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#537 EQUALITY ACT DEBUNKED! | Tim Pool Guests | Louder With Crowder

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	Louder with Crowder Studios.
	Protected exclusively by Walther.
	and Harper.
	I'm going to be playing a little bit of this song.
	You know, I was doing the Mr. Olympia most muscular pose and I hit my finger on the mute button and then I remembered that I had a mute button!
	You forgot about it.
	I completely forgot about it.
	Look, you can hear me and now you can't hear me.
	Good job.
	But it's not so bad because we don't have Gerald today with us.
	Okay, we have Tim Pool on the show today.
	And for those who are not members of Mug Club, then we have an extended like 30 minutes behind the paywall because we can't talk about the stuff on YouTube.
	Question of the day before I introduce everyone else.
	I used to dig Taylor Swift, was a fan.
	I'm done.
	Anyone else feel that way?
	Also, be honest, how much do you really know about the Equality Act, and do you support it?
	Because it's something that's been talked about quite a bit.
	Seems most people don't know their thumb from their wiener.
	Before we get to news of the day, my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, is here.
	How are you, sir?
	Wonderful.
	Glad to be here.
	A lot of good feedback.
	Let him know you love him, because a lot of people are like, hey, I'm glad that he's in third chair there.
	Not my mother.
	And we have quarter black chariots.
	Aww.
	She's also disappointed that you're not a doctor.
	You're only a lawyer.
	Hood pass?
	Got it.
	Good.
	Dog.
	And replacing Gerald, because his back surgery went successfully, is Gerald B. today.
	So, good.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, there we go.
	He's got the wine of the day.
	Spitting image.
	Good job.
	Bogle.
	Spitting image.
	That shows up on our accounting sheet as Brittany.
	Yeah.
	That doll.
	It's not a joke.
	I have a receipt.
	There's more words on there, but we can't say them.
	Yes, there are more words on there.
	It's very uncomfortable sending your mother to purchase those.
	All right, we're going to be talking about the Equality Act.
	Taylor Swift, of course, Tim Pool.
	But top story before any of that, Bernie Sanders this week praised China, you know them, China's leadership in a recent interview.
	Bernie, this comes from Washington Examiner, Bernie said that China and its leadership have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization and have done a lot of things for their people.
	Obviously a lot of outrage.
	The Manhattan Institute think tank issued the following rebuttal.
	Donald Trump don't trust China!
	China is an a**hole!
	You know, it's pretty easy when you go from, well, we're just going to murder 100,000 less people here of the poorest citizens, and oh, look at the progress!
	You know what?
	Okay, this is important.
	The definition of extreme poverty here, what we're talking about, is less than $2 a day.
	Okay, so when he's talking about China bringing them out of that, it's about, I think it was 88%, and now it's .7%.
	So the reduction, by the way, this was in 81.
	I don't have the exact numbers now.
	I think this is 2015.
	I think we have the overlay from Forbes.
	So the reduction in poverty in China, it directly correlates to them opening up their markets, even though it's not really a free market economy anymore.
	Still not free, but freer?
	Now they're at .7 for extreme poverty, in the U.S.
	it's about .1.
	But keep in mind, the average salary in China, the average income is $12,000, not even close to half that of the United States.
	Well, and this is the same government that is now persecuting Christians and locking up pastors for just undermining the government.
	Yeah, they've done a ton for their people.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, I mean, it made sense, right?
	So they gave more jobs to the poor and said, hey, as a condition of coming out of extreme poverty, You must crush all civil liberties.
	Here's a baton.
	Good luck.
	So, new rule book!
	You can make sneaker, yeah?
	But have no Bible.
	Was that Asian Bill Maher?
	That was Asian Bill Maher.
	So tired of the Bible.
	Go make your Nikes.
	I always feel like Asians would make the worst spies.
	Chinese, as well.
	Really?
	Baloney.
	Well, they're easy to spot and they're bad actors.
	I call no.
	No one would hire an Asian to be a spy, which is why we would be great at it.
	Literally, you'd be like, what is that guy doing?
	Go get some low-main.
	I mean, come on.
	Yeah, Mr. Zuckerberg, you store all your personal photos in the cloud?
	Yeah, just curious.
	Look, no Bible.
	I don't know why he had a trench coat.
	Apparently people keep Bibles in their trench coats.
	Sticking with political news, a Washington, D.C.
	woman is now claiming that Ilhan Omar stole her husband.
	This comes from the New York Post.
	According to divorce papers, the cheating spouse told her he was having an affair with the congresswoman, then made a shocking declaration of love for Omar before he ditched his current wife.
	This was trending everywhere.
	When reached for comment, the congresswoman responded, hey, he was my brother first.
	Little on the nose, but warranted.
	How unlikable must his wife have been?
	I want to know who lost out to Ilhan Omar.
	Real ice cream.
	I think there's a misinterpretation.
	Those weren't tears of sadness, they were tears of joy.
	Yes.
	By the way, did you know she has like 22 traffic violations?
	Parking tickets at 22, I think since 2009.
	Amateur.
	And she still has a license?
	Do you have more than that as far as parking?
	I don't know anyone.
	I mean, he is Asian.
	Oh, traffic violations?
	Probably not.
	Depends.
	Well, no respect for the law.
	Actual versus caught.
	I was very surprised when I saw it.
	Listen, if people come to our country, they should respect our laws or go back to the shitholes.
	Hey, this is a great story.
	I will not go back to Chicago.
	Toy company Hasbro, they now own Death Row Records.
	Awesome.
	So the corporation known for, you know, Mr. Potato Head, the Power Rangers toy line announced that they will join forces with the label most known for West Coast, very important to note, West Coast Gangsta Rap.
	The company is attempting a brand rollout actually by Christmas now with the new Suge Knight Ruxpin.
	What's wrong with little Quarter Black?
	He had a rough day at school.
	He said none of the kids would talk to him.
	I have an idea.
	Oh boy!
	Suge Knight Ruxpin!
	I swear to y'all, it's like this.
	I'm gonna beat the dog s*** out of you.
	If a n*a tellin' you that the police didn't do it, they a punk-ass na. So if you ask me if I know who killed Tupac, I'm the n**a that said, hey, absolutely not.
	I'm gonna f*** you up, man.
	That light is f***ing me up.
	Good night, Suge Knight Ruxpin.
	You'll be my best friend forever.
	It is remarkable how much Gordon Black Garrett made that bear look like Suge Knight.
	I know my people.
	I had no idea that we had that kind of production.
	Excellent.
