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Feb. 2, 2021 - Louder with Crowder
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UNENDING TRUMP IMPEACHMENT HOAX! | Mike Rowe Guests | Louder with Crowder
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There's a slurp.
That was good.
My mic is sounding really loud right now.
That slurp annoyed me.
But I know so many of you yesterday said that you enjoyed that sound of the slurp.
They're weird people.
I wish my wife felt the same about my sleep apnea.
Since I've hurt my knee, I have gained weight.
But look, I've got these bumps growing all over.
It's because I've been doing the curls at the gym since I can't do the squats.
Might as well.
I'm going to have a little trouble with that closet door.
Gerald is here.
How are you, sir?
I'm well.
How are you?
Quarter Black Garrett is here.
How are you?
Dave Landau is here.
You can find him at Compound Media.
And somewhere in Omaha?
I'll be in Omaha and Raleigh and Detroit.
When in Omaha?
I will be in Omaha in the beginning of March.
Beginning of March.
What is that crowd like?
They're good!
You know what I'm saying?
Does it have to be spaced out?
Salt of the Earth.
Do they salt the crowd?
I believe it's six feet between each table.
Oh, well that's great for comedy compression.
It is.
What you want to do is create a roll, so if there's any way to avoid that, it's the best.
Yes, exactly.
It's like the wave just starts and someone...
No.
He's over there!
It's just one guy starts the wave and everybody's like, no sir.
No sir.
No, you are a disappointment and I could hurt you.
We have Mike Rowe on the show today.
Boom!
We have a lot, there's so much in the news.
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We'll also be talking about anal swabs, which is new with the COVID, double masking from Fauci, as well as AOC, beautiful and brave, survivor story.
Newly survived!
Dave Landau looks very concerned.
That's why I didn't want to put the map on there, because now you're staring at it.
I'm not.
Like someone at a bar when football's on the screen.
I'm not familiar.
Soccer, you mean?
Hey, you know what it is?
It's my football.
It's Black History Month!
Yeah!
Little-known facts, so every week we're going to be dropping you, every day, some Black History Month facts that you may not know.
You all know about the Rosa Parks and the railroad and Harriet Tubman.
Before the FBI murdered him, Martin Luther King Jr.
dropped a mixtape under his rap alter-ego, Lil Dreamer.
So, um, anything to add there, Alan?
I just saw, yeah, MLKKK's Most Wanted.
That was his hit.
Oh, wow.
That's nuts.
No, that's an Ice Cube guy's Ice Cube.
I don't know what he's talking about.
No, no, no.
Send your letters at Dave Landau.
You know what?
Show up in Omaha with a hefty jacket.
So we don't know what's under it.
Yes, if all the black people in Omaha wanted to show up.
I would say it's hot in here, but I'm also wearing level three body armor.
Spartan armor.
We'll talk about him a little bit later.
No insurrection in this studio, but first, this is the story that is breaking right now.
It's making the rounds on all the Twitter, and we always have to be careful because you can never joke about this, and you can never question any facts, even in the absence of any.
But AOC did a 90-minute stream on Instagram live yesterday, and there are a lot of claims in there.
Let's start with, let's just, let's let it straight from the horse-faced mouth.
Like, I'm here, and the bathroom door starts going like this.
Like, the bathroom door is behind me, or rather in front of me, and I'm like this, and the door hinges right here.
And I just hear, where is she?
I mean, I thought I was going to die.
It's because these folks who tell us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what's happened, or even telling us to apologize.
No one said that.
These are the same tactics of abusers.
It just turned out Where Is She was the DoorDash guy.
With her chimichangas.
And I haven't told many people that in my life.
Whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large, these episodes can compound on one another.
There's no, you know, something really big happening to you and then you deal with it and then you move on and then when something else happens to you, you deal with that.
Okay, so look, I don't want to say, because we don't know, right?
And, you know, some people say believe all women, I say believe all facts.
And I think that if this happened, listen, AOC, horrible, if you were sexually assaulted, these men should be buried beneath the railroad tracks, okay?
Does everyone else here agree?
Now why might I think it's a little bullshitty is Okay, go with me here.
Because you equivocated.
You created equivalency between sexual assault and verbal abuse.
You created an equivalency between the Crips running a train on somebody locked in a closet for days on end and the insults from Gazoo.
Not the same.
I need to go to my counselor!
I just don't like when people say almost died when they didn't almost die.
How can you prove what she's saying?
Yes people storming the Capitol if they're saying kill all the senators is a bad thing and you would want to run away from that and it would be kind of a scarring experience for us to endure right?
I would absolutely give you that but nobody can back up her story of what she's saying like if that happened then that's horrible that is terrible but Did it really happen?
I don't believe her for a number of reasons.
I thought it very insensitive that the insurrectionists weren't asking where is Z.
Oh.
That's true.
Boy, this is a dead room.
Thanks, James.
I just don't know how I'm supposed to play this one.
I gotta be honest.
Dave, don't make any rape jokes, because of course, listen, rape is bad.
Now you can say whatever you want.
Now you can make this rape joke and feel safe.
They were in there saying, where is she?
And I was in a closet.
And I was like, oh no!
And it reminded me of the time that I was teased.
Yeah.
I almost died, because, well, nothing happened, really.
Nothing really happened.
Well, yeah, once she said that Ted Cruz tried to murder her, I think that's when I stopped believing her even more.
Which, by the way, Senator Ted Cruz, you're welcome to be on the show, but it's not a softball.
You've got some splanning to do.
Not a big fan, Cruz!
You guys could talk beards.
Cruz Missile turned into more of a dud.
Yeah.
What was that?
Is that your wedding night?
No.
And here she is now.
She moves forward AOC talking about... You follow the puck when Landau's laughing at my ribs on Gerald.
No.
Don't do it.
Do it.
Gerald deserves everything he gets.
AOC.
Now here she is talking about, speaking of Cruz, recent disappointment.
But I don't know.
Hey, you know what, Senator Cruz?
Some people are saying that you don't believe there was any election irregularities.
I want you to defend your position in your own words, but it does need to be defended.
Just my opinion.
I should have worn the undercover vest.
Here's AOC talking about Hawley and Cruz.
Is that when given another window of political opportunity for themselves, even if they know that it means that it will endanger their colleagues, they will do it again.
And that's the real reason why I think that Senator Josh Hawley needs to resign, why Senator Ted Cruz needs to resign, along with many others.
Because they will do it again.
They will do what again?
Exactly.
A tall glass of unity.
It's like, look, we need to unify.
Okay, we understand.
Those Nazis tried to kill me.
How does this work?
Did you notice this happened with Barack Obama too?
They were referring to George W. Bush as a Nazi.
You couldn't actually say, you know what, actually, I don't think George W. Bush is as bad as CALIBURTON!
That was for about eight Frickin' years!
And then when Barack Obama came in they said it's time for unity.
It's time for unity where the very first executive action was reversing the Mexico City policy where our taxpayer dollars went to fund abortions overseas.
Donald Trump reversed that and then Joe Biden, because priorities, made sure that your tax dollars are funding abortion overseas again.
Unity!
Unity!
You need to resign, we need to impeach, we need to kick them out, and Ted Cruz tried to kill me.
