Steven Crowder, CEO and Founder of Mug Club, joins me in this episode of the podcast to talk about what it means to be a "weeb" in the 21st century, and why you should join the fight against Big Tech.
00:02:29.000We wanted to educate and entertain them and try to help save our country.
00:02:34.000But so many of you weren't being served.
00:02:36.000It was all about scam advertising, dishonest tactics, censorship, playing ball with people that don't share your values, and we couldn't stand idly by while that happened.
00:02:46.000They want to cancel every one of you and every one of us.
00:02:50.000But because of you, because of Mug Club, they can't touch us.
00:02:59.000Democrats are afraid of this guy, the liberal media can't stand him, and Big Tech wants to cancel him, but you have made him uncancellable!
00:03:08.000Welcome the strange animal himself, Steven Crowder!
00:03:14.000You're a strange animal, that's what I know You're a strange animal, trying to follow
00:04:05.000So, uh, look, in just a few minutes we'll be making some major announcements regarding the future of Mug Club, and it's widening to a full-fledged network powered by Rumble.
00:04:14.000And what I mean by that is Mug Club, if you go to ladderwithcreditor.com slash mug club now, one portal, and it's a network to many different creators, some of whom we'll announce today and more to come.
00:04:23.000So we have announcements regarding new shows, new types of content, new ways to impact the country, this increasingly silly place, and the tyrannical platforms of big tech.
00:04:33.000First, let me get into this a little bit.
00:04:34.000Replatforming is the title here for a reason.
00:04:38.000And because of all these announcements and the people from whom you're about to hear, Replatforming is a story about what's been lost, what's been risked, really, what's been taken from people, and what, starting today, we will all actively begin to regain.
00:04:54.000And before that, Mug Club's been around for such a long time that it kind of occurred to me, for some of the folks new here, I haven't done a great job in explaining to you what Mug Club is, what Phase 1, at least, has been up until now, before we get to the new announcements.
00:05:11.000We've had people come up and say, hey, you know, I wish I could say some of these things that, you know, you guys can say on there, but I'll get fired from my job.
00:05:19.000I don't want you to get fired from your job.
00:05:21.000But when you join up, when you give us your dollar, we have to be able to say what it is that you can't say.
00:05:29.000If we play ball with big tech, if we decide to take your dollar but then say, we've got to make tens of millions of dollars off YouTube ad revenue, we're screwing you.
00:05:37.000So Mug Club is exactly what has allowed us, all of us, to remain completely independent since 2016.
00:05:43.000Before that, online revenue was generated by ads.
00:05:47.000I knew back then, in order to maintain that, I would have to make compromises.
00:05:50.000YouTube, Facebook, they kept telling us what kind of content we were permitted to post, what kind of creators they would be happy to work with, and exactly what kind of people, what kind of conservatives, would be put in the corner.
00:06:02.000I couldn't stomach it then, I can't stomach it now, and no one here can, and because of Mug Club, because of you, we don't have to.
00:06:11.000Because of Mug Club, when NBCUniversal, Vox, CNN tried to deplatform all of us, meaning us and you, we survived the Vox Apocalypse.
00:06:19.000YouTube, Google said, hey, you're not going to make another dime off ads.
00:06:22.000And because of you, Mug Club, we said, fine.
00:06:25.000Viewers like you, you know how PBS says that, but really they mean another grant, more money, please?
00:06:30.000Because of Mug Club, with zero ad revenue, we were able to host the single most viewed, individually viewed I should say, election stream of 2020.
00:06:38.000And because of Mug Club not being beholden to Big Tech's advertising or their guidelines, we were able to cover the voting dumps as they happened, the boarded up polling stations as they happened, the corrupt early calling of states as they happened, and the gaslighting of you from the media and Big Tech for believing your lying eyes and lying ears.
00:07:08.000Because of Mug Club, we broadcast the single largest individual election livestream to occur on any other platform outside of YouTube, doing it through Rumble and the history of the internet.
00:07:20.000We can keep fighting and growing because of Mug Club.
00:07:23.000Because of Mug Club, when the entire world went crazy and locked down due to the China virus, and you were going stir-crazy with nowhere to go, and even conservative hosts were suspending their broadcasting or doing it from their basement with a webcam, we were able to be right here with you and instead for an entire month broadcast two-a-days with Mug Club Quarantine.
00:07:42.000The entire staff right here from this very studio.
00:07:43.000Because of Mug Club, during that same time, we were able to introduce whistleblowers like Dr. Peter McCullough, other practicing biologists to the world.
