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Steven: [00:01:44] Oh, boy. I already spilled it. That's a bad start. Uh, it's a little less. A little less intense of an introduction than yesterday. Yes. So I can breathe. I apologize, I. I think I told you guys we'd have to walk like a Joe Biden Bengals, but that's tomorrow. Oh, okay. Well, so rapey Cosby was the best we could do today. Or as we refer to it, way better than John Leguizamo. Fill in hosting for Trevor Noah. Fill in hosting all week. We'll be talking about that on Rumble. I don't know if you've seen the current state of late night and the numbers and the material. It's just it's it's it's a pride swallowing siege. We thought they were just the YouTube numbers. Oh, my gosh. We're like, oh, that's the show. So a little less intense today than yesterday. But still, there's a lot of misinformation going around there regarding the Nashville shooting. So we have an update on that. And we also have an update on the TikTok bill. Now, keep in mind, that's very different from the hearings that we were discussing, I believe, on Monday, the bill that has been passed. Here's the deal. If you have almost all like universally approved or supported a bill by Republicans and Democrats, I mean, get the get the Astro, glad you were about to get screwed. And this is the Patriot Act for the Internet. So to be clear, when we were saying, yeah, Chinese spyware bad, that needs to be banned for the protection of the privacy of Americans. Instead, we have a TikTok bill that's been supported from the left, my left, your right and the right that completely invades your privacy. I don't know if we can unring this bell. Yeah.

Gerald: [00:03:07] Anything that's co-sponsored by Mitt Romney should raise red flags. Yes.

Steven: [00:03:10] Yes, exactly. As a matter of fact, I don't believe in red flag laws except except for Mitt Romney in this case. Yeah, it should be one of the auto categories like on YouTube where it's like for hateful content for misconduct for Mitt Romney. Yeah. If there ever was a case. So are we talking about that? Desantis, by the way, just passed an education bill. School vouchers were fans of and we'll be talking about John Leguizamo TikTok. But before we move on, my question to you for today is two things. First off, what's your take on the Nashville shooter potentially swapping shoes? This is going out there and, you know, it could be a complete conspiracy or do you think that it does raise some questions and the fact that it's not being acknowledged by anybody, that's one of those things. That's where people start putting on their tinfoil hats because there is no transparency. Also, look, I'm going to take an unpopular stance today, but just listen to me. This was not a hate crime. Nashville. I don't want to use the I don't want to use the left's language. It's terrorism. Terrorism is enough hate crime. A crime? Terrorism. Murder does not need a footnote. So let's not start using the language of the left. That's not going to turn out how you want it to comment below. All right, Gerald. Hey, how are you, Mr. CEO?

Gerald: [00:04:18] I am doing much better today. How are you? Good. It's a meat locker in here. It feels really cold. I feel nice and cozy. You feel refreshed?

Steven: [00:04:24] Yeah. I don't know. Well, like my nipples could cut glass.

Gerald: [00:04:27] Did you sleep last night? A little bit. Good. A little bit.

Steven: [00:04:31] I find myself envious of my little ones when they sleep, like 13 hours. Yeah, or a part of me just wants to wake them up. Vengefully. We all like.

Gerald: [00:04:38] You when you're, like, four and a half to five hours of sleep because you're just pissed off enough and you usually throw that into a story. Yeah, exactly.

Steven: [00:04:44] So I'm ornery like an old man. Speaking of which, hey, Hodgetwins are going to be back in tomorrow, but Pops Crowder is in third chair today. How are you, sir?

Gerald: [00:04:51] Thanks. He gets a title.

Darrin: [00:04:53] I get old man. That's my lead in it, says Legend.

Gerald: [00:04:56] Do you see your lower legend?

Speaker4: [00:04:58] Yes, Legend. That's pretty good. What else do you want? By the way, Papa.

Steven: [00:05:01] Is a PR PPA, I think. Papa. I don't know. I have no idea. But I know he speaks too far away from the microphone.

Speaker4: [00:05:09] Pappy. Okay, hang on.

Steven: [00:05:10] No, no. The Hodgetwins are back tomorrow. We thought they needed a little bit of a breather after yesterday. We have some sketches to tape. Yeah, we do. And we also are preparing tomorrow a dump button for. For rumble. For the Hodgetwins.

Speaker4: [00:05:21] Wow. Really? Cross the board?

Gerald: [00:05:24] What are they advocating? A crime?

Steven: [00:05:26] No, it's just, you know, it's just the hodgetwins. Well, that's true. There's nothing. It's just. You never know. What's the second I hear?

Speaker4: [00:05:31] Hey, man, I'm like, This is going to be bad.

Gerald: [00:05:34] I've never heard the N-word so much in my life. I know, I know.

Speaker4: [00:05:37] And we're at a certain point we get.

Steven: [00:05:38] Uncomfortable as white.

Gerald: [00:05:39] Guys. And I had a racist grandmother. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:05:43] Well, we all had a racist grandmother.

Darrin: [00:05:45] Yeah, Kevin said we lost our way for a while, but we're back. And I said, Oh, back to your roots. Stephen said, Don't say roots. No.

Gerald: [00:05:50] No, no, no. Don't say roots.

Steven: [00:05:52] Don't say. Remember the Titans. All right. Don't say whatever that swim movie was with Terrence Howard. Don't say Hilary Swank. When she goes in and teaches him. Don't say Dangerous Minds. Wait, a swim movie? Yeah, there was a swim movie. Come on. Yeah, that was.

Speaker4: [00:06:05] I don't necessarily know how much we were stopping them from swimming so much as they weren't swimming.

Gerald: [00:06:10] Not our fault.

Speaker4: [00:06:11] All right. So before we move on with all.

Steven: [00:06:12] Of this, by the way, it's a it's a show Monday.

Speaker4: [00:06:14] Through Friday, 10 a.m. Eastern. Notifications don't work on YouTube. Subscriptions don't work.

Steven: [00:06:18] Your best bet is to head on over to Rumble. But just bookmark the page rumble. And of course, Friday is only on mug club, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. Eastern, which really means 1010 because you guys tune in late. Let's move on right now as this. This is just so you know, this is a transgender individual.

Speaker4: [00:06:36] Portly gets ready for a big night out.

Steven: [00:06:40] On the town.

Speaker5: [00:06:41] Join me as I get ready for my. The think that I'm really excited for people ask me how all the time. How do I do my makeup? Just practice makes perfect. I don't look like a Las Vegas showgirl. I'm not doing it right. I'm not doing it right. What snacks to bring. Like, I want to bring the good old.

Speaker4: [00:06:57] That's a scooter. He's on a scooter.

Speaker5: [00:07:00] Worst thing about having to wear a mask is having to put it over your earrings. I don't know. That's a struggle. Beautiful. Look, because you're.

Speaker4: [00:07:11] Like, I.

Speaker5: [00:07:11] Feel like my true self. And I don't feel that that often, both inside and out.

Speaker4: [00:07:16] So hold on. Let's let's be really.

Steven: [00:07:17] Clear here, Right? We always we used to tell kids that beauty is skin deep. And I feel, you know, I never feel like myself. I'm very unhappy. But now that I put on some some makeup and some some braids, I feel superficial accoutrements of being. Now, I really now I'm authentic. Really?

Speaker4: [00:07:34] How can you.

Steven: [00:07:34] Tell children that it's what's on the inside that counts and then.

Speaker4: [00:07:37] Say, or you can change everything about you with a little bit of me Me eyeshadow. Don't forget the earrings. Don't forget the earrings. Can we.

Steven: [00:07:44] Go back? Can you show us that? By the way, just so you know, and this will tie in to the Nashville shooter because it's important while we're talking about mental health, while we're talking about overall health, that person is on a scooter in Walmart. That's a scooter.

Speaker4: [00:07:55] Look at that angle.

Gerald: [00:07:56] Yeah, that's not very healthy. And that mask is not protecting you from anything. Honey, you can hear it, too. Masks are. Can you hear it? Let's play it.

Speaker5: [00:08:02] Again. You can hear it. I got to figure out what snacks to bring. I want to bring the good old sun chips harvest here. It's struggling.

Speaker4: [00:08:09] Right.

Darrin: [00:08:11] Now to really play against type though he would have been in the produce aisle and not the process.

Speaker4: [00:08:15] Oh I just do my diet is the meal the size of your hand and I do the perimeter sun chips.

Speaker6: [00:08:22] I can't stop eating Funyuns.

Speaker4: [00:08:27] Though. You know what? This would go great with pork rinds.

Speaker7: [00:08:30] And I'm going to stuff that into my pork.

Gerald: [00:08:33] Yeah, you're going to a two hour show. You don't need to bring your own snacks. It's a real struggle.

Speaker4: [00:08:37] To put in my.

Speaker7: [00:08:38] Earrings because of my sausage fingers.

Gerald: [00:08:42] I love the Trumpian kind of everybody always asks me. Yeah, like, no, nobody. Nobody asks.

Speaker7: [00:08:47] Not everybody asks me how I do my makeup. Naomi Campbell came up and I was like, bitch.

Speaker4: [00:08:53] Again, the it's narcissism with anybody else going, Look at me. Look, if you see a woman, right, Everyone mocks the women doing makeup on Instagram on TikTok, the Instagram ass models, right? This is not healthy for young women. We've all talked about that unrealistic beauty body standards. But when you have someone who looks like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show, they go, Oh, is it brave and beautiful? Golf Clap everybody, Everybody golf clap, everybody golf. No. And here's the thing. The comorbidity factor with people who are.

Steven: [00:09:19] Suffer.

Speaker4: [00:09:19] From gender dysphoria, It's it's virtually 100%.

Steven: [00:09:22] Just so you know, we've had Dr. Boniface one time on the show a long.

Speaker4: [00:09:25] Time ago back in.

Steven: [00:09:26] 2015, talk about treating many people and saying that like socialized anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar.

Speaker4: [00:09:32] It is so.

Steven: [00:09:32] High in this community. And that's exactly what we found out with the Nashville shooter. So you don't.

Speaker4: [00:09:36] Have to say that the.

Steven: [00:09:37] Trans thing might lend itself to a 42% attempted suicide rate, though it.

Speaker4: [00:09:40] Does. You just say, hey, it lends itself to other comorbidities.

Steven: [00:09:43] If you're talking about red flag laws, which, again, I don't necessarily agree with.

Speaker4: [00:09:47] Okay. Also, by the way, one month free mug club.com/mug club head on over and watch there that's.

Steven: [00:09:54] That's the place that we ask you because.

Speaker4: [00:09:55] You won't see anything Friday.

Steven: [00:09:57] Unless you are a member and on mug club and it's free membership but you do have to sign up to be a thing. Okay. That's because I know we're talking about Biden next. So I'm getting into. I'm Danielle. You really?

Gerald: [00:10:07] Yeah. Yeah. You want to get into it?

Speaker4: [00:10:09] Start stuttering. You s so.

Gerald: [00:10:12] Done.

Speaker4: [00:10:13] Joe Biden.

Steven: [00:10:14] And here's the thing, just for some context here, okay? People have been trying to say, well, hold on a second. If you've seen the clip where he talks about ice cream, he didn't know about the shooting yet. And I don't just want to score political points. I understand that sometimes you have to soften the blow and you have to do some crowd work. I get it.

Speaker4: [00:10:28] But the issue.

Steven: [00:10:29] Here is that it's not true. He didn't know about it. It had been addressed. And he.

Speaker4: [00:10:33] Went on far longer about.

Steven: [00:10:34] Ice cream than appropriate, to the point where it was no longer punchlines. His age was like, We need to get him some ice cream. This what's happening?

Speaker4: [00:10:41] Is this a cry for pecan sandy ice cream? I don't know if it made the crowd work.

Darrin: [00:10:46] Is that what we're.

Speaker4: [00:10:46] Calling it now with Biden? That's not a joke. Which brings us to this week in Biden.

Speaker8: [00:10:51] If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. My name is Joe Biden. I'm Dr. Jill Biden's husband and I Jeni's ice cream chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. God. Ben, How are you, pal? One of the best guys in the United States Congress. Ben Cardin. Folks, Welcome to the White House. Thank you. It's a delight to have you all here. And who are those good looking kids back there? I just want to speak very briefly about the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.

Speaker4: [00:11:49] Two things.

Steven: [00:11:51] One, there's a there's a crowd animator there laughing at his name. I'm Joe Biden.

Gerald: [00:11:59] I think it was surprised he remembered his name. Exactly.

Speaker4: [00:12:02] What are you what are you, Bill Maher's audience? Are you a bunch of. So he says his name goes on for ice cream. Way longer than I like ice cream. Like, okay, okay, that's fine.

Steven: [00:12:10] I like chocolate chip. Okay. And then I got some upstairs in the fridge. All right, fine.

Speaker4: [00:12:15] Sometimes I have different variety, but you think I'm joking? We don't think you're joking.

Steven: [00:12:18] We think you're retarded. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:12:21] Look. And then the lack of self-awareness. Look. Yeah.

Steven: [00:12:24] The former vice president Joe Biden, when it comes to really liking like kids, just say nothing.

Speaker4: [00:12:30] Just say nothing. At this point, you should have done. Yeah, it would be like Bill Cosby. He just, you know, he got by in the skin of his teeth. He's out and then coming out and be like, Hey, you want to get some coffee? I'm just getting with it. It's like, no, hold on. Just you know what? That's not a don't veer into it because people think you're a 35 time rapist. Don't veer into it. Why? Because you've been caught on camera for, like, two hours at a.

Steven: [00:12:55] Time on.

Speaker4: [00:12:56] The Christmas reel sniffing small children.

Steven: [00:12:58] So let's just. Let's.

Speaker4: [00:12:59] Let's call that a third rail for you.

Steven: [00:13:01] For me? You think I'm joking?

Gerald: [00:13:03] Yeah. That actually frustrates me. I've never. I haven't seen this yet because I thought maybe. Maybe, like, okay, maybe they went to him at the wrong time. Maybe when Fox cut to him to address the Nashville shooting and he did a monologue on ice cream, they cut to him at the wrong time. And that was Fox's fault, right? I thought that was possible. Right. And he wasn't ready to. I didn't realize. And I said, guys, check because did he go into talking about the Nashville shooting right after that? Like, if that's your plan and I get that this was a different conference address that at the outset like that just sounds.

Speaker4: [00:13:32] Entertainment show and we felt the need to do it. And by the way, there's still all kinds of horribly inappropriate jokes.

Steven: [00:13:37] And material with the Hodgetwins later on.

Speaker4: [00:13:39] In the show, but you have to address it. Otherwise everyone else is really uncomfortable. And just to to issue that.

Steven: [00:13:44] So the.

Speaker4: [00:13:44] Claim, right, that you are seeing out.

Steven: [00:13:46] There right now and this is.

Speaker4: [00:13:46] From the left, the issue here is truth. That's the theme that he was unaware of the shooting at the time. You're seeing this across social media. That's well, here's the truth. He did know about it. He knew about it hours in advance. How do I know unless there's.

Steven: [00:13:59] Absolutely no communication.

Speaker4: [00:13:59] There, which very well.

Steven: [00:14:00] Could be the case, we have to allow for that. The White House press.

Speaker4: [00:14:02] Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre.

Steven: [00:14:05] Already addressed the.

Speaker4: [00:14:06] Issue with reporters.

Speaker9: [00:14:08] So we're seeing the heartbreaking news of another shooting of innocent schoolchildren. This time in Nashville, Tennessee. The president has been briefed on the situation and our team is in contact with DOJ and local officials about what is known so far.

Speaker4: [00:14:26] Well, shoot.

Steven: [00:14:27] Mm hmm. That seems pretty cut and dry. Yeah.

Gerald: [00:14:30] Yeah. Knew about.

Steven: [00:14:31] It. Knew about it, but decided well in advance. And by the way, when.

Speaker4: [00:14:34] When former Vice President Joe Biden.

Steven: [00:14:35] Says, I'm not joking, that means he's lying to you. You ever met someone who says, well, to be.

Speaker4: [00:14:40] Honest, you're going, Well, what were you before? What were you saying before? Like a mechanic says, well, to tell you the truth. Well, what were you saying when you just told me I needed a $2,300 new transmission? No. Now I'm telling the truth.

Steven: [00:14:50] Do you see that interview?

Speaker4: [00:14:51] We can pull that clip for later.

Steven: [00:14:52] When he was talking about when he changed on gay marriage, by the way, he was against gay marriage when he came into office. Okay.

Speaker4: [00:14:57] When he came into office, I mean, Barack Obama were against gay marriage.

Steven: [00:14:59] Yes. And then he told I don't remember if it was Stephanopoulos. He said, I remember where I was when I want to change.

Speaker4: [00:15:04] I was with my dad. And we saw I saw I looked around and I.

Steven: [00:15:06] Saw two men.

Speaker4: [00:15:07] I saw two men just kiss each other on the lips. Look at that. I looked at him and he said, Joe, it's simple. They love each other. And I'm not joking. Why do you feel the need to say I'm not joking? I mean, because it's so weird that they were kissing each other on the lips. No, it means I'm lying because I clearly was anti-gay marriage, like last week. But now I'm telling you a story about a place I've never been with.

Steven: [00:15:29] A conversation that I had with my father that never took place with people who don't exist.

Darrin: [00:15:34] So and a quick timeline with Biden always reveals that he's lying. His dad would have been long since passed away. Yeah, at that.

Speaker4: [00:15:40] Point, he just lies about everything. It's like when I met the Pope.

Steven: [00:15:44] You didn't. I mean, now he did. He pooped himself at the Vatican. But one point in.

Speaker4: [00:15:48] Time, remember, he lied about meeting the Pope. You were like, Why would you say he met the pope when he was like, you haven't met the pope yet? He's like, I'm not joking. No, you're not joking. You're lying. Yeah.

Gerald: [00:15:55] Is it mental decline or do you think it's just him lying to sound more important or whatever it is?

Speaker4: [00:16:00] Look, I'm sorry.

Steven: [00:16:00] And I've heard people like Rogan make this point, and I think that a lot of people out there believe that he was sharp when he was young. He was never sharp.

Speaker4: [00:16:07] No, he was never sharp. He wasn't you know.

Steven: [00:16:10] He wasn't indecipherable. Right. But he.

Speaker4: [00:16:14] Was.

Darrin: [00:16:14] Not sharp. He was never under the spotlight like now. So he could get away with it.

Speaker4: [00:16:18] He wasn't under the spotlight once when he had to pull out of the 1988 presidential campaign because he he lied about somebody he plagiarized and he lied. He said I think he said he was valedictorian of his class. He finished in the bottom five, no.

Darrin: [00:16:30] Second to last. And then the last guy passed away. So he was laughed.

Speaker7: [00:16:34] So borderline retarded.

Speaker4: [00:16:36] I was I was top. I'm not joking. Well, here it says that you were here. It says that you were last. But I said I wasn't joking. That doesn't just shield you from lying. Worked. Oh, I don't know the rules. I was.

Darrin: [00:16:49] Higher percentile.

Speaker10: [00:16:51] Hard rule.

Speaker4: [00:16:52] It must be the bell curve. No, it's the U curve. Yeah, as a matter of fact, you benefit all the other crappy students because you changed the curve.

Steven: [00:17:01] So I'd love to.

Gerald: [00:17:01] See Joe Biden in the class. All right.

Speaker4: [00:17:03] By the way, we're going to go now. Let's get into the shooting.

Steven: [00:17:05] Some updates here from Nashville.

Speaker4: [00:17:07] Hit the like button if you're on YouTube.

Steven: [00:17:09] You know, commenting helps with the algorithm. And of course, same thing on Rumble, Migrate to Rumble. If you. Oh, I should let you know if you see this at any point on YouTube, the.

Speaker4: [00:17:18] Youtube dump button. Yeah. That means that.

Steven: [00:17:24] You can watch what's happening on Rumble, but we're just not going to self-censor and be on.

Gerald: [00:17:26] Youtube. Okay? I want that to be like my Christmas fireplace. Let's just have that on the music I want.

Steven: [00:17:31] Kind of nice sometimes I want to throw you in.

Speaker4: [00:17:32] The Christmas fireplace.

Speaker7: [00:17:34] Why would you do that?

Speaker4: [00:17:34] Well, just because, you know, I could.

Steven: [00:17:36] Get the music.

Speaker4: [00:17:37] Okay. I want to see. You know, you're a man of faith. I want to see if you're like Bendigo.

Steven: [00:17:40] And I want to see if you know, if you burn. Yeah, okay. I think you'll burn.

Darrin: [00:17:44] Did you just agree to that Too enthusiastically.

Speaker4: [00:17:49] So look, here's here's some updates from yesterday.

