This week on the Bachelorette s season of The Bachelor, we have an update on the case of a Jewish lawyer who was shot to death by his own client, Steven A. Shapiro. We also hear about a man who thought he could get away with a murder he didn t commit.
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00:04:46.000I don't know. He's trying to get me banned from SMU. We have Paul Joseph Watts on the show, at Prison Planet, on the show today.
00:04:50.000And then, of course, we have an update with my lawyer, Bill Richmond.
00:04:53.000A lot of big stuff going on with the Twitters, with the YouTubes, and some things that we can't necessarily mention, but we'll talk about next week at SMU, March 22nd.
00:04:59.000Producing with me in Video Studio. You can follow him on Twitter at NotGayJared.
00:05:03.000I'd say me at S. Crowder, but I can't talk to you right now.
00:05:07.000Your photoshops, your comments, your videos.
00:05:09.000I fulfill my legal obligations, jarring conclusions.
00:05:11.000Are we good? We're good. You know, Twitter jail cuisine.
00:05:13.000Nothing but soy. Twitter jail cuisine.
00:05:16.000Nothing but the soy. That makes sense.
00:05:18.000I think that that should be cuisine in jail jail.
00:05:21.000I don't understand the logic behind giving them protein to make them stronger.
00:05:24.000Give them uteruses. Yeah. That's better.
00:05:26.000Let's send them back into society weaker than when they went in.
00:06:16.000Fallout Boy has announced an anti-gun concert for the March for Our Lives rally with Pete Wentz claiming, we want to be the soundtrack for gun control.
00:06:28.000So do we. Please, everyone, when you think of modern day...
00:06:34.000When you think of the modern day gun control movement, so do we.
00:07:05.000We will start a campaign to make sure that you are the face of the gun control movement.
00:07:10.000By the way, in the least surprising news of the day, a baker from France has been fined 3,000 euros for working too much.
00:07:20.000A beggar from the small town of Lusigny, and I'm French, I can't even read it.
00:07:24.000You should know that. In northeastern France was fined €3,000 for working seven days a week, the law-imposing a weekly day of rest for all workers.
00:08:36.000I know. Thank you. I wish that would have gone better, but I didn't expect it to.
00:08:42.000It's about like this week. In Oklahoma Mom, there's other news, and we're going to be talking about some more legal issues with social media.
00:08:50.000I feel like we need an Oklahoma watch at this point.
00:08:52.000No, I think we need more of an India watch.
00:08:53.000More of an India watch, for sure. There's two watches to have at this point, really.
00:08:56.000Well, except they don't have watches in India.
00:09:09.000An Oklahoma mom who actually once married her son, this is a real story, will now go to jail for marrying her daughter.
00:09:20.000This comes from WFAA. For her part in marrying her daughter two years after she was legally allowed to contact her children following an annulled marriage to her biological son, Patricia Spann will serve time in jail.
00:09:30.000So the interesting part is the detaining officer released a statement that Patricia Spann will receive, quote, eight years probation for the crime of felony incest.
00:09:39.000Then he clarified the crime of felony lesbian incest, and he was immediately banned from Twitter.
00:09:47.000Of course, upon hearing the news, Farrakhan himself blamed the filthy Jews.
00:11:41.000She's now denying it, but she had a video on her social media saying that she kicked her dog because the dog interrupted her during an interview on Fox& Friends.
00:14:13.000And people use it to educate themselves and educate their professors and use it to rebut maybe Vox on gun control.
00:14:20.000So let me ask you a question first off.
00:14:21.000Because we've been dealing with it this week.
00:14:23.000Do you feel there's a generation gap between those in the social media fray right now, the ones who are obviously censoring different points of view, right of center points of view, and the old conservative guard?
00:14:34.000Because that's what I've been running into.
00:14:42.000People have been saying, for example, that Twitter and YouTube, they shouldn't have banned the video.
00:14:46.000But then we've had a lot of conservatives this week who've been criticizing us saying, well, sure, it was entertaining, but really, how constructive was it?
00:15:09.000That's the point. You're talking, by the way, to the creators of Change My Mind.
