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April 13, 2020 - Louder with Crowder
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Is COVID-19 Racist?! | #7 Good Morning MugClub
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Have you ever liked mouth sounds?
There was someone, there was an intern who worked on this show, behind the scenes, who hated the sound of dog mouth sounds.
And if you remember Hopper, all he did, he did a lot of that.
He's like the combination of an old grandfather on a porch with like a little stick in his mouth and also like a cow chewing cud.
We have my half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond here.
How are you?
Quarter black Garrett here because apparently quarter black men dress like the husband in Lady and the Tramp.
Audio Wade, Gibbon there, Gerald A. How are you, sir?
Doing well.
Good.
Hey, we have chat, by the way.
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Wow.
So just say, this is Paul.
And, you know, Gerald, would you show us your name?
Well, show Skinectity.
No.
The answer is still no, Paul.
Of course, subscribe to the podcast.
We have Crowder Bits.
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Apple Podcasts, I guess, now, because it's no longer iTunes.
Right, right.
It's confusing.
Oh, wait!
Hey, look!
A dead person is on CNN.
What?
Let's bring this up.
There he is.
He looks like the father of the bird from the movie Up.
He looks like human form.
You know what he looks like?
Time is fleeting and madness takes its toll.
Let's do the CNN again!
Is that age makeup?
I don't know, in his silly frickin' riff-raff hairdo.
He's actually only 20 and this is just an Instagram filter.
That's like bad age makeup.
By the way, have you noticed with the late night and with the news, when you take away the makeup crew, people are horrible?
Yeah, it's a bad idea.
I feel more confident in my ability as a host when I compare it to people without 47 writers, but I also used to feel really bad about it.
I don't like the way I look, but I used to think of myself as like a 6, 7.
When you compare them without makeup, I mean, I'm a 10.
If they are the yardstick, you're a 10.
Except, what's her name, Potter?
She's a girl.
Poppy.
Poppy Harlow.
Poppy Harlot.
That's it.
Join the chat, let us know what you want to hear.
First, my question to you is, have you guys been hearing about this, that the COVID is the coronavirus?
That it's racist?
Really?
It's a pandemic.
The COVID racism.
The first racist pandemic.
It's the first racist pandemic.
Only 2020 can do that.
That specifically targets black cells.
Did you know that?
Wow.
Actually, it's not the first.
I mean, sickle cell.
Sickle cell is pretty racist.
Well, I guess that's true.
When you think about it, sickle cell is a racist disease.
It's not contagious.
It's not contagious, but it's still, when you think about it, they're deciding to incubate somewhere and like, oh, you know what?
I'm going to go with LeBron.
So was coronavirus invented by Margaret Sanger as well?
I see what you did there, but it's too early for politics.
Historical reference.
Oh, Professor Gerald, please, teach us a lesson.
I need, like, a pipe over here that says, we have some flickering.
Ooh, something, I just think, I think you just offended God by the flickering on behind you.
Stop with the Margaret Sanger jokes!
It's not saturated, Gerald, it's just old!
What is God in Neptune?
He's like underwater?
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
And I picture if God had a wife, it would be like Ursula.
Why?
I don't know, because this figure is like someone who would be powerful enough to get God annoyed.
She's eating the prawn again.
They're starting a musical number.
All right, here we go.
Seventh day I rest, Ursula!
We talked about this one day!
It's in the book!
She made him sign the contract.
She did.
No, she's locked in.
That's true.
But first, let's get to some news here really quick.
We're going to have Pantelis on later.
We're going to have some inside baseball about the Young Turks.
We're going to be talking about AOC, how crazy she is.
What else are we going to be talking about?
Oh, Joe Biden, the rape.
So much rape.
Everyone have a good weekend?
Good Easter weekend?
Wonderful.
What did you guys do?
We had an Easter egg hunt in the front yard.
Really?
Yeah, that's a blatant violation of federal law.
We were all separated and it worked out really well.
Well, what'd you do?
We learned my wife thinks that my Asian and white family is Mexican.
Really?
Yeah, so there's like a tradition where you fill an egg and you put like confetti in it and then you find the egg and then you smash it on someone else.
She thought your family was Mexican?
No, she thought every one of us should know.
She was like, what do you mean you didn't celebrate this?
And I was like, what does we speak Cantonese and English?
So she thought you were Mexican?
No, she thought we all should have known this tradition.
She was genuinely shocked that we didn't all do the Cascarones.
So she didn't do the learning about your heritage?
Right.
She was just like, you are amazingly not good looking.
I'll be able to control you.
She saw you made partner at the firm.
She saw the name Richmond at the firm's door and said, alright, I'll let him put a ring on it.
Absolutely.
Okay, fast fact here, just so you know, we have some updates.
You're allowed, by the way, to mass panic buy at Walmart.
This is allowed right now.
Purchase all the toilet paper.
But you're not allowed to attend church.
I don't know if we have an overlay or if it's a clip here.
Oh, there you go.
In Mississippi, they've been issuing $500 tickets for people attending church.
Here's the kicker.
In cars.
By a radio.
They sat in the parking lot, in their car, and the message was broadcast on their radio, kind of like at a drive-in.
We had this in Michigan.
I'd never heard of it before, but a drive-in church.
And there was actually almost like plexiglass.
It was one of those houses that would be made by a design major, because that's the key word with millennials now is design, all the design.
You mean what it looks like?
Design, design.
It's not a new word, but it's become the word du jour, design.
Anyway, it looked like art deco, I guess you'd call it.
I'm just throwing out words that hopefully sound smart.
It was impressionist.
I don't know the difference between modern and contemporary decor, by the way.
I'm not entirely sure.
Are they not the same?
No, apparently they're not.
One looks relatively classical with a little bit of a spruced up look, and one looks like the Woody Allen house in Sleeper.
No wonder I get such bad looks at Crate and Barrel.
Yes!
That's just because they think you're Mexican.
That's true.
They're like, he's not gonna buy anything.
He wants to buy a crate so that he can steal barrels.
Yeah, why not?
Who doesn't need barrels?
Something else, by the way, well, you know, listen, you've been quiet.
I have.
Sweet!
This is something important too.
Lame jokes is what we're talking about.
I'm tired.
This has to warm up.
It's true.
We all need a minute.
I need premium fuel.
You can't just put standard, what's standard gas?
85?
87?
87.
None of us know.
89.
Gosh, this is the most... 87.
This is the least masculine morning show ever.
How much you want to bet that you send all of us out of this studio and we cannot come back until we change our oil?
I was drinking whiskey on this show last week.
That's true.
You drank Gibbon underneath the table.
on this show last week.
That's true.
OK, all right.
Thank you.
It's true.
You drank Gibbon underneath the table.
I was able to change.
Does anyone, let me know about this.
If you guys, because I have a nicer car now.
It's newer, like it's 2015, right?
But before that, I had always changed my oil.
And now, for some reason, they decided to put a lock over all the internals like it's the Hope Diamond.
And every time I try to go in, I'm like, I don't know what to do with this.
It's just a giant polymer block.
And so I don't know if I take it off.
If it's like when I steal something at a store and blue ink's going to spray on me.
So I don't change my oil.
I could change my oil on my motorcycles, on my older cars.
Now, I don't risk it.
Now you need, like, a computer to do any work on the car.
Please comment below if you want to see Steven change his own oil.
Yes!
That would be funny.
Well, I'm ashamed.
Sweden, this is something a lot of people don't touch on.
By the way, I think some people should, they would do well to look at the death per capita rates.
I think that's the number that matters the most when we're talking about coronavirus.
Here's why.
Because you can't look at the testing rates, the infection rates, because some places are testing more than others.
We've tested more overall.
Our per capita testing isn't the best yet, but it's pretty good.
It's getting there.
Now, the deaths per capita are so much better in the United States than other countries.
The top four, if we're not including Luxembourg or small countries, would be, I believe it's Italy, Spain, Belgium, France.
Here's one thing.
Just go in any off year, any off corona year, non-corona year, just go and check those out and check news stories.
You'll see everyone praising their health care as a model for us.
Now go look at the deaths per capita rate.
It's about 4.5 times our death per capita rate.
Wow.
I did not know that.
It's not even close.
And they're all in Europe.
It's funny.
They're all in Europe, but something else while we're talking about it.
Sweden.
Yeah, it's not funny at all.
I said weird!
There's nothing weird!
You can't even say it's like funny, like mildly amusing.
No!
Like odd.
Odd funny.
Let's give them some air time.
How do you justify funny COVID deaths?
Especially when we know that they are disproportionately targeting people of minority areas.
They're talking about that on CNN right now.
Oh, are they?
Let me see.
What are they talking about?
Concern over impact of COVID on African-American... Whoa!
I'm sorry.
The eyes.
It's not a race thing.
It's an eyes catfish thing.
Come on, tell me that the eyes, not the melanin, does not look like a catfish.
I like the suit.
For her, do you think they have to put the monitors on both sides?
Just to be safe.
Look at prompter.
Which one?
Which one do I?
Which one?
Wait, can you make your eyes go out?
I don't know if I can make them go out.
I don't know how to do that.
I can make one go in.
That is a skill like anything else.
That is a learned skill.
She's developed it for self-defense.
So she can see multiple, you know.
Right.
It is right in front of her.
This is the evolution.
Look at this.
Chicago Health Department.
72% of deaths in city are African-Americans.
Well, hold on a second.
How much of the city is African-American, sweetheart?
Particularly in cloistered urban areas, which we're going to get to.
And speaking of cloistered, we are in a studio right now with gremlins through all the lights.
Nothing is working properly.
Every time Gerald talks, Something happens.
Oh, yeah, see, I'm telling you, right there.
It's just God saying, no, no, no, no, no.
I need a better grand ambassador.
God is speaking through a fan, apparently.
He went from water to fan.
For some reason, like, for me, God is just surrounded by Kenmore.
Maybe if I turn this way, that one's slower.
Gerald, stop.
Sweden has had no lockdown.
Everyone said it was crazy when I said just lock down old people and the most vulnerable.
That's what they did.
