Steven Crowder is a self-styled comedian and podcaster. He has a podcast called Louder With Crowder's Mug Club, which features his thoughts on current events and current events in general. He is a frequent guest on Comedy Central's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and hosts a show called "The Talk Radio's Strangest Animal" which is hosted by Gerald A. Ford.
00:05:27.000I do want to ask you, we'll be showing some videos or I think some tweets going into the break from you guys, but I want to know what's been your favorite moment with the show in the last billion plays, or how are you introduced to the show?
00:06:03.000And I know that, by the way, some of you will think this is lazy.
00:06:08.000We've used the term clip show in the past.
00:06:10.000That being said, we're going to have some clips here from our favorite moments, a few montages, and also kind of give you a little bit of some inside baseball.
00:06:20.000If you enter in Crowder Billion, I think for the next, I know at least for the next 48 hours, it might be a few days, you get $20 off if you join Mug Club.
00:07:33.000I really am so grateful that you've been here for a billion plays, that you've made this what it is.
00:07:39.000You saw from that montage, I started back in 2006 on YouTube, and then really doing regular uploads in 2009 that were more political.
00:07:46.000I really never anticipated it to get, I shouldn't say didn't anticipate it, but I had no idea that this show would become exactly what it is.
00:07:55.000You know, I feel like now I'm being like, oh I'm so grateful, but I'm like Taylor Swift, like oh my god, I won my 45th Grammy, what?
00:08:15.000Somewhere around a trillion, I think, now.
00:08:17.000Well, actually, if you add up those who are not Mug Club members, lotofthecloud.com slash mug club, if you add up, because we do a daily show there, so four times the content that you get here on YouTube, and then you add up the website and Crowder Bits, it's actually closer to two billion.
00:10:13.000I was being paid, and I'm very grateful for it.
00:10:15.000I was appearing a few times a week and writing articles.
00:10:17.000But I always wanted to be doing something like this.
00:10:20.000And so after that, this show that you're watching right now really just started off as a terrestrial radio show out of Detroit, and I went with them because I said, let me own 100% of the rights.
00:10:31.000I didn't make a dime on terrestrial radio for a long time.
00:10:33.000It got syndicated out to a bunch of markets, and then we started learning how to operate a TriCaster and broadcasting from the den.
00:10:40.000And it just kept growing and growing and turned into, you know, what it is now.
00:10:44.000So I say this because sometimes you may have dreams, and if you're inflexible, you think you're giving up on them.
00:10:49.000This is so much better than anything I could have anticipated, and I am genuinely grateful to be able to do this.
00:11:33.000So, you know, a lot of people don't understand success was never guaranteed in this.
00:11:37.000And in fact, there were a lot of moments that you had throughout your career where you were like, I have no idea how this is going to go out.
00:11:41.000And I remember one specifically, I can laugh at it now, but I felt so horrible.
00:11:45.000We were having dinner, I think, or lunch.
00:11:48.000Me, you and Hillary, we were talking about like, yeah, man, should I keep doing this?
00:12:09.000It was so funny, but at that point, you had no idea.
00:12:13.000You had a desire for it and a passion for it, and you knew you could do something, but you had no idea how big it could possibly get, and you weren't assured of success.
00:12:22.000That's also something that I really love seeing, is now there are so many younger people who are conservative or leaning right.
00:12:28.000Back then, and that's also, we'll talk about our top seven, seven plus one, loudest crowd of controversies over the years.
00:12:34.000See if you can guess which ones they are.
00:12:36.000But that's what allowed the Young Turks to go after me and really smear me back in the day when I had 30-40,000 subscribers and they were big.
00:12:42.000We didn't have the firepower to correct the record.
00:13:02.000So one of the funny stories that kind of the moment that it hit home about kind of the war that you've had to fight with some of the folks in traditional media was one time I was on vacation we were doing a copyright battle with Mashable and they were insisting on trying to take one of your videos down and I'm like at a resort in Mexico trying to deal with it and we ended up getting it resolved And keep in mind, for those who don't know, this was back then.
