Louder with Crowder - REACTION: FETTERMAN & DR. OZ DEBATE RECAP

00:00:00.000 I apologize.

00:00:39.000 Horror movies just don't work when you've got a Walter.

00:01:04.000 you you

00:01:07.000 I'm gonna disappear into the sky, I'm gonna burn like a candle. I'm gonna disappear into the sky, I'm gonna burn 0.99

00:01:14.000 like a candle. 1.00

00:01:14.000 You're a strange animal, that's what I know. You're a strange animal, I've got to follow. I'm gonna disappear 1.00

00:01:33.000 into the sky, I'm gonna burn like a candle.

00:01:38.000 Bear with me today.

00:01:45.000 Guess who's back?

00:01:45.000 I have never, uh... You know, it's funny, it's just low-grade.

00:01:48.000 I don't know, but since I've had twins, I've never been sick so many times.

00:01:52.000 It's true.

00:01:52.000 And I know exactly when it happened.

00:01:54.000 My son, I was holding him up like this, and the drool, it was like it happened in slow motion, went down and in my mouth like the embalming fluid and dragged me to hell.

00:02:02.000 Yep.

00:02:03.000 And I was like, oh, I'm gonna have a cold.

00:02:05.000 I think I need to adjust my chair.

00:02:07.000 It's still at Dave's setting.

00:02:08.000 Yes, it is.

00:02:09.000 Yeah.

00:02:10.000 And I need to adjust my headphones.

00:02:11.000 Glad to be with you.

00:02:11.000 Look, there's some- What are you saying, boy?

00:02:14.000 Oh no, the cat's out of the bag.

00:02:16.000 No, nobody's gonna know, I'm sure.

00:02:18.000 Oh, that's true.

00:02:19.000 How dare you? 1.00

00:02:20.000 Well, if they find out I'm overweight, I'm gonna have to kill myself. 0.99

00:02:25.000 He's from the Weight Watchers' pygmy tribe. 1.00

00:02:28.000 It's true.

00:02:29.000 No, we have a lot to get to.

00:02:30.000 Federman, of course, debated yesterday.

00:02:32.000 Are you okay, Joe? 0.97

00:02:32.000 I see you screwing around. 0.97

00:02:33.000 It takes a minute.

00:02:34.000 My headphones are different, too.

00:02:35.000 Everything is changed when we switch seats.

00:02:36.000 I moved your chair down a little bit, and you're like, what the hell?

00:02:39.000 This is a tad louder.

00:02:40.000 Do you hear okay?

00:02:41.000 It is.

00:02:41.000 No, I don't.

00:02:44.000 So look, before I get to it, we're going to talk about Fetterman versus Dr. Oz, and now, of course, everyone's talking about ableism.

00:02:50.000 That's the only reason you might not like, you know, a guy who looks like American History X, warmed over, who can't pronounce his own name.

00:02:57.000 It's because you're ableist.

00:02:58.000 And my question to you is, do you buy it?

00:03:00.000 Is anyone buying this?

00:03:01.000 Is anyone buying the ableism stuff?

00:03:03.000 Nope.

00:03:04.000 Ableism is the new racism. 0.97

00:03:05.000 It's another way of shutting down dialogue before you can actually discuss ideas.

00:03:11.000 And it's based on identity.

00:03:12.000 It's shutdown dialogue based on identity so we don't get two ideas.

00:03:15.000 So we'll be talking about that.

00:03:16.000 Also, Taylor Swift can't do anything right.

00:03:20.000 Good.

00:03:20.000 Tried to appease the LGBTQAIP and then, you know, ticked off the fat pride community.

00:03:26.000 Yeah, that'll do it.

00:03:29.000 No good deed goes unpunished.

00:03:32.000 All right, so we have that and more.

00:03:33.000 We're going to be talking about something I really want to talk about today.

00:03:35.000 We've had this kind of in the wings for a while.

00:03:37.000 The performance of students in this country right now.

00:03:39.000 I don't know if you know, it's the worst that it's been as far as proficiency scores since 1991.

00:03:45.000 And now we have a really clear contrast between public schools run by the true heroes and homeschooling.

00:03:51.000 Take a guess.

00:03:52.000 Which one's doing better?

00:03:53.000 Gerald A., how are you, sir?

00:03:55.000 I am so much better now that my chair's adjusted.

00:03:57.000 Is it adjusted?

00:03:58.000 I'm back in my zone.

00:03:59.000 Yeah.

00:04:00.000 It's very limited.

00:04:00.000 It's a very niche zone.

00:04:02.000 Same joke doesn't work twice, idiot. 1.00

00:04:05.000 Like I said, that's why Gallagher brings one watermelon. 1.00

00:04:08.000 Listen, if he had two... It's too much.

00:04:11.000 Too much of a good thing, you end up like Lizzo.

00:04:13.000 Bad jokes are my zone.

00:04:15.000 What do you think I was talking about?

00:04:17.000 Yeah, just let him.

00:04:18.000 He's vibing.

00:04:19.000 He's right in there.

00:04:22.000 All right.

00:04:23.000 So, of course, you know him, you love him.

00:04:24.000 Fastest man on his feet.

00:04:26.000 He's actually going to be at the Tampa Improv, November 4th through 5th.

00:04:30.000 Yeah, do I have that right?

00:04:31.000 November 4th and 5th.

00:04:32.000 Not 4th through 5th.

00:04:33.000 It's two days.

00:04:34.000 You can go watch him there.

00:04:36.000 Dave Landa, how are you?

00:04:37.000 Ahoy.

00:04:37.000 Good.

00:04:37.000 You?

00:04:38.000 I'm fine.

00:04:39.000 You know, it's staying right here in my throat and in my nose, so I'll be fine.

00:04:42.000 But it sounds worse than it is.

00:04:45.000 You sound better than yesterday.

00:04:46.000 A little bit, yeah.

00:04:47.000 It's just, you know, this is what happens when you have little ones.

00:04:49.000 They're just, they're walking petri dishes.

00:04:51.000 No, I had just one and it was constant.

00:04:53.000 So if you have one that's just going to the other, they're just going back to you.

00:04:57.000 Right. 0.93

00:04:57.000 It's a triangle of sick. 0.93

00:04:59.000 That's exactly what it is.

00:05:01.000 What did they do before modern medicine?

00:05:03.000 They had like 19 kids.

00:05:04.000 I'm surprised they weren't all dead from SARS.

00:05:06.000 Well, they mostly were.

00:05:07.000 That's true.

00:05:08.000 That's why you had 19, so some would survive.

00:05:10.000 That's actually true, yeah.

00:05:11.000 We're gonna lose at least a third.

00:05:12.000 Yes.

00:05:13.000 We don't know which ones of you are going to survive.

00:05:15.000 Oh, you forgot to take into account the amount who will get kicked by horses.

00:05:18.000 Oh, sorry, that's going to be three-fifths.

00:05:19.000 They're gone.

00:05:20.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:05:21.000 Well, we better have 20 and ruin your body. 1.00

00:05:23.000 And don't worry, I'll take another wife later on and she'll be really hot. 1.00

00:05:29.000 Imagine who discovered the C-section.

00:05:30.000 Poor broad.

00:05:31.000 Okay.

00:05:32.000 Oh, geez.

00:05:33.000 So before we get to any of that, Apparently healthy.

00:05:38.000 Discovered it on her.

00:05:40.000 What is this?

00:05:41.000 I don't know.

00:05:42.000 We're rolling the dice.

00:05:43.000 This could be great for us.

00:05:44.000 I don't know, cut right about there.

00:05:46.000 You passed out when we were saying push, so we just did this.

00:05:52.000 Figured you'd be good with it.

00:05:53.000 She starts screaming in pain like, ah, better get the leeches to suck the demons out of her. 1.00

00:05:59.000 That's all you do is bitch, bitch, bitch. 1.00

00:06:04.000 Alright, so apparently being healthy now and having- I was told not to watch this before it aired. 1.00

00:06:12.000 And I don't like that.

00:06:13.000 That's never a good thing.

00:06:14.000 Apparently being healthy and having a flat stomach is not considered attractive anymore.

00:06:18.000 By the way, that was societal conditioning.

00:06:20.000 You like women who are healthy? 1.00

00:06:21.000 No, no, no.

00:06:22.000 This is what you want.

00:06:23.000 This is just a reminder that your tummy is so cute! 1.00

00:06:29.000 So cute. 0.99

00:06:30.000 Screw you, Gary.

00:06:32.000 He pulled that clip and told me not to watch it. 0.98

00:06:34.000 He knew exactly what was going to happen.

00:06:36.000 I ate oatmeal this morning.

00:06:37.000 Did it look like that?

00:06:39.000 Yes!

00:06:41.000 Exactly like that.

00:06:41.000 That's the point.

00:06:42.000 I'm such a hotter lady.

00:06:45.000 Can we play that again?

00:06:47.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:06:48.000 Because all you guys are trying to be cute with this.

00:06:49.000 You watch it!

00:06:50.000 You look at it!

00:06:51.000 Look at it!

00:06:52.000 I don't want to look at it.

00:06:54.000 Go.

00:06:55.000 This is just a reminder that your tummy is so cute! 1.00

00:06:59.000 That's a huge bitch! 1.00

00:07:01.000 Where's its arms telling all of Schwarzenegger? 1.00

00:07:05.000 Guado.

00:07:08.000 Okay, Mojo.

00:07:11.000 That is disgustingly fast.

00:07:12.000 Well, that's not even... Like, I don't understand how that happened.

00:07:16.000 One guess.

00:07:17.000 Well...

00:07:20.000 Just take a stab at it.

00:07:23.000 Take a lipo needle at it.

00:07:24.000 Fell off a tractor?

00:07:27.000 Can I just clarify one thing though, too? 0.96

00:07:29.000 Look, you have never, ever on the show heard me just go, ha ha, fat person.

00:07:33.000 Ever.

00:07:34.000 Okay?

00:07:34.000 It's when people demand that you praise them as beautiful and brave that I have a problem with it.

00:07:39.000 When I see overweight people at the gym, it almost brings a tear to my eye. 1.00

00:07:42.000 They're in there, they're trying to make it happen.

00:07:44.000 I go out of my way To encourage them and say, hey man, you know, we're all a work in progress.

00:07:49.000 I saw you here last week.

00:07:50.000 That's more... I make sure to try and encourage them because I know how hard it is.

00:07:54.000 On the flip side also, if I see a really fit person jogging, you ever do this where you're driving and someone's jogging and they look around and they don't think anyone sees them and they quit and they start walking?

00:08:01.000 Yeah.

00:08:02.000 I roll down the window and go, ahhh! 1.00

00:08:04.000 Whenever I see a very attractive person jogging, I roll down the window and I'm like, hey fat ass. 1.00

00:08:09.000 Yes. 1.00

00:08:11.000 It's not working.

00:08:12.000 It's homeostasis.

00:08:14.000 Yes.

00:08:18.000 You don't get to declare yourself beautiful.

00:08:19.000 That's the thing.

00:08:20.000 It's not something that you get to declare.

00:08:22.000 Remember when we used to say, don't be boastful?

00:08:24.000 Wasn't there a fable about that somewhere?

00:08:25.000 Aesop?

00:08:26.000 What's his name?

00:08:26.000 Something.

00:08:26.000 He had some fables.

00:08:27.000 Now it's just, boast about all the worst things.

00:08:30.000 That's the issue here.

00:08:31.000 And by the way, the reason that I want to see people, when I see them in the gym, when I see them bettering themselves, is because I don't want people to... No, no, no.

