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Sept. 22, 2024 - Louder Than Crowder

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EPISODE 43: THOUGHTS FIRED (SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2024)

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	This is an AudioWool original.
	This is a comedy show.
	Welcome to...
	Come on, man.
	Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast, louder with Crowder.
	My name's Dennis.
	My name's Byron.
	I'm joined tonight by Dennis.
	I'm here.
	And Jared.
	I was waiting for the Occupied Texas.
	Yes, I'm here in Occupied Texas.
	Sorry about that.
	That's where your location, that's where you're at.
	And after all of the fun we had on our live stream debate coverage of Ladder With Crowder's coverage of the debate, which was a blast, even if I felt a bit like the left-wing version of Nick DiPaolo.
	Yeah.
	Not terribly eloquent, rebutting most things with, oh, get fucked.
	Fuck off, man.
	Is this our first episode since then?
	Maybe we can see it from their angle now a little bit clearer, you know?
	It's just, we're frustrated, they're frustrated.
	Maybe that's how we can reach across.
	Yeah, we're frustrated.
	Yeah, and with the weight and tension of our current political situation increasing, and us being far enough away from the big day that we could choose to catch our breath, I actually reached out to the Shrug Club community to see what they thought.
	If we should do a serious episode about Trump's new attempted assassination, or if we should do something funny.
	What did they say?
	Well, it was unanimous.
	They were pro-funny.
	Pro-funny.
	I was like, you guys would be.
	I do have something prepared.
	Two possible fun options.
	Before we unfortunately dive into what Steven knows about Ryan Rooth, the alleged attempted assassin of Donald John Trump.
	Great.
	I wish I could skip it, but we can't.
	And I actually am gonna let the boys choose our adventure.
	Oh, so exciting.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Option one.
	Okay.
	I have a couple quick clips of the ads that you can expect to see before streaming Louder With Crowder on Rumble.
	Oh no, okay.
	It's kind of fun.
	Option two, they, the crew over at Ladder with Crowder, dropped another RSS exclusive AI parody last week.
	An AI parody this time?
	Well, the last one was too.
	Oh, that's true.
	The Fallout Boy.
	You think that was Steven doing Fallout Boy?
	Yes.
	It was not.
	Badly.
	It was a robot.
	And we got another one of those, so I guess bicker amongst yourselves.
	What do you feel would be best?
	Stop talking.
	We're doing both.
	Oh, okay, okay.
	I was ready.
	I don't want the song.
	Here's the kind of stuff that you get and you have to wait through two to three of these commercials before you stream the show.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	And I just cut it off there.
	Listen up.
	No more cold water.
	Hot water only.
	And it solves your diabetes.
	is a completely reversible condition.
	You may not know this, but the biological reason why people struggle with type 2 has nothing to do with how many carbs or sugars you eat.
	And I just cut it off there.
	Listen up, no more cold water.
	Hot water only.
	And it solves your diabetes.
	That's pretty cool.
	It's a little bit of a tip to get you through your type 2 diabetes.
	That's great.
	You know, that reminds me of of somebody sharing a Facebook meme.
	You know, like, not quite memes, but the Facebook, like, screenshots of, like, helpful health advice.
	One of them was talking about how cold, yeah, cold water is terrible for you.
	Like, it listed all these reasons as to why.
	I don't, I really, that's the first time I've heard that.
	Humans aren't made for cold water.
	And I was like, what?
	We drink water, like, rivers and stuff.
	It was cold.
	In Dennis, unfortunately though, human nature, it can be evil sometimes.
	Should I microwave this glass of water?
	Dude, definitely do it.
	Heat it up.
	Alright, I'll be right back.
	Here's how you can destroy any criminal that dares to invade your home in 10 seconds or less.
	If your home was invaded by an armed thug, would you know how to protect your family?
	Home invasions are happening a lot these days.
	And if you don't know how to stop them, you and your family could be the next victims.
	Hold up.
	Destroy somebody in 10 seconds?
	Destroy a home invader?
	When I think of destroy, I think of like, Explode.
	I mean, maybe that means stop.
	I think throw your pager at him.
	Oh boy We might be talking about that next week if this keeps happening first the pagers then the walkie-talkies.
	What's next?
	You know minidisc players life fleshlight.
	Oh After that, the clip ended, he said, in this episode, and that's when I stopped it.
	I was like, wait, this commercial's an episode of something?
	Yeah, it's an episodic.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	So we should start, I guess, running our program as a commercial?
	I'm still wondering at what point a human becomes destroyed.
	Here's how you can destroy any criminal that dares to invade your home.
	I don't know.
	Destroyed?
	Destroyed.
	Kill?
	Like, if you get shot or you destroy... You destroyed my husband!
	Oh my god.
	Well, the damage from an AR-15 is fairly explosive.
	No, I get it, but destroy sounds so weird.
	Well, why do you... I don't want to get into this.
	If a criminal comes into my house, I don't want to destroy them.
	I don't want them to be dead and in pieces.
	This is called Stand Your Ground.
	I just imagine that this guy looks like, you know, Cotton Hill.
	Big hat on.
	You are right.
	Double six shooters pointed at the door.
	Yeah.
	And he's ready to go.
	He's actually not wearing pants, just tighty-whities.
	Well, it was waist up, so I'm not really sure, but seems about right.
	It's bad over there.
	And then, also, I flipped through, like, maybe 10 pergola ads?
	Pergola kits?
	6,000 bucks.
	What is that?
	Like an awning, like a gazebo.
	Gazebo with no roof, just the joists.
	Maybe he means destroy- I'm going back to destroy, I'm sorry.
	Maybe he means like roast him, like you roast the guys who come in like, oh man I destroyed you bro.
	He wants to shoot criminals with a gun.
	That's what the whole episode commercial is about.
	Hey camera guy, stand in front of me right here.
	this next parody popped up the same way the last one did rss feed not aired anywhere else this is just a treat for the audio listener okay he says hey audio listener before every episode of the podcast version of this this is three on 33 where he uh three for three explains about like The intro of this isn't going to make any sense.
	Hey, audio listener, today's intro doesn't make a lot of sense.
	It's a cartoon.
	Kind of like Stammers threw a brief intro before.
	His show's not as visual as he thinks it is.
	He did a parody of the Batman animated series opening.
	Batman.
	The one from like 2001 or 1998 or something?
	98, I think.
	Closer to that.
	The WB one.
	Yeah.
	For sure.
	Batman is standing there broad chested with a louder than Crowder t-shirt.
	Louder than Crowder?
	Nice.
	I wish.
	Do we have t-shirts?
	Not yet.
	But yeah, wokeyoutube.com.
	Great.
	I was going to do an episode after Taylor Swift came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.
	I guess she's being supportive of the 38 year old single woman with cat lifestyle.
	Okay.
	And that that is, uh, I guess just an enemy behavior.
	And Steven's a 38 year old single dude with dogs.
	Oh, that's interesting that you point that out.
	But he's a guy.
	He's a man.
	Oh yeah, he's a man.
	He's living on his own.
	He's living there.
	No woman can hold him down.
	I think that's right.
	So we could have covered that.
	I decided against it.
	But this popped up in the description.
	It says, after Taylor Swift's decision to endorse Kamala Harris, the crew created a parody of her track, Shake It Off, aimed at unmasking her hypocrisy.
	God damn it.
	the debate i just couldn't wait they told me what to say okay so we're gonna take a couple breaks throughout this because over on the knowledge fights facebook group they played an excerpt of the fallout boy one but it looked as if we just played 30 seconds of it and they cut all the commentary off the edges
	so i want people to know that like we don't just listen to stuff and say how fucked up is that and then move on i I felt like, without the context... Were we inappropriately represented over there?
	Maybe, but they were happy to be talking about us.
	I just felt like, maybe... You gotta hear what we have to say.
	Exactly.
	So far it sounds like a child.
	It's not a good AI.
	Maybe they're trying to prove that, like, we're incredibly patient people.
	We're doing this for you.
	This is Guantanamo level.
	And also, it is fairly clear that Taylor timed her endorsement of Kamala Harris.
	I don't see what's wrong with that.
	That's what I would do if I was a celebrity.
	Totally fine.
	Throw it in the mix while it's most relevant.
	She should have done it at 3 in the morning on a Saturday.
	Throwing an Anyone Up post out there.
	Hey, you up?
	Thinking about Kamala.
	She continues.
	I guess they continue.
	- Euro level rapes, unrecognizable states.
	At least I'll go that way.
	Mm-mm, they told me what to say.
	Mm-mm, I want Trump blues in Haitians barbecue-ing.
	Garfield with some cumin right outside saying this cat's cooking up real nice.
	- Cut to stop. - Garfield with some cumin.
	Occupy.
	And Haitians are.
	Hm?
	What was that about rapes?
	This is just like a weird flutter with the AI.
	They want Euro level rapes.
	Like in Europe?
	You know how European migrants, there's Muslim communities that they believe are occupied by rapists.
	It's refreshing that you don't know about that.
	I'm glad I don't.
	Sometimes I realize just how deep I am to be able to decipher stuff like this.
	Oh god.
	Yeah, wait, I mean what?
	Obviously the Haitian thing.
	The fucking cat eating thing.
	Yeah, we're still talking about that.
	Yeah, J.D.
	Vance, he said something like... They're trying not to be weird.
	They're being full weird.
	Full weird.
	It's like, let your freak flag fly and just kind of embrace it.
	And instead they're just trying to hold it back.
	They're trying to suck the gut in of their weirdness.
	But that shirt, man, that those buttons are just flying off of that thing.
	No problem.
	Well, and now like Springfield is getting all of these like bomb threats at every school.
	Yeah, the schools are shut down.
	The cultural celebration was canceled.
	Trump's fans are tormenting this city.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	Whoa!
	Their rhetoric is simmering, okay?
	It's not turned up.
	That's a Shelbyville thing, damn it.
	Great.
	last little clip of this.
	Cause I'm Taylor and I play, play, play, play, play.
	For the Democrats to take, take, take, take, take.
	I'll pretend it was a stage, stage, stage, stage, stage.
	My mask is off, I'll take it off.
	Got all rigs trying to rig, rig, rig, rig, rig.
	Don't talk to the lead to big, big, big, big, big.
	Did you think I'd only sing, sing, sing, sing, sing?
	My mask is off, I'll take it off.
	Don't kiss to raise and feed.
	But my cat's LGBT.
	Nothing else means much to me.
	Except for killing babies.
	It's enough of that.
	So Quick little abortion joke.
	GBT is just short for LGBT.
	Put a little apostrophe in the front of it.
	What was the line?
	Maybe she said cat LGBT.
	What would we call that?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	What do they think she's staging?
	Did you think she was just gonna sing?
	No, I don't.
	I think that she came out and made a political stance last year.
	She endorsed Biden.
	And they like it when other musicians endorse right-wing figures.
	People like Kid Rock and people like Kid Rock.
	You know who had a really good take on Taylor Swift endorsing?
	Who?
	Matt Walsh.
	What did he say?
	He basically was like, listen up right-wingers, you need to stop trying to fucking compete with Taylor Swift.
	In pop culture, I guess.
	Yeah, he's like, we don't have these celebrities.
	But here's where he totally pivoted and went the wrong way.
	He said, the right needs to focus on policy.
	And I'm like, they don't have any fucking policy.
	Oh, well then what are we gonna do?
	We don't have these celebrities.
	We need to prop up the ones that we do have.
	Gina Carino, you guys have heard of her?
	We need to buy his new record.
	We need to crowdfund Dad's new record.
	We've got to get Rob Schneider on now.
	Dude, I didn't even tell you guys.
	His internet didn't work.
	I know, I heard.
	It's so fucking funny.
	He's running AOL free discs over there and he just couldn't dial up to Crowdy Man's house.
