In this week's show, the boys are joined by Paul Joseph Watson (Prison Planet, Info Wars), Mark Levin (The Weekly Standard), and Bill Richman (Bill Richman's Lawyer) to discuss the latest in deplatforming on social media, including the latest on Alex Jones and his removal from the pod. Plus, Garrett and Ben talk about the first 2018 news of the week, including Betsy DeKorte's victory in the Vermont primary, and the first transgender governor candidate in the U.S. primary.
00:02:37.000And before we get to the guests that we have here in studio and the topics we'll be talking about today, of course, social media, the tech giants, the de-platforming, and we're going to have my lawyer, actually, half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, to talk about that.
00:02:49.000Social media giants, obviously, they've started another round of purges against figures as they see it being on the far right, or as we know it, just not the far left.
00:02:57.000The question is, now that we're beyond Alex Jones, where's the line?
00:06:21.000And then we've got number four, triple caramel hormone blockers.
00:06:24.000Yes, but only between the ages of 9 and 11, if you listened to Julie Ray yesterday.
00:06:29.000According to the DSM-5, you only administer those between 9 and 11, because that's the cautious approach.
00:06:35.000They can just reverse it and undo the puberty blockers if they want to continue, as opposed to, say, not administering radical hormone blocking therapy.
00:08:22.000Why does he sound like the guy in Dumb and Dumber who's like, there are other people who need to use the phone?
00:08:30.000And that guy sounds like Ray, he was Ray Romano's brother, and I just, I just can't believe that these are actual people, but his brother actually, for those who don't know, CNN's Chris Cuomo was overheard as saying, Hello darkness my old friend.
00:09:55.000Speaking of breaking laws, finally, a congressman actually wants to know if the Chinese spy staffed by Dianne Feinstein compromised classified intel.
00:10:02.000This comes from the Washington Examiner.
00:10:04.000Congressman Jim Banks, he asked, while we all know that the FBI approached Senator Feinstein five years ago to inform her of this threat, right now there are more questions than ever regarding this case.
00:10:13.000I don't know, I'm just wondering how the spy got away with this for so long.
00:10:17.000It really does seem remarkable that it was right underneath Feinstein's eye.
00:10:20.000Yeah, Feinstein's not good at figuring out who's spying on her.
00:11:54.000You know, you probably wanted me to use a fast iPad charger, but I only have iPhone chargers, so it only charges three-quarters of the way.
00:12:25.000My mom's got enough disappointment that she's even disappointed for that spy not being a doctor.
00:12:30.000By the way, Quarterback, Garrett, and Owen, can we all confirm that Bill was laughing the hardest in the room at that sketch while it was playing?
00:12:45.000And whenever someone says that's racist, you really do have to blame Mickey Rooney.
00:12:48.000It really goes back to Breakfast at Tiffany's.
00:12:49.000And it is remarkably racist, but we'll piggyback off of it.
00:12:54.000Okay, to go back to the question from earlier, so this is something we're talking about today, and I do want to hear from you guys.
00:12:58.000I know, well, there really aren't that many opinions, I hate to say it.
00:13:02.000It's not that we live in a monolith, but it's everyone who's not a far-left progressive pretty much lives in a monolith here, protecting freedom of speech.
00:13:07.000So, Alex Jones, obviously, was simultaneously removed from Facebook, YouTube, Apple, so on, okay.
00:13:11.000A move, unfortunately, a lot on the left rejoiced.
00:13:14.000Now, we talked about that last week, and I think... I know you weren't here when we talked about that, but obviously you know about the story.
00:14:38.000And how about the fact that they accused Alex Jones of being a conspiracy theorist, and then the biggest companies in the world conspired to get rid of him.
00:14:50.000Listen, short of absolutely Ben Shapiro, I have been the most outspoken critic of the alt-right in modern conservatism, and that's only because he's really Jewish.
00:15:15.000So, in case, by the way, there were still any doubters to the veracity of these claims from Inverse, they spelled my name with a PH.