By the way, people don't remember this in Korea as well.
South Korea.
Good Korea.
They did it in South Korea.
Wait, you're Chinese, correct?
Not relevant.
It's only been four years, Steve.
Only been four years.
You'll know.
I'm not going to lie.
Until this morning, I wasn't sure if he spoke Mandarin or Cantonese.
Both.
Oh, OK.
So that's why.
So any time you start to remember it, I just switch it.
And then, just to confuse you.
I say it because Bill speaks Mandarin.
Cantonese!
Cantonese, that's right.
I don't know that you should have known that, right?
I am so distracted by catfish eyes right now.
Those catfish eyes make Shep Smith look positively normal.
It looks like he has a laser stare in comparison.
Can I just make a serious point, though?
No.
Yes, yes.
This mayor, Lori Lightfoot, she's getting on there and drawing a comparison and she's going to blame the federal government, but yet she's the mayor of the city.
What are you doing?
Oh, I can't do anything.
We need to empower the government.
Okay, you want more power to go to Trump.
Well, no, but he should be doing more anyway.
So you want the president, but you don't, so your people are going to die more?
Okay, bye.
Wait, that's the mayor of Chicago?
Really?
I honestly, I don't know much about local politics.
I'm not a regional political wonk, and particularly of all the regional politics, I know the least about Chicago.
Mostly because it's just a wildly offensive city to me.
It offends the sensibilities of a civilized society.
It's very murdery.
Yes, it's very murdery.
Which, to eat whatever floats your boat.
What's funny about Chicago in comparison to Detroit, Detroit, like, they've moved out of Detroit to murder and steal in other places because there's not enough population density.
In Chicago, if you look at a lot of the violent crime, I'm sure you have the South Side, but you still have crazy muggings in tourist areas.
They're like, that's where people shop!
Let's go steal their stuff!
And sometimes it goes awry, and they hurt the people whose stuff they steal.
Chicago has never gotten it right!
No.
So you think murder is funny?
I, well, I, yes.
I do.
But here's the thing, I own it.
I don't need to be a nice guy like you.
Damn it, Steven Crowder.
I don't have to go, I don't have to go home to my wife and justify, like, he has to go home to his wife, and she'll be like, why would you say that?
I have to go home to my wife.
She'll be like, did you say that you were a fan of Murder?
It sounds like something I would say.
She'll be like, alright, what do you want for dinner?
Sounds like something I would say.
They are a perfect couple.
Do we Uber Eats?
And do you want to kill the driver?
I'm like, no, no, no, I pick my spots, no.
I pick my spots.
So let's hear them really quickly because then we have a clip that's arranged for this whole racial COVID targeting.
There's a concern about asymptomatic people actually having the virus.
So that is an ongoing conversation.
Keep in mind when they say that the concern is that a huge portion of people who get the virus have zero symptoms.
They're not affected at all.
There's a problem with that.
Well there's a problem because they can carry it to people who should be quarantined.
Obviously.
But the solution is to quarantine everybody because the virus is so not debilitating for people without pre-existing conditions.
Hold on one second.
4400 inmates and my question to you is are you preparing for a scenario if this gets a lot worse?
Hold on one second. I want to hear from you in the chat I've been hearing a lot about this because they're mad
about the for-profit prisons And I understand the for-profit prisons.
I understand the issue there and the incentivization.
But when we're talking about the epic, they're letting out prisoners, some prisoners.
Most instances, nonviolent offenders.
I understand that.
But like, are we supposed to change prison?
Are we supposed to have prison reform every time that violent offenders have to deal with an issue that's uncomfortable?
Like, we all have to deal with coronavirus.
Let's just take people who have not been a part of civilized society for years, potentially decades, let them loose and see how they fare.
And tell them they have to come back in a few months when this is all settled back down.
They have hospital care, but I am of... Here's... Listen, listen.
This is one of the perks that you no longer have when you serve life in prison.
If a virus that results in 25 asymptomatic conditions makes its way through Alcatraz, You shouldn't have mugged and killed that old lady as part of the gang initiation.
And I thought sick people were supposed to stay put.
Right.
They're under the most effective quarantine ever.
Just keep them in their cell.
Yes.
Let them in the yard.
No, don't let them in the yard.
They're going to be touching barbells and doing the body weight stuff.
And licking each other.
By the way, that's a whore.
You're a lawyer.
Why?
Why do we want to send them back into society stronger?
These violent criminals.
We're just sending them in fit.
It's fine.
It's better than just kale all the time.
Here's the thing.
Yes, if we're talking about non-violent offenders, people who just committed tax evasion or something like that, or Dinesh D'Souza with a bracelet that he has to blow into, fine.
Let him out.
As far as the rest of them, I would actually want to feed them nothing but empty carbohydrates.
And making fat slow and dumb.
And they should be the control group for chloroquine.
There we go.
How did it work on inmates?
And then we could also study how the virus affects people of different ethnicities.
You have a whole sample study there in prison.
That's crazy.
That may sound heartless, and that's only because it is.
Now, this is only applying to people who have murdered or committed violent crimes.
I am telling you, if they are serving life in prison, they've been fortunate enough to evade justice, the death penalty, COVID-19, at a certain point, I'm...
I'm out of, yeah.
I don't have any shits left to give.
I don't have any.
Search as I may, I find none.
Did you see that Michael Avenatti was released?
Really?
Do I remember that guy?
Do you know what I do for a living?
Do you know who you're talking to?
I know it's confusing because we're in a discotheque.
Hey, I'd like to host the morning show and club.
You want to drink this strange liquid.
My name is Yonko.
I like to party.
That's this whole thing.
I have a pool in my house that is both indoor and outdoor.
I start to swim indoor and I go outdoor.
You like to party.
I like Yonko.
That's actually based on a real person.
My wife and I looked at a house.
Yes!
Because it was in a gated community, which I've never wanted to do, because it makes me feel like a horrible person.
But now, unfortunately, I lied the other day.
You know about this.
I lied the other day.
A guy walked by.
I was outside.
I'm not a good liar, and I immediately feel bad about it.
And I was walking out of my house.
I was taking Betty out to go to the bathroom, and a guy walking right by my house goes, Hey!
And I said, Ah!
And he said, do you live here?
And I said, no.
I just let my dog shit on the yard.
I immediately told my wife.
And I was like, I feel bad.
She's like, no, that was a good lie.
I'm like, how is that a good lie?
I just don't want this person to know.
The lie was good.
You just executed it poorly.
Yes, I did.
That's what it was.
I should have been like, what?
This house?
This house sucks.
You've got so many accents.
You couldn't just bring one of them out.
I could have said, no, I don't live here.
Yanko's type is not welcome in this cul-de-sac because I like to party.
So we were looking at another house, and I really will eventually, at some point, come to a point, uh, regarding the COVID, uh, racism.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I looked at a house, I swear to you, it was an- you know, like, you've been to a hotel that's an indoor-outdoor pool?
Right.
So it's a gated community, but effectively, and it's like marble everywhere, it's like- it's like Ben Carson's bathroom, only the whole house.
and uh there's a bar a wet bar with i don't really know what that means i just know that it said it in the thing i don't know what a wet bar is i expected it to be wet i guess it means a bunch of liquor and then there's effectively an indoor outdoor pool but it might as well just be like half a hot tub indoors it's basically like an entry point where there's glass and you have to kind of like Drop down like Anthony Robbins with his cold plunge pool, and then go outside.
It was just so he could claim it.
And he was there!
His name wasn't Yonko.
This is to protect the innocent.
It's Douchey.
He was like, look at this!
How many places nearby have indoor-outdoor pool?
I can swim in winter, I can swim in summer, anytime!
I'm like, no!
No, you can't!
The whole pool's outside!
I like how he's asking you the realtor questions.
How many houses have any of them?
You're like, I don't know.
I feel like that's what you're here for, to tell me how many there are.
I was like, you didn't need to extrapolate on inside or outside.
You could have done it with any time, because I'd like to spend as little time speaking to you as possible.
I feel like it's an irrelevant point, too.
I'm not sure that it matters how many have this.
Nobody wants it!
It's up to him, because that's what he has.
I know.
It doesn't matter to you, but I have.
I have this.
I have indoor-outdoor pool.
I can swim summer, winter, any time.
You want Mickey?
I imagine you have quite a bit of drugs.
Okay, so let's get to the first story.
We've been seeing it now.
CNN is going on a commercial.
They're selling pocket catheters.
Great.
Good for you, CNN.
A clip here.
This is the claim you've been hearing everywhere that, of course, COVID-19 now is disproportionately affecting black Americans because racism.
It's completely unacceptable to say that because, you know, African-Americans and Latinos have all of these underlying issues, that then there's nothing that could be done now.
I worked in the medical field at the beginning of the AIDS crisis.
I remember this.
I've seen this before.
Obviously, this is different because it's much more widespread, but you need to pay attention to populations.
Someone get Oprah on the phone.
Two in three heterosexual couples will have AIDS by 1994.
She makes it sound preferential.
Does anyone feel like the lady in red kind of looks like an African-American Pulsey Gabbard?
Uh, except she's not African-American.
What is she?
We need to make sure that African Americans, when they go to the hospital, they get early
treatment.
I can just absolutely guess that what is happening is people are being sent home, they get really
sick at home, and then by the time they go back to the regular hospital, they have a
very high likelihood of dying.
Uh, except she's not African American.
She's definitely not.
What is she?
I have no idea.
Don't tolerate racism on the show.
I won't make the assumption, Bill.
But how will we categorize everyone who gets a preferential treatment?
First off, I say that because the virus is not a hoax, okay?
When people say, did you think AIDS was a hoax?
No, the AIDS epidemic was a hoax.
Correct.
And if you go back and watch the video in which I tastelessly gave my dog AIDS as part of the sketch where Hopper played Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, and people were really upset by that, Have you watched this show?
Oprah said something to the effect, I don't have the number in front of me, but it's in that video, like two out of three, or if it's one out of three heterosexual couples will have AIDS by 1993.
She was so sold on it that she made antiviral treatments a part of her Oprah's favorite things list.
