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July 21, 2024 - Louder Than Crowder

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EPISODE 36: STAND UP AND STAND BY (SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2011 & JULY 22ND, 2022)

This week...was a tough one. So we decide to punt on all that attempted assassination stuff for a week, to explore Steven's comedy roots, and to give you a Shug Club leak from the year 2022. Join the Shrug Club at http://patreon.com/shrugclub Email: louderthancrowder@gmail.com Twitter/X: @thancrowder Music by DJ Danarchy

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	They ain't doing yammer but I'm tired.
	Sugar baby.
	Come on lady, come on lady.
	This is an Audio World Original.
	I'm tired.
	and the the
	the of
	Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast Louder With Crowder.
	My name's Byron, and I'm joined tonight in studio by two lovely faces.
	Call it a doodio.
	Excuse me?
	What's going on?
	All right, we got... I'm drumrolling for you.
	Oh, it's Jared, of course, here in Montana.
	I'm here, I'm Jared, I'm here.
	Great, and Dennis as well.
	Yep, I'm here.
	My dog just bit Jared in the thumb real bad.
	Real bad, it like took my nail off a little bit.
	Yeah, that stinks.
	From the cuticle.
	I'm really sorry, it's a lot of blood.
	I'm still bleeding.
	If Jared loses his nail, we'll sell it.
	We'll sell it.
	Sell it.
	Why not?
	You can't sell human remains.
	Uh, you can.
	Watch the show, finders keepers.
	This is part of me.
	Alright?
	I'm still alive.
	I don't know anything.
	That's true, good point.
	Yep.
	Dang, folks.
	Heavy week.
	It was fine.
	No.
	I was doing a jog today, clouded by the awful things that have been happening.
	Did you just hear that the shooter was Mike Tyson?
	Is that an actual thing?
	That's an Evander Holyfield bite off the ear joke.
	Sorry.
	Oh, wow.
	Sorry.
	Over my head.
	Past my head.
	I promise to go back to Steven's honestly scary response that he published today, not great, in response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, in which he declares us, you, me, Jared, the enemy.
	Are you a racist?
	Are you a sexist?
	Do you hate women?
	Are you a transphobe, a xenophobe, a Nazi, a fascist, or a white supremacist?
	Choose two.
	Are you?
	If the answer is genuinely no, and I assume that it is for most of you, then anyone who accuses you of the contrary, anyone who accuses you of any of those things, Is the enemy!
	Okay.
	Are you listening to this out of, uh, personal choice?
	I got bad news for you.
	You're the fucking enemy.
	Yeah.
	You're behind enemy lines now, baby.
	Welcome to it.
	We're your hosts.
	Louder than Crowder.
	We're the enemy hosts.
	Yeah, it's, uh, it's gonna be an interesting couple weeks, obviously.
	We've got the go to the RNC 2 pretty soon.
	What I, what I found was interesting about that.
	Yeah.
	Was that he said, I'm sure some of you, or most of you are not those things.
	But I think his some of is larger than he thinks.
	Yeah, and he also didn't say, if you are part of those, don't listen to my show.
	Yeah.
	So I'll say that to the, if you are any of those things, just don't listen to our show.
	Don't listen to our show.
	I don't want your views, but Steven does apparently, because he won't denounce you.
	Yeah, weird.
	Yeah, he's friends with you.
	He also says violence is appropriate sometimes.
	He does, yeah.
	I say political violence is appropriate sometimes, like war or fascination.
	He says that abortion is violence, so that's his excuse for, I don't know, threatening people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's why if a woman's thinking about getting an abortion, punching her is actually self-defense on the baby's behalf.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Is he the arbiter of, like, when it's appropriate?
	I've seen a lot of political violence recently, and it doesn't really seem that there's a lot of, uh, how do you say, dictation?
	It's just kind of, you know... You have to submit an application.
	Guys, this sucks.
	We're not talking about it tonight.
	Okay, that sounds great.
	It's just too much.
	Mentally, I'm not doing well.
	I just want something fun, man.
	Well, I've got something fun for you.
	I'm going to take us all on a journey tonight.
	A comedy journey.
	Oh, we need a laugh.
	Laughs for you.
	I hope Nick DiPaolo.
	No Nick DiPaolo.
	We do have an origin story, though, of a relationship budding in real time.
	Wow.
	If you didn't know, Steven's a comedian.
	First.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, did you just play a comedy clip?
	Yeah, that was the... I did just play a very funny clip of Steven.
	He's been doing it actually since he was 15 years old.
	15 years old?
	Holy buckets, he's 37 now.
	At the tail end of his Arthur career.
	Remember, he was a voice on the popular children's television program Arthur.
	He was the clenched up fist.
	He was brain.
	He was the fist.
	He's basically the fist.
	But yeah, I found some early stand-up that a YouTube channel called Comedy Commentary, which is a place where we, they, discuss comedians, stand-up comedy, stand-up jokes, as well celebrities and famous people all together talk about money and who the richest comedians actually are and how comedians make money during COVID-19.
	No, that was a weird comedy time.
	Yeah, not great.
	They compiled some old clips and put them into a video called is Steven Crowder a funny stand-up comedian?
	I think I know the answer but I want to discover it.
	Well, this first clip is from when Steven was 17 years old.
	It's 2004 at the Improv.
	I'm not exactly sure which one but I'm assuming it's the Hollywood Improv.
	That was the year he graduated high school probably.
	I don't know how long he went to public school, but when he moved to do the Arthur thing, I imagine he was doing that in Los Angeles as well.
	Oh, 17, 2004.
	Must have been in the summertime.
	Yeah, could be.
	Late summer, early fall, maybe.
	Yeah, it's around the same time he was being a failing actor.
	Oh, nice.
	The Big Ugly.
	Big Ug.
	This is pre-Ug, but he still was.
	Pre-Ug, post-R.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So I grew up in a high school which was largely Middle Eastern, so you'd get these Arab thugs.
	You can't pull off the thug look.
	People are like, oh, you know what?
	I am going to mess you up hardcore!
	Check out the turban, white boy.
	I wear my knot on the left side.
	Yes, that's the grip side.
	Pretty good.
	Pretty good. Steve! Wait, what is this?
	That's where he's pulling from, from Drop It Like It's Hot.
	Snoop Dogg.
	Sure, sure, I see what you do out there.
	He continues.
	Oh, you guys sell guns at Walmart.
	Sorry, um, is there a joke coming?
	I don't know.
	No, those are the jokes and I Thought it was this was kind of cool commentary.
	I left in a little bit of comedy commentaries thoughts on this one Okay, that was an Indian impression not an Arab one, but I'm Middle Eastern and I'm not gonna take offense to it cuz I'm not a pussy but overall not bad for Motherfuckers only 17 years old Pretty cool.
	So, I mean, I was going to mention, yeah, it sounded more like an Indian accent.
	He had the room ablaze.
	They were eating it up.
	They were eating it up.
	And then he went into like a surprise there's a bunch of guns joke.
	That surprises me coming out of him.
	He was just excited about the guns, I think, is more what he was interested in.
	I guess.
	Do you guys see there's a company doing ammo vending machines for grocery stores?
	Wait, really?
	Yeah, in Texas.
	Wow.
	Yeah, like in grocery stores.
	You can hang out here if you'd like.
	It's a little bit longer.
	Thinking about it, yeah.
	Yeah, so that was, again, 17.
	The next couple clips were around seven years later.
	It was at Schamburg, Illinois, the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, which was the opening night of the first T-Con Midwest 2011.
	T-Con?
	Well, it's also the last T-Con.
	It's billed as the largest tea party event in the country this fall.
	Very precise.
	We got guests like Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart before he died, and this talented comedian.
	T-Con Midwest, how you doing?
	Are you guys ready to party?
	Obama ate old Will!
	No!
	That's racist.
	Yeah!
	Still can't get those mic levels right.
	No, it's terrible.
	Who's doing the sound there?
	T-Con, I mean only around one year.
	Sarah Palin herself on the ones and twos.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	He does a good job of trying to grab him right off the top, you know with the Obama joke, of course, but then he goes on after that to say, Do we have any former active military in the audience?
	He does a thank-you-for-your-service kind of thing, which, of course, thank you for your service, but pandering a bit, right?
	A little bit of pandering.
	Just a touch.
	Recently, during Cultural Appropriation Month, we talked a lot about Native Americans.
	Stephen did.
	He said some really awful things.
	That goes deep.
	Notice a disturbing trend.
	Dreamcatchers hanging from rearview mirrors in cars.
	You guys seen this?
	It's a Native American Indian contraption.
	Consists of wooden hoops and feathers.
	Supposed to help you sleep soundly.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Why the heck would you need a dream catcher in your car?
	I knew it.
	I mean, it's one thing to fall asleep at the wheel, but to plan on it?
	That's selfish.
	Not to mention, I don't care if you do have a dream catcher in your car, okay?
	If you fall asleep at the wheel with over 800 pounds of steel glass and gasoline behind you, it's gonna be a bad dream.
	Really put some thought into this one.
	Does he know that people sleep in their car?
	Sometimes.
	Did you?
	Well, I don't think that's why people have dreamcatchers in their car.
	It's just because they're cool looking.
	Yeah, of course.
	I know.
	You know, it's just appropriation.
	People also hang dice from their mirrors and they don't... They're not gambling.
	Constantly, yeah, rolling bones out of here.
	Get the cars next to them.
	Snake eyes, baby.
	Pretty lazy dumb take, especially since I don't think there were like an influx of He's a little more grown up.
	I think you solve one and he's like great. I'm right. I got my mom's Chevy Voyager
	It's way through Great Falls or something cool guy really funny
	At least he tried with some punchlines on this one rather than just being like he's a little more grown-up
	You think he's evolved he's developed his humor and understands there needs to be like a punchline talks about
	how he Decided to move to New York between in this period between
	the LA show that we saw so he could become a stand-up comedian
	Trying to find himself.
	I mean, I don't think this really happened.
	He tells a story about bumping into someone in Spanish Harlem.
	Was it Rihanna and she was singing New York?
	That was not her.
	That was Alicia.
