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April 10, 2020 - Louder with Crowder

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The REAL COVID-19 Numbers! | #6 Good Morning MugClub

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	Oh, with all the slurping Good morning!
	Good morning, Mug Club!
	That's a copyright violation.
	How dare you, Steve.
	We need to file a hard strike.
	That's a trademark.
	Ho-ho, big penis.
	That's the kind of stuff he says.
	I can't say that.
	Really glad to have you today.
	We have no guests because we realize that a lot of people in Good Morning Mug Club don't want guests.
	Well, that's weird of them.
	My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, is here.
	And look, right next to him, there is Gibbon.
	How are you, Gibbon?
	Great.
	Tell them what your race is.
	So I am Norwegian, Danish, Welsh, and one quarter... Remember how I said relax?
	Relax.
	Bring the mic to him.
	He's like, I am partially Welsh, like the lady from Frasier.
	Apology accepted.
	We'll go back to you.
	It's OK.
	Loosen up.
	Loosen the shoulders, baby.
	Get a little loosen up.
	Quarter Black Garrett is here.
	Audio Wade is here.
	Yeah, you look very black when you're dressed like the husband in Lady and the Tramp, getting chopped suey.
	Too Cute Maddie is on overlays.
	Gerald A., how are you, sir?
	Doing very well.
	Good.
	I'm a morning person.
	I'm good to go.
	We have a lot to get to.
	We do have some information that I've stumbled upon that no one else seems to be talking about.
	They seem to have missed.
	I know it's hard to trust a guy in a bathrobe.
	But do give it your best effort.
	Of course, go to livewithcrowder.com slash schedule, by the way, so you can see all of the... What is this?
	This is down here.
	See, I have to look down at my iPad.
	Livewithcrowder.com schedule so you can see all of our broadcasts.
	We have them in the morning.
	We have them at night.
	It is Mug Club Quarantine Month.
	Yes, sir.
	are in the promo code quarantine you get $30 off if you're renewing just do it
	please because this is what keeps us afloat and we are trying to give you as
	much content as humanly possible okay given let's give it another quick check
	yes sir so I'm Sir, yes sir!
	I said it ease!
	Alright, look, Stephen, I'm here because I'm a quarter Okinawan.
	Okay, that's right.
	I thought it was Italian for the longest time.
	Quarter Okinawans.
	So how did that, is there like a military history in your family?
	Is that how it happened?
	Hey, hey, hey, you know, even if you didn't know Gerald's name, And all you heard was Gerald's voice.
	And even if you didn't hear his voice and you just saw a transcript of that question, you would know Gerald was an old white guy.
	I get that question all the time.
	Is your dad in the military?
	Was your dad in the military?
	Was he stationed?
	No, he smoked a lot of weed.
	Let Gibbon answer!
	What's your answer, Gibbon?
	That said, yes, Gerald is correct.
	Thank you very much!
	Reg, our researcher, is giving me new updates.
	That's enough, Reg.
	You don't need to give me the updates from all the news.
	Right now he's, like, adding in.
	It's like on Ferris Bueller when it changes the absent days down to nine.
	Grace!
	So, uh, I guess right now there is, uh, we can bring this up too, cute Maddie.
	CBS just posted an article that New York City has to dig mass burial pits for everyone who's died from COVID.
	What?
	So, I guess their tweet doesn't claim it.
	Yeah, we've got the tweet.
	But it's trending under Trump burial pits.
	What was that?
	It was just a little something.
	Alright, get that right or someone's going to be collecting double the checks because you'll be unemployed so you'll make more money.
	Yeah, that's not the worst.
	We got it?
	Do we have it up right now?
	Yeah, we have the video from the tweet.
	There we go.
	Do we have it?
	Let me see it.
	Go ahead and play it.
	We're doing burial pits.
	Right, so to be clear, Heart Island is actually where any unclaimed bodies without necks of kin are buried, regardless of what they die from.
	So they've been using it for this purpose since 1881.
	Around a million people are buried there.
	So I just want to be clear, you can kind of hear a portion of the story with COVID, but not the entirety of it, certainly not the context, and that matters.
	So we're going to get to the death rates, and I want to talk about this quite a bit because everyone just got really quiet.
	Death is fine!
	Death is funny, not death from COVID, but the fact that they're lying about it and we're going to catch them is funny.
	That is funny, you're right.
	Your dad told me one time, he's like, nobody's getting out of here alive.
	I'm like, that's good.
	That's a horrible argument.
	That's a good way to put it.
	Yeah, no, it's not a good way to put it, because I'm not going to get out of here alive, but I would rather get out of here, like, have 85 years before I get out of here.
	Exactly!
	He didn't say now.
	Yeah, I know, but you didn't timestamp it right.
	This is a terrible start to the show.
	So before we move on to the death rates and Rhett and Link and a couple of other things today, Gibbon, we had no idea.
	I thought he was Italian for like nine months.
	And Bill Richmond is half Asian.
	But it turns out, I noticed the other day when we were doing the Janki video game livestream, Gibbon was, I mean, I turned to you, I said, man, you got some sun.
	You need to put on some aloe vera.
	And I was like, crap, there's a shortage.
	And then I realized, no, he just had half a beer.
	Right?
	Yes.
	Okay, so we want to test this because race is not imaginary, it's real, and so this morning we are going to lead this off and have a countdown timer to see how long it takes to get to the point of Rosacea.
	it's time for our in-studio Asian Rosé shot.
	Okay, good.
	So now, half-Asian Bill Richmond is by the way- This is real alcohol.
	We are taking your chat live on the Blaze as well, so let us know who you think is going to Rosé Schaff first.
	How would that happen, a face-off film with Nick Cage and John Travolta?
	I have no idea.
	I'm gonna take my face off!
	We've got some bourbon here.
	So we're gonna do some bourbon.
	Did you both pour it?
	It's both poured.
	We have it.
	Alright, ready?
	Drink it right now.
	And then do we have a timer?
	Do we have a timer for the audience?
	Someone set a stopwatch if we don't have a timer for the audience.
	Set a stopwatch so we can check.
	They've got a countdown.
	We'll use that for now.
	That's just a countdown.
	We'll roll through it if we have to.
	Five minutes.
	Drink it.
	All of it.
	All of it.
	Liquor in the morning is good.
	Liquor in the morning is good.
	Are we doing more?
	Well, he said he thinks that he might keel over dead pretty quickly.
	Wow.
	Can I just have more?
	Yeah, you can have more.
	I feel like 30 years from now it's going to be therapy.
	Just keep in mind you have to get on the phone with a YouTuber Google later.
	I don't want to be the one carrying that weight.
	And by the way, for reference, we're going to have a color scale that will compare to my feet.
	We're doing that again?
	Stop.
	That is disgusting.
	Let's see if you're more red than my foot.
	Oh boy.
	This is terrible.
	Do people even understand why your foot was glistening?
	I talked about it yesterday.
	Yeah, I have my foot in an ice bath right now.
	You did?
	Yes.
	And Gerald gave me horrible medical advice.
	I found out afterward that you are not supposed to keep it in the pool of ice for more than 10 minutes.
	And you're like, that's bullcrap!
	You don't know anything about anything.
	Every trainer in America is telling you you're wrong.
	Let's talk about the death rates.
	Have you guys been following this?
	I have, yes.
	I lost sleep over this, by the way.
	And I want to know, this is something I'm very curious about to people out there, how many people watching right now, does anyone have coronavirus?
	Do you have any of you actually contracted COVID-19?
	I forget the number sometimes, like what are we on?
	Are we on 22 now?
	We're still on 19.
	And do you know anyone who's died from coronavirus?
	I want to know people out there.
	This is anecdotal, but of course we see the data and sometimes you don't, you know, you don't realize what's going on until you see how it affects Real folks.
	Name that movie line, people out there.
	But I'm going to say something here.
	The death stats that you're getting are bullcrap.
	Now, I want 2 Cute Maddie to search this because this is a story that's going around everywhere in the morning.
	You guys have heard they're undoubtedly under-counting deaths.
	They're saying there are probably more deaths than we know about.
	Can you bring this up 2 Cute Maddie?
	Yeah, run the search.
	If you run that search that's in there.
	COVID deaths under-reported.
	Let's just type in that.
	COVID deaths under-reported.
	And I ran the search this morning.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	There you go.
	Nothing but articles about how it is underreported, how there are more deaths than we know.
	Here are a couple of things that we need to keep in mind.
	Okay?
	And everyone knows this.
	The original projection was 2.5 million.
	Then Fauci just admitted that the projection of 100,000 and 240,000 was an overestimate.
	And now it's about 60,000.
	Now, keep in mind some people are arguing, well, that's because of social distancing.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	The estimate was 100,000 to 240,000 taking into account social distancing.
	That that would reduce it to that number.
	And keep in mind that a huge portion of the social distancing wasn't supposed to have an impact yet.
	Wasn't supposed to kick in because there were a lot of people who were carriers or who were asymptomatic.
	So, you cannot have it both ways.
	That's important to note.
	Here's something else.
	While we're talking about this and we say, but you should really trust the medical advisors, don't trust Donald Trump, well, as we're talking about the actual death rates, let's go to Dr. Burks.
	Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards or how they're characterized?
	So I think in this country, we've taken a very liberal approach to mortality.
	That's not a face mask.
	She wore that scarf like a style statement.
	I love it.
	Great job.
	It's the exact handkerchief we put on Betty after she gets bathed, so it's like, oh, she has a pink handkerchief?
	It doesn't shield you from microbes.
	It could.
	You should know that.
	She's a doctor.
	She plays one on TV.
	So, really quickly, just a couple stats that will set something up, because I lost sleep over this last night.
	I stumbled across something that I'm amazed has not been reported on.
	So, New York, they said they would need, remember, about 30,000 ventilators.
	Remember Donald Trump got so much crap?
	You guys don't have to be statues.
	This isn't Madame Tussauds.
	Are you already drunk, Gibbon?
	I look and he's just staring at me like this.
	Like David at the dentist.
	Okay, now...
	Okay now, is this real life?