What?
She just handed them out to the audience, which is a gross violation of medical malpractice.
And she's not a doctor.
Um, so she blew that out, and then at this portion, of course, similar, 2.5 million Americans minimum will die.
Well, then it's 100,000 to 240,000 once social distancing, and now it's like, well, maybe it's 60,000, and now they're saying it could be lower than that.
So it's not that the virus is a hoax at all.
We're not saying that.
It's not even that in this case, the epidemic is a hoax.
Unlike AIDS, this is an actual epidemic that can affect everybody.
It's the idea that we were sold a bill of goods on which we made actionable steps and it was the wrong information.
And now they're trying to do this to, as they said, provide preferential treatment to people based on race.
Which some could say, and by some I mean Merriam-Webster, could say is racist.
So let me be really clear about this.
Are black people getting more COVID-19?
Yeah, but do we think it's just because people- are we, like, shoving them out, like, making them walk the plank?
Like, oh!
Alright, Tyrone, get out there!
See what happens!
Just go to the end of the Crescent on this street and let a few people sneeze on you.
No.
The reason is, as we know, people in big cities.
Why is New York City so much more affected than, say, a place in, I don't know, West Texas?
Yeah.
Why same thing in a place in a rural area of Kentucky?
Why is that not as affected as San Francisco?
That's because, and we've known this, this is not something that I'm not letting the cat out of the bag, that central urban areas where people are just shoved, basically into sardine cans, Be them subways or buses or San Francisco apartments with 19 roommates.
That is more likely to spread the virus.
Now, black Americans are far more likely to live in urban areas.
Don't believe me?
Look at the lineup when a new pair of sneakers drops.
I know that some white people are out of touch with black culture, but that is not me.
They love the sneaks.
31% more likely than white Americans to live in metropolitan areas or city centers.
That's from Stanford, by the way.
We want to be really clear about that.
Here's another reason, okay?
We now know that 90% of COVID deaths, particularly, or severe infection rates, they're a byproduct of pre-existing conditions.
Yeah.
Particularly heart disease, diabetes, obesity.
This is a huge problem.
Black Americans, now we can talk about the reason why.
I know some people throw out the idea of food deserts, and I would respond with Amazon food cart for five years now.
You can get any food anywhere in the country, not amid a crisis, but any other time, and you can get it cheaper than you would purchase it locally at your bodega.
Black Americans have a significantly higher rate of diabetes and obesity.
Black men, 1.3 times to be as obese as whites, and then black women being 2.3 times more obese than white women.
They're also far more likely to have pre-existing conditions.
Heart pressure.
Uh, heart pressure.
Heart, heart, heart disease, blood pressure.
I'm sure there's heart pressure.
I'm sure.
The Grinch must have had something going on there.
How do you know four sizes that day?
There's something wrong with him.
Poor guy.
He's a cardiologist.
Who was it?
Something they say had a heart, congenital heart defect, which led to his immediate incapacitation.
And his contraction of COVID-19.
Think about that.
When his heart is growing, it's going ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom.
First of all, it's like, why is there brass surrounding his heart?
Whoever performed that operation, that's not the proper procedure for a stint.
No, not at all.
And why is there that much extra space?
Theme park surgery!
He's got a bunch of little valves and nozzles.
A little goggle.
Every time the Grinch takes Viagra, it's like the train in Dumbo, just boop!
So here we go.
They have a two times the incident rate of diabetes by midlife.
This comes from the CDC and Science Daily.
And a new paper shows that actually obesity is the single biggest determining factor right now that we have available in whether you have a severe case of COVID-19.
Meaning whether you recover from it or you end up with a hospitalization.
The stat I have is hospitalization, not death.
So that means severe symptoms.
Also, by the way, here's another reason.
So we have urban areas and then we have pre-genetic health positions.
And then, of course, this is something, if we want to talk about cultural, black Americans have a far greater distrust for people in positions of authority.
Think hands up, don't shoot.
Listen, I'm not saying that it's ill-founded for a lot of black Americans.
Over 20% more likely to distrust police and the criminal justice system.
They do not follow COVID protocols as much as white suburban Americans right now.
And I don't blame them!
Listen, people have been championing this cause.
There's systemic oppression and discrimination where they don't feel represented by their local government, including places like Chicago, even though their mayor is catfish eyes and also black.
Baltimore, where the entire city council, right, was black.
The lady in charge of it was black.
You can pick your city.
They don't trust them.
So when you say, all right, listen, Everybody stay home.
HEY!
YOU STAY HOME!
Bitch, I got stuff to do.
That's what happened.
This is a reality right now.
We have to take this into account, and not that there's some kind of genetic trait or systemic discrimination right now proactively that is forcing black Americans into coronavirus-ridden graves.
No, they distrust the system.
Rightfully so.
You guys have been saying that more so than anybody else.
Pre-existing genetic conditions, and of course the fact that they live overwhelmingly in urban areas.
That is a recipe for contracting coronavirus.
And so, rather than playing identity politics, I would like to see us educate members of different communities.
Just like, is it racist to say, hey, listen, China, no more wet markets!
Stephen, you're a racist.
Our wet markets are amazing.
It's just like wet bar!
It's just like wet bar, just a little marble and a dog!
And bat.
Sometimes we have bat on dog.
Yeah, Tufo, look, bat eating dog right now.
That's very tasty.
Oh, man.
Well, look, I think something else.
It's almost like there are other things that are impacting this number more so than is it black, white, Hispanic, whatever it may be.
What about age?
If we're going to play this card, we can have an ageism, right?
This virus is targeting people that are pretty much older.
That's correct.
No, what I'm saying is we can base all of our policy on that.
This disease is ageist.
It is ageist.
But here's the thing, in 1918 influenza was not.
It actually attacked people that were healthy and younger because their immune system overreacted to it.
The point is that it would be a much better study to look at income level and say, oh, if you're a low-income worker, you're probably not able to not have a job right now.
You've got to go out and work, which means you're much more likely to be exposed.
Right.
That's not our fault.
Right?
That's not systemic racism.
Who's the hour here, Gerald?
Well, meaning everybody's.
The society's fault.
It could be a white person that can't do it.
It could be a black person.
It could be a systemic person.
There's plenty of people.
My dad's construction company.
They're still working.
You need to pick up that hood under your desk.
Why did you put it there again?
No!
I told you!
No, I won't join.
Gerald, you actually have a really good point.
So there was a graph that came out a couple days ago.
I do?
Yes, I know.
Shocking.
That showed that depending on where you fell in an income bracket, you had maybe three to seven days earlier to start sheltering in place because of the type of job you have without an income impact.
Especially if you're a tornado chaser.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, you just... It's hard.
It's hard out there for the tornado chasers.
I just had some really bad ones yesterday, so I don't want to laugh too much.
But it's an important distinction, because ultimately, the news stories you hear about saying, oh, well, it's disproportionately affecting one race versus the other, again, ignores the other socioeconomic factors that divide us, that lead to more, right?
The obesity, the income, those other factors.
But those just aren't as sexy.
Those aren't going to foment voters.
Well, they bring them up.
If ever they bring them up, they bring them up through the prism of race.
Like, yes, it is true that black people have higher obesity rates.
Now, that's not because of systemic discrimination at this point.
I'm sorry, I was dirt poor living out of my car.
I lived on $2.50 on a luxurious day, $4.50, because I would get a Baja Fresh Burrito.
I've talked about this before.
You can eat healthily.
Now there are different, just like culturally, I don't know what you're raised with, frankly.
I don't know if it's just like, I just assume there's no flavor whatsoever, like peas and carrots or like pot roast.
We all eat different things.
That is a cultural divide.
Look, I've been obese since my parents were both unemployed when I was young, and even today.
So clearly it has nothing to do with us.
I'm pretty sure we're all obese.
I'm obese according to the chart.
We're predisposed to not be obese.
And yet, I am defying the statistics.
Fucking the curve.
Okay, you can't be extraordinary.
You're the outlier.
Look at me and my wife.
My wife happens to work in a job where she can work from home.
I don't.
We both make comparable amounts of money.
By the way, this is important.
I don't know if Gibbon can bring this up, but now there have been a lot of healthcare workers furloughed, or staff has been cut back, particularly in Florida because they were waiting for a surge, and the surge hasn't happened yet.
Now, it doesn't mean that it won't happen, but it was predicted to have already happened, right?
So it hasn't happened, and so now they're laying off a lot of health care workers, and they're upset, saying, oh, all right, guys, now it's time to get back to work.
Or there's local news.
I think we have this article, I put it, I think I tweeted it the other day, where they're asking for bailouts for local news.
They said there is no market fix to this right now, because ad revenue has plummeted, and we need, we absolutely need local news.
You were the one who said that Donald Trump was an idiot to Coal to balance the health of the economy, people's ability to make a living, and keeping people safe.
And by the way, everyone in news, everyone in journalism, they're still getting their individual checks and they're still a part of the small business loans program.
Why should you get more when you were the ones telling everybody else they should buck up and deal with a crippled economy?
Because of the high-quality content that Local News is known for.
Without their content, where would News be?
Good?
I know!
We might not all be holed up at home and we might be actually taking preventative measures that could be effective.
But you know what?
Here's more money.
I get it.
More money.
We'd actually lose like seven segments of making fun of them a month.
So we need to keep them in business.
I know.
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Speaking of media, I don't know if we had anything else to get through.
We had some inside baseball here.
Yeah, that's right.
What was the last story that I told?
Oh, it was about MSNBC.
Yes.
And I kind of left a trail of breadcrumbs.
I was like, I'm not going to use the name.
And then I used the name.
Yeah, a couple of times.
And I said, Alex Wagner.
They were like, hey, you can't use your name.
And I was like, what are you going to do?
It's out there.
What are you going to do?
They were like, sue you.
I'm like, eh, this guy.
I'm a public figure, and I'm a public figure.
So this is one you guys have asked me.
I think this question has come up quite a bit, and we've done Ask Me Anything.
The worst moment of my life, or the most embarrassing moment of my life.
