On this week's show, the boys discuss the latest in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Ayatollah, President Trump's latest comments on the matter, and much, much more. Plus, a special guest joins the boys to talk about Pinot Noir, and Gerald's new job as CEO of Mug Club.
00:05:00.000What I love about Pinot is that it's one of the oldest grapes in the world.
00:05:03.000It's thin skin makes for a lighter bodied wine, and the most interesting thing is it's a very temperamental varietal, delicate, that thin skin has great flavors, but it's sensitive.
00:05:16.000It can only grow well in certain regions.
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00:07:53.000Now that you've had 24 hours, and now that I have to adjust the headphones because Gerald was here yesterday, where do you stand on the ceasefire?
00:09:32.000Gerald was here, but on you, Penn, we've spoken with you about this.
00:09:36.000Obviously, it's not going to be happening this week because the live stream event would be blocked from live streaming and our security wouldn't be able to do their job.
00:09:45.000But there was a Daily Pennsylvania article that said Steven Crowder debate at Penn canceled after producers back out of contract.
00:09:53.000Here's the thing: of course, they have to do this, they have to save face.
00:10:40.000How much do you guys want to bet that there's someone, if you had to bet, eh, there's a speculation, there'd be someone in the UPenn administration who probably had some opinions on Charlie Kirk that they wouldn't want to see the light of day.
00:11:12.000So, also, by the way, just to let you know, Professor Zimmerman, who was on the show, unless he was being sarcastic, and I don't think he was, he was quoted saying, I think it will allow Crowder to take a kind of victory lap in which he says, You see, these elitist insulated libs are afraid to talk with me.
00:11:25.000I'll be happy to have a conversation with him.
00:11:27.000We are actively working with Zimmerman to make the debate happen.
00:11:30.000It'll either be in another venue where we can live stream or security can be controlled.
00:11:35.000We may even, you know, worst comes to worst, we'll do it in here and set up some podiums.
00:12:03.000It's the fact that they could have saved us all of this hassle and just told us up front that we won't be able to do it.
00:12:09.000Instead, they included it in their proposal and saying, hey, here's the equipment to live stream and then said, oh, by the way, you can't live stream.
00:12:19.000And we'll have him on the show because it's something he's encountered too working on university campuses where they make it almost impossible.
00:12:24.000He said, this really affects the students.
00:12:26.000The students are, you know, that's the point.
00:13:21.000Someone asked in my comments the other day about the shame that surrounds buying women's clothes for AMAB people.
00:13:27.000A couple of years back, I'd have felt so ashamed of buying women's clothes even online.
00:13:32.000I'd have probably hid under the bed as the post person came, hoping that they'd drop it off on the step so I wouldn't have to have any human interaction.
00:13:40.000In fact, there's so much shame that surrounds AMAB people in women's clothes that there's probably a lot of people wildly jabbing at the report button right this second because they just Cannot deal with what's going on.
00:15:57.000Brought up on a pretty steady diet of Cartoon Network in the 90s, and still to this day have an absolute adoration for the Powerpuff Girls.0.99
00:16:06.000So when this skirt came up for Cuff the Quid, I just had to have it.1.00
00:17:11.000There is no purpose to do this publicly and do a photo shoot with stuff you picked up from a spirit Halloween store other than to have people look at you and to get attention.
00:21:05.000If you're trying to be nice as a Christian conservative in the United States, you have got to protect your children before they get their claws in.1.00
00:22:13.000In the past, it's been pretty clear that President Trump has been calling the shots.
00:22:17.000And by the way, we can have a shared interest in Iran not becoming a nuclear power or Iran not getting to the point where they would actually be able to control the Strait of Hormuz through short and mid range ballistic missiles.
00:22:30.000But I really don't like this idea of Israel potentially risking something that we have put in place and that was agreed upon by other parties.
00:22:38.000President Trump right now needs to be aggressive.
00:23:32.000So shortly after this ceasefire was announced, what happened?
00:23:36.000Israel launched massive barrages against Lebanon.
00:23:40.000Ceasefire is not necessarily the word that comes to mind when looking at these scenes of violence and chaos.
00:23:45.000From the streets of Lebanon today, as a result of the most intense series of Israeli strikes since the beginning of the war.
00:23:52.000This resulted in one of the deadliest days between Israel and the Iran backed militant group since the beginning of the war, with at least 110 people killed, but over 800, if not more, wounded.