00:15:23.000So not exactly Pulitzer-winning research department there, Heinvers, but PolitiFact-rated is mostly true, so there's that.
00:15:28.000Now, the claim is not that Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist accusing congressmen of being pot-bellied interdimensional vampires, would explain Chuck Schumer.
00:15:38.000They used the worst excuse possible, and Bill, that's why we wanted to have you here today, because you can talk about this and offer some insight.
00:15:43.000The social media platforms didn't say it was about Sandy Hook, it wasn't about the conspiracy theories, they just used this chilling defense, Jones violated the hate speech policies.
00:15:52.000Well, let me ask you, have any of you read YouTube's policies?
00:15:55.000Have you read YouTube or Twitter's hate speech policies?
00:16:22.000It's pretty clear right there in the paragraph.
00:16:25.000There is a fine line between what is and what is not considered to be hate speech.
00:16:29.000For instance, it is generally okay to criticize a nation-state, but if the primary purpose of the content is to incite hatred against a group of people solely based on their ethnicity, or if the content promotes violence based on any of these core attributes, like religion, it violates our policy.
00:16:46.000First off, you pointed out something right before the show.
00:18:14.000I mean, there are so many outs with contracts like these.
00:18:17.000And everyone out there who's signing up for a YouTube channel, you're becoming a YouTube partner, please, please have a lawyer look it over.
00:18:22.000Because a lot of people don't know what they're signing into, but even then, It's not true in the application from YouTube, because people have been banned for hate speech, simply for criticizing nations or ideologies, of course.
00:18:33.000To lose definition in the application, of course, of hate speech, it's something that we've harped on here for a long time.
00:18:37.000It was one of the first to ever change my mind, for those who missed it.
00:18:40.000Yeah, that was one way to do it, a sandwich board, because it wasn't a state that's going to have a newly appointed tranny governor, and we couldn't actually get permission to be down there on Church Street.
00:18:50.000Even back then, people were dumbfounded as to why I could be against hate speech laws.
00:18:53.000You see that a lot on campus, and let me explain it to you in a way that maybe you haven't heard.
00:18:57.000I'm against hate speech laws for the same reason I'm against Washington, D.C.' 's idea of common sense gun control.
00:21:09.000And there was just a list released publicly, and it included Ted Cruz for president, I think the Chris Cowell Foundation, Breitbart, and Steven Crowder.
00:21:18.000It was on the list, and they released the documents.
00:21:20.000And I called my friend, our good friend Jordan, and I asked him, I said, hey, do you know, could you help me with this?
00:21:25.000He's like, uh, you know, you might want a different kind of lawyer, like a business lawyer does this kind of stuff.
00:21:36.000I said, I want you to take a look at this.
00:21:37.000And you said, OK, let me take a look at it, and I'll call you back.
00:21:39.000And he called me back in about 10 minutes.
00:21:42.000And you said, yeah, this is pretty bad.
00:21:47.000I mean, you were on that list and it was clear.
00:21:48.000I mean, you know, for those who haven't taken a look at the article, I mean, you gotta go back and take a look at how clear it was.
00:21:53.000A former employee came out and said, did you know we have a blacklist with these people's names on it so that we can keep them from coming to the top?
00:22:00.000Because, the insinuation being, they otherwise would have been at the top of the feeds and the lists and the other public lists.
00:22:10.000If you accuse people of being conspiratorial and you conspire against them, like you said, yeah, it of course, all of a sudden, that little ember becomes a flame.
00:22:17.000And we always thought, man, it's really weird.
00:22:18.000We used to trend a lot on Facebook, quite a bit.
00:22:20.000And now we've had videos, we've had articles that get far more shares, that get far more interactions.
00:22:24.000And algorithmically, it seems like this should trend because it's two or three times as popular as the thing that did trend.
00:23:43.000Give any bureaucratic organism, be it Washington or the tech giants in this case, the ability to determine hate speech and you give up all speech.
00:23:52.000And that's just the basic philosophy of delegating your rights to another entity.
