Louder with Crowder - March 13, 2020


CROWDER'S BILLION VIEW SPECIAL! | Louder with Crowder


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1 hour and 40 minutes

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195.54749

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19,734

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1,703

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Misogyny

54

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Toxicity

223

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Hate speech

64

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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.

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00:00:00.000 Hey Steven, I did a billion views while you were still in diapers.
00:00:02.000 And no matter how much you train, I'll still eat you for lunch.
00:00:05.000 Your pal, Chuck.
00:00:05.000 Hey, I like to box!
00:00:06.000 No matter how much you train, I'll still eat you for lunch. 0.97
00:00:12.000 Your pal, Chuck.
00:00:14.000 Hey, I like to box.
00:00:21.000 Hey, yeah!
00:00:22.000 I like to box.
00:00:45.000 She brings me to this queen's house.
00:00:53.000 Steven Prowder is a self-styled comedian.
00:00:55.000 How'd you get into my house? 1.00
00:00:57.000 Time to listen up, you silly liberal... 1.00
00:00:59.000 I'm not a liberal. 1.00
00:01:06.000 Your show is you.
00:01:09.000 and lost.
00:01:10.000 Think about these things.
00:01:11.000 That never got loud at all.
00:01:14.000 You have an original!
00:01:15.000 I'm teared up.
00:01:16.000 My mind's flying.
00:01:17.000 I'm teared up.
00:01:18.000 Your show is huge.
00:01:20.000 It's huge.
00:01:21.000 So we are officially announcing the Louder With Crowder Mug Club for our daily program.
00:01:27.000 People are aware of how corrupt the media is and there's a void and we are going to take it back.
00:01:34.000 You're listening to Talk Radio's Strangest Animal.
00:01:42.000 This is the waterboarding Christmas telethon.
00:01:44.000 Spectacular!
00:01:45.000 and waterboarding has to be done just properly.
00:01:47.000 We're stopping!
00:01:49.000 It's not the water!
00:01:51.000 By the way, hashtag tonight is Crowder hijacked Shia.
00:01:55.000 And lost and controlled God and Anwar do I love 0.99
00:01:59.000 And all the federated starships Come cheer up my lads
00:02:03.000 Come cheer up my lads Kiss my time do I love
00:02:07.000 And do I love YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki!
00:02:13.000 Melt in your mouth They look so cheery
00:02:19.000 Subscribe to PewDiePie And to all the other PewDiePie fans
00:02:23.000 And to all the other PewDiePie fans And to all the other PewDiePie fans
00:02:35.000 All right.
00:02:36.000 There's no sense in wondering where your pockets are Milk, chocolate, milk in your mouth
00:02:41.000 Don't worry, they say I'm a star I eat milk, chocolate, M&M's
00:02:45.000 I love being on TV With Jordan Evanham 0.81
00:02:49.000 And most importantly, the funny is on our side, a**hole! 0.96
00:02:52.000 We've been watching this s**t! 0.96
00:02:53.000 YouTube dragged its feet before taking any action against conservative commentator Steven Crowder. 0.88
00:02:59.000 So then we did announce the monetization change that Steven Crowder was.
00:03:03.000 Vox Adpocalypse right now is trending.
00:03:05.000 Number four, that's incredible.
00:03:05.000 Number four.
00:03:06.000 You a**hole! 1.00
00:03:14.000 Alright, good, sick. 1.00
00:03:16.000 Go with milk chocolate.
00:03:18.000 Inside.
00:03:20.000 Bite size can. Chocolate cinder.
00:03:22.000 Inside.
00:03:23.000 The M&M's can only for new M's.
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00:03:26.000 The M&M's can. Bite size candies.
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00:03:30.000 The M&M's can only for new M's.
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00:03:34.000 The M&M's can.
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00:03:38.000 I'd say that's a wrap.
00:03:40.000 Thanks for watching.
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00:04:17.000 That's called the Justin Bieber with a heart murmur.
00:04:19.000 Hey.
00:04:19.000 Oh, no.
00:04:20.000 Hey, girl. 0.99
00:04:20.000 What? 0.99
00:04:21.000 Oh.
00:04:24.000 Baby, baby, baby.
00:04:26.000 Oh, no. 1.00
00:04:26.000 Oh, fuck. 1.00
00:04:27.000 Oh. 1.00
00:04:28.000 Throwback.
00:04:29.000 Leave right now.
00:04:30.000 Drop the bat. 0.98
00:04:31.000 Wow.
00:04:31.000 Uh, I just had a physical yesterday where they were testing for a heart murmur.
00:04:36.000 And they don't answer when you do a physical.
00:04:38.000 Whoa.
00:04:38.000 Hey, we're testing.
00:04:39.000 Well, do I have it?
00:04:40.000 I don't know.
00:04:40.000 We're going to have to wait for the results.
00:04:41.000 I'm like, you just listened to it.
00:04:42.000 Yeah.
00:04:43.000 You know.
00:04:44.000 Not sure.
00:04:44.000 They didn't hear it.
00:04:45.000 Did you record it with the stethoscope?
00:04:49.000 By the way, my half Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, is here.
00:04:52.000 Quarter Black Garrett is here. 1.00
00:04:54.000 Audio Wade is here.
00:04:56.000 Gerald A. is here.
00:04:57.000 What's the wine of the day?
00:04:58.000 We have Mt.
00:04:59.000 Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon.
00:05:00.000 Mt.
00:05:00.000 Veeder?
00:05:01.000 Veedel.
00:05:02.000 Veedel?
00:05:02.000 Veeder.
00:05:03.000 It's not a word.
00:05:03.000 That's not a word.
00:05:04.000 It's not a real thing.
00:05:05.000 You're making things up.
00:05:06.000 Veeder.
00:05:06.000 I don't know why you are still around.
00:05:09.000 Is Too Cute Mad Men here?
00:05:10.000 No.
00:05:10.000 No, she's not.
00:05:11.000 Listen, guys, we really appreciate it.
00:05:13.000 This is the One Billion View special.
00:05:16.000 Yes.
00:05:17.000 Billion plays.
00:05:18.000 I want to give a round of applause for all of you guys.
00:05:23.000 Not Gerald.
00:05:24.000 Not Gerald.
00:05:27.000 I 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?
00:05:38.000 I would like to know.
00:05:39.000 We have some guests coming up.
00:05:40.000 We're going to have Donald Trump Jr., Ted Cruz, Alex Jones, James O'Keefe, Marco Petito, Jaco, Still has a job.
00:05:52.000 Still does have a job.
00:05:56.000 But he's very good at it.
00:05:59.000 He's working hard.
00:05:59.000 He's harder than ever.
00:06:01.000 Showing us the softer side of ISIS.
00:06:02.000 I hear the resume's out, though.
00:06:03.000 And I know that, by the way, some of you will think this is lazy.
00:06:08.000 We've used the term clip show in the past.
00:06:10.000 That 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.
00:06:16.000 Oh, I didn't mention, promo code.
00:06:18.000 There's a promo code right now.
00:06:20.000 If 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. 0.92
00:06:29.000 Mug Club was never meant to be.
00:06:31.000 Let me say something first really quickly.
00:06:32.000 Garrett, Quarter Black Garrett and Audio Wade were the ones who said we should do this show.
00:06:36.000 I kind of floated the idea.
00:06:38.000 I didn't really want to do the Billion View show.
00:06:41.000 We did the 1 million subscribers, and I said that's enough of a benchmark.
00:06:44.000 Maybe if we hit 10 million subscribers at some point.
00:06:47.000 I don't want to be the guy who rests on the laurels of how many people tune in, or how popular something is.
00:06:52.000 Well, because we've seen people do that, and then they crumble because all of their identity is based on this sort of perceived success.
00:06:59.000 And I just want to put my head down and get to work.
00:07:02.000 You mentioned that it was more important not for us.
00:07:04.000 Yeah, it's for the fans.
00:07:06.000 It's for the fans.
00:07:07.000 It's for me.
00:07:08.000 I'm a fan, you know?
00:07:09.000 I want to see all the old stuff and remember, oh yeah, we've come a long way.
00:07:12.000 And we abuse you both physically and mentally.
00:07:14.000 All the time. 0.69
00:07:15.000 Yeah, and you're still a fan.
00:07:17.000 But within the bounds of the law.
00:07:18.000 Yes, within the bounds.
00:07:21.000 That's the key.
00:07:22.000 You go right up to the line.
00:07:22.000 It is Chinese law.
00:07:23.000 I don't think they're bound by the Geneva Convention.
00:07:25.000 We do what we want.
00:07:27.000 Bamboo woodchips up the thumbnails.
00:07:31.000 So I am really grateful.
00:07:32.000 I do want to let you guys know.
00:07:33.000 I really am so grateful that you've been here for a billion plays, that you've made this what it is.
00:07:39.000 You saw from that montage, I started back in 2006 on YouTube, and then really doing regular uploads in 2009 that were more political.
00:07:46.000 I 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.
00:07:55.000 You 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?
00:08:03.000 What?
00:08:04.000 Me?
00:08:04.000 No!
00:08:06.000 And I should say, by the way, this is a billion what you guys will see publicly.
00:08:09.000 We've actually crossed a billion a long time ago, but we had to remove a bunch of videos because of the Vox apocalypse. 0.91
00:08:15.000 Fascist pricks.
00:08:15.000 Somewhere around a trillion, I think, now.
00:08:17.000 Well, 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.
00:08:30.000 Wow.
00:08:31.000 This channel, a billion, after all the videos had to be removed.
00:08:35.000 And still making no money on those billions right now?
00:08:39.000 Right now it's plus or minus zero.
00:08:42.000 Zero, just making sure.
00:08:44.000 At or above.
00:08:45.000 It's a great business model, by the way.
00:08:47.000 To be clear, there's some volatility in the market.
00:08:49.000 It's true.
00:08:50.000 Due to a certain component.
00:08:53.000 We don't try and pick monetization stocks.
00:08:55.000 We play the long ball.
00:08:56.000 And I assume that every 10 years, we zero our money.
00:08:59.000 Yeah, that's not a good strategy.
00:09:02.000 You might need a money manager.
00:09:03.000 But the good thing is, my finances are unaffected by corona.
00:09:06.000 Oh, well, there you go.
00:09:07.000 There's some stability there.
00:09:08.000 Invest and still grow.
00:09:12.000 Let me kind of give you a little bit of a brief for people who don't know you.
00:09:16.000 I started off as a stand-up comedian and actor, and really my first foray into doing more political videos was 2009.
00:09:21.000 I did work with PJTV, and then it was with Fox News for four and a half years.
00:09:29.000 God bless them, the person who's the president at Fox News now, Suzanne Scott, I have nothing but good things to say about her.
00:09:34.000 She actually, back then, she was a VP, would go in and advocate for me.
00:09:38.000 Because all I knew when I was at Fox was that Roger Ailes hated me.
00:09:42.000 He thought I was horribly unfunny.
00:09:44.000 Every time you get you, Susan.
00:09:46.000 But then I found out that he hated Norm MacDonald, so I took it as like a badge of honor.
00:09:50.000 By proxy, no.
00:09:51.000 He hated me for valid reasons. 0.98
00:09:54.000 He hated Norm MacDonald because he was crazy. 0.94
00:09:57.000 And Norm MacDonald didn't pass the twirl test. 0.64
00:09:59.000 It wasn't the best.
00:10:00.000 That's a tough one.
00:10:01.000 He has a good angle.
00:10:02.000 He's always shot from the right.
00:10:04.000 And Suzanne Scott was the one who went in and advocated for me.
00:10:06.000 With Fox News, they didn't know what they wanted to do with me.
00:10:08.000 They just knew they didn't want anyone else to have me.
00:10:10.000 And so I wasn't super happy there.
00:10:13.000 I was being paid, and I'm very grateful for it.
00:10:15.000 I was appearing a few times a week and writing articles.
00:10:17.000 But I always wanted to be doing something like this.
00:10:20.000 And 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.
00:10:31.000 I didn't make a dime on terrestrial radio for a long time.
00:10:33.000 It got syndicated out to a bunch of markets, and then we started learning how to operate a TriCaster and broadcasting from the den.
00:10:40.000 And it just kept growing and growing and turned into, you know, what it is now.
00:10:44.000 So I say this because sometimes you may have dreams, and if you're inflexible, you think you're giving up on them.
00:10:49.000 This is so much better than anything I could have anticipated, and I am genuinely grateful to be able to do this.
00:10:56.000 It's a very, very hard job.
00:10:57.000 It's a lot of work.
00:10:58.000 But I do feel blessed to be able to do this for you guys, and that you have rewarded us with a billion plays.
00:11:05.000 Because think about it, a billion plays is worth nothing if not for the people watching it.
00:11:08.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:11:09.000 Scroll over it like on Facebook and it counts as a play.
00:11:09.000 Like a billion!
00:11:11.000 That's the amount of people with coronavirus.
00:11:14.000 Soon enough, you know what I'm talking about.
00:11:17.000 You and your secret bio-weapons facilities.
00:11:20.000 But we have toilet paper so apparently we're going to be safe.
00:11:23.000 We'll have barter money.
00:11:25.000 Does anyone have any, before we get into the cinematic opens, any of your kind of favorite stories as far as...
00:11:30.000 If I can jump in here, I know Bill might want to.
00:11:32.000 You can't do it.
00:11:33.000 So, you know, a lot of people don't understand success was never guaranteed in this.
00:11:37.000 And 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.
00:11:41.000 And I remember one specifically, I can laugh at it now, but I felt so horrible.
00:11:45.000 We were having dinner, I think, or lunch.
00:11:48.000 Me, you and Hillary, we were talking about like, yeah, man, should I keep doing this?
00:11:51.000 Should I not keep doing it?
00:11:51.000 I was like, look, if you ever maybe for videos, don't get like 85,000 plays, you should maybe pick another career.
00:11:57.000 And you just like looked at me and you're like, 85,000 is actually pretty good.
00:12:00.000 Yeah, I remember.
00:12:03.000 You were saying a low bar.
00:12:04.000 Oh yeah, 85,000.
00:12:09.000 It was so funny, but at that point, you had no idea.
00:12:13.000 You 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.
00:12:21.000 Or money at all.
