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#633 BLOOMBERG GETS WRECKED | Rudy Giuliani Guests | Louder with Crowder

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	Hello.
	Somebody!
	Did somebody say Bloomberg?
	Oh.
	Oh, okay.
	Team Bucket is leading!
	Let's have Griff read number six pitched Jeffrey Epstein vehicles.
	Number six.
	I can't read.
	Son of a bitch, Griff!
	I feel like I've seen Donald Trump realize that a lot of people who he may have gone to cocktail parties with are no longer his friends.
	Seems to me like you have far less patience for them than you did.
	Is that a fair assessment of your evolution since they've been so nasty?
	Yes.
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	You're a strange animal, that's what I know You're a strange animal, I can't devour you
	I'm a species I missed the... Gangs don't snap anymore
	They don't.
	You should.
	What do you think about that?
	That's what's wrong with this country.
	MS-13 and the Crips, they're really phoning it in.
	Make gangs snap again.
	We get that you have to, you know, get your face, your teardrop, and you have to off somebody, but could you just, could you give it a little panache?
	And a little harmonizing.
	Especially the Puerto Ricans.
	You guys are carrying the mantle.
	You can't even snap.
	You can take a wallet, but you can't snap.
	All right.
	We have former mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the show today.
	I know many people thought when we were promoting it, you don't have the real Giuliani.
	No, we actually do.
	This time it's real.
	The only reason we have all these guests now is because they all are getting into the podcast space.
	And so now, all of a sudden, this little crap show is relevant.
	It is.
	Yes.
	So they have to come through here.
	Which brings me to my question of the day.
	Bloomberg, obviously, if you watch the debates, I almost didn't want to talk about him today because he might be done, but then I thought you all want to know why he's done.
	So what are your thoughts on Michael Bloomberg?
	What do you think the chances are for Bloomberg?
	And how do you think he compares to Donald Trump?
	They're both billionaires.
	I think that Bloomberg is far more emblematic of someone completely out of touch.
	But I have no idea.
	They have so much money.
	They're different people.
	The rich are different.
	My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, is here.
	How are you, sir?
	That's all you have.
	Very good.
	Votes well for the show.
	Show them your hood pants.
	And I like that you didn't button the top button.
	Too many people were confusing him for Mexican.
	And so he decided he would unbutton it, and now they go, crips.
	But he's wearing yellow.
	That's why he's staying neutral.
	Gerald Morgan A. is here.
	What's the wine of the day, sir?
	Wine of the day is Beringer Nights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
	Oh, so where's that from?
	It's from Knights Valley.
	Is that an actual place?
	It is, right north of Naga Valley.
	It sounds like a bullcrap name.
	And you're going to give it to our audience members here today?
	Yeah, I'm going to pour it over them.
	He always comes in and he gets paid.
	He thinks he gets to show up with the wine and take it with him.
	He drinks it in the parking lot.
	Well, from now on in the contract, he doesn't know what it's like to catch a predator, where he walks outside and then he gets mobbed by a cop.
	Am I free to go?
	Well, you can put your pants on and see what happens.
	And then they're always surprised!
	Every time.
	Why are you surprised?
	We'll be talking about Bloomberg.
	We'll be talking about the debates a little bit.
	And first, just watch.
	My p*y, my py, my py, my py, my py, my py, my py, py. There's a party in my p**y. Something great is going on.
	She thinks she's in Frozen. Okay.
	Oh, wow.
	We get it.
	Something, something or other, you're p***y. Now, that being said, in the spirit of full disclosure and trying to be balanced with the patriarchy, with this one, it seems absurd.
	I get it.
	Fair is fair.
	My penis is... My penis is... My penis is my penis!
	My penis is... My penis is... My penis is my penis!
	My dick and balls!
	My dick and balls!
	My penis is my penis!
	You know, maybe it's just a gender bias.
	I prefer the second one.
	I do, too.
	It's deeper, you know.
	It's nice.
	More put together, I mean.
	The Vienna Boys Choir has very different standards these days, I guess.
	You know, here's the one thing that I don't understand, I guess, the feminist movement.
	They're sitting there talking about their vaginas.
	They constantly use the argument, well, you know, men constantly make jokes.
	They make dick jokes.
	But here's the difference.
	We're not worshipping our penis.
	We're not telling you that it's brave or that it's beautiful.
	It's funny.
	Penises are funny.
	We're making fun of our penises.
	Could you imagine if I just, if I walked up to my wife and with a straight face said, you know, my dick is beautiful.
	And you should respect the penis.
	It's just remarkable to me.
	It's like the Fat Pride.
	They go, there are fat guys.
	What's Chris Farley?
	He's not on the cover of Cosmo.
	We've never claimed that there's a party going on in our penis.
	At best, nobody says that.
	It's like a marionette device, because it's funny.
	You can make it look like the Eiffel Tower.
	It's a shapeshifter.
	So versatile.
	It's dynamic.
	Leading the news outside of this since we got that out of the way.
	I'm sure Giuliani will be thrilled.
	Yes.
	He's sitting there listening.
	No, I want to be clear.
	Are they talking about their cocks?
	Yes, Mayor.
	We appreciate you.
	Rosario Dawson has now come out of the closet.
	What?
	This is from LGBTQ Nation.
	She said dating Cory Booker challenged how she approached relationships.
	Bet it did.
	And she now describes herself as bisexual.
	When reached for comment, Cory Booker said, good for her, as he resumed performing fellatio on the entire Cincinnati Bengals roster.
	Oh, wow.
	You've heard of the bearded lady in the circus?
	Rosario Dawson is the beard lady.
	She's just a beard.
	So generous.
	And honestly, we've talked about this on the show.
	Is anybody surprised?
	Is anybody surprised that Rosario Dawson is now bisexual?
	Let me present to you exhibit A.
	["You're a Real Man"]
	Ha!
	Oopsie.
	Oh, man.
	If people are listening on, you're saying, wait, wait, what happened?
	Everything just happened.
	That's all you need to know.
	Like, you know when you see people in a restaurant, a couple, and you're like, ooh, I think they're in a fight.
	You see them in a restaurant, you're like, he's gay.
	There is no doubt that he is gay.
	And in case you think that maybe I don't have enough proof, let me present to you Exhibit B. Why can't masculinity be gay?
	Why?
	I know many of my gay male friends who are incredibly masculine.
	I'm hyped with testosterone.
	We may have gay rappers that we don't know are gay.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Frankly.
	Very true.
	Gay athletes that we don't know are gay.
	So my point is, come on.
	I'm ready.
	I mean, come on.
	It didn't sound so much like a statement as it did advocacy.
	It did.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	He was kind of testing the water a little bit there.
	He's got tons of testosterone.
	Yeah, speaking from the heart.
	Really?
	So that's your cover is their testosterone level.
	What about their hemoglobin levels?
	We want to just talk about their latest lab results.
	Just admit that you like the d**k. So, you know last weekend, did you know that was National Hippopotamus Day?
	Oh, I missed it.
	So in honor of the holiday, we actually are introducing a new segment here.
	We're proud to introduce Hippopotamus Facts.
	Just the facts.
	Hippopotamus facts.
	Someone worked on that for hours.
	Hopefully not for many.
	And a lot of people don't know a lot of facts about hippopotamuses, which is really a shame.
	It's an epidemic. It's a pandemic that people are hippopotamus ignorant.
	It's worse than the coronavirus, you're right.
	It is important.
	Coronavirus? What's the death toll up to?
	It's still not high enough in comparison to... I shouldn't say high enough.
	It's not as high as people who are ignorant of hippopotamuses.
	By the way, they're dangerous.
	They're very feared in this country.
	People think, you want a hippopotamus for Christmas?
	You don't know what you're asking for.
	You have no clue.
	So here's a hippopotamus fact.
	Hippopotamuses love water, which is why the Greeks named them the river horse.
	That's where it comes from.
	Hippos spend up to 16 hours a day submerged in rivers and lakes to keep their massive bodies cool under the hot African sun.
	Very nice.
	These are things I didn't know.
	Here's another one for you.
	I got plenty.
	I can go all day and I decide when this segment stops.
	Hippopotamus's lifespan is up to 40 years in the wild and 50 years in captivity.
	The last hippopotamus fact, a baby hippo is referred to as A calf.
	Yeah, a baby hippo is a calf.
	So, this has been the first installment of many Hippopotamus Facts.
	Just the Facts.
	Hippopotamus Facts.
	Let it percolate.
	You're gonna be, you're gonna be saying that, you're gonna be like, six hours from now, everyone's gonna be like, Hippopotamus Facts.
	Yeah, it's like a good jingle.
	Just the Facts.
	Right.
	Just the Facts, man.
	Like, by Menon.
	Just Hippopotamus Facts.
	And Jesse Ventura's gonna go, Just the Facts!
	and then he's going to be outside of Tower 7 with an Acme plunger.
	By the way, in other news, Pearl Jam frontman, you know Eddie Vedder?
	Which I always forget, I thought Eddie Vedder was a professional wrestler.
	That's Vader, it was a guy from Boy Meets World.
	Eddie Vedder, he told his congressman that the Boss Ticket Reform Act is, quote, flawed.
