00:03:39.000Would you shut up if I tell my mom and she tells your mom it?
00:03:59.000academy we would follow every toast with a song welcome
00:10:49.000um Not going to do a rundown or talk about the lineup today because we do have an update that's pretty significant.
00:10:57.000This Friday, 7 p.m. Eastern, I, as I've told you, scheduled to debate Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history for 20-something odd years, author of multiple books.
00:11:08.000He was on the show last week, and that was going to be at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
00:11:15.000There at, well, I was about to say UPenn.
00:11:52.000Discussion was going to be about free speech, where it stands, and who is actively trying to kill it.
00:12:01.000Obviously, at the risk of showing my cards here, I think that if you want to preserve freedom of speech, you have to fight the institutionalized left.
00:12:09.000Because part of my opening statements, which were not fully formed, is that wherever the left achieves power, free speech dies.
00:12:21.000Wherever freedom of speech thrives, the left dies.
00:12:25.000And so that's why they try to control the playing field.
00:13:38.000That is what the Louder with Crowder team here is going to do.
00:13:41.000It comes as a shock to no one that the largest daily live stream out there with a right leaning perspective would be live streaming a debate for which we are fronting tens of thousands of dollars.
00:13:54.000The reasoning as to why we can't live stream, well, your guess is as good as mine, but it seems like quite a few hurdles being put up.
00:14:02.000So we'll be asking all of you to apply some pressure here because these are not, you let me know.
00:14:24.000The Annenberg Center Director of Events, who's been helpful, by the way, as I understand it, this person has to do the work of the administration.
00:14:32.000Ms. Jameson emailed our team a cost estimate that clearly accounted for live streaming costs, fronted by us.
00:15:05.000And in case people are wondering if this wasn't clear, well, this was actually the day after a Zoom call took place with Lane the Brain here and the team over there, where live streaming was discussed, acknowledged, and of course, here you go.
00:15:22.000Ideally, if the tech allows for it, streamed live.
00:15:26.000That way, nobody can be accused of editing out of context or we're just.
00:15:31.000Clipping Zimmerman to look stupid, or he's clipping Steven to look like an idiot.
00:16:24.000Many hundreds of you have already reserved your tickets.
00:16:27.000Here's where I think the wrinkles came in and kind of proves the basis of my opening statements.
00:16:34.000There was a hit piece at the Daily Pennsylvanian March 23rd.
00:16:38.000Multiple PLA staff, and PLA Gerald is PenLive Arts staff members, raised concerns about working the event in interviews with the DP and were granted anonymity due to.
00:16:50.000One staffer told the DP that they worried that the debate could perpetuate, quote, hate, bigotry, and ignorance into the world and into University of Pennsylvania students.
00:17:01.000Keep in mind, this is the school that sent, I believe, 16 girls who came forward when they discussed penis in their locker room making them uncomfortable.
00:17:09.000They were sent to the, I believe, LGBTQ Center for counseling.
00:17:14.000And as I understand it, no investigation was run.
00:17:21.000So that piece went out March 23rd, I believe the same day that the venue then messaged us the following The university is aware that this will be recorded.
00:17:30.000They typically ask that events not be live streamed, but played at a later time or date.
00:17:40.000That's exactly what we didn't want to do.
00:17:43.000I think anyone who's been here for a long time and has followed Change My Mind going back a decade, I mean, you know that the reason for this was because people will sometimes say, well, Change My Minds, that's tougher to live stream because we're on location and we don't really know.
00:17:56.000You've never heard anyone complain about being taken out of context.
00:17:59.000It's okay, we'll do this live on the home turf of whoever agrees to do it with their terms.
00:18:05.000We'll front the costs and then we'll put up $10,000 to do it.
00:18:11.000People say, why don't you go and have these conversations with someone qualified?
00:18:15.000We went to the most qualified person we could find who was willing to take part at the most qualified institution in as even of a playing field as a conservative could possibly ask for.
