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Oct. 5, 2022 - Louder with Crowder

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LIBERAL MELTDOWN: WHY ELON MUSK FINALIZES TWITTER PURCHASE!

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	🎵 Outro Music 🎵 Hey everyone.
	Whistleblower22 here.
	You may know that Joe Biden was recently seen with a blood-filled left eye during a climate town hall.
	To ignore me, this is just more proof that this actual f***ing baby boomer is too old to support a closed circulatory system.
	While this is true, the more important truth, though, here is that... No!
	I'm recording!
	...is that this answers... ...the reptilian question.
	This autist on poll pointed out the similarities between Joe Biden and a horned lizard with this disgusting ability to squirt blood from its eye.
	Uncle Joe must have felt threatened by so many questions and just couldn't suppress his natural instincts.
	I shouldn't even have to mention the other obvious similarity that old creepy Joe shares with a horny lizard.
	Thanks for watching.
	If you want to support me, you can pledge to my GoFundMe and help my command center move to a better space to make videos.
	Currently, I can only work on videos at night while my mom is asleep.
	Until next time, Whistleblower out.
	You're a stranger in love, that's what I know.
	You're a stranger in love, I got to know.
	Oh, that is deli- you know what, Tim?
	You really- Toolman, you really did help me out with that honey.
	I'm glad.
	That local honey.
	That local South American honey.
	He was very passionate about it.
	He was like, you gotta try this honey.
	Like a Jewish guy with a doctorate.
	He was like, you've never seen honey!
	I was like, I get the- I was like, I get it raw from a local farm.
	He was like, that's crap!
	What do you know from honey, you bastard?
	You don't know honey!
	There's sugar in that.
	You think your honey is clear?
	This honey is so clear!
	It's like the Jewish Donald Trump.
	Turns out he's the honey Jackie Mason.
	I got some honey.
	You gotta get your honey in a barrel.
	I don't do the honey barrel.
	I got honey.
	It's raw honey.
	It's from the orange pollen.
	I found out honey's like wine, I guess.
	People, you know what?
	Comment below if you're a honey connoisseur.
	Depends on what flowers.
	I don't know.
	That's a whole thing.
	Someone was doing a honey tasting somewhere.
	You do that?
	No, I don't.
	It was a bear.
	Yes!
	She's eating ping.
	I also love, if you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise.
	No?
	You mean you'd be surprised that there are bears in the woods?
	Or trees?
	I mean, I guess I'd be surprised of a picnic.
	Yes.
	I mean, like, that's pretty organized.
	I assumed it was allegorical, that by picnic they mean that they were tearing people apart.
	Yeah.
	That's what I would expect if I go into the woods.
	I saw Grizzly Man.
	So we have a lot to talk about today.
	The Nord Stream Pipeline.
	Right?
	What's happened there?
	There are a lot of conspiracies going around.
	I don't know.
	I don't know exactly what happened.
	Nobody really knows.
	But we have a scorecard for the United States.
	Could they be involved?
	Russia?
	Ukraine?
	And who is most likely?
	So there'll be discussion about that today.
	We'll also be discussing that Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	I think this is all one big glorified advertisement for Orvis.
	And then Elon Musk.
	Now he's going to be buying Twitter.
	That just went through.
	That is official.
	So my question to you is, do you think you'll reinstate Donald Trump's Twitter account?
	Also, I was banned from TikTok, which is fun.
	Finally!
	Yep.
	So we'll be doing that and a whole lot more.
	Gerald A., how are you?
	I'm doing well.
	How are you, man?
	I just had a popcorn kernel come loose in my mouth.
	When were you eating popcorn?
	Last night.
	That could have been three weeks ago.
	You know when the colonels, like, they get in your gums?
	Like, those things hurt, man.
	Sorry.
	You keep... They said your hands... Try to keep talking.
	No, no, no.
	Tell me more about yourself.
	Someone help me!
	Put the camera on him, tool man.
	It just came loose.
	It was in the back of my gum.
	I couldn't get rid of it.
	It just came loose, so I was saying...
	All right, okay.
	Fastest man on his feet, quickest foot in the West.
	You also, you know him, you love him.
	Dave Landau, how are you?
	Ahoy, good.
	Yourself?
	Colonel-less?
	No colonels in your life?
	No, no colonels.
	I try to avoid the popcorn unless I'm at the big picture shows.
	Is that because of the colonels?
	It's because of the colonels.
	It really is.
	They just get stuck.
	I've been doing it all day.
	I can't stop doing it.
	I'll get one in my gum and then the gum grows over it.
	Yes.
	It feels like it.
	Not really.
	It does.
	It feels like it.
	Yes, really.
	I gotta get out Tweezers, this whole thing.
	Yeah, it is a thing.
	And by the way, speaking of thing, I'll be in Oklahoma City this weekend, Saturday, October 8th.
	There's a sixth show.
	We added an 845 show.
	So you can go to livewithcrowder.com slash tour.
	Like I said, the people who run these clubs are good people and they won't be bullied.
	Let me tell you how great that club is.
	Owner of the texted me yesterday to include how much I like it too.
	Dave likes it too.
	I love his clubs.
	He's like, you could throw in on that.
	I'm like, you're a bastard.
	Alright, let's watch this first really quickly.
	There is a group of women on a podcast here, this has been making the rounds, and I guess the host, I'm not familiar with it, but the host kind of, you know, called on the task and they didn't know what to do with it.
	They're proclaiming what a wonderful thing it is for women in their 20s to not be in relationships, and they use these broad terms like explore themselves.
	Anyway, just see how this goes down.
	Yeah, like why would I take someone seriously when clearly they're not taking me seriously at all.
	Especially because we're all like in our early 20s, like this is the time to like explore and find yourself too.
	When you say explore and find yourself, does that mean just like get run through by a bunch of dudes?
	I'm just translating.
	I just want to translate.
	I'm just translating.
	I'm just translating.
	The correct answer is yes, that's what they meant.
	For girls.
	Yes.
	Here's the thing.
	We're in our 20s.
	You know, World War II was won by women in their 20s.
	That was a big part of the war effort.
	Back in the day, women in their 20s were working, they had children, they had established families, they had a home.
	And I know you say the deck is decked against you so you can't do it.
	It's completely untrue.
	You don't have To, in your 20s, have a bunch of meaningless relationships in one night stands.
	If you want to, fine.
	Just don't espouse it to other girls, although that's the norm.
	They played baseball with Rosie O'Donnell?
	Yep.
	They did.
	They did that too, yes.
	Until their window closes.
	That's the problem.
	There's no ovulating in baseball!
	No.
	Is she peeing that long?
	Oh no.
	Here's a... Women, look.
	And we'll get to Megyn Kelly in a second.
	Now she's taking flack because of what she said about the Kardashians.
	It's this vanity.
	Look.
	It is true.
	There is a double standard, just to be clear.
	And it's not that we're setting it.
	Biology is setting the standard.
	Men don't have that kind of a window.
	Men can have kids well into their, gosh, Abraham.
	I mean, you go, like, probably into your 90s.
	I don't know, but I'm sure it can be done.
	I mean, you need assistance.
	But you do have a certain window.
	And if you're saying, oh, I'm going to waste my 20s, And women often get into their 30s and they go, oh, oh, oh,
	they end up settling.
	You say, I'm not going to settle for anything less than perfect when you're in your 20s,
	and then you end up settling for a trash bag in your 30s because now you're up against the clock.
	And I'm not saying, just to be clear, people use this term slut shaming all the time.
	No, look, that's not, I'm not slut shaming anybody, okay?
	That being said, look, can we all acknowledge that not most women are whores, okay?
	Let's be clear about it.
	Probably not even a plurality, okay?
	But some are!
	And it's a bad idea!
	Are we not allowed to say that some are at this point?
	I don't know if you're just going into it with the mindset of, I am going to sleep around.
	Because it's my 20s, some women are!
	And we'd like to thank your dad.
	By that we mean stepdad.
	And second stepdad.
	Yes, and third Z's.
	The one that didn't go to jail.
	And the guy who kissed you at the PTA meeting.
	Why don't you just find guys that are serious about you?
	Don't settle for the guys that obviously aren't taking you seriously.
	By the way, if you want to be taken seriously, be somebody that can be taken seriously as well.
	It didn't quite look like that, but you're young, I get it.
	It's this baseline. It's this baseline of, well, we're in our 20s, this is what we do.
	Same thing happens in college. You know, I was in college, so I, you know, was getting ripped all the time.
	Look, I drink. I'm not someone who, I don't drink a lot.
	I have no problem with people who drink.
	I have no problem with people who do these things responsibly.
	But to say, well, the baseline is if you're in college, it's four years of glorified alcoholism.
	It doesn't have to be that way.
	And this is perpetuated by, of course, the entertainment industry saying, well, this is what women should do in your 20s.
	This is what you should do in college.
	No, no, no.
	You can make good decisions at any point in your life.