So is this professional life, personal, or both?
Ooh, good question.
The personal one I'm not allowed to discuss because my wife made me swear to secrecy.
Not that it involves her, but it involves me, and she said that really will embarrass you.
Oh, okay.
Not like I committed any crime or anything.
She's just like, people will not respect you if they understand how bad you are.
Oh, really?
So, uh, that being said, this one comes from a professional.
A lot of people, and I don't know if folks out there remember, you can go watch the video where I crashed Cenk, uh, Cenk, Cenk, Cenk's, Cenk Wieger's panel at South by Southwest as Cenk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that was cringy.
Like, everyone sent me back messages saying, Ooh, this is really tough to watch.
Yeah.
Noted.
Okay?
You will not hear any disagreement from me.
You looked a lot like him though.
I mean, I'll give you that.
Well, you see me.
Yeah.
At one point I was up there and I was saying, all right.
And Ching was going, okay.
And I said, okay.
I don't know which one to shoot!
Don't shoot any of us, this is just a joke.
But I understand it would be hard to decipher.
So, I did.
I crashed Cenk Uygur's panel as Cenk.
But here's the part that you don't know.
So I will say this.
Professionally, that, and right before the U of M show, because everything went wrong with our TriCaster.
Oh yeah, I remember that.
So, this was at South by Southwest.
Okay.
And I think we can bring up some, some B-roll if people haven't seen it yet.
The, uh, can I see where, let's see, let's show the portion.
Yeah, that's where I walk in as Chank and then go up to the panel.
Oh my gosh.
It's so hard for me to watch too, because, uh, I wanted to die at that actual moment in time.
And they called security.
So right before that, keep in mind, before I walked in, yes, that guy was laughing until he went to go get security.
And keep in mind, as I was walking in beforehand, security was going, Hey, you can't.
And then one security guy opened the door.
So the other security guys are like, oh, I guess he can.
I don't know.
All right, you can cut back and forth between me and that, so that way it's not entirely that, because it looks like it was taped to the table.
Doesn't Jake look like, you know, if Mark Cuban let himself go?
A lot.
Like if there were a magic pumpkin at night that would, you know, or a, what is it, a fairy?
The magic pumpkin is what she rode to New York.
There could be some kind of a fairy magic wand who, the moment you deny the Armenian genocide, they, and you look like Mark Cuban, fast forward 50 years.
What?
Diabetic Mark Cuban.
We'll abbreviate it here, because I'm big on abbreviations.
That's reasonable, yeah.
So, the one security guard goes, Hey, hey, hey, you can't!
The other security guard opens the door, so the security... Okay, I guess so.
But that's still the end of the story.
So here's the truth of that.
This was before we were completely banned by South by Southwest.
Right.
By the way, we have ways around that.
S-X-S-W, while we're going with abbreviations.
You think you're cool.
We do have ways around it, by the way.
They're not coming back, by the way.
There will never be.
Another South by Southwest?
No.
You really don't think so?
It'll be something completely different.
Really, Charles Krauthammer?
You want to stand by that prediction?
They're going to do something different, yeah.
I say in five years there won't be another South by Southwest.
Really?
It'll just change into something completely different.
It won't make it back.
It'll be one pub crawl.
It'll just be like the 20 people keeping it alive every year.
It'll just be one crappy indie band like Deer Tick and Lena Dunham showing up to protest.
What is this?
The whole city shut down because Lena Dunham was bitching about endometriosis or something.
I don't know.
I thought we were better than this as a municipality, but... We're not.
Nope.
Nope.
Keep Austin weird.
So we're at the main hall, which is the courtyard.
And there are two courtyards in Austin.
I don't know which one.
One's a Marriott and one's a Courtyard Marriott.
Anyway, the South by Southwest was mainly held at this one courtyard.
Or Marriott.
I don't know which one.
You guys can let me know.
We still don't know which one.
I had just done the Fat Pride panel, I think, that day that you guys have also seen.
Fat Pride, some kind of free speech panel.
And then I walked past Bill Nye, of all people.
So, just to make me a little more nervous, I'm walking past Bill Nye, my wife has the whole Chank outfit, padded gut, and I think it was olive oil, could've been actual duck fat, I don't know.
And so I go into a bathroom to change into Chank wearing a uniform, because we know when this panel starts, okay, I'm gonna wait in the bathroom here, we have a very, very tight schedule, and I get in, change, gut, okay, I take about four minutes, I'm ahead of time, and I'm sitting there just like praying, because I put the olive oil on my face, the gel, alright, I'm getting in the mood.
You're anointed yourself?
All right, all right, okay, of course, it's bullshit!
You know, I'm kind of like the Mission Impossible where you just repeat some phrases to sort of get that neural engram.
So I'm sitting like, okay, all right.
Then my wife says, okay, are you about ready to go?
I say, sure.
I walk out.
So now I walk out, there's a lineup for people for some other panel, and they're looking, what is that?
Is that ch- I don't know which one to shoot!
I'm like, don't shoot anyone!
So, uh, they see me walking by, they think this is very bizarre, and I go- I start approaching the room, and I realize that whatever room it is, or ballroom, it doesn't exist, or the number doesn't exist.
Like, it doesn't make any sense.
I can't remember exactly what it was, maybe it was supposed to be room 402, and I'm like, wait, hold on a second, I'm on the fourth floor, there is no 40 anything!
It's just three!
So I'm like, oh my god, I have no idea what's going on.
I find out it's not at that Marriott that we're all of the South by Southwest panel.
It's the B room where the Young Turks and no other panels are taking place.
And it's across the river.
So I don't know if it's South Congress or South Lamar.
You know, we have to go across the bridge.
You know it better than I do.
So at this point, I'm dressed like Cenk Uygur.
I'm greasy.
Uh, I'm already into character.
You're glistening.
I'm already into character, so I will not respond to anything other than Shank.
So there's a whole bunch of confusion because my wife is there, and we have a peruser who's like, uh, Steven.
I'm like, who the hell is that guy?
You're like, stop it.
Stop what?
Stop what?
Al Jazeera doesn't stop!
So I'm pissing them off, but I also hate myself.
I have to get into a cab at this point, dressed as Jane Quigar.
The panel has already started, and I have to get into a cab.
The only one nearby, I guess because there was some sort of eco-green movement in Austin at this point, is one of those glorified golf carts that looks like it's if a glorified golf cart had sex with a Jetsons car, where it's just all plastic, plexiglass, and you can fit like nine people in it, and it has the same horsepower as an electric bird scooter.
So I walk out, my wife is there, and she's like, get in, get in, get in.
I'm like, alright, I think it's all good in, because I'm still in character.
So I get in, I am driving down, there are lines around the building, right, because there are other panels taking part for people that, you know, the events they actually want to see.
I'm like, what is that?
And I'm driving by in this fish bowl kind of, but a square, like those old commercials of the gerbils that you liked,
which almost severed our friendship.
And so I'm driving, finally, and I get there.
Turns out they were delayed.
I'm like, oh, thank God.
But they were delayed like 20 minutes.
I'm like, where do I go?
Too much of a delay.
So now I land in this effectively modern day horse buggy.
That's how fast it went.
I'm going across the bridge and I'm just sitting there outside in their, I don't want to go back to this, the gondola, what is it, pergola?
Pergola.
Gazebo, I don't know.
Gazebo.
Whatever it is, but it's outside in front of the hotel and I'm sitting there like this and every now and then I look up and maybe like, of course, Because I can't disrobe.
And so finally, someone goes into the panel to be kind of a plant.
Says, OK, they've started now.
Time to go.
Time to get in.
And so that's where I rush in.
We have the cameras.
And one security guy goes like, excuse me, excuse me.
And he gets on the escalator, because there was an escalator right up to that room.
So that room where you see, when I'm walking in, right outside that door is an escalator.
Well, he starts walking, goes, excuse me, excuse me.
And I get on the escalator.
But I swear, it was like Family Guy.
I stop on the escalator and he stops.
He doesn't continue.
I know people think that was like, that happened when I saw it on family.
I was like, that's what happened.
So he stops and I stop on the escalator.
I get up and the other security guard opens the door.
And so the security guard on the escalator who really took his sweet time,
I just see him coming over, you know, cresting like the bad guys in ET
when they're going through the tube.
And he just goes like, uh, uh, uh.
Like he assumes the other, this is what happens to a lot of like
low rent security guards.
He assumes the other guy must know something that he doesn't, but none of them knew.
I was just lying.
So then I walk in and he's talking and that's where I go, that's bullshit!
And you could see his whole face just drop like, oh no.
No.
And then I stand there, if you haven't seen this segment, where I'm like, OK, I realized in all of this hustle, I had forgotten that I need to actually have something to talk about.
And I did have a list, but I'd forgotten it.
So I just sit there.
And at this point, he goes like, the audience, no one likes you.
And there are like four people there.
There's like four people in the audience.
Which I don't like using the power of the audience.
I think it's peer pressure.
I think it's wrong.
I think it's bullying.
But the fact is, he pointed to the audience.
It was Caesar going like, chant my name!
And they're like, no, no.
It was all relatives of his.
The ones who made it.
What was your exit strategy?
Well, I didn't have one.
So I sit there.
You were there for the duration, whatever that was.
And the one guy who's laughing says, like, I'm gonna go get security.
I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go get security!
So he goes and gets security, and that's the point where I sit down.
Yeah, that's right.
He leaves, I sit down, and I just go, so, uh, You want to talk about the Armenian genocide?
And you just hear a ripple through the audience.
And then finally security, they just come up and like, you can even see them like, can you please, can you please,
can you go, like please can you leave.
They didn't tackle it. And when I walked out, you could hear them laughing.
They're like, alright, that was a dick move, but we appreciate the commitment.
I drove back to the other courtyard, went to that bathroom because I knew it was available because we still had someone standing guard, washed off the olive oil, and felt horrible about myself for the rest of the weekend.
Keep in mind, he was the one who called me out when I had like 20,000 subscribers and refused to ever engage in a debate.
This was only out of necessity.
He deserved it.
