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May 31, 2019 - Louder with Crowder

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#494 DEBUNKING 'UNIVERSAL INCOME' SCAM! | Anthony Cumia Guests | Louder with Crowder

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	Louder with Crowder Studios.
	Protected exclusively by Walther.
	and hopper Who's the head honcho around here?
	Who are you?
	Hello sir, my name is Steven Crowder and these here are the Mug Club Z's from Light Earth Crowder, a late night comedy of salvation to salve the soul.
	And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.
	Well that all depends.
	You boys do conservative videos?
	Sir, we are, uh, that's all except our half-Asian lawyer standing in the corner over there.
	Well I really don't do conservative videos.
	I'm looking for more SJW socialism material.
	Well, we just started featuring five Young Turk videos every day.
	Deplatforming everybody else.
	So thanks for stopping by.
	Sir, my club and a lot of the crowd have been steeped in socialism.
	Heck, you're silly with it, ain't you, Z?
	Hell, I know.
	That's right.
	We ain't really conservatives.
	I'll accept that half-Asian lawyer standing in the corner over there.
	I have a show in constant sorrow.
	It's seen trouble all its day.
	I've been shadow demonetized.
	Notifications won't work for days.
	Notifications won't work for days.
	For three long years I've been in trouble.
	Shadowbanned and don't subscribe.
	For Susan Wojcicki dinged our content.
	Classified!
	It's classified!
	It's classified!
	Then I hired a man who was half Asian.
	He practiced law, that's what they say.
	Now he sticks it to those big tech bitches.
	He puts the lips in litigate.
	Must have the angel in the gate.
	And demonetized.
	Demonetized.
	I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.
	I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.
	You're a strange animal, that's what I know.
	You're a strange animal, how come you follow?
	On your disability screen.
	That's called a... I actually had a full-grown male friend who would eat with a spoon like this.
	No one had ever taught him this because his parents were in prison.
	It's nice to meet you, Josh!
	We have Anthony Cumia.
	You won't be getting gifts for Christmas.
	Anthony Cumia on the show today.
	Ted Cruz will be back later in June.
	He had to reschedule.
	We apologize.
	We have a 7 plus 1 today.
	We have a bunch of news to get to.
	We'll be discussing universal basic income.
	So before I introduce everybody, let me ask you this.
	Are you worried about automation technology killing jobs?
	What's your biggest employment concern going forward?
	That'll determine, hopefully, kind of where you line up in universal basic income.
	And how old are you?
	We realize we have enough people watching this that we could do actual polls with legitimate sample sizing.
	That's true.
	Quarterback Garrett is doing the overlaid.
	We have Audio Wade.
	Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here because we're gonna get copyright struck anyway, so I'm ready to have him around.
	It's just really just like a speed dial in person.
	Penn Tellis is here.
	Two Drink Minimum podcast.
	Happy to be back.
	Glad to have you.
	N.G.
	Morgan Jr.
	Wine of the Day.
	Wine of the Day is Palermo.
	Palermo Cabin.
	Yeah, this guy on the front has universal basic income too.
	What is that?
	I don't see.
	He's kind of dead.
	Kind of like your bit.
	We should cancel Wine of the Day.
	There's no reason for it anymore.
	We should just cancel business.
	How much does this guy drink?
	They're always empty when he brings them.
	That's true.
	Don't hate.
	I saw him behind the studio just chugging.
	Which also makes it even more uncomfortable because that means he re-corks it.
	How is that potential?
	There's a cork on there.
	That's a completely empty bottle!
	Good business.
	We're like that Asian guy in Sour Grapes.
	How dare you say all Asians.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't trust them.
	Don't use that word.
	Sorry, sorry, Bill.
	I only trust the good half.
	Kind of like one of the Olsen twins.
	Just the way stuff, right?
	Just the way stuff.
	Alright, leading the news, Democratic frontrunner, of course, Joe Biden.
	He was speaking to the American Federation of Teachers and he forgot his pledge to apparently respect personal space.
	Oh no.
	You ought to go back and talk to them.
	And by the way, that's one of the things that is a dangerous idea.
	You know, as these guys will tell you, I'm not always their favorite subject.
	It's like a Swedish pursuit with a biracial child.
	We actually obtained exclusive audio as intercepted by Vice President Biden's earpiece, and it seems things only got worse for the control room.
	I'll bet you're as bright as you're good-looking, I tell you.
	Okay, Vice President Biden, that's great.
	Turn on the camera.
	Camera number four.
	I can't get the shot.
	I can't see.
	It's too far away.
	Journalism?
	Oh!
	Okay, Joe, it seems like if she's a college student, that's great.
	We really need to pick up the college vote, please.
	Let's get a clear shot of her.
	Camera number four.
	I'm telling you, I can't.
	I'm fixed on a tripod.
	Okay, great.
	Joe, bring her to where we can see her on camera.
	And, oh, s***.
	Okay, well, she's a little girl, let's... Joe, get off of it, get off of it, let's get off, just, no, don't, don't touch her, don't touch her, uh, don't... He's f***ing touching the kid.
	Okay, camera number four, get off of this, get off.
	I can't, I have to, this is news, it's my job, I have to cover it.
	Camera number four, so help me God, I will send you back to film school.
	Joe, don't mess up, camera number four... This is news, I have to cover it.
	F*** you, Joe, let go, please, get her off, Joe!
	Joe, get her off!
	That was unnecessarily uncomfortable.
	It's like he can't control himself.
	He's like, I know I shouldn't do this, but she's so fly.
	Like, I can't help it.
	Oh my gosh.
	What's he over under on how many times he's going to do this?
	Like, the guy knows every camera in the room is on him, and he still can't help himself.
	Every six-year-old girl, just understand, he wants to put y'all back in chains in a sex dungeon.
	It is disgusting.
	Dang.
	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG as they call her on Netflix, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she came out the other day and said that pregnant women are not mothers.
	Oh wow.
	Yeah.
	In Ginsburg's dissent on Box v. Planned Parenthood, Indiana, Kentucky, she wrote, quote, A woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a mother.
	This is in response to Clarence Thomas.
	You probably know this.
	They're a half-Asian bill.
	You're probably a fan of Clarence Thomas.
	Following the laws.
	Yeah, you would think so.
	When reached, actually, for further comment, the Justice couldn't provide any because she's dead.
	Oh, my.
	CNN's Jim Acosta.
	That's not slander libel, is it there, Bill?
	Oh, no.
	That could mean so many things.
	Wait, she's actually dead, right?
	I'm quite certain.
	I think so, yes.
	I like how she looks.
	She looks like a cartoon snail librarian.
	That's what she's hiding under the robe is a large shell.
	Yes, exactly.
	What's this large appendage?
	It's remarkably specific.
	That's what I think of when I see her.
	A snail librarian.
	Someone's been making a trip to Colorado's Magic Mushroom District!
	Yeah, exactly.
	He doesn't need to, he's in Montreal.
	Those things come out of vending machines.
	It's everywhere.
	The little rooster egg.
	Roosters don't lay eggs.
	I don't care.
	Show's already gone off the rails!
	That's too late.
	CLN!
	Jim Acosta.
	He's now declared that media neutrality is no longer a possibility under President Trump.
	This comes from his new book, The Enemy of the People, A Dangerous Time to Show the Truth in America.
	I'm still laughing at the snail letter.
	When reached for comment, the head of CNN's Pakistan Bureau was being beheaded, so that wasn't necessarily on the news.
	And he admitted Acosta.
	He admitted to grandstanding and showboating.
	By the way, contradicting literally everyone in the media who's defended Acosta.
	President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta that his organization amounts to fake news.
	It is our observation that its correspondents follow journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalist should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States.
	Go ahead, Peter.
	actually went to Cuba on Cuban soil and pressed Raul Castro about the human rights violation.
	This is what he does and this is what every great reporter does.
	He speaks with power and he asks those questions.
	In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him.
	He's a diligent reporter who busts his butt like the rest of us.
	Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either.
	See?
	Oh.
	It's a good thing.
	It's like the chicken or the egg.
	Does he now say that he needs to grandstand and lie, or does he always do that?
	Or is he just doing it now because the president basically called him a pussy?
	I don't know.
	I think he's a little pissed off about all this.
	You know, look, the unbiased truth would help here just a little bit, right?
	If that's what we were getting.
	We're not saying that this is Nazi Germany and you can't have an opinion.
	We're just saying that you're very biased.
	Yeah.
	Although Helen Thomas would like it to be Nazi Germany.
	Send the juice back.
	No.
	Do you not remember that?
	No one remembers this?
	I do remember that.
	I don't remember.
	Helen Thomas, you don't remember?
	She said, they should go back to Poland!
	You're like, oh, you crazy old windbud.
	It's just amazing to me the indignance of these people.
	It's like saying, hey, I think your neighbor might be a pedophile.
	It's like, how dare you?
	I mean, he sleeps with kids.
