This week, Steven Crowder and his co-hosts discuss the latest in tech, politics, and pop culture. They discuss Elon Musk's new role as CEO of the world's largest social media platform, the Grammys, and much more.
00:00:36.000Well, sir, my name is Steven Crowder, and these here are the Mug Club Zs from Lighthouse Crowder, a late-night comedy of salvation to salve the soul.
00:00:43.000And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.
00:04:25.000That's a big change, so people are mad about it, which is funny to me.
00:04:28.000You would think that the woke leftists would be thrilled that the person who basically spearheaded the modern electric car movement is now in charge of one of the biggest tech platforms and
00:04:37.000or not in charge but has the biggest say in. Well. But no they had to boot him from
00:04:41.000California. Yeah yeah. If you can't make green policies work in California how can you make it
00:04:45.000work? Also the Grammys I don't know if you know this apparently Louis CK winning the award that's
00:04:49.000an example of cis white men we'll debunk that and more importantly the southern border
00:04:53.000everyone's talking about Russia and Ukraine and look we've talked about that.
00:04:58.000We feel like we've mined that as much as we can.
00:05:00.000No one's talking about what's going on in the southern border.
00:05:40.000You don't need to believe in a conspiracy to understand the Great Reset.
00:05:43.000You just need to observe what's happening around you.
00:05:46.000So my question before any of that to you, question of the day, helps with the YouTube algorithm, is if you could choose any country to which you would illegally immigrate, which would it be?
00:06:44.000You know what those two ways are if you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm.
00:06:46.000And we also have here, you know him, you love him, him and I will be, we're on tour, but specifically May 14th in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Tulsa Ballroom.
00:08:23.000At one point, you know, you have Carson, right, where 50 million people would tune in.
00:08:27.000There was a sort of centralized focal point of the country where you had things that would be referenceable because everyone was reading the same newspapers, watching the same news.
00:08:35.000So, okay, this is the material that's broad enough to work.
00:08:38.000With SNL now, they've decided to go leftist politic niche.
00:08:42.000Because they're doing a sketch mocking Clarence Thomas, of course Justice Clarence Thomas for having been in the hospital and his wife on January 6th.
00:08:49.000They're desperately trying to make a thing.
00:08:51.000Unless you read the liberal blogs or watch, God forbid, CNN or MSNBC, it's probably not a story that you're following.
00:08:57.000So that tips SNL's hand as to where they're leaning now and to whom they're catering.
00:09:10.000Okay, guys, speaking of truths, alright, Crush of the Week, Ted Cruz, absolutely wiped the floor with Ketanji Brown-Jackson last week by waving a children's book at her.
00:11:15.000They couldn't make Clarence Thomas as uncomfortable as former Vice President Joe Biden did at the hearings.
00:11:20.000Legislators in defeating the Nunes plan in the basement said, quote, we already have a nigger mayor, we don't need any more nigger big shots.
00:11:27.000Well he can say it because he has a dementia pass.
00:11:37.000Legislators in defeating the Nunes plan in the basement said, quote, we already have a nigger mayor, we don't need any more nigger big shots.
00:11:44.000You wanted to get back in the black pool.
00:11:58.000Also, that just tells you how, it's like Steven Seagal, where he thinks that we don't know that he's using the spray paint from the old, you know, infomercial late at night.
00:12:06.000He's like, no, I've never used a hair We saw you when you were 25 and you were going bald, and now you have the Bela Lugosi perfect triangular widow's peak.
00:12:28.000If you're in the public eye, you either have to start the plugs from the get-go so that it's believable, or you just have to go with the bald look.
00:12:35.000You have to go with the Mr. Freeze look.
00:12:36.000You don't have the option of then just coming out one day like, no, no, no, look, I have full head of hair.
00:14:05.000I was just talking about this when I was taking the Twins for a walk with my parents this weekend, and we were walking through a neighborhood, and there's some businesses in that area where there are shops and restaurants.
00:16:07.000People are focusing on him sort of doing an end zone dance, but this is what I think is most telling.
00:16:12.000He tweeted out, given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.
00:16:22.000You know, you see grifters who sometimes say, oh, I'll appeal to the right, and you have these people on the left who say, it's way easier to make money appealing to the right.
00:16:51.000This seems to be a guy who understands genuinely that nothing changes outside of removing the safe harbor rules with Section 230.
00:16:57.000The arguments that we've been making for a long time.
