Louder with Crowder - Trump Slams Dictator Zelensky: Why He NOW Has a Point

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00:02:06.000 You don't know where I've been, Josh.

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00:02:42.000 All right, we have a lot to get to.

00:02:50.000 Ooh, that is tepid.

00:02:52.000 A lot to get to.

00:02:53.000 Why are you going to CNN? This is a disaster.

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00:03:01.000 Be water, my friend. 1.00

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00:03:04.000 Now, is Zelensky a dictator? 1.00

00:03:08.000 Yes.

00:03:09.000 Now, there's some gray area.

00:03:11.000 We're going to talk about that because some new developments there.

00:03:13.000 My lawyer is here to actually give you some insight into the Blake Lively Baldoni case.

00:03:20.000 Donald Trump has fixed congestion pricing in New York.

00:03:23.000 Also some news about the Kennedy Center.

00:03:25.000 And Bernie Sanders just, he won't go away.

00:03:27.000 He's still alive.

00:03:29.000 And he wrote an op-ed in The Guardian that tells you everything you need to know about the left.

00:03:34.000 I've said this, and I, please.

00:03:37.000 Do keep this at the tip of your tongue.

00:03:39.000 Status quo and more money.

00:03:42.000 That is the left's solution to everything.

00:03:45.000 And I was losing my mind after the show yesterday.

00:03:47.000 Here's why.

00:03:48.000 It's not the big thing.

00:03:49.000 It's not the multi-trillion dollar deficit.

00:03:52.000 If we can't cut Twizzlers from Snap, you don't believe we can cut anything.

00:04:01.000 If we can't use food subs for ringdings...

00:04:08.000 You don't believe anything can be cut from government.

00:04:11.000 You think going through the 70,000 new IRS employees have a shot?

00:04:15.000 You won't cut out fuego talkies!

00:04:20.000 So if at some point today you see this, head on over.

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00:04:43.000 For a lot of people, it did.

00:04:45.000 Yes, it did.

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00:04:48.000 Let me ask you this.

00:04:53.000 What's the craziest thing Bernie Sanders has said?

00:04:56.000 Is the mask off now?

00:04:57.000 Do you guys all see when this guy complains about oligarchs?

00:05:00.000 That's what he supports.

00:05:01.000 People used to say at least Bernie Sanders was genuine.

00:05:03.000 Anyone still believe that?

00:05:04.000 And by the way, do you think Zelensky is a dictator?

00:05:06.000 I think Putin is bad.

00:05:08.000 I think he's a dictator.

00:05:08.000 I think that Zelensky, he plays one on TV really well.

00:05:12.000 There you go.

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00:05:25.000 How are you, fellas?

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00:05:27.000 Hey, we have CNN's weird faces.

00:05:29.000 And just to be really clear, before we get into this, this morning I thought this was the weirdest face on CNN. That's pretty weird.

00:05:36.000 Like a Chinese-crested, hairless terrier? 0.77

00:05:39.000 Whatever it is.

00:05:41.000 John Bolton, isn't it?

00:05:42.000 Well, he was.

00:05:44.000 He's like, I used to be.

00:05:45.000 Now, that's not even close, which brings us to this week's Weird Faces.

00:05:51.000 I've seen it.

00:05:52.000 And it ties into news about the Kennedy Center and their new chief, President Trump.

00:06:04.000 But weirdest face?

00:06:05.000 This brings us to a Kennedy.

00:06:07.000 I want to bring in Stephen Kennedy Smith, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.

00:06:11.000 He looks like he was supposed to turn back into a pumpkin at midnight, but stopped halfway.

00:06:16.000 Stephen, what led to the decision to close the library yesterday?

00:06:17.000 What changed to allow it to reopen today?

00:06:20.000 He looks like the kid's Halloween bucket.

00:06:23.000 Where do you see his teeth?

00:06:24.000 Check out his teeth.

00:06:26.000 He's huge.

00:06:27.000 Six employees were fired.

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00:06:34.000 That's what happens when we have a sister wife. 1.00

00:06:37.000 So we had no one... 1.00

00:06:39.000 What a vagina magnet. 1.00

00:06:41.000 That was done without any consultation whatsoever. 0.99

00:06:48.000 I do appreciate that he's leaned into the oddity that he is.

00:06:52.000 Yes.

00:06:53.000 I do appreciate he's like, what can I do with this?

00:06:55.000 Let me go with the alfalfa, shave my lips off.

00:06:58.000 Yeah, you know what? 0.70

00:06:59.000 I'm a freak show.

00:07:00.000 He leaned into it to help a few bullies.

00:07:04.000 I didn't hear a word he said.

00:07:06.000 Me either!

00:07:07.000 I know, it's like looking at a model.

00:07:10.000 Except in a trained wreck in human form.

00:07:13.000 He's the poster boy for why you shouldn't use Narcan.

00:07:17.000 Aww.

00:07:19.000 He was talking about the Kennedy Center, I believe.

00:07:21.000 So President Trump is now chairman of the Kennedy Center in D.C. And, of course, this is part of the Smithsonian Institute.

00:07:29.000 I don't know how much they receive.

00:07:31.000 I believe it was $30-something in federal funding.

00:07:34.000 I think it was $40-something million.

00:07:35.000 $40-something million in federal funding.

00:07:37.000 And see if you guys can understand this concept.

00:07:39.000 The left is really tipping their hand here.

00:07:41.000 They're not tipping their hand.

00:07:42.000 They don't have a play.

00:07:43.000 They're just showing you who they are.

00:07:44.000 They don't understand that no one cares.

00:07:47.000 If you want to do art.

00:07:49.000 When we're paying for the art, it's different.

00:07:52.000 You can eat whatever you want.

00:07:54.000 When we're paying for it, we have a say.

00:07:57.000 You can go and privately fund the human godforsaken centipede and no one will care.

00:08:03.000 Even a sequel!

00:08:04.000 As long as you are paying for it.

00:08:06.000 When it's taxpayer dollars, we have a say.

00:08:11.000 And they don't understand it.

00:08:13.000 Some people, like LeVar Burton, Obviously and understandably upset, but the good news is you don't have to take his word for it.

00:08:22.000 The arts are especially at risk right now, it seems like.

00:08:25.000 Arts have been in the headlines with what Trump has been doing with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

00:08:30.000 What's your take on that, and how important does it make this summit and the conversations you're going to have here this week?

00:08:36.000 I don't believe that arts should be a part of a political conversation.

00:08:41.000 Tell your friends.

00:08:43.000 At least they should be.

00:08:44.000 But I guess I believe...

00:08:47.000 Sure, there's politics in everything.

00:08:50.000 But art should be outside of that sphere of rhetoric because this is about humanity.

00:08:58.000 Take a look.

00:08:59.000 It's in a book.

00:09:00.000 I'm reading the rainbow.

00:09:06.000 Thanks, LeVar.

00:09:07.000 I understand that you believe so much in your credibility.

00:09:10.000 You asked me to take the vouching of a six-year-old as tribute.

00:09:16.000 I believe art should be separate from politics.

00:09:17.000 Great!

00:09:18.000 We won't fund NPR. No, no, no, no!

00:09:20.000 Wait!

00:09:22.000 No more money for PBS! No, no, no, no!

00:09:24.000 No more funding for, by the way, The Usual Suspects.

00:09:27.000 In case you were wondering how far we've gone, like, if you wanted the Founding Fathers and people said, this is what the Founding Fathers would have wanted it.

00:09:32.000 You think they were going, yeah, okay, right.

00:09:34.000 Hold on, I think we're talking about taxation without representation.

00:09:37.000 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:09:38.000 Taxpayer-funded drag shows at a museum.

00:09:42.000 When we restrict the arts, we restrict the ability of people to fight back within the culture.

00:09:47.000 In the last week, President Trump said he didn't like what they were showing, especially drag shows.

00:09:52.000 I don't like what's coming up.

00:09:53.000 He says specifically targeting youth.

00:09:55.000 We're going to get some great professionals.

00:09:57.000 I'm going to be chairman of it, and we're going to make sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke.

00:10:02.000 These attacks on drag are being revealed attacks on trans people, and they want to classify trans people living their authentic lives as them doing drag.

00:10:11.000 We really need to be here today, show up, and stand up for trans and drag rights.

00:10:16.000 Now, I know that you were distracted in the foreground by Abomination Gomez-Adams, but if you can actually grab a screen, that's not even the worst person in that frame.

00:10:24.000 I was getting hard.

00:10:25.000 It was, look, right behind is someone even worse where there's a special place in hell, a mime. 1.00

00:10:32.000 Oh.

00:10:32.000 There's a mime.

00:10:34.000 I would go...

00:10:35.000 It's Joel Grey in Blackface. 1.00

00:10:38.000 It's just a group of people who deserve to be hated. 0.99

00:10:43.000 I say bring back bullying. 0.99

00:10:46.000 And mimes first.

00:10:47.000 Mimes and pumpkin heads. 1.00

00:10:49.000 This shit wouldn't red its ugly head if bullying stayed where it was. 1.00

00:10:53.000 There needs to be some. 1.00

00:10:54.000 There needs to be a natural order.

00:10:55.000 A little bit.

00:10:56.000 It's a natural...

00:10:56.000 That's exactly right.

00:10:57.000 Thank you. 0.99

00:10:58.000 It's like, you know, you're okay if you take out the krill, but not if you kill all the great whites, though I'm okay with it because I don't think we need any more. 1.00

00:11:04.000 The point is, the left is basically unhappy with any kind of change unless it's status quo and more money, but they have to deal with it. 0.97

00:11:14.000 Well...

00:11:15.000 I'm mad that it's Trump's turn to run the Kennedy. 0.90

00:11:20.000 I really hate Trumpers.