	You could be Chinese with that kind of tailoring and sewing work.
	Thank you.
	We also bound its feet.
	I've always said this, like, when I retire, when I don't do this show anymore, I want to be the Suge Knight without the felonies of conservative media.
	I want to be the guy who can help support other conservatives, you know, if you have good shows that you want to pitch, you know, eventually we'll end up producing that and maybe I'll hang vanilla ice over a balcony.
	We all aspire to that level of success.
	Oh, Suge Knight.
	Continuing with music-related news, the MTV Music Video Awards were this week, which we'll get to, obviously, because Taylor Swift a little later in the Equality Act, but former NSYNC member Lance Bass showed up in a pink tuxedo.
	Call me crazy, but I'm starting to think Lance Bass is gay.
	So this is interesting.
	A story about fake news is said to create fake memories.
	This was a new study.
	It comes from Psych Central.
	According to the Ireland study, people can form false memories after seeing fake news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs.
	Wait, wait.
	So you're telling me that I didn't have sex with Batboy?
	Oh no, you definitely had sex with Batboy.
	Yeah, you had sex with Batboy.
	There's no doubt.
	We're talking more like political memories might be tainted by the brush of time.
	Yeah.
	You don't get do-overs on that one.
	This next one, we were writing this bit, we couldn't get away from it sounding like Norm Macdonald in our head, so we're going to do this as a Norm Macdonald joke.
	All right, here, let me get in.
	All right, so today is the birthday of, you know, both Michael Jackson and Ingrid Bergman.
	One captured the hearts of millions in her portrayal of Iselin in the classic film Casablanca, a film some have called the apex of cinema.
	The other was a homosexual pedophile.
	So you know.
	I'd like to have sex with kids there.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	End Norm Tribute.
	We would love to have you on the show, Norm.
	Yes, please.
	That would be great.
	Wild Turkey 101.
	Can't get enough of Wild Turkey 101.
	Apparently, by the way, there's a new blood-sucking leech that's been identified in D.C.
	area swamps.
	All the news that's fit to not even print talk.
	It's a slow news week, so we're covering the whole spectrum.
	When you know it comes from a local Fox affiliate, it's a slow news week.
	This comes from Fox 5 DC.
	The scientists who discovered the new species said that the leech is not something new that's come up, but it's been there the whole time unrecognized, which I'm told is actually the subject of this season's premiere of River Monsters, our nation's capital.
	So you got, yeah, it's the Bucharest Lampreynas.
	Made its way in through Lake Champlain, I think, and then the Great Lakes.
	Speaking of bodies, let's turn to the Pacific Northwest.
	Did you have anything, what did you think there, Gerald B.?
	Yeah, as usual.
	Well said.
	Astute.
	Turning to the Pacific Northwest, a million dollars of cocaine was found hidden in bananas.
	Police uncovered 45 kilograms of cocaine in three different Washington supermarkets, all hidden in different kinds of boxes of bananas.
	That's a plan.
	Yeah.
	We should have suspected it, considering Curious George's most recent outing.
	George eats a human face, so that was...
	Was it cocaine or bath salts?
	The guy who ate the face of Miami bath salts, he only tested positive for marijuana.
	A lot of people don't know that.
	I'm not saying marijuana makes everyone eat a face, but I think he was a paranoid schizophrenic.
	And then a little bit of Tahoe OG pushed him over the edge.
	A little bit of Platinum OG.
	A little bit of Blue Dream.
	A little bit of Skywalker Kush.
	A little bit of Purple Stripe.
	OG.
	I don't know, I was thinking if you say Kush or OG, that gives you a pot name, right?
	It's always so funny, people are like, this strain will help you sleep, and this strain helps cure cancer.
	What does this strain do?
	This strain makes you really energetic and focused.
	What are they?
	They're both pot.
	That's what they are.
	Alright, one's from this greenhouse, one's from this greenhouse.
	Which one makes me not eat a face?
	You know, it's a crapshoot.
	Once it leaves the greenhouse.
	You'll know after you try.
	You'll know after, because you end up in the clink.
	A NASA astronaut, by the way, has been accused of stealing her estranged wife's identity from space.
	Good job.
	So, New York Post, she's accused of improperly accessing the wife's bank account while on the International Space Station.
	So, one small step for man, one giant leap for lesbian space criminals.
	Think about this.
	This is the men's right sort of sexist.
	They're going to use this forever.
	Men have been going up to space forever.
	No real problems.
	Drama free.
	One woman goes up.
	Identity fraud.
	Immediately.
	I mean there's other women in space that have committed crimes.
	Yes.
	All crime in space, 100% women.
	Namely the crime of taking up the seat where a man could have been.
	Finally!
	It's just not well documented, the woman-on-woman crime.
	The worst thing is when we say this, and obviously we're being sarcastic, someone in the comment section is like, THAT'S RIGHT!
	I WAS GONNA SEND YOU SEATS!
	YES!
	No women in space.
	That's not what we're saying.
	I just want to make sure that we're clear.
	The guy's back there, he's like, delete, delete, delete, delete.
	I was already typing.
	Women can go in space as passengers.
	I just don't believe in female pilots.
	That's all.
	I believe in female pilots.
	I don't.
	They exist.
	I know they exist.
	They do exist.
	Okay, I should say I don't trust them.
	As for directions, honey, we're just going up.
	I trust them.
	That's it.
	I would let Gerald fly.
	Can you end up where it says on the ticket, don't pressure me!
	And then they make the joke that men are too afraid to look at a map.
	It's like, yeah, but you know what?
	We end up there and you call me saying, do I turn left at the McDonald's?
	What?
	Give me a landmark.
	Go south.
	I don't know.
	Is that the CVS?
	I don't know.
	Just go south.
	Walgreens?
	I'm sorry.
	Are you married to Carlos Meza?
	We have to bleep that.
	Uh...
	Soft bleep.
	People will know it.
	Finally, there's this story where Andrew Yang, the Yang gangers out there, hello, admits
	to having once named his pectoral muscles.
	He named his right peck Rex and his left peck Lex, and apparently in college he could jostle them on command to impress the girls.
	If the girls were impressed, he'd then introduce them to, allegedly, Wang Hong, which, besides being racist, unfortunately, turned out to be a disappointing exaggeration.
	What do you think about that, Suge Knight Ruxpin?
	I'll beat his motherfucking ass and kick him square in his motherfucking ass and play with his titties.
	Hey, Suge Knight Ruxpin, don't you know you're not supposed to hate?
	Aggressive.
	That's enough out of you, Suge Knight Ruxpin.
