Louder with Crowder - 🔴 South Park Mocks Charlie Kirk & Vox Cries Eugenics over Sydney Sweeney 2025-08-07 18:07

00:00:45.000 Business was good.

00:00:46.000 You had all these liberal arts majors and gender studies MOOCs just signing their name, handing over their lives. 0.92

00:00:52.000 Meanwhile, an administrator's skimming off the top, nobody's the wiser.

00:00:56.000 Then you got these middle-aged nobodies paying off a loan for a degree they can't even wipe their ass with.

00:01:01.000 Nobody cares.

00:01:03.000 It was free money, and we were happy to take it.

00:01:08.000 So here's something else.

00:01:11.000 You'll see the left get really mad, for example.

00:01:13.000 Like, why are there any subsidies taking place for oil or energy companies?

00:01:16.000 And there shouldn't be, by the way, it's quite a bit more complicated than that.

00:01:19.000 But I also agree with the principal.

00:01:21.000 But they'll get mad about industry.

00:01:23.000 Okay, but why don't we apply the same to universities?

00:01:27.000 It's a business.

00:01:28.000 It's not a charity.

00:01:29.000 And they have tons of money.

00:01:31.000 The median university endowment in this country right now is $243 million.

00:01:36.000 The top five-ranked schools have a combined endowment of $184 billion.

00:01:40.000 Remember Harvard?

00:01:41.000 Where they were telling me, oh, the funding being pulled?

00:01:42.000 Give an endowment of $50 billion.

00:01:44.000 Find something in there, less than 0.5% to make up the slack.

00:01:48.000 Why do these institutions need any subsidies?

00:01:52.000 By the way, those numbers just keep growing.

00:01:54.000 Yeah.

00:01:55.000 Notre Dame had, I think at the time I was there, somebody can fact check me, like several billion, maybe two, three, four, five billion.

00:02:01.000 And we're like, holy cow, $20 billion endowment.

00:02:04.000 And yet, I get emails all the time asking for money.

00:02:08.000 Yeah.

00:02:09.000 What are they doing with that money?

00:02:11.000 I don't know exactly how endowment spending works or what they use it for, but these, it's kind of like they just have retained profits is essentially what it is.

00:02:19.000 And it never really goes anywhere.

00:02:21.000 They just earn interest on it and spend the money on whatever, but then, you know, constantly, like to buy tickets, I have to give a certain number of dollars every year just to get the ticket application.

00:02:32.000 Really?

00:02:33.000 Yes.

00:02:34.000 That's how it works.

00:02:35.000 Now, the number's very low right after graduation, like just a few hundred bucks, but then it goes up after that.

00:02:40.000 And once you get really old again, it goes down.

00:02:41.000 And I'm like, actually, that's you've got plenty of money at that point.

00:02:44.000 You're too old to go to a game.

00:02:46.000 And you can't blame universities.

00:02:47.000 They'll take the money on the table.

00:02:48.000 Some people go, you're a hypocrite.

00:02:50.000 COVID, these conservatives took business loans.

00:02:53.000 Do you ever, you ever wrote a seven-figure check to the government in taxes?

00:02:57.000 And then you see them shutting down businesses and giving money out to people who've run unsuccessful.

00:03:02.000 Of course you're going to take it.

00:03:02.000 It's like John Sassel talked about his house that was on the water being rebuilt like three or four times.

00:03:07.000 Now, of course, I shouldn't have built in a storm pathway, but I'll take the money.

00:03:13.000 Like, it's just why wouldn't you do it?

00:03:15.000 It's the government incentivizing this that is a problem.

00:03:19.000 Let me, I also want to sort of bring this back to that woman talking about being a professional whore. 1.00

00:03:26.000 It's what kind of a life do you want to live?

00:03:30.000 And by the way, that's not a small question because if collectively people answer in concert in a way that's unified, that's how you have a country.

00:03:40.000 Because that's what we have in this country.

00:03:43.000 It wasn't just freedom.

00:03:44.000 It was, all right, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and family, family, faith, and freedom.

00:03:49.000 I'm going to give you a personal solution, then a government solution here, because the last thing I'm going to be is just people who bitch. 1.00

00:03:56.000 Let me ask you this, because people say, hey, what do I want to do?

00:03:58.000 And that's how becoming a Vox writer.

00:04:02.000 What kind of a life do you, what do you, let me ask you this.

00:04:04.000 Do you think that anything you do professionally, any job, could be, you could be a bean counter, could be a writer, could be, do you think that any of it is going to matter to you more at the end of your life, be more fulfilling or meaningful than your family and relationships with people you love?

00:04:24.000 Now, Disney and the media will tell you it's all about family and evil businessman, right?

00:04:30.000 A Harry Chapin song.

00:04:31.000 But then society tells you, hey, the path to success is exactly the path that will preclude you from finding fulfillment in your life with a family, right?

00:04:44.000 No, no, the path to success, you have to go to university.

00:04:47.000 Don't just do undergrad, right?

00:04:49.000 You have to get your master's.

00:04:50.000 You have to spend the years that you would have spent throughout all of human history finding a mate and starting a family and charting a course and making a plan.

00:04:59.000 You have to forfeit all those years for glorified alcoholism and a degree that may or may not be of any use to anyone.

00:05:08.000 And you think these kids, like, I didn't know this was going to happen.

00:05:10.000 And I believe them when they say that, I can tell you this.

00:05:14.000 Every single person in a position of authority, if they went to public school, was telling them, well, you got to go to school, go to university, go to the best university you can, unless you want to be a garbage man.

00:05:24.000 By the way, small aside, I got that when I was a kid, like, unless you want to be a garbage man.

00:05:27.000 And when I was growing up, and the first time I, I said, wait, garbage men make what?

00:05:30.000 Yeah.

00:05:31.000 Like, oh, oh, they do better than the teacher who is shitting on them.

00:05:38.000 You can make an unbelievable living as a garbage man.

00:05:41.000 And by the way, the person who's a garbage man doesn't mean that he's any dumber than the person who got a gender studies degree. 0.69

00:05:47.000 No, you know, he's picking up the trash, going, okay, you can laugh all you want in your tiny little house.

00:05:51.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:52.000 He's going, hey, as long as there are human beings, there'll be trash to pick up.

00:05:57.000 Do you think any high school guidance counselors talk to kids go, okay, well, what is it that you're able to do?

00:06:01.000 What are your aptitudes?

00:06:02.000 Okay.

00:06:02.000 And if you don't know, it sounds like you haven't figured it out.

00:06:05.000 Go to a community college.

00:06:06.000 Work your way through it so that you don't incur any debt and then maybe look for some kind of a scholarship.

00:06:11.000 Plan your life.

00:06:11.000 No, they go, best school you can possibly go to.

00:06:14.000 Do you think any of them said, by the way, you got to be really mindful of those interest rates on those loans because those will kill you.

00:06:18.000 It's go to school, go to school, go to school, go to school, go to university, or people won't respect you and you won't.

00:06:24.000 It's a status symbol.

00:06:26.000 It's a paper version of the Lambo.

00:06:29.000 I got told by a school counselor that I shouldn't join the military.

00:06:33.000 Yeah, well, let me guess.

00:06:34.000 Join join the, well, go ahead, guess.

00:06:36.000 Let me guess this person was probably of the left persuasion, probably didn't, probably thought it was one of those things for grunts, for people who have no other options.

00:06:44.000 Yeah, I don't know about the left persuasion.

00:06:45.000 I was too young to really notice or care.

00:06:47.000 But yeah, it definitely was one of those things.

00:06:49.000 It's like, yeah, people in the military, they're all just a bunch of idiots who can't make it in the real world.

00:06:53.000 That's where you go.

00:06:54.000 Yeah.

00:06:54.000 That's kind of the attitude.

00:06:55.000 It's like, no, you got to make it, you got to make a real, a real go at it.

00:06:59.000 You're talented in baseball.

00:07:00.000 It's like, well, I'm not getting any scholarships.

00:07:01.000 Well, you could maybe try to walk on.

00:07:02.000 Like, it's really hard to do that, especially.

00:07:05.000 Your name's not Hernandez.

00:07:06.000 Well, no, I didn't have a major university in my town.

00:07:09.000 So it's like, well, I have to pay for board somewhere else.

00:07:11.000 I can go to junior college, maybe, where it's like, oh, you're talented in the marketing club.

00:07:15.000 Like, yeah, yeah, but I have a 2.8 GPA.

00:07:18.000 Right.

00:07:18.000 Like, I'm not a great student.

00:07:20.000 Like, this is what's good for me.

00:07:22.000 And never did they mention a vocational school.

00:07:24.000 Never did they mention a trade school.

00:07:25.000 Never did they mention anything like that.

00:07:27.000 Right.

00:07:28.000 Oh, you got to go to college.

00:07:29.000 You got to, you got to try to.

00:07:30.000 I'm like, I'm not going to be good at this, dude.

00:07:32.000 Right.

00:07:32.000 I'm not.

00:07:33.000 And I wouldn't have.

00:07:35.000 Stop encouraging.

00:07:36.000 And then I get to the military.

00:07:37.000 I get to the military.

00:07:38.000 I take the test and they're like, oh, wow, you qualified to be in the special operations unit.

00:07:43.000 And you're like, okay, what's that about?

00:07:44.000 Well, everybody here is a little smarter than the rest of the population.

00:07:47.000 Oh, a little bit smarter than the rest of the army.

00:07:48.000 No, no, no, no.

00:07:49.000 Everyone.

00:07:50.000 Yeah.

00:07:51.000 Like, oh, okay.

00:07:52.000 And then you start meeting people in special operations.

00:07:53.000 You go, oh, this is difficult, not only physical, but emotionally and mentally.

00:07:58.000 Yeah.

00:07:59.000 And my platoon leader, he went to an Ivy League college?

00:08:03.000 Yeah.

00:08:03.000 Wait, everyone here went to an Ivy League or a major college?

00:08:08.000 Yeah, no, those are what we refer to as people who had no other options in contrast to the nasal-pierced gender studies major. 0.78

00:08:15.000 Yes.

00:08:15.000 Some of the smartest people I ever met.

00:08:16.000 Oh, for a while.

00:08:17.000 They had a degree.

00:08:17.000 They were just infantrymen.

00:08:18.000 They were like, I want to fight for my country.

00:08:21.000 That's what they wanted to do.

00:08:22.000 One of the smartest people I ever met, he was an Anglican priest, I believe, or he was an elder.

00:08:29.000 I don't know what it was.

00:08:30.000 That's Episcopal.

00:08:31.000 People don't know.

00:08:32.000 And he was a computer repairman.

00:08:33.000 Not a coder, a computer repairman.

00:08:36.000 He was frighteningly smart.

00:08:38.000 As a teenager, he found a way, and he eventually got caught, which is why he got his life in the straight narrow.

00:08:44.000 He found a way to, every time he made a withdrawal from an ATM, basically steal, I think it was $200, like a ghost transaction that no one could trace.

00:08:53.000 I don't know what it was.

00:08:55.000 But straight out of Terminator 2.

00:08:57.000 He was so smart.

00:08:58.000 And he sold drugs and stuff when he was young.

00:09:00.000 And then he decided to turn his life over, became a Christian, and had a family.

00:09:04.000 But he was shockingly smart.

00:09:06.000 You would never know it just to meet him initially.

00:09:09.000 your mechanic could be the most brilliant person you know.

00:09:11.000 I'm sorry, that sheet of paper, it means nothing as far as actual intelligence.

00:09:17.000 And yeah, I've met a lot of incredibly intelligent people in the middle of the.

00:09:20.000 It's not only the intelligence, it's just that there's people of all backgrounds.

00:09:24.000 They would pass it off.

00:09:25.000 School counselors pass it off as, oh, that's just something for the dumbest of the dumb. 1.00

00:09:28.000 Right.

00:09:28.000 That's for the worst of us.

00:09:29.000 That's where you go.

00:09:30.000 Right.

