Louder with Crowder - April 26, 2019


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Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

186.38889

Word Count

9,394

Sentence Count

809

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

Former Vice President Joe Biden officially announces his run for President in 2020. Will he face off against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary? Will he be able to unify the country behind a single candidate? Is college a human right?


Transcript

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00:01:09.000 Steven!
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00:01:44.000 Thanks for watching!
00:01:50.000 That's called the Hulk Hogan, or my half-Italian aunt at Thanksgiving dinner.
00:01:54.000 She had the upper lip mustache.
00:01:55.000 But also, I'm here because we have Mahmood Al-Mahmood, ISIS communications director.
00:01:59.000 Good to see you again, Steven.
00:02:01.000 Back by popular demand.
00:02:02.000 How are you, sir?
00:02:02.000 Good to show you the softer side of ISIS, as always.
00:02:04.000 Yes, we really appreciate it.
00:02:05.000 We have Brodigan over there, replacing Gerald Morgan.
00:02:08.000 He's on his honeymoon, but I still don't trust it.
00:02:11.000 I have the bourbon of the day.
00:02:12.000 It's Hudson, from the region of New York we call Not New York City.
00:02:15.000 OK, got it.
00:02:15.000 And quarter black hair, show them your hood.
00:02:17.000 What's up, dawg?
00:02:17.000 We have Brian Callan.
00:02:19.000 Ooh, I'm so excited about that.
00:02:19.000 You know him from Goldberg, Schooled, Old School, what is it?
00:02:23.000 MADtv.
00:02:25.000 What was it about the Hangover?
00:02:26.000 85 different podcasts.
00:02:28.000 Fighter and the Kid, Warrior, but he's unbelievably funny, hysterical, and on the Joe Rogan Show quite a bit, so I'm looking forward to having him on.
00:02:35.000 Question of the Day!
00:02:35.000 We're going to be talking about this quite a bit.
00:02:37.000 Do you think college is a human right?
00:02:39.000 And to those of you who went to college, just how necessary or helpful was it in preparing you for your field of work and or the real world?
00:02:46.000 Just comment below.
00:02:47.000 We'll be talking about that because that's a new talking point, of course, that college is a human right.
00:02:50.000 I'm sure you've heard this, Mahmoud.
00:02:52.000 I have heard this.
00:02:52.000 This is a very popular idea back in my part of the world as well.
00:02:55.000 Really?
00:02:56.000 Oh yeah.
00:02:57.000 Oh.
00:02:57.000 Not for the ladies, I would imagine.
00:02:59.000 No, of course not.
00:02:59.000 No.
00:03:00.000 Come on.
00:03:01.000 All right.
00:03:02.000 Leading the news, of course, we have to address his former vice president, Joe Biden, officially announced his run for president.
00:03:07.000 Comes from USA Today.
00:03:08.000 The core values of this nation are outstanding in the world, are very democracy.
00:03:12.000 Everything that has made America, America is at stake, he said in a campaign video.
00:03:17.000 Announcing his running, he also launched his campaign, unveiling his new official slogan, Make America Grope Again.
00:03:23.000 So he seems pretty, yeah.
00:03:25.000 Should be noted, he's running on the platform of rebuilding the middle class, respecting, or at least earning respect for leadership on the world stage, and pedophilia, so it's wrong.
00:03:35.000 It just smelled better!
00:03:36.000 Oh dear.
00:03:38.000 The funny thing about Biden, he's such a walking punchline.
00:03:41.000 I was working with Pantelis this morning, and we were going back and forth, it's like, you know something?
00:03:45.000 Every joke about Biden sounds like we've heard it before.
00:03:48.000 It's pretty much the case.
00:03:48.000 We've got nothing.
00:03:49.000 There's nothing else we can do.
00:03:50.000 I'm not familiar with the American system, but everybody runs for president?
00:03:54.000 Yes!
00:03:55.000 Yes, that's how it works.
00:03:57.000 That's a good read.
00:03:58.000 What are we up to now in the Democratic field?
00:04:00.000 817.
00:04:00.000 817.
00:04:00.000 All right.
00:04:02.000 As for the current president, he recently met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
00:04:07.000 Engadget reported this.
00:04:08.000 Twitter spokesman called it a constructive meeting where they discussed Twitter's commitment to protecting the health of the public conversation ahead of 2020 elections.
00:04:14.000 Of course, there were detractors.
00:04:15.000 Actually, our inside man at the White House snuck us this exclusive recording from the meeting.
00:04:19.000 OK, so censorship.
00:04:20.000 Frankly, I keep hearing that you're censoring people.
00:04:23.000 Right, with conservative opinions.
00:04:25.000 My opinions.
00:04:25.000 What's going on with that Jacqueline?
00:04:28.000 So this is a real challenge and something that we're trying to wrap our heads around.
00:04:33.000 Oh, color me surprised.
00:04:34.000 Coming from a guy who dresses like a post-apocalyptic lesbian who shops at Orvis.
00:04:38.000 We don't look at the speech itself.
00:04:40.000 We look at conduct.
00:04:40.000 We look at how... Listen, you banned a kid for tweeting that men are men and, frankly, women are women, okay?
00:04:48.000 Saw it as a violent threat.
00:04:50.000 If that's violent, okay, then I want to be with all the other criminals.
00:04:53.000 Whoa, whoa, that's not okay, Jessica.
00:04:57.000 Okay, that's not okay.
00:04:58.000 I've got many black friends, frankly.
00:05:02.000 The best blacks are my friends, actually.
00:05:05.000 You ever heard of Kanye?
00:05:07.000 Okay, Kanye from the West.
00:05:11.000 That's probably not going to happen.
00:05:13.000 Doesn't seem like it was as productive as initially reported.
00:05:15.000 No, but I like this tradition, you know?
00:05:18.000 This dates back to when President Clinton had the CEO of Geocities to the White House.
00:05:23.000 I remember that.
00:05:24.000 I like that they keep continuing it.
00:05:27.000 I've never rooted for Trump to actually grab someone by the p***y, but if he strangled Jack, I would not be upset.
00:05:32.000 He would just be grabbing Jack.
00:05:34.000 Also, by the way, you're moving in and out of the microphone.
00:05:37.000 Pick a spot.
00:05:38.000 Pick a lane there, Brodigan.
00:05:39.000 Also, this week, the snot otter was named Pennsylvania's official amphibian.
00:05:45.000 This comes from Yahoo.
00:05:46.000 The maternal animal is also known as the lasagna lizard and the mud devil.
00:05:49.000 This comes not only with amphibians, but animals, the state animals, runner-up for the state's animal honor was the pussy platypus, the ball sweat swan, and bear with the regular anal discharge.
00:06:00.000 So they actually went with a good choice.
00:06:04.000 Mahmoud, how fast can you get Sharia law to actually take over America?
00:06:07.000 You have a phone?
00:06:08.000 You have an iPhone?
00:06:08.000 I'm Google Imaging the Pennsylvania snot otter.
