EPISODE 83: ICED FLAT WHITE, HOLD THE ESPRESSO (FEBRUARY 12TH, 2026)
Episode 83: ICED FLAT WHITE, HOLD THE ESPRESSO (Feb 12, 2026) mocks Steven Crowder’s overreaction to Dunkin’ Donuts’ rebranded ads—like Megan Thee Stallion’s "squish" commercial—while dismissing his cultural critiques as outdated. The episode ties this to broader conservative grievances: Epstein files remain underwhelming despite 3M+ pages, Pam Bondi’s hearing performance is ridiculed, and DEI initiatives are framed as pandering to non-white audiences. Crowder’s selective outrage (e.g., ignoring Dunkin’s Thai ad with blackface) and Elon Musk’s legal fund for Epstein victims contrast sharply, exposing hypocrisy in accountability demands. The show ends by mocking Crowder’s trivial coffee complaints while questioning systemic failures to address deeper scandals. [Automatically generated summary]
Hey folks, it's Byron, and real quick before this episode starts, I just want to say that if you're listening to this the day it comes out, we will be live streaming tonight Trump's State of the Union.
Watch it with us over at twitch.tv slash audio wool network.
I believe the whole shindig starts at about 9 p.m. Eastern, which is what is that?
6?
Is that 6?
Is it 6?
Pacific?
Do the math.
I'm in Mountain.
We'll be there probably 20 minutes before hanging out watching what everyone's up to.
I'm not sure if we're going to be watching Steven's coverage of it or if we're watching it itself, because sometimes it's a bit insufferable to watch Stephen, Gerald, and whoever else he has in third chair cover that kind of stuff.
But spend some time with us tonight.
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So hopefully we'll see you then.
And yeah, enjoy this episode.
It's about coffee.
It's about Duncan.
Mostly.
Judge me if you want to.
Welcome to Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast ladder with Crowder.
My name's Byron.
Across from me, it's empty.
No one.
Dennis is on vacation, but our lone star brother holding it down in Occupy Texas.
It's Jared.
On the streets and in your hearts and minds.
You're in the street.
You're live from the street.
Live from the streets.
If you can hear it outside.
Yeah, it's almost like there's a block party.
Block party going on.
Hey, good to see you.
Yeah, really nice to see you.
We're out here on the streets.
Like the mayor.
Mayor of the neighborhood.
Yeah.
Exactly, shaking hands.
Wow.
Shooting guns in the air.
Yeah, but they're party guns and they've got C4 energy.
Okay.
Shots and blasting thin cans of C4 energy at people.
It's the new cake batter five-hour energy shot.
Cake batter, huh?
It reminds me of that scene in Maximum Overdrive, the Stephen King film, where the Koch machines start launching those cans.
Well, before the trucks, the cans start hitting the Little League players out of the vending machines.
Oh, Rock.
That is the energy I'm bringing to the block.
Wow.
So following a disastrous but unavoidable distraction of a hearing before Congress regarding the DOJ's handling and release of some files as part of the Epstein Transparency Act last week, I think we found ourselves in a bit of agreement with Stephen.
Pam Bondi does fucking suck and is bad.
Oh, okay.
All right, I'm ready for that.
But will we line up entirely?
I think folks listening know us well enough at this point to know that we won't.
But for the folks joining us for the first time after my appearance on Posting Through It, welcome.
Jared's over there.
I'm Byron.
Nice to have you.
Hey, what's up?
I'm Jared on the streets.
We're here for your hearts and minds.
He's the man of the people.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah, we have a guest.
Well, we don't.
They do.
We have a guest.
I can't believe it's the first time we've had him on.
Salty Cracker.
Some people refer to him as Sodium Honky.
Man, I cannot wait until we have enough shrug clubbers over at Shrug.club to pay folks to laugh at my jokes.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Yeah.
Wait, we're going to pay them to laugh at it?
Well, we need employees, first of all, and then we need to give them nicknames.
Okay, I got you.
Yeah.
T-Bone.
Slummy Sal.
I did get an application from.
Uh, one of the Flipper Zeros.
Oh, I know that Flipper Zero is a posse, so Flipper Zero has a posse, that's true.
So yeah uh, salty Cracker.
I'll give you more about him in just a second.
This week we're going to be covering an episode from last thursday on Louder With Crowder.
The episode is called Bondie short circuits at Epstein testimony.
Should Trump replace Her?
Huh, you ever hear of a salty cracker fella?
Well, I heard that, like when Steven was in college, they would do.
I don't know if it's well, maybe salty, but is it what I think it is?
And then, and then the last one to finish eat it.
And he did?
Is that what you were thinking?
No uh well Bisque, it's a different game.
Sorry yeah damn, I miss Chester.
Shout out to Chester damn, I miss you, Chester cool.
So salty Cracker has about uh, over nine soggy cracker.
Is that what that was called?
It's a different thing.
This guy, it's a little different.
Over 900 000 subscribers on youtube, some on Rumble, but that doesn't really matter.
He's been doing this for about a decade.
This i'll tell you what this is in just a second.
Used to be an elementary school teacher, according to.
Uh, him didn't really dig too deeply into him.
So he's doing soggy cracker with kids.
All right listen, I don't like this.
Not a big fan.
He also was a liberal.
He says he was an Obama supporter who got duped.
So is this a character he's building?
He's like I was teaching them, uh reactionary uh dei, and uh, what are all the I I?
I i'm drawing.
I haven't had enough coffee in my blood.
Well, why don't you shoot yourself a c4 straight up in the air and catch it?
It'd be kind of cool okay uh Lgbtq, we're talking about.
And then, and then he's I feel like I have CTE trying to like say these words here okay, well.
And then he fell in a sewer, bumped his head.
He became basically the Chris Benoit and now he's doing freaking soggy cracker with elementary school kids and like that's, and doing Drag Time story hour also yeah, in school with your tax dollars.
Well, he's no longer a teacher, but I I do find it hard to believe that he was like a true liberal or Obama supporter.
Based on kind of his vibe.
He seems pretty cruel.
I only watch.
He's a big Tom Holman guy.
Is he really?
Yeah, from from the Obama era?
Well, it carries over a little bit.
He's just kind of rough, But I mean honestly, I didn't listen to much of him and we aren't gonna talk about him or listen to his interview.
I should have cut some of it because it seems like from the comment section of Rumble that he's got a lot of people in the salt army.
This is salty motor head in the comment section.
Is this hashtag salt life?
It seems like we've got a bunch of salt tattoo on my truck.
Salt boys and salt bays in here.
Love the salty cracker.
Favorite podcaster, excellent human being, highly intelligent, entertaining, and naturally funny.
The salt must flow.
Thanks, Steven Crowder, and co-hosts for sharing salty with your audience.
Class act move.
Then Mr. Mooful says, hats off to Salty Cracker.
He's the whole reason I downloaded the Rumble app.
He had this brilliant strategy of broadcasting the first half of his stream on YouTube before switching over to Rumble.
It's funny because that is what Steven did as well.
And then is currently doing again because he, although said YouTube is dead and that Rumble did it, he has returned to YouTube because he is no longer siphoning enough of his YouTube audience over to Rumble.
The Rumble phone ought to give him a medal.
He and Nick DiPaulo are the reason I got through four years of Biden without losing my mind.
I think now is a good time for us to maybe bring up the fact that Nick DiPaulo is in the Epstein files.
Hey, Lair.
Hey, hey, Jeffrey, you know, of course, there's a lot of controversy around your name out there right now.
So let me get with my people.
Let me talk to a couple of lawyers and then we'll see if we can do business together.
Just maybe we'll keep it a little hush-hush for now.
Are you Joey Diaz right now?
I don't remember what Nick said.
I just remember Nick sounds like this.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
That's the one, yeah.
Very Long Island.
I don't remember.
I feel like we haven't heard from him in a couple months now.
Well, his production actually has gotten a little bit better.
It seems like he's got like real cameras.
He's no longer using like a weird green screen that isn't necessarily aligned with the angle he's sitting at.
Which is kind of cool.
No, this is from May 8th, 2015.
Jeffrey Epstein from his J-E-E vacation email, not his J-E-E iTunes email that he also used.
He, what, you think it's weird to have your initials and then iTunes at gmail.com is your yeah, every I it's just so many logins for like Jeffrey Epstein vacation, Jeffrey Epstein iTunes, where he's like forgetting to change over what account that like this stuff is pulling from.
Sure.
And then he just gets used to using it, right?
He's who is buying all of the Tom McDonald records to send it to number one.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
It's like it doesn't even take that many.
He's like, I just got to buy it 5,000 times.
We'll put him at number one.
But Jared, I'd always heard that Charlie Kirk was a Nazi.
They always said that Charlie Kirk was a Nazi, then they celebrated after they killed him.
Yeah, but we'll just put him at number one on iTunes.
Perfect.
And America, America Music First, you know.
7:51 p.m.
Jeffrey Epstein says, Thanks for coming last night.
Instead of dot, dot, dot, he uses two commas.
Interesting.
Woody, he's so bad at iPad typing, it's insane.
Thanks for coming last night.
Woody and I both had a great time.
If okay, comma, with you, I will connect you on my return to New York.
I will connect you on my return to New York.
You can't be like that drunk at seven on a well, maybe like him and Woody.
He's like, I'm gonna get, I'll get Woody your number.
Yeah, so it seems like according to One of my comedy podcast commentary channels, either podcast cringe or too lazy to try one of those guys, was talking about this other comedian who kind of spilt the beans on this meeting that Nick DiPaula was part of.
It was between, I don't know, a handful of New York comedians.
I think Mark Maron was, Mark Maron was invited and said no.
A handful of them were because at this point in 2015, Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender, a pedophile.
And Nick, it wasn't a problem for him.
And he attended this party.
But to Nick's credit, I will say the next day at 1 p.m., he did say, Jeffrey, THX, thanks for a great time last night.
Exclamation points.
It was a real kick meeting you and Woody.
The house and the meal were most impressive.
Give me a little time to process that last part.
As you know, you are a bit of a controversial guy.
I mean, no offense by that at all.
LOL, thanks, Nick.
No follow-up.
It doesn't seem that there was a follow-up.
I think he probably took a little bit of offense.
Did Jeffrey on their first date?
He was just like, so we're fucking kids on this island, Nick.
And like, we want you to come here and sort of like MC the event.
There's going to be like children getting fucked in front of you.
You know, give me a little time to process that last part.
As you know, you are a bit of a controversial guy.
I don't know.
I guess shout outs to Nick for not leaning.
I mean, he did go to a party with Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen.
But he didn't go to a second party to my knowledge.
Yeah.
Good for him.
Okay, Woody Allen's inviting you.
Come to my name, Lapati, Byron.
I'm going to say no.
