Louder with Crowder - August 13, 2025


🔴 Tucker Carlson's Controversial Palestine Interview: Good Journalism or Nefarious Standard 2025-08-13 18:08


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Ted Cruz and his wife's abduction by the Islamic extremist group Hamas are the subject of a new episode of the Ted Cruz Show, hosted by John Rocha and Matt Knost. In this episode, the boys discuss the possibility of a return of the missing daughter of Ted Cruz's missing daughter. They also discuss Christian Zionism and its connection to the idea of the Second Coming.

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00:00:00.000 Maybe that'll help.
00:00:00.000 Let me ask you this.
00:00:02.000 If one of your son, your daughter, if your wife right now is being held hostage by anybody, would you ever stop if you knew they were back here?
00:00:13.000 No, you'd never stop until you knew they were back, right?
00:00:14.000 Would you ever stop?
00:00:15.000 Is there anything that could possibly stop you?
00:00:16.000 No.
00:00:17.000 Yeah, my answer is no.
00:00:18.000 Everybody's answer should be no.
00:00:20.000 It doesn't mean that that's, it doesn't mean that that is how you determine international policy.
00:00:24.000 Yes.
00:00:25.000 Hopefully I'm not the one determining international policy if that's happening because I wouldn't be thinking straight, nor should I be thinking straight, right?
00:00:32.000 I would be the most bloodthirsty animal that this earth has ever seen if I had to to save my family.
00:00:36.000 And I think almost everybody has a set of testicles as in a cheerleader for the Minnesota Vikings would probably say the same. 1.00
00:00:43.000 I wanted to clarify because they probably have testicles too. 1.00
00:00:45.000 I don't think they probably committed to the bottom surgery.
00:00:48.000 I don't think they're trans.
00:00:48.000 I think they're just really good.
00:00:53.000 So that's most people are very uneducated on this issue.
00:00:56.000 You can go back a lot of different ways and you can try to solve this thing.
00:00:58.000 But one of the areas that I wanted to dive into, and trust me, I want to do that more because I think if people have baseline understanding of this, it helps you understand.
00:01:08.000 Listen, both sides of this equation.
00:01:11.000 Put yourself in the Arabs' position back in World War I being promised. 1.00
00:01:14.000 If you have an uprising against the Ottoman Empire by the British, if you have an uprising, we will help you secure an Arab state, the first for them, right? 0.98
00:01:23.000 That's fantastic.
00:01:23.000 The British also promised that to the Zionists.
00:01:25.000 The British also promised that to the French.
00:01:27.000 They were just trying to survive, right?
00:01:28.000 But if you don't know that, you're like, well, these guys, whatever.
00:01:31.000 They didn't have anything.
00:01:32.000 No, they had an uprising against the Ottoman Empire to help the British out in the war so that the Ottomans couldn't focus on Europe as well.
00:01:38.000 Yeah.
00:01:39.000 That makes sense.
00:01:40.000 All of this makes much more sense with just a little bit of history.
00:01:43.000 We'll maybe deep dive into that some other time.
00:01:45.000 But she did talk about something that I'm very confused about that I think you're probably going to be a little confused about too, with Christian Zionism.
00:01:54.000 As far as I understand it, they believe in the idea of the rapture.
00:01:57.000 They believe that, you know, it's sort of this cruel bargain they have going with Israel.
00:02:03.000 Why?
00:02:04.000 Because basically what they say, that they're going to be swooped up into heaven.
00:02:09.000 Okay.
00:02:09.000 Right.
00:02:10.000 And there's going to be a thousand year kingdom.
00:02:12.000 And then there'll be the end of the world and the judgment by Christ and he'll come back.
00:02:16.000 This is a false, it was, it was condemned as a heresy in 381 because basically there is no thousand year millennium to come.
00:02:24.000 Okay.
00:02:25.000 Why is that a cruel bargain with Israel? 0.94
00:02:27.000 Let's say that you're right.
00:02:28.000 Let's say that none of that's going to happen.
00:02:30.000 And the Christians that believe that they're erroneous in their belief.
00:02:33.000 Why is that a cruel bargain with Israel? 0.94
00:02:36.000 They're in this cruel bargain with Israel and they're held captive by this belief in what way? 0.71
00:02:41.000 I don't understand the Christian Zionism thing that people have postulated that Christians believe that you have to help Israel and rebuild the temple to usher in the coming second coming of Christ.
00:02:57.000 Right.
00:02:58.000 I grew up in churches and so did you that were very heavily influenced by dispensationalism, very heavily influenced with the kind of theology that would believe in a literal thousand year kingdom, that would believe in the potential for the rapture of the harpatzo.
00:03:12.000 I believe it's in Thessalonians that talks about that.
00:03:14.000 There's all kinds of hints throughout scripture, not just in the New Testament, about that kind of a thing.
00:03:19.000 That's fine.
00:03:20.000 You can debate that.
00:03:20.000 I'm okay with that.
00:03:22.000 But I don't think any of us that have grown up in those churches have ever heard, wait, we have to build the temple so that Christ can return.
00:03:30.000 Yeah.
00:03:30.000 I don't.
00:03:31.000 I don't remember that.
00:03:32.000 I don't see any of that.
00:03:33.000 And I think for her to have that belief that there's some kind of thing within Christianity that believes that is false.
00:03:39.000 So, but let me get to the baseline Zionism. 0.79
00:03:41.000 This goes back to the point of Ted Cruz, basically saying that if you bless Israel, you'll be blessed, right?
00:03:48.000 I'm going to bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.
00:03:50.000 That promise was made before Israel was even a thing. 0.98
00:03:52.000 It was made to a person about a people.
00:03:55.000 The blessing is very clearly defined later on in scripture and who the church really is and who Israel really is, the true Israel is defined in Galatians 3.
00:04:05.000 The blessing is Christ.
00:04:07.000 It's laid out.
00:04:08.000 It's almost like I don't have to go and wonder about this.
00:04:11.000 It's a pretty good blessing.
00:04:12.000 I'm going to bless all nations through you.
00:04:14.000 Okay.
00:04:14.000 Yeah, it's about a specific time.
00:04:17.000 It was a limited time offer.
00:04:18.000 Well, it was pointing to a future.
00:04:20.000 It was pointing.
00:04:21.000 I'm going to bless the entire earth because of your lineage, and that's fine.
00:04:26.000 And if you want to say that Christians are supposed to still support Israel In some capacity, I feel like that's also fine. 0.99
00:04:32.000 I can also make a case for God not being done with Israel, you know, because of the entire book of Revelation past, I don't know, like chapter two and a half, roughly, right?
00:04:41.000 Every single thing God has not done with Israel, he is until the fullness of the Gentiles come in, and then they will have an opportunity to recognize their offense and repent. 1.00
00:04:51.000 That doesn't mean that they're saved right now.
00:04:52.000 It also doesn't mean they're a special case right now that I have to support every single thing that the Israeli government does.
00:04:57.000 And I will say this: I will grant that there has been a very pro-Israel form of messaging in the evangelical church.
00:05:04.000 And some of that is, yeah, absolutely, can be attributed to undue influence from Israeli lobbyists.
00:05:10.000 We knew a church where that was the case where they're like, we want to be in Christian film production, and they were pro-abortion.
00:05:14.000 I was like, wait, what?
00:05:15.000 Yeah.
00:05:15.000 Why are they like, well, they got, so that does, that does happen where it has, unfortunately, gotten a lot of people in the evangelical Christian church to follow lockstep with some premises that aren't necessarily true that she's kind of outlining but misrepresenting there where Christians, many Christians feel as though a veil has been lifted.
00:05:30.000 We're like, well, yeah, I guess I just thought I was supposed to support Israel blindly because this theology has not been taught appropriately.
00:05:37.000 Not at all.
00:05:38.000 So it opened that anytime, and this is why truth matters.
