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Sept. 8, 2024 - Louder Than Crowder

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EPISODE 41: INSTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (AUGUST 26-29TH, 2024)

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	Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast louder with Crowder.
	My name's Byron.
	Hi Byron.
	Hey.
	Hey Byron.
	I'm joined tonight by Dennis.
	Yeah.
	And Jared in the same state as my partner, occupied Texas.
	Doing research for Kennedy week.
	Unfortunately, I actually, I tried to pitch to her to go see the Brian Callen show taping.
	She was not interested.
	Hey, do you want to be an agent for the show?
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, funny enough, we're talking a little bit about that later on in the episode.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay, nice, nice.
	Hope you all had a great Labor Day.
	It's one of Stephen's least favorite holidays.
	Really?
	Why?
	He did a whole rant about it a couple years ago.
	He hates unions?
	I can think of a couple reasons why he might have an opinion about maybe some people that are in unions, but... Who would sock him in the head, obviously.
	Back the f*** up!
	Okay, you need some socks, man!
	But he'd probably prefer it be National Boss and Landlord Day.
	Of course, yeah.
	We celebrated a little differently.
	We gave the listeners a bonus episode at Shrug.Club.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	It's available now free.
	It's part two of our investigation into the stand-up comedy set that Stephen did two years ago in Spokane, Washington.
	That was fantastic.
	A lot of fun.
	Kind of.
	Really.
	Ah, he's just dumped a seltzer on the table here.
	Be right back.
	As we were saying, shrug.club.
	Free episode for everyone to check out.
	Thanks so much to the folks there who are supporting us financially.
	The folks who believe in the show.
	And thanks to the folks who are supporting us just with their heart.
	And go ahead and meet me at wokeyoutube.com.
	Okay.
	Oh, I forgot about wokeyoutube.
	I'm still at wokeyoutube.
	Yes, he's still over there.
	For Stephen Crowder Google News Alert folks like myself, I don't think there's many of them.
	Do you have a Google News Alert?
	I just might.
	It makes sense.
	It's obviously been a packed week in the Crowder universe, so we should probably just jump right in.
	Let's go.
	Actually jumping right back to my birthday.
	Oh, yeah, let's go back to that.
	Stephen took it off.
	Oh, nice.
	He took the Monday before Labor Day off.
	Yeah, of course.
	We wouldn't want it to look like he took Labor Day off.
	No, no, no.
	He tweeted, MUG CLUB NO SHOW TODAY BUT I CAN PROMISE YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE WHAT I'M WORKING ON.
	I CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE I'M GOING OR WHAT I'M DOING BUT I PROMISE IT'S GOING TO BE BIG.
	In caps.
	Exclamation point.
	With 179 comments.
	That's pretty good, right?
	I mean, I feel like he'd be higher.
	You would think?
	2,000 likes?
	On the free speech platform, the Everything app?
	Yeah.
	Unrelated though, 185 tweets he's had since then.
	Just kind of interesting.
	Just toilet ranting, dude.
	Yeah, not interested in the Clean Slate initiative at all at this point.
	Feed the algo, baby.
	The next day, he scared me a bit to retweet from Louder With Crowder Mug Club.
	So I think Gerald probably runs that.
	We honestly didn't know if we should be offended or proud that Ad Fontes Media's totally legit media bias chart, in quote, considers Mug Club the most extreme on the right.
	What do you think?
	And then they did a screen cap of the media bias chart, which we frequently reference a couple weeks back.
	Yeah, maybe he knows.
	Also, the chart doesn't show everything.
	No, it doesn't.
	It's just the large it shows, but yeah.
	A little sus, also considering there was an episode not too long ago where Josh referenced his Lemon Party shirt, which is another thing that we said.
	So I don't know if they're listening and if they are.
	Hi guys.
	Hey guys.
	What's going on?
	So we'll talk more about Mug Club here in a minute, but the big story that unfortunately we won't be covering until maybe next week if it's still a big story.
	Okay.
	And no, it's not the Tennessee Star releasing the full 90-page journal of the Nashville shooter.
	Did you see that?
	I heard about that on Matt Walsh today.
	Including the names of folks who had relationships with Hale.
	Great.
	Which most certainly should have been redacted.
	Yep.
	Brutally unfair.
	Yes, a thousand percent.
	To put people in the spotlight.
	Not only to give them confirmation that they may be the reason that someone did an atrocity.
	Imagine if you didn't know you were in that.
	Also, now you are in the public as attached to this.
	I trust the public to be respectful.
	Oh, I mean, sorry.
	I said, I mean, I do not trust.
	It sucks.
	That was a terrible episode and fundraiser for the Tennessee Star.
	The investigation is being led by some weird boomer who is trying to pull funds to a legal defense fund in advance of potential legal action against the newspaper.
	I don't know, man.
	Sucks.
	Bad.
	The big story, it's a different Mug Club undercover piece.
	It's a hidden camera honeypot conversation with Nicholas Baez, I think I'm saying that right, the Chief of Public Affairs for the Southern District of New York, which is a division of the Department of Justice.
	This happened today, the 5th of September, where it appears in regards to Trump's charges, he was caught saying, Quote, the whole thing is nonsense, in reference to the charges.
	Sure.
	Disgusting, another quote, a perversion of justice, and that Alvin Bragg was, quote, stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit the case.
	And of course this is just when words are fit together, because much like Project Veritas videos, this is chopped to hell with no context provided.
	It took place at a bar with a beer in Nicholas's hand the entire time.
	Yeah.
	I'm not putting too much stock into this as of now.
	And I imagine we'll talk about it next week.
	But to tide you over in the, unless Jared has something to say about all that.
	How deep are we going to get into it?
	In general tonight?
	Six inches deep.
	Stop.
	Come on, man.
	A full average amount.
	No.
	Now I have to leave it in?
	You guys are the worst.
	Sorry, man.
	It's late.
	I'm tired.
	So you get horny for some reason?
	Of course, yeah.
	Stop.
	I don't think we're gonna get much into it, Jared.
	But yeah, to tie everyone over, in the immediate wake of this Mug Club investigation, the conservative goofballs all around the internet jumped in the scoop pool on Twitter.
	Charlie Kirk, Andy Ngo, Sean Spicer, Dinesh D'Souza, Jack Basobic.
	They all retweeted with some kind of generic stuff.
	But other folks like Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
	Not bad.
	I've been working on it all day.
	Said, this is perhaps the biggest scoop of Steven Crowder's career.
	Stunning.
	Sebastian Gorka.
	I can't do a Gorka.
	I don't know who Gorka is.
	Gorka!
	That's close.
	He said this with a pointing down finger.
	This!
	General Mike Flynn said, this is absolutely criminal.
	They all need to be fired.
	We are not joking about any one person here, teammates.
	We are seeing the United States of America be destroyed by a criminal enterprise run out of the very government institutions they are supposed to protect us.
	This shit, he said, sh exclamation point, has to end violence.
	What are they censoring?
	Shit?
	What are we doing?
	This shit has to end!
	On 5 November because he's a military man.
	As a minimum.
	I think he meant at a minimum.
	Kind of heated.
	Not excited about this at all.
	I like Steven reposting.
	Steven is so hungry for the attention of these things.
	Well, that's the only reason he's doing these and we'll talk about more here in a second.
	That's all he wants.
	Libs of TikTok says, Whoa, DOJ staffer admits the Trump indictments are politically motivated.
	Matt Gaetz says, Orwillian.
	Is that the name of the most recent girl?
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, I'm assuming it's a child's name.
	It's a modern name.
	The Hodgetwins, Stefan, is a Crowder-released undercover video of a DOJ chief saying that Trump's charges, and they skipped the apostrophe, are all politically motivated.
	This should be front page news everywhere.
	Our own government is trying to lock up the presidential frontrunner over politics.
	Treason.
	Treason.
	I think it is on the front page of the New York Post.
	I think it's about as far as it got but It's there.
	Mr. Guns and Gear steps in here.
	I haven't seen him.
	Who?
	Sorry, Mr. Guns and Gear?
	This is a joke about Mr. Guns and Gears.
	Oh, who?
	Because he's a nobody.
	Oh, okay.
	I wish I was surprised, but I'm not.
	Regardless, I'm glad it's being exposed.
	Dot dot dot.
	Hashtag Trump.
	Nice.
	Pretty good.
	Alex Jones, the big dog himself, steps in.
	Oh, damn.
	The House of Cards has totally collapsed.
