Steven Crowder is a self-styled comedian and stand-up comic from Detroit, Michigan. In this episode, he talks about Bill Cosby's sexual assault scandal, the U.M. scandal, and the new law that was passed in the wake of the Cosby scandal.
00:08:39.000Wait, hold on, I'm actually receiving word that we have, uh, right now, right now we have breaking footage of the caravan, of course, you know, with migrant children and women seeking a better life here in the United States, uh, we go now to have some coverage.
00:10:26.000And you never want to speak ill of anyone in blue, but, you know, unlike those sons of bitches at University of Illinois who wouldn't even show up!
00:13:25.000And by the way, listen, I do want to, we're seriously talking about, what's your opinion here on the bombs that have gone out recently?
00:13:31.000This is obviously, we don't have a lot of info yet, and I don't know how many of you watch the show, but we typically don't comment on situations where there isn't a ton of info, because you always, almost always end up being embarrassed.
00:13:40.000Oh yeah, you gotta wait, you gotta wait for the info.
00:13:42.000So Gerald, you go ahead, you take the lead.
00:13:43.000You definitely have to wait to get some more information, but I, look, if If it's somebody from our political standpoint and they think that's the way that we're going to advance our agenda, that's not going to work.
00:15:20.000So quick to oblige, of course, and jump on the LGBTQ bandwagon, Marvel actually announced their newest supervillain in the Marvel Universe to be Caitlyn Jenner.
00:15:43.000I would hope you'd have to go through the swinging doors to see that motion picture.
00:15:46.000Now, Caitlin's story arc actually, this is a true story, remains a little bit of a mystery, but because of Comic-Con leaks, I don't know any big comic book fans here, but there was some Comic-Con leaks, suggest Caitlin's involvement in the newly announced plotline, Thanos, the intergalactic transphobe, so that seems...
00:16:18.000By the way, Caitlyn Jenner has the power of supersonic speed, telekinesis, and the ability to not go to jail when she runs you over with her car.
00:17:06.000By the way, finally, in the final news story, before we get to some more news that we have to get to, PETA has officially claimed cow's milk to be a symbol of white supremacy.
00:17:17.000So I want to make sure I get this right.
00:17:19.000The group renewed its claim from a 2017 blog post titled, Cow's milk is the perfect drink for white supremacists.
00:17:25.000Tweeted a link out recently, this last week, to renew it.
00:18:08.000Oh, by the way, we're actually, we're getting word of development, uh, with the caravan carrying migrant women and children, as you know, to the United States.
00:21:11.000Well, I think that showed, Owen, from your passionate performance all the way to your perfect Liberace costume.
00:21:19.000Now, Owen, have you been following this unfortunate story of the administration wanting to reclassify one's gender to identify with their biological sex?
00:29:39.000And the overflow room, thank you guys, and everyone who's already been giving tickets to the after party, we appreciate it so much, you guys have been so accommodating, and I don't know if you know this, but actually, this very show, before it went, it actually started out of a station here named Wham, in Ann Arbor.
00:29:52.000That was the first show I ever actually had to call my own.
00:32:57.000A big part of why we do this show, a big part of why sometimes we go a little bit too far with the jokes, and I know some of you tomorrow will be telling your... You'll be like Peter before the roost crows three times.
00:33:04.000I didn't go to the Lottery with Crowder show.
00:33:08.000And your local paper's gonna be like, okay, he has a Christ complex.
00:33:14.000But we do it so that you don't have to be afraid.
00:34:25.000Did you see David Hahn try to encourage Canadians to commit election fraud?
00:34:30.000I was like, no, even Michael Moore was like, give me that microphone.
00:34:36.000It's one thing for professors to be all far left, and all of your students to be far left, and it's one thing for you to be afraid simply to speak out, and that is the norm, right?
00:34:43.000A lot of people have accepted that as the new norm.
00:34:45.000But it gets even worse when you look at today, and we're not supposed to use the M word, M as in marsupial people out there, okay?
00:34:52.000You're not supposed to use the M word when we're talking about mobs.
00:34:54.000But the truth is, on campus, and we've experienced this, as well as in the country at large, the left today, these people, Who make up 40% of college campuses, but there's not a single one of you teaching.
00:35:05.000These people, who outnumber other professors 12 to 1, are getting increasingly violent and rioting.