00:23:55.000Not even taking into account these kinds of policies.
00:26:17.000And what he doesn't understand is a certain type of person, and I think I may actually fall in this category, is when you do something like that, you do the opposite.
00:26:25.000Like, if someone like Jack Dorsey does that to me, like, oh, you can't say this word, that's the only word I'll say for the next ten years.
00:26:31.000Yeah, that's turned out to be a problem for you.
00:26:41.000That's all of us who've been sitting in this chair.
00:26:43.000But the point that really bothers me about that clip is he's talking about punishing someone to change behavior that he doesn't like.
00:26:48.000Now, meanwhile, this is trending all day today.
00:26:50.000Hundreds of left-wing papers have been publishing these anti-Trump screeds demanding that President Donald Trump stop attacking the press.
00:26:56.000This is what they've been talking about.
00:26:57.000He's attacking the press because of libel laws.
00:27:00.000Here's the thing, these bannings of alt-right or even the left-leaning voices, it's clearly about leftist media and tech giants coordinating together in an effort to silence anyone questioning their narrative.
00:27:10.000And they're completely, systematically shutting down anyone else.
00:27:14.000Just take your pick of anyone who doesn't live in Silicon Valley.
00:28:54.000I think when you look at who's going to have... You're just being careful because you're a lawyer right now and you can't say, like, allegedly they're bricks.
00:28:59.000When you look at who has the amount to gain, how they can exercise the power to achieve that gain, and the timing of doing the thing that would help them with that gain, it's hard to say any other conclusion other than collusion.
00:29:13.000There are a lot of gains in there, but I think I followed.
00:29:16.000But they're so bad at human nature, they don't realize it'll backfire.
00:29:45.000Well, you know, we'll talk about that more in the closing.
00:29:46.000I think we'll talk about it quite a bit with Paul Joseph Watson, because we actually have one more story for you.
00:29:51.000Resident favorite non-lesbian who we're not entirely convinced of, Lena Dunham posed nude to commemorate the nine-month anniversary of her hysterectomy, as one does.
00:31:59.000Before we get into the big tech, all the censorship stuff, you had a great video this week, The Age of Emotional Incontinence, and you were talking about privilege, guilt, the emotions of people always needing to be expressed in the highest profile way possible.
00:32:20.000Yeah, god forbid, 10 minutes plus video.
00:32:23.000But yeah, it's basically based on theories written by Theodore Dalrymple, who's a British writer, who noticed the change, especially in Britain over the past 10-15 years, this cult of emotional sentimentality, where we're not only, you know, expected, we're encouraged to over-express, to over-emote over absolutely everything, which is the point I make in the video.
00:32:43.000You know, it's actually encouraging a form of mental illness called mood lability, which is where you overreact emotionally to everything.
00:32:51.000We see it with, um, you know, whenever a celebrity dies, they're canonized.
00:32:55.000We have to go through this, this public ritual of, uh, emoting and crying over them, even though if we weren't really into them, didn't really know much about them before they died.
00:33:16.000And that's a big thing because they say, well, toxic masculinity tells a lot of young people, particularly young men, they can't discuss their emotions at all.
00:33:23.000They're not allowed to be emotionally communicative at all, which isn't true.
00:33:30.000There's a time to express your emotions.
00:33:32.000And there's a time to act based on logic.
00:33:34.000And so I think they use this straw man a lot of the time to build up what we now see a culture of, all of my emotions are just as valid as everybody else's emotions at all times.
00:33:45.000Well, it's this whole thing, and I mentioned this in the video, when people say there's a stigma around depression, there's a stigma around talking about your feelings.
00:33:56.000You go through YouTube and type in depression, there's a million and more videos about it.
00:34:00.000The more we talk about depression, this is the point I make, the more depressed people become, and obviously that's because of a number of factors.
00:34:06.000But this over-emoting about it, constantly over-sharing, doesn't seem to be having the desired solution of making people less depressed.
00:34:15.000Obviously, I differentiate between people with PTSD, you know, war veterans or female rape victims.