No, no, thank you.
I don't think I hang out with Woody Allen.
As much of a fan of Annie Hall as I am, I'm not going to go hang out with Woody Allen.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah, sorry.
It's just like, I don't know, man.
You know, it's like when, you know, these guys doing the Polanski movies sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
And I just don't, you know, do you guys just like sign something that says like, this is the script.
We're not going to tell you who wrote it.
It's just sort of like, what do you think?
If you want to do it, just say yes, say no.
And then they reduce the mask, the hooded figure comes in, directs a movie, and then like upon release, they're like, surprise.
Here's Brett Ratner.
I got ratted again.
Oh, no.
Well, at least I have a rat tail, right?
Okay.
Yeah, rat tail, exactly.
Oh, I worked on Melania.
Whoops.
I did go see that.
It's not good.
Yeah, that was a hard watch.
I watch an opening night there.
I had my seat in the upper, upper right corner, and I get up there, and there's a guy freaking standing in front of my chair, huge guy, oxygen tank with his wife.
And I have to tell him, I said, hey, this is my seat.
And he goes, I know.
And I'm like, well, no, you don't, first of all.
Eventually, he sat down.
And it was so cool.
Great comments during the movie from pretty much the whole audience talking over it, saying, Isn't she beautiful?
Oh, no.
She's gorgeous.
Goofy.
Then Joe Biden was at the inauguration.
He kissed like a bunch of libs.
They did.
They kept saying, he doesn't even know where he is and stuff like that.
Kind of true.
That rocks.
There was applause during certain parts.
It was just a wild time.
But continuing from the comments, it seems like Salt Army was really hopping off.
You, Michelle, says, fucking love Salty Cracker.
Someone else says the salt man cometh.
Walker Bait, 23, I love Salty Cracker.
Thank you for having him on, and thank you for an honorable nod to James Vanderbeek.
Dawson's Creek is still one of my favorite shows.
Yes, I'm a chick.
And I will say, there was not what I would consider an honorable nod to James Vanderbeek.
They played an old skit.
It was a parody of a conversation between Steven Crowder and someone else asking if they were surprised that someone had AIDS.
And Steven Crowder says, No, I'm not surprised.
He fucked everyone.
From Dawson.
I don't know if that's necessarily an honorable nod, but I will nod honorably at James Vanderbeek.
Seems like a good guy, from what I can tell.
Yeah, seems like sad that that guy's too young.
James Vanderbeek Nod00:11:11
Yeah.
Eat your fiber.
Don't listen.
Eat your fiber.
Go check for Paula.
Oh, no.
I came back to tell you.
I put it up on it.
I put the triangle the wrong way up there.
No, he's turning the poster up.
I don't know.
I don't know why James Vanderbeek died.
Not listening to me, okay?
You gotta eat more.
You gotta eat more meat, okay?
Well, listen, RFK, I don't think you need to go as far as you did this week when you said the best foods to insert into rectum was added to the Department of Health and Human Services with.
Well, maybe that's not for you, but maybe that could have changed planter beek.
I just, I don't think it could have changed anything.
You gotta get your fiber into somehow.
Well, the mouth is doing it a different way in the Kennedy house.
Cheryl, hurry up with that.
I don't know.
Cucumber pale.
Jeez, all right.
I don't like this salty cracker guy.
I looked a little bit at his content.
His most recent videos are hiking Karen takes dirt nap after attacking dirt biker.
Man Ragdoll's thug trying to carjack him on freeway on-ramp.
Woman buys feminist propaganda and gets knocked out during road range incidents.
Weirdo in Cape plays Ocarina while blocking traffic in anti-ice something protest, maybe.
I did see that.
How was it?
Was it interesting?
If I was there, I'd be like, hey, I get it.
Can you actually go play the Ocarina next to the Ice Agents and not next to me?
It sounds probably annoying, yeah.
But I don't know.
This guy's channel seems to just kind of be like Libs Up TikTok, the cornering energy.
It's just like bad, corny commentary, you know?
And this comes from two guys who also do commentary on a different show.
And it's, you know, it's fun and silly.
Also, I'm going to say to you that if you're not playing like strictly just like Legends of Zelda type of music, like from that, just go play it by somebody else.
This is like breathing in and out on a harmonica as a child.
Like a four-year-old playing harmonica.
Hey, sorry, sister.
I just got your child, my nephew, a whole band's worth of just things that you can blow in.
Here's also a first act drum set you can.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
We're going to continue on through this Thursday episode, I guess, with our second clip.
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And like, that's what gets me hyped for it.
Yeah, yeah.
It gets me hyped as well, but Dennis usually goes, shrug, daddy, or something like that.
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That's kind of fun.
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Look, Pam Bondi is an unintelligent and unprincipled person, and she should be fired.
I'll go through what took place yesterday and where we are with the Epstein situation.
It is a debacle.
Sure.
It's just a debacle.
Just a little bit of a quaghorse, in the words of Steven Crowder.
Quagmired again.
But more importantly, the focus of our episode today, unfortunately.
Dunkin' Donuts and Megan the Stallion.
There's a new ad that caught my attention.
We're going to run it for you.
And I don't want to say it's representative of a carnal and hypersexualized people.
Sometimes I do miss just like good old white commercials.
Ooh, okay.
What the fuck?
Such a dove crazy thing to say.
Oh, what a dickhead.
Implying that, yeah, white commercials are not carnal.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, white people don't have sex, dude.
What are you saying, Steve?
They do it Mormon style through a sheet and sleep in separate beds, please.
Yes, and only for procreation one time.
If you get twins, that's an accident and an act of God.
Well, the show kicks off.
We've got our regular folks.
Gerald Josh is there, you know, kind of what we've gotten used to.
No more rotating third chair.
and the show gets started.
We have a sip, and we also have a- Quick question of the day.
Why do you think President Trump won't just fire Pam Bondi?
Like, it's his thing, and she deserves it.
Yeah, what happened to that?
He used to love that.
I don't know.
He used to love firing people.
It was like.
We're still talking about the apprentice, I guess.
Yeah, I guess so.
Remember how that was his thing?
Was the firing thing?
You're fired.
Ended like, I don't know, 15 years ago.
Yeah, you're fired.
Buster Rhymes, you're fired.
Meatloaf, you're fired.
Meatloaf's fired.
Oh, no, not again.
Gerald Morgan?
Fired.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Those jeans?
Uh-huh.
True religion?
Yeah.
They're fired.
You get the butt.
Yeah, that's fired too.
Ah, fuck.
I think because if you watch in her hearing, she goes like, and Donald Trump, who is the best president in the history ever.
And he's like, that's good.
I like that she said that.
I was going to fire her.
And his penis is almost as big as Matt Nodlin's.
Thanks for using my legal name.
All right, Candace.
Sorry, noodle.
Yeah, done.
And we're on LinkedIn, and we're about to crack the system here.
Well, yeah, that is definitely what I'm doing over here, but we'll talk about that another time.
Seems like they have officially doxed their sound guy with a penis joke, which is very cool.
They all know that Noodles has a big penis, and now I'm starting to think that this culture that they got in trouble with.
You know what Noodles sounds like to me?
What's that?
A big tuna type of nickname.
Yeah, like a bigger one.
He brought in a dollar.
Yeah.
He brought in a dollar pack of noodles, like a cup of noodles.
They're like, noodles over here, right, guys?
That could be, actually, yeah.
I mean, like, it kind of seems like that's that's all it does.
Josh doesn't have a nickname.
Josh is on screen.
He's just Josh, I guess.
Josh Feierstein, yeah.
I wonder if he has a behind the scenes.
They call him Round Hitler.
Old round meal over here.
Yeah, I don't know if they say that.
But yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Why do you think?
Why do you think Donald Trump is still putting up with Pam Bondi at this point?
She looks pretty good for 60.
I think that's something he considers, right?
More, I think, is it's not just her, right?
It's like everybody from the Trump admin Trump 2 admin, right?
Like the first one, they were getting fired left and right.
Like every day, someone's getting fired.
Yeah.
And no one's gotten fired from this one, right?
Like they have like a much tighter, like, man, maybe this is like, there's nobody else that could do these jobs.
There's nobody else would be like willing to like put themselves in the line of fire like this.
I think that's different.
It's like there's capable and then there's willing, right?
Right, right.
I think there's plenty of people who are more capable than Pam Bondi at doing this job, but willing to do what is asked in such a sycophantic way.
I mean, first of all, this is an entirely new norm.
This is supposed to be a non-partisan position.
The Attorney General of the United States of America, you're not supposed to say ridiculously propagandized versions of praise about the president.
It's kind of unprecedented.
Yeah.
Can you imagine if Merrick Garland was saying this stuff about Joe Biden?
Like, they were already talking of him as if he was doing this.
Can you imagine?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that he, yeah, exactly.
It's like you guys did the same thing, though there is like nothing on record and no one's seen it and no one knows what I'm talking about.
But you and I were talking about this the other day.
Like it's a weird improv.
She's just responding, not even necessarily like subject adjacent to what they're talking about.
She's just responding.
And I think that it's like this weird like the ability to pull.
I mean, she also has like her burn book as everyone's calling it in front of her.
Here's a specific about like a singular person that you're going to see like an alphabetical order or something like that.
So you can just look at their nameplate and look them up type of shit.
And we'll talk more about the specifics in the third segment of this.
But yeah, like it's bizarre.
It's crazy behavior.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's like Pam Bondi oversaw the George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin.
Oh, God.
She was the AG right for Florida when that was happening.
And she saw to it that Zimmerman got off.
She was the AG of Florida when Casey Anthony fucking killed her daughter, probably, allegedly.
Are you telling me that just because there is signs of human remains in her trunk and that she lied about the whereabouts of her daughter?
Xannie the nanny and like police negligence surrounding Internet Explorer versus Firefox, search histories, same computer, family computer, just these things allegedly and Roblox or whatever we need to say there.
But like this is somebody who is like negligence has been her entire career, it seems.
She's pretty good at it.
She's pretty good at it.
Yeah, exactly.
She's really able to like double down and like sink her toes in on the beach of just being a total piece of shit.
I think that's why he hasn't hired her yet.
Hitting Ourselves Over the Head00:07:42
Right now, we're, what would we?
It's incompetence maxing, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
We are literally just hitting ourselves over the head with a hammer.
Bonk.
And I think that until we hit like the point of no return, I think he's going to try to benefit from it as much as he can.
Oh, certainly.
And I think that it's stripped the copper piping and wiring out of the institutions as fast and as effectively as you can, most destructive.
Just kick through the wall to pull it out.
But it's also, it's like purposeful.
Like they have a reason to do it, and it's to get as much money in different institutions funneled into their pockets as they possibly can.