Oh, I don't know.
Maybe we should unify in telling you to go fornicate yourself with a wire brush.
I think we can do that.
What is the worst thing that Ted Cruz said throughout this entire thing?
I mean, I'm really searching for the thing that she's saying, that's what he said that made people want to murder me.
Because he said, let's have an inquiry over the next ten days, I think, on the 6th, if that's what he wanted to do.
He was going to represent the states that filed the lawsuit in the Supreme Court that never actually got to the Supreme Court.
Other than that, he said there were irregularities and things we needed to look into.
If you're lowering the bar, fine.
Let's lower it for everybody.
Every one of you who said something about Black Lives Matter and said it's fine to be outraged and said that you're more likely as a black person to be shot by a cop than a white person, which is a lie, by the way, that incited people to violence, by the way, let's haul you before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I think AOC is a petulant child who was carried by Satan in the desert in Passion of the Christ.
She was a little baby.
On the shoulder.
Really?
Do you think she acts like a toddler?
I think, I don't think so.
I don't think she's evil.
I think, look, I think, and we'll be doing a roast of Greta Thunberg tomorrow.
That's one of the best things.
She's 18 now.
So we're not in violation of YouTube's guidelines in criticizing someone who serves to actually pressure legislative policy.
And she was replaced immediately when she turned 18.
Like Michael Jackson seeing a pubic hair.
Right out.
And David Hogg wondering where all the people who said he was cute went to.
And we're going to be talking about impeachment.
Look, do you think, I guess this is my question here, do you think that there's any constitutionality for impeachment right now?
And, uh, what do you think people believe at this point?
I feel like we're living in a world where it's a lie that is agreed upon.
We're talking about COVID and double masks, and we'll get to that in a second.
Actually, can we show that really quickly?
I think we're going to tease this really quick, because coming up, it's been a flip-flop, but remember when Dr. No Strings to Hold Him Down Fauci said this about double masking?
So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.
Turns out that's all bullshit.
Oh, by the way, I think we're breaking.
We do actually have some updates.
We have a mugshot of the attacker from, you know, see if I see.
Yep.
Terrible.
Now listen, the means of reproduction.
Jeff's terrible.
The means behind the baby make it so.
Reap what you sow?
Ha ha ha.
Jeez, disgusting.
Terrible.
Joe Louis, you deserve better.
We're going to be talking about that.
This is a part of the lie that is agreed upon.
Listen, if you actually believed that this pandemic was as deadly as they tried to claim it was, or like Ebola, where in Liberia it had a 50% survival rate and only two organizations went in, one of whom was Samaritan's Purse, do you think two layers of your neck gaiter would make you feel any safer?
The issue with Nancy Pelosi, the issue with Gavin Newsom going out to dinners, and the issue with Nancy Pelosi getting a blowout in a particle vortex, right, and they get caught again and again and again, is not hypocrisy, right?
Listen, everyone here is a hypocrite.
I'm faithful to my wife.
Sometimes there's a nice big pair of tits and I go, and don't look, because I'm a hypocrite.
I'm a man.
I'm attracted to breasts.
I wouldn't, listen, come on, don't sell yourself short.
You have tremendous tits, Dan.
Thank you.
They are real and they are spectacular.
Yeah!
We're all hypocrites.
It's that they aren't actually afraid.
These people aren't actually afraid of the virus with a 50% mortality rate or even a 7% mortality rate.
The idea of the election being just like every other election before us, that Joe Biden, who never campaigned, who never left his basement, received more votes than any president throughout the entirety of American history, and that there's this widespread coalition and nothing untoward happened.
This is a lie that is agreed upon.
The idea that there's science and you double mask and you triple mask and we should trust the World Health Organization, it's a lie that's agreed upon.
The idea that there's any legitimacy to impeaching a former president or president, this is a lie that is agreed upon.
And any Republicans who go along with that lie, well, you're wieners.
I think that if you do want two masks though, just put a plastic bag over your face and let the Lord call you home.
Yes.
Put a plastic bag over your face with an extra filter of pecking peanuts.
Yes.
I'd say three masks.
Why not four?
Yeah.
Let's keep it going.
Exactly.
Okay.
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What about Garfield?
Not really a big fan.
No?
Not only Garfield, but the weird people who have all the Snoopy gear.
You know those people that get Snoopy everything?
My mom was both.
Really?
Oh, wow.
Sorry, Mom.
He had Tweety Bird jackets.
His mom's on the spectrum.
His mom's got a little bit of Greta Thunberg in her.
Oh, come on.
Do you think that's really how you deal with somebody?
You're like, listen, I don't know how you are with Asperger's, but what do you think of Snoopy?
And you're like, why, I have so much stuff.
Oh, I love Snoopy!
It's my favorite.
Take notes.
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In the back window.
Alright, Gerald has some strong opinions on this, and let me know whatever's happening on CNN, because I know it's a slow news day when people are spending all of this time about claims with no substantiation whatsoever of sexual assault.
Did she claim that the sexual assault happened in the Capitol?
No, I don't think that's what she was saying.
Well, I'll assume she did.
So, what's happening right now, and this is the lie that is agreed upon by the media, they want you to believe that this is common practice, that this has happened at some point, any point, throughout American history.
It hasn't.
That President Donald Trump, in contrast to former Vice President Joe Biden, could be impeached even though he's out of office.
This is their new plan.
He's open and Mueller's pretty express on this in his report.
He says that Trump can be indicted after he leaves office and in the interim there's a possibility of congressional impeachment.
An official can be impeached even after they leave office.
This Belknap chapter from our history tells us that Trump can be impeached and can be tried in the Senate even after he leaves office.
By the way, if you don't cut that man out properly before serving him, he can poison you.
What?
Pufferfish face!
Is that a handsome contest?
I'll get party favors, but no one gets first.
Okay, let me read this to you really quickly.
So, Article 2, Section 4.
It's pretty clear.
Impeachment is for removal from office.
The President shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
And the founders, right, they based the requirements for impeachment on this.
This is something a lot of people don't know.
I have to get a little nerdy.
On the English practice, except they altered it, of course, to specifically more applied to public officials because we don't really
have royalty.
Unlike you Canadians, my home country, where you still keep the queen on your
monkey, your money, your pussies, all of you, Canada.
Listen, here's a good rule of thumb. If you are a neighbor right to the north of
a country that fought off the royalty and the most powerful economic
superpower of one century only to become the next great economic superpower
of the following century and you still keep the royalty on your money...
Listen, when African colonies that have no weapons can revolt, get the crown out of
their country... When the French get their own province...
Is a loony royal?
I don't even know what it means, honestly.
The loonie?
The dollar?
The toonie?
The toonie looks like a peso.
It's a silly country.
The fact that it isn't a 51st state is proof that we are not an evil empire.
I know, right?
Well, yeah, it's also funny, because strippers are like, thank you for the change.
Because it's your rite of passage when you're... I'm from Detroit, you go over there, you're 19, you can drink.
Right, yes, yeah.
So you go over there and you give you give silly goose money to
Never has a more some more accurate summary of Canada been described
So the founders, right, they switched it to apply to public officials.
Let me read you here from the founding documents.
