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June 23, 2017 - Louder with Crowder
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#189 EVERYONE'S WRONG ON HEALTHCARE! Mark Levin | Louder With Crowder
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The Front in Breiter Formation It's the point to speak, the Front in Breiter Formation.
The enemy took Zossen to Starnsdorf.
The enemy is now on the north, between Frohnau and Pankow.
The enemy is coming to Lichtenberg-Marsdorf-Karlshorst.
With the attack of Steiners, everything will be fine.
My commander...
...Steiner...
Steiner konnte nicht genügend Kräfte für einen Angriff massieren.
The Angriff Steiner is not successful.
It remains in the room Keitel, Jodel, Krebs and Bogdorf.
The Angriff Steiner is not successful.
That was a buffet!
The Angriffe Stein, that was a buffet!
Who sent you?
That's your spade.
You're my fate.
You're my fate.
So weit is this.
That's it!
That's it!
The whole Generality is nothing more than a giant, a ruthless, ruthless, violent!
My Führer, I can't let the soldiers for you...
I'm sorry!
My Führer, what you're saying is unbearable!
The Generality is the greatest German army!
It's no honor!
You call me General, because you've been given years to the military academy, only to learn how to hold a hammer and a hammer!
It's been a long time for the military action.
It's been a long time for me.
It's been a long time for me.
I've done it!
I've done it!
I want Stalin!
I was from the academy.
And yet I have been on me.
I have been destroyed all over Europe.
Verrater.
From all of the beginning, I've been beaten and beaten!
There was a great revenge for the German people!
But all of these Verräter will pay!
With their own blood, they will pay!
They will save their own blood!
Please, please.
Now calm down.
My orders have been spoken in wind.
It's impossible to go under these circumstances.
It's out.
The war is lost.
But if you believe that I leave Berlin, please beware.
I'll throw a little bit in the head.
Don't do anything you want.
Don't do anything you want.
Don't do anything you want.
It's June, which marks Lauder with Crowder's second annual Cultural Appropriation Month, where each week we appreciate and teach you about new and exciting cultures.
This week, we take you to the lovely, cold, if sadistic, culture of Germany!
Oh, du schöner Westerwald Über deine Höhen pfeift der Wind so kalt Jedoch der kleinste Sonnenschein Bringt tief ins Herz hinein That's the sound of the weekend, or the downfall of...
Human civilization, depending which decade.
Of course, Germany.
Germany!
We're glad people are trying to guess, by the way.
They will never guess the final week, next week of cultural appropriation.
So send in your costumes.
Best costume.
We'll tweet who's along with Germany, and you'll win this pipe.
We have Mark Levin today, and we have Sven Computer, our very own intern, who is a cybernetic organism, will be on later to give us some fun facts about Germany.
We are blessed.
Because to learn about cultures, to appropriate cultures, is to appreciate cultures.
Producing with me in video studio, as always, is Jared, who is not gay.
Follow him on Twitter at NotGayJarid.
Me, at S. Crowder, with your thoughts, your comments, your questions.
I fulfill my legal obligations.
Draw your own conclusions.
Are we good?
That's NotGayGretchen, you bitch.
We, whoa, whoa, right off the bat.
And Sound Guy Edward has shut off that shark hunting light for crying out loud.
At G. Morgan Jr.
over here on the Twitter.
How are you?
I'd just like a male-sized costume next time.
That hat?
Well, it's the white legs.
You don't like the hat?
It's the white legs, yeah.
What, is that supposed to be German?
No, it's not.
I'm just, you know, making it up as I go.
I know one accent.
Everything devolves to one.
It's the hat for a midget stripper.
I don't, it's like, it's a five foot two midget stripper hat, apparently.
Do we have Alice Cooper's Poison?
Just start playing it and let him get to work.
Just, This is what happened.
So, we have Mark Levin, we have my lawyer, Bill Richmond.
We were in New York directly meeting with YouTube, and I mean the heads of YouTube.
We're talking about legal, controversial content.
I have better news.
We're out of New York.
We're out of New York.
I know.
We have a lot of fans in New York, and God bless you.
This is the only ray of sunshine.
People love New York until they actually leave New York.
That's the thing.
It's true.
And the people who love New York, who don't live in New York, are hipsters who just want to scrape by and take pride in it.
So Mark Levin and I, lawyer Bill Richman, we'll talk about it.
We have some exclusive audio from our meeting.
We'll tell you what our outlook is.
And then, of course, Sven Computer, we'll be talking about the health care bill.
Today.
Talk about it with Mark Levine, and we'll also give you an entire rebuttal as to why Vox is wrong.
But news of the day.
News of the day.
First off, Vox is wrong?
Qatar Airways, did you know this?
Yes.
They're interested in a 10% stake in American Airlines.
Of course they are.
Apparently they made an offer.
