Louder with Crowder - Joe Biden Gets #MeTooed! | #2 Good Morning MugClub

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00:01:57.000 Okay, so we have a lot to get to, by the way, in the news.

00:02:01.000 Before we get to the stories that we kind of want to talk about, we have to do some fact-checking from the morning.

00:02:05.000 A morning roundup.

00:02:06.000 So really quickly, I think we have this clip from Morning Joe, where they made the claim that everybody saw this coming early in January.

00:02:14.000 Let's go to that.

00:02:15.000 Now, we've heard Zeke Emanuel that nobody could have seen this coming.

00:02:19.000 The fact is everybody saw this coming.

00:02:22.000 Everybody saw this coming in early January.

00:02:24.000 So, I know you like me.

00:02:28.000 Now, we've heard Zeke Emanuel.

00:02:33.000 Is that what he said?

00:02:34.000 Is that all?

00:02:34.000 Yeah.

00:02:34.000 Oh, okay.

00:02:35.000 I can't see what... It was just going in a circle.

00:02:36.000 If we can get program up there so I can see what they're saying.

00:02:39.000 Actually, here's the thing.

00:02:40.000 The World Health Organization said that there wasn't any human-to-human transmission as of January 14th.

00:02:47.000 Morning Joe, they didn't even mention it on the show until January 24th when they had an expert on there who was, by the way, on there to still say, don't panic about the COVID-woo flu.

00:02:57.000 Here's another clip.

00:02:58.000 And how worried should Americans be?

00:03:01.000 Should they panic?

00:03:04.000 Good morning, Mika.

00:03:05.000 No, Americans do not need to panic.

00:03:08.000 The Chinese are already panicking, as they should, because this virus is spreading all through the central parts of China, and it's a new virus. 0.58

00:03:17.000 It has never been seen before, so its mechanism of spreading is not quite known yet.

00:03:24.000 What I would suggest, however, is that Americans take this as a wake-up call for seasonal flu.

00:03:31.000 We are not out of the flu season.

00:03:33.000 Really?

00:03:34.000 That sounds like a dog whistle to me.

00:03:37.000 I don't know.

00:03:38.000 Hold on a second.

00:03:41.000 Did I hear panic?

00:03:44.000 Did I hear panic?

00:03:45.000 Is that what it was?

00:03:46.000 Everybody saw this coming.

00:03:47.000 I'm just going back to that interview, Morning Joe.

00:03:50.000 I don't even know his name.

00:03:51.000 I just call him Morning Joe.

00:03:53.000 Because that's really his only value to society is his Joe in the morning.

00:03:57.000 This is the kind of Monday morning quarterbacking that you're seeing from the media.

00:04:00.000 It is remarkable.

00:04:01.000 You try to treat it as a left-right thing.

00:04:03.000 And this is important for people to know.

00:04:04.000 Listen, like I said, I won't be shamed into panicking.

00:04:06.000 We'll get into the numbers where some people yesterday, I don't know if it was Fauci or Bricks.

00:04:10.000 Not Hans Bricks.

00:04:11.000 Screw that guy.

00:04:12.000 Rick said the death toll could be 100 to 220,000 in the United States.

00:04:16.000 And I know some people are panicked about that, so we'll talk about that a little bit more.

00:04:19.000 But they tried to separate this, did you notice, into a left-right issue.

00:04:23.000 Because before that New York Times BuzzFeed, as you see Morning Joe, they were all saying

00:04:26.000 don't panic, it's not any worse than the seasonal flu.

00:04:30.000 They were wrong about that.

00:04:31.000 Okay, we can all admit they were wrong about that.

00:04:32.000 But then they tried to attribute the right, meaning conservatives, saying hey, listen,

00:04:37.000 we don't know everything yet, we do know it's not as deadly as people are now trying to

00:04:41.000 tout this to be, so we shouldn't shut down our entire economy.

00:04:45.000 So they've conflated the two.

00:04:47.000 Everyone said it's nothing.

00:04:49.000 Then they said, OK, it's something in the right.

00:04:51.000 So we just don't know how much of this something is.

00:04:52.000 And is it worth the toll that is taking on the economy?

00:04:55.000 Therefore, they try to make it sound like we're deniers.

00:04:57.000 They're using the same techniques right now, I notice, against people who think that this pandemic needs to be handled seriously, but needs to be handled with a balanced approach to both the livelihoods and the lives of Americans.

00:05:10.000 And that's a problem.

00:05:10.000 Well there are these things going around on Facebook and Twitter where it's like Trump found out about the virus on X date and then this is the number of times he's gone golfing since or something.

00:05:19.000 So it's like knowing about the virus is not the same as knowing the extent and before anybody died and obviously his response was, you know, his response could have been good, could have been bad, but the issue is not when he found out about it, it's when he found out about the severity, which depends on what information he's getting.

00:05:35.000 Right.

00:05:35.000 Which, by the way, this is something that people need to think about.

00:05:38.000 How many times have you had the sniffles?

00:05:39.000 Or had a sore throat, and you thought, eh, I think it's just allergies.

00:05:42.000 I'll wait it out.

00:05:42.000 And gone into work.

00:05:43.000 Right.

00:05:44.000 Because you're like, it's not that serious.

00:05:45.000 Right.

00:05:45.000 That's effectively where we were before.

00:05:48.000 And I don't just mean Americans.

00:05:49.000 I don't just mean the government.

00:05:51.000 The media.

00:05:51.000 And certainly, if you look at the timeline, Donald Trump was doing more than the media.

00:05:55.000 Because it was around this time where he put a travel ban on China.

00:05:57.000 It was around this time where he was actually consolidating so that we would have a pandemic response team.

00:06:02.000 Or task force.

00:06:03.000 I don't know the exact terminology.

00:06:05.000 Don't hang me on it, because if it's a task force or pandemic response, you know what I mean to say.

00:06:10.000 Promo code quarantine, $30 off.

00:06:14.000 Let me know with your... Oh, by the way, I forgot that we do not have Gerald A. today.

00:06:18.000 We do not have half-Asian Bill Richmond.

00:06:20.000 But in third chair today, actually, as an expert on the Chinese flu, we do have Bruce Lee.

00:06:25.000 Bruce, how are you, sir?

00:06:27.000 Well, see, coronavirus can flow or it can crash.

00:06:32.000 Coronavirus, if you put it into a cup, it becomes the cup.

00:06:36.000 If you put coronavirus into a pillowcase, it becomes a pillowcase.

00:06:41.000 If you put coronavirus into a rectum, what's wrong with you?

00:06:44.000 Okay.

00:06:45.000 I see what's going on there, Bruce.

00:06:46.000 I think he's a genius.

00:06:47.000 You know what?

00:06:49.000 You were a horrible fighter.

00:06:51.000 Bruce, you were a terrible fighter, absolutely of no value, but you were brilliant and I appreciate your expertise on Kung-Fu.

00:06:58.000 I'm more scared of him now than I would have been if he were alive.

00:07:01.000 Bruce, how did you get to be here?

00:07:06.000 Okay, that's all he's going to do is ki-aisu.

00:07:08.000 Not really of much value in third chair.

00:07:09.000 We now know that my lawyer probably has a little bit more to contribute than Bruce Lee.

00:07:16.000 He's an expert of sorts.

00:07:17.000 Are corpses not immune from the coronavirus?

00:07:20.000 I'm confused.

00:07:21.000 It seems to me that's one of the benefits of the zombie apocalypse, is they don't need to worry about any... One of several benefits.

00:07:27.000 One of several benefits.

00:07:28.000 The immortality... So many benefits are just coming off the top of my head.

00:07:31.000 And isn't it bizarre with zombies that immortality applies except the brain stem?

00:07:36.000 Like, we're combining this idea of sort of a pseudo-spiritual element, like they're the undead.

00:07:40.000 They've come back.

00:07:40.000 It's like, well, unless you hit that cervical vertebrae, then there's nothing God can do?

00:07:45.000 Hit that medulla. 1.00

00:07:46.000 All right.

00:07:47.000 Could be some weakness, yeah.

00:07:49.000 So, another morning roundup.

00:07:50.000 Do we have the stinger for morning roundup?

00:07:51.000 We do.

00:07:52.000 Okay.

00:07:52.000 Morning Roundup.

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00:08:17.000 Right, exactly.

00:08:18.000 And we're going to have, by the way, even Brendan on the show because he has to wear a lot of protective gear because we're worried that he might be infected.

00:08:24.000 And we'll have Brodigan, of course, senior news correspondent on later with the morning after, a roundup of all the news from the week and of course traffic updates because we want to keep you abreast here.

00:08:34.000 Here's something that's pretty telling.

00:08:38.000 Let's go to CNN really quickly before I trash them.

00:08:40.000 I want to hear if they got themselves a microphone.

00:08:43.000 Nope.

00:08:43.000 That's a no.

00:08:45.000 Definitely not.

00:08:46.000 Florida governor under pressure to issue statewide shutdown.

00:08:50.000 Now, this may seem trivial, right?

00:08:51.000 It may seem like it doesn't matter, and we will get to the projected death rates that they talked about last night, but this does matter because right now they have a chyron going on that Florida might be pressured to issue a statewide shutdown, but there was nothing in the news that the FDA approved new drugs and therapeutics to combat coronavirus.

00:09:09.000 There was nothing Right, right.

00:09:10.000 Just yesterday.

00:09:10.000 Yeah.

00:09:10.000 As far as a running headline telling people that we have the ability to sanitize up to

00:09:15.000 400,000 masks and the MyPillow guy was speaking at a briefing because 75,000 masks will be

00:09:20.000 coming out of his factory per day.

00:09:21.000 So this would be totally fine in a 24-hour news cycle if it were the most important news,

00:09:27.000 but it's not.

00:09:28.000 Well, and CNN knows that it is part of the pressure.

00:09:31.000 Right.

00:09:31.000 So, like, putting the chyron up is adding pressure to it.

00:09:34.000 Right.

00:09:34.000 So they're cooking it all.

00:09:35.000 It's all basically using the news media as a way of steering politics.

00:09:38.000 Absolutely.

00:09:39.000 Can you turn down the same one we're not watching?

00:09:40.000 I don't want to hear them talking about that.

00:09:41.000 You don't?

00:09:41.000 Oh, come on.

00:09:42.000 That's incredibly distracting.

00:09:44.000 So here's another fast fact, by the way.

00:09:45.000 Donald Trump's approval ratings have been going Up.

00:09:48.000 So stock market, this.

00:09:51.000 Trump doing this.

00:09:52.000 Actually, the stock market does this.

00:09:54.000 And if you look at it long term, it still does this.

00:09:57.000 So if you sold everything in your 401k, you screwed up.

00:10:01.000 This is not the time to cash out, exactly.

00:10:03.000 I don't care how much Kramer you watch.

00:10:05.000 Is it Jim Kramer?

00:10:06.000 I don't remember.

00:10:07.000 He's the financial guy.

00:10:08.000 He's the equivalent to Gallagher.

00:10:10.000 He's like, right now Apple is a hot stock!

00:10:16.000 And like Gallagher, always funny.

00:10:18.000 Always funny.

00:10:19.000 I want to take my financial advice from that guy.

00:10:24.000 CNN, of course, because the approval ratings are going up, and this should be pretty telling, I think, to folks out there, because remember Rachel Maddow came out not long ago and said, we need to stop airing the Trump press briefings, because this is propaganda.

00:10:37.000 We need to stop airing it.

00:10:38.000 And then I think it was HuffPo, these other websites, said, we need to stop doing this because his approval rating was going up.

00:10:43.000 Again, sort of like new media, when we're not being harmed by the algorithms, which is why we need to hit the notification bell, we do better than a lot of the shows that are on network television, right?

00:10:53.000 Donald Trump, when he doesn't have to go through the intermediaries, when he doesn't have to go through these gatekeepers, there you go, yeah, you can hit the notification bell, hit all notifications, if you're subscribed, of course, iTunes, Android, all of that, Crowderbit, subscribe, we're putting up more content there than ever.

00:11:05.000 He doesn't have to go through them, in other words, he doesn't have to go through Maddow, People hear what he has to say directly, his approval ratings go up.

00:11:11.000 Here's the thing.

00:11:12.000 You may not like what Donald Trump has to say, but that's about as pure of a litmus test as you get.

00:11:18.000 People watching him directly saying, alright, I like what he's saying.

00:11:21.000 Now you may want to fact check what he's saying, and that's your job as journalists.

00:11:24.000 It's your job to fact check it.

00:11:26.000 Correctly, by the way.

00:11:28.000 Not fact check Donald Trump because he says, we have some phyde liquids to sanitize the mask.

00:11:33.000 And people go, there's no spray that'll sanitize the mask.

00:11:35.000 He wasn't talking about a spray.

00:11:36.000 He was talking about a machine.

00:11:37.000 By the way, I just found out that our dryer—does anyone else have this?

00:11:40.000 You can let me know in the chat.

00:11:41.000 Our dryer here, our office dryer, has a sanitized steam cycle.

00:11:45.000 Oh, that's nice.

00:11:46.000 And then it also has— You just throw all the masks in there.

00:11:48.000 Well, it has an antimicrobial cycle, too, and I'm not entirely sure that I understand the difference, but I do wonder if people mocked Donald Trump mercilessly for saying, hey, we should be able to sanitize these masks.

00:11:57.000 Like, is it outside of the realm of possibility if Whirlpool figured it out?

00:12:02.000 Yeah.

00:12:03.000 Dr. Kenmore made it work for us!

