On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Gerald Ford case, the government shutdown, and the death of a man who may or may not have been a member of our own security team. Also, we have a new ad-free version of our popular game, Age Restricted or Not, and we're playing a game where you have to guess if it's age restricted or not.
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00:06:49.000A major announcement that we will be making in about a half hour.
00:06:53.000And the reason for that is, hey, anyone, by the way, watching right now, I would still recommend that you go and watch Dan Bongino.
00:06:59.000It is his last show on Rumble before he heads on into the FBI. He's done incredible things, was canceled on YouTube, was banned from YouTube, and he has been a huge part, an integral part, in growing Rumble.
00:16:16.000That this is just a way, and they always want to equate government workers with you as though you are one.
00:16:21.000By the way, if you are and you're upset about any kind of shutdown, or if you are a government worker and you are upset about any kind of cutbacks, I don't like you.
00:16:30.000So they're saying that this is just a way to screw government workers, and they're just like you.
00:16:34.000A shutdown means more federal workers, possibly near 900,000, could be furloughed at this very tough time.
00:16:43.000The truth is that it is far too early for this erection.
00:19:29.000You guys all know, like, you ran the numbers, the data, you looked at the focus groups, you guys all know why we lost, right, in this last election?
00:23:36.000You need to know if this is available for your kids because I see a lot of conservatives out there who just sit their kids in front of YouTube TV. It's a real problem.
00:23:43.000Second, when that guy is giving a review...
00:23:46.0006 out of 10. That means he's used all of those.
00:28:37.000Like, that makes it kind of worse for me because kids are looking at a cartoon like, oh, it's probably going to be friendly for children, but it's not age-restricted, so...
00:28:44.000Yeah, and by the way, I don't let any of my...
00:28:46.000I don't let my children watch YouTube at all.
00:28:48.000Unless I'm in the room and I'm searching something specific that's educational.
00:28:51.000Because, boy, the autoplay on YouTube can be a real problem.
00:30:46.000Now, obviously, look, if Change My Mind, there are only two genders, Change My Mind is age-restricted, you would imagine that a Chippendales dancer dry-humping a lady on stage at a place that serves alcohol would clearly be age-restricted on YouTube.
00:33:29.000Dan Bongino has done a lot here to build up Rumble and to build alternatives.
00:33:34.000And having been here since 2006, but 2008 on YouTube, we've been here for a lot.
00:33:41.000And people used to say to conservatives, they used to say to Republicans, well, if you don't like it, and we'd be banned or demonetized, go and build your own YouTube.
00:33:48.000Which, by the way, is very difficult to do when they benefit from Section 230. And they sort of have a monopoly.
00:34:04.000And more important than that, YouTube now, you just saw age-restricted or not.
00:34:10.000Not only is it depraved, not only is it a degenerate culture, but YouTube is making sure that there are no new stars, that there are no new people who can reach folks on YouTube.
00:34:21.000Try and name me a channel that has grown significantly on YouTube in the last few years.
00:34:25.000It's very different because Rumble is a place where you go now, not only are they masters of live, not only are they the only place that truly supports free speech, and I do, by the way, I even include X. This is very important.
00:34:37.000Chris Pavlovsky over there at Rumble, he did not cave to the government of Brazil, France, UK Parliament, government of Russia.
00:34:43.000They have taken the licks and they've been remarkably consistent.
00:34:46.000So it used to be, hey, why don't you go and build your own YouTube?
00:36:38.000We are going to move there so that you, who obviously got used to watching Dan and he's going to do great things in the government, we are going to be there.
00:36:45.000But more importantly, we are actually now launching a lineup.
00:37:41.000And so starting next week, this Monday, the 17th, we are going to move to 11. We're going to let everyone know this is going to be your last week on YouTube.
00:37:47.000There are still some lollygaggers over there.
00:37:51.000By the 24th, that Monday, no more streams on YouTube.
00:37:54.000You want to watch live, you head on over to Rumble.
00:37:57.000We'll still put up some clips on YouTube because we can censor it and it's demonetized.
00:38:00.000They don't see a dime anyway, as I understand it at this point.
00:38:06.000We go to 11. 9 a.m., you've got Evita Duffy, who obviously is a great friend of Dan and is doing great work and built an audience from scratch in the morning.