00:15:12.000We're millions upon millions of plays of nothing more than me sitting down with a stool in enemy territory being bombarded and trying to be as constructive as humanly possible.
00:15:21.000And by the way, this is a late night show.
00:15:42.000You understand how this works or you don't.
00:15:44.000Whether you support the idea of the content or not.
00:15:47.000And these conservatives, we run into you guys all the time.
00:15:49.000You bitch and you say, why does Jimmy Kimmel get to use his platform for politics?
00:15:53.000I'm not going to tune into the Oscars.
00:15:55.000But you know why? Because he spent years being entertaining.
00:15:58.000If people are going to hold us to that standard where every single thing we say has to be like Rush Limbaugh's cheering on, dear leader, we're not the show for you, was it constructive.
00:16:12.000And if that's what determines whether you support us or these people support us not in fighting these behemoths of fascist censorship bastions of a**hole-ism, okay, then piss off.
00:16:22.000Don't watch our show. How's that for constructive?
00:16:28.000But to see conservatives going, well, I would support you if you didn't do something that was a...
00:16:33.000Could it be a little more constructive?
00:16:34.000Could it be a lecture? By the way, as far as constructive, there's a reason this video was removed.
00:16:38.000The left understands the scope of what we're doing.
00:16:41.000Okay, the old stick-in-the-mud right vanguard has no idea.
00:16:44.000You bet your ass the left thinks it's constructive.
00:16:47.000That's why they had a hair-triggered, double-barreled s*** machine gun ready for all of the platforms to remove this video because they realized how constructive it was in making the left looking like the silly LGBTQ, AAIP, two-spirited dumbasses that they are.
00:17:03.000That's why we don't like to talk about our numbers.
00:17:05.000We don't go out and brag. That's not what we're based on.
00:17:07.000We've been focusing on content, creating more content than ever.
00:17:09.000But we cannot hire people fast enough to keep up with the growth, which is a blessing, and for which we are eternally grateful.
00:17:17.000But that's because we were too busy being unconstructive while you were sermonizing to 85-year-old geriatrics who want to stock up on self-lubricating pocket catheters.
00:17:24.000The left understands how dangerous we are.
00:17:27.000And all they do... Is run a clip of the latest, by the way, the latest rant.
00:17:31.000The latest conservative rant or gotcha segment on Fox and Friends.
00:17:34.000They just run it on The View and go, see?
00:17:38.000They just run the latest NRA clip and go, see?
00:17:54.000Their unfunniness is their own rebuttal.
00:17:57.000Now guess who these leftist sites never roll?
00:17:59.000Us. Our content will get folds more plays.
00:18:02.000This is the type of break. Our content will get folds more plays than these hosts on the left, than the Kimmels, than the Seth Meyers, than the Jimmy Fallons, with a fraction, and I mean fraction of the staff, and I mean a fantastic staff, but we are talking pennies on the dollar when you're talking about hirees, employees, and the left doesn't play it.
00:18:20.000Oh, here's the thing. They try to remove it, Behind the scenes, they Twitter ban like you saw.
00:18:24.000They Facebook throttle. They try to get dozens of videos removed from our channel on YouTube.
00:18:53.000We do so many things. We have a lawyer on retainer.
00:18:56.000To fight this. Every dollar you give us, every dollar you spend that goes into Mug Club goes into providing more free content and making sure that the path is still open for you.
00:19:20.000Yeah, you know, it's been a really stressful week.
00:19:22.000Hell, it's been a really stressful year.
00:19:23.000But you know, it's been a stressful week for us just as much, really I would say more so because of the old conservative guard as it's been for the left trying to silence us.
00:19:29.000Which is why we're so grateful for people like you who do watch and who do share and who do join over there at Mug Club.
00:19:35.000Watch, I say Jew. Watch, there's gonna be another Daily Stormer thing.
00:19:37.000And then another teacher's gonna try and get me banned from SMU. This week, it's been Twitter.
00:19:41.000It's been YouTube. It's been Facebook, which you don't even know about.
00:19:43.000It's been South by Southwest. You bet your ass that we've had a rough go.
00:19:47.000But every dollar we get from you joining Mug Club, that we get from you supporting the sponsors, buying the merch, will go to fighting this with everything we got.
