It's June, which marks Cultural Appropriation Month, where each week we appreciate and teach you about new and exciting cultures. This week, we take you to the lovely, cold, if sadistic, culture of Germany! Oh, du schöner Westerwald, deine Höhenpfeift der Wind, so kalt, der kleinste Sonnenschein, bringt tief ins Herz hinein. That's the sound of the weekend, or the downfall of human civilization, depending which decade you're in.
00:04:45.000It's June, which marks Lauder with Crowder's second annual Cultural Appropriation Month, where each week we appreciate and teach you about new and exciting cultures.
00:04:56.000This week, we take you to the lovely, cold, if sadistic, culture of Germany!
00:05:04.000Oh, du schöner Westerwald Über deine Höhen pfeift der Wind so kalt Jedoch der kleinste Sonnenschein Bringt tief ins Herz hinein That's the sound of the weekend, or the downfall of...
00:05:26.000Human civilization, depending which decade.
00:05:38.000We'll tweet who's along with Germany, and you'll win this pipe.
00:05:44.000We have Mark Levin today, and we have Sven Computer, our very own intern, who is a cybernetic organism, will be on later to give us some fun facts about Germany.
00:07:58.000The reason that was odd, though, was they actually wanted it to be a prerequisite for everyone to turn on all their electronic devices immediately after takeoff, which seemed as though it was a back door.
00:08:35.000Over their hatred of the border wall, but their love of alternative green energy, which has put them in quite the self-loathing pickle, Which explains the latest video from BuzzFeed.
00:11:15.000People who've been subsidized by hard-working, tax-paying Americans who've seen their costs skyrocket might finally be asked to bear just a little bit of the burden.
00:12:09.000Deductibles are average right now at $6,000 per person, $12,400 per family.
00:12:14.000We don't talk about the millions who've been kicked off of Obamacare.
00:12:16.000We'll talk about that later on, because this whole headline is, poor people are going to have to pay for health care, and look at all the people who want to steal your health care.
00:12:25.000Here's the divide, too, as we talk about this.
00:12:27.000People out there who work for a living and pay for their own insurance know that it sucks.
00:12:32.000Unfortunately, there's a huge portion, nearly half of population in America who could be working, who could be providing for themselves, want the government to do it.
00:12:40.000So they're watching this thinking, I'm a dick.
00:12:42.000The people who are watching this who actually work and support their families think that they're dicks.
00:12:54.000The Affordable Care Act's promise was that with the help from subsidies, you wouldn't have to spend more than a set percentage of your income on health insurance.
00:13:02.000And then they say if premiums rise in your area, so too will subsidies.
00:13:25.000You look at the mandates, you look at the affordable care, the program, it's still there because we have cowards who claim to be Republicans who aren't really doing the right thing.
00:13:34.000But then Vox is also wrong and Ezra Klein is just a pandering moron.
00:16:21.000What they're talking about is the expansion of Medicaid that is occurring will slow down at five years.
00:16:31.000So like an ever-expanding universe, Donald Trump is such a heartless prick that they want to say, all right, five more years of untouched, unfettered growth where you can do whatever you want.
00:16:43.000And then after that, we're going to have to rein it in a little bit.
00:17:46.000Then they say once they get to work on Medicaid itself, tying the amount it can spend to an inflation index that lags behind how much health care actually costs.
00:17:54.000They complain about this in the Vox article.
00:18:22.000If you just start printing more money tomorrow, and then you bitch about inflation going from 2% to 20%, and you blame it, you can't blame it on me!
00:19:25.000My insurance premiums went up 42% this year, and they saw you pandering to college students who are 25 years old who don't want to pay for anything, and people who don't even pay taxes getting free health care.
00:20:19.000Their deductible for a family of four went to $12,600 because it was no longer affordable.
00:20:23.000So they lost their health care plan so that they could subsidize other people who never paid for it or intended to purchase a health care plan anyway.
00:20:30.000We never talk about the tens of millions of people who got so screwed that they lost their plans.
00:20:36.000We only care about the deadbeats who didn't buy it in the first place.
00:21:44.000Yeah, also there are no punishments for prisoners who try to escape prisons, because German government and the courts, they acknowledge that it's actually a human instinct to be free.
00:24:14.000- It's a bad way! - Look at this! - Look at this music! - It's a bad music! - It's a bad music! - It's a bad music! - Why did you come here?
