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EPISODE 53: HE'S FINE WITH IT! (JANUARY 15TH, 2025)

No women in the military and genital checks for children...yikes. Not a lot more you can say about this weeks dramatic return to the Crowderverse. Dark words. Like what we're doing? Want MORE for FREE? Join the Shrug Club at http://patreon.com/shrugclub Email: louderthancrowder@gmail.com Twitter/X: @thancrowder Music by DJ Danarchy

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	This is an AudioWool original.
	I'm fine with it.
	I'm fine with it.
	Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast ladder with Crowder.
	My name's Byron, and I'm in studio with no one, by myself.
	I'm here with you, Byron.
	No, you're not.
	It's the Lone Star Brothers this week, both Dennis and Jared in Occupied Texas.
	Yeehaw!
	We're firing weapons.
	We're down here ranching with y'all.
	Oh, is that right?
	We got belt buckles so big they touch.
	Okay, cool.
	Spurs spinning.
	Crocs cowboy boots.
	Oh, very cool.
	And Louder with Crowder is back.
	Got my ass.
	But is it different?
	And will they address all the important events they missed during their non-break break?
	At least that's what Stephen called it.
	If you've been listening for a while, you may have been looking forward to this.
	Hey, Stephen, you ready?
	Ready for what?
	The, uh, We Didn't Start the Fire parody.
	I think that's kind of played out, actually.
	I don't really want to do it.
	Sorry, folks.
	He does, it doesn't.
	Everyone knows that every year, at least up until this year, Stephen did a We Didn't Start the Fire parody to catch up with what happened between December 15th and today.
	Oh, sure.
	But in this opening skit, Josh, he actually decided to do it himself, if Stephen wasn't gonna.
	Before being pushed out of the way by Stephen, who thinks this segment is the most clever and wouldn't ever skip it.
	None of his life depending on it.
	Terrorists attacks are up.
	Trump Tower Cybertruck.
	Car attack in Germany.
	And one down on Bourbon Street.
	Fires in the Palisades.
	Congress gave themselves a raise.
	Justin Trudeau said goodbye.
	Jimmy Carter finally died.
	Cool.
	Jimmy Carter finally died.
	Oh, man.
	What a great joke.
	What a great idea.
	Funny you called it a joke first.
	That was also my thought.
	It's like, wait, where's the funny in this?
	Jimmy Carter died.
	Cool!
	Great!
	A car bomb where a soldier experiencing a break with reality blew himself up thinking he was being followed by the U.S. government in front of a Trump Tower in a Tesla he rented.
	Shot himself in the head with a Desert Eagle.
	So funny.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, this is...
	It's gross.
	Well, I mean, obviously the original song is like...
	Well, it's recapping large, important moments through history, right?
	You can't parody it.
	And act like it's a parody meant to be funny, like you're saying.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to perform it new.
	Leave that to Fall Out Boy.
	This is the most clever thing he's done all year.
	I want to hear more.
	I want to hear the whole song.
	I'm not giving you all, but I will give you a bit.
	Can't say I don't.
	I'm not a freaking liberal, dude.
	There's one more verse, but it's bad.
	And not in an offensive way, it's just lazy.
	And that's not how you should write songs.
	You should have them crescendo to be more and more entertaining as they go.
	I think you should start with the banger, dude.
	Okay, yeah, just burn it right at the front.
	Why does he always go so long?
	Like, just do it.
	I have no idea.
	A minute 30. One verse, one chorus.
	That's enough.
	How long did this one go?
	It's full, isn't it?
	I mean, I think three full verses, two choruses.
	It goes a minute.
	Throws in that quick little rumble gets a new investor line.
	I saw that crypto people, the crypto, I don't know the name of the company, but crypto company invested, right?
	Yeah, Rumble's set to receive $775 million strategic investment from Tether.
	Dennis, as you said, is a Toronto-based company.
	Focuses on cryptocurrencies.
	Nice.
	A Canadian company investing in rumble.
	Sounds patriotic.
	Do you think they have anything to do with the doppelgangers in us?
	What?
	Do you remember?
	Oh, the film Us.
	Yeah.
	It's a tethered.
	I don't know.
	I was trying to...
	Sorry.
	Pull it out of there.
	You don't want me to leave that?
	Okay, great.
	Don't make eye contact.
	You don't need to be ashamed just because I didn't know a Jordan Peele reference.
	No, it's all right.
	Everyone should know.
	I mean, everyone should know.
	I really have only seen the movie once.
	I need to watch it again.
	I don't understand it.
	There is something new about this current year of Stephen.
	He introduced...
	A new catchphrase.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah, to celebrate, I made one of those Byron supercuts.
	Okay.
	It's been a while since I've done one of these.
	I will warn you, it's not as entertaining as Alex Jones doing the COVID cough.
	Yeah, this is the catchphrase.
	And this is the new phrase.
	I'm fine with it.
	If that's racist, I'm fine with it.
	That's sexist.
	I'm fine with it.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm done with it.
	I'm fine with it.
	Oh, oh, I'm fine with it.
	You think that's racist?
	Okay, I'm fine with it.
	This is my opinion.
	You say racism.
	I'm fine with it.
	That's my opinion.
	You say racism, I'm fine with it.
	You say racist, I'm fine with it.
	Call him racist, sexist, or a bigot, he's fine with it.
	Was that really all from this episode?
	Yes, sir.
	That's all from this episode.
	I know that he was saying it, but like, oh my god.
	And he introduced it as a phrase.
	Yeah, it's just like last year when he came back and he did the old erasure of your digital footprint, which of course is called Clean Slate.
	Yeah, this is the year of I'm fine with it.
	Embrace your hatred, right?
	I got one for him.
	Oh, what's that?
	Yeah, it's, uh, uh, it stinks.
	Oh, right.
	Classic.
	The Critic.
	John Lovitz character, yes.
	It's very good.
	It does stink.
	The catchphrase sucks.
	We'll see how long it sticks around.
	Keep your ears open for that, and after a sip, the show properly begins.
	We've been back for a couple of weeks.
	There was weather going on and, of course, pre-production with super videos and camera stuff.
	Some things that you'll see coming up.
	Big stream on January 20th.
	I don't know if you know it's a big date.
	Who's crinkling paper?
	Big stream.
	Big problem with crinkling paper.
	He just can't get his head in the game, I guess.
	He's talking about the inauguration of President Donald Trump on the 20th.
	Nice, yeah, with Carrie Underwood.
	Yeah, that was kind of disappointing.
	And the village people as well.
	But I... Yeah, yeah, the village people are also...
	From the Riot Fest to the inauguration.
	I didn't know they did Riot Fest.
	I don't know if it's at the inauguration, but I know that they will be performing in some way involved with celebrating Trump's becoming the 47th president.
	Do you guys...
	Do you guys know what I celebrate every Thanksgiving, Christmas time?
	What's that?
	Eggnauguration.
	Yeah, you want to leave that one in?
	Byron's so mad about that.
	You want to take it out?
	We can just pretend it never happened.
	The Village People, Victor Willis, He's the only original member?
	He's the cop.
	That would make a lot of sense.
	That makes sense.
	Now, he said, Our song, YMCA, is a global anthem that hopefully helps bring the country together after a tumultuous and divided campaign where our preferred candidate lost.
	Therefore, we believe it's now time to bring the country together with music, which is why village people will be performing at various events as part of the 2025 inauguration of Donald J. Trump.
	That's really disappointing to me.
	I can't believe that the village people of all people kiss the ring.
	It's that sane-washing thing everyone's doing.
	They're like, you know what?
	Maybe it won't be that bad.
	Maybe it'll be fine.
	Yeah.
	That's all it is.
	It's just trying to...
	I'm fine with it.
	I'm fine with it.
	That's what it is.
	Everyone giving him a million dollars?
	Yeah, why not?
	Why not?
	Zuckerberg dressing like my cousin that's 14 years old.
	Sure.
	Who just lost at Fortnite.
	It's so confusing.
	I don't know.
	It's season 47. Everyone's changing it up this season.
	I'm thinking about getting dreadlocks.
	It's kind of a cool look.
	You should dredge your beard.
	I feel like the next four years are the only time that you as a white guy could pull off dreadlocks.
	The Vikings did it first, dude.
	Well, we have about four years.
	Well, what did I miss?
	What slurs didn't I say in middle school that I'd like to try?
	We gotta get Chet Hanks, dude.
	We could call him Chet Hanks.
	Why not?
	We gotta get Chet.
	He's coming back.
	This is his time to shine.
	It's fine.
	Big stream, again, just yelling at your crew about crinkling paper.
	Apparently the people in the booth had their mic on and he didn't like that.
	But also this big show where they're going to be covering the most requested topics, which is so strange to even say that Steven has a most requested topics over the course of when he wasn't there.
	People just have to hear his takes.
	It's like when you go see a...
	A big stand-up comedian, and they ask them to retell old jokes?
	I gotta hear Hot Pockets again.
	Yeah, of course.
	He was the guy that didn't get retweeted from Mug Club, like Hot Dog Jesus or whatever his name is.
	Let's just go with that, yeah.
	He's just like, can you guys talk about the trans in the bathroom issue again?
	Well, surprise, surprise, they are gonna be talking a little bit about something similar to that, but they're also gonna be...
	Oh, perfect.
	Yeah, Elon Musk and the H-1B visas.
	Is that a cause for concern?
	They gotta touch LA being on fire.
	You know, they're looking for someone to blame.