The Constitution established an impeachment mechanism exclusively geared toward holding public officials, including the president, accountable.
This contrasted with the English practice of impeachment, which would extend to any individual save the crown.
Not the crappy series.
I haven't actually watched the series.
It's not bad.
Come on.
And here's the thing, too, people will say, well, you know what, okay, maybe you're just talking about the law and the history.
Precedent also matters.
You can see how this is applied in practice.
Congress, they annotated, right, the Constitution states, the framers, they were very clear they envisioned punishment, okay, for impeachment exclusively.
Exclusively for removal from office.
That's what it means, that's what it's for.
Censure is a different thing.
Which for me, for a long time, I'm like, they can censor?
No, censure is basically public admonishment.
It's basically the modern day stocks, only there are no consequences.
It's like a slap on the wrist, basically, for a public official.
The American colonies largely limited impeachment to office holders on the basis of misconduct committed in office.
And the available punishment for impeachment was limited to removal from office.
Again, while we're talking about precedent, Nixon resigned.
Why?
He resigned so that he wouldn't be impeached.
And they didn't impeach him after.
And they really wanted to impeach him.
And Ford was another...
He pardoned him later on.
Although Gerald Ford, he smoked six bowls of pipe tobacco a day and he died at 94.
Did he really?
He was totally healthy.
Good man.
He was a good man, Gerald Ford.
You know, didn't do a whole lot.
You know what no one has said in the last ten years?
What?
I hate Gerald Ford!
No.
He just kind of went away in history.
He just breezed right through his time.
Have you ever been to the Gerald Ford Library in Grand Rapids?
I assure you I haven't.
It's basically a pizza slice.
Is it?
It's like a pizza slice and it starts off with, you know, memorabilia from Gerald Ford, you know, the two years.
And then as you go back, there's an Elvis exhibit.
We need to fill in some space.
It's like, go to the Gerald Ford Museum, there's nothing left.
Like, yeah, Elvis and there's Chuck Berry.
What about Gerald Ford?
He played here at Grand Rapids High, but that was at the front.
Also, we have an Ikea display here because there's kind of a partnership with Grand Rapids.
Is the Chuck Berry display just in the women's room?
Right, where AOC is hiding.
Yes, apparently so.
One bit of information I want to point out here.
He tried to kill me with his kick!
I went in the one room where I knew men couldn't go.
She used blank math.
Thanks, Title IX.
No, there's no safe place now.
Men can go in the women's restroom.
Allowed everywhere.
And beat the hell out of women at sports.
Progress!
Did you see that?
That dude, he looked like Keith David in a wig.
Okay, Gerald, you had something to point out on the constitutionality.
On the constitutionality of it, I think you've made a very good point.
Obviously, the only punishment is removal from office.
The only thing that goes with that is the inability to run for future office.
I think that's really what they're getting at, is they're trying to bend the rules and continue an impeachment process meant to remove somebody from office so that they can go, Ha ha ha!
2024, you're out!
Are you really that afraid of Donald Trump that you think in four years he's going to be the guy?
They absolutely are.
They check their beds for Donald Trump.
I really do think they are afraid of him, but that goes to another level.
But thinking that you can impeach a former politician, somebody who doesn't hold office anymore, and that it will have any effect whatsoever.
Because they're looking at this and saying, impeach, indict, imprison.
So this isn't just one thing that they're trying to do.
And yes, after a president is removed from office, he goes back to being a private citizen who can be held liable in a court of law.
But guess what?
It would have to go through the courts!
You have no evidence!
Unless you're a Biden.
Plus you're a Biden snortin' coke off your niece's hip bones.
Then we're a little murky on the rule book.
No, they absolutely are afraid of Trump.
AOC checks her closet.
Trump, are you in there?
Again?
He tried to hurt me!
I almost died getting pants.
Trump's like, listen AOC, I only go for Russian models.
You're fine.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The Abercrombie ethnic, kind of mysterious, a little exotic, it doesn't really get you quite across the finish line.
Because you're toothy!
So!
Oh, there she is right now, look, CNN, talking about AOC.
I haven't told many people except all my social media and CNN and my publicist who sent out a press release.
So the first person I'm going to tell is everybody.
And my turtleneck guy.
Yes.
She's just playing this out.
Oh, come on.
tweets following that the congresswoman wrote this quote my story isn't the only
story it's just one story of many of those whose lives were endangered at the
Capitol by the lies the threats and the violence fanned by the cowardice of
people who chose personal gain above. Oh come on. Remember when glasses would make
people look smarter?
The coward is... let's...
You worked as a barmaid and then suckled at the taxpayer teat because you won a race from an incumbent who didn't show up for a debate.
You've never taken a risk.
You can say what you want about Donald Trump.
The guy risked a whole lot for a salary that was $400,000 and hasn't even really been adjusted for inflation.
He could He could find $400,000 in his suit jacket pocket that he accidentally drapes over a hobo on the way to Trump Tower and not discern that lack of finance in his account.
We talk about cowardice?
Listen, I understand why people are upset with conspiracy theorists and I don't like seeing people in Nancy Pelosi's, that is the people's house.
I don't think that's the process.
I think that a lot of people felt their voices weren't heard and I understand why your voices weren't heard because people didn't do the work that they needed to do.
When I say you were played by people at the top as it relates to election irregularities and fraud, people weren't doing their due diligence.
You can see it by the typos in the briefs, you can see it by the fact that behind the scenes we had to correct some of this data and it's really hard for us When we have the truth, and we've tried to talk about the truth in the show, we go, look, X thousand voter rolls here.
These are addresses that don't exist.
That's what we were going to do in Nevada.
You know what?
Comment below.
Let us know if you still want us to do the Nevada live stream where we just show you 40 addresses with random places that don't exist.
Maybe it's more relevant now because they're banning anyone who shows you the truth.
We can still do it.
My heart gave out.
I apologize.
It was too small.
But the point is, they weren't doing their due diligence, and so people were waiting
for those who had the ability to do something, to effect change, and they didn't.
And when those same people are being labeled Nazis and being labeled enemies of the state,
then they say, well, you know what?
All right.
I guess I'm an enemy of the state now.
And now they call for unity.
And they want to call for unity by tarring and feathering the man who actually supports... and when I say... I don't mean conspiracy theorists.
I don't mean radical right-wingers.
I mean the man who actually fought for small businesses.
The man who unions are finding out the hard way now actually fought for the American working class.
The man who was loathed by hedge funders, right?
You decide that you want to vilify this man while you simultaneously protect all of your cronies in Wall Street and big tech and big media, and you wonder why people are upset.
All right.
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It's not the same as, like, this is a big one.
How real, with the insurgents though, how, I mean, were they actually Republicans?
I don't know.
That's the part that I'm really curious, if people really know.
It seems like it was a mix.
Yeah.
At the very least.
And there were some crazy people who actually believed that Joe Biden was going to be arrested on January 20th.
This is what I will say, the people out there who thought it was all part of the plan, and I've never been a conspiracy theorist, I try to act in the realm of facts, and it doesn't mean that there aren't some conspiracies that are true.
Do I think that Clinton's killed people?
Yeah!
But some people are telling me, they're saying this is actually all part of the plan with Donald Trump, right?
