We're back with another Halloween Spooktacular live show at Texas A&M University on October 31st, hosted by comedian Garrett Porter ( ) and writer/comedian Gerald B. Morgan Jr. ( ), featuring special guest Garrett Porter Black ( ), and special guest Bill Richman ( ), who joins us on the show to talk about Halloween, the Ukraine, and much, much more.
00:00:07.000Before we move on with the show, I do ask that you bookmark this page because search results notifications aren't necessarily working, and we'll talk about that a little bit later on in the program.
00:00:15.000But before that, I want to announce formally that our Halloween Spooktacular live show this year will be taking place at Texas A&M on Halloween, October 31st.
00:00:29.000Go to louderwithcrowder.com slash tour to reserve your tickets now.
00:00:33.000Space is limited, but we do have a huge overflow room.
00:00:35.000There's going to be an after party October 31st.
00:03:26.000We're going to talk about quite a bit.
00:03:28.000We're going to talk about Donald Trump, the Ukraine, Greta.
00:03:30.000More importantly, we do have some updates.
00:03:31.000You saw the video yesterday regarding YouTube and how they've been screwing with not only our channel, but seriously seeming to try and sway the election.
00:03:53.000So my question of the day, have you guys noticed YouTube censoring not only our search results, but conservative content across the board, making it harder to access?
00:04:02.000Listen, you guys are our data gatherers, so please screenshot it.
00:04:07.000Tweet me your examples at scrowder or comment below.
00:06:14.000Though it should be noted, actually, her speech, despite what the media has tried to sell you, wasn't met with glowing praise across the board, with many people criticizing the young Swede's creative decision, I guess you would say, to bring her own hype man.
00:07:23.000And usually, you've done stand-up, half-face endorsements, so usually, you know, you introduce someone, you're the emcee, you introduce them, and maybe a little music plays, they come on out.
00:07:31.000Well, I remember going, okay, thank you, give it up for Black Boy, Two Eyes.
00:07:35.000So now, please welcome your headliner, Bruce Bruce!
00:08:37.000And the idea that naming something that this person has pointed out, Greta herself and her mother, talking about autism, talking about depression, talking about OCD, I really do think we've reached a point here where we're using children as human shields.
00:08:49.000And keep in mind, Greta is the exact same age.
00:09:01.000They were thrust into the spotlight, those Covington kids, because someone pulled up their phone and sent it to media out of context where it destroyed their lives.
00:09:31.000And you know one thing, two just very things that stood out to me on that is, I'm sorry, which side of it is deciding that we need to lower the voting age in order to get more younger and preferable voters?
00:09:41.000I'm not quite sure, but we shouldn't criticize those folks because they should be voting, but unable to withstand any criticism about their ideas.
00:14:14.000I don't think he's going to be, I think they may try and impeach him, but I don't think he's going to be.
00:14:16.000I think they're going to try, but they, they basically came out, I think it was, uh, Schumer came out or Schumer, sorry, uh, came out yesterday and said, uh, yeah, it's all, it's not just... Are you still in Swedish chef mode?
00:15:10.000Why do they care if he gets to the bottom of something that could be illegal?
00:15:13.000Like, Joe Biden's son didn't make it in the Navy, had a cocaine habit, had zero resume to speak of, and got a $600,000 a year job, and there was no hope that daddy would help?
00:15:23.000You no say Ukraine is weak, you are weak!
00:15:26.000Moving on, it appears, name that TV show reference, CBD infused tampons now are a thing.
00:15:33.000Well, Day is a female-owned and lead, because that's important.
00:15:37.000When I shop, as opposed to looking at lab results, contaminations, I want to know it's lead by women.
00:15:42.000Or product satisfaction ratings, you know.
00:15:44.000When it comes to consumables, I say, is there a vagina involved in this?
00:17:58.000The only people who don't like them are gay men.
00:18:01.000That's true, but she actually said the reason that she started this was there was a museum for penises in Iceland and she thought, well there's no museum for vaginas.
00:18:10.000Yeah, and they raised 50,000 pounds for this.