00:37:12.000And before we move on to Q&A, I think we do actually have to go one more time to our, if we have, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Ruth Cam.
00:40:47.000Listen, just as a conservative on campus, today in one of my classes, a Spanish seminar of all things, we were learning about why Christianity is more violent than Islam.
00:41:01.000Yeah, that's not... Someone tell you that with a straight face?
00:41:05.000Well, listen, that just brings up my question is that as a conservative and like as a Christian, a devout Christian on campus, you know, I am afraid to, you know, speak up in a second language at that, you know, just be like, um... What's your first language?
00:41:39.000It's just I find it hard to disagree with the sentiment of just sort of just eating the crap that your professors give you, getting the grade, and then once you're out of school fighting to make a difference.
00:41:50.000Because I find that sentiment rather enticing, honestly, because I understand our grades are important as students.
00:41:57.000And I'm just wondering, do you have any advice for students in my position who want to be able to stop the indoctrination on campus, but don't necessarily want our numbers to suffer as a result?
00:42:58.000I feel that it is such a privilege to be able to come out here and perform for you guys and ensure that doors are closed for me in the entertainment industry.
00:43:04.000And when you talk about it's an enticing idea, right?
00:43:10.000He also can't walk through half of them.
00:43:14.000I get that it's an enticing idea, and I used to answer this question, if people go back and watch the older videos where I said, you know what, I understand it, do what you gotta do, keep your head down.
00:43:21.000The problem is, you would have to believe that all these professors, the 12 to 1, are idiots without Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
00:43:28.000There is no way to stay hidden in 2018.
00:43:35.000If you had the ability, right, to stay off of social media completely, to be completely Google-proof to every single professor and you could guarantee that they wouldn't know, yeah, listen, sure, go ahead.
00:43:44.000Ace your classes and then get yourself into some kind of position of authority.
00:43:47.000Watch the YouTube people and they're like, the Jews!
00:43:52.000But you're not able to do that in 2018.
00:43:56.000That's why I think it's so important for you to hear the people next to you yelling.
00:44:00.000Listen, you guys aren't that small of a minority.
00:44:02.000You are definitely that small of a minority as it's represented in media, as it's represented in the faculty, as it's represented in the press.
00:44:08.000But you are not that small of a minority when it comes to people, even when it comes to the student body.
00:45:44.000I literally was reading about baggies of piss being thrown at me before coming on stage, and you're like, I got a goatee and spacers in my ears, and I canoodle.
00:45:54.000That's nothing personal, I hope you understand.
00:49:31.000I've talked about this a lot and I know a lot of people have become conservative in their, in college now.
00:49:37.000Which is great, you see a lot of people, obviously not just myself, but people like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, there are a lot of people out there changing hearts and minds right now, where people are going into college not conservative, and coming out conservative.
00:49:49.000I will tell you this, I've been around since, I think it was 2006 on YouTube, 2009 is when I was doing political videos, okay?
00:49:55.000We did these political, it would get like a few thousand plays, and that was a huge hit back then, right?
00:50:00.000The Young Turks were calling me out and talking about how much I sucked, right?
00:50:03.000And now they won't, they will utter any name not named Steven Crowder.
00:50:07.000When you show up to Cenk's speech in Austin as Cenk, that's kind of what happens.
00:50:22.000Because it tells me that the people who are outnumbered 12 to 1 in staff, the people who are really afraid of the climate on college campus, you are changing hearts and minds.
00:50:31.000Because when I started out, this didn't exist.
00:50:33.000This wouldn't be possible for conservatives on campus.
00:50:35.000We actually, if we'd have been able to book it in advance, could have filled Hill Auditorium with how many people are here.
00:50:40.000I don't think that there has been any kind of a political show like that in recent memory here.
00:53:40.000You've got, let's, let's, if you could just annex Detroit and Flint, give it to Canada, you know, just like, just tell them it's on the ballot, they're just voting for free pot and tap water, like, oh, yeah.
00:53:51.000Just, sounds good here in Flint, it's a good deal.
00:54:24.000I had a guy, we were doing this undercover sting of the college socialists, and this guy was complaining, he's like, yeah, this city sucks, and, you know, the DeVos' and the Van Andels, they just really destroyed this city, and I said, oh, okay, what do you do?
00:54:39.000You look at Grand Rapids, you compare it to Detroit.
