In this episode of Drunk Tank Girl, host Josh Adam Gertler is joined by comedian Josh Adam Meyers (The Office) to discuss a wide range of topics, including whether or not the U.S. has the moral high ground when it comes to certain issues, and why Shania Twain's new song, I Feel Like a Woman, is actually about being a woman.
00:03:02.000Sheila Jackson Lee, Democratic Congresswoman, she told school children, and here's the thing, there are multiple failure points when she describes the moon to children that she didn't need to insert, but she chose to.
00:03:21.000Sometimes you've heard the word full moon.
00:03:25.000Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases.
00:08:11.000And you can hit the like button, of course, if you're watching on YouTube, wherever you are, because the algorithm does not want you to see the Brazilian journalist we're going to have on, Paulo Figueiredo or Alex Jones.
00:08:21.000We're going to be talking with them quite a bit today.
00:08:51.000The CIA contracting officer, I want to make sure I get these names right, Gavin Oblenis, actually on camera, talked about how the agency operates and how it takes down voices that they don't like.
00:09:03.000And he basically talked about how they use these tactics against Alex Jones, the goal was to bankrupt him, and they just sort of get some people to do their bidding.
00:09:13.000And I know that people have said this before, and it's easy to put some distance between yourself and someone like Alex because he's a character, and he's incredibly passionate, and sometimes he gets some things wrong, but he's out there taking the hits.
00:13:49.000And he also said the exact same things that we have been saying as far as it was under the Capitol Police jurisdiction.
00:13:55.000And Nancy Pelosi refused to send more Capitol Police when they were requested.
00:13:58.000Everything we have been talking about is confirmed here.
00:14:02.000And that's why they targeted Alex Jones.
00:14:04.000That's why we have been targeted here.
00:14:07.000That's why you have governments, for example, in Brazil removing creators.
00:14:10.000Rumble is no longer available in Brazil as they fight this legally right now and they take it up I don't know where they're going to take it, because it's a corrupt court, but we'll figure it out.
00:14:19.000If you want to see the whole clip, go follow, actually, Sound Investigations, on X, at Sound Invest, sorry, Sound Investig, I believe is their handle.
00:14:27.000We'll bring it up here for you guys, and we'll have links in the description.
00:14:31.000I think the full video is eight plus minutes, and I'm just getting word right now, I just heard this from Mission Control, that, I want to say Dennis Oblenus, Gavin Oblenus, Oblenus Leary, His LinkedIn has now been removed.
00:17:51.000It's not the shirt's fault to be clean.
00:17:53.000Oh, I haven't had one of these in a long time.
00:18:09.000Yeah, you look like you should be Jimmy Braddock either working down in the docks or one of the village people when you pair it with the jeans.
00:18:33.000I've been watching and enjoying the broadcast and I'm in a hotel but I come back to Texas today and so I took a few days off here with the family but as you said I'm going to be back busy putting out those Mug Club reports as soon as I get back and it's great to be here with you.
00:18:52.000No, well, I wish... I mean, I wish... I don't know if these are joyful circumstances.
00:18:56.000It's not because of what you've been through, but it's always at least somewhat of a win as far as a small battle when the truth comes out.
00:19:06.000Because you know and we know that you've been railroaded.
00:19:09.000Did you feel some kind of elation because it was confirmation, or was it mostly just anger because you're seeing someone blatantly admit it?
00:19:17.000Well, I actually heard about the video from you guys.
00:20:15.000And I knew everything he was saying, I'd been through it, and that's why I talked about the S.H.
00:20:21.000thing, but I don't even like to say the name, because it's a tar baby.
00:20:26.000They've got this HBO show out, it's total fiction, and they tried to rope me in to respond to that, you know, to sue me again, and so I've just tried to stay away from it, but the process of what happened, I knew right when Trump won and suddenly
00:20:41.000they were having some days, hundreds of articles a day, nightly news every night. I
00:20:45.000mean, we're talking tens of thousands of articles over a two-year period. Then it was a big PR
00:20:49.000firm, then it was a government operation.