00:09:30.000 When in reality, there were so many people that made great lives off that start.

00:09:35.000 Yep.

00:09:36.000 The life that I have now, I would not have had if I went to college.

00:09:39.000 I would have had a way worse life if I went to college.

00:09:40.000 I would have been stuck under student loans.

00:09:42.000 I would have had to get up because I wouldn't qualify for any scholarships.

00:09:44.000 I didn't have any special things about me.

00:09:46.000 You know, I like ladies and I'm a white guy and I only speak one language.

00:09:49.000 Yeah.

00:09:49.000 No.

00:09:50.000 And I can't do math.

00:09:52.000 And so, you know.

00:09:53.000 Retard alert. 1.00

00:09:54.000 Exactly.

00:09:58.000 Well, for someone like that in that situation.

00:10:00.000 So many people turned out great.

00:10:01.000 Think of a young Josh.

00:10:02.000 Think of a young Joe.

00:10:03.000 Think of a young you right now.

00:10:05.000 Here's how you can solve it and avoid these pitfalls.

00:10:08.000 Okay.

00:10:08.000 And by the way, if you're a parent, you need to coach your kids on this.

00:10:12.000 Here's a starting off point.

00:10:13.000 Not what do you want to do?

00:10:15.000 What do you think matters in life?

00:10:17.000 At the end of your life, what are you going to wish you spent your time on?

00:10:20.000 What's most meaningful?

00:10:21.000 What kind of a life do you want to live?

00:10:24.000 Okay, we wrote that.

00:10:26.000 Now, let's chart a course, the most effective path to achieve that.

00:10:31.000 Let me give you an example.

00:10:32.000 Wealthiest people I know, one made his money off of burger patty machines.

00:10:38.000 The other one made their money off of piping, underground piping, concrete, copper.

00:10:43.000 Layed a lot of pipe.

00:10:44.000 Yeah.

00:10:46.000 Big dude, too.

00:10:47.000 That's a scary thought.

00:10:48.000 He's like 6'8.

00:10:49.000 Don't you?

00:10:49.000 You think about that?

00:10:50.000 Does any kid go, I want to be in burger patty machines?

00:10:54.000 I want to be in pipes.

00:10:55.000 No.

00:10:57.000 What these people did is said, okay, there's a need and I can fill it.

00:11:01.000 And then I can have the kind of life that is meaningful to me.

00:11:04.000 I can spend more time with my family.

00:11:06.000 I can have financial freedom, financial independence.

00:11:08.000 Would you give all that up to study German poetry at Yale?

00:11:14.000 I'm making an extreme example, right?

00:11:16.000 I'm drawing an extreme example to make a point.

00:11:18.000 But these are decisions that the majority of young Americans, close to them, are making on a regular basis.

00:11:24.000 So the first question: ask yourself or ask your son or daughter, what kind of a life do you want to live?

00:11:31.000 What matters to you?

00:11:33.000 Huge part of that is: do you want to have a family?

00:11:35.000 Guess what?

00:11:36.000 That changes everything because getting a master's or a PhD in anything other than a science or medical degree is entirely useless.

00:11:44.000 And you have, in many cases, foregone the years that you need to plan for that.

00:11:48.000 So plan your life around that.

00:11:51.000 Does it involve college?

00:11:52.000 If so, why are you going?

00:11:54.000 What are you seeking to accomplish?

00:11:56.000 Okay.

00:11:56.000 Are there more effective, more cost-effective alternatives?

00:12:02.000 Vocational school, apprenticeships.

00:12:05.000 Finally, do your math.

00:12:07.000 You can see that many of these kids did not ever do the math with an interest rate.

00:12:13.000 It doesn't come up.

00:12:14.000 We're not taught that.

00:12:16.000 We're taught that you should go to university and study economics, but you haven't been taught interest rates before you go to university to study economics before.

00:12:23.000 Oh, and now you're handcuffed.

00:12:25.000 This is the credit card problem.

00:12:28.000 Something started playing in the studio.

00:12:30.000 This is a credit card problem, right?

00:12:31.000 If you make the minimum payments, basically, it takes however many years.

00:12:34.000 They changed that to where credit card companies had to show that to you.

00:12:38.000 And that's why these loan things, this is the same exact thing.

00:12:40.000 I don't know why people are shocked by this.

00:12:43.000 Yes, if you pay the minimum payment on a loan like this over 10 years, yes, you're going to pay a lot of money in interest.

00:12:49.000 And in this case, with 14 or 15% interest, that's crazy.

00:12:52.000 By the way, it's about 6% or 7% if you get the loan through the federal government and it's got the backing.

00:12:57.000 If you get it outside, it can be much higher because shocker, you're not likely to repay the loan.

00:13:02.000 They have to make more money off of it.

00:13:04.000 That's basic stuff, though, that we're not teaching our kids in high school.

00:13:08.000 That should be one of the first things that they figure out when they're filling out applications for colleges.

00:13:11.000 It's like, have you taken a class that shows you how much debt you will have and how much you will need to make to pay it off?

00:13:17.000 And also, by the way, just pay a few hundred extra bucks a year towards principal if you can, and it'll knock it down a ton.

00:13:24.000 Yep.

00:13:24.000 Hey, wait tables.

00:13:25.000 Yep.

00:13:26.000 Whatever you got to do.

00:13:27.000 This brings us to, you know, you can hit the ding And put a number here.

00:13:30.000 That's your personal solution.

00:13:31.000 Now, as far as policy solutions, because there's a systemic problem, and I agree, here's what we do.

00:13:38.000 Number one, the government stops subsidizing any and all higher education in the form of grants, scholarships that are unneeded with the endowments.

00:13:48.000 And they should only even look at any type of, let's say, financial break for degrees that we actually need and are practical.

00:13:57.000 Taxpayers shouldn't guarantee loans for useless degrees.

00:14:01.000 There should never be a taxpayer on the hook for a gender studies degree, for a liberal arts degree, for a creative history degree.

00:14:09.000 A degree in stand-up comedy, which you can get in California?

00:14:11.000 Hold on.

00:14:12.000 Creative history?

00:14:12.000 That's a degree?

00:14:13.000 I don't know.

00:14:13.000 I'm just mad.

00:14:14.000 I was up at that point.

00:14:15.000 But see, I don't know.

00:14:16.000 There's actually like basket weaving as a degree.

00:14:19.000 There's Afrocentric lesbian studies as a degree, depending on the school.

00:14:23.000 University profit should be tied to student success.

00:14:27.000 That's what we need to do.

00:14:28.000 And we need to stop any and all.

00:14:30.000 When I say subsidies, I want to clarify.

00:14:32.000 Any and all Department of Education guaranteed backed loans.

00:14:36.000 Okay?

00:14:36.000 That needs to give them back to the banks.

00:14:39.000 Private loans so that it's treated like any other business or personal loan.

00:14:43.000 All I'm advocating is that the most significant decision that is being made at this point in your life needs to be, it needs to be made with some wisdom.

00:14:54.000 Right now, you sit in a room where you just fill it out online and go, all right, I need $80,000 for this school.

00:15:00.000 Great.

00:15:02.000 Done.

00:15:02.000 There's no, oh, well, what is the school?

00:15:04.000 Well, what do you plan to do?

00:15:05.000 How do you plan to make that money back?

00:15:07.000 How will you repay this loan?

00:15:08.000 You know, the questions that you have with any other loan, banks would treat this like any other business investment.

00:15:14.000 You just want to privatize it?

00:15:16.000 Well, it's been in the hands of the government.

00:15:17.000 How's that working out for you?

00:15:19.000 How is it working out with the kind of inflation that we have seen?

00:15:22.000 In what world does someone getting a blank check at a point in their life when they have no idea how to use it?

00:15:31.000 Where else does that occur?

00:15:32.000 How does it end well?

00:15:33.000 Yeah.

00:15:33.000 How did you do in high school?

00:15:34.000 We need more people that apply for student loans to hear the word no.

00:15:38.000 Yes.

00:15:38.000 I'm sorry.

00:15:39.000 We just do.

00:15:39.000 We need fewer colleges because there's so many meaningless colleges out there with degrees that don't really help any people.

00:15:44.000 I'm not saying we need fewer educated people because it's very important to have an educated workforce in it, right?

00:15:50.000 But there are a lot of ways to get that.

00:15:51.000 We need a lot more parents involved in saying, hey, if I want my kids to go to college, I have three young boys.

00:15:57.000 I'm thinking down the road, okay, I'm going to set up these savings accounts so I can start putting money into it.

00:16:00.000 And if they don't use it for college, they can use it for trade schools.

00:16:03.000 They can use it for vocational training.

00:16:04.000 There's a lot of other things they can use it for.

00:16:06.000 Great.

00:16:06.000 Jet skis.

00:16:08.000 We have a process set up.

00:16:10.000 Where are the parents in these conversations?

00:16:12.000 Encouraging their kids to make wise financial decisions to ensure that they don't end up in debt.

00:16:16.000 CNN, weird faces.

00:16:18.000 It looks like the legless.

00:16:20.000 Come on, go back to it.

00:16:21.000 CNN, you know you want to.

00:16:22.000 Oh, my God.

00:16:23.000 The legless lizard.

00:16:24.000 It's not a snake, not to be confused.

00:16:26.000 The legless lizard.

00:16:27.000 I saw it at the aquarium recently.

00:16:28.000 He should stay out of India. 0.99

00:16:32.000 That was a monitor lizard.

00:16:34.000 Or he should go to India. 0.88

00:16:36.000 Well, I don't know.

00:16:36.000 Eat, pray, love, scream?

00:16:38.000 No, you're right in the alternative.

00:16:40.000 Yeah.

00:16:40.000 The alternative is, well, what's the left proposing?

00:16:46.000 I'll say this too.

00:16:47.000 I also think that the government could maybe forgive the interest, not the loans, but forgive the interest if, for example, loans have been paid back in these, there's already been some kind of a profit.

00:16:56.000 Because I also believe that these kids have been thrust into, unfortunately, a system they didn't fully understand because the government wanted to, right?

00:17:03.000 We all want to make that money and the universities were all too acquiescent, and so are the lobbyists.

00:17:06.000 So you can maybe forgive some of the interest on the debt.

00:17:10.000 Okay.

00:17:11.000 You cannot forgive student loans.

00:17:12.000 Let me tell you why.

00:17:13.000 This is what the left wants.

00:17:14.000 What the left wants in student loan forgiveness would be one of the greatest wealth transfers in human history from taxpayers to already privileged upper middle class Americans.

00:17:26.000 Over 60% of student loan debt is held by people in the top 40% of earners.

00:17:33.000 What?

00:17:34.000 Yeah.

00:17:34.000 That is insane.

00:17:35.000 Top 40% of earners.

00:17:37.000 So with that.

00:17:38.000 I just felt so much.

00:17:39.000 I felt, I don't even know how to say it.

00:17:42.000 I just lost all sympathy.

00:17:44.000 So someone leaving after doing a few tours, someone working in construction, someone who's struggling starting up a business, maybe shut down during COVID, they're paying for a wealthy suburban kids useless liberal arts degree.

00:17:58.000 That's the end result.

00:18:00.000 And it's wrong.

00:18:01.000 That's why I serve my country.

00:18:03.000 And you know what else?

00:18:04.000 Let's go back to families.

00:18:05.000 What kind of a life do we want?

00:18:06.000 What kind of a relationship do you want?

00:18:08.000 We talked about that one.

00:18:09.000 Hey, do you want the American dream?

00:18:11.000 People get so caught up, you know, oh, they had pensions.

00:18:13.000 By the way, boomers have a blind spot here. 1.00

00:18:17.000 It's completely achievable, by the way.

00:18:18.000 Kids, younger people, you could reduce your spending.

00:18:20.000 You obviously could be more responsible.

00:18:22.000 On the economic side, yep, I understand that that's feasible.

