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00:00:02.000 I hope everything turns out okay.

00:00:04.000 We empty out all the money in the cash register and Mr. Dumpington...

00:00:15.000 Dumpington...

00:00:17.000 Ha ha! I always thought that a press like me could squeeze and hold it in my cheeks like a turtle peak.

00:00:32.000 We please the masses by clenching it in our asses. Tijuana, Mexico, holding it to Tokyo.

00:00:37.000 People know me though, I swear my cheeks always work. It's like I'm about to give birth.

00:00:41.000 Unexpected fun, oh you heard? Kamala heard. She said it smelled like dead trout.

00:00:45.000 I tried to play the dork but it was on its way out. I didn't know what I was trying to say.

00:00:51.000 But it's alright, it's alright.

00:00:54.000 I never know the month, the time, or the day.

00:00:57.000 But it's alright, it's alright.

00:00:59.000 Woo! 0.99

00:01:00.000 Here comes the, Ray and I You know I play this podium round

00:01:04.000 Here comes the, Ray and I Holy s*** that was loud

00:01:06.000 Radio 9, holy s*** that was loud Here comes the radio 9, oh s*** think it's time to come out

00:01:10.000 Here comes the, Ray and I Oh s*** I think it's time to come out

00:01:14.000 Here comes the radio 9, man I need a towel Here comes the radio 9, you know I play this podium round

00:01:15.000 Here comes the, Ray and I Man I need a towel

00:01:20.000 Here comes the, Ray and I You know I play this podium round

00:01:24.000 Here comes the radio 9, holy s*** that was loud Here comes the radio 9, oh s*** think it's time to come out

00:01:25.000 Here comes the, Ray and I Holy s*** that was loud

00:01:31.000 Here comes the, Ray and I Oh s*** I think it's time to come out

00:01:35.000 Here comes the radio 9, man I need a towel I need a towel

00:02:08.000 You're a strange animal, that's what I know You're a strange animal, I've got to follow

00:02:19.000 I'm a speedy disco I'm a speedy disco

00:02:26.000 You're a strange animal, I've got to follow Hey, that's the sound of Monday because I didn't hear that

00:02:33.000 sound all weekend.

00:02:33.000 I know you missed it.

00:02:35.000 Before I mention anything else, today's a doozy, so if this show is not on YouTube...

00:02:42.000 Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.

00:02:43.000 Eastern.

00:02:43.000 That means we're still available on the Rumble, free show, or a full additional, you know, like, one hour to the show on MugClub.

00:02:50.000 LetoCredit.com slash MugClub.

00:02:52.000 So don't—unless we tell you this show is still going on.

00:02:55.000 I just want to be very, very clear because we've had some tomfoolery happening with the YouTube.

00:03:01.000 And before I say—389!

00:03:05.000 $3.89 a gallon for gas in Texas.

00:03:07.000 And I know this is selfish.

00:03:08.000 It's your patriotic duty.

00:03:09.000 Because I drive an SUV.

00:03:11.000 You know, because I want to be safe and my kids not to die.

00:03:14.000 But!

00:03:16.000 It was 369 yesterday.

00:03:18.000 Oh wow.

00:03:19.000 Yesterday.

00:03:20.000 So I don't know if this gas station is pulling some shenanigans, but 369 to 389, which brings me to my question before anything else, question of the day.

00:03:27.000 What do you really think about Biden's foreign policy and what happened with all the people saying no wars for oil?

00:03:34.000 We're going to get into the international governments and their interest in oil and us not being energy independent today.

00:03:42.000 First off, if you want to be able to avoid wars, we need to be energy independent.

00:03:47.000 And if you want to not pay $3.89, Michael, for gas, it's not a mundane detail, we also need to be energy independent.

00:03:54.000 We'll be talking about that.

00:03:55.000 We'll be talking about Russia.

00:03:57.000 Before we get to all of that, I'm pissed.

00:03:59.000 You should be.

00:03:59.000 There's a lot of other stuff.

00:04:00.000 I have a relative right now who has cancer, not as bothering as $3.89 gas.

00:04:05.000 Truth.

00:04:05.000 It's a mild cancer.

00:04:07.000 Well, we have to drive this person.

00:04:09.000 I'm not going to drive them anymore.

00:04:10.000 You have to Uber for their chemo!

00:04:14.000 The co-pay is actually less than the gas.

00:04:16.000 The co-pay is less than the gas.

00:04:18.000 Don't even get me started on the deductible.

00:04:21.000 Do you accept receipts from Chevron?

00:04:23.000 No good.

00:04:25.000 Also, yeah, 7-Eleven, yeah, Venezuelan gas too.

00:04:29.000 So don't support 7-Eleven.

00:04:30.000 Also the fact that it looks like an episode of Lock Up in their bathrooms.

00:04:33.000 Quick Trip.

00:04:33.000 I'm a Quick Trip man.

00:04:34.000 Gerald A. is here with me.

00:04:36.000 How are you, sir?

00:04:37.000 I am well.

00:04:37.000 You don't like racetrack?

00:04:39.000 Don't even bring that.

00:04:40.000 You know exactly where I line up on racetrack.

00:04:41.000 Of course.

00:04:42.000 Just trying to piss you off further.

00:04:43.000 Oh, really?

00:04:44.000 That's a wonderful start.

00:04:45.000 And you know him.

00:04:46.000 You love him.

00:04:47.000 You can follow him on the Twitter at Landau Dave.

00:04:49.000 Dave Landau, how are you, sir?

00:04:50.000 Ahoy.

00:04:50.000 Good.

00:04:50.000 How about you?

00:04:51.000 I'm good.

00:04:51.000 You had a birthday weekend this weekend?

00:04:53.000 I did.

00:04:53.000 My son just turned seven.

00:04:54.000 Thank you, children.

00:04:57.000 That's a fun age.

00:04:58.000 And you had kids try to lift his gifts.

00:05:00.000 I had one kid trying to leave with one of his gifts, and I was like, yeah, no, I think we're going to keep those.

00:05:04.000 He's like, oh, I like it.

00:05:06.000 I'm like, that's nice.

00:05:07.000 Where are your parents?

00:05:09.000 Who are you?

00:05:10.000 My parents used to be heroin addicts, now they're methadone addicts.

00:05:12.000 Well, one kid did the thing where nobody's looking, he went over to the cake and started just fingering up the frosting and licking it, and I was just like, hey, do you need a napkin?

00:05:19.000 He's like, uh, yeah.

00:05:21.000 I'm like, where's your dad?

00:05:23.000 Why are you in here doing this?

00:05:25.000 I saw the president do it, so I thought it was okay.

00:05:29.000 Wonderful example for the children, this 95-year-old former vice president.

00:05:33.000 Okay, before we move on to anything else, and this is, you know, here's one thing I will say.

00:05:37.000 This show, if this is the only show that you watch, and it should not be, but if this was the only show that you watched, you'd be definitely better informed than 95% of the people in this country, namely because we provide all references at loudearthcracker.com in the pinned comment in the description.

00:05:52.000 The goal is for you to be able to be informed and not want to kill yourself.

00:05:55.000 So, I understand though it's tough to do when we're talking about gas prices today.

00:06:00.000 And I don't want you, for those of you who have firearms, if you, look, if you have firearms in close proximity, I just ask that you lock them up because I'm about to show you the San Francisco Walgreens robbery that escalated dramatically into... I'm trying to be careful here.

00:06:24.000 If someone chooses to act in a way that would be perceived as racist if someone described it, like if I were to describe this incident that you're about to see to a police officer, I would be up there, you know, with a picture of Ed Norton, American History X. So, see if you can catch why this is a problem that I don't want to describe the robbery incident before you watch the clip.

00:06:47.000 We have this person that is taking everything from the counter.

00:06:53.000 What you're watching is a Walgreens theft in action Tuesday.

00:06:57.000 It's not what professional photographer Nicholas Stennett is used to capturing.

00:07:01.000 Goes behind the counter and starts taking stuff.

00:07:03.000 I think maybe some COVID tests, a tray of batteries.

00:07:07.000 I think maybe some electronics.

00:07:08.000 Right now, pretty standard rubber.

00:07:10.000 Yep.

00:07:10.000 Just a guy with a shopping bag and no firearm.

00:07:12.000 Yeah.

00:07:12.000 I feel a little bad for the workers.

00:07:14.000 Here it comes!

00:07:14.000 with a shopping bag and no firearm.

00:07:16.000 Yeah.

00:07:16.000 I feel a little bad for the workers.

00:07:18.000 At one point, another customer begins to record and has his Here it comes.

00:07:22.000 Selfie smacked out of his hand.

00:07:24.000 The customer then tries to intervene.

00:07:26.000 Where does she want to go? 0.99

00:07:27.000 And is blasted with bunches of bananas.

00:07:30.000 There's a drive-by poaching.

00:07:32.000 There's bananas blazing everywhere.

00:07:33.000 He can throw bananas, you can't throw the... no.

00:07:44.000 Wow, that is, uh... The hair dye.

00:07:46.000 Oh, boy.

00:07:47.000 Now, you know if someone just walked in at the return throw, they're like, Hey, what's wrong with you?

00:07:51.000 Yeah.

00:07:52.000 Oh, bananas at him?

00:07:53.000 Don't do that!

00:07:54.000 The guy's shopping, I see his bag.

00:07:57.000 Throwing bananas.

00:07:59.000 Then they started throwing the Just For Men.

00:08:00.000 That pissed me off.

00:08:01.000 Yeah, I know.

00:08:02.000 Started throwing the Razor Bump lotion.

00:08:05.000 We need to start putting that behind the glass.

00:08:09.000 It's amazing you can casually shop while committing a robbery in 2022.

00:08:14.000 Like, he's deciding what he wants to take.

00:08:15.000 Yes, exactly.

00:08:16.000 Ma'am, could you move so that I could get, yeah, that one right there. 1.00

00:08:19.000 Are those the extra long life batteries?

00:08:21.000 Yeah, I like those.

00:08:22.000 I'm gonna need a ten and a half for my planner's fasciitis.

00:08:25.000 Just a pimp walking in, there's only one thing I like more than clams, and that's stealing!

00:08:32.000 Where's my money, honey?

00:08:33.000 Shut your mouth.

00:08:33.000 Here's a banana.

00:08:37.000 I was hoping a boomerang backed me.

00:08:38.000 Does anybody have, like, some stone fruit and shit?

00:08:41.000 Yeah, he's like, you couldn't have thrown an orange?

00:08:43.000 You gotta be racist?

00:08:43.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:45.000 I'm just surprised.

00:08:48.000 If I were to describe this man, It's a point, there's no good way for me to describe it.

00:08:53.000 No, it's bad.

00:08:54.000 Right behind him, cash registers right there.

00:08:58.000 Well no, there's less cash in the register than there is in his goody bag.

00:09:01.000 How hilarious would it be if he was like, yes, that is what you would say if you were ignorant and you did not understand the problem with our centralized banking and fiat currency with the current rate of inflation in the Federal Reserve.

00:09:13.000 That's why I am in cryptocurrency and Chiquita, bitch! 1.00

00:09:18.000 Oh shit, that was a dole.

00:09:19.000 I got my name brands wrong.

00:09:21.000 Do you have double A batteries?

00:09:23.000 Triple A. Yes.

00:09:25.000 Triple A. I know.

00:09:26.000 I just feel like I'm silly.

00:09:27.000 I thought it was double A. On the remote, it's triple A. It's very hard to tell.

00:09:31.000 Comes back to return them.

00:09:32.000 It's like, I'm just trading these out for the other ones I stole.

00:09:35.000 Can I get a store credit?

00:09:36.000 Can you let me steal the triple A's? 1.00

00:09:39.000 Thank you.

00:09:40.000 If not, I do have a gun in my bag.

00:09:41.000 Okay.

00:09:42.000 Thank you.

00:09:43.000 You're so kind.

00:09:45.000 You are my favorite victim.

00:09:50.000 This is America.

00:09:50.000 Wow.

00:09:51.000 Well, sort of.

00:09:52.000 I wonder what the Russians think.

00:09:53.000 I wonder what the Russians think when they look at this right now.

00:09:56.000 They don't have choice in their grocery stores.

00:09:58.000 Look, we only have one.

00:10:00.000 You are throwing bananas at people?

00:10:02.000 I would love if somebody threw a banana at me.

00:10:04.000 I would save them.

00:10:05.000 I would hoard like Donkey Kong.

00:10:07.000 I would catch it in my mouth like dog treats.

00:10:09.000 Yes, exactly.

00:10:10.000 Oh, so good.

00:10:11.000 Be better if you could peel banana and throw at me.

00:10:14.000 It make mess, but it would make it easier for me to get necessary nutrients. 0.55

00:10:19.000 All right.

00:10:21.000 Speaking of Russia... So hungry.

00:10:23.000 I don't know if you know about this.

00:10:26.000 Russian cats, now, we talk about cancelled quite a bit, but Russian cats have officially been cancelled in a stunning, frankly, stunning rebuke of Russia. 0.56

00:10:36.000 And they're going to feel this.

00:10:37.000 Absolutely.