00:54:41.000You look at one that's expanded, one that's done incredibly well, one that's diversified, one that really was supported by free enterprise, conservative families and households.
00:56:02.000It's a lot more fair to compare states, I think, and comparing California or Michigan, but I think California and Texas are great examples.
00:56:09.000So California is hemorrhaging people, the taxes are awful, their economy is collapsing underneath them.
00:56:15.000According to Al Gore, they shouldn't have even existed, I think, four years ago, but we're banking on that climate change at some point.
00:56:49.000If you want to talk about the delusions of today's left, just look at Californians today, who are chasing their dreams, their jobs, and a better life for their family in Texas, and then trying to turn it into California.
00:56:59.000Good example, very comparable, would be people in a migrant caravan on their way over here, burning the American flag!
00:57:07.000I don't know if you're booing me or burning the American flag, but I'll take it.
00:58:47.000You're going through your whole own dot feather thing right now in India, so you shouldn't be one to throw stones, or whatever the hell it is you have left in India.
00:59:08.000So, as an Indian vegan conservative, I'm a very independent-minded person, and I just can't comprehend the race card where, like, Oh, the whole hierarchy of white people, brown people, this, that, and the other thing.
01:00:29.000One of my favorite jokes from Eric Nimmer, I'm butchering it here, he can tell it to the overflow room, is he served in the military because he wanted white people to thank him for his freedom.
01:00:39.000And here's the thing, he's not even that conservative, Nimmer.
01:00:42.000He's like, all my family, they're all liberals, they're all former Democrats, and they just got so crazy.
01:00:47.000Now, no one in my family is a Democrat.
01:00:49.000It's like, but I'm not really a conservative.
01:00:51.000You don't even have to be a conservative.
01:01:58.000I used to talk about this, because I was in Hollywood, and I felt like I could do it for a long time.
01:02:01.000You keep your head down, you say the right things, you don't piss off all the wrong people, and eventually, right, there's that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
01:05:18.000They talk about gun culture 2.0 because you've played these video games where you see these ultra-realistic guns, you want to try them out, shoot them, you're not necessarily pro-Second Amendment, and then all of a sudden it kind of folds into that.
01:05:29.000And here's something that I've noticed, and I actually think is, I haven't heard a lot of people talk about this, this is entirely a theory, it's conjecture, okay?
01:05:35.000So, wait, please tell me you're dressed as a terrorist.
01:06:57.000You have to say that now, otherwise people are like, Michael Moore received an envelope, he's pretty sure it's the guy who's gonna take a dump on his dog.
01:07:05.000So we were the last generation, right?
01:07:07.000When I grew up, we didn't have Facebook, we didn't have Twitter, we didn't have Snapchat.
01:07:10.000The closest thing was later on we had MySpace, and that sort of became like the whorehouse of the internet.
01:07:14.000Before that there was Friendster, before that there was Zanga, which was, it was just nothing
01:07:17.000but, it was nothing but Asians and, and, you know, dot Indians were on Zanga.
01:07:45.000But then Generation Z, they've been raised now with social media their entire life, which is terrible in a way because the worst things you can possibly read, right, you see on social media.
01:08:06.000And so I don't think professors, I don't think parents are able to insulate Generation Z so much.
01:08:10.000So you have this generation, right, millennials, who kind of made it to college, who'd been told that they're amazing and they're perfect every way that they were, and none of us are, and they went there, and then there was a reality check in the workplace, and we've seen all kinds of problems with millennials in the workplace, whereas Generation Z have been told the most horrendous thing they could possibly imagine, since they could use a smartphone.
01:08:28.000And so I think that'll have negative ramifications, but again, they have the ability to fact-check any bullcrap.
01:08:34.000Same thing, anything I've said here tonight, right, you can just pull up your phone and be like, ugh, he's full of crap there.
01:08:39.000I have no idea what I say up here half the time.
01:08:44.000And that's with Generation Z, and they're very pro-gun, pro-free speech.
01:08:48.000So I actually have a lot of hope for Generation Z. I see far more people who are willing to listen and engage in a conversation, because once you cut through the white noise of all the terrible crap being said on social media, you know, we have genera- the younger people are always the ones who come up and change my mind and actually want to talk about it.
