Is Israel Sabotaging The US-Iran Ceasefire?

Summary

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Louder with Crowder Podcast – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Is Israel Sabotaging The US-Iran Ceasefire?
Air Date: April 9, 2026
Host: Steven Crowder
Guests/Co-Hosts: Gerald, Josh Firestone

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Louder with Crowder" tackles several hot-button topics: the recent US-Iran ceasefire and Israel’s controversial strikes on Lebanon, internal Republican politics and the alleged fracturing of the MAGA base, generational divides in punk culture and gender identity, and a critique of mainstream female-focused podcasts and their place in the “manosphere” debate. True to Crowder’s style, the discussion is sharp, irreverent, and politically incorrect.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Israel, Lebanon, and the Ceasefire with Iran

Time: 19:13 – 37:57

• Ceasefire Confusion and Israeli Action

  • Steven lays out the timeline: A ceasefire was negotiated involving the US and Iran, with confusion over whether it included Lebanon. Soon after, Israel launched massive barrages against Lebanon, which is perceived as jeopardizing US diplomatic efforts.
  • Crowder criticizes Israel’s move, saying:

    “It is at the very least bad optics… Israel seems to be acting with complete disregard for what is best for their [interests]… if they start acting in their own self-interest at the cost of ours, they're skirting that.” (21:35)

• Was Lebanon in the Ceasefire?

  • Both President Trump and Vice President Vance clarify that Lebanon/Hezbollah were not technically included:
  • Trump (as quoted):

    “Lebanon, were not included in the deal… because of Hezbollah, they were not included in the deal. That’ll get taken care of too. It’s all right… that's a separate skirmish.” (25:23)

  • VP Vance:

    “The Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn't. We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case.” (26:20)

• Fault Lines & Communication Breakdowns

  • Pakistani PM’s statements contributed to confusion—he publicly stated the ceasefire included Lebanon, which may have prompted Iran’s objections.
  • Crowder’s take:

    “Responsibility does rest squarely with Israel if we are allies. That’s a legitimate criticism.” (29:03)

• US & Trump’s Strategy (and Red Lines)

  • Discussion of US interests: prevent Iran from going nuclear, keep Hormuz open, get to regional stability.
  • Crowder suggests a harder US line: If Israel continues recklessly:

    “Once we’re done and we pull out and we hit our agreement, you’re on your own, no more money. That’s where I would line up on this.” (19:34)

  • Trump’s stance re-quoted with martial flourish:

    “All US Ships, aircraft and military personnel...will remain in place in and around Iran until such time as the real agreement... If not... then the shooting starts. Bigger, better, stronger than anyone has ever seen before.” (32:44)

• Bottom Line:

  • Crowder is skeptical of Israel’s motives (“I’m not convinced Israel’s goal is peace.” – Josh Firestone, 31:42), critical of their disregard for US interests, and calls for greater US autonomy and conditionality in future support.

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2. The “Fracturing” Republican/MAGA Base

Time: 41:48 – 56:16

• Internal Party Tensions

  • Media figures like Megyn Kelly and others argue that Trump’s recent actions on Iran/Israel are “completely fracturing” the base and setting up electoral loss.
  • [Megyn Kelly, 43:19]

    “The Trump coalition that got him elected is completely fractured and in smithereens. And he doesn't care… he cares about himself…”

• Crowder’s Historical Perspective

  • Crowder rejects the “fracture” narrative, saying there wasn’t a real, cohesive Republican coalition pre-Trump and the party was plagued by weak centrists (Romney, McCain, Paul Ryan, Cantor, McConnell).
  • He characterizes pre-Trump GOP leadership as ineffective on foreign policy, complacent on border security, and quick to compromise with Democrats.
  • On the choice between imperfect Trumpism and the old GOP:

    “Throwing [Trump] away would be throwing away the biggest, probably most diverse coalition that the conservative movement or Republican Party has seen in decades.” (47:00)

• Living in the Real World

  • Argues for pragmatic engagement:

    “We also have to live in the real world. And that doesn't mean you're compromising and encouraging bad behavior…but the disloyalty from the Republican Party…led to Trump as a better answer.” (49:13)

  • Warns that the alternative is “three, four, five steps back.”

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3. Punk, Trans Culture & Social Commentary

Time: 11:13 – 18:27

• Punk’s New Face?

  • Conversation begins with a tongue-in-cheek exploration of punk rock’s evolution, featuring a viral “trans punk” influencer.
  • Crowder and crew lampoon (sometimes harshly) what they see as “fetish” performance being conflated with legitimate self-expression.
  • Quote:

    “This is a fetish that is being lived out in public. That's what most of this is… Normalizing it and telling people that it's the same as normal. I don't care if people can say what is normal. You know it when you see it.” (12:04)

• Satirical Punk Band Names

  • Crowder joke-segment: “Seven plus one tranny punk bands.”
    Examples: “twink182”, “The Hormones”, “My Chemical Castration” (15:59 – 18:05)

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4. Manosphere vs. The "Woman-sphere": Critique of Relationship Content

Time: 58:41 – 66:36

• Defending the Manosphere

  • Crowder lays out the “manosphere” as a movement for male self-improvement and pushback against claims of “toxic masculinity.” He contends its core message is:

    “Work on yourself, become healthy, become fit, become wealthy as best you can, productive, confident… you will attract the kind of woman you want. That, I think, is good advice for a lot of young men.” (59:13)

• Media Hypocrisy: Call Her Daddy Podcast

  • Crowder critiques “the most prominent female content” as being both more degenerate and more prescriptive than the men’s side.
  • Discussion of Nikki Glazier’s (guest on Call Her Daddy) openness to her partner’s sexual liaisons:
    • Nikki Glazier:

      “I don't care if someone else were to… In fact, I like… If a guy has a sexual connection with a girl… Like, I literally wouldn't care if my husband did that… Get out and get some attention.” (62:38)

  • Crowder attacks this as an abdication of marital responsibility, contrasting it to biblical standards for marriage and sex:

    “Biblically, the prescription is you are to make sure that your husband feels like a sexual being… Instead, go sleep with other people. Now I will say this. It is true that women do tend to want men of value. That's something that they will deny through and through.” (63:44)

• Double Standard

  • Crowder points out that, despite popular criticism of the manosphere as “grooming” men into toxicity (citing Megyn Kelly and Nikki Glazier, 60:38–61:11), there is little scrutiny of sexually permissive advice wired into some female-focused platforms.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Israel’s Ceasefire Breach:

  • “What the hell is Israel doing? …It is at the very least bad optics…they don’t know what the they're doing.” – Steven Crowder (21:35)

• On US Strategy with Allies:

  • “Broker our own deal completely autonomously of Israel…put distance between us…they get any and all funding cut if they jeopardize the deal.” – Crowder (36:41)

• On Pre-Trump Republicans:

  • “He [Romney] looks like a guy who goes to Home Depot but doesn’t know how to use the things.” – Josh Firestone (50:53)
  • “Paul Ryan…was at Men's Fitness with him doing like… eight-pound dumbbells. Was just embarrassing. And it's hairy twig legs.” – Crowder (48:25)

• On Generational/cultural drift:

  • “Dude. Some people said punk is dead. …Punk is not dead. It just transitioned.” – Crowder (10:54)

• On Call Her Daddy podcast advice:

  • “That’s a perversion of duty. Biblically…the prescription is you are to make sure that your husband feels like a sexual being… instead, go sleep with other people… [Feminists] will declare her prescription liberating… and mine to be toxic.” – Crowder (63:44)

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Important Timestamps

• Ceasefire/Israel-Lebanon Situation Overview: 19:13 – 37:57
• Republican Party/MAGA Base Fractures & History: 41:48 – 56:16
• Satirical ‘Tranny Punk Bands’ Segment: 15:39 – 18:27
• Punk/Trans Culture Discussion: 11:13 – 15:39
• Manosphere vs. Woman-Sphere, Nikki Glazier Clip: 58:41 – 66:36
• Megyn Kelly on Trump “Fracturing” GOP: 43:19 – 44:04

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Summary

This episode blends serious geopolitical analysis with the show’s trademark humor and cultural criticism:

• Steven Crowder is sharply critical of Israel for jeopardizing the US-Iran ceasefire, demanding accountability from American allies if they undermine US interests.
• He rebuts claims that Trump has “fractured” the right-wing base, arguing that pre-Trump Republicans were even less cohesive or effective.
• The team lampoons trans influencer culture and shifts in punk’s ethos, with Crowder characterizing public kink as attention-seeking rather than self-expression.
• Crowder critiques the double standard in public discussions of gender roles and sexual norms, highlighting permissive advice in popular women’s podcasts versus what’s demonized in men’s spaces.

