look at what we spend on entitlements before you want to talk to me about military spending.
00:32:53.000I can't take an argument about military spending seriously until you want to do entitlement reform, but as long as we're giving money away, we're allocating money to certain places.
00:33:04.000Why not allocate most of this to the Indo-Pacific?
00:33:31.000But people take foreign policy and geopolitics so I guess they don't treat it with the seriousness that it deserves and you end up in bad situations.
00:33:40.000Look, the isolationist ideas that people are propagating right now have been tried before to very bad effect.
00:34:17.000Like, we had a moment at the very beginning of this to go in there and say, hey, knock this off and put everybody back in their neutral corners to some degree, right?
00:35:07.000That's exactly what's been going on in Ukraine.
00:35:09.000They're like, ah, we're depleting the Russian military force for a fraction of our budget.
00:35:12.000I'm like, do you think China cares about the Russian military force?
00:35:15.000By the way, the Russian military force doesn't necessarily look like the biggest, I don't know, thing to be afraid of in the world right now.
00:35:21.000They're having a hard time taking over Ukraine.
00:35:44.000Right now we should be talking about former Vice President Joe Biden's economy sucking and his handling of a war and what the news media is doing and they'll find something every single time to spin but this is a gift.
00:35:55.000No speaker, can't pass any laws, can't put anything into effect, we can't aid Israel, oh sorry support Israel, we kind of can't yet because nothing can get going in the house and the Biden administration is lumping everything together to gain broad bipartisan support And everything is deadlocked.
00:36:13.000My question to you, how do you think the deadlock in Congress will affect these wars?
00:36:18.000I understand maybe it's a good thing to hold up some funding, right?
00:36:21.000And we don't want to spend money in places that we shouldn't be spending money.
00:36:57.000Some people just want to watch the world burn, Brian.
00:36:59.000Yeah, get rid of McCarthy and then we'll just make a bunch of noise and I want all the attention.
00:37:03.000I don't know what happens after that, but look, I understand it frustrates a lot of people, but there are some practical issues that it's bringing up.
00:37:09.000But one of the other things that we need to make sure is focused on is the border.
00:38:04.000Anyway, the whole plot of this book is a terrorist coming into the United States through the southern border, and it's not like I'm saying he's calling it.
00:38:11.000I'm just saying that that's part of it.
00:38:12.000And he's like, wait a minute, the entire new series of Jack Ryan on Amazon was about that.
00:38:45.000That's not going to lose the audience.
00:38:47.000They're going to be able to follow that.
00:38:48.000They can see these numbers, except for the White House.
00:38:50.000And by the way, the terrorist watch list that I was talking about, the CPP terror watch list encounters at the border in the past 12 months, 169 terrorists have been arrested.
00:39:03.000That's more than the last six years combined.
00:39:08.000Under Donald Trump, the grand total, 11.
00:39:47.000Now, if you do that under Joe Biden, they've got basically the population of a state.
00:39:51.000Like, there's so many people coming in the border right now that you've got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people on terror watch lists that have made it through successfully in the United States.
00:40:01.000It may be not that high of a number, but really, how many does it take, right?
00:40:31.000So let's just say real quick that these are not terrorists and we have other unfettered illegal immigration coming in from these Middle Eastern countries as you've seen in places like Dallas or New York and you see hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian marchers and ostensibly they're marching for what?
00:41:02.000I think we should be careful about polls.
00:41:05.000The fact that the majority of these people polled said that is a pretty big deal.
00:41:09.000But I think there are a lot of Israelis... See, I don't think... My feeling is that if we start getting into Muslim and we start getting into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I believe that that's a whole different subject, right?
00:41:25.000So you could say all those things and we can go on for days, hours, years.
00:41:31.000My feeling is that October 7th should stand as its own atrocity.
00:41:40.000Look, you cannot justify that kind of behavior.
00:42:02.000And that's the same as coming over on on a holiday morning and killing a bunch of children,
00:42:09.000everybody else and taking that is not true.
00:42:12.000It is not, and it's really important to keep... And he's not saying that.
00:42:14.000Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying, Lane, I think it's really important that we keep that distinction and then keep the other discussion almost separate, right?
00:42:21.000It's almost like the Israeli-Palestinian thing, yes, we can have that conversation.
00:42:25.000Right, but that, so let me just be clear, you just quoted a poll that was really focused on October 7th, so he is... Got it.
00:42:32.000I'm focusing on this, the polling company, private polling company, and yes, you have to take polls, let's say there's a Let's say there's a 30% margin of error.
