Louder with Crowder - Breaking Down Trump's Iran Ceasefire: Triumph or TACO?
Aired: 2026-04-08
Duration: 01:07:15


=== Hip Hop Bebop and Daggers (03:25) ===

[00:00:38]  Fire, dear.
[00:00:39]  I specialise in the education and entertainment of Could you make me a woman?
[00:00:59]  Showtime.
[00:01:01]  I know you're used to Lucy, but I run.
[00:01:05]  Daggers for you, daggers for you.
[00:01:08]  I know you're used to Lucy, but I run.
[00:01:12]  Go pop some nose.
[00:01:12]  I know you're used to Lucy.
[00:01:13]  Dinner, dinner, dinner, such a sham, you taste good, such a sham.
[00:01:22]  I know you're used to Lucy, but I run.
[00:01:26]  Surprise!
[00:01:29]  Hip hop bebop.
[00:01:31]  Dance till you drop Hip hop bebop Doesn't mean that they don't love Hip hop bebop.
[00:01:38]  Dance till you drop Hip hop bebop.
[00:01:42]  Just a little bit of nicotine The sun, Just a little bit of nicotine Cream in your sugar now.
[00:01:50]  Nicotine doesn't mean that they don't love you.
[00:01:55]  Because every

=== Pushing Buttons at Golden Corral (02:01) ===

[00:04:03]  time you tell folks you got a f***ing thyroid problem.
[00:04:05]  Now I know you're only trying to make me mad, Josephine.
[00:04:07]  It ain't gonna work.
[00:04:08]  It ain't gonna work.
[00:04:12]  Fake news.
[00:04:13]  Nope.
[00:04:16]  No, it's fake.
[00:04:17]  Damn it, Josephine.
[00:04:18]  Why you gotta do that?
[00:04:20]  Why you gotta push me?
[00:04:21]  You know it sets me off.
[00:04:22]  Does this make you feel good about yourself?
[00:04:24]  Does it make you feel good about yourself to push my buttons?
[00:04:27]  I'm relaxed.
[00:04:28]  I was just joking.
[00:04:31]  I already told you, Josephine, it's not funny.
[00:04:35]  These guys are legit.
[00:04:36]  All right, all right.
[00:04:40]  You wanna go to the Golden Corral?
[00:04:42]  I wouldn't go to Golden Corral if you were the last woman on earth and my life depended on it!
[00:04:47]  Brothers.
[00:04:48]  Not after that last time you went, you're lucky I don't have a fing wanted poster up on that wall!
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[00:05:48]  Welcome to the show.
[00:05:50]  Good morning.
[00:05:51]  Thank you for being here with us.
[00:05:52]  This is obviously, it's still his sign.
[00:05:54]  He's going to be back in the chair tomorrow.
[00:05:56]  We forced Stephen to be out of the office today.
[00:05:59]  It's for his health, and we will talk more about things for your health here in just a minute.

=== Health Warnings for Prostate Cancer (09:56) ===

[00:06:04]  A little bit of foreshadowing.
[00:06:05]  But first, here's a rundown.
[00:06:07]  We are talking about a new 40th birthday trend for women.
[00:06:11]  It's going to be as cringy as you think, but we are going to spend plenty of time talking about Iran, the new deal that we have with Iran from last night.
[00:06:18]  Hey, the world didn't end.
[00:06:19]  Fantastic.
[00:06:20]  And also the left's reaction to the ceasefire, which you would think would be super positive considering the fact that they were saying nukes were probably about to start flying.
[00:06:30]  And finally, some other stuff that's been going on while Iran has been consuming all of the oxygen in the room.
[00:06:34]  A trip to China that has kind of flown under the radar a little bit.
[00:06:38]  We have some experts in the room to tell you a little bit more about that.
[00:06:42]  And that brings me to Mr. Lane the Brain.
[00:06:45]  Thank you for sitting in my seat and keeping it warm.
[00:06:46]  How's it feel?
[00:06:47]  I don't think many would refer to me as an expert.
[00:06:49]  Maybe I think so.
[00:06:50]  Dumbass, but an expert, I'm not.
[00:06:53]  I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit.
[00:06:55]  I talk about that all the time.
[00:06:56]  Most days, but that's just to keep you on your toes.
[00:06:58]  I don't want you getting a big head.
[00:06:59]  Nick never calls me.
[00:07:00]  Much like our next man in the jet here, Nick DiPaolo.
[00:07:04]  How are you, sir?
[00:07:05]  Oh, this is excellent.
[00:07:06]  I flew all this way so I could get Ed McMahon instead of Carson.
[00:07:11]  I'm very good.
[00:07:12]  Lane the Brain.
[00:07:13]  You're stuck with me.
[00:07:14]  I know.
[00:07:14]  You know I love you.
[00:07:16]  Lane the Brain looks like a German, either a German athlete, like a bobsled guy or a porn star.
[00:07:22]  A bobsled guy?
[00:07:23]  Yeah, look.
[00:07:24]  What about a handsome German guy?
[00:07:26]  Yeah, but you picked the dumbest sport.
[00:07:29]  How practical?
[00:07:30]  Bob sledding is dumb.
[00:07:31]  Let me tell you something.
[00:07:32]  How practical is it?
[00:07:33]  When's the last time you got in a bobsled to a video?
[00:07:35]  I feel like I'm arguing with my wife.
[00:07:37]  How practical?
[00:07:38]  What does that have to do with sports?
[00:07:40]  A pole vaulter.
[00:07:40]  I don't know.
[00:07:41]  A sprinter.
[00:07:42]  A wrestler.
[00:07:43]  There's all kinds of cool things you could say when you're like, bobsled.
[00:07:46]  Well, you know, Milan's still in my head.
[00:07:50]  The Olympics.
[00:07:51]  Winter Olympics was just, you know, a month ago.
[00:07:53]  Oh, that's great.
[00:07:53]  And they were tremendous.
[00:07:54]  I know you were busy at church or some silly thing, but I was busy caring about non gay things.
[00:08:02]  That's the loogs you're thinking of.
[00:08:04]  They're the ones that dress up in tights.
[00:08:06]  That's true.
[00:08:06]  Lay down, wait for somebody to sit on.
[00:08:08]  Oh, that's right.
[00:08:08]  Bob Sled is the one where there's two guys that sit on top of each other to go down.
[00:08:12]  That's no, they're like, sometimes there's four.
[00:08:14]  It's like that human caterpillar thing.
[00:08:16]  Climb up that butt.
[00:08:17]  Oh, my God.
[00:08:18]  What did that come up?
[00:08:18]  Okay, well, listen, I promise we will get to Iran and our thoughts about that.
[00:08:23]  But it's a comedy show.
[00:08:24]  You knew what you signed up for when you.
[00:08:26]  Can I say one more thing?
[00:08:27]  Well, I was going to say one more thing really quickly.
[00:08:29]  You're back on the road.
[00:08:30]  I was telling you right before the show, I'm very happy about that because it causes you pain, and I like it when that happens.
[00:08:35]  May 7th in Atlanta, Georgia at Punchline Comedy Club.
[00:08:38]  May 8th, Pottstown, PA, Soul Joel's Comedy Club.
[00:08:41]  And May 9th in Philadelphia, Rivers Casino, Philadelphia.
[00:08:45]  Make sure you go out and see this man because it could be his last series of performances.
[00:08:50]  Who knows?
[00:08:51]  Yeah, I'm like Barbara Streisand.
[00:08:52]  I'm doing my fourth farewell book.
[00:08:56]  I'm doing 11 people at a time.
[00:08:57]  You're doing it until you get it right.
[00:08:59]  I'm going to talk about it.
[00:09:01]  I've been doing it 38 years.
[00:09:02]  I don't think it's going to happen.
[00:09:03]  Where do they go to get tickets for these things?
[00:09:05]  Go to nickdip.com and do it now.
[00:09:08]  Yeah.
[00:09:08]  Right now.
[00:09:09]  Do it now.
[00:09:09]  Nickdip.com.
[00:09:10]  Those are good places.
[00:09:11]  Although I haven't been to this casino.
[00:09:13]  That ought to be fun.
[00:09:13]  How about this?
[00:09:14]  The Strait of Hormuz stays closed until you go to nickdip.com.
[00:09:18]  It's a point that's been added to it.
[00:09:20]  So, question of the day.
[00:09:23]  This will make sense in a minute.
[00:09:24]  I wouldn't normally ask this on a serious day where we're talking about Iran, but there's two questions.
[00:09:27]  First one is what is an unusual thing that you do to stay healthy?
[00:09:30]  Think about the most unusual thing that you do to preserve your health.
[00:09:36]  I told you.
[00:09:37]  What did I say?
[00:09:38]  That's loose.
[00:09:39]  Tell me that was not a homosexual man going, How can I make this a sport?
[00:09:42]  He does.
[00:09:43]  The one on the bottom does look in pleasure.
[00:09:44]  He does.
[00:09:47]  The guy on top's going, Is it in?
[00:09:49]  Also, how is that practical?
[00:09:51]  There's no practical need for that.
[00:09:53]  First of all, you said that about bobsledding, which is practical.
[00:09:56]  Sometimes you've got to get away from the wife.
[00:09:58]  I do lump it all together.
[00:09:59]  I apologize.
[00:10:00]  Someone give me a practical reason so I could admonish you.
[00:10:03]  Yes, please.
[00:10:04]  Help me find a non homosexual practical reason.
[00:10:08]  That exists.
[00:10:09]  I mean, it's going like 60 miles an hour.
[00:10:11]  60 miles an hour.
[00:10:12]  That's fantastic.
[00:10:13]  Yeah.
[00:10:13]  69 miles an hour.
[00:10:14]  I don't care.
[00:10:15]  It's still homosexual.
[00:10:16]  Oh, my God.
[00:10:16]  I'm all Katie.
[00:10:17]  What's your time?
[00:10:17]  It's homosexual.
[00:10:19]  Sounds like you're not really confident in your own sexuality.
[00:10:21]  Yeah, I am.
[00:10:22]  I'm married with, you know, scores of children.
[00:10:24]  So it's all fantastic.
[00:10:26]  Lane should be on TV or.
[00:10:28]  He's bobsledding?
[00:10:30]  No.
[00:10:32]  Here's the real question of the day.
[00:10:34]  Here's the real question of the day.
[00:10:37]  Somehow I think what he said was anti Semitic.
[00:10:39]  I don't know.
[00:10:39]  No, no.
[00:10:40]  I'm pro Israel and pro Jew.
[00:10:42]  Go ahead.
[00:10:42]  Gotcha.
[00:10:44]  What do you think about this Arandil?
[00:10:46]  That's the real question that I want to make sure is on our minds after we get past the healthy thing, because I think there are a lot of different opinions out there, and we will dive into that.
[00:10:54]  And what people should probably be saying as a general rule are you happy or are you not?
[00:10:59]  Are you hopeful or are you not?
[00:11:01]  A lot of people that are very silent about this.
[00:11:03]  Okay.
[00:11:04]  Let's dive into this because this won't be.
[00:11:07]  All right.
[00:11:07]  We're just going to do this.
[00:11:08]  There's no good way to say this, but the group F Cancer is urging men to do something.
[00:11:15]  To prevent prostate cancer.
[00:11:18]  And before I run this, children should not be listening or near any of this because of the suggestive, though scientifically proven healthy content.
[00:11:34]  I'm sorry.
[00:11:39]  Are these like metaphors?
[00:11:41]  No.
[00:11:43]  Gerald, didn't you pick this video?
[00:11:46]  I did not.
[00:11:48]  These are jokes you'd see at open mic night.
[00:11:50]  Yes, pretty much.
[00:11:52]  Sounds like Red Peters.
[00:12:03]  So awkward.
[00:12:04]  They found this on Bin Laden's computer.
[00:12:08]  Now we know why.
[00:12:10]  Yeah, Khomeini's son.
[00:12:13]  Oh, that one bothers me.
[00:12:15]  That's a little bit weird.
[00:12:16]  Yeah.
[00:12:17]  That's weird too.
[00:12:20]  This all makes sense in a minute, I promise.
[00:12:21]  Punching the clown.
[00:12:23]  Yeah, that's a good one.
[00:12:26]  I hate the artwork.
[00:12:30]  Listen, here's the lesson.
[00:12:37]  Ejaculate 21 or more times a month may enjoy a significantly reduced risk of prostate cancer.
[00:12:47]  So, I got to have like a negative 50%.
[00:12:51]  That's a rookie number.
[00:12:52]  There's a bunch of guys out there right now that are like, I am so healthy right now.
[00:12:56]  I cannot stress to you what I found out today on the show.
[00:12:59]  Healthy.
[00:13:00]  They stress that masturbation 21 times a month is not a substitute, by the way, for healthy prostate screenings.
[00:13:08]  What?
[00:13:08]  It's a bad month for me, 21?
[00:13:10]  What am I playing injured?
[00:13:15]  I didn't pick this and I felt like it was beautiful.
[00:13:18]  This is real.
[00:13:19]  I feel like there are other ways to achieve this, more fun ways.
[00:13:22]  Honey, I'm coming home tonight.
[00:13:24]  Men who, according to Harvard, my wife, it's a joke.
[00:13:28]  Oh, silly.
[00:13:28]  Your wife.
[00:13:29]  Men who ejaculate 21 times a month have a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer versus men who only, you know, four to seven times per month.
[00:13:38]  And as awkward as all of that is, it's important to talk about men's health.
[00:13:45]  Just make sure.
[00:13:45]  I get so nervous with stuff like this because it's so.
[00:13:50]  That's why we're all quiet.
[00:13:51]  I know.
[00:13:52]  Thanks a lot.
[00:13:52]  Every single one of you guys.
[00:13:54]  It is.
[00:13:54]  Let's let Gerald struggle through this.
[00:13:57]  No laughter at all.
[00:13:58]  It's like you guys get together before the show.
[00:14:00]  But listen, we do want to pass on helpful, useful information before we talk about not the end of the world and make sure that you guys all stay healthy.
[00:14:08]  But let me just say this.
[00:14:10]  Before the end of the world.
[00:14:10]  I mean, you don't have to get all 21 in right before the end of the world.
[00:14:14]  I don't think it works that way.
[00:14:15]  Radiation poisoning.
[00:14:17]  And prostate cancer.
[00:14:18]  Listen, they dropped leaflets in Iran.
[00:14:22]  Just in case your civilization is wiped out, make sure your prostate's healthy before you go.
[00:14:26]  But listen, and this is a serious note you shouldn't be doing this at your workplace.
[00:14:40]  Hey, Josh?
[00:14:41]  Yeah?
[00:14:41]  What are you doing in there, man?
[00:14:42]  You've been in for like 20 minutes?
[00:14:44]  I'm just slapping my salami, Gerald.
[00:14:46]  What do you think?
[00:14:48]  Josh, you're gonna need to come see me in my office, okay?
[00:14:53]  Will do, boss.
[00:14:54]  Wash your hands first.
[00:14:56]  Promise, wash your hands.
[00:14:58]  All right.
[00:15:10]  Do you always do that?
[00:15:11]  Bang your cold cuts before you bite them?
[00:15:13]  I think I'm more offended that he's eating in the bathroom.
[00:15:16]  It's a very unsanitary place to consume.
[00:15:18]  I am too.
[00:15:19]  I may have eaten a piece of that salami.
[00:15:21]  Did you really?
[00:15:22]  I said I may have.
[00:15:23]  You'll have to decide.
[00:15:24]  Allegedly.
[00:15:26]  Okay.
[00:15:27]  Now that we've got that out of our systems, I don't see.
[00:15:30]  They just, whatever.
[00:15:31]  They had to throw that in.
[00:15:32]  That bathroom has a glory hole.
[00:15:35]  Technically, it doesn't.
[00:15:36]  We had, what's his name?
[00:15:37]  Brian Stewart.
[00:15:38]  Brian Stewart.
[00:15:39]  It was just a piece that's replaced.
[00:15:41]  Enton's in there now.
[00:15:42]  Enton's in there?
[00:15:42]  I'm watching you saying, look at this.
[00:15:46]  You didn't notice?
[00:15:47]  What?
[00:15:48]  Can somebody please get a picture of that?
[00:15:50]  Does it have like an I did that kind of thing to it?
[00:15:52]  Like, is it like a.
[00:15:53]  No, he's like.
[00:15:54]  You have to see it.
[00:15:54]  Underhanded, pointing towards where you would be aiming.
[00:15:58]  Somebody get a picture of that to us at some point.