00:10:38.000 The International Cat Federation banned Russian cats from their competitions.

00:10:42.000 This comes from Washington Post.

00:10:43.000 The Federation which considers itself, quote, the United Nations of Cat Federations.

00:10:48.000 Oh.

00:10:50.000 Hold on a second.

00:10:54.000 Two things I hate.

00:10:56.000 The United Nations and cats.

00:10:59.000 Just put them together, thank you.

00:11:01.000 And by the way, I think the United Nations would be more effective if they just had cats.

00:11:05.000 What do you think, Moldova?

00:11:08.000 Get into a fight, see who wins.

00:11:09.000 I agree, it's not worth the war.

00:11:11.000 They're our champions.

00:11:12.000 Sitting cats around a table.

00:11:14.000 Yeah.

00:11:15.000 You're dressed as Garfield.

00:11:17.000 One's got the babushka.

00:11:18.000 Yeah.

00:11:18.000 You must go.

00:11:20.000 It's a cat little Russian nesting doll.

00:11:23.000 Yeah.

00:11:24.000 All right.

00:11:25.000 It considers itself the United Nations of Cat Federations.

00:11:28.000 It said in a statement that it was, quote, shocked and horrified that Russian forces had invaded Ukraine and started a war.

00:11:35.000 No cat belonging to exhibitors living in Russia may be entered now at any Federation Internationale Feline show outside of Russia.

00:11:45.000 It should also be noted now that Russian cats are also going to be banned from the Cat Olympics.

00:11:51.000 So that's a big problem.

00:11:52.000 That's f***ing illegal!

00:11:53.000 Come on, that's not real.

00:11:55.000 Yes it is.

00:11:56.000 Can't be real, Mike.

00:11:57.000 I've seen them at the gym.

00:11:58.000 They are terrifying.

00:11:59.000 He just works out all the time?

00:12:00.000 It goes in order.

00:12:01.000 It goes Russian strength, Icelandic strength, Well, sorry. 0.85

00:12:06.000 Russian strength, Icelandic strength, retard strength. 1.00

00:12:09.000 In ascending order.

00:12:10.000 True.

00:12:10.000 I had a guy with Down syndrome in grade school pick me up and throw me across the hallway because he was looking for the other guy's ass to kick.

00:12:18.000 To kick, yeah.

00:12:19.000 That sounds right.

00:12:20.000 I saw one of those cats kick Odie off a table. 0.51

00:12:22.000 Killed him.

00:12:23.000 Well, that cat had Down Syndrome.

00:12:24.000 Yeah.

00:12:25.000 Big time.

00:12:26.000 That cat had a big, watery head.

00:12:29.000 Was it royalty?

00:12:30.000 Yes, it was.

00:12:32.000 It's a blue urine.

00:12:34.000 Hey, by the way!

00:12:36.000 Loudearthcrowder.com slash tour.

00:12:37.000 Dave and I are on tour.

00:12:38.000 We're going to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 14th, and June 18th, Colorado Springs.

00:12:42.000 That show is almost sold out, so if it sells out, we will be adding another show in Colorado Springs.

00:12:48.000 So that depends on if we sell it out, because we're a little far out from it, but if it sells out this week, we'll definitely have to add a show.

00:12:54.000 A lot of people have been saying they want to make it out, so go to loudearthcrowder.com slash tour.

00:13:00.000 Okay, and other news.

00:13:02.000 Again, I don't want you to, if you have a firearm nearby, lock it up, because we're going to end this on a positive note.

00:13:07.000 Knives aren't even good.

00:13:09.000 No, knives aren't even good.

00:13:09.000 Put those away.

00:13:10.000 Don't make a sandwich right now.

00:13:11.000 No, don't swallow a knife.

00:13:13.000 Although, I don't mean if that's your profession.

00:13:15.000 If you're a sword swallower.

00:13:16.000 If you're a sword swallower.

00:13:17.000 In other words, I don't want to stop you from practicing.

00:13:18.000 Throw bananas at that guy. 0.86

00:13:26.000 He's a professional.

00:13:27.000 The only thing that would make him happier is if you threw sex swings at him.

00:13:31.000 Ooh, do it again!

00:13:32.000 But I don't know what the pricing is on that, if you can steal those from Walgreens.

00:13:34.000 No, you can't.

00:13:36.000 Just throwing a device at him from Burn After Reading.

00:13:38.000 Is this the floor model?

00:13:40.000 I'm a secretary!

00:13:42.000 I'd like a used one, please.

00:13:44.000 I feel like Pete Buttigieg walks in as a secretary, as you would expect a secretary from the 1950s to walk in.

00:13:51.000 Booty shaking and all the men are slapping his ass. 0.98

00:13:54.000 Yeah.

00:13:55.000 Who wants a two Manhattan lunch?

00:13:57.000 Not including myself.

00:13:58.000 I was pre-gaming.

00:14:00.000 You just see Don Draper closing the blinds?

00:14:02.000 Yes.

00:14:04.000 I'd like to share the world of Coke in perfect harmony.

00:14:10.000 Or he's like the first one they had to hire outside of like this, you know, misogyny of that time where it's like, ugh.

00:14:16.000 Yeah, can you bring me my coffee?

00:14:18.000 Please don't stay in my office too long.

00:14:21.000 Would you like, would you like creamer or sugar?

00:14:23.000 Because you're sweet and I'm sweet on you.

00:14:26.000 I'd like you to leave.

00:14:27.000 Oh gosh.

00:14:28.000 I'd like you to leave right now.

00:14:31.000 I have a corner office and I don't want you destroying it.

00:14:33.000 I don't want people seeing you in here.

00:14:35.000 So the Boston Marathon bomber, remember him?

00:14:37.000 Yeah.

00:14:38.000 He's still alive.

00:14:39.000 The brothers, right?

00:14:40.000 Yeah, the brothers.

00:14:41.000 I thought they were dead.

00:14:43.000 I did too.

00:14:44.000 One of them died.

00:14:44.000 One of the brothers.

00:14:45.000 Yeah, but I thought they were both dead.

00:14:46.000 I thought they were both dead because hopefully we had killed them.

00:14:50.000 No.

00:14:51.000 Turns out we hadn't.

00:14:52.000 Turns out that that's frowned upon.

00:14:53.000 Still alive.

00:14:54.000 So on Friday, the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for the remaining Boston Marathon bomber.

00:15:00.000 The other Sarnev brother.

00:15:01.000 Here you go.

00:15:02.000 The Supreme Court has just reimposed the death sentence for Boston bomber Johar Sarnaev.

00:15:08.000 Now, you'll recall that he was convicted of planting one of two pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line.

00:15:15.000 His bomb killed two people.

00:15:18.000 Also, he's the reason that it's illegal.

00:15:20.000 Bed Bath has a new policy.

00:15:22.000 They changed their return policy because I would return everything.

00:15:25.000 They also changed their policy.

00:15:26.000 They don't send pressure cookers or Instapots to people named Sarnev.

00:15:30.000 Ah.

00:15:30.000 True.

00:15:31.000 They have a 30-day wait period for a pressure cooker.

00:15:33.000 No, no, they have a no wait period.

00:15:34.000 You can't get a pressure cooker.

00:15:36.000 Not anymore.

00:15:36.000 Especially if you show up with a bag of nails.

00:15:38.000 It's true.

00:15:39.000 Makes it even harder to get a pressure cooker.

00:15:41.000 If your name's Sarnev and you show up with a bag of nails, you're going home empty-handed.

00:15:45.000 Aside from the nails that you brought.

00:15:46.000 Well, yeah.

00:15:46.000 You can get a waffle maker.

00:15:48.000 Yeah, you can get a waffle maker.

00:15:49.000 If you want.

00:15:49.000 Not as effective.

00:15:50.000 But who wants that?

00:15:51.000 I get one as a gift and I'm like, do you even know me?

00:15:54.000 They're like, you can make everything in a waffle maker.

00:15:55.000 You can make sandwiches, or I can make a sandwich not in a waffle maker.

00:15:59.000 I love a sandwich maker.

00:16:00.000 It's like, this isn't a sandwich maker.

00:16:01.000 This is just a sandwich heater.

00:16:03.000 Yeah.

00:16:04.000 If I wanted to make a sandwich, I have to make the sandwich.

00:16:06.000 It's not a maker.

00:16:07.000 No, it doesn't make it at all.

00:16:08.000 It's just what you mean.

00:16:08.000 Oh, you mean it's like a panini press?

00:16:10.000 Oh boy.

00:16:10.000 Oh, that changes the entire dynamic.

00:16:12.000 Shut up. 0.95

00:16:12.000 Yeah. 0.95

00:16:13.000 I had a sandwich and then I burnt my face with the cheese.

00:16:15.000 It was great.

00:16:15.000 Thanks for the gift.

00:16:16.000 Thank you.

00:16:17.000 Sticks to the bottom of my throat.

00:16:18.000 There are only three things that burn your throat.

00:16:21.000 Like cheese from a panini.

00:16:23.000 Yes.

00:16:23.000 It's cheese from a panini.

00:16:24.000 Pizza rolls.

00:16:26.000 Well, I guess there's four.

00:16:27.000 Pop-Tart filling.

00:16:28.000 Pop-Tart filling is one of them.

00:16:30.000 And napalm.

00:16:31.000 And napalm, it's true, yeah.

00:16:32.000 And basically, it's... I mean, they're synonyms.

00:16:34.000 I'd rather have the napalm.

00:16:35.000 I'd rather have the napalm.

00:16:36.000 You ever eat a Pop-Tart that you left in for a little too long and you feel confident because there's like a cold pocket?

00:16:41.000 Yep.

00:16:41.000 And then you get to that middle hot pocket of the Pop-Tart and it's just... It sticks to your throat.

00:16:46.000 You can't do anything about it.

00:16:48.000 It's designed to trick you.

00:16:49.000 Yeah.

00:16:49.000 Because you're like, when I touch it, it feels so cool.

00:16:52.000 Yes.

00:16:52.000 And in the middle, in the middle is hell.

00:16:54.000 Lava.

00:16:56.000 But here's the thing with the Boston Marathon bomber.

00:16:58.000 A lot of people, and we'll do this as well with the Vegas shooting, but a lot of people are not aware of the fallout and just how many curious coincidences have taken place with our most trusted, our institutions in which I would never want to in any way break apart your faith.

00:17:16.000 So I want you to have faith in all of our institutions.

00:17:18.000 But this brings us to this week's Curious Coincidences.

00:17:36.000 Mark Wahlberg's going to hate this segment.

00:17:37.000 Oh yeah.

00:17:38.000 I did a movie on the Boston Marathon bomber, okay?

00:17:40.000 If I was there, I wouldn't have gone down like that, alright?

00:17:42.000 That's what I do.

00:17:43.000 I would have looked.

00:17:44.000 I wouldn't even have to throw hands.

00:17:46.000 Looked him one time in the face.

00:17:48.000 He would have said, I'm gonna stop the bombing, okay?

00:17:50.000 I'd say, good, that's a good decision.

00:17:52.000 I heard an Asian guy.

00:17:53.000 We just pretend that didn't happen.

00:17:54.000 Yeah.

00:17:55.000 I committed a hate crime against an Asian, okay? 1.00

00:17:58.000 I go to church now.

00:17:59.000 It's fine now.

00:18:00.000 So, curious coincidences with the Boston Marathon, you may not have noticed, the FBI initially denied ever knowing anything about the suspects.

00:18:08.000 But then Sarnoff's mother said that the FBI had in fact interviewed her son.

00:18:15.000 Tamerlane.

00:18:15.000 Prior to the bombing.

00:18:17.000 This is exactly what she said.

00:18:19.000 The FBI knew what he was doing on Skype and counseled him every step of the way.

00:18:24.000 They told me whatever information he is getting he gets from these extremist sites.

00:18:29.000 They were controlling him.

00:18:30.000 They were controlling his every step.

00:18:32.000 And now they say that this is a terrorist act.

00:18:35.000 Never ever is this true.

00:18:37.000 My sons are innocent.

00:18:38.000 Now I don't know if that's true because the last part certainly isn't.

00:18:42.000 Dzokhar Tsarnaev claimed that he and his brother made the bombs alone.

00:18:46.000 This was a claim that you probably heard.

00:18:48.000 The FBI originally said that there were no trace evidences of bomb making found in their homes, meaning powder, meaning materials, nothing at all.

00:18:58.000 Then nearly two years later, the FBI explosives analyst David McCallum, he said that the explosive residue was found at the brothers' apartment.

00:19:09.000 So from no evidence to lots of evidence, Uh, but then he also said that he could not determine where the bombs were made.

00:19:16.000 Maybe it's where you found the explosive residue?

00:19:20.000 I'd start looking at their apartment.

00:19:21.000 God, he would suck it.

00:19:22.000 Where's Waldo?

00:19:23.000 Now, something else.

00:19:24.000 Finally, the FBI suspected the brothers may have been trained by jihadis in Chechnya and Dagestan.

00:19:31.000 The FBI, though, apparently missed Sarnev's travels to those regions and countries because variants of his name and birth date were not logged at all.

00:19:41.000 So the FBI Couldn't keep track of what is effectively a fake ID that could be brought to a pub.