00:28:39.000But when it comes to picking a health care plan, why can't I have a choice?
00:28:43.000When you go into a car dealership, do they say, okay, here's the three government-approved cars that you can pick?
00:28:49.000No, I want this car, I want that car, I want this, I don't want that.
00:28:53.000Okay, when buying a toaster, a car, a refrigerator, we have all these choices.
00:28:57.000When buying healthcare, the federal government says, We have to approve what you can have, and insurance companies, you can't provide this, you can't charge this, you can't offer this.
00:29:09.000Well, here's one thing I think is important that you kind of skimmed over, and this is because I think you live in a world where a lot of people, they have a baseline level of information.
00:29:17.000Most Americans don't, because the way liberals are selling this, and the way Vox did, they said they're repealing the Medicare bill.
00:29:23.000Expansion, which you just said the opposite.
00:29:25.000Now, what's important is what they're going to do, sorry, the liberals have been saying, the left has been saying, they're repealing Medicare.
00:30:09.000They're not going to cut a damn thing.
00:30:10.000They don't even start cutting for eight years.
00:30:13.000Now does anybody really, or it's five years, does anybody really believe five years out, even if the Republicans control the Congress, that anybody's going to cut anything?
00:30:23.000They can cut it today and they haven't done it.
00:30:26.000They could repeal Obamacare today and they haven't done it.
00:30:29.000Why do we think when more and more people are going to be sucked into this disastrous entitlement, then suddenly they'll have the political wherewithal to do something about it?
00:31:05.000By the way, the percentage of doctors who flat out won't take Medicaid has also skyrocketed.
00:31:10.000And even with Medicare, my in-laws have had problems with doctors who will accept Medicare.
00:31:14.000You know, the Vox headline was, "This healthcare bill will crush poor people, making them pay more." What it really should read is, no, the people who've been paying absolutely nothing, the people who've been subsidized by the hardworking American taxpayer, in an ideal world, not with this bill, at some point, might be asked to bear some of the burden.
00:32:21.000What we need is more competition, more choices, cheaper policies.
00:32:25.000If I just want a policy that covers certain things, like some horrific disease or illness you might get, then I should be able to purchase that.
00:32:33.000On the other hand, if I don't want that kind of coverage, I want a different kind of coverage, great.
00:32:37.000If I'm a single guy, I don't want to pay for pap smear tests.
00:32:42.000There's no reason why insurance companies can't offer a hundred different types of plans, and we, the American people, can make the decision.
00:32:51.000I'm tired of this idea that we're too stupid to decide stuff.
00:32:55.000And yet, when you look at the Internal Revenue Code, how the hell are we supposed to do our taxes?
00:32:59.000We're smart enough to vote for people, but we're not smart enough to make decisions about our own healthcare?
00:34:56.000Because we live in a post-constitutional period, really a post-capitalist period, where we tolerate the Constitution, where we tolerate capitalism, but the main job of the federal government today is redistributing wealth.
00:36:45.000I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but I think we've got to get back to debating the ideas, talking about our ideals, talking about our principles, because we can win this debate.
00:36:55.000I don't expect Mitch McConnell to even entertain it or even understand it at this point, and I don't expect it out of the White House.
00:37:01.000But you and I, in social media, on radio, on TV, in our families and communities, we have got to get back to this, because people are not learning this in college, they're not learning it in high school.
00:37:34.000So, you assume that people want to be free.
00:37:38.000Now, Generation Z, they're actually pretty conservative, and by that I mean they're more conservative at that age bracket than baby boomers.
00:37:44.000They're still going to lean liberal, but baby boomers were incredibly liberal, so I have hope for them.
00:37:48.000But, if you look at the actual voting contingency, Things that you would think are self-explanatory.
00:38:41.000We want to be able to prosper and do what we want to do.
00:38:43.000For the left, for Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Schumer, Pelosi, and all the rest of them, But individualism is only something that can really be brought forth through the collective, through the community.
00:38:55.000That's why you hear Bernie Sanders go on about free this and free that for the individual.
00:39:00.000But they don't believe in individualism.
00:39:29.000And what that means is the liberty to be left alone, as long as you don't affect somebody else's liberty, but the liberty to be left alone.
00:39:37.000The issues of liberty and individualism and what we mean by property and so forth, I know it seems like a daunting task, but we have to begin to have these discussions and engage.