00:24:05.000And this all on the very day that international and regional mediators had been insisting that Lebanon was part of the wider ceasefire deal between Israel and the United States on one side and Iran on the other.
00:24:17.000But we saw that those hopes were very quickly dashed.
00:24:20.000By the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement, which was then followed by the series of very deadly strikes.
00:24:27.000So, I'll also, I don't even want to say explain, shine a light on some of the confusion, miscommunications, but there should be no miscommunications.
00:25:02.000The largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion.
00:25:05.000The strike targeted 100 plus Hezbollah headquarters, military arrays, and command and control centers in Beirut, southern Lebanon.0.53
00:25:13.000One thing that is kind of funny here is that Iran complaining about it is sort of tantamount to them admitting that they fund Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas.
00:26:47.000So, in an interview, Trump did tell President Trump told PBS that Lebanon was, and then I'll give you the other side of the coin as to why people might think they were a part of the ceasefire deal.
00:26:57.000But President Trump told PBS, Lebanon not a part of the ceasefire deal.
00:27:01.000I wanted to ask him about what Nick's report included about the strikes that were still happening from the Israeli military on Lebanon that was ongoing this morning.
00:27:10.000I asked the president if he had seen that there were still military strikes happening.
00:27:14.000He said, yes, they, Lebanon, were not included in the deal.
00:27:47.000You have to take the totality of it and say, okay, it seems pretty clear that President Trump is saying, well, they weren't really part of the deal because of.
00:28:07.000We never indicated that was going to be the case.
00:28:09.000What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
00:28:17.000Now, that said, the Israelis, as I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a fuller report when I get on the plane, have actually offered to be.
00:28:25.000Frankly, to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful.
00:28:32.000That's not because that is part of the ceasefire.
00:28:35.000I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success, and we'll, of course, see how that unfolds in the next few days.
00:28:41.000But look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that's ultimately their choice.0.63
00:28:56.000We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.0.53
00:29:48.000Because in case you've forgotten, the ceasefire was, you know, in part brokered by Pakistan.
00:29:55.000The prime minister of Pakistan, Shabazz Sharif, wrote on Tuesday, he wrote, With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere.
00:30:14.000So that seems like some communications may not have been super clear.
00:30:18.000Yeah, and it seems like there may have been communications that went to Iran from Pakistan and us from them as well, and maybe had different terms on it.
00:30:26.000We're still not 100% sure because it's Pakistan.
00:31:18.000I think they did this in the 12 day war ending as well.
00:31:22.000That's where we got the quote from, from Donald Trump saying they don't know what the F they're doing, and he had to put his foot down to make sure that stopped.0.98
00:31:28.000I got a lot of flack for what I said yesterday.0.95
00:31:30.000It is totally fine to tell Israel to knock it off, to stop it, to shut up, to sit down and let us get this handled because apparently you want peace.
00:31:38.000There's nothing wrong with getting pissed off and saying, listen, we want peace here.
00:32:18.000If you guys have been paying attention, you know, certainly China, and there have been some rumblings at Russia, they have actually stepped in a little and been like, hey, you know what?
00:32:25.000At this point, we kind of do need to have something going on here as far as opening up the strait.
00:33:57.000We need to secure our interests, which is remove the threat of Iran, their capabilities, get back to some stability, move on down the trail, and then no more three to four billion a year, Israel.0.95
00:34:10.000You guys want to continue conflict?0.97
00:34:17.000That were issued all U.S. ships, aircraft, and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary.
00:34:22.000Hold on, this is Donald Trump, Stephen.
00:34:24.000All U.S. ships, aircraft, and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place in and around Iran until such time as the real agreement.
00:34:48.000The real agreement reached is fully complied with.
00:34:51.000If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, I think then the shooting starts, quotes, bigger, better, stronger than anyone has ever seen before.
00:35:01.000It was agreed a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary, no nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe.
00:35:11.000In the meantime, our great military is loading up and resting, looking forward.
00:35:25.000Iran, when they offered their 10 point solution or counter offer, this is my counter offer, name that movie line, it didn't say anything about ending the funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.0.53
00:35:39.000And this gives ammo to leftists saying, well, they didn't even, now they want all sanctions lifted, and no other presidents lifted all sanctions.
00:36:01.000When people say all the other presidents had these sanctions and Donald Trump will be the first one to lift it, okay, now do a billion dollars in cash.
00:36:07.000Now do six billion in unfrozen assets, right?