00:06:12.000 Oh, really?
00:06:13.000 I Google Image searched it.
00:06:15.000 It's just pictures of Ben Roethlisberger.
00:06:21.000 Hey, this was interesting as well.
00:06:23.000 A high school student was criminally charged for ranking girls in his class on Twitter.
00:06:29.000 I want to make sure I get this right.
00:06:31.000 Meros Nasser Sharifi was charged with telecommunications harassment and could face discipline by the district for his Twitter account, quote-unquote, girls ranked.
00:06:40.000 So the main whistleblower actually in this story still remains anonymous, though classmates strongly suspect 1.4 rated bulldog Karen.
00:06:47.000 I think I dated her.
00:06:48.000 You guys, you guys mock us for face covering.
00:06:53.000 Who's laughing now?
00:06:54.000 I see.
00:06:55.000 This, of course, by the way, is not the first time that Nasser Sharifi has gotten into the hot water for misogyny.
00:07:00.000 Who can forget his previous headline grabbing debacle?
00:07:02.000 You probably remember this infamous hit it or quit it app.
00:07:05.000 Hit it.
00:07:06.000 Hit it.
00:07:08.000 Oh, definitely hit it hard multiple times.
00:07:12.000 Quit it.
00:07:14.000 I had that one on all my iPhones.
00:07:17.000 Did you really?
00:07:17.000 Yes.
00:07:17.000 It's horrible.
00:07:18.000 It's like the grinder for terrorists.
00:07:20.000 Pretty good.
00:07:20.000 My biggest issue with this isn't the entire point of going to high school to grade your peers.
00:07:25.000 Yeah, like, congratulations, you found a boy.
00:07:26.000 I think usually that should be taking place at the hands of a teacher.
00:07:30.000 I say the death penalty is what I say.
00:07:34.000 I wasn't paying attention.
00:07:37.000 What did he do?
00:07:38.000 I mean, my opinion does not change.
00:07:41.000 I say.
00:07:42.000 We were just talking about school, the role of school we thought was to grade your peers, yeah.
00:07:46.000 Oh, yeah, maybe.
00:07:47.000 I don't know.
00:07:48.000 I was not much for the book learning.
00:07:50.000 No, you were big on just on the death penalty, on the book burning.
00:07:55.000 In entertainment news, Hollywood actresses like to use, apparently, safe words when intimate scenes get to be too much.
00:08:01.000 This comes from the Mirror Some even have them written into their contracts words like pineapple, sweet potato, and mayonnaise, though it should be noted they stopped using mayonnaise when Harvey Weinstein confused it for a stage direction.
00:08:15.000 That poor fern.
00:08:19.000 Finally, there's this video of the Easter Bunny getting into a street fight.
00:08:22.000 I think we have an initial clip that was going viral.
00:08:27.000 Now, initially the viral video was completely silent, but we've uncovered this exclusive leak that now includes the original audio.
00:08:35.000 What's going on?
00:08:36.000 You guys cut it out. There's no need to... Come on, stop.
00:08:39.000 No, get off of him. Get off of him, you guys. It's Easter.
00:08:41.000 It's a celebration.
00:08:43.000 One star, one star, one star.
00:08:44.000 You trying to trip me, huh? Huh? Boom!
00:08:46.000 Boom, boom, boom, boom. You f***ed up. Want to Easter egg hunt, huh?
00:08:51.000 Easter Bunny, go f*** him up.
00:08:53.000 Boom, I found it. Here's your prize. You went down like a b***h.
00:08:56.000 I got it. I got it.
00:08:57.000 You went down like a b***h.
00:08:58.000 Guys, what's going on?
00:08:59.000 Hey, officer.
00:09:00.000 You just get your ass laid out by the Easter Bunny?
00:09:02.000 Just here, uh, helping the kids.
00:09:05.000 Demonetized, Greg.
00:09:08.000 I'm surprised you took any pleasure in that, Mahmoud.
00:09:10.000 I'm not into the Pennsylvania snot otter, but I am all about the Florida assault rodent.
00:09:16.000 Count me in.
00:09:18.000 Oh my goodness.
00:09:19.000 I think in Florida, all rodents are assault rodents.
00:09:21.000 I think so.
00:09:22.000 Everything can eat you.
00:09:23.000 I hate Florida.
00:09:25.000 I don't know why anyone likes it.
00:09:26.000 I know the New Yorkers, your people, they go there all the time.
00:09:29.000 When you have gators that are just, they're around, they're like squirrels.
00:09:32.000 The state sees this to be valuable to me!
00:09:34.000 Time to move, time to move.
00:09:35.000 But I mean, in my people's defense, they go there to escape New York City taxes, where they then vote for politicians who raise their taxes.
00:09:43.000 I don't think that's at all an accurate sequence of events.
00:09:45.000 I pretty much think they move to Florida and die.
00:09:48.000 I was gonna say, trust me, it beats Kirkuk.
00:09:52.000 There's a little inside baseball here?
00:09:55.000 You've not been to Kirkuk?
00:09:56.000 I don't know.
00:09:57.000 Well, see, I feel like Kirkuk... Is it the same as a state?
00:10:01.000 No, it's a city, but imagine if LaGuardia Airport was a mountain.
00:10:06.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:10:07.000 So, Orlando.
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00:10:30.000 Okay, let's move on to this meat segment here.
00:10:32.000 Should you go to college?
00:10:36.000 Should you go and is it a right?
00:10:38.000 Democrats have been floating this idea that student debt forgiveness is now apparently it's the fulcrum for a lot of these people and free college overall in case you doubt me.
00:10:47.000 We've got to induce states to carry more of the burden instead of continuing to pass it on to students.
00:11:07.000 Students are getting squeezed.
00:11:09.000 The student loan pandering right now, it's predicated on the idea that college is a necessity.
00:11:13.000 And then the left says that because college is a necessity, it's a right.
00:11:17.000 And if it's a right, then the government has to provide it for free, of course.
00:11:20.000 There's that wording.
00:11:20.000 Here's the thing.
00:11:21.000 It's not a right.
00:11:21.000 colleges and universities. That should be a right of all Americans regardless of
00:11:26.000 the income of their families. There's that wording. Here's the thing, it's not a
00:11:30.000 right and I'll argue it's not even a necessity. There are, let me go through a
00:11:35.000 There are other options.
00:11:36.000 We always hear about this.
00:11:37.000 We hear about the salaries of people with college degrees versus people who don't have college degrees.
00:11:42.000 And yeah, listen, on its face, of course, people with college degrees make, on average, more.
00:11:46.000 But just like the gender wage gap number, you have to look into it a little bit deeper.
00:11:50.000 Why don't we talk about trade schools?
00:11:52.000 Job placement from people graduating trade schools?
00:11:54.000 Nearly a hundred percent.
00:11:55.000 The average college is half.
00:11:57.000 That's almost half that.
00:11:59.000 That's half one hundred.
00:12:01.000 Fifty!
00:12:03.000 Starting salaries, by the way, are much higher.