00:08:03.000And because of Mug Club, when on the very same day, we're making some announcements here today, But think of this, the very same day Alex Jones was de-platformed from YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Spotify, along with a warning that anyone hosting him would be suspended themselves, and many of his so-called friends abandoned him, we hosted him immediately, and we wore that suspension with honor.
00:08:29.000We can keep fighting because of Mug Club.
00:08:31.000And because we did, and because so many of you watched and joined, YouTube reversed course and allowed Alex Jones to appear on programs just as a guest moving forward.
00:08:41.000He just wasn't allowed to host a program of his own, they said.
00:08:43.000And so, because of Mug Club, we immediately allowed Alex Jones to fill in hosts for this very show.
00:08:52.000And we wore our immediate suspension with pride.
00:08:55.000Completely demonetized, we could keep fighting and growing because of Mug Club.
00:08:58.000Mug Club is why we were able to cover the lied-about origins of COVID-19 and the potential side effects of the experimental mRNA injection while it was strictly forbidden, before it was allowed.
00:09:12.000And Mug Club is why, when even nearly, not nearly, every mainstream conservative that we can think of said that we lived through the most secure election of our lifetime, with, you can count on one hand, exceptions, we were able to cover exactly why that was verifiably, irrefutably untrue, while it was strictly, again, forbidden to do so on YouTube and Facebook, until YouTube just officially announced that it'll be allowed.
00:13:30.000So before we get to some of the new announcements new shows new divisions that we're creating here and again
00:13:35.000You can go to ladder with credit comm slash mug club enter in the promo code re platforming it a fight like hell shirt
00:13:40.000I want to, uh, give the microphone over to some people who've played a role here at MugClub and growing this place and, uh, are now going to be playing a bigger role.
00:13:48.000So first, uh, this is a man right here with a resume that you rarely find in the, I mean, quote-unquote, conservative movement.
00:13:56.000So through the last decades, he's had roles in film, television, he's hosted shows, he's sold out theaters.
00:14:03.000But with Brian Callum, let me tell you a little bit about what he lost.
00:14:06.000Because that's what replatforming is about.
00:14:09.000In the era of the Me Too Witch Hunt, when people were being falsely accused left and right, he not only had a top 10 podcast in the sports world, he not only was a central character on one of ABC's hallmark shows, his role was so popular he was given his own spinoff on ABC in primetime.
00:14:25.000Smear campaign later, he lost all of it.
00:14:27.000The term cancelled doesn't even cover it.
00:14:30.000But now, he's ready to let his freak flag fly, and beyond being in third chair and appearing in sketches, which he's done, he will be launching his weekly show on September 1st, The Brian Callen Show, but Mug Club will also be producing Brian Callen's next stand-up comedy special, more on that in a minute, one where he can finally pull no punches, show the world everything that he truly is, again, because of Mug Club.
00:14:50.000So please welcome to the team, part-timer to full-timer, Mr.
00:16:03.000Steven and the Louder With Crowder family have been battling it out on their own for a long time now.
00:16:08.000Well, I am excited to be part of an ever-expanding group of misfits and comics that have had enough and want to join the fight.
00:16:17.000The pushback isn't just about fighting bad ideas with better ideas.
00:16:21.000It's not just about shouting into a microphone.
00:16:25.000We're here to change hearts and minds, and we are going to do it the way Steven has always done it, with humor, satire, wit, and maybe a little screaming into the microphone.
00:19:38.000And when you ask any of that industry's peers, they would flat out tell you, oh, oh, oh, yeah, he's the guy.
00:19:44.000In the world of stand-up comedy, for decades, that guy is Nick DiPaolo.
00:19:48.000Nick DiPaolo is not only one of the longest-standing veterans in the industry, he's the guy who some of the world's most famous comedians still call when they need help writing jokes, to this day.
00:19:58.000To give you an idea, when Joe Rogan went through his conflict with Carlos Mencia back in the day, and I was watching from Montreal, his primary problem was with unoriginality.
00:20:08.000And you can go back and watch this clip.
00:20:10.000He talked about how difficult it was to write truly excellent original comedy.
00:20:14.000And when he listed examples of the gold standard of people who inspired him, he listed two people.
00:20:22.000Nick's fatal flaw is that he was just never able to keep his mouth shut.
00:20:30.000Nick Napole has always reviled the left, political correctness, or what we know today as cancel culture.
00:20:35.000The stories of him going off on some entitled feminist who made the air of heckling him at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, they're still discussed.
00:20:43.000They're echoed through the halls of that club to this day.