00:20:52.000They were having congressional hearings, but they wanted to take me off the air.
00:20:54.000They were saying I was a Russian agent.
00:20:57.000And so I was like, why are they saying I'm the SH guy?
00:21:00.000When I barely ever hardly talked about it, just covered the internet doubting it.
00:21:03.000I wasn't the guy that first said that.
00:21:05.000I probably, they introduced 22 minutes in court of me.
00:21:37.000So we went and took what he said, blew it all up in 2016.
00:21:41.000In 2017, they basically embellished it to the power of 10 and then built that straw man that I was currently sitting in both their houses and currently peeing on graves, never did any of that, no one ever did any of that.
00:21:55.000This man, by the way, he admitted that.
00:21:56.000He admitted that there was nothing that you had done that was criminal.
00:22:03.000There are the courts, which obviously are corrupt very often.
00:22:06.000And then there's the court of public opinion, where there's no accountability.
00:22:08.000And he was saying, we know, effectively, what I'm seeing is him saying, we know we can influence the courts through abusing the court of public opinion.
00:22:15.000So it's important now when you talk about HBO, you talk about these networks, for people to understand, the FBI, the CIA, this administration, and these networks, along with big tech platforms, they're often one and the same.
00:22:26.000Let me ask you this too, did it surprise you at all when he admitted that the FBI was there January 6th?
00:22:33.000Because I know that when you were here you said, look, January 6th there were a bunch of people who were rabble-rousers, it was a small minority of people, but it was enough that it was significant and they need to be charged with threats.
00:22:41.000You've been very consistent with that.
00:22:49.000I mean, it's a leading question, but... No, it didn't surprise me.
00:22:54.000And when he said 20, that was probably just FBI agents.
00:22:57.000I mean, we know that there were some people that got into the heat of it, and the police fired tear gas, and then people broke in, but then the police opened the doors and brought everybody in, and now little old ladies are getting six months in jail for just walking through the velvet ropes.
00:23:14.000It did surprise me that he would sit there and just openly talk to a camera and openly brag about all these activities that he's obviously inside the FBI and the CIA and they're disgusting.
00:23:27.000So I know he's telling the truth because I experienced it.
00:23:31.000We're not getting into all the technicals but it's very important.
00:23:36.000Connecticut that quarterbacked all this.
00:23:39.000He's a high level Democrat party law firm.
00:23:41.000Senator Blumenthal's heavily involved in it and his family.
00:24:12.000And so, I was also sued by an FBI agent in that Sandy Hook case, never said his name, never showed a picture of him, didn't know who he was until he sued me.
00:24:20.000The guy never got harassed, he'd been on the stand.
00:24:22.000He got one phone call at his office after it happened to see if he was really FBI, because he didn't have his, you know, FBI Name on, his rifle was pointing up, you know, not down on his back.
00:24:34.000People thought this guy's not real, so that they called, I didn't even know who he was, and he got $94 million.
00:24:40.000Under the law in Connecticut, you can't sue somebody for defamation if you didn't say their name.
00:24:44.000I went to the name of one of the Sammy Hook people ever, and I admitted to that.
00:26:24.000Can you explain that to people so they understand what it is that you're... Yes, and Stephen, I apologize for going on and on, but let me just finish that last bit and then I'll get into that.
00:26:33.000My point is, Justice Department, Law firms, rigged courts, who are not allowed to defend yourself.
00:26:42.000This is the cocktail they've used against Trump.
00:26:45.000It's the cocktail that they're now using against everybody.
00:26:47.000And absolutely, the only reason I want to sue them is to get my name back.
00:26:52.000I don't even want money, but I want to be able to call Oblevis in.
00:26:56.000I want to be able to call their other lawyers in.
00:26:58.000I want to be able to call in the PR firms because the mistake they made was run their mouth.
00:27:02.000I mean, the lawyers in Connecticut and Texas, and by the way, the Texas group is the same steps when they won their cases the judge has already found
00:27:13.000me guilty and then told the jury to find me guilty for a bunch of money. They said our
00:27:17.000mission is to silence him we don't want money and that's now happening in the bankruptcy court where the
00:27:23.000judge is like wait the law says you can get money but the law doesn't say you get to silence people.