	Those keys?
	Oh my god, cut it.
	No one will hate you for that, except that that is the United States of Crime theme from Louder With Crowder.
	He uses that song.
	I don't know how he legally uses that.
	Yeah, okay, so there is a connection there.
	I guess so.
	This is when he was in New York, maybe.
	I think more likely it's just so he could do an extended confusing accent.
	Hey, man!
	I'll do good things you like, okay?
	Oh, I know your kind!
	I know how good people treat my people!
	Like, whoa, man!
	I'm from... Canada?
	We don't even have...
	Your people!
	Okay.
	Because you guys got some thugs here in the States, right?
	I know!
	I watch MTV!
	Thugs again.
	What is this goat voice that he's doing?
	Yeah, what is that accent?
	Well, he's like the Gallagher of vocal comedy.
	That's kind of what he does.
	He does the ups, the downs, the highs, the lows, and nails every accent.
	I just... I don't know if he was being racist or not because I don't know if he was doing... I don't even know what he was doing.
	Was he speaking into a fan?
	I don't know.
	Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Oh my gosh, there were 14 characters.
	They were super expensive.
	I just had to splurge right there.
	I matched perfect with my Glock.
	Of course, I grew up in a high school which was largely Middle Eastern, so you'd get these Middle Eastern wannabe thugs.
	They're nice people, but you can't pull off the thug look.
	Seven years later, does the exact same bit.
	He continues down that same bit?
	Does the same thing, word for word.
	I am going to mess you up, blood core!
	Hey, check out the German white boy. I wear my knot on the left side. Yes, that's the crim side.
	They're cruising down the street for chicks like aaaaaaaah! Wow. I cannot believe that he, that was his
	greatest hit. Yeah, something that he kept in his pocket.
	As a teenager. For seven years. Imagine being 24 years old, still doing the shit you did when you were 17 years old.
	Any of the shit you did when you were 17 years old. Yeah.
	It's Telling most of us didn't write that stuff down.
	So, you know, maybe we would be victims of repeating our 17 year old self says Mid 20 year Byron and I made really terrible Pop-punk music.
	Pop-punk music and I guess that stuck around for a while, but it got better.
	Well, I didn't keep playing the same song.
	I did, dude.
	I never stopped.
	Still playing Hope by the Descendants.
	Boys, we've teased this for a while now.
	A few years ago, I got a little gonzo.
	Actually, today I pulled up my notes.
	It was on May 8th of 2022.
	I actually texted you, Dennis.
	You did?
	Well, you don't know what I said yet.
	I know, I'm saying questions.
	You did, I don't remember.
	I sent you a link.
	Crowder is going to Spokane in July.
	And you said, so are we.
	Hell yeah, that's a great response.
	When?
	And I said... And I never went with you.
	Well, you said you had a wedding that day.
	Yeah, yeah, I was busy.
	I remember that.
	I said this is the first club he's done in years.
	This would be episode zero of a podcast.
	Hell yeah!
	It was not.
	It is now episode 36, I believe.
	That's alright, we're close.
	We'll just retroactively change all the numbers.
	Yeah, and then I sent... We started on negative 35 and worked forward.
	You said, is early on Friday sold out?
	And I said, no, it's good.
	We can do that.
	You unfortunately couldn't.
	And then I sent you this video from Conor O'Malley smoking 500 cigarettes for 5G.
	Pretty cool.
	for 5G. Pretty cool. Two days later on May 10th I spent 47, nope, $53.24 on tickets to
	Stephen Crowder's show on July 22nd, 2022. And it was July 22nd, 2022.
	I pulled off of exit 281 east off of I-90, merged right onto Division Street past Frankie Doodles.
	Was that past Dick's?
	I can see this.
	I can see this in my head.
	I was in Spokane, Washington.
	Pulled into a glass and garbage covered parking lot next to the Spokane Comedy Club, a place that screams giggles, outbursts, belly busters, new comedy boom energy.
	Upon exiting my car, I was overwhelmed by the sound of a train, the smell of stale hot piss, as well as the $22 price tag to remain in that lot.
	I said, fuck that, and parked on the street for free across from a Dutch Bros.
	Hell yeah, do Dutch Bros.
	I love the Dutch Bros.
	Give me a double torture.
	I didn't know we had Dutch Bros.
	in the U.S.
	I thought it was a Canadian thing.
	It is a Canadian thing, right?
	Tim Hortons is the Canadian.
	Dutch Bros.
	is, uh, Oregon.
	Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right.
	So then I awkwardly changed into a looser outfit in the backseat of my Honda Fit.
	Looser?
	Well, I didn't want to show up in, like, skinny jeans with, like, a fit.
	Sure, yeah, you put on, like, an American Flight underarmor.
	No, and I didn't go that hard either.
	I did an open button-down flannel.
	I think it was just a normal, like, Oxford style with a graphic tee.
	Not vintage.
	Big truck.
	No truck.
	Chevy.
	Just a Chevy logo that says, fuck Ford.
	Yeah, it had the Calvin and Harris.
	Calvin and Harris?
	Calvin and Harris!
	Calvin.
	No, yeah, it's the DJ doing it and he's pissing on Steve Aoki's head.
	He's wearing a Ford shirt though.
	Oh, that's really meta.
	A lot going on there.
	So I followed the commotion finding the most blue-collar line I'd ever been in.
	Folks talking about trains, conduit, painting and construction.
	Were people actively building a new building?
	People who were seemingly all on call, praying to stay that way, because tonight, Steven Crowder is in town.
	Hell yeah dude, this is the night!
	So was I for his 10pm show.
	Flags adorn most apparel, Captain America, American made gas monkey garage, black rifle coffee, Under Armour, safety colors, my governor is a douche sweatshirt.
	Jay Inslee, shout out.
	Made in China, C-H-Y-N-A-H.
	Oh, I thought it was Made in China the Wrestler.
	No, that was called One Night in China.
	Rest in peace, guys, come on.
	I hear, I don't know what your shirt means, but I like it.
	Some folks wear their good shirts.
	The Eddie Bauer fisherman shirt with the flap on the back.
	That's right.
	I'm looking for a large amount of fertilizer, said a radish stick of a man to the streets.
	An employee of the club starts walking down the line.
	Nope.
	I'm not meeting anyone.
	Just me.
	I was assigned to table J2.
	Oh, you had a table?
	Yeah.
	It wasn't, like, seating?
	Well, it was.
	We'll get there.
	Okay.
	Three black SUVs drive by and everyone oooohs.
	Could it be him?
	A man talks more about masonry.
	If I didn't just have COVID, I'd be very concerned.
	That was me.
	That wasn't anyone else.
	It was an internal thought.
	I like it.
	I've been listening to Matt Walsh the most.
	He's funny and to the point.
	Then there's more talk about Daily Wire.
	I'm getting paranoid, feeling full-fed at this point.
	I realize I forgot to take off my Crisis Actor hat.
	Maybe they won't understand the satire.
	Maybe I'll pull this off.
	Is there a two-drink minimum?
	Will they kick me out for ordering a Diet Coke and sugar-free Red Bull?
	I finally got a bank account.
	Big boy style, said one safety yellow-dressed man with a camo hat.
	Shocked to see a line of 45-55 women to men, I think.
	Is this domestic abuse?
	do not comply shirt shows up with his veteran dad i hear i really like ghost it's like they flip gospel music and it's sick i mean they do go too far sometimes and i mean i've read the necronomicon okay He tries to justify to his conservative buddy.
	Two pastors ask who the comedian is and if they should go.
	It took everything in me not to say he's bad.
	Run.
	Good and bad thing at the same time it was sold out.
	Entry took 30 minutes because they had to mag everyone.
	I thought this was America.
	Yeah, what is this, free speech?
	Where's my gun, dude?
	Come on, now.
	A woman is harassing a stranger in front of her.
	He defends even having a mask with him.
	Apparently the venue had gotten in a little bit of hot water recently for disobeying orders throughout COVID.
	Again, this is 2022.
	This is the place you want to be, it sounds like.
	Yeah, the woman giving him shit works at a hospital where everyone is, quote, getting it again.
	She's got a waiver and is on a Jack Posobiec kick.
	I sit down.
	The cold air feels nice but startles me.
	Again, it's 2022 and I was still getting used to a post-COVID world.
	The venue was still only selling half capacity.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like, it was not... We were not fully open.
	That lady, also, is she an early adopter of the Jack...
	Probosciak, what's his name?
	Posobiec?
	Posobiec?
	I know, it's one of those, I've heard a few.
	A little bit more about her, the shit-giving woman with seated 1.5 feet to my right.
	Nice.
	At your table?
	Yep.
	Backstage left, my sugar-free Red Bull arrives and I lean back and hold my breath.
	The table to my left shouts about vaccines amongst themselves.
	The government is purposely sexualizing everything, planting a seed.
	My kid doesn't need to know what pansexual is!
	And then over the loudspeakers, a recorded message plays.
	Views expressed don't necessarily reflect the views of the club or its staff.
	Did you recognize the voice?
	No, I didn't.
	That wasn't Gerald?
	No.
	Comedy is subjective.
	We highly suggest you research the comedian before attending the show.
	Then there's some Christian homeschooled conversation.
	They say, oh hey, this room doesn't have a flag in it.
	It's a comedy club.
	Then suddenly, after a handful of poorly produced commercials promoting upcoming acts,
	a patriot comes on stage.
	Good evening and welcome to Spooky and Comedy Club, the number one place in Washington for live stand-up comedy.
	Let's get psyched, man.
	We have a fantastic show for you tonight.
	Please make sure your cell phones are turned off.
	And remember, there is no talking during the show.
	Now get ready to laugh.
	The show is about to begin.
	I should also mention I somehow acquired this audio.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	What is going on with that?
	Who knows how that happened.
	I think this is a Shrug Club leak.
	Is it a Shrug Club leak?
	I think it might be.
	Undercover?
	Yeah.
	We should hit the music for that.
	And now, give a big Spokane Comedy Club welcome to your host for the evening.
	Slim Shady to self.
	Oh yeah, we got Steven Cooper.
	That didn't last long.
	Whoa, buddy.