00:20:46.000He was cancelled, fired really, before that term exists, from his own radio show at Sirius XM, when a Latinx professor at Fresno State was joy-tweeting that Barbara Bush had died.
00:20:55.000Nick DiPaolo did what he does best, and he wrote, I don't know, I hope he's alright, he wrote this tweet in response.
00:21:02.000Dear future school shooters, please confine yourselves to college campuses, specifically faculty lounges at Berkeley Fresno State.
00:21:13.000It was funny then, and it's funny now.
00:21:17.000And he was fired, and he never changed.
00:21:21.000This is not a man, just to be clear, who kept his head down, made his bones, and then decided to come out of the closet as some right-wing lunatic for clicks.
00:21:29.000This man doesn't own a closet door, and he has always been a right-wing lunatic.
00:21:34.000While other people in the industry, right, they would seek his advice from behind the scenes, and I'll say this because he will never say this, okay?
00:21:40.000People will seek his advice behind closed doors, and maybe there's some folks out there who you may watch who maybe lift some of his stylings from back in Boston, softening it for a mainstream audience.
00:21:49.000This guy was being turned down for roles from venues he's had shows canceled.
00:21:54.000He was even punched in the face at a comedy club by a lesbian broad in Birkenstocks.
00:22:00.000He was on our show the next day with a black eye.
00:22:03.000Because he just could never keep his mouth shut.
00:22:06.000And the reason that this is the replatforming conference is because this is a story not even about what was lost, but what was taken from someone.
00:22:15.000And what, at this moment in time, for the first time, can be regained and will be regained.
00:22:19.000And because of all of this, he was called, of course, look, before you were, racist,
00:22:24.000sexist, homophobic, you name it, for his entire career, here at Mug Club, and myself personally,
00:22:30.000we call him the funniest man alive, Nick DiPaolo.
00:23:43.000I'm part of my club, honestly, because it's the only source for the truth right now as far as letting people know what's being done to this country and what deep shit we're in thanks to the leftist elitist scum that make up both the mainstream media and that vast criminal enterprise known as the Democrat Party.
00:24:06.000Whether it's confronting brainwashed students on a college campus, calling out politicians on their bullshit, no one has been doing it longer and better than our fearless leader here, Steven Crowder.
00:24:28.000Mug Club gives you the unvarnished truth, but it does... Jesus, my eyes are going halfway through this thing.
00:24:36.000It's like trying to read the ingredients on a protein bar in the fucking font.
00:24:42.000But it does it in an entertaining way.
00:24:44.000It's a place where you can get the latest news, opinions.
00:24:48.000But what makes it different is he backs it up with facts, and all while you're laughing your ass off at the same time, you can't find it anywhere other than here and MSNBC.
00:25:01.000I noticed that Crowder and Mug Club were being consistently attacked by platforms that I fucking despise on social media.
00:25:09.000YouTube, Facebook, LatinoHouseWives.org, and of course that, you know, that human feces that makes up Twitter.
00:25:22.000I was thinking to myself, this guy must be doing something right to be perceived as such a threat to these Stalinist-loving fuckstains.
00:25:34.000So, when I was approached by Mud Club to enlist in this army, I was like, it was a no-brainer.
00:25:40.000I get to say exactly what I want, no matter how offensive this is, without being cancelled or worrying about offending these bed-wetting, thumb-and-cock-sucking leftists.
00:25:54.000And without being cancelled on the spot, so I said, put me in coach, I'm ready to play.
00:25:59.000So, sure I have two bad hips and I'm a week away from death.
00:26:03.000This fucking... I'm scrolling up, you motherfucker!
00:26:14.000The fact that Crowder has almost six million subs on his platform, run by people who detest everything he, myself, and all the other shows on his network stand for, speaks to how powerful Mug Club has become.
00:26:28.000I just gotta say, stand up... I'm a stand-up comic, and the freedom I get being a part of this, it's priceless.
00:26:38.000And Steven, I want to thank you again.
00:27:45.000And that's important, because unfortunately there's far too much non-profit influence in the conservative sphere that isn't beholden to you.
00:27:52.000These people are appointed, not necessarily elected.
00:27:55.000So Mug Club is a business run by you, but it's never been just business.
00:28:22.000Because it's not a money-making endeavor.
00:28:25.000In a world where journalism is only as valuable as its clicks, or how it exploits the algorithm that day, telling a story from scratch is hard.
00:28:33.000Educating an audience from square one is difficult.
00:28:36.000Now, finding a story, or in the case of subterfuge, so pervasive, it runs so deep that no one even knows about it in the public, meaning that you are effectively creating that story in the public view.