00:11:22.000 So much for stability.

00:11:25.000 Yeah, now that it's Trump's turn, I'm leaving because I've got no sack. 1.00

00:11:30.000 While the dog makes me a loser, he's taking the whole damn nation back. 0.99

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00:12:08.000 And Donald Trump, President Trump, is not done with owning the left.

00:12:12.000 This is a brilliant move.

00:12:14.000 Think about it.

00:12:14.000 He has made the left, Doge and Donald Trump have made the left defend congestion pricing in New York City and the IRS. And war.

00:12:25.000 Which brings us to Empire State of Crime.

00:12:28.000 New York. 1.00

00:12:29.000 Concrete shit, whole street crime tornado. 1.00

00:12:34.000 No one will protect you. 1.00

00:12:37.000 Now you're in New York.

00:12:40.000 So yesterday, Donald Trump killed the New York City congestion pricing program and Can we have a, Hochul, there was a tweet from her, a post from her.

00:12:52.000 Can you guys bring that to me?

00:12:53.000 She was defending it, saying, we will see you in court, Donald Trump.

00:12:57.000 There is nothing that New Yorkers want to fight for more than congestion pricing.

00:13:02.000 Oh my God!

00:13:04.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:13:06.000 It's not about logic and reason.

00:13:07.000 It's about their hatred of anything that comes from the right or Trump.

00:13:12.000 They are blinded by it, and what more proof do you need that defending this and the IRS... How is Hochul, how is the Democrat Party going to try and make...

00:13:22.000 Never been voted in.

00:13:22.000 No, never been voted in.

00:13:24.000 How are they going to try and make Republicans out to seem like country club wealthy elite when they are the ones defending the IRS and congestion pricing?

00:13:32.000 Could you be more out of touch?

00:13:36.000 It's just, they think that everyone's on board with them.

00:13:40.000 This is where even the most blue New Yorker who votes Democrat by default is going to wake up.

00:13:45.000 Right.

00:13:46.000 That's the hope.

00:13:46.000 Exactly right.

00:13:47.000 This transcends race and color and all that.

00:13:51.000 Everybody drives into Manhattan.

00:13:53.000 Yes.

00:13:54.000 You will turn.

00:13:56.000 Hamas-supporting terrorist cab drivers of New York City into Republican voters for life.

00:14:01.000 You want to know how the Joker comes to power?

00:14:03.000 Yes, exactly.

00:14:04.000 Bingo.

00:14:05.000 Bingo.

00:14:06.000 This is the origin story.

00:14:08.000 Maybe they can make another one, only a good one.

00:14:10.000 Actually, to give you an idea just how much New Yorkers hate congestion pricing, there are people who found workarounds, of course, as there was congestion pricing.

00:14:19.000 People don't know.

00:14:20.000 It's where they charge more at certain times.

00:14:21.000 $9!

00:14:22.000 Let's just say what it is.

00:14:23.000 It's $9 to drive past an intersection.

00:14:25.000 But New Yorkers found some creative workarounds like this one who posted a helpful tip video.

00:14:31.000 Yo, Mo, I'm not even going to hold you. 0.98

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00:14:36.000 Get the f*** out of here. 1.00

00:14:37.000 I'm going to show y'all n****s how to do this s*** work. 1.00

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00:14:42.000 You're going to make a left before you get under that s*** work. 0.97

00:14:44.000 You're going to go all the way down, no ditty.

00:14:46.000 There's going to be a parking lot right here where you're going to make a right in the parking lot.

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00:14:52.000 Let me show you right here.

00:14:53.000 Boom.

00:14:54.000 Make the right in the parking lot right here.

00:14:57.000 You gonna go through the parking lot.

00:14:58.000 It's another opening on the other side, you heard? 0.99

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00:15:05.000 You know they be d***ing on this shit. 1.00

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00:18:16.000 Hey, let's go to this.

00:18:17.000 Before we get to Zelensky, which is obviously a big deal, the media is, of course, in an absolute tailspin over Donald Trump calling Zelensky a dictator.

00:18:26.000 We'll fact check some of what President Trump said.

00:18:28.000 It wasn't accurate, to be clear.

00:18:29.000 But before that, you know that I have disliked this person for a very long time.

00:18:34.000 Going back to whatever it is, 2014, 2015, when everyone was focusing on Hillary Clinton, I said, no, no, no, we're actually going to focus on Bernie Sanders on this show because he was the movement candidate.

00:18:43.000 People believed that for some reason he was my God authentic.

00:18:47.000 And he just wrote an op-ed.

00:18:49.000 It's the same tired old talking points, but there's new context.

00:18:52.000 It's really hard for Bernie Sanders to defend his policies.

00:18:56.000 On behalf of the people in the face of what is going on, comment below if the veil's been lifted a little bit that even the most populist progressive leftists like Bernie Sanders, you acknowledge they have no leg to stand on, and we'll go through it point by point.

00:19:10.000 But here you go.

00:19:12.000 Bernie Sanders does have a long-standing history of bitching about Trump. 1.00

00:19:18.000 We've got to appreciate what's going on in the country.

00:19:20.000 We're moving toward oligarchy.

00:19:21.000 It will not surprise you when I tell you that Trump is lying, as he so often does.

00:19:27.000 I mean, we will see whether Trump is going to keep any of the campaign promises he made to working people.

00:19:33.000 This country under Trump is moving rapidly toward authoritarianism.

00:19:38.000 Authoritarianism.

00:19:38.000 You may have noticed that Trump is intimidating the media.

00:19:41.000 A small number of...

00:19:44.000 Oh, media bias.

00:19:50.000 Your people, Bernie.

00:19:51.000 The president is operating at a very authoritarian, illegal, and unconstitutional.

00:19:57.000 Does he brush his hair with a plasma orb from Spencer's?

00:20:00.000 He just touches it on the way to the house.

00:20:03.000 It's like he comes to work with a motorcycle.

00:20:05.000 Exactly.

00:20:06.000 You know he has one pant leg tucked in.

00:20:08.000 Protected from the gears.

00:20:12.000 That's why his pan is tucked into his cell.

00:20:14.000 He's not in a gang.

00:20:15.000 So he wrote this op-ed in The Guardian, and it perfectly crystallizes what the left is doing on why it doesn't work.

00:20:23.000 So I'll be reading this and going through it claim by claim.

00:20:26.000 I think it's pretty important.

00:20:27.000 So right away he talks about, I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska this Friday night, in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday morning.

00:20:35.000 Further in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events.

00:20:40.000 From coast to coast.

00:20:41.000 Oh, grassroots.

00:20:42.000 You mean like the people who elected a president in spite of media interference, in spite of government interference, in spite of prosecutorial misconduct?

00:20:50.000 That kind of grassroots?

00:20:50.000 Is that what you mean?

00:20:51.000 Or do you mean like the grassroots, like the Tea Party that wasn't funded from the top down in opposition to Barack Obama and your party decided to audit those people?

00:20:57.000 Mothers and fathers?

00:20:58.000 That kind of grassroots?

00:20:59.000 Okay, I just want to make sure we're clear.

00:21:00.000 Why at this moment are we doing town meetings across the country, especially in conservative areas?

00:21:04.000 The answer is obvious.

00:21:05.000 Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the D.C. Beltway.

00:21:09.000 So not you.

00:21:11.000 It will only be defeated by millions of Americans. 0.70

00:21:13.000 All right, they already voted.

00:21:14.000 Let's go through the actual claims that this guy...

00:21:17.000 It's really hard to claim that you're a populist when people have rejected you.

00:21:20.000 Yes.

00:21:21.000 Yeah, hugely.

00:21:22.000 Not by a pair.

00:21:24.000 Huge. 0.99

00:21:24.000 Also, Vermont, your cheese sucks. 0.99

00:21:28.000 Wisconsin is better, and they're drunk. 1.00

00:21:32.000 Really drunk.

00:21:33.000 They're really drunk.

00:21:34.000 Was it 49 of the 50 drunkest counties for all of Wisconsin?

00:21:37.000 In the top 10, I believe.

00:21:38.000 But Vermont is so left, it's almost right.

00:21:40.000 Like, I get stopped pissing on the side of the road, and nobody said, a cop went by, just waved at me.

00:21:45.000 No.

00:21:45.000 Well, that's called the sex offender immunity.

00:21:47.000 So that's where the progressivism comes back.

00:21:50.000 It's like, Nick, he actually looked at you and was like...

00:21:55.000 Do you like what you see?

00:21:56.000 He said that on the PA system.

00:21:59.000 Sometimes I prefer a hooga.

00:22:05.000 He just should be paid like bowl players.

00:22:08.000 Yes, exactly. 1.00

00:22:11.000 Only the one that fucked their kids. 1.00

00:22:13.000 Yeah, that's Bernie Sanders because they're real heroes. 1.00

00:22:15.000 They're real heroes and they shouldn't be fired.

00:22:17.000 And then he turns, of course, into once he gets angry and he yells Gilbert Gott, for you all know the history here.

00:22:21.000 So, claim that he makes.

00:22:23.000 I'll just read this from the computer.

00:22:25.000 He says, Trumpism has significant control over large parts of the media from which millions of Americans get their information.

00:22:32.000 Fox and Musk's Platform X, among others, are not normal.

00:22:37.000 Media outlets.

00:22:38.000 Their basic function is not to cover the news, but to spread right-wing extremist ideology.

00:22:42.000 Okay, here's the truth.

00:22:44.000 References all publicly available.

00:22:46.000 First, let me ask a question.

00:22:47.000 Okay, Fox and X. Okay, how about ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Google, YouTube, Meta, and up until last year, X? How about all of them?

00:22:58.000 You have a problem with media bias now?