00:12:06.000 Why are they expecting the president to know about these chemicals that will sanitize things?

00:12:10.000 He's just saying, hey, I think we might have some chemicals that could sanitize these masks.

00:12:14.000 Lo and behold.

00:12:15.000 Let's try that.

00:12:16.000 It absolutely worked.

00:12:17.000 And then the MyPillow guy said that God left public schools.

00:12:19.000 So, you know, everyone gets to speak their piece.

00:12:22.000 Yeah, so CNN may have been uncomfortable enough to pull the broadcast, but Fox and MSNBC both ran it.

00:12:29.000 Right.

00:12:31.000 And they're pretending to be non-partisan.

00:12:32.000 They're pretending to be unbiased.

00:12:34.000 But MSNBC, who is admittedly biased.

00:12:36.000 Fox, who is admittedly biased.

00:12:37.000 And now that's the point.

00:12:39.000 Now it's migrated to CNN.

00:12:40.000 So CNN is taking cues from Salon.com and Rachel Maddow.

00:12:46.000 I want to make that really clear.

00:12:47.000 And then they'll go out with this logo that says, just the facts.

00:12:51.000 Right?

00:12:51.000 That's the thing with CNN.

00:12:52.000 I don't have a problem with Rachel Maddow. 1.00

00:12:53.000 I don't.

00:12:53.000 People say, why don't you focus on them so much?

00:12:55.000 Visually.

00:12:56.000 Maybe if we want to rebut them, that's fine.

00:12:58.000 We want to rebut an argument.

00:12:59.000 But I don't have a problem with media bias from MSNBC, from places like The Young Turks, from people who are opinion journalists.

00:13:03.000 I don't.

00:13:04.000 I have a problem with trying to claim that you are unbiased and lying to people about it.

00:13:09.000 So last night, CNN refused to air President Trump's press conference, which is interesting because then they tried to pull some information from the press conference That they now think obviously makes the situation look very dire.

00:13:21.000 So they want to tell people that everything is terrible, but they don't want to tell you that, hey, you know what, private industry stepped up and we're going to have an abundance of masks and tests very quickly, despite the FDA and CDC.

00:13:30.000 So, as a matter of fact, CNN, they didn't air... Here's what's most telling.

00:13:34.000 They didn't air the briefer last night.

00:13:37.000 Instead, they decided that their news time would be best suited to covering this.

00:13:44.000 I don't know why you take your shot at that.

00:13:45.000 I mean, you know, just because you don't cook.

00:13:47.000 I mean, mom shares her secrets about how to make sauce. 0.90

00:13:52.000 Very few people.

00:13:53.000 I mean, you shouldn't criticize yourself that you're not one of the people that mom saw as worthy to teach how to cook.

00:14:01.000 Mom's spaghetti.

00:14:03.000 Well, look, I'm sure she would have.

00:14:04.000 It's just that you spent so much more time in the kitchen, Chris, than I did.

00:14:08.000 What the heck?

00:14:09.000 By the way, do you notice he talks more Italian now?

00:14:11.000 You were just available.

00:14:12.000 You know, you had that, always like mom's little helper in the kitchen.

00:14:15.000 I really respect that.

00:14:16.000 So I think because you were there.

00:14:18.000 What is this?

00:14:19.000 And always underfoot.

00:14:20.000 See, I don't see it that way.

00:14:21.000 I don't see it that way.

00:14:22.000 How many years in the kitchen when you think of it?

00:14:24.000 I don't see it that way.

00:14:25.000 Find some common ground, Brothers Cuomo.

00:14:27.000 I don't mean to offend you.

00:14:29.000 I didn't mean to offend you.

00:14:29.000 I think this is cute.

00:14:30.000 There's no offense taken.

00:14:32.000 There's no offense taken.

00:14:33.000 But what I'm saying is... No, no, no, please.

00:14:34.000 That you helped mom in the kitchen was a beautiful thing.

00:14:36.000 I had to do work.

00:14:37.000 I didn't help mom in the kitchen.

00:14:38.000 Keep in mind that at this exact moment, they were talking about precautionary measures to be taken during this pandemic.

00:14:44.000 CNN ran this.

00:14:45.000 I don't have to play the sound.

00:14:46.000 May I ask you a question?

00:14:48.000 Hold on.

00:14:48.000 Hold on a second.

00:14:49.000 Where are you?

00:14:50.000 Can I ask you where are you?

00:14:54.000 I'm gonna... Ma'am wants to know where you are. 1.00

00:14:57.000 Ma'am wants to know where you are. 0.84

00:14:58.000 But where are you physically?

00:14:59.000 I'm in my basement.

00:15:01.000 Oh, you're in your basement.

00:15:01.000 That's what I just said.

00:15:02.000 How long is this clip?

00:15:04.000 It's like two minutes.

00:15:05.000 Alright, we can cut away.

00:15:06.000 The point is, at this time, doctors, members of the CDC, our commander-in-chief, were providing valuable information to the American public, but they are so dead set on making sure that Donald Trump can't speak to you directly, that they decided to air Two old men bickering about their mom.

00:15:24.000 Plumos are nervous. 0.99

00:15:25.000 Mom's spaghetti.

00:15:26.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:15:28.000 I hope you both choke on your spicy meat-a-ball.

00:15:31.000 And see, I figure if I do it without effort, it's not racist.

00:15:34.000 If I said spicy meat-a-ball, you know, maybe Media Matters can come after me.

00:15:38.000 But if I just say spicy, more like Jeff Goldblum.

00:15:42.000 Jeff Goldblum says, that's a spicy meatball.

00:15:46.000 But you would never, yeah, you would never do it.

00:15:47.000 There it is.

00:15:48.000 You'd never do an actual, like, Cartoonish caricature.

00:15:52.000 I would never.

00:15:53.000 Not on this show.

00:15:54.000 What do you think about that, Bruce?

00:15:55.000 Do you think that was responsible for the news cycle?

00:15:57.000 Well, see, if you put an asshole on CNN, CNN becomes the asshole.

00:16:03.000 Asshole can fart, or asshole can talk. 0.96

00:16:06.000 At CNN, asshole get national platform. 1.00

00:16:09.000 That doesn't make any sense, Bruce.

00:16:11.000 You know what?

00:16:11.000 These tidbits are not valuable.

00:16:13.000 I don't know.

00:16:13.000 I think he's insightful.

00:16:15.000 See, that was a little ventriloquism.

00:16:19.000 I don't need a special for it, Jeff Dunham.

00:16:21.000 We get it.

00:16:22.000 You got a puppet with a racist voice.

00:16:23.000 What else you got?

00:16:28.000 So here's something else.

00:16:30.000 Put your name in there for the chat.

00:16:33.000 We'll be live chatting with you folks over there on the Blaze.

00:16:35.000 Dr. Birx, right, the US officials initially responded to the coronavirus the way they did because they thought it was going to be more like, they said, more like a SARS type epidemic, not a global pandemic.

00:16:47.000 Which, by the way, anyone know where SARS came from?

00:16:50.000 There's a trend here.

00:16:52.000 Maybe.

00:16:52.000 Bruce?

00:16:55.000 Sorry.

00:16:55.000 Okay.

00:16:56.000 We appreciate it.

00:16:58.000 You started it.

00:16:59.000 He's repentant.

00:17:00.000 He is repentant.

00:17:01.000 He's a humble man.

00:17:03.000 Even as a drug addict slash fraud fighter, he's not beyond redemption.

00:17:08.000 No, he's a legend as well.

00:17:12.000 And they said that they were missing.

00:17:13.000 So again, I want to be careful here.

00:17:15.000 I want to make sure that people understand we're not trying to downplay the pandemic.

00:17:19.000 I want you to remember that the media who's blaming President Trump for it, for some reason, just like Hurricane Katrina, was George W. Bush's fault.

00:17:25.000 Of course.

00:17:26.000 Do you know how Hurricane Katrina started?

00:17:28.000 Tell me about it.

00:17:28.000 George W. Bush bought a plasma ball at Spencer's.

00:17:31.000 Whoa.

00:17:31.000 I had no idea.

00:17:33.000 That's how it started.

00:17:34.000 And then flooded.

00:17:35.000 Also, they decided to build a town, was it 500 feet below sea level?

00:17:40.000 I don't know how else it ends.

00:17:41.000 It's a sidebar.

00:17:42.000 It's a big hole.

00:17:43.000 I'm not sympathetic, but I also don't fully understand why we're rebuilding at a place

00:17:47.000 that has to have that happen again.

00:17:49.000 Like let's just, you know, find the nearest, it doesn't even have to be a mountain, like

00:17:52.000 a mound.

00:17:53.000 Like I would just say let's make New Orleans like a pitcher's mound. 0.99

00:17:55.000 Just make it, you know, and just build, how's it, was it a humanity, Habitat for Humanity?

00:18:01.000 Go in there and put it on a hill.

00:18:04.000 Jimmy Carter, come on over.

00:18:05.000 Just put it on a hill so we don't have to blame it on the next president.

00:18:11.000 So again this is right now Dr. Birx talking about how they were missing a significant amount of data and they believe this is going to be more SARS-like.

00:18:18.000 Could we have known something different?

00:18:22.000 You know, I think all of us, I mean, I was overseas when this happened in Africa, and I think when you looked at the China data originally, and you said, oh, well, there's 80 million people, or 20 million people in Wuhan, and 80 million people in Hubei, and they come up with a number of 50,000, you start thinking of this more like SARS than you do this kind of global pandemic.

00:18:48.000 It's my beverage of choice when I talk.

00:18:54.000 There's a finite amount of resources with government and this is something that the

00:18:58.000 left gets perfectly wrong.

00:19:00.000 So before I move on with more statistics, hopefully I can provide you a little bit of

00:19:03.000 context here.

00:19:04.000 A lot of the times when people say, I just take issues as they come on an individual

00:19:07.000 issue by issue basis, you should look at every issue critically.

00:19:10.000 But you should start off with a worldview.

00:19:13.000 There's nothing wrong with an ism provided that it is correct.

00:19:17.000 Everyone has one.

00:19:18.000 You need to be honest about it.

00:19:19.000 And a worldview will help determine at least how you sift through information that is superfluous and you don't have time for.

00:19:26.000 The left has an ism that is perfectly wrong.

00:19:28.000 Let's look at, yes, left, right, third party man.

00:19:31.000 This isn't for you right now.

00:19:33.000 So, the right, we understand.

00:19:36.000 That Free Enterprise is not a finite sum.

00:19:41.000 It's not a finite amount.

00:19:42.000 A lot of the left, they say, I want a piece of my pie.

00:19:44.000 It's not infinite.

00:19:45.000 I want some of that cheddar.

00:19:47.000 No, no, it's the opposite.

00:19:48.000 It's not finite.

00:19:49.000 It is, actually.

00:19:49.000 You can build more pies.

00:19:51.000 Let me go with this.

00:19:51.000 You can build more pies in the Free Enterprise.

00:19:53.000 In other words, how do you build more pies?

00:19:55.000 Well, you have a rotary phone, then you have a touchpad.

00:19:58.000 Then you have a cell phone.

00:19:59.000 Then you have a cordless phone.

00:20:01.000 Then you have an iPhone.

00:20:02.000 So when people say, the telecommunications industry is really hurting, guess what?

00:20:06.000 And you say, I want a piece of my pie, your pie.

00:20:09.000 Now the iPhone is created.

00:20:10.000 Now that creates work for whole new app developers.

00:20:14.000 Games, right?

00:20:15.000 All kinds of software that have improved everybody's lives.

00:20:18.000 You can go and bake more pies in a free enterprise system.

00:20:22.000 By contrast, the government cannot bake more pies.

00:20:27.000 There is a finite amount of money because you sooner or later, and sooner rather than later, run out of revenue that you can generate by taxing people.

00:20:36.000 And that's something called the Laffer Curve.

00:20:37.000 A lot of people think we can just tax the wealthy at 100%.

00:20:39.000 They leave.

00:20:40.000 So it's even lower of a threshold than that.

00:20:42.000 But let's say that's the ultimate threshold.

00:20:45.000 You can tax people at 100%.

00:20:47.000 The government can generate no more revenue than that, effectively.

00:20:50.000 Not including dividends or some other investments.

00:20:52.000 We understand that still, compared to the private sector.

00:20:55.000 The left sees it differently.

00:20:57.000 They see private industry as a piece of the pie.

00:20:59.000 That's why Bernie Sanders or Cortez need to redistribute it.

00:21:03.000 And then they look at government and see it as an infinite sum, that we should be paying people indefinitely, providing free health care, free internet, free Take your pick!

00:21:12.000 And I'm not exaggerating.

00:21:13.000 In Germany, internet was declared a fundamental human right, which is dangerous because that means that the government can take away a right once they declare it to be a right under their purview.

00:21:23.000 So, this is... well, at least in those countries, they don't have a constitution.

00:21:26.000 So the right understands private enterprise, you can bake more pies.

00:21:30.000 Government, very limited in what they can generate.

00:21:33.000 The left sees private industry as evil villains who need to have their wealth redistributed.

00:21:38.000 And the government, this all-knowing, altruistic entity that can generate profit from scratch, they couldn't be more incorrect.

00:21:47.000 And that's how you are looking at two sides Viewing this pandemic.

00:21:50.000 So how you view the world matters before you look at it on an individual issue-by-issue basis.

00:21:57.000 You need to determine how you understand the free market and the government's capability to extend these bailouts indefinitely.