You know, to fund the repaving of Palestine or like whatever like ill garbage, resort-minded golf course-having, you know, utility that billionaires play for our society at large.
And we're gambling, too.
They're trying to get as close to the fire as they can before they pack up and run, you know, with a bunch of money.
Speaking of fun, you guys can name that movie.
Speaking of fun, the best among us, of course, we're not worthy.
It's time for Black History Month.
They do this a lot.
You do they did it.
I don't think they do either.
But we'll get to Duncan.
Come on.
So I think we were doing arms crossed there, you know, almost like a b-boy style, because, of course, that's the.
Yeah, an earring showed up in his ear and a big clock around his neck.
Sure, big gold chain.
Yeah, that's what he's up to here.
Happy Black History Month.
This is how these guys choose to celebrate it.
They have, well, we'll hear what they have to say about it.
But before they do, I'd like to apologize to all the listeners for what's about to happen.
And I'd also like to say that this month we're going to be donating some money to both the NAACP and we want to reach out to you and see what you think we should be donating to, whether it's a different organization or maybe a black creator that you think has been working really hard in our little niche world of extremism research.
Jared, I don't know if you have any other thoughts or ideas.
I would just say you want to shout out to some of these guys that I follow online for their thoughts and opinions, like Ebony Warrior Studios, Mo Hates Media, The Conscious Lee, Ashley The Baroness, Amanda Seals, oh, Jovon Bradley.
I like Jovon a lot.
Appreciate you and apologize for this.
So we want to give you some fast facts because to understand, to have knowledge, to appreciate Black History Month was first recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976.
Oh, cool.
Also, his library is comically small.
And his wife is not comically gorgeous.
She is quite poor.
Old Betty Ford was a little bit more.
He was a good-looking guy, too.
Yeah, yeah.
If you're into the guys.
Grand Rapids, anyone from there, you know, it's like the Gerald Ford Presidential Library.
It's shaped like a slice of pizza.
And because there's nothing, there's really nothing to get to.
And at the end, it's like an Elvis exhibit.
Like, what is happening?
There's a sign that says no outside food or drink, which is ridiculous.
That's because they want to funnel you into their hard rock cafe.
Again, they're really scraping.
Another fact, 10 years later, Congress passed it into law.
Yeah.
And 10 years after that, Tickle Miyama was released and became the number one holiday gift, beating out the competing leave me for a pack of cigarettes.
Well, sorry, leave me for a pack of Cool's Jerome.
That was.
Yeah.
She.
Which brings us to pandering.
Acceptable.
Crickets.
Huh.
So that's, I mean, that's kind of the level and structure of how they've been handling Black History Month for a couple of years now.
An episode I tuned into last week, they highlighted that a black person didn't invent the elevator, but they did mention the 2014 incident where Ray Rice assaulted his then fiancée in an elevator, and that this is a great first for the black community, implying that they assault their partners in public.
Yeah, that's consistent with their like black fathers in the household sort of arguments and stuff like that, you know?
You saw him kind of stumble over the punch-up that they did on that joke during run-through.
It was originally just went out for cigarettes, but then he edited it to be cools because that's a comment black stereotype of the.
I just don't see how when you write content like this, you couldn't see that as just explicitly racist, I guess, right?
Like, why choose to write jokes like this?
Why do it during Black History Month, a time when you're supposed to be celebrating culture?
Is he that insecure, offended that there's people in the United States that are not white?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think we got to the bottom of that.
Yeah.
Or that they're being elevated in any kind of way.
Interesting response from even the room, right?
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah, it felt quiet as he was saying it.
I got a fourth Gerald here that I haven't been using.
That's a classic.
And there we go.
Got all of them.
Wonderful.
Not great.
Not a great start.
I don't know if we've publicly discussed Steven's new relationship.
I don't know if we necessarily even need to because they have so far chosen not involved themselves directly with the content.
We will just say that the content of the show was severely South American focused for a while during the courting period of his relationship.
And it does seem like he now has a woman in his life.
It's confirmed.
I was sitting there with my woman.
I said that yesterday, by the way.
And because someone were like, don't say you're a woman.
And I said, I guarantee you she liked.
Well, she was here outside in the studio when I talked about my woman and making sure that I marked my territory.
Nothing sexual, by the way, just like putting my arm around her.
She got so hot and bothered, she hit her head in the fridge.
She was reaching in for a drink and hit her head in the freezer.
She's like, so.
Oh.
Okay.
Hit her head in the freezer.
Seems like.
Like spooked yes.
While your head, like, and then you, she like, I'm sorry, whose head was in there?
Her head.
Her head was in the refrigerator and she hit it on the top on the face.
He spooked her.
Yeah, I think he startled his woman.
Yeah.
I don't listen.
I don't, whatever.
If you are fine and appreciate when someone claims you as their property and protects you as if you're their territory by putting their arm around you.
And if you enjoy being called someone's woman, that's totally fine.
That's up to you.
That's feminism, right?
Like, is having a preference of how you like people to show up for you in relationships.
That's totally fine.
I'm not going to judge Steven for that.
I do doubt that he is capable of having conversations about people's actual, you know, feelings about stuff like that.
So that's kind of concerning, right?
Yeah.
However, he doesn't take it seriously anyway.
Really?
They have feelings and thoughts about how they would like to be perceived?
Interesting.
This head-hitting story isn't quite lining up.
And it is turning out to be one of those situations where you share a lot of details with questionable reasoning behind it.
Where you're like, why are you talking so?
Yeah, why are we talking about this woman's head getting bonked?
Popeyes and Perceptions00:10:59
What are you getting ahead of?
Exactly.
So getting ahead or moving on here.
Duncan, I was watching television.
Well, not television.
Watching a subscription service with my woman.
And now, of course, you pay for subscriptions, but you get all kinds of non-skippable ads.
At least, you know, you used to be able to record them and fast forward with TiVo, but we're going backwards, so I don't know the deal.
Okay.
It sounds like you do know the deal.
It sounds like you know a lot about these deals.
And I think that you just need to be paying more as part of these deals.
There are pay for the premium.
But, you know, Rumble, YouTube, money, like these are all things that he's concerned about.
So if he can pay $17 with ads and complain about it somewhere or pay $21 with no ads.
We just don't only have ad-supported tier subscription services.
Listen, but this is the bear and every second counts.
Okay.
That's when I'm making my show here.
Honestly, I don't know.
I think commercial breaks are necessary for the bear.
It's such an intense show.
You might need some recovery time.
You might need 60, 90, 120 seconds to, you know, catch your breath, right?
Non-skippable.
Drink a bunch of water out of a quart, a quart container or something.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
Where you previously were holding chicken stock.
Of course.
You're going to get the remnants of the salty chicken stock in your water.
But that's going to keep you satiated and going for the night.
Well, Carmy would have it that way for sure.
Yes.
Now, I don't know why we're referencing TiVo.
At this point, it's seeming like Steven Crowder is a gentleman straight out of the film Blast from the Past.
He only knows things from like, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago.
Imagine they reboot that and he doesn't go that far back in time.
That'd be kind of like 1996.
Well, I think TiVo was probably late 90s, early 2000s, right?
Like that's that's Steven Sweet Story.
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah, He's still trying to impress his dad even right now.
It's really unfortunate.
But I guess he has to justify watching modern commercials.
That's kind of where we're at.
He caught something during a commercial because he refused to pay $3 more.
But this is the result of that.
This Duncan ad came on, and my lady and I were silent for like a good 30 seconds because the next ad played and had finished.
And I turned and said, did you just see what I said?
She's like, yeah, I'm like, is Duncan, is Duncan going?
Are they like less than Popeyes now?
Is that what's happening?
Like, this was really bizarre.
Less than Popeyes.
What are you trying to say, Steven?
Are they less than Popeyes now?
What are you trying to say, Steven?
Are they Dunkin' Donuts less than Popeyes now?
Yeah.
And we're not talking monetarily because a donut doesn't cost as much as a chicken sandwich.
No, even a biscuit probably costs more than a donut.
Yeah.
We're not talking little Nikki era Popeyes either, too.
He would have loved that.
Or white culture reclaimed Popeyes.
Exactly.
Because Popeyes Chicken is the Shiznit.
No, it's freaking awesome.
Oh, the demon says, I think at the end.
Does he say the shiznit?
Popeyes chicken is the shiznit.
Yeah, I believe he says it's the shiznit.
Underrated Adam Sandler film.
He did have a little Nikki haircut.
You did?
Oh, you kind of did.
Yeah, yeah.
Either way, yeah.
So just really gross.
Gross way to kick off this segment by implying that less than equals black culture.
So great.
And also stereotyping black culture again.
So I guess they're going for a new urban marketing according to their strategy.
And it features Megan the Stallion.
If you have kids, they shouldn't be watching the show anyway, but this will be run on prime time.
Here's the new Duncan ad and see if you can spot some of the problems and how it's different from ads in the past.
What's up, hoties?
It's time to grab those protein refreshers and start pumping.
Reach out and sit.
Yeah, you taste that.
Okay, ladies, now swirl.
Swirl.
Swirl at Mango.
Get that slump in.
It's time to target the muscles that matter the most.
Your sip muscles and sip.
And sip and sip and sip.
Your mouth muscles are the most.
New protein refreshers, only at Duncan.
Yeah.
And that's the short version.
The long version is even worse because you, I mean, obviously you see the thong backs, but that's not the biggest issue.
What's the biggest issue, you think?
The thong backs aren't the biggest issue.
I guess not.
So for people just listening.
Yeah, I think that's the biggest problem, and that's the thesis of this.
So you called it.
But I was going to say, for people just listening, this isn't a video podcast.
So for the people listening, which is all of you, this is a parody of like an 80s dance aerobics video, very much like a Jane Fonda style.
Megan the Stallion is the star, but we've got like a very culturally diverse group of folks involved in this.
The thing that's bothering him is that they're wearing like a very 80s leggings underneath, like the one-piece swimsuit style or whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
There's thongs in there.
Well, I will clarify, it's not quite a thong, and only Megan the Stallion has the kind of more narrow cut.
All the other people don't even have that.
I'll also point out that there's no like midriffs.
There's no belly buttons.
There's no like real cleavage in this.
It's tame for Duncan.
I mean, it's Dunkin' Donuts.
They don't need to go, you know.
Is he mad that Jack Reacher is not doing it anymore?
Oh, no.
Oh, it's wicked awesome out here in Boston with my colada cooler.
Or whatever.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to be going to bat for that, but it's a good thing that you pointed that out.
Very interesting.
He is a bit ticked about who is participating in Duncan because Duncan is a very specific culture to him.
But before we get into that, he's going to dissect this video.
Real juicy.
Yeah.
When she does the splits, I didn't notice the first time this.
We didn't add this.