00:18:25.000 What is different is boomers didn't have the same competitive working environment in that if you did your time, even if you were mediocre, you were loyal to the company, you got a pension, that's just not a thing anymore. 0.95

00:18:36.000 So I think if you dropped a lot of people from that generation into today's work environment, they wouldn't fare that well because it is more performance-based.

00:18:44.000 In other words, they'd be like, well, wait a second, why are you letting me been here for 20 years?

00:18:48.000 You're letting me go.

00:18:48.000 I'm only a few years.

00:18:49.000 They go, I don't give a shit.

00:18:51.000 Bring in someone from Bangladesh or I'll bring in the next kid who will work for less money. 1.00

00:18:54.000 So that's a legitimate gripe to have.

00:18:56.000 But the more important facet that we miss when people say, well, the dream is out of reach.

00:19:01.000 You have to understand, not only do they live in a smaller house, not only do they only get maybe one week of vacation, not only did they never eat out all of that.

00:19:07.000 Not only do they have to commute into the city, maybe an hour each day, which you could do.

00:19:11.000 These are just financial decisions that you could make where you could sort of close that gap.

00:19:15.000 But they started a family in their early 20s.

00:19:20.000 They started earlier on what really mattered.

00:19:24.000 So if you say what's out of reach, you know, for my grandparents, that won't come back.

00:19:28.000 You don't realize.

00:19:28.000 Well, they also had different priorities and different values.

00:19:32.000 So you do have to decide if that, and I mean this, ask yourself.

00:19:36.000 And anyone out there, please comment, help young people out.

00:19:40.000 Especially, let's say right now you're a millionaire, you're very successful, but you have a family.

00:19:46.000 Would you give up all of it tomorrow for an extra year with your kids?

00:19:50.000 The answer is almost always yes.

00:19:53.000 So why are we framing everything around the dream of the degree and the respect of the Ivy League education?

00:20:01.000 Everyone is chasing the wrong things.

00:20:03.000 And the government, by the way, certainly the Democrat Party has a vested interest because they told you they want the destruction of the nuclear family.

00:20:10.000 You have strong nuclear families and financial independence.

00:20:13.000 Guess what?

00:20:14.000 You have a less powerful government over its people.

00:20:18.000 You have an enslaved people who are isolated without a husband, without a wife. 1.00

00:20:23.000 God says if he finds one, finds what is good without children.

00:20:27.000 Guess what?

00:20:27.000 You have people who are easily manipulated because you're the one in control of the purse string.

00:20:31.000 So personally, do the math, figure out what kind of a lifestyle you want to live, chart a course, and do what is most effective in achieving that.

00:20:38.000 And be sure that you are very mindful of the math.

00:20:41.000 Make sure you teach your children as a policy.

00:20:44.000 Get the government out of the student loan business and it needs to be treated like any other business or personal loan.

00:20:51.000 And the answer to the greatest wealth transfer that could take place towards upper middle class Americans from working taxpayers in history, that's the proposed solution by the left, needs to be an emphatic no.

00:21:01.000 Let's get back to what matters: families, faith, freedom, and being independent.

00:21:08.000 Let's get back to the things that actually, you know, make life life.

00:21:13.000 And that's not a master's degree and it's not a few extra bucks an hour.

00:21:16.000 Yeah.

00:21:16.000 It's not the consumerism that comes with it either.

00:21:18.000 I mean, that's that whole focusing on family for the younger generations, they are sorry, the older generations right now when they had kids younger, they were happier.

00:21:29.000 Yeah.

00:21:30.000 They had what would ultimately bring them happiness.

00:21:33.000 They focused on family and they focused on faith.

00:21:35.000 Those two things.

00:21:35.000 Those are the things right now that are probably the most under attack in this country.

00:21:39.000 Because it's very easy when you take those things away from people and you say, hey, don't look for happiness there.

00:21:44.000 Look for happiness in your career.

00:21:46.000 Look for happiness in all the other things that we can show you in life.

00:21:48.000 It's very easy to sell them things to try to fill the gap.

00:21:51.000 Right.

00:21:52.000 Because they're looking for something to make them happy, looking for something to make them feel alive and not depressed and not nihilistic or whatever else, connected to society.

00:22:01.000 And nothing can do it like faith and family.

00:22:04.000 Ever.

00:22:05.000 Nothing can replace those things.

00:22:06.000 I see that young girl crying.

00:22:09.000 And is it funny?

00:22:10.000 Is she entitled?

00:22:10.000 Sure.

00:22:11.000 And I get it.

00:22:12.000 But I'm also going, man, what you're really saying is, I don't know.

00:22:17.000 I did everything right.

00:22:18.000 And I went to school and I took out a huge load and I went to university and I had that experience because I wanted to go.

00:22:24.000 I wanted to spread my wings and fly and get away from my family.

00:22:27.000 And four or six years later, glorified alcoholism.

00:22:30.000 And I cycled through guys and now I'm single.

00:22:32.000 I have no family.

00:22:33.000 I have no kids.

00:22:34.000 I'm in debt.

00:22:34.000 And I just, I don't know how I got here, and I'm so unhappy.

00:22:38.000 You bought every single lie that was sold to you.

00:22:42.000 Yes, and you're not going to see those videos of people going, I don't know what happened.

00:22:47.000 I got an apprenticeship, and I make a good six-figure income as an electrician and a plumber, and I come home, and my kids are doing really well.

00:22:52.000 And we homeschool them, and we've decided to tighten our belts, and we get to spend as much time together as humanly possible.

00:22:57.000 And they're the love of my life, and dear God, their time is just the most precious thing on.

00:23:02.000 I just don't know how I got here.

00:23:05.000 One has no idea how they got there.

00:23:07.000 Yeah, one knows exactly how they got there because they did it with purpose.

00:23:12.000 Let's stop degree Lambo income. 1.00

00:23:18.000 Who gives a shit?

00:23:20.000 You're not going to care about any of this on your deathbed.

00:23:22.000 I wish I got my masters.

00:23:30.000 I could change one thing and be HD.

00:23:37.000 That reminds me of that Nathan Fielder show that you recommended.

00:23:41.000 Yeah.

00:23:42.000 It was like that first episode.

00:23:43.000 What was the second one?

00:23:44.000 It was, it's not Nathan for you, it's the other one.

00:23:46.000 Oh, the rehearsal.

00:23:48.000 The rehearsal, yeah.

00:23:49.000 That first episode.

00:23:50.000 It's this.

00:23:51.000 I feel bad because I think they're exploiting him.

00:23:52.000 I think he's like an autistic guy. 0.80

00:23:53.000 But this guy, he's like, he's troubled because he's living with the burden of a lie that he told his friends and teammates at Trivia that he has a master's degree because they all had master's degrees.

00:24:04.000 Yeah.

00:24:04.000 And he'd have one.

00:24:05.000 And it like haunted, it was haunting him for years.

00:24:07.000 Yeah.

00:24:08.000 And I'm like, I feel so bad for this guy.

00:24:10.000 He seems happy.

00:24:11.000 He loves his job.

00:24:12.000 He loves trivia.

00:24:13.000 He loves his friends.

00:24:15.000 But he's got this like shadow lurking over him.

00:24:20.000 Yeah.

00:24:20.000 That he's lied about his master's degree.

00:24:22.000 Yeah.

00:24:22.000 It's also going to be less relevant, by the way, to these degrees because, again, it's so competitive that employers can't make the employment anything other than performance-based.

00:24:33.000 So I'm just telling you, it's like, oh, a degree from Ivy League.

00:24:35.000 Wait a second.

00:24:36.000 You're better.

00:24:37.000 I don't care what your degree is.

00:24:39.000 I'm telling you, outside of certain fields where you do in our STEM fields, and I understand there does need to be some formal training, it's less relevant.

00:24:46.000 As information becomes more available, the degree is less relevant.

00:24:50.000 As a matter of fact, I seldom find someone who's most educated on a given topic who got a degree in that field.

00:24:57.000 It's usually someone who's a hobbyist, whether it's history, whether it's it could be firearms, whether it's engineering.

00:25:03.000 Like you will meet.

00:25:04.000 Is there a degree for that?

00:25:05.000 For firearms?

00:25:06.000 Well, there is like becoming, well, becoming an armorer, becoming a gunsmith, or certificates.

00:25:10.000 I mean, maybe, okay, maybe it was a poor example.

00:25:12.000 My point is, I was honest, they're like, I love guns, and they can do everything.

00:25:18.000 They know everything about them.

00:25:19.000 Or I love cars and they can build a car from nothing.

00:25:23.000 It's like MacGyver.

00:25:24.000 It's like, you just had a toothpick and a straw and a piece of thread.

00:25:26.000 And you have a trans am. 0.94

00:25:27.000 How'd this happen?

00:25:28.000 Like, I read a book.

00:25:29.000 I knew snipers that could do math better than most people with a four-year degree.

00:25:32.000 Well, they had to to kill people.

00:25:34.000 They had to do math every day.

00:25:35.000 Maybe somebody needs some killing.

00:25:36.000 They knew physics, they knew math.

00:25:38.000 Yep.

00:25:38.000 Killed them all.

00:25:39.000 All right.

00:25:39.000 Sorry, I've been going, but where's your next Portland, Oregon, August 22nd to 23rd?

00:25:45.000 Yeah.

00:25:46.000 At Helium Comedy Club.

00:25:47.000 And I'm in Austin in September.

00:25:48.000 I got dates on my calendar.

00:25:50.000 JayFirestine.com.

00:25:51.000 Balls in.

00:25:52.000 Austin.

00:25:52.000 Portland, huh?

00:25:53.000 Jfirestein.com.

00:25:54.000 All right.

00:25:54.000 It's Chat Thursday.

00:25:55.000 Chat.

00:26:02.000 Oh, this is breaking right now.

00:26:04.000 Do we have the flashback to Tom Holman?

00:26:06.000 Actually, I know we were talking about that earlier.

00:26:07.000 We talked about the census guys, the stuff that was on CNN right now.

00:26:10.000 Trump Holders' new census that leaves out undone.

00:26:12.000 Well, and then CNN starts to have a hard time.

00:26:15.000 Oh, no.

00:26:15.000 They've done this.

00:26:16.000 The signs aliens are here.

00:26:18.000 Yeah, they're signaling.

00:26:19.000 Get your water.

00:26:20.000 It'll cycle out in about three days.

00:26:22.000 It's fine, guys.

00:26:22.000 I've already done the math.

00:26:24.000 The worst part about that movie.

00:26:25.000 Oh, the twist is that what takes them out is what the planet is 70% of.

00:26:31.000 They couldn't see that from space.

00:26:33.000 There was all this green that we were looking at.

00:26:35.000 We got focused on that.

00:26:37.000 They're coming in their saucer, like, wait, what is that blue?

00:26:40.000 Oh, is it?

00:26:41.000 Oh, shit.

00:26:42.000 Like, what did you talk bacteria?

00:26:45.000 They could communicate via telekinesis.

00:26:47.000 Right.

00:26:48.000 Yeah.

00:26:48.000 And they couldn't tell that H2O.

00:26:50.000 Yeah.

00:26:50.000 That's just because it was on the planet.

00:26:52.000 And even if they couldn't, the first one to step out into rain should have alerted the rest of the world.

00:26:56.000 Yes.

00:26:56.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:26:58.000 Not to mention some of the locations that we're in.

00:27:00.000 Like there was one that was like a Brazil birthday party.

00:27:02.000 They're in the fields of like Iowa or something.

00:27:04.000 Like the humidity didn't do anything.

00:27:06.000 Yeah, I know.

00:27:06.000 Nothing.

00:27:07.000 The sprinkler system?

00:27:09.000 Nothing got out of you?

00:27:09.000 It's like, come on, you have a cloak spaceship.

00:27:11.000 Do you know how to turn on a faucet?

00:27:12.000 You can figure this out.

00:27:13.000 The one's twisting his leg into the cornfields.

00:27:15.000 Like, there's no dew.

00:27:17.000 Yeah.

00:27:19.000 There's no.

00:27:21.000 It wasn't watered recently.

00:27:23.000 There's no sprinkler system.