00:13:24.000It was a manual thing where Bill was actually filing paperwork to counter a false claim.
00:13:29.000We're like saying, hey, you're going to do this.
00:13:32.000And then we're contacting YouTube and we're trying to fight through that system.
00:13:35.000And it was that was the moment that I really realized I was in a hotel room at this resort, Mexico, and I was thinking to myself, Oh, what Steven's been saying about the war and how this is going on, and I don't mean war in the sense of what our soldiers are doing and what our troops are doing, but I mean in the sense of the war for audience, for eyeballs and ears, and knowing that there is a place for comedy and conservative channels.
00:13:58.000Yeah, and that's how we met, was actually a man who was a groomsman at my wedding.
00:14:01.000He's a Harvard lawyer, but I was like, hey, you're a lawyer.
00:14:03.000And actually, Ben Shapiro negotiated my Fox contract.
00:14:06.000Hey, you have a good last name for a lawyer.
00:14:18.000And that's where the article came out that someone who worked at Facebook long before the leaks, like James O'Keefe in Project Veritas, someone just leaked this memo that was at Facebook that people were basically putting code into pages to throttle and shut down some pages.
00:14:31.000And this was Ted Cruz for president, Fox News, Breitbart, the Chris Kyle Foundation, and then me.
00:14:41.000One of these things is not like the other!
00:14:44.000And I was like, hey, I don't want to overblow this, but I sent it to Bill, and I remember I was at a hotel at that point, and you just called back, and you're like, yeah, this is not, like, I'm reading this.
00:15:01.000And I remember looking at the other ones, and I'm like, I know all these other ones, but who is this guy?
00:15:07.000It was so weird because we were targeted when we were so much smaller.
00:15:10.000And I think it's just because we were always pretty effective with the content because we were unique and because you guys have been so supportive.
00:15:16.000I mean, we can't, you know, we'd love to do live shows.
00:15:19.000We don't have the ability to do them because you fill up every venue and it becomes a security issue and we appreciate it.
00:15:27.000Demonetize, you guys have made up for it with Mug Club, you know, and you guys have joined and obviously now you have the entire Blaze catalog and it's just every time that we think, oh, we're going off a cliff, the Vox Adpocalypse, you guys came in and not only saved us but supported us more than before.
00:16:05.000Since we've grown, and I hope you guys have seen this directly since you've joined up at Mug Club, it's $69 for students, veterans, or military, just so you know.
00:16:11.000Some people think it's a little bit steep, and right now everyone gets $20 off.
00:16:15.000We've increased production value, and we've increased overall volume of content.
00:16:19.000And so this brings us to our first montage.
00:16:21.000When we first started, you know, it was a radio show.
00:16:24.000We would do these fake little audio commercials because it was a terrestrial radio show.
00:16:28.000But I would sit down with, at that point, not-gay Jared, and just go, alright, here's an idea, the Swiss Family Robinson second generation, and I would do an audio sketch about a bunch of inbred kids.
00:16:39.000And we found out we violated the law horribly, but it was okay because only on podcasts would we do the fake warnings, like, ah, ah!
00:16:45.000Only do, like, Lena Dunham warnings, Velociraptor warnings.
00:16:50.000And I don't know who it was who called in and said, this is highly illegal.
00:18:08.000No sir, my name is Steven Crowder, and these here are the Mug Club Z's from Lidarus Crowder, late night comedy of salvation to salve the soul.
00:18:16.000And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.
00:24:00.000And I said yeah for now but no I said you know it's funny like the other things the other things that are asked of me and I'm just like nope not gonna do that.
00:24:09.00013... 27 times you've asked me to wear a dress and I've said no.
00:24:30.000We just filmed you bitching about wearing a dress.
00:24:34.000Oh, you never actually put it in the show.
00:24:35.000As a matter of fact, we never actually request it.