	That's like an old Alex Jones from, like, 98.
	This is a huge deal.
	I can't do it.
	The deep state caught on tape saying the quiet part out loud.
	The American people already knew that Trump had been politically targeted.
	This undercover report just confirms it.
	Great job, Steven Crowder and team.
	Oh, and then cat turd says, bam.
	Great.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, everyone needs a cat turd.
	So, very cool stuff.
	You know, since Trump turned boring, I feel like everyone on the right has been desperate for anything to happen.
	Yeah.
	They're fucking pumped.
	Totally.
	I mean, he did say that he lost the election, so that's kind of big.
	That was nice, yeah.
	About a week ago, Trump started saying, I lost it by a little bit.
	Lost by a whisper.
	And I think a lot of people got upset by that, especially folks like Nick Fuentes.
	I'd love to see it.
	Yeah, he's really bummed out.
	For now, let's jump to the Tuesday, August 27th episode of Louder Than... Louder with Crowder.
	I even wrote than.
	What's wrong with me?
	MAGA wins, Zuckerberg comes clean, and Tulsi Gabbard goes all in for Trump.
	And remember, this is the day after... Your birthday.
	Well, yeah, and also the day after Steven's little vacation.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Good morning!
	Mug Club, we love you.
	We love it mostly because it pisses Hitler off, even in his grave.
	Yikes.
	What?
	It's not Steven.
	Yeah, no, what does Hitler do?
	Well, they played a, I think, whatever, six minutes parody.
	You know that that film that came out a couple years ago?
	It was in German.
	It was about Hitler and a lot of people like to subtitle it with like whatever.
	Yeah, it's like a meme.
	Sitting at the table, taking off her glasses, showering.
	Going nine, nine, nine.
	Yeah.
	So they did a six minute version of that.
	Okay, cool, cool.
	It was... Yeah, no Steven.
	No.
	Just... But we do have... A fantastic show for you today.
	Steven is doing something very interesting that I think we'll be able to show sometime very soon.
	I'm not going to get into any details, but he is jumping on an airplane.
	We should have a clip tomorrow.
	Okay, so a clip tomorrow, that's what we're thinking?
	Yeah, we should have a clip tomorrow.
	All right, so he's jumping on an airplane and going to do something that's really, you're going to love it.
	This is OG kind of Steven stuff that he's going to be doing here.
	So I'm really excited about it, but obviously that means that you're stuck with me, which I think is a net positive.
	Because of who it brings in the studio, but it could be a net negative.
	I mean, depending, you know, if you're gay and you don't want to watch the show, fine, whatever.
	It's Gerald being Gerald.
	It's just a Gerald day right on.
	Yeah.
	He's about to do conversion therapy on us.
	About to get it.
	You know how Howard Stern does that thing in that one movie where he has sex with a girl over the radio?
	In private parts?
	That happened in real life.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Gerald's gonna do that to everybody else with conversion therapy.
	In reverse, yeah.
	He's gonna make everyone abstinent on the air.
	Turn down your bass.
	That's cool.
	So yeah, interesting clip tomorrow.
	Also, Steven is jumping on a plane, so he hasn't left yet.
	Why is he not working?
	It's an hour show.
	Yeah.
	Just do the show and then go.
	He's packing.
	Yeah, he's just being his OG Steven self.
	What does that mean?
	I actually don't know because I feel like the Mug Club investigation stuff is fairly new.
	You guys are gonna love this.
	It's like an old, he's gonna go do a change my mind in front of the White House.
	No.
	No, that's not it.
	Is it a Trump-Obama debate?
	When is that?
	Is that Tuesday?
	And I think we will be covering that if you guys are free and available.
	Oh, if I'm around, I'm around.
	Is it on Tuesday?
	I think it might be.
	Let me check my calendar right now.
	I will move shit around and make that happen.
	Twitch.tv slash AudioWoldNetwork.
	WokeYoutube.com.
	Nope.
	We can change it.
	Sure.
	It's wokeyoutube.com, folks!
	So now you'll go to wokeyoutube.com and you'll be directed to us on Tuesdays, I guess, covering their coverage of the debate.
	That'll be fun if you can pull it off.
	And Jared, if you're around on Tuesday, we could do it without Dennis.
	He can call in.
	Maybe we'll even open up the phone lines.
	It's on the 10th?
	I'm open.
	I'm adding it right now.
	Cool.
	Sounds like a... Debate on Tuesday!
	Stop talking about it!
	So it's a Gerald show so obviously we're not going to listen to that and we're going to jump to the next day.
	Oh, is this the clip?
	This is all the culmination of months of tireless work here from the Mud Club undercover unit.
	Why target the media companies that release this information?
	Isn't the shooter way more vile than the media?
	Yes.
	The FBI discouraged the local Nashville police from releasing the manifesto.
	You have confirmed that the one page that you read, we've seen that as well.
	Yeah, we're doing the right thing here.
	We're reporting booze.
	It goes on way too long.
	Hyping himself up.
	It's not an impressive clip, so... So is he back the next day?
	Or is that just a clip?
	If you only knew what I knew.
	I'm just saying, that intro...
	Just get ready.
	Buckle up.
	The stories that are coming out?
	Insane.
	You're absolutely going to love them.
	Before we get to any of that... You're going to love them?
	Yeah, you are going to love all these fucked up scoops.
	These scoops are so crazy.
	Dead kids.
	It's amazing.
	So yeah, that was August 28th.
	The episode is Dem Panic.
	Why Kamala Picked CNN and Trump Indicted Again.
	Gerald is obviously excited.
	He's fully Steven-pilled at this point.
	Completely.
	That's my boy!
	He made that clip!
	Yeah, and we're not gonna listen to any more of that episode because, you know, I don't do Gerald episodes.
	I don't blame you.
	He's hard to listen to.
	Oh, it's bad!
	Energy's bad and vibes are really bad.
	Vibes are terrible.
	Even his intro was like, hello, welcome to Louder With Cover.
	He's rubbing his hands.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	Like a mantis?
	He actually does have kind of... Mantis energy?
	Yeah, for sure, mantis energy.
	I did pull one small thing relevant to tonight's episode.
	So he's discussing the interview that Kamala and Tim did on CNN, which was pretty good.
	I didn't watch it.
	It was good.
	I thought it was fine.
	They weren't expecting much out of it.
	Okay.
	But I'm not expecting a whole lot from that interview.
	No.
	Other than just, you know, some cuts that I can see.
	It'd be fun to highlight the edits that we find.
	I know.
	We're going to have to go ding!
	Right at every single one of those points.
	Get ready to hit that button a lot.
	They're going to count the cuts, huh?
	Like camera cuts?
	Yeah.
	Cuts in the clips.
	Are they going to assume that every camera change is a cut?
	If it went really well, they probably would have.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I think we might be doing kind of the same thing tonight in talking about a specific Mug Club investigation.
	Ooh, nice.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if cuts are bad, then...
	Huh.
	Finally, Steven returns to the studio on August 29th, 2024.
	So he was gone for a couple days on a plane.
	Yeah, the episode.
	Well, he was on a trip and he returned with exclusive video.
	The United Nations plot to stop Trump.
	Glad to be with you.
	What day are we?
	Thursday.
	Thursday.
	Is it Thursday?
	Yes.
	Well, this will all make sense in a little bit.
	I have been traveling across the country.
	It's been a pretty busy schedule.
	And today is the launch of, you're about to see this.
	Today is actually, if you can believe it, this is a drip because you can have a heart attack when you see what we've got here between now and elections.
	The launch of every week, Mug Club Undercover, Stealing a Nation 2024.
	I've been working with the undercover unit.
	We have multiple stories already sitting back here in the hopper that directly relate to not only the election, the rigging, to use a term they're in, but the fundamental changing of democracy as they claim it to be, or your constitutional republic.
	So a lot of work here that's gone into it.
	And every week between now and November 5th, the election of the century, we are going to be bringing you some I don't want to spoil it.
	Alright.
	So we'll talk about that today.
	Cool plug!
	Yeah, so he has a bunch of information that can change the entire world and he wants to release it slowly over time Yeah for... You have to buy a mug from me first.
	Yeah, it's called stealing a nation.
	It should be called Give me attention.
	Yes.
	Yes, absolutely.
	He's obviously done it I don't know the investigation that came out today as well as the Nashville Manifesto, which I think was just a bonus It unfortunately is getting some attention Whatever happened to the Blackrock thing?
	That?
	I wrote that down.