00:12:05.000 Those are just the starting salaries that you're seeing.
00:12:07.000 They only continue to go up as opposed to the gender studies major who keeps getting my coffee wrong.
00:12:11.000 By the way, we have a surplus right now of over 7 million jobs.
00:12:17.000 This is one thing that people don't understand.
00:12:18.000 When we talk about a market economy, people are paying more.
00:12:20.000 If there are more available jobs and there are fewer layoffs than there have been in decades, that means that people have to incentivize you to come and work for them.
00:12:27.000 They tend to pay more, hence why wages have gone up.
00:12:31.000 And here's something else, too.
00:12:32.000 How many small business owners, independent contractors, have college degrees?
00:12:36.000 30% of business owners have no college degree whatsoever.
00:12:39.000 Of the ones who do, only 61% believe that a college education was important for success in today's economy.
00:12:44.000 Compare that with 97% of the general non-business-owning populace.
00:12:49.000 I think that's important for people to know.
00:12:51.000 Yeah, and also, you know, you have some cases, like for what I do now, it didn't exist when I was in college, so my degree is completely useless.
00:12:58.000 Right.
00:12:58.000 And I remember when I was first trying to figure out what I wanted to do, Arthur C. Brooks has a book called Gross National Happiness.
00:13:06.000 And he brought up how networking is more important than your degree.
00:13:10.000 Did you do a lot of networking there, Mahmoud?
00:13:12.000 No, I didn't go to college.
00:13:13.000 I was a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks.
00:13:16.000 Right.
00:13:17.000 Which is actually just a room we have where people hit you.
00:13:19.000 Right, with rocks.
00:13:20.000 Yes.
00:13:21.000 Yes, you've heard of it.
00:13:22.000 It's Hard Knocks.
00:13:22.000 Yeah, commonly known as the School of Soraya M.
00:13:26.000 Yes.
00:13:29.000 Mahmoud, do more regional research just into where you're from.
00:13:34.000 I'm very focused on my work, you know.
00:13:37.000 But this is one thing, though, too, that we hear this.
00:13:39.000 And Aaron Sorkin has talked about this.
00:13:40.000 He says, you know, I want people running the government who are only the most brilliant PhDs running.
00:13:45.000 Well, hold on a second.
00:13:45.000 Why do we look down at business owners who actually create products, services, goods that generate billions of dollars for the United States economy?
00:13:53.000 I mean, I actually have no idea what percentage would be small business owners versus medium business owners.
00:13:57.000 I haven't looked this up.
00:13:58.000 Why don't we talk to... Are they not intellectual because, God forbid, their ideas actually have to work in the real world?
00:14:04.000 Thomas Sowell has talked about this.
00:14:05.000 The only place where your ideas don't actually matter, don't have to work out, is in academia.
00:14:10.000 Right.
00:14:11.000 If you're a civil, if you're an engineer, it better work or somebody's going to die.
00:14:14.000 If you're a business owner, it better work or people are going to lose their job.
00:14:17.000 That's a good point.
00:14:17.000 If your theories, your ideas don't work, you just hide out in a college and tell kids that they would if Marx would have been practiced properly.
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00:14:33.000 Here's another point.
00:14:34.000 All majors aren't created equal.
00:14:37.000 This would be a different conversation, I would say, if any of the Democratic candidates, if any of them right now were saying, OK, listen, we need to create incentives for advanced science degrees or fields which require specialized education.
00:14:49.000 Obviously, we're not going to be subsidizing four years of Afro lesbian centric studies.
00:14:55.000 No!
00:14:55.000 They just want total student loan forgiveness, free school.
00:14:58.000 They never mention majors.
00:15:00.000 Different degrees pay differently.
00:15:02.000 Good example, engineering finance.
00:15:04.000 They pay more money, so the debt gets paid off more quickly.
00:15:08.000 Are you doing what you had studied there, Mahmoud?
00:15:10.000 You know, I wanted to paint.
00:15:13.000 And I might get back to it.
00:15:14.000 I'm not sure.
00:15:15.000 But this all makes sense to me, honestly.
00:15:16.000 I feel like welding.
00:15:19.000 Welding.
00:15:19.000 A good job, you know.
00:15:21.000 People need welders.
00:15:22.000 People need cages.
00:15:24.000 Yes.
00:15:25.000 Market.
00:15:26.000 Supply.
00:15:27.000 Demand.
00:15:28.000 It's the invisible hand that burns one alive.
00:15:30.000 Here's the thing, they just lump all education... A little Adam Smith humor for you.
00:15:35.000 I like it, I like it.
00:15:36.000 I think I got it.
00:15:38.000 I got that one.
00:15:39.000 Wait, you wait till I get to the section on Hayek.
00:15:41.000 Oh yeah, I'm gonna like that.
00:15:43.000 Just for us, not for the guy who had two glasses of bourbon beforehand.
00:15:46.000 I think he's watching Pro Wrestling on his phone.
00:15:49.000 They lump all education from specialized civil engineering All the way to feminist German poetry is equally valid.
00:15:55.000 And here's the thing, I'll tell you what, there's a reason for that.
00:15:57.000 It may not make sense on its surface, and that's because the DNC, Harris, Warren, Bernie, they want you steeped in far-left academia.
00:16:05.000 People talk about these numbers a lot, but let me just put them in context.
00:16:08.000 Liberal college professors outnumber conservatives 12 to 1.
00:16:11.000 39% of colleges have no conservative professors at all.
00:16:13.000 Let's just round it up.
00:16:14.000 Basically, 40% of schools have not a single conservative professor.
00:16:20.000 And a significant portion of students, not even a plurality, a majority, say that the climate on college campuses is hostile to free speech.
00:16:27.000 And a lot of the top-tier universities are actually the worst about this.
00:16:31.000 People are going to Harvard today to take classes in Beyonce studies and queer fat activism.
00:16:37.000 But I repeat myself!
00:16:39.000 These are real things!
00:16:40.000 And by the way, even though there's a lot of status attached to Ivy League schools, the actual quality of education is often pretty crappy, since many of them have now placed a premium on leftist indoctrination over actual education.
00:16:50.000 It's only a matter of time before I think people realize how dumb some of the students are being turned out of these schools.
00:16:55.000 And again, it's just this idea, this intellectual elitism, that if you go to a trade school, if you go to a community college, you somehow must be a dummy, or if you start a business that employs 20, 30, 40 people, you're an idiot who needs to sit at the feet of intelligentsia.
00:17:08.000 I just don't agree with it.
00:17:09.000 Here's another point.
00:17:10.000 You don't have to go to the most expensive school.
00:17:13.000 This is what everyone thinks that you get into.
00:17:15.000 You don't have to do it.
00:17:16.000 Americans are more strapped by student debt in 2018 than ever before.
00:17:21.000 So why are students being put in such awful situations?
00:17:24.000 More people, more students are going to school.
00:17:26.000 If you build it, they will come.
00:17:28.000 And when you provide them with student loans for all, it's no surprise that you can charge more for your college education.