00:24:37.000Anytime you see Gerald in a dress, it's just our security cameras that we keep running.
00:24:42.000And then we add him in like a Tupac hologram later on.
00:24:46.000But this brings us to, speaking of strolls down memory lane, I think this is time to actually go through the top 7 plus 1 controversies that have happened here on Louder With Crowder.
00:26:04.000That's the only footage that you guys have of our upload.
00:26:08.000And the reason that was a controversy, though, was because the guy fell, got up, punched me, and then I just sort of walked away.
00:26:14.000And then the rumor started, and it was the Young Turks, I believe, who started it, that I had shoved him first.
00:26:19.000Because, you know, when you shove a guy, he falls this way into you.
00:26:23.000And the prosecuting attorney in Lansing never took, there was a deposition, I didn't know about it, I was never there, he met with the head of the unions in Michigan, did it without me and said, it was pretty clear from the Young Turks footage, they didn't have footage, it was their commentary, it was pretty clear from the Young Turks footage that Stephen started it, so I let the guy go.
00:26:43.000Is that common for a deposition like that?
00:26:46.000For me to not know, not be there, and my evidence to not even be accepted?
00:26:50.000It's not common that you would have been there for it to happen.
00:26:52.000It is uncommon that they didn't come and ask you for it.
00:26:55.000It's clear that they were looking for an answer.
00:26:57.000They found one thing to support it, and they were just moving on.
00:27:15.000Well, the thing is, you'd hear, if you watch it, I think we have the B-roll, and you can't hear right now, there's a guy saying, I have a gun!
00:28:28.000Wendy Davis came out, and the reason I picked this, do you remember, because Wendy Davis, Texas, they were grooming her for a national run.
00:28:46.000Only got an interview because I claim to be transgender, and that's why we started using Stephanie undercover, because we realized I can do anything, and no one will say a word.
00:33:29.000That night, the girl who handed us the taser, and we gave it back to her, TASED SOMEBODY with that weapon and was arrested, and then we sent on the, because we got into their cryptic messaging app, we sent them just us going like this, give them the middle finger.
00:34:37.000And then that girl was arrested and I was just, this was something to me, I learned, and the reason I picked these initially, the union issue and this, I learned really quickly that the media doesn't care about truth.
00:35:04.000Serious crimes were committed, people were arrested, and it was not a peep.
00:35:08.000So thank you guys so much, because we got tens of millions of plays on that, and it was covered.
00:35:12.000That never would have happened if not for Mug Club, because we would have never been able to afford going out there and bringing a crew, and certainly would have never been able to afford uploading this and having the staff to do it.
00:35:24.000That's something that I think changed the view of Antifa.
00:35:27.000And we didn't go out and sort of champion our own cause, saying, hey, we're the ones who exposed Antifa.
00:35:31.000But it really was the first undercover sting that showcased them to be not only as violent as they were, but the top story was the fact that the media wanted it to not be a story.
00:36:06.000Yeah, so I remember watching that and talking about the sting.
00:36:10.000It was sort of like an undercover thing, but it was also funny.
00:36:12.000Talking about what we were talking about earlier, it was so different from anything else that I was seeing because it was obviously like a right-wing video, but it was entertaining and it felt like news, but it also was...
00:37:23.000We were doing a three-hour show, so this was back when it was a radio show, and it was bizarre.
00:37:27.000The first Bob Ross sketch, you can just see some B-roll here a little bit, and then you can go and watch these clips, and I'll actually toss to the final clip.
00:42:06.000I think one of my favorite conversations with Bill I've had is he's looking at a script that I wrote and he's going through it silently and then, yeah, I'm not gonna lick my lips.
00:42:33.000But you know, we wrote back in response to that last letter.
00:42:37.000They were like, please just take it down.
00:42:40.000In kind of a snarkier part of the letter, I just said, if you've ever watched the show, you know we're not going to take it down.