00:12:22.000 That's also something that I really love seeing, is now there are so many younger people who are conservative or leaning right.
00:12:28.000 Back then, and that's also, we'll talk about our top seven, seven plus one, loudest crowd of controversies over the years.
00:12:34.000 See if you can guess which ones they are.
00:12:36.000 But 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. 0.94
00:12:42.000 We didn't have the firepower to correct the record.
00:12:46.000 So it was tough.
00:12:47.000 There were no conservatives out there.
00:12:49.000 It was when edgy atheism and liberalism dominated all of YouTube.
00:12:54.000 It's amazing how things have changed.
00:12:56.000 We don't know where we're going, but it's been a crazy ride when you think about this.
00:13:02.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:13:02.000 So 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.
00:13:24.000 It was a manual thing where Bill was actually filing paperwork to counter a false claim.
00:13:29.000 We're like saying, hey, you're going to do this.
00:13:31.000 You've got to come sue us. 1.00
00:13:32.000 And then we're contacting YouTube and we're trying to fight through that system.
00:13:35.000 And 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.
00:13:58.000 Yeah, and that's how we met, was actually a man who was a groomsman at my wedding.
00:14:01.000 He's a Harvard lawyer, but I was like, hey, you're a lawyer.
00:14:03.000 And actually, Ben Shapiro negotiated my Fox contract.
00:14:06.000 Hey, you have a good last name for a lawyer.
00:14:06.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:14:10.000 And I remember our buddy, he said, well, this is not the kind of law I do, but you might want to call my buddy Bill.
00:14:15.000 Was it Engadget?
00:14:16.000 Gizmodo.
00:14:17.000 Gizmodo.
00:14:18.000 And 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.
00:14:31.000 And this was Ted Cruz for president, Fox News, Breitbart, the Chris Kyle Foundation, and then me.
00:14:41.000 One of these things is not like the other!
00:14:44.000 And 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.
00:14:58.000 It's not a conspiracy.
00:15:00.000 It's right there.
00:15:01.000 And I remember looking at the other ones, and I'm like, I know all these other ones, but who is this guy?
00:15:07.000 It was so weird because we were targeted when we were so much smaller.
00:15:10.000 And 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.
00:15:16.000 I mean, we can't, you know, we'd love to do live shows.
00:15:19.000 We don't have the ability to do them because you fill up every venue and it becomes a security issue and we appreciate it.
00:15:25.000 You guys have been so supportive.
00:15:27.000 Demonetize, 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.
00:15:41.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:15:42.000 I know I sound like a broken record, but I cannot thank you enough.
00:15:42.000 Absolutely.
00:15:46.000 Sometimes artists go out and say, like, I'm just going to do this.
00:15:48.000 I'm just going to do this for me.
00:15:50.000 It's self-important.
00:15:51.000 If I create art that is only of value to me, I am valueless. 0.98
00:15:51.000 It's bullcrap. 0.98
00:15:56.000 There is no use for what I do. 0.91
00:15:58.000 I want to create content that is enlightening, entertaining for you.
00:16:02.000 And we always try to listen to you guys.
00:16:03.000 We really do appreciate it.
00:16:05.000 Since 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.
00:16:11.000 Some people think it's a little bit steep, and right now everyone gets $20 off.
00:16:15.000 We've increased production value, and we've increased overall volume of content.
00:16:19.000 And so this brings us to our first montage.
00:16:21.000 When we first started, you know, it was a radio show.
00:16:24.000 We would do these fake little audio commercials because it was a terrestrial radio show.
00:16:27.000 We had 12 commercial breaks.
00:16:28.000 But 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. 0.98
00:16:39.000 And 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!
00:16:45.000 Only do, like, Lena Dunham warnings, Velociraptor warnings.
00:16:50.000 And I don't know who it was who called in and said, this is highly illegal.
00:16:54.000 It's on a podcast. 1.00
00:16:56.000 Whoever thinks that's a live warning is an idiot. 1.00
00:16:56.000 It's an archive. 1.00
00:16:58.000 And they said, OK, but you should stop doing it.
00:17:00.000 So we did stop doing it.
00:17:01.000 So we have these 12 commercial breaks we just have to fill because we're doing a podcast.
00:17:06.000 And we didn't want you listening to it.
00:17:07.000 Come on down to Ann Arbor Ford, Ypsilanti Ford, where if we don't give you the best price,
00:17:13.000 we're just going to give it to you, something like that. 1.00
00:17:16.000 That's the stupidest ad campaign. 1.00
00:17:18.000 I don't want to subject my listeners to that. 1.00
00:17:20.000 So I'll do pedophile parodies of Michael Jackson classics.
00:17:22.000 And we'll just put these into the commercial breaks.
00:17:25.000 And then, after the controversy of Never Daily, which will get to 7 Plus 1 controversies,
00:17:29.000 and you guys joined up at Mug Club, we realized a lot of these ideas that we had, we could now
00:17:34.000 And so we were able to do not only more on location videos, which are incredibly labor intensive,
00:17:34.000 do.
00:17:39.000 but these big intros that you guys have really come to appreciate and kind of expect,
00:17:42.000 where sometimes there's some pressure, but it keeps us on our toes.
00:17:44.000 So this is actually before we'll come back with our 7 Plus 1 controversies throughout the history
00:17:49.000 of Light Earth Crowder.
00:17:50.000 Right now, I want you to enjoy a montage of, throughout the years, the best or your favorite
00:17:55.000 that you tweeted me at scrowder, cinematic or TV parody opens.
00:18:00.000 So I'm going to go ahead and start.
00:18:03.000 I Who's the head honcho around here?
00:18:06.000 I am!
00:18:08.000 Who are you?
00:18:08.000 No 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.
00:18:16.000 And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.
00:18:19.000 Well that all depends.
00:18:21.000 You boys do conservative videos?
00:18:26.000 I have a show in constant sorrow.
00:18:32.000 It seems true.
00:18:35.000 Here is the Bob Ross scene!
00:18:44.000 He's using every illegal tactic in the book! 1.00
00:18:54.000 Drink it, you cis scum! 1.00
00:18:55.000 Be there, Mike. 1.00
00:18:57.000 Below tumblers.
00:18:58.000 Back then it was mostly just me uploading short videos and me talking to my camera.
00:19:02.000 Well back then the young turks used to make quite a bit of sport of me. 1.00
00:19:12.000 They teased me quite a bit.
00:19:14.000 How many subscribers you got on YouTube, son?
00:19:22.000 When you crossed over that one million mark, you were beautiful.
00:19:27.000 They found a way to stop your content, not at first, but right when you hit that three million subscriber mark.
00:19:35.000 You'll never hit 4 million subscribers.
00:19:38.000 I will hit 4 million.
00:19:41.000 I was always going to hit 4 million.
00:19:43.000 I see not funny people on cable television.
00:19:50.000 They don't know they're not funny.
00:19:53.000 We were demonetized before that broadcast even went live.
00:19:57.000 So what happens?
00:19:58.000 Cenk Uygur gets direct support from YouTube, and what do I get?
00:20:01.000 A one-way ticket to demonetization, Bill.
00:20:04.000 It's already been manually rejected for monetization.
00:20:07.000 There's no way they can review it that fast.
00:20:09.000 It seems that the YouTube algorithm has advanced beyond all comprehension.
00:20:13.000 Tell me you have some good news for me!
00:20:14.000 Right now, Captain! 0.99
00:20:16.000 They took out Gavin, Frigga, you got ambushed, bitch apparel's gone, and it gets worse! 1.00
00:20:20.000 It's not gonna get any worse! 0.99
00:20:22.000 Over 600 videos on the channel, all of them restricted in less than 12 minutes.
00:20:27.000 YouTube's new policies have been so secret.
00:20:30.000 No email notifications had been sent.
00:20:33.000 Throughout my years, I've come to realize there are seven words
00:20:38.000 you cannot ever, ever say on YouTube. 1.00
00:20:41.000 And these words reach our chink, tranny, faggot, fagfig, and Mexicans. 1.00
00:20:47.000 Yes, today, those are the words. 1.00
00:20:50.000 And most of them might be even more necessary than ever, because YouTube has become a liberal shithole.
00:20:57.000 Let me show you boys how a real lady does it. 1.00
00:20:59.000 I hired myself a half-Asian lawyer.
00:21:05.000 Chino.
00:21:06.000 Cortita.
00:21:10.000 Some people think he's half-Mexican, he's half-Asian.
00:21:14.000 Ah!
00:21:15.000 Thanks to our funding from Muck Club, those false plaintiffs have pulled their hard strikes again, right on time.
00:21:21.000 To the second! 0.97
00:21:22.000 They always do.
00:21:24.000 I bought them for you, and we win every time. 0.99
00:21:27.000 I hear you boys ordered a half-Asian ass-kicking. 1.00
00:21:30.000 Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman! 0.99
00:21:31.000 Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman. 1.00
00:21:33.000 I don't want no GoFundMes, I don't want no Patreons, there are too many damn white-ass conservatives on this platform. 0.98
00:21:40.000 $10,000 for me and my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, by ourselves. 0.98
00:21:45.000 We decide what gets heard or seen on YouTube.
00:21:49.000 Our Jihad is already won. 0.95
00:21:51.000 Yes.
00:21:56.000 The Ladder with Fronten Channel has somehow managed to stay afloat.
00:22:09.000 This is a tragedy, but a testament to the fact that Mug Club has allowed him the will 1.00
00:22:13.000 We no longer care!
00:22:20.000 Muck Club shall go on to the end.
00:22:24.000 We shall fight on the YouTubes.
00:22:28.000 We shall fight on the Twitters and the Instagrams.
00:22:32.000 We shall fight with unwavering confidence and growing strength even in the face of demonetization.
00:22:42.000 and demonetized.
00:22:44.000 And there we go.
00:22:52.000 Thank you.
00:22:53.000 Now, it's not only a clip show.
00:22:55.000 It's not only a clip show, but there's some of that.
00:22:58.000 Sometimes a billion views, you take a break.
00:23:02.000 Gosh, it's tough to pick my favorite.
00:23:03.000 Just look back like the volume of how many days and nights that we've worked on these yeah
00:23:08.000 So what's your what's your favorite of the montage is the intros that you I'm sorry montage the intros that we've
00:23:13.000 done You my favorite of the month. Yeah
00:23:15.000 Gosh, you know it's tough to pick the my favorite probably it still goes back to jaws the first jaws because that was
00:23:22.000 the first One we ever did yeah, and I said you know what I think I
00:23:25.000 can work on this impression And the green screening, the lighting was really good.
00:23:28.000 I'm a big fan of matching tenor and tone.
00:23:28.000 We matched.
00:23:30.000 That was up there.
00:23:31.000 Raging Bull and the recent Saving Private Ryan was technically kind of a marvel.
00:23:37.000 It was very, very nice.
00:23:39.000 I like it when Maddie dies in them.
00:23:41.000 Any of those. 1.00
00:23:42.000 When she blows up, gets shot in the head. 1.00
00:23:44.000 I'm just kidding. 0.99
00:23:45.000 Too cute, Maddie.
00:23:46.000 I'm just kidding.
00:23:48.000 How many times did I ask you to put on an outfit where you said no?
00:23:51.000 You know what's funny is I tell people all the time they're like oh wow I can't believe you like did that on the show.
00:23:57.000 Don't you like have another job?
00:24:00.000 And 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.
00:24:09.000 13... 27 times you've asked me to wear a dress and I've said no.
00:24:14.000 That wasn't even for the show.
00:24:16.000 It was just a two-way mirror at TJ Maxx. 0.99
00:24:19.000 I think that's why I ended up in a dress so many times is because he said no and I didn't have the balls. 0.96
00:24:23.000 Well you ended up in a dress because you made such a big deal out of it. 0.90
00:24:26.000 So you did it and you're like, I hate this! 0.99
00:24:27.000 I hate this freaking dress! 0.98
00:24:28.000 Guess what you're doing next week! 0.99
00:24:30.000 We just filmed you bitching about wearing a dress. 1.00
00:24:34.000 Oh, you never actually put it in the show.
00:24:35.000 As a matter of fact, we never actually request it.
00:24:37.000 Anytime you see Gerald in a dress, it's just our security cameras that we keep running.
00:24:42.000 And then we add him in like a Tupac hologram later on.
00:24:46.000 But 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.
00:24:54.000 So let's go to it.
00:24:56.000 7 plus 1.
00:25:01.000 You forgot the van in the chamber!
00:25:03.000 All right, and let me know before you pause it, if it's an archive, let me know which ones come to mind for you.
00:25:08.000 I guess, kind of starting in chronological, number seven would be the union incident in Lansing.
00:25:14.000 This was before this show existed, but I was on Fox News, and I went down, and it was a right-to-work rally, and we were in a tent.
00:25:22.000 There was this tent, it was AFP, and I was just there because, you know, there's somewhat safety in numbers.
00:25:25.000 And the guy there, there was this guy you could smell whiskey on his breath,
00:25:29.000 told everyone that I was the DeVos' grandson.
00:25:32.000 Like I'm related to the DeVos family, Betsy DeVos.
00:25:34.000 Because these leftists in Michigan, they hate the DeVos family,
00:25:36.000 despite the fact that they employ half the state.
00:25:38.000 Well above a living wage. 0.99
00:25:40.000 How darn you employ me! 1.00
00:25:42.000 So he was trying to get everyone against me for a while, like, he's the boss's grandson, get him, get him! 0.99
00:25:47.000 And then they started kicking down the tent where the right-to-work pro protesters were, cutting it in with box cutters. 0.93
00:25:55.000 And this guy tripped over a tent peg and I got just sucker punched.
00:25:58.000 You guys have probably seen this.
00:25:59.000 People often send it, like, on Twitter, like, it bothers me.
00:26:01.000 Like, I remember I was punched.
00:26:02.000 Did you realize I uploaded that?
00:26:04.000 That's the only footage that you guys have of our upload.
00:26:08.000 And the reason that was a controversy, though, was because the guy fell, got up, punched me, and then I just sort of walked away.
00:26:14.000 And then the rumor started, and it was the Young Turks, I believe, who started it, that I had shoved him first. 0.95
00:26:19.000 Because, you know, when you shove a guy, he falls this way into you.