00:22:05.000 And the longer the government props up these older industries, the slower that growth will be.

00:22:10.000 Right.

00:22:10.000 To the slower that those new pies will end up being baked.

00:22:13.000 Right.

00:22:14.000 And then some of them end up just, they just end up being cobblers.

00:22:17.000 And you know what the truth is?

00:22:18.000 You know what's most sad?

00:22:19.000 I don't know the difference between a pie or a cobbler.

00:22:23.000 I don't.

00:22:23.000 I know the difference.

00:22:23.000 Oh, I thought you were talking about a shoemaker.

00:22:25.000 What's a cobbler?

00:22:26.000 I don't know.

00:22:27.000 It's a big dish.

00:22:27.000 What's a peach cobbler?

00:22:28.000 Can we bring that up?

00:22:29.000 What's a peach cobbler?

00:22:31.000 I know what an apple crisp is.

00:22:33.000 It's where it has an oaty crust.

00:22:34.000 But I hear Southerners are always like, he makes the best peach cobbler.

00:22:37.000 First off, if you like peach anything, you're weird.

00:22:39.000 It's disgusting.

00:22:42.000 No fruit should run the risk of folliculitis.

00:22:44.000 I do not like peaches.

00:22:46.000 I think it's the shape.

00:22:47.000 A pie and a cobbler?

00:22:48.000 Yeah, I think it's the shape and I think a pie.

00:22:51.000 Is a cobbler baked with a top on it?

00:22:55.000 What are you talking about?

00:22:56.000 Pies have a top and a bottom.

00:22:57.000 Oh, hold on.

00:22:59.000 We have the overlay here.

00:22:59.000 We have the fact.

00:23:00.000 What's the difference between a cobbler and a pie?

00:23:02.000 Do we know?

00:23:03.000 Well, Google has told us.

00:23:05.000 Yeah, on Google it says, one way to differentiate between pie and cobbler is through the crust.

00:23:10.000 Pies are encased in pastry, either just on the bottom or on both top and bottom.

00:23:15.000 Cobblers, on the other hand, are simply topped with some sort of baked pastry or dough.

00:23:19.000 That sounds very much like a technicality.

00:23:21.000 And I've never seen a pie in my life without a crust on top.

00:23:25.000 Well, pecan.

00:23:25.000 Pecan pie.

00:23:26.000 Forget about this.

00:23:27.000 We've gone too far.

00:23:29.000 We've gone too far.

00:23:31.000 We're here for you, viewer.

00:23:32.000 Bruce, what's your opinion on the pie and cobbler?

00:23:36.000 Well, see, if you put a pie into a crust, it becomes a crust.

00:23:41.000 If you put a cobbler under the pastry, it becomes the pastry.

00:23:44.000 Cobbler can float or it can crash.

00:23:47.000 And cake is just a vehicle for frosting.

00:23:48.000 Well, okay, I understand.

00:23:50.000 You're a pie guy.

00:23:51.000 He's a pie guy.

00:23:52.000 He's more of a dumpling guy.

00:23:54.000 Here's another thing that's pretty important.

00:23:56.000 Finite resources.

00:23:57.000 This is why I wanted to bring that up, so you understand there are finite resources with the government, that they cannot necessarily bake more pies.

00:24:03.000 January 29th, what was Donald Trump doing?

00:24:07.000 He was forming the Coronavirus Task Force, January 29th.

00:24:11.000 What were the Democrats doing around that time?

00:24:13.000 Schiff was delivering on February 3rd, closing impeachment arguments.

00:24:17.000 So keep this in mind.

00:24:19.000 When we now talk about how we should have known this was coming, and the government should have been more on alert and done their job, I don't have the ability to bring up every single show and watch it in fast time for you throughout January 29th to February 3rd.

00:24:34.000 I'm willing to bet if you remember going to your memory bank, you remember all of the headlines about, Adam Schiff swats down Donald Trump!

00:24:44.000 AOC destroys Lindsey Graham!

00:24:47.000 Anything about the coronavirus being a global pandemic that Donald Trump wasn't prepared for?

00:24:51.000 No!

00:24:52.000 We were still on impeachment.

00:24:53.000 And if you are President of the United States, or if you remember really any of the significant branches of government, You can't be both preparing for a global pandemic that nobody at that point had truly identified as a pandemic and simultaneously dealing with one of the biggest impeachment shams in modern... throughout all of American history.

00:25:14.000 There are only so many resources to go around.

00:25:17.000 All of your headlines, CNN, were about impeachment and Adam Schiff.

00:25:20.000 And now you want to go back and go, why wasn't the American public prepared?

00:25:23.000 Because you basically were a glorified... you were a glorified sub-network for C-SPAN.

00:25:29.000 Running shift! 0.98

00:25:31.000 Like it was a morphine drip!

00:25:34.000 And now, of course, the number has come out.

00:25:36.000 So people are afraid.

00:25:37.000 Brooks said the number could be 100,000 to 220,000 deaths.

00:25:42.000 That'd be terrible.

00:25:43.000 Yeah, if it was true.

00:25:45.000 I don't buy it.

00:25:45.000 Now let me tell you, this is just totally opinion.

00:25:47.000 I think it's important to note that, first off, all of their projections have been wrong.

00:25:51.000 Every single projection that they made have been wrong.

00:25:51.000 Okay?

00:25:53.000 In the UK, it was going to be 500,000.

00:25:54.000 Now they're saying 20,000 or less.

00:25:55.000 We talked about that yesterday.

00:25:57.000 In the United States, they said 2.5 million.

00:25:58.000 Now they're saying 100 to 200-something thousand.

00:26:01.000 Also important to note is we don't really have the most accurate way of accounting for deaths that are solely coronavirus-related.

00:26:08.000 This is something people don't fully understand.

00:26:11.000 That in any influenza season, about 7-14% of viruses that go around are some form of coronavirus.

00:26:18.000 Not this new form of, that's why it's novel coronavirus.

00:26:21.000 But if you bring out Clorox or you bring out some industrial cleaner, you'll see that it says it kills coronavirus.

00:26:26.000 So coronavirus has been around for a while.

00:26:28.000 Even including what we have now, if you were to add them all under global influenza deaths, it wouldn't be significant enough at this point to be a blip.

00:26:37.000 And something that's really important in New York City, this is what we're talking about, okay?

00:26:40.000 New York City is saying if the country goes the way of New York City, we could have 100,000 to 220,000 deaths.

00:26:44.000 And I'm not saying that that cannot happen.

00:26:47.000 But I do think we need some context here.

00:26:49.000 I have a number.

00:26:50.000 Of the 790 deaths in the city, of course these numbers are apt to change, 777 of the patients, 98% had underlying conditions.

00:27:00.000 In Italy, over 99% of coronavirus patients had other health problems.

00:27:06.000 The average age was 79 years old.

00:27:10.000 So I want to be clear about that.

00:27:12.000 That still looks, if you look at 100,000, that looks like a lot.

00:27:15.000 Obviously, it is a lot.

00:27:16.000 They also talked about the guy who created this imperial study, Ferguson, said, well, really, if you look at these deaths, two-thirds of them are actually from people who would have died within the next several months to a year anyway.

00:27:26.000 Meaning not just pre-existing conditions, but stage 4 lung cancer, emphysema, right?

00:27:31.000 Serious respiratory illnesses and this accelerated it.

00:27:34.000 Not saying that we shouldn't help them, unlike Italy who says you're on your own.

00:27:38.000 That being said, that does change how we deal with this as a society when you understand that only 1% in Italy were younger than the age of 70 and healthy.

00:27:49.000 And in New York, 2% were young and healthy.

00:27:53.000 The death rate is very, very different, and we are still treating everybody out there as though they are part of this 98% demographic of people over the age of 79 with serious pre-existing conditions.

00:28:05.000 So even if you look at that 100,000 number, you're looking at possibly 90,000 to 98,000 people who were going to pass away within the next couple of months to a year anyway, and it was accelerated by coronavirus.

00:28:18.000 What's important about that is I'm not saying this is insignificant, but those same people who were going to die anyway, who maybe have cancer, who maybe have emphysema, would also die if they got some sort of serious pneumonia or flu.

00:28:33.000 That would accelerate it as well.

00:28:35.000 So take that number 100,000, and based on all the data that we have, two thousand would be people who are uh... young and or

00:28:42.000 healthy yes i it it is a very different picture if

00:28:45.000 the somebody only has a coronavirus and eyes or if it's just the final straw

00:28:49.000 just a strawberry right and was back it and you can't deal with those things and but it's not that's

00:28:53.000 not how it's being reported at all now

00:28:55.000 nobody's i think it's not how it's being reported and he refused

00:28:58.000 The reason it bothers me so much is, let's follow the sequence of events.

00:29:01.000 Rachel Maddow says, don't air the Trump press briefings.

00:29:04.000 So does Salon, so does Slate, so does HuffPo.

00:29:07.000 So MSNBC doesn't do it.

00:29:08.000 Then CNN says, we're not going to run the press briefings.

00:29:11.000 So they don't run the press briefings.

00:29:13.000 In those press briefings, Donald Trump says, hey, the FDA just approved a drug.

00:29:16.000 These therapeutics that have had a really high rate of efficacy.

00:29:20.000 We are creating hundreds of thousands of masks and able to sanitize hundreds of thousands more.

00:29:26.000 This is the silver lining right now.

00:29:28.000 Look at all these Americans who are coming together without having to be coerced, by the way.

00:29:32.000 Oh, what's happening?

00:29:33.000 Without having to be coerced, by the way, that's not broadcast.

00:29:33.000 We're bringing up a clip.

00:29:36.000 But then they pull a snippet from the press briefing that they didn't run saying, 100,000 to 220,000 Americans are going to die.

00:29:43.000 Again, without context that 98% of the ones in New York City were with pre-existing conditions.

00:29:47.000 That's that timeline!

00:29:49.000 And you tell me that the media has your best interests at heart, and this isn't just about—doesn't mean that the information is not accurate, okay?

00:29:56.000 I want to be clear about this.

00:29:58.000 Yeah, okay, we had—I want to make sure I have the numbers right—790 deaths at the time of when we were doing this fact-checking in the morning.

00:30:04.000 790 deaths in the city of New York City.

00:30:06.000 In New York City.

00:30:06.000 I know that was redundant.

00:30:08.000 Okay, that's true.

00:30:10.000 That is true.

00:30:12.000 But context does matter when 98% of them involved old people or people with pre-existing conditions.

00:30:16.000 That is also true.

00:30:18.000 So when you choose to only pick a fact that is a total number without context, and you choose to not broadcast the fact that we have new therapeutics, that we have more masks, that we've made advancements with antibodies, that tells me that you are not looking to provide just the facts.

00:30:37.000 And that's what bothers me.

00:30:38.000 Yeah, it's an illustration of what we've talked about for a long time.

00:30:42.000 News media doesn't necessarily care about reporting the facts.

00:30:44.000 It cares about rustling up this narrative to make sure that they can use it for their own political well-being or their own ideological concerns.

00:30:52.000 Yeah, it's serious business.

00:30:53.000 Data like that shows us, like what you said, we know who the people that are at risk are.

00:30:59.000 People that are older and have preconsisting Yeah.

00:31:05.000 You're stealing my idea.

00:31:07.000 That was my idea.

00:31:08.000 I pointed at you and I said you said it before.

00:31:10.000 Well, you know what?

00:31:11.000 The reason that you're willing to say it now is because I told you this might be a career ender.

00:31:14.000 Remember I came to you?

00:31:15.000 I said, guys, no one else is saying this.

00:31:17.000 This was several weeks ago.

00:31:18.000 I said, no one else is saying this?

00:31:20.000 But okay, first off, this part doesn't go public.

00:31:22.000 I freaking hate old people. 1.00

00:31:24.000 They smell like old library books.

00:31:29.000 No, I said, why are we talking about essential businesses that can stay open?

00:31:34.000 Why aren't we talking about non-essential businesses that could adapt or modify their workflow?

00:31:40.000 And why are we telling everyone to quarantine instead of simply quarantining old people and people at risk?

00:31:45.000 And another thing, people don't necessarily know who to trust.

00:31:48.000 When they came out, the CDC and said, You shouldn't be wearing masks.

00:31:51.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:31:51.000 Right.

00:31:52.000 You also praised South Korea.

00:31:54.000 It's Mask City! 1.00

00:31:55.000 You can't find them without a mask!

00:31:57.000 You could not pick a mugger, a pickpocketer, I don't know what they call them in South Korea, out of a police lineup because they're all the same height, same hair, same eye color, and then a mask! 0.99

00:32:04.000 Really, the only way I can tell the difference is by the lip!

00:32:07.000 By the cleft!

00:32:08.000 And I can't see that!

00:32:09.000 There's no... Look, they all mugged me!

00:32:12.000 I was visiting in Seoul!

00:32:13.000 They all mugged me, officer!

00:32:16.000 They coughed on me, and I gave them my wife's purse.

00:32:19.000 So they all wear masks now.

00:32:20.000 The CDC, I think we can bring this up.

00:32:22.000 Now they're saying they're considering an order of putting on masks.

00:32:26.000 Now, yeah, a mask is not 100% effective.

00:32:30.000 Neither is an N95 respirator.

00:32:31.000 And then you go lower than that, a surgical mask.

00:32:33.000 No, it's not.

00:32:34.000 You know what else?

00:32:35.000 People were saying, well, don't try and make masks at home, right?

00:32:37.000 With T-shirts or with whatever fabrics you have.