00:18:14.000I do find it interesting that, like, if one individual or a small group of people decides to do something which is kind of weird, which is to say, oh, we should have a penis museum and the penis is the best in the whole world and better than everything else, and somehow it then becomes... I don't think that was an oppressor, but... No, no, no.
00:18:29.000But that's, like, the way that it's been twisted, and some of the folks who are commenting on the penis museum, it then becomes, well, every man who has a penis is now... and woman that has a penis...
00:18:39.000Has decided that now it's an attack on vaginas when it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:19:05.000I'm Miss Gerald B. In entertainment news, RuPaul was called out for, in case you didn't want to swallow a knife yet, a lack of diversity in the show RuPaul's Drag Race following the Emmys.
00:19:23.000This comes from Pink News because of the stigmatizing vaginas.
00:19:27.000A reporter said she was caught off guard to see so many white men behind the star in the press room.
00:19:34.000Proving that if nothing else, both gay and straight black men have one thing in common, their love of white ass.
00:19:40.000I am surprised at Ari Shafir's twerking capabilities.
00:19:53.000So, by the way, the drag superstar, of course, with Cancel Culture, the drag queen superstar, RuPaul, took the criticism to heart, pledged to increase diversity by adding both, I think it was Asian, handicapped drag queens to the show, along with, you know, a surprising pledge to include more intellectual diversity.
00:22:44.000Just check in every night if you're not a member of Mug Club because a lot of these changes are making it harder for us to reach you, the subscribers, to reach you, people who have already chosen to watch this content.
00:22:53.000So we've uncovered some new alarming information about the YouTube policy changes over the last few weeks.
00:22:58.000And we knew that leading up to the 2020 election, Big Tech, they were going to try and sway things for Democrats.
00:23:02.000This comes from leaked videos, memos, whistleblowers.
00:23:06.000They all showed us that Silicon Valley was devastated by Trump's win, and they were openly determined to not let it happen again.
00:23:13.000I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too.
00:23:21.000And I think it's a very stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values.
00:23:29.000What they're really saying about fairness is that they have to manipulate their search results so that it gives them their political agenda that they want.
00:23:38.000Then she ran over a school of small children.
00:23:44.000How is, by the way, a Democratic election offensive?
00:23:47.000When Barack Obama was elected, people were like, OK, well it's not my guy.
00:24:05.000That's just a rumor and I don't, it's a joke, I don't stand by it at all.
00:24:08.000I know he's completely straight, along with Brian Stelter.
00:24:11.000And back during the Vox Apocalypse days, we talked about, we warned that YouTube would be seeking censorship, not just demonetization or banning, which everyone can see, but more pervasive, less noticeable ways.
00:24:23.000About bringing awareness, or at least if you're not already aware, you need to make yourself aware, and then bringing as much awareness as possible, as you can to as many people as possible, to the most subversive form of censorship, the invisible censorship that occurs.
00:24:37.000It's just muffled so that it can essentially cut your views in half, or down to ten.
00:24:41.000It's an invisible rule, invisible punishment of that rule.
00:24:44.000I think we're going to see more of this kind of censorship, because it goes unnoticed, therefore it has less possibility of bad publicity for YouTube.
00:25:21.000This is hard because people who don't necessarily work in the industry often hear the cries from conservatives, and we've talked about this half-Asian bill, they're often overblown.
00:25:28.000You can't just talk about what you want YouTube to be.
00:25:30.000You need to hold their feet to the fire of what they claim YouTube is.
00:25:33.000YouTube, they've said that they are going to make it easier for people to find content from verified channels.
00:26:00.000Right now, at the moment of this taping, if you search Steven Crowder, our channel may pop up, but we're blacklisted from the video results.
00:26:07.000The first video result from this channel is almost 70 videos in.
00:26:23.000Let's say you want, and this is how we found out, because one of our researchers, Reg, was trying to tell a friend, oh yeah, if you want to watch the, just search Steven Crowder, Change My Mind, it'll pop right up.
00:27:49.000If the biggest conservative channel that's ever existed that never violated policies, according to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, can be throttled this way, they can do it to anyone.