00:23:01.000 Alright, well don't let these facts hit you in the teeth.

00:23:03.000 The negative coverage of Donald Trump during the presidential races in 2024, it was 85% negative.

00:23:09.000 In 2020, he received 150 times more negative coverage than former Vice President Biden.

00:23:16.000 These are observable.

00:23:17.000 These are verifiable, quantifiable numbers.

00:23:20.000 Links in the description.

00:23:21.000 Not to mention, the big tech censorship of Trump and conservatives.

00:23:27.000 Zuck even acknowledged the coercion, and now he wants to apologize for it, while at the same time, of course, his constituents, or I guess his proxies, fund giant leftist organizations.

00:23:37.000 Of course, we have the Twitter files, revelations, we've been demonetized on YouTube, so pretty much everything except for Fox and X. And by the way, Fox isn't all that right-wing, especially when you know what's going on with it right now.

00:23:48.000 Okay, let's assume that it's true.

00:23:50.000 Again, ignoring ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Google, YouTube, Meta, and recently XK. We'll ignore all of that.

00:23:57.000 What's the solution, Bernie Sanders?

00:23:59.000 You're talking about right-wing media?

00:24:01.000 Oh, wait.

00:24:01.000 Oh, that's right.

00:24:03.000 I know, if we look at Bernie's policy, it's more funding for NBR, PBS, more regulation.

00:24:09.000 Effectively, the same solution from the left as they have on everything right now, which is status quo, do the exact same thing, only more money, more money, more money.

00:24:18.000 Money, money, money, money.

00:24:21.000 Money.

00:24:24.000 It doesn't quite have the same...

00:24:26.000 The bass was good.

00:24:29.000 It was good.

00:24:30.000 Oh, that was a DEI. He's going to have a Jew on base. 1.00

00:24:38.000 It's automatically Seinfeld.

00:24:40.000 Not the crime intro.

00:24:42.000 Mike Huckabee on base.

00:24:44.000 He's actually not bad.

00:24:46.000 All right.

00:24:48.000 Next claim that he makes, and he starts getting more aggravated.

00:24:50.000 He says, Today, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

00:24:55.000 Millions are earning starvation wages.

00:24:57.000 85 million are uninsured or underinsured.

00:25:00.000 Young people are unable to afford the cost of college. 0.99

00:25:03.000 25% of seniors live on $15,000 a year or less.

00:25:06.000 We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth.

00:25:10.000 It's almost like this guy doesn't like America.

00:25:12.000 And we have a major shortage of low income and affordable housing.

00:25:15.000 Okay, here's the truth.

00:25:18.000 Not all of that is true.

00:25:19.000 Of course, you use different metrics.

00:25:20.000 It's kind of like the infant mortality rate.

00:25:22.000 But as far as the metrics he's using, you can irrefutably thank former Vice President Biden for that.

00:25:27.000 Under Joe Biden, we saw an increase in people living paycheck to paycheck.

00:25:30.000 We saw an increase in the number of uninsured and underinsured.

00:25:33.000 And we saw an increase in childhood poverty.

00:25:35.000 It actually more than doubled by the standards that Bernie is using here.

00:25:38.000 As far as affordable housing, I don't know if you know this Bernie Sanders.

00:25:41.000 I know you advocate on behalf of the people.

00:25:43.000 But tens of millions of illegals under Biden...

00:25:46.000 Crawled over here, flew, crawled, whatever, swam, if they could do that.

00:25:49.000 I don't know if you know that that has an effect on the market as far as supply and demand reduces the availability of affordable housing.

00:25:54.000 And let's be really clear, public housing, which I know we'll get to in a bit, actually sucks.

00:25:59.000 It concentrates poverty, crime, and it doesn't actually improve the lives of the people involved.

00:26:04.000 So hold on a second. 0.96

00:26:05.000 He bitches about, okay, he bitches about all these things, the housing crisis, poverty. 0.99

00:26:10.000 What's the solution from Bernie Sanders? 1.00

00:26:12.000 Oh, wait.

00:26:12.000 That's right.

00:26:13.000 He wants more Section 8 housing.

00:26:14.000 Oh, wait.

00:26:14.000 That's right.

00:26:15.000 He wants health care to be a human right.

00:26:16.000 Oh, wait.

00:26:16.000 That's right.

00:26:16.000 He wants to increase Medicare, Medicaid, make it for all people.

00:26:19.000 That's right.

00:26:20.000 Do exactly what we have done and more money.

00:26:24.000 Money, money, money, money.

00:26:28.000 Money.

00:26:31.000 And then he starts getting...

00:26:32.000 And how many houses does he have?

00:26:34.000 Right.

00:26:34.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:26:35.000 Three.

00:26:35.000 That was one that was owned by the college from my wife.

00:26:38.000 Didn't it go bankrupt? 1.00

00:26:39.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:26:41.000 And he gets increasingly aggravated, like he has to fit this in. 0.99

00:26:44.000 It's like he wants to claim to be a populist, but then can't help but touch on the most elite talking point that couldn't be more out of touch with the average American public.

00:26:53.000 And that, of course, brings us to his claim on climate change, where he then says, oh, and by the way, we're losing our struggle against the climate crisis!

00:27:05.000 an existential threat to the future of the planet! 1.00

00:27:09.000 Son of a bitch! 1.00

00:27:11.000 Here's the truth! 1.00

00:27:14.000 Bernie! 0.83

00:27:16.000 Climate policy, energy policies, are the actual existential threat to the American way of life.

00:27:22.000 I don't know if you know this, but, for example, pausing leases on federal land and a lot of the climate agreements that we signed on to.

00:27:30.000 That's a big part of cost ballooning under former Vice President Biden.

00:27:33.000 You know, gas went up 48%.

00:27:35.000 That kind of affects those people in poverty, you prick.

00:27:37.000 Heating and oil, 44%.

00:27:39.000 Electricity, 29%.

00:27:42.000 Everything went up.

00:27:43.000 Most Americans aren't concerned about a 1.6 degree rise in temperature.

00:27:48.000 They wouldn't be able to detect it if it took place in this room over the course of the next two hours.

00:27:53.000 They care about not being able to drive to work or buy groceries.

00:27:57.000 You know, the stuff you minimize.

00:27:59.000 Hold on, let's go back to this.

00:28:00.000 What's the solution?

00:28:03.000 I had to live through this, and Nick knows, right, you're just a party of no, Republicans.

00:28:08.000 The solution here for Bernie Sanders, you can look at his policies, More Paris climate agreement.

00:28:14.000 That was the Kyoto Protocol.

00:28:15.000 I covered that in Cancun.

00:28:16.000 It was the Montreal Protocol before that.

00:28:17.000 More giant, multi-international agreements that half of these countries who sign on to don't even honor.

00:28:23.000 And of course, the countries who don't sign on to it, like China, they don't honor at all.

00:28:27.000 And what does that do?

00:28:28.000 Well, it affects climate basically nothing, as far as we know, something observable.

00:28:32.000 But we do know that it increases the price.

00:28:35.000 Of all goods and services for everyday Americans.

00:28:37.000 So what would he want to do?

00:28:38.000 That and along with, of course, subsidizing more green energy, which, of course, invariably ends up running itself into the ground, bankrupting itself.

00:28:44.000 I can give you examples like cylindra or solar or wind.

00:28:47.000 Effectively, the solution from Bernie Sanders is exactly the same thing.

00:28:52.000 Status quo, but more money.

00:28:55.000 Money, money, money, money!

00:28:58.000 Money!

00:28:59.000 I like that one.

00:29:00.000 It's going to happen.

00:29:01.000 You know, he gets a little riled up.

00:29:03.000 And then he goes into his favorite talking point.

00:29:06.000 The oligarchs.

00:29:08.000 The oligarchs.

00:29:09.000 Okay.

00:29:10.000 All right.

00:29:10.000 Anything 1% I hate.

00:29:12.000 1% milk.

00:29:13.000 That's right.

00:29:13.000 I won't have it.

00:29:15.000 I'll do 2%.

00:29:16.000 My son graduated 1% of his class. 0.99

00:29:19.000 I fucking don't talk to the kid no more. 0.99

00:29:22.000 I got a mortgage 1% rate. 0.99

00:29:23.000 I said 2%.

00:29:24.000 I said, wait, no.

00:29:27.000 I tip.

00:29:28.000 1% below the industry average.

00:29:31.000 I tip 17%.

00:29:31.000 You ever see that?

00:29:32.000 He calculates the tip to the penny of 18%.

00:29:36.000 He's the least generous member of our public servants you can picture.

00:29:42.000 So here's the next claim that he makes.

00:29:43.000 Again, you can go and read all of it at The Guardian.

00:29:45.000 I just think he's a perfect whipping post and he puts himself out there and people on the left still actually, my God, believe in Bernie Sanders.

00:29:51.000 He said, Today the three major oligarchs, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg are worth $905 billion!

00:30:03.000 That is more wealth than the bottom half of American society!

00:30:09.000 170 million people!

00:30:11.000 And incredibly, since Trump's election, their wealth has grown by $217 billion!

00:30:18.000 All right.

00:30:22.000 Okay, okay, all right.

00:30:24.000 First off, guess how these people lean.

00:30:27.000 Also, this is a small point.

00:30:29.000 The problem, I don't have a problem with the wealth gap inequality.

00:30:34.000 I have a problem with poverty, right?

00:30:36.000 And sometimes you'll have a wider gap, but you'll have less poverty.

00:30:40.000 So if you have a wider gap, but there are far more people in middle class or upper middle class income scenarios, that's better than having a smaller gap and everyone is relatively poor.

00:30:51.000 So I don't even agree with the premise, but let's go through this.

00:30:53.000 Here's the truth, Mr. Sanders.

