Breaking: Minneapolis Catholic Church Shooting Live Coverage

Summary

Louder with Crowder: "Breaking: Minneapolis Catholic Church Shooting Live Coverage"

Date: August 27, 2025
Host: Steven Crowder (with co-hosts Gerald, Josh Firestein, Sam)
Main Theme:
Live coverage and political/cultural analysis in the aftermath of the tragic shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic Church. Other topics discussed include societal responses to crime, self-defense rights, toxic femininity/feminism, and pop culture events (notably, the Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce engagement).

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1. Episode Overview

This episode of Louder with Crowder provides immediate live coverage of the Minneapolis Catholic Church shooting, combining breaking news with the show’s characteristic commentary on gun rights, media narratives, societal decay, gender dynamics, and Western cultural trends. The team pauses regularly to check for official updates while using the event as a backdrop to broader critique of governmental and cultural responses to violence.

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2. Key Discussion Points and Insights

A. Breaking News: Minneapolis Church Shooting Coverage

[00:01–06:00, 15:09–17:19, 20:09–66:00+]

• Initial Reports:

  • Steven opens out of breath, attributing it to rushing as live news of a church shooting breaks ("there's a shooting that has taken place in Minneapolis yet again at a church" – 00:13).
  • Expresses sympathy ("thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected" – 00:17) but refuses the notion of gun control as a response.
  • Emphasizes mission to cut through misinformation by verifying facts via their research team.

• Live Information Feeding:

  • Updates from Gerald and others as news breaks; repeated appeals to the audience for local eyewitness tips (via chat, social media, or a protonmail tipline).
  • On-the-spot analysis of full details as they emerge, including:
    • Location: Annunciation Church, Minneapolis
    • Two confirmed dead (including a child)
    • Multiple victims (conflicting reports of 11–20 injured/dead)
    • Shooter: male, early 20s, entered with multiple firearms, fired through windows at children during a school Mass, eventually killed himself ([58:01–65:30])

• Law Enforcement Press Conference:

  • Minneapolis Police Chief and spokesperson provide emotional statements: “[These] kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. These are kids that should be learning with their friends…without the fear or risk of violence.” ([55:43])
  • Details on the attack methodology and current investigative priorities.

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B. Societal Responses, Gun Rights, and Systemic Failures

[01:00–14:00, 17:19–20:09, 23:32–29:30, 57:47–66:00]

• Critique of 'Systemic Failure' Narratives:

  • Crowder draws parallels between U.S. racial injustice cases (Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown) and current European cases involving migrants and violence.
  • Argues that mainstream media and progressives only invoke "the system failed them" when it matches their ideology, not when the victims are “young girls needing to defend themselves from migrant violence” (06:00–12:34).

• On Defensive Rights:

  • “Of course I think you have the right to carry weapons. I think that you should. But a 12-year-old girl shouldn’t feel that she has to.” ([08:15])
  • Criticism of gun-free zones: “94% of mass shootings take place in gun free zones.” ([29:30])
  • Frequent anecdotal evidence (Sutherland Springs shooting) is cited to illustrate how mass shootings are often ended by armed citizens—a fact Crowder claims is ignored by the media (24:41).

• Advocacy for Immediate Self-Protective Action:

  • Encourages listeners to arm themselves legally. “If you aren’t carrying a firearm, go do so if you live in the United States, it’s that simple… You can save your family.” ([29:30])

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C. Feminism, Masculinity, and Multiculturalism

[08:50–15:09, 34:45–38:52, 41:38–43:12]

• ‘Toxic Femininity’ and Gender Roles:

  • Crowder posits that feminism and its societal impacts have made women and girls less safe (“That girl carrying that hatchet and that knife is the byproduct of toxic femininity.” – [11:47]).
  • Argues for a return to traditional male roles, specifically the duty of fathers and men to protect women and children.
  • “Men used to be a safeguard. We can’t talk about that…” ([10:53])
  • Criticizes the outcomes of immigration/multiculturalism policies which, he claims, lead to increased violence against women in Europe.

• Feminism and Free Speech:

  • Free speech contrasted between U.S. and U.K. (“The LGBTQ plus flag is stupid and gay, and you are stupid and gay if you fly it. Hey, police officer, you look like a lesbian nana.” – [33:07])
  • Argues that a “nice” society, driven by feminized empathy and feeling, results in less liberty and safety, especially for the vulnerable ([34:45–37:49]).

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D. Media Framing and Misinformation

[16:01–17:19, 24:41–25:42, 44:05–45:19, 66:00+]

• Distrust for Mainstream Media:
  • Emphasizes their own slower, more accurate reporting as opposed to the speed-oriented, sometimes inaccurate mainstream (“We always want to be slow to the draw because we want to be right and never want to misinform you…” – [16:38]).
  • Claims the narrative around mass shootings is selectively shaped to avoid inconvenient facts about perpetrators or defensive firearm use.

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E. Pop Culture Tangents – Taylor Swift & Gender Commentary

[42:08–54:39]

• Swift/Kelce Engagement Satire:
  • Satirizes media and young women’s reaction to Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s engagement.
  • Uses the cultural event to critique modern relationship expectations and feminist contradictions (“Women want to get married. That is a prize. Women control access to sex. Men control access to relationships. That’s a big deal. It’s okay. But you can’t say… you don’t need a man.” – [51:22]).
  • Advises honesty about what both genders actually want from relationships.

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3. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Societal Breakdown (Crowder):

  “A 12-year-old girl shouldn’t feel that she has to [carry weapons]. And why does she feel that she has to? … Are we now expecting 12-year-olds to take it upon themselves to protect other 12-year-olds? Or should that be the job of the system? … I tell you whose job it really should be. Fathers, men who’ve also failed them.” ([09:39])

• On Gun-Free Zones & Defensive Use (Crowder):

  “I guarantee you, bet my life on it, this guy today was stopped by someone else with a gun…all of them end that way.” ([29:30])

• On Cultural Contrasts (Crowder):

  “You like living in a nicer society? Anyone out there? If you’re thinking, though, of moving to the United States, I will say here—not only can you be free. Not only can you speak, not only can you protect yourself, but we also have a lot of better opportunities to finance and own a home.” ([37:49])

• Minneapolis Police Chief during press conference:

  “You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy or the absolute pain of this situation. … These kids were literally praying… They should be able to go to school or church in peace.” ([54:56])

• Crowder on Evil and Solutions:

  “That’s the difference in a liberal worldview and the conservative worldview. Acts of evil will always happen. Evil will always be amongst you. So what do you need to do to fight it?” ([57:47])

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4. Important Timestamps

• 00:01–06:00: Show opens; breaking news of Minneapolis shooting; early context for live coverage.
• 06:00–12:34: Analysis of “systemic failure” and societal breakdown narratives.
• 20:09–23:32: First significant fact dump and focus on accuracy vs. mainstream media.
• 23:34–29:30: Detailed discussion of gun violence, defensive gun use statistics, and calls for self-defense preparedness.
• 29:30–32:12: Crowder on personal responsibility and proactive safety measures for families.
• 34:45–37:49: Satirical rant on British/European attitudes toward American freedoms.
• 41:38–43:20: Gender/feminism tangents, safety, and defense.
• 54:47–63:42: Minneapolis Police press conference – emotional statements and summary of facts.
• 65:30–66:00: Closing analysis on gun laws, evil, and worldviews.