00:19:55.000Because despite the fact that we have a giant ass target on our back, we know that you have ours.
00:19:59.000And who cares if the old stodgy Republicans don't have your back?
00:20:03.000This is where we are this week. It's been stressful, but it's also been a relief.
00:20:06.000Let me ask you. You have values that don't line up with your professors, maybe, if you're in college, you're a college student.
00:20:11.000We know. We won't look at our demographics.
00:20:12.000Maybe your values don't line up with your peers.
00:20:15.000Maybe it doesn't line up with the social media elite.
00:20:17.000You feel like you don't quite fit in with the Oscars elite crowd, but you're also maybe not welcome at the young Republican parties and conventions.
00:20:23.000You feel like a misfit? You're tired of fighting the whole damn world and you wish there were people out there like you?
00:20:31.000We've got food, we've got beer, laughs, guns and mugs, and you're welcome to stay as long as you want.
00:20:35.000And if that doesn't seem kosher to you, if you think that's not constructive, if you're not willing to take up arms and grow a pair, this just isn't the place for you.
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00:20:56.000And we will be talking with Paul Joseph Watson and then our lawyer to update you.
00:21:00.000I'm sorry, I've hopefully earned the right to do that every now and then.
00:21:03.000It's just for everyone, I won't let Mary Your heart stop, I feel good
00:21:08.000Ah, darling Kids running through the background
00:22:12.000In case you didn't know, it holds everything in.
00:22:14.000I've been to San Francisco. Before the removing of the video from the YouTube, before the stuff that's happened with Facebook that we can't exactly talk about, before the temporary Twitter ban, which could be a permanent Twitter ban, I threw out my back.
00:23:37.000Paul Joseph Watson. I'm missing the Joseph.
00:23:38.000I can't think of a more English-sounding name.
00:23:41.000Is that like... I mean, I was going to say, is that like John Smith over there in the UK, but I suppose that would just be John Smith.
00:23:46.000Well, I only use... I use the middle name because Paul Watson is that big environmentalist sea shepherd guy, so I have to differentiate between him.
00:23:56.000Yes, I'm sure he does. He's like, Joseph!
00:24:00.000There's a guy who owns stevencrowder.com.
00:24:02.000Yeah, there was a guy who owns stevencrowder.com, tried to shake me down for tens of thousands of dollars, and then said, hey man, we both come to the same cross.
00:24:09.000I was like, what? Your cross is a prick?
00:24:13.000Because that's not what I do. Yeah, I tried to pull the Christian card, and I was like, oh, okay, well, yeah, we're like, so $100 million.
00:24:17.000All right, Paul, what have you experienced yourself as it comes to YouTube and Twitter and Facebook?
00:24:23.000You've been pretty good for the most part, and I don't think you've had a ton of suspensions or removals, right?
00:24:30.000What I'm finding now is, like, I dig back through old videos on YouTube.
00:24:34.000So, for example, it was like almost two years ago, I made a video called F the Pope.
00:24:38.000Went back and they put it in limited state.
00:26:48.000I mean, their only platform is the mainstream media.
00:26:51.000The mainstream media loves them because they use them to bash us, to portray us as extremists.
00:26:58.000That's what we just talked about at SMU, this UT Arlington professor.
00:27:02.000Who was posting these, saying, we need to get him banned from SMU, was posting fake memes of me posted by the, what is it, the Storm?
00:27:11.000I don't know. Daily Stormer. Daily Stormer, because they thought I was Jewish, right?
00:27:13.000Because I support Israel's right to exist.
00:27:15.000So they did a bunch of anti-Semitic memes.
00:27:16.000And then when people found out I wasn't Jewish, they said, oh, let's...
00:27:20.000Tattoo swastikas on him and photoshop it and have a whole bunch of anti-semitic memes and racist memes to try and ruin his career.
00:27:25.000This guy, by the way, I don't go around filing violations in social media willy-nilly.
00:27:31.000That's liable. That's illegal to do, right?
00:27:34.000Saying Stephen Crowder said kill all the n-words or whatever it is that they say, and I go, hey, I didn't say that.