	Horrible.
	I'm sorry you have to sit next to that, Bill.
	It's fine.
	We're friends.
	I don't understand why he's not a black bear, though.
	Well, Build-A-Bear was running low on inventory.
	Just so many Suge Knight Ruxpins.
	I do feel as though many times when we go and we purchase these items and they ask us what it's for, if we gave them an honest answer, they would not sell them.
	I lie.
	I lie every time.
	That's what we're going to start doing, is just Crowder Confronts, where you go and try and buy stuff honestly, and they're like, no, no, no, Suge Knight?
	No way.
	No way.
	So this bear is for Suge Knight Ruxpin?
	You know, I think maybe KB down the block.
	KB's been gone for four years.
	That's a rip, man.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	That's your issue.
	It's your best chance.
	We're closing now.
	Anyone here Taylor Swift fans?
	No.
	Yes.
	No.
	Really?
	Are you?
	Yeah.
	I used to be a Taylor Swift fan.
	But this is something, we're going to talk about the Equality Act here, but let's set this up.
	Taylor Swift, she had this VMA performance acceptance speech where she promoted the Equality Act and then called out the White House for not responding to her petition.
	Here's the speech.
	At the end of this video, there was a petition, and there still is a petition.
	There's four dudes up there.
	For the equality act.
	Well, one of them is Dennis Rodman.
	I want to thank everyone who signed that petition because it now has half a million signatures, which.
	She's getting cocky.
	She's gaining confidence.
	Which is five times the amount that it would need to warrant a response from the White House.
	Ooh, look!
	She's got a little lilt there.
	Flat wag.
	Got a little lilt.
	Snap, snap.
	Guess what?
	That wouldn't mean anything if everything that she just said was not factually incorrect.
	So it brings us to this week's What a Piece of Sh**!
	All right, we're gonna talk about... It's always a short, people get jarred if you're listening on audio, sorry.
	But we're gonna get to the Equality Act.
	But this whole speech, let me just rattle this off.
	First, Ms.
	Swift, you're not actually wearing a watch, right?
	So when she does the looking at the watch, I understand you're trying to be funny.
	That's like a four-year-old.
	This was obviously premeditated.
	Put on a watch.
	Second, the White House only has to respond if you submit a petition through WhiteHouse.gov.
	Yours was a Change.org petition.
	And you didn't even address it to the White House.
	You addressed it to the Senate, sweetheart.
	And by the way, even though we know that you've ditched all of your people and teardrops on your guitar and you're going for the pop world now to hang out with people like Lena Dunham, you didn't have to throw your dad under the bus and have him delete all of his social media just because he happens to be a Republican.
	Piece of s**t movie.
	And by the way, you're a cute girl.
	How much makeup?
	You're wearing these... You're looking more and more like a tranny.
	And by the way, don't take my word for it, John Travolta was clearly confused.
	Oh, a word?
	What?
	Uh-oh.
	And he sleeps with a lot of trannies.
	And do you always have to act, Taylor Swift, do you?
	We're gonna get to the equality, but do you always have to act like you're surprised every time you win an award?
	This is like, what, your 42nd award?
	It's not a Grammy.
	It's an MTV award for a music video which is the most played, most popular video of the year.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what to say.
	I don't know, but you know what?
	I do have a petition that has more than five times.
	Shut up, Taylor Swift!
	She had this look on her face like someone just said, I'll finish with the abortion, Ms.
	Swift.
	You're so thrilled.
	That is cruel.
	What do you think, Gerald B.?
	Alright, on to the Equality Act and why it sucks.
	This is one of those things that sounds good, right?
	The Equality Act.
	You set up the doll.
	By the way, I love the crappy golf shirt.
	You really captured the essence.
	And G. Morgan Jr., by the way, his back surgery went well.
	We do.
	We love you, Gerald.
	Just, you know, get off the pain pills.
	We don't want you to be like the D.C.
	guy yelling, eat my butt.
	This sounds good, the Equality Act.
	Just, like, pro-choice.
	Sounds good.
	The Green New Deal.
	Actually, that doesn't even really sound good.
	That does sound a little bit authoritarian.
	You know, you plan to see people doing a goose step when it's the New Deal.
	But, you know, I get it.
	The point is, it sounds good.
	And she said the bill basically means that everyone gets treated equally.
	No.
	No.
	Let me get into the Equality Act and why it's incredibly dangerous and corrosive, okay?
	The bill prohibits, to quote it exactly, discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, identity, and sexual orientation.
	Okay, I understand discrimination based on sex.
	I understand sexual orientation.
	Get it.
	Key takeaway here, though, is gender identity.
	It's not defined at all in any real way when you look at the bill.
	So someone can just identify as a woman and federal law demands that everyone treat them that way.
	That's a problem.
	Bill, do you see some of the complications there?
	So this is one of the things people think.
	They go, oh, well, I'm just going to put a law into place and decide.
	It's going to be easy.
	Oh, I want equal rights.
	I mean, obviously, that's not what the law is about.
	You've already said that.
	But when you actually have to apply it, how are you going to apply something so undefined and malleable as gender identity?
	I mean, Everyone has a problem with just even understanding, okay, so if I decide to change today, if Trump decides he wants to identify as a woman, is it now we have our first woman president and everyone's going to run to his backing?
	Of course not.
	And yet, these are the types of laws that are supported that don't actually talk about how you're actually going to apply it in real life.
	Right.
	They just want to stay in the high level in the clouds.
	And then when someone goes, well, I'd actually like a little bit of structure there to know how we're going to follow the law, they start saying... Don't you know you're not supposed to hate half-Asian Bill?
	Exactly.
	No questions.
	By the way, it's not as though there isn't any precedent for this, because we can see some complications.
	So how would allowing anyone to identify however they want potentially be a problem?
	In other words, why would anyone be opposed to the Equality Act?
	No one's opposed to equality!
	That's not what we're talking about.
	So let's start with this.
	One reason, women's sports.
	We've already covered how transgenderism is destroying women's sports.
	You have male-to-female transgender athletes winning world cycling championships.
	And people say, well, that's an isolated incident.
	No, winning national championships in weightlifting.
	Smashing four powerlifting world records in a day.
	And by the way, a biological male is now the number one ranked NCAA women's track star.
	Transathletics, where men get everything and women get consistent beatings.
	It's the Islam of sports.
	Also, in a recent meet, this is important to note, said transgender, was first, ranked first nationally, and in a meet, someone placed second, respectively, was also a transgender.
	For the record, the race included exactly two transgender competitors.