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5. Tone and Language

• The episode maintains Crowder’s trademark irreverent, politically incorrect, and confrontational tone, mixing humor, sarcasm, parody songs, rants, and genuine mourning.
• Frequent use of hyperbole, mockery, and strong language ("bitches", "tranny", "fucking children").
• Openly critical of progressive and feminist ideas, government agencies, and mainstream journalism.

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6. Flow and Utility for Non-Listeners

This summary provides both a blow-by-blow account of the major developments in the Minneapolis church shooting and a digest of the hosts’ reactions and political/cultural commentary. It highlights the right-leaning framing (personal responsibility, societal decay due to progressivism/feminism, gun rights advocacy) and captures both the seriousness of the tragedy and the show’s signature irreverence, ensuring newcomers understand the core arguments and controversies without needing to listen.

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AD segments, intros/outros, and explicit promotions have been omitted for focus on episode content.

Transcript

[Steven Crowder]

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Rumble lineup live. It starts at 9am Eastern, goes to 7pm Eastern. Each show rolls into the next. Obviously, right now, as we are broadcasting this live, just to let you know, we were running around. So if I seem a little winded, it's also because I'm out of shape. But there's a shooting that has taken place in Minneapolis yet again at a church. And I know that it sounds cliche, but our thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected. And people can say, hey, what are you. What are you doing with that? Well, there's nothing else that we can offer at this moment in time. Certainly not going to push for gun control policy. But we have the research team right now in the mission control. They're hard at work to make sure that we can deliver you accurate information because there's a lot of misinformation that goes out there in these times. So we'll be covering that live. But before that, I had something that I wanted to talk about today, and it ties in. Look, let me preface this with I know that we live in an incredible time, okay? And it's easy when there's a mass shooting to say everything is terrible. You live in an age with access to technology and creature comforts that we take for granted. And crime, historically, is relatively low. I understand all of that, and I'm incredibly grateful. Grateful. And it's important to maintain that attitude, that mindset as we go through this. And it's okay to look at the world that way, to have a joyous heart, as we're called to as Christians, and grieve for the senseless loss of lives. But it does tie into a story that's sort of lit the Internet on fire. And I've been thinking about it, this story from Scotland of the young girl with a knife and a hatchet. Look, before I get into this, I know we have to put some of the details aside because we don't know everything. There has been a lot of misinformation out there on both sides, and it remains to be seen. Okay. We don't know how the conflict started. We don't know who was at fault in that particular. That very specific, limited conflict. I get that. But we do know that a girl in a country that's supposed to be a part of the free world felt the need to carry around a knife and a hatchet. And I don't even want to get into the discussion of people who believe you have no right to defend yourself whatsoever because Europe is lost and Canada is A nation of conquered people. And I mean that. But I do want to laser in on something, and it's been on my mind, on my heart, in the United States specifically. But we see it in Europe, too, with migrants. Often when someone who is seen as part of a marginalized class or minority acts out, becomes a flashpoint. The controversy will center around, and particularly from the left, how the system, how society has failed them. We heard that with Trayvon Martin, right? Going back to that, we heard it with Mike Brown, where once the details came out, Mike Brown, hands up, don't shoot. His hands weren't up. He was punching a cop in the face and trying to take his gun away from him. But the conversation then changed to, yes, but this is a symptom of how our system has failed this person. Don't you see? This is a, hey, Mike, he's not the only one. Trayvon's not the only one. It's a cry for help. It's a cry for help. And they are an example of how all of us have failed them. Why don't we ask ourselves, why don't we look in the mirror and say, hey, why do we think that these young men are afraid of police officers? Why do we think that's the case? Well, I want to ask you, why aren't we doing that now when we're looking at a girl who, for whatever reason, and she's not the only one, has to carry bladed weapons, according to law enforcement in Scotland, because of a problem that has been so pervasive that everyone knows about it, but we're not supposed to discuss it. Case you guys don't necessarily remember, or this seems a little bit abstract. The system has failed these poor kids, you hear in every other instance. What's the difference now? Y' all have changed the leaders of the system, but you haven't changed the system.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

He was being suffocated by the policies of this nation.

[Steven Crowder]

I never knew the system could fail you so much that the history of.

[Josh Firestein]

Black people for over 200 and some years in America has been looking at America's failure. Its capitalist economy could not generate and.

[Steven Crowder]

Deliver in such a way that people.

[Josh Firestein]

Could live lives of decency.

[Steven Crowder]

I had enough of this system is rigged.

[Josh Firestein]

The system failed my daughter. The system failed other children, and there needs to be some reform to the system.

[Steven Crowder]

All systems failed her. The nation state, its criminal justice system.

[Josh Firestein]

Its legal system could not generate protection.

[Steven Crowder]

Of rights and liberties.

[Josh Firestein]

How could we put our trust in the justice system when they fail us like this?

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

The whole system needs to be indicted.

[Steven Crowder]

You're telling me all this stuff and all this law, what's the point?

[Josh Firestein]

The point is the system.

[Steven Crowder]

And that's often predicated on the idea that if someone's in a marginalized class, and I understand that some people are, to be clear, I'm not denying that, that they're vulnerable, that they're to some degree helpless. And so we need to examine the system because the system is designed to help them, to protect them. Why isn't the media treating this again, details remain to be seen. The same way is Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin. Are they more helpless than a 12 year old girl who takes it upon herself to carry a hatchet and a knife? Of course I think you have the right to carry weapons. I think that you should. But a 12 year old girl shouldn't feel that she has to. And why does she feel that she has to? What's different here? Helpless, vulnerable? Hey, are we going to be judged as a society? Should our system serve to protect young girls? And here's the thing, they'll always say, you think this is the only one? They're more. Okay, do you think she's the only one? For all the details that we don't know, do you think that that girl in Scotland right now, anywhere. You don't think there are other girls in the UK who are scared, who are trying to protect themselves? This specific story comes from a region where there were confirmed migrant grooming gangs. They existed and it was covered up for political expediency. We know that that's not in dispute. By the way, you can check all the numbers. We've done that. We did it yesterday. We over prepare here sometimes and sometimes I just need to an open lane to run. But I encourage you to go check out the stats. Startling the increase in rape. Startling the increase in gang rape. Startling to see the political representatives who did nothing. Why aren't we when we look at this before people say you're gonna have egg on your face once we get the details. Why are we not talking about how the system, how the culture has failed her and every girl like her, she's living scared. Are we now expecting 12 year olds to take it upon themselves to protect other 12 year olds? Or should that be the job of the system? I tell you whose job it really should be. Fathers, men who've also failed them. And by that I mean men. In failing to protect young women from the toxic femininity that is feminism. Men used to be a safeguard. We can't talk about that. We have to walk a mile in her shoes. Let me ask you this. What kind of a country creates an environment where a little girl is scared enough to need weapons wherever she goes and then condemns her for carrying weapons? She is a reflection of the failures of the uk, of the failures of progressivism. We all know it. And I don't want to just be someone who bitches and munts. There are solutions. Good news is unlike defund the police or Black Lives Matter or insert whatever bumper sticker line here, the solution requires no money. It requires no new government wing named after someone you likely don't care about, no new bureaucracy. It only requires that the UK find its way back if they ever were there. And certainly that we protect it here in the United States. Canada is a lost cause. It requires that we go back. Two simple things, two simple principles to which by the way, you guys may want to say, oh, this is our, this is, this is extreme. These are ideas and principles to which all of humanity has adhered and known to be true up until maybe 1960. Number one key principle society has to recognize. The system should be predicated on this. I would argue you have the right to defend yourself if government serves to recognize rights, not grant rights. How about the government recognizes your God given right to self preservation and you have the right to protect your family, your 12 year olds. And number two, people have all the gender wars going on right now in the red, okay? Number two, we protect our women. The men protect our women and certainly little girls from predators. And yes, here's the sexist part. Yes, protect women from themselves. Let's be honest here. Let's be honest, Lou. Multiculturalism, soft on crime, social justice, equity, these are all byproducts. That girl carrying that hatchet and that knife is the byproduct of toxic femininity. And I say this, I'm not saying that women shouldn't be able to vote. I am talking about as a voting demographic. If only men voted, you would not have biological men in women's sports. Couldn't have. It would never happen. You would not have catch and release, you would not have cash bail or no cash bail, you wouldn't have record numbers of migrants here and the rape increasing by four to sevenfold depending on the municipality. And if said migrants who had no business being in our countries because we exist to protect them in the first place, if they ever touched a young girl, guess what? They'd be executed. That's toxic masculinity. In response to this problem, people may not make the connection, but that little girl in Scotland carrying those weapons, fearing for her safety. And the many, many other little girls like her who won't get their name plastered in the news, who won't get praised nor vilified. You know what they're fighting. You know their biggest enemy is it's women and feminism. Feminism has put young women at risk. This whole screaming about fake rape culture, which doesn't exist. Well, you know what I need to correct and I'll change my mind. Rape culture isn't a myth. You know why? Cuz you imported it, bitches. So to clear the palate, here's a parody of Alice Cooper's 18 with Bernie Sanders. Because we'll be talking about communism today. And then I'm going to go check in with mission control, get an update on this shooting. I promise you it'll be funnier than it was for the last two minutes.