00:08:38.000 Let me put it this way.

00:08:40.000 Let's put a finer point on it.

00:08:41.000 Remember, your stomach is cute.

00:08:44.000 You're dying.

00:08:46.000 On camera.

00:08:47.000 Yes.

00:08:48.000 That's what's happening.

00:08:49.000 Yeah.

00:08:50.000 You're dying.

00:08:50.000 That is unhealthy.

00:08:52.000 You can be obese and be healthy.

00:08:53.000 No, you can't.

00:08:54.000 No, you cannot.

00:08:55.000 It's just as healthy.

00:08:56.000 No, it's not.

00:08:57.000 Only if you change the definition of healthy.

00:08:58.000 Yes, exactly.

00:08:59.000 Then maybe yes.

00:09:00.000 Look, guys, we're all dying a little bit, you know, every second of every day.

00:09:04.000 As soon as you're born.

00:09:05.000 She's just dying a lot faster. 0.98

00:09:07.000 A lot faster.

00:09:08.000 Yeah.

00:09:09.000 Yes.

00:09:09.000 The half-life is different.

00:09:11.000 Yeah.

00:09:11.000 Also, the half-leg, which she's in... I'm just surprised it was so hidden.

00:09:16.000 The reveal was necessary.

00:09:20.000 Yeah, like a jack-in-the-box.

00:09:22.000 Well, I'm sure she goes a lot, but it all came out.

00:09:26.000 And she orders, two drinks!

00:09:28.000 Well, I was confused about the stomach, and then the edit, like it's Fat that found out that there was no place to go south, and so they just started going out.

00:09:35.000 Well, you think the fat just gives up.

00:09:36.000 They're like, I don't care how many vertical stripes you wear, this is happening.

00:09:41.000 I got a belly and I just want to know where to get those pants. 1.00

00:09:45.000 I'd like to feel more comfortable.

00:09:47.000 Yeah, just shop at the maternity store. 1.00

00:09:48.000 That's where I'll go.

00:09:49.000 Well, you mean continue to?

00:09:52.000 That's probably where they're shopping now.

00:09:54.000 Didn't you kind of pick up the hint when you were not pregnant and you had to shop at the third trimester section of the maternity store? 1.00

00:10:03.000 That's because of the miracle of life!

00:10:05.000 Not Funyuns.

00:10:06.000 I shop at Husky Boys.

00:10:10.000 It's a $33.28, friend. 0.97

00:10:12.000 You're gonna like the way you die. 0.66

00:10:15.000 What? 0.91

00:10:15.000 Never mind. 0.91

00:10:16.000 Alright.

00:10:17.000 You're gonna like the way you look in your coffin.

00:10:19.000 Yes.

00:10:20.000 They're gonna like the way you look.

00:10:24.000 The 19 ballbears are gonna like the way you look. 0.98

00:10:27.000 And hate the way you weigh.

00:10:28.000 Oh my gosh.

00:10:29.000 That didn't work.

00:10:32.000 There's some kind of a Halloween joke in there.

00:10:33.000 By the way, we're doing our Spooktacular on Monday costume contest that we will have.

00:10:37.000 Oh, there you go.

00:10:38.000 Look, you've got that right there.

00:10:40.000 All right.

00:10:40.000 Let's go to this.

00:10:41.000 And I apologize.

00:10:41.000 I do have a lozenge in my throat.

00:10:42.000 So can you guys hear that or is it just my own head?

00:10:44.000 I think it's just you.

00:10:45.000 OK, good.

00:10:46.000 Otherwise, it sounds gross.

00:10:47.000 OK, so last night we did this whole segment yesterday.

00:10:50.000 Gerald did a very good job.

00:10:52.000 Not only the debates, but the actual sort of state of our elections here in the midterms.

00:10:57.000 Last night was a big one because you have two pricks.

00:11:02.000 Spare!

00:11:03.000 And then the third party, it's like a booster.

00:11:05.000 Two pricks and a booster.

00:11:06.000 So you've got Dr. Oz, and I get it, you have to vote of the lesser of two evils at this point, I don't know how this guy, well I do know how and unfortunately I'm sad about it, but, not sad about it, I don't have a dog in this fight, I don't like him.

00:11:18.000 What?

00:11:18.000 No.

00:11:19.000 You shouldn't.

00:11:20.000 Oz or Fetterman?

00:11:21.000 Both! 0.92

00:11:21.000 Either one of them, but I would vote for Oz if I had to. 0.92

00:11:24.000 People in Pennsylvania, comment below, how do you feel having to pull the lever for someone like Dr. Oz?

00:11:29.000 Has there been a more clear-cut example of someone who isn't really a constitutional conservative but has an R next to their name?

00:11:34.000 And I get it, you're voting for the platform at this point.

00:11:36.000 Believe me, I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't go out and vote.

00:11:39.000 But that's a pretty rough choice.

00:11:40.000 So, last night, Dr. Oz and Federman debated.

00:11:44.000 Um, and- That's what you want to call it.

00:11:45.000 Yes.

00:11:46.000 And Fetterman just said, Fire Bad!

00:11:48.000 Yes!

00:11:49.000 Pretty much.

00:11:50.000 He didn't have to pull the fire alarm either.

00:11:52.000 Yeah, well.

00:11:53.000 That was his plan B. So, Fetterman was, as you would expect, and people have talked about this, his stroke, we'll get into that more, um, a complete, and, I mean, he was worse than that, he was worse than that porridge stomach lady.

00:12:04.000 He was a complete mess.

00:12:07.000 Hi.

00:12:07.000 as lieutenant governor. You're running for a seat that could decide the balance of power

00:12:12.000 in Washington. What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator? You have 60 seconds.

00:12:17.000 Hi, good night everybody.

00:12:22.000 He's running to use Pennsylvania.

00:12:24.000 He was dead serious.

00:12:25.000 Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify something.

00:12:28.000 You're saying tonight that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking, but

00:12:33.000 there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.

00:12:38.000 So how do you square the two?

00:12:41.000 Oh, I do support fracking.

00:12:47.000 There's a question?

00:12:49.000 I don't, I don't.

00:12:50.000 There was one?

00:12:51.000 I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking.

00:12:55.000 Has the Biden administration overspent?

00:12:57.000 And if so, where do you think spending should be cut?

00:13:00.000 You have 60 seconds.

00:13:03.000 To what?

00:13:05.000 No, here's what I think.

00:13:06.000 We have to fight about inflation here right now.

00:13:08.000 That's what we need to fight about inflation, you know, right now, because it's a tax on working families.

00:13:14.000 No, we all have to make sure that everyone that works is able to that's that's the most American bargain that if you work full-time you should be able to live in dignity as well true and I believe they haven't have any businesses being being we can't have businesses being subsidized by not paying individuals that just simply can't have a to pay their own way. 0.97

00:13:42.000 We are all now stupider. 0.97

00:13:46.000 Look, look. 1.00

00:13:47.000 I get that you're going to think this is rude.

00:13:52.000 What do you even say to that?

00:13:54.000 Look, people, right now this is trending everywhere, we'll get to it, it's ableists to say that this guy is not qualified.

00:13:59.000 I don't know why there's a trend, you know, you put up someone like a former Vice President Joe Biden, and now you have this man.

00:14:04.000 Now, I don't know, I'm not an expert, I will be clear, could be just a processing issue where he's not speaking properly.

00:14:09.000 With strokes, sometimes your brain works fine and your mouth just can't, it just can't connect with the brain.

00:14:14.000 So I don't know.

00:14:16.000 But I do know that that was bad.

00:14:18.000 Well, the answer itself, if you made, you know, if you combined everything, really didn't make any sense.

00:14:25.000 No.

00:14:26.000 So it would be difficult to know his stance.

00:14:28.000 I don't know if also was the stroke talking or like he was trying to Jedi mind trick.

00:14:32.000 Good night, everybody.

00:14:33.000 Yes.

00:14:35.000 I won.

00:14:35.000 That's what kids do, when they're like, OK, goodnight!

00:14:39.000 He also just said, I stand.

00:14:41.000 Yes.

00:14:41.000 Well, that's good.

00:14:42.000 Yes.

00:14:44.000 When you're doing debate prep, because you know, I make poop.

00:14:49.000 I'm voting for it.

00:14:50.000 Yeah.

00:14:51.000 Just for entertainment value.

00:14:52.000 Oh, for sure. 0.98

00:14:52.000 When you do the debate prep here, like, doesn't your team go, Oh crap. 0.98

00:14:57.000 We have a problem.

00:14:58.000 We need to cancel this debate.

00:14:59.000 You should have canceled the debate.

00:15:01.000 It should never have happened if you were going to be in that kind of shape to perform.

00:15:04.000 Because like you said, maybe his brain is working fine, but if I was a voter right now who was potentially going to vote for him, maybe an independent, I would say, write out your answers for me.

00:15:13.000 Live, show your work, and let me see that the brain is actually still functioning and it's just a speech processing issue.

00:15:20.000 Which, if that's the case, fine.

00:15:22.000 Show me your brain.

00:15:23.000 What are we going to do tomorrow night, Dr. Oz?

00:15:27.000 Same thing we do every night, Pinky.

00:15:29.000 Try to ruin the country.

00:15:31.000 Lose an election.

00:15:32.000 Better, man.

00:15:34.000 Better, man.

00:15:35.000 By the way, Did I hit anything here, Toolman?

00:15:37.000 I hit a button.

00:15:38.000 No, am I good?

00:15:39.000 I think you're good.

00:15:40.000 Okay, so the public was very clear as to who won the debate.

00:15:42.000 This almost never happens.

00:15:44.000 82% believe that Dr. Oz won the debate, and 18%... Who was the 18?

00:15:49.000 By the way, there's a plus or minus margin of error of 18%.

00:15:51.000 Of 27%, yeah.

00:15:52.000 Seriously, just trying to screw with the polling average.

00:15:56.000 They also pulled blow-up Frankensteins that were in people's front yards.

00:15:59.000 Yes, exactly.

00:16:00.000 They used Carla.

00:16:03.000 How do you think?

00:16:03.000 How do you think Fetterman performed?

00:16:05.000 Yeah, two hands up if Fetterman won.

00:16:07.000 Okay, got it.

00:16:07.000 Good, good.

00:16:08.000 Thank you.

00:16:09.000 All the news that's fit to print here at Quinnipiac.

00:16:12.000 Alright, so here's how one Pennsylvania voter put it themselves.

00:16:19.000 So I was definitely, I'm an independent by the way, I was definitely leaning towards Fetterman and I think I have totally changed to the Oz side.

00:16:29.000 Why?

00:16:29.000 I felt that Fetterman, I felt that Fetterman just looked like he didn't have command of the facts.

00:16:36.000 I do think his condition unfortunately is going to affect his ability to do the job.

00:16:42.000 I thought Oz Well, Chris Cuomo's still alive.

00:16:45.000 He is.

00:16:45.000 Who knew?

00:16:45.000 I can't believe he has a show.

00:16:46.000 It's on a sense of the word.

00:16:48.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:16:49.000 definitely threw out some plans where I didn't see any plans coming out of Fetterman.

00:16:54.000 Well, Chris Cuomo's still alive.

00:16:56.000 He is. Who knew?

00:16:57.000 I can't believe he has a show.

00:16:59.000 It's on a...

00:17:00.000 Luce's sense of the word.

00:17:01.000 Yeah, that's true. I wonder who he molested there.

00:17:03.000 Yeah. That was a... so it's pretty... by the way, hit the like button if you're okay with us.

00:17:07.000 We're going to venture into ableist territory here.