00:32:40.000 That's not going to work.

00:32:41.000 Except I looked online and said, well, I don't know.

00:32:43.000 Maybe there is a way to make a mask at home.

00:32:45.000 Turns out the most effective masks, and by the way, you can go to Origins of Maine.

00:32:48.000 They have masks in here.

00:32:49.000 We'll bring Brendan in a little bit.

00:32:50.000 He has to wear a mask all day.

00:32:51.000 There are a lot of companies making great masks.

00:32:53.000 But I searched.

00:32:55.000 How to make an at-home mask that might, at the very least, be passable, provide some benefit.

00:33:00.000 And the study came back saying that actually, a t-shirt multi-blend, like poly-cotton blend, I guess, helps, was more effective than a plain cotton t-shirt.

00:33:11.000 Or an antimicrobial pillow were about 70-something percent effective at filtration, and almost entirely effective at blocking droplets.

00:33:19.000 So learning how to do the ninja-type t-shirt.

00:33:21.000 But guess where I found that?

00:33:23.000 The CDC!

00:33:24.000 Or FDA!

00:33:24.000 Look, these were the guidelines that conducted these studies!

00:33:27.000 And now they say, no, no, no, don't wear a mask, because at the time, it wasn't about whether they work, it was about shortages for healthcare workers.

00:33:33.000 And by the way, if masks don't work at all, why do healthcare workers need them so much?

00:33:38.000 I understand they need them more, and we should get them the masks first, because they're dealing in close proximity with people who have The coronavirus.

00:33:44.000 But guess what?

00:33:45.000 We're now talking about people who are carriers who don't know that they're carriers.

00:33:48.000 Let's put everyone in masks!

00:33:49.000 Yeah, but they don't think that you can handle that information, so they have to lie to you and say that they don't work.

00:33:54.000 Yeah, they don't think that you can actually discern that, okay, well, I shouldn't buy it, but maybe somebody else should.

00:33:58.000 I think every single citizen of the United States who's walking out there should look like they've just left Arkham Asylum or are Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

00:34:06.000 They should all be wearing masks.

00:34:08.000 There's no reason not to.

00:34:09.000 Hey, look, there's a mask on CNN.

00:34:10.000 Let's see what they're doing.

00:34:10.000 In fact, check it real quick.

00:34:12.000 It's awe-inspiring, considering the fact that they, too, could be putting themselves in harm's way.

00:34:18.000 Is she broadcasting from a war zone?

00:34:21.000 Where's Geraldo Rivera?

00:34:24.000 This is another thing.

00:34:25.000 Some hospitals are seeing surges.

00:34:27.000 What they don't tell you is that some hospitals are seeing surges because everyone wants to be tested for coronavirus right now.

00:34:34.000 The surge does not mean that everyone is in intensive care.

00:34:38.000 Some people are, and that's why it's really important that you don't go to the emergency room if you have some mild symptoms.

00:34:43.000 There's not much they can do for you right now.

00:34:45.000 Don't overload the system.

00:34:46.000 All right, I think we actually have a traffic report, right?

00:34:50.000 We do.

00:34:51.000 With Thomas Finnegan.

00:34:52.000 Let's do this.

00:34:52.000 We know that many of you are stuck at home, but we still want to assist you make your day as convenient and passable as possible.

00:34:58.000 It's time to go to the Traffic Report with Thomas Finnegan.

00:35:05.000 Alright, Mr. Finnegan, are you there, sir?

00:35:13.000 Bye.

00:35:15.000 I am here.

00:35:16.000 How are you, Steven?

00:35:16.000 I am doing well.

00:35:17.000 Mr. Finnegan, what do we have this morning?

00:35:19.000 What should people look out for on their morning commute?

00:35:22.000 Well, this morning there's some light congestion in the kitchen as you make your approach to the coffee pot, so be on the lookout for that.

00:35:28.000 And someone left the A.C.

00:35:30.000 on last night, so be sure to bundle up if you're coming in from the bedroom.

00:35:34.000 I appreciate that, Thomas Finnegan.

00:35:35.000 Keep us abreast.

00:35:36.000 If anything develops, this has been Morning Traffic Report with Thomas Finnegan.

00:35:38.000 All right, and let us know if there's anyone in chat...

00:35:49.000 Send your chats to us with a screen name so that we can actually hear from you and I can read it aloud on air.

00:35:57.000 Do we have anyone there talking?

00:35:58.000 Yeah, we do.

00:35:58.000 We do have a chat.

00:35:59.000 One from Andrew.

00:35:59.000 I just assumed no one was watching.

00:36:01.000 Oh, they are, they are.

00:36:02.000 So we have one from Andrew.

00:36:03.000 He says, thanks for keeping us entertained.

00:36:04.000 Renewed my subscription at the beginning of March.

00:36:07.000 Thank you very much, Andrew.

00:36:08.000 We appreciate that.

00:36:11.000 I think we do have others here.

00:36:13.000 Yeah, let's see.

00:36:15.000 Nathan says, talk about the ridiculous release of rapists in Rochester, New York.

00:36:20.000 I haven't heard about this.

00:36:21.000 I've not heard that.

00:36:21.000 I've heard people proposing it.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, I live here and it's disgusting.

00:36:24.000 Mayor Lovely Warren and the Democratic leadership here are ruining the area.

00:36:28.000 I don't know that that's happened yet.

00:36:30.000 I know it was proposed.

00:36:31.000 I don't know, Nathan.

00:36:32.000 So I don't want to speak out of turn here and I think that I can I would hedge my words and safely say that releasing rapists during a pandemic seems like a bad idea.

00:36:46.000 Talk about rape culture. 1.00

00:36:48.000 I wouldn't put my John Hancock on that bill.

00:36:52.000 Because someone else is going to be putting their John Hancock through your window.

00:36:55.000 I don't want rapists released.

00:36:58.000 I don't understand this at all.

00:36:59.000 And this comes again from the ism if you believe that it's a prison industrial complex and that prison should only be about rehabilitation and not punishment.

00:37:06.000 You know what?

00:37:06.000 I believe it's split the difference.

00:37:08.000 I think that prison should be as uncomfortable as legally possible and hopefully we can rehabilitate all of these people.

00:37:17.000 I don't want it to be like Sweden where you commit some kind of a serious violent crime and you effectively get put in an IKEA display case.

00:37:24.000 I don't want that.

00:37:25.000 I don't want you going to prison where you have more than most people in Manhattan in their junior suite apartment.

00:37:30.000 I think we need a balance punishing people as a deterrent and rehabilitating people.

00:37:34.000 But then again, that's my worldview as a conservative, so it does dictate that releasing serial rapists into the small town of Rochester, New York sounds like it could come with some complications.

00:37:45.000 I don't know.

00:37:46.000 I'm not a rape doctor.

00:38:07.000 That's what people are saying?

00:38:08.000 I guess, yeah.

00:38:09.000 All of a sudden, can't stop, won't stop became a demotivational slogan?

00:38:12.000 Yeah, what?

00:38:13.000 Like the fact that the train keeps on choo choo choo?

00:38:16.000 I think I can, I think I can.

00:38:17.000 What would these people prefer?

00:38:19.000 I think... I... I fucked up!

00:38:22.000 What do they want it to be?

00:38:24.000 This is what's remarkable to me.

00:38:25.000 Shouldn't we all be rooting for the country right now to come back?

00:38:28.000 Shouldn't we all be?

00:38:29.000 In other words, if you have a negative story amidst a pandemic and you have a success story, like private industry stepping up and creating masks, or now that we have the ability to create testing kits.

00:38:41.000 First, it went down to five minutes.

00:38:42.000 Then it went down to two minutes with these private laboratories.

00:38:45.000 Was it Abbott?

00:38:45.000 And I don't know the other laboratory.

00:38:46.000 We talked about them yesterday.

00:38:47.000 And they don't have to stick an iron rod in the back of your skull like it's some sort of a lesson being learned from Kevin Spacey in Seven!

00:38:57.000 Um, that's a good thing.

00:38:58.000 That's a wonderful thing.

00:39:00.000 If we have to pick between that and, well, you know what?

00:39:05.000 More people in New York aren't having access to ventilators.

00:39:08.000 Listen, that's terrible, but we should also really make sure that we highlight the hopes.

00:39:12.000 Yeah, when it goes back to the left calling all of that false hope.

00:39:16.000 So if Trump is not saying 100% negative things, if he's including things like, hey, there's actually some promise here in the private industry, then that is false hope.

00:39:25.000 No, it's actually hope.

00:39:26.000 It's actually a way out of this whole thing.

00:39:29.000 If he was saying negative things, they'd just say he's fear-mongering.

00:39:33.000 False hope would be, there is no coronavirus.

00:39:36.000 Okay, it's fake news.

00:39:38.000 We're all good.

00:39:38.000 False hope is not Americans will come together and fight this enemy and show our strength and resolve and industries have stepped up without the need of the Defense Production Act.

00:39:50.000 Without that, they've stepped up and they're making hundreds of thousands of masks and making the capabilities to sanitize hundreds of thousands more.

00:39:57.000 That's not false hope.

00:39:58.000 You guys were asking for masks.

00:40:00.000 Now you're getting masks.

00:40:02.000 And!

00:40:04.000 They're now recyclable!

00:40:06.000 Yeah.

00:40:06.000 When did that go out the window as something relevant, AOC?

00:40:10.000 Recyclable masks!

00:40:12.000 If there's ever anything that should make you borderline climax in your government chair amidst a hearing, it should be masks that can now be sanitized and recycled 20 times that were single-use!

00:40:26.000 It's a lot more complicated to make than a straw!

00:40:29.000 Yeah, so the message is clear, you're not allowed to be happy.

00:40:33.000 Right.

00:40:33.000 Correct.

00:40:33.000 You are not, not only allowed to be happy, you're not allowed to broadcast.

00:40:37.000 We want to, this is really what it comes down to.

00:40:39.000 They want to shut down the briefings because the briefing, the briefings include, keep in mind, the death figures that you're hearing about now, that came from President Trump's briefing, folks.

00:40:49.000 He brought the doctor out.

00:40:50.000 So people give him crap.

00:40:50.000 Why did he bring out the MyPillow guy?

00:40:52.000 You know why?

00:40:52.000 Because the MyPillow guy retooled 75% of his factory so that he'll be able to do 50,000 masks a day.

00:40:56.000 That's an American success story.

00:40:57.000 That's good.

00:40:58.000 And then he brings someone out to say, hey, the death rate could be 100 to 200,000 people.

00:41:03.000 The information that you were getting today in the news was from Donald Trump's briefing.

00:41:09.000 He's not only going out.

00:41:11.000 And spouting good news.

00:41:12.000 He's going out and telling the truth.

00:41:14.000 And the reason they don't want to broadcast it is because they want to pull the bad news without the context of the good news.

00:41:22.000 And that is what bothers me.

00:41:23.000 It's the lies by omission that are so toxic.

00:41:27.000 Also toxic, the Cuomo brothers.

00:41:30.000 I would just... I mean... Nipple rings? 1.00

00:41:32.000 They have nipple rings? 1.00

00:41:34.000 Oh, you didn't see the picture?

00:41:35.000 Is that how he got Corona?

00:41:36.000 Can we bring that up?

00:41:37.000 Cuomo has a nipple ring?

00:41:38.000 Yeah, I think they're bars.

00:41:39.000 Which one?

00:41:41.000 It's the governor.

00:41:42.000 The governor?

00:41:44.000 I would have thought it was Chris!

00:41:45.000 He seems like the nipple ring kind of guy.

00:41:48.000 What's the term of the one in the tip?

00:41:52.000 Prince something?

00:41:54.000 I'm not one to say, I don't know.

00:41:56.000 I just call it, I call it the Ascot.

00:41:58.000 Joe Exotic had one.

00:41:59.000 That's right, he had one.

00:42:00.000 He used to put a little lock on it.

00:42:02.000 Can we see, can I see?

00:42:02.000 I had no idea that Cuomo had nipple rings.

00:42:04.000 Oh yeah, you gotta bring that up.

00:42:05.000 But he does have coronavirus.

00:42:07.000 Oh.

00:42:07.000 So this is, we're including the good news with the bad.

00:42:10.000 Good news being nipple rings! 1.00

00:42:13.000 It's all bad, let's be honest.

00:42:13.000 It's all bad.

00:42:14.000 There's no positive in this press briefer.

00:42:17.000 Cuomo has coronavirus and nipple rings.

00:42:24.000 This is the worst thing that's ever happened to this show.

00:42:27.000 Alright, let me know when you have it and you can bring it up.

00:42:30.000 So, let's move on to the next point here that I think is pretty important.

00:42:32.000 I think we already told people about the notification panel.

00:42:34.000 We do have the nipple ring picture.

00:42:35.000 Oh, let me see the nipple ring picture.

00:42:36.000 Here we go.

00:42:36.000 Here he is.

00:42:37.000 We can scroll down a little bit.

00:42:40.000 Well, that may not be nipple rings.

00:42:43.000 He may have pulled out nipple hair, and it has those little goose bumps around his nipples.

00:42:51.000 Whatever the case is, the message is clear.

00:42:54.000 Governor Cuomo has weird nipples.

00:42:56.000 You know what?

00:42:57.000 I really hope that he doesn't hang around with his brother, because that would be a pre-existing condition.

00:43:03.000 That would put him at risk, because I would imagine the coronavirus can enter through the nipple way.

00:43:08.000 There's a lot of capillary circulation there.