The whole part of the plan to expose voter fraud.
He's going to do this and then in the end of four years expose voter fraud.
I'm like, okay, I don't think that's part of the plan.
Then they go, it's all part of the plan January 6th.
Then people are saying it's all part of the plan January 20th.
Joe Biden's going to be arrested.
Look, look, look!
If you believe that, you're stupid.
Let me tell you, you've never run a business, you've never been in combat, you've never had to lead people.
You do not set a plan in motion which allows for zero contingencies.
It would be like Jocko saying, alright, okay, listen, we're going into Kandahar, okay?
We're going to let them surround us.
Wait, Jocko, that doesn't sound...
Go with me here.
How many troops?
How many people do we have?
We only have, uh, we have 11 troops.
Okay, we're gonna let them kill, uh, 10 first.
No, no, wait!
Hey, I've got them right where I want them!
Then I'm gonna put up the white flag.
And then, then the cavalry will come over the hill.
You don't make that plan!
So don't let yourself be led astray just like a stupid branding play named Robin Hood, you idiot Bernie Bros.
Well, I guess you've never lost a game of 11-D chess.
That's what it really comes down to.
I lose games of chess against myself.
But every time it failed, they were like, well, now it's going to be 6-D chess.
No, I don't think it stopped at 3.
I will tell you, there was a lot of disorganization.
And I can't always reveal names.
We've always tried to welcome them.
But there was a lot of disorganization at the top.
That was disheartening.
It was disheartening because we were doing this work behind the scenes.
Listen, but it doesn't mean that these people are- people didn't feel their voice was heard, and that is true, because Democrats were trying to completely shut down giant swaths of evidence which were never heard.
That being said, the people whose responsibility it was to make sure that the cases were airtight didn't do their job.
My disappointment is not with these things being thrown out.
My disappointment is not just- it's with the irresponsibility in not doing your due diligence, because this was something that could have been a watershed moment, and instead You screwed the pooch.
And I'm not talking about you, Joe Louis.
Don't take it personally.
You wouldn't screw him.
You're right.
You're adorable.
I think one of the things that frustrates me... Did you just say I wouldn't screw him?
That's disgusting!
What, you would screw him?
No, I'm saying... See, look, this is what happens when you don't have a comedian.
He just thinks, like, beastiality.
This is why Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Dogs hate margarine.
That's terrible.
Stephen's gonna be mad at me for that one.
I'm not mad at you for anything.
Except your lack of wrinkles.
That's true.
You little American girl doll lookalike.
Look at his face.
He has the face of a 14 year old who's never had a wrinkle.
Go make your point there, Gerald.
I'm gonna say that that's the biggest thing in this that I want to make sure happens is that at some point that the flames cool down enough to where you can actually take a non-partisan look back at what happened during this election and go okay we can we need to fix things but it will never happen and I don't think it will at least because guys like Jake Tapper out there saying it's the big lie right which was what was used to describe what the Nazis did right and so anybody who thinks there was any Shred of craziness that went on.
Oh wait, hold on a second.
Hold that thought.
Look.
Chicago Teachers Union's demands.
Okay, hold on a second.
Look.
Reopening... This is on CNN.
Reopening metric-based CDC guidance.
Not a single demand was for the bettering of teaching.
Or kids.
Did you notice that?
None of it had anything to do with the children.
Yeah.
But unions are for the children.
They got a very fifties haircut.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
So anyway, this is the guy who wouldn't be allowed in the office in Mad Men.
Can I come in?
Not by the hair, but chinny-chin-chin.
Well, no, that's a great example though, Steven.
It's every single issue that we have.
If you're against public schools because they are terrible places where people go and don't get educated, you hate teachers.
Teachers who are sacrificing and then they'll trot out the story of them buying the supplies.
Right?
They'll buy the supplies and I'm sacrificing for the kids and then stuff like this happens and it's clear they're not for the kids and then AOC goes on here and that's the problem that I have with this.
Not that if she was a victim of sexual assault or had a terrible experience in the Capitol that we shouldn't be, I guess, compassionate for that, obviously, right?
And try to fix it.
But that she's using it so obviously to push something that's a lie.
The idiots of the Capitol have nothing to do with Ted Cruz.
I know!
That's what I'm saying!
That's the lie!
That there were voter rolls that didn't balance, that didn't match up, and that there were thousands of people who voted from addresses that don't exist.
Ted Fairbanks was extending an olive branch to get her to agree, and then she responded with, you tried to kill me.
Murder me!
She's like Lenny with the rabbit, only it was a piece dove offering.
I didn't know I wanted beans on my ketchup!
That's too close to reality.
She just doesn't like Ted Cruz.
Like Richard Gere with the gerbil.
Too far?
Just give him an empty toilet paper roll filled with dryer sheets.
Leave him alone.
But isn't it strange?
Of all the things that Trump said, I really feel that this is a case where he didn't say anything wrong at all.
As a matter of fact, he went out of his way.
So this is a good example.
He went out of his way.
to try and be peaceful.
So sorry, now we're circling back to the impeachment.
I didn't mean to bring it back.
No, no, we should.
We need to finish this.
We need to talk about the impeachment.
They are claiming, I think we have clip C where this is them claiming that he incited
violence at the Capitol or is this the Trump clip?
Clip B is that.
Clip B is them claiming.
So their claim, and the AOC claim, and they try to extend it to Ted Cruz and Holly Wright and all these people, is that Donald Trump was inciting violence and that's the reason that he should be impeached post-presidency, which of course doesn't happen, hasn't happened, and will not happen.
And they were writing up these articles of impeachment.
I want to read a portion of it to you here.
It says, Donald John Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States.
They were provoked by the President.
Rachel Levine!
The President bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.
And we know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection.
Senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection.
There it is.
You bet he did.
Too much spirit cooking going on behind the scenes!
Okay, so let's look at this timeline, and actually I want you to give me the token I own here we can find, or Lily, I forgot to include this, the record for the mile, running the mile, how quick it is.
Because here is at 12 16 p.m.
Here's a timeline.
12 16 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time, or as I call it, the Devil's Time.
This is the speech from Donald Trump where he called for violence.
You can hear from his mouth.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Shit.
Oh wow.
ShowMap was incorrect.
I apologize.
I take it back.
That is clearly murder.
I need to do my due diligence.
Yes.
Those who hand me shekels told me to say that he encouraged violence.
I'm a tall Jew.
Haven't you seen the anti-Semitic comments?
I have, yeah.
He's a shill.
You're a Nazi and a Jew, which is weird.
How does that work?
That was at 12.16.
Then it was at 1.10 they began grappling with the police, right?
We have an overlay here.
At 1.10 p.m.
they began grappling with the police.
A minute later, I bring up this overlay here, at 1.11 p.m.
the White House speech ended.
The Capitol was 1.8 miles away from the speech at the White House.
How long did it take for them to actually get there when they actually started getting into the building?
I thought we had this on the map.
Get this token out and get it to move.
It's faster than the mile world record.
And it's 1.8 miles.
They did it faster than the fastest people in the history of mankind could have done it because they were really inspired by Donald Trump saying, make your voices peacefully heard.
And patriotically, by the way.
