Rebel News Podcast - ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Danny Mullen gets cancelled

00:00:00.000 welcome back to another very special andrew says i almost forgot the name of my show because i

00:00:10.360 said danny mullen he's our guest today how are you danny thanks for joining me no problem i'm

00:00:15.000 doing great thank you for having me andrew this is just a monumental occasion you got a couple

00:00:19.640 big fans here myself and an editor named lincoln uh he considers himself part of the uh the danny

00:00:26.680 mullen i think it's legion am i if i'm correct a regime excuse me excuse me regime whatever but

00:00:32.920 shout out to lincoln thank you oh he's gonna love that um this isn't the like the first time i think

00:00:39.620 some other people at rebel news heard of danny mullen was when you had an excursion down by the

00:00:44.760 border and ran into our fairly new reporter uh one who's been with us for a few months now i think

00:00:51.280 doing uh the spanish reporting and everything you want to tell everybody how that happened and what

00:00:56.040 came about really funny video we'll play it over top but you want to tell us that story

00:00:59.460 yeah absolutely so we went down to the eagle pass border section of texas which is one of the highest

00:01:08.540 volume places as far as illegal immigration we went down there for the scheduled date of the

00:01:15.780 termination of title 42 title 42 was a trump era piece of legislation that was basically the last line

00:01:23.300 of defense keeping the borders from being totally overrun and the biden administration was seeking

00:01:29.500 to repeal it now to me i heard about all this and i just thought i have to see it for myself it sounds

00:01:35.660 like awesome content and we just wanted to go down there and cover it and uh covering it in my case

00:01:42.940 it's a little less professional than the squad of uh rebel news as far as their definition of covering

00:01:48.640 an event so we went down there with a coyote costumes and an inflatable raft because we planned

00:01:54.440 on crossing the rio grande into mexico actually i ended up getting tackled by border patrol it was a very

00:02:01.520 immature display but at some point we ran into juan from rebel news and he pointed out to us that there was

00:02:10.940 this giant congregation of uh of law enforcement border patrol and media and it was one who pointed

00:02:20.240 out to us that hey i've been reporting on this sector of the border for months and months and i've never

00:02:26.140 seen it this heavily protected it's bs they're just putting on a show for the media um and i don't like it

00:02:34.180 because they're trying to give the citizens in america the idea that these borders are secure and

00:02:39.580 they're actually not so that really fired me up i went right to city hall where the governor of texas

00:02:45.640 was giving a speech in a coyote costume with my whole crew and we we really made quite a spectacle

00:02:52.580 out there and one of my favorite moments with the young one from rebel news is um when somebody a

00:02:59.280 police officer or a journalist asked us who we were and who we were with uh i just i shouted it out

00:03:05.820 without thinking we're with rebel news mother effer and you could see in the background one going no

00:03:12.940 they're not with us they're not with us panic but uh he did the right thing but i i think since that

00:03:19.420 video came out uh rebel news was actually proud to have us claiming we were with them so what if he

00:03:26.340 could do it again i think he would and the gesture would be more something like yes they're with us

00:03:31.320 they're our newest correspondents maybe he's a little he's new he might have been thrown off by

00:03:36.060 the telling him to chug the beer right away but uh he's a nice try to make him chug a beer yeah we

00:03:41.580 tried to get him drunk we did he's more professional than i probably would have just drank and said who

00:03:47.340 cares um danny watching your like i knew who you were i saw you on nelk vids and then ever since

00:03:54.680 this one stuff it's just been non-stop binging your channel um my girlfriend and i watched the one where

00:03:59.800 you rated the women's march and pretended that i think it's your girlfriend if i'm not wrong yeah

00:04:04.280 um that you beat her up my girlfriend loved that she's like this is something that you would make

00:04:08.400 me do and it just really takes me back to my youtube days causing a muck in uh libraries and

00:04:14.420 stuff and really bothering people around where i do um and uh it just made me think of how did you

00:04:19.860 get started doing this i don't know when your channel exactly started but was it always just let's

00:04:24.920 go and do this excursion and we'll just make content out of it because the content is really

00:04:29.620 you and you have you have all the guys you're doing with and i want to ask you about leo later

00:04:33.580 but the content is just you're going to go somewhere and you're going to make it a good video is that how

00:04:38.500 it always was yeah it i like to now think that we have enough of a team in place and i've done this

00:04:49.320 long enough that when we go out to a place it's not just hey let's be buffoons in public i try to

00:04:56.900 have some sort of idea behind it like the title 42 video we did it's called the u.s mexico border

00:05:03.860 is a disaster it's one of my favorites it's us being super immature sex jokes really low level humor

00:05:11.220 but around it we're doing some serious sort of serious journalism the same with the wnba game

00:05:18.540 we're investigating a sporting event that most people have some ideas about and have heard of

00:05:25.620 but they don't know what it really looks like on the inside and that's where we come in we get

00:05:30.560 courtside seats show up in fur coats and that night as you know we actually end up getting arrested

00:05:36.320 but um it started off a little i still from time to time will go back in private old videos of mine

