Louder with Crowder - January 11, 2024


2024. #CleanSlate


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In this episode of The Daily Show with Stephen Colbert, host Stephen Colbert talks about his new initiative, Clean Slate, and why it s so important to have people in your life who are believable and who are willing to fight for you.

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00:00:00.000 All right.
00:00:01.000 America First!
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00:00:03.000 We want to build a much better believable people.
00:00:08.000 And we must do it non-fatal.
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00:00:13.000 America First!
00:00:14.000 To lead it by an inning.
00:00:16.000 Insiders fighting for insiders.
00:00:19.000 Time to stop.
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00:00:26.000 Time to stop.
00:00:27.000 Insiders fighting for insiders America first love the flow Now it's time for new believable people.
00:00:41.000 And we must do it.
00:00:43.000 If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over.
00:00:48.000 To lead it by an A. Big, fat, love, find common ground.
00:00:53.000 To halt the spread of lies.
00:00:56.000 And we must do it.
00:00:57.000 Big, fat, love, find common ground.
00:01:00.000 To halt the spread of lies And aid
00:01:04.000 America first!
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00:01:08.000 Non-fatal We want to build a much better
00:01:12.000 Time to stop.
00:01:14.000 Insiders fighting for insiders.
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00:01:25.000 Time to stop.
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00:01:38.000 Love the flow.
00:01:39.000 I'm going to be doing a lot of this.
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00:05:46.000 Hey, Fancy seeing you here.
00:05:48.000 Glad to be with you.
00:05:51.000 I know this is not a normal show.
00:05:52.000 We kind of just decided to drop this.
00:05:55.000 Let me sort of set the stage here.
00:05:58.000 Hashtag Clean Slate is something that we've talked about.
00:06:02.000 It's something that I'd mentioned before we went on Christmas break.
00:06:06.000 And it's something that's been kind of heavy on my heart, really from your feedback.
00:06:11.000 From a lot of people, actually.
00:06:12.000 And then it was reinforced spending time with human beings in real life over Christmas and New Year's.
00:06:19.000 And I'll get to the schedule in a second.
00:06:21.000 You know, the show is coming back on the 22nd, the Daily Show, and next week, Monday, we have a Black and White and the Gray Issues and an Apologetics episode with Alex Jones.
00:06:29.000 A lot of stuff happening here in the next week, but that's not really what I want to talk about right now.
00:06:34.000 Clean Slate is an initiative that we're starting here.
00:06:39.000 And I ask that you consider joining us.
00:06:41.000 Let's start with this.
00:06:43.000 What are we doing?
00:06:46.000 What are we doing?
00:06:49.000 I mean, what is everyone doing with our lives here and how we use these tools?
00:06:54.000 You're watching this probably on one of the platforms, hopefully Rumble or Mug Club, maybe YouTube.
00:06:59.000 But you may, at one point, you would see a clip on Instagram.
00:07:05.000 And by God, hopefully that 10 seconds gets into that timeline.
00:07:10.000 Along with chicks dancing in yoga pants. 1.00
00:07:14.000 Selling you products that they don't use to develop a body you won't have and live a lifestyle that you'll never live.
00:07:22.000 And we're feeding this machine all this is the feedback that I get from so many of you is you feel like you're in a rat race.
00:07:27.000 You feel like a hamster on a wheel.
00:07:31.000 And it used to be once upon a time.
00:07:33.000 This is kind of the fundamental change.
00:07:35.000 I think that's taking place in this country and really across the world.
00:07:41.000 People used to create content.
00:07:43.000 Or people used to use social media.
00:07:45.000 Used to create the content and hopefully reach the people who they felt it served.
00:07:50.000 It was relevant to them.
00:07:53.000 Now we live in a world where that's not the business.
00:07:56.000 As a matter of fact, you're discouraged from that.
00:07:59.000 And you're discouraged as a consumer from using these platforms that way.
00:08:04.000 We now have people who aggregate content that they didn't make to try and reach an audience they don't care about through feeding a machine which we call an algorithm.
00:08:13.000 And all that means is it's an artificial brain.
00:08:16.000 It's not even human.
00:08:19.000 And it determines what you see and what you consume. 0.50
00:08:24.000 This is why you feel like you're stuck in a rat race.
