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April 22, 2020 - Louder with Crowder

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YouTube Bows to the WHO! | #11 Good Morning MugClub

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	Oh, I wasn't drinking.
	Oh no!
	Oh, no.
	How do we?
	I mean.
	Oh, jeez.
	Now we're going to lose a sponsorship.
	Good morning, everybody.
	Glad to be with you.
	Good morning, Mug Club.
	You want to toss it back?
	Yeah, I'll toss it back.
	Just don't spill it.
	Oh, nice.
	Almost broke my pipe, which is an heirloom from my grandfather.
	But you kept the sponsor.
	I'm not really bothered.
	Wow.
	My half-Asian lawyer Bill is not here today, so he's in the third chair.
	He's very paranoid about the pajama button in his crotch, so he keeps fixing his real thing.
	Oh, is he?
	Why do they have a button there?
	You look like a pile of fabric.
	How are you, sir?
	I am doing well.
	Porter Black Garrett is here.
	We have Tim from HR doing audio, of course.
	And hold on, really quickly, before we go to Fact Check the Morning News, let's see what they have on CNN real quick.
	Oh, how dare they.
	Some states to reopen despite warnings.
	From whom?
	CNN.
	From our morning opinion team.
	We don't think it's a good idea.
	We will be talking today about quite a bit.
	We'll be talking about Dr. Birx.
	We'll be talking about CNN's role in content.
	We'll be talking about the death rates.
	But first, again, the promo code is quarantine.
	This is hashtag mug club quarantine month.
	We've doubled up the content for you.
	Hopefully, let us know.
	Hopefully this has been of use to you.
	Hopefully it's acted as a salve for you.
	If not, it's a big work of time for us.
	You're crippling unemployment.
	And live chat, of course, for people who are watching live at the Blaze.
	Exclusively, Mug Club members, just list your names, since for some reason, I don't know, with all the millions of dollars developed in the platform, we can't give you a username.
	And we'll be reading some of those from you.
	Dan Crenshaw's going to be moved to Friday.
	He was supposed to be on, but he couldn't.
	He's a busy man.
	He didn't have the depth perception to hit the video call.
	The system wasn't available.
	Wow.
	He can see!
	He just can't gauge the depth.
	Right.
	Like you with color.
	Yeah.
	It's true!
	You know what?
	You and Dan Crenshaw should spend your color blind, his depth issues, but together you would be like that Kieran Culkin film, The Mighty.
	Yes!
	We're one complete person together.
	Anyone remember The Mighty?
	Nope.
	Really?
	Two disabled people?
	Yeah!
	Well, it wasn't really... I don't know if retarded is disabled.
	People out there, do you remember The Mighty?
	Do you remember The Mighty?
	You're a nerdy like me.
	The Mighty?
	No.
	It was a bully, a big bully, and I think it was Kieran Culkin.
	But not Macaulay.
	Oh, maybe it was Macaulay.
	I don't remember any... I don't know.
	But then the kid was on his shoulders.
	And so, kind of like Little Rascals, you know, in the trench coat.
	Only they lived their life that way.
	And together, They lived their whole life that way.
	And you know what?
	It wasn't as much about the physical limitations, but they also learned about themselves emotionally, spiritually, intellectually.
	I'm glad you stopped there.
	I highly recommend it.
	Actually, I don't remember it.
	If you don't watch it, kind of like when I did that with the Pagemaster, and I recommended it, and people, just the tweets were radically upset.
	I went back and watched it and said, oh, I get it.
	It's a child's movie.
	Yes.
	It's a fine film.
	Ninja Turtles 2.
	That was trash.
	That is so secretive.
	What's that ooze up to?
	You can never really tell.
	I'm never gonna say.
	What's your secret ooze?
	No.
	Why is the ooze Lena Dunham now?
	Really quickly, I want to fact check this.
	This has been going on in the morning news.
	There's been a $60 million pop-up hospital.
	People have been talking about this because it was necessary in Houston.
	It's now been sitting empty for two weeks.
	We'll probably shut down the expenses.
	Safety officers, the day rates were $2,800, $2,300, and $2,000.
	A finance section chief at $2,875 a day.
	$200, $2,300 and $2,000 a finance section chief at 2875 a day to public information officers at 2,000 a day
	Basically, you know, they were making over 2,000 a day between two and three thousand to sit in an empty
	So that CNN could berate Donald Trump for not you building enough of are you?
	I'm trying to do math in my head.
	Yeah, $2,000 a day is a lot.
	Yeah, math without the Asian wrap will prove a fruitless endeavor.
	Even on a temporary basis, that's highway robbery.
	Come on.
	And then we're going to be talking about the YouTube and all of the social media and what their new rules now.
	We've seen this with the World Health Organization.
	So my question to you, actually, out there is, I guess we haven't been doing this for the day often.
	In good morning, Michael.
	Sorry, I just saw the frickin' headline here.
	Why do you care?
	I care about Texas.
	I care what Texas does.
	Yeah, right?
	They talked about Houston earlier, overreacting.
	You don't live in Dallas.
	Well, I know I don't live in Dallas, but still, come on!
	Through May 15th, why?
	You know what?
	You know who needs to make a stand against this?
	Quick Trip.
	You're the only one who has the power to make this right.
	Don't be waiting for those 7-Eleven Johnny Quest buddies to come on in.
	They aren't doing it.
	That was a roundabout way to say haji.
	Or Racetrack, for crying out loud.
	Racetrack.
	What are they?
	Terrible.
	Exactly.
	That's all they are.
	Exactly.
	That's the essence.
	It was a soft lob.
	The essence!
	Anyone remember that reference?
	No.
	Is it from The Mighty?
	We can't have two of those.
	Another horrible children's film.
	The Mighty.
	An antonym, matter of fact, for this program.
	So what do you think about social media's role during the whole outbreak of the coronavirus?
	There is a balance, right?
	Do you think they need to shut down fake conspiracy theories where people are deliberately trying to mislead the public into selling them something, you know, some snake oil?
	I understand that.
	But are you also a little bit leery of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, the Alphabet networks here?
	I guess Alphabet is the parent company of Google.
	But they might as well be the alphabet networks.
	That's how we used to refer to ABC, NBC, CBS.
	That is ABC, NBC, CBS.
	That is Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter.
	Facebook owns Instagram.
	I don't know what Twitter owns.
	I'm amazed Twitter is still a thing.
	They're just riding around like the third wheel.
	Jack, right?
	Well, my wife and I were talking about this last night.
	That's one of the major differences with what we have now and what we had in 2009, what we had in 2003.
	And we've seen, like, every five to ten years, there is an outbreak somewhere of something like this, right?
	Maybe not the exact same thing, but what was different?
	And it's, like, the immediate access to information is so much different now.
	I still remember the, uh, the 03 outbreak of Zynga.
	Yeah.
	No.
	No, you don't.
	Bad news.
	Still feeling the havoc that was wreaked from this ripple effect.
	Of Zynga?
	Remember Zynga?
	I do!
	Or Zima.
	Just a bunch of Asians with anime and finding ways to bypass pornography filters.
	And then there was Friendster and then there was MySpace, which brought us the likes of Tia Tequila and I think Jeffree Star, so thanks for that.
	Wow.
	Tia Tequila.
	Thank you, Tom.
	He was a good friend.
	That didn't sound genuine.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You pick up.
	You pick up.
	You know what?
	Maybe if you and Wade together, you can be the mighty as it comes, like, for picking social cues.
	We can say that you're Asperger's, then Wade's gut-punching snideness.
	That's true, yeah.
	We could be a formidable opponent.
	The funny thing is, Wade is, you know this about Wade, I love audio Wade, but audio Wade sometimes, he will say the most self-esteem shatteringly brutal insult.
	And, like, he's throwing it in the trash.
	Yeah.
	He continues walking about his merry way.
	You're like, oh my god!
	But I love you guys.
	That was... What?
	You fall to your knees as he passes by.
	I can't believe you know that's a family issue!
	That caused rifts!
	I've been thinking about it for weeks.
	And you just threw it in there!
	Yeah.
	He just owns you.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	So let me know what you think.
	What is the role of social media, if at all?
	Hey, Ice-T is doing commercials.
	Let's go to this.
	Actor.
	Musician.
	Get in.
	Let me see this.
	I think it said actor, musician, actor.
	That's why.
	They get a car shield on you.
	Car shield.
	Give me that car shield.
	Only you can say this.
	This guy is right next to IEC.
	Let's bring it up a little bit louder, Tim, and bring it in quickly.
	I know what we're doing.
	Car shield helps ease the pain.
	Let's go to Thomas.
	Just talk to this guy whose car I used to jack!
	My car was jacked.
	It's true.
	Ice-T used to absolutely have no regard for my personal property.
	He right, he right.
	And now I have car shield and he does ads for me.
	He right, my bad, my bad.
	You guys see the director's chair in the background with Ice-T's name on it?
	Right?
	So you knew who it was.
	For some reason, this is something I will say, we have to move on to actual news, but you know, remember, like, please, if punk rock bands, remember if they became popular, if they even had the gall to become popular, where it's not even their fault other people like their music, they're considered sellouts.
	With rappers, that's the goal.
	Eventually, you too can sell out.
	I want to sell out.
	Like, just think about it.
	If Green Day, for example, if what's his name, Billy Joe, what?
	Billy Joe Armstrong?
	If he made a cameo in Deep Blue Sea, No one will be like, that's good, that's gonna be good for you.
	You're the chef.
	You're the chef, man.
	Hell, if Good Charlotte made a cameo.
	If Good Charlotte were doing advertising for Car Shield.
	Your career's done at that point.
	You've taken a different path.
	Commercials for the Car Shield!
	Oh wow, look, they're doing a commercial.
	It's pretty much about on par with the writing of all your other songs, Good Charlotte.
	Which one of you is the evil twin?
	I'm not entirely sure.
	I used to be able to tell by the hairdo, but now neither one of them have hair.
	Oh!
	So let's get to this.
	This was chilling.
	I don't know if you guys have watched this clip.
	I want to set this up for you.