00:43:11.000 The next thing that I want to get to here is I want to talk about the stimulus bill, because I think this matters.

00:43:16.000 I think a lot of people skimmed over it, and this is the biggest spending bill in American history, bar none.

00:43:22.000 So I think it deserves a little bit of attention, and there are some pros, there are some cons, and I think that the media has been pretty irresponsible in not covering all of the above.

00:43:30.000 Let's go to Clipsy, please. 0.85

00:43:32.000 What did the Senate majority fight for?

00:43:34.000 One of the largest corporate bailouts with as few strings as possible in American history.

00:43:41.000 Shameful!

00:43:42.000 The greed of that fight is wrong!

00:43:46.000 Okay, so a couple of fast facts here.

00:43:48.000 Every single Senate Democrat, including the person AOC endorsed for President Bernie Sanders, signed on.

00:43:55.000 They voted for the bill.

00:43:56.000 They voted for the bill, so let's be clear about that.

00:43:59.000 It's going to cost a whole lot.

00:44:00.000 I think there's something that's lost in this when we're talking about the stimulus bill.

00:44:04.000 There's some good things here, okay?

00:44:07.000 I think it's small businesses that are going to have forgivable loans for up to $10 million.

00:44:10.000 The qualifications, we don't exactly understand what they are right now.

00:44:15.000 Let me know if you're chatting right there, if you're a small business owner, how you've been affected economically from this.

00:44:19.000 All we can really do for you guys is try to offer this as close to cost as possible.

00:44:24.000 Enter promo code QUARANTINE and you get $30 off.

00:44:28.000 But I think that this stimulus bill, unfortunately, And I know I might lose some of the Trump cultists here, I think I've been pretty fair, is not targeted enough.

00:44:39.000 I know that you're more of a libertarian and so am I, Wade.

00:44:41.000 But I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that it is appropriate for the government to provide some kind of restitution for businesses that they effectively have shut down.

00:44:50.000 Yeah, well, so the Fed has basically set itself up as the lender of last resort.

00:44:54.000 Right.

00:44:54.000 And we can't act like, they can't not be the lender of last resort if they've already set themselves up that way.

00:45:00.000 Right.

00:45:00.000 I don't think the Fed should exist, but this is not the time to, like, the Fed may very well end after this, but it's, yeah, we're basically, this is the solution and the pattern of solutions that have been set up since Wilson.

00:45:12.000 Right, but I do think at this point, for example, the owner of the restaurant down the block, when the government steps up and says, nobody go to restaurants, shut down your doors, effectively it's like a mobster coming and knocking tables over, saying no more restaurant.

00:45:25.000 I do think that it is far more appropriate and the argument can be made, and I would agree with that argument, that it is the government's job to try and alleviate what ails that business because it was brought on by government.

00:45:37.000 Yeah, well the sort of bailout model is the model that we've been using again for a hundred years.

00:45:42.000 So, right or wrong, this is the way things have basically patterned themselves?

00:45:47.000 Well, not necessarily.

00:45:47.000 It's different.

00:45:48.000 For example, this is not something that was created by years of bad policy.

00:45:51.000 So, if you look at the crash of 2008, and you look at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Dodd-Frank.

00:45:58.000 Dodd-Frank is banking.

00:45:59.000 Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, I believe, is the housing.

00:46:01.000 Barney Frank was running a brothel in the basement.

00:46:02.000 That's the real main takeaway.

00:46:04.000 But that was created, why?

00:46:06.000 And a lot of people don't understand this, too.

00:46:07.000 They just go, oh, oh, subprime loaning, predatory lenders.

00:46:10.000 This is something that's really silly, and I'm going to come back around to the current stimulus bill.

00:46:13.000 Predatory lending is such a silly term to me.

00:46:15.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:46:15.000 Because that assumes that a bank is going, hey, wait, you know, hey, all right, Mr. Chase, I got a business model for you.

00:46:24.000 All right, I'm listening, Johnson.

00:46:26.000 You know how we lend money to people?

00:46:30.000 And we make sure we charge interest in the money when they pay it back with interest.

00:46:33.000 That's how we make money.

00:46:34.000 And we have a very lengthy pre-screening process to make sure that they're the right candidates who can pay these loans back, because that's how we make money in the interest.

00:46:43.000 So picture this.

00:46:44.000 We lend the money at lower interest than normal to people who are never going to pay it back.

00:46:52.000 They have no chance of paying it back.

00:46:54.000 Johnson, I like it!

00:46:56.000 This is why you're vice president of communications relations.

00:46:59.000 Think about that.

00:47:00.000 Predatory lending.

00:47:01.000 It doesn't make any sense unless the loans were not only guaranteed and underwritten by the government, but were thrust upon the banks.

00:47:09.000 Why?

00:47:10.000 Why?

00:47:10.000 Because of wokeness.

00:47:12.000 Because of ensuring equal outcomes.

00:47:13.000 It was you need to lend Yeah.

00:47:15.000 these subprime loans to people who cannot afford these homes. In other words, the standard was,

00:47:20.000 I think, 20 to 30 percent down. I don't know what the interest rate was right before the crash.

00:47:24.000 They said, we're going to lower it to sometimes almost nothing down, 5 percent, 8 percent,

00:47:29.000 10 percent down, and less interest to make sure that not only minorities, they tried to couch it

00:47:35.000 as though this was created for minorities, but it wasn't.

00:47:38.000 It was created for people who had not purchased homes before and had no business living in these homes at these prices.

00:47:43.000 The government created that bubble, forced banks to take part.

00:47:47.000 Then, of course, there was money on the table, so banks got greedy.

00:47:49.000 They took advantage of it, and they packaged these all up together to try and minimize risk.

00:47:52.000 That didn't work.

00:47:53.000 And then we ended up with the housing crash, and then the government steps in to bail out the banks.

00:48:00.000 That is wrong on so many levels.

00:48:02.000 And that happened over the course of years.

00:48:04.000 You could argue, really, decades.

00:48:06.000 This happened over the course of a month, and the government stepped in and said, hey, owner of the Dunkin' Donuts franchise over there on Willow Creek Way, you're going to shut down because we need to prevent infection.

00:48:19.000 I think the banks, right, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, all of those, this shouldn't have been bailed out.

00:48:24.000 I don't think anyone is too big to fail.

00:48:26.000 I think that's different from these companies here, who've been shut down within a span of a month, not because of decades of bad policy.

00:48:32.000 And those business owners, these small business owners, did not abuse the system to create any ill-gotten gain.

00:48:39.000 The banks did.

00:48:40.000 Right.

00:48:41.000 Yeah.

00:48:41.000 And so I think that's important to delineate, and that's the problem I have with this stimulus bill.

00:48:46.000 Like we said, there's a lot that's going to small businesses.

00:48:47.000 That's great.

00:48:48.000 But airlines, they're going to be receiving $58 billion.

00:48:52.000 Right?

00:48:52.000 $29 billion in grants, $29 billion in loans and guarantees, as well as some reprieves from taxes.

00:48:56.000 This is unreal to me because the airlines were going to be there a couple years from now with their handout anyway.

00:49:02.000 They always are.

00:49:03.000 And I understand also, it's really hard to make money in the airline industry.

00:49:07.000 Why?

00:49:08.000 Because of energy costs, because of all the new regulations that they create.

00:49:12.000 And yeah, you do have some people at the airlines are greedy.

00:49:14.000 The fact that only Spirit, well actually no, Spirit charges you more for carry-on, right?

00:49:17.000 They're the only one that charges you.

00:49:19.000 It's basically, it's the Greyhound bus slash WNBA of the sky.

00:49:24.000 Don't fly Spirit unless someone's dead, okay?

00:49:29.000 Last resort.

00:49:30.000 Yes.

00:49:30.000 Like I always tell people, don't call me after 10.30 unless someone is dead.

00:49:34.000 Do not show up on the tarmac in an airplane marked Spirit unless you are in a corona hotbed and it's a skate from New York and you have an eye patch.

00:49:44.000 I don't want to see that logo anywhere near me because it's probably a bunch of rapists who've been left out from Rochester.

00:49:50.000 Yeah, so the airlines are the 90-year-old who gets coronavirus.

00:49:54.000 Absolutely.

00:49:55.000 That's a great analogy, AudioWade.

00:49:57.000 Why, thank you.

00:49:58.000 I don't think that the airline should get any bailouts.

00:50:00.000 Sure.

00:50:00.000 I don't think they should at all.

00:50:01.000 Natural selection.

00:50:01.000 I don't think the automotive should.

00:50:02.000 And here's the thing that people don't think about, too.

00:50:04.000 They go, well, if we don't have the airlines, people won't be able to travel.

00:50:06.000 That's not true.

00:50:06.000 Because guess what?

00:50:07.000 There will be an airline who won't need a bailout.

00:50:10.000 Probably a company like Southwest or JetBlue.

00:50:12.000 Hey, maybe Virgin.

00:50:13.000 Remember everyone loved flying Virgin when Virgin went away?

00:50:16.000 Even though I know Richard Branson is kind of a weird guy.

00:50:18.000 You know, he does the ayahuasca in a hot air balloon.

00:50:20.000 It's fun.

00:50:21.000 Virgin Airlines.

00:50:22.000 Everyone talked about how it was like a party in the sky.

00:50:24.000 It had that weird LED lighting.

00:50:25.000 It came with a complimentary snack.

00:50:26.000 People loved Virgin. 1.00

00:50:28.000 This is Branson.

00:50:29.000 Richard Branson.

00:50:30.000 He has more money than almost anybody.

00:50:32.000 I mean, Jeff Bezos sees his fortune and thinks it's cute.

00:50:35.000 But this guy has so much money and Virgin Airlines couldn't compete.

00:50:39.000 Why?

00:50:40.000 Because you cannot compete against American, against Delta, against United.

00:50:45.000 I don't know, they probably all merged at some point now because my points don't really make sense anymore.

00:50:48.000 I want to get a free ticket!

00:50:50.000 Can I get a free cocktail, Delta?

00:50:52.000 Can I get a free cocktail?

00:50:53.000 The point is, even Richard Branson couldn't compete against the airlines with a never-ending supply of federal funding.

00:50:58.000 How many big new banks come out lately?

00:51:01.000 How do you compete with Goldman Sachs when every time they screw up, the government steps in and bails them out?

00:51:01.000 Not a whole lot.

00:51:08.000 This prohibits new companies from stepping in and creating competition.

00:51:11.000 And if we didn't give any money to the airlines right now, we might see a Virgin step up. 0.91

00:51:16.000 We might see Southwest create more flights.

00:51:18.000 We may see Jeff Blue.

00:51:20.000 Jeff Blue, actually, too.

00:51:22.000 He's a great pilot, by the way.

00:51:23.000 Great pilot, underpaid, loves to drink, though.

00:51:25.000 But JetBlue fly from somewhere other than LaGuardia and Baltimore.

00:51:32.000 And they have very limited flights.

00:51:33.000 And every time I've flown JetBlue, it's been a delight.

00:51:35.000 But I can't fly if I don't live on the East Coast.

00:51:37.000 But they don't have to innovate.

00:51:38.000 What I'm saying is natural selection.

00:51:41.000 It cuts out the ones that can't sustain themselves, and the buyouts just keep them up until, if you cut them out, you'd have other ones that build up on their own and then can sustain.

00:51:52.000 Right.

00:51:53.000 And that's the issue.

00:51:54.000 And this bailout bill lumps all of these people together.

00:51:57.000 People who would never even consider, want, and pridefully would probably refuse any bailout money.

00:52:04.000 Even mine too.

00:52:05.000 Ford did that with the bailouts.

00:52:06.000 Ford declined and the government made them take the bailout.

00:52:10.000 Well, I don't know exactly why that is.

00:52:12.000 Maybe we can have some research.

00:52:13.000 But I think it had something to do with equalizing the markets.

00:52:15.000 I'm not entirely sure.

00:52:15.000 But Ford didn't want, initially, they refused the bailout money because they're not as crappy as GM.

00:52:21.000 And I know there'll be some people here who say like, oh, GM.

00:52:24.000 Someone once said to me, you know what Ford stands for?

00:52:26.000 Found on road dead.

00:52:28.000 You drive a Cavalier.

00:52:32.000 You drive a Metro Geo.

00:52:34.000 It's the opposite of a Chick-Mobile.

00:52:37.000 People leave your general direction to have sex with a stranger just so they don't have to look at you when you're driving in a Geo.

00:52:44.000 Yeah, well the whole bailout is based on the idea that the government knows what to do with your money better than you do.

00:52:49.000 And I know it's a platitude at this point, but the government cannot make these decisions and cannot be as targeted as consumers, as people who actually want the product.

00:52:49.000 Right.

00:52:59.000 But the problem is right now we have artificially manipulated the market and supply and demand because we told consumers that they cannot consume, and I don't think that that's very prudent.

00:53:08.000 And I don't know what kind of ramifications this will have long-term for businesses.

00:53:12.000 Speaking of which, ramifications, I think actually we need to bring in one of our workers here.

00:53:15.000 You love him.

00:53:15.000 You know him.

00:53:16.000 He climbs poles in the office.

00:53:18.000 You've seen him.

00:53:19.000 Even Brendan, who we have to have somewhat quarantined here.

00:53:25.000 He's not showing signs.

00:53:26.000 He could be asymptomatic.

00:53:27.000 But it's been a problem in this office.

00:53:28.000 We've had our own... We are not unaffected from the corona scare.