=== Family Lifestyle and Hidden Hatred (14:28) ===

[00:16:01]  What?
[00:16:01]  It doesn't happen right now.
[00:16:04]  You did a fantastic job.
[00:16:05]  Look at the poop you made.
[00:16:06]  That's fantastic.
[00:16:09]  So many things that would be clipped out of context.
[00:16:12]  But let's get to the next story.
[00:16:13]  So we have seen a trend of women.
[00:16:17]  Over the years, but this has been going back for 10, 15, 20 years at least, right now, where they're claiming that they don't want to marry or actually even need a man at all.
[00:16:27]  It took me a long time, but I'm very happy.
[00:16:30]  I call it being single partnered.
[00:16:32]  I am just so much happier being single.
[00:16:34]  I'm going to be real with you guys.
[00:16:36]  I feel so much less stressed.
[00:16:38]  I get up every day.
[00:16:39]  I don't need to check in with anybody.
[00:16:41]  I just go out there in the world and I live my life.
[00:16:43]  The stress comes later.
[00:16:44]  In six months, I don't talk to any guys.
[00:16:46]  They'll text me.
[00:16:47]  I quite literally don't answer.
[00:16:48]  Wow.
[00:16:48]  I feel just genuinely more at peace.
[00:16:50]  This is wrong at nine levels.
[00:16:51]  Since I turned 30, I am so thankful that I have not got into this mentality that.
[00:16:57]  I need a man, I need to be rescued by Prince Charming who has to come up into my castle and kiss me.
[00:17:02]  He's got a ring on.
[00:17:03]  I think she drives a super room.
[00:17:04]  I'm very thankful to be going into my 30s single.
[00:17:07]  I think that is such a flex.
[00:17:09]  As someone who got married at 26, I mean, would though.
[00:17:13]  Separated for a little over a year, 32.
[00:17:17]  I have to tell you, I don't think there's anything better.
[00:17:21]  If being in your 20s is the trenches, there is nothing better than being in your 30s, still being hot.
[00:17:28]  Maybe having a little bit of your own money, figuring out what you want to do with your life, and having tried that married fantasy and realizing that it's maybe not all it's cracked up to be, and then you've got your whole life still ahead of you.
[00:17:43]  Well, listen, I think there are a lot of reasons why she can say that.
[00:17:47]  She's been separated.
[00:17:48]  I don't know if she came for money, made her own money.
[00:17:50]  She's like one of the most successful models of all time.
[00:17:52]  Yeah, talk to me when your kids are banging off your feet in about 10 years.
[00:17:56]  They'll be blowing guys behind a McDonald's for a buck, okay?
[00:18:00]  Yeah, please.
[00:18:00]  Exactly.
[00:18:01]  No, one of the most successful models.
[00:18:03]  Fantastic.
[00:18:03]  She's made a whole bunch of cats.
[00:18:04]  She's preaching to a bunch of cats.
[00:18:05]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:18:06]  She's preaching to a bunch of women who won't really be able to live that lifestyle.
[00:18:10]  But we've now reached new territory with something truly weird.
[00:18:15]  I don't know.
[00:18:16]  You tell me what you think, but wedding themed birthdays.
[00:18:19]  So the New York Times highlights this new trend, writing, For some single women, the milestone 40th birthday is more than a party.
[00:18:29]  Instead of waiting for a partner to justify a celebration, women are using the moment as a declaration of empowerment and self love.
[00:18:35]  We talked about that a minute ago.
[00:18:37]  Complete with wedding attire, a curated guest list of their closest friends and family, and the joy and excitement of a wedding.
[00:18:45]  That last part, the joy and excitement of a wedding, can only really come from the wedding.
[00:18:51]  There's no way to mimic that.
[00:18:53]  The joining of two people together to start a new life together at a birthday party, you think dressing up and doing like a little play thing is going to give you that?
[00:19:02]  I really don't think so.
[00:19:03]  But to prove us all wrong, they did profile two women in their article.
[00:19:07]  Brittany Allen, spelled A. L L Y N, who's an influencer.
[00:19:11]  I know that there's common different spellings.
[00:19:13]  I just, every time I see them, I want to see you.
[00:19:17]  See me?
[00:19:18]  No, that's not spelling a word.
[00:19:20]  Go ahead.
[00:19:22]  And this is the self described modern day Carrie Bradshaw, by the way.
[00:19:27]  And yeah, if she keeps this up, she's going to actually end up looking like a modern day Terry Bradshaw or being with one and producing that.
[00:19:36]  What?
[00:19:36]  Well, that is Terry.
[00:19:39]  Pull it back.
[00:19:40]  Oh my God.
[00:19:41]  I thought it was a whole mock up thing.
[00:19:42]  And I saw Terry in the.
[00:19:46]  She'll look the same.
[00:19:47]  The kids are going to look like Terry Bradshaw.
[00:19:48]  He's still got it, guys.
[00:19:49]  The little girl's going through chemo, apparently.
[00:19:53]  So, in case you think that we're making this up or blowing it up into something that it really isn't, Alan posted footage of her party on her Instagram account.
[00:20:10]  Pretty sad.
[00:20:16]  Who's the guy?
[00:20:21]  I'm going to tell you, I get so much to say.
[00:20:22]  I could do the next hour on this.
[00:20:25]  There's such hatred bubbling.
[00:20:27]  If I said something, you were going to say something.
[00:20:29]  Well, hold on, hold on.
[00:20:30]  There's a little bit holding me.
[00:20:32]  I mean, hold like a little.
[00:20:32]  Okay.
[00:20:33]  Okay.
[00:20:33]  I don't want to, you know.
[00:20:34]  No, I'm not.
[00:20:35]  The whole thing, I've been saying this forever, and it's a brilliant point.
[00:20:38]  Somebody should have picked up on it.
[00:20:39]  The feminist movement, you know what it is?
[00:20:41]  It's the worst case of penis envy ever.
[00:20:44]  That's all this is.
[00:20:45]  Oh, really?
[00:20:46]  You want to be independent and be able to bang a bunch of guys or not have to check in?
[00:20:50]  That's men's behavior.
[00:20:52]  It always has been.
[00:20:54]  Yeah.
[00:20:54]  And I don't know.
[00:20:54]  You'll probably disagree with me.
[00:20:55]  I don't disagree with you.
[00:20:56]  No, on this one.
[00:20:57]  Marriage isn't for men, and having kids isn't for men.
[00:21:00]  Who's with me?
[00:21:04]  Are you kidding me?
[00:21:06]  I just, that whole thing about the birth, that was just celebrating that she, this isn't all under the guise of hating men.
[00:21:13]  They're doing it, you know, they're making it look like a celebratory thing.
[00:21:15]  They're really getting back at men.
[00:21:16]  I'm going to bang you without any commitment.
[00:21:18]  I'm sure the guy's like, no, no.
[00:21:21]  No, you're exactly right.
[00:21:23]  I don't know how we're.
[00:21:24]  When I was growing up, I don't know how we've jujitsued women into doing exactly what most men want.
[00:21:29]  Now, that's not a good thing that guys want that or that women do that.
[00:21:32]  I'm just saying.
[00:21:33]  Why not?
[00:21:33]  It's like you're like, oh, you're going to do exactly.
[00:21:35]  Fantastic.
[00:21:37]  Where do most men sign up?
[00:21:38]  We need to change that.
[00:21:39]  But we also need to change this idea that you can just celebrate your way out of being single.
[00:21:44]  Or listen, I think this is really, really detrimental to society.
[00:21:48]  And I'm not going to spend too, too much time on this.
[00:21:51]  But I don't want women to believe that.
[00:21:52]  I don't want women to think, oh, look at that party.
[00:21:54]  That's fantastic.
[00:21:55]  That's a social media influencer.
[00:21:57]  You know what she's done?
[00:21:58]  She has.
[00:21:59]  Traded her, I don't know, connection to a guy, a family, getting that affirmation.
[00:22:04]  It's all hatred.
[00:22:06]  For an audience giving her the exact same thing.
[00:22:07]  She's chasing the exact same thing, except she'll never get it in a real way from an audience.
[00:22:13]  We love the people that watch our show.
[00:22:15]  We love interacting with you guys, but that's not like us having a wife and kids and a family.
[00:22:20]  There's a huge difference between us.
[00:22:21]  That's why I perform live.
[00:22:22]  You get it.
[00:22:24]  Yeah.
[00:22:24]  You actually get the interaction from the audience.
[00:22:27]  You get to feel that, but that's not the same thing as having a relationship.
[00:22:29]  Not what I'm talking about at all, but go ahead.
[00:22:30]  Yeah, no, I'm trying to help you sound more reasonable, Nick.
[00:22:34]  But her social media page is also kind of littered with content praising being single.
[00:22:47]  Story of what life is really like without a husband, especially as you get older.
[00:22:52]  Become a lesbian.
[00:22:59]  You couldn't do that with a husband, you dumbass.
[00:23:04]  We wake up whenever we have no soccer practice, no what's for breakfast from anyone, just robes and a room service menu.
[00:23:11]  You can lay in bed all day.
[00:23:13]  Oh, being a selfish whore.
[00:23:15]  That's the goal.
[00:23:16]  Okay.
[00:23:19]  Why settle for company that makes you feel like you're missing something when your own company can elevate you enough to build a life?
[00:23:26]  This is just pure hatred for men.
[00:23:27]  It's all it is.
[00:23:29]  Celebrating yourself under the guise of celebrating yourself.
[00:23:32]  It's pure hatred for men.
[00:23:33]  No, our heroine didn't die because she wasn't married by 40.