00:29:09.000Even more, depending on the people that you may be exposing, at best the big platforms won't cover it, the media outlets, and most likely they'll actively try to bury it.
00:29:20.000Because the enemies of our country, their pockets run deep.
00:30:32.000Beyond the infrastructure support, Mud Clubbers yourself will be able to play a role in holding
00:30:37.000the fete set on ending our country accountable.
00:30:41.000Through sending us your own leads and stories, we will be protected with ironclad anonymity.
00:30:47.000We have set up an encrypted tip log at lwctips.com where our investigative journalists await your alerts and will work with you to ensure a voice for the world.
00:31:03.000You have his text, and you have confirmation, photographic confirmation, that he was at a place where he would have been with his dad.
00:31:09.000That, in and of itself, does open you up to a national security issue.
00:31:16.000I'm not trying to, like, be a provocateur.
00:31:18.000I'm just trying to get a real answer, because they never give a real answer.
00:31:22.000How do you thread that needle of inclusivity, being welcoming while also stopping some fentanyl?
00:31:32.000We will never surrender our sources. We will never compromise on the truth. And our pursuit
00:31:41.000of those who live in the shadow of evil will never, ever stop. Our eyes and ears are everywhere.
00:31:49.000We are many. We are among you. We are you. We are not yet undercover.
00:32:09.000We're not gonna kill anybody, just to be clear.
00:32:15.000So, uh, we have the Mug Club Undercover Investigative Journalism Unit, we have Ryan Cowan's special, his new show, and of course you already have our show, you have Nick DiPaolo, you have The Friday Show, all this stuff at Mug Club.
00:32:24.000Guns and Gear, of course, who's been, thank God he was a consultant, because that would have been wildly unsafe that day at the range.
00:32:30.000Heat stroke and automatic weapons, legal.
00:32:39.000And this is also the story today, if you look at Nick and you look at Brian and you look at our show, you look at Mr. Guns and Gear, it's from the bottom up.
00:32:48.000No one told you that these are the guys you should be paying attention to.
00:32:51.000These are people who built this over the long haul.
00:33:11.000And so I invited them on the show as guests.
00:33:13.000And on that very show, we not only found out that we shared values, but the world literally found out for the first time that they voted for Mitt Romney because they were just that disappointed with Barack Obama.
00:33:36.000Their audience, suddenly their live shows, were filled with people who were there not just to laugh, but who had their backs.
00:33:43.000And that really is one of the beautiful things about Mug Club, no matter how much the enemy tries to create cracks, we have each other's backs here, and we know that you have ours, and we're incredibly grateful.
00:33:51.000We'd much rather owe you a favor than Big Tech or some sponsors.
00:36:34.000So, of comedy specials, we have new shows, the investigative unit, which we've discussed.
00:36:40.000And again, you get a free shirt at lotofthecreditor.com slash Mug Club.
00:36:43.000But we have another announcement to make regarding a new acquisition here.
00:36:48.000And by the way, I'll be taking your chats here after this.
00:36:50.000We'll be taking some questions from the press, so you can send your chats in right now on Mug Club.
00:36:55.000And we'll be releasing more information regarding some of the developments.
00:36:58.000But this is one that we're all Pretty excited about.
00:37:02.000And again, if it was just business, it wouldn't make sense.
00:37:10.000This is a man who was removed from the platforms of Apple, Spotify, Google, Facebook, Meta, X, whatever the hell it is, all on the same day.
00:38:20.000But if there's one thing you can say about this man, love him or hate him, is that he will fight for this country with every last breath in his body, and he just won't die.
00:38:30.000So it's with as much pride that I can convey, and as much surprise, by the way, as you, in landing this white whale, the number one draft pick, without a doubt, out there, that for the first time he will launch his subscription network exclusively under the Mug Club umbrella, starting with his new Friday show.
00:38:47.000On August 18th, ladies and gentlemen... I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!
00:40:42.000If any terrorism comes, it's from this government.
00:40:45.000And if there was an outside threat like a Bin Laden, who was a known CIS in the 80s, running the Mujahideen War, whose family builds all the military bases over in Saudi Arabia right now, this isn't the board of Iridium Satellite.
00:42:21.000And let's be clear, InfoWars isn't going anywhere or Austin Operation, my regular show that's on talk radio everywhere, but We've been talking for years about some type of collaboration and he had to move from where he was to trailblaze and do this.
00:42:35.000And what's incredible is it's succeeding.
00:42:39.000We don't just have the left and the globalist and big tech and the intelligence agencies.
00:42:43.000We now know that we're censoring and controlling and suppressing election information and vaccine information and open border and human trafficking information, fentanyl info and Afghan withdrawal info.
