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EPISODE 12: VICTIMPTIVE STRIKES (NOVEMBER 27TH, 2023)

The Mug Club gang just can't help themselves this week as they spew racist homophobic hate, injecting it into every story they cover. Taking advantage of their recent strategic strikes making them unable to stream on YouTube...this was a tough one to get through. But at least we've got Jim Breuer. Email: louderthancrowder@gmail.com Twitter/X: @thancrowder Music by DJ Danarchy

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	Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcasts louder than crowder.
	about to podcast louder with Crowder.
	My name's Byron, and I'm joined tonight by Jared.
	That's me, I'm Jared.
	And Dennis is not here.
	Living that international man of mystery life.
	Yes, sir.
	He's in Japan for a little bit longer, but that's okay.
	He'll be back.
	And today, we'll be covering the November 29th, 2023 show of Louder With Crowder.
	It's a Wednesday!
	I don't know if we've done a Wednesday yet.
	He accuses the World Health Organization in China of lying about new COVID, based on not much, and the attack on porno continues, but before all of that...
	There's some Mug Club shakeup that I think we need to address.
	We've heard and talked a bit about most of the boys on the roster.
	There's Alex Jones, Brian Callen, Nick DiPaolo, the Hodge Twins.
	But ahead of the re-platforming conference, a big name was mentioned, Jim Brewer.
	Jimmy Brews.
	Goat boy.
	What's up with him?
	Well, you, I think, out of everyone on this little panel of ours, knows the most about him because you've listened to a roundtable comedy conversation between Steven, Brian, Nick, and Jim.
	Yeah, the raw dog comedy hour.
	No, it's basically the same thing, but it's called Murderer's Row.
	That's right, that's right.
	Yeah, you did both episodes.
	The first was titled Comedic Icons Pull Back the Curtain on Hollywood Censorship in Politics.
	I only got about like 10 minutes into the second one.
	Yeah, the second one was called Racism is Funny.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	That's really good.
	My remembrance of that first episode especially was when Nick DiPaolo would say things.
	Jim Brewer would have a physical reaction to some of the stuff that he was saying.
	He recoiled.
	He was wincing quite a bit.
	Well, I wonder why that was.
	I hadn't really thought too much about it until I saw that Jim released his new comedy special, Country Boy Will Survive, on YouTube.
	Cool.
	Shaky cameras, bad focus, really shit production, but funny jokes.
	Oh, for real?
	No!
	Of course not!
	Good delivery!
	You just threw that over my head hard.
	Yeah, during our Thanksgiving break, I had a bit of time to dig into why this wasn't released on Mug Club.
	That's my big question.
	And in digging back a couple months, he actually addressed this on episode 72 of his Bruniverse podcast.
	Bruniverse.
	Yeah.
	Whatever you think of him, like whatever, you know, what he talks about, whatever, that's what...
	I like meeting people and then I see who they're around.
	I was impressed that he had his father around.
	I was impressed that he was so into comedy.
	He seemed so sincere.
	And a guy just fighting the machine.
	From the minute I met him, I saw Steve Kravitz just like straight out of a Star Wars thing.
	You know, I remember him doing the change my mind.
	Yeah, cool sound effects.
	It's a great podcast.
	We should change our entire structure of the show.
	We should just check them out.
	And at least he got the Change My Mind name right.
	It's better than Alex did during the replatforming conference, I guess.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, I know that Jim has a very interesting, or had his father, has sadly passed, a relationship with his dad.
	So he saw that, you know, with Steve working with Pops Crowder so much, that was something he thought was admirable.
	But to say that Steven Crowder is just an honest guy in an equivalent of, like, Luke Skywalker?
	When he said that, I was... Immediately, I thought Darkseid.
	Not, you know, unprompted.
	It was just very... Yeah.
	That was a good mental exercise, and...
	He's more of like an Anakin, but that's just me.
	Jim's cold feet story continues.
	So long story short, he, I guess he ventured into the new world, what he's doing.
	And, um, he's like, you know, I really, really, really, really want to bring you to my team.
	Um, He's extremely smart.
	In my opinion, you know, I'm dumb as a rock.
	I'll tell you that right out of the gate.
	I'm not going to sit there and tell you I'm a rocket scientist because I'm not.
	I feel like, Mike, we're at this place in the podcast where, you know, I've been doing, we've been doing this a year and a half.
	I should say Mike is his producer, who is also, you know, watching and probably pressing record on some sort of like... This is edited together too, it seems.
	Is this like one train of thought?
	It's an interesting production there, running over there at the Bruniverse.
	We've been doing this a year and a half in a garage, in the closet, and I'm ready to step up a level.
	With the studio, but I'm also ready to step up production-wise.
	Like if I listen, we all gotta step up.
	Like this was a nice, cute gig.
	It was cute.
	But now I see the potential of my joy and things I wanna get out there, segments I wanna talk about, touching lives, being funny.
	Being funny.
	The production elements, and he seems to be fairly ambitious considering, I'm not gonna scoff at his numbers, he's getting like 20,000, 30,000, listens, views, whatever's on his YouTube thing, and that's fine.
	Especially, you know, for a guy who's not a rocket scientist.
	He says it himself.
	He'll be the first to admit.
	He really looks up to how smart and honest Stephen is.
	This is incredible.
	My thought is that he saw the inner workings and realized kind of how easy he could do what Stephen is doing, but on his own.
	Yeah.
	You know, even though like...
	All he has to do is just... He has no soundproofing in that echoey room of his where he chooses to record this on his MacBook.
	I was wondering like what the what it looked like around him because it's it's got a loud vibe to it.
	It's it's garage but in a not charming Marc Maron kind of way but yeah.
	Believe me, I mentioned a little bit about the quality of his special.
	It is a little bit of the same.
	So I've not seen his new special, but I've seen bits of his 2021 special, I suppose.
	Which I think a lot of these jokes that he's still touring on his I think that's right.
	Anyhow, it was also shot on like just like an iPad and an iPhone on like the left and right side of the stage.
	Just pull it back and so you kind of only see like 35 people and that seems to be the entirety of the room.
	And he was using the same, the audio from the video.
	So if he's saying all, he realized all he needs to do is just maybe buy a new camera.
	Buy a nicer camera.
	And a microphone that sits closer to his face, I suppose.
	Well, and I think he learned how to use a compressor because today we, I do have some clips from his new standup special, if you want to hear them.
	Let's check this out.
	Yeah, he hit me with the creme de la creme.
	What?
	What's going on?
	What is?
	What is... no.
	No, what I mean is, what... is going on?
	Right?
	Like, it's past, it's past if you're divided politically.
	Even, you have to admit, even if you're like, I don't care as long as it's not you-know-who.
	Yeah, nah.
	That was like a demonic, like the devil came out and just whoever.
	We're gonna make people hate Donald Trump.
	HATE!
	Get him!
	I HATE ALL THE TREASURE RACISTS!
	DETECTIVES!
	WHITE SUPREMACISTS!
	INSURRECTIONISTS!
	THEY LYNCH PEOPLE!
	You can really make noises with his mouth.
	That was the punchline.
	It's, uh, say something and then say it loud and weird.
	Huh.
	Okay, well, and you watched the whole thing?
	I made it through about 30 minutes, and... Does it pay off?
	Well, I mean, that depends.
	How much do you remember about the Woman's March?
	Um, pink pussy hat.
	They had, remember the Woman's March?
	We're gonna march!
	I have a vagina!
	I have a vagina!
	Oh, they knew what a woman was then!
	I love that one because it feels exactly like the drunk uncle character by Bobby Moynihan
	on SNL Weekend Update.
	I mean, in my opinion, it seems like he's only had conversations with that meme lady screaming after Hillary lost.
	Yeah, the Ree-Ree.
	I don't know what he's doing here.
	He just dropped a bomb on people who agree with him.
	Yeah, with a situation from 2017.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, but it still packs so much weight behind it because, like, that's when the memories stopped forming.
	These are the last things that we can do before we just have nothing new.
	What do you think about when I say drug lord stuff?
	Drug lord stuff?
	Hunter Biden, of course.
	Oh!
	She's on crack, do you understand that?
	It's not like you want him to be on crack.
	No, he's on crack.
	Think of it.
	This is some drug lord stuff.
	Think about it.
	Think about it.
	He got caught bribing a crackhead.
	You don't give me money, you can't talk to my father.
	Where's that Asian whore?
	how much super accurate depiction of the situation as it is
	I mean, it's just like Facebook comments the musical.
	I mean, I can get that for free.
	I don't need to like... It's true.
	My aunt gives me that for free.
	I don't need to watch it for free on YouTube.
	Congratulations, Brewer.
	Yeah, the Brewniverse is howling at the minute.
	They love it.
	It's frustrating because it doesn't really even make sense necessarily with the story that's trying to be put forward, right?
	Yeah, what is the story that's being trying to put forward anyway now?
	But my jokes are that I'm going to re-litigate the last seven years of everyone's life.
	This is speed running us through.
	Hey, remember how crazy the last seven years was?
	That's crazy.
	Well, yee-haw!
	That's it.
	I watched this guy Matt Walsh about what is a woman.
	And yeah.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	And that's another thing.
	You can't tell me other countries aren't watching.
	Other big countries.
	Let's say Germany.
	Germany's going, uns was das.
	They are going to try to define what a man is and what a woman.
	And the people are actually supporting this uns administration.
	Watch what she said.
	about what you say.
	And you have people starting to believe it.
	Well, I mean, the science and... People love that word, science.
	Tell me anything you want!
	I'm singing!
	I believe in science, I...
	I question nothing.
	I put you on the altar.
	Yes, dude.
	Fucking got my ass.
	Yeah, that ruled.
	Okay, I'm starting to kind of get it now.
	You're catching up.
	Yeah, I think I'm kind of getting it now.
	So yeah, he- wait, wait a second.
	How did he get us?
	Oh, it's because he said science in a goofy way.
	He was doing like, um, a praise, and it kind of felt like a... Sure, yeah.
	Like we're in the church, so there's a little bit of a hymn-ness to it.
	Of course, of course, yeah.
	And so then we're like, oh man, I love church songs.
	I'm kind of confused.
	And then I just lulled into the joke.
	Seems like I should be...
	Trusting science though.
	It's a weird thing, but the way he says it makes me embarrassed.
	Now I'm trusting Jim Brewer.
	Exactly.
	And now what does that say about me?
	I don't know.