[Sam]

Sam. Skin drier than Afghanistan. You call him bro? I call him fans. Oh no, I just poke my pants? Cause I'm a T and I know just what I want A T I can't quite hear when I park at I gotta get away Gotta find a way to win this race Throw the budget to outer space oh yeah. Got a old man brain and a failing heart took 80 years to get this far I'll implement my socialist plan No, I did it again. Cause I A I can't use every day A I can't quite hear what you say A I gotta get away Liver spots on my left right arm's numb Almost every night I'm in the end now the end of my life. Health care is a human right for me and I like it. Yes, I like it. Oh, I like it, love it. I can love it.

[Steven Crowder]

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[Sam]

Sa.

[Steven Crowder]

Glad to be with you. Oh, my tea is cold. Because I was sorry to get on my soapbox there, but I have a daughter. Isn't that funny? You always hear women say, well, don't you have a daughter? And they insert whatever feminist bullshit here. It's like, yeah, I do, I do. And I don't want her to be subject to roaming grooming, rape gangs. I'm more concerned with her right to self preservation than I am her right to end the life of a baby. But that's just me. So today we were going to be talking about Taylor Swift. Of course we were going to be talking about Mamdani's. Policies, government, grocery stores, more socialism, communism there in New York. And also the Cuban candidate, Cuban born American race candidate who's running against him because he has seen communism. I don't know if we'll be able to get to all that because there's breaking news right now with the Minneapolis shooting. And you know what I do want to say for a moment, when these things happen, it's an exercise in frustration here because we do have, I mean, our biggest line item are its employees here. It's human beings that's our most important resource. And we see the misinformation online because a lot of people are in the click business, they're not in the content business. And there's so much misinformation it drives us nuts. And we always want to be slow to the draw because we want to be right and we never want to misinform you. I'm not on my soapbox, I'm on theirs. Lane would up and quit and so would George the Greek if we just came on and said, hey, we have the shooter and lied to you. We're only able to do that. We're only able to provide the references and do this kind of work. Our due diligence because of your support. These are the moments that really count. By the way, we've been removed from YouTube in the past for covering shootings and for advocating for concealed carry. So please do consider joining Rumble Premium. Mug Club Is Rumble Premium? Rumble Premium is Mug Club. That's what it's turned into now. It's an entire network. You get everything ad free. You get 100% more show and it's what allows us to do this. So 99 a year and you get the hand etched mug or just try it for $9 a month. We really appreciate it. And hey, a call to you. If you live in the area right now, please send in, I guess via chat or on X, a direct message if you have some information. And of course it'll go through the process where we'll try and chase down these leads and, and get it to everyone else live on air. Please let us know what you know. Accuracy matters at these points in time because the left will use it against you if you jump the gun. All right. Captain Morgan, CEO. How are you, sir? Yeah, yeah, it's one of those days.

[Gerald]

It is.

[Steven Crowder]

We'll pick it up. We'll pick it up. Wiener. Something funny.

[Gerald]

I know.

[Steven Crowder]

Wiener snatch. Someone getting hit with a pie.

[Gerald]

Oh, the pike.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go. That got me.

[Gerald]

Okay.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

I don't really, you know, wiener.

[Steven Crowder]

I tell you what, if you want funny and you want to breathe, you want a breather. Friday, Saturday, September 26th, 27th, at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas. He's here. You know him. You love him. Mr. Josh Firestein.

[Josh Firestein]

That's right. I'm running my new Hour for the Depression tour.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

It's new age comedy.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, that's fun.

[Josh Firestein]

There's no jokes.

[Steven Crowder]

No, there's no jokes. It's like where you stand there with a piano and you go, this would have been a joke, but you don't get it.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, they're not even stories you care about. It's just like me talking about my weed whacker breaking.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Yeah, that's avant garde.

[Gerald]

They always break.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, that's because you stole all your jokes from a Mexican.

[Josh Firestein]

I think it's because I forgot to put oil in it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, that makes sense.

[Gerald]

They require that.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, we're very. I know that now. I just learned something new. I need to put it in plug, guys. I need to go put oil in my weed whacker.

[Josh Firestein]

That sounds yuck.

[Gerald]

Wow.

[Steven Crowder]

So the Minneapolis church shooting. Here's what we know right now. And, Gerald, you can kind of bring in anything live. Again, please send in. Or do we want to put up the tips Email here?

[Gerald]

Is it protonmail.

[Steven Crowder]

Lwctiprotonmail.com. if you guys remember, when the Nashville shooting happened, we got our hands on the actual manifesto, which did clearly outline a motivation and a plan, and the local police suppressed it, and we were threatened with a lawsuit from the mnpd and the FBI was going to be investigating us. Yeah, we said, send anyone you want. Don't send anyone you want back. We have yet to receive a phone call, and our source is snug as a bug in a rug. We will go to jail to protect our sources. Hey, how's that for a comedy show? You know, here's what we know right now. So please send it in because we'd like to follow up on this. Don't let this be a Vegas where if there's something that we need to know, we should be able to follow up on it. And you'll be able to tell the motivation by the nonstop morphine drip like coverage or the deafening silence that'll tell you where this shooter lined up. And we don't know at this point, to be clear. So we do know that there are two people dead. One of the victims is a child at a church.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Some people are saying three dead. They're including the shooter. I don't. That's taken out the trash. And just to be clear, I've been on this high horse. I don't think that violence is immoral. If you think that it would be immoral for someone to pull out a gun and stop this shooter and save that child's life, you're an evil person. That's my. Can someone. Can you guys comment? Can we stop? Let's stop with this. You know what? This all goes back to zero tolerance policies in high school. I remember getting punched in the face by a bully. I pushed him off of me. We both got suspended. That's how you end up with a culture where girls have to carry knives and kids get shot in churches. It's not just where are the men? It's men have been punished for being men. Give them their balls back. Encourage men to be armed and dangerous and slow to use their force to protect our fucking children. Women in churches. This is a gun free zone. It's a gun free zone. This is the house. That's not a Christian thing. It's not. It's not a Christian thing to just be sheep, to be lambs to the slaughter. It's not from Richfield pd. It's a suburb of Minneapolis. I'm just reading a post here. I guess this is them on Facebook. We'll make all these references available. It says Minneapolis 509 W 54th St Annunciation Church. Police are responding to an active shooter call. Officers are reporting 20 victims. A man dressed in all black and armed with a rifle was reported at the scene. EMS has requested a mass casualty response and fire. Fire crews are bringing in additional resources. Initial information indicated the suspect shooter is no longer a threat. However, out of an abundance of caution, we have increased Richfield's patrol staffing to provide additional resources in Richfield and assistance to Minneapolis. This church and the school I guess are next to each other but they're separate buildings. About 405 students enrolled. The shooting happened during pre scheduled mass Wednesday. I don't know if it's Wednesday and Friday I'm reading this or Wednesday through.