	And they're so dumbfounded.
	No, that's not what we mean.
	Well, what do you mean?
	I mean, you know, have a bunch of relationships and sleep with a lot of guys.
	OK, here's the issue.
	And I will say, it is a double standard when people say, why am I a slut if I do this?
	And men aren't.
	OK, that is true.
	Here's why.
	You're the gatekeeper!
	Women should say no.
	And men should, of course, respect no.
	To be clear.
	Your set point, women, you control access to sex, right?
	Because your natural set point is no, I don't know, prove your worth.
	A man's natural set point is please!
	So, you are the rate-limiting factor.
	Take advantage of it.
	We've tried to empower women by stripping them of something with which they're powerful.
	The ability to pick a suitor.
	You've given it away!
	Yeah, you have, uh, you have value.
	Yes!
	You know?
	You have inherent value!
	Yeah, that you can use.
	Like, if I ever hit rock bottom, I just can't go out and sell myself.
	No, you can't!
	No.
	Well, you can.
	It's just gonna be to other men.
	Yes, exactly.
	Conjugal visits.
	And that being said, Dave, just so you know, you don't know how big of a heart this guy has.
	He does the conjugal visits just to put a smile on their faces.
	I do.
	It is.
	And they grin ear to ear.
	Dave goes down to these hurricane stricken areas and he's like, guys, I'm open season, I know it's a tough time, come on.
	My mouth is a hurricane.
	It's his version of USO.
	It's just FEMA and him and titty tassels.
	I please them with a tornado.
	That's what they call it, huh?
	It's an F5!
	Ah, it's more like an F1.
	So this ties into... do we have it?
	Megyn Kelly.
	Megyn Kelly is catching flack right now.
	And for whoever you line up, if you agree with Megyn Kelly or not... She looks like a penis, I'm sorry.
	Oh, okay, okay.
	There's a rocket going on, I know.
	We're all children.
	Guys, I'm a gay.
	Oh boy.
	I'm not.
	That does, though.
	So Megyn Kelly is catching flack.
	For what she said.
	People are mislabeling this, just saying she just called the Kardashians evil.
	That's actually not what she said.
	And I think she had a pretty good point.
	And I think that she actually couched it pretty effectively.
	And I think that a lot of women would do well to listen to it.
	And by the way, men, you would do well to look for a woman who expresses these kinds of sentiments and values.
	It's just opinion.
	Let's roll Megyn Kelly.
	What I object to, back on the Kardashians, is the Unrivaled vanity.
	Like, the self-promotional, out-of-control, focus on one's self, ego, clicks, likes.
	They're hugely responsible for that in our society.
	They didn't do it by themselves, but more than any other, they've had a terrible effect in that lane.
	And I do blame them.
	I do.
	I asked them.
	I interviewed them and I said, are you a force for good or are you a force for evil?
	And they gave me their answer.
	But the more I've watched them over the years, the more I think, net-net, it's evil.
	I don't think this is healthy.
	And that's what I object to.
	It's like they're disgusting vanity, which has spread like wildfire in our society.
	The selfie culture is abhorrent to me.
	I think that's what I'm responding to, as opposed to some titillation from a beautiful woman here and there.
	And she was talking about how there were some spreads, where there were some news spreads, you know, in an appropriate venue, how she doesn't have a problem with that.
	Look, I agree with what you said.
	And people get really, they get really up in arms when you use the term evil.
	Why?
	Because that means you're making a moral judgment.
	We're not allowed to do that anymore.
	And if you say, well, hold on a second, maybe you shouldn't say that.
	Is that slut shaming?
	No.
	Evil?
	Well, what are you saying?
	No, no, look, look.
	You serve a master.
	We need to acknowledge this, and people who are serving ultimately evil can do good things, and people who are trying to do good can do evil things.
	That is true.
	But, if you are not serving good, if you are not pursuing good, ultimately, you are, at the very least, a valuable tool in the service of evil.
	And you have to ask, do you think it's a good thing for a young woman to say, hey, I could go to school, I could become a nurse, I could go to school, I could become an engineer, or I can have sex with a DJ and sell it for millions of dollars.
	It's the vanity.
	It's the self-worship.
	A lot of people think idolatry is a golden calf.
	Look, no.
	People idolize themselves.
	It's self-worship.
	You've created yourself as your own idol.
	Doesn't mean that you can't be beautiful.
	Doesn't mean that you shouldn't understand, like we just said, your worth, your value.
	But that shouldn't be the value that supersedes everything else in your life.
	And we really have placed an unbelievable premium on vanity, and unfortunately it is.
	It's a path Right now it's the easiest path to success for a lot of young women.
	You see it all the time.
	I mean, young women, like, it wasn't an option, just only fans.
	That's not healthy.
	I just can't believe somebody insulted a Kardashian.
	Stepped out on a limb.
	But she's catching flack for it, not because people hate the Kardashians, but they hate the moral judgment more.
	How dare you say that?
	Look, it's her opinion.
	I think she's right.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Is it really a chicken or the egg thing, though?
	I mean, you have to look at reality television came before them.
	I mean, OJ, as a result, they were spawned off of that.
	They're making money by whatever you want to call the influencing, whatever it is.
	There's so much of that in our culture that I wouldn't just blame them.
	I wouldn't be able to call them evil and not just say it's kind of part of the entire internet wave that we've created as a culture.
	But she didn't call them evil.
	She didn't say you're evil.
	She's saying the culture of it can be.
	She's saying, yes, are you a force for evil?
	In other words, people may not realize it.
	She's not saying you're an evil person, but ultimately it's an evil force.
	Look, young women are unhappy and young men don't want to get married.
	You can argue until you're blue in the face that what we're saying is wrong and it's offensive, but it's like, that's just a fact.
	Women are less happy than ever.
	In modern American history, fewer men than ever want to get married.
	Not all women, but most women want to get married.
	You're having slimmer and slimmer prospects.
	Ultimately, are you being a force for good?
	Really, this is an open-ended conversation.
	I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about it.
	I think it's more important than taxes.
	That's just me.
	Also, Velma's a lesbian.
	Never could have seen that coming.
	You talking about that lesbo from Scooby-Doo?
	I'm talking about the lesbo from Scooby-Doo.
	You talking about that ugly broad who has no prospects?
	I guess switch teams?
	And I would have gotten away with it too if not for those scissoring kids.
	So, here's Scooby-Doo, now, uh, Velma, uh, this is, is now, I guess, officially or unofficially... Aw, jinkies.
	Uh... What was it?
	No, Zoinks, Screech?
	Zoinks!
	Zoinks was them, yeah.
	I walked in and they were doing an Iron Cross!
	If you think it's weird how Scooby-Doo eats a sandwich, you should see Velma.
	Look what I found!
	Was it a ghost?
	No!
	Bzzzzzz booked Kngnng Anna
	Here we go.
	Velma's a lesbian.
	And as promised, here are your Scooby Snacks.
	Jinkies.
	I'm sure that Coco made some brilliant observations of the encounter we just had.
	The cute ones, right?
	Esteban, show them my brilliant observations.
	Okay, so look, here's the macro.
	I don't care if you want to have a lesbian character.
	When you have people who are gay or lesbian, which is atypical, and by that I mean it's always been about 2% of the population, now it's claimed to be 7% when you go LGBTQAIP and that includes queer and bisexual.
	Uh, but a very small percentage of the population.
	So it necessitates a conversation with kids.
	Hold on a second.
	What is that?
	Why is a woman making out with a woman?
	Why are they having a romantic relationship?
	Because it doesn't necessitate a sexual follow-up question if you just see a man and a woman.
	Because that is the norm.
	Right.
	It does if it's a typical kids ask questions.
	So I don't think it should be injected into kids shows.
	The other thing, though, is look, there are plenty of lesbian characters and gay characters.
	There's not a problem with that, right?
	The BBC has it as low as references available at lateralthecardiot.com.
	2021, they said 12%.
	Of all U.S.
	TV characters, we're LGBTQ.
	And I've actually seen that number as high as 16%.
	Let's call it 12-14%.
	It's still at least more than double, likely triple, that of the pop.
	There are plenty of gay and lesbian characters.
	They're just not as popular.
	So if we're gonna bitch about appropriation, why do you need to take a straight character and make her lesbian?
	Just go make your own!
	It's not our fault people don't want to watch it!
	Just because we don't want to watch a bunch of cartoon women shop at Bass Pro!
	That's true.
	Fast Pro or Orbis.
	This is the sexiest she's ever sat, by the way, which was a little bit weird.
	That was a little weird.
	Very high skirt there.
	Yeah, and she's never really worn anything that low.
	It was a Fox News camera.
	Yeah, it was.
	I want more legs.
	Glass desks.
	Roger Ailes presents Scooby-Doo.
	I found the ghost of Ailes in the green room!
	Oh boy, there's sectoplasm everywhere!
	But that's the one mystery they couldn't solve.
	She was always peeping Velma.