	It is, and you're Asian.
	They wanted 30,000 ventilators, remember this?
	And Donald Trump said, I don't know what they're doing with the ventilators, we need to look into that.
	And everyone said, how could he dare say that?
	Well, they peaked at needing only a fraction of what they thought.
	Donald Trump said 4,000.
	They've never needed 30,000 ventilators, or certainly they haven't reached that peak yet.
	Something else that is important, okay?
	This is how it kind of started.
	Last night I was looking up going, well, people who have the flu must be compromised.
	Right.
	So how many people are dying just from the flu?
	And I noticed, we can have this overlay right here, this is the CDC image, that flu deaths and pneumonia, they've gone down to effectively zero.
	Oh, that's weird.
	Historically, decades, no one's getting the flu this year?
	Right.
	None.
	Now, here's the thing.
	I wanted to assume, as usual, that I'm wrong, but Reg, our researcher, is very smart.
	And he said, yes, Steven, you are wrong.
	When I've discovered something, I have this I have this phobia, and it's because when I was a kid and I went to summer camp and they had a prize for someone who invents something, and you just had to make it out of pipe cleaners, and what I did was I made a dog feeder where the dog pushes a button and the pipe cleaner pushes open a cereal box and it feeds him.
	That's pretty good.
	No, they said it wasn't honey, I shrunk the kids, and I realized, oh yeah, it is, so I didn't find out.
	So I always assume that I'm wrong if I have the inside lane on something.
	So I look and I'm like, well, zero.
	I said, okay, well maybe what's happening is just...
	Well, no, that doesn't make sense because more people will be tested for the flu going in, right?
	If they're being tested for COVID, you would think more people are being tested, maybe because of the social distancing.
	Can I pause you real quick?
	Yeah.
	More people are being tested for the flu.
	Because so many, most people who are going in for COVID testing aren't actually getting tested for COVID because they're reserving the test for the people who are higher risk or showing severe symptoms, but they have enough flu tests.
	So all of those people are being tested for the flu.
	So yes, 100% We are doing more flu tests.
	Right.
	So the flu death rate is very low.
	We're testing for the flu.
	Well, okay, so you just cut me off at the pass, because I was playing devil's advocate with myself, but my actual advocate... Yes.
	...was the devil.
	He's going to be on an altar with me.
	Oh, hi, Bill.
	Yes.
	Absolutely.
	Right away with the Keanu Reeves film.
	Like, was it?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	It was Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, right?
	Yeah.
	Al Pacino's going, I'm the devil!
	Yes.
	You get it?
	Satan likes big asses!
	No way Another excellent Keanu movie.
	But you know, a little inside baseball for those who joined us in the morning.
	I know how wrong Steven is when he pitches something to Reg by how long Reg says, uh.
	If you get to three seconds, you know Reg is thinking like, how do I tell him he's wrong?
	Right.
	Here's the thing.
	I could be a huge idiot and I likely, uh, you know, there's a good chance, but I, the one thing I do, I'll surround myself with geniuses.
	So you'll never know because I'm an idiot with self-awareness.
	So it'd be like if Rain Man were going, ah, waterworm baby!
	I'm mentally retarded.
	Waterworm baby!
	I'm very aware.
	So I check with people.
	So then I was going, OK, no flu deaths.
	That's weird.
	Same thing with pneumonia.
	I said, maybe fewer people are getting tested.
	No, more people are getting tested.
	And keep in mind, too, also 7% to 15% of all flu deaths every year are some form of coronavirus.
	Not this novel coronavirus, but some form of coronavirus.
	That's why your Lysol and your mat cleaner says, hey, it kills coronavirus.
	We've had 17,000 deaths recorded from coronavirus.
	So what this is telling us right now is that all of those flu deaths, all of those pneumonia deaths, they're all being counted as coronavirus.
	So that's important to know.
	Everything is being counted as coronavirus, even if they have these other conditions.
	And I thought, well, okay, that's not really fair because that's not the standard that we use in measuring deaths for anything else.
	For example, if someone has the flu and they also are undergoing chemo treatment, we count cancer as a leading cause of death.
	So right away, that's tipping the numbers a little bit, but then it gets worse.
	Here's what I went to the CDC website after I saw that chart.
	And the flu death thing is weird.
	This is how they're counting deaths.
	A lot of people are saying, well, they're just, they're counting deaths, almost everything.
	They want to be liberal as Bricks, not Bricks.
	That's Hans Bricks.
	Burks just said.
	This is from the CDC.
	Bring this up to you, cute man.
	Your people will think I'm lying.
	In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID-19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely, compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty, it is acceptable to report COVID-19 under death certificate as probable or presumed.
	In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgment in determining if a COVID-19 infection was likely.
	That's very interesting.
	Can I sum that up?
	Can I sum it up?
	Just guess.
	What?
	Just guess.
	Well here's the thing, not only are they lumping in, so all of a sudden go look at the charts.
	Flu deaths?
	Boom.
	Pneumonia deaths?
	Boom.
	Nothing now.
	All COVID deaths.
	Not only are they all being registered as COVID-19 deaths, but doctors can also—there you go, that was a chart from earlier, the flu's dropping down—but they can also make a guess that, well, we assume that person died from COVID-19.
	This is important for two reasons.
	Science is flawless.
	The scientific method is flawless.
	Human beings applying it are not.
	Do you not think for a second that some leftist activist who also happens to work in a hospital in New York is not going to take every single opportunity possible to try and label this a COVID-19 death if they are not required to actually show any proof of a positive test?
	Just think of what the media does with this.
	One more thing, and then I want to go back.
	One more thing.
	This is what's crazy about it, because you go, how can these models be so wrong?
	And maybe someone out there can totally correct me on this.
	Everything I've said here is just taken directly from the CDC website.
	They don't apply this same standard to infection rates.
	So they cannot assume that someone has COVID-19 unless they test positive.
	And we now know, according to the CDC, 20-something percent of people are asymptomatic.
	Eighty percent of people have very mild symptoms.
	So we cannot say, oh, that person didn't test.
	We didn't run a test, but we're pretty sure they have COVID because right now they're running all the flu tests, right?
	They are actually trying to eliminate possibilities.
	So they can guesstimate.
	I hate that word, but I'm using it because I want to piss people off.
	I get that it's redundant.
	Estimate is to make a guess.
	What's guesstimate?
	To make a shit.
	We get it.
	It's the same exact thing.
	Exponential double guess.
	It'd be like me saying redundant.
	It's recumbent-dumbant.
	What?
	You're laying down and being redundant.
	I'm just saying it's just redundant times two.
	That's what guestimates.
	So, no, I was doing it on purpose.
	I thought only two of us were drinking.
	So if we are saying COVID-19 deaths, you can guess, but you cannot guess.
	You have to have proof of infection rate.
	What do you think that does to the mortality rate, not the overall deaths?
	Far fewer, they're saying deaths are being underreported.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Infections are being underreported.
	For all we know, we could have two, three, four, ten times the amount of people right now out there with COVID-19.
	We cannot guess, we cannot estimate, but we can throw out numbers if we think within a reasonable I guess sort of barometer of suspicion that they could have had COVID-19, we list it as a COVID-19 death.
	So what can that do?
	That can take a mortality rate from 0.2%, 0.4%, to 3% or 5%.
	And it's important to note that's what the models were based on.
	That's what the 2.5 million came from.
	And then the 100,000 to 240,000.
	So you can talk about social distancing all you want, and that is true.
	You should be taking your precautions.
	Wear your masks, which we said before they said you should wear masks.
	I said, I bet they're going to come out and say, wear masks.
	Nostradamus here, apparently, a comic in a bathrobe, said, I bet you the CDC's going to change that.
	But this is incredible that the models are based on this.
	This is what happens when you don't have an Asian doing your math.
	And an Asian would know.
	Holy crap.
	One sec.
	Look at Look at Gibbon!
	Get a close up on Gibbon!
	Wow!
	Gibbon, Gibbon, get right up to the camera.
	Get right up, get right up.
	Look at this!
	Oh my word!
	Turns out Bill is still yellow!
	Not very Asian.
	I told you guys, I'm only Asian from the waist to the neck.
	That's it.
	Do you get more red?
	Does it increase, or is there like a rate-limiting factor?
	No, it'll keep happening.
	I'm going to get pretty splotchy all over my body.
	Oh, wow.
	You don't need to see it.
	I want to see it.
	I think we should get photographs for later.
	All right.
	Well, give him another drink if he's only taking one, because I want to see how far this goes.
	I can use another beer for anyone listening.
	Okay, someone out there get him a beer.
	I'm just going to keep drinking whiskey.
	Now he's ordering drinks.
	A minute ago he couldn't talk on camera, and now he's like, bartender!
	Oh, and something else that I need to add here.
	We've had 17,000 deaths reported from COVID-19, right?
	A bad flu two years ago was 61,000.
	So right now, if you total up flu deaths from this year, which dropped down to zero when he had this COVID pandemic, a total of 39,000 if you add up COVID and flu.
	Bad flu year was 61,000.
	So if you add up all of the flu deaths right now, all of the pneumonia deaths, all of the COVID-19 deaths, it is still not as high as a slightly severe flu season.
	Now I'm not saying it won't get higher than that, but we don't, not saying it's comparable to the flu as far as how easy it can be transmitted, but We don't shut down the entire economy for that number, not even close.
	And this is with the books being cooked.
	And you'd correct me if you think I'm wrong.
	I think if you are allowed to guess, if you lump all deaths under COVID-19, regardless of what other comorbidities are there, and then you're allowed to guess and say, let's chalk it up as COVID-19, but you cannot do it with the actual infections, I think that's dishonest and the American people should know.
	Why is it considered journalistic malpractice to let the American public in on positive news?
	Right, I have no idea.
	And I think the whole point to this is that we're all willing to make a sacrifice.
	We're all willing to do what we need to do to stop some kind of threat.
	But the response needs to be in proportion to the threat.
	And right now, we don't understand the threat.
	And so when you come at me with two and a half million deaths early on, that means, if you extrapolate it out, about 100 million people in this country, of 360-ish million, 350, whatever it is, are going to get this virus.