	Surprisingly, it's not the DEI hiring lesbian fire chief angle.
	That really caught me off guard.
	Yeah, they found a new one.
	Well, an old one.
	It's Gavin Newsom.
	New scum.
	They do bring that up.
	They do a What a Piece of Shit segment about Gavin Newsom.
	Finally.
	I cut all of the H-1B visa stuff, but I did pull a clip of Stephen attempting to bait someone way larger than him onto the show.
	We know he does this often.
	This is just a documentation of it.
	And you know what?
	And I would welcome Elon Musk to come on the show and have a very subdued, a very rational dialogue about this where we can air our disagreements and hopefully come to some common ground with the American people.
	I hope that he walks it back.
	In your fucking dreams, Stephen.
	And have a very, give me $3,000.
	It's not gonna happen.
	Nah, I mean...
	Not at all.
	I don't know, that guy doesn't really seem like he has that much going on.
	Kinda seems like he just kinda like, you know, fucks around all day and takes credit for other shit, so...
	If he shows up on this show, or like a Russell Brand show or something like that, right?
	Shout out to the friends over there.
	On brand.
	I don't know that I would be that surprised.
	I feel like, on the other hand, what is the messaging machine?
	Like, would he be more...
	Of a Daily Wire guy.
	We're going to see him show up.
	I feel like he's talking to Don Lemon for a minute there.
	That didn't go very well.
	Not at all.
	I could see him on Shapiro.
	You know what I'd like to see?
	This would be pure chaos.
	It would be like a Timcast episode with Elon Musk.
	I want him on a Tom McDonald track.
	Well, I can't wait.
	I think it's tomorrow the Tom McDonald featuring Roseanne drops.
	Oh man, she's such a good rapper.
	Hope you're ready.
	That's going to be really wild stuff.
	Most of his ketchup I cut.
	The main thing that we're going to be talking about today...
	The Pete Hegseth confirmation.
	That was big yesterday.
	It encapsules everything that is wrong today as it relates to feminism.
	Permeating, infesting the halls of...
	Well, I guess the halls of the House?
	Congress.
	Congress.
	I mean, chambers.
	Whatever you want to call it.
	The great...
	Feminism distraction.
	I hope you're ready for that.
	It's making sure that no one talks about the actual accused bad things that Hegseth did, and he's going to do his best to normalize the ones he thinks are actually kind of cool.
	Flex on them, Steve.
	Tell the women how you feel.
	Jared, Dennis, how do you feel about answers?
	Well, I mean, it depends.
	If I don't think they're going to help me, I usually try and avoid them.
	Question of the day is...
	Wow, wait, I get an answer.
	How do you feel about answers?
	I will only answer yes or no if I'm not feeling threatened about what I've actually done.
	Great.
	Well, let's see if this is a threatening question for you in the...
	Question of the day is, just how emphatically do you tell people that women shouldn't be in combat?
	Like, on a scale from one being, of course...
	To ten being, what?
	Is this a serious question?
	Lazy question of the day.
	And he still doesn't understand the one to ten scale.
	Yeah, just like that.
	I was really like, how am I going to answer this one, Steve?
	The rubric is, you just threw it out the window.
	I don't, you know.
	I get ten, then.
	Why is this a question?
	You would think that he'd have a better question to ask after a month off, but of course it wasn't a month off.
	I was in the office every day.
	I was sick as hell.
	I got a norovirus!
	You did sound really sick on that ad announcing that he was coming back, though.
	Somehow, he snorted and swallowed enough clear nasal spray to make himself...
	Like, clear?
	Yeah.
	What was the problem to...
	I mean, he fucked up his headphones, and then the papers were crinkling.
	And maybe that has to do with his headphones being too loud.
	The tag on his shirt was too itchy.
	Something's always wrong, but today less so, which is surprising.
	But he's got a lot to talk about, so he's got to skip the bullshit.
	I'll skip through this stuff.
	Gerald's in his captain's stool, but who's in third chair?
	It's a professional football player.
	You hear this, you know him, you love him.
	He's going to be at the Spokane Comedy Club February 7th and 8th.
	Sitting right next to me is actually Travis Kelsey today.
	Yeah, we do have Travis Kelsey.
	Yeah, you think I don't think it's that close.
	It's Josh Feierstein.
	It's not just him.
	They must have done something really bad to Josh.
	He's trying really hard to make up for it.
	This is that cycle of abuse thing.
	Sorry, I don't understand.
	Oh, my Siri's talking to me.
	Sorry.
	I can't see him.
	I would love to see him.
	But this is just like...
	Well, you can see him in Spokane.
	Yeah, you guys, this is your neck of the woods.
	Are you going to go?
	Maybe.
	I'm going to interview with Josh.
	Sorry.
	I just stood up to tuck my dog in really quick.
	Just for folks listening, this is a loose show.
	Real sorry.
	Real loose.
	Yeah, I think we should probably go.
	What's the date, Byron?
	I mean, let's see if there's tickets.
	I can't imagine that there'd still be tickets, right?
	Let's buy all the tickets and sell it out, and just me and you sit there.
	February 7th and February 8th, and he is now in the top left corner of his picture.
	It does say louder with Crowder.
	And that is, I think, the only thing that is, there's no description here, just a two-drink recommended minimum in the showroom, and it's $22 to $30.
	Does that mean, is there a VIP? Yeah, do we get a guaranteed meet?
	Maybe.
	Premium!
	What is premium?
	Well, I just got us seven tickets.
	Nice, hell yeah.
	I can tell on this show that...
	I mean, Josh is the butt of all the jokes, man.
	He's the butt of the we didn't start the fire bit.
	He's obviously the butt of whatever this joke is supposed to be.
	I don't know.
	He actually looks pretty handsome in it.
	I think it was a genuine compliment.
	I'm not really sure.
	Oh, does it?
	Yeah, to bring it up, actually.
	It looks fine.
	I mean, like, if he had earrings, then be closer.
	He looks pretty close, yeah.
	The screen grab is fucking strange.
	Yeah, I think the strangest thing is that they took a picture of him and made an overlay ahead of time.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that looks right.
	Like, if I was doing a show with you and Denison Studio, and I was like, you look like...
	I don't know, someone with dreadlocks.
	And then had the image prepared.
	One of the guys from the Matrix.
	Sure, sure, one of the twins from the Matrix.
	I think it would be kind of silly to have an overlay prepared for that.
	That would say that maybe they need a little bit more juice in the writing room, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's kind of a slow day for such a busy...
	Catch-up episode.
	The AI was working overtime on writing the lyrics for as we didn't start the fire.
	Well, they have another one of those AIs coming up, so hold tight, folks.
	But...
	They do a quick Time to Close Jimmy Carter edition, which I still don't really understand those.
	They just play a bunch of clips of people who have died that they don't like and have a parody of Closing Time, but it says Time to Close instead.
	It's not even funny.
	They don't even put the cause of death over their picture or something like that.
	They don't do it when people die, always.
	They do it also when political campaigns end.
	Oh, sure.
	I just don't get it.
	I mean, I know Am I reading this right?
	It's called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, which is actually very good because often these bills are really stupid.
	That's right.
	It actually is what it says.
	It's exactly what it says.
	But the Democrats have now called it this, and it was trending yesterday, the Child Predator Empowerment Act, because you're supposed to believe that Democrats are very concerned about pedophiles these days.
	Don't ask about NAMBLA. Unfortunately, I had to look into NAMBLA and see if they had any sort of support from the Democrats.
	So you're on a list, man.
	Well, I was already there.
	I did do an in-depth report on Michael Jackson a couple years ago, so maybe that's the reason.
	But, yeah, no Democrats have ever publicly supported NAMBLA at any point in time.
	In 1997, the Senate unanimously approved an amendment withholding U.S. contributions to United Nations until the president certified that no U.N. agency granted official status to organizations promoting pedophilia, bipartisan support.
	In 2000, GLAAD adopted a position saying that NAMBLA is deplorable and described them as a form of child abuse and called them repugnance.
	And yeah, throughout the 80s and 90s, various LGBT groups actively worked to exclude NAMBLA from gay pride parades and other events.
	Yeah, no one likes that shit.
	It's just Stephen saying...
	Democrats are gay.
	Yeah, they're gay and that means they're pedophiles.
	Yeah, that's always...
	You know, he's trying to be witty for the...
	The dumb ones.
	This bill, though, Gerald's kind of right with how straightforward it is.
	The bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.
	Specifically, the bill provides that there is no violation of Title IX of the education amendments in 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designed or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to They also say under the bill that sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
	Bullshit hatred stuff that they've been brewing.
	Bill's been in the works for, I think, two or three years at this point, just now finally passed.
	But they do have this little caveat.
	The bill does not prohibit males from training or practicing with programs or activities for women or girls as long as such training or practice does not deprive any female of corresponding opportunities or benefits.
	Like if you live in a small town, you can have a guy on your girls lacrosse team if there's only four players, I guess.
	As long as he doesn't win.
	Yeah, he can't win.
	Yeah, he can't actually get the winning goal.
	He can shoot a bunch of them, but he can't get the last one.
	We're just going to keep seeing more and more and more of this in the next four years.
	I hate this so much.
	I hate it so much.
	It's just such a clearly like an attack on trans people.
	They don't care about women's sports.
	They do not care about it at all.
	I don't think they care one bit.
	They don't.
	I mean, we've been here before with Steven.
	That was like maybe four years ago.
	He was all about women's sports, but he will claim...