00:53:32.000 Is Brendan there?

00:53:32.000 Brendan, yeah, do come in.

00:53:33.000 Hold on a second.

00:53:34.000 Hold on.

00:53:34.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:53:39.000 Is it six feet?

00:53:41.000 Brendan?

00:53:41.000 Yeah, that's the federal leave.

00:53:42.000 Brendan?

00:53:44.000 Grab it.

00:53:46.000 Yeah, grab it and tell me how far it is.

00:53:47.000 Let's see.

00:53:48.000 How far is this, uh... Well, I got the side that doesn't read anything.

00:53:52.000 Oh, okay.

00:53:52.000 Hold on a second.

00:53:53.000 Let me see.

00:53:54.000 That's gotta be at least eight feet.

00:53:56.000 Yep.

00:53:56.000 Okay, that's eight feet.

00:53:57.000 Hold on a second.

00:53:58.000 Okay.

00:53:58.000 Hold on a second.

00:54:00.000 Keep it.

00:54:01.000 We'll sanitize it afterwards.

00:54:02.000 I set the chair far enough away, so it's seven feet away.

00:54:05.000 Is it far enough away?

00:54:05.000 It should be safe.

00:54:06.000 All right.

00:54:07.000 So Brendan, tell me here, Brendan has been usually pre-response, just had the knee surgery.

00:54:12.000 You're feeling better, right?

00:54:12.000 Yeah.

00:54:13.000 Yeah, I'm walking.

00:54:14.000 Good for you.

00:54:15.000 You're making progress.

00:54:16.000 Of course, where are your surgical gloves?

00:54:18.000 He was supposed to have surgical gloves.

00:54:20.000 Oh, no.

00:54:20.000 No.

00:54:21.000 We got to wipe down the chair.

00:54:22.000 Brendan, hold up your hands here in front of the microphone.

00:54:24.000 I don't want to ruin the microphone.

00:54:25.000 No, no.

00:54:26.000 No, not in front of it.

00:54:27.000 I don't want it.

00:54:28.000 Hold them closer to me.

00:54:29.000 Hold your, yeah, there, okay.

00:54:31.000 Hold on a second, let me make sure I got this right.

00:54:34.000 There you go.

00:54:35.000 It's ever clear.

00:54:36.000 Smart.

00:54:36.000 So, what happened exactly?

00:54:39.000 Because you were not at any risk of coronavirus.

00:54:41.000 Our agreement, the reason we're able to serve you for Mug Club Quarantine Month, that's the hashtag, is we all agreed we will only quarantine at home and in the office.

00:54:50.000 And since it's broken apart, we never have more than eight people in any room at any given time.

00:54:55.000 And then, Brendan happened.

00:54:58.000 Explain the situation a little bit, because we were all very vexed.

00:55:00.000 Well, so my parents had Uh, scheduled to come down in March, uh, like months ahead of time.

00:55:06.000 Right.

00:55:07.000 Before all that happened.

00:55:08.000 And the problem was they were non-refundable tickets.

00:55:11.000 Uh, well no, they were driving.

00:55:13.000 Oh! 0.60

00:55:14.000 Yeah, that's different.

00:55:16.000 Well, yeah, they're going to drive down, because they drove down the march before, so it's kind of like a tradition.

00:55:22.000 One could argue it's almost different from last March.

00:55:25.000 Yeah.

00:55:26.000 Well, then I started seeing that everything was being locked down, and I'm like, hey, maybe you guys should reconsider.

00:55:32.000 Right!

00:55:34.000 Pandemic?

00:55:35.000 Did you use the word pandemic?

00:55:36.000 Like, well, we probably wouldn't be able to do much.

00:55:38.000 Like, we wouldn't be able to, like, go out.

00:55:39.000 Did you, did you use the word pandemic?

00:55:41.000 Uh, no.

00:55:42.000 Oh, well, that was your mistake.

00:55:43.000 Okay.

00:55:44.000 So they were a little confused.

00:55:45.000 Okay, so they were driving.

00:55:47.000 Yeah.

00:55:48.000 And then they did move it though, right?

00:55:50.000 Yeah, no, I texted them, I'm like, hey, maybe you should reconsider.

00:55:54.000 And they're like, yeah, now that we see that your work is kind of concerned about it and people are locking down everything, maybe it's a good time to postpone it.

00:56:03.000 Yeah, and so they postponed it.

00:56:05.000 They postponed it a couple of weeks or something.

00:56:07.000 Yeah, a couple of weeks.

00:56:08.000 They postponed it to closer to peak.

00:56:14.000 And then, like, two days later, they said, weather looks pretty good.

00:56:17.000 We're going to come down.

00:56:18.000 Yeah.

00:56:19.000 See, the issue here is weather was not the delineating factor.

00:56:22.000 That wasn't our primary concern.

00:56:24.000 Right.

00:56:25.000 To be fair, the weather was great, though.

00:56:26.000 The weather was fantastic.

00:56:27.000 It was really nice.

00:56:29.000 Yeah, I get it.

00:56:29.000 I understand why they would want to come down here, but I also don't know that weather is enough of a justification for stopping at every Motel and Valero gas station through the country.

00:56:40.000 I don't know.

00:56:41.000 It was pretty good weather, though.

00:56:43.000 Yes, it was pretty good weather.

00:56:45.000 Top-notch weather.

00:56:46.000 And I was pretty cavalier.

00:56:47.000 Remember, you said, like, hey, can they come into the studio?

00:56:51.000 Because they're from a pretty rural area.

00:56:52.000 That was my idea.

00:56:53.000 They were just coming down to see me.

00:56:54.000 I just thought it would be good to see the studio.

00:56:57.000 Well, it wasn't, because I didn't think about it.

00:57:00.000 And I was like, well, they live in a rural area.

00:57:02.000 You had to drive an hour growing up to find a Chick-fil-A, right?

00:57:06.000 Yeah.

00:57:06.000 Are you sure that there's only a Chick-fil-A one hour from you?

00:57:08.000 Like, have you Google Maps'd it recently?

00:57:10.000 No, but, I mean, it was just, whenever we went to Milwaukee, that was like... Okay, so you would go to Milwaukee for Chick- So you would go to Milwaukee, wonderful city, by the way, a lot going on.

00:57:19.000 Yeah.

00:57:19.000 Oh, really?

00:57:20.000 For Chick-fil-A.

00:57:20.000 So did you just stop, did you, like, drive to the truck stop outside of Milwaukee?

00:57:24.000 Like, exit 194 from Milwaukee?

00:57:25.000 No.

00:57:28.000 No.

00:57:29.000 So you went to downtown Milwaukee for a Chick-fil-A?

00:57:31.000 Yeah.

00:57:32.000 I don't believe it.

00:57:33.000 Gotta get those sweet notes.

00:57:34.000 Okay, so then they did travel, and I was cavalier about it, remember?

00:57:36.000 I said, like, well, you know me, I'm kind of a guilty employer.

00:57:39.000 I'm always like, okay, sure.

00:57:41.000 And I like it, I love Brennan, and I wanted to meet his family.

00:57:43.000 And then I went home, and I explained this to my wife, and she said, are you out of your mind?

00:57:51.000 I noticed the change the next day.

00:57:53.000 I was like, maybe I shouldn't press for this.

00:57:55.000 Well, what happened was I said, fine.

00:57:56.000 And then my wife said, well, the issue is, you know, um, my, my mother, who's our wardrobe stylist, she is, she's, she doesn't have coronavirus, but she does have pneumonia right now.

00:58:04.000 So that is something which she hasn't been here.

00:58:07.000 Hi mom.

00:58:07.000 We've, uh, kept her working from home and she has the costumes delivered to someone to go pick it up.

00:58:11.000 So we don't want her in the office. 0.80

00:58:12.000 So that was my concern.

00:58:14.000 And then my wife was the one who said, well, it's not really if they come from a rural area, it's that they'd be stopping.

00:58:18.000 No, I get it.

00:58:18.000 You just hate, like, farm people.

00:58:20.000 It's fine.

00:58:20.000 I believe she said that if they deemed it appropriate to drive up in a pandemic, that

00:58:24.000 she wasn't entirely confident that they had hand sanitizer in the car.

00:58:27.000 I get it.

00:58:28.000 You just hate, like, farm people.

00:58:29.000 It's fine.

00:58:30.000 That's pretty much what it is.

00:58:31.000 It's the calluses in the cuticles.

00:58:34.000 And then, though, I spoke with half-Asian Bill Richman because I said, well, you know

00:58:39.000 what, I feel bad because I gave Brendan the green light, and then Hillary thinks it's

00:58:43.000 a bad idea.

00:58:44.000 And then Bill brought up a valid point.

00:58:45.000 Oh, I didn't know Bill was involved in this, too.

00:58:47.000 Yeah, Bill brought up a valid point.

00:58:48.000 He said, I don't think it matters the way Bill is.

00:58:50.000 I didn't realize how high up this was.

00:58:52.000 Yeah, I asked him.

00:58:54.000 I said, I'm concerned because I don't want to go back on my word.

00:58:57.000 But I understood the concern.

00:58:58.000 And Bill said, well, where are his parents staying?

00:59:03.000 That's a good question.

00:59:04.000 In your one-bedroom apartment... Well, no, no, no, no, no.

00:59:08.000 It was if they get kicked out of the campsite that they're staying in.

00:59:11.000 Right.

00:59:12.000 Were they?

00:59:13.000 No.

00:59:14.000 The campground was open.

00:59:15.000 Yeah, but they were in your house because they dropped off beer and an AR-15.

00:59:19.000 Oh, yeah.

00:59:21.000 You're infected, man!

00:59:22.000 So he shows up, all I have is a picture of a case of beer and an AR-15 at his house.

00:59:28.000 It's worth the risk.

00:59:29.000 And by the way, it wasn't even in panorama view, the picture, and I could see the entire apartment.

00:59:34.000 It's a cool gun, though.

00:59:35.000 It is a very cool gun.

00:59:36.000 The scope on it is really cool.

00:59:37.000 But effectively, you were in an incubator.

00:59:42.000 Brendan, I truly believe, I'm not just saying this.

00:59:44.000 I'm starting to see, yeah.

00:59:48.000 I'm not just saying this.

00:59:49.000 I truly believe that if we were to do IQ tests, Brendan probably has the highest IQ of anyone in this audience.

00:59:54.000 I really do think that's the case.

00:59:56.000 But what were you thinking?

01:00:03.000 My parents are usually really smart, too.

01:00:06.000 This is very uncharacteristic.

01:00:08.000 I imagine you're from good stock.

01:00:09.000 Yeah.

01:00:14.000 Throw them under the bus or anything.

01:00:15.000 No, of course not.

01:00:16.000 Yeah, I, uh, I don't know.

01:00:18.000 But they have the news, correct?

01:00:20.000 Yes.

01:00:20.000 Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

01:00:21.000 Hold on, Bruce, what is your, what do you think is going on here with Brendan there, Bruce Lee?

01:00:26.000 Brendan, I have a question for you.

01:00:29.000 Yes, Bruce.

01:00:30.000 Oh, you retarded. 1.00

01:00:31.000 That's not nice language.

01:00:32.000 He doesn't understand.

01:00:33.000 He comes from a place where we're allowed, we're not allowed to use that language here, Bruce.

01:00:37.000 Um, so what would you like to say?

01:00:38.000 You looked like you were about to raise your hand.

01:00:40.000 No.

01:00:40.000 To say something.

01:00:41.000 Hold on, you know what?

01:00:42.000 Raise it anyway.

01:00:42.000 Do you have a question?

01:00:44.000 Um, what would you like to say to your parents in closing?

01:00:46.000 Because you were concerned that they would feel... We're not mocking the parents, but I'm kind of sad because I would have liked to meet your parents.

01:00:51.000 Right, yeah.

01:00:52.000 But I just don't want them, you know, to cough blood on me.

01:00:54.000 Right.

01:00:55.000 Like, contagion.

01:00:56.000 Yeah.

01:00:57.000 Yeah.

01:00:58.000 What do I want to say to them?

01:00:59.000 Yeah, what do you want to say to them?

01:00:59.000 Because they're going to see this now and, you know, you threw them under the bus.

01:01:02.000 Uh, I'm sorry for making it over-complicated by adding the extra variable of being in the studio.

01:01:08.000 Yeah.

01:01:08.000 And you know what?

01:01:09.000 Maybe we could have them call in and apologize to you for putting you in that situation because this is what he has to do now.

01:01:15.000 Yeah, that's not cool.

01:01:16.000 This is what he has to do.

01:01:16.000 We can't touch, but we can fist- we can fist-pound.

01:01:19.000 That's a touch.

01:01:20.000 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!

01:01:22.000 I f- We have a-

01:01:23.000 W-We're supposed to have that- Yeah, I'm sorry!

01:01:24.000 Oh, there we go!

01:01:25.000 Alright.

01:01:25.000 That was really ill timed.

01:01:28.000 Get out, get out! 0.99

01:01:28.000 That's it, go ahead. 0.99

01:01:29.000 Oh shoot, I hit the microphone!

01:01:30.000 It's ever clear!

01:01:31.000 It is ever clear.

01:01:32.000 Thank you.

01:01:33.000 Alright.

01:01:34.000 Sanitize!

01:01:35.000 Put that in a mask ta- Put it on the steam cycle in the laundry! 0.97

01:01:38.000 That, uh, measuring, uh, tape.

01:01:39.000 We love you, Brendan.

01:01:40.000 Eh.