00:36:11.000I don't think there's any world in which these sanctions are lifted or Iran moves forward enriching uranium.
00:36:15.000That's one thing I think we can be certain of with this administration.
00:36:18.000I think that, you know, they got to stop doing the nuclear enrichment, they got to halt the ballistic missiles.0.63
00:36:51.000This is important for people to remember that, and then the ability to protect themselves so that they could effectively walk out of any agreement.
00:37:00.000And they would have enough ammunition, enough missiles, short, mid range missiles, drones, to prevent anyone from going in and inspecting.
00:37:08.000Keep in mind, we do need to keep remember, these are people who have said if they get a nuke, they will use it.0.77
00:37:13.000These are people who have said if they ever gain the capability to wipe America and Israel, but both of us separately off the map, they will do it.0.52
00:37:21.000So unless you believe that they're bluffing, and some people do, I would say you probably don't understand their particular brand of Islam.0.93
00:37:29.000Unless you believe that there is no threat, then at some point in time, Something was going to need to be done about Iran.
00:37:34.00047 years, I think, is, you know, that's enough second chances, third chances.0.98
00:41:12.000Seriously, download the Rumble wallet and step away from big banks for good.
00:41:17.000No fees, no middlemen, none of the crap you have to deal with where you go in and they say you have some concierge account, but It's some guy who wants to tell you about Bitcoin and he's doing mining.
00:43:33.000And right now, there's all the doomers out there going, okay, the midterms are lost.
00:43:39.000And you don't have to be a psychic to understand that the midterms don't look great if you look at the trend today, right now.
00:43:49.000But in some cases, the people responsible for that are the ones pointing the finger anywhere else.
00:43:57.000So, yeah, the midterms may not look great.
00:44:00.000I don't think that the voting base is as fractured as.
00:44:03.000Talking heads want you to believe, but there definitely is a notable strain when you have a lot of supposedly Republican or conservative right wing MAGA, America First Talking Heads, invoking the 25th or calling for the 25th all within 12 hours of each other.
00:44:39.000And I say Republican Party because for a long time, the Civil War was trying to bring the Republican Party back to representing conservatives at all.
00:44:49.000So you've probably heard a lot about people saying, oh, Trump has fractured the MAGA base and it's going to cost Republicans the election.
00:45:19.000If Trump had to get reelected, he probably would have handled this a little differently.
00:45:23.000But he doesn't care that the Republicans are going to lose the midterms.
00:45:26.000I think he thought that was a foregone conclusion.
00:45:28.000And I don't think he cares that JD Vance or Marco Rubio wins the presidency next time around.
00:45:32.000I think there's a piece of Trump that would like to say, I'm the only one who could do it.
00:45:37.000The Republican Party's nothing without me.
00:45:39.000And the rest of us are going to be around to pick up the pieces.
00:45:43.000Okay, I understand the perspective, but let me present something to you.
00:45:47.000There really was no Republican coalition as you know it right now before Donald Trump.
00:45:56.000I think people, we compare very often, go like, well, you would rather have Kamala Harris?
00:46:00.000Let's compare President Trump, JD Vance, people like Rubio, you know, notable people in the Republican Party right now, this administration, to other Republicans, not just Democrats.
00:47:29.000I'm not going to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin, and I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election.
00:47:37.000Iran today has never been closer to a nuclear weapons capability.
00:47:41.000It has never posed a greater danger to our friends, our allies, and us, and has never acted less deterred by America, as was made clear last year when Iranian agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in our nation's capital.0.53
00:47:57.000And yet, when millions of Iranians took to the streets in June 2009, When they demanded freedom from a cruel regime that threatens the world, when they cried out, Are you with us or are you with them? the American president was silent.
00:48:15.000And the point I'm making here is he certainly would be no better on Iran.
00:48:19.000Also, he wouldn't have the same kind of leadership if you look at his track record as a senator, as governor.
00:48:26.000You think you would have had Roe v. Wade?
00:48:28.000You think you would have had the landmark Supreme Court case that we've had?
00:48:32.000Do you think you would have seen the media be highlighted for the sham that it is?
00:48:46.000Those are the people waiting in the wings.
00:48:48.000The coalition was created because President Trump, for all of his flaws, brought something different to the table.
00:48:55.000Throwing it away would be throwing away the biggest, probably most diverse coalition that the conservative movement or Republican Party has seen in decades.
00:49:17.000Climate legislation with Joe Lieberman.