00:26:23.000 And 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.
00:26:43.000 Is that common for a deposition like that?
00:26:46.000 For me to not know, not be there, and my evidence to not even be accepted?
00:26:50.000 It's not common that you would have been there for it to happen.
00:26:52.000 It is uncommon that they didn't come and ask you for it.
00:26:55.000 It's clear that they were looking for an answer.
00:26:57.000 They found one thing to support it, and they were just moving on.
00:27:00.000 And so this became a big thing.
00:27:01.000 It was a huge thing.
00:27:03.000 And the most frustrating part for me, just as your friend, because at that point, I don't think I was very involved with the show.
00:27:08.000 I'd call in every once in a while. 0.99
00:27:09.000 It was just like, I know Steven could have kicked that guy's ass without even thinking about it. 0.99
00:27:12.000 But you were in a mob of people. 1.00
00:27:14.000 Maybe not.
00:27:15.000 Well, 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! 1.00
00:27:20.000 I'll kill a motherfucker with a gun! 1.00
00:27:22.000 That's a guy saying it. 1.00
00:27:23.000 That's a Union guy.
00:27:24.000 And I might be able to, maybe I can find some of this footage, but several of them followed me back to my car.
00:27:28.000 Yeah, I remember that.
00:27:29.000 You're like, look, you're just going to have to walk in front of me.
00:27:31.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:27:31.000 I said, just walk in front of me.
00:27:33.000 And I think that was the guy who said, I'll kill a motherfucker with a gun. 1.00
00:27:36.000 So this just was before Antifa, before Black Lives Matter. 1.00
00:27:39.000 I was the original, the knockout game, only I didn't go down. 1.00
00:27:43.000 And then I ran scared because they said they were going to kill a motherfucker with a gun. 1.00
00:27:49.000 Referring to me, I believe. 1.00
00:27:51.000 I was the motherfucker in question. 0.99
00:27:53.000 Yes. 0.99
00:27:54.000 So that's number seven.
00:27:55.000 That was the first time I ever had become sort of a national story to that degree.
00:28:00.000 Number six.
00:28:01.000 Do you remember this one there, Court of Black Garrett?
00:28:03.000 Wendy Davis at the Women's March.
00:28:05.000 So you guys remember this?
00:28:07.000 At the Women's March.
00:28:08.000 That was before we became pals?
00:28:10.000 No, no, no.
00:28:11.000 I felt like it was a moment where you guys should have been pals.
00:28:14.000 Right, yeah.
00:28:15.000 Well, we were.
00:28:16.000 Kindred spirits.
00:28:17.000 We got an interview with Wendy Davis at the Women's March.
00:28:19.000 Which is awesome.
00:28:21.000 The reason why, you know why?
00:28:22.000 We just had a producer go up and say, hey, will you give an interview?
00:28:24.000 I'm busy.
00:28:25.000 She's trans.
00:28:26.000 Yes, sure, absolutely.
00:28:28.000 Wendy Davis came out, and the reason I picked this, do you remember, because Wendy Davis, Texas, they were grooming her for a national run. 0.99
00:28:35.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:28:36.000 With her tennis shoes and the whole deal. 0.99
00:28:37.000 Yeah, she was going to be the next Elizabeth Warner, Debbie Wasserman show.
00:28:41.000 Who failed miserably in an electorate.
00:28:42.000 Yeah.
00:28:43.000 But I think a big reason for it, so if you watch this, yeah, you can see this right now, this is at the Women's March.
00:28:43.000 Right.
00:28:46.000 Only 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.
00:28:53.000 You get a pass.
00:28:54.000 I can piss hot at a planned parenthood for pregnancy, and they're just like, well, congratulations!
00:29:00.000 And that actually happened.
00:29:01.000 You can go back and watch that video.
00:29:02.000 By the way, if a man pees test positive for a pregnancy, as I did at Planned Parenthood, it means you have testicular cancer.
00:29:09.000 But they didn't say that at Planned Parenthood.
00:29:09.000 Yes.
00:29:11.000 They're like, I don't know.
00:29:12.000 It's a boy.
00:29:16.000 But with Wendy Davis, there's a moment right here.
00:29:18.000 Here, we'll play this right now where you can see it.
00:29:19.000 If you see, my hat blows off in the wind, and my wig shifts.
00:29:25.000 And I thought, this jig is up.
00:29:26.000 This is done.
00:29:27.000 And then she's just like, oh.
00:29:28.000 I said, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
00:29:29.000 And she's like, that's OK.
00:29:30.000 It happens to the best of us.
00:29:31.000 I'm like, it does?
00:29:32.000 I'm sorry.
00:29:33.000 Put it back on.
00:29:34.000 And then she never won any sort of elected office again after that.
00:29:40.000 Because I think that if she were to run for president or even some national office, like, 0.63
00:29:43.000 hmm, yeah, okay, well, we do see your record.
00:29:45.000 We do see this pamphlet on the issues.
00:29:46.000 Is this not you with a big tranny at the Women's March with his wig and cap flying off discussing 1.00
00:29:53.000 p****y economics? 0.99
00:29:54.000 I quote, p***y economics. 0.97
00:29:56.000 Miss Davis. 0.60
00:29:57.000 And there were all these articles about it and how it was misleading.
00:30:00.000 And that was one where I was like, yes, it was.
00:30:02.000 Yeah, on purpose.
00:30:03.000 We'll own that one.
00:30:04.000 That is the purpose of our cover.
00:30:06.000 Miss, no question. 0.96
00:30:07.000 That's awesome, though, because you can put her in a corner. 1.00
00:30:08.000 She can't do anything against you.
00:30:10.000 Like, the whole wig could have come off.
00:30:11.000 You could have started talking like a man again.
00:30:13.000 And she'd just be like, I can't, I can't not believe you.
00:30:15.000 I have to believe you.
00:30:16.000 If she questioned it, she would have been done.
00:30:17.000 Oh yeah, they give you all kinds of cover if you just claim it.
00:30:22.000 Because they say, well, you know what, you're a marginalized group.
00:30:25.000 OK.
00:30:27.000 I can just go out and commit families.
00:30:27.000 I guess that's fine.
00:30:30.000 Whatever.
00:30:31.000 Is this number five?
00:30:33.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:30:34.000 This is number five.
00:30:35.000 I was working with you at this point.
00:30:37.000 This was undercover Antifa.
00:30:38.000 Yeah.
00:30:41.000 And this was one where it actually led to the arrests of people, which is funny because the media coverage said no arrests were made.
00:30:49.000 Not only were arrests made, they were made based on the weapon that was handed to my producer on camera earlier that day.
00:30:58.000 We went down, there was a Ben Shapiro show in Utah, for people who don't remember, and you didn't go with us, right?
00:31:03.000 No, it was before my time.
00:31:04.000 Well, had you worked intermittently with us?
00:31:08.000 I came and worked in before.
00:31:08.000 OK.
00:31:09.000 And then you came back.
00:31:10.000 Yeah.
00:31:11.000 And I know my dad went down with me, because most people didn't want to go into this quagmire.
00:31:16.000 And obviously, Not Gay Jared was with me. 0.76
00:31:18.000 And we went down.
00:31:19.000 And they handed Not Gay Jared. 0.67
00:31:21.000 We thought it would be funny. 0.84
00:31:21.000 It was a goof! 0.84
00:31:23.000 It really was.
00:31:24.000 And then they hand him an ice pick.
00:31:25.000 He's like, oh.
00:31:26.000 This is not a goof.
00:31:28.000 A taser and a knife.
00:31:29.000 I'm like, just hold on. 0.59
00:31:30.000 I'm going to get my sawed-off shotgun.
00:31:31.000 He's like, ah!
00:31:33.000 Jared has a really jerry-rigged earpiece.
00:31:36.000 It was an iPhone with a headphone thing.
00:31:39.000 All I hear is him going, like, they're giving me knives.
00:31:41.000 I'm in the car with my dad.
00:31:42.000 They're giving me knives.
00:31:43.000 I'm like, what?
00:31:45.000 I'm sure if they heard his earpiece, they would just hear, did you just say they're giving you knives?
00:31:49.000 Oh my god.
00:31:53.000 And then he goes, oh, they're going to get a sawed off shotgun.
00:31:58.000 They're going to get a sawed-off shotgun and a K-Bar.
00:32:01.000 Did you just say K-Bar?
00:32:02.000 I'm like, yeah, okay.
00:32:03.000 He goes, you want me to stay?
00:32:04.000 And we go, you have to get out of there, Jared.
00:32:06.000 And then we share, I don't know.
00:32:06.000 You have to get out of there.
00:32:08.000 Oh, okay.
00:32:08.000 Hold on.
00:32:09.000 Hey guys, I gotta take a s***. 0.92
00:32:11.000 And he just left. 0.95
00:32:13.000 He just left.
00:32:15.000 But just for us to use the car.
00:32:17.000 No, no, not at all.
00:32:18.000 And so then after that, we're thinking, I texted Ben Shapiro.
00:32:21.000 Well, thank you.
00:32:21.000 And they were kind of standing with a K bar.
00:32:22.000 I'm like, you're welcome.
00:32:25.000 Just saved your life.
00:32:26.000 No, I did.
00:32:26.000 I told him.
00:32:27.000 I did tell him.
00:32:27.000 I said right away, hey, be careful.
00:32:29.000 He came in the back way.
00:32:30.000 And then we were dealing with the local police right there.
00:32:32.000 So the local police said, what do you have?
00:32:34.000 Do you have this footage?
00:32:35.000 We said, yeah.
00:32:35.000 We had brought in our laptops.
00:32:36.000 Yeah.
00:32:37.000 There was local news there.
00:32:39.000 And I said, hey, do you guys want this footage?
00:32:40.000 Because I know you're covering the protest.
00:32:42.000 Here is the action I was showing them.
00:32:43.000 Look, this is the actual footage.
00:32:45.000 See, they're handing him a knife.
00:32:46.000 They're handing him a taser. 0.99
00:32:47.000 They're saying that they're going to get sawed off shot. 0.89
00:32:49.000 This is on camera.
00:32:50.000 Yeah.
00:32:51.000 Every single local reporter turned it down.
00:32:54.000 Had no interest.
00:32:55.000 I said, by the way, this is legitimate.
00:32:56.000 We're going into the police van right now to offload the footage.
00:33:00.000 You can have the exclusive.
00:33:01.000 And with Ben Shapiro that day was that reporter from, what was his name there, Darren?
00:33:08.000 Do we know the name of that report from 60 Minutes?
00:33:10.000 The guy had a panic attack live on air.
00:33:12.000 Does someone remember the name of this guy?
00:33:14.000 That guy.
00:33:15.000 All right, someone will bring it up and give it to me afterwards.
00:33:17.000 Anyways, national news.
00:33:19.000 And he was looking at it, and we said, look, look, look, they're handing us a knife right here.
00:33:22.000 They looked in a taser, and he goes like, oh, OK.
00:33:25.000 And then afterward, we saw them all go out and say, a largely peaceful protest.
00:33:28.000 Exactly.
00:33:29.000 That 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.
00:33:44.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:33:45.000 And I swear to you, the girl who was arrested for using that taser was going, you better give my knife back, asshole. 1.00
00:33:51.000 Are you serious? 1.00
00:33:51.000 I'm in jail. 1.00
00:33:52.000 When I get out of this cell, I better have my knife waiting for me or I'm going to sue.
00:33:56.000 Give me my evidence back.
00:33:58.000 Good luck.
00:33:58.000 Yeah.
00:34:00.000 That's when Antifa was basically, you know, peaceful.
00:34:02.000 Everybody thought they were peaceful.
00:34:03.000 You guys turned into, like, undercover journalists there.
00:34:07.000 And it wasn't just that he was going back to get a shotgun.
00:34:08.000 It was, I have a fallback position.
00:34:11.000 If things go down, we can, like, fall back to my car.
00:34:13.000 I have multiple guns there.
00:34:15.000 We're like, what?
00:34:16.000 Is this peaceful protest?
00:34:17.000 It was like, was it in Patriot, where you're running back?
00:34:19.000 Or in Robber Hood, where then they come up from, like, the dirt trap.
00:34:22.000 Surprise!
00:34:24.000 Only it's, you know, people in bandanas who are gender non-binary.
00:34:27.000 And the guy who turned the story down is, let's see, Dan Harris.
00:34:31.000 Yeah, the 10% happier guy.
00:34:35.000 Meditation and all that stuff.
00:34:37.000 And 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.
00:34:47.000 They really, really don't.
00:34:49.000 Listen, you can argue, okay, some people on the far right are aggressive and then some
00:34:53.000 people on the far left and they're fringe, but they weren't arguing that.
00:34:56.000 Like I said, they were arguing Antifa is a peaceful organization, like Vox, they're anti-fascist,
00:35:00.000 that's all it is.
00:35:01.000 It's a crime.
00:35:02.000 It's a crime.
00:35:03.000 It's a serious crime.
00:35:04.000 Serious crimes were committed, people were arrested, and it was not a peep.
00:35:08.000 So thank you guys so much, because we got tens of millions of plays on that, and it was covered.
00:35:12.000 That 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.
00:35:24.000 That's something that I think changed the view of Antifa.
00:35:27.000 And we didn't go out and sort of champion our own cause, saying, hey, we're the ones who exposed Antifa.
00:35:31.000 But 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.
00:35:39.000 Exactly.
00:35:40.000 This next one is very much, this is three?
00:35:44.000 Four.
00:35:46.000 Four.
00:35:46.000 It's when Bob Ross.
00:35:47.000 This is the Bob Ross estate.
00:35:49.000 This is when we tested the retainer.
00:35:52.000 Yes, you did.
00:35:55.000 Now, Audio, you were new here, but when did you start watching the show?
00:35:59.000 I think the first thing I ever saw was the undercover Muslim bakery.
00:36:04.000 Oh, yeah.
00:36:05.000 That was just me with an iPhone.
00:36:06.000 Yeah, so I remember watching that and talking about the sting.
00:36:10.000 It was sort of like an undercover thing, but it was also funny.
00:36:12.000 Talking 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...
00:36:23.000 I'm not looking to sue.
00:36:24.000 We were looking to entertain people.
00:36:25.000 Hey, look at this.