00:17:09.000 So just for those of you who don't know, Fetterman did suffer a stroke, and of course, horrible,

00:17:13.000 and I hope that he recovers.

00:17:15.000 Absolutely.

00:17:16.000 May, I believe.

00:17:17.000 and he disclosed it about He disclosed it before the primaries, just to be clear.

00:17:21.000 Just a couple of days.

00:17:21.000 Just a couple of days before the primaries.

00:17:23.000 But he said that he was given a clean bill of health from his doctor.

00:17:27.000 And it says, the good news is, I'm feeling much better.

00:17:29.000 The doctors tell me I didn't suffer any cognitive damage.

00:17:32.000 And the doctor, in a letter, Dr. Clifford Chen said, he has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office.

00:17:39.000 Which is good for him because, I don't know, he's more capable than Lena Dunham.

00:17:45.000 Dr. Chen is also Dr. Oz's assistant?

00:17:47.000 Yes!

00:17:47.000 He's like, oh yeah, you're good to go.

00:17:49.000 Yes, exactly.

00:17:50.000 Was Dr. Chen watching last night?

00:17:52.000 Would you like to revise his testimony?

00:17:54.000 I don't think it's ableist if you're worried about, you know, the neurology of a...

00:18:00.000 Yes, because being able to communicate your point is necessary in the Senate.

00:18:05.000 When you're debating other senators, when you're trying to get a bill going, when you're trying to speak to your constituents or the American people, being able to communicate your point.

00:18:12.000 We've seen this with Joe Biden.

00:18:14.000 We've made fun of it.

00:18:15.000 It's like, everybody says nothing's wrong here.

00:18:17.000 It's just a stuttering problem.

00:18:19.000 And now you're going after him for stuttering.

00:18:20.000 He's like, no, other people are looking at this.

00:18:23.000 Other world leaders are looking at Joe Biden.

00:18:25.000 Now, maybe other world leaders won't look at Fetterman, but definitely other states.

00:18:27.000 You mispronounced laughing.

00:18:29.000 Well, I was being nice.

00:18:32.000 They're looking at this and seeing somebody who doesn't seem to be all there.

00:18:37.000 Even if maybe they are.

00:18:38.000 I think the difference is that Federman admitted he had a stroke.

00:18:41.000 Yes, he did.

00:18:42.000 And Biden doesn't admit that he has one every 15 minutes.

00:18:46.000 They're called mini-strokes.

00:18:47.000 They're absent seizures.

00:18:49.000 Yes, that's true.

00:18:50.000 But I'm not a doctor.

00:18:52.000 I'm just guessing.

00:18:54.000 Here's the thing.

00:18:54.000 Also, again, I've had people in my family who've had strokes, and I've also had people in my family who've suffered from, you know, cognitive decline.

00:19:01.000 Six months is a pretty important benchmark for stroke victims.

00:19:05.000 That's when you'll have a pretty clear idea if they're going to recover or to what degree they're going to recover.

00:19:10.000 It's sort of like, you know, the first 48 hours after someone gets kidnapped.

00:19:12.000 Also a great show.

00:19:13.000 Yeah.

00:19:14.000 Just get a lawyer, you'll win.

00:19:15.000 Good.

00:19:16.000 When I watch it.

00:19:17.000 Tom Segura has a really funny bit about that, by the way.

00:19:19.000 But it is.

00:19:19.000 Six months.

00:19:20.000 And he's at the six-month mark.

00:19:21.000 He's coming up right here on the six-month mark.

00:19:22.000 So if he hasn't improved now, now maybe it's just, again, maybe it's an auditory processing issue, as he says.

00:19:27.000 Maybe he's not able to communicate the words, but it's fine in his mind.

00:19:32.000 He has full cognitive abilities.

00:19:33.000 I genuinely don't know.

00:19:35.000 What I do know is it doesn't matter.

00:19:36.000 Because like you said, you need to be able to communicate and articulate your thoughts.

00:19:39.000 Your job here is to be a conduit for your constituents, people who vote for you.

00:19:44.000 That is your job.

00:19:46.000 It is effectively to put a voice to the people who vote for you. 0.78

00:19:50.000 And that's hard to do if you can't speak without shitting your pants and forgetting where you are every five minutes.

00:19:57.000 Well, the president has set a bad precedence. 0.94

00:19:59.000 Yes, he has.

00:20:01.000 Precedence.

00:20:01.000 I think it's both.

00:20:02.000 Yeah, it's both in that case.

00:20:05.000 So, the debate performance, right, they clearly show that he's not able to do that.

00:20:09.000 And by the way, according to a neuroscientist, since I am not one, says he may never be.

00:20:14.000 Do you get better?

00:20:15.000 So it depends.

00:20:17.000 You know, someone mentioned therapy and therapy can be very, very helpful, especially if you are doing it every day and you're taking a lot of time in your therapy.

00:20:26.000 Essentially, what we know is that in the first three to six months is where you see the most improvement.

00:20:31.000 There can be some improvement over the next year, but I think he's about six months out now.

00:20:37.000 This happened in May.

00:20:38.000 So I think if he was doing therapy right after his stroke, this is probably where he has improved to the most.

00:20:46.000 And by the way, I genuinely hope I'm wrong.

00:20:48.000 I hope he recovers entirely.

00:20:49.000 He just shouldn't be recovering on the taxpayer dollar.

00:20:52.000 That's not an appropriate place for you to be.

00:20:54.000 That's what it is.

00:20:55.000 Now, of course, people are saying that this is ableism.

00:20:57.000 Why?

00:20:58.000 Because they need to carry the water for Fetterman.

00:21:01.000 Sorry, Fetterman, not Dr. Oz.

00:21:02.000 It's tough, because they're almost boneless in a lot of ways.

00:21:05.000 And they're, of course, using the argument now.

00:21:07.000 It's just the new racism.

00:21:08.000 It's ableism.

00:21:09.000 Prejudice towards disabilities is what it is.

00:21:11.000 Yes, exactly.

00:21:12.000 It couldn't be that, hey, maybe, for example, if you don't have legs, it's difficult for you to run a marathon.

00:21:19.000 That's not ableism.

00:21:20.000 It's a prerequisite.

00:21:21.000 And by the way, we have this all the time.

00:21:22.000 We have qualifiers for jobs all of the time if someone doesn't have a college degree because they didn't score high enough on their SATs.

00:21:29.000 They didn't get into the right college.

00:21:30.000 Is that ableism?

00:21:31.000 There's always a barrier to entry.

00:21:32.000 And this really does stem from a cultural sort of poison of, don't judge me.

00:21:37.000 Only God can judge me.

00:21:38.000 No, no, no.

00:21:39.000 Only God's judgment is final.

00:21:41.000 Only God's judgment is what matters when it comes to the ultimate truth.

00:21:44.000 You are judged each and every day, and you should be, and you should be judging others.

00:21:47.000 Not judging them as though you're a judge during execution or determining whether they're a good person or bad person, but you certainly need to be making judgments when electing representatives.

00:21:57.000 That's why we have elections. 0.97

00:21:58.000 But they want you To feel guilty about that.

00:22:01.000 So here's MSNBC columnist Liz Plank.

00:22:03.000 She tweeted, Dr. Oz just gave a master class on how to bully people with disabilities by talking.

00:22:10.000 And also wrote, when your side is so bad you have to rely on ableism to win.

00:22:15.000 Here's another one.

00:22:15.000 Journalist Mitra Khalida tweeted, it's fascinating how stroke is wielded as a weapon in the hashtag FettermanOz debate.

00:22:23.000 Literally millions of us, myself included, who identify as caregivers or survivors How do you identify as a caregiver?

00:22:28.000 You either are or you're not.

00:22:29.000 It's binary, as I was understanding it.

00:22:32.000 I didn't know.

00:22:32.000 There's just someone sitting there with an empty IV drip?

00:22:35.000 I'm not identified as a caregiver.

00:22:37.000 I didn't know how to do it.

00:22:39.000 Also, I'm not a fan of Dr. Oz just being a doctor, let alone in this, but... What's he doing?

00:22:42.000 He's talking.

00:22:42.000 What was he supposed to do?

00:22:43.000 Mock him and do an impression of his voice?

00:22:44.000 Also, I'm not a fan of Dr. Oz just being a doctor, let alone in this, but...

00:22:49.000 Well, yes.

00:22:50.000 What's he doing?

00:22:51.000 He's talking.

00:22:52.000 Yes.

00:22:53.000 That doesn't...

00:22:54.000 What was he supposed to do?

00:22:55.000 Mock him and do an impression of his voice?

00:22:56.000 Well, that's what you would...

00:22:57.000 I don't understand, like, why...

00:22:58.000 It's ableist simply to say, this person may be unfit.

00:23:01.000 So it finishes with, someone who identifies as caregivers or survivors embrace imperfection and marvel at reinvention after stroke.

00:23:09.000 Go ahead, reinvent yourself.

00:23:11.000 That's fine.

00:23:12.000 Just don't do it.

00:23:14.000 On our time.

00:23:15.000 On the taxpayer dime.

00:23:16.000 Same thing in any sport.

00:23:17.000 Yes, I hope they recover.

00:23:19.000 Knee surgery.

00:23:19.000 You see this.

00:23:20.000 But they can't do it if it causes their team to lose.

00:23:23.000 And we have a segment, we're doing a Change My Mind on this, on women in combat roles in the military and the police.

00:23:27.000 I'm against it.

00:23:27.000 Women in combat violent roles and enlisted services roles, just to be clear.

00:23:32.000 It's a selfish mindset of, well, if this person has it, they're reinventing themselves.

00:23:35.000 They're breaking down barriers.

00:23:37.000 Okay, that would be fine.

00:23:38.000 And you can make your own decisions.

00:23:39.000 If it only affected you.

00:23:41.000 It doesn't.

00:23:42.000 It affects the guy next to you.

00:23:43.000 It affects your country.

00:23:44.000 It affects the people electing you.

00:23:45.000 This idea that I can choose to do whatever I want with my own body.

00:23:48.000 Sure, you can.

00:23:50.000 And other people can choose to judge you based on your qualifications and judge you based on your performance.

00:23:55.000 That's okay to do.

00:23:58.000 Yeah.

00:23:58.000 Well, and look, you're looking at a person's capacity to do a job.

00:24:02.000 And that was the whole argument that we had against Joe Biden, is that it doesn't seem like he's up to the task, right?

00:24:06.000 He doesn't seem like he's all there.

00:24:08.000 Maybe Joe Biden 10 years ago, I disagree with him still, right?

00:24:11.000 But at least he was all there at that point.

00:24:13.000 At least it appeared that that was the case.

00:24:14.000 With Fetterman, I really do.

00:24:16.000 I'd asked the question to be kind of funny earlier, but when you're debating somebody, Would you have been any less prepared if a guy had literally pooped and covered himself in it and said, fight me, fight me, right?

00:24:26.000 I would have been like, I don't know how to respond to either one of those.

00:24:29.000 You stole my story of the guy on PCP.

00:24:31.000 I did, yes.

00:24:32.000 But that's the kind of thing, you're in a debate.

00:24:34.000 I saw it once.

00:24:35.000 Remember when Barack Obama... 0.97

00:24:37.000 Barack Obama got his butt kicked in the first debate, and in the second debate they were like, oh, you went a little too hard after him. 0.97

00:24:42.000 You gotta take it back a little bit with Mitt Romney. 0.96

00:24:45.000 And he ended up not doing very well in the second debate because he pulled his punches.

00:24:48.000 If you're Dr. Oz, there's nowhere to go here.