01:01:41.000 Hahaha!

01:01:42.000 Oh my gosh, we've already gone over time!

01:01:44.000 Uhhhhhhhhhh- Let me go really quickly.

01:01:46.000 Let's go on to story number three.

01:01:48.000 If you have some chat, let me know, because I cannot see the chat here today.

01:01:52.000 By the way, this also works.

01:01:53.000 This is another thing the CDC said.

01:01:54.000 Don't try and use vodka or any homemade liquor for sanitizer.

01:01:59.000 And they included Everclear in there.

01:02:00.000 Everclear is 190 190 proof, OK?

01:02:05.000 Then I read at the bottom of that article, it says, I guess Everclear could work, but if you want to waste some money, just buy hand sanitizer.

01:02:11.000 No, hold on a second.

01:02:12.000 This is cheaper than hand sanitizer.

01:02:14.000 I have to dilute it down to 70%.

01:02:16.000 I didn't ask you to manage my home finances.

01:02:20.000 I wanted to know if Everclear would work.

01:02:22.000 I'm stocked up so I can say this now.

01:02:24.000 A lot of times people ask me my favorite cigar.

01:02:25.000 You'll never know, because there's such a low supply of cigars.

01:02:28.000 I don't want you to steal my favorite cigar.

01:02:30.000 You'll know cigars that I like, but you won't know my favorite cigar.

01:02:32.000 Why?

01:02:33.000 Because there are some things that I keep for me!

01:02:35.000 I give!

01:02:36.000 I give so much!

01:02:37.000 I give the discount!

01:02:38.000 I'm doing... Do you have any idea what it's like to do two shows a day?

01:02:42.000 It's actually pretty fun.

01:02:42.000 I really do appreciate it, but... I was just gonna say, well, speaking of favorites, Ann Arbor Alex asks, what type of roast are you drinking?

01:02:50.000 What kind of coffee?

01:02:51.000 Oh, so this, actually we just did some coffee commercials, so this I believe is, it's either this, the Vintage Roast, that is my favorite overall roast.

01:03:01.000 Here's what I will say about Black Rifle Coffee.

01:03:03.000 In BlackRifleCoffee.com, slash Crowder, you get 20% off.

01:03:06.000 They're actually doing, maybe we can bring this up, Gib, and they sent out an email.

01:03:10.000 Let me bring this up right now, this is the beauty of it being live.

01:03:13.000 Use the promo code Crowder.

01:03:14.000 Use the promo code Crowder, you get 20% off, but they're doing a lot of good work here for Veterans.

01:03:20.000 Let me find this right now.

01:03:21.000 Okay, here you go.

01:03:25.000 Black Rifle Coffee, they are donating more than 12,000 bags of coffee along with Black Rifle Coffee canned coffee and other coffee-related products to first responders and service members.

01:03:39.000 So, during a 10-day period, they'll be donating a bag, I think, for everything you I don't know the exact promo code.

01:03:44.000 This doesn't have to do with us.

01:03:45.000 The promo code is Crowder, but I do know that right now they are donating coffee to service members in need.

01:03:49.000 Use the promo code Crowder at BlackRifleCoffee.com.

01:03:52.000 I will say this.

01:03:53.000 We wouldn't have a sponsor if we didn't like it.

01:03:55.000 And I've talked about this before, Black Rifle Coffee.

01:03:57.000 I hated their coffee at one point.

01:03:59.000 Really?

01:03:59.000 They came by for a sponsorship, and I said no.

01:04:01.000 Early on, right.

01:04:01.000 But I have to explain this.

01:04:03.000 I bought their coffee at a gun store.

01:04:06.000 So I had seen their advertising that said fresh roasted to deliver.

01:04:09.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:10.000 And so I thought, okay, fresh roasted.

01:04:11.000 And I drank it, and I said, that's just not good coffee.

01:04:15.000 It's stale.

01:04:16.000 Turned out, I spoke with the Black Rifle owners, and they're like, oh, that's at a gun store. 0.94

01:04:20.000 We actually don't distribute to them anymore because they weren't even following the rules.

01:04:23.000 Oh, yeah.

01:04:24.000 And they were keeping leftover old stock.

01:04:26.000 That's a shame.

01:04:26.000 I said, OK, so let me try them.

01:04:28.000 And this is fantastic.

01:04:29.000 This is my favorite overall roast.

01:04:31.000 It's great for an espresso machine, especially if an automatic.

01:04:33.000 I love the gunship roast for any kind of pour-over or drip machine.

01:04:36.000 And then the AK-47 espresso blend is great as well.

01:04:38.000 But I'm not a dark roast guy, whereas Dr. Choi, my Korean doctor, is.

01:04:42.000 Yeah.

01:04:42.000 Story number, do you have another thing you want to say?

01:04:44.000 I was going to say, someone else says, if we all become zombies, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

01:04:47.000 When's the last time you saw a zombie have to wash their hands or save up on some non-perishables?

01:04:53.000 Well, I don't know if they, you know, there's no skin on the hand.

01:04:56.000 Therefore, no skin in the game.

01:04:58.000 No skin in the game.

01:04:59.000 And I don't know if you need to wash bone.

01:05:03.000 How long does it live?

01:05:03.000 Corona lives on steel for a long period of time.

01:05:05.000 It lives on cardboard for 48 hours.

01:05:08.000 That's why zombies are our superiors.

01:05:10.000 They do have an advantage because they're undead.

01:05:13.000 Story number three.

01:05:14.000 I think we should get to this.

01:05:15.000 No one else is covering this.

01:05:16.000 We've talked a lot about coronavirus.

01:05:17.000 Joe Biden could be a rapist.

01:05:22.000 The woman claimed that Biden cor... Here's the thing, this is important to note because when the media went nuts over Donald Trump, and we'll get to the comparison of Brett Kavanaugh by the way, when the media went nuts over Donald Trump, what he was saying was, when you're famous, women will let, they want anything from you, they'll let you do anything, you can grab them by the...

01:05:43.000 Not a horrible thing to say, but he was trying to create a scenario saying you can get away with anything.

01:05:48.000 You're saying it is a horrible thing to say.

01:05:50.000 Yes.

01:05:51.000 I am saying it's a horrible thing to say, but he's saying they let you, which honestly, I'm amazed that he couched that horrible phrase with consent.

01:06:00.000 Like, I'm amazed he had the forethought.

01:06:02.000 He's playing nine-dimensional chess.

01:06:05.000 In 2005 or whatever.

01:06:06.000 They let you.

01:06:06.000 Good man of pussy.

01:06:08.000 I said, first part, big operative words.

01:06:12.000 They.

01:06:12.000 Let.

01:06:13.000 You.

01:06:15.000 And I don't even know how you do it.

01:06:17.000 Is it a fish hook?

01:06:18.000 Is it a cup?

01:06:19.000 Anyway, the point is, he was talking about doing something that was consensual, not sexual assault.

01:06:24.000 And I will say, frankly, not too far off from what happens with my wife and I on date night, okay?

01:06:29.000 Keyword being, let you, I might grab, I'm not saying there, but I might grab a handful of wherever.

01:06:36.000 What's available?

01:06:38.000 What's available.

01:06:39.000 You grab anything.

01:06:41.000 I like all of it.

01:06:42.000 I like grabbing my wife. 0.99

01:06:44.000 Some might say that's a good thing.

01:06:45.000 I enjoy relations with my wife.

01:06:48.000 So my point here is, and she's watching, hi mom-in-law.

01:06:55.000 The man claimed that Biden cornered her and penetrated her without consent in 1993.

01:07:03.000 Now of course this is, I think that you shouldn't just believe everyone.

01:07:08.000 All the time, I do think that due process needs, just like we've said with Kavanaugh, fortunately there was due process when we found out that it was all, it was, lie a whore, lie a whore, and you know it! 0.91

01:07:17.000 I believe that was the conclusion.

01:07:18.000 Yeah, that was on the record.

01:07:19.000 From a jury of the peers, even though there was no jury, nor peers.

01:07:24.000 It was just a soundboard with Robert De Niro.

01:07:25.000 But the left has not been playing by their rules.

01:07:29.000 So let's compare right now the stuff happening with Biden.

01:07:31.000 And again, I don't know whether it's credible or not, but considering that he's running for president and how he had, again, that grab him by the I didn't ask him to grab me by the P word in a hypothetical scenario to which he obliged, which really would be the Donald Trump scenario.

01:07:42.000 hundred thousand deaths they should at least give some airtime to someone who says, well

01:07:45.000 I was raped.

01:07:46.000 Right.

01:07:47.000 You'd think.

01:07:48.000 I didn't ask him to grab me by the P word in a hypothetical scenario to which he obliged, 1.00

01:07:54.000 which really would be the Donald Trump scenario, it's this man, he raped me.

01:08:00.000 Let's compare that to Brett Kavanaugh, where, by the way, we know that none of these things could be corroborated, right?

01:08:04.000 We know that half of the people who came forward with stories, particularly the gang-rape stories, recanted them, saying, ah, I just wanted to get on TV.

01:08:10.000 And Christine Blasey Ford then raised several million dollars on a GoFundMe, and she was presenting different stories to the psychologists and to the authorities that didn't match up with people who weren't there, who were not witnesses from places that don't even exist.

01:08:22.000 So let's be clear about Blasey Ford.

01:08:24.000 Here we go.

01:08:25.000 The media.

01:08:26.000 Washington Post.

01:08:27.000 They mentioned Ford.

01:08:28.000 Christine Blasey Ford.

01:08:29.000 Dr. Christie.

01:08:30.000 Yes.

01:08:30.000 100 times.

01:08:31.000 Wow.

01:08:32.000 Right.

01:08:33.000 And Reed, Mrs. Reed is the one who's accused Joe Biden.

01:08:36.000 Zero.

01:08:38.000 Yeah.

01:08:38.000 New York Times, Ford, 90 times.

01:08:41.000 Anyone want to guess the references to read?

01:08:43.000 The woman who alleges that Joe Biden raped her?

01:08:44.000 Seven?

01:08:45.000 Zero.

01:08:46.000 Oh.

01:08:46.000 Right.

01:08:46.000 That's what I was going to guess.

01:08:47.000 By the way, I should say, actually, I have this here.

01:08:49.000 It's 100 plus.

01:08:51.000 Oh.

01:08:52.000 100 plus at Ford.

01:08:53.000 So it's like 20,000 deaths, or much less, from the Imperial Study.

01:08:58.000 I'm getting a little loose because I figured I I don't have that much time with the morning show to look up every single reference.

01:09:03.000 I know it's at least a hundred.

01:09:05.000 MSNBC.

01:09:06.000 Reference Christine Blasey Ford.

01:09:08.000 100 plus times.

01:09:09.000 Read.

01:09:12.000 Zero.

01:09:13.000 So we've just gone through... Now keep in mind, Washington Post is used as one of the reputable fact-checkers.

01:09:20.000 Yeah.

01:09:20.000 For YouTube and Twitter.

01:09:21.000 Yeah.

01:09:22.000 Right?

01:09:22.000 They were the ones who were using... Is Washington Post the Truth-O-Meter or the Pinocchios?

01:09:25.000 I don't remember.

01:09:26.000 I think Washington Post is Pinocchios.

01:09:28.000 Snopes is the Truth-O-Meter.

01:09:29.000 I thought Snopes was the Pinocchio.

01:09:30.000 There's Truth-Reader, Pinocchios, Liar Liar, Pants on Fire.

01:09:33.000 They all try to get cute.

01:09:34.000 They're the Gene Shallot of fact-checkers.

01:09:37.000 Stop it.

01:09:38.000 So Washington Post gets to dictate This is another thing people don't understand.

01:09:43.000 The algorithm on YouTube and Twitter, by the way, the algorithms that determined, I think it was Laura Ingraham's tweet regarding the Chinese coronavirus, the masks not working, removed.

01:09:54.000 There were videos that were suppressed touting chloroquine on YouTube and on Twitter because they were saying it's fake news.

01:10:00.000 Now, do those people get that back, by the way, now that it's been approved by the FDA?

01:10:04.000 Now that they've actually had to recall these masks?

01:10:06.000 So keep in mind, these algorithms that remove those tweets, that suppress those videos, that when you put up a video talking about, as we did, we did this, you can go back and watch it, we talked about the combination of chloroquine last week, I believe.

01:10:17.000 Last week, and a link on that video was, did you want to be redirected to this, it wasn't even Wikipedia, it was some kind of COVID reference page.

01:10:25.000 And we could see that this video was not showing up as browse or suggested.

01:10:28.000 Well, guess what?

01:10:29.000 That could have helped a lot of people.

01:10:30.000 But the point is that algorithm that directed people away from us, talking about chloroquine, which is now FDA approved, determining it to be fake news, all of these algorithms are created by someone at some point.

01:10:42.000 Who helps determine that us talking about chloroquine, which again, cannot stress enough, FDA approved, now for emergency treatment, who is determining that algorithm to redirect away from our content?

01:10:53.000 Washington Post, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Snopes.

01:10:56.000 This is the place that has a hundred plus references to Ford and zero to Reed, and they're the ones inputting all of the equations.

01:11:05.000 I don't know, I assume it's like goodwill hunting where there's equations on the walls and shit.

01:11:10.000 Inputting the algorithm that will exist forevermore that never seems to be recalibrated and corrected in the right way.

01:11:17.000 That's why this is concerning.

01:11:19.000 I'm not saying that we should go out and give Reid the Ford treatment, because conservatives are consistent.