[00:23:36]  No spinster thrived because she chose herself.
[00:23:39]  She'll take her own life in 10 years.
[00:23:41]  Yeah, that is not true at all.
[00:23:46]  So talk to people who have it all.
[00:23:48]  Talk to people who have everything that they want other than family.
[00:23:53]  Talk to Tom Brady after winning Super Bowls and being married.
[00:23:56]  This is years and years ago, married to a top supermodel, making more money than just about anybody else, being a symbol of success in the United States, having every accolade thrown at you.
[00:24:05]  And he sits down for an interview and says, There's got to be more to life than this.
[00:24:10]  You're telling me that going out and having fine dining, wine, and some trips to places, who are you going to share that memory with?
[00:24:17]  Your 70 something year old aunt that you were with on that trip?
[00:24:20]  Are your kids going to go, Hey, thanks for coming to my soccer game and helping me realize that I could?
[00:24:24]  Finally, go out there and play hard and get a goal and sing their first goal, doing something meaningful like that, perpetuating the species.
[00:24:32]  No, make sure you enjoy those top hotels in France.
[00:24:35]  I'm sure that's going to be a fantastic life.
[00:24:37]  But despite not being married, Alan was profiled three years ago in BuzzFeed for freezing her eggs.
[00:24:42]  I'm not sure exactly what she's trying to accomplish there if she doesn't care about any of that.
[00:24:45]  But hey, maybe there's more to the story.
[00:24:47]  She is an influencer, by the way.
[00:24:48]  Let's go to Sarah Jacobson, an advertising executive.
[00:24:52]  She commented about her lavish 40th birthday party in Mexico, saying, I wasn't ever thinking of this as a replacement for a wedding.
[00:25:00]  Well, you made the choices that made that possible.
[00:25:02]  I don't know if I even want a wedding.
[00:25:04]  To me, what was so special was that I had all of these people in my favorite place, which is really rare as an adult.
[00:25:10]  And that aspect did feel like a wedding.
[00:25:12]  Well, as somebody who's been to a wedding and been the one that said, I do, having all your friends in one place is like a birthday party.
[00:25:19]  Okay.
[00:25:20]  It's not like a wedding, it's a much different thing.
[00:25:22]  And after seeing men wear MAGA hats in New York City on election day in 2016, she had this to say.
[00:25:28]  This type of thing didn't happen here in New York City.
[00:25:30]  Trump supporters were reserved for backwoods Americana folks.
[00:25:33]  Sure, America hated women, but we weren't about to elect a racist, homophobic asshole of a reality TV star as our next president.
[00:25:40]  The very idea was absurd.
[00:25:42]  Holding my beer.
[00:25:43]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:25:45]  Hey, we did it again, too.
[00:25:47]  By the way, just remember, all of this is on the heels of the median age of first marriage for women, going from 1950, 20.3 years to now 28.4, so going up about eight years, according to Pew Research.
[00:26:00]  Of high school girls who say they want to marry.
[00:26:03]  In 1993, 83% of them said they want to marry.
[00:26:05]  In 2023, the most recent data, 61% say they want to marry.
[00:26:10]  Yeah.
[00:26:10]  Do you think that's good for the country?
[00:26:13]  Do you think more selfish people, people who are like, I'm just self partnering, how about, let me just, hold on, I'll say it this way.
[00:26:19]  Do you think women lying to you so that you will go down the same road they went down is a good thing?
[00:26:26]  And I say they're lying because they're not happy.
[00:26:30]  Can people be happy in moments?
[00:26:31]  Of course.
[00:26:32]  Can you be happy when you're by yourself, not filming stuff to put on Instagram in a lonely time, in a difficult time, when somebody you love passes away that's a family member?
[00:26:44]  And you have no one really to lean on, nobody who's that intimately connected to you that you can lean on.
[00:26:50]  Is that really the kind of thing that we want to do?
[00:26:51]  And by the way, it's just to make sure other people go down the same road to justify their own actions, the choices that they have made that led them there.
[00:27:01]  That's a really bad place to be.
[00:27:03]  You want to go out and say, hey, you can be single?
[00:27:05]  Fine.
[00:27:06]  To go out and say that this is the lifestyle, this is how to be happy with nobody to tie me down?
[00:27:12]  Nah, I'm against that.
[00:27:14]  Completely against that.
[00:27:15]  I don't know if you guys.
[00:27:17]  Well, I love this idea that women are somehow oppressed still in this country.
[00:27:23]  Well, first of all, when were they ever?
[00:27:26]  When they couldn't vote, maybe?
[00:27:27]  What year was that?
[00:27:28]  That's a long time ago.
[00:27:29]  Yeah.
[00:27:30]  Well, I mean, you have to.
[00:27:31]  We've got a segment coming on that.
[00:27:32]  Yeah, you have access to, you know, we're the most successful country on the planet.
[00:27:37]  So you have access to more men with money.
[00:27:42]  What are you whining about?
[00:27:43]  All we try to do is take you to dinner and to a movie and try to get in your pants.
[00:27:49]  Boy, what a burden.
[00:27:51]  No, I'm saying our whole life.
[00:27:53]  No, I know.
[00:27:54]  All we've been doing is kissing their ass.
[00:27:55]  They're in the driver's seat.
[00:27:56]  And if you get married, something you hate so much, if it doesn't work out, you get all the shit.
[00:28:01]  Yeah.
[00:28:02]  You get the money, you get everything because all those laws bend in your.
[00:28:05]  So, you're not oppressed in any way in this country.
[00:28:08]  Yeah.
[00:28:08]  Go look at it.
[00:28:09]  Why don't you take a trip to Iran?
[00:28:10]  Now, those brunch, they're hot.
[00:28:13]  Also, a little bit more oppressed.
[00:28:16]  It's terrible.
[00:28:16]  And it's, listen, it's a very, very, very sad situation when those kinds of people are driving the narrative.
[00:28:24]  I wish people like my wife, people like the women that we've had that historically have been looked at as very strong.
[00:28:29]  Like we used to look at mothers and go, wow, how do they manage all of the kids and doing all this stuff?
[00:28:35]  It's a really wonderful thing to see.
[00:28:37]  And now we're looking at boss babes and everything else.
[00:28:39]  And thankfully, I think that trend is changing a little bit.
[00:28:42]  I hope it is.
[00:28:43]  It's not because anybody hates women.
[00:28:44]  It's not because anybody wants to control women.
[00:28:46]  I don't.
[00:28:47]  And I don't want to do either one of those things.
[00:28:49]  That would be nice because it just doesn't work.
[00:28:51]  What I'm going to say, though, and I agree with everything that's been said, is that there has been a disservice done to not only young men, but young women by a lot of people in our sphere on the conservative right that consistently shit on women and call them whores.
[00:29:04]  Well, that's fine, but that's not, I don't care if they are or they aren't, that's not going to change anybody's opinion.
[00:29:09]  You need to extol the virtues of the lifestyle they're not living.
[00:29:12]  Correct.
[00:29:12]  Why are you doing that?
[00:29:13]  Why is that actually detrimental to your long term satisfaction and happiness and well being?
[00:29:18]  This is a better option.
[00:29:19]  Yeah.
[00:29:19]  I understand why you think that you've been fed that, but instead we get.
[00:29:23]  People going on and bringing on a bunch of OnlyFans models to shit on them and act like they're really doing something.
[00:29:27]  And I just don't think they are.
[00:29:29]  I think most people are really just concerned about getting clicks and not fixing the problem.
[00:29:33]  Yeah.
[00:29:34]  Because at the end of the day, we're on the same team as them.
[00:29:36]  We're in the same country.
[00:29:37]  We're in the same society.
[00:29:38]  We should, yes, ridicule and make fun of, but, you know, offer constructive solutions like I think we do here, which I appreciate.
[00:29:44]  And that's something that I've had wrong with like the Andrew Tates and Myron Gaines of the world.
[00:29:47]  Like the approach that they take to this has been, in my opinion, very detrimental.
[00:29:52]  They identify the problem, but their solution is horrific.
[00:29:56]  They like the problem.
[00:29:57]  I think they do.
[00:29:58]  To some degree, they like it.
[00:30:00]  And I think they abuse it completely.
[00:30:02]  But listen.
[00:30:02]  Some of it felt refreshing and liberating to me.
[00:30:05]  Really?
[00:30:05]  Yeah.
[00:30:06]  I mean.
[00:30:06]  When they first.
[00:30:08]  They went off the deep end.
[00:30:09]  I agree with you, these guys.
[00:30:10]  Yeah.
[00:30:11]  But when the problem was starting to be pointed out, a lot of people said, yes, that's a problem.
[00:30:15]  Yeah.
[00:30:15]  Unfortunately, they went with it.
[00:30:16]  People felt they couldn't speak out about it.
[00:30:18]  And so they spoke out about it.
[00:30:20]  And then, like Nick said, they took it just way off the deep end.
[00:30:22]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:30:22]  And listen, I know that this whole situation is sad.
[00:30:25]  And you're going to love this segue, Nick.
[00:30:26]  And you're going to love it.
[00:30:27]  But one more thing.