00:05:45.500 because at the very start i was getting used to the grind of putting out a youtube video every week

00:05:51.960 which is probably not a healthy work schedule to have and no other forms of media do people have to

00:05:59.020 put out content every week of the year without break i mean think about a sitcom or um films where

00:06:06.780 people have they have breaks scheduled in and vacations we don't and i used to just be like all right

00:06:13.300 i put out 42 pieces of content in a row i slept three hours last night i'm losing my mind let's go

00:06:21.340 into a walmart and make loud noises until we get kicked out that's that's how it was a little bit in

00:06:26.920 the beginning and i'm not proud of that and i'm i'm trying to move in the direction where hey now um

00:06:32.960 we're gonna we're gonna get kicked out um by border patrol in a coyote costume while we're trying to

00:06:39.560 make a young reporter shotgun a beer well whatever it is danny it's working let me tell you and i uh

00:06:45.800 really thank you i really envy you um now i want to ask you about leo i've got so many questions

00:06:51.460 um i want to ask you what he is a homosexual okay yeah he is he's come he's come out of the closet he 0.64

00:06:57.260 uh that was really i'm sorry it's early and i'm just saying stupid stuff i'm sorry if there's a show 0.80

00:07:03.080 on rebel news to say that i don't know i think it's this one um so for a few videos i'm watching

00:07:09.240 it and you keep saying he's from the bachelor and the bachelorette i'm just like oh that's just a

00:07:12.900 funny joke and i'm like is he actually from the bachelorette and i search it up and he was and he

00:07:17.840 was funny on that i saw the highlights of that how did you guys begin to cross paths

00:07:22.840 yeah so him and i met in los angeles at a social media little sketch comedy event that was going on

00:07:32.440 a buddy of ours who was directing a stupid facebook sketch had us both on set and we met there and i

00:07:39.640 saw the potential of leo immediately just based on his look for all these things we could do with a guy 0.56

00:07:46.860 who looks like he should be on the cover of a romance novel but right right after we did that

00:07:52.740 shoot though he got cast on the bachelorette okay and and i was bummed because i was like oh

00:07:59.300 he's a reality television star now there's no way he's going to collaborate me with me this guy who

00:08:05.080 has at the time i don't know 50 000 subscribers on youtube but thank god that leandro dottavio

00:08:14.440 was canceled for sending inappropriate texts to a woman in 2012 they dug those up uh it destroyed

00:08:22.700 his reputation in the reality television universe and uh he was mine again he was ready to come

00:08:29.240 back to me because he would never get cast in another mainstream television show until the day

00:08:33.680 he died so which is odd because there's so many reality shows where there's just like what's that

00:08:39.360 one where they go to the island and there is it still temptation island i'm not sure if it's still

00:08:43.880 that they basically just cheat on their spells the whole time but uh yeah send some texts and that's

00:08:48.580 unacceptable for this genre now yeah isn't that isn't that strange the things that are okay and not

00:08:54.840 okay like i i recently got canceled it was about a year ago for saying insensitive comments about

00:09:03.780 overweight people on a podcast i was riffing it was clearly a joke uh i said something about overweight

00:09:10.700 women and um how they should be treated and involved the samurai sword and it was clearly a joke i don't

00:09:16.940 believe any of that but it resulted in mass backlash what the worst cancellation we've ever had but sort

00:09:24.580 of like what you're alluding to andrew is there are there are tiers of cancellation the the worst you

00:09:31.580 could get pegged with is racism after that maybe sexual assault or sexual misconduct fat is way down

00:09:38.980 the list fat shaming so the whole time i couldn't even believe it i was like oh this is awesome i'm

00:09:43.920 gonna cancel for fat shaming that's the best kind of cancellation i love this and it really allowed

00:09:49.220 me to lean into it there when you reference that i looked it up and there is a change.org petition

00:09:55.380 against you i don't think it's got any steam left behind it it faltered at like 50 000 or something i

00:10:00.860 want to say so everybody go and sign that get it right on that absolutely we'll put that on the screen

00:10:05.820 a lot of the names were were just not even clever joke names too it was clearly my fans i think signed

00:10:12.980 about uh 25 of those signatures with names like uh hairy nutsack and long cock that was a lot of those

00:10:21.820 names i want to point out so they're not as close to their goal as it may seem it's uh inflated a little

00:10:27.200 bit we'll call it um i just love when you guys are teaming up and you're really i think you guys

00:10:32.800 leaned into the pretending to be somebody harder than anyone i've ever seen and that's what makes

00:10:37.960 it so funny when you guys pretend to be the single a baseball players for example yeah and i think and

00:10:45.000 you did that with a hockey team as well and it's just yeah in this small town people just one accept

00:10:51.420 that you guys are probably from this team and two you just go into like a restaurant be like we're from

00:10:56.580 this team you can't even skate by the way i don't want to point that out but they somehow are just like

00:11:01.960 yeah he's from i forget what they're called the uh stockton stockton heat yeah it used to be in 0.98

00:11:07.720 canada that team that's why i remembered it but um oh man it's good um yeah they're assholes by the 0.84