00:27:58.000What do you think they'll do to smaller channels when they think you're not looking?
00:28:01.000By the way, we ran some other searches.
00:28:03.000This is why we want you to aggregate more for us.
00:29:30.000They direct people away from right and it's so and it's so obvious whenever I go and search for Steven Crowder anything I'm not looking for John in his basement commenting on a video that you did that has 56 views There's no logical reason that your stuff shouldn't come up Especially with the number of views like if we had a thousand views on our videos, which we don't okay fine Maybe it gets lost in the wash.
00:29:50.000Maybe we're like everybody else That's not the case.
00:29:52.000There's no explanation for it at all, other than them wanting your content not to be out there.
00:29:57.000And we're going to get into some more kind of legal developments here with Bill.
00:30:00.000We'll bring him into the guest chair, so he'll be more special.
00:30:44.000These changes by themselves may not seem so drastic, but when you add it all up and you go through the history that we've had with YouTube specifically, we just have more data than most people.
00:30:57.000So Susan Wojcicki, she's always saying that the company has been striving, again, not what we want from YouTube, what they claim, that they're striving for more transparency on the platform.
00:31:06.000We try to be really transparent with our community, with our guidelines.
00:31:09.000We do get the request for transparency and we are working to continue to be more transparent and explain why it's a violation of our policies or not.
00:31:39.000I know though, because in case they may have forgotten and got deprioritized, you know the tens or hundreds of emails and communications we've sent saying, all we need you to do is just tell us, just kind of roughly point in the direction of what we've done wrong.
00:31:54.000Essentially what they've said is like, there's something wrong.
00:31:57.000Well, no, they said there's nothing wrong, but some people think there is, so you can make no more money!
00:32:03.000Well, you know, what's become interesting is the demonetization has become the trumpet, right?
00:32:07.000Now they have said, oh, well, look, we've taken action.
00:32:11.000Even though we went back and re-reviewed, we said there was no violation, but then everyone was really upset, so we went ahead and reinterpreted the rules so that we could do some kind of punishment.
00:32:20.000And now, look, we've done the punishment, and that's all we've done.
00:32:23.000But yet, behind the scenes... This is the issue, right?
00:33:35.000What if only right-wing content was going on, and that was it, and left-wing was being muted?
00:33:39.000And here's something else that's really unnerving for me.
00:33:42.000We don't know what it's going to be yet, but there's an incoming new harassment policy they're planning in response, by the way, to the Vox Adpocalypse.
00:33:49.000So I'm sorry that this happened to the rest of you.
00:33:52.000We weren't looking for the Adpocalypse.
00:33:59.000It says, the new update comes just after Vox journalist Carlos Maza, beautiful and brave former, that's more beautiful and brave, spoke out in May about harassment he said he experienced on the platform at the hands of conservative commentator Steven Crowder.
00:34:10.000After flip-flopping on his policy, YouTube ultimately has said days later that it would take a hard look at our harassment policies with an aim to update them.
00:34:35.000I'm trying to think of a gentleman named Brandon and no, he would be yet another person who I'm sure will tell us, yes, something's happening and don't worry, we'll get you the information.
00:34:44.000But we just don't have enough people working here and we don't have enough skill to pull the data that you're asking.
00:34:50.000We don't have enough people to be put on the biggest controversy of the year as it relates to content guidelines on the number one conservative channel we've ever had.
00:34:59.000So, you know, you're on the back burner.
00:35:11.000Listen, if you're a publisher, you're not a private, but you're not an open platform, then make it clear what you'll publish.
00:35:17.000We just want to understand your rules so we know how to play by them.
00:35:20.000We can put the more controversial content, like, I don't know, criticizing anyone on the LGBTQ movement, we can put that behind Mug Club and make sure that it's just vanilla milk toast here on YouTube, but you've said you don't want that because you're an open platform.
00:35:34.000Let us know And then we know how we can move forward, and let's find common ground.
00:35:46.000And they're just keeping it an ever-moving target, right?
00:35:48.000It just makes it so much easier for them to hem and haw and say, oh, we're just going to kind of go with the wind here and make it an ever-moving target so there's no actual policy.