	They'd pull off her mask and it's old man McNeely, the sex offender who runs like the haunted amusement park.
	He's just dressed as Velma to hook high school girls.
	I just thought Shaggy was bi because he just puts everything in his mouth.
	Yes.
	Oh, what?
	Half the cartoons are going to start coming out of the closet.
	Shira is what?
	Daria?
	Oh, yeah.
	By the way, I might have some inside information on Francine from Arthur.
	What?
	I don't know.
	I think SpongeBob is gay, but I don't know if that's true.
	He's probably into weird stuff, though, because he's got a lot of holes.
	He's a very convenient gay sponge.
	Yes.
	I think Peppermint Patty recently said she was gay.
	Yeah, I believe Velma and Patty dated after Velma was dumped by Anne Heche.
	You know, really, she just needs to find herself some cartoon Jesus.
	Yes, she does.
	Yes, she does.
	Find you some cartoon Jesus!
	Right now!
	We go to look for the ghost, he's not there.
	Uh-oh.
	They ate a lot of old meats out of haunted places.
	Yes, they did.
	It's an old haunted mansion and you're just making a sandwich?
	Right, yeah.
	I don't get the ghost thing.
	Why are you not sick all the time?
	I don't understand.
	They are.
	It's to hide the AIDS.
	Yes.
	No, she's a lesbian.
	Oh, no, I meant the other guys.
	Oh, come on.
	It's SpongeBob.
	Just riddled with it.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Those aren't holes.
	It's not even a sponge.
	Let's move on to Elon Musk here.
	Elon Musk.
	Has agreed to continue now with the, and this isn't necessarily new, but there are some developments, the $44 billion purchase of, and that was the original price too.
	That's what kind of surprised us is with the bots issue.
	We thought that there would be, the deal fell through.
	We thought, okay, there would be sort of a scaling back of the price of negotiation.
	No, we're still at $44 billion and now it looks like it's going to go through.
	Elon has agreed to purchase Twitter for that price.
	Silicon Valley's latest soap opera looks like it might be coming to an end, with Musk saying today he's ready to buy.
	But if Musk owns Twitter, will it be good for users?
	And how about for business?
	A professor of social media says, maybe.
	Twitter might work better operationally under Musk.
	He knows how to run companies and make money.
	Twitter's been in chaos for a decade, cycling through various CEOs.
	But what about the tone of a Musk-run Twitter?
	He's never shied away from controversy, calling the platform's decision to ban Donald Trump, quote, morally wrong and flat-out stupid.
	And I think that statement is morally simplistic and flat-out inaccurate.
	He's also promised to bring Trump back to Twitter if the deal went through.
	Here's a random lady saying something that's inconsequential.
	News.
	I think he's wrong.
	Thank you.
	What, does this guy on CNN have two abscesses?
	Oh my goodness.
	What is that?
	That's the weirdest shaped face.
	Is that an odd face?
	It looks like he's in a mirror house.
	It looks like a folded magazine rack.
	What's his voice like?
	I would imagine it sounds like this.
	I cannot find a collar shirt to fit me worth a darn.
	Everything hurts.
	It's a silly play.
	News!
	Real news.
	My point is, news isn't real.
	It's been an illusion for so long.
	A lot of people say, you can't trust the new media people.
	They're just showing tweets and people just saying things.
	I don't care.
	I don't care!
	So, couple of things here.
	Question is, what's the long game?
	What I do care about is, what's the long game, right?
	For Elon Musk with Twitter.
	And I also should note, you know, I lost like 10,000 Twitter followers overnight.
	Yeah, the purge happened again yesterday.
	It happened with Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool.
	Not to the same degree.
	Remember when Elon Musk announced he was going to purchase Twitter?
	We gained hundreds of thousands of followers over the course of a couple of weeks, right?
	And he actually came out and he spoke out against the shadow banning, right?
	The throttling.
	And then they said, oh my gosh, he's gonna have access to our books.
	The theory was, we don't know, all of a sudden we start gaining all these followers, we were showing up in people's feeds.
	Now with this deal going through, obviously he's made a big stink about bots.
	He said they've grossly underestimated the amount of bots, fake accounts.
	Looks like the purchase is going through, and now accounts are being removed.
	So the point is he could be calling he could be calling the shots there But certainly he has influence someone like an Elon Musk has influence and has influence beyond just owning Twitter But even just what he says about these platforms, you know, they have to hop to algorithms change We don't know exactly what changed we do know that things changed twice and the two things that changed are Obviously, the central concerns that he expressed were the
	reasons for that change.
	Yeah, absolutely. And I really do hope that he puts Donald Trump back on the platform immediately.
	Right? And so we'll see. We'll see if the follower count goes back up.
	Because if they did return to kind of their old ways, because the follower
	counts kind of leveled off for a little while and they didn't really climb as much anymore.
	And so if they've gone back to their old ways, hopefully this will be the thing that finally
	breaks that trend. And Elon can be like, okay, let's just, people will follow whoever they want
	Stop making it to where they can't be seen.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Well, also the Twitter stock price, you know, it surged.
	Yeah.
	And so that does beg the question, okay, the only currency that Twitter really has, and this is something we run into with YouTube by the way, their currency is their user base.
	A lot of these new media companies, these social media companies, they've had a tough time monetizing.
	I don't even know if YouTube has yet to make a dime.
	I know for years they didn't.
	Maybe they have now.
	So their currency is eyeballs and ears.
	And so this is the market responding.
	They obviously would believe, we're all making the presumption, that Elon Musk would be more supportive of an open platform.
	So, in other words, the speculators are saying, hey, that'll be good for this company, whose currency is eyeballs and ears.
	What does that mean?
	That means that they're saying, they're making an inference, right?
	They're saying, okay, so if Elon Musk purchases Twitter, which is not worth all that much, it's been a shitty platform for a very long time, dead last when we're talking about the big arms race for social media.
	If he ends up taking control and he allows for more, that'll actually make the platform more valuable because more people will want to be there.
	When you hear the argument in media, it's, well, should they be doing more to remove people and make it safer?
	Or should they be doing less and make, well, guess what?
	The market has spoken.
	Doing less, allowing more voices, is better for these companies.
	These people have nothing other than a financial interest in trying to determine where this is going to go.
	Elon Musk has said, I want this to be a more open platform.
	I think there's not enough transparency.
	There's too much shadow banning, throttling.
	I think there are too many bots.
	And then when we find out, OK, Elon Musk is going to be in charge of Twitter, so you can make the inference.
	He's most likely going to make it a more open platform.
	Speculators say, oh, maybe Twitter has a shot.
	That's a silver lining.
	That means more speech is better.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And also these big banks that joined in.
	Like, a lot of this funding is coming from big banks, except for the one that I think Twitter was currently using.
	They were the only people left out of the transaction.
	I'm not kidding.
	Elon Musk has a little bit of Donald Trump in him where he's like, all right, we're going to take every big bank out there except for you, the one that's currently working with Twitter.
	Right.
	It's like, oh, okay.
	Thanks a lot.
	Listen, will all the banks who will be involved with this new purchase step forward?
	Not so fast.
	All the confident banks, you stay back.
	I'm saying that's what Donald Trump would do.
	I think the broader point here is that obviously there's some value in buying a company, right?
	So big picture issue is if you see a company and you say, okay, I like what they have, I can make it better.
	I can do it in a way that they're not doing it right now.
	I'm not just necessarily going to kind of incrementally improve the platform.
	I can take it and make it something better.
	I think that's what Elon is going after.
	And we have some information about his relationship.
	Before that, you know what else is big time? Important?
	Hit the like button, that's what helps with the algorithm.
	And by the way, every little time you hit the like button, a YouTube demon angel loses its wings.
	They rip them off like a mayfly.
	A blue haired lesbian becomes a blonde again.
	They hate it. They hate it, so hit like.
	And you had some information this year, some insight.
	Yeah, so it's really interesting.
	So some of the court documents about this, and that's come forward because of the lawsuit.
	Make it not boring, Joe.
	Yeah, saying that they were going to back out of the deal.
	They actually show a relationship between Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk.
	And so we've got some tweets on April 26.
	Did Jack Dorsey try and sell him Wilson?
	He did not.
	Yeah, he wanted to hold on to that.
	Elon!
	Yes, a new platform is needed.
	It can't be a company.
	That is why I left.
	And so Elon responded to it basically saying, OK, what should it look like?
	And Dorsey said, I believe it should be an open source protocol.
	Otherwise, we have surface area.
	Interesting point here.
	Surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control.
	Jack Dorsey's not for that.
	Right.
	In this comment.
	He's not for the government stepping in and saying what you can and can't do.
	He's not for advertisers directing you to shut up.
	And it's what we've been saying forever and in front of the cameras Jack Dorsey's been saying no.
	Right.
	And now behind the scenes... He's been posturing.
	I think I received three or four more notifications from Twitter this week that I was in violation of German law.
	Because of speech codes.