00:24:50.000 The guy just answered incoherently.

00:24:53.000 He said goodnight first!

00:24:55.000 He did!

00:24:55.000 I would have been like, well, shoot.

00:24:58.000 I lost.

00:24:59.000 What does he do when he reads to his kids?

00:25:01.000 Good morning, moon!

00:25:04.000 Good night moon that jumped over the cow.

00:25:06.000 What?

00:25:06.000 Huh?

00:25:07.000 Huh?

00:25:08.000 Dad's gonna read us an upside-down book again.

00:25:10.000 Yes!

00:25:12.000 He's reading backwards and his head's spinning around.

00:25:14.000 Oh, it's Halloween.

00:25:16.000 We've all had stroke victims in our family and people that have had a cognitive decline.

00:25:20.000 Myself included, as far as that goes, but that was self-induced.

00:25:24.000 But honestly, nobody wants anything bad to happen to this guy medically.

00:25:28.000 No, of course not!

00:25:29.000 Like that's what, I don't understand why you would call it ableist.

00:25:32.000 It's like, it's not.

00:25:32.000 Anybody who is angry or hateful towards a handicapped person are the worst people on earth and I've only heard it like once in my life.

00:25:40.000 Right.

00:25:40.000 Unless it's like a 400 pound lady in a hover round who has a handicapped parking.

00:25:43.000 Well yeah.

00:25:44.000 Then you tip her.

00:25:45.000 Yes.

00:25:45.000 With a group of friends.

00:25:46.000 Yes you do.

00:25:47.000 Oh.

00:25:47.000 Yeah.

00:25:47.000 But only... Only in the security of the dark blanket of night.

00:25:52.000 Yes.

00:25:52.000 With no cameras, as I've heard.

00:25:54.000 And then she jumped over the moon.

00:25:57.000 Doubt it.

00:25:58.000 Here, by the way, so that's now ableism, ableism, ableism.

00:26:01.000 But again, it's not even consistent.

00:26:02.000 It's just the new racism.

00:26:03.000 It's a way to shut down dialogue based on identity before you get to ideas.

00:26:09.000 Here's how you know they're not consistent.

00:26:10.000 This was them back then.

00:26:11.000 Do you remember the media with Donald Trump where they made it a big issue, by the way?

00:26:17.000 And the difference here is they were dishonestly making it a big issue, claiming he was unfit for office.

00:26:21.000 Here.

00:26:22.000 There are some questions this morning about President Trump's health.

00:26:25.000 And it's because of this video of the president where you see him walking very haltingly, one leg at a time, it starts happening here.

00:26:35.000 People do tend to walk one leg at a time.

00:26:36.000 Down a ramp.

00:26:37.000 That looks like me walking on down museum stairs, that's all.

00:26:39.000 At West Point.

00:26:44.000 Sanjay, President Trump is not known for being athletic.

00:26:50.000 So maybe he just has a hard time going down a gently sloping ramp?

00:27:00.000 Do you see something possibly neurological that could be throwing off his balance?

00:27:05.000 Yeah.

00:27:05.000 By the way, any of you ever had a shoulder injury?

00:27:08.000 Is that what it was?

00:27:09.000 I don't know what it was, but the point is it was for a very limited time and they made a big deal about it.

00:27:14.000 He could have, you know, yesterday had vertigo.

00:27:15.000 We talked about that.

00:27:16.000 When I get head cold, that's just something that kind of runs in the family.

00:27:19.000 That's different from someone who has had a stroke and consistently, across the board, is not performing to the level that is required of his job.

00:27:26.000 And by the way, unlike Federman, with, you know, his response is, goodnight!

00:27:32.000 Donald Trump had some great answers to the media's questions, claims, accusations.

00:27:36.000 Sir, are you ready?

00:27:37.000 He said, I'm ready, General.

00:27:39.000 Where are we going now?

00:27:40.000 And he goes like this.

00:27:41.000 Right here, sir.

00:27:43.000 I walk off.

00:27:53.000 I've got myself a problem, General.

00:27:55.000 Thank you.

00:27:56.000 Because I'm wearing leather bottom shoes, which is good if you're walking on flat surfaces.

00:28:02.000 It's not good for ramps.

00:28:04.000 It had no handrail.

00:28:05.000 It was like an ice skating rink. 1.00

00:28:07.000 I said, General, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, General. 0.99

00:28:13.000 His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. 0.99

00:28:16.000 If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the president.

00:28:26.000 Clearly, he wrote that letter.

00:28:29.000 You know, for instance, I said, Doc, I want to tell you, I'll be the healthiest president ever.

00:28:34.000 And he said, I think I agree.

00:28:36.000 And I think he probably took my word for it.

00:28:38.000 He was the White House doctor.

00:28:40.000 He was a great doctor.

00:28:41.000 You know, he was an admiral, a doctor, and now he's a congressman.

00:28:45.000 I said, which is the best?

00:28:46.000 Have you had your choice?

00:28:49.000 And he sort of indicated doctor because he loved looking at my body.

00:28:53.000 It was so small.

00:28:57.000 And by the way, that's why I wear these boots.

00:29:00.000 It's absolutely true.

00:29:01.000 It has rubber.

00:29:01.000 It's a leather sole, but it has rubber there because this has happened.

00:29:03.000 There are actually stories of UFC fighters getting into street fights and getting their clock cleaned because they were in leather shoes.

00:29:08.000 If you've ever worn leather shoes, you know.

00:29:10.000 There's no grip on them.

00:29:11.000 You just slip all over the place.

00:29:12.000 So that was an easy answer, but even if, let's say that he was sick and not able to get down the stairs very well, That wasn't a disqualifying condition.

00:29:20.000 Being able to move around and run a race is not a qualification for being President of the United States.

00:29:25.000 Being able to think kind of is.

00:29:26.000 Is.

00:29:27.000 And speak.

00:29:27.000 Speaking is somewhat important.

00:29:30.000 But you're ableist.

00:29:31.000 You're ableist.

00:29:31.000 That's the issue here.

00:29:32.000 You're ableist.

00:29:33.000 When they were making an issue... Look, I think objectively we can all agree that former Vice President Joe Biden is certainly less spry.

00:29:43.000 Then President Donald Trump.

00:29:44.000 And the media says, no, no, no, he's fine.

00:29:47.000 They're being ableist.

00:29:48.000 They're trying to use it as an attack.

00:29:50.000 Then with Donald Trump, they would say, well, why is he lifting this glass of water?

00:29:53.000 There's no consistency and it's very clear that it's just used as a tool.

00:29:57.000 These people, and when I say these people, I mean people in the media, the entertainment industrial complex, they are so quick to weaponize it when it's not significant.

00:30:06.000 It's because they are repelled by truth, right?

00:30:10.000 Donald Trump, look, for all of his faults, he had an incredible amount of energy.

00:30:16.000 Too much energy.

00:30:17.000 You can't say, oh, he's not fit, and then be like, he's tweeting too much, he doesn't sleep, he just doesn't stop, he's fundamentally changing the country.

00:30:24.000 Yeah, because he's enthusiastic and he has energy.

00:30:27.000 But they are repelled by the truth.

00:30:29.000 And in this case, we know the guy had a stroke, we know that the six-month recovery point is important, and you're ableist.

00:30:34.000 There really is a consistent through-line.

00:30:36.000 If it's true, they reject it, and they fabricate a lie.

00:30:41.000 And then, they accuse you of, insert ism here, racism, sexism, uh, transphobic, uh, transphobism, if that's a term, fatphobia-ism, I don't know.

00:30:51.000 I have no idea, and I don't even know how you get over fatphobia.

00:30:54.000 Is it touch therapy?

00:30:55.000 Like when I was afraid of a spider, I had to hold it?

00:30:57.000 Don't touch that that we saw earlier.

00:30:58.000 You have to dance with it.

00:30:59.000 Grab her rolls! 1.00

00:31:02.000 I meant with the spider.

00:31:04.000 Well, look, every media outlet that I've seen covering this this morning has put, like, a stroke survivor Fetterman debate.

00:31:11.000 Like, they're basically trying to carry his water and lean into the fact that he had a stroke so that they can say, oh, you need to be sympathetic to him.

00:31:17.000 You're not supposed to win public office on sympathy.

00:31:20.000 It's supposed to be qualifications.

00:31:22.000 Pity vote.

00:31:23.000 Yeah, exactly, and that's exactly what they're pushing.

00:31:25.000 You don't remember when Mussolini won on his dyslexia?

00:31:27.000 Aye, that's true.

00:31:29.000 Joe Biden won on a stutter, so I guess it can work.

00:31:31.000 Pol Pot?

00:31:32.000 I have ADHD!

00:31:33.000 Oh, well, I mean...

00:31:34.000 Hitler won because he could only grow facial hair right here. 0.96

00:31:38.000 Charlie Chaplin thing.

00:31:39.000 Very sad.

00:31:41.000 So this is also, they want to draw attention away from the fact that when you do get down to the substance, look, Fetterman, let's get rid of it, you can call me an ableist, racist, I don't care.

00:31:50.000 He lied. 0.93

00:31:51.000 So either he is not mentally capable of serving in office or he's a dishonest person.

00:31:57.000 Case in point, he said he always supported fracking.

00:32:01.000 Is it a lie or is he mentally unfit and he doesn't remember?

00:32:04.000 You have to pick one.

00:32:06.000 I've always supported fracking.

00:32:08.000 I don't support fracking at all, and I never have.

00:32:12.000 Yeah, I called for a moratorium on fracking.

00:32:13.000 There's no such thing as a green fracker.

00:32:15.000 I'm not pro-fracking.

00:32:17.000 2016 fracking moratorium pledge that Federman signed for an environmental watchdog group, as well as a 2016 tweet he sent while running for U.S.

00:32:28.000 Senate.

00:32:28.000 I don't support fracking.

00:32:30.000 I think it's something that has to eventually go away, and I would like to see it transition out.

00:32:41.000 Lie or unfit?

00:32:43.000 You take your pick.

00:32:44.000 By the way, he also released 10 convicted, first-degree murderers from prison.

00:32:49.000 What?

00:32:50.000 And that's just a micro.

00:32:51.000 All the references are available at loudestcracker.com.

00:32:53.000 As a mayor, he oversaw skyrocketing crime, but of course, he's a Democrat, so that's par for the course.

00:32:59.000 Uh, in fairness, four of those, uh, murders had strokes.

00:33:03.000 Yes.

00:33:03.000 Ah, yes.

00:33:04.000 Don't want to be ableist.

00:33:06.000 Well, and only eight of them are repeat offenders.

00:33:08.000 That's right.

00:33:09.000 Now, so they've, I mean, you know, it's, it's not as bad as it could be.

00:33:11.000 We need to stop the overcrowding of our prison system with stroke victims. 0.73

00:33:15.000 Yes.

00:33:15.000 Who do we release first?

00:33:16.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:33:16.000 Pick the worst of the worst other than pedophiles. 0.99

00:33:19.000 Murderers it is. 0.97

00:33:20.000 Yeah, white collar crimes?

00:33:22.000 No, no, no, no.

00:33:22.000 This guy killed a bunch of people.

00:33:24.000 Ah, yes, but he has a droopy eye. 0.98

00:33:25.000 Oh, you're free to go.

00:33:26.000 He got it out of his system.

00:33:28.000 On your way, friend.

00:33:28.000 Yes.

00:33:29.000 You're just misunderstanding him.

00:33:32.000 The Braddock Town Candle Face Killer?

00:33:35.000 Here's a wheelchair and a blanket.

00:33:40.000 And a ballot.