00:27:25.000 Nothing?

00:27:26.000 Not at all.

00:27:27.000 It's the only farm without any type of irrigation.

00:27:30.000 All right, so they're complaining about this on CNN.

00:27:32.000 And again, we're saying the same thing.

00:27:32.000 They're going, Trump orders new census leaves out undocumented.

00:27:35.000 We're going, hey, Trump orders new census.

00:27:37.000 We've got undocumented.

00:27:38.000 Going back to the Constitution, and this has been an argument for a very long time.

00:27:42.000 Like, how do you count people that are here that are not technically citizens?

00:27:45.000 And this can be people who are here illegally or people on visas or other things.

00:27:50.000 I don't think that the founders had a chip in their brain for you're going to have how many people here illegally, and that's fine with you? 1.00

00:27:57.000 Right.

00:27:57.000 I don't think they thought that at all because it doesn't make any sense to have, okay, well, we have 20 million people here now.

00:28:03.000 10 million live in California, so we're going to count them.

00:28:05.000 And now California gets more.

00:28:08.000 I'm not sure the founders really understood the legal, illegal immigration conundrum.

00:28:14.000 That's kind of a bit of my point.

00:28:16.000 No, they wouldn't have thought of it as a thing.

00:28:19.000 Well, they would have like, wait, wait, someone is here who doesn't want to be American.

00:28:25.000 Why are they here?

00:28:26.000 That's right.

00:28:26.000 Send them out.

00:28:27.000 Like, no, no, they want to be here.

00:28:28.000 They want to make money.

00:28:31.000 Ah, how?

00:28:32.000 And what do they pay in Texas?

00:28:34.000 Nothing.

00:28:35.000 What work?

00:28:36.000 I don't know.

00:28:37.000 They do jobs.

00:28:38.000 They take them from Americans. 1.00

00:28:39.000 Huh?

00:28:41.000 And you're counting them amongst you?

00:28:43.000 It's just the census.

00:28:44.000 Like, how do we, how do we figure out, how do we count people who are illegal aliens?

00:28:47.000 You don't.

00:28:48.000 Yeah.

00:28:48.000 You don't.

00:28:50.000 You don't.

00:28:51.000 Why should you count those people when you're doing a census, which, by the way, determines seats, determines districts in a lot of ways, right?

00:28:56.000 Determines the political sway of a state when they shouldn't legally even have the ability to vote.

00:29:03.000 Oh, that's right.

00:29:04.000 No voter ID.

00:29:06.000 Yeah, there's some pretty interesting arguments that'll be made on this.

00:29:09.000 And I don't think anybody who's saying we should be counting illegal immigrants is going to have much of a leg to stand on.

00:29:14.000 They're going to try.

00:29:14.000 They're really going to try because they're going to say, well, it says to count the whole number of free persons.

00:29:19.000 Are those persons free?

00:29:20.000 For now.

00:29:22.000 Yeah.

00:29:23.000 Until Holman gets after them.

00:29:25.000 Well, that's what we talked about.

00:29:26.000 I don't know if we can pull that clip where Holman said the whole thing was about the census rule.

00:29:29.000 That was a big thing with the illegal immigration was bring in as many as humanly possible and count them in the census so that you could basically change district and electoral maps forever. 0.95

00:29:38.000 That's why sanctuary cities are putting up lights and signs that say, come here.

00:29:42.000 Yeah.

00:29:42.000 Come here.

00:29:44.000 Come to California.

00:29:45.000 Come to New York.

00:29:45.000 Come to Washington.

00:29:46.000 To Chicago.

00:29:47.000 I expect the left to fight very vehemently here because this was a big part of their plan.

00:29:55.000 Yes.

00:29:55.000 To secure life.

00:29:56.000 I hope they do, and I hope it's very clear what's going on.

00:29:59.000 Yeah.

00:30:00.000 Like the gerrymandering thing can go both ways in people's minds.

00:30:02.000 I mean, I understand.

00:30:03.000 Listen, do it based on results that make sense.

00:30:05.000 Can I find your redistricting based on results of the presidential election?

00:30:08.000 Okay, fine.

00:30:08.000 Yeah.

00:30:09.000 Like, I may not agree, but I can't argue as easily with that.

00:30:12.000 But if you just force them into an argument of counting illegals versus not, there's not a lot of woo-woo.

00:30:19.000 I think that you're right on a big part, but there are a lot of people who believe that illegal immigrants should have the right to vote.

00:30:27.000 Yeah.

00:30:29.000 That's the part we miss them as we're like, oh, yeah, oh, this is going to be-you're going to look like an idiot.

00:30:33.000 You're going to look like a fool, but then they come in.

00:30:34.000 They're like, yeah, yeah, no, they should be able to vote.

00:30:36.000 The Democratic Party believes that.

00:30:38.000 They should.

00:30:38.000 They should be able to vote.

00:30:39.000 They should be able to have a say in what happens.

00:30:40.000 They live here, too.

00:30:42.000 I don't think their constituents actually agree with them in the numbers they think.

00:30:45.000 No.

00:30:45.000 No, the constituents.

00:30:46.000 Especially when you're talking about a few people.

00:30:47.000 Not as many, but a lot.

00:30:48.000 Like city council or something like that.

00:30:50.000 Maybe you could sway them a little bit.

00:30:51.000 Like, all right, maybe they're here, whatever, fine.

00:30:54.000 But on a national level, are you serious?

00:30:57.000 Doesn't make any sense at all.

00:30:58.000 No, no, I mean, but the Democratic Party does.

00:31:00.000 You know who doesn't agree with them?

00:31:01.000 Hispanic voters.

00:31:02.000 Ah, screwed your whole plan right there.

00:31:04.000 I love that video, by the way.

00:31:05.000 Yeah, of ICE we saw earlier, that montage.

00:31:09.000 Which one?

00:31:10.000 Did we not see a South Park one?

00:31:11.000 Oh, the South Park one where they raided heaven?

00:31:13.000 No, the real one?

00:31:14.000 I thought the one.

00:31:15.000 We didn't run it because we were going over time about how Ice Rangers were.

00:31:18.000 Oh, we ran out of time.

00:31:18.000 Okay, yeah, yeah.

00:31:19.000 There was a, we had a video, a clip of ice guys hopping out of the back of a U-Haul truck or something at a Home Depot.

00:31:25.000 And if you look at them, you're like, Mexican ice agent. 0.98

00:31:30.000 Yeah.

00:31:30.000 Mexican ice agent.

00:31:31.000 Yeah.

00:31:32.000 Mexican ice agent.

00:31:33.000 White, black, Mexican ice agent.

00:31:36.000 Right.

00:31:36.000 They're going after Guatemalans.

00:31:37.000 Yeah.

00:31:37.000 They really are.

00:31:38.000 Well, it's just like the Proud Boys were a white supremacist group with one of the founders being Enrique Tario.

00:31:43.000 So they're very shitty at being white supremacists.

00:31:45.000 They are.

00:31:45.000 By the way, we have the home enclosure.

00:31:46.000 Okay, let's roll the Holman clip because it's about 20 seconds or so.

00:31:50.000 Okay, and then we'll take your chats.

00:31:51.000 Saw some political benefit opening border-up.

00:31:54.000 There's a couple of things I saw.

00:31:55.000 Number one, what did Joe Biden do in addition to writing over 90 executive orders, abolishing everything we did under the Trump administration that gave us more secure border?

00:32:03.000 You'll return the Trump census rule, which means millions of illegal animals are released in sanctuary cities.

00:32:08.000 We count the next census.

00:32:10.000 What does that mean?

00:32:10.000 It means more seats in the house for the Dems.

00:32:12.000 They sold this country off for future political power.

00:32:15.000 Plus, they think they're going to be future Democratic voters.

00:32:18.000 Let me.

00:32:19.000 There you go.

00:32:20.000 There you go.

00:32:21.000 I know, and that's going to be one of these single biggest changes, and it really is destructive to the Democrat Party's plans.

00:32:27.000 It's not a conspiracy.

00:32:28.000 They've told you that that's what they are going to do.

00:32:30.000 Let's grab some chats.

00:32:31.000 And I think, Tim Toulmin, I don't know if you still have if we have ingested that ice montage.

00:32:36.000 We could run it on the way out because it's fun.

00:32:37.000 Sure, I'll grab it.

00:32:38.000 All right.

00:32:39.000 Okay.

00:32:39.000 Noodles, chat.

00:32:40.000 All right.

00:32:40.000 First chat from Man of Steel24.

00:32:44.000 I thought that was weird.

00:32:45.000 Anyways, question.

00:32:46.000 Do you think Trump can do anything about all of the offshore outsourcing of call center style work?

00:32:51.000 I work in IT and my company has started all backfilling overseas.

00:32:55.000 Just started.

00:32:56.000 They're a little late to the game.

00:32:57.000 Yeah.

00:32:57.000 It might have just gotten big.

00:32:59.000 I mean, there are levers that he can pull.

00:33:01.000 I don't know that that's the first priority because I don't necessarily know how many people are employed in these call centers.

00:33:10.000 I mean, it's a lot, but compared to jobs that are being lost in the United States, I think really what they want to bring here is more so the ability for us to be independent.

00:33:16.000 So things like manufacturing, right?

00:33:18.000 Things that we actually need and are reliant on.

00:33:21.000 So I don't think that'll be high up on his list of priorities.

00:33:23.000 That's a fair point.

00:33:24.000 Yeah.

00:33:24.000 As far as what strategic would you get to start with first.

00:33:27.000 I agree with you.

00:33:29.000 I agree with you.

00:33:29.000 It should, but I would think that would be significantly further down the list.

00:33:32.000 And he could do the same thing that he's done with other tariffs and incentives and sanctions.

00:33:38.000 I just think that right now it's a focus on manufacturing and reducing our dependence on nations that either hate us or do business with people who hate us.

00:33:44.000 By the way, it was so funny to see Modi and the Indians on X. They're like, Modi will stand strong.

00:33:50.000 We will not be told that we cannot do business with Russia.

00:33:52.000 It's like, okay, go screw yourself.

00:33:53.000 Oh, no, is that poop in the street?

00:33:55.000 Yeah.

00:33:55.000 Yes, of course it is.

00:33:56.000 Every time we ask, is it poop, the answer is yes.

00:33:58.000 Oh, San Francisco.

00:34:00.000 Oh.

00:34:00.000 Oh, I wanted to show there was a chart that shows, look, your president is weak.

00:34:03.000 Look at approval.

00:34:04.000 And it showed Modi with like 70 something percent.

00:34:07.000 And then it showed Malay, like if, and Donald Trump at 52%. 0.52

00:34:10.000 But they cut out Bukay because it was like 98%.

00:34:14.000 Oh, geez.

00:34:14.000 It's like, yeah, neither of these are real, just to be clear.

00:34:17.000 You don't have a 96%.

00:34:19.000 So their charts from India just, it didn't have Bukay on the list who's the highest approval of any world leader.

00:34:24.000 And by the way, very liked, but of course they can tweak those numbers.

00:34:27.000 And of course in India, they can tweak those numbers.

00:34:29.000 Also, that doesn't mean that your leader's any good.

00:34:31.000 You're still going to get hit with the terrorists when you do business with Russia. 0.91

00:34:33.000 Yeah.

00:34:34.000 And by the way, Trump also knows, like, you don't really want to fight to bring an industry back that's about to go away anyway.

00:34:39.000 Like, the call center stuff is going to go away largely due to AI because most people are going to want to deal with AI better than somebody who doesn't know crap about what they're talking about.

00:34:48.000 And there's going to be some need for backup on that.

00:34:50.000 But you can, these AI chat, not just chat bots, but AI voice.

00:34:55.000 Like, I can have a better conversation with Grok than I can with somebody in India answering my tech questions. 1.00

00:35:01.000 Well, that's because you have to work on your people skills.

00:35:02.000 Yes, Josh.

00:35:03.000 How do they, how do they get an accurate approval rating in a third world nation? 1.00

00:35:08.000 Good question.