And they were heavy, some of them.
Some of them?
Some of them were heavy.
I don't want to insult anyone.
Well, they're down.
They can be a little stocky, you know?
A little golden Corelli.
And you know what's not heavy?
It's my Spartan armor.
It's Spartan armor systems we'll talk about a little bit later.
This is unbelievably light.
It's comfortable.
It's light.
I can breathe.
Even wake my bad heart.
It's not compressing it further?
And this is another claim that they're making.
They're making the claim that Trump could be convicted in the Senate impeachment trial.
Here's the thing.
Forty-five Senate Republicans, they already voted with Rand Paul, who I really do like Rand Paul.
He's one of the few guys who, just stop being so catty.
Randall is like, I love, but he doesn't need to be so bitchy.
No, he's like a gay man watching Sex and the City.
You know what, actually, I like this Bill Rand, but I just want to kick the shit out of you.
Right.
I don't know why!
So you know they're not going to do anything with it, right?
I mean, there's no way.
No, no, no.
So that means they could never reach the two-thirds of the majority required.
They could absolutely never reach the two-thirds of the majority required to impeach Donald Trump.
And you know why we put in two-thirds?
When you read back through some of the historical context, they put in two-thirds so it would not be a purely partisan issue.
Right.
Which we don't have in the House, so it's a partisan issue.
Which should be irrelevant in the era of unity, Gerald.
Don't be throwing around words like partisan that get us auto-throttled on YouTube.
So we should be unified in breaking the law.
I just bought an auto-throttler.
I just shorted the stock of an auto-throttler.
Oh, good.
Yeah, just because I'm hoping.
One of these days, when I walk off from this show, I'm just going to short the stock of some stock.
I'm just going to be like, sell your position!
I do it.
Sell your position on 7-Eleven and Racetrack!
You can buy a Quick Trip if it were publicly traded.
Family video.
I can see you doing that, actually.
Get rid of Blockbuster!
Do it now!
So do you have any opinions here, Dave, as more of a political... Look, a good example, Dave Lando is a guy who I know wasn't really political, and he's not a Republican, not necessarily a conservative, but you've sort of developed here over the last few years because you've seen this tight grip, this death grip that they try to have on, really, you made this point yesterday, the pursuit of happiness.
They're trying to take that away for the first time in American history.
The first time, yeah, it is the first time in American history that people are not able to open up their stores.
They are being punished for just being alive.
They're locked inside.
Like, you just start seeing people being attacked every single day, people going crazy.
It's sad.
And it's the first time that we've ever experienced this in this country.
Like, that's my serious opinion.
And as somebody who I would say identified like more of like a George Carlin liberal where I just hate everything.
I wouldn't really call it liberal, but I'm definitely, I move a little right now obviously
because none of, like that's not the left. This is just a group of people who want to take down
America and that's what bothers me. Well I don't even think you move to the right a little bit,
you know, like where David, like Dave Rubin is like, well it's a classic liberal because
you know where you line up.
Exactly.
Because they are the radical left.
Lockdowns are absurd.
Yes.
Locking out individual investors is absurd.
Locking down freedom of speech is absurd.
Increasing taxes on middle class businesses is absurd.
That makes you...
Talk about a wide tent.
The fact that Dave Landau would be considered an enemy of the state by someone like an AOC,
you would consider yourself moderate, they consider you radical right.
Exactly.
Because they are the radical left.
There really is only a radical left.
Let me ask, who is the moderate left?
Right now, who is the moderate left?
Joe Biden was sold as the most moderate.
And true, he doesn't know what he's signing.
I don't think so.
That's also why I think they're going to weaken at Bernie's this guy until the end of the term.
It doesn't matter what happens to him, because we just sign what's in front of you.
Well, I think we should... Another executive order, Biden.
Take a rest over the head injury doing autographs.
They're just like, just keep going.
He's like, yeah.
Well, Dave, I think one of the reasons that you have moved to the right, as you say... The only president who needs a leather helmet.
Or wore one at one time and really caused some issues.
Part of the problem, no hair pockets.
You had a case study in your hometown on what would happen if liberals got their way, right?
You saw what happened when liberals got their way.
People moved out, animals moved in, drug dealers moved in, and all kinds of craziness happened, right?
So I think you had something right in front of you to see.
I've not heard of that in Detroit, but you know, I'll take your word on it.
I hate you!
Every year there'll be like a panda or something escaping from a drug dealer's house and just walking around.
They're like, if you see a tiger out there with a pierced ear, that belongs to a guy named Tron.
Also, a rival gang is trying to take it out, but that's primarily because he pierced the gay ear.
The wrong ear.
We're not big on that in Detroit.
Joe Exotic just in.
They're great.
Joe Exotic, what a guy.
That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Look, impeachment is politically... Here's the main takeaway for impeachment, for people who are out there listening.
Look, it's silly, this is theatrics, and this is designed to fragment the country while they try to call everyone together for unity.
not interested in unity. Impeaching a former president, right, of course at the behest
Nope.
of the current former vice president, impeaching a former president is unprecedented, it's
unconstitutional, they have no interest in unifying with anyone, provided, I don't want
to say anyone, but if you have some limitations, for example, on abortions where you don't
believe that babies should be killed up until and including birth, they don't want to unify
If you believe that you should have the right to protect your life and limb and family with your own firearm and your God-ordained, constitutionally protected Second Amendment right, they don't want to unify with you.
If you believe that you should be able to express unpopular opinions on social media or out in a town square, they don't want to unify with you.
If you believe that middle-income families actually deserve the right to go to work and businesses deserve the right to hire people and open responsibly, They don't want to unify with you.
If you believe that individual investors should be able to invest their own money in the exact same kind of parlor tricks that Wall Street do, they don't want to unify with you.
They only want to unify with you if you run one of these big tech companies, if you run one of these big Wall Street firms, or if you are one of the very small percentage of Republicans who want to virtue-signal to Democrats as a part of the sham impeachment because they're starting their next Lincoln Project where they're undoubtedly molesting children in closets.
Those are the only people they want to unify with, and guess what?
I'm not putting on that team jersey, but I do put on the team jersey of a Spartan number.
We're going to talk about Devil Maxkin.
Oh, what the... Dave!
I am so sorry.
I was just playing with it.
That is a gross violation of firearm safety.
I thought you liked guns here.
I do!
I don't want to be shot with them!
Oh, I... It works!
Point that over there.
Well, you're not dead.
Well, stop pointing it at me!
Stop it!
No, it works, though!
Is it still loaded?
Thank God I decided to wear this today.
It works, though.
You're not dead.
I know!
Put it down.
Look it.
Put it down and aim it away from Joe Louis.
Finger off the trigger.
I'm not aiming it at the dog.
No, put it on the couch.
There you go.
On this couch?
Yeah, that couch.
That's fine.
Should I throw it?
Just throw it.
By the trigger?
Yeah.
Just throw it as I get to my plug.
I'm sorry.
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They're up to like 44 magnum proof and stab.
Some of them are stab proof.
Some of them are stab resistant.
Something that's really big with Spartan armor, there are a lot of armor carriers out there, and they say that they're NIJ equivalent.
That's something.
These ones are actually NIJ certified.