	Yeah, so this is Washington State's own Josh Fierstein.
	I want to tell you guys right away, I do not do political humor.
	I don't know how.
	That didn't last long.
	Whoa, buddy.
	Yeah, so this is Washington State's own Josh Fierstein.
	Is this like where they met?
	This is the first time I have ever seen them do anything together, heard of them talking to each other.
	He seems to be fairly unfamiliar with Steven, so my guess is that this is the moment.
	The original Lemon Party.
	Yes, which you are wearing that lovely lemon shirt in his honor, I see.
	Did you notice that?
	That I'm wearing the white lemon shirt and he wears the black lemon shirt because I am the light side, he's the dark side.
	Very interesting.
	He wasn't always that dark.
	I just... I wish I could... I wish I was smart enough to do it.
	I'm just... I'm an idiot.
	Okay?
	I don't even understand politics.
	Like, if you asked me, are you left-wing or right-wing, I'd be like, boneless.
	Get some blue cheese like an American.
	That's all I know.
	I've heard that one.
	Oh, I mean, it's not.
	Come on now.
	No, from him.
	Oh, really?
	In his American special.
	Through a couple of different ones, I feel like he's... That's a go-to.
	So I'm curious to know, I'll point it out when I hear it, if I hear any.
	Nah, we're not listening to any more Josh tonight.
	We were talking about Steven recycling from years in the past.
	Yeah.
	Josh has this joke about going to Party City and doing cocaine.
	He's like, you'd have like, you love going to party because you're at Party City.
	So if I sold you cocaine out here in front of it, like you'd have to say that you like to party.
	I've heard that.
	I heard that in a stupid fucking special.
	Did he do that in American too?
	He did it in American, but he also did it in like the one before that one.
	I mean, we know Bert Kreischer has done the machine story like every night for 15 years.
	I'll share that I went to Gabriel Iglesias.
	Oh.
	No.
	Yeah, Fluffy.
	Yeah, I didn't want to go to the show, by the way.
	My mother-in-law bought me tickets and was like, I know you hate this, this is gonna be hilarious to take you.
	That's kind of funny.
	But he like took requests for jokes at the end.
	Yeah, I actually think my parents went to that same show.
	It's so weird, like the surprise is the comedy.
	People like to hear like Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pocket joke.
	They're like, just do it!
	I want to hear it live!
	I don't really get it.
	Maybe it's just, you know, people like repetition.
	It was like watching The Office the ninth time.
	Say, Dennis does that.
	I do, I do that, but it just feels different to be like... In person.
	Tell me the joke again.
	When I was a kid, I'd always ask my cousin to sing the Super Mario Brothers theme song because I could never ever edit.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Yeah, and then his set started shortly after that.
	...across the country. He picked Spokane specifically to come out here and do shows and a lot of stuff by you guys.
	So please, please, you know him, you love him, make some noise for the very funny Steven Crowder!
	He picked him for the meth.
	Picked him for the meth?
	Yeah, Spokane.
	Oh, well, he's got some feelings about the city of Spokane for sure, and that's kind of how he opens this up.
	We're just gonna be ripping through parts of his set, and I just... I got freaking kicked off the world's biggest radio flyer wagon in this park over here.
	Can you guys even believe this?
	These parents started yelling at me.
	Do you not know who I am?
	I'm Stephen Crowder, I said back to them, and they said... Who?
	Yeah, who?
	This is my radio flyer changed my mind.
	I've made it.
	Thank you for that whistle.
	Thanks for treating me like a horse.
	Very nice of you.
	AOC.
	Short name.
	AOC.
	If you clear cards right, you might get fake arrested, huh?
	Flashback to that remember totally forgot about that.
	Yeah, 2022 AOC was protesting and got handcuffed or something arrested I think she put her arms behind her back when she got in a cop car and didn't have handcuffs on Yeah, he also calls her horse face a bunch.
	That's kind of what it is going Just his go-to things. Steven couldn't get AOC if he wanted
	to. Well, of course not She's a beautiful person and also kind of doesn't look like
	a horse at all. Not at all Not even like a little bit. She doesn't even have like a
	long face. No, the Conservative crush on AOC is intense. It's pretty
	interesting. It's very fifth grade crush. Pulling her pigtails.
	Exactly. Yeah So this is what a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic hate
	mongers look like.
	The enemy He just called his audience the enemy.
	I guess the point is Media Matters doesn't, that wasn't, that was just pointing to the back, that wasn't a sig hail.
	The laughter goes ah!
	The comedy goes ah!
	Accent one.
	Don't drop that, sir!
	I'm ready to rethink the accent!
	Making stuff like, ah ha!
	I knew it!
	He was lying!
	Ah ha!
	Oh, I love it!
	Nothing like you.
	Well, he denied that he's part of the Third Reich or whatever.
	First accent, German.
	He likes to often bring up Media Matters when he starts these sets.
	He did it at the T-Con.
	I didn't.
	Media Matters?
	Media Matters for America.
	I'm not familiar with that.
	It's a website where they... They're like watchdogs, right?
	Yeah, which I feel like... Oh, this does ring a bell.
	Yeah.
	I think recently they had to fire a handful of people because of funding, so it's kind of a bummer.
	You can tell he doesn't want to be in Spokane.
	Oh, he hates this place, and you'll... He hates it.
	So Spokane, hey, look.
	Is that Mount St.
	Helens?
	Is that what's going on?
	You guys have the bright idea to set up your city next to an active volcano.
	No, we want to live someplace with the beach.
	No, I want to live in Dante's Peak.
	That's what I said.
	Great 90s reference.
	Picking a seat next to a Muslim on an airplane with a ticking sport coat.
	That one gets a clap?
	It's one of those new Philips alarm sport coats.
	Okay.
	Uh, interesting.
	Doing a lot of things.
	Not that close to Mount St.
	Helens.
	No, you can't see it.
	It's hundreds of miles away.
	Yeah, it's over six hours, 34 minutes away.
	Mount St.
	Helens is so far east.
	You gotta go into Oregon to get there.
	Yeah.
	Interesting though, he's very close to where they shot Dante's Peak.
	Yeah, he's closer to Dante's Peak than he is to Yeah, less than an hour away, I think.
	Pierce Brosnan was just over there, you know, just wading through all that volcano ash.
	Remember that scene we all know, where that grandma jumped in acid water?
	Siri, remind me to watch Dante's Peak later.
	Yeah, it's a good one.
	Classic film.
	That rules.
	Then he brings up some quick little...
	Who is in Volcano?
	Is that Pierce Brosnan?
	He's in every Volcano movie.
	He just did both of them back-to-back.
	Day, I feel like.
	Yeah, there was a period in the late 90s where they're doubling up.
	We had Deep Impact.
	Tommy Lee Jones.
	Armageddon.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I saw recently something talking about like why that happened.
	It was like a lot of defectors who are like basically taking their ideas just to like... They're studio hopping.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They already started it.
	They're over there.
	Hey, they're gonna do this volcano movie.
	We should do also a volcano movie.
	Here's the script.
	Did we get a terrorist accent?
	I'm keeping track of accents so far.
	I don't think so.
	But he did make some pretty stereotypical Muslim joke right there.
	Yeah, he did.
	He made the picking sport coat joke.
	Yeah, cool.
	Funny.
	Yeah, joke.
	That's also an old one for him, huh?
	Yeah, he goes back to that.
	It's a classic, dude.
	Dan Washington.
	You think you guys have enough homeless people now?
	What are you, importing them?
	that one person. You guys ever heard of city planning here?
	Zoning laws?
	I mean downtown Spokane, not where all you nice people are from.
	I can tell you're not from downtown because some of you are good looking.
	That was really funny dude.
	Yeah, it's really funny.
	City folk are ugly!
	Well, downtown Spokane.
	I don't think many people actually live in downtown Spokane.
	We don't need to get too specific.
	I know that Macklemore filmed his downtown music video in downtown Spokane.
	The huge problem with the Spokane homeless issue, which it is a significant problem, but it's the lack of, you know, affordable housing, which it usually is.
	No, no, no, no.
	Wait, what?
	It's because they're importing them.
	Exporting black people.
	Exporting black people.
	It's not as funny if you talk about the real causes of issues.
	And there's also not a lot of shelter beds in Spokane, considering the problem that they actively have.
	Why don't they just build their own beds?
	They ain't working!
	I think they kind of are building their own beds.
	Of course they are.
	And then of course there's the fentanyl epidemic.
	It's not making things much easier.
	Just stop being poor.
	Yeah, great.
	And ugly, right?
	Yeah, stop being poor and ugly and on drugs.
	I've never seen so many hipster mustaches.
	Weird pivot.
	And combat boots that will never see actual combat.
	Those would be the artifacts of the Spokane civilization 200 years from now.
	Just a bunch of bombs and combat boots with full tread.
	City planning, zoning.
	It's like someone just vomited a city.
	It's like someone just vomited a city.
	Just, bleugh, okay.
	Was there some guy who just held your whole city council hostage when they had that first
	They're like, okay, look, we need to talk about zoning and planning, where things go, and one guy's just like, FUCK IT!
	LET'S PUT EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE!
	Are you saying that we can put that trackers factory right across from the cemetery?
	THAT TRACKERS FACTORY MUST GO ACROSS FROM THE CEMETERY!
	Real quick, you heard that coughing at the end?
	Uh-huh.
	That was the nurse.
	Great.
	The nurse talking about how COVID is happening again.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	I'm around it all day.
	I think he just does this joke everywhere he goes.
	Sure, yeah.
	Like I'm thinking about Spokane and I'm like, It's like a pretty, like, normal layout.
	I think it's pretty standard.
	It's just against the interstate, so then everything is just sort of, like, north of the interstate.
	Yeah.
	North or south.
	There's some south, but not much.
	Yeah, some.
	Does he also, does he think that cities are planned, like, hey guys, we're building a new city over here.
	Let's start from scratch.
	I mean, I play The Sims.
	I know where the beginning is.
	I know you can't put commercial next to industrial next to residential.
	Okay.
	But a little bit of a cracker factory next to a cemetery?
	That actually seems fine.
