In this episode of the podcast, host Alex Blumbergberg talks about the growing pains of being a stand-up comedian, and why it s important to have a writing staff of 20 or more. He also talks about why he thinks Big Tech censorship is real and why you should be mad at them.
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00:02:41.000Every day when you watch our YouTube feed Every video that you see Has been demonetized just for you And I say, hey!
00:02:52.000You two can go screw yourself today All the censorship's real gay And this next word has to be It's a simple message, and it comes from the heart.
00:03:07.000Big Tech and itself, that would be a great place to start.
00:05:43.000Yeah, what do you say to people asking for your resignation, Governor Northam?
00:05:47.000Well, you're always going to have critics, and all I can say is that that definitely, in the pictures, I've said on the record, was not a me!
00:05:55.000And I'd like to move on to much more pressing.
00:06:46.000To recap, we have, what, the Northam, obviously, blackface photo.
00:06:48.000The Attorney General announced that he, too, wore blackface at a party once.
00:06:52.000He felt compelled to announce it, apparently.
00:06:55.000Serious allegations, for those who don't know, of rape against the Lieutenant Governor in 2004, which were ignored, by the way, from a Democratic congressman for over a year.
00:07:03.000We go now live to a recently called Emergency Virginia State Democrat Convention.
00:08:20.000Casey Hathaway was found by search and rescue teams in North Carolina after people heard him calling for his mother.
00:08:26.000The boy claims that the bear helped him forage for berries, learn how to hibernate, and gave him the inside skinny on NASA's fake moon landing.
00:10:18.000It's a cultural thing and I don't like it.
00:10:20.000Doesn't mean I don't like Indians, I just don't like that component of the Indian people.
00:10:24.000So an Indian man is suing his parents True story, because he didn't consent to being born.
00:10:30.000Raphael Samuel is a so-called child-free advocate who believes children shouldn't be made to suffer life and thinks parents don't have the right to give birth if a child has not agreed to it.
00:10:43.000Well, don't worry, Mr. Samuel, Governor Northam has your back.
00:10:58.000That's what's going to happen in Virginia.
00:11:00.000No more midlife crisis, just midlife abortion.
00:11:02.000Finally, in another story, before we get to Donald Trump, why he'll be re-elected, the new emojis were announced on Tuesday.
00:11:07.000If you'll follow this by the Unicode Consortium is a thing, and they claimed that they were focusing mainly on accessibility and representation This is a quote from them.
00:11:16.000The next batch features an array of inclusion-themed symbols like a woman and a man in a wheelchair, several new variations of people holding hands, and a period emoji.
00:11:27.000Yeah, that's a real thing, the period emoji.
00:16:17.000white yeah I mean like there's like there's white there's Larry Bird white
00:16:23.000and then there's Utah for some reason Larry Bird was just great at basketball
00:16:28.000so he threw off the whole bell curve I do think that the State of the Union, which occurred this week, showcased exactly what I'm talking about, just how far left the DNC has gone.
00:16:37.000gone. And by the way, this is something that's important to note, 70%...
00:16:39.00070... is it 76? 76, yeah. 76% of Americans approved of the speech.
00:16:44.000Wow. What's really bad for Democrats is that 81% of independents approved of the speech.
00:16:51.000I think we have a correlation from YouGov.
00:16:53.000And the more that the left continues to push their agenda toward the left, the Democrats, I should say, pushing their agenda toward the left, The more likely it seems that these independent voters who, everyone said Trump just has this ceiling.
00:17:05.000He has this ceiling and it's his base.
00:17:07.000Well, the truth is his base, actually, those are the people who had the biggest problems with President Trump.
00:17:16.000They're starting to come around in huge numbers.
00:17:18.000I've never seen numbers like that for independents.
00:17:19.000That's the coveted group of people that everybody goes after in elections.
00:17:23.000They try to rile their base up and then they try to get independents.
00:17:25.000When that high of a percentage of independents agree with your State of the Union that was never supposed to happen in the first place, you're doing something really wrong on the other side.
00:18:08.000So here's a clip where President Trump called for legislation to end the late-term abortions, and he mentions Northam's discussion of killing babies after birth.
00:18:16.000This is an important clip for people to see.
00:18:19.000To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation To prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb.
00:18:37.000There are people who refuse to stand at that.
00:19:48.000All the Democrats had to do was say, hey, most Americans are relatively pro-choice because it's a term that we created to trick them, and some of them are stupid.