00:49:20.000If you guys remember, he was part of the gang of eight that backed this path to legalization for illegals, basically citizenship.
00:49:27.000Not to mention, when we're going back to foreign policy, if Donald Trump is the worst on foreign policy, this guy has said, President Trump has made clear we want to do this swiftly, violently, and get out.
00:49:37.000These other people, like John McCain, they never even seem to think of that.
00:49:41.000He never met a war that he didn't like.
00:50:19.000He was also part of the Gang of Eight.0.61
00:50:23.000Gang of Eight, tapped to citizenship, refused to fund a border wall.
00:50:27.000By the way, when Republicans could have done it, just to be clear, when people complain about executive orders, they say they can be undone.
00:50:36.000The alternative is we have had times where the Republican Party controlled House and Senate and didn't do anything.
00:50:45.000Sometimes you guys need to delineate your grievances with the Republican Party refusing to do the bidding of those who voted for them and President Trump's mandate and agenda.
00:50:57.000So at that point, when you have control over the House and you still can't get it, well, an executive order is better than nothing.
00:51:02.000See the reduction from 96 to 99% at the border.
00:51:06.000We effectively have a secure border for the first time.
00:51:08.000You want to compare Donald Trump to Paul Ryan on foreign policy?
00:51:45.000We also do have to live in the real world.
00:51:47.000And that doesn't mean that you're compromising and encouraging bad behavior, because what I'm telling you is the bad behavior, the disloyalty from the Republican Party, the McCain's, the Romney's, the Ryan's, the Eric Cantors of the world, they led to Trump as a better answer.
00:52:58.000And I know you'll say, well, Donald Trump has been an ally with Mitch McConnell when he is useful, to be clear.
00:53:06.000Mitch McConnell said that former Vice President Joe Biden won 2020, called January 6th an insurrection.
00:53:12.000By the way, that gave cover to the corrupt, lawless Democrats who jailed people for nothing more than a walking tour.
00:53:19.0002008, voted for the $700 billion TARP Wall Street bailout.
00:53:23.000On foreign policy, again, if we're saying that this is the reason, the deal breaker, Donald Trump's approach on Iran, over which he has been incredibly consistent, let's compare it to Mitch McConnell, he declared Ukraine aid number one priority for the United States.
00:53:39.000He prioritized Ukrainian security above American border security.
00:53:47.000You guys understand that's what's waiting in the wings, not just.0.50
00:55:12.000Donald Trump was an answer to the betrayal.
00:55:14.000That's why so many people, I think Ann Coulter said, Donald Trump could perform an abortion in the middle of Sixth Avenue and I would still vote for him.
00:55:22.000If he secured the border, it was a quote to that effect because we had seen Republicans for so long basically be Democrats light on foreign policy.
00:55:32.000Of course, you can look at Eric Cantor, supported US military intervention in Syria, pretty much across the board.
00:55:37.000So I say this because right now people are saying, ah, we're going to lose the midterms.
00:55:41.000And it's because Donald Trump is a betrayer.
00:55:43.000Now, it doesn't mean that he can't be a betrayer if other people have been worse betrayers.
00:56:21.000They cannot say that he said or in any way implied that he would be soft on Iran or that he would continue the JCPOA.
00:56:31.000So, if he's a betrayer, what's the alternative?
00:56:35.000And yes, I do think living in the real world matters because you're looking at Democrats or you're looking at the same old from the Republican Party.
00:57:23.000You don't want that guy as president of the United States.
00:57:25.000And what I really hope happens is when, and I pray this happens, a good resolution to this conflict, everybody gets to see us move back, get out of there, make sure that we have this thing dealt with for a while.
00:57:36.000All the people running around saying 25th him and everybody else, either they come out and say, Thank God that happened.
00:57:43.000Maybe I was a little over, maybe I was a little too concerned.
00:57:45.000Maybe I ran a little bit too far ahead there.
00:57:47.000And they apologize, or we never listen to you again.
00:58:24.000Those of you living in Texas, living in places like Florida, who've chosen those states, many of you left places like New York or California.
00:58:31.000Those of you living there now, tell me that you would have no problem if tomorrow they enacted the exact same policies.
00:58:38.000As New York, as Minneapolis, as California.
01:00:33.000I think when you throw in Andrew Tate and Fit and Fresh, and then you also include people like Andrew Wilson who are deeply Orthodox Christians and Blue, like, what does it mean?0.72
01:00:49.000She set out to make a documentary, sort of, I guess, criticizing the men's rights movement and realized that they had some legitimate grievances.