00:36:26.000 I was very clear. 1.00
00:36:27.000 I was like, hey, I don't think Muslims should have to bake a penis cake, but you do. 1.00
00:36:30.000 That was the point of the video. 0.99
00:36:31.000 And I used to have all these conservatives, and I think they approach you now with like,
00:36:37.000 hey, you know what?
00:36:38.000 You have a case here.
00:36:39.000 You should sue.
00:36:40.000 I'm like, first off, I'm not looking to sue.
00:36:41.000 I'm looking to create content.
00:36:42.000 Now, in the case of our show, let's say we're throttled, we're unfairly treated.
00:36:47.000 That's where if you look at the options of being litigious, but we can't just go out 1.00
00:36:50.000 looking for controversy and suing.
00:36:51.000 We always seek to create content.
00:36:53.000 And that was a Muslim thing. 0.90
00:36:54.000 And the hypocrisy was so funny. 0.97
00:36:56.000 Yeah.
00:36:57.000 Especially at that point in culture, it was all about that bakery.
00:37:01.000 It was a perfect time to drop that. 0.99
00:37:03.000 Just the balls. 0.99
00:37:05.000 The Muslims were very friendly in saying no. 0.99
00:37:07.000 Can you bake a cake?
00:37:09.000 I'm like, and two men?
00:37:10.000 And they're holding hands?
00:37:12.000 No.
00:37:16.000 So, did you see the Bob Ross, the original one?
00:37:18.000 I don't think I did.
00:37:19.000 It's the greatest video ever.
00:37:22.000 Well, this is a good example of it.
00:37:23.000 We were doing a three-hour show, so this was back when it was a radio show, and it was bizarre.
00:37:27.000 The 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.
00:37:34.000 So, it was just an idea.
00:37:36.000 This was in the middle of a three-hour show.
00:37:37.000 We didn't upload it as a clip, I don't think, for a while.
00:37:40.000 It was just, hey, let's do Bob Ross.
00:37:41.000 It might have been after Charlie Hebdo.
00:37:43.000 I'm not sure.
00:37:44.000 I might have just wanted to piss some people off.
00:37:46.000 It had been a while.
00:37:46.000 Thank you.
00:37:47.000 Yeah.
00:37:48.000 It had been a while.
00:37:49.000 So I figured I was due for, I'm like, oh, that head is fatwa-less.
00:37:53.000 I was about to say, did your fatwa expire and you wanted to re-up or what?
00:37:58.000 And so we just did that.
00:37:59.000 We threw it into the three-hour show, where I was painting Bob Ross as Muhammad. 0.96
00:38:03.000 And we thought that was it.
00:38:04.000 Well, that was not it.
00:38:05.000 That was definitely not it.
00:38:07.000 That blew up.
00:38:08.000 It became very big.
00:38:09.000 And then we did it a second time.
00:38:11.000 Oh no, that first time, I remember Nick DiPaolo was on that show.
00:38:14.000 God love him.
00:38:15.000 Nick DiPaolo, one of the funniest people on earth.
00:38:18.000 But we had a thumbnail, and it's a picture of me, Nick DiPaolo, and the Muhammad. 0.97
00:38:23.000 Painting.
00:38:23.000 Yeah.
00:38:24.000 And I just got a phone call.
00:38:25.000 Sorry, the censor button today, but I get a phone call.
00:38:28.000 Ring, ring.
00:38:28.000 I'm like, Nick DiPaolo.
00:38:29.000 I remember I was driving.
00:38:29.000 I was driving in downtown Grand Rapids.
00:38:31.000 I was going to a coffee place.
00:38:33.000 What was a coffee place?
00:38:34.000 I can't remember what it was.
00:38:36.000 Madcap.
00:38:37.000 And then I get another call from Nick DiPaolo.
00:38:38.000 I'm like, oh, that's two calls.
00:38:39.000 Maybe it's an emergency.
00:38:40.000 I pick it up.
00:38:40.000 Hello?
00:38:41.000 Are you out of your f***ing mind? 0.99
00:38:44.000 What? 0.99
00:38:45.000 You know, I think, like, you're talented. 0.99
00:38:47.000 You got balls. 0.97
00:38:48.000 But you have me next. 1.00
00:38:48.000 Are you kidding me? 1.00
00:38:49.000 You have my picture right up there next to a f***ing painting of Muhammad? 1.00
00:38:52.000 What, are you crazy? 0.99
00:38:55.000 You gotta change it! 0.99
00:38:56.000 You gotta change it now!
00:38:58.000 Get me off! 1.00
00:38:59.000 I'm like, well, yeah, you know, you're no stranger to controversy. 0.90
00:39:01.000 Yeah, but there's some f***ing context! 0.86
00:39:03.000 It's not just my face next to Mohammed! 1.00
00:39:08.000 And I said, well, I can change it, but I'm not home.
00:39:10.000 It's gonna take me a couple hours.
00:39:11.000 He's like, get home!
00:39:14.000 So that was the first one.
00:39:16.000 Nothing happened.
00:39:17.000 Yeah, nothing on the legal side.
00:39:18.000 And then there was BuzzFeed Boldly painting in period blood.
00:39:22.000 And this was featured on YouTube front page.
00:39:26.000 And I think we spoke with some people at YouTube, and I think they did something that was also religious.
00:39:30.000 It was something with Christ.
00:39:31.000 It was like Piss Christ, and I don't remember exactly what it was.
00:39:34.000 So we said, well, okay.
00:39:37.000 Now this is happening.
00:39:38.000 And we brought back Bob Ross to paint Muhammad in menstruation.
00:39:43.000 And this was just because they had featured it from BuzzFeed Boldly.
00:39:47.000 We said, let's add a different layer to this.
00:39:49.000 And that was a problem.
00:39:51.000 It's always the layering that gets us in trouble.
00:39:53.000 The Muhammad layer. 1.00
00:39:54.000 Not long after this, we receive a letter.
00:39:57.000 We receive an actual letter, right?
00:39:59.000 And you tell them what the letter was.
00:40:00.000 It was from... Yeah, so it was from the estate of Bob Ross, who owns the rights to his likeness and his materials and whatnot.
00:40:08.000 And they were upset over the painting and the sketch and the content and every minute and second of it.
00:40:19.000 And they were very interested in demanding that we take it down, and they listed out some legal arguments which we responded to.
00:40:29.000 One of them was also that, as you know, is a flagrant disregard for Islamic law and customs. 0.87
00:40:33.000 Yes.
00:40:34.000 So it was that.
00:40:36.000 There was a couple, you know, legal arguments about copyright and some other, you know, use of likeness and a few other things.
00:40:43.000 So we wrote back... Which we knew we were in the clear on that.
00:40:45.000 Yeah, we knew we were good on that stuff.
00:40:47.000 I mean, we knew, you know, there may have been some, you know, social mores that we were crossing, but certainly no legal lines.
00:40:54.000 But you knew that when you signed up for this right anyway.
00:40:56.000 I was like, on the copyright front, we're fine, right?
00:40:59.000 Yeah, you're fine, but you probably shouldn't paint Mohammed in period blood.
00:41:02.000 I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter.
00:41:03.000 That's not your domain.
00:41:05.000 That's not the question for you, lawyer.
00:41:07.000 I could find any lawyer to tell me, no, I want you to show me yes.
00:41:12.000 It's like the Jerry Maguire, yeah, exactly.
00:41:15.000 And so we responded, you know, tore apart their arguments, you know, show why there was just no way it was gonna happen.
00:41:23.000 So they wrote back again and they said, you know, just if you have any human decency.
00:41:29.000 Will you take it down?
00:41:30.000 They gave up on the legal arguments.
00:41:33.000 They gave up on the social more arguments. 0.86
00:41:35.000 But they were still pretty jerky, because they were telling us we didn't have any decency.
00:41:38.000 Yes.
00:41:39.000 And that is why.
00:41:40.000 And this is one of the times where I said, hey, half-Asian Bill. 0.99
00:41:43.000 And I think now, if I were to ask, you would dress up as Bob Ross now, because you dressed up as Tattoo. 1.00
00:41:47.000 Bob Ross is nothing.
00:41:49.000 But at the time, it was the first request where I said, Bill, will you respond as Bob Ross?
00:41:55.000 And he said, no.
00:41:57.000 No, I think I will always be happy to be Bob Ross.
00:42:02.000 What I'm painting is Bob Ross.
00:42:03.000 That's a difference.
00:42:06.000 I 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.
00:42:17.000 That was my only line.
00:42:19.000 It was like, Bill, stand there.
00:42:22.000 And then it was in like one change.
00:42:24.000 It was like, stand, stand, stand, stand, lick lips.
00:42:26.000 I was like, nope.
00:42:27.000 Who am I, Drake?
00:42:28.000 Nope, not happening.
00:42:30.000 Am I doing this?
00:42:31.000 No, I'm not doing it.
00:42:33.000 But you know, we wrote back in response to that last letter.
00:42:37.000 They were like, please just take it down.
00:42:40.000 In 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. 0.95
00:42:48.000 I 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. 0.98
00:43:08.000 Yes. 0.97
00:43:09.000 This is the moment I was like, this show, the greatest show of all time.
00:43:12.000 Along with Muhammad. 1.00
00:43:14.000 We just tossed it in there and here's actually a clip to the grand finale of the Bob Ross controversy
00:43:21.000 Welcome back to the joy of painting I'm Bob Ross.
00:43:42.000 Now, painting can be used as more than just something that's beautiful to look at.
00:43:47.000 It can be used to express oneself.
00:43:49.000 Sometimes 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.
00:44:02.000 We have a lot of different viewers here at the Joy of Painting.
00:44:05.000 Some viewers are policemen, some are firemen, and some are lawyers who we'll be responding to today.
00:44:13.000 Who have talked about this show with great vigor that Bob Ross is in violation of copyright law.
00:44:20.000 So we want to respond to them and make sure they know they're welcome on this program so you can grab your palette.
00:44:26.000 Today we'll be working with a lot of Browns. 1.00
00:44:29.000 A lot of browns.
00:44:30.000 The beauty of brown here is you can mix it with any color and it's a different brown.
00:44:34.000 Become a bay or a taupe. 0.95
00:44:37.000 For our passionate lawyer friend, we're gonna start by drawing a pile of s**t. Just with little short strokes. 0.98
00:44:49.000 There you go. 0.96
00:44:49.000 It's a little, starts off as a molehill and turns into a mountain. 0.96
00:44:54.000 Just a big old mountain of s**t. 0.99
00:45:00.000 And there we go. 1.00
00:45:02.000 Just a valley of piping hot shit. 1.00
00:45:06.000 We'll mix up some color, add some red in there. 0.99
00:45:08.000 It'll make it a little bit more of a cocoa flavoring at that point.
00:45:14.000 Give it some depth.
00:45:15.000 And 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. 0.95
00:45:29.000 Like 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. 0.97
00:45:42.000 I'm sure with a firm they have some lawyer friends. 0.98
00:45:45.000 I'm still going with brown.
00:45:48.000 You can use any color you like.
00:45:50.000 Taupe or sand.
00:45:53.000 Depends on the diet.
00:45:54.000 Here's another lawyer.
00:45:56.000 And there you go. 0.99
00:45:58.000 Or sent out in droves onto YouTube to flag as violations eating from our firm but corn infested pile of s**t. Oh, there you go. 0.97
00:46:11.000 Everyone's sharing. 0.98
00:46:15.000 There's plenty of this pile of s**t to go around for the entire firm. 0.93
00:46:20.000 If you feel like there's not enough, you can wait your turn. 1.00
00:46:23.000 There's plenty of room for you to eat at this big old mountain of sh**. 0.99
00:46:29.000 And there we go. 0.99
00:46:31.000 Oh, that's lovely.
00:46:33.000 And you know what? We're a big fan of traditions.
00:46:37.000 you Here at the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, and they look like they could use a friend.
00:46:42.000 So let's finish this up with a nice little portrait of Muhammad. 0.99
00:46:47.000 Joining them and eating from this big old pile of sh**. 0.99
00:46:52.000 There he is, Muhammad. 0.99
00:46:55.000 Holiest of prophets, peace be upon him.
00:46:57.000 With a team of false, trademark-flagging lawyers.
00:47:03.000 Eating. 0.99
00:47:04.000 From a big pile of personally drawn s**t. From me to you, I'm Bob Ross. 0.90
00:47:11.000 Happy painting, and God bless you, my friend.
00:47:14.000 ♪ And then we never heard from them again.
00:47:29.000 Yeah.
00:47:30.000 Like I said, we are not the sharks of YouTube, but we can be a puffer fish. 0.87
00:47:34.000 In that, you bite us, you hurt your mouth, or even if you capture us, and you kill us, and you cook us up, we're going to poison you. 0.83
00:47:41.000 One way or the other. 1.00
00:47:42.000 Either way.
00:47:43.000 Unsafe, really.
00:47:43.000 It's all coming up Crowder.
00:47:45.000 So number three.
00:47:48.000 This one we don't really need to go through for that long.
00:47:50.000 It was the ABC Disney Oscars stream that was pulled.
00:47:53.000 And the reason this was pretty significant was because we'd been dealing with false copyright stuff a lot.
00:47:57.000 And what happened was we would have all these claims.
00:47:59.000 We've never lost any of those hard claims.
00:48:01.000 They'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.
00:48:08.000 But 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.
00:48:15.000 Because at that point, you lose those viewers, you never get them back.
00:48:18.000 Exactly.
00:48:19.000 And this was the second or third year we were doing the Oscars.
00:48:22.000 It wasn't the first year.
00:48:22.000 It was the second.
00:48:23.000 And it was ABC-Disney, and they were waiting because it happened very quickly where the Oscar stream was taken down right away.
00:48:32.000 And the reason I bring this up is because obviously it got up later.
00:48:35.000 We won this because we were in the right, but you don't get those viewers back, and so we were really upset.
00:48:39.000 But so many of you, so many people in that moment, you joined up at Mug Club.
00:48:43.000 You went right to the livewithcredit.com.
00:48:45.000 It was huge.
00:48:46.000 And then we had, I think we had live stream over at Mug Club, or was it The Blaze?
00:48:50.000 At that point we didn't have live streaming, I don't think, at The Blaze.
00:48:52.000 No, we didn't.