00:08:27.000 It's an entire industry of appealing to an artificial brain that doesn't even exist.
00:08:34.000 Let me just kind of break this down for you, too, and something to think about.
00:08:38.000 Social media is a term that people use.
00:08:41.000 And I want to get into how this is a tool, right?
00:08:44.000 Tools are meant to serve you.
00:08:46.000 That's not where we are right now.
00:08:48.000 I'll just let you know right off the bat here.
00:08:50.000 If you go to my Instagram or my Twitter right now, everything is gone.
00:08:50.000 Clean slate.
00:08:54.000 I've wiped everything.
00:08:56.000 A little secret, a lot of journalists do this at New York Times and Washington Post because they want to evade accountability.
00:09:02.000 We're doing this so that hopefully you can follow suit and we will move forward using these platforms as the tools that were designed to serve us, not us, not you, serving them.
00:09:11.000 Let me ask you about social media.
00:09:17.000 Social.
00:09:21.000 When you're on social media, when you're scrolling through TikTok, when you're scrolling through Instagram, when you're looking at nothing but YouTube shorts, do you feel particularly social?
00:09:29.000 Let me ask you this.
00:09:31.000 Do you often find yourself using social media when you're in a room with the people you love who love you?
00:09:43.000 You ever leave Instagram or TikTok, any of these places after an hour, and feel better for having done it?
00:09:51.000 It's a genuine question, and it's something I hear from everyone about on a regular basis.
00:09:56.000 Let me kind of give you an analogy, because this happened to me.
00:10:01.000 Social media, these platforms, this device that is constantly bombarding you, and by the way, collecting your information, it's like being at a party.
00:10:09.000 You ever been at a party and there's someone there and you have a bunch of your friends, your family, and there's someone who doesn't quite pick up on the social cues and they won't let you go and you want to end the conversation but you can't because you want to spend time with the people around you who you've come to see?
00:10:24.000 That's the device in your hand.
00:10:27.000 You don't really want to be attached to it.
00:10:31.000 But it won't let you go.
00:10:32.000 Only, it's a machine.
00:10:35.000 It's a machine that doesn't care about you.
00:10:37.000 And this is the thing, working in the industry, I know a lot of you use it to stay in touch with families, and great.
00:10:41.000 And these are tools that I absolutely believe are pivotal that you can use going into an election.
00:10:46.000 I just don't believe that that's where we are right now, and there needs to be a change of course.
00:10:51.000 Before we get to the point that there's no turning back.
00:10:53.000 We have to get out of these social media ghettos and the reliance on them.
00:10:59.000 We'll hear this though in the industry side.
00:11:01.000 You just, you got to be there.
00:11:02.000 You need more, you need more reels.
00:11:05.000 You need more clips.
00:11:05.000 You got, you have to do it.
00:11:07.000 You have to do it.
00:11:07.000 You have to do it if you want to remain relevant.
00:11:09.000 If you want to remain competitive.
00:11:11.000 Competitive for what?
00:11:14.000 Competitive for what?
00:11:15.000 For 10 second views in a timeline where people don't even remember where it came from?
00:11:20.000 Or what they learned, or what it meant?
00:11:24.000 It's very different.
00:11:25.000 You know, they used to say that TV was going to rot your brain.
00:11:29.000 And just to be clear, this show, 22nd Daily Show, I want... You want to know?
00:11:33.000 Watch the show.
00:11:34.000 This show is a time capsule.
00:11:36.000 Something happens to me, I would say, show my kids who their father was.
00:11:42.000 Show them the show.
00:11:44.000 But it's a program that's designed for you.
00:11:46.000 And a lot of the things that we discuss, For example, Gerald doing an Apologetics episode with Alex Jones.
00:11:52.000 That'll be going up next week.
00:11:53.000 The algorithm, the artificial machine, would tell you, you don't want to see it.
00:11:57.000 I don't agree.
00:11:59.000 You let me know.
00:12:00.000 You let the AI know if you want to see it.
00:12:04.000 Do you realize that if I listen to these consultants, if I listen to these firms that exist now to tell you exactly how to profit, Off of new media content.
00:12:12.000 To be clear, there's a business, and the model is create nothing because it costs money, it costs resources to create something, but profit off of everything.
