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Love Letter to Listeners
00:03:54
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| Welcome this Friday Mug Club Rumble Premium. | |
| They're basically one and the same now. | |
| Users only, this is a love letter to you. | |
| And you can see that I am not wearing my headphones, which is a rarity. | |
| It's like you're naked. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I'd be close. | |
| Is that a Garden of Eden reference? | |
| And they realized that they were naked? | |
| I mean, you're an apple to hand me? | |
| You tell us. | |
| This is a great start. | |
| So if you have not yet done so, and I know we usually just do this when the show is wide to everybody, download the Rumble app. | |
| Still the best way to stay in touch. | |
| And if you're a Rumble Premium member, it recognizes that automatically and you can get access to all of it. | |
| Listen to it as audio while you're driving. | |
| Because I know some of you think you can only do video on Rumble and then you download it on Apple or Spotify. | |
| You can still keep playing it on your phone, just like audio. | |
| We do appreciate it. | |
| I am not wearing my headphones. | |
| I was foreshadowing because it can only mean it's one type of show. | |
| It is time for Tough Love. | |
| Tough love with Guru Crowder. | |
| And this is the show where we take your letters, emails. | |
| Anyone sends letters anymore? | |
| Plus it's a bomb. | |
| And you can send them into toughlove at louderwithcrowder.com. | |
| This is relationship, friendship, life advice, business, whatever it is, anything you want. | |
| And by the way, we could be giving you horrible advice. | |
| I just want you to know that too. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| There's a little bit of roasting that goes on in this dude. | |
| You saw the ride. | |
| You bought a ticket. | |
| There's a very strong chance that whatever we do out here today is absolutely incorrect as far as what you should do. | |
| So I'm just letting you know. | |
| That being said, it doesn't matter because I am a certified guru. | |
| You are. | |
| I am a certified guru. | |
| You lift the stamp. | |
| I do. | |
| I paid for the stamps. | |
| Actually overpaid. | |
| I put in one more stamp than I even needed to just because that's how much the guruship meant to me. | |
| And it's how much you care. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Also, we were just talking about this before going on air. | |
| Stranger things. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Boy, did that turn into a pile of crap. | |
| It did. | |
| I was actually curious because I liked the nostalgia of the show. | |
| And I was like, wait a minute, the last one got really demonic, but they kind of stole that one, right? | |
| Yeah, that's what I was sitting here. | |
| I was watching it. | |
| I remember that last. | |
| And wait a second. | |
| Okay, so it's a guy who looks like all burned. | |
| And he, oh, if he kills you in the other, the dream world, you die in the real world. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he does so by preying on your worst fears. | |
| I'm like, are you shitting me? | |
| This is Freddy Krueger. | |
| It's not even like you're not even without the uniform. | |
| It couldn't be a more direct copy of Jason Voorhees if they included an early hockey mask and kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. | |
| But this is, this couldn't be more blatant. | |
| So anyway, my advice is don't watch it. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Is that you and your are you speaking as a guru? | |
| Okay, because as a guru. | |
| Because then it's official. | |
| As a guru, Stranger Things is a pile of dog shit. | |
| All right. | |
| An old guru fallacy here. | |
| You can send yours into toughlove at louderwithcrowder.com. | |
| Here is our first letter. | |
| It says, Dear Guru Crowder and chief apologizer, Gerald. | |
| I like that. | |
| You got, you know what? | |
| You got the lower third correct. | |
| Yeah. | |
| My sister and I never really got along growing up. | |
| Surprise. | |
| It has to be in control of everything. | |
| I can only tolerate that for so long. | |
| We are in our 30s now, and my sister and her husband are both college professors in California. | |
| Gross, which I think explains a lot of the problem. | |
| So she sees it at least. | |
| That's good. | |
| Well, I don't know if this is a woman or a man. | |
| Let me see. | |
| Let me skip it. | |
| Did you skip ahead? | |
| Her sister. | |
| Well. | |
| What do you mean? | |
| What? | |
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Brother vs. Sister Law
00:03:42