They're actually certified, which is a real thing.
It's a certification.
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Yeah, the thing that I had on election night, that thing was light.
The only thing is, I don't want you to shoot me too much because then it does, you know, it compromises it.
I know.
It wasn't on purpose.
Well, next time it'll be you.
I will say Allah Akbar next time.
You'll have to use a knife then.
A knife is good.
A guy in a Walmart.
So is it stab resistant?
Just depending on if it's AOC stabbing you, then it's actually stab proof?
Stab resistant.
If you're in if you're in Mitz Antifa, you can consider it stab proof.
Yeah.
Not strong enough.
If the Proud Boys show up, you might want to add some tinfoil.
They're using their parents' garbage.
Mom, I'm fighting fascists!
Stop cutting holes in the recycling bin.
By being a fascist.
Yeah, exactly.
It's basically a group of the son from Schitt's Creek.
So, let's go.
This is another thing, a lie that's agreed upon.
Do you remember this?
This is something.
Remember the double masking?
It's really important.
We're going to get to all of Fauci's flip-flops, maybe tomorrow, maybe on another day, because I think it's important for people to be held accountable.
And, of course, those in the scientific community, really those who politicize science at the top, are never held accountable.
But many of you may not remember this, so let's give you a timeline.
This wasn't that long ago.
Doctor, who hasn't seen a patient in several decades, Fauci, said that wearing two masks was something you should do.
So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense.
Okay, now don't you love how when people were talking about like hydroxychloroquine or these others, they go, well look, if this is treating some kind of an immune response, some sort of an inflamed immune response, some of the other immunomodulators or anti-inflammatories, it makes sense that they might work through the same mechanism of action.
Well, there's no science for that!
But now you're saying, when someone puts on a smiley face, don't worry, be happy, double target mask, Well, you know what?
Listen, that's good enough for me.
That's a double-blind, golden standard trial.
Well, this was taken so seriously that everyone in the current administration, including our former Vice President, wore double masks.
Here you go, look at this.
Look at all these people.
Where are you, Tocanowan?
Bring up the overlay.
Bring up the overlay, Tocanone!
We need to see all these people being stupid, Tocanone.
There you go, look at that.
You got Kamala Harris, you got Chucky, you got Butt Gig, you got Fauci himself, Butt Gig again, and Biden.
Biden actually didn't realize he had already had a mask on.
What's funny is Biden did it over an N95 mask, just because he wanted to virtue... Like, no one is saying you need a second mask over an N95 mask.
He's like, screw him!
I'll show him that I really care!
This is better!
No, I think it was a total accident.
Then he was like, you better tell them that they need this.
Biden, come on, please, Biden, it's embarrassing.
Listen, come on, I'm hanging on by a very thin thread here, man!
Barely here.
I love how he said it's common sense.
It's common sense.
Well, common sense apparently does not the scientific process make because it turns out...
There's no signs to it.
Here he is now!
Many people who feel, you know, if you really want to have an extra little bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on.
There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference, and that's the reason why the CDC has not changed their recommendation.
You dismissive prick!
This guy's like, oh, yeah, he's like, maybe some people think wearing two masks...
That was you!
They think it because of you!
It would have come from nobody else if not your little Geppetto Pinocchio ass, okay?
This guy is playing Simon Says with America.
And listen, it's not my fault.
I'm not very good at Simon Says.
I prefer bop it.
Bop it, twist it, bang it, spin it.
It's crazy.
You know what he just did, though?
He said there's nothing- Parker Brothers!
He said- Shut up.
There's nothing wrong with that.
He said there's nothing wrong with two masks.
Guess what?
There is.
There's a lot wrong with two masks!
You know why?
I don't play sorry because I'm not.
If you put two masks on, you can't get enough airflow through the mask, and so it comes in and out from the sides.
That's the most important one.
Here's the thing. There are several problems with two masks.
One, it may make the mask fit improperly or the second mask fit improperly. You're more
likely to be fiddling with it with your hands. Also, if you happen to have COVID and you are
breathing into the particles of these masks, it's like dandy lion root that you can breathe and aspirate
these particles and it can actually make it more harmful. Not to mention the fact that it makes
you look like a dick.
That's the most important one.
I don't, listen, I don't, I don't like to make absolute litmus tests.
If you wear two masks, we will never be friends.
Never.
You are not welcome to my house.
Ever.
And I have house parties with more than six people all the time.
Send the Gestapo.
I don't give a rat's ass.
Yeah, it's true, you do.
I love all the people saying, you know, taking pictures and selfies and stuff and putting it online with two masks.
It's like, oh my god.
The double mask!
People also took a picture of men, you know, themselves crying.
Selfies and put it on Instagram like that was okay.
It's like you're crying because Biden won?
You're not my friend.
Put a mask over your whole face.
Plastic, with packing.
It's so sad.
And a rubber band.
And not to mention, there's a problem.
The double mask is the mark of the anti-science beast.
Okay, the double mask is the mark of the anti-science beast because you don't believe in science, you have no respect for the scientific process, not to mention the worst effects, which are the societal ramifications of everyone being degraded, everyone being insulted and labeled a science denier if they did not in fact wear two masks.
But here you go, this is something, just in case you think it was just Dr. Fauci, this was parroted and you were actually given instructions on mainstream media Predicated on the idea of a scientific basis as to how to utilize the double mask.
Certainly if you have an immunocompromised condition or any other medical problem that is seriously compromising your immune system or you're older, then you might be a person who needs to wear two masks, especially in more dangerous situations like going out in crowded spaces.
Joe Biden does it.
Mitt Romney double-masked during the Capitol insurrection.
Tom Cruise also double-masked.
Actually putting the cloth mask first.
And then putting the surgical mask on top of it.
You just made this an N95 right here.
Wearing two good quality masks can provide an extra layer of protection.
Yeah, you gotta think it's just an added layer, an added wall between you and the world there.
With regards to doubling up on surgical or cloth masks, I would say that that adds extra protection in terms of the droplets being expelled.
Place the surgical mask on your face first.
Now place the cloth mask on top.
The cloth mask provides a physical barrier to respiratory droplets.
Well, there you go.
It turns out there's no science behind any of that.
Don't you love that instruction there?
They're going, two, and by the way, did you notice that the last one, that was Washington Post.
Yeah.
Was telling you to do it the opposite way.
Yeah.
They flipped it.
Tom Cruise was just trying to replace his two beards.
By the way, the masks don't work at all if you have facial hair.
Did you know that?
Is that true?
That's what they say.
They're like, it doesn't work.
Shave your facial hair.
So just shave our facial hair way too... Okay, what's the instruction?
Shave your facial hair.
Don't wear a mask.
Actually, you should wear a mask.
Now wear two masks.
No, put it back!
Put it back!
Put it back!
One mask!
And then at any point, if you go, hold on a second.
Is there science for any of this shit?
You're labeled a science denier.
I don't think I've ever seen someone deny science more than Fauci if his previous statement was considered science.
Every statement he makes is considered science by the left right now.
Everything he says is gospel.
Are we able to get Thomas Finnegan?
We are going to be able to get Thomas Finnegan.
We're going to be talking tomorrow about the science from tests, and listen, I want people to get tested.