00:42:54.000It's the big think tanks that Crowder alluded to earlier that are so-called conservative that have billions of dollars over the last decade to buy and control the populist, nationalist, common-sense capitalist movement that this country was founded on that made it the apple of the world's eye.
00:43:11.000And so we're not just challenging the left and Hollywood and big tech, we're challenging conservative Inc.
00:43:17.000And that didn't make sense to some people that weren't You clued in on the inside of what really goes on six months ago when Crowder was making a big deal about the other big conservative platforms that aren't conservative.
00:43:27.000They interface with YouTube and Facebook and before Twitter was sold to Musk and literally sit around in smoky rooms laughing at the conservatives.
00:44:35.000And I know the plan that Crowder has, he's told me about it, he's told you a lot about it, is to literally bring on hundreds of providers, and I guess the long term even thousands, and then use the great folks at Rumble that really are free and open to energize this.
00:44:48.000So people always say, hey, if you want your own internet, why don't you build it?
00:44:52.000Or you want your own platform, build it.
00:44:55.000He's been able to do it because of you, the Mug Club members, and that gives him that independence.
00:45:00.000So you literally aren't just the tail of the dog, you're the whole shootin' match.
00:45:03.000You're the whole dog, the teeth, the brain, you know, the feet, the guts, the heart, the brain, the eyes and ears with the investigative unit and everything.
00:45:11.000You are this operation, and if you get excited about this, it's game over for the New World Order.
00:45:15.000Listen, we came and founded a new country to get away from tyranny.
00:45:19.000We weren't perfect, but it became the freest, greatest thing ever.
00:45:22.000So it's that the Israelites left Egypt under Ramesses II, and they've now dug up all the tablets and the history, and that's a true story.
00:45:31.000It's on the Egyptian hieroglyphs as well.
00:45:33.000So Stephen Crowder and the Mug Club and this whole operation is literally leading everybody out of Egypt, and we don't have to wait 50 years or 40 years to cross the River Jordan, folks.
00:45:44.000It's already launched, out of the gate, successful.
00:45:47.000That is a true American success story of dedication, work, not backing down, and it challenges the entire system.
00:45:55.000So when this is successful, and it already is, but I mean super successful, it will then be the example to all the other big, so-called conservative, populist talk show hosts who don't like serving the globalists but are too scared to buck them.
00:46:08.000To let them then have the courage to follow us.
00:46:11.000So this is true leadership and history that you're watching right now today.
00:46:18.000If you look at the 40 plus billion that Anheuser-Busch has lost with the entire debacle with Bud Light, that's a great example of us saying we're going to withdraw support of people targeting children and sexualization and this whole transhumanist movement.
00:48:35.000People need to recognize that this operation with Steven Crowder and his crew we're doing is the best, open, freest, biggest thing there is in the world in opposition to the New World Order.
00:48:46.000And hey, you tune into my show, you're gonna get...
00:48:50.000You're going to get hardcore analysis and over-the-horizon information on what the Globalists are planning next.
00:48:57.000Don't slit your wrist after you watch it.
00:48:58.000But the good thing is you can then tune in to the incredible, amazing, better-than-the-nighttime comedy shows.
00:49:05.000Live delivery of these guys, and they make it fun, and that's why I like the energy here.
00:49:10.000It's quite frankly, InfoWars, great crew, great people, but it's like, you are in a bunker.
00:49:14.000We've been doing it 20-something years, and it's crazy.
00:49:17.000So it's a breath of fresh air to just add this family to what's happening, to be part of this organization, and to have the InfoWars crew now becoming part of this organization.
00:50:05.000But if you want to fight, you better believe!
00:50:08.000Our insurance covers all that liability, right?
00:50:26.000Again, because we had to change one of the credit card processing companies that we use because of how anti-freedom they are, we're giving you the free t-shirt.
00:50:35.000So Alex, he was very zealous, but you get the Fight Like Hell t-shirt.
00:50:48.000He'll be telling you about his promo code, what it is that he'll be offering.
00:50:51.000It starts with this once-a-week show and then is going to be Growing with a lot as things unfold.
00:50:58.000So now I know that we said we would take some questions from the press and questions from you in chat, and to read them is Gerald Morgan, I guess, as he volunteers as tribute.
00:51:53.000So, can you expand on Rumble's announcement that since March, Mug Club already surpassed $7.5 million in subscriptions with three free months?
00:52:02.000Yeah, so you guys know I don't really like talking numbers or money because I think it's vulgar.