	And he sneaks in that, you remember when Katonji Brown-Jackson was asked to define a woman and she said that she's not a biologist?
	He slid that in there, but I don't think his audience really knows like the details of what he's talking about.
	Yeah.
	Well, because, you see, back on, you know, 13 years ago in this very obscure interview that took place on this one channel in Detroit, Michigan at a 5 p.m.
	news block.
	If you don't know this, then you actually have nothing to stand on in your argument.
	You can make funny voices, though.
	It's like a children's show.
	You combine the two.
	You marry the two.
	Now you're giving the information.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Good point.
	This is some real big bird.
	It's Pixar style where you have like a funny jokes for adults, some jokes for the parents.
	It's great stuff.
	Uh, I can't leave this special without a musical number though.
	Yeah.
	This is the last clip from a special.
	Is it an ACDC cover?
	Not quite.
	She's in your face!
	Ladies, they are in your face.
	Double finger to your face.
	You can pee where you want, doodah, doodah.
	It's a doodah.
	You wanted your own bathroom, now we take it away.
	There goes all your rice.
	Do you want to play your sport?
	Too bad, too bad.
	The boy with a dick can play with you now.
	Do dah, do dah.
	As parents go, this is inclusive, right?
	Ooh, ooh, ooh.
	Yeah.
	All right, well, you lost me on that one.
	But he had time to, I don't know.
	Four-star Letterboxd review on this?
	Four out of five?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, at least.
	I mean, I'll give him a four and a half even.
	This guy's out of here.
	He's trying his damn hardest and hasn't done anything outside of just being like a weird transphobe and COVID denier and, you know, just generally not a funny person.
	But that doesn't mean that he can't work and sell out a big room.
	You know, there's a lot of people that agree with him.
	Well, and there's, I mean, one of the most honorable things about him is that, you know, he can just, like, be honest and cut the shit.
	And that's kind of what he does.
	He gets really real about the Steven Crowder mug club situation.
	You know, he wants to do a comedy special.
	Me come do the chair.
	I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't watch the show and I tell him that.
	He knows that.
	But his passion... His fight, dude, he is...
	He's got such fight in him.
	him. It's hard. It's, it's, it's, it's really making me think a lot.
	Listen, Steven, you're a really nice person, but it's just not gonna work
	There's plenty of racist fish in the sea.
	Have you met Josh Feierstein?
	Does he say racist stuff?
	Maybe that was like... Jim?
	Jim Brewer is probably the least racist thing about the show today.
	Just so everyone's aware.
	Just to ease you in.
	Damn, though.
	I don't watch his show.
	It's pretty apparent from this little clip that that was never the intention.
	Jim Brewer was gonna be sitting third chair.
	It just simply sounds like, like you were saying earlier, Jim wants to do this on his own.
	If he can just step up what he's doing, then why would he need Steven to do it?
	He's a bigger draw, at least in comedy, you know?
	There was a point where Steven was saying that he was gonna build an East Coast studio for Jim Brewer, and then Jim moved to Florida, so... I don't know.
	Still East Coast, I guess.
	I'd love to have a long conversation with him, and he's been extremely patient with me.
	Extremely patient.
	So, um, and you have to be with me.
	I'm at this stage in life.
	I don't, I got everything.
	I have everything.
	I have my health.
	I have my faith.
	I have, uh, good people around me.
	I live in a beautiful part of the world.
	Mm-hmm.
	Holy fuck, Jim.
	Say it.
	Spit it out, man.
	Sorry, man.
	I just figured it's out there in the wild.
	We'd have to address it at some point, maybe, you know.
	Just let everybody know.
	Let our viewers know, you know.
	Be transparent, you know.
	I mean, it just is what it is.
	So, I am excited for him.
	Really nice sandcastle.
	That was a hard breakup that Jim just had to make with Steven.
	He did it on his show so he has to tune in to find out that they're no longer courting.
	Really nice. Really nice seeing Castle.
	That was a hard breakup that that Jim just had to make with Steven. He did it on his show so he has to tune
	in to find out that they're no longer courting.
	That's pretty sad. Well that's what happens when both parties are obnoxious people.
	Pieces of shit.
	Darn it.
	So one face of the Mug Club, uh, Mount Rushmore has been removed.
	Well, congrats to Josh.
	I don't think Josh is, I mean, he's, he's on deck I suppose, but he's definitely not going to have his own show anytime soon, right?
	Well, he's, uh, submittin' to the king.
	We started a different episode earlier this week, and, uh, it started off with Stephen calling him fat, and then him kinda going, hee hee hee, I'm fat!
	He's a little piggy boy, but he's just, like, leadin' into it.
	Wow.
	So that was kind of interesting.
	Yeah, Jim's down.
	And I mean, we got Josh.
	We're okay.
	There's enough people to sit third chair.
	Pop's Crowder hasn't been there for like a month and a half at this point.
	So.
	That's true.
	Not struggling to book as much as he was.
	But on that note, the program can now start.
	And it does with Steven asking how everyone did without him the day before, likely because he was in court.
	And then there was a stabbing at a North Carolina high school.
	Have you guys heard of this?
	You followed this story.
	I'll tell you, you probably haven't heard of it because there's been zero national media coverage.
	Watchin' my watch.
	Guess the race of the perpetrator.
	Racist.
	New record.
	Damn, right out there.
	There's like two ads, there's the intro, and then it's that immediately.
	Yeah, it's gonna be one of those episodes.
	But that doesn't really matter.
	We're also not on YouTube right now, so we can say whatever we want.
	That's right.
	We're on Rumble exclusively.
	Hit the like button, share to let people know because we will be suspended from YouTube for what, two weeks?
	Yes.
	A week?
	Two weeks?
	Trying to figure that out.
	It was the whole Bongino Show.
	The infraction was... Dan.
	Dan.
	You remember this one?
	It was right after the Nashville quote-unquote manifesto leaked.
	They did a dueling show.
	Yeah.
	A special two-hour presentation that I didn't watch because I was exhausted.
	I didn't either.
	Mentally couldn't handle more.
	I saw them on there and I thought, no thanks.
	Our Nashville coverage was just a lot, so I didn't check it out, but I did take a peek here at the email that YouTube sent Steven.
	They have two strikes now.
	Hey, something funny just to add in here, speaking of like Facebook comments, is that Couple years ago, it was after Dan got let go from Fox News.
	Yeah, Stephen got let go from Fox News too.
	Hmm, connection.
	I saw a family member of mine in the Dan Bongino comments.
	Sure.
	Basically asking to be his friend.
	Hey, if you ever come this way, look me up, partner.
	And did he get a response?
	You know, I think that he was actually maybe talking to a bit of a bot situation in there.
	You know, laughed about that, moved on.
	Maybe I took some screenshots.
	That's pretty cool.
	So they had some content removed for violating YouTube's terms of service.
	What does it say here?
	The content may be removed and your account may be penalized.
	Dan Bongino's channel was terminated from YouTube January of 2022.
	I think that maybe that is the problem is they were straight up baiting YouTube to strike them.
	That's what happened last time.
	Alex Jones, right?
	Yeah.
	Because the rules of YouTube are that you may not co-host or co-create content on YouTube with a terminated user.
	Jones maybe came on as a guest or something?
	Was that the whole thing?
	I mean they, the last strike they got with Alex was because they were being horribly transphobic and hateful.
	This is a strategic move to victimize themselves further because they haven't gotten it.
	Enough strikes from YouTube recently and at this point they believe that they have enough attention on Rumble.
	This is all just so fucking strategic, it's crazy.
	Yeah.
	The Nashville thing, moving everyone to Rumble and then making themselves appear to be victims of censorship by YouTube by using, and I'm sure Dan was in on it too, Dan Bongino to co-host Clear As Day from the thumbnail of the day as a co-production and that is against rules of YouTube.
	So, that's where we're at.
	We have two strikes, two weeks no live streaming on YouTube, and if they get one more strike within 90 days, they're gone.
	They're off YouTube.
	So we won't see this again until March.
	Quite possibly not.
	They're never gonna try to actually get themselves kicked off YouTube.
	I mean, they're just playing with thin ice all the time, and it's...
	Looking weird.
	Performative.
	Yeah.
	Uh, yeah.
	I mean, that seems to be like a pretty reasonable thing to say.
	Like, I'm sorry, this guy got kicked off of our platform because he sucks.
	He just lies about everything that he talks about.
	I don't know.
	I mean, like from Steven's side, trying to be like, I am the victim here.
	It's just very like, well, I mean, this is reasonable.
	I don't know what you're trying to, does anyone actually think that this is like cool or like, that's right, Steven, you show them.
	That's what I don't understand is like it's very clearly like dumb.
	It's very dumb.
	Dumbest thing though was posting this letter from YouTube on Twitter where I was able to read the real reason they were given two strikes.
	It clearly says Dan Vongeno was terminated from YouTube January 2022 and that you cannot co-host or co-create content on YouTube.
	Yet, they didn't.
	In that explanation in the clip we just played, they don't mention that.
	They just say it's because of Dan.
	Yeah.
	Which is true, but they implied that it was the things he said, not just his presence.
	It's bullshit.
	Sorry, but this seems to be the way that things are put together on this show today, though, is that it's been very intentionally misleading.
	That seems to be the undercurrent of all of this stuff today.
	That's the journey that we're on.
	Our captain is in his chair and Stephen proves himself to be a dunce.
	You know how he can never hear out of his headphones and he's always complaining about that?
	If I do, yes.
	Number two, Captain Morgan, how are you?
	I'm doing well.
	I'm doing well.
	How are you doing?
	I put a Q-tip too deep in my ear today.
	Ooh, I hate when that happens.
	And they say you shouldn't use Q-tips, but I don't care.
	I don't think it's true.
	They say nothing smaller than your elbow, and I'm like, I've never tried to fit my elbow in my ear.
	Why would you say that?
	Do they say that?
	That's a saying.
	How is that even a measurement?
	Doctors say that.
	Is it larger than a bread basket?
	Not a joke.
	What does an amputee do?
	Well, Nick, I mean.
	Third chair, there's a Nick.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Great.
	What does an amputee do?
	Great introduction.
	I'm excited to dig into his past a little later in the show, actually, but we have one of Steven's biggest fears to discuss.
	Nardo Wick?
	Nardo Wick?
	Oh, I like his old shit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	His new stuff is, I would say... Last week.
	It's derivative.
	Nice.
	Pretentious derivative joke.
