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00:03:09.000And I thought, oh, she misses those days of like playing on a swing set, you know, drinking a 40 with her buddies and just hanging out in a parking lot in the backs of cars with the music blaring and stuff.
00:03:21.000And she hates her new life in many ways with all the glitz and glamour.
00:03:25.000And she wants to get back to, maybe they have a secret date.
00:03:27.000Like after the concert, she sneaks out of the back door and he meets her and they get in his Honda Civic and they go have fun like they used to.
00:05:00.000Like a little rock-a-wear jacket that ends here with fur coming out of the bottom and then an exposed belly with a belly button ring and like high-heeled timbalins.
00:08:45.000Or when a girl gets a boob job, her female friends will be like, oh, my God, I wish I had these.
00:08:50.000It's hard to think of a context where a guy could just like, even if it was the most casual, kind little beep, that's still, even if he beeped.
00:08:58.000I can't imagine like dropping my kids off at school and seeing when the mom's going, hey, Claire, honkerdoodle.
00:12:17.000A lot of these super babes you see on that show that look like they might be fun in the 80s, they are soups, dupes, Christian, ultimate squares, don't drink.
00:12:26.000Kimberly Guilfoyle, you would see her at the bar occasionally, but all those other blondes, super duper squares.
00:12:35.000No, it's different with the interns and some of the younger ones there.
00:12:38.000I heard Geraldo had crazy parties where they would drink like 50 Coronas in his office, and the janitors would have to lift these big tubs of empty Corona bottles.
00:14:32.000But he's still, and you understand when you send Tommy to jail, he can't eat the food because the Muslims will crap in it and put poison in it, literally.
00:14:38.000So he can just eat the commissary tuna and a piece of fruit, which is why he lost 40 pounds last time in a tiny cell not much bigger than this.
00:14:46.000Not much bigger than what you see here.
00:17:58.000He said, going to Britain is like getting in a dystopian time machine and seeing how bad things will be here in five years.
00:18:07.000Anyway, it's important that I talk to you about how much TV sucked in the 80s, and I'm going to turn to my friend Homeless Gavin over here, who is going to explain to us that when people of my age, half a century old, when we grew up and watched TV, it all sucked.
00:18:24.000The pictures sucked, like the actual photographs.
00:18:26.000When you look at your photographs from when you were a kid, you go, what kind of camera is this?
00:18:30.000This is way worse than 1920s photography with black and white.
00:18:34.000Everyone's just a blob, a blurry blob.
00:18:36.000And the shows suck, the pictures sucked, and the quality of the entertainment was shockingly bad.
00:19:18.000And when you look at that show, you go, every joke is sort of crammed in there, and they've ironed it out, and they care about you.
00:19:24.000And then you look at the shows that I grew up with, like Silver Spoons, and you go, you guys were just Sort of wigging it beyond any sort of UCB improv group.
00:19:42.000This is when Alfonso, you know, Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, when he was a little kid, he was on Silver Spoons with Ricky Schroeder.
00:19:52.000And breakdancing was kind of a big thing.
00:25:58.000I think I remember as a little kid watching this and going, yeah, I'm a little Canadian kid, but I thought that grown-ups were cooler and I thought TV would be harder.
00:27:44.000And being the vindictive person who deserves equal treatment, a wonderful human being that he is, he sicked his dogs and Vox, the parent company, which is loaded.
00:29:37.000I would much rather face the government.
00:29:39.000I would much rather have a First Amendment court case go to court than go out there to the Lord of the Flies mob that wants to kill Piggy for touching the conch shell.
00:32:05.000They said, well, we can't remove him because he didn't violate the guidelines.
00:32:08.000But because of all the pressure from the LGBTQAIP community, we'll just make sure he doesn't make any money off of YouTube, which of course was not enough for Vox.
00:32:32.000You know, it would have been one thing if he'd have just gone after me and said, well, you know, Stephen used the term lispy queer, which I think is only I can say it.
00:32:40.000You know, only we can use that word because he uses it regularly.
00:32:43.000I think he would have had more sympathy.
00:32:45.000But the fact is, he went right to advertisers to try and get everyone demonetized and deplatform who disagrees with him.
00:32:52.000So now you have a bunch of people who aren't even conservative who are pissed off with him.
00:35:19.000When you watch it, you can see this sort of dead inside, soulless stare where she's just like, the guy comes up who's a transgender male to female.
00:35:28.000And like, you know what I'm talking about.
00:36:58.000Like, this is the, we are at a point where half the country is conservative, okay?
00:37:03.000And then if you look at the people who aren't conservative, but at least don't want conservatives milkshaked or deplatformed, I'm going to guess it's at least 70%, maybe 8, 5, right?
00:37:14.000The Carlos Maza and the people who ask questions because they're given the press passes at these politicon, I can't remember the name of it, something con.
00:37:20.000Everything is a con now, like everything's a gate.