00:48:53.000 It was still on Facebook, I believe.
00:48:55.000 It was on Facebook.
00:48:55.000 Then we went to Instagram.
00:48:57.000 Instagram, just with my cell phone video, and the amount of viewers was shocking.
00:49:01.000 So not only did you watch, but once it was removed, you guys said, you know what, I'm going to sign up.
00:49:06.000 So many people actually double signed up, or renewed their subscriptions for three years.
00:49:10.000 Just 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.
00:49:18.000 It was a moment that the fans and the people that are watching saw it in real time.
00:49:23.000 They 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.
00:49:34.000 But they saw it, in real time, as they're watching the show, us get taken down.
00:49:37.000 So I think it was a big moment.
00:49:38.000 I 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.
00:49:46.000 Not 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.
00:49:54.000 Every time we talk about Mug Club and what Mug Club does, literally the show cannot happen No.
00:49:59.000 This is the only, we have no Patreon, we have no GoFundMe, because you see what they do
00:50:02.000 with conservatives.
00:50:03.000 We said we only want to be funded by you and if you select sponsors, which we'll get to
00:50:07.000 in a minute, we've really only had, can I talk about the sponsors that have dropped
00:50:10.000 us?
00:50:11.000 No, no, no.
00:50:12.000 No, I view that as a turning point too because, you know, people can use a gimmick like, oh
00:50:18.000 You gotta support us.
00:50:19.000 You're the only way.
00:50:19.000 And I know that we tell them, like, hey guys, this is the only way that this exists, is if you are a part of Mug Club.
00:50:24.000 That showed everybody.
00:50:26.000 It 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.
00:50:34.000 They can just do stuff like this to them.
00:50:35.000 They'll just screw them somehow.
00:50:37.000 They'll figure out a way, and so we've gotta get around it.
00:50:38.000 And 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.
00:50:45.000 Right, 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.
00:51:04.000 Right, it was so obvious.
00:51:06.000 Tiny, tiny percentage.
00:51:07.000 So, and then you guys got us back up and stronger than ever.
00:51:10.000 Okay, this brings us to number two.
00:51:12.000 This is one that many of you may have forgotten about because it happened a little while ago.
00:51:15.000 This was my favorite.
00:51:16.000 Literally my favorite one.
00:51:17.000 This might be my favorite one too.
00:51:18.000 Well, 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.
00:51:26.000 And I will say, Bill took my side, where he said, no, no, you can do this.
00:51:29.000 So Shia LaBeouf, if you don't... Okay, number two, when we were sued by Shia LaBeouf.
00:51:29.000 Absolutely.
00:51:35.000 Context.
00:51:37.000 You know, you're bearing the lead here.
00:51:41.000 We beat Shia LaBeouf.
00:51:42.000 We beat Shia LaBeouf in a lawsuit, that's true.
00:51:45.000 So he did the He Will Not Divide Us, you remember, after Donald Trump became president.
00:51:48.000 He will not divide us!
00:51:50.000 He will not divide us!
00:51:51.000 And 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.
00:52:00.000 And so we're like, OK, so this is up there.
00:52:01.000 This is a stream that's up there.
00:52:03.000 Not many people were watching it, but it was making some headlines.
00:52:06.000 And so I said, hey, I have an idea.
00:52:08.000 How about we go to New York and we broadcast our entire show from Shia LaBeouf's stream?
00:52:16.000 And here's the thing, this is one thing I will say again with Mug Club and what you guys do that support us.
00:52:21.000 Anyone can just go there and go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah So this is why I love Half-Asian Bill, because he said, that's probably a no, but what if?
00:52:47.000 And so what we did was we created these sort of, almost like a snare drum, neck band, soundboard.
00:52:51.000 It's like a cigarette lady. 1.00
00:52:53.000 Yes, exactly, like a cigarette lady. 1.00
00:52:55.000 And a desk with a microphone and mugs, and we went there to Shia LaBeouf's live stream and broadcast our entire show.
00:53:02.000 And also, God love him, Dean Cain was there to fill in the holes for Good Morning America.
00:53:06.000 That's right, he showed up.
00:53:08.000 extra day so that while we were doing the he will not divide us live stream and
00:53:11.000 now we started having fans flooding in right yeah security and officers going
00:53:14.000 what's going on here we have Dean Cain walking like hey Dean Cain!
00:53:18.000 And we have Dean Cain on Shia LaBeouf's he will not divide us live stream. And a side note from Dean Cain.
00:53:22.000 Dean Cain is the kind of guy who makes you very sad because he's so he's just
00:53:27.000 He's very good looking.
00:53:28.000 He's very smart.
00:53:29.000 And when you spend time with him, you realize he's actually really quick and kind of acid.
00:53:33.000 He's an acid-tongued Asian. 1.00
00:53:35.000 Oh, wow.
00:53:36.000 At one point, I just remember this.
00:53:38.000 I have a necklace, mug, and microphone.
00:53:42.000 And we're in a Mexican restaurant.
00:53:43.000 It's right around the corner from You Will Not Divide Us.
00:53:45.000 And I'm getting ready.
00:53:47.000 And Dean Cain is sitting there with me.
00:53:48.000 And he's eating.
00:53:49.000 He has an entire bowl of guacamole.
00:53:50.000 He's on his second bowl of guacamole.
00:53:52.000 And a big-ass margarita.
00:53:54.000 It looks like pink with salt around the rim.
00:53:56.000 And I'm trying, you know, before the show, I'm focusing on a million different things.
00:53:58.000 I'm like, I'm about to go out. 0.99
00:53:59.000 I'm gonna get my ass kicked by Shia LaBeouf. 0.99
00:54:00.000 And so, I mean, you know, like, body shots. 0.99
00:54:04.000 Just do the pullback.
00:54:07.000 And I go, oh, wait, wait, wait.
00:54:09.000 I'm sorry.
00:54:10.000 Dean, Dean, I'm sorry.
00:54:11.000 I didn't realize no one's here with you at the restaurant, because you're going to be here for 20 minutes when we start the show.
00:54:15.000 Do you need any help?
00:54:16.000 Do you need anything?
00:54:17.000 And he goes, no.
00:54:20.000 Really?
00:54:20.000 Are you sure?
00:54:20.000 He goes, yeah.
00:54:21.000 You know why I'm sure?
00:54:22.000 And he takes a nacho, guacamole, and a sip of his margarita. 0.99
00:54:25.000 He goes, because I'm a grown ass f***ing man. 0.96
00:54:33.000 This is my life So do you remember in the beginning of the live stream when you were doing it? 0.97
00:54:41.000 There 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.
00:55:02.000 Mug club, you guys should join. 1.00
00:55:03.000 And you know he's just so pissed that he did this, right?
00:55:07.000 Well, he got pissed and right away they basically came after us to sue us.
00:55:10.000 It was Lebev Ronko Turner, I think was the firm or whatever, and it was, I think, the
00:55:14.000 lesser Lebev Ronko Turner, it was Ronko.
00:55:17.000 Yeah, it's the other creators, you know, they each share in the alleged copyright.
00:55:22.000 And he was threatening to sue.
00:55:25.000 And 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.
00:55:33.000 They saw a spike, like, we gotta stop, we gotta put a stop to this.
00:55:37.000 And 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.
00:55:48.000 Yes, it was like, capture the flag.
00:55:51.000 So it was good.
00:55:53.000 So we were sued by Shia LaBeouf, his guys, and we won.
00:55:56.000 Number 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.
00:56:08.000 Boom.
00:56:10.000 And 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.
00:56:16.000 I mean, we had talked a lot about being demonetized.
00:56:19.000 Most of our videos had been demonetized.
00:56:20.000 We'd been throttled, where our videos weren't showing up in subscriber feeds.
00:56:22.000 It was like 90% of videos.
00:56:23.000 Right.
00:56:25.000 But that being said, we didn't have this kind of a consequence ever before.
00:56:28.000 No, right.
00:56:29.000 And it all of a sudden burst out, this highlight reel, this hit reel on me.
00:56:32.000 I remember the Hodge twins saying it.
00:56:34.000 They were like, yeah, I was seeing you and your dad.
00:56:36.000 You were on Don Lemon's show going, quack, quack, quack, quack. 0.97
00:56:40.000 And John Lim is saying, disgusting!
00:56:45.000 And 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.
00:56:54.000 Insane.
00:56:56.000 But this changed policy for YouTube.
00:56:58.000 Yeah, it did.
00:56:59.000 Because we did not violate the policies, which, by the way, New York Times, we're looking for that retraction.
00:57:03.000 We coming for you!
00:57:06.000 We didn't violate any policy at all, but people were so mad.
00:57:09.000 And people really weren't mad.
00:57:10.000 It was a leftist hate mob trying to go after us.
00:57:13.000 They demonetized us, even though most of our videos didn't run afoul of demonetization.
00:57:18.000 And I will tell you this, I've talked about this kind of on air.
00:57:21.000 But not so much.
00:57:21.000 When YouTube called after this was going on, the highlight reel, and it was trending everywhere, and I was on the phone.
00:57:28.000 Half-Asian Bill was not with me. 1.00
00:57:29.000 You were somewhere else.
00:57:29.000 And they were reading a statement.
00:57:31.000 Remember?
00:57:32.000 It was people from YouTube, faceless, nameless.
00:57:34.000 They didn't give names.
00:57:34.000 We had no idea who they were.
00:57:35.000 Well, 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.
00:57:44.000 Yes.
00:57:46.000 They started reading a statement, and the first portion of the statement read like they were going to remove our channel from YouTube.
00:57:53.000 But then it ended up being, we're just going to demonetize you. 0.94
00:57:56.000 And I was like, well, OK.
00:57:57.000 All right.
00:57:57.000 We're not making that much money from you guys anyway.
00:58:00.000 But at first, for about a good 23 seconds, I thought, oh, no.
00:58:04.000 Oh, no. 0.98
00:58:04.000 They're going to have to switch because these angry gay folks at Vox are trying to manipulate policy. 0.98
00:58:10.000 And I remember the room started spinning, and my knees went out, and I thought I was having a heart attack. 0.96
00:58:16.000 Really?
00:58:17.000 I remember I thought I was having a... turns out it was like a... I don't even think it was a panic attack.
00:58:20.000 I 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.
00:58:27.000 Yeah.
00:58:27.000 And I fell back and I remember thinking just, oh my gosh, everyone works for us.
00:58:30.000 What are we going to do at this point?
00:58:32.000 Because we hadn't really been super public about it.
00:58:34.000 We hadn't fought back yet.
00:58:36.000 This is before we had done the apology video.
00:58:38.000 So I was thinking if they just remove our channel, then it goes away in the dark.
00:58:42.000 You know, we wanted this to be a firefight in public.
00:58:45.000 And then when they said, OK, you're just demonetized.
00:58:46.000 I mean, that for me was a relief.
00:58:47.000 Like, whoo!
00:58:48.000 OK, good, you know?
00:58:49.000 Like, I just did the Snickers commercial, where someone just shoved one in my mouth.
00:58:53.000 Which, by the way, don't do if someone's having a seizure.
00:58:54.000 Do not shove a Snickers in his mouth if he's having a seizure.
00:58:57.000 And remember, we came back in.
00:58:59.000 And I came back into the room.
00:59:00.000 I don't think you guys knew how rattled I was.
00:59:02.000 And I said, OK, this is what we're going to do.
00:59:04.000 And we did the apology video that was 16 minutes of insulting everybody.
00:59:08.000 It 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.
00:59:15.000 Yeah, we just wanted to be careful.
00:59:16.000 And you guys joined up so much to the point where when YouTube spoke of this afterwards, going, do you use YouTube memberships?
00:59:21.000 We said...
00:59:22.000 No.
00:59:23.000 We don't.
00:59:23.000 I do like Vice News.
00:59:25.000 They reported that the whole thing just made the show stronger.
00:59:29.000 Yes.
00:59:30.000 They were furious about it.
00:59:31.000 And it absolutely did.
00:59:32.000 Yeah, it made it a whole lot stronger.
00:59:35.000 We had more subscribers than ever.
00:59:37.000 And by the way, there could be another Vox Adpocalypse.
00:59:39.000 But this is what really stood out to me.
00:59:42.000 This was the first time that someone had done an all out assault.
00:59:46.000 Make no mistake, this was something that was a long time in the making.
00:59:49.000 Yeah.
00:59:49.000 from Vox and Media Matters.
00:59:50.000 Poorly produced them all.
00:59:51.000 They pulled all of the worst things they could pull.
00:59:54.000 Everyone, 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.
01:00:03.000 Which, like I said, sent more people to our show.
01:00:06.000 This was the first show that had that happen and we won.
01:00:10.000 And we weren't de-platformed.
01:00:11.000 And I will say this, there have been unjust de-platformings that we've gone in and we can't do it for everybody.
01:00:16.000 But we all... General rule is, unless someone is breaking the law, they shouldn't be de-platformed.
01:00:20.000 Okay?
01:00:21.000 Right. Yeah.
01:00:21.000 But, um, it was, uh, it was one of those things where, um, I forgot what I was about to say, but...
01:00:26.000 Go ahead.
01:00:26.000 Well, I think, I think this was probably for me because I was on the outside.
01:00:30.000 Because a lot of people don't know.
01:00:31.000 I don't stay around the studios all day.
01:00:33.000 I come in for the shows.
01:00:34.000 We do prep and some stuff.
01:00:35.000 I 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.
01:00:42.000 I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's really going after us.
01:00:44.000 And I wasn't worried that he was upset.
01:00:46.000 I 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.
01:00:56.000 And not to mention that Vox was invested in by NBCUniversal, which is one of the biggest media conglomerates ever.
01:01:01.000 And they're the ones who put on the Recode conference where Susan Wojcicki was talking about it.
01:01:05.000 Right behind her.
01:01:09.000 They 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!
01:01:31.000 Yeah, 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.
01:01:48.000 So the whole result of it was that people got to see more of what was actually happening.
01:01:52.000 Again, kind of seeing the whole iceberg.
01:01:54.000 But 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.