Steven: [00:17:52] Right? The Nashville shooting. And I think the important point here too is that unfortunately you're seeing a flip and you're seeing people on the right. Republicans use the language of the left, and that is exactly what they want, terms like hate speech, which, by the way, will make it very easy to transition into red flag laws. So we have to be very, very mindful in how we approach this and not act, not react emotionally like those on the left do as a matter of policy. So here's what we do know. There was a manifesto left by Audrey. I'm not Deadnaming. Audrey. Any name for Audrey is a dead name. So Audrey left a manifesto with the police are not releasing it. What we have seen also, which is pretty important. What we now know is that Audrey Hale had, outside of the gender dysphoria, outside had an emotional disorder and was already seeing professionals for this. Now, to give you an idea, again, we talked about this yesterday. If people want to talk about red flag laws, if the left is being genuine, which is why I do not support red flag.

Speaker4: [00:18:51] Laws, because it's.

Steven: [00:18:52] Based on a lie. If you look at the 42% attempted suicide rate, okay, up until recently, the DSM four had gender dysphoria listed as a mental illness until it was political pressure. And then they switched it where gender dysphoria. They're the symptoms of someone born in the wrong body. Dsm four was gender dysphoria itself was like body dysmorphia, like anorexia. Right. It was a psychiatric condition. And they said, oh, no.

Speaker4: [00:19:12] It's not a condition.

Steven: [00:19:13] They're the symptoms now of someone being born in the wrong body.

Speaker4: [00:19:16] No proof ever.

Steven: [00:19:17] That there's a male brain and a female body or vice versa. There has been no proof.

Speaker4: [00:19:19] Every study actually.

Steven: [00:19:20] Proves the opposite, just to be clear.

Speaker4: [00:19:21] So I.

Steven: [00:19:22] Will I will consider it because there has been no evidence to change.

Speaker4: [00:19:25] It. A psychiatric.

Steven: [00:19:27] Condition. Okay. Gender dysphoria. But there's something called comorbidities, which is why this emotional distress disorder is relevant with with Audrey here. They're found in at least 50.

Speaker4: [00:19:37] To.

Steven: [00:19:38] 70% of all gender dysphoria diagnoses. Wow. So things like anxiety disorder, substance abuse, major depressive disorder, impulse control disorders, irrational phobias, adjustable.

Speaker4: [00:19:50] Disorders, one of them eating disorders. So these are everywhere.

Steven: [00:19:53] This is very common and it's very, very well known. And again, this is a lie that is agreed upon. People say, oh, they just need to live their true life. It's because they're discriminated against.

Speaker4: [00:20:02] Again, you didn't see this level of comorbidities with American slaves, and we don't even need to go back that far. You don't see it with black.

Steven: [00:20:09] Americans, which everyone talks about how black Americans are still being systematically.

Speaker4: [00:20:13] Discriminated against. I don't believe there's systemic racism. But if you believe that, why is.

Steven: [00:20:16] There not a 42% attempted suicide rate? Why is there not the same level of comorbidities that you see?

Speaker4: [00:20:21] 50 to 70%? And by the way, that's a conservative number. Hey, what about gays with AIDS in the 80 seconds? Don't have that suicide rate, don't.

Steven: [00:20:29] Have those comorbidities.

Speaker4: [00:20:30] And it was a literal death sentence and they could have committed a death sentence against someone else because those guys didn't use rubbers.

Gerald: [00:20:39] Well, and, you know, ready the YouTube dump button for this one. But we talked about it yesterday. Yeah. The very first sign that something mentally wasn't going right was very obvious. Yes, it's the trans part. Yes. I'm not and I'm not being cruel. I understand that. I'm just saying, if you are going to look at somebody and say, does this person need firearms and you're going to try to create some kind of system. And look, again, I'm not saying I agree with it, just like we don't agree with red flag laws, but if you're going to create a system, the most obvious one to start with is that right? Because here's what they do. And Toleman actually brought this up. That's actually on the questionnaire. When you go in to purchase a firearm. Right. Do you have any mental issues? I don't know what the wording is. Yeah, they.

Speaker11: [00:21:18] Lied on the back of the federal background check. Right. It says, you know, are you crazy?

Gerald: [00:21:23] So you can have a mental disorder right now.

Steven: [00:21:25] Crazy people say that they're not crazy.

Gerald: [00:21:27] Well, that's true. But that's that's the whole point. The whole point is you can just check the box and move on. Well, it's like you show up in a muumuu outfit with clown makeup on, and I'm like, I don't know. You know, you we're going to wake up.

Speaker4: [00:21:37] And your hover around.

Gerald: [00:21:38] Yes, exactly. Yeah. With your bag of sunchips.

Speaker7: [00:21:41] I'm here to pick up my Daniel defense, AR15. Okay. And how would you rate your mental state?

Speaker4: [00:21:49] Great.

Speaker7: [00:21:51] Never better.

Gerald: [00:21:51] I'm under. I'm under the impression that you cannot ask such questions, sir.

Darrin: [00:21:54] Which, by the way, was the exact look of Mimi on the Drew Carey Show. Because that was the funny, right? Moomoo With the clown makeup? Yeah, exactly. But shouldn't.

Speaker4: [00:22:02] You be? Now, that is the splendor. That is.

Speaker7: [00:22:04] Woman I want my gun now, please. By the way, you know.

Steven: [00:22:08] That you can't use sun chip oil as a lubricant.

Speaker4: [00:22:10] For your rifle.

Speaker7: [00:22:11] I'll do what I want.

Speaker4: [00:22:14] By the way, Donald, the Rumble app is also your best bet. 10 a.m., 10 a.m..

Steven: [00:22:17] Eastern is when you can tune in the show. But if you download.

Speaker4: [00:22:18] The app, notifications.

Steven: [00:22:19] Automatically work and you'll never miss a show.

Speaker4: [00:22:21] Oh, that's a pretty cool little stinger.

Steven: [00:22:22] It is. All right.

Gerald: [00:22:23] It's better than.

Speaker4: [00:22:24] Mine. But no, you're absolutely right, Gerald. It put it this way.

Steven: [00:22:26] If you could have betting odds, right? If you were if you were allowed to bet on this, let's say sports betting that, okay, this person is identifying as transgender and they would give you even.

Speaker4: [00:22:34] Odds and you could bet if they have some other psychiatric.

Steven: [00:22:37] Condition or not.

Speaker4: [00:22:38] And you just always bet.

Steven: [00:22:40] Yes, you would be a rich man. Absolutely.

Speaker4: [00:22:42] You'd be a rich man because you.

Steven: [00:22:44] Would win 70% of the.

Gerald: [00:22:45] Time. Well, and if you're if your argument is that guns are used for suicide so often that you want to prevent them from getting into the hands of people, not just that they'll go harm others, which obviously that's a major, major concern. But a 42% attempted suicide rate. You'd be right. Like that would be fantastic. You would be right more times than not. Almost right. Just under that saying, hey, we're not going to give this person a gun because they might just attempt suicide with it. Yeah, right.

Darrin: [00:23:07] Well, anecdotally, it's not a study, but high level psychiatrists you've had on the show. Yes. Say 100%. 100% in every case?

Speaker4: [00:23:14] Yes, 100%. Yeah.

Steven: [00:23:15] Because what happens is the reason that you probably have 70% is you have some psychiatrist. Again, it's politicized. Look at public school teachers. Everything is politicized. Politics will come to you. You have some.

Speaker4: [00:23:24] Psychiatrists who go, well, that would usually be generalized.

Steven: [00:23:26] Anxiety or that.

Speaker4: [00:23:27] Would usually be major depressive disorder.

Steven: [00:23:28] But it's just a symptom of the fact that people mistreat them because.

Speaker4: [00:23:32] They they can't take a shit at Talbots. So they're.

Steven: [00:23:37] At Talbots. I don't know.

Speaker4: [00:23:39] I was trying to think of what that where that person would shop. I have no idea.

Gerald: [00:23:42] Online.

Speaker4: [00:23:43] Oh, dear God. I pray they don't still have Frederick's of Hollywood. So. And here's something that.

Steven: [00:23:51] I want you guys to be very aware of.

Speaker4: [00:23:53] Okay, so we know this now. Okay?

Steven: [00:23:55] Manifesto that isn't being released. We know that there is a comorbidity. Okay? But now you have the right playing into the left's hand. Some people are praising Senator Josh Hawley here. I am not. And then I want to point here's why. Any time people use the term hate crime, it has always been used to eventually leverage it into.

Speaker4: [00:24:12] Hate speech laws.

Steven: [00:24:13] Murder doesn't need a footnote. Now.

Speaker4: [00:24:15] This is terrorism. It's not a hate crime. And you will see that on the left. They do not.

Steven: [00:24:20] Apply that term hate crime equally at all.

Speaker4: [00:24:23] It's entirely selective. So here's Senator Josh Hawley and you can comment below. I'd love if you disagree with me committing a major screw up. I would argue.

Steven: [00:24:33] For political points, theater calling it a hate crime.

Speaker12: [00:24:36] Mr. President, we must also tell the truth about what happened yesterday in Nashville. This murderous rampage, this taking of innocent life, was a horrific crime. But more specifically, it was a hate crime. Nope, a crime that, according to Nashville police specifically targeted. That's their word, targeted the members of this Christian community, the members of this religious institution. Let's be clear, Mr. President. Federal law prohibits the targeting of violence against any American and phrase on the basis. Religious affiliation or religious practice or religious belief, but that is according to police, exactly what we saw happen yesterday.

Speaker4: [00:25:23] Can we rewind it a.

Steven: [00:25:24] Little bit, just and then pause at any American? That's where it should end. This is the problem with hate crime, right? Forbids the violent.

Speaker4: [00:25:30] Targeting of any American.

Steven: [00:25:31] Boom done. But then when you add on the.

Speaker4: [00:25:33] Basis of, well, he's.

Steven: [00:25:35] Saying religion, in this case, it would be appropriate that would actually fall under terrorism, which already has a qualification. But the left wants to say.

Speaker4: [00:25:41] Under the guise of or based on gender, which, by the way, there's thousands of genders.

Steven: [00:25:47] Now. Right.

Speaker4: [00:25:48] Or sexual orientation. There's hundreds of sexual orientations now. Right. So now hate crime. They can they can just rack up a bill on you. They can just and you know what? Add that to the tab. As far as reasons, no murder, you're not allowed to violently target any American. Yeah. Period. So let's play that again and just.

Steven: [00:26:05] See if you understand why.

Speaker4: [00:26:08] Constitutionally it's important for him to end the phrase right here.

Speaker12: [00:26:11] Police specifically targeted, that's their word, targeted the members of this Christian community, the members of this religious institution. Let's be clear, Mr. President. Federal law prohibits the targeting of violence against any American. Stop.

Speaker4: [00:26:32] That should be the end of the phrase.

Gerald: [00:26:33] It should. And look, it's not lost on us that there are hate crime laws on the books and that they're not necessarily hate speech laws on the books in the same way that there are hate crime laws. But that's the whole point. It doesn't matter. Yeah, right. Murder doesn't need a footnote.

Speaker4: [00:26:45] And they've proposed the left has proposed.

Steven: [00:26:46] Many, many, many, many, many hate speech laws which would mimic Europe, which would mimic Australia, which would mimic Canada. If the left had their way, there would be hate speech laws in the book where.

Speaker4: [00:26:54] You could be jailed.

Steven: [00:26:55] For doing a cover of kung fu fighting at a karaoke bar that happened in the UK.

Gerald: [00:26:58] Absolutely. And Halie's trying to kind of box Biden in a little bit here. But I understand like, look, that's not the language that you need. The fact that somebody has been murdered is enough. Now, I understand that there are different degrees of murder, so I'm not addressing that because there are legitimate reasons for that. But whether I was pissed off at you because you cut me off in traffic or because you were a race that I didn't like, doesn't matter. I murdered you. Right? I don't understand what we're trying to accomplish by saying you're legislating that specialty murder. You get an additional five years or an additional ten years. That's not going to stop somebody from committing the crime.

Darrin: [00:27:30] An additional additional vial of lethal injection. Yeah. No, that's legislative, which almost seems.

Steven: [00:27:35] Redundant, but.

Speaker4: [00:27:36] Yes, but I didn't know the.

Speaker7: [00:27:37] Sponge was supposed to be weird.

Darrin: [00:27:39] There. You know, most of them are lawyers. And if he had just said, Hey, and I normally like what Holly has to say, but if he just said if I were advocating for my friends on the other side of the aisle, I might say, yeah, But no, he speaks as though, okay, we're on board with that.

Speaker4: [00:27:54] It's about.

Steven: [00:27:54] Scoring. It's about scoring clicks online where people.

Speaker4: [00:27:57] Go, Hey, by the way, stronger word is terrorism. So let me explain this to you. Well, you don't.

Steven: [00:28:02] Need the hate. Let me.

Speaker4: [00:28:02] Read.

Steven: [00:28:03] To you the actual definition. How the FBI, I guess, defines I know you're saying FBI, but I'm just using it because these are the laws, how they define characterize a hate crime. It says a criminal offense motivated by bias.

Speaker4: [00:28:14] Against the victim's race, religion.

Steven: [00:28:15] Disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity.

Gerald: [00:28:20] In race, by the way, doesn't count if you're white.

Speaker4: [00:28:22] Right? So that's very, very broad.

Steven: [00:28:23] But here's the thing. We already have a definition of terrorism. So all hate crime is is expanding that just like we talked.

Speaker4: [00:28:29] About with tick tock, it's expanding that authority. Here's the FBI's.

Steven: [00:28:32] Definition of terrorism, which I think this shooting would meet violent.

Speaker4: [00:28:35] Criminal acts committed by individuals and or groups to further.

Steven: [00:28:37] Ideological.

Speaker4: [00:28:38] Goals stemming from domestic influences such as those of political, religious, social, racial or.

Steven: [00:28:43] Environmental nature. This qualifies.

Speaker4: [00:28:47] The only difference is hate. Crime basically adds specifically sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, gender identity. Nope, it's terrorism. It's terrorism. It was targeting someone.

Steven: [00:28:57] Based on their religion in.

Speaker4: [00:28:58] Order to try and intimidate people of a political.

Steven: [00:29:01] Point of view.

Speaker4: [00:29:01] And I know I know that there are a lot of Muslims across the globe thinking they had a monopoly on it. You know what? You feel like you have to up your.

Steven: [00:29:06] Game, but you don't just take this.

Speaker4: [00:29:08] Just don't take this as an opportunity to, you know, curb it a.

Steven: [00:29:11] Little bit.

Speaker4: [00:29:11] Do take some you time, do some self-reflection.

Steven: [00:29:14] Yeah.

Gerald: [00:29:14] And I've seen a lot of people on the right sharing, you know, different memes and things about this is hate crime. And you know, if your skin color was in this range, it's not. And if it's in this range, it is, you know, that kind of thing. And it's just like, guys, look, I get it. I understand what people are doing. I really get it. I understand it. But don't lean into that.

Steven: [00:29:30] It's not about hip hop.

Speaker4: [00:29:31] You don't say, Hey, look, they're.

Steven: [00:29:32] Hypocrites, so let's do the same thing.

Speaker4: [00:29:34] What you want to point out, everyone's a hypocrite.

Steven: [00:29:36] And I've talked about this many, many times. It's not that they're a hypocrite, it's that they don't believe it.

Speaker4: [00:29:41] A hypocrite can believe what they say and fall short of their standards. You can believe that it's wrong to to to drink in excess and be an alcoholic. You're a hypocrite. It doesn't mean that you say, hey, it's fine to be an alcoholic. The problem is when you say, for example, hey, it's so dangerous, everyone has to lock down and you're going to get a perm like Nancy Pelosi.

Steven: [00:29:58] That is a hypocrisy that she doesn't believe it. And now I want.

Speaker4: [00:30:01] To lay out the case for you. The left.

Steven: [00:30:03] Doesn't believe.

Speaker4: [00:30:04] It. So you give them the authority for the hate crime moniker. Well, this certainly would qualify if you're using their standards, which we don't. Here's Biden's response.

Steven: [00:30:14] When not talking about ice cream. Asked whether he thought Christians were specifically targeted. The realm of hate crime.

[00:30:21] If you believe that Christians are targeted. I have no idea. Josh Hawley, please. They were. How do you say to that? I probably don't.

Speaker4: [00:30:40] No idea. By the way, you notice people say, oh, why is everything politicized? The former.

Steven: [00:30:44] Vice president, Josh Hawley, said this then I probably.

Speaker4: [00:30:45] Don't. Ha ha ha ha. No, I'm kidding. But you always say you're kidding. You're not kidding. And it's like. It's like.

Steven: [00:30:51] It's like.

Speaker4: [00:30:51] Opposite day. The kid who shows up on Wednesday at school, the third Wednesday of every month wearing.

Steven: [00:30:54] His shirt in reverse, It's like, okay, Tommy, it's not that clever.

Gerald: [00:30:57] This is not something to joke about, though. This is not something to go do. Stand up about ice cream and making fun of the fact that you forget your name and that your wife's not the president of the United States and neither is the vice president of United. Like this is not the time to do that. The time to do this say, you know what, we're looking into it right now. We take this matter very seriously and we will get to the bottom of this and we will find out.

Darrin: [00:31:14] Well, it kind of means that it frames it in his argument. I know. What did he say then? No, no.

Gerald: [00:31:18] I don't believe that.

Speaker4: [00:31:20] It's easy for me. I was.

Gerald: [00:31:21] Kidding. Right. There was only six people dead.

Speaker7: [00:31:22] Kamala Harris didn't really have a lot of She didn't.

Steven: [00:31:24] Unbelievable. She wasn't able to respond. Her hands were full with mayors wieners. So she's down to mayors.

Gerald: [00:31:30] Not even governors.

Speaker6: [00:31:32] Wow.

Gerald: [00:31:32] She took a step down. How the mighty have fallen.

Darrin: [00:31:35] As you said the other day, Don't be afraid to dream bigger. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:31:37] Don't be afraid to dream.

Steven: [00:31:38] Bigger, sweetheart.

Speaker4: [00:31:39] I remember when they asked was it was it Willie Brown? Was the mayor. Was that who it was?

Steven: [00:31:42] Yeah, San Francisco and Kamala Harris.

Speaker4: [00:31:44] And now I'm going to get back to the hate crime thing.

Speaker7: [00:31:45] But they asked.

Speaker4: [00:31:46] They asked. And guys here, I got my notes here. I want to make sure it's not.

Steven: [00:31:49] Everything's jumbling all around. When they.

Speaker4: [00:31:52] Asked the.

Steven: [00:31:53] Mayor, they.

Speaker4: [00:31:53] Said, hey, did you sleep with Kamala Harris? Basically, his response was like, I bang a lot of bitches. They're like, never. Some people are saying that you slept with her and gave her that. That municipal job is it could be.

Speaker6: [00:32:08] Sounds like something I would do.

Speaker4: [00:32:11] Ain't nothing. Go change if you vote for me. So here. Right there, he said, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what it is. I have no idea. Okay, so here's an important question. Is it applied equally? The Buffalo supermarket shooting, by the way, it was labeled a.

Steven: [00:32:28] Hate crime immediately by the media The day after the.

Speaker4: [00:32:31] Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was labeled.

Steven: [00:32:32] The day of the shooting. So they have.

Speaker4: [00:32:34] Responded in the past, Of course, when it serves their political their political.

Steven: [00:32:38] Agenda, they immediately.

Speaker4: [00:32:39] Say hate crime, hate crime, hate crime. We need stronger laws on hate crime. And of course.

Steven: [00:32:43] They also have laws waiting in the wings.

Speaker4: [00:32:45] On hate speech.

Steven: [00:32:46] When it's very clear.

Speaker4: [00:32:48] And there's a manifesto that this was targeting of Christians. And by the way, even the media has carried the water saying this is because of the anti-trans bill, which, of course, we talked about yesterday, was completely misrepresented. We don't know if it's a hate crime. We're a little bit murky on the motivation. Has there ever been outside of Islamic terrorism a more clear cut motivation for a shooting? Yeah, as as evil, as heinous it may be. Has there ever been a more clear cut example? I mean, here's the thing. The left and the right are saying the same thing. The right is saying, well, this is motivated, this was terrorism. It was motivated by hatred of Christianity. And the left is saying, you know, if Christians and you people on the right wouldn't push these people to the brink of society, this wouldn't have happened with their prerequisite. Of course we don't condone violence.

Steven: [00:33:27] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker4: [00:33:28] But really, they continue the rhetoric that would encourage violence. We can think about this for a second. Hey, you want to know how I know that a lot of these people you might need to hit the YouTube dump button. You. I want to know how I know that these people are mentally ill and that they live in a world of entirely of entire fabrications. What is the trans genocide? How many memes have you seen? Trans genocide. Genocide means to kill, means to eradicate, to kill dead. Where is that happening? Where are the masses? Where are the mass graves of transgender individuals?

Steven: [00:33:56] Because of.