00:35:09.000 They don't.

00:35:10.000 When not everyone has access to I mean, I can't imagine they have a postal service.

00:35:16.000 They do.

00:35:17.000 Like the U.S. that backwards in El Salvador? 1.00

00:35:20.000 What are you talking about?

00:35:21.000 Many had a lot of people.

00:35:21.000 They have overnight mail.

00:35:23.000 They have priority mail.

00:35:26.000 Everyone has internet in India?

00:35:29.000 You're saying 1.5 billion people?

00:35:32.000 Yeah, many, and I think it's a third of them poop in the streets.

00:35:34.000 Yes.

00:35:34.000 Yeah.

00:35:35.000 No, no, that's the whole thing.

00:35:36.000 But they just hold it up.

00:35:37.000 It's like it's a small sense of the money.

00:35:39.000 After you're done not whipping, you're us.

00:35:41.000 Yeah.

00:35:42.000 They're like, do you approve of Modi?

00:35:44.000 Right.

00:35:44.000 I mean, you'd be surprised.

00:35:46.000 Check yes or no with your poop finger in the books.

00:35:49.000 In 2008, I was on the border of Cambodia and Vietnam in a village that had never heard about Jesus before.

00:35:56.000 And we were showing the Jesus film in their language.

00:35:58.000 And I kid you not, we had to bring our own generator, our own projector, everything.

00:36:01.000 It was one of the most isolated places that you can kind of think of in those environments.

00:36:05.000 And they had cell phones.

00:36:06.000 High approval rating in the region.

00:36:09.000 By this.

00:36:09.000 They had cell phones.

00:36:10.000 I was like, how do they have?

00:36:12.000 Well, cell phones aren't that crazy.

00:36:13.000 Smartphones is where he gets a little bit crazy, I think.

00:36:15.000 No, but this was in 2008.

00:36:17.000 So the smartphone wasn't ubiquitous then.

00:36:19.000 It was like, I can't believe I even see five cell phones.

00:36:21.000 It wasn't like every villager, don't get me wrong.

00:36:23.000 It was only a handful out here, but I'm like, how?

00:36:25.000 Where?

00:36:25.000 Where are the towers?

00:36:26.000 So they had Motorola razors before they had actual razors.

00:36:30.000 Pretty.

00:36:30.000 Well, no, they needed the razors for suicide.

00:36:32.000 It's a pretty bleak existence.

00:36:33.000 But nonetheless, they had razors.

00:36:35.000 Also, shit, just they spare no country with marketing.

00:36:37.000 That's true.

00:36:38.000 I'm your Venus.

00:36:39.000 I'm your fire.

00:36:41.000 Well, it's got at least three throats. 1.00

00:36:44.000 Your desire is the same as the menu razor.

00:36:47.000 You could use on your face.

00:36:48.000 Yeah.

00:36:49.000 Let's grab another chat.

00:36:50.000 What is desire?

00:36:52.000 Next chat from Mixam12.

00:36:55.000 Question for the crew.

00:36:56.000 I believe teachers should go to a two-year teaching program instead of a four-year college.

00:37:00.000 What are your thoughts?

00:37:01.000 Signed an elementary school teacher.

00:37:03.000 Sure, why not?

00:37:04.000 One of the.

00:37:07.000 No, I mean, a girl I dated for a long time, high school and college.

00:37:11.000 Her mom was a teacher.

00:37:12.000 She was a second-grade teacher, and she just sort of fell into it.

00:37:15.000 Her degree, I believe it was in English, or maybe it was history or something, and she didn't really know what she was going to do.

00:37:21.000 And she filled in and she did a really good job and she became a second-grade teacher.

00:37:25.000 And by the way, those kids all loved her.

00:37:27.000 They all did really well.

00:37:27.000 This idea that you need a four-year degree to teach seven-year-olds, it's ridiculous.

00:37:33.000 Yeah, it depends on what you're teaching.

00:37:34.000 It depends on what you're teaching.

00:37:36.000 But I think it's accurate.

00:37:38.000 Really, I just want to know if you can do the job.

00:37:40.000 You're not going to abuse the children.

00:37:42.000 Can we just make sure that we screen for that and make sure that they can do the job?

00:37:46.000 What about what they try?

00:37:47.000 What if they start treating some of these careers that have a path through a higher education system more like a career that has like a trade program where you have an apprenticeship?

00:37:57.000 Why can't you do that?

00:37:58.000 Why can't you do two years?

00:38:00.000 Maybe you do two years of some of your prerequisites.

00:38:02.000 We don't probably need all these prerequisites, but you do some prerequisites.

00:38:05.000 You do some classes about teaching and learning.

00:38:07.000 And then while you're on the job, you get on-the-job training.

00:38:10.000 Teachers aid or something.

00:38:11.000 That's the thing I did as an apprentice, as a carpenter.

00:38:14.000 I got a job immediately in the apprenticeship.

00:38:15.000 I was an apprentice immediately.

00:38:17.000 I was on a construction site in Seattle.

00:38:18.000 I was putting up, I was putting up panels.

00:38:22.000 I got lucky, got a finished job, but I was putting up panels.

00:38:24.000 I was cutting wood.

00:38:25.000 I was doing all kinds of stuff, carrying lumber.

00:38:27.000 I was on the job.

00:38:27.000 And then, you know, once a month or once every two months, I had to go for a week to a class.

00:38:32.000 Yeah.

00:38:32.000 And they found other apprentices that cover down, carry their lumber for them and stuff.

00:38:37.000 But I had to go to a class and I would learn, you know, hey, this is how you make sawhorses.

00:38:41.000 Yeah.

00:38:41.000 You do that.

00:38:42.000 And here's how you use this tool.

00:38:44.000 And here's how you do this and that.

00:38:45.000 Why can't teachers do that? 0.96

00:38:46.000 There's a lot of other careers, I think, that could benefit from on-the-job training.

00:38:50.000 Get these people in the field, get them working, get them making money.

00:38:52.000 And then during the summer, when they have that time off, boom, get into a program, learn another skill.

00:38:57.000 Well, by the way, you see it everywhere else that teaching or coaching exists aside from public school.

00:39:03.000 I mean, you can look at Catholic schools in New York City.

00:39:08.000 Nuns who did, many of whom did not have teaching degrees.

00:39:10.000 They had much larger class sizes.

00:39:12.000 That's another reason.

00:39:13.000 Yes.

00:39:13.000 Yeah, and the kids did a lot better.

00:39:15.000 They did a lot better.

00:39:16.000 They would be in an average class size of 38 as opposed to like 25 or whatever it was.

00:39:20.000 Teachers didn't have degrees.

00:39:21.000 They were nuns.

00:39:21.000 And guess what?

00:39:22.000 The kids fared better.

00:39:23.000 You can look at sports, right?

00:39:24.000 You can look at coaches.

00:39:26.000 A lot of them don't necessarily have degrees.

00:39:27.000 Some of them didn't play and they're better coaches.

00:39:29.000 I can give you an example in the only sport that I'm super familiar with.

00:39:33.000 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a great example.

00:39:35.000 The guy, John Danaher, who is well known.

00:39:37.000 He's been on Joe Rogan's show.

00:39:38.000 He's like a mad scientist of jiu-jitsu.

00:39:42.000 He had messed up knees, so he couldn't really compete.

00:39:45.000 He sat under Henzo Gracie and he coached athlete, like champion after champion after champion because he, in having some physical limitations, decided to break it down.

00:39:56.000 And he was able to create a system and he just coached world-class athlete after world-class athlete because it was results-based.

00:40:03.000 There's no formal training.

00:40:04.000 He was just there and people said, this is the guy I want to learn from.

00:40:08.000 You have people with multiple world championships learning under a guy who has no notable achievements.

00:40:13.000 He's just a great coach.

00:40:14.000 So you see it everywhere else outside of public school.

00:40:16.000 You see it in private schools.

00:40:18.000 You see it in, obviously you would see it in homeschooling because you would just see the results on the tests when these kids end up going to college.

00:40:24.000 Public school, it's the only place where it's not performance-based.

00:40:26.000 It's just, hey, you know what?

00:40:28.000 You got this degree.

00:40:29.000 And it didn't used to be that way.

00:40:30.000 He didn't used to have a degree specifically in teaching for at least a lot of context.

00:40:34.000 So, yep, I agree with you.

00:40:35.000 I would argue too that you could have the union get more involved.

00:40:38.000 That union's got they got money. 0.92

00:40:40.000 Yeah, but they don't want to get involved if it means better teachers. 0.88

00:40:43.000 Well, I honestly think they want to protect all teachers.

00:40:45.000 They don't want to.

00:40:47.000 I would say if there's an on-the-job training program, that's how with apprenticeship as a carpenter or an electrician works, is that the union helps you do your job, you pay your union dues, and then part of your dues go to your training.

00:40:58.000 Yeah, yeah, but that's not how it works for teachers or many other unions. 0.98

00:41:02.000 It's not how it works.

00:41:03.000 You pay for your own education, and then once you've paid everything and you're in debt, and now you're going to look at 30,000 turning into 100,000, now you can get the benefit of our union.

00:41:13.000 Yeah, and the union, the money goes to rubber rooms where they keep shitty teachers employed who shouldn't be anywhere near a child, but they just go sit in a room all day so they can make sure that they collect their check.

00:41:23.000 Yes, Gerald, in another chat.

00:41:25.000 I was just going to say, like, if this problem, yes, we need to have better teachers, but that's like 20% of the problem.

00:41:30.000 Parents are the problem. 0.99

00:41:31.000 Parents are the biggest problem in this equation by far.

00:41:34.000 It's not even close.

00:41:35.000 Kill the parents.

00:41:35.000 Be very involved in your kids' education.

00:41:38.000 That's why when you said homeschooling, it's not that they're bright.

00:41:41.000 It's not that they're like us a mad scientist.

00:41:43.000 It's that they care about their kids' education and they're fully invested in it day after day.

00:41:47.000 When you farm it out, you don't know what you're going to get, and that is never going to be enough.

00:41:52.000 It's never going to be enough.

00:41:53.000 Care about your kids' education, get involved.

00:41:55.000 Let me ask you this: if you're married, right, you have kids.

00:42:00.000 I'm assuming that you're in a relatively healthy family unit where you want to raise your kids a certain way.

00:42:05.000 You share the same values.

00:42:06.000 Let me ask you this.

00:42:07.000 How often do you talk about your values with your babysitter?

00:42:11.000 How often do you talk about your life's vision in the future of your children with their school teacher?

00:42:16.000 How often do you talk about economic policy?

00:42:19.000 How often do you talk about the value of life?

00:42:20.000 How often do you talk about relationship dynamics?

00:42:23.000 How often do you talk with your kid's teacher about moral virtues?

00:42:29.000 Now, add that up, and in many cases, they have three, four, five, six teachers in a day.

00:42:33.000 Yeah.

00:42:34.000 And your kids spending their entire day with them, nine, ten months out of the year.

00:42:40.000 If it's important to you, why would you farm that out?

00:42:42.000 Why wouldn't you base your life around being as involved and having as much control over that as possible?

00:42:47.000 We do it the exact opposite of the right way in this country right now.

00:42:50.000 Next chat.

00:42:51.000 All right, next chat from DJ Deep Throat.

00:42:54.000 Question for Stephen: Do you think South Park would ever make a parody of you?

00:42:57.000 If so, what would you think of it?

00:43:00.000 Cool.

00:43:01.000 It'd be fun.

00:43:03.000 We'd probably laugh and probably think it was hilarious and then later go, that one stung me.

00:43:08.000 They couldn't.

00:43:10.000 Stephen, you don't really say a lot of things that are too controversial.

00:43:13.000 Yeah, that are super controversial.

00:43:16.000 No, I'm saying you don't.

00:43:17.000 Change my mind.

00:43:18.000 You don't get caught a lot being wrong.

00:43:22.000 They can get you for saying a word that they don't like.