	Where in China, even if they were lying by a factor of 10, they had a million?
	You're telling me we're going to have a hundred times what China had, and two and a half million are going to die?
	None of it made any sense, but that's the number that we use to say, oh God, we have to close everything.
	We have to close everything down.
	Even using the numbers that they use right now are not possible.
	Well, no, you go down to 250, that's 10 million.
	But you know what I think?
	I think if you actually want to know the number of people who are young, and I don't even mean under 50, and relatively healthy, these people could still be overweight, by the way.
	I'm not talking about the abuse of health, but people who don't have severe conditions.
	Now, again, what did we do on this program?
	We said, it could get really bad, but there's some politics at play.
	Then I had my doctor on, Dr. Choi, who's Korean.
	We talked about it, told people what precautions they could take.
	death is actually significantly higher than I think we will ever reach as far as young
	healthy people.
	Now, again, what did we do on this program?
	We said it could get really bad, but there's some politics at play.
	Then I had my doctor on, Dr. Choi, who's Korean.
	We talked about it, told people what precautions they could take.
	We've tried to be as clear as possible, and I do think that a lot of this, not just
	The virus is not a hoax, of course not.
	I'm not saying that at all.
	But the political fallout, we will look back at this as one of the greatest shams perpetrated on the American public.
	Yeah, with some of the most dire consequences.
	Closing down the economy like this, it takes time to come back.
	Did you guys get another drink already?
	Keep drinking.
	I want to see how bad it is.
	I'm going to level with you.
	It's usually freezing cold in the studio, but I'm about to take off every item of clothing that I'm wearing.
	No.
	That's totally fine.
	Blotches.
	Are we allowed?
	Can you check?
	Let's check.
	You don't have to be on camera.
	We don't need to check the blotches right now.
	You want a blotch check?
	Well, you check it, but you know what?
	While you're doing that, you check it.
	I believe we have Thomas Finnegan, don't we, with a traffic report?
	Oh, okay.
	We know that many of you, of course, your morning routines have been affected, and so we are here to serve you.
	Time for Traffic Report with Thomas Finnegan.
	♪♪ All right, Mr. Finnegan, are you there, sir?
	I am here, Steven.
	Good, thank you.
	You're staying safe.
	Please update us on what people can expect in their morning commute.
	Well, you commute from all directions.
	What just happened?
	What just happened there, Thomas Finnegan?
	We're not hearing you.
	Once you're in the kitchen center, be on the lookout for some emergency responders who are cleaning up an earlier incident involving a microwave and aluminum foil.
	Aluminum.
	Oh, aluminum.
	I didn't know that our reporter was Canadian.
	Okay, great.
	By the way, we can hear you.
	We can hear that you're like, don't take your shirt off, don't take your shirt off, you don't want to see my nipples.
	We can hear everything you're saying.
	He really is drunk at 924 Central.
	Finnegan, anything else we need to know about?
	Nothing else, Steven.
	You're all good.
	Did I just hear a toilet flush?
	I think so.
	Are you in the bathroom?
	Really?
	Maybe.
	Oh, right.
	I think he hit a dead spot there.
	Are you splotchy?
	Do you know?
	Do you know if you're splotchy?
	He is totally, his reaction time is awful right now.
	This is two drinks in.
	Two drinks or did you get hit with a blow dart gun?
	Somebody drank him from the ceiling.
	Let us know what people are saying.
	Can you guys see this step?
	Get up to the camera here.
	Show it off.
	Actually, you know what?
	Take off your headphones and come over here so people can see.
	So this is for contrast.
	This is pretty red, right?
	That's my floor.
	That's purple.
	But come right here, Gibbon, so people can see the contrast.
	Look at this.
	Look at my face.
	We might need a foot to face.
	Yeah, hold on.
	Let me see your face right here.
	Oh my gosh!
	Hold on a second.
	That's pretty close!
	No, no, his face is redder.
	Oh my god!
	This is in an ice bath!
	You look like Hellboy.
	He does actually look a little bit like Hellboy.
	Chief Sitting Bull over here.
	You know what?
	I think we've proven our point.
	Do you want to go back to doing the opening?
	Hey, Red Skull here needs some crackers.
	Do you want to go back out there and sit in the yogi bow and take a breather?
	No, no, no.
	Leave him here.
	He's making me uncomfortable.
	I think he might die.
	So this happened to me.
	I was telling this story.
	This happened to me in college.
	When I found out that this happened, I was at a party and I was drinking a beer.
	I had about half a beer and someone comes up to me and they go, Are you okay?
	Yeah.
	And I was just like, what the heck are you talking about?
	Of course I'm okay.
	And it was about the sixth or seventh person that came up to me and said, are you okay?
	And put their hand on my shoulder that I went to the bathroom and said, oh my God, what the heck happened to me?
	Something else that happens too, when he gets drunk, he gets, I'm noticing you get more, you get less articulate, but very chatty.
	You're very quiet most of the time.
	He's very quiet.
	I thought he was Italian for like nine months.
	I had no idea he was Asian.
	Do we know what this is, the Asian rosacea?
	Because I remember I had a psychiatrist who told me, she's like, it's a genetic.
	It's an enzyme thing, right?
	It is.
	It's an enzyme thing.
	So kind of like lactose intolerance.
	People are missing that enzyme that helps them digest lactose.
	In Asian cultures, we usually don't drink milk.
	So you have lactose intolerance too?
	I'm actually pretty good with lactose intolerance.
	I am lactose intolerant.
	You are lactose intolerant.
	How do you deal with bats?
	Delicious.
	Look, I like bat gumbo, bat stew, bat shrimp, bat fried bat, boiled bat, bat fajitas, bat pie.
	I'm not going to lie, if it wouldn't make me incredibly sick, I wouldn't mind bat pie.
	AudioWave, we haven't heard from you this morning.
	What do you think about that?
	Do you think he's safe in here?
	We need an update.
	I hope so.
	It does look like his forehead's about to pop.
	I don't know.
	He looks like stressed Eric.
	He looks like he ate a whole jar of peanut butter and now he's on the toilet just trying to let it go through.
	Don't strain.
	You're gonna blow an o-ring or something, fella.
	Well, listen, if you're not feeling well, you know, when you get you some water, let us know.
	Well, if he does die, it'll be contributed as a COVID-19 death, so that's that, right?
	The silver lining.
	We're helping out Joe Biden's campaign by adding to those deaths.
	Hey, and by the way, please do hit the notification bell if you are subscribed, and if you haven't joined Mug Club yet, at loudmouthcrowder.com slash Mug Club.
	Crowder Bits is another YouTube channel.
	Yes, sir, love it.
	The iTunes or Apple podcast.
	So, something else I wanted to talk about, this is making the rounds quite a bit, and The hydroxychloroquine thing.
	So remember, we were on this really early.
	Yeah.
	To the point where when we titled our YouTube video about chloroquine, I remember that we kind of go through a title process.
	We go, okay, we want to make sure that people can search it and find it.
	Oh, shoot.
	Wade is right.
	I did just unbutton this.
	Wow.
	That's bizarre.
	Do you just do that like automatically?
	It's like a nervous tick.
	Yeah.
	That's not a good tick.
	As soon as the camera gets on him.
	Sexual assault is not a good nervous tic.
	It's far more severe than a word whisker.
	Some people say, uh, and I just go, like?
	Your nervous tic should be legal.
	That's a good rule.
	People are going to think I'm a bad lawyer if you keep doing this, okay?
	What's wrong with him?
	He's nervous.
	Really?
	What's your nervous tic?
	I sell crack!
	That's more proactive than a tic.
	You've got spreadsheets.
	Um, so the Trump-Chloroquine thing, we actually remember we said, well we don't want to title it Chloroquine because people don't... Oh wait, hold on a second.
	We should check in with CNN a little bit.
	Let's see.
	Every continent except Antarctica impacted by COVID-19.
	Well that correlation is all we need to know.
	Cold kills it.
	I think it's time to move.
	This is CNN.
	We didn't know how to title it because we said, most people don't know chloroquine.
	So we were like, let's see if we can title drug, whatever.
	And now this has become the number one cause is to attack Donald Trump.
	Chloroquine.
	This has become the cause.
	It's unbelievable.
	And when you actually look at it, I think the big reason why, Matty, you can bring up that overlay.
	I think the reason why is because he's right.
	They tend not to like that.
	When you have, they go, oh, there's zero scientific evidence.
	Well, there's actually quite a bit of evidence, many hundreds of people.
	We've seen different, we've seen a variance in the rates of efficacy in these different sort of, they're not double blind clinical trials, but they're about as good as you can get for an already approved drug that can be prescribed off label.
	And now over 6,000 doctors signed a petition.
	6,000 doctors signed on saying this was a drug that they actually supported.
	It's being used in hospitals across the country.
	Don't you just love that Michigan, and I think Nevada, put a ban?
	They said, we're not going to give that to our people.
	And they said, sorry, I meant the opposite.
	Ship as much of it as you can.
	I think what's interesting is, you know, when you read these articles that are attacking the folks, they're like, oh, I can't believe you would tout this terrible drug.
	You're not a Dr. Trump.
	You're not a doctor news person who's reporting it.
	But the Trump and the news outlets that are reporting on the effect of treatment are always reporting about doctors.
	The numbers they're getting are from Trump's briefing.
	All over the country, who are saying, hey, I'm not saying it works for everyone, and certainly there are individuals to which it will be ineffective, but we are doing it, and the evidence that we see, the empirical evidence is, it's working.
	Right.
	And what's crazy is when I watch CNN, and I hate that I do it, but I'm doing this for you.
	Please do join Mug Club, otherwise... Reload, and then I don't want... It can't be a Walther because I can't get in trouble with my sponsor.
	But if I kill myself from watching too much CNN, it will be a competitor's firearm.
	Yes, it definitely will.
	But I have a question.
	Try the Walther.
	But, no, I do... Go ahead.
	What's our standard for information right now?