00:42:48.000I remember there was one final communication where then we responded by video and that is where it could be half-Asian Bill said he wouldn't dress up as Bob Ross but I think it was more so that he didn't want to be involved in painting said legal representatives as Bob Ross eating from a pile of corn infested shit.
00:43:49.000Sometimes it can be used to express frustration, tranquility, or sometimes gratitude, as we'll be doing today, expressing gratitude in response to some passionate fan mail we've received.
00:44:02.000We have a lot of different viewers here at the Joy of Painting.
00:44:05.000Some viewers are policemen, some are firemen, and some are lawyers who we'll be responding to today.
00:44:13.000Who have talked about this show with great vigor that Bob Ross is in violation of copyright law.
00:44:20.000So we want to respond to them and make sure they know they're welcome on this program so you can grab your palette.
00:44:26.000Today we'll be working with a lot of Browns.
00:45:15.000And now we're going to move into portrait mode and paint our lawyer friend who sent us the fan mail falsely notifying us of a violation of copyright.
00:45:29.000Like a gazelle at a familiar watering hole, bending over on all fours to eat from our steaming hot pile of s**t. Let's draw a few lawyers.
00:45:42.000I'm sure with a firm they have some lawyer friends.
00:47:48.000This one we don't really need to go through for that long.
00:47:50.000It was the ABC Disney Oscars stream that was pulled.
00:47:53.000And the reason this was pretty significant was because we'd been dealing with false copyright stuff a lot.
00:47:57.000And what happened was we would have all these claims.
00:47:59.000We've never lost any of those hard claims.
00:48:01.000They've changed the system now, but back when they used to actually have to file a claim and you would manually counter-file, not a single one have we ever lost, to be clear.
00:48:08.000But then they realized, sure there's a two-week process, but then the video ultimately gets up, they realized they could hit us with live streams.
00:48:15.000Because at that point, you lose those viewers, you never get them back.
00:48:57.000Instagram, just with my cell phone video, and the amount of viewers was shocking.
00:49:01.000So not only did you watch, but once it was removed, you guys said, you know what, I'm going to sign up.
00:49:06.000So many people actually double signed up, or renewed their subscriptions for three years.
00:49:10.000Just because they saw the foul play, and it was just something where we said, oh, wow, okay, we really need to do right by these supporters.
00:49:18.000It was a moment that the fans and the people that are watching saw it in real time.
00:49:23.000They see us saying it later, or, you know, like, oh, we got this taken down, we're losing monetization on these videos, and that's something that's kind of like In the ether, almost, to them.
00:49:34.000But they saw it, in real time, as they're watching the show, us get taken down.
00:49:38.000I saw it as the tip of the iceberg, where people are finally seeing what the problem is, and they actually had a moment to glimpse the entire iceberg.
00:49:46.000Not just the little part that they see when we talk about it here, and asking for support from Mug Club, and the very best fans in those moments stepped up.
00:49:54.000Every time we talk about Mug Club and what Mug Club does, literally the show cannot happen No.
00:49:59.000This is the only, we have no Patreon, we have no GoFundMe, because you see what they do
00:50:26.000It showed them just, like you said, live, but it also gave them this feeling of like, oh my gosh, if they want to take conservative voices off of this platform, they can.
00:50:34.000They can just do stuff like this to them.
00:50:37.000They'll figure out a way, and so we've gotta get around it.
00:50:38.000And they really screwed the pooch with that one, because the big legal term you can tell, I guess educate the audience, is whether the content is transformative.
00:50:45.000Right, so the fair use question is, are you transforming the underlying copyrighted content, and there's a few other factors, and transformative being one of the bigger ones, and of course, you know, over the, you know, commenting on an event that's occurring, and costumes, and a set, and guests, we added it up, I think it was like 12%, the actual Oscar stream was up for 12% of the time.
00:51:18.000Well, because there were also some internal issues that went on with there, where we had some other internal counsel who were saying that we shouldn't do this in the first place.
00:51:26.000And I will say, Bill took my side, where he said, no, no, you can do this.