The episode’s tone is irreverent but also at times introspective, pushing listeners to weigh the costs of unity, clarity in foreign affairs, and who really sets the cultural agenda.

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Transcript

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[Steven Crowder]

What is it with you? Welcome to the lineup live. I should have seen what I look like because I didn't. I don't look in the mirror. We have a lot to get to today. Some harsh words for Israel today in case people are thinking you get $7,000 a post because you think that you know the Ayatollah is a terrorist. No, not. Not really thrilled with what's going on right now in Lebanon. The way some people say it. I say Lebanon, but you may say Lebanon. Cease fire all. And is Donald Trump, President Trump, responsible for fracturing the Republican base, the MAGA base, the America first base? Well, some people would tell you that. I would tell you that there was no base. We'll make the case. Romney, McCain, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor. We'll go through just how bad the Republican Party can actually be. It's not perfect, but my God, was it worse. And Nikki Glazier, she was on the Call Her Daddy podcast. And it's. I don't know how else to say this. It's two whores being whores, giving bad advice. And then these same women will go out and Criticize the manosphere. So we got something for him on with the show.

[Gerald]

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[Steven Crowder]

It puts the mug in the basket.

[Gerald]

What the hell are you guys doing up there? My apologies, folks. If you can give me just a moment, if you will.

[Steven Crowder]

It puts the mug in the basket. It does what it's told.

[Gerald]

I'm in the middle of a virtual tasting down here. What's wrong with you?

[Steven Crowder]

It puts the mug in the basket. Puts the mug in the basket. Or else it gets the hose again.

[Gerald]

That doesn't make any sense.

[Steven Crowder]

This is. This is my mug.

[Gerald]

I've got 126.

[Steven Crowder]

Put the mug in the basket.

[Gerald]

What do you want? What do you want?

[Steven Crowder]

Sorry. I'm sorry if the whole Silence of the Lamb thing, it was a bit. I was trying to think of a funny way and ask you to be CEO. This is really in your wheelhouse, doing a bang up job and you know, appreciate you, just like for you to come on board. So. Seriously, you're just great, Gerald. You know, appreciate you top notch CEO

[Gerald]

of a mug club.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah. You know, it's a long time coming, Gerald. I mean, you really do. You have my full confidence and we all want you here.

[Gerald]

Wow, Stephen. Gosh, like, it really means a lot to me. I mean, this. This whole time I just thought that, you know, you were. Okay.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay.

[Gerald]

Here. Fine. The mug's in the basket.

[Steven Crowder]

Great. That's great. Oh, draw up the paperwork.

[Gerald]

You wanna maybe grab some lunch when I'm done here?

[Steven Crowder]

I already ate.

[Gerald]

Oh, come on, we. We gotta celebrate. This is a. I just want to celebrate.

[Steven Crowder]

What are you doing? What am I doing? Talk about our love. Click Rumble Premium and join now for 99 annually or 9.99amonth to get the entirely ad free experience and an ever expanding roster of content creators and free speech. It's. Glad to be with you. Quick question. Now that you've had 24 hours and now that I have to adjust the headphones because Gerald was here yesterday, where do you stand on the ceasefire? How do you think it's going? And how do you. What do you think about Israel firing off. Firing off their rockets at Lebanon like it's 4th of July? I get it technically, okay, but you know, it's not something that a great friend would do. We'll talk about that more. Captain Morgan, CEO. How are you?

[Gerald]

I'm fantastic.

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I know.

[Gerald]

If I could only go back in time.

[Steven Crowder]

Why? Oh, it was such a touching origin story. And he's not.

[Gerald]

I want to relive it. What are you talking about?

[Josh Firestone]

It sounded like you wanted to undo it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. In person. I was doing that great big phantom manners.

[Gerald]

I was really doing Steven's interior monologue. If I could only go back in time.

[Steven Crowder]

That was back when transvestites is what we called them, or transsexuals. They were, you know, they were known as the psychopaths. They were in the films, all the rage. Yeah, it was fun. They were like, ah, transsexual. They're only gonna be in the film if they're a serial killer.

[Gerald]

That's right. It was accurate.

[Josh Firestone]

Mm.

[Steven Crowder]

Friday, Saturday, April 24th, 25th, at Comedy Avenue in Lawton, Oklahoma. You know him, you love him. Mr. Josh Firestone. Not underscore Firestein on X. How are you, sir?

[Josh Firestone]

Good, good. I'm excited to go to Lawton. It's the fruit basket of the cannibal.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. I thought it was a bread basket. Nope, that's called the bread basket. They'd be like, punch them right in a bread basket. See? When did this become the bread basket?

[Josh Firestone]

That's where the bread goes.

[Steven Crowder]

I guess it's where bread goes.

[Josh Firestone]

But you put the bread in the basket.

[Steven Crowder]

It could have been like the rice basket. Anyway.

[Josh Firestone]

Hey, that's in Japan.

[Steven Crowder]

Quick update. Gerald was here, but on UPenn, we've spoken with you about this. Obviously, it's not going to be happening this week because the livestream event would be blocked from live streaming and our security wouldn't be able to do their job. But there was a Daily Pennsylvanian article that said, steph Crowder debate at Penn canceled after producers back out of contract. Here's the thing. Of course they have to do this. They have to save face. No, no one backed out of anything. We said we were coming. We're going to livestream as we agreed. Early on this year, they changed the terms, and I don't know why they singled out the producers. Lane's really upset about that. Well, they. There you go.

[Gerald]

Yeah, exactly. I don't know how he caught the frag, but.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I mean, look, this is something we've been trying to do for a very, very long time. We've run into these hiccups before. That's why we were clear on the outset. Look, we'll be live streaming it. We'll. Our security. We'll work with yours. And they say you can't livestream for safety. All right. Oh, and by the way, your security can't do all the security stuff. What happened to safety?

[Gerald]

You win.

[Josh Firestone]

So don't worry. Nobody reads newspapers. I'm surprised that university still has a newspaper.

[Steven Crowder]

I thought you were gonna say, don't worry. Nothing bad happens to conservative speakers on campus. It does, right? How much you guys want to bet that there's someone. If you had to bet this is speculation, there'd be someone in the UPenn administration who probably had some opinions on Charlie Kirk that they wouldn't want to see the light of day. How much would you bet? I don't think it's paranoia. And when your security is allowed here, but it's like the Iranian inspections, you're like, what's going on here?

[Gerald]

And you don't have to guess. There was somebody that worked at the performing Arts center that didn't like us so much. They went to the newspaper and quoted like, he's going to bring division to this staff.

[Steven Crowder]

Hatred and bigotry.

[Gerald]

This person gets to skip the metal detector.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So, also, by the way, just to let you know, Professor Zimmerman, who was on the show, unless he was being sarcastic, and I don't think he was, he was quoted saying, I think it will allow Crowder to take a kind of victory lap, in which he says, you see, these elitist, insulated libs are afraid to talk with me. I'll be happy to have a conversation with him. We are actively working with Zimmerman to make the debate happen. It'll either be at another venue where we can live stream, or security can be controlled. We may even, you know, worse comes to worse, we'll. We'll do it in here and set up some podiums. Yeah. But we'll make sure that happens. And we do have an arrangement right now. We're working on Harvard in the fall. Yes. Live stream. Yes. Security. These are unreasonable asks. I know. It is nice.

