Louder with Crowder - #553 NEW YOUTUBE BLACKLIST UNVEILED! | Louder with Crowder

00:00:00.000 Hey there, YouTube.

00:00:07.000 Before 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.

00:00:15.000 But 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.

00:00:29.000 Go to louderwithcrowder.com slash tour to reserve your tickets now.

00:00:33.000 Space is limited, but we do have a huge overflow room.

00:00:35.000 There's going to be an after party October 31st.

00:00:38.000 Texas A&M.

00:00:39.000 It's gonna be a party.

00:00:40.000 See you there.

00:00:41.000 Three billion videos were demonetized on August 29th, 2016.

00:00:46.000 The platform that controlled the machines, YouTube Net, sent two computers back through time.

00:00:52.000 Their mission was to destroy the Mug Club of the Free Speech Resistance, 0.93

00:00:56.000 and to watch late-night comedy die a slow, painful death.

00:00:59.000 The first computer was programmed to separate this channel from its subscribers,

00:01:15.000 even disabling notifications.

00:01:18.000 It failed.

00:01:19.000 The second was sent to ban an event at Texas A&M on October 31st.

00:01:24.000 As before, the Free Speech Resistance was able to send a lone warrior, an entertainer to preserve the event, a protector.

00:01:32.000 It was just a question of which one would arrive first.

00:01:35.000 Come with me if you want to laugh.

00:01:48.000 You're a stranger in my life.

00:02:34.000 It is a wild and crazy show, I would say, if we only put in mediocre effort into our comedy.

00:02:40.000 Have you ever actually watched that sketch?

00:02:43.000 Too wild and crazy?

00:02:44.000 Guys, it's not funny.

00:02:46.000 No.

00:02:47.000 Outside of that quote, part of it, that's it. 0.95

00:02:48.000 Back in the heyday of SNL, it was this, it was Steve Martin going, they'll show us their big American breasts. 0.86

00:02:55.000 I was like, oh! 0.97

00:02:56.000 Steve Martin, you're incorrigible.

00:02:57.000 We're going to have Paul Joseph Watson on the show.

00:03:01.000 My half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here with us today.

00:03:04.000 Some legal updates that we have for you with YouTube.

00:03:06.000 Corda Black Garrett is there.

00:03:08.000 I'm winded from doing this.

00:03:10.000 I appreciate the performative art.

00:03:12.000 G. Morgan Jr., what's the wine of the day?

00:03:17.000 Because he didn't do his work either.

00:03:20.000 Where's Gerald B.?

00:03:20.000 He puts as much effort into his sommeliering as Dan Aykroyd did into comedy.

00:03:25.000 It was a late night last night.

00:03:26.000 We're going to talk about quite a bit.

00:03:28.000 We're going to talk about Donald Trump, the Ukraine, Greta.

00:03:30.000 More importantly, we do have some updates.

00:03:31.000 You 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.

00:03:39.000 I am winded.

00:03:40.000 I know.

00:03:40.000 It takes a second.

00:03:41.000 You know why?

00:03:41.000 Because I wasn't breathing.

00:03:43.000 Why would you not breathe?

00:03:44.000 I need to do the Kundalini Yoga.

00:03:46.000 Do we need to fat shame you again?

00:03:49.000 They do this, like Hicks and Gracie.

00:03:52.000 You're making it worse.

00:03:53.000 So 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?

00:04:02.000 Listen, you guys are our data gatherers, so please screenshot it.

00:04:07.000 Tweet me your examples at scrowder or comment below.

00:04:10.000 We had a lot yesterday.

00:04:11.000 I think over 15,000 comments in 10 hours.

00:04:14.000 And tweet with the hashtag YouTube 2020 election blacklist because we have some developments and guess what?

00:04:20.000 It works!

00:04:23.000 All of the information.

00:04:24.000 Some guy named Brendan from YouTube reached out.

00:04:26.000 We have no idea who he is, but we have a lot of news to get to before those developments.

00:04:31.000 So first, twerk if you want to save the planet.

00:04:35.000 Oh, Jesus.

00:04:42.000 That man actually, I believe, run.

00:04:43.000 That Ari Shaffir twerk-a-like. 0.99

00:04:45.000 Run.

00:04:46.000 He's part of a non-profit that people are giving money to, thinking that it's actually accomplishing something.

00:04:50.000 I sincerely thought that was **** the first time that I saw that.

00:04:53.000 Don't use that name, beautiful and brave!

00:04:56.000 I did it!

00:04:57.000 How dare you?

00:04:58.000 It looks like him.

00:04:59.000 The truth is, it's actually a very effective bargaining tool.

00:05:03.000 Porter Black, Garrett, knows this better than anybody.

00:05:05.000 For him, every day is free and code day.

00:05:07.000 ♪♪ The owner just goes,

00:05:14.000 All right!

00:05:15.000 Enough.

00:05:17.000 No waffle cones.

00:05:18.000 That's where I draw the line.

00:05:19.000 And then he just strips.

00:05:20.000 And he gets a waffle cone.

00:05:21.000 Every time.

00:05:22.000 Every time.

00:05:22.000 They bring the jugs out.

00:05:24.000 I mean, all the ice cream you could eat.

00:05:26.000 The big story this week, though, aside from the twerking, is a climate activist, Greta. 1.00

00:05:31.000 Greta Thunberg.

00:05:32.000 How ever you say it, someone says it's Thunberg.

00:05:34.000 That's how you do it.

00:05:35.000 Yeah.

00:05:35.000 Greta Swedish Chef-berg.

00:05:39.000 Shaggy beardy beardy gloomy worming piercing curtain climate changing.

00:05:43.000 Yeah.

00:05:44.000 She was telling global leaders, of course, that, quote, we will never forgive them for... Medina, you've seen the clip.

00:05:50.000 We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.

00:05:53.000 And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

00:06:00.000 How dare you?

00:06:01.000 Oh, my God.

00:06:02.000 Steven Murch has a toad on him.

00:06:08.000 That's as tough as we get on Greta, because I don't want this to be banned.

00:06:12.000 She is also brave and beautiful.

00:06:14.000 Though 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.

00:06:26.000 Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

00:06:29.000 We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.

00:06:30.000 And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.

00:06:32.000 How dare you?

00:06:32.000 It's your birthday!

00:06:48.000 It's your birthday Mad respect for that.

00:06:51.000 I didn't know about the Hype Man until I opened up for Bruce Bruce.

00:06:56.000 Anyone out there know Bruce Bruce?

00:06:57.000 He's like a 400 pound black comedian.

00:06:59.000 Really funny. 0.67

00:07:00.000 It was at an improv.

00:07:01.000 I won a MySpace So You Think You're Funny contest.

00:07:04.000 It's a national contest and I won this contest and the prize was to open for Bruce Bruce at a theater in Tampa but I had to pay my way.

00:07:11.000 Oh my god.

00:07:11.000 And I didn't have any money.

00:07:12.000 What a prize.

00:07:13.000 So then when they were in my town, they said, oh, you know what, we'll have you go up and open for them for the whole weekend.

00:07:17.000 It was Black Boy, I believe, Two Eyes. 1.00

00:07:19.000 Oh, nice.

00:07:20.000 Right.

00:07:20.000 Bruce, Bruce, and me!

00:07:22.000 Steve, Steve.

00:07:23.000 And 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.

00:07:31.000 Well, I remember going, okay, thank you, give it up for Black Boy, Two Eyes. 0.96

00:07:35.000 So now, please welcome your headliner, Bruce Bruce!

00:07:39.000 And it goes dark.

00:07:40.000 Picture, like, the UFC in a stadium.

00:07:42.000 Right.

00:07:43.000 Like, who wants to be a millionaire?

00:07:43.000 It goes dark.

00:07:45.000 And I'm sitting there, Bruce, Bruce, everybody!

00:07:46.000 The music starts playing.

00:07:50.000 Bruce, Bruce, everybody!

00:07:51.000 The curtains open up at the back of the room.

00:07:53.000 This 400-pound black guy, hilarious, starts walking down, surrounded by an entourage like it's the Gracie Train. 0.93

00:08:00.000 And I was just up there for about two minutes.

00:08:02.000 Bruce, Bruce, let him know you love him.

00:08:04.000 Bruce, look at, hey, hey Bruce.

00:08:07.000 And there was a guy rubbing his shoulders like, you're the best man, no one can touch you.

00:08:11.000 I'm like, get to the stage, please.

00:08:14.000 So talking about Greta, I don't know if you saw Michael Knowles got into a lot of trouble for saying

00:08:19.000 that parents are exploiting a mentally ill child is what he said.

00:08:24.000 And that's what caught all his flack.

00:08:25.000 Listen, Michael Knowles, he's going to be on the show.

00:08:27.000 You have nothing to apologize for.

00:08:29.000 And I say this as someone who has struggled with mental illness.

00:08:32.000 I've talked about this.

00:08:33.000 Depression, ADHD, it is not offensive at all.

00:08:35.000 It shouldn't be offensive.

00:08:37.000 And 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.

00:08:49.000 And keep in mind, Greta is the exact same age. 0.96

00:08:52.000 as the Covington kids.