00:17:33.000 You don't need, this is one thing, does that not seem backwards?
00:17:36.000 You don't need to take out as many student loans as you possibly can.
00:17:39.000 You can get a quality education without spending that much.
00:17:42.000 For some reason, kids out there now, they think that they have to apply to highest tier schools, to use that term, and then they have to go to the top one they get into, regardless of cost.
00:17:50.000 The truth is most students have no idea what they want to do.
00:17:53.000 20-50% of them enter schools undecided, then most end up changing their major completely.
00:17:58.000 Yeah, I know in my case, I didn't know what I wanted to do fresh out of high school, so I went to community college, and I only paid a grand a semester, as opposed to 20.
00:18:06.000 I'm also not in massive debt right now.
00:18:08.000 Right?
00:18:08.000 Correct.
00:18:09.000 I did the same thing.
00:18:09.000 Same way.
00:18:10.000 I didn't know what I wanted.
00:18:11.000 And look at Brodigan.
00:18:13.000 You, too.
00:18:14.000 You, too, can be Brodigan.
00:18:17.000 Right, Mahmood?
00:18:18.000 Yes, I agree.
00:18:19.000 Plus, I think a lot of the kids, you know, they have the lazy rivers at the college, and they have the climbing wall, and the ice cream Yeah, I think you have a very ill-conceived notion of American college.
00:18:32.000 And they have the golden walkaways.
00:18:34.000 Which part of this is wrong?
00:18:35.000 No, it's mainly just nanny ice and a butt chug.
00:18:37.000 Yeah, and let's be honest, people say they go to college for the college experience.
00:18:41.000 I did my fair share of Ivy League drinking at a community college.
00:18:44.000 You don't need to pay that much.
00:18:45.000 No, you really don't.
00:18:46.000 You don't have to go there to drink there.
00:18:48.000 It's glorified alcoholism, but your folks don't partake at all in the...
00:18:53.000 No, they do yogurt pong.
00:18:58.000 Have you played?
00:18:59.000 No.
00:18:59.000 I doubt it.
00:19:00.000 It's like beer pong, but with yogurt.
00:19:03.000 I hear John Stamos is world champion.
00:19:06.000 Also that terrorist family from Iowa.
00:19:07.000 I'm kidding, don't sue us please.
00:19:11.000 Which one was it that was a terrorist yogurt company?
00:19:13.000 That wasn't an actual terrorist yogurt company, let me be clear!
00:19:16.000 It kind of might have been a terrorist yogurt company.
00:19:20.000 There was a terrorist yogurt company?
00:19:22.000 No there was not!
00:19:24.000 The idea that college is a necessity, I'm trying to move on from this.
00:19:29.000 It's patently false, and it serves as the foundation for the lie that college is a human right.
00:19:34.000 Here's the thing.
00:19:35.000 If your dream is to go into a specialized field that requires advanced schooling, yeah, a good university might be a decent investment.
00:19:41.000 But if you don't know what you want to do, or if you're going to find yourself, whatever the hell that means, because you watched Eat, Pray, Love once, or you're going for the college experience, You're better off going to a trade school or a community college until you get your crap straight.
00:19:52.000 Here's an idea.
00:19:52.000 I'm going to say something here that might be wildly unpopular with our largely millennial male audience.
00:19:58.000 Uh-oh.
00:19:59.000 Diametric opposition to Bernie, Warren, Harris, the rest.
00:20:02.000 If you don't know what you want to do with your life, how about you go to work and start paying taxes instead of taking mine?
00:20:10.000 There's a novel idea.
00:20:12.000 It's not a right.
00:20:13.000 You don't deserve it.
00:20:14.000 You don't need it.
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00:21:19.000 Hi, I'm half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman for Louder With Crowder, here with some education and tips on the terms we use in the legal world.
00:21:27.000 Our question today comes from Dan McGovern in that hellhole known as East St.
00:21:31.000 Louis, Illinois.
00:21:33.000 Dan's question is, what is the deal with the court names like Supreme Court, Circuit Court, District Court, and Justice Court, and who in the s*** is in charge of who gets to be a judge in each one of those?
00:21:44.000 Well, Dan, we're going to split this one up into two parts and deal first with the courts themselves.
00:21:48.000 Most of you have heard about a Supreme Court, which is the final appellate courts in both our federal and state systems.
00:21:54.000 At the very top in the federal system, above all the courts, is the United States Supreme Court.
00:21:59.000 You can end up here whether you start in a state court or a federal court.
00:22:02.000 It is the true court of last resort for judicial relief.
00:22:05.000 Now, secondly, most states also have a Supreme Court that is the highest court.
00:22:09.000 Stay tuned for more barely legal with half-asian lawyer bill richmond
00:22:13.000 But is a contractor I went to where he works, and these dudes were working.
00:22:28.000 They were building a house.
00:22:30.000 And I saw this guy digging, this thick dude.
00:22:33.000 I noticed him.
00:22:34.000 He was about 5'4", about 5 feet wide.
00:22:38.000 Looked like a human fist.
00:22:40.000 He had no points.
00:22:41.000 I'm pointy.
00:22:42.000 He had no points.
00:22:43.000 Just blunt.
00:22:44.000 And he was pulling up huge chunks of the earth.
00:22:47.000 And I know digging.
00:22:49.000 I had to bury my dog once.
00:22:51.000 But I know how hard that is.
00:22:53.000 And so I'm admiring the power in this dude.
00:22:55.000 And I said to my buddy, I go, what is he digging, man?
00:22:59.000 And my buddy, who's his boss, goes, a pool.
00:23:05.000 I was like, I can go like that in?
00:23:08.000 He goes, oh yeah, man, he'll do it in an afternoon.
00:23:10.000 I was like, it's not possible.
00:23:11.000 He goes, it's not.
00:23:12.000 It's not possible.
00:23:13.000 But for him it is.
00:23:15.000 I don't know why he's saying you're an Eminem.
00:23:32.000 It doesn't mean a whole lot to me, that song.
00:23:34.000 It's beyond the realm of abstract, almost into, you would say, the corner of absurdist.
00:23:40.000 I don't know what they consider this with techno and what Pogo thinks.
00:23:43.000 We should get him on the show to talk about it.
00:23:44.000 We should.
00:23:44.000 I am very excited to have our next guest on.
00:23:46.000 Yes.
00:23:47.000 I'm supposed to say- Huge fan.
00:23:48.000 I'm also supposed to pronounce it supposed, but I always get it wrong.
00:23:52.000 Also, solace, I usually get wrong as a Canadian, but I've been a fan of his for a long time.
00:23:56.000 You've heard me say, as far as just standup, two of the funniest standups I think ever on earth are Nick DiPaolo and Norm Macdonald.
00:24:03.000 As far as overall being one of the funniest people alive, not just standup, but also sketches, storytelling, podcasts, Thank you for having me, my friend.
00:24:12.000 It's good to be here.