00:52:08.000But yeah, look, we had no way of reaching you guys.
00:52:12.000You know, we created Mug Club forever.
00:52:14.000And so because I know that a lot of you had signed up before and weren't able to get new memberships, we gave away three months free.
00:52:20.000So that five months includes a lot of people who are still probably in their second or third month free.
00:52:28.000Even with that, it was, you know, $7.5 million in initial subscribership, which, you know, has all been reinvested into what we're doing here and is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:52:57.000Alright, so another question from the press.
00:52:59.000So, how is Mug Club different from before, and what exactly does network mean?
00:53:04.000Yeah, so this is something that we've talked about.
00:53:07.000Let me give you an example for, I guess, starters.
00:53:10.000So, Brian Callen has done quite a few comedy specials, and obviously Nick DiPaolo has.
00:53:14.000I mean, these are guys who are experienced veterans in the industry.
00:53:17.000He's going to be doing his next special with us.
00:53:19.000Now, there's a problem, and I'll get to exactly how this relates to Mug Club, in this industry, for example, for comedians out there.
00:53:25.000And it's not one that conservatives have particularly tried to solve because there aren't that many people on the right, you know, who would really be doing a viable special, so I understand that.
00:53:33.000There are some people who are very much worthwhile.
00:53:35.000The problem right now in the industry with stand-up comedy is you have this choice to make, okay?
00:53:39.000You can get paid, but that means that you go with a place like Netflix, or Max.
00:53:43.000It used to be HBO, now it's called Max, which just means you get some crappy Discovery Shart Week crap, which, hey, spoiler alert, it's always the human's fault.
00:53:52.000So, you had to do that, in which case you lose everything.
00:53:56.000You lose ownership over everything, and you hope that it gets put in someone's featured list.
00:54:01.000The alternative is to self-release, right?
00:54:03.000You release it by yourself on YouTube because you want to reach as many people as possible.
00:54:07.000Now, if you're lucky, it'll hit critical mass, and a lot of people will see it on YouTube, but you may not get paid, and if you say anything wrong, those specials right on YouTube by the way I'm not talking
00:54:16.000about on a network but even just on freely available platforms well you're throttled
00:54:20.000you're demonetized your shadow banned and you make no money so we've
00:54:23.000tried to solve that problem and if you're a stand-up comic out there
00:54:26.000looking to do this we don't even care if you're left or right you just don't want
00:54:29.000to be censored we pay you up front and we pay you with a portion of the plays
00:54:33.000that you get afterwards and we allow any creator here any stand-up
00:54:36.000comedian to release a long version for free at will on every platform they want and
00:54:41.000then there's an extended version in Mug Club.
00:54:44.000And so, the performer, the creator, gets what they need, they get to feed their family, they also get to grow their audience, the audience gets what they want, because they get a full special, and Mug Club gets the best.
00:55:10.000How many meetings have we been in where all of a sudden an executive comes in and tells you what you want?
00:55:14.000And then everyone wonders why everything looks the same and it's sanitized.
00:55:16.000So that same thing Not all conservatives have a HBO membership.
00:55:19.000out there and this is something we've gotten a lot of feedback because I do
00:55:23.000not take it lightly like I get it you know we offer this at a lower price and
00:55:26.000our competitors for sure that's very important to us because I know that
00:55:29.000parting with your hard-earned dollar means something but I also know that
00:55:32.000there are other creators out there who you want to support and we'll have
00:55:34.000people say you know I want to join up but I just joined so-and-so's club and I
00:55:39.000just joined so-and-so. Not all conservatives have a HBO membership. I mean they gotta support. Right no you're
00:55:44.000exactly you're exactly right and we're I Obviously, we're not there yet, but what we are doing is... No, no, Alex, Gerald's going to control the microphone.
00:55:52.000So, when you have tit fatigue, look, we want to get to hundreds of people, we want to get to dozens of people, but hey, half a dozen of people who you've already been watching, certainly myself and Alex and Brian and Nick and Hodge twins, right?
00:56:06.000That's more than any other network out there on the right or left, from the ground up, has ever had.
00:56:10.000Now, there have been people where Millions of dollars have been spent to tell you that you want them.
00:56:15.000These are people who have been around for a long time.
00:56:16.000It's not hundreds of creators yet, but one portal, one network, and you get access to all of it.
00:56:22.000And hey, everyone else out there, if you have to make the choice, this is a problem that a lot of creators face.
00:56:27.000They go, well, hold on a second, if I go with a network, one of these people out there, I'll get maybe more exposure, right, if I say what they want me to say, or if I happen to kind of, you know, strike a chord with the audience, but I lose ownership over everything forever.