Speaker4: [00:33:57] Yeah, I'm sure there are few shootings that take place that are inter-gang. I'm sure there are few transgender members in the Crips, right? They left prison. They became someone's bitch. It's a vicious cycle. But trans genocide, it's entirely a delusion and it's a delusion that everyone it's an agreed upon lie. That's how you know, it's crazy. There's no trans genocide. There's never been trans genocide.

Gerald: [00:34:20] Language is violence, though, Stephen. And so if you can broaden the definition of violence, then you can say, well, you're committing genocide against us because you're passing bills in these states that prevent kids from being able to chop off their wieners at six years old. So that's that's now violence towards us, right, as a group. And so that's the trans genocide. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:34:36] Yeah. Your words are violence. You know, I'm just not going to say anything. Silence is.

Steven: [00:34:39] Violence.

Speaker4: [00:34:40] Fudge a bitch.

Darrin: [00:34:41] I think you take a stronger stand. I think DeSantis stopping at five grade five or whatever it was, where he said, No, you expand it. You don't teach that in school. That's it. Yeah. He said up to grade three or something. No.

Speaker4: [00:34:52] Yeah. And the thing is, look at all the books. They're trying to ban the right wing saying, No.

Steven: [00:34:56] No, no, you're.

Speaker4: [00:34:57] Trying to ban To Kill a mockingbird.

Steven: [00:34:59] And we don't want children reading.

Speaker4: [00:35:02] You know, tranny jugs.

Gerald: [00:35:03] Yeah, but what was hilarious is that I think I think it was DeSantis who posted the whatever he was saying was banned out of there. And it was actually porn. And it actually got like all of the left was like, I can't believe he posted porn. Yeah, it was like, this was in the book.

Speaker6: [00:35:17] Yeah.

Gerald: [00:35:19] It was just epic.

Darrin: [00:35:20] I love you guys ruined a book burning.

Speaker4: [00:35:21] Yeah, Yeah. No, I'm more into hard core pornography. Just I'm into eradicating that from nurseries. That's. That's.

Steven: [00:35:29] That's the general.

Speaker4: [00:35:30] Thing, I think. I think they should be playing with, you know, like a tinker toys, you know, not.

Steven: [00:35:35] Not opening a magazine with chick, chick, chick chick chicks with.

Speaker4: [00:35:39] Dicks.

Darrin: [00:35:40] Well, I understand him framing it in for really young kids because that gets an emotional response. But it's all school.

Speaker4: [00:35:45] That's it.

Darrin: [00:35:46] Yeah. No, at any level. Yeah. Senior year. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:35:48] Yeah, absolutely. And you guys can comment below. I would love to hear your feedback on the idea of of hate crimes and if you think it's a good thing if you support Josh Hawley. Again, I'm not saying that Josh Hawley is a bad guy. I'm not saying he hasn't done.

Steven: [00:35:59] A lot of good. I just think this is a really big misstep, which, by.

Speaker4: [00:36:02] The way, we'll get to with the TikTok.

Steven: [00:36:03] Bill Yeah, because we.

Speaker4: [00:36:05] All start.

Steven: [00:36:06] With a kernel of truth and then it veers off. And here's.

Speaker4: [00:36:08] Something to.

Steven: [00:36:09] Just to, to offer some some praise, some some credit. And a lot of other people have been doing this fantastic. But I think that, again, the rule of contrast is important.

Speaker4: [00:36:18] Knowing that the response time was relatively good.

Steven: [00:36:21] Is is not the same as understanding the.

Speaker4: [00:36:23] Entirety.

Steven: [00:36:24] Of the context in well, if we compare it to like Uvalde, for example. So the emergency call was received.

Speaker4: [00:36:30] At 10:13 a.m..

Steven: [00:36:32] Took ten minutes for officers to arrive.

Speaker4: [00:36:34] Okay. Then it took three minutes for the police to kill the shooter.

Steven: [00:36:38] Let's compare that to the.

Speaker4: [00:36:41] Do we have a side by side? Yes, side by side of Nashville versus Uvalde.

Speaker11: [00:36:48] There's no audio. There's no audio. Okay. Just watching.

Speaker4: [00:37:09] Big difference.

Gerald: [00:37:14] If you notice something on the left, it's called the fast forward button. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steven: [00:37:17] We had to do a time lapse. We almost played the the Benny Hill music for Vivaldi, but realized it would be considered in poor taste. Yes.

Gerald: [00:37:26] Yeah. I think.

Speaker11: [00:37:27] What's important.

Gerald: [00:37:28] Is what they're doing right there.

Steven: [00:37:29] Yes, exactly. I think the point is there they are, hapless rubes.

Speaker11: [00:37:33] Using the hand sanitizer.

Steven: [00:37:35] Yeah, well, look.

Speaker4: [00:37:36] Got to keep saying safety first. No, your job is. And by the way, here's the big difference. These police officers on the.

Steven: [00:37:43] Right.

Speaker4: [00:37:44] They understand.

Steven: [00:37:45] That their job, when called to do it, is to die to protect their fellow citizens.

Speaker4: [00:37:52] We're so used to cubicle work and. No, no, hang on a second. If you're a soldier out in the battlefield, if you're a police officer, you have signed up to when there are children being murdered, your job is to hopefully make that guy die first, but accept the risk.

Steven: [00:38:06] That it's part of your job description to die in the effort of battle to save their lives.

Speaker4: [00:38:11] And those guys were willing to do it.

Gerald: [00:38:12] Yeah, like and by the way, if you don't want to sign up for that, that's totally fine. I understand it. Don't sign up. Right. Right. If that's not what you're willing to do. But think about this. Three minutes. From arriving on the scene to Shooter is down three minutes. Yeah. Wow. This shooting in Uvalde wasn't resolved. And you saw the people piling up in the hallway. And there's probably a bunch of good officers there that wanted to go in that for whatever reason, didn't for orders, whatever it was. But three minutes later, these guys go in and methodically clear, clear, clear, clear, Boom. Shooters down. Done. Good. No, No more innocent people are dying today. Yep.

Speaker4: [00:38:48] This is why I always say, you know, they believe that.

Steven: [00:38:50] A gun is evil. I don't even say that killing is evil. Just to be clear.

Speaker4: [00:38:54] You can kill kids or you can kill the psychopath.

Steven: [00:38:58] Killing kids.

Speaker4: [00:38:59] Violence is.

Steven: [00:39:00] Amoral. Let's be clear about that.

Speaker4: [00:39:01] If you do not teach children right.

Steven: [00:39:03] From wrong, none of these.

Speaker4: [00:39:04] Things are relevant. If someone doesn't understand right.

Steven: [00:39:08] From wrong, they.

Speaker4: [00:39:08] Violence bad. No, no. Because then that means.

Steven: [00:39:12] When push comes to shove, when they have to pull that trigger to save.

Speaker4: [00:39:15] Lives of.

Steven: [00:39:16] Potentially.

Speaker4: [00:39:16] Countless people. They don't do it because, well, violence is wrong.

Steven: [00:39:20] It's like the zero tolerance policy that we use to have at school with bullies. That's a less extreme version.

Speaker4: [00:39:23] Where if you fight back, if you push the bully who is beating up on a helpless person. Right, Right. If a bully is beating up on a handicapped kid and you punch that bully in the face, you both get treated equally. That was the that was the policy at my high school. That sends the wrong message, for crying out loud. That kid, that kid, if he punches the bully, should get, you know, week long access to to Joe Biden's ice cream fridge.

Gerald: [00:39:46] Right. Well, now look, you made a really good point. We were talking about this earlier. Three minutes is phenomenal. Right.

Steven: [00:39:52] But be better. It's not as good as zero minutes. Exactly. It's not as good as zero minutes, which when.

Speaker4: [00:39:57] People say, hey, well, you want to have.

Steven: [00:39:58] A world where we have armed guards at school.

Speaker4: [00:40:00] Yep, yep, yep. Yes, I do. And I want every teacher who wants to have a firearm.

Steven: [00:40:05] Who keeps it in a you know, who has it locked or has some kind of a retention holster.

Speaker4: [00:40:09] They should have the right to they shouldn't forfeit their right if they choose to carry a firearm if they are a teacher.

Gerald: [00:40:14] Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? 16 mass shootings have or school shootings have occurred this year alone, 19 if you include after grade, you know, all the way through college. But 16 of those K through 12. Yeah. So it seems like we can solve we can maybe give 16 different groups of people a better shot at surviving if we just allow that to happen instead of making these gun free zones, which is absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker4: [00:40:40] No, it's far more realistic to get.

Steven: [00:40:41] Rid of over the 400 million guns in this country. Yeah, we'll be able.

Speaker4: [00:40:44] To do far more if we're just even talking about. If you don't like guns.

Steven: [00:40:46] Okay, fine. Let's say that you've got a full on gun ban tomorrow.

Speaker4: [00:40:49] Let's just from a pragmatic standpoint, again, it's unconstitutional. But let's say you could do that still.

Steven: [00:40:53] Is it 400 something million guns in circulation, I believe, right now in the United States?

Speaker4: [00:40:56] Yeah. What do you do with those? So you think if you want to take steps right now, what can you do right now to plug the hole?

Steven: [00:41:02] Right. If you're in a.

Speaker4: [00:41:03] Boat, what can you do right now? Okay. Get rid of 400 something million guns in this country, not to mention how many of those used are illegally procured, like in the South side of Chicago or right now. Can you put some people with guns in schools who know how to use them responsibly? By the way, 100% of mass shooters.

Steven: [00:41:22] Are stopped by.

Speaker4: [00:41:23] Someone with a gun their.

Steven: [00:41:24] Own, a police officer's gun.

Speaker4: [00:41:26] Or.

Steven: [00:41:27] Being taken into custody at gunpoint. Absolutely.

Gerald: [00:41:29] So really quickly, we have a clip if you want to show it to Indianapolis of a good guy stopping a bad guy with a gun just to kind of highlight that point.

Speaker4: [00:41:35] Yeah. And by the way, there are so many of these we almost don't show because it happens all the time.

Steven: [00:41:38] There's 2 million defensive uses of firearms each year. Is what you were.

Speaker4: [00:41:40] Raising your hand? No, I.

Darrin: [00:41:41] Was going to say that response time metric is not the key. It's important. But I mean, Nashville's a big city. Evolved a more rural. Really? Yeah. It's that engagement number that's what, three minutes? Yeah. Once they arrive, boom. What do we do? You know, they're so worried about.

Speaker4: [00:41:56] The police arrived.

Steven: [00:41:57] Quickly and did.

Speaker4: [00:41:58] Nothing for a long.

Steven: [00:41:58] Time. That's right. That's a key metric. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, that's a very big. And that's a character issue.

Speaker4: [00:42:04] That's a character issue.

Steven: [00:42:05] We have a soul.

Speaker4: [00:42:06] Issue in this.

Steven: [00:42:06] Country. If you're a cop and you show up, imagine that.

Speaker4: [00:42:08] Imagine being because we watch it and there's no sound.

Steven: [00:42:10] Okay. And I want to go to this clip, but imagine Uvalde and.

Speaker4: [00:42:13] You know, it literally makes me sick to my.

Steven: [00:42:14] Stomach, especially now as a dad. Imagine being there, a police officer showing up. Was it an.

Gerald: [00:42:19] Hour?

Steven: [00:42:19] It was almost an hour. Almost an hour.

Speaker4: [00:42:21] Hearing the guns going off.

Steven: [00:42:23] So they had.

Speaker4: [00:42:24] Sound. Yeah, they heard the bullets flying.

Steven: [00:42:27] They heard the screams of children.

Speaker4: [00:42:29] And they're waiting for their supervisor. They're putting on hand sanitizers. That's a soul issue. That's a soul issue. Oh, they have to take. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No orders go out the window when there are bullets flying and kids dying in there. That is a character issue. And the difference between, well, sure, we have policy issues, but we also have a soul issue. We have a cowardice issue. And so it does deserve praise. The Nashville police officers, look, it's not their fault that they weren't stationed there beforehand.

Steven: [00:42:54] But when they showed up, guess what?

Speaker4: [00:42:55] They said not today, not happening here. That's the.

Steven: [00:42:59] Difference of their.

Speaker4: [00:43:00] Character. But you can't we can't talk about that.

Steven: [00:43:03] You can't talk about that because then.

Speaker4: [00:43:04] That that would be a judgment and then that judgment might apply to.

Steven: [00:43:06] Oh, my gosh, people with mental.

Speaker4: [00:43:08] Illness who identify as, you know.

Steven: [00:43:09] A trans.

Speaker4: [00:43:10] Old lady or Mimi from The Drew Carey Show, we have another clip. You said.

Gerald: [00:43:14] That from.

Speaker4: [00:43:14] Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun. It's just one.

Steven: [00:43:17] Example of the 2 to 3 million defensive uses of firearms every single year.

Speaker13: [00:43:22] Another American mass shooting with a rare twist after authorities near Indianapolis say a good Samaritan armed with a handgun shot the gun. This was the kid amid the chaos. Many more.

Speaker4: [00:43:33] Yeah, this I think this we actually had the video of it.

Gerald: [00:43:36] Oh, no, no, no, no. Sorry. It was just. Can we not show the video? I don't know. I don't know. But basically showing the point, like, look, this is what happens. Somebody on scene who's got, you know, just a good Samaritan. This is not a police officer or anything like that to kind of buttress the point. We just made it able to take out this person very, very quickly before more people are killed.

Speaker4: [00:43:54] And the shooters are.

Darrin: [00:43:54] Able to respond, shooters at a real disadvantage. He's looking at maybe hundreds of people at the food court. Right. He doesn't know where it's coming from and we all focus on him, Right?

Speaker4: [00:44:02] That's yeah, that's.

Steven: [00:44:04] A big thing. That's the concealed carry. That's why there's such a benefit. There is. They have no idea.

Speaker4: [00:44:07] It's surprise you win a lottery, bitch. Yeah.

Darrin: [00:44:10] But if you're a police officer today, you need to sit in your quiet time and say, okay, purpose in my purpose, in your heart in advance. How will I handle this if it ever happens to me in my profession? That's we watch violent videos all the time of fights and we go, okay, what would I do? Yeah, don't you put yourself in that situation.

Speaker4: [00:44:25] So many police officers.

Darrin: [00:44:26] Instead are going on that subway.

Steven: [00:44:28] Pension.

Darrin: [00:44:29] Yeah. Seriously, in advance. That's not. How would you respond? Well, yeah.

Speaker4: [00:44:34] People want the benefits and they want the security.

Steven: [00:44:36] And they want the pensions and they they want the vacation with a lot, but they don't want the risk. They don't want the risk. That's what a police officer does. It's not going to be a huge part of your job, but you have to decide in advance what it is that you are going to do. It is a social issue.

Speaker4: [00:44:50] And by the way, the easiest rebuttal whenever someone says just so the fastest path to victory for you guys.

Steven: [00:44:54] When someone says.

Speaker4: [00:44:55] Well, what if what if it would save one life? Won't it save say, Yeah, but it will. It will take millions a year. 2 to 3 defensive. 2 to 3 million defensive uses of firearms. So. So yours. So you say save a life. You mean 14,000? I believe in 2020 were gun homicides? Most of them are. But just say, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there are millions saved. So. So why do you want to take millions of lives? There you go. Done. You now remove the whole empathy argument and it's disingenuous anyway. All right. And by the way, you can hit the like button, smash the rumble button, whatever it is that you want to do where you're watching. We recommend that you head on over to Rumble because.

Steven: [00:45:31] Boy, is it has it been exciting?

Speaker4: [00:45:33] This is another thing. Ron DeSantis and by the way, you're listening on audio. We're about to get into some stuff.

Steven: [00:45:37] That doesn't make sense.

Speaker4: [00:45:40] Oh, I should tell you audio, by the way, on Audio Friday, if you're not subscribed to Spotify or, you know, Apple, it's not iTunes anymore. Apple, wherever audio is, we are uploading the lost.

Steven: [00:45:50] Yeah, the lost sketches. They're like four, 600.

Speaker4: [00:45:53] Audio sketches back before this was ever on YouTube that we.

Steven: [00:45:56] Found.

Speaker4: [00:45:56] We've archived.

Steven: [00:45:57] And you get an episode.

Speaker4: [00:45:58] There on Friday and it's only available there because they.

Steven: [00:46:00] Don't really make sense unless you're listening on audio. I'll be doing that in the next two Fridays.

Speaker4: [00:46:03] Then the rest of it will be available for.

Steven: [00:46:05] Download on Mug Club.

Darrin: [00:46:06] It's finally flipped. We're listening on audio is an advantage. Well for.

Speaker6: [00:46:09] This one. Yeah.

Speaker11: [00:46:11] Just one. Just one day a week. Just. Yeah. Just one day. One day. But there's.

Steven: [00:46:15] Hundreds. We still have to go through it. And by the way, they're not all gems.

Speaker6: [00:46:19] A lot of it was filler.

Speaker4: [00:46:20] Yeah. Monday you have 16 minutes of ads on.

Steven: [00:46:23] Radio and you just have to fill it and you're like, Oh my God, it's such an archaic medium, which we'll get to with John Leguizamo or as I call him, no Talent, nothing now.

Darrin: [00:46:32] And he would call home when he needed guests.

Speaker6: [00:46:34] Yes, I.

Speaker4: [00:46:34] Would. I'm like, Dad, I need you to play the story. I need you to play. The Ebola.

Steven: [00:46:38] Czar.

Speaker6: [00:46:41] Did that.

Speaker4: [00:46:41] Back in the day. It was anyone was just calling.

Steven: [00:46:43] Okay.

Speaker4: [00:46:43] So Monday.

Steven: [00:46:45] Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new bill, by the way, that would and this this bill is about school choice. And this is something.

Speaker4: [00:46:50] You know, we talk about common ground. Hey, how about instead.

Steven: [00:46:52] Of just giving money directly to the school, that money that you spent per pupil is attached to the student so they can take it to whichever school they want. That seems like a very, very reasonable approach. Here's a clip. State of Florida is number one when it comes to education, freedom and education, choice and.

[00:47:11] Did the black guy and black woman.

Speaker4: [00:47:13] Like plan the same hairdo.

Steven: [00:47:15] And today's bill signing cements us.

Speaker5: [00:47:19] In that number one.

Steven: [00:47:20] Position because we will be.

Speaker4: [00:47:21] Signing legislation which will represent the largest.

Speaker14: [00:47:25] Expansion of education choice, not only in the history of this state, but in the history of these United States. That.

Speaker4: [00:47:36] Okay, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is where I.

Steven: [00:47:38] Would say those are paid. Those are paid.

Speaker4: [00:47:39] Actors. Why just bring up a still every.

Steven: [00:47:42] Single white.

Speaker4: [00:47:43] Or brown or, you.

Steven: [00:47:44] Know, your guess as good as mine kid has the same.

Speaker4: [00:47:47] Exact haircut.

Speaker11: [00:47:48] That's zoomer hair.

Speaker4: [00:47:49] And then.

Speaker6: [00:47:50] Every.

Speaker7: [00:47:50] Black person has the same haircut.

Speaker6: [00:47:53] It's zoomer. Sideshow Bob here.

Speaker4: [00:47:55] Let's bring it up. Bring it up. That was way too fast, man. Look at that. Every single white kid has a look. One right there. The white guy with the.

Gerald: [00:48:03] Shorter guy on the left is a little different. Yeah.

Speaker6: [00:48:06] Yeah, well, he's a.

Speaker4: [00:48:06] Little kid, but not really that much. Every single white guy to his left, by the way, by the way, with as far as the optics, put one black.

Speaker7: [00:48:13] Person on your.

Speaker4: [00:48:14] Left. Don't put it like it's just. There's that one. There's that one white bitch there in the middle. I don't know what her thing is. Yeah, they both have the same. It's like, all right, I want all the white kids with the hairdo. You're all here. And then you two African-Americans have the same hair. You're going to go there. This is going to be good for us. This will look great.

Speaker11: [00:48:30] It's the Zoomer hairstyle. It's bizarre. Yeah.

Speaker6: [00:48:33] Give me the.

Darrin: [00:48:34] Sideshow, Bob. Yeah.

Steven: [00:48:36] I think it's now known as a Rachel Dolezal.

Speaker7: [00:48:38] Oh, that's right. Racist. Oh, yeah.

Speaker4: [00:48:39] So DeSantis, by the way, said this program, just so you know, it just means that all students.

Steven: [00:48:44] Now are eligible for school vouchers. You can go.

Speaker4: [00:48:46] Back to 2009.

Steven: [00:48:47] On YouTube where I was advocating. I did a whole video.

Speaker4: [00:48:50] With puppets.

Steven: [00:48:51] And one was suspended on YouTube because a puppet got stabbed with a pen. It was called it was called School's for Fools. And it had a bear in the big Blue House costume 2009. You can go back and watch it. I was advocating for student vouchers, which means that instead of you.

Speaker4: [00:49:04] Spending money just.

Steven: [00:49:05] Going to a school, it means.

Speaker4: [00:49:07] That the.