00:05:41.000 Anytime you do that or you deliver a half-truth, you open the door, that little half that's not true.
00:05:48.000 You open the door to someone who can present full lies because it's just as believable.
00:05:54.000 That's the danger of a half-truth.
00:05:55.000 And the evangelical church, and I say this as a Christian, has certainly been guilty of that.
00:06:00.000 I get why people are critical.
00:06:02.000 And I get why, when combined with the idea of America first, people go, okay, someone's leading us by the nose.
00:06:07.000 I understand it, and I actually agree with it.
00:06:12.000 Hamas is also bad. 0.99
00:06:13.000 Yes.
00:06:14.000 But what if the church had done a good job on teaching on this?
00:06:17.000 What if the church had tied Galatians 3 and the synagogue of Satan stuff that people want to go to right now in the book of Revelation and say, see, they're synagogue of Satan?
00:06:25.000 I'm like, well, they're not believers.
00:06:27.000 They don't believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
00:06:28.000 They rejected him.
00:06:30.000 Yes, they're not saved.
00:06:31.000 Okay, got it.
00:06:32.000 I'm not shocked by this that people don't believe in Jesus Christ aren't saved.
00:06:36.000 What does that mean?
00:06:37.000 If the church had given you a good kind of starting point with this and understood that you're not going to make everybody happy, but certainly not the Jews. 0.99
00:06:46.000 Well, no, it wouldn't have made them mad either.
00:06:48.000 Oh, Lord, you're not done with me.
00:06:49.000 I'm not done with you.
00:06:52.000 No, I mean, it just, would we have the kind of movements that we have today?
00:06:56.000 Would we have the kind of people going, see, the Christianity? 0.99
00:06:58.000 I haven't had a movement in two weeks.
00:07:02.000 The church has been lying to you.
00:07:04.000 Now we can't even try.
00:07:05.000 Look, those pesky evangelicals, listen, they cook up their own theology.
00:07:09.000 A, it's not even true, but B, they just did a bad job of teaching on this subject.
00:07:13.000 And so I do think that there is some kind of beef that you can have with the evangelical church.
00:07:19.000 But overall, you have to understand they're not so wrong that you can hate the Jews and be right. 1.00
00:07:25.000 Oh, so that's a big point because right now that's really what people veer into.
00:07:29.000 And I'm not saying everybody is.
00:07:30.000 Not everybody's anti-Semitic.
00:07:32.000 I feel like I can criticize Israel. 1.00
00:07:33.000 I've been called anti-Semitic one day.
00:07:35.000 The very next day, I've been called a Nazi.
00:07:37.000 I've been called an Israeli shill.
00:07:39.000 Two things come the day after that.
00:07:41.000 It just depends on what I say.
00:07:42.000 And I'm like, listen, can we just understand that there's a middle ground to a lot of, I'm not saying find a middle ground because every issue has a middle.
00:07:48.000 No, I'm saying in this specific issue, people run to the extremes every single time.
00:07:53.000 Just have a conversation.
00:07:54.000 And I don't think there's anyone more extreme than a Hamas apologist who says that there are no more Christians in Israel or it's been cut down, whatever she said, whatever.
00:08:02.000 Did he say cut in half?
00:08:03.000 He said decreasing rapidly.
00:08:04.000 It's the opposite.
00:08:05.000 And it's been increasing Palestine. 0.95
00:08:06.000 There is no more extreme and more dishonest when people talk about bad actors.
00:08:10.000 They're talking about someone like this.
00:08:13.000 Yeah.
00:08:14.000 So, no, I get it.
00:08:15.000 Well, I genuinely want somebody to tell me, too, like, where's this thinking coming from that Christians believe? 0.99
00:08:21.000 By the way, couldn't we just as easily apply, people say synagogue of Satan, couldn't you apply that to Islam?
00:08:25.000 Yes.
00:08:25.000 That's one thing, too.
00:08:26.000 If you say like synagogue of Satan, I don't know.
00:08:28.000 I mean, and by the way, I think, and we have Jewish people, some Jewish people who work here.
00:08:32.000 Sorry, Sam.
00:08:32.000 I think that rejection of Christ, I think that's for as a Christian, and this is no surprise, that's a mortal sin, meaning the day of judgment, that's as bad as for me as a Christian.
00:08:41.000 And I'm not saying all paths lead to, I don't believe that.
00:08:44.000 That being said, if you're going to say synagogue of Satan, what does Satan do when we actually go back to Satan?
00:08:50.000 We actually go back to who Satan is in this fallen angel.
00:08:52.000 Okay.
00:08:52.000 Satan subverts, right, what it is that God has created, what God has put in motion, right?
00:08:58.000 We don't call evil good, good, Evil.
00:09:00.000 Do you think that?
00:09:01.000 Okay, let's compare rejection that you see from Jews who don't believe that he's Messiah. 0.57
00:09:05.000 They're waiting for the Messiah. 0.52
00:09:06.000 We're waiting for the Messiah to come back, right? 0.96
00:09:08.000 We're waiting for the sequel.
00:09:09.000 They're waiting for the first installment.
00:09:10.000 Okay, let's contrast that with Islam, where the founder believed that he was fighting with a demon, by the way, until he said, no, no, no, it's an angel who said, by the way, everything that Jesus Christ claimed. 0.66
00:09:21.000 So talk about subverting, not just denial.
00:09:25.000 Satan doesn't just deny.
00:09:27.000 Satan goes, wouldn't just think of how Satan tried to tempt Christ.
00:09:30.000 Wouldn't God want you?
00:09:33.000 Wouldn't your dad think that you should?
00:09:35.000 Well, sure, but if God wants this, wouldn't he want?
00:09:38.000 So let's compare that to, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus was great and a moral prophet and a great teacher.
00:09:44.000 But wouldn't he want you to know that he wasn't actually crucified and died?
00:09:48.000 And it's basically a cover-up and Muhammad's the one? 0.97
00:09:51.000 Like, this is actually the final word.
00:09:52.000 Sure, sure, sure.
00:09:53.000 What Jesus said, yeah, a lot of it was right.
00:09:56.000 But don't you think he'd want you to wage a jihad?
00:09:59.000 Sure, sure, sure.
00:09:59.000 He talked about loving your wife and treating women as, you know, Christ treated the church.
00:10:04.000 But don't you think God would want you to be able to subjugate them and beat them?
00:10:07.000 Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:10:08.000 But don't you think God would, to me, that would be much more in line with the faith and the character of Satan, of Lucifer, as presented in the Bible and has been studied by people who do this professionally for centuries.
00:10:22.000 Yeah.
00:10:22.000 If you're going to throw it out, they're not even saying that Islam is the synagogue of Satan.
00:10:26.000 I'm just saying if we throw it out, I don't know why all of a sudden we've given them a pass.
00:10:31.000 But anyway, I think if there's anything, but I think we probably want to open this up to chat.
00:10:34.000 Yeah, no, I'd love to hear what chat thinks about this.
00:10:36.000 I'm sure they're lighting it up, but let's just make it clear.
00:10:39.000 To put it in Old Testament terms, they rejected Messiah.
00:10:41.000 Jews rejected Messiah. 0.93
00:10:42.000 If they name another one, that is a false Messiah.
00:10:44.000 That is Antichrist.
00:10:46.000 You have to understand that that is the point.
00:10:47.000 That is the fork in the road.
00:10:49.000 They didn't reject Jesus in the New Testament.
00:10:51.000 They rejected the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament.
00:10:54.000 Right.
00:10:54.000 So that's where things got awry.
00:10:57.000 They didn't just miss.
00:10:58.000 Right.
00:10:58.000 They rejected.
00:10:59.000 So I understand why people say that.
00:11:00.000 But at the same time, it's just like me coming and preaching the gospel to somebody else.
00:11:04.000 And I say Jesus is the Messiah, the one who can repair the relationship between you and God.
00:11:09.000 And they reject the Messiah as well.
