On today's show, Crowder is joined by his good friend Dave Landau to discuss a variety of topics, including the latest in the Trump vs. McGregor saga, the new Matrix movie trailer, and much, much more!
00:00:02.000No, the carrier, he was about to kip out of it on a ledge, and I went... I was trying to get out of a plastic bag, but you get carried around in that shit.
00:03:18.000He's going to be commentating some fights this weekend between Evander Holyfield and Vitor Belfort, so place your bets on the roided-up athlete of your choice.
00:03:27.000And that's not just in case you want to come at me for defamation or slander.
00:03:32.000I don't know which one is written versus uttered.
00:03:35.000Vitor Belfort tested positive in the UFC several times, and Evander Holyfield was part of that steroid ring.
00:03:41.000But you know, they both seem like decent guys.
00:03:46.000And we are going to be talking about quite a bit here today.
00:03:49.000One thing that I really wanted to touch on.
00:03:51.000And I don't know if this is, you know, trending like Chris Pratt, who didn't do anything wrong, but everyone just looking for a scalp on a slow news day, is CNN has been talking about this all day, the ICU bed shortage, the nursing staff shortage, why everything that you, and I shouldn't speak in absolutes, but why absolutely everything you have been told is a lie, is wrong.
00:04:11.000A lot of people out there think COVID has happened, hospitals have been overrun, And that's why there are no beds in the ICUs?
00:07:24.000And rightfully so, like, President, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:28.000Like, seriously, it's just, everything about this is ridiculous.
00:07:31.000Also, I've learned that private security, in some cases, are useless.
00:07:35.000But before we get to that, lefty TikTokers, and the nursing scandal right now, Leftist tiktokers, they want you to know that you can refer to your daughter... This is where we are, okay?
00:07:48.000It's offensive to refer to your daughter as Princess.
00:07:54.000So I don't know if this is considered an unpopular opinion, but if you have a daughter, you need to stop calling her princess if you do.
00:08:02.000The way that Disney has branded the princess is based on her beauty as her most important asset.
00:08:08.000This term also encourages the damsel in distress that needs to be rescued by a man, and it doesn't focus on their intelligence or integrity or any other character trait.
00:08:20.000Why don't we call girls scientist, engineer, doctor?
00:08:24.000Like, why does it have to be something fancy?
00:09:27.000And all of a sudden it's like, oh, Caitlyn Jen- Bruce Jenner, is now Caitlyn Jenner, is dressed like a Barbie, wearing a corset with those dimensions, and is wearing a princess tiara.
00:10:10.000Well, I hope if you leave that you don't try and take any said finances from your child's father, since you're such a strong, independent woman.
00:13:41.000They said this out, usually I don't like to get into conspiracy theories because the term New World Order has often been attributed to people who are creating conspiracies.
00:13:50.000But she said this out loud and didn't someone else, wasn't there someone who, I feel like this is something that has actually been talked about.
00:15:06.000Let's not be confused here that the left believes in your right to choose when it comes to anything outside of murdering a baby inside the womb.
00:15:15.000They don't believe in your right to choose when it comes to what car you can drive, what
00:15:18.000kind of food you can eat, what kind of place you can live in, what kind of transportation
00:15:21.000you can use, drinks, big gulps, nor what you can do as it relates to experimental to new
00:16:39.000Yesterday, the Taliban named a new interim government.
00:16:44.000We're assessing the announcement, but despite professing that a new government would be inclusive, the announced list of names consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates.
00:17:53.000I love how he's focused on the lack of diversity and not on the fact that there's a country run by terrorists with our tanks and Blackhawks!
00:18:37.000They're like, we don't want to mispronounce the people.
00:18:38.000We don't want to mispronounce the people.
00:18:40.000We could offend the guys who took all of our weapons and murdered people.
00:18:43.000Right, yeah, we wouldn't want to offend the people who mutilate their women and allow them no rights whatsoever.
00:18:50.000So, the Taliban Supreme Leader, Hayyabatullah Ahmad, you know what, I can't pronounce it, the Taliban, the asshole leader of the Taliban, He said, in the future, all matters of governance and life in Afghanistan will be regulated by the laws of the Holy Sharia.
00:19:07.000Hey, by the way, remember when the left said that a Sharia law is not a thing?
