Woke is Back: Chicago Bulls Cancel Christian Player for Anti-Gay Views

Summary

Louder with Crowder – "Woke is Back: Chicago Bulls Cancel Christian Player for Anti-Gay Views"

Date: March 31, 2026
Host: Steven Crowder
Key Guests/Panelists: Gerald, Jaden Ivey (audio), various guest commentators

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the intersections of sports, free speech, "woke" culture, and institutional power—focusing on the recent controversy involving Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey's release due to his outspoken Christian beliefs, particularly his opposition to LGBTQ Pride Month. Steven Crowder and his panel critique what they see as hypocritical tolerance, discuss broader societal trends, and touch on issues ranging from family values to the latest Canadian legislation about hate speech and religion.

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Main Topics and Discussion Points

1. "Woke" Athletic World: The Jaden Ivey Controversy

• Summary:
  The main story is the Chicago Bulls' release of Jaden Ivey, attributed by Crowder and his team to Ivey's anti-LGBTQ statements made on social media, rooted in his Christian convictions. The show frames this as evidence of "woke" institutional intolerance and double standards in American sports leagues.

  • Key Quote (Jaden Ivey):
    “How is it conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to the team? … Because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.” (67:32)

  • Crowder's Framing:

    • Challenges the legitimacy of the stated reason ("conduct detrimental to the team"):
      • “Now, you may disagree with his opinion, fine. But … is that egregious or hateful enough that warrants him being released?” (54:27)
    • Notes that the NBA and other leagues historically overlook or lightly punish criminal behavior, while swiftly punishing dissent from LGBTQ orthodoxy.
    • Asserts the decisive pressure is top-down, from elites/media, not fans:
      • “It’s not coming from the fans. It’s not coming from the viewers. … This is how you know it’s social engineering.” (58:43)
    • Compares to other recent suspensions (domestic violence, gun incidents) that received less punitive action.

  • Billy Donovan (Bulls Coach) Response:

    • Noncommittal public statement about "standards" and organizational values (56:10).

  • Biblical and Free Speech Debate:

    • Guest commentators criticize fellow media figures (like Emmanuel Acho) for muddled theology and failing to defend free speech.
    • “Tolerance doesn’t mean, okay, you live and I live. It means you will be forced to care. You will bake the gay wedding cake. You will support the transition of children versus criticism …” (64:07)

2. Institutional Failure, Free Speech, and Change My Mind Teaser

• Campus Dialogue:
  • Crowder promotes his upcoming "Change My Mind: Open Campus" debates (with Ivy League professors).
  • Emphasizes that the segment spotlights failures of educational institutions, not to "mock, denigrate, or dunk on students who don’t know any better" but to challenge the system (4:55).
  • Quote:
    “This was never designed to mock, denigrate, or dunk on students who don’t know any better. It was always designed to highlight the failures of the institutions.” (04:55)
  • Briefly teases future live debate with Professor Jonathan Zimmerman on free speech.

3. Critique of Modern Family & Childcare Narratives

• Topic: Response to The View’s claims that family/children are too expensive for average Americans.

  • Crowder’s Take:

    • Rebuts the claim you need $400,000/yr income for kids:
      • “You, of course, do not need $400,000 a year to afford childcare. It’s wrong on a multitude of levels.” (30:03)
    • Argues that prioritizing family, single-earner homes, homeschooling, and traditional structures lead to better outcomes (mental health, behavioral, economic).
    • Advocates rejecting “shrieking feminist left” advice as unfulfilling and socially corrosive:
      • “Has any advice from the left made your life any better?” (27:20)

  • Discussion Points:

    • Childcare costs are often overstated by leftist commentators.
    • Homeschooling, stay-at-home parenting, and single-income families historically achieve higher happiness and healthier children.
    • Having children brings greater life fulfillment and better health outcomes for parents.
    • Anecdotes from Crowder and Gerald about personal family backgrounds, mobility, and the value of “purpose.”

  • Gerald’s Personal Story:

    • “We moved 10 times before I graduated high school. … I had an amazing childhood because I had my mom at home. It wasn’t like we were earning tons and tons of money.” (40:14)

4. Other Segments & Satirical Interludes

• Doge Walker Protest Satire:

  • Mockery of viral protestor Doge Walker’s GoFundMe, discussing her disability, medical expenses, and perceived lack of motivation for employment.
  • Segment: "Seven Plus One Jobs for Doge Walker" (21:19–23:50) – lighthearted, controversial list of potential jobs for a wheelchair-using activist.

• North Korean Special Forces Clip:

  • Satirical viewing and commentary on bizarre North Korean military training footage (8:23–14:10).
  • Notable comedic moment:
    • “This is what they call functional training. In case you have to lay on a spike. Exclusively on your throat.” (10:30)

5. Canada’s Pending Bill C-9 (Religious Free Speech Ban)

• Summary:
  Crowder addresses Canada’s Bill C-9, which seeks to remove the religious exemption for hate speech, making it possible to prosecute Bible quotations:

  • “Canada’s House of Commons has passed the Combating Hate act, also known as Bill C9.” (71:28)

  • Crowder’s Take:

    • Argues the law amounts to a de facto ban on Christianity in the public square.
    • Predicts this will be met with “thunderous applause from the Anglican Church in Canada.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Steven Crowder:

  • “This is how you know it’s coming from the top down. … The left achieves institutional power, free speech dies. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” (57:00)
  • “The only thing that is tolerable from the left, their religion, their idol, is acceptance. That’s all it is. It’s acceptance versus sound judgment. It’s acceptance versus correction.” (64:07)
  • “Has any advice from the left made your life any better? … Has any of it made your life better?” (27:20)

• Gerald:

  • "We moved 10 times before I graduated high school... I had an amazing childhood because I had my mom at home. It wasn’t like we were earning tons and tons of money." (40:14)

• Jaden Ivey (Chicago Bulls guard):

  • "They said my conduct is detrimental to the team. Right. ... What did I do to the players? I did nothing but practice with them, play with them, pass the ball to them, good teammate to them..." (67:32)

• Emmanuel Acho (as paraphrased/criticized by panel):

  • Analyzed for failing, in Crowder panel’s view, to firmly defend biblical Christian speech or free religious expression in the public sphere.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00–02:04: Ads and show opening (skipped)
• 02:04–06:58: Introduction, upcoming Change My Mind debate series
• 07:24–14:30: North Korea "What the F" segment, commentary on military training clip
• 15:21–19:10: Doge Walker protestor segment, GoFundMe and disability discussion
• 21:17–23:50: “Seven Plus One Jobs for Doge Walker” comedic segment
• 27:20–42:17: Childcare, The View critique, “the feminist lie,” homeschooling/economic realities
• 54:27–68:27: Chicago Bulls release Jaden Ivey—discussion of reasons and implications
• 71:28–End: Canadian Bill C-9 and commentary on religious free speech

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Tone & Language

• Tone: Confrontational, sarcastic, politically irreverent, and comedic, consistent with Crowder’s established style. Crowder and his panel use mockery and pointed critique, frequently blurring lines between analysis, social commentary, and satire.
• Audience: Conservatives, libertarians, and those skeptical of “woke” culture or progressive institutions.
• Language: At times provocative or mocking (especially toward left-wing figures, activists, or institutions).

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Conclusion

Steven Crowder’s episode intertwines pointed commentary on current events (the Jaden Ivey controversy, Canadian legislation), with an ongoing critique of progressive cultural trends, the prioritization of “acceptance” over principle, and concerns about free speech. The show urges skepticism toward elite narratives on family, gender/sexuality, and children—arguing for prioritization of traditional values and personal conviction even in the face of institutional opposition.