	We've got Nardo Wick.
	Black rapper.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Do you know anything about Nardo?
	I know that Nardo's from Southern Florida.
	21 years old.
	He seems to be like a, you know, new guy out there.
	Up and comer.
	He had a couple of remixes of a song that he put out that got good attention from I saw Lyrical Lemonade put out a video with him.
	So up-and-comer for sure.
	So there was a concert at Club Sky on Monday and a man was punched by two members of Nardo's entourage.
	It seemed to be fairly clear that it wasn't provoked over the top.
	It was bad.
	It was a bad situation.
	Really bad.
	I mean they got him twice.
	The kid looked like he got rocked pretty hard.
	The victim, his name is George Obergon.
	He tried to get a picture.
	Zachary Benton punched him, and then a 15-year-old boy ran over and punched him again.
	It's just an undeniable, terrible situation that our boy Steve is gonna, of course, take advantage of.
	Proposing something that was never really considered, which says a lot.
	It started with, okay, he just asked him for a picture, and I asked you guys, I said, well, hold on a second, did he say, hey, can I have a photo, or is it, can I have a photo, you filthy, you know, racial epithet?
	No.
	Because that context would, that did not happen.
	That's never happened, by the way.
	No, exactly.
	Never.
	No white guy walked up to a fucking rapper with a bunch of giant black guys around them and went, hey, yo, and yeah, it never happened.
	Never will.
	It's a big fucking lie.
	These guys should be in jail.
	There's nothing was said that that was.
	No, no, this is just Nick.
	Nick's feeling it.
	Nick is just letting us know.
	They're fanficking.
	He lets us know quite a few.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	They're having a dream portion of their life right now.
	He's in the middle of a conversation.
	He's just like, Yeah, wouldn't it be nice to see these kids just go to jail?
	These black children put them in jail.
	Yes, Stephen calls that a suicide by Worldstar and then Nick adds by thugs, which of course we all know what thugs is when it's said like that.
	Yeah, it's the Fox News way to say the n-word.
	Yeah, that's kind of what we discovered over the last Last several years here.
	But Nardo apologized.
	Nardo issued an apology, which again would lend itself to the idea that the context is he asked for a picture.
	This was on his Instagram.
	I don't condone that situation to happen.
	I don't stand for that situation to happen.
	I was fully unaware that situation was about to take place.
	You feel me?
	As soon as it happened, I tried to de-escalate the situation.
	Did you?
	And after the situation, I got in contact with his mama.
	I sent him my number.
	I called to ask how he was doing.
	I told her I'd do anything to make it up to him as a fan.
	Is he reading something?
	How about not punching him?
	He's high.
	It's okay.
	Wake up!
	So yeah, he did reach out to the mother.
	Well, actually, I think the mother reached out to him first on Instagram saying, sending your fans to the hospital.
	That's how you appreciate them going to your concerts.
	They're eager to see their favorite artist and then they get fucked up by you and your goons for a fucking picture.
	And this is a screenshot of the phone that I think TMZ got.
	I don't know.
	He called or tried to call the mother of the person who was attacked and then said, I was just about to make a post and ask whoever that was to contact me.
	What's your number?
	You know, he sent a message to this person, George, directly, saying, I hope you get well, man.
	I'm sorry that happened to you.
	I don't condone in that at all.
	I didn't know what was gonna happen to you, and I was upset when it happened.
	I reached out to your mom and sent her my number.
	As soon as I seen her DM, I hope you feel better and get well, and I'll do whatever to make it up to you as a fan.
	I love my fans, and I'm upset that this happened, and I'm sorry again.
	I just wanted you to know from me to you, I don't condone that, and I'm sorry it happened, and I genuinely care.
	Later in a conversation with his mom, he's asking her, and she says that they're keeping him overnight.
	The CT scans show bleeding to the brain.
	He said, oh my god, please keep me posted.
	I'll be praying.
	She says, thank you.
	We'll know more when we do another CT in a few hours.
	He's a little out of it and scared.
	And then Nardo says, that's so heartbreaking.
	What's his pain?
	And she says his neck pain is a 7 to 8.
	And he says, my god, please let me know what they say after the next CT scan.
	How are his vitals?
	I'm driving, forgive my typos.
	It's completely unfair for them to characterize it, even though this is a totally unacceptable situation to happen, for them to characterize it like he doesn't give a fuck?
	Right.
	They just say that he's high.
	Is he reading something?
	They're just calling him out on having, you know, this one piece that they found here of this person.
	Did I ever tell you the story about how I hurt a female fan of my band by accidentally knocking a speaker under her head?
	I feel like I remember that.
	Yeah, I was in a band and I stood up on a monitor, we were playing a college show, and I put my hand on a monitor that was above me hanging by some chains and it fell.
	It knocked loose and landed on the head of this front row fan.
	Yeah.
	And she ended up at the hospital with a huge cut on her head and I think about that a lot.
	I guess I can sympathize with Nardo in this situation.
	It's terrible that his entourage felt like it was necessary to attack someone.
	Yeah, I can only like kind of imagine what that's like.
	I think, did I talk on here about how I ran somebody over?
	You did!
	You did say on the podcast that you hit someone with your car.
	I totally know how, you know, it's like this unintentional big thing can like create an even bigger like spiral inside your head that it's like, Oh my God, what have I done?
	You know what I mean?
	Like this, this thing happened to this poor person.
	It's like just empathy, you know, like that's one thing that we have in common maybe that holds us to wanting to make sure that people that we affect are okay.
	And like, it's not any kind of malicious intent.
	And that seems to be what we're getting from our Naruto wick here.
	Also, I wanted to add that in the video, we watched the first kid punch him in the head as hard as they can.
	Yeah.
	That kind of slumps him.
	And then the second kid punches him a second time.
	To almost knock him over.
	Yeah.
	He goes down and he hits his head on the concrete, but then he goes to run up to hit him again.
	But there's a third individual who grabs him and pulls him back.
	Gerald recognizes this and he even says... He did point that out.
	He even says that looks like Nardo there.
	They're both wearing the same clothes.
	I figured it was probably him because that video came out same evening that the incident happened.
	Yes, that's why Nardo said like he tried to stop it.
	Yeah, the listeners don't see this, right?
	No.
	And I guess if you listen to Gerald, like who, like, let's be honest, who's listening to Gerald?
	No.
	Shut up.
	Sometimes Gerald stumbles into the truth on accident.
	This is what he did here, but despite what the viewers are seeing, they're saying this other thing.
	So it's just like, oh, this is very disingenuine, like this black rapper.
	It doesn't matter what you say, you're black and we can't believe you.
	That's what the message is here.
	That's, that's what it feels like.
	And I know it feels like that because that's what it is.
	Yeah, and honestly, the situation is playing out as it should.
	Both the suspects turned themselves in to Tampa PD on Friday.
	They're being charged with felony battery.
	This is all just more knockout game fear that, you know, it's interesting.
	It pulls out an illuminating story from Nick.
	Anyone can knock anybody out.
	This is important to know because you'll have people going around, this is the social media bullying, and it doesn't happen to everybody.
	You have it with high school kids.
	You got knocked out.
	You got your ass kicked.
	Well, you know what?
	You can find professional fighters who were sucker punched in the street out cold.
	Out cold.
	It can happen to anybody.
	Pull up my pictures of my eye.
	That was a girl in Birkenstocks.
	In Birkenstocks.
	But I didn't even know she was in the room.
	I know.
	Her dad's distracting me.
	He was behind it.
	Yeah.
	Really?
	I still know where they live by the way.
	Okay.
	You know how I am.
	You threaten people.
	Cool.
	So Nick actually talked about this incident.
	The young lady in Birkenstocks attacking him on a pretty popular podcast.
	The host might sound familiar.
	How did you get punched?
	Why did that lady punch you?
	It was a 20-year-old bipolar girl.
	I was at Levity Live.
	Did a show, came off stage, went into the green room for a few minutes, and then came back out, and I was standing to the left of the stage.
	And I don't always shake hands and do all that shit after the show.
	I just don't feel it's in the job description.
	Sometimes I'll do it, sometimes I won't.
	But some people started coming up to me and shaking hands and taking pictures.
	And this guy approaches me, sort of look like you a little bit, stands to my right.
	And he goes, can I get a picture?
	And I go, sure.
	I stand to my right.
	I'm looking at him, talking to him.
	He's like, yeah, I enjoyed the show, but my daughter wanted to punch you in the face.
	He didn't even finish the word face.
	And I get suckered from this.
	I didn't even know she was in the fucking room.
	All of a sudden, bam!
	Whoa.
	And I mean, bam!
	I mean, fucking, you know, I was... I don't know if you ever get fucking suckered.
	I could feel the eye closing immediately, you know?
	And I looked right at him.
	This is how good my instincts were.
	Even when I was in shock, I'd go, did you just fucking set me up?
	No, it's nothing like that, man.
	He didn't jump in and go to his daughter, what are you doing?
	You know, it was kind of... I, to this day, believe it was complicit.
	He was complicit in it, but I'm still pursuing it.
	What did she do after she hit you?
	What did she do?
	I finally looked at her, I go, why'd you fucking, why'd you do that?
	Because you're mean.
	She thought I was racist and sexist.
	Meanwhile, there was a table of black people, Dominican, it was a very diverse crowd.
	Absolutely loved it.
	Coming to my defense after that happened.
	Nobody got offended.
	Even a friend of mine who's seen me a million times, because you weren't even being that political that night.
	She had a Birkenstocks on and, you know, bipolar.
	And I'm still pursuing it.
	Still pursuing it.
	Huh.
	And also, I have a feeling, a scary Italian guy saying, what was anyone else offended by what I said?
	Looking at the room, people might not speak up, you know?
	Yeah.
	Oh, what's up, dog?
	What's up?
	You found your bone, you're throwing it around, huh?
	Okay.
	Maybe because they know who he is because he was up on stage, I suppose.
	But it's just sort of like yelling into the void is usually not the person who you're trying to speak with, especially in like a public setting, maybe in a theater.
	Maybe there are like reasons why people don't yell in theaters.
	It's a nightclub, same thing.
	The guy that's shouting is not the guy that I'm going to respond to first.
	I think a little closer to the incident, he had more to say about this on a podcast called the Mike Calta Show, which I found on SoundCloud from about five years ago.
	Like that's the reaction, you know what I mean?
	Like you can't come up and say, oh, I didn't like what you said or whatever, that they would just come up and punch you.