Steven: [00:49:07] Voucher attaches to the student and they can take it to a school of their choice.

Speaker4: [00:49:09] Now, the left says that's racist.

Steven: [00:49:11] And of course, the response is, that makes no sense. You're retarded. But the bill, as DeSantis described it, he said now primarily there will.

Speaker4: [00:49:19] Be a preference.

Steven: [00:49:20] For low and middle.

Speaker4: [00:49:21] Income families.

Steven: [00:49:23] But at the end of the day, we.

Speaker4: [00:49:24] Fundamentally believe the money should follow the student and be.

Steven: [00:49:28] Directed on what the parent thinks is the most appropriate education program for their child.

Speaker4: [00:49:34] Really common common ground. Come on. Again, if it's not about control from the left, tell me how when they try to say it's racist, tell me how the black kid in the inner city who has to go to one of the crappiest schools in the country doesn't benefit from at least having a choice?

Gerald: [00:49:49] Absolutely. Oh, you know, what it does is it breaks the teachers unions. That's what it is.

Speaker6: [00:49:54] Exactly. Wait.

Speaker4: [00:49:55] They say, well, what about black kids in bad neighborhoods? They can't travel to other schools?

Steven: [00:49:59] Well, guess what? Really?

Speaker4: [00:50:00] They've been traveling to crappy schools for decades that haven't improved. The metrics have shown that they've gotten worse. At least now they can ride a bike, maybe walk. Maybe that school will offer some kind of a municipal bus system. At right now, there's no choice. No choice. You're saying there's no benefit to some choice?

Speaker6: [00:50:14] Hold on.

Gerald: [00:50:15] Hold on. So so to get access to a better life, you have to potentially find a way to travel 30 minutes in a day. I mean, every old person's story I heard was that they walked to school and it took longer and it was uphill both ways in the snow, the whole thing. Yeah. Well, at what point is it like, I can't make you drink water? I can only tell you that it's over there. If you're dying of thirst, make your way to it.

Speaker4: [00:50:37] Yeah, and I get your children. And I understand. By the way, I'm not talking about.

Gerald: [00:50:40] A five year old, though.

Speaker4: [00:50:41] You know? But that's what we are talking. Here's what they're here's.

Steven: [00:50:43] What the left is sort of it's the parents fault at that point.

Speaker4: [00:50:45] What they're saying.

Steven: [00:50:46] Is you have a lot of kids in inner cities don't have parents.

Speaker4: [00:50:48] That's what they're saying. They're saying kids in the inner.

Steven: [00:50:50] Cities don't have parents. They're not going to help them transport. So what we want is the teachers unions to be strengthened. And we have to we want to put them in a crap hole where I think it's one out of four black Americans don't graduate. It might be higher than that in Detroit. Your chance of graduating high school, your chance of ending up in prison is greater than graduating high school once you enter high school in Detroit.

Speaker4: [00:51:09] That's a video that I did again back in 2009.

Steven: [00:51:10] We've been covering this for a very, very, very, very long time.

Speaker4: [00:51:13] So this is.

Steven: [00:51:13] By the way, a few things that DeSantis has done. March 2022, he signed the parental rights bill, right? The education bill stripped Disney of the self-governing powers over there, which was kind of pretty, pretty cool. And oh, wait a second. Hold on a second. While we're talking about Florida, we're actually getting word right now that the the seaweed island. Oh, no. That has been moving in. Oh, jeez. Yeah, We talked about last.

Speaker4: [00:51:34] Week on.

Speaker6: [00:51:35] Its way. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:51:36] Do we have.

Speaker11: [00:51:37] That? Just have the blob. Yeah. That's. That's moving in. Yes. Yeah.

[00:51:45] Well and. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:51:48] So we're getting I'm getting in my.

Steven: [00:51:50] Earpiece breaking news that actually it has made.

Speaker4: [00:51:52] There's been there have been some updates.

Steven: [00:51:54] So let's check back in with our on the ground correspondent, Finnegan and see what he has.

Speaker4: [00:52:07] Okay. Finnegan.

Speaker15: [00:52:08] Hey, Steven. I've been out here for a while, and I can confirm that the seaweed has moved closer to the beach. It is four, possibly five inches closer. Which in metric is. It's a it's a lot.

Speaker4: [00:52:20] So it's a slow moving.

Steven: [00:52:21] Aquatic disaster effectively.

Speaker15: [00:52:24] Slow moving, but very serious. So I'm going to stay out here, do my due diligence and keep an eye on it.

Steven: [00:52:31] Okay, Well, I guess we'll check back in later and watch out for that crowd. Sarah.

Darrin: [00:52:43] What is that time zone difference with Finnegan? That's.

Steven: [00:52:46] Well, that's more so just because it's the clouds or something about the. Yeah, it's the stormy night El.

Darrin: [00:52:49] Nino in Florida. So yeah.

Steven: [00:52:51] El Nino effect in the Humboldt squid.

Speaker6: [00:52:54] So El Nino. That's, that's California Nino.

Steven: [00:53:00] I had a nanny named El Nino. Turns out turns out ran fentanyl like a boss.

Speaker4: [00:53:05] So why did you give me a male nanny with neck tattoos? That was weird. That was ill advised.

Darrin: [00:53:10] So earlier in the face.

Steven: [00:53:13] He also revoked the.

Speaker4: [00:53:14] Liquor license DeSantis for the Hyatt Regency, by the way.

Steven: [00:53:17] And for those of you who don't know, that's because the hotel refresher hosted this Christmas drag show where children were present.

Speaker16: [00:53:26] I'm so excited. I was like, It's Christmas time. I'm gonna have to do this number 36 times. Everyone's going to dress up like sexy little women sluts. And I have to think outside the box.

Speaker4: [00:53:41] Okay. So we're glad, by the way, that DeSantis.

Steven: [00:53:44] Has been taking a stand here with that height. You know, I don't like the height. No, I don't. Not a big fan of the height, but it really should only be the start because I don't know if you know this hotel. There's an epidemic of hotels across this country really, that are they're just they're smut holes. Yes. They really are just a place where the. Yeah, the the the bottom of the barrel as dreams go to die. Yeah. This is where the scumbags, I guess if you want to use that.

Speaker6: [00:54:06] Term we can use that Cretans.

Steven: [00:54:08] Yes.

Speaker4: [00:54:09] Bottom feeders.

Gerald: [00:54:10] Not sending.

Steven: [00:54:10] Their best. They go to the Hyatt. But not just the Hyatt. Other hotels.

Speaker4: [00:54:13] Across this country have.

Steven: [00:54:15] Been hypersexualized. Yeah. Awful. Which brings us to this week. Seven plus.

Speaker4: [00:54:18] One.

[00:54:24] Y'all forgot the fan in the chamber.

Speaker4: [00:54:26] And this week, seven plus one, seven plus one sexually explicit hotels.

Steven: [00:54:32] It's a problem across this country. Pandemic.

Speaker4: [00:54:34] So if you see these hotels on the side of the.

Steven: [00:54:36] Road, just keep on moving.

Speaker4: [00:54:38] Seven plus one, sexually explicit hotels, number seven, Motel six. That seems actually pretty. Yeah, that's on the nose.

Steven: [00:54:46] Oh, free STD testing.

Speaker4: [00:54:47] Well, that's nice. Look, I mean.

Steven: [00:54:48] I don't know how much of that is a grant.

Speaker6: [00:54:51] Bring your own.

Darrin: [00:54:51] Sheets at that hotel.

Speaker6: [00:54:52] Yeah. And blacklight and avoid the pool.

Speaker7: [00:54:54] Seven plus one.

Steven: [00:54:55] Sexually explicit hotels. Number six, the holiday holiday. In and out. And in and out and in and out. Yeah, that seems it.

Darrin: [00:55:03] Works because it's in.

Speaker6: [00:55:05] Yes, it does.

Gerald: [00:55:06] It's an interesting logo welcoming.

Speaker6: [00:55:07] Exactly.

Steven: [00:55:08] People on audio. This makes no sense. These are all these are all Photoshopped.

Speaker4: [00:55:12] Hey, Pops Crowder, let's go. Number five.

Darrin: [00:55:14] One of my favorites, the extended gay America.

Speaker4: [00:55:16] Oh, yeah. Well, that's good, too. They they actually they have stoves there, so you can, like, a little mini kitchen.

Darrin: [00:55:21] Yeah.

Speaker7: [00:55:21] You can cook.

Speaker6: [00:55:22] Or hide a body.

Speaker4: [00:55:24] Seven plus one, sexually explicit hotels. Number four, the heart. Well, the hard hotel, which is just. That's. Yeah, yeah. It's more of a casino and resort.

Speaker7: [00:55:33] Don't steal the towels.

Steven: [00:55:34] It must be the.

Gerald: [00:55:34] Steam from the AC units on the top.

Speaker4: [00:55:36] Sexually explicit hotels. Seven plus one. Number three. Gerald A the red poof in your poof.

Speaker6: [00:55:43] Poof.

Speaker4: [00:55:44] It's an international expression.

Speaker6: [00:55:46] It means magic. Poof. It does.

Speaker4: [00:55:49] Seven plus one sexually explicit hotels. Look, yesterday was intense, You guys, this is this is for all of you. Number two, the best Western roleplay dungeon. That just seems like more of a descriptor. Yes. Yeah, really?

Speaker7: [00:56:01] Number one.

Speaker4: [00:56:03] This is really more of a motel. But, you know.

Steven: [00:56:04] We we had yeah, we had to.

Speaker4: [00:56:06] Include all of them. I mean, basically, it's a place to rest, your place to rest.

Steven: [00:56:09] Your noggin or engage in debauchery. Right?

Speaker4: [00:56:11] Seven plus one. The number one.

Steven: [00:56:13] Hotel to avoid is the.

Speaker4: [00:56:14] Super eight inches which you're getting whether you want it or not. And that's a problem. And the and the plus one seven plus one sex explicit hotels is oh actually well that it's the Paris Hilton.

Speaker6: [00:56:24] I'm a female that's been this week's.

[00:56:28] Seven plus one. Y'all forgot the fan in the chamber.

Speaker6: [00:56:36] Yeah, I always forget.

Gerald: [00:56:37] Yeah, absolutely. The Super eight inches, by the way, I think is no longer under Asian ownership. So. No, is it not?

Speaker6: [00:56:41] No.

Steven: [00:56:45] It's by the Chicago mayoral candidate.

Speaker6: [00:56:47] Well, yeah. Yeah.

Steven: [00:56:49] Ain't nothing.

Speaker6: [00:56:50] Bigger. Ain't nothing going change.

Steven: [00:56:51] Nothing going change. You guys need to watch the Chicago mayors on CNN all the time. Yes.

Speaker4: [00:56:55] If I mayor of Chicago, I.

Steven: [00:56:57] Will put on more gun restrictions. Mm hm. Okay. And nothing.

Speaker4: [00:57:01] Go change. It's gone insane.

Speaker11: [00:57:03] Everywhere is a gun zone.

Steven: [00:57:05] Everywhere is a gun zone. Because it's a gun free zone.

Speaker4: [00:57:08] Vote for me. You get to keep your gun violence free.

Speaker6: [00:57:11] Guns for everybody.

Speaker4: [00:57:13] He just. He's parroting exactly what they already do in Chicago. Am I the only one? Hilarious. All right. So here, let's go into this, because some people weren't aware of what.

Steven: [00:57:20] We were talking about with the hearing on Monday. Yeah, the TikTok hearing. That's very different from the bill. Yes. Now, from the legislation, which is worrisome. If you don't know about this, I would highly recommend that you go and read it. Right.

Gerald: [00:57:31] And there were multiple that were being floated. Actually, this is where Hawley kind of makes up for his earlier thing. He actually had a better version of this that he was trying to get to be the one taken up, but it wasn't.

Speaker4: [00:57:41] So, Hey guys, do we have can you guys give me also the the.

Steven: [00:57:43] Vote, what we have from Republicans and Democrats? I don't necessarily know that I have the numbers because that would be interesting to actually see. So this is the restrict act, right? Congress. Right. There's been support or has it? It hasn't.

Speaker4: [00:57:54] Gone yet. It hasn't gone through. That's right.

Steven: [00:57:56] It hasn't gone through. I don't know if there was a they're still proposing proposing it. But I read somewhere there's like the list of people who they expect to support it.

Speaker7: [00:58:03] Yes. And it's.

Steven: [00:58:04] Surprisingly.

Gerald: [00:58:05] Well, it's like co-sponsors and sponsors and people that have signed on to it so far. So it just hasn't gone yet.

Speaker6: [00:58:09] Isn't it so.

Speaker4: [00:58:10] Funny that we just sort.

Steven: [00:58:11] Of accept the idea of earmarks?

Speaker4: [00:58:13] And you hear this a lot. This is one of those things because I get if you're tuning.

Steven: [00:58:16] Into the show, you might not.

Speaker4: [00:58:17] Necessarily be a political junkie. Earmarks, right? That means that you can.

Steven: [00:58:19] Have a bill that everyone sort of drafts up, they.

Speaker4: [00:58:22] Read it and then they go, Oh, yeah.

Speaker7: [00:58:23] And by the way, just hold on a second.

Speaker4: [00:58:26] What? I just added 100 million more for.

Steven: [00:58:28] A thing that nobody else knows about. Good enough for.

Gerald: [00:58:30] Me. Is it in your district? Yes, it.

Steven: [00:58:31] Is. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:58:32] Yeah, yeah. Oh, good. And the bill can be triple the size like. Yeah, this is just something we do a lot of people. Don't you hear the term earmarks? It quite literally means they can just add what they want and people go, Oh, that's another one of the earmarks. No.

Speaker6: [00:58:49] How about no?

Speaker4: [00:58:50] They'd be like filing your expense report at work. Like, okay, so this is your gas, huh? Right. Okay. And then this was your mileage? Um hum. Yeah. Wait, what's this? That's the bill for my whole car. I just figured I wanted to put that in there, and it's like, All right, take care of it all. It's the law.

Darrin: [00:59:01] That would be something. If you put to a referendum, 90% of the country would say, Yeah, we do that. Yeah, of course not.

Speaker4: [00:59:07] Well, that's the thing is, they're not actually.

Steven: [00:59:09] Representatives on the issues that they should represent you. Yeah, that's one of those issues where the people should be able to say the people should be able to control their representatives, right? They should be able to corral them. They can't necessarily vote on every single piece of legislation.

Speaker4: [00:59:19] They're a representative government. But you certainly should be able to vote on the rules regulating your representatives. So that would be something that you think they're going to vote to get rid of earmarks. It's basically it's free money. Anyway, Sorry, I go.

Steven: [00:59:32] Off on I went off on a tangent there.

Speaker4: [00:59:34] You guys comment below what you think about earmarks. Maybe there's maybe.

Steven: [00:59:37] There's one guy there who's like, I am super pro.

Speaker4: [00:59:39] Earmark, earmark, bro. Oh, I've now met you Pro earmark. Todd Well, it's not always an appropriations thing.

Darrin: [00:59:44] Sometimes it's just an ideological thing where you have to vote against it because someone else stuck something in there that you're against. And by the way, he voted down. Exactly.

Speaker4: [00:59:52] That's another it's a.

Steven: [00:59:53] Political tool as well. There you go. Okay. All right. This is the for example, this is the don't.

Speaker4: [00:59:58] Smack babies that aren't yours or yours.

Steven: [01:00:01] Bill.

Speaker4: [01:00:02] Like don't slap babies in the face, Bill, Which anyone would support, right? People like. Oh, okay. Okay. That's good. Yeah. And they would say, oh, we have unanimous support on Capitol Hill, right? But then AOC puts in like and by the way, free cocks for.

Speaker7: [01:00:12] Children and you're like.

Speaker6: [01:00:13] No, no, no. They go, You believe in slapping babies? That's right. How dare you, sir?

Speaker11: [01:00:19] Well, I'm not signing it unless that's in there. Yeah, I'm not signing.

Speaker7: [01:00:21] It unless that's in there.

Speaker4: [01:00:22] Oh, gosh. Well, she has a vested interest, too.

Speaker7: [01:00:24] That's why she was slapped a lot. That's why she's googly.

Speaker6: [01:00:27] So here's the.

Speaker4: [01:00:29] Most popular choice of the TikTok proposed bills.

Steven: [01:00:32] And really one that you should be aware of. It's the restrict act.

Speaker17: [01:00:35] What he's talking about, TikTok and the ability of that platform to be used by the Communist Party, both to take on data, but also potentially as a malign influence and propaganda tool. We need a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and mitigating these threats posed by these foreign technologies from these adversarial nations. Their strict act would give the Secretary of Commerce the authority and the responsibility to identify and counter threats from foreign technology, products and services in the US, a series of mitigation tools given to the Secretary up to and including the opportunity to ban truth is with 100 million Americans daily on TikTok on an average of 90 minutes a day, this is this is an issue.

Steven: [01:01:20] Okay. Just to be clear, my position is.

Speaker4: [01:01:22] If if we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that there is no spying.

Steven: [01:01:26] And that your privacy is entirely protected, then okay, then you don't need to ban TikTok. The issue is.

Speaker4: [01:01:30] The privacy and security of.

Steven: [01:01:31] Americans, because I don't trust the. In his Chinese part any further, I can throw them.

Speaker4: [01:01:34] So when people say oh you're you're pro free speech until no, no, no, this isn't a speech issue. It's an actual security issue right now.

Steven: [01:01:41] The problem is.

Speaker4: [01:01:42] That's used.

Steven: [01:01:43] By those on the left and those fake Republicans to then shoehorn in a total invasion, ironically, of your privacy and security. So it's been introduced by Mike Warner, who's a Republican, a Democrat from Virginia, and John Thune, Republican from South Dakota. It's named the restricting the emergence.

Speaker4: [01:02:00] Of security Threats that Risk Information and Communications.

Steven: [01:02:02] Technology Act.

Speaker4: [01:02:04] Jeez, I hate the way they name these things.

Speaker6: [01:02:06] Can you please.

Gerald: [01:02:07] Just name it? Something simple and easy for us? Yeah, that's that's.

Steven: [01:02:11] Too long because they're always naming it for the acronym.

Gerald: [01:02:13] But it's the restrict act.

Speaker4: [01:02:15] It's the restrict act. Good. I hope someone just.

Steven: [01:02:17] Accidentally spells one. It's like the I'm an.

Speaker7: [01:02:19] Asshole act.

Speaker6: [01:02:20] Act.

Darrin: [01:02:21] We just let the Democrats name it because they're better with language than we are. You know, Affordable Care Act, pro-choice.

Speaker4: [01:02:27] They're real child affirming care. Yes, we.

Gerald: [01:02:29] Need better marketing on these bills. That's what it is.

Speaker6: [01:02:32] We're awful on our side. Better marketing.

Steven: [01:02:34] So March 7th, the bill was introduced, by the way, weeks before the hearing. Just to be clear, other sponsors of the bill include Mitt Romney. I'm going to pull a I'm going to pull a Biden with Mitt Romney. If like if he's for it, I'm probably against it.

Darrin: [01:02:47] Now, is that the Michigan Mitt Romney or the Massachusetts?

Speaker4: [01:02:49] Massachusetts?

Gerald: [01:02:50] No, no, no. No.

Speaker4: [01:02:51] Utah. Utah.

Steven: [01:02:53] The Utah. Mitt Romney. Yeah. The Utah. Mitt Romney.

Speaker4: [01:02:55] Carpetbagger. Yes.

Speaker6: [01:02:56] Mitt Romney.

Speaker4: [01:02:57] Yes.

Steven: [01:02:57] Yes. Not to be confused with with muncher. Yes.

Gerald: [01:03:00] That's a totally different animal.

Steven: [01:03:01] That's Rosie O'Donnell. And she's not in office. I don't even know why you brought that up, Gerald. Weird. So the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, praised.

Speaker4: [01:03:09] The bill, saying this legislation would empower the United States government to prevent certain foreign governments from exploiting technology services operating in the United States. United States. Okay, that sounds great. That sounds great. Yeah. Stopping the CCP from spying on us through TikTok. Great. Okay. I agree with that. That's what we talked.

Steven: [01:03:25] About on Monday.

Speaker4: [01:03:26] But the details of the bill, well, a lot of them have nothing to do with that. So here's let me give you I think it's three kind of fast facts. So, you know, and you can check all.

Steven: [01:03:33] References at Lutterworth Credit.com. Here's fact number one. Okay. The bill is incredibly broad. Now, here's the purpose of the legislation. It's described as authorizing the secretary of commerce. And that's going to come back. This is key here.

Speaker4: [01:03:47] Get ready to put your tinfoil hat on, because at the end of this segment, before we go.

Steven: [01:03:51] To Rumble, I.

Speaker4: [01:03:52] Mean, this tin can about to hit, it's going to knock.

Steven: [01:03:54] Out a couple of teeth. All right.