00:30:56.000 The biggest wealth transfer that has ever occurred in modern American history was during COVID, and it was engineered by the left.

00:31:04.000 You complain about billionaires?

00:31:06.000 Billionaires increased their wealth by $1.8 trillion.

00:31:10.000 Wow.

00:31:12.000 During the pandemic, lockdowns, main beneficiaries were the people you named.

00:31:15.000 Well, eventually named, right?

00:31:18.000 You're rich.

00:31:19.000 But also BlackRock, Vanguard, you know, these giant companies who you deem too big to fail, you and Elizabeth Warren, your socialist brethren, sister in Papa, and whatever it is that she calls herself today is one 100th Cherokee, less than me.

00:31:33.000 Let's also remember $700,000, while there was a $1.8 billion, sorry, trillion, trillion, $1.8 trillion wealth transfer.

00:31:41.000 700,000 small businesses closed during the pandemic.

00:31:44.000 Again, this is something that you supported, of course, because it was a big government program.

00:31:47.000 We had to keep people safe, right?

00:31:49.000 Too big to fail because you want control over BlackRock and Vanguard and, of course, the big banks.

00:31:54.000 And, of course, too big to fail with auto manufacturers or the airline industry.

00:31:59.000 Insert whichever organization or group is too big to fill here.

00:32:02.000 You've supported it, even though you claim that you don't because you've never met government overreach that you don't like.

00:32:07.000 What is the solution?

00:32:09.000 The solution, of course, is more of the same from Bernie Sanders and maybe some higher taxes, which, of course, favors these giant corporations who can absorb them, not the 700,000 small businesses that close.

00:32:20.000 Effectively, the solution from the left is the status quo.

00:32:23.000 Same, same, same, same, same.

00:32:24.000 only more money money money money money money money he then goes on to say this is where he starts getting really pious his claim *Sigh* It is absurd, unjust, and inhumane!

00:32:46.000 That's right, I said it!

00:32:48.000 That virtually all of the new wealth being created goes to the people who need it the least!

00:32:54.000 Alright.

00:32:56.000 Here's the truth.

00:32:57.000 Because Bernie Sanders, when he's talking about people who need money or wealth, he's really talking about what government redistributes because he doesn't believe in wealth created by private businesses.

00:33:07.000 The truth is that the exact opposite is true.

00:33:10.000 If you look at entitlements, which tell a very clear story, just in 2024, over $4 trillion, or 60% of the federal budget, was spent on entitlement programs.

00:33:19.000 So again, what is the solution here when he is saying that new wealth is being created goes to people who need it?

00:33:25.000 I understand.

00:33:26.000 I don't believe that we should have government-engineered transfers of wealth to the giant companies too big to fail, to the Bezos' to the Zuckerbergs, you know, the people who you preferred for a very long period of time.

00:33:36.000 I agree with that.

00:33:38.000 But again, the solution from Bernie Sanders to fix the wealth disparity in this country is $4 trillion isn't enough.

00:33:45.000 More, more, status quo, Department of Education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, entitlement program, Section 8 housing, exactly what we've done, status quo, nothing different, only more money.

00:33:54.000 Money, money, money, money!

00:33:58.000 Money!

00:34:00.000 Here's the next claim.

00:34:02.000 You can check all these references and I encourage you to do so that Bernie makes.

00:34:06.000 I'll go back because my throat hurts.

00:34:08.000 In the richest country in the history of the world, we must establish that this is his manifesto.

00:34:13.000 Yes.

00:34:15.000 Healthcare is a human right.

00:34:16.000 Must be available to all regardless of income.

00:34:18.000 Before we move on, tell me the difference between a right and a commodity.

00:34:26.000 Oh, wait.

00:34:27.000 Every worker in America is entitled to earn a decent income.

00:34:29.000 We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.

00:34:33.000 You know what's funny about that? 0.98

00:34:35.000 I was around when you were fighting for 15, bitch. 1.00

00:34:38.000 That's average now. 0.98

00:34:39.000 Most people can get that within two weeks of work.

00:34:41.000 Is it 25?

00:34:42.000 Is it 30?

00:34:43.000 Is it 35?

00:34:44.000 Seems like those think tank institutes.

00:34:46.000 Like the economists who said, you know, when you raise the cost of minimum wage, you just arbitrarily inflate wages.

00:34:51.000 You will inflate costs.

00:34:54.000 What's the number?

00:34:56.000 Bernie, we must have the best educational system in the world from childcare to vocational training to graduate school available to all.

00:35:03.000 Okay, great.

00:35:04.000 Over $2 trillion in the Federal Department of Education.

00:35:06.000 Test scores are worse.

00:35:07.000 What do we do?

00:35:08.000 We must address the housing crisis and build millions of units of low-income and affordable housing that we desperately need.

00:35:13.000 We must create millions of good-paying jobs as we lead the world in combating the existential threat of climate change.

00:35:18.000 And the last one, we must abolish all forms of bigotry! 0.98

00:35:24.000 What a list of horseshit. 0.97

00:35:27.000 I don't even agree with the last one. 0.99

00:35:29.000 Me either. 1.00

00:35:30.000 That's freedom of speech, jerk off. 0.99

00:35:32.000 All forms. 0.99

00:35:34.000 So, the truth.

00:35:35.000 Okay, alright.

00:35:36.000 And by the way, you just look at the school issue there.

00:35:41.000 Two trillion federal department of education.

00:35:43.000 Since we have included things like Pell Grants and subsidizing college degrees, guess what?

00:35:47.000 The costs have gone up dramatically.

00:35:49.000 It hasn't worked.

00:35:51.000 Oh, the solution would be more money.

00:35:52.000 More money, even though several trillion isn't enough with school, more money, and eventually test scores will go up.

00:35:58.000 Housing crisis?

00:35:59.000 Okay, just build millions of low-income.

00:36:02.000 Any of you ever been to Section 8 housing?

00:36:03.000 That's a real question.

00:36:04.000 Any of you ever spent time there?

00:36:05.000 Not great.

00:36:07.000 Create millions of good-paying jobs.

00:36:09.000 What they really mean by that is just use your taxpayer dollars.

00:36:12.000 Just use your dollars, your tax dollars to just create.

00:36:15.000 Shovel-ready jobs. 0.50

00:36:15.000 Like 70,000 new IRS employees. 0.50

00:36:17.000 Foreign-born workers or American workers?

00:36:19.000 I'm confused because Biden did more foreign-born workers.

00:36:21.000 It was entirely foreign. 1.00

00:36:22.000 Yeah, so he leaned all the way that way?

00:36:24.000 All of his solutions.

00:36:25.000 And I've just added it up and I've gone through it point by point.

00:36:27.000 But let me be really clear about this.

00:36:30.000 I'm not making it up.

00:36:31.000 It's a matter of record.

00:36:33.000 Bernie's 2020 plan would have increased spending by $53 trillion over 10 years.

00:36:38.000 What?

00:36:39.000 That would double the size of government.

00:36:42.000 It would still add $25 trillion to the deficit, assuming that Bernie's math to pay it off was correct, which it isn't.

00:36:51.000 It couldn't possibly be. 0.95

00:36:54.000 Holy crap. 0.99

00:36:55.000 And think about this for a second. 0.99

00:36:56.000 If you can't cut out...

00:36:59.000 Coca-Cola and Twizzlers and Chips Ahoy.

00:37:03.000 I'm a Chunks Ahoy man, but some people still eat chips.

00:37:05.000 It's disgusting.

00:37:06.000 Why take the less chocolate? 0.97

00:37:08.000 It's their lost leader.

00:37:10.000 You're basically stealing from them.

00:37:11.000 The point is, if we can't get rid of that from Snap, you can't cut anything.

00:37:14.000 If we can't look at a two-plus trillion dollar, not adjusted for inflation, cost with the Department of Education, worse test scores in both math and reading, then you can't declare anything to be a failure of government.

00:37:28.000 If you can't look at COVID policy and say $1.8 trillion in wealth transfer to the top billionaires, you can't examine government policy and ever deem it to be a failure.

00:37:40.000 For crying out loud, 70,000 new employees were added to the IRS under Biden.

00:37:44.000 Donald Trump, from what I understand, just cut 6,000.

00:37:49.000 That's not even a compromise!

00:37:53.000 Plus 70, minus 6. Go screw yourself. 1.00

00:37:55.000 How about that? 0.99

00:37:56.000 How about none of this?

00:37:58.000 How about all of them walk?

00:37:59.000 People right now on the left, including Bernie, they're complaining, tax season is going to be chaos this year.

00:38:03.000 You know what I think it'll be?

00:38:05.000 This is my guess.

00:38:06.000 It'll be approximately exactly what tax season was before Biden arbitrarily added 70,000 new employees.

00:38:14.000 You know, every single year ever before that.

00:38:20.000 And maybe a little bit better because, you know, we only took out six.

00:38:25.000 All Bernie Sanders, and he is emblematic of the progressive left, just some of them are better at lying to you.

00:38:30.000 They point out problems, ignore that they created it, blame the right, try and scare you, demand bigger government, status quo on every single thing.

00:38:40.000 Every single thing is status quo, change nothing, and more money.

00:38:44.000 No wonder they have to actually defend the IRS. Money, money, money, money!

00:38:51.000 Money!

00:38:54.000 $52 trillion in additional spending.

00:38:57.000 Trump cut 6,000 IRS guns, right?

00:39:00.000 That's 6,000 guns off the streets they should be having. 0.61

00:39:02.000 Yes, exactly.

00:39:03.000 Exactly.

00:39:04.000 It's not even close to a compromise.

00:39:07.000 This is totalitarian.

00:39:09.000 It's not even a starter.

00:39:09.000 You added 70,000.