Transcript

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[Steven Crowder]

MICs are live Gerald Gerald, we're on live. I told I didn't like it. 22 spiders in the Pool I thought I had won the war. I thought I had won the war. My pool, as modest as it may Be it's like it's Constantinople. It is ground zero where we have to like I have to take it back and hold it from the Wolf Spiders. Glad to be with you. Welcome to the lineup live here on Rumble. You know the rest. We're going to talk today about a few things. Doge Walker, there's more to that story. You might be offended because we do have a seven plus one basketball. Apparently you're not allowed to speak out against LGBTQ unless you want to be released from your team. Let me get to the demographics and kind of lay out why. This is the elites versus the actual viewers. Viewers don't care. Also, the View wants you to believe and this is the big feminist psyop that kids are too expensive and it's irresponsible for the Republican Party and conservatives to continue with the messaging that having a family and children is more fulfilling than a life of hedonism and may make you happy. Also, Canada is banning Christianity. So most importantly, how are you selling celebrating the Trans Day of visibility Comment below. That's. We couldn't just skim past that. And right now, what you're about to watch. 2 minute teaser. Long time coming. A decade in the works. When I started Change my mind, we always planned to or I did marry interviews. Change my minds with the students, with some of the professors on campus. 10 years. We had one dance instructor one time. He was nice black gentleman. But that's okay these days. We were never able to accomplish it. No takers. We extended an invite to, I believe 10 Ivy League schools and we finally found one that's gonna happen. Well, you can watch this. Hey, YouTube. What you're about to watch is a new segment we call Change My mind Open campus.

[Gerald]

A college campus.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure. It's an open campus.

[Guest Commentator 1]

We do whatever we can.

[Steven Crowder]

You can do whatever you want. You can protest any professor. You pick. Any professor. Yeah. And you know or set up a dialogue how you think it would be best or most fair. Forgive me or your sources. What do you usually read? Cnn, cnn, Twitter. Cnn, Twitter and a lot of professors probably here. I think you're somewhat parroting from what you've learned from your professors. And so I don't think.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Well, I mean I would agree with

[Steven Crowder]

you that data from CNN and Twitter and professors is wrong. Liberal professors and students. You've seen it. They start y.

[Guest Commentator 1]

What statistics are you reading?

[Steven Crowder]

The statistics According to the FBI, 10 of women and 12% of men are

[Guest Commentator 1]

raped on college campuses.

[Steven Crowder]

Incorrect. We don't have any professors willing to debate if you know Professors here would be willing to. We would be more than happy. I'd be more than. Honestly, No, I don't. You've been failed as students. You've been failed. It's time to go straight to the top, to the people who failed you. When we started change my mind, the idea was back in 2016, the more I went on campus, the more I saw the failures of the institutions. And I want to be really clear about something. This was never designed to mock, denigrate, or dunk on students who don't know any better. It was always designed to highlight the failures of the institutions. We're actually going to be starting formal debates with professors at schools, or we can have a civil dialogue and maybe get to the root cause as to why you've been failed as students. Free speech and why you should give a damn. Jonathan Zimmerman. Why should we give a damn? Well, we should give a damn because free speech has been at the heart of every movement for change in this country. Racial and gender and sexual contemporary perspectives. Sex education, I discovered, is precisely the opposite. Glad to be with you. Oh, I do have a question for you. Hey, how many of you. That is April 10th. Do we have the ticket or. No, not yet.

[Gerald]

We're gonna put that out. Yeah, so they can get tickets.

[Steven Crowder]

How many of you want to watch that live on a Friday night? I know Friday night you guys are probably busy. Otherwise we can do live to tape upload it Monday. But if many of you want to stay in and watch it, the live debate, me and Professor Jonathan Zimmerman. I appreciate him. Well, he'll say yes to anyone who will put a microphone in front of his face, which is a good thing, but it shouldn't. It's amazing. We're gonna go through all of the other professors and their terms and conditions.

[Gerald]

Speaking of demanded.

[Steven Crowder]

What?

[Gerald]

There's only eight Ivy League schools. Yes, we put it out to 10 schools.

[Steven Crowder]

We put it out to 10 schools, eight of which Ivy League. You pens one of them. Isn't that surprising? I kind of thought it was dog shit.

[Gerald]

I do not deserve that admonished. I was the one who.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, you disrupted the flow, right, Toolman?

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, he did.

[Steven Crowder]

You disrupted the flow.

[Gerald]

Just make up rules as we go.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, Captain Morgan, CEO, we gotta get moving, so. Hello. Hope you're well. Saturday, April 24th, 25th, at Comedy Avenue in Lawton, Oklahoma. So if you're in Oklahoma, go and see Josh. 24th, 25th. If you are near Philadelphia, it's a small venue, so once tickets are available, get them as quickly as you can. April 10th. You doing well?

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, I'm good.

[Steven Crowder]

Good.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Excited being Lawton, the inspiration for the myth of El Dorado.

[Steven Crowder]

That's true. That's true. Although that movie sucked.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, I like the movie.

[Steven Crowder]

Really? The Road to El Dorado, The Disney movie. Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

It's cute. Got the. The gay Frazier brother.

[Steven Crowder]

I like the emperor's new groove because I like it when animals speak like adults.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Before we get to anything else, just because we'll have a little fun. And what's more fun than the world's silliest nuclear power? North Korea decided to release some footage regarding their special forces. So this is actually a new segment that we like to call North Korea. What the f. And when you watch the totally real clip that was released on Sunday, you'll understand. And if this offends you, you know, you can send your feedback. We stream live. I'm easy to find weekdays, 11am Eastern. So here is footage of North Korea's Special Forces. And, boy, you know, I think our just. I don't know how to describe it. Just watch.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Oh, hell, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

He blocked the stick with his torso.

[Gerald]

Oh, man, this is worse than Chung Kong.

[Guest Commentator 2]

There's some drywall.

[Steven Crowder]

Head into it. Are those nunchucks or is like a horse tail?

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I think they're the ponytails. They cut them off.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Whoa.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, our guys can't do the splits.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, you don't see the seals doing this.

[Steven Crowder]

No, because you fight from that position. Don't you love how they cradle it? They. They slow down the throw.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Here we go.

[Steven Crowder]

Here we go. Colonel P.T. barnum.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Oh, Abs of iron.

[Steven Crowder]

You know, it's great training when the training partner has to slow down his blows.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I. I think that said more about the ax than it did the guy's abs.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my gosh. He's going for his yellow belt.

[Gerald]

Daddy's check cleared. You're fine.

[Steven Crowder]

This is. No, guys, this is really important. This is what they call functional training. In case you have to lay on a spike. Exclusively on your throat.

[Guest Commentator 2]

This. This situation came up a lot in Afghanistan, so.

[Steven Crowder]

That looks hurts, though, either way.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, you got to do the bicep breaks.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Ow.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I mean, yeah, that's just some good forearm strength. Oh, my God. Hit the guy.

[Steven Crowder]

You know what they won't do? Hook them up to a punch meter. More sticks.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Oh, slow mo.

[Steven Crowder]

Nice. It's serious music. Those are pre cuts. They could just pull the guy off the street. It's pre cut.

[Guest Commentator 2]

He's. He's conquering his alcoholism.

[Gerald]

Yeah. He is.

[Steven Crowder]

He's.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Hell, yeah.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Oh, and a kick.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, this is fun. Watch. They just. Now. It's the power of gravity.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Oh, God.

[Gerald]

Mama makes me happy.

[Guest Commentator 2]

They specialize in the dog pile.

[Steven Crowder]

The guy that jumped in with his

[Gerald]

head is never going to be the same.

[Steven Crowder]

Who'd they bring in as a consultant? The guy who keeps the Guinness Book of World Records. No, more, more, more. Brick. Oh, this would be awesome. Johnny Knoxville and Steven Seagal. I am a special forces, and this is North Korea. It's a culture that's entirely based on fakery. Oh, great. You can do all that now? Try turn signals. Come on.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I thought it was awesome.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it was.

[Gerald]

Your people.

[Steven Crowder]

It's a carnival trick.

[Gerald]

It really is.

[Steven Crowder]

It really is a carnival trick. And this is why the rest of the world doesn't take you seriously. Also, you know the. On average, like, 6 inches shorter than all of the South Koreans. Now, Kim Jong Un was actually watching. If you watch the full. Oh, yeah, if you watch the full. And actually, we watched this clip originally, and we didn't realize that YouTube had its AI translator, its own translation.

[Biblical Commentator]

And it was.

[Steven Crowder]

This is true. And it was doing this Korean song. It's like Our Dear Supreme Leader. And then the translation was just going. And I walked in the. You were in the office with Elaine, the br. I said, this is real, right? This is a real thing. Tell me it's real, guys, please. Kim Jong Un was watching, as he always does, you know, with either either great admiration or displeasure, in which case you're going to disappear. And they actually had a lapel mic on him. We exclusively got the file.