00:11:11.000 Either way, separated from God.
00:11:13.000 It doesn't matter that you are Jewish or Islamic or atheist.
00:11:16.000 It doesn't matter.
00:11:17.000 Yep.
00:11:17.000 So does Islam.
00:11:18.000 So does Buddha.
00:11:19.000 Yep.
00:11:19.000 So does Hindus, Vishnu, whatever the one they're calling it.
00:11:23.000 They all do.
00:11:24.000 Lots of arms doing the thing.
00:11:25.000 Yeah.
00:11:26.000 Yeah.
00:11:26.000 I think the most pervasive is Islam.
00:11:29.000 Yeah.
00:11:29.000 Because it takes it and says, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the verts.
00:11:31.000 Except we're going to change it so you actually do the, you actually believe the opposite.
00:11:36.000 That's just, but again, that's just my opinion.
00:11:38.000 I'm not going to die on that hill.
00:11:40.000 Let's grab some a chat.
00:11:43.000 All right.
00:11:43.000 First chat from Alex Toulouse for Gerald.
00:11:46.000 It's pronounced Tulaus.
00:11:48.000 Tulauzi.
00:11:49.000 For Gerald, what do you think about the idea that the most likely place an Antichrist could come from is Israel and Judaism to deceive a large number of Christians, evangelical dispensations? 0.58
00:12:01.000 I don't know.
00:12:02.000 I don't think there's any, I don't really think that that is as plausible as somebody else coming from outside, because if you look at kind of the characteristics, he's going to be called an Assyrian.
00:12:13.000 Like there are a lot of different descriptors of Antichrist and what he's able to do doesn't seem like the kind of things that somebody who's Jewish would be able to do, meaning unite the world. 0.77
00:12:22.000 So I think it's just kind of a polarizing figure.
00:12:25.000 If only it requires someone incredibly charismatic, which means handsome.
00:12:29.000 Handsome, charismatic, unites the world, gets a seven-year peace treaty with Israel and the rest of the world to kind of calm down.
00:12:35.000 I don't think Israeli is going to be the title of that.
00:12:38.000 That's a charming silver-tongued devil, Leibowitz.
00:12:41.000 I just don't think, I don't think that's the case.
00:12:42.000 But I know there's argument about where people think Antichrist is going to come from, but yeah, I don't think so.
00:12:47.000 Since we're doing that, I'm just going to tell you, he's going to come from Hartford, Connecticut next June.
00:12:50.000 Oh, wow.
00:12:51.000 Oh, okay.
00:12:52.000 Well, hitting close to home.
00:12:53.000 I can't prove it.
00:12:55.000 Hey, I was there in July.
00:12:57.000 You might be onto something.
00:12:58.000 Yeah.
00:12:59.000 Yes.
00:13:00.000 We saw a few candidates.
00:13:01.000 Yeah, I think we all did.
00:13:02.000 Yes.
00:13:03.000 Go ahead.
00:13:03.000 Chris Hodge 76 asks, how does scripture's description of the overcomers challenge the pre-tribulation rapture view?
00:13:11.000 And what does this reveal about how we should interpret end time prophecy?
00:13:17.000 So it doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be a pre-trib view, right?
00:13:22.000 So just so people understand, pre-trib view means that when this all kind of kicks off, that there is a time period of the tribulation That's seven years, but it's really three and a half years that's bad.
00:13:32.000 The first three and a half years is peace like the world has never known since humans have been on it other than when God was here with them in the garden, right?
00:13:40.000 So people can say, well, it's before the beginning of the seven years or it's at the three and a half year period because really the last three and a half year period is designed specifically, and look at the language in Revelation for the Jews.
00:13:50.000 This is their final chance.
00:13:52.000 This is 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel, the 144,000 to go out and spread the word.
00:13:57.000 So there will be converts during that time.
00:14:00.000 So you can say, yeah, Christians taken from the earth. 0.87
00:14:02.000 The message of Christ is not taken from the earth because people have heard it, maybe rejected it, knew it, didn't fully get it, didn't really accept Jesus in their heart, knew him in the head, all those kinds of things.
00:14:11.000 So there still will be people here that are believers right after that, like immediately.
00:14:16.000 I believe.
00:14:17.000 I see it.
00:14:18.000 Now everything makes sense.
00:14:19.000 They will go out and start converting people.
00:14:21.000 The overcomers could theoretically be talking about that group of people, people who convert to Christianity during that part of the tribulation.
00:14:29.000 So if they overcome, granted.
00:14:31.000 So I don't know.
00:14:32.000 I'd have to look into it a little more to see specifically what you're referencing, but that seems to make a lot of sense if you want to give it some room.
00:14:39.000 Aha! 0.94
00:14:39.000 So we heard ourselves Dylan Morgan is answering that you do not know. 0.94
00:14:43.000 I don't have it.
00:14:45.000 Good answer, I think.
00:14:47.000 But also left some room.
00:14:48.000 It's okay.
00:14:49.000 If there's another specific context of the Overcomer, then fine.
00:14:52.000 I wish I had one of those clappers.
00:14:54.000 So I could go, hit up the body.
00:14:57.000 Ole.
00:14:58.000 Next.
00:15:00.000 So gay. 1.00
00:15:01.000 All right.
00:15:02.000 Next chat from Jace Schuster.
00:15:04.000 Question for Crowder.
00:15:05.000 With the UFC inking a deal with Paramount Plus, do you think this is a good thing for the fight game and its fighters and the fans alike?
00:15:12.000 Oh, man.
00:15:13.000 I know this is going to bore people who don't care about the UFC, but I will say, I don't know.
00:15:19.000 Here's the thing with the UFC.
00:15:20.000 It used to be an event, and this is kind of the difference between sort of hardcore fans versus running a business.
00:15:24.000 It used to be an event where you had a pay-per-view, you know, every like six weeks.
00:15:26.000 I mean, early on, it'd be like once a quarter and then every six weeks, then maybe every month.
00:15:30.000 And then it got to the point where you'd have like a pay-per-view, but you'd also have a free fight night or the undercards.
00:15:34.000 And it was a lot of fun where you could, then it just, you know, it's become a volume model where they're trying to branch out into other markets.
00:15:40.000 And so they're making more revenue, but they have significantly fewer stars.
00:15:44.000 Now, I don't know how this is going to work because when they signed with William Morris or William Morris Endeavor or WMA, WME, they inked the deal with ESPN.
00:15:54.000 And so that was streamed live on, you know, you get ESPN Disney is where it streams and also Hulu.
00:16:00.000 It seems to me that that may be a bigger platform than Paramount Plus.
00:16:04.000 But as I understand it, they're doing away with pay-per-view models altogether.
00:16:07.000 So they'll probably have more viewership on the main card, like pay-per-view fights.
00:16:12.000 So I don't know.
00:16:13.000 What I would like to see is it maybe them sort of consolidated a little more.
00:16:19.000 Maybe it'd be a little less diluted because it is harder for me to follow.
00:16:22.000 And I also just don't have as much time.
00:16:24.000 But I also understand the point of view that, hey, more mixed martial arts is better.
00:16:29.000 Yeah.
00:16:29.000 It's going to be like a mainstream sport on CBS.
00:16:31.000 I mean, they're going to have at least the undercards on CBS, maybe not the title fights or the main kind of thing.
00:16:36.000 Well, they had that at one point.
00:16:38.000 Was it Strike Force or Elite XC where they had that?
00:16:41.000 Those were different.
00:16:41.000 Yeah, but they were either on ABC or NBC or CBS for a few fights.
00:16:45.000 That was one where James Thompson got his like his, did his ear get like punched in half or something?
00:16:49.000 Kimbo slice.
00:16:50.000 Oh, somebody punched a guy's ear in half.
00:16:52.000 I feel like, yeah, he got his ear punched.
00:16:55.000 Maybe it was Don Fry, but he got like his ear split.