[Josh Firestone]

He's a. He's an adult.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Wow.

[Josh Firestone]

It's great.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. They didn't ask him. I wanted to. He wanted to. Students wanted to. It's just. Just the administration at UPenn.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

So to me, it's. How do you do a live stream event? Not live stream.

[Gerald]

Well, it's not only that. It's the. The fact that they could have saved us all of this hassle and just told us up front that we won't be able to do It. Instead they included it in their proposal and saying, hey, here's the equipment to live stream. And then said, oh, by the way, you can't live. So yeah, Warren Smith did a video on it. I don't know if you.

[Steven Crowder]

That's right. You guys can go and check and we'll have him on the show because it's something he's encountered to working on university campuses make it almost impossible. He said, this really affects the students. The students are, you know, silent. That's the point. They self censor and that's the problem. That's the whole point to doing this. Speaking of students, you know, this was something that a lot of young. When I was a young whippersnapper. By that I mean a teenager punk. It used to be when I was a kid it was like punk versus rap. A lot of. I thought there was no, there were no other styles of music. You know, they were like, ah, punk skater kids. And then, and then rap. You're like, you do realize there's rock and roll. Yeah, I mean there's, there's, there's a heavy metal.

[Josh Firestone]

Well, punk is very angsty. Yes, it's very angsty. It's great for teenagers.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, yes.

[Josh Firestone]

I don't like my dad and the system sucks and everything's hard.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. Well, I was that kid. Dude. Some people said punk is dead. And I will, I will formally announce punk is not dead. It just transitioned. Here's a guy showing you just that. Oh no, sorry. Easy mistake to make. Here's the clip.

[Punk Culture Commentator]

I love frilly knickers. Someone up in my comments the other day that surrounds buying women's clothes for AMAB people. A couple of years back, I'd have felt so ashamed of buying clothes even online. I'd have probably hid under the bed as the post person came, hoping that they'd drop it off on the step so I wouldn't have to have any human interaction. In fact, there's so much shame that surrounds AMAB people in women's clothes. There's probably a lot of people wildly jabbing at the report button right this second because they just cannot deal with what's going on.

[Steven Crowder]

And you love it because it's a fetish.

[Punk Culture Commentator]

Why shouldn't I be wearing the clothes that make me most happy and comfortable? He said, horny, not doing anyone any harm. So remember, my lovely, my stomach, you present how you want. And there's absolutely no shame to that.

[Steven Crowder]

There's a lot of shame in that.

[Gerald]

There should be.

[Steven Crowder]

There's actually A significant amount of shame. Especially when you look like Buffalo Bill had sex with Gargamel. And that is.

[Josh Firestone]

Yeah, like the clothing aside, there's shame to be had.

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, not great.

[Josh Firestone]

Fat Smurf, your sexual orientation, your clothes. Besides that, there's some shame there.

[Gerald]

Technically, Gargamel's not a Smurf, but it was still funny.

[Steven Crowder]

No, I mean, but he wanted to. He wanted to kill all the Smurfs so he can make a suit.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Wear a Smurf suit.

[Steven Crowder]

Like I'm tired of, and this is part of the debate, I'm tired of acting like there's an equivalency. You know, people on the right say, hey, you know what? People should be free to speak their ideas. And the left shouts them down. And then people on the left, the people who shout, those on the right down, go, there's no shame. I want to be a freak. Let's just be honest. There's. This is a fetish that is being lived out in public. That's what most of this is. Not all of it. Some of them probably had an uncle who hugged them at a cookout or something, and they're confused. I understand that, but for many people, it's a fetish. This man wants you to look at him wearing female underwear. Is it a huge deal? No. Normalizing it and telling people that it's the same as normal. I don't care if people can say what is normal. You know it when you see it. That's the problem with it. And this creator. Whatever, I guess. Give us a chip. Is the person you say?

[Gerald]

Creature.

[Steven Crowder]

It's fair. It would be the right word. You mean that tattooed lip ring? Creature obviously has no problem flaunting himself. See if you can tell why I say it might just be a fetish. Being a princess. I'd rather be a witch.

[Nikki Glazier]

Trade that throne for a flame and a twitch.

[Steven Crowder]

You got rulers, I got rules.

[Punk Culture Commentator]

I was brought up on a pretty steady diet of Cartoon network in the 90s and still to this day have an absolute adoration for the Powerpuff Girls. So when this skirt came up for a couple of quid, I just had to have it.

[Steven Crowder]

This is all punk music. Yeah.

[Josh Firestone]

I call you a bigot for saying that. Maybe this person has a bit of.

[Steven Crowder]

Hold on a second. Rewind. That the horse is leaning back and away from him. Did you see that? The horse.

[Josh Firestone]

What the hell?

[Steven Crowder]

Look. Look at that. The horse is literally leading, is recoiling. Hold on.

[Punk Culture Commentator]

Here you go.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like, now I want to run away.

[Josh Firestone]

I know. Not Normal when I see it.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

You know why?

[Josh Firestone]

Because the horse knows.

[PBS Interviewer]

It's mentally.

[Josh Firestone]

It's mentally insane. Yeah, because this one's gonna really hike the spurs into my side here.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. You know what? Why don't you get on my back? Let's reeve this thing.

[Josh Firestone]

The horse is like, I don't think you know where we're going, but here's the deal, too.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like you can do whatever you want. You do, and there's no shame in it. Well, okay, fine. Let's say you want to wear ladies underwear underneath your clothes. Fine. That's not what you want. You want everyone to look at you.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

It gets you aroused. There is no purpose to do this publicly and do a photo shoot with stuff you picked up from a spirit Halloween store other than to have people look at you and to get attention. Then say, I'm just being myself. Isn't it ironic when people say, just be yourself? And to be themselves requires tens of thousands of dollars in tattoos and body modifications and a whole new wardrobe influencer account.

[Josh Firestone]

Yeah, a hairstyle that no one's ever had before. Except for Gargamel.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gerald]

Nailed that one.

[Steven Crowder]

But he does. His main message is that punk is not dead. So that brings us to this week's Are We. We're not on YouTube, are we?

[Josh Firestone]

We are. We're gonna dump after it.

[Steven Crowder]

Unless you want to dump now. Well, I think we have to, because I have to use the dumb now. Seven plus one tranny punk bands. This week. Seven plus one. Seven plus one tranny, tranny, tranny. I'm so glad I can say it. Punk bands.

[Gerald]

Ah, trannies.

[Steven Crowder]

Number seven. Sometimes I'm just kind of amazed that this is how we make a living. Number seven, twink182, all the penis.

[Gerald]

Come on now.

[Josh Firestone]

God.

[Steven Crowder]

Now with the Z at the rock show. Seven plus one tranny punk bands. Number six, the hormones. Yeah, see, because I had to say it the right way. Number five, Josh the Dead.

[Josh Firestone]

Name Kennedys.

[Steven Crowder]

Hey, I get.

[Gerald]

Oh, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I hate that we even know the term dead name now. It's so silly. Seven plus one, trans punk bands.

[Gerald]

Number four, Geraldine Admiral Levine.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, I get it. Just the pinnacle of health.

[Josh Firestone]

He was a skater boy, and now he's a woman.

[Steven Crowder]

That's about as much effort as Admiral Levine would put into a song.

[Gerald]

Yeah, I think so.

[Steven Crowder]

Number three, Fallout Person. Fallout, Actually, you don't even need to change it. Loaded. God complex. Cock it. And bullet.

[Gerald]

Oh, it's not good anymore, though.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, well, it's gone. Or pull It.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestone]

We're going down, down Take your genitals

[Steven Crowder]

out,

[Josh Firestone]

sugar we're going down without a

[Steven Crowder]

penis

[Josh Firestone]

I'll be a lady soon and you'll see it.

[Steven Crowder]

A loaded trance complex. Cock it and pull it Twist it, Pop it. That's product placement. Worse than the Rascal Flats. Ice cold Cherry Coke, guys. Okay, how much were you paid for this number two, Miss Tits. That's the. And the number one tranny themed punk band, Josh Firestein, My Chemical Castration. Hey, that's.