[Guest Commentator 1]

I like how he hit his head. Very fit, very tight body. I hope he don't have indigestion. Oh, his leg must be so hard. Hard legs. Yeah. She stabbed her titty. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Sprints. Full sprint.

[Jaden Ivey]

That must hurt.

[Steven Crowder]

Ball.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Eat your heart out, Chris. Kyle.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 1]

I want to see more head spin, more spinning of head.

[Doge Walker]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 1]

You did terrible things to that clay. Like the clay owe you money. More sticks. Oh, that stick didn't break.

[Steven Crowder]

Supreme Leader, we stopped building 14 horses for these bricks.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Ah, look like Super Mario in there.

[Steven Crowder]

I have a no, period.

[Guest Commentator 1]

They call it menopause.

[Steven Crowder]

Have AI do that.

[Jaden Ivey]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

This has been north korea. What the.

[Gerald]

They have. Oh, gosh.

[Steven Crowder]

But do they? I think.

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Steven Crowder]

What would you say for doing a survey? Would you say that turned out better or worse than we anticipated in writers room?

[Gerald]

Better.

[Steven Crowder]

Better, I'd say.

[Gerald]

Bet.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Only one thing is, when I was watching I was. They were clapping. I was like, oh, we should have done.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, we should have clap.

[Guest Commentator 2]

But nine out of 10.

[Gerald]

Yes, absolutely. Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

11, 11am Weekdays, guys, if you want to say, hey, click that button. Join Rumble Premium. We sometimes, you know, take a risk. Speaking of risky, nobody else is even trying. No, nobody else is even trying. You know who's not trying? This next lady. Yeah, I know that many of you are going to be upset with this, but it's okay. Yeah, it's okay. Because I know a gay guy.

[Gerald]

Oh, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Credibility. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's cool. I had lunch with a black one time.

[Gerald]

Ooh, nice.

[Steven Crowder]

So everything you're exotic. That makes everything you're about to hear and watch acceptable yesterday. You guys have seen this, obviously, but I'm just going to refresh your memory. Some footage from the no Kings protest. You know, one of their strongest warriors who's now become quite popular, the Doge Walker. Now, I know you thought the story just Doge Roller kind of started and stopped there. No, there's more to it. There's more to this saga. So this Doge walker has a GoFundMe to support her protest activities. And I looked online, you guys can fact. I think she's like a fellow at the Guggenheim or something like that. She's won art prizes.

[Guest Commentator 2]

She pays those people that are walking with her $500.

[Steven Crowder]

Something like that.

[Gerald]

Really?

[Guest Commentator 2]

Exactly that. It says it on her thing.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, I'll read from the GoFundMe. It says, Spring is on the horizon, despite the blazing temperature from Texas to the Carolinas. And Doge Walker is preparing to step back into the streets. I'm using that term a little liberally.

[Guest Commentator 2]

That one kind of looked like Sturgis.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, yes.

[Guest Commentator 2]

That last picture. Yeah, it looks like she's at Sturgis.

[Gerald]

Old lady on the back.

[Steven Crowder]

Brighton bitch. These are biker terms. Yes, these are biker terms. She fell off. So anarchy $4600 out of 10,000 was raised. And. And then in response to going viral, this lady, the Doge Walker, responded, releasing this video.

[Doge Walker]

I keep getting linked.

[Steven Crowder]

That's a huge

[Doge Walker]

protest. And they are brutal. I am getting like just brutalized online.

[Steven Crowder]

Imagine that.

[Doge Walker]

You know, I'm used to it. It doesn't bother me. I have a really thick skin. But referring to me as a everything you have to offensive on so many levels. And I want to kind of break it down. Well, one, I received very little government assistance. In fact, I received Medicaid, Medicare, which helps for my medical cost, which, you know, actually last time I totaled them up were about 330, 360, 000 a year if you include.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Oh, so my house.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Very little.

[Doge Walker]

My wheelchair accessible van. Costs like maintenance and whatnot. Medical equipment, medicines that I take. No one could afford that. Nobody could afford that.

[Gerald]

No one else.

[Doge Walker]

You were a billionaire or a millionaire?

[Gerald]

Well, some people, not no one, work.

[Doge Walker]

And we want to work more. We want to be active members of society. What we realize is that the more that we have access to income, the more our highly costly medical insurance is threatened to be taken away from us.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, so a job is a threat?

[Doge Walker]

Like I'm grifting? No.

[Guest Commentator 2]

20 hours a week or whatever.

[Doge Walker]

He's a grifter. He's a snake oil salesman. And a lot of people unfortunately bought into a lie. And our country is being driven down. It's basically solvent right now, you know, and we're on the verge of nuclear. Nuclear war. So calling me a grifter is preposterous.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, just $360,000 a year in medical expenses that is threatened by a basic job. Now, to be clear, I know people say it's incensive because as I understand it, she has something called. I believe it's like spinal atrophy, type 2, which you're born with, which means that it's a nerve thing where you can't move your legs. So she is in a wheelchair. Obviously she has use of her arms. But I'm going to tell you something. There are a lot of other people with this condition who aren't massively overweight and actually do like. Here's the thing.

[Doge Walker]

She.

[Steven Crowder]

She could do some jobs and still

[Guest Commentator 2]

qualify for her Medicaid, Medicare.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, yes, exactly. There. There are plenty of jobs out there that she could do. Like, she could just. She could be a restaurant hostess. Yeah, yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Cause you know how you always go to a restaurant and then there's nobody at the. The podium and then.

[Gerald]

Well, they can.

[Guest Commentator 2]

First of all, they get a smaller podium.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Guest Commentator 2]

That's less money on a podium.

[Steven Crowder]

That's one less. There's a.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Please wait to be seated and there's no one there.

[Steven Crowder]

One less problem. Just lock her wheels in place. She's not going anywhere.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Like a grill.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, she's not going anywhere. She could. She could be a law. She could be like a manager or shift manager of anything.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Governor of Texas.

[Steven Crowder]

She could. She could be so many things. Here's the thing. She could pretty much do any job that doesn't exclusively require use of your legs. So pretty much any office job, any desk job, Anything that doesn't require, you know, large amounts of running or walking. She could literally be a nuclear physicist. There's nothing stopping her. Like, there's no reason that she couldn't do exactly what. What Oppenheimer did. Well, I mean, there's nothing that's like. I guarantee you. What's that IQ look like? I mean, sure, but I'm just saying

[Guest Commentator 2]

mine isn't too high.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm just saying he wasn't learning, you know, with his, like, with his toes.

[Gerald]

No, no, that's true.

[Steven Crowder]

There are plenty of things that she could do, but that's a threat to the never ending supply of your tax dollars. And I know that many of you have disabilities as well, and you also work. I mean, you know that governor of Texas, you had someone like Teddy Roosevelt, who wasn't from fdr, for crying out loud. And that brings us to this week. Seven plus one.

[Guest Commentator 1]

You forgot the van in the chamber.

[Steven Crowder]

Seven plus one. Potential jobs for Doge Walker. Number seven.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Get your name, by the way.

[Steven Crowder]

She could literally be Stephen Hawking.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Whatever he does, I am overjoyed. Number six. Josh. These are. These are real jobs. She could.

[Guest Commentator 2]

This is a real job that exists. We've seen it happen before. Shrimp boat captain.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go. There you go. Lieutenant Doge.

[Gerald]

I know likes Lieutenant Dang.

[Guest Commentator 2]

She still has her.

[Gerald]

Like, see, she's got a. She's one up. Yeah, there you go.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Shrimp soup.

[Steven Crowder]

Number five. She could be. She. She could be CEO of latter with Crowder. That looks good. She could literally do pretty much any job here. Hey, not that my she could do it, is what I'm saying. A lot of you guys just, you know, sit at your desks and wait for the sweet release of death number. Number four, Gerald. Seven plus one. Doge Walker. Potential jobs.

[Gerald]

She could be a world champion cornhole moler.

[Steven Crowder]

That's true. You're gonna tell me it's harder for the guy with no hands?

[Guest Commentator 2]

If he can do it, she can do it.

[Zepbound Tirzepatide Advertiser]

She has whole arms.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, there's a lot. The point is, you got to be creative, and you have to believe in yourself. Number three, Doge Walker. She could be a fit. She could be a very good Hungry Hungry Hippo. Because we already have two hungries.