By the way, anyone in the studio here who wants a vaccine, I'm just going to hit this talk to the control room.
Anyone in the control room out there who wants a vaccine, I'll pay for anyone who wants a vaccine.
I don't want one, okay?
And I want people here to understand the science, and I want people to stay safe.
Yes, of course.
But the tests have not been what we were told.
The vaccines, which they said you shouldn't trust, now they're saying you trust.
They're a little masking now, Fauci, saying there is no science for it.
The good news is, though, at least the good old Chinese are coming up with some new methods, and right now this is on... I mean, it's making its way to the public.
They feel pretty good about the new testing, a new anal swab, I think.
Oh, let's make sure we got it.
Yeah, this is... Oh, that was it.
Ah.
So this is actually what they're developing in China right now to check your viral load.
Must be their anniversary.
So, yeah, that's enough.
And I think, you know, here sometimes at Latter-day Scriber, we get an exclusive before other people do.
We get access, you know, listen, we get access to Spartan Armor,
Walther.
We have, I guess, what would you call it, sort of premier access
to the anal swab.
And Thomas Finnegan is actually testing it for you.
Time to go on the ground with Thomas Finnegan.
All right.
Thomas Finnegan, are you there, sir?
Can you hear us?
Yes, Stephen.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good morning.
Okay, let us know.
Fill us in.
What's going on?
What is this new COVID testing method?
What can people expect?
Well, it depends on how you look at it.
The way I like to look at it is we're looking for accuracy.
Okay.
And you go straight to the horse's mouth to get that.
Okay, and when can we expect the rollout?
Well, again, it depends on your location and which municipality you're in.
They all have their own schedules.
It's very district-to-district.
Exactly. And, uh...
You...
You...
Is that...
Yeah!
Mmm.
You get swabbed now!
Okay, now we have our next guest, hopefully Thomas Finnegan figures, I hope he finds what he's looking for.
He'll get it.
Really grateful.
Accuracy has no price.
It really has no price.
You can't put a price on accuracy, and watch, in two months we'll find out that does nothing for you.
Of course!
Some gay Chinese doctor like, oh, and a swab!
You must, you must, you must control your must!
It goes pretty far, it knows.
All right, now this is a good show.
This is a good show, and our next guest is a good guest.
It is time for the guest segment with Mike Rowe, everybody!
Senior Rowe, I am sorry for that introduction.
How are you, sir?
I'm living the dream, dude.
Or whatever this is.
Yeah, well, you know, you can call it whatever you want.
Some people say nightmare.
Your Twitter is Mike Rowe Works.
That still does work, ironically.
And I wanted to talk with you about a few things.
You have this new show, right?
Six Degrees with Mike Rowe.
And can you explain for people who don't know, and we'll get to what's happened with the show, what the show is, what it was about?
Sure.
But I feel duty-bound to first show you that the masks Mike Rowe Works has embraced Say, Safety Third, and we've sold a ton of them, and I just couldn't help but watch and think to myself, you know, anybody who's going to put two of those things on, why stop at two, right?
I mean, three, four, whatever.
I want those for my mom, because my mom is French-Canadian, and I just want to hear her talk about her safety turd mask.
Right, because she can't say, what, T's or H's?
She can't say T's or H's, and she adds S's where there are none, and she never used plurals where they should be.
So when we're having twins, we're going to name our daughter Eder.
So just to bust her chops.
That's awesome.
So safety turd, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
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animation, puppets, archival footage, suspicious reenactments, costumes that rarely fit,
wigs that don't cover people's heads entirely.
It's kind of a hot mess.
So it's kind of a Rube Goldberg for the social media attention span.
It is.
I mean, there was a show on years ago in the 70s called Connections, which was hosted by a brilliant guy named James Burke, who's the college professor we all wish we had.
And he He did this show, he would walk through like the Moors of England, you know, in his white leisure suit with his hair snapping in the breeze, explaining why it is that the tracks left by the first Roman chariots are of the same dimension as the tracks left on the moon by the lunar lander.
Well, and not to be confused with the Moors who, you know, changed the tint over there in Sicily.
That's another story.
Beethoven.
We should talk about Beethoven one day and his ancestry.
Christopher Walken.
True romance.
True romance.
I don't know if we can get banned for even referencing a classic film now.
That's a good point.
But that is fascinating.
And this is on Discovery.
And it's like you say, it's designed for people maybe who don't necessarily watch history shows.
But I gotta tell you, most history shows suck.
And this is why.
I was on my honeymoon, and it was the History Channel at this point, and it was raining, and there's only, you know, at a certain point you can't spare the fluids.
And so we were in our room, and it was the History Channel, or Discovery Channel, and it was, remember the mermaid special?
Oh yeah.
special on the mermaid and I didn't have cable for years and so I tuned into the history channel and
I thought it was what the history channel had been when I had seen it years ago. I said this is
about mermaids. So it sounds to me like what you're doing is actually far more valuable than what most
of these educational channels. There are always a lot of midgets who are like buying dresses.
It doesn't seem like their education. Morbidly obese people.
Yeah. Well you've also got to look out for the morbidly obese midgets which you don't see a
lot of but they're out there and it's very And they can't swim well.
No.
But they're buoyant, so it makes up for it.
I'm sorry.
Watching them shop is hilarious.
There was a time when, you know, the History Channel wasn't just an H. It was really, the whole thing was history.
And Discovery wasn't just a D. And nonfiction really meant the absence of fiction.
And reality actually meant the presence of real things.
In those days, there was a show called Dirty Jobs, which I was happy to do, that used something we called a truth cam, which was really just a documentary camera.
We never stopped rolling on that show because we never did a second take, and so I used the footage from that camera to try and prove to the viewer that we weren't completely full of crap.
Telling them a made-up story on six degrees.
We do the same thing except dirty jobs was really the making of a show about dirty jobs And this is the making of a show about a bunch of people who had some bourbon and tried to figure out a neat parlor trick based on six degrees of Kevin Bacon but couldn't find Kevin Bacon so got Mike Rowe and Yeah, well, you know what?
Listen, if you can't get a Tom Cruise, you get a Jude Law.
If you can't get a Kevin Bacon, you get a Mike Rowe.
But I would choose Mike Rowe.
One of the greatest compliments I ever got was, you know, when I could start growing a beard facial scruff at the age of 22.
I had a lady who said, I really like that.
It's like that sexy Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs.
I love she just she wouldn't stop talking about your scruff.
Yeah.
Had a lady tell me I had the sexy scruff of Mike Rowe.
I'm not a lady.
And then she told me that it looked like I had tits because I was fat at that point.
That's a hard turn.
There's pain, Steven.
Yes, there is.
That's a backhanded compliment if I've ever heard one.
It was mainly just an insult.
But I want to move to this, and then we're going to go to Mug Club exclusive because sometimes we can't talk about everything on YouTube.
He had a show, a Facebook show as well, and this was called Returning the Favor, and it was extremely popular, well-received, Now, it was cancelled, from what I understand.
I don't want to speak out of turn.
Why was the show cancelled?
Was it cancelled?
What's the story behind that?
Because, as you know, a lot of things are being removed from the history books or social media platforms these days.