00:18:30.000Well, then, finally, April 3rd, going into Easter weekend, we received this letter.
00:18:38.000Thank you so much for your patience while the university reviewed the language in our facility use agreement.
00:18:44.000Based on the revised language, we will not be able to permit the sale of merchandise or live streaming this event.
00:18:52.000Now, I don't know why, and I know that some of you will say, well, why don't you just go and then upload it later in the week?
00:18:56.000If you guys look at the terms that were laid out from Harvard professors and the right to retroactively remove consent, I've been down this road with schools in the past.
00:19:07.000If you capitulate now, how much you want to bet if this doesn't go very well, it's going to be made difficult to upload in its entirety without edits.
00:19:17.000Because there are vested interests in making sure that the school or the perspective, which of course, over which there is no doubt, is distinctly left, probably wouldn't be so flattering.
00:20:36.000They're demanding that we use their security.
00:20:39.000Now, we would bring our security anyway, but we still have not received a cost estimate the week of.
00:20:47.000We've asked for it, we've not received it.
00:20:52.000So, if you go out to a school where the only thing you're asking to do is what you do every day, which is live stream a fully unedited debate, which, by the way, I should lose.
00:21:02.000PhD, multiple time author, professor for decades, college dropout who's outpunted his coverage.
00:21:13.000The only request we've made is that we're able to do what we do every day, live, unedited, so that people can see these conversations as transparently as possible.
00:21:21.000You know, the kinds of conversations that never take place on campus.
00:21:28.000You have professors who are intimidated into silence.
00:21:31.000My opponent, Professor Zimmerman, talked about this as it related to DEI, that he was surprised that 40% of professors didn't support race or gender based admissions or hiring.
00:21:43.000And he was shocked that they didn't speak out at all.
00:21:46.000Well, if that's taking place, how do you think the students feel?
00:21:51.000If this is the environment, how do you think students on campus feel who can't front tens of thousands of dollars and haven't built up the infrastructure for security?
00:22:03.000We're starting to get the picture as to why intellectual diversity and freedom of speech does not exist on campus.
00:22:10.000An agreement, a call, a confirmation, a big old Ed McMahon check, and we'll cover all the costs.
00:22:26.000And if the place is going to be secure, that's a will they, won't they, we don't know, maybe so.
00:22:32.000And the one thing that we do here, and the whole purpose of this, will not be permitted.
00:22:36.000So, if we show up, we can't live stream, and we don't have an estimate for security, what do you think happens if we want to upload it the following week, Monday or Tuesday?
00:22:45.000Oh, then that security estimate could come in, couldn't it?
00:22:48.000Could be half a million dollars, could be more.
00:22:52.000Maybe these people are acting in good faith, and maybe there's a miscommunication going on, and maybe obviously they believe in freedom of speech, and they're happy to take the check, and we can simply have a productive conversation and debate.
00:23:03.000April 10th, 7 p.m. You can get your tickets at lauderwithcrowder.com slash tickets at UPenn.
00:23:34.000And that's exactly what we plan to do.
00:23:36.000If there can be any justification, rationalization, which we have not received as to why this shouldn't take place, as to why these new changing terms are required, then you can let us know and the public know.
00:23:51.000But this has been going on for too long, dragging your feet for too long.
00:24:04.000Don't try and change the game just because it may not come across that well.
00:24:09.000Final thing that I would tell you is if I had to guess, I'd be willing to bet some people aren't happy about this event, and I'd be willing to bet there'd probably be some disruptive protesters, which, to the best of my understanding, their security would not remove as per their protocol.
00:24:22.000How much you want to bet they come from the left?
00:24:25.000How much you want to bet that doesn't reflect well in the school?
00:24:27.000How much you want to bet that people who show up to hear an actual productive discussion, as has taken place at every Change My Mind going back a decade, those on the right, will be civil, respectful, rational, and the opposition won't?
00:24:42.000And those optics aren't great for an esteemed institution like UPenn.