00:43:24.000 They can give you have an opinion that they don't like or disagree with.

00:43:27.000 But the problem is that it's hard for them to.

00:43:31.000 Well, I'm going to use somebody's phrase that it's hard for them to prove you wrong.

00:43:34.000 Yeah.

00:43:35.000 No, it's easy for the left to put together a highlight reel like Vox going, look at these naughty things he said.

00:43:41.000 I would think it's a little harder for South Park to go like, isn't this guy out of touch with no sense of an old cornball?

00:43:48.000 Like, you know, it's easier to do with a lot of other companies.

00:43:50.000 It's easier to do with Gnome.

00:43:51.000 And I would argue that.

00:43:52.000 There are easier targets, is what I'm saying.

00:43:53.000 Yeah, there are easier targets.

00:43:56.000 Do they go after comedians at all?

00:43:58.000 I mean, I feel like it would be harder to go after comedians.

00:44:02.000 They might have gone after like Amy.

00:44:03.000 Yeah, Amy Schumer, I think.

00:44:05.000 She's a comedian? 1.00

00:44:07.000 That was clear in my definition.

00:44:09.000 She's more successful at a comedian than I am.

00:44:11.000 I mean, there's a reason that they chose Charlie Kirk as opposed to, you know, like, change my mind.

00:44:14.000 Like, what are you going to parody with Change My Mind?

00:44:16.000 An unedited long-form interview where most of them are productive discussions and people actually listen.

00:44:21.000 It's also, you don't do Change My Mind as often anymore.

00:44:24.000 I stopped doing it because everyone else kind of ripped it off and made it shift.

00:44:27.000 Well, that was part of the thing there where he's like, you took my king.

00:44:30.000 Yeah.

00:44:31.000 That was my thing.

00:44:32.000 And they weren't talking about you, but I have an idea who the other guy was supposed to be.

00:44:38.000 But yeah, if they do, hey, great.

00:44:41.000 And if it's funny, that's fine.

00:44:43.000 Someone did.

00:44:44.000 That's what we're doing.

00:44:44.000 I don't know because he's out there doing it.

00:44:46.000 He's out there doing it.

00:44:47.000 He's posting new videos of Prove Me Wrong or whatever is whatever his title is, like daily or a few times a week.

00:44:56.000 Yeah.

00:44:56.000 So he's, I don't know.

00:45:00.000 And it's very, Prove me wrong is a very different dynamic than change my mind.

00:45:03.000 Prove me wrong is, let's argue.

00:45:04.000 I'm going to roast you. 1.00

00:45:05.000 I'm going to own you.

00:45:06.000 Change my mind is, well, why do you think that?

00:45:07.000 It's a difference in debate.

00:45:08.000 You'll push that down with them rather than, you know, it's a different thing.

00:45:12.000 It's rhetoric versus debate.

00:45:14.000 Change my mind is rhetoric.

00:45:16.000 It's not debate.

00:45:16.000 Now, sometimes it turns into that if you have people who come in and try and hit you with a gotcha.

00:45:20.000 Yeah.

00:45:21.000 But you're not doing the, what's the thing with the flags?

00:45:25.000 I don't know.

00:45:26.000 Oh, the 20 debaters or whatever.

00:45:28.000 Yeah.

00:45:28.000 It's like, I'm not gay.

00:45:30.000 20 people debate me.

00:45:31.000 Yeah.

00:45:31.000 Oh, yeah.

00:45:32.000 Whatever.

00:45:32.000 And then we're done.

00:45:33.000 Well, they basically just turned it.

00:45:34.000 The Jubilee, the Jubilee.

00:45:35.000 Yeah.

00:45:35.000 Well, that's still, it just kind of takes.

00:45:37.000 No one else was just sitting down at a table and like anyone who wants to come up and talk.

00:45:40.000 Right.

00:45:41.000 So it is the same.

00:45:42.000 That was very novel at that point.

00:45:44.000 And then a lot of people started doing it, but it wasn't like, so we just didn't put up a number.

00:45:49.000 But, you know, I'll sit down in a day with a change my mind.

00:45:51.000 And sometimes you'll get, sometimes you get four, five, sometimes you get 10, you get 12.

00:45:56.000 And we've pretty much uploaded all of them.

00:45:58.000 I think, like I said, the exception of a couple people who were literally just there to promote a product or something where like, oh, okay.

00:46:04.000 Or someone would come in like in a funny hat and be like, I'm Johnny Appleteed.

00:46:09.000 I like men's butts. 0.99

00:46:10.000 You're like, okay, there's nothing really productive here.

00:46:12.000 The other guy said he was Jesus Christ in Washington.

00:46:14.000 Oh, that's right.

00:46:14.000 Bruce Christ.

00:46:15.000 Bruce Christ.

00:46:16.000 Eat my butt, said Jesus Christ.

00:46:18.000 Yes, you never knew.

00:46:19.000 I think the most offensive thing that they could possibly do, South Park, if they ever did anything with you, is make it not funny.

00:46:24.000 I think we'd all look at him and be like, son of a gun.

00:46:26.000 Yeah.

00:46:27.000 Come on.

00:46:27.000 You guys are better than this.

00:46:28.000 Yeah.

00:46:29.000 Well, if they, if they, comedic value alone.

00:46:31.000 If they tried to target and be like, ah, this show sucks and isn't funny.

00:46:33.000 It's like, oh, okay.

00:46:34.000 All right.

00:46:34.000 No, no, no.

00:46:35.000 I don't think, I'm not saying that.

00:46:36.000 I'm saying if they tried and put all their efforts into it and it somehow came out unfunny, the jokes just didn't land, we'd be like, you guys are better than this.

00:46:43.000 We can make fun of ourselves better than this.

00:46:45.000 Yeah.

00:46:45.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:46:46.000 I'm sure there's plenty to target.

00:46:48.000 But typically, you look at the hit pieces, it became like personal stuff.

00:46:51.000 Like, oh, he's gay, or oh, an employee saw his balls when he was doing it. 0.69

00:46:54.000 I was like, making work for the New York Post.

00:46:56.000 Okay, cool.

00:46:56.000 Fine, whatever.

00:46:58.000 I mean, today, I don't know how many people saw me in my boxers getting dressed as the Lord.

00:47:03.000 So it's like, there's nothing new here.

00:47:05.000 I stayed far away.

00:47:06.000 That's just in case.

00:47:08.000 Well, there were others because we have the cameras and we give them all a feed.

00:47:12.000 All right.

00:47:12.000 Anyway, next chat.

00:47:14.000 By request.

00:47:15.000 All right.

00:47:16.000 Next chat from Skymara.

00:47:18.000 Question for Steven.

00:47:19.000 What's the story behind the strange animal theme song?

00:47:22.000 I don't want to tell it.

00:47:23.000 Okay, great.

00:47:25.000 No, no.

00:47:26.000 I just, it was really, it's.

00:47:28.000 It's an obscure song.

00:47:29.000 Well, no, that's not why.

00:47:31.000 It's because I don't want to.

00:47:32.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:33.000 Yeah.

00:47:34.000 Just next question.

00:47:35.000 I love this song.

00:47:36.000 We love this song.

00:47:36.000 I love this song.

00:47:37.000 It's a personal story.

00:47:38.000 It's heartfelt, but we don't need to share it.

00:47:39.000 Let's go.

00:47:40.000 Yeah.

00:47:41.000 Fair enough.

00:47:41.000 From the David Factor.

00:47:44.000 Question for anyone?

00:47:46.000 John Kiriaku mentioned on Tucker that USAID funds the CIA.

00:47:51.000 Could Trump be specifically taking on the deep state slash intelligence community by defunding USAID?

00:47:57.000 70 chess.

00:47:59.000 Yes.

00:47:59.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:48:01.000 I feel like this question's from like four months ago.

00:48:04.000 We were all talking about that.

00:48:05.000 We're like, were there different agencies being funded by this?

00:48:08.000 Were the Democrat priorities being funded by this?

00:48:10.000 The NGOs?

00:48:11.000 And like all of that stuff was kind of wrapped up in it.

00:48:13.000 This isn't like a new revelation, right?

00:48:14.000 I don't know if there was a specific connection to the CIA.

00:48:17.000 Somebody mentioned that.

00:48:17.000 I think it's one of those things where it's like a, hey, hey, that's a nice bonus.

00:48:21.000 Yeah.

00:48:22.000 I mean, these people all get on the same side.

00:48:23.000 Same too?

00:48:23.000 Okay.

00:48:24.000 Yeah.

00:48:24.000 They're all going to the same spots.

00:48:26.000 The head of USAID is going to old Ebbisgrill to have some crab cakes with whoever's running the CIA cross-dressing. 0.79

00:48:32.000 Dressing good crabcakes.

00:48:33.000 Yeah.

00:48:33.000 I got very sick one time.

00:48:35.000 But yeah, so I think Donald Trump wants to go after the deep state period, or at least he did.

00:48:41.000 He really hasn't.

00:48:42.000 That's where he's underperformed to a significant degree.

00:48:46.000 At least visually.

00:48:47.000 Like, you don't see it.

00:48:48.000 Hopefully he's working behind the scenes.

00:48:50.000 We'll see.

00:48:50.000 But the more you can defund and disband, the better, right?

00:48:54.000 That's what needs to happen right now.

00:48:55.000 All the left does is destroy and deconstruct, and they don't do it where appropriate.

00:48:59.000 They build up these awful, awful titans like USAID and like our intelligence communities and like the Department of Education.

00:49:07.000 So we need to actually make those significantly smaller and the IRS.

00:49:12.000 And I'm sure that all of them affect the other, but I don't know that there's a direct connection or that Donald Trump is directly defunding the CIA by going through USAID.

00:49:21.000 I would imagine a more effective way would be to trim bloat directly at the CIA like he has done with the IRS, things like that.

00:49:27.000 Next chat.

00:49:28.000 All right.

00:49:29.000 Next chat from McClendon 814.

00:49:32.000 Question for the crew.

00:49:33.000 As Christians, we are taught, or we are taught to give.

00:49:37.000 How as a Christian do you learn to receive when you are the one in need and or are afraid to ask for help?

00:49:45.000 Hmm.

00:49:46.000 Would you be ashamed to collect Social Security once you've reached the age?

00:49:52.000 Would you be ashamed to collect your retirement?

00:49:54.000 Is it different?

00:49:55.000 You're not paying into it.

00:49:56.000 You're paying into it.

00:49:57.000 If you're not giving ever, then maybe, yeah, maybe you're right to feel guilty a little bit.

00:50:02.000 And I'm not the voice of Christianity here, but.

00:50:04.000 No, no.

00:50:05.000 That's just the way I see it is if you are a charitable person and you give to people in need when they need it and you're always there to help somebody else.

00:50:13.000 And a time comes where you need the help, I don't think, I think you should feel just as shameful as you would with Social Security.

00:50:20.000 It's the same thing.

00:50:21.000 Your time came and you know what?

00:50:23.000 People want to help you.

00:50:24.000 And take it.

00:50:27.000 It is humbling, but I also think that's right.

00:50:30.000 Meaning, I think the spirit is right for like Jimmy Braddock returning everything that he got at the welfare office when he won some fights.

00:50:36.000 I think starting off with, okay, I don't want to take and I want to be a contributor and I want to be able to get by my own merit.

00:50:44.000 I think that's the right place to, I mean, it's the right spiritual place.

00:50:48.000 It's the right starting point, right?

00:50:49.000 To earn your way.

00:50:52.000 But also sometimes people get tough breaks.

00:50:54.000 And if someone is put in your path who is, especially if they're offering, I would say this.

00:50:58.000 If someone is offering you help, if someone is offering you a break at a time that you know you need it, put your ego aside, practice gratitude.

00:51:10.000 And once you get through that moment, do everything you can to pay that back, to do it for someone else.

00:51:17.000 And then you won't struggle with guilt.

00:51:18.000 People like, you like to be charitable, I'm assuming, by your question, you like to be charitable.

00:51:23.000 You like to help people out.