	Because people are giving him a hard time for saying, hold on, let me play this out, they're giving him a hard time for saying there's a possibility that this could be beneficial, let's look at it.
	We get numbers all the time that start out at two and a half million deaths, 240,000 deaths, and we're like, oh no, that's good, we're fine taking that kind of variance, but Donald Trump says it might be a helpful thing to use.
	That's a good point, there's far less variance in all of the trials or studies, there's far less variance out there for chloroquine than there is variance in the death rates.
	And what's funny is when they report on it, I'll watch CNN and they'll say, Oh, Dr. Trump, uh, sorry, President Trump.
	You've been so drunk, I'm getting drunk by osmosis just around him.
	I'll give you an update.
	I have, so my body has metabolized the alcohol.
	I am drunk.
	I am moving into the hungover phase.
	If anyone out there can get me a Gatorade or Pedialyte.
	This is not a joke.
	Someone get him some Pedialyte.
	Hey, look, we have young Dolph Lundgren on the screen on CNN here.
	Oh, look at him.
	I will break you.
	I love it.
	I want to see Universal Soldier 4.
	John King will go on there.
	And I saw this, I think it was yesterday, saying Donald Trump ignoring the advice of, you know, medical professionals who now predict the death rate 60,000.
	And then they show a clip from Dr. Fauci.
	That's his advisor.
	He's the one who had him out there at a press conference.
	You didn't get a scoop, Aaron Burnett.
	You just didn't run the press briefing and then you talk about it.
	The death rates that are coming out are coming out from Donald Trump and his cabinet and his advisors.
	You're not getting it from anywhere else.
	It's unbelievable to me.
	So they've been going after hydroxychloroquine, and this happened with the Young Turks and on CNN.
	Now the attack is, why is Donald Trump so pro-hydroxychloroquine?
	Because it works.
	No.
	Because he stands to make money.
	That's right.
	Let's go through that really quickly.
	Evil man.
	So they talk about, this is an article from Daily Beast, how he owns stock in a company that may be making chloroquine tablets.
	When you run the numbers, I want to make sure I get this right, he owns between $99 and $1,485.
	Of that stock.
	In this stock.
	The man's a billionaire.
	So you know what this company is too, right?
	If he found that in his pocket, it would be less than you finding a 20.
	It's part of a mutual fund, I think, right?
	Yes!
	Do you have any idea what we're all invested in in our mutual funds?
	We have no idea.
	Here's the thing.
	Anyone out there who's going to criticize him for being invested in one of the largest French manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, Sanofi, every one of you who has a mutual fund, you're probably in it as well.
	No.
	Michael Moore's probably in it.
	Oh, definitely.
	He's in it.
	But he hates himself for it.
	Are you kidding?
	He's there.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, it's unreal to me.
	Compare that by, well, we're talking about a vested interest.
	So you can say, oh, a conflict of interest.
	Is a president not supposed to have any sort of diversified portfolio?
	No mutual funds?
	You can just come right on in.
	Don't worry about it.
	Just come right on in.
	It's more distracting.
	It's more distracting for a creepy Columbian to loom by the door.
	It is.
	We never know.
	We need crackers.
	We need food.
	We need something sustained.
	Do you want some pistachios?
	Cliff Bar or something?
	I can take another Cliff Bar.
	Okay.
	So, I've noticed something else.
	There's a delay.
	Oh my God!
	There's an angry lesbian who I'm not... What is that on CNN?
	No, no, no.
	What?
	That's Daniel Radcliffe.
	What is that?
	What in God's name is that thing?
	I love how you ask him a question and it takes him five seconds before he answers now.
	There's like a delay.
	While we're talking about vested interests, oh my god, this is a madhouse.
	Hello Betty.
	What is going on?
	Can we go to the long shot there?
	Oh my gosh, Dr. Betty.
	What does she have, tape?
	Hold on, someone else got this one.
	She's just trying to tape some stuff.
	It'll be okay.
	Poor, poor little Betty.
	Hey, how are we going to keep this show going if she eats that roll of gaff tape?
	That's true.
	We wouldn't be able to do the drink on the job.
	We wouldn't be able to gaff anything.
	How would we gaff?
	She's wearing a dress?
	She is in a dress.
	Poor dog!
	Someone go to the woman in the office.
	Well, Maddie's working here.
	One of the women in the office hit my wife because I can't.
	She put my dog in a dress.
	Your dog is a lady dog.
	It is a lady dog.
	I don't care.
	That disgusts me.
	So when we're talking about vested interest in a mutual fund, $99 to $1,000, compare that to the vested interest that New York Times has.
	When you look at the money that's exchanged hands with Democratic donors, when you look at people who have actually worked in administrations that are either now reporters or have been op-ed journalists at the New York Times.
	I mean, Paul Krugman.
	You just look at any of these people at the New York Times, not to mention, remember their probability numbers that they had at the election?
	It was 99 point something percent that Hillary Clinton would win the election.
	And like we've said, just like with COVID-19, numbers matter, and obviously facts do exist.
	We need to be clear about that.
	But you can also try and manipulate them to change public behavior.
	That's what happened with the election.
	They were hoping that people would just feel completely depressed, completely devastated, that they wouldn't have any fight in them and come out and vote for Donald Trump.
	So they had 99% Hillary Clinton.
	Probably did the opposite.
	Yeah.
	It made you go, oh, I gotta get out there.
	That night we were streaming, and I remember Gerald started drinking before the show.
	He was like, well, Hillary Clinton's gonna win tonight, so let's just, this is gonna be a rough night.
	And then it was the best night ever, just because we watched the Young Turks meltdown.
	Like, 97, that's okay.
	Just wait until Michigan comes in.
	Oh no!
	Why?
	Of course!
	That was one of my best nights.
	We'll send you a Walter.
	But it was remarkable.
	And they did this because they wanted people to, basically they wanted it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	That's what's happening right now with some of the COVID-19 deaths.
	So New York Times has a far worse conflict of interest.
	I'm just hearing the COVID stuff.
	If you're going to talk about big pharma, we're talking about chloroquine.
	This is how you know that someone actually cares.
	Donald Trump could probably get some serious kickbacks.
	Right now, his hotels can't receive any bailout money.
	Just so you know.
	He signed on.
	That wasn't even an issue.
	It wasn't even argued.
	What are you saying there?
	No public official.
	What?
	We're just letting you know what time it is.
	What?
	You're letting me know what time it is?
	40 minutes?
	Yeah.
	Quarter Black Garrett is making symbols?
	We've never used these symbols.
	He's doing games.
	I only know the Air Force signals.
	What are you using?
	The Army?
	We have to match up.
	You're doing the opposite of what I was trying to do!
	I have a clock!
	I see it!
	It's 1038!
	This!
	trying to do it was coach I have a clock I know he does he does he does this
	This!
	assisting you and he's doing it like he's let me in like look he's giving me
	like a hot tip at the at the Greyhound truck I'll let you run next time, it's fine.
	He's like the third bass coach over there, signaling you.
	What is happening?
	I've got a drug producer.
	Wait, is this a drug deal going on?
	I know what time it is.
	So if you were to have some conspiracy about a drug, you could have created a much better one.
	Donald Trump is not receiving any money to his hotel, so that's not really a conspiracy.
	As far as drugs, chloroquine is generic.
	There's no patent on it.
	No.
	Any company can make it. It's been around since the 1940s.
	It's being made by a ton of other companies.
	As far as I understand it, even Bayer, who make aspirin. Or at least they said that they could.
	I don't know if they're actually going to be doing it. So many companies. So if Donald Trump wanted
	to get a kickback on a drug, you know what he would do? He would pick a company that has exclusive
	rights. He's the president of the United States. If you see some kind of a Republican senator from
	whatever it is, Omaha, can engage in insider trading, you don't think that Donald Trump can
	make a call to Pfizer and buy up a few mutual funds?
	I know, that's not how it works, but I don't really know anything about finances.
	My guy handles it.
	And then I just write it off.
	Yeah, so for the death rates, they're guessing at the top number of the fraction and the bottom number of the fraction, but they're reporting all their guesses.
	But if you know that Trump can only make like a hundred bucks from this whole thing, you're not going to report that number.
	You're not going to say how much he owns or anything else.
	So I think there's two points here.
	One is fear sells, right?
	Every time you have a news story come on, it needs to be about Donald Trump, his handling of this, and how bad it is, right?
	The thing that we saw with the crayon or whatever it is at the bottom that said every continent— Did you just say crayon?
	Crayon.
	Crayon?
	Chiron.
	Chiron.
	Thank you.
	I always do it backwards.
	Even the drunk Asian heard Chiron.
	Crayon, right?
	Yeah.
	That's not true.
	That was unacceptable.
	You didn't even pause for that one, jerk!
	That was unacceptable!
	Oh, you're a pipe!
	So it said, you know, every continent on the planet has been affected.
	Yes, thank you.
	That means that potentially seven countries have been infected by this.
	No, Gerald, you missed it.
	Antarctica and the penguins are safe.
	Other than them.
	I know, but what I'm saying is, like, they're making it sound as bad as possible.
	I'm just gonna keep talking.
	As bad as possible.
	And then they won't report anything on Donald Trump when he owns something that's $1,000.
	Like you said, it's a rounding error to him.
	You're just going to say something general about it?
	You're trying to make it look as bad as possible for him and for the virus.
	Right.
	And not reporting any good news at all.
	No, exactly.
	By the way, we've gone through the clinical data.
	This is important to note.
	We've had clinical studies where they haven't been controlled because if someone actually has severe COVID, right, they don't want to run the risk of receiving a placebo.
	So that's pretty hard to do.
	But we have studied pretty big, we have pretty big sample sizes in multiple different instances now in people, and it does seem to consistently be working.
	Again, thousands of doctors have signed on saying, this is actually something that we want to use.
	It was by far and away, there was a poll, the most effective treatment when doctors were polled.
	So not even people who proactively signed on to say, this needs to be a part of the protocol.
	Then when they were asked, doctors said, yeah, hydroxychloroquine with the Z-Pak is most effective.
	Number two was chloroquine by itself.
	Number three was nothing.