00:19:48.000 So that's been this week's Curious Coincidences.

00:19:52.000 The Curious Coincidences.

00:19:53.000 I guess we'll never know.

00:20:09.000 So now it's a death penalty?

00:20:10.000 Before it was the cover of Rolling Stone?

00:20:12.000 That's right, yes, the cover of Rolling Stone, which makes him like the 60th worst person to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

00:20:19.000 I think the Yoko John Lennon one was probably the worst for me.

00:20:23.000 Yeah.

00:20:23.000 Of course, do we have that?

00:20:24.000 Oh gosh.

00:20:25.000 Ugh.

00:20:26.000 Oh yeah.

00:20:28.000 Don't do that.

00:20:29.000 That's an oh no.

00:20:30.000 That'd be alright.

00:20:31.000 That is a very oh no.

00:20:32.000 He looks like a banana thrower in that.

00:20:34.000 And she doesn't even have, like, there's one thing, I will say this, I'm very open-minded with women, as far as I find all women attractive.

00:20:39.000 The only thing that I can't get past is if your glutes just look like a crevice with legs.

00:20:44.000 Like if it just looks like a crack.

00:20:46.000 Like, the coneheads, but only without the flap.

00:20:49.000 No, I don't know how he looked at her and was like, hmm, looks like somebody stole her ass. 0.98

00:20:52.000 I'd like to take a crack at that.

00:20:53.000 Yeah, looks like the kid at your son's birthday party.

00:20:55.000 I'll take this.

00:20:56.000 I'll take these.

00:20:57.000 Ass.

00:20:57.000 Can we bring that picture back up?

00:20:59.000 Ugh! 0.97

00:21:00.000 Looks like a spider monkey breastfeeding from her face. 1.00

00:21:04.000 He's on bath salt, Steven.

00:21:08.000 I will say, when the Boston Bomber guy was on there, I was like, is that a young Bob Dylan?

00:21:12.000 Is this a retro issue?

00:21:16.000 Here comes the story of the Boston Bowers. 0.88

00:21:19.000 No, you don't get to parody the song while you're committing a terrorist act.

00:21:23.000 Didn't he die shortly after that photo shoot?

00:21:25.000 Wasn't that one of the last?

00:21:26.000 Well, I hope.

00:21:27.000 I don't know.

00:21:27.000 How did he die?

00:21:29.000 I don't know.

00:21:30.000 With great pain!

00:21:31.000 I'm not a Beatles fan.

00:21:32.000 I hope you have great pain.

00:21:34.000 I hope it was extremely painful!

00:21:37.000 I was in a prison and as I escaped 20 men grabbed me and now I wear a mask.

00:21:41.000 You do the mask.

00:21:42.000 Yes!

00:21:43.000 Oh my face.

00:21:46.000 So many men.

00:21:49.000 It's not the weirdest thing.

00:21:51.000 Is that mask like, is it poison?

00:21:52.000 It keeps the pain at bay?

00:21:53.000 It does nothing!

00:21:55.000 It's still extremely painful.

00:21:57.000 It sort of keeps my jaw together after a long stay in prison.

00:22:01.000 I do not fear prison.

00:22:03.000 It's namely the penetration.

00:22:05.000 It hurts.

00:22:07.000 I can't chew anything since prison.

00:22:11.000 bananas you throw in my direction. If you blend the bananas it still hurts to eat. It still hurts to eat

00:22:18.000 because the straw requires movement from my jaw. The pain.

00:22:24.000 They lined up and I said no but they couldn't hear me because my mouth was full. You

00:22:31.000 think you're going to rape? 1.00

00:22:33.000 I was saved by it.

00:22:35.000 Molded by it.

00:22:38.000 Molded.

00:22:39.000 That's what I hope.

00:22:41.000 Molded in the darkness.

00:22:45.000 By the way, hey, smash that like button if you're watching on YouTube because we don't know what's going on.

00:22:49.000 Yeah, right now.

00:22:49.000 But the algorithms on YouTube.

00:22:51.000 Like.

00:22:53.000 Smash the like button, leave a comment, because if you type in the name of this show after the show, you can test it and you can comment below.

00:23:00.000 You won't find this show.

00:23:03.000 They're doing some things about this show.

00:23:05.000 Oh, it's hysterical.

00:23:06.000 If you type in the title of some of our videos, you won't find it on YouTube.

00:23:12.000 Which if they want to do, that's fine.

00:23:14.000 Just let everybody know that they shouldn't title their videos because there's no use in the title.

00:23:21.000 Yeah, or if you use certain words, it's like, we'll hide that one.

00:23:24.000 Right?

00:23:24.000 Does that happen?

00:23:25.000 I think it does.

00:23:26.000 Then they cross-reference.

00:23:27.000 Well, they can use CDC unless they line to just off-center of the political... You know what?

00:23:32.000 Let's just make sure that they can't be.

00:23:33.000 No, nobody needs to see that.

00:23:34.000 So you can also follow me on Instagram, by the way, because I'm on there, and apparently it's a ladder with Crowder.

00:23:39.000 Apparently we're still on TikTok.

00:23:40.000 I don't know how.

00:23:41.000 How is that possible?

00:23:42.000 We have to try really hard to get banned.

00:23:43.000 This is weird.

00:23:44.000 They're making us look bad now.

00:23:45.000 They're playing a game.

00:23:46.000 It's 3D chess.

00:23:47.000 Yeah.

00:23:48.000 That's the last time you make a fool out of me!

00:23:53.000 Please, just let me take a break for four minutes.

00:23:58.000 What a lovely, lovely horse!

00:24:04.000 Now, I don't know if you remember, this is something else that's been going on.

00:24:06.000 We're talking about, obviously, Russia, Ukraine has been happening.

00:24:09.000 And spoiler alert, I don't think we should be going to war.

00:24:12.000 But the mainstream media mocked Donald Trump.

00:24:15.000 And also, actually, they tried to paint him as an extremist and a Putin apologist for some of his comments about Vladimir Putin.

00:24:23.000 And then I'm going to give you some context and show you other people have said the exact same thing.

00:24:26.000 But they specifically went after President Donald Trump for his comments about Putin at CPEC.

00:24:31.000 Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando last night.

00:24:36.000 He condemned the invasion of Ukraine, but repeated his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:24:42.000 Steve, Donald Trump read the words they put in the teleprompter for him, saying that the invasion of Ukraine was bad, but he did not retract his comments about Vladimir Putin being a genius.

00:24:55.000 The idea that Putin understood he doesn't play games.

00:24:59.000 All Donald Trump does is play games.

00:25:01.000 He hosted a game show!

00:25:03.000 That's the funny part, right?

00:25:06.000 Well, it's better than the former vice president who can't play games.

00:25:10.000 Well, that's true.

00:25:11.000 You ever try to play Jenga with him?

00:25:12.000 He just falls down.

00:25:14.000 You don't even get three blocks up.

00:25:15.000 You don't even get three blocks.

00:25:16.000 Connect four.

00:25:17.000 He can't even assemble the Jenga.

00:25:18.000 No.

00:25:19.000 Try Go Fish.

00:25:20.000 Nothing.

00:25:20.000 Twister.

00:25:21.000 Try to play Guess Who?

00:25:22.000 It's just left with a picture of him.

00:25:25.000 And Ariana Areola.

00:25:28.000 So they're trying to say that Donald Trump praised Putin.

00:25:31.000 Look, here's what Donald Trump actually said.

00:25:35.000 Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart.

00:25:40.000 I said, of course he's smart, to which I was greeted with, oh, that's such a terrible thing to say.

00:25:46.000 I'd like to tell the truth.

00:25:47.000 Yes, he's smart.

00:25:50.000 The NATO nations, and indeed the world, as he looks over what's happening strategically, with no repercussions or threats whatsoever, they're not so smart.

00:26:04.000 They're looking the opposite of smart.

00:26:07.000 If you take over Ukraine, We're going to sanction you, they say.

00:26:12.000 Sanction?

00:26:13.000 Well, that's a pretty weak statement.

00:26:16.000 I love how, rather than say dumb, he goes with his first word and says the opposite of the word.

00:26:21.000 Yeah.

00:26:21.000 Like, listen, they say that they're, okay, they're not very smart.

00:26:25.000 They're the opposite of smart.

00:26:33.000 I'm not saying that Ted Cruz's dad killed JFK, but people say the opposite of him not killing JFK.

00:26:45.000 The opposite of what I say, are you saying that he killed JFK?

00:26:49.000 They say, we're not saying that he did not.

00:26:53.000 That's what they said?

00:26:54.000 Couldn't be guilty?

00:26:56.000 I think he's the opposite of guilty.

00:26:57.000 I think he's the opposite of guilty.

00:27:00.000 Okay?

00:27:00.000 Frankly.

00:27:01.000 Excuse me.

00:27:01.000 He's the opposite of that.

00:27:04.000 Excuse me.

00:27:04.000 No one's saying anything.

00:27:05.000 Excuse me.

00:27:06.000 He just says it for fun.

00:27:07.000 Why is it a bad thing to say somebody is smart or shrewd?

00:27:09.000 That's not praising them.

00:27:10.000 That is just calling it like you see it.

00:27:12.000 They could be an evil genius.

00:27:14.000 Yeah.

00:27:14.000 You ever heard the phrase?

00:27:15.000 Yeah.

00:27:15.000 They say you're smart all the time.

00:27:16.000 Yeah.

00:27:18.000 Well he rose to power, and he's obviously intelligent.

00:27:22.000 He's worked tens of billions of dollars.

00:27:24.000 He's one of the wealthiest people in the history of the world.

00:27:26.000 He basically got rid of all the legislative power that existed in his country, and I'm pretty sure he's had people whacked.

00:27:34.000 Oh, and they'd like him to call him stupid?

00:27:36.000 That would be the defense?

00:27:37.000 Yeah, he's just a dummy.

00:27:39.000 If he called him stupid, they would talk about Donald Trump underestimate.

00:27:42.000 Now here's the thing.

00:27:43.000 Let's first go to this, the hypocrisy here, because Sonny Hostin, who is ironically a host, I use that term loosely, with The View.

00:27:50.000 Yeah.

00:27:51.000 And when I watch The View, I always go like, oh, is this the remake of Hocus Pocus?

00:27:55.000 Is her name spelled Sonny?

00:27:57.000 Like S-U-N-N-Y? 1.00

00:27:58.000 Yes.

00:27:59.000 Yeah, Sonny.

00:28:00.000 Sonny.

00:28:01.000 I don't know, that hurts.

00:28:02.000 It does hurt, but... Sonny!

00:28:04.000 If it's like Sonny Green with an O... Maybe she'll go skiing.

00:28:07.000 Yeah.

00:28:09.000 We can...

00:28:12.000 Branches crossed.

00:28:13.000 Yeah.

00:28:13.000 All right.

00:28:14.000 Sonny Hostin of You said the exact same thing.

00:28:17.000 It was a strategic move by Putin.

00:28:21.000 I understand that people say he's a maniac, but maybe he's this kind of smart maniac, genocidal maniac, because when you take over a non-working nuclear plant but there's nuclear fuel inside it, amidst the threats that he has made about nuclear war and taking this nuclear, I think he's sending the message to everyone that not only can this get worse, it will get worse.

00:28:47.000 You know what's not smart is the Bridget Nielsen shoulder pads, okay? 0.74

00:28:53.000 So you might think it's smart, but it's the opposite of that.

00:28:59.000 Looking like you're on a chain gang in the 1950s.

00:29:02.000 Did she just say that he needed the nuclear fuel, basically, to make a threat to us when he has, I don't know, thousands of ICBMs?

00:29:09.000 Nuclear weapons.

00:29:09.000 Maybe a thousand hundreds of them.

00:29:10.000 That's what's gonna push him over the edge, is getting nuclear fuel in Ukraine. 0.58

00:29:13.000 All we have to do is go over here to Chernobyl, just free fuel.

00:29:17.000 Yes.

00:29:18.000 It's like, well, you have all of these No, no, no.

00:29:19.000 It's the Chernobyl stuff.

00:29:20.000 That's the good stuff.

00:29:22.000 Do you really think we need that, oh great president, oh great leader Putin?

00:29:27.000 Because we do have enough nuclear bombs to blow up country like Skynet five times over.

00:29:34.000 Better play it safe.

00:29:35.000 Go get one more.

00:29:36.000 All buttons for all bombs go on table.

00:29:38.000 That's why it is so long.

00:29:39.000 That's it.

00:29:39.000 You hit every button.

00:29:41.000 I even have a song about that so I remember.

00:29:43.000 All buttons go on table.

00:29:47.000 I like this shish kebab because the beef have good flavor.

00:29:51.000 And I push it.

00:29:52.000 Table is big.

00:29:54.000 Table is big.

00:29:55.000 That's two.

00:29:55.000 That's our song.

00:29:56.000 That's the rephrase.

00:29:57.000 Big table.

00:29:58.000 It's a rephrase to my bomb song.

00:30:00.000 Sunny Hostin, to be fair, her comments actually, and I'll say to be fair,

00:30:05.000 caused Joy Behar to have a very dramatic reaction.