[Josh Firestone]

When I was a young boy, I blocked my hormones and now I'm not a boy.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, he's not a boy anymore. That's the problem. And the plus one, I should tell you, there's no good Photoshop to do with this Suicidal tendencies. That's been this week's seven plus one. You forgot the van in the chamber. Ah, man, I just.

[Josh Firestone]

We could totally do a cover of that song.

[Nikki Glazier]

What would you do? If your online store converted 36% more shoppers. You could take 36% more vacation.

[Steven Crowder]

Another pina colada.

[Nikki Glazier]

Yes, please. Open a new retail location with 36% more square feet.

[Steven Crowder]

Fantastic.

[Nikki Glazier]

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[Steven Crowder]

You know, I was wondering, should we hit the. I think maybe we should hit Nikki Glazier after. Okay. I think. Are you guys okay with that? Let's. Yeah, I think we should get to Israel, Lebanon and the ceasefire because we just did a lot of weird trans stuff.

[Gerald]

Wait, we didn't.

[Steven Crowder]

We said acknowledging. By the way, this is why. That is why you can't let your kids watch Ms. Rachel. Okay? That's how it starts. It starts with just a little trans sidekick and then they're one click away from celebrating binding their tits. If you. If you're trying to be nice as a Christian conservative in the United States. No, I don't. You have got to protect your children before they get their claws in.

[Josh Firestone]

Or Powerpuff Girls. That was what this guy was watching. He watched Powerpuff Girls and saw the character him and was like, yeah, that's me.

[Steven Crowder]

Is that the fight? They wrote it about me. They didn't. They actually didn't. It has nothing to do with you, but you're a narcissist, so. And I don't mean that in the pop psychology way. I mean that as an actual pathology for many of these people. That's why you want everyone to look at you in your satin panties. All right, ceasefire right now. Now let me just be clear as to where we line up on this or where I line up on this. There was a ceasefire, all right? Then Israel started firing into Lebanon. There's some confusion out there right now. We need to clarify that. What was in the ceasefire? What was the agreement? What the hell is Israel doing? And I will tell you this, it is at the very least bad optics. But I'm not a big fan of it. If it's on the line, if it's in, if it's a gray area, Israel seems to be acting with complete disregard for what is best for their. They're not being good friends. In the past, it's been pretty clear that President Trump. Trump has been calling the shots. And by the way, we can have a shared interest in Iran not becoming a nuclear power, or Iran not getting to the point where they would actually be able to control the Strait of Hormuz through short and mid range ballistic missiles. But I really don't like this idea of Israel potentially risking something that we have put in place and that was agreed upon by other parties. President Trump right now needs to be aggressive. If I was him, I would make a very public statement that even if there's a miscommunication, Israel, you guys got to step in line here Also, once we're done and we pull out and we hit our agreement, you're on your own, no more money. That's where I would line up on this. Because they don't know what the they're doing they violated.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

But Israel violated it too. Israel. As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I'd never seen before. I'm not happy with Israel. They don't know what the they're doing.

[Steven Crowder]

And in giving ammo to the people who said that you will be going to war for, for Israel, I still don't believe that's the case. But I, I've always maintained that. I think Israel will act in their own self interest and we will act in ours. The problem where we diverge is if they start acting in their own self interest at the cost of ours, and they're, they're skirting that. So shortly after this ceasefire was announced, what happened? Israel launched massive barrages against Lebanon.

[News Reporter]

Ceasefire is not necessarily the word that comes to mind when looking at These scenes of violence and chaos from the streets of Lebanon today as a result of the most intense series of Israeli strikes since the beginning of the war. This resulted in one of the deadliest days between Israel and the Iran backed militant group since the beginning of the war, with at least 110,000 people killed, but over 800, if not more wounded. And this all on the very day that international and regional mediators had been insisting that Lebanon was part of the wider ceasefire deal between Israel and the United States on one side and Iran on the other. But we saw that those hopes were very quickly dashed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement, which was then followed by the series of very deadly strikes.

[Steven Crowder]

So I'll also, I don't want to say, explain, shine a light on some of the confusion, miscommunications, but there should be no miscommunications. That's my perspective here. Yeah, if you are an ally and if we have shared interests, there should be no miscommunications. There should be no blindsiding. You guys have some explaining to do. Israel, IDF beating Netanyahu, especially when they're

[Josh Firestone]

known for their intelligence.

[Steven Crowder]

Right? That's a very good point. You can't have it both ways. So the IDF posted on X. In 10 minutes, the IDF completed the largest coordinated strikes. Sorry, hold on a second. Things move. The largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion. The strike targeted 100 plus Hezbollah headquarters, military arrays and command and control centers in Beirut, southern Lebanon. This one thing that is kind of funny here is that, you know, Iran complaining about it is sort of tantamount to them admitting that they fund Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas. So that part is illuminating. But joining us quickly to tell their side of the story is a representative from Hezbollah. That makes sense.

[Josh Firestone]

I guess you couldn't make it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Now, the leadership of Iran, what happened? They threatened to pull out of negotiations, apply more pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. That's an issue. There are a few things to sort of parse here. So quick background. March 1, Hezbollah attacked Israel in retaliation for the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. Right. That's what happened. Or Khamenei. I know it's one of those things where you. I don't care. Khomeini, Khamenei dead.

[Josh Firestone]

It.

[Steven Crowder]

That effectively broke the ceasefire that Israel had with Lebanon since I think it was 2024.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

So let's go through some of the claims here. The truth. And it doesn't change that this is not good overall. The first claim that's going around is that Israel blatantly violated the ceasefire. Here's the truth. Probably not, but it still sucks. Probably not, but it wasn't a good move. Probably not, but they're kind of hanging their friends out to dry here. So in an interview, Trump did tell. President Trump told PBS that Lebanon was. And then I'll give you the other side of the coin as to why people might think they were a part of the ceasefire deal. But President Trump told pbs, Lebanon not a part of the ceasefire deal.

[PBS Interviewer]

I wanted to ask him about what Nick's report included about these strikes that were still happening from the Israeli military on Lebanon that was ongoing this morning. I asked the President if he had seen that there were still military strikes happening. He said, yes, they, Lebanon, were not included in the deal. And I said, why not? And if Lebanon should have been included as part, as part of this cease fire deal. And he said, because of Hezbollah, they were not included in the deal. That'll get taken care of too. It's all right. I went on to ask him if he was okay with the Israeli military continuing to bomb Lebanon. He reiterated, it's part of the deal, everyone knows. And he said that that's a separate skirmish.

[Steven Crowder]

So again, not great communication. It's part of the deal. Everyone knows that that's a separate skirmish. You have to take the totality of it and say, okay, it seems pretty clear that President Trump is saying, well, they weren't really part of a deal because of Hezbollah, but we'll get to it. And this was also reiterated by Vice President Vance.

[Vice President Vance]

I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn't. We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the cease fire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states. Now, that said, the Israelis, as I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a fuller report when I get on the plane, have actually offered to be frankly, to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful. That's not. Because that is part of the cease fire. I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success. And we'll of course, see how that unfolds in the next few days. But look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them. And which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire. That's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

What do you.

[Gerald]

Well, I'm laughing because he goes, if Hezbollah, which has nothing to do with them or Lebanon, he said.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm like, come on. Yeah.

[Gerald]

He's giving everybody a little bit of room. And I think he's like, hey, that doesn't have anything to do with you.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, this is a big thing, too, when people. You do need to acknowledge that Iran is the biggest funder of terrorism across the globe. Where you find terrorism, you'll see Iran involved somehow. They. I wish I loved anything as much as Iran loves funding terror. Now. Now, this was pretty clear from the United States saying it wasn't included. We're going to get to the bottom of this. We're hopefully going to find an agreement. But why would Iran think that this was a violation? Well, here's the good news. The Indians have a solution. Blame Pakistan. Blame Pakistan. Blame them. Yeah. In case you've forgotten, the ceasefire was, you know, in part brokered by Pakistan. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shabazz Sharif, wrote on Tuesday. He wrote with the greatest humility. I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate cease fire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere, effective immediately. So that seems like some communications may not have been super clear.