00:11:15.020 way they tried to copyright strike that video and we won through the youtube system but yeah the key 0.74

00:11:21.760 to pretending you're somebody you're not i think again it helps to have leo around who's just this

00:11:27.160 giant good looking dude and people they take a look at leo they're like this guy is too big and

00:11:33.320 too handsome to be fooling around on youtube it must be legitimate whatever he's telling us

00:11:39.460 so in the cases you reference he must be a real minor league ball player or a real minor league hockey 0.93

00:11:45.740 player and then me i come in with the jargon it's all bullshit but i can tell you uh what size skate

00:11:54.900 blade i have i can tell you the proper defensive formation when we played the the monterey bald 0.78

00:12:02.120 eagles in another minor league hockey i just i have all those things at the tip of my tongue

00:12:07.520 so after uh 30 seconds of interacting with us they're like all right i guess these guys are real

00:12:12.700 minor league athletes we'll give them a free frappuccino at our starbucks and then leo always

00:12:17.940 busts out the like a cuban accent whenever you're in those situations too um he's got that down yeah

00:12:24.440 it's very good um another staple i think and i know that i'm just i'm running through things here but

00:12:30.260 is your wrestling and jujitsu it's always impressive uh to watch people challenge you it's one of the

00:12:36.720 my favorite parts of your videos um and there was this one guy i forget it might have been at the

00:12:42.060 whip no is that the marathon race where one guy seemed like he really thought he could beat you

00:12:46.060 you you do have jujitsu training i can tell that i'm pretty sure am i wrong yeah that'd be impressive

00:12:51.900 if i didn't and i just somehow was able to lock people up in triangles yeah i do i do train brazilian

00:12:57.360 jujitsu i've been a purple belt for way too long but yeah i try to train three times a week down here in

00:13:02.940 la then where do you train i don't want to say that okay i don't want some wacko showing up with a sign 0.99

00:13:10.420 when i'm just trying to lay low in the middle of class that's fair i'm just a big uh mma fan so i

00:13:16.080 was wondering from that regard um how did yeah go ahead i was just gonna say it's a it's a good gym

00:13:22.240 i train with good guys but it's a good bit too um yeah when your fans really want to wrestle you

00:13:28.280 that's always a good time another thing i wanted to uh ask you about is how you got involved with

00:13:34.740 nelk they sort of bring you in as like you mentioned the maximum level bullshitter um cia

00:13:40.780 guy fbi guy sasquatch video i think you're in yeah um how'd you end up getting that gig let's call it

00:13:48.100 or how did you just end up hooking up with them uh to do videos so they are very responsible for

00:13:54.840 my early youtube success they saw my videos when i was doing those things i referenced earlier the

00:14:01.320 immature i am out of ideas let's get herded out of a walmart unfortunately that's what i was doing

00:14:07.020 they saw something there that they liked and they requested that i write them a couple of ideas

00:14:13.760 so i sent them a list of four ideas one of which was based on an snl sketch to go be a pepper boy at

00:14:23.320 a restaurant like a super nervous pepper boy and just pepper up people's dishes who don't require

00:14:29.220 pepper on that dish you don't want pepper on that dish and then the other idea i forget two of the

00:14:35.460 ideas but the other one i wrote them was actually a rehash of an old man show bit with uh adam carolla

00:14:42.080 jimmy kimmel to show up at the airport dressed in pilot gear and then start getting visibly hammered

00:14:50.180 in an airport bar yeah so we did that bit and i don't think i told them that i nicked that from

00:14:57.160 the bad show i just i pretend that it was an original idea but we we did both of those sketches

00:15:03.640 and what the pepper boy went over okay the drunk pilots went over really really well and that

00:15:11.480 solidified my relationship to them and ever since they've been calling in when they need as you said

00:15:17.620 a master bullshitter and the last two occasions where my services were needed where yeah i was the

00:15:23.640 fbi agent who uh rolled in on a humvee to uh to arrest some mark they found up in the upper michigan

00:15:33.480 peninsula who was a bigfoot expert yeah they found just some wacko who was the world's foremost bigfoot

00:15:40.480 expert whatever that means up there in that region and uh yeah i i came in you you can watch the

00:15:47.420 video that'll probably be better than me explaining it uh the newest milk bigfoot video and then

00:15:51.900 recently i was a wedding planner right right wedding planner at a fake wedding where they were also

00:15:56.620 pranking some poor guy i'm personal i remember all those you mentioned the man show i'm glad i think

00:16:02.320 we're somewhat close to the same age so i'm glad to get all these references but i saw adam carolla i

00:16:08.540 think on fox yesterday and i'm just thinking wow him and jimmy kimmel really went separate ways i i wonder if

00:16:13.960 they just have this relationship where they don't talk to each other about anything related to

00:16:18.640 politics or even if they talk at all because they don't badmouth each other but they completely went

00:16:22.540 in opposite directions have you noticed that yeah yeah i was just about to bring that up too adam was