This is, it's been trending all over today.
Yeah.
And it does come, we don't know if it'll happen, it comes with some caveats for American Airlines.
Which honestly, I thought they would be unreasonable.
Pretty understandable.
So if we're on international flights to the Middle East, they want halal meals.
That's not too out of the question.
That's kind of a given.
They want what they call modesty chairs for the women.
Again, traveling internationally.
I don't agree, but I can see why.
I can understand why.
What's a modesty chair?
The reason that was odd, though, was they actually wanted it to be a prerequisite for everyone to turn on all their electronic devices immediately after takeoff, which seemed as though it was a back door.
That's one for you, Katar.
You got us with...
Fool us once with Clockboy.
Fool us twice with your terrorism.
That's still shame on you.
It's always shame on you.
It's really not shame on us.
You always lose.
It's still Qatar.
You guys suck.
Donald Trump?
He said this is all over today.
He wants to put solar panels on the wall.
On the border wall.
That's creative.
That'll pay for it.
Yes.
Which he says will help it pay for itself.
Of course, this has the left conflicted.
Yeah, they do.
Over their hatred of the border wall, but their love of alternative green energy, which has put them in quite the self-loathing pickle, Which explains the latest video from BuzzFeed.
Lady like fat chicks, try seppuku.
By the way, it was really hard for us to find out how to spell seppuku.
I think it's seppuku.
Is it seppuku?
Seppuku!
I don't even know.
Where were you on Japanese Cultural Appropriation Week?
Today you're doing Irish Watch.
Two weeks from now, he'll have a perfect German accent.
I'm like three weeks behind usually.
Good lord.
Worthless.
NASA wants to probe Uranus in search of gas.
There's nothing to add there.
That was an actual headline from Yahoo News.
That's it.
Buzzfeed.
They just had bed bug infestation.
And I don't want to take pleasure in someone's misfortune.
Can we?
Listen, this isn't the first time for BuzzFeed.
I mean, they've been plagued with these kind of challenges for a while.
There was the electrical fire last year.
It was a really big deal.
And of course, being in New York, they had the rat problem to deal with a few months ago.
And then, of course, there was the anonymous mist that killed all their firstborn sons.
That one seemed really, I mean, almost as though they should take it as a warning sign.
Six more to follow.
Six.
All right, before we get to the Trump health care bill, I can guess that's what we're having Mark Levin on.
When it comes to politics, the guy knows it.
So Dennis Frager was on, the cultural lens, the political lens, the constitutional lens.
Mark Levin knows it.
Gene Morgan Jr., what are your thoughts here on the health care bill that was officially introduced today?
Yeah, it doesn't seem to address a lot of the concerns that we have.
It seems like a half measure, and Ted Cruz kind of said as much.
It doesn't lower premiums enough, but it tries.
Right.
So I think they're trying to get there, but...
Can't you get this right before you introduce it?
Well, that's not Ted Cruz's problem.
It doesn't lower premiums enough.
That's his quote.
No, that's not the only thing.
He has the path to yes.
It's about freedom.
It's about actually repealing Obamacare.
That's the issue.
It still keeps a lot of Obamacare alive.
Right.
So, I get it.
Yeah, you know the lying Ted is going to come out soon.
I'm waiting for the tax of Ted Cruz.
He's lying Ted again.
Right.
Which is what, you know...
Our problem is, you kind of said you're going to repeal it.
Yeah, I know.
Repeal the place!
With the same thing.
I do.
I think it's a pipe dream, though.
Thank you.
There's an annulment right away.
Yeah, repeal and replace.
You think it's a pipe dream?
I think it is.
I think it's such a big change, you can't just repeal it.
Vox has this to say.
Their actual title was...
The bill might as well be called to poor people pay more for worse insurance.
That's what they said it is in one sentence.
I'm cool with it.
No, here's what it actually is.
People who've been subsidized by hard-working, tax-paying Americans who've seen their costs skyrocket might finally be asked to bear just a little bit of the burden.
That's the truth.
That's the truth.
You can just say, well, look, poor people are going to be expected to pay more.
No, what you're saying is people who have effectively been paying nothing...
Won't necessarily get a free ride.
And that's not even necessarily the case, because if you're in the Obamacare bracket, it depends where you are.
It can be awful.
There are private health sharing programs out there, one of whom may become a sponsor, so we're not going to recommend them yet.
But God forbid anyone has skin in the game.
God forbid you have to pay your fair share.
I seem to remember that line.
God forbid you have to pay a share.
I can't spare a share.
So here's the truth.
Premiums, okay, have increased an average of 25% every year.
45% this last year.
Okay?
45% in a year.
Deductibles are average right now at $6,000 per person, $12,400 per family.
We don't talk about the millions who've been kicked off of Obamacare.