[Gerald]

Yeah. And it seems like there may have been communications that went to Iran from Pakistan and us from them as well, and maybe had different terms on it. We're still not 100% sure because it's Pakistan right now.

[Steven Crowder]

I still would say, isn't it weird that. That that India in some is making me prefer Pakistan to them. I want to break off a pool queue and force them to have tryouts.

[Gerald]

I know they've done it before, though. They used to be the same team.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So is it. Is it Pakistan's fault? Partially. I would still say the responsibility does rest squarely with Israel if we are allies. That's a legitimate criticism. You guys can comment. That's a legitimate criticism. For people to have World War Three. I don't think it is Donald Trump betraying his base? I don't think so. Since the 80s, he has openly said that Iran will not have a nuke and he was willing to engage in military action. The idea that Israel not acting as allies in good faith all the time. Yeah, Yeah. I think we need to re Examine the relationship if they continue acting this way.

[Gerald]

Yes, I think they did this in the 12 Day War ending as well. That's where we got the quote from, from Donald Trump saying they don't know what the f they're doing and he had to put his foot down to make sure that stopped. It is totally fine. I got a lot of flack for what I said yesterday. It is totally fine to tell Israel to knock it off, to stop it, to shut up, to sit down and let us get this handled. Because apparently you want peace. There's nothing wrong with getting pissed off and saying, listen, we want peace here, stop screwing it up. I understand Lebanon fired rockets. They do that all the time.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Gerald]

Can we wait two weeks and see if we can finally get this thing done? Or would you like another 50 years of conflict? Right, that's reasonable. And it's also reasonable to criticize President Trump and also give him credit when he does the right thing. This should not be new stuff to us.

[Steven Crowder]

Right? Yeah. Well, so where are we now? Israel just issued some evacuation notices for some Beirut suburbs and said they plan, they are planning more strikes. I don't like that.

[Gerald]

Plan all you want, just don't do it. Yeah, give it a couple of weeks.

[Steven Crowder]

Like do you want. Okay, here's the thing too. If you guys have been paying attention, you know, certainly China and there have been some rumblings at Russia. They have actually stepped in a little and been like, hey, you know what, at this point we kind of do need to have something going on here as far as opening up the strait. Right. Anytime you get the United States and China sharing an interest, and that can happen sometimes too, toward Iran, that's a good thing. Iran has run out of allies. Israel risks creating allies to Iran or Israel risks alienating those people. If, okay, let's do Lebanon, let's do what's next Saudi Arabia, like, you guys need to understand, cool it, cool it for a bit. If the goal is peace, if the goal is to eliminate the threat followed by peace, which is the goal as far as I'm concerned, I hope that's the goal. That's what I've seen. If that is not the goal, like I said, give this war three months, it'll be pretty clear and then I will make an assessment and tell you, you know what, they handled this poorly. Or it'll be really clear to us that there's some kind of an agreement and we are moving toward peace with hopefully a castrated Iran, then Israel, you have to stop right now.

[Josh Firestone]

I'm not convinced that Israel's goal is peace.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm not either.

[Gerald]

100% either.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm not either.

[Gerald]

That's the plan.

[Josh Firestone]

And I don't know what we get from them.

[Steven Crowder]

No, I mean.

[Josh Firestone]

Well, I mean, a little bit of intelligence.

[Steven Crowder]

Intelligence in that area of we have

[Josh Firestone]

a friend in the area.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestone]

But other than that, like, it seems like we give more than we get.

[Steven Crowder]

Absolutely. Yeah, we definitely do. And that's a legitimate criticism for people to have. And at this point in time, they are doing. Israel is acting in a way that proves or gives all of their critics ammo.

[Gerald]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

And I would say that it's fair for them to use that ammo right now. Yeah. This is not a good thing. We need to secure our interest, which is remove the threat of Iran, their capabilities, get back to some stability, move on down the trail, and Then no more 3 to 4 billion a year Israel. You guys want to continue conflict, you go it on your own. That would be my position. So some more threats that were issued. All US Ships, aircraft and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry and anything else that is appropriate.

[Gerald]

Hold on, this is Donald Trump. Stephen, come on.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

All US Ships, aircraft and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Will remain in place in and around Iran until such time as the real agreement. The real agreement reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, I think, then the shooting starts. Quotes. Bigger, better, stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed a long time ago. And despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary, no nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe. In the meantime, our great military is

[Steven Crowder]

loading up and resting. Looking forward, actually, I. My throat is.

[Gerald]

That's okay.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

To its next conquest. America is back.

[Gerald]

It's a long one.

[Steven Crowder]

So here's some more confusion. President Trump says no more enrichment. Iran says they won't stop. Here's the problem too. Iran, when they offered their 10 point whatever solution or counteroffer. This is my counteroffer. Name that movie line. It didn't say anything about ending the funding for Hamas and Hezbollah. Yeah, and this gives ammo to leftists saying, well, they didn't even. Now they want all sanctions lifted and no other presidents lifted all sanctions. Well, here's the thing too. The jcpoa, when people talk about the nuclear enrichment, it's a red herring. First off, they were enriching uranium, but let's assume they Weren't it didn't deal with all of the missiles that were being built and those capabilities. So the JCPOA didn't work when people say all the other presidents had these sanctions and Donald Trump will be the first one to lift it. Okay, now do a billion dollars in cash. Now do 6 billion in unfrozen assets. Right. I don't think there's any world in which these sanctions are lifted or Iran moves forward enriching uranium. That's one thing I think we can be certain of with this administration.

[Josh Firestone]

I think that, you know, they got to stop doing the nuclear enrichment. They gotta halt the ballistic missiles.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep.

[Josh Firestone]

Include Hezbollah defunding that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Josh Firestone]

I don't see why lifting some sanctions is bad. I mean, maybe you could tell me.

[Steven Crowder]

But yeah, I mean, I guess it depends on what they are. But mainly the sanctions are about enrichment. About enrichment. Those are, those are the main sanctions. And they don't need to, they're past 60 enrichment. They don't need that for nuclear power or anything outside of moving towards a nuclear weapon.

[Josh Firestone]

Right.

[Steven Crowder]

This is important for people to remember that. And then the ability to protect themselves so that they could effectively walk out of any agreement and they would have enough ammunition, enough missiles, short mid range missiles, drones to prevent anyone from going in and inspecting and then it's just a matter of time. Keep in mind, we do need to keep remember, these are people who have said if they get a nuke, they will use it. These are people who have said if they ever gain the capability to wipe America and Israel, but both of us separately off the map, they will do it. So unless you believe that they're bluffing, some people do. I would say you probably don't understand their particular brand of Islam. Unless you believe that there is no threat, then at some point in time something was going to need to be done about Iran. 47 years, I think is, you know, that's enough second chances, third chances. Some would say 47 chances doesn't change the fact that the communication needs to be better right now. Here's what I would say is a solution. Broker our own deal completely autonomously of Israel. Two, two people can hate the same asshole. It doesn't mean that we despise them for the same reasons and it doesn't mean that our grievances are exactly the same once we achieve our objectives. Okay. We make it clear, it's a very clear withdrawal if and when that happens. And we also put distance between us and say Israel, you guys are on your own. And they get any and all funding cut if they jeopardize the deal. That sounds fair. Anything else you guys would want to add to that?

[Gerald]

I think that sounds fair. Like let's get a deal. Prove to the world right now that you want to get a deal done. Right. So many people right now you're confirming their worst fears.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

And you're also giving them the ammunition to go after you a second time. Let's say you have a justified action that you need to do. You have no more rope. I'm sorry.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

The world is basically done. Show them that you really do want peace.