00:30:07.000 Here's what she said.

00:30:21.000 You have to bring in the male AD. 1.00

00:30:29.000 Screaming racial slurs.

00:30:30.000 I mean, how should she know?

00:30:40.000 She only sits there every day for the last 20 years. 0.98

00:30:42.000 Yeah, she slides it out, slides it in.

00:30:44.000 Maybe today will be different and this chair will be... No, it still spins!

00:30:48.000 I just wanted to see the actual fall, though.

00:30:50.000 I was really hoping there was, you know, behind-the-scenes footage and we could slow it down.

00:30:55.000 We're all strong women!

00:30:56.000 Oh, I fell on the chair that swivels every day!

00:30:59.000 Please get a man to help me! 0.97

00:31:00.000 Oh, help me up! 0.89

00:31:02.000 Get a man! 1.00

00:31:03.000 I've fallen!

00:31:04.000 I broke my glasses!

00:31:05.000 He broke my glasses!

00:31:07.000 My shoes fell off.

00:31:09.000 Like Peggy from Lord of the Flies, someone steals her glasses and uses it to make fire?

00:31:13.000 I can't see without my glasses!

00:31:15.000 I was hurt, my feelings and my face.

00:31:18.000 Usually only my views are myopic!

00:31:21.000 Now...

00:31:22.000 Here's the thing.

00:31:24.000 He's saying that Putin, Donald Trump, President Donald Trump is saying that Putin is smart.

00:31:28.000 And if you listen to the comments, he's saying, you know, sanctions that don't mean anything without any teeth.

00:31:34.000 He's obviously implying that if you're going to take actions against Putin, they should be more severe.

00:31:39.000 That's not a guy who's saying, hey, I love Putin.

00:31:41.000 You don't say, hey, I want my friend.

00:31:44.000 To feel the full brunt of international military force.

00:31:46.000 You don't say that.

00:31:47.000 What he's saying is this is a guy who's pretty smart.

00:31:49.000 This is a guy who thinks ahead.

00:31:51.000 This is someone who you shouldn't underestimate.

00:31:53.000 Look, was Hitler dumb?

00:31:55.000 I don't like Hitler.

00:31:56.000 I'm saying this because... Not according to my tattoos.

00:31:58.000 Not according to yours.

00:31:59.000 Geez.

00:32:00.000 Which, by the way, we shouldn't have that on the chest.

00:32:02.000 Let's just turn it into... Let's turn it into a peace symbol doing cartwheels.

00:32:06.000 Okay.

00:32:06.000 Can I make it a kite?

00:32:07.000 Yes.

00:32:09.000 It is one of those issues where, why would you ever underestimate somebody?

00:32:13.000 Hitler, of all the issues that I have with Hitler, him having a low IQ is not, it's not at the top of my list.

00:32:19.000 I think you have to be sharp enough to commit a genocide like that.

00:32:23.000 And I think you have to be sharp enough, like Stalin, to effectively commit genocide, just based on class as opposed to based on a specific race or ethnicity of people. 0.60

00:32:31.000 So this idea that if you don't underestimate somebody, You are somehow praising him is silly, it's ill-advised, and it's what leads us to this kind of a conflict in the first place.

00:32:43.000 Remember someone said, now the 80s called, they want their foreign policy back.

00:32:49.000 And said Russia wasn't a threat, that was Barack.

00:32:51.000 He misunderestimated Putin.

00:32:55.000 And what happened?

00:32:56.000 Crimea.

00:32:58.000 Right?

00:32:59.000 What happened?

00:32:59.000 Joe Biden?

00:33:00.000 What happened?

00:33:00.000 Okay.

00:33:01.000 Ukraine.

00:33:02.000 We had Georgia under George W. Bush.

00:33:04.000 The only president who you can think of, the only president who praised Putin's intellect, not his moral fiber, is the only period of time where Putin didn't act up.

00:33:15.000 Also, this is something, a good parallel here is, you see this with athletes.

00:33:19.000 And the athletes who you see that stay at the top of their game for a very, very long time.

00:33:24.000 Meaning consistency, which is important.

00:33:26.000 I always judge athletes when people say, who's the best?

00:33:28.000 I think you have to look at people who are consistently the best over a period of time.

00:33:31.000 So I think, for example, in mixed martial arts, that would be Georges St-Pierre.

00:33:34.000 He was constantly emphatic about not underestimating his opponents.

00:33:41.000 I got humiliated and I've learned from that mistake because it taught me that I should never underestimate anybody.

00:33:50.000 There you go.

00:33:50.000 Now George St-Pierre is a perfect example.

00:33:52.000 A lot of people say he wasn't the best because he didn't have the crazy knockouts like Anderson Silva.

00:33:56.000 Well, no!

00:33:56.000 He wasn't a natural athlete.

00:33:57.000 He didn't have all these great attributes.

00:33:59.000 He wasn't that big for a welterweight.

00:34:00.000 But guess what?

00:34:01.000 He came in, the one thing that that athlete, for people who don't know or follow MMA, do research, he was known for having a master game plan.

00:34:09.000 He was able to take all of his opponents, who arguably could have been better fighters, to the place where they were weakest.

00:34:15.000 Because he would definitely take account of where are they strongest, okay?

00:34:20.000 This is where they are most capable.

00:34:21.000 Don't underestimate that.

00:34:22.000 This guy has really solid—I better take him down to the ground and put him where he's weakest and use my advantages.

00:34:27.000 That's why you have to accurately analyze and assess your enemies.

00:34:32.000 And of course, Putin is an enemy.

00:34:34.000 Enemy!

00:34:35.000 This is a perfect example of why people don't trust the media.

00:34:38.000 Don't blame Donald Trump or us for sowing mistrust in the institutions when you are blaming and raking President Trump over the coals simply for saying, don't underestimate this guy, he's pretty smart, and you obviously all agree with it because you're pretty pissed off about the situation in the Ukraine.

00:34:55.000 Yeah, and he's pretty well sized up his opponents in the world too, knowing that they're not really going All of the buttons fit on that table.

00:35:02.000 Every table has to fit all the buttons, just in case.

00:35:05.000 You never know when it's going to happen.

00:35:06.000 But he knows what the world's going to do, and he does it anyway because he's like, hey, I know exactly what they're going to do.

00:35:11.000 I'm not underestimating my opponents at all.

00:35:13.000 And I'm not praising him for that.

00:35:14.000 That's not praising him.

00:35:15.000 That's having a fair understanding of who you're dealing with.

00:35:18.000 Yeah.

00:35:19.000 You know who never underestimated his opponents?

00:35:21.000 Putin.

00:35:22.000 Putin looked at Trump.

00:35:23.000 Putin had to deal with Trump.

00:35:24.000 And despite the media lying about Russiagate and Russian spies and stealing the election, guess what?

00:35:28.000 Putin saw something in President Trump that he didn't want to play with.

00:35:31.000 He said, I'm going to wait this out.

00:35:32.000 He didn't see that in Barack Obama, and he certainly doesn't see that in President Joe Biden.

00:35:36.000 He saw President Joe Biden as weak enough that he could make a move.

00:35:39.000 And guess what?

00:35:40.000 Here we are.

00:35:41.000 And Trump knew how to deal with an egomaniac.

00:35:44.000 Yeah.

00:35:44.000 Because he's been in this business for how long?

00:35:47.000 Right.

00:35:47.000 He knew how to talk to him.

00:35:48.000 It's why he said like he says the opposite.

00:35:50.000 Right.

00:35:50.000 So he never hears the word dumb.

00:35:52.000 He only hears smart and reference to him.

00:35:53.000 Good point.

00:35:54.000 I mean that it makes perfect sense though.

00:35:55.000 Yeah.

00:35:56.000 It's also Bill Maher was kicked off of Politically Incorrect.

00:35:59.000 They canceled that show over a similar comment about the World Trade Center.

00:36:03.000 And it kind of shows you that the people in charge of television and media and everything they've always been about the divide regardless of political stance.

00:36:09.000 And that's kind of frightening to me because he said the same thing where he's like You can say that they're cowards or whatever, but you do have to worry about them.

00:36:16.000 Oh, which reminds me actually, if we can have the control room bring up, we got fact-checked by Reuters, and that is actually a great point.

00:36:21.000 Really?

00:36:21.000 Seriously?

00:36:22.000 The political divide.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, yeah, fact-checked on something that we never actually said.

00:36:24.000 Ah, so cool.

00:36:26.000 And I would love for you guys, you know, comment, that's one of the best things you can do for the algorithm, comment on if you think that Donald Trump is cheering Vladimir Putin, or if you think that he's a supporter of Vladimir Putin.

00:36:35.000 I'm willing to bet that I kind of know the answer.

00:36:38.000 But why do you think Donald Trump was saying what he said?

00:36:40.000 And why is it different than when someone on The View says it?

00:36:43.000 This is something that if you were an alien and you landed on this planet, you wouldn't be able to make sense of it.

00:36:48.000 No.

00:36:48.000 Okay.

00:36:49.000 Now let's move up to Joe Biden's failed foreign policy.

00:36:53.000 And specifically I want to focus, tomorrow we'll focus on Iran, tomorrow we'll focus on the devaluing of the dollar, because that affects everybody.

00:36:59.000 But I really wanted to focus today, especially considering what's going on with Venezuela, and gas prices. $3.89!

00:37:07.000 Today.

00:37:09.000 $3.89!

00:37:09.000 $3.69 yesterday!

00:37:10.000 I filled up this morning, too, and I have a pretty small tank in this car, and it's, like, $56.

00:37:14.000 I was like, wow!

00:37:16.000 Thanks, Joe Biden!

00:37:18.000 I take premium.

00:37:20.000 Oh, no.

00:37:20.000 Really?

00:37:21.000 Yeah.

00:37:21.000 Both my cars.

00:37:21.000 Oh, you get screwed.

00:37:23.000 I remember in 2008, there was a comedian, Rocky Laporte.

00:37:25.000 Do you know Rocky Laporte?

00:37:26.000 Yeah, I know Rocky.

00:37:27.000 And this was funny at that point in time, where he said, you know, they walk up when I'm in Jersey, because they fill your tank.

00:37:32.000 He says, hey, you want me to fill it up?

00:37:33.000 I said, nah, just put in, like, $80.

00:37:37.000 And at that point in time, it was an absurd enough number that everyone just got a roar from the crowd.

00:37:41.000 Now people are like, oh yeah, Haiti sounds good.

00:37:43.000 All of our California viewers right now are like, $3.89, that'd be fantastic.

00:37:46.000 Remember when you used to say five on one?

00:37:48.000 Yeah.

00:37:49.000 It's never going to happen again in your life.

00:37:51.000 Well, it happened under the first two years of Donald Trump.

00:37:53.000 Yeah, well, you would have gotten everywhere for $5.

00:37:55.000 I remember watching Dumb and Dumber, the second year of Donald Trump's presidency, and I saw in the film the gas price going, that's the same price as now!

00:38:03.000 I remember watching the same thing, where you're like, oh wow, these movies from the 90s are the same!

00:38:07.000 It's almost like inflation isn't happening!

00:38:09.000 And now you're like, oh, this is like Blade Runner.

00:38:11.000 Yes!

00:38:13.000 That took five minutes?

00:38:14.000 Yeah.

00:38:15.000 Jeez.

00:38:15.000 Yeah, you put five bucks in, you don't even make it to the out of the exit of the gas station.

00:38:19.000 And what I want to talk about with energy, look, wherever you line up, if you're an environmentalist or you are not, we're using oil.

00:38:27.000 Okay.

00:38:28.000 And I'll get to what former Vice President Joe Biden is doing right now to try and ensure that we're not maybe as dependent on Russian foreign oil.

00:38:37.000 But we are using oil.

00:38:38.000 We are not at the point where we are not using oil or petroleum products.

00:38:41.000 Okay?

00:38:41.000 Period.

00:38:41.000 That's just not the world that we live in.

00:38:43.000 It would be nice If we were at that point, I don't necessarily even know that it's necessary, certainly not anytime in the future, when we understand what really, especially now how we've refined petroleum, especially when we look at the more clean methods that we have for extracting it.

00:38:57.000 But that being said, it would be nice if we could run everything on sunshine and farts.

00:39:00.000 I get it.

00:39:00.000 Let's assume in a perfect world.

00:39:02.000 For real.

00:39:02.000 We're not in that world.

00:39:04.000 Joe Biden knows that we're not in that world.

00:39:06.000 The Democratic Party knows that we're not in that world.

00:39:10.000 And if we are in the world where we do use oil, if you want to not have to engage in foreign wars, if you want to help the American people, if you want to actually avoid destabilizing regions across the globe, we should be dependent on our own energy resources.

00:39:26.000 And here's the good news.

00:39:27.000 We can be.

00:39:29.000 Tomorrow.

00:39:30.000 There's no reason for us not to be.

00:39:32.000 Now, it'd be one thing if we didn't have the reserves, so we had to import oil.

00:39:36.000 Because we didn't.

00:39:37.000 That's not the case.

