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April 28, 2025 - Louder Than Crowder
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Double Salutes: 4/11/25 (Excerpt)

There's twice as much show over at http://shrug.club. FREE. This week we learn some lessons. Tom MacDonald teaches us to ONLY listen to our hearts, not our heads. Laura Looper give us the scoop on investing in gold. And Adam Calhoun teaches us you can always get a new crew.  

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*music*
Double salutes, two hands to the sky One for my God and one for my pride Red, white and blue, yeah, it runs in my veins Land of the free, because
of the brave Stand tall, stand true, till the day that I die Double salutes Double
Yes.
Welcome to Double Salutes, the most patriotic stream on the world wide web, where we're going to soar through the week's best...
What are you doing over there, Dennis?
You're putting your hood up?
Soaring through the week's best propaganda, breaking down, and trying not to break down too much while we do that.
Here we go.
Dennis is here.
Rock and roll.
Rock and roll.
This is my first Double Salute I've been to after helping with that song.
Proper Double Salutes, yeah.
Excellent.
How you been?
It's been a really cool week.
Everything's going good.
Stocks are fine.
Yeah, 401k's up, down, up, down, up, down.
Now it's down, now it's up.
Yeah, it's in and out.
Believe me, it's still down.
No, it's definitely down.
It's down.
Yeah, for sure.
You know, I'll say...
It's not good.
I have a little IRA that I forgot to actually invest in places.
Oh, sure.
And so that is...
I'm thankful for that.
And how does that work?
I don't know.
It's just basically it's money that's not actually invested in stocks right now.
It's my understanding anyway.
It hasn't lost any value.
So I just waited until Trump told me to buy and I bought.
Yeah, he sent you an email and you just did it.
Get freaky with the tzatziki, buy the dip.
Things are good.
I mean...
We're getting ready for that Bernie Sanders AOC rally.
Yeah, AOC is going to be here.
That's pretty sick.
You know...
Mahmoud Khalil, they said that they can deport him?
Yeah.
Which is insane.
They gave him the green light.
That's a nice attack on free speech.
But they are sending back the gay hairdresser that they just scooped up.
No.
Well, they are eventually.
They were told to, but they're not.
Well, they're legally obligated to give a daily update of what they're doing.
That's like when you have a manager who's like...
Puts you on a performance action plan, and they're like, you need to give me daily notes of what you're doing.
Well, I've never been in trouble at work, so I don't know what that's like.
I have.
Yeah, it's not fun.
Did they let you go home eventually?
Well, I work for myself now, so I figured it out.
Well, one character...
In front of a business and not inside the business, Byron.
Well, yeah.
I do have a fun little video that I think we should start with.
You guys remember Laura Loomer?
Oh, yeah.
I wish I didn't.
Well, she did get invited back recently to the White House to talk to Donald Trump, and then some people got fired after that.
They weren't important or anything.
It didn't matter.
None of it fucking matters.
She is on X, of course, but there's this fun...
Is it like Molly and acid, or what kind of...
Excuse me?
She's on X. Oh, it's a website.
It's the everything platform.
Oh, okay.
I was like, well, she's on drugs.
She's obviously on...
I'm not going to be mean about her weight.
Okay, I was going to say Osambic, but I don't need to be mean.
That's not fair.
I mean, yeah, you don't know.
I don't need to do that.
But she's most certainly on cocaine.
And other drugs.
Breaking news.
Laura Loomer has been cancelled.
The President of the United States has refused to take her phone calls as he suspects she is soon to be arrested.
Is Laura Loomer the most hated person on planet Earth?
We want to hear from you, the listener, and get your opinion on whether or not...
Man, I tell you, I heard she got cancelled.
We coming for you, bitch.
We coming to your house, Laura Loomer.
We know where you live.
We coming for you right now.
We coming for your friends.
We coming for your friend's little dog.
Frankly, you know, I hope they throw her away for the rest of her life.
I hope she dies.
She is currently on the run from authorities.
She is described as armed and dangerous.
I just can't believe she's been getting away with it for this.
An angry mob appears to be forming outside the home of journalist Laura Loomer.
What is wrong with you?
Why are you not panicking?
Because I called Kirk Elliott Precious Metals, and I learned how adding gold and silver to my portfolio is one of the safest ways to not just grow my finances, but to also protect them from the uncertainty of the future.
You couldn't deliver that?
It's like a gold sponsor that she has.
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen.
It is really, really bad, right?