00:34:21.000I'm talking about... I mean, I give examples of people who cry because they can't get their eyebrows to look the same.
00:34:27.000They had a big Twitter thing last year, what makes you cry, and it was literally that.
00:34:30.000It was literally, oh, I try to fit too many things in my bag and I can't, so I start crying.
00:34:35.000I've never visited the threading kiosk at the mall, I take it.
00:34:40.000Yeah, so it's about the whole range of human emotions being cheap, and people not having the capacity to deal with real trauma, because they flip off the switch at a moment's notice, and anything triggers them.
00:34:54.000I think that's an important differentiation to make, that you are making, and that's also why, you know, we've had these videos where we did the sting, I guess you would say, undercover in the college socialists, and the girl says, well, because I have PTSD, and I don't even remember what else she was talking about, obviously, I was going, whoa, wait, hold on a second.
00:35:14.000She goes, that's a very rude question.
00:35:17.000Then I found out she was writing about it everywhere anyway.
00:35:19.000So I asked a question that I could have already found out the answer to with a quick little thumb press.
00:35:23.000Well, it goes back to they want to control reality by controlling the language.
00:35:27.000If your words harm them physically, which is the argument they now try to make that words are violent, then they can shut you up, they can silence you.
00:35:34.000So it all goes back once again to control and power.
00:35:37.000That's the only reason why they do any of this.
00:36:17.000I remember when the temporary insanity plea became really in vogue and people were looking into it saying, is that a real thing?
00:36:22.000Like, well, you know, I was crazy when I killed him, but I think I'm fixed now.
00:36:26.000And now they're saying like, well, you know, I was able to feed myself until I reverted to Timmy, my childlike self.
00:36:32.000And now I need you to wipe my ass, please.
00:36:34.000Speaking of control and power, obviously, listen, you've worked with Alex Jones for a long time.
00:36:40.000There's been this deplatforming, we were just talking about it, and we've just, by Inverse, I think it's a magazine and online website, we've just been, yours truly, number one, most likely, alt-right channel, as they put it, Steven with a P-H.
00:37:07.000Well, exactly, and it came out in the New York Times that both Tim Cook and Zuckerberg personally made the decision to pull infowars, but you've got to look at the backstory to illustrate how this is not, oh, just a private company.
00:37:18.000We had Democrat congressmen in October last year, when the truck attack happened in New York, talking to Twitter executives saying, why is this Paul Joseph Watson's tweet about the truck attack in top trending on the hashtag?
00:37:31.000And the Twitter executive was immediately like, yeah, we saw that, we removed that.
00:37:35.000Last month, Congressman Deutsch, Democrat, you know, grilling YouTube and Facebook executives.
00:39:03.000I know we've talked about this, and you're close with Alex, and I don't want to speak about anyone who's not here, but you certainly would be seen as less inflammatory than Alex himself.
00:39:15.000Well, I mean, people have asked me about this, about, you know, the comments yesterday regarding, you know, the Twitter suspension about the battle rifles and all that, which they stripped out the context, by the way.
00:39:24.000At the start of the rant, he was talking politically, legally, judicially.
00:40:28.000I'm glad he's not doing that right now.
00:40:30.000But if you look at, like you said, the policies that come from the progressive left, if you look at what actions they are taking, they could not care less about freedom and journalism.
00:40:42.000I do think there can be some self-correction here in the market with YouTube, because they lose all of their viewers if they do this.
00:40:49.000And that's YouTube's only capital, is their viewers, people who are actually on their website.
00:40:53.000Do you think, because of the backlash now, because of what happened with H3H3 Productions, that's a horrible name, really difficult to say, do you think maybe they backtrack, they step it back, or do you just think they go forward full throttle?
00:41:05.000Well, we've seen it in the past, where we've had it really bad with the demonetisation, with the whole SPLC, you know, flagging content.
00:41:11.000That got pretty bad for a while, then they stepped it back.