	And he actually took some time, I do respect this when celebrities take time out of their schedule,
	his busy tour schedule, by the way, with Pearl Jam, to speak before a congressional committee on the issue.
	and I think we have exclusive audio.
	Yeah.
	Joining us today to discuss his problems with the Boss Ticket Reform Act, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
	Mr. Vedder, the floor is yours.
	I don't think that a bill that's been proposed is very fair.
	Mr. Vedder, I... I think that it's full of flaws and I wish I could show them sometime.
	Please, Mr. Vedder.
	You will see that this man's got a bill that's doomed to fail.
	I yield my time.
	That's probably wise.
	Smart move.
	That's probably wise.
	He's a poet.
	In other news, a poet and ripped Levi's and that shirt that Garrett wears.
	An Iranian woman said that she's afraid to return to her homeland after loosening her
	hijab at a chess championship.
	And this comes from the Washington Post, pointing to warnings that if you come back, this is
	what they warned her, they will arrest you.
	And, uh, there were allegations that she hadn't worn her hijab at all.
	Wow.
	So, may I say here, as an American, with all due respect, uh, what a slut.
	So, I am, um... You know, that was the official, in the police report, written in her home nation.
	That was.
	Was it?
	Yeah, that's exactly what it said.
	That was the complaint?
	What a slut.
	That is the charge.
	Oh, wait, hold on a second, hold on a second.
	Um, I'm actually getting word right now, uh, that Amy Klobuchar has Yep, she has a comeback.
	Oh.
	The point of this is I believe in transparency.
	I had a physical, by the way.
	It came out well.
	We might all be surprised if my blood pressure is lower than Mayor Pete's.
	That might really shock everyone out there.
	We'll keep you abreast as this unfolds.
	What was that sound?
	That sound was Lester Holt taking a cyanide pill.
	I can't do it anymore.
	It was the biracial screams of the moderator.
	Didn't even chew, just... and swallowed it.
	It is like an anaconda, unhinged his jaw.
	We will keep you abreast of more unfolds.
	Amy Klobuchar.
	Jerk store called.
	So, a teachers' union... by the way, this is another story, and we'll get more to Bloomberg and then Giuliani after this.
	A teachers' union lawsuit.
	filed by spokesperson Randy Weingarten is now claiming that Betsy DeVos capriciously repealed protections for student loan borrowers.
	So the trial actually will be turned into a made-for-TV film starring Adam Driver.
	So when you see it does make a striking resemblance.
	Wow.
	You know what?
	He's the everyman.
	He's the everyman.
	He's today's Tom Hanks.
	And every woman, apparently.
	You know what it is, when you look at that, if we can bring that back up, it's the brow ridge, it's the angle of the nose, and then it's the flat lip, but the haircut is just, she gave us a gift.
	It's not genetic, that's just a cheap salon.
	That's easy, yeah.
	Vidal Sassoon won't be knocking my attention.
	Before we get into more detail, has everyone heard, by the way, that Bloomberg is considering picking Hillary Clinton?
	I can tell when half-Asian Bill is prepared for the show, he's like, what, he picked Hillary Clinton?
	What's going on?
	That's what I'm reading down to the bottom of the page.
	Stephen, shut up, I'm reading!
	Picking Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
	This comes from the Daily Mail.
	Polling found a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket would be a formidable force to take on Donald Trump.
	Should be noted, polling also shows the chance of President-elect Bloomberg being assassinated at inauguration at 100%.
	Oh, wow.
	He didn't kill himself.
	And there's a plus or minus variation of 0%.
	Gotta get to the White House.
	So that's the plan for Democrats.
	Bloomberg-Clinton 2020, or as we call it, Rust Belt Poison.
	Not gonna get him.
	Bloomberg-Clinton 2020, ignoring flyover country since always.
	I don't know how out of touch they could possibly be.
	I guess at the very least people have been saying that this guy, he'll restore some dignity of the White House.
	Down here we got snappin' turtles.
	Up there we got big fat butter.
	Down here the world's makin' trouble.
	Up there everyone's takin' drugs.
	New Yorkers the bravest people.
	Oh, the tail.
	The cops on the D-Day cab.
	I forgot about the tail.
	In New York, firefighters teach it.
	We got heroes everywhere!
	Get some... Get some consultants!
	Oh my gosh, doesn't he have enough money for somebody to help him?
	All that is required for him to avoid that is one person to say, no!
	Don't do that.
	No!
	We get that you have more money than God, but listen to someone other than you, this is a bad idea!
	Going on with the black guy from Kimmy Schmidt and the dinosaur tale is not going to play well with anywhere other than these four people in this off-off-Broadway production.
	It's a disaster.
	That's awesome.
	You will lose Wisconsin and everyone hates you.
	And your money.
	It was just Barney, Ursula, and Godzilla had a baby.
	It was Barney banged Eliza Minnelli, apparently.
	Well look, I feel more talented than him, so that's helpful for me.
	Good for you!
	You live your truth, Gerald.
	Thank you.
	And by the way, as soon as it was announced, this isn't really so much... Well, I guess it's news.
	I'm not sure if you came across this.
	As soon as it was announced, it's a little foreboding.
	It's just a picture of Alex Jones hanging himself.
	So that seems like... Terrible.
	Poor guy.
	He didn't do that.
	Swift recovery.
	Thoughts and prayers.
	Finally, by the way, before we get to more on Bloomberg, Donald Trump took his limousine
	for a lap, of course, you know, around the Daytona 500 track.
	I just felt like it.
	It's nice though.
	So that's what it looks like going around Daytona.
	The Daytona thing.
	This was a big deal.
	This is, of course, a part of President Trump's strategy, you know, to reach voters, expand his base.
	And now with some even newer audiences, as seen with his his most recent visit on his press tour to the Joe Rogan experience.
	The Joe Rogan experience.
	It's exciting to have you here, man.
	And it's obviously an exciting time for you.
	Um, you know, presidential campaign is up in full swing.
	Yes, it is.
	And frankly, it's about time that you had me on your show.
	Okay, especially after you had Frankly, crazy birdie.
	He was just a horrific homicidal psychopath.
	Whoa, Joe.
	I thought you endorsed him.
	I would never call him a psychopath.
	I mean, he's crazy.
	Okay, can we all agree that he's crazy, folks?
	He's crazy birdie.
	Okay, I wouldn't use that language, but those two words are apt.
	What are the misconceptions?
	Okay, frankly, is that Is that marijuana?
	Are you trying to give me aesthetic dis-gay?
	Why?
	Why?
	Okay, excuse me.
	The biggest misconception is that I tweet all day.
	I frankly, Joe, okay?
	I'm too busy to be doing that.
	Though, when I do tweet, okay, Jimmy?
	It's awesome.
	Like this one.
	NBC anchor Chuck Todd looks like a failed polygamous cult leader and I don't care who knows it.
	Polygamy is wrong, Chuck.
	Joe, that's what I said.
	I said that to Chuck.
	Now, that is not a bad tweet, but I saw a scientist who was writing, I am unfollowing him.
	He is using his platform irresponsibly.
	A lot of f***ing virtue signals, really.
	And maybe, young Jamie, maybe young Jamie agrees.
	Maybe young Jamie agrees with me.
	You know, who you really support is Trump.
	Let's take these one step at a time.
	Actually, young Jamie, do you think you could pull up a video?
	So, Jamie, see if you can pull up... Jamie, if you could pull up a video that I'm looking for.
	Yeah, yeah.
	it up jimmy jimmy joke okay jimmy if you could pull up this viddy oh is that is that kanye
	falling off a horse okay joe that must have been she where he quit smoking the reef marijuana
	is obviously a big issue in this country well you would know chich are you chugging what
	do you actually wait i i have an idea okay This is something that's just coming to me.
	What if you, Joe Rogan, moderate a presidential debate?
	Could you convince CBS and NBC and ABC to go along with something like that?
	Probably not.
	But I'll put pets on it.
	You'll just need to, probably, frankly, I wouldn't even ask you this, but you'd probably need to redact your endorsement of Crazy Bernie.
	I mean, he was just a horrific, homicidal f***ing psychopath.
	We get it!
	We get it!
	Keeps going back to that.
	I'll tell you what, though, Joe Rogan, the power of new media, he can get anyone he wants.
	Anybody that he wants.
	Powerful Joe Rogan.
	Good for him.
	Hey, who's the trivia contest winner from last week?
	The trivia winner is Shamandin.
	I don't know.
	That's a weird name.
	Tremendous one.
	He knew my original nickname.
	What was your nickname?
	It was Key Grip Garrett.
	Key Grip Garrett?
	That's true!
	It was Key Grip Garrett until we actually all found out that you were a quarter black.
	Yes.
	I came out of the black closet.
	And we were stunned.
	You did.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't really the black closet.
	It was a broom closet.
	We didn't have much room in the old edit desk.
	And we put you there because we didn't value your work.
	But that's changed.
	No.
	Not anymore.
	Not anymore.
	I appreciate it.
	Yes.
	Thank you, man.
	I appreciate you taking 77 cents on the white dollar.
	It is time, actually.
	Do we have a meat segment intro?
	We don't need a meat segment intro because this week it's a little bit different, so it's a POS intro.
	So let's talk about Mike Bloomberg.
	Again, I want to know what you guys think.
	Is he the same kind of billionaire as Donald Trump?