	I mean, there is that.
	I mean, it's literally like you watched Leaving Neverland, which I think is like a quote from that movie.
	Pretty much.
	I like that he wrote a book, though, because he has no career.
	He's so unfunny.
	It's like if Plywood wrote a book.
	Look at the grain of the wood.
	It's a 2x4.
	Does Plywood have a grain?
	All right, switching to international news.
	A church offered to cover up a cross in the image of Jesus for Ramadan.
	Going back to the original reasons for church, to appease the guy who said that Christ lied about pretty much everything.
	There's a right way and a wrong way.
	Yeah, you would think so.
	The plan was to, quote, invite men from a nearby mosque to use the church as a place of prayer.
	This happened, of course, across the pond.
	I think joining us on the line right now is the Church of England pastor, Reverend Nigel Smith, to discuss it.
	Reverend Smith, are you there?
	Yes, Stephen, thank you for having me.
	I appreciate you.
	Sure, yeah.
	Would you mind for a moment just keeping it real?
	I'm just going to be trying to... Oh my God!
	Oh my God!
	Oh my God!
	That went off the rails pretty quick.
	Yeah, that didn't take much time.
	Should have seen it coming.
	Couldn't have landed any other way.
	Nope.
	No problem.
	I was doing the math in my head.
	There was no other way that I could have guessed it.
	Shame on you for thinking so.
	Finally, this is our final story.
	We'll bring us to 7 plus 1, then talk about universal basic income, which I'm sure a lot of you support because you're millennials.
	And even though you're conservative, your desire for free stuff supersedes it.
	I put you in that exact same bucket.
	I'm definitely in the bucket.
	Wow.
	Right there.
	Well, yeah, it's true.
	The yang gang.
	Finally, uh... We need a street gang, Bill!
	Yes, yes, it's true.
	It's amazing.
	They're the best and most dangerous dumplings.
	They're in a street gang, and the initiation is voting for somebody who gets 0% of the Democratic nomination.
	Also stealing a Gran Torino.
	I don't know why they had all those kids to act in that.
	That is proof positive that Asians can't act.
	Sorry, Bill.
	Wait, is that a question?
	No, I don't think it's a question.
	I think it was a statement.
	Recently, did you see this video where they did this parody of Aladdin and hoping for a diverse cast, hoping for more Asian actors?
	Oh.
	And they're going like, listen, at a certain point, there has to be a meritocracy.
	Your Oscar-nominated films, and that's a really shadow category with foreign.
	It's still embarrassing.
	It wasn't a parody.
	It came out last week.
	It's in theaters, yeah.
	It's real.
	I want to take this, just a real quick point, however.
	Keanu Reeves is part Asian.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Do not even talk about it.
	Do you know what his favorite film is?
	Who?
	Bill Richman?
	Bill.
	Half Asian lawyer Bill Richman?
	No.
	I'm proud to say, it's Constantine.
	Oh no, I do know this!
	That's actually pretty good.
	I'll back that up.
	I like it.
	It's a good movie, but I didn't expect that.
	No, your number one is The Prestige.
	Oh yeah.
	And number two is Constantine.
	Top five is Constantine, Truman Show.
	Number one, Prestige, why?
	Explain your rationale.
	Ooh, Hugh Jackman, man.
	He is amazing.
	He's a Jackman.
	Just the writing is great.
	He had like a thing for him?
	Oh, I mean, I liked him in The Greatest Showman.
	He had quite a voice.
	Okay, and then explain Constantine.
	About Wolverine.
	I mean, it's just, I don't know, it's whack.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah, you just have horrible taste.
	I think that's people are going to get upset.
	Clearly established.
	I was not.
	Clearly established.
	Okay, we have to get to another church story.
	A church, they agreed to host Drag Queen Storytime after the city library cancelled the event.
	This is where Ryan Hart comes in.
	He's the pastor of a church that decided to rent out a room at the library for the event.
	I thought, well, why can't our church just host it?
	My reasoning and the reasoning of Open Cathedral and having this event is to keep kids safe.
	And kids are safer when they know that they can love themselves.
	We should point out the event was cancelled after Drag Queen Storytime in Houston was found to have hired registered sex offenders.
	Holy s***!
	Yes.
	Ooh, safe in the arms of the Joe Biden.
	Whatever happened to a potluck?
	You have to cover up Jesus and invite people for Ramadan and drag queen story time.
	Can't you guys do a Bible study?
	Jeez, come on.
	Anyway, that brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1.
	You forgot Stefan in the chamber.
	They always forget the one in the chamber.
	This week is 7 plus 1 Top Drag Queen Story Time Books.
	The most popular stories that they read to children at these events.
	We'll all have a chance.
	Number 7, Harry Potter and the sex prisoner of Azkaban.
	Yeah, that seems...
	Look at him!
	Oh, jeez!
	Tiny prisoner.
	That's terrible.
	Number 6, Bi-Curious George.
	Which...
	Oh, no!
	There's a theme!
	Oh, come on!
	Hungry.
	Penn, tell us...
	Why don't you begin us with number 5?
	Again, top drag queen storybooks for children.
	Yeah, all the places you'll go hmm.
	Just don't tell your parents.
	Yes!
	Oh my gosh.
	That's so terrible.
	I love how my lawyer takes a sip of his water at that point.
	He's not in this.
	It's not water.
	You know what?
	Let's all get our hands dirty.
	Number four, half-Asian Bill.
	The Grooming Tree.
	Oh, that was it.
	Oh, wow.
	That makes a lot more sense.
	That was so accurate.
	See, I thought it was the original title, but no.
	Number three, in case we hadn't lost the remaining half of you.
	If you give a mouse a butt plug.
	Yeah, this is not our It's the Drag Queen Story Time.
	This is not us.
	That's perverse!
	Who would do that?
	Reporting.
	You're letting us in your church?
	Gerald, give us number two.
	James... his giant... Gerald!
	Dude!
	Dude, that's like a Georgia O'Keeffe painting right there.
	It's because we're going on a theme.
	And the number one Drag Queen Story Time book, Penn, tell us.
	The little engine that could keep his mouth shut.
	Oh, gosh.
	And of course, the plus one is Berenstain Bears.
	Yeah, that seems almost all that makes sense.
	All that makes sense to people who are watching that listen interestingly.
	That concludes this week's 7 Plus 1!
	You forgot to burn in the chamber!
	I apologize for putting you in that situation there.
	It was them.
	It was not us.
	We just have to tell you guys.
	You know, these aren't the books that are getting banned at local libraries, right?
	No, these are the ones that are there.
	It's definitely not these.
	Not from the local Costco.
	That was hilarious.
	The guy was like, no, children are safer when they can turn.
	You serious?
	I was gonna say, what?
	♪♪♪ Okay, you ready?
	Oooh.
	♪♪♪ Sorry, you were about to say something there, Half-Asian
	Bill, before that necessary break.
	That was an amazing break.
	Epic.
	Witchcraft.
	It's all ball bearings now, Clark.
	Women out there, if you're dating a guy who uses a fidget spinner, kill him.
	With a fidget spinner.
	Again, question of the day is, what's your view on universal basic income?
	I know some conservatives have actually supported this, but I think it needs to be understood contextually as to why some might.
	I will say this.
	There is a scenario where I could be on board with it.
	But back to you guys.
	The question, I want to hear answers from you.
	How concerned are you about automation?
	And how old are you?
	What's your biggest concern getting into the job market?
	That seems to be why this is gaining a lot of traction.
	Universal basic income.
	Of course, you have the Yang Gang.
	Bill knows.
	And Cortez talking about it recently.
	When you were here today, you heard something like this.
	There's an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone a thousand dollars a month.
	Bill?
	Universal basic income is a policy where every citizen in a country gets a certain amount of money to meet his or her basic needs, no questions asked.
	So in my plan, the Freedom Dividend, every American adult would receive $1,000 a month starting at age 18.
	You know you're robotic when they spruce your interview up with a xylophone.
	What do we do?
	Does someone have a recorder?
	Andrew Yang!
	Is that a vuvuzela?
	A xylophone!
	That's a great word!
	So for people who don't know, universal basic income, as Andrew Yang is proposing, is $1,000 a month for every American citizen, period.
	That's the idea, funded by the taxpayers.
	Cory Booker, Kamala Harris have been pushing similar plans.
	And then, of course, the wonderful NowThis News.
	They recently published a video explaining why it's a great idea.
	Spoiler, I disagree.
	But let's go to the tale of the tape from NowThis.
	I believe we need a universal basic income in the United States.
	A universal basic income is a direct cash transfer.
	That is, we give people a set amount of money per month, no strings attached.
	People will be free to buy groceries, diapers, pay rent, save for an emergency, pay for medical care, or simply take their family to a movie.
	Crack, heroin, methamphetamine, illegal firearms.
	Sky's the limit!
	Anything.
	You can't get a tax deduction, which would essentially be putting cash in your pocket, but you can use cash instead to buy drugs.