	Fine.
	Why wouldn't that be fine?
	I think that seems reasonable.
	Is that a problem?
	Unless there's a... Regardless if it's a problem, it's definitely funny.
	A cemetery to cracker factory pipeline?
	Someone's poisoning the crackers?
	With dead bodies, yeah.
	Oh, it's Soylent Green.
	Apparently though, Spokane has a pretty well-established planning structure, including a planned commission that guides all of this stuff, like most cities have.
	This one's called Shaping Spokane, which guides all development in Spokane.
	Seems fine.
	Seems like he's just copy and pasting.
	Yes, he's changing the city.
	Have you ever been to L.A.?
	Why did they make it so sprawling?
	Can you guys imagine something that wasn't so sprawling?
	Hipster mustaches and combat boots.
	Blah blah blah.
	That's not a Spokane thing at all.
	Oh my god, Nashville.
	There's so many Kid Rock bars here.
	Can you guys imagine how many Kid Rock bars you could fit in... Inside the cracker factory.
	Inside the whole state of Nashville.
	Okay, let's do the next one.
	We have a grade school, a church's chicken, what goes next?
	Kitty bar!
	And only one-way streets!
	And only one way street!
	Well, that one's true.
	Got him.
	That one landed.
	Far as the eye can see!
	Well, we can't do that.
	Look, right here we have three lanes, a concrete median, another three lanes.
	That's six lanes!
	One way!
	Coughing again.
	I want this shitty city to be as unsafe as possible!
	Even rather than being here in 120 years!
	You guys don't respect the concrete media!
	Idiot!
	There's still one way.
	Why have an idiot?
	She won't stop cough laughing.
	Right onto my Diet Coke.
	Is it a mad scientist who's the planer?
	I mean, usually, yeah.
	You get your most mad scientist and you say, hey buddy, I got a gig for you.
	Put down that beaker.
	Turn off your bunts and burners.
	Let's go plan a city, bro.
	Set that slide aside.
	Ooh, nice.
	Yes, that's what they do.
	They say, we got a city to build.
	All one ways.
	All one ways.
	You remember when we were at the armory?
	The armory?
	Yeah, well it used to be an armory and then they changed it into a... Is it a venue?
	The Blaze... Blazertag or something like that?
	Blazertag?
	What is Blazertag?
	Maybe that's just the one we have in Austin, I don't remember.
	But we went and played Lazertag there.
	Lazerquest.
	Yeah, I did an all-nighter there.
	I've done a walk-in at that laser tag.
	I just remember we like disrupted that child's birthday and just whopped city on him.
	Yeah, we did fuck that kid up.
	Yeah, shot him.
	We were all in the top five and they were all underneath us.
	We'll get better, honestly.
	Yeah, get good, dude.
	I'm glad you guys went on board with me too.
	Shit on the city right away.
	Homeless problem too, my god.
	You guys have the bright idea, like how do we solve the homeless problem?
	Let's give them more drugs.
	Yeah.
	I think when the new city council, like what do we do?
	Do we want to rehouse them?
	Do we want to create a incentive program?
	Might I suggest a power washer?
	To shoot their skin right off their bones.
	I mean, I don't want to ask this question too much, but is this funny?
	Like, I don't really know what, I'm like, uh, sitting here and he's like, it's, uh, he's just kind of digging his heels in on being upset about people.
	Yeah.
	He's like reading a Facebook comment section.
	Yeah.
	That's basically all he's doing.
	I think he probably went to like Spokane news sites before he showed up.
	He like made a word cloud of all the comments that pissed people off.
	He goes, they're my jokes.
	Yeah.
	How do I land these?
	People weren't really excited for Steven to come.
	I read a post on r slash Spokane that said, no thanks Spokane comedy club.
	Did a screen cap of him promoting his show.
	You will love this show changed my mind.
	It's an image of him holding this mug sitting behind that table saying there's only a handful of tickets left to see Steven Crowder from Louder with Crowder this summer.
	Two more shows available July 22nd through 23rd.
	I like this top comment on this post.
	I'm not usually one to give a shit, but man, if you think Steven Crowder is funny, there's a very high chance you are a staggeringly stupid person.
	Perfect.
	And then someone says that he voiced the brain in Arthur, of course.
	On Pinky and the Brain, actually.
	That's a different show.
	A what?
	He isn't only a bad comic, he's also a terrible human.
	We are probably going to hit some news again because some asshole comedian comes to town and advocates for some seditious bullshit.
	Interesting.
	Dude's a troglodyte.
	We're kissing Idaho.
	You can't be surprised to see right-wing performers in Spokane venues.
	Talk with your wallet, of course.
	Fuck this dumb piece of shit.
	Yeah, I think that's my favorite.
	People weren't thrilled, but again, it was sold out, both shows.
	Of course it was sold out, dude.
	It's close, man.
	I bet people drove far.
	Yeah, I didn't ask anyone.
	We went to a Struggle Jennings concert in Great Falls and people came from like hours away.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And Steven has a much bigger poll than Struggle Jennings.
	I still haven't been able to identify the true poll of Steven Crowder.
	I know we see like his election night streams where it's claiming to have a hundred thousand or multiple hundreds of thousands of concurrent live streaming viewers, but it's from Rumble, so I can't really trust those statistics, you know?
	It's all bot views.
	It could very well be, but...
	I don't know.
	I don't know his true reach.
	I'd be really curious.
	I don't want to get personal with Stephen, but this is his first year having the twins, so I guess he's gonna talk a little bit.
	I thought they were older.
	Well, I mean this was in 2022.
	Yeah, so they're only a couple years old now?
	Three years.
	Wow, okay.
	I thought they were like eight, nine.
	Old enough to be asking him about what the fuck is happening at an anime convention enough so that he pushes open a fire exit to leave.
	Well, so I guess we'll only talk about what he shares about them.
	Okay.
	So I am now this year, first year, the proud father, proud new father of twins.
	I didn't do that much, it doesn't require that much of a clap.
	I had a good night and made people.
	Well, that is what happened.
	I bet it wasn't a good night for one of you.
	video.
	Yikes.
	When a stranger asks him, you can't tell the difference between your two kids, and he's gotta be like, don't you see his gigantic Steven Crowder penis?
	It's, it's so, it's so gross to describe, uh, like, does cock feel so sexual?
	Yeah, it is sexual.
	It'd be, uh, it'd be like, well, which one has tits?
	Well, he talks about that.
	Does he?
	My kids aren't as rebellious as I was when I was a kid.
	You know, when we were young, you were rebellious.
	You stole a six-pack.
	Maybe your dad's borrowing it for a joyride.
	Now I have to worry about my son chopping off his daughter going by Sparkle.
	I find myself crying.
	It's like, please don't let my daughter become Gus.
	I cannot have a girl Gus.
	Just let her be a stripper.
	I'll take that win!
	She wore titty tassels through college so long as she keeps the Sexualizing his six-month-old I I just I hope I have so many clips to play as kids later I hope that if in the future Steven son comes out as trans we can just play this clip and say hey Sparkle is what Steven?
	Yeah, apparently there's a trans name.
	That's what they go with.
	Yep.
	My dad would have wanted Yeah, we can show this clip and say hey, listen, this is how your dad used to feel about these things.
	Hey He very much still does, I'm sure.
	I'm sure.
	If things didn't work out naturally, he was considering adoption.
	Really?
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	Too much of a risk of thugs.
	Well... I actually, at one point, was considering adopting kids.
	Anyone here adopted?
	One person whose parents don't love you quite as much as the rest of us?
	I'm just kidding.
	No, I'm not.
	I don't think that's true.
	What the fuck is that?
	Is anyone here adopted?
	Hey bro, fuck you dude!
	They can send you back Think that's true. What the fuck is that? It's just being
	then you're adopted. Hey, bro. Fuck you, dude I do a lot of trash from adoption and I did I wanted to
	adopt two black kids so I could turn them into athletes and retire
	I tickle them, they're tickled. Hashtag white pensions matter
	I think.
	Thank you.
	you I'm gonna die!
	I can't be a star athlete, I can buy one.
	Oh, what?
	Shut up.
	Oh no, Steven, that sounds a lot like slavery.
	Could be.
	Guess it's a good thing I'm not a lawyer.
	He really went for it on this one.
	I think he finally thought he had the room.
	He did.
	And that he could just keep that avalanche rolling.
	Say some pretty fucked up shit like, can't be a star athlete, but I can buy one?
	Yeah, yeah, you know.
	I mean, first of all, he didn't do any of this, right?
	He wasn't anticipating adopting.
	No, of course not.
	He's a stand-up comedian.
	Yeah, it was a joke.
	He doesn't understand that you can't just give them back after you adopt someone.
	No, I think.
	And you also don't pay money for them.
	Slavery comment's pretty just foul.
	I mean, it's not slavery, man.
	He's not talking about slavery.
	He's talking about athletics.
	I'm talking about my future children here.
	Yeah, he's talking about retiring and using someone else's successes as his own.
	I'm just shocked.
	It's just not funny.
	It's fucking terrible.
	It's horrendous.
	Yeah, well, you're not dumb.
	But seriously, your heart breaks for these kids.
	I went down to a Zambia at one point to look at adopting.
	And a tour guide tells you these horror stories.
	I'm not a horror person.
	This young man right here was forced to work in the sand mines when he was only six years old.
	His father ran out on him like a coward when he was only eight.
	I'm taking notes like, and how tall was he?
	Still coughing.
	Still coughing.
	I didn't get COVID.
	Spoiler alert.
	I left fine.
	He had second accent, Zambian.
	We have German, Zambian.
	Zambian, yep.
	Okay little 401k, we're going to America!
	I'm gonna ride here.
	Brother Roth IRA can come too.
	In the van!
	Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick!
	I'm timing ya!
	But seriously, if you don't run fast enough, 40, I'm selling you back to Kony.
	Kony reference.
	It's gonna be a rough night.
	It was kind of a rough night.
	At this point, I got really self-aware.
	Like, I need to not have... I need to wipe this horror face.
	Or, that's what you say now to defend the laughs we're about to hear.
	No!