00:20:12.000But the minute that you start saying stuff like the Virginia governor said, and then you pass bills in New York, and then Tran says what she says, you've just riled up an entire base of voters.
00:20:19.000You did not want this to be the issue.
00:20:57.000They have less and less land because babies are becoming more viable as technology progresses.
00:21:01.000So they have less and less of an argument.
00:21:03.000Well, and this is a very horrible thing to happen, right?
00:21:05.000You don't want a bill coming in New York like this that allows this for any period of time.
00:21:09.000But I think it's also, it happens to have a huge silver lining because it's one of the best things.
00:21:13.000It's waking people up around the country to the horrors of abortion, who may have just kind of swept it under the rug as a woman's right to choose and kind of bought that line.
00:21:21.000Now they have to deal with the reality of post-birth, if it's a botched abortion, or abortion right up until delivery.
00:24:34.000We don't like it, but when someone says, ending sex trafficking, even if you go, well, hold on a second, I know that Cortez, when she's talking about ending sex trafficking, is actually attached to the Green New Deal bill, and that's actually about 70% tax, so I don't like it, but she did say end sex trafficking.
00:24:52.000But if you go even further into the issue, a new CBS poll shows that 72% of Americans agreed with Trump specifically on immigration anyway.
00:25:02.000Just in from our CBS News instant poll here following the president's State of the Union, 76% of speech watchers said they approved of what they heard.
00:26:26.000But think about this for a second, okay?
00:26:28.000The guy who said, you can do whatever you want, you can grab by the p***y, and disgusted a whole nation, now has the moral high ground because you've decided to vilify him because he's against sex trafficking and he had the number off by 2%!
00:26:44.000And you couldn't possibly make it easier for him.
00:26:47.000Now everyone forgets about the grab-by-the-p*** and you go, actually, that 33% of people who are raped when they try to get here against their will, it's 31%.
00:26:55.000You better get in line, President Trump.
00:26:56.000And all he needs to say is, you're a piece of s***.
00:26:58.000And they're like, you know what, I kind of am.
00:31:03.000Look, Trump says a lot of dumb stuff and I think they went out and found the only person on the left that could possibly sound dumber and elected her to Congress as a 29-year-old bartender with no experience doing anything.
00:31:49.000I feel like this could be like a spoof, like Donald Trump at some point wrote a playbook that said, oh, if they're going to beat me, here are all the things that you can do to beat me.
00:31:56.000And he's like laughing with his cronies behind the scenes.
00:31:58.000It's like they've picked the absolute worst ideas possible to win an election and they've done all of them in two months.
00:33:00.000I think the greatest example, of course, of the gifts that the left has been, they've been giving Donald Trump, and I hope they do it again in 2020, is they ran Hillary Clinton in a general election.
00:33:09.000Likely the one person Donald Trump was capable of beating at that time.
00:34:29.000So the choice in 2020 is very different from 2016.
00:34:31.000In 2016, a lot of people thought that both Hillary and Trump were kind of taking us toward a cliff.
00:34:36.000I think Ben Shapiro summarized it as, though the concerns of many, by the way, he said, the fear was that if Trump got into office and he did a bad job, it'd be like we're heading toward the cliff, just as we'd be heading toward the cliff with Hillary Clinton, but with Donald Trump, there would be no break.
00:34:49.000Because no Republican would be elected after Donald Trump if he did as bad of a job that many people anticipated, myself included, in the primaries.
00:34:57.000I remember saying, like, I think we deserve to lose if we run him in the primaries.
00:35:00.000Of course, when he was against Hillary Clinton, I mean, listen, come on, you just have to take the free shots when you're giving them.
00:35:04.000People thought Hillary Clinton, though, was ultimately a politician, right?
00:35:42.000So a lot of those people held their noses, though, the Christians, the true conservatives, and voted for Trump because Hillary Clinton was such an insufferable bitch.
00:35:50.000But now in 2020, we're choosing between Donald Trump, who's been really pretty conservative if you look at him as a president, outside of the trade issues.
00:36:11.000We know they want abortion up to 40 weeks, 70% tax rates, as you just saw, completely socialized health care.
00:36:15.000They want to destroy our economy on principle versus Donald Trump, who has done well by nearly all metrics available to us at this point, besides tweeting mean words, some of which are misspelled, let's be honest.