	Nothing.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely, uh, they put the fear of God in him.
	Harassed some woman?
	Yeah!
	Contacted lawyers, and the lawyers obviously... Yeah.
	And nothing?
	Is that video still up?
	Oh, with the pedophiles, yes, that's right.
	Who is Hero121?
	It's still up!
	Ah, surprising.
	It's been about seven months.
	Okay.
	Eight months.
	Seven months ago?
	Eight months, yeah.
	It's been that long?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	A lot has happened since then.
	Not much in uncovering the pedophiles.
	Yeah, dude.
	Of course they have an awful take on some pretty gross behavior.
	And the, I don't know if you know this, Donald Trump was in the Arlington Cemetery.
	Cemetery.
	And people made a big deal about it.
	He got in trouble.
	Turns out everything that the media said, complete bullcrap.
	No, not really.
	Flub club.
	It sounds like he's trying to do a late night monologue.
	I mean that's what the show is.
	Maybe they're finally doing it right because that's what this show is billed as.
	It's billed as like an alternative to Colbert.
	Yeah.
	Instead of just like the show where they talk about pedophiles in a somber tone.
	It's a comedy show, folks.
	Sounds like he tried there.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Was he trying to give up on... I don't know.
	It was dumb because he definitely was... Anyways.
	Anyways is right.
	He skips the formalities and also the introduction songs.
	Who cares?
	I hope he sticks with that.
	Yeah.
	We have Gerald.
	We have Josh.
	How are you both?
	Doing well.
	You?
	Yes.
	Good.
	Good.
	Let's fight.
	All right.
	Let's do it.
	Let's get into this.
	Yeah.
	And a big thank you to everyone who's put in the work here with Mug Club Undercover.
	It's the best investigative journalism unit on earth today.
	So today.
	Whoa.
	We have a story for you that involves the United Nations.
	Okay.
	You know my opinion of the UN.
	I don't think highly of them.
	No.
	So you're an awesome journalist then.
	The best undercover investigative journalist team on this earth.
	When you're doing an investigation, it's really good to go in with how you feel.
	Yep.
	And then try to write the story around that, right?
	Exactly.
	One of the best journalistic crews out there.
	That's journalism, dude.
	Damn.
	Well, I think that's not quite it, but maybe.
	I don't know.
	I'm not, I don't have a clue.
	I do have a club.
	It's called the Shrug Club.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Huh.
	So the UN obviously taken up significant room in Stephen's head.
	So let's jump right into it.
	How do you feel about the UN?
	It's good, I think.
	He would disagree and he would actually say that the whole point, well, it's kind of the opposite.
	I don't know if you look at those Those mosaics of all those flags and we are the world.
	You can probably count every third, fourth, fifth, call it tenth flag and notice that that flag wants to exterminate all the other flags preceding it.
	That's the problem with the U.N.
	So this is like the second or third time he's talked about the song We Are The World.
	Cool.
	The one written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie in 1985.
	Uh-huh, yeah.
	Really good.
	It has nothing to do with the United Nations.
	What do you know?
	Did you talk to Michael?
	Well, I do know that they wrote the song with the, I believe, express purpose to, what was it, a famine going on in West Africa?
	It was like a humanitarian effort.
	Wait, what?
	I think it was about Trump.
	No, it was specifically in Ethiopia between 1983 and 1985.
	Nah, I'm looking it up right now and I can see Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Bono, a different Michael Jackson, and Trump.
	Trump's there too?
	And he's there and they're all pointing to him.
	We are the world.
	He's doing his little floss dance at them.
	Forgiato Blow produced it.
	Well that was Jimmy Levy who was the producer of that track, but I mean there's kind of like a loose theme of global cooperation, but it's not directly related to the UN or even explicitly noted in the song.
	So weird to bring it up, doesn't make much sense.
	Steven, stop talking about that song.
	It's from 1985.
	Move on.
	At least he's going a little farther back in his references.
	Yeah.
	It's usually 1996 and that's about it.
	Yeah.
	Honestly, when you said it, I was like, did that come out in the nineties?
	That was my first thought.
	That's a great question.
	And that brings us to today's installation of Mug Club Undercover.
	This better be good. - It's not.
	So the UN, it's the largest international organization in the world.
	I can say this definitively, they are terrified of Donald Trump getting elected, and they will do anything in their power to ensure that that doesn't happen.
	I know, that sounds quite democratic.
	How do I know this?
	How do I know it for a fact?
	People at the UN told us just that.
	So is globalism one of the goals for the UN?
	Absolutely.
	It's a threat to the absolute power of the UN.
	I couldn't hear that.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's just Steven doing every voice to the universe.
	Incomprehensible in terms of audio quality.
	Yeah, it's rough.
	It's a threat to the absolute power of the United States Is this the person from the UN?
	Yes, and we'll talk about that.
	Allegedly.
	I stopped the audio because it's, you can't really hear it, so I wrote it out.
	Hard cut.
	One of the defining features of this MAGA movement is the ultranationalism.
	Okay.
	And there's another hard cut.
	And one of the main enemies are what they call the globalists.
	Another hard cut.
	I'm the definition of a globalist.
	Hard cut.
	Nice, count them.
	One of the objectives of the UN is to create an identity of a global citizen.
	So who exactly got honey-potted by one of the Mug Club investigators on July 24th and August 7th of 2004?
	That's Jorge Palloletti, an associate legal officer at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York.
	Specifically, he works in the treaty section of the UN Office of Legal Affairs, but he does have an accent, which makes him the perfect person to frame as important.
	Yeah, I mean, if you have an accent, you obviously know your shit, dude.
	Yeah, we'll walk through more of this horrible audio that I was forced to transcribe due to the quality, but it all boils down to this person who has junior-level legal support skills sharing his personal opinions out of context to a woman at a loud public place Which I'm pretty sure is a bar.
	Okay.
	Thoughts on that before we jump into this?
	I mean, I've always, these Project Veritas type videos are always so clearly cut up.
	And people might say, well, you can't cut it up if it's truly that damning.
	But is this person high level?
	And they're not.
	No, obviously not.
	Just goes into the gotcha type of journalism, which is what he's partaking in here.
	He loves a little bit of it when it works out for him.
	But even then, the UN spokesperson said that this is clearly something that's like, you took this without the knowledge of this person in a private setting.
	I don't think anyone would interpret this as being the official position of the United Nations.
	Especially if this is just like, this is somebody who gets paid $45,000 a year to like, you know, $60,000 a year to like, probably push paper inside of an office.
	This is one person's opinion about this particular thing.
	It's not the view of the United Nations.
	I don't think Most people would get that, but... I would say that sounds exactly like what they want you to believe, Jared.
	Oh my gosh.
	He goes on to say, they create this institution, referring to the UN, which is the closest we've ever got to kind of a world government.
	New world order.
	And that, yeah, freaked them out for sure, and I thought that this clip is important, and it kind of clears up for a second, so I thought I'd play it right now.
	Should it?
	Absolutely.
	I'm not sure the United Nations as an institution is going to survive a second term by Donald Trump.
	The United States government funds 27% of the UN budget.
	Is that more than anyone else?
	Oh, by a long stretch.
	The cuts that happened?
	They were aggressive, but the background didn't seem to cut as much.
	It almost seemed like the background was some room tone they added.
	Oh, stop being a conspiracy theorist!
	Oh, I'm not.
	I'm just joking around.
	It sounded like in the middle of those clips that he all of a sudden started calling instead of speaking normally.
	He turned on a cell phone sounding voice.
	Background just sounded like it was an ongoing room tone of a bar.
	That's a poppin' TGI phrase.
	It sure is, yeah.
	But no, I just love that one sentence into the clip, just his, like, the tone of the recording changed so much.
	Oh, because it's from two separate days.
	Oh, okay, okay.
	And that's the weirdest thing that they do.
	They're clipping and pulling moments from two different encounters, one in July and one in August.
	Oh, gosh.
	But trying to make it sound like they're, you know, a structured sentence.
	One cohesive thing, yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's hilarious.
	It's actually not.
	It's disturbing and bad.
	That's what I mean when I say that usually.
	Now I know what happens with these things.
	We have plenty more clips for you.
	They'll try and say, well, it's just some glorified intern.
	This person is an associate legal officer in the treaty section, the UN Office of Legal Affairs.
	According to the UN's own website, let me read this for you.
	"The treaty section contributes to ensuring transparency of the international treaty framework, wider knowledge of the law of treaties, and broader participation in multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General." So, in turn, don't think so.