And I'm not proud of it.
And you deserve it.
Good shipping!
That's awesome.
I can't believe you stayed in character even when they were trying to figure out what to do.
That was the funniest part to me because when you dressed up as a... Joggy?
No, when you came on the show and did the entire show as Bernie Sanders.
Sorry, I just had a brain fart.
And we had a technical issue.
You said, guys, when I come in here, I'm Bernie Sanders the rest of the day.
And we had a tech issue, and you're like, oh, I'm going to leave until you guys figure out what the shit you're doing, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
You stayed in character the whole time.
Was that an accent, Gerald?
Yeah, I had two accents.
I don't know.
He was channeling me as Cenk.
I did it with Donald Trump, too.
I remember Gavin was a little worried.
He's like, wait, am I going to talk with Trotter?
I was like, listen, I don't know.
I've heard good things.
But I've also heard bad things.
And he's like, OK, but can I talk to him?
I don't think he's in the building right now.
And it's not a Daniel Day-Lewis thing.
When I'm doing characters, you're hosting a whole show, is it?
You're about to go in front of a whole group of people.
You have to stay in it.
So if I'm just doing a quick character, I don't have to do that.
I don't have to go to those extremes.
But with the Chang thing, the reason I will tell you why, it's because at that point, with all of this chaos, we were in the wrong place, and I had to get into this fishbowl.
All I could cling to was, at least I can do the best damn Cenk Uygur.
Right.
Everything else he has ever been.
Not letting that go.
Likely because no one else has thought that he has warranted an impression.
That's a lot of effort, yeah.
There's seven, maybe eight people out there who are like, man, Steven did it well.
Yeah, Steven did it well.
He did it well.
Okay, do you want some more Inside Baseball?
Please.
Yeah, of course.
What you got?
So... You tell me if I have to stop.
We run some ads on YouTube, not much, because we don't have the budget of Al Jazeera and stuff, but for a long time.
Keep in mind, again, young Turks, my name kept coming out of their mouth for years.
Come on, let's host this, let's do a debate.
And they're like, no, I thought that was cowardly.
So that's when I started doing the Cenk Uygur impression, also because I thought it was funny.
And I didn't have the budget to hire a female at the time, so I played Anna.
Sue me.
We had done that, and I found out through the grapevine that they really didn't like it.
And so that's when I said, ooh, I'll do eight more.
But what I'll do is I will do eight more with other people who are popular on YouTube.
So I did one with Alex Jones.
I did one with Ben Shapiro.
I did one with Gavin McInnes.
I don't know how many people I did them with.
And I said, hey, oh, Lauren Southern.
I said, and by the way, I am going to give this to you to put on your channel.
So I want you all to upload, and this is the title, so it was SEO.
So for a few months, when you searched Young Turks, it was just these sketches of me as St.
Greger.
And then, of course, I had the big one on my channel, and what I did was I ran it as an ad on YouTube.
This was a pre-roll ad.
It wasn't that expensive, but for me, it was basically wasted money because it was to prove a point.
I ran this as an ad exclusively as a pre-roll in front of Young Turks videos on their channel.
So for a month, you just saw that sketch When you were tuning in to TYT Live and you were part of the, what was it, Wolfpack?
I don't know.
The four of you out there who know what I'm talking about.
Alright, let's move on.
I think we have, there you go, I hope I've clarified that for you.
Let's go to AOC, speaking of people.
Hey, wait a second, wait a second.
Hey guys, put your mask on.
Brendan, Bryce.
What is this?
Bryce.
Brendan, hit Bryce.
Six feet.
Six feet.
Don't you try and duck out of frame.
Go back to that.
Bryce tried to duck out.
Yeah, that's right.
He did duck out.
Duck out.
Bryce, come on in here.
Show me your mask.
Now he's in the way.
Show me your mask, Bryce.
I want to see your face.
Come back in.
I want to see that profile with a mask.
All right, we're going to check back in.
I'll check back in.
Bryce, if we don't see you with a mask, you will be... There you go.
Okay, there we go.
There you go.
Don't get cute.
Apply it properly.
Thank you, Bryce.
Don't touch the front of it.
Yeah, don't touch the front of it.
Well, I guarantee you he has AIDS.
I mean, it's better than nothing, I guess.
AOC, speaking of unsavory characters, she's been just on a roll.
Have you been following her lately?
Yeah, she's been amazing.
I don't even understand what she's saying anymore.
AOC.
So here's one where she said that, this is a tweet, she said that Trump's xenophobic COVID response was making people too scared to go to the hospital.
What does that mean?
Does it mean that minorities are scared to go to the hospital because Donald Trump is racist?
I think what she's saying is that all of the first responders who are working their asses off in the hospitals must be so racist that now people won't go to the hospital.
And that's Trump's fault that all the doctors and nurses are racist.
That's what I drew from my comment.
Well, I guess she's just kind of like a Rorschach for insane people.
She's just a Rorschach, where it's like, what do you see in this?
Ah, I see racism from the president.
And someone else goes, no, no, I see racism from the doctors.
And someone else says, I see racism from society at large.
And then AOC says, peanuts!
And you're like, what?
Oh, OK.
Yeah, I make a little bit of reference.
What do you see?
I don't understand what this means.
I don't either.
So, there was a tweet, actually, right after this, and she explained what this means.
Like, he's xenophobic by doing these things.
And I was just like, okay, well, none of those things are scaring people away from the hospital.
And they were, like, just insane things.
Like, you know, there's a problem with how Donald Trump has been treating, you know, people that are in this country that are immigrants.
And that's one of the reasons.
And in the CARES Act, he did this.
And it was like, none of these things make any sense.
They don't make the point.
Donald Trump is just like a soccer goalie in front of Cedars-Sinai.
Like, no!
No!
Get out!
Away from Honduras!
Out of here!
Rejected!
What do they think is happening?
I know, exactly.
Well, so the funny thing, to me, funny again, damn it, I keep saying that.
The weird thing is, the only thing that's going to make people not go to the hospital is the idea that the hospital is full of people that are incredibly sick and you're going to get sick by going there, right?
If anything, Donald Trump has been accused of saying, actually it's getting better, the hospitals aren't as overcrowded as we thought and there aren't as many people needed.
That's the only thing that I can think of that would make sense and she didn't say anything like Well, since none of us can interpret that, we need an AOC interpreter.
It's like tongues, which we'll talk about in Mass Monday later today, addressing Rhett and Link.
It's only a gift, a spiritual gift, if someone is there to interpret it.
AOC is only a comedic gift if someone can make sense of her batshit crazy tweets.
And unfortunately, that is beyond the scope of my ability.
Here's another one.
She said that the U.S.
has lost... I think we have a clip.
The U.S.
has lost the right to call ourselves a humane society.
Clip B.
They are deaths of incompetence.
They are deaths of science denial.
They are deaths of inequality.
And so it's important for us to acknowledge how unnecessary the level of crisis that we are at right now that is due to the incompetence of this administration, that is due to the lack of responsiveness of this administration, and when it comes to the particular cruelty to undocumented immigrants.
What?
So she would like an equal number of all races to die?
Yeah, I guess.
Spread it out, please.
Could you imagine her at the lifeboats on the Titanic?
She'd be like, hold on.
Wait a second.
Why am I doing this?
Wait a second.
Are you gender non-binary?
Okay, this one.
No one else can go into that boat because she needs her space.
There's like 19 spaces.
You would say that!
No, it actually is.
Like actually physically.
There are physically 19 spaces there AOC.
That's what we're trying to communicate.
I don't know what this means.
And this is what happens when you have, and I know there's this Trump derangement syndrome we've talked about, but also just you immediately try to politicize everything.
Keep in mind that illegal immigrants can still go to the emergency room.
Yeah.
They do all the time.
That's also why the American taxpayers are pissed because they have to foot the bill.
They go there and then, like a fart in the wind, they disappear.
There's no social security number.
What do you do with it?
This is one thing people don't think about.
Like obviously you can't go to a doctor where you have to prove insurance and all that stuff preemptively, but in the emergency room they don't deny you.
Right.
Right?
So that would change the John Cuthel.
I'm not gonna bury my son!
No, you're not.
It's a guy named Jorge who's gonna take his spot.
So, it is remarkable to me that she's like, what does she think is going to happen at this point?
Well, at the very beginning of what she said, she said Donald Trump is responsible and then she pivoted to all of his administration and started naming different departments and tried to lump them all together because Donald Trump has actually had a pretty good response to this and people are, you know, pretty much approve of how he's doing so far, a majority do.
And so she couldn't label just him, so she said, everybody else is doing a really bad job.
And what she didn't take into account is she's saying, oh, well, New York has a lot of cases, and we're having a really big problem with this.
Well, you have a mayor, you also have a governor of your state that really could have helped you guys out.
And you also have you!
Yeah, exactly.
You could have done a better job.
And here's another thing.
You guys have a significant number of cases because outside of Asia, you have the largest population of Chinese people in the world.
Right.
Right.
And so there's much higher likelihood that people are traveling back and forth to those countries and could have brought it there.
It's not because of systemic racism.
You're overcrowded, you have a lot of Chinese people there, and you have a governor and a mayor who don't do anything.
That's the problem, not Donald Trump.
I was going to say a lot of Italians, but... They get blamed for many things, not this.
They also flagrantly disregard the home-in-place... What is it?
Home-in-place order?
Shelter-in-place.
I got you shelter-in-place right here!
Oh, I do have corona.
Wow, that's painful.
I have overall body tenderness of my glands.
I'm gonna stop being a loudmouth goomba and go on over to the ICU.
Hey, doc, I said you got your stay in place right here.
My balls hurt.
That's corona?
That's not corona, is it?
The doc's like, that's a good line.
That's a good line, Tony.
But I'm sorry, I'm afraid you have testicular cancer.
Yeah!
Runs in the family.
The family!
Really?
Hold on, Doc.
Hold on.
Can you make one?
I got testicular cancer.
Are you breaking my balls?
All right, let me make a phone call.
Hold on.
All right.
Hey, Ma!
Ma!