=== Mortgage Financing and Commercial Truths (02:58) ===

[00:30:30]  What did you say?
[00:30:32]  Go ahead.
[00:30:33]  I'm just saying.
[00:30:33]  Go ahead.
[00:30:34]  If you watch TV, and I've been saying this for 30 years, and you know who puts out the stuff in Hollywood, who writes it, and stuff, you know.
[00:30:42]  Don't say it.
[00:30:42]  Gays.
[00:30:43]  No, I'm not going to say it.
[00:30:46]  It's so clearly, since I don't know about, since Charlie's Angels, TV and movies, commercials, every bit of it is about women's empowerment for the last 40 years.
[00:30:57]  Sit with me and watch TV, and I'll point it out to you.
[00:30:59]  Some stuff is more subtle than others.
[00:31:02]  But I can't watch another, that's why I haven't been in the movies in forever.
[00:31:06]  I can't watch another commercial for a cop show on a broadcast network where a black woman in an FBI vest kicks in a door with a blonde chick that looks like a supermodel.
[00:31:19]  She's got her gun out.
[00:31:20]  Count the number of times when you watch commercials, women hitting heavy bags.
[00:31:24]  I've been counting these since, I don't know, 1994.
[00:31:27]  Every commercial has a woman punching.
[00:31:29]  There's a lot of female anger out there, and it's all pointed at you guys.
[00:31:33]  I don't know why.
[00:31:34]  Just keep an eye on that when you're watching TV.
[00:31:36]  I don't care if it's a football game, whatever.
[00:31:38]  That's what you get on my show.
[00:31:40]  That's definitely true, by the way.
[00:31:41]  I asked you if you had seen Project Hail Mary, and you said, Is this a football movie?
[00:31:45]  And I immediately knew that this conversation was going no further, that I would have to find a new line to mess with you.
[00:31:51]  Listen, listen, I know that's sad.
[00:31:53]  Yeah.
[00:31:54]  But fake weddings are sad, but getting a bad deal on your mortgage is sadder.
[00:32:03]  Now that you've had an opportunity to think things over, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to talk.
[00:32:10]  Ow!
[00:32:11]  What?
[00:32:12]  What do you wanna know?
[00:32:13]  I'm an open book, I'll tell you anything, I swear.
[00:32:15]  You're gonna be an open chest wound if you don't tell me what I wanna hear.
[00:32:20]  Spill the beans on how you refinanced for so long.
[00:32:25]  What?
[00:32:27]  That's all you wanna know?
[00:32:29]  That's why you snuck up behind me in the bed against the parking lot and hit me over the head?
[00:32:33]  Well, yeah.
[00:32:34]  American financing!
[00:32:37]  That's it!
[00:32:38]  Just go to Americanfinancing.net slash Crowder or call them at 1 800 974 6500.
[00:32:44]  They've helped thousands of Americans across the country.
[00:32:48]  That's it?
[00:32:49]  That's it!
[00:32:52]  Oh.
[00:32:53]  NMLS 1 82334.
[00:32:54]  What did you say?
[00:32:55]  NMLS 1 82334!
[00:32:58]  This is just something I have to say.
[00:33:00]  That sounds like fighting words to me!
[00:33:04]  Oh.
[00:33:08]  Trust the professionals, whether it's a medical procedure or financing your home.
[00:33:11]  Call the pros at American Financing today at 1 800 974 6500 or visit AmericanFinancing.net/slash Crowder.
[00:33:20]  NMLS 1 82334.
[00:33:22]  If you start today, you may even delay up to two mortgage payments.
[00:33:26]  Can you say that for yourself if you did it yourself?

