Dave Landau fills in for Brian Stelter, who's off this week. They discuss the Half-Asian Kraken, the Joe Rogan apology, and the GoFundMe campaign to protest the Canadian Freedom Trucker convoy.
00:03:27.000Alright, sorry we're starting a little late today because there's been some breaking news, some developments here with Spotify and the Joe Rogan situation.
00:03:33.000Before I move on to anything, my question to you is...
00:03:37.000What do you think about the Joe Rogan Spotify situation and the apology?
00:03:43.000Do you think that there's... I think he's absolutely sincere, but do you even think that if someone is sincerely apologetic that this is how you handle it?
00:03:51.000Of course, I think you know where we line up.
00:03:52.000We've been in this exact situation before.
00:03:55.000We'll be talking about GoFundMe, the communists at GoFundMe, what they've been doing here to try and stop the Canadian Freedom Trucker convoy.
00:04:25.000Considering moving it a little later, because some people have asked us to, but right now it's 10 a.m.
00:04:29.000Eastern, and if we're not here, you can watch on Rumble, you can watch on Mug Club, unless we tell you that we are not here, we're still streaming live.
00:10:44.000Q-P-E-T-A All right, as we continue with international politics, and we'll tie this into the fact that the United States government wants you to just take their word for everything.
00:12:56.000Sir, if I may, Russia's military presence may be the least of our problems.
00:13:01.000We've been tracking the spread of Russian disinformation in Ukraine, and there are some lies Ukrainians don't know what to believe anymore.
00:13:08.000Russia tried that during our last election too, but it didn't work.
00:13:12.000Well, 40% of Americans think you lost the election, so I kinda did.
00:14:57.000There does need to be a kernel of truth to it to be funny, right?
00:15:01.000For the same reason that people are outraged over some of the comments that Joe Rogan has made, there's a kernel of truth to the things that he says, and it offends people, it upsets people.
00:15:29.000Yes, no, that's why Americans think that the most free, fair, secure election of all time might have had some foul play, because they spent $13,000 on Facebook ads, the Ruskies, that's what it is.
00:15:40.000It's like Red Dawn with laptops, that's what happened.
00:15:52.000I'd have a special guest, Carol Burnett, and then I'd have someone or someone else come out from laughing, SOCK IT TO ME!
00:16:00.000So this is all despite the fact, you know, talking about Russian disinformation, that Ukrainian president, or as, you know, he's labeled an unauthoritative source by Twitter, YouTube, and President Zelensky accused the West of causing, quote, panic over Russian invasion, said the threat was real but not imminent as the U.S.
00:16:16.000has explained in a comment that he made a source close to Zelensky also quipped, quite frankly these Americans are safer in Kiev than they are in Los Angeles or any other crime-ridden city in the United States.
00:17:04.000When the government is saying, we want big tech to eliminate these voices, or we want big tech to mislabel these voices, or label them as disinformation, when they are calling out and having meetings with these people, they are acting as an arm.
00:17:19.000They are acting as thugs for the government.
00:17:23.000This is no longer a libertarian argument if private business can do whatever they want, because they are beholden not only to people in our government, but foreign governments.
00:17:31.000Like you see what happened with GoFundMe, shutting down a protest where zero acts of violence have ever been committed, by the way.
00:17:37.000Not $3 billion in damages like Black Lives Matter, none of that.
00:17:40.000Not like dozens and actually hundreds of felonies and thousands of casualties that had taken place, or sorry, hundreds of casualties and many thousands of felonies.
00:17:48.000I mix that up, don't want to be mislabeled disinformation because I'm going off the cuff here.
00:17:53.000This is an entirely peaceful protest and GoFundMe decided they were going to take, steal their money.
00:17:59.000So anyway, last week, State Department, going back to Russia, the spokesperson, Ned Price, and I say spokesperson because I don't know Ned's preferred pronouns.
00:18:06.000I think it would be Puss and E. Big capital E. It's a shim.
00:18:13.000He gave this answer when AP reporter Matt Lee asked him about a Russian false flag campaign and he said, yeah, we really have, this is a really imminent threat.
00:18:22.000And they said, okay, and what proof do you have?
00:20:52.000Oh, you only trust government scientists?