00:36:05.000For some of the inside baseball, what is it that we need to do?
00:36:09.000What actions are we going to be taking?
00:36:11.000Because it's reached beyond the point of just complaining.
00:36:13.000Well, you know, what's amazing about this is that every time we think, you know, certainly this is the dumbest move that YouTube is going to make or this is the last action they're going to take behind the curtain or to, you know, take invisible action behind two Do something, especially considering the missteps from the Vox Adpocalypse, they continue to do more.
00:36:32.000And some of the most recent things that you've seen and that we talked about just now are, you know, the changes behind the scenes that are only affecting, not only Louder With Crowder, but are affecting a whole slew of conservative voices as opposed to leftist voices.
00:36:45.000And when we have reached out continuously, we haven't seen anything, haven't gotten that information.
00:36:49.000And so the next steps are going to involve a kind of multifaceted.
00:36:53.000One, we already know that there's an existing lawsuit that's been going on.
00:36:56.000from leftist groups, specifically LGBT groups.
00:36:59.000And for those who may be watching who are concerned about, well, hey, you know what?
00:37:03.000I actually don't care if you get throttled.
00:37:06.000Don't think about it of just this view.
00:37:07.000Think about it if anyone can throttle any political views.
00:37:10.000The problem with the LGBTQ lawsuit is they want an injunction so that YouTube cannot throttle
00:37:14.000them, but they also want YouTube to have more strict policies
00:37:18.000regarding hate speech to create a more safe space.
00:37:26.000That's the crazy part about their lawsuit is the inconsistency there.
00:37:30.000Don't ban us, but make sure to ban other people.
00:37:33.000But the one part that they do get right and that they go after YouTube for is the inconsistency and the lack of clarity about what the policies are time and time again.
00:37:41.000So we're gonna take some action there, decide the right time to be able to jump into the fray on that side and go to the part that really is an important point because it does affect everyone.
00:37:51.000Any political view whatsoever I think more important than just political views, people need to understand, YouTube is the central business model for a lot of content creators.
00:38:19.000And that's what's crazy is that folks will always say, well, you could just go to a different platform.
00:38:24.000You could just do something different.
00:38:25.000But they forget that all of the creators, especially Loud Earth Crowder, have spent innumerable hours learning the system, working on it over the years, building a subscriber base.
00:39:09.000And their story is either going to be, we've been doing this deliberately, or it's going to be, we just didn't know what was happening.
00:39:16.000And that may be kind of reminiscent of the Facebook battle that actually brought us together.
00:39:21.000The idea that, oh well, just some rogue employees put a policy together that blacklisted a few conservative voices and was going on for years and nobody knew about it up top, but we're real sorry about it.
00:39:31.000But you did just, we are going to be taking action here.
00:39:33.000So yes, so some of the action is of course, you know, we can only talk to a certain extent about what that is, but there's multi-faceted, it's not just action we'll take directly, but the thing that you did in the call to action to be able to say, hey, you know, pull up the examples, your own favorite conservative channels, your second favorite beyond Lava Crowder.
00:39:50.000If you want to help them and you want to help us, you want to help anyone who has a political view, whether it's conservative or otherwise, of course, YouTube.
00:39:56.000And here's the thing is we know they're listening.
00:40:25.000And listen, it saddens me that I mean, I'm grateful that we have this platform, but I think of people where I was maybe six years ago, you know, just trying to grind it out.
00:40:34.000You guys aren't going to be able to make enough of a stink with the view count for YouTube to answer.
00:41:09.000So the idea that they're not listening or they're unable to respond or be able to do anything is crazy.
00:41:14.000But what they do respond to is think about all the comments that the folks have put onto the videos and onto tweets that have been able to have.
00:41:21.000And not only that, the folks who continually and repeatedly say, you know what, this is the moment that I've joined Mug Club.
00:41:27.000And then they post about joining Mug Club.
00:41:30.000If they're not going to listen to following their own guidelines, if YouTube isn't going to listen to just being intellectually honest, they're definitely going to listen when you hit their pocketbook and let them know that they're going to have to go to a different place where they know they can get the content.