	He ran out of minutes.
	So yeah, I mean obviously there's more song.
	We're gonna we're gonna get out of there.
	That's a fake Taylor Swift if I ever heard one.
	It's not good and it's lazy and not even Steven took credit for that one.
	He said the crew did.
	Oh nice, nice, nice.
	Great.
	Real artist, you know.
	When Andy Warhol's doing, you know, Work for Coke or whatever and he's like, it's me, Don Delamonte or whatever.
	Sure, yeah.
	A pseudonym?
	Stephen's like the Thomas Kinkade of parody songs.
	He just kind of like paints a small tree and they call it an original.
	But he's a master of light!
	That one almost made me spit up this Coke Zero.
	Delicious.
	Yeah, time to run through the September 16th episode, unfortunately.
	That's Unraveling Trump's Assassin Ryan Ruth's Bizarre History.
	It's a Monday after making fun of Gerald setting his headphones to grandpa mode.
	You know how your ears keep growing?
	Sure, I don't think that's what they're talking about.
	Yeah, they had to expand the whole foam around his big, big old donkey ears.
	This is just further proof that Steven does just roll in that they wouldn't sound check the volume levels of their headphones before going live.
	How many times have I touched knobs for my headphones so far?
	Probably like eight?
	At least.
	Yeah.
	Papa Crowder hasn't been in just like swinging the knobs, touching everything in a while.
	I guess.
	We haven't seen him.
	Very strange.
	Stephen further proves the case that he's quite possibly suffering from oppositional defiant disorder.
	Kind of the energy we go into today.
	Okay, nice.
	If you see all these people trying to kill Donald Trump, like...
	Didn't that tell you something?
	And of course, I'm not saying anyone should do this.
	I'm saying you could set up Kamala Harris with an assault-style weapon, to use her term, publicly load the magazine in a dunk tank and no one would take a shot.
	And four people have tried to effectively, or four different groups of people have tried to end the man's life.
	What does that tell you?
	Dennis, Jared's already heard this, so I would like to ask you the question.
	I'm sweating though for you now, Jesus Christ.
	What does the fact that so many people have allegedly attempted to end Donald Trump's life mean?
	According to Steven.
	That Trump is doing the right thing and people are trying to end him because he's going to expose the world.
	Do the 50-50.
	Don't you want to vote for the guy who just, everyone wants to kill?
	Hmm?
	It's a little different, Dennis, I'm sorry to say.
	It has nothing to do with, you know, him, his policies.
	for him on account of the fact that you guys keep trying to kill him what it's a little different Dennis I'm sorry to say has nothing to do with you know him his policies they just want to vote for the guy who people don't like yeah that's fine That's how I pick a Super Bowl team I root for.
	Yeah?
	That's a good way to pick a leader.
	People fucking hate these guys.
	Yeah.
	That's my favorite team.
	Oh, I love them!
	They say fucked up shit and honestly people get pissed off, but I'm not gonna.
	It's really childish.
	I'm glad that he admitted that.
	Yeah, how dumb.
	Obviously, whenever anyone tries to assassinate Trump or has anything to do with it, it's a huge story.
	So of course we're going to hear about it.
	But there's been plenty of attempts on Obama.
	We're going to talk about that later, actually.
	But yeah, yeah.
	I don't want to what about this too hard.
	But Trump did pretty good for quite some time.
	Yes.
	We'll talk about the whole situation.
	Of course.
	But Josh jumps in to further explain what we're all feeling.
	That politics should be more like a blockbuster film.
	Probably.
	Something directed by Michael Bay.
	Exciting.
	Yeah.
	It's exciting too.
	Yes.
	Yeah, that's a fun plot.
	A lot of people.
	I mean, I'm not happy about it.
	No, of course, no one here is happy about it.
	But if you were on the fence, shouldn't this like tip you over the fence?
	Like, you know what?
	Like, I don't know, but they're always trying to kill the one guy.
	So I kind of owe him one.
	What the fuck does that mean?
	We owe him one.
	Actually, I'm going to take a second.
	I want everyone to know, and this is how I feel, I'm flipping my vote.
	We're all gonna do it now.
	Tell me why.
	Tell them why.
	Well because listen I was on the fence.
	And then the guy you didn't even get shot at, we'll get to that too.
	Did you get shot at while you were on the fence?
	Is that maybe what is teetering you?
	The gun was sticking through the fence Byron was standing on.
	Yeah people don't like this guy and that makes me want to like him.
	I get it.
	Thank you.
	Great.
	Lovely endorsement.
	If you want to hop on the train, why don't you let us know your feelings at Van Crowder on Twitter and X. I'm calling it X now too.
	I'm convinced.
	Sucks.
	I fucking hate it.
	This is just a small little thing that I wanted to highlight and Jared, you already heard it.
	Dennis, I need your opinion.
	It's all right for a boss to take an inspiring leadership role in the life of its employees.
	But this feels a little icky.
	Steven becomes a bit like a Papa Crowder for Josh for a moment.
	Oh no.
	On September 19th, I think that's this Thursday.
	This Thursday, yes!
	Josh Feierstein, how are you, sir?
	I'm good, I'm good.
	That's a fun show to go to.
	I'll be a little tipsy, not too much so, because we got a Friday show, so.
	Right, Gerald?
	Yeah, how about no tips?
	Yeah?
	How about just, you know... Zero.
	A couple of beers.
	Tipsy.
	What?
	Me, dude?
	Alright, maybe.
	Well, you gotta, like, an hour drive or something.
	Yeah, I know.
	A bunch of driving from there.
	Is he, like, telling an adult man how to live his life?
	Yeah, a little bit.
	Kind of talking down to him.
	Yeah, that's weird.
	I honestly want to say that this is probably the best advice, though, that he's ever given on his show.
	Yeah.
	is to not drive drunk.
	Don't drive drunk.
	From Plano or Dallas or whatever to Fort Worth.
	It's a drive.
	It's a bit of a jaunt, but I mean, like, listen, how much do I want to admit here?
	When I moved to Texas, I stopped drinking and driving because... Great work.
	Because it is an absolute Fuck if you do get caught.
	I had a friend, first time it was $15,000.
	It's probably higher now.
	Jesus.
	But then he got a second one.
	Everything's bigger in Texas.
	Yeah, buddy.
	It's really high.
	It's very steep to get caught drinking and driving here.
	And not to sound like I was drinking and driving, but it was like...
	You have a drink or two at the bar and you're not drunk but then you drive home and then you know you're kind of like, I drove drunk I guess a little bit.
	Yeah, I'm not your boss.
	Listen, this is back in my early 20s and I don't do that anymore and I haven't done it since I've lived here in the state.
	Because of that reason, I was gonna say, my friend got a second one within like three months of getting his first one.
	Oh no.
	After lawyer fees and all this, guys in the like $70,000 range to take care of all this stuff, to have it expunged from his record after lawyer fees and stuff.
	So it's like, yeah, they'll fuck you.
	And so just don't do it.
	And Steven, I think giving his, not really his friend, but his employee, certainly, okay advice.
	I'll give it to him.
	Yeah, I think that's it is a win for Steven to say, don't.
	Okay, fine.
	But, but I think it's, it's odd because he's approaching it.
	Like maybe just don't do it on air.
	Well, he's doing it in the same way that like when my wife goes out for a drink with friends, I encourage her to not drive.
	And I'm like, I'll come get you.
	Sure.
	Like, that's not what he said though.
	I know, but it was that energy.
	Okay, so everyone's on Steven's side tonight.
	I'm voting for Trump.
	No, no, no.
	I'm saying, what are we doing?
	Fuck you guys.
	I'm done with this.
	I'm saying that that's not the appropriate energy for that relationship.
	I agree.
	Yeah, that's your wife.
	This is his.
	Maybe the added, like, I don't want you here, hungover, sort of, like, attitude towards it, but I don't know.
	In the context it sounds more like a controlling ask.
	Yeah, I mean that's all I wanted to talk about.
	Fuck it, I don't give a shit.
	We're just down on Byron now.
	Fucking idiot over here with his, drinking and driving is cool.
	Tell him about the last time you did it.
	The guy who's never drunk, never drank before.
	Honestly, I think it's cool, and everyone should start smoking.
	I wish I could do it.
	People should start smoking cigarettes, too.
	Dude, I'll smoke a cigarette right now.
	I don't care.
	Does that look cool?
	Yeah, I can't see you.
	I can't see you, but I bet it looks cool as shit, dude.
	I look cool, dude.
	Dennis, you remember the early 2000s?
	I do.
	Yeah, I loved those times.
	I actually don't know how Stephen felt about them, but we're about to talk- He loved them.
	You know he did.
	Hey, I don't know if you remember, once upon- there was this band.
	Creed.
	No!
	Why do you say it like that?
	Creed.
	How do you say it?
	Creed.
	That's what I said.
	Creed.
	Creed.
	How many scratched up CD copies of Human Clay do you think Gerald has?
	Human Clay was 90s, dude.
	What, you think it was 99?
	I think it was.
	98?
	I think it was 98.
	Very well could have been.
	This is, of course, after he kicked his nasty rap habit.
	Of course he had to.
	He had to drop, kick Tupac to the curb.
	Yeah, but he kept a couple select things about rap that he carried on through the rest of his career.
	Not the music.
	1999 was Human Clay.
	Not all the words, just some of them.
	He kept a specific word.
	He only had one word he could hang on to for a while.
	We're all familiar with Creed, you and I. I love Creed.
	And Jared.
	That might not be the case for Steven's either 15 year old or 55 plus audience.
	You may not remember them, a lot of you.
	What?
	You're lucky.
	I also do appreciate that now the lead singer has come around and he's not just saying something politically.
	He's not just saying like, yeah, yeah, I like Donald Trump.
	He's actually explaining something to the audience, which I don't necessarily know that they appreciate, but he gave this speech as it relates to getting back to our foundational values and makes some pretty valid points.
	It's divide and conquer.
	We say we're doing it everywhere else, but it's happening right here at home.
	Everything, nearly everything we accuse every other country of doing, we're doing right here.
	Your civil rights are being violated every single minute of every single day.
	The only way to make change is to wake up and come together as one.
	Focus on what we have in common.
	Which is life, freedom, love, happiness!
	We find our common ground.
	We build from there.
	And as we're building that common ground, we start keeping the powers that be accountable.
	We start reminding them of what our Constitution says.
	We start reminding them of what our civil rights says.
	And for people who don't know what it is that they're watching there, I mean, you could say, OK, he's just trying to give a general feel good political speech.
	But when he said a constitutional public, not a democracy, you now know where he's coming from.
	That is not language you hear from the left because they don't understand that.
	I understand it, Stephen.
	Can I get a yes there?
	I know the difference.
	Did I hear him say public?
	He did say public.
	And that's a totally different thing than a democratic republic.
	Yeah, public.
	Public's way different.
	Yeah, of course we elect representatives to govern on our behalf.
	It's very simple, very clear, very demure.
	Very demure.
	Great.
	I also think that Stephen may have taken some liberties with the edit to make Scott sound a little bit more like him.
	A little bit more public.
	What I love is that if this is the guy that they're like, hey, they got Taylor, we got Scott.
	Yeah, I'll take him, honestly.
	You can have Scott.
	But yeah, they cut large sections of this speech that I did happen to find on the internets.
	Lots of people are talking about it.
	Blaze Media, Breitbart, 960, The Patriot, which is a radio station.
	I mean, what Stephen cut out was kind of interesting.
	The beginning of the speech says, and it's my opinion that that's exactly what the powers that be, that's what they want.
	They want us divided.
	They want us separate.
	They want us to compartmentalize in our little niches.
	Yeah, maybe.
	in our own little groups, maybe like the Mug Club.
	- Yeah, maybe. - Thinking we're right, they're wrong and bickering.