	We did the live stream yesterday, obviously, with the Dr. Birks, who just... Wow.
	And now this is, is this from CNN, I think, this clip?
	This is Susan Wojcicki, YouTube CEO.
	While we talk about social media, and we talk about their role, I understand that they have a bias.
	We noticed this when we first started doing any of the COVID videos.
	Back then it was still called WooFlu.
	And then Coronavirus.
	And no one says Coronavirus anymore.
	They all say COVID.
	COVID, yeah.
	They've gotten lazy.
	But I've also heard people, epidemiologists, refer to it as a disease as opposed to a virus.
	I thought HIV is the virus and AIDS is a disease.
	Like HIV is Magic Johnson and AIDS is Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.
	Right.
	And then I don't know if there was somewhere in between, Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club, I have no idea.
	I don't know the progression, but I know there's a difference between a virus and a disease.
	So I will tell you this, I'm not a pedi-nologist, but I believe it's a virus.
	But this was Susan Wojcicki talking about their approach here at Google and YouTube, and what's really scary here is what she flat-out... See if you can spot what she flat-out declares to be a violation of policy, which will directly affect... Let's go.
	So we talk about that as raising authoritative information.
	But then we also talk about removing information that is problematic.
	Of course anything that is medically unsubstantiated.
	So people saying like, take vitamin C.
	Take turmeric, those will cure you.
	Those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy.
	Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy, and so remove is another really important part of our policy.
	So you're not just putting the truth next to the lie.
	You're taking the lie down.
	That's a pretty aggressive approach.
	Yeah, I suppose if Brian Stelter wanted to go down on the lie, he was a former wrestler, stage name.
	No, I was just I was just thinking like our audience usually seeing one of those in a video is enough for poison.
	Yeah We do apologize.
	Yes, and you were saying Brian Stelter.
	He's what he's his age.
	Yeah, Brian Stelter I totally forgot about this.
	Yes, Brian Stelter is two years older than you.
	I totally forgot about this. Yes, Brian Stelter is two years older than you. Wow. What? Yeah. Yeah, Susan Wojcicki
	Wow.
	is four years younger Oh, it's all that all that poddling essence
	Just her I think I think if you're dumb enough to believe that vitamin C will cure you of a disease by this point
	like Here's the truth, though.
	There actually is some intravenous vitamin C that is effective against a lot of viruses at high doses, not taking air.
	It's not going to cure anything.
	This is one thing I'll say.
	I've had to have conversations off air with Dr. Choi and other medical experts.
	You guys all know this.
	We all have a protocol that we're taking here based on the recommendation of a doctor where he said this is a good preventative measure to take.
	Cigars.
	There's no guarantee.
	No.
	But I can't talk about it on air.
	Because if I tell you what we're taking, We will be considered spreading fake news.
	And it's not a cure, but it is a preventative measure that they're studying right now that has been showing a lot of promise.
	We each take three pills a day here that are supplements that are lab tested.
	We get from a certified lab.
	Can't tell ya!
	So, good luck!
	That and the cigar.
	At least they clean their stuff very frequently.
	At Quick Trip.
	You need me!
	Quick Trip!
	Quick Trip!
	I will spend all my days there.
	Can you guys please do this so I can stop hearing this?
	Please sponsor the show.
	If they sponsor, we're going to hear it every day.
	So she said, you see, anything that goes against the World Health Organization will be removed.
	Really?
	I heard a collective uh-oh from Taiwan.
	Uh-oh, that's not good.
	You mean like they're trying to remove us from the history books?
	This is the thing.
	People, they want to sound nice.
	We're a World Health Organization.
	But go back to our videos that we've done on this.
	They don't recognize Taiwan at all.
	And that wouldn't be so sinister.
	For example, let's say they didn't recognize Palestine as a country because, of course, it's not a country and it never has been and the rest of the Arab world didn't want them.
	They said, you go over there.
	And the Jews were like, how about us?
	And they're like, no, no, we want it back.
	Anyway, the point is, That was a nice little play.
	The point is Taiwan, the reason that Taiwan is Taiwan is because of gross abuses of human rights.
	When they talk about, you know, you see like Hotel Rwanda with the second guy from Iron Man 2.
	The one who got a job because Terrence Howard asked for too much money.
	That guy.
	He was in Hotel Rwanda.
	People talk about Darfur.
	They talk about all these humanitarian crises abroad.
	I am more convinced now that when they don't have a dog in the fight, that's when liberals, that's when the left feigns outrage.
	Because right here, this is right at our doorstep, World Health Organization, they have the opportunity to take a stand and say, hold on a second, you refuse to even acknowledge that Taiwan exists.
	Your representative hung up on a Skype call when asked about Taiwan.
	And it matters because why?
	Let's say someone in Taiwan, let's say a government official from Taiwan released a video that was equivalent to the emails that they sent to the World Health Organization, I believe in December, if I'm not mistaken, I don't have this in front of me, December, yeah, December.
	They sent them emails to the World Health Organization saying, hey, hey, hey, you know how you're saying that coronavirus can't be transmitted from human to human contact?
	We have studies right here, we have verifiable data that proves that's not true.
	They ignored it, World Health Organization.
	They did not incorporate it.
	Imagine if Taiwan created a YouTube video saying, hey, just so you know, the World Health Organization is wrong.
	It can be transferred from human to human contact.
	This broad, Susan Wojcicki, would remove it because of her political motivation.
	That is terrifying.
	Well, and they become the arbiters of truth.
	Who do you trust?
	Do you trust an organization like the WHO who's now being looked at to be defunded by the United States because they coddled up next to China in the face of overwhelming evidence that they should have been a little bit more critical of how they were approaching the disease?
	I think you said coddled up.
	They coddled China.
	They canoodled up to China.
	They canoodled up to China and then they were arrested by a policeman for not distancing.
	That was a reasonable response, but Susan Wojcicki and their crew now get to tell you what information is real and what is not.
	And I'm sorry, but I like free speech.
	I like the ability to go through.
	I hate stuff that's fake on YouTube and other places.
	I get it.
	Of course.
	Everybody does.
	Can we all just agree on that?
	Of course.
	I still want the opportunity to see it, because you guys would be saying that it's fake, the stuff that Taiwan was saying.
	Just to your point.
	Well, they've said that our stuff is fake, when our stuff is actually correct.
	When we talked about the World Health Organization.
	By the way, you want to talk about identity politics?
	The head of the World Health Organization said that it was racist for Taiwan to criticize him.
	Huh?
	Well, the left has made it clear that they will just listen to somebody because they have some kind of authoritative name, or China is claiming some amount of authority for themselves, and so they'll listen to them.
	The WHO claims the World Health Organization as their name, and the left will go, oh, okay.
	And the people on the right tend to have at least some part of them that goes, I don't know.
	I don't know about that.
	There seems to be a direct correlation with the left and credibility with a given spokesperson with vowels, the number of vowels in your last name.
	Also melanin.
	Sure.
	These are big determining factors.
	So let me get this straight.
	Taiwan puts out a report that could have helped the entire world, the WHO ignores them, and Taiwan says, hey, you probably shouldn't have ignored us, and he said racist.
	Yeah.
	Photo negative Ned Flanders said racist.
	Bring that up.
	That's photo negative of Ned Flanagan.
	Oh, yeah.
	Bring that guy back up.
	Yeah.
	The world health head.
	Come on, let's see.
	Let's see what he's got.
	Come on, bring it up there, Gibby.
	Garbles, garbles, this is live.
	Yo, let's go.
	You son of a bitch, son of a bitch, son of a bitch.
	I think he was just pulling up an art.
	I know, I know.
	Maybe he'll do it if he actually had that overlay.
	Maybe he'll do it if you call him a Nazi propagandist.
	Yeah, that's going to spur him on to act.
	Oh, by the way, CNN, uh... Exactly what I was waiting for.
	Oh, there we go, finally, yeah.
	Hadley Ho, Taiwan!
	Also, huge dick.
	Did you know Ned Flanders?
	Wow.
	Come on, that's a given.
	We know.
	He's gotta have something going for him.
	Is it racist if it's a compliment?
	Nah, I don't think so.
	I'm sure he jumps.
	I'm sure that guy has hops.
	Yeah.
	It runs for days.
	Howdy ho, alley-oop.
	Good for you.
	I'm curious to see if they bring up Florida again on CNN because they just dropped their
	death rate estimate by You're going to see the death rate drop like flies, and I'll get into that a little bit later.
	Here's something else.
	I think, was it called Dragonfly?
	This is something important. Google and YouTube, so when you talk about the World Health Organization
	Yes.
	and you talk about Taiwan, you talk about the grossest abuses of human rights, you talk
	about them silencing voices of dissent, then it's important to note that Google and YouTube,
	they were working on a search engine where they could censor people. I think it was called
	Dragonfly to work with the government of China. As far as I'm concerned, you can't do business
	in the United States if you do that.
	And they were planning on launching it this year.
	Would that be an abuse of power?
	If I were president, that for me would be an executive order.
	Any business that decides to actually cater to the Chinese government's censorship.
	Not, you can't sell your products in China.
	Of course not.
	Not you can't have an import-export coordinator based in China.
	Of course not.
	But if a company is creating a subsidiary to specifically appease and work with Chinese government censorship laws, you can't do business in the U.S.
	You have to pick.
	That makes sense to me.
	And China's doing this exact same thing.
	If you recognize Taiwan, if you're a multinational corporation or if you're somebody that's trying to go in, you can't go in there and say, yeah, Taiwan's an independent nation and China let you do business with them.
	They won't let you do that.
	And it's not like they were censoring small things, like bad memes about their leaders.
	It was about freedom, democracy, dissenters, religion, all of these topics that people are going to talk about all over the world.
	And they're like, we don't want any of that because every time we have some of that stuff, a whistleblower comes out and we have to kill them.
	We have to kill them every time.
	Well, you know what?
	YouTube, Google, and the Alphabet Networks and World Health Organization, they're the figurative tank mowing down the guy in Tiananmen Square.
	They really are.
	Right now.
	It is remarkable to me.
	They're making it possible for them to do that.