	And then everything else was after nothing.
	So we want to be clear about that.
	Then they also did study it in vitro, like in a petri dish, where they think they found the sort of novel mechanism of action as to why it might work.
	And it may not be the antiviral capabilities.
	It actually may be some kind of mediation of the inflammatory response, specifically as it relates to the immune system.
	So I'm really nerdy.
	These things are all very interesting.
	But the point is, we have examples in humans that it works, and we think we understand scientifically at least as to why it works.
	And anecdotally, this lady of color, person of color, POC, from Michigan, Karen Witset, she
	credits Chloroquine and Trump with saving her life.
	And she really, really didn't want to say that, by the way.
	And I'm not sure if that's the lady or if I'm just confusing her with another black
	lady from Michigan who was in the legislature.
	I think that's the one who, when we were doing the I'm Just a Bill, the transgender parody,
	came up to the Capitol building and said, oh, y'all doing schoolhouse rock, took a picture
	and uploaded it to Instagram, and then was very cross when she found out what the video
	was.
	And then basically removed.
	It may have been Karen Witset.
	Probably not.
	I don't know.
	How are you doing there, Gibbon?
	Yeah, I'm in the hungover phase.
	I'm drinking water.
	You're actually hungover already?
	Yeah, that was fast.
	Already.
	I have a pounding headache.
	You have a weak producer.
	I feel terrible, but I'm going to... I'm gonna stay the course.
	Okay, stay the course.
	Power through again.
	You know, it doesn't look so bad now when you're under the right light.
	Of course, you can't always depend on that light, but... Little splotchy.
	Little splotchy.
	Yeah, I say a little splotchy.
	Sorry, buddy.
	You look like you should be at a kid's party in a McDonald's playpen, Grimace.
	You are purple.
	You are more purple than my foot.
	He is pretty purple.
	By the way, again, we mentioned Crowder Bits, the podcast.
	Oh, wait, hold on a second, actually.
	Actually, I think we have to go to, right now of course since it's a morning show, Breaking
	News.
	Yeah.
	Ooh.
	For a breaking news, I'm Al Rooth Crowder.
	I'm Perry Malthusen.
	Based on previous projections that have been subject to change and now can be verified, the CDC has officially, and this can be held legally accountable, changed their COVID estimate of deaths to four.
	We'll keep you abreast as this story unfolds.
	For Breaking News, I'm Lauderworth Crowder.
	I am Paramount. Haha.
	I had AM radio flashbacks there of like driving in my dad's car and there's like some grainy
	AM talk show person.
	Perry's been around for a while.
	He's been around for a long time, at a high level for a while.
	Got us into a lot of hot water.
	Did I ever tell you about that?
	Because we were out of Detroit and we were broadcasting.
	And what happened is when this show started for those... By the way, I don't know if we can... Is chat not working today?
	Let's forget it.
	Are we doing chat?
	Let's see if we can bring up some chat.
	By the way, I know chat is an issue right now.
	You can't give us your name because the usernames aren't working.
	I don't know why.
	I'm pissed about it.
	So earlier, yeah, earlier you asked about people who had had the COVID-19, if they knew anybody.
	This person, Andrew, says, my dad and I contracted it and fully recovered.
	We lost our sense of smell and had a bad cough.
	Ooh!
	Devastating.
	Sorry, Andrew.
	You're losing your sense of smell.
	That might be a little too much Zycam.
	The nasal Zycam.
	Just so you know, do not use that.
	I've known people who have lost their sense of smell.
	Really?
	Why shouldn't we use it permanently?
	Yeah, permanently.
	Tell us more, Vampire Gibbon.
	Take Zycam as a pill.
	Do not inhale that.
	Really?
	But the nasal swab is not inhale.
	You rub it around your nasal cavity.
	Are you talking about the spray?
	Yeah, the spray.
	Did you use it?
	I can still smell everything.
	Just so you know, this is happening in real time.
	Are we still on?
	He used it in his eyes.
	I just wanted to prove that I am more Asian than Bill.
	You are absolutely more Asian than Bill.
	Genetically.
	I'll take my pants off right now.
	If I have to.
	Big words for a man who didn't even want to wear a robe.
	I was like, come on, we're all wearing pajamas.
	He's like, I don't want to wear a robe.
	That's a nice robe.
	I still have my suit jacket on.
	I know, right?
	Because this is how he sleeps, in his suit with a robe.
	He has to keep up appearances, love, as he sits next to a drunken Asian who's about to throw up all over the studio.
	My quarter Asian brother is excellent.
	Yes, the hungover phase has passed.
	I'm now drinking beer again.
	That's a wonderful plan of action.
	I literally poisoned my body, but I feel as though I've cleared just enough of it that I'm at the cusp of recovery.
	Let me drink more drain cleaner.
	You know what's terrible about Gibbon?
	They're like terrible for him.
	I was like, he's drunk, he can't defend himself.
	I've done this bet thing before.
	Really?
	Gullible rooms of white guys where I'm like, well, you know, I can't drink that much because I'll get all red in the face.
	Like then, you know, I've had too much to drink.
	And then, you know, like 11 shots later, they're on the floor.
	I'm like, all right, I'm going to take that money.
	Oh, nice.
	How did you get that money?
	Can you do that again?
	I'll take that money.
	Thanks.
	Can you do that again?
	Oh, see, now he butchered it up.
	When he first did it, it was super dainty.
	I'll take that money.
	Dollar, dollar bills, y'all.
	Hey, I did not sound like Gerald when I did that.
	No, no, you sounded like Richard Simmons who's been kidnapped by his Brazilian housekeeper.
	We do have one more chat.
	We have another chat, anyway.
	We have somebody who says, nope, safe in Italy.
	Don't know anyone with the China virus.
	It's Susan in Italy.
	I think that person's trying a little too hard with reiterating Italy.
	And obviously because Italy is like the war zone, I think that might not be honest, Susan.
	It should help, actually, it's written in an accent.
	Pretty heavily.
	Oh, good.
	I don't know how you read that.
	And I don't know many Dagos named Susan.
	Right.
	Maybe she's on vacation.
	So I do have a story.
	There was one of my clients who did, their group contracted it.
	They were in Australia.
	It actually made the news.
	Your setup has become tiresome.
	He's drunk.
	I was losing interest.
	I was losing interest. Yeah, thank you. If I can't keep a drunk man's interest, I have nothing to offer.
	Tell us about your Aussie drunk friends.
	So they went down there to do wine tasting with a group of ten people.
	They got it.
	They were quarantined, and they actually received death threats from Australian people that thought that they had brought this virus to their area.
	Well, that doesn't surprise me.
	It's an island of nothing but felons and rapists.
	Well, pretty much.
	That's their heritage.
	That's what it is.
	It's maw and paw.
	It's Alcatraz with tarantulas.
	It was a British colony.
	It was a penal colony.
	Anyway, so they finally did make it back to the United States last night, so I do know one person, at least, that had it.
	How bad was it?
	Not bad.
	Not bad at all.
	And I'm not saying that there aren't cases where it's bad, but I'm asking because everyone that I've known who's had it, it's been a cough.
	It's been a cough and a headache.
	So I'm not saying it's pleasant, but everyone that I... Now, then again, most people who I know who've had it are younger and are healthy.
	Younger meaning under the age of 50.
	And then right now, my mother, who is our wardrobe stylist, she has pneumonia, pretty severe.
	So she's nowhere near here.
	And that is significantly worse than any of the coronavirus cases that we've seen.
	And we've seen, at least suspected, quite a few.
	And in this instance, if we suspect it, we write it as definitely COVID-19.
	Because we're following the CDC's lead on that.
	Um, alright.
	You know what?
	Maybe I should tell my Taco Bell story last.
	Please.
	I think I'm going to end this on a positive note.
	But before we get to that, and actually you'll be able to shine on Monday.
	We'll be doing another Mass Monday on Monday, and that's where I will say Audio Wade and Gerald really know their theology.
	You know, I will say this.
	You're saying I don't shine any other time?
	Not on the comedy days.
	So that's every other day, this is a comedy show.
	Let's be honest, Scrapyard, it's not your strong suit.
	It's not, you're right.
	People don't realize that's when you first came on the show.
	Before you were on the show, I would ask you questions about the Bible, theology, and sort of Islam, because I know that you taught some of these courses at churches.
	And I said, you know what?
	You've got a good voice.
	You've got a great voice for radio.
	You're articulate.
	Why don't you come on the show?
	Nobody has stepped on jokes better than me since.
	Well, there were no jokes, just complaints from the government of Pakistan on Twitter.
	Oh, that's good.
	Pakistan.
	I've said this before.
	Not a person in Pakistan.
	Violation of Pakistan.
	It's gotta make you feel good, though, right?
	It makes me feel good.
	The entire country hates you.
	I'm not a big fan of Pakistanis, which, remember how much trouble George W. Bush got in because he used the word Paki?
	That didn't used to be a racist term, it was an abbreviation.
	Right.
	And now, like, say Pakistani.
	What am I, retired?
	I don't have time to say...
	I've got things to do.
	I'm not drunk sitting over in fourth chair.
	And I want to go back to the Mass Monday, but we were talking about that, like, Chinaman.
	You were saying that that's never once been offensive to you.
	Now again, if someone says it like, F you, Chinaman.
	Yeah, but I'm not a bitch.
	It wasn't intended to be racist, where the n-word was.
	That's the difference.
	I think people who focus so much on the words and they miss the intent are the problem.
	Because really it doesn't take using a slur, or a semi-slur, or maybe potentially hypothetically a slur, or something like that.
	It's all about the intent and what people are doing.
	You can't listen to comedy and not feel a little offended.
	Literally that is the essence of comedy itself.
	Yeah.
	And so knowing that someone is doing it with an intent to actually bring people closer together, and the part that I think is the most hilarious about it is most slurs that are used are actually some basis of the words that are used between the people within that race anyways.
	And so just, hey.
	What do Chinese people call other Chinese people?
	Um, I can't say it on air.
	So I remember when I was... He's so chatty when he drinks!
	This is the most I've ever heard you speak.