	This would not be a good day, actually, for Asians.
	You have first Yang, and then that guy.
	I'm the yin, they're the yang.
	Is this how it works?
	On the other side of the coin.
	Careful.
	Gerald's going to try and get in on that action and say something funny.
	So before we get to the untenable economic undergirding for the argument, let me ask you a few questions here, OK?
	Because the economics, again, they don't provide any statistics or data.
	We'll do our best to try and fill in the blanks.
	Thanks, NowThis, like 50 billion plays on Facebook.
	It's just claims.
	There was nothing in that claim.
	It was like Gerald's wine bottles.
	That was a completely empty claim.
	So let's just walk you through the logic trail first, okay?
	I have a couple of questions.
	Socratic method.
	You give everyone $1,000, no questions asked, okay?
	Do you think that would make most citizens more or less likely to save?
	Do you think that would encourage people to be more or less likely to plan for retirement?
	More or less likely to strive for a better job and achieve some kind of social mobility?
	These are the first questions you need to answer.
	Yeah, and by the way, you can never, ever, ever end it.
	Government programs are notoriously hard to get rid of.
	Who are you, Taylor Swift?
	You can never, ever, ever, ever end it.
	You can't end it, right?
	And it's more likely to increase.
	So let's say we started $1,000.
	The next guy is going to come along because I want to get elected by giving people free stuff.
	Let's give them $1,200 a month.
	I'm better than that guy.
	Imagine that, instating $1,000 for every single person, and then Bernie at the tiller of that ship.
	The $1,000 a month universal basic income has not increased with inflation, sh**.
	Now he's here.
	Yes, exactly.
	It's like Fight for 15.
	This would happen.
	I have an idea.
	What if, you could tell me if this makes any sense.
	It doesn't.
	What if instead of giving people random money, like $1,000, what if you would just lower taxes in these big areas so that they would have $1,000 more at the end of the month instead of giving that money to the government?
	You just cut off our future, now this clip at the knees.
	You should have watched it first!
	Because they address that in full.
	Well, they don't want to do that.
	They don't want to cut taxes.
	Well, they address it very effectively.
	Your argument is moot.
	Moot.
	It's moot.
	I know it's moot.
	I accidentally said moot, okay?
	Get off my back!
	It's moops.
	By the way, hit the notification bell because subscriptions don't mean anything apparently.
	Bill thinks his client is very unstable right now.
	Half-Asian Bill.
	No more than normal.
	He did grow up with a half-Asian mother.
	And by the way, bookmark the page.
	And ModClub.
	LottoSpider.com slash ModClub because we are being hit with the false copyrights.
	iTunes, leave us a rating.
	All right.
	Point number two.
	This is one of the premises that they base the Universal Basic Income on.
	So instead of point, let's say these are kind of the tenants of what they believe here.
	By the way, I didn't say tenants as in renters.
	Okay, I understand it's moot.
	Oh, good lord.
	Fake news.
	The last thing I want is to be on a salon headline, you know.
	He said, moot!
	I am being vilified while the pedophile gets a parade four times.
	I've already commented about your moot-mute.
	Literally.
	Bill will clean it up in a release after.
	Trust me, you're in good hands.
	Okay, they make the argument that work doesn't pay.
	One, work doesn't pay.
	People often work one, two, or three jobs and still live in poverty.
	In fact, work pays so little that a majority of Americans don't have a thousand dollars in the bank for an emergency.
	95 million Americans live in poverty and one in three parents can't afford diapers for their children.
	First, we have to recognize that work doesn't pay.
	No matter how long and how much people work, they're not getting by and they're certainly not getting ahead.
	So first, you have to listen to me when I repeat these completely empty claims.
	Right.
	For step two, see step one.
	Correct.
	But they claim Americans work two, three jobs, 95.
	Again, there's nothing in that claim.
	I could not find any statistic that reflects 95 million Americans living in poverty, working multiple jobs.
	It's demonstrably false.
	The number is 39.7 million, according to the ultra-biased US census.
	I want to make sure you understand.
	Exactly.
	This is the modern day Herod head count.
	Oh, you hit your light there.
	I thought you had something to say.
	I didn't.
	I didn't hit anything.
	You're just drunk.
	I didn't.
	It was the lawyer.
	And this is something else we need to understand.
	When we talk about poverty, again, it's 39 million.
	It's not 95 million.
	Again, this changes it, right?
	If you think someone's working three jobs, and 95 million people working three jobs are in poverty.
	Well, the number's actually under 40 million.
	And by the way, the standards of poverty net, they have multiple vehicles, air conditioning, widescreen TVs, internet.
	I understand it's widescreen.
	I said widescreen.
	Get off my back!
	By the way, it was nice that they didn't have any kind of tag.
	I even looked at the very bottom.
	There was no source listed for the 95 million.
	Of course not.
	It's now this.
	And you go, wait, can you have a source for this?
	Now that.
	Look over here.
	It's like the prestige.
	Yes.
	We have a quarter of Asia.
	Now the prestige.
	No sources.
	By the way, it's not about just material goods.
	You wouldn't have any of those things if you were the wealthiest person on Earth 80 years ago.
	People say, oh, that doesn't, so you're saying because they have an iPhone it's not hard?
	No.
	I'm talking about the kinds of opportunities afforded to everyone because of advancements in technology.
	I've used this example before.
	Imagine if you could go back into the Civil War.
	Did you ever have this fantasy as a kid?
	Like, I could go back with an M16 and grenade launcher.
	OK, bye, Hopper.
	I think I spilled some water on him a little bit.
	Jerk.
	Imagine.
	No one would be able to stand a chance.
	Oh, now he's back.
	He's going over to Bill.
	Hopper, don't go over to half-Asian Bill.
	They serve you.
	I will protect you, Hopper.
	This festival is dedicated to you.
	This show is not a good one.
	This is great, Stephen.
	What are you talking about?
	The worst part is, we'll be able to see it in our analytics.
	That's the portion that everyone will rewind.
	Doesn't matter how much work we put in.
	Dogs and monkeys.
	People love them.
	Imagine if you could travel back, let's just go a little bit more recent, 25 years with an iPhone.
	You could be more productive than Bill Gates, along with the entire staff of Bill Gates.
	You could be more productive than all of them.
	It's not that you have a cell phone or a microwave, but you have access to technology that gives you more opportunities and more abilities to make efficient use of your time and advance your financial, your social, your educational status.
	That's the point that we're talking about here.
	Yeah, and all of this is built on this false premise that all work is equal, right?
	He's saying, oh, this work doesn't pay.
	Well, some jobs don't pay very well.
	They're meant to be entry-level jobs for you to work up to other jobs.
	If you don't like it, go out and get the skills that are required to get to a different job.
	If that requires you to work two jobs, sometimes you have to do that.
	I understand that.
	But not all work produces the same.
	And you know what else is important?
	They're trying to say, oh, that's because you're an elitist.
	No, no, hold on a second.
	No.
	Trash men jobs pay better.
	You think it's beneath you.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Being a shift manager at a fast food franchise pays better.
	You think it's beneath you.
	We're telling you there's a job surplus.
	A lot of them, but they don't all pay super well.
	Not all of them, but some of them do.
	Yeah.
	The whole premise is that if you produce something, and they're going to argue with this left and right, if you can produce something valuable with your time, then I will give you my money that I have earned to do it for me.
	And they go on to make that point that many Americans don't have a thousand dollars in their savings account, right?
	And this is evidence of work not paying.
	This is emblematic of the leftists at NowThis because, like many of the proposed tax plans and economic plans coming from the left, it doesn't take into account- What?
	What?
	What, men?
	What?
	I think we lost half-Asian Bill.
	What?
	I'm playing with the dog.
	I licked my lips.
	You're not playing with him, you're putting on the dry rub.
	Stop it.
	It's teriyaki sauce.
	You know this.
	It doesn't take into account spending.
	Now you're getting it.
	Everyone's understanding.
	Samsonite.
	I was way off.
	Then they go on to make this point.
	Again, I'll let you know in what scenario I would be supportive of a universal basic income, but it's not based on these false premises.
	Like right now, I think is it still now this?
	Yeah.
	This is now more, unfortunately.
	We give corporations, they say, free money, but not the poor.
	But then why are we so reticent to give people money?
	Well, because in the United States, we wrongfully believe that if we help struggling people and communities, that they'll never help themselves.
	Instead, we give big corporations and billionaires free money because we believe their wealth creates deservedness.
	So we keep giving more.
	What?
	What?
	Again, is there any source, any evidence for that claim?
	None.
	First off, it's not remotely true that the United States gives nothing to the poor.
	Currently drop about $1 trillion a year, okay?
	Stevie, that's nothing.
	That's nothing.
	It's a drop in the bucket to you.
	That's like 1 20th of the new green deal.
	I mean, yes, that's true.
	Basically, that's just half a paragraph.