Yeah, so, on my page right now, there are about 30,000 people who are fairly upset.
And on the Returning the Favor page, there are two and a half million people who just learned that One of the most popular shows on Facebook was canceled last week at the height, seemingly at the height of its popularity.
An Emmy award-winning show, Steven.
I don't know if you've noticed, but can you see the Emmy okay back there?
I can't, but I was looking at your scruff.
It's the depth of field effect.
I just can't stop looking at your puttum, but I'm sure it's lovely.
Yes, it's awesome.
Anyway, the show was canceled after four seasons and a hundred episodes, and a lot of people are assuming that it's because I may have said or done
something to run afoul of the powers that be.
And so I've been making the rounds telling my story of this thing, which is really not a terribly
exciting story. It's that the show got canceled. I don't think I did, but the show definitely did.
But why did it get canceled if it was up its height and so popular?
Now this is where it gets a little weird.
I appreciate you being diplomatic.
And I feel ignorant here.
This is like one of the worst interviews that was ever conducted was Larry King versus Jerry Seinfeld.
I don't know if you ever saw that where he goes, he goes, Jerry, he goes, Seinfeld, to be clear, wasn't canceled.
Larry wasn't cancelled.
You walked away!
Number one show of all time.
Can someone get Larry my resume?
Larry!
It was almost as good as when he asked the snowboarder, how important is the board?
Right up there with the snow.
50-50.
I kind of need two things, three if you count the weed.
So why, again, because The Ark, and I know that it was so popular, and I'm not even on Facebook, where I had to go to Facebook to watch some of these installments.
Did you get an answer as to why it was canceled?
Because you didn't cancel it.
You didn't choose to walk away.
Here's what's important to me.
The show's got a lot of fans and they're all asking me if I can take it someplace else.
A. No, I didn't own that particular show.
B. I don't want people to think I pulled the plug.
I didn't.
And C. And maybe most importantly, modesty aside, is I don't want people think the show didn't work because it wasn't successful.
All those things were true, right?
But in this stupid business that we're in, Big companies make big decisions for all sorts of incomprehensible reasons.
Dirty Jobs was cancelled at the height of its popularity, and I moped around for a couple of months not understanding how the network could make a call like that.
And this is hard for me to say.
I know what's going on with you and Facebook, and on a personal level I've been very vocal about the things that worry me.
I'm worried about censorship.
I'm worried about safe spaces.
I don't think any of that's good for the country.
And here I am with a hit show that just went away.
And the truth of it is, as best as I can tell, I didn't get cancelled.
I got fired.
And I've been fired four.
But you didn't get fired because they could swap you out.
And by the way, if you are looking to bring the show somewhere, we could bring it under the Mug Club banner and we could just, you know, retitle it Performing Favors.
But I think that you weren't fired because they would have swapped you out with another host, right?
They would have been like, and Performing Favors with Dave Rubin or, you know, whoever, you know, Tim Pool.
The show was cancelled.
Do you think it had anything to do with the fact for people who don't know, this show also was sort of highlighting the fact that we, as a society, Place so much value on overpriced college degrees.
You've been championing this cause for a long time, not because you hate the institution of education, but because you, when I hear you talk about it, I can tell that you passionately, you compassionately want people to be gainfully employed and to be able to live out the American dream.
And that, in many instances, for many people, the path is trade schools, running small businesses.
I mean, it goes back to dirty jobs, but that was a big part of your show returning the favor, correct?
Facebook has allowed me to build a foundation from really the ground up.
I mean, I started that micro works 13 years ago on Labor Day, but in 2012 we started raising money and awarding work ethic scholarships.
About five, five and a half million dollars so far.
And I couldn't have done it without Facebook, right?
And this is just a reality of the world we live in.
Of course.
You wind up, sooner or later, Kind of resenting the thing you rely upon, whether it's affordable electricity or, you know, go down the list.
Well, social media is no different.
So I'm suddenly in this position now where I've got six million people on a Facebook page.
I've been able to use it to do, I think, a pretty good thing, as well as this show, by the way, Returning the Favor, which was just a straight-up unapologetic anthem to do goodery.
I mean, we just Highlighted people in zip codes you've never been to doing nice things for their community.
It was a show tailor-made for these times.
Right.
But to your point, something weird has happened with our language today and when you talk about things like work ethic and Delayed gratification, personal responsibility, attitude, right?
All of those things go into our Work Ethic Scholarship Program and you have to sign a document, a sweat pledge, that basically says, I'm on board with all this stuff.
Right.
That position, I don't know when it happened, but sometime between 2010 and today, those words all became Problematic yeah, and for some reason more associated with one side of the aisle than the other so a lot of people on my page Right now as we're talking are like oh no your show got cancelled because you talked about work ethic for the record I don't think that's what happened, but I understand why people would look at it and say oh
What other explanation can there be?
And that's why I'm in such a profoundly weird spot.
Have you asked for answers as to why it got cancelled?
Or is that something you can't talk about?
Because it seems like they could just say, Oh, you know, you cost too much.
Everybody doing your, you know, you did your Ford commercials.
And everyone, you know, we don't, we're Facebook.
We don't have any money. We're broke.
Yeah, look, nothing to an outside objector really lines up.
Right.
If you're Facebook, you can't say we ran out of money.
On the other hand, you know how it works.
Budgets are budgets.
COVID came, their next season of shows wound up getting paid for with money that might have been allocated for this and everything got put on hold and so forth and so on.
Bottom line was, They were very gracious.
They called me.
They said, look, this sucks, but this is what we got to do.
We had a great run.
We did a hundred episodes.
Hope there are no hard feelings.
And I said, you know what?
There are no hard feelings.
I appreciate the fact that you guys support my foundation and so forth.
So right.
I would say hard feelings.
I'd say very hard feelings.
But dude, this is the thing.
This is, this is, I think part of why.
I'm petty and small minded.
So take that into account.
I am too.
I am too.
But.
Two things can be true at the same time.
They have to be.
And it's true that I share your concern for all things Libertarian and all things First Amendment.
I really do.
It's also true that I've built a foundation and a business around six million people on a Facebook page that coincidentally greenlit a show four years ago that a bunch of people also like.
Of course.
I can lean into one and I'll sound like a sycophant for big tech, or I can lean into the other and I'll sound like an anarchist in my bunker wearing a bulletproof vest or whatever's going on.
It's a sponsor.
It's a sponsor.
I get it.
It works.
But it's like, where the hell do you draw a line?
And, like, I think the country is trapped, right?
We're just trapped in one or the other.
Well, you know what?
What's Guttfeld call it?
The prison of two ideas.
I don't know.
I don't have cable.
But I do want to... So, before we go, because I want to talk a little bit more here for Mug Club members, so you can say whatever you want.
He's just a foul-mouthed little man when he gets off the YouTube.
Where can people watch The Six Degrees with Mike Rowe?
Discovery fucking plus.
Discovery plus.
It is Mike Rowe.
And by the way, everyone, we are about to leave.
We're going to be taking your chat, playing Bad Movie Lines, continuing with Mike Rowe.
Actually, we might not play Bad Movie Lines.
We might save that for tomorrow, because I'm enjoying my time with Mike Rowe.
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