00:41:15.000If these brigades of blue checkmarks on Twitter pile on, which they do every day, then you've got people within these companies who feel pressured.
00:41:23.000The thing that's different about Twitter From what I know, Jack actually to some extent supports free speech, believe it or not.
00:41:29.000He's like the least worst of them, because he's talked to big conservative people who've been to dinner with him, and he's getting pressured from within his own company from all these hysterics.
00:41:40.000I thought he was the worst of the three.
00:41:41.000He was about a year and a half ago, and I thought Susan Wojcicki still had to be beholden to a, you know, to the bottom dollar at a certain point, but maybe not.
00:41:49.000Maybe not since we had Clint Howard play her in A Christmas Carol.
00:41:54.000But with YouTube, there's talk, and I think there was something like this before, but it's not really gone anywhere, of a YouTubers' union, where all the big creators in unison complain if something really bad happens, and I've been talking to some pretty big YouTube people, you might have a guess who they are, and they're interested in getting on board.
00:42:26.000So you know, a White House petition, maybe we can get 200,000 people to sign it.
00:42:31.000This is why we have half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond, who's in the restroom right now,
00:42:35.000on retainer, because we know this is a fight that we've seen coming for a long while.
00:42:38.000I think it's going to arrive at our doorstep, our doorstep meaning Latter-day Scriber, sooner rather than later.
00:42:44.000It will arrive at some point, and like I said earlier, and I'll talk about in the close, it's the hill I'm willing to die on, because we've invested so much not only in the platform, but on the people who we talk with, the people who we impact.
00:42:53.000It's about the impact that we have, and it's important, and I think that's why they want to silence us.
00:42:58.000Final question, because you work obviously alongside InfoWars, How's your job security?
00:43:07.000Well, actually, product sales were up three times over the past couple of weeks, so all this censorship does have some, you know, decent knock-on effects.
00:43:16.000Obviously, that's not going to last long-term, but, you know, the app was downloaded millions of times, millions of newsletter sign-ups, so we'll be all right for now.
00:43:23.000We've got some capital, and we've got a loyal audience that will support us in times of need, and they have done.
00:43:28.000Well, I appreciate that your audience says that.
00:43:30.000Now, where's the best place for people to find you so they can support you personally?
00:43:34.000Um, at Prison Planet on Twitter is the best place.
00:43:37.000At Prison Planet on Twitter, as long as Jack Dorsey still thinks he's cute, and why wouldn't he?
00:45:04.000I'm a little bit tired of the news, a little bit tired of all of the things.
00:45:09.000We were just talking with Paul Joseph Watson about this big deplatforming, and I wanted to get your opinion on this, because I know, listen, there's no love lost for you on a personal level with you and Alex Jones as far as what you would agree or disagree on, but we've seen a lot of people from across the political spectrum say, okay, all right, this is a really slippery slope right now.
00:45:28.000Where do you line up on this, and do you think that at some point you could be in the crosshairs?
00:46:32.000I do think, you know, if you're talking about mainstream leftists, a good example, because like you said, you've read about Alex Jones, right?
00:46:38.000Well, if you read from the left about anybody, you're going to get a slanted view.
00:46:41.000And let's take Alex Jones out of the equation, but let's take Cortez, you know, Nina Pinta Santa Maria Cortez.
00:46:46.000They're this current democratic socialist in chief.
00:46:51.000Ben Shapiro called her out, as he does for a debate, and she said that he was catcalling her.
00:46:55.000Now, if you were to read the articles from the left, you'd believe that Ben Shapiro is some kind of a hoodlum catcalling a potential DNC candidate.
00:47:24.000How about the kook that now writes for the editorial page of the New York Times with this hideous, outrageous, poisonous language about white men and whites this and whites that?
00:49:11.000We're attacking the fact that they have degraded what press means.
00:49:16.000We're attacking this one ideological bent, pretty much, in the media.
00:49:20.000We're attacking the fact that there's so many important things going on in the world, And they bring in porn stars, and they're goofball lawyers, and they bring in Omarosa.