01:02:03.000 was saying, okay, I saw the clip video, I've seen some of the tweets and the stories,
01:02:07.000 I'm going to go watch this for myself. These were thinking young adults,
01:02:11.000 teenagers, older adults who were all saying, I was like, I'm going to go check and see whether
01:02:17.000 the news I'm being told is correct. So they went and watched the videos and came away thinking,
01:02:22.000 I'm shocked I'm not already a subscriber.
01:02:25.000 Right, right.
01:02:25.000 And they signed up for Mud Club.
01:02:26.000 Well, I think three main points, actually, that I wanted to touch on.
01:02:30.000 One was I'm actually really grateful because they've already done their legwork in trying to find the best.
01:02:34.000 So it's all out there.
01:02:35.000 Just go watch the Vox Highlight Reel.
01:02:37.000 There you go.
01:02:38.000 That's the worst to me, baby.
01:02:39.000 Until the apology video, which was, of course, worse.
01:02:41.000 Which was insanely funny.
01:02:43.000 So they did the Highlight Reel, right?
01:02:45.000 And that sent more people to us at this point.
01:02:48.000 And I think something that did save us with YouTube is Word...
01:02:51.000 Kind of two things that you'll hear if you work in this industry.
01:02:54.000 One is that we work harder than every other program out there.
01:02:57.000 Everyone here works really hard.
01:02:58.000 I 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.
01:03:04.000 We all expect to work hard.
01:03:06.000 Another thing is people know that we have more subscribers than any other exclusive, over-the-top service out there, period.
01:03:14.000 It's well known.
01:03:14.000 That Mug Club is the biggest, period.
01:03:16.000 Outside of pornography and the early aughts, you guys have signed up en masse.
01:03:19.000 To 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.
01:03:28.000 So 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.
01:03:35.000 These are a lot of people who are going to be mobilizing.
01:03:38.000 And I think the reason that we weren't deplatformed was, and it wasn't just because of us trying to refuse to apologize.
01:03:44.000 I apologize all the time when I'm wrong.
01:03:45.000 But 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.
01:03:55.000 And 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.
01:04:10.000 And no one had done that.
01:04:11.000 That's what I love about this show.
01:04:11.000 And what they missed is that said Vox guy's videos were so horrible, and that's what we were commenting on.
01:04:17.000 And the entire thing, and it just kept coming back up.
01:04:18.000 It wasn't even the Vox guy.
01:04:19.000 We did plenty of rebuttals.
01:04:20.000 That also saved us.
01:04:21.000 We did rebuttals to Vox where it didn't involve this guy.
01:04:23.000 No.
01:04:23.000 He was incidental.
01:04:24.000 But the videos that were coming out were so bad that we had to respond to them.
01:04:28.000 Yep.
01:04:29.000 OK, and then that's the top seven.
01:04:32.000 Then there's a plus one.
01:04:32.000 This is one I will personally, speaking of which, personally apologize for, because I lied to you.
01:04:37.000 Yeah.
01:04:38.000 What?
01:04:38.000 I lied.
01:04:39.000 Now, is this B-roll or is there a clip that we're throwing?
01:04:40.000 There's a clip.
01:04:41.000 OK.
01:04:41.000 How long is the clip?
01:04:43.000 It's two minutes.
01:04:44.000 Oh, two minutes.
01:04:44.000 OK.
01:04:45.000 So this controversy here, I will, by the way, hit the notification bell if you're watching on YouTube,
01:04:50.000 because apparently subscriptions don't mean a whole lot right
01:04:52.000 now.
01:04:52.000 Hit all notifications.
01:04:53.000 And this is a good time to tell you, Crowder Bits is a channel where we upload other content,
01:04:57.000 sketches, all that kind of stuff.
01:04:59.000 And of course, iTunes.
01:05:00.000 I guess that's Apple Play now.
01:05:01.000 Podcast.
01:05:02.000 Podcast.
01:05:02.000 Yeah.
01:05:03.000 And Mug Club is the main thing.
01:05:04.000 But I lied to you guys for years.
01:05:06.000 Yeah.
01:05:07.000 Years. 0.74
01:05:08.000 I used you and abused you when I told you that we were, hashtag never daily, that we were never 0.73
01:05:14.000 going to go daily with this show.
01:05:16.000 And I did so, and I would say that our exploratory committee was definitely never going to allow us to go daily.
01:05:22.000 Full disclosure, I apologize, I was doing that all along, planning on going daily.
01:05:30.000 And you deserve better.
01:05:33.000 But you didn't get it.
01:05:34.000 You got Daily instead.
01:05:36.000 And that's also something that a lot of people don't know if you're not a member of MugClub.
01:05:38.000 You only get a clip on YouTube.
01:05:40.000 But people at MugClub, they get Ash Wednesday, they get all kinds of stuff.
01:05:43.000 So this is the timeline of the Never Daily?
01:05:45.000 Yeah.
01:05:46.000 Okay, I apologize for this.
01:05:48.000 I did it.
01:05:48.000 I was wrong.
01:05:49.000 I'm a work in progress.
01:05:54.000 Proudly introducing the MugClub.
01:05:57.000 Lotter with Crowder has gone daily.
01:05:59.000 We are too wild and overrated sketch artists.
01:06:13.000 Oh, you're scaring the screens.
01:06:21.000 I just wanted to mess with you guys.
01:06:22.000 You'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?
01:06:29.000 I don't know about taking your questions.
01:06:32.000 My girlfriend is nine... My girlfriend of nine months.
01:06:35.000 Thanks!
01:06:36.000 Thanks a lot for the small font, Johnny Boy! 0.99
01:06:40.000 I hope you saved a hell of a lot of ink, asshole! 1.00
01:06:43.000 Looking for dead people. 1.00
01:06:44.000 Jeez!
01:06:45.000 Where?
01:06:46.000 They sent a 14-year-old?
01:06:47.000 This is Faces of Death!
01:06:49.000 Is this Nazi Germany?
01:06:52.000 Oh my god! 0.85
01:06:54.000 She's forgiven her husband after he hired a hitman to kill her.
01:06:57.000 So she's bad at picking out husbands. 1.00
01:06:59.000 He's really bad at picking out assassins.
01:07:01.000 Yeah.
01:07:05.000 We don't want to be this.
01:07:08.000 You made up that.
01:07:10.000 Let's just make this and enjoy it.
01:07:11.000 We'll just sit back and talk.
01:07:13.000 Back, kind of harkens back to the radio days, which is when you started following, uh,
01:07:16.000 Quarter Black, Garrett.
01:07:17.000 Everybody, go blow it and jump. 1.00
01:07:18.000 Don't blow smoke at me, you little bastards. 1.00
01:07:20.000 I'm gonna smell it. 1.00
01:07:21.000 Turn three, friend.
01:07:23.000 Yeah! 1.00
01:07:24.000 Shoot it. 0.97
01:07:25.000 Every joke that makes the show, every bit, we probably, what would you say we write, 0.98
01:07:32.000 Like, four, five, six get cut every day.
01:07:35.000 This definitely has a Courtney flair to it, right?
01:07:37.000 This is not going on YouTube.
01:07:40.000 It would be immediately demonetized.
01:07:41.000 Let's have Griff read number six pitched Jeffrey Epstein vehicles.
01:07:46.000 Number six.
01:07:47.000 I can't read. 1.00
01:07:49.000 Son of a bitch, Grif! 1.00
01:07:51.000 Grif! 1.00
01:07:53.000 You know what? I'm out.
01:07:55.000 Hey, you know what? I'm out.
01:07:57.000 Hey, you know what? I'm out.
01:07:59.000 Hey, you know what?
01:08:02.000 I'm actually going to make the first Thursday ever Ash Wednesday.
01:08:07.000 It looks like a nice cigar, too.
01:08:10.000 Is that the one that had the electrical tape as a band?
01:08:13.000 It did, yeah.
01:08:14.000 Hold on a second.
01:08:15.000 Someone else carry the mic here while I get this going. 0.99
01:08:17.000 So, for people who haven't subscribed to Mug Club yet, you're terrible.
01:08:22.000 But second, We love you anyway.
01:08:24.000 The fun thing about the S1C...
01:08:26.000 Mr. Coronavirus.
01:08:28.000 Mr. A2 receptors, genetic proclivity toward pandemics.
01:08:30.000 If Trump wants to have another trade war with China, we will keep bringing the coronavirus.
01:08:34.000 Oh wow, that's a great response.
01:08:36.000 So the thing I love most about the stuff that's behind the paywall and Mug Club and is available is we get a lot more
01:08:44.000 in depth.
01:08:45.000 We talk about a lot of different topics.
01:08:47.000 We're really engaging with a lot of different fan questions and comments and stuff like that.
01:08:51.000 And you really get to see another side of everything that's done here.
01:08:54.000 And more of what a lot of people like about what they see on YouTube.
01:08:59.000 But like we said, we can't do any of the rest of it without Mug Club. 0.99
01:09:01.000 Right.
01:09:02.000 Yeah, exactly.
01:09:03.000 Sorry, I tossed that thing.
01:09:04.000 It was going to be a timeline of the Never Daily, but we told you we were never going daily for a long time.
01:09:08.000 And I will say this.
01:09:09.000 The 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.
01:09:15.000 Yeah.
01:09:16.000 And so we launched on election night when we were going daily.
01:09:19.000 That's right.
01:09:20.000 You were with me.
01:09:20.000 That was a long...
01:09:21.000 Long 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.
01:09:42.000 And 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.
01:09:52.000 The 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.
01:09:58.000 Yeah.
01:09:59.000 Though it was offered many times.
01:10:00.000 They've never taken outside money.
01:10:02.000 That's something people don't understand either.
01:10:03.000 It's you, and then we have partnership agreements, you know, where we either give a percentage or get a percentage from some other folks.
01:10:10.000 Okay, so we do have to go on a lot of memory lanes to stroll down.
01:10:15.000 How many memory lanes are there in the United States?
01:10:16.000 There's got to be at least one.
01:10:17.000 We've done quite a few of these and actually we'll be releasing the album soon.
01:10:22.000 So, something that's relatively new, we've done quite a few of these and actually we'll
01:10:28.000 be releasing the album soon.
01:10:29.000 Everybody's been asking for it.
01:10:30.000 I don't know if it's going to be at Spotify or wherever, but we've done enough musical
01:10:35.000 We started off where we would do them every now and then, just intermittently.
01:10:38.000 Sometimes it'd be on a Thursday show, sometimes it'd be on a Monday or Tuesday show behind the paywall, you know, Mug Club.
01:10:44.000 And I say Mug Club, I need to say it because you haven't seen it, but I'm talking about this content.
01:10:49.000 And then actually we started doing more of them when Audio Wade came in, because Audio Wade is a skilled singer.
01:10:56.000 And also able to produce some music.
01:10:59.000 Yeah.
01:10:59.000 And so before that, I would have to write all the lyrics and then send off to this other guy, who's unbelievable, but he's abroad.
01:11:04.000 He's remote.
01:11:05.000 And so it would take a long time.
01:11:06.000 So we started doing more of these musical parodies.
01:11:09.000 And we hear you.
01:11:10.000 We appreciate you.
01:11:12.000 We are always trying to do more of them.
01:11:14.000 But again, some of these music videos take a lot of production.
01:11:16.000 They do.
01:11:16.000 Yeah.
01:11:17.000 So before we go, what's your favorite track that we've done as far as music?
01:11:21.000 What was the one we did in the montage earlier, where I'm in the back playing the guitar?
01:11:26.000 Is it Dr. Trump?
01:11:27.000 Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
01:11:29.000 It's one of my favorites.
01:11:30.000 Mine was Dr. Trump, just because the costumes were outrageous.
01:11:34.000 That one was fun.
01:11:34.000 The lyrics were awesome.
01:11:35.000 That was pretty fun.
01:11:37.000 And we shot that here at the new studio before it was a studio.
01:11:39.000 We're like, we need a warehouse!
01:11:41.000 Wait, we have a warehouse!
01:11:42.000 Because until we get new Mug Club subscribers, we can't afford to furnish it!
01:11:47.000 Audio-wise, you're the music guy.
01:11:48.000 I think Nirvana is my favorite one.
01:11:50.000 It smells like two-spirit.
01:11:52.000 Yeah, I like that one.
01:11:54.000 And I do like Long Time Ago because it's kind of raw.
01:11:56.000 I like the Rocket Man Kim Jong-un just because that was awesome. 0.99
01:11:59.000 Just because of Gerald A. as Dennis Rodman.
01:12:03.000 He looks so much like a white Dennis Rodman that we had you back on the show as Dennis Rodman. 0.52
01:12:08.000 I wrote it into the show.
01:12:09.000 I'm like, I don't know how we get there.
01:12:12.000 But it ends with Gerald A. as Dennis Rodman.
01:12:14.000 Yeah, I get to the studio, and they're like, uh, yeah, you have a costume.
01:12:17.000 I'm like, what?
01:12:17.000 I have a what?
01:12:18.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:12:19.000 OK, I've come to correction.
01:12:20.000 My favorite one is Audio Wade in Got an Itch Girl.
01:12:24.000 Oh, that one's pretty good.
01:12:26.000 I've probably watched it 50 times.
01:12:27.000 I mean, also, you got Quarter Black with his swivel hips over there. 1.00
01:12:30.000 Of course.
01:12:31.000 It's unbelievable.
01:12:32.000 He steals the show with those hips. 1.00
01:12:33.000 I just forgot about that.
01:12:34.000 Unfortunately, Father Mother.
01:12:36.000 His hips.
01:12:36.000 Oh, yeah, Father Mother.
01:12:37.000 That was awesome.
01:12:38.000 His hips are mostly straightforward, but occasionally they fib.
01:12:42.000 This is, I hope you enjoy it.
01:12:43.000 Let us know what other musical parodies you would like to see.
01:12:45.000 This is an episode where we want to hear from you, we want your feedback, and we want to see your comments because that will help dictate the direction of the show.
01:12:52.000 Let us know.
01:12:52.000 Here are our favorite musical parodies.
01:12:54.000 We've only just begun with your C's and D's.
01:13:16.000 Hey now, welcome to A2 City.
01:13:19.000 I said, welcome to A2 City.
01:13:22.000 Every place, everywhere we go.
01:13:24.000 Yeah, they want try to ban our show. 0.80
01:13:27.000 They call me Dr. Trump.
01:13:34.000 I've got the winter treatment on.