	You know why?
	To keep us distracted from holding them accountable.
	They start to blah, blah, he does a little bit of that conspiracy theory talk as well.
	- Dividing us, we have to read it, we can't.
	Oh my god, that's true.
	We have to do it in full context or else we're just like them.
	We have to be better than Steven.
	They start dividing us and programming us in kindergarten, friends.
	They teach us about how to be slaves to authority, how to do this and do that and think this way and think that way, conforming us into this divided group of assets and pawns.
	Wake up!
	Well, that's about the same time, huh?
	Then he goes into the part that Stephen started with, it's divide and conquer.
	Your civil rights are being violated every minute of every single day.
	I mean, some of them are and there's serious problems with that.
	I think Scott may be a little right there, but... Well, the ones that Stephen thinks he's talking about are different than the ones we think he's talking about.
	Most certainly are, most certainly are.
	This is the clip that he cuts and what do we do about it?
	Oh, we focus on what divides us and we argue about this and we argue about that and we're keyboard warriors.
	podcast warriors.
	Or mug clubbers in the chat.
	And we go to entertainment and become perfect little citizens and go buy the latest trends.
	Everything to keep us distracted from what's happening right in front of your eyes.
	Did he go into With arms wide open.
	I want you to save that thought.
	Okay, do you guys know another Creed song?
	This is just the one everyone knows.
	Can you take me higher?
	That's not the same song?
	No, they're different songs.
	Higher and Arms Wide Open.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	That's the same record, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And then one of my favorite songs is Scott Stapp.
	He did the music for the Florida Marlins.
	What?
	Have you never heard this?
	The baseball team?
	I remember this.
	I wonder if I can, can I make YouTube?
	Are you on Kazaa?
	Yeah, I have to.
	Downloaded Lightwire real quick.
	I'm on Morpheus really quick.
	You're on BearShare on the work computer.
	I never figured out how to use that one.
	I think you gotta be like on the university's wifi.
	Okay, here we go.
	We weren't on Wi-Fi back then, Joe.
	We were plugged in.
	Great point.
	I'm plugged in right now.
	This song's called Marlin's Will Soar?
	Okay.
	Hell yeah.
	He's Floridian, right?
	Oh yeah, till death.
	Let's play ball, it's game day.
	We want strikeouts, base hits, double plays.
	Take the field, hear the roar of the crowd.
	What's the wrong vocal tone for what he's doing?
	I think you're wrong.
	Well, just wait till the second verse, and then we'll decide if you... - Welcome.
	Give me some peanuts and cream.
	Nope, it's close to that.
	One strike, two strikes, swing away.
	A diving catch, a stolen base.
	Just going through the glossary of baseball.
	A perfect game.
	What?
	A triple play.
	Triple man.
	Another play, I'll pray.
	Yes!
	Another play of what?
	Yeah!
	Another playoff race.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Yeah it's, he's great.
	Wow.
	Maybe, maybe that's why I have strong feelings and wrote a big, I think I wrote more about, about Scott Stapp than I did about potential assassin Ryan Root.
	I think what I, what I really love about the Scott Stapp thing by the way, is I feel like they didn't want him to do this.
	No!
	Like he sent it in and they're like, Thanks, man, but we don't want this.
	And was that from a music video?
	Is that what I saw?
	The Marlins one?
	I mean, that's not a real video.
	That's a fan-made video that I made.
	Oh, nice.
	I would love to see him, like, on the pitcher's mound.
	Yeah.
	You know, singing.
	It's raining.
	It zooms out.
	It's just the sprinklers of the field.
	One strike, two strikes, durable, please.
	Oh, please.
	All right, guys.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	We got a lot of night to cover, don't we?
	Take me out to the ball game.
	Can you take me to the ball game?
	I gotta tell you, we're not doing much better than them on this subject.
	But I'll tell you this is that we're doing this like right now.
	From our hearts.
	This is a farm to table right here.
	So dig on that for a second.
	Have a little bite.
	Smell it.
	We've been cooking it up for literally five minutes here.
	Great boy.
	This is not our second run through.
	No, exactly.
	What was your favorite Creed song though?
	It's not really a Creed song it's kind of an ode to Creed and it's a little reggaeton number that our boys 311 did called the night that we whooped Scott Stapp's ass in Maryland.
	That's not a song.
	At the Marriott Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland.
	What?
	And it's like, whoa!
	We beat Scott Stapp's ass in the lobby.
	Whoa!
	Peanut fractured his little hand.
	Bass player, now we gotta be on the sideline.
	Yeah, it's really good.
	It's a really good song.
	You guys haven't heard that one?
	No, I haven't.
	It sounds like a lot of fun.
	It's pretty cool.
	That's just a historically accurate song about that.
	The other thing I like to runner up, really, was the soundtrack that came out to the Kid Rock and Scott Stapp pornography.
	I was gonna say, I know that there was a sex tape that Scott Stapp did with another celebrity.
	I can't remember.
	Who is that, Jared?
	Bob.
	Kid Bob Rock.
	What?
	The bull god himself yeah they shot in 1999 our boys were I guess on a tour bus together and several hands touched the camera and passed around as there was several women in there and you know We could have seen all of this at kidrocksextape.com or scottsdapsextape.com.
	No longer.
	And I'm just gonna check real quick here to... Well, you don't need... Check the Wayback Machine.
	You really don't need to do that, guys.
	But it is available.
	Well, we don't need to buy that.
	Alright, alright, alright.
	Oddly enough though, to get us back on the track here, if Steven would have dug a little bit deeper and looked beyond this Kid Rock sex tape, he would have realized that Scott Stapp and Ryan Ruth have a little something in common.
	Do they?
	Do they both have Shreds videos online?
	No.
	They were both in the new Ronald Reagan biopic.
	Nope.
	On November 10th, 2014, Stapp reportedly warned his son's school about an impending attack by ISIS.
	Oh boy.
	This was just kind of one of the beginning signs that his mental state was deteriorating because three days later on November 13th, police found Stapp on the side of the road in Madison County, Florida.
	He appeared intoxicated and incoherent, claiming that someone was trying to poison him.
	As a result, officers placed him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold.
	Nice.
	And then shortly after his release from the psychiatric facility, Stapp's behavior became... What is this?
	Increasingly erratic.
	Okay.
	Or even worse.
	Okay, that's fine.
	His wife, uh, Jacqueline, and sister-in-law made a 40-minute 911 call.
	That's a long call.
	Which I believe I could have found.
	I didn't think... Are we gonna listen to the whole thing?
	I didn't think we needed to because there's a lot of show, but now we've talked 40 minutes into this.
	Louder than Crowder is done.
	Yeah.
	Louder than Creed now.
	All right, Stapcast.
	Stapcast.
	Great.
	They were saying that Stap was riding his bicycle shirtless around the neighborhood.
	They claimed he was carrying two backpacks filled with hundreds of pages of documents and that he believed that he was a CIA agent.
	During the 9-1-1 call.
	And he thought these documents, like, were that proof?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Jacqueline said to the dispatcher, he thinks he's part of the CIA.
	He thinks they're trying to kill him and he has a bunch of paperwork in his backpack, which ended up being between 400 and 600 pages of alleged CIA documents that he had printed off.
	He bought the Anarchist Cookbook on eBay and he printed it.
	He got really scared about all of this.
	That he's a CIA agent and that he's supposed to assassinate Obama.
	Whoa!
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Obviously, police showed up.
	Things go badly for him after this.
	Jacqueline and him get a divorce.
	I think eventually he's diagnosed as bipolar.
	Sounds like a woke disease to me.
	Well, I'm glad that he got that sorted out.
	And, uh, the Secret Service responsible for investigating threats against the President acknowledged that the incident happened and stated that they would take, quote, appropriate action.
	And then the Marlins hired him.
	Yes, and then things started looking up.
	The Creed Cruz happened.
	One strike, two strike, turbo play!
	Yeah, we're having a lot of fun talking about Scott.
	Wow.
	I should mention that Scott voted for Obama in 2008.
	Was this thing before or after the... I mean, so he voted for Obama, became kind of disillusioned with him and frustrated.
	And then the CIA called him up and said, Scott, we need you.
	We need you to do.
	I'm gonna send you 400 documents.
	400 to 600, not sure how many.
	A real short contract for you to sign.
	Yeah, I think he said he's a registered independent.
	I don't know if he's a Republican.
	I do know that he has faith in the Lord.
	Of course he does.
	And that's fine.
	I just don't think he's the guy that Stephen thinks he is in this brief little snippet.
	Of course he's not.
	Stephen just found a guy who supported Trump and said, I'm gonna go with that.
	I don't even think he supports Trump.
	He said words that someone could misunderstand to say, I love Trump.
	Yeah.
	And because we're having fun, here's proof that this show, Louder, not our show, their show, Louder with Crowder, is in fact a comedy show.
	Nick Dip, baby.
	No, he's not.
	Dang.
	It's just Josh.
	So a lot of people reacted pretty positively to this, which prompted Donald Trump to say that he'll appoint him to his cabinet, and now the Statue of Liberty will actually read.
	Welcome to this place, but you gotta show yourself everything.
	Show yourself around.
	Come in legally, with arms wide kinda open.
	Steven doesn't okay Scott Stapp better than I do.
	Oh, yeah?
	Yeah.
	You can say derpol play.
	You'd be okay doing that.
	Yeah.
	You got it.
	That was not a table slapping joke.
	No.
	Imagine if Scott Stapp did serve on the cabinet.
	That would be an idiocracy level appointment.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	I'm starting to think that Josh was, uh, born under a rock?
	Yesterday under a rock.
	Lived there yesterday in the barn until he arrived on stage in Spokane, Washington looking for a home.
	Oh.
	He sounded like a Christian rock gospel leader.
	Yeah, well, that was his thing.
	He is!
	Oh, he is?
	He's a Christian guy.
	No, he's a Christian guy.
	Oh, okay.
	That sounded like a Christian rock concert.
	You're like, and you gotta thank God, brother.
	The one thing we have in common is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
	They're called Creed.
	Creed.
	Yes.
	They were basically like, Josh, you fucking idiot.
	You're a piece of shit.
	Why are you here?
	This happens every episode that Josh is on it.
	Josh has a knack for this.
	He's constantly on this like, yeah, but isn't this... Everyone gives him the eyes emoji.
	It's like if Mr. Bean actually did talk.
	Here's what this reminds me of, by the way.
	When Byron and I were in high school, there was this church that always had these political signs.
	Not political, but like religious signs on their reader board.
	And Passion of the Christ had come out.
	The movie Passion of the Christ had come out.
	I was very tired.
	And we were driving, and it says, you saw the movie, now read the book on the thing.
	And I go, they wrote a book about that?
	Dennis, this is really interesting.
	First of all, I acknowledge that that's very funny.
	Second of all, we're so old that this is the first instance of a story like that where I thought I said that.
	No, I said that.
	I've told the story so many times at this point that now I'm the character.
	That was me.
	That's not good.
	That feels weird.
	But yeah.
	But I remember when I did that, I go, I'm such a fucking idiot.
	What a moron, right?
	So I hope that Josh realized how dumb he was.
	And that's fine.
	It's fine.
	I mean, I think.
	How ignorant he was.
	Maybe he just didn't listen to Creed.
	That's fine.
	Yeah, you know that they were listening to Creed in Iraq when they were going into like the active duty.
	Kicking in doors.
	Just on the playlist, yeah, they're dropping creeds, arms wide open, and then right after that finishes, shit, can you feel it?
	Yes, but imagine, I think that with arms wide open, with like the song that they would send slideshows of their children that they didn't get to read until they got home.
	That makes sense, and that's sweet.
	In between playing Xbox.
	Yeah, in the face.
	We're not gonna have any more fun, actually.