00:16:28.600 one of my first comedy idols him on loveline there's a channel called loveline clips i think it used to be

00:16:36.060 called popular now it's just loveline clips you can select any random adam carolla episode

00:16:41.520 from 1997 to 2004 and he will make you laugh harder than most comedy specials on netflix i mean

00:16:51.620 maybe you'll stumble across a bill burr or louis ck special that's better but adam carolla is almost

00:16:57.220 as funny as those guys totally unscripted and i loved him then and it's made me so happy that

00:17:04.360 he has basically been the same dude ever since i mean he was anti-bullshit back in the day when he

00:17:11.600 was on loveline over taxation of people against crime against people raising their kids like 0.89

00:17:18.560 knuckleheads and today that's become like um i mean you're basically a nazi if you say any of those

00:17:25.040 things in public he hasn't backed down from that i still listen to his show every morning the adam

00:17:29.620 parola show and it's great jimmy kibble on the other hand uh just had joe biden on his program

00:17:36.560 and was referring to uh joe biden in the democratic party as we and asking america why or asking

00:17:47.160 aloud why uh people aren't with us and he didn't in pondering why people can't understand like why what

00:17:55.980 joe biden is doing in the white house is really great right now why can't people understand that 0.96

00:18:00.500 so yeah it's sad to see and i just i think adam's got to ask jimmy like you're doing this is bullshit 0.82

00:18:06.780 right you're just doing this so you can stay on a prime time program so you can keep your advertisers 0.53

00:18:11.620 and your guests you don't believe any of this right because i don't think there's any way that

00:18:15.860 jimmy kibble can sincerely believe what he said night after night well you mentioned the part where

00:18:21.160 they talk about like we and i think it's very important for hollywood and social media like

00:18:26.140 snapchat and instagram to present it as if their point of view is the only one and anybody who who

00:18:32.820 differs from that even a little bit is like a really weird and strange and outlying person i think

00:18:37.280 that's what a lot of it uh relies on especially in the late night talk show world where they all

00:18:43.200 pretty much say the exact same thing everybody named jimmy and james it's all jimmy and james and

00:18:48.960 stephen colbert i guess yeah hard segue danny into how often you're asking people to show you their 0.91

00:18:55.540 penis um a lot plan speaking up not planned you tell can you tell your staff to turn their backs 0.98

00:19:03.560 real quick and can you uh might pop it up and do what you look right up you might not give me a look

00:19:09.680 of yours right now speaking up oh no in person only thank you i guess i have to talk about if you

00:19:19.340 don't want you know that's that's um that is a a hard segue that was another thing unfortunately back

00:19:28.180 in those days i referenced earlier when we didn't have much in the way of material we went down to

00:19:34.020 san diego with a character called fan jerry in my group and we filmed the video that was actually 0.96

00:19:39.420 titled show us your penis and we did a lot of asking people as you can probably imagine to show 0.95

00:19:47.660 us their penis and unfortunately that set it off and it creeps back into my videos from time to time 0.99

00:19:53.180 like a cancer i just i can't get rid of it oh man how much reliance is there on you know um going in 0.99

00:20:02.080 there i know you said that you're doing these planning uh this planning now um or for the last

00:20:07.520 while how much reliance is there on events happening because i remember when i was doing these

00:20:13.320 types of videos way back in the day now let's say 2001 no i'm just kidding um that you kind of have

00:20:19.780 to try to find an event and or find like a place to go to is that is that why you find yourself

00:20:25.100 traveling a lot more or did you guys really just want to go and see more places because a lot of the

00:20:29.740 videos are like fattest city in america and texas uh worst city in california did you kind of just want

00:20:35.560 to like get out there and see like more of the more of the country or did you kind of like follow

00:20:39.880 where events and where things would lead you i think both i think you i just scan the news read the news

00:20:47.400 sometimes things jump out at me events oh we could really go piss a lot of people off at this place

00:20:52.600 but also there really is something to be said for seeing the country and filming in locations other 0.81

00:20:58.140 than los angeles la is so saturated with dickhead youtubers and people are so jaded that when you

00:21:05.900 roll in with the camera they already have a list of assumptions about you uh wannabe tiktok star 0.99

00:21:12.520 airhead stupid not funny get away from me i don't want to talk but when you roll into a business 0.99

00:21:20.380 in say anchorage alaska or boise idaho with the camera it's a novelty and everybody would love to 0.99

00:21:28.580 speak with you this is their 15 minutes of fame so it is refreshing to travel and film it makes it a lot

00:21:35.780 easier not on the budget but it does make it a lot easier to create content i keep asking people i talk

00:21:41.680 to from california if they want to leave because the people that are still there i just uh had a

00:21:47.520 a friend of mine patriot j who's a rapper lawyer writer and everything he still lives out in

00:21:52.080 california he doesn't plan on leaving uh versatile guy yeah he is i know and he's only like 23

00:21:57.900 writer yeah he's like 23 dreadlocks can you be a lawyer at 23 did this guy uh skip law school

00:22:05.500 maybe maybe he's older than that but he uh i think that's possibly five years in school how long does it