00:24:12.000 everywhere, Fighter and the Kid. You've seen him on Schooled, which is a spin-off of the
00:24:16.000 Goldbergs, as Coach Meller. You've seen him in The Hangover, and his newest special, Complicated
00:24:21.000 Apes, is available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play. Mr.
00:24:24.000 Brian Callen, thank you for being here, sir.
00:24:26.000 Thank you for having me, my friend. It's good to be here. I love, I've been a fan, so it's
00:24:32.000 good to be here.
00:24:33.000 Don't say it.
00:24:34.000 And I like the way you were dancing with just your shoulder.
00:24:36.000 You were just moving your shoulder up and down.
00:24:38.000 It was doing a little bit of a Floyd Mayweather shoulder roll, like, what's up, bitch?
00:24:41.000 What's up, bitch?
00:24:41.000 I'm coming with the uppercut.
00:24:43.000 I move from the hips, but whatever.
00:24:44.000 Right, well, I know you have powerful hips.
00:24:46.000 Little known fact, I don't know if you've, I know that you've done wrestling in your lifetime.
00:24:50.000 The Floyd Mayweather style of fighting with the shoulder roll, it only works if you're five foot two.
00:24:55.000 Because when I tried it, the glove here did not cover my entire dome.
00:24:59.000 I found out, it's not the same thing.
00:25:01.000 I do a little boxing.
00:25:03.000 I try to do it every week, and I was trying to quote-unquote perfect the Philly show, and I got punched in the face enough times where I became dizzy, where I was getting foggy brain.
00:25:14.000 I even said to Brennan Sharma, I said, hey, I'm forgetting things.
00:25:16.000 And Brennan said, well, stop sparring because you're an actor at 52, and you shouldn't be sparring because that's ridiculous.
00:25:24.000 And then Joe gave you some DMT and all is well with the world, I assume.
00:25:27.000 That did take away my fear of death, so now I sleep.
00:25:32.000 You saw the clockwork, elves!
00:25:35.000 By the way, I'm not entirely sure that what we just described is hard data.
00:25:39.000 More anecdotal.
00:25:40.000 So the shoulder roll may work for you.
00:25:44.000 Right now you're everywhere.
00:25:45.000 You have your podcast, Schooled.
00:25:47.000 I've been a huge fan of the Goldbergs for a long time.
00:25:48.000 I haven't watched as much of Schooled because I've been very busy lately.
00:25:52.000 And your latest stand-up special.
00:25:54.000 I don't want to get you in trouble because we have a lot of people on the show who are obviously more centrist, more moderate, and people assume that they're a right-wing neo-Nazi just for appearing on here.
00:26:02.000 Yeah.
00:26:03.000 But I know in your special, you've talked about how kind of radicalized people have become in many ways, particularly the far left in relation to comedy and free speech.
00:26:14.000 Are you worried about being drummed out of the core for even talking about that?
00:26:17.000 No, I don't worry about that.
00:26:19.000 I just worry about telling the truth as I see it.
00:26:22.000 And I think I'm worried that it's very easy.
00:26:28.000 It's very easy to fall into This binary trap that most of us fall into as human beings.
00:26:34.000 We are, I think, probably programmed to break into us versus them.
00:26:39.000 We versus they.
00:26:41.000 You know, those guys over there are wrong and we're right.
00:26:44.000 There's a binary.
00:26:45.000 Look at how we break these things into teams.
00:26:50.000 You guys are gun nuts.
00:26:51.000 Well, you're pussies.
00:26:53.000 You know, you believe in universal health care.
00:26:56.000 You must be a socialist.
00:26:57.000 You know, we brand these.
00:27:00.000 And I think Americans have a very tough time being both things.
00:27:04.000 I think it's possible.
00:27:05.000 This is going to sound radical.
00:27:07.000 I think it's possible to be pro law and order pro cop and also also not want innocent black people to be shot.
00:27:15.000 I think it's possible to kind of be on both of those spectrums.
00:27:19.000 And I also think That it's a good thing sometimes to use words like, I don't know, maybe, it depends.
00:27:27.000 These are complicated issues.
00:27:29.000 And the more I read about them, I do think it's important to have a philosophical bedrock you can moor into when the wind starts blowing.
00:27:37.000 Yes.
00:27:37.000 Which is why I believe in the Constitution and why I believe in individual liberty and why I believe in all these principles that, in my opinion, not only founded this country and solved the political problem, The Founding Fathers solved, in many ways, the political problem.
00:27:52.000 Aristotle couldn't do it.
00:27:53.000 Socrates couldn't do it.
00:27:55.000 No one else could do it.
00:27:56.000 Not that smug **** Plato.
00:27:58.000 He said, Socrates didn't take notes.
00:28:00.000 I'm going to be taking minutes.
00:28:01.000 And Socrates is like, would you shut the hell up, Plato?
00:28:04.000 Well, Plato's Republic is basically, if you look at it, it's a caste system.
00:28:10.000 And it's, it's a lot.
00:28:12.000 I mean, Hitler wanted to essentially, uh, you know, he wanted to, the, the architecture of the third Reich was based on Plato's Republic, I'm pretty sure.
00:28:22.000 So the founding fathers came along and had enormous respect for the individual.
00:28:26.000 Now I know they owned a lot of human beings and slavery was, was well and good.
00:28:30.000 Although it wasn't well and good with a lot of them.
00:28:33.000 I mean, you look at, uh, I can't remember if it was George Washington or Jefferson who made it so that as he couldn't free his slaves while he was alive, it made it so that when he died, they would be free.
00:28:41.000 But I do think that they wrote extensively on that, and they were very aware of the contradiction in talking about all men are created equal.
00:28:49.000 And I think that's the most radical line of political philosophy, and I think we have to remember it.
00:28:54.000 When Thomas Jefferson said that we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal, That is a contract we have all entered into, because what we're actually saying is a religious idea, which is we are all of the same moral worth.
00:29:07.000 You can't prove biologically or mathematically that we're all equal.
00:29:13.000 Just look at Floyd Mayweather.
00:29:17.000 Yes, or I always do.
00:29:18.000 I talk about how LeBron James is my chocolate avatar.
00:29:21.000 There's nothing equal about us.
00:29:25.000 But we all believe that at the end of the day, you don't know where I'm smart, where I'm strong, where I'm courageous.
00:29:31.000 So best to treat me like an individual and treat me like I'm worth a lot.
00:29:34.000 That's why our justice system is predicated on the idea that if I kill a wretch on the street, or I kill Bill Gates, Technically, I'm supposed to do the same amount of time because it's a human life.
00:29:44.000 Right.
00:29:44.000 And it's not up to us to judge what that life is worth.
00:29:47.000 I gotta say, you talk about both sides.
00:29:49.000 Now, people can be both.
00:29:50.000 Everything I'm hearing here would get you drummed out of the core from the left, saying, the Founding Fathers figured out a problem.
00:29:55.000 I know about slavery.
00:29:56.000 But people, they would go, well, racism!
00:29:58.000 The Founding Fathers were racist white males.