00:16:57.000 And people are like, this is not good to be one of the first fights on broadcast television.
00:17:01.000 Oh, it's just like all red over there.
00:17:02.000 Yeah, it was pretty gross.
00:17:03.000 So, you know, more fights the better, but I do think it's a little bit harder to follow.
00:17:07.000 $7 billion, $7.7 billion.
00:17:10.000 What is it?
00:17:10.000 Four-year deal something?
00:17:12.000 I thought that was a seven-year deal.
00:17:13.000 Is it seven?
00:17:14.000 Oh, okay.
00:17:14.000 I don't remember the years.
00:17:15.000 That's a lot of money, man.
00:17:16.000 Yeah, because I just signed one recently, only a few years ago.
00:17:19.000 That was a big deal with WME.
00:17:21.000 And they should treat it like the, you know, convert the model to like what the four major sports do.
00:17:26.000 Yeah.
00:17:26.000 Every city has its own team.
00:17:28.000 Well, they used to have that.
00:17:29.000 Now you get the teams.
00:17:31.000 They got to fight in teams.
00:17:32.000 They do.
00:17:33.000 They had that.
00:17:33.000 Well, they didn't all fight at once, but the IFL was the International Fight League where there was like the Pat Mills, like Razorbacks.
00:17:39.000 Ken Shamrock had one.
00:17:40.000 A few different people had like teams.
00:17:42.000 So they each had one person in a way.
00:17:44.000 Yeah, but I'm saying you should, you know.
00:17:46.000 Just gang fight.
00:17:47.000 Yeah, just Royal Rumble.
00:17:48.000 Get in there.
00:17:50.000 Anything goes, dude.
00:17:51.000 Yeah.
00:17:51.000 Chains, zip guns.
00:17:53.000 What?
00:17:53.000 Are you bringing up the James Thompson?
00:17:54.000 So they said it's a seven-year deal.
00:17:56.000 Is the UFC the Antichrist?
00:17:58.000 It's a seven-year deal.
00:17:58.000 Oh, boy.
00:17:59.000 Oh, it's worth just $7.70.
00:18:01.000 $7.7 billion.
00:18:04.000 Who wins the tribulation belt?
00:18:06.000 Christ.
00:18:07.000 Yes.
00:18:07.000 Yeah.
00:18:08.000 Oh, can you imagine?
00:18:09.000 That's probably blasphemous to depict as a sketch or something.
00:18:12.000 Well, I don't know.
00:18:13.000 The graphic on Jesus Christ from the Battle of Armageddon.
00:18:16.000 Just completely destroying everybody in the UFC.
00:18:19.000 I hope that is not true because I bet my whole house on the beast from the hee.
00:18:23.000 What is his favorite submission position?
00:18:25.000 The crucifix, of course.
00:18:26.000 Man in this corner, the king of kings.
00:18:30.000 Turn the other cheek when I punch your head.
00:18:34.000 Yeah, turn your other cheek.
00:18:36.000 Listen, dude, he came as the suffering servant.
00:18:38.000 Next time he's coming as the conquering king.
00:18:40.000 Don't underestimate.
00:18:41.000 Yeah, okay.
00:18:42.000 Tap out.
00:18:43.000 You know not what you're doing.
00:18:48.000 I tell you what, my father will have a seat next to you in hell. 0.91
00:18:52.000 What?
00:18:53.000 Give him the chair.
00:18:55.000 The guy tapping.
00:18:56.000 Wrestling into it.
00:18:57.000 The guy taps in the curtain.
00:18:58.000 Jumbotron just tears in half.
00:19:00.000 Every time, Jesus.
00:19:02.000 All right.
00:19:03.000 You forget about Jesus Christ.
00:19:05.000 I'm right here.
00:19:06.000 Hey, don't forget Jesus.
00:19:10.000 Tribulation overcome us.
00:19:12.000 I love you.
00:19:13.000 All right, next chat.
00:19:15.000 All right, next chat from Feisty Cadaver.
00:19:17.000 Why does DC have any residence other than the president?
00:19:20.000 No one should live there.
00:19:21.000 Well, I agree.
00:19:24.000 It's a horrible place.
00:19:25.000 I used to have to go there, and I'm glad I haven't been there in a long time.
00:19:29.000 I mean, I think it's fine that it has residents, but I get it.
00:19:32.000 You visit every now and then, and then you're like, all right, I'm good to get out.
00:19:35.000 Yeah.
00:19:35.000 Next chat.
00:19:36.000 All right.
00:19:37.000 From SJ What?
00:19:39.000 Question for Stephen.
00:19:40.000 We see Trump wanting to pull back on weed.
00:19:43.000 How do you think that affects the China racket?
00:19:46.000 Documentary plug?
00:19:47.000 Are you talking about him wanting to schedule it as a less dangerous substance?
00:19:52.000 That's one of those things that I just think people have been saying for a very long time, like do it for the political capital.
00:19:56.000 Because you have some people, that's their only issue voting.
00:20:00.000 I love weed.
00:20:01.000 They got the belt buckle, they got the t-shirt, they got the hat.
00:20:04.000 They got a smell.
00:20:04.000 Yeah.
00:20:05.000 Well, they don't have any weed because they don't have money left.
00:20:07.000 They spend it on all the paraffins.
00:20:08.000 They still somehow smell like it.
00:20:09.000 Yes.
00:20:10.000 I promise you.
00:20:10.000 You can smell them coming into the store or the restaurant you work at.
00:20:13.000 Well, that's because they buy Chanel Eau de Skunk.
00:20:17.000 That smells terrible.
00:20:18.000 Oh, it's that guy wearing the faded supersonics jersey.
00:20:20.000 You think he's high?
00:20:21.000 Yeah, probably.
00:20:22.000 Probably.
00:20:25.000 I do get why it makes sense.
00:20:26.000 I certainly don't think it should be classified in the same category as heroin or fentanyl.
00:20:29.000 We've been talking about that for a long time.
00:20:30.000 I do think that now we have lived with this a little bit where I've watched perspectives change where it's like, if you're just legal, it's just a plant, man.
00:20:37.000 You don't really hear that a whole lot anymore.
00:20:40.000 You really don't.
00:20:41.000 Why?
00:20:41.000 Why?
00:20:42.000 Yeah, you don't because a lot of people who had never experienced it before have experienced it and go like, oh, this is way more than just a plant.
00:20:48.000 They also did a lot of, I don't know, you know, I don't want any botanists in the chat to jump down my throat, but another word where they didn't, they changed how they pollinate and how these different strains are.
00:21:01.000 It's not incredibly potent.
00:21:04.000 Yeah.
00:21:05.000 And I don't, and look, I think there are legitimate, I've talked about this, legitimate medicinal uses.
00:21:10.000 Yeah.
00:21:11.000 Of course, I think it helps with cancer patients, especially going through things like chemo with their appetite.
00:21:16.000 It seems to help with PTSD, surprisingly, specifically as far as sleep disorders.
00:21:21.000 CBD, with very, you don't need a lot of THC, seems to help with systemic inflammatory markers.
00:21:28.000 There might be one or two other sort of, oh, obviously forms of epilepsy, like Drabbit syndrome, I believe is what it is.
00:21:37.000 And a lot of the others are unproven.
00:21:39.000 But now when people have been saying it cures everything, now people have kind of experienced it and go, okay, I guess it doesn't.
00:21:47.000 And we do have a culture of wake and bake where you smell it everywhere.
00:21:49.000 And I think that a lot of people don't like that for the same reason that many people didn't like cigarettes being smoked right next to in a restaurant.
00:21:55.000 So I do think that it should be declassified from, is it schedule, is it schedule three or schedule one?
00:22:01.000 I don't know.
00:22:02.000 I always forget which one is in the sending.
00:22:03.000 I don't know which one's higher.
00:22:04.000 Yeah.
00:22:04.000 I think one is the highest.
00:22:06.000 I think it was schedule one.