00:20:54.000Now, I'm not saying that every single government scientist is corrupt, but what I'm saying is when you declare the only experts, and this is what is happening when things are being mislabeled, And the White House is calling for Joe Rogan to have his
00:21:06.000podcast be mislabeled when he has doctors on.
00:21:08.000What they are saying is anything that goes against the government-established science,
00:21:12.000which by the way goes against itself from six months ago, needs to be mislabeled.
00:21:16.000The barometer here that's being used for YouTube, Facebook, including Instagram, Twitter, Big Tech,
00:21:24.000That's the fact check mechanism, and these are the people in charge of it.
00:21:27.000By the way, best thing you can do is we talk about comments.
00:21:29.000Smash the like button if you're on YouTube right now.
00:21:32.000If you want to make sure that this gets through that algorithm and people find it, which they still probably won't, I still just ask that you smash that like button.
00:21:38.000Smash it hard like Brian Seltzer in the green room with the makeup artist.
00:24:12.000I'm more angry, of course, with the people who've tried to... I hate to use the term cancel culture, but the people who've tried to destroy his life and his livelihood.
00:24:19.000Now, Joe Rogan is bigger than them, so good for him.
00:24:34.000So it's always hard for me, just full disclosure, to be objective when I know somebody.
00:24:39.000Um, so Joe Rogan has, uh, you know, gotten in trouble.
00:24:42.000Last week it was about COVID misinformation, and do you know how you know that it wasn't about COVID misinformation?
00:24:47.000Because when that didn't work, now they decided they're going to, oh, you know what, actually, look, he's also racist.
00:24:52.000Someone put together a montage out of context of Joe Rogan having said the n-word in case you guys have missed it, uh, and you must be living under a rock at this point, or, you know, Or just hiding out from your home like Stelter.
00:25:27.000So here is Joe Rogan, the hit piece that they put together, which really if you look at every clip individually is not a hit piece of him saying the n-word over the last 12 plus years.
00:25:35.000Nigger. Aw, you've already said nigger. D is just like nigger.
00:25:38.000Nigger. She's calling you a nigger. It's like this boy that he's a nigger, starts calling them niggers.
00:25:43.000Nigger. There should be a word like nigger. Especially the word nigger. That's our nigger. Niggers. He says nigger.
00:25:50.000Guy a nigger. And there are niggers. Start saying nigger.
00:25:53.000Chris Rocker team, I know exactly what you're doing. Nigger.
00:25:56.000Say nigger and he couldn't say nigger. This tape was already out I think.
00:25:59.000Uh, no, no, they added to it, but you can watch all those.
00:26:03.000Right away when I watch, I go, oh, that's him quoting a Chris Rock routine.
00:26:05.000Oh, that's him telling a story about a racist who called someone an n-word.
00:26:07.000Oh, I know that where he's talking about, hey, how this word is different in the English language.
00:26:36.000You're not going to use this against a Robert Byrd type because they just go, like, yeah, I said it, because they're still saying it, they don't care.
00:26:41.000They use this against people who they know are not racist so that they have to defend themselves as not racist.
00:26:47.000They wouldn't use it against an actual racist.
00:26:48.000This is not a mode of attack that would be used.
00:26:51.000against someone like whoever, a David Duke, a Robert Burd, someone who was actually in the Klan.
00:26:56.000When you see this line of attack, you know that it is exclusively used against someone who they know is not racist because that person will be forced into defending themselves as not being a racist.
00:27:09.000with which I strongly disagree. Yeah. And I'll explain to you why I think it was very thoughtful,
00:27:14.000though. And I think the way that he delivered the apology was as well delivered as an as an
00:27:18.000ill-advised apology like this could be delivered. But for people who missed it, he posted this on
00:27:23.000his Instagram. And we'll have, of course, links to all the full clips. Lot of credit with the
00:27:27.000sources, the references. Here's your organs. Hello, friends.
00:27:30.000I'm making this video to talk about that a terrible neck or no neck, regretful and
00:27:37.000shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly.
00:27:40.000There's a video that's out that's a compilation of me saying the N-word.
00:27:45.000It's a video that's made of clips taken out of context of me, of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it's all smooshed together, and it looks f***ing horrible, even to me.
00:27:57.000Now, I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast.
