WTF: Donald Trump Wants More Chinese Students & More Chinese Farms?

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Podcast Summary: Louder with Crowder

Episode: WTF: Donald Trump Wants More Chinese Students & More Chinese Farms?
Date: May 18, 2026
Host: Steven Crowder
Main Theme:
An unfiltered critique of recent Trump rhetoric and policy regarding China—especially student visas and farmland ownership—while exploring cultural and demographic shifts in the US, liberal critiques of capitalism, climate change alarmism, and the societal push for 'dink' (dual income, no kids) lifestyles.

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Episode Overview

Steven Crowder opens with a flagrant condemnation of President Trump’s apparent policy shift towards China—voicing alarm at discussions allowing more Chinese students, continued Chinese farmland purchases, and a perceived softening on trade deals. Alongside satirical banter and sketches, the team critiques modern anti-family messaging, influencer hypocrisy about capitalism, and the track record of climate change alarmism. Underlying it all is a populist, pro-family, and America-first tone buttressed by irreverent humor and relentless skepticism of big institutions.

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1. Trump’s China Shift: Farmland, Students, and Trade

Timestamps: [01:31], [39:05], [43:38], [49:27]

• Chinese-Owned Farmland

  • Crowder highlights China’s ownership of roughly 380,000 acres of US farmland—contrasting this with Americans owning “zero acres” in China.
  • Quotes President Trump (paraphrasing Sean Hannity interview) appearing unconcerned about Chinese agricultural land purchases, prioritizing market stability over national security:
    • “If you took [Chinese ownership] out of the market… farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money... They’ve had a lot of land for a long time.” (Trump via Crowder, [39:12])
  • Crowder and his team voice that this is a dangerous, America-last policy, especially near military installations:
    • “Why do we let them have any? ...None of this makes sense. None of this is good for you, the American worker.” ([41:00])

• Chinese Students in US Universities

  • Trump suggested bringing in more Chinese students is “good” and that universities would “die all over the place” without them ([43:38]):
    • “If you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it… I think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture and many want to stay here. Not everybody agrees with me.” (Trump, [44:23])
  • Crowder counters that all Chinese students are vetted and loyal to the Communist Party, with most returning home (or, if they stay, are security risks):
    • “Every single Chinese student in the United States is approved by the Communist Party... huge problems with those people acting as spies.” ([45:33])
  • The team notes the lopsidedness: 275,000 Chinese students in the US vs. fewer than 1,000 Americans in China—dismissing Trump’s “half a million” figure as exaggerated and his position as baffling for an “America First” candidate.

• Trade Promises

  • Discusses China’s repeated failure to uphold trade agreements (e.g., purchasing only 58% of farm exports promised during 2020–2021 deals):
    • “The Chinese... primary goal is to subvert American culture... this is all concerning.” ([49:27])

Memorable Quote:

• Crowder: “What do you get by us allowing Chinese to purchase farmland? ...to come here as students? ...Can anyone answer that to me?” ([60:45])

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2. The Hypocrisy of Anti-Capitalist Celebrity Rants

Timestamps: [11:39] – [19:49]

• Crowder lambastes Poppy Liu and cast of “I Love Boosters” for decrying capitalism while participating in its most lavish, self-serving rituals (red-carpet events, designer clothes).
  • “It’s really a hard pill to swallow when it comes from a lady... from a communist country…” ([11:42])
• Satirizes their arguments about “greed” and “late-stage capitalism,” highlighting public ignorance of capitalism’s objective success in lifting billions from poverty.
• Points out ironies:
  • “They’re not selling you bananas or government cheese. They’re selling you shitty likely AI-written content...” ([15:07])
  • On the supposed “Robin Hood” storyline of the film—actually just reselling stolen expensive clothes:
    • “They’re not Robin Hood of the fashion world... They’re still making money by cutting prices… kind of like a capitalist.” (Stephen, [18:59])
• Concludes: These complaints almost always come from people in “unnecessary professions” propped up by the very system they denounce, not those who actually create or fix essential things.

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3. DINK (Dual Income, No Kids) Lifestyle—A Cultural Push

Timestamps: [27:04], [32:59], [33:49]

• Crowder dissects the viral celebration of “dink” couples who travel instead of having children—tracing the trend back to paid corporate promotion from travel book companies.
  • “The travel book company seems to be sending out these [anti-family] templates… paying young, usually white women to promote the books as an alternative to having children...” ([28:05])
• Argues this narrative (along with older “feminist” pushes for women leaving the home) has backfired, decreasing happiness and mental health for women despite higher economic status.
  • “You’re using one of those incomes to pay someone else to raise your kids… as fertility and birth rates have gone down, so has happiness specifically for women.” ([30:12])
• Statistical evidence cited:
  • Married women with kids are “twice as happy” as unmarried, childless women.
  • Marriage and children lead to better life outcomes across health, wealth, and happiness.
• The core point:
  • “You actually have more choice if you have a family... you have less choice if you don’t.” ([34:59])
• Listeners’ questions further probe this topic, with the hosts urging balanced advice—not everyone must have children, but societal messaging “against” it is damaging.

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4. Climate Change Alarmism: Wrong Predictions, Harmful Policies

Timestamps: [63:36] – [87:28]

• Crowder explores Trump’s recent Truth Social post about the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) quietly admitting their worst-case emissions scenarios (RCP 8.5) were vastly exaggerated.
  • Quotes:
    • “For far too long, climate change activism has been used by Democrats to scare Americans, push horrible energy policies, and fund billions into their bogus research programs...” (Trump, [67:39])
• The team walks through how these failed predictions drove disastrous policy:
  • Overinvestment in solar/wind subsidies and EVs.
  • Skyrocketing energy costs and grid instability (e.g., Germany's "energy brownouts” after abandoning nuclear).
  • Lethal consequences in developing nations denied affordable energy.
  • Misplaced bans (e.g., controlled burns, damming) compounding wildfire disasters.
• Notable, comedic moments include displays of faulty on-screen graphics and ongoing jokes about arrow directions ([71:16]–[73:56]).
• Crowder’s core point:
  • Failed predictions should not be the basis for sweeping economic and societal transformations.
  • “These were the scenarios that determined policy... And thank God... you would be living in a very, very, very different world now.” ([67:41])

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5. Societal Malaise: Declining Birth Rates, Family Deterioration, and Gender Confusion

Timestamps: [21:50], [121:09]

• The hosts trace much of US societal decline to a retreat from traditional family values—replacing parenthood, discipline, and interdependency with perpetual adolescence, therapy culture, and systemic distrust between the sexes.
  • “We have gone the opposite direction that we did for a long time, based on outliers and caricatures that were never true.” ([121:09])
• Critique of modern gender ideologies:
  • Accusations that media/film generalizations about men are false and damaging; those about women, though labeled “offensive,” are more rooted in reality.
• Calls for:
  • Men to be raised as protectors; women as nurturing, feminine partners.
  • A move back to “old ways” in parenting and family formation.

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6. Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

On Trump’s Shift on Chinese Policy

• Crowder: “America First means—what do you get? What do you get by us allowing Chinese to purchase farmland?...to come here as students?” ([60:45])

On Anti-Capitalist Celebrities

• Crowder: “The communist overlords would kill her first. They would kill her first and her castmates in the film.” ([13:10])
• Stephen: “You also don’t see red carpet interviews in communist China.” ([16:33])

On the DINK Lifestyle

• Crowder: “Women were happier under this extreme [nuclear family model]. There is a split the difference. But the left doesn’t want to split the difference. They want you to be an only fans model or a boss babe, go travel...” ([32:59])

On Climate Change

• Crowder (sarcastic, after demonstrating UN climate revision): “Maybe it was okay for you to have a similar, safer car for your family. Maybe we didn’t need to subsidize all of these electrical vehicles that don’t actually work for most people...” ([73:19])

On Societal Decline

• Crowder: “We have to choose the starting point. ...let’s go back closer to where we were. Sometimes the old ways were the right ways. When the new ways suck and then correct it from there.” ([121:09])

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7. Listener Q&A—Advice and Quick Hits

Timestamps: [96:15] onward

• On convincing a “DINK” sibling who wants a hysterectomy:
  • “Don’t do it. You could change your mind in three years, you’re 27 years old. You think you know everything…you have no idea what you’re going to value in a couple of years.” (Gerald, [100:31])
• On travel vs. family:
  • Crowder: Explore America first, cautions prioritizing travel above family.
  • Stephen: “The best thing about traveling... is seeing people living shittier than me... The greatest thing about traveling outside the country, though, is you get something you can't get in the United States, and that’s history.” ([103:38])
• On economic pessimism as a reason not to have kids:
  • “All that's been worse in the past. Worse in the past. ...Medical complications, those things were way worse in the past... That doesn’t make any sense at all.” (Gerald, [120:07])
  • “If you look, not everyone should be parents. I get it. But far more should be than are.” (Crowder, [118:10])

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8. Final Thoughts

Crowder and crew close by reiterating their central thesis:
America's prosperity and stability rely on strong, traditional families, skepticism towards adversarial foreign influence, and a return to personal responsibility over government or corporate intervention. They urge listeners not to be swept up by anti-family, anti-capitalist, or climate-hysteria narratives backed by elite interests profiting from social change.

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For those who missed the episode:

This summary captures the central positions, colorful banter, and controversial opinions—along with direct quotes and timestamps—for a full, critical, and irreverent look at the latest in politics, culture, and societal messaging according to Louder with Crowder.

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All sources and data points referenced can be found in the episode description (as per Crowder, "links in the description, bibliography every show" [16:45]).
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Transcript

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[Steven Crowder]

Welcome to the lineup live. It's Monday here on Rumble. You don't need to change that channel, change that dial. Each show rolls into the next. It's a collection or I guess collective of like minded individuals who, you know, just want to give you as much free content as possible in one spot because the Internet is a giant information wasteland, often with adult content that's wildly inappropriate for minors. So you know, but I'm sure if you're on the Internet, you already know of that. You probably have another tab open right now. Going to talk today about President Trump's meeting with China. It's bad. There's no good Trump. Bad Trump. This is just pretty much bad Trump as far as the rhetoric. We'll see what the policy is, but not a big fan of it right now. We'll get into why the delusion of danks. Remember Danks? Dual income, no kids. Well, they're pushing it more now where you shouldn't have children and you should travel more. And it turns out it's actually being pushed by some publishers who actually, believe it or not, they want you to buy travel books. So isn't that fun? Also the climate change fear mongering. Well, the ones that determined policy right internationally. Turns out they were wrong. What they're saying we weren't really wrong. We were just being careful. And lots of people have died as a result. And of course our lives are worse off. So we'll talk about that and more. Let me ask this most crazy climate change claim that you've heard. Yeah. I'm not going to do this global warming. I'm going back to. I'm using the words that they used back then because it doesn't work anymore. But it works for me. It's global warming to me. Tell me the most nuts one you've heard on with the show. Guffeys.

[Stephen]

Guffies. And they're kind of like flat like dead dead. Like instead of.

[Steven Crowder]

No, that sounds. That sounds like a deaf person.

[Stephen]

Dead Guffeys.

[Gerald]

Sorry to interrupt, man, but yeah, Sam from HR needs to see you guys.

[Stephen]

For what?

[Gerald]

You just gotta.

[Steven Crowder]

I don't know.

[Gerald]

It sounds serious. It's Sam from hr. Just go.

[Steven Crowder]

Just. Well, I don't think. I doubt it. That dober can eat me. Joe. No, no, keep the.

[Gerald]

Let's go.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, gentlemen, take a seat. Steven, I said take a seat. I know your name's on the show in the front of the building, but you can at least take a seat, right? Take a. Oh, for sake.

[Gerald]

Ok.

[Steven Crowder]

Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you for joining me this afternoon. Reason you're here is I've been getting a ton of complaints. What's all this about, Ben?

[Stephen]

Yeah, what's all this then, Sammy boy?

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, that's cockney. It's a good region.

[Stephen]

It's Sam's favorite kind of knee fizz bump.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, that reminds me. If you should do a sketch called Schindler's Fizz. Guys, that's not appropriate. Get it? Yes, I get it. But the reason you're here isn't because of your inappropriate nonsense. All right, what are we on about, boyo? It's Irish. The accents, they need to stop.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Steven Crowder]

Why? No, no, no, no. Why are you. Why are you so mad, Samuel? Oh, you're so mad. Don't pay, madman. You have all the money. All the money in the whole world. Jew money. All money in the whole run whole bank. Guys, I'm a so mad. Separate. Apart from what you're doing right there. The accents, they need to stop. Come on, mate. We're just having a little fun.

[Stephen]

You know what? Just sound like one of the. You sound like one of those aborigines.

[Steven Crowder]

What? That's not an Australian accent.

[Stephen]

Oh, really?

[Steven Crowder]

This is an Australian accent. And that's a knife. For the love of God, Stephen, don't wave that around at everyone.

[Stephen]

That's what she said. I get it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. I get it. I get it. Calm down, Essay. Look, we're just joking around, bro. Yeah, Jeff Yarmock is on today. It's not too tight, bro. Okay, this needs to stop. We've been getting complaints from legal and I've been on the phone with enough. Samuel. Silence. Listen to me, Samuel Einstein. Mein Fuhrer. Do you know how. Meinfuhrer. Oh my God. Steven. Alright, let's go. Garp.

[Stephen]

Ideas.

[Steven Crowder]

Sam, that's not even the right way. He said that's how I say it. Bishop, the timer. Hey, relax, essay. Hey, holmes. Hey. Just relax. That's me. 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.

[Stephen]

Yep.

[Steven Crowder]

And there's more to come because unfortunately we've had to spend quite a bit of time in HR lately. A little bit, yeah. Yeah. I don't know why we did that. Someone said you should have idea.

[Stephen]

It's the lawyers.

[Steven Crowder]

What was I thinking?

[Stephen]

It's liability stuff.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, that's exactly right. Also, you're not supposed to light firecrackers in the office. I don't know, it's just everything's a thing now. Thanks. Thanks, AI. Captain Morgan, CEO. How are you?

[Gerald]

I'm fantastic. How are you?

[Steven Crowder]

Good. I just blame everything on AI. And I blame you bringing up that all the time. And that's the cause of all my ills.

[Gerald]

I do it for you.

[Steven Crowder]

I also watched the movie Send Help this weekend.

[Gerald]

Why?

[Steven Crowder]

Don't watch it. Just don't watch it. That's it.

[Gerald]

We make you angry enough.

[Steven Crowder]

You don't. Rachel McAdams is funny. There's fun. But just. Just don't watch it. I could. We'll talk about it in Rumble Premium Mug club.

[Gerald]

It's. We will.