01:09:01.000It's the old, it's the millennials, those people in that gap who are like, So I really do think the pendulum swings the other way and Generation Z, statistically as well, something else that's undeniable, they are more conservative right now at this point in their lives than baby boomers were.
01:09:22.000So right now, a lot of people go, well, they're really not that conservative, they're liberal.
01:09:25.000Yeah, they're liberal, but that's expected when you're young.
01:09:26.000But for the first time, we actually have, sometimes on certain issues, a plurality of Generation Z folks.
01:09:45.000They are more conservative on certain issues than any generation before them at that snapshot in time in their lives, and that's something we don't hear about.
01:09:54.000It's some really good news, and it's also why I want fewer and fewer people to be afraid, because Generation Z is not as cowardly as many millennials were, and that really warms my heart.
01:10:03.000Thank you so much, Eli, for your question.
01:12:15.000Yeah, but she's very, very aggressive for a young girl.
01:12:19.000She's three, and she asked me to marry her, and I was like, oh, that's cute, that's like, that's pretty cute, okay, we don't need to do that, and she's like, now.
01:12:28.000And then she walks up, she grabs me by the neck, she goes, Stephen, Stephen, look at me.
01:12:42.000I'm like, first off, we mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, love.
01:12:44.000Second, to make situations even more awkward, right, I turned to my friend, Johnny Boy, producer, wonderful man, and I turned to him and he goes, you're what I've always dreamed of.
01:12:54.000And I go, hey, Johnny, just so you know, we're bros.
01:15:20.000It is the perfect motion picture, except for one scene where the green screen is kind of obvious with this grizzly bear, and you're like, shit!
01:15:41.000And, uh, you know, he's very helpful to the people in the movie, and... Yeah?
01:15:46.000Uh, I was wondering why you think, uh, in the real world, people on the left would vilify someone like that with money, power, even though he's helping people.
01:15:59.000Um, no, I think it's a great, and that's why The Edge, for people who don't know, let me give you a little bit of, kind of a briefer.
01:16:03.000The Edge is a... Let me give you a briefing on it.
01:16:06.000The Edge is really, Anthony Hopkins is this billionaire guy, and he actually, so spoiler alert, he starts off as a really good guy, and you're waiting for every single film, right?
01:16:13.000The billionaire is gonna be like, HAHAHAHAHAHA!
01:16:23.000The Edge is one of the very few films where the billionaire actually is a good guy who saves bad people, who saves some people who are selfish.
01:16:44.000If you're a terrible person, you're gonna be a terrible person with money.
01:16:46.000If you're a good person, you're gonna be a good person with money.
01:16:49.000And the truth is, typically speaking, we like to be... A lot of people teach us that everyone has to cheat, and game the system, and lie, and screw people to become wealthy.
01:17:01.000Most business owners in this country, they're paying people, the first people to think about when their head hits the pillow at night, they're employees.
01:17:06.000When they wake up, when they go to bed, it's the last, it's the last people to think about when they go to bed, it's the first people to think about when they get up.
01:17:11.000In The Edge, this film, it really is an unbelievable film, because again, like I said, David Mamet didn't know that he was a conservative, and he wrote this whole film, and you're waiting for the guy, the billionaire to be the bad guy, and he never shows up.
01:17:23.000The good thing is when we talk about being open-minded, and it's funny, right, they talk about the gender binary.
01:17:28.000We don't want to go with science, but when it comes to success, when it comes to finances, when it comes to power, there's good, successful, powerful, strong, And evil, the poor, the downtrodden.
01:17:40.000Therefore, the good have to give all their crap.
01:17:42.000But the truth is, sometimes the powerful, they got that way by actually doing the right thing.
01:17:47.000And sometimes someone who's been on food stamps for their entire life, not everyone, some people get a tough break sometimes.
01:17:51.000Sometimes the guy who's been suckling at the government teat ever since he was a small child is actually just a selfish, lazy person.
01:19:08.000Because the left grants the moral high ground to people who are the poorest and most downtrodden and automatically assumes that they're correct.
01:19:13.000The same thing with Israel and Palestine.
01:19:23.000But if you look at Israel and Palestine, you look at some people who tunnel underneath towns to target women and children, and then they defend themselves by hiding in grade schools and mosques.