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| I thought it said her sister. | |
| It just says my sister. | |
| Oh, no, you're right. | |
| It's a woman, but just as my sister. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You just, you, see, that's the thing. | |
| You fill in the blanks in your head, and then you'll remember it, but if you're wrong. | |
| But that's why I'm not a guru yet. | |
| That's true. | |
| Gurus wouldn't do that. | |
| You'll never be a guru. | |
| Gerald, say never. | |
| You'll never be a guru. | |
| There are many different paths. | |
| Even if you pay for the stamps, we will never count you amongst us. | |
| What? | |
| So both college professors in California, which I think explains a lot of the problem. | |
| That's a meme. | |
| They start political fights and then get upset and act as if I'm a horrible human being if I don't either implicitly agree by being silent or use the language they want. | |
| It's as if the person who gets upset is always in the right. | |
| And since I'm not one to openly show such feelings, I'm always wrong. | |
| I know exactly how that goes. | |
| And that is something that, you know, it's not just unique to your to your sister. | |
| It happens a lot in relationships. | |
| And I will say particularly happens between men and women. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Maybe it happens a lot between women, but with men and women, a man often has to control his emotions, right? | |
| Especially if you're a big guy. | |
| They'll say, well, you're scary if you get mad. | |
| So you control it. | |
| And if the opposing party cries or gets upset, you're also the bad guy. | |
| So if you lose, you're cool, you're the bad guy. | |
| And if you keep your cool and they're the only one getting emotional, it must mean that they feel it more deeply. | |
| And it's kind of a dirty trick. | |
| It happens a lot. | |
| You can read books on this, and there are actually courses taught on sort of the weaponization of crying. | |
| So this is not unique to you. | |
| And it sounds to me like your sister is quite willing and able to manipulate right off the bat. | |
| The worst are the fights over my sister's brother-in-law. | |
| He only took a week to decide that he is trans and then destroyed his marriage and the lives of his two young daughters. | |
| And I'm expected to agree with such behavior by calling him by his new name, which is close to the family dog's name or referring to him as a woman. | |
| Well, if it's a female dog, you can just. | |
| Yeah, look, you sell the phone and you go, hey, whatever. | |
| If the guy's new woman's name, I don't know, is like Ethel. | |
| You go, hey, here, Ethel. | |
| Here, Ethel. | |
| Ethel want a treat? | |
| And then you hit him with a rolled-up newspaper. | |
| Repeatedly. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | |
| I'm going to tell you, look, I'm already biased. | |
| I don't like your sister. | |
| What is it? | |
| Brother-in-law? | |
| Well, I don't like your sister whose brother-in-law is trans, who's still a brother. | |
| My dad passed away 18 years ago when I was 13, and my sister was 15, and he was the only one who could mediate. | |
| Now, the reason all this is so frustrating is that I'm disabled and cannot function without help. | |
| And once her mom can no longer take care of me, my sister is the only one I can rely on. | |
| I've stayed with my sister before, and I can only watch your show or any sermons when they aren't home or my sister has a world-ending meltdown. | |
| Our mom is telling me to put up with everything and keep my mouth shut because she most likely rightfully fears trusting my care to any sort of care facility. | |
| I care about my sister, but I fear as things are now, I fear as things are now, it's getting hard not to hate her. | |
| Any advice would be greatly appreciated. | |
| SSPS, your show has been a great source of comfort that I'm not alone or evil for being conservative. | |
| Thank you, Gerald, for talking about Chuck Missler. | |
| His sermons have been extremely helpful in bringing me back to God's word after I became sick at 14. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, that's great. | |
| And thank you. | |
| And I don't want to, I won't use your name, but thank you, N. It's her name, by the way. | |
| It's not. | |
| Yeah, it's not N-word. | |
| I don't know that anybody assumed that's where you were going. | |
| I will say, this is honestly a tough one. | |
| It's tough because I understand, but it's not tough. | |
| Here's the thing. | |
| It's tough and it shouldn't be. | |
| So let me start with this. | |
| It shouldn't be tough because your sister is wrong. | |
| Your sister is objectively wrong. | |