[Gerald]

She is a hippo.

[Steven Crowder]

Number two.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Come on now.

[Steven Crowder]

They're vicious animals.

[Gerald]

Number two.

[Steven Crowder]

A snowplow could be.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, well, it's seasonal work.

[Steven Crowder]

That's just an attachment.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

At that point, this one is straight down center plate for number number one. Job she could do. She could be a Professional slap fighter. Yes.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I think.

[Steven Crowder]

That's definitely turned out better.

[Guest Commentator 1]

She's wearing protection.

[Gerald]

Wearing her umpire's mask.

[Guest Commentator 2]

That's not fair.

[Steven Crowder]

And she's. She's. She's got give. She's got more give in her chair. And the plus one, that she could be Doge Walker. Jobs. Gerald.

[Gerald]

Robocop. Oh, my God.

[Steven Crowder]

This has been this week. Seven plus one.

[Guest Commentator 1]

You forgot the van in the chamber.

[Steven Crowder]

I miss 80s movies. So peaceful. They weren't.

[Guest Commentator 2]

You have 20 seconds to comply.

[Gerald]

I need some apple pie.

[Steven Crowder]

The point is this. You don't need to. Don't be afraid to believe in yourself. That's the message today. I have to say a prayer now. I have to ask forgiveness. Walking is a micro. You know, baby steps, measurable progress. There are many jobs. Whoa. There are many jobs. That's definitely worse than we pictured it. And. Many jobs she can do. She just lacks motivation. What she needs is a kick in the pants and a nice cup of coffee to kick her into gear. Okay, one more, one more, one more.

[Gerald]

What are you guys doing in here?

[Steven Crowder]

It was a long night. Gerald, we're doing an acupuncture.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Wake up.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Ancient Chinese remedy.

[Steven Crowder]

No.

[Gerald]

Here, try this. You guys are insane.

[Steven Crowder]

Strange Animal blend coffee for blackout. Yeah, I know. I'm the one who hand selected these beans. 100% arabica. It's all we drink in the office. Yeah, it's a medium roast, but with a bold flavor that everyone can enjoy.

[Gerald]

That's what I'm saying.

[Steven Crowder]

Josh. Load it up. Load it up. Mm.

[Gerald]

Whoa. Hold on now.

[Steven Crowder]

Josh. Josh. No, no, no, no, no.

[Gerald]

Josh.

[Steven Crowder]

Josh. Josh.

[Jaden Ivey]

Josh.

[Steven Crowder]

You're supposed to drink it.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Josh, you ready?

[Gerald]

Drink it.

[Steven Crowder]

You can't drink staples, Gerald.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah. Cause then staples will get on the inside. But staples are an outside activity.

[Steven Crowder]

It's an outside activity.

[Guest Commentator 2]

The skin.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, with the beans, too. Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Okay, you ready?

[Biblical Commentator]

Yep.

[Gerald]

You know what? You know what? Have fun, guys. All right.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Ready?

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. Okay.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Steven Crowder]

We have a nail gun out back, right? Actually, we can take this, and then we can hit Gerald with it. Ooh. Go to blackoutcoffee.com Crowder. Use the promo code Crowder for 20% off your first order and try the new exclusive Strange Animal brew. Yes. I chose the beans. It is the blend that we drink here exclusively. And now I'm making it available to. You think coffee beans are heavy enough to knock them out?

[Gerald]

What?

[Doge Walker]

Sure.

[Steven Crowder]

This. I actually probably could use a little more coffee this morning. So use the promo code crowder for 20% off. It is what we drink here and send us your feedback. It took a while to do it. It's very hard. Coffee is one of those things. So you have to. Yeah, because it's seasonal. Just like with wine. You know, you say it in affected, prickish way. Terroir.

[Gerald]

What do you mean?

[Steven Crowder]

I'm saying the beans, they're different from year to year. So you have to make a blend so it's consistent. They're always going to be variances. Yeah.

[Gerald]

These guys make great coffee.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

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[Steven Crowder]

You know what else is expensive? And by expensive, the View means you shouldn't have them. As a matter of fact, it's irresponsible to do so. And here's one thing I want you guys and gals to keep in mind. Those who've listened to the left for their whole life, particularly the shrieking feminist left, if you have taken their advice, has any of it made your life any better? You know, people have often talked about with the presidential campaign, are you better off now than you were, you know, four years ago? Has any advice from the left made your life any better? When they tell you that you're a marginalized class, when they tell you that you can't get ahead even though we have more class mobility than any other society, when they tell you that you are a victim, when they tell you that degeneracy is freedom, has any of it made your life better? Because this is a big one. And this kind of advice is reflected in birth rates, rates, it's reflected in marriage rates. And our society is significantly weaker because people have bought it. But those at the View are saying this blatantly and the quiet part, kind of quiet part out loud, don't have kids because they're unaffordable and it's irresponsible.

[Isabel]

I think it's just really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know in this country there's this affordability crisis. And for a two person household, a married household, you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don't make over $400,000.

[Steven Crowder]

So people think this woman is smart

[Isabel]

for people to be born into poverty. People not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children, and people not being able to house those children. At the same time, the government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families.

[Guest Commentator 1]

$400,000 over the lifetime of the child or what? No, no, A year.

[Isabel]

It's an annual income exceeding $400,000 to afford child care. And I'm gonna add incorrect.

[Steven Crowder]

And I'll give you all the things

[Isabel]

all over the country according to lending tree analysis.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Listen, it's encouraging. She's saying don't have any thought about what you're doing. Yes, be thoughtful before you have a kid. Correct. You should be thoughtful before you have a kid. And perhaps, Isabel, you want to talk to some of those red states about some of their laws about women, because they're not really encouraging women to do anything except flee from them.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, so you're saying red states are discouraging women from having kids by not allowing unfettered abortion. It's almost like the policy prevents you from terminating your future child. I don't know. It's pretty tough to follow the logic on that one. But you can't really fact check it because these are the kinds of lamentations that you only hear from the insane. But key fact number one, because you just heard some stats there. Go check the references. We provide a bibliography. Every single show. You, of course, do not need $400,000 a year to afford childcare. It's wrong on a multitude of. Of levels. So this is the study that the View was citing. They misapplied this 7% of your income number. An affordability formula. They misapplied it to the poorest families. Well, it was really applying to poor families. And they applied it to all families across the United States. Here's. Let me break it down. $28,000 a year average. Right. That's the most expensive, the most expensive child care option for two children. Okay. In their own study, and they are suggesting that you should always be spending 7% of your income or allowing 7% of your income for child care. And that's how they get to $400,000 a year. Does that make sense?

[Gerald]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Steven Crowder]

That's how they break it down.

[Gerald]

It shows the highest average bracket there, and then only you should only max 7%.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like the engagement ring formula. Right. They're going, yeah, yeah. They pick the most expensive one. So you need to be making $400,000 a year. And none of them just go, wait a second. I mean, Ana Navarro, who used to be a Republican, kind of does. She's like, wait, really? And she's like, yes, good enough for me.

[Gerald]

Go with your first instinct.