	How many?
	Two.
	Where were they ranked?
	Number one and two.
	Oh, wow.
	That's harsh.
	Men just have an unbelievable advantage!
	Testosterone, we've gone through this, higher bone density, greater lung capacity, higher ratio of fast-twitch muscle fibers, but we're gonna have to throw this out because someone wrote a college thesis.
	And Taylor Swift does an imaginary watch.
	And this is something important to note.
	People say, well, we're going to deal with sports when we get there.
	And this is something, and I would like your opinion here on this bill, but they say we can make a provision for sports.
	Actually, no you can't.
	If it's the law, sports have to follow the law.
	Now they can add to it in certain ways.
	For example, like the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
	You see this a lot with UFC when they had this whole testosterone issue going on.
	It's legal.
	People can procure testosterone.
	But, the sports organization can say, alright, we don't want to use that because of an unfair advantage.
	But if a law specifically says you cannot prohibit in any way someone who's on testosterone, they can't do it.
	It's not left open-ended here.
	That's the challenge that I see.
	We've talked about this in the First Amendment.
	If you actually put a definition of hate speech and then you try to apply it, it falls apart immediately in almost every example.
	It's the same way with trying to define gender identity and say, it's not just the whatever, it's the whenever, right?
	So someone can say, well I am, you know, of the 97,000 different versions apparently that exist in gender identity.
	I'm going to cycle through them like t-shirts every single day.
	Will the rest of the world catch up?
	And if you don't, it's a crime.
	Right?
	You're liable civilly to have to pay money, or fines, or maybe even go to jail, or all those types of things.
	At the very least, to be pilloried in social media if you can't actually keep up with the changing, fluid gender identities.
	And that's a problem.
	In the same way when you talk about discriminating against folks in a certain way, you have to be able to define what the discrimination is.
	And when one of the biggest proponents of it, Taylor Swift, can't even define it, I'm loving the music, but stick to it.
	Don't try and go to the long side.
	You're just saying I should shut up and sing?
	Pretty much.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	So you're just saying you don't want to hear my political opinions?
	Yeah, you know, let's go with that.
	Yes.
	That's not why you were hired.
	That's not why you're here.
	We don't really care.
	We don't really want to hear them.
	And by the way, you're wrong.
	I mean, is it discrimination to say, you know what?
	You can't do the hormones.
	What?
	But that's what helps me compete!
	My point exactly.
	By the way, hit the notification bell if you're subscribed because apparently subscriptions don't mean a whole lot.
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	Another reason here, too, when we talk about the Equality Bill.
	Women's only spaces.
	This is something that has turned a lot of feminists against others.
	It's turned lesbian angry sister against blue haired pseudo lesbian sister.
	And that's sad.
	Let me read from the bill.
	With respect to gender identity, an individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility
	including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room.
	That is in accordance with the individual's gender identity, which again is not defined.
	Even without laws like this, there have been tons of cases of sexual assault, rape, when
	male to female transgenders have been allowed to go into women's only spaces.
	But I'm not saying that always happens, that every transgender is a sexual predator.
	But most recently we had Jessica Yaniv, who used these protections in Canada to try and gain access to underage nude girls.
	And was championed.
	Still trying to do it.
	Still trying.
	Still going.
	Yeah, well, I mean, maybe they're not all predators, but I'm not exactly mystified at how many of them are sexual deviants.
	I mean, they pretty much have their identity focused on their sexual deviancy, or at least their gender deviancy.
	Yeah.
	Well, they wouldn't say, yeah, exactly, gender.
	You can't choose your sexuality, but you can choose your gender.
	That's the new thing.
	By the way, show me your tits.
	Yeah.
	That's Jessica Yenif.
	She's getting into these change rooms like, yeah, can you help me?
	Can you help me use my tampon?
	No!
	I think you should be locked up.
	No, not at all.
	I think you should be in Buffalo Bill's well.
	Think about the subjectivity though, right?
	Like again, and I don't say though as to be a rebuttal, but I mean think about it's actually worse.
	I mean it's worse than that when you think of the practical application of saying okay well hey I'm gonna go to the women's restroom today and later in the day I'm gonna go to the men's restroom and then actually later after that I'm gonna go back in the women's restroom.
	Right?
	And all of the places that, for example, I mean, I know a number of women who actually consider the women's restroom to be a safe space.
	Right?
	Right.
	So regardless of whether it is or it isn't, you're going to take one person's subjective view of a place where they can go, they can feel safe, and frankly, if you've ever been in a women's restroom, it's always nicer than a men's restroom.
	Every time.
	And now you're going to say... I've heard the opposite.
	I've heard that it gets even messier.
	It can.
	It gets messy, but they start off really clean and nice.
	Sometimes they have couches.
	Really?
	They almost often have couches and flowers and scent machines.
	That's crazy.
	Couches?
	Yeah, couches.
	I've seen it.
	That's disgusting.
	I've snuck in there once.
	Couches are very porous.
	It's very permeable.
	It's gross.
	They have their clothes on.
	I don't know.
	I feel like that couch, it's like if you have a couch in a cigar lounge, it's always going to smell like that.
	No matter where.
	You can sell it on Craigslist.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's not a white couch.
	The couch in the bathroom will smell like that.
	But the idea being is that, okay, if you have a subjective view of what should be great, and you're gonna have these women who say, the safe space that I have in the restroom to be able to go there and not worry about men being around, to be able to, you know, cry, or to do my makeup, or to do whatever, adjust my dress, now I have to say, under this rule, under the... Yep, we're lucky.
	Now it just doesn't matter, right?
	Like, take all the signs off, anyone can go anywhere.
	And this is important because it's not based in science at all.
	Gender is really, it's really more grammatical.
	We've talked about this before.
	Simone de Beauvoir, you go to the John Money study, right?
	You get to Judith Butler.
	This is a very new idea.
	Even people who believe that gender was socially constructed and separate from sex, they still only believed in two genders.
	And this is not scientifically based.
	It was never proven.
	It's just theory.
	It was theory that was supposed to be talked about in college because it didn't really matter or have real-world consequences, like most things that are talked about in humanities courses.
	And then, for some reason, people weren't in on the gag, like, let's just open up the floodgates!
	And even the professors themselves were like, what?
	No?
	It was a goof!
	It was a goof!
	So here's another reason, by the way, with this bill.
	They're going to be targeting religious organizations, business owners.
	The Equality Act prohibits against any kind of discrimination, as they put it, against LGBTQAAIP people from the bill.