	They always try to make someone a patsy for the higher-ups.
	That's interesting.
	He was not talking about the specific position, but talking about what the treaty office does.
	Yes, and he also has no idea what he said.
	No!
	He doesn't know it all.
	He read it all and it was like, this sounds important.
	Let's go.
	It's just very funny that he would try to conflate the two things.
	Oh, of course.
	This guy's an intern at the White House, which, of course, is where the president lives.
	And then talk about all the things that the White House is responsible for?
	No, it's different.
	It's a very different thing.
	This intern basically has the nuclear codes, OK?
	No, not even close.
	He's not an intern.
	The intern and this guy have more in common than you would think, I would imagine.
	He's a junior level assistant who loves to party, it seems.
	Yeah, he likes getting drunk with people.
	I do wonder, in many of these types of stories, how these conversations begin, like how they get to that point, you know what I mean?
	Well, that's the context I would like to know.
	That's some pretty standard honeypot kind of stuff.
	In another clip they show, he continues, he says, the purpose of Donald Trump is to end the international institution that somehow levels the playing field.
	Hard cut.
	It's a movement that is deeply nationalistic.
	It's America first, make America great again, America, America, America, America, America, America.
	And then whoever this investigative journalist is says, so does the UN not want him?
	I mean, we are terrified.
	They're terrified.
	Later at what appears to be a dance club or dancing hours at the same bar.
	There's lights and the music is different and louder some sort of She asks so the internal vibe at the UN is like no one wants Trump and he says absolutely nobody wants Trump Really quick cut.
	Quicker than the others.
	And then when asked, so is the UN just like useless now?
	Quick cut.
	Then he says, I would say for about 95% of issues related to international peace and security, yes.
	Great.
	So what happened in between those two things?
	I don't know.
	Or if even one of those came before the other.
	This sounds like Kevin McAllister is running this.
	It's like fridge magnets with words.
	Exactly, yeah.
	He's playing that movie in the background and just playing clips from it.
	Oh, he's got his talk boy?
	His yak bag.
	No, it was a talk boy.
	No, the Talkboy was in the first movie.
	In the second one, when he's lost in New York, he was just using the VCR, right?
	I'm thinking... I don't know.
	I need to re-watch it.
	He did that same bit.
	Can we take a break and watch it?
	Yeah, let's take a quick break.
	We'll be right back.
	back we're gonna watch home alone yeah one and then two and then we're gonna have a freak out at part two and like go sign the petition to take donald trump out of it there's a lot of lost commentary in these films I'm glad we took four hours to watch them both back to back.
	That's a great call, you guys.
	It's now 2 a.m.
	and let's continue.
	Yeah, let's keep on moving.
	In 2020, let's talk about the international community.
	Donald Trump threatened to completely withdraw from the World Health Organization.
	Let's take a second actually.
	2017 President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN compact on immigration and just to be clear this compact aim to set a Global immigration standard so the UN wanted to set the standard for the United States I don't know if you know this you're the taxpayer you foot the bill.
	So let's move on.
	Let's take a second actually Let's withdraw Donald Trump from home alone - yeah, let's do it absolutely Absolutely.
	Sounds like a better idea.
	I'll take a moment to completely withdraw.
	Also, this is an interesting clip to me because it goes to show that, like, what they're saying when they say they want to have these, like, standards for immigration, it's just kind of like this, like, world standard to be like, hey, we recommend this so that we're caring about humanity.
	Of course.
	And Stephen makes it sound like they're writing the US immigration policy.
	Yeah, no one follows these kinds of rules anyway.
	So this gentleman continues talking in some more clips that I cannot play because they're difficult to hear.
	He says, there are many instances of human rights in which skillful lawyers can take cases in case Trump decides to go completely rogue.
	One instance is the United Nations, but another instance that I think would work even better is the Organization of American States.
	Cut.
	The thing is, they have a good human rights tribunal system in the United States as part of that human rights system, too.
	So you can bring cases against the United States to that system.
	What is he saying there?
	Here's Poletti talking about how global institutions...
	can actively punish donald trump not exactly right anyone yeah when you say someone go rogue is trump not already rogue i don't know i mean not fully rogue right there's plenty of laws he's obeying actively like no laws i mean yeah not fully rogue i guess That was real bad.
	You sign a treaty, right?
	You go in.
	Y'all do like the secret handshake.
	You pay the money.
	You're part of a club.
	This is the United Nations.
	Hello.
	These are the standards that are met to be a part of this.
	And they're like, it's straight up.
	They'll kill Donald Trump.
	Yeah, I think that's exactly what they're saying.
	They're going to broadcast it.
	They're going to put a stake through his heart, roast him in front of all of you.
	And because, because they want to kill you too.
	It's going to be like that pig episode of Black Mirror, but.
	Oh, wow!
	But what?
	But Donald Trump's the pig and the UN's the guy.
	Ah, nice, actually.
	Yeah, I'd watch that.
	Not exactly, though.
	So what he's saying there is that OAS can actually punish Trump if they don't like his immigration policy.
	And I say this so you understand there are fail safes in place in case Donald Trump wins.
	That's not... And for the defeatists out there, I will tell you this.
	This is one of many in a long line of stories, and this is the least authoritative Of the people who have a nice package being presented on them in the coming weeks.
	Package being presented on them?
	What does that mean, Steve?
	I think he's got a pretty documented history of putting his packages on things.
	Yeah, presenting his package on things.
	Wow.
	What are these safeguards he thinks there is?
	Is it like the key to the, is split up across the world and you have to uncover one and like, like two shards of a formula need to come together to get Trump out of power?
	Maybe that's it.
	Well, yeah, we saw that.
	We saw that video that really, the real video of Trump when he went to the mountains and he learned every therapy.
	He grew a beard.
	Yeah, he grew a beard.
	I think it was AI boys.
	Was it?
	I think we watched an alien video.
	No, no, no.
	I would know.
	I would know.
	I can see that.
	I'm not... I think we're talking about human rights violations.
	Except when you turn into a crocodile.
	He's giving the UN so much power in his head.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the UN will of course suggest guidelines, and I think that many people in the world, regardless of the UN, are worried that Trump will get elected again because of what it would mean for the world.
	There's some serious repercussions.
	Yeah, so if you ask somebody, hey, are you scared Trump might get elected again?
	Absolutely.
	They might go, yeah, it'll be a problem for the whole world if he is.
	Well, and they're not, he's not in an office, he's at a bar.
	That's a casual opinion talk time.
	Yeah, okay.
	Yeah.
	C-O-T-T.
	Opinion.
	Stephen freaks out because a drunk junior treaty associate legal officer at the United Nations says globalism and world government.
	One point in time we know that YouTube throttled anyone who used the term globalist.
	But here he is saying that the UN wants one world government.
	And create this institution, which is the closest we've ever gone to a world government.
	A world government?
	Like a one world government?
	Exactly.
	Like a one world government?
	Absolutely.
	It's to create a space for also the creation.
	of a species, of a planet, of an identity as a planet.
	One of the objectives of the UN is to create an identity of a global citizen.
	Of a global citizen?
	Yes.
	Of someone who shares an identity, a political identity with everybody on this planet.
	budget.
	27%?
	Yeah.
	Is that more than anyone else?
	the United States.
	Why?
	Because they don't want an institution over the U.S. telling the U.S. what to do.
	The United States government funds 27 percent of the U.N. budget. 27 percent?
	Yeah.
	Is that more than anyone else?
	Oh, by a long stretch.
	Apologies for the quick correction.
	The United States actually pays one third of the UN's total budget.
	Apparently he didn't know that.
	As he sat with his hands on his hips.
	That's right.
	27%?
	No.
	Try again.
	33%.
	Let's get this part out of the way.
	So they throttled the use, YouTube that is, throttled the use of globalism because right wing.
	YouTube bad.
	Well, no, because right wing lunatics were using it and still do as code for Jews.
	So.
	I'm saying, this is Steven.
	YouTube bad.
	Sure, Hitler bad, YouTube bad, globalist bad.
	She seems to be leading quite a bit.
	Well, when I hear these things, what I hear is we want people to understand that we're people first.
	You know, we're not our country first, we're people first.
	We're united and we take care of each other.
	Yeah, yeah, I mean the term... That's what the United Nations is kind of about.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a collection of countries.
	Yeah, just promote an idea that, like, we're all the same.
	We gotta move together.
	We gotta save the Earth together.