[Steven Crowder]

And in combination with the fights and Netflix and you know, there's too much of this women going. I bet you couldn't. You know what? You get in the ring. I would. It wouldn't be close. It would be about. It would be. Any man here against Ronda Rousey would be the exact same as her against Gina Carano. It would be that quickly. You could take a 16 year old boy. Just stop, stop, stop. This Thursday, May 22nd at Hyenas Comedy Club in Dallas, Texas. Dallas, Texas. Not firestyle.

[Stephen]

Dallas, Texas. 21st. Yeah, May 21st. You said 22nd. You did that again.

[Steven Crowder]

You did that.

[Gerald]

I thought he said the 21st. You sure, Josh?

[Steven Crowder]

I'm pretty sure the 21st.

[Stephen]

I. I heard what I heard, but yes, hyenas.com is a website. They have tickets, I think.

[Steven Crowder]

But it's hyenas.com? yes, you said hyenas.net. you did.

[Stephen]

Did I?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Well, try both.

[Steven Crowder]

Co. Yeah, that's right. Co.uk.

[Stephen]

you know what?

[Steven Crowder]

Download the app like they make you do everywhere now. It's like, hey, I just want to pay for the thing. Well, download the app and you can get the points. Like, well, I don't want the points, but you can get them. You're not going to let me pay without the app, are you? No, we're not. It's not. You can get the points. You must use the app. Just say that so you know I know where to walk in. Shooting. Figuratively.

[Gerald]

You can't shoot apps. It's not possible.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. What about bankers? There's not actually an app store. What about bankers that you go to?

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Stephen]

You can shoot bankers.

[Steven Crowder]

You can shoot bankers.

[Stephen]

You're not supposed to, though. It's not legal.

[Steven Crowder]

It's frowned upon. It's frowned upon. It's not a hard and fast.

[Stephen]

Well, AI is going to take that job soon, so.

[Gerald]

Yeah, speaking of legal. Gosh, I'm going to be taking phone calls.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, you are. All right, speaking of legal, this person has quite a bit to deal with. Here's a trucker in Virginia and escaped. I don't know how to describe this. Okay, you know how septic tanks are really gross? I want you to think of what's in a septic tank. All right, now watch this. Truck accident. That's the septic tank.

[Stephen]

Oh, no. Oh, it's like green and brown. Oh, girl, look at it. Ah, it's aerosolized.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my God. What the. Do you think he said that? As the smell hit him, do you think it happened?

[Gerald]

Was it.

[Stephen]

Was it shock from the accident or is it the same smell? Yeah, I think it's a smell.

[Steven Crowder]

My gosh. By the way, don't worry. The driver of the truck has been listed in stable condition, race unknown, and they called in the experts to clean it up.

[Stephen]

They did it for free.

[Steven Crowder]

We need a festival. They just saw it as a resource. They didn't even need to call them. They just showed.

[Stephen]

Oh, My God.

[Steven Crowder]

Beautiful. The implication is that most of India lives in human shit by choice. By choice.

[Stephen]

Not like. Not like, oh, I feel bad for them. Like, oh, that's weird that they do that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Achieve their goals.

[Noodles]

Not even conjecture.

[Steven Crowder]

I was on customer service this weekend. He was talking, and I said, just shoot me straight. Where are you from? He goes, india, sir. Okay. You understand the problem with that, correct? And he pauses. I said, look, this is my ninth time on the phone with you guys trying to get this to go through. You just don't want people who have families or have jobs. You can look at the call logs you have in front of you, right? It's several hours over the last 48 hours at eight different intervals. You do understand the problem. Imagine if you needed help and you couldn't reach anybody unless there was someone on the line from Canada who was gonna put you through an automated voice service. And he said, let me see if there's something I can do. And he actually did help. He did help. Yes. So the point is, a little bit of jingoism goes a long way.

[Stephen]

And that was just him ordering a pizza from Pizza Hut.

[Steven Crowder]

I know.

[Stephen]

Which is also a thing. They have a reservation line.

[Steven Crowder]

Would you like stuffed crust? What? I don't even know how you're aware of this.

[Gerald]

Yeah, there you go. And Tim's fired.

[Stephen]

But, sir, you could have avoided all

[Steven Crowder]

of this by downloading the app from the App Store. It is limited time for us to have stuffed crust. It's going to be a long time before we find another place for.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Geez,

[Gerald]

they'll find a place.

[Steven Crowder]

They'll find a place. One guess. All right, here's another one for you. So this actress, Poppy Liu. So she was born in communist China, to be clear. And I don't know if you guys know this, like, capitalism has become a dirty word. That's why I use the term free enterprise. But we can't allow people to simply paint a picture or to try and draft a narrative that's untrue. Right now, it's really, really popular to say capitalism is the cause of all your ills. And it's really a hard pill to swallow when it comes from a lady. I'm using that term loosely from a communist country. So when she was asked about what was annoying about capitalism, some would say a leading question, she gave this answer of word salad. And then it's echoed by all her castmates. Capitalism is a system of evil that is oppressing all of us in a hamster race in which the majority of people Cannot win. Currency is made up, credit is made up, debt is made up. Why do people have student debt? My rant is that capitalism is the greatest evil in the world. But like the people that are like, oh, but like, don't you enjoy the nice things? Yes, I do. And also I would be okay with it if it meant that more people in the world could live without oppression. Like, hello. Well, pirating movies it is.

[Stephen]

She'd be okay with what? What is she saying? She'd be okay with, I don't know, living in poverty.

[Steven Crowder]

And it's cliche. It doesn't mean it's wrong. People often say you're not racist cuz you have black friends. It may be cliche, right? Maybe, but it's a perfectly legitimate defense. An actual racist probably doesn't have a lot of friends from other racial groups or ethnic groups. In this case, it's cliche. But she's on a red carpet promoting a film. She's promoting a film that nobody needs. Nobody asks for. And nobody actually, in order to watch said content, needs to see a red carpet premiere. And she's wearing expensive fashion. Think about this for a second. Capitalism, right, what they're doing, it's not okay. Determination of the cost, raw materials, goods and services. It's some kind of piece of art that maybe people want or maybe people don't. And fashion is entirely, entirely based on building up a lifestyle brand to overcharge people in order to achieve some kind of social status. She, and this is the walking example, the epitome of what people loathe in capitalism. The communist overlords would kill her first. They would kill her first and her castmates in the film. And they look about exactly as you would expect. It's a film called I Love Boosters. They weighed in with their own equally stupid takes on capitalism. But I don't think all of them are from communist countries. So we have to listen. That's a long list. The only people that really benefit are the top.003% greed. It's very simple. It's just way too imbalanced. There's no way you need to have all that damn money and people out here or Shirley epilepsy. Figure out a way to make capitalism work for everyone. When you kind of need someone to be poor for someone to be rich. I don't know that you think that putting other people down is the only way that you can win. Okay, well, we're in late stage capitalism. So if you don't love it, it's almost over.

[Stephen]

The.

[Steven Crowder]

The Unfairness of the entire system. The idea that we can't all win together. I hate that that's what comes from this all, you know, because we can't.

[Stephen]

Why are we all grinding?

[Steven Crowder]

Why are we working so hard to make money for who? Who is this for? You? You. You're on the red carpet to make money for you.

[Stephen]

The movie's about stealing. I like that. The one lady said the top 0.003% because she had to do the out where she lied.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Noodles]

Scale.

[Stephen]

She's like, wait, I'm 004.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen]

The ones that are richer than me.

[Steven Crowder]

That's a safe bet. And they're not making this film in order to give all of the money, the profits back to the poor. They're making this film hoping that you middle class Americans, whether through subscription or whether through buying on demand, give them your money for an entirely unnecessary product. They're not selling you bananas or government cheese. They're selling you shitty likely AI written, generated content that they act in at scale while telling you that hey, why do we have to do this? You don't. You really don't just do. It's always the people in the most unnecessary professions bitching about capitalism. You know, you know, you don't see construction workers, you don't see people up there fixing the phone lines going like, I don't know, why do we need to do this? Who needs this? Everyone who needs, who needs this movie? I love boosters. That's a good point. Kill yourself.

[Gerald]

Yes.

[Stephen]

You also don't see, you don't see red carpet interviews in communist China. No, it's not like they're a tiny country that can't afford to support a movie industry. It's just that communism doesn't support a movie industry.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it doesn't support it the way that you guys think or want. And you know, we had to change Red dawn to be the Korean because they were the bigger threat than China. Now remember, when people talk about capitalism, free enterprise, and check the references links in the description, we do it every show bibliography. Hey, see, this is the beauty of capitalism. We can do this and get you this information without the government actually shutting us down. 11am is when we stream 56% of Americans gonna find themselves in the top 10% of earners in their lifetime. Over 73% gonna spend at least a year in the top 20%. And over the course of its history, capitalism free enterprise has lifted six and a half billion people out of extreme poverty. Wow. Communism obviously has lifted no one out of poverty. Objectively, no one has been lifted out of poverty from communism aside from people who are in the actual communist regimes. And it's killed, you know, hundreds of millions of people. If you add it all up, you'll say, oh, I know, capitalism kills people, sure. But it's not because of capitalism. Communism out of necessity, and socialism out of necessity, because you can only actually take people's earned resources by force. Requires the murder and subjugation of people, and it doesn't lift anybody out of poverty. It's not possible. The synopsis of the film is a group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price. What they call Fashion forward philanthropy.

[Gerald]

Oh, my God.

[Steven Crowder]

Did every one of you guys at the red carpet. Did every one of you shop at Goodwill? Huh? The people who are actually buying these expensive clothes. You, You. It's you. Fashion forward philanthropy. Stealing and selling. Kind of like, remember old homeless Hanks? Consumer centric cigarettes operation? It's like that. Only. Only homeless Hank. I know what I'm getting.

[Gerald]

Could you find. I thought, like, okay, before I read that synopsis, it's like, maybe they're stealing food, medicine, you know, like, things like that. And they're gonna try to, like. No, they're stealing something that you could just go and get for, like, 25 cents at Goodwill. They're like, I don't like this fashion person. So we're gonna steal the clothing and sell them to people and also make money when they sell it.

[Stephen]

Yeah, it's like they're giving away the clothes. They're not Robin Hood of the fashion world. Like, they're still making money by cutting prices. Kind of like a capitalist.

[Steven Crowder]

They're basically. They're a walking consignment store. They're exactly Etsy personified. That's all it is. Like, we're gonna steal it and I'm gonna look, I'm gonna put a little bead on it, and we're gonna sell it. Just die now, finally, figuratively, in a movie where the villains are the stores trying to stay in business and the heroes are the diversity hires with sticky fingers. It's revolutionary. They feel like gangsters taking what they want out of life. That's what these people think. They're fighting the system. But the real gangster move is getting the best rate on your mortgage. I can't mess with these plugs.

[Stephen]

Now. That made me come back here. Cause I come back here. You know what it is?

[Steven Crowder]

Josh, where's my money. American Financing restructured that loan. You're supposed to be handing me my money. Here. Here's my jar. 20%.

[Stephen]

Oh, you got the jar?

[Steven Crowder]

That's right.

[Stephen]

Get the out of here, Stephen.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh. Oh.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

What?

[Stephen]

What you doing, Stephen?

[Steven Crowder]

Huh?

[Stephen]

What you gonna do, huh? You gonna shoot me in front of everybody?

[Steven Crowder]

Huh?

[Stephen]

Come on.

[Gerald]

What are you guys doing in here?

[Steven Crowder]

Was the American Gangster parody for American Financing?

[Gerald]

No, no. They're never gonna go for that, man. Not gonna happen.

[Stephen]

Oh, you know what? He's right. We need to make it more ethnically accurate.

[Steven Crowder]

Ethnic. We could go more ethnic.

[Gerald]

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

[Steven Crowder]

Just shut it down.

[Gerald]

We're not doing it, guys.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, I got some shoe polish in my office. Nice. Is it kiwi? It's kiwi, yeah. It's a neutral. That's good stuff. It's tasteful. It won't be.

[Stephen]

You know, I get shiny.

[Steven Crowder]

It won't be over the top. 20%.

[Gerald]

Gerald, is that thing loaded?

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Yes. Look, really, huh? Don't lose out on your cut of the action. Go to American Finance.net Crowder or call 800-974-6500 today. All right. On average, customers are saving over $800 a month.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

That's right.

[Steven Crowder]

NMLS 182334. That's right. Can't miss now. That's right. That's right. You know, I will tell you this. When we were. I was just talking about this the other day. When we were raised, you talking about racial differences in this country, we really thought, like, yeah, people of different races are just like us. I mean, our experiences were. I know, white, insulated, whatever. Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the Jeffersons. Right. Michael Jordan, Space Jam. They were positive interactions. These were black families, but they were still families.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I understand how young people and Gen Z being raised today, where it's BET and it's World Star. I understand how they think we don't share anything in common. White and black America, it's a very different divide, and it is worse.

[Gerald]

Terminal cam at Spirit Airlines.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. The gates. It's like, no, because everyone was happy to actually go. Like, yeah, we're all rowing. We're all moving the same direction. Families shared values. And you know what? We're healing these fractures now. It's just, let's rip open those wounds. I spoke with a young person. He was like, I just. It's a totally different culture.

[Gerald]

Yeah, man.

[Stephen]

That was a long time ago, too. I saw a post.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

This weekend that said if Family Matters was made today, Carl And Harrietta would be born in 1990 and 92. My wife's 92 and I'm 89. I'm like, oh, no. Made me feel old.

[Steven Crowder]

It is. It's nuts. It's crazy to think about all this stuff. But I don't know. Everyone's racist. Okay, so you guys know this. You guys know that the birth rate is at an all time low in America, Right? The average is like 1.6 births per woman. That's 700,000 fewer than in 2007. I mean, far, far fewer than we had in the 50s and the 60s. It just consistently has been going down. Now, a big part of this, and we'll get to this later on in the show, is because of the doomsday. Global warmerism is what it used to be global warming. Now they say climate change, because they've been wrong about nearly everything. It doesn't mean that the Earth is not warming. It doesn't mean that pollution doesn't have an effect. It just means that the catastrophic claims and predictions have. All the ones that could be verified have been wrong, pretty much all of them. You might find a few exceptions, but it'll be less than 1%. If you talk about going back to birth rates, people are afraid. That's why white Americans now make up less than half of all births in America. I know some people say, hey, that doesn't matter. It kind of does. It kind of does if you want America to still be the United States of America.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Because what that really signifies is a lot of immigration, much of which comes from the third World. And your culture will be forever changed, like Europe, places like Canada. Now, this is such a serious issue that President Trump has tasked RFK Jr HHS to look at the problem at a government level. But I want you to keep in mind we need to separate the societal problem, which is really the largest component here. And yes, there also is a health component as it relates to biology and environmental factors. President Trump has asked me to determine the cause of the dropping fertility rates in this country. So we have NIH and the other agencies doing the first really comprehensive science on that to figure out what's causing it. Why have male sperm rates in this country dropped from by 50% since 1970? And why are the fertility rates dropping so fast in this country today? Why are women, particularly young women, not having babies anymore? It's just funny to see RFK say sperm on stage. We are children now. RFK's in depth investigation has led to the deployment of the government's newest Tool in this war on medical anomalies, including the magic sperm bus. To the bus. Choo choo ride on the magic sperm bus. They're gonna find out.