	Still.
	So how can you be a business that's based in the United States and be beholden to German... Are you beholden to Chinese speech laws?
	This is the issue, right?
	And Jack Dorsey knows it's a problem.
	But in front of the scenes, I bet you if you were to talk with a bunch of Hollywood producers, too, they'd be like, yeah, we had to change Red Dawn from China to North Korea.
	This is complete horse crap.
	But we have to appease these guys because it's a market.
	That's something Jack Dorsey has to do behind closed doors.
	Just from a business perspective, he gets it.
	It's not good.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And Elon's a dreamer, man.
	He's trying to come up with these crazy, awesome ideas for the world sometimes.
	Obviously, he benefits from a lot of these things, too.
	But he said, here, super interesting idea.
	And then Jack Dorsey tells him he's off of the Twitter board.
	In a little while, I can do this work and fix our mistakes.
	Twitter started as protocol.
	It should have never been a company.
	That was the original sin.
	And then Elon comes in and says, I'd like to help if I'm able to.
	So it's really interesting to see these two guys.
	That would be the perfect combination.
	Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey both kind of moving in the same direction.
	Elon maintained ownership in X.com.
	After the PayPal merger, after he left, he kept that with him, right?
	He always loved having that company.
	He wants it to be like, just so you know, it's like the everything app.
	Right.
	And so that's what he tweeted out, saying that this acquisition was an accelerant for that.
	Maybe giving us a little bit of a glimpse as to why he thought Twitter was a good purchase in the first place.
	It could be just a technology base.
	It could be something that he's like, I can take what they have and make it so much more than it currently is.
	And then it's worth a multiple of what he bought it for.
	I don't trust Jack Dorsey.
	You don't trust Jack?
	No, I don't.
	I don't either.
	Why would I?
	No.
	Why would I?
	Why are you surprised by that?
	We just read private messages that seems like this guy's on the right side of this.
	You're surprised I don't trust Jack Dorsey?
	I am absolutely surprised.
	Every time he's interviewed, he's in a suit with ear spreaders like he's in court.
	Well, I don't trust that he knows fast.
	Like gauged gross crits.
	Yeah.
	But I'm just, well.
	Yeah.
	Like a rich, gauged gross crits.
	I thought it was the same guy.
	Yeah, me too.
	Yeah, he's got all of his... Yeah, I'm not gonna say it.
	We'll probably get banned.
	But no, he said the right things here.
	If he's not just posturing for Elon... He did here.
	Listen, if you are the CEO of this company, he's also the CEO of Square.
	He has a responsibility to those companies.
	Otherwise, he gets removed from being CEO and can't do anything about it, right?
	Yeah.
	So if he had to posture, I don't agree with it, but I understand it.
	If now he's saying, I want to correct the original sin, fine.
	Show me that you actually mean it, but it gives me some hope.
	You're right.
	I could just be jealous because I put all my investments in trapezoid.
	That's true.
	Is that a thing?
	I prefer octagons.
	The hell's that?
	I want to throw my heavy tactical pen at him.
	What do you think?
	Look, comment below.
	You trust the Jack Dorsey thing?
	I do like Simmons behind the scenes.
	Oh damn, you oblong!
	Cuts to a guy whose face is just...
	Without naming names, Dave, you and I know this.
	Yes.
	A lot of people who host these podcasts, even, and certainly a lot of people in the entertainment industry,
	they are far more conservative behind the scenes.
	Of course.
	Than they let on.
	Yes.
	Even people who are like, I'm sort of middle of the road, centrist middle of the road people,
	and I would never out them, but behind the scenes, you realize how right-wing they are.
	Because what happens is, they start with speech.
	They start with supporting the idea of freedom.
	And then the more successful they become, they realize, oh, wait a second, there is a boys club, and they want to take all of my money, so now they become conservative fiscally.
	And then the longer they go, you realize you can't really separate.
	You can't separate these things.
	When I see comedians, we'll talk about this tomorrow, like Bill Burr saying, what's wrong with socialism?
	Well, you can't separate a socialist government from every single government that is even full-on socialist, moderate socialist, Nordic socialist model, European socialism, and a complete control over your speech and autonomy.
	You can't separate them.
	And so people who maybe present themselves as centric, they are far more right-wing minded.
	I run into it all the time and they say, you know, I'm just, I gotta play ball.
	Yeah, and the minute they start leaning to the right, like Elon has here, he started leaning to the right and all of a sudden he has come under heavy fire from everyone.
	I lean right in every facet.
	Every guy knows you have to pick a side.
	Do you go left or do you go right?
	You don't have to pick a side.
	You do.
	Well... Dave, do you go left or do you go right?
	I go right.
	Yeah, I go right.
	What, did you just go straight forward?
	You can't go straight forward.
	When you sit down and the jeans become a seam, it's like a high-tension cable wire.
	What are you, build Hondas all day?
	I just wear Z Cavaricci, so I have plenty of room.
	I don't know what that means.
	Okay.
	Hammer pants.
	Oh yeah!
	I didn't know that's what they were called.
	Cause he's all like, can't touch this.
	I got plenty of room to touch this.
	That's like him with all of his previously hard assets.
	So speaking of it, we're going to get to the Nord Stream issue, okay?
	And that's going to take a little bit of time.
	So I just want to let you know, we're not going to get too crazy nerdy, but I do want to give you the ins and outs and the potential players there.
	But before that, I do want to take a victory lap here.
	I have been trying to get banned from TikTok since February of 2022 because it's run by communist bastards.
	Now, they had banned me before, and then they decided they weren't going to ban me.
	It was just too much work.
	I hate having to upload crap to all of these different places, and their guidelines are incredibly strict.
	So they wouldn't ban us when we were doing it.
	We did the ban, ban me from TikTok segment for a long time, if you remember.
	They never banned us.
	Tried hard.
	Now, here's my theory.
	They banned us just two days ago.
	I don't care.
	days ago in the dead of night. I think they deliberately avoided banning us
	when we were saying please ban us because they realized the optics would
	look bad like well okay hold on he criticized the Chinese communist Chinese
	government he said ban us we ban him that's going to look bad so they waited
	until it died down and then they banned us recently. I don't care. Thank you.
	Finally.
	So, just so we put a close to this chapter, mission accomplished, with all of this, screw the CCP, screw Xi Jinping, and TikTok, well at least my TikTok, time to close.
	I can't in good conscience remain on the platform on TikTok.
	I've already been banned like three times.
	I was going to manually delete TikTok, was the plan, like on my phone, go look, and then I realized, wait a second, I don't need to do that.
	I can just say, I can just say true things.
	Okay, all right, let's try this for TikTok.
	Mao's great leap forward led to the death of 45 million Chinese citizens.
	Xi Jinping plagiarized your doctoral thesis.
	On June 4th, 1989, the CCP murdered thousands of protesters at the Tiananmen Square.
	The nine dash line isn't real.
	End it for me.
	Mercy.
	Come on.
	are ending and beginning now.
	Time to close.
	It's time to go to places where you go.
	End it for me. Mercy. Come on.
	Ban me.
	I don't want to have to upload stuff to your platform anymore,
	but I'm not going to do it myself.
	China, I'm talking to you.
	Not him, China, you.
	I think all of us can say this in unity on the count of three.
	Three, two, fuck the CCP!
	Oh bother.
	Arigato, which I know is Japanese, I don't know how to say thank you in Chinese.
	How do you say thank you in one of the Chinese's?
	In Mandarin?
	Not the one they use in Hong Kong.
	I don't know.
	That's Cantonese.
	I know.
	Mandarin Cantonese.
	Just so people don't go, oh you don't know anything.
	The point is I'm trying to be offensive.
	You bow?
	Do you bow?
	I don't know if you bow in China.
	Do you bow in China?
	I feel like you bow, they hit you over the head and put you in a Uyghur camp.
	That's true.
	Maybe that is Japanese, the bow.
	That's how you say thank you.
	I do know Japanese because of, uh, remember the Big Bird movie?
	Yeah.
	When we were kids, we would say, Dad, put on Big Bird Turns Blue because they, like, they beat him like he's an elephant in a circus and he turns blue.
	What was it?
	It was, uh, it was, uh... Sorry, that was, that was thank you in Chinese.
	Let me hear it.
	I caught that.
	I don't trust that.
	I feel like you're insulting me and not telling me.
	Orogato means thank you.
	That's my favorite one.
	But one, two, three means ichi, ni, san.
	If someone finds the Japanese song from... I haven't heard it in years.
	It's... Something is good morning.
	That's my favorite one.
	But one, two, three.
	I'm pretty close.
	It's ichi, ni, san.
	They're singing the big bird.
	He's like, ichi, ni, san!
	And then he gets, you know, like...
	I don't know.
	Oscar tried to sell him some crack.
	I don't remember.
	Oscar's a grouch.
	I'm just sad we can't.
	He's a homeless addict.
	Was it to Dave Chappelle?
	Like, Oscar's grouchy.