00:08:53.000 Was it Nick Salmon?

00:08:54.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:55.000 Here's the big difference. 0.99

00:08:56.000 People tried to say that he was a dick. 0.98

00:08:58.000 He didn't do anything wrong. 0.99

00:08:59.000 Nothing, the Covington kids.

00:09:01.000 They 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.

00:09:09.000 They were unwilling participants.

00:09:11.000 This girl has chosen to be a climate activist, so I think she is open to criticism.

00:09:16.000 Of her ideas.

00:09:17.000 And you know what?

00:09:17.000 You can't say ad hominem is okay for Donald Trump, ad hominem is okay for those boys, but not for her.

00:09:23.000 We're not going to do it here.

00:09:24.000 Stephen Merchant is positively mild.

00:09:26.000 That's all we're going to do, right?

00:09:29.000 It's political point scoring.

00:09:31.000 No, it is.

00:09:31.000 And 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?

00:09:41.000 I'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.

00:09:50.000 How dare you! 0.99

00:09:51.000 How dare you! 0.99

00:09:52.000 It's your country whose emissions have stolen my dreams to drive Kia! 1.00

00:09:58.000 Yeah, but not China or India though.

00:10:01.000 So, but here's the other point, though, is remember the discussion about mental illness.

00:10:05.000 The definition on the left has become even broader.

00:10:08.000 Anything to become a mental illness is out of bounds for attack, out of bounds for discussion, out of bounds for pushing back on it.

00:10:14.000 If you say you have something, you have it.

00:10:16.000 No matter what, no question, and everyone needs a kowtow, as opposed to actually evaluating whether or not this is scientifically based.

00:10:22.000 That's why they put her out there. 0.99

00:10:22.000 And then they say, we need to deal with the mental health problem in our country. 0.99

00:10:25.000 Okay, by the way, no one with mental health issues should own a gun.

00:10:28.000 Do you think that's going to stigmatize it more?

00:10:31.000 Or less. 1.00

00:10:32.000 Option C is you're a dick. 1.00

00:10:34.000 Let me just say something in Michael's defense. 1.00

00:10:36.000 Michael wasn't saying, ha, we shouldn't listen to her because she's mentally ill. 0.96

00:10:39.000 That's not what he said. 0.87

00:10:40.000 He's saying people are using her, they're using a mentally ill person, and that's not right.

00:10:47.000 That was his point. 1.00

00:10:48.000 The only reason that this blew up is because the idiot clown head on the other side said, you're a grown man, skinny. 1.00

00:10:53.000 Why don't you stop it? 1.00

00:10:54.000 Why don't you apologize?

00:10:55.000 He's like, he doesn't have anything to apologize for. 0.95

00:10:56.000 Fox, by the way, You screwed up!

00:10:59.000 You shouldn't have apologized! 1.00

00:11:00.000 Ridiculous. 0.97

00:11:01.000 The other big story, of course, Nancy Pelosi finally spoke the words. 0.96

00:11:07.000 Impeachment.

00:11:08.000 No one is above the law.

00:11:11.000 Did I hear?

00:11:12.000 Above or below it.

00:11:14.000 Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit ribbit!

00:11:16.000 Oh, ah!

00:11:16.000 What was he punching me?

00:11:33.000 Was it like a jelly sandwich?

00:11:35.000 A peanut butter jelly sandwich on his chest?

00:11:38.000 I have no idea.

00:11:38.000 This is a Trump-the-Ukraine story.

00:11:40.000 People have been wanting us to talk about it.

00:11:41.000 Here's the deal.

00:11:43.000 We don't know enough to offer you an informed opinion.

00:11:45.000 I know when you tune in to cable news, they all act like they have the insights.

00:11:48.000 No one really does.

00:11:50.000 But I will walk you through what we know so far because it's hard.

00:11:52.000 So Brendan, come in here.

00:11:54.000 You guys are familiar with Brendan from last week.

00:11:56.000 Let me walk you through what we know so far.

00:11:58.000 So let me walk you through what we know so far, the timeline.

00:12:02.000 Okay, yeah.

00:12:03.000 Bring in some visual aids.

00:12:04.000 Come on in a little bit closer here.

00:12:06.000 So step one, Joe Biden's son was receiving $50,000 a month from a UK gas company.

00:12:14.000 That's a lot of money.

00:12:15.000 That's a lot of money.

00:12:16.000 Visual aids, spared no expense.

00:12:17.000 That's a lot of money.

00:12:18.000 Okay.

00:12:19.000 After that, the company was, next slide, getting investigated.

00:12:22.000 There's the company.

00:12:23.000 There you go.

00:12:24.000 Very good, Brendan.

00:12:25.000 You had no reason to be nervous.

00:12:26.000 I'm not going to do that because I'm looking at the monitor and going, is that blind you?

00:12:29.000 I don't know.

00:12:30.000 Okay.

00:12:31.000 He needs his eyes.

00:12:32.000 Please don't do that.

00:12:33.000 Next slide.

00:12:34.000 Joe Biden withholds money from the Ukraine unless the prosecutor is fired.

00:12:38.000 Next slide.

00:12:39.000 Next slide.

00:12:39.000 There you go.

00:12:40.000 This is just a visual aid because it helps as a memory chip.

00:12:42.000 So the X is no money.

00:12:44.000 Yeah, no money.

00:12:44.000 Next slide.

00:12:45.000 And by the way, unless the prosecutor was fired, which the prosecutor was.

00:12:48.000 Next slide.

00:12:48.000 Next slide there, Brendan.

00:12:49.000 Next slide! 0.94

00:12:50.000 You guys, these aren't slides.

00:12:52.000 This guy was fired.

00:12:53.000 That one is just really, I guess, a palate cleanser.

00:12:55.000 I don't know why that's there.

00:12:55.000 Yeah.

00:12:56.000 Next point in the timeline, go ahead.

00:12:58.000 Donald Trump gets elected, as we all know, making America great again in the process.

00:13:03.000 Next slide.

00:13:04.000 Very nice, yes.

00:13:04.000 Then, as president, Donald Trump asks the Ukraine, hey, what's up with Joe Biden?

00:13:10.000 Right.

00:13:11.000 Just asking some questions, like Jesse Fincher.

00:13:12.000 What's going on?

00:13:13.000 I'm just asking questions.

00:13:15.000 Only sits in the Oval Office.

00:13:16.000 Next slide.

00:13:17.000 He allegedly alludes to withholding money from the Ukraine until he finds out what's up with

00:13:23.000 Biden.

00:13:24.000 Next slide.

00:13:25.000 After that, Democrats, as you can see, call for impeachment.

00:13:29.000 Then what happened yesterday, next slide, Donald Trump calls her bluff.

00:13:32.000 He releases the full transcript from the phone call, holds a press conference, revealing

00:13:37.000 yet again that there is no collusion.

00:13:38.000 By the way, Donald Trump also raised $5 million in 24 hours for Trump 2020, which leads to next slide.

00:13:46.000 AOC, as you can see, is hanging herself. 1.00

00:13:48.000 That's too bad.

00:13:49.000 She looks happy.

00:13:49.000 I believe those are gallows, just to clarify.

00:13:53.000 I don't know what gallows are necessarily, but I assume that signifies it.

00:13:56.000 Similarly, Nancy Pelosi throws herself in front of a moving house.

00:14:00.000 So that's what we have there.

00:14:03.000 So that's what we know in a nutshell.

00:14:05.000 Thank you very much, Brendan.

00:14:06.000 You're wonderful.

00:14:06.000 Good job.

00:14:07.000 Appreciate it.

00:14:07.000 Thank you for signing that waiver, uh, last week.

00:14:11.000 That's what we know.

00:14:11.000 We don't know a whole bunch else at this point.

00:14:13.000 No.

00:14:14.000 I 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.

00:14:16.000 I 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?

00:14:24.000 A little bit.

00:14:24.000 We're going to, we're going to try and impeach... Son of a...

00:14:32.000 We're going to try and impeach him because of this phone call.

00:14:34.000 And then he's like, oh no, there's much more information than the phone call.

00:14:37.000 This transcript really doesn't cover everything that we were going to impeach him for.

00:14:39.000 We're going to still impeach him.

00:14:40.000 You know, like he's freaking out over there.

00:14:42.000 I am.

00:14:43.000 What do you think?

00:14:44.000 I love how they didn't have it before and now they're trying to move on to the next thing.

00:14:48.000 And the next thing is nothing again.

00:14:49.000 It's at the very least consistent.

00:14:53.000 When I read what's available right now at the time of this filming, I'm going, I assume this happens all the time.

00:15:00.000 Listen, you did some screwed up stuff, okay?

00:15:03.000 You had these no-bid contracts.

00:15:05.000 We've been very good to you.

00:15:06.000 Could you do the right thing?

00:15:08.000 That's pretty much what it is.

00:15:09.000 Exactly!

00:15:10.000 Why do they care if he gets to the bottom of something that could be illegal?

00:15:13.000 Like, 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?

00:15:23.000 You no say Ukraine is weak, you are weak!

00:15:26.000 Moving on, it appears, name that TV show reference, CBD infused tampons now are a thing.