00:42:43.000And the reason I don't have a hard time believing this, unfortunately, is because I was at one of these places and not one person would condemn what happened to my face.
00:44:48.000They're listening to AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, those moronic, crazy people who are trying to make this about an oppressed class.
00:44:57.000That's not what's happening right now.
00:44:59.000Tell you what, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, anybody who wants to be a part of the squad or squad adjacent, you tell me how an organization can call for the extermination of a people And have peace with those people.
00:45:13.000I don't think it's possible because it's not possible.
00:45:16.000The last thing I want to say before anything gets misconstrued here on this show as being Islamophobic, that's not the case.
00:45:21.000And it's America and anyone should have the right to practice the religion they want to.
00:45:30.000No, just because people are Muslim in countries doing things that you don't like, it would be very stupid to just see a Muslim here and go, bad person!
00:45:42.000You can disagree with Joe Biden, you can disagree with Donald Trump and not hate everybody that's associated with him, though it's harder on the Joe Biden side because a lot of those people are really...
00:46:11.000I don't know if you guys have actually done this, and this is something that I don't want you, look, I was going to say, like, don't do that.
00:46:23.000I want to know what you are thinking right now, because this is like this giant sample size that we have of people that are going to watch this show, over a million people.
00:46:31.000I want to know what you guys think about what I'm about to say.
00:46:36.000When I go out to my car in the morning, I'm more cautious.
00:46:39.000Now, that doesn't mean that I'm like, I'm scared or anything like that, but I'm like, okay, things are a little crazy.
00:46:45.000I don't necessarily know that it's coming to where I live or to where anybody here lives, but I'm just a little bit more cautious.
00:46:51.000I'm a little bit more cautious when I go to big crowds, big gatherings, just a little bit, just to make sure that I have some situational awareness.
00:47:00.000I'm not so distracted that I can't live my life.
00:47:02.000I'm not living in fear or anything like that.
00:47:04.000But are you taking extra precautions right now?
00:47:07.000Like, are you a little bit more aware of your surroundings?
00:47:10.000Are you a little bit more on edge because of some of this stuff?
00:47:14.000Not because of your neighbor who happens to be Muslim.
00:47:18.000I have plenty of people that I know in my neighborhood that are Muslims.
00:48:31.000But at the end of the day, if you're going to blow yourself up and you're going to kill a bunch of civilians, and if you think that's going to get you anywhere, Israel has a duty to its citizens and to the moral code to say, no way.
00:49:10.000By the way, I just want you to know, like, the Biden administration, they know about all of this, right?
00:49:15.000And the DHS is kind of referring back to the numbers of the terrorists coming over and the apprehensions and the craziness that's going on at the border.
00:49:22.000And the DHS's 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment, it probably states white supremacy is the problem.
00:49:28.000No, they actually do know that this is a problem as well.
00:49:30.000They just typically focus on white supremacists.
00:49:33.000And this is a quote from, individuals with terrorism connections are interested in using established travel routes and permissive environments to facilitate access to the United States.
00:49:48.000Individuals who are terrorists, not with terrorism connections, I think they can rewrite that a little bit better, are interested in using known travel routes where nobody gives an F And they can just walk right in.
00:50:02.000I'm talking about the southern border where we don't have a wall.
00:50:10.000Like, that's what they're talking about?
00:50:11.000And in fact, a leaked internal CPB, C-B-P memo, you down with OPP?
00:50:17.000Dated October 20th, 2023, warns this, San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt to travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East across the southwest border.
00:50:46.0005.25 walls are being sent over in aid right now.
00:50:50.000I just think we could take one of those walls out of it and send 4.25 walls and keep one for ourselves.
00:50:55.000Is it weird that it's easier for terrorists to get across our southwest border than it is for Palestinians to get across their southwest border?
00:51:02.000Into a friendly country that says that they are in the world's largest outdoor open-air prison?
00:51:07.000I mean, if they are, I mean, you got some gates to the prison.
00:51:31.000The Wall Street Journal had photos up of another bombed out building because they couldn't find photos of the hospital to make it look like that was the hospital that had been bombed, which it hadn't?
00:51:40.000If you want the worst picture I think I've seen yet from the protests from the war, you can pull that up, Matt.
00:51:47.000Reproductive justice means free pouch.
00:52:05.000It's like, are you trying to piggyback every set of victimized status on the planet onto the Israel Mosque?
00:52:15.000There's a Greta Thunberg one on X where somebody dubbed over and made it look pretty close to what she was saying like, please use biodegradable bombs if you can because really the bombs are the problem.