	That's two lines if you take into account five pages.
	That's just a farting cow.
	That's it.
	And they don't explain what they mean by give billionaires free money.
	If they're talking about government subsidies, loans for giving out money to corporations, I'm against that.
	Every single conservative I know is against bailout money.
	Everyone here?
	Show of hands?
	Show of hands?
	No?
	No one here supports bailouts?
	Okay, good.
	We should find some common ground there.
	Now, that would be a good example.
	Obama giving $535 million to a solar energy company to declare bankruptcy without actually creating anything.
	Subsidizing green energy to the tune of $39 billion a year.
	I think we all have problems with that.
	The auto bailout.
	But I think people need to understand that a subsidy is very different from a tax break.
	From saying, OK, we are going to not punish you as much if you bring these jobs or you conduct this research onshore.
	Here, that's not the same as giving somebody money.
	I think we need to understand the difference.
	And you must deal with that all the time in business law there, Half-Asian Bill.
	Well, I mean, you've got to think about what is the theory of if you're going to give someone money versus you're going to, you know, let's say a tax break or something like that.
	It's almost as if they're saying, well, it doesn't matter what form you give it in.
	As long as you give it, there's no consequence, right?
	You just give the money and everything will be fine.
	But there's no, what is the empirical data to support that this money is going to go in the right place or actually change anything?
	Right.
	To drive this point home, by the way, this killed Mitt Romney's campaign, but it was accurate.
	Almost half of all Americans don't pay federal income tax.
	And here's something even more that I wish you would have clarified.
	If you look at income and taxes paid, okay, and you take into account federal transfers, that's a word they used, right, like the $1 trillion in government programs that I mentioned earlier, meaning what you give to people, welfare, food stamps, the bottom 20%, what would you think the bottom 20% in the United States pay?
	A lot of people say, well, they should pay less.
	Okay, so you think they're paying too much.
	What would be fair?
	Should they pay 20%?
	15%?
	10%? 2%?
	They pay negative 58% when you take into account what they get in the form of transfers.
	The next income brackets, all the way up to the middle 20%, they all get double digits of a negative tax rate.
	Wow.
	People in the top tax bracket, they pay over 30%.
	And this is why whenever someone says, well, this is a tax cut for the rich.
	Well, yeah, because they're the only one paying taxes.
	And by the way, top 20% is something like $70,000, $80,000 in a joint income household.
	It's not that much.
	So it's important to understand, this is a tax break for the wealthy.
	Well, you pay negative 50!
	What would you like, negative 100%?
	I don't know, I don't... What do we have to do to make you happy?
	And you're right.
	The only people that can pay taxes are the people that are earning an income to do it.
	Or, I'm sorry, that only can get a tax break are the ones that are paying taxes.
	So with the corporations, when you look at them, they always paint them as this big evil villain.
	We shouldn't give them any tax breaks.
	That's how you compete for their business.
	They can locate wherever they would like AOC.
	Thanks for the Amazon.
	25,000 jobs, billions of dollars later.
	That's how this works.
	They didn't pay anything in corporate tax.
	What about the income tax?
	There were billions of dollars paid to the government in taxes.
	Payroll taxes that they would have been paying to New York State.
	It's one of the biggest lies.
	Google it, okay?
	Just YouTube search.
	Actually, don't YouTube search because it won't show up on YouTube.
	It's already been removed, I'm sure, demonetized.
	Where we dealt with the biggest myths of the rich and corporations not paying anything.
	It's not true that Amazon has paid nothing in taxes.
	That's billions of dollars annually in the last few years.
	Alright, another, sort of one of the fulcrums of their argument here is that
	universal basic income will boost the economy. Here's how they explain it.
	I believe we can lift millions of people out of poverty with the universal basic income.
	You're wrong.
	And give people the independence they deserve with a monthly cash disbursement.
	Giving people cash will create an economic stimulus.
	When you give people money, they spend the money, which helps boost small business and government revenues.
	Recent Nobel Prize winning work suggests that the best way to reduce poverty and help people is to actually give them agency.
	And this means giving people money.
	We can afford Universal Basic Income.
	You give...
	For perspective, the federal government just passed... No, you know what?
	Cut it.
	Cut it.
	I can't do it anymore.
	Hold on a second.
	Give people agency by giving... How about you give people agency by NOT TAKING THEIR MONEY?
	How about letting them keep their money?
	That's a good place to start.
	He's basically talking about... You're gonna say trickle-down economics doesn't work, where the idea is if people would keep more money.
	We're not just talking about the wealthy, but the idea people don't understand when you look at economists like Art Laffer.
	The more people keep, the more they will spend.
	What you are saying is take, take, take.
	Don't let them keep.
	And then give them money to spend.
	You acknowledge that if people have more pocket change they'll spend it, that's good for the economy, but you believe that you give people agency by taking their sh and saying, by the way, here's a little bit of your sh back?
	You should be happy with that.
	By the way, let's change it from universal basic income.
	This is wealth redistribution, period.
	That's all it is, is taking from somebody else that has a lot and giving it to someone who doesn't.
	That's it.
	It doesn't take into account human nature and the work incentive.
	It's not even a new idea.
	From 1968 to 1990, the U.S.
	actually led a few trials.
	I think they called one of these programs a negative income tax.
	There's some clever wordplay there.
	What it is.
	And what did they find?
	You guys know what they found?
	They found that if you gave people free money, surprise!
	They worked dramatically less.
	Among men, 43% less and they were far more likely to be unemployed.
	And the buffoon said, he actually said, we'll collect more of this money and give it to the government.
	But the government's already giving this money out.
	What are you talking about?
	We want more money.
	Hey, there was something true he said there, though.
	What?
	Hello.
	They're going to give the money, and then it's going to boost small businesses.
	And drug dealers are small businesses.
	This is true.
	That is true.
	We've got people playing the lottery.
	Every $1,000 check coming out.
	And there's a magic mushroom shop owner in Colorado going, I'm freaking out, man.
	This is my ticket in.
	Too much.
	Why is that librarian so slimy?
	Oh my god, she's dead!
	She's dead!
	She shouldn't be sitting on the bench!
	The idea that they claim that the only way to make people independent is to give them money.
	It makes people more dependent.
	I just don't understand.
	So, okay, in order to wean your son off of solid food, you're going to keep your t*** in his mouth forever?
	That seems like a plan.
	I want him to start eating peas.
	We're really hard to get him on the path.
	Just my t***.
	That doesn't seem like that's the most productive route.
	I just put a pea on the bread.
	No, okay.
	And by the way, the argument they often bring up, I hear this a lot as gang gang, you know, you know what I'm talking about there, half-Asian dog.
	They use Alaska as an example.
	This is something a lot of people, what about Alaska?
	I can already see it in the comments section.
	Hold on, you might want to delete that comment you left four minutes ago.
	It's a very small amount in Alaska, between $300,000 to $2,000 a year or so.
	Yeah, and by the way, if we needed any other examples for this, this works really well with the Native American population.
	Very, very well.
	Great results, at full employment, everybody's doing well, it's fantastic.
	Just look at Steven Seagal.
	I am one.
	Also black from Brooklyn and a Jew from Detroit.
	And a police officer.
	Yes, all of those things.
	Amazing.
	And if you look at places that have done it on a larger scale, like Canada, Finland, they actually imamented, uh, implemented, get off my back!
	Imamented, Steven?
	Universal.
	Did you say imamented?
	Oh, freak it out!
	He needs to check out more books, but she's hushing him.
	I don't know.
	It's a bad program.
	I like this.
	It's like SLC Punk.
	Yeah.
	Kind of the middle scenes there.
	In Canada, Finland, it failed.
	They were set to run a program in Canada, I think, for three years.
	I should just look at the overlay.
	Had to be shut down after 15 months.
	So fast!
	So fast it was shut down.
	I didn't get any of it.
	Your check is in the mail, sir.
	Sorry.
	In Finland, the program didn't help people get back to work.
	You have a direct quote from the Finnish.
	I don't know how to do a Finnish accent because they're insignificant on a global scale.
	No one cares about you.
	When compared to a control group who were not receiving the basic income, the test subjects, given the money, were not significantly more likely to have gotten back into employment.
	Also, by the way, unfortunately for them, the people at the end of the study were murdered by everyone in the control group.
	Oh, wow.
	That would affect it.
	The people who had their autonomy actually violated with their stuff taken, they killed them.
	That seems reasonable, though.
	Finland, I guess you have a new thing to be known for, so it's not that bad.
	The next point, this is one that's really big, and it's not ill-founded, completely.
	Automation.
	Many Americans, even those with six-figure incomes, are living check to check.
	And third, gains in productivity aren't being realized by average Americans.
	They're being hoarded by a few people at the top.
	Automation and artificial intelligence will only accelerate this trend.
	I love how they just toss in automation and artificial intelligence.
	Like, hold on a second.
	We've seen automation really going back to the agricultural revolution.
	Right.