[Steven Crowder]

And you guys can comment. It is my belief that more of you line up with this perspective than the perspective of people who say they've been betrayed by Trump. We should just vote for Democrats or not vote at all. Or that every single president is guilty of war crimes and should be executed with the exception of George Washington. Or that Iran are good faith actors. I think more of you. But here's a problem. This won't cut through the algorithms and the clickbait. World War Three does.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

25th Donald Trump does. Or look at this great Israel blitz. Right. On both sides of it. Most Americans, most people I speak with share this perspective that yeah, Iran's a problem. Obviously something was going to need to be done, but we need to do it tactfully and communication needs to be clear. And I don't like it when Israel acts acts as a rogue nation while claiming to be our buddies. Another thing you don't want to jeopardize. To be clear, not just this deal.

[Gerald]

Correct.

[Steven Crowder]

Also your online financial security. Son of a. This makes no sense.

[Josh Firestone]

Hey, Jesse, what's wrong, man? Looks like somebody burnt your bagel.

[Gerald]

Oh, I'm just.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm trying to figure out why my

[Gerald]

bank charged me three times for a super chat on YouTube.

[Josh Firestone]

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[Steven Crowder]

Cryptid?

[Josh Firestone]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

It's a mythological creature, Josh. Kind of like the Mothman, Bigfoot, or even the Chupacabra.

[Josh Firestone]

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[Steven Crowder]

Cryptid currency.

[Josh Firestone]

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[Steven Crowder]

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[Josh Firestone]

It's probably a deep reduction, as in abortion.

[Steven Crowder]

It may be maternity leave, but that. Isn't that always funny when the left they go, reproductive health care. Oh, you're reproducing. Well, no, we're aborting that.

[Josh Firestone]

When they say reproductive health care, they almost always mean killing fetuses.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I think almost always. I think in this one it's probably more related. It probably seems like it's more related to maternity leave.

[Gerald]

Call it maternity leave.

[Steven Crowder]

Can someone get me the update on what's going on right now? What's being proposed? Just because I. But I just find it funny that CNN has Women's Health Watch. Yeah, Reproduction prostate gays.

[Josh Firestone]

Do you think there's some guy having to go to HR later today because at work he was like, oh, hey, Susan, look, the news is about you

[Steven Crowder]

now it's Women's Health Watch.

[Gerald]

Yeah. Hold on. Wait a minute. I thought men could get pregnant, too, under their rules. Well, that.

[Steven Crowder]

Goodbye, horses. Guys like, hold on. This Chiron's for me. Me. So they said it was Arizona Democrat Yassin Ansari. Yeah. Okay. They can let us know what it is. They're still telling you. All right.

[Josh Firestone]

I think it's Yasmine's mind.

[Steven Crowder]

Tim was like, deport immediately.

[Josh Firestone]

You have a silly name.

[Steven Crowder]

Goodbye. All right, it's not our fault. We give ammo to some of the critics sometimes.

[Josh Firestone]

Well, now we have to fire Oliver Wankwater pretty much.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, here's the next one. You've heard this quite A bit. And right now there's all the doomers out there going, okay, the midterms are lost. And you don't have to be a psychic to understand that the midterms don't look great if you look at the trend today right now. But in some cases, the people responsible for that are the ones pointing the finger anywhere else. So, yeah, the midterms may not look great. I don't think that the voting base is as fractured as talking heads want you to believe. But there definitely is a notable strain when you have a lot of supposedly Republican or conservative right wing MAGA America first talking heads invoking the 25th or calling for the 25th all within 12 hours of each other. That's odd to me. I can't give you a reference like we do for all of our factual information, we do that 11am we stream weekdays. But it's odd to me. It definitely seems suspicious. But I think that a lot of people may be forgetting just how bad the Republican Party can be. And I say Republican Party because for a long time the Civil War was trying to bring the Republican Party back to represent it conservatives at all. So you've probably heard a lot about people saying, oh, Trump has fractured the MAGA base and it's going to cost Republicans the election. So don't take my word for it. This is exactly what Megyn Kelly said yesterday.

[Megyn Kelly]

We've upset our allies, we've pleased Israel, although now they're upset there's a ceasefire. We've upset the American base. The Trump coalition that got him elected is completely fractured and in smithereens. And he doesn't care, Pierce, because he doesn't care about the Republican Party. He cares about himself. If Trump had to get reelected, he probably would have handled this a little differently. But he doesn't care that the Republicans are going to lose the midterms. I think he thought that was a foregone conclusion. And I don't think he cares that J.D. vance or Marco Rubio wins the presidency next time around. I think there's a piece of Trump that would like to say, I'm the only one who could do it. The Republican Party's nothing without me. And the rest of us are gonna be around to pick up the pieces.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, I understand the perspective, but let me present something to you. There really was no Republican coalition as you know it right now before Donald Trump. I think people we compare very often go like, well, you would rather have Kamala Harris. Let's Compare President Trump, J.D. vance, people like Rubio, notable people in the Republican Party right now, this administration, to other Republicans, not just Democrats. Do you remember how crappy it was? Need I remind you, Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney won a primary. Do you guys know that he was

[Josh Firestone]

the candidate that unbuttered biscuit.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, Mitt Romney. By the way, that guy voted to impeach Trump twice.

[Gerald]

Wow.

[Steven Crowder]

And back then, of course, you thought that was betrayal because it was Donald Trump. It was a witch hunt. He also, by the way, was the one who created the blueprint for Obamacare in Massachusetts. Right, Romneycare. And I will say, of course it's different to do it on a state basis, but this guy has proven himself to be a leftist on many issues and he even admitted without Romneycare, I don't think we would have Obamacare. And then if you wanna compare, because right now people are saying the base is fractured and Donald Trump is a betrayer. Really, just because of Iran. Can we be clear about that? It's really because of Iran. That's why people are saying he's betrayed his base. Yeah. And we need to oust him and find someone better. Let's compare the foreign policy. Remember, Mitt Romney has almost never met some kind of foreign intervention that he didn't like. And in 2012, he was not just talking about Iran, but he brought up Russia. What?

[Mitt Romney]

Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the UN Time and time again. I have have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give him more flexibility after the election. Iran today has never been closer to a nuclear weapons capability. It has never posed a greater danger to our friends, our allies and us, and has never acted less deterred by America, as was made clear last year when Iranian agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabia, Saudi ambassador in our nation's capital. And yet when millions of Iranians took to the streets in June 2009, when they demanded freedom from a cruel regime that threatens the world, when they cried out, are you with us or are you with them? The American President was silent.

[Steven Crowder]

And the point I'm making here is he certainly would be no better on Iran. Also, he wouldn't have the same kind of leadership. If you look at his track record as a senator, as governor, you think you would have had Roe v. Wade, you think you would have had the landmark Supreme Court case that we've had. Do you think you would have seen the media be Highlighted for the sham that it is. Yeah.

[Gerald]

Exposed.

[Steven Crowder]

You think he would have pushed back against Big Tech, or do you think it would have been same old, same old? This guy was a spineless wiener. Those are the people waiting in the wings. The coalition was created because President Trump, for all of his flaws, brought something different to the table. Throwing it away would be throwing away the biggest, probably most diverse coalition that the conservative movement or Republican Party has seen in decades. Do I need to remind you before that we had John McCain. John McCain, he's the guy, by the way, who struck down the aca, that repeal in like a midnight vote. He co authored climate legislation with Joe Lieberman. If you guys remember, he was part of the Gang of Eight that backed this path to legalization for illegals, basically citizenship. Not to mention, when we're going back to foreign policy, if Donald Trump is the worst on foreign policy, this guy has said President Trump has made clear we want to do this swiftly, violently, and get out. These other people like John McCain, they never even seem to think of that. He never met a war that he didn't like. Here he is singing about it. That old Beach Boy song, Bomberan.

[Nikki Glazier]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

You know, it needs a little bit of work.

[Josh Firestone]

He didn't really finish the joke.

[Steven Crowder]

No, he didn't. He didn't. He didn't believe.

[Josh Firestone]

You got to commit to the bit, bro.

[Gerald]

Commit to it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Paul Ryan, first off, the worst cover of any magazine ever. Paul Ryan was at Men's Fitness with him doing like, he's like, he's like eight pound dumbbells. Was just embarrassing. And it's hairy twig legs.