00:39:11.000 We cut six.

00:39:12.000 I thought it was 80. Wasn't it 80?

00:39:13.000 I think it was 78, and they fact-checked us because originally it was reported as agents, and they said, no, no, no, they're employees.

00:39:20.000 Fine.

00:39:22.000 Auditors.

00:39:23.000 There we go.

00:39:24.000 I mean, could there be anything more unpopular than defending the IRS? You'd be better off defending the SS! Half of his stuff would be better if the immigration policy was better in this country. 0.70

00:39:35.000 And by the way, some of the stuff that he mentioned, I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix.

00:39:40.000 Remember that?

00:39:41.000 Remember how Obamacare was supposed to fix?

00:39:42.000 What do we have, like 30 or 40 million people?

00:39:44.000 Now he's saying we've got 85 million or whatever it is, uninsured or underinsured.

00:39:48.000 I'm like, hold on!

00:39:49.000 Your program isn't working, obviously.

00:39:51.000 Can we go to a new one?

00:39:52.000 No, we have to give you more money.

00:39:54.000 What the left, they occupy as far as voters, are the extreme ends of the bell curve.

00:39:59.000 You get to a certain point where the super billionaires, with one exception, Elon Musk, you go through it, you go Bill Gates, you go Zuckerberg, you go Bezos, and I get that these people are out for their own self-preservation right now, but historically they have been rabidly left.

00:40:12.000 And then you go to the poor, and I mean the poor who don't contribute anything, 47%, you know, Americans, I think now it's 43%, pay nothing in federal income taxes.

00:40:21.000 They need those voters.

00:40:22.000 The middle class Americans, and by the way, that includes everyone making anywhere from $50,000 a year to To 500,000 a year.

00:40:31.000 They are overwhelmingly concerned.

00:40:33.000 You know, the people who pay taxes.

00:40:34.000 You know, the people who have to balance a checkbook.

00:40:35.000 They don't care about you.

00:40:37.000 When they say they care, they mean they care about a voting base.

00:40:40.000 That's why the voting base is poor.

00:40:42.000 What they mean is people who simply take and don't contribute.

00:40:46.000 I am sorry.

00:40:47.000 This idea that, oh, it's shameful enough to be poor.

00:40:50.000 You're shaming me more by telling me what I can and can't buy as far as food.

00:40:54.000 No, no, no.

00:40:55.000 You're not ashamed of being poor.

00:40:57.000 If you are living on welfare for a decade, you're not.

00:40:59.000 You have no pride.

00:41:01.000 We are going to treat you as a prideless human being who is perfectly content with taking from Americans who do have self-respect and work and go out and support their families.

00:41:12.000 I'm sorry.

00:41:13.000 People are down on their luck.

00:41:14.000 We're not talking about cutting out eggs, milk, bread, necessities.

00:41:18.000 That's the SNAP program.

00:41:19.000 I think we should look at cutting it, but that's not where we are right now.

00:41:22.000 Anyone out there who is embarrassed, you know who?

00:41:25.000 Me.

00:41:26.000 I was couch surfing, sleeping out of my car.

00:41:29.000 I never ate healthier.

00:41:31.000 Oats.

00:41:31.000 Got an air popper at a Goodwill.

00:41:33.000 Popcorn.

00:41:35.000 Eggs.

00:41:36.000 At that point, obviously that one's not.

00:41:37.000 Canned tuna.

00:41:39.000 Milk.

00:41:39.000 Baby food.

00:41:40.000 Fruit on sale.

00:41:41.000 Every now and then I get a buck double or go to Baja Fresh because if I filled out a receipt for one of the fajita burritos, I'd get $2.50 off the next one.

00:41:47.000 That would be once every couple of weeks.

00:41:48.000 It was my treat.

00:41:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:41:51.000 People who need a leg up.

00:41:54.000 Not a handout.

00:41:54.000 Who need a leg up.

00:41:56.000 No one in this country has a problem with them.

00:41:58.000 We're not talking about changing anything that would affect those people.

00:42:03.000 The Jimmy Braddocks of the world who hand their money back into the public works office, guess what?

00:42:08.000 They're not around anymore.

00:42:11.000 Very, very few of them.

00:42:12.000 And they're not the ones opposing the idea that Snap shouldn't be used to purchase Twizzlers and soda.

00:42:19.000 You have no shame.

00:42:20.000 You're not embarrassed.

00:42:22.000 You know what?

00:42:23.000 I think we should live in a society Where you should be.

00:42:27.000 If you are a grown, able-bodied adult, and you have not supported yourself or your family for several years, let alone half a decade or a decade, we have lifetime welfare recipients, you should be ashamed.

00:42:43.000 I'll go one step further.

00:42:45.000 Especially if you're a man, you're not.

00:42:49.000 You're not a man.

00:42:50.000 You're failing to fulfill the basic role that we have been Expected to fulfill since the beginning of time.

00:42:58.000 You should be ashamed.

00:42:59.000 And yeah, that's one where I'll challenge your masculinity. 0.99

00:43:02.000 We don't need that as a voting base.

00:43:04.000 We need to change the culture of this country.

00:43:07.000 Speaking of changing the culture, I guess right now you can get any two shirts for $50 at CrowderShop.com.

00:43:11.000 Yeah!

00:43:13.000 Is it the change my mind stuff or just any two?

00:43:15.000 Any two?

00:43:16.000 Nice! 0.94

00:43:17.000 Yeah.

00:43:17.000 There you go.

00:43:18.000 Alright.

00:43:19.000 Go ahead and work for it and then buy two shirts.

00:43:21.000 Yeah.

00:43:22.000 Don't you?

00:43:22.000 Do we accept Snap?

00:43:23.000 We don't accept Snap.

00:43:25.000 Oh, okay.

00:43:25.000 EBT? Eh.

00:43:27.000 Okay.

00:43:27.000 That's too complicated.

00:43:28.000 We'll find a way.

00:43:29.000 You know what?

00:43:29.000 We'll just list it as an energy drink, then Uncle Sam's none the wiser.

00:43:34.000 Speaking of none the wiser, let's go to the media, their reaction.

00:43:36.000 It's time for Insane in the Ukraine.

00:43:39.000 Insane of the Ukraine. 0.99

00:43:48.000 And President. 0.81

00:43:49.000 That's real.

00:43:50.000 We didn't even alter that.

00:43:51.000 That's real.

00:43:51.000 You're kidding.

00:43:52.000 That's Zelensky.

00:43:53.000 Not kidding.

00:43:54.000 Zelensky from Tommy Boy?

00:43:57.000 I forgot that.

00:43:58.000 The muffler guy?

00:43:58.000 Yes.

00:44:01.000 Well, he is.

00:44:02.000 He's been expanding. 0.97

00:44:03.000 He's definitely a fat guy in a little coat. 0.96

00:44:06.000 That's right. 0.98

00:44:07.000 Yesterday, President Trump, we covered this, called Zelensky a dictator.

00:44:12.000 And, of course, we'll get to the media being really upset by some of the claims that Trump made on his true social.

00:44:16.000 A lot of them are inaccurate.

00:44:17.000 We talked about that yesterday.

00:44:18.000 Yeah.

00:44:19.000 But I do think this is notable.

00:44:20.000 This just happened this morning, Nick.

00:44:23.000 Zelensky responded, obviously offended over being referred to as a dictator.

00:44:28.000 He responded by blocking truth social.

00:44:32.000 Yeah.

00:44:35.000 That's what happened.

00:44:36.000 VPN. There we go.

00:44:37.000 We're using a VPN there with Ukraine, but blocking it, I believe, for the entire people of Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken.

00:44:43.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:44:44.000 Well, ironic, huh?

00:44:46.000 Just like, by the way, Russia banned Rumble.

00:44:48.000 Which is funny because other countries wanted to ban Rumble because they allow Russia Today to still have a channel on Rumble, but they clearly pissed Russia off enough where Russia banned Rumble, so that's what free speech does.

00:44:58.000 But he banned True Social.

00:45:01.000 First thing he did when he got into power was ban all his political rivals on TV. Yeah, effectively.

00:45:09.000 I mean, because, you know, and there's some truth to it, but he just labeled pretty much everyone Russian disinformation assets.

00:45:14.000 And as proof of that, just see that that's what he said, Vladimir Zelensky, yesterday about Donald Trump.

00:45:22.000 If someone wants to change me right now, then it will not come out right now.

00:45:28.000 I would like to say that.

00:45:30.000 The second one is that we already have 4%.

00:45:33.000 We saw this disinformation.

00:45:35.000 We understand that it goes from Russia.

00:45:39.000 We understand this and we have evidence that these numbers are about to be dealt with between America and Russia.

00:45:50.000 Unfortunately, President Trump with great power to him as a leader of the nation, which we very much consider American nation, which we always support, unfortunately, lives in this disinformation.

00:46:06.000 I think the United States helped Putin to leave from the isolation.

00:46:15.000 Okay, so I guess it's Donald Trump's fault.

00:46:19.000 Whatever.

00:46:20.000 In response, Donald Trump issued this very strongly worded truth.

00:46:24.000 Now, to be clear, Can you please understand?

00:46:27.000 Obviously, I've been a huge fan of what President Trump has been doing in this administration.

00:46:30.000 We do call balls and strikes.

00:46:32.000 Some of this was wildly inaccurate.

00:46:35.000 I still think it's funny.

00:46:37.000 But again, that's what Donald Trump does.

00:46:38.000 He'll say 50 million.

00:46:39.000 The next time, he'll say 100 million.

00:46:40.000 The next time, he'll say countless millions.

00:46:43.000 And he was a hugely successful comic.

00:46:45.000 Yes, yeah.

00:46:46.000 Well, you could argue that the most successful now.