00:39:38.000 Which begs the question, we're using oil, we know that we need oil, we know that we need petroleum products, and we have enough to never require importing from anyone at all if we didn't want to, why are we still dependent?

00:39:51.000 And where are all the people who said no war for oil going to?

00:39:54.000 So, here's the thing.

00:39:55.000 Biden actually wants to open up potentially oil in, oh you think like a lot, no

00:40:01.000 Venezuela. So on Saturday US officials traveled to Venezuela to meet with members of

00:40:06.000 Nicolas Maduro's government and the going narrative is that they're seeking

00:40:11.000 to separate Caracas from Moscow. Here's what's interesting right, think 0.98

00:40:14.000 about this, I would not meet with Putin, you hear all this grandstanding.

00:40:18.000 You're meeting with Maduro?

00:40:20.000 Yeah, didn't he give a book to Obama?

00:40:22.000 And shook his hand?

00:40:23.000 And Sean Penn said it was unfair to say that he wasn't democratically elected and the United States is trying to vilify Maduro?

00:40:29.000 This is a man who starved his own people! 0.99

00:40:31.000 Yeah, well they had plenty of toilet paper, just no food.

00:40:33.000 He's every bit as corrupt and violent as Putin.

00:40:36.000 He's just, I mean, in an arguably even shittier country.

00:40:38.000 Well, Sean Penn will punch a photographer, but then he'll go meet El Chapo.

00:40:42.000 Right!

00:40:43.000 Your radar of dickhead is really something.

00:40:46.000 That's because I'm shooting a documentary on El Chapo.

00:40:51.000 Wrong one, Dad.

00:40:53.000 I like Crispin.

00:40:54.000 Here's the thing.

00:40:55.000 A lot of people are speculating, of course, that Biden is looking to Venezuelan oil as what?

00:41:00.000 A replacement for Russian oil!

00:41:03.000 That's the idea.

00:41:04.000 Russian imports.

00:41:05.000 So let me read this, actually.

00:41:07.000 Trish Reagan, a Fox Business presenter, wrote this.

00:41:11.000 It's not just U.S.

00:41:12.000 officials meeting in Venezuela right now, it's also key executives from major U.S.

00:41:16.000 oil companies, including Chevron.

00:41:18.000 This is real, folks.

00:41:19.000 If agreements are reached, we will replace Putin's oil with massive oil reserves from the Orinoco region of Venezuela.

00:41:27.000 So, hold on a second.

00:41:28.000 You're just trading one evil dictator for another!

00:41:32.000 Yeah.

00:41:32.000 He's just closer to home, so, you know, it's an easier dictator to work with.

00:41:37.000 Is it me?

00:41:38.000 You guys can comment.

00:41:39.000 How does anyone see this as a net gain?

00:41:42.000 No.

00:41:42.000 How can anyone complain about Vladimir Putin and say we need to put on sanctions and we need to freeze their assets?

00:41:47.000 Okay, we need to freeze their assets.

00:41:48.000 We need to make sure they can't conduct business.

00:41:49.000 By the way, there aren't sanctions on Russian oil right now.

00:41:52.000 No.

00:41:52.000 Just so you know.

00:41:52.000 Surprisingly so.

00:41:53.000 We're still importing oil and petroleum products from Russia, just so you know.

00:41:57.000 So let's assume that we at some point put a stop to that, which I would be all for, But rather than becoming dependent on our own resources, which we have, we just shift it to Venezuela.

00:42:10.000 Are you looking for the shittiest, most dictatorial countries?

00:42:16.000 Is that one of the prerequisites?

00:42:18.000 I think so.

00:42:20.000 Is oil really that bad that you have to go to a socialist?

00:42:22.000 Maybe it's because it's socialism and they think that's our people, right?

00:42:26.000 And we like socialists even though they just... We're only talking about replacing a small amount of oil according to the administration, right?

00:42:32.000 It's only like 10% or 8% of what we actually need.

00:42:35.000 I think 3% comes from Russia right now.

00:42:36.000 Well, 3%.

00:42:37.000 Well, that's not even as high as I thought it was, right?

00:42:39.000 Right.

00:42:39.000 So, you mean that it doesn't take turning on much of the oil supply in the United States to actually replace Russia?

00:42:45.000 Right.

00:42:45.000 That's what I'm hearing right now, because we're sending $70 million per day to Russia.

00:42:50.000 By the way, we're not sending it to Chevron, a company.

00:42:52.000 We're sending it to a state-run organization that sells oil.

00:42:56.000 Read that as the Kremlin.

00:42:58.000 It goes right into their pockets.

00:42:59.000 We're funding both sides of the conflict right now.

00:43:01.000 We're giving aid to Ukraine, and we're funding daily, when we could stop it if sanctions really were meant to stop this, tomorrow.

00:43:08.000 And we sent something around $17 billion to them last year.

00:43:11.000 Right!

00:43:11.000 We're funding the Russian state as they wage war against Ukraine, and then you bitch about how Donald Trump is praising Putin when Donald Trump was the one who wanted to make us... Well, we'll get to the stats on oil and Trump.

00:43:22.000 Hey guys, I've been in a fracking earthquake, thank you.

00:43:26.000 Allegedly, and I just want to let you know, I almost woke up.

00:43:29.000 Really?

00:43:30.000 Yeah, almost.

00:43:31.000 So this is... It's a good thing you have that adult-sized snooze crib.

00:43:34.000 Well, I do.

00:43:35.000 The white noise and it gently rocks them because it mimics the womb. 0.82

00:43:39.000 I roll out of bed without it.

00:43:43.000 I got my feet stuck in the bars.

00:43:46.000 I got my head stuck in the bars.

00:43:48.000 Well, you know.

00:43:49.000 It's like, is this jail?

00:43:52.000 You're not a Sarnev. 0.79

00:43:53.000 Oh no!

00:43:54.000 My head's stuck!

00:43:55.000 It's like I'm totally exposed!

00:43:57.000 This is going to be extremely painful!

00:43:59.000 I'll be here a while.

00:44:00.000 Now, okay, so Venezuela, you say, well that's one country.

00:44:03.000 Alright, sure, that's one.

00:44:05.000 I don't want to take just one extreme example to make a point because we're not allowing us to... By the way, like you're talking about...

00:44:11.000 As far as 3%, how much of the United States, of our reserves, would you need to... It'd be the equivalent to the amount that you turn on your tap just so the pipes don't break.

00:44:21.000 That's about as much oil as we could just open up here in the United States to no longer even have to worry about Russia.

00:44:27.000 That's the new hashtag.

00:44:28.000 Trickle the tap, Joe!

00:44:29.000 Trickle the tap.

00:44:31.000 That's all we need.

00:44:33.000 Shut off Russia. 0.92

00:44:33.000 You know what? 0.92

00:44:34.000 Sweetie, pick up my Flomax.

00:44:35.000 Oh no.

00:44:36.000 Tell Hunter to stop trickling his tab.

00:44:37.000 Yeah.

00:44:38.000 It's not a trickle.

00:44:40.000 It's more of a dribble.

00:44:42.000 So, we also do know for sure, we don't know for sure if they're going to Venezuela for oil, but I can guess, but we do know beyond any shadow of a doubt that this administration is going to Saudi Arabia.

00:44:54.000 Oh.

00:44:55.000 For oil.

00:44:56.000 They're discussing, in the spring, pumping more oil.

00:44:59.000 So, let's just be clear, this is a Saudi Arabia who the left blamed Donald Trump, right?

00:45:04.000 They said that he was awful because he didn't condemn them enough with, I can't pronounce the name, Al-Khashoggi.

00:45:09.000 Something like that.

00:45:10.000 The journalist who was killed, yeah.

00:45:10.000 The journalist.

00:45:12.000 By the way, to be clear, not a fan of the Saudis. 0.85

00:45:14.000 Killed, dismembered, and taken out of there.

00:45:17.000 Can I say Saudis or is that racist?

00:45:18.000 Is Saudis the equivalent to like, it used to be Pakistani but then you can't say Pakis?

00:45:22.000 I'm gonna assume it's racist just because everything is, right?

00:45:25.000 What's the Saudi royal family?

00:45:27.000 So you can say Saudi.

00:45:28.000 Oh, I guess you can say Saudi.

00:45:29.000 Okay.

00:45:31.000 I don't know.

00:45:31.000 Can I say Saudi?

00:45:33.000 Can someone fact check that for me?

00:45:34.000 I just want to make sure that I know as I'm offending people because I'm going to continue to use it anyway.

00:45:39.000 So the left decided that Saudi Arabia, remember Michael Moore did all this about Saudis, right?

00:45:44.000 Oh, I like him.

00:45:45.000 George W. Bush, yes.

00:45:46.000 George W. Bush is a matter of fact.

00:45:46.000 Oh, he's good.

00:45:50.000 What do you mean I can't have four patties?

00:45:56.000 Just act like it's on your secret menu, sir.

00:45:59.000 We can't do that at the same price.

00:46:01.000 We'll go bankrupt.

00:46:02.000 It's a triple Big Mac.

00:46:04.000 I'm making that for you.

00:46:05.000 It's a ridiculous sandwich.

00:46:08.000 So we can hear your cholesterol numbers increasing from here.

00:46:11.000 That's just the cushion on my... I have to wear beads on my chair.

00:46:16.000 How do I still have feet?

00:46:20.000 So let me give you an idea.

00:46:22.000 In 2021, the United States imported about 709,000 barrels of petroleum products per day from Russia.

00:46:28.000 Okay?

00:46:29.000 Sounds like a lot.

00:46:30.000 Now here's also the major point, and we'll get into prices and we'll get into what kind of reserves we have here and why, if you're an environmentalist, you actually want us to be dependent on oil.

00:46:40.000 Let me be careful with the word.

00:46:41.000 You don't want us to be dependent on oil.

00:46:43.000 I understand that.

00:46:44.000 But you want us to use oil that is produced domestically if you are an environmentalist.

00:46:49.000 You can't just say, well, I don't want us to use oil.

00:46:51.000 Well, we do.

00:46:52.000 That's not on the table.

00:46:53.000 Let's be clear about that.

00:46:54.000 What's better for the environment?

00:46:55.000 Us using our own oil with our extraction methods.

00:46:59.000 And, geopolitically, not being dependent on nations who either, A, want to kill us, or B, kill their own people, or C, just declare themselves princes because apparently you're allowed to do that in Saudi Arabia and it's silly.

00:47:12.000 I'm a prince.

00:47:14.000 If I hear one more person tell me how impressive Dubai or Abu Dhabi is, it's like, yeah, it was built by slaves, sorry, indentured servants, and some guy takes the money because he's a prince.

00:47:23.000 There was only one prince, and he died.

00:47:25.000 Yeah, whatever.

00:47:26.000 Don't you dare insult prince.

00:47:29.000 Not.

00:47:29.000 I would never do that.

00:47:29.000 Yeah, you would never do that.

00:47:30.000 Good.

00:47:31.000 No, we just want to be clear about this.

00:47:32.000 So here's one thing.

00:47:32.000 Remember when Trump was mocked?

00:47:34.000 President Trump was mocked because he said that he wasn't, I think everyone knows he was a non-interventionist.

00:47:39.000 Yeah.

00:47:39.000 And that's a big problem now, where people say, oh, he didn't do enough to go after Putin, right?

00:47:43.000 So I'm always wondering where Code Pink went, where they said, no war for oil, no war, period.

00:47:47.000 They disappeared under Barack Obama with more drone strikes than any president in history.

00:47:51.000 And they kind of reappear with Donald Trump saying, hey, Donald Trump, he's not doing enough going after Putin.

00:47:55.000 I guess rage against the machine, and I guess no effects.

00:47:58.000 I guess all the punk rock bands now are on board with all Democrats and all Republicans, by the way, two sides of the same coin, who want to restart the war machine, basically All of you people out there, all you punk rock rebels, you're in the same boat as, well, former Vice President Biden, Kamala Harris, Lawrence O'Donnell, and John Bolton.

00:48:19.000 Good company.

00:48:20.000 So here's what Donald Trump said about war.

00:48:22.000 He said that he would only go in, and he was mocked, he was excoriated for this, if he takes the oil.

00:48:29.000 ISIS is making a tremendous amount of money because they have certain oil camps, right?

00:48:33.000 They have certain areas of oil that they took away.

00:48:35.000 They have some in Syria, some in Iraq.

00:48:38.000 I would bomb the sh** out of them.

00:48:43.000 And that's right.

00:48:44.000 I'd blow up the pipes.

00:48:45.000 I'd blow up the refineries.

00:48:46.000 I'd blow up every single inch.

00:48:48.000 There would be nothing left.

00:48:49.000 And you know what?

00:48:52.000 You'll get Exxon to come in there in two months.

00:48:54.000 You ever see these guys, how good they are?

00:48:56.000 The great oil companies?

00:48:57.000 They'll rebuild that sucker brand new.

00:48:59.000 It'll be beautiful.

00:48:59.000 And I'd ring it, and I'd take the oil.

00:49:02.000 And I said, I'll take the oil.

00:49:06.000 And this is something that he was even asked, I believe, in the 2012 primary.

00:49:08.000 And he said, I would only go into these countries if we take the oil.