00:30:00.000 Brian, not doing yourself favors if they're watching.
00:30:04.000 So what they do, so what you do when you do that, when you say, when you stop me and you say, you racist white males, is now you have turned those people into nouns.
00:30:14.000 You have given them, you've labeled them, and you've fixed them in a category, in a very strong category.
00:30:21.000 Meaning, that now I guess since they're straight white males and they're racist, that they are disqualified!
00:30:27.000 And that they have zero contribution to anything else.
00:30:30.000 So, so I suppose then we could go into the fact that Mohandas K. Gandhi took baths with young women, and that that that erases his entire legacy.
00:30:41.000 Martin Luther King apparently cheated and beat his wife.
00:30:44.000 That erases his entire legacy.
00:30:45.000 Well, no!
00:30:46.000 That was an aspect of the man.
00:30:49.000 And I think, again, we have to... human beings are verbs.
00:30:52.000 That's why I talked about my special being complicated apes.
00:30:55.000 We are complicated apes.
00:30:57.000 Sinners, saints, everything in between.
00:30:59.000 Multi-layered, multi-dimensional.
00:31:01.000 And full of potential.
00:31:02.000 Human beings are... I mean, look, you are what you are now, and you are also what you could be.
00:31:07.000 And we forget that.
00:31:08.000 And we have to treat each other that way.
00:31:10.000 You're getting very much back into the realm of Socrates.
00:31:13.000 And we've talked about this when we do the Change My Mind and talk about abortion.
00:31:16.000 This is a question that I get to.
00:31:17.000 I go, hold on a second.
00:31:18.000 What is a human life?
00:31:20.000 You're getting into this idea of the essence of humanhood, the essence of a human being.
00:31:26.000 This is some pretty deep stuff.
00:31:27.000 And can I say something?
00:31:28.000 I don't want this to be a sore spot, but I remember one time when you were on Joe Show, good friend Joe Rogan, love Joe Rogan, but I remember at one point someone said like, Brian, you know, you could just reach deeper with your standup.
00:31:39.000 Because some people see your standup as silly.
00:31:41.000 I don't see it that way.
00:31:43.000 What I'm hearing right now is the processing of unbelievably deep nuanced philosophical issues, and then I see it performed in standup in a way that allows people, other people, who maybe aren't as intelligent as yourself, to process it.
00:31:56.000 And I've always said, no, I remember watching it go, no, don't change yourself, Brian!
00:31:59.000 We love you!
00:32:00.000 We love you!
00:32:01.000 We love you.
00:32:02.000 Well, I appreciate that because certainly in this last special, that's what I try to do.
00:32:07.000 There are bad ideas out there.
00:32:09.000 And one of those bad ideas is socialism.
00:32:12.000 And what I mean by that is, and by the way, it doesn't mean I'm against all government interference, but I worry that when- Do you use roads, Brian?
00:32:20.000 Do you use roads?
00:32:21.000 Do you have running water?
00:32:22.000 Well, then you're a socialist!
00:32:25.000 Exactly.
00:32:26.000 Exactly.
00:32:26.000 So I'm not saying we don't need a taxation system.
00:32:29.000 I'm not saying you don't need a federal government.
00:32:31.000 My God, you do.
00:32:33.000 The question is, to what degree?
00:32:35.000 And rather than have these conversations of whether or not I'm a Republican or a Democrat or I'm a socialist or a free market capitalist, I'd rather say, to what degree do you think a large central authority Uh, should have control over your life.
00:32:50.000 I mean, how much of your money?
00:32:51.000 I already paid 51%.
00:32:53.000 51% of my money goes to a state and federal government.
00:32:56.000 That's because you live in a state that Donald Trump would refer to as a shithole.
00:33:01.000 Well, and if that's the case, if I have to give, so 51% of my day is spent working for someone else.
00:33:07.000 I have accepted that.
00:33:08.000 I get it.
00:33:09.000 Maybe that makes sense.
00:33:10.000 I don't know what the percentage should be.
00:33:13.000 But I'd rather talk in those terms, but I don't know why.
00:33:18.000 The far left is so, they're not creative thinkers.
00:33:21.000 I don't think someone like OAC or Bernie Sanders never had a real job, by the way.
00:33:26.000 I don't think this is a creative, thoughtful guy.
00:33:30.000 I don't.
00:33:31.000 Nobody talks about this.
00:33:32.000 His one answer is tax the rich.
00:33:34.000 Oh really?
00:33:34.000 Right.
00:33:35.000 So punish people that produce, punish people that are productive.
00:33:38.000 And by the way, I guess Bernie Sanders and his philosopher kings, like Ocasio-Cortez, I guess they seem to know more about what to do with that money than Apple does.
00:33:48.000 Apple spends $10 billion a year on research and development.
00:33:51.000 I think they have a better understanding of what to do with their money to create a better product for all of us.
00:33:56.000 And by the way, they might be very wealthy because they produced a product that we all use and buy.
00:34:02.000 By the way, also, they're much more charitable.
00:34:05.000 2.6% to charity, Bernie.
00:34:07.000 I mean, it really is ironic.
00:34:10.000 The evil pharmaceutical companies give away more and they want to argue it's for a tax write-off?
00:34:15.000 Fine!
00:34:15.000 But Bernie, you buy a matcha latte at Starbucks and make sure that you have an app that rounds down the tip to 18!
00:34:23.000 Look, and by the way, SmithKline and whatever- GlaxoSmithKline.
00:34:28.000 Look, there are issues with Big Pharma, but let's please not forget that Hep C is now a curable disease.
00:34:37.000 We just used CRISPR-Cas9, when I say we, me and my medical team here, but CRISPR-Cas9, I believe, to cure eight boys who had that disease, that boy-in-the-bubble disease.
00:34:49.000 Could you imagine how pissed you'd be if you went in for plasma replacement therapy and they accidentally gave you that virus?
00:34:54.000 You're like, I thought it was my own platelets!
00:34:56.000 and re-injected it with a certain gene that gave these kids immune systems.
00:34:59.000 What?
00:35:00.000 What?
00:35:01.000 And they're doing it with leukemia.
00:35:02.000 So, you know, these deep forms- Could you imagine how pissed you'd be
00:35:04.000 if you went in for plasma replacement therapy and they accidentally gave you that virus?
00:35:08.000 You're like, I thought it was my own platelets.
00:35:09.000 No, it's AIDS.
00:35:10.000 No!
00:35:11.000 No!
00:35:12.000 But at least some boys have immune systems.
00:35:13.000 If I gotta get AIDS for that, that's fine.
00:35:16.000 Yeah, but we are doing amazing things with the pharmaceutical companies.
00:35:20.000 They may have their liabilities and may be evil in one way or another.
00:35:24.000 They're saving a lot of lives, from what I have read from a very liberal slant of media.
00:35:32.000 Again, this is where we kind of lose sight of how important research and development is and how important the free
00:35:38.000 market can be with checks and balances, but how important they can be in
00:35:43.000 moving things forward because there is a profit motive and a profit motive is not
00:35:48.000 necessarily a bad thing.