00:46:48.000 Exactly.

00:46:50.000 That's true, yeah.

00:46:51.000 So Donald Trump posted on Truth.

00:46:53.000 He said, think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Vladimir Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 billion to go into a war.

00:47:02.000 I don't know where he's getting that.

00:47:03.000 Yeah, he is making that number up.

00:47:06.000 That couldn't be won, never had to start, but a war that he without the U.S. and Trump will never be able to settle.

00:47:11.000 The United States has spent $200 billion more than Europe.

00:47:14.000 That's not true.

00:47:15.000 And Europe's money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back.

00:47:19.000 He went through.

00:47:20.000 He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden like a fiddle.

00:47:27.000 A dictator without elections.

00:47:29.000 Zelensky better move faster.

00:47:30.000 He is not going to have a country left.

00:47:32.000 And what the media got really upset about is the dictator comments.

00:47:37.000 Especially when you're juxtaposing that with Putin, who's obviously a dictator who's killed people, who's had quote-unquote elections.

00:47:44.000 It just makes it seem like, well, what do you mean?

00:47:46.000 It's like, well, no, I'm not saying that guy's good.

00:47:47.000 I'm just saying that this guy is also not good.

00:47:49.000 Right, exactly.

00:47:50.000 There's no saint here to back.

00:47:52.000 I think they're both pretty damn close to dictators.

00:47:55.000 Okay, let's go through it.

00:47:57.000 Putin's massively one.

00:47:58.000 Period.

00:47:58.000 Putin absolutely is.

00:48:00.000 I like the way he handles the press, Putin.

00:48:03.000 And by that, I mean 12-story window.

00:48:06.000 And punk rock bands.

00:48:08.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:48:09.000 You can't put pussy in the name. 1.00

00:48:11.000 Riot. 1.00

00:48:12.000 Ugh.

00:48:13.000 Jail.

00:48:13.000 Now, gulag.

00:48:15.000 This is a government that was effectively installed.

00:48:17.000 Okay.

00:48:18.000 All right.

00:48:18.000 Then you have a government that, of course, does censor the press.

00:48:22.000 All right.

00:48:22.000 Got it.

00:48:22.000 Of course, they suspend elections.

00:48:23.000 That happens when a country is invaded during times of war.

00:48:26.000 All right.

00:48:26.000 We get it.

00:48:27.000 But then you also have a man who banned the entire platform and the primary platform of the current sitting president because he criticized him.

00:48:36.000 And people take the truth social to criticize Zelensky.

00:48:40.000 I can say Russia banning Rumble, that's bad. 0.98

00:48:44.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:48:44.000 It's what a dictator would do. 0.98

00:48:45.000 Can you also say?

00:48:48.000 Zelensky banning truth is almost exactly similar.

00:48:52.000 Yes. 0.97

00:48:53.000 Also, it's a really stupid move because Trump devil posts on X, or someone does for him. 0.98

00:48:57.000 So it's not, like, he didn't ban X, so he didn't ban the ability for Trump to communicate. 0.99

00:49:00.000 All he did was piss him off.

00:49:02.000 Yeah.

00:49:02.000 I don't know.

00:49:03.000 I mean, I just, I don't know.

00:49:05.000 Maybe he's so insulated he doesn't realize that it's not going to be effective.

00:49:08.000 Now, the take on him being a dictator had some supporters.

00:49:10.000 J.D. Vance said the idea that Zelensky is going to change the president's mind by bad-mouthing him in public media.

00:49:16.000 Everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration.

00:49:21.000 Go home to mommy! 0.90

00:49:24.000 You know, I understand President Trump is giving them ammo because it seems like he's too cozy with Putin.

00:49:30.000 But remember, this is a guy who they...

00:49:32.000 Just today on CNN, I heard them saying, of course we know that Donald Trump is in bed with Putin.

00:49:36.000 I mean, they helped him get elected in the Mueller report.

00:49:39.000 He literally cited it today like it's still a thing on CNN this morning.

00:49:44.000 He was...

00:49:45.000 Someone who would talk with Putin, but if you actually look at the sanctions, there's a reason that Russia didn't act up.

00:49:50.000 And so, you have people right now who agree that Zelensky acts at least dictator-like, and then, of course, there are the detractors who think that Donald Trump is worse than Putin himself.

00:50:01.000 Well, we are deep.

00:50:03.000 Into uncharted waters now, aren't we?

00:50:05.000 We've got a U.S. president basically spouting Russian propaganda.

00:50:08.000 Could have been written by Putin.

00:50:10.000 Let's admit it.

00:50:10.000 This relationship has not been good from the very beginning when Zelensky refused to play ball on the Biden investigation.

00:50:18.000 And so, you know, Donald Trump is somewhat on a revenge tour.

00:50:23.000 Let's just all admit that.

00:50:24.000 It's shocking.

00:50:25.000 It's appalling.

00:50:27.000 As an American, I'm embarrassed.

00:50:29.000 What we are witnessing is not America.

00:50:31.000 First, we are witnessing America in retreat.

00:50:35.000 Yesterday, we witnessed an extremely sad moment in American history.

00:50:42.000 We saw the President of the United States aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.

00:50:53.000 You honeymooned in the USSR!

00:50:56.000 You said bread lines were a good thing! 0.98

00:51:02.000 *laughs* You weren't even the shitty husband who's like, let's save money, let's go camping. 0.98

00:51:06.000 Instead of going to a resort, you honeymooned in the USSR! Was a Treblinka tour not available? 0.93

00:51:16.000 They have resorts at Treblinka.

00:51:21.000 So what?

00:51:22.000 That's what I meant.

00:51:23.000 Sorry.

00:51:23.000 Bernie only likes Russia when it's the era from Rocky IV? Exactly.

00:51:29.000 When they're worse and more powerful and trying to rule the world?

00:51:33.000 Come on.

00:51:33.000 I don't understand these people now.

00:51:37.000 The world has flipped on top of its head.

00:51:39.000 Look, here's the thing.

00:51:40.000 I think something else may be going on.

00:51:42.000 I think Donald Trump understands that Vladimir Putin can't be backed into a corner to make him surrender.

00:51:47.000 It won't happen. 0.97

00:51:48.000 He'll be killed the next day.

00:51:49.000 Strength is all that these people know is a line that people have said forever about Russian leaders.

00:51:54.000 So, essentially, Donald Trump could be giving him public wins.

00:51:58.000 Talking behind the scenes a lot differently and making it easy for him to save face and come to a conclusion of this war.

00:52:04.000 What we have been doing right now is propping up a dead body.

00:52:07.000 I'm sorry, Ukraine. 0.80

00:52:08.000 If you could have finished your borders, you would have done it by now.

00:52:10.000 You've also not been able to take back any of the land of the Donbass.

00:52:13.000 I understand that that sucks, and I understand that it's wrong.

00:52:15.000 It's completely wrong what's happened. 0.82

00:52:17.000 The stories coming out of Ukraine are atrocious of what's going on with the Russian military, but this is where we are.

00:52:22.000 Do you want another generation of men to die and nothing to change?

00:52:26.000 This is like World War I where the battle lines, nothing changed.

00:52:29.000 So unless you're willing to send troops, which everybody has basically said no to, you should get the war to be done as quickly as possible. 0.91

00:52:36.000 Yeah.

00:52:36.000 That's it.

00:52:37.000 Period.

00:52:37.000 He's giving Putin a chance.

00:52:38.000 The best deal he's ever going to get.

00:52:39.000 It's basically a reverse Henry Kissinger at this point.

00:52:42.000 I get an idea.

00:52:43.000 We get all the Palestinians that nobody wants. 1.00

00:52:45.000 Split them up between Russia and Ukraine. 0.83

00:52:47.000 Go at it.

00:52:49.000 It's a great uniter. 0.94

00:52:50.000 Everyone despises the Palestinians. 1.00

00:52:52.000 That's right. 0.58

00:52:53.000 By the way, I don't know if there's a memo that went out or something.

00:52:55.000 Right now on CNN, they've got Zelensky with one Y, and then in MSNBC, they had it with two Ys. 0.60

00:52:59.000 Is Vladimir out there trying to correct the record on his last name or something?

00:53:03.000 Yeah.

00:53:03.000 It's two Ys, it's one Y. Can we just have one Y, please?

00:53:06.000 We're Americans.

00:53:07.000 Remember when people tried to say that Donald Trump was in bed with Putin because he said Putin was pretty smart?

00:53:11.000 Let me ask you this.

00:53:12.000 Comment below.

00:53:13.000 Genuine question.

00:53:14.000 Who do you think is smarter?

00:53:16.000 Not more righteous, not more evil.

00:53:18.000 Who do you think is smarter?

00:53:19.000 Zelensky or Vladimir Putin?

00:53:22.000 You had to pick.

00:53:23.000 One guess.

00:53:25.000 You think that means that I'm in bed with Putin?

00:53:27.000 Are you?

00:53:28.000 Can you objectively look at it and say, like, ah, all right. 0.98

00:53:32.000 Zelensky doesn't seem to be handling this quite well, and it's also a really dumb move to go out in media and bitch about Donald Trump. 0.96

00:53:39.000 That's the worst way to deal with him.

00:53:41.000 If you were to create a blueprint on the worst way to deal with Donald Trump, it would be exactly what he's doing, and it's the nation whose money you need the most.

00:53:48.000 When I think of the head of the KGB, I don't think of a comedian.

00:53:51.000 Right, yeah.

00:53:52.000 Or a piano playing genius. 1.00

00:53:55.000 Let's just be honest, I can't play the piano with my penis. 1.00

00:53:57.000 That's true. 1.00

00:53:58.000 He can.

00:53:59.000 Yep.

00:54:00.000 Who cares?