00:22:06.000 It was the highest schedule, which is ridiculous.
00:22:08.000 So yeah, it should be removed from that.
00:22:10.000 People should not be spending years in prison over some marijuana, of course.
00:22:14.000 But I also think that now maybe people are ready to approach it more responsibly.
00:22:19.000 In the way that we've approached, and they constantly compared it to alcohol.
00:22:23.000 Because it used to be, yeah, alcohol is legal.
00:22:25.000 Why not?
00:22:25.000 We've said, okay, but alcohol also has limits.
00:22:27.000 It also, I mean, it's strictly regulated.
00:22:29.000 We're able to test People if they're driving while drinking, right?
00:22:32.000 And there are laws against that.
00:22:33.000 And it's kind of been the Wild West.
00:22:36.000 And I will say this: I don't think it's a particularly productive drug for now.
00:22:40.000 That's not to say that it can't be used right because neither is Xanax and people use it.
00:22:45.000 You know what I mean?
00:22:45.000 I think there's an appropriate use for a lot of drugs out there if they're not abused.
00:22:48.000 And I think for someone who's a high-functioning executive to take something at a moderate dose, if it helps them sleep and relax, I don't really have a problem with that if I'm not looking to get blitzed.
00:22:58.000 I think it'll probably help Trump.
00:23:00.000 It'll remove a big issue from the left politically.
00:23:02.000 That's really legitimate.
00:23:05.000 If they're the Epstein people, then it's like, well, I don't have that, but we have weed.
00:23:08.000 Right.
00:23:09.000 Right.
00:23:09.000 But that's separate and apart from the Chinese issue.
00:23:11.000 Yes.
00:23:11.000 But it's not a cure-all, too, by the way.
00:23:14.000 You ever notice someone's like when they claim it's a cure-all?
00:23:16.000 Cure everything.
00:23:17.000 It can help you and everything.
00:23:19.000 Yeah.
00:23:21.000 Help me.
00:23:22.000 You're like, yeah.
00:23:23.000 You didn't help with that cough.
00:23:24.000 No, no.
00:23:25.000 I hurt.
00:23:26.000 I think I need some weed.
00:23:27.000 Okay.
00:23:28.000 By the way, I told you, I almost choked to death the other day.
00:23:30.000 And that was a terrifying experience.
00:23:32.000 It was the first time in my life that I've ever had.
00:23:35.000 My lady made a, I don't know, piste. 0.96
00:23:36.000 How do you pronounce it?
00:23:37.000 It's basically like their pasta.
00:23:38.000 No, it's a chicken fried steak, basically.
00:23:41.000 Oh, okay.
00:23:42.000 But it's like thinner breading and it's spice.
00:23:45.000 Anyway, I was chewing the steak.
00:23:47.000 I think I just didn't appreciate it, didn't respect the breading because the steak was so tender that as I was chewing the steak, I forgot and I and it must have lodged perfectly because, you know, I've choked like on popcorn somewhere.
00:23:59.000 Yeah, like no air could come in or out.
00:24:02.000 You know, I thought, like, because usually you can go, no air could go out and no air could come in.
00:24:07.000 How'd you get out of that?
00:24:08.000 My lady hit me really hard on the back multiple times. 1.00
00:24:11.000 Yeah.
00:24:12.000 Yeah, then she and then she stabbed him in the throat with a straw. 1.00
00:24:15.000 She did, yeah.
00:24:15.000 Yeah.
00:24:16.000 It was a tracheotomy.
00:24:17.000 Yeah.
00:24:17.000 And it turned me on, which is weird.
00:24:20.000 Well, that's not on normal.
00:24:22.000 Table or in the bedroom.
00:24:23.000 So I've seen many a triage that are owned up.
00:24:26.000 I don't know.
00:24:28.000 I'm hard.
00:24:31.000 No, but it was scary.
00:24:33.000 It was really scary.
00:24:34.000 I've never had that.
00:24:35.000 You guys ever experienced it?
00:24:35.000 Like, I couldn't get any momentum, any inertia.
00:24:38.000 You know, you need a little bit of wind to move.
00:24:39.000 That's why you do the technical maneuver, obviously, hitting on the back.
00:24:41.000 But there's something you've got to get.
00:24:42.000 And I'll tell you, we bought it for our house, obviously for kids, because kids, they screw around and they eat and they choke sometimes.
00:24:49.000 It's the little thing you put over their mouth and it pump and it pulls out.
00:24:52.000 I have that.
00:24:53.000 Okay, so that those things are.
00:24:54.000 I don't know if you have it near the table where you were choking.
00:24:56.000 No.
00:24:56.000 I have that too.
00:24:57.000 I use it for bulimia.
00:24:58.000 Yes.
00:24:58.000 Yeah.
00:24:58.000 It is very helpful.
00:24:59.000 I just use the popsicle sticks that they put in my mouth and make me go, ah, because I always feel like one of the stuff.
00:25:04.000 It's like, oh, this is easy.
00:25:05.000 I don't know why anyone would ever be fat.
00:25:07.000 I hate that they call them popsicle sticks, by the way.
00:25:10.000 It looks like a popsicle stick.
00:25:11.000 It's the same composition as popsicle.
00:25:13.000 Oh, the doctor.
00:25:13.000 But there's no popsicle that big.
00:25:15.000 No.
00:25:15.000 Unless they just have a nurse practitioner who's just in the next room going like, hold on, I'm almost there.
00:25:22.000 Puts in the blue barber liquid.
00:25:26.000 Barbicide.
00:25:27.000 That's it.
00:25:28.000 I am infant certified in CPRs, but I can't do that on myself on the weed thing.
00:25:33.000 So yeah, I think that's the right approach.
00:25:35.000 And I think separate from that, we need to address, really, it's more of a land issue with the Chinese and a banking issue with the Chinese, right?
00:25:44.000 They won't allow weed in their country at all, but they'll take advantage of it here, even in states where weed is legal.
00:25:48.000 I get it.
00:25:48.000 It's a federal issue, but the point is that's a separate issue outside of descheduling, I guess, under that classification of weed and making sure that China should be involved.
00:26:00.000 Zero.
00:26:00.000 Yeah.
00:26:01.000 Zero.
00:26:01.000 If only because they can't be trusted with that.
00:26:04.000 And it's our land.
00:26:05.000 Next.
00:26:06.000 Just take it back.
00:26:07.000 They did also send in that Kimbo slice clip, if you want it. 0.85
00:26:10.000 Was it Kimbo Slus slice punching James Thompson and splitting his ear?
00:26:14.000 Yeah.
00:26:14.000 And was this on CBS or was it on NBC?
00:26:17.000 It was on.
00:26:18.000 It doesn't say in the thumbnail.
00:26:18.000 It just says UFC fight pass.
00:26:20.000 Also, are there any chats that weren't happy with how we covered it?
00:26:23.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:26:24.000 We covered some of those.
00:26:24.000 So let's.
00:26:25.000 This was on, like, this was early on where there had never been a mixed martial arts event in broadcast television.
00:26:30.000 And you almost never see injuries like this.
00:26:33.000 It was just kind of the guy I think had cauliflower ear, and it was just red.
00:26:35.000 He was hanging by a thread.
00:26:37.000 I see a CBS mic flag.
00:26:38.000 Oh, CBS.
00:26:39.000 So is CBS.
00:26:40.000 All right.
00:26:40.000 Let's go.
00:26:41.000 Experience.
00:26:42.000 Bring you to the championship.
00:26:43.000 Gentlemen, how do you have this fight?
00:26:46.000 I have no idea.
00:26:47.000 I have no idea.
00:26:49.000 I would say that Thompson angular.
00:26:51.000 You fucking fucking new blood.
00:26:54.000 I think that's the one.
00:26:54.000 And then there's a close-up later, I think, that shows it.
00:26:58.000 Oh, that ear popped. 0.99
00:27:02.000 Yeah.