00:27:39.000That can't be up there. Twitter manually reviewed it, said it's okay, and a professor is now using it to try and get me banned from campus.
00:29:56.000Silicon Valley is now deciding elections.
00:29:58.000Well, that's a very important point, and actually the Western journalism guys were asking to come on this show, but not necessarily the most entertaining folks.
00:30:05.000We were like, let's find a pocket for you later.
00:30:08.000But... The important thing there is not just Donald Trump, because people can say, well, he's made some bad decisions, he's pissed off conservatives, but like you said, across the board, and also people could say midterms, right?
00:30:20.000Midterms, obviously the opposition party tends to do better, but across the board for conservatives, not only conservatives, but this includes libertarians.
00:30:26.000This includes people like us, comedians, who just happen to be right of center, doing more poorly, and it doesn't correlate with the television numbers, by the way, of some of these other pages.
00:30:35.000That's what's important. It is not consistent at all.
00:32:27.000Constituents, conservatives aren't bitching about it enough to get it in front of them.
00:32:31.000Well, they are, but they're bitching about it, just saying, oh, this happened.
00:32:35.000I will tell you, I feel like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, because I've gotten some emails from people going like, hey, welcome to the club.
00:32:40.000Now you're like us. And I'm sitting there going, I am nothing like you.
00:33:18.000And Democratic lawmakers, this is shoved in front of them all the time.
00:33:22.000Like, they're actively talking to Twitter executives.
00:33:25.000There was a case shortly after the October 31st attack in New York where it was a Democratic congressman bitching about how my Infowars story was at the top of the Twitter search trend for that day.
00:33:38.000It was based on a story an imam in New York warned de Blasio that radicalization was taking place in mosques in New York.
00:33:47.000He did warn him. He provided the letter.
00:33:50.000The congressman was like, how on earth does this get to the top of Twitter?
00:33:53.000And the Twitter exec was like, yeah, it was gone by lunchtime.
00:33:57.000Don't worry about it. So you have them.
00:33:59.000Putting pressure on Twitter at every available opportunity, that's not happening on the right.
00:34:04.000There was one thing with Ted Cruz last month, with this Communications Decency Act, which says they have to abide by being politically neutral, or they lose legal immunity for user content.
00:34:15.000So if someone posts a death rot on YouTube, YouTube's responsible for it.
00:34:42.000When they go out and they court people to spend money with them, listen, if you spend a million dollars with YouTube and Twitter and Facebook, which, by the way, is not unheard of.
00:34:50.000Let's say people talk about the Bush tax cuts.
00:34:52.000They got somebody, oh, A million dollars in growth in advertising spent over the course of five years is not much.
00:34:59.000And a lot of people right now are advised to spend that on social media advertising.
00:35:03.000That is a million dollars they could spend somewhere else in inventory, and they're spending it based on a lie.
00:35:08.000Like you said, I don't know. They might need to be regulated as public utility companies.
00:35:12.000They might need to be. I might be changing my mind on this.
00:35:15.000Before we go, Paul, can you do me one favor?
00:35:55.000You get it. You get it. Paul, so what do they do?
00:35:59.000You say go to their lawmakers. So we're doing what we can specifically with our cases.
00:36:03.000Not everyone has a paper trail of Twitter taking money and then saying, hey, this is a violation of our policy.
00:36:10.000What can the average person do who's in the right, who isn't violating copyright, How can they fight back?
00:36:15.000You talk about getting in front of legislators What can they do?
00:36:18.000You've talked about this. Well, I think we're going to start a campaign which is basically a stock form that they can fill in and insert their own particular relevance into it.
00:36:28.000So we need to do that. We need to set up a process where it's automated.
00:36:36.000We need to communicate. What I saw after the CNN thing where they literally lobbied to shut down our YouTube channel, they were talking to YouTube like, oh, what about this video?
00:36:45.000video, what about this video? Then I had CNN people coming back at me saying, Oh, we're
00:36:49.000just covering the story. No, you're not. You're in there directly communicating with YouTube
00:36:54.000execs for particular videos that you claim a hate speech or whatever. This is a lobbying
00:36:59.000campaign. So, I mean, I, after that, I said, we need to declare war on the mainstream media.