00:33:42.000 Be sure to vote.

00:33:43.000 By the way, this is a live show Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.

00:33:45.000 Eastern, and next week we have something that will only go on Rumble, so you can watch us on YouTube, on Rumble.

00:33:50.000 There's audio, Spotify, Apple, Android, all that, and of course Mug Club.

00:33:53.000 We have a whole additional segment on Andrew Tate today, another 45 minutes of show where we'll get into theology a little bit.

00:33:59.000 So nothing would make me happier than you all switching and leaving to Rumble, and next week we do have an interview with a A mortician, an undertaker who's had to deal with bodies in the face of new stuff.

00:34:11.000 Medical advancements!

00:34:13.000 But that won't be available on YouTube.

00:34:14.000 By the way, so I need an admonishment.

00:34:17.000 I need it because... Go on.

00:34:21.000 You understand this need, don't you?

00:34:22.000 Yeah, you're right there.

00:34:23.000 And he wants one as well.

00:34:24.000 If somebody's getting one, he's getting one.

00:34:26.000 When we talked about all of the races that were closer than we thought, we actually left out a very key race that most people aren't talking about because it's New York.

00:34:32.000 Guatemala.

00:34:33.000 You just assume that a Democrat is going to be governor of New York, and it looks... it's within the margin, I think, with the Quinnipiac poll, and also it's almost too close to call in other polls.

00:34:45.000 I'm a Rasmussen guy.

00:34:47.000 I just think that it's fair.

00:34:48.000 New York, we're sorry.

00:34:49.000 Trafalgar!

00:34:49.000 You're doing pretty well as well.

00:34:51.000 Please elect somebody other than Satan that turns out to be a woman. 0.94

00:34:55.000 Monmonst! 1.00

00:34:56.000 I'll stop naming polls.

00:34:57.000 Hold on, I want my admonishment.

00:35:01.000 He gets a god-like thrill.

00:35:03.000 It's weird when you ask for it.

00:35:04.000 It is weird when you ask for it.

00:35:05.000 You've asked for it, then!

00:35:07.000 No, I deserved it.

00:35:08.000 No, I said it's weird when you ask for it.

00:35:11.000 Exactly.

00:35:11.000 He's brought it up in context of the conversation, you just brought it up to be admonished.

00:35:16.000 Well, I felt like I deserved it for leaving out a very important detail.

00:35:21.000 Good, did you get a little tingle down your leg?

00:35:23.000 No, I did not need another. 0.99

00:35:27.000 You're sick! 1.00

00:35:27.000 Give it to him. 1.00

00:35:28.000 Give it to him.

00:35:29.000 Oh man, here we go.

00:35:30.000 So be it. 1.00

00:35:31.000 You're sick! 1.00

00:35:32.000 You're sick! 1.00

00:35:33.000 Why would you do that? 1.00

00:35:34.000 I'm just messing with you.

00:35:35.000 So, name that movie line.

00:35:41.000 Alright, Taylor Swift.

00:35:43.000 Let's move on to this now while we're talking about ableism and you can't please everybody because you say, hey, hold on, I don't think you should be a senator.

00:35:49.000 Why?

00:35:50.000 Because you can't talk.

00:35:53.000 Ableist. 0.99

00:35:53.000 Now let's go to another example of how you can't please everybody. 0.99

00:35:56.000 Taylor Swift, of course as woke as one can get, decided to release, well first, you know what, it's our entertainment minute.

00:36:05.000 Thanks for watching.

00:36:19.000 I do.

00:36:20.000 Okay, just take that, keep it on the shelf because it will be relevant.

00:36:23.000 Now Taylor Swift just released a teaser for her new upcoming video and she's in there,

00:36:29.000 you would think, appeasing the left because she's getting it on, or emotionally, with

00:36:34.000 a trans dude.

00:36:35.000 We're a long way from teardrops on my guitar, aren't we?

00:36:52.000 A little bit.

00:36:55.000 That's a lot of places to film.

00:36:57.000 Yes, yes it is.

00:36:59.000 What was that, a Ludnesta commercial?

00:37:00.000 I think so.

00:37:01.000 Yeah.

00:37:02.000 Then they'll tell you about how authentic they are.

00:37:15.000 I'm sorry, what?

00:37:16.000 Where was the trans person?

00:37:17.000 Well, here, I think we have an image right here.

00:37:19.000 This is the Lunesta commercial.

00:37:20.000 The Lunesta commercial.

00:37:21.000 It is?

00:37:22.000 Yeah.

00:37:22.000 You wouldn't notice, right?

00:37:24.000 Not kidding.

00:37:25.000 Not a joke!

00:37:26.000 Lathe Ashley, actually, yeah, is a love interest. 0.98

00:37:30.000 I guess that's a trans woman to... whatever. 1.00

00:37:35.000 What?

00:37:37.000 That he used to be she. 0.96

00:37:39.000 No, but I'm curious as to why we're blurring nipples of a man.

00:37:43.000 Solid transition.

00:37:44.000 Yeah, it's a solid transition.

00:37:45.000 I gotta say, I mean, if you're gonna do it... Good for you.

00:37:48.000 Good on ya.

00:37:49.000 You know, you can thank your surgeons from the bottom of your enlarged heart.

00:37:52.000 You gave 110%.

00:37:52.000 Yes.

00:37:55.000 And now you're in a video.

00:37:56.000 Do you have any idea how unnatural that would be in the female body to get that- to put on that amount of muscle mass? 0.98

00:38:02.000 Do you have any idea how much testosterone would have to be coursing through that lady's veins? 1.00

00:38:06.000 Oh yeah, there's a lot of quick-to-anger moments.

00:38:09.000 Yes.

00:38:11.000 We're just supposed to- okay.

00:38:12.000 Okay.

00:38:12.000 Thank God, Taylor.

00:38:13.000 What?

00:38:14.000 Oh, nothing.

00:38:14.000 I don't want to be here.

00:38:15.000 I don't want to get Ben-Wad.

00:38:16.000 Oh, jeez.

00:38:20.000 I see you're putting a weight bench in the basement.

00:38:23.000 What is this, unbreakable?

00:38:24.000 Okay.

00:38:27.000 I think that warrants a comment, by the way.

00:38:29.000 Comment below.

00:38:29.000 I think, look, that is pretty good.

00:38:30.000 That's not a barely passable.

00:38:31.000 That's a passable.

00:38:32.000 Very passable.

00:38:32.000 Not for the nipple bar.

00:38:33.000 Five foot four. 0.84

00:38:35.000 Oh! 0.60

00:38:35.000 Well, that changes everything. 0.60

00:38:36.000 I don't know.

00:38:37.000 Excuse me.

00:38:38.000 Actually, I'm taller than that.

00:38:39.000 Good for you.

00:38:40.000 Five four and a half.

00:38:40.000 Five five and a half, son.

00:38:41.000 Thank you.

00:38:41.000 Sorry.

00:38:44.000 So let's go, let's do a then and now here, because of course people have been upset with Taylor Swift, but back then, and this is how Taylor Swift became popular, she was an apolitical, girl-next-door kind of country music star, right?

00:38:55.000 Very talented, I'm not taking that away from Taylor Swift, was very talented for someone her age.

00:38:58.000 When asked about politics back then, Taylor would give responses like, I don't talk about politics because it might influence other people, and I don't think that I know enough yet in life to be telling people who to vote for.

00:39:07.000 Still don't.

00:39:08.000 Well no, she's figured it out.

00:39:09.000 So.

00:39:10.000 Yes.

00:39:10.000 Now, she of course began showing support for Democrats in the state of Tennessee.

00:39:17.000 It was a huge story, and of course there are a bunch of other agendas that she's decided to take on as her raison d'être, but I think we have a clip.

00:39:25.000 The midterm race in her home state of Tennessee is a major battle Swift had avoided politics in the past, but ABC's Eva Pilgrim is here with more.

00:39:33.000 And Eva, probably not a surprise to many, she's picking the Democrat in this race. 1.00

00:39:38.000 But it is a surprise to see that she's actually speaking about politics.

00:39:41.000 This is so Out of the norm for Taylor Swift, who until now has avoided any comment about politics, even taking down a post at one point encouraging people to just get out to vote.

00:39:50.000 But overnight, the superstar making it clear to her 112 million followers on Instagram and the world where she stands.

00:39:59.000 Okay, and then after the Roe v. Wade decision, Swift retweeted Michelle Obama and wrote, I'm absolutely terrified that this is where we are.

00:40:06.000 That after so many decades of people fighting for women's rights to their own bodies, today's decision has stripped us of that.

00:40:14.000 I love how it really is with the abortion issue.

00:40:16.000 And by the way, they have not been getting the traction they thought they would going into the midterms, which I'm really happy about.

00:40:20.000 It's just, no, no, I don't have the rights to my own body if I can't abort a baby.

00:40:24.000 Again, this idea that I have the right to do whatever I want.

00:40:28.000 And I know libertarians will maybe get upset with me here, but we did have a culture where you would take into consideration how it affects other people, certainly if you're terminating a life, which we know you are.

00:40:37.000 At the very least, we can agree in the third trimester.

00:40:39.000 At the very least, we can agree when it's viable, even if you're not pro-life.

00:40:41.000 You're certainly terminating another life, but when we talk also about being A stroke victim who's maybe mentally unfit being a senator.

00:40:47.000 That affects other people.

00:40:48.000 When we talk about women having to go into the military, in the Marines, where they can do half as many push-ups and still get a perfect score. 0.91

00:40:53.000 That affects other people.

00:40:54.000 It's not always about you.

00:40:56.000 If it puts other people at risk, if it hurts other people, it's no longer your decision to make.

00:41:02.000 It's not at your discretion.

00:41:03.000 That's the argument with abortion.

00:41:05.000 Is it a life?

00:41:05.000 That's the argument when we're talking about someone serving in public office.

00:41:08.000 It's not that we don't like him because he had a stroke.

00:41:11.000 It's that we think he may not be fit for the job.

00:41:13.000 It's not that you don't have the right to your own body.

00:41:15.000 It's that you don't have the right to dismember another body.

00:41:17.000 That's where the argument is.

00:41:18.000 You may disagree, but you need to be honest about where the argument is.

00:41:22.000 And if we can all agree that we need to get to that point, I'm not talking about finding common ground.

00:41:26.000 I'm talking about at least being honest.

00:41:28.000 In representing your ideological and political opposition.

00:41:32.000 You don't need to be nice.

00:41:33.000 You don't need to find false common ground.

00:41:35.000 You just need to be honest.

00:41:37.000 And I'm past the point of believing that the left thinks it's an honest argument to say you're ableist. 0.98

00:41:42.000 Thinks it's an honest argument to say they want you to be raped and they don't care about incest. 0.97

00:41:47.000 It's not honest.

00:41:48.000 Hit the like button if you agree.

00:41:49.000 That helps with the algorithm.

00:41:50.000 YouTube doesn't like it very much.

00:41:52.000 And again, no good deed goes unpunished because I don't know if the control room can bring up some of the tweets.

00:41:56.000 It was trending here this morning.

00:41:59.000 Taylor Swift also pissed off fat people.

00:42:01.000 What?

00:42:03.000 I knew that was gonna happen when I saw his washboard abs.

00:42:07.000 Yeah, that'll do it. 1.00

00:42:11.000 She wears big vagina pants. 1.00

00:42:13.000 Yes. 1.00

00:42:14.000 I've said it.

00:42:14.000 De-stigmatize the belt.

00:42:16.000 She's got them up here.

00:42:18.000 She can pull them off.

00:42:20.000 I'm not saying she's not adorable.