00:54:00.000 I said I can't!

00:54:01.000 Zielinski, have you ever seen the video? 1.00

00:54:02.000 That was his bit, playing the piano with his penis. 1.00

00:54:05.000 It's that kind of, you know, it's like French Schumer. 0.99

00:54:07.000 Did you steal that from Liberace?

00:54:08.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:54:09.000 Well, that was in the green room.

00:54:12.000 It's like that weird French Schumer, you know, where it's like they put a papier-mâché hat and a cane. 0.99

00:54:16.000 Puppetry of the penis. 0.99

00:54:18.000 Yeah, I think it was Australian. 0.99

00:54:20.000 Oh, was that Australian? 1.00

00:54:21.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:54:22.000 I mix up my losers. 0.93

00:54:26.000 It's just, it's... 0.95

00:54:29.000 Again, what's the solution from the left?

00:54:32.000 Status quo, more money.

00:54:34.000 Status quo, more money.

00:54:35.000 That's how they think you solve Ukraine-Russia.

00:54:38.000 Status quo, more money.

00:54:39.000 Department of Education, status quo, more money.

00:54:40.000 It's been like that forever.

00:54:42.000 That has been their motto forever.

00:54:44.000 That's how they exist.

00:54:46.000 Yeah.

00:54:47.000 That's why you get a businessman going in there making cuts, because that's what you do.

00:54:50.000 You go in and cut, and you cut, and you cut, and you cut, and you cut, and you go, okay.

00:54:53.000 Now we have to add back just a little bit.

00:54:55.000 There's the baseline that we need to get to.

00:54:57.000 But you never know that if you don't make cuts.

00:54:59.000 Wait until they get to defending the military-industrial complex, because I believe it was Secretary of Defense Hegseth with 8% cuts.

00:55:06.000 $68 billion in cuts proposed this year.

00:55:09.000 Yeah.

00:55:10.000 $68 billion, I think, 8% of the budget.

00:55:13.000 Yeah.

00:55:14.000 Think about that.

00:55:14.000 He's going into the military saying, all right, we don't need this.

00:55:17.000 And I don't know if you know this, but what is it called?

00:55:19.000 Is it called?

00:55:19.000 The Mount Rushmore Syndrome.

00:55:23.000 I'm trying to remember this word.

00:55:24.000 When budget cuts happen, what happens is the people in these departments, they cut the forward-facing services first so that you feel bad for them.

00:55:30.000 In other words, the cuts don't end up going to the officers with these quarters or people who are out there who are advisors or no-bid contracts.

00:55:40.000 They end up taking away rations from troops, like the last place that you actually should cut.

00:55:44.000 That's why you have people having to pay for their own body armor or bed sheets. 0.66

00:55:48.000 We're making cuts, and that's where they go first.

00:55:50.000 They go, see?

00:55:51.000 Cuts?

00:55:52.000 Cuts?

00:55:52.000 Wait until you see the left defend military spending in the face of Hegseth, who's basically a military Disney villain.

00:56:00.000 That's the world that we're in, according to the left.

00:56:03.000 Yeah, what is it?

00:56:04.000 It is Mount Rushmore syndrome, also known as Washington Monument syndrome.

00:56:07.000 Yeah, that's what the left does.

00:56:09.000 They go, look!

00:56:10.000 Oh, a government freeze?

00:56:12.000 Look at the single mom freezing in the cold. 1.00

00:56:14.000 Like, well, why don't you just take like a 4% pay cut?

00:56:16.000 All of you right now for like a month.

00:56:18.000 Yes, they did that with USAID. Oh, this person died because they had no oxygen anymore.

00:56:22.000 Literally, they had to take somebody off oxygen.

00:56:24.000 You look into the store, and it's like, oh, wait.

00:56:25.000 That's not exactly what happened.

00:56:27.000 Yeah, this whole USA revelation just cuts the legs out of any of their arguments.

00:56:33.000 Oh, and I guarantee you it's not the biggest number.

00:56:36.000 We're going to see what the IRS is going to be absurd.

00:56:38.000 We haven't touched.

00:56:39.000 I think Elon put up some type of graph last week on X. Here's 0%, here's 100% of how much more they have to go as far as cutting goes.

00:56:48.000 They're only at like 1.8% done yet.

00:56:51.000 I know.

00:56:52.000 I know.

00:56:52.000 There's so much to rifle through it.

00:56:54.000 Anything to add here on Zelensky?

00:56:56.000 The only thing, just one final point on Zelensky.

00:56:58.000 This is an interesting point.

00:56:59.000 And I don't remember who I saw make this, but the Donbass region, the region that the Russians occupy right now, has historically always voted for the most pro-Russia candidate in the elections in Ukraine.

00:57:08.000 That's always been a thorn in the Ukrainian side because it ends up with elections that actually put people in power that are pro-Russia, pro-unification or at least working with Russia.

00:57:19.000 Why wouldn't Zelensky, to preserve Ukraine, why wouldn't he at this point go...

00:57:23.000 Okay, maybe I am willing to entertain talks that get rid of that voting bloc from our country so we won't have any more pro-Russian, or at least not nearly as many as they do right now. 0.89

00:57:33.000 Something interesting is happening right now.

00:57:35.000 Is he really just saying Ukraine is this line in the sand?

00:57:38.000 Or is he saying Ukraine as a people, as a language, as a culture, which Russia has spent the last hundred plus years trying to stamp out, literally, we can preserve it better if we have a little bit less territory in the Donbass region?

00:57:51.000 Pro-Russian and now part of Russia? 0.70

00:57:52.000 Fine.

00:57:53.000 I don't understand some of the games that are going on right now, because it doesn't look like Zelensky is willing to take a good deal, stop the war, and have a legitimate Ukraine where you don't really have to worry about pro-Russia sentiment.

00:58:05.000 Well, here's exactly what he wants to.

00:58:06.000 Because let me ask you this, if you have pro-Russians, in other words, if they're given the choice, they vote for pro-Russian representation, right, in that area, what does Zelensky do if he has that Donbass region?

00:58:16.000 He gets to control them.

00:58:17.000 He gets to silence them.

00:58:18.000 What if they vote him out?

00:58:20.000 No, no, no.

00:58:20.000 Come on.

00:58:20.000 You think they're going to be free and fair elections?

00:58:22.000 Well, that's...

00:58:23.000 That's the point.

00:58:23.000 He's so confident in the elections.

00:58:25.000 He's not concerned about it.

00:58:27.000 And then he gets to exert power and control.

00:58:29.000 Like a dictator.

00:58:30.000 Yeah.

00:58:30.000 Well, and it's not 100%.

00:58:31.000 It's kind of like New York.

00:58:32.000 I know it's not 100%.

00:58:33.000 But still, it's gigantic support, typically, for Russia in those regions.

00:58:37.000 Yep.

00:58:38.000 So it would make sense to end this war, save a generation, stop spending money on this stuff, and have a Ukraine that you can build.

00:58:45.000 Yeah.

00:58:46.000 Go back to playing piano with your dictator.

00:58:49.000 Well, that's a weird game.

00:58:51.000 Ah, it's not a game.

00:58:52.000 It's really just a way to pass the time.

00:58:57.000 And Nick, you're going to be tonight?

00:58:58.000 Tonight at Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa.

00:59:01.000 Tulsa, Oklahoma, and tomorrow in St. Louis.

00:59:04.000 The Funny Boom.

00:59:05.000 All right, right now we're actually going to bring on this as the first of new installments.

00:59:09.000 Many of you have been asking for the half-Asian lawyer.

00:59:11.000 Not very many.

00:59:13.000 He hasn't been here in a while.

00:59:15.000 And this is a cultural story that has taken the world by storm.

00:59:18.000 By that, I mean...

00:59:18.000 Some people care.

00:59:19.000 Everyone kind of knows what game is being played with Blake Lively.

00:59:23.000 Sorry, I have the hiccups here.

00:59:25.000 Blake Lively.

00:59:26.000 Are you drunk?

00:59:27.000 No, this is Topo Chico in there.

00:59:29.000 I don't know if I'm allowed to name it.

00:59:30.000 Topo Chico?

00:59:30.000 It stays fizzy like two days later if you leave it in the fridge.

00:59:33.000 So this is kind of a latest iteration of Me Too and elites in Hollywood and crummy lawyers getting involved, but it does have ramifications.

00:59:43.000 So let's take a look, for those who have missed it, a brief montage before we bring on a half-patient lawyer.

00:59:48.000 For its star, Blake Lively, it should have been a dream come true.

00:59:51.000 The mainstream success that she'd been chasing for years that would finally elevate her into the ranks of the Hollywood A-lists.

00:59:58.000 Unfortunately, that dream soon turned into a nightmare of multi-million dollar lawsuits and bitter PR warfare that would destroy careers and pull in some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

01:00:08.000 Actor-director Justin Baldoni is now suing his former co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, seeking more than $400 million in damages.

01:00:21.000 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds filed an amended version of their complaint.

01:00:29.000 Eva Pilgrim has the details, including claims that other women on set raised concerns about Justin Baldoni.

01:00:34.000 Are you Team Blake or Team Justin?

01:00:38.000 That's uncomfortable.

01:00:39.000 Yeah, a little bit.

01:00:40.000 So here to discuss this is my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman.

01:00:48.000 Put on the speaker.

01:00:49.000 Billy, put on the speaker.

01:00:50.000 Sorry, you just heard me.

01:00:51.000 Put on the speaker, please.

01:00:52.000 Half Asian, Bill.

01:00:53.000 And by the way, he does have his own show podcast, Hardly Legal, on YouTube.

01:00:57.000 He is Kim Jong Bill on Instagram, which always instills confidence.