	No, no, no.
	It's getting much louder.
	I don't think I can... Byron starts, like, coughing because he can't catch his breath.
	He's honestly right.
	He's right.
	I cut all those parts.
	Why is that little section ducked, Byron?
	You get him, Steve!
	Tell him.
	No, I... Just objectifying humans broadly?
	I just don't... I mean, it's gross.
	Yeah.
	Really foul stuff.
	The last four years comedy's been, like for me, a big uptick, right?
	I'm going to a lot of comedy shows.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Really interesting folks.
	Joe Pera, Conor O'Malley, Tim Robinson.
	Sarah Squirm we saw.
	Chloe Fineman.
	Stavos.
	Yeah, we saw Stavi.
	He's great.
	These are all people who aren't afraid... I forget who opened up for the Adam Friedland one, but she was... Adam just played this club.
	Oh really?
	Yeah.
	She's a TV writer and she was just raunchy.
	She was like using the F slur, she's using the R slur and stuff but it was like even like the regressive bit of it it's like she's still able to like land the joke at the end.
	Like I'm gonna make you like grit your teeth a little bit but like I will you will laugh at the end of this.
	Yeah, I mean there's there's definitely kind of the dirtbag lefty stuff where it's like it's still funny I can laugh at this and I understand that it might be a little bit controversial and comedy is always a little bit controversial Just call them the crowd gay the whole time She's like you're laughing at a joke about gay cuz you are gay like was kind of the punchline on some of it, but okay It worked, it worked for her and it's just that people are able to, they can do more, they can spread their wings out, they can be transgressive in like certain ways and they can land it.
	There's a way to land it sometimes.
	We have to be thoughtful.
	Like Steven, he's thoughtful.
	Sure, he's a professional stand-up comedian and that's the whole point of this episode.
	Because he took such a break, you know, he's like such a, he's such a part-time comedian on the road there that he just is not...
	Well, so the tour before this he did like eight days with Dave Landau and billed it as like a co-headlining bill, even though Dave Landau is like a professional stand-up comedian.
	He's been doing it for years and I think that that might have been one of the last straws between him and Dave is Stephen was trying so... I mean he's obviously a terrible stand-up comedian and it's horridly embarrassing to have him around with you at the same time, you know.
	But Dave could just kind of like...
	I mean Dave got a larger audience.
	He can hit a double and a third, a triple.
	I think he came out of it ahead, obviously.
	He got a new audience.
	Steven has a group of fucking gorilla dipshits, like.
	Yeah, ever-rotating.
	Yeah, folks will come out, so.
	And then he talks about, yeah, potentially getting a girl who would also be a good athlete and maybe be part of the WNBA.
	And this is his pivot away from whatever racism to... Misogyny?
	Yes, sir.
	Let's go!
	No, I don't care.
	I shouldn't have to ask myself, am I watching professional sports or the boarding call to Spirit Airlines?
	I'm studying up on it either way someone's losing a wee, clear enough?
	Women's sports.
	That's the punchline.
	Yeah, women's sports.
	He cares a lot about women's sports now, doesn't he?
	Oh, I just, you know, women's sports matter too!
	No they don't.
	Well, a lot of people watch women's sports.
	Yeah, when men win them.
	There you go, that helps.
	Fuck, dude.
	Fucking got my ass.
	Hey, let's cut it where it's due.
	That Leah Thomas really swam her balls off.
	I...
	Just coughing right on me.
	It's crazy.
	I just I hate the entire like premise that they really feel that somebody would change their entire body and Livelihood and life just to win at a sport.
	Yeah, when we don't get paid.
	Well, yeah I mean you didn't paid in endorsements and scholarships, of course But you're also put through such a scary experience where people like Steven make you the target of not just hate but like Threats.
	Do you think that Steven was the kind of guy that would de-level when he played Halo 2 by just dying a whole bunch to go back down to level one so he could win easier?
	Maybe actually.
	I feel like he was.
	I feel like he was a shit kid.
	You'd play Halo with him and he would just like spawn camp.
	Sure, of course.
	Yeah, I mean, he's a cheater.
	He's not very good at all this stuff.
	Yeah, but he sucks at Halo, too.
	I don't know.
	He got disinvited from the LAN party.
	He definitely did.
	He's, what is it, screen peeking?
	He's screen peeking hard.
	Yes, he also likes to, what is it, where you unplug your modem a bunch?
	I don't know what that's called, but...
	That's what he did.
	I just know that it was around this period of time where you and I were talking about first starting the podcast and we were really kind of shaken up by his blatant transphobia at that moment.
	And it's only gotten worse.
	It's tenfold at this point.
	He's not as bad as Walsh, but yes.
	I tune into Walsh to hear trans news because he talks about all the trans stories.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because they all make him so mad.
	Those two love talking about genitalia.
	Yeah, they really do.
	They love that stuff.
	Trans everything.
	I have Caitlyn Jenner, contributor on Fox News.
	Oh yeah, thanks for having me on, Tucker.
	That was my nickname in college, actually.
	Tuck her.
	I tuck her.
	Hey to her.
	You're trying to feminize my dick.
	We warned you. We didn't.
	We did it.
	A real ominous fade out there.
	Women, we warned you.
	We did.
	They added the Jenner to the accents here.
	That counts.
	It kind of counts, right?
	Yeah.
	There's so many... Jennertalia.
	The joke's right itself.
	Oh, damn, that would have been... Okay.
	You should... You can go get in the writer's room.
	You gotta be up real early.
	You gotta make the potato.
	5 a.m.
	You gotta microwave Paulette's potato.
	Yeah, microwave a potato for sure and keep his iPad charged.
	Damn.
	Oh, man.
	These things make me so... It's just stupid fucking jokes, man.
	Like, the only time I think about anybody else's dick is when I'm concerned about a friend's testicular cancer.
	Thanks, man.
	Yeah.
	I don't have cancer.
	Okay.
	Or if it got, like, bitten off, you know?
	Yeah, if it got bit off by a dog or something, I'd ask about it.
	Like, how's your dick doing?
	You know?
	Look, I see a lot of women here, and this is one thing, you know, most conservative shows do not have women who watch, so a lot of young people... God love you!
	I love seeing you out here, really.
	Hats off to you.
	It's gotta be tough to be a woman in 2022.
	You're so bad at everything.
	I don't mean any offense, but you're losing to men at your own sports, at your beauty pageants.
	you can't even win woman of the year!
	Twice!
	And it's the only qualifier!
	It'd be like me losing Steven Crowder of the year or two.
	I like that everyone's like when he says you guys are so bad at everything they're like
	They're like, what?
	Oh wait, you didn't think so.
	Is he, is he, is he being, like, they were thinking like, is he serious?
	And then he joked, quote-unquote, but he was definitely serious.
	I mean, yeah, he hates women.
	He doesn't respect them.
	But again, I was surprised by the amount of women in the audience.
	It was truly like 45, 55.
	I don't get it.
	I wouldn't want, I mean, maybe.
	I've heard this, you know, this is just allegory bullshit, but Republican women being like, I wouldn't want a woman as a president.
	Are you kidding me?
	We're dumb as hell.
	Like, I don't know how stupid I am.
	Like, why would I want another woman like me running this?
	Yeah, my husband tells me I'm stupid all the time.
	Just trying to unpack that a little bit.
	If there was a woman president, my husband would beat me way more because he'd be extra angry.
	You should put a cop wife in there.
	Yeah.
	Because she'll know how to stand down to a man.
	Oh, man.
	No, look, poll after poll showed that men were against male-to-female athletes competing in women's sports.
	We don't have a dog in that fight.
	Statistically, women were the ones who overwhelmingly supported.
	I'm not saying everyone in this room, but that is true.
	Women, you need to start clearing your own ranks because they were the ones who supported.
	And it comes from a good place.
	It's because women are naturally more empathetic.
	You're nice.
	No, look, come on, guys, you have to let the trans, you have to let them compete wherever they want.
	You have to be nice.
	Come on!
	Fast forward five years, there's someone who's lived as a male for 32 years, fathered two children,
	bouncing some poor bitch's head off the cage like a basketball.
	That was wrong!
	This is not nice!
	Think of that next time you start a pussy march.
	That's all I'm saying.
	There were too many women cheering.
	Yeah, it's sad to hear.
	I mean, a consensual match where you're fighting someone is a little bit different, right?
	Of course, yeah.
	Let me just make sure I understand.
	Women are sharing that they aren't worried about what's happening, and the men feel like they should step in and fix it.
	Kind of like abortion, right?
	Consider this, though, Dennis, is that this problem, quote-unquote problem, really kind of paved the way for the Daily Wire's hit movie, Lady Ballers.
	Lady Ballers!
	You know, that basketball isn't typically a combat sport.
	These trans ladies are making it a reality.
	They're banging people's heads off the backboard, I guess.
	Or the steel cage that the court is surrounded in, apparently.
	Interesting.
	Did you watch it?
	No.
	No, but I feel like I don't need to after listening to that last two minutes of Siri reminding me to watch Lady Ballers.
	We should do it for a Shrug Club movie night.
	Sure we go.
	Sounds terrible.
	Get your popcorn.
	It's no longer relevant, so we're doing this for y'all.
	Yeah.
	It's gotta be hard, too, to be a feminist in 2022.
	It used to be pretty straightforward.
	You'd be fat and miserable.
	Blame it on men.
	Now the long-time feminist slogan is because of the LGBTQAA.
	I don't even make sense.
	Hey!
	Hands off our uterus!
	There's one trainee in the crowd.
	I'm so sorry!
	I should warn you, this is very transphobic and it's also a long bit, so.
	Okay.
	Strap in.
	Sorry, folks.
	I'm an ally.
	You'll get the next slogan.
	Okay, you'll get the next slogan.
	Okay, hold on.
	Hands off our uterus or no vagina, no opinion.
	I didn't do the bottom half.
	I'm so sorry!
	I'm not finished.
	I'm an ally.
	Let me finish.
	It's gonna be good.
	Our uterus, or?
	Our prosthetic vagina, or?
	Hormone replacement therapy pills?
	I haven't done that either.
	I'm not finished!