00:51:24.000 Makes you feel good.

00:51:25.000 Same thing with someone's helping you out.

00:51:26.000 Yeah.

00:51:27.000 Yeah.

00:51:27.000 Well, and I think too, like, you know, I hope this isn't taken the wrong way because I'll explain it because on the surface, you can have a problem with it.

00:51:34.000 But when I was going through ministry school, like I didn't have much money.

00:51:38.000 I had very little money.

00:51:40.000 In fact, I wasn't destitute, but times were very, very, very, very, very tight.

00:51:45.000 And I had a buddy of mine who's going to ministry school with me out in the parking lot and he handed me 20 bucks.

00:51:50.000 He's like, here, get some gas because he knew my situation, knew what was going on.

00:51:53.000 And I was like, no, no, no, no.

00:51:55.000 He goes, don't stand in the way of my blessing.

00:51:56.000 Now, this is why I'm going to qualify this.

00:51:59.000 I don't think that it's just like, you know, God is just going to turn around and give him $20 or work on it like that.

00:52:05.000 But the whole point was like, hey, there's two things happening in this transaction.

00:52:09.000 He is giving me something because I'm in need.

00:52:12.000 So he's parting with something that he needs.

00:52:14.000 So he's not dependent on money.

00:52:15.000 He's dependent on God.

00:52:17.000 And God is using him to fill a need that I have.

00:52:19.000 I'm not dependent on that money.

00:52:20.000 I am still dependent on God.

00:52:22.000 It's both of these sides of the transaction are pointing you towards God.

00:52:25.000 And a rejection of either side of that transaction can also be saying, well, listen, I don't need your help.

00:52:31.000 That's pride.

00:52:32.000 Like you said, if you're in a tight spot, you do need some help and you approach it with gratitude, you do things the right way, that is a prideful potential action.

00:52:40.000 And there's a line for that, obviously, because there is some kind of a pride level.

00:52:43.000 I don't want to just take that.

00:52:44.000 That's where we need to be.

00:52:46.000 But a complete rejection of God's grace in a moment, you're saying, I could do this on my own.

00:52:50.000 I don't need God.

00:52:51.000 Well, maybe, maybe God's trying to help you out a little bit here.

00:52:54.000 So it was helpful for me to understand that a little bit more.

00:52:56.000 And I did give back in other ways.

00:52:58.000 Everybody can give, by the way, even the person who's destitute can still give maybe of your time, maybe of your talents.

00:53:04.000 Yeah.

00:53:04.000 And some of your treasure.

00:53:06.000 Also, the real sad fact of that is someone with the mindset who obviously is like, I'm not a charity case, is usually the kind of person who you want to help and give to because you're actually sowing better seed because this is someone who wants to be a good steward.

00:53:21.000 Whereas the church, unfortunately, has not really warned people of the suck you by, I guess, because I've known a couple of people where it's always a handout.

00:53:30.000 It's like, oh man, and I've felt bad.

00:53:32.000 And I've had two individuals who come to mind where it was a lot.

00:53:37.000 It was a lot.

00:53:38.000 And then I realized that they saw me as a mark and then it always ended up being more.

00:53:43.000 And then the minute you're like, well, I just can't do it.

00:53:45.000 Now you're their enemy.

00:53:46.000 There are people who go through life where they have no, if they've crossed over that, they've crossed that Rubicon and they're like, yeah, I have no problem taking.

00:53:53.000 Oh, I got this problem.

00:53:55.000 Thanks.

00:53:55.000 I got this problem.

00:53:56.000 And then it comes to, and I got this problem.

00:53:59.000 And if it's crickets, they go, What, you're not going to, well, what?

00:54:02.000 You're not going to help me.

00:54:03.000 Whereas the person who is silent, who wants to get by on their own, if you're able to help them, they're usually able to make that a force multiplier because they honor it.

00:54:13.000 They appreciate it.

00:54:14.000 So it really is kind of sad that that's how it works out.

00:54:17.000 And that's why I would say, you know, really try and take your ego out of it and allow people to bless you.

00:54:22.000 And then be sure the other part of that equation is to either bless them back or bless others back.

00:54:27.000 And yeah, it's a big deal.

00:54:30.000 And be very, very leery of people who constantly need help financially or time or energy because those people have used that as a strategy through life.

00:54:40.000 Let's grab.

00:54:41.000 We've already gone over time.

00:54:42.000 Let's grab two more chats.

00:54:44.000 The second one being the final chat.

00:54:46.000 All right.

00:54:47.000 Well, second to last chat from Ren Petey.

00:54:49.000 What are your thoughts on Dean Kane joining ICE?

00:54:52.000 Yeah.

00:54:52.000 Recruitment tool or genuine desire to help our country.

00:54:55.000 Could be a little column A, a little column B. I don't know.

00:54:59.000 But I think that's pretty cool.

00:55:01.000 Hold on.

00:55:02.000 Superman detained you and deported you.

00:55:04.000 You got deported by Superman.

00:55:05.000 Can you see that?

00:55:06.000 Yeah, that'd be embarrassing if Christopher Reeves rolled up.

00:55:08.000 Yeah.

00:55:09.000 You mean came out of heaven?

00:55:10.000 Hey, get back here. 0.78

00:55:13.000 Oh, he's dead.

00:55:13.000 I forgot.

00:55:14.000 I'm sorry.

00:55:14.000 No, you need ice.

00:55:15.000 That was in poor taste.

00:55:16.000 No, it's not.

00:55:17.000 It'd be even funny for Stephen Hawking.

00:55:19.000 Get in the truck, you asshole.

00:55:22.000 It was this or hell.

00:55:26.000 He shoots a net at the.

00:55:28.000 Dean Kane.

00:55:29.000 Dean Kane is a really smart guy.

00:55:31.000 Dean Kane's a sharp guy.

00:55:32.000 Dean Kane was a D1 athlete and set the sacking record when he was at Princeton?

00:55:35.000 Princeton or Harvard?

00:55:36.000 I don't know.

00:55:37.000 Gerald said a different sacking record at Notre Dame.

00:55:39.000 Yeah, he did.

00:55:40.000 It was just flicking.

00:55:43.000 So I think that's cool.

00:55:45.000 And I think he's probably pretty set.

00:55:47.000 So he's not hurting for money and he's doing it because he believes in it.

00:55:50.000 Maybe it's a little hard.

00:55:51.000 What?

00:55:53.000 You just get the sacking joke?

00:55:54.000 No.

00:55:56.000 It's for you, Josh.

00:55:57.000 He didn't hear you.

00:55:58.000 He was too busy sacking.

00:55:59.000 He's got all those Hallmark movie dollar bills flowing in.

00:56:02.000 He's fine.

00:56:03.000 When you said he's set, we give him hard time.

00:56:05.000 He's conservative.

00:56:06.000 I know he was smarter with his money.

00:56:07.000 He was very smart with his money, but he did a lot of those Hallmark movies, those Christmas movies that all have the same plot.

00:56:12.000 They're all very different.

00:56:14.000 I would love to get one of those guys.

00:56:16.000 I'm saying this is the funny part because you can kind of rib him a little bit about it.

00:56:19.000 You're not being mean.

00:56:20.000 I can pretend to have AIDS.

00:56:22.000 And rickets?

00:56:23.000 Go for it.

00:56:23.000 I remember of a Dean Kane roast.

00:56:27.000 And I think one of the jokes was his, he was actually born Dean something Tanaka was like his deapones.

00:56:35.000 I said, which in his native tongue translates roughly to one destined for the Hallmark channel.

00:56:39.000 Yes.

00:56:41.000 That's what I remember as we were talking about that.

00:56:43.000 So yeah, it was, yeah, I like Dean and I'm sure, I don't know how long he'll be doing it, but I'm sure it's probably a little of both.

00:56:50.000 I'm sure ICE is happy to have him as a recruitment tool because they want to get that message out that they're offering signing bonuses and forgiveness of debt.

00:56:56.000 They got a lot of money to spend.

00:56:58.000 And I know he's on board with the cause.

00:57:00.000 So and he's been that way for a very long time.

00:57:02.000 So it's good all around as far as I'm concerned.

00:57:05.000 Last chat.

00:57:05.000 Forgiveness of debt.

00:57:07.000 Right?

00:57:07.000 Yeah.

00:57:08.000 Or assistance with debt.

00:57:10.000 Oh, wow.

00:57:11.000 No, thanks.

00:57:12.000 it's up to like, it's like a $50,000 signing bonus.

00:57:14.000 And I think it's something like, $50,000 signing bonus, that's got to be your salary.

00:57:24.000 Well, what about the clothes?

00:57:25.000 Hold on.

00:57:25.000 What kind of.

00:57:26.000 It also says 25% premium pay, and I don't know what that means.

00:57:28.000 That's the flyer that they have.

00:57:29.000 Do you have like black leather jackets or something?

00:57:31.000 Any like long?

00:57:33.000 What?

00:57:34.000 Maybe a nice pin.

00:57:35.000 Just wondering what kind of uniforms they have.

00:57:37.000 I mean, it matters.

00:57:38.000 Oh, I can ask if Hugo boss yet.

00:57:40.000 If Hugo boss on the payroll, I'm just saying.

00:57:43.000 If an ice agent showed up looking dapper, we will exterminate and we will look good doing it.

00:57:50.000 I mean, we shouldn't do all that, but that's what they thought.

00:57:53.000 I mean, maybe they'd be less likely to run away.

00:57:54.000 Like, wow, this looks like a, oh, come on.

00:57:56.000 He has cuffs.

00:57:57.000 Who?

00:57:59.000 Anyway, let's move on.

00:58:00.000 All right, next.

00:58:02.000 All right, I don't understand.

00:58:03.000 I have no idea.

00:58:04.000 I don't get that.

00:58:04.000 An ice agent.

00:58:05.000 A well-dressed ice agent.

00:58:06.000 Explain it.

00:58:07.000 Make this worse.

00:58:08.000 Iced out.

00:58:09.000 That'd be cool.

00:58:10.000 An ice agent with all ice.

00:58:12.000 Iced T. Ice Cube.

00:58:12.000 Now you're just stop saying things with ice in it.

00:58:15.000 Ice Tech.

00:58:15.000 Your worst agent.

00:58:17.000 Just bust the door open. 0.96

00:58:18.000 Ice tray.

00:58:20.000 Save us, Chad.

00:58:21.000 All right, next chat.

00:58:23.000 This conversation is dry ice, yesterday.

00:58:25.000 Final chat, Bunker Studios and TV.

00:58:27.000 Okay.

00:58:28.000 Question for the crew.

00:58:28.000 RFK just stripped $500 million from mRNA research.

00:58:32.000 Will he get kickback from Trump because of his early deal with Big Pharma?

00:58:36.000 What?

00:58:37.000 Because of Trump's early deal with Big Pharma?

00:58:39.000 I don't want to do that.

00:58:40.000 I don't.

00:58:40.000 No.

00:58:41.000 I don't know.

00:58:42.000 Do they mean that Big Pharma hedged their bets and donated something to Donald Trump's campaign, or do they mean because of what he did early on in COVID with the COVID vaccine that everyone was demanding in Operation Warpsby?

00:58:54.000 I don't know.

00:58:54.000 But isn't it kind of a good thing?

00:58:58.000 We're talking about RFK and the mRNA vaccine.

00:59:01.000 Should we focus on the good thing?

00:59:02.000 Why would we be looking at...

00:59:07.000 Because a kickback would suggest that Donald Trump is giving a kickback to RFK.

00:59:10.000 Is it me?

00:59:12.000 So what he's saying is that Trump is in the pockets of big pharma.

00:59:15.000 Okay, will he push back on RFK, getting rid of the 500 million in funding?

00:59:19.000 Here's why I think that's a bit of a stretch, because Donald Trump selected RFK.

00:59:25.000 It's fair.

00:59:26.000 It's not like we didn't know what we were getting.

00:59:28.000 Yeah.

00:59:28.000 So like, I don't know.