00:12:22.000 Clip someone else's stuff and distribute it, and hopefully you appeal to the algorithm.
00:12:27.000 But let me explain to you the difference between doing a full-length program or, for example, using these social media platforms as tools.
00:12:35.000 You know, when I was a kid, and they would say TV would rot your brain as an example, but it was different.
00:12:40.000 If you went to a live show, you bought a ticket, you were there, you were sharing an experience with people.
00:12:45.000 I can remember as a kid, my dad would usually tape it, because it was past my bedtime, staying up with him the next day after watching David Letterman, or if there was something really funny on Saturday Night Live, or he would show me these films that he grew up with.
00:12:58.000 We would sit around and watch it together.
00:13:02.000 And then turn it off.
00:13:03.000 And usually talk about what it was that we watched.
00:13:06.000 And we felt better usually watching something together.
00:13:10.000 It actually did help build community and conversation.
00:13:13.000 Same thing if you... Radio.
00:13:14.000 You turn it on.
00:13:17.000 DVD, VHS, Blu-ray, whichever one.
00:13:19.000 Maybe you're a Betamax guy.
00:13:20.000 I don't know.
00:13:22.000 You'd pop it in.
00:13:23.000 You'd watch something.
00:13:24.000 You'd move on.
00:13:27.000 Same thing even when YouTube started out.
00:13:30.000 You subscribed to somebody.
00:13:32.000 You saw the content.
00:13:35.000 And then you could discuss it.
00:13:35.000 That's not what happens now.
00:13:37.000 Who you subscribe to and what you say you want to watch...
00:13:42.000 Is largely irrelevant because of an artificial brain telling you what it is that you need to see.
00:13:48.000 The difference between you controlling the devices, between you turning things on that you want to watch, and using it to actually help build your community.
00:13:58.000 is very different from a device that is bombarding you non-stop with a default, a default setting of notifications and a bing, bing, bing, while it reads your face, your thumbprint, and your preferences, so that they can sell you to... Think about this for a second.
00:14:13.000 When I say sell you, this isn't just some cynical thing.
00:14:16.000 Again, why do you feel so unhappy?
00:14:18.000 We have a mental health crisis, I guess we should say, that we've never had in this country.
00:14:24.000 And we have more access to information than ever before.
00:14:28.000 You really should be able to become more educated now for no money, but certainly less than at any point in history.
00:14:35.000 You should be able to be connected to people, your family, your friends, more than ever before because you don't need to pay the money for a long-distance call or get on a plane.
00:14:47.000 This was supposed to create accessibility, but people are more isolated than ever.
00:14:54.000 Why do you feel that way?
00:14:54.000 Let me tell you why.
00:14:56.000 Let's say YouTube, Instagram, Twitter.
00:14:59.000 What's their capital?
00:15:01.000 Eyeballs.
00:15:02.000 Ears.
00:15:03.000 You.
00:15:04.000 How do they make money?
00:15:05.000 Sponsors.
00:15:06.000 Ads.
00:15:07.000 They're selling you to the highest bidder.
00:15:10.000 When you get a ding, and a ding, and a ding, and a ding, and a ding, and read your face, and thumbprint scan, what's your preference?
00:15:16.000 You are the product they are selling.
00:15:20.000 You're just a means to an end for them to make money.
00:15:22.000 And I say this as a free enterpriser. 0.87
00:15:23.000 That's why you feel miserable.
00:15:25.000 This is not about serving you.
00:15:26.000 This is not a tool like a radio, like a television, like a hammer.
00:15:34.000 You are a tool to them.
00:15:38.000 They don't serve you.
00:15:39.000 You are serving them.
00:15:41.000 It's a really scary thing.
00:15:43.000 It's a really scary time in history.
00:15:45.000 When you take that and then you also extrapolate what we know about elections, what we know about the lockdowns, what we know about COVID, but it's really, really hard to identify that when you're so far gone because you've been convinced that you like something you didn't even care about because, boom, it was a 10-second view, it was a 10-second view, and all of a sudden you're down a rabbit hole and, hey, your kids are right there.
00:16:07.000 Your family is right there.
00:16:09.000 There's nothing wrong with consuming media There's something really wrong with the biggest corporations that have ever existed, more powerful than governments, building their business model off of your inability to turn it off.