00:42:21.000 She's very pretty.

00:42:22.000 But she does have trouble keeping a man according to her music. 0.97

00:42:24.000 Yes, she does.

00:42:26.000 And by that you mean any man.

00:42:28.000 Yes.

00:42:28.000 You're like, oh, she's gonna throw some shade at John Mayer.

00:42:30.000 Again, who cares?

00:42:32.000 So, fat people are mad because in the Swift video, even though it's pro-trans and she has a love interest who's a man with a... I don't even know if he's a John Thomas.

00:42:41.000 I have no idea.

00:42:42.000 but she showed a scale in her music video that reads fat.

00:42:45.000 So the idea there is supposed to be, hey, you're being told that you're not good enough.

00:42:59.000 Right.

00:43:00.000 Right?

00:43:00.000 It would seem as though she's actually, unfortunately, part of the pro-fat pride movement.

00:43:04.000 But they were upset.

00:43:06.000 Well, it's self-deprecation.

00:43:09.000 It's showing depression.

00:43:10.000 Can we bring that tweet up again?

00:43:12.000 I don't know if you can read it.

00:43:13.000 It says, There is no explanation for portraying fatness as bad and as something to fear, which doesn't justify the hatred of fat people.

00:43:21.000 Oh, really?

00:43:22.000 Self-hatred isn't a reason?

00:43:24.000 Because that's what that's supposed to be.

00:43:26.000 Fearing fatness is a basic tenet of how fatphobia operates.

00:43:30.000 Didn't Lizzo have something with a scale, too?

00:43:32.000 Was it in an actual video?

00:43:33.000 I think it was, actually.

00:43:34.000 Where it said skinny and beautiful?

00:43:36.000 Yakuza, is that what it was?

00:43:36.000 Skinny AF, I think it was.

00:43:38.000 Skinny AF in her scale? 1.00

00:43:39.000 Yeah.

00:43:39.000 So Taylor Swift is fat, and Lizzo is skinny AF.

00:43:43.000 Well, but if it's so bad, why would it say skinny AF? 0.93

00:43:46.000 Wouldn't it just say fat, because that's what beautiful... 0.97

00:43:49.000 This is the thing where they want to act like they don't.

00:43:51.000 This is the problem with feminism, okay? 1.00

00:43:52.000 It's the same bullshit that you see in She-Hulk. 1.00

00:43:54.000 You want to see everything that is wrong with feminism? 1.00

00:43:57.000 Try and stomach two episodes of She-Hulk. 0.95

00:44:00.000 It's, oh, all guys are completely incompetent when she clearly is terrible at her job. 0.87

00:44:05.000 I can't believe that people are mad at me for being in this job.

00:44:07.000 What she was unqualified for was given the job because she's a celebrity superhero. 0.99

00:44:11.000 And then at the same time, I don't care what anyone thinks about me while she's getting custom designer suits and dresses to try and look better. 1.00

00:44:17.000 It's the same thing with Lizzo.

00:44:18.000 I don't care what y'all say.

00:44:19.000 I think I'm beautiful.

00:44:20.000 As she signs a multi-million dollar beauty deal with makeup, with perfume, which, by the way, you have to jump in a vat of that because of the fat yeast infections. 1.00

00:44:28.000 The point is, they try and act as though they don't care.

00:44:30.000 Of course they care!

00:44:32.000 And this is why there's no pleasing anybody, because it can't be objective truth.

00:44:36.000 If you think that Lizzo is skinny AF, And Taylor Swift is either fat or you think that that commentary and that was fat phobic, then there is no truth that can get through to you.

00:44:50.000 You're living a lie.

00:44:52.000 Also, I don't know about you, I don't know about you, if you had your pick, getting rid of obviously like, assuming like they couldn't talk.

00:44:59.000 Taylor Swift or Lizzo?

00:45:01.000 Can't I just have the sandwich?

00:45:02.000 Who do you think is prettier? 0.99

00:45:05.000 Yeah, Taylor.

00:45:06.000 Well, I gotta go Taylor, if I'm being honest.

00:45:09.000 It's racism.

00:45:10.000 I do love, well, no it's not.

00:45:11.000 It's fatphobia.

00:45:12.000 Apparently I'm afraid of fat people. 0.87

00:45:14.000 I think Lizzo would crush me and therefore I would die. 1.00

00:45:16.000 Get your Little Orphan Annie LGBT fat pride decoder pen. 0.99

00:45:20.000 Yeah, but she would play a mean flute while I was dying. 1.00

00:45:24.000 No, but look, I think Taylor Swift—I love it that they go after Taylor Swift. 0.88

00:45:28.000 I love it that people who go out and try to virtue signal and say, oh, I can't believe—and say stupid stuff like that we talked about with abortion, what she said about that, you know, it's our bodies, I can't believe we're losing our rights. 0.97

00:45:38.000 I love it when the left eats their own. 0.99

00:45:40.000 Because it shows you that, like you said, there is no pleasing them.

00:45:43.000 There is no real center to the left.

00:45:46.000 It is whatever we think at any point in time, and it can be completely taken out of context.

00:45:51.000 Do you remember—and this maybe wasn't—do you remember when she got in trouble for having cornrows and eating watermelon in one of her music videos?

00:45:56.000 Yes, I do.

00:45:57.000 Was that Taylor Swift?

00:45:58.000 She looked like Sugar Sean O'Malley.

00:46:00.000 I'm 99% sure it was Taylor Swift.

00:46:02.000 It offends me just hearing about it.

00:46:06.000 Don't get me started on the video where she had dreadlocks and was shaking her head like corn. 1.00

00:46:10.000 Yeah, that's no good.

00:46:11.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:46:12.000 She had a headache after that.

00:46:13.000 She's not much of a headbanger.

00:46:16.000 She absolutely got roasted for doing that and I'm like, what makes you stay on the left?

00:46:21.000 Fear?

00:46:22.000 Because you're in the entertainment industry, you have to come out and support these causes.

00:46:25.000 It's guilt.

00:46:26.000 I'll tell you, it's guilt.

00:46:27.000 Here's what it is.

00:46:28.000 Usually you look at business owners, right?

00:46:29.000 And I mean people who are wealthy, because wealthy in this country is, you know, $250,000 or more as a joint household income.

00:46:35.000 Now it's $400,000 or more because former Vice President Biden makes one.

00:46:38.000 Yeah, he makes $400,000.

00:46:38.000 $401,000.

00:46:39.000 Oh, I'm gonna increase taxes and then we're making more than $400,000.

00:46:43.000 That's the ticket.

00:46:44.000 But the point is, if you look at most people who are wealthy in this country, they've had to create businesses, or they've had to provide goods or services, right?

00:46:48.000 They've had to build it from the ground up.

00:46:50.000 And as someone who's been in both sides, who's acted, but who's also done, you know, not only stand-up, but now employed 20 people, I know what it takes to build this up.

00:46:58.000 It's hard-fought territory.

00:47:00.000 A lot of people who are actors, or in the entertainment industry, they're incredibly talented, but they feel guilty because it's God-given.

00:47:07.000 In other words, they go from nothing to millions of dollars, and I think they think, there's a part of them that says, this easily could have been someone else, somewhere else, I didn't earn this.

00:47:16.000 Imposter syndrome.

00:47:17.000 I think it's a huge component of what happens.

00:47:20.000 I mean, you know, stand-up comedians don't always have the most amount of respect for actors who sit there and bitch about their craft and how hard it is.

00:47:27.000 It's like, you're saying what they tell you to.

00:47:29.000 Of course there are great actors and there are fantastic actors and there are terrible actors.

00:47:33.000 No, but people who have to create something, it's like, well, hold on a second, you have a script, you have a producer, you have a makeup artist, you have a stage and a microphone.

00:47:38.000 Yeah.

00:47:39.000 And people are going to boo you if you're not good.

00:47:41.000 Well, and try to get you canceled and every other thing.

00:47:44.000 Well, I think the real problem with this, too, is Taylor Swift is putting out a music video where she's trying to show, at least from what I can grasp from it, that people do deal with the fact that they are, say, fat shamed, or they do feel bad about themselves, or they do live in a society where they don't feel like they're good enough.

00:47:44.000 Yeah.

00:47:44.000 Right.

00:48:00.000 Depression's at an all-time high.

00:48:01.000 We give SSRIs to so many people that, you know, work as well as Pez. 0.99

00:48:06.000 And we have a lot of people that are struggling, especially after the pandemic, with emotional disorders.

00:48:12.000 So she's pointing that out.

00:48:14.000 But instead, you want to look at it, rifle through it, find the word fat, not realize what the actual meaning of it is, and then poison her with it.

00:48:22.000 It just doesn't make any sense to me.

00:48:24.000 It's like, she's just trying to point out how somebody else might feel who's one of her fans.

00:48:29.000 But she has to, like every other actor or actress who has had this happen.

00:48:33.000 You have to come out and fight it.

00:48:35.000 You have to say, I do not care what you think about this.

00:48:39.000 My point was this.

00:48:40.000 This is art trying to show you that people are self-critical.

00:48:44.000 No, and she'll have to apologize or whatever.

00:48:46.000 For her, obviously she's not that.

00:48:48.000 That's the whole point.

00:48:50.000 Right.

00:48:50.000 Yeah, which one of those is that?

00:48:54.000 You remember Chris Pine when he was listening to Guardians of the Galaxy at the movie theater or watching it?

00:48:58.000 Chris Pine or Chris Pratt?

00:49:00.000 Pine.

00:49:01.000 The lesser of the Chrises. 0.90

00:49:03.000 He said, turn it up.

00:49:04.000 And he tweeted it out.

00:49:05.000 Hashtag Guardians of the Galaxy or whatever it was.

00:49:05.000 Turn it up.

00:49:07.000 And the deaf community came after him.

00:49:10.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:49:11.000 We covered it on the show.

00:49:12.000 Oh no, I remember.

00:49:13.000 And he came out and he actually signed an apology and I was like... You just have to say, I'm sorry you can't hear it!

00:49:19.000 This music's amazing!

00:49:20.000 I don't know!

00:49:21.000 He didn't have to at all deaf people.

00:49:26.000 That is true.

00:49:27.000 He really didn't need to target them.

00:49:28.000 You know, the deaf community is a big thing.

00:49:30.000 You know, Reg, who obviously worked here, is brilliant.

00:49:32.000 He has a son who's deaf and another one who is hearing impaired.

00:49:35.000 And he said it's really a problem that doesn't need to exist in modern times in the sense that, you know, you either get to the point of cochlear implants or, you know, hearing aids have gotten much better.

00:49:42.000 For sure.

00:49:43.000 Not entirely solvable, but we've made great strides.

00:49:46.000 And there's an entire component of the deaf community who says, well, no, that's shaming deafness and they want to remain deaf.

00:49:50.000 Go watch The Sound of Metal.

00:49:52.000 I watched it.

00:49:52.000 This is great acting.

00:49:53.000 And I was sitting there like, wait, he gets kicked out of the deaf The Deaf Club?

00:49:56.000 Because he got a cochlear implant?

00:49:57.000 You kick him out?

00:49:58.000 Well, he's no longer one of us.

00:50:00.000 It's like Children of the Corn.

00:50:02.000 One of us.

00:50:03.000 Was that Children of the Corn?

00:50:04.000 Freaks.

00:50:09.000 My point is this. 0.98

00:50:10.000 Lizzo, you're not skinny as F. Or A, AF.

00:50:14.000 Skinny AF.

00:50:15.000 I don't care.

00:50:15.000 Let's move on to school.