[Steven Crowder]

Now, keep in mind, source checked. Yeah. 61% of families in this country have no outside childcare arrangements. Only 8.4% use a daycare center. To be clear, 2% bring their kid to work. Now, yes. I'm not suggesting, I'm not suggesting that either. Right. You split the difference. But. And they'll try and tell you, like, yeah, well, those people are poor and therefore they're miserable. And this is something you really do have to deprogram yourself. This idea that wealth equals better child rearing, that wealth, that having material possessions will make a happier family, or that if you don't have a lot of money and you start your family early, you're going to financially struggle forevermore. It's not worth it. It's reckless. We have a bunch of stats to prove that that's not true as well. So here's key fact number two. First off, we have the data. Lower income and single household incomes, or households with single incomes, meaning one primary earner, they have more kids. So the number of births per 1,000 women, if they're making under 10,000 a year, 63. 25 to 35,000 a year. 59. 200,000 a year or more. 48. And I know, I know a lot of people are gonna say, well, see, that's why we need abortion. And if you want to support eugenics, okay, fine. But we're not just talking about folks on welfare. We are also talking about people who may live out in the country, people who may be homesteaders. The only American families, as a matter of fact, who are above replacement rates. And to be clear, that's a much bigger threat than climate change. Yeah, everyone is acknowledging that. Now, the only people above replacement rates are single earner households. So let me give you the birth rates of working married women. Full time working married women, 1.9, part time, 2.3. Not working, meaning they stay at home and don't use a daycare center. 2.4. It goes up when you have someone at home with the children. And I want you to just think of this. Let's take a daycare, let's use their number. $28,000 a year, okay? You stay home, you save that money. Not only that you have more control, more time with the most important people in your life, your children, and you actually get to raise them them. Also, if you're home, you're able to support the primary earner who can actually dial in his focus and typically earn more income. That's how it used to work, you know, since the beginning of time. It's okay if you want to work instead of have kids. It's okay if you juggle both. But this idea that you need to do that in order for your children to have financial stability is just not true. And a lot of people have bought this. Let's go to key fact number three, beyond daycare. Homeschooling is incredibly affordable, and we've seen it explode in popularity since COVID Why? Because a lot of people were deprogrammed from that previous lie. Well, you got to go to school. People won't be socialized properly if they're homeschooled. Then we found out that actually, it turns out homeschooled kids, if done correctly, and they have a good social circle of friends, and you take them out to activities, they're not identifying as a cat with green hair and a nose ring, and you get to spend more time with your children. The average cost of homeschooling, about $700 to $1,800 a year. Now, half a lot of people go, well, that's nice if you have a ton of money. Half of the households at homeschool earn less than $100,000 a year, and they have three or more children on average in most cases. Again, the data can be different depending on the year that you take. Here's the other thing. Okay, so, all right, we just wiped out the daycare costs. We just wiped out the private school costs. Homeschooling has very similar outcomes, if not better, they're better, certainly better than public schools. Okay, so it's a wash. Public school, homeschool, and it's still cheaper because public school is anything but free. When you add up all the costs and you add up the books and you add up the field trips, and you add up having to go there often, eat at the cafeteria, uniforms, right. You end up saving money. Homeschooling and the academic metrics obviously are better. But here's something that's even more important. Homeschooled children, they have significantly fewer behavioral issues. And by the way, it's true for all income levels, all socioeconomic backgrounds. They're less likely to have behavioral issues. They're less likely to have mental health issues. They're less likely to get an std. They're less likely to be sexually active very young over the span of their life. They have fewer sexual partners. They're less likely to be a criminal. Criminal. They are more likely to have successful relationships of their own. They are more likely to have long term, healthy, close relationships with their parents. So these are all the things that aren't just quantified as far as income. And if you have one earner or two earners. So it is better for the children. Okay? Far better. Much better. Here's the other thing. Key fact number four. It's better for you. It's better for you. People with children are happier than people without. And by the way, this applies to often people who are, you know, step parents adopt. Just to be clear, I know that not everyone can have children. It's about purpose. It's about something other than yourself. Think of it this way. When you go and do charity work or you do a good deed, expecting nothing in return, right? You feel better. Selfishly, kids force you to do that all the time. The first step towards being more selfless is a spouse, a wife or a husband. Now take that and add complete helplessness. Children, when they're little are surprisingly easy to kill.

[Guest Commentator 2]

It's not that surprising. Yeah, I could have called it so.

[Steven Crowder]

You have to take care of everything and think of someone other than yourself. Parents, those who have children have better relationships with their family. They have better mental health outcomes. They have higher happiness rates, fulfillment satisfaction. They have better physical health compared to those in the same age bracket. Now I know it's not really fair to compare a 21 year old who's single to a 45 year old with kids. But those who are parents take two 35 year olds off the street. One is still single, one has kids. Guess what? He's going to be healthier, she's going to be healthier. They're going to have a better mental state. They're going to be happier and they're going to have closer, more meaningful relationships. And your kids are going to be better off. It's all predicated on this idea. You look at New York Bom Doni saying we are giving free child care, free daycare to all municipal employees. The starting off point is you should give your kids to the state. Right? Look how benevolent we are. The state will take your children for eight hours a day. And people at the View, really any female commentator, any female commentator that you see has to parrot that, including those on the right. Why? Because they don't want to say, yeah, I'm doing it wrong and someone else is raising my kids. The people who would be giving you the advice that would be in line with better outcomes across the board out of necessity, don't have a public platform because they're focusing on their family and their kids. But let me ask you this. I want you to think of every woman who you've known, who's been inspiring, where people go like, oh, man, they don't make them like that anymore. She was a really strong woman. Is it a boss babe or is it usually grandma? Is it usually someone who took care of the family? Is it usually someone who bent over backwards to help other people in the family? Is it usually someone you went to when you needed a listening earth? Yeah, those are the women we admire. Those are not the women who you are going to hear from on the View or really anywhere with a video, video, podcast, stream, Twitch, whatever it is. So it becomes really hard for that message to get out. Even though the facts do not lie, they are irrefutable across the board. The totality of evidence is undeniable. Please go check out the references. And we provide them every, you know, every weekday, 11:00am Eastern.

[Gerald]

Yeah. What you'll see if you watch the rest of the video. The video they were commenting on, they completely missed the point.

[Steven Crowder]

Right?

[Gerald]

The video they were commenting on, I think was from cpac. It was a roundtable or like a panel of people where they said basically like, don't. Don't wait until you can afford it. I think she said, have kids even when you can't afford it, because you can afford it. You just don't think that you can. Don't wait till everything's perfect. It will never be perfect. You're ready, it's fine. You're married and you guys ready to go. Go. Don't let anything prioritize family. That was the message. Work your life around family. I'm not speaking from a position of privilege. I don't have my little card. I'm going to hold up. I had a dad who worked and a mom who stayed home. We were very poor. We moved 10 times before I graduated high school. And we weren't in the military. And it wasn't by choice. It was out of necessity. I had an amazing childhood because I had my mom at home. It wasn't like we were earning tons and tons of money and just roll it in the dough. It turns out kids can be very happy and families can be very happy without being wealthy. Poor people around the world have children all the time. And don't make $400,000 a year. What you're missing the 7% is like, don't ever let child care be above 7%. In fact, you know, it would be better if it was zero. Yeah, zero would be better. That's what LendingTree was trying to tell people in their article. And you guys took it like, wow, I gotta make 400 grand a year. Let me just do some math for you ladies really quickly. If you make $80,000 a year, your take home pay and this childcare number will roughly be about 30,000. Split it up, right? $28,000 turns out to be about $40,000 before taxes. That's what you're getting paid. Let's double that. You're trading, getting your child up before they're ready to get up. Because you know when they're early, early on in life, they don't want to get up by 9 o'. Clock, they want to get up at like 10, they want to get up at 9:30, they don't want to get up at 5 so that you can take them and drop them off in a stranger's arms and then go to work, come back at 5 o' clock not having seen their parents all day long, getting indoctrinated by God knows what from who knows who you can afford. And you come back in to their life for a couple of hours every single day for $28,000 a year. No kid signs up for that. Why the hell are we doing it? And that's at 80,000.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

That's not doing poorly, that's doing very well. Why are we not encouraging women to do the most fulfilling thing that you could possibly ever do? You've been given the gift of producing life.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, Cherish really is. And I'll tell you, I bought the lie. I thought I had to wait because I was in media, people were saying, I was like, oh, well, yeah, you don't have to have. I don't want to do a disservice to these kids. And you know what else too? It's important because if men heard this messaging, if they felt like they had teammates, they'd probably be less scared to have kids earlier as well. Because a lot of men out there, if they're young men, their fear is being Mr. Mom right away, working all day, coming home, and then it's, ah, you're home, here you go, I'm off duty. You both have jobs. If you have one earner and one person staying home, those are both of your jobs. And I Know, people say, well, yeah, I don't get to check out. I'll hear that a lot. We don't get to check. We don't get a day off. No, but you do get breaks. When the kids go play a soccer game, they can take a nap. When they're young, you can have them watch a movie. If you have more than one kid, they can play with each other. That man's coming home where he gets maybe 30 minutes for lunch. And you know what? Yeah, you support each other, but understand you both treat it like a job. And why would you treat it any less importantly than a job? I remember being in school one time, and this was junior high school, I guess, or middle school, we call it in Canada. And I remember we had this kind of. This class, I don't know, you call it syllabus. I think it was either Father's Day or Mother's Day. And I remember my homeroom teacher saying, because the most important thing is, you know, family. And in the place where I went Centennial, sometimes your homeroom teacher, you'd have homeroom and they could teach anywhere from two to three of your classes. So I remember I'd be in front of this teacher maybe three, four hours a day, and I'd go to school. We'd start at nine, we'd only be out at about four. She said this, and I remember thinking, I see you more every day than I see anyone in my family. So it seems to me like family isn't the most important thing. Most important thing is school. Because that's how my whole day is laid out. And I was fortunate in that, you know, I had parents who kind of shifted back and forth between who was working more hours, but they always made it a priority to be there when I was done with school. And I had friends who would, okay, from depending if it was grade school, 8:30 to 4, then 9 to 4, then they were at daycare until 6 or 7 o'. Clock. Yeah, I did it once or twice when there were some emergencies and I stayed at daycare. It was kind of fun. It was kind of an event. It was a novelty. But I remember thinking, man, they're never home. Yeah.