	Any establishment that provides a good, a service, a program, including a store, shopping center, online retailer, or service provider, salon, we'll get back to that, bank, gas station, food bank, service, or care center, shelter, travel agency, funeral parlor, or establishment that provides health care, accounting, or legal services.
	They mentioned salon in there.
	Clearly, because Jessica Yaniv was trying to get people to wax Z's balls.
	Like, why did they specifically go, just say all businesses!
	Well, they also mentioned shelters.
	So, battered women's shelters now have to receive men.
	Going back to what Bill said, that's another safe space.
	It literally is sometimes the only safe place a lot of these women have, is a battered women's shelter.
	And now we're going to allow men in, which is more trauma.
	And by the way, a lot of shelters are run by churches.
	A lot of shelters are run by religious organizations.
	This is what's important to know.
	There's the letter of the law, there's the spirit of the law.
	People aren't creating battered women's shelters because they hate transgenders.
	They're trying to do good.
	And then you ruin it by saying, it's not good enough, let's allow men there.
	Let's get an example for our church.
	They had a single mom's night at our church.
	This is a big thing where single mothers would go drop off their kids at daycare and I think they would do like yoga or spin class or sometimes it would have like a single like a matchmaking night with the single men of the church.
	So it would be illegal for a church to say, oh, we're having a single mom's night here.
	By the way, you have to be allowed if you're a man.
	Think about that for a second.
	Is that really about equality?
	Again, back to salons.
	It's so funny to me.
	They're clearly wanting to wax Jessica Yaniv's testicles and scrotum.
	So here's one of the things that I do think that we all have to keep in mind.
	on the conservative side in terms of talking about these issues is, really, if you get to the nub of why this rule is around, it's because of the few examples of folks who are treating other people inhumanely, right?
	I mean, there's one thing to say jokes, there's one thing to criticize the political positions, which is what we're doing here, and to criticize, again, the application of those rules.
	It's another thing for someone to say, who's listening to this, to go out and say, you know what I'm gonna do?
	Every time I see someone who's transgender, I'm gonna assault them.
	I'm going to attack them in the workplace.
	I'm going to discriminate against them in the workplace and treat them in an inhumane way.
	And that's not what we're talking about here.
	No, that's not what we're talking about.
	We're talking about the actual practical application of taking it.
	But comparing that to, you know what?
	You have a dick.
	The restroom is not treating them in an inhumane way.
	Well, why can't I go in there?
	Because there are little girls in there and you have a dick.
	And now every pushback becomes, oh, now you're a hater.
	Now you're a hater.
	Now you hate.
	Now you're full of hate.
	Well, this is how far down we talk about slippery slope.
	Look behind you.
	There's the slope.
	We're at the bottom.
	Another reason, transitioning kids.
	We've talked about this quite a bit, but a lot of people don't know that the Equality Act specifies that kids cannot be denied.
	People, including kids, cannot be denied health care based on being transgender.
	We've already seen parents lose custody of their children at a state level because they refuse to pump them full of hormones.
	Now you apply this federally.
	Never mind that it's the right thing to do.
	Most people don't think you should allow kids to be put on puberty blockers.
	I think, if anything, child services should take those parents away if they start pumping a seven-year-old boy full of estrogen.
	But, call me old-fashioned.
	And this is important to note, by the way, if the kids don't transition, we've talked about this many times, 75 to 90% of children with gender dysphoria, they completely outgrow it with therapy.
	They're put on puberty blockers, their percentage drops to zero.
	Suicide attempted rate is still 42%.
	The Equality Act will create a federal legal basis for parents to lose custody of their children for denying them healthcare if they don't go along with something that has no basis in science, and we don't have any data yet because this is really, really new.
	We could be putting all of these kids into a shallow, cancerous grave.
	So when you talk about loving, when you talk about caring about people, listen.
	You're looking at a 42% suicide rate.
	You're looking at bone problems.
	You're looking at mood problems.
	You're looking at huge rates of depression and schizophrenia.
	Just telling someone that they're perfect the way they are is not compassion.
	If a kid wants to eat nothing but s'mores and strawberry preserves, you tell him no because it's probably not healthy for him.
	That's the case here.
	If a kid wants to be put on puberty blockers, you say, no.
	Why?
	Because your bone plates haven't fused yet.
	But I don't want some lady in the white jacket to come in here and take you away from me.
	So here's your estrogen pills.
	There you go.
	Want some Cialis?
	All right.
	It's a treat for everybody.
	I don't even know if they sue CLS.
	I assume the kids would want CLS.
	You can't block them anymore.
	So, anyway.
	No, Taylor.
	The Equality Act is not just basically, we all deserve equal rights under the law.
	It's like the Green New Deal.
	It's a laundry list of leftist ideology that completely tries to criminalize any dissent.
	And just like the Green New Deal, by the way, the Green New Deal takes over, I don't want to say a fifth of the economy, because that's when we were talking about healthcare, the Green New Deal takes over All of the economy.
	It basically nationalizes energy and, by the way, also shoehorns in social and racial justice in the green.
	You're like, why is this here?
	Why is this here?
	Black and yellow right there.
	Precious innocent.
	Green isn't even in the song about Jesus love me.
	Are you sure?
	You have no basis.
	Not even a fictional one.
	So that basically takes over the entire economy nationally.
	And now a bill like this, the Equality Act, look it up yourself.
	Please go read it.
	Check out our sources.
	Look how loosely defined gender identity is.
	This would do for the social structure, the societal fabric of America, what the Green New Deal would do for the economy.
	This takes control over all of it.
	It removes your control as a parent.
	It removes your control as a business owner.
	It removes your control as an athlete.
	It removes your control as someone who wants to take a dump in peace without Jessica and Eve coming in waxing his scrotum and t***.
	Alright, we have to go to Tim Pool.
	Hopefully we'll calm down.
	I don't know.
	Bimbo, bimbo.
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	It's a little sweet talk, but I've got a lot to say.
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	My Little Tupac, My Little Tupac, let's kill Biggie Smalls.
	I love you, My Little Tupac.
	My Little Tupac, each sold separately.
	A trapezoid for you!
	Dat.
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	Deep in your groove.
	Headlined by, Ernest gets sodomized in prison.
	That one wasn't cut for time.
	We just thought that was a little rough.
	Yeah.
	If you want me to read another one of your letters, use some punctuation.
	Lock it up.
	Let's go.
	An attempted robbery that was thwarted by a retarded guy in the air vent.
	Are you saying that Epstein would have been involved with, like, actual human sacrifices at satanic rituals?