00:19:12.000Because Dr. Ben Carson said, I actually believe that anyone who agrees with Sharia law, that it's incompatible with the Constitution.
00:19:21.000Because Islam, actually, particularly the Quran, is a political prescription just as much as it is a religion.
00:19:27.000It outlines a system of laws, and that is the reason that entire area of the world has never gotten it right when it comes to women's rights.
00:20:39.000Did anyone out there, here's my question, did anyone out there actually expect the Taliban to be inclusive, not even getting to menstruating persons?
00:21:34.000What Yeah, I heard the people also getting the knocks on the door in the dead of night and getting shot in their beds were also a little pissed off that there wasn't more diversity in the assassination squad.
00:21:42.000You know, the Taliban's show on the Peacock has a lot of diversity.
00:22:03.000I don't think Americans have the stomach for it.
00:22:05.000We may not have the time to do the whole woke military segment today, but I don't think that Amer... Do you know what a war... Do you know how you win a war?
00:22:12.000You go in, you destroy all enemies, you level everything, You enslave the women, which is not... I'm not saying it's right.
00:22:19.000This is what happened though since the beginning of time, up until the evil empire that is the United States.
00:22:24.000You take all of their resources and you make sure that it is so brutal, so swift, that no one else even dare speak up about challenging you.
00:22:35.000And instead, we go in and we don't take their resources, we don't take their oil, we try to build up a democracy, and we ask for nothing more than the land in which to bury the dead who died for them.
00:22:44.000Are militaries capable of winning wars?
00:22:47.000Our people at the desks, the people like Blinken's, don't have the stomach for it, and I don't think that Americans have the stomach for winning a war today.
00:23:58.000And I warn you that this will be upsetting.
00:24:02.000I don't know what you call this person.
00:24:03.000A person in a gorilla mask attacked Larry Elder, a black candidate for governor, by whipping eggs at him and then assaulted his security guards who were non-violently protecting him all on camera.
00:24:18.000And as of this show right now, as the airing of this broadcast, it is 10 39 A.M.
00:25:35.000It's a lady, a white lady, in a gorilla mask.
00:25:39.000And then they will say, all domestic, they will say that all political violence is committed from those on the right.
00:25:45.000This person did it to the leading Republican candidate in California, in plain view, with several people backing this broad, I assume, in the gorilla mask, up, and then assaulting security officers.
00:25:57.000Again, it's not that they did this, it's that the left fears no accountability.
00:27:41.000However, the Hammer and Sickle is responsible for just as many deaths, and you can go to breweries and pro-labor protests and find the Hammer and Sickle everywhere.
00:27:51.000There is a brewery in Traverse City, Michigan, when we were driving through, and I took my grandmother-in-law there, she was 92, and she looked up and she saw portraits of Stalin and Mao, and she almost had a tear brought to her eye, because she was around for it, by the way, Russian, and said, uh, I've got to get out of here.
00:28:38.000This is something else before we move on here.
00:28:40.000Again, I want to get into the nursing shortage issue and some stories here that I encountered and also Gerald did.
00:28:48.000But before that, look, we have a This Week in Biden.
00:28:51.000Before I go to this, I have never seen a president, I think this is something that cannot be up for debate, I have never seen a president in my lifetime, and I've watched every single major presidential debate, by the way, going back to I want to say Mondale.
00:29:08.000I used to watch them on C-SPAN, and you can watch them online.
00:31:23.000At the same time, you've kept in place some Trump-era steel and aluminum sanctions.
00:31:29.000And I wanted to ask you, when you're having these conversations with European allies, who are very concerned about these sanctions, how do you justify that?
00:35:47.000Well, the only reason was because I was by myself, recovering by myself, and so I would have to grill, like, my own steak, and it was just too much work to make vegetables.
00:37:24.000Based on the data we have now, based on the models that have been established that we have now, we don't believe we'll need that field hospital.
00:37:31.000Well, that's because I think in that case, look, that's an exception.
00:37:34.000I don't think people trusted the medical personnel at a place called Nutter.
00:38:25.000South Carolina hospitals are once again reaching their limits due to an influx of COVID-19 patients.
00:38:32.000At the Asate Three Rivers Medical Center in Grants Pass, things are as busy as ever.
00:38:36.000100% of the patients in the ICU suffer from the COVID-19 virus.