[Gerald]

Their family with their parents, eat, do homework real fast, hour, go to bed.

[Steven Crowder]

That has never been the case throughout all of human civilization until really the 1960s.

[Gerald]

And that is the problem, Right. The solution isn't make it free so everybody can do this. The solution is burn it down. Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Make sure this is one. I'm an accelerationist, 100% burn it down.

[Gerald]

I'm sorry, it's unaffordable. Think about people that are making 50k a year, a woman making $50,000 a year going, okay, because I'm making that 50,000. I now have to spend $28,000 of my take home pay after taxes on child care. They're making like less than $1,000 a month in take home pay.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Not 28,000 though. No, I'm saying just by that was that number. It's like, you know, it could vary

[Gerald]

from yeah, but it's still 9 to 15,000. Averagely it's used for an infant and a 4 year old. And that's the metric they use because infants are more money because they take more to take care of. It's between 10 and $20,000 is the national average for that.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, and you know what else?

[Guest Commentator 2]

Still a lot of money.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's a significant amount of money. You know what else? If you are homeschooling your kids and if one of you is staying home, that means you probably come from a familial culture where the grandparents did that and you probably have grandparents who would love to spend time with the kids. You probably have relatives. Think about every movie that we watch as kids. Like, I just want to get out of this town. I just want to get out of this small town, spread my wings. Let me get away from my family, let me get away from stability, Let me get away from this support structure. Why? Like that's the exact opposite. I mean, I'm not saying that you have to be like a Bangladeshi where you have 16 generations living in a bungalow.

[Guest Commentator 2]

No, even one is bad enough.

[Steven Crowder]

It depends.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, I would push back on that a little bit because my parents both work. That would be my kids, grandparents, both in their 60s, both work, both have to work. My wife's parents, Both at around 60, both have to work.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure.

[Gerald]

But the question is why? And there's a lot of reasons that are very legitimate.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Pay their bills.

[Gerald]

No, but why? Why do we have the bills that we have? Why do we have the lifestyle that we have? That's the question that a lot. And listen, I get it. Like, trust me, I came from a family where we just did without a whole lot to be able to make that work. But my parents prioritized family to me. And I'm not saying you're not if you're doing it because my sister works and her husband works.

[Steven Crowder]

I get it.

[Gerald]

They both work. My mom and my dad worked for a very long time after we were in school. And after we were more out of the house, we went to public school. I totally understand that. I mean, I have a lot of compassion for that. You can't fix this if you don't prioritize from a very early position. Prioritize family. So make all of your life decisions based on wanting to have a family and being able to stay home if you can. And there are situations where maybe you can't. That's the thing. And I agree, Josh. I'm just saying, like I will say,

[Guest Commentator 2]

both my parents and my wife's parents are divorced.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh.

[Guest Commentator 2]

So they got divorced. You know, different times.

[Steven Crowder]

But yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

But that.

[Steven Crowder]

They are.

[Guest Commentator 2]

They are all single. Yeah. Except my dad. They're all single.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

So that makes sense.

[Guest Commentator 2]

So, yeah, they have to provide for themselves. And that doesn't make it more difficult. And situations are, you know, whatever. It doesn't. That's not important.

[Steven Crowder]

But it's. Think about. Anytime you sit, you have a board meeting, you have a company retreat, or probably something in the military, Right. You go, okay, what are the priorities? Usually chart. Or you have a triangle. Or maybe you have primary objectives and you have secondary objectives. Right. You start off with what is most important. Okay. You're starting a family. What is most important. People going, how to support it financially. Most important should be the family. You want to be a family. You want to remain a family, you want to prioritize. Family time in a relationship is most important. And everything else supports that. Instead, we go, okay, well, this is my life. How do I fit family into it?

[Gerald]

Right.

[Steven Crowder]

And then wonder why it doesn't work. Because it. It does require work, but it's also incredibly rewarding. It'll always be more rewarding than anything else you do, by the way. Literally more rewarding for the vast majority of people than being a billionaire.

[Guest Commentator 2]

It wouldn't be rewarding if it was no work.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Guest Commentator 2]

You were just sitting around all day, you know, trust fund baby or whatever.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Don't have to do anything all day. I mean, you get bored.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yep.

[Guest Commentator 2]

You gotta. You gotta do something.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. And if you have a. You have a family, even if you're. Even if you're poor, you're gonna be happier, healthier, and have longer relationships that are more meaningful. Those are the stats. Go check the references. And speaking of being healthier. Hey, the only other company they've ever created, Foundation. It's a daily multivitamin with clinically effective ingredients. At the clinically effective doses, everything on the label is transparent. Lab tested where what's on the label is exactly what you get. You can go read the clinical data on the website. I've been taking these things for a very long time. Most supplements are complete and total crap. We have a bunch of people who come to us and say, hey, will you run an ad for this? The answer is no, because it's complete and total crap. What's in here? You actually have to probably take all these. It's got multivitamin, vitamin D, vitamin K2, magnesium curcumin, which is an anti inflammatory, and garlic for heart health. And. And it's all proven and affordable. You can actually subscribe [e-mail] and get 40% off for life. It's the only other company I've created and I don't need to sell you a bunch of other random supplements. If you have a perfect diet, you don't need it.

[Gerald]

Don't be gay.

[Steven Crowder]

It helps. All right, next one here. Now you know that I don't know a whole lot about basketball.

[Gerald]

It's okay.

[Steven Crowder]

So I wasn't super familiar.

[Gerald]

Well, I play street hockey on basketball courts. So there's your connection. Mighty Ducks. You're to going good.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, that's right. Okay. Because we all know that black kids in South Central are playing street hockey.

[Gerald]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Revolutionizing hockey.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, that's true. With the knuckle.

[Guest Commentator 2]

The knuckle puck.

[Steven Crowder]

They revolutionized it the way that North Koreans revolutionized combat training.

[Gerald]

Do you have one of those hockey pucks that had the wheels on it because you don't have any snow or ice?

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah, it's called street. It's called street puck.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. We didn't really use it on the street though, so much because you kind of need to use it on a more even surface. Smooth. No, we had the orange balls. We had the sterilizer noodles knows what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah.

[Gerald]

You in the balls.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. I took out a bank window with one of those.

[Gerald]

Dang.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I took out a basement apartment

[Gerald]

window with one of those.

[Steven Crowder]

I remember shaking. Going to. My grandfather was the land. He was the super, and he was the one who had to inform M. Simal, who was a drunk. Oh, he would come out, wax his car, and just drunkenly yell at kids.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Oh, you didn't have to admit to anything. That guy, he's clueless. He might have thought he did that.

[Gerald]

Yeah, this.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah. I remember one time he was so drunk, my dad, he's like. He's like. Yeah. I was taking my lunch. Oh, yeah, What'd you have? Hamburger. So we quoted that for A decade hamburger. He was such a drunk. I remember as a kid being like, no one's gonna. This is a drunken old man yelling at kids. He one time he took my hockey stick off the ground and he chased me with it. I'm like, this is scary.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I love the idea of your dad watching and just laughing. You'll never get it.