Yeah, I got it.
It's my testes, Ma.
No, put the dinner, just let it sit in the oven.
I'll be back for it.
What's the treatment, Doc?
What are we talking about, two, three hours?
Four months, Ma!
And then of course as he mentioned, a nine hour film about it.
I do wonder is how would it feel to be white?
Italian?
No, no, no.
Like, I mean, no.
Loud.
I don't care about that.
How would it feel to be a person who is not a minority in AOC's district?
Right?
Like, every day you're told, your existence is why your neighbors are suffering, and if you would just sacrifice yourself on the altar of white privilege, then everyone else could live a good life, and then you forget, oh, I don't know, it's like white people could also have poverty levels.
White people can also require ventilators.
And require ventilators.
And need leadership.
But, you know, God forbid.
Well, that's the thing.
She wants to guilt people into not taking proper care of themselves.
It could be some old white guy there with, you know, diabetes and a ventilator.
He sees her speech, he's like, turns to the black guy, you want this?
And the black guy doesn't have COVID, he's like, let me get some of that.
Let me get some of that.
It is nice.
Very nice.
I am thinking more clearly.
I'm setting much better now.
Your oxygen?
Man!
He's making one big loud beep.
I don't know what that is but it sounds bad.
It's continuous.
You know how before it was going like beep?
No, I'm not doing that.
There's no between.
It's just beep.
Oh, let me put that back on.
And he gone.
That was sad.
Funny.
One more quick point about this.
I have another fast fact.
Oh, you do the fast fact.
Okay, here's another one.
This is one I do not understand.
Someone else can maybe make sense of it.
She claimed environmental racism is a pre-existing condition.
Inequality, environmental racism, these are pre-existing conditions.
What said every doctor in the world?
I think she's talking about PETA.
What said Chinese doctors?
She's talking about PETA.
Really?
PETA.
I think she was saying that if we took care of all these animals instead of people, that's why.
Oh, I thought you were talking about Pita Pit, which is a franchise like Subway, but with pitas, and I'm pretty sure that they do not follow the same guidelines.
This is not about hummus.
No, sorry, no.
I usually get it with the alfalfa sprouts, and then you realize it smells like asparagus pea.
Okay, so environmental racism, Steven, is when you have like trucking and stuff that goes through your neighborhood, and so you have a higher...
Smog and all that.
That's what she said.
All we do is put these things through poor areas.
And I'm sure there's been instances where that has happened, but a lot of the times it just kind of, things kind of form around it.
There's a highway and so the land is cheap and so people with very little money buy that.
No, no, no.
It's the foreman.
He's like, oh, look, black people over here are going to run the trucks right through there.
That's right.
I mean, I know the idea is like if they have, if they have mines in those towns, if they have sort of energy plants, they call that environmental racism that affects people in low income areas.
She said it through the Bronx.
to so no mining going on in the Bronx that I know of.
Just a few bombed out crack houses in the stadium.
There's other stuff that's environmentally dangerous to you.
Bullets.
Environmental discrimination.
As they refer to it in Asia just all day air day.
Right.
Which province?
All!
Any province!
Pick a province!
Yes!
They're all like, they don't care about environmental discrimination.
Well and she had a responsibility as an elected official for this area and all the other elected officials had responsibilities.
are shirking that and one of the points that I thought was particularly weird
that she brought up was that Donald Trump xenophobic going back to that that
the messages of public health concern and the whole pandemic alert and
everything weren't translated quickly enough into multiple languages to get
out to people like it was xenophobic for him to make that in English only right
and I was like hmm are they I just want to make sure are they translating I'm
not sure I'm not sure.
Swahili or something?
I probably not.
That's what I was like, isn't this a point where like, oh, hey, he's not translating to the language to my district, so I will.
Do you think someone's going to the Mexican president next to El Chapo because I imagine him like, hey man, we have a problem, man.
Oh yeah?
This right here.
We don't have any Flemish.
There's a guy from Belgium.
He's from the French side.
No, the side is Flemish.
And he say, we don't.
It can't read.
Let's open our entire economy, man.
That's not how it works.
I mean, some of the dumbest arguments.
Yes, people that speak only Chinese need to hear it in Chinese, but we can translate that on a state level.
They started it.
They're government, not the people.
Um, by the way, before we're gonna move on to the Joe Biden rape accusations,
and that's what you all want to hear about, because we'll move on from coronavirus,
Joe Biden rape, but before that, I think, I don't know if we have them ready.
Of course, keeping us abreast of all the goings-ons of Jocko Willinks,
it is time for our Jocko Correspondent.
I don't know where he is.
Oh, there he is.
Well, you know what?
Nothing like following the guidelines from Jocko by being late.
There you go.
So first off, I want to ask you, Smooth Manny, our Jocko correspondent.
Point that gun away from me.
Do you take extreme ownership over your lateness?
I do.
Yeah.
And your hair is also wet, so I imagine there was a rushed shower.
It was.
You weren't up at 434 this morning, were you?
I have to be honest.
I was late.
I was up at 4.45.
That's called a humble brag and a lie.
You weren't up at 4.45 so you had to take a shower three minutes ago.
Smooth Manny, every time you don't wake up at 4.30, Jocko eats a puppy.
That's true.
And, you know, the terrorists win.
That's the main thing.
They definitely win.
I don't think he'd be none too happy, by the way, of you lying right now, but it's okay.
We're going to have, by the way, our Jocko correspondent at the end of the month do a Jocko roast, I believe.
We'll write the material, but you will have to read it as per your contractual obligation.
So, Jocko correspondent, Smooth Manny.
For people who don't know, I've never met a bigger Jocko fan.
Frankly, I would write his letter of recommendation to go work for Jocko, because I think it would be happier.
Though, we all know, extreme ownership, not extreme pay.
So, you've been following him.
What has Jocko been up to recently?
First of all, before we continue, we should check in with Jocko just to make sure that he is indeed getting after it.
I believe we have an order of Jocko indeed getting after it.
We have an order of Jocko indeed getting after it.
So for 14, you said 444 is when you got out?
445.
445.
So for 13 minutes, was it 13?
I didn't see that.
That was 31?
I don't know.
I can't do math because it wasn't included.
Jocko didn't have a chapter on that.
He didn't.
Either way, he got ahead of you and you can't make up that gap.
No, I can't.
So you've been getting after it.
Yes.
So what has he, again, it's always, see last time I thought I was prepared and then when
I left I was like, oh man, I forgot to mention all these other stuff the chakras
Okay, well mention it.
What is he not doing?
Right.
So first thing, he's got two more podcasts.
Really?
And we got overlays, we got the Way of the Warrior Kid podcast, that is for if you're a parent and you don't want, you know, You don't want your kid to listen to Jocko podcast because it's a little bit heavy, but you don't want your kid to be, you know, weak and pathetic.
Right.
Way of the Warrior Kid is the way to go.
So he has two more podcasts.
Way of the Warrior Kid is for kids, and also the grounded podcast, that is Jiu Jitsu.
Okay, so two more, and he produces all this himself.
So he's like the Oprah Winfrey for Dudley Do-Right Look-A-Likes.
That is correct.
I just pick references that I know you won't possibly be able to catch because of his upbringing in Colombia.
If I were to reference Shakira's B-sides, he'd be like, you shut your filthy mouth.
I have full faith in what you're saying, so you are correct.
Well, you shouldn't.
It's a bad plan.
But you should take extreme ownership over what I say, in case Jaco's watching.
You have some questions there, Audio Wade, about Jaco, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I think he does have something else going on, right?
The Echelon Front?
Yeah, tell us about that.
Correct.
So that's the other thing.
Obviously, because of quarantine, these are his leadership base.
I mean, it's a leadership company.
Since you can't meet with people right now, they have online training.
Oh, wow.
So sign up online.
It's $34.99 to sign up and then $12.99 every month after.
And you get a full leadership training by the Echelon Front.
Okay.
I will be sure to schedule that after the virus is over, because then I can cancel it without financial penalty.
What else?
Brief us on everything else going on with Giacomo.
Before I brief you on the last thing, I did do some research.
It's not bat news, but it is news.
Bat news?
Are you saying bat news?
Well, because this is the one season of American history where both could be relevant.
No, no, just with a D.
Bad.
So, sleep deprivation drops your melatonin.
Melatonin does cure hair loss.
And we have exhibit A of the effects of sleep deprivation and waking up early.
Let me see this.
Do we have it?
I think I can guess where it's going.
I don't think he's going to like it.
But I think I can guess where it's going.
And I don't think he's going to like it.
Do we have it?
No? Do we have it?
Yeah.
Oh!
Wow!
Wow, that first picture, that's a Hollister ad.
You should still get after it, but you should know about the effects.
I don't think that Jocko is bald, though.
I think he just shaved.
Is he bald?
Yeah, I think he just shaved.
I think he probably committed to the bald.
I don't know.
See, what none of you realize is that he wakes up at 4.33, goes back to bed at 5.33, and just sleeps until the next day.
That's why he's got all the hair.
But unfortunately, sleep does not reverse male pattern cleftness.
So listen, let's be honest.
He has a head that pulls it off.
I can tease, but I would just look like a cancer patient.
So that was just my personal research.
That's not the last.
The last thing is they do have a new mask.
See, I have the Old Matt.
You have the 1.0.
They have a 2.0?
Yep.
Look at that!
Delta!
From Origin, Maine.
It's made from denim.
Why?
I don't know.
I trust it.
Hopefully not the butt.
I would imagine that's bad for condensation.
Because even though I've set all my swimming records in denim, it's not ideal.
I was able to counterbalance it by sheer athletic ability.
That's amazing.
But, you know, the moisture.
Well, I saw this being spread on the interwebs, and apparently Dr. Anthony Fauci tried on the Delta new mask.
Really?
Yes, he did.
Oh, look at that!
And I believe that is an accurate quote.
That is not a quote at all.
We do not want to be legally liable.
You know what, I think the Jocko will be very disappointed in you, but we'll keep having you back because there aren't many people who can come live in studio.
Alright, Smooth Manny, this has been our Jocko correspondent.