00:36:27.000But outside of that, he's done pretty well.
00:36:28.000The choice in 2020, when they say it's stark, they go, we think there's a stark contrast between Democrats and Donald Trump.
00:36:34.000But in a positive way for Trump, because these gifts that the Democrats keep giving him.
00:36:38.000So when Republicans say that we need to be more moderate, this is something people have to like, hey, listen, we need a more moderate Republican party.
00:38:12.000A lot of people have been asking for him to be on the show.
00:38:14.000Obviously, I've been speaking with him not necessarily on the show.
00:38:16.000And he will be here live in studio for several days next week, not as a guest, but as third chair, as an active contributor here at Light Off Crowder.
00:38:22.000You can follow, right now, go and support him at DefendGavin.com.
00:38:28.000I guess a recently unemployed talk show host, but a comedian extraordinaire.
00:38:54.000So, okay, there's a lot to unpack there and I want you to take the initiative because I don't want to go anywhere that we're not supposed to.
00:39:04.000Tell me what's going on with that exactly.
00:39:07.000Well, they set their sights on me around when Trump won and the Proud Boys and I think their beef is, well, I think the way the SPLC works is they realize that calling everyone a Nazi makes for good money.
00:40:58.000I think that if you look at modern... Countries that have Islamic rule, not every Muslim in the United States, okay, we have to preface it with that, but any country that has Islamic rule, it would certainly be more comparable to the worldview, to the ideology, the philosophy of Nazism than free enterprise, the liberty we see in the United States.
00:41:17.000It would be Something that could not be argued with, yet they want to label places here Nazis, and give it a pass.
00:41:24.000In the very literal sense, if you look at Islam, if you look at Islamically run countries, they don't like the Jews.
00:41:30.000They want to see them completely eviscerated from the map.
00:41:35.000Yeah, well, they'll carry signs that say, I love Hitler at these Muslim rallies.
00:41:41.000The Protocols of Zion does very well in the Middle East.
00:42:42.000And it really is, it's terrifying, especially when you consider that the SPLC is one of the main, I don't, I guess you would say one of the main seats in this board of directors that YouTube has in determining content guidelines.
00:42:54.000The SPLC are used as a reference, as a guide for YouTube when determining what should be flagged, what should be considered hate speech.
00:43:02.000That's what I want to get into in Discovery.
00:43:04.000I want to get into exactly who they're influencing, who they're telling.
00:43:07.000It's sort of a form of extortion, like Al Sharpton does, where he goes into an organization and says, either let me be in control of who does what, or I'm going to call you racist and you'll be in big trouble.
00:43:19.000And they just keep accruing more power and more money.
00:44:21.000She said, every time I listen to her, it just sounds like one of those annoying college students who was kind of hot and she didn't like that she was hot because she wanted more substance.
00:44:30.000So she shaved her head and started talking about politics, but you can still see that she's a nine.
00:44:35.000And she's like, no, I'm not a pretty girl.
00:45:15.000I want to get into your suit specifically, but it's interesting that you mentioned, you know, they want to control social media.
00:45:18.000Jack Dorsey was just on Joe Rogan's show recently.
00:45:21.000And I was surprised, obviously I've been on Joe Rogan's show, he's been on this show, consider him a friend of the show, surprised how soft that interview was.
00:45:29.000Jack Dorsey evaded a lot, compared to how your interview went on Joe Rogan, or my interview went, and he was talking, for example, about Brexit, and he said, you know, we've realized there's a problem on, I think we'll do a rebuttal to this next week, because it's a three hour show, and a lot of people didn't really get to see what was going on there, but at one point Jack Dorsey said, for example, Brexit, I realized that Twitter was really amplifying all these reasons to leave, and if you were on Twitter, all you would see are reasons to leave, and there wasn't really a discussion about reasons to stay.
00:45:57.000And I was saying, hold on a second, that's because it's on every single mainstream news outlet.
00:46:03.000The scales are a little bit tipped, because people who have never been allowed a voice before, for example, with this show compared to ABC, NBC, CBS, Comedy Central, there's one alternative.
00:46:13.000The same thing happens with Brexit, and it was lost on him, and Joe didn't follow up on that.
00:46:19.000So I wonder if you had watched that interview at all or what your opinions are on Jack Dorsey.
00:46:24.000I was on Infowars yesterday, I think it was, and Alex Jones was going off about Joe Rogan saying that Joe is taking money from Twitter and he's not telling anyone about it.