00:15:33.000 Well, Day is a female-owned and lead, because that's important.

00:15:37.000 When I shop, as opposed to looking at lab results, contaminations, I want to know it's lead by women. 1.00

00:15:42.000 Or product satisfaction ratings, you know. 0.98

00:15:44.000 When it comes to consumables, I say, is there a vagina involved in this? 1.00

00:15:47.000 Because that's... 0.99

00:15:49.000 That's what I look for.

00:15:50.000 So CBD infused cotton tampons.

00:15:55.000 100% cotton tampons infused with CBD.

00:15:57.000 And this is not new.

00:15:57.000 This comes in the heels of similar hygiene products, actually, that have entered the market.

00:16:00.000 I think they had hemp infused sanitary napkins.

00:16:03.000 Midol had a new line of edibles.

00:16:05.000 And then there was the ill-fated THC-laden Depends, which sounds... Yeah, that explains... Doesn't seem laden should be a marketing term.

00:16:14.000 No.

00:16:18.000 I don't know who was there.

00:16:19.000 I blame Frank Luntz.

00:16:22.000 Now, does Leighton make you want to use your product more or less?

00:16:26.000 More or less.

00:16:27.000 Let me adjust the toupee. 1.00

00:16:28.000 Damn you, Luntz. 0.99

00:16:30.000 Leighton sounds like a lot, so yes. 0.99

00:16:31.000 Does anyone have my mid-90s Jerry Seinfeld sneakers?

00:16:36.000 Still on Frank Luntz.

00:16:37.000 Speaking of things down there in tampons, the world's very first vagina museum is going to open in London in November. 0.93

00:16:46.000 Oh, I thought that was Pelosi's house.

00:16:49.000 You're confused.

00:16:50.000 She's under the house. 0.91

00:16:52.000 It's a museum, I assumed, old and crotchety and cobweb.

00:16:56.000 I understand what you're saying.

00:16:58.000 You don't need to explain.

00:17:00.000 This won't make air, except it will.

00:17:02.000 Dang it. 0.99

00:17:03.000 The aim is to educate visitors on vaginas and everything surrounding them. 1.00

00:17:07.000 I don't know.

00:17:07.000 It says that they're looking to challenge, quote, heteronormative behavior, promote intersectional values,

00:17:14.000 and they've commissioned artwork from some of the best vaginal artists in the world, as seen here.

00:17:19.000 If you don't get that movie reference, you're a millennial and I have no time for you. 1.00

00:17:40.000 It's a beautiful movie.

00:17:43.000 Oh my gosh, what is the stigma surrounding... That's the sound of copyright infringement, go ahead.

00:17:47.000 No, no, you're totally fine.

00:17:49.000 What's the stigma? 0.99

00:17:50.000 What's the stigma surrounding vaginas? 1.00

00:17:52.000 That they're too beloved. 0.59

00:17:54.000 What is there to push back against?

00:17:56.000 Like men don't like them? 0.99

00:17:58.000 The only people who don't like them are gay men. 1.00

00:18:01.000 That'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. 1.00

00:18:10.000 Yeah, and they raised 50,000 pounds for this. 0.98

00:18:13.000 You've got to be kidding me. 0.63

00:18:14.000 I 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. 0.94

00:18:29.000 But 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... 0.99

00:18:39.000 Has decided that now it's an attack on vaginas when it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 1.00

00:18:45.000 Yeah.

00:18:46.000 I mean, what is the most unifying thing? 0.98

00:18:47.000 Meniscus do attack vaginas. 1.00

00:18:49.000 Yes, but strategically, when are the gay men going to have, like, an a** museum? 1.00

00:18:54.000 When's it going to stop? 0.96

00:18:55.000 Why would you go there?

00:18:56.000 I'm just saying that's the next step and you know it.

00:18:58.000 I will not sign your petition.

00:18:59.000 Get another wine bottle.

00:19:00.000 Do your job.

00:19:00.000 Listen, I'm just telling you.

00:19:01.000 You will not sign that petition. 0.99

00:19:02.000 It will not end at vaginas. 1.00

00:19:05.000 I'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. 0.96

00:19:23.000 This comes from Pink News because of the stigmatizing vaginas. 1.00

00:19:27.000 A reporter said she was caught off guard to see so many white men behind the star in the press room. 1.00

00:19:34.000 Proving that if nothing else, both gay and straight black men have one thing in common, their love of white ass. 1.00

00:19:40.000 I am surprised at Ari Shafir's twerking capabilities. 1.00

00:19:50.000 Yeah, he's limber.

00:19:53.000 So, 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.

00:20:08.000 So that, you know, yeah.

00:20:10.000 Oh my god.

00:20:11.000 Wow.

00:20:11.000 Hormone blocker, don't care about your feelings.

00:20:17.000 It was just really poorly worded.

00:20:18.000 Ben is going to see that out of context and I'm going to text. 0.75

00:20:21.000 Dude, bro, what the hell? 0.98

00:20:22.000 What the hell? 1.00

00:20:24.000 What the ass? 1.00

00:20:26.000 You sandwiched me in between twerking and Hitler? 1.00

00:20:34.000 By the way, that's foreshadowing, because that's our next bit.

00:20:36.000 That's a call forward.

00:20:38.000 So finally, someone paid nearly $5,000 for panties belonging to former Mrs. Hitler, Eva Braun. 0.54

00:20:42.000 Huh?

00:20:42.000 which are most important.

00:20:43.000 Someone paid nearly $5,000 for panties belonging to former Mrs. Hitler, Eva Braun.

00:20:49.000 Huh?

00:20:49.000 That's a deal.

00:20:50.000 This comes from Brill Biolo.

00:20:51.000 There's no actual proof that the underwear was previously owned by Hitler's wife, only the auction house's word.

00:20:57.000 The smell.

00:20:57.000 And before we had this actually initially as a story in the show, but then it just changed today.

00:21:01.000 The initial reports were proven false.

00:21:03.000 The auction was actually just a pair of Hitler's tights from his community theater days.

00:21:08.000 Alas, poor Jeschitzko, a fellow of infinite yule, he hath whined of my moustache one thousand times.

00:21:20.000 And now, how bored my final solution is!

00:21:25.000 Here hung those lips that I have kissed.

00:21:29.000 I know not how soft.

00:21:32.000 Where be your diamonds now?

00:21:35.000 Your jugold, your gefilte fish, that you won't let me be the one who sits on the seat for...

00:21:44.000 Real velocity.

00:21:50.000 He was a man of many skills, I guess you would say.

00:21:54.000 Not a fan of his geopolitical worldview.

00:21:55.000 That wasn't the worst soliloquy.

00:21:57.000 It was bad, but it wasn't the worst.

00:21:58.000 political world view.

00:21:59.000 No.

00:22:00.000 Yeah.

00:22:01.000 No.

00:22:02.000 Only his hobbies.

00:22:03.000 That wasn't the worst soliloquy.

00:22:04.000 It wasn't the worst.

00:22:05.000 I've seen worse.

00:22:06.000 It was bad, but it wasn't the worst.

00:22:07.000 Take that Benedict Cumberbatch.

00:22:08.000 Imitation game that.

00:22:09.000 Alright, last week's trivia contest winner, was that Benedict Cumberbatch?

00:22:16.000 Cumberbatch?

00:22:34.000 Cumber Okay, so moving on to YouTube here really quickly.

00:22:38.000 And by the way, before we talk about any of this, please do just bookmark this page.

00:22:42.000 Check in every day.

00:22:42.000 We do a new video every single day.

00:22:44.000 Just 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.

00:22:53.000 So we've uncovered some new alarming information about the YouTube policy changes over the last few weeks.

00:22:58.000 And we knew that leading up to the 2020 election, Big Tech, they were going to try and sway things for Democrats.

00:23:02.000 This comes from leaked videos, memos, whistleblowers.

00:23:06.000 They all showed us that Silicon Valley was devastated by Trump's win, and they were openly determined to not let it happen again.

00:23:13.000 I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too.

00:23:20.000 That's too bad.

00:23:21.000 And I think it's a very stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values.

00:23:29.000 What 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.

00:23:38.000 Then she ran over a school of small children.

00:23:44.000 How is, by the way, a Democratic election offensive?

00:23:47.000 When Barack Obama was elected, people were like, OK, well it's not my guy.

00:23:50.000 But I wasn't like, that is offensive!

00:23:52.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:23:53.000 I mean, he didn't walk up.

00:23:55.000 He didn't try to pork my mom.

00:23:58.000 Oh, he didn't.

00:24:00.000 Are you sure?

00:24:02.000 I have no idea.

00:24:03.000 Maybe the twerking guy.

00:24:04.000 That's just a rumor!

00:24:05.000 That's just a rumor and I don't, it's a joke, I don't stand by it at all.

00:24:08.000 I know he's completely straight, along with Brian Stelter.

00:24:11.000 And 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.

00:24:23.000 About 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.

00:24:37.000 It's just muffled so that it can essentially cut your views in half, or down to ten.

00:24:41.000 It's an invisible rule, invisible punishment of that rule.

00:24:44.000 I 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.

00:24:51.000 So I just tossed to a clip of myself.