	But I'm surprised that you're surprised at that, with the atmosphere we live in, and the little fascist lefty scumbags who, you know, see somebody wear a Trump hat, they'll sucker punch them.
	It just furthers my beliefs, and I'm so happy that I'm on the right side of the political argument.
	And I wish.
	Back in the day if I was drunk, I was sort of like William Money.
	It could have been a girl.
	I would have punched him back.
	So what was the end result?
	Let's get this straight.
	It wasn't a punch.
	It was a sucker punch.
	I'm talking to her dad.
	Right.
	And all of a sudden I'm like staggered.
	And I'm not so sure I wasn't set up by the whole family.
	Yeah.
	This is at the level that they operate at.
	It's the level that we operate at, Jared.
	And I do want to say, like, let's not punch people in the face.
	Let's not sucker punch anyone, of course, but... Yeah, I mean, I know it feels like you want to with Nick DiPaolo, but also the best thing you can do is just, like, let him keep working for Steven Crowder.
	He's already punched himself in the face pretty fucking hard like that.
	With their shift to Rumble, I don't think that they're growing.
	There was statistics shown that since they launched on Rumble, I mean, we were down like two thirds of the listenership that they once had.
	Yeah.
	It's not great.
	Rumble's still terrible now because I was forced again to, you know, leave my beloved YouTube.
	Thanks a lot Dan Bongino.
	Bongino.
	And additionally, notice that they don't really do a lot in the way of promoting Steven on
	their platform.
	So it kind of feels like it's this try hard thing to get him like more of like a better
	placement on like the sidebar of creators on there.
	I mean, they put Sam Hyde above Steven Crowder.
	Like they don't even show Steven Crowder, but they were showing Sam Hyde as like a top
	there's like a top video on there and it's like, okay, well, it's like this guy who's
	like, you know, blows kisses to Nazis on some sort of like regular basis is what I'm to
	understand.
	Mm hmm.
	It's like he's higher than Steven, who feels like he's hawking ads for Rumble all the time.
	You know, it's like you try hard and you do the thing, but then the person who seemingly cares less, they do the thing like a little bit better and they kind of get... Must be frustrating.
	Yeah, yeah, like you see that all the time, you know, especially in media.
	Maybe you're ad hawking the wrong guy.
	Maybe they're telling me to tell you... Go to Cozy.tv.
	That'd be cool.
	But we should be punching more people.
	You gotta kind of like get them to punch you first.
	That's why.
	We need to stop with the zero tolerance policy with kids.
	We've replaced the idea of a moral compass of right and wrong with punchy bad.
	No, no, no.
	Punch isn't bad if you're defending yourself.
	Violence isn't bad if you're defending someone who is helpless.
	Violence is bad if you have no moral code and you're attacking the helpless or the unsuspecting.
	Yeah, tell it to Hamas.
	Like our next video.
	Yes.
	Well that does bring us to our next video.
	Oh my gosh.
	I forgot Nick is here.
	Oh boy.
	Oh boy.
	Is this the stabbing?
	I think you're going to have a connection.
	It's a trend line.
	So Nick's just a racist and like even everyone on the show knows that and that's the joke?
	Yeah, he's gonna say it so that we don't have to say it and we love that.
	Well, we also love a confusing transition.
	Can you munger cheese?
	Why are you only a fish monger?
	Okay, so stabbing.
	I don't know, David Brennan.
	This was Southeast High School in Raleigh on Monday, and we are going to show you the clip, because you don't actually see, you know, the fatal stabbing, but you do see some context.
	And I'm not going to even air the audio of the attack.
	And also, I'm sorry about that.
	That's about as out of context of a transition that I'll ever give you.
	It is cheese, Mark.
	It is, you're right.
	The video that they watch is of a fight that starts in a hallway, moves to a gymnasium at Southeast Raleigh High School in North Carolina.
	Taekwon General Jr.
	was attacked by Devlin J. Farrell, and a couple people jumped in, but Devlin was quickly stabbed to death by Taekwon.
	He also injured another teen and these are just kids, you know?
	Not saying that in a kids will be kids way, but like they're kids.
	I don't think that Steven recognizes that.
	So, uh, the 14-year-old stabbed two students.
	One died.
	One is 16 who survived.
	The student is being charged with murder.
	The suspect's mother says that her son was acting in self-defense, and it does seem pretty clear from that video.
	Now, again, you don't know all of the context if there was an assault that had taken place beforehand, but at that point, that is someone who is in imminent danger who needs to defend themselves.
	Yeah.
	There are other questions like, okay, bringing a locking blade to school.
	Right.
	Again, some of those things, you can have a problem with that.
	They have those Alibaba metal detectors at that school.
	Great.
	Clear self-defense, but yeah, they choose when context matters.
	And in this case, they're just going to ignore all the knife at school stuff.
	That doesn't really matter in this situation.
	It's self-defense.
	They definitely yada, yada, yada over that there's a knife in there.
	But also the video that they show where it starts from, I didn't look to see, is there a longer version of that?
	There is.
	There is a longer video and I did watch it.
	Top of it.
	Or at least where we tune in with Steven is that the kid with the knife is shown stabbing the kid who dies.
	Yeah.
	Before they run into the gymnasium and they don't seem to recognize.
	Oh, I don't know if I saw that.
	Yeah.
	So the knife's already out by the time they're running into the gym.
	But I think the reason why all the classmates are like chasing him into the gym is because that kid gets stabbed twice in that in that first interaction that we see.
	They're standing face to face and with his right hand.
	He comes around his back and hits him twice.
	So I think that that's where it started.
	So that kid is just like, I'm sure on adrenaline at that point, or about to like peak adrenaline.
	It goes after him, that kid's on the ground.
	The other kids are trying to seemingly get the knife from his hand.
	And as they are not able to, that's where the kid who dies gets stabbed in the legs several times.
	The other kid starts getting stabbed in their legs too, trying to get them to stop stabbing the first kid in the legs.
	They don't, they don't... It's really hard because unfortunately the people filming this, the whole energy is very... Frantic!
	Well, they're having fun.
	Okay.
	The people with the cell phones are laughing and shouting as if it is a traditional bully hallway fight and that's not what happens and in my opinion it seems like they're very unaware of that even as they're leaving the fight.
	I don't know things happen quickly.
	It's a very complicated situation I take offense with the the concept of pretty clear self-defense Even like the importance of that to them, but that says a lot.
	It's a complicated situation And that's the whole thing with like self-defense.
	Is that like shouldn't the the person who just got stabbed outside the gymnasium Why aren't they on his side?
	But it's instead it's this is a clear mob mentality and like these kids are beating up this kid and it's like wow I think that they just watched somebody get stabbed and they're trying to get maybe the knife back out of this person's hand.
	Sure.
	And that's what it looked like to me anyway from where he started us at so that we got two separate places.
	I don't really know where the translations get lost on their end.
	Well and they point out that the mother of the stabber alerted the school.
	So she also alerted the school allegedly that a fight might Happened.
	So this mother told the school this might happen, this might be coming, and has now said he was defending himself.
	Also, the father was reached out to for comment.
	You guys heard this joke before?
	No.
	Yeah, cool.
	Check this out.
	Matt Reif wrote it for me.
	That's funny.
	Why isn't the media paying attention though?
	So it's a tragedy, the story.
	We don't have all the context, but here's the thing.
	Why is it only a local story?
	This should be catnip for the media.
	Now remember, both the victims and the aggressor, they were all black.
	CNN, zero mentions.
	Not one mention on CNN.
	Wow.
	Not one.
	Which reminds me of the story back in June, I believe it was this year, June this year, there was a black-on-white attack.
	Remember LeBron James' school, the I Promise School in Ohio?
	Which forced LeBron to change the name to the I Promise to Stab You Academy.
	It's more fitting.
	CNN had zero mentions of that.
	Yeah, and I mean, they also had zero mentions of these.
	November 3rd, stabbing at George Washington High in Denver.
	November 14th, stabbing in Proviso West High School outside Chicago.
	November 28th, stabbing at Springbrook High School outside Washington, D.C.
	And those were just three that I was able to pull really quickly off of.
	Google from the last month.
	And did they mention the race of any of these people?
	No, they didn't.
	Interesting that that seems to matter.
	And it's going to be a theme throughout this episode.
	But of course, yeah, like Stephen covered this.
	November 2021.
	This is November 1st.
	There was a black on Latino attack.
	Oh, no.
	Sorry, a black and Latino attack on a white student in Vegas.
	We covered that.
	That's right, we did cover that.
	It left the victim dead.
	CNN was one mention on air, two articles, and the race of the suspects never mentioned.
	Never mentioned.
	Just go back to the Nashville Manifesto, right?
	This is when people say, oh, back in the days of journalism.
	You think Walter Cronkite didn't do this?
	You think Dan Rather didn't do this?
	They were caught as frauds.
	Objective journalism has never existed.
	It's not just the lies that you see.
	That's why MSNBC doesn't bother me so much.
	It's places like CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, or yeah, people like Walter Cronkite, who people want to hold up as this shining gold standard of journalism.
	No, they lie to you by not giving you information, by not mentioning their mission.
	Yeah, because race should always be mentioned because it's relevant.
	A hundred percent of the time, why aren't we talking about race?
	They accidentally say the quiet part loud by mentioning that they did cover that earlier this month or last month where that white kid got kicked to death.
	Of course they covered that!
	That was the Las Vegas one.
	Yeah, that was proven to not have anything to do with race.
	He mentioned also the LeBron, I promise, school in Akron.
	I promise to stab you, I think is what he said their school name should be.
	Yeah.
	I don't think that that was a stabbing death.
	I think it was like a blunt force trauma death that happened there.
	Similarly to like what happened in the Nardo Wick situation is I think that this kid got punched in the head and then he hit his head on the sidewalk and that's what killed him.
	Blunt force trauma, not a stabbing.
	So I don't know.
	Arrested for killing in LeBron James founded school parking lot.
	And of course they only care about that because the person who was killed was white?
	I think that's 100% why they brought it up, yeah.
	But none of the other facts suit the story.
	Yeah, he bonked his head, I think, pretty hard.
	It seemed to be accidental, even.
	So all of this is awful, just like the knockout game story that we covered a couple weeks ago.
	But what matters more is the why are we talking about this?
	Why is he bringing this up?
	He's accusing people like Walter Cronkite and CNN of trying to control a narrative.
	Look in a fucking mirror, Steve!