[Gerald]

Friday Mass is scheduled at 8:15am 8:15am posted publicly like you see there in the overlay.

[Steven Crowder]

And mission control, can you bring up Sutherland Springs shooting and maybe that old interview that I conducted with Stephen Williford that happened in our backyard in Texas. I remember asking kids when we did the change my mind. Hey, you know I'm pro second amendment, pro gun change my mind. They would talk about the shootings. They not one knew about Sutherland Springs. That's one of the deadliest mass shootings ever in our lifetime. I believe it was 26 dead. Again, you're talking about a church. Right. And the guy was going to go to more locations, I believe more churches to kill more people. He was stopped by a man who was a former NRA instructor with an AR15. That 20 whatever number who died would have easily been 30, 40, 50. Yeah, there's a reason that no kids. Why would kids today know about Columbine? Why would kids today know Virginia Tech and not know Sutherland Springs? I don't want to say psyop, but it's not a psyop. It's not controlled opposition. It's as simple as the media choosing what they cover. Choosing what they cover?

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Because if they didn't selectively edit what they covered, you would know the disproportional number of crimes, violent crimes that are committed by black people. You would know that Asian Americans are unfortunately far more often the victim of this. You would know that migrants commit rape in numbers that have never been seen in the modern westernized world. You would know that people from third world countries tend to bring third world policies. You would know that 94% of mass shootings take place in gun free zones. You would know that there's half a million to 3 million defensive uses of firearms each year. It outnumbers murder by, in any given year, 10 to 1, to 30 to 1. You would know all these things. You would know Donald Trump's not a rapist. You would know I'm not a neo Nazi. There's a lot you would know. It's not a psyop, it's not controlled opposition, it's what they choose to cover. Please be vigilant. Watch what they choose to cover after this.

[Gerald]

Yeah. And really how they frame it. But really quickly, just to, just to kind of chime in, one of the local stations, KRE 11 is reporting about 11 victims potentially. So there's some dispute right now. And that's obviously.

[Steven Crowder]

Are they saying 11 overall victims?

[Gerald]

11 overall, not deaths? No, the deaths number right now that seems to be the correct number. But there are still kind of varying reports right now that are coming out. So we just want to make sure that people are aware of that. Really hard to watch cnn. A lot of parents out there right now, they're doing the, you know, reunification stuff and like you see moms that are on the phone and, you know, frantic obviously, and dads and reuniting with kids and like, it's, it's really Hard to watch. Yeah, like, it's really hard to watch. And so there are, you know, like it's, it's tough because the off camera I'm like trying not to, you know, tear up seeing a mom run up to her son and it's like it's life changing.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Just done, you know, like, I've got kids as well. So let me just think about the things that you have to separate this into. First and foremost, it's the kids, it's treating the victims, it's making sure the situation is safe, it's reunifying families, it's taking care of the community. The second thing, and this is where you have to kind of put on your helmet and get into life a little bit, is finding out why and finding out what we could have done to stop it. And a lot of times what we could have done to stop it is make sure it's not a gun free zone and make sure there's more protection there and make sure some of the things that we've talked about in the past. You're never going to stop bad people from doing bad things, illegally getting weapons, whatever they want to do. So you have to have practical solutions that take that into account. And that's usually where we get stymied because that's where people just run off the rails into things that won't really help the situation. And sometimes maybe they're well intentioned because sometimes you want to throw your hands up and just say, if guns didn't exist, fine, but they do. That's the problem that we live. Criminals didn't exist, but they do. So how do we deal with that? And that's where it really takes.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Some courage to dive into. Okay. We have this problem, we have to figure out how to deal with it. That means telling us why. We need to know why this happened. Was this just a crazy person that did this or was this somebody that hated God? Is this somebody who was just, you know, out to kill children? What was the motivation? And that's where we typically get the roadblocks. And I don't know why every single time these big things happen like this with Nashville and other shootings, that they hide that stuff from us.

[Steven Crowder]

Right. And I'm going to, you know, look, I recommend always, you know, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. You can read it in an afternoon. Obviously, I don't place that above the Bible. As far as important. These are the ABCs of me. You can call it Flying Spaghetti Monster. Like, this is YouTube in 2009. All you want, I don't give a shit. Marcus Aurelius talks a lot about in stoicism in general, you're able to control yourself, right? It's solutions and it's solutions that you can take into your own hands. What do you control? Other people don't control your emotions, you control your response. This is good advice to anybody, by the way, in all facets of life. And so the media people will go to the system. Notice they go to the system when it comes to gun control and they propose solutions that would make it worse. They don't go to the system when young children feel the need to carry weapons in Scotland, however, I guess the system hasn't failed them. So what can you take? We don't have all the information. What can you control? What could you control if you were in that church? I don't want to propose a solution that you can't affect right now. I'm going to tell you something that you could change right now that could save your life if you tomorrow or next week or the week after that find yourself in this situation. Show people. How many people here in the studio are carrying. I actually unloaded this just so you know, before the show. So you can see. There you go. Tool man noodles.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't know why he showed me. I just grabbed my mug. I'm not caring, but so you guys.

[Steven Crowder]

Can see it's empty. I just checked it. That's a simple gun. That's a simple revolver, by the way. Toolman is here, Josh is there. Hey, that guy opens fire and your son is there. That's your kid who could be dead. Do you think that changes the equation? Do you think if everyone in here, by the way, about the size of a chapel, could fire some lead back his way, might change the situation. I'm telling you what you can do to protect you and your own. This isn't rocket science. If you aren't carrying a firearm, go do so if you live in the United States, it's that simple. Can't fix the system. You can save your family. And if the left is empathetic and they're so compassionate, hey, what's the job of the media if not identify problems and offer solutions. I just gave you one, by the way. Societally, I have a guess. Over 90%. Highest number, you'll see 97. Lowest number you'll see 94% of mass shootings take place in gun free zones. By the way, schools and school grounds are necessarily gun free zones, even for permit holders. Churches, not automatically, but they can put up some signage. We don't know about that with this church. So 94% mass shootings take place in gun free zones. Firearms save far, far, far more lives than they take in any given year. And as we all know, mass shootings are still incredibly rare. But plenty of violent crimes are not as rare as you may be led to believe. Every single person in one of these mass free shootings guarantee. You bet my life on it. This guy today was stopped by someone else with a gun. Could be himself with a gun, to be clear, but stopped by a gun. If he was taken in, which we don't know yet, he was taken in at gunpoint or the threat of gunpoint, all of them end that way. In other words, if the left had their way and it was social workers and police were disarmed, they there would be no way to stop. Would be a never ending loop. The mass shooter would stop when they get tired. By the way, just yesterday there was another shooting that happened in Minneapolis. One was killed, six were injured. Suspect got out of a car and fired I guess 30 rounds at a group standing on the sidewalk. So I don't know if there's any other information, if we have a whole lot more to say about that.