00:28:12.000But for a long time, When I would bring that word up, like if it would come up in conversation, instead of saying the N-word, I would just say the word.
00:28:22.000I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.
00:28:26.000Like that context was part of the clip we were talking about Red Fox, how Red Fox said that word on television in the 1970s, and how times have changed so much since then.
00:28:37.000Or about how Richard Pryor used it as one of the titles of one of his albums.
00:28:44.000That this can be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn't realize how offensive that word can be coming out of a white person's mouth in context or out of context.
00:29:10.000And there was also something about a Planet of the Apes joke that he made where he, you know... Yeah, which I mean, in fairness, he was on Ambien and they're gonna overdose him and then next season his show's just gonna be called The Rogans with John Goodman.
00:30:05.000That the only time it should be considered completely impermissible is if you are using it in a racist context, accusing someone, calling someone the n-word.
00:30:14.000If you're quoting a Richard Pryor album, I don't think so.
00:30:16.000He actually, the name of the album, he said that he named these albums to screw with white people.
00:30:23.000Who am I to sing along with Tupac or sing along in my car with Kanye and say, and Word?
00:30:29.000It's almost offensive to the artist because this is something that's meant to be consumed by many people.
00:30:33.000There's a huge difference between the context of quoting somebody or the context of actually being supportive of a black person's art and the context of using it To deliberately insult somebody.
00:30:44.000And by the way, my entire life, I have never once heard a white person say it in its racist context outside of one time at a Bob Evans in Virginia, and I told you I was incredibly surprised because it was that abnormal.
00:30:54.000Let me just say this about Joe Rogan here.
00:30:56.000His Planet of the Apes joke that he made.
00:31:20.000Joe Rogan was imprudent back then to make his Planet of the Apes comment joke, not because the joke is impermissible, not because the joke is that offensive, not because anything he said was offensive, but he was imprudent because he thought they wouldn't come for him.
00:31:36.000And now, I believe he is wrong to apologize because that's done under the guise that they have any Of course they don't.
00:31:47.000It was COVID, now it's this, you apologize for this, they're just going to move on to something else.
00:31:52.000And this makes it more difficult for other people because it sets a precedent where people think they have to apologize for things that do not require an apology.
00:31:59.000I think he was wrong back then to think that they wouldn't come for him, and I think that he's incorrect right now to apologize.
00:32:04.000Look, even if you think you're wrong, and I want to be clear about this, this is a difference There's a difference between a consensual relationship and an abusive relationship, a loving relationship and an abusive relationship.
00:32:16.000In a loving relationship where both parties are actually trying to make a relationship work because they care about each other, when you think you're wrong, you apologize.
00:32:27.000If you're married, if you're in a long-term relationship, be quick to apologize, be quick to forgive.
00:32:30.000You do that, The relationship works no matter what happens quick to apologize quick to forgive quick to say you're sorry recognize your faults quick to give grace an abusive relationship is where someone is trying to gaslight you someone is trying to manipulate you into apologizing and then they will use that to hammer in your faults because they have no interest in
00:32:49.000and accepting your apology in the first place.
00:33:24.000But if Winston Churchill thought that he made some strategic errors in World War II, you don't say, man, I made a mistake while Hitler's still on the march.
00:33:30.000Afterward, you say, maybe this would have been a better idea.
00:34:10.000This is the, and we've been through this, we're going to go back to the Vox Apocalypse and talk about it because I've lived this exactly, exactly when people tried to get us removed from YouTube here.
00:34:19.000And then I was mentioned by sitting senators and CNN, the exact same thing, a hit list, a reel, and we survived it.
00:34:27.000So let's look at this sort of gaggle of bullies, Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter.
00:34:34.000Hear them talking about how Joe Rogan should be kicked off Spotify.
00:34:41.000He is now apologizing, and we're going to find out if that's enough for Spotify, the company that has an exclusive distribution deal with him.
00:34:47.000Jim, this is all coming to light because of the recent controversy about anti-vaccine rhetoric on Rogan's podcast.
00:37:01.000You'll always have free content here on YouTube as long as it's a loud rumble, but we do an extra hour of show that we know we can never do on YouTube every single day.
00:37:09.000This is the only way that we make revenue and some sponsorships with sponsors who have the balls to not run off, right?