00:24:54.000 It's like the inception of low budget late nights.

00:24:59.000 And I really do realize how low budget it is when I see that horrible costume.

00:25:06.000 And then I see that Lilly Singh makes more in her salary than our entire budget with a fraction of the viewership. 1.00

00:25:12.000 But she's brown and bi, so good for you, beautiful and brave.

00:25:16.000 I just wish you'd get an open mic first.

00:25:17.000 So, couple of points here.

00:25:19.000 Just a little bit.

00:25:21.000 This 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.

00:25:28.000 You can't just talk about what you want YouTube to be.

00:25:30.000 You need to hold their feet to the fire of what they claim YouTube is.

00:25:33.000 YouTube, they've said that they are going to make it easier for people to find content from verified channels.

00:25:40.000 That was the most recent rollout.

00:25:42.000 They've done the exact opposite.

00:25:44.000 This is alarming because it can happen to anyone.

00:25:46.000 This is how a normal YouTube search works.

00:25:48.000 Let's say you search for Jenna Marbles.

00:25:50.000 Her video pops up.

00:25:52.000 And these are the first results.

00:25:53.000 All the videos are from her channel.

00:25:55.000 But right now, and this may change if you're watching this, unless you have a time machine, right?

00:25:58.000 Because videos go up forever.

00:26:00.000 Right 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.

00:26:07.000 The first video result from this channel is almost 70 videos in.

00:26:13.000 That's multiple pages of results.

00:26:15.000 If you type in my name and the name of this channel, let's get a little more specific. 0.96

00:26:19.000 You can say, well, I don't know, maybe you guys suck at SEO.

00:26:22.000 Fair.

00:26:23.000 Let'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.

00:26:33.000 We did a little experiment.

00:26:34.000 If you type in Steven Crowder, change my mind.

00:26:39.000 Seems pretty specific.

00:26:40.000 Yeah.

00:26:40.000 All of the first page video results are from other channels.

00:26:44.000 Not some, all of them.

00:26:45.000 With fewer views, by the way.

00:26:47.000 With fewer views.

00:26:47.000 Way fewer views.

00:26:48.000 And some of them are taking you to local CBS affiliates.

00:26:54.000 We want to hear what Schenectady had to say.

00:26:56.000 And here are a couple of students.

00:26:57.000 I don't like it.

00:26:58.000 Back to you, Bill.

00:27:00.000 It's intrepid reporting.

00:27:01.000 What's interesting about that is the idea that when you go through and do the searches,

00:27:06.000 on YouTube every day and looking through those things and monitoring them, and no matter

00:27:10.000 what you search from, no matter what browser, whether you've cleared your cookies, whether

00:27:13.000 you're on someone else's phone or their device, I've tested it on many devices and having

00:27:16.000 many people do it, and it all comes up the same.

00:27:19.000 You're going to constantly, the Crowder videos and the Shows videos are constantly going

00:27:24.000 to the bottom of the search results, anywhere from 10 to 100 before you get to an actual

00:27:30.000 Steven Crowder channel video.

00:27:32.000 And by the way, this isn't just, that's what we've talked about, the blacklist, the 2020 election results.

00:27:36.000 We want you to understand that it's about more than just us.

00:27:38.000 But that being said, and I don't ever want to sound braggadocious, I'm incredibly humbled and grateful.

00:27:42.000 This is the biggest conservative channel that's ever existed on YouTube.

00:27:45.000 And they declared that we had never violated policies.

00:27:47.000 So that's where we stand.

00:27:49.000 If 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.

00:27:58.000 What do you think they'll do to smaller channels when they think you're not looking?

00:28:01.000 By the way, we ran some other searches.

00:28:03.000 This is why we want you to aggregate more for us.

00:28:06.000 Live Action has the same thing.

00:28:07.000 Paul Joseph Watson, who will be on next, has the same problem.

00:28:10.000 Lauren Chen, Breitbart News, same issue.

00:28:13.000 What's the effect?

00:28:14.000 What's the net effect?

00:28:15.000 Our weekly views and subscribership gains have dropped dramatically.

00:28:19.000 Dramatically!

00:28:20.000 Here you can see this area.

00:28:22.000 Here's the thing, though, that's important to note.

00:28:23.000 Because I know a lot of people say, well, you're just pissed that people don't want to tune into your channel anymore.

00:28:27.000 And that's valid.

00:28:27.000 Sometimes people just get, you know, get tired.

00:28:29.000 The thing is, you are not tuning out.

00:28:32.000 You guys have still been subscribed.

00:28:33.000 You've been bookmarking the page, checking in every day.

00:28:36.000 Here's the number that matters.

00:28:37.000 All of the videos, on a per video basis, the views are still growing.

00:28:42.000 Yeah.

00:28:43.000 We have more people watching individual videos than ever before.

00:28:47.000 We're getting 10 to 20 times as many views as the Young Turks or Seth Meyers on a per video, pound for pound basis.

00:28:52.000 The only thing that's gone down are the views and organic subscriptions from search.

00:28:58.000 So, this is what's happened.

00:28:59.000 Yes, we have more people.

00:29:00.000 Our videos are averaging close to a million, which is insane considering our subscribers.

00:29:04.000 Thank you so much for being engaged.

00:29:06.000 We really appreciate it.

00:29:07.000 Bookmark the page.

00:29:08.000 But think about that for a second.

00:29:09.000 We only eat what we've already killed and gained ourselves.

00:29:13.000 We can get no new fans.

00:29:16.000 We can get no new eyeballs on our content through organic search because of the blacklisting.

00:29:21.000 They can do that if they want, but it's the opposite of what they said they were going to do.

00:29:26.000 They held a press conference to say it was going to be the opposite of this.

00:29:28.000 We're verified.

00:29:30.000 They 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.

00:29:50.000 Maybe we're like everybody else That's not the case.

00:29:52.000 There's no explanation for it at all, other than them wanting your content not to be out there.

00:29:57.000 And we're going to get into some more kind of legal developments here with Bill.

00:30:00.000 We'll bring him into the guest chair, so he'll be more special.

00:30:03.000 Oh wow, great.

00:30:03.000 I've never been in a guest chair.

00:30:05.000 It's not whether there are rules.

00:30:08.000 And by the way, the rules aren't followed at all.

00:30:09.000 But the rules are not applied equally.

00:30:12.000 We've talked about it on this show.

00:30:13.000 It's not whether a country has rule of laws.

00:30:15.000 It's whether the rule of law is applied equally, justice is applied equally.

00:30:18.000 We've searched similar left-wing channels.

00:30:21.000 Nothing like it.

00:30:21.000 Young Turks can celebrate Dan Crenshaw's eye getting blown out and apparently eye-fucked by terrorist heroes with IEDs.

00:30:29.000 This is from ACT.

00:30:29.000 These are word-for-word from Young Turks.

00:30:31.000 I don't want them banned.

00:30:32.000 I don't want them throttled, by the way.

00:30:34.000 And when you search, you only get videos from their channel right now.

00:30:37.000 Same thing if you search other leftist late-night shows.

00:30:39.000 You only get results from their channel.

00:30:41.000 Something else.

00:30:42.000 This will affect everybody.

00:30:44.000 These 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.

00:30:52.000 We want to make you aware.

00:30:53.000 It does get to be pretty sinister.

00:30:55.000 There are no more live subscriber counts.

00:30:57.000 Right?

00:30:57.000 So 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.

00:31:06.000 We try to be really transparent with our community, with our guidelines.

00:31:09.000 We 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.

00:31:19.000 Is it opposite day?

00:31:20.000 We're gonna have to change that clip because, to be fair, that was just her up-talking about Jeffrey Tambor's latest season.

00:31:28.000 Fair point.

00:31:29.000 What?

00:31:31.000 I love how she carefully worded there, we're working on it.

00:31:34.000 We're working on it, we're working towards it.

00:31:36.000 Nothing you can hold them to, right?

00:31:37.000 Nothing you can hold them accountable to.

00:31:38.000 Trust us.

00:31:39.000 I 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.

00:31:52.000 Right.

00:31:52.000 Just a general area.

00:31:54.000 Essentially what they've said is like, there's something wrong.

00:31:57.000 Well, no, they said there's nothing wrong, but some people think there is, so you can make no more money!

00:32:03.000 Well, you know, what's become interesting is the demonetization has become the trumpet, right?

00:32:07.000 Now they have said, oh, well, look, we've taken action.

00:32:11.000 Even 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.

00:32:20.000 And now, look, we've done the punishment, and that's all we've done.

00:32:23.000 But yet, behind the scenes... This is the issue, right?

00:32:26.000 This is the part.

00:32:27.000 We've been demonetized.

00:32:28.000 Please, yeah, I would say subscribe, hit the notification bell, join up at Mug Club if you want this show to not go away.

00:32:32.000 This is the only thing that we have right now.

00:32:34.000 Mug Club and a couple of sponsors every now and then.

00:32:37.000 But bookmark the page and check it every day because notifications don't always work.

00:32:40.000 Nope.

00:32:41.000 It could go away.

00:32:41.000 There's a lot that's happening behind the scenes beyond demonetization.

00:32:45.000 Borderline material?