[Gerald]

They're about to do a press conference in just a few minutes. Exact how long it's gonna take for them to do that. But as more information comes out, obviously we'll be able to bring it to you guys here live.

[Steven Crowder]

So, yeah, it's hard to process, but you know, this is actually a perfect time to go to this next clip that we had before this. Listen to the responses of these people over there in the good old UK when they were asked if they would move to the United States, how much they can't send it. One of them is, by the way, we have too many guns here.

[Josh Firestein]

Would you move to America in 2025?

[Steven Crowder]

No. Never? No.

[Gerald]

No interest in moving there.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay. Can you log in complete whore? No. Because I am transgender. You step over there and you already lose like 10 of the rights that you have here. Name one. A disgusting place. They've got no NHS whatsoever. Unless you're poor, dumbass.

[Josh Firestein]

They're like, oh my God, we have freedom. But most other countries. I can change your mind.

[Steven Crowder]

I don't like the freedom of motorboat. I'm right. Whether it's tipping guns on abortion.

[Josh Firestein]

Get a point on tipping.

[Gerald]

Yeah, he lists tipping first.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

There's nothing about America that I think I would prefer over here.

[Steven Crowder]

You don't have like free speech. Oh, we don't at all there.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

I wouldn't last a minute over there.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't think he's definitely stricter over there than it is over here. Thousand percent. If I was to go anywhere in America, it'd be like something like Canada.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, okay.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. The 51st state.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So. Oh, we don't like guns. Well, you know, the reason that we like guns here is specifically because. Not you. But we want to be able to protect our girls from a lot of people who happen to look like you, sir. Not saying you. A lot of them happen to look like you. You know, few thousand rapes in 2001 to 72,000 rapes in 2021. That's why we have them, to protect against a foreign invasion. Free speech. This is so funny to me. What they really mean is nice speech. What they mean is the ability to feel like we have a giant country that's a safe space. Free speech. You think we don't have it here in the United States? Well, let me show you what I can say right now in the United States of America that I wouldn't be able to say. Over there would be jailed. People have actually been jailed or arrested or fined for exactly this. The LGBTQ plus flag is stupid and gay, and you are stupid and gay if you fly it. Hey, police officer, you look like a lesbian nana. Maybe I could shout that I love bacon outside of a mosque. I could say that the Palestinian flag is basically a terrorist flag. Terrorist flag. I could also use slurs here, like fag queer, dyke, curry queen, tranny troon, poofter. Hey, I could sing Kung Fu fighting at a karaoke bar and not be arrested for racism. Oh, wait, hold on a second. Look, there's an abortion clinic. I think I'm going to pray outside of it. Oh, now I'm arrested. Yeah, we don't. We don't have freedom of speech here.

[Josh Firestein]

They don't want freedom of speech. They hate freedom of speech.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

What they really want is the freedom to feel safe from speech.

[Steven Crowder]

Right. Exactly right.

[Josh Firestein]

They're getting that confused.

[Steven Crowder]

It goes back to feminine. And I mean it. It goes. That girl is carrying knives because of feminism. And the reason that you are having your rights eroded is because of feminism. Here's why. Because it presents itself as nice. You shouldn't say. You shouldn't say that. That's not nice.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Law, guys. Guns aren't nice law. But a woman should be. Come on, be nice law. Well, come on. If he says he's a woman, he should be able to. He should be able to box women, law, and two men fighting for the Olympic medal in Olympic boxing. We should be. We should be. Come on. It's nice people are fleeing these other countries. Let's be nice. It's presented as empathy. And we are told not to operate on feelings, not only as Christians, but as logical beings.

[Sam]

Why?

[Steven Crowder]

Because your heart is flawed, your emotions are fleeting. They can't be relied upon. You're supposed to base your decisions on logic, on the process of rationalizing your decision and principle. That's what our Constitution is based on here in the United States. And feminism has permeated and said toxic masculinity. We're not talking about people who are abusive, people who show up and start beating you up because you made the wrong sandwich. We're talking about aggression. We're talking about risk taking. We're talking about laying down your life to defend those who should never be asked to do it. We have men now, men who are afraid to speak an opinion because they may be chastised or browbeaten by women. And that's almost the basis of our entire political system. In a lot of ways, it's a far cry from being in the trenches knowing that you're going to to head out to battle with five of your friends and only one of you might make it back. This is a society we live in. Hey, guys. It's a lot nicer. It's a lot nicer when people aren't allowed to speak their opinions if they're offensive. It's a lot nicer when men aren't allowed to carry firearms to protect their family. It's a lot nicer that trannies are beating the shit out of women in their own sports. It's a lot nicer, isn't it? It's a lot nicer that we did the bidding of corporate overlords who wanted access to cheap labor so they could double the workforce and take women out of the home. And it's a lot nicer to develop a public educational system that is only eight hours long to act as a babysitter so you can pass your kids off to someone who's never going to see them again once they make it out of that grade. And it's a lot nicer to hope for the best that that kid is mentally stable and doesn't go and commit mass murder. It's a lot nicer. You like living in a nicer society. Anyone out there? If you're thinking, though, of moving to the United States, I will say here, not only can you Be free. Not only can you speak, not only can you protect yourself, but we also have a lot of better opportunities to finance and own a home.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, Finnegan, I wanted to tell you that American Financing Company is legit. Seriously, I'm over the moon with how they've helped me. I refinance my home with them, and I'm saving $800 a month, and they postponed two mortgage payments.

[Steven Crowder]

I rent.

[Josh Firestein]

Call the pros at American financing today at 1-800-974-6500 or visit www.americanfinancing.net Crowder, NMLS 1-82334. If you start today, you may even delay up to two mortgage payments.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go.

[Gerald]

Well, look, I just want to make sure not everything was wrong in that video of the people in England. The tranny knew not to come here.

[Steven Crowder]

That's a good point.

[Gerald]

We're doing something wrong, right?

[Steven Crowder]

Say no more. Tranny's not welcome. Nailed it.

[Josh Firestein]

Also, they are welcome.

[Steven Crowder]

Awful.

[Josh Firestein]

They are quite welcome in a lot of places.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Canada.

[Gerald]

Go to Canada.

[Steven Crowder]

I don't know.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm not saying this is my opinion or your opinion.

[Steven Crowder]

No, I get it.

[Josh Firestein]

In America, they are beloved.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure.

[Josh Firestein]

Come here. You could be a Hollywood star. Quickly.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. We have a whole show about it. And it's not about cars. It's just about people who dress like RuPaul.

[Gerald]

This would be a question on, like, an immigration form. Are you trans?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Yes. And basically, like, they just remove the trans sticker, and it says mentally unstable. And so, no, you don't get to come into the country.

[Josh Firestein]

The only thing that. The only thing that limits your rights as a trans person in America is that you have. You can't put X on your passport.

[Steven Crowder]

That's true. Right.

[Josh Firestein]

That's. And that. And that's a violation of your human rights.

[Gerald]

You get to dress like a clown fish your entire life.

[Josh Firestein]

No, it's just that if you commit a crime and you're trying to leave the country, we know. To look for someone with a penis.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

How do we know? Yeah, sure. It's not gonna be out, but we can tell.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, we can tell.