It's a minute, 15 seconds?
What is this?
Well, it still is 10. So I'm fine!
Call economist Kirk Elliott at 720-605-3900 or schedule a call online at kepm.com slash loomer to learn how you can safely grow your retirement portfolio with precious metals.
Alright, so you want to, like, the straight on.
You think this looks fake?
I'm panicking!
Because I called Kirk Elliott Precious Metals, and I learned how adding gold and silver to my portfolio is one of the safest ways to not just grow my finances, but to also protect them.
It actually does look...
Yeah, her hair looks really odd.
Well, her mouth skips, too.
Her mouth is...
Watch it.
Especially when it gets into that second half, it's like too wordy for the AI to catch.
Yeah, watch this skip.
It's really interesting.
Because I called Kirk Elliott Precious Metals, and I learned how adding gold and silver to my portfolio is one of the safest ways to not just grow my finances, but to also protect them from the uncertainty of the future.
It's almost like it goes in reverse.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just kind of weird.
Yeah, we gotta call Kirk Elliott, right?
Alright, give me the number.
Well, yeah.
It's at the top of the screen there.
720.
Uh-huh.
And put it on speaker, of course.
What if he answers and he goes, Oh, hello there.
Well, what if he offers us a sponsorship?
Oh, Biden the pickle.
Please leave a message and our client concierge team will return your call at their earliest convenience.
Hey, we're watching this video and I guess...
We put it in the chat.
We're asking the chat right now.
We just want them to answer this for us.
Maybe you can confirm my number is...
Is Laura Loomer's mouth AI in this weird commercial you guys did?
You probably have my number on the callback.
Just go ahead and give me a callback.
Thanks.
Wonderful.
This is the dumbest world.
It's so dumb.
This is so dumb.
I don't like any of this.
Well, if you didn't like that, you're going to hate this.
Fuck.
You see this?
It's hard.
It's hard.
Oh, no.
Hell, yeah.
No, no, no.
Hell, yeah.
With these, like, white women in cute crates.
Look at her go.
Wow.
I saw someone who's got, like, a new grip where they're just doing AI Trump canvases.
And they're like, the Democrats hate me because I'm a painter that wants to paint Trump.
And it's, like, clearly AI.
That's always fun.
You gotta count the fingers.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
Nothing more.
Now you don't need to worry about it.
No, the fingers are good.
My feed on Facebook is full of AI pictures of Elon Musk.
Not Elon Musk, though.
It's piggies.com.
Like Elon Musk as a fake police officer.
Or Elon Musk adopted this baby because the parents are poor.
I've seen the ones that have, like, it's like Elon and, like, 13, like, AI children.
Yeah, and they're like, he's the king.
Yeah, yeah, he's, like, Filipino, for sure.
Am I really the only one not on Facebook?
Like, I'm done.
You might be.
I might be it.
I got out.
I'm done.
Elon Muskrat says Gilmore.
Yes, fully right, fully correct.
This is straight-up lunacy.
This is...
False prophets, man.
Well, but why?
I mean, I don't know.
Look at her pain, dude.
This is, like, not even how you pain.
These are people religiously worshipping Trump right now.
Like, that's what that is.
You think they're religiously, just because of the swelling music and their hands are open?
Yes.
What else is this event?
This is at a church.
I promise you.
Churches are just Trump worship centers now.
Did you guys see that Trump removed a picture of Obama from the White House to replace it with him doing his fist up fight, fight, fight picture?
That's cool and that's fair.
Get Obama out of there.
The songs are saying Amen.
There is a chant of Amen.
And the thing that I think is the most interesting and concerning about this...
You don't actually watch her paint at all?
Well, yeah, you can see her do it.
Look at this one arm doing the...
That's moving paint.
There's some paint moving there.
So my thinking is, what if someone was doing this of Barack Obama?
You know?
It goes back to what Obama said.
A couple weeks ago, he said, what if I did any of this?
But, like, imagine any sort of...
I don't know why that made me laugh so hard.
What if it was Joe Biden?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe Biden's actually doing, like, the painting.
He's doing, like, the maestro painting this woman's doing.
Oh, I wish I still had chocolate chip cookies.
I don't know if I still...
Slaying his little bones about.
Are we done with the chocolate chip cookies era?
Chocolate chip cookie.
The boom guys?
No, no, no.
I had one of Joe Biden saying chocolate chip cookies from his interview during the Super Bowl.
But it seems like it's not here anymore.