=== Fragile Peace Deals in Lebanon (15:50) ===

[00:33:28]  Probably not.
[00:33:33]  I told you it was a good segue.
[00:33:34]  That was the darkest commercial I've ever seen.
[00:33:37]  Holy moly.
[00:33:37]  Well, Nick, I don't know how you would write a financing commercial, but.
[00:33:41]  I didn't say it was bad.
[00:33:42]  What are you on your period today?
[00:33:45]  What a sensitive.
[00:33:46]  Americanfinancing.net.
[00:33:47]  Listen, even if you are a sad influencer who just turned 40 and had a wedding birthday party, you still need a house.
[00:33:53]  Okay?
[00:33:53]  Everybody does.
[00:33:55]  All right.
[00:33:56]  So let's get on to Iran.
[00:33:57]  I know we've taken a little bit of time here.
[00:33:59]  There's a lot of updates, and we're following live right now because obviously when you get to a deal like we have, I think we're what, 39 days in?
[00:34:07]  Is that right right now?
[00:34:08]  So, 39 days in from when the war began, we said give it three months.
[00:34:12]  Don't panic, 51 days remaining.
[00:34:16]  And then we will check back in and see along the way.
[00:34:19]  Obviously, you can keep track of stuff, but we'll see what's going on right now.
[00:34:22]  But here's what we're going to do there's a deal kind of on the table right now.
[00:34:27]  We're doing a then versus now with some of the online banter and then what questions we need to answer before we can really assess whether this was a success.
[00:34:35]  Was this done in America's interest?
[00:34:37]  Just for all those out there who might be pissed off, are we all clear on what side that I stand on?
[00:34:44]  I just have a functioning brain so that I can also say, hey, sometimes you have.
[00:34:49]  Goals that align with other people.
[00:34:51]  So just put that aside right now.
[00:34:53]  And recall that just yesterday morning, Trump apparently was on the brink of starting a nuclear World War III.
[00:35:00]  We are talking about the potential for nuclear war here.
[00:35:04]  That is the language that Donald Trump is using, and we should not pretend that it's the language that Trump is bombing everything in sight.
[00:35:10]  Trump is proposing to escalate to attack the president that he promised help back in January.
[00:35:16]  And talking about the annihilation of their civilization without any regard for civilian casualties.
[00:35:21]  We are talking about a madman president threatening war crimes and genocide to get his way.
[00:35:27]  Not in American history have we seen a president essentially threaten nuclear war, and we have to get in the closet.
[00:35:33]  That the president of the United States has unilateral sole authority to make those decisions.
[00:35:38]  Hey, I'm glad he at least acknowledged that the president of the United States gets to make that decision.
[00:35:43]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:35:43]  Has had that authority.
[00:35:44]  He himself has threatened nuclear war multiple times.
[00:35:47]  No, really?
[00:35:47]  My button works to Kim Jong un.
[00:35:49]  Ah.
[00:35:50]  We have used nukes in the past.
[00:35:52]  Yeah.
[00:35:52]  I mean, don't make us tell you a third time.
[00:35:54]  Yeah, I just don't know what he's talking about.
[00:35:56]  Hey, but Biden threatened us when we were talking to him, right?
[00:36:00]  Yeah.
[00:36:00]  It's fair.
[00:36:01]  You better have it.
[00:36:02]  With the military and stuff.
[00:36:03]  Nobody said boo.
[00:36:05]  No.
[00:36:06]  It's the media there at Cancel.
[00:36:07]  That's what we have to figure out.
[00:36:08]  Yeah.
[00:36:09]  We have to figure that out.
[00:36:11]  The Democrats and this type of crap is always going to survive as long as they have a complicit media.
[00:36:16]  Somebody has to figure that out without bringing guns and knives into it.
[00:36:20]  By the way, Trump never said anything about launching nukes.
[00:36:22]  Does everybody remember that?
[00:36:23]  Does everybody remember when Trump put that post out and we were like, hey, you probably shouldn't have said civilization ending and God bless the people of Iran?
[00:36:30]  You've been very clear that your problem is with the IRCG.
[00:36:33]  And now the prop, I'm sorry?
[00:36:35]  I heard GC.
[00:36:36]  Did I say CG?
[00:36:37]  No.
[00:36:38]  Well, go ahead.
[00:36:39]  I'll wait for it.
[00:36:40]  Listen, when I deserve it, it's fine to admire it.
[00:36:42]  I wasn't even ready to do it.
[00:36:43]  Well, you should be.
[00:36:44]  I'm hosting the show.
[00:36:46]  You knew they were going to happen.
[00:36:47]  He's been very clear, though, that his problem is not with whatever Lane said.
[00:36:52]  It's with the government of them, not the people themselves.
[00:36:58]  The moths.
[00:36:59]  That's the problem.
[00:37:00]  He's been very clear about that.
[00:37:01]  So context really does matter, but everybody ran with that.
[00:37:04]  And again, it pissed me off the wording, but you can be pissed off about the wording of this and not run off the deep end.
[00:37:09]  But fast forward.
[00:37:11]  Last night, Trump announced on his truth that a deal had been tentatively struck.
[00:37:16]  So, based on conversations with Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Maneer, I'm sorry for the pronunciations of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran.
[00:37:29]  And, oh, fudge.
[00:37:31]  I just lost my quote.
[00:37:33]  Come on.
[00:37:34]  That's probably another admonish.
[00:37:36]  And wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
[00:37:50]  This will be a double sided ceasefire.
[00:37:53]  We received a 10 point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
[00:37:59]  He's saying this in a very verbose kind of way that doesn't seem to make as much sense as I would like him to.
[00:38:04]  Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.
[00:38:15]  It's the most important part I hear.
[00:38:18]  What I do like about that quote yesterday with the civilization, I just like the fact.
[00:38:23]  That proved to me that he's writing his own stuff.
[00:38:26]  Nobody, nobody, yeah.
[00:38:29]  I mean, it's also, it's also kind of terrifying because he's writing his own stuff, Nick.
[00:38:34]  I love it.
[00:38:35]  Well, I don't love that particular line.
[00:38:38]  I, uh, I'm a big uh free speech guy, but anyways, well, so I'd rather him be like Mario Naufall and have an army of chatbots writing his post.
[00:38:46]  There you go.
[00:38:46]  No, I do like that he's writing it.
[00:38:48]  I just wish that he would have said, I know I was with you on that yesterday.
[00:38:51]  I agree.
[00:38:51]  I mean, IRGC, I've got it messed up in my head now, so I don't want to say it the wrong way.
[00:38:56]  I wish he would have just said that in.
[00:38:57]  Instead of civilization ending, IRGC ending.
[00:39:00]  What happened to the good old days when joking about bombing a country in nuclear war?
[00:39:05]  It was a light humor.
[00:39:06]  Where was that?
[00:39:07]  I'll tell you what.
[00:39:08]  Remember Reagan?
[00:39:08]  The bombing starts in five minutes.
[00:39:10]  Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:11]  He hangs up the car and they thought he was nuts.
[00:39:14]  He meant it.
[00:39:15]  Nothing has changed in this country.
[00:39:17]  I know.
[00:39:17]  As long as the left maggots are still alive.
[00:39:19]  Go ahead.
[00:39:19]  Trump added a few hours later on Truth a big day for world peace.
[00:39:23]  Iran wants it to happen.
[00:39:24]  They've had enough.
[00:39:25]  Likewise, so has everyone else.
[00:39:27]  The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:39:31]  There will be lots of positive action.
[00:39:33]  Big money will be made.
[00:39:34]  Iran can start the reconstruction process.
[00:39:36]  We'll be loading up with supplies of all kinds and just quote unquote hanging around in order to make sure that everybody goes it.
[00:39:43]  Yes, things go well.
[00:39:44]  I feel confident that it will, just like we are experiencing in the United States.
[00:39:48]  This could be the golden age of the Middle East.
[00:39:51]  President Donald J. Trump.
[00:39:53]  That's way more positive than what he put out yesterday.
[00:39:55]  A little bit.
[00:39:56]  Like your civilization might actually die.
[00:39:57]  Somebody did get in his ear and go, hey.
[00:39:59]  And we will hang around for it.
[00:40:00]  And since the announcement, there have been a series of attacks against Israel and the Gulf states by Iran.
[00:40:08]  We just want to be clear that has happened.
[00:40:11]  And if you think this is something that we're not aware of or that we didn't expect, here is Pete Hegseth actually addressing it this morning at a conference.
[00:40:20]  As far as shooting that, we were monitoring it last night in real time.
[00:40:23]  Of course we are.
[00:40:25]  Iran would be wise to find a way to get the carrier pigeon to their troops out in remote locations to know not to shoot, not to shoot any longer, one way attacks or missiles, because this takes time sometimes for ceasefires to take hold.
[00:40:41]  We're watching it.
[00:40:42]  We're prepared if necessary, but we hope and believe that it'll hold.
[00:40:47]  Hope and believe that it'll hold, Lane.
[00:40:49]  So this is typical, right?
[00:40:50]  Yes, it's typical.
[00:40:52]  You see a lot of in the first few hours of a ceasefire, especially when the command structure in Iran is so.
[00:40:57]  Correct.
[00:40:57]  It's so decentralized.
[00:40:59]  And then you also see Israel trying to get in a few pot shots at the end.
[00:41:02]  But I think it's a good time to bring up what just broke.
[00:41:06]  According to the Fars News Agency, which is an Iranian state media, that the Iranians have stopped traffic through the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon.
[00:41:15]  And there's no secret Israel is doing that, even though that's one of the conditions that's been talked about.
[00:41:22]  And the Iranians also said, according to another one of their state run media outlets, that if Israel continues their barrage on Lebanon, Then they will pull out of the peace negotiations with the United States.