They include a squish sound.
Yo, Ace is gonna want you again.
Slow it down.
Huh.
Okay.
The splits are too sexual for Steven Crowder, I guess.
Well, it's because her fucking pussy lips touch the ground and splash.
Cool it.
What happened?
Well, that's what he's saying is happening.
That is what he's saying is what happened.
And it's, I mean, honestly, I think that butt making like a noise is like almost cartoonish, right?
It's Ren and Stimpy.
It's not sexual.
But we know that Ren and Stimpy was banned in the Crowder household.
That's true.
He was Arthur man.
He was a PBS boy.
Yeah, but even like Sit and Be Fit was like the same wardrobe and same stages.
Like I just, well, maybe that's maybe it's true.
Good point.
That's a good poll, too.
Maybe it's triggering to him.
You know, I'm not really sure.
Hmm.
And you guys tell me, look, I know people say, oh, I've heard of white people being out of touch with black culture, but this is just ridiculous.
What?
And at a certain point, what does mean?
What does that mean?
Look, I've Googled it.
Good luck Googling it.
A-G-H-H, I guess.
And I'm not sure if that was necessarily him lumping in, I'm out of touch with black culture.
In general, having a music video with a black person at the focus is black culture.
I assume that that's part of what he's saying here, even though he was specific, I guess.
You know, just because someone is black in a commercial doesn't mean that it's directed towards black people.
It is black culture, Stephen.
Don't want more black people in the drive-thru at Duncan asking for coffee when I'm trying to get coffee.
He wants separate but equal.
Yeah, I'm like trying to think, like, what is it?
What would even be like the thing?
Like, I don't want you to participate with my coconut culada half-calf because I get the shakes too easy.
These are the protein shakers, I guess.
What are they called?
Mango refresher, maybe?
Yeah, it's like whatever the protein refresher is what it's called.
Okay, okay.
And we got Megan's mango and strawberry.
God, strawberry.
I mean, I don't.
I don't want a protein refresher?
Yeah, I don't want that.
I don't need that.
I mean, do you think that, listen, I mean, speaking of targeting, do you think that these are targeted towards people like you and me, let alone folks like Steven Crowder?
These are like more feminized drinks, you know?
Yeah, this is for like the workout girlies who are trying to get a little something, something on the way to that.
They're not doing the shoveling creatine in their mouth and then just like hammering down one of these mango juices or whatever.
You're not changing oil and reaching for your Megan's mango protein refresher, right?
Like, yeah, but what how come Jack Reacher is not twerking his ass off for me?
Sorry, I found a soundboard.
I mean, I get the is like a it's like an in-your-face, like yeah, you know what I mean?
It's like just like a throw it in your face type of thing.
I don't know why it's difficult for Steven, but everything seems to have to be.
Well, it's just confusing for him to like not know what it means definitionally.
I mean, the thing is, it's just a mega the stallion like thing, right?
Yeah, it is just an onomatopoeia.
It's a noise.
It's just a fucking like, and that's that on that.
Blah.
Just throw it in your face.
You know what I mean?
It's the period at the end of the sentence.
It's just like, I've said what I needed to say, blah.
Especially when she's like, she's dropping her ass on the ground and just like stamping it that way.
Boom.
It's an exclamation point.
Yeah.
Book's over.
Grab a new one.
You know, it's just blah.
It's fine.
I think you're wrong.
There's really only one implication from what I can understand.
But you tell me what a split with a squish and what that means.
I just, I will say.
I believe it means, look, I finished my meal.
Yes.
It means go to Starbucks.
Yes, that's what it means.
I will say.
Love that I kept that one in.
Just stupid.
These guys are so fucking dumb.
It's crazy.
Never once has anyone sat on this man's face.
And that's sad.
Are you kidding me?
If you sat on my face, I would suffocate to death.
Would you want me to die?
I mean, he's reaching for three of his guns.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I can't breathe, neither will you.
Oh, Jesus.
Fine.
You want to go after that market?
But the Duncan was a brand built on the, it was the Everyman, right?
Old Spice Rebrand00:11:13
It was built for people who are nine to five workers in the Northeast, largely big in Boston.
That was who made Duncan successful.
It was non-pretentious.
And now we switch that with squish.
It's just something being stripped away from the white man.
And we've lost an icon, honestly.
Yeah, Boston was for the whites.
Marky Mark was right.
Oh, no.
Marky's over here shaking his hands, being like, please don't bring up my horrid past.
Yeah, quit invoking me in this kind of racist assault.
I mean, we're not going to talk about Marky Mark and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in one episode, are we?
I think we might.
I just, I miss commercials being made for basic white people.
It isn't easy owning a Dunkin' Donuts.
Time to make the dough.
Because unlike those supermarkets, we make up to 52 varieties fresh day and night.
So.
So, Fred the Baker.
Have you ever heard of him?
I just sent you a picture over a chat.
You're a big fan.
I mean, we have Take Donuts.
I'm from Time to Make the Donuts, of course.
I didn't have Duncan until maybe, I don't know, mid-2000s, maybe 2011.
Yeah.
When I went to New York for the first time, of course, I'm going to pop in and get a pink sprinkled donut in the big apple, the city that never sleeps.
Yeah, I don't know the first time I saw it.
You know, actually, it was Chicago, I think.
A trip that I took with you when we went to.
Yeah, I have a memory of Duncan with you.
In my head, I'm like, yeah, I've been to a Boston one a couple of times.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was like, I know that we've probably gone to one together.
We've been out on the road a few times.
Yeah.
And I think it's fun.
It's nice.
And as white guys, I love it for me.
Yeah, I feel like it was you, me, and Mercedes maybe had a Duncan.
There's that trip.
Nate was there too.
Yeah, it was a great time.
We picked up some donors and went over to the park and set up and hung out with Tyler the Creator and all those folks.
I told you I showed that picture to the guys from Battles with just me watching them.
And he was like, what the fuck is this picture?
We were watching Battles do sound checking.
Or I took a picture of you watching Battles.
From across the field, yeah.
And it was just me and then like the three-piece band on the stage.
I showed him the picture and he was like, what the fuck?
He's like, was that in Chicago?
I was like, it is in Chicago.
It sure was, buddy.
Yeah, fun.
We had a great time on that trip.
I wish that Stephen could have more fun around donuts.
As much fun as the actor Michael Vail had.
He has to put on a damn life-saving bullet vest.
Sure.
Well, you know, Fred the Baker did too.
That was kind of the.
That's true.
And that was white culture in Boston at the time.
That's true.
Stephen played a little clip from this ad from 1981 featuring Fred the Baker, played by Michael Vail.
He's this perpetually sleepy-eyed baker who mumbles Time to Make the Donuts.
And he did it from sometime between 1981 and ended at things in 1997.
For the love of the game, dude.
Yeah, but like the implication here is that he's a hard-working everyman.
He gets up early in the morning before the sun comes up to go make the donuts.
And he makes them for fiending blue-collar folks.
I mean, everyone kind of loved the Fred the Baker character, and Stephen certainly hasn't shaken him.
He can't handle and also can't fathom a world where Duncan Donuts did anything different between 1997 and the present.
That's not a world in terms of media that Steven exists in.
No.
Because there was never any weird commercials that Duncan did between then and now, right?
This seems like a very carnal, fleshly culture.
That's what a very lustful culture.
And this doesn't seem quite family-friendly.
You can only bombard people with that for so much until they go, well, this is my perception of the demographics and the commercial and demographics they're marketing to with squish.
And I figured it out.
Uh-oh.
You did?
It's a hack a dance.
That's what it must be.
Yeah.
Oh, Josh.
Who wrote that one for him, you think, huh?
Hakka dance.
Who would bring up Aborigine people?
Oh, that could be.
Could be Gerald.
Could be his thinking outside the American diaspora.
Oh, goodness.
I think I know a guy.
Could it be...
Is it Noodles?
Oh, no, I think it's Ginger Snap for sure.
It's Ginger Snap.
Come and get some of that Dunka Chino.
Very funny.
This is not a unique situation, this commercial.
For years, Duncan's been kind of going beyond the donut here.
They've reinvented the donut several times.
Unfortunately, Jared, I spent a good chunk of this morning watching over 20 Duncan ads spanning the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
Cool.
You know, what they feature in the 90s, there's one that had mobsters, gangsters, and punks.
You know, it was kind of showing the evolution of the audience of Duncan.
And of course, Al Pacino.
Al Pacino.
Yeah, he is all three of those things.
Kind of is.
You're right.
He's played every single one of those.
I found a really interesting ad where they introduced the new mini Eclairs by having a guy dress up like a, well, it was a little person dressed up as a small Fred the Baker on a white ear on a runway.
It was in the 90s.
So, yeah, still not fast and loose.
Not chill.
Yeah, really.
High times at Dunkin' High.
So I think that this was kind of cool, though.
They might be giants, the musical group.
Sure, sure.
Dr. Worm.
They did like a dozen Duncan commercials over the span of like over five years.
They did music, which is kind of cool.
Like, I mean, those guys, pretty wholesome.
Yeah.
You know, interesting.
It was almost in that whole okay-go era of commercials where like sure.
They were kind of like the original like okay-go kind of band.
Like they kind of like kind of like cake or when Francisa, the guitar player from Cake J.
He passed away last week.
One of the original guys.
You know, the drummer of Manchester Orchestra died yesterday, too.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that's too bad.
Yeah.
It's interesting when people from our era are starting to pass away, you know?
That's right.
I guess we were post-Cake era, right?
I was born in 2006.
I forgot.
You are 19 years old.
And next week, Clavicular is on the show, which is kind of cool.
No, I just think it's silly for him to focus on how things were in the mid to late 80s and completely erase over 30 years of a company's history.
Bill Murray can't slap a woman's ass on set anymore.
Can you believe this?
Yeah, behind closed doors, he can't kiss without consent.
I was looking at Dunkin' Donuts ads.
There's one in Thailand advertising the charcoal donut, which seems kind of cool.
Black donut.
Well, yeah, it was cool until the person eating it.
Don't show that to Steve.
He'll fucking nightmare.
He would have loved this, actually.
So the woman eating it, a Thai lady, bites into it and then suddenly is covered in blackface makeup, which is cool.
Okay, yeah, take it back.
He does love it.
Steven loves that one.
Yeah.
But I think it's this era of commercials that have really fucked Steven up here.
Very much in an old spice rebrand kind of way.
Starting in 2023, Ben Affleck became involved with Duncan.
He did a Super Bowl ad in which he's working a Duncan drive-through, dressed in a uniform.
Hey, you gotta buy some crypto from me next year.
Basically, right?
He's like putting his mixtape in everyone's fucking order, you know, trying to get that away.
But he's just saying, like, yo, add this to your wallet.