But yeah, no, I feel like, I mean, there was definitely like, you know, Obama has fans, politicians have fans.
But nothing like this.
Nothing like this.
This is super cult of personality.
Like, intensely culty.
And I don't...
I just don't understand it.
I truly...
Oh, there's a cross on the hill.
Of course there is.
Okay, so we're looking at a cross on the hill.
And he's really religious.
That's the important thing about all this.
Of course he is, yeah.
As a European, it looks like they're two United States.
One is sane and the other is grossly insane.
Very fun.
There is America and MAGA America now.
A living contradiction.
I call it a high paradox.
Alright, you're thinking too much.
Yep.
That person's replying to every post.
Yeah, why are cults so successful in the U.S.?
That's a great question.
Cool statue of Trump.
Insane cult.
Yeah, he used to cool it.
That's fine.
Every one of them.
That's a good one.
It wasn't that bad of a painting, right?
The painting was fine.
Yeah.
Painting was dog shit.
Trump could end up being a top five president of all time if he was able to crush China and bring back the U.S.-backed world preeminence.
But I think we want to draw a line at stuff that approaches religious veneration.
Yeah.
Yeah, but Corey...
Man, this is cool.
He's with a gun at school.
Very busy family, man.
Corey's just busy.
Call him.
We can give him a call.
Oh, God.
Of course, he's talking about that.
The trans...
Transfencer?
Yeah, Transfencer.
They really care about all this shit.
Alright.
So I thought that those were fun little ways to open up.
This is a bigger story.
I don't know if this was on your radar this week.
Here's something you don't hear about every day.
The DOJ being called on to investigate children's show hosts.
That is exactly what one advocacy organization wants.
Stop Anti-Semitism is the group, and they're pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate popular children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel over her calls to help children in Gaza.
Have you heard about this?
Yeah.
What's the deal?
What's going on?
Well...
I think, just to borrow the commentary straight out of the chapo's mouth, it's just straight up like this is a woman who is deeply connected to toddlers and children's entertainment.
I think that anyone who would have that sort of connection would be...
Someone who would say something about maybe don't kill children in foreign countries?
I'd say maybe someone who does kill children.
Who is it?
These people that are just saying that she's doing anti-Semitism because she's saying don't kill children in Gaza?
We should stop killing all the kids in Gaza.
Just, like, more bullshit from the fucking...
Like, if you say anything about Israel, then you're being anti-Semitic.
And it's like, suck my dick from the back.
Fuck up.
So stupid.
That's where things are kind of...
That's the road we're on right now, unfortunately.
Well, yeah.
I mean, like, that's...
It's one step away from this, like, going...
Yeah, yeah.
It's like this person said anti-Semitic things.
It's like, I'm Jewish and I don't agree with, like, what they're doing.
And so, like, that's enough for them to be like, well...
That's a thought crime against America.
And you're going to El Salvador.
Buddy Street there.
Pack a bag.
Yeah, we're going to shave your fucking head.
New Guantanamo.
Yeah, right.
That's kind of what we're doing here.
How do you guys think the right would feel if it was like when Mr. Rogers put his feet in a pool with the black guy?
You know, remember how that was controversial back then?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you think that would land him in AG?
We're taking Fred all the way down to Gitmo, baby.
Take your freaking little red sweater off and hang it up for this black and white prison jacket.
Stripes look good on you.
In my head I always go to that.
What was that prison abuse in Iraq?
It must have been Iraq.
Yeah, it was when they put the bags on their hand and made them sit.
God damn it, it's not funny.
Yeah, no, but they got the hood with the electrical clips and shit.
Yeah, yeah.
Remember that?
They do that to Fred.
They made them do the cheerleader triangle stack where they're on their knees and on their all fours, you know?
I forgot about that one.
Do you remember those, Dennis?
No, I don't.
All the horrific abuse during the Iraq War?
The Iraq War, yeah.
It's like all this American waterboarding people and just like, yes, yes, doing cock and ball torture on...
And it was a lot of women, too, which is always shocking, I guess, when people see women doing something like this.
Obligrabe torture and partner abuse.
It's not different.
I don't know if we need to put that on screen, but...
Yeah, we definitely don't.
Yikes.
Yeah.
New profile picture.
Fuck.
So, yeah, I mean, that's kind of the route we're on, huh?
Like, if you don't agree with genocide...
Well, the attack on free speech right now is absolutely bonkers.
I mean, just in Montana, three students had their visas revoked.
I don't know what it was about.