00:50:16.000 This is what actually matters.

00:50:17.000 Hopefully we can safeguard against this abs-tomfoolery.

00:50:21.000 We can't.

00:50:22.000 Yes, we can't.

00:50:23.000 All is lost.

00:50:23.000 It's like that Robert Redford film.

00:50:25.000 That was a terrible movie.

00:50:28.000 Boy, it left me wanting to kill myself. 1.00

00:50:30.000 He's made a lot of crap, if we're being honest. 1.00

00:50:32.000 Speaking of crap, let's move on to public schools here. 0.99

00:50:35.000 In this country right now, you may not know of this, and I think this is really valuable because for the first time we kind of have an apples-to-apples comparison, which we didn't have before with homeschooling and with public schools, because the methods were so different. 0.97

00:50:47.000 Right, yeah.

00:50:47.000 And now a lot of homeschooling has moved online, and of course we know for the last two years public schools, who have way, way, way more money and qualifications, have largely moved online as well.

00:50:56.000 Well, the 2022 results from the National Assessment of Education Sorry, National Assessment of Education Progress, the NAEP.

00:51:04.000 The acronym isn't even short enough!

00:51:07.000 So grades 4 through 8, they're in.

00:51:10.000 We have an assessment now.

00:51:12.000 It's not good.

00:51:13.000 New test results from The Nation's Report Card show in most states, 4th and 8th graders are falling behind in reading and math.

00:51:21.000 That's not important.

00:51:22.000 The math scores are historic, the worst decline ever recorded, with roughly 25% of 4th graders and 38% of 8th graders performing below the basic level, the lowest of the three achievement levels for the test.

00:51:38.000 Students who were already struggling in school showed the most dramatic drop-off.

00:51:43.000 Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona calling the results appalling and unacceptable.

00:51:49.000 Is that that guy who makes like $450,000 a year?

00:51:51.000 Uh, I think he makes a lot of money.

00:51:53.000 Didn't we talk about that guy?

00:51:54.000 It's like, these results are appalling and unacceptable.

00:51:57.000 Oh, who's in charge here?

00:52:00.000 President Biden, me.

00:52:01.000 Yeah, that's my fault.

00:52:03.000 I did a really bad job.

00:52:04.000 What are you going to do about it?

00:52:05.000 Well, not much.

00:52:06.000 You can't fire me. 0.93

00:52:07.000 Don't be absurd.

00:52:08.000 I wouldn't fire myself. 0.87

00:52:10.000 Don't be meritocratist.

00:52:12.000 I've got tenure?

00:52:14.000 Yes.

00:52:15.000 I need a raise.

00:52:15.000 Yep.

00:52:16.000 So ACT scores, by the way, also for the 10th through 12th grade, have fallen to their lowest point in more than 30 years.

00:52:23.000 The lowest since 1991.

00:52:26.000 And by the way, this is even for states that don't administer standardized tests.

00:52:29.000 California, for example.

00:52:31.000 Their proficiency is down across the board.

00:52:33.000 Only 47% met the standard for English.

00:52:35.000 Only 33% met the standard for math.

00:52:37.000 That's a four and six and a half percent drop since 2018-19, right, that semester, in both categories.

00:52:45.000 That is dramatic.

00:52:48.000 And that's also why I think putting children in public schools today is tantamount to child abuse.

00:52:52.000 Hit the like button, or you can comment below if you agree.

00:52:54.000 But here's the thing, with all of this happening, with people having the lowest test scores, with people doing very, very, very poorly in school and not being educated, they want more money when they go to the workforce.

00:53:02.000 Yes, because they don't have enough.

00:53:04.000 They don't have enough skills to earn more money.

00:53:06.000 They have degrees, and they have all the money, but they can't out-compete mom with an iMac.

00:53:13.000 And by the way, though, we do need to be clear, right?

00:53:15.000 Both sides of the coin here, not all people were negatively affected by the pandemic and the online learning challenges.

00:53:22.000 For example, here we've lived this, right?

00:53:24.000 We've hired some great new interns.

00:53:36.000 I cheated on my Spanish final.

00:53:38.000 Nice! 0.94

00:53:41.000 I used my brother's old thesis on stingrays to pass biology. 0.99

00:53:47.000 I had sex with my teacher. 0.97

00:53:51.000 Weren't you homeschooled? 1.00

00:53:53.000 Yeah.

00:53:55.000 So, I have a question for you.

00:54:13.000 The resu...

00:54:15.000 Cheers.

00:54:17.000 The results for public schools are in, so let's compare it to homeschooling.

00:54:22.000 And by the way, the more you dive into these numbers, all references are available at loudmouthcrowder.com.

00:54:25.000 We like to think that, oh, homeschool kids, they're maladjusted.

00:54:29.000 That's bad.

00:54:30.000 They don't do very well.

00:54:31.000 And there's been a real movement, by the way, not just people like John Oliver, but people in the government from the left, trying to make it more difficult, nearly impossible, to homeschool.

00:54:39.000 In Canada, where I was raised, I knew one kid who was homeschooled.

00:54:42.000 I don't know the regulations there.

00:54:43.000 I know it's a lot of hoops to jump through.

00:54:45.000 And you made fun of him, most likely.

00:54:46.000 Yeah, well, he was weird.

00:54:47.000 Simon was a weird kid. 0.95

00:54:49.000 According to you, Porn, it's a sticky situation. 0.94

00:54:51.000 It can be.

00:54:52.000 So here's the United States Census.

00:54:54.000 Their Pulse survey showed homeschooling skyrocketed from 5% of households in the spring of 2022 to over 11% by the fall.

00:55:02.000 So a doubling, to be clear.

00:55:04.000 And we have the results.

00:55:05.000 Again, they're learning online, right, in public schools.

00:55:08.000 A lot of homeschooling now is online, or at the very least, parents are sort of following

00:55:12.000 along, usually mom, with a syllabus.

00:55:14.000 I don't know if you call it an online syllabus exactly or some kind of a course outline.

00:55:18.000 Homeschool students, on average, scored 15 to 30 percent above public school students

00:55:23.000 in the standardized academic achievement test.

00:55:25.000 And here's something else that's important.

00:55:26.000 Black homeschooled students, black American homeschooled students, actually did 23 to 42 percent better than black students in public schools.

00:55:35.000 And this is data you won't have, but I'm willing to bet why.

00:55:39.000 Or at least it's a component.

00:55:41.000 Probably young black Americans who are being homeschooled, I'm willing to bet that a higher percentage of them have fathers in the household.

00:55:47.000 Because of the kinds of people who typically homeschool.

00:55:49.000 They're typically traditional, you typically need a father there if you're going to have one of the parents homeschooling, a strong family unit.

00:55:55.000 Because it's even more drastic than just the average.

00:55:59.000 It's higher for black homeschool students.

00:56:00.000 So if we're talking about this, we're talking about improving the black community here in this country, why don't we talk about Homeschooling.

00:56:08.000 It's not a money issue.

00:56:09.000 Yeah, well I think there's a large amount of peer pressure as well that they're benefiting from at homeschool.

00:56:15.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:16.000 Depending on the neighborhood, you know.

00:56:18.000 Yeah, well I mean it's one of those, you made the point like you obviously you've got to have somebody earning a living, somebody staying home with the children to do the homeschooling.

00:56:25.000 But I don't know, if I had to guess, My impression of homeschooled people, like you said, maladjusted, like socially a little bit awkward, I would not have guessed doing much, much better overall than public school kids.

00:56:37.000 Oh, I did.

00:56:37.000 I never would have guessed that.

00:56:38.000 Really?

00:56:39.000 No.

00:56:40.000 I know some smart people that were homeschooled, but I would just assume that the school system would have, you know, billions and billions of dollars to have better educational services for people, and I was wrong.

00:56:49.000 Oh, you're being facetious.

00:56:50.000 No, no, no, I wasn't.

00:56:51.000 I would never have guessed that.

00:56:52.000 I just, I know- Are you serious?

00:56:54.000 I never would have guessed that- You never would have guessed that homeschool students do better than public school students?

00:56:57.000 No, I would have thought that they just taught their own curriculum.

00:57:00.000 Well, I mean, I was like, mom can't possibly be as good as a public school- They still have to get their GED. 0.77

00:57:05.000 No, I- Do they?

00:57:06.000 Oh, you mean the homeschoolers.

00:57:07.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:08.000 I thought you meant moms.

00:57:08.000 No, I understand that.

00:57:08.000 What would I mean?

00:57:09.000 Yeah, sorry.

00:57:11.000 Their good enough degree?

00:57:14.000 Yes.

00:57:15.000 So no, I'm surprised that you're surprised.

00:57:17.000 Yeah, no, I've always known that the numbers are higher.

00:57:20.000 But here's where it also is even more important, when you look at how much money is spent on public schools. 0.95

00:57:25.000 You know, you see those stupid bumper stickers, when the Air Force needs to host a bake sale to raise money for their bombers, and public schools get all the money they need. 0.96

00:57:31.000 If you look at total spending, when you include federal and state spending, we spend way more on education. 0.99

00:57:36.000 Now, let's also look at specifically, right, you would think the pandemic.

00:57:40.000 People now could say, well, we weren't prepared.

00:57:42.000 The reason it's gone down is because we weren't prepared for the pandemic.

00:57:44.000 By the way, the pandemic did not cause proficiency scores to plummet.

00:57:49.000 It was the insane, dishonest reactions to COVID-19. 0.98

00:57:54.000 COVID-19 didn't make kids dumber. 0.98

00:57:58.000 Also, you weren't prepared? 0.95

00:57:59.000 Well, $190 billion that was allocated to schools in response to COVID says you were.

00:58:04.000 $190 billion and you're acting like it just came upon you like a thief of the night?

00:58:10.000 $190 billion should soften that landing a little bit.

00:58:13.000 Because that's what you guys said you needed.

00:58:15.000 You said teachers unions across the country, one you said you couldn't go to work because it was a scary place because people could get sick, right?

00:58:21.000 Even though we knew a lot about the virus by that point, you just said we need more money.

00:58:25.000 They were striking in Chicago for more money.

00:58:28.000 They were striking Everywhere that they were striking for more money because it's all about the student.

00:58:32.000 It's not about the teacher, but if you pay me more, I'll do a better job. 0.97

00:58:34.000 That's essentially what we've been hearing, but then we give you $190 billion in additional funding that's either earmarked or taken already, and your results suck.

00:58:42.000 Well, the average spending per pupil, or the federal government, I believe.

00:58:45.000 I believe this is only the federal government.

00:58:46.000 We have the references.

00:58:48.000 Only the federal government.

00:58:48.000 That's not including state spending, which is a huge component of public school spending.

00:58:52.000 $13,000 per student.

00:58:53.000 By the way, in some low-income districts, the COVID funding alone—and by the way, when I say low-income, I do mean there's a higher percentage, right?

00:58:59.000 This is where they'll try and accuse you of being racist if you say there's a higher percentage of Black Americans, but then they'll say, by the way, of course, there's environmental racism because these factories or these oil refineries, they get set up in low-income areas, which have a lot of Black people.

00:59:13.000 But if you say it here, look, this negatively affects Black Americans more.

00:59:17.000 So in some low-income districts, COVID funding alone allocated an additional $30,000 per student.

00:59:23.000 Wow.

00:59:24.000 That's a lot.

00:59:24.000 And homeschooled kids, children, do we say of color?

00:59:28.000 That's the term.

00:59:28.000 It feels dirty saying that.