[Gerald]

The pro.

[Steven Crowder]

You really should have stayed home today.

[Stephen]

Does the F and R of K stand for frizzle?

[Gerald]

Jeez.

[Steven Crowder]

I won't do it. There's a. There's a. There's. It's just. There's so much here that I won't do it. By the way, thank you for the raid. Perfect timing.

[Stephen]

So just that crowd coming over.

[Steven Crowder]

Just move on now. Now, here's the thing. Yes, There. Now, let's say that sperm has been reduced by 50%. That is still not going to be anywhere near as consequential as the societal programming that has been taking place. Because you're talking about billions and billions of sperm, and, you know, you really only need one. In the realm of reproductive components, sperm are like the, like, rockets of Halloween candy. They're less than pennies. They're fractions of a penny. Yeah, exactly. It's like they're just. They're just the lowest value candy corn

[Gerald]

of Halloween candy, man.

[Steven Crowder]

Rockets.

[Stephen]

What are rockets? What are you talking Canadian crap?

[Steven Crowder]

Are you Smarties? You call them. Oh, shoot. Oh, admonish me. We call them rockets in Canada. You call them sm. All right, Smarties, Right?

[Gerald]

I don't know.

[Steven Crowder]

I know.

[Stephen]

I don't know what you're talking about, but Smarties are candy. It's like a little chalky.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, sorry. We don't call them Smarties in Canada. Canadians back me up because we actually have an M and M in Canada that's just called Smarties. It's like our version of an M and M. So we call them rockets. You guys call them Smarties. I've gotten off track and it's my own damn fault. Yep, there you go. But that's what they're called in Canada. Here they're called Smarties. Okay, okay. Point is, sperm is not the issue, as those kids will discover with their professor, Mr. Jizzle. Now,

[Gerald]

Scott Bessant, you called,

[Steven Crowder]

But the societal issue, right, is we're telling young women, hey, you're signing your life away. If you have a family, go. Go be a boss. Go to school, go to college, get your Master's, get your PhD. Hey, and guys, once you're. Once you're out of school, you know, you should just explore the world. Enjoy your lives first. Kids can come later. Don't you want to travel and see all the things? And this has become a new. Not really new, but It's a viral trend, but now it's being pushed in a very specific way. We'll get to why. Dinks, dual income, no kids. Here's what you may be seeing in your social media feed. And if you are not your young adult, children definitely are.

[Stephen]

This is like encyclopedias or something, like

[Steven Crowder]

all the places they get to visit.

[Stephen]

Oh, no, this is just. Okay, it's just them.

[Steven Crowder]

Now that is very light. I can't confirm this because, you know, we used to have payola laws. If you were on radio or television, you have to say if something was

[Gerald]

paid, you have to disclose it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Now it's kind of like a guideline, likely a paid collaboration with Pixary. That's a travel book company. Ah. So the travel book company seems to be sending out these templates and it would stand to reason that the template includes that if backhanded way of discouraging people from having children. They pay young, usually white women couples to promote the books as an alternative to having children and encouraging the lifestyle of traveling instead. It's better for you. So when are you having kids? Me here, magazines. So when are you two having kids? Here's a book. So when are you having kids?

[Stephen]

Look at this book. Look at the book.

[Steven Crowder]

It's a turtle.

[Gerald]

At least they're original with the music.

[Steven Crowder]

Look at our mixed race books. Look, if you want to travel every now, whatever, fine. I'm not saying you can't travel, by the way. I don't know if you know this. Families can travel too. Yes. There's a certain period of time where it's difficult when they're really little and when they're older. Some would say it's actually more fulfilling because you get to experience this with the people who are most meaningful in your life. I know, it's a crazy idea. This is a repeat. Do you know this, this world that you're living in with giant corporate interests discouraging you from the traditional nuclear family, encouraging you to engage in an activity specifically because they may benefit economically. And that's actually one of the biggest components of feminism and universal suffrage. So dual income households after 1970 that became the norm Right after campaigns by these foundations and liberal feminists. What happened is, and Rachel Wilson in her book has written about this, those post industrial revolution, they had an interest in cheaper labor. So there were even billboards that you can see, get your own spending money, get out of the house and into the workforce. And what happens? Wages go down. So when you actually look at when, when women share, when their share of an occupation increases by 10 percentage points within one year. Male wages go down about 8% and female wages go down about 7%. Wow. Now that's where we. Here's where we are now. Okay? Dual income, dual income, no kids. Dual income kids. That's the standard. Which is really sad because you're using one of those incomes to pay someone else to raise your kids. Yeah. But if you look at it as fertility and as birth rates have gone down, so has happiness specifically for women. This is the big irony, the liberation that which was designed to make women free and happy. It has been nothing but shackles. Women are less happy than ever. So if we're going to use the extreme examples today, the world of nearly a quarter of young women onlyfans travel dinks, social media influencing or what they viewed as patriarchy meaning man works, woman say something. Well, if you want not only a more successful, obviously family more successful society, better outcomes. Women were happier under this extreme. There is a split the difference. But the left doesn't want to split the difference. They want you to be an only fans model or a boss babe, go travel and they want your employer to have to pick up the tab should you ever decide to finally have children later on. Remember 87% of moms stats. They're all available links in the description 11am Eastern when we stream every weekday. 87% of moms say that being a parent is most or one of the most important aspects of who they are. 80% of parents say parenting is rewarding all or most of the time. And twice as many married mothers say they are very happy. As opposed to unmarried women without children. Unmarried childless women report loneliness two times more. And then when you look at okay, once you get to have children households where they have a mommy and a daddy, you are looking at better outcomes across the board. Sometimes several multiples, sometimes it could be anywhere from 10 to 90%. Who knows? On mental health, on graduating school, on having successful relationships of their own, on ending up in prison, on premarital children out of wedlock. You know, all of that. All of that, yeah. Across the board. Nowhere else do we see this kind of uniformity in statistics and just deny the results. Okay, let's look at it. People who are married versus unmarried, who's happy? Okay. People who are married. All right. People who are married versus okay, who lives longer? Okay. People who are married. Okay. Women who are married. Okay. Women who are married are happy. Okay. Women who have children versus women who don't have children. Okay. Women who have children are happier but we pound into people. No, no, no, no, no. These are the better choices. Just you'll get to that which is fulfilling and meaningful in life later, if biology still allows. And it becomes less and less likely. And many women will hear this and say that this is sexist or misogyny. What do you do? We're going the wrong direction. Nowhere else that I can think of. When we continue down the wrong path in the name of not offending a group of people. It's that simple. You got to do a 180. Yeah.

[Gerald]

One of the things too, that they describe is kind of like this. Okay. We're traveling with families and it's really hard to do and look at what we get to do. And it's like, yeah, but you don't have any of the memories that I have on those trips. You have the two of you. How many times can you do that until it gets old? How many beaches can you see? How many famous places can you go? How many five star dinners can you sit down to and great bottles of wine? And I asked that question because I worked in the wine industry for a long time and I've done it a ton because of my job. And it gets old. It becomes common. You want what you don't have. That is always true. So what I have are these wonderful memories, right? All the things that you can think of at the beach or at the pool or at whatever place you go to. But I also have something you will never have, which is the humor in the hard times. I look back at things where you're supposed to get home at 7pm and your flight gets delayed and it's 4am and you're completely undone as a human being by the time you get home. And then a few weeks later, you look back and you kind of laugh about it a little. And then a year later you like hilariously laugh about what your kids were doing during that time. You'll just be pissed off that it happened because you have no kids to kind of act as a balance. Yep, that's what happens. That you have no idea how you're missing out on the good stuff and even the bad stuff that gets redeemed by your children being there.

[Steven Crowder]

And Noodles has a point. Before I get to you, Noodles, here's one thing too. If you want to talk about choice, you actually have more choice. You have more choice. You can still, by the way, get on a weekend getaway, give the kids over to grandma and grandpa if you want to, or take them with you. You can still go have date night. As a matter of fact, you should. That's always been the classical complementarian Christian prescription. You still need to date. You still need to keep romance, love. You can do things with your family or you can do things just with your spouse. You should do both. You have choice if you have a family. You have less choice if you don't. And that window closes. Yes, Noodles.

[Noodles]

I was just gonna say, and kind of the point is of these picture books is their timeless nature. It's like, you know.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

You get to look back at them when you're old and see the memories of your life. But is it more fulfilling to be able to share that with your children, their children's children, and take advantage of the timeless nature of showing who you were?

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It really does provide perspective. You know what I find incredible is it's really hard for me to imagine my children, like, when they're four. It's hard for me when I think back when they're three, they still look the way they look in front of me. 4. It's hard unless I go see a picture, I'm like, oh, my gosh. Because you're with them every day and you get that perspective. It's like a time lapse and you go, wow, wow. You get to see the change because you're a grown up. You don't change that much. You get a few more lines on your forehead, you know, and a little more misery in your heart.

[Gerald]

Speak for yourself on the line.

[Steven Crowder]

Speaking of on the line, I get that a lot of people, right. It's. It's tough to toe the line with crypto and trying to be. And it's difficult. And you have a bunch of crypto bros out there who are trying to scam you on something. So. Rumble wallet, link in the description. Manage all of your crypto in one spot. True financial freedom. No middlemen. It's simple. It's easy. If you're looking to get into it, if you're looking to keep your stuff organized, it's the easiest one stop shop. I'm not a big crypto guy, but it's the easiest way to do it. As opposed to constantly being sold something new or being scammed on the latest coin that comes from a guy.

[Gerald]

True. I've done it. And it's very easy.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, it is.

[Gerald]

Now time to talk about AI or.

[Steven Crowder]

No, no, no, no, no, no. We've done it enough.

[Stephen]

Still not.

[Gerald]

I mean, just.

[Steven Crowder]

I know you want to, like a natural.

[Gerald]

Okay, fine.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, but that's what my name's on this side. There you go. I feel like Geral, because at some point he hopes that he's been ingratiated enough to AI when they take over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You said you'd kill me last, right?

[Gerald]

Voice print confirmed.

[Steven Crowder]

I lied.

[Gerald]

We hate you too.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. There's no appeasing AI Crap. Yeah, they're not. Yeah.

[Stephen]

Gerald's going to be the one that's like the human assistant.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. That.

[Stephen]

That coaxes other humans to their little battery farm and then he's the one that hooks up the people.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

And he's got like, he's all. He's all hunchbacked.

[Steven Crowder]

He just has a choker and a chain connecting to a USB port.

[Stephen]

Yeah, yeah. One of hands is a claw Now.

[Steven Crowder]

I said no foam, bitch.

[Gerald]

Asta admonish, baby.

[Steven Crowder]

I said flat white snap. Electrocuted. I could totally see that. Speaking of scammers, the Chinese. So let's be really clear about this. People are going, I don't know, there's a moral equipment. Which market is going to be bigger, which country is going to be the biggest economic force? Okay. The Chinese Communist Party, which basically means China as a whole. Not the people, but its representation. Liars, thieves, tyrants. And they want to destroy your country and you, if you are in the United States of America. Let's start off with that. You understand that? So this makes it all the tougher to see President Trump's proposed policies. Rhetoric. We don't know because nothing is finalized yet in a positive light at all. It's not very good. We said we're waiting with bated breath to see what happens with China. No president has been tougher on China, but his rhetoric seems to have changed lately. He came back and discussed with Sean Hannity a few major issues as it relates to China. And I don't really know that President Trump, in representing his constituency and being America first on this one, I don't know how he could be more wrong and if it's possible, not by much. So first, let's address this issue that we've discussed quite a bit. Farmland. And the Chinese buying our farmland therein.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

The issue of Chinese students in our universities, more importantly in my mind, is

[Steven Crowder]

that Chinese nationals have been buying up thousands and thousands of acres of farmland, ranch land and land near military installations. Now, I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

one of their military installations. I don't think President Xi wouldn't like you. I don't. Look, it's not that I love it you want to see farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take that out of the market. But they've had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did. Did nothing about it. They bought a lot of it during the Obama administration. He did nothing about it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And so what are you gonna do? And it sounds like nothing. And I'd like to present to you something that maybe sounds reasonable in theory, but how it has played out in real time. I present to you the final act, the screwstiege, because little bits of myself are left in a box under the stage every time. So remember, I've told you in the past, hey, look at what the opposing side is saying or what they're doing. And that'll give you a pretty good idea as to what their strategy is. Let's look at Chinese ownership of farmland in the United states. It's like 380,000 acres somewhere around there. You can check the references. Our ownership of Chinese land, zero acres.

[Stephen]

Oh, that's not good numbers. No, we got to pump those up.

[Steven Crowder]

380,000 to zero. Why do you think that is? Now, the Chinese are also very, very clear. In the United States is this awful place that will fall and it needs to crumble. For crying out loud. They release troll videos. So they want us to do poorly, Right? That is their goal. So most of their policies would be what they view as most effective to ensure a poor outcome for the United States. They let us buy 0 acres. Why do we let them have any? Now, I understand the point that I think he's making there. It doesn't make this argument any more valid. Yeah, I guess if you just took it from the Chinese, 380,000 acres, and that was up for grabs, of course, you've just increased the supply so the demand would go down and prices would go down. And maybe it's not so much that he's beholden to the Chinee, but he's more beholden to the. The farming lobby, which, by the way, in this country, they are not your friends. You think that the big farming lobby, this is why we say aipac can go screw themselves. But you need to be aware of other lobbying groups and organizations like unions, particularly teachers, particularly public workers unions. The farming lobby screws you a lot, and they screw you a lot through policies that fundamentally transform the economy. Like we've discussed corn subsidies, and it's like a third rail because it's such a big deal in government. Here's what is certain. None of this makes sense. None of this is good for you, the American worker. Right. When we're talking about America first, we're talking about you, the American taxpayer, who wants to be able to determine your own future and destiny. This is bad. They shouldn't be allowed to own land. And if it's because of the farming lobby, they shouldn't have the influence that they do.

[Gerald]

Yeah. And he needs to do something about it other than, say, Obama.

[Stephen]

Right.

[Gerald]

And I think you maybe even mentioned that. But I want to just come back to it because I don't expect him to completely undo the past. I don't have expectations of him that are outside of his scope of authority and abilities. Right. But I do expect him to kind of step up and go, hey, we gotta stop this. This can't be something that we do going forward. And by the way, it wouldn't be very hard if you decided to take a stand on this and pull those 384,000 acres back to just say, hey, we'll do it. And then we will put it on the market over a period of time so that we don't cause a crash in the market.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Gerald]

It's not like you have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out.

[Steven Crowder]

Out.