	Why do people see Donald Trump as a billionaire who's of the people, a little more in touch, and Mike Bloomberg as someone who is completely, totally out of touch?
	I think it's because of exactly the kind of behavior that we've seen from Bloomberg the last two weeks.
	He did it to himself.
	He's basically trying to buy his way into an election, whereas if you look at Donald Trump, he did actually go through the process.
	He was in there early on in the primaries.
	I mean, it was a tough slog, and I just think people didn't know.
	How do you prepare for Donald Trump in a debate?
	Like, Ted Cruz, Harvard Law Review, right?
	Actually published, unlike Barack Obama, and he shows up, he's ready, and then Donald Trump just says, you're dead, kill JFK!
	He said no!
	He's flat-footed!
	He wasn't ready!
	Of course he wasn't ready!
	No one would be ready for the insinuation that your dad plotted to murder JFK!
	I don't know if he's a genius, or it's just a little bit of a Chauncey Gardner effect, but it worked for him, as opposed to Bloomberg, who's just spending all of his own money.
	Donald Trump actually had some donors.
	People wanted Donald Trump to win.
	I don't know that anyone wants Bloomberg to win.
	This was his first debate performance last night, and it was universally panned as a disaster.
	As a matter of fact, for people who missed it, the whole debate was a disaster.
	Let's talk about the majors.
	Hello, hello, hello.
	Thank you.
	Senator Warren and Mayor Bloomberg, this question is for you.
	I want to talk about, and maybe this is appropriate.
	He sounds like the Lily Tomlin operator.
	Hello, hello, hello.
	I'll have to call you back.
	That cyanide pill can't kick in fast enough.
	I've got the conch!
	What's the absorption rate?
	Do Ethiopian genetics affect it?
	I have no idea.
	Are you an ultra-rapid metabolizer?
	The point is, I get that you want to die, Lester.
	So did I. So, let's look at all the reasons that Mike Bloomberg is...
	A piece of s***.
	Alright, I'm gonna bring in my half-Asian lawyer, Bill, because he's uncomfortable,
	and so I'm gonna bring you in more against your will.
	We're going to complain that you're so quiet today.
	Reason number five is, I think a lot of people remember this, the soda ban.
	Boo!
	A lot of people maybe didn't understand how unpopular this was in New York City, of all places.
	So in 2012, Bloomberg actually banned sodas over 16 ounces in all of New York City.
	I think that you're not going to see a lot of pushback here at all.
	I think everybody across this country should do it.
	He may not have expected to hold another press conference later that same day.
	You've expended so much personal political capital on this.
	I didn't spend political capital.
	I'm trying to do what's right.
	I've got to defend the children and you and everybody else and do what's right to save lives.
	Obesity kills.
	There's just no question about it.
	He banned sodas and then, of course, represented the Lonely Pumpkin.
	And then, by the way, the band was promptly shut down by a New York Supreme Court judge.
	Though I will say, to be fair, many people believe he was bought and paid off by Big Quick Trip.
	So there's that.
	Do with it what you will.
	Damning evidence.
	As a lawyer, What is- how did he think that just a ban of 16- and by the way, 16 ounces isn't that much.
	That's not a lot.
	When I read big gulps, I was thinking the big, you know, the plastic.
	Right, right, yeah.
	The sort of double-walled.
	No, the huge one.
	16 ounces is the medium size.
	Yeah.
	I have no idea.
	It's not even the big gulp.
	Big gulp's like 32.
	This is like half a gulp.
	No, big gulp is like 48.
	Is it really?
	I don't know.
	What's a big gulp?
	There's super big gulps, double big gulps.
	Really?
	I used to be a 7-Eleven kid.
	Sorry.
	Really?
	Why would you go to 7-Eleven?
	7-Eleven is where dreams go to die.
	You go to Quick Trip or Race Trip.
	But they didn't exist.
	He was conceiving 7-Eleven.
	I didn't say 7-Eleven Baby Wade.
	Oh, excuse me.
	Thank you for correcting and taking it incredibly literally.
	When Gerald is buying his Black and Milds, he goes and gets a Big Gulp, and the Big Gulp has changed over time.
	But on the legal point, there's clearly, everyone attacked this on the left, the right, because either it wasn't enough, it wasn't specific enough, how are you going to say what the type of drink is, the specific thing that we're involved with, but then you're actually contributing to more problems because now people are just buying multiple packs of drinks, they're going in and buying multiple cups, so instead of one larger cup, less.
	It's bad for the environment.
	It is.
	Then you end up with what we call the Chris Pratt effect.
	Yes.
	He comes in, and he's very, very, very in trouble.
	Oh, I meant that he had plastic bottles.
	Yeah.
	Well, look, if he's trying to prevent people from drinking, like, super sugary drinks, one, you shouldn't be doing that.
	Let people make their own decisions.
	But it banned, like, diet and sugar-free things as well.
	It's a catch-all.
	Seriously?
	It can be iced tea.
	It can be a health thing.
	This is a perfect example of the unintended consequences in giving all of your rights over to the government.
	If you declare everything to be a constitutional right, like they do in Germany, I don't think they have the same constitution that we do, but they declare Internet a right.
	I don't think they do either.
	So if you declare it a right, goods and services, that right can be taken away.
	This is someone who has no concept of the parameters of government, even if it may help people.
	And it won't.
	Let's assume that it may make people healthier.
	It's not your job to ensure that people don't overimbibe Mr. Pip.
	Boo.
	Who drinks Mr. Pibbitt?
	Taco Bell exclusively has Mr. Pibbitt.
	Also, by the way, I think he tried to ban Taco Bell.
	Those are for personal reasons we can't get into.
	There's an NDA here.
	So, reason number four as to why he's such a piece of excrement.
	A lot of people don't know.
	Do you remember the homeless food ban?
	I didn't hear about this.
	Yeah, I didn't know.
	So, he actually banned food donations to the homeless because the city couldn't, quote, assess their salt, fat, and fiber content.
	So no food at all.
	That's better.
	And by the way, that eliminates pretty much everything in a can drive.
	You're not buying prime organic ribeye and going, let me toss this in the bag next to the Girl Scout cookies.
	No, you're putting in the Jolly Green Giant green beans.
	If anything, now you'd just be doing it to spite Bloomberg.
	It's not like they were trying to donate the bottom of the muffin.
	I mean, who would do that?
	I would just give him bush beans.
	That's what it would be.
	I would give him bush beans just to piss you off, Bloomberg.
	And this is important to note because he wants to be president of the United States.
	And I think it's important to know that this is someone who probably won't be president, or let's be honest, he won't be president, okay?
	If it's Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton 2020, let's just call it Trump 2020.
	Just put that one up on the scoreboard, let's be honest here.
	But he wants to push these diet regulations at the absolute highest levels of government.
	Right, okay.
	We get it.
	No one should be allowed salty, fatty food ever.
	What we eat is really crucial to our health and our fitness.
	Governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option.
	For the things that we run, because of all sorts of safety reasons, we just have a policy,
	it's my understanding, of not taking donations.
	Right, okay, we get it.
	No one should be allowed salty, fatty food ever.
	Except...
	Oh no, no, whoops.
	I hate him so much.
	It's a hot dog.
	He likes it!
	Think about it.
	He wants to set a rule, a law that you have no respect for.
	At that point, you know what?
	I got to say, that's a little bit gangster of him.
	Maybe just Bloomberg is a pimp.
	He's just like, you know what?
	I'm going to create some laws you have to obey, and I'm going to enjoy my street food.
	Good for you, Bloomberg.
	You affected elitist prick.
	By the way, he also wants you to know that the face is just genetic.
	He didn't have shingles.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	Everyone had a question.
	We did have questions.
	But his campaign will be a dumpster fire.
	So, reason number three that he is a piece of walking fecal matter.
	Can you be a piece of fecal matter?
	I don't think you can walk at the same time.
	You're a grammar Nazi audio wave.
	You can be a piece of fecal matter.
	Certainly.
	A gaggle.
	A gaggle of fecal matter.
	I love how he says certainly when it's very clear that he's uncertain.
	Right.
	Certainly.
	It's like when a fighter knows he's going to lose and he's trying to, like, I am confident that I will win because I think I'm better?
	No, you don't.
	No, you do not.
	You've already lost.
	You're going to take a dive.
	So reason number three, this is a good example.
	And this is also why I would like him to run.
	Because talk about the coastal elites, right?
	This is someone who has, he's so out of touch with middle America, he doesn't realize that this will come back to bite him.
	People want to talk about the NDAs and the sexual harassment.
	The truth is, like Donald Trump has shown, you can turn that into a positive if you have the right spin, doctors.
	I said they let you, cup, cup.
	Fish hook.
	Of their own volition, folks.
	So he did say this, though, far worse than the NDAs or sexual, that farmers are effectively idiots.
	So he claimed in this, I think we have this clip, right?
	That anyone could be taught, that anyone could farm, but that tech jobs take, quote, real gray matter.
	Here you go.
	And we can teach processes.
	I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
	It's a process.
	You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
	Wow.
	That's all that goes on.
	Wow.
	That's because you did farming.
	I knew I'd seen him somewhere, Bloomberg.
	Good for him.
	Did you notice that he also said process-y singular?
	If I ever say anything that stupid, please immediately call me on it.
	Not this show.