00:38:47.000Eastern, who is then going to lead you in exclusively on Rumble, not on YouTube, to the quartering, our friend Jeremy at 2 p.m.
00:38:54.000And then we are going to have Viva Frey later in the day, and we have some other resumes that are being read as far as rounding out the rest of this clock so you can keep it on a channel and continue watching.
00:39:04.000And of course, if you want to watch more from any of these creators, you can subscribe to Rumble Premium.
00:39:11.000For the first time, people who have something to lose, people who are dealing with a consequence, are going to be streaming to Rumble exclusively.
00:44:05.000You can play it, you can just listen to the audio, you can lock your phone, and it is live.
00:44:09.000You can have it there throughout the day.
00:44:11.000From people you know, people you trust.
00:44:13.000I'll also tell you this, behind the scenes, these are the people who are willing to step out.
00:44:16.000There are still a lot of people in the right sphere who, well, we still just, we have to be on YouTube, the money is too good, because some people aren't, some people are still monetized, people have their own reasons.
00:44:26.000These are people who are willing to stick their neck out.
00:44:28.000And, when people say, go and create your own YouTube, they've often tried to argue in the past, Well, yeah, but if you go to YouTube, that's where the viewers are.
00:44:36.000Well, you see this right now, we're always bigger than YouTube, but as these numbers increase dramatically, and that's you, guess what?
00:44:42.000It proves that YouTube is no longer a viable platform.
00:44:47.000You can have an effect on YouTube, on Google, by the way, on their stock price, on how worthy they are, on Rumble, on the creators, on the direction of content, on the rules, the guidelines.
00:46:31.000And of course, Twitter, before it was purchased and became X. YouTube has sometimes flown under the radar, because you don't think of it as a social media app, and it's not.
00:46:39.000You think of it as a media app, a broadcast app.
00:46:43.000They're actually the worst, because they have the ability to socially engineer young people, too.
00:46:55.000And they also were a place where many conservatives went initially because we could circumvent legacy media.
00:47:01.000And YouTube realized that and said, oh, no, no.
00:47:03.000Now we have to be gatekeepers here at YouTube and throttled and shadow banned and demonetized conservatives while allowing the most depraved, degenerate content to still live and thrive on YouTube.
00:47:12.000So let me give you a brief history for people who are new here.
00:49:46.000I was the first comedian I remember at this college in 2005 banned from a multicultural fair at a local community college where they had me performing.
00:49:58.000Remember they used to do those conferences and you'd show up and they're like, we can't have this guy.
00:50:26.000So we go through there, and then there were a bunch of kind of conservative...
00:50:32.000Networks that popped up, and some of them are great.
00:50:34.000I worked with PJTV. There were some great people there.
00:50:35.000I was at Fox News for about four and a half years, and during that time, there were people there who were very touch-and-go with what I could put on YouTube.
00:50:45.000Being called into the second floor at Fox News on a regular basis for something offensive that you say is quite eye-opening.
00:50:52.000But it made me realize what I didn't want to do.
00:50:56.000And it also made me see where the puck was going with people watching online.
00:51:41.000And conservatives were doing very, very well.
00:51:43.000They decided to change that behind the scenes.
00:51:46.000They had some levers that they pulled.
00:51:47.000June 2019. This is when something happened, for those of you who are new, the Vox adpocalypse, where we had done videos on YouTube that were critical of Vox, who, by the way, would co-produce shows with YouTube, and it was leftist propaganda.
00:52:03.000I mean, the kind of propaganda that we now teach our kids, unfortunately, about the evils of the United States, about white privilege, Western civilization.
00:52:12.000So we were very critical of Vox for a very long period of time.
00:52:16.000They happened to have a host at Vox who was incredibly gay.
00:52:20.000And they didn't like that I pointed that out while making fun of the material.
00:53:04.000And thank God for Mug Club, which is now Rumble Premium.
00:53:06.000So this was known as the Vox Adpocalypse, and this was the content that was deemed not hateful, but the reason for removing our ability to make a living.
00:53:15.000Steven Crowder is a conservative comedian who makes videos on YouTube.
00:53:39.000So we have a higher standard for monetization.
00:53:42.000So then we did announce the monetization change that Stephen Crowder was his monetization.