00:46:35.000And I want to be on Joe Rogan really bad to help raise money for this case.
00:47:02.000I can't do Google AdSense, so all my videos are free.
00:47:05.000I encourage people to rip off my YouTube content because I know I'm going to be shut down any second now.
00:47:11.000But I'm glad you said something really interesting about how the left thinks that social media got You know, Trump elected or Brexit to happen.
00:47:55.000And Hillary Clinton held up her BlackBerry at the high school basketball court, and it was about two, I don't know, two about center court.
00:48:39.000They, I know that they targeted me because you look at the articles and it came out of nowhere and then it was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:48:46.000Post after post after post after post.
00:48:52.000That every single time they'd mention me or the Proud Boys, they'd mention labeled as an extremist, labeled as a hate group, and it just becomes fact.
00:48:59.000It's funny because curious guys like you and I who are in the fray, we wrote off the SPLC a long time ago.
00:50:23.000And, um, promoters didn't want to take the fight because they knew it would be Jack Dempsey versus a black guy.
00:50:29.000And it'd be seen as a racial thing, black, white, and then everyone would talk about race all the time.
00:50:32.000And so even back then they were like, ah, I don't want to get into the racial thing, I don't want to be called racist, it's boring, and let's just fight a different guy.
00:50:40.000Because the social justice warriors of the 20s will take this fight into identity politics.
00:50:45.000But at that point they're like, I mean, we won't let them use the drinking fountains, but I just don't want to get into it, you know, publicly right now.
00:50:49.000I mean, let's be, let's be honest, Lou.
00:50:51.000I don't want to talk to the drinking fountains, let's just drop it, okay?
00:51:13.000It really is something—I think the reason they want to say that is because A significant percentage of people who voted for Barack Obama voted for Trump.
00:51:22.000You can see that with the Hodge twins who are here today.
00:51:26.000And so they have to say, well really people voted for Barack Obama.
00:51:28.000But that hate was lurking beneath the surface to try and discount the fact that a lot of people were willing to overlook some shortcomings to have the first black president.
00:51:37.000I think that's a component to it. That's just opinion. But they've been going after you for
00:51:41.000a long time. And like you said, the proof that it's concerted, that's what always bothers me.
00:51:46.000Like Alex Jones, I agree with Alex Jones on very little.
00:51:48.000And I think sometimes he's gone too far.
00:51:50.000And I've talked about that. And he's been on the show and I've been on his show. But there is no
00:51:53.000denying that the deplatforming occurred immediately in quick succession. You can't say that that's a
00:51:59.000coincidence at that point. No, no. The reason that they're out to get me is because I'm effective.
00:52:04.000The reason they are out to get the Proud Boys is because it's a popular movement, and in both cases, they are red-pilling young people and getting them on the Trump train.
00:53:37.000Did anyone actually think, I think it was the guy from National, I think it was Bill Crystal, I could be wrong, but someone like that said, you know, he's an example of what America can be.
00:53:47.000Do we really think this guy's a wise sage?
00:53:50.000Even if you think those kids are douchey because it's a trucker hat, let's go with that.
00:55:44.000There was a cult thing where some white guy tried to do it, and then a bunch of people died because he didn't leave the vent hole, like the Tea Feast.
00:57:00.000And it's wrong, and it's a terrible depiction of America.
00:57:04.000Like, this whole hate has no home here, this whole Antifa view of the world, can you imagine just walking through life thinking 50% of the country are Klansmen?
00:57:13.000That's a racist, that's a racist, that's an anti-Semite, that's a homophobe.
00:57:16.000You've never met one, but you hear they're everywhere.
00:57:31.000I don't even know which one is more offensive.
00:57:35.000No, I think it's a very important point that not everyone has the kind of platform or has had the kind of reach that you do, and it's important.
00:57:42.000We talked about this with Charles Hermes and UTA, with the students there who are suffering, the students who are silenced by professors who fail them.
00:57:49.000You know, it's someone has to do something.
00:57:51.000A lot of people say someone has to do something, you're doing something, and you're going to be doing more here next week here in third chair, taking an active role here in the show.
00:58:14.000I don't have to share the same opinions as every other conservative, but we do need to band together and understand the size of the enemy that we're facing right now.
00:58:20.000And the SPLC is a huge one, especially when you see how deep their tentacles reach into places like YouTube and potentially Twitter.