01:01:02.000 That's where it's not even being Korean, right? 0.98

01:01:04.000 It throws people off.

01:01:05.000 Throws their scent off.

01:01:06.000 I know.

01:01:06.000 Once I was calling you about some cases, and you're like, ah, I gotta go do a set.

01:01:09.000 I'm like, what, you're doing stand-up?

01:01:10.000 Shouldn't you be prepping case files?

01:01:12.000 Yes.

01:01:12.000 You could do both.

01:01:13.000 Sometimes they're funny.

01:01:15.000 And what do you do?

01:01:15.000 What is your show on?

01:01:16.000 Is it where you actually have people call in?

01:01:19.000 Real Americans with Real Legal Issues call in anonymously.

01:01:23.000 Myself and my co-host, Walter Attorneys, and do stand-up, and then we have comedians and third chair, and we have other guests as well, but we're really helping people who wouldn't have access to the legal system to talk through their issues.

01:01:33.000 We'll help them find attorneys, so we're not actually representing them, but we're going through their legal issues and laughing along the way.

01:01:39.000 Oh, good.

01:01:40.000 That's kind of like Loveline, but with...

01:01:43.000 Definitely the inspiration.

01:01:46.000 So let's get to this.

01:01:48.000 Blake Lively and Baldoni.

01:01:50.000 Kind of walk us through the timelines.

01:01:55.000 It ends with us film.

01:01:56.000 To set the stage, she claimed she was made uncomfortable.

01:01:59.000 It's a sexual harassment lawsuit.

01:02:01.000 She's obviously the wife of Ryan Reynolds.

01:02:04.000 And then it turns out that what we were told was not exactly accurate.

01:02:08.000 That's a fair summation of it.

01:02:10.000 So the book itself is about domestic violence, right?

01:02:13.000 And so the original Baldoni idea was to take this to support folks who are actually dealing with these issues, right?

01:02:21.000 The true victims who have been in these situations.

01:02:23.000 Make this book, make this movie, bring on a star of incredible quality.

01:02:27.000 They felt so lucky to be able to get a star of Blake Lively's height and fame and voice to be able to be a part of it.

01:02:34.000 I don't know.

01:02:34.000 I saw The Shallows.

01:02:35.000 I know she unzipped that wetsuit.

01:02:36.000 That was one of those things.

01:02:38.000 The wetsuit just like, this is how I wear my wetsuit.

01:02:41.000 I don't have time to zip it up to the top.

01:02:43.000 I mean, I feel like there was times where they were essentially when she was taking control of this movie.

01:02:49.000 all these things, eventually did her own edit where she just pushed Baldoni out entirely.

01:02:54.000 But the craziest part about this is now coming back afterwards and alleging sexual harassment, retaliation.

01:03:01.000 It's a superstar.

01:03:02.000 Her and her husband together worth over a half billion dollars and getting every single thing that she wants the entire time. 0.99

01:03:09.000 And then when there's a backlash over how she promotes the movie, the fact that she was flippant about domestic violence, and that public backlash is what drove her to go file a complaint, file a lawsuit. 1.00

01:03:22.000 And now we've got multiple lawsuits, hundreds of millions of dollars on both sides are being asked for.

01:03:26.000 It's a mess.

01:03:26.000 And a lot of video.

01:03:27.000 I think she got a little too confident after she outswam a great white shark.

01:03:33.000 That's what happened in the show.

01:03:34.000 That can happen to anybody.

01:03:34.000 She beat the shark by swimming faster than it and deking it into a rebar.

01:03:41.000 Spoiler alert! 1.00

01:03:42.000 It sucks! 0.99

01:03:44.000 I mean, who wouldn't feel confident after that, right? 0.99

01:03:46.000 But it's a false confidence. 1.00

01:03:47.000 She literally grabs a chain that pulls her to the bottom of the ocean where Great White can't catch her and then last minute she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Great White, I got you, bitch. 1.00

01:03:53.000 Boom! 0.99

01:03:53.000 And she moves and the shark swims into rebar. 0.99

01:03:55.000 Like this?

01:03:55.000 Really?

01:03:56.000 It was more realistic when they lit the shark on fire in Jaws, whatever.

01:04:01.000 That's why I haven't seen a movie.

01:04:02.000 Three and twenty years, but go ahead.

01:04:03.000 I'd say 57 meters down was good, but don't go see The Shallows.

01:04:07.000 Wetsuit's nice.

01:04:08.000 Now...

01:04:08.000 What's it called?

01:04:10.000 The Shallows.

01:04:11.000 It's not worth it.

01:04:11.000 It's definitely not worth it, Nick.

01:04:13.000 You would hate it. 1.00

01:04:13.000 Do they show her ass or anything? 1.00

01:04:15.000 Well, she's in a wetsuit. 1.00

01:04:16.000 That's not enough.

01:04:17.000 We're not going.

01:04:18.000 So here's the thing.

01:04:19.000 Blake Lively, too, and something that is important.

01:04:21.000 This is something we've seen time and time again with these lawsuits.

01:04:25.000 Not everyone has video evidence.

01:04:26.000 Not everyone gets to go through the receipts.

01:04:29.000 An accusation made is enough to destroy someone's career.

01:04:31.000 I think that she wasn't so much thinking through all of the legal challenges, the proceedings.

01:04:37.000 She knew that the PR battle was just as big as the legal battle.

01:04:41.000 I mean, you have plenty of people who don't realize.

01:04:42.000 You just have plenty of cases out there where women have gone out publicly and claimed domestic abuse. 0.91

01:04:46.000 And then under oath said, well, no, that never happened.

01:04:49.000 You can say one thing publicly and say one thing in court.

01:04:52.000 Well, sometimes it's direct, sometimes it's insinuated, but either way, it's not the story that actually comes out in the legal pleadings, much less with the evidence.

01:05:00.000 And here, after the very first lawsuit that was filed, that Blake Lively filed, the response by Baldoni's counterclaim, or really it was a separate lawsuit and now they're combined, was, let's show the receipts.

01:05:12.000 Half of it is just text message, text message, text message, sewing where the evidence that Lively was referring to was selectively edited in order to change the meaning of the communications to make Baldoni look bad.

01:05:24.000 And it's like, look, if you've got to selectively edit the evidence in the beginning, it's generally not going to get better.

01:05:30.000 That's a really bad sign, I hear.

01:05:32.000 It's a really bad sign.

01:05:33.000 And you can have things that are presented to the public that go, well, yeah, this isn't admissible.

01:05:36.000 This is tampered with.

01:05:37.000 But you still have people out there who believe that Amber Heard was, my God, the victim.

01:05:41.000 Do you I know.

01:05:42.000 There's an entire contingency of people who think that Johnny Depp tricked folks.

01:05:46.000 Or that Trevor Bauer actually beat some girl. 0.98

01:05:49.000 And raped her. 0.99

01:05:49.000 Well, yeah, that's what 70 Years of Feminism has done. 0.99

01:05:52.000 Yep.

01:05:53.000 There's also the first mover issue, right?

01:05:54.000 The recency bias people or primacy bias, they're going to go, well, this is what I heard.

01:05:59.000 And then they never want to get into the weeds of it.

01:06:01.000 I mean, these pleadings, some of them are 179 pages long.

01:06:05.000 Not even the evidence, just the actual lawsuit itself.

01:06:08.000 And then the counter lawsuit's another almost 200 pages, right?

01:06:11.000 In order to get out the facts and evidence.

01:06:13.000 And most folks are not even...

01:06:14.000 I saw a show the other day.

01:06:15.000 They were like, we read 40 pages and then we're just going to rely on the rest of you to read it.

01:06:19.000 And it's like, no, no, you've got to actually dig into it.

01:06:22.000 If you want to know the truth, but her actions have demonstrated, I'm going to get out there first, I'm going to destroy this guy, and then let's just see if he falls over.

01:06:32.000 Like he did, actually, during the course of the movie.

01:06:34.000 Well, yeah, I have some of her demands right here. 0.94

01:06:36.000 Well, I mean, she demanded, okay, to do her own wardrobe. 0.99

01:06:38.000 She had Ryan Reynolds rewrite scenes.

01:06:41.000 She commissioned her own cut of the film from the editor of Deadpool.

01:06:45.000 She demanded and received an executive producer and PGA credit.

01:06:48.000 And keep in mind, Baldoni is, like, he actually got the rights to this movie in 2019, and Blake Lively didn't sign on until 2023. He was, I know he was a director as well, too, right?

01:06:57.000 He had at least two movies before that, yeah.

01:06:59.000 Who's paying for this film?

01:07:00.000 Well, this guy, Baldoni, was a guy largely involved with it.

01:07:03.000 Their budget was only $25 million.

01:07:05.000 Yeah, it was $25 million and it made $3 something million.

01:07:08.000 And she filed a sexual harassment suit against Baldoni. 0.85

01:07:12.000 We'll get into the text and everything because you always wonder, where's the turnover point where you love this guy and it's, oh, buddy, buddy, you're friends too, he's a monster.

01:07:21.000 Well, the problem is then some video came out, Baldoni, from a specific instance where she talked about, I was made uncomfortable.

01:07:29.000 He was kissing me.

01:07:31.000 He was talking to me when it wasn't necessary to do so, specifically of a scene where this couple are supposed to play a couple in love.

01:07:38.000 They're dancing, and it's B-roll, so they're talking, right?

01:07:41.000 So they're talking about what they want to do.

01:07:42.000 And keep in mind, once this came out, people said, oh, wait a second, Blake Lively is bossing him around and trying to be the director.

01:07:50.000 So she labeled this, what you're about to watch, as specifically one of those instances of sexual harassment.

01:07:59.000 I feel so nosy.

01:08:01.000 I know.

01:08:01.000 And my nose is so big.

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