00:37:16.000No, I just think you're absolutely right about all of it.
00:37:18.000I think that when it comes down to apologizing to a mob, it doesn't matter.
00:37:23.000If he's apologizing to black people specifically who were offended for using the n-word, that's one thing, but I don't believe that he ever used it maliciously.
00:37:31.000So the reason why he thought he was untouchable, which I don't believe that he thought he was untouchable to be honest, I think it was because At one point, comedy was supposed to be all in context.
00:37:45.000And if anything is looked at as a joke, it is a joke, and it's that simple.
00:37:48.000That's why you would love it if everything that we did was looked at like it was supposed to be.
00:37:54.000And I don't think he, to clarify if people think that that's what I was saying, I was never suggesting that he thought he was untouchable, but exactly what you said.
00:38:01.000Where back when I was 19, I was banned from a college because this is a, when I was 19 years old, so it would have been 2000, Seven?
00:38:10.000I was banned from a ladies' footlocker, but that's... Go on.
00:38:13.000Well, see, that's okay, because now I'm allowed in every ladies' footlocker, because I just set the Penn State records.
00:38:18.000But he thought... And I was always telling people, look, you're saying that, that comedy is untouchable in context, because you haven't gone through what I've gone through.
00:38:28.000Right now, what I am saying is permissible, but it's going to get worse.
00:38:31.000I've had this conversation with many comedians, and comedians would be on this show and say, no, I don't think that's what's going to happen.
00:38:58.000And if it hasn't happened for you yet, it's either because that Overton window hasn't been moved far enough yet, or you are not big enough yet.
00:39:05.000That's the only reason they are coming for...
00:39:09.000All of you, and it's not because they actually think that you're racist.
00:39:12.000What they want to do with Joe Rogan is this.
00:39:14.000What they want to do is Joe Rogan has to go interview Francis Ngannou or Curtis Blades or someone like that after a UFC fight, and he's afraid, does this guy think I'm a racist because he saw something out of context?
00:39:23.000What they want to do is, again, it's like an abusive relationship, alienate you and isolate you from all of the people who were your friends who now may have this misconception of you.
00:40:56.000The only part of this is to take control.
00:40:58.000Well here's a good example of that is you know we were talking about context and of course the left says there is no context in which it's permissible.
00:41:03.000So now people have been circulating the former Vice President Joe Biden video but if you look it's been defended by people on the left.
00:41:09.000They say right here's a headline from media Joe Rogan defenders have been circulating videos of Joe Biden saying the n-word.
00:41:14.000Here's the full story and it goes on to explain the context of it and why it's permissible.
00:41:20.000So oh so context applies To the sitting former vice president, but context doesn't apply to a comedian on a podcast who, by the way, was saying it in a far less pernicious way.
00:44:00.000You mean the rudest people on the planet?
00:44:10.000We've never seen this in our lifetime.
00:44:12.000We've never seen this in our lifetime, the amount of control from only a handful of big companies, and they are so blatantly comfortable with letting you know that they are working hand-in-hand with the government to eliminate from society people who have a specific point of view.
00:44:54.000Nobody can say it other than black people or when you're singing a song or in the private of your own home, apparently, because they said you can't say it and have another black person see it, right?
00:45:02.000You can't say it in public or, my God, on a podcast.
00:45:05.000It is totally unbelievable that there is a word that is okay for some people to say and other people to say in quoting them and go, wait a minute, you're white, you can't say that, right?
00:45:19.000They want you to believe that the person who quotes in praise of a black artist, someone who quotes that is just as racist as the person who's beating the slave in roots.
00:45:33.000You're talking about Red Fox and Richard Pryor, who broke the mold in the 70s as black comedians following, you know, like Cosby and Dick Gregory, who was, I mean, I would probably say the pioneer of that kind At least Cosby never used the N-word.
00:48:09.000Of course, partnered with NBCUniversal, one of the biggest companies in the world, tried to do this with yours truly for people who have missed it.
00:48:16.000This is, sorry, the Vox Adpocalypse happened.
00:51:07.000After that, Same thing as with Joe Rogan.
00:51:09.000The media, sitting senators, politicians were forced to address and some were calling for me to lose my ability, because they can't fire me, but lose my ability to broadcast freely to you.