00:16:29.000 And then you have the inability to teach people truth from fiction.
00:16:33.000 And then you have to get into this rat race, like we've talked about. 0.87
00:16:35.000 You feel like a hamster on a wheel?
00:16:36.000 Yeah, because you gotta, I gotta know what's going on.
00:16:38.000 I gotta know what's going on.
00:16:39.000 Hey, do me a favor.
00:16:42.000 Just try for a couple of days not doing it and also proactively looking for news articles staying in the know.
00:16:49.000 Do you really need to be in these social media ghettos where four companies, three really, control all of the information out there?
00:16:57.000 And does it make your life better?
00:16:58.000 Does it make any of you happier?
00:17:01.000 So that's why we're starting the Clean Slate Initiative. 0.70
00:17:06.000 Uh, and, uh, if you actually go to louderwithcrowder.com slash cleanslate, uh, there are the instructions there.
00:17:12.000 If you want to take part, and I want to be clear about what it is that you do, um, and an option B, because I understand that this is pretty severe.
00:17:21.000 We've gone through, I guess, a digital suicide machine, as it were.
00:17:23.000 I consider it a rebirth.
00:17:24.000 We're not deleting these platforms, but especially as we go into an election season, we're hitting the reset saying, okay, what kind of a legacy do we want to leave?
00:17:35.000 And what kind of a change do we want to impact?
00:17:38.000 And any of you out there want to have the AI brain determine what it is that you consume and who you are based on things that you were posting in maybe 2009 when the platform was entirely different from what it is now?
00:17:53.000 We're not saying delete everything.
00:17:54.000 We're saying delete the content so that you can start fresh.
00:17:58.000 And if enough of you do this, it'll throw their algorithms for a loop and you get to start with a clean slate.
00:18:05.000 It's rare that you get to do that.
00:18:08.000 It's a bigger risk here right now for us because we know that we're, this is a media company, and it's gone.
00:18:14.000 On Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at some point that takes a little bit longer.
00:18:17.000 So if you go to lyderwithcredit.com slash cleanslate.
00:18:20.000 If this sounds like you, and you were thinking I need a change, I'm getting sucked in, maybe, and by the way there are resources for this too, maybe you're addicted.
00:18:29.000 This happens with a lot of people.
00:18:30.000 They just cannot get off of it even if they want to.
00:18:33.000 This is a step.
00:18:35.000 Can clear your timelines and put up one post, whatever post it is that you want to put up, so when people go to your profiles, this is what they see, this is what defines you, and include the hashtag Clean Slate so that hopefully other people do it.
00:18:52.000 That's what it is.
00:18:53.000 Now, if you don't want to do that, and there are ways to archive, by the way, everything you've done in the past so you don't lose it yourself personally, then I would just ask that you be mindful as you move forward.
00:19:05.000 And use these platforms as tools to serve you as opposed to chasing the dragon and serving a master because you need to understand that that master is an artificial brain that doesn't exist and does not care about you or your children.
00:19:21.000 It would be like a hammer with sentience.
00:19:28.000 It's a terrifying thought.
00:19:29.000 Guess what?
00:19:30.000 That hammer would be more scared of Instagram and TikTok.
00:19:33.000 That's the world that we're living in.
00:19:34.000 So clean slate.
00:19:35.000 Wipe it.
00:19:37.000 If you feel like this is something you've been wanting to do.
00:19:40.000 I can't tell you how many comments we get, especially people who are concerned with politics, saying, I want to have an impact, but my God, I just, it's just stressful.
00:19:47.000 And I just, I, then, then they have to, I have to go off the grid.
00:19:49.000 Here's a way to do it.
00:19:51.000 Start now.
00:19:53.000 Moving forward.
00:19:54.000 Today.
00:19:55.000 It's January.
00:19:56.000 What is the date today?
00:19:58.000 January 11th.
00:20:00.000 Clean Slate, and you start dominating these platforms out there so that they fall in line in service to you.
00:20:10.000 You're not just something they sell to someone who doesn't know you and doesn't care about you.
00:20:14.000 That's what Clean Slate is.
00:20:15.000 Whether you choose to wipe everything, one post, hashtag Clean Slate, or you can include hashtag Clean Slate in your timelines as they exist, and as you move forward, decide that you're going to take control of this.