	It's time to talk about one of the most annoying segments of the night.
	Buckle the fuck in.
	Can't do it.
	Oh, oh.
	Oh, ah.
	Oh, fuck it.
	Come on.
	Shit.
	Let's try this.
	Oh, ah.
	Okay.
	Oh, ah.
	Dennis.
	I can't do it.
	How about you, Dennis?
	You got it?
	Oh, ah, ah, ah.
	Great.
	What Kamala was doing while Trump was busy making an off-the-books visit to a golf course Pardon me.
	While Trump was busy almost taking another bullet for democracy?
	Allegedly.
	Almost.
	Being near a bullet for democracy?
	Yeah, what was she doing?
	And most importantly, how was she speaking?
	Kamala was, she was, I don't know if you know, she was pretty busy.
	This weekend while people were trying to kill Donald Trump.
	Not being shot at.
	Yeah, she was busy not being shot at.
	Ever.
	And I just... It's a good thing.
	Of course it's a good thing.
	I'm just saying.
	I'm just saying, like, considering what it is that she does and says, you would think that considering she said she's going to take your guns away, if we believe that guns were the problem and radical right-wing extremists, someone would be like, you're not taking my guns away.
	And it's, you know, but it doesn't happen.
	Yeah.
	Donald Trump's like, no taxes on overtime.
	We're going to kill him.
	Yes, exactly.
	Why?
	That's exactly why Donald Trump is the target of all of this hate.
	That's right.
	It's because he's doing taxes on overtime.
	Yeah, man, that would be nice for me right now.
	I'll tell you what.
	Working hard for the money.
	That's right.
	Kamala made her way to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
	Okay.
	Yeah, Stephen's fucking furious about this.
	Sure.
	She put on a new but different from previous fake Black accents.
	Now it's not lost on me that she's half black, but she doesn't talk this way, so it is a fake black accent.
	Just like I have a lot of French in me, but if I were to use a French accent out of nowhere, you would say I'm an affected prick.
	Understand?
	True.
	It's funny though.
	So she put on a new version of her fake black accent at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 2024 Phoenix Awards.
	New fake black accents.
	This is exciting stuff.
	I think it's interesting that Steven understands the full scope of Kamala's accent.
	My wife is from Texas and she has a couple of words.
	It'll sound a little Texas sometimes.
	And that's exciting.
	It's nice.
	And I'm never like, what is this Texas accent?
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	This is different now and I'm scared.
	I'm scared.
	I'm scared about this now.
	You said, well, like, well.
	Well.
	Like Isaac Brock.
	Yeah.
	This is what she said at that event.
	Okay.
	Let me just say about Joe Biden.
	I have.
	Hello to all my divine nine brothers and sisters.
	And my soror!
	And to all my HBCU brothers and sisters!
	I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
	If you're fair, she actually has been using the black voice much more often lately since recording her new rap album titled "Black on One Side" Which is- Sings of black We get it!
	What energy.
	Oh, uh, shit.
	Did I?
	Fuck man.
	I should have told you guys this.
	Did I tell you, um, Kamala Harris actually called me?
	Did she?
	No.
	What'd she say?
	Yeah.
	She gave me a call and I, and I had to ask her about this and I said, Hey, what's up with that?
	Uh, with that like half black voice that you're doing.
	And she said, she said to me, Jared, what I'm doing is my best Steven Crowder impression.
	Wow.
	That's the context that's missing.
	My jaw dropped to the floor!
	So just to give you guys like a little bit of context about what she was doing.
	She was trying to do a Crowder.
	She was trying to do an impression of Crowder doing an impression of a black person?
	Of her.
	Of her?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And actually every black person, Montel, Jordan, Williams.
	Williams, both of them.
	Both?
	Both of them.
	Fuck.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Montel Williams is the TV show guy.
	And Jordan's the singer.
	Return of the Mac, was that Montel?
	This is way different than a campaign speech.
	It's at the Phoenix Awards.
	When you are with any group of people, your accent will change to align with that group of people.
	When I'm talking with clients, it's different than when I'm talking to my friends.
	You're code-switching at work.
	It's different when I'm talking to my wife, or when I'm talking to a child, or... Your boys!
	My boys?
	Me and my boys?
	When I'm with you guys, I always say, one strike, two strike, two... Yeah, you're doing a great job with that.
	You're getting much better.
	And actually, when we're not on the microphone, we all talk like...
	The fifth, uh, multiplicity guy?
	I mean, when I'm not on Stripped, I sound like left-wing Nick Dipp, so... I think it's very clear that people talk differently.
	When we listen to Nick Dipp, we turn into Nick Dipp.
	It's just, it's infectious.
	She's not pandering to anybody.
	She's just trying to be relatable to her audience.
	Exactly.
	And I don't think she's even trying.
	I think she's just, I'm with my people, so I'm acting like my people.
	Like, if you're Theo Bond, and you return to do a show in Floribama, You're gonna say, what's up?
	And like, whatever.
	How y'all doing tonight?
	Yeah, you're really gonna turn it up.
	It's probably just a habit because... It's about your cultural environment.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's dumb to focus on this and it's clear that he's a racist guy.
	It's like when someone who's Japanese and speaks Japanese is in Japan and there's words that are like...
	Chicken.
	Mm-hmm.
	They pronounce it differently.
	You're gonna pronounce it as like part of like your language.
	Like hamburger.
	Sure.
	Right?
	Hambagu.
	Sounds like we know where you're going on election day.
	Yeah, but it's... Studying Duolingo.
	They just they speak differently.
	You're not gonna be like, hamburger!
	You're gonna say it like you're speaking Japanese.
	Versus like relaxed, laid-back.
	You're in the cut.
	You're talking to your buddies.
	I don't know.
	You're doing locker room talk.
	Come on, talk about hamburger.
	Yeah, that's a great example.
	Think about that video of Trump when he's like, ah, she's so fucking bad.
	Talking about Kamala.
	Yeah, versus him on stage.
	I jumped on her like a bitch.
	Is that what he said?
	Yeah, he did.
	Moved on her like a bitch.
	Moved on her like a bitch.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But it's not that she's, you know, faking, being disingenuous.
	No woman has ever faked anything for Steven.
	What?
	It's not just that she's faking the whole black thing and she's dressed like Tonya Harding.
	She's dressed stupidly.
	She doesn't fear anyone going, well, hold on a second.
	This is clearly fake.
	At no point does that cross her mind.
	I'll tell you this.
	When I was just a teenager and I would do interviews like local radio stuff as a stand-up comic, or even I did stuff online kind of as a conservative back when I was going into politics, I'd just screw with people and just say things just to see what happened.
	Once I started appearing on Fox News, I was like, oh, there are a couple million people watching, so I better kind of make sure that I'm prudent in what I say because I'll be called on it.
	At no point does she think, hey, maybe I shouldn't fake the way I speak because someone might become aware of it.
	That tells you how little accountability they even have to enter into the mental equation for Democrats.
	They know their water is going to be carried.
	He's so dumb about this.
	Yeah, I love that he says that he used to purposefully say fucked up shit to get attention.
	Yeah, react to this.
	What's he do for a living now?
	He talks up shit for attention.
	That's what I'm saying.
	When he stopped the Fox News Act, he just went back to talking shit, saying stupid shit to a million people.
	No problem.
	Does he really think that you just have to speak in the same fashion to every person in your whole life?
	If you want to be authentic, I suppose.
	You don't.
	No, of course not.
	People have a variety of personality, a variety of accent.
	And I am appreciative of that.
	I don't want to hear him speaking Minionese.
	You know, I don't need to hear that.
	I just want them to do that on their own time.
	I don't need to hear that.
	I hate the Minions so much.
	And this is an interesting critique that he has.
	You actually just heard for the first time the stinger that they use for Kamala Harris where she says, whatever, we become unburdened by what has been.
	Whatever her quote is.
	Yeah.
	And she said that several times, which is interesting because Donald Trump never repeats himself.
	He doesn't have slogans.
	He doesn't have nicknames.
	America great again.
	He doesn't kind of even give the same speech.
	He does nickname repeats.
	He repeats everything.
	Oh yeah.
	That's what he does.
	Yeah.
	For some reason Stephen is not bothered by that when he doesn't.
	Well they act like that means nothing.
	I don't even know the phrase that they always make fun of.
	What can be unburdened by what has been?
	What can be unburdened by what has been?
	So she's saying we don't have to live by what happened in the past.
	We can move beyond that.
	Yeah, just because we were in a certain place doesn't mean that we can't go past that and we don't need to be burdened by our past decisions that were wrong.
	Sure.
	You live in the context of all in which you lived and what came before you.
	Yeah, it sounds like... That's another one of her quotes.
	So, it seems fairly consistent.
	They use that like she's speaking, like it's like when Trump went, I love that one.
	It's such a good one.
	It's so different.
	Those words mean things and you might not grasp what it means and you might think it sounds like nonsense, but it's no different than when a rocket scientist is talking about rocket science.
	It might sound like gibberish to you if you don't understand it.
	I think it's the repetition that bothers him.
	But repetition is important when you're solidifying a message.
	Of course it is.
	Politicians tend to say the same thing over and over.
	In her case, it's exactly the same thing.
	It's like a retarded parakeet who can't learn another phrase.
	By the way, they have to remove mirrors from her house because she runs into them.
	You gotta leave it a little dirty so she knows.
	Like the mayor's mirror above his bed?
	Unless she greeted him with legs wide open!
	There we go again.
	I actually thought I cut that one.
	That's just them being mean guys.
	I thought that you were gonna play him doing black voice and then Gerald following up with a voice quoting a black person.
	Criticizing Kamala Harris for putting A's at the ends of her words.
	Brother and sister.
	Brother.
	Sister.
	Like that, right?
	That's what he's complaining about.
	But then he goes back into this, like, I don't even know, like, this Pootie Tang impression that he's been doing since, like, freshman year of high school, I guess.
	He watched, whatever, Snoop Dogg airline film?
	Yeah, um...
	But then Gerald quotes... Soul Plane, pardon me.
	Soul Plane, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then Gerald quotes the put it in reverse, Terry, 4th of July meme.
	Yeah, and everyone gets quiet and awkward because no one else... Yeah, why are you just saying it?
	You were just thinking about put it in reverse, Terry?
	Yeah.
	Gerald?
	Okay.
	I'm really glad that we took so much time to talk about, you know, someone joyfully greeting an audience.
	Yeah.
	An audience of people who she relates to.
	Great.
	On to... The Donald Trump assassination attempt.
	The sequel.
	Although really, it's the fourth installment.
	Because there was obviously, you know, the one where he was assassinated.
	He was attempted assassinated, if that's a term, his ear.
	You may not remember the one with the Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump.
	And there was, I think there was a, yeah, it was a Pakistani national, right, with ties to Iran.
	And then there was an Arizona man who was arrested for making death threats while Donald Trump was visiting the border.
	And now this brings us to the latest one.
	So four plots, two that actually involved shots being fired.
	Episode four.
	Yeah.
	No hope.
	Was that a new hope?
	Yeah.
	That's terrible.
	That's dumb.
	It's bad.
	So there were allegedly four attempts.
	Did they do any research on attempts on anybody else?
	Of course they didn't.
	Okay.
	If I'm being honest, I didn't do much research on Joe Biden attempts.
	Sure.
	But once I did, I realized that there was several attempts on even Joe Biden.
	A 19-year-old from Missouri drove a rented box truck into a barrier near the White House.
	You remember that one?
	Okay, yeah, yeah.
	Said he was going to kill the president and seize power.
	He also had a big Nazi flag on his truck.
	Cool.
	Yeah, that was interesting.
	That was May of 2023 and then July of 2024, Jason Alde, a 39 year old Florida man, was arrested for making death threats against Biden and other federal officials.
	He allegedly made, you know, threatening remarks.