	You'll claim a lot of things, actually.
	I mean, you can go back to the change my mind.
	The very first one, I believe in 2016 or 2017, one of the first three, there are only two genders changed my mind where I asked for the first time, well, what is a woman?
	How many genders are there?
	What is a man?
	And back then, all the activists were saying, well, no one's talking about sports.
	Right.
	No one's talking about children, right?
	That is what you can watch in real time.
	That's one of the benefits being here since 2008. You can see the activists back then tell me that I was strawmanning the idea that biological men would compete in women's sports.
	Would either of you be surprised to hear that sports was mentioned zero times in the Change My Mind There Were Only Two Genders from seven years ago?
	No, not even a little bit.
	I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen did not...
	He didn't even know that women were doing sports seven years ago.
	Wait, wait, they're still doing that?
	He knew one woman, and it was his then-wife.
	Yes, of course.
	And he hated her!
	He probably thought, man, if women could compete in sports, think about how mad they would be about trans women.
	That's exactly what I said.
	Well, and then, I mean, of course, there was the redux.
	Changed my mind.
	There were only two genders, two from 2022. He also didn't mention sports ever.
	Am I to believe that Matt Walsh ripped Steven Crowder off?
	No, I've got a little bit more information here.
	He didn't mention what is a woman in the transcripts of those.
	He did say without men and women only then it is a breakdown of society with no explanation about why that would be.
	Gender apocalypse!
	pointing that out though this is just his attempt to steal back some bigoted acclaim from matt walsh who popularized the question what it's a woman yeah mine that's mine steven missed it and now he wants it back I heard a good response to that recently.
	To what is a woman?
	Yeah.
	This streamer, Jovan Bradley.
	Have you guys come across this guy?
	No, I don't think I have.
	Nope.
	He kind of does TikTok debates and stuff.
	Shout out to him.
	He does a pretty good job stumping idiots all day.
	I've seen this guy, yeah.
	With the cat ears.
	What is a woman?
	And the answer, an adult human whose gender identity aligns with the personal schema of the female sex.
	That's great.
	He gave credit to whoever mentioned that first, but I think that's a pretty solid answer to that dumb fucking question.
	And for male, it's the same thing.
	I can assure you...
	Matt Walsh would not give a shit about that answer.
	No, he would yada, yada, yada.
	Yeah, I was going to say, he wouldn't have heard it.
	He would time lapse you.
	Steven would make a fart noise in the middle of it.
	Well, I cut all the farts from this episode, but there was a lot of fart noises during the...
	Chunky farts in this one.
	Gavin Newsom, what a piece of shit.
	They just like to play big fart noises.
	I'm not going to hear any of that, but...
	Oh, no.
	Do we have to hear more about this bill?
	Yeah.
	We have to know what exactly Stephen feels about it.
	They're saying that this bill now will result in inspection of girls' genitals.
	Well, first off, not...
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Is he not going to say I'm fine with it?
	It was a great opportunity.
	Missed opportunity.
	So, hold on a second.
	If you mean...
	A female nurse or a qualified professional will check those who are suspicious, you know, the barely passables, and by that we mean the absolutely not passables, trying to engage in contact sports with women to be subjected to a physical inspection to in fact confirm that they are a woman.
	Sure, you know what?
	Hey, let me just tell you this.
	And this is the new phrase that I would like to say.
	I'm fine with it.
	There it is.
	Calling children barely passables is insane people's shit.
	Oh my gosh, this is the grossest shit I've ever heard.
	Not to be a problematic king myself calling it insane, but Jesus Christ.
	Yeah, that's wild.
	It's not good.
	Wow.
	He's cool with that?
	He's not just cool with it.
	He is fine with it.
	He's fine with it.
	Does he have a daughter?
	He has a daughter and a son.
	Twins, yes.
	Okay, gosh.
	God forbid his daughter ever ends up with short hair and a strong upper body.
	Oh, Virgo Crowder, please come to the principal's office for a vagina inspection.
	What?
	Yeah, right?
	You have to check your vagina because someone said you, like, burped?
	Yeah, they saw your Adam's apple.
	I don't mean to laugh, but it's like, that's like, this is one of the more fucked up things that he straight out said.
	Look, like...
	We've seen this.
	They go on to talk about, like, yeah, sports.
	You gotta get a physical to play sports.
	Yeah, we'll play those clips.
	Yeah, I don't think boys, biological males, should compete in women's sports.
	And if we have to confirm this through some kind of a physical examination, as we all have been subjected to with a doctor.
	Every boy ever playing sports?
	Exactly.
	I'm okay with it.
	Turn your head and cough.
	I'm fine with it.
	That's sexist.
	I'm fine with it.
	It's racist.
	I'm fine with it.
	Comment below.
	Just say, I'm fine with it!
	If you think he's racist for being fine with kids getting their genitals looked at, then he's fine with it.
	He's fine with it.
	It's fine.
	Just a blanket statement.
	I think the grossest part about this is they try to equate this checking of genders...
	As, you know, the same as, like, a sports physical that you would have before playing, like, YMCA sports.
	To make sure it's literally safe.
	I mean, it's a totally different thing.
	They're not checking your testicles to make sure there's testicles there.
	They're checking your testicles for, like, potential health concerns that would make it so a school would be in financial, like, trouble.
	Yeah, checking for hernias, any sort of testicular abnormalities.
	A physical is about the health of the person to make sure that you are physically healthy enough to play this thing you're doing.
	Yeah.
	It's certainly not, hey, let me make sure that you have a vagina or a penis because that's the most important thing when it comes to- You know what's traumatic, Dennis?
	What?
	Was getting that sports physical.
	I was like, oh my god.
	Some doctor has...
	I never got one.
	I never played sports or acquired it.
	And part of it was because I didn't want to do it.
	Yeah, it's uncomfortable.
	You know what's really fucking traumatic?
	Is being forced to prove your gender in a world that is so clearly unaccepting of you.
	Yeah, especially if you're not even a person who is experiencing gender dysphoria.
	You're not even trans.
	I mean, how often have you gone on the internet and seen people be like, is this person trans?
	Like, in the comments section of just, like, a normal-looking woman.
	It's like, you all have just, like, the worst brains.
	Like, you don't have object permanence.
	Like, there's just sort of, like...
	I don't even know, man.
	It's so fucking confusing.
	This is the severe brain disease of thinking that this shit is happening.
	There's millions of kids that are getting transed.
	There's less than 20 kids that have gotten a gender reassignment surgery in the United States, period.
	But they think it's like every fucking kid is a furry shitting in a litter box or having their penis turned into a vagina.
	A child doing that, they would describe that as like a bloody gaping hole or something like that.
	It's just like, what fucking brain melt is happening?
	They're sickos, man.
	But it's like, you didn't think that there was this many of them until like...
	You know, it took only a couple of years and now it's just like all the fuck they talk about.
	Well, they're just really afraid.
	They are exploiting children as a reason to hate men who transition to women.
	They don't care at all about women who transition to men.
	They don't know the fuck about that at all.
	They don't even know that's happening.
	All that they care about is, listen, we want to call guys gay.
	That's basically what they want to do.
	Yeah, that was the platform that Trump ran on.
	That's literally what they want to do.
	And that's why they don't care about women playing men's sports at all.
	They don't care about women transitioning and women transitioning to men and going to men's restrooms.
	They don't care about that at all.
	That's kind of where we're at.
	So now all of a sudden the left wants you to believe that they care about child predators Is this working with anybody?
	Like the left cannot help themselves from losing.
	We've come back this new year and they don't understand the mandate that has just been given.
	I'm so sick of hearing about the mandate.
	You know, the tides have changed.
	This is the new America.
	And I always look at the vote count from 2020 and 2024, 51.3% to 46.8% Donald Trump.
	I mean, pretty decisive victory.
	And you didn't hear them accepting that.
	They just continued to say, we're the silent majority.
	And also, what was the popular vote?
	Like, how did that end?
	In 2024?
	Yeah.
	It was 77 million to 75 million.
	49.8% to 48.3%.
	You could cut off the Florida Peninsula and it's even split.
	This is just the new game that they play.
	Every time that you have a criticism, they're like, you're not speaking to real Americans anymore.
	The celebrity is over.
	Donald Trump, he only got less than 3 million more votes in this election.
	This particular race also was like...
	Not even that voted on compared to the last one.
	So it's like less people showed up for it.
	I don't know.
	It's clear to shift in American culture, Jared.
	You know, there's just like some amount of watching this happen and knowing that it could definitely swing that way.
	It already has swung that way.
	It's not even surprising.
	We all knew that kid we grew up with in school who like...
	If they lost the game, they would scream about it being achieved, and if they barely won, they'd be like, in your fucking face!
	That's basically...
	That's what's happened.
	And we'll be dealing with that for a little bit, and I'm okay with that.
	I can handle it.
	And you know what?
	That kid who played those sports was a trans person.
	What?
	No!
	But bigger problem to Steven than the left is going to be the right.
	The tides are changing.
	The pendulum is swinging, and that does mean you have a problem.
	With a lot of Johnny-come-latelys on the right side, because people see it as a viable market.
	They shunned it for a long time, and now people want to get on that train.
	So be very leery of people who claim to have recently put on your team jersey, but the left, they can't help themselves.
	They think the winning strategy is, we really actually should allow men to compete in women's sports.
	And our argument is going to be, if you believe that a physical, you're a pedophile.
	That's their argument.
	Great, let's go with it.
	He's actually really good at that.