00:27:30.000So basically there's now findings about to be made public that they're dealing in bad faith.
00:27:55.000You're opening up the mouths of these evil people to then expose themselves.
00:27:58.000The Bible says, the pit they dig for you is the pit they will fall into.
00:28:02.000And so absolutely, I don't like taking on the FBI or the CIA.
00:28:05.000But if somebody's on top of you, breaking your nose and punching your eyeballs out and gang raping you and running over you and backing over you, all you can do is fight back.
00:28:14.000That's why when I saw the targeting of you a few years ago, I called you.
00:28:53.000To take what you're known for being smart and being funny and, you know, having a talented crew and reaching tens of millions of people.
00:29:00.000And now you're someone that, you know, We murder children on the side of the highway.
00:29:04.000And so just you understand, this is what comes in the territory.
00:29:07.000The good news is, it's backfiring now.
00:29:09.000And so when I talked to Elon for two and a half hours a few months ago, and I've since, you know, obviously talked to him a few other times.
00:29:26.000I'd love for you to be involved but that's hopefully in the works, you never know.
00:29:29.000I was supposed to be on one with him and we were talking to him with Zero Hedge a few months ago but he had basically a migraine headache and I believe he was the guy who works 20 hours a day and so yeah that's going on and hopefully, I'm just throwing this out there, hopefully Elon Musk will bankroll a lawsuit against the Deep State because the same, because he's already bankrolled some other ones Because the same people coming after him, the very same law firms are the ones suing him.
00:29:58.000Well, a couple of things I wanted to touch on here.
00:30:00.000First off, if you could just give me a short answer on this, because then I do want to get to Elon Musk and some of the conservatives who haven't really stood in the line of fire like they should.
00:30:07.000I know you're talking about these lawsuits.
00:30:08.000I know you can't give too much information, but since you were discussing this with law firms beforehand, this new footage that's been revealed, how did your lawyers respond?
00:30:21.000Absolutely, because the fact that he's worked with DHS, FBI, and manages the technicals of ops, so he's the guy that's kind of like managing the technical systems.
00:30:34.000Well, he's an FBI agent, he's a CIA officer, he's got credibility, right?
00:30:38.000They're all heroes and good guys, they don't lie, and so that's their narrative.
00:30:42.000Of course, it's not true, but he's telling the truth here.
00:30:48.000civil rights issue cut and dry. You already have congressional hearings going on with weaponization.
00:30:54.000Marjorie Taylor Greene is now calling for hearings on this and it's even going to be involved in the
00:32:24.000And to be willing to take the risks that you do, and that a lot of people on Mug Club and people in independent media like Mr. Figueredo, who's going to be on, that to me should be the rule, not the exception.
00:32:34.000So to see other conservatives out there go, well yeah, this is wrong and it's railroading, but you know, we just don't want to touch it because it's Alex Jones and he's his own thing.
00:32:43.000You've been experiencing that for a long time.
00:32:44.000I would imagine that's why places like Rumble and Elon Musk are significant, because you and I both know there are people who put on the team jersey publicly, and they don't take on the fights that are actually difficult and require a little bit of fortitude.
00:32:59.000And this is a communist or totalitarian tactic where they'll pick one person to pick on first, and then they'll say, oh, do you support this guy and get everybody to turn against him, or at least not support him.
00:33:20.000And I have friends, when they do things I think are wrong, I'll say, I think they're
00:33:23.000off base. But bigger than that, people that I'm not friends with, when I see a synthetic
00:33:29.000attack, when I see the media, the corporate press all piling on, I mean, I know what it
00:33:35.000is, that's their only power now because they have almost no viewers. But they can still
00:33:41.000scare politicians, scare media, that you're gonna be targeted if you talk to this person.
00:33:45.000Well, the reason they don't want people talking to Stephen Crowder or Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson is because we're popular and we're telling the truth and the organic population likes us.