	I will ask you a question.
	You know this, we will have a meeting, because Gibbon has now become the showrunner here.
	He's been doing a great job, by the way.
	He's been a fantastic showrunner.
	He's absolutely wonderful.
	Make sure the train's running on time.
	But I will ask him a question.
	I'll be like, hey, what happened here?
	And what do you think?
	He'll go, hmm.
	That's it.
	And then he comes back with a reasoned response, whereas right now, so don't make any, don't drink before any meetings.
	Oh, I was going to say I should start drinking before meetings.
	Yeah, you would think that right now.
	Unwise.
	I feel so happy.
	What I was going to say, when I was a bitch, living in Los Angeles, I remember my, I had heard my grandmother say...
	I had heard my grandmother say, Chinaman, and I remember thinking, like, whoa, grandma, that's kind of crazy.
	And she was like, Irishman, Englishman, Chinaman, it's the same thing.
	You're saying the same thing.
	No one's mad at Martin Scorsese.
	Right.
	Well, some people are.
	But that's mainly because, again, I don't have the time.
	Four hours, come on.
	Oh my god, the director's cut?
	Please, does it come with a cyanide pill?
	And Al Pacino's book of extensive accents, by the way, it's one page.
	It's really just a booklet, like a do-not-rape pamphlet handed out in Germany on New Year's.
	It's a trifold.
	It is remarkable.
	Yeah, Chinaman is a good example, like when we were doing the Kung-Fu fighting.
	We had to censor it.
	Now the guy, what's his name, Fred Douglas?
	Fred Douglass?
	I don't remember.
	Something Douglass.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Carl Douglass.
	Carl Douglass.
	We love you, Carl.
	Now, you have to look at that intent.
	So not only do you have the lyrics of the entire song.
	So let's take this as an examination, right, of context.
	And I was talking about George Bush saying Paki.
	In the context, I said, you know, you have, for example, the trade with Pakis, they're not happy with.
	He wasn't at all denigrating them.
	He was actually, people have accused him of being too pro-Pakistan.
	So in other words, and by the way, that was in Montreal.
	That's what was used all the time.
	Again, it wasn't intended to be racist.
	Now that abbreviation is more racist than the lesser abbreviation.
	But Chinaman, let's take that from Kung Fu Fighting because someone was arrested in the UK for singing Kung Fu Fighting.
	We've talked about this at a karaoke bar.
	Yeah, you can go back to a video.
	We did a whole thing.
	Maybe Maddie can bring the source up if she wants to.
	Kung Fu Fighting arrested!
	Now let's see, is this a situation with the absence of context?
	No, it's a black guy in a Kung Fu uniform who is doing a song that is literally praising Chinese culture.
	The entire thing.
	Talking about how much he loves Kung Fu fighting.
	Okay, so we look at that.
	Doesn't seem like he hates anybody who's Chinese.
	There it is.
	Man arrested for singing Kung Fu fighting.
	If we didn't bring it up, you would think I'm lying.
	The only reason I bring up overlays is because I don't want you to think that I'm lying like CNN.
	Um, he goes, okay, there were funky China men from funky Chinatown.
	Was it, they were chopping round me up, they were chopping round me down?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Uh, it's an ancient Chinese art and everybody knows their part, knew their part.
	Was it from a something to a kick, now we're into a brand new trick?
	Everybody was kung fu fight- It's poetry.
	Hold on.
	Did I hear racism?
	Yeah.
	It's a love letter to the Chinese culture, which by the way, entirely false.
	The kung fu fighting doesn't work, but he really liked it!
	He was a fan of it!
	It's just amazing to me.
	You have to look at that and go, did he mean this as a racist term?
	And it wasn't really considered a racist term at that point.
	Now, if he walked up and was like, what's your problem, little drunk China man?
	I'd be like, hey, Mr. Douglas.
	Right.
	But that's the bridge he's walking.
	Yeah, he's Okinawan.
	You pointed at me.
	I did, just because you're drunk and I figured I could say it without getting in trouble, whereas if I said it to Bill, he could use it against me someday.
	Yes.
	Will use it against you someday.
	I love Bill, but lawyer gonna lawyer.
	And you've offended him because Okinawan's actually Japanese, not Chinese, and there's a thing.
	You didn't sound offended, though, Bill!
	Can you bring up a map?
	And Gerald, do you have a pointer?
	I do.
	Here, let me... If you look here... What was it that happened that changed my mind?
	Where someone was racist to you?
	Yeah, there was a kid.
	He was an Asian kid.
	And he was talking about how all white people are terrible and we should all get cancer.
	And I said to him, I was like, you know, actually, I'm Japanese.
	And he said, Oh, well, you should have been there when we bombed you.
	Oh, wow.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know that I'm offended.
	But no, I'm not.
	But I do think it wasn't very nice.
	It was not.
	Yeah.
	Not nice to say.
	Well, keep eating your crackers.
	Very impractical.
	So here's something else.
	So we did Mass Monday, and I say this is Audio Wade and Gerald Strong suit when we do the Mass Mondays.
	Now, I'm one of those guys, I've read the Bible through, like, cover to cover three times.
	I did the one-year Bible.
	But it doesn't mean that I retained all of it.
	And then it was, what was that CD series that you had me?
	It was about the Bible in 24 hours?
	Yeah, that was actually more useful than reading through the whole Bible.
	Oh, yeah.
	And then I realized it was kind of one of those, it wasn't a religious thing, I just wanted to have read the whole Bible, but then unfortunately, I forgot.
	Look, Jacob's Ladder, I can tell you more about the horror film than the story in the Bible.
	I don't know why.
	Why is Jacob's Ladder so important culturally?
	It's a fever dream.
	Yeah.
	People, like, Jacob's Ladder is a colloquialism, it's like, people who don't know anything about, what about Esther?
	I don't know, I just, Jacob's Ladder is a thing.
	I saw it, CrossFit, they have this thing called Jacob's Ladder, it's really hard, I get grabbed in my house.
	Like for some reason it's given undue importance to Jacob's letter.
	It really is, yes.
	So you guys know this pretty well, and we did this last Monday.
	We did Mass Monday.
	On Rettinlink, what they call spiritual deconstruction, they left the faith.
	And I don't want to use that term.
	They basically abandoned their faith as Christians.
	And here's one thing that I want to keep in context here.
	I do things that I regret all the time.
	People who say, no regrets.
	What?
	Like, I don't relate to that person at all.
	Like, when I watch a film and there's a guy in his deathbed and he's like, I can say I regretted nothing.
	I'm like, what an asshole, right?
	There's no way that's true.
	Not very self-aware.
	Of course I have regrets.
	I have regrets from yesterday.
	AudioWave, you were there.
	And I made a joke because I was drinking milk straight from the carton because I'm the only one who drinks goat's milk at the house.
	And then I was like, oh, this is four days expired.
	I think it was seven.
	Seven?
	Yeah.
	I regret that.
	You should.
	Certainly.
	On behalf of yourself and your asshole.
	Yes, yes.
	I'm pretty sure that Gibbon's going to have some regrets.
	He will.
	I mean, for crying out loud, he looks like a bruised peach.
	I feel terrible.
	You're back to hungover already?
	Well, drink water!
	I wanted to see how fast it would take.
	It took 40 seconds.
	You don't have to keep drinking.
	You've proven the point.
	Move on, sir.
	We don't need a geneticist to come in here.
	Every time the camera goes away, I whisper to him, keep drinking.
	I want to be clear.
	I've done some things that I'm not proud of in my life.
	I've gotten things wrong.
	I, of course, have regrets.
	But when it came to addressing the Rhett and Link podcast, where they effectively are trying to drive thousands of young people away from Christ, that's really what they're doing.
	As a Christian, I don't think that's a good thing.
	As much care as we possibly could.
	It's about as nice of a show as we've done.
	It was.
	It was really tame.
	It really was.
	And this was the response from Rhett and Link.
	This is the change my mind meme, and that's Steven Crowder.
	Or as I like to call him, Steven Piece of Sh** Crowder.
	He's a podcaster at TCU who sat outside with a sign that said, male privilege is a myth.
	Change my mind.
	And the meme is used to convey strong, hot takes on topics that are actually important or completely unimportant.
	Okay.
	Let's see a few examples.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	So we don't, but you don't need to believe a Steven piece of shit Crowder.
	Far be it for me to argue, by the way.
	Be that as it may, like my, I want to be clear.
	My primary issue here is not with being called a piece of shit.
	Yes.
	I am a little bit upset because I think that's a wonderful insult.
	And now I can't use it because this angry lesbian producer used it.
	And I don't say it as an insult.
	She's an angry lesbian producer.
	I still use it in emails to you.
	It's true, you do.
	There's something about it.
	That I just love.
	It's excellent.
	It's excellent because it's like you're not even giving the credit of being the entire evacuation.
	No, you're in my phone as Steven, piece of shit.
	Really?
	It's a long name but it's worth it.
	You're the worst part of the piece of crap.
	You're the Curly Q.
	By the way, out of everything I've said on this podcast... Show them laughing there, Courtney Blacker.
	By the way, out of everything I've said on this podcast, this is what?
	No, no, but it's so real, man.
	Literally, everyone... Those are starting to get a little ragged.
	I am getting a little ragged.
	I didn't ID Brock.
	I'm laughing.
	But actually, that is one of the things I'm sure... Did someone get a bat in here?
	Everyone at home right now is like, you know, I never called it a curlicue.
	But I know exactly what he's talking about.
	I will tell you this story, because it's absolutely true.
	When I was a kid, I was... I don't remember many things from before three years old, but I was two years old and I remember this.
	I was just telling Gibbon, I drank an entire... Like, I should have permanent liver damage because I drank an entire bottle of Tylenol twice.
	Why?
	Because I was an idiot.
	I was a kid.
	I was two.
	My brother... My mom was... We had cold, so she was giving us, like, the children's Tylenol.
	And so she's like, okay, we're going to give you each a spoonful.
	Yeah, the liquid.
	And she goes, okay, Jordan, here's yours.
	And she turns back and I went, Finished it!