00:59:30.000 I can't think of anyone less amenable to big pharma than RFK, and no one's perfect.

00:59:35.000 So I don't know why we take a look at that.

00:59:36.000 We saw that in confirmation hearings.

00:59:38.000 Yeah.

00:59:39.000 People who get millions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies grilled him about his anti-pharmaceutical opinions.

00:59:45.000 Yeah, remember Elizabeth Warner, well, you promise not to sue.

00:59:48.000 I won't promise, you crazy bitch. 1.00

00:59:54.000 Bernie comes up.

00:59:54.000 He's like, hey, you want to do that?

00:59:56.000 Suck my dick, Bernie. 1.00

00:59:57.000 There's trust.

00:59:58.000 You can see him just getting frustrated by the end.

01:00:00.000 Like he was very diplomatic.

01:00:03.000 They're like, eat my ass.

01:00:04.000 He's dealing with me.

01:00:05.000 I've been for decades.

01:00:06.000 Come on.

01:00:07.000 He knows the game.

01:00:11.000 You need to get laid. 0.99

01:00:14.000 Next chat.

01:00:16.000 She does.

01:00:17.000 All right.

01:00:18.000 Final chat from Dee Gadkins.

01:00:20.000 All right.

01:00:21.000 What are your thoughts on midterms?

01:00:22.000 Dems have won a lot of special election.

01:00:25.000 Are you guys going to pick like a good chat?

01:00:27.000 President Charlie brings us to the next step.

01:00:29.000 Hey, guys, can I ask you about the third district of the No!

01:00:32.000 Here we go.

01:00:33.000 Can't you ask what a favorite empanada is?

01:00:35.000 Yeah.

01:00:35.000 Okay.

01:00:36.000 What's your favorite empanada, Josh?

01:00:37.000 No.

01:00:38.000 Here, listen to me.

01:00:41.000 If you could moderate the next presidential debate, what question would you ask that no one else would?

01:00:46.000 This is what I got.

01:00:50.000 That shingles went to your brain, noodles.

01:00:52.000 It's not my turn.

01:00:53.000 I don't pick one.

01:00:55.000 If you could be any kind of tree, what would you be?

01:01:00.000 What question would I ask?

01:01:01.000 That one, though, that one, that one gives us.

01:01:03.000 It does.

01:01:03.000 I'm just playing.

01:01:06.000 What does that mouth do? 1.00

01:01:10.000 I'm trying to think.

01:01:12.000 What would I ask?

01:01:13.000 Are you Chinese or Japanese?

01:01:22.000 Gosh, I have a couple that I would probably want to ask.

01:01:25.000 One would be, what is the American dream?

01:01:35.000 What is the American dream?

01:01:38.000 And when we talk about that, what is that?

01:01:40.000 What's your vision of the American dream?

01:01:41.000 And what would be an interesting question to kind of a riddle is what is your opponent's vision for America?

01:01:50.000 What do they want America to be?

01:01:53.000 And how does that differ from what you want America to be?

01:01:57.000 Because so often you get them going like, oh, you know, and debt and we want an economy that's under control and we want to be America doing really well.

01:02:05.000 It's like, okay, but what is America?

01:02:08.000 Show me how you're different from your opponent that you've really examined their perspective.

01:02:13.000 What's their vision for America?

01:02:15.000 And how is it different from yours?

01:02:17.000 We don't really get those kinds of things.

01:02:19.000 That's one thing that I think, I think Donald Trump loves this country.

01:02:21.000 I really do.

01:02:22.000 I think he's, of course, a flawed person.

01:02:24.000 He's very imperfect.

01:02:25.000 But even if you go back to before he was running for president, he always loved this country and has always talked about how this is the only country where he would be able to do what it is that he has done and achieve this and crater and fall and rise again.

01:02:40.000 I believe he truly loves this country.

01:02:41.000 And I believe that he truly does love the people of this country.

01:02:45.000 People are like, oh, some billionaire.

01:02:46.000 It's like, okay, but he's not your average billionaire.

01:02:49.000 You're talking about a billionaire who would, like, when he had whatever it was, the volleyball team, like, he got them all McDonald's because that's what he would want.

01:02:59.000 Like, I kind of like, and anyone else, I kind of like that he's the billionaire who wants his stake with ketchup.

01:03:05.000 Like, it's an everyman, and I want to.

01:03:08.000 Yeah, there are a lot of things because you know why?

01:03:10.000 He's different from just a stockbroker.

01:03:11.000 He's different from someone who's just moving numbers.

01:03:13.000 He, early on, even if he got a bunch of money from his dad and he started on third base, I get that.

01:03:19.000 He had to spend time with the construction workers.

01:03:22.000 He had to spend time with people who are involved with the raw materials and getting the steel.

01:03:27.000 So he's been around a lot of those guys.

01:03:29.000 That doesn't mean that he's one of them, but you can't be successful in business if all those people you depend on routinely hate you.

01:03:37.000 It's just not really possible.

01:03:40.000 You can be successful in government because it doesn't matter.

01:03:42.000 There's no accountability.

01:03:43.000 So I think he's great and I think he loves this country, but I don't think that he always cast the most effective vision as to what it is we're trying to conserve in this country.

01:03:55.000 He talked about ways to improve it and kind of bring it back to a period of time where things would be considered improved from right now.

01:04:04.000 But that's something that I think really matters.

01:04:07.000 I really do.

01:04:08.000 And I think, especially now, this is where Gen Z is very different from millennials when we were talking about today, is they're sitting back and re-examining.

01:04:15.000 I mean, as millennials, our generation bought into the lies wholesale.

01:04:20.000 And even in the feminism stuff, the dual-income household thing, the getting a college degree thing, the global warming thing, the love is love thing, the overpopulation thing. 1.00

01:04:35.000 It was all just bought wholesale.

01:04:37.000 Like, oh, yeah.

01:04:38.000 Oh, of course.

01:04:39.000 Yeah, feminism is a good thing. 1.00

01:04:40.000 Oh, yeah, dual-income household.

01:04:42.000 That's better.

01:04:42.000 That's a good thing.

01:04:42.000 Oh, yeah, you're going to have to have fewer kids because overpopulation.

01:04:45.000 Yeah, that's a good thing.

01:04:46.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, we have to regulate because of a hole in the ozone. 0.98

01:04:49.000 Losing the barrier reef.

01:04:50.000 That's a good thing.

01:04:51.000 Our generation just bought that wholesale.

01:04:53.000 And then you had a rejection of it.

01:04:55.000 I would say as people get older and they pay taxes, right?

01:04:57.000 Or their views on war.

01:04:58.000 And so they vote Republican.

01:04:59.000 But Gen Z is actually looking at this through a really holistic approach where I've spoken with some young people and I think that the ones who are conservative, which is a majority, certainly of young men, actually have been thoughtful and pretty insightful.

01:05:16.000 Where millennials who became conservatives are going like, yeah, well, I was a liberal until I paid taxes.

01:05:22.000 We have a lot of Gen Z people who haven't paid taxes. 1.00

01:05:25.000 And they'll say like, yeah, I just, you know, I thought about it and I go, wait, none of this is really making sense to me.

01:05:37.000 Like the feminism thing, I see what's happened right now. 0.96

01:05:40.000 I want things that my grandfather, I don't want what you guys have.

01:05:44.000 I actually want what my grandfather had.

01:05:46.000 And I don't know how to get that because it seems like we have a country that doesn't facilitate that.

01:05:53.000 Like they've decided that they've skipped past a few generations and they actually want what it is that we had in this country.

01:05:59.000 And I don't mean that they want to be working out there on a farm, but they're going, yeah, you know, feminism is bad and they don't feel guilty going, I would love to be able to, you know, have a woman at home and kids and be a sole provider and have a white picket fence. 1.00

01:06:13.000 Whereas millennials are like, oh, I don't want to say that because whatever people want to do, every lifestyle is just as valid and just as productive to the country as the next one.

01:06:20.000 Gen Z is looking at it from the perspective of, yeah, well, what are we seeking? 0.75

01:06:23.000 I'm a conservative because that means conserving, and then they can actually describe it for you.

01:06:31.000 So that's why when I talk about this shift, it gives me a lot of hope because I don't think that people that young are often that thoughtful.

01:06:39.000 And it doesn't mean all of them.

01:06:40.000 And plenty of people are entitled.

01:06:42.000 But there is a really, really stark contrast when you look at people in Gen Z, the conservatives versus liberals.

01:06:49.000 And what I mean is liberals, they're taking everything by default and they bought into it, screaming about student loans.

01:06:54.000 And Gen Z conservatives have deconstructed a lot of it, have determined their priorities, and they've identified the problems that are standing in the way of achieving them.

01:07:05.000 And they're willing to fight and do away with it.

01:07:10.000 They're willing to say, like, you know what?

01:07:12.000 I think it's okay.

01:07:12.000 I think that we're going to make a little less money, but we're going to have someone home with our kids.

01:07:17.000 I don't want to ship my kids off to daycare.

01:07:19.000 He's saying, you know what?

01:07:20.000 I want to have a lot of kids because we have a population problem in this country and we see what's going on.

01:07:24.000 And this is something that my grandparents had a lot of kids and they always say they wish they had more.

01:07:30.000 They're very thoughtful.

01:07:31.000 And so I think that Gen Z can cast their vision.

01:07:35.000 A lot of them, Gen Z conservatives, and a big part of it is being forged in the fire because, my gosh, you know, they still were being raised, a lot of them in public education.

01:07:43.000 They can defend their position because they've always had to.

01:07:48.000 And that always strengthens an argument.

01:07:50.000 That's why we use liberal sources.

01:07:51.000 We constantly put ourselves in a position to defend our views or our arguments.

01:07:56.000 If we just read conservative stuff, if we just watch, we'd never have to do that.

01:08:00.000 You could even see it, to give an example, Donald Trump.

01:08:01.000 Donald Trump, when he ran for president, you have to understand he was, by and large, a lifelong Democrat, gave to both parties.

01:08:07.000 He ran.

01:08:08.000 Immigration was an issue.

01:08:10.000 He talked about the abysmal economy that Obama left us.

01:08:14.000 But he wasn't quite there yet.

01:08:15.000 There was a reason to be skeptical.

01:08:17.000 People didn't think he was a conservative.

01:08:19.000 We watched him become more conservative, become more right-wing when all of his friends, who he had gone to cocktail parties with, you know, people like the Clintons and people who you see in Hollywood, all these people who love Donald Trump and would talk about him whenever they could want to get in his celebrity apprentice shows, turned on him because of only a couple points of view, only a couple of perspectives, where they called him a racist or a fascist.

01:08:45.000 And having to defend himself, going like, well, I'm not a racist.

01:08:49.000 I'm not, you could see he was going, wait, wait, wait a second.

01:08:52.000 I thought you guys were my friends.

01:08:54.000 And become more, the minute you have to defend your perspective, it forces you to take inventory, go, okay, what am I defending here?

01:09:01.000 Because I need to know how to best defend it.

01:09:03.000 And Gen Z, young people, they have had to defend it really since birth.

01:09:10.000 And you even see it with Donald Trump.

01:09:12.000 So that would be the question that I would ask.

01:09:14.000 What is your opponent's vision for America?

01:09:17.000 And how do you differ?

01:09:18.000 Because I think as we go forward, and we're in a time where Europe really is no longer a thing, when you look at Canada, we need to find some common ground and agreement on that.

01:09:28.000 What kind of a country do we want to live in?

01:09:30.000 What does that mean?

01:09:31.000 And what is the American dream?

01:09:33.000 And all other decisions stem from that.

01:09:36.000 We've been doing all this the wrong way and valuing and prioritizing the wrong things.

01:09:42.000 Let's reverse course.

01:09:44.000 It's that simple.

01:09:45.000 We'll see you tomorrow.

Louder with Crowder - August 07, 2025

🔴 South Park Mocks Charlie Kirk & Vox Cries Eugenics over Sydney Sweeney 2025-08-07 18:07

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