00:51:29.000So Shia LaBeouf, if you don't... Okay, number two, when we were sued by Shia LaBeouf.
00:51:51.000And so he set up this camera in a public space in New York, outside of some kind of art museum, where anyone could go and say he will not divide us.
00:52:00.000And so we're like, OK, so this is up there.
00:54:22.000And he takes a nacho, guacamole, and a sip of his margarita.
00:54:25.000He goes, because I'm a grown ass f***ing man.
00:54:33.000This is my life So do you remember in the beginning of the live stream when you were doing it?
00:54:41.000There were actually some people who were not fans of the show didn't know the show came right and you were giving them mugs and they were like that the day before yeah, that was the day before we gave them mugs with hot chocolate We went down there, we gave them mugs full of coffee and hot chocolate, and so all these people are on Shia LaBeouf's stream going like, yeah, shout out to a lot of those crowded guys that gave us this coffee.
00:55:25.000And of course, one, we argued that it was transformative, but the reason he was really upset was because it was the highest viewed portion ever of the He Will Not Divide Us livestream.
00:55:33.000They saw a spike, like, we gotta stop, we gotta put a stop to this.
00:55:37.000And then after that, that's what spurred, they moved the He Will Not Divide Us to other places, and all these people on Reddit, and I guess back then 4chan, would triangulate where they set up the new camera, and it just became a game of taking it down.
00:55:53.000So we were sued by Shia LaBeouf, his guys, and we won.
00:55:56.000Number one, and we have a plus one, but number one should be no surprise to anyone, and this is really in the last, this last year, the number one controversy that we've had here at Lighthouse Crowder is, yeah, the Vox Adpocalypse.
00:56:10.000And I want to get all of your thoughts on this here, and I want you to let me know where you were, what you remember from the Vox Apocalypse.
00:56:16.000I mean, we had talked a lot about being demonetized.
00:56:19.000Most of our videos had been demonetized.
00:56:20.000We'd been throttled, where our videos weren't showing up in subscriber feeds.
00:56:45.000And this, actually, the reason this is the biggest controversy is not only because you guys stepped up and, again, supported us to a degree that we had never seen up until then.
00:57:35.000Well, just to be clarified, we asked for their names, and they said they felt uncomfortable even identifying who they were, these people giving the message.
00:58:17.000I remember I thought I was having a... turns out it was like a... I don't even think it was a panic attack.
00:58:20.000I don't know what a... I've sort of had panic issues before in the past, but this was actually... I just felt like I couldn't breathe and the room was spinning.
00:59:00.000I don't think you guys knew how rattled I was.
00:59:02.000And I said, OK, this is what we're going to do.
00:59:04.000And we did the apology video that was 16 minutes of insulting everybody.
00:59:08.000It was going through all of our worst bits, all of our most offensive jokes, and we even threw some new ones in there for good measure just in case.
00:59:51.000They pulled all of the worst things they could pull.
00:59:54.000Everyone, the Young Turks, New York Times, I don't know if it was Samantha Bee, some of the late night hosts, they all wanted to make me out to be this monster.
01:00:03.000Which, like I said, sent more people to our show.
01:00:06.000This was the first show that had that happen and we won.
01:00:35.000I was on the outside looking in and I was really concerned because I started seeing stuff happening on Twitter before I got a chance to talk to you guys.
01:00:42.000I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's really going after us.
01:00:44.000And I wasn't worried that he was upset.
01:00:46.000I was worried that everybody seemed to be kind of like, yeah, this is a bad, like big players were coming around and I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is like a concerted effort to try to take this show down.
01:00:56.000And not to mention that Vox was invested in by NBCUniversal, which is one of the biggest media conglomerates ever.
01:01:01.000And they're the ones who put on the Recode conference where Susan Wojcicki was talking about it.