[Josh Firestone]

He's got two first names.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, don't like him. He was also part of the Gang of Eight. Gang of Eight path to citizenship. Refused to fund a border wall, by the way, when Republicans could have done it. Just to be clear, when people complain about executive orders, they say they can be undone. Okay? The alternative is we have had times where the Republican Party controlled House and Senate and didn't do anything. Sometimes you guys need to delineate your grievances with the Republican Party refusing to do the bidding of those who voted for them and President Trump's mandate and agenda. So at that point, when you have control over the House and you still can't get it, well, an executive order is better than nothing. See the reduction from 96 to 99% at the border. We effectively have a secure border for the first time. You want to compare Donald Trump to Paul Ryan on foreign policy. Doesn't get any better. You can check all the references. We provide them every single show. He supported drone strikes against Al Qaeda around the world. I mean, unprecedented number of drone strikes, supported sending troops to Syria to secure chemical weapons. I'm not saying that all of these things or certainly individual strikes were inappropriate, but the pattern is they supported all of it. You cannot find a Republican. And by the way, I know people saying Thomas Massie. You know what? We had a Massie, whatever. Ron Paul, Rand Paul, we had a Libertarian Prime. I've had them on the show. We also do have to live in the real world. And that doesn't mean that you're compromising and encouraging bad behavior. Because what I'm telling you is the bad behavior, the disloyalty from the Republican Party, the McCain's, the Romneys, the Ryans, the Eric Cantors of the world, they led to Trump. As a better answer, is it a perfect answer? No, but it's a much better answer. Anyone who's lived through it, would you agree with that? If you had to pick Romney, McCain, Paul Ryan, or President Trump? J.D. vance, who would you pick? Where is Paul now, you may ask? Well, we tracked him down. You can do it. Paul can help.

[Josh Firestone]

He just looks like a guy who works at Home Depot.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, pretty much. He really does. He looks like a guy who goes to Home Depot but doesn't know how to use the things.

[Josh Firestone]

No, he looks like he works at Home Depot, but they didn't hire him.

[Steven Crowder]

Exactly.

[Josh Firestone]

They're like, Mr. Ryan, we told you, you cannot be here.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, and you can't wear that apron. It confuses the customer.

[Josh Firestone]

I brought it from home.

[Gerald]

Such a good reminder of how, how bad the candidates have been.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, we get it. It gets even worse because these are. We wanted to go with the president, vice presidential candidates, Mitch McConnell. Okay, that's a potential alternative. And I know you'll say, well, Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been. Has been an ally with Mitch McConnell when he is useful. To be clear, Mitch McConnell said that former Vice President Joe Biden won 2020, called January 6th an insurrection. By the way, that gave cover to the corrupt, lawless Democrats who jailed people for nothing more than a walking tour. 2008 voted for the $700 billion TARP Wall street bailout on foreign policy. Again, if we're saying that this is the reason, the deal breaker, Donald Trump's approach on Iran, over which he has been incredibly consistent. Let's compare it to Mitch McConnell. He declared Ukraine aid number one priority for the United States. She prioritized Ukrainian security above American border security. You guys understand that's what's waiting in the wings. Not just is it better than Democrats, is it better than every Republican we had, really, in this century? Mitch McConnell recently appeared on Piers Morgan, by the way, had this to say about his upbringing.

[Gerald]

Tell me about your.

[Josh Firestone]

Hey, come on. That's one of the founding fathers.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, exactly.

[Gerald]

Good for his age.

[Steven Crowder]

John Boehner, maybe a decent guy. He's crying somewhere horrible in office. He was repeatedly cutting deals with Obama. You want to talk compromises? The stripping Tea Party members again. The Tea Party was designed to try and bring the GOP back to being limited government, to being actually conservative. He stripped Tea Party members of committee assignments on foreign policy. Let's compare them there. Again, since this is the big betrayal. Of course he supported the Iraq war, of course he supported military strikes in Syria. We need to be presented with a better alternative because we're looking at not just Democrats, but a 180 in the Republican Party. Well, okay, what would we pivot to? Eric Cantor. I forgot about it. I remember I was there at one of his speaking engagements one time. I didn't go because I knew he was speaking. I was blindsided. And I left, supported path to citizenship. Right. Dreamers remember that. This is the betrayal. Donald Trump was an answer to the betrayal. That's why so many people, I think Ann Coulter said Donald Trump could perform an abortion in the middle of 6th Avenue and I would still vote for him if he secured the border. It was a quote to that effect because we had seen Republicans for so long basically be Democrats. Life on foreign policy, of course, you can look at Eric Cantor supported US Military intervention in Syria pretty much across the board. So I say this because right now people are saying, ah, we're going to lose the midterms. And it's because Donald Trump is the betrayer. Now, it doesn't mean that he can't be a betrayer if other people have been worse betrayers. But I don't think that he has. We don't have a longer track record of anyone that I'm aware of on any individual policy than President Trump. On Iran, we have that luxury. Like I've said, because he was a celebrity before he was president, you probably wouldn't find Eric Cantor's stance on Iran in the 90s, in the 80s, Mitt Romney, maybe John McCain. I mean, that guy was ancient. So maybe. But unlikely. Most of these politicians, Donald Trump was in the public eye. People can say they disagree with it. They cannot say that he said or in any way implied that he would be soft on Iran or that he would continue the jcpoa. So if he's a betrayer, what's the alternative? And yes, I do think living in the real world matters because you're looking at Democrats or you're looking at same old from the Republican Party. This is the answer. Is it perfect? No. I wouldn't even say baby steps. It's a step in the right direction because it's a step away from Romney, McCain, Cantor, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell. You cannot convince me that Donald Trump is the same as Mitt Romney or John McCain. It's a night and day difference and I prefer one. So I would just advise that people be very aware of the decisions you make. The rhetoric out there. It will have an effect and you will end up with exactly who you deserve.

[Gerald]

And unfortunately, that's probably going to be for them. Thomas Massie. And he's not going to win.

[Steven Crowder]

Zero chance.

[Gerald]

No, it's not going to happen. You don't want that guy as President of the United States. And what I really hope happens is when, and I pray this happens, a good resolution to this conflict, everybody gets to see us move back, get out of there, make sure that we have this thing dealt with for a while. All the people running around saying 25th, him and everybody else, either they come out and say, thank God that happened. Maybe I was a little over, maybe I was a little too concerned. Maybe I ran a little bit too far ahead there and they apologize or we never listen to you again. I'm sorry, you can't go then down that road where I'm just gonna keep splitting the base for no reason.

[Steven Crowder]

When people say, ah, it's the same Democrats and Republicans. Right now we're specifically highlighting other Republicans versus this administration. Let's just go back to Democrats and Republicans. It's the same. Okay, tell me it's the same living in Florida as it is in New York. Right on taxes, First Amendment, second Amendment, deportations. Tell me it's the same living in Texas as it is in Minnesota. Tell me there's no difference. Those of you living in Texas, living in places like Florida, who've chosen those states, many of you left places like New York or California. Those of you living there now tell me that you would have no problem if tomorrow they enacted the exact same policies as New York, as Minneapolis, as California.

[Josh Firestone]

It's laughable. I'm one of those guys. I came from Washington, four years in Washington in the Seattle area, and now I'm in Texas. Yeah, night and day.

[Steven Crowder]

Of course you can and should expect better. That's why President Trump won. But to say that it's the same and to not acknowledge that it would be three, four, five steps back. Just be careful what you wish for. Also, if you wish for gold, I forgot to mention this. Go to lwcgold.com or call 1-800-628-GOLD see if you qualify for no fees for life. Ira. Thank you, guys. Trugold, make it a part of your diversified portfolio. Don't tell anyone or misinterpret this as me saying sell everything and buy just gold.

[Gerald]

Don't put all those $7,000 checks into just gold. Okay? Yeah, you gotta have your shekels. Diversified.

[Josh Firestone]

Can you send me your contact? I would like to shill for that.