	We'll do it afterwards.
	We'll have a long list.
	But there's misspeaking.
	Like, I get it.
	I said Nike as opposed to Nike because of the French-Canadian.
	Or solace sounds like sawless, and that's just because I'm a stupid Canadian.
	It's a silly country.
	But process-y shows, you don't understand that word.
	Right.
	You don't know what that word is supposed to mean?
	You don't know what it's supposed to mean.
	Speaking of things that people don't understand, please do hit the notification bell if you're watching on YouTube.
	Hit all notifications because otherwise you don't get them at all, I guess, anymore.
	And subscriptions don't mean a lot.
	There's also Crowder Bits channel where you get to go and watch some exclusive content.
	Of course, Mug Club is what keeps the doors open because We're not monetized, but that's not really a spoiler.
	You all know that.
	If you've read a news article in the last year, ever.
	Reason number two.
	We have two more reasons to get to, then we have Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
	I don't know any other way to frame this, but he wants old cancer patients to die?
	Yeah.
	That's accurate.
	That's accurate.
	Allow me to explain, but here's the thing.
	I'm on board.
	You're voting Mike now, aren't you?
	He held it in the whole show.
	How very Chinese of you.
	I was saying nothing just so that would have the impact I intended.
	Right.
	So let me tell you all the reason... No, I'm kidding.
	Long game.
	No, I want to hear this.
	I want to hear this.
	Go ahead.
	One child policy and no cancers.
	Exactly.
	Okay.
	All right.
	That ends there.
	He realized, he was like, this is funny, and he realized, I have to stroll into court tomorrow.
	I have an actual job outside of this.
	Yep, just in the morning.
	So let me explain the context of this.
	I'm not, this isn't actually hyperbole at all.
	He wants to expand government-run healthcare, of course.
	They all do.
	And he's praised socialized medicine in Europe, we know that.
	But he has some very interesting ideas.
	I don't think it's any different than the people who are pushing for Medicare for All.
	They just don't usually come out and say it this way, as to how they might cut some healthcare costs.
	And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.
	Nobody wants to do that.
	You know, you show up with prostate cancer and you're 95 years old, we should say, go and enjoy, have a nice meal, live a long life.
	There's no cure.
	What a piece of shit, right?
	Oh my gosh.
	And here's the thing, he doesn't even consider the fact that you're not the one who's supposed to decide.
	I get that logically people are saying someone's 95, they probably don't have long to live.
	Here's the thing, It doesn't matter if they want to pay for health care.
	Bloomberg doesn't get to choose whether they live or die.
	And by the way, this is what happens in socialized health care countries.
	A lot of people don't know this.
	That is very common.
	Later in the meeting, he went on to describe how socialized health care was superior to ours, by the way.
	And he said, if you look in Europe, we spend here about $7,000 odd per person per year on health care.
	In Europe, it's about $3,300, less than half.
	And their life expectancy is two to three years greater.
	Here's the thing, a lot of people wonder, it's a common stat people cite, life expectancy is not related to health care.
	We have test holiday!
	That changes the average by like three years!
	Just so you know, people can choose to be obese, people can choose to be very fit.
	A good example of that is Texas, right?
	I think Houston is the fattest city, I think, in the country.
	Yeah, that's what I believe.
	And depending where you go, obviously there's a higher concentration of them at the last Kmart left.
	Yeah.
	And if they're shooting a Hover Round commercial.
	They sell nothing less than 16 ounces.
	I think Dallas, if I'm not mistaken, was rated one of the city with the most fit people because you have a lot of athletes.
	Here's the thing, if you are in Texas, you can eat incredibly healthily at a very low price or you can eat nothing but crap.
	That's the byproduct of freedom.
	That's also the byproduct of being able to pay for your own health care.
	You get to choose when you no longer pay for health care or when your life is no longer worth living.
	Bloomberg It doesn't even occur to him because they believe that all of the rights belong to them.
	So I was talking to a gentleman from Scandinavia and he was saying, you know, if you don't... Why would you?
	What?
	Was he a chef?
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	So he was telling me about what people don't realize is that you eliminate the choices.
	Once you move to a centralized system, you naturally drive out of the market any of the private options.
	And so there become less and less and less, and those that are available are more and more expensive.
	So when you have a 95-year-old who says, I would like to get treatment, he may not even have the option to go pay for it within his own nation.
	So a lot of the wealthy in these Scandinavian nations and other nations with socialized medicine, they will fly to the United States and get care because we still have the option to buy it.
	So what people say is they go, well, you know, at that point, sure, the central government isn't going to pay for it, but they'll have other options.
	But once you've implemented this system, there is no market to keep the private option available.
	And it's so odd that he picked prostate cancer in a 95-year-old as an example.
	So I get 95, you're doing pretty well.
	I have a grandmother-in-law who's 96 and she's doing really well.
	What if people who live to 110, 111, I think oldest person is 112, all the time.
	So, prostate cancer is a very slow-moving cancer, it's a very treatable cancer.
	What if that guy is one of those people who treats the prostate cancer and drinks a glass of wine every day to the day he dies and lives to 112?
	You've just robbed him of... 17.
	Well, you've just robbed him of 17 years.
	And keep in mind, by the way, this is very common.
	It's not even a controversial issue in Europe, even to the extremes of death panels.
	Remember, people got really mad when we talked about death panels.
	Do you remember the cases of, I think it was Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans?
	They're both children, severe health problems, who wanted to try alternative treatments.
	The UK government decided that it was time for them to die.
	And those are extreme examples.
	Let's go to the rule rather than the exception.
	Rationing surgery is extremely common in places like the UK.
	Elderly blind patients, they're currently forced to wait a year and a half for simple cataract surgery.
	I had a girlfriend, by the way, in high school whose dad was German, actually fought for Hitler.
	He refused to get his cataract removed because the doctor was Jewish.
	True story!
	I about pissed myself laughing and then felt really bad and told him he was a racist.
	They sent him to a second doctor.
	He wouldn't get it removed because he was Arabic.
	True story!
	Wow!
	Yes, yes, true story.
	Gosh, rolled the dice twice and lost.
	And the thing is, when I was introduced to him, they're like, hey, here, this is Eppie.
	And he fought for Hitler, but he doesn't believe it.
	And then I find out he's refusing care from Jewish doctors.
	You might believe it a little bit.
	Old habits die hard, I guess.
	And this is something, too, a lot of people don't know.
	In Canada, where I was raised, my mom was having to wait a year and a half for an MRI.
	Wow, that's crazy.
	When my family moved to Canada in the 90s, there were only 12 in the entire country.
	Wow.
	And my mom ended up getting one, I think, within about seven or eight months, because in a lot of these socialized systems, if you have cash, you can find a doctor.
	Right.
	But the Supreme Court in Canada, Chauvi versus Quebec, have talked about this quite a bit.
	It didn't happen until after I moved away, actually declared it a violation of human rights, not civil rights, because it was entirely socialized.
	You were not allowed to have private insurance at that point, or you couldn't rather pay cash to a doctor.
	Let's say you were dying, you had cancer, and you wanted to pay for alternative treatment, or you just didn't want to wait.
	You weren't allowed to pay for a doctor.
	There was a doctor named Chawi who decided to compassionately take care of these patients, right?
	Then he was put out of business because that was illegal.
	The Supreme Court ruled it a violation of human rights, I believe in 2005, to force patients
	who are effectively on death row into the waiting lines of socialized healthcare
	if they want to pay for their own healthcare.
	So now they have what they call super hospitals, or as we know them in the United States, hospitals.
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	This is one of the most baffling arguments to me, right?
	When you're trying to solve the healthcare problem.
	There's two parts to it.
	One is we know that when you go and pay cash for services that you pay a fraction of the price
	that you would have to pay on insurance, right?
	So the solution is abundantly clear.
	You can go and see what the solution is every single day.
	The next thing is, why are they constantly running to pushing everybody onto a program where the absolute end result is you don't get to decide about your healthcare anymore?
	You are no longer the person in charge of what happens for yourself.
	It's about the ends justifying the means, right?
	It's not about the best care.
	It's about it being easy.
	It's about it being centralized.
	Then it's power.
	It's 100% powerful.
	When have you ever actually heard Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren say, we would have better care?
	They say it might be cheaper, they say it'll be less complicated, you won't have to deal with insurance companies, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans actually want people to keep their insurance plans.
	They always argue it's the right thing to do, not that it's going to be better quality of care.
	Right, because dealing with the government has proven easier than dealing with insurance companies, right?
	Well that's their argument.
	Not at all like Medicare, you know, or people like Medicare and Medicaid, but you're dealing with very very small
	percentage of people you expand it It gets more difficult. By the way pops Crowder is he's
	usually around here in the studio He's getting a bicep reattachment surgery done today. He
	flexed too hard when it just popped. No, he didn't it was it
	It was actually even Brendan when they were doing Jiu-Jitsu, and he snapped his bicep and we fired him very promptly.
	So you should feel very guilty about that, Brendan.
	Bye, Brendan.
	Go find something.
	No, but you know what?
	That's a good example.
	There's a window that closes.
	Right now, he's going through this where your bicep basically scars over.
	You have to get it done within two weeks.
	And he thought he was fine.
	That's the scary thing.
	I don't know if you heard, he just heard like a twang.