	They are, obviously, they'll make that possible if it comes down to that, but I mean, in the realm of speech, in the realm of discourse, they are actually assisting the big guy.
	They're attempting to bring a separate nation's tyrannical rules here, at least and operate in the digital space, which increasingly, because of this COVID thing, has become the only space that a lot of people share.
	Yeah.
	That's a good point.
	And you made a point the other day when we were talking about this, like if you do that, if you play that game, it basically, it's the lowest common denominator becomes the rules for everybody.
	So we have a great system over here, but we got to throw it away because they have a really shitty system over there.
	Right.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	And so we have to play by their rules.
	When people say that's ethnocentric.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	It's ethnocentric to say that our system that affords citizens rights is better than the system of China?
	Okay.
	Also, I think chopsticks suck.
	That's very inefficient.
	If you hear that and you interpret it through the lens of ethnicity, you're a silly person.
	Exactly.
	Much like my comments about the World Health Organization.
	That's silly.
	It had nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture.
	So!
	He is of the Ned Flanders culture.
	Can you hear the dog whistle?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I think actually right well hold on right now study no benefits potentially danger
	with hydroxychloroquine Which again they show minority families dying they're
	talking about I think was Van Jones said yesterday This will be a death sentence for people of color in the
	United States if we reopen the economy at all. What what are you talking about?
	What does that even mean?
	They want us to think that it's like Warsaw?
	Well, do people of color not have jobs?
	Yes, they do.
	They work just like everybody else.
	Unfortunately, that's the assumption of a lot of those on the left.
	That they benefit disproportionately from unemployment.
	The assumption is that they are just going to die.
	That this is the only change that will happen.
	Well, yes, people will die.
	People are constantly dying of different things.
	But yes, they also have jobs.
	They also will be showing up to work or not, depending on whether or not people will let them.
	They also have kids that need to feed.
	Does anyone else take tremendous pleasure knowing that Van Jones is the man who is ultimately trying to appease, obviously, the black base, but has no fans whatsoever from the black community?
	I really don't think that many black Americans are watching CNN.
	It's not like he has his own show.
	He's buried on Anderson Cooper.
	That'd be like burying Def Comedy Jam as a commercial break in Mary Tyler Moore.
	You're not going to hit your target audience.
	Hey man, I like that bitch.
	She got spunk.
	Oh wait, who's that?
	Monique?
	Oh, now I'm on stage for the second segment.
	I like how she threw that hat in the air.
	That's gangsta.
	That's gangsta every time.
	That's my shit!
	I can't throw my hat, though, because it's still got the sticker on it.
	Yeah, because you know I got my threads.
	I just saw that yesterday.
	I saw a kid who was walking, he had stickers on his hat.
	That's still a thing?
	He had tags on his shoes.
	That is still a thing.
	And his shoes were red, his pants were red, his belt was red, his hat was red, his shirt was black, and then he had a gold backpack on.
	It's just put together.
	What?
	It too had stickers on.
	I'm going, how expensive is that?
	Because you know all of his outfits must be just as color-coordinated, which I can appreciate.
	I'm like, where are you getting this money?
	I think he just had recently stolen them all.
	Gosh, I had to save up for Goldeneye for N64.
	Could you imagine if I had to get new kicks every time there was a grand opening and people waited outside and there were Kongo pup tents like it was a Star Wars movie line?
	And by the way, Kongo pup... I'm talking about the actual pup tents in Kongo.
	Remember that movie Kongo?
	Yeah.
	The tents they threw up and went... They were fantastic!
	Yeah, and then I think they were... Did they really work?
	I don't... We used to have them at Canadian Tire in Canada.
	I really just wanted that self-tracking gun system.
	Canadian Tire was like our Home Depot, only they had something called Canadian Tire Money.
	Canadians out there will know this.
	And I had a kid at school who tried to counterfeit Canadian Tire Money.
	What was that beep?
	I don't know.
	Did something go wrong?
	Is there a problem in here?
	Do we all need to duck under our desk and kiss our ass goodbye?
	Step one, don't go to your desk.
	Canadian Tire Money.
	He tried to counterfeit Canadian Tire Money and then tried to counterfeit tickets to the school talent show.
	Really?
	It was immediately discovered.
	Early on, huh?
	It didn't take Detective Comics Dark Knight.
	They were like, oh yeah, this is fake.
	He just used normal construction paper.
	A buddy of mine did something like that.
	He used to collect baseball cards, and he signed a Nolan Ryan baseball card, like, in, like, almost print, you know, and not cursive at all, and he tried to pass it off.
	He signed it like Andy signed the bottom of Woody's shoe.
	Or, like, he sent a letter, like, you know, if you ever want to see your kid alive again, right?
	And just those blocks, and it was like, oh, that's not signed by him.
	He's like, no, really, it is.
	I'll sell it to you for a hundred bucks.
	Then you were wise when you saw that he signed your Hank Aaron card, Mickey Mantle.
	Yes, that's what did it.
	Not good.
	I'm impressed you knew both of those names.
	Well, I watched Sandlot.
	Before we move on, I know that many of you have been affected by this stay-at-home order, the quarantine, and so I think we have them on the line, if I'm not mistaken.
	It's time for a traffic report with our very own senior traffic report correspondent, Thomas Finnegan.
	♪♪♪ All right, Mr. Finnegan, are you there, sir?
	How are you?
	I am here, Steven.
	I have successfully crash-landed the helicopter.
	Oh, good.
	Wow.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	Well, how about you tell me about the traffic this morning, Thomas, since that's why you're on the payroll?
	I can't tell you much about the traffic, but I'm going to have to let you go.
	I've got some natives to deal with.
	What's that sound in the background, Thomas?
	Yeah, what sound?
	Oh my.
	Did we just lose the dog?
	Oh, he's gone.
	They got to him.
	Do we have any natives to deal with?
	Some what to deal with?
	Natives?
	I think he said natives.
	Where was he doing traffic?
	Where was his helicopter?
	This has been our traffic report with Thomas Finnegan.
	Let's move on.
	Let's make sure someone checks on him.
	Yeah, well.
	One less mouth to feed, I guess?
	Silver lining?
	I don't know.
	One of these days we'll need to get some traffic report, though.
	Yeah, that would be helpful.
	One of these days we'll need to get a legitimate traffic reporter.
	And a new helicopter, apparently.
	Wait, hold on a sec.
	Tyson shuts down Waterloo, Iowa plant linked to virus outbreak.
	On the left is Tyson.
	And on the right, surprise guest, Buster Douglas!
	I usually don't talk with female reporters unless I fornicated with them.
	So you should probably stop putting me in the quadrant view unless you want to.
	You know.
	Here's the thing.
	They talked about Florida this morning.
	They were talking about Florida.
	Why no mention of it now?
	Why no mention?
	They talk about Florida, how horrible it is, right?
	They're reopening Florida.
	Can you believe this?
	The beaches?
	But now that Florida has lowered its death estimate by 70%.
	Not a peep from this guy who, I don't know who he is, but there's something that really bothers me about him.
	I realize what it is.
	It's his nose.
	And you know he's not tough enough to have had it broken in a boxing fight.
	You're talking about the host?
	Yeah, the host.
	Well, it does seem like he, like, maybe was standing behind the wrong golf club.
	Yes.
	Or something.
	Maybe he fell or something.
	Something girly.
	Is croquet a club?
	Is it a racket?
	I think we figured out it's a mallet.
	I think it's a mallet.
	Is it a mallet?
	Croquet mallet.
	No, you're not tenderizing steak with it.
	Well, it looks like a mallet.
	He got hit with a xylophone mallet.
	Google it.
	I will be justified.
	Maybe he was in the front row at a Gallagher show.
	Yes!
	That's true.
	By the way, I don't care what anyone says.
	When he smashes that watermelon.
	Every time.
	Every time.
	Watch out for those rinds, baby.
	Watch out.
	Rinds will be a-flyin'.
	Rind humor.
	It's a genre.
	This is something I wondered.
	After we did our live stream yesterday of the press briefing, and thank you so much to people.
	By the way, I hate to say it because I actually have good friends at Fox News.
	We peaked Fox News.
	Did you really?
	Accidentally!
	It was just we threw it together last minute because people are desperate.
	People are thirsting for these press briefings, and I think you have a lot of people.
	Fox News runs them, I think, on their channel, but most of the main news channels that are appearing, you know, they're YouTube friendly that don't dare question the World Health Organization.
	They're not necessarily broadcasting it.
	So we had a ton of people tuning in.
	So thank you very much.
	We appreciate the support.
	And by the way, if your Mug Club is up for renewal, please do consider renewing.
	And if you're subscribed, hit the notification bell.
	Hit all notifications on YouTube.
	And of course, Crowder Bits is another channel right now.
	The podcasts are available on audio all this month, all of the Good Morning Month Club as well.
	It's not iTunes anymore, it's Apple Podcasts, Android.
	All over the place.
	Spotify, I don't know.
	We're everywhere.
	But after we did the CNN stream, so I went home.
	You know, you're always a little bit wired.
	Right.
	You gotta wind down.
	This looks easy, but it should be, but it's not.
	Uh, and I went home and I was reading the news, and so right away I saw this article at CNN.
	Can we bring this up, this overlay, Gibbon?
	It said, uh, Borger calls out Dr. Birx.
	It's a mixed message.
	First off, it didn't have that initial thumbnail, so I didn't know who Borger was.
	I thought it was a hockey player.
	It turns out it was Ray Borg.
	And I was like, why would he be commenting on Dr. Brooks?
	And how did he get to the story so quickly?
	Very fast, yeah.
	I want to be really clear about that.
	This is going to be a little bit long.
	It's a three-minute clip.
	But I want you to see the clip in its entirety, because this is remarkable to me.
	When CNN, when they talk about these other outlets, it's important to have legitimate news.
	That's what Brian Stelter was saying after Jussie Smollett.
	It's important to have Real news.
	Any blogger can post information.
	Then I see this headline.
	Borg.
	What is it?
	Borg swats down?
	Borger.
	Borger?
	Borger?
	Borger what?