01:01:09.000They consistently tried to frame it as though we had violated policies, and even Susan Wojcicki, to her credit, was like, they didn't violate policies, but it's borderline, and I hate the fact, obviously we weren't looking to change policies so that more content is borderline, and a lot of non-political channels were affected, but not only did our audience come to our defense, but also the entire YouTube community, and people who hate me, rightfully so!
01:01:31.000Yeah, I saw a ton of people that were like, I'm not even political, I don't watch political stuff, but I'm gonna go become a mug clubber because this is messed up, this is not I thought the really exciting thing is that essentially YouTube couldn't operate under cover of darkness anymore with regards to their policy and how they were doing things.
01:01:48.000So the whole result of it was that people got to see more of what was actually happening.
01:01:52.000Again, kind of seeing the whole iceberg.
01:01:54.000But then the other part was the number of times I've run into people or like we were at the A&M show and they said the turning point for them and understanding and like actually checking out the content.
01:02:03.000was saying, okay, I saw the clip video, I've seen some of the tweets and the stories,
01:02:07.000I'm going to go watch this for myself. These were thinking young adults,
01:02:11.000teenagers, older adults who were all saying, I was like, I'm going to go check and see whether
01:02:17.000the news I'm being told is correct. So they went and watched the videos and came away thinking,
01:02:22.000I'm shocked I'm not already a subscriber.
01:02:58.000I wouldn't say I'm necessarily the most talented or gifted person, but I will say that it's pretty known that I work hard and everyone in this team works hard.
01:03:16.000Outside of pornography and the early aughts, you guys have signed up en masse.
01:03:19.000To the point where if YouTube were to have removed us, still many tens of thousands of views would be on our response on Mug Club, and that would look even worse.
01:03:28.000So I think that forced the hand a little bit where they were like, ooh, you know, if we remove this, this isn't someone who's just going to go away with a few hundred people who are doing a Patreon.
01:03:35.000These are a lot of people who are going to be mobilizing.
01:03:38.000And I think the reason that we weren't deplatformed was, and it wasn't just because of us trying to refuse to apologize.
01:03:44.000I apologize all the time when I'm wrong.
01:03:45.000But we knew that we weren't wrong, and because of your support, we knew we had to do right by you and stand fast and stand by our principles.
01:03:55.000And so the apology video, rather than a lot of people who either apologize in a soft way or kind of make it about, please don't remove us, we did the apology video, which was, OK, Here you go, it's only going to get worse.
01:06:22.000You'll notice it's very different, there's no standard intro for today's show, that's because this is the first installment of a bi-weekly, is bi-weekly every other week?
01:06:29.000I don't know about taking your questions.
01:06:32.000My girlfriend is nine... My girlfriend of nine months.
01:09:09.000The reason why, all joking aside, was because we knew that at the time we didn't have... I knew that we didn't have the capacity to do a daily show.
01:09:21.000Long night and a long 18-hour drive across the country afterwards, where we knew that if we had enough sign-ups, and that was actually a bit of a risk, because we said, okay, if we announce that we're going daily, maybe enough people will sign up where we can afford the resources we need to go daily, and we hit that number within the first four hours of election night.
01:09:42.000And again, I own 100% of this, and we worked with CRTV, now we have a partnership with The Blaze, where you get access to all their catalog, and of course they help handle this back-end, these apps that now work really well.
01:09:52.000The Blaze app is just stuff that we were never able to afford, so we've been able to do this without having to take money from Al Jazeera.
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01:15:54.000Steven, congratulations on an incredible milestone.
01:16:02.000When I first heard about it, I figured it was maybe a thousandth episode, something like that, but one billion views.
01:16:08.000I'm surprised that they're still allowing you on the platform, frankly.
01:16:11.000Well, it just goes to show you what you can achieve with a little bit of effort, ingenuity, and a small, rent-free space in your parents' basement.
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01:19:04.000All you need to do is look at a McDonald's sign to realize that a billion is the number you're aiming for.
01:19:10.000But I'm happy for you, um, I mean, I'd be happier if it was my channel that had a billion views, but I'm happy for you because you have me on your show.