	As a people, as one.
	Under the sun.
	Dude, he's doing, we are the world part two.
	I got Bob Dylan standing next to me.
	We are the people standing together under the sun.
	Who else is there?
	Who else is there?
	Cindy Lauper just wants to have fun.
	That was me.
	I said that.
	Yeah.
	She's not by the way.
	No, no, no.
	Of course.
	Who else can you do?
	Folks, I'm here also.
	I also want to have fun, folks.
	Wokeyoutube.com.
	Great.
	That's nice.
	The term globalism is so scary to people, right?
	Like, I don't even... I'll be honest, I don't understand.
	Especially out of the mouth of an accented person.
	Yeah, of course.
	You're talking about me!
	Bob Dylan!
	Still doing Bob Dylan over there.
	That's okay.
	Bob's still here, it's fine.
	But I think a lot about the borders that we have and how, you know, someone born a hundred miles in some direction can have a completely different set of rights.
	It's so hard because you talk to people about it and it's like, They can't articulate the border without using the border as the reason why they articulate it, right?
	It's like, why is somebody born in this place different than someone born in this place?
	See, the map is a cage.
	Okay.
	That's the real, yeah, there's a cage, everything should be a cage.
	We all know that when the cage goes up, the claws come out, Dennis.
	And this motherfucker is a deathmatch in here, okay?
	So everyone for themselves.
	Celebrity deathmatch.
	And I will kill you if you come into my yard.
	Bob Dylan versus...
	So, Jared, are you saying that despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage?
	Oh, you gotta move on.
	Yeah, Bob Dylan versus Billy Corrigan.
	Here's the bottom line.
	The UN is entirely useless without the United States.
	It may as well be called the, hey, America, give us more money, please, organization.
	That's a really witty joke.
	I'd just say also that Billy Corgan would probably win.
	He's much more familiar with the Steel Cage match.
	Yes, he owns like the NWA thing.
	And we'll make all that footage, of course, available individually on Mug Club.
	Look.
	He didn't.
	I looked really hard for these uncut clips with the context I needed.
	Nope, it's just a packaged segment of all the things he talked about.
	I really hate how bad his name for the United Nations was.
	Yeah, it was bad.
	United Patients?
	United... Let me think.
	He could have spent a little bit of time writing a joke there because it definitely wasn't great.
	No, he's been on vacation.
	I mean, um, working.
	Oh, yeah.
	Working.
	Now, how do we tie this all back to, you know, what's going on now?
	Listen, the center of the world, Plano, Texas.
	Exactly.
	A lot of people think that local politics, they only affect the United States.
	The United States sets the standard for the rest of the world.
	We also provide the funding pretty much for the entire free world.
	This election, what is at stake?
	Well, listen to these people.
	What's at stake?
	It's not just the United States.
	It's the state of the world.
	Sounds pretty globalist.
	It's your personal freedoms.
	Donald Trump is a proxy for at least half of this country.
	It is at least half of this country versus not just a portion of this country, whether it's the radical left, versus international governing bodies who have a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D to ensure that your vote doesn't matter.
	Steven, he's gonna kill you.
	What did I say?
	I just, they're going to take your vote.
	They're going to turn that some bitch sideways and shove it up your candy ass.
	A lot of promos going on tonight.
	I like this.
	I got to stay awake somehow.
	I got, you know.
	I gotta get high.
	This blows my mind that Steven's really drawn the line from your local election all the way up to Trump is just a proxy to get at you, the people who have conservative views in the United States in your particular county that you live in.
	I mean, he truly is like a step away from this being a holy war and Donald Trump is the reincarnated version of Jesus Christ.
	Totally.
	That's totally fine.
	And that it's good versus evil.
	And there's a lot more evil than there is good out there.
	Yeah.
	And I... Which rules.
	What's crazy about this idea is that if that's truly the power that the UN has, couldn't any president of the United States just be a proxy and not be a problem?
	I mean, maybe they have been this whole time.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	They're gonna throw away their vote, too.
	Is that what you're asking?
	Anyone that's got a vote, they're throwing it away.
	That's the answer.
	That's what's going on here.
	If the U.N.
	has anything to do with it, they're throwing away my vote.
	They're throwing away Dennis' vote.
	They're damn sure throwing away Byron's vote.
	Yeah, I don't even vote.
	That's the one that they're shoving up your ass, actually.
	Yeah.
	What else do they want to do?
	They want to institute a world government, undercut the United States.
	They see you, conservative Americans, as the biggest threat to that goal.
	And they see Donald Trump as the most effective tool, the most effective ambassador of achieving that goal.
	And what do I mean?
	Let's define that goal.
	Protecting American interests.
	Serving the interests of the American people over the interests of international governing bodies, largely tied to, let's be honest, socialist countries.
	And economies.
	How fucking huge of a head do you need to have to believe that conservative Americans are the biggest risk to the world order?
	Conservative Americans make up probably a half of a percent of the world population.
	Yeah, pretty close, right?
	I mean, they make up only like 40% of the voting bloc of the United States.
	Let's assume conservative Americans are 100 million people in the United States.
	What's 100 million divided by 8 billion?
	1.25%.
	Which is surprisingly higher than I thought.
	Wow.
	If it's 100 million, that's 1.25% of the world population.
	There are so many other things in this world that are a bigger risk to the stabilization of our world.
	Slavery!
	Sure, yeah.
	Sex trafficking, which they care a lot about.
	It's absolutely bonkers to me that Steven is gonna go on this pedestal and say, hey listen, the UN, they're coming for your right to not wear a mask at Menards.
	Well, he has to make it personal somehow because he knows his listeners don't give a shit about the UN.
	They don't know what it is.
	They don't.
	I don't even know what the U.S.
	is.
	Now they know that it's somehow attached to the Michael Jackson song, We Are the World.
	They got one of those tables that everyone's looking at each other, like big, like, you know, egg shaped table.
	Yeah.
	Everyone's sitting around it and they're smoking cigars, probably.
	And also, I don't know just how significant socialist country representation is as part of the UN.
	I mean, there is the People's Republic of China, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Cuba.
	But there's also all those countries that they would say are socialist.
	Exactly.
	You know, the ones that have free health care and shit.
	Socialism right there.
	But yeah, it's very clear what the gang is setting up for with all of these investigations, this being the first one.
	They're launching Mug Club Army worldwide.
	Nope, not quite.
	Why would they do that?
	They're not globalists.
	Yeah, that's true.
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	What a hilarious prediction.
	Yeah, weeks before that whole DOJ indictment situation that's going on with conservative alt-media, folks like Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, being allegedly unwitting pawns in a Russian influence operation.
	Yeah, what a hilarious comment that he didn't even know was going to blow up.
	I bet they're going to be talking about this tomorrow or the next day, the Tenet media situation.
	I guarantee he's going to sell it as we are funded by people like you.
	You think he's going to flip on these guys?
	Of course.
	That makes sense.
	That's kind of on track.
	He's going to sell mug clubs.
	Yeah, because he's the only one that you can trust.
	This is what he's selling is the trust in himself.
	I put my trust in the American people.
	What a wonderful excuse to burn Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin.
	Burn em, send em.
	I also want to point out too, I don't know if you guys are on this wave with me, but he's talking about how it's not like PBS.
	And that we do, we're federally funded, but also, you know, we do a telethon here and there.
	This whole first half, this Mug Club Undercover is just him doing a telethon.
	It's the pitch before the close.
	All of these are.
	That's all this is.
	And he's already done it one time in this already.
	And so it's like that you can't even recognize, or maybe his audience can't recognize that this is what it is.
	It's a telethon within the telethon telling you that the telethon is bad, I guess.
	It's all a trick to build a subscriber base.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	And this Tim Pool stuff is like very good for him.
	I think.
	Yeah.
	I really like curious about how they're going to.
	Fumble this one.
	Also, it does look like PBS gets a majority of its funding from individual donations.
	Sure.
	At least PBS NewsHour gets 65% from individual donations.
	Sure.
	And 35% for that specifically comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which I'm sure you've heard attached to that.
	Yeah.
	How much has been extracted from them, like even from Trump, like how much did Trump like Oh my god.
	Like take money away from them.
	I can't even imagine.
	This is probably like why Elmo's new home is HBO Max.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Apparently in 2014 only about 14% of PBS's overall budget came from the CPB, the government funding, so.
	Sure.
	I wonder what kind of money he is taking though.
	I would love to see just his breakdown of where the money comes from that he gets.