	Bitch!
	I live in a trash can!
	You'd be angry too!
	That's why your kid's stepping over homeless people.
	Get it together, grouch.
	Snuffleupagus.
	I'm sick, bird.
	I want some smack, bird.
	Brought to you by the letter E. His pupils just... Maybe if you just gave him some painkillers, he'd be like, not that grouchy.
	He's like, oh man, I feel pretty good.
	Not to mention those Muppets who clearly had a stroke where the only word they can remember is yep.
	Yeah, there's a lot going on on Sesame Street that I think is behind closed doors.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Can you say anything else?
	Yep, yep, yep.
	Oh, it's Stroke Muppet.
	Oh, he's fun.
	Yeah, there's a stroke.
	They can only say yep.
	And I can say, as my grandfather had a stroke, he could only say yes.
	He couldn't say no.
	But he could sing Happy Birthday every single year to my dad.
	Really?
	Yeah, not to put a damper on it, but it's a different side of the brain.
	My point is Sesame Street is awful, and a lot of them are likely pedophiles.
	Allegedly.
	So.
	Elmo.
	Allegedly.
	I have a story about that.
	I don't know if we'll get banned for it.
	You know, that guy, Elmo, he said he had consensual relationships.
	Okay, look, I'm sorry.
	Today's one of those days.
	Just go with me here.
	The guy did the Elmo voice, right?
	He claimed it was a consensual sexual relationship with young men while he was married.
	The allegations, there were many, were that these people were underage, like 16 years old.
	Okay, here's the thing.
	They fired him at Sesame Street, or he resigned.
	But if you go and watch the Dark Crystal making of the show, he's there.
	Really?
	He's there puppeteering.
	Yeah.
	So in other words, it was clearly just for show.
	So whether he did it or not, he obviously had done something, or the situation was untenable, where they wanted him to resign publicly.
	But behind the scenes, if you guys have watched The Dark Knight, it's not really a great series, just so you know, it doesn't really do the film justice.
	But the making of documentary, you can see that alleged pedophile Elmo puppeteer right there.
	And at one point, I swear to you, he almost looks away from the camera.
	Like they're showing, look, this is how we do it.
	And he's like, uh oh.
	Uh oh.
	Oh, that's creepy.
	I just thought it was creepy.
	I thought it was creepy.
	Why risk it?
	Why risk it?
	Why have them involved with anything that has to do with children? Are you old enough to drive that makes Elmo say?
	Five nos and a yes means we're doing this Little little wire moves the hand
	Meow!
	Right there!
	You hold the puppet.
	Do you know Elmo's song?
	Is it Elmo's role?
	No, it's... Shh!
	Don't tell!
	Do you want Elmo to hurt your sister?
	Elmo has a picture of your dog tied up in his closet.
	Elmo doesn't want to hurt your dog.
	That'd make Elmo sad.
	Put on this latex.
	Take me down to Sesame Street.
	But you buy the letter S!
	Ay!
	Ice tea comes in.
	You're a pedophile, Elmo.
	You beat your wife!
	Elmo's punchy, wow.
	That's true.
	Where's Coco?
	Icing her eye.
	I only said it because he did the advertisements against domestic abuse.
	I was like, I don't buy it.
	He's like, take it from me.
	Domestic abuse is bad.
	It's bad.
	Take it from this bitch.
	I got sentenced to four commercials.
	I gotta do car shoes.
	He zooms out, he has a pokey stick, he's picking up trash.
	Stop eating you bitches.
	Alright.
	Picking up tiny furry Elmo condoms.
	It's just ribbed felt.
	All right, all right.
	We've got to get to the Nord Stream.
	I know you probably don't care about it, but here's the macro point that I want to make, and we'll get to what's happened with the Nord Stream, and people have different suspicions.
	I want to be clear.
	We don't have all of the answers.
	Anyone who tells you they have all the answers is lying.
	I do have my suspicions.
	Gerald has his suspicions, and all references are available at ladderwithcreditor.com.
	I try and tell you if I'm making an inference or if I'm making a guess.
	We are putting together some guesswork today because the information is just hitting you constantly.
	There's no way around it.
	I was going to say something else about Elmo, but now I lost it.
	Okay.
	So let me start with this.
	A big problem here that we're dealing with and we're talking about, none of this should matter as it relates to the United States.
	Nord Stream.
	Because we shouldn't be dependent on anybody.
	And I'll get to that back in a second.
	You know what?
	The left understands this.
	Nationalism is good for the environment.
	Let me give you an analogy before I get to that.
	You know how the left knows this is the case?
	Homesteading.
	Right?
	Living off the grid.
	Well, why can you be more green?
	Why can you be more effective?
	And, you know, the idea is that you'll have less waste.
	Less waste.
	That you'll be more efficient with your energy.
	Why can you do that if you have your own individual generator power?
	Oh, you mean because the municipal government doesn't know how to provide energy for you and how to handle your waste better than you would if left to make your own decisions?
	Let's just expand that to national borders.
	Of course, the United States would know better how to provide for our own energy than Saudi Arabia, than, for many European countries of course, Russia, China.
	Take your pick.
	Of course we would!
	We should all be responsible for our own energy in the perfect world, if we could be.
	The good news is, in the United States, we absolutely can be.
	We choose not to be, and so we are beholden to these nations.
	Uh, who have no EPA standards, who couldn't give a rat's ass about protecting the environment, and also, we have to transport energy across the ocean where there are countless number of spills, and I don't know if you know this, it requires energy to run boats.
	So, that's to set this up.
	Now we'll go to Nord Stream, okay?
	Last week, Nord Stream 1 and 2, you know, they were both seemingly sabotaged.
	So, uh, my question to you is, who do you think sabotaged Nord Stream?
	Before we get into this.
	Today, right now, Joe Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, now is talking tough and blaming Putin and the Russians.
	It was a deliberate act of sabotage, and now the Russians are pumping out disinformation in lines.
	We're going to work with our allies to get to the bottom of exactly what, precisely what happened.
	And at my direction, I've already begun to help our allies enhance the protection of this critical infrastructure.
	But the Anglo-Saxons have had enough of sanctions.
	They have switched to sabotage.
	It's incredible, but it's a fact.
	They have organized explosions on the international gas lines of the Northern Stream, which run along the bottom of the Balkan Sea.
	In fact, they have begun to destroy the general European energy infrastructure.
	Okay, so Biden is talking tough on Putin right now, which I don't have a problem with.
	I think Putin's a prick, just to be clear.
	None of this is Russian apologetics, if that's a term that I can use appropriately.
	Because you'll be accused of it.
	Yes, you'll be accused of it.
	So, people have said that there are conspiracies floating around.
	that the United States or former Vice President Joe Biden himself may be directly involved with the sabotage.
	That's a conspiracy, but you may hold some of those conspiratorial views because then,
	not too long ago, former Vice President Joe Biden said he might do this to Nord Stream 2.
	If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again.
	Then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.
	We will bring an end to it.
	Seems pretty clear.
	How will you do that?
	Exactly.
	Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control.
	We will.
	I promise you we'll be able to do it.
	Yeah.
	What are you, Alex Jones?
	Yeah.
	What could possibly make you think that former Vice President Joe Biden would have a vested interest in ending Nord Stream?
	Aside from he said it?
	Right.
	It's true.
	Also, sir, we're in kind of a dim room.
	Why are you squinting like you're looking into the sun?
	Sir, is that a healthy thing?
	No.
	It's not.
	I'm horribly unhealthy.
	So, there's Joe Biden.
	Has anyone else seen all these stars?
	I smell burnt toast.
	I taste pennies.
	Here's what it's not. I know what you could say. Former Vice President Joe Biden talks tough. He's an idiot. Sure.
	Sorry. Respect the office. He's an idiot. So here's what the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria
	Newland, had to say about not just Joe Biden talking tough about Nord Stream 2 in December.
	As we discussed last night in some detail, what we are talking about would amount to essentially isolating Russia
	completely from the global financial system with all of the fallout that that would entail for Russian business, for
	the Russian people, for their ability to to work and travel and trade.
	One thing that I believe certainly the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is pretty unified on, it may not be unanimous, was Our support for sanctions against Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and I think we were all, many of us were very disappointed that those sanctions were not fully implemented and the construction continued.
	I certainly hope that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would take up legislation to go beyond just suspending it, but from ending it permanently.
	Okay, so you have them saying, okay, ending it permanently, that's kind of vague.
	Then you have Joe Biden twice saying, we will put an end to it.
	We have our ways.
	Trust me, we can do it.
	Now, let me be clear about a couple things.
	Something here that's sort of a macro point.
	Do you notice when people say, oh, well, cancel culture isn't a thing, the government's not arresting you.
	Now, of course, in every country that's not the United States, you are arrested for what you say.
	But notice that even when we're talking about internationally crippling, crippling Russia, We're not just saying nuke them, they're saying cut off their ability to make a living.