00:56:40.000Or, I go off on my own, create my own tip jar, my own Patreon, whatever it is, whatever service is being used that day, and I make more money because I get 100% of it, and I can feed my family, but I don't benefit from any exposure.
00:56:52.000Our contracts are structured so that you have your subscribers, and if you want to take them with you, you can, and everyone benefits from an overall network, one portal, multiple creators, and we want it to be much larger in the future.
00:57:07.000And of course, Rumble is the platform for that.
00:57:09.000You have Rumble, and then another umbrella that they've specifically helped create for us is MugClub that exists on Rumble, and then all the creators there.
00:57:17.000But you can go to loudmouthcutter.com slash MugClub, and you'll be able to see any of the shows or content that is in the network.
00:57:23.000Yeah, and you guys will see that new layout today.
00:57:31.000All of the new shows that we're adding.
00:57:33.000Because we did, by the way, we have heard some of your complaints, of course, with where there's that and there was locals and it was, you know, because this thing grew so quickly, just to be clear, you guys joined up so quickly that we had to adapt and we had to grow where it all exists on Rumble now.
00:57:44.000And it's a lot closer, if not right there today, to looking like the network that you would, you know, You don't have to see eight-year-old's asses like cuties on Netflix, you know, but similar experience just without the degenerate evil.
00:57:59.000All right, let's go to one of the chats here.
00:58:01.000So this is the bottom chat in that first series.
00:58:03.000I'm kind of skipping around a little bit so they know which one to pull up.
00:58:13.000Given the large platform you have obtained, the new programs and shows, do you intend to begin to engage politicians and parties more to influence policy and change the country?
00:58:32.000Now, we've done the show for a very- and we've had, by the way, a lot of people on the show.
00:58:35.000I mean, you know, we've had- I mean, we've had- you can go through the- pretty much everyone who's run for significant office really has been on at some point.
00:58:42.000But we won't have people on to just hit talking points.
00:58:45.000And actually, the night of the debates, which is one of the primary debates, the date- I believe it's Wednesday the 23rd.
00:58:54.000We are going to have a Mug Club booth there.
00:58:58.000Where everyone participating can sit down in that booth and we can talk with them.
00:59:02.000But they aren't going to be softballs.
00:59:04.000They're not going to be the questions that are handed to them with the talking points from their people and so often some of these folks don't necessarily want to come on the show.
00:59:11.000Now, I sat under the tutelage of Andrew Breitbart and he always said that politics is, I don't know if it's upstream or downstream, I think both apply, is upstream, culture is upstream from politics.
00:59:21.000And think about what we just discussed.
00:59:23.000HBO, right, Max, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Facebook, Big Tech, the entertainment industry, it's all part of one unholy amalgamate.
00:59:32.000If you would take the power of a senator or a presidential candidate who's really just running to sell more books over the power of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, I think you need a CAT scan.
00:59:43.000And so we will have politicians on as they serve the people, and if they serve you, not to serve them and their handlers.
00:59:50.000Look, I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but you know what?
00:59:52.000Let's start with Mitch McConnell because I'm in a bad mood.
00:59:57.000Nick and I were talking about this, and Brian, right?
01:01:24.000I'm really excited about the investigative journalism unit, and I always wonder when you look at these other companies, like, wait, you have hundreds of millions of dollars?
01:01:35.000And look, I will say, I feel like there's no win- I love everyone here, but everyone else is too afraid, I will say, with Alex Jones to take that on in a partnership.
01:01:45.000And we've always tried to, even though I don't agree with Alex and everything, we've talked about that on air, it doesn't matter.
01:01:49.000If they come for him, they can come for all of you.
01:01:50.000And there has never been a one-two, and I don't want to say one-two punch, because I don't know, they're both overhand rights with me and Alex on the same network.
01:02:00.000That's something that really hasn't been done before, and the only reason that it could happen here is because when you reach certain levels of success, like Alex has, people who want to dangle the carrot don't offer you anything of value if freedom and authenticity really matters to you.
01:02:16.000So the reason that I say he's a white whale, he's an unbelievable get, is because it means that there's something here that we do that is fundamentally different from everyone else out there, and so that, with everything else that we're doing, I mean, I'm excited about all of it, but that does speak to the fact that, hey, I appreciate it means we offer something that he wanted to be a part of.
01:02:38.000Well, really quickly, you mentioned the undercover thing being a really important and big part of what we're going to do.
01:02:43.000I just want people to know, like, we still love and support James O'Keefe and what he's doing out there.