00:37:23.000Versus 2% of people who want everyone who disagree with them deplatformed.
00:37:26.000And they scream the loudest, just like you see in academia, just like you see everywhere else in media.
00:37:37.000And this is an awkward question because I don't want to give the left a victory.
00:37:43.000But in a way, it seems like it is a victory for them.
00:37:47.000They are successfully deplatforming the right.
00:37:50.000Demonetizing you is a major victory for them.
00:37:55.000I think they, well, they don't see it as a victory, right?
00:37:57.000That's the thing is they don't see it as a victory because they wanted to deplatform us.
00:38:00.000And we generated more mug club signups than ever in the company's history.
00:38:03.000So we named Carlos Maza employee of the month and have a plaque.
00:38:07.000And he was, of course, he's furious about it.
00:38:08.000But like, listen, man, this is what happened.
00:38:10.000And I think the real problem here is what's sort of unprecedented is, you know, with people like Alex Jones, and I'm not, of course, a defended Alex Jones.
00:38:19.000I said, this is a slippery slope, regardless of whether I agree with him on everything.
00:38:48.000But now they're even saying, even if you don't break our murky rules, even if you're a basic bitch conservative who does a late night show with some jokes that maybe offend some people, but you shouldn't be banned, we still might punish you.
00:38:59.000But yeah, it's what's funny to me, did you see all these other people who were complaining?
00:39:03.000And obviously, it's terrible that all these platforms were demonetized.
00:39:06.000But one guy was this leftist journalist who was like, Yeah, you got to get rid of Steven Crowder.
00:39:10.000And then his whole channel got demonetized.
00:39:50.000When you and I have talked about this a lot, we sort of saw the sky falling for a long time.
00:39:54.000So we wanted to generate another platform.
00:39:55.000That's always why I said we didn't want to go to Patreon.
00:39:57.000We didn't want to go to GoFundMe or PayPal because now you see they're just trying to get rid of everyone from all these platforms.
00:40:03.000So it was really important for us to have something that allowed us to sustain ourselves while still allowing us to create more content on the free platforms because that's important for impact.
00:40:12.000And I've said this, listen, if they still would never reinstate our monetization, if they said we never will tomorrow, I would take that deal for all time if it meant that we still got to reach our subscribers, that our notifications worked.
00:40:25.000For me, at real YouTube is really about the impact.
00:40:27.000And I think that's why they're upset because people like you, people like myself, we're winning in the war of ideas.
00:40:33.000We don't have the $20 million plus $15 million from what is the current Al Jazeera that the young Turks have.
00:40:38.000I mean, so much less money and so much more effective.
00:40:42.000And I don't think Chenkweager could survive a super cut montage of the crap he said.
00:40:48.000I think the only way for them to win is to cheat and to get rid of the competition, control the narrative, and then they get to say whatever they want and we can't defend ourselves.
00:40:57.000Now everyone's a Nazi and you sell racist mugs.
00:41:05.000And I have spies in there who tell me that it's only a matter of time when they're seeing, there's little clues they give, like they take away comments and shit.
00:41:14.000But I took down everything that was remotely contentious and I'm told it's just a matter of minutes.
00:41:20.000But I was demonetized months and months ago.
00:41:44.000And that's why so many people have gotten upset because even liberals, even people who are out and out liberals, leftists, you see some actual progressive leftists out there going, hold on a second, hold on a second.
00:41:54.000It's one thing to say it violates policies of hate speech, which of course we don't agree with because hate speech isn't really a thing.
00:41:59.000I think the policy should be in line with the law.
00:42:01.000But now when they say it's not a violation of policies, they're going to do this anyway.
00:42:05.000Now you have leftists their hairs up going, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:42:18.000We were just fighting for our lives here.
00:42:20.000But I do think that now what's happened that you and I have talked about for a long time, that all of these people in content creation have known for a long time, is happening out in the open where the general American public understand that it's happening.
00:42:32.000And so that's what I would say is hopefully the silver lining.
00:42:35.000Yeah, when they start taking down history teachers with Hitler videos when they're talking about World War II, they've gone a bridge too far.
00:43:20.000Well, so what happened with YouTube, and I know they're going to be looking into antitrust.
00:43:24.000So I know this has been stepped up quite a bit with, I think Ted Cruz is really kind of spearheading this.
00:43:30.000But YouTube started in, I think you probably remember, because you were obviously plugged into media, I think 2006.
00:43:34.000My brother and I did a video there a long time ago.
00:43:37.000We did some one-off videos, but he was one of the first ever YouTube partners.
00:43:40.000Now, at that point in time, keep in mind, there was competition to YouTube.
00:43:44.000There was like LiveLake, Vimeo, there were other sites coming up, but YouTube said, hey, if you upload your content to our platform, we'll pay you.
00:43:50.000They were the only platform to actually pay content creators.