Speaker4: [01:03:55] To authorize a secretary.

Steven: [01:03:56] Of commerce to review and prohibit.

Speaker4: [01:03:58] Certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries and for other.

Steven: [01:04:02] Purposes. I love that last part.

Speaker6: [01:04:04] And and for other purposes. What purposes? Well, other it could be anything in there. It's like, why do we allow laws for other purposes?

Speaker4: [01:04:14] You mean like paying for congressional bowling alley?

Speaker7: [01:04:16] Well, I didn't expect.

Speaker4: [01:04:17] You to pay for a whole.

Speaker7: [01:04:18] Damn bowling alley.

Speaker6: [01:04:19] But whatever purposes we want. Yes. And.

Gerald: [01:04:22] And other things that we cannot as much flowery language as they use these bills as long as these things are there like. And other stuff.

Speaker6: [01:04:30] And other stuff.

Speaker4: [01:04:31] Well, hang on a second. What do you plan on purchasing? It's a lamp.

Speaker6: [01:04:35] What a great lamp.

Speaker7: [01:04:37] How much did it cost a taxpayer?

Speaker4: [01:04:38] $14,000. Yeah.

Speaker7: [01:04:40] Wow. There's a little bit of red tape there.

Speaker4: [01:04:42] So what exactly constitutes a transaction?

Steven: [01:04:44] Here we go.

Speaker4: [01:04:45] And we're joking about it. But here's here's the technical term. And what we just.

Steven: [01:04:48] Said was just.

Speaker4: [01:04:49] As accurate of a description. The term covered transaction includes any other transaction. Son of a bitch.

Speaker6: [01:04:59] The structure of.

Speaker4: [01:05:00] Which is designed or intended to evade or circumvent the application of this act, which, by the way, is designed to restrict transactions so any transactions would be intending to evade or circumvent the application of this Act, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Okay, here's the crazy thing. Okay, Here's another fast fact for you that might blow your mind under this bill, right?

Steven: [01:05:24] Defining all the terms and the punishments.

Speaker4: [01:05:26] Of these transactions. It's up to the Secretary of Commerce.

Steven: [01:05:31] Gina Raimondo. Okay. Now, the secretary, just to be clear, so this is where they talking about the authorization? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker4: [01:05:37] Now, the secretary is, quote, authorized to and shall take action to identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate or otherwise mitigate. It's like Jackie Chiles.

Speaker6: [01:05:47] It is to it is to disrupt.

Speaker4: [01:05:50] Prohibit, investigate and mitigate.

Speaker6: [01:05:53] Straight negotiate entering into.

Speaker4: [01:05:58] Or imposing and enforcing any mitigation measure to address the risk. No need for congressional approval. Hey, remember where we been this Oh, remember the wars that you guys all loved and supported And no one regrets that later on. Here's what's so odd, right? We're talking about the secretary of commerce, right? We're talking about.

Speaker7: [01:06:14] Raimondo, Raimondo.

Speaker4: [01:06:16] Said.

Steven: [01:06:17] Just a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker4: [01:06:18] Here's a quote said Passing.

Steven: [01:06:19] A law to ban a single company.

Speaker4: [01:06:21] Is not the way to deal with the issue. Referring to TikTok, the politician in me thinks you're literally going to lose every voter under 35. So we are giving all of the power regarding all of the transactions online to someone who doesn't want to ban TikTok, all in the name of banning TikTok. Hmm. Think about that. So this is what happens. This is why you don't trust your institutions, right? And then they'll blame us. They'll blame the media. No, you don't trust them because. Yeah. Chinese spyware, that's a bad thing. I know Eric Swalwell was, you know, getting BJs in the back of his sex dungeon with, like, 19 Chinese spies. I think we should probably keep that to a minimum when we go. Hey. Yeah, Good common sense. We say, Hey, Representative, can you help us? I go, Yes, yes, we can ban TikTok. Great. And then I go, Here's the bill. Wait a second. This isn't this bans like this is all transactions and you're giving the power to a woman who didn't even want to ban TikTok and wait, she can. And my PayPal has been shut down. How did that happen? Well, you said you wanted Swalwell to stop banging Chinese spies, didn't you?

Speaker6: [01:07:18] What? Didn't say how.

Speaker4: [01:07:20] How did we get here?

Gerald: [01:07:22] No, it makes perfect sense. So I'll just give me all of the power to do this. Right? Right.

Speaker4: [01:07:26] And by the way, download the Rumble app. That's your best bet to watch this show right now. No Chinese spyware.

Gerald: [01:07:32] And by the way, you can you can get that in the the app store.

Steven: [01:07:35] As long as they allow it.

Gerald: [01:07:37] That's exactly my point. We'll come back to that. There's a very simple way to take care of this. Right.

Speaker4: [01:07:42] Wait. Take care of. Take care of the. Download the app. They can just download the Rumble app.

Speaker6: [01:07:47] No, no, no.

Gerald: [01:07:47] No, no, no. I'm saying that the Rumble app is available in the App Store. That's how they take care of it. Why don't you just go to the App store providers and say, Hey, this is violating your terms of use or terms of service? Oh, they're using this personal information. You can just remove them from the app store. Problem is probably 80% solved. See, I was just.

Steven: [01:08:04] Still on downloading the Rumble app. But you were several. You were playing 4D.

Speaker6: [01:08:07] Chess D Chess.

Speaker4: [01:08:08] Also, I have an app to play Chess. Nice.

Speaker6: [01:08:10] The computer always beats me.

Gerald: [01:08:11] I lose every time.

Speaker4: [01:08:12] So here's your next. Good. It's really good. I don't know why I said it. Two extra.

Speaker6: [01:08:16] Hard mode. Yeah, I.

Gerald: [01:08:18] Said it to five year old mode.

Speaker6: [01:08:19] Yes.

Speaker4: [01:08:20] I make myself feel better. And I just imagine Bobby Fisher on his smartphone, like, screw this guy. All right. So here's another fast fact. And you know, again, let's provide you some context. All, Reverend.

Steven: [01:08:30] Are available at credit.com.

Speaker4: [01:08:31] Is there any kind of.

Steven: [01:08:32] Precedent for this?

Speaker4: [01:08:34] Well, remember the Patriot Act after.

Steven: [01:08:36] 9/11, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which, by the way, overwhelming bipartisan support.

Speaker4: [01:08:40] And at one point in time, you probably would have counted me amongst.

Speaker7: [01:08:42] Them.

Speaker4: [01:08:43] To my everlasting shame.

Steven: [01:08:44] We've talked about.

Speaker4: [01:08:45] This. It basically removed.

Steven: [01:08:46] The need for agencies like the FBI to prove any kind of probable cause. Right. The search order would be granted as long as the FBI certifies that the search is, quote, to protect against international terrorism.

Speaker4: [01:08:55] Right. The FBI would not need to.

Steven: [01:08:56] Meet the stronger standard of probable cause.

Speaker4: [01:08:58] So what happened with the Patriot Act was in the name of national security.

Steven: [01:09:02] Right. They could now listen to your phone calls. They could now, you know, search and seizures. They could violate your constitutional rights. And people there's been a rebound effect where people say, oh, maybe we went too.

Speaker4: [01:09:11] Far with that.

Steven: [01:09:12] Now we're applying this digitally and not just.

Speaker4: [01:09:15] To terrorist threats, but.

Steven: [01:09:17] Transactions.

Speaker4: [01:09:18] Yeah, transactions. If they suspect that there might be something dealing with an international entity. By the way, you combine this combine this with a centralized digital currency that the government wants.

Steven: [01:09:30] It's game over. It's game over for the country.

Gerald: [01:09:32] Just to be clear and do me a favor, research team, I think I'm thinking of this name correctly, but I'm going to sound like an idiot if I'm not. But with the Patriot Act, wasn't there something also called like Magic Lantern or something like that that they were using to gather all of the phone call information to be able to listen to that? That was kind of piggy backed off of that as well. Under the guise of National.

Speaker6: [01:09:48] I think you're thinking.

Speaker4: [01:09:48] Of Magic Dragon and that was his.

Steven: [01:09:50] Friend who lived by the sea.

Gerald: [01:09:51] Well, that puff. No, that was the hotel. That poof, not puff. Its magic lantern.

Speaker4: [01:09:55] Was magic lantern. Yeah, I know what you're talking, right?

Speaker6: [01:09:57] Yeah.

Speaker18: [01:09:57] It's magic lantern Here Revealed a report of the FBI's new Keylogging Trojan analysis. It's possible treatment in a dynamic legal landscape, So.

Gerald: [01:10:06] Yeah, so that was right. So this is not that. The Patriot Act was the first thing, and then other things just come right after it. Same thing with this, right? You're opening the door.

Speaker4: [01:10:15] Hey, by the way, do you know how I know that Mike Pence is never going to be within sniffing distance of the presidency? Here he is right now on CNN. Pence noncommittal, on if he will appeal.

Steven: [01:10:24] Order to testify.

Speaker4: [01:10:26] Let's see what they say really quickly. But he did. That's a.

Speaker13: [01:10:28] Woman out. A little bit of a win here in that he did get to to have the judge agree with him that the vice presidency does have some protections around it, particularly the protections that members of Congress have.

Speaker4: [01:10:41] Boy, these politicians don't. This is how this is why Donald.

Steven: [01:10:43] Trump will probably get the nomination. Yeah, these politicians don't know how to deal with it.

Speaker4: [01:10:48] You just do as you say. No, go screw yourself even if you don't like Trump personally. Pence You go, go screw yourself. I'm done. Look, I'm done. I did what I did. Yeah, you know what? Yeah. Eat my. That's what you do.

Darrin: [01:10:59] He's such a post. He has no chance. Oh, my. I mean, good values guy for sure. But he is that guy is he doesn't have the personality to ever make a comment like that. He's so measured.

Steven: [01:11:09] I should like him and I don't. Yeah so the.

Speaker4: [01:11:12] Restrict act.

Steven: [01:11:12] Going back to this by the way it gives bizarrely similar powers to the commerce secretary. This is what it says. She can designate.

Speaker4: [01:11:18] Any entity as a.

Steven: [01:11:19] Foreign adversary without notifying Congress.

Speaker4: [01:11:21] Oh, good. Hey, hey, hold on a second.

Steven: [01:11:23] As a foreign adversary.

Speaker4: [01:11:24] What did this administration say was the greatest threat to our national.

Steven: [01:11:27] Security? At one point, that would.

Gerald: [01:11:28] Be the domestic terrorism from white people.

Speaker6: [01:11:31] From.

Speaker4: [01:11:31] And we didn't even rehearse that. We didn't. He just remembers it. Yep. White supremacy. So they say the tongue. Oh, wait, hold on a second. Hold on a second. You're you're running a farm yourself.

Steven: [01:11:40] You're doing homesteading.

Speaker4: [01:11:41] Oh, you might be in a militia group. Oh, by the way.

Steven: [01:11:44] All of these militia groups, I mean, not counting the 75% of whom are actually FBI agents, they're actually white supremacists.

Speaker4: [01:11:49] So now the secretary of commerce.

Steven: [01:11:51] Can decide that they're.

Speaker4: [01:11:53] Going to spy on you because it's a.

Steven: [01:11:54] Foreign adversary, which of course, would also include threats to national security. Right. No notification to Congress.

Speaker4: [01:11:59] This is all to ban TikTok.

Gerald: [01:12:00] Yeah. We also declassified parents protesting at. That's right. The school board meeting. That's right.

Speaker6: [01:12:06] And there's nothing.

Darrin: [01:12:07] In there to really protect against China. I mean, there's.

Speaker6: [01:12:10] I mean, they're going to unless it goes away, there's.

Gerald: [01:12:12] Going to use the language to go after China. But there are a lot of things that it can do. I mean, you nailed it on the head there with cryptocurrency, you can basically say like, hey, we can shut off potentially all the cryptocurrency in the world. We can shut off open source software from everywhere else in the world. Like there's a lot of problems with this that people are like, Hey, hey, hey, hold on. This allows for that and there's no redress. Like, you have to go to the D.C. Circuit Court if you have an issue, you can't even.

Speaker4: [01:12:34] No matter where you are, you can't.

Steven: [01:12:34] Even use a FOIA request, by the way, to find out when the restrict act is used. And then you.

Gerald: [01:12:37] Have to make a congressional I'm sorry, you have to make a constitutional argument in that case. Right. And so there's no real way to hold them accountable.

Darrin: [01:12:45] On the scene, you should be. Yes.

Speaker6: [01:12:47] Yeah, of course. He's. He's getting he's. Yeah, there it is. He's a.

Speaker4: [01:12:53] Phone. He's getting there in record time with his dog.

Steven: [01:12:56] On the roof.

Speaker4: [01:12:58] So. And this, by the way, just so.

Steven: [01:12:59] You know, you live this in real time because of emergency powers being used. That's why you'll never get an accurate.

Speaker4: [01:13:05] Metric on COVID deaths. We couldn't get it from Michigan.

Steven: [01:13:06] Right?

Speaker4: [01:13:07] Oh, emergency. Wait, hold on. How many people were actually put in old folks homes? We don't have to give you those numbers. Well, hold on a second. Legally, you're required to actually respond to FOIA requests. No, no, we don't. Because of emergency powers in this case, you wouldn't have to basically, it would be exempt from that. So you can't find out when it's used. They can spy on anybody, not just spy, but then restrict your ability to exchange money. And let's go to another one. Let's go to fact four here. This is what's so scary because I know you're saying, okay, this was used in the United States, the Patriot Act. No, it's even worse than that. It is eerily similar to.

Steven: [01:13:35] The Hong Kong security bill. Yes. Right. So let's go.

Speaker4: [01:13:38] Back to this. Remember, in 2020.

Steven: [01:13:39] China passed.

Speaker4: [01:13:41] Its.

Steven: [01:13:41] Own overarching.

Speaker4: [01:13:42] Are you good there, Tillman? I see you there in.

Steven: [01:13:44] Its own overarching security bill. Here we have a clip.

Speaker15: [01:13:48] Well, the law is being imposed by Beijing after no meaningful consultation with Hong Kong. That's a significant change. And the law bans treason, secession, sedition, subversion, and indeed leaves room for anything deemed a threat to national security. This inevitably changes what can and can't be said and done in Hong Kong.

Steven: [01:14:08] Okay, so let's compare that to the Restrict Act. Keep in mind, restrict is an acronym.

Speaker4: [01:14:14] We're represented by.

Speaker6: [01:14:15] Asshole.

Speaker4: [01:14:17] I just everything. And this is the thing too.

Speaker7: [01:14:19] Like, people are like, I want to get into. I get that all the time. I want to get into politics. I want to get into podcasting.

Steven: [01:14:23] I can't stand being in the room with most of these.

Speaker4: [01:14:26] I emceed CPAC for about.

Speaker7: [01:14:27] Four for four.

Steven: [01:14:28] Years in a row. Actually, it was four years spread over five because I got violently ill and was I was pooping my guts out. The toilet bowl has.

Gerald: [01:14:36] Never recovered.

Steven: [01:14:36] In DC And I was just like, I hate being here. Everyone is trying to get put over by someone else. As a general rule, they are not there to represent you. An exception Rand.

Speaker4: [01:14:47] Paul. And he still irritates me.

Steven: [01:14:49] But on policy, that's kind of, I would say, the best example that we have. He does a pretty damn good job and is pretty.

Speaker7: [01:14:55] He's remarkably consistent.

Steven: [01:14:57] Okay, here's the Restrict Act. The act is designed to, quote, prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries or for other purposes. Again, we go back to we just gave you the rundown.

Speaker4: [01:15:10] Let me read you the Hong Kong security law.

Steven: [01:15:13] A person who who conspires with or directly or indirectly receives instructions.

Speaker4: [01:15:18] Control.

Steven: [01:15:18] Funding or other kinds of support from a foreign country or an institution. And by the way, that can include domestic citizens just like the Restrict Act.

Speaker4: [01:15:28] It is remarkably similar.

Steven: [01:15:29] To the this bill that we're talking about, the bill that was passed there. Right. The Hong Kong security law. And now you have the restrict.

Speaker4: [01:15:35] Act in the United States, all under the guise of banning TikTok, which, by the way, it may or may not do.

Speaker6: [01:15:40] Right.

Gerald: [01:15:42] I'm not sure if it will accomplish the sole purpose of this bill.

Speaker4: [01:15:46] Yes. Now, here's what I will say. Josh Hawley. I disagree with him on the hate crime thing earlier, but usually he gets it right. He introduced a bill to ban TikTok. It's called the No TikTok on United States Devices Act.

Speaker6: [01:15:58] It's kind of clever.

Speaker7: [01:16:00] But it doesn't have a good acronym.

Speaker6: [01:16:03] Utada In.

Speaker4: [01:16:06] It doesn't really.

Speaker7: [01:16:06] Work. But you don't need the acronym because I see it and I go, okay, I understand it.

Speaker4: [01:16:11] No TikTok on United States Devices Act. I mean, that's a that's your elevator pitch.

Darrin: [01:16:15] You know, a Republican name that.

Speaker6: [01:16:17] Yes. Right. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:16:17] And you can sit down and go, okay, hold on a second.

Steven: [01:16:19] Ms. Senator HAWLEY. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:16:21] Let me ask you this. With this bill, would.

Steven: [01:16:24] Tiktok be allowed on devices in the United States? No, they would not. All right, hold on a second. But let me.

Speaker4: [01:16:28] Finish. Would they be allowed on some.

Steven: [01:16:31] Devices in the United States?

Speaker4: [01:16:33] None whatsoever. Okay. But I have one final question. Would there be some exceptions for the spyware TikTok as it relates to.

Steven: [01:16:41] Devices in the United States? Absolutely not. Well, good enough for me.

Speaker4: [01:16:45] I think we've made it through Case closed.

Gerald: [01:16:47] Bill passed.

Speaker6: [01:16:48] Yes. Here we go.

Speaker4: [01:16:48] But the other bill wants to have control.

Steven: [01:16:50] Of your PayPal and likely access.

Speaker4: [01:16:52] To your ring cameras, all of it without having to notify you. And it gives all of the authority to a commerce secretary who doesn't want to ban TikTok anyway and, by the way, doesn't want to ban TikTok because of a voting base of dumb under 30 year olds, not even because of a moral objection.

Speaker6: [01:17:11] We're so screwed.

Speaker4: [01:17:14] By the way, the No TikTok on the United States Devices Act just to make clear it's.

Speaker7: [01:17:16] Entirely devoted to.

Steven: [01:17:17] Tiktok and bite dance. That's it.

Speaker7: [01:17:18] Nothing else. That's all it should be.

Speaker4: [01:17:19] That's all it.

Steven: [01:17:20] Is.

Gerald: [01:17:20] Stop giving yourself more and more and more and more power. Right? We don't need Trojan horse bills for you to go and later and say, hey, we don't like the fact that cryptocurrency is doing well and we want to create our own and lock out everybody else. I get it.

Speaker6: [01:17:32] It's the biggest scam going.

Steven: [01:17:33] No, no.

Gerald: [01:17:33] No, I understand. I'm just saying you get to you get to do what you want to do with the crypto thing, but every government in the world is probably going to introduce one meaningfully.

Speaker4: [01:17:40] Yeah, of course, it's already.

Steven: [01:17:41] Being heavily regulated and then there's going to be even more regulated. But imagine a centralized digital currency, even the ability to shut down all of your currency.

Gerald: [01:17:48] Just with the flip of a switch. You want to be in China where you can't leave the country because you don't have the green app. Instead, you have the red one because you're posting too many memes of cats on YouTube.

Speaker7: [01:17:58] Yeah, well, I don't really think it's.

Steven: [01:17:59] A flip of a switch anymore. Maybe like a click of a mouse.

Speaker6: [01:18:01] Didn't. Didn't we have a.

Darrin: [01:18:02] Gold sponsor waiting in the wings somewhere?

Speaker6: [01:18:04] We did.

Gerald: [01:18:05] Yeah. We told them. Hell no. Yeah.

Speaker6: [01:18:08] Love you. They're looking better and better. We're just.

Gerald: [01:18:10] Our audience isn't 75, so.

Steven: [01:18:12] It's fine if it's part of your diverse, diversified investment portfolio. But just gold Like gold.

Speaker4: [01:18:16] Do you ever see this? It's like I'm.

Speaker7: [01:18:18] Bill Levine, or it's like I'm G. Gordon Liddy, whoever the hell it is.

Speaker4: [01:18:20] He's like, gold.

Speaker7: [01:18:21] Has never been worth nothing.

Speaker4: [01:18:23] Like.

Speaker7: [01:18:24] Yeah, neither is Coke.

Speaker4: [01:18:26] Zero.

Speaker7: [01:18:26] But if I bought it, if I bought a can.

Speaker4: [01:18:29] For $2 and now it's worth $0.25, I've.

Speaker7: [01:18:32] Still lost money. It's never been worth nothing, though. Got it.