00:37:05.000They had a video where they harassed a woman outside her own home, an elderly woman in Florida, clearly harassment, clearly doxing.
00:37:17.000So, like you said, we need to strike back.
00:37:19.000With the telecommunications thing, the regulation, if you have a phone contract with T-Mobile or whoever, they don't get to ban your contract because they don't like the content of your conversations that you have with people on the phone.
00:37:32.000So I'm warming more towards some kind of regulation, maybe some kind of internet bill of rights is another way to go.
00:37:38.000I think they should have to sign on to it.
00:37:40.000I think Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook should be given the option.
00:37:43.000You don't have to. If you lose your immunity, right, you lose your immunity here if you don't sign on to, okay, we are a politically neutral platform.
00:37:52.000You allow a full, deeply rooted investigation so we know that your algorithms are fair, we get to do a full manual review, or you don't get to play nice.
00:38:02.000Or you don't get this benefit. That's what needs to happen.
00:38:03.000They have to choose. Right now, they're having the best of all worlds.
00:38:07.000And by the way, for people out there, obey the law.
00:38:12.000They say, well, someone complained it was a violation of privacy.
00:38:14.000Well, we recorded South by Southwest, where it's a single-party consent state, and actually they allow you to film at some of these events for the first five minutes, particularly at meetups.
00:38:28.000Meanwhile, libelous videos or claims, like, for example, videos out there saying that I want to exterminate the Jews, and I say, hey, can you manually review this?
00:38:37.000And Twitter says, no, no, that's fine.
00:38:38.000That is illegal. That's actually libel and slander.
00:38:41.000You can lose in court. So their policies don't follow the law, and they even allow...
00:38:45.000Criminal activity to occur on their platform.
00:38:48.000There needs to be legal ramifications.
00:38:52.000So I hope you spearhead it along with us, and this is the shot heard around the world.
00:38:57.000I mean, they would be more sensible to just do the shadow banning and the algorithm changes, because you can't really prove either way if that's happening.
00:39:05.000There was a study by a psychologist called Robert Epstein.
00:39:07.000He found that Google's ranking algorithm in terms of one candidate versus another, positive stories ranked above negative stories, they could influence the outcome of 25% of all national elections.
00:39:19.000That is the power of the algorithm, so that's going to be a big battle as well, but when they target individuals and just create all this resentment, they're going to create a rod for their own back.
00:39:29.000The backlash has already started and it's going to get bigger.
00:39:32.000A rod for my back actually sounds good right now.
00:39:34.000I might stabilize it. This girl isn't quite doing the whole trick.
00:39:36.000Good point though, and it's shocking that they're doing all of this.
00:39:39.000They're throttling and they're banning and they're censoring, and we are still winning.
00:39:43.000The right is We're still taking it to them.
00:39:45.000Imagine if we weren't being censored and dragged down by this.
00:42:22.000Glad to be here. Good. I'm glad to have you here.
00:42:24.000Now, before we move on, just so people kind of understand this, first off, how many times have you won or been awarded the title of Best Business Lawyer in Dallas?
00:43:14.000First off, let me ask you, what have you done with that Charles Hermes character?
00:43:18.000He was a professor, lecturer, I don't know if there's anything, UTD, no, UT Arlington, spreading false Nazi memes of myself to try and get the March 22nd SMU show cancelled.
00:43:32.000The legal definition of what I sent was a love note requesting a retraction and a correction.
00:43:38.000There's some great things under Texas law that allow us to say, hey, if you make a false statement and you're causing issues, you should make a retraction or correction if you want to deal with the issue.
00:43:48.000And so we've given him an opportunity.
00:43:51.000To do the right thing and not just delete the tweet or delete the post, but to actually do the right thing here.
00:44:19.000Um... Another question, I guess, is when someone puts a quote next to us and says that you said this thing, for example, like, kill all the Jews or whatever it is, and knowingly spreads false information, what is the legal term for that?
00:44:44.000What are we doing with that video that was removed on YouTube to get it back on YouTube to try and play ball and to be as much of a partner as we can?