	What did Borger do?
	What does it say?
	Gibbon?
	I can't remember.
	Borger calls out.
	That's what it is.
	Borger calls out Dr. Brooks.
	Just leave us out there, Gibbon.
	Let us flail.
	Yeah, calls out Dr. Brooks.
	It might as well be a Young Turks title.
	Right, exactly.
	I expected to see a side-by-side with Mike Tyson and Anna Kasparian.
	And then I said, OK, well, I need to watch this.
	They're calling her out, so it's going to be maybe like some live fact checking, like we did this morning, like we did yesterday.
	Maybe Berks, who's very fetching, by the way, missed something.
	Or misspoke.
	So that's the title.
	Keep in mind, too, this was the article.
	This was the headline.
	That's the title.
	It was approved by Apple News, because I saw it in my Apple News feed.
	And then, at first, before we run it, I clicked the video and I actually stopped it and I
	scrolled down because I thought maybe this is one of those things where it's like a video
	ad.
	It's clearly not what I'm supposed to be seeing.
	Sure.
	Like there must be something else.
	This can't be it.
	But this is legitimate news titled, Borger Calls Out Dr.
	Birx, right after the press conference approved by Apple News.
	This is the entirety of content from Real News.
	How do you safely have hair salons and nail salons and tattoo parlors where you can get
	people to inherently be close together?
	I think what I've been trying to communicate over the last several days is it's really important that the governors and mayors communicate critical information to their communities and show very clearly the data.
	Remember we wanted this data and evidence-based, the data that they utilize to make decisions and the data that the mayor should use in each of the communities.
	Because it won't have to be on a community-by-community opening.
	Because there are different communities in different places even in Georgia And so I believe people in Atlanta would understand that if their cases are not going down That they need to continue to do everything that we said, social distancing, washing your hands, wearing a mask in public.
	So if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things.
	I don't know how, but people are very creative.
	So I'm not going to prejudge, but we have told people very clearly, and the President guidelines made it very clear.
	About the expectations of Phase 1.
	And remember, Phase 1 also included social distancing in restaurants, social distancing in every place that was entertainment, and keeping your own individual social groups to less than 10.
	I mean, we've been very clear in the guidelines, and I think it's up to the governors and mayors to ensure that they're following the best they can each of those phases.
	Again, CNN headline, front page, top story, original content.
	headline, front page, top story, original content.
	This is it, waiting for Borger.
	...for decision making and make that transparent and available to their community.
	And again, it's this kind of a mixed message.
	Don't worry.
	Don't pay attention to the guidelines that we have offered you from the administration.
	I understand the need to kind of be correct here and not be, you know, attack people, etc.
	But I think when people are looking for straight answers from the medical community, She was trying to be creative, right?
	And I think that an answer would have been, look, if I were the governor of that state, I'm not so sure I would do this.
	Look at their, look at their, look at their curve.
	Let's see where their curve is.
	Did we just accidentally hit rewind three times?
	And she shied away from doing that.
	And the president indicated that he's going to talk to the Georgia governor about the opening of beauty salons, etc.
	But I think in this circumstance, and maybe I'm wrong, Sanjay, maybe, you know, maybe there is a need to kind of waffle a little bit on this, but I thought that in a way, Yes, Sanjay, yes.
	He's too busy smelling farts.
	We didn't put these guidelines out there for nothing.
	We spent a lot of time on this.
	We're trying to help you save lives in your communities.
	That is the entirety of Borger calling out Dr. Brooks.
	Which, by the way, hey, how is that not anti-science?
	When people say, I want to defer to the experts.
	Borger?
	Borger's supposed to be the expert here?
	We had, I think, two and a half minutes of just running a clip from the press conference, and then Borger, repeating herself, saying nothing.
	Well, this is not what I like!
	Yeah, so in the clip, Dr. Burke said, we want people to follow the guidelines we've set aside.
	And she said, well, if she's just going to say, don't pay attention to our guidelines, It's the opposite of what she just said.
	It's the exact opposite.
	That's why we ran the whole briefing.
	Because she was talking about the Phase 4 as well, which is a new component to the guidelines.
	But I want to be clear, because on YouTube, when we've done the Oscars stream, where we frankly have games, we have guests, we have people in fish costumes, and cocktail hours, clearly transformative.
	We get dinged and taken down.
	CNN runs basically a clip from the White House with 30 seconds of, let's find something to say.
	There's no one here super intelligent to say it.
	I don't know.
	Let's toss on Wolf slash Sanjay.
	That's your clip.
	It doesn't even look like a Sanjay.
	And Borger, so guess what?
	What you just said is bullshit, and right now we just did the exact same job that you did, only a little more thorough.
	Let's see if this gets taken down from YouTube.
	Let's clip that for Crowder Vids and see, because we're just as good as CNN.
	It's important that there are legitimate news outlets out there willing to call out non-expert Borger.
	Well, and she even laid out a case where she said, look, if you can come up with a creative way to do this and to do it appropriately, I think you should be able to.
	And then Borger comes on and says, oh my gosh, if I was the person doing it, well, you're not.
	And there's a reason that you're not that person.
	You're an uncreative wench.
	That's why.
	You weren't sanitizing masks so they're reusable.
	You mocked Donald Trump mercilessly, as well as the private sector, saying, there's no possible way to disinfect, to sanitize masks.
	And now, 800,000 a day.
	You're not creative.
	You're a political hack.
	You're somebody who's put in a quadrant view.
	And by the way, you're in the same room.
	You just want to make it seem a little more international.
	Nothing to offer.
	And so you just say, well, she said this, but I don't like that she said this.
	Ooh, yeah.
	We really need you legacy media.
	Right.
	And that was really the only thing that they could pull from yesterday's conference.
	Because when we talked about it, the press briefing was very cordial for the most part.
	Donald Trump answered the questions very well.
	He didn't pick a lot of fights, anything like that.
	There weren't really any fireworks.
	And we were like, what are they going to pick for tomorrow?
	Because they're going to have to pick something.
	Right.
	To say, oh, I can't believe Donald Trump said that.
	Yeah, and that's been the one that they picked, where she said creative.
	She's like, I don't know exactly what they're going to do.
	Right.
	Some people get creative.
	That was a nice sort of little toss-in.
	Like, some people get creative.
	I've seen people wearing, you know, like, masks that look like bumblebees, you know?
	Well, yeah, so, and again, people on the right, I don't know Dr. Birx's political persuasion, but people on the right believe in American ingenuity, but they believe in personal creativity, and not that they need to be managed from the heights of power.
	Right.
	So the right has an entirely different foundation for the worldview.
	Exactly.
	And the argument from authority, you know, the logical fallacy is one they use at CNN a lot.
	And I think in this case, though, in Borger's defense, she doesn't want to defer to the medical expert, a doctor, because she doesn't know what it is.
	She thinks she's talking to one.
	Right Sanjay?
	Wolf Blitzer.
	Wolf, lowest score ever on Celebrity Jeopardy Blitzer.
	Which means one of two things, by the way.
	Either A, she's colorblind, which, good for you, progress.
	Or, CNN cannot be bothered with the budget of making sure that their co-host has an operating Skype.
	Or audio, because I'm sure that they don't sound the same either.
	Again, it has that ringing in their audio, like in Saving Private Ryan when Tom Hanks is looking around and the kid's carrying his army, has that tinnitus.
	That's the best you have to offer.
	Maybe that's what distracted her from... It's easy!
	It's that 24-7 on CNN.
	It is easy to mix up Sanjay Gupta with the whitest person who's ever lived.
	Yes.
	And a person who is a doctor from Wolf, lowest score ever on Celebrity Big Brother.
	She confused Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
	I mean, first off, the name, let alone the look.
	That would be like confusing Larry Bird with Barack Obama's half-brother.
	Yes.
	Well, she got a little, like, spicy, too, when she did it.
	Right, Sanjay?
	You know, she started to get a little... Right, Sanjay.
	And she was expecting a shout-out, like, yes!
	But instead, Wolf was like...
	That's not me.
	What do I do here?
	Yeah.
	What do you think would happen in a fight between Wolf Blitzer and Joe Biden?
	He's going down.
	Oh my gosh.
	Both of them.
	You keep telling me that Joe Biden could actually hold it.
	I think they would just both forget to get off the stool and they would think that they had it.
	Huh?
	What?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you know what we should just do is we should tell them that they're going to fight but actually just place them on a treadmill and they'll be like, Ha!
	He's got great footwork!
	A treadmill in front of a mirror.
	He can punch moving backwards!
	It's a miracle!
	Oh boy!
	He's a regular Ernie Shavers!
	You know what, actually?
	Before we move on, we're going to be talking about the death rates.
	I'll need to actually fix some statements that I made yesterday.
	But before that, actually, we know that a lot of you... And let us know when we have some chats that are given.
	Chat with us, of course, at BlazeTV Live.
	Let us know what you'd like to see.
	Let us know if you want us, by the way, to continue Good Morning Mug Club.
	We can't do two shows a day every day.
	But after this break, we'll be looking at what it is you guys like.
	We've thought about maybe doing two late nights per week, two good morning mug clubs, maybe splitting them up.
	That'd be cool.
	Some people kind of like both.
	You know, you might go through withdrawals.
	But the point is, always more content if you join mug club.
	But I know a lot of you like some people here who work in the office.
	And so we'd really do, none of this happens without this wonderful team of people.
	Right.
	And I want to say this because I give people flack a lot.
	I really don't, actually.
	I'm more apologetic than really the flack kind of boss.
	Wade was the flack, give or take.
	I'm sorry, Wade.
	I was in your way.
	We're just walking past each other.
	And Wade says, don't ever let it happen again.
	That's the second time this week.
	I'll accept it once.
	But I will say this, I know we're not all in this together.
	We really aren't.
	And largely because I think people here, I think we all probably had coronavirus in January.
	And let me explain to you why.
	Gibbon here.
	We lovingly refer to him as Gerbils.
	I don't know why.
	How can that be lovingly?
	Oh wait, hold on a second.
	UN warns pandemic will cause famines of biblical proportions.
	What?