00:41:41.000Well, thank you very much, Half-Asian Buildersmen.
00:41:43.000And just so you know, we are going to be taking legal action.
00:41:45.000We can't talk about it a ton right now because with something like this, and I see a lot of conservative lawsuits where they just file them, file them, file them.
00:42:58.000Let's stop the cable news hyper-edits where we're just looking to score points.
00:43:02.000If you can think anything that crystallizes that more effectively than Change My Mind, completely unedited, on a campus with students who are there of their own volition, you let me know.
00:43:13.000Because if Change My Mind is considered radicalization to the point that YouTube is going to try and ghost it from search results, well, you know what?
00:43:19.000I guess I'm the radicalizer of the youth, and I'll wear that title proudly.
00:43:23.000Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, thank you very much.
00:47:59.000So they're scary because they think she could hold office as opposed to holding sway over the most powerful office in the land as we see right now.
00:48:07.000We see her fingerprints all over it sometimes, which, I'll be honest, sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of.
00:48:13.000Mr. Paul Joseph Watson, this kind of ties in with your website, band.video, and we just talked about, we sort of exposed some of the new YouTube changes with verified profiles and how difficult this has been, but you were telling me this, this all ties in together, your video on Greta Thunberg?
00:48:29.000By the way, you Europeans, you're closer together.
00:48:31.000You're as far away from Sweden as Florida is from California, approximately.
00:49:04.000And a warning on the channel, you tend not to, now I tend not to make a big deal out of these things because it's just like a red flag to a bull and then a bunch of people go and try and flag all your other videos to get others deleted.
00:49:17.000But yeah, it was a video that was, it was on the channel for about two weeks, had almost a million views.
00:49:22.000They banned it, they removed it for bullying and harassment.
00:49:25.000Now the worst thing I did in that video, Baring in mind that Susan Wojcicki says, yes, we welcome offensive content, as if they actually do that.
00:49:33.000The worst thing I said was to compare her style of messaging and her appearance to some kind of children of the corn situation, which, funnily enough, is what Laura Ingram did on her Fox News show the other night.
00:49:48.000Yeah, it was up for about two weeks. Banned. I appealed it over two weeks ago. No response
00:49:53.000over two weeks later. And yeah, I mean, it's still on bit.shu, but it's permanently gone.
00:49:58.000And then obviously this disincentivizes you criticizing her again. I could re-upload the
00:50:04.000video and remove a couple of the slightly edgy insults.
00:50:09.000This is a, well, it would be a legal adult in the UK who constantly talks about having Asperger's or being on the autism spectrum.
00:50:17.000But if you say that, as Michael Knowles did on Fox News and they caved in and apologized, he called her mentally ill.
00:50:24.000Even though Asperger's is a quote, neurological disorder, it is a mental illness.
00:50:28.000So if she's making that part of her messaging and we can't even reference it, that's a double standard, right?
00:50:35.000Right, and I do always love having you on because, you know, across the pond, cultural differences, and you may be vexed as to why the spokesperson, I don't want to indict all of Fox News, the spokesperson said that and walked back.
00:50:44.000That's because that person at Fox is what we call here stateside, is a pussy.
00:50:49.000So I want to make sure that we're clear.
00:50:51.000Yeah, I don't think Michael Knowles said anything wrong, and I try to be as objective as possible.
00:50:55.000You know, there are some people who, it's like, Oh, and you start talking about Hitler and saying, like, oh, it's not really good to invoke his name, even if you're trying to say maybe some national policy was good.
00:51:38.000Second, they were thrust into the media spotlight against their will.
00:51:42.000Greta chose it, and so I think that that opens one up to valid criticism.
00:51:47.000And if they're an adult of age, some ad hominem, and good fun.
00:51:51.000Well, this is the point, isn't it, Stephen?
00:51:53.000Because the left exploits these children as human shields for their agenda.
00:51:57.000And then they say, oh, by the way, they're beyond question.
00:52:00.000They then ban and cancel culture people who dare challenge them.
00:52:04.000And they did the same with David Hogg.