00:29:07.000For the same reason Fox News has crazy high viewership in comparison to other cable news networks.
00:29:11.000Because they're competing with ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, sorry, MSNBC, sorry, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, the one place where right wing people can go, well, then you end up having more of a dialogue and it ends up doing quite well.
00:29:24.000And online, once the right gets a foothold and they're able to make their arguments because the left sucks ass, guess what?
00:36:06.000You see, guys have to remember the people of Iran and the Iranian diaspora overwhelmingly, I'd wager well over 80%, because in informal polls it's still been over 80%, want these bombs and want this regime taken out.
00:36:21.000There's a huge difference between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people.
00:36:25.000The Iranian regime has about as much in common with the Persian people of Iran as AOC does with you.
00:36:42.000Loss of protection of civilian objects must be read together with the basic rule that only military objectives may be attacked.
00:36:47.000It follows that when a civilian object is used in such a way that it loses its civilian character and qualifies as a military objective, it is liable to attack.
00:37:04.000That's what they do, just like the terror that they fund, whether it's Hamas, whether it's Hezbollah.
00:37:08.000But the other thing is that doesn't really matter to people saying war crime.
00:37:11.000Because you had people saying that Donald Trump committed a war crime against the Iranian people when our military blew up the B 1 bridge last week.
00:37:19.000That was a supply route for the regime military, their missiles, their drones.
00:37:24.000This was almost entirely, depending on who you ask, if not entirely.
00:37:29.000So almost entirely to entirely, a military bridge that was used.
00:38:48.000That's not part of the conversation as to whether we should be spending money, whether it's our job, because there are plenty of people who need to be liberated across the whole globe, but that's not America's purview.
00:38:59.000But those telling you that this is a war crime because we are targeting the Iranian people and comparing it, for example, to Iraq and saying people don't want us there.
00:39:13.000You could look at it as by request from Israel, by request from the families of the thousands of American troops who were killed at the hands of the Iranian regime, or by request from the entirety of the Iranian people who aren't directly related to the Ayatollah.
00:39:28.000You can disagree with it, but you can't disagree with those facts.
00:39:36.000And it's not just people on the left like Mehdi Hassan.
00:39:37.000I won't name names right now, but plenty of people on the right ran with that too.
00:39:41.000People you would consider very conservative people, whether or not they like the Republicans all the time, that's up for debate, that's fine.
00:39:47.000Running with that same thing, Trump just committed a war crime.
00:39:54.000Well, put it this way: if we want to have the financial discussion, absolutely.
00:39:58.000But the betrayal discussion, and we've been talking about this quite a bit, that Donald Trump, this is not what he campaigned on.
00:40:03.000Okay, you could say that, and I've made the case that, of course, going back to the 80s, he said that we need to do whatever we can to prevent Iran from having a nuke.
00:40:09.000You could actually argue that this is exactly what he campaigned on.
00:40:13.000In ending forever wars because it's about a 47 year war.
00:40:19.000You could make that case because they have been killing Americans and our allies, but many Americans in perpetuity, nonstop, with the pledge, the express pledge that they will continue to do so.
00:40:32.000So the war was never going to end, that conflict, to be clear, going all the way back to Carter.
00:40:37.000And the IRGC, they can hide missiles anywhere, by the way.
00:40:40.000But let's be honest, they can mostly hide them anywhere, but no one can hide from coasts.
00:43:07.000Like this weekend, the United States, our military, they pulled off a pretty incredible rescue mission, not only recovering just one, but like two downed pilots.
00:43:18.000And I know that a lot of people will be circling this going, see, you're sending your children to die for Israel stuff.
00:45:39.000This weekend, two airmen were rescued inside Iran, for those who missed it.
00:45:43.000This was an incredibly complex and dangerous operation for the rescue team and for that missing Air Force aviator who had evaded capture behind enemy lines for days.
00:45:54.000But in the end, the news we had all been hoping for that the second crew member is now out of Iran, seriously wounded, according to the president, but he is safe.