[Steven Crowder]

Them,

[Gerald]

they send me the mortgage, really big checks like, you know, the Happy Gilmore one, so.

[Josh Firestone]

Oh, perfect. Still cat, I have a garage to fill.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, we do have one more segment to. Yeah, I was looking through cuz I got all turned around in my notes today. One. One day. Sorry. And by. It wasn't really one day off. I was. You guys didn't realize I was in my office for like six hours?

[Gerald]

No, we knew you were there.

[Josh Firestone]

Yeah, I didn't know that you snuck in. I would have went in there and bothered you.

[Steven Crowder]

I know, I know.

[Gerald]

That's why he didn't tell us.

[Steven Crowder]

I had stuff in the morning and then I was there. It's a. I guess a workaholic. I don't know. I don't think that's a real thing. I think it's called being productive.

[Gerald]

That's what a workaholic would say.

[Steven Crowder]

Put the admonish. Put the admonish on the screen for Gerald.

[Josh Firestone]

Well, don't call him a workaholic because then we gotta have an intervention. We gotta convince him to stop working and then that'd be bad for all of us.

[Gerald]

Yeah, I don't wanna do that.

[Steven Crowder]

Let's go to a cultural thing here. Something pretty important. So you know the Caller Daddy podcast. Don't throw up in your mouth.

[Josh Firestone]

Too late.

[Steven Crowder]

Here's the thing. And I don't consider myself a part of the manosphere. People say red pill. I think when you throw in Andrew Tate and Fit and Fresh, and then you also include people like Andrew Wilson who are deeply orthodox Christians and believe. What does it mean? But I can tell you the term red pill. There was a documentary, a lady named Cassie J. You can go back to old episodes. She was on the show. She was originally a feminist. She set out to make a documentary sort Of, I guess, criticizing the men's rights movement and realized that they had some legitimate grievances. It was primarily about custody rights. It was primarily about men in the workplace, some of the discrimination or some of the challenges that men face that are dismissed. And she was great. I had her on the show a bunch of times, as I understand it now. She has a family. She's doing a lovely family, doing quite well. But the manosphere, when people point to it, let's just discount the bad, because there is some bad advice. But the bulk of what has seen a resurgence in masculinity is rejecting the label of toxic masculinity. And one kind of through line, one constant that you will find across all of these different sort of niches is work on yourself, become healthy, become fit, become wealthy as best you can, productive, confident. And then you will become the kind of person who will attract the kind of woman you would want. That, I think, is good advice for a lot of young men. And you've also seen a lot of young men simply checking out of the dating game, the dating pool. Why? Because they don't like what they're seeing. Okay, that brings us to women loving to point the finger at the manosphere as unbelievably destructive for young men out there. And then we'll compare it to the kind of content that you see in the woman sphere, if that's a term.

[Megyn Kelly]

These men are not struggling to communicate. They're not emotionally unavailable. They are learning how to control you, and they're calling it leadership. And it's working.

[Nikki Glazier]

Suddenly, it fell into place for me

[Steven Crowder]

that these boys were being radicalized, that they were being groomed online by these

[Nikki Glazier]

communities extremely successfully and cleverly.

[Steven Crowder]

Every young guy that I spoke to

[Nikki Glazier]

has talked about how it's really unavoidable.

[Steven Crowder]

You look up any content that's sort of primarily male audiences.

[Nikki Glazier]

This manosphere is. It's there.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, but there. There are far more people in the manosphere like men here. Let me be really clear. You need to be disciplined in body, mind, spirit. You need to set boundaries. You need to live out your values, be consistent. You need to set a plan in motion with actionable steps and go after it. And that should include the right woman and a family. Okay, That's. That's the mainstream view. And rejects the labels of toxic masculinity and this idea that women can do everything men can do and vice versa. Men and women are different, and that's okay. Become the man you want and find the woman you want. There are different ways to do that. Now let's compare this to female based content. I will tell you this, the manosphere is a response to it because female centric content is not only just as bad as the manosphere they criticize, it's significantly worse. And it has been that way since the 1960s, certainly with increasing, I guess I should say degeneracy, perversity in the last 10, 20 years, there is nothing of value that is being offered. If you look at the largest female centric podcast shows out there, there, you obviously know about the view, but let's go to some of the online podcasts. Those are, you know, racking up some big numbers. Here's the latest example. Nikki Glazier, comedian, had an interesting conversation on the Call Her Daddy podcast yesterday and she has some advice for a lot of people out there.

[Nikki Glazier]

I'm not someone who likes to hook up when I'm in a relationship. I'm not really, like, I don't really care about that. I, you know, but I don't care if someone else were to hold on. In fact, I like, kind of like it. It's kind of, it's, it's a, my thing. If a guy has a sexual connection with a girl and like, he was to use protection and just have sex with her for a night. Like, I don't, I literally wouldn't care if my husband did that. I, I don't, I don't know why. I don't know why. If he were to like, you're broke with her or like do crossword puzzles or like text like said memes and stuff, I would be like, what the are you doing? If you develop feelings for the ones, tell me and we'll deal with it. Like, I just don't want to be blindsided. But if you want to have sex with someone else, also tell me about it because I want to like see what she looks like and like ask you about it. He's definitely done some stuff. Yeah, he, he probably wouldn't appreciate me elaborating on that. But like, there's been interesting things that have been like, really fun for, for me to like hear about and experience and like, and fun for him too because, you know, you get older, he's 45, and I'm like, get out there. Like get some. Know that you're a sexual being. Again, like sometimes I'm like too busy to be really sexy. So I'm like, get out and get some attention.

[Steven Crowder]

Ah, okay. So, so does everyone agree that was a prescriptive take. Get out there. Do this, it's good. Find out you're a sexual being. Okay, let me offer a prescriptive take, which would be criticized as part of the manosphere. Her prescription is have an open relationship. Prove that you're still a sexual person because you know, your wife doesn't really, you know, I don't have time to. That's a perversion of duty. Biblically, the prescription is you are to make sure that your husband feels like a sexual being. And he you. I know people say, oh, that's rape. You literally are not to deny your husband, nor him you specifically, so that you may not fall into temptation, meaning it is your duty to have Olympic sex with your husband whenever he feels like it. And him you, if you abdicate your duty, then you go, yeah, so it's just as good to have sex with someone else. Feminists will declare her prescription liberating, progressive and mine to be toxic because it means control over. Now, it goes both ways, but let's be honest, men usually have a higher sex drive. So it's probably something that would require more of a compromise from the woman. If Nikki Glazier took the biblical approach, it would be, my husband wants to have sex with me and I want to make sure that he knows he is sexually desired and feels like a sexual being because we should be that way until the day we die. Instead, go sleep with other people. Now I will say this. It is true that women do tend to want men of value. That's something that they will deny through and through. If you say, well, you want a man, you don't just want a nice guy. There are plenty of men available to you. You have unrealistically high standards because you want the kind of man who other women would also want. They'll go, no, no, I just care about his personality. She just told you you the truth and she rationalized it by saying just that. And if you are not, I forgot we went over time. So if you are not yet a member of Rumble premium mug club, hey, that's what keeps the lights on. That's what keeps the investigative unit going. That's what keeps this whole show going with very little sponsorship placement as opposed to 16 minutes per hour of broadcast, $99 a year, try for $9 a month. But if you join annually, you get this wonderful hand etched mug, you're a part of the club and you get 100% more show. We're going to continue with you. So Nikki Glazier, who by the way, her stand up specials, 70 to 85% not just about sex, about her nether regions. Ugh, vagina.

[Josh Firestone]

Yeah, gross. Vagina.

[Gerald]

It's a lot of content about that.

[Steven Crowder]

Here she is saying the quiet part out loud that those in the feminist sphere routinely deny. She wants a guy that other girls want.

[Nikki Glazier]

Maybe it's my competitive nature of, like, I want a guy who other girls want. Like, I like something that is. Like. Like, you know, you want a handbag that other girls are like, oh, my God, I'm dying to get that.

[Steven Crowder]

I got to go to the materialistic analogy.

[Nikki Glazier]

It's like showing their.