Thanks for keeping us updated.
I wish I loved anything as much as Jacko loves convincing everyone that he's Macho.
Ah!
He doesn't need to convince anyone, he just is.
That guy oozes testosterone.
So, another story that I guess we should get to here is not coronavirus related.
Have you guys been following Joe Biden?
I saw this last night, actually.
By this you mean that he raped people.
Yeah, what are you talking about, Gerald?
Have you been following the story of Joe Biden raping people?
I have.
What about you?
Question of the day.
Have you read and or heard about Joe Biden's long-standing history of raping people I want to know. So here's something that's
really interesting to me is the New York Times they deleted tweets after this outcry
over the framing of this sort of report on an allegation against Joe Biden and here's the thing they
removed they edited the article the New York Times we can bring that back up removing any
references to past sexual assaults right which were originally included. Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
This is what's crazy, is they were writing this up to try and say, well, hold on, there's
Yeah.
no credibility here, we don't know if there's anything true, and then they went back and
retroactively removed all the references to the sexual assaults, which of course have
been referenced beforehand, and are no surprise to anyone who's ever seen, just gone into
any website that stores gifts and type in Joe Biden, you're like, oh, rape!
It's almost a constant.
Yeah.
It's like the through line of the Joe Biden.
You shouldn't be surprised at this point.
You really shouldn't.
And then here's another one about the New York Times.
So you know his accusers come forward.
Tara, Tara Reid, not to be confused with the other Tara Reid.
Not the midriff lady.
She commits the sexual assault often, not Tara Reid.
She does.
That's because she can't be held liable because it's the drugs.
So Tara Reade, R-E-A-D, like Duane Reade for those who are New York City pharmacy enthusiasts.
That's me.
Oh my gosh.
It's a genre of people.
The small, small segment.
The New York Times clarified that she could be imprisoned for filing a police report if she was lying.
Ms.
Reed said she filed the report to give herself an additional degree of safety from potential threats.
And then it just says, filing a false police report may be punishable by a fine and imprisonment.
He's the guy we're stuck with at the DNC.
Can you hear the intonation of my voice?
What if she was raped?
That's absolutely an appeal to fear.
She's doing more right now than the Kavanaugh accusers.
She's actually taking the steps and trying to go through the proper legal channels.
I'm sure that they actually said to Blasey Ford, like you said, that she could also be In trouble if she filed a false report.
I'm sure we'll find that New York Times story with it right after she filed a police report.
Christine Blasey Ford, are you sure that you weren't dressed like Tara Reade, Circa Josie and the Pussycats and perhaps asking for it?
You could go to fashion prison!
Oh my gosh.
It really does not take these people long to contradict themselves with all of these stories.
I mean, we knew this was going to happen.
It had happened before, and it took, what, five minutes for them to go, well, but it's Joe Biden.
He's the only one left.
You know what I appreciated most about it?
That he, well, I don't even want to make my joke.
Watch.
I realized it was going to be about a joke.
It was going to be a Joe Biden is a creepy rapist joke, but then I realized in my head that it could come out as though I was a supporter of creepy rape joke.
There are very few times that you stop yourself mid-swing.
I'll tell you after air.
So is the speech open?
I mean, thank you, I didn't say that.
Seriously, it was so bad.
Go.
Is how openly biased the New York Times is.
I just love how it pulls back the curtain on them, right?
The way that they reported Brett Kavanaugh, regardless of how you feel about the facts,
right?
It's all about how you present the story.
And they presented it one way, which is believe it all, believe it all, believe it all.
Don't look into it.
Don't test it.
Believe it.
Right.
Oh, they're bringing it up right now.
Yeah.
When it comes the other way.
Keep that up.
Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken party may seem like harmless fun, but when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn't belong at Yale in the first place.
Oh my gosh.
Actually, it turns out it was her transcripts.
Yes.
They said, oh, wait, you're Deborah Ramirez.
No, no, we were looking for Debbie Hernandez.
We read the wrong transcript.
Man.
There's nothing new with Brett Kavanaugh's penis in my face?
No.
Well, that didn't happen.
No.
Oh.
And no mention of the penalties for filing a false plea.
Right.
Filing a false plea.
That one was way more graphic, too.
You know, we'll keep looking for that.
I'm sure they included it.
I know that they would.
Oh, please.
And by the way, I'm not saying that I immediately believed Tara Reid.
No, of course not.
But let me change it, OK?
Let me change the context.
Believe all women.
Right now I believe in due process, I believe in justice.
And so in this case I think that if Tara Reade is coming out, obviously she needs to prove
it, she's filed a police report, that's the right step.
I don't think she should be condemned for filing a police report if she has evidence.
However, if someone came out and said, Joe Biden didn't rape me, but he did commit what
I consider sexual assault.
Now, by the standards of, if a man ever makes you feel sexually uncomfortable and you've asked him to stop, and he doesn't, it's sexual assault.
And the woman says, I believe that Joe Biden has committed sexual assault against me, New York Times.
They say, what did he do?
She says, well, he sniffed me repeatedly when I was 12.
And they said, do you have any proof?
Go to giphy.com and just search Joe Biden.
And there's exhibit A, B, C, D. There's also a video where I have a hot mic.
They're like, don't do that.
And he says, come on, don't spoil it.
So in other words, there's far more proof of Joe Biden sexually assaulting or at least treating women in a way that would make them uncomfortable than we have ever had of Brett Kavanaugh.
I'm not saying that any of that should be rape.
And I don't think that Brett Kavanaugh committed any rape because most of the women, Christine Blasey Ford notwithstanding, Retract it and say, ah, probably didn't happen.
And then there was no corroboration for Christine Blasey Ford.
And that may end up being the same thing with Tara Reade.
But there's, look at that, right there.
So in other words, if that woman comes forward.
You ain't lying.
Yeah, right here, just go there.
Giphy.com, yeah.
Any one of those women could come forward and say sexual assault, not rape, and there would be more proof than any sexual misconduct or any unbecoming conduct that Brett Kavanaugh had ever committed.
I don't even know how with a straight... Fair?
Does anyone disagree?
I agree a hundred percent, but I don't know how with a straight face with all of that evidence that you, in the media, you just go, well that's different.
Yeah.
How do you, I mean really, how do you have any integrity at all?
Could you imagine if during the trial someone rolled out, like the old VHS TV like you had in grade school, and it was just like, Your Honor, we don't have proof, or, well I guess I don't know exactly what it was.
Did they do a trial, or was it just a Senate hearing?
It was a Senate hearing.
Yeah, it was a Senate hearing.
They go, alright, ladies and gentlemen, Of the chamber of places.
I forget the formalities that they have to use.
Of the Senate.
Senators.
Z's.
Hello.
What I'm about to show you is not proof positive of Christine Blasey's accusations, which have yet to be corroborated, of gang rape.
But I do believe that it is proof of sexual misconduct on Brett Kavanaugh's part, which should be taken into account.
And they click play and it's just Brett Kavanaugh with a young girl and he's just going... That would have been played on CNN on a loop like a morphine drip!
Non-stop.
Let alone if you had a biker chick in his lap.
They'd have quad boxes talking about it, analyzing it.
People would say, we don't have any proof, but this is enough that he's a creep.
Or the guy gets close to one girl, I can't remember, and the girl goes away from him.
Yeah, they clearly don't like him.
Oh my gosh, it's just the weirdest thing.
Yeah, and I don't know that it makes Joe Biden a rapist.
I don't know that he committed this.
But I do think he's the kind of guy who doesn't respect appropriate boundaries.
And in the era of the MeToo movement, look at that.
Look at that.
Look, she's literally like, no, no, no.
Look at that.
And his hand on her arm.
Yeah, look.
She's pulling a Sugar Ray Leonard.
She's bobbing and weaving.
She's like, oh, oh, filly roll.
I don't like that shit.
Let me go.
Come on back.
And then he's like, oh, he's going in.
You know, he's flicking that jab with his tongue out.
They're like, bleh, bleh, bleh.
There you go.
Yikes.
I got my Mortal Kombat face mask characters confused.
This is the guy you guys want?
So I will tell you, I don't think he's a racist.
No, I don't either.
But if they're gonna set the standard, they have to play by it.
Yes.
And they set the standard, we beat it, now they have to play by it.
Yep.
That's all I'm saying.
What do you think as a lawyer?
I think that Joe has not raped anyone.
I do think he's super creepy.
And if you support Joe for president, you support allowing him to sniff all of your children.
He is president.
He gets to do that.
It's in his contract.
It is in his contract.
Do you know how many children he's gonna see?
Yes!
Could you imagine if on 9-11 it was Joe Biden in that kindergarten?
Shaking hands, kissing babies.
Mr. President, we need to talk to you.
He would be pushing the agents away saying, no, no, no, I just got a few more to smell.
Emergency?
Okay, just two more.
Just two more.
He would say, it's fine.
I need four more minutes to smell the kids and wait.
Oh, this is a scratch and sniff.
I need eight minutes.
I need eight minutes.
I have to finish this.
There's a Dexter's Lab scratch and sniff.
I'm willing to bet that Deedee is scrumptious.
I had a Dexter's Lab scratch.
It seemed like an odd reference to pull out.
It did.
Yeah, it is.
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And before we come back to read your best chats, it is time for actually a great friend of the show.
Canada's on lockdown.
They're giving out fines right now.
They're very severe.
Pantelis is our favorite Greek.
And right now, what is Pantelis talking about this week?
Joe Biden.
Oh, that's right.
He has a story about Joe Biden.
Now it's time for Pantelis, the Greek tells stories.
Look, I'm not a scientist, so I don't know what we need to fight the coronavirus, but I'll tell you what we want.
More Joe Biden coronavirus updates.
That's what we want.
We want this guy coughing and touching his face, possibly arguing with a bath towel in the distance, dropping the n-bomb.
We need this guy giving us all our coronavirus updates, all right?
It's the most entertaining thing ever.
We need Joe, but perhaps maybe a nine-year-old.
Put a nine-year-old close to him, like a cute nine-year-old, not a disheveled one, and let him go.