00:46:06.000Now, you know, when people say, hey, can we find common ground?
00:46:08.000When the left says they want to find common ground with you, and that includes most of gay Europe, they're lying to you.
00:46:12.000Because this is one where we should find common ground.
00:46:26.000He said, We got him, my fellow Americans.
00:46:28.000Over the past several hours, the United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue operations in U.S. history from one of our incredible crew member officers who.
00:46:39.000Also happens to be a highly respected colonel and who I am thrilled to let you know is now safe and sound.
00:46:47.000I mean, I think they normally put it together.
00:46:49.000We will never leave an American warfighter behind.
00:46:53.000The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations without a single American killed or even wounded just proves once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and superiority over the Iranian skies.
00:47:04.000Now, I wanted to ask you, Josh, because of your experience, this is maybe it's not the most, but it's.
00:49:14.000The French Polish commentator, I don't know if it's Polish or French, Daniel Foubert wrote on X, wrote, Lose all this to rescue one pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
00:49:27.000Guys will literally be complete losers, but say, Hey, we behaved like heroes.
00:50:19.000I mean, then he got, of course, rightfully dumped on and he responded with You literally send thousands of people to death, but you do everything you can to rescue one guy and show your public opinion that human life matters more than meeting war objectives quickly.
00:51:27.000I call it not giving the world anything of note in about a century.
00:51:32.000They'll point to Japan and say, see, look, they don't have any guns and they have no violence.
00:51:39.000Sure, first off, they just count every single Yakuza death as a suicide, but it's also a people under an imperialist nation and it's entirely homogenous.
00:51:45.000They're also not getting invaded because of our bases there.
00:53:48.000Not to be outdone by French faggotry, British radio caller actually said it would be good or better if Iran had caught the weapons officer.
00:55:26.000Foreign, of course, but these were issues that we discussed for a very long time in this country and didn't demand impeachment or claim betrayal.
00:56:32.000The Iranian people, anyone there who, by the way, showed support for the American operation or anyone who voiced discontent with the regime, will be executed, women and children included.
00:56:43.000First, they'll be ceremoniously raped as a form of punishment, and Iran goes on to being a threat to the rest of the world.
00:56:50.000You may say that you don't think they're a lot of a threat, they're much of a threat.
00:57:44.000It was Noelia Castillo who was granted assisted suicide after being gang raped and left paralyzed.
00:57:50.000So, you have these countries that welcome their rapists with open arms in the name of tolerance.
00:57:56.000And then, when it's too much to bear for a woman who never should have been put in that position in the first place, well, they'll grant you the sweet mercy of death.
00:58:04.000While they also don't pay for their own defense and complain about how we do it.
00:58:12.000I'm America first, but I'm pretty old school in the sense that anytime you get a freebie to kill some commies or Islamofascists, I say you take it.
00:59:01.000I can't have that discussion with anyone who thinks that the Iranian regime would treat American soldiers well or any.
00:59:08.000Person who refuses to submit to Islam well, or that there are no threats globally outside of the United States.
00:59:15.000These people believe that the United States is the biggest global threat.
00:59:17.000They'll say the United States is the biggest state of terror, it's the biggest global threat, and then complain that we value life to the degree that we will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to save one while they execute their own people for the crime of being gang raped, likely by migrants.
00:59:33.000Europe, why don't you sit this one out because you've really not done anything all that great for a century.
00:59:45.000Speaking of Europe, a lot of those places, they've banned or tried to ban or put limitations on X. Plenty of European nations have put bans on Rumble.
00:59:54.000And this was part of the opening statement that I was going to have.
00:59:58.000I'm still planning on going April 10th that you pen.
01:00:01.000Wherever the left achieves power, free speech dies.
01:00:06.000Wherever free speech can thrive, the left dies.
01:00:10.000And you can see it quite clearly, too, with the lawsuits against big tech.