00:49:12.000 I don't think you realize that until really the 20th century, that was every war ever.

00:49:17.000 When we're talking about war right now with Russia and Ukraine, that's not even something that an empire could have comprehended.

00:49:23.000 You mean there's these two nations that are warring across and it has nothing to do with us?

00:49:26.000 No, we're not going to get involved.

00:49:28.000 We only get involved if we take their stuff.

00:49:30.000 There had never been a country, never been an empire, that would win a war and leave the shit.

00:49:39.000 Just to be clear, do you know what a war for oil looks like when people talk about Iraq, when people talk about even Desert Storm?

00:49:47.000 We left.

00:49:48.000 Do you know what a war for oil looks like?

00:49:49.000 It's surround the oil fields, provide air support, protect it at all costs, and take the oil.

00:49:54.000 We packed up and left.

00:49:55.000 And by the way, after Desert Storm, you ended up with the absolute travesty that was Saddam Hussein. 0.95

00:49:59.000 You went back and you guys complained about it.

00:50:01.000 Rightfully so.

00:50:02.000 But you want to do the same thing with the Ukraine.

00:50:04.000 Hold on a second.

00:50:04.000 You were against going into Iraq, which what?

00:50:06.000 Involved liberating the Iraqi people from a leader who was killing some of his own people?

00:50:10.000 You said we shouldn't have been there, it wasn't our business, but now you want us to go to the Ukraine?

00:50:13.000 Let's just try and be consistent here.

00:50:15.000 Now as far as oil, Gas, $3.89 today.

00:50:19.000 Today!

00:50:20.000 In Texas, where that doesn't happen.

00:50:22.000 Yesterday it was $3.69.

00:50:22.000 This is my anecdotal experience, but you can also look at the average gas prices and how they've increased.

00:50:27.000 The highest ever average gas price in Texas happened in 2008, $3.99.

00:50:32.000 We're so close.

00:50:32.000 $3.99 a gallon.

00:50:33.000 So we're right there.

00:50:38.000 Or in today's dollars, $78.13.

00:50:40.000 In Biden dollars.

00:50:44.000 What's that in rupels?

00:50:46.000 We don't sell rupels anymore.

00:50:48.000 Our currency is measured in table length.

00:50:51.000 Measured in nukes, actually.

00:50:53.000 This grapefruit costs 98-inch table.

00:50:58.000 Oh, that is some great fruit.

00:51:01.000 Well, I don't want to part with this table, but how much for pomegranate?

00:51:04.000 Well, you need table size of four football field lengths. 0.93

00:51:09.000 Deal.

00:51:09.000 That's a good fruit.

00:51:10.000 But my body needs the antioxidants.

00:51:12.000 Okay, bring in the hardwood.

00:51:14.000 This one's very nice.

00:51:15.000 It's a fruit wood.

00:51:16.000 Strawberry wood.

00:51:16.000 Yes.

00:51:18.000 So, under Donald Trump, in Texas, the average oil price never went above $3.

00:51:23.000 Average gas price, yeah.

00:51:25.000 Yeah, the average gas price.

00:51:26.000 Sorry, the average gas price.

00:51:27.000 I'm getting oil and gas.

00:51:28.000 Oil and gas, I mean, it's, you know.

00:51:29.000 And we had many, many, many, many months where, you know, it was well under $2.

00:51:33.000 Oh yeah.

00:51:34.000 Oh, it was quite a while.

00:51:36.000 I remember seeing that and thinking, Newt Gingrich is an idiot.

00:51:39.000 Because Newt Gingrich said, I'm going to run my campaign on $2 gas.

00:51:42.000 Well, OK, that was one component of what Donald Trump did.

00:51:45.000 That's all you were going to do?

00:51:46.000 That and bring back, try and create a real Jurassic Park?

00:51:49.000 Newt?

00:51:50.000 Yeah.

00:51:50.000 Well, look, is it any surprise from the group that thinks that gas prices need to be higher so that we'll transition off of oil products and go on to clean energy products?

00:52:00.000 Like, that's exactly what they've been doing.

00:52:01.000 Force people to buy smaller cars?

00:52:06.000 Not only gas, by the way, petroleum, with this plastic, if you're watching this on a screen television, petroleum.

00:52:13.000 You have earring clips, petroleum, likely.

00:52:16.000 Just to be clear, I don't think people have any idea as to how many of their products require petroleum, let alone gas.

00:52:22.000 All of your food has to be transported.

00:52:25.000 So when that gas price goes up 20 cents in a day, what do you think?

00:52:28.000 Look at the price of beef.

00:52:30.000 It creates inflation across the board, which Biden now said he's going to bring down by lowering prices.

00:52:34.000 Hold on a second.

00:52:34.000 How?

00:52:35.000 Why would you want to bring inflation down when you said inflation was a good thing three weeks ago?

00:52:39.000 Well, and how are you going to mandate lower prices?

00:52:42.000 I'm just gonna come in and tell.

00:52:43.000 What, you're gonna shake him down like Putin does?

00:52:44.000 Wonderful.

00:52:45.000 Oh, there we go.

00:52:46.000 Well, everything that you're looking at was made by something that they found on Earth.

00:52:49.000 Right.

00:52:50.000 Yeah.

00:52:51.000 Just pointing that out.

00:52:52.000 And sometimes it's messy to make.

00:52:53.000 Yeah.

00:52:54.000 Everything.

00:52:55.000 Can you imagine this was just forests and stuff, and now we have iPhones?

00:52:58.000 That's just from stuff here.

00:53:00.000 Bananas! 0.93

00:53:00.000 That's just from stuff here. 0.93

00:53:01.000 People don't even realize that a big part of that is because of factory farms.

00:53:03.000 That's why there are more trees right now than recorded human history.

00:53:06.000 Why?

00:53:06.000 Because not everybody has to have a farm!

00:53:08.000 Well, because you can actually take down a forest and then replace it, and then take down another and replace.

00:53:13.000 Right.

00:53:15.000 Plus, we can also just leave the forest because I can just go to Kroger and get the same thing.

00:53:18.000 I don't need a plot of land.

00:53:19.000 Also- Drainage ditches.

00:53:20.000 I don't know anything about drainage ditches.

00:53:22.000 Plows.

00:53:22.000 Also, I don't care about rainforests.

00:53:24.000 Have you seen the animals there?

00:53:26.000 I don't want to do- Spiders and stuff?

00:53:28.000 No, thank you.

00:53:28.000 And annoying bats.

00:53:29.000 Snakes.

00:53:29.000 Burn them.

00:53:30.000 Annoying bats with Robin Williams voices.

00:53:32.000 I don't care for that at all.

00:53:33.000 They sing.

00:53:34.000 Fern gully sucked. 1.00

00:53:35.000 Yeah, it was not a magic rainforest.

00:53:37.000 No.

00:53:37.000 Imaginably unacceptable.

00:53:38.000 In case you've forgotten, remember, the big chant against our wars for a long time was

00:53:43.000 what, what, the words, no war for oil.

00:53:50.000 None of the behind the scenes planning for Iraq's oil is publicly known and the administration

00:53:55.000 leaves oil out of the public conversation altogether.

00:53:58.000 Masks!

00:53:59.000 But a large segment of the American public suspects that oil is a motive.

00:54:05.000 No blood for oil becomes an anti-war battle cry.

00:54:08.000 No more blood for oil! 0.82

00:54:09.000 US off Iraqi soil! 0.89

00:54:11.000 No more blood for oil! 0.82

00:54:13.000 US off Iraqi soil! 0.89

00:54:15.000 No blood for oil! 0.99

00:54:17.000 We the problems in the world!

00:54:19.000 No blood for oil! 0.99

00:54:21.000 Scooby-Doo?

00:54:23.000 You guys wearing the Dumb and Dumber suit?

00:54:25.000 Yeah, he's just got... Why is he wearing... He's got the bullhorn in the orange, the guy's got the powder blue with the sign.

00:54:33.000 Gotta coordinate.

00:54:34.000 By the way, a lot of people worked hard on those signs.

00:54:37.000 A lot harder than other people in the group.

00:54:38.000 Yeah.

00:54:39.000 Hey, by the way, no petroleum products involved in the Sharpies for those signs, or the camera that you used, or the backpack that you carried down there, or regardless... I didn't drive, I took public translate... public transport.

00:54:49.000 What does that run on?

00:54:50.000 What is that run on?

00:54:52.000 Can you tell me?

00:54:53.000 It's more people in it.

00:54:54.000 Oh, good.

00:54:55.000 Oh, wait till you hit 2022 and it's all about germs.

00:54:55.000 Yes.

00:54:57.000 And the point that I want to make here is, look, people often say, oh, you're being an ideologue.

00:55:02.000 There's nothing more exemplary of an ideologue than someone just saying, well, we should just be on clean energy, like Jen Psaki said.

00:55:08.000 Well, we don't want to open our reserves because we want to transition to green energy.

00:55:11.000 Yeah, but at the same time, you're meeting with Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

00:55:15.000 Now, how about this?

00:55:15.000 Instead of replacing Russian oil with that, we could, while still trying to pursue green energy, whatever that means, here are some practical things we could do.

00:55:24.000 Don't want to be a John Oliver and just bitch and not provide you a solution. 1.00

00:55:26.000 There you go.

00:55:26.000 We could open up Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL.

00:55:29.000 That worked.

00:55:29.000 By that same token, still expand fracking, by the way, which is actually a much safer way to extract resources.

00:55:34.000 And I'm talking about oil, of course, and natural gas, all of this, all of the energy that we need.

00:55:37.000 We could explore Arctic reserves in Alaska.

00:55:39.000 I don't know if you know this, not a whole lot of shit to do in Alaska if not use the oil.

00:55:43.000 We could sell onshore drilling leases for oil.

00:55:46.000 We could reduce some regulations that don't allow people to actually open up more onshore drilling or offshore drilling.

00:55:53.000 Basically, we could allow more people to access the current unbelievably rich energy reserves that we have.

00:56:00.000 And by the way, here's something else, too.

00:56:01.000 If I'm not mistaken, isn't it true that former Vice President Joe Biden, he's the first president to... he hasn't allowed any new onshore drilling leases?

00:56:11.000 I don't know, you guys can bring that up.

00:56:12.000 Every time they get asked that question, they talk about the offshore stuff.

00:56:15.000 Right.

00:56:16.000 So a tweet right now that's been gaining traction, this is right now trending.

00:56:19.000 At the moment that I am discussing this, for people who are watching the archive, it is 11.26 Eastern.

00:56:28.000 This is gaining traction right now on Twitter that the U.S.

00:56:30.000 is pumping more oil under Biden than under Donald Trump.

00:56:33.000 Now, unfortunately, I always start from the fact that someone's massaging the numbers, like economists.

00:56:38.000 Like when the Biden administration said, actually, inflation isn't that bad.

00:56:43.000 And they said, well, actually, inflation is a good thing.

00:56:45.000 And they said, and actually, now we're just going to bring down inflation by forcing them to reduce prices.

00:56:47.000 Well, why would you need to bring down a good thing?

00:56:49.000 None of it makes sense.

00:56:50.000 So I assumed there was some truth to this tweet.

00:56:53.000 Trying to go, well, maybe it's because of residual sort of effects from the previous policies, or maybe it was a supply and demand issue because of the pandemic and people weren't traveling a whole lot.

00:57:01.000 Well, it turns out it's just a lie.

00:57:03.000 Really?

00:57:03.000 It's just an inaccurate tweet that has thousands of retweets and likes.

00:57:07.000 So right now I have this from CNBC.

00:57:09.000 2019, they're pumping out $12.29 million per day.

00:57:11.000 In 2020, $11.28 million per day.

00:57:17.000 2021, 11.18 million per day, so it's consistently been going down.

00:57:20.000 And under Biden, the percentage of U.S.

00:57:22.000 oil imports from Russia has hit a two-decade high.

00:57:27.000 So one guy says, hey, hey, hey, listen, Putin's not an idiot.

00:57:31.000 Don't underestimate him.

00:57:32.000 And Biden goes, I think Putin's a moron.

00:57:35.000 Sure.

00:57:35.000 How much did you say that oil was?

00:57:37.000 That's incredible.

00:57:39.000 That is absolutely incredible that it's gone down that much, and they're still out there parroting that we are still a net exporter of petroleum products.

00:57:47.000 No, they're staying it right now because of natural gas.

00:57:47.000 We were!

00:57:50.000 Insane.

00:57:50.000 Right.

00:57:50.000 Yeah.

00:57:51.000 Right?

00:57:51.000 They're lumping everything together to make it look better than it is.

00:57:55.000 And, hey, we have plenty of offshore drilling leases.

00:57:56.000 There's about 2,000, Pisaki said.

00:57:58.000 I always have to say the P. Yeah. 0.99

00:58:00.000 That are not being used right now.

00:58:01.000 Yeah, it's not silent.

00:58:01.000 It's right there.

00:58:02.000 It's right there.

00:58:02.000 Right?

00:58:02.000 It's like, oh, well, what about onshore?

00:58:05.000 What about that?