Add this to your crypto wallet.
I mean, it worked, right?
Like, you didn't get in any trouble.
That's true.
Around the same time, they introduced the Munchkins back, and they do an ad featuring Ben Affleck and the rapper Ice Spice in 2023.
It's been coming up with a concept of creating a doll of Ice Spice out of Munchkins.
And it seems that Ice Spice is popular again this year because she's fucking SpongeBob SquarePants, it seems.
Is that true?
I think she's fucking SpongeBob.
No way.
Who I thought was gay, but Kenny?
Kenny?
What's his name?
No, like really like SpongeBob.
Oh, sex with the character.
The character.
Not the voice actor.
No, no, no, no.
They're the ice spice and SpongeBob are an item, I think.
Wow.
Honestly, good for them.
It's really nice to see, I'll be honest.
And especially like Valentine's Day yesterday and everything like that.
It looked really nice and looks like they're taking care of each other, to be honest.
And I was standing SpongeBob and Sandy, but like sometimes people are better off as friends, you know?
True.
Sometimes you learn that over time and they've really turned a new leaf, maybe a new rock under the sea, whatever that is in their world.
But yeah, man, you know, more power to him, SpongeBob, and Ice Spice.
It's really nice.
It's nice.
A little spice and everything.
Nice.
All of this together, though, it felt a little too connected.
So I dug in a little bit.
And what I found is that all of these commercials since 2023 have been produced by a company called Artists Equity.
Have you heard of this?
I don't think so.
So they're an independent artist-led studio reimagining the relationship between talent studio and distributor.
And they prioritize and partner with creators through an innovative business model so that they can truly participate and realize the value they bring to a project.
Co-founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Jerry Cardenal of Redbird Capital starting in November of 2022.
It is Ben Affleck, Matt Damien, Matt Damon, and Jerry's company.
It's all for you, Matt Damien.
And these are people who are behind some new films like Air, that Nike story.
I didn't watch it.
Right, I remember that they okay.
I guess I'm aware of like some of the projects they worked on.
I mean, the handful, the accountant to it's just like a production company.
It's also doing a hell of a lot of commercials with Dunkin' Donuts.
Like the one that most people honestly, they're fueled by it.
And the one that would most likely stand out to folks is the Dung Kings ad, I guess, 2024 Super Bowl.
Remember Matt Damon, Tom Brady, Ben Affleck, the Dung Kings?
And they sold like these track suits or like zip up, like maybe like a swish pants.
What are those called?
Windbreakers.
Yeah, Windbreaker.
Yeah, I was about to say airbreakers.
Dung Kings Windbreakers00:08:27
I was like, that's a fart, I think.
That could be the freak.
I think a windbreaker is also maybe a fart, too.
I don't.
Breaking wind.
Yeah, that doesn't break.
So all that aside, I just thought that was kind of a fun little investigation of this, you know, the work that they've been doing.
But it doesn't really change the way that Steven feels about all of this, you know, because clearly he's never done any research like this, which always when I get like an hour into something and I realize that Steven had just like got to say what he said without even considering reality, I get a little frustrated.
It's okay, that's why I'm here, I guess, right?
Well, and you know, he doesn't have really like that much self-awareness.
So yeah, he's just confused because he saw someone that he's strangely attracted to, but also is black.
Can't figure out why.
Yeah, yeah.
It kind of pisses him off.
I've done all this research, but my heart wants what it wants.
He's got Sean Penn from one battle after another.
Yeah, he's yeah, the Christmas Adventurers Club type of shit happening.
He's not allowed because there's no milk in that room.
You can't drink milk in that room.
No.
Let Duncan know.
Go watch it on the you can go watch on one of the social media sites.
Let him know what you think.
Keep in mind, Duncan's part of the Diageo, right?
Yeah, you said they will actually forbid any advertising on Rumble unless Rumble removes yours truly.
And Rumble stood their ground strong.
I used to like Duncan.
You had a lot of points.
I had a lot of points.
You let him go.
No, I used them all up because then I'm stealing from them.
And then that's right.
But then I shut it down.
Then you shut it off.
I heard they're changing their slogan.
To what is it, Josh?
You want to share with the corner?
America comes on.
Sorry.
Not cracker.
It's donuts.
It's donuts.
Yeah.
I guess we did do a cum joke earlier.
Yeah, interesting.
I forgot to mention that last year, an almost thematically identical ad was put out by the same folks involved featuring a different singer that for some reason Steven doesn't care as much about this, which is kind of odd.
I just love shaking that S. You're really good at shaking that ass.
Been shaking that S for hours.
You should try it.
I'm shaking, not an ass.
Can I grab that S?
Yes.
Thank you.
Am I shaking that S?
You are shaking that S.
No one shakes that S like Genkin.
Grandma?
Oh, shake that S kind of sounds like shake that ass.
Sabrina's brown sugar, shaking espresso, only a Duncan.
Sabrina Carpenter doing an almost more explicit ad a little over a year ago.
Same kind of background, same kind of branding, same kind of people in the background.
It's just this time it's Sabrina Carpenter shaking her espresso because, you know, she sang the song Espresso.
That's right.
But I don't recall the episode of Louder with Crowder where he had any problem with this.
Yeah, I don't either.
It probably didn't even hit his radar, right?
Well, because, yeah, his hate feed doesn't really pop up when it's like someone who, you know, he would consider or white supremacists would consider traditionally attractive, I guess, right?
Yeah.
I don't know.
This was probably a Super Bowl commercial, is my guess.
This last one was?
Yeah.
I mean, like, probably, I would imagine.
Duncan has done Super Bowl ads for the past few years.
Yeah, and they're getting a celebrity to do it just like you would any year.
So I have to imagine this is just like a new commercial that probably premiered in or around that.
Now this makes his overtelling of a story of him accidentally coming across an ad make even more sense because, you know, Stevens.
He probably was watching the Super Bowl.
But he doesn't ever want to tell people that he's watching the Super Bowl.
Right.
And which might be to did we see if he said anything about the bad bunny?
We are going to be following up on that in the next episode, I think.
Next one, next one.
Okay.
Yeah, he definitely had problems with it.
He probably was watching the Super Bowl, is my guess.
When he's watching, of course, Hulu later on and it came up in the commercials and his woman hit her head, of course.
Of course.
He didn't touch her.
He didn't touch her.
Trying to whip her neck so fast out of the deviled eggs in the back of the fridge that she bonked her head on the freezer.
Also, that he's got an up and down and not like a side-by-side.
Like, what is he doing?
Yeah, that's, I mean, that's kind of.
Like, I have that because I have an apartment, you know what I mean?
But when I had a house, I had a dope fridge.
Yeah, you had to open up one on each side with maybe even the fridge.
The French door?
With the knock-knock dude?
I had the knock-knock fridge?
Valentine's Day.
I hate Dunkin' Donuts now, too.
Yeah.
Like, why aren't we supposed to be celebrating the addition of protein and everything?
Like, that's very much an RFK change, right?
Here to hammer it, Byron.
I got my Dunkin' Donuts, and I put him on there.
I said, I say, you gotta have more.
You gotta have more protein.
We turned the triangle upside down.
I think it didn't need to be.
You could have just made the foods in the triangle smaller.
It didn't need to be an upside-down triangle.
But we want bigger meat, Byron.
We gotta get the bigger meat.
I also think that Steven's just still mad about the Diageo thing, which we did cover in an earlier episode.
Back in 2024, Rumble and Diageo got in a bit of back and forth because they wanted to know that their ads wouldn't be running with hateful content.
You know, if you're going to be paying a company to display your ads randomly across their platform, you're going to want to know that it's not being advertised ahead of like an Owen Benjamin live stream in which he's talking about the Jewish problem or the Jewish question or Jewish stuff.
You know, he can't stop talking about it.
Right.
I just, Diageo, I'm glad that they decided to.
I know that they didn't do it because of a moral stance necessarily.
They did it because of a calculation, thinking that maybe their audience wouldn't want to see their content or know that their content is being displayed in front of bad people with awful taste, right?
But yeah, Rumble made a big deal out of it.
It's all, you know, it's interesting, right?
Because it's not even, it's not even like a freedom of speech issue, right?
Like a company should be able to choose where they spend their advertising money without being punished for it.
Yeah, what if you were like explicitly like, I want to have my product advertised for and in front of white supremacist ideals?
That's something you could choose too.
I guess, and technically you can do that, right?
Yeah, you could find people and pay them money who are like expressing interest in an alt-white nation.
You could do that.
That's how you could spend your ad bucks.
And it's like, that's fine.
And like, I think it sucks, but like, that's how you want to spend your money, I guess.
Like, what type of audience do you want to bring in for your gray avatar body?
Eat my miracle pill, make your gray body glow blue type of commercial.
Build your teeth back with this one cool supplement.
Yeah, chew the xylitol until you have new teeth, a new line of teeth in the back of your old ones.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, like a shark.
If that's like what you want to do and you want your white supremacist audience to have new shark teeth, then that's like fine, I guess.
It's actually kind of nice of you because you soak for the math.
Yeah, it's hard.
I mean, the allegation, though, and I think it was actually, it wasn't in 2024, it's 2025, August, that it was conspiracy to boycott the platform by withholding advertising spend is what they said.
That Diageo targeted Rumble and that it was involving such a wide network of products that Diageo represents.
That was the issue.
But unfortunately for them, it was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds as Diageo isn't based in Texas.
And I don't think Rumble is either.
These guys like to waste time in grandstand.
It's lawfare.
Weaponizing the law is just like an obnoxious waste of time.
Dutch Brothers' Coffee Controversy00:06:13
I don't know if you saw, I think it was a congressman.
Is it Andy, not Andy Bashir, who's one of those guys?
Andy someone called for an investigation into the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it was twerking.
Yeah, because he may have done.
He was trying to go after this.
He may have done air humping.
Yeah.
The FCC was, they looked into potential rule violations with the halftime show, and it was called for by Andy Ogles, cool guy.
He wrote a letter to the House Committee on Energy Commissions, formal inquiry, and they came back saying that nothing was wrong.
Yeah, of course.
I just don't like saying a final decision saying Latin Americans enjoying their spot under the sun.
The interesting thing is he had no idea what Bad Bunny was saying.
And I'm like, well, there's songs.
Yeah, what if they're saying inappropriate stuff in Spanish and we don't know what that stuff is because none of us speak Spanish?
He got kind of paranoid about it.
He did.
Yeah, they found nothing wrong, no violations.
The one song, like it's like the second song that he played in the set is like him talking about like he used to take photographs before he was like uh he's like he's like doing photos as a as a thing.
Like, yeah, it's fucking terrifying what he's documenting the things around him.
Could you imagine this?
Oh my gosh.