00:52:06.000A bunch of videos on YouTube, a bunch of channels got taken down when people started challenging what David Hogg was saying.
00:52:13.000But of course, if it's a 16-year-old conservative kid in a MAGA hat smirking, then they're fair game for the media to ruin their entire life.
00:52:21.000There was another guy yesterday called Avi Yemeni.
00:53:16.000The other aspect of this, in using those kids as human shields, they're also traumatizing an entire generation of young people.
00:53:23.000A lot of psychologists in the UK are talking about this now, this new phenomenon of climate anxiety or eco-anxiety
00:53:30.000where children are literally being told that everyone's gonna be dead in 12 years.
00:53:35.000Of course, we know that's abject nonsense.
00:53:37.000Even one of the head authors of the IPCC report for the UN, Miles Allen, called out Greta the other day
00:53:44.000for being alarmist because of course, there's this whole debate about a 1.5 degree warming
00:53:49.000by 2040, of course, there are a bunch of other factors they don't even take into account in that.
00:53:54.000But again, they're literally traumatizing kids, dragging them to protest.
00:53:59.000They're crying in the streets, thinking their parents, their friends and themselves are going to be dead within 12 years, when even the IPCC report says, well, maybe the problems will start in 12 years.
00:54:10.000And of course, AOC echoed this with her Green Deal thing.
00:54:28.000Yeah, and I mean, the other thing is, again, these are some of the same people who fear mongered about a new Ice Age in the 70s, you know, Newsweek, Time Magazine.
00:54:36.000They told us, people like Paul Ehrlich, that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation.
00:54:42.000That was the dominant consensus scientific opinion for years and years in the late 70s.
00:54:51.000And then it's just it's the hypocrisy of it that stenches.
00:54:54.000She's palling around with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a dude who literally has a garage full of muscle cars and tanks.
00:55:02.000You know, she's palling around with Leonardo DiCaprio, a dude who takes private jets to collect environmental awards.
00:55:08.000Prince Harry's up there on the stage with her.
00:55:11.000He took four private jet trips in 11 days.
00:55:15.000He wasn't on a mission to save the planet.
00:55:17.000He was partying at Elton John's mansion. But here I am, you know, like washing out my jam
00:55:23.000jars and recycling my plastic Evian bottles. I'm taking a handful of commercial plane trips a
00:55:29.000year, but I'm bad and I need to be lectured. Forget about India and China. They're fine.
00:55:33.000Well, to be fair, Prince Harry was, I mean, he was, there was a two for one special at
00:55:37.000Bosley. Now, let me ask, you mentioned this with YouTube and we're going to go to WebExtended
00:55:43.000Have you been following the changes here with YouTube since they've now said that they're going to try to direct people toward verified accounts?
00:55:50.000And we've talked about this where, just earlier, you probably didn't see it, where if you search our video name with my name, it doesn't show up.
00:56:05.000And now, of course, I don't know if you've read about this or what you're expecting from the new harassment policy that should be forthcoming.
00:56:14.000I didn't read about the new harassment policy and that's going to get them in trouble based on the fact that some of the biggest creators on YouTube are drama people who literally pick fights and in some cases stage fights with each other and have these back and forth insults and of course boxing matches and everything else and that's the entire basis of their channel and these people have got upwards of 10 million subscribers some of them so they're going to have problems with that.
00:56:39.000The thing about the search and the YouTube election blacklist which you tweeted about I checked your channel about an hour ago and I think maybe because you made a big deal out of it it's gone back and it's flipped back where if you do search Stephen Crowder changed my mind your videos do come up for the past I would say probably four to six months
00:56:59.000You can go on Google itself, of course Google owns YouTube, search my name, Paul Joseph Watson YouTube, for the past four to six months.
00:57:09.000Not only was my channel like buried down the first page or on page two, it was not even returned on Google search results.
00:57:17.000This is a channel with over 1.7 million subscribers.
00:57:32.000I was getting good views because the emails are still going out to the subscribers, but it was completely expunged from a Google search itself.
00:57:40.000It only came back a few days ago and it's like an off link to an uploads playlist.