We'll talk about that later on, because this whole headline is, poor people are going to have to pay for health care, and look at all the people who want to steal your health care.
Here's the divide, too, as we talk about this.
People out there who work for a living and pay for their own insurance know that it sucks.
Unfortunately, there's a huge portion, nearly half of population in America who could be working, who could be providing for themselves, want the government to do it.
So they're watching this thinking, I'm a dick.
The people who are watching this who actually work and support their families think that they're dicks.
There's the great divide.
Filled with dicks.
Okay, so they write this at Vox.
Tough to walk on.
The Affordable Care Act's promise was that with the help from subsidies, you wouldn't have to spend more than a set percentage of your income on health insurance.
And then they say if premiums rise in your area, so too will subsidies.
As though that's a bad thing.
So too will subsidies.
Here's the deal.
Everything is more expensive because of subsidies.
Now, this doesn't necessarily remove the subsidies.
This is the thing, too.
The stuff that we don't like about this bill is all of the compassionate health care views that liberals have been pushing.
That pretty much stays.
You look at the mandates, you look at the affordable care, the program, it's still there because we have cowards who claim to be Republicans who aren't really doing the right thing.
But then Vox is also wrong and Ezra Klein is just a pandering moron.
I wouldn't say he's a moron.
He's actually a smart guy.
I just think the guy is so misguided.
So we know what happens with subsidies.
We've talked about it this week.
Subsidies skyrocket energy costs.
We talk about green energy.
It can be two, three, four, eight, ten times the cost for this energy if it's subsidized than standard energy.
Of course, student loans.
People pander on this all the time.
Bernie Sanders with student loans.
Student tuition prices are unbelievably expensive because of subsidies.
Let me explain to you how this works.
I've said it I don't know how many times, but I guess today we have to go back through remedial subsidies.
Subsidies 101.
You're an idiot, 101.
You should be paying your own way, 101.
I don't know why I still have to tell you this, 101.
Please, dear God, leave the country, 101.
You threatened to move to Canada, please do, 101.
Let's say we set a price for college.
Okay, so this is their quote.
You would never have to spend more than a set percentage of your income on health insurance.
Okay, so let's do that with a subsidy.
I make $10,000.
Okay, the government says, you never pay more than 10%.
I'm just using figurative numbers here.
You never pay more than 10%.
Of your income for health insurance.
So that's $1,000 per year.
You never pay more than $1,000 per year.
Okay, we'll pay the rest.
It's $5,000 per year though, the insurance company says.
He only has $1,000 but it's $5,000.
The government says, we'll give you the $4,000.
Did I say $5,000?
I meant $20,000.
19,000, please!
That's what happens with student loans.
Hey, how much can you afford for school?
Well, I don't know.
10,000 a semester?
Okay, and the government says, that's all you can afford.
We're going to create an unaffordable college grant.
We'll fill in the rest.
Hey, I can only afford about 10,000.
College goes, well, that's amazing!
Because here at the University of Texas...
It's 30,000.
You have 10, you would think you're, but there's a grant that's 20.
So we'll take your 10, we'll take your 20, we'll take care of you.
That's what happens with the subsidies.
It's why anywhere, when people talk about industries that they can't stand, what do they usually talk about?
Health insurance?
Yep.
Airlines?
Yes.
I'm trying to think.
What else?
Banks.
Banks?
These are not industries that are bastions of libertarianism where there hasn't been government intervention.
It's a lot like surplus.
With unions and surplus, how that money's mismanagement gets so easily out of control because there's money on the table.
You've got to take advantage of the money on the table or else it's gone.
So it's just...
Simple.
We've got to move relatively quickly because Fennig and Peter's going to win.
Okay, so they write this.
Once the Medicaid expansion is repealed, Republicans get to work on Medicaid itself.
Here is something that's important that Vox...
They wrote this here, but if you hear them talking on cable news, they say they want to cut Medicaid.
They don't.
First off, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
They don't.
What they're talking about is the expansion of Medicaid that is occurring will slow down at five years.
So like an ever-expanding universe, Donald Trump is such a heartless prick that they want to say, all right, five more years of untouched, unfettered growth where you can do whatever you want.
And then after that, we're going to have to rein it in a little bit.
They're not cutting off Medicaid.
So let's be clear with that.
They're not cutting Medicaid.
It's stopping the continuing expansion in five years.
By the way, the truth is, Medicaid sucks.
One-third of all doctors in the United States won't take Medicare or Medicaid.
Anyone here who has parents who are on Medicare, it's the same problem.
My in-laws, they can't find good doctors.
It's free, and it's a human right, but it sucks.
It sucks.
It's terrible.
It doesn't work.
It's broken.
This is the part that never comes into the equation with the left.
It's like, you bring up, well, what about the fact that it's really awful, that doctors won't take it?
What about the fact that premiums have gone up?