	Yeah, I'd be really curious.
	It'd be really interesting to see.
	I wonder what we could look into.
	Is he listed as a non-profit?
	I wouldn't be surprised if we tried.
	Oh, no, he's a ladder in the crowd, or LLC.
	He's a limited liability corporation, for sure.
	CEO is Gerald Morgan.
	Oh, yep, yep.
	Because Stephen's, of course, hiding his assets, or at least was during those divorce proceedings.
	Yep.
	Stephen goes on to tease what's coming up, expressing its size in relation to this, and he was kind of right.
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	Take that out of your fucking mouth.
	- Marking?
	- Take that out of your fucking mouth.
	- They also, they're copyrighted. - The theme of one. - See you in the online.
	- We are, there we fire.
	- Usable audio, right?
	That's so good.
	That sounds like when you're talking to a damn ghost.
	Jesus Christ.
	And then with the scanner.
	I just wanted, like, he says something about, like, they already stole it, is essentially what he was just saying.
	Exactly, which is what I called this, right?
	Like, give me some kudos here.
	He's stealing a nation?
	I knew that he was setting us up for this.
	I mean, listen, it's not the most dramatic guess.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	They already stole it, but stay tuned, folks.
	And, you know, like, Listening to this made me think of a different thing you put me on, Byron, and that is the WNUF Halloween special.
	Wonderful.
	Seasonal horror watch.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, a little reco there for y'all.
	But the way that it's set up with like, stay tuned.
	I don't know.
	It just reminded me of the same.
	That's just good broadcasting, my dude.
	Old.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is it.
	This is like...
	If Stephen was... Everyone drink, he's doing an analogy.
	Yes, I do do analogies all the time.
	And they're always terrible too.
	But this is literally like if somebody was like on Stephen's doorstep and was like, I need you to save me.
	He's like, I have all the tools I need to save you.
	If you subscribe right now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's like if you truly cared about- Don't withhold important information.
	Yeah, if you have important information, then why don't you just give it out now and actually make a real change?
	Yeah, you could give away all your stuff for free like we do.
	Yeah, and how did they- how did they hide a hidden mic inside of that guy's mouth?
	Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
	Great point.
	Dentist office.
	Exactly.
	- Jesus. - It's just in Charlie Brown's parents run a sex trafficking ring and we busted them.
	You won't believe what the peanuts really means.
	Jesus Christ.
	Alright.
	One quick thing, we made this really easy for you to share.
	Go and click the link in the description to share this on exit.
	Autopopulates.
	Yep.
	To share.
	Get it out there, far and wide.
	Don't let them bury it.
	This is the uh, if you can, this is the smallest of This is a major story.
	I know, but it's the smallest of the ones that we have.
	It's weird, right?
	It's a segment in today's show.
	The ones that will be following will be the entire show, just to be clear.
	It's like being next to Mount Everest and being like the second tallest mountain.
	It's massive.
	This man may be the least authoritative out of all the pieces we have lined up.
	Which is crazy.
	It's very authoritative.
	Absolutely.
	You guys are not going to believe it.
	He does.
	It is odd that he sounds kind of Asian, even though I know he's not.
	He is a globalist.
	I'm sorry.
	He'll unite a nation.
	What?
	We almost got through a whole episode with no racism.
	So close.
	I have a much better analogy to this.
	This is like Steven doing a livestream telethon and having goals for subscribers hit, then at each goal he gives medicine to a sick child.
	Oh, that's so sweet of him.
	That's so kind.
	Hey guys, we need you to help save this sick boy!
	Subscribe now!
	Well, they're just discussing the infrastructure in advance for the future Mug Club exclusives and that's exactly how we were able to read quote tweets from absolutely everyone on the right at the beginning of this episode.
	Of course.
	It's because of the way that they set this up.
	Oh man, I really hope Steven can save the world if he gets enough subscribers.
	Because I have a really sick cousin.
	I don't want the globalist, but I've only got ten bucks a month.
	Mr. Beast won't answer me, it has to be Steven Grounder.
	Mr. Beast has his hands full.
	Mr. Beast is a UN plant.
	I wouldn't trust him.
	Nope.
	I want everyone to know that I'm not picking episodes that are infomercials, they just All are.
	At this point.
	If he's not selling, what is he doing?
	Always be closing.
	ABCs.
	Yes, yes.
	I get that as a producer of content that subscribers is obviously what you need.
	Mm-hmm.
	Wokeyoutube.com.
	Wokeyoutube.com, please.
	Send us a hashtag.
	Wokeyoutube.com.
	You're going to put that picture of you wearing that beautiful hat of you on Twitter.
	You're going to tag us.
	We're going to send you a nice little prize or something.
	We'll figure it out.
	Perfect.
	Super male vitality.
	An empty bottle of it, at least.
	I'm running out of these things.
	File for bankruptcy.
	I'm living with Jared.
	Oh, hey, that was not Jared, it was Alex Jones.
	Whoa, Alex is on our show now, nice.
	Wow.
	And then as teased, we've got to talk about the Arlington Gold Star Family visitation kerfluffle that's been going on.
	Sure, yeah, let's kerfluff it.
	Yeah.
	If we can't come together over honoring fallen heroes, And if we actually find ourselves squabbling, well then there's no point in trying to find a common ground.
	That just means that you're capitulating if you're the only person trying to find common ground.
	Now, the reason as to why the squabbling matters.
	Because immediately after Donald Trump did that, media started squabbling.
	Had a meltdown.
	There is a growing controversy over the Trump campaign's visit to Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week.
	The family of a Green Beret who's buried at Arlington National Cemetery is not happy about Donald Trump's photo op near his grave site.
	Really?
	Why, this photo has sparked a controversy between Arlington National Cemetery and the Trump campaign.
	Both parties admit there was an incident on the hallowed grounds.
	What a great soundbite, guys.
	So cool.
	What a cool soundbite.
	I like that.
	Did Steven say that arguing about this is more disrespectful than what Trump did?
	I guess so.
	Yeah, that's kind of what he's implying.
	He's saying that, hey guys, if we argue about this, we're squabbling over nothing.
	That's disrespectful to the families.
	Yeah, so it was August 26th.
	Is that when it happened?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Wow, that's a birthday gift for you.
	I guess so.
	I had a cameo for it.
	Oh, yeah?
	I asked him to film it at Arlington.
	Instead he just took a thumbs-up picture in front of a bunch of graves.
	I saw him do a thumbs-up picture with an orphaned kid from a school shooting.
	Well, that's cool!
	The one pose that he does with every single person, it just doesn't suit every situation that he's in.
	You know, honestly, that's kind of the least of my concerns.
	A picture of him giving a thumbs up with a bunch of families who appreciate his presence.
	That's totally fine.
	There's an enormous difference between, hey, let's take a picture of us with the president at our, you know, family member's gravesite.
	The grave of my dead son.
	Right.
	And publishing that picture.
	Sure, and it's their right to publish it.
	Like, if they want to put that on their social media and say, really appreciate Donald Trump showing up.
	Because I did hear some videos of the family member saying, like, we invited him.
	We don't like Kamala or Joe.
	Sure.
	They weren't invited.
	Okay, that's fine.
	It's on their social media.
	It's not on Donald Trump's social media.
	It's not being used for politics, you know?
	Yeah.
	Dead soldiers shouldn't, I don't think, be used for that.
	Of course not.
	Yeah.
	So let's go point by point through this.
	Okay.
	So let's go through this exactly, and I don't want to go point by point because it's so silly, but the media just won't let it go.
	As soon as I heard the NPR news briefing, I went, oh, oh, they think this is a winning issue for them.
	Is this all liberal?
	Here's the claim that they were making, okay?
	Donald Trump was not supposed to be at the Arlington Cemetery, and his aides went in, assaulted staff members for no reason, and he was completely violating protocol by campaigning and taking pictures, which is against the rules.
	No decorum.
	Can you believe it?
	Donald Trump waltzed in there, uninvited.
	His staff was like, to people who were just tearing the gravestones.
	And then he was basically the Logan Paul of Arlington Cemetery.
	He did a cartwheel, I heard.
	I heard he did a cartwheel.
	Well, that was after he shit on a grave.
	Yes!
	We did it while.
	So here's...
	It's very acrobatic.
	I'm gonna lose clean to L.A. night.
	Is that what he meant to say?
	I don't think I know the reference to you.
	You guys don't know?
	Alright.
	What's that?
	Logan Paul lost clean to L.A.
	Knight.