	Sandwiching something, like a fear that he's trying to convince people, with something that they'll agree with.
	This is the same stuff that he was saying before the election, where he's like, I will be your election night guy.
	You don't have to listen to anyone.
	You don't have to even read anything else.
	We have this website.
	He wants to isolate his audience so he doesn't lose their money.
	That sounds kind of like a cult.
	It's definitely a tactic, yeah.
	Totally.
	Well, he's acting like it's just the entire nation is a sports game.
	His whole Jersey analogy, which is exactly what I was saying the whole time, was when he was just like, hey, man, listen, they might say they're Miami fans, but they aren't, okay?
	I'm a true Miami fan.
	Believe me.
	We have one more clip in this little segment, and hopefully we can put this to rest, right?
	Last time we'll talk about it this year.
	Great.
	There are ways to make traumatizing children work.
	Let's get easily.
	A woman has to perform it.
	It needs to be done in private.
	The kind of medical exams we've all experienced.
	Or a gynecologist.
	Not to mention, can't you test chromosomes with a blood sample?
	You can.
	If there's questions after you go into the hood, then yes.
	The mandatory vaccine people don't want a needle put into you to draw some blood?
	Right.
	That's true.
	Look.
	I just want to say that if going under the hood implies what I think it implies, then If it has a vagina, then it's a woman, period.
	That's their whole argument, right?
	Yeah.
	So then, like, what the fuck?
	Like, what even are they?
	They're mostly trying to hunt down trans women who have not done surgery.
	Right, but this is just this fucking, like, unmasked eugenics conversation, more or less.
	It's really...
	Disturbing.
	You guys, I realize, though, that's totally unenforceable, because here's what the problem is.
	So, you know, if you want to use a female doctor to check the genitals of a child, you have to then use a female doctor to check the genitals of the female doctor, and then you have to use another female doctor.
	It just continues up the list, and ultimately...
	Who is the ultimate female doctor?
	We have to have the one person who checks all vaginas, and that's God.
	I kind of got it, and I think that what he's trying to say is Joseph Heider from The Human Centipede is sort of who God is, I think.
	I mean, rest in peace, Dieter.
	Yeah, Dieter Laser.
	Oh, man.
	Great actor.
	And then Josh says something to the effect of, like, can you do, like, a chromosome testing?
	Yeah, let's force...
	It's so insane.
	This is the most fascist conversation they've ever had on the show.
	Force these kids to do this shit.
	Wild.
	Yeah, I don't think that they realize at all.
	Did you guys just find out about science today?
	This is...
	Fascinating stuff.
	Yeah, well, and the way Josh said it was like, did you know that you can do a blood test to see?
	Do you guys know what DNA is?
	Do you guys have heard this?
	Why would they even suggest forced genetic testing?
	Byron, think about the opposite, okay?
	Listen, imagine if you were playing softball in middle school and there was someone who had short hair and big biceps, okay?
	Imagine that.
	Okay, I'm there.
	Isn't that terrible?
	I better tell him then.
	You better get an inspection done quick.
	Turn him into the cops.
	And just lastly, I wanted to add on.
	Do you guys remember the Ohio bill?
	It was HB 151. Republicans wanting to force children to undergo genital exams to play high school sports.
	Yikes, I didn't know that.
	Or I forgot about it.
	June of 2022. The Honesty for Ohio Education bill?
	Yeah, this was the first one that came out after...
	The first wave of girls' sports delirium.
	If we have to have Trump derangement syndrome, then they have to have girls' sports delirium.
	This was the first one that came out of that.
	This whole thing was just basically like, any old guy will do, and we can just have someone honking titties and pulling the front of your shorts down.
	It just was so, like, unmedical and the exact opposite of what these fucking jokers are asking for here.
	It's like, yeah, it's just a female nurse honks your balls or whatever.
	It's like whatever the fuck world that they live in where they think that that's the norm of that particular thing.
	Men aren't honking balls because men aren't doctors or nurses either, right?
	This is a party of freedom.
	I don't want to license my gun or a car.
	And I don't want to pay taxes, but I want to force other people to do tests to prove their gender.
	Yeah, and I feel like there was some...
	I was trying to look real quickly, but I couldn't remember what even to search for, but there was a school that had gotten in some heat for hiring somebody who was just like a deacon at a church as this position at their weird school where trans issues are scary to them.
	You know what, Jared?
	If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
	Jesus Christ.
	All right, we're done with this segment.
	I'm capping it.
	Thank you.
	Apparently the most requested topic for coverage was Stephen's take on an almost five-hour-long confirmation hearing.
	Cool comedy show.
	I'll say it again.
	The future Secretary of Defense.
	I have very little doubt that that'll be the case.
	Pete Hegseth.
	He was grilled during this confirmation hearing.
	And, well...
	I present to you exhibit A as to why women should not be in active combat roles, as well as This Week in Feminism.
	This Week in Feminism.
	Mr. Hegstaff.
	Should we take it to believe that you believe that the two women on this committee who have served honorably and with distinction made our military less effective and less capable?
	I have many concerns about your record and particularly your public statements.
	Most likely.
	Because they are so hurtful to the men and women who are currently serving in the U.S. military.
	You will have to change how you see women to do this job well, and I don't know if you are capable of that.
	Have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?
	Don't worry about it, Rono, you're safe.
	Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force?
	Or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?
	I have serious concerns that your behavior toward women It disqualifies you from serving in this role.
	So you're saying sauce for the goose, but certainly not sauce for the candor.
	And let me just say, American people need a sec deaf who's ready to lead on day one.
	You are not that person.
	When you are asking us to lower the standards to make you the secretary of defense simply because you are buddies with our president-elect.
	Right, yeah, lower the standards.
	It's not like this guy has a resume that would put most of those in our house and send it to shame.
	Let's talk about the resume real quick before we talk about just how fucking obnoxious it is to hear Stephen play clips of women talking.
	Very capable women talking.
	Yeah, and talk about how they're not hot enough to be assaulted.
	Of course, yeah.
	Pete Hegseth, he got a Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science from Princeton in 2003. And this is interesting.
	It's these Ivy League-style schools that these dorks say shouldn't matter.
	Yeah, Marxist institutions.
	He went on to earn a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard, specifically the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2013. And then he joined the U.S. Army National Guard.
	Well, actually, he did that in 2023, pardon me, before he went back and got his master's.
	But he was an infantry officer.
	He served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division from 2005 to 2006, served in Afghanistan with the Minnesota National Guard in 2011 through 2012. Oh, and before all that, though, he served at Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Very cool.
	Historical.
	Huge fan of human rights violations.
	Stephen actually does like Guantanamo quite a bit.
	Not surprising.
	His career, though, outside of the military, he was the executive director of Vets for Freedom from 2007 to 2010. We all fought.
	We're still fighting.
	We're still fighting.
	And today we're winning.
	Casualties are at an all-time low.
	Al-Qaeda in Iraq is decimated.
	The Iraqi army controls most of the country.
	These are the facts.
	They can't be ignored.
	We changed strategy in Iraq.
	And the surge worked.
	Now that's change we can believe in.
	We need to finish the job.
	We need to finish the job.
	No matter who is president.
	That's before he went back to Afghanistan.
	It was founded in 2006, that organization, by veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars.
	Margaret Hoover, an advisor to VFF between 2008 and 2010, stated that Hegseth ran, quote, the organization very poorly and lost the confidence of the donors.
	By January 2009, VFF had accumulated, what is this, $434,833 in debt?
	Nice.
	And on that he said, we bit off more than we could chew and now we're paying the price.
	But what was Pete chewing on?
	Or...
	A former board member reported rumors of parties and trysts.
	The donors were concerned the money was being wasted.
	There has been a lot more on those rumors that makes it seem more and more likely.
	We'll probably talk about those in a little bit.
	Another former board member said Pete's leadership style was more about self-promotion than organizational success.
	Despite financial troubles, tax filings showed Hank Seth was paid $5,000 in 2011, which may sound like not much.
	For 30 minutes of work per week, and he increased that to $8,000 in 2012. A former staff member noted, quote, it was shocking to see Pete still drawing a salary when he couldn't pay our bills.
	Basically forced out of that position.
	He ended up being a senior counterinsurgency instructor, and this is the same time he went back to Afghanistan with the National Guard, training at the center in Kabul, where he instructed Afghan soldiers.
	Stephen doesn't like NATO, though, does he?
	That's kind of interesting.
	When he came home, he became the CEO, somehow, of Concerned Veterans for America.
	They're from 2012 to 2015. It's a non-profit organization that advocates for policies that improve the lives of veterans, service members, and their families.
	It's also backed by the Kochs.
	Nice.
	That's big money.
	I love big money.
	Yes.
	And we'll talk more about his time there.
	But around the same time, he became a Fox News contributor.
	Most recently, he is the co-host for Fox& Friends Weekend.
	Let me ask him, when's the last time you saw an ad, a rugged ad of somebody fighting in a war, showing what they get out of the military?
	You see none of that, who you be all you can be.
	Absolutely.
	So the military kind of bud-lighted itself, looking for a new constituency, and they turned off the normal masculine men they need to join the military.
	Right.
	But a whistleblower report was released expressing concerns about his behavior.
	There's a trail of documents corroborated by accounts of former colleagues, and it indicates that he was forced to step down by both of the jobs in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, which clearly proven sexual impropriety and personal misconduct.
	Most responses to these allegations, Pete just states anonymous smears.
	Those are anonymous smears.