01:13:37.000 We want control and contention. Hear us cry now, that avengers.
01:13:44.000 We want control and contention. Hear us cry now, that avengers.
01:13:56.000 Crowder gon' give it to ya!
01:13:58.000 YouTube, we can do it on our own!
01:14:00.000 And A&M deliverin' to ya!
01:14:01.000 Knock, knock! 0.98
01:14:02.000 Open up the door, it's me!
01:14:04.000 Back with non-stop laughter that'll make you pee!
01:14:06.000 Ain't hard writin' jokes about it!
01:14:08.000 With trainees and active fun! 0.99
01:14:09.000 Trigger motherfuckers wonderin' damn, did he say it? 0.99
01:14:12.000 Yeah, right, and I'll say it again! 1.00
01:14:14.000 Got a half-century life, so I got to win!
01:14:19.000 And there we go.
01:14:21.000 You would think I was the one who was quarter black.
01:14:23.000 No, it was pretty good. 0.69
01:14:25.000 It's this one.
01:14:25.000 And you just thought he was Mexican.
01:14:27.000 All right, we are going to have to go, actually, to a commercial break really quickly.
01:14:30.000 And I should have said, this is where we're going to have our guests.
01:14:32.000 Our guests have either sent in a video or will call in here.
01:14:36.000 And I think we'll actually have some videos from you before we go into our favorite commercials.
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01:14:58.000 He wasn't involved, and they were dropped so quickly.
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01:15:54.000 Steven, congratulations on an incredible milestone.
01:16:02.000 When I first heard about it, I figured it was maybe a thousandth episode, something like that, but one billion views.
01:16:07.000 That's the real deal, man.
01:16:08.000 I'm surprised that they're still allowing you on the platform, frankly.
01:16:11.000 Well, 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.
01:16:19.000 I suppose we all need our hobbies.
01:16:21.000 Steven!
01:16:22.000 Mahmoud here from ISIS headquarters to wish you congratulations on your one billionth murder. 0.88
01:16:28.000 What do you mean, view?
01:16:29.000 It kind of reminds me of an adage in the business, which is, if you never leave the stage, eventually somebody will clap just so you go.
01:16:41.000 Congratulations on getting a billion downloads or views or whatever.
01:16:47.000 A grown man having your daddy call people to congratulate you and tell you a good job.
01:16:54.000 Congratulations on what I hear is one billion people that are now watching your steaming program Crowder on Chowder.
01:17:04.000 That's quite an achievement.
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01:18:42.000 Almost got it!
01:18:43.000 But now, you've been loud to over a billion listeners.
01:18:47.000 This is crazy, my friend.
01:18:48.000 But you know what?
01:18:49.000 You are telling the truth, and the truth will set this country free.
01:18:53.000 Congratulations!
01:18:54.000 Up to two billion.
01:18:55.000 Woo-woo! 1.00
01:18:56.000 Congratulations from the Williford family.
01:18:58.000 Keep up the good work, and keep defending our rights.
01:19:02.000 I guess a billion is good.
01:19:03.000 I mean, it means quality.
01:19:04.000 All you need to do is look at a McDonald's sign to realize that a billion is the number you're aiming for.
01:19:10.000 But 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.
01:19:17.000 From everyone here at Walter Arms, to everybody there at Lauderruth Crowder, congratulations on one billion views.
01:19:24.000 Your 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.
01:19:33.000 I believe this is actually in the Bible. You were mentioned by name.
01:19:36.000 Tell me, what does that magnificent hand-etched mug do?
01:19:54.000 Oh, that.
01:19:55.000 Well, that, unfortunately, is Mug Club, the current eye of our existence and the objective of your next mission. 0.99
01:20:02.000 See, Mug Club has been spreading truth, entertainment, and encouraging the American way.
01:20:07.000 Furthermore, even more alarmingly, they've been able to bypass our assistants from the YouTube censors, able to reach, communicate with their listeners directly.
01:20:16.000 Your objective will be to find who's at the center of this Mug Club, Extract any information by any means necessary. 0.95
01:20:25.000 and destroy it. 0.89
01:20:27.000 ♪♪ -♪ Ha la ha, ba ha la, wa ba la la la ♪
01:20:38.000 Steven, congrats on one billion views.
01:20:41.000 Just to be clear, that's not even a fraction of the world population.
01:20:46.000 Steven Crowder, congratulations on passing over a billion views despite shadowbanning, censorship, and all the attacks you've gone through.
01:20:54.000 But, I am here to criticize you.
01:20:57.000 It's not a good thing to joke around and have humor.
01:21:00.000 It hurts a lot of people's feelings and they can be confused.
01:21:02.000 When you told me you were going to get to a billion views, I didn't believe you.
01:21:07.000 But then you explained it was really simple.
01:21:08.000 All you needed was a Russian bot farm, and you could have artificial views into the billions.
01:21:16.000 And I gotta say, it is remarkable.
01:21:18.000 Crowder's got a billion views. 1.00
01:21:20.000 What a pile of crap that is. 0.99
01:21:22.000 Only because he's paying Google off. 1.00
01:21:24.000 Hey, Steven!
01:21:26.000 Congratulations.
01:21:28.000 Hi, Steven.
01:21:29.000 How you doing?
01:21:30.000 A billion?
01:21:32.000 One billion YouTube views.
01:21:37.000 I'm just sitting down here in my basement bunker.
01:21:50.000 Thank you so much to everybody.
01:21:51.000 Thank you, Rand Paul.
01:21:52.000 Thank you, Mahmood Al Mahmood.
01:21:54.000 Thank you, James McKeith.
01:21:55.000 Thank you, Glenn Beck.
01:21:55.000 Thank you, Mark Ripto, Jaco, Jim Norton.
01:21:57.000 All of you.
01:21:58.000 Thank you.
01:21:58.000 We really appreciate it.
01:21:59.000 I already said Ted Cruz.
01:22:00.000 I said it again.
01:22:01.000 And during the break, my half Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, said I couldn't get two billion.
01:22:05.000 Yeah.
01:22:06.000 Really?
01:22:06.000 Couldn't.
01:22:06.000 I think we're going to skip it.
01:22:07.000 I think that's why I said it.
01:22:08.000 We're just going to go to three.
01:22:09.000 Lightning pass right there to 45, Bill.
01:22:12.000 Well, we're going to do our best.
01:22:13.000 And by the way, we are going to do a special live stream live with your tweets when we pass the Young Turks subscribers.
01:22:19.000 And then afterwards, we'll never talk about them again, because you cannot punch down.
01:22:23.000 And this is one thing, too.
01:22:24.000 When we say a billion views on this channel, it's closer to two if you add up Mug Club, the rest of it.
01:22:28.000 This is with one piece of content on YouTube per day.
01:22:31.000 It's not like a lot of these other networks that are doing 50 pieces or 30 pieces.
01:22:34.000 It's incredible.
01:22:36.000 We are so grateful.
01:22:38.000 And 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.
01:22:47.000 We've had a lot of problems running our videos as ads.
01:22:50.000 Well, the problem is, like, how do we reach new audiences?
01:22:52.000 Like, well, people search.
01:22:53.000 Steven Crowder changed my mind for the longest time.
01:22:55.000 It didn't show up.
01:22:57.000 And then we were no longer able to, like, run videos as ads.
01:23:00.000 So it's just like, how do you reach new people?
01:23:02.000 The thing that does cut through and helps us reach new people more than anything else are what we call sort of super videos.
01:23:08.000 And these are videos where we go on location, like Antifa we've talked about.
01:23:11.000 And there are two really ones that stick out.
01:23:14.000 Change My Mind is obviously within the last three or four years.
01:23:17.000 And then a subsidiary of that, Crowder Confronts, which usually occurred because someone threatened to kill me at a Change My Mind.
01:23:22.000 So it's two for one.
01:23:27.000 Double the Steven! 0.55
01:23:30.000 But these super videos, what often happens is they go viral.
01:23:32.000 They sort of become a news story, as opposed to commenting on the news.
01:23:36.000 They became a news story in and of themselves.
01:23:38.000 And that ultimately leads to more people subscribing to the channel.
01:23:41.000 And here's the thing.
01:23:42.000 I 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.
01:23:48.000 So usually we'll pre-tape, but sometimes we can't.
01:23:51.000 We 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.
01:24:00.000 We have 12 people here, and I think 15 if you count part-timers abroad.
01:24:03.000 And so we just have to pack up everything, go out, and tape a super video where we can't do this show and that.
01:24:09.000 And we would never be able to afford to do these super videos if not for you.
01:24:12.000 I mean, to give you an idea, doing like the change my mind you'll see in front of the
01:24:15.000 White House.
01:24:16.000 That's getting 12 people to Washington, D.C., several hundred pounds of equipment, making
01:24:22.000 sure that we have security when we get there, getting travel back, not to mention the editing
01:24:26.000 software, food, hotel, typically for two days.
01:24:28.000 I mean, you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars often to do these.
01:24:32.000 And we wouldn't be able to do it if not for Mug Club. 0.99
01:24:35.000 And I know it's one of those things that sometimes you don't see because these go up on YouTube,
01:24:39.000 but Mug Club is paying for that.
01:24:40.000 It's paying for us to reach new people because that cuts through the algorithms.
01:24:43.000 And I can't thank you enough.
01:24:44.000 We've actually shot a few that are in the hopper, and we're planning on doing more of these in the coming year.
01:24:50.000 Coronavirus has made it a little bit tough.
01:24:51.000 You know what I'm talking about, Half-Asian Bill. 1.00
01:24:52.000 Yikes.
01:24:54.000 But let's go right now to a montage of actually top moments from, funded by you, on location, super videos.
01:25:03.000 Thanks again so much.
01:25:07.000 Hi, my name is Steven Crowder.
01:25:09.000 He will not divide us.
01:25:14.000 He will not divide us.
01:25:20.000 Okay, okay.
01:25:21.000 This is not about dividing. 0.96
01:25:25.000 What do you think would happen if we went into a Muslim bakery and asked for a gay wedding cake? 0.98
01:25:30.000 You can write on it, Ben loves Steven forever. 0.72
01:25:33.000 And have our hands maybe holding.
01:25:36.000 Can I get a gun here without a background check?
01:25:38.000 No.
01:25:39.000 I thought at gun shows you didn't have to do a background check.
01:25:41.000 Oh, no.
01:25:42.000 No, no, no.
01:25:42.000 What you're asking is for somebody to commit a felony.
01:25:45.000 Was it because of the magazine capacity?
01:25:47.000 No, look at it.
01:25:48.000 Yeah, it does look really sinister.
01:25:51.000 Would you be on board with common sense gun reform?
01:25:55.000 Depends on what that means.
01:25:56.000 Do you own any firearms?
01:25:57.000 Shotgun.
01:25:58.000 Well, sorry.
01:26:03.000 Welcome to Detroit.
01:26:04.000 We have a nice two-story in the Detroit area.
01:26:14.000 Cozy.
01:26:16.000 Rustic.
01:26:18.000 You guys have papers?
01:26:22.000 I need papers. 1.00
01:26:23.000 He's gonna coalesce, you motherfuckers! 1.00
01:26:24.000 Wait until these homos get a load of me. 1.00
01:26:29.000 The price of my walls, not a price that you're willing to pay. 1.00
01:26:34.000 Yes, bitch! 1.00
01:26:36.000 Slick! 1.00
01:26:41.000 Are you familiar with the term manspreading?
01:26:43.000 We'll see what women think using our homemade apparatus. 1.00
01:26:47.000 I get why men sit like this.
01:26:49.000 Yeah?
01:26:50.000 I'm not shocked by it.
01:26:54.000 I've decided to go through the socialized Canadian healthcare system to show you exactly what it's really like.
01:27:01.000 This is triage.
01:27:02.000 That means we wait and we get judged by the nurse.
01:27:06.000 We decide how important we are.
01:27:08.000 But there's a private clinic.
01:27:09.000 Would you like to pay?
01:27:11.000 Wait, hold up.
01:27:12.000 A government employee recommending a private clinic?
01:27:15.000 Can I take a piece?
01:27:16.000 How much?
01:27:20.000 We've been tracking Antifa for a long time.
01:27:24.000 He was just down there at President's Circle and they were handing out sharp objects to stab people with.
01:27:28.000 Said they had someone come in with an AK.
01:27:30.000 Why did it take two late night hosts, comedians, to find this out?
01:27:35.000 We 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.
01:27:44.000 This woman was going to end her 32 week, that's 8 months, her 8 month old baby's life. 1.00
01:27:50.000 There's nothing wrong with it, I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. 0.99
01:27:52.000 I 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. 0.98
01:27:57.000 Hi, I'm Stephanie, with all the frequencies of a feminism. 1.00
01:28:05.000 Hold on your pussy! 1.00
01:28:17.000 I'm Stephanie and I'm pretty sure I'm pregnant. 1.00
01:28:24.000 Really?
01:28:25.000 We wanted to talk with someone about plan B.
01:28:28.000 I'm going to be in the video.
01:28:35.000 Later.
01:28:36.000 Shout out to them, man.
01:28:37.000 Really nice mugs.
01:28:38.000 Not cheap mugs.
01:28:39.000 Nice mugs, man.
01:28:40.000 Louder.
01:28:41.000 Louder with Prouder, man.
01:28:42.000 Shout out to them, man.
01:28:44.000 People are triggered.
01:28:46.000 Do we need to call security?
01:28:48.000 You're going to have to leave.
01:28:50.000 I think that it's time to go.
01:28:52.000 People are triggered.
01:28:54.000 Got it.
01:28:56.000 What you're about to watch is a new segment we call Change My Mind.
01:28:59.000 Pretty simple.
01:29:00.000 We 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.
01:29:09.000 You are more than welcome to change my mind if you think I'm wrong.
01:29:12.000 I am open to having my mind changed. 0.99
01:29:14.000 Fetus is literally a parasite. 0.99
01:29:16.000 Like, it is sucking the life from a mother. 0.99
01:29:18.000 Yeah.
01:29:19.000 Every single day.
01:29:19.000 Like, that's literally what happens.
01:29:21.000 That's not even like...
01:29:22.000 Not a mother, I'm guessing.
01:29:23.000 Whoa.
01:29:24.000 Whoa.
01:29:25.000 I just found the keys to a city.