	I think it's pronounced Aldine.
	Yes, you're right.
	Sorry, a country star and restaurateur.
	And I saw this on, I saw this on Facebook when I was scrolling through there and they said, share this if you support Jason Alden.
	Biden has actually had a fairly smooth, you know, he doesn't say a lot of mean things.
	He tends to just eat ice cream.
	That's pretty cool old man life, honestly.
	Yeah, choc-choc-a-chip cookies.
	Choc-a-chip cookies.
	Double Chunk Chocolate Chip Cookies!
	Wait, is that guy on your feed?
	Chicken bake guy?
	That's the Costco boys.
	The Costco guys, yeah.
	Alright, we really can't do this tonight.
	Alright.
	But that has been my week.
	They were at AEW and it blew my mind.
	I loved it.
	Yeah, AJ and Big Justice were on AEW last week.
	I know.
	Gerald straightened Steven out a little bit though.
	About shots being fired?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Glad you caught that too.
	Well, and to be clear on this one, they don't know that this guy actually fired any shots, but the gun was pointed, and Reddy and the Secret Service apparently are the ones that fired, but we don't know for sure.
	Okay, it was initially reported as though there was a shot fired from the Bush defense line.
	Right, so they said that shots were fired, maybe intended for Trump, and now they're saying maybe this person didn't actually fire yet, but the Secret Service were firing, so we're not 100% sure yet.
	Okay.
	The second one where someone actively brought a gun within the vicinity of Donald Trump to try and fire a projectile at him.
	I love, this is what happens when you try to correct Steven.
	He gets dismissive and quiet like a... He tries to make it sound more serious by calling a bullet a projectile.
	Sure.
	He's like, okay, sure sure and like looks in the corner Shoot the gun, but he intended to shoot a projectile out of a barrel of a firearm towards the direction of Obnoxious behavior and good on Gerald for pointing that out actually.
	Yeah, and it's very clear that We know very little about the Butler County, the famous ear shot.
	We know very little about that would-be shooter.
	Comment below.
	It's kind of like the Las Vegas shooting.
	Hey, what happened with that?
	If anything, you should know more about that than any other mass shooting or attempted mass shooting because the Secret Service was there.
	There's an investigation going on right now.
	It involves the local police.
	It involves the Secret Service.
	It would have to involve all of our intelligence agencies.
	We don't really know anything?
	If you just followed the media you would believe that actually he was a Trump MAGA Republican because that's how they reported initially and then we found out that that wasn't the case.
	And if Steven would actually just follow FBI's investigation on things like the Vegas shooting in which Steven Paddock was the largest mass shooting in U.S.
	History, they spent a full 16 months creating a very detailed report that I believe the final report was at least January of 2019.
	I read through it.
	It was very detailed.
	It didn't have a real clear motive beyond Steven—I feel like I've talked about this on the show—beyond Steven Paddock's dissatisfaction with how Vegas casinos were treating high-rollers.
	He's just a dipshit with a lot of money and a lot of guns.
	But see, the thing is they covered it up.
	They took that huge report, 400-600 pages, they sent it to Scott Stapp.
	Oh no.
	He's a carrier basically.
	I like the idea that if he loses the papers they're gone for good.
	They're gone for good.
	No, I mean, yeah, apparently the FBI... No, that's a plot.
	He followed that's a movie.
	That's like a Coen brothers that I would like a movie right there 2000 leads they watch 22,000 hours of video and examine 252,000 images as part of their investigation, but if you answer the question then Steven can't ask it rhetorically.
	Oh great points So yeah, and I feel like we're gonna get a detailed report about what happened in Butler.
	But we don't have it yet!
	Why not?
	Because they are responsible.
	What?
	Yeah, because they don't just, you know, release... No one likes a trickle out of what could or could not have happened, especially if it could change.
	Investigations take time to get to the end, like the bottom of it.
	Yeah.
	If you want a quick answer, it will be wrong.
	Yeah, and Stephen to say that there was not an answer in the Vegas shooting is just absolute bullshit, and it perpetuates these- Who played on stage at that?
	Uh, was it Jason Aldean?
	It was Jason Aldean.
	Oh no.
	I believe it was.
	I don't think it was.
	I think it was.
	Not all countries the same.
	I think it was Jason Aldean.
	This is what the sheriff had to say about this shooting.
	This is, I guess, as much factual information as we're gonna get in tonight's episode.
	The sheriff described this Sunday.
	Man was arrested, tried to assassinate Donald Trump.
	Thank God he was stopped this time by the Secret Service.
	1.30 this afternoon, call came out, shots fired.
	That was called in by the Secret Service.
	Because we're in constant contact with them all the time, we were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the area.
	Fortunately, we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, hey, I saw the guy running out of the bushes.
	He jumped into a black Nissan, and I took a picture of the vehicle and the tank, which was great.
	Now, in the bushes where this guy was is an AK-47 style rifle with a scope.
	Two backpacks, which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in them, and a GoPro, which he was going to take pictures of.
	He meant take pictures with, but the point remains.
	So a Secret Service agent, allegedly one hole ahead of Trump, fired at the suspect after they noticed that rifle sticking through the bushes.
	So the attempt didn't work.
	Didn't help that the would-be assassin yelled, four.
	That's... Well, you gotta respect the game.
	Yeah, but, you know, in this case... Golf, there's etiquette.
	And I'm glad he did.
	But I'm just saying, if I were to, and I never would... You never would, no.
	If I were to assassinate somebody on the golf course, I would try and be more sneaky.
	I wouldn't announce it.
	Yes.
	It's a quiet place.
	Yes.
	A quiet place.
	Actually, when they shot at him, there was a crowd and they went... He did try to play through, though.
	A fine shot from the Secret Service.
	Very nice.
	Got him right in the head.
	Look at that.
	And it's in the sand trap.
	Meaning they got the assailant, not the president.
	Right.
	Yeah, of course.
	So confusing.
	Stephen should explain his joke more.
	And Gerald should explain his joke because the Secret Service did not shoot the assailant.
	It was not a hole-in-one.
	Yep, they're spitballing some comedy ideas.
	It's so funny, so I get it.
	It makes sense why they would do this.
	Do you want to punch any of that up?
	Uh, well, no, no.
	So, I, what I noticed, I think, here's a real scandal.
	Yeah.
	Notice that that officer, he changed his accent.
	When he was talking to the reporters.
	Interesting.
	He talks to his wife differently than he talks to his co-workers, then he talks to his friends, and then he talks to a press club.
	Sounds like he's a fake.
	He's a phony is what he is.
	What's his ethnicity?
	Can someone tell me his ethnicity?
	Is he even legal?
	Get a birth certificate on this guy.
	So here is again the West Palm Beach Sheriff explaining the events a little bit more.
	The Secret Service agent that was on the course did a fantastic job.
	What they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the President was at.
	He was able to slide his rifle barrel, stick it out of the fence, and immediately engage that individual, at which time the individual took off.
	Now, I'm hoping that this is just misdirection, you know, where they're not telling us the full... Like, I would hope that Secret Service would be at least two, three holes ahead.
	Yeah.
	Maybe, maybe, maybe, like, protect the whole gulf.
	Maybe have an underwater demolitions unit in the pond.
	Something.
	How long is a hole?
	Usually.
	It's a few hundred yards, depending, right?
	Gerald would know.
	Well, that's the thing.
	The golf courses are not laid out linearly, like where it's just in a straight line.
	They kind of bend and fold back.
	It's like, so it doesn't matter if you're a hole ahead.
	You can be five holes ahead and be right next to the guy.
	Oh, true.
	Right.
	Because it bends back around.
	So it's like, you're right.
	They should have way more than just, Hey, I was a hole ahead.
	I thought I was covered.
	Maybe the whole course.
	Yeah.
	Maybe the whole court.
	Do they want the Sheriff to explain the Secret Service's strategy for, like, go in-depth about that?
	Does that matter?
	Well, they just think they know better than, you know, a professional organization who's been for years protecting not only active but former presidents.
	Well, they don't know anything about comedy, so they might know something about Secret Service defense techniques.
	Maybe they're part of the CIA.
	They probably are.
	Maybe their backpacks are full.
	Check their backpacks.
	How many pages are in there?
	Rip open.
	What's in your JanSport?
	What's in your JanSport?
	The most annoying thing about this situation.
	First of all, I don't think we've clearly stated this is awful.
	We don't support any sort of political violence like this.
	People should stop trying to shoot at Donald Trump.
	Of course, because then people are just going to vote for him because they vote for the underdog.
	Because there's people like Stephen in this world who love people who suck.
	But yeah, don't do that stuff.
	It's stupid.
	It's really, really dumb.
	In saying that, also, stupid move to do an unscheduled off-the-book stop at a golf course?
	No.
	I don't think that Donald Trump, who is, I mean, he's a candidate for presidential office right now.
	I think that he should take his safety a little bit more seriously.
	You know, when you do an unscheduled trip, the Secret Service doesn't have the time to vet.
	Remember when Barack Obama went on Mark Maron's podcast?
	Yeah.
	Mark Maron had like snipers on the roofs in in Highland Park.
	At his neighbor's house.
	Yeah, like the cat ranch was ready to blow up.
	Yeah, when you decide on a Sunday morning, right?
	Oh, good morning.
	Give me my diet coke.
	Also, I'd like to go to the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach to play golf with my Friends, and they're like, oh shit, okay.
	We don't have the details for that.
	I guess we'll get as many of the guys together as we can.
	We don't have time.
	My biggest question is how Ryan knew that they were gonna be doing this if it was unscheduled.
	Because apparently he was lying in wait for like 12 to 15 hours or something like that.
	Why did he have the tiles?
	Do we know about that?
	Ceramic tiles you'd be using for body armor.
	And Jarell will say that in a second, I think.
	Yeah, they think they know better than the Secret Service.
	And I'm not trying to lick boot here, but I'm getting really annoyed by everyone on the right thinking they know better than the Secret Service.
	Yeah.
	It's just obnoxious.
	It's like little kid brag shit, you know?
	Yeah, my dad could beat up your dad type of shit.
	Exactly.
	It feels like that.
	It's rubbing me the wrong way.
	Because he won't stop playing golf, of course.
	This won't deter him.
	Did he finish that round of golf?
	I think he had the birdie putt and he's like, let me finish!
	And they're dragging him away.
	He said he was two under.
	I guess that's good.
	It is good, I guess.
	I was lucky because actually the next hole he was about to be sucked into a space-time warp where he'd have to defeat the Mondstars with the Looney Tunes.
	At which point he's like, that's a killer shoot!
	He would show up in space and be like, Lullabunny!
	You're a very good-looking bunny.
	A lot of people say you're a gorgeous, busty bunny.
	Rivers are true.
	I never touched her.
	I just never went there.
	When the fat guy went through the hole, it was the funniest bunny.
	Newman.
	Newman, yeah, thank you.
	I don't know what his real name was, but Newman.
	Wayne Knight.
	Ah, no it's not.
	It's Newman.
	Come on.
	Newman.
	1996 family films, the only kind that Steven's folks would let him watch.
	Very good, yeah.
	And you know what else is also very funny?
	Sexual assault.
	Sexual assault, yeah.
	We love to make the joke about the Lola Bunny, folks.
	Do you guys think Trump would fuck a cartoon rabbit?
	Oh yeah.
	Have you guys ever seen Cool World?
	Don't tell me you guys never seen Cool World.
	But on a serious note, Eugene Carroll, it's all bullshit, right?
	Bullshit.
	Yeah, well, because it happened on Acme Island or whatever the Looney Tunes are at.
	That's all folks!
	I wish it was, unfortunately.
	So, let's get to some information here that we do know, and then what the media has claimed, and how it is... Can we do that, but just pull up this chyron right here from CNN.
	This is great.