00:53:46.000So was that in reaction to people reacting to you not reacting?
00:53:49.000Or was that something you were already planning to do and just hadn't got around to it?
00:53:53.000No, we were in the process of looking at that.
00:53:56.000YouTube dragged its feet before taking any action against conservative commentator Stephen Crowder, despite being informed of Crowder's two-year homophobic harassment campaign.
00:54:09.000And if you want to talk surreal, seeing a senator out there calling for your deplatforming for silly, goofy stuff, right?
00:55:39.000And, of course, you know, if nothing else, I'm easy to work with and I play ball.
00:55:43.000So, June 3rd, I issued a sweeping 20-minute apology to all of those who I... Technically not wronged, but kind of did wrong if I wanted to get back in YouTube's good graces, like many other conservatives.
00:55:55.000I, along with everyone here at Latterworth Crowder, am not above recognizing my mistakes and attempting to rectify them.
00:56:02.000So I'd like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all parties involved.
00:56:06.000Good ideas and respectfully debate the merits, virtues, and shortcomings of socialism as opposed to merely mocking it with a hysterical t-shirt and shortcomings of socialism as opposed to merely mocking it with a hysterical I'd like to issue an apology to Tess Holliday for incorrectly implying that her blood type was biologically comparable to that of pudding.
00:56:34.000She's both brave and beautiful, and I should have done more to celebrate that.
00:56:37.000I'd like to formally apologize to the Bob Ross estate.
00:56:42.000For tarnishing his legacy with the portrayal of Muhammad's likeness, subsequently painting it in period blood, and finally, painting his legal team as eating from a corn-infested pile of fecal matter alongside the holiest of prophets, Muhammad.
00:57:18.000Viva Frey is going to be in there, and this is all going to be live.
00:57:21.000Now, the 30-something thousand of you who are still watching on YouTube, you may not realize this.
00:57:25.000You guys move over to Rumble, that makes a big difference because YouTube loses them and Rumble gains them.
00:57:30.000And I know some of you still on YouTube, once upon a time, Rumble still had to get some glitches fixed on their app.
00:57:36.000It is the best app out there right now.
00:57:38.000You can listen while your phone is locked.
00:57:40.000You can listen on audio if you're in your car.
00:57:42.000This stream is going to be seamless where audience goes from show to show to show.
00:57:46.000While everyone can still be independent, we don't even all agree on everything.
00:57:49.000This is about joining forces to take out really what I would say is the most subversive platform.
00:57:55.000In the United States these days, they have actually affected outcomes of elections, and they have tried to intimidate people into a culture of silence.
00:58:02.000And people have said, hey, go and create your own YouTube.
01:00:11.000Yeah, what'll happen is, those of you who are not Rumble Premium members yet, I highly recommend that you do, but hey, you still get an entire clock of free content.
01:00:46.000We start 10 minutes late because it's an old stand-up thing where you always let the audience kind of still bleed in because people are late and a two-drink minimum.
01:00:54.000But no, we're going to be starting at 11 Eastern on the dot.
01:01:14.000A little bit of support goes a long way.
01:01:16.000And if you're not there, I know that $80 is a lot, then hey, we're still going to make sure that you can be informed and watch the content for free.
01:01:24.000Because we understand that that's important to a lot of people.
01:01:26.000That's why we are doing this, to scratch all the itches.
01:01:29.000Let's go through this timeline again on YouTube, the history.
01:01:32.000For some people out there, you may not know just how bad it is.
01:01:45.000On June 4th, YouTube officially said that they wouldn't be taking any action over the content of our channel here on YouTube.
01:01:52.000This was a statement that said, as an open platform, it's crucial for us to allow everyone, from creators to journalists to late-night TV hosts, keep in mind our show was late-night at that point in time, to express their opinions within the scope of our policies.
01:02:04.000Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don't violate our policies, They'll remain on our site.
01:02:11.000So, that's what YouTube said because we do have lawyers on retainer and we didn't violate any policies.
01:02:20.000But it wasn't violating the kind of policies that YouTube had.
01:02:23.000And certainly when you look at the depraved, sexually degenerate content that's available for children on YouTube, it was a tough argument to make.
01:02:29.000But this was the first time that a conservative outlet was...