Speaker6: [01:18:36] That's your pitch. Yeah, but you took.

Speaker4: [01:18:38] My dollar and you cut it in half. Well.

Speaker7: [01:18:42] Something to think about.

Speaker6: [01:18:43] There's been a Yeah, there's been a.

Gerald: [01:18:45] Silver shortage since I was in high school, by the way. Yeah, that's been the pitch. And I'm sure it's been going on since then. We're going to run out of silver one day. We're using it all these electronic devices. It's been 30, actually.

Speaker6: [01:18:55] I'll give you.

Speaker4: [01:18:55] One last story.

Steven: [01:18:55] Before we because when we're going to talk about John Leguizamo on Rumble, we have a full edition additional 45 minutes. But I have a lighter, a Zippo lighter. That's sterling silver. And I've had this for a few years. Right. And I thought, hey.

Speaker4: [01:19:06] With inflation in.

Steven: [01:19:06] The economy and also silver, like, let me go check and see how much it's worth. Now, it actually didn't increase in value as much as everything else has with basic inflation.

Speaker6: [01:19:15] Silver hasn't inflated.

Speaker4: [01:19:16] I thought it'd be worth like $300. It was worth $0.04 more.

Speaker6: [01:19:20] Wow.

Speaker4: [01:19:21] So I don't know. I'm not a I'm not a precious metals zero. It's not zero. I'm not a precious metals expert, but it.

Steven: [01:19:28] Seems I should have just put my money in a Casper mattress or a Casper sponsorship. Ooh.

Speaker4: [01:19:33] Ooh. Are they a good mattress? I have no.

Steven: [01:19:35] Idea. I have no idea. I have no idea. All these mattresses in a box. Do you ever open one of those mattresses.

Speaker7: [01:19:38] In a box scam.

Speaker6: [01:19:39] Going mattress?

Steven: [01:19:39] Oh, my gosh. It's just.

Speaker6: [01:19:41] It smells. We just.

Gerald: [01:19:43] We just listed out. There's been a lot of scams talked about on this show. And he's like, oh, the biggest scam going mattresses.

Speaker6: [01:19:49] Oh, no. Mattress stores.

Speaker4: [01:19:51] Mattress stores are all money laundering schemes. The mattress in a box. Some of them are really good. The problem.

Steven: [01:19:55] Is, you know, like, oh.

Speaker4: [01:19:56] You can return it whenever you want. They don't tell you that you have to roll.

Speaker7: [01:19:59] It back up in the Saran wrap.

Speaker6: [01:20:01] Just to get it in the box. Yeah, if you can.

Gerald: [01:20:03] Fit it in the box without tearing it, you can return it.

Speaker6: [01:20:06] Right. And that.

Speaker4: [01:20:06] Your whole master bedroom smells like a.

Steven: [01:20:09] Chinatown brothel. Pre-refrigeration. When you.

Speaker6: [01:20:11] Open it up.

Speaker7: [01:20:12] It's like, Oh, that's just.

Speaker4: [01:20:12] The off gassing. How long is that going to take?

Speaker7: [01:20:14] Nine weeks. I don't know.

Speaker6: [01:20:15] What?

Speaker4: [01:20:16] You might die. How long do I have to return it? Three days.

Darrin: [01:20:19] If you have your own vacuum sealer at home, you'll be fine.

Speaker6: [01:20:22] Exactly. Just some.

Speaker7: [01:20:25] Bitch. Get the food saver. I'm trying to.

Speaker11: [01:20:27] Then all your food smells like mattress.

Speaker6: [01:20:34] I can't return it.

Speaker4: [01:20:35] What is this? Is.

Speaker7: [01:20:36] This is this. Is this a ribeye?

Speaker4: [01:20:38] No, it's Serta foam. Oh, by the way, before we go to Rumble, actually, sorry, We're getting a news update right now. It turns out that the the sea.

Steven: [01:20:47] Algae, which is a big national security concern, is is getting closer. Let's check back in with our on the ground. Correspondent spared no expense. Thomas Finnegan.

Speaker4: [01:21:03] Okay, Let's give it one last go. Finnegan, what.

[01:21:06] Have you got? Wow. Then again.

Speaker4: [01:21:29] Hey, I just thought that my half-Asian lawyer was on.

Steven: [01:21:31] Cnn, but then I realized it was. Oh, he just left.

Speaker6: [01:21:34] Okay. No.

Speaker4: [01:21:34] All right, everyone, we appreciate.

Steven: [01:21:37] It that you guys have tuned in here and we're going to actually go discuss late night in the John Leguizamo. I don't know if you've heard this. Everything that he says is racist.

Speaker4: [01:21:43] It's anti Christian. It's anti I guess it would be hate speech. Jeez, his.

Steven: [01:21:45] Show, but more so it's offensively unfunny. So we'll be talking about that, taking your chat.

Speaker7: [01:21:49] And it's a live show Monday through Thursday.

Speaker4: [01:21:51] We have the Hodge twins in this Thursday, Friday on Mug Club. You can go and tune in.

Steven: [01:21:55] To your theology. Is it apologetics with.

Speaker6: [01:21:57] Gerald the.

Gerald: [01:21:58] Gerald apologizes apologetics.

Speaker4: [01:22:00] All right. Either way, Monday through Friday, that's your best bet. Just set it like you used to set. Tv Guide because notifications don't work.

Steven: [01:22:06] You can download the app.

Speaker4: [01:22:07] Just you know where to find us Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. Eastern. Share it. Comment. Help the.

Steven: [01:22:11] Algorithm. But right now.

Speaker4: [01:22:13] I want to let her freak flag fly a little bit you to piss off.

Gerald: [01:22:38] All right. Stephen had to, you know, do what the the thing was doing. We don't actually you know, we need to do we need to have a YouTube toilet. That'd be fantastic. So that you're always pissing on YouTube, right? That would be. Can we not do that?

Speaker11: [01:22:53] Maybe. Maybe we call Garrett and I think we fabricate one. We need.

Gerald: [01:22:56] Somebody to fabricate if you know.

Darrin: [01:22:57] But it has to have actual plumbing. It can't just be. Well, no, of course we don't.

Gerald: [01:23:01] We don't want that. No, I just want.

Speaker11: [01:23:02] You thinking like the Tank is the YouTube play button, something like that. We're aiming at.

Gerald: [01:23:06] Red. I don't.

Darrin: [01:23:07] Know. I think we're aiming at the button.

Gerald: [01:23:08] Maybe it's just painting.

Speaker6: [01:23:09] Like a YouTube urinal.

Gerald: [01:23:11] Cake. All right. Well, no. So the point I wanted to bring up and I didn't dive a little bit more into this because we didn't have time, but the app stores have a lot of control. Unfortunately, they've kind of wielded that control in a negative way in a lot of ways by keeping out apps that they don't want on the store. But I remember specifically when Uber was having issues with Apple, and it was kind of a dress down. I can't remember what that show was. I think it was on Showtime where they did like a series to kind of follow the start of of Uber and kind of tell the story. They actually thought they were going to get kicked off the App Store because they weren't protecting user data and privacy. And so my immediate thought when we were going through this segment and I was like, I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, this is so simple. All you have to do is prove that they aren't following the guidelines and all of a sudden you take them off of the app stores and that's pretty much ball game for these companies. You can't just survive on like, you know, going to a website or anything like that ball game. Yes.

Darrin: [01:24:03] Well, that app store control is is antitrust level stuff that's got to be fixed. It does have I've had experience with that. It's not good. Yeah. Truth social couldn't get a pass on the Google play store.

Gerald: [01:24:14] That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. So I mean I understand these things have like terms of service, right? But again, those terms of service end up being like YouTube at some point. They can just basically keep out whoever they want, but it's a much simpler path forward and it's immediate.

Steven: [01:24:26] But the reason they can do it is because people on the right are pacified and yeah, it's just business. It's just business. It's just business. It's just business. Yeah. We have to be on Facebook and we have to be on your own app store.

Darrin: [01:24:35] That's a monopoly like no other, though. The App Store.

Speaker4: [01:24:37] Well, it's only a monopoly.

Steven: [01:24:38] Because we allow it to be a monopoly. So here's a good example, actually, which brings us into our next segment, where it's no longer a monopoly, right? Television. So what happened is you had three networks at one point, and then at the end of the day, a little Indian would go, beep.

Speaker4: [01:24:50] You're still watching this?

Steven: [01:24:50] Be Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker4: [01:24:52] That's actually how they used to.

Darrin: [01:24:53] Enter the national anthem and a Prayer. Yes.

Speaker4: [01:24:56] Hey, we used to have quarterback Garrett as an Indian.

Speaker11: [01:25:00] That's right.

Speaker6: [01:25:00] Same to end the show. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:25:02] Why do we stop doing that? I don't know. We must have gotten horrible feedback. We did. So there were three networks.

Steven: [01:25:09] And then it fractured, right? With cable. We've talked about this, so it fractured and they had all what, how many? When you go to a hotel, it's like hundreds of channels and half of them are just like elevator music and most of them are HBO. Yeah, but then the numbers changed and more people were able to compete. And then you see what happened with late night. People stopped watching them completely. And to go to that, we have some numbers that are shocking. Let me let me read the numbers first here.

Speaker6: [01:25:31] You won't believe these numbers.

Steven: [01:25:32] So John Leguizamo was fill in hosting for Trevor Noah. I mean, for crying out a fill in for Trevor Noah just right away.

Speaker6: [01:25:44] Do you mean it's.

Speaker7: [01:25:45] It's Trevor's temp?

Speaker6: [01:25:47] Oh.

Steven: [01:25:48] Noah's first.

Speaker4: [01:25:49] Year, each.

Steven: [01:25:50] Episode averaged about 1.1 million viewers.

Gerald: [01:25:54] That's respectable, but not great.

Steven: [01:25:55] Seven years later, the Daily Show averaged. And from a peak of Jon Stewart, several million people, 383,000 viewers per episode. Geez. Just to be clear, I had to check and make sure that wasn't a misprint. That is not a misprint. 383,000. We've had many streams where that many of you are watching that second for that amount of time. Just keep in mind. So we do like we'll be doing ten times.

Speaker4: [01:26:20] More than them.

Steven: [01:26:20] And because they don't.

Speaker4: [01:26:21] Upload their full episodes.

Steven: [01:26:22] Online, everything lives online and more of you now can choose what it is that you want to watch. So that's a reflection of. Of the quality of content. Which brings me to John Leguizamo, most known for his work in The Pest.

Speaker6: [01:26:35] That's fair.

Speaker11: [01:26:35] Such a shit.

Speaker6: [01:26:36] Movie that was. You know what?

Speaker4: [01:26:39] Here's my question to.

Steven: [01:26:39] You in chat, and I want to I want to read some chats on this. What was the first film that made you realize movies could actually be bad? You know, when you're a kid, you know, every movie's good.

Speaker7: [01:26:48] It doesn't matter what you like. Transformers four I liked it because it's like when you fight, when Michael Bay.

Speaker4: [01:26:53] Still does that.

Speaker6: [01:26:54] But Super Mario Brothers with John Leguizamo. Yeah. Six Degrees of John was the past.

Steven: [01:27:01] It was the first because I liked all I just loved movies as a kid. I remember watching at my grandmother's house and I remember like, pausing it going like, Oh, maybe there's something to eat. And, you know, there was never anything to eat there.

Speaker7: [01:27:13] You know, she always kept her house like.

Speaker4: [01:27:14] 85 degrees and then she'd have.

Steven: [01:27:15] Soda in. She'd have soda or she got liquor. She'd have it in the closet.

Speaker4: [01:27:20] Like you keep the soda in the closet.

Steven: [01:27:22] But I was just wasting time because I was going, it's a chore to get. And I remember having that moment saying this is so movies can be so boring that you actually don't want to finish them. You would rather do something else. It was the first time it was John Leguizamo's The Pest, and I believe he had full creative control.

Speaker4: [01:27:36] So here he is, The Daily Show.

Steven: [01:27:39] It is a drop down to a third of what they used to have and less than a 10th of what Jon Stewart used to have and less than a 100th of what Johnny Carson used to have. Yeah. Leguizamo Here are his greatest hits. See, look, objectively, I can find people on the left. Funny. I think Lewis Black was funny. I think Jon Stewart back in the day was funny and I think Stephen Colbert, when he was doing the character was funny. I think David Letterman, who's far left, was funny. Bill Maher. So John Leguizamo, dear, he is talking about Latino. You know what? Let's let's let's first do his Trump impression. Okay. Clip Oh, here he is. This is the highest quality content and it's so awkward with their audience. They're trained to laugh. Talking about Stormy Daniels.

Speaker6: [01:28:21] I didn't have an affair and I never had an affair. And I'm actually I.

Speaker17: [01:28:26] Actually never had sex. Do you know.

Speaker16: [01:28:28] That I'm a virgin and the best and biggest virgin ever?

Speaker6: [01:28:32] Wow. Geez. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker11: [01:28:34] You got the cricket sound effect? Yeah. I don't even want to.

Speaker6: [01:28:37] I said we.

Speaker4: [01:28:37] Should. The clip should be a little extended.

Steven: [01:28:39] So we can hear the audience reaction because the audience is like.

Speaker7: [01:28:42] Oh, look, it's Def Comedy Jam.

Speaker4: [01:28:44] They expect the beat to come in like. So here he is.

Steven: [01:28:50] Doing his impression of Trump driving. And I get it, not everyone's an impressionist, but if you can't just don't don't.

Gerald: [01:28:55] Yeah.

Steven: [01:28:56] But the material is this.

Speaker4: [01:28:58] Is with 30 writers I don't know how many.

Steven: [01:29:01] At least at least 15 about Donald Trump driving a getaway car. 300,000 viewers. Oh, yeah.

Speaker16: [01:29:10] My fellow Americans, we've got to lower inflation. We've got to get a handle on China. And most importantly, we have to crack down on crime.

[01:29:19] Take me alive, you pigs.

Speaker6: [01:29:25] Wow. That's terrible.

Speaker7: [01:29:28] Not to toot our own horn. Compare that.

Steven: [01:29:29] To Cosby. And today I know, right? The green screen work. Because look.

Darrin: [01:29:32] Or any high school sketch. Yes.

Steven: [01:29:35] So bad. Yes, it's true. It's a bunch of inside jokes that no one in the audience.

Speaker7: [01:29:38] Gets like, Oh, but that's what that's what Tina says. Wait, wait, wait. I don't know.

Speaker6: [01:29:41] Tina, is is.

Gerald: [01:29:42] Is he such an A-lister that when he did this and they're kind of mock show to kind of get prepared, people were like, we just can't tell him it's bad. Yeah, exactly.

Steven: [01:29:50] No one could tell him it was. No, he's.

Speaker6: [01:29:52] Not. You could just be like, That sucks.

Gerald: [01:29:53] Just like every other thing you've done.

Speaker6: [01:29:55] And by the way, my fellow.

Darrin: [01:29:56] Americans, that's pulled from the 70 seconds.

Speaker6: [01:29:58] I know. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:29:59] Yeah.

Steven: [01:30:00] He also brought on Rich Little to do his Reagan.

Speaker11: [01:30:02] He's the only one they could find to host the show.

Darrin: [01:30:05] Can you die of embarrassment by proxy?

Steven: [01:30:07] I know, I know.

Speaker7: [01:30:08] I have to watch it through my fingers.

Speaker6: [01:30:09] Like he must have dirt on the producers. It's not.

Speaker4: [01:30:11] Lost on me that this is the show that did a.

Steven: [01:30:13] Photoshop of the hard hotel. We did, yes. Casino and resort. Okay. Not everything's going.

Speaker4: [01:30:18] To be a gym, but.

Speaker7: [01:30:20] We tried.

Speaker4: [01:30:22] And here's the thing that also is.

Steven: [01:30:24] An important sort of the left can't do comedy now. And what I mean by that is I don't mean liberals can't be funny. That's what they always say. Like Nick DiPaolo is one of the best ever. By the way, his show starts in April here on where you get twice a day, twice a day, you get a full show, right? You get us in the morning, you get him at night. We have the specials that we're producing for Brian Cowan for for Brewer.

Speaker6: [01:30:42] We're finalizing.

Steven: [01:30:43] The deal. We're finalizing the deal with Jim Brewer. And then, of course, we have Mr. Gunslinger coming in and other comedians are really it surprised me where they're going. Oh, is this a place where we can actually have a haven? We didn't expect that. We expected conservatives. We didn't expect not necessarily conservative comedians.

Speaker4: [01:30:56] Yeah.

Steven: [01:30:56] And then sometimes it's a fit, sometimes there isn't. But it's because they realize, well, you can't really do comedy on the left because you can't switch from being offended by everything and then chastise the audience like Nick DiPaolo when he was at the Comedy Cellar. To give you an example, people would just hover around all the comedians not to see him do his material, but to see him flip out on someone on the audience and call someone the C-word.

Speaker7: [01:31:19] But he was.

Steven: [01:31:20] Always he didn't care. He always veered into it. And so when he said, You're.

Speaker4: [01:31:24] Offended or you're.

Speaker7: [01:31:24] Offended by that, what? Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven: [01:31:26] You liberal faggots. And he would just go off on them. Yeah. This is back in.

Speaker4: [01:31:29] The 90 seconds. In the 80 seconds, I think he was doing comedy, but.

Steven: [01:31:31] Certainly in the 90s and early 2000s. But it's consistent. The left wants to be able to claim offense and victim status. And then I'll show you a clip where they flip around and they chastise the audience. So here's him talking about the lack of Latino representation in Hollywood.

Speaker16: [01:31:44] And then when there is a good Latino role, it's going to people like James Franco. Well, guess what? If white people can take our roles, I'm going to take theirs. Yeah. Wait. That's right. When they do the TV series based on Gwyneth Paltrow's ski accident trial. I'm a big Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaker6: [01:32:06] He hit me. Thanks for explaining it. He knocked the.

Speaker16: [01:32:07] Egg right out of my vagina.

Steven: [01:32:10] All right. That last one, I'll give it to him. Kind of.

Speaker6: [01:32:12] It's just a bad voice to do it with. Yeah.

Steven: [01:32:14] I don't know what he's doing.

Gerald: [01:32:15] And why is he going for the trans role? Because the James Franco took Castro. Yeah, exactly. He didn't have to take Gwyneth. He could have taken the guy that skied into Gwyneth.

Darrin: [01:32:23] Truth is, he's not winning any roles. No, he's.

Speaker6: [01:32:25] Not getting any roles.

Steven: [01:32:26] Well, he was killed in the menu.

Speaker6: [01:32:28] That was. Oh, was he? Yeah. Good.

Speaker4: [01:32:30] Oh, sorry.

Speaker6: [01:32:30] Spoiler. Good.

Gerald: [01:32:31] Well, he also made John Wick his part, and John Wick sucked.

Speaker6: [01:32:35] So his.

Steven: [01:32:36] Part in everything suck. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. He's really, really bad. The think of.

Speaker6: [01:32:39] A good movie that.

Steven: [01:32:41] He was in Chef with, what's his name? Favreau.

Speaker6: [01:32:44] Favreau Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:32:45] Hoffman Yeah. He's been in good films.

Steven: [01:32:47] He's not good in them.

Speaker6: [01:32:48] Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:32:49] And now he is here. He is.

Steven: [01:32:51] Mocking and I don't know if it's in this clip, but then at one point I remember seeing him because I have to watch the show and he goes, Oh.

Speaker7: [01:32:55] Come on, What? You're offended by that? Come on, come on. It's a joke. It's like, well, hold on a second. You're offended by everything.

Speaker4: [01:33:01] You're the guy who goes on Twitter.

Speaker7: [01:33:03] Rants about representation and about how Orange Man bad and about how people shouldn't own firearms and how the United States is racist.

Speaker4: [01:33:08] You're offended by everything, and then you get mad that the audience is offended at something for being offensively unfunny. Here he is doing a.

Speaker7: [01:33:14] Catholic confession joke, which of course.

Steven: [01:33:16] Is not tired.

Speaker16: [01:33:17] Oh, bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I call Jesus a boy. I know I'm going to rot in hell, but the writers made me do it. I swear. I swear it was the writers.

Speaker4: [01:33:29] You have writers.

Speaker6: [01:33:32] That should all.

Gerald: [01:33:33] They should all run and hide.

Steven: [01:33:35] And the problem is, too, this is what people like. Nick, we've talked about the writers rooms. Now they're not comedians. It's a bunch of people. And Harvard used to be, you know, the National Lampoon, A Futile and Stupid Gesture is a great film. It's fantastic. Conan O'Brien came from there. The writers now are a bunch of people coming from Ivy League schools, coming from higher education, and it's all diversity hires. If you look at the hires, you go, wait a second, the people here writing SNL.

Speaker4: [01:33:54] They've never taken the stage.