00:17:00.000The arguments that I can't fully discuss.
00:17:02.000Things that have been going on behind the scenes as it relates to this.
00:17:04.000But that is something that I'm happy to see the largest stakeholder on Twitter saying, hey, we can't keep doing this if we're the town square.
00:18:12.000And I hope, look, I hope we see some changes.
00:18:15.000This is one thing that Republicans screwed up.
00:18:18.000They had power, Donald Trump did not do enough, and you can see right now Democrats are running.
00:18:22.000As quickly as possible to try and get more control.
00:18:25.000You saw it with Jen Psaki calling for more censorship.
00:18:28.000You see it with the hearings that take place.
00:18:30.000Very, very different tone from, unfortunately, it was nothing but hearings with Mark Zuckerberg.
00:18:34.000It was nothing but hearings with people from YouTube.
00:18:37.000Republicans didn't do a whole lot, but now liberals are trying to enact legislation.
00:18:40.000I hope that they, I don't think they will be able to, to try and gain more control over social media.
00:18:45.000So if someone in a billionaire class decides to wield that power against these, uh, These, uh, evil- I won't say, of course, uh, uh, you know, pedophile satanic ring.
00:22:25.000This is something that people were talking about, but we do have some exclusive.
00:22:28.000News broke, of course, last week that the White House press secretary Jen Psaki be stepping down to take a job at MSNBC.
00:22:35.000So, you know, when people say, oh, it's just you right-wing conspiracy theorists that the media is left I mean, you know about, look at George Papadopoulos, or whatever, Stephanopoulos, you know this guy worked for the Clintons, right?
00:22:50.000We've created all these, we've shown you all these connections in the past between, but now you're seeing it in real time, and I know you'll say, well Kayleigh McEnany went to Fox News.
00:23:01.000If you go through MSNBC, ABC News, CBS, CNN, you will find, through producers, through executive producers, on-air talent, unashamedly, Plenty of people like Jen Psaki.
00:23:25.000I hope she just goes to MSNBC and just hammers behind the scenes so that Lawrence O'Donnell is like, I don't know why you didn't know this, but I didn't realize MSNBC until last week was Microsoft NBC.
00:25:01.000believe that it is up to the Ukrainians to decide whether such potential attacks are justified, or does it generally believe that those kinds of attacks should be discouraged because they would be seen as being escalatory?
00:25:14.000You look like a f***ing b***h on heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n****s, it'll be your fault.
00:26:20.000Those yoga privates eventually paid off.
00:26:24.000I think that, look, it's obviously what Louis C.K.
00:26:26.000did is weird, but it's not nearly the same when we just, this is when, remember Me Too was a thing?
00:26:30.000We recanted about women, but now it's, you know, men can compete.
00:26:32.000We don't care about Me Too anymore because we have men competing with women in sports who are still attracted to women changing in their locker rooms with raging erections like Leah Thomas.
00:27:18.000It should be fine when you think about the fact that he's an unbelievable comedian.
00:27:22.000It was just for the quality of his art.
00:27:24.000Of course, the left has taken to Twitter, the left has taken to the media, and I don't want to spend too much time on their claims because they're very easily debunked.
00:29:46.000Also, as far as cancel culture, people, you never see, he had his, the film I Love You Daddy was immediately removed from its release date, okay, by distributors.
00:29:53.000Yes, and also the special that goes along with it with just the word sorry behind him is hilarious.
00:29:56.000in an hour. He was persona non grata for about five years where he wasn't able to be booked.
00:30:00.000He built his way back up, honestly, in small clubs and created good material that culminated
00:30:05.000in this album, which by the way is pretty damn good.
00:30:08.000Yes, and also the special that goes along with it with just the word sorry behind him
00:30:43.000You're doing well because you can draw a crowd.
00:30:45.000The guy at the open mic who's making a joke about Leah Thomas and the club booker doesn't want to take that heat.
00:30:50.000He's just not going to take that risk.
00:30:52.000That's the problem with this idea of cultural censorship.
00:30:56.000It's not cancel culture, it's cultural censorship because these people will actually make calls to try and enforce their ideals to the point that you can't make a living.
00:31:06.000Let's stop using the term cancel culture.
00:31:34.000I mean, you're allowed to, but it's annoying after years and years and years that once you're being told that everything you say is false, including what those women said.
00:32:04.000Okay, you're comparing it to Will Smith.