	He lost the U.S.
	title.
	Oh, is this a wrestler?
	This is wrestling.
	No, it's MMA, right?
	No, he's a wrestler.
	I mean, it's real like MMA.
	Jake Paul is an MMA guy.
	Mostly a boxer.
	Mostly a boxer.
	That's Logan.
	Logan.
	Okay, so are they making a suicide forest joke?
	I think so, yeah.
	Even in their reference of Logan Paul, they're quite dated, because he's done a lot since then.
	Yeah, of course.
	He's a professional wrestler, he's a boxer, he's a crypto scammer.
	Yeah, he's scammed all those 14-year-olds.
	It's so minimizing of the reason why there are those rules.
	You can take pictures.
	You can't campaign the pictures that are being taken.
	And you shouldn't have a videographer there to document your stuff for your vertical video TikTok campaign.
	Yes.
	It's not acceptable.
	Everybody agrees.
	If you want to truly honor somebody, you don't need the recognition for it.
	Yeah.
	Uh, I'm not gonna post a selfie with my grandfather's gravestone.
	To prove that you went there.
	Hanging out with Grandpa.
	I mean, you could do that.
	I hope you love me.
	I hope you feel me better.
	You might get some likes on that.
	I should though.
	It might pop off, honestly.
	I'm gonna go fight the groundskeeper.
	But, what really happened?
	Here's the truth!
	Are we fighting?
	Gold Star families were the ones who invited Donald Trump to the ceremony.
	And then Arlington tried to refuse it, tried to keep Donald Trump from ever entering the cemetery, even though the families really, really wanted him there.
	So then the Speaker, Mike Johnson, had to intervene.
	And the families, of course, were very happy, thanked Donald Trump for being in attendance.
	No one was assaulted as far as the Arlington staff.
	And they then requested Donald Trump to take pictures with them.
	This is an example of people trying to put him in a no-win situation.
	He's invited.
	He accepts the invite.
	You try and start a scuffle when he accepts the invite, then claim that you were assaulted, which didn't happen.
	Then when he's there with the families, of course, I guarantee you, Mr. President, could we please take a picture?
	Do they look unhappy?
	If we can bring that image back up, do those families look unhappy?
	Do they look like they're being exploited?
	Do they look like they're being abused?
	They are the ones who asked for the picture.
	The people in the pictures looked happy?
	He was there by invite?
	He did the right thing while he was there, and he accommodated the families who invited him while he was there.
	What if there's a bunch of frowning people in the picture with him doing the thumbs up?
	Change the whole rule, dude.
	No, of course the people who didn't want to be in a picture with Donald Trump weren't in the picture.
	The people who didn't want this to be like that weren't.
	Participating.
	And even though these people invited him and they are honoring their family.
	It wasn't all of them.
	It was only five to seven of the 13 families.
	But they also don't make the rules for Arlington National Cemetery.
	Exactly.
	Just because it's their particular family member that they're visiting doesn't mean, besides analogy coming, right?
	Okay.
	Imagine if I'm in the airport and I run into Shaquille O'Neal.
	Sure.
	He's so tall, dude.
	There'd be a big difference if I post a selfie with Shaquille O'Neal versus if he posts a selfie with me.
	You'd have to bend down to get in there.
	That's true.
	He might pick you up, though.
	I know what you mean, though.
	Shaquille O'Neal, I make him post a selfie with me.
	Post it on your Twitter.
	You gotta post this.
	This is a really good one.
	You gotta post this.
	You have to post this.
	Trust me, people will love it.
	I kind of like the idea of saying, oh, that's a great one.
	You should post it.
	I mean, the blatant denial of the assault is what really, really bothers me.
	Yeah, I mean, the Army put out a statement.
	The Army doesn't put out statements lightly.
	Of course they don't.
	Yeah, there was a... What exactly happened?
	It was an ANC, which is the Arlington National Cemetery, employee was abruptly pushed aside by a Trump campaign staffer.
	An employee was attempting to enforce rules prohibiting political activities on cemetery grounds.
	So it was probably very clear what was being done.
	They're probably doing their fifth take of him walking towards a grave.
	Yeah.
	And they're using like a gimbal with their cell phone.
	Yeah, that's not, that's not appropriate.
	You can't use that.
	It's a violation of the cemetery rules.
	Again, the families do not make the cemetery rules.
	No, it's a federal law.
	It's army regulation and there's DOD policies that clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds.
	You can't do it.
	Sure.
	Good effort, boys, to minimize what happened and to kind of steer things in the direction where it seems, uh... Wasn't Feierstein an army guy?
	He was, yeah.
	You need to have more respect for this.
	And for them to mock that someone refused to come forward because they were worried about potential backlash from Trump supporters?
	Of course that would happen.
	Yes.
	Remember January 6th?
	All of the active threats against, I don't know, Antifa?
	Or people who you think are Antifa?
	There's so many instances.
	Crescent Whitmer.
	Sure.
	Almost getting kidnapped.
	Imagine being the one that got Donnie in trouble paddling because someone pushed you.
	You've got to change your phone.
	You've got to move.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Maybe that's not worth it or you might get stabbed by some... I want to make it clear.
	Yeah, most conservatives aren't gonna stab someone but there's a lot of crazy people who are huge Trump supporters.
	Yes.
	It does put your life in risk to come out and say someone shoved me and it might not be worth it.
	Yeah, I'm going to put you at risk, but don't be a little baby about it.
	All right, well.
	Only former President Trump may have an official photographer and or videographer outside of the main media pool.
	Wait, so the main media is allowed to have cameras?
	Thank you very much.
	And Donald Trump's allowed to have what, at least?
	So the main media is allowed to exploit this?
	Yes.
	I don't know if I like this.
	But Donald Trump is, okay, I see how it works.
	It's all about where he was and they were not supposed to be over there.
	The email right there says this.
	Yes.
	Come on.
	This is how they steal a nation from you, is they get you to believe enough lies cumulatively That you no longer know what is true.
	And then they gaslight you and tell you about fake news on the right.
	Look, no one gets everything right.
	We've made mistakes here for crying out loud.
	We have an admonish button.
	Guys, they have an admonish button.
	He's projecting so hard.
	He always issues corrections at the very beginning of every episode.
	He should do his show, listen to our show, and then do an after show of our show where he apologizes, corrects himself.
	Yeah, and I don't even include this or not, but I hate the take about how the media is allowed to be there.
	Like when people posted the videos of Kamala Harris and Biden at the 17th.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	That was news coverage of things that they were doing.
	It wasn't politicizing.
	There's a huge difference between a wreath-laying ceremony that is being broadcast on television and Donald Trump collecting footage to use in a campaign ad.
	Yeah, if Biden posted that footage Biden cares about our troops.
	Biden planked on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
	Yeah, right?
	Then it'd be a different story, and it's... It turns out he was just sleeping.
	And here's the thing is that that's real media.
	That's why they're allowed to be there.
	Very different thing.
	Yeah, whatever guys.
	It's late.
	Yeah, what is he supposed to do?
	He's in a situation, the invite him goes, Mr. Trump, will you take a picture with us?
	Absolutely not.
	Absolutely not!
	Look, I would, but I'm too busy assaulting the gravekeeper!
	It's like a WWE match.
	What's he supposed to do?
	Run away?
	Look, I think I saw Papadoc over there!
	Run!
	I mean, it's just... Papadoc?
	What?
	Papadoc?
	I gotta look that one up.
	Google 1990s as well.
	inflatable dock it's just I don't think that's what they're talking about but it does appear to be an inflatable mobile pier cool Papa do you mean Babadook they're not saying is it is it Papa do is it Papa Doc listen of the everyone at home let us know what he said Tweet us at Van Crowder.
	Yeah, please.
	This is also the dumbest take.
	Uh, yeah.
	He doesn't need to say no, absolutely not.
	I mean, there may be rules that say they can't do it, right?
	Sure.
	And in that case, it'd be fine to say, oh, I'm sorry, there's rules we can't do photography here.
	We can take pictures.
	We'll take a picture outside.
	Yeah.
	You know, that'd be fine.
	But also, just don't post it on your TikTok account.
	That's it, man.
	Right?
	For posterity, not politics.
	Not a hard thing.
	I have lots of pictures that I would love to share with the world that I don't.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	You are horny.
	Yeah, let's wrap this thing up though, right?
	Back on the song?
	Yeah, they will never stop talking about this damn tune.
	It won't leave his head.
	1985, taking you back.