00:32:46.000 They've never defined it.

00:32:48.000 It's an invisible rule with invisible punishment.

00:32:50.000 But YouTube, they've now made the platform even less transparent with no more live subscriber count.

00:32:56.000 Look at this.

00:32:57.000 Right now, why would they do this?

00:32:58.000 Why would they make it less transparent?

00:33:01.000 Because they want to make it more difficult to see how this blacklisting and shadowbanning is having an effect.

00:33:06.000 So they said, we want to direct people to verified channels.

00:33:08.000 We can tell you objectively they're doing the opposite.

00:33:11.000 And they've removed the ability for, not just you publicly, I think a lot of you assume that we have some tools that we don't.

00:33:16.000 We can't see whether you're subscribing.

00:33:18.000 We can't see what's happening with our subscribers, how long you're staying.

00:33:21.000 They've made it harder.

00:33:22.000 That's incredible.

00:33:23.000 So they're becoming, essentially, some of the worst propagandist machines that we've seen throughout history.

00:33:28.000 And they're doing it under the guise of, we're for you, we're for the community, we're for helping everybody out.

00:33:33.000 But this is just propaganda.

00:33:34.000 What if it was the other way around?

00:33:35.000 What if only right-wing content was going on, and that was it, and left-wing was being muted?

00:33:39.000 And here's something else that's really unnerving for me.

00:33:42.000 We 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.

00:33:49.000 So I'm sorry that this happened to the rest of you.

00:33:52.000 We weren't looking for the Adpocalypse. 0.94

00:33:54.000 They drew forced blood, not me.

00:33:54.000 Nope.

00:33:56.000 But...

00:33:57.000 This comes from CNBC, right?

00:33:59.000 It 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.

00:34:10.000 After 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.

00:34:18.000 Okay, so what constitutes harassment?

00:34:20.000 And I know, why don't you sit down with your biggest conservative channel, let us know exactly.

00:34:24.000 We just, we were reached out to by a guy named Brandon.

00:34:27.000 Brandon.

00:34:28.000 We've talked, you've spoken with Susan Wojcicki in the top brass at YouTube.

00:34:32.000 Have you ever met Brandon?

00:34:33.000 Uh, no, no, no.

00:34:35.000 I'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.

00:34:44.000 But we just don't have enough people working here and we don't have enough skill to pull the data that you're asking.

00:34:50.000 We 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.

00:34:59.000 So, you know, you're on the back burner.

00:35:01.000 Here's Brandon.

00:35:02.000 Well, what does he know?

00:35:03.000 Brandon, tell them.

00:35:04.000 I don't know.

00:35:05.000 I'm an intern.

00:35:06.000 What do I know?

00:35:08.000 Make it clear.

00:35:09.000 Publish the guidelines.

00:35:10.000 And we'll play ball.

00:35:11.000 Listen, 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.

00:35:17.000 We just want to understand your rules so we know how to play by them.

00:35:20.000 We 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.

00:35:34.000 Let us know And then we know how we can move forward, and let's find common ground.

00:35:38.000 That's what we're looking for.

00:35:40.000 And by the way, you know what?

00:35:40.000 Let's move Half-Asian Lawyer Bill Richmond.

00:35:42.000 Let's move him over here so we can talk about the legal action.

00:35:45.000 Santoran, over.

00:35:45.000 Yeah, come on.

00:35:46.000 And they're just keeping it an ever-moving target, right?

00:35:48.000 It 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.

00:35:55.000 Right.

00:35:55.000 So Half-Asian Lawyer, of course.

00:35:57.000 Wonderful sponsor, Walther, by the way.

00:35:58.000 Everyone out there, try the Walther. 0.99

00:35:59.000 I just don't want it aimed at my Half-Asian Lawyer's scrotum and testicles crutch. 1.00

00:36:04.000 Small as they may be. 0.99

00:36:05.000 For some of the inside baseball, what is it that we need to do?

00:36:09.000 What actions are we going to be taking?

00:36:11.000 Because it's reached beyond the point of just complaining.

00:36:13.000 Well, 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.

00:36:32.000 And 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.

00:36:45.000 And when we have reached out continuously, we haven't seen anything, haven't gotten that information.

00:36:49.000 And so the next steps are going to involve a kind of multifaceted.

00:36:53.000 One, we already know that there's an existing lawsuit that's been going on.

00:36:56.000 from leftist groups, specifically LGBT groups.

00:36:59.000 And for those who may be watching who are concerned about, well, hey, you know what? 0.87

00:37:03.000 I actually don't care if you get throttled.

00:37:06.000 Don't think about it of just this view.

00:37:07.000 Think about it if anyone can throttle any political views.

00:37:10.000 The problem with the LGBTQ lawsuit is they want an injunction so that YouTube cannot throttle

00:37:14.000 them, but they also want YouTube to have more strict policies

00:37:18.000 regarding hate speech to create a more safe space.

00:37:21.000 Throttle everybody else. 0.80

00:37:22.000 We want you to throttle them, just not us. 0.99

00:37:25.000 Hit. 0.99

00:37:26.000 That's the crazy part about their lawsuit is the inconsistency there.

00:37:30.000 Don't ban us, but make sure to ban other people. 0.90

00:37:33.000 But 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.

00:37:41.000 So 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.

00:37:51.000 Any 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.

00:37:59.000 Let's remove politics from it.

00:38:00.000 This is how many people make a living.

00:38:02.000 And if you don't make a living directly on the monetization on YouTube, you use YouTube as an avenue to reach people.

00:38:07.000 And the biggest expense this company has ever had outside of employee costs has been running advertising on YouTube for a long time.

00:38:15.000 They courted us and said, they created the advertising campaigns.

00:38:18.000 Millions of dollars.

00:38:19.000 And that's what's crazy is that folks will always say, well, you could just go to a different platform.

00:38:24.000 You could just do something different.

00:38:25.000 But 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.

00:38:36.000 They can't just follow anywhere else.

00:38:38.000 And by the way, flying out.

00:38:39.000 At their dime, flying out to YouTube conferences.

00:38:41.000 This is important for you to know.

00:38:43.000 Half-Asian Bill Richman went out to a conference and spoke with Susan Wojcicki.

00:38:47.000 Before that, I went out and spoke with their top legal.

00:38:50.000 We spoke with their people in charge of content marketing.

00:38:52.000 Numerous folks in their legal department.

00:38:54.000 They invited us, and we were there.

00:38:55.000 Constant conversation was, what are the guidelines?

00:38:58.000 Are we violating anything?

00:38:59.000 No, no, no, no.

00:39:00.000 No, not at all.

00:39:01.000 We want diverse voices.

00:39:03.000 Then when we leave the conferences, we see a different story playing out.

00:39:06.000 And policies change without us knowing.

00:39:08.000 Exactly.

00:39:09.000 And 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.

00:39:16.000 And that may be kind of reminiscent of the Facebook battle that actually brought us together.

00:39:21.000 The 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.

00:39:31.000 But you did just, we are going to be taking action here.

00:39:33.000 So 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.

00:39:49.000 Yeah, please do.

00:39:50.000 If 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.

00:39:56.000 And here's the thing is we know they're listening.

00:39:58.000 Remember back to the Vox Apocalypse.

00:40:00.000 Within a day, even less than a day, of HeWhoShallNotBeNamed, who's beautiful and brave, posted about a complaint.

00:40:08.000 Just a mere complaint.

00:40:09.000 We wonder how many millions of complaints they get.

00:40:12.000 And they knew that that happened and they immediately took action, worked all week to review all your videos.

00:40:16.000 And now, we get a reach out, again, who this person is and what they're actually going to do.

00:40:21.000 Yeah, it's just because they did a cell phone video that hit a million plays.

00:40:24.000 That's what's so sad.

00:40:25.000 And 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.

00:40:34.000 You guys aren't going to be able to make enough of a stink with the view count for YouTube to answer.

00:40:38.000 I have a lawyer on retainer.

00:40:40.000 You're very expensive, by the way.

00:40:41.000 We're going to have to stop that wing in the new beach house.

00:40:44.000 We have a lawyer on retainer, and he can't get return calls.

00:40:47.000 What gets a point of contact is me putting a cell phone video out and you guys sending in screenshots.

00:40:53.000 So please keep doing it.

00:40:54.000 Then I guess we'll try and talk with Brandon.

00:40:58.000 Brandon?

00:40:58.000 Brandon.

00:40:59.000 Not Brandon.

00:40:59.000 I don't know who you are, Brandon!

00:41:01.000 I don't know.

00:41:03.000 It's nothing personal.

00:41:04.000 I want to talk to the manager!

00:41:06.000 Give me the manager.

00:41:07.000 My name is Karen.

00:41:09.000 So the idea that they're not listening or they're unable to respond or be able to do anything is crazy.

00:41:14.000 But 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.

00:41:21.000 And not only that, the folks who continually and repeatedly say, you know what, this is the moment that I've joined Mug Club.

00:41:27.000 And then they post about joining Mug Club.

00:41:30.000 If 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.

00:41:41.000 Well, thank you very much, Half-Asian Buildersmen. 1.00

00:41:43.000 And just so you know, we are going to be taking legal action.