00:38:41.000The current COVID surge is still overwhelming the hospital.
00:38:44.000We are perilously close, as you mentioned in the beginning of the segment, of having, in certain areas of the country, getting so close to having full occupancy that you're going to be in a situation where you're going to have to make some very tough choices.
00:38:59.000Okay, so here's something that a lot of hospitals operate close to capacity as a business model, period.
00:39:20.000You don't want a ton of excess capacity.
00:39:21.000You don't want a ton of excess capacity.
00:39:23.000That's not only when you're talking about rent, when you're talking, if you're even buying this property, talking about heating, cooling, utility costs.
00:39:30.000This is how, not to mention staffing, this is very, very commonplace.
00:40:55.000Now we're also being told that the nurses are burnt out, right?
00:40:59.000That they're burnt out overall, despite the empty hospitals that you just saw, that were built for this, and that this is the reason there is a staffing shortage.
00:41:07.000Again, all of this is being crafted so that you believe in narrative.
00:41:11.000There's a crack in the front line in the battle against COVID.
00:41:14.000Nurses are burned out and considering leaving the profession altogether.
00:41:18.000The state and nation facing a nurse shortage that's only expected to get worse.
00:41:23.000Our health care workers are overworked.
00:41:25.000They're mentally and emotionally exhausted and now some Valley nurses are leaving the profession to pursue other careers.
00:41:37.000and deaths driven by the Delta variant and the close to 40% of Americans who remain unvaccinated.
00:41:50.000It's not because all of them are burnt out, despite what nurses tell you on TikTok.
00:41:53.000Many hospitals were forced to pause all elective procedures, meaning it was all hands on deck COVID, build up new hospitals for COVID exclusively, and stop Stop any treatment for anything other than COVID, even though you just heard, you know, from Houston Methodist, for example, at any point in time, one in four patients may be COVID.
00:42:09.000What would constitute elective procedures, by the way?
00:42:13.000Well, minor things like heart stints, right?
00:42:17.000Heart valve surgery, mammograms, kidney stone removal, hip and knee replacements.
00:42:26.000And so, what happened was a record number of nurses were laid off.
00:42:31.000They were laid off, or they were furloughed, which is, I guess, basically, they don't technically fire a nurse.
00:42:35.000Yeah, it's like, we don't really want to kind of fire you.
00:42:37.000We're going to call you back in, like, three months.
00:42:38.000Well, see, the issue with that is when I saw furlough with nurses about a year back, I was thinking, like, when they furlough prisoners, which I remember the first time I heard about that.
00:42:46.000For those who don't know, it's someone who's in prison and they let them out for the weekend.
00:42:56.000He left prison to kill someone, then walked back into his 20x40 cell with a wine cellar!
00:43:04.000So the point is not interchangeable terms.
00:43:07.000Nurses who've been furloughed, nurses who've had their hours cut.
00:43:11.000In April 2020, this is overlay P, a record number, 1.4 million healthcare workers, 1.4 million healthcare workers were laid off or had their hours cut.
00:44:12.000Also, I would make the argument that someone who needs serious cardiovascular surgery should probably be given priority over someone with a milder case of COVID.
00:44:56.000A 2010 LDI study that looked at hospital understaffing in New York and Illinois found that, quote, each additional patient per nurse was associated with significant increases in the odds of nurses reporting poor outcomes, including job dissatisfaction, intent to leave their job, and high burnout.
00:45:16.000The latest surge is pushing his healthcare workers to the breaking point.
00:45:20.000We've had people literally walk off the job because they couldn't take it anymore.
00:45:25.000Somebody walking off of their shift at this hospital.
00:45:28.000We've had people walk off their shift.
00:45:32.000They walked right past 155 empty beds.
00:45:34.000Because they just couldn't take it anymore.
00:45:36.000In the state of Mississippi, some 2,000 nurses have quit since the pandemic.
00:46:45.000When you've laid off a record number of nurses because you couldn't afford them due to putting basically a moratorium on all treatment that is not COVID, right?
00:46:54.000You're probably overextended because you built new wings that you didn't need with hospitals.
00:47:21.000A lot of these things happening at the same time, too, right?
00:47:23.000So this self-inflicted wound with some spikes in COVID, with the problem that people have this mass hysteria that they have to go to the hospital if they have the sniffles, right?