[Gerald]

We played Spot the Tranny.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah. Okay, lady. Okay, lady. But. But your dick away.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yes, exactly.

[Gerald]

You got it.

[Steven Crowder]

You're beautiful. Brave. Wiener. And we were just making the point when we were running that spot there. I've never once felt less safe. I'm surrounded by people who are carrying firearms all the time. I immediately feel unsafe when someone says, hey, you don't have the right to protect yourself. Or your family.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because it feels suspicious.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

If you're to tell me I don't have the right to protect me and my family, I think that you have a motive to do something to me and my family.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Josh Firestein]

That's my first suspicion.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. Absolutely right. And then they go, well, you don't need that.

[Josh Firestein]

Why do I think I had history.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, you don't need that kind of a gun. You don't know.

[Gerald]

How do you know?

[Steven Crowder]

You don't know what I need, what I want. Please, out there right now, if you haven't make this your tipping point comment in chat, go buy a firearm and just become adequate carry it. The reason. Look, you guys know that I love Walthers. They've been a longtime sponsor of the show. But I also love revolvers. They're stupid simple. If you guys don't want to learn, just get one carry. Hey, 20 people in a room with a six shot wheel gun still certainly evens those odds.

[Josh Firestein]

I feel safer as a citizen when everyone has guns. I'll see this common thing on social media or even on the news a few times where they go, oh man, black people go out and get. Hispanic people go out and get guns. It really pisses off the right. Like, what are you talking about?

[Steven Crowder]

Please do.

[Josh Firestein]

No, I hope you. One of my. One thing that makes me feel safe is that if anybody ever invaded the west coast, the Bloods and the Crips be ready to go.

[Steven Crowder]

Right. And that makes me feel a little.

[Josh Firestein]

I mean, I don't want to live in that neighborhood because, you know, I like my shoes.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm not going to Crenshaw and your bikes.

[Josh Firestein]

But you know, it does. There is a bit of safety and security that, that I, that I, that I have. Knowing that everyone on my street has a gun.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep.

[Josh Firestein]

If something happened, I don't have to wait for tanks. I don't have to wait for the government to come help me out. I don't have to wait for somebody to hopefully care about my neighborhood. I got it.

[Steven Crowder]

I don't have to wait for social workers to show up and ask me about my childhood. If I live in a place like Seattle. Speaking of feminism and it's. It's permeation of everything. We should take a moment right now to, well, I guess to issue congratulations to the soon to be Mr. Swift.

[Sam]

I see him softening before my eyes and the kid is gonna be tramped, so I just know it. He'll be holding her purse with his balls locked in their tights. I wouldn't Want to be with Kelsey's girl. Taylor's about to tear down Kelsey's world. How long until she makes him wear a pussy hat?

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. I love that.

[Josh Firestein]

We made that photo from his super bowl championship photo.

[Steven Crowder]

You know, he's the kind of guy who would be not thrilled with that. And look, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The golden couple, the beacon. An example for all to follow. They are engaged, and, of course, I hope that they beat the overwhelming statistical odds on celebrity godless marriages. While invites, just to be clear, have yet to be finalized, it's rumored the wedding party will include Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Taylor Lautner, Drew Dunlop, Sam Armstrong, Harry Styles, Matt Healey, Tom Hiddleston, Joe Alwyn, Calvin Harris, Connor Kennedy, Lucas Till, and Jake Gyllenhaal. I'm just kidding. Those are all a list celebrities who clearly were the ones who treated Taylor like crap. Not Kelsey, though. You'll be fine.

[Josh Firestein]

Nah, he's a good. He's a good dude. He followed the blueprint, remember?

[Steven Crowder]

Don't worry about that.

[Josh Firestein]

He listens and he does what he's told.

[Gerald]

Yeah, I feel like his face would match your face. This is probably the first time he's heard that list.

[Steven Crowder]

What? What? Yeah. Or the first time he ever puts his foot down and she's like, what? He's like, oh, wait, I have no foot to put down with a billionaire who will toss me to the curb, as she has every other man but President Trump, even though he did one time, many times say he hated Taylor Swift, was among the first to wish them good luck. It's classy.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

I have to tell you, the biggest.

[Steven Crowder]

Pop culture news of the year broke while we were in this cabinet meeting. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are engaged.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

And the world wants your reaction.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, I wish him a lot of luck. I think it's. I think he's a great player. I think he's a great guy, and I think that she's a terrific person. So I wish them a lot of luck. And I want to go right now on CNN really quickly before we have to get back to what's important. Taylor and Kelsey. But they're interviewing people I believe in Minneapolis.

[Local Witness]

So we just booked it. We took a. We took a left. We jumped on Harriet. You know, we drove by and we said, are you okay? Do you want. You want to come in the car with us? And he said, yes, yes, please. He's like, someone shooting at me. Someone's shooting at me. And so we get in the car and we just ask him what's going on, he said that a man dressed in all black was firing shots and he got. He didn't see anything else besides what he was wearing, but he hit the ground. His hands were all beat up from hitting the ground so hard. Then he got up and he said, I have to start running. I have to go.

[Steven Crowder]

And that aligns with what our John Miller is told from his sources, that.

[Josh Firestein]

There was a suspect dressed in all.

[Steven Crowder]

Black, carrying a rifle arriving at the Annunciation Catholic school at around 8:30. Okay. They're not giving us anything new. They're just repeating it because they need you to stay tuned in. And so they offer nothing new or of value.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, I do like her highlighter shirt.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, it's nice.

[Steven Crowder]

She might want to revise her job for correction now. Likely Taylor Swift. And by the way, I really do hope. Here's the thing. I hope that I am wrong because all odds say that this isn't going to last. I hope genuinely that they get together, go, oh, wait a second, we're in our 30s. We're not kids. We better. The odds of celebrity divorce are almost 100%. We better do this right. Get involved in a church, have kids, and you'll know that they're doing that if tomorrow they shut down their personal exes Instagrams and go live off the grid. They'll probably have to do some rationing with the $2 billion between the two of them. But they could go and focus on the. And if they do that, I think they have a shot. But I bet they probably issue invites to their wedding. They put it on tour, the consummation tour.

[Josh Firestein]

20 cities, 20 ceremonies.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Selling tickets to our wedding. That's a good idea. You could take that, Taylor.

[Steven Crowder]

At that point, it's just doing lady push ups.

[Gerald]

Joke's on you. He's gonna marry her, then divorce her in a year and take half of her stuff.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, no, that's not gonna happen in history.

[Josh Firestein]

Oh, I would love to see that. That Federline storyline.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So here's, here's, here's how they announced their decision on Instagram. Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.

[Josh Firestein]

That's fun.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Josh Firestein]

Yesterday I was saying, I was saying, they are the prom king and queen.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. They're just like America. They're just like the rest of us. And the real issue, which one's the English teacher? That's a good point. I don't think either one of them are particularly articulate. Yeah, but I would assume he's a gym teacher because he's you know, athletic.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, he's well spoken.

[Steven Crowder]

Here's what this is. I obviously hope that it goes well, but she has said, and her friends have said in the interviews, he does everything I've ever wanted. So, Travis, Kel, in the very first comments on this are. It's actually more important, ladies, the lesson here is don't settle for less than you deserve. Any men here? Any men here, when you were looking at a future mate or prospect, think, hmm, this is what I deserve. Or I deserve better. Because the truth is, no one wants what they deserve. What we all deserve is hell. If you think about your quiet thoughts, if you think about your sinful nature, right? We don't really want what we deserve. It's an act of grace.