01:00:15.000When people say, ah, you know, both the right and the left, they just use it as a cudgel.
01:00:20.000If you look at the lawfare, the right, the overwhelming number of, I don't even know if you can find a single suit to the opposite, overwhelming number of lawsuits and complaints filed have been because of infringements on freedom of speech in the First Amendment.
01:00:34.000The lawsuits have been to open up more speech.
01:00:38.000The left's lawsuits that you see against places like X, or in some cases Rumble, are to limit speech.
01:00:46.000They say you're letting hate speech thrive on your platform.
01:00:52.000And so now people are complaining that X is a right wing echo chamber.
01:00:56.000I've heard people say that about Rumble.
01:01:00.000If you are watching and you are a leftist, I don't care if you are the Young Turks, if you are, insert whoever here, I don't know, a Hassan guy who supports the communist regime in Cuba, you're just as free to upload to Rumble or post on X as I am.
01:01:40.000So rather than going, hey, there's at least one spot where everyone can have these conversations, what inevitably happens is leftists leave.
01:01:47.000They try to take their ball and go home when they don't have control.
01:01:49.000And the left then points, goes, look, this platform is a hate speech platform.
01:02:49.000It's not that they've been banned, people were unbanned, and the left said, oh, I don't want to have to deal with people who were wrongfully banned.
01:05:27.000And even then, we usually don't shoot anybody or show up with masks and beat them up.
01:05:32.000So, other leftist celebrities who announced they were leaving X, Mark Hamill, Alyssa Milano, Jamie Lee Curtis, who also said, You can't tell which of my daughters is trans.
01:08:05.000So they leave, and they're hoping that when the left comes back into power, and by the way, they will be helped by their useful dummies on the right who say, everyone is all the same, don't vote.
01:08:14.000As soon as the left attains power, they will label X in places like Rumble sites to be flagged for misinformation or hate speech.
01:08:22.000And then you'll have legislation that will curtail that.
01:08:27.000Nowhere in the left's game plan, and I've been here since 2008, fighting the left on YouTube, nowhere in their game plan will you find included.
01:08:55.000It's not something that I look at and go, oh, these are all great accounts.
01:08:58.000But they don't all share the same perspective, to be clear.
01:09:01.000It's not the same as you would find on Blue Sky.
01:09:03.000So the right has remained pretty consistent.
01:09:05.000The left has moved further and further and further and further left to the point where when they are in charge of institutions, You have not one, but two men beating the hell out of women at the Olympic boxing events.
01:09:15.000And number three, the graph just has some flat out, like, it's just not correct.
01:11:39.000Anytime you allow more freedom, and certainly freedom of speech, you're going to get more arguments, you're going to get more conflict, you are going to get more bad actors, you are going to get more misinformation, but you also are going to get the only self correction mechanism that we know of at this point in time.
01:11:56.000And that is people armed with the truth being able to correct those who are speaking lies.
01:13:17.000And we have a country that is distinctly right wing in comparison to pretty much all other countries, certainly as it relates to individual freedoms, that people flock to because of that.
01:13:30.000For more proof, case in point, Soleimani's nieces, his relatives, did you know that they were here?
01:13:41.000So I want to be really clear about this, but we've gone over time.
01:13:45.000So, and we've got, because we had to start late because of all the shenanigans with UPenn.
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01:14:19.000We'll keep you updated on what's happening at UPenn.
01:14:21.000We really hope that we can make it happen.
01:14:22.000But deporting the nieces, relatives of Soleimani because they were here, meaning we had to take steps to deport relatives who were supportive of and relatives to the Ayatollah.
01:15:23.000Soleimani, the person who was killed in the first Trump administration, to be clear, not the Ayatollah and then Generation 2, 3, 4, whatever we're down to now, in the second Trump administration, they kind of all bleed together as Islamic assholes.
01:15:40.000Soleimani's niece, were they both, I know, a niece and then I believe, Two nieces, one niece, one grand niece.