	Awaiting court appearance by suspect in apparent Trump assassination attempt.
	What do you think he was there for?
	He had a position set up there, and he had ceramic plates hanging in backpacks.
	Josh, what does that mean?
	Ceramic plates and backpacks?
	I don't know.
	He's pretending to skeet shoot.
	He has body armor laid out so he can shoot between the fence.
	And he's got a GoPro so he can podcast this.
	What do you think he was there to do?
	Say hi to the president?
	It's just a journalistic outlet being responsible.
	Yes.
	That's why you use words like apparent or allegedly.
	Yes.
	It's that simple.
	Call it what it is, man.
	It's an attempt on our democracy.
	Okay, yeah.
	How many lawsuits those guys seem to like throw at other people just for doing anything?
	You'd think that they would...
	know how some of those words work at this point.
	They do.
	Of course they do, but... Just forget it in practice or like in the moment.
	Rile up the base, baby!
	Gerald's so heated that he forgets, you know, words like allegedly, things like that.
	You have to remember, these are the guys who started out by saying they want to vote for Trump more because people don't like him.
	Yeah, that's fair.
	That explains most of it.
	But... I guess we should probably talk about the guy who did this.
	Yeah, a little bit.
	So the suspect!
	Identified as a 58 year old man, okay, Ryan Routh.
	He's already been suspended on Facebook and X. According to the Washington Post, he has a quixotic past.
	I don't even know what that means.
	Well, it includes being arrested a hundred times and wanting to be best friends with Kim Jong Un.
	He's just a little bit...
	Weird.
	So let's go through the claims, though.
	He's off.
	There's no way that this guy wouldn't have been on the radar of intelligence agencies, or as far as being, you know, a potential danger, right?
	I don't know.
	Now, the problem is, you know, if you have the wrong last name, you get put on a no-fly list.
	But apparently, if you've been arrested 100 times and you post to the world that you perhaps may want to kill people, I don't know.
	It's one of those, how could we have known?
	I think he was arrested like 78 times.
	Quicksodic, I didn't know the word, so word of the day, exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic, and unpractical.
	Okay.
	Quicksodic?
	Yeah.
	This whole thing is getting very close to the self-aware wolves subreddit where it's like How on earth could this guy get a gun?
	And we're like, yeah, yes, Steven.
	Yeah, that's our point.
	So let's go to their first claim the media was making, that this man, Mr. Ralph, he's a disaffected Republican.
	Oh, does that sound, does that sound familiar?
	A little bit.
	And you can bring this up, it's collage B. Keith Olbermann tweeted out.
	He's not disaffected either.
	Trump, kind of, sort of, shot at by another MAGA, immediately fund raises off of it.
	Here's a tweet with 3 million views.
	He voted for Trump in 2016, so when MAGA World says they keep trying to assassinate Trump, what they apparently mean is Republicans keep trying to assassinate Trump.
	And that's what happened with the last, you know, would-be assassination, right?
	They said he was a Trump supporter.
	That was Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	They said he was a Republican.
	Okay, here's the truth, and all references are available.
	Link in the description.
	Go to liedorthcredit.com every day.
	We make them.
	Available to you, and if we're wrong, please call us on it.
	We will admonish ourselves on air.
	By that I mean Gerald.
	The truth is Ryan Ralph hated Donald Trump.
	He was very open about it.
	Here's an April post on X. And this is at POTUS, meaning at Donald Trump.
	Your campaign should be called something like K-A-D-A-F.
	Keep America Democratic and Free.
	So POTUS is current POTUS.
	Sorry, it's current POTUS.
	That's too many letters.
	Yeah, POTUS is at, I guess, this was at Biden back then?
	Joe Biden, yes.
	Okay, it's hard to keep track because he's, I guess, still president, they say.
	No, Stephen just got confused because he did no real research before sitting down in the chair.
	Well, I mean, the media claimed it, so obviously it's fake.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't know how deep we need to get into it before we do point out that he did vote for Donald Trump.
	Yeah, but back in April.
	Wait.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So, I don't think you understand.
	When someone says that he used to vote for Trump.
	Sure.
	It has to have happened in the last three months.
	Unless.
	Unless.
	Unless you're the guy who gave 15 bucks to Act Blue.
	Yeah, then dig that shit up.
	That makes you a Democrat.
	This is some real social math right here.
	This is crazy.
	Here's how really, once you're a Democrat, always a Democrat.
	However.
	If you vote Republican once and then are also a supporter of, I don't know, a lot of different folks like Tulsi Gabbard or Andrew Yang or Nikki Haley.
	Vivek maybe?
	Vivek, he loved Vivek Ramaswamy, yeah.
	You know, this all just sounds like a big scam from the deep state left trying to cover it up and blame it on us.
	Busted.
	Are we the enemy?
	We're the baddies.
	I think it's clear.
	He said Trump should be MASA.
	Make American slaves against master.
	Democracy is on the ballot and we cannot lose.
	We cannot afford to fail.
	The world is counting on us to show the way.
	He confirmed that his dad hated Trump and he said as every single reasonable person does.
	That's his son saying that.
	So, Stephen fucked up again reading the second quote.
	Sure, yeah.
	It honestly just sounds like this guy voted for Trump, realized that Trump was a nightmare, and then he got all quixotic.
	I think that, yeah, I think it's a little bit more complicated than that.
	I think that maybe he was just an unstable guy for a very long time.
	He was unaffiliated as a voter.
	His political leanings are all over the place.
	You know, he's like a wobbly Josh Feierstein after his set, driving home.
	Politically incoherent.
	Trying to find his keys.
	Exactly.
	He released a self-published book on Amazon, which most of these types of folks eventually will get there, where he expressed regret for Voting for Trump in 2016 calling it a terrible mistake Referring to Trump as the quote child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless Which is kind of light considering, but yeah, I called him a fool and a buffoon But this is all after he voted for him.
	So I mean it makes him a Disaffected Republican, I suppose.
	But if they don't know what disaffected means then it's obviously wrong.
	Okay, I guess that makes sense.
	Well, I mean, he did have a Biden Harris sticker allegedly on his truck.
	He had it on his barrel of his rifle.
	No, he didn't.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Allegedly he did.
	But he did say that he would be glad when Trump is gone.
	All I gotta say is it's just not, it's just not clear.
	But they think it is in this situation, and not in any situation that points towards... Yeah, the same with Alaska.
	I'm sorry, I don't know if we like mentioned this, but just like the July shooter, Crooks, having this like politically incoherent ideology, our second shooter here, all like with the same thing.
	It's sort of...
	I don't know.
	It's just like between the race to try to figure out who these people are for.
	Are they on our side?
	Are they on their side?
	That plus that it's even happening.
	I don't, I mean, I don't know.
	I don't know what I'm trying to say.
	It's just that both of these things rhyme, I guess I would say.
	The person who is taking the shot, that version of that person sort of rhymes in these instances, right?
	What it comes down to is it sounds like these people who might idolize Trump, and then he betrays them, and then they turn on him.
	But there's more than just these people that feel that, so I wonder if we're like, I don't know, going to see more of this?
	It's just so, it's so wild.
	It's just, just as we were saying, just how politically incoherent it is.
	These are just turning out these like very strange people.
	These are, but to not be able to take, I guess, some sort of credit for these things.
	Like these, these characters are post-Trumpian, almost post-Biden.
	These are the people who are responsible for the outcomes of Americans.
	And so I guess there's some instances where there's this like, As a result of what's been happening, the political climate of these things?
	I don't know, it's just... I don't know.
	I think really what Steven is saying is that this guy obviously now no longer supports Trump, and so, you know, what this guy's thinking about is what can be unburdened by what has been.
	Well, what was for this guy?
	Let's dive back a bit.
	Okay.
	Again, the media has tried to make you believe that this is a Donald Trump MAGA supporter, just like it did with Mr. Crooks.
	This guy was a registered Democrat and noted donor.
	Registered Democrat since 2012.
	Voted in the 2024 North Carolina primary.
	Donated 19 times to Act Blue.
	That was the first time he was a registered Democrat, though.
	Yeah, but all that matters is right now.
	Right now is all that matters.
	Okay.
	Interesting.
	Okay.
	I mean, he's obviously not a Republican.
	He tried to kill Trump.
	He put, he got the damn sticker on his truck.
	Y'all saw it.
	Case closed.
	I did see a picture of a sticker in a driveway.
	He has a Biden Harris sticker and he has Calvin peeing on Trump.
	Well, that clears things up.
	That thing makes it crystal clear.
	We should honestly probably make that.
	It's like the third time we've come back to the Calvin pissing on something.
	So this is interesting.
	Yes, actually, we should sell that decal.
	That'd be kind of fun.
	Here's what I'll say about the entire thing.
	When we're talking about the root cause of this, the reason why the Democrats are saying that he was a Republican in the past, they're just trying to say, hey, this isn't happening because of the shit we're doing.
	They're not trying to point the finger at the Republican and say, you're the one causing this.
	They're saying, it's not our fault.
	Let's just continue on and have this conversation.
	But that's not the voice of everyone.
	I mean, I'm sure that both sides are both playing this weird blame game that is so unnecessary in situations like this, because there has never been a more clear example of an unstable person.
	It takes an unstable person to want to do this kind of political violence.
	Yeah.
	And by unstable person, you mean Democrat, right?
	Yeah, that's actually what it, wait.
	got you dude damn all right well i'm busted steven kind of gives in a little bit okay to the idea of you know maybe maybe this guy doesn't like donald trump maybe he wants to kill him with a gun maybe maybe he doesn't like donald trump but he's he's a republican that's what they try to do with crooks Uh, certainly not in line with conservatives at all.
	He was vehemently, and I mean to an insane degree pro-Ukraine, to a degree that no American could reasonably be if they were in their right mind.
	This man actually traveled to Ukraine and he was working to recruit fighters to join the war.
	It didn't go so well, but it's still funny.
	What are you doing here in Ukraine?
	My initial goal was to come and fight.
	Ernest goes to war.
	No matter what gender, age, anything, everybody should be here supporting the army.
	But I'm 56, so initially they were like, well, I have no military experience.
	56 is too old to look like Cruella de Vil.
	They said, not right this minute.
	I just want to say two things.
	Ernest, this is definitely a reference that no young person's going to understand.
	There are no young people listening to this show, that's clear.
	We've touched that already on this show, but just another one right there.
	Also, second, Ernest.
	There's a brand new Ernest freaking comic book coming out.
	Oh!
	Jim Varney, I hope he would be supportive and proud of that.
	I would hope so, yeah.
	And also it's not clear that like if you support Ukraine you're not a conservative.
	I think that that's becoming a more divided issue now, yeah.
	What does it say?
	A majority of non-Trump Republicans favor the U.S.
	giving aid to Japan?
	They do, but being gung-ho about Ukraine support is a more left-leaning idea.
	Sure.
	I guess, yeah.
	None of it matters, because they're not saying that he currently is a Republican.
	He meant to vote, but he accidentally shot Trump.
	That's not what they're saying.
	That's true.
	You're right.
	Well, they're saying that he has a history of Republican ideals.
	And this is just the icing on the left-leaning cake.
	Yeah, and he feels betrayed by the party, and you obviously, when you feel betrayed by the party, you go to the other side, right?
	Now you did this.
	But, all of this, I think it's interesting that Steven cannot fathom the idea that this guy cared so passionately about helping Ukraine that he went there.
	Which is something that he should find, like, more honorable, don't you think?
	There are, like, a lot of Americans over there.
	Totally.
	Yeah, there's plenty of them.
	Like, if you're gonna say something, you should do something.
	It sounds like Stephen... I'm not saying that this guy is, like, we should look up to him.
	First of all, this guy's kind of a loony guy.
	He is, yeah, yeah.
	But what a weird thing to make.