00:51:24.000We heard the allegations from Mr. Carlos Maza, who uploaded a video on Twitter with a compilation.
00:52:21.000He's the host of the series Strike Through on Vox.com.
00:52:24.000He says he's been harassed for years by this controversial YouTuber named Steven Crowder.
00:52:29.000He recently tweeted a whole montage of offensive so-called jokes.
00:52:33.000YouTube was about to start Pride Month and rock the rainbow colors and claim to care about LGBT people and they were Helping this guy build an audience base of four million subscribers whose only real content was making fun of me for being queer.
00:52:49.000And by the way, YouTube was helping us.
00:52:51.000They just could not stop helping us build that platform.
00:52:53.000What if it was just the one person who I know sits right behind the camera that when they talk and go LGBTQ, they go...
00:53:04.000The Hodgetwins came in, Don Lemon had on a show like, man we were in an airport man, and then we walk into the hotel, CNN's on the screen, and we just see Steven and his dad going queer, queer, queer, queer!
00:53:46.000Um, we survived, we grew through it, and of course at that point we had a record number of you guys signing up, Mug Club subscribers, and that usually is what happens because you understand that not only, uh, it's the only way that we can continue to survive, and we have a lot of you now, surprising amount of you watching at Mug Club, uh, I think probably now because you also, you know, you get like an hour of extra show.
00:54:19.000I would also like to apologize to Drake, the rapper, for referring to him as a quote, butter soft bitch, and claiming that his only redeeming quality as a performer was when he was shot into permanent paralysis on Degrassi.
00:54:31.000I'd also like to apologize to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for implying that she's long been deceased.
00:54:37.000And even though I don't have verifiable proof to the contrary, I do realize my observations were conducted in poor taste and ill-timed.
00:54:44.000I'd also like to retract my comment about Representative Dan Crenshaw, implying that his mugshot would, quote, resemble that of an angry pirate shift manager in a Brooks Brothers catalog store, and that it would be, quote, the stuff of children's nightmares.
00:54:59.000To my dear friend and esteemed colleague Ben Shapiro, I sincerely apologize for implying
00:55:03.000that you're a greedy shekel hoarder. I'd like to issue an apology to Tess Holliday
00:55:08.000for incorrectly implying that her blood type was biologically comparable to that of Pudding.
00:55:12.000She's both brave and beautiful, and I should have done more to celebrate that.
00:55:16.000Also, an apology to the Jell-O Pudding Corporation for associating their product with Tess Holliday.
00:55:22.000That's the only way I know how to do it!
00:55:36.000By the way, I know that we're not supposed to mention these guys, but there's another compilation floating around out there of other people.
00:57:13.000Listen to who you want to listen to, enjoy it, and I'm really glad that you support us, you support Stephen, who has the balls to keep doing his show, even when I'm just shocked that I even watch these clips and these people are talking about you.
00:57:27.000This is what they want to do, and you know, just like Joe Rogan, obviously we're not as big as Joe Rogan, but certainly bigger than any Any show on CNN and any late night show as far as you viewers in the demo, and they want to eliminate it.
00:57:40.000And that's really what it comes down to.
00:57:42.000They want to eliminate competition, and they have the assistance and the full support of the United States government, and that is what's scary.
00:57:51.000Yeah, the United States government is becoming a mafia strongman.
00:57:54.000Basically you just call these guys when you have a problem and they come in and fix it with the power that they have.
00:57:58.000But everything that Dave just said, watch whatever you want to watch, listen to whatever you want to listen to, that's what they want to take away.
00:58:16.000Best thing you can do is subscribe over at Rumble Mug Club because even if you subscribe, even if you hit the notification bell, You may not find this show.
00:58:32.000The gatekeepers are the same as always, and now they're more powerful than ever because they learned, oh, wait a second, it's no longer the FCC.
00:58:38.000We can just have the government declare something misinformation.
00:58:41.000It doesn't have to actually be set guidelines or regulations that we understand, like you did on radio or television.
00:58:47.000And worse than the FCC is the mob now, who works hand-in-hand with big tech and often people in government, to Try and eliminate your career, even though there's no actual violation.
01:00:22.000And they raised $10 million, actually.