[Steven Crowder]

You know, he's drunk. So I've told you this. A lot of people who think like, hey, the woke left, the progressive left, it's. It's conquered, and so everything's the same now, and let's burn it all down. It's not dead. It's really just kind of in a zombified state. It's like the movie Flatliners. It's gonna come back, and it'll come back with a vengeance if you don't stay on top of it. So right now we see more proof positive of this. And you kind of have to look to these sort of microcosms if you want to speak up. For example, in the NBA, where it seemingly would make sense you're just going to get banned.

[Guest Commentator 1]

If you want to speak up, you getting banned now. You got a worldview other than woke and you getting banned. We demand you do our dance.

[Steven Crowder]

All right. Another childhood classic ruined. All right, so the Chicago Bulls, this happened yesterday. They fired, released their combo guard, Jaden Ivey for it. Now, here's what's important. I know people out there. You're going to start changing the dialogue and say, well, he wasn't that good, or he had other issues. Yeah, but this is why they released him. According to their own words. This is the reason listed. So we need to address that. They said that it was, quote, conduct detrimental to the team. Detrimental to the team. I don't know what you're thinking, like, ah, he beat the hell out of his girlfriend in an elevator or, like, tried to stab his baby mama with a butter dish.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Whatever it is, he won't pass to his teammates.

[Steven Crowder]

Right?

[Guest Commentator 2]

So he's constantly fouling people.

[Steven Crowder]

No, it was an opinion that he expressed. And here is the vile rant slash opinion in question.

[Jaden Ivey]

The world can proclaim LGBTQ

[Steven Crowder]

canceled, right?

[Jaden Ivey]

They have. They have. They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA, they proclaim it. They. They show it to the world. They say, come, come, come join us for Pride. For Pride Month. To celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness how is it one that. How are they to say that you, man, this man is crazy.

[Steven Crowder]

Now, you may disagree with his opinion, fine. But let me ask you, is that egregious or hateful enough that warrants him being released?

[Gerald]

Right?

[Steven Crowder]

I said, not exactly. And that's how you know it's coming from the top down. It's not coming from the fans. It's not coming from the viewers. Really, this guy has to go. So according to some inside sources, comes from espn, they said he said this is a long time coming because Ivey was outspoken about his religious beliefs in Detroit. But his intensity ratcheted up during his tenure in Chicago, which agitated some team staff members who described him as preachy around the locker room. His social media rants often lasted nearly an hour and ventured into a variety of topics, including depression, about how he also used to be wicked and how he's been redeemed and a Christian. And of course, he discussed abortion. And in this case, the. The straw that broke the camel's back is he's against Pride Month, which this is how, you know, the left will never stop pushing. If you were to just, in the 90s, the 80s, go speak with the MVPs, the All Stars of the NBA, and say, yeah, people are going to be fired for not celebrating a homosexual month. Yeah, like a what?

[Guest Commentator 2]

But how is his jump shot?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, you also, I guarantee you didn't want to hear their opinions on lgbtqaip very much like you don't want to hear the opinions of almost any black man in America. But we just ignore that. Kind of like the left ignores Islam itself, because when opinions are inconvenient in a marginalized class, you just sort of skim over it. So the coach for the Bulls, Billy Donovan, again, this is the reason they said that he was let go. He tried to. To kind of sidestep it, but here you go. Here's him addressing it.

[Billy Donovan]

Everybody in that building, it's always been. I think it's been from the top. Like, we're all going to work well together. You know, we're all going to basically take care of each other. We're going to accept each other. I think we're going to be hard working. We're going to be accountable and we're going to be respectful and we're going to be professional. I know some of the things that we put out there. You know, I think it's a situation for him where, you know, it's on his own personal Instagram. I don't want to get into what he put out there. But certainly I hope for him, you know, he's okay. I don't know, you know, like, I've had conversations with Jaden and stuff and he's been always about rehab his knee

[Steven Crowder]

and trying to get rid of what

[Billy Donovan]

we want to play. But I think organization leads to certain standards. I think we want to have, have as an organization try to live up to those each and every day.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Ah.

[Doge Walker]

Ooh.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Live up to it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Gerald]

Non answer.

[Steven Crowder]

Certain standards. Yeah. Standards that didn't result in someone's Release. Jackson Hayes, 2021, arrested, pleaded no contest for domestic violence. Short suspension, no punishment from the NVA. 2022, Kyrie Irving, suspended eight games for anti Semitic film that he promoted Hebrews to Negroes, which sounds bad coming out of my mouth. 2022 Miles Bridges, served only 10 of a 30 game suspension again for domestic violence. I think you're noticing a trend. 2023, Ja Morant, who was suspended after flashing his guns like a couple of times on Instagram Live.

[Gerald]

Multiple times.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Multiple times. He loved it. Again.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And here's how you also, I'm going to run some other clips here. You just saw the coach and Emmanuel Acho also came out and commented on this. This is not coming from the viewers. No, I get it. Look, I think it's silly, but I get that at the DNC they have to cater to the lowest common denominator. Right. Because Doge Walker might stroll through the doors. So they have to act as though they care. But this is not coming from the NBA viewers, just like it wasn't coming from the NFL viewers when you had the Neil during the national anthem. Yeah. The viewership of the NBA, it's 60% male. Males in this country support Republicans by a very, very, very wide margin. To be clear, 26% of the viewers are black. That's more than the general population. Two thirds of black Americans believe that homosexuality is always wrong. And what's funny is I know that's an older stat because I couldn't find a newer one, but it remained pretty much unchanged over the course of two, three decades. You can check out that reference. So this idea that what he's saying is such an affront to the viewers, the people who buy tickets, the people who tune in. No, this is how you know it's social engineering. For more proof. You can even look at the NHL, by the way, for Pride Month for the named Nashville Predators. It's like no one had a meeting at one point, said, this probably isn't going to go well. A, because our name is Predators. B, because it's Tennessee.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yes, we're the gay predators.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, we're very proud of it. Did you see their logo? They just took the Predator and they just put a pair of pedophile glasses on it. Oh, that's all it was.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

And a weird mustache. Pretty close, at least. So there's a difference between. Yeah, I know there's a difference between. People say, oh, you know, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. But if you are an athlete or you are an entertainer and people are choosing to buy a ticket or people are choosing to watch you, they should be the ones determining, barring criminal, actual criminal behavior, if your words or your opinions are impermissible, that is not what is happening anywhere. The left achieves institutional power. Free speech dies. It's not a bug, it's a feature. You look at academia, you look at the entertainment industry, you look at media, the problem is those same entertainment industry and media types are the ones often pushing the pencils with these athletic organizations. They are not representative of the people who are tuning in on a Sunday. So I say that to keep in mind as you watch all these other commentators, you just saw the coach and go, oh, these people. There's actually a huge disconnect with them. And the people who want to watch basketball bring in Acho taking issue with the comments and gross. I don't want to say misinterpretations. He just says a bunch of stuff that's not. It's irrelevant or not in the there.

[Biblical Commentator]

Now, let me talk about the biblical aspect of it, because Jaden Ivey also has to understand that not everything that's legal is going to be biblical. Render to Caesar what is Caesar's. Also have to understand. You have to be wise, discerning and tactful as to how you speak and when you speak and who you speak to.

[Steven Crowder]

What's the Bible say about sodomy?

[Biblical Commentator]

Paul and Corinthians. Paul wrote what he wrote to the church in Corinth. He didn't necessarily write what he wrote to the church in Ephesus or the church in Galatia in the same manner. Jaden Ivy, you got to use discernment of when you speak and who you're speaking to. If your job and your goal is to emulate Jesus. Also understand when Jesus saw the woman who had committed adultery, he said, go and sin no more. He didn't then try to extrapolate every single sin and every single man she has slept with adulterously.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it's Covered under the umbrella. Don't do any of that.

[Gerald]

One, actually, he did, though, understand there's

[Biblical Commentator]

a difference between legal and biblical. Two, Jaden Ivy, make sure you tend to your mental and emotional health if indeed there is anything going on, because you have been very vulnerable about your struggles previously. And then three, render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and render to God what's God's. That's biblical. If you want to talk biblically, I

[Steven Crowder]

want to go to Joe. But they pivot to mental health. Like, well, look, this person may be mentally ill. Won't do that for a tranny, by the way, who shows up with a titty job. But a guy who says this is unrighteous. And where could he get that from? I don't know. Watch any gay pride parade anywhere. Watch any pride month. Watch when they bring out drag queens to perform the national anthem. Like, where could he possibly get that? This is a little bit degenerate.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Yeah. And they have the, they won't, they won't say anything to a trans person.