	Absolutely.
	Right.
	The people say Biden makes gaffes.
	Biden is the gaffe.
	He is.
	Like the dude's one hair plug away from calling Trump President Taft.
	But it was just a vigilante retard.
	No.
	And now, a reading from the Democratic Socialist Manifesto with Comrade Cortez.
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	The squad is the ruling class now.
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	Me, my girl Ilhan, Rashida, and... I never learned the other girl's name.
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	I'm always curious about our next guest's dance moves, because I found out that he was biracial.
	Namely because he said he was biracial.
	Yeah, you can't really tell otherwise.
	That was the only way I could tell.
	And then I thought, well, maybe he was like you, quarter black.
	And then it turns out he was kind of Asian.
	Kind of Asian.
	Like that sort of Abercrombie ethnic where it's like, I don't know what it is, but there's something there that is not intimidating as a white person and makes me want to buy, you know, low-cut pants.
	But I don't know what their dancing is like.
	So anyway, you know him, you love him.
	He's been on the show multiple times.
	We've done a Devil's Advocate with him.
	You follow his program, TimCast, on YouTube.
	You can follow him on Twitter, at TimCast.
	He has an upcoming live event Saturday, August 31st, with Minds IRL.
	It's called Ending Racism, Violence, and Authoritarianism.
	Mr. Tim Poole, how are you, sir?
	I'm pretty good, you know, all things considered, with the event and all that.
	Yes, okay, well before, well, I was going to ask you about living in a van, but we'll save that for later.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What do you mean all things considered with the event for people who don't know?
	I gotta say, man, it has been a stressful past couple of weeks.
	We have an event, like you mentioned, it's called Minds IRL.
	The overarching theme is ending racism, violence, and authoritarianism, something I think you would probably agree with.
	All those things are bad.
	I would also agree, pretty lofty goals for one live event, but the sentiment I appreciate.
	But, you know, we want to address this cultural, political issue, the culture, or whatever you want to talk about, and we tried our best to bring in progressives, and we have many, and some liberals, as well as moderates and conservatives, I think it leans more towards the anti-SJW type, but that's because those people are so willing to get up on stage.
	Getting progressives is difficult, so my tremendous respect to those progressives who agreed to come and speak and sit down.
	I'm a sponsor.
	My company, Subverse, is sponsoring it.
	I'm not one of the primary organizers necessarily, but I am speaking as well.
	We had this thing booked since March.
	Contract signed.
	Good to go.
	All speakers publicly announced.
	It is a local event right by my house.
	It's not like I went to LA to put on this big show.
	Within two weeks, when we're about to do this, all of a sudden we start getting this, what I'm going to call a harassment campaign.
	It's not a protest.
	It's a harassment campaign.
	They're calling local businesses.
	They're calling all of these different politicians in the state.
	And they're accusing us of some of the weirdest conspiracy insanity I've ever seen.
	And it's a couple, they're some semi, I don't want to call them local because they're 40, 50 miles away, but they're these progressive groups.
	There's, as well as an Antifa group from New Jersey, accusing the group of like, you name it, you name it in terms of the worst thing you can be.
	And it's, it's there.
	White supremacy, pedophiles, you know, the Klan, like all like, it's like they reached into a hat and pulled out buzzwords about what this is.
	Well, here's the thing.
	Two weeks out, and we start getting these harassing phone calls and the
	theater tells us to GTFO and it's the most insane thing ever that they would that we
	would literally have an event called ending racism. A couple of the people are in the
	Young Turks network who are speaking here that's how like we're really bringing people together. So I'll
	tell you what really scares me about this. What you know really scares me is oh yeah
	yeah but what scares me is that this was a legitimate attempt of following their rules okay.
	We've got more female speakers than male, we've got like 35% POC for like, we did everything they wanted us to do!
	Now hold on a second, you said GTFO, POC, why are you naming cars?
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm not entirely.
	GTO.
	Yeah, the theater can't like they're trying to cancel on us.
	So we have a backup venue, but there's going to be a legal issue because we will not back
	down.
	Look, you can't have a contract for for five months where you see the speakers, you know
	what the event's about, and then bend the knee to crazy, wacko, far left conspiracy
	theorists who accuses of everything in the book.
	Makes no sense.
	Can I ask you a quick question?
	You've mentioned they.
	Who's they?
	I know I read an article about Antifa, but are there organized groups that have publicly protested this, or is it just sort of happening in the dark portions of the West?
	No, there's some public... They're not, like, huge.
	But there's a couple of groups.
	Do you want me to name them?
	I'd rather not, because I don't want to give them attention.
	Okay, you don't have to name them, but these are organized groups.
	In other words, it's not just a random person calling someone up, because we've talked about this, where every now and then you'll have someone at Vox or someone, you know, along those lines who complains of being harassed, and it's two people with a Twitter egg versus an organization or a concerted effort to shut it down, and you're saying it's the latter.
	So there is an Antifa group, which is, you know, it's probably a small handful of people in a certain portion of Jersey.
	There's another group that claims to be a progressive activist group.
	They have photos of their meetings.
	So it seems like that's the case.
	Another group actually has a very prominent activist who's been featured in news stories.
	So I wouldn't call them famous, but they've, you know, they're not, it's not like one or two people, but it might be 15 or 20.
	And then what they're doing is they're rallying Democratic groups to send harassing phone calls to local businesses, and it's gotten really bad.
	You know, the theater called us in a panic, and I'm gonna qualify this statement because of legal issues, but based on what I was told, my interpretation of the frantic and panicked voice was that Antifa was threatening to burn down their theater.
	This was corroborated by other people and eventually came out in the press, that, you know, this guy was panicked, like, these people are crazy, I can't, you know, they're gonna burn the theater down, all this stuff, something like that.
	It may have been that this guy was just panicking, and he saw some tweet, which was a joke, but, you know, this frantic, you know, flame, and then we, so we, there have been harassing phone calls and threats.
	Well, that's important to note, though, Tim, I don't want to skim over that, because you live in this world, and I live in this world, you know, for example, with the Vox scenario that was going on, where we're going back and forth, and I remember I had, Someone who I worked with, who will remain nameless, not someone here, but someone who, you know, it could have been a hairstylist, it could have been a doctor, let's put it, one of these sort of contractors in my life, and this person said, oh yeah, I heard you got into a lot of trouble with the gay community.
	And I said, well, hold on a second, what are you talking, he was talking about Vox.
	He had no idea.
	He thought it was the gay community.
	People who don't live in that world can much more easily be intimidated.