00:39:47.000At the college level, on every other level we possibly can.
00:40:04.000And we have to explain why, no, actually you can't.
00:40:07.000And that's actually a viral clip that I remember we rebutted and went, funny enough, two years ago at Fourth of July from the newsroom where Jeff Daniels, he's asked what's great about America, and it's this smug, you know, it's Sorkin, right?
00:40:30.000And he names a bunch of places, and we ran through it and just tried to contrast with people how much less freedom they have than the average American.
00:40:48.000You can be jailed, and you can be jailed for offensive speech.
00:40:51.000As a matter of fact, you're most often jailed for offensive speech.
00:40:54.000And on the cultural level, if anything, our job is to try and engage people on that level where they haven't even looked at it through that lens.
00:41:00.000And then I know, obviously, when it comes to the constitutional level, understanding our history.
00:41:03.000For me, when I was going through college, Liberty and Tyranny back then was a book that was like a handbook.
00:41:08.000And I haven't read this one yet, but I know Rediscovering Americanism.
00:44:26.000In some of the lesser-known malls in St.
00:44:29.000Louis in high school, I would sometimes act like I just worked there in doing certain lower-tier jobs, some would consider, in order to escape notice.
00:45:05.000But we did think that there was just going to be a setup because they were going to hit us with a bunch of copyright claims, and boom, you're out of here.
00:45:14.000I mean, given how some of the other social media platforms have not been ashamed to talk about their targeting of the right, we thought that that might have been a possibility.
00:45:55.000Like Jared said, we were sitting there, I remember, for the first half of the day going, this could just be an orientation for first-time YouTubers or people who do makeup tutorials.
00:46:03.000Yeah, it was a little bit of basic content.
00:46:05.000A little bit of it was quite a snooze about the basics of copyright, which obviously we've been well-versed in that for quite a while.
00:46:12.000But it took a turn about halfway through the day.
00:46:15.000Well, it did take a turn, and a big part of that was a lady who you spoke with, one of the heads over there at YouTube Legal Policy.
00:46:20.000And what was interesting was she actually remembered you and myself.
00:46:24.000She actually had some first-hand knowledge about the whole Shia LaBeouf Museum of the Moving Image dispute, and knew that it was an issue that created some consternation at YouTube.
00:46:35.000Well, because it was a gray area for them, and they removed the feed, they put it back up, then they removed it again, but she did seem pretty reasonable, unlike one of the earlier lawyers.
00:46:46.000So before we get, I would say, what would you say first off?
00:47:17.000So it's a little expensive just for a photo op.
00:47:19.000I tend to believe it was a positive takeaway.
00:47:22.000Okay, and Bill, this is a legal expert.
00:47:25.000My thought was they either had Oscar-worthy performers or they actually cared because some of the folks that we spoke with, from Allison to Katie to Alex to a few of the others, seemed to genuinely want to hear us out and they weren't dismissive.
00:48:12.000And the theme for people who work on YouTube out there, we've had Stephen Molyneux on, Colin, Dave Rubin, was that they understand now they're not going to be CNN. They're not going to be Fox News online.
00:48:23.000The audience rejects it, so they need to dance with the one they brought.
00:48:45.000One thing I will say, and then we'll talk about YouTube more so, they did have a guest speaker.
00:48:51.000So I don't want to give away too much information, but she runs one of the biggest news channels on YouTube, deals with a lot of news, political issues, controversial issues, certainly much more profane than us.
00:49:02.000As a matter of fact, when they played a clip at the expo, they were like, let's run some of your news, and then it was just like N-word, N-word, M-F-er.
00:49:09.000Oh, let's turn that down with a room full of white people.
00:49:17.000I asked a question when they opened it up to Q&A, and I think this was the turning point, because before this, everyone was just kind of...
00:49:37.000So since you mentioned that you're video-based...
00:49:40.000Have you, I mean, you're dealing obviously with a room here of the evil right-wingers.
00:49:44.000We've all been a part of this YouTube apocalypse revenue with news channels.
00:49:48.000And so even though our watch times, I don't know about everyone here, but our watch times are up, retention is up, engagements are up, you know, revenue is down dramatically.
00:50:13.000It was our first stream ever, something political, and YouTube streams on the homepage, our election livestream.
00:50:21.000It has like a million plagues or something.
00:50:22.000Our presidential debates, half a million, half a million, 700,000.