00:22:11.640 take he might be like i think alexander hamilton was self-studied i think he passed the bar after

00:22:17.020 like six months that happens sometimes yeah that happens you pay like a few grand you can do it but

00:22:22.520 is there any desire to leave or do you just want to make uh california better is it is there too much

00:22:28.080 uh good uh content fodder out there or how do you feel about that yeah i i don't think at least in my

00:22:36.760 opinion i don't think there would be a better state to film in the weather is something you have to

00:22:41.420 consider because we film almost exclusively outdoors so a rainy day shuts us down that's

00:22:47.420 important absolutely the content is tremendous out here it is such a big state there are so many

00:22:55.420 different worlds i mean a lot of star wars for instance they turned the the geography of california

00:23:03.540 literally into different worlds i mean endor the sand dunes all of those locations they filmed

00:23:09.260 that in the original star wars is here and also politically there are different worlds you can go

00:23:14.780 to bakersfield and find the biggest flag saluting maga man on the planet but then you go an hour and a

00:23:24.240 half the other direction and people are are lighting american flags on fire so we have that sort of 0.87

00:23:30.420 diversity uh the the crime's insane the underworld the scum i love documenting that but it's also beautiful

00:23:38.000 here i love la i love the history of la the only real reason to move would be just cheaper real estate

00:23:44.980 and not having to pay 13 percent income tax which is a good reason but i mean i think we toyed with the

00:23:52.280 idea of moving to las vegas but what do you have in las vegas you have the strip and then you have strip

00:23:58.160 malls and i i just i can't people are going to get bored of me shoving a microphone in the face of a

00:24:04.820 drunken tourist and then go and like hanging out in front of a chilies there's just there's not enough

00:24:10.920 content in these low tax states so for now remaining in los angeles is the plan yeah not to mention if

00:24:18.540 you get kicked out of one of those casinos they're all going to ban you forever i feel like because

00:24:22.660 they i think they're all owned by three people like three companies own all the casinos so yeah that's

00:24:27.800 true how how hardcore are you willing to go into a political scenario and what i mean by that is you

00:24:35.100 went to evergreen college i don't think you guys were probably weren't in any physical danger at the

00:24:39.460 time the people were wonderful there um in in that video just uh the kid who lets you pop his pimple

00:24:47.400 that was in order to fight white supremacy of course because he was a whitehead um but could we see

00:24:56.660 danny mullin mullin and leo going to like seattle during an antifa riot or something like that or you

00:25:03.100 want to get that dangerous or is it best for you to not you know get into a place where you know you

00:25:08.620 could actually get assaulted by a group of nerds yeah i would prefer to not get assaulted but i'm willing

00:25:15.620 to get assaulted okay where it gets a little hairy is i don't want my cameraman or somebody else in my

00:25:21.040 crew to get hurt because they um they aren't as in i mean this is their job and it's my life so that's

00:25:28.440 the difference so i'm willing to get hurt but i don't want them to get hurt it's really the antifa

00:25:33.860 the nerds the liberals they don't scare me in los angeles it's just people who were on the fringe of 0.91

00:25:41.360 homelessness who can't really do the mental arithmetic if i kill this guy i'm going to prison 0.99

00:25:49.260 for the rest of my life those are the scary people i mean i was just reading an article in the la times

00:25:56.280 the other day where a guy's down in long beach right now walking into 7-elevens holding up the

00:26:02.160 register for 322 and then just smoking the clerk after he takes the money just armed robbery life in

00:26:10.080 prison automatically he thinks it's worth it for a couple hundred dollars and that's what scares me

00:26:16.160 people who are just so out of touch with reality that they will kill you over nothing in doubt here

00:26:22.660 in los angeles unfortunately there are a lot of those people and they scare me more than anything

00:26:27.260 have you ever done one in another country yet no i'm not really too interested i mean i used to think

00:26:34.920 that we would be safe if we went to canada the uk or australia but as you know i mean canada

00:26:40.920 especially free speech isn't really a thing and their prime minister is a nutcase i i don't really

00:26:48.400 want to get um i don't want to get caught like i don't want to get arrested at a wnba game or 0.60

00:26:55.220 whatever their equivalent is zero in canada not sure i'm not sure what kind of like misogynist hate

00:27:02.620 crime they would spin that up into being and i would be the next britney grinder or whatever her 1.00

00:27:07.680 name is locked away for potentially 10 years for something that in america is nothing so i i think you

00:27:15.940 might uh the worst thing that would happen i think is you get charged for hate speech and probably

00:27:21.980 banned from the country i i don't think you're doing jail time canada doesn't like putting people

00:27:28.080 in jail even for the worst of crimes in fact they did the thing that i think they did in california

00:27:32.960 and new york where they let a lot of people out during covid because the prisons were overcrowded

00:27:36.860 they said yeah so there's that i don't think you run the risk of jail time in canada especially if

00:27:42.540 you identify if you just tell them you identify as something or that you have a certain sexuality or

00:27:47.540 gender and then i think they'd be confused enough to let you just leave but uh the problem would be