00:27:02.000 Good lord.
00:27:04.000 Oh, man.
00:27:04.000 Swing it for the felons.
00:27:10.000 He needs some milk.
00:27:13.000 Oh, my God.
00:27:15.000 Yeah.
00:27:16.000 Oh, yeah.
00:27:16.000 Oh, he's pissed.
00:27:18.000 What are you doing?
00:27:18.000 I don't think he's pissed.
00:27:19.000 I think he's discombobulated.
00:27:20.000 Didn't realize that's the ref.
00:27:22.000 Yeah.
00:27:22.000 Maybe, maybe.
00:27:23.000 That's true.
00:27:24.000 He was James Thompson, the Colossus, they called him.
00:27:26.000 He was just a big, strong guy who in Japan was like, you go fight a professional fighter.
00:27:30.000 Okay.
00:27:30.000 And he got his ass kicked.
00:27:31.000 He ran into Fedora's brother, who then did a hard time in Russian prison.
00:27:36.000 And that's one of the funnest staredowns that you ever see.
00:27:38.000 He's literally shaking.
00:27:39.000 He's like, mean-mongers, little Russian with whole body tattoos. 1.00
00:27:43.000 Whatever.
00:27:44.000 And then just, it's like a flip, like you can't even see the punches.
00:27:47.000 They register so fast from a guy six foot six, and he gets his ass kicked.
00:27:50.000 And he seems like a decent guy, but the point is, it doesn't really matter how tough.
00:27:54.000 You're bobbed.
00:27:54.000 Just staring him down.
00:27:56.000 Yeah.
00:27:56.000 At certain points, either you're going to fight.
00:28:00.000 Yeah.
00:28:00.000 So just get on with it.
00:28:03.000 The charades don't matter.
00:28:04.000 All right.
00:28:05.000 Next chat.
00:28:05.000 All right.
00:28:06.000 Next chat.
00:28:07.000 From Stephen Legacy411.
00:28:09.000 Why do Islamists like goats so much? 0.99
00:28:12.000 Hey, hey, that is a rumor.
00:28:15.000 Also, rumors start for reasons.
00:28:17.000 Hold on, first-hand experience.
00:28:19.000 If you'll allow me.
00:28:20.000 Yeah.
00:28:20.000 Thank you, Josh.
00:28:21.000 Have you ever stared at their butts?
00:28:25.000 Ask yourself that.
00:28:27.000 Okay.
00:28:27.000 Wait, wait, wait.
00:28:28.000 Mr. High and Mighty.
00:28:29.000 I can tell you I too am guilty of this.
00:28:33.000 It's the way they scream, honestly.
00:28:35.000 Yes.
00:28:40.000 They like it.
00:28:40.000 Don't turn and talk to me right now.
00:28:42.000 I'm going to get more turned on them than I choke.
00:28:44.000 Good thing you have a desk there.
00:28:45.000 Good look.
00:28:45.000 Yes, advice.
00:28:46.000 You're going to see the levitation trick.
00:28:50.000 It is a thing, though.
00:28:51.000 I mean, if you've ever seen a video, if you ever seen a video of them, there's a few out there.
00:28:56.000 There's like an ISR footage one where the guy's cotton thermal doing it, but they are the perfect height. 0.98
00:29:04.000 They just stare there.
00:29:05.000 I don't know.
00:29:07.000 I'm not sure.
00:29:08.000 I mean, I guess.
00:29:09.000 There's something about the wool on your pubes that just gets a guy going.
00:29:14.000 I think it's just you work with what you have.
00:29:16.000 I mean, it used to be the same thing of Irish farmers.
00:29:18.000 They used to make those accusations.
00:29:20.000 They do have hands. 0.62
00:29:21.000 It's that they have udders.
00:29:24.000 It's all.
00:29:25.000 No, no, Josh.
00:29:26.000 I'm saying there are other single-player options.
00:29:31.000 I think you're saying the Islamists have hands, not the goats.
00:29:34.000 Yes, I'm like, listen.
00:29:36.000 Listen, I get it.
00:29:36.000 If you're out in the field and you're an Islamist, whatever, and you've got goats or a hand, but there's no women, why choose goats?
00:29:46.000 It's a fair question.
00:29:48.000 Well, it's something about the Quran and periods.
00:29:52.000 What?
00:29:52.000 Something like that.
00:29:53.000 Yeah, when you're something like it's something that's, I forget what verse it is, but it's like, if your lady is bleeding, grab that sheep.
00:30:00.000 That's right.
00:30:01.000 Okay.
00:30:01.000 And by the way, that's for the record.
00:30:02.000 I did not even grab the sheep.
00:30:04.000 That sheep.
00:30:04.000 That is nothing but life.
00:30:06.000 We had two drinks.
00:30:07.000 I went back to my apartment.
00:30:08.000 It was a rough translation, but.
00:30:09.000 That's right.
00:30:10.000 Yeah.
00:30:11.000 I don't know the hadith, but whatever.
00:30:13.000 We'll find it.
00:30:14.000 That's right.
00:30:14.000 You don't know nothing.
00:30:15.000 The thing is, it's not that prevalent.
00:30:18.000 No.
00:30:18.000 But it's prevalent enough that it's an accurate stereotype.
00:30:23.000 Yeah.
00:30:24.000 Well, it's not ill-founded.
00:30:26.000 Yes.
00:30:26.000 It's like how often do you really.
00:30:31.000 Okay, that's a bad one.
00:30:32.000 Don't.
00:30:33.000 That was a bad one.
00:30:33.000 I don't think there's any good one, but let's just...
00:30:39.000 How many Asian mathematicians do you actually know?
00:30:43.000 A lot.
00:30:44.000 You personally?
00:30:45.000 Tons.
00:30:46.000 How many mathematicians do you know?
00:30:48.000 They're actual mathematicians.
00:30:50.000 They moonlight.
00:30:51.000 Johnny Knoxville.
00:30:53.000 Not that one.
00:30:54.000 Oh, there's another one?
00:30:55.000 Yeah.
00:30:55.000 There's a guy I knew in college.
00:30:57.000 Oh, man.
00:30:57.000 How much would that suck?
00:31:00.000 Be like a mathematician, a genius, and then name him.
00:31:04.000 Hi.
00:31:05.000 None of this.
00:31:05.000 Hi, I am a Menzah.
00:31:06.000 Welcome to Jackass.
00:31:09.000 I calculate speed velocity of shopping car.
00:31:11.000 Oh, shit.
00:31:14.000 Hey, hey, I do equations at Harvard.
00:31:17.000 Watch me put firework up my ass.
00:31:21.000 Times are tough.
00:31:22.000 How many alcoholic Native Americans do you know? 0.99
00:31:25.000 Many.
00:31:25.000 Almost all.
00:31:26.000 Okay, you know what?
00:31:27.000 Not alcoholics.
00:31:28.000 Here's the thing.
00:31:28.000 Not all alcoholics, it's that they can't handle alcohol.
00:31:31.000 And that actually is a genetic thing.
00:31:32.000 Same thing with Asia. 0.75
00:31:33.000 Asian rosacea.
00:31:34.000 Yeah.
00:31:34.000 They lack an enzyme to process alcohol, so it gets them drunk.
00:31:36.000 I have the exact opposite because of a lot of...
00:31:40.000 A lot of northern European blood, like Irish, Scottish, French, they metabolize alcohol at a rapid rate.
00:31:46.000 Asians will get that rosacea. 1.00
00:31:47.000 They get the flushing.
00:31:48.000 It's a genetic thing.
00:31:49.000 And of course, the Landbridge theory, Native Americans, the thing is that Native Americans really like it.
00:31:55.000 So that's where it becomes a problem.
00:31:56.000 If I could get Drug Fast, I would really like it too.
00:31:58.000 It'd be fun.
00:31:59.000 Yeah, well, but I'd like to enjoy the taste of wine.