	It's like, this guy, I mean, he's so democratic, he went and volunteered at a food bank!
	Bullshit.
	Sorry, he's so... Quixotic.
	Quixotic.
	Quixotic.
	I forgot how to pronounce it.
	I had to type that in real quick.
	Yeah, very quixotic.
	Obviously the guy's, like, he's a nut.
	Yeah.
	You don't try and kill a president if you're, you know, fully... Sane.
	...gathered together.
	Yeah, this is the third time we've said that.
	You know, it's just, it's such a dumb, it's such a dumb thing to argue.
	It's kind of a dumb show.
	Yeah, it's a dumb show.
	And so when that doesn't really work, what do they do?
	For people who love the Me Too culture, they immediately go to victim blaming.
	So the media has tried to make this claim now.
	We're done with gaslighting.
	They kind of move on from here.
	Whether it's true or not, Donald Trump's the one who created this climate.
	Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself.
	Mr. Trump is running mate J.D.
	Vance continued to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
	Ohio.
	Who's responsible for this?
	The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed from start to finish how this all played out.
	But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of the former president?
	What violence?
	President Trump sort of Because it's true.
	- Right. - Blaming Vice President Harris and the Democrats for that first assassination attempt. - Because it's true. - We have, once again, sort of the discussion about the importance of lowering the temperature, or is this going to quickly, going to become politicized?
	So they say Trump created the climate in responding to the characterizations made by the left.
	So the left can call him Hitler, can call him, by the way, literal Mussolini.
	You will see this in the clip.
	They can say he's the biggest threat to democracy.
	And his response is, what did I do?
	I took a bullet for democracy.
	I took a bullet to the head for this country.
	They go, see, he needs to tone down the rhetoric.
	So what they're saying is, stay down.
	Stay down.
	Let us hit you, let us kick you while you're down.
	Here's the truth.
	Not only did Donald Trump, and you have nothing to do with the climate of the multiple assassination attempts on Donald Trump, but the left very clearly and irrefutably created and is continuing to foster this kind of a climate.
	Pointing out when someone's behavior is bad is bad.
	Yeah.
	Honestly making things worse.
	Yes.
	I'm not saying that Trump should be... Are you victim-blaming?
	No, I don't want to victim-blame.
	Are you gaslighting me?
	Stephen's adopting this dictionary, left-wing dictionary from 10 years ago.
	It reminds me of saying that Kyle Rittenhouse was doing self-defense when he killed those people.
	Sure.
	They were just microaggressions?
	Yeah.
	Towards Kyle Rittenhouse?
	He was doing bad vibes.
	Trump does not deserve to be shot.
	No.
	But Trump, he does play a role in the political climate of today.
	Yeah.
	That's it.
	Saying that he doesn't is like saying the clouds don't cause the rain.
	Yeah, it's post-Trump.
	We're post-Trump, we're nearly post-Biden.
	This is all their America.
	Or all these people that say that Obama divided the country because they hated him.
	Maybe don't hate him, I guess.
	I'm not saying Trump generated the reason he's being shot, but I'm saying he plays a role in our political climate.
	Of course he does.
	So do we!
	He didn't take a bullet in the ear You took a bullet in the head, dude.
	Not for democracy.
	It was for himself.
	In one ear, not the other.
	That was the first shot.
	The second one just flipped his ear.
	I stole that joke from Reddit.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, I don't know who.
	So, Reddit, if you're listening, please, will you comment that guy's username?
	Oh, that person's username?
	Just want to give him credit.
	Yeah, I want to give credit.
	I'll give him an upvote.
	All of our references, my Reddit references will be in the notes.
	Great, and if you want to hang out with us on Reddit, there's an unofficial subreddit.
	I don't run it.
	It's r slash upvoted because boobs.
	No.
	What?
	Jesus, man.
	That one's gone.
	r slash louder than Crowder, actually.
	Crowder NSFW.
	I check it out every once in a while.
	Guys, stop it.
	Bunch of perverts.
	Yeah, well.
	You saw what they're doing to the flashlights.
	Or the fleshlights, whatever they're called.
	Well, I thought you were surprised that they were doing that to flashlights.
	I got a whole shipment of these Motorola flashlights.
	Because of a spell check.
	Cutting you off with a clip.
	The left wants to see Donald Trump dead.
	No, I don't.
	Period.
	Full stop.
	Remember the witness in the Trump impeachment trial, Alexander Vindman?
	Here's the wife of that man, Rachel Vindman.
	She wrote, no ears were harmed, carry on with your Sunday afternoon.
	We're talking about an assassination attempt.
	Her husband got in on the action.
	Again, a witness in the impeachment trial saying Donald, meaning at real Donald Trump, instigated attacks on legal immigrants resulting in bomb threats and the violence he inspires doesn't receive enough condemnation.
	We're not going back to that chaos.
	We're not going back to that chaos?
	How many assassination attempts Have been made on Joe Biden?
	On Kamala Harris?
	Well, I got two on him.
	There was one in 2021 by a woman from Miami.
	And then there was somebody arrested from Virginia last month for making death threats at her.
	He's counting the ones that aren't necessarily attempts on Trump, too, I guess, in his shows.
	Sure.
	You have to be physically present.
	It's like a raffle.
	You have to be physically there to win.
	The thing that he doesn't want us to think about at all is the security incidents involving Barack Obama?
	None of those.
	No, there's quite a few.
	No.
	There's a Miami bail bondsman training.
	A couple Miami freaks already, huh?
	Yeah, they wanted to put a bullet in the head of him.
	There was an assassination plot in Denver.
	Billy Vallow?
	Oh, from the band HIM?
	Yeah.
	What the hell's wrong with them?
	There's an assassination plot in Denver.
	There was one in Tennessee.
	There's one in Scranton.
	They were threatening to kill him.
	Someone was yelling that.
	Biden's hometown.
	Yeah, at a Sarah Palin rally, which is cool.
	There is a dirty bomb threat in Maine.
	Threats in Hawaii against Michelle Obama.
	You mean Michael?
	God damn it.
	There was shots actually fired at the White House in 2011.
	Do you recall that?
	November 11th, someone shot a semi-automatic rifle from their car on- On 11-11-11, the day Skyrim was released?
	They're shooting the president?
	Jeez, guys.
	Seven rounds hit the White House.
	No one's talking about that.
	2012, there is a plot by a terrorist group formed within the U.S.
	called FEAR.
	You ever hear of that terrorist group?
	That's a badass name for a terrorist.
	Fear?
	What does it stand for?
	Floridians?
	Forever enduring, always ready.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, it sounds like a bad video game on PlayStation 2.
	It does.
	Sounds like Death Row for Xbox.
	Great.
	Regardless.
	I'm not even close to done.
	They're back to Denver in 2012.
	A man was arrested by the Secret Service in the suburbs near Aspen because he told his therapist that he wanted to kill the president.
	You can tell your therapist a lot of stuff.
	But you can't say you're gonna kill the president.
	No, you can't do that.
	This is an interesting one.
	Death ray plot.
	A death ray plot?
	Yeah, two men in upstate New York were arrested after building a death ray x-ray device plotting to use it against Muslims as well as Obama.
	A Muslim.
	A Muslim.
	Great.
	Yeah, checks out.
	Brown suit wearing Muslim.
	Yeah, they wanted to have a mobile remotely operated radiation-emitting device capable of killing human targets silently and from a distance with a lethal dose of radiation.
	This is some real sicko six-head shit.
	Yeah, same here.
	That's some big-brain stuff.
	Ricin.
	The next year Omar J. Gonzalez tried to break into the White House.
	He's an Iraqi war veteran that hopped the fence and entered the building but was stopped by security.
	He had a knife on him.
	Sounds like tourism to me.
	And then, yeah, three men in New York City.
	Hey, stop.
	A South Korean man, a Syracuse person was threatening to hang Obama, mail bombing attempts, Larry Michael Hopkins, who, according to the FBI, he and his militia, the United Constitutional Patriots, were training to assassinate Obama, actually.
	Wow.
	And he pled guilty to that.
	So would you say that God loves Obama more than Trump because he saved him from more assassination plots?
	I'd say Obama's the chosen One?
	One.
	Yep, one.
	That is true.
	Ridiculous.
	But you never heard Obama complaining, posting on social media anything but, you know, gratitude towards the people who helped prevent these things without escalating and, you know, ratcheting up the temperature in the country.
	It's just, it's a stupid take, obviously, because we're trying to compare how often these are happening.
	Yeah, that was a big what-about-it sentiment.
	I do apologize.
	No, no, it's fine, because Stephen is saying You're answering Stephen's rhetorical question.
	But regardless, I just think it's so dumb to say that Trump plays no role in the political climate of the day.
	He does.
	So does Biden.
	So does Kamala.
	Did I tell you guys that I took a phone call earlier this week from Obama?
	Obama called you?
	Yeah Obama called me earlier this week.
	What did he say?
	See he's actually telling me that like because of all these he had this idea okay he's like you know I'm in the White House and you know I get I'm getting all these assassination attempts and so I'm thinking to myself how do I profit off of this you know what he starts doing he starts developing these ads for these fake mobile games.
	Oh no.
	And, and he gets these sucker ass children who are borrowing their parents' phones to spend all the Smurf bucks on these, on these games.
	They think they're going to save the King.
	They think they're going to like, you know, it, they're, they're, they're trying to do these tower tower types of games, you know?
	And this is Obama.
	This is all Obama.
	You can thank him.
	You could actually thank all of these assassination attempts on Obama for these mobile games, these fake mobile games that you keep seeing in there.
	But you know what?
	He's making a mint off of that.
	So I think the Nancy Pelosi stock tracker should probably pivot over to this mobile game tracker is what I'm saying.
	Wonderful.
	Oh man.
	But really, what's the big deal?
	What's the deal with assassination?
	Newman, huh?
	The issue is when Donald Trump says, hey, they're destroying cities and towns, meaning illegal immigrants who are being shipped in by the hundreds of thousands, and they say that rhetoric is what leads to the violence.
	They want you to feel guilty.
	For the violence.
	And they want you to feel really guilty because if you happen to own a gun, you must really be a violent person.
	Isn't it kind of funny that the people with all the guns in this country aren't the ones shooting their political opponents?
	Let's take mass shooters out of the equation, and even then, most of them tend to be radical leftists and on mind-altering drugs.
	But just as it relates to trying to assassinate political opponents, wouldn't you think you'd have one or two?
	Wouldn't you think that if Donald Trump's rhetoric is so violent and such a call to violence, you would have at least one, two, three, certainly more of his followers trying to actively assassinate political opponents?
	than the reverse, which is what we see. - It certainly makes more sense.
	Especially when they say something like, oh, especially after following the Reddit about the fake story about eating pets with the Haitians, you would think that somebody would be targeting Haitians.
	- You would think that someone, yeah.
	- You would think that people would be targeting all these government, no, no one. - I think they spoke too soon. - I think that's, yeah.
	All of the fucking people doing bomb threats at schools in Springfield.
	No, they're just talking about specifically people who are planning or have assassinated political figures.
	So if you forget about the mass shootings, you forget about the actual bomb threats in Springfield, you forget about Jan 6, Charlottesville.
	If you take away all of the political violence from the right, there isn't any.
	What about John Wilkes Booth?
	No, no, no, no.
	He was pro-slavery.
	He was a confederate sympathizer.
	That was before the parties switched platforms.
	No, I'm looking purely at the platform here.
	Yeah.
	I don't know about any of that.
	In looking for examples of this, I did find another person, an account that makes it more clear the kinds of people who do do political assassination attempts, like John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to kill Ronald Reagan in 81.
	Also no clear political motivations.
	Severely mentally ill person.
	What Steven is saying is, because Kamala and Biden haven't been directly shot at by bullets, that it can't be Trump's fault because Trump would obviously want them dead and not himself.