00:27:53.440 getting in frankly uh you don't have uh 19 vaccinations i don't know if you can get in

00:27:59.480 right now is the problem as uh recently announced was you can never be up to date in canada so you're

00:28:05.080 going to need it every nine months to be considered up to date which is a great new laws i fixed my like

00:28:10.240 90s hair that i got going here it looks great actually thank you danny i uh pride myself on the

00:28:15.400 voluminousness of it um and it's not cooperating i need a haircut i need to go to my uh barber

00:28:21.780 maybe you should censor that so that he doesn't get mail he doesn't get mobbed yeah somebody coming

00:28:29.840 after me they'll be like well i can at least go after maybe danny will hear about it but um yeah i

00:28:36.440 need to also but i i feel like a hair appointment especially in la it's first of all you know you're

00:28:42.700 not going to be able to get in for a week so that knowing that it's going to take a long time

00:28:48.280 weirdly makes you procrastinate even more because you're like ah it's just like it's such delayed

00:28:53.800 gratification then i have to drive to the valley of los angeles it really is horrendous i i moved up

00:29:02.140 the street from my old house so i just i just recently moved um like a mile about a mile and i

00:29:09.420 thought that's great i'll go to the same grocery store i can work out in the same park my life won't

00:29:14.400 even change but that mile added nearly 25 minutes to my commute oh god because every day it's

00:29:22.800 something a junkie plows into a fire hydrant and floods the city block add 15 minutes onto your commute

00:29:30.020 a high-speed chase ensued with the police and now there's a shootout at la brea in la cienega

00:29:37.380 and you have to go 30 minutes out of your way so for me getting a haircut i mean i might as well

00:29:43.600 be crossing into tia one to get it done it's such and it's such an it's like an effort that's yeah i'm

00:29:51.180 getting anxiety just thinking about it i need one as well though see it's here it's construction or

00:29:55.940 car accident every single day if there wasn't any of that my drive to work would be 30 35 minutes but

00:30:01.420 every day it's an hour for some reason um and it never gets done but isn't your haircut like part

00:30:07.580 of who you are i want to say like isn't aren't you recognizable partially because of your haircut 0.98

00:30:13.240 yeah it's a pretty stupid bowl cut right now and uh right after it gets cut i get a wave of 0.99

00:30:20.900 shit talk from the fans for like uh maybe three weeks until it grows out into a more natural state 0.99

00:30:28.920 then they're like all right we can stop making fun of his hair but yeah i guess um i guess when when 0.97

00:30:34.980 you do what i do you can't get the traditional like douchebag tiktoker perm cut or anything like that 0.62

00:30:41.020 you can't be trying to look hot so that rules out a bunch of haircuts for me right there 0.52

00:30:46.240 i do jujitsu so i don't want the hair all down in my face so that rules out a longer haircut

00:30:52.260 so i'm really left with just a handful of cuts and uh the bowl cut is somehow what i wound up with

00:30:59.480 i'm not really sure it's probably find a better alternative now that i'm talking about well i think

00:31:05.240 um you know society really came into play into your haircut like society caught up to your haircut now

00:31:11.660 we're seeing it a lot more i was at a um a tech conference a couple weeks ago and uh there's this

00:31:18.240 guy with a big hockey mullet shaved side of his head big permed mullet at the back selling nfts

00:31:24.440 and i go up to him like this is going to be a canadian bro uh and it turns out he was uh like a

00:31:30.080 peruvian guy he's like yes you like this hair it is called the mullet and i was like this is impressive

00:31:35.340 and uh his company is called ugly bros shout out ugly bros don't get canceled on out yeah that was

00:31:43.260 the problem with the mullet too my hair used to be more mullet-y but now peruvian guys it's such a 1.00

00:31:48.440 big trend that they're rocking it and every date rapist frat douchebag that i see on the street too 0.67

00:31:55.140 with a pair of pit vipers and a longboard he's got the mullet now so i hadn't transitioned out of that 0.90

00:32:01.220 that got too big uh let me just scratch off wearing my pit vipers in my next video i got them because uh

00:32:08.420 uh vietnam uh filipino american comedian i'm friends with uh with a mullet has been wearing

00:32:15.400 them i'm like i need my own pit vipers for uh tell him he's got to be careful that's two strikes the

00:32:20.220 pit vipers and above but hey leo wears pit vipers too so i'm not hating pit vipers you just you can't 0.97

00:32:26.860 you could have like one thing that overlaps with the typical american date rapist frat boy you don't

00:32:32.200 want like all of your accessories it looks magic though i'll have to get rid of the longboard no i'm 0.65

00:32:37.800 against you in the anti-longboard stance it is impressive though you just randomly do these

00:32:42.680 things in your videos like you just randomly are able to kick flip and when i watched you just grab

00:32:47.140 this guy's guitar and start playing it maybe you're not like amazing at everything but you do that

00:32:52.900 sounds like an insult now that now that i say no you're right you're right but you know how to do

00:32:57.540 basically everything convincingly i think that's the the point to uh to be if you want to be like