00:35:49.000 It's kind of the way human beings behave.
00:35:51.000 Right.
00:35:51.000 And so I worry very much that there is a lack of creativity and creative thinking on the left.
00:35:58.000 It seems to me... I'm trying to be fair.
00:36:01.000 I'm trying to be fair because I do think they have some good ideas.
00:36:03.000 Can I ask you a question?
00:36:04.000 Because this is a criticism we hear lobbed at the right very often, right?
00:36:08.000 And I've heard it myself.
00:36:09.000 And recently, I think it was Slater Salon did a hit piece on Joe Rogan.
00:36:12.000 They've done it on Nick DiPaolo now.
00:36:13.000 And of course, Dennis Miller, where they say, well, people, conservatives can't be funny.
00:36:17.000 There are no funny.
00:36:18.000 All comedians are liberals.
00:36:19.000 And of course, the industry, I think a lot of times you're talking about compassionate people who are emotional.
00:36:25.000 creative thinking on the left, then why do you think the industry, and particularly the most
00:36:30.000 visible comedians, are not just... they're not kind of left.
00:36:34.000 They are dyed-in-the-wool leftists.
00:36:35.000 Do you think that's a byproduct of the industry and the gatekeepers?
00:36:38.000 I think a lot of times you're talking about compassionate people who are emotional.
00:36:44.000 And I think that the narrative is...
00:36:47.000 is it's.
00:36:48.000 See, it all really depends on who controls the narrative and who's able to paint the best picture.
00:36:55.000 And I think that the scientific community, I think the I think a lot of conservatives are pretty stodgy and and not very personable, maybe.
00:37:07.000 And a lot of your artists have probably I'm not I'm not a clinical psychologist, but I would imagine artists probably tend to be able to empathize and And probably put themselves in the place of someone who is different than theirs.
00:37:21.000 I mean, that's what great novelists are able to do.
00:37:23.000 And it probably is.
00:37:25.000 And you need these people and you need the left.
00:37:28.000 I don't buy into the fact that you don't need opposing forces.
00:37:33.000 I worry when they're not listening to each other.
00:37:35.000 I worry when we're not having idea sex.
00:37:38.000 I don't think that Ocasio-Cortez is a bad person.
00:37:41.000 I really don't.
00:37:41.000 I don't think that Bernie Sanders is a bad person.
00:37:44.000 I happen to fundamentally disagree with them on a philosophical basis.
00:37:48.000 It doesn't mean I want them put in jail and destroyed.
00:37:52.000 I just don't agree with them.
00:37:53.000 And I'd love to have a conversation to find a way to be creative with our thinking to solve problems that actually matter.
00:38:00.000 Problems like I don't want screen shooters out there. Okay, right. I don't want I want more research and development. I
00:38:07.000 want Maybe a sensible tax law blah blah blah. I want a clean
00:38:11.000 environment Is there a way we can put our heads together the way Google
00:38:15.000 or Pixar does and?
00:38:16.000 And and and solve these problems with let's just have an idea orgy and and
00:38:22.000 And that's what the Founding Fathers did.
00:38:24.000 They sat around on a very hot July and just dueled it out with their brains and they didn't agree with each other.
00:38:31.000 But they just, they had spirited debate and civility.
00:38:37.000 And that's what George Washington...
00:38:39.000 Sometimes it got pretty angry, but that's because they had just switched from tea to coffee.
00:38:42.000 They weren't exactly used to it at that point.
00:38:44.000 point. They throw the key away.
00:38:46.000 Yes, and some things are worth fighting for. Some things are worth fighting for. You define
00:38:50.000 yourself along the lines of which you're willing to fight for.
00:38:52.000 Well, I want to keep this going because surprise out there, this is a pre-tape because he's in Los Angeles and has other shows to do.
00:38:57.000 We're going to keep you around for a web-extended version for those who are exclusive Mug Club members.
00:39:02.000 Of course, it is Brian Callen on Twitter.
00:39:04.000 The special is Complicated Apes.
00:39:06.000 Stay tuned.
00:39:07.000 We'll wrap this up.
00:39:07.000 everyone else go to my club join my club at lauderwithcotter.com
00:39:30.000 slash my club so we can continue to employ sweatshop Bangladeshi children animators
00:39:41.000 And now for Barely Legal with Bill Richmond, sponsored by MugClub.
00:39:47.000 Massachusetts though, those oddballs, call it the Supreme Judicial Court.
00:39:51.000 But even more strangely, New York calls their highest court the Court of Appeals.
00:39:55.000 In New York, the Supreme Court is actually the lowest level court, the one you see on Law & Order.
00:40:00.000 It's the crunch-wrapped supreme of courts in New York.
00:40:02.000 Lots going on, but not really any authority.
00:40:05.000 Some states, though, have two highest courts.
00:40:08.000 One for civil and one for criminal.
00:40:10.000 That's probably the one you're most familiar with, Dan, over there in East St.
00:40:13.000 Louis.
00:40:13.000 For example, in Texas and Oklahoma, you'll have a court of criminal appeals and a Supreme Court.
00:40:18.000 One does civil, one does criminal.
00:40:20.000 Now, on our next level down, we have the intermediate appellate courts.
00:40:23.000 At federal, that's circuit courts.
00:40:25.000 In other states, it's generally called a court of appeal.
00:40:28.000 And below that, we have trial or specialty courts.
00:40:30.000 In federal court, that's called the district court.
00:40:33.000 In the states, that's superior court, district court, county court, county court of law, family court, probate court, municipal court, justice court.
00:40:39.000 There's a lot of courts.
00:40:41.000 I'll answer the second portion of your question next week, though it did occur to me that since you're a white guy who chooses to live in East St.
00:40:47.000 Louis, you're probably already dead.
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00:43:05.000 That was called the surprisingly strong riptide drowning dance.
00:43:09.000 It took you all the way away.
00:43:10.000 And I wanted to see if Quarterblack Eric could carry this all by himself.
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00:43:21.000 So if I can...
00:43:22.000 Let me grab... not let me grab, you can leave whenever you want.
00:43:27.000 Yeah, I mean, technically.
00:43:28.000 Let me request, if I can have a minute of your time here.
00:43:31.000 I know that you hear a lot about shadow banning, demonetization, there are a lot of chicken littles out there.
00:43:35.000 But I do want to at least inform you, in case this channel goes away, For good, as to why.
00:43:42.000 And as to just how easily possible it could be for us to be gone from YouTube tomorrow.
00:43:47.000 We've received what could potentially be three hard strikes, we have a screenshot here, for one parody video.
00:43:54.000 The Dr. Trump music video that we did in the span of a week.
00:43:57.000 And unless we come to terms with YouTube and the corporate overlords, YouTube rules say that three strikes gets your channel removed.
00:44:04.000 Now, I want to be clear, I'm not exactly sure in this instance if it counts as three strikes or just one, since we used this same video three times in a commercial break.