	He was like, oh.
	He goes, I think something's wrong.
	And then after, when I looked, I'm like, is your arm supposed to look like a window shade rolled up?
	Like when Pepe LaPuce, he's a really attractive skunk, and it looks like it's a bib, and it goes... That was his bicep.
	And he said, no, I don't think it's supposed to be that.
	Went into a doctor.
	Immediately, he gets to go into surgery.
	He's going to be in there before the cutoff.
	There's no way that would have happened in Canada.
	None.
	No way whatsoever.
	So, I know, you want socialized health care, a lot of you.
	I'm not a fan.
	Reason number one that Michael Bloomberg is, in fact, a piece of shit.
	And I think this is the obvious one.
	He's just a billionaire who's literally attempting to buy an election.
	Right, notice that here's some numbers that a lot of people don't necessarily know.
	Have you noticed the charities that have been endorsing Bloomberg?
	Coincidentally, he gave them millions.
	By the way, millions of dollars.
	What about the Democrats surprisingly endorsing Bloomberg?
	Surely they must believe in his ideas.
	They like the Liza Minnelli tracksuit that he wears.
	Maybe, but it also doesn't hurt Bloomberg that the three House Democrats supporting him received $8.9 million from him in the 2018 midterms.
	Not connected at all.
	No.
	By the way, that law works like a charm, doesn't it, with campaign donation caps?
	It does.
	Everything.
	It really does.
	I'm glad they got Dinesh D'Souza.
	That jerk.
	Yeah, they got Dinesh D'Souza.
	Dinesh D'Souza did hard time for, I think, giving five grand to a friend of his running for a Senate seat that didn't even win.
	He's walking around with an ankle bracelet having a blow in his Nissan to make sure that he can go down to the store to get a gallon of milk.
	This guy's giving 8.9 million dollars to people endorsing him on a national platform.
	What a piece of shit!
	And have you seen the folks, there's another thing, the folks endorsing Bloomberg on social media?
	Hey, I take that personally.
	I will spend that $150 wisely.
	Yes, so will I. He'll pay anyone with 1,000 to 100,000 followers on Twitter or Instagram $150 for an endorsement, which begs the question, how much for a million or 5 million YouTube subscribers?
	You can reach out at info at ladderwithpedder.com.
	Just DM us, right?
	But here's what I hope happens.
	I hope he spends tons of money.
	He will, right?
	He's spending tons of his own money to do this.
	All of it's his own money, obviously.
	Which he can do.
	I don't have a problem with that.
	And I do, right?
	And he is completely honest about it.
	He is telling the public.
	He's telegraphing it.
	I'm trying to buy the election.
	I understand elections cost a lot of money.
	I just hope he loses a ton of money in the process.
	I don't know if it'll hurt him, because he's got so much of it, because he's going to lose either way.
	There's no way around this.
	But hopefully it costs him a lot.
	I hope it hurts.
	I hope he gets shingled.
	I think he already did.
	I mean, you're just going to spend $300, $400, $500 million?
	Great.
	Boost the economy.
	Everyone will laugh at you.
	We got more laughs out of it.
	I mean, I was excited to see him in the debate.
	It was entertaining.
	So I feel like America's winning with this, and he's going to lose.
	Yeah, no, he will absolutely lose.
	Well, hopefully this money that's being spent on him is being thrown down the toilet, right?
	It's not being spent on another Democrat candidate that he's boosting and supporting, right?
	He's not boosting their campaign.
	So maybe that's a win.
	It is really remarkable here where you try to figure out Brodigan who works for us is
	really wonkish.
	I don't know what the Democrats are doing.
	It's like you have the Warren, you have the Sanders of the world, the radical left
	socialists.
	And I think what's happening is they realize, oh my gosh, actually people don't want a
	radical socialist, so I don't think this is going to work.
	And so rather than recalibrate, you'd think they'd go with a Klobuchar or a Biden.
	They're going, I know, we need someone who's a real centrist, so we're going to go with
	a corporate billionaire elite in Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton.
	We're going to go so far the other way to guarantee the Midwest is a red wave, the likes
	of which we've never seen.
	How do you go from Bernie Sanders to Bloomberg?
	Split the difference, folks!
	Give Club would show just a couple extra minutes for her comebacks.
	I'm sure she'll do you right.
	Eventually.
	It just takes a minute.
	This is, I think, the big problem I have with Bloomberg.
	It's most emblematic because it's just sort of bumbling.
	Bernie Sanders proactively...
	Blatant, just wanton disregard for the Constitution or parameters of appropriate limited government.
	I don't think Bloomberg has any understanding, because he's so wealthy, he's such an elitist, he's surrounded by yes-men, he has been for so long that he doesn't understand that he's not a king, that he shouldn't be in charge of these issues.
	And by the way, let's compare this to President Donald Trump, when people say, well, he's a billionaire, so he's a dictator.
	Really?
	By lower taxes and deregulation and allowing more people to have guns?
	Allowing more businesses to open up?
	Fewer stringent regulations?
	You can say whatever you want, but that's not exactly the actions of an autocratic dictator.
	Bloomberg thinks he can control what you drink.
	And by the way, 16 ounces, that's not a whole lot.
	That's not even a large... It's Starbucks.
	When I go to Starbucks Reserve and I ask them to make me one of those Clover coffee machines, it's very rare.
	I was on the road and I was like, yeah, I want to see it.
	It comes up like a puck, like a burger patty, and they squeegee it.
	The coffee's terrible, but I just wanted to see how it worked.
	It's an experience, right?
	I brought them my thermos.
	They said, we can't use that.
	I said, what?
	They said, it's too small.
	I said, it's 10 ounces.
	They said, we don't start before 14.
	I said, what?
	You have a 10-ounce thermos?
	That's two less than Mike Bloomberg wants to ban in his city!
	And you want to put this man in the office?
	I'm saying that, of course, facetiously.
	I know that none of you want to put him in office anywhere, at any point.
	And these are, and we have to get to Giuliani in a little bit, these are the unintended consequences of big government.
	It may sound good at this point, Medicare for all.
	Let's assume that the quality of care would actually be better, or Medicaid for all, or some kind of a centralized public option.
	Let's assume it would actually be better.
	It doesn't matter, because long term, you lose your choice, and they can decide what health care is taken away.
	Maybe long term, people not drinking big gulps, I think we would all agree, lots of sugary sodas, not good for you.
	But if you think, hey, that will be better for me, so let's have the government step in.
	It's their job to keep us safe.
	It's their job to ensure health.
	Guess what?
	It's their job to take away whatever they want.
	These are the people who told us that saturated fat and that egg yolks were bad.
	That tallow was bad for McDonald's fries, so they started cooking them with hydrogenated vegetable oil.
	Now they're going, oh, sorry, we were wrong about that.
	Sorry to everyone who has elevated LDL and cancer.
	We were mistaken, but the vegan activists and the USDA kind of screwed the pooch on this one.
	By the way, you can eat eggs now.
	Fuck you!
	I am so tired of being told that I cannot eat eggs or bacon, and now, now it's a good thing.
	And then you have people who go so far, now they're the carnivore diet, and now the USDA is going the other way.
	We don't know!
	What is the food pyramid?
	Can anyone tell me what the appropriate food pyramid is?
	Whatever Mike Bloomberg says, I believe the opposite.
	Let's just go with that.
	Whenever you allow the government to step into the realm of no longer rights, what are rights?
	They're enshrined in the Constitution.
	Freedom of speech, freedom of self-preservation, freedom from unwarranted search and seizure.
	But goods and services, like drinks, like healthcare, like...
	Yeah, even drinking water being filtered and piped to your tap.
	When you allow the government to have complete control over goods and services, they can take them away, and you end up with 12-ounce soft drinks, which we all know are not satisfying, and some might argue, more importantly, death panels.
	This has been this week's What a Piece of Sh**.
	Alright, I need to go find Hillary Clinton's Diazepam pen and stab myself because I have
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	Yeah, it's not the one.
	It's not a loafer.
	It's not a loafer.
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	Look, he's getting all of that one, Joe.
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	Uh, quite here.
	Alright, I am very glad to have our next guest.
	And I say this, I always have to say it, but I don't mean it.
	Not all the time, you're a human too.
	This is one of the, it's very rare that we get to interview, or I get to interview, you're not interviewing, someone who was person of the year.
	Person of the year, and rightfully person of the year.
	Not like that Hitler who rigged the voting a long time ago.
	He had his inside scoop with time.
	Well, he was actually pretty important in my formative years politically, because we started a family tradition of going to New York City for Thanksgiving every year.
	The very first year we went was after 9-11, and we went down to Ground Zero.
	And so I learned all about our next guest.
	You can follow him on the Twitter, at Rudy Giuliani.
	His website, I want to make sure I get this right, is RudyGiulianics.com.
	It's a pleasure to be with you.
	More importantly, fantastic cameo on Seinfeld.
	the podcast now that he has going on is Common Sense. I highly recommend you check that out.
	This is a former mayor of New York City, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
	and then Associate United States Attorney General. I believe I have that already. He's
	also the current attorney to the president. Mr. Giuliani, thank you for being here, sir.
	It's a pleasure to be with you.
	More importantly, fantastic cameo on Seinfeld. I didn't list that.