	Have you read the Bible?
	And no report on the death rates.
	No report on the New England of Medicine Journal.
	We're going to get to in a second.
	Where they had pregnant ladies and they looked at the actual antibody rate.
	No reporting of the 70% reduced death rate in Florida.
	And by the way, they're not citing somebody here.
	They're just saying someone in Britain.
	It could be just someone.
	In Britain being like, yeah, well, you know, I think that actually if you open up the economy, yeah, you can have, you can have, like, an epic problem.
	No food.
	What's the word?
	What's better?
	Well, there you have it.
	Rebel Wilson has sounded off.
	I'll be biblical.
	Biblical proportions.
	That sounds more terrifying.
	Oh my gosh.
	It's not what they choose to cover, it's what they choose not to cover.
	Exactly.
	So we're not all in this together.
	I think we did have coronavirus.
	Let me explain to you why.
	Because given Gerbil's habits, we think, so did Bryce, who works out there.
	Too cute.
	Maddie almost died.
	She was almost dead.
	Because she went to Disney World.
	Why would you ever?
	Don't go to Disney World.
	Why would you ever?
	First off, I advise her against going to Disney World because she's little, and even if she doesn't wade into the crocodile pit, which seems very imprudent to have a Disney World, by the way, a crocodile pit.
	Yeah, very dangerous.
	They could just come up and gobble her up.
	It's in Florida.
	I was like, do not go to Disney World.
	Bad idea.
	And she came back with, I was making jokes.
	When she came back, I'm like, what did you get, SARS?
	Like, ha ha ha.
	This is before coronavirus.
	I was still making the note!
	I was still making SARS jokes!
	And you took it from me!
	You took the SARS jokes from me!
	Now what do I have left?
	Jokes about Wolf Blitzer and The Mighty?
	We don't want the mighty.
	So we think they had it.
	That doesn't mean everyone else has it, until you consider that Gibbon, along with Manny, Brendan, myself, and my father, do jujitsu three times a week.
	Very close.
	Very difficult to do social distancing when someone's gi is being wrung out into your mouth like the embalmment fluid in that, what was that horror film from Sam Raimi?
	Drag Me to Hell.
	Damn it, that would have been so much better if I knew the film name.
	You can do it later.
	So that being said, I think we all had it, but I am incredibly grateful.
	Of all the things that I'm grateful for, I swear to you, honestly, every morning when I pray, I hit my knees and thank God for my wife, for the ability to make a living, the fact that you guys give me the ability and all of us to make a living, the team of people who surround me, and Quick Trip.
	I also thank God for Quick Trip.
	Wow.
	Every time.
	You make it into the morning prayer?
	And then I make a deal with the devil if he'll get rid of 7-Elevens.
	And Ray Strada.
	And Crossroads.
	The problem is I don't play a mean banjo.
	And so the devil doesn't show up to make a deal.
	I didn't know the rules.
	Right, right, right.
	You gotta hedge a little bit.
	He just felt perturbed.
	I was more of an inconvenience to the Prince of Darkness, really.
	Beelzebub is a little bit more amenable to it.
	Beelzebub will listen if I go down and I'm like, you know what, I can play the pan flute.
	I'll see what I can do.
	Maybe I can get 7-Eleven to run a damp cloth over the bathrooms so they don't look like a Turkish prison, but I don't know.
	I'll have to run it up the flagpole with Satan, and I gotta tell ya, Satan's a big fan of 7-Eleven.
	We've worked long and hard on those bathrooms.
	My hooves are tied.
	I wanna see Satan in the CEO's chair like, make the bathrooms dirtier.
	Put hooker's names on the walls.
	Numbers one digit short.
	Blitzer was here.
	In every bathroom across America.
	But I want a picture of Sanjay Gupta.
	Then people will say, what's that Wolf Blitzer?
	And I'll walk in and say, what did I tell you?
	Even though I never spoke with them.
	And they'll say, what was he telling me?
	And they're very confused.
	But that being said, there's a whole team of people who make this happen here, and that's why you joining Mug Club makes a big difference.
	Yes, thank you.
	And I want to kind of show you what it is that people do, show you how the sausage is made.
	And so we've done this before, but it's time for People at Work.
	Let's go check it out.
	Wow, did we?
	Is that a copyrighted song?
	Right?
	Is that a copyrighted song?
	Royalty free.
	Royalty free version.
	Yeah, we gotcha!
	Yeah, we got you.
	Is your red light there smooth, Manny?
	We got you.
	I didn't get to let everyone know about what you said about old people yesterday.
	Oh, look, look, I'm on a monitor.
	Okay, come on, let's go here and see the people who are here or too cute Maddie is looking
	away because she feels self-conscious.
	This is Bryce and he has a prop mug.
	Where's your mask?
	Uh, it's right there.
	Put on the mask.
	There's an old one there.
	Yeah, well, let's get rid of the old mask and put on the- I'm sorry about this, this is embarrassing.
	I'm sorry about that.
	Put on the mask and- Brendan?
	Oh my gosh.
	Oh my gosh.
	I mean, I thought he did that in the alley, and that's a much safer place.
	No, I see him do that all the time.
	I didn't check the mic pack before we went out there.
	That's a shame, really.
	Expect a call from the fire marshal.
	Yeah.
	And the DEA.
	You know what?
	Here's the thing.
	We're not FCC compliant, so we do have a beer fridge here.
	Oh, good.
	Whatever makes people more productive, I'm fine with.
	I don't know.
	It's the fire hazard.
	Does crack make people more productive, generally?
	Brendan just wrote an entire season of... Gosh, Aaron's working.
	I lost it.
	I lost it.
	I had it.
	I was going into it.
	Are you on crack?
	I am on crack.
	You are so much worse than Bill and that is saying something because Bill is terrible.
	You're gonna take that?
	Get him a shot out of your way.
	Get him a shot.
	I like how you say it when he's not here.
	Insult his wife.
	Insult his wife.
	She's out of his league.
	I love her.
	I'm sure she has a romantic history before him.
	Let him know.
	Let him know.
	She's a nice lady.
	I don't know.
	Come on.
	I don't know.
	I love how normally he just throws these jabs out for fun, and now that we've put him on the spot he's like, but I'm a nice guy!
	Smooth Manny was operating the camera there.
	He's from Columbia, and I just assume there's some kind of a cultural gap.
	I was talking about Dr. Birx and I went home and I was like, I need to get some water.
	Yeah, Dr. Birx, we were talking about her last night.
	She's a lovely lady.
	The foxy lady, as you said.
	Dr. Birx is, I've used the term fetching.
	And by the way, when people talk about rape culture, guarantee you show the highlight reel from yesterday to Dr. Birx, she would be flattered.
	We said she's very fetching, said she's an attractive older lady, she puts herself together well, she's articulate.
	The worst thing, what did you say Donald Trump?
	Oh, I just, yeah, like, oh, calculating, uh, ten.
	Ten.
	That's what I said.
	Dr. Brooks, bring that fat ass over here.
	That's the worst.
	I guarantee you, Dr. Brooks would not be offended.
	She'd probably be like, oh, I do declare!
	Because she starts speaking like, you know, 1800s.
	Southern Belle or something?
	Yeah, like, what's going on here?
	1800s, yeah.
	But she has to, she really has to make the 310 to you.
	Oh my.
	So, it is just another, just another thing that bothers me, this idea of rape culture,
	when you compliment women, even if you compliment women overtly, in a way that borders on inappropriate.
	It's funny, it's okay.
	Sometimes it's complimentary.
	Sometimes, yeah, and sometimes.
	So anyway, I brought it up with Smooth Manny.
	He came by the house because we, we, his, he has a child and they don't, we have a super
	freezer, super-sized freezer and they have a lot of breast milk.
	You know, it's the thing that women freeze their breast milk.
	And I never know how to approach it when he's like, hey, can I come by and get some titty milk?
	And I say this completely respectfully, by the way.
	And let me just say something, too, while I'm talking about this.
	You know when women get pregnant?
	Right.
	I have a pregnant wife.
	And my wife hit me with a trick question about Smooth Manny's wife.
	She goes, oh my gosh, didn't you notice how big Val's boobs are?
	My wife said to this to me now.
	My primary concern was just how much of a tell is there on my face that I'm lying?
	You gotta give him one of these like, Well, no, I don't know.
	Actually, I think I went too far and I said, I'm not a, I'm not a boob guy.
	I don't notice those things.
	Yeah, you thought too long.
	Yes.
	And I thought poorly.
	Matter of fact, there was one with my sister-in-law.
	She was pregnant.
	And the thing is, when a woman is smaller, as Manny's wife is, and then my sister-in-law is very tall and slim, like my wife, and her chesticles were very large.
	That's the worst term.
	They really appreciate it when they call me that.
	I appreciate it when you call me that.
	At the rehearsal dinner night, or sorry, the bachelor night, and then we also met, what
	was, I guess they both happened on the same night.
	We were at an arcade that night, and there was a picture of my brother with my sister-in-law,
	and what happened was she happened to jump in the picture.
	And so, by the way, she was wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt.
	There was nothing at all in it.
	The first thing you saw were the, and my brother.
	My brother untagged himself in the picture.
	Did he really?
	He untagged himself simply based on the fact that there were large breasts in the picture.
	Really?
	I'm a bit surprised by that.
	I'm not.
	They were fully covered.
	I mean, come on.
	What is this?
	Detroit bus driver dies from COVID 19 days after emotional plea?
	Just all around.
	It's Diamond and Mr. Diamond.
	I was going to say, she's going to say, HELLO POSSUM!
	That's a Black Day Madness in case you guys didn't know.
	Listen, it's sad, obviously, of a bus trip, but you know what else is sad?
	A black man being dragged off a bus and being roughed up by police officers because he didn't put on a mask.
	Well, but so this is, this story is obviously designed to pull at your heartstrings.
	Of course it's sad.
	Of course, having an emotional plea 1984.
	What happened to data?
	Exactly.
	Did this person have pre-existing conditions?
	Were they sick before this?
	Was there something else going on?
	He's got diabetes.