[Gerald]

We should never have let it happen in the first place. Fine.

[Steven Crowder]

How about fix it?

[Gerald]

You're in the chair.

[Stephen]

Yeah, yeah. Some of that land is close to military installations. If it, you know, butts up to it, maybe you just annex that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep.

[Stephen]

And then you don't have extra farmland to worry about the market. Or like Gerald said, over time.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, I will tell you this. This is one where it gives critics of this administration, they have a point. And I think this is far more meaningful and impactful than the Epstein Binder rollout, which was absolutely abysmal. But on a grand scale, this really does determine our direction in the future. Okay, here we go. To China, specifically on President Trump. He was discussing with Sean Han. I believe the next one is regarding Chinese exchange students.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

As far as the students, it's 500,000 students. They come. Good students. I could tell them, I don't want any students.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, yes.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

It's a very insulting thing to say in the country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. But if you don't have those students, good students, by the way, if you don't, and we do another thing, you know, if they're good and they want to stay in America, we won't give them a green card and things like that, you know, and not only them, but other countries but if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. And you know, the ones that I

[Steven Crowder]

can only get so erect, the top

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

schools will do fine, but your lower schools, your lower, the ones that don't do quite as well, those two, they'll be dying all over the place. I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture and many of them want to stay here. I think it's good. Not everybody agrees with me. And it doesn't sound like a very conservative position. And I'm as conservative. I'm a conservative guy. I'm not a common sense guy. I think more than a conservative guy, I think MAGA is common sense, you know.

[Steven Crowder]

So let me, before I get to it, what's common sense about allowing Chinese students to come here, get an education? Here's the thing. Many of them go back. Just to be clear, most of them, depending on the numbers you use, go back. And if they don't and they stay here, how can you trust them? Them. And then let's go all, let's walk all the way down the trail that he presents. And many of the universities will close down. Good. If the universities require students approved by the Communist Chinese Party to come here and through any form of subsidy to stay afloat, they should go away.

[Stephen]

They should have never been there.

[Steven Crowder]

They shouldn't be there. How about that? And that's where we now get to the end game, the screwstiege. Because we've been here for a long time. Every single Chinese student in the United States is approved by the Communist Party. You know that, right? Also, those who are sent to bang Eric Swalwell, allegedly. And the students who are on any kind of government scholarships, they sign a pledge of loyalty to the Communist Chinese Party. And we've seen huge problems with those people acting as spies here in the United States, being used to give leverage to the Communist Chinese Party. Let me give you the numbers too. So the Chinese students in the United States right now, by the way, these trends have. They've been consistent. They've been going up for Chinese in the US And US they are going down. But right now it sits at around 275,000 Chinese students in the United States. You know how many American students in China? Less than a thousand.

[Stephen]

So when he says you take 500,000, you take half a million people out of the industry, of course it's gonna crumble. We're not taking 500,000 people out of the industry. Yeah, there's not half a million people in that industry.

[Steven Crowder]

Not right now. It's 277,000.

[Stephen]

277,000?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, about 200.

[Stephen]

He wants to double that.

[Steven Crowder]

That's the way that it would come across. And he's been unclear with his words. This was, I would say, arguably amongst the worst interviews that he's given.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

And listen, it's. If you had people coming from a country say, like England wanted to send some people over to us, or places like that that are a little bit more closely aligned with kind of our values, Canada or something like that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

That's a different conversation to have. But when you've got a country that is absolutely 100% dead set against us and they are trying everything that they can do with land purchases, everything else with rare earths, all of it, their influence is how they get a foothold. Why would you. And he's like, oh, well, they'll go build their own universities. Fan freaking tastic. Guess what? Maybe that's money they're not spending on their military and something that we won't have to deal with in the future, potentially.

[Stephen]

Oh, great team uu.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

A real big threat to the Ivy Leagues in America. Yeah.

[Gerald]

Screw yourselves. This one. I just cannot. It boggles my mind that he's even on this page.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So they own over 380,000 acres of American farmland. We own zero acres of Chinese farmland. They have over 275,000 students who pledge allegiance to the Communist Chinese party. Here in our schools we have less than 1,000. How does that give us an advantage? Can anyone make the case? I'm sure there's some libertarian there who's like, I don't believe in borders. Good, go ahead and make the case. Yeah, make the case. So it sounds just as stupid to everyone else in the comments section as it does in the way I just said it.

[Stephen]

It's not like they're over here building our railroads.

[Steven Crowder]

Not anymore.

[Stephen]

No, they're taking all these student positions.

[Steven Crowder]

Although you know what? You could bring back a couple of opium dents. Yeah.

[Stephen]

Nevada.

[Steven Crowder]

Little safer than fentanyl.

[Stephen]

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[Gerald]

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[Steven Crowder]

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[Advertiser]

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[Steven Crowder]

Here's what that looks like, at least so far. China agreeing to buy 200 Boeing jets. Beijing is also expected to commit $10

[Gerald]

billion for American agriculture products with a

[Steven Crowder]

new board of trade to help oversee tariffs. So even if that happened to be true, I still don't see the benefit in the same way to the American worker. I know some of you say, well, bigger markets really, China's an export market. It's not really an import market. Not enough to move the needle in the way that you would think. Which brings us to the if it happened to be true. No, no, here's the screw, Steige. We've been here before. It didn't happen. So from 2020, 2021, China committed to buying over $500 billion worth of exports from the United States. They only bought 58% of what they promised. And by the way, people will say, oh, that was because of COVID No, they were still around, I think 55% pre Covid. Post Covid. They don't meet their obligations. The Chinese, they are a nation of liars. You understand that, right? When dealing with their government, their primary goal is to subvert American culture. And for us or for them, to ensure that we are no longer the world's economic superpower and we've really enabled it. They went from a tchotchke economy to a potential adversary. Yes, in the technology race, that doesn't happen without us propping them up. This is all concerning, especially considering that before his trip he got some advice from a former president on how to deal with China.

[Stephen]

Here's some advice. When dealing with the Chinese, they're like a dog whose bark is worse than their bite. But here's the thing about the Chinese, they eat the dogs. Isn't that silly. Like they never heard of a hot dog. Well, I guess that is their version of a hot dog. But anyways, I'm 75. I found that if you ignore their kablooie theater, the intimidation disappears. Peers and that the Chinaman are very physically small in stature and their asses are surprisingly easy to kick. Here's some advice.

[Steven Crowder]

That was good.

[Gerald]

He should have taken some of that.

[Steven Crowder]

Should. Yeah.

[Gerald]

It would have been nice for us to see. So with. I'm not going to pivot to AI, I promise. But with everything going on in robotics and AI, it seems like that's really the only people note. That's the only thing I'm going to mention on it. It seems like we just sent CEOs from those companies that stand to benefit the most from that and from working with China instead of sending some of the China hawks. Lane was talking about this earlier. We didn't send some people that were a little tougher on China. And so the die was kind of cast a little bit from the beginning. And the trade deals that they announced were very ho hum like nobody looked at these and said, oh good, because we can hold their feet to the fire when they don't do what they said. There's no leverage really that we're willing to exercise on China to get this done. We have leverage, we're just not willing to exercise it. Not the student thing. Just a final point. I don't understand how you don't see this as President of the United States, when you have that many people coming in, it increases demand. When the demand goes up, the pricing tends to go up with it. Especially if you're saying these are very smart students. And then you couple that with Elon Musk saying, we don't have people trained in this. I wonder why. I wonder why you're taking up hundreds of thousands of spots every single year, pushing prices up and telling people that they have to go to the lower colleges. And you're not just saying like, oh, these people are coming in and filling the lower colleges. You're saying they're the best and brightest to compete with Americans and that we don't produce the kind of people that we need to. Well, maybe if college was a little less expensive and maybe if they didn't just check the box on, well, this is a smart person from China and push the American student out of the way, maybe it would look a little different. What would it look like right now if this policy had been reversed years ago, China would have had to build their own institutions or flood the UK or somewhere else.

[Steven Crowder]

I'll tell you what this would look like if that policy had been reversed or never enacted, let's say. And no affirmative action. Colleges would be very white, Asian Americans, a lot. Of course, you've been to Cal Poly. They don't have drug dealers, they have ginseng dealers. It's like it is. But Asian Americans would do well, well, and so would white Americans. No dei, no affirmative action, and we're not allowing people from adversarial nations. It would look very similar to how college has looked in the past. That would be the natural order of things. And I know you say, well, some people don't have opportunities. No, no, no. Public schools. Public schools. Far more spending per pupil in areas where black Americans are overrepresented. That playing field has been leveled, by the way. It should be leveled completely in that we should do away with it and let's just say apply a student voucher program if anything. But yeah, that's what it would look like. We can't do that. All of this has been done. And then you know what else? It would be less expensive if you couldn't afford it. And if you weren't willing to work your way through it, there wouldn't be a grant, there wouldn't be a scholarship. So they would have to charge a reasonable price or they would go out of business. When you talk about industries that you hate, they have been propped up by special interest groups. And this is why the conversation regarding AIPAC that people have, and I've said they can go screw themselves with a wire brush, but it does take your eye off of what truly affects you on a day to day basis. If you look at education, specifically college, I mean, skyrocketing costs, they ballooned out of control. If you look at the healthcare sector, you look at insurance companies, you look for example at American auto manufacturing and airlines, guess what? You look at energy. These are all companies that are heavily subsidized and have been propped up on behalf of special interests. And by that I mean special interests not representing the vast majority of Americans. You are not represented by the American Auto Workers union. Do you have any idea how much poll they have over the government? You are not represented by any of the unions or the lobbyists for airlines. But do you have any idea how much poll they have? You are not represented by any of the teachers unions or by any of the lobbying groups for higher education. Do you have any idea how much poll they have? Same thing with insurance companies. And so when you're Looking at education just as an example, you have the interests, of course, in public schools before that, of teachers unions, of all kinds of educational unions. You look at the administrative costs, how they ballooned out of control. Then you look at colleges, by the way, who of course get all kinds of grants and subsidies. And so they make it unaffordable. And you have student loan forgiveness. And then you look at the vested interest of a foreign nation like China. And they have been pushing to get more exchange students in. And you have a government that says, sure, sure, sure, let's give you more money, more grants, more scholarships. Let's make sure that you have some kind of relief if you're financially struggling. And yeah, you know what? Let's do this because it'll improve relations with China. Think about, oh, banks, I forgot banks. Have you tried to bank, do any significant banking like with, I don't know, bank of America, chase. Take the McDonald's of banks. They don't want people who are actually looking to grow their money, their business model. The reason that you will be on the phone with someone from New Delhi for eight hours is because their model is improve nothing, screw the customer and get a bailout eventually. It's the same thing with education, insurance, airlines, American auto manufacturing. Big banks, the industries that you hate. These are not bastions of unregulated freedom. It's not the wild west of big banking. It's not the wild west of higher education. And people keep pointing them and go, we need more government. More government means more. So in the pockets of these big unions and special lobbying groups, and there are many of them, none of this is in the best interest of you, the American worker taxpayer, the average American who doesn't work for the federal government, who doesn't have a public job but works in the private sector, pays taxes and is trying to raise a family. These other industries are designed to lobby the government to flee state. You all those industries that I've just mentioned, that is why your quality of life perhaps has gone down in those facets. Those are the areas now, the areas where your quality of life has improved. And this is the argument that I see. If people keep missing each other, housing, of course people keep missing each other. We have young people going, it's terrible. There's no opportunity. Thanks, boomers. And then boomers going, well, why don't you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and actually you guys have air conditioning and bigger house and more square footage. Both of those things are true. But if you look, for example, where costs have Gone down technology, for example, food, access to more food, access to healthier food, in some cases, transportation. Right. These are technological advances. These are not the same as the systemic problems that younger people face in housing, in education, in banking and what loans look like and the ability to generate enough capital to invest. If so, the solution is, hey, we see progress. For example, people often point to a phone or a flat screen TV. It's far less expensive now than it was 15, 20 years ago. That's absolutely true. That's the natural advancement of a free market. Can we apply that to education? Can we apply that to health insurance and our currently broken system? Can we apply that to airlines? Just apply the approach in industries where it works and you've seen an improvement in quality of life to the areas where we've seen the opposite. And instead the solution is more money, please. More money, please. More money, please. Well, once you do that, and the industry is too big to be supported by an actual consumer base here in the United States, foreign government's gonna help or some big ass lobbying groups. That make sense. President Trump has been tougher on China than any other president. Like I've said, that's true. But this does not seem like he's going the right direction. It's also why I've said in the past and why he won't be on the show and won't ever post any of our stuff. Elon Musk did a great thing by purchasing acts. He also might be the Antichrist now, probably not because people overuse that. That's hyperbole. But if you look at his stance on China and you look at his stance on H1BS and you look at his stance on issues that would fundamentally harm and transform America, they're not great. He's cool on freedom of speech in trans and kids, the rest of it. Lot of damage would be done if Elon Musk had his way and he was there. So what do we get out of this with China? That's really the question, right? America first means what do you get? What do you get by us allowing Chinese to purchase farmland? Can anyone answer that to me? What do you get by us allowing more Chinese exchange students coming here? What do you get? Can anyone answer, what do you get if they even though to come here they have to pledge allegiance to the Communist Chinese Party? They come here and they defect and they become a part of the workforce. What do you get out of it? What do we get if they purchase 50% of the exports from the United States? Like you just saw agricultural Products, what do you get? Are they. Do we have any answers? Are they going to help us reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Are they still part of the unholy alliance with Russia and Iran? The part that we don't say out loud, it does make it pretty tough to make the case that when you look at Venezuela and you look at what we've done with energy and you look at what's happening with Iran, that all of this was triangulating China, his rhetoric on Cuba, when it just seems like we go, yeah, yeah, we're just gonna keep on doing what we're doing and maybe be a little more lenient. I'd love to have anyone from the administration on to answer this, because I think we've been fair, and I'm certainly not going to vote Democrat. I'm precluded from that. But this direction, hey, guess what? Critics, not leftist critics. Those on the right have a point. If you keep going this direction. Yeah.

[Gerald]

And I think you made the right kind of split here. It's rhetoric versus action. So the rhetoric is all we have right now in some of this. Not looking great. What he actually ends up doing, we'll see. Because maybe there's some other stuff going on behind the scenes we don't know. Trying to figure out right now. And they've got a lot of leverage points and they don't want to do anything to make the Chinese lose face in the midst of that. I have no idea. Charitable Chinese.

[Steven Crowder]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Stephen]

I don't tolerate that.

[Steven Crowder]

Guy gets it.

[Gerald]

He's understood it for a very long time.

[Steven Crowder]

He should be our ambassador.

[Gerald]

He is.

[Steven Crowder]

He's just in jail and he should be shot, collared. Unless he says only that phrase forever.

[Gerald]

What would you like for lunch today?