01:00:56.000It was primarily about custody rights, it was primarily about men in the workplace, some of the discrimination or some of the challenges that men face that are dismissed.
01:01:09.000I had her on the show a bunch of times.
01:01:10.000As I understand it now, she has a family and she's doing a lovely family, doing quite well.
01:01:15.000But the manosphere, when people point to it, let's just discount the bad because there is some bad advice.
01:01:21.000But the bulk of what has seen a resurgence in masculinity is rejecting the label of toxic masculinity.
01:01:29.000And one kind of through line, one constant that you will find across all of these different sort of niches is work on yourself, become healthy, become fit, become wealthy as best you can, productive, confident.
01:01:45.000And then you will become the kind of person who will attract the kind of woman you would want.
01:01:51.000That, I think, is good advice for a lot of young men.
01:01:55.000And you've also seen a lot of young men simply checking out of the dating game, the dating pool.
01:02:21.000They are learning how to control you and they're calling it leadership and it's working.
01:02:26.000Suddenly it fell into place for me that these boys were being radicalized, that they were being groomed online by these communities extremely successfully and cleverly.
01:02:36.000Every young guy that I've spoken to has talked about how it's really unavoidable.
01:02:41.000You look up any content that's sort of primarily male audiences, this manosphere is there.
01:02:49.000Yeah, but there are far more people in the manosphere like men here.
01:03:14.000And reject the labels of toxic masculinity and this idea that women can do everything men can do and vice versa.
01:03:19.000Men and women are different, and that's okay.
01:03:20.000Become the man you want and find the woman you want.0.85
01:03:23.000There are different ways to do that.0.98
01:03:24.000Now, let's compare this to female based content.0.96
01:03:28.000I will tell you this the manosphere is a response to it because female centric content is not only just as bad as the manosphere they criticize, it's significantly worse.0.99
01:03:38.000And it has been that way since the 1960s, certainly with increasing, I guess I should say, degeneracy, perversity in the last 10, 20 years.1.00
01:03:50.000There is nothing of value that is being offered if you look at the largest.1.00
01:03:55.000Female centric podcast shows out there.0.98
01:03:57.000You obviously know about The View, but let's go to some of the online podcasts.
01:04:01.000Those are, you know, racking up some big numbers.
01:04:04.000Here's the latest example Nikki Glazier, comedian, had an interesting conversation on the Call Her Daddy podcast yesterday, and she has some advice for a lot of people out there.
01:04:16.000I'm not someone who likes to hook up with, I'm in a relationship.
01:04:19.000I'm not really like, I don't really care about that.
01:04:21.000I, you know, but I don't care if someone else were to.
01:04:29.000If a guy has a sexual connection with a girl and, like, he was to use protection and just have sex with her for a night, like, I don't, I literally wouldn't care if my husband did that.
01:04:39.000If he were to, like, walk around with her or, like, do crossword puzzles or, like, send memes and stuff, I would be like, what the f are you doing?
01:04:49.000If you develop feelings for someone else, tell me and we'll deal with it.
01:04:52.000Like, I just don't want to be blindsided.
01:04:53.000But if you want to have sex with someone else, also tell me about it because I want to, like, see what she looks like and, like, ask you about it.
01:04:59.000He probably wouldn't appreciate me elaborating on that, but like, there's been interesting things that have been like really fun for me to like hear about and experience and like, and fun for him too, because, you know, you get older, he's 45, and I'm like, get out there, like, get some, know that you're a sexual being again.
01:05:17.000Like, sometimes I'm like too busy to be really sexy, so I'm like, get out and get some attention.
01:06:29.000But let's be honest, men usually have a higher sex drive, so it's probably something that would require more of a compromise from the woman.0.85
01:06:34.000If Nikki Glazier took the biblical approach, it would be My husband wants to have sex with me, and I want to make sure that he knows he is sexually desired and feels like a sexual being because we should be that way until the day we die.0.99
01:06:49.000Instead, go sleep with other people.0.90
01:06:51.000Now, I will say this it is true that women do tend to want men of value.1.00
01:06:56.000That's something that they will deny through and through.0.99
01:06:58.000If you say, Well, you want a man, you don't just want a A nice guy.
01:07:03.000There are plenty of men available to you.
01:07:04.000You have unrealistically high standards because you want the kind of man who other women would also want.
01:07:08.000They'll go, No, no, I just care about his personality.