	Would this person have died if they had contracted the average strain of influenza?
	All of that information is useful for us.
	Otherwise, we think, oh my gosh, heartless people.
	Heartless.
	Terrible world.
	By the way, do we have some chat to get to there, Gerbils?
	Yeah, we got a few.
	Okay, let me read a couple of chats and then I have a final story about the death rates and correcting myself.
	Definitely.
	So first up we got Prince Spencer.
	Stephen, do you agree with the decision to shut down the entire country?
	Do you think that a year from now, or two, Trump or any other leader is going to be like, I made the right choice?
	I will tell you the miracle of this coming through.
	This is coming through blaze chat, which means this person is a Mug Club member and has clearly never watched the show.
	I was about to say, do you watch this show?
	Maybe he's looking for a bit more information.
	I don't have any more beyond the three hours of show.
	We have another chat.
	Is YouTube good?
	Yes.
	Oh boy.
	I heard Don Rickles, you should go and live in Schenectady with a washing machine!
	Ha!
	He says ha!
	You do dope, dummy!
	No, I'm just, listen, I don't think it was good to shut down the entire country, if that's the question.
	I obviously don't.
	And some people have made the argument that with the information that they had that it was a good idea at the time, and I don't know that that's even true.
	I think at the time, social distancing and precautions, washing your hands, I think at the time what would have been more prudent is telling everyone to wear a mask at that point as well, but they were more concerned about people in medical fields having them.
	I think that once the media realizes that people are a little fed up with sitting at home for a long time, I think that they'll start saying that Trump overreacted.
	It'll be a really easy pivot to just go the populist route.
	No, the pivot that they're doing now, I saw Huffington Post yesterday, their homepage was how COVID affects the body long-term and COVID is just a warm-up for what's coming next.
	So they're pivoting from this is the worst to you ain't seen nothing yet.
	Like it's a Danny Glover sequel.
	I'm getting too old for this shit.
	And meanwhile, they're using every case or some sad case of somebody dying to illustrate or to make this sort of flurry of fear.
	Rather than it being data-driven, rather than it being objective, it's, look at this story!
	And yes, listen, there's a sad story.
	You can also find sad stories of people who die from the flu every year.
	You can find sad stories of people who die from pneumonia.
	Those sad stories exist all over the place, in car accidents, because they're going to work every single day.
	We're not minimizing any of that, but this is not a sustainable response.
	This cannot be how we respond.
	Even if there is a 2% death rate, which there is absolutely not, and we'll get into that, but even if there were, that's not how we can respond and have a functioning society long-term to situations like this.
	It's just a bad idea.
	And keep in mind, they did say that they hoped we had a recession so that they could lay it at Donald Trump's feet.
	But Marcy, those exact words, and they basically highlighted that.
	It's like, it's worth it.
	I take that.
	Give me another chat there, Gibbon, and then we'll close this thing out.
	Dylan is wondering, why is the mainstream media so adamant about keeping the American people locked up in their homes for as long as possible?
	Because Donald Trump created the best economy that we've seen in the modern American era.
	They had a vested interest in it being crippled.
	They said as much, and they want to keep it that way going into election.
	It's the opposite position of Donald Trump.
	Whatever that position is, they tend to take.
	Donald Trump, I really think you should continue with that term yesterday, the full employment.
	Because it's not just a low unemployment, it's a high labor force participation rate, it's a job surplus, it's more people in the workforce.
	We were at full employment with more raises to the annual salary.
	And we've talked about this before too, sometimes people just, they talk about income and they say, well it's not even outpacing inflation.
	And what they're referring to is average hourly earnings as opposed to average individual income, which is more appropriate.
	And that's always, actually, even under Barack Obama, even under Clinton, that's always outpaced inflation by a significant margin.
	But for the first time, now you have average hourly, well you did, average hourly earnings outpacing inflation.
	I think average hourly earnings were 5%, which I don't even know how you do that, because as far as I'm concerned, slapping together a fillet of fish today is worth just as much as it was 10 years ago, is worth just as much as it was in 1972.
	But somehow that has gone up, even in the age of automation.
	So we had an economy that wasn't just the stock market, by the way.
	It wasn't just the Dow Jones, as people wanted to say.
	But we had an economy that undeniably was helping everybody in Main Street America.
	And at this point, if it's the economy stupid, they want it to be the coronavirus stupid.
	And the response?
	Yes.
	And they want you to remember it.
	And here's the thing.
	So do I. I want you to remember this.
	I don't only want you to remember this in November.
	I want you to remember this at the 4th of July.
	I want you to look back and say, gosh, remember when Sanjay Gupta slash Wolf Blitzer, I can't tell them apart, said that we're not going to be able to have the 4th of July?
	I want you to remember this.
	This was the play.
	We weren't Donald Trump guys in the primary?
	No.
	I don't think he's been a perfect president.
	But in areas like this, he has handled it superbly.
	And certainly before this, he did more for the economy than any modern president, I think, has.
	Definitely.
	Any modern president.
	I would say more than Ronald Reagan.
	I think they thought that this was going to destroy Trump.
	He's not going to be able to handle it.
	What it's done is brought the presidential like out of him.
	It's made him look better.
	It makes the American people go, oh, he can handle crisis.
	And the evening briefings, very, very clever on his part because it was basically a dare and they decided to not run it.
	And people now, like you said, people are stuck at home.
	Guess what?
	People are stuck at home and they'll watch anything but CNN.
	It's kind of like when you have a magnet.
	yeah yeah two of the same was it too positively charged yeah you can't get it
	that's what people do at home if it's seen and they'll find anything else
	dog whisperer something the Westminster cat show I animal genres for some of my
	head anything but CNN and so they stumble across the press briefing and go
	oh yeah well and I think too what we're gonna see is that and wait you and I
	were talking about this before the show I think we we danced a lot closer to
	potentially losing democracy and losing freedom and liberty than we think we did
	In many ways we have.
	Yeah well and it's not and what we're saying it's not the guy in power at the time typically that's the problem right when you do when you make you know like all these concessions with liberty you're like Oh no, this person won't take advantage of it.
	It's the next guy or the guy after that.
	I was just going to say, anybody who is saying you have to celebrate Independence Day from your home sitting around not talking to anybody, mark them.
	Poppy Harlow and Jim Prosciutto were just talking about Fourth of July.
	Yes, I really hope that they let us leave our homes for Independence Day.
	That's scary.
	And these are people, by the way, and keep in mind as well, they want you to stay home and they want you to be dependent on the government.
	They want you to stay home, not be able to work, so that they can implement permanent income.
	Permanent annual, what's the term again for the annual income?
	Universal basic income.
	They want that to be permanent.
	So Independence Day, they want you to stay home and be entirely dependent on daddy.
	Be entirely dependent on big brother.
	Which, you know, is remarkable because you would think they wouldn't want people dependent on the federal government with President Donald Trump.
	Because he puts his name on the checks.
	Overall, they're thinking this is going to be short-lived, which I think you might be surprised.
	And they want ultimately the American people to be dependent on the government.
	They want to be able to control the American people ultimately.
	And I will tell you this, this has made me leery of my neighbor in a lot of ways.
	And I don't mean my actual neighbor.
	My neighbor's a really nice guy.
	Stop going through my mail.
	I get it that you're 85, but it's a federal offense.
	It really is.
	Sir.
	So, uh... Jerry.
	Actually, he's done that.
	I come home from a trip, he's like, I noticed you weren't home.
	I took your mail.
	I'm like, don't do that.
	I took the Liberty ticket.
	I need that Fredericks of Hollywood catalog.
	So, um, don't get me started on this year's wish list.
	I hope to see Dr. Birx.
	What was I saying before this?
	Oh, yeah.
	My neighbor meets a bunch of people who are saying, hey, I want to report this guy for not social distancing, kissing his wife, or, hey, these people are putting my life at danger.
	First off, if someone goes out to a park, they're not putting your life in danger.
	Put on a mask and wash your hands.
	And shut up.
	I'm sorry.
	Or you can stay home.
	But you shouldn't require that everybody else stay home, especially when we get to these numbers here regarding the death rates.
	This is amazing to me because this should be the story today because we now have three different studies looking at antibodies and all of them, by the way, are pretty congruent in what they tell us about the infection rate.
	That's what's remarkable.
	Three studies that tell us the infection rate at the lowest is 25 times higher than we thought to 60. The average is
	about 48. So I do actually need to make sure that right now I fix something that I did
	yesterday. Speaking about the death rates, I did speak too soon and I do need to issue a
	correction.
	But you got snoped!
	I snoped myself. Thanks Wojcicki.
	If you're looking for me to recant my World Health Organization commentary, you'll be
	sorely disappointed.
	Well, it's true.
	Unless Quick Trip wants me to.
	In which case, I never even heard of Taiwan.
	Big Quick Trip, huh?
	They got their hooks in you.
	Taiwan ain't got nothing on you, Quick Trip.
	They got their taquitos in you.
	So I talked about this the other day where I said, you know, the death rate was between 0.5 and 0.02%.
	I was specifically referring to the USC Los Angeles County study and how that actually sort of correlated with the Santa Clara County study.
	Well, there's a new one that just came out.
	This is, they tested pregnant women.
	Yeah.
	for COVID in New York, a whopping 15% tested positive.
	15% of pregnant women tested positive.
	So according to this article, that means that the infection rate of the population,
	I think it's the pregnant population, but overall the population is at minimum 11 to 14 times
	higher than they previously thought.
	Wow.
	Than the 200 and something thousand cases they have right now.
	Right.
	So when you take that, and you take the USC study, by the way, where the, I think it was, yeah, that's right, the USC study showed that it was 25 to 58 times more likely, the infection rate.
	With the antibody study.
	Not a bastion of republicanism, USC.
	And then, of course, you have the Santa Clara study that said it was likely 50 to 80 times more likely.
	Insane.
	You add it all up, I said the death rate would be between 0.2 and 0.05.
	In New York, where it said it's worse, this means that right now it's between 0.7, and
	that's including all deaths, by the way.
	All deaths.
	All deaths, including old people, diabetics, people with hypertension.