00:43:55.000And then they got all this influx of cash from Google, right, when they were purchased.
00:43:59.000And so YouTube effectively eliminated competition by all of this content being created by these content creators who are generating income based on the promise from YouTube.
00:44:09.000Now that YouTube's big enough, an NBC, Universal, or Disney, right, with Vice, complain, they're kicking out the people who created their platform that allowed them to eliminate the competition.
00:44:22.000And I know you could say, well, technically their contract says they can boot anyone at any point, but there would be no YouTube if not for the content creators and the partnership program because it would have been more competitive.
00:44:31.000People would have uploaded to different sites.
00:45:28.000Owen Benjamin keeps nagging me and telling me, oh, Crowder didn't want me to talk to you and didn't want me to support you after you were fired.
00:45:36.000But I remember you calling me right after I was fired and trying to get me on the show, begging me to come on the show.
00:47:20.000It could just be me being an optimist, but I do see that happening.
00:47:23.000I mean, otherwise, you would be talking about actual election meddling, not fake election meddling like they talk about with Russia, but actual election meddling if they capitulate to people who want to get rid of all conservatives.
00:47:34.000It is actually already election meddling.
00:47:50.000This was the first change of my mind where liberals, we did it outside of Google, and they were going, yeah, this is kind of crappy.
00:47:55.000I actually agree with you on the hate speech law and guidelines.
00:47:58.000But something that I think is interesting, you know, Trudeau, I'm sure you've seen Justin Trudeau has said that he's going to lean on Twitter.
00:49:01.000I don't know if it's necessarily just in their municipality, but here's kind of the, because now Susan Wojitsky and Jack Dorsey were talking about how they have different laws regarding hate speech, but almost praising the hate speech laws in the European Union and, of course, in Canada.
00:49:17.000If Twitter capitulates to the government like Justin Trudeau, and they don't allow Americans to speak freely, which they're allowed to do by law in the United States, is that a foreign agent meddling in American elections?
00:49:30.000I mean, at what point do we allow foreign governments to have influence on our elections?
00:49:34.000Because Justin Trudeau would get rid of anyone with a MAGA hat.
00:49:37.000So that's another question that I think needs to be answered legally right now.
00:49:40.000This is beyond just Twitter, Twitter wars and YouTube and, you know, and memes and stuff like that.
00:49:44.000And yes, we understand all of that, and that's how you get the word out.
00:49:46.000But legally, I really think that they're in some hot water now.
00:49:50.000They're between a rock and a hard place.
00:49:52.000Last point, I know I got you way longer than you agreed upon.
00:49:55.000But I think one thing these lefties don't really realize is we've been doing this for a long ass time.
00:50:01.000You've been doing this since you're a little kid.
00:50:09.000Carlos Mazza, these little kids coming in, it's like they come into a gym and they duct tape the legs of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis and go, we're winning, we're winning.
00:50:19.000I'm going to get the duct tape off and I'm going to hammer you.
00:50:23.000I'm going to make, if you milks fake me, I'll make orphans of your children.
00:50:28.000I don't usually speak with milksakers unless I fornicated with them.
00:50:31.000So you better keep your mouth shut unless you want to, you know.
00:50:46.000There's a very big difference between you, you helped create Vice Media, myself, this is entirely independently owned and operated, and someone who takes a paycheck, someone who signs the back of the check from Vox.
00:50:58.000This guy has no idea what it's like to go out there and create content.
00:51:01.000None of these content creators at Vox or take any other late night host, Seth Meyers at NBC, they have no idea what it actually takes to produce, create, and distribute content online because they don't have to do it.
00:51:12.000And that's why they don't understand how upset these other actual creators are in this new age of content creation who do it themselves.
00:51:57.000But right now we're in the information phase, so I want to give them Every single fair opportunity we can to figure out what our violations are, or sorry, what harm we've committed to the broader community at large.
00:52:07.000Because maybe, you know, maybe, I mean, we did Cultural Appropriation Month where I was dressed as Mickey Rooney from breakfast at Tiffany's and drowned a baby girl doll in a basin of water.
00:52:14.000I thought that one might get us in trouble, but apparently not.
00:53:35.000You know, Milo will not hire anyone who doesn't read regularly, and they have to, whenever he's interviewing them, they have to discuss the past three books they've read.
00:55:09.000You started off with an apology to the LGBTQ community, but then you were involved and that you think YouTube made the right call.
00:55:18.000A lot of people don't really feel like that's an apology and are concerned that YouTube flags LGBT positive content just for being LGBT as sometimes sensitive.
00:55:34.000If you're going to be taken seriously in the media world and you want to be a political force or a group that has influence, try not to be incredibly annoying.
00:55:46.000Try not to be so exhausting that when people see you, they go, oh, great, here we go.
00:55:50.000Try not to be a tedious pedant because it gives us all narcolepsy.