00:49:28.000I don't know why I find it so funny to hear the great one, Mark Levin, say the word porn stars.
00:49:43.000Here, let me kind of pause this one thing.
00:49:45.000Imagine on the flip side, the left absolutely has the ability to completely eliminate right-wing press.
00:49:50.000They completely have the ability to silence us, if not for the internet, and if not, of course, for now social media, which eventually will bypass.
00:49:56.000And that's why they're like a baby being put in his crib, throwing a tantrum before nap time.
00:50:05.000You know, Every five years or so, they take a run at the conservative talk radio and try and put that out of business, try and create fairness.
00:50:13.000You know, it's always, the iron fist is always hidden behind fairness and reform.
00:50:18.000You had a memo circulating by Mark Warner.
00:50:21.000He's the senior Tourette senator from the state of Virginia, you may notice.
00:50:25.000And this guy, he's talking, he puts a memo out about basically how to nationalize the internet.
00:50:30.000They always want to nationalize stuff on behalf of freedom and equity.
00:51:00.000That's why you're as big as you are, and some others are as big as they are.
00:51:04.000The reason is, we like ideas, we like to engage.
00:51:07.000No, I think you're absolutely right, and that's, you know, I've grown up, I had to pirate talk radio, because I was in Montreal, we didn't really have it, so I had to pirate it across from Plattsburgh, New York.
00:51:16.000I've talked about that, because we had government-run media exclusively back then.
00:51:21.000And a lot of people don't realize that.
00:51:22.000I said, no, you don't need to go to Venezuela.
00:51:23.000Basically, picture NPR times a million, and it was our only news source for the longest time.
00:51:28.000Yeah, it really is spine-chillingly scary when you think of what's going on right now, because I hear the left a lot.
00:51:35.000You know, they talk about corporations, man, and the government, man.
00:51:40.000But to say that corporations are an arm of the government, and they're doing censorship on behalf of the government, and going, well, hold on a second.
00:51:46.000We think all of social media is censoring Alex Jones for Donald Trump, but if the shoe's on the other foot, Imagine Hillary Clinton in office right now.
00:52:35.000There's a stark contrast, because people can look at this.
00:52:37.000People can look at the statistics for small and mid-sized businesses.
00:52:40.000Most of those business owners are conservative.
00:52:42.000But when you get to a certain point where you're effectively a lobbying group, and a lot of big businesses are, you learn how to play ball, and you end up at least installing as CEOs some people who know how to play political football.
00:52:53.000And that's kind of what you see with a lot of these big corporations.
00:52:55.000Not the same for mid and upstart businesses.
00:56:08.000Whether it's the progressives who are setting the stage for the DNC in November, that's kind of a conspiracy, or whether it's a violation of free speech, whether these companies constitute a monopoly, whether they need to be regulated as public utilities, and everyone kind of has a different opinion.
00:56:21.000And I know a lot of you feel like, or a lot of you have expressed, that you don't think you have definitive answers.
00:56:27.000That's because, in this case, there aren't a lot of definitive answers.
00:56:29.000But let me give you something definitive, okay?
00:56:43.000We created Mug Club specifically for this reason, so that everyone can actually continue to make a living and continue to create content that you know and love, hopefully, sometimes.
00:57:19.000You already know The rules, the stipulations for people watching, you're just going to have to join Mucklib to figure it out.
00:57:24.000But we're moving into yet an even larger space, bringing in people like we talked about, like Owen Benjamin, Hodgewins, Razorfist next week, Nick DiPaolo, and these people are going to be here for days in studio for you.
00:57:34.000Why is including more people becoming such a priority for this show?
00:57:38.000Because we want people with the balls out there to take a stand and know that we have their back.
00:57:42.000And this is something that occurred to me not that long, really, this week.
00:57:45.000Do you know how many conservative shows Quarterback Garrett, Owen Benjamin had done before this show?
00:59:22.000Because we actually think it's a big part of our mission.