00:58:05.000 Because we don't have a lot of luck offshore with the issues that you think happen all the time in oil with things blowing up and loiking into the Gulf.

00:58:13.000 Drive a Tesla, Doocy!

00:58:14.000 Stop asking questions!

00:58:16.000 We don't want to hurt the environment of America with jobs.

00:58:19.000 Yes.

00:58:21.000 Because we should trust Venezuela, we should trust China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to do it right.

00:58:26.000 Yes, they have much more stringent regulation standards.

00:58:32.000 Oh boy, yeah, we better make sure our energy extraction is clean because of EPA.

00:58:37.000 Oh no, it's gonna blow, just throw 100 people in.

00:58:40.000 Oh by the way, while you're doing slalom at Olympics, just be sure to bring your umbrella from oil coming out of factory.

00:58:46.000 Sorry, it's more coal.

00:58:48.000 You ever see October sky?

00:58:50.000 We should just go to different parts of Africa.

00:58:51.000 I hear they're, you know, maybe General Butt Naked.

00:58:54.000 That was a real guy.

00:58:55.000 Could sell some oil.

00:58:56.000 Yeah, let's see what Kony's selling him for right now.

00:58:58.000 I wonder what it would cost to soak a tire in it and put it around someone's neck.

00:59:01.000 Let's go to those places.

00:59:02.000 And burn the tires.

00:59:03.000 See what happens.

00:59:04.000 That's what they do.

00:59:04.000 For real, though.

00:59:05.000 I know.

00:59:05.000 Oh, I know.

00:59:05.000 It's terrible.

00:59:06.000 Now, you're using everyone kind of understands that energy independence energy it's vital

00:59:10.000 for national security.

00:59:12.000 And again, what this comes down to, and I hope people understand, I'm not saying that

00:59:15.000 it's a good thing that Americans use more oil, and I want us to use more oil, and I

00:59:19.000 want us to destroy the environment.

00:59:21.000 I think it's overblown as to how much the use of fossil fuels destroys the environment.

00:59:25.000 That being said, I also understand that you can only negotiate from a position of strength

00:59:30.000 if you are not dependent on someone else.

00:59:33.000 You can't negotiate with tyrants if you are beholden to tyrants because you refuse to use the resources that you have at home.

00:59:40.000 That's just simple international diplomacy 101.

00:59:43.000 So, you know who else understands this?

00:59:45.000 Elon Musk, speaking of Africa there.

00:59:47.000 I found out his accent is African.

00:59:49.000 I was always trying to determine what it was.

00:59:50.000 Was it really?

00:59:51.000 He said, I hate to say it, but we need to increase oil and gas output immediately.

00:59:57.000 Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.

00:59:59.000 Here's the thing, the one thing I disagree with is, I don't really think that that's extraordinary measures!

01:00:03.000 That just makes sense.

01:00:04.000 I don't really think, like, hey, guys, can you clean up that naturally oozing puddle of oil with, like, can you grab a ShamWow or something and instead just be like, hey, we could use that.

01:00:16.000 Yeah.

01:00:16.000 I don't think that's an extreme measure.

01:00:18.000 I think it's an entirely reasonable measure.

01:00:20.000 You know what his other tweet was?

01:00:21.000 And we didn't pull this yet, but it was that Europe needed to ramp up nuclear facilities.

01:00:27.000 Now.

01:00:28.000 Oh boy.

01:00:28.000 Because it's clean.

01:00:30.000 Oh no!

01:00:30.000 It's actually clean energy.

01:00:32.000 And he said, if you're worried about this, he's like, I will go to any place on the planet that you say is infected with, you know, radiation or whatever, and I will eat produce produced there, live on television.

01:00:43.000 He's willing to call people's bluff.

01:00:44.000 He's like, I did it with Fukushima.

01:00:45.000 Wait, hold on a second.

01:00:45.000 He'll eat produce?

01:00:46.000 He's saying, like, that area has been, you know, tainted with radiation poisoning or something like that.

01:00:50.000 He's like, fine, I'll go eat something that was grown in that area just to show you that your concerns are overblown.

01:00:57.000 But don't make him angry.

01:00:57.000 He's pushing it.

01:00:58.000 Because then he turns into Hulk Musk!

01:01:00.000 That's right.

01:01:02.000 I can no longer fit in a Tesla X!

01:01:04.000 I'll never go to space!

01:01:06.000 This is a Tesla Triple X. So big!

01:01:09.000 Michael Moore edition.

01:01:10.000 Yeah, flamethrowers and headlights.

01:01:14.000 It just devolves for me.

01:01:16.000 Mad Elon.

01:01:17.000 Here's the thing.

01:01:18.000 If a nation is not completely autonomous as it relates to resources, you will have to go to war for resources.

01:01:25.000 And a lot of people don't understand this.

01:01:27.000 You know, we talked about, for example, during the pandemic, the lockdowns and people not being allowed to work.

01:01:33.000 Well, let's look at what that is.

01:01:35.000 What is it?

01:01:36.000 What action are you taking when you tell someone they have to stay home, when you tell them that they cannot conduct their business?

01:01:42.000 right? Otherwise they will face the force of government.

01:01:46.000 You are removing their ability to make a living to feed their family. Guess what? Wars

01:01:51.000 were fought over that. Period. When you tell somebody, hey, you know what? Actually, you're not going to

01:01:56.000 be allowed to be dependent on your own resources. It could be farming. It could be whatever

01:02:02.000 they need to process food.

01:02:04.000 It could be hunting grounds.

01:02:05.000 You can't, guess what?

01:02:06.000 People go to war.

01:02:08.000 And not just the United States.

01:02:09.000 Look at the Native American tribes.

01:02:10.000 When people say give the land back, for example, Black Hills, they go, which one?

01:02:13.000 Do you have any idea how many tribes have controlled different portions of land at different points and do you know why they fought it?

01:02:19.000 Partly because some of the tribes were cruel, they would do it for sport, but a big part was resources.

01:02:24.000 Land.

01:02:25.000 If there was land that was fertile, they would fight you for that land because it made it easier to provide for their family, and we're just too far removed from this because we've had it pretty soft for a good amount of time.

01:02:36.000 I don't know if you know this, but remember, access to oil in Dutch East Indies, that was a huge factor that led to the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor.

01:02:43.000 It's not that far back!

01:02:44.000 No, no, no.

01:02:44.000 We cut them off, and they did the math.

01:02:46.000 They knew that if we had cut them off, that we were 80% of their supply, and we were about to go to modern-day Indonesia and cut them off for the rest of their supply. 0.98

01:02:53.000 Yeah.

01:02:53.000 Well, we have to bomb now.

01:02:55.000 I'm not saying they were right to do it.

01:02:55.000 Right.

01:02:56.000 Don't get me wrong.

01:02:57.000 But they did the math and realized, we're going to have to fight this.

01:03:00.000 Otherwise, we will never have the ability.

01:03:02.000 I always wonder if those first Kamikazes who came over actually saw the kinds of fleets that we had at that point and were like, oh shit! 1.00

01:03:11.000 Everybody can't turn back because he doesn't have the oil reserves in his tanks at that point.

01:03:15.000 He's like, take a hard left turn!

01:03:17.000 No, just, you're in it now!

01:03:20.000 The fuel gauge was at Kamikaze setting, one way trip.

01:03:24.000 You've got just enough to get there.

01:03:26.000 I hit the auto safety land.

01:03:26.000 Good luck.

01:03:28.000 Oh no, it's an auto... It's not an auto pirate at all!

01:03:33.000 No!

01:03:34.000 Yeah, they were all remote controlled.

01:03:35.000 I thought that was a bad pirate.

01:03:40.000 Just the Japanese emperor with an RC remote.

01:03:45.000 Tried to pull up.

01:03:46.000 Don't pull up!

01:03:48.000 You pull up, it just goes down?

01:03:49.000 Yeah.

01:03:50.000 He just told them all that none of the rights is left.

01:03:50.000 No.

01:03:53.000 Kamikaze stand for soldier who is super cool.

01:03:56.000 My brain go by itself.

01:04:00.000 Go kamikaze, I'm in a super cool.

01:04:03.000 How come none of the people that go before us come back?

01:04:06.000 Oh, don't worry.

01:04:07.000 Oh, they're on a vacation.

01:04:09.000 Yes.

01:04:10.000 They're on a break after being super cool.

01:04:13.000 They all ranted in Hawaii, having fun.

01:04:13.000 Yes.

01:04:19.000 Have a great time.

01:04:20.000 Enjoy.

01:04:21.000 Welcome with open arms.

01:04:22.000 Yes.

01:04:23.000 You go.

01:04:24.000 Yes, say bye to your family.

01:04:26.000 Okay family, I'm about to go.

01:04:32.000 Be super cool!

01:04:34.000 Bye super cool dad!

01:04:35.000 See you soon!

01:04:38.000 And then a kid doesn't realize what happened.

01:04:39.000 He's just mad that his dad's not spending enough time with him.

01:04:40.000 He's Japanese, Harry Chapin.

01:04:42.000 And a cat and a cradle and a super cool.

01:04:44.000 He said, have you read that?

01:04:45.000 Better boy cool.

01:04:47.000 When you coming home, dad, I don't know when, but you're like a super cool dad.

01:04:53.000 Oh, you're a super cool.

01:04:54.000 It's now a South Park episode.

01:04:56.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:04:59.000 My dad was just like me.

01:05:01.000 By the way, if you think the United States is impervious to these demands, remember,

01:05:10.000 the reason that we're talking with Venezuela and we're talking with Saudi Arabia is that

01:05:12.000 the United States uses nearly 20 million barrels of oil per day.

01:05:18.000 China's number two at about 12.75 million, and that's just because a lot of those people... I mean, look, I will say, the reason that they use less is because they don't really have access to the best cars.

01:05:27.000 Like, that's why you'll see an entire family in 19 chicken coops going up a steep incline in a Honda Cub.

01:05:34.000 Well, yeah, that's true.

01:05:36.000 You had one.

01:05:37.000 I did.

01:05:37.000 My first motorcycle was a Honda Cub.

01:05:39.000 You could run that thing on vegetable oil.

01:05:41.000 It was indestructible.

01:05:43.000 And the thing with this Honda Cub, for people who don't know, you know what, you guys can comment, people out there who are motorcyclists.

01:05:47.000 It was my first bike ever.

01:05:48.000 It's the most sold vehicle of all time.

01:05:50.000 I think something like 60, 70 million Honda Cubs have been sold.

01:05:52.000 It's crazy.

01:05:52.000 Wow.

01:05:53.000 Because it's like a scooter in the sense it's low CC, low emissions, but it has gears, but it has no clutch, which you would think makes it easier.

01:06:00.000 No, it makes it way harder.

01:06:01.000 Because if you have a motorcycle where you kind of ease out the clutch and you shift it... When I used to ride this thing, and I would be in traffic, if I wanted to shift gears, you have to completely go off the throttle and kick that clutch.

01:06:10.000 You're gonna... And you almost get hit every single time.

01:06:15.000 That's why you bring nine chicken coops uphill. 0.83

01:06:18.000 Exactly.

01:06:18.000 Right, yeah.

01:06:19.000 That's crazy.

01:06:19.000 Just to keep it in the first gear.

01:06:21.000 Yeah.

01:06:21.000 Keep it in the first gear and violate all high safety protocols.

01:06:24.000 Super cool chicken put on motorcycle.

01:06:27.000 Super cool Honda Cub even though it's a different country now.

01:06:30.000 I don't know my world.

01:06:33.000 But Taiwan is not a thing.

01:06:37.000 There's still a lot of those around, too, aren't there?

01:06:39.000 Oh, yeah, there's still a ton.

01:06:40.000 They re-released them.

01:06:41.000 Oh, is that why?

01:06:42.000 Yeah, they also re-released them.

01:06:44.000 And I won't say that I violated motor safety laws.

01:06:50.000 They certified mine as a scooter, even though it was 70cc.

01:06:52.000 They're supposed to be under 50cc.

01:06:56.000 At the DMV, it was actually a black lady. 1.00

01:06:59.000 She's like, Is this a scooter?

01:07:01.000 I was like, well, I don't know.

01:07:02.000 It's a Honda Cub.

01:07:03.000 It looks enough like a scooter.

01:07:05.000 Certified.

01:07:05.000 There you go.

01:07:06.000 So if you have a DUI, it doesn't count.

01:07:08.000 There's your ride.

01:07:10.000 So this is kind of... And I know, Gerald, you had some points, but this is where we are in this country is...

01:07:18.000 I don't want to go to war.

01:07:20.000 And I don't think we should go to war unless it benefits us.

01:07:23.000 I don't believe in nation-building.

01:07:24.000 But I do find it surprising that you have a huge group of people, this contingency of people, and you know, Dave, when we grew up with the punk rock, you remember Rock Against Bush, you had No Upside, Rage Against the Machine, and the War Machine, and no oil, and they would team up with Code Pink, okay.

01:07:37.000 And Rock the Vote.

01:07:38.000 Rock the Vote, yeah.

01:07:39.000 Didn't even ruin it.

01:07:40.000 Right.

01:07:41.000 I remember Cameron Diaz was on Oprah.