00:44:11.000 We have half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman attempting to establish communication with them.
00:44:15.000 I don't know exactly.
00:44:18.000 Hopefully we can work it out.
00:44:20.000 I want to make clear here, this is completely a parody under the umbrella of Fair Use.
00:44:25.000 We have some B-roll here where we can show you where we actually created the track from the ground up.
00:44:30.000 We have a project file that you guys can see.
00:44:32.000 We went and we created this entire music video from scratch.
00:44:36.000 This wasn't just, we didn't just take a karaoke track.
00:44:38.000 And by the way, it has to be comparable enough to the original to be a parody.
00:44:41.000 There are channels that subsist on parodies alone.
00:44:44.000 And right here, you can actually see an example of Jimmy Fallon did a Bernie parody, Old Town Road, side-by-side with ours.
00:44:49.000 Look, they have a $30 million operating budget, and ours is you, Mug Club.
00:44:55.000 So I want to be clear, this might not be an exact example of an instance here of anti-conservative bias, okay?
00:45:03.000 But when you pair it with disproportional targeting of the rest of our content for being, quote, what they term now, on the border, and the issues with notifications that have been happening, the demonetization specifically targeting our opinions as unpopular speech, at least in Silicon Valley, when you take the culmination, it renders us unable to create a show for you, and if it keeps going this way, the channel will cease to exist.
00:45:29.000 Now, what we do here is very different.
00:45:32.000 As is our relationship with corporate censorship.
00:45:34.000 Take for example, let me give you an example, a pure comedy channel out there that only does the occasional parody.
00:45:38.000 Yeah, you know, this kind of thing would hurt them, it would suck, wouldn't be debilitating.
00:45:42.000 Take more conservative leading channels that maybe they've seen some radical demonetization based on a point of view.
00:45:48.000 We know that happens quite a bit.
00:45:50.000 But one that doesn't do comedy.
00:45:52.000 It'd be hard.
00:45:53.000 But they can find other ways to generate revenue.
00:45:55.000 Let's think of a channel that has 50 million subscribers and they find out that their notifications, like ours, are broken, or that YouTube changed an algorithm to throttle their organic search views or related content views.
00:46:03.000 It would suck, not be crippling.
00:46:05.000 But we experience all of that, and we experience it daily, and even more, the rules keep changing.
00:46:12.000 YouTube claims that there isn't an anti-conservative bias, that they want to have conservatives on the platform, but that they want to encourage a healthy discussion.
00:46:19.000 Okay, I want to take that at face value.
00:46:22.000 But they demonetize and restrict the Change My Mind videos.
00:46:28.000 Genuinely, here's a question to you.
00:46:29.000 This isn't a victim complex.
00:46:31.000 We're trying to play by the rules.
00:46:33.000 Let me ask you something.
00:46:34.000 If a conservative cannot create a long form, unedited, no profanity, civil dialogue segment like Change My Mind without being punished, how can conservatives create content for YouTube?
00:46:46.000 What content could possibly be acceptable?
00:46:50.000 I'm trying to figure it out.
00:46:52.000 And it's been a tiring week.
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00:47:01.000 You get this wonderful girthy hand etched mug and the entire Blaze TV catalog and lineup.
00:47:07.000 And it'll allow us to continue to create this kind of content regardless of monetization on YouTube.
00:47:11.000 And equally important, it allows us to fight legally to change these draconian rules Which hurt not just us, and not just conservatives, but independent creators.
00:47:20.000 And it's also what allows us to continue to change people's minds on YouTube, by allowing us to throw caution to the wind on monetization and uploading anyway.
00:47:27.000 We don't care if we're monetized or not, because we're monetized by you!
00:47:31.000 That's how we have a parody that's better than a $30 million operating budget.
00:47:34.000 No offense to Jimmy Fallon, but that sucked!
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00:47:44.000 The promo code, I think, is 20 for everyone.
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00:47:48.000 Or, listen, this is the alternative.
00:47:49.000 If you don't join up, this show as you know it, we'd no longer be able to produce it.
00:47:57.000 We've reached a crossroad and less people join Mug Club.
00:47:59.000 We can't do this show, these segments, on YouTube or any platform.
00:48:04.000 Sure, listen, I could lay off the 15 people, staff and crew, and just talk into a camera without any sketches, any parody, satire, on-location videos, change my mind, or even so much as ever addressing a controversial issue.
00:48:16.000 I could do that.
00:48:18.000 But that's not the show that this crew has worked so hard to create for you.
00:48:20.000 And you've made it clear that it's not the show that you want from us.
00:48:23.000 And you've made it clear not just to us, but to YouTube.
00:48:27.000 And that's equally important.
00:48:28.000 That's probably more important.
00:48:28.000 You've made it clear to YouTube that this is the content you want.
00:48:31.000 And it's not a violation of any rules.
00:48:33.000 That's not what we set out to do.
00:48:34.000 And I know people often say, we hear this a lot, like, well, why don't you just upload your stuff to BitChute or insert any other streaming site of the day here?
00:48:41.000 And we can, and sometimes we do, as a safety.
00:48:44.000 But it doesn't help us in any way create content going forward.
00:48:46.000 That's like telling someone whose consumer electronics were banned from stores, well, you can just give it away at a flea market.
00:48:52.000 We could.
00:48:55.000 The only way this continues, right now we're standing on the barrel of three
00:48:58.000 potential copyright strikes. Hopefully half Asian lawyer does what half Asian lawyer does,
00:49:03.000 but you can help by joining up at Mug Club. We created it deliberately, by the way,
00:49:07.000 to not be a Patreon or PayPal or GoFundMe. A lot of people have said, well, why don't you do Patreon?
00:49:11.000 When all of the conservatives were doing that, we pointed out, it's just rattling a tin cup on
00:49:17.000 another big tech platform and they can give you the boot.
00:49:19.000 And as we've seen, now they are giving many conservative voices the shaft. Mug Club is something.
00:49:23.000 something that we created to be completely independent, totally immune to the censorship
00:49:27.000 and I'll say it, deceptive trade practices that you see from big tech.
00:49:30.000 We've partnered with dozens of other conservative voices so we can hopefully make it financially
00:49:34.000 viable for decades to come.
00:49:35.000 I know some of you have been on the fence and $7 a month is not nothing.
00:49:41.000 I get it.
00:49:42.000 But also, it's been a worrisome time for everyone involved here at this show.
00:49:45.000 When you wake up and find out, oh crap, three heart strikes, our channel could be gone within 10 days.
00:49:51.000 And it's particularly accelerated in recent months after the Oscars live stream.
00:49:54.000 And you know what?
00:49:55.000 We all know here, we've all accepted that it's going to get worse.
00:49:59.000 I promise you this.
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00:50:03.000 I, we, all of us here, will continue to create content for as long as humanly possible and continue to fight these rules and the oppressive corporate overlords until our coffers are completely empty.
00:50:14.000 For years, this channel's been up for years, we've done it exclusively because of you.
00:50:19.000 And going forward, we can't do it without you.
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