00:58:47.000I think that the right is ultimately just fangirls and boys of the left and they're curious about progressives because they know we've got better ideas.
00:58:55.000Awarded Best News in Cultural Channel 2017.
01:00:24.000Speaking of which, not that we are, but of course we released some prank calls this week
01:00:33.000And by the way, next week I think there is no show Monday because we're working on a hidden camera video here that could be the biggest thing we've ever done, or it could be a total bust.
01:02:23.000We're going to get to the moving and inspirational part.
01:02:27.000Obviously if you're a Mug Club member and you watch the full life advice segments, you kind of already know this, but maybe some of you don't.
01:02:34.000First off, I just want to let you know I'm so grateful for the overwhelming support that I've received from everyone, particularly as it relates to when I took a break for the first time in years and was kind of placing an emphasis on my health for a while.
01:02:47.000And it just kind of came back up recently because, like I said, I'm about 60% there.
01:02:51.000I had a couple people recognize me in one morning.
01:02:55.000Shout out to Mac, shout out to Katrina Blackfan.
01:02:58.000We genuinely have a lot of black fans.
01:03:11.000And the thing is, you know, I've talked about this and it's, it's a lot of people make it out to be bigger than it is, but it is exhausting and fibromyalgia.
01:03:16.000And I have a wrist injury funny enough from that Rocky comeback video that we did a while back.
01:03:20.000If he goes hitting the bag without any wraps, because I had to use these classic boxing gloves and I sprained my wrist, but it's been about five weeks and it really hurts.
01:03:27.000And when he shook my hand saying, I hope you feel better.
01:03:40.000Which has just kind of brought up some emotions from before the break.
01:03:44.000I'm very grateful for the support because I'll tell you this, I was terrified.
01:03:47.000I was terrified before we took that break that I'd lose a lot of you, that you'd be angry, that you'd think I was lazy or scared or this constant fear that people always have.
01:03:58.000I think we all have this fear that we're not enough.
01:04:00.000So to see support and to get the emails and comments and even people who are uploading videos telling me how you've been praying and how you've been waiting, it's not something that a lot of people get to experience.
01:04:10.000But sometimes all of this, it scares me too.
01:04:14.000And I'd be doing you all a disservice if I weren't honest about everything that's been happening with myself, because I feel as though you've let me into your life, and I'm very grateful for that.
01:04:24.000And sometimes I need to clarify some of these communications.
01:04:27.000And I get a lot of emails, and if you read these Life Advice shows where we read emails, this is something that someone else said at this Gas Station.
01:04:38.000I asked if I could talk about it, but they didn't want me to use their name.
01:04:40.000So I'm trying to, whenever that happens, I try to tiptoe around it.
01:04:42.000Said that, oh, my son watches you, and I really use you as a role model.
01:04:49.000And I know that me saying that is like a Trump humble brag, like, they said the best!
01:04:53.000The reason I bring it up is actually because I'm not.
01:04:56.000I want to make something really clear, and we get a lot of these in the life advice emails, like, just because we're offering advice, me, Gerald, people who are here, I am not a role model.
01:05:30.000A role model is a construct often of, it could be from the media, advertising, or some glorified self-aggrandizement.
01:05:37.000Sometimes it's a construct by you of someone or something that you may think you want to emulate, or you think that you want to be.
01:05:44.000An example, on the other hand, is something that everyone can be, and something everyone should be.
01:05:50.000A role model is an ideal That no one can live up to.
01:05:54.000An example is something or someone tangible that all of us can use to improve ourselves.
01:05:59.000So, see, you can hold yourself up as an example for someone in order to help them optimize their life without portraying yours as something to emulate, or certainly without portraying yours as perfection.
01:06:10.000That's what I think really bothers me about this.
01:06:12.000Recently, I've been the example of a cautionary tale of what not to do as it relates to values, priorities, actions.
01:07:02.000And if you or I do myself a disservice of setting out to be a role model, that's why I get really uncomfortable when someone says that or we get these emails.
01:07:09.000If we set out to even attempt to achieve becoming a role model, we run the risk of assuming that we can do no wrong.
01:07:18.000Of assuming the moral high ground to ourselves without verifying.
01:07:23.000Carrying the mantle of role model breeds carelessness.
01:07:25.000And I think that's why it's a term I hate so much.
01:07:28.000But if you think of yourself as an example, it breeds thoughtfulness.