[Guest Commentator 1]

No.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Doing the same exact thing. And they had similar backgrounds.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Guest Commentator 2]

To a lot of, you know, self proclaiming. I don't know if you know, but he, he admitted that he had mentioned he'd been sexually abused as a child.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Guest Commentator 2]

Not by a woman. And he had gone through some other things.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Yeah. He's had a.

[Steven Crowder]

So he gets released. And the actual, the ones who celebrate degeneracy, they get a parade. Yeah.

[Gerald]

It's not about. So listen really quickly just to sum this up. Emmanuel, you made a really good point before in that clip. And we cut it for time because we don't have enough time to do it. But he said, your talent makes room for you. You should have shut up after that because the rest of what you said is absolute garbage. Because the husband thing with the woman at the well, she goes, where's your husband? I don't have a husband right now. Jesus said, said, you're right. You had five husbands and the guy you're sleeping with right now isn't your husband. So it looks like he brought up all of her indiscretions in the past to say, don't do this anymore. He called her out on all of her sins. So you're factually incorrect there. And to say that the letter to the Corinthians written by Paul does not apply to the other churches means that Timothy needs to have a word with you because he said, all scripture is God breathed and useful for reproof and correction and goes on and on.

[Steven Crowder]

And on.

[Gerald]

That is completely anti Biblical to say, oh, well, that was just for the Corinthians, man. That doesn't apply to any of the other churches, much less us today. You cannot believe in the Bible being applicable to anybody. Under those circumstances, you can just make up your own rules. Then I guess Jesus didn't say it to me. He said it to Paul or, sorry he didn't dream. He said it to Mark, Matthew, anybody else. It's not to me. That's the worst. He's a pastor's kid.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

I wonder what kind of pastor father he had.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, the real lesson there is that when people get offended, Jesus asked about the lady's body count. He did. He really did.

[Gerald]

Like, hey, how many?

[Steven Crowder]

That's right. Yeah. You not only don't have one, it's a five.

[Gerald]

It's five.

[Steven Crowder]

Which in Jesus time, my time, is quite a few.

[Gerald]

He called her out.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gerald]

So anyway, I'm sorry, that's just. Just on the. If y' all want to talk about biblical stuff, we can get into biblical stuff. That's what he said.

[Steven Crowder]

His religion is leftism. His religion is liberalism. And here's the thing.

[Gerald]

Keep a job.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, well, here's what it is, too.

[Guest Commentator 2]

He lost his last job for banging a coworker.

[Guest Commentator 1]

Ah, okay.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, you know, but at least there was the exception. Acceptance. It really comes down to this when you go, oh, wait a second. Why celebrate the trans thing? Wait, wait a second. Why jail people, for example, in Canada for speaking out against Islam? Really comes down to the only thing that is tolerable from the left, their religion, their idol, is acceptance. That's all it is. It's acceptance versus sound judgment. It's acceptance versus correction. As long as you accept, you're in line with dogma. If you have any convictions whatsoever and you correct, that's what's impermissible. And they'll do this. They'll apply it across the board. Can't correct women. You don't have a. You don't have a vagina. It's none of your business. Unless you're a trans. And of course, you know women. Men can get periods, too. You can't correct lgbtq, aip. Well, you don't know what it's like. You're not allowed to. To. You can't correct Black Lives Matter. Hold on a second. That's actually not correct. Sit down, shut up. All right, then I guess I'll just have to. Silence is violence. It's a religion where the virtue to trump all other virtues is acceptance. That's why this country and the Western world has accepted the absurd. We've accepted the unacceptable. No one is talking about throwing people with a lisp off a rooftop like all of these countries that you say, by the way, are beautiful and peaceful and have their own culture. You know Iran, you know Afghanistan. We're just talking about. Well, hold on a second. People have moral convictions and don't believe that this is in line with their Christian faith. And by the way, wouldn't be in line with even secular worldviews for a very long time because we understood that rampant promiscuity or sexual degeneracy may not be ideal for your soul. Acceptance is the only acceptable, ironically, outcome for the left. Any type of judgment, any type of criticism. How do you know they say so? Tolerance. It means acceptance. Tolerance doesn't mean, okay, you live and I live. It means you will be forced to care. You will bake the gay wedding cake. You will support the transition of children versus criticism or don't judge me. How do you run a society that way? The answer is you can't. You don't. That's why you have places like Canada and Europe or the dnc. It's silly. It's a circus. It's a freak show. Because acceptance, above all else, cannot work. You have to have judgment. Acceptance has to be married with discernment. You accept the good, you correct the bad. They only accept one half of that. That's the only way that man can reconcile his words with his so called faith. And by the way, we'll get to Canada in a second where they're basically, it's a roundabout way to render Christianity illegal. Which will be met with thunderous applause from the Anglican Church in Canada. So Ivey himself, before we get to that, finally did respond.

[Jaden Ivey]

They said my conduct is detrimental to the team. Right. Why didn't they just say we, we don't agree with his stance on lgbtq? Why didn't they say that? But how, how is it, how is it conduct detrimental to, to the team? What did I do to the team? What did I do to the players? I did nothing. But, but, but practice with them, play with them, pass the ball to them, good teammate to them, said, good job, good shot. I said, I said good job, good job, good pass. Way to play, bro. Right. I said these things to my teammates, was never detrimental to them. So why is it that the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I'm detrimental to the team? How? Because I believe in the truth. Because I know Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

[Steven Crowder]

You know what? Maybe this guy does have some other issues. Hey, lots of people do. It's professional sports.

[Gerald]

Why wouldn't they say that?

[Steven Crowder]

Just. You know what? Just chalk it up to being his true truth. Live and let live, Right? Even if you don't accept it as the truth, just say it's his truth.

[Gerald]

You gotta apply the rules evenly. And I know we need to move on, but if Steve Kerr can go out there and go on tirades like he does and talk politically like he does, then somebody on the right should be able to say, why are we, like, doing this? This unrighteousness, this is. Why are we doing a month of this? I don't get it.

[Guest Commentator 2]

I mean, Emmanuel Acho, he's one of these guys that he's been a Colin Kaepernick simp in the past, right? And it's like, well, you can't. You can't be outraged that Colin Kaepernick can't get a job in the NFL while simultaneously being like, yeah, well, that's

[Steven Crowder]

what you get, right?

[Guest Commentator 2]

When it's something that, you know, you don't. You don't agree with.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And one is opinion, which, by the way, is in line with the Christian faith and has been for a very long time, as you see with this man. And the other was literally misinformation from Colin Kaepernick about the history of slavery, about mistreatment of black athletes.

[Gerald]

The NFL saw a huge downturn with all of the protests that were happening, like we mentioned.

[Steven Crowder]

They'll keep forcing it through, forcing it through, forcing it through until you accept it. And where does that lead? Well, we'll get to Canada and Bill C9, which, by the way, removes the religious exemption for hate speech, meaning quoting Bible passages. But if you are not a member yet a member, hey, click that button right there below. It's what keeps this going, the undercover journalism. You know, everything that we do when we do our big streams election night, when we go on location, even the debates that you're going to see April 10th at UPenn, the change my Mind professor edition, none of it happens without your support. $99 a year, you get 100% more show the Friday show and everything ad free, including these other creators you see here. If not, try it for $9 a month or let us earn your viewership tomorrow. Otherwise you'll just go on. You don't need to touch any button or turn any dial if you still have dials. I don't know how you'd have a dial on your computer, but, you know, maybe a volume button. I don't know. You're gonna go on to watch the lovely Hayley Caronia. Let's get to Canada. Banning people. I hate it because there was clickbait saying, canada banned the Bible. No, that's not necessarily true, but it kinda is. Their House of Commons just passed Bill C9, which means it still has to go through another part of the process. Seems like it'll pass. Which basically removes the religious exemption for hate speech. So it used to be hate speech, but it was like, yeah, but if you're actually reading a passage from the Bible, you can't be jailed. Well, that's changed now. Canada's House of Commons has passed the Combating Hate act, also known as Bill C9.

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