01:29:26.000 The beams are big and the lights are pretty.
01:29:27.000 So why can't we get to the busy where the dreams are in the sky?
01:29:33.000 Would you be willing to maybe in a follow up, we could do a segment on this, go with
01:29:37.000 me to a range, shoot for the first time, and purchase a firearm?
01:29:41.000 Yeah, I'm down.
01:29:43.000 Yeah, I'm down.
01:29:45.000 I'm down.
01:29:46.000 Good!
01:29:46.000 Good!
01:29:46.000 Hey, right on target!
01:29:49.000 You okay?
01:29:53.000 Yeah.
01:29:53.000 Should we grab hands?
01:30:03.000 Is that okay?
01:30:04.000 You gotta connect it over there.
01:30:07.000 Alright.
01:30:07.000 Excuse me, sir.
01:30:07.000 Alright, look.
01:30:08.000 Alright, look.
01:30:09.000 This is where it's going.
01:30:10.000 There it is.
01:30:11.000 There it is.
01:30:12.000 All the way around.
01:30:12.000 Look at this!
01:30:14.000 How about that?
01:30:14.000 Look at this!
01:30:17.000 All different races, genders, the power of dance! 0.99
01:30:20.000 Of course, there are always those who aren't so excited to see us. 0.95
01:30:26.000 I think y'all are racist. 1.00
01:30:30.000 F*** Steven Crowder. 1.00
01:30:31.000 F*** y'all. 1.00
01:30:32.000 I would probably punch him if I saw him. 1.00
01:30:34.000 I just wanted to tell you, you're a white bitch. 1.00
01:30:36.000 Whiteness is a cancer and parasitic to society. 1.00
01:30:39.000 We're f***ed. 1.00
01:30:40.000 Oh! 0.99
01:30:40.000 Oh, what? 0.99
01:30:42.000 What happened? 0.99
01:30:44.000 They get away without on this motherf***ing campus! 0.98
01:30:46.000 Exactly! 0.97
01:30:47.000 Really? 0.94
01:30:47.000 Yes, they f*****g do! 0.94
01:30:49.000 If nobody invited him here, should we ask him to leave this campus? 0.95
01:30:52.000 Is this being handled? 1.00
01:30:54.000 Shut the f**k up! 1.00
01:30:56.000 Hey, s**t! 1.00
01:30:57.000 You f*****g ass! 1.00
01:30:58.000 F**k you! 1.00
01:30:59.000 Jesus Christ, ladies and gentlemen! 1.00
01:31:00.000 Yeah!
01:31:02.000 That's right from me!
01:31:03.000 Jesus Christ! 1.00
01:31:05.000 Eat my butt! 1.00
01:31:07.000 No! 1.00
01:31:09.000 Did I just come straight out?
01:31:11.000 No! No!
01:31:13.000 Men need to respect women! Period!
01:31:16.000 So you should respect women? 1.00
01:31:18.000 I'm sorry, I am a woman, so f*** you! 1.00
01:31:20.000 Why people are cancer, I hope you'll get f***ed. 0.99
01:31:22.000 We want to sit down with people in an ideal scenario and be able to exchange ideas, 0.99
01:31:27.000 but when they don't want to, and they're acting like little spoiled rats slash domestic terrorists,
01:31:32.000 we've got to make them afraid of somebody! 0.85
01:31:35.000 Hey kids!
01:31:40.000 Yeah!
01:31:40.000 I didn't f***ing want a piece of me for a long time!
01:31:42.000 Go f*** yourself, you piece of s***! 1.00
01:31:45.000 Hey, a**hole! 1.00
01:31:46.000 How are you, man? 0.98
01:31:48.000 Steven Crowder.
01:31:49.000 What's going on?
01:31:50.000 We can discuss it at a neutral meeting place.
01:31:52.000 I'm not discussing with people who have made threats against my son, who follow those who have made threats against my son.
01:31:56.000 When you threaten violence against someone, part of being a man is taking ownership of your actions, taking responsibility.
01:32:02.000 These guys are fascists, you know that? 1.00
01:32:04.000 When you said you didn't even post this and acted like you didn't know me, I think you're a liar. 0.99
01:32:07.000 What did you mean by that? 0.96
01:32:08.000 Was it like what you meant with killing members of ICE for $500 a pop?
01:32:11.000 I don't look all that bad.
01:32:13.000 Why would you want to light me on fire?
01:32:14.000 I never said that.
01:32:15.000 Yeah, you did.
01:32:16.000 It's like I'm in Bizarro Land of Lies.
01:32:23.000 There is a reckoning.
01:32:27.000 And we do have to get going here.
01:32:28.000 I do want to let you guys know the promo code is Crowderbillion.
01:32:30.000 You get $20 off.
01:32:32.000 And all of that, by the way, was funded by you.
01:32:34.000 Some of those, you can see the progression.
01:32:37.000 The Muslim bakery was literally a friend acting like he was on his phone.
01:32:39.000 Right.
01:32:41.000 Filming.
01:32:41.000 Hey, why he talk long time?
01:32:44.000 No he doesn't.
01:32:44.000 No, he hasn't said a word actually.
01:32:45.000 I don't bake the cake. 0.99
01:32:46.000 I don't bake penis cake. 1.00
01:32:48.000 Why he talk? 0.99
01:32:49.000 And we missed a lot of like early on, we missed a lot of filming
01:32:53.000 because we didn't have the budget for the equipment.
01:32:54.000 So then you can see Change My Mind, Crowder Confronts. 0.51
01:32:58.000 You can see the progression was all because of Mug Club. 0.89
01:33:00.000 So we do ask you, because there can be another Vox Apocalypse, Crowder Billion, get $20 off.
01:33:05.000 And the Change My Mind thing just stemmed from sitting down and me going like,
01:33:08.000 oh, we have so many good conversations, but off air.
01:33:11.000 And we've done plenty of debates on this show on air, by the way.
01:33:14.000 Change My Mind is not a debate.
01:33:15.000 We just said, man, I wish we could just talk with normal people without doing political sort of point scoring in a quadrant view.
01:33:20.000 Yeah.
01:33:21.000 And 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.
01:33:28.000 That'll never work.
01:33:29.000 Unedited, long, just people talking.
01:33:30.000 No one will watch this.
01:33:32.000 To 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.
01:33:39.000 So that's, like I've said, I want to provide you with what it is that you want, and do some new things.
01:33:45.000 But I really am grateful.
01:33:46.000 We have everyone here.
01:33:47.000 I've met everyone.
01:33:47.000 They all get to work with the show.
01:33:48.000 Let me ask you, Half-Asian Bill, what would you like, what do you think is next? 1.00
01:33:52.000 What would you like to see next for this show?
01:33:54.000 I'd say more of the content we're already doing, getting more around the country, seeing more of the fans.
01:33:59.000 I know we've got fans all over the world.
01:34:03.000 I 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.
01:34:13.000 I can't afford those carbon offsets.
01:34:17.000 Hey, the fires are down, it's fine, we can go to Australia.
01:34:20.000 No, I think doing more of that content and being able to get around the country is the number one thing.
01:34:25.000 More 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***.
01:34:38.000 So there you go.
01:34:38.000 We need enough of you to join so we can get a plane to go to Australia.
01:34:42.000 Actually, I'm only half joking, because sometimes when we do live shows, it ends up costing less to rent a plane.
01:34:48.000 We 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.
01:34:57.000 So obviously we don't expect you to pay for a Learjet, but we can travel to Australia.
01:35:02.000 You know, we can take a week off the show, because that's a lot of travel.
01:35:05.000 I 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.
01:35:13.000 But he doesn't know it yet.
01:35:14.000 He just found out right now.
01:35:18.000 I want to concur, but for another reason, it gives you an opportunity.
01:35:22.000 My favorite memory of everything that's ever been done with this show was when we did the first thing at SMU.
01:35:28.000 What was it?
01:35:28.000 The Halloween Spooktacular?
01:35:29.000 I can't remember which one it was, but it was the first time and you filled the auditorium and that was just such a big moment for you.
01:35:35.000 I really didn't fill the auditorium.
01:35:37.000 They all filled the auditorium.
01:35:38.000 You guys made it happen.
01:35:39.000 I want to be clear.
01:35:41.000 There's no way I could have ever done this show, that scale, like at SMU and these live shows at school.
01:35:47.000 I had done stand-up before, and I may go back to doing some more stand-up in small clubs.
01:35:50.000 We've talked about this when I have more free time.
01:35:52.000 Could not have done it without this team of people.
01:35:54.000 There's so much that goes into it.
01:35:56.000 What's the insurance, right?
01:35:57.000 Like a million dollars just in equipment?
01:35:58.000 We have to be there a day and a half in advance.
01:36:01.000 That's just, that's not false humility.
01:36:03.000 I am so grateful to be able to do that kind of show because it was in here, but I could never make it here and everyone here has made it.
01:36:09.000 Well, and you get to see fans because you deal with a lot of people pushing back on you, right?
01:36:13.000 In life.
01:36:13.000 Like you get us, obviously, but everybody else seems to be trying to attack you in different ways.
01:36:18.000 And 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.
01:36:23.000 They're conservative people when it's not popular to be conservative.
01:36:26.000 And so it's great for both that we get to do those live events.
01:36:28.000 So let's get it done at Notre Dame.
01:36:29.000 Let's go there.
01:36:30.000 Notre Dame.
01:36:30.000 Notre Dame, baby.
01:36:32.000 I know we talked about it.
01:36:33.000 I did St.
01:36:33.000 Mary'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.
01:36:41.000 It 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.
01:36:48.000 Didn't exactly have the same familiarity with my catalog.
01:36:54.000 Well, thank you guys all very much.
01:36:55.000 And we do have to get going.
01:36:56.000 That promo code is CrowderBillion to get $20 off.
01:36:59.000 And 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.
01:37:05.000 And 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.
01:37:12.000 And 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.
01:37:19.000 But I was even watching that lady at the abortion clinic. 0.98
01:37:22.000 We never talked about that.
01:37:22.000 She didn't have that abortion.
01:37:24.000 Really?
01:37:24.000 She didn't have that abortion.
01:37:25.000 That's fantastic.
01:37:26.000 We couldn't show that in the video because we didn't want to.
01:37:28.000 This was actually, it was a real kind of moral dilemma because we were going, well, what's more important?
01:37:33.000 Is it stopping this abortion that this woman is getting anyway? 1.00
01:37:36.000 Or is it showcasing the horrors of abortion so that thousands of other people don't abort?
01:37:41.000 And 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. 0.65
01:37:48.000 I said, we're going to release this video before then.
01:37:50.000 So don't reach out to her right now.
01:37:52.000 Let us release this so we, you know, we can still serve this purpose and get this out to the public.
01:37:56.000 And then I want you to reach out to her.
01:37:58.000 And I don't know exactly what happened, but I do know that that woman did not have that abortion.
01:38:02.000 And we also had that girl who we did the change my mind with, who came back on the show and then she was pro-life.
01:38:07.000 Yeah.
01:38:08.000 It's seeing those things like that that really make the change of minds and the super videos kind of more important, you know?
01:38:16.000 It's doing something for the culture war. 0.91
01:38:18.000 And also, when I look back and see that one where I was shooting at the range that I sounded like death warmed over.
01:38:22.000 That's right, a bronchial infection, pneumonia, all of the above.
01:38:26.000 And I was at a gun range with nothing but gunpowder.
01:38:29.000 And it turned out they couldn't buy it.
01:38:30.000 That'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.
01:38:40.000 Yeah, we force you to work.
01:38:41.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.98
01:38:43.000 Coronavirus be damned. 0.97
01:38:45.000 Whip me. 0.99
01:38:46.000 I build a mead and pyramid as well.
01:38:48.000 There you go.
01:38:49.000 Who knew?
01:38:50.000 And then those girls tried to buy that firearm. 1.00
01:38:52.000 They wanted, of course, they wanted the Walther.
01:38:54.000 I will tell you this, we didn't lead them.
01:38:55.000 We let them try a Walther, Glocks, different firearms, and they all preferred the Walther.
01:38:59.000 That's why we'll just say try the Walther.
01:39:01.000 And then they couldn't purchase it because they weren't 21.
01:39:02.000 I mean, maybe 21 for a handgun.
01:39:05.000 But afterwards, they had changed their view completely that you can just purchase a gun without a background check.
01:39:09.000 I mean, I was just seeing kind of Hopper in there, and I kind of tugged on my heartstrings a little bit.
01:39:16.000 And I appreciate, by the way, the support.
01:39:17.000 Like, yeah, I get a lot of pushback.
01:39:18.000 I think a lot of times people focus on haters, or they focus on negativity.
01:39:22.000 And you get that when you're in the public sphere, right?
01:39:24.000 You get a lot of people who aim that at you.
01:39:25.000 But it is so far outweighed, I would say, by what we do here.
01:39:31.000 And how many lives that we see we've touched, how much this show means to you guys.
01:39:36.000 And honestly, you mean every bit as much to us.
01:39:39.000 You know, I would say more.
01:39:40.000 To me, when I look at the billion, I go, oh my gosh, this is what these people are choosing to tune into this.
01:39:45.000 At a time when media is so fractured, at a time where you have a million different options at any given moment.
01:39:49.000 Remember when we thought media was getting too fractured because of cable, because of dish?
01:39:53.000 People have like 200 stations.
01:39:54.000 Wow.
01:39:57.000 200 more just in that pause were just created.
01:39:59.000 And 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.
01:40:13.000 And so we've been able to survive a lot of these algorithms.
01:40:15.000 It's a changing landscape because of your loyalty.
01:40:18.000 And man, I hope that we've earned it.
01:40:20.000 I hope that we have billions more.
01:40:22.000 And this really means a lot to me.
01:40:26.000 The show.
01:40:26.000 I don't mean the billion views, just the show.
01:40:28.000 Being 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.
01:40:40.000 So thank you, Walter.
01:40:42.000 We appreciate your security help.
01:40:43.000 Promo code is CrowderBillion.
01:40:45.000 We are going to be releasing some super videos here coming up next week.
01:40:48.000 We'll be back to our regular schedule.
01:40:50.000 Thank you so much.
01:40:51.000 I look forward to reading your comments and hearing back from you.