	And if you go to the article that was released about this in The New Yorker recently, December 1st by Jane Mayer for The New Yorker, it's called Pete Hegseth's Secret History.
	A whistleblower report and other documents suggest that Trump's nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
	It's a great read.
	It's in depth, like a 20-page read.
	It's a big one.
	So I highly recommend you go check that out.
	The folks in this whistleblower report came forward due to concerns about Pete's growing influence in veteran-related policies and his public image, because that stuff's important.
	He was being used for Fox News segments like one in December 16, 2016, titled Pete Hegseth Answers Veterans' Emails, because of course that's the guy that should be doing it.
	November 12, 2016, a segment called Pete Hegseth Travels to Phoenix VA Hospital for Veterans Day.
	And this was part of their Abandoned Brothers segment.
	And May 27th, 2019, he was part of their Modern Warriors, a Memorial Day special.
	He hosted that.
	But yeah, we'll talk about what actually happened in this report.
	The article is based on a detailed seven-page report that is compiled by multiple former CVA employees, and it was sent to the organization senior management back in February of 2015. That eliminates all of the suspicion that, you know, this is just something that was rushed forward to try to block one of Trump's picks.
	This is a history of awful behavior, you know?
	Didn't his, like, mom publish a letter that was just like, She sure did.
	Clean yourself up.
	You freak.
	Take a look at yourself.
	Yeah, she sent an email back in 2018 that said in part, I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
	You are that man and have been for many years.
	Yeah, he needs help.
	He doesn't need this gig, man.
	Here's the thing.
	You would think there would be a self-awareness from women on the left.
	This would be like a black male Republican going up and yelling at women.
	And when CC angry, angry, angry black man, toxic masculinity.
	Instead, men are measured.
	He was here controlled, answering rationally.
	They wouldn't let him answer.
	They were shrill.
	Yeah.
	And they couldn't comprehend some of the responses because it's, you can see the moment it dawned on Elizabeth Warren.
	Like this is not your husband who has to listen to your silliness.
	nagging bullshit.
	That's not how this works.
	So a couple things there.
	First, while it's fresh in my mind, did you see that they've been censoring themselves?
	Oh, no.
	I noticed that.
	That was odd.
	Also...
	Bringing up another stereotype which they create and perpetuate, the angry black man.
	So not only are women nagging, but also they're being racist at the same time.
	Great.
	Black men are more shrill than white women, is that what he's trying to say?
	No, I mean, he's just saying that it is as if black men are yelling at white women, and that is a stereotype that he believes is real in his heart.
	What?
	Yeah.
	I don't track with that at all.
	I know.
	But also, I watched a big chunk of this confirmation hearing of people are going to get frustrated when you don't answer their questions.
	And when you try to filibuster...
	No, it's called being shrill, actually.
	Well, no, they're going to try to stop you from...
	Was their voice higher, though?
	Like, was it higher than a man's voice?
	Kind of, sometimes, but not always.
	Do they talk with any kind of authority?
	If not, we need to definitely call a nurse.
	Definitely.
	We need to get a nurse near quick.
	We need to check and make sure.
	Check my balls.
	It was feminism on display.
	It was illogical.
	It was irrational.
	It was shrill.
	It was every negative stereotype that one could throw at women embodied.
	And of course, that doesn't mean all women.
	Just these women.
	Because they were very, very offended.
	Upset.
	But then we jump to this idea that he's kind of loosely started talking about women in the military and what Pete Hagseth said about it.
	He doesn't want moms in the military.
	He doesn't think that women should be in combat roles ever at all, period.
	Then he tries to backtrack on it a bit.
	How hard do you think it is to get into the military, Dennis?
	I mean, I don't know, honestly.
	It was a lot harder...
	Before they rolled back some of the requirements.
	The military did lower standards in 2022. Again, all references available at loudearthcredit.com.
	Link in the description.
	Yeah, this is overlay A4. The army scrapped their gender-neutral test because women were failing at a not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six times higher rate than men.
	You hear that correctly.
	Sounds like a good reason to roll back something, especially since it had only been changed in 2019. So three years after they started this new version of this test, they realized it was disqualifying a lot of people who should be qualified.
	Exactly.
	There's the Army Physical Fitness Test and then the Army Combat Fitness Test.
	That's what they ended up rolling back on.
	So the fitness test, it had three events, which were push-ups, sit-ups, and a two-mile run, which sounds like I could probably get into the military.
	The one that they...
	Created after this, I wonder who did this.
	Six events, deadlift, standing power throw, hand release push-ups, sprint drag carry, leg tuck planks, and a two-mile run.
	Sounds like a Marjorie Taylor Greene-style CrossFit activity.
	I mean, I don't know, yeah.
	Something that'll get me a bad body.
	Jesus.
	The fitness test had age and gender-specific standards.
	You know, I think that kind of makes sense if you want to start...
	Yeah, they're arguing that women are weaker.
	Well, yeah, but at the same time...
	Military recruitment at an all-time low, so we should limit that pool to men only, who we also have been claiming for the last four years have gotten incredibly soft.
	Sure.
	In this case, they're totally fine with the U.S. military acknowledging women on average have less strength and endurance than men.
	Physically.
	Yeah, they're breaking their legs, picking up their backpack, or whatever the fuck they said.
	That's the whole point.
	Okay, Byron, they shouldn't be in the military if they can't curl their best friend.
	Can you curl me?
	Yeah, I could curl you, but Dennis, I'm gonna need you to put the broom down in front of him while we skate across that ice.
	That's fun.
	Speaking of broom...
	Yeah, I'm just a regular Annette Norberg from Sweden.
	The combat fitness test required a bunch of extra equipment, like a hex bar, a medicine ball and a sled.
	And also, you know, had to be administered by someone in a special complex required more space and time.
	It's just easier to administer the original test, which honestly, it's like the marble, the Budweiser of tests.
	Like, let's just stick with it.
	If it's if it ain't broken, maybe maybe there is a better solution.
	And maybe we need to figure that out because apparently the physical fitness test was only considered a 40% predictor of soldier success, and the one that they rolled back was an 80% predictor of soldier success.
	But maybe there's a lot of other factors we're not accounting for.
	Of course there are.
	Maybe we need to reevaluate this kind of stuff.
	And it's clear that that is something they do.
	Like, if this only was around for three years, I wonder what the one before it was.
	I didn't research that.
	You can't just say that...
	You know, re-evaluation of something is inherently bad.
	I think it's always good, really.
	Yes, of course.
	That's how progress happens.
	But these guys are afraid of change.
	Yeah, we're at this point, like Jared was saying, that recruitment for the military is low.
	So if you make it harder to get in, the recruitment will just get lower.
	And you can't just make people more able to participate there without funding things like PE and shit.
	They're not solving any of these problems if they're worried about at all.
	We have to reevaluate, and women serving in combat roles is totally appropriate.
	We have to shame our sons into being tougher.
	Yeah, of course we do.
	Because weak men create hard times, hard times, soft bodies, or whatever.
	Dad, Dad, listen to this.
	Creepy crawlers!
	Go make me a sandwich.
	Your mom's not here.
	Gerald, though, hot take, because he's the toughest guy in the room.
	Yes.
	And the standards, by the way, are to make sure that we have a military that can fight and win wars.
	That's not a movable line.
	The line is just there.
	I don't want the men who fail either.
	Exactly.
	To be clear.
	I don't want male standards to be lowered to make this gender-neutral standard across the board so we can have, you know, fatties and dorks.
	Fatties and dorks, huh?
	Yikes.
	Yeah, I don't know if this is the right time to talk about this, but combat roles aren't just stabbing and shooting guns.
	Running fast.
	Yes, they are, dude.
	Elbow drops.
	Well, that's in their G.I. Joe world.
	I'm out there and I'm breaking people's legs on the front line.
	Women do fine keeping pace with long-range patrols and their presence doesn't degrade the overall unit performance.
	And oftentimes there's psychological advantages to having women there.
	They have more empathy.
	They can talk to women and children.
	You know, when you break down the door...
	With a freaking trench spike and you're just snapping these guys' legs.
	You're doing arm bars to the Chinese government.
	Let's just imagine you're in Afghanistan and you bust out a door and there's three children and a lady there.
	Headbutts!
	All four of them!
	Get on the ground!
	They do a great job of not only defusing situations relating to people in a way that is less intimidating.
	That's not combat, Byron.
	That sounds a lot like mediation.
	You know what we do to those guys?
	Party chopped through the skull!
	Part of being a soldier.
	They're also pretty good at shooting guns and killing people, I guess.
	Desert eagles into their head, apparently.
	Well, sure.
	There is a reason that we need women in combat roles in the army, if they want to be.
	Norway and Canada have been making reports about the operational effectiveness of women in the army.
	A guy who did...
	I didn't understand Starship Troopers.
	It's like, nah, dude, it's totally sick women in combat roles because, check it out, you're taking showers with these gals.
	Right in basic training, dude.
	There's morale building, there's trust, there's gathering intelligence.
	Women are better at that.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, guys.
	You're only good at busting skulls and shooting first and asking questions.
	And busting makes me feel good.
	Okay, great.
	Fuck.
	Sorry, this is burning a hole in my tongue right now, but just because we said the bad bitch built body earlier.
	Well, did you guys see the Jasmine Crockett thing from yesterday?
	No.
	Oh, I heard someone called her ghetto or something, right?
	She was arguing with Nancy Mace.