Steven: [01:33:56] They've never oh, you brought them in because this guy is genderqueer and, you know, he's non-binary. And so it just ends up it really is. This is the first.

Darrin: [01:34:03] I have a degree in English.

Speaker4: [01:34:04] Yes. Well, here's the thing.

Steven: [01:34:05] Generally, things get better. And I've always said this. Generally cars get better, right? I mean, if you look at homes get better now you have air conditioning. Generally speaking, technology gets better. Generally speaking, shows get better. If you go.

Speaker4: [01:34:15] Back and watch Laugh-In.

Steven: [01:34:16] It is terrible. Okay. I will just say that it's really bad and things get better, like Breaking Bad Change, where shows could now become cinematic. They were like films and those things got good. And now we have reached a point. I really mean.

Speaker4: [01:34:28] This. And this isn't just.

Steven: [01:34:29] Me being, you know, I mean, I'm in my 30s. It's gotten worse. It's gotten definitively worse because of the constraints and because it's no longer a meritocracy. It can't be.

Speaker4: [01:34:37] Hollywood is precluded from providing you what it is that.

Steven: [01:34:41] You want.

Speaker4: [01:34:41] Because the.

Steven: [01:34:42] Writers don't want it.

Speaker4: [01:34:44] Just like your.

Steven: [01:34:44] Representatives with the bills, they cannot bring forward a bill that simply.

Speaker4: [01:34:48] Bans TikTok.

Steven: [01:34:49] Because that's not what they want. You want to be safe. You want your privacy protected. They want to have control over your lives. Same thing here. You want something funny, you want something irreverent. You want something where you can kind of shut your brain off and laugh, maybe learn a little bit. If you watch this show and go check the references, they want to make sure that everyone in the writers room is okay and is pacified.

Speaker4: [01:35:10] So you can see, you know, what's.

Steven: [01:35:11] A perfect contrast. Jon Stewart, when he hosted The Daily Show. Funny. Have you seen Jon Stewart's content now? Yeah, No, it's like just trying to avoid the landmines of the writers and the producers where he just has to appease everybody.

Speaker4: [01:35:23] And you can't be funny.

Steven: [01:35:24] You cannot do comedy that way. No, I'm not saying you can't be funny because you're a liberal. I'm saying you cannot be funny if you are constrained by what these people want in Los Angeles and New York, which is completely out of touch with, by the way, not flyover.

Speaker4: [01:35:37] Country, the viewers in Los Angeles and New.

Steven: [01:35:39] York. Right.

Speaker4: [01:35:40] Guarantee you the cab driver in.

Steven: [01:35:41] Queens is not laughing at.

Speaker6: [01:35:43] That. No.

Gerald: [01:35:43] Well, and the bad part about this is that and this is not to toot your horn, but find somebody who can do a Donald Trump impression. Right. There's a handful of people out there that do pretty good ones. That could have been a funny skit. I mean, change the writing. But the idea of Donald Trump.

Darrin: [01:35:56] For the writing and the impression.

Speaker6: [01:35:58] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Except for the writing, the impression, the delivery.

Gerald: [01:36:01] Yeah, the joke structure. But the idea of Donald Trump fleeing the police while running for president. Okay, you can make that kind of funny. The idea of somebody being in confession and saying things that make you laugh. Right. There's a lot to work with there. You could you could easily.

Speaker6: [01:36:13] Have done it.

Steven: [01:36:13] Here's a good example.

Darrin: [01:36:14] The funny part was the writers are responsible for his sin. That's funny. You could make that funny.

Speaker6: [01:36:19] Yeah, you could make it funny.

Speaker4: [01:36:20] Yeah. And you just show a picture of the writers and it's.

Steven: [01:36:21] Some lesbian bitch with a nose ring and you're like.

Speaker6: [01:36:24] This is what I have to work with.

Speaker11: [01:36:26] I mean, the actual writers.

Speaker6: [01:36:28] Writers. But then they're going to start shop needed.

Steven: [01:36:30] Maybe someone can bring up the actual clip that he was quoting. It's just a little bit earlier. Donald Trump.

Speaker4: [01:36:34] Donald Trump's speech was funnier than that. What he was quoting was Donald Trump at a speech at one of his rallies.

Steven: [01:36:39] When he was.

Speaker4: [01:36:39] Talking about Stormy Daniels. And this is why Donald Trump is so hard for comedy. I think his quote and we.

Steven: [01:36:44] Can bring it up. I'm going by rote here, but I'm pretty close, he said.

Speaker4: [01:36:47] And they tried to arrest me. They're saying, I.

Speaker7: [01:36:49] Never liked.

Speaker4: [01:36:50] Horse face.

Speaker7: [01:36:51] Never liked her. She's never she's not the one. Never had an affair. But if I.

Speaker4: [01:36:58] She wouldn't be the one.

Speaker7: [01:37:00] We don't need one. We have the best looking first lady. Millennia at folks like that's what he said.

Darrin: [01:37:06] Never liked her. Seen Oliver.

Speaker6: [01:37:07] Stuff?

Speaker7: [01:37:09] Never liked her. She's not the one. Never liked horse face. And I don't need one because I have the best one. And then Leguizamo comes in and makes it less funny. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:37:22] That's why Trump did so well.

Speaker7: [01:37:24] The guy was funny. Don't underestimate the fact he called.

Speaker4: [01:37:27] An adult film.

Speaker6: [01:37:29] Actress.

Speaker7: [01:37:29] Horse face.

Speaker6: [01:37:32] He called.

Darrin: [01:37:33] He called Carly Fiorina. Carly Fiorina. Horse face. Yeah.

Gerald: [01:37:36] It's kind of a go to for him. Yeah, a lot of ways. Yeah.

Speaker6: [01:37:39] Yeah.

Speaker7: [01:37:40] She's horse face, your horse face. And Ted Cruz's wife is not horse face, folks, but she is fat and ugly. Right? That's what people say. And Mr. Fiorina.

Darrin: [01:37:49] Should have kicked his ass.

Speaker4: [01:37:50] She did in the debate. She took it to Mr. Fiorina.

Darrin: [01:37:53] Should have had a little, little time with Donald.

Speaker6: [01:37:56] Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:37:56] Look, of course, there.

Steven: [01:37:57] Should have been some consequences. I mean.

Darrin: [01:37:59] I don't think at least a duel.

Speaker4: [01:38:00] I don't think anyone would have blamed Senator Ted Cruz when.

Steven: [01:38:03] Donald Trump said.

Speaker7: [01:38:04] And you're dad killed JFK. People say if he just walked right over and.

Speaker4: [01:38:09] Calmly kicked him in the nuts.

Darrin: [01:38:11] Roast, slapped it with a glove.

Speaker4: [01:38:13] Yeah, even Donald Trump would be like, that's fair.

Speaker6: [01:38:19] Yeah, you'd have to. You just.

Speaker4: [01:38:22] Have to take it like a champ at a certain.

Steven: [01:38:23] Point. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:38:24] Let me know if they find that clip of Donald Trump saying at the rally. But let's grab some of your chats. I think I had it. Yeah. A question out.

Steven: [01:38:29] There as far as people's films that they've seen that they realize like, where were you in that moment? You realized that?

Speaker4: [01:38:35] I remember where I was when I realized film could be bad. And I.

Speaker7: [01:38:37] Was talking with you about this.

Steven: [01:38:37] Past quarter. I remember where I was when I learned that adults could just be bullshit artists and just lie about things that I could clearly tell was a lie as a child.

Speaker6: [01:38:46] As a child.

Speaker4: [01:38:46] Yes.

Steven: [01:38:47] I remember that. And it was actually the guy who gave me. He gave me the pest. Yeah. He lent me three films. Your friend who claimed he was black?

Speaker4: [01:38:54] It turns out he wasn't. He was South.

Steven: [01:38:55] Indian.

Speaker6: [01:38:57] And you swear.

Speaker4: [01:38:58] I used to have his own name.

Steven: [01:39:00] On his gym pants and he lent me the pest. I swear to you, Jake Speed and Hudson Hawk.

Speaker4: [01:39:05] I think he wanted to kill me.

Speaker6: [01:39:07] Hudson Hawk.

Gerald: [01:39:08] As a kid was funny for five minutes, and then I was like, I can't believe it's one.

Steven: [01:39:12] Of the worst films.

Gerald: [01:39:13] It's Bruce Willis worst I can think of.

Steven: [01:39:15] It was Renny.

Speaker4: [01:39:15] Harlin. Yeah, Renny Harlin.

Steven: [01:39:17] And I don't know why he. So he did die hard too. And he's like, I was in a film with Renny Harlin film and I remember he was, it was this film called The Covenant. It was like all these CW guys who were gorgeous and then me and him showing up and he showed up. He was like.

Speaker4: [01:39:28] Yeah, you can do that. Like, Hey.

Steven: [01:39:29] Can I do this? I was like, Yeah, you do whatever you want, all right, Action. He was like a temp who had no interest in being like, Let me just show the video and you guys do whatever you want. And he was the one who did Hudson Hawk. All right, let's grab some chats.

Speaker18: [01:39:40] Well, we do have the clip of Trump talking about Stormy Daniels. The audio is kind of boo boo, but okay. All right. Let's see.

Speaker4: [01:39:48] I never liked face. I never liked.

Speaker16: [01:39:52] And it's just not it's terrible for. That wouldn't be the one. There is no one. We have a great first lady.

Speaker6: [01:40:06] I was close.

Speaker11: [01:40:07] No, I'm recorded on a flip phone.

Speaker6: [01:40:09] I know, right? He was recorded on.

Steven: [01:40:10] A graphic calculator.

Speaker6: [01:40:12] Pulled it off someone's face. Someone was.

Steven: [01:40:13] Spelling boobs.

Speaker4: [01:40:14] Upside down. Oh, right. The president speaking.

Speaker6: [01:40:18] About what holds up. I was just.

Darrin: [01:40:19] Chatting. Adam Sandler just got that award. That Mark Twain Award? Oh, yeah. I watched the show. It was great. But you look back at some of his and I love Adam. Some of it just does not stand up. No, it's. Oh, it's too hard to watch.

Speaker6: [01:40:30] Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:40:31] Yeah. Little Nicky is not.

Darrin: [01:40:32] It looks like they're winging it.

Steven: [01:40:33] Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really does. Some of them are funny. I mean, you have Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore. Yeah, some of Billy Madison. Yeah, you have some of I would say like, I don't know if it was Mr. Deeds or.

Darrin: [01:40:42] Some are very quotable and they're just great over time, But oh.

Speaker4: [01:40:45] The Wedding singer.

Steven: [01:40:46] Was one of the best. Yes. Big Daddy. Big Daddy was okay. And you know what actually was pretty good? It was Alan Covert, who's a who's a friend. He did Grandma's Boy. And that was pretty funny. Allen Covert did some stuff where when he was kind of he did he directed House Bunny. And that's a funny one. House Bunny with Anna Faris.

Speaker4: [01:41:01] And he was Sandler's.

Darrin: [01:41:02] Roommate at NYU. Yeah. And he's he's taking care of all his friends. That's that was the theme throughout the whole award show is all of these people just love him. They were in tears just lauding him with praise and thanks.

Steven: [01:41:11] You know, the problem is they don't necessarily like it doesn't make for good films. You know.

Speaker6: [01:41:14] Was he is.

Gerald: [01:41:15] He a Jack Nicholson in that one? I can't I see the anger management management there. I couldn't think of the name.

Steven: [01:41:20] Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was just he was just like, all right, we're I.

Speaker7: [01:41:23] Think we're going to do a casting call to find the actors for this. And let's say we're going to host auditions, like, okay, well, we have James Franco. We have It's going to be my friend.

Speaker6: [01:41:35] Okay. Mr..

Speaker7: [01:41:36] Oh, all right. My friend from high school now read for the role. You got it?

Speaker6: [01:41:40] Yeah. All right, great.

Darrin: [01:41:41] He accepted his award in that voice. Oh, did he? He did it. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:41:43] Oh, I'm very.

Speaker7: [01:41:45] Willing to accept this award. Oh, now, give me an award.

Speaker6: [01:41:49] Giving me an award for Mark Twain Tollbooth.

Gerald: [01:41:54] Willie was fun, too.

Speaker18: [01:41:54] Thank you for the offer, man. With that.

Speaker6: [01:41:56] Yeah, exactly. That's what he.

Speaker4: [01:41:57] Did. Yeah, but I appreciate it.

Steven: [01:41:59] He's done a lot of good work. He really is. All right, let's grab the chats.

Speaker18: [01:42:01] All right. Iron Road asks. Hey, Stephen, any advice for a Gen Z millennial trying to find a loyal woman? I found that hookup culture has not only destroyed dating, but also reached the church, too.

Speaker6: [01:42:12] Um.

Speaker4: [01:42:13] What's their name?

Steven: [01:42:14] Is this the guy? This is a guy, I assume, because I don't want to give advice to, you know, a lesbian. I don't want to, you know, I don't want to advocate.

Speaker6: [01:42:20] For the churchgoing.

Darrin: [01:42:22] Sometimes you feel like Dr. Laura. Do you watch the show?

Speaker6: [01:42:24] Yeah. Do you watch the show?

Speaker4: [01:42:26] But they're saying that it's reached the church where it is.

Steven: [01:42:28] Really hard to find a loyal woman. Look, you have to screen for values. And you also here's something else, too. You have to not only screen for values, you don't have to share everything in common, but you also should really enjoy each other's company. That's one thing. I think sometimes the church has done a disservice where it's just screened for values, and then you have people who, okay, agree on the same values that everyone in the church does. But there isn't compatibility and I don't mean sexual.

Speaker4: [01:42:48] You have to have it.

Steven: [01:42:49] Yeah. And I think sometimes that's overlooked. So how to find them? Look, sometimes I will say this, sometimes the fault rests with the guy for sure. Sometimes a guy can't find a good, loyal woman. Like, I know people are like, you know, I think that women are. It's like, Yeah, but.

Speaker4: [01:43:03] You're looking for them in.

Steven: [01:43:04] A nightclub or Yeah, but you.

Speaker4: [01:43:05] Picked a girl who has nothing but.

Steven: [01:43:07] Ass pictures on Instagram. What did you expect? You expect that she was going to.

Speaker4: [01:43:11] Take down her profile and keep that reserved for you. So yeah, look, there are some red flags to avoid.

Steven: [01:43:17] I would say. Generally speaking, you probably want to date someone who has their profile set to private. That's usually pretty good. A good rule if someone just has their profile open to everyone and they're clearly clamoring for attention, well, those are signs of narcissism. And that is someone who really sometimes a relationship is only as valuable as the attention you give them. So if you screen, I think that's pretty important right now when we talk about sort of mental health and psychological profiles, there's a lot of narcissism now and it's encouraged. It's been encouraged because culture tells women that you're beautiful and you're perfect the way you are. And by the way, women are beautiful, but no, women are perfect, just like no men are perfect. But men aren't. Men have never been told that they're perfect women. Since the dawn of modern feminism have been told that they are perfect and they shouldn't have to change for any man. So I would look for a woman not only with traditional values, but particularly a woman who values, if it's what you want, some kind of traditional gender roles. And that doesn't mean she has to be barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen, but understanding that there is a division of labor and that men and women are different and someone who can have the kinds of conversations that we have here, there shouldn't be as much of a disconnect in men and women's perspectives on relationships. There should be a very big difference in your roles, but there shouldn't be a disconnect on your view of those roles and what a relationship should be. And unfortunately, that's been encouraged by romantic comedies because it's porn for women. I watched this.

Speaker4: [01:44:38] Film not too.

Steven: [01:44:39] Long ago about Time with Rachel McAdams. It was offensively bad. It was so bad. It's this guy who can travel through time, okay? He can travel through time. He goes to law school, he meets this girl who contributes absolutely nothing, and then.

Speaker6: [01:44:53] She works a job.

Speaker4: [01:44:54] She stops working her job. And then you're you.

Speaker7: [01:44:58] I cast you straight to the pit of hell. Those words.

Speaker4: [01:45:02] And then finally, she, like, he actually he can travel through time. But there's this thing where she has two kids, okay?

Steven: [01:45:08] She wants kids, and.

Speaker4: [01:45:09] Then he gets up on Saturday and he makes breakfast. So he's at home. He's taking care of the kids. He's going to law school, by the way. And then she says, I really want a third child. But the thing is, if he travels back in time, something happens.

Steven: [01:45:18] If he has his third child, his father will die. There's some kind of a loop. I don't remember the exact issue, and.

Speaker4: [01:45:23] She knows that. And he's like, Well.

Steven: [01:45:25] You know, maybe we can wait and talk about it later. She's like, okay.

Speaker7: [01:45:29] Is it later? Now? It's like his dad's going to.

Speaker6: [01:45:31] Die, bitch.

Speaker7: [01:45:33] But it's just if the man loves me, he will do anything for me.

Speaker4: [01:45:35] That's not true. That's not true. And she wasn't reciprocating. So yeah, I think that romantic.

Steven: [01:45:41] Comedies are pornography for women, and it really has often poisoned what they view a relationship to be right.

Speaker7: [01:45:46] If a man loves you, he'll love you for exactly what you are. That's not true.

Speaker4: [01:45:49] Every single man who loves his.

Steven: [01:45:50] Wife has some things that he would change about.

Speaker4: [01:45:52] Her. Okay. Just like you would about your man.

Steven: [01:45:54] There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean that he does not love you. God loves you the way you are. Right? We talk about that. Guess what? God wants you.

Speaker4: [01:46:00] To change some things about yourself. Doesn't mean he doesn't love you. You have kids who you love. Do you love every single thing they do? Of course not. But for some reason only with women today, it's he. You shouldn't.

Speaker7: [01:46:10] If he loves you, he won't want to change a thing. How about you drop 25?

Darrin: [01:46:16] How dare you? That's very true, though, about women and romanticizing things and romantic comedies. The Bachelor. The Bachelorette. Oh, my God. Demo is entirely women. That's terrible. And they take it. They love the pursuit so much, whether it's bachelor or Bachelorette. It is, I don't know, 99%. The audience is women taking it all to heart, being hurt by these episodes.

Speaker4: [01:46:37] The contestants.

Steven: [01:46:38] Are 99% white and they always keep like a couple of minorities and then like they groom them, like.

Speaker4: [01:46:42] Keep it to the third week. Like, you.

Steven: [01:46:43] Know, it's like the guy.

Speaker4: [01:46:44] Has literally All right, we have remaining 12 tall blondes with blue eyes and one Ethiopian. So we wonder how this is going to go.

Darrin: [01:46:52] It can't be like a horror movie. Yeah, well.

Gerald: [01:46:54] It's when 50 Shades of Grey came out and was incredibly popular with women and it's like, I'm sorry, What? Yeah, you don't you want a guy who basically is going to make you sign a contract because of the sexual activity is so perverted that he doesn't want you to ever talk to anybody about it. And by the way, you have rules on what you can and can't do in your off time. But he's not willing to commit. No, no.

Speaker6: [01:47:12] That's the pursuit.

Darrin: [01:47:13] Though, is what I'm talking about. The The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, that ongoing date. And then the minute it gets down to a few, then, oh, then we expect an exclusive and we're deeply offended if there are three left and we're. Yeah. And he's banging.

Speaker4: [01:47:25] Three women in the honeymoon.

Speaker6: [01:47:27] Suite. You know that fantasy suite? Yes.

Speaker11: [01:47:29] That sounds like you guys watched a show and they all.

Speaker6: [01:47:32] They all convinced themselves. No suite, mate. They all.

Speaker4: [01:47:36] Convinced themselves.

Speaker6: [01:47:36] That the final is like the final three, the fantasy.

Steven: [01:47:38] Suite. It's like, I want to give you this key. Should you forego your own room to stay in the fantasy suite with me?

Speaker6: [01:47:43] The line And the.

Speaker7: [01:47:44] Woman is like, Well, I mean, I guess if I'm the only one and he doesn't say anything good enough for me. Okay, let's go screw in the fantasy suite because.

Darrin: [01:47:52] We could really talk and get to know each other.

Speaker7: [01:47:53] Yes, we could really talk and get to know where are my panties? That was fast. Weird.

Speaker6: [01:47:57] Oh.

Gerald: [01:47:59] No. So let me let me address this question. So we don't find it typically challenging to find somebody to date in school, right? At some point, whether you started dating in high school or college or whatever it is, right? So you typically don't find it there, college, don't find it there. Workplace. If you work at a company that's sizable enough, you typically don't have as many problems there. You can for sure still have problems in all those scenarios. But what is what is the common thread there? You're just doing life right. If you think that you can go game for four hours a day after work and work maybe as remote or it's got five people in an office somewhere and that FedEx is going to show up on your door with somebody who says wife on the forehead and deliver the package to you. It's not going to happen. Right? Go be active. Go get involved in a myriad of things. If you like scuba diving, go start scuba diving with a group of people, start doing stuff, sports, socializing, whatever I guess is good because.