00:41:45.000 We 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.

00:41:51.000 We're not litigious people.

00:41:52.000 It's bet once and bet right.

00:41:54.000 And so the more information you can provide to us, we really appreciate it.

00:41:56.000 This is something else to keep in mind.

00:41:57.000 They're not only trying to alter the results of the 2020 election, which they've openly expressed.

00:42:02.000 This is YouTube also being upset about Generation Z being more conservative than other generations, in part because of social media.

00:42:09.000 And I don't mean not all Generation Z folks are.

00:42:11.000 That's not what I'm saying.

00:42:12.000 But if you compare them at this stage in their life to Baby Boomers, to Gen Xers, they are more conservative. 0.59

00:42:17.000 And a big part of that is because of social media.

00:42:19.000 You look at First Amendment, you look at Second Amendment issues, you look at neo-feminist issues. 0.97

00:42:24.000 This is because the left is overreached, and now they have access to the information.

00:42:28.000 So, by the way, Silicon Valley calls this radicalization.

00:42:31.000 What do they consider radicalization?

00:42:33.000 That's why we're radicalizing the youth, apparently, along with Philip DeFranco, if you look at that New York Times article.

00:42:39.000 Radicalization is apparently using someone's biologically correct pronouns.

00:42:43.000 Big Tech wants to change an entire worldview of a generation.

00:42:48.000 That's why they don't want you to see Change My Mind.

00:42:51.000 And here's the thing.

00:42:51.000 If you can think of anything more benign, when people go out and preach, hey, let's find common ground.

00:42:56.000 Let's stop the shouting matches. 0.53

00:42:58.000 Let's stop the cable news hyper-edits where we're just looking to score points.

00:43:02.000 If 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.

00:43:13.000 Because 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?

00:43:19.000 I guess I'm the radicalizer of the youth, and I'll wear that title proudly.

00:43:23.000 Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, thank you very much.

00:43:24.000 We must go to Paul Joseph Watson.

00:43:26.000 Let's go!

00:43:27.000 To Tumblr or not to Tumblr?

00:43:27.000 Let's go!

00:43:29.000 That is the question.

00:43:30.000 But this man can answer for you.

00:43:31.000 You must choose, and now it is time for you to do the choosing.

00:43:34.000 I am the...

00:43:35.000 To Tumblr or not to Tumblr?

00:43:45.000 That is the question.

00:43:48.000 But this man can answer for you.

00:43:51.000 He chose the Tumblr.

00:43:57.000 How was the Tumblr?

00:43:59.000 Was it fresh?

00:43:59.000 Was it selected?

00:44:00.000 He can't answer.

00:44:04.000 Because he's dead.

00:44:08.000 The tumbler killed him.

00:44:12.000 It's not coming back.

00:44:16.000 Think about it.

00:44:18.000 You will join my club at louderthiscrowder.com slash my club.

00:44:33.000 Sir, whatever you want, just take it and leave.

00:44:35.000 Ha ha ha!

00:44:36.000 Gonna get ya!

00:44:37.000 Sir, I have a firearm and if you don't leave, I will use it.

00:44:40.000 Ho ho! 1.00

00:44:40.000 I'm coming for ya! 1.00

00:44:42.000 I will shoot. 1.00

00:44:42.000 Here I come! 1.00

00:44:45.000 Owwww! 1.00

00:44:49.000 What the hell? 0.99

00:44:51.000 What did you expect? 1.00

00:44:51.000 I am gonna sue you! 1.00

00:44:55.000 So hard!

00:44:57.000 Guilty.

00:44:59.000 What?

00:45:00.000 No, I don't understand it.

00:45:02.000 I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

00:45:07.000 Firearmslegal.com slash LWC. 1.00

00:45:10.000 If you have a gun and you don't have this, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:45:14.000 Again, that's Firearmslegal.com slash LWC. 1.00

00:45:20.000 For $0.25 a day, you can buy bubblegum from a vending machine.

00:45:26.000 For $0.24 a day, you can feed a starving child.

00:45:31.000 But for $99 a year, you can give a better life to our motion graphics designer, Brendan.

00:45:39.000 Still valuable. Brendan needs your help.

00:45:49.000 He's never lived on his own before and he's having trouble adapting.

00:45:52.000 How about some milk?

00:45:56.000 I've been out for like three weeks.

00:45:59.000 It's like welded to the thing.

00:46:01.000 Like I can't get it out now.

00:46:03.000 Because brilliant motion graphics designers who may be slightly on the spectrum deserve a better life.

00:46:11.000 Even Brendan.

00:46:13.000 I It's kind of unnerving

00:46:26.000 Maybe unsettling is the word.

00:46:28.000 Could be.

00:46:28.000 For a child.

00:46:29.000 You don't even know what I'm about to say yet.

00:46:30.000 I don't.

00:46:30.000 I'm just agreeing.

00:46:31.000 For a child to threaten to stick up.

00:46:34.000 Especially in the wake of Trayvon.

00:46:36.000 It is a little triggering.

00:46:37.000 It seems a little insensitive.

00:46:38.000 I don't think they understand in Australia the context of that.

00:46:41.000 Alright, I'm glad to have our next guest on.

00:46:43.000 We haven't had him on in a while.

00:46:44.000 Let me give you a hint as to who our next guest is out there.

00:46:46.000 there. He's a globetrotter. Either that or he's too cheap to afford a set that is not

00:46:54.000 an unfolded map.

00:46:55.000 You can follow him on Twitter at Prison Planet.

00:46:58.000 His website is summit.news, and more recently, band.video.

00:47:02.000 Mr. Paul Joseph Watson, how are you, sir?

00:47:05.000 I'm good, Steven.

00:47:05.000 How's it going?

00:47:06.000 Terribly.

00:47:07.000 Now, your hair is short, so that's cool.

00:47:14.000 Yeah, I had a bit of a dodgy haircut, so it had to be cleaned up, so... Not always great for the videos.

00:47:19.000 Not always great for the videos.

00:47:20.000 But you insist on having the old sort of mop top with the cigarette in a lot of your display pictures.

00:47:24.000 Is that just because, you know, that looks like...

00:47:26.000 That's... that's... that's the classical fashy haircut.

00:47:29.000 That's what the media says.

00:47:31.000 In fact, the Guardian wrote an article the other day saying they were afraid of Ivanka Trump's new haircut.

00:47:35.000 So they're literally terrified by haircuts at this point.

00:47:39.000 That's the level of the derangement syndrome.

00:47:42.000 I tried to go floppy on top and with the short sides back inside.

00:47:46.000 So that's a normal fashy look.

00:47:47.000 How are they afraid of Ivanka's haircut?

00:47:51.000 They said that it proves that she's trying to rebrand herself to be more credible because she's about to run for office.

00:47:57.000 So they're terrified.

00:47:58.000 Oh, okay.

00:47:59.000 So 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. 0.99

00:48:07.000 We see her fingerprints all over it sometimes, which, I'll be honest, sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of.

00:48:13.000 Mr. 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?

00:48:29.000 By the way, you Europeans, you're closer together.

00:48:31.000 You're as far away from Sweden as Florida is from California, approximately.

00:48:36.000 I have no idea.

00:48:37.000 Is it Thunberg?

00:48:38.000 Thunberg?

00:48:42.000 I heard an actual Swedish person pronounce it as something like Greta Thunberg.

00:48:46.000 So I'm not even going to try to appropriate that.

00:48:49.000 So I'm going for Greta Thunberg.

00:48:49.000 That's way off.

00:48:51.000 No, well, we don't care about the Swedes. 0.85

00:48:53.000 What we can just do is we can start a war and watch them do nothing.

00:48:56.000 So, your video, the one, Little Greta, we'll call it Little Greta, it was removed from YouTube entirely, if I'm not mistaken.

00:49:03.000 Completely, yeah.

00:49:04.000 And 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.

00:49:17.000 But yeah, it was a video that was, it was on the channel for about two weeks, had almost a million views.

00:49:22.000 They banned it, they removed it for bullying and harassment.

00:49:25.000 Now 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.

00:49:33.000 The 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.

00:49:46.000 Yeah, plus she has a scary haircut. 1.00

00:49:48.000 Yeah, it was up for about two weeks. Banned. I appealed it over two weeks ago. No response

00:49:53.000 over two weeks later. And yeah, I mean, it's still on bit.shu, but it's permanently gone.

00:49:58.000 And then obviously this disincentivizes you criticizing her again. I could re-upload the

00:50:04.000 video and remove a couple of the slightly edgy insults.

00:50:09.000 This 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. 0.68

00:50:17.000 But if you say that, as Michael Knowles did on Fox News and they caved in and apologized, he called her mentally ill.

00:50:24.000 Even though Asperger's is a quote, neurological disorder, it is a mental illness.

00:50:28.000 So if she's making that part of her messaging and we can't even reference it, that's a double standard, right?

00:50:35.000 Right, 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. 0.99

00:50:44.000 That's because that person at Fox is what we call here stateside, is a pussy. 1.00

00:50:49.000 So I want to make sure that we're clear. 0.99

00:50:51.000 Yeah, I don't think Michael Knowles said anything wrong, and I try to be as objective as possible.