00:57:45.000It's not even the front page of the channel, but they literally changed the algorithm and they did this with other creators as well as you for a time.
00:57:53.000I'm sorry about that because I think a large part of it is due to the Vox Adpocalypse.
00:57:57.000They made some changes and it's not what I wanted, but you know, I apologize.
00:58:18.000We're going to go to a web extended here for people who do not follow our guest, Prison Planet, but then his website is summit.news banned.
00:58:39.000I want to talk about some of the measures that you've had to take in order to sort of circumvent these different changes to the algorithms that come up almost every other day, it seems now.
01:02:03.000And then I realized that the wet t-shirt, the wet sheer t-shirt that shows your puffy nipples is far more unflattering than just biting a bullet.
01:04:02.000When I used to get hurt early on in my marriage, I've talked about this, I would often express it, and I think a lot of men do, through anger.
01:04:10.000I had someone tell me that, you know, most women don't really respond well to anger.
01:04:14.000And I don't mean anger necessarily directed at my wife, but overall anger, frustration.
01:04:18.000Anger is usually kind of a dishonest emotion.
01:05:10.000So I used to think, mainly because this is what I was told, that in being open about my struggles, I was making a conscious decision to be vulnerable.
01:05:21.000Technically I was, but that wasn't the reason.
01:05:25.000Someone was saying this the other day.
01:05:28.000That's what kind of spurred this thought.
01:05:29.000I had to come to a really honest place with this piece and be vulnerable.
01:05:34.000And whenever I say piece, that's how you know it doesn't really mean anything.
01:05:37.000That could be anything from abstract theater to a character in a film to Poop literally on a canvas that you have been awarded some kind of postmodern prize for.
01:06:40.000Because in trying to make young men feel safe, we've actually just delivered a message that guilts them into feeling conflicted about their biological instincts.
01:06:49.000It's also wrong because it's attaching virtue to a concept where none actually exists.
01:06:55.000Just like when we, as a society, shun all violence, including righteous violence.
01:07:06.000So just as when we shun all violence, praising all vulnerability, it does a remarkable disservice as to why those vulnerable instances are valuable in the first place.
01:07:18.000And hint, it's not because of the vulnerability itself.
01:07:45.000And if you find yourself constantly and maybe, I guess, unwittingly or uncaringly being vulnerable, you will be perceived as weak and you'll ultimately begin to feel weak.
01:08:14.000And if you watch this show, that shouldn't come as a surprise.
01:08:17.000To put a finer point on it, rather than vulnerability, it's about telling the truth, or living truthfully, even when you know it will be immensely uncomfortable.
01:08:29.000So see, when I would get angry, and I'd just yell, or I'd storm off in a fight with my wife, the truth is that I was hurt.
01:08:55.000Because I knew that in today's political climate, despite it being a favored talking point of the left, which we know you love, that it could ultimately be used against me.
01:09:04.000And I've always known, you know, in a lot of ways that I'm abnormal.
01:09:09.000And the truth is being abnormal isn't always fun.
01:09:14.000Taking steps to work within those boundaries and finding acceptance within those limitations is even less fun.
01:09:21.000So the truth there involves exposing my flaws to the world, not for the sake of vulnerability, but because speaking the truth is the right thing to do.
01:09:48.000I cannot stress this enough, and this is why so many young people, specifically men, are confused.
01:09:55.000They've been bombarded with these ideas of toxic masculinity or the concepts of... It's sort of all been merged into this amalgamate of false machismo in an attempt to sort of, I guess, stifle the righteous indignation of young men, which is how we're designed.
01:10:10.000We fill their heads with visions of weakness as though it's something to be emulated So that they can shed their skin of ego and they can live an enlightened life.
01:11:27.000Start the process of creating and executing a solution.
01:11:30.000Sure, you'll feel vulnerable because you are vulnerable, but be mindful that you're doing it not for the sake of vulnerability, but because you are being honest and it's the right thing to do.
01:11:43.000Regardless of how unpleasant it may be.
01:11:47.000Because someone who makes themselves vulnerable without honesty is just a fool.