01:07:43.000 She said, if you don't go vote, it's like you're saying rape should be legal.

01:07:46.000 I was like, hmm.

01:07:47.000 Wow.

01:07:48.000 Yeah.

01:07:49.000 And I'm going to make one hit movie.

01:07:51.000 Yes.

01:07:51.000 And that's it.

01:07:52.000 And then my career will be destroyed by HD.

01:07:57.000 She saw 4K coming down the pike.

01:07:59.000 She was like, nope!

01:08:01.000 I'm out!

01:08:01.000 They saw the mask and they're like, is she Rocky Dennis?

01:08:04.000 Yeah.

01:08:07.000 We lived through this, and we were at a point in this country where, despite him having an R next to his name, Donald Trump started no new major wars.

01:08:13.000 He made us a net exporter of petroleum for the first time, and of course that lowered prices and really kept a lid on inflation in a way that we've never seen in our lifetime.

01:08:26.000 And now we're right back to, okay look, same old, same old.

01:08:30.000 When people used to say Republicans and Democrats are the same, well I think in a lot of capacities they are.

01:08:34.000 In a lot of respects they certainly are.

01:08:36.000 Donald Trump was certainly different.

01:08:37.000 That's why you hated him.

01:08:39.000 That's why so many of you hated him because he came here like he was a stick of dynamite.

01:08:44.000 Yeah.

01:08:44.000 Right?

01:08:44.000 Donald Trump had to go fishing with dynamite.

01:08:46.000 And now we're back to, oh, maybe we do want to go to war.

01:08:49.000 Well, hold on a second.

01:08:49.000 Look, with Iraq, it was never a war for oil.

01:08:52.000 It was a war for contracts for oil.

01:08:54.000 I understand that.

01:08:54.000 No-bid contracts.

01:08:55.000 And that's also a problem.

01:08:56.000 And by the way, those lobbyists are still in government.

01:08:58.000 And also look at some of these executives from oil companies who might be accompanying this administration to visits in Venezuela.

01:09:03.000 So this idea that for some reason, because they have D's next to their name, they're not looking out for the interests of oil companies.

01:09:09.000 Well, that's obviously completely untrue.

01:09:11.000 These people are thrilled to have Joe Biden back in office.

01:09:14.000 But when you look at this and understand that, okay, Iraq was not a war for oil, especially if you look at what happened with Desert Storm, it was Al Qaeda, right?

01:09:22.000 They were a stronghold for... I'm not saying that they're the Taliban that Iraq attacked us, but militarily we said, okay, they were a stronghold for Al Qaeda, that mattered. 0.97

01:09:28.000 And they also said, meaning the administration, the Bush administration at the time, it also would serve a valuable purpose to liberate these people in Iraq from this dictator that is Saddam Hussein.

01:09:39.000 And many Democrats opposed it.

01:09:41.000 And by the way, I think it was a mistake.

01:09:43.000 I supported it at the time.

01:09:46.000 I think it was a mistake.

01:09:47.000 Why?

01:09:47.000 Because you see the way this works.

01:09:48.000 You just create another power vacuum and I just don't think we should be involved in foreign affairs unless we benefit from it.

01:09:53.000 Does it affect our national security?

01:09:55.000 If not, don't go.

01:09:56.000 Can we use it to benefit our national interests?

01:09:58.000 If not, don't go.

01:10:00.000 Those are really the only two litmus tests, in my opinion, that matter for war.

01:10:04.000 But the same people who were saying we shouldn't go into Iraq because we shouldn't try and spread democracy abroad, and look at all the innocent people who were killed, these are the same people now, the George Takeis of the world, saying, hey, we need to go to Ukraine to fight for their freedom.

01:10:16.000 First off, you don't believe in freedom because you were supporting lockdowns here at home.

01:10:20.000 Now you want Ukraine to be free?

01:10:22.000 Second, what do you think happens?

01:10:23.000 It's going to be exactly like you opposed Iraq but you support the United States going right now to Ukraine?

01:10:29.000 Do you have any idea how many more innocent people will be killed if the United States engages militarily in Ukraine?

01:10:36.000 When the biggest gun comes in, all the other weapons come out and aim it.

01:10:40.000 It's going to create more collateral damage, not to mention potentially could be the catalyst for World War III.

01:10:46.000 God only knows.

01:10:48.000 I'm just wondering where all the no war for oil people went to.

01:10:51.000 And it would seem to me that if you were against Iraq, if you were against nation building, and I'm against those things, That you would certainly be against any kind of engagement in the conflict with Russia and Ukraine right now, and you certainly would not want us to be dependent not only on oil and petroleum from Russia,

01:11:10.000 But if you care about human rights, you certainly wouldn't want to replace that with what?

01:11:14.000 Saudi Arabia.

01:11:15.000 Because you hated them only a year ago.

01:11:17.000 Only two years ago.

01:11:18.000 You certainly wouldn't want to replace it with what?

01:11:20.000 Venezuela.

01:11:21.000 With a dictator who seized power and starved his own people.

01:11:25.000 You're going to replace the international energy deficit.

01:11:30.000 Russia, whoever you want, all of these international supplies that we have for oil.

01:11:34.000 Foreign oil.

01:11:35.000 Let's use that term because it's simple.

01:11:36.000 Simple, I get it.

01:11:37.000 Reductive, it's a term people understand.

01:11:40.000 You're either going to replace it with foreign oil from a place that abuses its citizens and, by the way, is less reliable for us, or you're going to replace it with reserves and with energy that we have here in the United States that we can control. 0.99

01:11:57.000 It's going to be replaced.

01:12:00.000 Where are the anti-war people?

01:12:02.000 Where's no blood for oil? 0.55

01:12:03.000 I can't think of a more literal example of blood for oil than Venezuela. 0.58

01:12:09.000 The government benefits from all of the oil and resources while the people starve.

01:12:14.000 People in Venezuela quite literally die so that the government can get rich off the oil.

01:12:21.000 Where are they?

01:12:21.000 Where's Code Pink?

01:12:22.000 Where's No War for... Where's Tom Morello?

01:12:25.000 I just want a little consistency here.

01:12:27.000 Let me tell you what I don't think is inconsistent.

01:12:29.000 We don't go to war unless we take the oil.

01:12:32.000 Also, we should use our own oil and natural gas, period.

01:12:36.000 And if we don't have enough, then look to see what we need to supplement it.

01:12:39.000 That's just my point of view.

01:12:40.000 I don't know.

01:12:41.000 Is it me?

01:12:42.000 No, I think you're absolutely right.

01:12:43.000 I mean, we should not be in this situation, and that's why we were saying, be tough on Russia. 0.70

01:12:49.000 Be tough on China. 0.87

01:12:51.000 And Donald Trump was doing that.

01:12:52.000 Don't try to be the cool kid at the table in Europe, because what country right now is Putin afraid of in Europe?

01:12:59.000 Name me one.

01:13:01.000 None of them.

01:13:02.000 That is why he did this.

01:13:03.000 They're right there.

01:13:05.000 I couldn't say it with a straight face.

01:13:07.000 Have you seen their tables?

01:13:10.000 Not afraid of any of those guys.

01:13:12.000 There's a reason that you can't just try to link arms with every country and say, we are the world and this is all going to be fantastic and let's just go to this, you know, EU commission and everything's going to be fantastic.

01:13:22.000 No, you can't do that because these guys have never been able to stand up to aggression.

01:13:26.000 Ever!

01:13:26.000 No, you're absolutely right.

01:13:27.000 In the history of Europe, they have not been able to do it.

01:13:29.000 It took the United States both times coming over. 0.98

01:13:31.000 Yeah, Europe sucks.

01:13:32.000 Now, did we bring up that fact check from Reuters?

01:13:35.000 Hold on, did they send that to us?

01:13:36.000 So Reuters, because we claimed during one of our shows that the CDC changed their mask guidelines.

01:13:41.000 Yeah.

01:13:42.000 And by the way, you guys can comment below if you agree with us on the international energy policy, and you can smash like if you agree with it.

01:13:50.000 And if you don't hit like, that means that you want us to be dependent on oil from Venezuela.

01:13:54.000 13-year high right now.

01:13:55.000 Oh, on CNN right now.

01:13:57.000 Gas tops $4 a gallon for the first time since 2008.

01:14:00.000 So that must be across the country.

01:14:01.000 In Texas it's still relatively low.

01:14:03.000 On a channel that's telling you how great Biden is.

01:14:06.000 13-year high.

01:14:10.000 This is insane.

01:14:10.000 Is that guy in a Funhaus mirror that makes you look warped sideways?

01:14:14.000 See that?

01:14:14.000 Like horizontally?

01:14:16.000 It's actually the kid from The Toy with Richard Price.

01:14:19.000 You guys focus on him.

01:14:20.000 I'm focusing on the 46 cent increase, I think.

01:14:23.000 In a week!

01:14:24.000 Is that Alfred E. Newman on your left?

01:14:27.000 A 46 cent increase in a week in the average for the country.

01:14:32.000 But boy, they really want you.

01:14:33.000 Remember, keep in mind, and I did a whole segment on this back in 2009 with Barack Obama, just so people, you know, and I hate to use the term grifters, but you have a lot of people who just sort of have showed up recently and they're not really familiar with what has been going on in this country for a very long time.

01:14:45.000 They put on a MAGA hat.

01:14:46.000 I did a segment on Detroit.

01:14:48.000 2009.

01:14:48.000 And talked about there were effectively mandates where the government was trying to incentivize these domestic companies to make more gas-friendly cars because oil was so expensive.

01:14:58.000 Even though at that point GM had more gas- I think sort of the cutoff was if you got 30 miles to the gallon.

01:15:05.000 They had more than Honda or Toyota, I believe, combined.

01:15:07.000 But what happened is the government said, well, you better stop selling trucks.

01:15:10.000 And in California, you could only sell a certain amount of trucks or SUVs per lot.

01:15:14.000 Because they're saying gas prices are too high.

01:15:15.000 So there is an incentive for Democrats right now, obviously.

01:15:18.000 They want you driving smaller cars.

01:15:20.000 They want you dependent.

01:15:21.000 They want you dependent on public transportation.

01:15:24.000 In other words, gas prices going up and inflation out of control is not incongruent with what Democrats want for the country.

01:15:32.000 And why do you say Democrats?

01:15:33.000 Because Democrats, they've already told you, they want you to be more dependent on the government.

01:15:37.000 They want a more centralized system as far as our economy.

01:15:41.000 They want to be more like Europe.

01:15:43.000 They want to be more like Canada.

01:15:44.000 You can see what's happened.

01:15:47.000 The only thing that stops this government from being Australia, from being Canada, from being the UK, are the checks and balances that are enshrined into our Constitution.

01:15:54.000 Did you say you brought up the fact check there, Tokunawa?

01:15:56.000 Yeah, I think we got it.

01:15:57.000 So what happened is Reuters said social distancing and masks was released under Trump's term, not Biden.

01:16:05.000 And this was released because we talked about the CDC changing their mask guidelines.

01:16:09.000 Yeah.

01:16:10.000 We never once said that it happened exclusively under Biden.

01:16:15.000 My problem with the claim that we made was not Biden.

01:16:19.000 My problem was with the CDC changing their guidelines.

01:16:22.000 Of course we know it's happened many times.

01:16:23.000 Now here's what's interesting about that.

01:16:25.000 The left, and this is why I say I'm not a centrist and I don't believe in finding common ground with people who have no interest in finding common ground, but the left says, oh today people are just playing teams Republican-Democrat, right?

01:16:35.000 And the right is trying to divide everybody.

01:16:37.000 Hold on a second.

01:16:38.000 You took something, which was a fact, that the CDC changed their guidelines on masks And my problem was with the CDC.

01:16:46.000 And Reuters, one of the most trusted names in news, decided to turn it into something politically divisive and make it about Trump versus Biden.

01:16:53.000 It wasn't about Trump versus Biden.

01:16:54.000 It was about the CDC.

01:16:55.000 That's the only way people will pay attention to what they say.

01:16:58.000 I think it was Reuters.

01:16:59.000 Donald Trump in there.

01:17:00.000 I think it was Reuters who also fact-checked us like in 2014 or 2015.

01:17:03.000 Remember when there was that... When were we ever championing that the whole pandemic happened under Biden?

01:17:09.000 No, never.

01:17:10.000 We've never once said anything remotely close to what they're claiming.

01:17:13.000 Meanwhile they're like, it's yet to be determined if Ilhan Omar married her brother.

01:17:17.000 Just look at the marriage certificate!

01:17:22.000 And the flipper babies! 0.99

01:17:24.000 Anytime we do a stream that outpunts the coverage of the mainstream networks, we get fact-checked, and since they can't fact-check something we actually said, they make it up.

01:17:31.000 Yep.

01:17:32.000 Great, yeah.

01:17:32.000 Well, look, find me where I said that the mask guidance only changed under Joe Biden, and not where I was saying that the CDC is an institution that people are trusting less and less because their ambassador, Fauci, is a little shit.

01:17:44.000 All right, we're gonna go and play Name That Spoon here on Mug Club.

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Louder with Crowder - March 07, 2022

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