[Steven Crowder]

It's like Marcus Aurelius had one of his. I believe it was one of his servants or advisors lean into his ear. And every day he would consistently say, you are just a man. You are just a man. You are just a man. To remind him, Right. As an emperor, President Trump needs that in his meetings with China. Just every. Every couple of minutes, that man. To lean into his ear. Don't trust. Don't trust China. China is asshole. And go back. Fade back into the mist every day.

[Stephen]

Thank you. Don't trust China. China is asshole.

[Steven Crowder]

Thank you. I needed that. Appreciate that. That's right. Screw you, Shane. Upon further reflection, Xi, I have been reminded that you are, in fact, an asshole. And how about no deal? And for those of you who are not, we're Actually gonna talk now about this is one of my favorite subjects to cover because I love to see that public opinion has switched on this global warming. They wanna say climate change, global warming and the predictions that were wrong. But if you are not yet a member, hey, it's what keeps the lights on. We are supported by viewers like you, Rumble Premium. You click that button, button, you get to join Mug club which is now Rumble Premium because you get all those other shows, all of this under one umbrella, the entire experience ad free. Wonderful hand etched mug. Or you can try it for just, just a month at a time. And for those of you who are not members, hey, you're gonna keep watching Hailey Caronia go on for free and we will see you tomorrow. Allow us to earn your viewership then. 11:00am Eastern. So climate change used to be called global warming.

[Gerald]

Warming, yes. Before that cooling. So I mean it's a lot of evolution.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, this is one where President Trump did post something on truth and he nailed it it he didn't post the source. So I want to explain it to you so you have the entire context. It's time for one of my favorites, climate claims. No, I was saying continue just rol. All right. It's a very good, it's a good one. It's very dramatic.

[Gerald]

I love it.

[Steven Crowder]

It's almost as dramatic as the left is but we make it silly.

[Gerald]

Did you cheer for like the polar bear to die, like to fall into the lava?

[Steven Crowder]

I don't like polar bears because they hunt humans for fun.

[Gerald]

They do.

[Steven Crowder]

Also I made the mistake of taking a bite of one's liver one time. I ended up in the icu.

[Gerald]

I'm sorry, what?

[Steven Crowder]

Nah, it's just a fun fact.

[Stephen]

What was that like you got you

[Steven Crowder]

ordered on vitamin D. You take a polar bear's liver. Did you guys know that?

[Noodles]

It's science.

[Gerald]

I didn't know.

[Steven Crowder]

You'll die. So much vitamin D you'll die. Yeah, believe me, I tried it in my teeth and years.

[Gerald]

I don't think that's. Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

So over the weekend President Trump posted about another climate change prediction. I always. It bothers me when people don't post the source that they're refuting. That's why we try to on X if you follow me there. We try and make sure that you understand where the claim comes from and that'll bring us to a meme check at the end of this because there are really good arguments and there's a really strong case to be made against the global warming alarmism. But then there's also a lot of false information out there because people want your clicks. So let's start with this. President Trump wrote Good riddance after 15 years of Democrats, I call them Democrats, promising that climate change quotes is going to destroy the planet. The United nations top climate committee just admitted that its own projections, RCP 8.5 were wrong, wrong, wrong. For far too long, climate change activism has been used by again, Democrats. I won't say Democrats, I say Democrats because frankly, they're dumb. They're very dumb. So dumb it's hard to believe that they're that dumb. To scare Americans, push horrible energy policies. I wrote police as I meant policies and fund billions into their bogus research programs. Unlike the one more time Democrats who use climate alarmism nonsense to push their green new scam caps. My administration will always be based on truth, science and fact. President Donald J. Trump so RCP 8.5, this I believe comes from 2011. This was the climate prediction that was adopted by the UN's Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change. You've probably read that as IPCC in the past. Go check the references. We make them available every day. So these were, and they have tried to make this claim, this defense, these were, to be fair, the worst case climate scenarios about what we would see regarding climate change, global temperatures, emissions, what they could possibly be by the year 2100. Okay. It doesn't matter if they say, well these were just worst case scenarios because that's what determined policy. Yeah, and thank God that those involved in the scam did not get the policy that they wanted across the board because you would be living in a very, very, very different world now. It's still been catastrophic. And I guarantee you no one wants to number these deaths, millions of deaths in the third world because of energy costs. As a direct result. We now find ourselves at the point where the authors of RCP 8.5, well, they've changed their mind even on the worst case scenario. So let's use their worst case scenarios, which are the scenarios we were presented with versus where they are now. So let's go back to then, then he's a Democrat. Then they were saying that CO2 emissions will increase by three times. They'll triple by the year 2100. Right. 120 gigatons of CO2. Okay? That was their prediction. You were told that you were a science denier. Not just if you didn't believe the prediction, not just if you were a scientist who questioned that specific prediction. You were told that you were a science denier. If you said, let's assume that that prediction is even true. As a worst case scenario, the likelihood of it, it doesn't seem very high. And the idea that this intergovernmental panel can fix it is ludicrous. You were treat it as though you were a flat earther. That brings us to now. I always have to do it in reverse. There we go. Right. Am I going the right way? No.

[Gerald]

No.

[Steven Crowder]

Son of a.

[Gerald]

Wrong.

[Steven Crowder]

So hard to leave it at. Let's try it one more time. That brings us to a now. I was right. I went this way and you said I was wrong. It's over there.

[Gerald]

But the arrow is pointing. What are you trying to do, do cup the.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm trying to point to the now where it says now.

[Stephen]

No, but the now points that way.

[Steven Crowder]

Now it's.

[Stephen]

Now it's pointing this way. You don't point to the graphic. You point in the direction of the graphic. You're just being confused. That's like saying. That's like saying, oh, here's directions to Los Angeles right here.

[Steven Crowder]

Why do we even need an arrow in the graphic? It doesn't even make any sense. Guys, it's not about the arrow.

[Stephen]

I like the air.

[Steven Crowder]

It's. It's. Well, I don't. I don't like the arrow.

[Stephen]

I will remove the arrow.

[Steven Crowder]

You guys did that. So no matter what I do, you can say I'm doing it wrong.

[Stephen]

Well, now the audience needs the arrow. They get confused. They're like, wait, when was then and where is now?

[Steven Crowder]

You know what, we're gonna. And I want to see some chats on this or someone's gonna be fired. Do you think it's fair for me to be wrong when I clearly go now? Do you think I'm wrong in presenting the now here? Because the arrow is the then is also in the same spot.

[Stephen]

I recommend doing it like, yes, yeah, but then. But that makes sense because you're going like then. It would make sense if you were doing it like this. You're like, and now

[Steven Crowder]

I was just looking for a loaded firearm to swallow. Let's try this one more time in a way that it satisfies all parties. Here we go. That brings us to now.

[Stephen]

That looks so cool. Perfect. You look really cool. Huh?

[Steven Crowder]

Now the new prediction comes in at about compared to the old prediction, a third. Again, this is worst case scenario is a third.

[Gerald]

Wow.

[Steven Crowder]

Now they're saying by 21 it'll be like 50 gigatons.

[Gerald]

So this is an 89 year forward looking projection that 15 years in they couldn't get 15 years into the scene.

[Steven Crowder]

They reduced by 2/3.

[Stephen]

So is that the same?

[Steven Crowder]

So maybe it was okay for you to have a similar, safer car for your family. In other words, maybe it was fine for you to want to be in a bigger SUV in case you got into a crash. Right. Maybe we didn't need to subsidize all of these electrical vehicles that don't actually work for most people. Maybe we didn't need to have Solyndra because, you know, would that have added up to 2/3 that just vanished like a fart in the wind?

[Stephen]

So they said they predicted three times

[Steven Crowder]

the emission, 150 gigatons.

[Stephen]

And now they're saying the correction is.

[Steven Crowder]

Is.

[Stephen]

No, it's actually one third of three times.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Does that mean it's. There was zero change at all? So because it's three times and it's one third of three times would be one time.

[Steven Crowder]

No, it means that. It means that the worst case scenario is a third as bad as it was before. Right?

[Stephen]

A third as bad, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

And. But just to be clear, all of the policies proposed would not have amounted to reducing carbon emissions by 2/3. You guys understand that, right? So it was reduced more by a rounding edge error. Then you using one square of toilet paper, then you having to pay triple the price for goods and materials, then you being punished for wanting an suv, then having access to more affordable energy, clean coal technology. None of that would have reduced it by 2/3. Let's go back to another one. This is.

[Gerald]

Then

[Steven Crowder]

the arrows are screwing me up then.

[Stephen]

No, no, no, that wasn't.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

That wasn't.

[Steven Crowder]

It wasn't. Right. Don't worry about it. Their prediction then was emissions would result in a temperature increase of 2.6 to 4.8 degrees Celsius. Catastrophic. All right, that is a lot. Yeah. That's a time. Well, that brings us to now again, worst case scenario, 1.5 to 3.5 degrees.

[Gerald]

Oh, come on.

[Steven Crowder]

Celsius. So could be less than half. We don't know even that. It's a pretty wide range.

[Gerald]

It is, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

When you look at the overlap to their wrong prediction and now their right prediction, there's still a lot of overlap between the two. Like. Or it could be all the way over here. It could be here, it could be somewhere in between here. So basically, if you were tasked with any type of other prediction as it relates to markets, betting, odds, it's like, yeah, I'd be fired right away. Yeah, I have no value.

[Gerald]

Yeah, I was going between like 10 and 80, I don't know, something like that.

[Stephen]

They should have used Fahrenheit for these numbers if they wanted to be more shocking. Because that. It's a bigger number.

[Steven Crowder]

It would be a bigger number. But they don't.

[Stephen]

What is it because you hold citizenship in two countries, what is that in Fahrenheit? One and a half to three and a half degrees Celsius.

[Steven Crowder]

So it's typically you take the temperature, I only know times 2 plus 32. So like for example, right, if your temperature is 10 degrees you go okay, 20 plus 32 is where you're end up with 52. But the point is I don't know how to do it as far as these degrees. What the increase would be because it wouldn't be plus 32.

[Stephen]

No, no. But it'd be a lot more than one and a half. Yeah, it would sound more stupid.

[Steven Crowder]

It might be okay if it's 1 1/2 degrees. My guess is can someone do the math for me? That would be one and a half degrees would be three, three and a half, four. Checking five, something like that.

[Noodles]

It certainly about six degrees for worst case scenario.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, for worst case scenario, yes. And then you look at, you look at Germany for example. Unlike France, they went all in on anti nuclear, which is, which is crazy. Their anti nuclear energy policy. Because this is, this is how you know this is a scam. Does anyone here, does anyone here want to take a guess as to what would you think the carbon emissions are from nuclear energy like generating nuclear virtually zero in comparison to gas or coal.

[Stephen]

I've heard it's, I've heard it's a lot lower.

[Steven Crowder]

It's zero.

[Gerald]

It's zero.

[Stephen]

Yeah, okay.

[Steven Crowder]

It's zero.

[Stephen]

There's no, there's no emissions from it.

[Steven Crowder]

No, but they were still like. Yeah, but still that's not as good as why wind or solar, which by the way do result in emissions because of what's needed to actually procure the materials and the energy and the off gassing in some cases like so France went nuclear. France had unbelievably inexpensive for Europe energy and unbelievably consistent. They went the other way. Now they're kind of going back. Germany went the other way way. So what happened is their prices they were 23% higher. They had the highest energy costs in the EU. Not only that, but they would have brownouts. They'd have rolling brownouts all across Germany. And then because their grid wouldn't be able to handle it, when they would have a surplus, they'd have to sell it at a net negative price. So they tried to move in a direction that proves by the way to be worse for the environment and certainly worse for the end consumer. They tried to push that direction before the technology was there. And so you ended up up with horrible energy prices, horrible energy efficiency. And they're going to have to move another direction based on these worst case climate prediction scenarios that have now been reduced by 2/3. You look at the UK net zero policies. Well what happened? Inflation adjusted energy costs, they've tripled, tripled. So poorer households have had to cut their energy consumption by at least a third. Right. The richest people in the UK they increased their consumption. They have smart houses for crying out loud. You look at people in the third world. So this is terrible. In the UK it's tough to measure because a lot of these people who these limousine liberals, these champagne socialists, they don't measure the amount of deaths of people in rural Mexico or people anywhere in South America where a tripling of the energy cost means they can't eat. That's reality. Energy costs go up, it's inconvenient for you. It's sucks they go up long term people in third world countries die. That's what happens. And then you look unintended consequences. California for example, they tried to blame climate change for a lot of these disasters that took place. We can actually blame climate change policy leading to more. So for example the wildfires, they went up thanks to what more eco friendly policy. So they didn't do controlled burns anymore, they didn't clear the dry brush. You talk about what they actually to do with dams and then not having. So you, you compound the problem and then you remove the solution because getting access to water to deal with the problem is now more difficult. All to help a fish that can't even swim. And all other carbon reductions by the way in California from 2013 to 2019 completely undone by just those wildfires in 2020 alone. All of them undone. We went through the other ones, right? Oh, the polar bears are going to be. Polar bears are increasing. Oh, Florida's going to be. Florida's still there. Oh, Cape Cod is still there. The coral reef is going to be gone. There's more than ever when you talk about the Great Barrier Reef.

[Gerald]

Yeah, it was totally fine.

[Steven Crowder]

And now by their own admission. Now here's the other thing that I would ask you. We all knew this to be true and they simply accused you of being a climate change denier. We knew it to be true, but they pushed it anyway. And now they're going a different direction. Can someone pull that clip of Bill Gates now saying, like, well, really, what's gonna bring us into the future is innovation? That's exactly what conservatives. That's exactly what libertarians have been saying for a long time.

[Gerald]

The whole time, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Why do you think the left is changing? Oh, that's right. Because of data centers. Because of those who stand to gain from the profits they're in now that they have gotten into that club. They weren't necessarily those running the big oil companies, the big energy companies, so they tried to vilify them.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Them.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, they become a big tech oligarchy now. They want to consolidate that. And you know what we need this energy for? Data centers. Which tells you once the left stops pushing something, subsidizing something and silencing dissent, it goes away. You see the same thing with the numbers right now. For example, at these gay pride parades across the country, they're down in some cases, like 80%. Once you stop funding NGOs, once you stop funding arms that propagandize the youth. And, yeah, it turns out people don't really care what your preference of friction is if you keep it in your bedroom. Once the funding and the mechanism is removed, it goes away. Isn't that interesting? Which brings us to the.

[Gerald]

Really quickly, before we do that, there's a clip that they've sent in. Apparently Harrison Ford hasn't gotten the message on climate change. He gave, I guess, a speech at the commencement address for ASU over the weekend. Ish.

[Steven Crowder]

I hope he's wearing his ears.

[Gerald]

We'll see.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, hold on. We gotta get up. Let's restart it. Can you get the sound in? Is he doing the. I knew engineers. We need to stop the change from the climate, or sooner or later you'll all be in a museum.