	She's like, oh my god!
	E-R-L.
	And then when they pumped my stomach, my brother, being the little pissant that he was, they put stickers on it.
	I don't know what that is.
	It's not how they pump you, but they have the stickers.
	You know like an E.T.
	when he's in the fridge and goes, ouch.
	So they had stickers on me.
	One of them had a smiley face.
	My brother tried to steal it for his scrapbook.
	He pulled the sticker off of me.
	That is great.
	So anyway, I did a lot of things like that when I was a kid, but I do remember, you know, I used to take, when I was two, I would have been two, my brother might have been, yeah, four, we would take baths together.
	And so my mom takes my brother out of the bath, she's toweling him off.
	I'm like, Mom, I gotta go to the bathroom.
	Sorry, I don't know if I should not tell this.
	I think it's okay.
	I think we know where it's going.
	No, no, no, no, you don't know where this is going!
	The statute of limitations on child abuse is over.
	You don't know where this is going.
	And so she's toweling off my brother, and I remember going, like, kinda, you know, doing this, like, I've got it, I've got it.
	And she's like, just wait!
	The pee-pee dance.
	Yes.
	And so I did.
	I pooted.
	And it had the curly cue.
	And it was very sharp.
	And I don't know if you know this, but when you've pulled the plug, you know, there's a current.
	Yes.
	And so whatever's in the bathtub starts going around.
	So I'm standing there while she's toweling off my brother, and I can see the pointy poop coming around, and I'm picturing, like, a scorpion.
	I remember it looked like a scorpion's tail.
	And it started getting close.
	I'm like, Mom?
	Mom?
	Mom?
	It just ran out, jumped out, butt naked, because I thought I was going to get stabbed by my own excrement-curling cue.
	Yeah, that's scary.
	I remember that clear as day.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you now see what has caused Steven to be who he is today.
	And out of everything that I've said to you today, that's what you will remember.
	Afraid of his own poop.
	Absolutely.
	I was.
	I was afraid of my own poop.
	And that was the most frustrating point with this, going back to the story.
	It's like, we did really bad.
	That I was afraid of my poop?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	This disappoints you?
	No, none of this disappoints me.
	That was a hard segue.
	I did.
	Hard.
	Thank you, Steven, for that story.
	I didn't even know we could use that term.
	Yeah, but we've bent over backwards to be kind, and if you listened to our entire discussion, you understood that, one, we were first and foremost concerned for them, like, hey man, we're really sorry that you ended up in this place.
	We said that we loved them, invited them on the show, that you're more than welcome to come on the show, we would love to speak with Rhett and Link.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And I read some comments that said, you know, Steven must have been triggered, because he sounded, you know, blah blah blah, and I was like, triggered?
	What are you talking about?
	One, we don't do that anyway, but two, nothing that we said... Yeah, I'm triggered by Good Mythical Morning.
	Anyway.
	I am actually curbing any instinct that I have right now to be as extra loving as possible.
	Did you see that clip?
	It was pretty bad.
	That homonym, it's nothing personal.
	It's what I do.
	I was pissed off that they actually whited out the sign.
	I mean, which change my mind was it?
	I don't know.
	I need to know.
	They said it, Cheryl.
	They said it.
	Well, they said one of them that he did.
	You don't want to know what gummy worm is best?
	So a couple of things here that I think are really important, and then we do have to get going and we do have to hook giving up to an IV drip.
	Yeah, he needs some help.
	Medical attention is coming, don't worry.
	Right.
	First off, they're really concerned about being brand safe.
	I'm not sure if calling someone a piece of shit is brand safe, but maybe on YouTube it's brand safe as long as you do it with the right people.
	Because we've been specifically told nothing that involves piece of shit will ever be monetized or advertiser friendly.
	Can I say that?
	That's been very clear.
	Yes.
	It's been very clear, in no uncertain terms.
	Like, yeah, you know, when you say, like, Don Lemon, or even The Who, what a piece of shit.
	Like, that's not gonna be advertising friendly.
	But apparently it's brand friendly as long as, you know, you're eating pancakes with a faux hawk.
	Right on the trending page.
	Right.
	So that's absolutely fine.
	I don't have any problem with that.
	I want to be crystal clear.
	But the brand safe thing, that's what we're going to talk about on Mass Monday, that's not a value, that's not a principle, that's not a virtue.
	And it's the same argument that they use to make the case that all churches will be allowing gay marriage because otherwise they'll die.
	No.
	Just appearing in the popularities, that's one of the intellectual fallacies that you
	learn about in Logic 101.
	And something else that's very interesting, maybe they think it's more, maybe they don't
	want to be un-brand safe.
	So I commented on the video, and here's the thing, I want to be clear, I'm not a guy who
	does the YouTube drama thing.
	We avoid it.
	Like, my rule is this, try to only punch up, and then if we call someone out, we offer
	them some kind of recourse.
	In other words, we're not going to just debate or have anyone on the show who says, why don't
	Because you're an egg.
	It's because you're an egg on Twitter.
	I have no interest.
	Or, you know, you get a fracture.
	Like, we can't do it with everyone.
	But if I call out, for example, if Samantha Bee says, hey, I'm tired of it, we will have her on tomorrow.
	Seth Meyers tomorrow.
	Anyone from the Young Turks tomorrow.
	Vox tomorrow.
	That's the rule.
	So my name came out of your mouth there at Rhett and Link.
	Good Mythical Morning.
	That's the only reason that I responded.
	And so I responded to Steven, piece of shit Crowder, underneath the video.
	I want to make sure that I'm quoting directly, but I can't because they hid the comments, which I'll get to.
	It was, ha ha ha ha ha.
	Ha.
	Okay, that's about right, yeah.
	That was a comment!
	And then after that, so we can bring this up right here, I think we have a screen recording, we don't need the audio, you can just use it as b-roll.
	Then I realized that none of the comments were showing up.
	Now here's the thing that's kind of, and we use ExpressVPN by the way, go to expressvpn.com slash Crowder, you get a discount.
	They're wonderful.
	We did the same thing with the Tulsi Gabbard situation.
	If you go and use an ExpressVPN and go sort of an incognito mode, the comments don't show up.
	So when you leave a comment on someone's channel and they hide it, you don't see it from your profile.
	Yours will always show up.
	So you'll go, oh, I guess it's still there.
	Then when we use ExpressVPN, look, now it's gone.
	And even responding to people saying, hey, you know what, this is kind of weird that you do this with Stephen.
	Like, he actually seems pretty respectful.
	And I said, hey, you know, just so you know, I actually grew up with Rhett and Link on YouTube.
	I'm a fan.
	I would love to have them on the show.
	Just because we disagree on the premises of theology, philosophy, does not mean that we can't respectfully disagree and have civil dialogue.
	Those comments were hidden.
	So to me, that's hit-and-run cowardice.
	16 million subscribers, obviously a bigger channel.
	When we rebut points and we use biblical verses and we rebut it theologically and say, well, we think that this is actually incorrect and we would love to talk about this if they want to.
	Otherwise, we're going to continue doing Mass Mondays, which we do behind the paywall, doing Mug Club every single week.
	This isn't something new that was exclusive to Rhett and Link.
	They shouldn't feel that special.
	And then they respond with, haha, what a piece of shit, on a channel with four times the subscribers, and then hide comments that are civil and respectful.
	That means that, that is cowardly.
	And not only that, that also tells you that there's no interest in a dialogue.
	When they said, when Rhett and Link said, we really hope that us coming out and talking about our deconstruction encourages discourse or dialogue.
	Well, hold on a second.
	What kind of discourse or dialogue?
	Do you mean a group of Christian people saying that they love you and they wish the best for you and that they disagree with you and hope that maybe you might look into some of these arguments and do some research and see why there's validity to it?
	And then say, we respectfully invite you onto the show.
	We would love to talk about it as brothers in the Lord and a spirit of love.
	Then you call them a piece of shit and they say, ha ha ha, that's kind of funny.
	I would still gladly and respectfully host you on the show.
	Hide.
	Delete.
	What kind of discourse were you looking for?
	You have no interest in discourse.
	You only have interest in pats on the back.
	Because you're cowards.
	It is cowardly to do that.
	You will never hear me on this show.
	Call someone out.
	Like Sanjay Gupta.
	Guy looks weird.
	Don't like him.
	Not even sure he's a doctor.
	John King looks like a bobblehead with a neck that's broken.
	Okay?
	If they want to come on the show, he'd just be on the dashboard and you'd be going, whack, whack, and he falls.
	That's it.
	He don't bobble.
	If he wanted to come on the show, I would have to be held account.
	The Book of Judgment.
	Did you in fact say that?
	I did say that.
	Yeah, that sounds accurate.
	Because I'm a piece of shit.
	You heard Rhett and Link.
	To do that is a parting shot.
	My point is, there's no interest in dialogue.
	When people say this, it's like, what would you have to do?
	What would you have to do beyond that to actually engage in a conversation of ideas?
	There's nothing I can think of.
	They don't want to say anything.
	I mean, that's the long and short of it.
	It doesn't help their narrative to just say, hey, everyone who's following us, don't go listen to this.
	This guy's terrible.
	He has no opinions.
	Because they can't actually address the opinions themselves.
	They can't address the points and the arguments and the verses.
	in the scripture that were brought up during that rebuttal.
	And if their position was so strong, they would have been ready to be able to do it.
	But they weren't ready for those types of arguments that attack their position, and so the only thing they have is, Lord, a piece of shit.
	And even if they didn't see the Mass Monday, even if they were just responding to you as the cultural figure, then The only argument that she made, if it was an argument, was he sat outside of TCU with a sign that said, male privilege is a myth.
	I mean, come on.
	It is, yeah.
	Right, yeah, exactly.
	So is that the argument that you're a piece of shit?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think it was.
	I don't know if it was that or the rape culture is a myth.
	I don't remember.
	By the way, do you know how I know rape culture is a myth?
	Because I'm informed by a Christian worldview and also the history of Western civilization, which was founded on Christian principles, unlike Islamic societies or Buddhist societies or Taoists.
	Take your pick.