00:33:04.220 danny mullen be able to do things convincingly is that fair to say yeah an improv teacher of mine

00:33:10.740 once said that when you're not doing improv or comedy you should just learn about the world go to a

00:33:17.840 play go to a symphony go to a new restaurant read a book about a subject you know nothing about

00:33:23.320 because all of that stuff will serve you in your comedy if you just have a little surface level

00:33:30.340 knowledge about everything and that's what you're referring to i know a little bit about a lot

00:33:37.240 which is better than being a master at anything well it really hits home for me is your hatred of

00:33:43.580 the french being a french canadian myself uh the constant wreck do i is it constant i wouldn't say

00:33:50.600 constant but there's been frequent times where you're saying let's yell at these french people and

00:33:55.260 you're just like napoleon sucked uh maybe you mentioned like descartes or something you have a 0.54

00:33:59.860 whole bunch of french references that i myself don't even know and you're able to fire them off 0.97

00:34:04.660 like six in a row this person was the worst person of all time his influence means nothing to me

00:34:10.100 and uh just the poor french you know but not actually yeah i i think you're referring to the

00:34:16.720 video across dressing in san francisco where we it's more than one danny i'm not lying 0.95

00:34:21.120 i don't i can't even remember the last time we disparaged the french but i mean i mean uh i i got

00:34:29.460 i was gonna lay into the french right here but that's the thing is something i told you i have a

00:34:33.860 shallow amount of knowledge about everything well i've exhausted my anti-french sentiment so now i'm

00:34:39.620 out of new things i need to i need to pick up uh maybe some 1940s era newspapers i'm sure there's

00:34:47.420 something negative i can find about the french there i'll just the well i'll just uh call my

00:34:51.960 dad and be like dad give me a lot of things french people hate at least in canada he hates separatists

00:34:57.500 um loves his poutine and his pepsi uh do you know what do you know what a joe louis is

00:35:03.760 a joe louis yeah it's a pastry there's this big pastry factory in quebec called vachon

00:35:10.240 and they create all these like the yeah v-c-h-o-n they create all these pastries um basically like 0.93

00:35:18.060 swiss rolls and like uh pies like moon pies essentially but it's called a loon moon here

00:35:23.980 uh so there's plenty of fodder that i can just message you if you're ever for some reason surrounded

00:35:29.460 by frenchmen from quebec so so poutine's great but what what's the the louis what is that called

00:35:35.980 joe louis but it's spelled j-o-s and then louis with an s like joss lewis would be a joke we would

00:35:43.000 say when we were kids um see that's that's um that's too deep because you can you can call somebody

00:35:49.800 a joe louis eater and nobody will get it like the less than one canadian they would get it so again

00:35:56.860 we're getting down to like three percent of the audience whereas poutine is that's highbrow that's a

00:36:03.820 highbrow insult if you call somebody like a poutine pig in their french but what do you mean i'm a

00:36:09.720 but uh but at least like at least poutine is like one notch above palm frites it's a little bit more

00:36:21.220 of a highbrow reference than that but we're not in the joe louis territory which is just people are

00:36:27.700 going to be scratching their heads this is the art of insulting the frenchmen palm frites apple 0.72

00:36:34.040 apple apple fries i see apple fries i don't know of crates well that's what palm that's what palm

00:36:42.620 frites means oh does it i thought it was just french fries no that's uh no we're gonna have to

00:36:49.060 next episode danny is just all french stuff yeah i i've been i've been calling people apple fry

00:36:57.160 eaters that's not even a thing that's just the two words stuck together very good we'll get we'll get

00:37:03.960 a thumbnail with just like a fleur-de-lis all right i wanted to explore as you lean in intent

00:37:09.240 intently um and listen to my wise words um keep going um more about this cancelling stuff do you

00:37:17.000 ever worry about it because this change.org thing if i think if the right people wanted to try to

00:37:24.740 like are you demonetized on youtube no no that's what i'm saying and let's not jinx ourselves here

00:37:31.260 maybe i shouldn't even say it but should this be something that you're worried about do you worry

00:37:35.720 about it at all when you're when you're making the content because every time i put a youtube

00:37:40.740 uh video up and it gets demonetized right away i pretty much always win the the appeal knock on wood

00:37:47.080 so it's not something i really worried about but i'm wondering with uh such a large channel of

00:37:53.700 yours and how many views you get you have to sort of worry about this sort of thing sometimes or do

00:37:58.800 you i think the bigger you are the less you have to worry about it because youtube they have done some

00:38:05.340 shady stuff like they got rid of leo's channel which was a smaller channel and you hear stories about

00:38:11.120 them just throwing aside the three strike system and axing channels that they don't like but they

00:38:18.500 can only do that when those channels are small because if my channel got booted up youtube it would

00:38:24.600 be it would be news enough other creators in this niche would pick it up and complain about it

00:38:30.460 and it would be bad press for youtube i mean a great example of this is when sargon of akkad got kicked

00:38:37.280 off patreon in 2018 or 19 and jordan peterson sam harris left the platform a ton of people left