	So this business owner, the person who owns the venue, they're not reading Twitter all the time.
	They're not looking through YouTube rebuttals.
	And so the left, they like to use that intimidation.
	They're banking on them not knowing that it's just an Antifa group saying, we're going to burn the house down.
	Because these people who don't live in our universe take it seriously.
	And that's why we see such severe ramifications when we go, of course this isn't legitimate.
	They're organizing protests.
	They're threatening violence.
	Like, this is all established.
	And it's my neighborhood.
	It's within a few miles of my house.
	Right.
	And they're coming from 50 to 100 miles away, calling it self-defense.
	Isn't that mind-numbing?
	But I was going to say earlier, what's scary about this to me is we played by all of their rules.
	We got progressives.
	We have more women than men.
	We did everything they asked of us.
	We have a headliner who is a person of color, famous anti-racist, and they still accuse
	us of being alt-right, white supremacist, all of this nonsense.
	And you're right about these people who aren't living in this world.
	When they get a phone call saying, I'm going to destroy your business and take your job away, yeah, they panic.
	And then they start hearing from their friends saying, what's going on?
	You're having Nazis at your venue?
	And they're like, no, it's a lie.
	But you know what?
	When you get 50 phone calls to your business, they start putting fake reviews on your business to smear you and slander you.
	It has a real impact on small businesses in a small town.
	Sure.
	You know, for us, I get smeared all day, every day.
	I'm like, whatever, man, it's the internet.
	But for a local venue?
	So we actually have two venues in Pitman, New Jersey.
	The theater gave us the boot, which they can't because we have a contract, but whatever, we found another venue.
	But the VIP brewery has defended us.
	And, you know, they're the ones who are getting the brunt of it now, because, you know, when the lies and the slanders and the smears came in, saying it's Nazis and all that, these people actually did their due diligence and said, what are you talking about?
	It's like a Young Turks guy who's gonna be hanging out.
	These people are nuts.
	Well, we've always done, at shows recently, we do after parties, and people can only get in if they have a mug, and we use cigar lounges, because cigar lounges tend to be overwhelmingly conservative, and it's sort of counter-cultural, so a lot of the owners are like, ah, yeah, just so you know, you can have some.
	He's like, ah, I don't give a shit.
	He's like, I don't give a s**t. They complain about this lounge just because they don't like people smoking on the sidewalk.
	Ah, f**k them.
	Like, that's what a lot of these people say.
	So, in the future, you might want to look into it.
	But this brewery, they're like left-leaning individuals.
	One of the owners is, you know, I don't want to speak on their behalf too far, so I'll leave their private life to their private life, but, you know, they're Democrats.
	They're left-leaning.
	They said free speech is important.
	They talked about how, you know, it's really crazy, and I'll stress this point, which is another thing that's kind of worrying me, is Ten months ago, Ann Coulter spoke at the same theater, and some of these groups didn't do anything.
	They didn't care.
	Now, all of a sudden, we're seeing kind of a dramatic escalation in a more liberal event is being shot down.
	But this brewery, they told me that when the protests happened with Ann Coulter, they saw conservatives and Proud Boys, and they thought, hey, this is a great opportunity to start a dialogue with some of these other groups.
	That was, you know, so they shared that kind of mentality that conversation is better.
	I think I can tell you probably why that is.
	They assume that people who are going to an Ann Coulter show are too far gone, whereas someone like you, you're more moderate, you're making more inroads.
	That's why we get a lot of people who try to shut us down before we do shows because they go, well, hold on a second, this tends to be like a big party on campus.
	Usually we do a venue, it's a couple thousand seats.
	It's more of a comedy show, some Q&A, but it's a whole production, and it's not really the kind of thing one should be protesting, but it's because they just don't want new people to come to the show, and I think you're more likely to attract those people than Ann Coulter.
	I want to make sure that I get this right, because I want to move on to another topic here.
	August 31st, Saturday, and where is the show taking place?
	I can't give the venue out, but it's in Philadelphia.
	to be at the last minute, but it's in Philadelphia.
	In the Philadelphia area.
	OK.
	So, well, the website is irl.mines.com and we're almost sold out.
	All right.
	Irl.mines.com.
	And I wanted to start this and then we'll take it to the web extended because we can
	always get in trouble on YouTube for this.
	So it seems to me like you've been running up against this quite a bit, but you also
	have some people saying, well, you play both sides of the fence because you're not really
	You're not really liberal.
	How would you identify yourself?
	Because I know that you, the one thing you've been very straight on is you will not vote for, for Donald Trump, but you seem to be butting heads with the left a whole lot more than most on the right.
	Well, yeah, I mean, look, there's a story today in NBC where they claim Trump is racist.
	Because he sent out an email where he said, they quote him, it's our country, not theirs, referring to Ocasio-Cortez.
	It's a lie.
	It's a complete lie.
	What he was saying was the Electoral College makes America for every zip code, not the coastal elites.
	It's our country, not theirs.
	Right.
	What he was saying is the rich people, they twist it to try and make them seem racist.
	But I read this and it's an overt lie.
	So listen, I look at someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who I really like.
	She's defended free speech.
	She's denounced identity politics.
	She's served her country, recently even.
	And she's someone who aligns with a lot of my values.
	And she has defended free speech for everybody, including conservatives.
	So it really does work for me in terms of someone I think would be better than Trump, at least, as the Commander-in-Chief.
	I think Trump has personality defects, which are bad in terms of unification.
	And I mean, I think one of the important aspects of the president is being a charismatic leader.
	But then there's also foreign policy things that I don't agree with.
	And trust me, I criticize Obama all day, every day for his foreign policy trip, too.
	And I give Trump credit for his student loan forgiveness for the veterans.
	But, you know, Trump is playing the Republican angle and there's core principles there I'm not going to support.
	But I don't I don't hate Trump, I just think he's boorish and rude, but that's not, you know— These are very light adjectives to describe Donald Trump.
	I think he's somewhat off-color, but that being said— Well, you see, I also try to be, I don't know, diplomatic.
	Right.
	You know, I understand if I go to a Trump supporter and start screaming about how Trump is a nasty guy and, like, the worst in the world, it's going to break apart our ability to communicate.
	Yes.
	So I need to have respect for people who disagree with me and try and understand them.
	And that's the thing, too, about the event we're hosting.
	We have Daryl Davis.
	Right.
	He's de-radicalized quite a few former KKK members, if people don't know, haven't looked into Daryl Davis.
	There's a documentary out there about him.
	But his thing was, give them the respect they're asking for.