Speaker4: [01:48:45] Women can't talk.

Speaker6: [01:48:46] There's plenty of fish in the sea.

Gerald: [01:48:47] No, but they hang out afterwards and that is terrible.

Speaker6: [01:48:50] Okay. There you. Yeah, but is this guy.

Darrin: [01:48:53] Surprised that it's gotten into the church? I don't mean hookup culture. It's been in the church. The young, the young adult, single adults, groups and churches are I mean, that's what they're there for. I mean, not for hookup culture.

Steven: [01:49:02] But they're to hang out with C-section scars to.

Speaker6: [01:49:04] Me, too. Yeah.

Gerald: [01:49:05] No, but you just as somebody who went through this, like, obviously I didn't meet my wife until my late 30. Yeah, right. And thank God that, you know, I basically what happened is we were both doing what we do. A friend invited her to dinner. I was doing a wine dinner because I was part of the team that was putting. Getting drunk. Yes. Well, that is that that be what we do at that time.

Darrin: [01:49:24] That's the compatibility.

Gerald: [01:49:25] Yeah. We were drinking wine. We were not drinking to get drunk, but the whole purpose point was like, she didn't just show up to me. Yeah, right. We were both doing life and met each other and had something in common. It makes the conversation easy instead of a job interview, like, Hey, I met you on Tinder.

Speaker4: [01:49:39] I do think here's the thing.

Steven: [01:49:41] I do think that, you know, and obviously pornography is horribly corrosive. And we talked about that. You can go back and watch them that we did in, I think 2015 your brain on porn. But here's the thing. Let's take okay. Romantic comedies in this culture, feminist culture is basically pornography for women. It's this. It's this hyper unrealistic view of what a relationship should be. Whereas pornography is a completely unrealistic and unhealthy view of what sex should be. But here's the primary difference. Men know that it's not real.

Speaker4: [01:50:06] Men know that porn isn't real. Otherwise, every single guy would quit their job and just go.

Steven: [01:50:10] Become a pizza delivery guy.

Speaker4: [01:50:12] That's that's what.

Darrin: [01:50:14] I think the girls know that ABC isn't going to pick you up in a helicopter and take you. But I don't.

Speaker4: [01:50:18] Think they know that when they watch.

Steven: [01:50:19] These films that, Oh, hold on a second. A guy is a guy is going to love every single thing about me and I don't need to change anything. And that's going to be the relationship. And so, yeah, it is a challenge. And I would say screen for that. You shouldn't be so far apart on your views of relationships and what your roles are that needs to be a part of, of discussing relationships, not just your values, but what you view a relationship to be. And if you're not on the same page, boom.

Speaker4: [01:50:43] By values.

Darrin: [01:50:44] First compatibility. Yeah, but you're smoking hot. Yes. Yes. And you know what? In no particular order I joke zero because that takes that will take care of itself. A man will not be attracted to what he's not attracted to. No. Absolutely. So you don't have to screen for that first. It's going to happen anyway.

Speaker4: [01:51:00] Yep, yep. Absolutely right. Once upon a time when people talk about.

Steven: [01:51:03] Like the Tradwife trend, which is just kind of a gimmick, by the way, a lot of tradwife traditional wife. It's like on TikTok. Gotcha. But the thing is, once upon a.

Speaker4: [01:51:10] Time, women were so unhip. Women had the.

Steven: [01:51:12] Responsibilities of taking care of the household, loving them, taking care of their children. And by the.

Speaker4: [01:51:15] Way, it was also they would have a grandmother who would say, you should always still try and fit in your wedding dress. Now, of.

Steven: [01:51:20] Course, that's an extreme example to make a point. But now you have.

Speaker4: [01:51:22] Women who go, I got my man and they're are nothing but sweatpants and they gain weight and they're burping. And farting around them. And then.

Steven: [01:51:27] Wonder why this guy.

Speaker4: [01:51:28] Is no longer attracted.

Steven: [01:51:29] To them. Guess what? That is part of your role. If a man is providing and protecting you.

Speaker4: [01:51:34] And here's something else, too. People were like, oh, you know, I want my man to communicate. Your man's not going to communicate the way that you want him to communicate. And by the way, doesn't matter. You signed up for that, right? You saw the ride. You bought a ticket anyway. A man cannot be condemned for communicating as a man would.

Steven: [01:51:50] And that's the thing. A lot of therapy that people go into.

Speaker7: [01:51:52] Is, well, I feel like my man.

Speaker4: [01:51:54] Doesn't hear me. He does. He's not responding the way that you want him to.

Steven: [01:51:57] Men are expected to communicate in the way that women demand communication. But hey.

Speaker4: [01:52:01] What about the flip side? Do you know how your man communicates? Do you know how your man bonds?

Speaker7: [01:52:05] Do some weird sex stuff.

Speaker4: [01:52:07] I'm just telling you, if you're married to him, I'm serious. Like, he's not sitting listening to all of my emotional.

Steven: [01:52:13] Needs that aren't.

Speaker4: [01:52:14] Being met. Great. Okay. Is he is he full? Is he being fed? And, you know, he's a downstairs. Are they are they empty? I'm just being clear. That's that's his love language. Why can why does only one.

Steven: [01:52:28] Love language matter one?

Speaker4: [01:52:29] Here's one thing. Women. And I understand what you're saying, but this is really important.

Steven: [01:52:32] Okay?

Speaker4: [01:52:35] Women, you never have to be afraid.

Steven: [01:52:38] And this is something I want you to understand. The women who are watching and I get this concern for men right now, especially out there in the dating world. I can only imagine if you have an issue with a man or you have an expectation of a man, and of course you should. But I'm saying that you both should have expectations of each other, right?

Speaker4: [01:52:52] This is what I'm saying. It's you both have nukes.

Steven: [01:52:55] The issue is if you express an expectation of a man that is not being met.

Speaker4: [01:53:00] You have never in your.

Steven: [01:53:01] Life had to worry about the sexist card being played against you. In other words, if you say, well, you know what, I feel like you're not really working very hard. I've heard people, you know.

Speaker4: [01:53:10] I feel like you're not.

Steven: [01:53:11] Really thinking about that promotion. You're not really very driven. And and we're still stuck in the same point.

Speaker4: [01:53:15] Never. Are you.

Steven: [01:53:16] Concerned of a man saying, so I.

Speaker4: [01:53:17] Just have to work and provide for you ever but every single want.

Steven: [01:53:21] Which is, by the way.

Speaker4: [01:53:22] Innate in a man that he wants from you. He can't express or at the very least, he knows you can use the.

Steven: [01:53:27] Sexism or misogyny card. In other words, a man going.

Speaker4: [01:53:29] Man, you know, it's $1,000 Uber.

Steven: [01:53:32] Eats bill every month or I'm eating or, you know what? I'm coming home. And you know, it's we're not having sex. You know, if he says.

Speaker4: [01:53:38] Hey, you.

Steven: [01:53:39] Know, I don't really think you're keeping up your end of the you know, we're not sleeping together. Hey, you know, you're not taking care of the house.

Speaker7: [01:53:45] What? So I'm.

Speaker4: [01:53:46] Just your chef.

Speaker6: [01:53:47] And your.

Speaker7: [01:53:47] Hooker? Is that what you.

Speaker4: [01:53:49] Think a woman should be? That's one thing women consider that you can express your needs and your wants without being.

Steven: [01:53:53] Accused of being.

Speaker4: [01:53:54] Sexist. Men can't, and then they get condemned for not communicating properly.

Steven: [01:53:58] It really is a very tough spot. And so, yes.

Speaker4: [01:54:00] Men, you need to be.

Steven: [01:54:02] Something that.

Speaker4: [01:54:03] Is worthy of dating.

Steven: [01:54:04] And worthy of pursuing for a.

Speaker4: [01:54:06] Woman. But women, so do you. So do you. And you need to soften it so that men aren't afraid of engaging with you.

Steven: [01:54:13] A lot of men out there, we get so many messages are afraid, like if I say this, I'm going to be accused of sexism. Not to mention what if I lean in for a kiss? And then she says it's non-consensual, right? This is not a healthy place to be. And you can thank feminism. Let's grab some more chats.

Speaker18: [01:54:25] Two more chats. All right. It's all well and good. Has a question for Papa Crowder. What was the hardest thing about raising Stephen?

Speaker6: [01:54:31] Oh.

Darrin: [01:54:33] I don't know. We've had so many questions like this.

Speaker6: [01:54:35] It's a.

Gerald: [01:54:35] Whole show.

Darrin: [01:54:38] As his grandfather would say. I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I don't know where to start. Yeah. No, no. Stephen Stephen was. A very unique right from the beginning. And I mean that in a good way. I mean, you just you kind of knew what you wanted to do very young and you pursued it and it was fun to watch it unfold. And then when your values kind of undergirded what you were doing with your talents, all the lines in the graph crossed. And but he said.

Speaker4: [01:55:04] Hardest thing.

Darrin: [01:55:05] Hardest thing. The women's keeping up with that because I was, you know, I thought, hey, maybe my guys will like hockey. They hated it. Yeah. So I had to encourage them the way they lean. Yeah. Steven that that said that kind of individuality, that kind of drive is pretty, pretty headstrong. You know? He was getting in trouble a lot. Yes.

Speaker4: [01:55:24] Yes, that is true.

Steven: [01:55:25] But not like.

Speaker4: [01:55:26] Drugs and not.

Steven: [01:55:27] Like bullying, but like mouthing.

Speaker6: [01:55:28] Off to teachers. You felt like.

Darrin: [01:55:30] Like today you felt like your work is today. You feel you need to right wrongs. You feel you need to, you know, regulate injustice. And you put yourself in positions where you're sticking your nose in for others. Yeah. And that would get you in trouble. Yeah.

Steven: [01:55:43] I just have a general problem with authority.

Darrin: [01:55:45] You didn't like.

Speaker6: [01:55:45] Bullies? No. Well, I've seen other kids being.

Gerald: [01:55:48] Bullied in you, though, too. And some of the story, some of the same things. Like we have to right wrongs and injustices. I've been around you in situations where you've done that in a good way, like in a very good way. But as an adult.

Darrin: [01:55:57] It's not always a good way. But yeah.

Speaker4: [01:55:58] Well, no, I.

Steven: [01:55:59] Definitely got that from you.

Speaker4: [01:56:00] You do realize.

Steven: [01:56:01] Sometimes you made it harder. You made it harder where you would be like, I would hear you going like only fruitcakes wear helmets.

Speaker6: [01:56:09] You got to wear a helmet.

Speaker7: [01:56:10] Steven I was like, Wait, I'm not a fruitcake. Well, you.

Darrin: [01:56:12] Weren't a professional hockey player, but yeah, no. And I would stick my nose in as you'll. You'll have this challenge, too, maybe, Gerald, where when your kids get in trouble sticking up for them. I know. Yeah. Now, my generation, my dad would send me to school with notes, use whatever means necessary. Yeah. To keep me in line.

Speaker4: [01:56:28] He sent him with a handwritten note to the teacher that.

Steven: [01:56:30] Said that basically, like, Please beat my son's ass.

Speaker4: [01:56:33] So in other.

Darrin: [01:56:33] Words, you allowed other people to use corporal punishment on your kid? Yeah. And his mom and I decided the only ones that will do that are from hands of love. That right? Yeah. Be disciplining and not someone who's not part of that.

Speaker6: [01:56:45] Oh, they were loving hands.

Steven: [01:56:46] Yeah, I didn't know.

Darrin: [01:56:47] But a principal is not loving hands. A teacher is not. So that's.

Speaker6: [01:56:50] Yeah. Yeah. So a coach was this.

Gerald: [01:56:53] Was the moment that I'm really referencing in my head. We were having dinner at an Italian place we used to always go to and get stagionato right. One place and we were there. I don't think you were there though. And it was after a wine event and some people were there and this guy was drunk and there was a very nice girl who was the wife of one of my friends from church. And he had he had to leave early and she went out to dinner with us with a couple of their friends as well. And he was mouthing off about like how he could beat her husband at golf. And he was a drunk guy. And your dad and I can't remember the exact words. He just turned to him and he was just like after a few minutes of this and he was just this guy was really giving her a hard time and it was getting awkward. And he's like, I could I could just take you outside and break you in like a minute. And there was no lead in to that. It was literally like your dad had had enough, just.

Speaker6: [01:57:39] Matter of fact, to the guy.

Gerald: [01:57:41] And the guy goes.

[01:57:42] What? And that was righting.

Speaker6: [01:57:47] The wrong the injustice of giving this like all she said was my husband played golf.

Gerald: [01:57:51] In college and he's like, I.

Speaker6: [01:57:53] Could beat your.

Gerald: [01:57:53] Husband in golf. He can't play.

Speaker6: [01:57:55] Golf like I can play golf. It's just terrible. He's a horrible golfer compared to me.

Darrin: [01:57:59] I remember that a little bit. But I remember you telling the story more than I remember it.

Speaker6: [01:58:03] I think that sounds.

Speaker4: [01:58:04] Exactly like something you would do. I remember one time.

Speaker6: [01:58:06] Just spouting.

Darrin: [01:58:07] Off what he could do, what he could do, and I said, so I could do this and I don't. Yeah.

Speaker4: [01:58:14] Because it's very similar. At one time there was a guy when we were at that townhouse.

Steven: [01:58:17] And they had neighbors, dogs kept crapping on the yard and stuff and you're like, Come on, stop crapping on having the dog crap on our yard. Like.

Speaker7: [01:58:24] Well, the person who lived here beforehand didn't say anything about it.

Speaker4: [01:58:27] We were like, Well, she was a hermit. She never used the yard, right? And so these.

Steven: [01:58:30] People were just loud.

Speaker4: [01:58:31] They were disruptive. They would blare their.

Speaker7: [01:58:32] Music, their dog. They had three dogs that were loose all the time. They'd crap all over the yard. And I remember it kind of came to a head.

Speaker4: [01:58:38] I remember my dad, the guy going, like, at first you just start with like, Please stop having.

Steven: [01:58:42] Your dogs crap on our patio.

Speaker6: [01:58:44] Right, Right.

Speaker7: [01:58:44] Very polite.

Speaker4: [01:58:45] Yeah, very polite. And then the guy goes, Yeah, yeah. And he was.

Steven: [01:58:47] Drunk. He goes yeah.

Speaker4: [01:58:48] Probably goes yeah, well you know, because this is this property. Wait till we get. What if you wouldn't say if we're on the other side of the fence.

Steven: [01:58:54] Because like the fence was the property, I.

Speaker4: [01:58:55] Guess, communal property. I remember my dad. I walk over and I'm watching him and he's like, Wilson looking over. He's like.

Speaker7: [01:59:03] I'm on the other side of.

Speaker4: [01:59:03] The fence.

Speaker6: [01:59:07] I'm on the other side of the fence.

Speaker7: [01:59:08] Like the gate is open.

Speaker4: [01:59:10] So in other words, the guy can walk through and.

Speaker7: [01:59:12] Follow up on exactly.

Speaker4: [01:59:13] What he said.

Speaker6: [01:59:13] He's just like, Yeah.

Speaker7: [01:59:14] You would like it when she's like, It's not worth it. Which really was her saying, he'll beat the shit out of you. Stop. He go kill. Yeah. He has a fuse.

Speaker4: [01:59:22] Where? I've never seen him ever.

Darrin: [01:59:23] That was a guy I told him. I said, You're lucky I don't sic my 18 year old son on you right now. Do you remember.

Speaker6: [01:59:28] That? That guy was just. He was always drunk, always drunk, Always.

Darrin: [01:59:32] Three large dogs in an area where. Yeah, they were.

Speaker4: [01:59:35] Constantly.

Darrin: [01:59:36] Crapping. It was just landmines everywhere. And you said to.

Steven: [01:59:38] Her at one point, remember we were you were moving in. This is when we moved from Canada to Texas. This is true. And it's a temporary place.

Darrin: [01:59:45] We lived while we were. Okay. Yeah. Before we got in the house.

Speaker6: [01:59:47] Yeah. So the.

Steven: [01:59:49] Garages. Right. So you have to move in and that's when I dropped the couch on my head and got a concussion. And so.

Speaker6: [01:59:55] It's padded. Yeah.

Steven: [01:59:56] No, the bottom of the couch just this wooden wood part, like the pallet. And so we have a moving truck. And by the way, so here's the here's the garage and here's the moving truck. So you can drive through, you know, and other people can get. But we have to unload into the garage. That's the only place.

Darrin: [02:00:09] A pallet that was dropped off by.

Speaker4: [02:00:10] The semi that was.

Steven: [02:00:11] Dropped off.

Speaker4: [02:00:12] And she the very first conversation.

Steven: [02:00:14] I remember, she walks up and like you can have I'll have I'm just going to quote her. So if you have kids they shouldn't be watching because this is exactly her first conversation. We see her car drive up.

Speaker4: [02:00:23] And she has like two feet.

Steven: [02:00:25] On either side. She drives and backs up and drives up.

Speaker7: [02:00:28] And she gets out. She goes, what the fuck? And she walks up. She goes, The fuck? How the fuck am I supposed to how am I supposed to park my fucking car?

Speaker4: [02:00:36] And then you said.

Speaker6: [02:00:37] Wow.

Speaker4: [02:00:38] Might I suggest driving lessons?

Speaker6: [02:00:42] I said.

Speaker7: [02:00:43] Oh, you fucking, oh you fucking. And she like got up and you just said, My, you were just the.

Speaker4: [02:00:47] Filthiest little thing.

Speaker7: [02:00:48] I've ever seen.

Speaker6: [02:00:50] And she was like, Oh, she was pretty fun. Ooh.

Speaker7: [02:00:52] Ooh, ooh. So I said, because that's why.

Speaker4: [02:00:54] Those were his responses. And then, of course, she found her.

Steven: [02:00:57] Way to come in and she could park. She was, you know, she was trying to park.

Speaker7: [02:00:59] Like a woman. All right. The point is, he's got a long.

Speaker4: [02:01:02] Fuse, but.

Steven: [02:01:03] Once it burns out, it's about to go down.

Speaker4: [02:01:06] Final chat.

Speaker7: [02:01:07] All right.

Speaker18: [02:01:08] Final chat from M Coulter. A question for Crowder. I recently found out that my 13 year old niece has apparently come out as a they them. Is it wrong that I won't allow my daughter to hang out with her anymore?

Speaker4: [02:01:18] Absolutely not wrong.

Steven: [02:01:19] You shouldn't allow your daughter to hang out with her. I generally like to keep mental illness as far away from me as possible when it's flagrant and they're demanding that we take part in the delusions.

Speaker4: [02:01:30] Doesn't mean you hate the person.

Steven: [02:01:31] You love them from afar. But yeah, your daughter is young and impressionable, and I do not think that your daughter. I think what you're doing is entirely appropriate.

Speaker6: [02:01:38] Yeah.

Gerald: [02:01:38] Because you don't let somebody go over to Tommy's house because they give him too many cookies to eat. Would you do that? So maybe this is a line in the sand as well. Yeah, I think it's reasonable.

Speaker7: [02:01:47] Yeah. I wasn't allowed to go.

Speaker4: [02:01:48] Over to my friend's house for like a month because.

Steven: [02:01:49] We found out they let me watch Predator when I was nine.

Speaker6: [02:01:51] Exactly.

Speaker7: [02:01:52] See, like, I don't want you going over there.

Speaker4: [02:01:53] Why? Because you come back and, you know, you watch an R-rated film and you don't sleep for three nights.

Steven: [02:01:58] That's right.

Speaker4: [02:01:58] All right. Okay. And then next time I went over.

Speaker7: [02:02:00] They showed.

Speaker6: [02:02:00] Leprechaun. Mine was. Yeah.

Gerald: [02:02:03] Mine was Michael Jackson's Thriller. I had to walk across the alley to my driveway, and I was just, like, too petrified to do it at night.

Speaker6: [02:02:11] I was Michael Jackson.

Speaker11: [02:02:12] Zombies might dance up, like 4 or 5 years old.

Speaker6: [02:02:15] Yeah. Were you scared about zombie? Just scared about being raped?

Gerald: [02:02:18] Well, all of it.

Speaker6: [02:02:18] Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker4: [02:02:20] And dances were a little gropey.

Speaker7: [02:02:22] I was like, What? What is that? That's not a dance. It's choreography. And it was. Zombies grabbed their privates. Yes, exactly.

Speaker4: [02:02:30] That's what all the zombies do.

Steven: [02:02:32] Zombies wear leather onesies and grab their wieners in front of small children.

Speaker7: [02:02:36] All right, tomorrow.

Speaker4: [02:02:37] More of this. We have the Hodge twins back.

Steven: [02:02:39] And. Oh, there's a lot to. Oh, that's right. I remember. We've got some fun for tomorrow.

Speaker4: [02:02:43] So remember 10 a.m. Eastern and of course, Friday right here on Mudd Club. See you then.