	That's what happens to all of you if you engage in wrong think.
	So when people say, well that's not censorship if the government, if the FBI, if the CIA, if you're audited by the IRS and 80,000 new agents, if we put pressure on private companies like Jen Psaki did calling for Spotify to engage in more censorship and all of social media where they host these meetings, that's not government censorship!
	No, no, we're just going to remove your ability to make a living.
	That's exactly what they do internationally.
	That's the most effective tool.
	You realize wars were fought just over basic territory, over farmland.
	You don't think that people would have fought?
	It wouldn't have been a war over the ability to make a living because the government can pinch that valve entirely?
	So just keep that in mind the next time people say it's not a First Amendment issue if all that's at stake is your livelihood.
	So we'll get to it.
	There's Russia.
	There's Ukraine.
	There's the United States.
	Potentially, who could have done this?
	There are a lot of conspiracies around.
	There's also another one that, honestly, I do think, given the recent evidence that we have, there's another actor at play, and it could just be a glorified ad for Seagal's new film.
	So that is something that, yeah.
	I knew it.
	Undersea.
	When I... Undersea.
	He's like, where's the throat?
	On deadly water.
	That's so terrible.
	Boil down below.
	Under the law.
	Under the law.
	Hi-yah.
	He would name it that and be like, when I take aim at energy pipelines, bad things happen.
	Was he sitting in that photoshop?
	Yes, of course.
	He can't stand anymore.
	I didn't see that!
	Hey, good job!
	Someone put him in a lazy boy recliner underwater.
	Wonderful photoshop!
	I missed that!
	That is fantastic.
	Yeah, because the last eight movies he's made, he's like, I'll be sitting the whole time.
	Yes, exactly.
	I look more powerful.
	His stunt double is more unrealistic than when the Power Rangers would all turn into like, you know, twelve-year-old Japanese gymnasts.
	His stunt double is, uh, you just have to stand for Mr. Seagal.
	His stunt double is just a fat guy in a wheelchair.
	Just a hologram of Larry Flint?
	Yeah.
	Alright!
	So, we have to ask ourselves, okay, what exactly has happened with the Nord Stream pipelines?
	Okay.
	First, really quickly, let's take a look at the pipelines.
	They run from Russia, under the Baltic Sea, to Germany.
	Okay?
	Property of a Russian state-owned energy company, Gazprom, and of course that's why Putin is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
	It's all completely ill-gotten gain.
	He stole it.
	Yeah.
	I don't think that these people should be included in the wealthiest people on the planet list.
	Whether it's him, whether it's Saudi Arabian oil sheiks or people who were born into it, people who took it from their... I don't think that that should be included alongside people like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos.
	Even though I don't like those people, I think there's a difference between actually earning your money versus stealing it.
	Okay.
	So, September 26th.
	Three separate leaks.
	Nord Stream 1 and 2, right?
	These were recorded.
	Just for those of you who don't know, here is exactly what it looked like.
	Looks a little bit more than the leak.
	I did that!
	Very dramatic.
	Very dramatic.
	Yeah.
	Okay so we were kind of going through this this morning, and like I said this is a bit
	We have to go through what would be the motivations for Russia, for Ukraine, for the United States.
	Okay, what would be Russia's motivation for sabotage?
	And by the way, again, hit the like button, it helps the algorithm.
	I would really like to hear what you think.
	I'm kind of 60-40.
	Remember last week, we were talking about the nukes?
	Same kind of thing.
	I don't think it's completely out of the realm of possibility that the United States has played a role in this.
	Right.
	Not saying they sent in, you know, Jesse Ventura with the underwater demolitions unit to, you know, prick the pipeline.
	But I think that there could have been some shots called from the United States.
	So what would be Russia's motivation for the sabotage?
	Okay.
	Well first off, 35% of all EU gas comes from Russia.
	Okay?
	Here would be maybe one reason.
	Germany, they already froze the Nord Stream 2 project two days before Russia invaded Ukraine.
	Russia had stopped all the gas flows through Nord Stream 1.
	Right.
	So that was the leverage, right?
	That was Russia leveraging, saying, okay, we're not going to send any gas to you, which prompted the entire EU to basically say, get ready for a very hard winter.
	Right.
	Make sure you guys save as much as you can on energy, because we might not have any.
	J. William, our agent, he was in Paris.
	Nothing like perpetuating the original stereotype.
	He was in Paris, and he was saying it's so cold, they shut off the heat.
	So I knew they were shutting off water heaters in France for certain times of the day, but apparently there might actually be certain city-wide mandates to shut off the heat.
	Oh, there are.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Because it's going to get really, really cold, obviously, in a lot of those places, and so they're saying, alright, well, if we're not going to have gas, you're not going to have any options.
	You're going to have to burn, by God, we're going to have to burn wood.
	Wouldn't it be great if that giant nuclear plant wasn't closed down last month?
	And so, basically, the European Union, right, the EU, all these countries are saying, like, hey, Russia, you better not.
	And then they go out in public and say, by the way, we are going to move off, we're no longer going to use Russian gas or Russian energy.
	And then everyone says, oh, so this shouldn't affect you.
	They go, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
	We said we would move off Russian energy eventually.
	Yes, one of these days.
	Because right now, Russia's saying, OK, there's no time like the present.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	That's their leverage right there.
	Because you can't threaten a country.
	Right.
	That way to try and cripple them economically and not expect some ramifications.
	That's a strong case for why Russia might have done this.
	Right.
	So Russia is in a position, especially Putin right now, where he's losing power.
	He's losing his grip on his citizens because they don't want to be fighting in this war and they certainly don't want to go to full scale mobilization.
	They don't believe in it that much.
	They're not defending their homeland.
	They're invading another country.
	Right?
	Right.
	So in his mind, if the economics have been removed from the situation already, He can do this and then say, the West has attacked us.
	Right.
	Right.
	So that's a bit of, it's a stretch.
	This is all conjecture.
	What you're saying, just to be clear, you're being a little bit convoluted.
	What you're saying, because we talked about this before, I think what you're trying to say is he could have sabotaged it and wants to blame it on the West.
	so that he can say look at what they're doing. Look at the evil devil.
	But there's a two-pronged benefit there for them is they also get to harm the rest of Europe because they shut
	off their energy. Yeah, they shut off their energy and say fine if
	you want to be independent from us then we'll see how you like that during
	the winter. Now the Ukrainian people would also kind of benefit
	from this.
	If Russia is blamed for this or if the United States is blamed for this, either way they kind of win, right?
	Because if they're the ones that did it, I don't know if they have the capacity to do it or the wherewithal, but if they did it, They now have pitted two of their kind of, you know, big players against each other.
	So the United States is more apt to jump in and say, oh, no, no, no, we're going to go and do more against Russia.
	So we're going to help Ukraine further, which Joe Biden just, I think, sent several hundred million more in arms to Ukraine and signed that into a bill.
	Money well spent.
	Last week, something like that, right?
	So the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that Russia knew that their hold on the country was actually going to go away even further because they had just completed a Baltic pipeline to go into Poland and start taking some of this demand away from Russia.
	Right.
	So they were kind of towards the end of that game anyway.
	Right.
	So this is basically, all right, Europe, go ahead.
	Go ahead and do it without us.
	And they get to say, well, look, if the Americans did this and harmed the pipeline, look how bad it is.
	Imagine if we did it ourselves, which we did not do!
	This time we did not do.
	It is America.
	But we could do.
	We didn't do.
	But we could.
	We have capabilities.
	But we didn't.
	But we could.
	Be much worse for you.
	That's what they're trying to do.
	Now, what would be America's motivation for the sabotage here?
	Again, there's speculation.
	Okay, here's one.
	The gas from Russia to Europe, it really is the only source of revenue for Moscow.
	It's the primary source.
	It is the driver.
	If it goes away, this nation ceases to be.
	Nord Stream 2 alone, you're talking about tens of billions of euros.
	Uh, something else, another reason, these pipelines, they bypass Eastern Europe, right?
	They take away revenue from countries like Ukraine.
	Right.
	I think it's like three billion dollars a year.
	Right.
	From Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	That's also, by the way, that's the, uh, that's the speaking fee for Zelinsky.
	No, no, that's the private, uh, stand-up performance.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Did I show you the bit where he's playing the piano with his penis?
	Huh?
	Wow.
	I'm sorry, no.
	Yeah, guys, you can find that, uh, Sarah sent us an email, she found that, we can run it later, where he's literally just, but it's so, I'm not exaggerating, it's so over the top, this is a stand-up, it's what you would expect from awful Eastern European stand-up.
	He's there, behind the piano going like, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, and moving his hands like, hey, see, it's like I'm doing it with my, with my tongue!
	See?
	So it's better than any speech Biden has given?
	Yes!
	If he would have just answered every question by playing the piano with his dong, you'd be like, alright, Joe.
	I think I'd vote for him.
	By the way, here's a... That is amazingly bad.
	Oh, well, I'll find it.