	Let me finish.
	I'm an ally.
	Hand off my uterus, or?
	Hand off my uterus or my prostatic non-functioning vagina or my hormone replacement therapy pills
	or my muumuu.
	It's a sundress.
	Oh shit!
	They're going nuts.
	I don't, I don't think they know what they're laughing at.
	I don't think they do either.
	Because they don't really make, hands off is the, what the predicate of the joke.
	Yeah.
	The repeated predicate.
	Yep.
	Hands off my thing that trans people do, hands off my other thing that maybe women do too, hands off.
	And then that's it.
	I mean like did he, where did he source this from?
	Like uh, J.K.
	Rowling's new fucking YA novel?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I have it pre-ordered.
	It's called Hands Off.
	Sure.
	Hands Off My Potter.
	I mean obviously...
	He knows what he's doing.
	I don't need to explain his joke here.
	But of course, I mean like when we're doing a protest about reproductive rights, I don't think trans people are getting upset when we hear things like, hands off my uterus.
	No, of course not.
	That's not the point of it.
	It's not, it's not talking about themselves.
	They're talking about a thing.
	Like a concept.
	Like, yes.
	The people that would be saying that in earnest agree that trans women are women.
	Yeah.
	By and large.
	The trans women who are associated with that Are also on the page that we are also women.
	Yeah.
	So... But in that moment, I think that they're just acting as allies.
	Yeah.
	It's like... It's not that hard.
	No, it's like, I don't have that, but I am also a woman.
	And it's like, if a woman, like a biological woman has a mastectomy, trans people aren't going to be like, that's not a woman anymore.
	Yeah.
	And neither are biological women.
	Yeah.
	It's like no one no one's looking at them as lesser.
	I mean only a sociopath could put themselves in the shoes of a trans person who is in this moment personally offended by that.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Because, like, no one's thinking about just themselves personally when they're at a protest.
	Of course not.
	Yeah.
	Well, and also, I think it's, like, thinking about, like, the core function of a uterus here, right?
	I don't know anyone who would be upset because their rights were not being violated, but they wanted to feel like a victim, kind of, you know what I mean?
	Like, imagine a trans person who doesn't have a uterus at a protest about abortion.
	They're not going to feel offended because the protest isn't about them.
	But they are still going to participate.
	Yes.
	Because that's important.
	Yes, because the issue is what's being protested.
	It's just, he's saying women are sensitive and unrealistic with their complaints, is what he's saying.
	He's saying that.
	Even trans women.
	That's what he's saying, exactly.
	He's saying, broadly speaking, women are just offended liberals, is what he's saying.
	The trans person walks out into a group of thousands of protesters saying, hands off our bodies.
	And they're saying, wow, look at all these people.
	Can you believe that I'm here?
	Cool take.
	If I was a trans woman.
	But back to biological women.
	That's the truth.
	Statistically.
	I know.
	It's sad.
	I'm not saying you.
	She's like, NO!
	NO!
	Please, continue to take it personally.
	Listen, I won't feel long at all.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm so sorry.
	It's white women who elect it.
	We don't need a wall on our southern border.
	We need to build one up around every fucking pottery barn.
	Just for...
	So then pallets of bricks, 50 Mexicans, seal them in until 2025.
	Woo!
	Women can't vote's a funny bit.
	Yeah, we should imprison them.
	Yeah.
	Imprison white women.
	Interesting.
	That's a really funny one.
	That's a very Nick Fuentes comedy.
	It's kind of a little Fuentesian.
	It's griper-esque.
	It's very griper-esque.
	Dennis, I'm really sorry to bring this one up though.
	Oh no.
	How you feel about public school teachers?
	We know how much you love teachers.
	I do love public school teachers.
	You go to bat for public school teachers.
	Do I?
	I think you have in the past.
	I feel that way.
	That makes sense.
	Okay.
	Like, you know, the thing that's been happening now with public school teachers.
	I'm sorry, the real heroes.
	Told you.
	Your face says a lot.
	I need a public school teacher to teach me how to do math equations wrong!
	In Florida, you know, the don't say gay bill that everyone got all mad about.
	Publicly don't say gay.
	And I love Ron DeSantis.
	He was like, just get that shit out of here!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	Standing ovation.
	He was back in the hotel, just like, bitch, rejected!
	Laughter Laughter
	So how about them heroes?
	This makes me so fucking mad.
	What is he mad about?
	STEM?
	He's mad about Common Core.
	Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
	Here's what I'm going to talk about Common Core.
	They always use the math as a demonstration.
	And then someone will be like, here's how I learned it, and they just write it out, and then they solve it.
	Obviously, Common Core has its problems.
	But the reason they were teaching math in those weird ways was so that kids could conceptualize what the numbers mean and what's happening.
	Because you tell somebody 5 times 7 equals 35, they don't understand what's fucking happening with the numbers.
	If you're just teaching them the answer to a question instead of the process of answering a question.
	Exactly!
	That's why kids don't ever think about math when they're older in a way they understand.
	Of course there's flaws with the way they taught it all.
	But it's a constantly adapting thing.
	How people learn all the time.
	And I fucking hate the minimization of teachers.
	Like, it's so fucking disrespectful.
	It makes me so angry.
	They get paid, I mean, I get paid a lot more than teachers.
	Me too!
	I make so much more money than teachers do.
	And I'm a dipshit.
	Yes, me too!
	Not doing manual labor, not really doing much to add to anyone's life.
	All these people who are cheering, probably 80% of them have children and they're like, Remember I was sitting across from a homeschool family.
	Oh great.
	Great.
	Great.
	Yeah I think that's kind of popular in this crowd.
	With the Common Core stuff and like being upset about it It's very much the same as like I'm seeing less white people on TV It's like it what it used to be like this when I was a kid It was like every channel was white guys and then you change to Fox and it's the Simpsons But they're like a white family and I know this in the in my head, right?
	So I'm not threatened by it.
	But now I'm seeing all these, you know, Puerto Rican bisexuals when I when I watch Whatever, like a CSI show.
	Yeah.
	I can't stand it anymore.
	And it's the same thing.
	My kids are coming home with this math homework and 2 plus 2 used to equal 4.
	Now I gotta bust out all these rocket science equations to show, you know, show the proof.
	I know that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
	What are you teaching these kids?
	Well, if you're Karens Howard, things aren't so clear.
	Those numbers are bisexual though.
	And those are the bisexual Puerto Ricans that I'm talking about.
	Dude, you don't know how close you are to something we're not gonna cover tonight.
	Stephen's manager is a gay Puerto Rican.
	What?
	Yes, and he comes out and does a little bit, gives Stephen permission to use the F slur.
	Oh, we love this.
	Freedom.
	Okay, nice.
	Nope.
	Dear friend.
	Jesus Christ.
	We'll get to that at some point, but back to this.
	For those of you who don't know, gay, and don't say gay, didn't appear anywhere in the bill.
	What?
	The bill just said that teachers could not be teaching hyper-sexualized topics to children ages kindergarten through third grade.
	That's all it said?
	I think we'll all be on board with that.
	Where's Common Ground?
	applause whistle
	applause But no...
	laughter The angry gay, lesbian, LGBTQ, A-A-I-P thing.
	They're coming out in force.
	One of them is complaining, like, well, with this bill, what am I supposed to tell my students in regard to my spouse?
	I don't know if you've met scoping out kids at the local jungle gym.
	When it comes to, I don't know, second graders, have you considered nothing?
	How about that?
	Is that an option?
	Yeah.
	You know what I didn't know about my second grade teacher?
	Her first name.
	Let alone when she was Caesarean.
	That never happened.
	I mean, we've talked about how marriage is ultimately sexualized in Stephen's world every time he talks about it, only when it's with trans or gay people, of course.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course.
	Because, you know, when he says, I attended a wedding over the weekend, no one's like, oh, who's fucking now?
	Yeah, like- Nice dude, did you watch them?
	Did you watch them fuck?
	Did you think about it now that they can fuck legally in front of God?
	Like, what- why is it only- well, we know why.
	I don't even need to ask that question.
	Because my only interactions with trans people is the pornography that I watch with it in there.
	If you're like Alex Jones, you might be interested in that kind of thing.
	And Ted Cruz, actually.
	Ted Cruz too, huh?
	I never had a lesbian teacher, but I wouldn't automatically be looking at a picture of them on her desk and being like, oh cool, they fucking scissor each other.
	This is cool.
	This is awesome, dude.
	Totally rips.
	Here's what I'll say.
	I don't know if I had a gay teacher or not.
	I don't care.
	Yeah.
	Actually, I think I might have had someone who mentioned like a wife or something.
	Sure.
	But I still didn't care.
	I don't remember and that's I think important because I feel like Steven would remember vividly or something.
	Yeah, why?
	Get it tattooed on him like memento.
	Yeah.
	Sure.
	I'll never forget this.
	I'll wake up blacked out.
	Nothing on my mind, but oh, Mrs. Finkelstein was gay.
	She had a wife.
	In the minimization of the damaging effects of the Don't Say Gay Bill, to say it's only talking about graphic sexual content... It was actually the Don't Say Fisting Bill.
	Oh, and he takes that personal because of his Arthur character that he plays.
	Very cool.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	Yeah, I mean, and he does, you know, talk more about that beyond the graphic sexual content.
	Sure.
	The idea wasn't that the bill itself said, don't say gay, you can't say gay.
	It was saying the bill is so vague and unenforceable that even saying gay would be a problem.
	It's the same thing as don't ask, don't tell.
	Yeah.
	That is an inherently anti-gay mandate?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Just like a rule.
	General rule, I guess.
	Because no one's going to enforce it when it's like a husband and wife.
	Exactly.
	It's to make people feel uncomfortable.
	And yeah, like you were saying, if it was a picture of a heterosexual couple on someone's desk, they would say, get that shit off.
	For fuck's sake, when people get married, they go from miss to missus in school.
	Yes.
	And as kids, we were like, what happened?
	You know, why did you change?
	And they would explain it to us and be like, oh, OK, cool.
	Nope, they're fired.
	Fired.
	Kick them out.
	Kick them out.