	I don't know if she called her ghetto necessarily, but Nancy Mace challenged her to a fight in the parking lot.
	Oh, God.
	Women have enhanced mental endurance in high stress.
	Are you questioning my endurance, Byron?
	No, I mean, no, but it's due to the estrogen advantage.
	Dude, I ordered hams.
	My endurance is fine.
	In the field can endure high stress better than men.
	But also Nancy Mace is out here proving Stephen wrong.
	That's, you know, she's ready to fight.
	She's ready for combat.
	Gerald's pretty offended by this whole idea of women in combat because, of course.
	I've never been so disappointed in my life.
	I am willing to go and lay down my life for you, and the response is, no!
	Wait, wait, no, you don't understand.
	I'm gonna go fight and possibly die to make sure that you're safe.
	Stop it!
	Equal rights!
	Yeah.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Wait, but what about the other way around?
	I mean, Gerald didn't go to war.
	Well, I mean, this is the same person being like, a woman being like, no, I'm going to protect your rights.
	Yeah, we're in this together.
	And the front line.
	How is it different?
	It's not.
	You can't protect people's rights by limiting their rights.
	Well, it's like he's trying to protect women from themselves.
	He's like, you're too dumb.
	You're too dumb.
	Let me go fight for you, okay?
	You don't know what you want.
	It's like for the same reason.
	Calm down.
	It's like if Gerald held the door open for some woman and she didn't say thanks, he'd be like, Fine, bitch.
	He wants the unearned appreciation that comes with being a white male.
	Why didn't you kiss me?
	I showed you chivalry.
	And I paid for your dinner.
	At Chick-fil-A. Great.
	I paid it forward at the Chick-fil-A line.
	You have to kiss me.
	And by the way, Hegseth tried to answer.
	Many times.
	But Warren, because nothing's better than perpetuating the original stereotype, kept interrupting and getting flustered, angry, irrational, wouldn't let Hagseth respond.
	Senator, I'm not familiar with...
	Article you're pointing to in 2013, but it underscores my argument completely, because in that 2013 argument, I was talking about standards.
	Standards are what it's always been about, Senator.
	Please, let's not have this same fight again.
	I voted you directly.
	Senator, again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comments from 2013, because for me, this issue has always been about standards.
	And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been in political power for the last four years, priorities other than standards, lethality, and meritocracy have driven decision-making.
	Senator, the concerns I have and the concerns that many have had, especially in ground combat units, is that in pursuit...
	Of certain percentages or quotas, standards have been changed.
	And that makes the combat more difficult for everybody involved.
	Let me make a suggestion about what happened in that 32 days.
	Senator, it's not even a question I've thought about.
	You can think about it right now.
	It's not one.
	My motivation for this job has never been about what could conceivably come next.
	Time is short.
	Go back to your Pinterest fake drum circle, you non-Sherokee.
	Here's the thing.
	Do you understand this?
	Yeah, it's not good.
	You non-Cherokee.
	Without context, even, I don't really have a problem with how Elizabeth Warren was trying to regain control of her time.
	She has this time allowed for her to ask questions, and he was refusing to answer them.
	I do find it really, really annoying that Stephen cut out the question he was...
	Anyone who's listening to this, it's not just trying to hear what they want to hear.
	It sounds like this is how he's been answering every question that's come through.
	And she's saying to him, Hey, you've already said this like a hundred times.
	I don't want this answer anymore.
	It's not really getting us anywhere.
	I think that that's fair.
	He was filibustering.
	The same as it always was.
	I found this great letter that she posted.
	She sent it to Pete Hegseth on January 6th.
	congratulations of course on the nomination but also saying that she has serious concerns about his qualifications to serve in the role given his history saying uh mismanagement of the two non-profit organizations you ran accusations of sexual assault and drinking problems
	your blatant disregard for the contributions of female service members support for war crimes and torture threats to politicize the military advocating for war against political enemies threats to determine dod readiness and diversity and contempt for veterans receiving benefits they earned in the letter below she provides additional details and And it is, oh man, seven pages of...
	Just, well, no, even more than that.
	Eight, nine.
	Oh, it's very good.
	It's got all the references, and I'll post it in the show notes of this episode.
	32 pages of delightful references to his alcohol problems, his disregard for norms of the position, and all kinds of great stuff.
	All of that said, I did want to give Elizabeth Warren a chance to actually ask her question, and this is what it was.
	But I want to be clear here.
	For 12 years, you were quite open about your views, and your views were consistently the same.
	Women are inferior.
	Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen.
	And in case anyone missed the point, and these are your words from 10 weeks ago, women absolutely straight up.
	And I notice on each of these quotes, those are said without qualification.
	It's not by how much you can lift or how fast you can run.
	They don't belong in combat, period.
	Or your words, straight up.
	And then, on November 9th, 2024, just...
	32 days after your last public comment saying that women absolutely should not be in combat, you declared that, quote, some of our greatest warriors are women, and you support having them serve in combat.
	Now, that is a very, very big about-face in a very, very short period of time.
	So help me understand, Mr. Hegseth.
	What extraordinary event happened in that 32-day period that made you change the core values you had expressed for the preceding 12 years?
	Senator, again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comments from 2013, because for me, this issue has always been about standards.
	And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been in political power for the last four years...
	Yeah, he wasn't going to answer the question.
	She didn't mention her first comment from 2013. Certainly did not.
	Nope.
	Yeah.
	Sounds like a typical man not listening.
	Not listening, right?
	Did anyone ask him about his deus volt tattoo or anything like that?
	I actually don't know if they did get to that.
	I mean, he is...
	Pretty wild Christian nationalist, and he does talk about being forgiven by God after the first divorce, the second divorce, you know, cheating on his second wife with, well, we'll actually talk about it more here in a second as we continue through the confirmation hearing.
	Steven, I mentioned this at the beginning.
	He's doing his best to discredit pretty much any concerns anyone would have about Hegseth.
	Not really talking about the things that are more or less likely and downplaying the things that he thinks are arguable.
	All because we have a track record of doing this.
	We being the left and, you know, how we treat a poor Brett Kavanaugh, remember?
	I know.
	He drinks beers.
	Through his butt.
	I didn't know that.
	Was that in the record?
	Yeah, he was boofing beers with Tobin.
	He was not.
	No, he was.
	Yes, absolutely.
	And he said, like, the whole thing came up about, like, what is boofing?
	And he'd be like, to drink a beer very quickly.
	And it's like, no, no, no, no.
	Maybe through your butt.
	Like, how fast can you drink it through your butt?
	I don't really know.
	I've seen people do, like, a coffee enema.
	I've seen them do the wine enema, you know?
	My old band, the first practice I ever had with them, this is a little secret, and this fellow actually passed away recently, so friendly memory here.
	There's only so much rum for four shots, and so we all gave Matt a little bit of rum in a straw, and he shoved that motherfucker up his butt and let it go.
	And he ate a hamburger like David Hasselhoff ate a hamburger in that video.
	And anyway, I was with those guys for about seven years.
	Oh, wow.
	Well, I mean, this would all be a surprise if Justice Alito didn't admit to making and drinking Jankum.
	Same playbook as Kavanaugh, the character assassination.
	And that usually comes down to drinking and allegations that have already been cleared.
	No charges brought of sexual harassment because something, something, something, it's the era of the woman.
	Pete Hegseth must be an alcoholic.
	I have read multiple reports of your regularly being drunk at work, including by people who worked with you at Fox News.
	She doesn't know where the beer is.
	Drunk at work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ. Senator, those are multiple false anonymous reports peddled by NBC News that run directly contradictory to the dozens of men and women at Fox News Channel who I work with who came on the record.
	I'm not hearing the answer to my question.
	You recently promised some of my Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed.
	Correct?
	Absolutely.
	Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink on the job, which is a 24-7 position?
	You first.
	I've made this commitment on behalf of the men and women I'm serving.
	I've made this commitment on behalf of the men and women I'm serving.
	I'm not hearing an answer to my question, so I'm going to move on.
	Yeah, well, she didn't move on.
	Hirano went on to end her questioning with this. - You have to be cleansed. - So that was retired Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Tammy Duckworth.
	Yeah.
	Who is a United States Senator from Illinois.
	She's been there since 2017. Yeah, she's also a friggin' wounded combat vet.
	I think she lost her leg.
	Both legs, I think, actually.
	One of her arms doesn't work properly.
	She has to sit and listen to this guy.
	Who won't even answer her question and say that she shouldn't be allowed to even serve our country.
	Well, and then, listen, well, she doesn't have to listen, but we have to listen to Stephen disrespect her, you know, the way she talks.
	Because of her accent.
	Well, because she's born in Thailand and was raised in Honolulu.
	Yeah, she sounds like that.
	She's not drunk.
	Yeah, no.
	Just really foul behavior from them.
	And they should know better.
	Like, I thought they respected veterans.
	They don't care.
	They only respect male veterans.
	Male veterans.
	Let's hear him respect the male veteran, too.
	That's a really good one.
	I hope that you pulled the clip.
	If anything, Byron, Stephen's disappointed that he used the wrong accent to make fun of her.
	Oh, you know what, though, Jared?
	I didn't pull that.
	I really should.
	Yeah, we should pull it.
	I'll do that just for fun.
	We should pull it, because it's like stark contrast.
	Pete, I'm actually going to ask you questions, because I want to hear your answer.
	How many genders are there?
	Tough one.
	Senator, there are two genders.
	I know that well.
	I'm a she-he, so I'm on board.
	Oh, my fucking God.