[Gerald]

Get off my college.

[Stephen]

I was telling us how much. How much fossil fuels he burned in the Millennium Falcon.

[Steven Crowder]

This guy is a hobbyist. He's a hobbyist pilot. He crashed, for crying out loud.

[Gerald]

I don't think he crashed. He flies on a taxiway, which I'm not supposed to do that.

[Steven Crowder]

He landed on a taxiway. The point is, he's not even flying anywhere. I just like the view up here. Get off my Runway. It's not yours.

[Gerald]

We'll come back to it.

[Steven Crowder]

We don't have the audio. All right.

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[Steven Crowder]

plenty of valid arguments to be made and we try to make them. And by the way, we've had plenty of scientists on the show make these arguments. You have people online where the truth isn't good enough enough. Why? Because they need to outsell the truth. They need to outsell the truth with a lie and get your clicks. So it's time for a meme check. And here's the claim. You've probably seen this meme now. I understand the spirit of it. Hey, great. But it's false. Where it says, let's bring this up, it says 1620 Plymouth Rock at sea level. And a 1920 Plymouth Rock at sea level. 2023 Plymouth Rock remains at sea level. Now I understand the point they're trying to make and you could make this point with something real, depending where you pick to take a picture geographically, where the sea level has not risen, in some cases it's received receded. That's not the case though, with Plymouth Rock. Here's the truth. Plymouth Rock has been moved quite a few times over time. 1774 was moved from its natural spot to a town center display and it cracked in half during that move. So they repaired it and then it was moved to its current location, I believe in the early 1900s, which is where it sits now. So you still do get by the way, tides, there's ebb and flow that sometimes cover the rock. So in other words, you could take a picture of that rock now at its moved location and see it somewhat submerged or not submerged. So if you share this, the mildly educated leftist or liberal will go, yeah, see this is the problem is you're posting fake news. So just do me a favor and don't just grab anything you see on social media and believe it to be true. If people are posting things and they're not giving you the original source material or they're not giving you some kind of a reference that you could actually go and check, at least don't share it. Do your best to try and fact check it because there are a lot of strong arguments to be made. We made them last week. We just made Them today. This kind of thing is embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Especially when we know that the Inconvenient Truth predictions failed. Especially when we know that a lot of these IPCC predictions have failed. Noah, by the way, has failed. I did a video back in early 2010. Is Noah smarter than a fifth grader? That was a show back then on television. And the fifth graders got their predictions closer than Noah. They picked them at random. They were closer than Noah. So this is one of those things that is so unbelievably complicated that human beings just don't have a shot. We just haven't been able to get it right with these predictions. And that certainly shouldn't result in crippling government policy economically based on a. Hey, couldn't this happen?

[Gerald]

Yeah, especially some of the fear mongering around nuclear. You asked why they went away from it.

[Steven Crowder]

Some fear monger.

[Noodles]

I heard.

[Stephen]

Yeah, I heard monging too. I didn't want to interrupt you, but

[Steven Crowder]

you call your teacher mommy. It's weird.

[Gerald]

Fear mongering around nuclear because of the Chernobyl incident. There's so we had HBO come out with that documentary, you know, years ago. And then now CNN's doing this like Chernobyl, the untold Story kind of thing. I'm like, no, it's been told a whole lot. That's why people are a little bit afraid of it. They went away from it only because of that.

[Steven Crowder]

And you know what else?

[Gerald]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

Animals are thriving in Chernobyl. Yes. There are literally breeds and kinds of animals.

[Gerald]

You couldn't go there for thousands of years.

[Steven Crowder]

No. Turns out that in some cases when, when nature adapts, in some cases they actually become robust and healthier.

[Gerald]

That's true.

[Steven Crowder]

Sort of like human beings living at altitude.

[Gerald]

You don't want too much, then you get Godzilla.

[Stephen]

But hey, we need a nuclear explosion.

[Gerald]

Yeah, no, that's not what I'm saying.

[Stephen]

That's what you're saying, right?

[Steven Crowder]

In three incidents.

[Stephen]

I heard Gerald said we need a nuclear explosion somewhere in, In Oregon.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, that's exactly right. There have been three incidents with nuclear. Chernobyl, Three Mile island and Fukushima. Fukushima. Most of the damage was all done by the tsunami. When you're talking about.

[Gerald]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

So the number of deaths per kilowatt hour with nuclear far, far, far lower than other forms of energy. If you're talking about safety, there was fear mongering because of the Left. And this is before we fully understood nuclear energy, by the way, and before we fully developed nuclear energy. It's not without its complications of Course, carbon emissions are not amongst them. Waste is easily managed and disposed of compared to what you were told. Safety is significantly better as far as outcomes than even wind or solar in many cases. But governments decided we can't do that. Why? Because someone made a documentary at one point.

[Gerald]

Yeah. And it doesn't make any sense, but it does go to the point you were talking about with the. The kind of. The global. Let's just call them the global elites in technology. People have changed their tunes so fast. And so, you know, people used to make the argument, why are you buying beachfront property if you feel like the beach is not going to be there anymore in 20 years? Or something like that. Like, Obama bought his house on the beach. And I think that's a valid argument. It's a very. It makes sense. This is worse. This is way cleaner. Like, you guys were absolutely against this. You put all. Like Larry Fink, for example, from what is Black? BlackRock. He's pushing all of these agendas. If they don't have these kind of climate policies, dei, all this other stuff. And now it's like, well, maybe we want to win this race. We want to do this. And listen, fine, I get it. But maybe you should have just been doing this the entire time. Because it wasn't inconvenient. It wasn't just costly. It killed people by the millions. Because, and most people don't know this, you couldn't get money in Africa to do coal. You couldn't get it right. And so people, instead of getting money for that, they couldn't get money for anything other than more advanced. That wouldn't really work out. They didn't have the technology for it. They couldn't make it work. So you know what they did? They just burned trees. Because that's what they've been doing for a very long time. They would get wood, put it in there, and they would burn it indoors.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

And they didn't have the kind of systems that we have to get all of the smoke out efficiently to make sure that they don't die from a lung disease.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

So people died.

[Steven Crowder]

Right. You know what else is. I was just. You. But then I keep thinking about you saying fear monger. Well, this also directly relates to the birth rate.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Because remember AOC saying, why would I have a kit when in 11 years we're not even gonna be an hour?

[Gerald]

Exactly. In 2008, I saw a Ted Talk remotely, I think, or Nine. And it talked about getting everybody down into the sub two kids per family category as a good Thing. And I remember I was watching with some people we know from a previous church that we went to, and we all just looked at each other like, what did I do?

[Steven Crowder]

I was there at the un, the Cancun Climate Summer summit when the UN was there and Ted Turner opposed China's one child policy to applause.

[Gerald]

Yep.

[Steven Crowder]

I was like, whoa.

[Gerald]

People are anti humanity is the point.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Gerald]

They are pro themselves anti humanity. Don't trust them, even if it is AI data centers. And I think it's a little overblown. Fine, we'll get into it.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my gosh. He fit it in there.

[Gerald]

I did a little bit.

[Stephen]

He did.

[Gerald]

I mean, they do need a lot of energy. I'm not gonna lie.

[Stephen]

He just keeps fear mongling us.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Fear mongering us.

[Gerald]

I'm just fear monger.

[Stephen]

I like fear monger.

[Gerald]

Guys, it's Maggie. It's a different thing.

[Steven Crowder]

The Fear Mongols.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Genghis can't.

[Gerald]

Whatever.

[Stephen]

The great stall of China.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it's good.

[Gerald]

It's good.

[Steven Crowder]

I like it.

[Gerald]

Do we have the earring air pollution link to what's. So where is this though? Does it say in Africa? Anywhere in Africa? Kenya. Okay, so kills 27,000 people that just.

[Steven Crowder]

Just.

[Gerald]

This is just from cooking. This isn't from like, you know, just other. Other necessary means.

[Steven Crowder]

But just cooking as you're talking about. There's a Weber grill commercial right here.

[Gerald]

Look, I could do that.

[Steven Crowder]

Charcoal. The Weber smoke and the Weber Searwood. I still don't understand the difference in the smoke and the seaward as I understand that one of them is just slightly cheaper. It's like it's one of the other pellet grills that can sear. Outside of the rec techs that Tool man and I are big fans of.

[Gerald]

Yeah, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I just didn't have the best luck with the Weber stuff.

[Stephen]

I'm also a small fan of the rec tech.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, they do. They work quite well. I do recommend rec tech if you guys are looking at a pellet grill, because you can actually grill. Unlike Trae Grill, which is just. Just an easy.

[Gerald]

I need to be talking to rectech about a sponsorship, don't I?

[Steven Crowder]

I've asked you to talk to them about a sponsorship. They're great.

[Stephen]

Yeah, please do.

[Steven Crowder]

And they do have American based customer service. I've never had better customer service with any company than rectech. I was like, hey, this hinge on my thing. Like it's already there. I go, what? We sent you a new one. We also sent you $50 gift card and some oven Mitts. I'm like, give it to the kids. They can play with it.

[Stephen]

That's great.

[Gerald]

So across Africa, estimated 815,000 people die annually from disease. Diseases connected to dirty cooking fuels. Again, all in the name of their policies.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep.

[Gerald]

To save the planet.

[Stephen]

So it's because they don't have chimneys.

[Steven Crowder]

They haven't figured out how they work yet.

[Gerald]

Well, they don't just use wood. They use all kinds of things. So dirty cooking fuels. It's not an efficient way to.

[Stephen]

I mean, they're probably burning plastic. To be honest with you. A lot of. A lot of these countries, what they do with all their waste is burn it anyways. And they don't know the difference between, you know, what's being emitted from a flame. They just. They go, hey, we. We need to burn this, this. This trash. We need to cook this food. Why don't we just cook the food over the burnt trash? Makes sense to us. Because what do we know, right? We've been alive more than any other race in the planet.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, but it takes a while.

[Gerald]

Well, it's not something.

[Stephen]

Something colonization ruin them.

[Steven Crowder]

Slow and steady guarantees the downfall of civilization. That's the.

[Stephen]

Surprisingly enough, the fastest people on the planet.

[Steven Crowder]

I know, I know.

[Stephen]

Figure out a run to the grocery store.

[Steven Crowder]

Maybe, like the hair. They decided to take a nap for a few centuries.

[Gerald]

Well, look, you need to be fast to run, so you're not dinner.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, that's exactly right.

[Stephen]

No, you got to cook your dinner so that you could die. Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I always wonder when I look at certain foods and I'm like, man, someone at some point looked at that and was like, I think we can eat that. Like a pineapple.

[Gerald]

Who's the pineapple?

[Steven Crowder]

It just looks aggressive.

[Gerald]

And you cut it and you're like, ah.

[Steven Crowder]

You'd think someone would be like, that thing hates us. I mean, look at it. It's sharp all around.

[Stephen]

Caviar.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Somebody opened up us a fish and they were like, oh, look at what I found in here. Yeah, it looks like a sack of eggs.

[Steven Crowder]

That's probably good.

[Stephen]

It probably should. You probably should eat that.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

And then they ate it and they're like, oh, this is gross. Yeah, let's try it again on a bunch of other fish until we find like, three that it works with.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, exactly Right.

[Gerald]

Anybody?

[Steven Crowder]

What is it like?

[Stephen]

It's like three fish that you can get actual caviar from.

[Steven Crowder]

Sturgeon.

[Stephen]

Sturgeon is the beluga. Yeah, Sturgeon's big one, which I don't

[Steven Crowder]

even know because beluga, you Think whale. And obviously it's not from a whale because.

[Stephen]

No, it's description crypto.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

But.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Stephen]

Yeah. Every other kind of caviar is not the same.

[Steven Crowder]

Ah. It's not very good.

[Stephen]

It's.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it's so bad, honestly.

[Gerald]

From the male fish. Oh, gross.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, well, you know what? Male fish can caviar, too. Let's just grab some chat, I guess. My wet ass. Caviar.

[Gerald]

Oh, no.

[Stephen]

We don't see a lot of giraffe meat out there.

[Steven Crowder]

There. No, I know. Would you like to.

[Stephen]

Would you like to stick a giraffe neck on your grill there?

[Steven Crowder]

It would. Yeah, it'd be fun. Like, what is that, a rack of ribs?

[Stephen]

No, giraffe neck.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. There's got to be a lot in there. I mean, you could make, like, a nice broth.

[Gerald]

You need fat. It doesn't really have a lot.

[Steven Crowder]

There's fat in a giraffe.

[Gerald]

I mean, a little, not a lot.

[Steven Crowder]

I was at the museum this weekend, and the thing that struck me the most, like they have the woolly mammoth and stuff, was the giant sea turtle.

[Gerald]

Oh, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, this thing's mountain was so huge. Like, just imagine this thing bumping your boat.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

And you falling in prehistoric. Like. Yeah, sure. On land. Terror. But what scares me way more is what used to swim the ocean.

[Stephen]

Oh. Especially because we're not dominant there.

[Steven Crowder]

No, it's just.

[Stephen]

No, we're not designed for it. They. They have fins, they have, you know, aerodynamic water dynamics. I don't know what you'd call it.

[Gerald]

Yeah, something like that Jewish thing I've ever heard. I'm sorry, Hydro. From Sam.

[Stephen]

Hydro.

[Gerald]

Giraffe is kosher, but cannot be slaughtered correctly in a kosher way.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh. Because it's too hard to slice his throat.

[Gerald]

Therefore, I imagine a giraffe is not kosher.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Because you can't slaughter.

[Stephen]

What if I'm just accidentally just up in this tree, a giraffe comes up and I'm like,

[Steven Crowder]

yeah, exactly. Right. Can I eat it then? Yeah. What if I strangle it with a piano wire? Yeah.

[Stephen]

You know what I'm talking about.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like elephant sailors. Hello.

[Stephen]

What if the giraffe is kneeling? Like.

[Steven Crowder]

Like.

[Stephen]

Like I'm Simba. It's kneeling to me. And then I'm like, well, thanks for bringing your neck down here.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Noodles]

Wait for it to drink water.

[Gerald]

I don't think it's like, you could get a lift and, you know, make it work, but I don't think it's that or surprised at one of those, like, nature safari things where you go in and, like, they feed them and they put their neck in.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like, in the car. Yeah. They don't do giraffes here with that, though. In Canada, we had park safari where you could get giraffes who would go up to the car. Now, they always keep them separate.

[Gerald]

Now we.

[Steven Crowder]

We do it.

[Stephen]

There's a park with giraffes.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, the one that I went to suck. It was nothing but ostriches and. And llamas.

[Stephen]

Giraffes. At the Dallas Zoo, you can feed

[Steven Crowder]

them, but they used to stick their neck in your car at Park Safari in Montreal. And here I just went.

[Gerald]

There's one. I can take a long.