00:34:48.000I have literally shook, which I don't mind doing, but I can barely even go to the grocery store or walk down the street or go to the beach.
00:36:45.000So I have one where there's no personal information, but it's... He'll leave them for me, like, at 10 o'clock, and it's like, Hey, Crowder, I'm sorry, I was on the road, and, uh, you know, what happened is, I don't know, this happened when I was on a golf course, and I, I was under par, but, uh, you know, and then the globalist, and I go, this is him!
00:36:59.000He's the same guy all the time, and I say, like him or hate him, that is Alex Jones.
00:37:51.000Speaking of misinformation and disinformation, any responsible leader that receives an endorsement and support from proven conspiracy theorist and liar Alex Jones would have immediately denounced that.
00:38:05.000But that's not what the Leader of the Opposition did.
00:38:08.000He did absolutely nothing, because those kinds of endorsements fit within his political strategy.
00:38:14.000That's right away what they're trying to do.
00:39:16.000Before he thought, I'm the new CEO, I'll bring in the power structure, they'll take my orders, we'll make America great again.
00:39:24.000Now he understands that there really is a criminal deep state out to not just get him, but literally destroy America and dominate and control it and parlay our power into global domination.
00:39:32.000And so if he isn't able to get in and get past all of the manipulation, which I think obviously a landslide's coming, they're going to have real trouble blocking it.
00:39:39.000They're trying to keep him off balance with all these criminal cases.
00:39:44.000with the Supreme Court deciding if that continues on.
00:39:47.000And so we're in for very, very tough times, very, very serious times.
00:39:51.000You have to admire Trump for being the man in the arena.
00:39:54.000And I stand with him, even though I don't agree with some of the things he does.
00:39:58.000Overall, he's trying to be the president.
00:41:09.000Yeah, it's CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:41:12.000And Alex, I hate to cut, but we do have this Brazilian journalist who's also experiencing, you know, a very similar kind of timeline to what you are.
00:41:18.000And for people watching, you can go to ladoscaro.comslashmugclub or rumble.comslashmugclub or rumble.mugclub.
00:43:02.000I know we're not going to name names, but you've had people call you up who say, you know, you really shouldn't say that, Nick.
00:43:06.000Your career would go further if you didn't.
00:43:09.000And you've not played, this is an entire room, an entire company of people who Don't play well with others, but we play pretty well together.
00:43:16.000Yeah, it's funny how the people that side with the truth are considered people who don't play well with others.
00:43:52.000I would rather deal with a thousand Nick DePaulos and a thousand Alex Jones than one passive-aggressive who passes themselves off as conservative and isn't willing to actually stand in the pocket.
00:44:03.000And this brings us to, while we're talking about Elon Musk, we discussed this yesterday, we have some updates, and we have Mr. Figueiredo coming on, Paulo Figueiredo, Elon Musk and the Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandra Is it Marias?
00:44:19.000They have been going after the timeline here the more we add it up, especially when you look at what's happened with Rumble, is alarming.
00:44:25.000And it's not about what the left does.
00:44:26.000Here's what the left would do if they were completely unfettered.
00:44:28.000You're kind of seeing that in Brazil right now where Rumble is not even available in Brazil.
00:44:32.000And this man who's a journalist there has had his passport revoked, his bank account's frozen, he's been deplatformed, and it all can be traced back to the government, and really one key Supreme Court judge, Marias.
00:44:44.000He basically thinks he's this guy, the megamind to take down Musk.
00:44:55.000It drives a point home, but it's childish.
00:45:51.000He's the president of the electoral court, okay?
00:45:55.000And he was appointed there just before the election of Lula, who, you know, took out Bolsonaro, was a criminal before, but it got overturned by the Supreme Court.
00:46:01.000It's not like there's been a history of corruption in the intelligence agencies or the police forces or the Supreme Courts in Brazil.
00:46:09.000Hey, if you're watching from Brazil right now, tell me, if you're walking down the street and there's a gang member on one side and there's a member of your government on the other or a policeman, who do you trust?
00:46:19.000Which side of the street do you walk on?