	The narrative being that we don't talk about race enough.
	Like, we don't let people know you can't trust these black people out here.
	It's carried over from the last thing into this.
	It's sort of his one-two punch of the week here.
	Well, yeah, because when it's white on black crime, it's all over CNN.
	All the time.
	When it's white on black crime, however, which is Far more rare statistically.
	It's not even close!
	Wall-to-wall coverage on CNN.
	2008, to give you an idea, we've talked about this.
	The Bureau of Justice stopped publishing the data on interracial crime.
	Now, some people try and fact-check me on this.
	I want to be very, very clear.
	They will publish the race of the assailant, of the perpetrator.
	They will publish, or they will include in the data, the race of the victim.
	Before 2008, they would include the relationship, meaning did a black person attack a white person?
	Did a white person attack an Asian person?
	That was relevant.
	You would think it's relevant for the people who want to push hate crime laws.
	You would think.
	Although I don't think murder needs a footnote, but I do think the data is relevant when you have 13% of the population committing over half the violent crimes.
	So he's trying to confuse us here by saying that it would be relevant if we were wanting to push forward a hate crime narrative.
	If it's a hate crime, it's a hate crime.
	That's it.
	There are plenty of situations of white on black, black on white.
	Yeah, it doesn't matter.
	It turns out that baseline is, did you do a hate crime?
	Yeah, that's where the relevancy steps in.
	That's what's relevant.
	That's what makes somebody dangerous.
	Is that they've done a hate crime.
	So changing the way that that data is relayed, it just makes sense.
	If it's not a hate crime, it's not a hate crime.
	You would think that they would be interested in pursuing that direction, considering the amount of white on black crimes that are hate crimes that they're looking to kind of brush under the rug.
	And also, yeah, not true, the statistics of black on white crime being dramatically higher.
	Yeah, I mean, it's just... where do you want to start, Byron?
	Dude, it's such a complicated thing beyond the statistics that they're citing.
	It goes to, like, the criminal justice system is failing black Americans.
	Specifically, like, black youths, man.
	Like, black males born in 2001 have a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison, while 1 in 6 Latino males have the same future, and when it comes to white men, only 1 in 17 can expect to spend time behind bars.
	You know, once you're in the system, it's harder and harder to turn things around.
	It's a systemic problem.
	True.
	The data, right?
	And then, like, the data is also, like, not that good either.
	So, like, since the 1990s, the FBI has been under federal law to collect statistics on every hate crime that occurs in America.
	It's up to local and state police departments to report that type of data to the FBI.
	But there are thousands of departments that opt out of this program.
	There's only 15,000 as of this publication I was reading.
	I think it was from 2017, I want to say.
	So, 15,000 departments that do.
	And of those 15,000 departments that do, 88% of them report zero hate crimes.
	And these are cities like Huntsville, Alabama.
	Oh, weird.
	He starts going into these numbers that are talking about white people do less crime against black people.
	Sure.
	Look two seconds into this, right?
	Like, I'm just somebody who's curious and I'm checking out this show.
	Oh, is that right?
	I can just go on Google and search very simply what are the rates of which white-on-white violent crimes or black-on-white violent crimes occur.
	I can just do that because I'm a very capable person using Google, at least, at the very least.
	So here's the first thing you'll find on there from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
	They find a majority of most violent crimes are committed by people who are of the same race as their victims.
	Indeed, the rate of white-on-white violent crime, it found, is about four times the rate of black-on-white crime.
	The rate of white-on-white violent crime, 12 per 1,000, was about four times higher than black-on-white crime, 3 per 1,000.
	The rate of black-on-black crime, 16.5 per 1,000.
	Was more than five times higher than white on black filing crime 2.8 per 1,000, you know There there's more to this but this is a huge document This is where people are blanking out right because this is a lot of numbers and I apologize for that But it's relevant because it just shows us that like this shit doesn't really happen the way that he's trying to tell us that it's happening.
	Well speaking of communication it's time for our favorite segment Gerald says the quiet part loud and There's just a narrative being spun and it's so obvious that you just look at it and you're like, guys, can we just cover this equally?
	We did the thing about the shooters, right?
	So anytime the shooter was like a racist or something like that, immediately the manifestos released all the, oh, it was a racist.
	Oh, they hated Muslims.
	Oh, they hated black people all out there.
	But when it's somebody who hates suburban white Christians, crickets.
	Right, right.
	We talked about that.
	Yeah, he's the victim.
	I'm always talking about this.
	However, though, it's the media manipulation.
	That's the real why.
	At least to Nick and Steve.
	That's why!
	I mean, I think that answers the why.
	It's a cudgel.
	And they don't just want to divide, they want to isolate, you know, minority groups.
	So that's how they get their votes because they say, hey, all the other white people hate you.
	Not us.
	Look, we don't even register races of crimes, right?
	So it doesn't look as bad.
	Hey, how about serving the black community?
	How about serving the Asian-American community by being honest with them?
	Let's serve marginalized communities by, I don't know, pointing out things that are one, untrue, but two, perpetuating negative stereotypes that Honestly come from 1960.
	Jim Crow.
	Inherited Jim Crow.
	Just love me that old-time racism.
	Yeah.
	Slap my knee and pump my shotgun.
	It sucks.
	This episode has just been like painfully racist.
	This is the one that took me the longest to get through.
	I had to pause and walk away several times while listening to them.
	This was a Just finishing this up last night after we did the other show and I mean it took me even then another hour to get through about I don't know 25 minutes maybe less.
	Well they're not done yet Stephen says some racist stuff and Nick just reveals himself to be racist.
	You know what, if you see a black guy with his pants below his ass at night and you cross the street, you're a racist.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Where could she have pulled that statistic?
	Hey, isn't it relevant for an old Asian lady who doesn't want to be the victim of a knockout game?
	Should she be looking out for other old Asian ladies?
	I know why they don't serve black men.
	Man didn't even need any prompting didn't even need he just threw that in there from left field.
	It's very good Nick That's you're trying and you're doing a great job.
	He's still working for Steve.
	That's excellent.
	Give him a hand Then they take it across the pond Then they take it across the pond.
	Nick thinks that they're going to talk about the evils of diversity.
	If you listen really closely, Steven really just wants to talk about knives.
	But also, what do you think encourages a higher violent crime rate in the UK overall?
	Diversity.
	Well, not to repeat, no one's armed.
	No one's armed.
	Yes.
	You're not going to see the same amount of muggings at knife point in the state of Texas as you'll see ever, ever, pick any year in Texas, ever.
	And by the way, that is an apt comparison if you look at the size and you actually look at the population of Texas to most of the time.
	We're talking about the UK.
	You'll not find it.
	So population size are the only things to take into account for that, of course.
	Yeah, a hundred percent.
	And also earlier in the show, Steven was talking about how knives are more dangerous than guns.
	Yeah, he went into the whole, there was this like YouTube video I saw where all these cops got like hit with a marker.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, it was a chalk, a chalk knife.
	Yeah.
	Only one of them didn't get touched or something.
	I don't know.
	Cause you ran away.
	I just don't know what he's what he's trying to get at.
	This is like the weirdest swerve and this is an example of like I think he structures the message he wants to talk about and then tries to like fill in the blanks with these stories as transitional talking points but this is bizarre.
	This doesn't make any sense.
	He wants to talk about violent subculture theory stuff because he's like He had the Narda Wick story.
	He's like, how can I shoehorn?
	Then you got the, this black kid that's doing this thing.
	And then we got this other black kid that's doing this thing.
	And it's, you know, how, how else can I, uh, segment into talking about more racist shit?
	Like I did, you know, just the other week, even said knockout game on, uh, uh, this clip here, which, um, yeah, man, maybe, you know, that, uh, there's a joke on you, I guess, huh?
	Well, things get, uh, even more confusing for the sake of a joke.
	It's a lot so.
	And that's why they don't go because guess what?
	When you don't have guns and you're an officer, knife beats billy club.
	That's right.
	Knife beats billy club.
	Every time.
	It sounds to me like you haven't gone to school.
	What are you doing home then?
	I'm going to stab you.
	I have a large holy dagger right here.
	Well, I guess I'll be on my way.
	Two accents.
	Not so much.
	Yeah, it's just inconsistent.
	It just doesn't make any sense what they're trying to go for.
	But yeah, a huge waste of time.
	It's like, what are you even trying to say?
	You're just, okay, well, that's fine.
	You know, the one thing that we, uh, I'm a little disappointed that we skipped over here was the, uh, the woman folding his stiff jeans.
	Oh, yeah, sometimes like when it's just them doing donk bits where they talk about like It's it was very revealing you absolutely are right.
	I don't know if you want to lead the conversation Just that they're talking about the stretch pants and then he says something about That there's a woman folding his stiff jeans and she introduced him to having a little stretch in his pants And then it's gay to like that, but it's okay in this case But it's okay because I mean like Chuck Norris had action pants.
	So that's how you know, it's fine Yeah, you know and what are those but got a little elastic in his jeans.
	That's true I like his little subtle nod at like hey guys.
	I got a woman folding my jeans for me right now How do you like that?
	I don't think he does I think there's confirmation of that later in this episode as well but when we got there thinking back onto that and saying Hmm.
	There's a video element to this, Stephen.
	Yeah.
	Maybe there's something there, but... Before we get there, yeah, on to our next big story, another COVID-like situation that they're going to manipulate.
	And it turns racist, which is kind of interesting.
	I feel like I've said that a whole bunch today.
	Yeah, it's just more of the same.
	They kept rolling the way to die today, and we kept getting land on racism.
	Racist again.
	Chinese hospitals are now being flooded with patients with acute respiratory sickness.
	And here's the scary part about this in comparison to COVID.
	They're all children.
	Clip.
	Pediatric departments across China are struggling to cope.
	There has been a surge in acute respiratory illnesses.
	Pause.
	Why is that bad news?
	Why is every single News voice artists now gay.
	Alright, but of course, yeah, they're homophobic dogs chasing squirrels they deem unmasculine.
	They have been having a lot of trouble focusing today.
	And also, speaking of focus, I didn't pick up that Nick DiPaolo kind of implied that, you know, sick Chinese people are fine.
	Yeah, it's like...
	He's very much like, this is fine, why do we care?
	I guess I quickly jump over that onto talking about how voices are gay in commercials now.
	Hey, have you guys ever noticed how gay voice has taken over literally everything?
	Yes.
	It's everyone!