	What is the diameter of the rifle round fired out of an M4A1 rifle?
	That's a 5.56.
	How many push-ups can you do?
	I did five sets of 47 this morning.
	You don't need any more.
	That's probably good.
	Oh my fucking god.
	But that's the strongest guy there, of course.
	You know, the new...
	Bad boy in town.
	Yeah, Tim Sheehy.
	Mr. Transgender himself, I guess.
	Did you guys notice how clearly he answered those questions?
	Yeah, directly.
	Yeah, it's kind of wild.
	One of the questions, like how many push-ups can you do, that one needs more information to answer it directly.
	But you answered it directly anyway.
	They stood up and high-fived each other.
	Are you clapping?
	I mean, they look very similar.
	They both have this crossfit Republican look about them.
	Yeah, they have a fucking deus volt look to them.
	But only one of them accidentally shot himself and pretended it was a combat wound.
	It's very true.
	Further.
	Lied because he did it in a national park.
	Well, yes.
	It's illegal to do it.
	Or you're not supposed to have guns.
	Not supposed to have a gun there, but very cool.
	Super fun.
	They jump right past all of the, you know, sexual assault allegations that he has, which we don't need to get into.
	Those were talked about, but apparently he may have sexually assaulted someone at a Republican National Convention in 2017. But, of course, there was a settlement and a non-disclosure in place, so...
	That means he didn't do it, of course.
	Trump never said nothing about settling out of court.
	You don't have to look into it at all.
	Nope.
	This is about booze, boys.
	Hell yeah.
	So he wanted to do this.
	Oh, he drinks.
	By the way, I don't care.
	I don't care.
	Cool!
	If he drinks.
	I don't know if you know, but all of Western civilization was created and forwarded by people who drank.
	Alcoholism, a problem.
	Guys who drink, fun.
	Mostly.
	Like the correction from Josh.
	Because most people...
	I don't know, actually.
	There's accounts all over the place that he was drinking before work at bars.
	And like I said at the beginning, that he was being inappropriate with sex workers.
	And Stephen thinks that's kind of cool.
	Kind of cool.
	They love politicians that drink, right?
	Yeah, well, addiction is cool.
	If you're a white guy and you're drinking hella booze.
	And if you actually might have done it without, you know, just unsubstantiated claims like they made against, I don't know, this person for like six months.
	President Kamala Harris, or as they know her at the bar, Handy Harris.
	Because let's be...
	Do you think it's like, maybe like Hennessy, or do you think it's like an India Pale Ale?
	Well...
	I just want to know.
	She's drunker than I was in my mugshot.
	And Nick Nolte.
	Kalua Kamala is...
	That's what they're...
	I can imagine that.
	Kalua Kamala, that's what they're calling her.
	Kalua Kamala.
	MVP Irish Car Bomb.
	They did one and a half episodes where the main story almost exclusively talked about Harris being an alcoholic.
	Yeah.
	I have to throw this in.
	Uh-huh.
	Calling my name here.
	Yeah?
	Nick Nolte was at the very first show I ever played.
	Oh, that's kind of fun.
	What did he think?
	You know, he didn't talk to anybody.
	He just kind of came and looked at it and stunk of alcohol.
	Oh.
	I got his autograph, though.
	Still have it.
	Well, guys drink.
	Guys are dudes, and dudes are having fun.
	So if you're a woman, you're not invited to that party.
	You're never going to be a part of it.
	And also, if you're the president's son, you are crack abusing.
	Brain-riddled with rot idiot selling America's secrets to Russia or Ukraine or whatever the fuck.
	It's just like, if I like you, it's fine, and if I don't like you, then it's something I can throw you under the bus for, which is to say that there's no consistency with any of this motherfucker's shit.
	No, I mean, he's just running defense.
	Hey, he wants him on the show.
	He wants to be buds with these guys.
	If you want to come on our show and clear your name...
	And Lady Lane...
	I'm sorry, Tim Kaine.
	Who left his merry-go-round in the world of...
	Oh, my goodness.
	Tried to smear Mr. Hegseth, but actually made him sound, I would say, kind of cool.
	December of 2014 at the CVA Christmas party at the Grand High at Washington, D.C., you were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room.
	Is that true or false?
	Anonymous smears.
	One of your colleagues said that you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted, kill all Muslims.
	Another colleague, not anonymous, we have this, said that you took co-workers to a strip club.
	You were drunk.
	You tried to dance with strippers.
	You had to be held off the stage.
	And one of your employees in that event...
	Filed a sexual harassment charge as a result of it.
	Now, I know you deny these things, but isn't that the kind of behavior that, if true, would be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense?
	Senator, anonymous false charges.
	Look again at that wordplay.
	Isn't this the kind of thing, if true?
	Well, if you had a hairbrush, you wouldn't look like a retard.
	Hypotheticals.
	We don't know that for sure, Stephen.
	We don't know.
	Tim Kaine, you expect us to believe you're sober?
	And if so, you have a problem.
	How many people need to come forward and say that he's a drinking problem?
	Yeah, right.
	Not enough.
	It's just well that that's not a rhetorical question.
	He's saying, if that's a true thing, do you think that that person should be serving here?
	And if you truly are willing to deny that, then I would say...
	Say it right away.
	No hesitation.
	I would agree that that is an inappropriate thing, but that is not what I did.
	That's what I would say.
	Yeah.
	He's a God-wills-it guy.
	Getting so drunk that he's shouting, kill all the Muslims.
	This is something that, like, it's not unimaginable.
	That would be typical behavior for someone of that ilk, right?
	Like, that's just...
	And this was a complaint letter that was sent to his work organization in late 2015. This wasn't right now.
	This has nothing to do with his confirmation.
	It's nothing to do with his nomination.
	Yeah, they're not smearing him, you know...
	Ten years ago smearing him for what's coming.
	Like a 4chan guy.
	And he's a wife guy, too.
	He's just bad at it.
	A serial wife guy?
	He and other members of his management team apparently were sexually pursuing female staffers.
	They divided into two groups, the party girls and the not party girls.
	That's some Matt Gaetz behavior.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's really gross, yeah.
	Again, I'm just going to point people towards this wonderful article in The New Yorker, but I'm also going to stop reading because it doesn't matter, right?
	We just have to talk about how drinking beer is.
	This guy's gonna lead the military.
	It seems that way.
	Yeah, isn't it true?
	If true, if you went to a strip club and showed your swastika on your chest to the black stripper, commonly referred to as cinnamon, that that would be a problem?
	Okay.
	I'm fine with it.
	I don't care if he drinks.
	I don't believe the smears.
	Again, these are anonymous.
	These are smears.
	Remember when we heard that Donald Trump jerked from Bitch Cassidy, that Donald Trump jerked the Secret Service car on January 7th?
	Oh wait, none of that was true.
	Why is he saying Nazi tattoo?
	It's not a swastika, Stephen.
	Do you think he may not know?
	What else would he be referring to?
	I think it's a pretty well-known thing.
	I think he's just saying it's an outlandish claim.
	I don't know.
	He's just saying the thing.
	I honestly think he's trying to act like it's an outlandish claim.
	I don't think he knows anything about any tattoos at all.
	Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like there was an accident, but what's not an accident is him doing the black stripper referred to as cinnamon bit, which he's also said several times.
	The guy's a broken record of bigotry.
	It's wild.
	Let me tell you this.
	This is the reason they do it, okay?
	The left has learned, and they try to make screw-ups something relatable.
	So, for example, if you hear, the reason Mel Gibson is so easily forgiven is because, wait a second, he got drunk, he was rocketing down the PCH, he called a cop sugar tits and blamed all of the ills of the world on the Jews.
	He's clearly out of his mind.
	Ah, Mel.
	But if they go, wait a second, hold on, this guy had a little too much to drink one time?
	Oh, wait.
	I've done that.
	Wait a second.
	Oh, wait.
	It turns out he got into an argument with a girlfriend?
	I've done that.
	So people naturally try and distance themselves.
	That's when they virtue signal the worst.
	I would never!
	You do, and you did.
	You didn't blame the Jews for space lasers, and you didn't call a cop sugar tits, but I guarantee you've been in an argument with your spouse.
	I guarantee you that you have had too much to drink at some point in time, unless you're a teetotaler like Donald Trump.
	If it's relatable, it's kind of like when you watch a film and you see something.
	And you see a little bit of yourself and you get uncomfortable.
	You're like, oh, yeah, I've lost my cool and done that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't really experience that very often.
	I don't watch villains in movies and go, oh, man, I've got to get my shit together.
	I remember that one time when I did that and accidentally hired somebody to rob a bank, but then a guy with a green mask beat us to it.
	You know, I love yelling at my wife and getting drunk.
	We've all told her to feed the dogs the medicine.
	What is he talking about?
	How often do you have a voice-raised yell at your partner while intoxicated?
	Well, what's crazy is he honestly, all he's trying to say is that the Democrats are projecting.
	But then he talks about all these things that like Marjorie Taylor Greene has done.
	Or Lauren Boebert, same thing.
	And it's also one of those things that's like, listen, if you're speaking out against something, if you say that that's always projection, then you're obviously not being honest because there are bad things in the world that people can speak out against.
	And if your go-to thing is just, oh, you're speaking out against it, you must be asking.
	What does that say about Stephen's stance on Child Predators?
	Come on, man.
	I thought I was having a fever dream here, but it was Bobert who had the gun-themed restaurant called Shooters.
	That's right.