[Josh Firestein]

I don't deserve my wife. If anything, I deserve a man. I don't deserve my wife. She's an angel, dude.

[Steven Crowder]

So it's don't settle. And you go through that list of how many celebrities and people going, yeah, this is the first person who didn't treat her like crap. Do you really think that every other A list star, like a compulsion, treated her like crap? Or do you think this is the first person who had the blueprint of everything Taylor Swift ever liked? Of everything, all of her hobbies, of everything she ever wanted in a man? And if he made sure to completely erase any other facets of himself, to turn into the fantasy of what she views a man to be, then maybe that's what she feels she deserves. That's not. It's like when women say, what you want me to be like one of. You want me to be like one of your precious porno whores? I mean, I don't know why they sound like.

[Gerald]

That's weird.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, why?

[Steven Crowder]

I don't know why they sound like Telly Savalas or Cagney, you and your precious porno whores. But it's like, no, because it's unrealistic. This is also, you know, how a healthy relationship is created. A healthy relationship is created by, obviously, love, shared values, and establishing healthy expectations and boundaries and responsibilities and duties from one another. Not I'll give you everything you want. I know those guys had different opinions on some things and didn't give you everything that you wanted at every single given point. But I will say, then that must be its true love's kiss. Also, women. Can you stop lying? The thing is, remember how we went from so quickly from boss, babe, I don't need a man, right? Maybe. Maybe I'll get married. It's not that big Of a deal. Women's liberation. To the reaction to this marriage. This is CBS in exhibit A, proving that feminists don't mean a single thing they say. White House reporter Olivia Rinaldi reacting for real when she found out the news. Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. This. Come back to me. She just posted it, guys. Said to who? Oh, my God. Oh, it's huge. The ring is trying to.

[Sam]

This is so exciting.

[Gerald]

Oh, my God.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram.

[Josh Firestein]

It's on her Instagram now. You'll be okay. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my God. I feel like Paul Revere right now.

[Josh Firestein]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

The prenup is coming. The prenup is coming. I mean, here's the thing. First off, it's unbecoming of a White House reporter. Okay? But I have no problem with that. It used to be okay for women to react this way, but that's because we all accepted as a society that for women, that was a big goal. That was the prize. But then it changed to what? Marriage. I don't need a man. I'm the prize. That's what they. It's like, I don't need a man. I'm a boss.

[Sam]

Oh, my God, the ring.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, what happened? What just happened? For a second, he's gonna. She's a boss. You know, maybe I get married, maybe I don't. It's not in the top of my purse proposing, like. Just be honest about it. Yeah, she was very honest.

[Gerald]

She was.

[Josh Firestein]

She was honest with her reaction right there, where she was. Where she was like, oh, my God, that ring is ginormous.

[Steven Crowder]

Which.

[Josh Firestein]

I hate that word.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

But that lady has a husband.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

You know, like, he's sitting home going.

[Steven Crowder]

Like, yeah, they stopped rolling.

[Josh Firestein]

Well, I guess my ring wasn't good enough. Look at Taylor's big, huge ring that she got from the superstar football player.

[Steven Crowder]

That's right. Hey, you know how you used to say, I love you this much? Well, it turns out this, this much means fucking cubic sarcodium.

[Josh Firestein]

Let me just make you feel like shit on national television.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Just be honest. It's all designed to remove leverage. It's all. None of this is. Women want to get married. That is a prize. Women control access to sex. Men control access to relationships. That's a big deal. It's okay. But you can't say, ah, it doesn't really matter. It's relatively inconsequential. You don't need a man. You're just as happy. Look at these 65 year old feminist cat ladies. It's just as legitimate of a choice.

[Sam]

Here comes the bride.

[Gerald]

What are we doing with the hands?

[Josh Firestein]

They're Muppets. Women are Muppets.

[Steven Crowder]

And every boy will come out a frog and every girl will come out a pig.

[Josh Firestein]

My favorite part was it's all Taylor. It's all Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.

[Gerald]

And then this guy.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. In case you didn't know that men and women are different, she's operating for the presumption that.

[Sam]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Steven Crowder]

She got engaged. Like, what? To who?

[Josh Firestein]

Maybe she's. Maybe that reporter was just super excited about the new album coming out where she talks about how happy she is and there's no sorrow.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, that'll. That'll last for. Look, I hope I'm wrong. I really do hope that the COVID It will be great.

[Gerald]

If Taylor Swift had some kids and decided like, man, listen, my audience, you need to know, like, this is where life is found.

[Steven Crowder]

That would be great.

[Josh Firestein]

Yes, absolutely.

[Gerald]

For that purpose alone, I am cheering them on. I hope they make it. I hope that this is finally the mixture that works for both of them, no matter what they've done in the past. And they get to go and tell their audiences, which are massive. Obviously hers is bigger. This is the way that you find happiness. I'm a billionaire. I would know.

[Josh Firestein]

With her influence. Yeah, with her influence. Young girls listening to this music and going, the awesome.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh.

[Josh Firestein]

Because right now they listen to their music, they go, man, sock, man. Well, not all of it, but most of it is like, yeah, broke up, break up, break up. I was hurt. I was hurt. They did me wrong.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

Now they're like, oh, wow. I love. Oh, man, I want that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

I want kids. I want that happy ending. I want that. She has a song. Romeo and Juliet. I don't really know how it goes, but I don't. I don't think that, you know, I don't think it's. Do you. Is it a romantic song?

[Steven Crowder]

You kind of turned yourself into a court.

[Josh Firestein]

I was like, wait a second.

[Steven Crowder]

It's because you're a man and you're not familiar with the entire catalog, I assume.

[Josh Firestein]

It was like. It was like I was trying to think of it.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm like.

[Josh Firestein]

I'm like, wait, is Romeo kind of screw over Juliet in this story?

[Gerald]

It's worse because he's lying right now. He knows exactly how that song goes. But he didn't want you to think he did. Because then it would be a swifty.

[Josh Firestein]

Yeah, No, I know the chorus.

[Steven Crowder]

No, she's really into Shakespeare. Widow Rose with any other flat ass. Smell is sweet.

[Gerald]

I give it a year.

[Josh Firestein]

No, I think you're gonna last, man. I think you're gonna last.

[Steven Crowder]

A name.

[Gerald]

I think it's a possibility.

[Steven Crowder]

What is in a titlis name?

[Josh Firestein]

I think they're gonna last.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Firestein]

They're gonna be really happy. And then all these young girls gonna get married. And they're gonna get married.

[Gerald]

Yeah, that's.

[Steven Crowder]

You don't want to wait. Let's just be honest. Let's be honest.

[Gerald]

Maybe what she'll do is say, like, wouldn't it be great if that was the setup, though? Like, if God in his infinite wisdom was like, superstar.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Very popular.

[Steven Crowder]

This is bad.

[Gerald]

You're gonna lead everybody, but you're gonna be able to tell them from a position that nobody else can tell them from. A billionaire superstar, worldwide famous. You've got everything everybody could ever want. Kind of like Tom Brady did right after winning, I think, his fifth Super Bowl. He went on an interview tour, and he is the mvp. He won, like, his fifth super bowl or something like that. Maybe it was four. And he goes, there's got to be something more, right?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, you would think so. Sorry, I'm just looking over your shoulder right now. They're about to start this press conference in Minneapolis. Let's go.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

And the evil of this unspeakable act. Children are dead.

[Steven Crowder]

This is the police chief.