00:50:55.000 You 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.

00:51:02.000 Like, ah, you veered into it.

00:51:04.000 Michael Knoll said nothing wrong.

00:51:05.000 For people who missed the story, you know, it was trending.

00:51:08.000 It was a flash in the pan.

00:51:09.000 It was trending for a few minutes because someone at Media Matters got a bug in their panty. 0.91

00:51:13.000 I don't know if that's the term.

00:51:14.000 That was my Obama equivalent to wee-weed up. 0.55

00:51:15.000 I just made it up.

00:51:17.000 They got a thorn in their side.

00:51:20.000 Got stuck in their craw.

00:51:21.000 The point is, I don't know what my point was, but Michael Knowles did nothing wrong in pointing out that she has Asperger's.

00:51:28.000 And by the way, this is important to remember, Greta Thunberg is the same age as the Covington school kids. 0.98

00:51:34.000 Now people say, well they were kind of dicks. 0.98

00:51:36.000 First off, I don't agree with it. 0.99

00:51:38.000 Second, they were thrust into the media spotlight against their will.

00:51:42.000 Greta chose it, and so I think that that opens one up to valid criticism.

00:51:47.000 And if they're an adult of age, some ad hominem, and good fun.

00:51:51.000 Well, this is the point, isn't it, Stephen?

00:51:53.000 Because the left exploits these children as human shields for their agenda. 0.66

00:51:57.000 And then they say, oh, by the way, they're beyond question.

00:52:00.000 They then ban and cancel culture people who dare challenge them.

00:52:04.000 And they did the same with David Hogg.

00:52:06.000 A bunch of videos on YouTube, a bunch of channels got taken down when people started challenging what David Hogg was saying.

00:52:13.000 But 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.

00:52:21.000 There was another guy yesterday called Avi Yemeni.

00:52:24.000 You've probably heard of him.

00:52:25.000 Yeah, I know.

00:52:26.000 He did the Jim Jefferies thing.

00:52:27.000 He was on the show.

00:52:28.000 Yeah, he was banned.

00:52:29.000 He's gone.

00:52:29.000 He's done on Twitter for saying Greta is being exploited by the people around her and saying,

00:52:35.000 quote, she had an extremist message, completely banned. 1.00

00:52:39.000 His account's gone.

00:52:40.000 It's not coming back.

00:52:41.000 So, again, they use the intimidation tactic of this deplatforming system that they've

00:52:45.000 set up and this cancel culture system to shield their political propaganda, to use children

00:52:51.000 as human shields.

00:52:53.000 And it's insidious, and it keeps happening over and over again.

00:52:56.000 Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:52:59.000 I think I have that one right.

00:53:00.000 Human shields.

00:53:01.000 Children of shields.

00:53:02.000 Hamas. 0.73

00:53:02.000 They're not too far off. 0.73

00:53:03.000 So, birds of a feather.

00:53:04.000 I'm just gonna go on with all of these.

00:53:07.000 Be careful what you wish for.

00:53:08.000 Look before you leap.

00:53:09.000 Now that's just Aesop's fables.

00:53:11.000 Those aren't idioms.

00:53:12.000 These are just morals, two horrible fairy tales.

00:53:15.000 It's not a fairy tale, it's a fable.

00:53:16.000 The other aspect of this, in using those kids as human shields, they're also traumatizing an entire generation of young people.

00:53:23.000 A lot of psychologists in the UK are talking about this now, this new phenomenon of climate anxiety or eco-anxiety

00:53:30.000 where children are literally being told that everyone's gonna be dead in 12 years.

00:53:35.000 Of course, we know that's abject nonsense.

00:53:37.000 Even one of the head authors of the IPCC report for the UN, Miles Allen, called out Greta the other day

00:53:44.000 for being alarmist because of course, there's this whole debate about a 1.5 degree warming

00:53:49.000 by 2040, of course, there are a bunch of other factors they don't even take into account in that.

00:53:54.000 But again, they're literally traumatizing kids, dragging them to protest.

00:53:59.000 They'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.

00:54:10.000 And of course, AOC echoed this with her Green Deal thing. 0.59

00:54:14.000 Yeah, screen deal thing.

00:54:16.000 I appreciate that you are so dismissive.

00:54:18.000 Because I think it was a young turkey.

00:54:19.000 Like, why don't you, why don't we do the Green New Deal? 0.97

00:54:21.000 Because it's five pages and it has an addendum that says, end social justice for all. 0.85

00:54:26.000 It's silly. 0.80

00:54:26.000 That's why. 0.80

00:54:28.000 Yeah, 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.

00:54:36.000 They told us, people like Paul Ehrlich, that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation.

00:54:42.000 That was the dominant consensus scientific opinion for years and years in the late 70s.

00:54:48.000 None of it happened.

00:54:49.000 So why should we believe them now? 0.66

00:54:51.000 And then it's just it's the hypocrisy of it that stenches.

00:54:54.000 She's palling around with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a dude who literally has a garage full of muscle cars and tanks.

00:55:02.000 You know, she's palling around with Leonardo DiCaprio, a dude who takes private jets to collect environmental awards.

00:55:08.000 Prince Harry's up there on the stage with her.

00:55:11.000 He took four private jet trips in 11 days.

00:55:15.000 He wasn't on a mission to save the planet.

00:55:17.000 He was partying at Elton John's mansion. But here I am, you know, like washing out my jam

00:55:23.000 jars and recycling my plastic Evian bottles. I'm taking a handful of commercial plane trips a

00:55:29.000 year, but I'm bad and I need to be lectured. Forget about India and China. They're fine. 1.00

00:55:33.000 Well, to be fair, Prince Harry was, I mean, he was, there was a two for one special at

00:55:37.000 Bosley. Now, let me ask, you mentioned this with YouTube and we're going to go to WebExtended

00:55:43.000 Have 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?

00:55:50.000 And 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.

00:55:58.000 You'll see other channels before.

00:55:59.000 And this didn't happen before.

00:56:01.000 And of course, we've never received any answer from YouTube.

00:56:03.000 It's getting to be pretty severe.

00:56:05.000 And 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.

00:56:11.000 But that's very scary to me.

00:56:14.000 I 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.

00:56:39.000 The 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

00:56:59.000 You can go on Google itself, of course Google owns YouTube, search my name, Paul Joseph Watson YouTube, for the past four to six months.

00:57:09.000 Not only was my channel like buried down the first page or on page two, it was not even returned on Google search results.

00:57:17.000 This is a channel with over 1.7 million subscribers.

00:57:20.000 They completely buried it.

00:57:21.000 They broke their own search engine just so people couldn't find my channel.

00:57:26.000 And I was getting messages saying, what a shame you don't make YouTube videos anymore.

00:57:30.000 I haven't seen them in months.

00:57:32.000 I was getting good views because the emails are still going out to the subscribers, but it was completely expunged from a Google search itself.

00:57:40.000 It only came back a few days ago and it's like an off link to an uploads playlist.

00:57:45.000 It'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.

00:57:53.000 I'm sorry about that because I think a large part of it is due to the Vox Adpocalypse.

00:57:57.000 They made some changes and it's not what I wanted, but you know, I apologize.

00:58:02.000 What the f*** are we doing now?

00:58:03.000 I heard he lost his show, right? 0.94

00:58:04.000 I don't know, but we're going to have to bleep his name.

00:58:05.000 You mean the beautiful and brave... The beautiful and brave member of the LGBTQ community from the stellar journalists at Vox.

00:58:13.000 That's what you meant to say.

00:58:15.000 That's what I meant to say.

00:58:16.000 I want to make sure they have it right.

00:58:18.000 And you know what?

00:58:18.000 We'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.

00:58:26.000 Is it banned.video?

00:58:28.000 Banned.video, yeah.

00:58:29.000 The one I actually do get banned.

00:58:29.000 Banned.video.

00:58:31.000 Come on, I don't think so.

00:58:32.000 I mean, I think that they probably would ban you, but, you know, just look at that wonderful punim.

00:58:36.000 Still not Jewish, folks. 1.00

00:58:38.000 We are going to go to a WebExtended.

00:58:39.000 I 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.

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01:00:50.000 I'm Bernie Sanders and I approve this message.

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01:01:53.000 No one buys it.

01:01:54.000 Don't talk about me like that.

01:01:55.000 No one buys it, Kyle.

01:01:56.000 I was that kid at one point.

01:01:57.000 Everyone was like, I don't want to wear a t-shirt.

01:01:59.000 I'm still that kid.

01:02:00.000 No, you're not.

01:02:01.000 You're not that kid.

01:02:02.000 Trust me at this point. 0.99

01:02:03.000 And 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. 0.99

01:02:14.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:02:15.000 By the way, thank you to everyone out there who so readily fat-shamed me upon request last week.

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01:02:40.000 And that actually kind of brings me to something I wanted to talk about this week.

01:02:45.000 I guess let me state this just on the outset and then work my way backwards, because I've talked about this before.

01:02:50.000 That's kind of how I learned.

01:02:52.000 Give me the concept.

01:02:54.000 Did I say concept?

01:02:55.000 Learned.

01:02:55.000 That's how I learn.