00:44:55.000I think we're shooting in the dark and guessing because no one wants to actually say with specificity what the alleged issue is.
00:45:02.000But what the actual actions we're taking are blurring.
00:45:06.000We're blurring more things out. We're blurring...
00:45:08.000Any possibility of a name or a face of people who were in a public place knowingly being filmed, who were actually happy they were being filmed until they realized that They weren't necessarily being filmed in a particularly friendly way.
00:45:25.000Right. No, exactly. I should note to people who don't know, who haven't been following, who aren't Mug Club members, we were hit with a privacy violation.
00:45:32.000Now, usually if someone says there's a privacy violation, first off, you know, there's laws, and then there's policies from these social media agents.
00:45:38.000And what's crazy is that sometimes they actually go further than the law, even if you're following the law.
00:45:43.000And then sometimes they allow criminal acts like libel to take place on their platform after a manual review.
00:45:47.000So you can't know what's law and what's policy.
00:45:48.000That's hard work to We were just told someone complained about privacy, and the time code was the entire duration of the video.
00:45:57.000So Bill just said, listen, blur every face, every name.
00:47:13.000The only thing I can say right now is we're making an all-out effort to be able to hit them at all channels of communication and To let them know that this is a serious issue that they have to fix immediately.
00:47:23.000Unfortunately, that's the policy that they use, kind of de facto policy of whoever makes the loudest noise might get some relief from these draconian random applications of the rules.
00:47:35.000For everything else, I'm going to have to save it for the March 22nd show on SMU. I'll give an announcement and update them and kind of reveal a little bit more once things become more public of exactly the steps we're taking.
00:47:46.000Okay. So at SMU, March 22nd, half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman going to have some major announcements.
00:47:51.000I forgot my C's. And it's going to be one hell of a party.
00:47:54.000Thank you, Bill. We're glad to have you in our corner.
00:48:22.000Now, first item up for discussion, we've heard a lot of rumblings from angry women, and we're looking for ways to preserve our secretive yet long-standing rape culture.
00:48:37.000Yes, Charlie! Yo, what if like when a woman wants to accuse a man of rape, like what if it came up and made like a whole court system thing where like, you know, to require some sort of verifiable proof, You know, like, convict somebody?
00:48:54.000Thereby hiding rape culture under the guise of innocent until proven guilty.
00:48:58.000Yeah. My lord, that's brilliant, Charlie!
00:49:00.000Yeah, yeah, it could be, like, a whole thing with, like, judges and, like, due process and stuff.
00:49:06.000Due process. A foolproof system designed to preserve our rape culture without fail.
00:49:11.000Airtight, those bitches won't know what hit them.
00:49:15.000Tom? You know that we are supposed to keep refreshments to a two per attendee maximum.
00:49:21.000You see, if you had counted the room, if you had counted the room, if you had done the research, as I have done the research, you would know there are not enough cookies for everyone in this room.
00:52:52.000I think I've been doing better at handling it than I used to.
00:52:56.000I think everyone here has done an amazing job handling it.
00:53:00.000Mark is new. Johnny Boy has made a big difference on hire here, helping keep things organized.
00:53:04.000That's why we're able to create more content, because I was having to manage this stuff, the business side of things, and it's grown beyond my control.
00:53:10.000So having people like Bill... This is a team effort.
00:53:14.000And I was actually finna was really this week was really So I looked, when we had this thing, to give you an idea, just to give you an idea, to try and, I guess, to try and make it relatable, because I know not everyone is, you know, works in media, and not everyone really relies on social media is kind of just something that's for fun.
00:53:30.000For us, it's the lifeblood of 15 employees, right?
00:53:33.000It's the lifeblood of Nakeh Jarrett, of Sven Computer, of Edward the Sound Guy, of Johnny Boy, of Courtney, of Casey, of Rodigan, of Mark, of Garrett, of Aaron the Intern, I mean, there's so many, of Francine, of Darren, there's so many people.
00:53:49.000We talked about that. So it's the lifeblood of all this.
00:53:52.000And I was pretty stressed. So imagine now you wake up one morning, whatever it is that you do, and you wake up that morning and your number two tool, Twitter, has been removed from you.