01:00:25.000But, you know, before we go to that, let's show you How the arms of government are treating entire... The police acknowledged not one act of violence.
01:00:36.000Let's see how the Ottawa police government is treating these protesters.
01:00:41.000They came in and they were taking the fuel.
01:00:44.000They were having force there and not letting anybody in.
01:01:11.000The police also, by the way, lest you think that's been taken out of context, the police announced anyone trying to supply protesters with any materials would be subject to arrest.
01:01:19.000Now I could understand that, for example, like if it was Black Lives Matter and, you know, pallets of bricks.
01:01:44.000So this is the kind of horror that has been seen at these protests in Canada.
01:01:47.000And again, really what it comes down to is you either believe in the idea of peaceful protests or not.
01:01:53.000And in Canada, you don't really have First Amendment protections, but contrast with Black Lives Matter, Seattle, CHAZ, CHOP, all of these For crying out loud, the Women's March had more acts of violence and vandalism, and people don't say we need to stop supplying them, so GoFundMe was trying to steal.
01:02:16.000Now there's a little bit of a happy ending here, but not entirely.
01:02:19.000GoFundMe took down the Freedom Convoy 2022 page on Friday, claiming the protest was now an occupation.
01:02:25.000That's important, the word occupation, because they don't care.
01:02:28.000GoFundMe originally stated that donors had two weeks to ask for a refund before it was redistributed to, quote, credible and established charities.
01:02:36.000And we'll get to what those have been there from GoFundMe in the past.
01:02:39.000By the way, one's an actual occupation.
01:02:43.000So this redistribution plan got a lot of people upset.
01:02:48.000Of course, DeSantis, being the bulldog that he is, the Florida governor said that they were going to be investigating for fraud.
01:02:54.000There are a lot of AGs that said, all right, this is something we're going to do.
01:02:57.000So then GoFundMe immediately reversed their course and said everyone will be automatically refunded.
01:03:01.000Now, what would have been best is if GoFundMe said, all right.
01:03:04.000Of course we're going to allow the GoFundMe, what's supposed to be an independent platform for raising money.
01:03:09.000We're going to allow it to go to the people who haven't committed an act of violence and they're peacefully protesting their government.
01:03:13.000Instead, by the way, you think the Canadian government didn't know about this?
01:03:17.000You don't think there were some calls that were made?
01:03:19.000It's not a conspiracy when you have Jen Psaki saying, we think Spotify should do more.
01:03:23.000You don't think that Trudeau made a call from his bunker to GoFundMe?
01:03:56.000It's not that we have rules, it's not that we have laws.
01:03:58.000How would you feel if there were laws, and people actually complain about more black Americans being caught for minor drug offenses.
01:04:04.000That's true, there's a little more to that story because usually these are offenses that are congruent with either other offenses simultaneously, or there have been multiple offenses before, especially if you look at Clinton instating the three-strike law.
01:04:14.000But that being said, I understand why people are upset, and if you believe that black people are simply being arrested for smoking some marijuana, Even though they smoke it at the same rate that white people do.
01:04:22.000The point is, that would be injustice.
01:05:00.000And the company vowed in January 2021 that they would continue to remove fundraisers that, quote, spread misinformation about the election, promote conspiracy theories, and contribute to or participate in attacks on US democracy. Now let's compare attacks on US democracy.
01:05:15.000Well that makes sense. Here are the other ones that they actively supported.
01:05:18.000Black Lives Matter riots. Jacob Blake, the man who by the way his
01:05:22.000I don't know wife, his partner was the one who called because he had raped her and she
01:05:26.000called the cops when he was there kidnapping his own children and he tried to
01:05:28.000attack the cops with a knife. Jacob Blake.
01:06:19.000And I think this pissed me off more than anything over the weekend.
01:06:22.000Because if GoFundMe can take money from people, and like you said initially, saying we're going to redistribute it, fine.
01:06:28.000Look, if you're going to be a socialist and you're not going to allow us to do anything, if you're going to be a communist, whatever, the authoritarian, fine.
01:06:49.000Do you know how many thousands and thousands of chargebacks would have happened to them?
01:06:52.000That would have destroyed part of their business.
01:06:54.000That would have been great for everything.