00:32:05.000Will Smith just committed felony battery against a man on- You want to talk about white privilege?
00:32:11.000Will Smith just committed the kind of violent assault that if he was anybody else on planet Earth would be behind bars, if not at least shoved around by security.
00:32:21.000Instead, he sat down, nothing happened, and then he accepted his Academy Award later to thunderous applause.
00:34:23.000It's a boy who's actually telling you that there's a wolf there, only he's always telling the truth, and you only allow him to speak when there is no wolf, for example, if he says, I'm going to affirm all genders.
00:34:31.000Now, Bruno Mars was arrested for cocaine possession in 2010.
00:34:34.000He won the record of the year, best R&B performance.
00:34:36.000Lil Wayne, arrested in 2007 on criminal possession, loaded weapon, best rap performance, 2017.
00:34:41.000And the most egregious example being Chris Brown.
00:34:45.000Chris Brown, a black man, committed felony assault and battery against Rihanna, a black woman.
00:34:52.000And he is being nominated for the Album of the Year twice this year.
00:34:54.000He was nominated 12 times after that and won at least once.
00:36:58.000Well, and R. Kelly, too, he was known for, or not, I shouldn't say known for, he's known for what we just talked about, but when there were supposed to be witnesses on the stand, he was like, I bet your whole family would like to go to Paris.
00:38:04.000Well, and I know we've gone over this, obviously, in the entertainment industry, but go over to sports.
00:38:08.000Let's look there and see if you apply the same standard where somebody who commits a crime should no longer be able to have a job and do their sport, because that's not been applied, right?
00:38:15.000Ray Lewis killed someone and was still a linebacker on a Super Bowl-winning team.
00:38:32.000It's unbelievable the amount of, if you like this person, you like that team, what you will put up with.
00:38:37.000You would never, ever, ever in a million years let that person come to your house if they were not a star athlete, a star performer in this case.
00:38:44.000But because they are, you're like, oh yeah, come on man, that's no big deal.
00:40:18.000Everyone's just like, wow, I thought Rudy was going to be really grateful, you know, because he was gifted an opportunity that he didn't deserve.
00:41:14.000You have that, like I said, in comedy clubs.
00:41:16.000That's why Dave and I, look, big reason that I wasn't doing stand-up, too, for years is because it's big enough but didn't have enough of the resources for security.
00:41:23.000So Dave and I, we're not doing comedy clubs.
00:41:25.000That's what we said, you know, Tulsa, Oklahoma, I think you can bring it up, May 14th, lightoffcreditor.com slash tour.
00:41:30.000We just go to a venue and we take care of the rest.
00:41:33.000You guys show up because no one can cancel it.
00:41:41.000But that can't be done for people who are starting from the bottom now.
00:41:44.000I don't know how that works unless you play ball when people at the top...
00:41:48.000are really sort of applying this kind of pressure, not just to producers, not just to the Grammys, but to managers, agents, bookers, right?
00:42:07.000It's people who run websites saying, you can't even have your own personal website because we're not going to allow you to have a store here.
00:42:12.000We're not going to allow you to sell this stuff on the internet.
00:42:23.000Amazon Web Services, they will kick you off as well.
00:42:26.000So every single company, they're taking away every possibility that you have to make a living other than getting back out on the road and hoping a club manager will let you perform, even though you're a superstar.
00:42:35.000And I'm not saying it to be martyr, you can go buy the merch.
00:43:08.000I can't imagine who you would, like, I looked up to people like DePaulo, who was here the other day, like, people that were extremely edgy.
00:43:15.000I can't imagine who you would look up to now.
00:43:17.000Well, you can do the fake edgy, you know, you can do the Amy Schumer, you know, like, your vagina smells like a barnyard animal.
00:43:21.000People go, ooh, she's brave, or Nanette, but if you actually say something, you know, that's a sacred cow, like, you can't say, you can't say that, uh, that biological males are not, that they can't menstruate.
00:44:39.000That was a physical manifestation of what the left wants.
00:44:41.000The left wants to cancel Louis C.K., and what I mean by that is they want to remove his ability to be recognized for his talent, for his art with a Grammy, and then, if you tell a joke that they really don't like, they also justify physically slapping you, because they say that words are violence too.
00:44:56.000Also, should you choose to not use your words, silence is violence.
00:45:41.000Well, they actually do these shot callers now.