00:47:32.000So this whole like, oh, Delta variant surge thing.
00:47:52.000I know when I'm freaking out from being busy at a hospital, I have time to stop and talk to the news.
00:48:00.000Let's be really clear here though, because I do want to tell a story here, Gerald, and I'll tell my story there for Mug Club, but you can't also argue that nurses are leaving because, let's say right now, they're not being paid fairly.
00:48:17.000No, as a matter of fact, hospitals want these nurses so badly.
00:48:21.000that it's you know how it's a buyer's market it's a nurse's market right now uh yeah massive sign
00:48:27.000on bonuses upwards of a hundred dollars an hour right these are more than some doctors make
00:48:32.000certainly some uh like i think or other people who are who've been
00:48:36.000who've attended more medical school than nursing.
00:48:38.000People like some anesthesiologists, physicians assistants, Miami area hospitals,
00:48:42.000they're paying 85 to $105 an hour, $1,200 a week in travel expenses.
00:48:48.000Taylor Scott and White is offering a $15,000 sign on bonus.
00:48:54.000Because right now there are enough nurses that are not just going, I'm stressed.
00:48:57.000They're saying, I don't wanna get this vaccine.
00:49:01.000Whether you think they're crazy stupid or not, because you'll say that we're not doctors, well, guess what?
00:49:05.000They do work in the medical field, and a significant portion, certainly enough to disrupt the supply chain, of nurses have said they will quit sooner than get a vaccination.
00:49:14.000And Gerald, your wife, is a nurse, and we have permission to talk about this.
00:49:19.000And so when we talked about what people should do with forced vaccines, which is coming up October 1st, I think is the deadline for a lot of people in different hospital systems in the country where they have to have the vaccination or be very, very, very clear about this.
00:51:19.000I'm not going to... And to be clear, just to be clear, your wife...
00:51:23.000I would assume wouldn't take ibuprofen while she's in her first trimester either.
00:51:27.000My wife won't take ibuprofen while she's pregnant.
00:51:30.000Well, we tell women not to eat soft cheese or shellfish or all of these other things and we're telling them to take a vaccine right now that they have to mandate have to have to have a job.
00:51:51.000So just to give you an example, because this hospital requires vaccinations, there have been mass walk-offs, and this has been happening at a lot of hospitals, but a hospital that does not require vaccination... Yeah, there's several hospitals that don't require this.
00:52:02.000One of the things was that Miami job was like seven or eight grand a week.
00:52:33.000It's an amazing amount of money being offered to people right now because of what the hospitals are doing to themselves for no other reason.
00:54:44.000Okay, which roided up guy are you rooting for?
00:54:49.000Well listen, what's sort of funny is when I was talking to my dad about it, we got into some of this because we watched the first one when they did, you know, the Tyson-Roy Jones fight.
00:54:58.000We watched it from Camp David as like a family and just had a good time and it was sort of amazing listening to my father talk about boxing because you see all the things that he does but you forget that like All those decades in Atlantic City.
00:57:10.000I think a bunch of the even current fighters and some of the UFC guys that are going to be there because so much of that is based in South Florida, they're going to come up and join us and talk, I think.
00:57:19.000Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be fun.
00:57:20.000Now, I'm going to shift gears here a little bit.
00:57:21.000Michael Chandler's going to be there, a couple other guys.
00:57:23.000So it should be a lot of fun getting their commentary as well and just watching those
00:57:55.000That for me was... Look, let me tell you where I line up really quickly so that that way we... I think if someone acts like they don't understand the difference between withdrawing American allies, ambassadors, citizens, being protected by the troops, and then taking out the troops last while leveling all of our military bases, if they don't understand the difference between that and withdrawing our military protection before our citizens, I think they're being intellectually disingenuous, but This was something the media really, they even kind of admitted Biden did a bad job, but then they pivoted really quickly and said actually it's Donald Trump's fault.
00:58:27.000What was that like being in your shoes?
00:58:30.000I mean, you can even see it in my ears, like, oh wow, they're losing the press.
00:58:33.000And they were desperately trying, but it was so bad, even they couldn't defend it.
00:58:38.000And, you know, you're right, there is a difference.
00:58:40.000I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, no, no, we should have stayed in Afghanistan for the next two millennia.