00:50:24.000So we had been doing it without the aid of YouTube, and they decided to feature her.
00:50:28.000And I feel like there were people in the back of the room going, damn it.
00:50:33.000And after that, they kind of were more forthcoming about, okay, yeah, some stuff's been going on.
00:50:37.000There definitely came a break there and where there was some acknowledgement, some hand wringing in a positive way to say, maybe you guys guessed this is why you're here.
00:50:46.000Maybe you didn't know that initially, but we're trying to mend fences.
00:50:50.000And there were a couple conservative people who worked there at YouTube, to be fair.
00:50:53.000And some people who were more left, and I got the sense there were some people there who were kind of left who worked at YouTube, but they're not as far left as the people who really wanted to change the policy and ban everything as hate speech.
00:51:02.000You told me, actually, we didn't talk since then.
00:51:04.000You said they've actually changed their controversial subject to their policy.
00:51:07.000So some of the language that was very subjective, some of the very broad language about things that are offensive or not, have been dialed back.
00:51:14.000And they've actually provided more detail about their policies.
00:51:17.000So over the last couple of months, we were told by some higher-up folks at YouTube that that change was going to happen in response to some of the complaints, some of the things that we had been saying on the show and otherwise.
00:51:27.000And it looks like that's coming to fruition, which would tend to support YouTube's position that they want to be a more neutral platform, even when they're getting hit by...
00:51:40.000What's crazy to me is if they want to talk about making more money, YouTube's not profitable.
00:51:44.000And I spoke with someone there, and I don't think Jared was with me, but you can see the lights go on.
00:51:48.000I said, listen, you have every different creamer known to man here.
00:51:53.000Every different espresso bean, every single origin tea leaf.
00:52:32.000But I do think, having watched it now, I spoke with someone there.
00:52:37.000I said, listen, if you want to make money...
00:52:40.000It's not a sponsorship problem, but my channel, you're watching this right now, you'll probably see an ad for Muslim Singles, or Gay Cruises, or Bernie Sanders.
00:52:48.000And I'll see ads for the NRA, or I'll see ads for the USCCA, or some more conservative causes, but they just don't run on my channel.
00:52:56.000I'm saying, you've spent this whole day trying to impress us with all your algorithms, all your software, all the tech that you have.
00:53:14.000For every subject that they think is controversial, you know, as a lawyer, there are advertisers who will pay that much more to be involved with that.
00:53:21.000In other words, if YouTube's saying, well, Second Amendment stuff is very controversial...
00:53:25.000Any gun manufacturer, any firearm manufacturer, any ammo company would pay extra to get in front of that audience.
00:53:46.000In a big organization, you kind of think about the echo chamber that we've seen a lot of on both sides, but particularly on the left.
00:53:52.000And then you figure where are these people based, where are the company, where are the voices coming from that are influencing their decisions?
00:53:58.000And it's perhaps no surprise that they have a blind spot as to how conservative voices are being treated on their platform.
00:54:10.000We actually secretly made fun of every white person in the room and knew that you'd all be speaking some type of Asian language within the decade.
00:55:01.000Maybe the left doesn't know what the right hand's doing, but given that they've been on notice, it's a wonder how these things continue to happen.
00:55:08.000Especially since they just got a guy, they helped get a guy sentenced to death in Pakistan.
00:56:02.000I bet you he doesn't know that there are blasphemy laws where you die in Pakistan.
00:56:05.000So I bet you when he made that executive decision to send someone over to Pakistan, which sent chills down my spine, genuinely, where he said, yeah, we'll send someone over to help you guys with the blaspheming.
00:56:15.000I think Mark Zuckerberg thought, like, oh yeah, they're going to hold hands and have a meeting.
00:56:19.000I don't think he knew that they were going to slit his throat.
00:56:21.000You don't think Pakistan was trying to hold Facebook accountable for those things?
00:56:25.000No, no, I think Facebook was just trying to play ball.
00:56:47.000They should have had the conversation a little earlier on the outset, but once we did, it was productive, and you're going to be back to keep the audience posted?
00:57:13.000By the way, if you want good service in New York City, we talked about this yesterday, but it was for the superfans behind the paywall, just act gay.
00:57:19.000They did not like you at the speakeas where we went to.
00:57:24.000And then when Bill and Jared said they were just recently married in Vermont and looking for places to take cool wedding pictures but not super touristy, they couldn't serve you quickly enough?