00:20:29.000 And outside of that, yep, just so you know, not only is the show coming back on the 22nd, we never really take breaks.
00:20:34.000 We've been working on, we've had the undercover unit here pissing off the most powerful people in the world.
00:20:41.000 If you thought the Nashville Manifesto was something that is child's play compared to this, we have to aim once and aim right. 1.00
00:20:46.000 They're out there working on it right now.
00:20:49.000 So we'll have a lot of those coming up when the show comes back daily on the 22nd, but we'll also have Monday, another Black and White and the Gray Issues, where I sat down with two black women and just talked about everything for about an hour and a half.
00:21:02.000 Wednesday, Gerald and Alex Jones, they did an apologetics episode, and we actually have a special Nick DiPaolo 30-minute stand-up special as the OG on Friday, and then we're going to have, once we get the final Go ahead, here, from legal on the undercover stories that, um, you know, hey, none of this would make sense business-wise.
00:21:25.000 Absolutely not.
00:21:25.000 Change my mind?
00:21:27.000 That's costly.
00:21:28.000 Doesn't appeal to you.
00:21:29.000 Black and white, what, you're just gonna, white guy, you're just gonna go into a barbershop and talk with people? 0.55
00:21:33.000 Does not make sense.
00:21:34.000 Alex Jones and Gerald Morgan doing an episode on apologetics for an hour plus?
00:21:40.000 Wouldn't make sense.
00:21:41.000 You guys let us know.
00:21:42.000 The undercover unit does not make sense.
00:21:44.000 If you're just trying to appeal to that algorithm, click, click, click, click.
00:21:48.000 You're better off posting an old Andrew Dice Clay hilarious stand-up clip and not giving credit.
00:21:53.000 But we want to provide this to you and you.
00:21:57.000 Not some artificial learning machine that seems to get dumber or more evil by the day will determine what it is that we do and I just ask that you consider not allowing it to determine what you do going forward.
00:22:10.000 This is not an answer to everything.
00:22:13.000 I get that.
00:22:14.000 But it's been heavy on my heart and hopefully It is a helpful first step.
00:22:19.000 Hashtag Clean Slate.
00:22:21.000 Go to lottowithcrowder.com slash cleanslate for the tools available to you if you want to do so.
00:22:27.000 I'm going to see you very soon here on this channel.
00:22:29.000 Really looking forward to it.
00:22:30.000 This is my home.
00:22:31.000 I love being here.
00:22:32.000 And here's a little bit of a taste of what we've been up to and what's coming up next week.
00:22:37.000 Thank you.
00:22:42.000 Mug Club cannot be bought, sold, or bargained with.
00:22:45.000 That's the reputation.
00:22:46.000 The people who want to silence you, who want to dictate what you hear, well, guess what?
00:22:50.000 They can't deplatform us all.
00:22:53.000 The full-fledged network, and the announcements we're about to make, Mug Club is bigger than that.
00:22:57.000 You, Mug Club, are the reason that they are scared. 0.94
00:23:01.000 And they should be.
00:23:01.000 Because wait until you see what's next.
00:23:08.000 How is that racist?
00:23:09.000 It's not just black people who are on welfare.
00:23:12.000 What did you say? 0.98
00:23:13.000 Sex trafficking?
00:23:15.000 Okay.
00:23:16.000 You're gonna have to give... What?
00:23:18.000 Yes.
00:23:21.000 Now in every industry, there's often a person who people think is the man.
00:23:24.000 And then behind the scenes, there's... there's the guy.
00:23:28.000 In the world of stand-up comedy, for decades, that guy is Nick DiPaolo.
00:23:32.000 Oh, we have a videotape of Trump saying he likes to grab... but Hillary doesn't?
00:23:37.000 It's been awesome, and we're going to Alex's home.
00:23:39.000 Alex, thanks for joining me again.
00:23:41.000 Good to be here.
00:23:42.000 There's no subject more important than our eternal souls and the fact that we are eternal beings made by God.
00:23:47.000 Thank you all for being here today.
00:23:55.000 I feel like I was robbed.
00:24:14.000 What we do going forward, including Stripped Series, other undercover products that we are working on, none of it happens without you.