There's not much information about where that happened.
But, I mean, it's...
Happened at UT this week, too.
It's...
I think what really blows my mind is that people think that these rights, and rights that are like moral just rights, like morality, shouldn't apply to non-citizens.
I just don't get it.
Yeah.
AB in the chat says, Trump administration members have replaced the U.S. flag lapel pins with a golden bust of Trump.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
It's straight up fucking dictator shit.
It's fascist shit.
He also, there's like an executive order.
That's directly towards law firms or something, and he is basically saying, I won't sue you if you give me free legal work or something.
Yeah, that's been a fun one lately.
I've seen.
It's wild.
You know, I think we need to take a little fun break.
Hell yeah, meat boys.
Did I hear a jingle?
Yeah, meat boys following him.
Anyway, I'm excited.
Wait, what?
I said I'm on the side of Miss Rachel.
Oh yeah, we all back Miss Rachel.
I'm not.
Excuse me?
Send her to El Salvador.
Alright, here's Meat Boys Volume 2. Hey, call me the meat!
Whoops.
Hey, call me the meat man!
You ought to see me eat now!
I'm the meat man!
You ought to see me eat now!
They said it couldn't be done.
They said it shouldn't be done.
But here we are.
Day 6 of the Rotten Meat Challenge.
And tonight's special is a five-week countertop age.
It's black, it's slimy, and I'm pretty sure it's now its own ecosystem.
Mmm.
That's tangy.
Like someone melted a tire in pickle brine and called it gourmet.
But what's a little acidity between friends?
After all, germ theory is just a theory, right?
Nope.
Mmm.
My family thinks I'm absolutely crazy for eating raw meat, but for me, the flavor, the moisture, the sushi-like texture all make it feel and taste so much better than the cooked stuff.
You know, I don't really discriminate between meats, red meat, white meat, chicken, fish, beef, I enjoy it all.
It's got the physique of a man who has diarrhea constantly.
Yep.
I simply take this amazing Bighorn Mountain ribeye and I slice it up into smaller chunks and I dried it in the refrigerator in the rack with salt on it for about a week.
And then I slice it up.
This is what it looks like inside.
It's the very, very best.
I put on some beautiful mold and salt.
All you need to do.
And you've got to eat the fatty meat.
This is the healthiest thing to eat.
And the raw fatty meat, this is the candy that you want to be eating.
This is the antimicrobial, the anti-inflammatory, what you want to put in your gut.
Okay.
Love it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
Stop, bro!
That's not really cooked!
Holy Coke, what do you mean?
Realize, when you cook the shit out of your beef, you're getting cooked.
You get rid of all the water-soluble vitamins, and then you have a little test, and that's why.
Oh, fuck.
Adding raw honey to grass-fed ground bean for the splash of raw milk has been eaten.
Even my skeptic husband was missed.
Chicken meal with tomato and ten-class raw chicken, of course.
This guy probably always has diarrhea.
Well I don't always have diarrhea, but I do go through phases where I do have diarrhea every day.
Okay.
So, uh...
Not every day.
You know that dude just stinks.
Remember, did I...
We saw a video of him where he's got, like, the rollerblades on.
I don't know if I know that.
He's like a boardwalk rollerblade guy.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not surprised.
That doesn't surprise me, yeah.
That first one was a disgusting...
You don't like the slop?
That's insane.
He died the next day.
This guy?
Yeah.
Did he really die?
No.
Okay.
He's joking.
He doesn't know that for sure.
Maybe.
Maybe?
He could be dead.
Might as well be.
All right.
Well, I guess we should probably check in on our boys, right?
Hey, real quick.
I got to tell you guys.
I saw here in small Montana an Adam Calhoun 2024 bumper sticker.
Adam Calhoun for president.
He's been doing some kind of cool takes.
You want to hear a couple of these?
Has he?
He's really, really invested in everyone else.
Bitcoin has lost all of his money.
Yeah, he might be.
So, let's get mixed in.
Here we go.
So if you're lonely...
Okay, what?
Is that...
Sam...
What's the one?
Smith.
No, I don't think so.
No, it's just a normal country singer.
I'm trying to get the corner here, but I'm using a Windows PC.
It's not letting me change the size of the window.
There we go.
Alright.
Just want to make sure everyone can kind of see.
Fuck are we doing here?
What is that?
I thought Luke Bryan was the gayest shit in country music until right now!
What's the name of this song?
These are my pronouns?
Coming to the stage!
Girth Brooks!