00:59:23.000We see millions of people, and not just the people we've just talked about who are higher profile, but millions of other people who've changed their minds, who've opened up their minds as a result of this show.
00:59:33.000Not just the show, we're not the only ones.
00:59:34.000There are a lot of other people out there.
00:59:35.000There's Ben Shapiro, there are people like Dave Rubin, there's Jordan Peterson, of course.
00:59:38.000But this is the way we're able to do it, with a late night comedy show.
00:59:41.000And if YouTube tries to de-platform us, or if they start doing it to everyone else, not including us...
00:59:50.000If conservatism dies on social media as a whole, it will be because we were here, having done everything we possibly could, and you'll find this entire crew dead on that hill.
01:00:15.000Are you willing to die on the hill that keeps it together, regardless of how much you argue, or how wrong you may think you are for each other, how wrong you may think she or he is in this argument, how unhappy it may feel?
01:00:24.000Is that the hill you're willing to die on?
01:00:28.000Are you willing to die on the hill that makes them happen?
01:00:30.000Regardless of how many doors get slammed in your face, regardless of the professional, the personal humiliations I've experienced, almost all of them, including nearly soiling myself before the Just for Laughs festival, regardless of how many of the so-called friends you lose, is it your beliefs?
01:00:43.000Are you willing to die on the hill to stand true to your convictions?
01:00:45.000Regardless of how many work opportunities you lose, like Owen, how many teachers don't like you, I get your emails, believe me, after the YAF conference, I hear you, how many Fs you get, are you willing to die on the hill of your convictions?
01:00:59.000In our case, when it comes to YouTube, by the way, it's not about entitlement.
01:01:05.000They, YouTube, all of these social media giants, but particularly YouTube, have corded our business, Loddorth Crowder's business, and repeatedly asked us, they've asked us to invest on this platform, and to invest in you, the viewers, here.
01:01:19.000And I know some of you can't afford Mug Club yet, so we do what we can, we upload as much free content as we can.
01:01:23.000But we're aware of the impact that we have, and I'm incredibly grateful.
01:01:26.000I don't get a big head about it, I wake up in cold sweats because of the impact that you have given us here so generously.
01:01:32.000And to keep that impact going, that they hate, I'm willing to die on this hill.
01:01:37.000I'm willing to pay whatever it takes to fight the hard strikes, and we have.
01:01:41.000Many, many, many tens of thousands of dollars.
01:01:44.000I'm willing to put whatever lawyers we have to on retainer.
01:01:47.000I'm willing to fight it out in the public.
01:01:48.000I'm willing to fight it out on social media, all of these platforms.
01:01:51.000I am willing to fight it out in the courts behind closed doors.
01:01:54.000I, and I know the rest of this team, we're willing to make the hard decisions needed.
01:01:59.000in picking people next to us all as we prepare for this we know like you've heard me talk about this a long time we know that this has been coming down the pike the question was just of when and so it's important that we have everyone as you've seen in this studio people who are also willing to die on the hill to make sure that you and the rest of you Watching you are not alone.
01:02:59.000And here's the thing, isn't it glorious when people talk about this, we talk about the hill to dine, and often you hear this as, well, is that the hill you want to dine at work?
01:03:05.000You know, is that the hill you want to dine with an argument with your wife?
01:03:08.000Actually, it should be used not as a pejorative, it should be used in a positive light, because isn't it glorious that in the end, instead of going out like some tired, feeble coward, you at least get to pick out how you get taken out. So I don't know what's going to
01:03:23.000happen with everyone else being deplatformed, but I do know that it's not going to happen to us without
01:03:28.000the ugliest tooth and nail dog fight that we can give them. And that happens with your support.
01:03:45.000I don't agree with Alex Jones on a whole lot.
01:03:48.000You don't have to agree with any of us.
01:03:49.000You just have to agree with the basic concept that there needs to be an open platform for people to express their point of view.
01:03:56.000Or, if you enter into a business contract that you can't screw somebody simply because you disagree with them, are you willing to die on that hill?