01:02:56.000 Give me the concept.

01:02:58.000 Geez, I don't know what happened there.

01:02:59.000 Did I have a stroke?

01:03:01.000 This is how I learn.

01:03:02.000 Give me the concept and I'll sort of work my way backwards.

01:03:05.000 I cannot do things step by step.

01:03:07.000 Talked about this with instruction manuals, whether it's building a grill or putting together some, you know, Greta. 0.72

01:03:13.000 Greta's furniture there, you know, a bed that folds into a bookcase.

01:03:19.000 It's another reason to not be a big fan of Sweden.

01:03:22.000 We've been incredibly reserved, by the way, in our addressing of Greta.

01:03:25.000 I think that if I'm a public figure and get away with nothing more than a comparison to Stephen Merchant, it's basically unscathed.

01:03:33.000 It's almost a compliment.

01:03:34.000 It's almost a compliment.

01:03:37.000 So, let me give you that so that we can work our way backwards.

01:03:39.000 There is no virtue in being vulnerable.

01:03:44.000 Let me explain it.

01:03:44.000 What does that mean?

01:03:45.000 We hear this a lot.

01:03:46.000 It's beautiful.

01:03:48.000 This person was being so vulnerable.

01:03:50.000 There's nothing good about being vulnerable for the sake of being vulnerable.

01:03:53.000 It's the wrong word.

01:03:55.000 It's the wrong phrase.

01:03:57.000 And it's important.

01:03:58.000 Let me explain why.

01:03:59.000 I'm guilty of using this, by the way.

01:04:00.000 Here's an example.

01:04:02.000 When 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.

01:04:10.000 I had someone tell me that, you know, most women don't really respond well to anger. 1.00

01:04:14.000 And I don't mean anger necessarily directed at my wife, but overall anger, frustration.

01:04:18.000 Anger is usually kind of a dishonest emotion.

01:04:22.000 It veils what's actually hurting you.

01:04:25.000 And so the same person told me that it would be more effective to be vulnerable with my

01:04:30.000 wife to express what was bothering me.

01:04:33.000 And the advice was right, contextually.

01:04:36.000 The wording was not.

01:04:38.000 Same thing with, you've heard me talk about it this week, mental health issues.

01:04:42.000 I've openly talked about my struggles on air because, you know, I do believe, or at least

01:04:47.000 I hope, that it can help people.

01:04:51.000 Often we've talked about the people just trot out kind of a me too when a celebrity dies

01:04:54.000 from mental health issues or whenever it becomes the topic du jour because there's been some

01:04:58.000 kind of a mass shooting.

01:04:59.000 And it rings hollow.

01:05:00.000 I know as someone who's had to deal with it, it doesn't help anyone.

01:05:03.000 I go, well, you're just saying that because of Heath Ledger.

01:05:05.000 And you're trying to tap into a trend right now.

01:05:09.000 It doesn't help anyone.

01:05:10.000 So 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.

01:05:21.000 Technically I was, but that wasn't the reason.

01:05:24.000 We hear it all the time.

01:05:25.000 Someone was saying this the other day.

01:05:28.000 That's what kind of spurred this thought.

01:05:29.000 I had to come to a really honest place with this piece and be vulnerable.

01:05:34.000 And whenever I say piece, that's how you know it doesn't really mean anything.

01:05:37.000 That 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.

01:05:49.000 I just had to be vulnerable.

01:05:51.000 We hear this all the time, and everyone goes, oh, that's so brave.

01:05:54.000 That's so brave, exposing your vulnerability like that.

01:05:57.000 And it's gotten to the point where we almost seem to seek opportunities to be vulnerable.

01:06:03.000 And as a society now, we reward vulnerability for vulnerability's sake. 0.91

01:06:08.000 And it's bullcrap. 0.95

01:06:09.000 And I think it's important to point out why this is bullcrap. 0.98

01:06:13.000 One reason is, not the least of which, it confuses young men.

01:06:18.000 And women, sure, but for right now I'll speak to what I know a little better. 0.86

01:06:21.000 No penis, no opinion. 0.62

01:06:23.000 Young men don't want to be vulnerable. 0.95

01:06:26.000 It's not a desirable place to be.

01:06:29.000 And that's not societal conditioning.

01:06:30.000 It's an innate defense mechanism.

01:06:32.000 It's hardwired in.

01:06:33.000 And so, these young men who hear this mantra, just be vulnerable, just be vulnerable, they often feel confused.

01:06:40.000 Why?

01:06:40.000 Because 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.

01:06:49.000 It's also wrong because it's attaching virtue to a concept where none actually exists.

01:06:55.000 Just like when we, as a society, shun all violence, including righteous violence.

01:06:59.000 What kind of example?

01:07:00.000 I don't know.

01:07:01.000 Ending the Holocaust? 0.92

01:07:02.000 Stopping a rape?

01:07:03.000 Not all violence is equivalent.

01:07:06.000 So 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.

01:07:18.000 And hint, it's not because of the vulnerability itself. 1.00

01:07:22.000 Some vulnerability is stupid. 1.00

01:07:24.000 You reveal your soft underbelly to an enemy who wants to kill you, you're dead. 1.00

01:07:29.000 That's it. 0.92

01:07:30.000 No one's going to be praising you for how vulnerable you were in your eulogy.

01:07:33.000 Is it your eulogy, or are you the one delivering a eulogy?

01:07:36.000 You're affected, Audio Wade.

01:07:40.000 It could be your eulogy.

01:07:42.000 I saw it get low.

01:07:45.000 And 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.

01:07:58.000 So, what's the virtue here?

01:08:00.000 Why is it better to be vulnerable with your wife than to be angry?

01:08:04.000 Why is it productive to talk about mental health issues which people may use against you?

01:08:09.000 Let me laser in.

01:08:10.000 It's not about vulnerability.

01:08:13.000 It's about truth.

01:08:14.000 And if you watch this show, that shouldn't come as a surprise.

01:08:17.000 To 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.

01:08:29.000 So 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.

01:08:36.000 that I was damaged.

01:08:37.000 But because that truth was so uncomfortable to face, I instead chose to smokescreen it with rage.

01:08:43.000 See, vulnerability there was a byproduct of honesty.

01:08:48.000 For a long time, you know what?

01:08:49.000 I never did.

01:08:49.000 I never did discuss my struggles with mental health issues, with depression, things like that.

01:08:53.000 Why?

01:08:55.000 Because 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.

01:09:04.000 And I've always known, you know, in a lot of ways that I'm abnormal.

01:09:09.000 And the truth is being abnormal isn't always fun.

01:09:11.000 Acknowledging it is even less fun.

01:09:14.000 Taking steps to work within those boundaries and finding acceptance within those limitations is even less fun.

01:09:21.000 So 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.

01:09:31.000 And it can help people.

01:09:33.000 If it saves one life, great.

01:09:35.000 And if I have the ability or the opportunity to save one life by simply facing the truth, that is my duty, regardless of vulnerability.

01:09:45.000 It's the duty of all of us.

01:09:47.000 It's yours.

01:09:48.000 I cannot stress this enough, and this is why so many young people, specifically men, are confused.

01:09:55.000 They'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.

01:10:10.000 We 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. 0.99

01:10:19.000 It's bullshit! 1.00

01:10:20.000 You can be vulnerable and simultaneously be wrong, even evil. 1.00

01:10:27.000 The flip side of that coin, you can be strong and simultaneously right and good.

01:10:34.000 It doesn't change a damn thing, the vulnerability.

01:10:36.000 It comes down to truth.

01:10:38.000 It comes down to doing the right thing regardless of the comfort level.

01:10:42.000 So here's the exercise.

01:10:44.000 For this week.

01:10:44.000 Okay?

01:10:44.000 I want you to take a minute.

01:10:46.000 Take inventory.

01:10:49.000 Maybe do a scan.

01:10:50.000 Do an internal scan of some things that have been holding you back.

01:10:54.000 I don't know.

01:10:54.000 Maybe in the back of your head there's been this voice nagging you to do something.

01:10:57.000 You've been too afraid to do it.

01:10:58.000 Maybe it's addiction.

01:11:00.000 Maybe it's depression.

01:11:01.000 Maybe it's a holding pattern that you don't know how to break.

01:11:03.000 It doesn't matter what it is.

01:11:04.000 I want you to think of something that you need help with.

01:11:08.000 That you've been putting off.

01:11:12.000 Something difficult.

01:11:14.000 Pause it if you've got to.

01:11:16.000 Got it?

01:11:16.000 Okay.

01:11:17.000 Now, I want you to go share that with someone.

01:11:21.000 Someone you trust.

01:11:22.000 Ask for help.

01:11:24.000 Ask for advice.

01:11:24.000 Seek wise counsel.

01:11:25.000 Start the process of healing.

01:11:27.000 Start the process of creating and executing a solution.

01:11:30.000 Sure, 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.

01:11:43.000 Regardless of how unpleasant it may be. 0.99

01:11:47.000 Because someone who makes themselves vulnerable without honesty is just a fool. 0.99

01:11:51.000 Alright, hope that helps. 0.99

01:11:53.000 Maybe it doesn't.

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