01:19:17.000From everyone here at Walter Arms, to everybody there at Lauderruth Crowder, congratulations on one billion views.
01:19:24.000Your one billionth view, and I just want to say, truly, from the bottom of my heart, uh, this is a sign of the end of days.
01:19:33.000I believe this is actually in the Bible. You were mentioned by name.
01:19:36.000Tell me, what does that magnificent hand-etched mug do?
01:19:55.000Well, that, unfortunately, is Mug Club, the current eye of our existence and the objective of your next mission.
01:20:02.000See, Mug Club has been spreading truth, entertainment, and encouraging the American way.
01:20:07.000Furthermore, even more alarmingly, they've been able to bypass our assistants from the YouTube censors, able to reach, communicate with their listeners directly.
01:20:16.000Your objective will be to find who's at the center of this Mug Club, Extract any information by any means necessary.
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01:20:38.000Steven, congrats on one billion views.
01:20:41.000Just to be clear, that's not even a fraction of the world population.
01:20:46.000Steven Crowder, congratulations on passing over a billion views despite shadowbanning, censorship, and all the attacks you've gone through.
01:22:38.000And a big part of this, we will say, that brings in the most amount of new subscribers here on YouTube, because search results we've talked about, a lot of these algorithms aren't necessarily favorable to us.
01:22:47.000We've had a lot of problems running our videos as ads.
01:22:50.000Well, the problem is, like, how do we reach new audiences?
01:23:42.000I appreciate how much everyone out there understands that sometimes if you join Mug Club, we'll have a week where we maybe miss two shows or something.
01:23:48.000So usually we'll pre-tape, but sometimes we can't.
01:23:51.000We just have to run and go do a hidden camera deal where we don't have 140-something writers or staff like Jay Leno has, or 100-something like Seth Meyers has.
01:24:00.000We have 12 people here, and I think 15 if you count part-timers abroad.
01:24:03.000And so we just have to pack up everything, go out, and tape a super video where we can't do this show and that.
01:24:09.000And we would never be able to afford to do these super videos if not for you.
01:24:12.000I mean, to give you an idea, doing like the change my mind you'll see in front of the
01:27:20.000We've been tracking Antifa for a long time.
01:27:24.000He was just down there at President's Circle and they were handing out sharp objects to stab people with.
01:27:28.000Said they had someone come in with an AK.
01:27:30.000Why did it take two late night hosts, comedians, to find this out?
01:27:35.000We took a hidden camera to an abortion clinic in Colorado, where late-term abortions have been legal for years, to show you exactly what it is that they, we, and you are talking about.
01:27:44.000This woman was going to end her 32 week, that's 8 months, her 8 month old baby's life.
01:27:50.000There's nothing wrong with it, I mean, there's nothing wrong with it.
01:27:52.000I can say like, I know I said it all the time, I was like, you're an arrogant puss, like, you don't need to do this.
01:27:57.000Hi, I'm Stephanie, with all the frequencies of a feminism.
01:29:00.000We go out and set up in public and pick a topic and we actually allow people from other points of view to come up and proactively change my mind.
01:29:09.000You are more than welcome to change my mind if you think I'm wrong.
01:33:21.000And we did not think, at this point, every single person who was involved with content, when we floated the idea, said there's no way that'll work.
01:33:32.000To the point where I feel lazy when I do it, because I'm like, I don't want to do another Change My Mind, because I want to do something new, and then you guys obviously want us to do it.
01:33:39.000So that's, like I've said, I want to provide you with what it is that you want, and do some new things.
01:33:48.000Let me ask you, Half-Asian Bill, what would you like, what do you think is next?
01:33:52.000What would you like to see next for this show?
01:33:54.000I'd say more of the content we're already doing, getting more around the country, seeing more of the fans.
01:33:59.000I know we've got fans all over the world.
01:34:03.000I know we were, I think just this week, making fun of the University of Western Australia, and I saw a number of comments of students at the University of Western Australia who were like, dang, man.