	I've learned about Taoism in college.
	I don't know anything about it.
	What is Taoism?
	It seems like a made-up... It's made up?
	Is it made up?
	You're drunk.
	You don't need to answer.
	We'll assume it's made up.
	It's a religion of tea, I guess.
	No, and we would give them an opportunity.
	Hey guys, if you disagree with what your producer said, you have every opportunity to correct the record.
	You have every opportunity to say, hey, we don't really think Steven Crowder's a piece of shit.
	She said that and she shouldn't have.
	Floor is yours, guys.
	Go for it.
	Angry lesbian producer going to angry lesbian producer.
	Right.
	And we would understand.
	I'd be like, yeah, sure, that's fine.
	Yeah, I understand it.
	I wouldn't even expect you to come to my defense.
	No.
	I wouldn't come to my defense.
	That's not my issue.
	You should.
	No!
	That's not my issue.
	You can call me whatever you want.
	My issue is throwing out parting shots, and I want to be very clear.
	This is not ad hominem.
	This isn't making fun of just an appearance.
	This is a shot over the bow at your character.
	That's cowardly.
	It is cowardly to do that and then not allow any recourse.
	Okay?
	These are just the ABCs of me.
	We don't do that on this show.
	And I get it.
	You don't have to debate any single person who asks you to.
	You have 16 million subscribers.
	We don't do that.
	But if my name left your lips, it's cowardly to do a parting shot and then delete any record of someone responding.
	Especially, and I think, by the way, Especially when it's respectful.
	If we weren't respectful, if we were responding in kind, they probably would have left it up and said, see, I think the fact that we were saying, hey, hey, hey, I don't harbor any ill will, I can't even show you the comments because I've disappeared, but I would love to respectfully host them on the show, that actually makes them more inclined.
	I think that Rhett and Link, we're going to do this on Monday, another Mass Monday, and I want to be clear, Rhett and Link, when I came up on YouTube, like I've been on YouTube since 2007, they started early on, first movers.
	I respect them with that.
	But I do think that Rhett and Link are going to be surprised as to how much they come out of this the bad guy.
	Because I know I'm like the supervillain, the Vox Apocalypse, where YouTube had the change policy and I say naughty words and Rhett and Link are brand safe.
	But I think people can smell it on you when they sense cowardice, when they sense bullying.
	And by the way, a 16 million channel responding viciously to a respectful rebuttal That's bullying.
	You guys are bullies.
	I don't know how that works into your deconstruction because you thought the Christians weren't empathetic, but you're bullies.
	You're cowardly bullies, and I would love to hash this.
	We don't have to, but I'm just letting them know.
	We're going to talk about it Monday and be very respectful.
	I was going to say that we're not the only ones that think this, though, because in the comments, if you go through... Yeah, a lot of those are hidden as well, though.
	Really.
	There's a lot of people in there that I saw right whenever they uploaded it that were like, hey, I watch Steven Crowder.
	I watch you guys.
	I like both of you.
	Why are you being mean?
	He has a lot of good points.
	So it's not just us saying it.
	It's their fans watching and saying it too.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	It seems kind of weird.
	That doesn't seem weird.
	I'm not surprised at all.
	It seems weird to people that are fans of theirs and ours.
	You know what?
	I will say this.
	Yeah.
	And I will say this, because they talk about it in their Mass Monday thing.
	I know some people think, oh, big surprise that you went to L.A.
	and now you're no longer a Christian.
	They try and cut it off at the pass.
	That's exactly what's happened.
	And I say this as someone who has lived in California, as someone who has a lot of friends in California.
	I've seen it happen.
	And by the way, you do have to be honest.
	Like, you chose, AudioWade and I were talking about this, you did choose to go.
	to Los Angeles and be a part of the entertainment industry.
	You wanted to, so it's like someone saying, well, listen, I don't wear, I mean,
	do you think that I'm just wearing this crest because it went to this country club?
	Like, no, you wanted to join it, you chose to join that country club.
	That's why you're wearing the crest.
	You chose to become a part of that industry in that state, and now you're putting on their team jersey.
	So yeah, you may say you always wanted to do that, but that's why you went to Los Angeles.
	That is important.
	People, you need to understand.
	Yes.
	And when you see someone who says, I know people will say this and they try to cut it off of the past, but they don't have a valid argument.
	That's how you understand the importance, the value of your surrounding.
	You need to have positive association.
	You need to surround yourself with people, not only when we're talking about spiritual issues, but people who will help you elevate your game in all facets, be it physically, be it mentally, spiritually, emotionally.
	You don't want to hang around people who turn you into something you're not or just drag you down.
	Okay, I do want to end this on a positive note.
	Are you feeling better?
	Are you coming through?
	Yeah, no, I'm feeling pretty good.
	Steven, I just wanted to say that I'm a realist.
	This is the first and probably the last time that I'm going to be on the show.
	You're actually surprisingly good with a couple of drops of bourbon.
	Yeah, I know, but I mean, I had a great time.
	This is a dream come true as someone who was a fan before working on the show.
	Really?
	Yeah, really.
	Aim your sights higher.
	Maybe one day you'll get on Reddit, Link.
	Yeah, you piece of shit!
	I really do want to issue a heartfelt apology to my father.
	Dad, I'm sorry.
	What?
	Oh, no, it was my boy.
	You bring a great shame!
	What I teach you, stick to weaker of ultra or else!
	No bourbon!
	Our people no bourbon!
	So I wanted to, in all of this chaos that's been going on, a lot of people don't realize today is Good Friday, right?
	And Easter Sunday is coming up, so I just wanted to wish all of the people out there a happy Easter weekend.
	I know this is a very big day.
	And it likely will be the peak, by the way.
	They're saying Easter will be the actual peak of COVID-19.
	So very happy to be doing a Mass Monday the day after Easter.
	Yeah, I really appreciate it.
	He is risen.
	He is risen.
	Indeed it is.
	I know, I say some things, kind of naughty sometimes, teehee, but yeah, I'm a Christian.
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	Yeah, so I wanted to tell you a story that I can't bring Johnny Boy and my Canadian friend.
	But after we did the Jean Guy video game stream... First off, let me preface this.
	This is why I don't argue when someone calls me a piece of S-word.
	Because I do things like this.
	I went to Taco Bell.
	Understandable.
	No.
	No, it's not.
	Don't, don't, don't absolve me of this.
	No, I'm not.
	I'm saying you make bad decisions late at night when you're hungry.
	Place me in a burlap robe.
	It should be the Da Vinci Co.
	just non-stop.
	As a matter of fact, I immediately regretted my decision.
	So when I got home, I started spraying down the bag and then I said, these people aren't going to follow the sanitary.
	So I just threw it in the garbage.
	I got a Steak Crunchwrap Supreme and a Chalupa and I said, ah, this is, this is, no.
	There's an acceptable risk, this is not it.
	But, there was a lady who brightened my night, and I want to say thank you so much to this lady, and I need to explain why this was so funny.
	So you guys all know Johnny Boy.
	Have you ever seen him, when he laughs, he gets, not quite as red as you, but he gets really red.
	He gets beet red when he laughs.
	And I will say this, we've talked about this, there is nothing, and I knew this going in, there is nothing that Johnny Boy, he's an ultra white Canadian, Acadian bloodline, that he finds funnier than sassy black women.
	No, some people say it's racist, I don't care, he just finds it so funny, like we've talked about, endearing.
	And so we're driving through Taco Bell, and you know, this is a sassy black lady, and I don't know how old, like she could have been from 30 to 60, I have no idea.
	It's very hard to guess.
	Very blind age judger there.
	So I order a steak, what is it where it's not a crunch wrap, but it's like wrapped but has like crunchy things in it, but it's not, anyway.
	It's all the same thing.
	Cheesy gordita crunch?
	Maybe it was that.
	I have no idea.
	I love how even when he's drunk, that for some reason is prioritized.
	She's a gordita crunch.
	Do you have a sad life?
	Being able to walk and talk normally?
	No.
	Gordita, yes.
	And his girlfriend is really something else.
	Don't know how he does it.
	So, let's assume that's what it is.
	We go Cheesy Gordita Crunch.
	I'll just say Steak Crunchwraps Supreme, because I'm not going to remember all the Taco Bell terms.
	So, we then drive up to the window, and this is why it's so funny, because from my vantage point, right, so you're, okay, you're me, I'm Johnny, okay?
	I see his face.
	And then we drive up, and the window right behind him, as he drives up, it is a very large black woman with long braids, dyed red, and severe makeup, and surgical gloves.
	And I see us drive up, and right away I can just see John kind of A little bit of this.
	Just because you can see her.
	This is nothing but good things.
	It brightened our night.
	It's been a tough week.
	So John's right here, and she comes out and she goes, OK, you've got a chicken chalupa and a steak, whatever, and a chicken crunchwrap supreme.
	And John's already kind of laughing.
	No, that was steak.
	And then she goes, she goes, it was steak!
	What are you eating chicken tonight?
	I'm just kidding.
	It's steak, y'all!
	And John is just sitting there going, ah, ah, ah!
	He's like peeing himself, beet red.
	So I can see him beet red.
	And in the background, her just like, ah!
	We're done with the night, and I will leave you with this.
	She hands us the meal, folded very nicely in a bag on a tray with her surgical gloves, and John is laughing, and he reaches, he goes, thank you, and she hands it, she goes, yeah, social distances, y'all!
	I got you, baby!
	You have a good night!
	You stay safe!
	And just John was in tears.
	We had to pull over.
	He was laughing so hard.
	Social distances, y'all!
	And you know what?
	Cultural differences, it is what makes day-to-day worth living.
	So lady between 30 and or 60 at Taco Bell who made our night, I really appreciate it.
	That's just one of those silver linings that a lot of people miss.
	What's your silver lining?
	What has brightened your day?
	Comment below.
	Let's keep this a little bit positive.
	Same thing even as it relates to Rhett and Link.
	We'd love to have a conversation.
	Don't be mean, because then we end up being like their angry lesbian producer.
	Thank you so much!
	This has been Good Morning Mug Club!

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