01:03:55.000And we'll get to what happened during COVID, which, by the way, YouTube, you can argue in reducing the spread of harmful content, and by that we mean the information surrounding antivirals, the information surrounding lockdowns, the information surrounding school lockdowns and the harm that would be caused to children.
01:04:11.000You can argue that big tech and certainly YouTube played a role in the deaths of thousands of people, and you certainly can argue the increased depression rates, the increased anxiety rates, as we see.
01:04:21.000As a direct result of COVID, the school lockdowns, alcoholism.
01:05:14.000I'll tell you what these suspensions were over.
01:05:15.000So March 2021, we were suspended for election disinformation.
01:05:19.000And that resulted in permanent demonetization.
01:05:21.000The election misinformation was actually sending investigative journalists out to addresses where people had voted that didn't exist.
01:05:28.000And we made these available to you publicly.
01:05:32.000YouTube removed those videos and suspended us, and I had to have my lawyer explain exactly why because they didn't trust me to deliver the message.
01:05:40.000Here's where we're at right now as things stand for those who aren't aware of what's happened.
01:05:48.000We're completely taken off for an entire week due to an undetailed unspecified violation of the presidential election integrity policy at YouTube.
01:06:14.000And the cop actually took the perpetrator down before she killed another girl, and we were like, well, thank God that person saved that life.
01:06:36.000Then October 2021, we were suspended for covering...
01:06:39.000A trans prison story where a trans inmate who was a biological male may or may not have sexually assaulted, allegedly, a female inmate, which may or may not have resulted in a potential alleged pregnancy.
01:06:55.000And by that, I mean, go and see if that story is a real one.
01:06:59.000You can go and research that and just know that YouTube refused to allow anyone to cover it.
01:07:09.000There were a lot in 2021. We were suspended for, this one was just quote-unquote targeting the LGBTQ plus community and the fact that they use the term LGBTQ plus unironically.
01:07:42.000Yeah, there's a process moving people over.
01:07:43.000Okay, we know some people are married to YouTube, and we know that you want to watch this.
01:07:46.000So we started introducing that infamous YouTube dump button.
01:07:50.000So we have here, because we don't know the policies with YouTube, and we've read the policies, but they don't enforce them consistently, we have what is the YouTube dump button.
01:08:28.000But the influence of Google and YouTube was enough.
01:08:31.000As far as the YouTube dump button, I've always said this, you know, when we used to do traditional television and radio, there was the FCC, right, where they gave you a list of words you couldn't say, and it was kind of a game of cat and mouse, okay, and people used to complain about that censorship.
01:08:43.000Then everyone migrated online, and we thought, hey, great, now we can reach people directly and actually speak the truth.
01:08:49.000It's so much worse now because the entire world has become the FCC. There are no guidelines or rules.
01:08:55.000It's just if people deem this unacceptable today...
01:09:07.000That's a lot worse than the FCC. We're in a far more censorship-centric culture, and that allows for direct election interference.
01:09:16.000This brings us to 2022. This is the reason that we're launching the lineup Monday.
01:09:20.000We move to 11, and then no more YouTube the following Monday on the 24th.
01:09:23.000So, November 2020. We, right here, had the biggest election livestream in YouTube history.
01:09:30.000Biggest livestream in YouTube history.
01:09:32.000It was the largest livestream that night on the election, 2020. Then in October of 2022, just days before the midterm elections, we were given a hard strike, which means a suspension, so we were not able to cover the election on YouTube.
01:09:48.000In other words, do you believe for a second that they didn't know who was going to have the biggest midterm stream?
01:11:27.000That's been a tenet of what we do here.
01:11:29.000I don't have to agree with people who are on the show with 100% of their views.
01:11:34.000I just have to agree with their right to say it, and they generally have to be someone who supports freedom, basic fundamental values that we support in the Western world, and of course people who we align with tend to be conservative.
01:13:27.000We salute the entire crew and Steven Crowder, and we salute the Rumble folks.
01:13:31.000Now, we were informed that if we had one more Shrek on our channel on YouTube, that the channels would be permanently banned and we wouldn't be allowed to upload anything on YouTube.
01:13:39.000And I know, here's the reason I show that.
01:13:40.000Back then, a lot of people were saying, well, if you say they came for Alex Jones, Alex Jones is different.