[Steven Crowder]

We had a longhorn go in sideways, and then now it's like this. There's no way it's getting out of the car. My daughter's like, he's not gonna hurt you. I mean, I. I'm hoping he pulls the door.

[Gerald]

Know.

[Steven Crowder]

Have no idea. And then ostriches have those demonic raptor eyes.

[Gerald]

They do. And they just peck at your window.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

I think one was an emu. That got me one time.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. I'm not fully. I don't. I'm not fully aware as to what the difference is. I assume one is bigger.

[Stephen]

I got attacked by an emo one time, but.

[Steven Crowder]

Did you. Was he singing My Chemical Romance?

[Noodles]

He meant to attack himself.

[Steven Crowder]

Justin.

[Stephen]

No, he was. He was apologizing. He's like, I'm sorry I can't be perfect.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

I said, go hug me, dad. He said, I can't.

[Steven Crowder]

His friend screaming in the car. Like, I guess it's backup vocals. All right, let's grab some chat.

[Noodles]

All right, well, first off, we'll start on the. The topic of the now and then arrows, because we had some responses.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

So legacy 411 starts with it's Steven show.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go. Thank you, Legacy. I know the next one's gonna hurt. I know the way.

[Noodles]

All right, so let's just go through the list real quick. Yes.

[Gerald]

Wrong.

[Noodles]

I don't know what that means. Now I get it. You're wrong. Yes. I think it's funny.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay.

[Noodles]

Keep the arrow.

[Steven Crowder]

Son of a bitch.

[Noodles]

I can follow. I don't care about the arrow.

[Steven Crowder]

Wrong.

[Noodles]

I'm with Steven. Steven, you're leading us astray.

[Stephen]

Hydro man 52 is. Is catching on.

[Steven Crowder]

I am but a man.

[Noodles]

And finally, BMW Tech 28 says, Point the direction of the arrow.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

That's.

[Stephen]

That's when I was right.

[Steven Crowder]

The first time, you know what you

[Stephen]

know would make this less confusing is if the graphic would show up on either side of the. Because right now it only shows up on. On one side, nailing it on this side. But if one of them was over

[Gerald]

here, it'd be better.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, actually, they should. What? Put the now arrow on the other side of the screen. All problem solved. And make the arrow going the direction of the side of the screen it's on.

[Stephen]

Correct.

[Gerald]

We agree there.

[Steven Crowder]

That is needlessly complicated.

[Gerald]

I always thought, though, that you were trying to point the direction of the arrow.

[Steven Crowder]

That's. Always thought you were an. How about that? I always thought, you guys, it's. It's mutiny on the studio. I never.

[Stephen]

I. I made these, by the way.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, good, good. That's all I'll remember to beat you first. Back to the future theme.

[Gerald]

I know.

[Steven Crowder]

It has nothing to do the Then give me the then again. All right, where is it? See, then. So it. No matter what I do, it's pointing the direction of then right now give me the now. It's on the same side with the arrow going the wrong way.

[Stephen]

Yeah. It needs to be over there. It needs to be on the other side.

[Gerald]

I would just say the other way. Let's not get too, you know, just saying.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

You don't want to offend it, Gerald.

[Stephen]

Yeah, yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

It's true. It's not the wrong way. Because, Gerald, as you well know, there's no wrong way to eat my ass.

[Stephen]

Chat.

[Noodles]

All right, next chat from Liberty Storm. Question for the crew. My sis is a dink. Refuses to have kids because it will take her freedom. She's even considered a hysterectomy at 27.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, my God.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

How do I get her to understand it's a huge mistake?

[Gerald]

Oh, man.

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, maybe listen at this point, maybe let nature take its course.

[Gerald]

I think so, yeah. I mean, I would say you should start really early on this train. And if somebody is living a life that selfish, I imagine that there are plenty of other things that we don't want passed down through the gene pool.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

And it wouldn't be very good.

[Gerald]

Maybe, Maybe not.

[Steven Crowder]

I will tell you, the reason I said is because I was fooled by this too. I was very, very afraid. I always believed I was gonna be a dad. I always wanted to be a dad. And there are other confounding factors there. Contributors. But it was like, oh, my gosh, once I do it, I'm not gonna be able to do this other stuff, and I have other responsibilities as far as running a company. But there is a way to do it. There is a way to do it if you agree on your roles and it's more fulfilling.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

So I bought it now I still ended up. But not. I always planned on being a father and did it. Not super late, but I would have done it earlier if someone had set me straight. So that's also why I've made mistakes and I always try and hopefully help you learn from my own mistakes. Especially, you know, just the energy factor. When you're younger, it's just easier to do so with your sister. With your sister, all kidding aside, it's just maybe does your sister have any like tattoos that she regrets? So that's the only. If she has any tattoos that she regrets or she's tried to correct it. Something like that. Like, that might be something that you could point to and be like, yeah, but imagine this. Only you're permanently altering your reproductive system. I mean, also, why have a hysterectomy? Like there are just so many other methods of birth control that, you know, if that's what she wants to do, doesn't require that. That almost seems like it's more of a principled stand hand in taking away a huge component of her femininity.

[Stephen]

And by the way, it's like something you do to prevent future you from, from making the decision. Like, hey, I'm gonna take this. Don't do the hysterectomy. Remove it completely so that in the future if I do change my mind, I can't.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Stephen]

Which is a, that's a weird like self masochist.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

Not to mention throw your hormones into incredible whack by doing something like that. You're, you're.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Noodles]

You're changing who you are at this

[Gerald]

point in life for the future. I would also like try to figure out why too. I mean, why, why would you want to do that? I was talking more about like letting nature take its course. Not with the hysterectomy, but the not having kids. I would try to find out why. Like argue against the hysterectomy. That's fine. Because I think that's clear cut. Don't do it. You're. You could change your mind in threes. You're 27 years old. You think you know everything. You absolutely do, not even about yourself. You have no idea what you're going to value in a couple of years. Maybe you've been buying a lie for a very long time and something will happen. A friend has a child or something and you'll go, wait a minute, maybe I do. Right, right. And you won't have that option anymore, so definitely don't do that. But find out why, because I'd be very curious to see what people's reasons are and where they're getting it from. Because they're very. It's very easy to go. Well, all these people say it takes my freedom. It does these things. I'm like, well, I've got thousands of counter examples for every one example of that. Or hundreds of thousands.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

That I could give you. And so it makes it easier to argue.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. Next chat.

[Noodles]

All right, next chat from PB DragonNinja.

[Stephen]

PB okay.

[Noodles]

Do you think Americans should explore America first before traveling to another country? Grand Canyon, Arches, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, yada, yada, yada.

[Steven Crowder]

And I will say this logical. I know people are going to disagree with me. I'm not a big fan of traveling for a multitude of reasons, but, you know, having done stand up, obviously travel a whole lot. And I was raised in Montreal, which is much more like Europe. I've been to Europe. Not to all the countries in Europe. You know, I've been to Cuba, I've been to Mexico. Those are the main ones. The truth is, everything that you would see, almost everything that you would see in these other places you have here in the United States. And usually better, it's fine to go, but to prioritize, that's a very new thing.

[Stephen]

Right.

[Steven Crowder]

And I do think that when you add that along with the other bombardment of look at all these things that you're giving up, but then you make it, you never get this back. As far as traveling, I don't think it's a great message to be sending people. And then especially when it's, hey, you should go somewhere else outside of your country. Like, you do realize that there are people for a very, very, very long time who never got to do that before the advent of modern travel. And they took, they found fulfillment in their families, in their communities. And then of course, when people would travel in their, in their station wagon, Right. It was very expensive to fly to Europe. People were fine. And they still wasn't like they were underexposed to the world. World. In most cases, this tourism is a glorified museum where you see things and that's cool. Does it change all that much? No. Take a trip every now and then. Cool, fine. But to make it your identity, and a lot of people say this identity needs to be formed during these years before you have children. I just don't think I Think it's a corrosive message when we are dealing with a very real problem as to the birth rate. So an ideal scenario would be, yeah, you take a trip or two and prioritize if you can. Can going to see things in the United States that's easier if you have a family and just don't make it priority number one. Yeah, make priority number one family and experiences for family as opposed to, you know, I went to Ireland, saw the Cliffs of Moore. I'm like, all right, okay, cool, fine. You can see something similar.

[Stephen]

I'm going to disagree with you a little bit just on the aspect of. I do think traveling is great, you know, and you get things traveling around the world that you won't get in America.

[Steven Crowder]

America, yeah.

[Stephen]

You know, the main thing about traveling, to me, the best thing about traveling to other countries is seeing people living shittier than me. That's always nice. Well, you can get that by going to Albuquerque. That's the greatest thing about traveling outside of the country, though, is you get something you can't get in the United States, and that's history. Yeah, you can't. You can't get ancient history in the United States. You just can't. You're not going to find it. You're not going to see Greece, Rome, the castles of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. You're not going to see, you know, people living exactly the same way they did 3,000 years ago in the Middle East. You're not going to see the Great Wall of China. They're pyramids.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

In South America and in, you know, Egypt. There's so many things across the world that you can see that you just can't get here. And I think that's great. I don't think you have to go do a United States tour first. Before you go do. If you want to learn about something, if you're interested in something, go do it. Me and Catherine, we want to go to Europe to see the castles. We're not interested in anything else. Literally nothing else in the uk.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Except for seeing cat. Like, I'm. I'm going to bring American food with me.

[Steven Crowder]

You can go see them in Quebec.

[Gerald]

Storm the castles.

[Steven Crowder]

Castles, yeah.

[Stephen]

From like the third century.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, no, well, not the third.

[Stephen]

Medieval castles and like.

[Steven Crowder]

No, not the third century, but older than Renaissance art. You can see beautiful, beautiful old cathedrals. It's much more like going to. To old Europe.

[Stephen]

You got to want to see the Sistine Chapel people, though. Yeah, yeah, that's like, I want to see that one. I don't want to see just like whatever. French Canadian. They're boring version of it. I want to see. Yeah, French Canadian.

[Steven Crowder]

That's what you call all those people.

[Stephen]

That's what you call when you don't give a about their culture.

[Steven Crowder]

You want to see all the beautiful things that were all those people where you go, they would give their left arm to be a part of the beautiful thing that is. And here in the United States and these, see these things now. So I think pick the ones that you really want to see and see them. Yeah, see, it's fine. And I would keep it, keep it limited if your financial resources are limited. It's the same thing. It's like, hey, I really want to travel. Okay, cool. How much? Okay. Hey, I really want a really nice car. Okay, cool. What are your finances and your priorities to your family? Your priority is to your community, your priority is to your duties. And then you fit that in with it where you can. But the message has been, hey, cut all this out. Don't do it at the cost. Right. Of travel. And that's the big thing too. You hear it so often. I went backpacking through Europe or you

[Noodles]

could have kids younger, like has been the prescription for a while. And then by the time they're old enough, either you can take them with you and you can enjoy it together as a family, or they're pretty much out of the nest at that point.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure.

[Noodles]

You travel then.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, that's, that's what people usually did. Yeah, they would travel later in life.

[Gerald]

That was like 80 by the time that happened.

[Stephen]

Noodles, you and I both have an 11 year old, right? 11 or 12, yeah. So I mean, I have a four year old too, so it's going to be a while. But yeah, I'm only a couple of years away from, you know, my daughter being able to just be left at home alone while we go somewhere for the weekend. Like if we want to go to Cancun or if we want to go to the Grand Canyon for some reason,

[Steven Crowder]

it really comes down to what kind of a life do you want to actually have? Because 99% of it is spent here at home with your family. And what kind of a society do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a society of perpetual adolescents who prioritize travel and leisure and cars and clothes or families, in which case the sacrifices are based around that. Right now the sacrifice has been the family. And that's what needs to change. And so it's kind of like I was talking about watching, watching this movie. Not the help. That's the black. Send, help.

[Gerald]

Send the help.

[Steven Crowder]

Crashed on an island. I don't know why you sitting under that branch. Would you? I don't know why you think you gonna have enough coconuts? You're not helpful in a survival situation.

[Stephen]

Instead of, instead of sending for someone to rescue you, you send for servants.

[Steven Crowder]

Bushcraft. You do a Bushcraft. How about you? Bush league this Bush league. I, I'm watching it. I'm like, okay, so they set it up. First off, the funny thing is I'm sitting there with my woman and like the guys are in this. Of course it's, it's meant to be somewhat tongue in cheek, but they can't really write men in Hollywood anymore because there are very few men. There are women, there are feminist women and there are gay gay men most of the time. So the men are all douchebags and they wear a nice suit. So the guys get promoted because they're semi good looking. But the women have to work twice as hard because in the real world, women don't get moved forward if they're incredibly attractive. For proof, see the 22:1 fitness influencer thing on Instagram. Men don't get ahead by being simply good looking enough. So right away it starts with men get promoted even though they're incompetent as long as they're good looking. Women have to be super hyper competent and work twice as. Then they set it up with she's in the Midwest. Like she's. I don't know if she's a midwesterner or maybe she's from place like Oregon or Washington. So she's into the outdoors. Okay. And so when they land, crash land, spoiler alert. Like, she's the one who's able to do it. Now you may be able to find some exceptions to the rule where a woman would be more capable in the wilderness than a man. Got it. And you may be able to find some exceptions to the rule where a man, simply because he's charming enough, gets moved ahead. Okay, fine, here's the big dip. The two primary problems that we have between the sexes and how they're portrayed. Okay. When men generalize about women, it's very different from the way that women generalize about men, the mainstream generalizations. So like, let me give you one. What would be the most typical generalization? And of course not all there are outliers. But like men might say, for example, when it comes to making decisions, decisions, women are more likely to make them,

[Gerald]

what with consensus or slowly emotion Women

[Steven Crowder]

tend to be more emotional versus logic. Not all, not all, not all. But here's the thing. That's a generalization. It's accurate. Okay? Or if we say when it comes to physicality, women, not just on average, but the vast majority of women are, in comparison to men, what, hotter?

[Gerald]

What, weaker?

[Steven Crowder]

Weaker. That's a true generalization. Women go, yeah, all men are narcissists. That's not a true generalization. Yeah, all men are backstabbers. It's the opposite of a true generalization. So the generalizations that men make about women are deemed offensive, but they're largely accurate. The ones that women make about men are entirely made up. When you look at things like toxic masculinity, that's the big difference. And then one more. It's the. It could happen. Based on the outlier. It could happen. I saw enough with Jennifer Lopez. She taped her hands and took Krav Maga. She could beat up a full grown. It could happen. And no woman goes, what the hell are you talking. Of course it wouldn't happen. She's like four foot nine. No, no, that wouldn't happen. It could happen. Atomic Blonde. It could happen. She could be the one who's in charge. And the men don't know what they're doing in a wild, say, in a wilderness situation. It could happen. And no one just goes, are you out of your mind? If a man were to go, yeah, hey, Stephen, this guy who's 145 pounds, who's never lifted a weight, he could. It could happen. He could end up being the toughest guy. Are you out of your mind? So it's always that it could happen with an outlier and offended it. Yeah. But here's what would happen. And the generalizations that men make about women, well, may be offensive, and it doesn't apply to all women are, as a general rule, correct. As an assessment. The generalizations that women make about men are not. And they write men that way and men are portrayed that way in film and in television. So could it happen where you have a douchebag boss who doesn't actually know what a wild boar is? At one point he goes like, what's that?