	You didn't see this?
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	No, I didn't.
	I went down the rabbit hole of Zelinsky's stand-up after we talked about it yesterday.
	I thought it would just be the one clip.
	Nope, there's more.
	Oh, dear.
	It was like Dancing with the Stars.
	It was like Dancing with Zelinsky.
	He was on every reality show.
	There's so much that exists of awful... We have it.
	There's so many of those shows and all those... Do we have it?
	Yeah, we have it.
	Do you want to do it?
	Let's do it.
	Okay, so by the way, this is...
	I don't even know how to set that.
	Like I said, they're just two awful places.
	Russia, because of the human rights violations, right, because of the fact that they oppress their people because Putin is wealthy through ill-gotten gain, and then Ukraine because they let this asshole lead them.
	Stop.
	T.
	C.
	And their pants are down around their ankles, by the way.
	That's enough.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Those guys are laughing because they'll get shot if they don't.
	I rarely use the term offensive.
	I'm at a loss for words here.
	Your face on this is hilarious.
	You know what's crazy?
	They were really doing it.
	I guess it's not bad if they're really doing it.
	I don't think they're really doing it.
	He would have been a minor key.
	There's a real talent.
	One was playing the whites. Yes. What is imagine what he does with a toy store with a big one and big piano like a
	big. Yeah. So. Reeks. That's.
	Slip and slides it.
	He's just doing it the same way.
	Just both of them.
	Robert Loge's old balls.
	Some of the time, one spends writing to craft a joke, and he's like, oh, I could just out of sync fake slam my wiener on a piano.
	Yeah, and there's somebody else who's like, can I do that with you?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	There's some agent like, no, no, what you got here is a duo act.
	Yeah.
	Why would you do it just you?
	Why would you do it just you?
	I can make two stars.
	Two penises is always better than one.
	Yes.
	Like Martin and Lewis.
	Oh boy.
	Lewis and Clark!
	Or Lois and Clark!
	Point is, your dick needs to be on those ivory keys!
	No!
	No!
	Casey got him on that one.
	Sorry.
	When it's such a boring topic like Nord Stream.
	That's when you testicle the ivories.
	Ah, son of a gun.
	I don't even know if you guys are tracking this.
	No, no, no, I call what you said and I'm aware that it's now soundbite.
	Okay, thank you.
	It's not even, by the way, they're not even in sync.
	Like there was this funny act in Montreal just for us, we see all these weird comedy acts, and I get weird if it's not the same thing, where these guys were on stage completely naked and they just each had like a balloon and as the balloons would deflate they would pass them so you never actually saw anything.
	Yeah.
	But this was brilliantly choreographed where Every time you thought, oh my gosh, there's going to be full frontal nudity, they did something that was funny, and they would do it as a troupe.
	Like, okay, it's different, it's weird, but I mean, compared to, like, what you might get in France, which is, you know, some clown in a papier-mâché hat, and they laugh their ass off, like, okay, this is a decent comedy coming out of Europe.
	That is just lazy penis piano playing.
	Back to Nord Stream.
	Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs had this to say where he was making the case, and beyond Joe Biden said he might do it, that the United States is at fault.
	Jeff, we've got to stop there.
	That's quite a statement as well.
	Why do you feel that that was a U.S.
	action?
	What evidence do you have of that?
	Well, first of all, there's direct radar evidence that U.S.
	helicopters, military helicopters that are normally based in Gdansk, were circling over this area.
	We also had the threats from the United States earlier in this year that, one way or another, we are going to end Nord Stream.
	We also have a remarkable statement by Secretary Blinken last Friday in a press conference.
	He says, this is also a tremendous opportunity.
	Sorry, it's a strange way to talk if you're worried about the piracy on international infrastructure of vital significance.
	So I know this runs counter to our narrative.
	You're not allowed to say these things in the West.
	But the fact of the matter is, all over the world, when I talk to people, they think the U.S.
	did it.
	Thank you, Napoleon Dynamite's uncle.
	He's a crazy, he's one of those crazy conspiracy theorists who's a professor at Columbia.
	We also have the Polish MP, former foreign minister Radek Sikorski thanked the United States on Twitter saying, thank you USA.
	Now, that doesn't mean that it's true.
	It just means that there's enough smoke there where a significant number of players internationally believe there could be fire.
	My only point is this.
	Don't allow people to tell you that you're a crazy conspiracy theorist if you think, you know what, I think the United States may be involved here.
	Because that's what the media is trying to memory hole, what Biden said.
	Right.
	And it's incredibly reckless for the administration to say stuff like they said earlier.
	And also, we didn't play one of the clips from Victoria Nuland.
	She actually went further and said that we would end it.
	There was a more precise clip at a briefing that she was giving.
	And people look at her and go, oh, she's the one that pushed for the Ukrainian government to be overthrown in 2014.
	She's the one that pushed for the Iraq war.
	I'm starting to see a little bit of a trend here with this war hawk essentially going out there and pushing.
	So if Biden is taking instructions from anybody that has anything to do with her, it's very likely That that could have happened, right?
	And it's very dangerous for the administration to be so obvious with it.
	If they're going to do this at some point down the road, you send a memo out or something, you talk to everybody so there's no paper trail, and just say, don't say anything stupid like, we will end it.
	Right.
	I didn't want to cut you off because you're making a good point, and I assume this will be clipped for Crowder Bits, but I think what you're saying is, she can't be trusted because she's a bitch.
	I didn't say those words.
	You said it.
	Name that reference, by the way.
	Comment below.
	Don't ruin it.
	I want to see if people get it.
	I don't know it.
	It's a great one.
	That's a fantastic one.
	Do you know the one I'm talking about?
	I do.
	It's the tuba.
	Which we can't say anymore.
	It's one of the funniest things that's ever been on the internet.
	Okay.
	So here's something else that I want you to sort of focus on.
	This should be highlighting.
	I don't want to say should.
	To me, this does highlight something more important.
	And I will say emphatically, ah, you shouldn't speak in absolutes.
	Green energy policies, and certainly how we've pursued them here in the United States, we all know that it's horrible economically.
	We all know that it's deadly for human beings, right?
	Because as energy prices go up, you know, I think right now it's 3, is it 3.70 something for gas across the country?
	Significantly less expensive.
	It's about to go up, by the way.
	OPEC just raised it.
	Right.
	It's about to go up.
	In Michigan, it's not even close to that.
	I was there recently.
	What is it in Michigan?
	It's like four.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then it was like almost still five something for premium.
	I've noticed the gap in Michigan and it didn't used to be as severe between Michigan and Texas.
	I would have to look at sort of state policies and why that is.
	If Texas was, you know, if Texas was, you know, like when Donald Trump was president, it was like a buck eighty nine.
	In Michigan it was like maybe like a buck ninety nine.
	Yeah.
	Now it's a huge gap.
	It's almost like California.
	It's like thirty cents.
	Right.
	And keep in mind for you that's inconvenient and it sucks.
	And for you it could be really Difficult and cut into your bottom line combined with the other inflation that you see at the grocery store, that you see everywhere, right?
	That being said, do count your blessings because for people in third world countries, it's deadly.
	They die.
	They die.
	If they can't afford energy.
	So, when I say that green policies are worse for the environment, I'm separating that we all know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, economically, it is crippling.
	We all know that it kills millions of people, right?
	There are these tables that exist, I don't have them in front of me, where for every dollar the price of gas goes up, or the price per barrel goes up, how many people lose their lives because they're not able to, whether it's heat their homes, whether it's cook their food, so let's separate that just On the environmental impact, green policies are a net negative.
	Now, remember this, and this is highlighted with Nord Stream, 2018 Donald Trump warned the Europeans about being dependent on what?
	On what?
	And by the way, to give Mitt Romney credit, and I really hate to do that, remember back in the debates where he talked about the problem with Russia, and remember what Barack Obama said?
	said? Yeah, the 1980s are calling, they want your foreign policy back. Yep, he said, exactly.
	Yeah. I was gonna do it in Obama's voice, but you did better. He said that in the debates,
	and they're the ones vilifying Russia. Again, keep in mind, the Republicans, conservatives,
	have been presenting very logical, right, very reasonable arguments.
	Hey, there's actually a problem with dependence on Russian energy.
	That's just fear-mongering.
	You know, Red Dawn called.
	They want you to be in their casting call.
	Whatever the hell it is that he said.
	And then they go, Russia's evil.
	Whereas we were saying, well, regardless of whether Russia's evil or not, we're not calling them evil.
	We just shouldn't be dependent.
	And Europe has a problem being beholden to a very unstable country.
	So Donald Trump in 2018 warned the Europeans about being dependent on Russian energy.
	Now, if you don't remember the reaction, it's not that they said, well, maybe we disagree.
	The Germans, arguably most affected by this right now, the Germans laughed at him publicly.
	Here's a refresher.
	Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
	Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers.
	Look at those smug crowd pricks.
	It's been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe.