01:02:14.000We're fortunate enough to have Mug Club, and how many of you have joined, and CRTV, so we're not entirely dependent on YouTube.
01:02:20.000If we didn't, if people out there didn't join at Mug Club, 69 for students, we wouldn't be able to do this.
01:02:25.000This would be gone, this show would be gone, it wouldn't exist.
01:02:27.000So if you really do like the show, if you like the free content, you have to join if you want to stick around.
01:02:31.000But they did say, so we would be really in a bad space if YouTube had continued down this path, but they said, we get it, and just give us some time.
01:02:40.000So we are going to give them some time, but let me tell you something.
01:02:43.000A lot of conservatives there, and Ben Shapiro will tell you this because people were there who were friends with Ben Shapiro.
01:02:49.000I've never felt so alone as when I'm in a room often with conservatives.
01:02:54.000I used to think I was in college, but you expect it.
01:02:56.000You expect to be surrounded by liberals.
01:02:58.000You expect it when I was in the entertainment industry.
01:02:59.000But once I got around conservatives or college Republicans or I would speak at functions, I felt more alone.
01:03:03.000Because I have people come up who say, you know what you need to do, so you need to joke less and be more serious about, or they would be afraid to discuss something that was controversial or offensive.
01:03:14.000We had a guy behind me after they opened it up to Q&A. When I asked a question, and then I'll explain the question, he said, yes, I have a less salacious question.
01:03:30.000This was a lawyer there who didn't officially work with YouTube, had worked with Viacom.
01:03:34.000She was talking about copyright, and she was saying, you know, when you're criticizing something, when you're using a clip from something, first off, they always just say, the safe bet is just don't do it.
01:03:43.000As all good lawyers say, which is why we love ours.
01:04:24.000I said, OK, when you're talking about criticisms, you said don't take clips that are truly the heart of the original clip.
01:04:31.000And I said this in a room full of YouTube executives and this lady, and I said, well, for example, two days ago, YouTube featured a video from BuzzFeed Ladylike where they painted with their period blood.
01:04:42.000So, considering I don't really understand the controversial guidelines, which we'll get to in a moment, I don't know where painting with your period blood lines up, but since I would want to address the heart of this video, namely criticize this post-modernist art of them painting in their period blood...
01:05:20.000It was important for everyone at YouTube and all these lawyers and people who wanted to sit us down and give us nice muffins and people who wanted a free trip to New York.
01:05:29.000Now, if we weren't going to get our questions answered, it was going to be a waste of time and that's not why we flew halfway across the country.
01:05:36.000I wanted everyone there who took part in featuring this content to To hear exactly what it is.
01:05:43.000Just like the ultrasound with an abortion.
01:07:12.000Only when that has changed, and we've seen that on YouTube, only when, I don't want to say trolling, and you don't need to go and post racist memes.
01:07:31.000And then everyone else was laughing that we were laughing.
01:07:34.000You know, because most people in the room, conservatives, who are out there championing your freedom of speech, I'm not throwing anyone specifically under the bus, there were some good people there, but they zip.
01:07:45.000You know what you need to do when someone says problematic or someone says trigger warning or safe space or microaggression in a sentence?
01:08:15.000And everyone is terrified that you're going to remove us, that you're going to try and silence the voices, that you're going to remove our sponsorships, that you're going to flag us as hate speech.
01:08:23.000And you're sitting here showing us your cool studios.
01:08:26.000And again, some people there by the end were fantastic.
01:08:29.000So my bone to pick is not with people at YouTube, but I hate that us, the silly comedians with a show like this, went in among people with far greater intellectual power than us.
01:08:41.000And we had to pave that way for people to speak boldly.
01:08:44.000And you notice there's a couple people there who were emboldened by us just dropping the pears on the floor and letting them speak like, oh yeah, that is why we're all here, isn't it?
01:09:31.000The fact that someone would ask a conservative a hint of irony with some mild offense at the not gay Jared theme.
01:09:38.000So this is just something that you need to know.
01:09:40.000It's not always the left who's behaving so poorly behind closed doors.
01:09:43.000Some people at YouTube have, but there's some people that are really trying to make corrections and we will keep you posted.
01:09:47.000Sometimes it's that they're so far off the beam and none of the people who should be representing you or your voice Even try to step him back in line.
01:09:56.000And just think about that with your elected officials and representatives and people in media.