	And then if you actually eliminate, according to the New York statistics, because we're
	data driven, not talking about...
	Granted, a tragic sob story on CNN.
	Data does matter.
	According to New York, they said 95% of cases are either old people or people with comorbidities.
	Let's scale that back.
	Let's just say 90.
	In Italy, it was 98.
	In New York, it was 95%.
	But let's say that 90% of these deaths in New York, somewhere between 19,000 and 20,000, are old people.
	So you take that number and you times it by 0.1.
	That gives you the total number.
	That means that in New York, the death rate is 0.7%.
	Tops.
	And on the low end for healthy adults, meaning of average age, you could be 40, you could be 50, 0.05%.
	Wow.
	That's a very low number.
	0.05%.
	And as low, by the way, as low as 0.0%.
	Because yesterday when we were using the number, I was using 80% of cases, only being older people.
	So if you use the number...
	It's an override.
	They're doing it.
	I get it every time.
	YouTube overlords.
	Just keep pushing them.
	We should have listened.
	Taiwan going to bat for us.
	Or a quick trip.
	Either one.
	Either one, I will take.
	Well, and Stephen, one of the things, I swore to you when you asked me yesterday, what do you think they're going to talk about?
	I was sure that they were going to bring up these studies and say, hey, we probably have a higher infection rate.
	I've done some more research since then, and some people have said it, but they've said it in a negative way.
	Every single time they talk about these infection rates being higher, they're not using They're not using that.
	Right now, on CNN, they're saying, this many people have been infected, this many people have died.
	They're not using that.
	They're saying, well, this is worse because it's far more widespread than we thought.
	Well, that means there's a lower mortality rate.
	It's less deadly.
	That's a good thing.
	So that number going up is the bottom number of the fraction.
	So as that number goes up, that means a smaller death rate.
	Mathematics.
	something else that is pretty important to note is they keep saying, and by the way,
	deaths that have happened at home, so undoubtedly the overall death rate will go higher. No,
	no, no, no, no, no, no, because most people aren't dying at home, by the way. Most people
	are actually dying in hospitals. And then you're adding several thousand more to the
	total death rate. If you saw in New York City, three thousand people saying we're pretty
	sure they had COVID. So the death rate, honestly, is probably higher.
	It's inflated, certainly, and it's obviously certainly higher if you're just talking about the average healthy American, because you're including people like that study with the Chloroquine.
	They had an average of three pre-existing conditions, and they were all over 65 years old.
	No, the death rate really should go down when you eliminate, if you just right now eliminate all the deaths registered that were never tested for COVID, boom, you cut that down by I don't know how many thousands, There was over 3,000 in one day.
	And then you multiply the infection rate by at minimum 20 times, potentially 60 or 80 times, according to Santa Clara, but split it down the middle and say 40 times, you're looking at a death rate very comparable to the flu.
	Not saying you shouldn't take precautions.
	It's a far more communicable disease than the flu, but not nearly as deadly as we were led to believe.
	And I don't believe, I make no apologies, certainly not a reason to shut down the economy and take away everyone's livelihood.
	Yeah, well, if it's a fraction, again, the top number's going down, the bottom number's going up.
	That means smaller.
	Yeah, there's good news.
	But instead, we have to play a story about a bus driver who died, which is sad, I get it, but there's great news out there, guys.
	Hey, this probably isn't killing nearly as many people who get this virus as we thought.
	That should be banner headline news, front page of every newspaper in the country, and it's not being covered at all.
	And by the way, see this right now?
	They say, Georgia coronavirus hospitalizations.
	If we can bring this up, actually, Gibbon, as an overlay.
	We had this yesterday where they were saying, remember when this initially started, you don't need to bring up, sorry, the CNN, but you can just show it.
	We don't need to listen to it.
	They're talking about more hospitalizations in Georgia.
	Okay.
	The number that matters is the deaths per capita.
	That's the number that matters.
	That's the only one that you can accurately gauge at this point.
	Hospitalizations are very subjective because some people go to the hospital early, some people go to the hospital late.
	Now, early on, and we ran this, I think, as a meme with the Then and Now, what did they tell you if you were young, you didn't have pre-existing conditions, and you thought you had COVID symptoms?
	They said, stay away from the hospital.
	Don't go in.
	Don't infect anybody else.
	And then now, because they have empty hospitals, they've built new hospitals, no one's overfilling them.
	They're panicking and they have to furlough workers, they have to lay them off.
	Now they are saying, and this was on CNN I believe yesterday, they're saying people are waiting too long to go to the hospitals.
	You need to go to the hospitals right away.
	Well there you go.
	That right there can affect, if you have that on the media broadcast like a morphine drip.
	Go to the hospital.
	Have a cough?
	Go to the hospital.
	Runny nose?
	Go to the hospital.
	Right away.
	Take no chances.
	That will increase hospitalizations.
	Have the deaths correlated directly with increased hospitalizations?
	No.
	No, they haven't.
	That's what matters.
	So when they say, look at this, hospitalizations are going up, people are resisting opening up in Georgia.
	No, more people are going to the hospital because you've told them now that they should go to the hospital.
	When you told them that they shouldn't, just like people are wearing masks now because you're telling them Yeah.
	they should wear masks when before you told them that they shouldn't.
	But that doesn't mean that the death rate per capita is going up in Georgia.
	It doesn't mean that it's becoming more deadly.
	It means that more people are making the decision to go to the hospital, likely because they're
	driving by going, ah, it looks pretty empty.
	Ah, I'll take a shot at a test.
	Well, let's remember, we shut down the economy for one reason only, right?
	It was to make sure that we did not overwhelm the hospital system in the United States.
	That was it.
	We had to flatten the curve.
	Flatten the curve, flatten the curve, flatten the curve, flatten the curve.
	That's what we got preached and preached and preached, right?
	Guess what?
	Guess what?
	We didn't even come close.
	Bring this back up, CNN.
	Look, hospitalization.
	They're going up.
	Can someone bring up the deaths in Georgia for me?
	Can we do that?
	Bring up the deaths in Georgia.
	And I want to see if it directly correlates to the hospitalizations.
	Not if deaths have gone up.
	They can go up.
	But do they correlate directly with the hospitalizations?
	Because that is the number that matters.
	And the governor is saying we are past the peak.
	Well, yeah, it just goes to show that no matter what numbers you throw at CNN or CNN puts on, it will always be spun into fear.
	There is no way of interpreting it in any kind of positive way.
	You're not allowed to be happy.
	Right, and context matters for this.
	Like, a service to the American public would be to say, here are the numbers that the CDC is putting out, which is that, right?
	So the CDC is not doing anything wrong by saying, here are the numbers.
	CNN is doing something wrong saying, not doing this next part, saying, here are the numbers and here's what they mean, right?
	That's what should be being said to the American people to give you an accurate picture, because guess what?
	The next time if something like this happens and it has a 6, 7, 8 percent mortality rate, People aren't going to believe me.
	They cried wolf this time, and they had their one shot to be honest with the American public.
	You're the little boy who cried pandemic.
	Not you.
	Them.
	CNN.
	That's a good point about them spinning fear.
	Remember they did this with Halloween razors and the apples?
	Every few years that comes out, right?
	Apparently that wasn't actually a real thing.
	Which, think about it.
	If you're crazy enough to put a razor blade in someone's apple, you're the kind of crazy who wants to see the smile on their face.
	So why would you do it and you don't even get to see them eat the apple?
	It doesn't make sense.
	It likely never happened.
	There certainly wasn't the epidemic of razors and the apples.
	Don't you remember?
	The Raisins or the Apples!
	The Raisins or the Apples!
	I assumed it was actually true.
	No, that's interesting.
	No, it's like they wanted us to think that every single person giving you money for your UNICEF box was Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights.
	They were trying to get Big Candy, right?
	Do we have those numbers there, Gibbon?
	Just give me a nod or a no.
	I can't hear you, so I can't see you.
	In Georgia.
	Yeah, we got one.
	1,300 Georgians were hospitalized.
	No, no, I mean the death rates, if we have those, if we can get those.
	So see if Reg can get the death rate.
	I want to see how many people have died in Georgia and if it directly correlates.
	And we can bring that up by going to Worldometer and hitting USA in Georgia.
	I already know the answer.
	I just want to make sure that you don't think I'm lying.
	Okay, we do have to get one.
	We don't want to get snoped again.
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	Okay, time for a little... What is this?
	What's going on here?
	Coronavirus killed Americans weeks earlier than thought.
	Oh, you mean there's more information that you guys were wrong on?
	I'm not understanding that this is... These papers are not the same as a paper that is already in a published... John King looks like the postman who told the story in Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
	By the way, can I make one point?
	And she looks like if you took Helen Hunt and shrunk it in Photoshop without hitting shift.
	So no.
	Just kidding.
	Every single story that I've seen them kind of pivot back to is about how hydrochloroquine and the president was wrong.
	None of this works.
	And it's like, okay, guys, that was one study.
	There's a lot of context that you need for that.
	The president wasn't wrong when he said, I don't know, maybe, I hope it could be a game changer for us.
	That's not wrong to say.
	Sorry.
	No, I'm listening.
	What's that coffee smell like?
	Because you know what happens, the bag gets puffy.
	That's how you know it's fresh roasted, because in the carbonic acid, there's the off-gassing.
	So remember the other day I squeezed it all, I got all the sniffs?
	I was very selfish with the sniffs.
	Very inconsiderate, but I love the sniffs because it comes out of this little valve, and just now I realized that it had gotten puffy again because of the off-gassing.
	So I just got some more coffee sniffs.
	Well, so, this, you should do something for Joe Biden.
	You should put, like, little girl smell in a bag for Joe to just... Jeez, Gerald!
	It would save the little girls!
	What in the world?
	He needs the bag instead.
	Oh, God.
	He needs the bag.
	It would be helpful for... Gerald's wife, if you're watching... Don't say that!
	Just to null that shit, okay?
	No!
	Hey, we've got the numbers from Reg.
	Yeah, what do we have on the Reg from the Georgia... We have 79 million, uh, sorry, 79, that's per million.