00:45:43.000They're like, put this collar on for it, and they zap you if you don't.
00:45:46.000The crowd animator, when you think about Stephen Colbert, the crowd animator who has to tell people to laugh, he had less work to do on the set of According to Jim.
00:47:34.000You stand on the corner, he picks you up.
00:47:35.000Now, Friday, let's go south of the border here.
00:47:38.000Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden, right, the administration, I guess I should say, announced that it would be ending pandemic-related restrictions on immigration.
00:47:46.000So let me explain to you what this means.
00:47:48.000There was something called Title 42, okay?
00:47:50.000Under that policy, border officials could get rid of, they could expel, they could deport illegal immigrants, predicated on the need of public health grounds.
00:48:22.000That being said, it would be hard for the left, it would be hard to try and make the claim that it's a tenable position, that COVID happened and so you weren't going to shut down the border based on public health grounds.
00:48:47.000So in other words, this would have been appropriate for the left.
00:48:51.000They're ending that on the public health grounds.
00:48:53.000They're saying we're not going to do that anymore because that's them saying COVID is no longer a thing.
00:48:56.000So when you see someone wearing a mask alone walking down a sidewalk after your belly laugh, be sure to let them know that this administration has said that's not a thing anymore.
00:50:10.000Now, when we say we're no longer going to enforce this and we're going to triple the numbers, based on not implementing the policies of Title 42, who do you think this is going to affect?
00:50:20.000Well, it's not going to affect Joe Biden.
00:50:21.000Just like increasing taxes only on those people making more than $400,000 a year.
00:53:43.000And the left right now is saying, oh, you're not allowing asylum seekers, because what this rule did is said, we don't care why you're coming right now because of the pandemic, we're not allowing you to come in.
00:55:34.000I think at some point there was something about taxation without representation.
00:55:38.000At what point do you feel like you no longer have a voice with this government?
00:55:40.000I can't imagine there's a significant amount of Americans who are paying these people's salary who say, yeah, we should overcrowd our prisons with illegal immigrants because we don't want to be cruel.
00:56:13.000Automatic registration means a system that registers an individual to vote in elections for federal office in a state by electronically transferring the information necessary for, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered, the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.
00:57:02.000It has facial recognition software for a Latino, and if it tries to go to the Republican box, it goes, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
00:57:40.000However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept everybody.
00:57:42.000You think they're going to go through all of those proactive steps of crime only to then have to proactively not commit a crime and say, by the way, I don't want to be registered to vote because I am here against the law.
00:58:22.000They're actually saying that the drug cartels, they're so sophisticated, they will just tell people to claim asylum, knowing that they'll get released.
00:58:30.000Right now, four to six years for that trial to come up, the hearing.
00:58:33.000It will be a decade once you start flooding the system with more people.
00:58:53.000We can know at a certain point we have to close the books and say look we have to deal we have to process the people who we have here and we don't really even know who's here and by the way you know who else this is going to hurt?
00:59:01.000When you have people coming into this country and again just think of the law H.R.
00:59:04.0001 right where they would have to proactively say no no no we actually don't want to be registered to vote these people of course many people who come here legally They get to benefit from government services.
01:02:02.000They want, of course, our borders open, because it's cruel to not allow our borders to be open.
01:02:07.000I think that it's cruel to actually put people into, like you said, these situations where it ends up separating families, where it puts people into a... and it ends up hurting people who actually want to be here legally, who deserve to be here legally, who've worked to actually get their place in the queue.
01:02:21.000But, okay, if this were consistent, Where if the left were to say, OK, well, look, this is that we don't believe in any kind of borders.
01:02:28.000We believe in international governments.
01:02:46.000That's why President Biden asked me to come here, to underscore our steadfast commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
01:03:18.000But it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response that I've discussed in detail with our allies, as well as laid out very clearly for President Putin.
01:03:28.000By the way, don't you love how he took his mask after he sat down and started speaking?
01:03:31.000It's like you could have just walked out without a mask.
01:05:03.000Also cancelled funding for the wall, of course, and in a February letter to Congress he wrote, I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted.
01:05:13.000I also, well by the way, you said emergency, okay, I also have announced that it shall be the policy of my administration that no, and sorry I misspelled, of Kamala Harris's administration, that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.
01:05:28.000That's right, no no, we should spend billions, billions, billions protecting the border of countries halfway across the globe Well, of course, leaving ours wide open.