01:11:24.000 I think there needs to be some kind of proof.

01:11:26.000 I think that when you compare the track record, this is speculation, of Christine Blasey Ford, or you compare the track record of Brett Kavanaugh, where they couldn't find anything, to Vice President Joe Biden, who routinely sniffs small tweens on camera, The American public is more likely to believe the latter, and that's the thing.

01:11:48.000 They had to do so much legwork for Brett Kavanaugh, and Ford turned up nothing, right?

01:11:54.000 It just goes to show it's all about power.

01:11:55.000 It's not about who it is.

01:11:57.000 It's not about actual principles.

01:11:59.000 They've shown that they're not principled.

01:12:00.000 They've shown that it doesn't matter.

01:12:01.000 They can't follow their own rules.

01:12:02.000 By the way, really quickly, and then I want to come back to this.

01:12:05.000 Really quickly, let's bring this up, CNN.

01:12:07.000 Still, hospitals, healthcare workers overwhelmed.

01:12:11.000 We've had this on all morning.

01:12:13.000 There has been no mention of the masks, the sanitizing masks, no mention of the approved new therapeutics, no mention of the progress or headway that we're making.

01:12:23.000 Why do you need an hour and a half to talk about how some hospitals are overburdened?

01:12:30.000 You can't give a chyron to, we stepped up testing faster than in the history of ever? 0.76

01:12:36.000 Yeah, but Steven, that would be helpful.

01:12:36.000 Just one?

01:12:39.000 This is CNN, sir.

01:12:40.000 Put this in context.

01:12:41.000 We've all learned history, right?

01:12:43.000 In school.

01:12:44.000 You were homeschooled.

01:12:44.000 But we've all read history books.

01:12:46.000 What do you think would rightfully go in the history books if you read a chapter?

01:12:52.000 That some hospitals were overburdened?

01:12:54.000 That might get a paragraph, a paragraph and a half.

01:12:56.000 But kids learning history will probably learn that the private sector stepped up, retooled, and created more supplies than ever in the history of the American workforce and created new medical innovations that had never before been seen across the globe.

01:13:14.000 That's what the history book will read.

01:13:16.000 So, right now, in a monumentous moment in history, I think all of us would agree, CNN isn't even tracking with what will be in the syllabus for fifth graders.

01:13:26.000 Okay, and going back to this, this is my point.

01:13:28.000 Christine Blasey Ford, they had to go up there and make up stories, right, with Ford.

01:13:32.000 They had to make up, oh, gang rape. 0.91

01:13:34.000 They ran a train on her. 0.99

01:13:35.000 Remember, they provided this opinion, this commentary.

01:13:38.000 We believe that, you know, we'll do, uh, we'll do, uh, Brodigan.

01:13:40.000 We'll have him on on Friday, I think.

01:13:41.000 I apologize because he's probably already too drunk.

01:13:43.000 They were, um, with, with, uh, Christine Blasey Ford.

01:13:46.000 Remember they had Donald Trump, uh, not Donald Trump, sorry, Brett Kavanaugh cocked his head back and laughed.

01:13:50.000 That was in an article.

01:13:52.000 He, he gang raped and cocked his head back and laughed.

01:13:55.000 That's what they did.

01:13:56.000 That's what they had to try and run with to convince the American public.

01:13:59.000 And by the way, it didn't really work.

01:14:01.000 Now the reason it didn't work was because, by all evidence that we have available to us, was untrue.

01:14:07.000 Now they haven't covered, read, the accusations against Joe Biden, At all.

01:14:12.000 So 100 plus references to zero.

01:14:15.000 Why do you think that is?

01:14:16.000 They wouldn't have to make anything up with Joe Biden.

01:14:19.000 They wouldn't have that uphill battle.

01:14:21.000 Before they finish, before they finish the headline, like they're about to announce it before going to the break.

01:14:27.000 And they are going to say, hey, after the break, we will talk with Mrs. Reid, the accuser who says that Joe Biden raped people are going to vote guilty.

01:14:35.000 You mean the guy who rubs shoulders and has biker girls giving him lap dances at pizza parlors in front of the camera and sniffs small children? 1.00

01:14:44.000 Guilty!

01:14:45.000 You don't have to say, Joe Biden went to a party and jammed a Red Solo cup up somebody's rectum to get people to believe it.

01:14:52.000 You just say, Joe Biden was being Joe Biden and this lady claims she was raped and everyone would believe it. 1.00

01:14:57.000 You would see more of a disapproval rating against Joe Biden immediately than you saw

01:15:03.000 at any point against Kavanaugh during that trial.

01:15:06.000 Why?

01:15:07.000 Because it's more believable.

01:15:08.000 I'm not saying that it's true, but it is remarkable how much work and effort they put

01:15:14.000 into ruining the reputation of Kavanaugh, who kept a journal for trying to outlive

01:15:20.000 him.

01:15:21.000 He kept a journal that vindicated him because he was such a dork.

01:15:26.000 His biggest crime was he likes a few schlitz on weekdays. 1.00

01:15:30.000 Sometimes Joe Biden smells children.

01:15:35.000 I'm sure Bruce Lee has some thoughts about this as well.

01:15:37.000 Bruce Lee, what are your thoughts on the Joe Biden issue there with the children?

01:15:42.000 Well, you see, when Joe Biden smells children, He can crash, he can sniff, or he can snarl.

01:15:48.000 If you put Joe Biden into a playpen, he becomes the playpen.

01:15:53.000 If you put Joe Biden into a nursery, he becomes the nursery.

01:15:58.000 And he's guilty.

01:15:59.000 Oh, I appreciate it.

01:16:00.000 I do appreciate it.

01:16:00.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:16:01.000 Insightful, I told you.

01:16:02.000 That time, he gave us a definitive conclusion.

01:16:05.000 Right.

01:16:06.000 Yeah, he knew where he was going.

01:16:07.000 What commercials do we have?

01:16:08.000 Do we have time for a commercial?

01:16:09.000 I don't think we have time for a commercial break today.

01:16:11.000 That's fine.

01:16:11.000 Was it a Black Rifle commercial?

01:16:12.000 Yeah, we talked about Black Rifle.

01:16:13.000 Is there anyone else I need to mention?

01:16:14.000 I think we're good.

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01:16:26.000 At a certain point, it's like Mercedes or BMW.

01:16:29.000 And I know right now we're going to have people go, Mercedes, BMW, Ford is found on road dead.

01:16:34.000 That's not the point.

01:16:35.000 The point is, at a certain point, they're all good quality firearms.

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01:17:00.000 Do we have some more chats?

01:17:01.000 Yeah.

01:17:02.000 Let's go to some chats, and then we'll wrap this up for today.

01:17:05.000 That's perfect.

01:17:06.000 All right, so let's see.

01:17:08.000 What are y'all's advice when it comes to being a conservative libertarian millennial who is in Asheville, North Carolina, known as the San Francisco of the East Coast?

01:17:15.000 My name is Michael and I'm a Mud Clubber.

01:17:17.000 Suicide!

01:17:17.000 Hey, Michael!

01:17:19.000 I'm joking!

01:17:21.000 YouTube, don't take that seriously!

01:17:23.000 But it is always an option.

01:17:25.000 So I would say... No!

01:17:26.000 It's never an option.

01:17:28.000 It's never an option.

01:17:29.000 We speak for Bill and you say no.

01:17:30.000 Ever.

01:17:31.000 Ever.

01:17:32.000 Never, ever, ever.

01:17:33.000 Except for when it is.

01:17:34.000 So what I do think is important to note is at one point, this is something I've changed on.

01:17:38.000 People have said, what have you changed your mind on?

01:17:40.000 Because you're so rigid.

01:17:41.000 I've changed my mind on pot.

01:17:42.000 That's something I've changed my mind on.

01:17:43.000 I've talked about this.

01:17:44.000 And not in the sense that I want to foot the bill.

01:17:47.000 Yeah, right now.

01:17:48.000 No, it's not in the sense that I want to foot the bill for stoners who are unproductive, but I do think that right now we need to remove it from the Schedule 1 substance list because of the CBD issues, and there does seem to be some medical promise for CBD.

01:18:01.000 And I always thought the state should have the right to legalize it, but I didn't like the idea of it.

01:18:06.000 If it were in my state, I would vote to legalize it now, but regulated.

01:18:10.000 In other words, people shouldn't be just... Anyway, that's something I've changed my mind on.

01:18:14.000 And then something else that I've changed my mind on...

01:18:16.000 I used to tell people, hey listen, keep your head down until you are in a position where you can be open about your views because I don't want anyone losing work, particularly in the entertainment industry.

01:18:25.000 I've changed my opinion on that because you don't have that luxury now.

01:18:29.000 I used to give this advice, maybe going back to 2009, maybe through 2012, we didn't have

01:18:34.000 the kind of landscape that we have today where there is nowhere to hide.

01:18:38.000 If you have ever made a Facebook post, if you have ever put out a tweet, if you have

01:18:42.000 ever released a video, or if you've ever been at a party or gathering or function, ten people

01:18:47.000 or less, where politics have come up and you've expressed a center-right opinion, you'll never

01:18:55.000 be able to get away from it.

01:18:56.000 And I see people now trying to distance themselves from it, people who I know, who I know, in my personal life, agree with me.

01:19:03.000 And we've spent time together, then go on Twitter trying to say, oh, I've changed my mind, and I know that they haven't.

01:19:08.000 And I go, I understand why you're doing this, but these people are not going to like you.

01:19:11.000 They're never going to be your friends.

01:19:13.000 So, this is where the change my mind comes in, right?

01:19:15.000 The idea is, find the people whose minds you can change, and then the people whose minds you cannot change, make an example of them for the people who are watching.

01:19:23.000 I would say, do the right thing, right?

01:19:25.000 If you're a libertarian millennial in Asheville, I think he said.

01:19:28.000 By the way, sorry about that.

01:19:29.000 Grand Rapids stole your title.

01:19:30.000 Beer City, USA, I think, four years in running.

01:19:32.000 So that's just another reason that, you know, you should move to Grand Rapids.

01:19:35.000 That's what I mean.

01:19:35.000 Not taking any drastic measures, but, you know, Grand Rapids.

01:19:42.000 Here's what I would say.

01:19:43.000 Do the right thing, but don't be afraid to be the bad guy.

01:19:47.000 Do the right thing, but don't live your whole life afraid of people calling you a bad guy.

01:19:50.000 Because guess what?

01:19:52.000 We've been called a bad guy.

01:19:53.000 Joe Rogan was called a bad guy because he said that a guy who lived his entire life as a man within the next six months, and without disclosing it to an athletic commission, caved in a woman's orbital, might be a bridge too far as it relates to transgender athletes in sports.

01:20:08.000 And he was the bad guy!

01:20:10.000 Don't be afraid of being the bad guy if you're doing the right thing.

01:20:14.000 And I do think that that's most important to keep sight of when we're looking at this right now.

01:20:18.000 Because, I mean, everyone's going to be offended.

01:20:21.000 And this is remarkable, too.

01:20:23.000 I think Artie Lang was talking about this with Anthony Comea.

01:20:26.000 I used to be on radio.

01:20:27.000 Back in the day, the FCC was sort of the man you would stick it to.

01:20:30.000 Now, podcasts are free.

01:20:32.000 They're open and available.

01:20:33.000 There's no censor.

01:20:35.000 But they're more censored than ever.

01:20:37.000 Because it's not the FCC who might give you a fine for saying something scatological.

01:20:42.000 It's you are basically outcast from society for saying the wrong thing.

01:20:46.000 And that can come from what once upon a time was just someone listening from the radio who didn't like it and turn it off.

01:20:50.000 They go onto social media and get it amplified.

01:20:53.000 And what happens?

01:20:54.000 You're no longer brand friendly on YouTube.

01:20:57.000 And so people who might have been edgy at some point, maybe skirted the lines with the FCC and had to pay a fine, but it was a part of the show, they couldn't do this.

01:21:06.000 They can make zero living today.

01:21:08.000 Because they're not brand friendly.

01:21:09.000 So we are more censored than ever, even though we were anticipating not having any gatekeepers and being able to communicate with people directly.

01:21:17.000 And that's why Mug Club is so important, and the sponsors that we have, because we're not monetized here on the main Steven Crowder channel at all.

01:21:24.000 That has yet to be remedied.

01:21:26.000 And we're sponsored by viewers like you, not a foreign caliphate.

01:21:28.000 And that's why, of course, we're trying to serve you as best we can.

01:21:30.000 That's why we're taking your live chat, people who are already Mug Club members. 0.99

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01:21:41.000 So you can see when we air episodes, and we'll be doing some live streams as well, like this is obviously a live stream.

01:21:46.000 Jean-Guy will be live streaming video games, I believe, with Denogla.

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01:21:52.000 So go check out that schedule so you can see when you can interact with us live.

01:21:57.000 But it is remarkable that we are at a point right now where we are less free than ever to say the things that as entertainers and as reporters and comedians and, you know, take the whole spectrum.

01:22:07.000 It should be our duty Yeah.

01:22:09.000 say. It really our duty is to entertain you primarily.

01:22:12.000 Unfortunately, we also take on the duties of the media because right now they're still

01:22:15.000 look, they're still at CNN.

01:22:17.000 We don't even just bring it up, but we don't even hear it.

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01:23:03.000 I think that's what they did with pedophiles.

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Louder with Crowder - April 01, 2020

Joe Biden Gets #MeTooed! | #2 Good Morning MugClub

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