01:06:55.000Can you explain to people who don't know what chargebacks mean?
01:06:57.000A chargeback on a credit card thing, it's like, they've taken my funds and they're not using it for what, like if somebody comes and buys wine, And I charge them for wine they didn't actually buy.
01:07:05.000You can charge back and it would actually hit me.
01:07:07.000I would have to pay that back to the credit card company.
01:08:39.000Do you think that former Vice President Joe Biden, do you think Nancy Pelosi, do you think any of these people want to push for transparency laws with big tech?
01:08:47.000No, they want to push for more regulation so that they can have more control over these companies.
01:08:50.000When you talk about fascist authoritarian governments, People tried to say that Donald Trump was a fascist.
01:08:56.000Donald Trump never tried to shut anyone, didn't try to shut these places down.
01:09:00.000He was saying they need to lose their tax-exempt status because they need to be, they need to pick.
01:09:03.000Are they a public platform or are they a publisher?
01:09:07.000Right now you have a government telling people to censor.
01:09:11.000So if you believe that only the government can censor, what happens when the government is telling other people to censor. And of course they have
01:09:17.000the purse strings where they can say, if you censor, we'll give you a little bit of a tax break
01:09:20.000here. If you censor, we'll make sure we have a meeting, we'll have a summit, and
01:09:23.000you'll be included. If you don't, well, you know what? We don't know what's going to happen
01:09:27.000to you. It would be a shame if you woke up with concrete shoes. It would be a shame if somebody
01:09:32.000investigated your companies and found some infractions. No, instead they audit Dave Landau.
01:11:41.000Them not allowing gas to get to these truckers is the exact same as the government saying, Spotify, you need to do more to throttle Joe Rogan.
01:11:48.000It's the exact same as them creating the Crowder rule over at YouTube for borderline content and Senator Hirono saying, why didn't they remove this person?
01:11:54.000It's all a symptom of the same problem.
01:11:58.000And it's no longer about the free market versus the government.
01:12:00.000I understand that at one point people would say, well look, if you don't like that restaurant, don't shop there.
01:12:04.000If you don't like this show, don't watch it.
01:12:13.000We're going to make sure that Kroger is subject to separate regulations.
01:12:16.000That would be what we're dealing with right now.
01:12:18.000They didn't used to say, you know what, we're going to make sure that every single television can get ABC, but they can't get NBC back when there were only three stations.
01:12:45.000And then we're going to play They Don't Make Them Like They Used To on Mug Club.
01:12:48.000There's no way we could play that here on YouTube.
01:12:52.000In Canada, I don't remember the exact numbers.
01:12:54.000But I know I'm close, so I'll make sure afterwards that we have these numbers and the references available.
01:12:58.000They were campaigning for Canadian Prime Minister.
01:13:01.000This is before Trudeau, Prime Minister Blackface made it in.
01:13:04.000And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, someone from the NDP said that if they won, they would give like a hundred million dollars, maybe it was 75 million, but a huge sum of money to the CBC.
01:13:15.000It's the only news, effectively, that we had in Canada when I was growing up.
01:13:18.000It's the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
01:13:20.000So a candidate Who's running for office was saying, if I win, you're going to get more money.
01:13:25.000How do you think they're going to cover him?
01:13:26.000But then Trudeau came in and I think if the other person said $75 million or $100 million, Trudeau added like 50% and he said, I'll give $150 million to CBC.
01:13:40.000When these networks, when these powerful companies believe That they can get not only favorable financial incentives, but treatment in an uneven playing field, of course they're going to do the bidding.
01:13:53.000Because it's not just about money, it's about power and the power enables you to make more money.
01:14:06.000If they know that the government has their eye on them and that the government will give them a leg up and eliminate their competition as we've seen, or at least Call for it.
01:14:16.000They're going to be emboldened, and they're only going to be emboldened to do the bidding of the government.
01:14:23.000All the Bernie bros out there, all the people who are liberals who complain about campaign finance, who complain about Citizens United, who don't fully understand what Citizens United was about, and you complain about corporatism.
01:14:38.000There's no more clear example of crony capitalism outside of maybe the big bank bailouts, which I know you guys think was necessary, too big to fail, just like Elizabeth Warren, right, with BlackRock.