00:32:02.000 That is big.
00:32:03.000 That's true.
00:32:04.000 Let's go to chat.
00:32:05.000 All right.
00:32:05.000 Next chat from the Princess Bride.
00:32:07.000 Cheryl drinks grape juice.
00:32:09.000 Yeah.
00:32:10.000 Well, I mean, he can tell you what vintage this is of welches. 0.99
00:32:14.000 Let's go.
00:32:16.000 Question for Stephen.
00:32:17.000 How did the sip get started?
00:32:19.000 I love it, though, so don't get rid of it.
00:32:21.000 I don't even know.
00:32:22.000 I think it just happened.
00:32:23.000 I think it just happened, and now I'm tired of it.
00:32:24.000 It's a good morning mug club thing, I think.
00:32:26.000 Was it?
00:32:26.000 I think so.
00:32:27.000 I think it might have when we did the Tua Days.
00:32:29.000 Yeah, I don't know if I did it before that.
00:32:30.000 You might have, though.
00:32:31.000 I don't remember.
00:32:32.000 Honestly, I don't remember.
00:32:33.000 You know what, Chat?
00:32:34.000 You help us.
00:32:34.000 I remember when I remember when someone said, hey, you didn't take the sip or something.
00:32:38.000 It became a thing, but that's when it became a thing.
00:32:41.000 But I guess I'd been doing it long enough before that.
00:32:43.000 You've been doing it a while before that happened.
00:32:45.000 Didn't you know you're doing it?
00:32:46.000 Yeah, I didn't even know.
00:32:47.000 It's probably just because I try and moisten the palate before I go live.
00:32:51.000 So I don't know.
00:32:52.000 Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm glad that you enjoy it because I am here for your enjoyment.
00:32:58.000 Amusement.
00:32:58.000 Yeah.
00:32:59.000 It seems like I'm actually doing it.
00:33:00.000 We put that sound in.
00:33:01.000 Billy hits that button.
00:33:03.000 Yeah.
00:33:03.000 That's right.
00:33:04.000 No, it's genuine.
00:33:05.000 Why would you do that?
00:33:06.000 He's not a lip-syncing singer kind of guy.
00:33:08.000 I am no athlete in Finn.
00:33:12.000 Next chat.
00:33:13.000 Our next chat from Howlett 5.
00:33:15.000 What disagreements do you have with the Tucker segment analysis?
00:33:19.000 What?
00:33:19.000 What?
00:33:20.000 I mean, did you watch the show, Juke Pussy Boy?
00:33:23.000 Do you mean our analysis?
00:33:24.000 Or is he asking someone else in chat what disagreement they have?
00:33:27.000 It must be for somebody else.
00:33:28.000 My assumption is they mean between you guys.
00:33:31.000 Like, do you have any disagreements?
00:33:35.000 I don't know.
00:33:36.000 I'm sure if we got into the facts that are spouted, if we did like a whole fact-checking of her claims, we would probably have disagreements.
00:33:43.000 But as far as I don't know, yeah, I think what these noodles are saying is that our disagreements between what we think at the end our analysis.
00:33:51.000 I mean, I'll just state what mine is: is just be honest about it and be at least attempt to be consistent in your application of the interviewing and research process.
00:34:01.000 That's it.
00:34:01.000 For me personally, I'm not an expert in the field, and I don't want to pretend to be.
00:34:07.000 I'm not really too keen on journalism stuff, but neither she.
00:34:12.000 Yeah, well, I agree with a lot of things you said.
00:34:14.000 Well, you know, here's the little thing you do know because I'm kind of the only person who has to hear, generally speaking, who has to sit down, okay, and write bits and write sketches and do that.
00:34:23.000 And then also go and go to the research department and go like, okay, all right, let's make sure this is correct.
00:34:28.000 And I do think that you do know that people like me and Lane and George, that we would all be beside ourselves if we made a claim like, oh, the Christian population is decreasing in Israel and found out the exact opposite is true.
00:34:40.000 Yeah.
00:34:40.000 Like we'd be really upset about it.
00:34:42.000 Like, how did we make such a silly mistake?
00:34:45.000 Yeah.
00:34:46.000 And they made at least 10 of those.
00:34:48.000 You routinely send us messages.
00:34:50.000 Hey, I just read this.
00:34:51.000 Is this true?
00:34:52.000 Can you guys find what they're quoting?
00:34:54.000 Can you find the study that they're saying showed this?
00:34:57.000 Like, it's not just a take it at face value kind of thing because there's a lot of stuff out there that you could just go, oh, yeah, and run with it and make a lot of mistakes doing so.
00:35:05.000 So that's why I'm like, Tucker, what were you reading that said that the Christian population was declining in Israel?
00:35:09.000 I think he might have been talking, trying to make the case.
00:35:12.000 I'm trying to be as generous as possible.
00:35:16.000 Specifically, maybe in the West Bank, because of the control going on and like, I don't know, but it's just not a claim that can be made as far as Israel versus Palestine.
00:35:25.000 It's the exact reverse of reality.
00:35:27.000 He didn't say that.
00:35:28.000 So I think my biggest takeaway from this interview was, and I've watched, I tend to watch almost every Tucker interview.
00:35:34.000 There's several people that I watch all their interviews.
00:35:36.000 I don't always like them, but I'm trying to...
00:35:39.000 Sometimes I like the style of interview and the conversational aspect of it.
00:35:42.000 But I try to listen to a lot of other things so that I understand where people are coming from, even if I disagree with their position.
00:35:49.000 And this is just a pattern that I'm seeing right now.
00:35:52.000 This is not a one-off where he will press.
00:35:55.000 He will exercise those journalistic integrity standards When it's an issue that he feels passionately about and it's on the right side of it, meaning going after Ted Cruz, going after Israel and making the case that he was making.
00:36:09.000 Fine.
00:36:10.000 And being anti-war with Iran.
00:36:11.000 That's also fine.
00:36:12.000 I disagreed with how he thought we should approach it, but fine.
00:36:16.000 But then when the opportunity comes up to represent the other side well, that's where it didn't take it.
00:36:21.000 And that's so many times.
00:36:22.000 That's what I get frustrated by.
00:36:24.000 I don't want, I mean, what good is it to have somebody come on and cheerlead for a cause with zero pushback at all, even for clarification, not necessarily even just pushback.
00:36:33.000 Like it just, it doesn't serve really for me any purpose at all.
00:36:36.000 It's like, yeah, I can see this person say whatever they want to say.
00:36:39.000 I need facts.
00:36:40.000 I don't know that I'm getting those from Ted Cruz.
00:36:42.000 He's a sinner.
00:36:43.000 I don't care.
00:36:43.000 It's a president.
00:36:44.000 I don't care.
00:36:45.000 Right.
00:36:45.000 It's a Hamas leader.
00:36:47.000 I don't care.
00:36:47.000 I want to know: is what that person's saying true or is it not?
00:36:51.000 And the journalists can help me get to that truth, or they can over and over and over again show they're not really interested in that in this case.
00:37:00.000 Right.
00:37:00.000 That's fair.
00:37:01.000 All right.
00:37:02.000 Final chat for the day.
00:37:03.000 It was kind of like a chat Thursday when it wasn't a chat Thursday, but I figured the lines would light up if we had lines.
00:37:08.000 Yeah.
00:37:08.000 All right.
00:37:09.000 Final chat from Broljack.
00:37:11.000 What do you say to a Christian who believes that Christianity has no place in government?
00:37:17.000 Sort of.
00:37:18.000 I mean, just kidding, it actually doesn't.
00:37:20.000 This is one that people complicate, and it doesn't need to be complicated.
00:37:22.000 It's really simple.
00:37:23.000 People are like, ah, the First Amendment.
00:37:24.000 Oh, sure, sure, sure.
00:37:26.000 There is never to be a state-enforced denomination or religion.
00:37:31.000 We all agree with that.