	79 deaths per million.
	And what would be interesting to see is, we can't bring it up right now, but to see where they're showing, look, more hospitalizations.
	That is happening across the board, I can say across the country.
	But there are more hospitalizations and in many cases fewer deaths.
	You're talking about a graph.
	Yeah, a graph.
	And if you take away, obviously, if you take away the 3,000, and your guess is as good as mine, being tossed up there.
	Never tested positive for COVID.
	You can't just talk about hospitalizations just like you can't just talk about infection rates.
	You have to talk about deaths, specifically deaths per capita.
	That is the number that matters.
	I disagree with Ben Shapiro because he was talking about the mortality rate.
	Well, guess what?
	That just changed like Ed Rooney's computer with Ferris Bueller's absentee days.
	The only number that you can rely upon without human intervention, human error, are the deaths per million at this point.
	And even then, they're still not that reliable because they are skewed by them adding to the total deaths, but at least it puts it somewhat in context.
	Whereas the hospitalizations, that can be directly affected.
	This is the same reason that you have insider trading laws.
	It can be directly affected by someone going up, going wherever they are.
	They're not going up anymore.
	There's no stage.
	They're sauntering on over to their laptop without a microphone and talking about hospitalizations
	and telling people you need to go to the hospital.
	You need to go to the hospital.
	You need to go to the hospital.
	We said you shouldn't go to the hospital, but now we're saying you need to go to the hospital.
	You need to go as soon as possible.
	What do you think's going to happen?
	You have the ability to directly influence the market and force more people into the hospital.
	And so you say hospitalizations are up.
	But guess what?
	More people going to the hospital has led us to be able to conduct more antibody tests, which we've referred to.
	And that has let us know, uh-oh, CNN, that it's 20 to 60 times more prevalent than we thought.
	And that brings the death rate down to 0.5 tops, potentially 0.02%.
	But you only cover the hospitalizations because you told people to do it.
	Well, two points.
	One, those things lag sometimes, those numbers do.
	And two, well, how many people were in the ICU that went to the hospital?
	How many people just came in and were feeling bad, but were able to be treated normally?
	How many people needed a ventilator?
	Like, all of those things would matter for that number to make any sense for us at all.
	Otherwise, it's just a random number.
	I'm not going to lie to you.
	You are.
	I didn't listen to you at all, because for people who don't know, the monitor is here, and it's the Sarah McLachlan Animal Corner.
	So I hope you understand it's no disrespect to you, but I'm trying to put the blinders on.
	It's like, listen, I've rescued dogs, OK?
	I'm doing my part!
	Stop bombarding me!
	How many times can you blame that commercial for doing more?
	I just want to laugh at Wolf Blitzer!
	And Sanjay?
	Which I think is wrong.
	You're not supposed to tune in to laugh at a very white mongoloid.
	You're not allowed to do that.
	I want to see a Sarah McLachlan clip with all of Wolf Blitzer looking sad.
	Rescue Wolf Blitzer!
	Rescue Wolf Blitzer.
	On the wings of an angel!
	Ah!
	Zoom in on the nostril flare.
	I think it gets some other love.
	I want to see the commercial of like, for the price of a cup of coffee a day, you can put Wolf Blitzer on a ventilator, even though he doesn't need one just because he wants one.
	Come to my window!
	No.
	It would be a very bizarre commercial.
	It would make no sense!
	And then I would say, what did I tell you about this commercial?
	Even though I never really told you anything.
	And you'd be like, what, is he saying something?
	And I'm like, go to the 7-Eleven, stall.
	Wolf Blitzer was here.
	Lick the doorknob.
	Put a picture of Sanjay Gupta.
	OK.
	So some people are saying they like kind of when I tell some behind-the-scenes stories about Fox News.
	People were not happy about it at MSNBC, I'll tell you that.
	Oh.
	But I think I've told this story before.
	Do you guys know the story, then we have to go and we will see you tonight with Ash Wednesday, about when I met Clint Eastwood?
	No.
	OK.
	Clint Eastwood.
	So I will tell you this.
	I've met him a couple of times, and this is just sort of an amount of the two different times, but both interactions, actually there were technically three interactions, were very Clint Eastwood-y.
	So let me preface this by saying I think you guys know we've had some celebrities in studio, obviously have celebrities on Skype.
	It's sort of an innate quality I have in that I don't tend to get intimidated by celebrity.
	I don't call that being on the spectrum because I pretty much just treat them as I treat most people in this room.
	That being said, there is a certain level of celebrity and fame with which I'm no longer comfortable, and that basically is like Clint Eastwood, Spielberg, and Tom Hanks.
	Like, that's it.
	Pretty much.
	And the way you treat people in this room is with total disdain.
	Yes, exactly.
	Which was my instinct with Clint Eastwood.
	Like, hey, I loved you in any which way but loose.
	Look at Wade finally warming up here and starting to throw some jabs.
	A little late, Wade.
	Sorry, sorry, sorry.
	I meant any which way you can.
	Because I believe that the orangutan's performance was more impressive.
	If anyone hasn't seen that film, any which way they can, it's Clint Eastwood street fighting.
	It's Clint Eastwood as a street fighter and there's a motorcycle gang called the Black Widows and they're the most inept, pussified motorcycle gang.
	Like, quit!
	Oh no!
	My neck was in there!
	Is this like a PG comedy?
	I don't know what this is.
	And there's an orangutan named Clyde.
	But he's like a Kato, where he goes to the barn and the orangutan comes in and he's like, oh Clyde, they're wrestling.
	That's not how an orangutan surprises you.
	He rips off your face because he was sitting in the lake.
	Crazy boy with a bottle of Xanax, red wine, and a clicker.
	That's serious business.
	What's up with the 90s and monkey buddy cop movies?
	Don't you criticize it because I want to see them making a comeback.
	I want the orangutans back!
	K-9 with Jim Belushi, as I like to call him, the better Belushi.
	Ouch.
	That's a hot take.
	When it comes to Belushis, they can't all be Jims.
	Let it be slow.
	Let it be slow.
	I hate all that you are.
	So, we're at this gathering, I will say this, of conservatives in Hollywood.
	It's not really a secret anymore, but it was a secret organization at the time.
	We're just conservatives, sort of like Alcoholics Anonymous for conservatives in Hollywood.
	And I'm looking at a table, and at this table is Clint Eastwood, Gary Sinise, Jon Voight, David Mamet, and there were a few other people, but those are the ones that really stuck out, obviously, like Mamet and Clint Eastwood.
	And I go, okay, I'm going to go sit, you know, I'm like at table 64.
	But Andrew Breitbart was the one who brought me in.
	This was in 2009 when I was at PJTV, and Andrew says, no, no, Stephen, come over.
	You're going to sit with me.
	Have you met Gary?
	I'm like, ah.
	So I go there.
	So I'm sitting at a round table, keep in mind, with Gary Sinise, John Voigt, Clint Eastwood.
	And Gary, it turned out, he's been on the show.
	Very, very nice.
	Like he's the sweetest man alive.
	I'm alive, Gary Sinise.
	I don't think I've ever met a nicer person.
	The kind of person... Kelsey Grammer was at the table, too, I should say.
	He's also very nice.
	But I knew that because my mother had worked with him a long time ago at the Just for Laughs.
	He was nice.
	Brett Butler was Satan.
	Beelzebub, at least.
	Satan's not so far.
	I don't want to be hyperbolic.
	Right next to him.
	So I'm sitting in a chair.
	I've got Andrew Breitbart, Gary Sinise, and we're talking.
	So Gary Sinise is cross-talking across Andrew with me, like pretty loud.
	But Clint is there, and he clearly has no idea because he doesn't even know that I'm alive.
	And I'm kind of looking for my spot, and I don't find it.
	So then later he kind of walks on over to the bar, and I'm like, okay, I'll go.
	And I'm like, I don't have any money for the bar.
	I need some money.
	I was very poor.
	And he's talking with someone, and I never want to be that guy who takes up too much time, so he's at the bar, he gives the guy some cash, which I can only assume was like a hundred bill wadded up.
	And he turns around, and I just said, he turned around into me.
	And then he just looked at me and said...
	I'm Clint.
	And then later that night, you all stand up like, hi, I'm so-and-so, I'm a producer.
	Hi, I'm Gary Sinise, you know me.
	And you all have to introduce yourselves, because a lot of people are just writers, producers, part-time actors, comedians.
	And then Clint Eastwood stands up when you have to introduce yourself, because everyone, it's like Alcoholics Anonymous, everyone's on the same footing.
	Clint Eastwood stands up, he goes, hi, I'm Clint Eastwood, former mayor of Carmel.
	It's a great joke!
	It's a great joke!
	And I'm sure everybody busted out laughing.
	When it's not a joke, he went over to, I believe, my friend Alex later, and he was telling me about this, but I wasn't there, but he was playing on his iPhone.
	He was playing, at this point, I don't know what it might have been, like Flappy Bird or whatever.
	And Clint Eastwood just, he was walking, right?
	So picture Clint Eastwood, I'll just do it rolling here.
	He's walking, and he sees Alex over here.
	So he's walking, and he stops.
	And he looks at Alex, and he goes... Like he's disgusted.
	You could see on his face that he was thinking, like, these kids and their video games.
	You know, but he just... Hey, did you rescue the princess?
	It just shatters your soul.
	Oh, Clint Eastwood has no respect for me!
	The great Clint Eastwood has taken out my soul.
	Former mayor of Carmel.
	I can't say anything bad.
	He's a little standoffish, but he was when he said, I'm Clint.
	It's great!
	The guy had a great sense of humor.
	He seemed pretty sharp, and I'm pretty grateful that I got to meet him.
	Okay, listen, everybody, we really appreciate you tuning in.
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	So we hope that it's been valuable to you, and we will be here tonight with Ash Wednesday, and then tomorrow we will be here with Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw on Friday.
	And next week, I should tell you, next week will be a live broadcast of CNN.
	Four hours of fact-checking CNN live.
	That'll be the grand finale on Thursday.
	I'm not looking forward to it, but I do this for you.
	Good morning!

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