	Let them express themselves and try and understand them.
	And that's a key to coming together, and I completely agree.
	So, you know, I'm not a fan of Trump, but I'm not gonna go on my channel and screech with blood coming out of my eyes about how he's Hitler or something like that.
	Is it disrespectful of me to say that Tulsa Gabbard is easy on the eyes?
	She's a tall, cool glass of water?
	I don't think so.
	I was asked that by Jesse Kelly on his show, and he said something to that effect, and I'm like, well, she's a very professional and beautiful woman.
	You know, you can't deny that.
	But she's a major in the National Guard, man.
	No, yeah, I respect her service, of course.
	She has kind of that Nikki Haley vibe.
	You know what I mean?
	That sort of that golden skin, dark hair.
	They always dress really well.
	And I don't just mean she's hot.
	I mean, very well-presented women.
	They put themselves together well.
	So I like that about Tulsi Gabbard.
	Don't like her policies.
	Don't like the platform.
	But we'll talk about this more a little bit on the web extender for people who are listening.
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	Change my mind and confronts, they don't come cheap, but this mug also doesn't come cheap.
	It's hand etched and hand painted.
	It's nice.
	Don't you want to feel nice?
	This is a video of a man who has a problem with his legs.
	He has a problem with his legs.
	Oh, he is heavy.
	He has a lot of mechanical stuff inside of him.
	Remember, always deal with the most immediate problem first.
	If you're drowning, your creature comforts of home, like your Rux... It's not more important than not drowning.
	That's true.
	We should auction off the... He's gonna f*** you up, man.
	You gotta watch out.
	We should either auction off the show or reuse it.
	And by the way, we do have actually, talking with Tim Poole, there's the extended, web extended for people who are not in my club much longer.
	We actually get into politics quite a bit.
	But he's in that van.
	We have, we've talked about it, we have this super secret crappy news van.
	That's true.
	That we have that we started building and then we just, we're not going to be using it because it's not big enough anymore.
	We'll probably auction that off at some point.
	If someone's looking for like a van life.
	We've updated the mechanics.
	Mechanical issues in there.
	Beautiful carpet.
	Awful.
	It's red, white, and blue.
	Crushed velour.
	And it has the highest roof legally allowable.
	And it still can't go in a parking garage.
	So you could live in there.
	Yeah.
	Thank you so much to the people who, of course, watched, supported Crowder Confronts.
	Next week we have... What do we have going on next week?
	No, we have a change of mind coming in two weeks.
	Two weeks.
	Just a lot.
	A lot going on.
	So much stuff.
	We talked about this during the... I don't know if it was life advice that we were talking about this this week.
	But I wanted to reiterate this.
	I heard someone talking about this the other day, saying, you know, this is a dark period for our country.
	And I hear that talked about a lot, and it's just a comment that's really taken for granted.
	Let's put politics away a little bit, okay?
	And I never really, I wasn't a huge fan of Barack Obama, obviously we had a downturn economy, but right now, a genuine question to people out there, even if you're not a Trump fan, the people out there, like what's his name, Rick whatever whatever, the people at National Review, the people who were Republicans but hate Trump, and even Democrats.
	Do you really believe this is a dark period in United States history?
	Do you really believe that 10, 15, 50 years from now they'll be teaching people that 2016 through 2019 was a dark period for the United States?
	I mean, what?
	What?
	Was there a recession?
	No.
	Depression?
	No.
	Unemployment?
	No.
	Wars?
	Not really.
	Were people being beaten in the street?
	Lynched?
	No.
	Crosses being burned on lawns?
	No.
	This is an amazing time in history, and as much as we bitch about things, and I know I get wound up about Taylor Swift, honestly, this is an incredible time, and nobody appreciates it.
	I want you to genuinely look at your life right now, okay?
	Not just the United States, but let's think about the United States in a historical perspective right now, but I also want you to think of your personal life.
	Compare it to actual dark periods.
	Right?
	Compared to the actual dark periods in your life.
	Everyone has them.
	I can think of three or four.
	I can think of one that was really, really tough.
	So I want you to think of that.
	Get it in your head.
	Are you still in a dark period?
	And let's apply that same standard to the United States.
	Think of an actual dark period of the United States.
	The Great Depression.
	Think of World War II.
	Think of even the 2008 crash.
	Unemployment was through the roof.
	Think of 9-11.
	Let's compare where we are now to an actual dark period.
	And by the way, if you're in a dark period personally, obviously, create a plan, take actions, take steps towards measurable progress like we've talked about.
	It's always the same thing.
	But if this isn't truly a dark period right now, can we just take a moment to be grateful?
	This isn't inspiration.
	This isn't telling you what to do.
	But just honestly, for a second, right now, when you think of that dark period in your life, what made it dark?
	What was so hard about it?
	And if it's not going on right now, say a prayer.
	Do some freaking gratitudes.
	Get it in your head.
	Think about it.
	What is it?
	Was it a period where maybe your relative had cancer?
	Was it a period where maybe you couldn't make ends meet?
	Was it a period where maybe you were really sick and you were struggling with chronic pain?
	Whatever it was, if you were not going through that right now, even though you have some other issues, can you acknowledge, most of you out there, that they're probably not the worst?
	Because we often pray, or we ask for things, and then we either don't think that we'll actually get them, or we're not grateful for them.
	This is what happened, you know, Hopper is still doing well.
	Hopper we thought was going to lose him.
	He had cancer.
	It was really severe.
	Chemo's worked.
	I know we're probably not going to have that much time with him.
	That's why you don't see him so much in the show, because I'll be honest, it just makes me kind of sad.
	But Betty's great.
	Betty's fantastic.
	But that being said, I have to be grateful right now.
	Because there was a period where we thought we heard that he had lymphoma on Friday and he would be gone by Tuesday.
	And you know what?
	I have to sit and go, hey, it's been a rough week, but that's not going on.
	Thank the Lord!
	We live in an amazing time in history, in an unbelievably blessed country.
	So all I want you to do, here's the advice, unless you're in that truly dark period where you can go back to the other crowd or closes and we talk about how to get out of it, how to set a plan.
	Most of you aren't though.
	So if you're not in that truly dark period, and if you don't believe that the United States is in a truly dark historical period, the reason I'm using dark period is because this is what you hear in the media all the time.
	That term, dark period in history.
	If you don't believe that to be the case, do everyone else a service.
	Walk around with a smile on your face today and be grateful.
	Be grateful internally and show that you are grateful externally to the people around you.
	Your life will be a better place because it is awesome right now, despite not being perfect.

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