Darius Tucker!
Toby Queef!
Dirks Bent Me!
This is crazy.
This is not country music.
Can we just go back in the day when everyone used to get picked on and beat up?
I miss the days when it was just gay people were normal.
They weren't this gay.
Gay people, I miss the old gays.
So that's him caring too much about what he considers country music.
And he's trying to do comedy now?
It did seem like he wrote a couple bits.
He wrote a couple bits.
Not funny.
He looked up, Googled, or binged his list of country singers.
I guarantee that he just found them on Reddit.
I bet you could even ask ChatGPT to make parody names for country people that are gay.
Sure, yeah.
But I don't know who this singer is, but they're better than I don't call who never sounded.
That is for sure, yes.
Yeah. And what was this other one?
Oh, how is this illegal?
That's the fencer one where he's talking about how...
Yeah, men literally their whole face in your ass, but be scared to open up about their feelings.
Wow Wow Guilty as charged.
That's right.
I am
I eat ass!
Yep, he's a butt diver.
I just open it up and I'm face first right in there.
I don't care about pink eye.
I'm immune.
However, however, ma'am, I do care about you busting us out to the whole world.
My mother's on this app.
I will continue my craft.
So, he's married, by the way.
Doesn't need to be.
What was he even saying?
Was he saying that he wouldn't talk about his feelings?
Clearly he's not going to talk about his feelings.
Oh yeah, we're not doing that.
So that's Adam Calhoun.
Does he have a new song I saw?
He put out an album and it didn't really go anywhere.
And my mouth was working too.
Let's see what that does.
There we go.
We can take a listen.
I just saw a new song here.
He had a new song called Insane.
I mean, there's Pocket Full of Bullets, which is pretty cool as well.
I want to hear Insane.
Insane.
With a guy named Hard Target.
Drendel Belvo.
What?
Is that kind of a chili pepper shirt?
Oh, yeah.
I like a new one.
Me and my boys, we got the freshest shit from Walmart This shit fell off the truck My friend called me to come get the hot chili pepper song.
I'll do it.
I'm just remixing it.
Yeah, I was going to say, I know, I know.
I'm enjoying your version too, but I gotta know what these fools are saying.
Wait, this guy's called Justin Time?
Who the fuck is Justin Time?
And Crimple Man?
Wait, wait, wait.
We got Crimple Man, we got the Justin Time, we got Heart Target, And the Calhoun himself.
Yeah, here we go.
I just wanted to know what it's like to have my dogs riding by my side.
Dude, I've never had my dogs riding by my side, ever.
Dude, I've never had my dogs riding by my side,
ever.
Is that a lyrical lemonade tattoo on his neck?
He's trying to get on the radar.
This is one of the guys from Dude Perfect.
Is it?
No.
This is just in time right here.
This is?
Okay.
Gotta read.
Oh. Oh.
Oh. Oh.
Oh, Crimple Man comes in.
Wait, I'm just kind of...
When did he get rid of his other group of guys?
Like Brodnax and those?
I don't know.
This is them.
This has got new names.
I recognize Broadnax.
Now he's like, you know what you hit with the axe?
A target.
That's me.
Hard target.
Yeah, he's like renaming him.
He's the man of his crew.
Can we look up...
Simple Man is the only guy that I really care about.
That's all I want to hear about Simple Man.
Crippled.
Crippled deeds.
Look at that guy.
He's twisted.
He's a sicko, dude.
Holy shit, he's not a good guy.
He's got a Timothy McVeigh with hard time.
He's saying that he's Hemothy.
Is he like...
Pro-Timothy McVeigh?
Yeah, I'm him.
I am him.
I mean, as a guy who just got back from Oklahoma and visited the Oklahoma City bombing memorial.
That first track right there.
God damn it.
Oh wait, there's an actual music.
Go back, go back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With Hard Target, of course.
There you go.
Breadwin DeVille again.
His name is Breadwin.
I don't like this.
He's got those Ross jeans.
Yeah, big time.
Oh, man.
Scragglies.
28 bucks at Ross.
Yeah, they made these jeans out about nine pairs of jeans.
Is this Simple Man?
This guy?
Yeah, I think that's Simple Man.
Wow.
Alright.
Go back.
This is the shot.
Can we cut to that unplugged cord?
How about that, huh?
Byron from the present, just to let you know that if you want to watch or listen to the rest of this, go to shrug.club.
Once again, we'll see you Tuesday.
Take care.
Bye.
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