See where that takes us.
Joe Biden, 2020.
That shouldn't be included on this show.
I'm so glad that my half-Asian lawyer couldn't be less interested.
He was reading something on his phone and missed that entire segment.
Thank you.
It's good.
Don't go back and watch it.
Can I ask you one quick thing?
When you guys did the intro Thursday— With you, it's never quick.
It's never quick, that's right.
The intro Thursday, I can't get it out of my head.
What intro Thursday?
The intro Thursday, when you get sick because you live in New York City.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amazingly well done.
Thank you.
That was fantastic, but I can't get it out of my head.
I've never heard Gerald compliment anything on this show.
He compliments everything.
It is strange.
I just kept singing it for hours and then I was confused if that was Wade who sang it or not.
You two have a weird love-hate relationship that we need to work out.
Look, I'm gonna tell you right now, it's just because I'm jealous of Gerald's square jaw.
He does have a square jaw.
Look at my moose face.
Yeah, but you have the hairline of a chimpanzee.
You do.
So you give and take.
You will never go bald.
I don't think you'll ever go bald.
You'll be one of those Asians with just... Look at how long it is.
It's luscious.
It really is.
Unfortunately, when you cut your hair short, it just spikes out.
Oh, it is.
It does.
But then I look like a baby chimpanzee.
Right.
Oh, there we go.
They're much cuter.
Yeah.
Adorable.
Yeah.
Like one of those where it's riding the mom like a backpack.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Just don't start throwing your feces, okay?
Too late.
He more so throws his verbal feces and you catch it.
He does.
Right on the punim.
All right.
We do have to get going tonight.
We're going to do a Mass Monday addressing Rhett and Link, and the idea is, is there a biblical basis to be brand-friendly and to want to be popular with the cool crowd, or any crowd, really?
Is that a biblical principle, to be polite and to be brand-friendly?
We'll talk about that.
We love Rhett and Link.
The producer can leave her, but I love her, too.
Her words, I mean.
That'll be tonight, and of course, again, Wednesday morning.
We'll be back with Good Morning Mug Club.
Now it's time for your best chats.
Let's hear them.
Yeah, so we have this from Nash Z. It says it's for Quarter Black Garrett, but we can all probably weigh in.
Do you think that Pelosi looks like Emperor Palpatine?
Yes.
Oh, a nerd question.
Yes or no question.
That is a nerd question.
That is a yes.
Really?
How so?
Oh, it's all the wrinkly skin.
She has kind of like this, like a... She is his mother.
Of course they look alike.
She's the pre-Palpatine.
She's the pre-Palpatine.
What kind of question is that?
Of course the son looks like the mom.
And in San Francisco there will be shitting in the street.
Where are your wet wipes now?
Why is every revelation in Star Wars that two people are related?
That's true.
Whoa!
Plot twist!
Someone had sex with someone!
Turns out they all just live on a compound together.
They're all in a mental institution.
That's a fair question.
You find it interesting?
Next one is from Andrew.
What do you think some of the permanent fallout slash changes will be from this?
I'm assuming he's talking about COVID.
I'm assuming he's talking about COVID.
I don't know.
He could have been talking about Oblizy Palpatine.
Maybe he's joking.
I doubt there's a lot of concern about the Palpatine revelation.
He sent that in really quickly.
Yeah, super topical question.
I will say, though, actually, I've spoken with some economists, actually some of them sort of through the grapevine, one of whom is a good friend of Dr. Choi, and they say that long-term, because the fundamentals were so sound here in the United States, and because we'll probably also bring some more manufacturing back, but not before.
If we had tried to do this before, it would just be, should be made in America, and we
wouldn't have actually taken into account what we need to do as far as international
trade agreements to make sure that we can be competitive and it's not an even playing
field, in which case you just end up with unionized American workers, and it's more
expensive for, frankly, crappier merchandise a lot of the time.
And we are looking into American manufacturers for mugs.
Some people have reached out, but beforehand they chipped.
They couldn't actually be hand-etched.
They weren't good quality.
So, uh, we have Americans hand-paint, hand-etch these mugs, but they do, uh, come from China.
We're looking for a place in the United States, and we're looking through a few brands.
That being said, I do think that since the fundamentals were sound, we are probably going to move forward.
There was required – we all said one foot in, one foot out of sort of the big tech boom
after this in the sense that like there's pretty clearly an economy pre-industrial revolution,
post-industrial revolution.
If you go before that sort of pre-agricultural revolution where you had sort of like nomadic
and agrarian societies and you see how that changed once we crossed over.
And we haven't always found the best way to balance and this is where sort of Tucker
Carlson's populism appeals to a lot of Americans whereas the more wonky libertarian like the
the Thomas Sowell's of the world see automation as something that frees up Americans to do
But at a certain point, there almost can be no jobs left.
So it will be interesting after this, I think everyone is going to do a gut check, say, how can we actually strengthen the American economy?
Look at supporting our American workers first.
And what do we do to ensure that automation and technology serves the best interests of the American people at large, rather than hampering them?
And I think the natural cycle would do that, where technology ultimately is a boon.
But I do think that people weren't necessarily looking at it through that lens.
And so I think that long term, this has forced us to look back at our priorities.
And hopefully, hopefully, this shakeup will cause us to be more prepared for the kind
of entry.
Yeah.
And even even outside of the political realm, I've heard lots of folks say that they've
enjoyed homeschooling their kids, which was a surprise to them.
So there very well may be a boom in homeschooling, homeschool curriculum.
I used to think my kid was an asshole!
No, he was just parroting your teacher!
My kid used to hate my kid.
He'd come home, call me racist, say I was a tool of the patriarchy.
Now he's just like, can I have some chocolate milk?
I say, alright!
But he's also been saying some weirdly racist things, so I think maybe I am a racist?
I don't know, it's possible.
Yeah, that's a good point, too.
On the medical front, we'll actually take these things a little bit more seriously.
Like flu season, we'll wash our hands better, we'll be better about touching and bringing stuff to older people.
I think this, if nothing else, medically, has taught me not so much about COVID, but that the flu should be taken more seriously than this.
Much more seriously, yeah.
The flu is actually pretty bad.
Yeah.
My wife was talking about it.
She's like, you guys are ridiculous.
You don't wash your hands.
And cause she knows what the flu can do to you.
She sees it, you know, in work.
And so I think that'll help us out a lot.
We'll also be much better prepared for when the real thing comes.
Like when, when a 10 or 15% mortality rate virus starts spreading, we'll know what to do a lot better than we know.
No, it's not nothing.
I think the educational change is going to be big, but not just at one school.
I mean, I think even high schools and colleges about what's important, what do you need to teach.
You know, look, we've been forced to do a lot of things remotely that you wouldn't have otherwise done before.
And so I think, are the restaurants going to boom back?
It's really unfortunate.
There's a number of great businesses that are suffering and will not make it through the end of this.
And so of course that's terrible.
And I know that at the end of that though, you're going to see a boom from people who want to go out
and enjoy those things.
But you're right.
I think there's one great example, even in Texas, of a PPE manufacturer who was like, hey,
how come you're not just working 24-7?
He's like, well, I can't get anyone to sign a long-term contract.
And if I want to hire people.
And not, you know, and still have them have a job in nine months from now.
Sure.
I got to have long-term contracts.
Either it's got to be the government, it's got to be states, and instead, it's been time and time again, he's ramped up before.
Right.
And then been undersold, and then people go, nope, alright, I'm out 90 days in, and they buy from China.
Right.
And we've got to realize that there are businesses here to be protected, not because of some xenophobic hatred about China or China's economy or its products, but just because If we make it here, it's closer, it's easier.
We need to maintain our readiness.
Right.
Okay, is there any more chat?
Otherwise, I have a point to wrap up.
One more chat, and then I'll wrap up with a final point.
John K. asks a question.
In pitch meetings, who is the most likely to say no to an idea?
Steven is not an acceptable answer.
Well, no, it is an acceptable answer, because I'm most likely to say no to my own idea.
That's true.
That is true.
Like what you just heard here with the joke, that was something that in pitch meeting would have... We've all heard it, and then you... And it would have been rolling down the wall like one of those sticky toys when you're a kid.
You'd be like, oh my god!
After five seconds of silence, everybody will be like, um, moving on.
And outside of that, without a doubt, audio Wade.
For sure.
Me or him.
And then he also says no to a lot of my ideas.
I'm like, I thought I employed you!
It's for this reason.
Well, I thought you were saying two things.
Okay, we do have to get going because the stream will be cut out on Blaze TV.
We had to start a little bit late.
So I will say this, too.
Two things.
On a personal level, it's also made me very confident in the sense that when I see Trevor Noah and I see... I love David Spade, for example, but I was watching his interviews with Tiger King folks.
I think he's probably the funniest of the late night hosts out there, Conan.
And I watch a 20-minute spot and I go, there's only one funny bit here.
When you remove the 20 writers, the hundreds of production crew members, it's made me feel
really good about the fact that we can compete.
We can actually do better because it doesn't have to be hundreds of millions of dollars
in a network budget or crap with an iPhone microphone without even plugging in a USB
mic.
This is an in-between.
And in that realm, if NBC, CBS, ABC have to compete on an even playing field, they can't.
And that also makes me incredibly grateful.
I will say the big change for us is that we know, and that's why you hear us joke more
about demonetization.
We'd love to be remonetized, but you guys have stepped up and supported us so much.
And not only us, but the whole Blaze network that we know will be around.
There's a lot of anxiety that's gone from me because I know that people don't have the money out there, but you still choose to support with your dollar us, and I know a lot of you haven't yet.
We just ask that you do.
We can do this for as long as people like you out there renew your memberships or do use a promo code $30 off.
It's quarantine at ladderworthcreditor.com slash mug club.
It's made me realize we have a lot of staying power, and that is because of you and the loyal audience that we have, and you're supportive, and you still hold our feet to the fire when we're wrong.
And I appreciate that.
All right, we will see you tonight with a Mass Monday and then Wednesday again.
Again!
We go!
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