	Hypersexualized.
	We already have a deficit of teachers.
	We don't need you.
	Stop thinking about you two fucking on your wedding night.
	This is crazy.
	I just am like reminded I have a friend who joined the Navy out of high school and was like, wow, this is fucking bullshit.
	I hate this.
	And found another member of his crew that was like, you know what?
	I need to get out of here.
	So they went to their commanding officer and they were like, Actually, we're gay together.
	I know you're not asking, but we're telling.
	We're telling.
	And so they got dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
	Doesn't make me think of that.
	I don't want to be alarmist, but that's part of the Project 2025 thing.
	They're like, if you got dishonorably discharged, we're bringing you back to finish it out.
	Nope!
	They're wanting to remove all trans people from the millionaire.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Isn't, um, just recently, I want to say Biden signed an executive order to overturn convictions of being gay.
	Just what Steven does all the time, just like with everything else, he will minimize the issue to make it sound like it's not that big of a deal, but in the whole fact of all of this, it's just that The fact that it wasn't very clear was a big problem with the bill, of course, and it wasn't very clear on purpose, so that you could enforce it selectively, specifically towards gay people.
	Well, this next clip shows that he understands it more than he's leading on.
	Nice.
	I saw these angry, you know, fat lesbians, and I repeat myself, shrieking.
	Shrieking, and they were like, well, with this bill... I'm sorry, I said lesbians.
	They're like, well, with this bill...
	This is just another example of them trying to create a double standard between the heteronormative patriarchy, cisgender, and homosexual citizens.
	Yeah, right, no, because we all remember back in the second grade, walking up to our teacher, there you go, Mr. Henderson, maybe not my finest work.
	By the way, who are you plowing today?
	Not my best work, just put a C on there.
	Speaking of C, how's the wife?
	Does genital warts clear up yet?
	What the fuck was that?
	Genuine silence.
	Shock.
	Yeah, I don't... What?
	He had so many stereotypes in there that he just dumped them out.
	Yeah, just to keep everyone updated.
	One German, one Zambian, one Jenner.
	Two women and one lesbian now.
	Okay, great.
	That was the accent count.
	Nobody's safe!
	I don't even know what he was talking about by the end.
	I was just too shocked by him being really upset about... I think Steven is just anti what he considers ugly woman.
	Yes, that's it.
	That's for sure.
	Because he's being kind of old-school in his lesbian hate.
	Of course he's being old-school in his lesbian hate.
	He's acting like that there was only quote-unquote butch lesbians, right?
	This ain't your dad's lesbian hate.
	Actually it is.
	It actually is.
	It's really close to that.
	Yeah, I gosh it...
	By gosh.
	I don't even know what to say, man.
	I get so angry at Steven.
	Yeah, I know.
	We're just one angry fat lesbian on CNN.
	I'm just gonna keep saying angry fat to drive it home.
	The only adjectives I know.
	This is just another example of men trying to silence strong women as they have done throughout all of history.
	Joan of Arc, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller.
	Not exactly.
	First off, Helen Keller knew when to shut up.
	She was born deaf and dumb.
	You choose it.
	I was actually, I think, as funnier as the Helen Keller Truthers.
	Oh yeah, on TikTok.
	People don't think that Helen Keller exists.
	No one believes anything's real anymore.
	Yeah, everything is fakes.
	Zoomers believe that Helen Keller faked it because they're like, how could she write books?
	I shut my eyes, I go to sleep.
	What the hell?
	I plug my ears, I go to sleep.
	I pop a Zen, close my eyes.
	I don't write books.
	It's the same as Birds Aren't Real, but now they're doing drone birds.
	I don't know if you guys have seen this where they're taking like bird dead bodies and hooking them to drones.
	I saw this crazy video.
	Hey boys, I don't want to burp the bubble burst.
	Burp it.
	We should probably stay on topic.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Remind me about birds.
	You were telling me about all these videos you're watching for some reason.
	Birds and zen.
	Remind me about birds and zen.
	Great.
	First of all, I did look for this.
	I don't even know what I was doing.
	You know, sometimes when you're like locked in and you're like Googling shit, I'm curious, like, why would I expect this would give me any sort of result I'm looking for?
	I think I typed in like CNN lesbian Helen Keller Joan of Arc.
	I was looking for this interview with someone on CNN about Helen Keller Joan of Arc and Rosa Parks.
	I already got his opinion.
	Yeah, I know.
	I need somebody else's opinion.
	But I mean obviously there's this is not a real clip that he's talking about like a lesbian discussing Helen Keller Rosa Parks and Joan of Arc.
	As feminist icons.
	Maybe in a series.
	What does he think about Rosa Parks?
	Well, he talks about them in a second.
	No, does he really?
	Yeah, he does.
	What a fucking idiot.
	But the Helen Keller thing like I don't I don't want to discredit Helen Keller But I don't think that I don't know.
	I don't think she's part of the conversation Because he's fucking full of shit.
	Are we pushing out a killer?
	I want to understand what he's saying here.
	Is he saying that the person saying that men don't like strong women then lists actual strong women?
	Sure.
	What is he saying?
	Is he saying that men should not like those people?
	I don't know what he's saying.
	But I know that this is a fictionalized CNN interview with an angry fat lesbian.
	It's the blue hair from the RiRiRi meme.
	Yeah, it seems like that's what he wanted to do.
	This is their second life as like a person who gets interviewed.
	Great.
	And Rosa Parks, okay, we can all agree, remains seated for a legitimate civil rights protest.
	Not because her fat lesbian ass was fossilized into her hover around.
	Joan of Arc, in case you've forgotten, was burned at the stake.
	You offering a suggestion?
	Let's have some common ground on that one.
	Your neck fat would light our lamps into the 30s.
	Okay, LGBTQAIPpublicschool.com You want the Helen Keller deal?
	Fine.
	You can do it if you gouge out your eyes, crush your voice box, and you have to sign all of your bullshit into your handler's palm for the rest of your life.
	Oh, she's saying that her father never hugged her enough?
	Okay.
	She buys her shirts at Mass Pro?
	Good.
	Just like his audience though, getting their shirts at Bass Pro.
	See, that's where that's honestly, they might connect with Helen Keller.
	Maybe you should step off.
	I mean, I don't know.
	He's talking about extreme violence towards a heavy disabled lesbian, suggesting that they burn themselves alive or gouge out their eyes, crush their vocal cords.
	She's not real, Byron.
	I know, but it's, it seems pretty distasteful.
	Well, you know, he's horny for it, but at least it's fake.
	This is where I, um, began writing in my notes, that's all I can handle this week, but I actually decided to keep going because that was, I mean, that's just, like, I'm all for whatever.
	Sucks shit.
	Like you said, subversive comedy, whatever, but like, that's not funny.
	It's not clever.
	No.
	I created a caricature of someone that you can be mad at.
	And also if they died in this joke, you would be like, That's as funny as it is on South Park when it happens every week.
	That's so good.
	This entire quote-unquote joke is just women who believe that women should have rights are just lesbians.
	Uh-huh.
	And if you're a lesbian you're fat and ugly.
	And in a hover around?
	You're so fat you can't walk.
	That's the joke.
	That's it guys.
	So maybe you just don't understand humor.
	No, but then he took it further and said that they should burn at the stake like Joan of Arc.
	Yeah, of course.
	Burn yourselves.
	Martyr themselves.
	Disfigure yourself.
	Or be like Helen Keller.
	Yeah, and if you want to have a voice for women, maybe crush out your voice box, you dumb, ugly, fat lady.
	Sign into this person's palm.
	That's how you should be heard.
	And why are people laughing?
	I don't... I don't... I genuinely don't understand how you can hear... I'll tell you why.
	Because I came here to freaking laugh tonight, and I don't really care what, but my life sucks shit.
	Remember, I'm on call.
	My boss is a prick.
	I've been framing houses all day.
	Also, I don't know if you heard the beginning of it said, but we are in Spokane, Washington, and there is not a damn thing funny about that.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Life's tough over here.
	So I kept going.
	In Spokane, do you think maybe you guys are just, like, playing the Native American thing on Lil' Thicc?
	Goddammit.
	I heard one guy go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, probably like 1 16th Cherokee or some shit.
	If ever they are, they'll let you know right off the bat that they're like 1 16th Apache,
	which just means they're 15 parts insufferable prick.
	Poor Elizabeth Worms plays no parts.
	None.
	None at all.
	None whatsoever.
	None whatsoever.
	I'm still in there.
	My 23andMe came back with more Sub-Saharan African than Elizabeth Warren has Native American.
	And she released a Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chef.
	Do you have any idea how racist that is?
	Back on that, even then the powwow chow thing was a little bit played out and also it's a powwow chow collection of recipes from families of the five civilized tribes, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.
	Elizabeth Warren submitted one recipe.
	She wrote the whole book.
	No, she didn't publish a book.
	Also, I like how Stephen here is implying that people who are Native American make it like a point to tell you about it.
	Yeah.
	I've never encountered that.
	Obviously, it's a stereotype that he's created.
	Sure.
	I mean, it is the whole, I'm such and such Cherokee is like a 90s stereotype, you know?
	Is it?
	I think so.
	I mean, I don't know.
	In pop culture, I guess?
	I think you're right.
	Yeah.
	But... What?
	There was like a time in like I feel like I was like in kindergarten first grade because it was like certainly and then but there was some like Native American stuff happening in media like Indian in the Cupboard coming out.
	Sure.
	Things like that the kids were just like yeah like my family's you know we're real Americans we're Native Americans not really necessarily understanding what that is.
	I always had an understanding that I had some Native American blood, but you know what, 23andMe?
	Turns out.
	Turns out not even like a little bit, and I actually have the Sub-Saharan African like Stephen was just mentioning.
	Interesting, wow.
	So it was like just the opposite.
	Are you related to him?
	I'll check mine right now, I'll let you guys know.
	Guys!
	Digging in.
	But no, what's interesting to me is that that just feels like maybe it's a stereotype that he heard locally or something.
	Sure.
	Or maybe it's something that died out.
	I mean, the Cherokee is more, I think, Midwest.
	Jeep.