01:02:47.000We're not looking to replace that, but we have so many people coming to us with information that, at some point, we... It's a model of victory!
01:02:54.000So, so many of you Mug Clubbers out there, eyes and ears everywhere, coming to us, saying these things, and we just didn't want those things to fall on deaf ears anymore.
01:03:08.000Oh yeah we would love to yeah we love James and here's the kind of the big difference too with what we do with the invest this is what's never really existed before with the investigative journalism James O'Keefe, at least in the past, right?
01:03:19.000A lot of it, for example, you had donors.
01:03:22.000And that often means that these donors have specific goals they want to accomplish.
01:03:26.000Now, I don't mean that these goals are nefarious at all.
01:03:28.000As a matter of fact, sometimes these donors are entirely aligned with freedom.
01:03:31.000But, unless it moves the needle and a politician is ousted, or it's something that is a huge newsmaker, the investigative journalism does not get funded.
01:03:39.000And here at Mug Club, hey, guess what?
01:03:40.000A local drag queen story hour, where the person who's heading that up also happens to be the head of a local school district?
01:03:55.000And we can claw for every single one of those because we don't have to worry about a donor saying, hey, I want to make sure that the 51st Congressional District is ousted before election time.
01:04:06.000And sometimes that doesn't mean just political, but cultural.
01:04:08.000I mean, we're at a point in this country, think about it, where we might be banned or we might be suspended right now for simply saying that men and women are a thing.
01:04:17.000There's investigative journalism there that's important that may not be funded by donors and non-profits.
01:04:23.000How much pleasure are you going to bring back more of the Ashby...
01:05:18.000And for us to get you to do that, We need to give you something that is worth tuning into, sharing, and the more that you help with these stories, uh, one thing I will say is that people here are willing to go to jail to protect their sources.
01:05:28.000Um, so, uh, yeah, you, this is, a big part of this is crowdsourcing, where we have experts here and people in every major city, but you guys can do a lot to, to get some stories going on, uh, going on in your, your neck of the woods.
01:05:39.000Oh, I sound like Al Roker, who looks worse.
01:05:43.000More people we got, then they get activated.
01:07:06.000But, in name only, we were on YouTube, and we might get a few thousand plays on Rumble.
01:07:09.000And then, it moved to hundreds of thousands of live viewers.
01:07:13.000That second on Rumble, and millions of viewers cumulatively, where we get far more of our viewership on Rumble.
01:07:18.000Now, Rumble, I think, just exceeded 6% of the video place market share, which doesn't sound like a lot, but that is unprecedented, and I can tell you, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that, you know, these are people who are invested in the cause, and they want you to be able to have a platform.
01:07:56.000Yeah, we've definitely had these conversations with the guys, and we can trust the guys over at Rumble, so this is a great place for us to be.
01:08:08.000We Muggers know you guys work hard behind the scenes and during the break, but was there anything you were able to do to relax on your time away from being on screen?
01:08:18.000A lot of times guys think, well we're not on screen so we're not doing anything, and one of the most intense periods of time that we have is when we're on break.
01:08:27.000We're doing this and we're trying to sign new talent and get the network up and running, get this announcement ready to go, get the show back, get everything going.
01:08:34.000There's a lot that goes on, but we do get a tiny brief moment to get away.
01:08:47.000I tried to take my little ones to the splash pad, and the municipality said, oh there's a shortage of water, so I took them to boiling concrete and steel, where they shut everything else off.
01:09:10.000So I got a few days, but this was, I would say, honestly more intense than even the surgery that I got.
01:09:16.000This was probably the most intense break where we did not have a minute.
01:09:18.000And one thing I will say that I'm incredibly grateful for.
01:09:21.000And look, you've seen this going on everywhere else.
01:09:24.000And I guess if that's the last question that we're doing, you can go to laddoscreditor.com slash mugclub.
01:09:28.000You get the shirt, Fight Like Hell shirt.
01:09:31.000If you use the promo code replatforming, Alex is going to be doing his show here in a few minutes.
01:09:35.000You know, a lot of people here have been under attack.
01:09:39.000As we've grown this and of course the Knives really came out when Mug Club had its first phase that was launched you know with Rumble earlier this year and obviously with someone like Alex Jones and the announcements we expect them going forward as well but because of this and being under fire You know, Gerald knows this, but I have a very close, I have for a very long time, circle of trust.
01:09:57.000People who I've known for an average of over 20 years.
01:10:39.000And honestly, being able to expand that circle and have more people who I call brothers in arms and sisters in arms and Z's in arms, and your guess is as good as mine, is something that has been very meaningful.