And now you're talking about it in Spanish.
It's like, you know, like as like a dumb fucking gringo, like being able to hear like a few words like in a sentence in Spanish and being like, oh, this is what you're talking about.
You know what I mean?
I can't say it back to you, but like I've been around it for long enough that I can be like, oh, you said the word like photo in this.
And I'm like, I know that word from English class.
I know that word from first grade.
And you copied off of someone for sure.
Oh, yeah.
I was a C plus kid for sure.
I just, I just, these guys, man, it's just, it's so silly, the things that they're complaining about.
I know that it's kind of like a dead horse at this point, but I just want to point out that they are, Trump is the president.
They are running the Senate and the House.
And somehow, even all of the nonpartisan departments have now been taken over.
They've all been godelled.
They have been godelled.
They're not enough Kraft in there.
Why are they still whining about absolutely everything?
Back before woke happen, Robert Kraft could get a fucking hand job from a sex-trafficked woman in Florida.
And now there's a lot of scrutiny around that.
And he's just trying to come.
He's just trying to do soggy donuts with Steven.
Okay, Ed.
Sorry.
Sorry.
All right.
So he's calling for his wide audience to go comment on all of the ads.
I did try to find the comments, not in response to this, but all of the ads from both Duncan Official and Ben Affleck's company.
They don't have comments turned on.
So good work, Steven, pointing folks to a task that they cannot participate in.
Great work.
Just dumb.
Just a little.
They weren't going to anyway.
Of course not.
They don't care.
They're probably drinking Duncan.
You know?
Weird chemical-flavored coffee.
Oh, God.
Just sugar water, right?
Well, it's kind of strange.
The way that it comes is like, you're like, let me just get like a regular, like, I'm a black coffee guy if I'm drinking coffee.
It's cold.
And it's, yeah, give me a cold brew.
And Duncan ways that it's like 19 sugars and 36 creams or whatever.
It's like, just, and it's like, brother.
They don't do milk either.
What are we?
Yeah, what are we doing here?
This is early in the milkshake.
It's a watery milkshake.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
And no judgment towards people who enjoy that, but it is like I can't.
I just can't do that.
And it kind of just highlights the, you know, the transition of that company.
It didn't just happen overnight, Steven.
This isn't a working man's coffee anymore.
I'm sorry.
Right.
It's like you're getting your sugar from the powdered donut that you're eating and maybe you're dipping it into the, into your black coffee and you're on the way.
Yeah.
Now it's like who spends money and like where is market revenue?
And like they've identified that like Starbucks is like the number one fast casual like drinking establishment across America.
And they're like, that's what's popular.
McDonald's followed suit that Duncan did it.
We got to get egg bites.
Yeah, yeah.
And now, I mean, like, like over here in Austin, like Dutch Brothers has opened up like 36 locations.
And like, there's like 36 of this other one that are like, there's like a fucking Tim Hortons here now.
And Tim Hortons is like, you know, Tim Hortons does, you know, out of Canada the same thing that Duncan does for Boston through America.
America runs on Duncan.
Like it's just all the same shit.
And it's like, how do we sell our fucking sweet drink to the people who will buy it?
Give me a cookie dough freeze or a Sherbert real energy drink.
I need energy drinks dumped into any sort of sweet anything that I'm drinking.
And that's like what the Dutch brothers want is like they pull espresso, but like their big thing is like the it's they're a custom like energy drink.
They're like a they're a chemical company, you know?
Like that's what people want.
And just it's like it's not just white people drinking chemicals and white people drinking fucking sugar, sugar milk things or whatever.
This is why we're going to have like Megan the Stallion or like Sprina Carpenter.
Yeah, a wide swath of people.
We're going to have Jack Reacher come in.
We're going to have Duke Nukem shoot a coffee down your neck.
Like all these guys are going to show something.
All these ladies are going to show something too for the coffee.
They're going to get paid for this.
And it's just saying like, hey, this demographic also fucks with coffee.
Hey, we also, hey, check it out.
Sugar, very popular.
Let's keep it going.
No, I should say, yeah, there was a very popular ad not too long ago that featured James Marsden, Charles Melton, Tramel Tillman, Dylan Efron, all the guys, you know?
So like targeting like a wide group of folks.
Wide Swath of Celebrities00:08:56
And just because Stephen doesn't know who they are, and also he really does miss our guy, the baker, Fred the Baker.
Oh, Freddie the Baker.
Yeah.
Who did die from diabetes complications in his 80s?
From bacon.
It was mostly Dutch brothers.
Yeah, Dutch brothers.
What about where's the beef lady?
Is he like, where is he opining to the where's the beef lady?
Well, maybe that's another episode, but yeah, he's calling for people to reach out and boycott this because he's got beef with Diageo and black people.
Happy, happy Black History Month.
Thanks, Steven.
On to the next.
Pam Bondi yesterday.
She was live and I didn't have the stomach for it.
Let me be really clear about, I've never been a fan.
We didn't cover her hearing because before any of this went down, I thought she was going to be a disaster.
Pam Bondi is unintelligent.
She's unprincipled.
And she should be fired.
She's not good.
I agree with all of that, but he can think all those things and be right, but he also doesn't like her and doesn't believe that she could be good at her job because she's a woman.
Like bottom line, that's the reason he didn't cover her.
Like, do you remember back when we did the whole Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing?
I think we did a couple of them.
We may have.
Who else did we talk about?
We talked about Pete Hegseth's mom saying that he was in that episode.
Yeah.
Trying to think who else really came up during that.
We never made it through a Matt Gates one because that never happened, of course.
He fell off.
Skipped over Linda McMahon, and I think we just kind of casually talked a little bit about RFK's hearing.
I don't think we fully covered it, but no, did we duff?
No.
I think we only duffed when we watched Real World.
But all of that aside, I do remember Steven saying he wasn't going to be covering Pam Bondi's confirmation hearing because he didn't like her.
That's not new.
We know that Steve doesn't like Pam Bondi.
And again, I don't like Pam Bondi at all.
Yeah, not great.
She hasn't cleaned house.
She hasn't answered questions.
And yesterday at the hearing, she also did the perpetual victimhood sort of feminism thing with I'm constantly being interrupted.
Well, I will tell you, I have to call balls and strikes.
She wasn't answering questions.
And it looked quite foolish.
It reflected poorly on this administration.
She needs to go, case in point, listen to her testimony.
They are talking about Epstein today.
Correct.
This has been around since the Obama administration.
This administration released over 3 million pages of documents, over 3 million.
And Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents.
He is the most transparent president in the nation's history.
All right.
None of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
How ironic is that?
You know why?
To say that Trump signed that into law, it was going to happen regardless of his support.
So he hopped on board late, of course.
But to say that he wanted to release all 3 million might be correct, but I feel like there's still like, what is it, 3 million more files that he didn't?
That's kind of interesting to say that he signed for the release of those files, especially after mentioning the 3 million.
We got some theatrics going on at this thing, and that really upset Pam Bondi.
How dare you?
I like what you're doing.
Almost reminds me of like a grown-up Greta Thunberg.
Kind of fun.
I like it.
They hate it when Thunberg did it.
So I guess they're at least she starts honking like a duck, like a damn goose.
Don't you yell at me?
Don't you say that about Trump?
I would never.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Rock.
It does rule.
Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now is over $50,000.
Checks notes.
The Dow is over $50,000.
I don't know why you're laughing.
You're a great stock trader, as I hear, Raskin.
The Dow is over $50,000 right now.
The SP at almost $7,000.
And the NASDAQ smashing records.
Americans' 401ks and retirement savings are booming.
That's what we should be talking about.
We should be talking about making Americans safe.
We should be talking about, what does a Dow have to do with anything?
That's what they just asked.
Are you kidding?
that's not an answer good question shattered 50 000 for the first time this is crazy they said it couldn't be done in four years yet president trump has done it in one year National median rents have fallen to a four-year low, thanks to Donald Trump.
That's why they want to focus on Epstein and our most transparent president in the nation's history.
Oh, you must think you're like Treasury Secretary.
I thought her department was DOJ.
Yeah.
So they were asking, here's the thing.
They were asking you appropriate questions for the DOJ.
You answered them as though the DOJ isn't under your control, isn't under your purview.
Yeah, so it does seem like she might be confused and think that she's Scott Bessant for a day.
Pretty rough.
Yeah, pretty rough stuff there.
This is kind of like a damn silly goose honking over there.
I think it is wild that they are in this moment capable of criticizing someone on their side because they're a woman.
Exactly.
But this is the kind of stuff that we see every week.
Yeah.
But they refuse to talk about.
Right.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's like this.
This is like the more like one of the ones that's like more on their face.
Just like, if you stand behind this, like it's more and more like a line in the sand.
And like the, I guess, sort of the echo of it becoming more and more clear to like the people that are on the fringes of where that line is, I suppose.
Sure.
Where they're having to say like, legitimately, I can't stand with like what you're saying because like it's in you, you're doing an appeal to wealth for excuse of pedophilia.
You're getting there.
You're figuring it out.
And it's like, so excuse me.
Excuse me.
This is for the wealthy paper.
All right.
She's yelling all the time.
Be careful.
You have a sore throat, buddy.
Yeah, I'm working through it.
I can finally laugh a little bit more this week.
But if that's what she's trying to do to say that, like, hey, like, we can excuse pedophilia for the excuse for the DAO being up $50,000, I guess.
I don't really, sure, I own some stocks.
I don't really know what that means.
Is that because as a country, we're actually selling children now?
Like, we're going to be able to do that.
Yeah, we're just turned on the Wayfarer machine again.
They're shipping kids across this country in Wayfair boxes.
But that's fine because they're making money doing it.
And that's what you need to be focusing on, especially if your 401k is attached to private prisons and, of course, child sex trafficking.
And that's what she's doing.
So I think that like I was saying, like the people that are on the fringe of this line in the sand, they are having to decide that that's actually not something I'm willing to stand with you on that because that's we're talking about this and you yeah,
which for us is like a long fucking time ago, but like whatever, like that's what I was saying, like whatever the echo is of that line in the sand is that's what's bringing these people back to maybe some sort of grounded reality that like, hey, we can't in good faith be with Pam Bondi on this one until the wind picks up and you know blows the line out of the sand again, right?
Sure, until it becomes more, yeah, it becomes blurry again.
And I guess that's what we're anticipating.
But this is very clearly like, if it's if Steven's, we're not agreeing with him, Steven's agreeing with us.
And he's behind us on this one.
So we were right.
He was wrong.
Admonish yourself and your whole fucking crew, you dumb fucks.
We've been saying it and you've been saying that we're wrong.
Now you're seeing it in its bold in action in a way that you can no longer defend.
And that's what we're watching right now.