	It's everyone!
	I'll tell you, the Home Depot guy kicked it off.
	Did he?
	What?
	Well, you hear him laying on extra thick people?
	So this guy, his name is Josh Lucas.
	He's the current voice of Home Depot.
	I don't know. No, there was articles about this. It's exasperating.
	I know on NPR it makes me irrationally crazy.
	It does for me. I listen to the NPR news update. The Doers.
	Oh yes. It's like the Doers. The place for the Doers. The Doers.
	Next up, I'm doing Lowe's. For tiles. So this guy, his name is Josh Lucas. He's the current voice of Home Depot. He's
	not gay.
	I should point out though that Home Depot, they donated what? 1.8 million dollars?
	So maybe not a great company.
	I do not believe that they're trying to gay up their commercials.
	from 2017 to 2018 and over $200,000 during the 2020 election cycle. So maybe not a great company.
	I do not believe that they're trying to gay up their commercials. Guys, let's cool it.
	People said people called him out online. This is like a year and a half ago. And they came out
	with another round of them this year where he's laying it on. He's like trolling us.
	He's laying it on thicker with his lispy penis.
	On special LG washing machines so you can clean your rubber sheets.
	You're not exact, you just nailed it.
	Steven, that's exactly what he sounds like.
	Okay.
	I'm really bummed out the the Y2K usage of the F slur coming back.
	It fucking sucks.
	It's a bummer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Nick seems to think that it's totally acceptable to be outwardly homophobic, I guess.
	I don't know.
	There's nothing to say about it.
	It's just like it's... Well, you better figure it out because I got about two more clips of this.
	All right.
	There's a guy on NPR News Update, Dave Mattingly.
	And I swear to you guys, it used to be, NPR News, I'm Dave Mattingly.
	We'll get this as a supercut.
	And he's just become more comfortable being outwardly gay.
	This morning it's like, I'm Dave Mattingly.
	I'm like, that wasn't the Dave Mattingly I knew!
	He's a homo.
	Straight news only.
	Straight news only.
	If it comes from a gay mouth, that means that I'm sucking dick, brother.
	And I can't have that going into my ears.
	Jesus.
	More comfortable being gay?
	I would hope.
	I would hope that someone would be more comfortable being gay.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Good fucking lord.
	Like, this dude gets paid good money to give you the news, Steve.
	Just, you know, it's not like he's fucking paying attention to any of it anyway.
	It's just, we don't even really get too much into the COVID stuff here, do we?
	Too much?
	We will in a second, but before we get there, I just want to point out the worst part of all of this is that they're trying to pull one over on us.
	It's not about them being gay.
	It's about somebody trying to pull one over on you.
	Every voiceover now, like you just said.
	It's all the news all the time.
	I don't, anyway.
	Okay.
	Let's continue with this.
	It's the acute respiratory sickness.
	It is.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Pull one over on us.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	What are they pulling over?
	Like your, your fucking lip over your head?
	You dumb fuck.
	Dumb ass.
	I don't know.
	Shortest clip of the day just set me off the most.
	That's so stupid.
	All right.
	Back to the actual story.
	We're not done with the homophobia though.
	Children over the last several weeks.
	Hospital waiting rooms are packed with parents and their sick children waiting for medical care.
	Should we also be worried?
	The Tianjin Children's Hospital has been dealing with a record 13,000 pediatric cases a day.
	The Civil Aviation General Hospital in Beijing said its pediatric outpatient clinic was handling as many as 650 visits, up 50% from this time last year.
	That's a general hospital, which I'm more More of a days of our lives guy.
	They have like ominous music but then they're like calm voice and I'm like that doesn't match.
	And here's the thing they're trying to hide it in China just to be clear.
	We'll get over the voice thing but it is it is unnerving.
	Unnerving.
	Making my skin crawl hearing a potentially gay individual on a microphone.
	Can't be ominous that's for sure.
	We need, I don't know, I don't even, we need Jason Momoa to do all dialogue?
	A big, deep, bassy man just carrying me over.
	Give me the news.
	I don't know, how could anyone argue that they aren't hateful at this point?
	The prep pill comments, like... I mean, they're supposed to be commentating and it's just like, what are we getting out of this?
	It's just like... There's too far noises over everything going...
	Yeah, this guy's gay.
	They're talking about a potentially serious respiratory disease.
	Well, we have Nick here.
	He's about to tell us.
	Oh, no, man.
	I know that these viruses are being made in these labs.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I'm not fear-mongering here, just to be clear.
	What I'm trying to do is tell you that obviously this is something the Chinese government is lying about and the WHO is doing their bidding again.
	In this case, It's something that involves children.
	So here are some videos, I guess, on social media that the Chinese government doesn't like.
	Of course, I mean, we're not going to play any videos.
	It's just a big long line.
	Who's lying?
	Whose line is it?
	Again, it's the who and they're lying.
	And there are even images, by the way, that show children studying while being hooked up to IVs.
	Jesus!
	Doctors say rest?
	No rest?
	Study!
	Study!
	My body need rest to recover.
	No recovery!
	People math!
	You want to run Bodega like father?
	Father loser!
	Study!
	No morphine in drip!
	Put Adderall!
	Adderall!
	Study!
	They're studying on IV drips!
	Let the kids rest!
	Let them die!
	We don't need another generation!
	I don't want another generation of communists!
	Fuck them.
	I'm kidding, I like the Chinese kids.
	Had a few of my trick-or-treats.
	I know, it's only going to get worse.
	Huh, I don't know much about this the picture of the the kids on IVs doing homework.
	I would imagine that It's just like them Like multiple days into an IV treatment just doing homework.
	Yeah, I mean I remember Getting sick.
	Yeah, I know when I was in the hospital I had when I got my tonsils out I had homework like homework.
	I don't know.
	It's typically what homework is and most kids are getting this thing It's homework and it's been happening for fucking 30 40 years or something.
	Well, any excuse to, you know, do a weird racist accent and then lead into Nick overshadowing that by saying he wishes that these kids were dead again?
	These kids should just die, except for the ones that I gave candy to on Halloween, I suppose.
	Because they were dressed as skellingtons!
	That was a really shocking moment.
	Steven and Gerald are doing like a really kind of edgy bit and then he goes too far.
	Yeah.
	He spoils all of their fun by literally wishing for the death of a generation.
	Great.
	No more communists.
	It's not novel, just to be clear, like COVID-19 or SARS, and there's a lot of misinformation going around on all sides.
	What is spreading is a type of pneumonia, and it's called mycoplasma pneumonia, which causes walking pneumonia.
	Now the WHO, here they enter stage left, they say that the outbreak risk is low because this kind of pneumonia, MPP we'll call it, is readily treated with antibiotics.
	Well that's fantastic.
	That's fantastic.
	What they don't tell you is the strain in China has already mutated to become resistant to child-safe I think he goes on to say antibiotics.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's insane.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, it kills 1.3 million people per year.
	Antibiotics.
	It's antimicrobial, but antibiotics is included.
	1.3 million a year.
	But that, that is the story that nobody's talking about right now is that there's a way to treat this.
	Yes.
	But over there, it's not going to be effective.
	Not going to work.
	Because it's already resistant to the antibiotics that they're trying to use that are the only one that's safe for kids under eight.
	And by the way, the timeline matters because this information is readily available.
	And the WHO said afterward, Oh, it can just be treated with antibiotics.
	They know that that's not the case.
	They know that this is resistant to those, those interventions.
	They know that.
	Okay.
	So much.
	First of all, they mentioned the 1.3 million deaths thing.
	And then Gerald corrects that that is antimicrobial and antibiotics are inside of that.
	And then also, maybe the WHO isn't mentioning this because it's not really that big of a deal.
	They go on to mention that in some cases there have been serious complications from infection, but most people will recover without antibiotics.
	They say it's like a walking pneumonia, which is like, we've been dealing with that for a long time, right?
	That's nothing new.
	To older people, and I guess younger people, I suppose it could matter more, but... Yeah, I don't want to minimize the impact that this could have on immunocompromised people, and that is something that the World Health Organization points out.
	Sounds like they're like, we got a bit of a handle on it, Steve.
	Seems like it, and it seems...
	I don't know.
	It doesn't seem like it matters.
	Yeah, I mean, like these kids are doing homework, Steve.
	They're OK.
	They're doing OK.
	They're doing homework, Steve.
	None of this really matters, though.
	Just ask the question, why?
	We trust the CDC.
	Why?
	Why?
	We trust the WHO.
	I don't.
	Why?
	We trust the U.N.
	Why?
	Why would you ever do that?
	Why would you trust any of them?
	We are the world.
	The smartest one here.
	Meeting the United States.
	Hold hands and knit flags together like you're some globalist Amish person.
	I don't know what it's like.
	Boom.
	We are the world.
	The United States.
	So sick.
	Make that a shirt, Nick.
	That's really cool.
	They've clearly been waiting for a new hook into anti-government talking points, and this is just the latest of that, and I don't think it's going to take them very far, but it doesn't stop them from, you know, pointing out the untrustworthiness of, you know, government agencies, world government agencies.
	It's the unintended consequences, and these unintended consequences are more likely to occur if you trust organizations who have clearly proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
	I would argue WHO, CDC, FBI, CIA.
	CIA and FBI because of all the child porn on the computers.
	But that's just my opinion, Mr. Old Fashioned.
	Stephen, these new strains, they're being created in a lab in China, are they not?
	You don't think these are organic?
	I think we do know.
	Well, I don't know this one.
	COVID?
	I think they saw how effective it was.
	Allegedly!
	They're like, round two.
	Fight!
	Exactly!
	They saw how effective we were.
	Any elections coming up in China?
	No.
	Never.
	I think it's one of the elections here.
	Hey, Nick, you'll love this.
	Remember we just had all the Asian leaders over in California?
	Yeah, I was there.
	That's fantastic, right?
	As this outbreak is happening.
	I don't know if I could maybe trace it back or not, but I'll try to figure it out.
	That's a good point.
	It's a great point!
	Just full-blown conspiracy theories.
	Yeah, why not?
	Hit him with the brain death.
	I haven't thought of anything new in years.
	I don't need to, and I know that you guys haven't as well, so I'll just say the thing that you like, and we're all still a big happy family that believes the same thing.
	Yeah, who's in on it?
	I mean, Nick is obviously dumb uncle that believes that COVID was manufactured in a lab and released on purpose, right?
	Definitely, 100%.
	He just told us as such.