	Do you want people plowing fields with spoons?
	Right?
	There's always been some level of... We can do that.
	And then you can look at the industrial revolution.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	But then he just throws in A.I.s.
	You're like, what?
	Alexa?
	SkyNet.
	And it was listening in on me, man!
	I mean, the argument there is to say, well, yeah, if you want to just create jobs and artificially create a market, just start destroying all computers.
	You know what we should also do?
	No electric grid.
	Yeah.
	Candle makers, man, that industry is going to Boom.
	I mean, but you can artificially create that, or you can set up a system that deals with important education items, encouraging people to actually work, and to be able to have the kind of persistence going to earn them the type of money that they're interested in.
	And that's not to say that we can entirely eliminate poverty, but how is going to give this additional money to people who are definitively, based on the studies, not going to do anything to change their circumstance, going to change anything?
	And that's what's lacking in the entire field.
	That's a valid point.
	Can't automate this.
	Counterpoint.
	They would like to see WhiteHouse.gov be a storefront for Etsy.
	T-Tree oil soap.
	Here's something else that people don't talk about.
	Despite automation, there's more probably than ever.
	Unemployment at its lowest in 50 years.
	Record number of workers entering the workforce.
	We have a high labor force participation rate.
	We have a job surplus.
	And the hard data shows us that the digital revolution has created far more jobs than it ever destroyed.
	Think about it.
	You have entire businesses that just create apps.
	No.
	And then you have entire businesses that just help them code those apps.
	And now you have entire businesses even just taking into account Amazon.
	People think it's this one Leviathan.
	No.
	Well, it is, but there are a lot.
	It's basically a main portal as a digital storefront for all kinds of third-party sellers.
	It's sort of become the new General Store.
	It all comes full circle.
	This is what people don't take into account.
	Now I understand that some people will lose jobs in a shifting economy.
	Yeah.
	And we shouldn't be insensitive to that.
	Of course.
	But like you said, we can't solve it by just being inefficient or giving people something
	that they haven't earned.
	But Stephen, what about the laser disc manufacturers?
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	Right.
	No one here is crying about the track.
	And you know, your plan doesn't address those vintage, amazing, historic past.
	Well, how far is selfish?
	How far do you take it?
	It's like, okay, what about the key grips on Route 66?
	They've probably been out of work for a while.
	Where's the soda fountain guys?
	Nobody jerked a soda like Patrick.
	Also, turned out he was a pedophile.
	That surprised us.
	Soda means little student.
	Came out of nowhere.
	Came from that snail bitch at the library.
	Always left a trail when she went into the non-fiction section, I tell ya.
	Another consistent trend, by the way, is that get off my back.
	Dangerous, low-paying jobs have decreased, while safer, high-paying jobs increased.
	So not only more jobs overall, also a better quality of life with the new jobs.
	And it's a reasonable conversation to happen, but the problem is that technology, you can't stop it, right?
	People, I just thought of this, Pol Pot had this idea in the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
	No, his idea was full labor.
	Everybody go out in the fields.
	Every smart person in the country was killed.
	Teachers, people who had glasses, lawyers.
	Sorry, Bill, you guys are usually the first to go.
	People who had glasses?
	I work on that.
	They were considered smart!
	Is that because you wore glasses?
	Somebody called him four eyes in France where he was in school, and he's like, oh, they must be smart.
	No, that's because of their masturbatory behavioral patterns.
	He's like, look, genius is like this, right?
	They basically pushed everybody out into the rice fields to have them just make an agriculture economy that would rule the world, essentially, and it miserably failed.
	Millions of people died because you tried to do that.
	That's putting everybody at work.
	That's full employment.
	This idea has been floated before.
	Just check history.
	Yeah, well, you know, I was using Canada and Finland as sort of benchmarks there.
	You went straight to Pol Pot.
	I did.
	And he said, I was just thinking about this right now.
	Yeah, I know.
	Every time Gino says, I just thought of this, it's like, don't.
	Yeah.
	I've seen it.
	I've been in those fields.
	I've been in the high school where they killed people.
	It was crazy.
	You've probably been to Asia more than half-Asian Bill Richmond's been to Asia.
	Gerald is a sex tourist.
	I've been to a different... I am not.
	I'm just wondering why my mom recognized me.
	I actually helped set up a center to fight trafficking.
	He has Thailand pre-check.
	No.
	Just Thailand, yeah.
	No.
	Oh, welcome back, Mr. Gerald!
	Welcome back, Mr. Lawson!
	See how this is?
	I actually helped fight human trafficking and you guys say I'm a trafficker.
	I did!
	I helped set up a program in Siem Reap.
	Now I feel bad.
	What's it called?
	Siem Reap was the city in northern Cambodia.
	And Sihanoukville, too, over on the coast.
	Siem Reap was actually the name of the ladyboy.
	No, it was not!
	Ah, no, Siem Reap, not what you like!
	He's mispronouncing it.
	See him rape.
	No.
	Gosh.
	I can't get anywhere with these people.
	I'm so sorry.
	No, you're fine.
	G. Morgan Jr.
	I understand the appeal, by the way, to small government conservatives.
	This is one thing.
	So if you were to make this argument, and I've heard conservatives, I think even if you go back, I think Friedman might have talked about this or Hayek.
	Yeah.
	If you were to say, let's do away with all welfare programs, all social safety, let's do away with EBT, let's do away with Social Security, let's do away with Medicare, Medicaid, let's do away with welfare, let's do away with all of it and just put a thousand dollars into every American's pocket regardless of income, I understand the appeal because at that point it would save us money and you wouldn't have the kind of government incentives that create baby mamas.
	At that point, you actually have a government incentive to have a joint household.
	Okay, a mom in the house, $12,000.
	A dad and a mom, $24,000.
	I understand the appeal to it, but that's not what any Democrat is proposing.
	This is very important to note.
	They're just saying, we want to give people money, and by the way, if they're getting more in benefits already, we're going to let them keep those benefits.
	That's a problem.
	Yeah, nobody's going to make that change.
	And by the way, this program would cost, you would have to raise, right, additional $3 trillion per year if everybody over 18 received $1,000 a month, no matter their income level.
	And that's what the proposal is.
	I would sign up for the Green New Deal much faster.
	That's much more plausible than doing that.
	There's no way.
	$3 trillion per year.
	Yeah.
	That sounds like a lot.
	And it will grow as the population grows.
	I would like to have Yang on the show.
	I bet you we could probably get him.
	Hold on.
	Let me make sure I understand.
	I just assumed that this plan wouldn't be so stupid as to say, we're going to take $1,200 from a bunch of people, and then we're just going to give them $1,200 back.
	Like, I'm pretty sure that's just like a check floating scheme.
	All we're doing is just keeping the interest along the way.
	Now, I get it.
	They're going to take more from a higher, you know, there's a higher tax rate, and then it's going to redistribute.
	But ultimately, again, look at that figure.
	$16,000 to $18,000 of benefit already, right?
	And so you add on top of that.
	So you have to say that I'm going to increase by this kind of single or maybe low double-digit change, and that's what's going to make a big difference.
	And you just don't see the evidence for it.
	No.
	And what they say is, well, we would count it as a credit.
	So in other words, if someone gets $12,000 a year, it's $1,000 a month.
	dollars a year, it's a thousand dollars a month. If someone gets a thousand dollars
	a month, twelve thousand a year, and they only get sixteen thousand dollars of transfers,
	well now they would only get four thousand dollars of transfers. But that's not, it's
	not like that's a wash.
	It's just worse!
	You just have them getting the transfers and now a bunch of people who don't need the $1,000 getting $1,000.
	And this is, by the way, but we do have to get going.
	This is based on Marxist theory, which is all about the abuse of the worker at the hands of the capitalist bourgeoisie.
	See?
	You don't need to get on my back on that one.
	That's because French Canadians.
	Let me ask, what do you think the result of having policy is where those who work and contribute have their money taken from them and it's given to those who don't?
	How would that not eventually start a civil war?
	Honestly.
	You know who's going to win that war?
	The ones who've been contributing.
	Also, because they're the ones who have the guns, you would assume, not only because they can afford them, but they're the kinds of people who would purchase guns.
	This is important.
	It's predicated on the idea that the wealthy don't pay enough, meaning people who have over $70,000, $80,000.
	They do.
	They pay far more.
	People in the bottom 20% pay a net negative.
	And this idea is that it would provide some kind of more autonomy.
	It doesn't.
	It creates slaves to the government who can then decide what you do and when you do.
	With your money.
	I'm not on board.
	We have one more story.
	Lena Dunham actually posted this photo encouraging people to love themselves.
	I think we have, yeah, yeah, Gary.
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	Quarter black.
	What, what's happening?
	Uh oh.
	Oh, oh no, oh no.
	Uh.
	Oh, oh no, oh no.
	Oh, God.
	If he wasn't wearing pants the whole time.
	I'm Robin, I'm Dark Horse Pimp, I'm Robin.