	It should have been at the top of the list.
	That should have been at the top of the list in one of my favorite episodes.
	That was the morning after I got elected mayor and I had no sleep.
	Really?
	No sleep that night, yeah.
	And it's funny because... I just did it halfway, you know, sleepwalking, but it was... I've gotten more attention for that and some of my Saturday Night Live appearances, particularly dressing up as an Italian grandmother.
	Right, yeah.
	Someone just made fun of me for that and I said that it was...
	It was an anti-Italian bigotry, or something or other.
	Really?
	I would have thought it was transgender appropriation, but who's keeping count?
	Come on, I just get a little confused about my gender just one day?
	You coming after me?
	Right.
	There's so much to get into.
	This is back in the day.
	Bob Hope could dress up as a lady and entertain the troops.
	Mr. Giuliani.
	But now it's just, now you're appropriating.
	Apparently cross-gender culture is a culture that we can appropriate.
	So I apologize that you had to go through that.
	We'll have a PTSD counselor emailing you soon.
	There's so much going on, but obviously we were just talking about Mike Bloomberg running for president.
	And I hate to ask you about another guy, but there's obviously a lot at play there.
	A dynamic you being mayor and then him being mayor.
	He's taking some fire right now for what they're saying are racially charged comments he made regarding the stop and frisk policy.
	I wanted to ask you first, how do you feel about him trying to walk this back now, even though it was an effective tool in the war against COVID?
	I don't buy into the racially charged or I know Mike.
	Probably I'm the person, I'm one of the people that knows the two men better than any person knows the two of them separately.
	Played golf with both of them.
	Known the president for 30 years.
	Known Michael for 20.
	Who's a better golfer?
	Oh, Trump by a lot.
	Well, you have to say that.
	I don't have to say that.
	Trump is close to scratch.
	He's about seven now.
	Maybe six.
	But when he was a younger man, he was a scratch golfer.
	Trump plays golf with my son all the time.
	My son's a professional.
	Or was a professional.
	He retired.
	And he plays two, you know, two plus.
	I gotta be honest with you, Mr. Giuliani.
	I don't know anything about that.
	I'm Canadian.
	We only follow hockey.
	Sounds to me like... Oh, you guys have great golfers.
	We don't really have great much.
	We do have great hockey players.
	Maple syrup.
	There's some nice things.
	A prime minister?
	Not a big fan.
	I don't buy the racially charged thing either.
	It seems like a smear.
	But I do notice a difference with him, unlike what you're saying now.
	He's sort of trying to walk it back in the media.
	Well, that offends me greatly.
	And it offends me that he hasn't made a distinction that I think he's required to make.
	He talks about apologizing.
	His program was found to be unconstitutional and he says he inherited his program from me and Bill Bratton and Howard Safer and Bernie Carrick.
	We were the people who developed it.
	But there's a distinction.
	The program that I ran was held to be constitutional by none other than Eric Holder and Janet Reno.
	Right.
	I defended the program myself in early 2001 at the Justice Department.
	I explained the rationale for it.
	I explained Terry versus the United States and that we were doing it properly and I proved to them that we were.
	By 78 years later, he wasn't just searching 100,000 people, he was searching 600,000 people and he had a success rate of only 5%.
	600,000 people and he had a success rate of only 5%.
	Right.
	Right.
	Which means 95% of the people that he was searching were theoretically innocent.
	And that's important for people who don't know.
	He was stopping and frisking.
	It was, people could argue, far more initially invasive.
	It was faster to the punch and it was less successful.
	So there is delineation there in practice.
	So it's not my program.
	My program was very carefully calibrated, done really well by an expert police department, by three great commissioners.
	Scrupulous records.
	The Justice Department wanted to sue us.
	The Eastern District of New York wanted to sue us.
	And I asked for a meeting with the then Attorney General Janet Reno and her deputy Eric Holder, and I myself argued the case.
	And I spent two hours and I showed them that there was not a single constitutional question with it, that the statistics were all perfectly normal.
	Yes, we were searching mostly African-American males, but in the exact percentage in which They were reported as the people who committed the crimes.
	In other words, race wasn't determining who we searched.
	Our complainants were determining who we searched.
	And it was basically black people who were turning in other black people.
	So I get a complaint from a black woman that a black male hit her in the face.
	What do I go do?
	Look for an Asian woman?
	I have no idea you could, but I would imagine no.
	I mean, so I explained to Eric and I explained to Janet how stupid it was.
	Right.
	How stupid their case was.
	Now, I would have done the same thing for them if they had asked me to represent them, but because I'm a great lawyer, but I would have had, I would have had a difficulty getting around that.
	5% success rate.
	Ours was somewhere around 35%, maybe 40 or 50.
	But the most important thing is, ours was totally geared toward perfect use of the CompStat statistics.
	Secondly, we kept scrupulous records of the Terry Foundation that you have to lay.
	Now neither Michael... Michael wasn't a lawyer, so he saw it more as, how do I get guns out of the community?
	You gotta see it as, how do I do it legally?
	And then collaterally, how do I get guns out of the community?
	Right.
	He flipped it around, and that's how he went up to $600,000, because for keeping guns out of the community, it was damn effective.
	If you search everybody every day in every community, there ain't gonna be no guns.
	Right.
	There's also gonna be no Constitution.
	Yeah, that's a little bit of a problem.
	It seems to me that we should be starting off with a jumping-off point of, well, let's get rid of crime from the community.
	And so if your arc starts that way, it might be a little different.
	You have to get rid of crime, but you also have to understand that we do make a trade-off.
	We make a trade-off for certain rights that we're not gonna violate, even if it might be more effective in reducing crime.
	I mean, if we didn't have the Fifth Amendment and we required everybody to tell us everything about themselves, we'd probably solve more crimes.
	Right.
	But we have a Fifth Amendment so people can protect themselves.
	I have an aunt who acts like- Tradeoffs in a civilized society.
	Yeah, I have an aunt who you can maybe speak with as a lawyer, as a constitutional lawyer, who doesn't understand the Fifth Amendment because she feels the need to tell me everything all the time, including the regularity of her bowel movements.
	I was gonna say, you know what, talk with Rudy, he can set you straight.
	Let me ask you, what do you think the chances are, before we move on to sort of the Ukraine and impeachment, obviously, what do you think the chances are for someone like Bloomberg, since you know both him and President Trump, of winning if he adds Hillary to the ticket?
	Also, someone who spent a short amount of time in your home state before she ran, but, you know, she's seen as a New Yorker now.
	Well, I think that Mike would have a very hard time beating the President, just on the merits.
	I mean, they both have a record.
	The President has an outstanding record of reform.
	He's done things that most other presidents haven't done.
	We haven't had an economic boom like this.
	Maybe Reagan, maybe Kennedy, although I think this is bigger and stronger.
	We're a country that's relatively at peace.
	He solved a lot of foreign policy problems.
	We'll put a lot of them in the right trajectory after taking over from a terrible president who had us in subjugation to China.
	And by the way, Joe Biden was the guy negotiating with China.
	I wonder if there's a connection with the fact that he caved in with them all the time, and they were partners with his son, you know, in his private equity fund.
	We're using the term negotiate very loosely.
	If it's a synonym for bend over, sure.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, caved in.
	They send him to China because the Chinese went up into the islands and threatened Japan.
	He came back and there were more Chinese threatening more Japanese, and the kid got a billion dollars from China.
	Right.
	Now, I don't say there's a connection.
	I can't say there wasn't a connection because nobody's ever investigated it.
	Well that brings me to my next question here, with obviously they've been trying to oust this president for three years.
	They said the day he became president they were going to find a way to get him out of there.
	Did you ever imagine that it would be your mission to collect evidence, as I think we were just talking about before the break, I don't ever want to speak out of turn and I know legally we can get in hot water, so you tell me what we can talk about, but collecting evidence on the Biden-Ukraine- Yeah.
	No, I never, I never thought of that in a million years.
	And I didn't go looking for Biden and we didn't, neither the president nor I, I mean, they say we went to gather dirt on Biden.
	That's a bunch of democratic garbage.
	We didn't go gather dirt on Biden.
	That's what they were doing on Trump.
	So they used that language.
	Right.
	I was given on a silver platter by Ukrainians who were frustrated because they were being obstructed by the FBI and the U.S.
	embassy.
	They had this information for a year and a half, and the U.S.
	Embassy would not give them visas to come to the United States.
	The FBI told them to forget about it.
	They had information about how a phony black ledger was created in order to say that Manafort got $12 million worth of bribes.
	They held a press conference and leaked it with the DNC.
	And the whole purpose of it was to take Trump out.
	When they didn't take Trump out, they went ahead and began the criminal investigation of Manafort.
	That was the thing that Strzok talked about.
	We have a plan to stop him.
	We're gonna leak information about a made-up crime.
	Right.
	And then we have an insurance policy.
	Should he get elected, we're going to start impeaching him.
	We're going to start turning these things into long-term crimes.
	Can I ask you a question?
	And that was operating in Ukraine.
	It was operating with the whole situation with Papadopoulos, with the phony FISA warrant.
	It's all part of the same thing.
	It began, at least, I can take it back to about January of 2016 in the White House, when they had a NSC meeting, National Security Council meeting, staffers.