	Yeah, and then Gerald said, yeah, he was very I had this question was like actually the next thing that I wrote down here was like who the fuck is his audience?
	Who is Nick DiFallo's audience?
	Everyone's uncle.
	The reason I'm asking again or the reason why it's like on my mind here is like I don't know if you pulled this or not but he's talking about made up memory of being at Freddie Mercury's funeral.
	Oh I didn't but yeah yeah.
	And so then after that that he says something about Carol Burnett and it's like who is this guy talking to?
	Who is this for?
	Like I know who Carol Burnett is but like I'm not sure that people that much younger know who that is.
	I mean she was going off the air when I was like three years old.
	I only know him from my cultural reference in The Simpsons.
	One of these days we'll have to listen to Nick's show because he has a show.
	He does a four days a week on Mug Club.
	I want to know what he does and I want to know what Callan does.
	They're really taking advantage of this time off of YouTube, though, because I don't think any of this would have been tolerated.
	Not even a little bit.
	No, I'm certain.
	Like, I don't think you can just spit this gross vitriol at people you don't like.
	I mean, like, it's like, I'm not, I'm not here, like, police.
	It's like, please don't say it.
	But also, I'm not going to tell you not to say it.
	No, you're an adult.
	You can make that decision yourself.
	Stop being a fucking goon if that means anything to you at all.
	But sure, it doesn't because it's just...
	Nick DiPaolo's got the brain death.
	It's just, he's living out his like, he's living out his twilight underneath Steven Crowder's wing.
	That should tell you where the fuck he is in his life.
	He's also got a Paul Bearer caricature that he does here too.
	And I know my Attitude Era homies out there in the universe will understand, but and also understand this, that if he was anybody, if Steven Crowder was anybody in the Attitude Era, you guys, Come here, come here.
	I'm right over here.
	Stevie Richards from the fucking RTC, right?
	The Right To Censor Fire.
	And you can take a look on your end if you want.
	They were a goon squad that would come out and rain on everyone's parade.
	They had a rivalry with the Godfather, who, if you remember, was like a... These guys, they look like Mormon missionaries.
	What's the... Yeah, exactly.
	And their theme music was just like...
	They're just bummers, okay.
	Yeah, they're big bummers and they come out and rip people's signs up and woke-skulled everybody into being an anti-porn, no-ho-having, non-Godfather-loving, Attitude Era fan, anyhow.
	Well, Nick's got that brain death and Stephen has receipts.
	So the tweet from the WHO, this is why I say they shouldn't be trustworthy, January 19th, 2019.
	Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities, who we also trust, have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus identified in hashtag Wuhan, hashtag China, and of course you remember this is around the time that Nancy Pelosi was like, I'm in Chinatown!
	No one uses the fridge!
	And I have more receipts, actually, Steve.
	It's January 14, 2020, and they do correct that.
	He said 19, whatever, doesn't matter.
	The same thread, the WHO followed up by saying, quote, however, such transmission is always a concern when patients have respiratory symptoms.
	This requires further investigation.
	On January 20th, they made a field visit to China, and two days later, on January 22nd, they issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, but more investigation was needed to understand the extent of transmission.
	Independent members from around the world, they couldn't come to a consensus based on the evidence that was available at the time, so they said that they were going to reconvene in 10 days after receiving more information.
	And it was only two days later that they reconvened the emergency committee, determining that this is a serious public health emergency of international concern.
	That's a week, Steven.
	This is such a dishonest take to imply that because of that one tweet, not the context immediately after in the same thread, nor the aggressive nature and seriousness that they took with this situation, It's just a weak attempt to sow distrust in the institutions, and it's honestly, it's playing the fucking hits.
	Yeah, 100%.
	Nothing new for Trash Like You, as they said in the Putsai movie.
	Trash Like You.
	Gummo.
	Oh, classic.
	Harmony Corrine.
	Nice.
	Steven gets more blunt, and he tags in a familiar voice.
	If they are going to engineer another pandemic, or if that's something that could be on the horizon, or even them lying about an outbreak, which puts us at risk.
	You know what?
	Hey, the end result is the same.
	I don't trust China.
	Either way, President Donald Trump made it clear that he would not stand for it.
	To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words.
	We will not comply.
	Don't even think about it.
	We will not shut down our schools.
	We will not accept your lockdowns.
	We will not abide by your mask mandates, and we will not tolerate your vaccine mandates.
	They rigged the 2020 election, and now they're trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election, even if it means trying to bring back COVID.
	But they will fail because we will not let it happen.
	And someone hit me in the head with a skillet.
	It's weird that it works for him.
	The contrast is a little bit off, but he looks very spry.
	But I like the preemptive strike on his part.
	Isn't there a party that wants to see the government try to pull this shit again?
	Of course.
	Don't you want to be able to choke out a flat attendant and not get in trouble for it?
	Seriously, get him on a chokehold.
	Because men can be flight attendants too.
	A blood choke.
	The guy who does the news update, he's a flight attendant in his spare time.
	Okay, so just stacking a bunch of stuff there.
	Really, really hard to talk about all of this.
	Guy's mad, yeah.
	What happened?
	Nick wants to beat women.
	Wants to, you know, strangle them specifically.
	This is a guy.
	He's got a platform.
	I guess.
	He's also an incredible comedy writer.
	One of the best.
	One of the best.
	All times.
	What planet are we on, Jared?
	Yeah, I mean, it's just that these guys have an audience sometimes.
	It's befuddling.
	How do I want to say this?
	Like, you're listening to something, you're choosing to listen to something, and the thing that you listen to willingly is just this.
	It's just very, like, teach their own, but When the former president sang that vaccines and masks aren't good and were used, bluntly used, as a weapon to make him lose the election?
	I didn't think we'd get to this point where that is like truly, that's not even like the quiet part.
	It's the platform.
	Yeah it doesn't have to be anything at all it's just like it's what we can say this you'll believe it and it doesn't matter what we say because you'll believe anything we say if you're if you're listening to this take my hand repeat after me yeah and let's just jump together I don't know.
	To me, it's not surprising anymore.
	We've just seen it for the last seven, eight years.
	We've already been living with it.
	And then to sit on the other side of it and see our absolutely doddering president having to feel like we're literally in the same position that we were before.
	But this time it's worse.
	This time it's like, you know, I don't want to defend Joe Biden.
	It sucks.
	And I don't want to vote for Trump either, you know?
	Yeah, it's just like both things suck and it's somehow the same and worse than the Hillary situation.
	Didn't really like her either, but it was like I was willing to vote for her more than I was willing to vote for Donald Trump.
	We can't discount the level of frustration that this situation creates.
	Oh just I mean yeah it's it just sucks it's you just watching it and it's like I don't know how anyone gets behind any of this shit because it's just so weird and to me unpopular and and just easily disputed like I was saying earlier all you had to do is like search a couple of the key words that he's saying to understand that what he is saying is total bullshit And then at that point, if I was just some guy that wasn't doing a show about this, I'd have to look at that and say, uh, this is probably not the person to trust on this, and I don't know what about it is good.
	If he's just saying bullshit to me.
	But he's saying what they want to hear.
	Just the same way that, like, if you found those results in Google, they'd say, well, you gotta go to DuckDuckGo, and if that doesn't work, you gotta go to some, like, QSearch.cc or something.
	And eventually you'll get the answer you want.
	Yeah, you just gotta keep, you have to find the answer you want.
	It doesn't necessarily, you know.
	The accusatory thing is that that's just what the left does to themselves anyway.
	They do what we do.
	So what's the difference?
	And it's like... That segment's over.
	It's not the same thing.
	It's time to roll into the latest Mug Club undercover where Steven starts off by, you know, shitting on his leakers.
	Look, I'm going to tell you this.
	We have a lot of people who send their tips, and you can too.
	We will protect your anonymity with our lives.
	We will go to jail before we give up our sources.
	LWCTipsAtProtonMail.com.
	But a lot of the tips that you guys send in are kind of crappy.
	I say this because people are like, my neighbor has a sign that's a coexist sign and I'm like, I don't care.
	Now, a lot of the bombshell reports that come in aren't necessarily bombshells.
	Yeah, your audience is as dumb as you want them to be, which is really dumb.
	Yeah, why- why- how come every time you guys are sending me shit, it's nothing I can use?
	Didn't we just get done talking about this, like, literally two minutes ago, Stephen?
	Yeah, imagine being the guy that sent in the- the coexist sign tip, and then hearing Stephen say that on the air.
	Listen, dumbass.
	At least he's saying something, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Get out of here, Jerome, with your dumb sign.
	Yeah.
	You mentioned porno, though.
	His latest scoop is aimed at Pornhub, again, with the help of an old friend from Sound Investigations, a woman named Arden Young.
	Arden, thank you for being with us.
	Can you see me, hear me?
	Yes.
	Can you see me and hear me?
	Yes, I can.
	Now, I'm saying our viewers like you.
	They say you're tasteful, but they think you're cute.
	Okay.
	Very nice.
	Our audience has good taste and I apologize that you probably have too much of a close-up on here.
	All right, so... Just 20 seconds of pure weird creepiness.
	You didn't watch this, did you?
	I didn't.
	How did she look?
	Was she comfortable?
	No, his big like, like at the beginning, yeah, big breathy answer.
	This is what I'm saying.
	Is that like, listen, Steven, there is a camera on you.
	There is a camera on her close up on their face.
	When you talk.
	Uh, and you say something fucking weird, this person may react to that, not necessarily with the words they're saying, but with the muscles in their face.
	And boy, Byron, does she wince.
	She purses her teeth and she goes, uh huh.
	Okay, and she kind of shows the little bits of the top of her teeth and kind of sets her eyes back a little bit and it's like Yeah, she's uncomfortable by what he has just said.
	Hey, our our audience thinks that you're cute He also goes into this saying hey keep the comments nice.
	Like we'll we'll read them after the fact.
	It's like well To what to jerk off to because you're not watching the porno.
	You're about to know about of course you've been porno Don't know what the fuck you're talking about here anyway, but let's I'm gonna go back and watch that because that sounds very entertaining to see.
	The cluelessness of Steven in his weirdly single situation he's found himself in.
	Her face is one that I had of just like, just be professional you big dumb fucking dipshit.
	This woman doesn't want to entertain your fucking vibes.
	No!
	She's here to do her job.
	And you've already betrayed the correspondent to the newscast team, right?
	You've already stepped over the line just by, hello, how are you?