	If you blame this on Trump, shouldn't these people be trying to kill Obama and kill Biden and kill Kamala?
	yeah i see that's what he's saying but these types of folks they're attacking the country that's what jan 6 was was exactly what they're talking about it wasn't an assassination attempt on biden they did have a thing that said hang mike pence though they sure did right but also uh these i'm keeping right to the springfield thing because it's such a huge deal i don't remember who it was but that's uh i think i'm in the mayor of springfield trump was supposed to be going there and basically they were like hey man if you don't want to come we get it uh-huh but this is kind of because of you.
	Yeah, you fucked this up for us.
	We were, like, getting by.
	There were some problems that we're working on.
	You know, now there's way more problems because there's all these people trying to step in and to fix the issues.
	I'm kind of enjoying the backpedaling, though.
	They're like, we were actually just, like, fucking around to get attention.
	That's their new pivot on this.
	So I guess maybe there was no cats on barbecues, but, like, we were just honestly... Could have been.
	Goofing?
	We were just goofing.
	Just new boot goofing.
	Yeah.
	We were trolling.
	Just trolling, yeah.
	Just culture jamming.
	What I think about that is, what I hate the most is that everybody that I'm listening to, Matt Walsh, folks I see online, are saying that migrants are a problem.
	Immigration is a problem.
	And so that's what I hate is that the entire point of that story was, hey, let's paint all immigrants as problems, not just the ones who are here undocumented.
	All immigrants, right?
	That's our problem.
	We've really kind of moved the goalpost.
	Oh yeah, Chinatown?
	Sounds like that's the beginning of white replacement theory, you know?
	There's a reason why there are Haitian migrants moving to Springfield, and it's not because the federal government is shipping them there.
	No, Springfield had some factories.
	They needed people.
	So then these people who care about other people and their culture said, hey listen, why don't you come up here?
	There's lots of jobs.
	Come up here.
	It's a huge opportunity.
	Come work!
	They already have family members there, so it's an easier transition.
	Come work!
	We have a community.
	We're building a community up here.
	Come work here.
	And now, that's bad.
	Well, unless you're white.
	It's just straight up racism.
	They've used it to ignite racism hard, and I hate it.
	Yeah.
	But also that, like, this Vice President J.D.
	Vance, this is his territory.
	Yeah.
	And so he's just coming at it from this, from this angle where he's like, I don't represent you.
	You're not, you're not part of my community.
	Actually.
	You're not, you're not of the, uh, the same Ohio born and bred as your other neighbors are.
	You're just, you're just kind of here is sort of his attitude towards them.
	And it's easy, uh, A to B for how he would govern.
	Super easy.
	Like for the United States.
	Of course.
	That's it.
	Period.
	That's all there is to it.
	I hope when they lose, the next day he gets up to do a speech and his mascara is all smeared on his face.
	That's what I'm living for, if I'm being honest.
	His britches rip.
	Oh, he's so good.
	Everyone sees his little skid mark.
	I want to have one quick comment.
	When they lose, we have to vote for them to lose.
	So go register to vote now.
	Yeah, do register to vote.
	That's a good thing.
	Vote.gov.
	And vote.org.
	Vote.org?
	WokeVote.org.
	Let's check to see if that exists.
	WokeVote.org.
	It's parked.
	Someone bought WokeVote.org.
	It's me.
	And it is Jared, he was very quick this time.
	Let's call this the last clip of the night.
	Speaking of voting.
	Yeah, let's talk about that.
	If the election was held today, Donald Trump wins.
	Nah.
	It's close!
	Held the day he wins.
	How does Stephen know that?
	They've been trying to take him out by any means necessary.
	Whatever forecast.
	And it includes this.
	Who do I mean they?
	I mean the left.
	I mean the left as a whole.
	I really do.
	And by the way, that's why we are gearing up between now and election.
	What you see happening now, imagine what they're going to be doing election night.
	It's not going to be an election night.
	Like we saw with Bush, Kerry.
	Or like you saw with Clinton, Bush Sr.
	Like you saw with McCain, Obama.
	Nope.
	This is going to be last election times 10.
	Unless it's an absolute blowout as to remove all doubt.
	And the kinds of cheating that you see right now, expect that to be turned up to 11.
	And that's why we are prepared for the election lives from the century.
	November 5th, 2024.
	We have boots on the ground in every major city of every major swing state.
	We have the electoral integrity map.
	We have data and third party analysts who will be able to look and dispute states.
	By the way, Fox News just called the election for Harris.
	I know, a little premature.
	And you can click on that map and see any Tomfoolery taking place.
	Just click that button.
	We cannot do it without you.
	We still need quite a few more Mug Club members to make all this happen in the way that we In the way that you deserve, it's $89 annually.
	You can go mugless for $9 a month between now and election if you want to do that.
	This is the place to tune in.
	It's the Rumble on Rumble.
	No more tricks.
	It doesn't happen in darkness.
	10x to 11, boys.
	10 to 11 times elections.
	No, no, it's 10 times more bad stuff from the Democrats, and they will also be turning it up to 11.
	Yeah, you know that big line that shot up?
	Sure.
	That's gonna go 10 times higher.
	Wow.
	It's the big thermometer that they have Gerald, like, coloring in on the wall.
	I hope to see him doing arm on the, like an applause meter.
	Honestly, everyone in the room says Trump should win.
	That's why my arm's over here.
	So, this is my election forearm cast.
	It's late, so I'm doing my absolute best.
	Sponsored by Obama's mobile.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	Come for the king, get the horns.
	This shows that Steven doesn't understand how any of this works because he said that if the election was held today, Trump would win as if anybody knows that.
	No, I mean, if you look at election forecasts, they say things like 60 out of 100 times this result would happen.
	Yeah.
	That does not mean that if the election was held today, that that would mean that person would win.
	Okay, he's just looking at Elon Musk's Twitter poll.
	And here's the thing is that Stephen doesn't believe that the election can be fair at all.
	He does not believe that.
	He's not telling anyone to go vote.
	Yeah.
	He's not.
	He's saying Spend nine bucks with me so we can fight the election when we lose because I'm not telling you to go vote.
	I don't think he wants to win.
	No, he doesn't because he wants the money.
	But yeah, the only way his show is successful is if he is the underdog.
	Yeah.
	It's often said that the worst thing that ever happened to Alex Jones was him supporting Donald Trump and Donald Trump winning.
	Changed the dynamic of his program and if I don't know as much about how that affected Steven when Trump was elected.
	You can't play the victim if you aren't the victim.
	Maybe that's an episode we should do, is the day after Donald Trump got elected.
	We should find that.
	That's a good Steven Crowder episode, Vault 1, that we should cover before the election.
	That's right.
	If we get 10 more paying shrugs, shrug that.
	Shrug.club.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's the only place, honestly, folks, where you can go watch everything for free.
	Don't even worry about it.
	It's the only place you can shrug.
	You can shrug there as much as you'd like.
	Privately.
	Shrugging in private.
	And publicly too, you can comment, say nice things about the community.
	Post yourself shruggin'.
	What did I?
	I came up with a shrug pun earlier.
	Oh, I was gonna say on election night, they're gonna be doing their, uh, was it rumble on rumble?
	Oh.
	And we're gonna be in the shrug-tuation room.
	Shrug-tuation.
	So that's that's what we're calling it.
	I'm gonna post shrug workout videos.
	Oh, yeah Big traps everyone's big trips.
	Yeah, just Goldberg next really sorry about the structuration room But that is what it's called now and that's what it's gonna be We'll be there with them and you can be with us and it'll be fun and we'll watch the chaos.
	I'll be unburdened by what has been yeah You can find all that going down on, of course, whoopyoutube.com.
	Of course, everyone's favorite website.
	I actually have one more clip for us to go out on.
	I totally forgot about this.
	Sorry.
	Hey, hey, hey, just think.
	While Kamala was covering for Joe Biden's mental decline, which is completely clear to the world, they were also setting up this endorsement with me.
	What the fuck is that?
	Oh my god.
	Sounded like it was about to open a fucking portal to hell.
	Jesus Christ.
	What the fuck is that?
	Oh my God.
	Sounded like it was about to open a fucking portal to hell.
	Jesus Christ.
	On that note, this is a bad show.
	I mean, maybe I'm just having a night, but I'm feeling affected, especially by these boys and their bad attitudes towards absolutely everything, including Scott Stapp, who I don't politically agree with.
	I don't align at all.
	But I do like his song about the baseball team.
	It's very good.
	That's what I've learned is I still dig it.
	It's still good.
	It's still very good.
	I'm into it.
	So I feel more and more hopeless every day.
	Really?
	I think that Commonwealths have a huge chance of winning.
	Yeah.
	But I hate seeing how they're pulling out these big guns.
	Who?
	J.D.
	Vance and Trump.
	Not big guns like they're effective.
	But they're like, on the way out, they're like shitting in their hand and like trying to grab the handrail.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's like, they're just making it worse.
	Like, I really, really, really hate the crazy, on-the-face racism that's coming out of this whole Springfield thing.
	It made me so mad to listen to Matt Walsh.
	I mean, it always makes me mad to listen to Matt Walsh.
	Yeah, we gotta get a white Walsh pretty soon.
	Yeah, of course.
	I'll tell you, when I'm listening to Matt Walsh in my car and I pull up to a stoplight, I turn it down.
	You're embarrassed?
	Yeah, I don't want someone to be like, hear it and be like, Oh, what's this into?
	And then him being like, we have unchecked migrants in this country.
	Sometimes I walk around with my, my iPhone screen and I'm listening to it on podcast.
	And then I'm like, Oh shit.
	What if someone saw me flash like a ladder with gratter?
	I pulled up my Spotify when I was teaching.
	It was there.
	I was like, Oh God.
	Oh God.
	At least everything else was like.
	What a nightmare.
	Anyways.
	I think the odds are looking okay.
	I'm not as worried as you are.
	I have a lot of faith that... I'm not worried about the odds.
	My heart is just being blackened as we go.
	It's happening and I'm glad that we are here to at least laugh in their fucking face and also to, you know, state when they're being blatantly wrong.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, if you want to hear Stephen talk about how he honey-potted another person, next week we might be talking about that.
	Someone he's calling the COVID czar of New York City.
	He not only tricked him onto going out on another date with his Mug Club investigative journalist, he also did a Crowder Confronts where he tracked him down in person and talked about what they learned.
	That is what I heard this morning.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, nice.
	Next week we might be talking about that but for now that's all I can handle this week.
	And if you disagree with us feel free to convince me otherwise.
	We got a review.
	Oh nice!
	If you want to support the show that's a great free way to do it because we get a lot of negative reviews from a lot of confused people who stumble upon our show thinking that it's something else This person did not do that.
	This is tie on blue, five stars.
	Fantastic.
	That's it?
	Nope.
	They also said, a great outside view of the lunacy of the current state of right-wing politics.
	Nice.
	Very nice.
	Appreciate that.
	That's very kind of you.
	Did they review the wrong show?
	I think it's the right show.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I think that's us.
	Find us on X at Than Crowder, thancrowder.com, ladderwithcrowder.net.
	They're both websites, but shrug.club is better than both.
	We might just start flicking that.
	Just shrug.club.
	Why don't we just forward those to shrug.club?
	Oh, that's not a bad idea.
	Also, wokeyoutube.com.
	That one's going to be forwarded to a random website each week.
	Nope, that's not.
	It's just when we're live, that's where you want to check us out.
	Yeah, go follow us over there at wokeyoutube.com.
	And until next time, I'm Byron.
	I'm Jared.
	And I'm Taylor.
	Sleep tight, and... Take me out to the ball game!
	Take care, guys.
	You've been listening to an AudioWall original, produced by Byron McCoy.

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