00:46:50.000This Supreme Court Chief issued an order allowing the court to open their own investigations.
00:47:04.000So they gave themselves permission to run investigations.
00:47:07.000The first order was given to Marias, and the first thing that Marias did Was order a magazine to retract an article accusing the Chief Justice of corruption.
00:47:19.000We're going to give ourselves the ability to investigate anybody.
00:48:18.000I don't fly off into the sunset, and I don't get the girl.
00:48:23.000Mariah's also So you have X, you have Rumble, you have Going After a Magazine, when you're now basically in charge of a new court.
00:48:33.000A new court that, I don't know, handles elections that a lot of people think was corrupt and if those people complained that it was corrupt they were accused of rioting.
00:48:39.000I don't know if you see those parallels there.
00:48:41.000He has also personally ordered I would say witch hunt, political prosecution of our next guest, journalist Paulo Figueiredo.
00:48:50.000This man has had his passport revoked, he's had his bank accounts frozen, he's had his social media censored.
00:48:56.000All of this for simply having a point of view that is deemed unacceptable in Brazil.
00:49:00.000So please, let's welcome our new friend here.
00:52:05.000At RioPfigureiro, I'm on Axe and most of my posts are in English, so they can follow me there.
00:52:13.000My Rumble channel is still in Portuguese, although Rumble, as you properly said, is not banned in Brazil.
00:52:19.000They decided to not comply to the rules I wanted to ask you, what are your thoughts on that?
00:52:35.000Because I know that obviously that's a significant portion of your business, how you make a living.
00:52:40.000But I would imagine that on moral grounds, you're supportive of them, you know, rebelling against the Brazilian government.
00:52:45.000But what's your overall feeling on that, that Brazilian fans can't watch you unless they maybe have a VPN?
00:52:52.000Well, it hurt me tremendously, but I actually talked to them.
00:52:58.000They were cautious enough to let me know what they were going to do, and I fully support it, because like Elon Musk said, principles are more important than profit.
00:53:45.000What is your specific relationship with Justice Moraes?
00:53:50.000Because he's at the center of a lot of this, and the more I was doing research, it kept coming back to the same person.
00:53:56.000Well, he is the de facto dictator of Brazil, so I don't have a relationship with him other than I was a journalist on the mainstream media, okay?
00:54:07.000I used to have sometimes more viewers than Fox News on Primetime in the U.S.
00:54:11.000It's like I'm talking about millions of people watching every day on TV, regular cable TV, cable news TV.
00:54:18.000The show that I was on was considered the number one political show in the country for a long time.
00:54:23.000So, and one day on December 30th, 2022, so after Lula's election, I woke up with the order of cancellation of my Brazilian passport, which was unheard of.
00:54:41.000The ban of all my social media in Brazil, you can access my social media if you're not in Brazil or if you're using a VPN, not in Brazil.
00:54:49.000My YouTube channel had like 1 million people, over 1 million people there.
00:54:54.000My Twitter account, 1.4 million people, just to give you an idea, and all other platforms.
00:54:59.000And one day I woke with everything blocked and plus all my assets in Brazil, all my assets and bank accounts were frozen.
00:55:06.000Plus he issued a fine every time I stated any fake news, which I think, I believe I've never did in my life, but it depends on what you think.
00:55:44.000Elon Musk said that he pretty much controls Lula.
00:55:48.000And it's interesting because a few months ago, Lula's party supported a bill in the U.S., in the Brazilian Senate, saying that, giving some limitations to the Supreme Court.
00:56:03.000And the Supreme Court justices went nuts and they started sending WhatsApp messages to journalists on mainstream media saying, look, we allow him to go back to power.
00:56:16.000So he was like, he can't turn against us.
00:56:25.000They brag about the fact that they brought him to power.
00:56:30.000And if you look at the Twitter files, Brazil, which they were released last week, it's undeniable that Demarais played a key role censoring conservatives and therefore favoring Lula's election.
00:56:44.000And even when I was on TV, I used to get orders from the court saying, you can't say this, you can't say that, you can't say that, like, and this isn't heard of.