	Shooters, yes.
	I think it went out of business because it made people sick.
	Because they're trying to do seafood in Colorado, and I'm like, what?
	I had something great to say that I totally forgot about.
	You thought about popcorn shrimp, didn't you?
	I was too distracted by shrimp.
	And shooters them at your butthole because you got sick.
	Gross.
	No one's criticizing him just for casual drinking.
	They're criticizing him for drinking at work and the things that he does to his work colleagues in those situations.
	If he's like, hey listen, you like to drink a bunch and order stuff off QVC. No one's saying that.
	They're saying, hey listen, you get drunk and you treat people like a piece of shit and you do it at work.
	That's what they're saying.
	That's what they're upset about.
	And it's a pattern.
	It's not just one time you were like Mel Gibson who is apparently forgiven.
	They have a system to get you to your room.
	I will only forgive Mel Gibson so much as I will be watching his new film Flight Risk on opening day because it looks funny.
	Mark Wahlberg is secretly bald and a villain on an airplane?
	What the hell?
	I'm really excited for it.
	No one has forgiven Mel Gibson, who of course recently was on the Joe Rogan Experience where he claimed the LA fires were a conspiracy.
	More Jewish face lasers.
	Uh-huh, that's what we're working with.
	He's a lunatic that no one has forgiven.
	Yeah, no, I don't know why anyone has forgiven him.
	I mean, maybe Stephen has, I don't know.
	I was expecting that we would need this, and sure enough, we did, because this has been a bit of an emotional and procedural slog.
	We learned a little bit about Steven.
	I didn't touch a drop in college.
	High school, college, never touched a drop until I was 22 or 23. You know.
	I used to get milk.
	Because I didn't like the taste of any alcohol.
	Milk?
	I know.
	I still drink milk.
	I think that deserves another admonition.
	I would lie and say, I went to college.
	I did go to college, but I didn't get blackout drunk in college.
	Because who?
	Who cares?
	You want to talk about pearl clutching?
	Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell couldn't be more easily offended than those on the left.
	Beer on weekdays that the guy overconsumed at a Christmas party?
	Who cares?
	He really wants us to forget that he just admitted to drinking a lot of milk.
	And that his first drink was a whiskey milk.
	That's awful.
	He was doing black velvet and 2%.
	Fuck, man.
	He just downplays it again, though.
	He talks about just a couple of beers on the weekdays, and then you block out at a Christmas party.
	Yeah, that was not what happened.
	Yeah, just getting shameful, putting your necktie around your forehead, and shouting, I love killing terrorists.
	Yeah, kill all the Muslims.
	There's like eight of them there at the party.
	We've all been there, guys.
	We've all been there.
	Yeah, we've all made it.
	Active threats while intoxicated.
	This is actually the last clip of this segment.
	I hope we all learned something about this fun procedure.
	We really need to look inward and realize kind of the harmful way that we're portraying all this.
	It's anti-God.
	The idea of forgiveness, redemption, but it can only exist if married with accountability.
	The left doesn't believe in accountability.
	On the outset, whether it's abortion, Whether it's horrible policy, whether it's how your actions affect your fellow citizen, they don't believe in that.
	And then they don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
	They believe in disqualifying someone today, 20, 30, 40 years later, because of mistakes that they may or may not have made in their youth.
	23, 40 years?
	Yeah, dude, this is back in...
	So we're no longer just talking about Pete Hegseth, who's 44, right?
	We're judging him for the things he did when he was four?
	He's 44?
	Yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought that that man was, like, gotta be in his, like, you know, mid-50s.
	He's 44?
	Well, he's got the white hair, silver hair thing going on.
	Hard living, is what that is.
	Yeah.
	I'll forgive him for...
	It sounds like a little bit too much to drink.
	He'll age you.
	Maybe.
	Or it'll pickle you.
	Who knows what the insides look like.
	I forgive him.
	What's the tip of his nose look like?
	Probably covered with makeup and usually red.
	I forgive Pete for the axe thing.
	Remember when he accidentally threw that axe over the piece of wood and hit that guy in a marching band?
	What?
	You don't remember that?
	Oh god, you guys gotta see this clip.
	Alright, yeah.
	Who's going to win this battle with the lumberjack?
	That's what's next.
	What you didn't see on air is what the axe hit.
	Or should we say, who?
	Drumroll, please.
	West Point marching band drummer Jeff Prospery got hammered by the axe.
	The other band members kept drumming.
	Ouch!
	But soon after, Prospery was being interviewed by the very co-host who'd nailed him.
	It's a delight to be here to celebrate.
	And an even bigger delight to still have both hands.
	On his Facebook page, Prospery posted the cell phone video and called the mishap obvious negligence.
	I am thankful to God that the double-sided blade only hit broadside on the outer elbow with significant impact and a couple of cuts.
	He said he was focusing on full physical and emotional recovery.
	Oh God, what happened to the guy?
	He just bought...
	bonked him with that axe there it sailed over the wall and struck the drummer that was only in 2019 jesus that's scary you know what i'll say about this byron yeah i don't think he needs forgiveness for that at all it was an accident i think whoever organized that axe throwing deserves forgiveness why are there people standing behind an axe being thrown it's a great question and and on things that aren't up to me to forgive him like you know
	i don't know what things were like personally for him uh a lot of people get divorces um Some people get second divorces.
	And some people cheat on their second wives with their third wives and have a baby with them while they're still actively married.
	And then get divorced and then marry that person.
	And, you know, that's fine, I guess.
	But it does display a pattern of what I would say is ungodly behavior in disrespect to the sanctity of marriage.
	Totally.
	When you make these vows to stay with someone in sickness and health till death do you part in front of God, Stephen should be judging him far more harshly than I am.
	I don't know what his relationships were like.
	I don't believe in God.
	And one thing that I want to call about that last clip is that Stephen said that people should be held accountable for the way that their actions impact others.
	And that's what he's trying to be held accountable for right now.
	Yeah.
	Every time he says females shouldn't be in the military.
	Straight up.
	That hurts people.
	He more than anyone else, not Stephen, but Pete, should know the value of completing those goals of joining the military and moving up in the ranks.
	That's something that clearly he still values a lot.
	To limit someone's ability to participate in protecting our country.
	Because a woman, it's ridiculous.
	It's offensive.
	Totally.
	And people do need to hold him accountable for those beliefs.
	And that's why it's been repeated so frequently by all those nagging women.
	Yeah.
	He's probably going to be the whatever Secretary of Defense.
	That's fine.
	Yeah.
	It's pretty likely that we will probably hear about him again, and it will likely be not good news.
	But we can leave it there for now.
	Yeah.
	We then go to the Gavin Newsom What a Piece of Shit segment and I didn't clip any of it except for a parody song they play at the end.
	You know, this is just like they really care about all the people in Los Angeles and they feel bad for them and would love them to have a local state government that is better funded in the right ways and doesn't waste money.
	So then they give them a...
	A little treat of this musical number here.
	Oh, no.
	Was it stunner?
	Now it's such a bummer.
	How'd it get this way?
	Leadership is getting dumber.
	Running down L.A. to keep a little official life.
	The Golden State just might not survive.
	California, rest in peace.
	It's a liberal disease.
	Pretty cool, huh?
	That's like right in his Q-zone for sure.
	I would like to die.
	Well, before that happens, Dennis, I gotta say that's about all we should handle for this week.
	Seriously.
	If you disagree with us, feel free to convince us otherwise.
	Man, I was really enjoying Before He Came Back.
	This is gonna be a really...
	A lot.
	Hopefully he says some, like, dumber shit, I guess?
	I promise it's happening.
	I would be fine with it.
	I'm fine with it.
	His recap of this and just reacting to it with...
	distractions and it ain't that bad.
	It's not anything I'm terribly interested in.
	But we got four days a week of Steven now, so a lot more to monitor.
	Welcome back.
	You know, though, maybe they're not doing such a great job relaying that to their actual audience because their audience seems to be confused about Rumble Premium and that And they're confused about it and very...
	Peculiar places on the internet.
	They're talking about it in interesting places like r slash louder than Crowder.
	Which is really odd because that's r.
	Well, it's not r.
	Someone runs it for you.
	Yeah, I'm not touching that thing.
	But it did come across the latest and greatest page.
	Man, they're confused.
	They don't know what's going on.
	Should probably do a chargeback.
	I love the recommendation.
	It's smarter than anything that I could come up with.
	Telling them to get a chargeback is very good.
	Yeah, go to r slash louder than Crowder.
	Let's talk about Steven there.
	Yeah, and you can reach out to us at ThanCrowder on X and BlueSky, louderthancrowder.com, louderwithcrowder.net.
	I hope you boys enjoy being the Lone Star Brothers for as long as you're there.
	I don't know.
	I guess it can be.
	Yeah, I got us Luchador masks for our match this weekend.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, we're going to meet up in Odessa, and we're going to fight the Oil Boys, the Roughnecks from Odessa.
	Dessa, combined weight, 560 pounds, probably.
	Well, I wish you all the best.
	It's too bad you guys just barely missed Dave Lando and Alex Stein in Dallas.
	The club didn't post about him, so I'm just going to put that out there.
	Yeah, they don't like talking too much about it.
	I keep my eye peeled.
	Shrug Nation, thanks so much for spending this time with us.
	Until next time, I'm Byron.
	I'm Jared.
	And I'm done.
	Viva La Lone Star Brothers!
	You've been listening to an AudioWall original produced by Byron McCoy.

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