	It's not North.
	It's more Jeep than it is anything.
	Yeah, interesting.
	Yeah, we just got through that whole culture appropriation month.
	It seems like we're kind of going full circle.
	Didn't really learn anything, I guess.
	I'm dumber than I was before.
	Yes, but there's no way he's gonna keep doing like weird stereotypes, right?
	I mean he definitely goes on to do some hand-to-mouth South Native American.
	Classic.
	1.6%.
	You're 1.6% Sub-Saharan African.
	No, uh, indigenous American.
	Oh, wow.
	Cool.
	That's cool.
	Alaskan.
	That makes sense.
	I'm proud to be an Alaskan.
	Nice.
	I'm 23 and me.
	That is about all I can handle for this week because while we are just getting started down this road of probably one of the best nights of my life all of a sudden.
	Yeah, you're leaving me hanging.
	I wasn't scared or nothing.
	Did you go on a date with Coffin Girl?
	Excuse me?
	Coffin Girl.
	Oh, Coffin Girl.
	I thought you said coffin girl because I'm a weird goth guy.
	No.
	And I'm trying to do a skull and bones club of my own.
	There's still a lot of this set left that we will be exploring.
	I think the best place to do it is at patreon.com slash shrug club which is available now and uh what is that you're just doing a crowd people are stoked about this and okay coughing girls there too and i do want to say uh all additional content is going to be free there but if you think that what we're doing is worth tossing a little bit of money to become a shrug club member you can do that But we're gonna continue this journey through Stephen's set from 2002 there.
	Once again patreon.com slash Shrug Club.
	What else are we doing over there?
	Maybe some Q&A things.
	I'll give away some Lightroom presets.
	Sure.
	Maybe some behind the scenes stuff.
	Also we do a live stream every once in a while called Double Salutes where we put both of our hands to our foreheads and because we salute Twice as hard.
	Sure.
	Twice as much.
	It's the most patriotic.
	Livestream on Fridays.
	Well, yeah.
	Easily.
	Typically what we'll do there is we will review and give our thoughts on all of the latest conservative music.
	Usually hip-hop.
	Usually music.
	Things like Forgiato Blow.
	Tom Macdonald.
	Tom Macdonald.
	Bryson Gray.
	Tom Macdonald had a track in response to the shooting.
	He sure did.
	It was 100% wrong.
	I was watching it when you pulled up to your house.
	He dropped it really quick and it was all about how it was Antifa who did the shooting.
	His life got turned upside down.
	So yeah, I mean that's just... The story continues over there.
	If you can't get enough of this Crowder, check it out.
	We got more Crowder for you.
	We've got more Byron, Dennis, and Jared for you.
	If you want to hang out with us, there'll be more opportunities to hang out with us online, and who knows what the future holds.
	But if you're into this, you'll be into that, and we can become friends in arms about this distasteful cretin that we're constantly talking about.
	If you really want, I'll send you my band's record.
	How about that?
	Sure, yeah.
	If you want to be a Shrug Club member, then you get Jared's digital download of Jared's music.
	Yeah, I'll send it over to you.
	I'll start pulling the digital downloads out of the records that I would otherwise sell people, and they won't get it, but you will.
	Yeah.
	Does that sound good?
	It sounds good to me.
	I would say that our Patreon would be successful if we made less than what an American schoolteacher makes.
	I would be fine splitting the salary of an American schoolteacher with you three.
	Absolutely.
	Just to talk about this clown, yeah, I'm definitely into it, but we're still gonna do it regardless, so.
	Yeah.
	I won't, fuck you guys.
	Jesus!
	I got a little bit left in the tank, that's it.
	And if you disagree with us about, well, I don't even care about that.
	Yeah, I guess I have to say it because I made a hat that says it.
	I should announce that too.
	If you disagree with us, feel free to convince us otherwise.
	The convince us otherwise hat will be available at some point too.
	Maybe I'll drop an image of that at patreon.com slash Shrug Club.
	Take a pre-sale.
	I saw some really nice reviews and ratings on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
	Again, that's the best way to, you know, move us up the charts.
	Oh, that's more?
	I don't know what kind of charts they would be, but this is from Colonel Fartbucket.
	Hell yeah.
	This is last Wednesday, said cringey one star.
	Crowder's show is cringey.
	I didn't like Crowder when he started getting popular on Fox and trolling Cenk from the Young Turks, but the news and recaps he addressed had me coming around to it.
	I saw this louder than Crowder cast and figured... Saw the cast?
	It's a cast, it's a podcast.
	Oh, I thought he meant like saw us and he's like, I've seen those guys on other shows and they're great.
	I've been watching all their work with double salute.
	I figured it'd be contrarian to Crowder, which is good, since I enjoy listening to alternative views and refutations, so long as it's in good faith and intellectually honest.
	Well, I got news for you, buddy.
	This podcast is not that.
	It's cringey, wanna-be-famous progressive Democrats.
	Uh, I guess we wanna be famous?
	I wanna be famous so hard, dude.
	Masquerading as commentators on issues or debunking Crowder or conservative talking points.
	Imagine creating a podcast to talk about a popular podcast.
	I don't have to, dude.
	We did!
	Who else is reading this?
	that has points of view.
	Who else is reading this?
	That you disagree, he left out with.
	Interesting.
	Crowder posts sources and references supporting claims he makes,
	and those sources, not just echo chamber conservative footnotes.
	I'd say he's pretty selective with the.
	No, dude, he's the most open-minded bro I've ever met in my whole life.
	I have hunted for his sources.
	I've scoured them.
	They are so hard to find.
	Well, no, they're there.
	They're just very specific and, you know.
	And maybe 15 years old.
	And he contradicts them, honestly.
	All the time.
	Kind of back-to-back.
	But back to the review.
	He's cited New York Times, NPR, Atlantic, which most rational people will agree are left-wing, and I would say sometimes.
	And sometimes.
	Depending.
	Depends on the author.
	And the context.
	Though the publications themselves consistently pretend to be neutral.
	What's he reviewing?
	I forgot.
	Is he reviewing the Atlantic?
	Don't waste your time listening to this.
	I've already wasted too much of my time comparing this commentary to the show they are commenting about.
	Hopefully it will save someone's time in the long run.
	Listen to both shows in their entirety if you don't believe me.
	Also do yourself a favor and learn what logical fallacies are particularly straw men as whore.
	Yeah, we're not logically defending that when we call Steven a fucking idiot.
	Yeah, I mean, I think we're being... We're attacking him, but we're addressing his logic separately.
	Yeah, and I think we can probably do both, right?
	Of course we can.
	It's kind of the point of this show.
	If you are saying that he is not directly attacking people on his comedy show... You know, he definitely never uses ad hominem attacks.
	Ever.
	He never uses slippery slope.
	No.
	He never uses the fallacy fallacies.
	Of course.
	Yes.
	You aren't winning the argument of you cannot articulate.
	He's getting a little lazy here at the end.
	Articulate your views without resorting to fallacies.
	I do appreciate the comment though.
	I mean.
	That's a long comment.
	Here's the thing you guys.
	If you guys have, you know.
	Colonel Dickhead or whatever you're called.
	Colonel Fartbucket.
	Yeah.
	You know if you guys have like an hour, here's what I recommend.
	Listen to one of our shows.
	Sure.
	Or read that comment.
	Exhausting.
	I don't really care.
	I mean, that's fine.
	I'm glad you disagree with us, man.
	Oh no, I mean, I'm glad that he took a second to listen to our show, and I hope that more of the listeners of Stephen's show do listen to our show, because hopefully we might get through to some of them.
	Here's the thing, if you disagree with us, you are the enemy.
	And honestly, he didn't feel for you, Jesus Christ.
	Just kidding.
	Why'd you bring that up?
	I don't want to think about that until next week.
	Colonel Fartbucket is not the enemy.
	How it starts is how it ends.
	Time is a flat circle, my friend.
	Can we sell that on a shirt that says, Colonel Fartbucket is not the enemy?
	Can that be one of our shirts?
	Can I be the merch guy?
	No!
	Actually, it sounds like a bad idea.
	No, but I'm serious though.
	I think it is great that people who don't agree with what we say do listen to our show.
	I appreciate the feedback.
	Because I think that maybe if one little bit of what we say actually gets through to them, that could be the crack in the door that puts his opinions into question.
	And I will consider my logical fallacies.
	Moving forward, and I do want to say- Remember when I just did an ad hominem on that guy?
	Yeah, you did.
	Fucking so stupid.
	An ass hominem.
	Dude, you played into it.
	An ass hominem.
	Ass hominem.
	We have had some people say that we should list our references.
	I will do my best to do that, but keep in mind that this is just a once-a-week show.
	It's a commentary show.
	It's not a new show.
	And also, we all have full-time jobs.
	Yeah.
	We're busy folks.
	Copy and paste it for ya.
	If we say something that sounds incorrect, it might be.
	Maybe.
	Yeah.
	Check us on it.
	I'm usually just taking stuff from headlines.
	I trust Byron with my whole heart.
	Thanks, man.
	Byron could tell me that Steven Crowder has three feet, and I would believe him.
	Once again, review us on iTunes.
	Please.
	We will not talk about it.
	We probably will.
	Find us on X at Dan Crowder.
	Website's going up at some point.
	Someday.
	Yeah, and until next time, Jared, great to have you in studio.
	Hey, it's nice to be here with you guys.
	This is the first one we've done together.
	Is that true?
	Whoa!
	It is!
	This is number one.
	36?
	Episode 36.
	Cool.
	The year Steven just got done with.
	Wrapped up to 36, that's right.
	That's why it's a big deal.
	I mean, we have almost been doing this a year at this point.
	Coming up on it.
	What?
	Yeah, can you believe?
	Damn, dude.
	I was just thinking about this the other day.
	I think the replatforming happened not too long ago.
	Brian Callen finally talked about leaving the show, so maybe we'll talk about that at the beginning of next week's episode, but for now, yeah, we gotta leave.
	I'm Jared.
	I'm both.
	I'm Byron.
	Who cares?
	You've been listening to an AudioWall original, produced by Byron McCoy.

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