	This always happens.
	I'm listening to it and then I forget.
	Alright.
	There's no man.
	♪ I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man ♪ I'm listening to it and then I forget. All right.
	Sh**!
	There's no man, it's just a show.
	It's just a show.
	Oh, my God.
	I'm bouncing.
	I don't like that.
	You're there.
	I'm gonna cry.
	Okay, now what am I doing?
	Guns.
	What do you need besides a miracle? Guns. Lots of them. I'm Trinity.
	New York, New York, New York, New York.
	What do you need besides a miracle?
	Guns. Lots of them.
	I'm Trinity.
	No, you're Pantelis.
	Cut!
	No, in this film he is playing Trinity.
	You're Trinity.
	Is that all you need?
	Yeah.
	This is the new Walther all-steel frame Q5 match.
	Red dot ready.
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	The all steel Walther Q5 match.
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	apparently this was popularized by justin bieber Did you know that?
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	Yeah.
	Fellow Canadian there.
	Yeah.
	So there you go.
	Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.
	And you work, actually, for... with... do you work for our next guest?
	Yeah, I do, actually, yeah.
	I work for him, yeah.
	It's not insulting for me to say that you work for him.
	No, no, no.
	Why would I?
	That you are his subordinate, that you are his Greek Montreal subordinate.
	You know him from Compound Media, that's where you can watch Two Drink Minimum.
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	You can follow him on Twitter at TheKoumyaShow.
	Anthony Koumya, thank you for being back, sir!
	Thank you, Mr. Crowder.
	Always a pleasure to do your program.
	Right off the bat, I've got to talk about the Walther.
	I love the Walthers.
	Yes.
	And that one, I have a PPK-S, and I've noticed one thing.
	In my situation, I tend to date girls that are a little, what's the word, insane.
	Yes.
	This has been well documented in the press, by the way.
	This isn't gossip.
	It really has.
	And I've noticed that the Walther PBKS, they can barely pull that slide back.
	So it's a good gun to have around if you don't want them shooting you.
	Right.
	It's the equivalent to Steve Martin's cork on his fork in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
	The first thing you do with a girl when you first meet a girl and start going out with her is hand her various pistols that you have and ask her to rack it.
	The one she can't rack is the one you carry around with you.
	That's also why, by the way, everyone needs to avoid the Walther CCP.
	That was one of its design patents, because it's a gas-delayed blowback.
	So that's what my mom has.
	It's really easy to rack.
	So I stay away from her when she's upset.
	First question, Anthony, do you dye your hair?
	Because I'm going gray here, and you've got the Elvis Presley jet dark black it looks like going on.
	I usually go to this place in New York City called John's Sahag.
	Very classy joint.
	But I decided to try a new place out on Long Island, and I get the cut, and yes, I do get it colored, but usually at John's Sahag they're a little more subtle about it.
	This one was, she just gave me the 1977 Tony Manero.
	So, you know, after a little while, it starts growing.
	I get a few Paulie Walnut wings going here from the Sopranos.
	Well, that's not bad if it was between that and the Rich Little.
	By the way, how's your Reagan impression?
	Yes, well, I... Mommy, I had to have my hair done.
	It's... well... That's actually better than Rich Little and not as sad.
	Yeah, Rich Little.
	We, uh, me and Jim Norton, uh, call, uh, Liam Neeson dyes his hair for all of his Taken movies, and it looks like he literally just dipped his head in soy sauce.
	That's definitely what I got this time around, was the soy sauce.
	Well, it looks good, and it's, you know, it's high, not high and tight, but tight.
	But I knew a guy at church one time who, he had fully gray hair and then came in and it was bright blonde.
	And the weird thing is, you know he had a decision to make at some point where he's going, I'm just gonna have to cross over and hope no one will notice.
	Because he wasn't going just for mening and then, no, it was just gray, blonde.
	And we had to act as though we didn't notice.
	Yeah, that's like Elton John did with his wig.
	He was bald, and then one day he just put this rat on his head, and he's had it ever since.
	And we kind of got used to it, so.
	Yeah, or like Steven Seagal with hair plugs.
	Oh my goodness.
	You can watch his early movies.
	You're like, we've seen the film.
	Sometimes they just paint it on.
	They just paint the edge right on.
	It doesn't require any digging.
	And it also changes based on what ethnicity he's claiming that day.
	So like when he's saying, I'm Native American, you know, he gets the widow's peak, then he's like, I used to hang out with the blacks in Brooklyn.
	And then he gets a perm, and you're like, Steven, I guess people have gotten the hair plugs or transplants or whatever you want to call it early on because they go bald earlier in their life and then everything else falls out except for where they put the plugs in.
	Like, if you're in your 40s or something, and you're thinning and want to get it taken care of, that's not a problem.
	If you're that guy that in high school started going bald, just accept it.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's a rough start.
	When you think about it, they're taking a gamble like Bosley, when you're basically a walking billboard.
	Because if you go out, they don't have control of whether you lose your hair or not.
	And you tell everyone, like, yeah, this is Bosley.
	Everyone, it's forever more hair toddlers.
	So I really, I would be very selective.
	It would be like the college combine.
	For people to come in if I gave them plugs.
	I don't know.
	You got a great head of hair on yourself there.
	Thank you.
	It's getting the Mr. Fantastic going gray.
	So that's why I was asking, you know, my wife doesn't like the gray, but I feel, you know, I'm thinking like battle scars.
	It's the liberals doing it to you.
	It's the liberals making your hair gray.
	It turns gray overnight.
	Speaking of which, now we have to get back on track.
	What do you make of Mueller's press conference here this week?
	I know you've been talking about that quite a bit.
	This guy, we all had this amazing kind of preconceived notion about him, that he was the man behind the curtain, the intelligent man in the cave on the hill or something.
	Because we didn't hear- Wait, wait, wait, hold on a second.
	Where do you come from that intelligent men live in caves on hills?
	Is this Dark Crystal?
	It was a Twilight Zone episode.
	Oh, that's right!
	Okay, yes.
	It turned out to be a computer.
	And Muller turned out to be the guy in the wing, just- Yeah, and the guy that used to do the Schlitz commercials broke it or something.
	Anyway, it was a great episode.
	But yeah, we thought he was this guy of wisdom, because he didn't say anything during the entire investigation.
	You didn't see an interview with him, nothing.
	And then he comes out and you're like, oh no, he's just another one of these idiots like you see in Congress and paraded in front of us to give these interviews.
	And he's like, all right, here's what it was all about.
	We didn't find him guilty.
	We didn't find him not guilty.
	All right, take it easy.
	I'm out of here.
	No questions.
	I quit.
	Right.
	First question, isn't that your job?
	Yeah.
	And people don't seem to understand what a prosecutor's job is, especially during an investigation like this.
	It's not a trial.
	He is just getting information so the prosecution can present a case.
	There's no rebuttal from a defense attorney or rebutting any of this evidence that he has.
	So in all of that, in all those two years, he couldn't find anything.
	He didn't find anything.
	But yesterday he had to pump out a little bit of crap in his speech about Trump and the fact that he wasn't exonerated, which means nothing in our legal system.
	But to try to tell liberals what the legal system is about is a whole other thing.
	Well, because Trump sent out a tweet.
	Yeah, they don't even understand the most basic of rights that we have in this country.
	Never mind understanding prosecutorial ethics and rules, whatever you're supposed to do.
	And then my favorite part of this whole thing is watching the Clowns, the candidates for the Democratic nomination that are saying, well...
	It's clear as day that he was saying that Congress now needs to pick up the ball and immediately start impeachment proceedings.
	Nothing was clear, by the way.
	No, nothing at all.
	Nothing in this entire investigation has ever been clear.
	And don't you think they have a motive?
	That they want Trump removed because they cannot possibly beat him?
	It's like every NFL team wanting to impeach the Patriots at the beginning of the season.
	Of course you're not going to win!
	So they want to get rid of him.
	So when you hear any of these clowns talking about Trump and how he needs to be impeached, there's an ulterior motive here.
	They want to at least have somewhat of a chance in the presidential race.
	And it could backfire, by the way.
	If they try to impeach him, it could end up being worse.
	I know there are different theories on that, but I do wonder, like you said, we really didn't hear from Mueller a whole lot, and so he sort of became this kind of He's kind of a Rorschach test.
	He sort of became this empty tablet that everyone just kind of copy pasted onto him what they wanted.
	Well, he hasn't said anything, therefore there's clearly evidence.
	And like you said, when he came out, it wasn't clear, but 30-something million dollars later, how many subpoenas, hundreds of subpoenas and witnesses?
	Do you think he didn't say anything during that time because he was just at his desk going, oh, st, oh, st. That's what I feel like.
	And then he's like, I have a press conference to do.
	I have to, I don't have anything.
	It's like you wake up, you haven't studied for the test and it's the day of.