00:54:02.000Your number two business tool. Let's say you run a business and your factory just shut down.
00:54:09.000It's the equivalent to that. And then you find out an hour later, you just didn't know about it, That your number one tool has been taken away from you.
00:54:19.000Or certainly it's on the way out because a video was removed for a violation that you don't know you made and you have no way to fix it.
00:54:26.000So your biggest distributor says, no go.
00:54:29.000Well, you say, well, on a second, we have a contract for this.
00:55:34.000Listen, I don't think Garrett would be... Garrett is new.
00:55:35.000Garrett isn't as seasoned, so there are a lot of things he can't quite do yet, as well as some of the more technical hires.
00:55:41.000But Garrett is on top of things, a big part of our studio reorganization.
00:55:45.000I mean, this guy, he worked at a cinema, and he came in, and he brought up the term cable configuration, and And he builds props and he did the scar tissue for the makeup on the waterfront.
00:55:56.000It's just, hey, Garrett, can you help me with this?
00:55:58.000And before you finish the phrase, he's outdoing it.
00:56:00.000I can't say enough good things about Garrett as a person.
00:56:03.000And he's been doing incredibly well as an employee.
00:56:05.000We're still finding the best use for him. That's one thing you have to do as a leader, too, is find people's strengths and try to use them to the best of their ability.
00:56:11.000It's hard to do when you don't know what your work is, when you don't know what your product is, when you don't know what your distribution is because people keep taking it away from you.
00:56:19.000And we were about to shoot The Shining deal, and I was getting into wardrobe, and I looked, and I saw Garrett.
00:56:24.000And he was going like this, and I put my hand on the show.
00:56:26.000I said, hey, Garrett, man, are you okay?
00:56:29.000You seem stressed. He said, no, no, no, I'm good.
00:56:31.000He said, you know, I'm just stressed as everyone is.
00:56:34.000I said, well, you don't need to be stressed.
00:56:54.000And Garrett actually sent me, I remember that night, he sent me, sorry, just again, this is being open with you.
00:57:00.000Proverbs 3, 5, 6, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding, and all the ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path.
00:57:28.000A lot of you watch it on TV and you say, I really feel like there's a connection.
00:57:31.000I really feel like I'm alone out there.
00:57:32.000And it made me, you know, there's a lot of stress with this.
00:57:35.000It's not about Twitter. It's not about Facebook.
00:57:37.000It's not about trolling. It's about being responsible for the livelihoods of 15 people.
00:57:41.000And it also made me realize, you know what?
00:57:44.000We're going to fight this as hard as we can, but I know that people here understand that if we fight as hard and we lose, it's okay.
00:57:52.000It's okay because we all know that we're putting...
00:57:53.000When you know that you've put in as much effort as you possibly can and still you come up short, it's a tough pill to swallow, but it is one that you can swallow.
00:58:02.000One you can't swallow is say, ah, I could have done this or I knew I should have changed that.
00:58:10.000It was just one of those moments. I looked at him and he was stressed.
00:58:12.000There was really no reason for him to be stressed.
00:58:13.000Listen, Garrett is effectively an intern.
00:58:16.000He's a new guy. He does everything that we need him to do.
00:58:19.000He wasn't on the conference calls all day with Bill and sending out cease and desist lawyers and trying to make sure that the show at SMU happens.
00:58:26.000He didn't have to deal with that stress.
01:00:22.000I actually have it written on a piece of paper.
01:00:23.000I think I'm going to mount it over my wall.
01:00:25.000And hopefully, I know a lot of people, you're not dealing with Twitter, you're not dealing with YouTube, but everyone has their fights.
01:00:29.000Everyone has their fights to deal with. I know that your struggle may be way bigger.
01:00:31.000It could be cancer. It could be something going on with a relative who's sick.
01:00:34.000It could be maybe you don't know where your next paycheck is coming from.
01:00:36.000I understand that what we have is not as big of a deal as a lot of you.
01:00:40.000Believe me, this is not some kind of a victim complex.
01:00:42.000What I'm saying is I appreciate that we're able to do this with you, and I appreciate that you, going through your own shit, and don't censor that for me, You going through the shit that I know you're going through.