00:59:29.000 I'm going to say black kids. 0.93

00:59:30.000 I don't know how a person of color is any different from colored people, and I just feel like five years from now it's going to turn on us. 1.00

00:59:35.000 So black is always relatively safe. 0.91

00:59:37.000 There you go. 0.85

00:59:38.000 $30,000 per student.

00:59:39.000 Now, let's compare that to, so that's $190 billion, just COVID.

00:59:44.000 Now, there are 3.7 million homeschooled students, right, as of 2020-2021.

00:59:47.000 That actually saved taxpayers $56 billion.

00:59:51.000 You know, you've heard me talk about this when people say, well, the wall's going to be expensive.

00:59:54.000 The wall, if you were to build it on the southern border, would be somewhere between $20 billion to $40 billion, depending on the estimates you use.

01:00:01.000 Illegal immigrants cost the taxpayers well over $100 billion annually.

01:00:06.000 Homeschooled students save $56 billion for taxpayers.

01:00:13.000 $190 billion net negative, right?

01:00:15.000 You spend it versus making $56 billion.

01:00:19.000 Hey, we also know the test scores are better.

01:00:21.000 We also know that it helps students of color more.

01:00:23.000 How about we create... This is a perfect example.

01:00:25.000 We don't need to spend more money.

01:00:26.000 We need to pull it back and create incentives and make it easier and more efficient for kids to be homeschooled.

01:00:32.000 And let them maybe participate in sports there, maybe participate in some of the extracurricular activities.

01:00:37.000 Make it more of a part of our society because we know that it performs better, but it's the money.

01:00:42.000 Principals, I mean, the reason they have attendance policies, it's not because of the test scores.

01:00:42.000 It's the money.

01:00:47.000 Of course they have to have a baseline, but when they go way below the baseline and hit their head on the bar, they still get to do their job.

01:00:53.000 It's because the more days you're there, that's how they get their money and their funding.

01:00:53.000 Right.

01:00:57.000 If you're not there, they don't get paid for you that day from the government.

01:01:00.000 That's how it works.

01:01:01.000 There are taxpayers out there just waiting to give you their money.

01:01:06.000 Are you man enough to take it? 0.99

01:01:07.000 Do you have the balls to take it? 0.99

01:01:09.000 It takes brass balls to be a public school teacher! 0.99

01:01:12.000 I'm sorry, real hero!

01:01:13.000 I'm here on a mission of mercy.

01:01:18.000 I wish when I was getting screamed at for never going to class, they were just like, it's about money!

01:01:25.000 If they would have just said it, they should have been like, look, 20 bucks a class.

01:01:31.000 We've known this before, but I'm hoping, you know, I talked about this yesterday, you know, you see Cuban Americans are the most consistently conservative voting bloc.

01:01:36.000 Why?

01:01:36.000 Because they've lived it.

01:01:37.000 Because a lot of Cuban-Americans, they're actual refugees, by the way.

01:01:40.000 They were a generation of refugees.

01:01:42.000 So they fled a government which was legitimately persecuting them, to be clear.

01:01:47.000 And so since they've lived it, they have said, we reject socialism in all of its forms, and they're reliably conservative.

01:01:52.000 We've always known that spending does not correlate with public schools to any type of actual measurable outcomes.

01:02:00.000 By the way, for example, there's no correlation between spending and better scores.

01:02:02.000 Washington, D.C., they spend $30,000 per student on average.

01:02:05.000 It's the second worst.

01:02:06.000 Okay, in the country, as far as the N-A-E-P, wonderful acronym. 1.00

01:02:09.000 Who's number one?

01:02:10.000 I really want to know.

01:02:12.000 Is it Detroit?

01:02:12.000 I have no idea.

01:02:15.000 I thought Detroit would be in the running, of course.

01:02:16.000 Could be Poughkeepsie.

01:02:17.000 Just be one of the surprises.

01:02:19.000 Oh, wow.

01:02:21.000 Didn't Ellen give the school board of Detroit, like, a giant check, and then they just went and bought stuff for the principal? 0.99

01:02:27.000 Oh, they've done that several times.

01:02:29.000 Everybody who has a lot of money thinks, oh, I can just throw money at it.

01:02:32.000 Mark Zuckerberg gave $100 million, or at least contributed to the fund that raised $100 million for Newark Public Schools when Cory Booker was there and actually running the program.

01:02:40.000 I've mentioned it before.

01:02:40.000 It doesn't do anything.

01:02:41.000 It does not do anything.

01:02:42.000 It went to him getting some wonderful haikus for his Instagram. 0.97

01:02:46.000 Well, yeah.

01:02:48.000 Gosh, that guy's just the worst. 1.00

01:02:49.000 I hate him. 0.97

01:02:50.000 No, but now you're living it.

01:02:52.000 Hey, parents, I'd love to hear from you below right now if you're watching, if you're listening.

01:02:56.000 Have you had kids in public schools, or if you homeschool, has it really been affected by the pandemic?

01:03:01.000 Do we also really want an education system that is beholden to a bad flu?

01:03:07.000 Four kids, when we're talking about the death rates.

01:03:08.000 Four children.

01:03:10.000 No, this is the issue.

01:03:11.000 We've always known that spending does not correlate with better outcomes.

01:03:13.000 And now, hopefully, you've said, oh, $190 billion, more money than ever going into public schools.

01:03:18.000 Are they better?

01:03:19.000 Objectively, they're not.

01:03:21.000 Subjectively, do you feel better about sending your kid to public schools?

01:03:24.000 So, don't ever let the left say, oh, we're the empathetic side.

01:03:27.000 You're not empathetic.

01:03:29.000 I don't want to spend money on the military.

01:03:30.000 I want to help our kids.

01:03:32.000 Look, that would work.

01:03:33.000 If the premise was correct, that throwing more money at the education system makes it better.

01:03:39.000 It hasn't.

01:03:40.000 Now I'm not saying that throwing more money at it makes it worse, but I can say that there is a reverse correlation if you actually look on a graph.

01:03:48.000 The more money we spend, the proficiency scores have gone down.

01:03:52.000 So I can, we can all definitively say more money, more money, more money is not the solution.

01:03:57.000 And we can all definitively say That homeschooling produces better outcomes and saves the taxpayer money.

01:04:05.000 People want to talk about non-partisan issues.

01:04:07.000 Oh, you're just shouting over each other.

01:04:08.000 Okay.

01:04:10.000 Where's the common ground here?

01:04:11.000 I can't imagine an issue where we should be able to find more common ground.

01:04:15.000 Maybe charter schools.

01:04:16.000 But you guys don't want that.

01:04:18.000 It's really bad.

01:04:19.000 We talked about this before we locked down the schools and the teachers didn't want to go back to school.

01:04:23.000 We had doctors saying that not only are we going to have mental health issues, the likes of which we have never seen, but this directly affects students and their ability to learn.

01:04:33.000 You made your decisions. Yeah, well and one of the things that we didn't talk about, but if you look

01:04:38.000 at Catholic private schools, in that same proficiency report that came out, and you made

01:04:42.000 Catholic private schools a state, right? They would be number one in every category for proficiency.

01:04:47.000 Number one, one of the differences with Catholic private schools, one, so this is the same solution 0.96

01:04:52.000 Hit you with a ruler and make you drink, make you eat last night's vomit?

01:04:55.000 They do.

01:04:55.000 They beat you and then they sprinkle you, so that's fine.

01:04:57.000 Walking bull-legged?

01:04:59.000 Yes.

01:04:59.000 No, but the two things, and you can take these over and you can apply these to public school as well.

01:05:03.000 One is, parents are paying to send their kids to private school.

01:05:07.000 So parents are invested in their education, right?

01:05:10.000 And two, better quality teachers because there's competition.

01:05:14.000 At private Catholic schools, if you don't have a good academic program, which means you're sending people to the next level either for jobs or to colleges, they're doing well, they're having good outcomes, people tend to look at your program and go, ah, it's not worth the money, I'm going to go do something else.

01:05:27.000 Public school has never had to compete.

01:05:29.000 All you need to do right now is get rid of funding for public education, get rid of all of the payment mechanisms.

01:05:35.000 Yeah, for the federal level.

01:05:37.000 Get rid of all the payment mechanisms, whether it be property taxes in the state of Texas or other places that tax another way.

01:05:42.000 Give that money to parents and say, okay, here, you are responsible for your child's education because guess what?

01:05:47.000 You are.

01:05:48.000 It doesn't matter what the government does.

01:05:50.000 You are responsible for your child's education and teachers, you're going to have to compete just like everybody else.

01:05:54.000 Public school was a great try.

01:05:57.000 We missed it.

01:05:58.000 We need to change and we won't unless teachers unions are gone. 1.00

01:06:00.000 You know what it makes me think of, too?

01:06:01.000 People would always say, you know, they talk about Ebenezer Scrooge.

01:06:04.000 By the way, it's my favorite piece of fiction ever, is A Christmas Carol.

01:06:06.000 It's like the fifth gospel.

01:06:07.000 Yeah.

01:06:07.000 But A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, it really is a story of a liberal becoming a conservative.

01:06:13.000 Because remember, when they came to him for donations, he said, are there no prisons?

01:06:16.000 Are there no poor houses?

01:06:17.000 These are government-run entities.

01:06:18.000 In other words, in his mind, it was, that's off my plate.

01:06:20.000 Right.

01:06:21.000 I don't need to do anything about it.

01:06:22.000 The government's supposed to handle it.

01:06:24.000 And then after, his moment of redemption, he said, you know what, it is up

01:06:27.000 to me to give to charity. It is up to me to be a good Christian, to do the Christian thing, to help

01:06:33.000 my fellow man. It is not up to me to just pass it off to the government. And of course, this is also

01:06:37.000 why I see the left, that they want to remove the tax-exempt status of the church. This is why the

01:06:41.000 left constantly denigrates the church, constantly misrepresents the fact that they're more giving,

01:06:44.000 that they're more charitable, they're more generous. Middle-class Christian conservative

01:06:48.000 Americans are the most generous people on the planet as a percentage of their income, bar

01:06:52.000 none.

01:06:52.000 It's not even close.

01:06:53.000 Reference is available at ladderwithcutter.com.

01:06:55.000 We've talked about this several times before.

01:06:57.000 It's really easy for the left to say, we're compassionate, especially when 47% of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax.

01:07:03.000 Maybe it's down to 43% right now.

01:07:05.000 I don't know.

01:07:05.000 Really easy to say, Yeah, yeah, that's being taken care of over there.

01:07:08.000 I've done my part.

01:07:09.000 It's a lot more difficult for you to sit down and look the people who are affected in the face and do your job to help them.

01:07:16.000 And you know what your job is in this case?

01:07:18.000 Your mom.

01:07:19.000 Your dad.

01:07:20.000 You need to teach your kids.

01:07:21.000 You don't need a degree.

01:07:24.000 You just need to care.

01:07:24.000 But of course we know that all the true heroes, that's their problem, is they care too much.

01:07:29.000 That's true.

01:07:29.000 They give too much.

01:07:30.000 And by the way, I care too much About quality firearms.

01:07:33.000 So before we leave, uh, Walther, they're the official firearm of Loud Earth Crowder Studios.

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01:07:42.000 Look, I don't need to say, this is like cheat codes.

01:07:44.000 The PDP with a red dot?

01:07:46.000 It's absurd.

01:07:46.000 Just go and try it.

01:07:48.000 They have the balls to sponsor the show. 0.91

01:07:49.000 I think you'll love it. 0.97

01:07:50.000 And, uh, you know, look, everybody out there, if you're a parent, you put your kids in public schools.

01:07:55.000 Well, I have no common ground with you.

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