	And if you go to over two years with an investigation and you put out this report that is supposedly concise and has everything in it that they got as far as evidence and interviews and testimony, everything, why would he have to give the Democrats this little, hey, by the way, guys, I really mean impeach him.
	Right.
	Nothing is in the report that says This guy should be impeached.
	There's nothing in there that says he committed any crimes.
	Oh, but it doesn't say he didn't!
	Oh, geez.
	Again, our legal system doesn't run that way.
	Your sole job was to determine whether he committed crimes, Mueller, and then pass it along to someone who would be a prosecutor.
	He's like, oh, punt to Congress.
	Wink, wink.
	What?
	What is happening?
	Then it becomes some secret code in some nine-minute They're the ones that are now going crazy over everything he said.
	the Democrats and and all these news channels of fake news fake news seems to
	you see if they're all back there see if they they're the ones that are now going
	crazy over everything he said they're they're trying to decode it yeah
	There's nothing to decode!
	Read the report!
	Right.
	That's all he said.
	He said the report is my testimony.
	Right.
	Well, it's kind of like the great... You know, I don't expect everyone to read 400-something pages with the report, but the Green New Deal is a great example of that.
	Everyone was talking about it in the media.
	We just read it on the channel.
	We just read... It's five pages.
	And that's, by the way, printed in large font.
	So we just read it and immediately was demonetized and restricted on YouTube.
	Just reading the Green New Deal.
	And it has like close to a million plays, because we're just saying, we are just going to read it.
	That's all.
	And it's so laughable.
	All right, speaking of laughable, let me ask you this.
	Howard Stern has been talking about this recently, and I want to get to him in a second, because he's been on some interpreted as an apology tour.
	But he did sort of lament the change in the media landscape today, from radio, what it used to be with having only callers, and now today with social media, how there's more sort of scrutiny.
	What's your opinion on that?
	You know, I did Fox News and radio, but not really.
	This has always been more so my milieu along with stand-up.
	You were here for the whole transition.
	Do you feel there's more pressure?
	Do you feel there's more freedom?
	How would you compare it today?
	When I first got into radio, they would sit you down, the GM, the general manager, the PD, program director, they would sit you down and say, here are the FCC rules.
	Here's our lawyers.
	They will tell you what the rules are and you must adhere to them.
	If you don't and there's a complaint, we have lawyers that will field all the FCC.
	It was always the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, the government.
	Those are the people you had to worry about.
	Nothing else.
	Oh, you'd get some groups, but for the most part, if you stayed within the lines, you would be okay.
	But it was always, they wouldn't complain directly.
	If you upset a gay group or a woman's group or anything, minority group, they would complain to the FCC because that's what they did.
	Right.
	And then you'd have to field that complaint.
	They were the monster.
	Now it's everybody.
	Everyone is now the FCC and can levy a fine on you, if I may use the word fine.
	Well you can actually, Pantelis knows, Trudeau, Justin Trudeau wants to do that on Twitter.
	He wants the rest of the world to follow Canada's hate speech guidelines.
	Right, yeah.
	Canada's pretty nuts with that whole thing.
	You leave your First Amendment behind when you cross that border going north.
	They're proud of it.
	But it's odd because now the FCC's nothing.
	When was the last time you heard anybody that got an FCC complaint on the radio?
	It just doesn't happen anymore.
	What happens now is people get offended.
	and they start uh... tweeting and getting in touch with sponsors and
	they cut out the entire fcc thing which actually used to litigate with
	the station lawyers and what not and uh... they would actually discuss
	first amendment and things like that you're done and if you uh...
	get some heat and people enough people bitching complain you're done you lose your career so you think it's a good
	it's worse now than the age of trust your radio it is so much worse
	can't play some of the things we did regular fm radio back in the late nineties
	uh... on satellite radio We weren't allowed to play it because it was too offensive.
	Wow.
	On regular radio, you know.
	You know, the last time I got in trouble with the FCC, it wasn't really the FCC, but this was a terrestrially syndicated, when it was a podcast, to, I don't know, like 20 something stations.
	Not many.
	And we were putting on the podcast fake tornado warnings, you know, that...
	But we'd have, like, Lena Dunham warnings and Volusia Raptor warnings.
	So it was just, like, fake sketches, because we had to fill commercial breaks on podcasts.
	We were sort of bridging this gap.
	And we got an email, and someone from the station said, yeah, they're not sure.
	They know it's illegal if you do it on air and radio, but you only inserted this into the podcast portion.
	But they want to see if they need to treat it like another syndicating network.
	And then I never heard back from them.
	So that was my first and only experience with them.
	Yeah, they get upset with the emergency announcements, and I think that's what the FCC's only handling now, what they were initially supposed to handle.
	Are you broadcasting on the right frequency?
	Is it the right power coming out of the transmitter?
	Because they don't care about content anymore.
	And I think that has to do with traditional terrestrial radio stations.
	Don't put jocks on anymore that do anything that could get them in trouble.
	They're so petrified of personality-driven radio now that they just say, shut up, read the liners, play the music, and that's it.
	So you're not getting that kind of controversial radio anymore.
	Yeah, I auditioned once for a national morning radio show.
	This wasn't that long ago.
	It was in Ben Shapiro's old house, actually, in his apartment.
	And they said, we don't want you to inject any personality.
	Just read the news briefing.
	It was the worst audition ever.
	I was so bad.
	I walked out, and I remember my head was low.
	I said, I didn't get it.
	And Ben, I'm quite certain that I embarrassed you for putting me up.
	I'm so sorry.
	You didn't get it, but Ryan Seacrest did.
	Yes, Ryan Seacrest did.
	Oh, we do have to get going.
	Let me ask you this, because this is some controversy.
	I'd like to have you back to talk about it.
	Howard Stern, his newest book is out.
	Some people have said it's kind of an apology tour, where now he's saying, and I shouldn't use words like, retarded.
	And he was a shock jock.
	Do you think it's a natural evolution of a guy who's no longer 28?
	Or do you think it's really more so based on acquiescing to what's needed to survive, like you were just talking about?
	There is absolutely a growing phase that you go through, and I think when you hit your 50s, I guess, you really start thinking, well, everything I did is fine, but if I did it now, it would be pretty creepy.
	Right.
	Especially where girls are involved.
	He did a lot of sexual stuff, and he was mean to a lot of celebrities, but it was hilarious for the listeners.
	But I understand growing out of that and wanting to change your show maybe and personality or whatever, but you can't disavow what you did.
	And you can't take people like Gilbert Gottfried who were amazing on your show and kind of built you up.
	He had a lot of cast of a lot of players that Built him up to be the Howard Stern he became.
	And then to just say, well, no, we'll never have them on again.
	We'll never replay it.
	We'll never acknowledge we did that.
	He was on The View the other day, and it was hilarious just that he's on The View.
	And one of the one of the Yentas sitting next to him said something to the effect of, can you believe Howard Trump rates women from 1 to 10?
	And Howard's sitting there, I'm watching, going, have you watched his show over the course of the year?
	Where he took a laser pen and had a nude woman standing in front of him, put it on her hip and went, well, you're a little fat here, honey.
	That's a good Howard.
	You lose a couple of pounds there, honey.
	They have no idea, and he doesn't want anyone to really know that's who he was.
	I don't even think they know that Donald Trump rated women on his show!
	It was on his show that Donald Trump rated women!
	Right!
	It was on his show, so I think he is doing this apology tour.
	If you get a chance, watch his appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show.
	At the end, he wants to give away a book and they show the camera open on Times Square and he's able to talk to them on the big billboard.
	He led them in a sing-along and dance-along of the Hokey Pokey with zero irony.
	I was mortified watching this growing up with Howard since he came to NBC in 84.
	Watching that was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
	I guess you could change, but oof.
	That was kind of like me with David Letterman in about the last four years,
	where I would tune in and go, oh man, this is it's no longer funny.
	He's really, really angry and so far left that I can't do it.
	And it doesn't mean that he doesn't mean he was not hilarious and groundbreaking.
	Right. I just was saying this is a season where I'm going to have to ignore it.
	Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
	I don't know, maybe if it happens slowly.
	It's almost like the guy you were talking about in church with the blonde hair.
	All of a sudden Howard, you know, becomes this guy that wants to be loved and apologizing to everybody.
	It's just a little shocking to his true old-time fans.
	It's like, I'm not going to use the word retarded anymore to mean minorities.
	Like, you had a midget farting on a stripper yesterday!
	That was yesterday!
	And it was in the afternoon!
	It was a post-show!
	Alright, people can catch your show, it's Compound Media.
	It's compoundmedia.com?
	Dot com, yeah.
	And the promo code is COMPOUND20.
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	Eastern Time, yeah, Monday through Thursday.
	And we have a bunch of shows here on the platform.
	So, yeah, go to compoundmedia.com.
	It'll give you all the info you need.
	Absolutely.
	Pantelis is over there.
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	Did you ever see Commando?
	Yeah.
	The movie Commando.