	Nice to see you.
	Tell me what you need to tell me.
	The goal is this woman has a problem with Pornhub, so you're going to objectify her?
	Like what?
	Let's go dude!
	She's like definitely like looking at you as a potential partner right now.
	And I want to clarify I'm not I'm not equating those two things but in their view how could she be at all think that that is an appropriate or even desirable situation to find yourself in?
	Yeah, weird, weird Steven.
	A little bit more insight on the Moe, the man boy.
	Yeah, I guess a little bit of insight on Arden and this bombshell, I guess.
	Basically, they're a Project Veritas wannabe.
	They've got a lot of clips cut and out of context of secret cameras, but it's very much like honeypot vibes, which Veritas has used as well.
	In the bombshell, it's basically that the companies that sell ads on Pornhub don't have a process in place to verify the age of the actors in their ads, which is, I mean, man, scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it is a problem.
	Yeah, certainly, but the way that it's talked about and pursued is that it feels like they're saying that there's nothing but underage porn on Pornhub, like this is kind of That was their initial attempt, and when that wasn't happening, they're like, well, then it's in the ads that run before the porn.
	Okay.
	Initially what I thought was they were talking about the MILFs in my area who are looking to fuck.
	And I was like, well, those are MILFs and they're clearly MILFs like that's, you know, over over the age.
	And so as it appears in these these conversations that Arden's having with these people who work through Traffic Junkie.
	Traffic Junkie is the advertisement wing of Pornhub.
	It does not require uploaders to provide age verification or consent for images used in ads employees said in secret tapes.
	And so the way that that was presented to me is I'm thinking about these MILFs in my area.
	So beyond that, if we're talking about the ads that start off the videos, there's no age verification for What appears to be, you know, professionally shot, I guess, in some of these cases.
	I'm not really, I'm not looking at PornHub to like find out.
	Are you doing research?
	Just in research in real time here.
	But so, let's see, where can I start with this?
	Are you over there joining browsers?
	And the password is already going in by itself.
	I don't know what that means.
	So anyhow, we're looking at this.
	Arden's telling us about video that's showing somebody who works for Traffic Junkie.
	Um, and tells her even like, yeah, I have actually very good questions.
	You should come work for us to like help make the figure this out.
	Yeah.
	Because it's maybe there's stuff that we're like not looking at here as far as whatever, but he's a software engineer.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And he's making software that, that works towards ad placement on these sites.
	So it's like, we have these ads, we put the ads into, uh, the ad Canon as it were.
	And as you are watching these videos, it's what is showing up outside.
	And this doesn't seem to be inconsistent with other things that are happening in this realm.
	So like, for instance, back in 2017, we've got Uber asking their partner Fetch, who I
	believe is a Google ad partner, that they did not want their any of their campaigns
	to show up on Breitbart.
	Sure.
	And so as of this last week, it appears that their ads are showing up on Breitbart.
	But if you search, you go like a little further into it.
	I found this document from Document Cloud.
	Uber sued Fetch, it appears.
	Here, I'll just read this.
	As Fetch held itself out to be an expert in mobile advertising industry, and because Fetch was in a position to trust Uber's advertising agent, Fetch's omissions and misstatements induced Uber to continue its relationship with Fetch and foreseeably to increase spending on mobile advertising to $1,000,000 per week.
	In early 2017, Uber became aware that the pervasive fraud in the Fetch campaign, in part as a result of complaints from the public regarding Uber advertisements appearing on mobile websites that Uber had previously requested Fetch blog from participating in the Fetch campaign.
	Uber's investigation into the particular issue suggested deceptive naming was to blame.
	Specifically, the publisher reported name of the websites and mobile applications where Uber advertisements supposedly appeared did not match the actual URL accessed.
	For example, one publisher retained by Fetch reported clicks on Uber ads as coming from placements such as magic underscore puzzles and snooker underscore champion.
	In fact, those links actually originated from advertisements on brightbart.com despite the fact that Uber had instructed that no ads be placed with that website.
	The bigger story to me, perhaps, is that Steven is just using Pornhub as a stand-in here of sorts.
	Pornhub, as we had just talked about like four years ago, they started to clean out the library and eliminate illegal and unverified material.
	Yeah, revenge porn or underage user submitted videos, yeah.
	Yeah, and so they increased their security regarding who is able to post to their library, which is, it's user-made, right?
	But then some of these companies who are using, I think, maybe the same one, not Traffic Junkie, but maybe Fetch?
	These companies, Amazon, Apple, BMW, Home Depot, Lego, Meta, Microsoft, Paramount Plus, Samsung, Uber, Sure.
	The US Treasury Department, the American Cancer Society, St.
	Jude's Research Hospital, all of these sites, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, they're
	showing up on these adult sites, which is maybe the bigger story that there's a bigger
	problem going on there.
	But because Stephen, and we'll bring it all the way back to the front here, vehemently
	against pornography and in all of its forms.
	From there, then it could be literally any of these other ones that are having sort of the same problem that Pornhub seems to be having on their platform as well.
	With these ad placement, but more over that's kind of the less tricky maybe is that Traffic Junkie is just owned by Pornhub and they do their own stuff.
	So perhaps they could figure that out internally.
	But we all I don't.
	Did you pull the clip of the phone call that they made?
	I didn't.
	I didn't.
	I didn't really want to get into this too terribly much because I think it's truly nothing.
	He really doesn't.
	They call up customer service and ask them questions and cut their answers out of context.
	They're calling an ad agency.
	They're not calling Pornhub.
	They're calling Darryl who just like, yeah, who works at the call center.
	It's not there.
	This is they're working a sales job more than anything else, I'm sure.
	But to try to get you a gotcha on this show just to like, you know, give it to the Stevens
	listeners that like, look, this this company is doing things poorly.
	They're doing it out of pure greed.
	And some of these Arden videos are showing that that's what these people are saying, right?
	They're saying, you know, the, the clip that we see there is the guy saying that, you know, the advertising, this is a risk that you take, but also that means that there's big bucks in it as well.
	And that's what they're going after.
	And so there are... It's also on a date, basically.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So they're on a date and there's like maybe four or five... This software engineer is doing his best Elon Musk impersonation where he's like, you know, things are dangerous, but it's worth the risk.
	Exactly.
	And so to surmise, the guys who work at MindGeek, I suppose, perhaps for Traffic Junkie, that arm of MindGeek, which is getting their advertising side.
	They, more or less, are just saying there's still tons of illegal videos, and they skirt this way and that way about it, and more or less it's because the top doesn't care, because it makes them a ton of money, Pornhub's a household name, blah blah blah, and it truly is blah blah blah.
	They're all kind of just saying the same thing, and that's more or less it.
	Then we can get into Pornhub.
	Washington Examiner reached out to Pornhub.
	They replied in saying that the implications of Rice's and Farley's statements, who are the people that we see in Arden's videos, are categorically false, explaining further that generally neither writers nor product managers necessarily have insight into the company's moderation practices and trust safety procedures.
	Did I say that right?
	Practices and trust and safety procedures.
	There we go.
	They may say something that doesn't make it accurate.
	He continued.
	On the problem of bypassing upload protocols with fake IDs, the spokesman said only verified users with government-issued identification cards can post content and those IDs are verified by YODI, a third-party organization that uses biometric facial recognition.
	When asked whether that was the standard practice before 2020, the spokesman said it was not, but that the internet evolves.
	Yes, I think that the thing that they're pointing out though, and the thing that I would love to see implemented in the future, is that when that was proven to be untrue, they moved from Pornhub's traditional content to the ads, and they're saying that they're unable to verify the age of actors in the ads.
	And I think that that's something that's worth looking into.
	Implying that it is being used and promoted as a tool for sex traffickers is unreasonable and ridiculous.
	Yeah, it's unreasonable.
	It's irresponsible.
	Like I was saying before with all these companies, Amazon, Apple, all these companies that are finding themselves in these, they should have a choice to not have that advertise on there.
	That feels fine.
	So, like I was saying, I think the bigger story here is that there seems to be some sort of, like, you know, the advertising arms that these places seem to be lacking in some pretty serious ways as far as what their advertisers would be wanting.
	But, again, to just say that this is a porno problem that the left is using to... What Steven says in here, even, he says, the left always turns us into a, you know, pervert, deviant pedo-shit that he's always talking about, you know?
	The stuff that he's alleging, you know, it's it's any way to promote that talking point in a way that doesn't make sense.
	It's falsely presented to his audience, especially some of the stuff that they're using as far as like, you know, here are our sources.
	You can check them out online.
	No one's going back to check that stuff, and if you show them, even to the audience like myself that is watching the show, you get like one second of this clip, and it tells you everything you need to know, but it's everything that he's not telling you.
	You know what?
	Porno is evil.
	Jared, what else did we learn today?
	We learned, Byron, if you want to KO your fans, you got to be black to do it.
	If you got a knife and people are trying to get that knife away from you, then maybe actually you're the victim because you should be able to slash back.
	It's your knife.
	You brought it to the school.
	Jim Brewer, we probably don't have to talk about him on the show ever again, which is nice.
	Yeah, good luck out there, Jim.
	You're one step in the right direction, I will say.
	Unfortunately, Nick exists on the show.
	He's a big bummer.
	The boys couldn't believe that, we didn't listen to this, that Derek Chauvin got stabbed in prison.
	They could not believe this.
	They kind of went right over that, which is surprising to me, but...
	Okay.
	And Stephen's got stiff jeans, and maybe not for the reasons he says, but it could have something to do with the lack of porno in his life.
	Sure.
	Those stiff jeans be rubbin' all day.
	Yeah, that's all we can handle this week.
	And if you disagree with us, feel free to convince us otherwise.
	Reach out to us on X. You can find us at Then Crowder.
	Reach out to us via email, louderthencrowder at gmail.com.
	We've got a couple of pretty wild Shrug Club exclusives from Shrug Club leakers.
	So if you, I mean, if there's any part of Steven that has entered your radar that you would like to share with us, feel free.
	We're all ears.
	I'd love to hear what you guys have to say and share and what you think is important for us to know.
	And just to say, when the thing that we got, I was mouth-to-gape reading the thing because it was very like, well, people don't like this guy.
	And it was that weird sense of, OK, well, let's just keep talking about him then because people have... We're onto something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, it's very interesting that people reached out and I gotta say I appreciate it.
	I'm looking forward to seeing any more that comes our way.
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	I'm Byron.
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