[00:41:33]  So, this might be a time for Trump to pull, they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
[00:41:37]  Yeah, this is.
[00:41:38]  Because if he wants to show that he's not being pulled around by the tail by Bibi and the Israelis, he needs to make that very clear right now.
[00:41:45]  Do we know that the Israeli strikes on Lebanon aren't retaliatory in nature?
[00:41:49]  No, they're not.
[00:41:50]  They said they weren't going to stop.
[00:41:51]  The Israelis made it very clear they weren't going to stop.
[00:41:54]  Oh.
[00:41:54]  Yeah.
[00:41:55]  So, this definitely does.
[00:41:56]  So, this plays right into the hand of a lot of people who have been critical of this administration saying that we've been led into this war by the nose by Israel.
[00:42:04]  And we're doing it just for Israel.
[00:42:06]  This is a moment.
[00:42:08]  And I pray that President Trump hears this from people who are not out here screaming at you for every single thing that you do.
[00:42:14]  This is one of those moments where you tell them to knock it off.
[00:42:17]  They are not in charge.
[00:42:19]  Israel does not run this thing.
[00:42:22]  If they want anything that we do that happens to align with what they want, I'm not saying that sometimes they don't give us some information that we feel like, yes, this works for us, it's working for you as well.
[00:42:32]  I'm not saying that that doesn't happen.
[00:42:34]  I get it.
[00:42:34]  I don't go so far as to think that they have been the only reason that we've gotten into any war in the Middle East ever.
[00:42:39]  I don't think that's reasonable.
[00:42:41]  But right now is one of those moments where you say, hey, knock it off.
[00:42:44]  Know your place.
[00:42:45]  You want peace in this region?
[00:42:47]  I think that's what you're trying to do.
[00:42:48]  That's what you say you're trying to get to.
[00:42:50]  Fantastic.
[00:42:51]  We have an opportunity to do it.
[00:42:53]  You haven't ever been able to secure it yourself.
[00:42:55]  You never will be.
[00:42:57]  I hate to tell you that.
[00:42:58]  That's the truth.
[00:43:00]  That's the kind of moment President Trump has right now to go out and really put a lot of his critics to bed.
[00:43:06]  But he also has a chance to confirm everything they've suspected.
[00:43:11]  Be very careful what you do next because a peace deal like this is fragile.
[00:43:17]  It's a two week deal.
[00:43:19]  There were a number of points that they talked about.
[00:43:21]  There was a 10 point plan, and it did include, and we kind of highlighted some of the bigger things.
[00:43:26]  There's a lot of speculation.
[00:43:27]  There has.
[00:43:28]  A lot of fake news, a lot of speculation, a lot of other stuff about this.
[00:43:31]  So take everything here with a slight grain of salt.
[00:43:33]  A little bit.
[00:43:34]  Knowledge that we have currently.
[00:43:36]  Coach yourself.
[00:43:37]  Fantastic.
[00:43:38]  Thank you for that.
[00:43:39]  Nice jujo.
[00:43:39]  Come on, folks.
[00:43:40]  Number one, the United States must fundamentally commit to guaranteeing non aggression.
[00:43:45]  Number two, continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:43:48]  A lot of people are upset about that one.
[00:43:50]  Number three, acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program.
[00:43:54]  And that was not in the English version that was released.
[00:43:57]  Correct.
[00:43:57]  You're saying?
[00:43:58]  In the initial release of this to English journalists, it wasn't included, or English language journalists, it wasn't included.
[00:44:03]  But in the Farsi release, For Iranian consumption, this point was included initially.
[00:44:08]  Gotcha.
[00:44:09]  Okay.
[00:44:09]  Number four removal of all primary sanctions on Iran.
[00:44:12]  Skipping to number nine withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region.
[00:44:16]  And number ten ceasefire on all fronts.
[00:44:18]  Here's the one, including Israel's conflict with Hezbollah and Lebanon.
[00:44:24]  So the conflict that Israel has right now, I think, with Hezbollah is justified.
[00:44:32]  Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel.
[00:44:34]  Fine.
[00:44:35]  For two weeks, though, you shut up, you sit down, and you let the adults get this thing done.
[00:44:41]  Okay?
[00:44:42]  I'm not kidding.
[00:44:43]  Like, I have been completely supportive when it makes rational sense to be so.
[00:44:49]  But in this moment, much like when Donald Trump was pissed off because they kept firing rockets at each other at the end of the 12 day war and had to tell them they don't know what the F they're doing, that's the same kind of moment you have right now.
[00:45:03]  It is a line in the sand kind of moment for Israel.
[00:45:06]  Anybody who is out there just trying to make a reasonable case.
[00:45:10]  Will have no leg to stand on anymore because you will have proven the world correct in their suspicions that you are the ones trying to cause conflict in this region.
[00:45:21]  I don't care how many rockets they shot.
[00:45:23]  Shut up, sit down, let us get this done.
[00:45:25]  You want to go attack them at some point later on because they attack you or something like that?
[00:45:29]  Fine, we can have that conversation then.
[00:45:30]  Not today.
[00:45:33]  Period.
[00:45:33]  Done.
[00:45:34]  I think Bibi will be open to that.
[00:45:36]  He should be.
[00:45:36]  I think he will.
[00:45:37]  He should have been open to that when these terms were announced.
[00:45:40]  That's my problem with this.
[00:45:41]  There's plenty to get frustrated at people with when they do stuff that is actually wrong.
[00:45:47]  Not every time they put a post out and negotiate like a lot of people did.
[00:45:51]  So here's the claim Trump caved.
[00:45:54]  He caved and accepted all of Iran's 10 point plan.
[00:45:57]  This is from Owen Jones.
[00:45:58]  This is Iran's 10 point plan, which Trump has accepted as a workable basis on which to negotiate.
[00:46:04]  Have no doubt.
[00:46:05]  This is the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the U.S. since its emergence as a superpower.
[00:46:11]  Vietnam.
[00:46:12]  I was about to say, Vietnam would like to have a word.
[00:46:14]  North Korea, I'm sorry, the Korean War, roughly not as bad as Vietnam, but I don't think we can say that's a full on win.
[00:46:21]  We achieved our initial objective.
[00:46:22]  We saved it from being completely taken over.
[00:46:24]  That's for sure.
[00:46:25]  And if that was the objective, yes.
[00:46:26]  We expanded the horizon quite quickly when we thought we could.
[00:46:29]  And then Mao Zedong was like, no, here's a million Chinese soldiers.
[00:46:32]  Here's a lot of people.
[00:46:33]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:46:35]  Here's.
[00:46:36]  The truth.
[00:46:36]  No, he did not, you idiots.
[00:46:40]  The 10 points are the forward facing proposal from the government, and at most, they are a basis for negotiation.
[00:46:47]  And Trump actually addressed this in an exclusive interview that he gave to Sky News last night.
[00:46:52]  So I said to him, Look, how are any of these points that you're talking about in the 10 point plan proposals that America could ever agree to?
[00:47:02]  And he was a bit pointed at this point.
[00:47:04]  He said, You don't know what the points are.
[00:47:06]  I know what they are.
[00:47:08]  And there was no, then he was then again flowing, no opportunity to interrupt.
[00:47:12]  So there was no opportunity for me to say, well, the Iranians have kind of published the points.
[00:47:19]  And he then said, this is really intriguing, Martha.
[00:47:22]  He then said, they're very good points, and most of them have been fully negotiated.
[00:47:29]  So he's disputing the Iranian position here.
[00:47:31]  He's suggesting that the negotiations are well developed already, which is a surprise.
[00:47:37]  You know, it's very debatable whether that's true or not.
[00:47:40]  And he said that they're not the maximalist demands that Iran is claiming.
[00:47:46]  Fine.
[00:47:47]  That makes sense, right?
[00:47:48]  It's not everything that they are claiming.
[00:47:51]  President Trump has said that there are a lot of these deal points that they have gotten to.
[00:47:54]  They've actually come to some agreement on.
[00:47:55]  This is all part of the process of him negotiating.
[00:47:58]  He does a lot of it in public, and it's unsettling because most people don't know how to negotiate.
[00:48:03]  And most people have not done what he's done.
[00:48:05]  In fact, very few people in the world.
[00:48:06]  He doesn't know how to negotiate.
[00:48:08]  It seems as if.
[00:48:08]  He's so far away from that.
[00:48:10]  I know.
[00:48:10]  My age.
[00:48:11]  Go ahead.
[00:48:12]  By the way, Dan Bongino just rated, Thank you very much for the raid.
[00:48:15]  We appreciate it.
[00:48:16]  Don't worry, I'll get my words right eventually here.
[00:48:19]  So, why should we believe President Trump and not Iran?
[00:48:23]  Monday, Iran explicitly rejected America's 15 point plan, saying, Iran firmly refuses any negotiations conducted under the shadow of illegal sanctions, military threats, or coercion.
[00:48:36]  They still use hashtags.
[00:48:37]  That's cute.
[00:48:37]  Hashtag diplomacy requires mutual respect, not pressure, unless that's a typo on our end.
[00:48:42]  And if so, I still.
[00:48:42]  Don't like that.
[00:48:44]  It's not.
[00:48:45]  And here's the fun part.
[00:48:48]  That sounds, man, let me just make sure.
[00:48:52]  So, refuses any negotiations under illegal sanctions, military threats, or coercion.
[00:48:56]  Well, I think aircraft carriers are military threats.
[00:48:59]  I think that qualifies.
[00:49:01]  And now they are negotiating.
[00:49:05]  Believe them over the president of the United States?
[00:49:08]  I don't know.
[00:49:09]  Results seem to say that they are coming to the table.
[00:49:12]  So now, this morning, I got another quote here for you, another truth from President Trump.