	All of those people have a lifetime of experience in politics.
	What does this American say?
	What does he know?
	Look at his silly hair!
	How'd it work out for you?
	And by the way, let's bring up overlay N here.
	All references available.
	Don't bring up the 40s.
	Viva on vacation!
	Before we get to the other issues here, keep in mind, 2018, that was the first time the United States became a net exporter of oil and refined fuel.
	Refined fuels in decades.
	In decades!
	So Donald Trump said, you guys need to change your dependency here, this is going to be a problem for you, and for the first time, made it so that we were actually a net exporter, which I would argue, better for the world.
	If the world is able to get gas, or the world is able to get oil, whatever form of energy from us, better than getting it from Russia.
	Here's the issue.
	Being dependent on energy from Russia forces you to play ball with not only countries, not only evil people who don't give a shit about human rights, but they also don't care about the environment, to be clear.
	And we don't need to be dependent on them at all.
	America, right now.
	And we've gotten into the numbers where Joe Biden people say, well actually he's allowed for more drilling on federal land.
	That's because he ended a bunch of leases and then he opened up some more after Donald Trump, right?
	Go back and you go watch that segment.
	I'm not going to spend—that takes an hour in and of itself.
	Here's the point.
	America has enough natural gas to feed our demand, to supply our domestic demand, for at least 98 years.
	Wow.
	And an environmentally conscious way of removing it.
	Yes.
	Yeah, but by the way, I thought we were— But we can't frack!
	Oh!
	What's the alternative?
	Wind and solar?
	Well, we can't do that, so what do we do?
	Well, we've banned some of the fracking, we've banned some of the offshore drilling, so where are we getting?
	Right now, we need to enter- where are we?
	Saudi Arabia.
	Oh, that's better for the environment?
	Venezuela.
	Oh, that's better for the people of Venezuela that are still not able to have food?
	Also, again- Yeah, we're a nation of people, though.
	We buy slave-made products all over the country in the most horrible ways ever, and we just don't do it here, and we think that's okay.
	Well then we virtue signal like, ah, you should definitely treat people better, and they need $25 an hour to be able to work.
	Okay, what do you say to the people over in China, NBA?
	What do you say to them, Nike, iPhone?
	Oh, we're just going to go over there to get the stuff.
	And by the way, you can't blame all the business owners, because unfortunately, it's not cost effective.
	You can't even be sustainable to build a lot of these things in the United States.
	Why?
	Because of the taxes.
	Because of the red tape.
	Because of the regulations.
	Isn't there a middle ground where there are no regulations on slave labor in China versus, I believe now since it's gone back up, the highest, if not top two, highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, including a lot of the European socialist countries that make it impossible to run a business for us to be able to manufacture and create We can't use our raw materials in a lot of ways because it's bad for the environment, so a business owner has to go and get something done in China.
	It's not his fault.
	It is your government's fault.
	So we have enough gas to feed for 98 years.
	Okay, that's from the United States Department of Energy.
	Now, the United States also has more oil reserves than any country in the world.
	A lot of people don't know that.
	You think Saudi Arabia, maybe you think Venezuela.
	The United States has more.
	We just don't use all of it.
	So we get it from those countries.
	And by the way, not only is it dirty and corrupt, right, the Norseum incident could be the single largest methane release ever.
	Except for when Joe Biden gives a press conference.
	And by the way, the largest tanker spill ever was the Atlantic Empress.
	That's right, it was a Greek ship.
	It was going from Saudi Arabia to Texas.
	In 2021 alone, more than 10,000 tons of oil were spilled by tankers.
	Oil tankers make up 13% of maritime emissions.
	114 million tons of CO2 annually from transporting energy.
	Countries like Russia, Ukraine, energy companies, right?
	They prop up these corrupt...
	It just props up these oligarchies.
	It's worse for the environment, there are more spills, there are more CO2 emissions, more methane emissions, and you're supporting the oligarchies who then get to champion themselves.
	I'm one of the wealthiest men in the country.
	He should be poor and we should use our own energy.
	Why?
	If only to save the environment.
	Yeah, and if you guys really do hate places like Saudi Arabia and you want to make sure that those people don't stay in power, you hate places like Russia, not the people of the countries, but the leaders of those countries, why do you continue to say that we should buy oil from them and not do it here?
	They certainly, we've told you, they don't have the same kind of standards, but you're also feeding their country.
	You're basically saying you get to stay in power because you get enough money to make sure your people don't overthrow you.
	That's essentially what's going on in Saudi Arabia right now.
	Without all that money, there is no way people take any kind of subjugation if you don't have any kind of carrot.
	If it's just all stick, eventually it goes away.
	Right!
	Yeah, for sure.
	Yeah, they would go back to the dark ages.
	Or be forced to change.
	And right now, and I kind of bumbled over this, but they just cut oil production.
	OPEC has power over us because they're like, oh, well, we don't like the price of oil right now, so we're going to cut production by 2 million barrels per day.
	Not a small thing.
	Joe Biden has taken the United States oil reserves to the lowest in 40 years just to try and win an election to make sure gas prices aren't too high.
	That's the only reason he's done it.
	Right.
	No, you're absolutely right.
	And this is just one of the, again, crippling economically.
	It kills people.
	It's not that I'm anti-environment.
	I'm pro-human being.
	That's what it is.
	And ultimately, modern environmentalism, whether it's a five-page Green New Deal that takes over whatever it is, four-fifths of the economy, go, I read the entire Green New Deal, you can watch it on YouTube, from cover to cover, all of it, every single word, it took me 16 minutes to read.
	It's religion!
	It's religion and you worship Gaia, you worship Earth, right?
	That's just your god.
	It's just a new form of pantheistic paganism, effectively.
	It's worse for the environment.
	That's why there's no logic to it.
	Logic would say, okay, look, sure, we would love to move to quote-unquote renewable, while not allowing nuclear.
	And by the way, every country, if everyone just embraced, for example, nuclear energy, every country could supply themselves.
	We would no longer have to do the international politic.
	Let me ask you this.
	When have you ever felt, or when have you felt in a negotiating?
	Agreement to be in greater control.
	And this is real.
	I'd like you to comment below and you can hit the like button.
	It always helps with the algorithm that YouTube hates.
	Let's say, I don't know, maybe you want to go buy a car.
	Maybe you want to go buy a house.
	You ever been in a negotiation where you don't need it?
	Where you're actually willing to walk away?
	It's not posturing.
	How did that turn out?
	Did you end up with a better deal?
	Did you end up making better... at the very least, if you didn't end up with a better deal, did you end up making better decisions where you weren't forced to compromise?
	Right?
	If my car breaks down, and I've had this where I had a car that broke down, and I needed to get a car.
	I needed to get a car because I was driving from gig to gig, and I didn't have a car.
	You know what?
	I got another car that really had a replaced transmission.
	I got a car, and here's what it was.
	A new transmission, a Ford Taurus, would have been $2,000.
	The used transmission was $1,600, but it had 80,000 miles on it.
	That was what was currently in the car.
	I should have said no.
	But I needed a car, and it was what was available, so I compromised.
	The next time, when I was older and I was looking to purchase a new car, I was able to walk away.
	From any dealership I want, guess what?
	We ended up getting a better deal on the car, because I could take my time.
	I wasn't beholden to them.
	The issue is leverage.
	You don't want to be leveraged by countries who, by the way, have no vested interest in helping the environment.
	We have more oil than any other country in the face of the earth.
	We could supply our own natural gas for 98 years.
	And to the Zoomers out there, Gen Z, you may not know this.
	Does everyone here, you guys remember?
	We heard growing up about peak oil.
	Remember that?
	Remember peak oil?
	Peak oil was supposed to happen, I believe, in the 70s, in the 80s, in the 90s.
	That was what we were raised with.
	The hole in the ozone, CFCs, and peak oil.
	I haven't heard that discussed.
	Recently.
	Because that's not the issue.
	Now it's, oh, it's not about peak oil, it's about the fact that we're using any oil.
	Okay, we'll just keep moving the goalposts.
	I don't know.
	I think the United States has a vested interest in pulling some shenanigans.
	I think it's probably a concerted effort from several different international forces.
	Is that fair?
	I think it's fair.
	I think it's more likely Russia did it, but I kind of want to fit Putin with a black hat, so.
	Yeah.
	I think he deserves it.
	Well, it'd be hard to fit the hat on his head.
	Oh, that's true.
	Yeah.
	Does his head look swollen?
	It does.
	Looks like Mr. Mackey a little bit now.
	Syphilis.
	Syphilis will do that.
	All right, we're going to go play They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, which we could absolutely not do on YouTube.
	I believe... I'm not sure what... I might be doing a hidden camera thing tomorrow, so I believe Dave might be, but I'll see you in Oklahoma City.
	If I don't see you tomorrow, I'll see you in Oklahoma City, October 8th, this Saturday.
	You can go to livewithcutter.com slash tour.
	There's some tickets left.

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