00:38:46.180 the platform and it was a black eye that i think they've done everything in their power to recover

00:38:50.620 from youtube doesn't want that it doesn't want to censor people publicly and be be branded as that

00:38:56.560 platform so i feel actually pretty safe because of my size and um also especially more and more i feel

00:39:05.120 like i try to do comedy that's universally funny i want to do stuff that makes my parents laugh so

00:39:11.960 it's a little bit offensive it's a little bit naughty but it's really not violating community

00:39:17.200 guidelines i mean i'm sure youtube i mean clearly they don't like me probably there are a lot of

00:39:24.660 people in youtube who don't like me taking my girlfriend with a prosthetic black eye to a woman's

00:39:30.320 march okay they're probably offended by that but it's really i'm sure not their top priority for

00:39:36.160 removing from the platform what else do you want to do do you want to are you happy with staying on

00:39:43.480 youtube and i don't mean that uh insultingly did you do you want to do something would you ever do a

00:39:48.820 danny mullen show which have you been offered by like mtv or something is there anything like that

00:39:53.460 no official offers i just realized though that i uh my business email that's on my youtube channel

00:40:01.060 is like an email i hadn't checked in like three years so if mtv has emailed me i haven't seen it

00:40:07.360 but i'm not really interested in any of that i i like the immediacy of we make something we put it up

00:40:13.500 on youtube it gets views instantly i don't really like the idea of going radio silent for eight months

00:40:19.200 working on a tv show for netflix or hulu it goes up it gets the same amount or less views that i get

00:40:27.900 on youtube and then it's gone and then nobody can find it or access it again because the rights get

00:40:33.240 lost or sold and yeah five years down the line you're like nobody even knows where it is anymore

00:40:39.220 right now my content is all batched together i own it all it comes out when i want it to come out

00:40:44.420 i'm happy with what i get paid i i see people on youtube who make much much more money than i do

00:40:51.200 so i know there's plenty of room for growth i'm happy on youtube and the danny and leo podcast i

00:40:58.280 think it's called um when did you start that was there a particular reason or did you guys just say

00:41:03.800 that you want to just do a podcast like the rest of us yeah yeah it's the leo and danny show and we

00:41:10.200 started it uh on my couch actually uh on one hungover morning on my couch in 2019 and yeah that's just

00:41:17.860 for us to have a podcast because you have to have a podcast right not much more to it well before we

00:41:26.220 go i'd be remiss to not shout out ryan long um how did you guys meet uh really one of the nicest guys

00:41:32.560 in i will call this space this uh this sphere how did you guys get to know each other yeah i 0.98

00:41:40.420 believe we just exchanged a couple of direct messages um i called him a piece of shit he called 0.98

00:41:46.080 me a cocksucker no that's not true that it meant exchange text messages sounds like it's hostile or 0.99

00:41:51.720 direct message but no we just we just said hi i like your stuff the feelings mutual i went on his show 0.94

00:41:59.000 his uh his podcast actually remotely like i'm doing right now and then we first met up in films

00:42:05.160 here in la in november and uh shout out to ryan in the video we did that we've spoken of a couple

00:42:11.960 of times now that where i took my girlfriend my battered girlfriend to a woman's march the second 0.99

00:42:17.680 half of that video we went down to a ryan long comedy show in san diego and he gave our beloved

00:42:22.980 crew member king croc his first five minutes of stand-up ever my buddy king croc gets up on stage

00:42:30.020 at ryan long sold out comedy show with no material and somehow miraculously kills and he gave king

00:42:39.560 croc the confidence he needed to continue his comedy career now so shout out to ryan long isn't king

00:42:45.120 croc a donkey kong reference or that no that's king k rule my apologies yeah you're right that's the

00:42:52.880 that's the uh the crocodile guy yeah that came up the other day well danny i really appreciate you

00:42:57.940 coming on i had a lot of fun talking to you i'm down to if you ever come to can i'm down to come

00:43:03.060 out and support your hate speech here um hopefully i can come down there sometime um anything else you

00:43:10.180 want to mention to our canadian audience anything else you want to mention at all

00:43:13.040 um no just thanks for having me man i like rebel news you guys were super awesome all of your

00:43:19.180 reporters down there in uh in eagle pass love what you guys are doing keep it up and uh thanks for

00:43:25.100 having me man no problem you become a special correspondent whenever you want okay danny 0.90

00:43:29.880 mullen live from the border um tearing down that wall jumping the border anything all right hell yeah

00:43:36.480 send aside where they get to the stalling house side where they get to the walking no side for

00:43:41.560 the people as often rush limbo you know that i'm talking hey rush limbo you know that i'm talking

00:43:47.880 hey look rush limbo you know that i'm sent aside i don't trust a single soul inside need to euthanize 0.99

00:43:55.800 sit on their ass while they loot the guys with their suits and ties we rip them off with the strength of 0.99

00:44:00.800 gods if i see nancy pelosi or kevin mccarthy fighting like budakide yeah 1.00

Rebel News Podcast - July 22, 2022

ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Danny Mullen gets cancelled

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