00:58:46.000No one thinks that, other than maybe the military-industrial complex and some of those DC people that are going to get the Raytheon board seat.
00:58:53.000John Bolton is going to be cryogenically frozen just so we can check in in 2000 years and make sure we're still in Afghanistan.
00:59:27.000That's when these, you know, animals come out of the caves after a long winter, and they're bored, so they're gonna go fight and kill stuff.
00:59:34.000I mean, you ask any guy that's boots on the ground, and they'll tell you this.
00:59:39.000Uh, you know, so many of my friends that were involved and were fighting over there, they're like, I mean, I can't even believe it.
00:59:43.000Now, our generals probably don't know that because they've been so busy pushing critical race theory and wanting to learn about white rage.
01:01:11.000I mean, to think that our military, we have generals that got on press conferences.
01:01:16.000We had no way, we had no way of knowing that this could have possibly happened.
01:01:20.000I'm like, I don't know, I'll scroll through Instagram, I'll see videos of some of these, you know, Afghan fighting forces that we, they can't do a jumping jack.
01:02:00.000You're totally shocked that the Taliban didn't turn out to be the all-inclusive and gender-representing administration?
01:02:15.000It's like if you animated South Park and turned it into a real life movie, that is this administration.
01:02:26.000And that's what you get when you have an administration whose only focus has been diversity, meaning You know, it's wonderful that they have this incredibly diverse cabinet.
01:02:38.000It doesn't seem like that was even a criteria.
01:02:40.000Like, if competence, intelligence, knowledge, experience is not a criteria, but like, you know, finding some sort of magical unicorn that checks off a lot of boxes, you know, that's what you get.
01:03:24.000It's not like they don't have 20 years of experience realizing that the Taliban could give a shit about diversity or inclusion, you know?
01:03:34.000But by the way, that will not stop the UN from putting the Taliban or their representatives on like a Human Rights Council because that's the batshit world in which we live today, Steven.
01:04:21.000Like, two weeks ago, I thought we were at rock bottom, and now I'm looking up.
01:04:25.000Rock bottom, and Blinken's like, did someone say auger?
01:04:30.000Yeah, well, I mean, look, if you're our ally, imagine you're an American ally, you know, who's making decisions, you know, under the assumption, the false assumption now, but what would have historically been a good assumption, that America will be there to have your back.
01:04:44.000I mean, we don't even have the backs of our own citizens.
01:05:01.000We take care of them before we do our own citizens, which is like the most Joe Biden slash really Democrat Party decision ever.
01:05:10.000It's like going back to the Obama-Biden days where it's like you saw him talking about it the other day because Four of the five people that they traded for a trader, Bo Bergdahl, that were in Guantanamo.
01:05:23.000We had five Taliban terrorists in Guantanamo Bay because they were bad guys.
01:05:28.000We traded those five people for a trader who deserted Americans, who had Americans go out and look for him, some of whom were killed.
01:05:38.000We traded to get this piece of shit back.
01:05:42.000We traded five Taliban terrorists, okay?
01:05:46.000And four of them are now sitting on the council!
01:06:31.000Well, we are going to have to ask permission of the Taliban to see if maybe we can get our citizens who we abandoned after leaving the dogs, after leaving military equipment.
01:06:44.000And not just military equipment, there's also like a couple M4s.
01:06:52.000They're selling them to the Chinese who are reverse engineering them and within about two weeks they will have a helicopter that will destroy the Apache after we spent billions in R&D and years developing it.
01:07:14.000The Chinese are now talking about taking over Bagram Air Force Base that we sunk billions in.
01:07:19.000That would have been a nice place to maybe have a presence essentially on the border of China, but our genius military really focused on white rage and critical race theory and teaching us that diversity will somehow make us a stronger fighting force.
01:07:33.000No one who actually fights understands even remotely how that is possible, but our generals do and they have told us it Uh, distinctly, if you question that, you will be thrown out of the military.
01:07:44.000Now, if you're a, you know, a lunatic, uh, preaching the leftist BS that they're talking about on a daily basis, you will likely be promoted.
01:07:53.000Uh, you know, see them, you see the conservative purge in the military.
01:07:56.000I saw it, I have friends in the SEAL teams, like, literally operators, like, doing, they, they have told me verbatim, they spend more time in diversity training than they do shooting.