01:20:32.000Because the left is trying to sell you that the guy, Antifa guy, dragging an old man from a car and punching him in his face, who's on the way to work to build the crap that that guy punching him in the face probably wants to be stolen from him at gunpoint by the federal government, they want you to side with that guy.
01:20:46.000Because he's wearing a ripped up hoodie.
01:20:56.000They look at people who need a leg up and you say, oh my gosh, you know what this guy needs?
01:20:59.000I feel for this guy and you want to help them and the left tells you, well, that's because they were screwed by somebody just like you or someone who's wealthy.
01:23:46.000So you're telling us, like, don't have unprotected sex, like the people in Rent in the East Village, or use a bunch of dirty heroin needles, and we should be safe, right?
01:24:29.000I thought that it's not necessarily great to make fun of them because it's kind of like punching down, but I wanted to know why you call this a terrorist costume.
01:26:10.000This part of this is meant to be a comedy show.
01:26:12.000As far as how it relates to Islam versus Christianity, like that question, I think there is a shocking statistic, a shocking number of people who support things that aren't in line with Western values.
01:26:39.000So you support freedom of speech though?
01:26:40.000In this country I do support freedom of speech, but I can't tell someone in my home country to support it or not support it because they have their own way of living.
01:27:28.000That's why I'm free to say I don't like the crappy ones.
01:27:31.000And I'm sorry, but if your country doesn't believe in freedom of speech and you said it, not me, it's a Western value, guess what?
01:27:37.000I'm going with the Western values country!
01:27:40.000If there's a country, that's okay, that's enough, your question's done.
01:27:43.000If there's a country that says, alright, a woman needs X amount of witnesses to prove a rape, and right here we're putting Kavanaugh on trial because Christy Ford said something might have happened sometime, some space of, I have no idea where, when, how, who, and the people who she said who said, I wasn't there, I was completely full of crap.
01:27:59.000If we're gonna bitch about that, but then talk about countries where people get off with rape completely scot-free, I go, I'm with the Western Values country!
01:28:10.000If we have countries, if there are countries where there's death for apostasy, I don't care whether it's Islam, whether it's Christianity, or they're burning churches in record numbers, and there are people saying, hey, you know what?
01:28:56.000If it comes into some kind of a global conflict where the country that says yes, free speech, yes, women's rights, yes, freedom of religion, yes, a democratic republic, and the countries that say none of that, all right!
01:29:53.000One thing I wanted to go back to was where we talked about earlier, this idea of fear, of whether you should speak out in your class with your professors.
01:30:27.000Why do we tell jokes that sometimes are on the edge where sometimes we look in the pitch meeting and Owen, Nimmer, and I go, man, this really shouldn't make air.
01:30:33.000And we say, but we kind of have to do it.
01:30:35.000It's because when people tell you what you can't talk about, what you can't make fun of,
01:30:39.000you know that you have to do it because somebody has to do it.
01:30:42.000And here's something else I want to talk with you about.
01:30:50.000You know, Jordan Peterson talks about telling the truth a lot, or at least not lying.
01:30:53.000And I've talked about this a lot too, telling the truth.
01:33:20.000When we talk about right or wrong, left or right, black or white, Indian or Injun, right?
01:33:26.000There's one thing, there's one through line, and I hope you get this in the show, and obviously we do satire, and sometimes we go a little bit too far.
01:33:32.000There's one through line that matters above all else, and it's truth.
01:33:36.000It is truth, and it's not only because truth we've heard about.
01:33:50.000You better tell the truth because no one's that good of a liar.
01:33:52.000But how often do we hear people talk about how you telling the truth, and not your truth, but living the truth and telling the truth, helps everybody around you.
01:34:02.000And if you want to know why that is, you doubt that for a second, and you talk about how you're afraid to speak out in class, you talk about how you're maybe afraid to speak out in the entertainment industry, well, guess what?
01:34:11.000There are a lot of other people out there like you who aren't necessarily telling the truth because they're afraid.
01:34:17.000And wouldn't it be great if every time you walked into a room, whether it's a classroom, whether it's a business meeting, you were actually aware of the fact that that sampling represented the general populace, and it was like the roar that you hear here.
01:34:29.000Because the truth doesn't just set you free, it helps every single person around you.
01:34:33.000And right now, today, in 2018, it is not something that I recommend.
01:34:37.000It is absolutely your civic duty to speak the truth as often and as loudly as you can, so that everyone else can hear you!