=== Tucker Carlson and Ukraine Narratives (15:18) ===

[00:49:19]  The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive regime change.
[00:49:26]  Some disagreements there.
[00:49:27]  There will be no enrichment of uranium.
[00:49:30]  That's different than one of their points, obviously.
[00:49:31]  And the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried B 2 bombers.
[00:49:37]  Nuclear dust.
[00:49:38]  I love how he puts that in quotes.
[00:49:40]  Like, hey, don't forget we have those.
[00:49:41]  It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance.
[00:49:46]  Space Force!
[00:49:48]  It's an exclamation point.
[00:49:50]  I had to do it.
[00:49:51]  Nothing has been touched from the date of attack.
[00:49:53]  We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran.
[00:49:56]  I'm fine with that.
[00:49:57]  Many of the 15 points have already been agreed to.
[00:50:00]  Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
[00:50:06]  Does that seem reasonable?
[00:50:07]  So, real quick, the nuclear dust that he's referring to would be the 60% enriched uranium that was buried during the strikes this summer at Isfahan.
[00:50:14]  And when they questioned Pete Hegseth on it today, he said, Yeah, he thought we could work with the Iranians to do it, but we reserve the right to go in and get it by any means necessary.
[00:50:22]  So, again, a bunch of the stuff that Trump.
[00:50:24]  It's in process.
[00:50:25]  It's in process.
[00:50:26]  Trump is going to try to sell it as stuff that has already happened.
[00:50:29]  We want to caution.
[00:50:29]  We are not saying we've achieved the deal of this century.
[00:50:32]  A lot of this is still under negotiations.
[00:50:33]  So, again, take things with grains of salt, but understand that the negotiations that would never take place.
[00:50:39]  Monday are taking place right now.
[00:50:42]  Right, exactly.
[00:50:42]  And a lot of people said that wouldn't happen.
[00:50:44]  Most of us, if not all of us in this office, I didn't get to poll everybody.
[00:50:48]  That's why I don't know.
[00:50:49]  Said, of course, President Trump isn't going to nuke Iran.
[00:50:53]  It doesn't make any sense at all to do that.
[00:50:55]  He's probably going to get to a deal.
[00:50:57]  I doubt that this thing is going to go much further.
[00:51:00]  I mean, we don't like getting close to anything like that, but all of us thought, like, this is how he negotiates.
[00:51:06]  And though I probably wouldn't have done it like that, I don't think he's going to go and do anything.
[00:51:11]  When does he get the benefit of the doubt?
[00:51:13]  I guess never.
[00:51:14]  Especially from the left, obviously.
[00:51:16]  He's either a maniac who wants to nuke the world or he's chicken shit.
[00:51:20]  He's, you know, because he's going along with the.
[00:51:24]  He's the mad king.
[00:51:24]  He's somebody that needs to be 25th.
[00:51:26]  There's no gray area.
[00:51:27]  You know, the left love their gray area.
[00:51:29]  They're big on that.
[00:51:29]  But when it comes to Trump, it's either.
[00:51:31]  It's not just the left, too.
[00:51:32]  I mean, you're 100% right.
[00:51:33]  What we're going to highlight, too, in just a second is somebody on the right did that.
[00:51:38]  Meghan Kelly went off.
[00:51:39]  The freakouts that they have, as Nick said, after what, at the point six years of this, 10 to include since his political run.
[00:51:46]  And it's always, it's such an IQ test every time they respond, and they are not passing.
[00:51:53]  No, not at all, because in a lot of cases, one issue tends to skew everything.
[00:51:58]  But just wanted to see, like, asking you guys, when do you think the Strait of Hormuz will return to normal?
[00:52:06]  Springs Historic Halsey check in.
[00:52:11]  All right.
[00:52:11]  So on Kalshi right now, the odds, and look, we use these a lot of times because people put money on stuff like this and there's a little bit to lose instead of just an opinion.
[00:52:18]  So before May 1st, 37%.
[00:52:21]  We'll see.
[00:52:22]  Before May 15th, 60%.
[00:52:24]  Before June 1st, 62%.
[00:52:26]  I don't know what they define as return to normal.
[00:52:30]  Probably tanker traffic.
[00:52:31]  That's what it is standard.
[00:52:33]  Yeah.
[00:52:33]  I'm sure Kalshi will be fair about that.
[00:52:35]  But it's very interesting to look at what the prediction markets have to say about that.
[00:52:39]  And I always love Harry Enton's Kalshi.
[00:52:42]  Check in basically that they do on CNN.
[00:52:44]  The segment we pulled, I know.
[00:52:46]  Oh, there it is.
[00:52:47]  Oh my God, he was watching me.
[00:52:49]  So, the toilet.
[00:52:50]  So, just for clarification, that he's pointing, yeah, there you go.
[00:52:55]  Look at this.
[00:52:56]  Look at this.
[00:52:57]  All right, so let's do a little bit of then and now reaction over Trump's uh civilization ending post, uh, and versus after the ceasefire announcement.
[00:53:07]  So, Sagar Injetti, is that correct pronunciation there?
[00:53:10]  There we go.
[00:53:10]  This is his then.
[00:53:13]  I hit it right the first time.
[00:53:15]  The thing about the madman theory is that you're not supposed to be actually, or sorry, you're not supposed to actually be mad.
[00:53:21]  Here's now.
[00:53:24]  Taco Tuesday, it is pending Iranian approval.
[00:53:29]  What?
[00:53:30]  It gets worse.
[00:53:31]  And listen, I'll talk about this in a second.
[00:53:32]  Let me just go through these really quickly.
[00:53:34]  Nick Fuentes.
[00:53:36]  This is then.
[00:53:38]  Sorry, I screwed up your timing there.
[00:53:41]  Trump's threats to destroy Iranian civilization for Israel almost make you forget that 10 years ago, he was elected to build a border wall, repair our infrastructure, and end political corruption.
[00:53:53]  The MAGA movement was assimilated into the GOP and hijacked by Zionist Jews.
[00:53:59]  Okay, hard disagree.
[00:54:01]  Now?
[00:54:03]  Taco!
[00:54:05]  Emoji heart.
[00:54:08]  Are they just repeating themselves?
[00:54:09]  A little bit.
[00:54:10]  There's a little bit of this thing going on here.
[00:54:12]  Rokhana.
[00:54:12]  See, this is what I would expect.
[00:54:14]  I would expect to hear this from Rokhana.
[00:54:16]  That's why we didn't fill this with leftists.
[00:54:18]  I would expect this kind of thing.
[00:54:19]  Here's then.
[00:54:22]  We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.
[00:54:24]  Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our Constitution and the Geneva Convention versus now.
[00:54:33]  Trump backed down.
[00:54:35]  Call to activism.
[00:54:37]  Then JD Vance doubles down on Trump's true social post threatening a whole civilization will die tonight and even implies Trump might use nuclear weapons.
[00:54:48]  This is a dark day in American history.
[00:54:49]  Trump needs to be removed.
[00:54:52]  Now, just over an hour before his own Iran deadline, Trump chickens out and suspends the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
[00:55:01]  He creates the crisis, then scrambles for a rescue.
[00:55:04]  Taco Trump!
[00:55:07]  One of my favorites to hate.
[00:55:09]  Jackson Hinkle.
[00:55:10]  Then.
[00:55:12]  This is going to backfire in unthinkable ways.
[00:55:15]  Save this tweet and watch.
[00:55:17]  He's a homo.
[00:55:19]  Probably.
[00:55:20]  Versus now.
[00:55:23]  The United States is a paper tiger.
[00:55:26]  Save this tweet and watch.
[00:55:28]  No, he didn't say it the second time, did he?
[00:55:30]  Owen Jones.
[00:55:31]  Then.
[00:55:32]  Donald Trump is clearly threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran.
[00:55:36]  He needs to be removed as president to prevent a catastrophe that our species, our species, Will never recover from.
[00:55:44]  Very dramatic.
[00:55:45]  Now, Donald Trump has backed down from his threat to commit genocide against Iran.
[00:55:52]  He almost sounds disappointed.
[00:55:55]  Listen, there's no winning with these people.
[00:55:58]  Is the only thing that would have prevented them yelling taco.
[00:56:01]  You notice
[00:56:48]  the woman's still hanging on because she's tough.
[00:56:50]  That's right.
[00:56:53]  I'm telling you.
[00:56:54]  The man's the main character.
[00:56:55]  Don't get me started on Terminator 2.
[00:56:57]  It is a national treasure and it was long, but it makes the point.
[00:56:59]  Let me sum that all up for you real quick.
[00:57:01]  Do it.
[00:57:02]  Trump yesterday morning was a genocidal lunatic who was going to commit nuclear holocaust.
[00:57:07]  Right.
[00:57:08]  To fast forward this last night, Trump is a pussy because he didn't commit nuclear holocaust.
[00:57:13]  Yes.
[00:57:13]  Yeah.
[00:57:13]  So you have to pick a lane.
[00:57:15]  That's what I said too.
[00:57:16]  Don't you?
[00:57:17]  There's no gray area.
[00:57:18]  Don't you have to pick a lane?
[00:57:19]  I'm asking.
[00:57:20]  Oh, I thought you were referring to me.
[00:57:21]  I thought that was like a pun or something.
[00:57:23]  Right?
[00:57:23]  Yeah.
[00:57:24]  You have to pick one.
[00:57:25]  You can't have all lanes.
[00:57:25]  Why?
[00:57:25]  You can't have all the lanes.
[00:57:26]  You have to pick one.
[00:57:27]  Either he is a chicken or he is somebody who is a genocidal maniac.
[00:57:33]  You could say Trump made threats he should never have made.
[00:57:36]  I'm very glad that he didn't follow through on them.
[00:57:38]  It's good that we're at the negotiating table.
[00:57:40]  Let's see if we can get something done.
[00:57:42]  There.
[00:57:42]  That was the post they should have made.
[00:57:43]  That doesn't give you a million clicks from a bunch of retards on Twitter.
[00:57:46]  So I see that.
[00:57:48]  That is a great point.
[00:57:49]  That's where.
[00:57:49]  It's true.
[00:57:49]  It's 100% true.
[00:57:51]  Dave Smith actually commented.
[00:57:52]  So we posted on Stephen's account today.
[00:57:55]  Posted that this was the case.
[00:57:57]  That you got to pick a lane, basically.
[00:57:58]  He didn't say pick a lane, I said that.
[00:58:00]  And Dave Smith replied to it in a way that I'm like, just please continue to dig your own grave with this stuff.
[00:58:06]  Like, just please make it worse.
[00:58:09]  Like, you can't have it both ways.
[00:58:11]  You can't say he's a genocidal monster and then not go, okay, well, at least he took an off ramp.
[00:58:16]  He made fun of the quartering for having a low IQ.
[00:58:17]  He did.
[00:58:18]  And the only thing I could think of is, dude, you're a libertarian.
[00:58:20]  That's true.
[00:58:21]  So, like, let's not be talking about IQs.
[00:58:24]  And listen, I generally think that Dave Smith is a very smart guy.
[00:58:27]  I don't.
[00:58:28]  But fine, that's fair.
[00:58:29]  I do.
[00:58:30]  I think he's a smart guy, but you can't, you cannot hold both positions.
[00:58:34]  With any kind of intellectual honesty at all.
[00:58:36]  I don't know.
[00:58:37]  Come at me, I guess.
[00:58:38]  But the dumbest take of all has been reserved for one of my favorite people not to like.
[00:58:42]  And it's in this context.
[00:58:43]  So Zelensky, you remember Ukraine?
[00:58:47]  Volodymyr Zelensky.
[00:58:49]  Penis piano player extraordinaire.
[00:58:51]  That does nothing for your prostate health, by the way.
[00:58:53]  Go back and see the first part of the show and you'll understand.
[00:58:55]  He admonished the UN's ineffectiveness over the IRGC's actions in the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:59:01]  And the man who will never wear a pager for obvious reasons, Mehdi Hassan, responded with this dumb.
[00:59:09]  Take.
[00:59:10]  It's astonishing that you, a world leader who many respected for standing up to an illegal attack on your country, now support an illegal attack on another country.
[00:59:19]  It completely kills your credibility.
[00:59:21]  Right now, Iran is Ukraine.
[00:59:23]  You may not like to hear that, but that is a fact.
[00:59:26]  Oh, well, that's cool.
[00:59:28]  I didn't know Iran was also conscripting Down syndrome dudes.
[00:59:37]  Because that's what Ukraine did.
[00:59:39]  You don't have Down syndrome people in Islamic countries because they throw them off buildings?
[00:59:42]  Yeah.
[00:59:43]  Oh, okay.
[00:59:44]  Well, sometimes they get it right.
[00:59:46]  Also, by the way, don't forget the Shahed drones.
[00:59:50]  Since 2022, over 57,000 of them have been launched at Ukraine.
[00:59:55]  Is that made, designed, produced by, in conjunction with Iran?
[01:00:01]  Iran has been explicitly responsible for the deaths of Ukrainian citizens with the production of their Shahed drones, which is Been Russia's number probably outside of ballistic missiles, the number one attack that they've had on Ukrainian cities.
[01:00:13]  So, for whatever you think about the Ukrainians, for Mehdi dipshit Hassan to equate the Ukrainian stance on Iran to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just it's so beyond the pale of like legitimacy.
[01:00:29]  He should log off the internet and never consider coming back.
[01:00:32]  Yes, and Mehdi Hassan obviously is he's he's one of the people that make American planes crash again.
[01:00:37]  Yes, he did.
[01:00:38]  He definitely did.
[01:00:39]  He has the worst takes all of the time, and he tries to come across as a reasonable person who is not.
[01:00:45]  Look into his past.
[01:00:46]  He's been dealt with before, and I hope he gets dealt with again, intellectually speaking, of course.
[01:00:52]  Been made to look like the complete asshat that he is.
[01:00:55]  By the way, last week, speaking of.
[01:00:59]  Listen, I know this is going to piss some of you off, but you have to listen to Tucker Carlson and ask him for evidence on stuff.
[01:01:05]  He doesn't provide it, he just says things are true.
[01:01:08]  And worse, it's not that he gives an opinion.
[01:01:10]  I wouldn't have as much of a problem with that.
[01:01:12]  Maybe I would disagree, but it's at least within the arguable bounds, right?
[01:01:18]  My problem is with maximalist claims that he makes.
[01:01:22]  So listen to this one that he made last week about the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:01:26]  Who controls the world?
[01:01:27]  Well, how do you know?
[01:01:30]  Well, you know, because in terms of this specific conflict, the nation that controls the world will be the one that opens the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:01:42]  Hate Jews!
[01:01:43]  Fantastic.
[01:01:45]  I use that one all the time, almost three times a day.
[01:01:47]  Fantastic.
[01:01:48]  Tucker, tell you what, I don't agree, but let's just say for the sake of argument that I grant your position the country that opens the Strait of Hormuz runs the world.
[01:02:00]  Who did we negotiate through and who is getting some credit for helping reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
[01:02:06]  That's right, Pakistan.
[01:02:07]  So, by your logic, Pakistan runs the world.
[01:02:11]  Does anybody believe that's true?
[01:02:15]  Tucker, stop.
[01:02:18]  This is getting crazy at this point.
[01:02:20]  It's getting quite laughable because if I just take you at your word, if I'm one of your viewers, I hate Donald Trump because I think he's doing stuff that I can't possibly get behind as a Christian, but you would vote for him again because that's what you said in one of your other videos.
[01:02:35]  And also, whoever opens the Strait of Hormuz because the United States is no longer running the world, they're the people running the world.
[01:02:42]  Now, listen, I know this kind of backfired a little bit on you because you were leaning into China.
[01:02:46]  You were basically saying that China is going to be the one that comes to the rescue and opens the strait, and therefore they are the nation that now runs the world because they have the power to get it back open.
[01:02:55]  But guess who came galloping along?
[01:02:57]  Pakistan.
[01:03:00]  You going to issue any corrections?
[01:03:02]  I don't think so.
[01:03:03]  How about on the aircraft carriers?
[01:03:05]  What did he say about that, Lane?
[01:03:07]  He made some boneheaded claims about how aircraft carriers wouldn't be important anymore just because they weren't able to open the strait of Hormuz.
[01:03:13]  Well, they hadn't been used or attempted to because that results in escalation we didn't want to do.
[01:03:17]  But furthermore, we launched a.
[01:03:19]  Basically, destruction of an entire military from our aircraft carriers.
[01:03:24]  China's currently trying to build them at light speed.
[01:03:26]  So I digress on that point.
[01:03:28]  I guess they'll be around.
[01:03:29]  The entire thing, like you said, was premised on saying, well, China's actually the country that controls the world.
[01:03:34]  No, China has a very special relationship with the Strait of Hormuz because they import something like, I don't know, two thirds of their oil through there or something like that.
[01:03:41]  I don't have a prompter in front of me like Tucker did when he was reading the statistics.
[01:03:46]  Go watch it, see what you see.
[01:03:48]  But the point is, he's trying to make it seem like China has all the leverage.
[01:03:52]  No.
[01:03:52]  They have a vested interest that countries wouldn't have, just like they would in the Strait of Malacca.
[01:03:57]  And different countries in different regions have more influence or more pressure to take action.
[01:04:02]  Yes, the Chinese were involved in this because it's of their interest to be able to access oil because they're able to put a little pressure on, or Pakistan.
[01:04:08]  That doesn't mean these countries control the world.
[01:04:10]  Right.
[01:04:11]  It means they have either negotiating leverage or they're on the other end of that in specific negotiations.
[01:04:16]  He's trying to turn every single thing that I've seen recently into the U.S. is ceding their unipolar moment to the Chinese because the Chinese ascension is just predestined.
[01:04:26]  Nothing we can do about it.
[01:04:27]  That is a troubling narrative, and I really have to wonder where it's coming from.
[01:04:31]  And then everything is an attack on Christianity.
[01:04:33]  He's just making these like absolute maximalist claims all of the time and providing no evidence for it, guys.