	They should say, we are the United States.
	The rest of the world should sing, we are the US.
	Be more like us.
	No, no, no.
	We are the world.
	We hold hands with everybody, including the Taliban, the Ayatollah.
	No, don't let them manifest their citizenship here.
	No, we are not.
	We are one world.
	Just pick out the flags on that.
	We are the world that would nuke all the other flags.
	That's true.
	It's the stupidest shit.
	I'm sorry.
	It's like you've never gotten out of kindergarten.
	Do you not understand?
	It just takes one that doesn't want to be a part of your world.
	And there are many!
	He really wanted to sing the Aladdin song.
	He did.
	We didn't talk about them talking.
	About Ben Stiller?
	The happiest they were all night, yeah, about Madagascar.
	Yeah, I was gonna keep the Madagascar clip in.
	Unfortunately, there was just so much going on in the tail end of this.
	They didn't like that Ben Stiller got TMZ'd saying that Kamala Harris represented change to him.
	I was going to say in there is that at the end of that whole segment, Stephen just saying that like, you know, and I actually really don't like it when they do this like gotcha journalism thing.
	And then continues to do these.
	Just wanted to point that out with all of our gotcha journalism earlier in the show.
	Yeah.
	It's not journalism, though.
	I want to say this again.
	I feel like I said this last time that he did a mug club undercover investigation.
	An investigation is not just secretly recording people until you get what you want.
	It's understanding what people believe, what they say, doing the research, talking to other people who may have information, potentially giving more context.
	It's not just like get the girl who works at your place to uncomfortably call BlackRock on a cell phone.
	That's not how it works.
	Hey, we got a room with a remodel.
	Let's go call and insult somebody.
	But that's what Stephen thinks journalism is.
	He's kind of a pioneer because there's not that many comedian journalist hybrids.
	That's kind of interesting.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	And that's just about all I can handle for this week.
	If you disagree with us, feel free to convince me otherwise.
	Feel free to stay out of my way.
	Excuse me?
	I will shove you.
	Don't shove anyone.
	Just one of those days!
	I thought it was gonna be another ring entry song or something.
	What is that?
	I don't know what that is.
	It's kind of fun.
	Not a great episode, not a great infomercial.
	No.
	I'm getting kind of frustrated with this homestretch Steven towards the election.
	There's an aggression in everything he does that I find really grating.
	Yeah, he's hard to listen to right now.
	I mean, he's always hard to listen to, but right now he's especially hard to listen to.
	And I really, really hate the, I have this so much stuff coming and you just have to unlock it if you unlock it.
	Hey, I won't euthanize this dog if you guys buy me a cup of coffee.
	That's a good deal.
	That's basically what he's doing.
	Yeah, I know.
	I could save you if you only, if you only give me some money I can save you.
	I can, I have a lot of information that could save you.
	Do you want it?
	Subscribe.
	Why do you think he's pushing so hard?
	Because he's out of money?
	Is he out of money?
	Well, you think he's out of money?
	I don't know.
	If you're not growing, you're sinking, you know?
	I think that's honestly probably a part of it.
	He probably gets a decent check from his actual like monthly subscribers.
	Sure.
	But he's probably spending a whole boatload of it on other strange stuff like paying people to go and harass interns at the UN.
	While I'm mugless, I should probably do some more digging into like just how many visible users are.
	Or like try to look a little bit deeper and maybe start some conversation with those folks.
	They did update their chat content moderation policies today.
	Because before it was mostly F slurs.
	No more bots.
	That's all that was dropping in there?
	It was a lot of that.
	Calling Kamala a bunch of really gross things as well.
	I don't think that they've changed their stance on that.
	And this isn't public.
	This is for Mug Club members.
	LWC Chat Moderation Guidelines.
	We're implementing these guidelines to curb some of our concerns over past over-moderation of chat.
	Whoa, loosen it up a bit.
	Going the different direction here.
	The goal is to not punish people for posting things we dislike, disagree with, or even are made uncomfortable by.
	Users may not use the chat to display or to distribute any user content or things that meet definition of sexual activity including images of visible genitalia, graphic images of sexual activity, graphic images of implied sexual activity, fetish content, or graphic images Depicting minors real or fictional and there's an asterisk there.
	What was the asterisk?
	Graphic image depicting minors real or fictional are never allowed.
	Okay.
	Chat was dropping the Epstein Island on him.
	I guess.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Depicting or promoting violence including excessive gore.
	Excessive.
	Yeah.
	Global gore.
	Threats involving intent to kill, intent to inflict serious physical harm, intent to commit sexual assaults, Targeting an individual or group of people.
	Is fight like hell inciting violence?
	Kind of is and I feel like they're targeting of individuals or groups.
	That's probably pretty loose as well.
	Probably.
	Graphic images depicting minors real or fictional.
	Again, to remind you guys.
	Stop sending child porn to each other.
	Things that disrupt the common discourse of the chat room by means of spamming messages, actively directing mug clubbers away from the live stream.
	Whoa!
	Linking to or promoting scam links or messages.
	Promoting confidential company information, real or implied.
	So you can't doc Steven or say negative things about him, like point people towards his active lawsuits and those court documents.
	I'm surprised they're limiting the free speech if you wanted to say, hey, there's a better conversation about this happening over on this channel.
	Right?
	I think that's kind of interesting.
	Weird.
	Posting another person or group's private information.
	You gotta stop doxing his wife as well.
	Above chats may be allowed at moderator discretion in any of the following conditions like content was posted in a satirical or humorous context.
	So if you're being funny about it, it's fine.
	Context was posted in an educational or scientific context.
	Look at the interesting technique with which this beheading video was done.
	Audio that'll stick with you for a lifetime.
	Imagery not sufficiently detailed or only body shapes or contours are visible.
	So you can't post that picture of the girl lying down you put on the back of your truck window?
	Oh, interesting.
	Tub girl?
	Yeah, I guess.
	Jesus.
	Women actively engaging in breastfeeding, images of post-mastectomy scarring, images of painting, sculptures, or other art depicting nude figures.
	So is tub girl not allowed here?
	Is tub girl allowed?
	I need to ask.
	Nah, you shouldn't.
	Yeah, ask.
	We've done tub girl and lemon party.
	What's next?
	Rotten.com, that's our sponsor.
	Yikes.
	First offense, the restricted content will be deleted and the member will receive a warning.
	Second offense, the restricted content will be deleted and the member will be notified that their account will be banned in the instance of another post.
	So another warning?
	I guess so.
	Third offense, the restricted content will receive a third warning.
	I'm just kidding.
	They will be deleted and the member will be permanently banned.
	What about their money?
	Does their Mug Club subscription get canceled?
	We're actually not worried about their money, Dennis.
	It's more that this is the third computer that we had to throw away from Gerald because the Lemon Party froze him up!
	Content violation warnings will always be posted publicly and violations will last for six months.
	They're learning a lot from YouTube there with the six months.
	Weird.
	So that's what's going on over at Mug Club.
	I'm glad they're moderating.
	I'm glad I've gone mugless, but I'm probably going to be canceling my account pretty soon here.
	Good call.
	Yeah.
	We didn't learn much, did we?
	Uh, not really.
	Big Mug Club investigation we're going to be talking about next week, if it's still a story.
	Cause right now it's kind of dominating that whole right wing alt media sphere.
	So, uh, looking forward to talking about that with you guys next time.
	I have a big funder, by the way, who emailed me today.
	Excuse me?
	A big funder emailed me, like 100,000 bucks an episode, but we don't have to, he said don't ask any questions.
	Can we cut that?
	Yeah, we can.
	A check?
	Is that what you mean?
	Yeah, cut the check.
	Yeah, he said something about Kamala's God.
	I don't know.
	Excuse me?
	What?
	At thancrowderonx, louderthancrowder.com, louderwithcrowder.net.
	Jared, what's the best website?
	Well, and it is funded by the Soros Foundation.
	It is wokeyoutube.com.
	wokeyoutube.com.
	Great.
	Soros, don't bore us, as they say.
	Shrug.Club, that's where you can listen to our bonus content for free.
	If you like what we're doing, follow us there and consider joining the Shrug Club or even being our chowderhead.
	Be a chowderhead.
	We're going to figure out a way to really highlight the members who have supported us financially pretty soon here.
	By posting their addresses.
	Yes, publicly in our chat room.
	But yeah, until next time, I'm Byron.
	I'm Jared.
	And I'm not funded by Russian propaganda machines.
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