00:37:34.000 But there should be no Christianity. 1.00
00:37:35.000 And go, hold on a second.
00:37:36.000 Do you mean that people who are Christians shouldn't be allowed to serve in government?
00:37:39.000 Then who should serve?
00:37:40.000 Do you mean that Christian values shouldn't be allowed to be implemented?
00:37:45.000 Because that's the foundation of Western civilization to begin with.
00:37:49.000 And by the way, you still would find an intersect of, you know, don't steal, don't kill, you know, marriage laws once upon a time.
00:37:56.000 So do you say, well, hold on a second.
00:37:57.000 If that sounds like it's getting too close to Christianity, do you want to bar representatives from expressing their personal viewpoints?
00:38:04.000 In which case, it would only apply to Christianity.
00:38:06.000 I think what you have to look at is, okay, obviously this was a nate, first off, there's no enforcement of religion.
00:38:11.000 There will be no Church of England here.
00:38:12.000 That's very, very, very, very clear.
00:38:14.000 We understand that.
00:38:15.000 And by the way, you have the same thing with Catholicism in certain countries, even the province of Quebec, for example, where they also were a part of the political enforcement, you could argue in Quebec.
00:38:26.000 So we all agree on that.
00:38:27.000 No enforcement of a state-mandated religion.
00:38:30.000 Got it.
00:38:31.000 I don't know how that extends to if you've read the founding documents and you've read the auxiliary documents that support it as far as Christian values and who's allowed, in which case I think you have to look at, okay, at what point do we think that this worldview bars someone from serving in U.S. government?
00:38:51.000 Well, that would be if they adhere to a worldview that is antithetical to our constitutional republic.
00:38:57.000 In no way would that be Christianity. 0.97
00:38:59.000 As a matter of fact, you would have to look at it and go like, well, this almost kind of gives you, if they believe what they say, it means they're an adherent to the system and rules of law that we have here.
00:39:10.000 Something like an Islam would not. 1.00
00:39:13.000 So you could say, well, that might preclude you because you believe in establishing a caliphate and you believe in a second-class citizenship for people who are not Muslim and you believe in a poll tax and subjugating people to dimitude, right? 0.79
00:39:26.000 So you can look at that just like you could look at any, if it was a religion, if fascism was a religion.
00:39:31.000 You go, well, that's not something that can be reconciled with our constitutional republic.
00:39:35.000 There's no world in which you can say that about Christianity.
00:39:38.000 I don't know why this issue becomes really complicated to people.
00:39:40.000 And I think it comes from lazy arguing back in like the 90s, where it was also a response to sort of the lazy position that was held, like, this is a Christian nation. 0.93
00:39:51.000 And that was just too broad.
00:39:52.000 People going like, well, no, it's not.
00:39:53.000 It's a nation for all people.
00:39:54.000 And both of those are true.
00:39:56.000 Of course, it's a nation for all people, but this is a nation founded on Christian values.
00:40:01.000 And so people felt like they could, you know, sort of have a backboard to have a foil and go, well, really, actually, this is not supposed to be a Christian nation. 0.95
00:40:07.000 It's a secular nation because, and it stems from lazy arguing.
00:40:12.000 It gets to be really pretty simple if you read the founding documents and then you read what Thomas Jefferson wrote and George Washington and even Benjamin Franklin, all these, and Adams, and you read, for example, his private letter to the Danbury Baptists.
00:40:23.000 Same thing that applies to the Second Amendment. 0.69
00:40:24.000 When they go, well, that was only when there were muskets. 1.00
00:40:26.000 Bullshit.
00:40:27.000 You can look at things like the Girondoni air rifle.
00:40:29.000 You can look at The pepper box revolver.
00:40:30.000 You can look at the letter of Mark and Raprizel regarding a private ship to have cannons, which is at least an AR-15.
00:40:38.000 It's not like you need to spend that much time if you're reading the documents and you go, okay, this seems pretty straightforward, but maybe there's some context I'm missing.
00:40:47.000 What does this mean?
00:40:48.000 Pick an article.
00:40:49.000 You can search just that article, that name, and within 10 seconds find supporting documents and explanations there.
00:40:57.000 And it doesn't take very long, and it's pretty unanimous.
00:41:02.000 So, yes, we should not enforce a state religion.
00:41:05.000 By the way, it's directly in line with Christianity in that God gives you choice.
00:41:10.000 You are not to be killed for rejecting the Christian faith.
00:41:15.000 That's nowhere in our faith.
00:41:17.000 That's nowhere in our charter.
00:41:19.000 Great.
00:41:20.000 And then, of course, our founders and the people who created this country and believe this country could only be preserved based it on deeply held beliefs and the conviction that it was only designed for a moral and a virtuous people, or it would cease to be.
00:41:34.000 And the funny thing is, that's why they talked about it so much.
00:41:38.000 That's why they wanted to preserve it.
00:41:39.000 Do you know who wants a moralist and a virtueless people because they're easiest to pray on?
00:41:48.000 Okay, let's say you disagree with the morals and virtues or the believed that you subscribe to morals and virtues of Christianity.
00:41:56.000 Let's say you disagree with that.
00:41:58.000 Okay.
00:41:59.000 You at least acknowledge that there are rigid morals, values, right, and virtues according to this doctrine.
00:42:05.000 Okay.
00:42:06.000 Tanya said that you disagree with it.
00:42:09.000 The people who want to pray on a moralist and virtueless society are the people who seek to destroy the very idea to deconstruct those morals and virtues to begin with.
00:42:18.000 Are you familiar with Karl Marx?
00:42:21.000 Are you familiar with every Marxist, communist, socialist regime that has ever existed?
00:42:28.000 Along with guns, first thing they do is remove God.
00:42:32.000 Why?
00:42:32.000 Because those people are easier to pray on.
00:42:35.000 Now, there is no higher authority.
00:42:38.000 Your authority is me, Stalin. 0.82
00:42:41.000 Your authority is me, Mao.
00:42:43.000 Your authority is me, Pol Pot, right? 0.87
00:42:46.000 We're going to do this all for the common good.
00:42:48.000 Well, who determines?
00:42:48.000 Let me tell you what the common good is.
00:42:51.000 Now, our moral code, the virtues valued in our society, the unwritten agreement is going to be determined by me.
00:43:01.000 And it doesn't even need to be consistent because it can be the exact opposite of what I told you three years ago.
00:43:06.000 But by God, we have a crop shortage.
00:43:09.000 So even if you are not a Christian, just, and I see this a lot, and I know that most of you do, appreciate the fact that you have that hedge of protection and covering over your God-given inalienable rights because of Christianity.
00:43:24.000 We've broken this down.
00:43:25.000 A lot of people have done this.
00:43:26.000 Unalienable means their birthrights. 0.97
00:43:28.000 They are not given by government.
00:43:30.000 They are not granted by government.
00:43:32.000 They are simply recognized by government.
00:43:34.000 And the government, their role, is to protect those rights that are already yours.
00:43:41.000 It's the difference between an invasion, right?
00:43:44.000 You invading and someone invading your home.
00:43:47.000 It's already your home.
00:43:48.000 You already have these rights.
00:43:51.000 And the job of the government is to stop people from invading it.
00:43:54.000 That's a very, very different viewpoint.
00:43:56.000 When I say we're the oldest democracy, constitutional republic in the world, I mean we're the only one who has had that viewpoint of government and unalienable rights and maintained it and not changed it that still exists right now on earth.
00:44:11.000 That's no small thing.
00:44:12.000 And something else, that's no small thing.
00:44:15.000 Inalienable meaning basic human rights.
00:44:19.000 Birthrights are not exclusively reserved in any way for Christians.
00:44:24.000 Are you a human?
00:44:25.000 You have inalienable rights.
00:44:27.000 That's a very uniquely American concept.
00:44:29.000 I'm glad other people followed suit.
00:44:31.000 I prefer the original article.