00:53:31.000They're the ones that fired that rocket that didn't make it to its intended target and instead ended up in the parking lot of a hospital burning cars, knocking out a handful of windows, and not killing 500 people.
00:53:48.000Well, they make them out of the water pipes that the Israelis and the rest of the world gave them so that they could have their own water and instead they'd rather be a victim class and shoot rockets at Israel.
00:54:37.000And it is quite, quite reckless and it includes, you know, films like United 93, Air Force One, Kate and Leopold, and yeah, that last one there is just brutal.
00:56:31.000You think that white people are the problem.
00:56:34.000And in that case, then yeah, having a minority of white people and having—that makes a lot of sense to you.
00:56:40.000You think that white people are the extremists and the terrorists.
00:56:42.000Okay, I totally understand that, yeah, because most terrorist attacks in the world, at least in the last, you know, 50 years, have been committed by white guys.
00:56:54.000I'm saying that sometimes maybe not calling them domestic terrorists just because they think that freedom is a good thing would be a place to start, Joe.
00:57:01.000Don't go to PTA meetings and arrest parents protesting.
00:57:05.000That's fair because if you do take an interest in your child's education and the indoctrination that the government is subjecting them to that you're probably a radical and you need to be dealt with and we need to get on that.
00:57:17.000We did just recently get all the Asians as whites also, because they got really good at math and making money, so they've kind of been... According to a bunch of school districts on the West Coast, Asians are now white.
00:57:27.000So you know, the population is increasing.
00:57:30.000There's a district in Oregon that said, well, you're going to be counted as white now, basically because they were scoring too high.
00:57:34.000Well, let me be the first to say, welcome.
00:59:16.000Yeah, we aired the interview that I did with him yesterday.
00:59:19.000But my problem and my question to you is, do you think that that next terrorist attack that we haven't had to worry about on U.S.
00:59:24.000soil for a long time is coming back to U.S.
00:59:26.000Do you think that somebody who crossed over the southern border Under former Vice President Joe Biden's open border policy is going to commit an act of terror that now we have to worry about on American soil?
00:59:43.000Look, there's, I'm going to do a really quick kind of setup into this and then we're going to go into Mug Club and I'm going to give you more information, but I've been Looking back, based on some of the cases that we've seen with Trevor Bauer and the punter, what's his name?
01:00:00.000But he's the punt god, was his nickname.
01:00:03.000You don't become a punt god unless you're very good at punting, because most people don't care about punters.
01:00:07.000They come out, they do their job, and they collect a million dollar paycheck, and that's great and all, but nobody really cares about them.
01:00:13.000Nobody wears their jerseys around except for maybe their family.
01:00:16.000This guy was accused of sexual assault and was found to be innocent.
01:00:46.000We talked about Trevor Bower and we talked about the legal shenanigans from certain a-holes out in California that knew about this being completely false and still put it out there that he did this and cost this guy potentially his career in baseball.
01:01:00.000He's trying to come back into the United States, I think, right now.
01:01:32.000Look back on the people's lives that are ruined, and still they are being ruined, even though they're cleared!
01:01:40.000Even though evidence comes out to completely exonerate them!
01:01:44.000They are still having their lives ruined.
01:01:45.000Really quickly, last week a federal judge found ex-Baylor football coach Art Bryles to be not negligent surrounding allegations from a 2014 sexual assault case.
01:01:56.000The Baylor Title IX lawsuit trial continued today at the federal courthouse in Waco.
01:02:01.000Today, the judge dismissed former Baylor football coach Art Pryles and former athletic director Ian McCaw from the lawsuit, ruling no reasonable jury could find them negligent for the 2014 domestic violence assaults of a former Baylor student by a former football player.
01:02:53.000After the game and stood with some of the players and was singing the fight song being there with his family and people got upset about that.
01:03:02.000Venables had to make a statement about that after the game saying we've talked about this and that was that was it shouldn't have happened.
01:03:31.000Who did, according to these reports and according to other reports that we're going to dive into a little bit more, we'll give you a bit of a teaser today, and I'm going to go into Mug Club and talk about it a little more, but you need to understand we have been ruining people's lives on lies and speculation for years, and it has to stop.
01:03:50.000It does not serve your goals if you're trying to stop Rape and sexual assault.
01:03:55.000It only makes people not believe any of the accusations anymore, even if they're true.
01:04:18.000We might even do a super video on it because there's that many cases going on Where people's lives are continuing to be ruined and it has to stop right now.