01:13:46.000There's a reason that people deplatform him.
01:13:49.000It's not going to affect the rest of us.
01:14:42.000YouTube came for Dan, and I'm sure that, uh, I'm sure we're going to get to the bottom of some of this information at some point in time, considering the people we have in government now, one can hope.
01:15:11.000The example of cyberbullying and harassment for eight strikes was that we had a Kamala Harris blow-up doll in the studio and she didn't even talk.
01:15:22.000Speaking of experts, it seems like the most likely nominee is expert in whoredom, Kamala Harris.
01:15:28.000We don't know if she has a sex closet.
01:15:29.000We absolutely know that she slept her way to her job.
01:16:11.000Once you, you know, sort of cafeteria compartmentalize out the lying whoredom, if you do a little searching, you go, okay, she doesn't seem like she's the most supremely qualified lawyer.
01:16:20.000Well, it's relevant if that's how someone got their job, if their major qualification is what they have hanging in their sex closet.
01:16:27.000Also note, Kamala did date Willie Brown, who was a mayor, when he was 60 and she was 29, and when asked about it, he just said, like, yeah, bang the bitch.
01:16:40.000I think if people know how someone got their job, especially if this person is going to be held out as the first potential female president to young women...
01:16:47.000It's important because you don't want that to be an example for young girls.
01:17:47.000We need to see people move away from these social media, these new media ghettos, where they are being corralled, they are being siloed, and they are being subject to propaganda on a daily basis.
01:17:59.000If you think that big tech and new media cannot affect the outcome of elections, please see 2020 and see what happened with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and then apply that to all search.
01:18:10.000Apply that to all of YouTube, where you are auto-suggested, where when you search and browse, it is consistently leftist content, and by the way, sanitized conservative content who play ball with the big tech overlords.
01:19:09.000You were about to say something, Gerald.
01:19:10.000Yeah, so it's also promoting each other, right?
01:19:13.000So one of the features of this is rating to the next audience.
01:19:16.000And so just to clear up some of the confusion, again, we've said it a few minutes ago, but just to make sure everybody heard, We are going to be sending the free audience over to the next show.
01:20:49.000And this is about changing the digital landscape for all future elections to come.
01:20:53.000And someone who's very unhappy about this, and as promised earlier, I believe we have her on the line here to talk about how we've been a target for several years and why they have done so.
01:21:04.000I appreciate her willingness to do it.
01:21:06.000Please welcome back to the show Senator Mazie Hirono.
01:21:14.000All right, once again, welcome back to the show, Senator Hirono.
01:23:43.000You get Vince, Dan's boy, who's going to be emerging here, and I think he's going to do some great stuff.
01:23:48.000Us, then Tim Pool, then Russell Brand, then Jeremy from the Quartering, good friend to the show, a guy who's solid and a guy who really stands by his convictions.
01:23:55.000Then we've got Viva Frey, and we are finishing out that clock so that you can have a one-stop shop all day.
01:24:02.000That's what's starting next week and the following week.
01:26:47.000It's once they start turning over stones, I think that's where the danger is.
01:26:51.000We'll see what they're able to get access to, what they're able to disclose, what kind of changes they propose to the agency, and you'll see the knives start coming out, probably.
01:26:59.000Oh wait, CNN is talking about Dylan Mulvaney?
01:27:01.000I didn't realize that Dylan Mulvaney is still a thing.
01:27:03.000And then people say, why do you make a big deal?
01:27:53.000And, you know, look, I don't want to denigrate an entire race or ethnic class of people, but that's the last time I give a greasy WAP 30 bucks.
01:29:01.000Think like Mario 3. Play the flute right to the next show.
01:29:04.000So this is about providing value added to people who don't have the money to join Premium and keeping you, obviously, on the program and giving you choice if you have joined Rumble Premium.
01:29:14.000So now we're going to be doing an hour there for free every day.
01:29:18.000and actually I believe we're going to be doing it Friday as well on Rumble because on YouTube we often wouldn't where Friday was just an exclusive show to Rumble Premium so that still remains to be seen because look there are a lot of people as far as their schedules some people travel on Friday especially working out those details yeah working out those details but you will get the full hour show and the Rumble Premium show every day that stays the same Yep.