	The staffers there told three or four Ukrainian prosecutors, three of whom will testify under oath, to gather dirt on Trump, the Trump campaign, and Paul Manafort.
	One of them, possibly, is the same whistleblower, the phony whistleblower who came forward for Adam Schiff three years later.
	Now if this guy was out there trying to take him out, In January 2016, how credible is his garbage, you know, a couple weeks ago?
	Right.
	This guy spent the last three or four years trying to take out Donald Trump.
	And what he did, what he did, if he's the guy in the White House who did that, he committed the crime they were investigating Trump for.
	He asked foreign officials to directly interfere in our election.
	Right.
	And nobody's investigated any of those Obama people.
	Every Trump person gets investigated for You know, not paying a parking ticket on time, and then the guy forgets and they put him in jail for perjury.
	Well, you are notorious for unpaid parking tickets, so we'll scratch that.
	We don't want everyone to know your parking ticket history there, Mr. Giuliani.
	Let me ask you this, to play devil's advocate here.
	My question is, what does the FBI say, to go back to, in sort of blocking these Ukrainian whistleblowers from entering the United States?
	What is their argument?
	Well, I don't know.
	Nobody's questioned the FBI.
	So, these Ukrainian whistleblowers, three or four of them hired a lawyer.
	About a month or two before they came to me and they went to the Justice Department and they presented their case and they directly told them they had evidence of Ukrainian collusion in the election and they had evidence of bribery concerning Joseph Biden.
	And they would never ask back.
	Why do they have to be here though?
	Could they Skype in their testimony?
	They did everything!
	That's why the left That's why the left tries to beat up John Solomon.
	They sent a lot of the information to John Solomon and he published it in The Hill.
	And now, you know, they've made him into some kind of monster.
	This information was given to me.
	Now they say it was Russian.
	It was Russian counterintelligence.
	In other words, the Russians got Joe Biden to threaten the president of the Ukraine.
	With not getting a loan guarantee unless he fired the prosecutor.
	And he got Joe Biden to say this on camera.
	You saw the Russian behind there pushing the strings and telling him to do it.
	Yeah, right.
	Then it was the Russians who got Hunter Biden to take about $8 million from them in laundered money.
	Hunter didn't get paid like most people get paid.
	He got paid circuitous route.
	It went from Ukraine To Latvia, made out to be a loan, then it went from Latvia to Cyprus, another loan, and then it was distributed to all of the board members, and in the case of Hunter and his partner, they forgot to put the amounts in.
	And when the Ukrainian prosecutor went to get the amounts, he was told that the U.S.
	Embassy You know what that's called?
	stricken so that you can hide these payments. That sounds like a Spirit Airlines flight path.
	Last time they were going, hey we're not going to make it to Poughkeepsie, you're going to be
	landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. What? How is this happening?
	You know what that's called? That's called a stone cold money laundering case in which you or I
	would be in jail already. Nobody's even investigated. Nobody's even investigated this no-show job
	son of the vice president.
	And nobody's ever asked, was all that money that went to Hunter, was it really a bribe to Joe?
	So he would intervene at the right time to save a crooked $5 billion company, which he did.
	He saved Burisma, which was a crooked $5 billion company, and he got one of the biggest crooks in Ukraine to be able to return because he got the case dismissed on him.
	And what is the son of the vice president doing making millions from one of the biggest crooks in Ukraine when he's our point man there trying to straighten out corruption?
	Imagine how that went.
	Joe would get up to give a speech and he would say, now all you Ukrainians have to stop being corrupt.
	And they would yell back, hey, how about we start with your son, Joe?
	How about we start with the no-show job son that was a drug addict?
	You're talking to us about corruption, you phony?
	Yeah, you first, Mr. Biden.
	We do have to go, and I want to go to a web extended here.
	It's RudyJulianics.com.
	The podcast is Common Sense.
	For those who are not Mud Club members, we're going to continue here on Web Extended.
	Final question before we go to that, though.
	I did want to ask you, as a layman, OK, and I see this and I see Joe Biden and all of us see this footage of him saying this on camera for people who think it's a conspiracy.
	Just go back two episodes.
	We've run this clip ad nauseum.
	How is that not an admission?
	How is that not admissible?
	I don't understand why there's conflict.
	He said it!
	He said it!
	It's exactly the same thing they said Trump said, and every newspaper in the world the next day printed bribe.
	Right.
	Exactly what they falsely said Trump said to Zelensky.
	He said to Zelensky, you don't get your money unless you investigate Biden.
	Biden said to the President Poroshenko, you don't get your money unless you fire the prosecutor.
	Same thing, for one it's a bribe, for the other it's Oh my God, poor Joe.
	Look what they're doing to poor Joe.
	Right.
	Poor little Joe.
	You're looking like Lenny with a rabbit right now.
	He may not make it across the street, Joe.
	He very well may not.
	He's doing commercials for Hoverround these days.
	That's why it's hurt his campaign.
	All right.
	We will be right back after this.
	For those who are not Mud Club members, the podcast is Common Sense with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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	That's me, that's called me realizing that my neck fat do not act as gills.
	Oh.
	It's not functional.
	What is this?
	What am I, a bearded dragon?
	What is this?
	What is this?
	No, I found out what this is recently from a genetic test.
	I don't talk about my health so much anymore, but I called Ehlers-Danlos.
	My body doesn't produce collagen, so it was actually Gerald's wife who spotted it.
	Yeah, all the stretchy, and I can put my foot behind my head.
	Like Ripley's.
	And I deal with crippling pain.
	But I don't talk about it because Lena Dunham claims she has it.
	Maybe she does.
	I don't know.
	But that's the least of her problems.
	Anyone else out there who's ever had to deal with this or had the genetic testing?
	It's amazing what they can see in your genetics.
	When I did this genetic testing, I said, I don't want to know if I'll get Parkinson's or any of that.
	Don't tell me that.
	Do not tell me.
	I don't want to know.
	Do you want to know the day that you die?
	I mean, on stage, I know it's most days.
	What are we talking about in the future?
	I don't know.
	I don't want to know.
	Rudy Giuliani, by the way.
	What is there, another 20 minutes in the web extended?
	We talk about cigars.
	We talk broken windows theory.
	I was surprised because I've heard that he can be a little bit cranky.
	And he was just a joy to have on the show.
	He loosened up.
	I hope to have him back again soon.
	And then next week we have some big shows coming up.
	A lot of people asking, Are we going to be doing the debates?
	Not until it narrows down a little bit.
	And then it's going to be busy going into 2016.
	We're going to be finishing, or covering, all of the finishing primary debates with the Democrats and then of course the General.
	And we'll probably have, well it could be a very short night on election night.
	That's true.
	Or it could be very long.
	I believe last go around it was a nine hour stream.
	I'm looking forward to Donald Trump winning, but I'm not looking forward to having to cover a long night of the stream because, you know, the Young Turks melting down is only so funny for so long.
	And it's pretty long.
	I'd say about hour seven.
	By the time I get to eight... That's true.
	And it's not even sweat coming out of his pores.
	There are no longer pores.
	It's just sweat.
	It's just an amoeba.
	All right.
	Let me close this up for you real quick.
	Ooh, I got really dry.
	My mouth is dry.
	I'd like to take a second to talk about a few things here.
	Three things.
	Three concepts that I think are nearly always misinterpreted, which is really sad, because these three things are inextricably linked, and arguably these are some of the most important concepts To understand and by which to live.
	And we've always talked about this in the show where I hate when things that actually matter are turned into a bumper sticker slogan because people want to sell books.
	And that's why I haven't sold any books.
	I'll write two books in my lifetime.
	So this is all for free.
	I could put this in a self-help book and maybe it'll help you.
	Maybe it won't.
	But I don't.
	You get this for free.
	So three different concepts.
	Fear.
	Courage.
	In a more practical sense, I will refer to it as willingness.
	A lot of people say, what's courage?
	And it's this abstract.
	No, it's willingness.
	It's the willingness to do something even though you're afraid.
	And then finally, discernment.
	These are very important, and a lot of people don't have a grasp of them.
	Not saying that I do, but I've had to learn somewhat in managing 15 people and running a business and having to do a lot of things that I don't want to do.
	So let's start with this.
	Let's start with fear.
	Fear is often vilified.
	Right?
	Fear is the enemy of the good.
	It's paralyzing.
	There's nothing to fear but fear itself, which it sounds good in a highlight reel.
	It means absolutely nothing.
	I don't know what that means.
	Nothing to fear but fear itself.
	So you are fearing something.
	You're fearing the concept of fear, which is non-existent.
	It's stupid.
	I get that people like how it sounds and Oprah uses it for her book club when she puts herself on the cover of the magazine every single month.
	Surprise.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	Here's the truth.
	Fear is fine.
	Fear is natural.
	Fear is logical.
	Fear is healthy.
	Fear keeps you alive.
	Now, like many things that are powerful and useful, if mismanaged or given an inappropriate amount of sway over your decisions, fear can be crippling.
	See, fear is, and it should be, by the way, a variable that you use, that you include in making an informed decision.
	You do not let fear dictate your decisions.
	Let me give you an example.
	The Virginia gun rally that happened.
	Remember it was declared a state of emergency.
	A lot of people don't know we were planning on going there.
	We were planning on doing... We were.