01:34:17.000Hey, the fires are down, it's fine, we can go to Australia.
01:34:20.000No, I think doing more of that content and being able to get around the country is the number one thing.
01:34:25.000More of it would be more exciting for everyone, and I just love the energy and the sense of community that people have to be able to just hear some great viewpoints, some honest feedback, and some hilarious s***.
01:34:38.000We need enough of you to join so we can get a plane to go to Australia.
01:34:42.000Actually, I'm only half joking, because sometimes when we do live shows, it ends up costing less to rent a plane.
01:34:48.000We don't get jets, but we get a turboprop to get all of our team out and all of this equipment, because you're talking about so much to go to campus.
01:34:57.000So obviously we don't expect you to pay for a Learjet, but we can travel to Australia.
01:35:02.000You know, we can take a week off the show, because that's a lot of travel.
01:35:05.000I think we're going to send actually even Brendan on that flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires with a GPS just to prove that the earth is not flat.
01:36:13.000Like you get us, obviously, but everybody else seems to be trying to attack you in different ways.
01:36:18.000And so it's great to be around fans, but it's also great for them because they get to be around a bunch of other people that are exactly like them.
01:36:23.000They're conservative people when it's not popular to be conservative.
01:36:26.000And so it's great for both that we get to do those live events.
01:36:33.000Mary's a long time ago before this show was daily, and I remember there were like 400 people who showed up, and I thought that was all the people in the world back then.
01:36:41.000It was just me doing stand-up, and some kids showed up, and half the questions at the Q&A were about my time being the brain on Arthur.
01:36:48.000Didn't exactly have the same familiarity with my catalog.
01:36:56.000That promo code is CrowderBillion to get $20 off.
01:36:59.000And I will say, in watching that, there have been some things, obviously, we've created, we're proud of, the intros and the Change My Mind.
01:37:05.000And that's probably something I'm pretty proud of, because I see a lot of other people trying to do it, do the Change My Mind and approaching conversations in that way in real life.
01:37:12.000And if I can serve to help you with that and help equip you with that in a way that professors have failed you, then I'm grateful.
01:37:19.000But I was even watching that lady at the abortion clinic.
01:37:26.000We couldn't show that in the video because we didn't want to.
01:37:28.000This was actually, it was a real kind of moral dilemma because we were going, well, what's more important?
01:37:33.000Is it stopping this abortion that this woman is getting anyway?
01:37:36.000Or is it showcasing the horrors of abortion so that thousands of other people don't abort?
01:37:41.000And what we did was, with my permission, some of the girls who went in undercover, I said, uh, they knew she was going in like the next week for the abortion.
01:37:48.000I said, we're going to release this video before then.
01:38:08.000It's seeing those things like that that really make the change of minds and the super videos kind of more important, you know?
01:38:16.000It's doing something for the culture war.
01:38:18.000And also, when I look back and see that one where I was shooting at the range that I sounded like death warmed over.
01:38:22.000That's right, a bronchial infection, pneumonia, all of the above.
01:38:26.000And I was at a gun range with nothing but gunpowder.
01:38:29.000And it turned out they couldn't buy it.
01:38:30.000That's what's great about you, though, is even whenever you're down and you're sick, or you're really stressed out, or there's bigger things going on, you're always really focused and able to do what you need to do.
01:39:57.000200 more just in that pause were just created.
01:39:59.000And the fact that you choose, and one thing too, people at YouTube, people in these social media consulting companies, they often look at our numbers, and they're dumbfounded at the number of people who just come in every day to watch our videos, whether you're a subscriber or not.
01:40:13.000And so we've been able to survive a lot of these algorithms.
01:40:15.000It's a changing landscape because of your loyalty.
01:40:26.000I don't mean the billion views, just the show.
01:40:28.000Being able to do this, and I will do it as long as I can and my body allows, which, you know, may not be that long because I'm not only on the FBI ISIS kill list, I'm on the premium frequent flyer list.