	Do you remember when Arnold, was that where he was in the swamp?
	Yeah.
	And he was breathing through a reed?
	That wouldn't work.
	No, but you know how I know it wouldn't work?
	Because I thought I would do a breathing contest, an underwater contest, hold your breath contest.
	Smart.
	With my brother.
	And I cheated by having a little blade of grass.
	And I lost the contest horribly.
	I really thought it would work.
	Just water immediately just goes straight into that and you drown.
	We just don't get enough air through that.
	Was that yesterday?
	It was more recently than I would care to admit.
	Yeah.
	It was post-move to the United States.
	Okay.
	I thought I'd put one over on him, and I did not.
	Thank you so much again to Anthony Cumia.
	Our apologies.
	Ted Cruz will be here, I think, was it June?
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	And we'll keep you updated on the move next week.
	We have a bunch of stuff coming.
	I don't know.
	We have some super videos in the works here.
	A lot of stuff going on.
	All right.
	So this is one that's kind of, uh, I'll get a little personal later on here, which is always tough.
	It's always tough to be kind of vulnerable in these segments because, you know, it's the internet, like we just talked about with Kumia, and, uh, uh, most of you are terrible.
	So, we've been talking about this, we had Daniel Cormier on the show, who's the heavyweight champion in the world, and we've had a lot of, you've heard me talk about this, we have a lot of people who are excellent in their field on this show.
	And we do the Life Advice segments, the Tough Love segments, for those who are Mug Club members, for those who aren't, you know, it's a little bit of a longer show where we just take some of your emails and try and help people out.
	Most of the time, we don't.
	But I noticed, I've definitely noticed a common thread and a question that we get a lot is, a lot of people find themselves in a rut.
	And I'll often ask for the best way to find motivation, the best way to sort of find inspiration to turn things around.
	So let me tell you, you're not going to like this.
	Here's the fact.
	Most, sometimes it's not there.
	Most of the time, it's not there.
	And that's not to say that those who find themselves in a rut are hopeless.
	Far from it.
	So follow me here a little bit.
	What I'm about to offer is just the probably the exact opposite of the solution that you were hoping for.
	but it is a solution. Many people, I think a lot of folks in my experience, I think that successful
	people are very, by their nature, they're very driven. You know, that's what we're taught to
	believe. They're driven, they're motivated all the time.
	That's what makes them elite.
	When in reality, and I've realized this in talking with people like Daniel Cormier,
	Thomas Sowell, or Brian Shaw, anyone who's excellent. In reality, these people, just like you,
	they often don't feel motivated or inspired.
	Usually, it's the 80-20 rule.
	Successful people are successful because they get up and they do it anyway in spite of that.
	And again, I've had the luxury of interviewing the best of the best.
	Daniel Kremit, heavyweight champion of the world, right?
	Brian Shaw, four times world's strongest man.
	Thomas Sowell, I don't know how many books he's read.
	After the first several dozen, I lose track.
	And when I've asked any of them what separates them from the pack, invariably they all answer, and it might surprise you, it might not, work ethic.
	And you know what?
	Here's one thing we were talking about earlier this week.
	There's kind of a bell curve with talent.
	When you're young and you're playing sports, the sort of Determining factor, right, is talent at that point.
	It's determined by how you grow, how quickly you grow, when you hit your growth spurt.
	That determines whether you advance in most endeavors.
	Athletics, academia.
	They thought I was retarded until I was in the fourth grade.
	Turns out I just couldn't learn geography and math and French.
	Thanks Quebec government!
	They still might think.
	My wife still thinks I could be retarded.
	I'll get back to that.
	There is a bell curve, though, with talent, okay?
	You hear a lot that work ethic only takes you so far, and that's true.
	But that talent is the great divider is not necessarily true, particularly once you get past a certain point.
	For example, I'm never going to be able to jump like LeBron James, right?
	Why?
	Oh, because I'm not 6'8", with purely fast twitch muscle fibers.
	This is not LeBron type, okay?
	You would not cast me.
	If I saw the character breakdown, it would not say strong, silent LeBron James type.
	It would be like maybe early James Cromwell type.
	Early young Richard Jenkins type.
	That's what I would get.
	I'd be a character.
	Side character.
	So yes, let me get back to the point.
	There are divisions of talent, okay?
	That's what takes you to the center of the bell curve.
	Now, in this case, keep in mind I'm applying the bell curve to professionals, to elites.
	Then something interesting happens, okay?
	Once you've weeded everybody out, and you're down to the top 1% of 1%, and that's usually what we're referring to when we mean elite, there's still a gap.
	There are still the NBA All-Stars, for example, the Dream Team, and then there's Michael Jordan.
	There are still top-ranked heavyweight fighters in the world who could beat anybody else on the planet, and then there's Daniel Cormier who throws them around like a child.
	There's still world's strongest men, for example, second through 10th place, and then Brian Shaw winning four years in a row.
	And the widening of the gap, once you get past that bell curve, is no longer due to talent.
	It goats back goats.
	It reverts back to work ethic.
	And I've only realized this recently in having enough of a sample size of interviewing the elite of the elite.
	And I would say not only work ethic, but work intellect, working smarter, not just harder.
	So many people, this is something, we get so many emails like this, you know about this in life advice, they're looking for the skies to part, the light to shine down, God to show you your purpose, or that moment of inspiration, motivation to hit you.
	Sometimes it does, okay?
	And that's great when it does.
	Sometimes it doesn't.
	There's a lot of variability.
	I'll tell you where there isn't a whole lot of variability.
	I'll tell you where there's one constant.
	While you were waiting for your sign for your motivation, there was a guy or girl who wasn't.
	There was a guy who didn't feel like it, who wasn't motivated, and he worked at it anyway.
	He wrote another book.
	Thomas Sowell.
	He got another training session in.
	Daniel Cormier.
	Let me kind of explain this because I want to preface this.
	This is something that's pretty personal, but I don't want what I'm about to say after this to seem egotistical.
	I've kind of alluded to this before, but I've struggled with depression in my life.
	Clinical depression.
	It's been something that's just been on my plate.
	Everyone has their cross to bear.
	I'm not saying that it's more of a burden or less of a burden than other people.
	And, you know, I've talked about sort of the fibromyalgia thing.
	They go hand in hand with the chronic pain.
	But I tell you this for two reasons, okay?
	People only bring up, number one, depression or mental health when a celebrity offs themselves or when it's politically expedient to discuss mental health care and needing to de-stigmatize it, which ironically, to me, makes it more stigmatized.
	And by the way, to a degree it should, in that it's not a good thing.
	It's not a good thing to struggle with depression.
	I wouldn't wish it on anybody, okay?
	But it does bother me when people come out and say, oh yeah, after Heath Ledger, I certainly struggled with it.
	We need to de-stigmatize it.
	Well let me ask you this, when things aren't bad, when there isn't some famous celebrity who was taken too seriously, when are you talking about it?
	Because that makes it seem abnormal to people.
	And it's not a good thing.
	People need help, they don't need to be coddled.
	The second reason I bring this up, not because I'm elite or trying to say, you could be me too!
	But you know what, in the spirit of objectivity, we do a lot of content here at this show.
	And I guess by definition, being the top conservative channel ever makes us elite, but that's only because of the dearth of talent on the right.
	It's certainly nothing compared to people like John Oliver or Jimmy Fallon.
	We're grateful for everyone who tunes in.
	If I can toot the horn of the team, that intro that you saw today required days of working on the song.
	Just writing the lyrics, days of recording the song, mixing it, then performing it with a lip sync on a green screen with a scratch track, hours of wardrobe makeup, then days of editing, comping.
	All the while, I've still had to host, and we've had to work on a show four days a week, and then some for the last several weeks.
	And this week we were taping until midnight, out in the middle of the field, covered in blood, corn syrup, with mosquitoes around us, to a Goodfellas parody that you'll see next week, and then the workload starts again.
	So, am I elite?
	No.
	But I'm at least as accomplished as the next guy.
	And I will say the team here of people, as a unit, I would say they're elite.
	And that's why the clinical depression is something I've been struggling with for a long time.
	So I bring it up to show you that, even though I'm nothing necessarily special, what you see is a lot of work, and I've been doing it anyway.
	So I want you to know, when you wake up and you don't feel like it, understand that's most people.
	Just do something.
	Anything.
	Get out of bed, get out of your head, and the reasons that you're hearing through that noggin telling you why not, why you can't, and just do.
	Otherwise, you will have to live with, for the rest of your life, knowing that while you were scrolling through Pinterest looking for a motivating quote in posters with kittens that say, hang in there, there was that person out there who was doing it in spite of having no motivation at all.
	And guess what?
	That person will be elite.
	That person, invariably, will be better than the rest.
	And if you don't follow that kind of a blueprint yourself, that person will be better than you.
	And you'll have to accept it.
	And it'll be of your own making.
	Alright, see you next week.
	Hope that helps.

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