	We were going to do a reverse change my mind with Skylar Turden there.
	A devil's advocate change my mind.
	It was the first time we were going to do it.
	And we had some intel behind the scenes before it was declared an emergency that it was going to be a little bit of a hairy situation.
	Particularly for me.
	I won't get into exactly how we were able to procure this information.
	We have a brilliant researcher, Reg, who scares me.
	God, he's on our side.
	But it was it was brought to our attention that it was probably not a good idea to go.
	And then, of course, it was declared an emergency.
	And what happened was when it was brought to my attention, I was really tired that week.
	And we had something that we had done that week.
	Oh, we didn't.
	I think we didn't change my mind or we did the change.
	Right.
	Right after that was on the road and I was exhausted.
	Right.
	And so I was planning on doing the Virginia gun rally.
	But I was really tired, and when they sat me down, my team here, and they said, hey, listen, we have some new info here that we don't think this is very safe.
	What do you want to do?
	I said, here's the truth.
	I never want to do these.
	I don't want to go to a Virginia gun rally, and I don't want to have to dress up in Skylar Turdengarb and be around a bunch of people who hate me.
	There's nothing pleasant about that.
	There's nothing appealing about it.
	I don't want to do it.
	I'm exhausted.
	It sounds terrible.
	If you tell me that I should do it, I'll do it.
	I said, so you guys tell me right now.
	I'm in no position to be making an accurate judgment because I'm afraid to do it.
	I'm too tired to do it.
	I don't want to do it.
	If you tell me to do it, I'll do it.
	And the reason I tell you this story is not at all to boast or to beat my own drum.
	I tell you that to To hopefully help you understand that by nature, even though you often see me publicly and, you know, I'm considered maybe a little bit bold, rash, as the kids might say, I'm naturally a very fearful person.
	I always have been.
	It's a huge struggle.
	But I keep it in check as best I can with two other very important variables, and that's willingness and discernment.
	I had to be willing to do something that was uncomfortable And I had to be able to discern whether I was making a decision based out of fear.
	So you've heard the phrase, exhaustion makes cowards of us all.
	I've quoted that a lot.
	And not because it's just a soundbite.
	I think it actually is insightful.
	It actually helps.
	It provides you with information and also actionable information.
	I've heard it attributed to both General Patton and Vince Lombardi.
	So if someone knows the true origin, please tell me.
	Do either of you know where that comes from?
	I have no idea.
	I also have seen it attributed to Henzo Gracie, so it doesn't sound like a patent quote, but if you know, let me know.
	But the quote is, exhaustion makes cowards of us all.
	I think that's the exact quote.
	Either way, it's absolutely true.
	And the person who ignores that truth is a fool.
	The tough guy who acts like he always has it under control, the guy who's, you know, this false sense of machismo and nothing scares me, he's a liar.
	That person is a liar.
	Either to those around him or to himself.
	Take your pick.
	But in knowing that fear and exhaustion will turn me into a coward, and by the way, through high school, through all my early life having been dominated by fear, I have decided, I made a decision, I remember when I made this decision as an adult, that I won't let fear dictate my decisions.
	I can surpass my fears through a premeditated spirit of willingness.
	I assume, and I want everyone to do this, I assume that I'll be tired.
	I assume that I'll be afraid.
	And so I tell myself and my team here, whose judgment I trust, that I will be willing to do whatever it takes regardless.
	You can line the devil himself up, and if they say go for it, I'll tuck my chin and march.
	And that's not a statement, it's a statement on the team of people around me.
	Because I do have to trust, it is a trust fall constantly, where I know I can't look at something objectively.
	And I know that this is easier said than done.
	But the truth is, and I think a lot of people miss this, you can condition willingness.
	Courage, whatever you want to call it.
	You can condition yourself to act in spite of fear as opposed to because of it.
	How?
	It's like anything else.
	By putting yourself in very uncomfortable, fearful situations every day.
	Baby steps, little bit of progress toward your goals.
	And let's say though, let's say that all of you, you've been following the show and we talk about this quite a bit, the strenuous lice.
	Strenuous lice, strenuous lice, it's a super strain of lice because of antibiotics.
	Wow.
	Now they have, yeah, they have super lice.
	But let's say that you've already conquered that.
	Let's say that you know you have a spirit of willingness regardless of fear.
	Okay?
	That's the first step.
	Well, then we find ourselves, all men.
	Women, too, but right now I'm speaking to a lot of men out there because I know men are often afraid of talking about their fear because they think that it makes them weak.
	It doesn't.
	I don't believe in taking pride in weakness, but I also don't believe in being afraid to talk with other men about you being afraid.
	That's not a weakness.
	So now we find ourselves at one of the original problems I was mentioning earlier in that fear is a valuable tool.
	Sometimes fear is telling you that this is a bad decision.
	The oven, the stove is hot.
	So how do you know when you're supposed to plow through fear as opposed to when you should listen to fear and maybe back off?
	And that comes down to the third variable I'm talking about here, the third principle, discernment.
	And I know there are a lot of people who've talked about paths to this.
	I've heard it referred to as an enlightenment.
	I don't know what the hell that means.
	You can be enlightened on a given issue or a given topic.
	But this idea of total enlightenment as a generality, it's psychological gabbly gook.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Maybe I'm just stupid.
	I think it's bullshit.
	Maybe it's just me.
	When people go out and say, you know, once you are at peace of yourself, you will achieve total enlightenment.
	I go, you don't know what you're talking about.
	That doesn't help me.
	That doesn't help anybody.
	It just makes you sound self-important.
	So I don't want to talk about enlightenment, but I do want to talk specifically about discernment.
	Let's use that as an example.
	But some people might refer to it as enlightenment.
	Side trail.
	Sorry I wasted your time.
	Blame Buddhists.
	So I'm going to tell you the only way that I know to achieve discernment in my life.
	The good news is it'll work for everyone.
	It's a way anyone can use.
	Now, of course, prayer, meditation, living a good, truthful life is important.
	Not your truth, but a truthful and honest life, but I'll assume you're doing that.
	Why?
	Because no one who refuses to do those things can have discernment.
	It's not possible.
	So, you shouldn't be watching this, but let's assume that you're doing that.
	You're a decent person of good moral fiber.
	Many people, however, who already do that, all those things right, can definitely still struggle with discernment.
	So I'll assume you're doing it.
	OK.
	It comes down to wise counsel.
	It comes down to surrounding yourself with good people, honest people, people who love you, people who you love and you trust to tell you the truth regardless of comfort level.
	So with the Virginia rally, for an example, it turned out to not be that bad.
	We thought it was going to be worse.
	We had to make an executive decision.
	So with Virginia, all that I knew at that time was I was exhausted.
	I didn't want to go.
	When I heard some of the intel, you can bet your ass that I was scared.
	Hey, you might get shot there.
	Yeah, that gave me a little bit of a fright, you could say.
	It was spooky.
	Someone get the jack-o'-lanterns out, because it was a frightful time.
	But I knew that I couldn't allow that fear to make the decision for me.
	All I could do in that instance was be willing to accept the counsel, the discernment of others here, regardless of how it made me feel.
	And everyone needs that.
	Everyone needs someone who will shoot them straight and set them on the right path, a straight and narrow, regardless of comfort level.
	You know what, not only someone, let me take it a step further.
	Not someone, because I don't want you to just think of someone in your life, but all of the people in your life, in your close circle of friends and chosen family.
	You can't choose who your dad or your mom is, but your wife, your husband.
	All of your close circle, the people you trust.
	They shouldn't be in your circle unless they meet this criteria.
	So here's my question to you.
	Do you have that?
	Run through a list of your best friends, of your family members.
	Who is it?
	Do you have a wife?
	Do you have a best friend?
	Do you have a colleague who, let's say you were in a situation where you were compromised, beyond recognition, and incapable of objectively making a decision, paralyzed by fear, who do you have in your life who you trust to tell you, in that instance, alright, go here, do that, period, and you would salute and march out.
	Really, I want you to take a moment here and I want you to think about it.
	Who is that in your life?
	Who are they?
	Who could it maybe be?
	Because that's the only way that I know how to live with fear and not be dominated by it.
	You need fear, a willingness to live with it, and an understanding of when to respect it, which requires discernment.
	And that can only be achieved, as far as I know, if you have other solutions, let me know, through honest living and the power of your closest loved one's association, the power of association and your confidence.
	And I'll tell you what.
	If you do this, if you implement it, and if maybe you haven't, you've kicked the can down the road, I want you this week to think of that person, recognize that person, tell them that you recognize them as that person, appreciate them, and then make Everyone else in your circle of friends, that person, or they shouldn't be in your close circle of friends.
	You can still be friendly with them, but you shouldn't have them in your small group.
	You shouldn't be using them to lean on when discussing relationship advice or life-altering decisions.
	You should make every person in your life one of those people.
	And you know what?
	When you're down on the scorecards, bleeding, confused, terrified, and you're hearing a voice that you trust with your life, telling you what to do, and you know that you have the willingness to do it, so you do it, period, it is liberating.
	Because you'll never have to ask, what if?
	Win, lose, or draw, if you understand and you learn to master living with fear, a spirit of willingness, and the wisdom of discernment, You will be able to accept the results.
	And live with it in peace.
	So, help me!
	Hopefully it helps you.

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