=== Calling Out Right-Wing Voices (02:36) ===

[01:04:38]  And really, listen, I listen to every Tucker episode, just about.
[01:04:41]  When he's talking to the priest about talking to Satan, I'm like, I don't want to listen to that.
[01:04:46]  I've never really enjoyed that.
[01:04:47]  I watched The Exorcist a few times as a kid and I couldn't sleep for like a month, so I'm not going down that road.
[01:04:51]  You listen to Tucker in the gym.
[01:04:52]  I do listen to it, it makes me work out harder because it angers me.
[01:04:57]  Because I used to enjoy hearing some of what he had to say, but now everything is about the same issue and everything is just said.
[01:05:06]  Of course, you'll have guests on that come and say things as well.
[01:05:08]  And it's not like everything's a lie or everything's being blown out of proportion, but very key facts are.
[01:05:14]  And there are so many people right now on the right, not even just talking about the left, that are doing that.
[01:05:20]  I want to make one point because it might seem like we're just trying to shit on everybody that's not us.
[01:05:24]  No.
[01:05:24]  There's lots of great voices out there.
[01:05:26]  There are.
[01:05:26]  I think Tim Pool's done some good work on this.
[01:05:28]  I think Nick Dip, go see him live.
[01:05:29]  Yep.
[01:05:31]  All right.
[01:05:31]  Or, you know, people like Clay Travis, there's a bunch of people that are level headed.
[01:05:34]  For sure.
[01:05:35]  That are great to listen to outside of us if we're not your flavor, or more niche people like, you know, China Uncensored, the China Show, if you want to get to this, or listen to scholars talk.
[01:05:43]  There's a million other sources.
[01:05:45]  The people that are the most popular right now on the X or on the intersphere of the internet, the interwebs, I just think they have ulterior motives that are strictly concerned with profits.
[01:05:56]  And that's why I think we need to call them out.
[01:05:58]  Yeah, definitely need to do that.
[01:05:59]  And listen, when people say stuff, even we disagree.
[01:06:01]  You know who came after Mehdi Hassan pretty hard?
[01:06:04]  Destiny.
[01:06:05]  I don't like anything that guy says.
[01:06:06]  I think he's one of the worst people out there.
[01:06:08]  He was correct in that.
[01:06:09]  He was very correct in his assessment.
[01:06:11]  Addictment to stripper.
[01:06:12]  No, no, that's your destiny.
[01:06:14]  I would never reference her.
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[01:06:43]  But JD Vance absolutely nailed how you are supposed to respond.
[01:06:49]  If you're on the right or if you're somebody who has been supportive of President Trump and voted for him and hoping that he's going to do things that fix this country, this is how you handle situations like this.
[01:06:59]  The piece of advice I'd give to you, and I give it to American students, American conservatives in particular, is resist the temptation to think that victory is immediate.
[01:07:11]  Or that we're going to win back our civilization through instant gratification.