[Gerald]

Like a pig.

[Steven Crowder]

And she does. And she's able to kill it with a spear because she's so bad badass. It could maybe happen. The likelihood is incredibly slim. That's the problem. And I don't even know how we got onto this question, but it's just like I was watching it. What were you talking about before this Dinks, dinks. Oh, yeah, it could happen. It's like, sure, but if you're making a generalization, you better be sure it's accurate. And then women base their decisions off of false generalizations of man and the potential outliers of women. Like, I saw this one woman going, it was a fitness influencer going on, sitting here. And she was, of course, half naked. That's another thing you want to talk about, like, men getting ahead because they're better looking. What? Like, that's not a thing. Like the female influencers. That's largely pornography for men. They literally wear pants that are wedgies. They are wedgie pants.

[Stephen]

I can't tell you how many terrible, terrible comedians sell tickets because they just. They just put on a bikini and they're not even attractive. They're like, they're too fat for the bikini. They're not like, good looking.

[Steven Crowder]

They're good enough.

[Stephen]

They need a dentist.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

Maybe a health plan, you know?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Stephen]

And then they're like, hey, look, I shake my ass on. On this. Tickets are 20 bucks. Maybe you'll get to bang me afterwards.

[Steven Crowder]

That's exactly right. And then. And this girl, they'll go, I can't believe that this man was looking at me. Okay, you can't believe that one man was looking at you. So you are uploading it to 5 million men online. There was literally a woman. I saw this. She was wearing shorts. She was in, you know, a bra and shorts. Let's call it what it is at the gym. By the way, I like naked ladies. All of us do. That's my men look. She goes, this is what you have to do on the adductor machine that faces the entrance of the gym, right? She's getting on with the legs opening and she's wearing basically booty shorts and a bra. And she takes her pants and she puts them over her crotch and she's like, I can't believe. It's like, hey, there are two other holes in those fucking pants. You could put them on. You could just put on pants. But you blame the man. Like, there was another one where a woman was on a. On a T bar row machine. She goes, this is how you know this was invented by a man. And she like, she's wearing a bra and she gets on. And of course, this supports your chest so she has cleavage. I am not joking. She puts her head through it and drapes it and then goes down. It's like, there are armholes. Put on the shirt. Put on the shirt. And your boobs won't be on display. They weren't picturing someone who wanted to be a stripper while being offended that men look at, hey, there's a stripper doing chest supported rows. It's like, so women base it on a false generalization. And the outlier. And they're perpetually like, right now, this is awful for women. It's not good for men. And men are checking out. I don't know how people think that this is a good direction to go.

[Noodles]

The guy that built that machine was not thinking about you building your chest. He was thinking boobs.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like he was picturing you wearing a shirt.

[Stephen]

Yeah. He probably wasn't even thinking about women at all.

[Steven Crowder]

No.

[Stephen]

And it's fun that we're all going like, yeah, it definitely was a man that invented it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Stephen]

Like, even the woman's like, definitely a man invented this workout machine that I'm using wrong.

[Steven Crowder]

Do you know what would happen? These women are like, well, I'm doing this. Do you know what happened? Even take the attractive women. Okay. Take all of these attractive female influencers. Fitness influencers. That's a big thing that's exploded. Right. Do you know what would happen if they dressed the way that women dressed at the gym for all time up until relatively recently? Meaning if they just. I'm not saying you have to wear a burlap sack. See, if they wore sweatpants and a sweater, do you know what happened? They would be on the same playing field as all male fitness influencers. Now, it's based on the actual advice. Is it sound? Does it work? They don't want to do that because they want the leg up. To complain about the leg up and say that they're at a disadvantage as a woman. Just dress respectably and not now. You will be on the same playing field as men. Guess what would happen then? The qualified exercise scientists and those who are athletically minded and who are good at offering coaching advice and programming and periodization, they would win out and the women wouldn't do very well because there aren't many of them. They're usually offering horrible advice, hoping you look at their ass while they write movies about men getting ahead because they're good looking. It could happen. It could happen, but it won't. Next chat.

[Stephen]

You know what's funny is the male influencers, you know who their audience is?

[Steven Crowder]

Men.

[Stephen]

Men. Female influence. Fitness influence. You know who the audience is?

[Steven Crowder]

Men.

[Stephen]

Men.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stephen]

I can't use any of this advice, but yeah, I like the way she said it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And one of them dressed half naked, said, like, I just, just enjoying thinking about how all the men making fun of me dressing half naked, I'd be able to take them in a fight. No, that's not even an. It could happen. That's a 14 year old boy, that's a 16 year old midget. Male is gonna kick the shit out of you. You have no idea. You have women. It's like, what do you do when you have this entire segment that is so delusional? So delusional. Because then you don't have a healthy respect of where the sexes stand and how we complement each other. You have 80 to 90% of women who think if they train for a few months they can actually out badass a man. You can't. Now, if you lived in reality, you would acknowledge this isn't toxic masculinity. You need good men to protect you from bad men. There is no film that represents reality. You would be tossed like a rag doll. Even if you're the strongest woman in the gym, the current powerlifting female champion, her chest would be caved in. Caved in like a skateboard snapping if you landed in the middle of the deck, Check if a man, if a teenage boy aggressively punched her. It's just not even close. But when you have people who are so delusional that they believe this lie, then they base their decisions and our relational dynamics on that lie. Men have a more realistic assessment. It could happen. I bet you Ronda Rousey could beat a lot of men. No. No average man off the couch. No, Certainly not a trained man. Any woman who's had brothers, you know what I'm talking about. Next chat.

[Noodles]

All right, Not a question, but a chat they thought you'd want to react to from the direct. Okay, not having kids is just fine. The economy sucks. Medical care is expensive. Medical complications suck. Some people themselves feel unqualified to be parents. Having kids isn't the solution for all.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure. That's why we said not all. Not all, not all. And if you don't want to have kids, that's fine. We're not talking about individual. That sounds very much like a leftist argument. It's like, well, yeah, I get this, but what about me? We're talking about what kind of a society do we need to exist 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now?

[Stephen]

If you think medical insurance and medical care is bad now, wait till there's no one. No one paying for it. No one doing the job. Yeah, when you're old, you need young people to be the Nurse, to be the doctor, to be the taxpayer, to pay for that Social Security, to pay for that Medicaid.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And if you look, not everyone should be parents. I get it. But far more should be than are. And what we're talking about is what is the ideal for society? What's the starting off point? And then there are exceptions. We've scrapped that and said there's no right answer and there's no wrong answer. And we end up with women who are depressed, women who are on more psychotropic medications than ever, men who are checking out of the dating pool. And so they end up more and more involved with pornography. Men are faring better, just to be clear, in this new economy and this new relationship economy than women are in general. Because men are more content being alone, provided their sexual needs are met doesn't mean it's morally correct, but it's a biological reality. Women are going to be harmed more. And the people who of course are harmed the most are children, if you live a life of selfishness. So, no, not everybody should be a parent. And I understand that there are certain complications. And like I said, this doesn't apply to people who can't be parents. But we are talking about, if we want to have a country, we need to have people in this country. What do we want those people to be? And what kind of a life needs to be lived in general to sustain this country. We can't have a conversation about every single different. Yeah, sure, look, families, raising the families, staying with the families. If a couple abroads want to go do math for NASA, I don't give a. We're still talking about the family unit, which is a central building block of America. I'm not saying that everybody should have parents. The problem is kids. It needs to be. Everybody should have kids. Everybody should have parents. The problem is we've been messaging the opposite.

[Gerald]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

Been messaging the opposite. And that's why I just don't. I'm like, could it be like, what the hell? I'm like, sure, but I just won't tolerate anymore because we're dealing with the level of delusion and a direction that is so verifiable, awful. I'm like, nope, would never happen. Yeah.

[Gerald]

By the way, the economy stuff, the, the complications, health care stuff, like all that's been worse in the past. Worse in the past. It's all worse right now actively in other countries. Sure. It doesn't stop people from having kids.

[Steven Crowder]

It's very.

[Gerald]

These are very bad arguments for not having kids. It's One of the fear mongering arguments that people put out and the reason I want to go after them is because they're just not true. Just because the economy is doing relatively poorly doesn't mean you should stop having kids. That doesn't make any sense at all. Otherwise we wouldn't have had kids. Almost all of our history as a country, the economy wasn't doing great and if you're like, well, people just lived out in the woods and self sufficient, go do it. Fantastic. Go get a, go get a piece of land somewhere that's incredibly cheap, then you can have kids. You still have that option. You're choosing actively not to. People can raise kids on almost no money. I grew up that way with my family. Very, very poor, lower middle class. I don't think I went to a school that was predominantly white.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, okay.

[Gerald]

Very, very poor, diverse group of people, very tough. None of that makes any sense to me. Medical complications, those things were way worse in the past.

[Steven Crowder]

Right?

[Gerald]

Child, infant mortality, way higher.

[Stephen]

Yeah, if you're poor, it's good.

[Gerald]

All throughout history, we don't know how good we have it now. That doesn't mean, like Stephen said, you have to be a parent or that it might not be challenging in some ways, but it's always been that way. Stop thinking that this is supposed to be like the easy street thing.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm sorry. And you know what? I'm just going to tell you this. Pretty much everything we've been, the direction we've been on, as far as far as relationships, as far as how to approach relationships, as far as the differences between men and women, how we acknowledge and how we approach relationships because of the differences between men and women and how children should be raised and how we approach that. We have gone the opposite direction that we did for a long time based on outliers and caricatures that were never true. And we've gone the wrong direction. What do I mean by that? People go, well, back in the day, parents just beat their kids and men just hit their wives and cheated. There was nothing that could happen happen. That's not true. And back in the day, dads were all alcoholics and they were abusive and it was all traumatic. There were some, but that's just not true. Now our correction has been we need laws that punish the primary earner. We need laws that basically make someone guilty until proven innocent. We need to discourage people from getting married. We need therapy for issues that frankly should be dealt with really pretty quickly within the hierarchy of a relationship. And we need to Listen to children and play, place their feelings above discipline because that's traumatic. Let me ask you this. People were told for a very long time, spanking is traumatic, right? Parents being too harsh, not being listened to is traumatic. Do you honestly think that young people today are more mentally well adjusted? Because that's one thing I will say has gotten worse. Do you think they are more mentally well adjusted and being able to deal with the world once they leave the household? Absolutely fucking not. And I will tell you, I have to. I have to challenge myself. I had it. There's we weekend where it's very easy. You know what's easy? Like, hey, go do this. Hey, go make your bed. Can't you help me? Oh, you know what? I want to see you brushing your teeth by yourself. Now, I'm going to check to make sure all your teeth are clean. You want to help your child, but at a certain point you go, no, that's not how this works. You need to do it by yourself. Hey, we should listen to everyone's feelings. My son was crying because he closed the door and he didn't grab the handle the right way. And his finger got caught a little bit. Okay. It was a little bit of a boo boo. And of course you want to grab him and hold, hug him. This was an experience that actually happened this week, this weekend. And he has a tendency sometimes because I know that if he cries, he knows he'll get attention. That's all young people. And I'm sure he wants to be hugged, comforted, made to feel better. It's not, go outside, lock the door, and I don't care. But he also needs to be taught, hey, hey, hey. We need to differentiate between an ouchie and something that's serious. And so I checked his finger. There wasn't even a mark. I knew he was fine. I said, hey, okay, okay, you're okay, big guy. And he was crying. I said, okay, I'm gonna count to three. I'm gonna need you to stop crying. I said, okay, because I don't know. Do you know this? Actually, if you cry with little. When you. When you have a really big boo boo, that really hurts. If you cry, right? Actually, it kind of helps it feel better. Go away. But you only have so many cries that you can use. So you can use them. But if you use them on all your small ouchies, all your small boo boos, then you're gonna try and cry when you get a big one. Like that time that you fell outside. And you're gonna go and you're not gonna be able to. Cause you're gonna run out of tear. I said, so we save our cries for the big ones, not all the little ones. So if you cry too long, it's not going to work when you need it to. That's why you don't see daddy cry a lot. It's okay, but only when it's something big. Because I want to make sure I save up the tears so that it works when I need it. And he stopped and he was fine. Now, of course that's grossly scientifically inaccurate and you can excuse me of mine, but I was trying to make, make him understand. Like, we don't just cry at little things because you are going to grow into a man. Now, the stereotype used to be men weren't allowed to express their emotions. That's not true. That's not true. You can read letters from our founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln, crying and embracing men and being in touch with their emotions, but understanding when it was appropriate to weep. We've gone so far the other way that we've said it's appropriate to weep all the way the time based on a stereotype that isn't true. We have a society that took outliers, painted that as the norm, and said, isn't it better now? Whereas on the flip side, they go, things are worse now economically for the middle class, that's inaccurate. But they'll tell you things are better now. Men being more in touch with their feelings, relationships going to therapy, kids being raised in environments that are more conducive to look, learning that is inaccurate. It's take the outliers, paint it as the norm, and send us down a path which is the wrong direction. If you are raising a young man, raise him to be moral, to be righteous, to be powerful, to protect the women in his life. To understand when it's okay to cry, to understand when it's not. And if you are raising a young daughter, raise her to be feminine, to esteem others first, to serve people first in her family, to make a hearth and home, to not think that she's a badass who can go out and out fight the guys because it's not going to happen. But to make sure that she understands and recognizes the character in men so she can differentiate between protectors and predators. And if they refuse and they rebel, you discipline them, not just always listen to them. And yes, sometimes that includes spanking. I don't care if you people want to tell young folks that they need to cut out toxic relationships because they think that their dad or their mom is a hard ass. We see the results. Young people have been therapized. They have been listened to. They have been told to prioritize their emotions. They have had more dollars spent on them per pupil in public education than ever before. They've had more subsidies and more scholarships. More of them are educated. They have more information at the their fingertips than anyone throughout all of human history. Right. If education was going to solve the problem, if after school programs were going to solve the problem, if more therapy was going to solve the problem, we wouldn't have the first generation of people who are fatter, sicker, going to die younger and dumber, let alone less happy. The solution isn't that complicated. Let's go back closer to where we were. Sometimes the old ways were the right ways. When the new ways suck and then correct it from there. We shouldn't be correcting it from where we are now. This isn't complicated. We have to choose the starting point. Not all. Not all. Not all. And I'll see you tomorrow.