00:56:57.000I couldn't say that Lula was unconvicted because this is, this is a little, it was us being smart asses in a sense, because he was convicted and then he was not found not guilty.
00:57:34.000Because you were on television for a very long time.
00:57:38.000That means you were obviously broadcasting when Bolsonaro was in office.
00:57:42.000And you've talked about these orders coming straight to you.
00:57:44.000Any of them ever come from Bolsonaro, the supposed fascist, saying you can't say that if you were critical of him or any of his colleagues?
00:58:55.000And to be fair, and I have to be absolutely, I've been in this game for a long time, and I've been in this game before Bolsonaro, and during the first run of the Workers' Party, the Socialist Party, Lula and Dilma in power, and I criticized them heavily without fear.
00:59:12.000And now, in Brazil, everyone is Terrified.
00:59:16.000I mean, members of Congress, whatever is left on the press, even the more moderate leftist journalists, they're terrified of criticizing Demarais.
00:59:46.000What's really scary, I mean, you know, in South America, sort of, you know, coups happen all the time.
00:59:50.000It's just kind of pick a country and pick a span of five years.
00:59:53.000It doesn't matter if you're going to go Colombia this year, you're going to go Chile, you're going to go Bolsonaro, you're going to go Brazil, is what they would try and say.
00:59:59.000I know you guys had one in the 1960s, I believe, and I know there were sort of semi-coups since then.
01:00:35.000How does one person, one single justice, I mean, this is the reason that your passport was revoked, this is the reason that your bank accounts were frozen, that your social media, that you were deplatformed, this is the person involved with Twitter files, right?
01:00:48.000How does one, going after that magazine, how does one justice, when there are 11, have that kind of unilateral power to get accounts removed and entire platforms?
01:03:21.000So Lula and his allies, they appointed, so Moraes was appointed by the vice president of Dilma Rousseff, which was the successor of Lula, of Lula's party.
01:03:33.000Dilma was impeached for defrauding public accounts, so she was impeached.
01:03:39.000And then this guy, Temer, which was more of a centrist guy, he took office and then he appointed Moraes.
01:03:47.000So if you take out of 11, nine were appointed by the left in Brazil.
01:04:27.000I think that's why we have a significant viewership in Brazil.
01:04:29.000We're going to start translating some of our content To Portuguese, because, you know, obviously appearing on Joe Rogan and being involved to some degree in the mixed martial arts community, it's a very strong sort of rugged individualist community.
01:04:42.000And I see a real populist groundswell or have been for a while there with Bolsonaro.
01:04:49.000And it was very surprising to me to see this shift.
01:04:53.000And it just made me very aware that it seems like it's a shift in spite of public sentiment, not as a byproduct of it.
01:04:58.000And I see a lot of the similarities, you know, with what they've done.
01:05:02.000They just accuse Bolsonaro and people on the right of being exactly what they are.
01:05:06.000They accuse him of being a fascist while they silence journalists and try and get people removed.
01:05:10.000They accuse him of not being willing to relinquish power while they effectively appoint a shadow government, right?
01:05:16.000That's what they've done here in the United States.
01:05:17.000They've said Donald Trump is a fascist.
01:05:19.000Well, fascists don't typically lower your taxes and give you more access to firearms if you're a law-abiding citizen.
01:05:35.000And yeah, I think a big reason that they would all hate America is because the idea of America would be to safeguard checks and balances, to act as a stand against corruption.
01:05:45.000And, of course, they want to destroy those checks and balances while demanding that people recognize and respect the institutions that they falsely prop up—education, they want to pack the court.
01:05:55.000Let me ask you this, because I want to continue on Mug Club, which is, of course, powered by Locals.
01:06:32.000I know, but, you know, look, I appreciate you taking the risk because I know, I know that you take a hit and standing there saying, yeah, but morally, This is something we have to do.
01:06:46.000Either way, you're kind of up shit creek.
01:06:48.000I'm sorry, but they decided to say, no, we're not going to comply and hopefully we see more people emboldened like we see with Elon Musk and X.