Odd Tactics and Lies Consistently Told00:15:11
It's the covert feminism of using the tactic of, oh, I'm a victim.
I can't believe you won't let me finish.
And here's the thing.
There's an appropriate time to bring that up if you are answering the questions appropriately.
She wasn't.
It's about as bad as Abroad on the Whatever podcast.
I could have finished my answer.
There were more than 500 attorneys and reviewers who assisted with the question and they don't want an answer.
That answers my question, ma'am.
Of the victims are protected.
Do you want me to answer or do you want to interrupt?
I believe Wexner's name was listed more than they kind of continue on.
We know what she sounds like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
Can I finish, can I finish?
I mean, one of my favorite moments, I don't think I have the clip, but I just want to shout out Becca Belint, who I didn't know much of until recently, but kind of like a rock star this week, a Democrat representative from Vermont.
After viewing some unredacted Epstein files in preparation for this, she got stopped by someone from Dropsite News, just asked what that process was like and what she found in the unredacted versions.
And just wanted to ask you, have you had a chance to review any of the unredacted files over at the DOJ, the Epstein files?
I did.
You did?
Yeah, I just came from there.
What can you tell us?
There's a bunch of sick fucks.
And I mean, it was awesome.
And then she is the one who also was yelling at Pam Bondi and misspoke and called her secretary.
Pam Bondi responded saying, I am Attorney General.
And she said, you could have fooled me.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Just a lot of fun.
Yeah, that's good.
That's our star of the week.
Great work, Becca.
Doing great stuff.
Even for a woman.
Just a little Crowder joke there.
But other than Crowder, Gerald has some thoughts and feelings, and you know how I feel about that.
And one thing that she said, I want to address this because she's like, the Democrats, that's a fair point.
The Democrats didn't bring this up, but do not act.
Like, they are the only one asking questions now.
Your entire right flank is asking questions right now that you need to answer.
Stop acting like this is just political theater on the questions and start answering what is actually going on and who is going to be charged.
And I know what many people, well, you're going to say, well, you guys have pointed out hypocrisy.
Sure, we have.
Because it's Pam Bondi's job to answer for the actions being taken now.
That is her job.
That's why she's there.
The key issue here is she's not actually doing her job.
And she's playing victim when people call her both left and right on her not doing her job appropriately.
It's funny because they're the constituents, you know, either they know, I think Stephen is knowing the whole time that obscting.
Obfuscating.
Obviousating.
Oh, no.
Obscuating.
Uh-oh.
Obstus.
Obfusating.
Obsfucating.
That's not right.
Obsfucating.
Am I saying this right?
Obsfucating.
Obsfucating.
Uh-oh.
We're both writing it now.
So I can read it.
Obfuscate.
Obsfucating.
Obfuscate.
Oh, that's not even cool.
Obfuscate.
Obfuscating?
Obfuscate.
Did- lying?
Just go to the dumbest word?
One syllable.
You just have to use it.
Use this word in a sentence.
Obscuring.
Obscuring.
There we go.
That makes more sense.
I'm sorry, guys.
This isn't, I'm not good at this.
No, no.
So what I'm saying is like, Stephen knows that this is a tactic that is being used, right?
Like, and I think that a handful of intelligent people who just so happen to be conservative also know that this is a tactic, right?
Like they know that this, you know, attempt to confuse or blur reality or be very hyper-specific when it's beneficial, that this is all a strategy, you know?
And then there's the people who don't know, who don't understand, who are being taken advantage of.
And face value.
And that's just such a disrespectful way to view people, right?
Like you're using your audience, assuming that they don't know any better.
And I think it's gross.
Like it's, it's.
Yeah, no, it is.
It's just prey, like predator prey technique, you know, like it's knowing that people are uninformed and then using that to your advantage to fill in the blanks for them.
When the right complains about the left and like how the left will choose to like, oh, they're not answering.
They're not answering.
It's like, no, the left is genuinely answering, but you can't explain most things in like one simple like outer layer example, right?
Like Charlie Kirk is racist, for example.
When we broke this down, like, how is Charlie Kirk racist?
And Charlie Kirk is racist through a level of like stacking information on top of the listener so that they, at the end of it, digest what he's saying and then comes out the other end.
DEI is a race-based thing and therefore is not part of the meritocracy.
Therefore, black people less superior to whites in that whole dichotomy of who is hireable, right?
And what's interesting about that, though, is how it relates back to what we're talking about with like Dunkin' Donuts, where I just want white commercials, right?
And like, it's basically sort of that like obfuscate the point by saying we just want commercials that appeal to white people and what was more simple about that instead of this like diversity DEI thing that we've grown on the right to snarl and hiss at.
You know, it's just more of that.
But if our audience doesn't understand that like DEI is meritocracy-based, you know, then like that's easier for us to then pull the position to say that Megan thee stallion doing squishy noises about a protein drink is what is failing white America.
God, I just got hit with the largest wave of who the fuck cares when you said it like that.
No one cares.
Who cares?
It's a commercial.
Oh my God.
It's going to be gone in three weeks.
I can't believe we spent an hour talking about a squishy split.
And the other thing that I want to point out that I think is such an odd tactic that they're all part of is this kind of lying with such frequency and consistency until it feels legitimate that undocumented folks are voting in elections when there's absolutely no proof and no evidence of that.
Yeah, it's impossible for them to be doing that.
And then they'll say that some are in blue cities, but they also leave out the fact that those are typically for local elections, you know, in very, very specific and rare circumstances.
But no one is given the reason.
No, but the exception explains the whole.
Like, that's the whole thing.
If one does it, they all do it.
And that means that they're all bad.
And that means that it's okay to be racist.
And we can, you know, systematically make things harder for people to vote so that folks who are already struggling and have one historically disadvantaged.
They want fewer people to vote.
Yeah, because what we know is that the truth leans left.
So do most people's opinions about things.
So if we can get those out of the way entirely, purge the voter rolls and make sure that you can't come back on.
It's like with trans people.
Like I saw like a trans person that I know here talking about like they went to go renew their passport, but because they had their sex change on their previous passport, now they can't get a passport at all, regardless of what gender they put on it.
So it's like, yeah, Jesus Christ.
So now they can't get a passport to like even like leave the country if they needed to, but they're like not recognized as a person here, essentially as someone who can be governed with a legal identification, I guess.
And so like that's that's the problem.
Right.
And then like this is obviously like a subset.
Trans is not a race or anything, but you know, it is a subset of people, a minority group of people who are being targeted by this administration for this type of thinking that they that they participate in all the time.
And the type of like othering type of shit that like this whole episode is basically based around.
And the way to other someone is to lie to the less informed people on your side, it seems that that's just the main tactic, right?
Yeah, right.
Making everything that they don't know about a threat.
I guarantee that none of these people agree that like this person shouldn't be able to get a passport, despite the fact that they have a different feeling about what gender is or what sex is and whether or not they have different definitions.
Like these people, unless they are just truly syncophantic, like cult-ish garbage people, you know, who just want cruelty as the mode of operation for everybody.
I don't think that no one really agrees with that.
But if you like break it down to them in a way where it's like, well, shouldn't they at least be able to get their ID, you know, regardless of how you feel about gender.
I think most people would say like, yes, you should be able to get your ID.
It seems like a right.
Yeah, right?
It's just like, it's not that complicated.
And it's like, if they can like take this away from you based on like, you know, how you feel and like what is real for you, I get, and broadly, like most people agree, trans people are people, right?
And it's not, it's not some fucking left-wing ideology.
It's a, it's an, it's not even an ideology.
It's the fucking way people live.
Yeah.
You know, it's just the way the way things are biologically.
You would assume that they should have rights.
Like, I mean, yeah, it's, you live in America.
You're an American, period.
know they always argue that they drew the line with trancing the children right but as when they don't talk about this so much anymore because they you know that shit's not fucking legal Yeah, it's also not real.
It's state-sanctioned drag queen shows.
It's not fucking real, you dumb fuck.
Interesting how quickly that problem just kind of dries up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stupid.
Back to.
Pam.
Don't you.
Bam.
Are you serious?
So I did play Becca Belint's immediate response after viewing some of the Epstein files on one of four computers provided by the Department of Justice.
In fact, they were also spying on everyone who decided to go look at the unredacted files.
I don't know if you saw that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did.
Yeah, very cool, too.
Because they had like four computers and they were like, here's how this is the only way you can look at it is if you like log into our Windows XP machine and then we're going to keystroke log everything that happens here.
So that happens.
We shared a little bit of one response from Becca, which disgusted.
And I know Jamie Raskin's been making the rounds on a handful of pretty great YouTube commentary shows sharing what he found.
And he also mentioned that Trump's name showed up about, I think, a million times is what the research results were.
Quite interesting that Trump would have showed up.
He only showed up 6,000 times is what they said, of course.
38,000 times.
66,000 times.
Interesting.
132,000 times.
Turns out now it's...
They just kept going after people on the fucking Senate floor and like, hey, do you want to give 66,000 Trump mentions or do you want to double it and give it to the next guy?
Oh, no.
And they just kept stacking them up, doubling it.
No one wants it.
No one wants to take it.
So that's where we are.
We've got a hot potato of a situation.
Turns out, listen, a lot of folks are speaking out after their poor experience of taking a peek at the unredacted files.
I'm sure that we're not going to be done talking about it.
But Steven for today is bringing that up and explaining how he feels about it.
It says unhelpful as Bondi is, or I should say, are all of these people, and I don't want to use the term grifters, but people who go, I've seen the unredacted.
And oh my gosh, boy, wait until you see what I have for you.
The constant tease of potential.
Will they, won't they?
Names on the list with no follow-up.
You would be shocked, Pierce, at some of the names that I've seen that came across the DOJ in the DOJ is protecting.
And we're talking about people on both sides of the aisle.
We're talking about famous people, rich people, people in power, prime ministers, former officers, former presidents, et cetera, media personalities that are named in these files.
Congresswoman, are you among the members who got to see the unredacted files today?
Yes, I saw some of them.
Not all of them, obviously.
I'll be going back tomorrow to see more.
Any reaction on what you've seen so far?
I think that there are folks who are definitely implicated and co-conspirators.
Let me announce now: several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names.
Five months, huh?
We know the names.
How long does it take to make a list?
Many of us were abused by them.
They got to figure out how to use Microsoft X. Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names.
We all know we're regularly in the Epstein world.
I can tell you that I have a whole list of documents, including documents that include the name of potential co-conspirators and perpetrators.
Our press secretary and our Department of Justice and other government officials saying they're moving on from this.
I wish that we could.
Victims just need to learn how to use Excel, right?
Yeah, let's blame them some more.
These fucking, why are they, why are they dragging this?
Why are they having, why aren't they driving this investigation?