[Gerald]

He just said children.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

There are families that have a deceased child. You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy, or the absolute pain of this situation. We are a Minneapolis family. But to everybody out there, do not think of these as just somebody else's kids. Those families are suffering immense pain right now. Think of this as if it were your own. Every one of us needs to be wrapping our arms around these families, giving them every ounce that we can muster. These were Minneapolis families.

[Steven Crowder]

What would you do if it was your own? Would you fight?

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

The amount of pain that they are suffering right now is extraordinary. Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. These are kids that should be learning with their friends. They should be playing on the playground. They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence. And their parents should have the same kind of assurance. These are the sort of basic assurances that every family should have every Step of the day, regardless of where they are in our country. I'm so deeply saddened and I'm so sorry to the families that I know are suffering right now. My ask is to everyone stand by them, love them. These families have forever been changed and we've all been changed with them. We need to do everything possible to support them through this time. We have a family resource center that has been set up.

[Steven Crowder]

Why haven't you protected them?

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

I'm grateful for all of the law.

[Steven Crowder]

Enforcement agent public schools whose responsibility is.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

That, mayor of different jurisdictions, all the different departmental support that we've received. They're going to be working tirelessly. There's also a family resource center that is being set up as we speak to make sure that we're there for everybody again. To the families that are suffering, to those that have experienced loss, I'm so deeply sorry. We're going to be with you every step of the way. We love you. This kind of act of evil should never happen and it happens far too often.

[Steven Crowder]

That's the difference in a liberal worldview and the conservative worldview. Acts of evil will always happen. Evil will always be amongst you. So what do you need to do to fight it? Saying it shouldn't happen is not a solution.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

Earlier Today, just before 8:30am our city experienced an unthinkable tragedy. Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a shooting at a Mass that was happening at the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church on the block behind me. This worship service was marking the first week of school for children that are attending the Annunciation Catholic School. During the Mass, a gunman approached on the outside on the side of the building and began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children sitting in the pews at the mess. Shooting through the windows, he struck children and worshippers that were inside the building. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible. Police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department immediately responded, entered the church and attempted to provide first aid and rescue some of the children that were hiding throughout the building. While other first responders came and EMS responded to rush victims to nearby hospitals. Two young children, ages 8 and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews. Their parents have been notified. Other people were injured, 14 of them being children. Two of those children are in critical condition. The coward who fired these shots ultimately took his own life in the rear of the church. Our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their children, for these young lives that are now fighting to recover, and for our entire community that has been so deeply traumatized by this senseless attack. We will stand together to protect our children, our schools and our houses of worship. This deliberate act of violence is just a sign of cruelty that is beyond comprehension. Our hearts are broken for everyone that's been affected by this tragedy. As we begin the difficult path of healing, I want the community to know this. That even in the face of such evil, the Minneapolis Police Department and all of our law enforcement partners stand with our community. We stand with these families and with this parish. We will continue to be here for you. With that, the investigation is obviously in its preliminary stages. And I will attempt to take some questions to provide further information.

[Steven Crowder]

Tell us about the suspect in this case.

[Gerald]

How old was he, Any kind of motivation, any notes or any other information.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

So we were looking. The question was, what can be said about the shooter? We believe it is one suspect, a sole shooter. We believe he is deceased. He is in his early 20s, does not have an extensive known criminal history. And we are looking through information left behind to try and determine some type of motive. How many children there were. I don't have an exact. The question was how many children at the school? There were dozens of children inside the mass at the time. I don't have an exact count. The children have been relocated into the school, which is where their families are reunifying with them.

[Steven Crowder]

Regular.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

The question was, do we know if the student was. If the shooter was a former school employee or a former student? We don't have that information. There's a vehicle. The question was, was anything left behind? There's a vehicle that we believe that the suspect used that is being searched. And we are. We will be conducting other searches related to this inside the parking lot here. So the question was. Neighbors had said that the door to the church had been barricaded. The shooter approached on one side of the church building and on that side at least two doors. It appears there had been like a two by four placed. So not all of the doors around the building, but on the side where the shooter did fire on the outside. Yes. The question was, was there any explosives? There were reports of that. There were no explosives or improvised devices that we found. I do believe there was one. I guess you would call it a smoke bomb. Like not an explosive, but a sort of a firework that would release.

[Steven Crowder]

I will say, just going into this blind, he's Doing a good job answering the questions, repeating the questions, being clear.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

On this side, Y. I, I don't have specific information on that that I can release. Yeah, the question was, is he dead from a gunshot wound? The answer is yes. We believe he took his own life in the parking lot.

[Steven Crowder]

Was this outside or in?

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

The question was, was he shooting outside and inside? He was absolutely shooting outside of the building, on the side of the church. Inside, through the windows. It appears he may have gone inside, but I don't believe we've located any casings inside the building. So I'm not certain if he fired also while inside. It appears, if not all, most of the shooting happened outside the building related.

[Steven Crowder]

To any other shootings that happened.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

So yeah, Taylor's asking, is this related to any of the other shootings? This does not appear to be related to any other shooting in the city. The question was how many rounds? I would say it's in the dozens. We don't have an exact count. There's a sidewalk on the outside as well as a grassy area. So obviously we are, we are going through and taking our time.

[Gerald]

This is what it looks like potentially. I'm not sure if this is the exact side of the building, but what he's questioning describing those windows there. And we have a visual from the inside of what it would look like in that church. Not from today. This is just a picture taken at another time. See the windows and where people would be.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

Were the weapons, Was he lawfully carrying the weapons? I don't have that information and I don't have any information on any significant criminal history either.

[Steven Crowder]

Was he dressed at all in any tactical type of year?

[Minneapolis Police Spokesperson]

It appeared he had some black clothing on his cargo type pants. I guess you could interpret that as, you know, however you like.

[Steven Crowder]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for helping us to get the information out today.

[Minneapolis Police Chief]

We have a lot.

[Steven Crowder]

No more questions that needs to be done. We will return back later today to provide more details. All right guys, we're gonna get continue with this as we aggregate more information to deliver to you. If you are not yet a Rumble Premium member, the OG Mud Club, folks, you can click that button right there. Join, we'll be taking your chats, discussing with you, living this in real time. And look, it's a tragedy and everyone knows that two different worldviews though here are at play. This act of evil should never happen. These acts of evil shouldn't exist. You say that if that's your path to solution, you've made yourself God. If you say evil will always live amongst us. We can't control that, but we can control preparing ourselves, equipping ourselves and obviously empowering everyone else among us to protect themselves. It's the difference between there shouldn't be evil and there's always evil. We need some kind of a contingency plan. We view the world very different ways. The left and people on the right. And so you know how that solution goes. On the left, there will be no more guns. Look at the uk, look at Europe. You won't be allowed to speak freely because evil words shouldn't be spoken. Look at the uk. There will be no discrimination. We will open the borders to anyone who wants to come in. Again, look at the uk, look at Europe. Giving you the extreme examples to make a point here. Other side is evil will always be amongst you. So carry a firearm, train your family to be responsible. Evil will always be amongst you. So you combat evil words with good words. Evil will always be amongst you. So we need to screen for it and take the proper precautions and seal the border. It's two very foundationally different ways of viewing the world. So don't be governed by emotions. It's okay to have a heart, to pray, to weep, to mourn. Don't be governed by those emotions. That's what we're called to do as Christians. And if you're not Christian, that's what we're supposed to be as rational beings. It's what separates us from the animals. Let's continue. We'll see what they're saying on CNN and Rumble Premium.