It's almost as if the United States government is compromised in some way that they won't take these people's voice seriously enough to put justice in their path.
That they may have to take this.
Why is this the fucking, like, god damn, he's so fucking dumb?
Tim, Gerald, Stephen.
Yeah, not a fucking single brain cell in that entire fucking room.
And you know, it's fucking crazy is that Josh Feierstein or whatever the fuck, he's the smartest guy in there.
He should be.
He's the sharpest guy.
He has the most experience.
He's also like one of the youngest people in that room.
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Yep, that's true.
Not a fucking single goddamn brain cell amongst them.
Just not one.
Did they understand?
At this point, I don't know.
I guess Steven hasn't won a single lawsuit.
So at this point, I just don't think he quite understands how law works.
And, you know, when it comes to a case like this that involves sex trafficking and rape and serious crimes, you don't just drop names of people.
You don't just make public accusations, especially when they're against rich and powerful people.
Especially after things like Virginia Duffrey, who claimed that she wasn't suicidal.
Well, how come Joe Biden didn't put out the Epstein list?
Because he's probably on it.
Well, I am looking at it now.
Let me actually take a peek because Pam Bondi yesterday released just a list of weird names.
And of course, actually, Joe Biden isn't on this list, but Hunter is, which is kind of interesting.
Alex Jones is on it though as well which is kind of wow this is going to be There's going to be some interesting Googling going on.
It's just this.
I just said that distraction.
It's just to be illustrative of like, you know, it's like for the last like four years, that was like a big common thing that I'd see when people were talking about like Joe Biden, how Joe Biden's trash from the right.
A lot of it was like, well, how come he's not putting out the Epstein files?
And it's like, they're actively working on putting them out.
It just takes a lot of fucking time.
Glene Maxwell's investigation was ongoing at that point.
So you can't just reveal information.
It's like Epstein died in 2019.
And so it's like, I don't know, I don't know.
Yeah, we all want swift justice, et cetera, et cetera.
But it's like, we're also talking about like millions and millions and millions of files.
And like, what can we find out?
Hundreds of people that you have to build this fucking case out.
Like, it's not just something that they can put out.
And they're like, well, he's not doing anything.
And it's like him personally, no, but his administration, yes.
And it's like, when we will get this information and it will come out and you will see that like the people on the left were largely correct about what they were asserting about these fucking billionaire class people.
It's like the people that you vote for, the people that you're on your fucking knees for.
That's them, right?
And it's, I don't know, just it's so fucking.
I'm not going to say, I don't have any evidence that the Democrats were prioritizing this necessarily as much as I would have liked them to, right?
Like, well, I think that, but to that point, it says it's like there's not really a lot that they can do or say beyond like, hey, we're working on it.
We are trying to figure this out, which I fully believe that they were during like the Biden administration.
Like, there's just not like a lot of information you can get.
And when you'd finally get somebody to like talk about it, they'd be like, yeah, we're actively pursuing this.
That's true.
You know, it's like we can't tell you anything.
It's just like we are saying that like this is an ongoing investigation.
And we know that that's true because of where we are today with that information.
Yeah, there's evidence that there's on.
I mean, if any of these victims were to come forward and try to get justice for something else other than but tangentially connected to Ghelane Maxwell's trial, it would have put the whole case in jeopardy.
Like, do you remember when fucking Pam Bondi said, like, this information's on my desk?
Who the fuck do you think got it to her desk?
Good point.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes during the Biden.
Sorry, the Biden administration.
God, I'm brain melted because of the stupid fuckers that I listen to all the time.
No, clearly there was work being done, you know, by the FBI, right?
Like in the Department of Justice.
Absolutely.
We had a much more competent Department of Justice doing this also, which is to say that like, yeah, this fucking lady says she had all this information on her desk.
She's looked through it and it's like, oh, we're going to blow the fucking top off of this one.
It's like, again, like you're inheriting Biden era information just as much as anything else.
And like, so, and so what did they do with it?
They fucking duffed and spiked the information as best they could.
And they've, they keep failing every way around it.
Because they're incompetent.
How dare you?
How dare you call me incompetent?
We have the best DAO ever.
50K on the Dow.
Have you seen my Dow?
Look into my DAO.
Yeah, like, I don't know.
And even for her to even have, to have responded by saying, I have a list on my desk is just such a clear display of lack of understanding of how.
Don't she say that about Casey Anthony?
Okay, you've got your files mixed up.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, move that one to the left.
Maybe she's in the files, though.
Who knows?
I don't see it.
I see Michael Cohen, of course.
Yes.
Jay-Z.
Very good.
You can't always get what you want.
No.
Unless it's a child, Brian.
I got scared, dude.
I thought it was Miss Foley, but it's Mark Foley.
Okay, yeah.
Mick Foley is God.
He's a good guy.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Now, let me be really clear before I get to the people getting ahead of it.
The public interest in this case is unbelievably strong.
The victims will be fine in the court of public opinion.
And they will be protected legally.
Many people have offered to assist them if they reveal their abusers.
Here's the thing.
You have names in these files that are public of people who were invited, let's say, to Epstein's house once, didn't know who he was, showed up for dinner, showed up for a party.
You have victims' names that were revealed, but not those who were repeat visitors with intimate relationships.
The redactions aren't consistent.
That's why the public will, of course, side with these people if they provide viable information.
And remember, Elon offered to defend anyone who reveals the truth.
He wrote this on X.
He wrote, I will pay for the defense of anyone who speaks the truth about this and is sued for doing so.
So you have legal protection.
You will not be villainized in the court of public opinion.
If you have this information, stop teasing it and re-lease it.
You'll be fine in the court of public opinion.
Yeah, Elon Musk has your back, dude.
This is An ex-tweet excretion or whatever.
That's a David Pac-Man.
Pac-Man calls them excretions.
Very fun.
No, this is like the dumbest shit ever.
Steven saying that, we'll believe you.
You know, Elon, the guy who is trying to go to the island, who actively was being shunned from his quote-unquote friend group from going.
Sorry, you're just like, you're a bad hang, actually, and you can't come.
Maybe next time, buddy.
That guy.
That's so weird.
But maybe also, like, that's to the opposite of my point.
Maybe he's like, well, if they do put that out, I can like, you know, I can beat them up over all this for not inviting me to their pedophile island, for not letting me be a pedophile with them.
It's like calling the police on a party that you couldn't get invited to.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
There's underage drinking going on here.
Yeah, just so you know, and then standing outside and being like, that's what you get.
No, but I think that it's odd that Steven is, he's putting this caveat on victims coming out.
Like, it should be, we will believe you if you come forward when you're ready.
Like, right?
Like, that's fine.
And I think it's never that, though.
I know he doesn't believe victims.
He's doing an if, a huge if.
He's like, well, I don't believe you.
You don't have to.
Hey, put your head in this fridge real quick.
Okay, well, come on.
He doesn't believe people, right?
Like, let me hang on a second.
To my pregnant ex-wife, how your lungs feel after that cigar.
I know how mine do.
Just do the dog meds for me.
I've got to use the Traeger for me and the boys later.
All right.
This is our last clip.
Gerald's coming over later.
He's doing his own Pam Bondi shit.
What's going on with my boys?
We're going to be eating later.
Got steaks, right?
We got, yeah, yeah, we have.
But where am I going to get where am I going to get the pellets for the Traeger?
Oh, I'm fine with that.
Steven has Pam Bondi energy, right?
He does.
He's a real that maybe that they're too close.
They're too closely similar.
Yeah.
You know, it's like when you meet someone who's like too close to your personality, you're like, I don't like that guy.
You kind of get threatened by it a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There can only be one kooky dude here.
And it's not Pam.
Especially if it can help put people behind bars or if it could help prevent future victims.
That being said, we have some suspicions as to who may be involved because some suspects are trying to clearly get ahead of the accusations.
And what did you do to celebrate?
Oh, we had a big party on Little St. James, you know, with all my friends, Elmo and Big Bird.
And of course, Jeffrey Epstein.
So that's about all I can take for this week.
I didn't even make it to the salty.
Big Bird's like nine years old, dude.
Elmo's a little kid.
I would assume that Cookie Monster is probably like the same age.
Like they're all like a beer group.
They're like, 15, maybe, right?
Yeah, I mean, like, these are all kids.
The Muppets are kids.
Well, not, but Sesame Streets.
Muppets are kids.
Are they called Muppets or are they called puppets?
They are Muppets because they're a Hansen creation.
Oh, you're right.
Interesting.
That's about all I can handle for this week.
If you disagree with us, feel free to convince me otherwise.
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Up scrolled?
I haven't started posting on there, but that's a thing.
Australian.
Is that right?
I believe.
I don't know.
A lot of things have been going on in the world, and I kind of wanted to pick a Steven Crowder episode that was less consequential, you know, something that was more of the day, and also it would involve, you know.
I mean, we're talking about Megan the Stallion's Dunkin' Donuts dream.
Megan the Stallion!
I reclaim my time.
I wish I could reclaim it all.
45 seconds on the clock.
That's just enough time to enjoy this.
Megan the stallion commercial one more time.
I don't even know.
I don't even know.
This is just like a bunker episode for Steve, right?
He left his house once, sat quiet next to his woman.
I love that he says that they both sat silently for 30 seconds after a commercial.
I kind of assume that that's the energy in the relationship most of the time.
It's like her sitting next to him being like, he's really mad about this woman doing a protein.
I guess this is just a character episode, huh?
This is the guy.
Yeah, it's just more of the same.
Inconsistent, hypocritical, mostly.
You know, thirsty for coffee, I guess.
Really thirsty.
Good morning, Mug Club.
I got another coffee gripe.
This time it's about how I don't like it.
Black.
Yeah, I mean, that's the big thing.
He's auditioning for Christmas Adventures Club.
They're not putting enough milk in this coffee if you catch them when I drift.
He goes, Cafe latte, hold the coffee, please.
Hold the cafe.
I just want hot milk, and then could you ice it?
Can I get a flat white, all white, please?
Thank you.
I want the cold foam on top still, though.
So if you could ice me down.
Oh, what a loser.
That's all.
Mug club.
Dennis isn't going to be back for a bit, but if you want to hear more of him, I think our episode, our shrug club investigation, part three of Steven's stand-up set in Spokane, Washington, should be up soon if you want to go to Shrug.club.
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Really appreciate your mug shipping soon.
Sipping out of one right now.
Oh, I don't think that's a can.
I don't have it.
I'm out of liquids over here.
Well, Dennis...
I'll drink the plant food.
Hang on.
Don't do that.
Dennis isn't going to be back for a couple weeks, but we might get a call-in.
You never know.
He won't be.
He's not too far.
Especially not too far from our hearts.
But until next time for Dennis, I'm Byron.
And I'm Jared.
Take care.
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