Well, hold on.
But it's a right, though.
Well, hold on a second.
We need to go back to the conversation of rights versus commodities 101.
Hey, hey, hold on.
Listen up.
Stop looking at Bernie.
Here's the deal.
Medicaid sucks.
It's broken.
And they're back to looking at something shiny.
It's a good way to get old people to vote for you, though.
It is a good way to get old people to vote.
They're going to leave you on the street to die.
Well, then I'll vote for you.
Old people are gullible.
Stop.
I love old people.
Don't be ageist.
That is ageist.
I don't even know what to call you today.
Okay.
So they talk about that.
Then they say once they get to work on Medicaid itself, tying the amount it can spend to an inflation index that lags behind how much health care actually costs.
They complain about this in the Vox article.
Yeah.
It does lag behind the inflation of health care.
Well, who's responsible for that?
The hyperinflation of healthcare over the last few years is because of your subsidies and the Affordable Care Act.
That's why premiums are up 42% this year.
That's why we're paying a $12,400 deductible.
Who's fault?
It will be tied to an inflation.
It's like...
If you just start printing more money tomorrow, and then you bitch about inflation going from 2% to 20%, and you blame it, you can't blame it on me!
You're the one printing the money!
Nothing can keep up with those costs.
You can't peg it to anything.
All right, this is their final claim here from Ezra Klein.
The bill he has written leads to more people who aren't covered.
The premiums, deductibles, and co-pays people actually pay for the health care will skyrocket.
More people will end up in bad insurance that has deductibles so high that it's really not worth much to them.
Okay, here's the thing.
It might be a crappy plan.
Maybe costs will go up.
Let's say he's right.
Let's say everything he just said there from his crystal ball is correct, Mr.
Klein in Vox.
We're still no worse off!
That's exactly what has happened since the Affordable Care Act.
Premiums, deductibles, co-pays.
They've all gotten worse.
Everyone who works for a living knows that.
That's why they voted your guys out.
You lost because you thought your lies worked.
And people who actually pay for health care.
Hold on a second.
Wait.
My insurance premiums went up 42% this year, and they saw you pandering to college students who are 25 years old who don't want to pay for anything, and people who don't even pay taxes getting free health care.
It sucks now!
People can't afford it now!
It doesn't matter what we try!
By the way...
That's what I thought he was describing, the current situation.
That's exactly...
I was with him for a second.
I was like, wait a minute.
Oh, he's talking about the current...
Wait, hold on a second.
He's talking about the proposed bill?
Because I'm looking at a 45% increase to deductibles.
Also, again, when no one talks about this, they always talk about, look at all these millions of Americans.
You'll have 27 million or 40-something million Americans uninsured.
25 million people.
Lost their health care plan because of the Affordable Care Act.
Now, here's the difference.
These people don't matter to the Democrats because these people were likely middle class.
They were paying for their own health care and they could no longer afford it.
Their premiums went up 25%, 42%.
Their deductible for a family of four went to $12,600 because it was no longer affordable.
So they lost their health care plan so that they could subsidize other people who never paid for it or intended to purchase a health care plan anyway.
We never talk about the tens of millions of people who got so screwed that they lost their plans.
We only care about the deadbeats who didn't buy it in the first place.
Did I miss it?
I think that about captures it.
Okay, I think that about captures it.
So, we have to actually...
So, really glad to have him on.
He's been an intern for us.
We are lucky.
Let's go to Sven Computer.
What's your name in totality?
It's almost hard to read.
It is almost hard to read.
The Germans make everything difficult.
But we've talked about this.
Fetching data.
Fetching data with our intern, hopefully soon to be hired, if we can get him stateside.
But it's actually, he's a cybernetic organism who does a lot of our research.
And because we're doing Germany, we wanted to have some information.
Lighten the audience.
Sven Computer, thank you for being here with us.
Thanks for having me.
Okay, great.
Thank you, Sven Computer.
So, let's hear it.
Give us some facts about your homeland where they've created you in Germany that maybe the audience might not know.
Yeah, so I think to start with would be that there are 81 million people living in Germany, so that's the largest population of Europe.
Oh, there you go.
Okay, Jared, did you know this?
That's interesting.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, also there are no punishments for prisoners who try to escape prisons, because German government and the courts, they acknowledge that it's actually a human instinct to be free.
So, there you go.
Yeah, well, Sven Computer, that's interesting.
I think it's a horrible policy, but it's interesting for us to learn.
Yeah, learning is appreciating.
Okay, so, also, there was a German chemist named Fritzawa, maybe you know him.
He invented the first mass-producible fertilizer.
Oh, well, my wife is...
Yeah, he got a Nobel Prize.
My wife is a green thumb, guards a lot, so she probably uses the benefits of the whole world.
Yeah, great.
Yeah, he then went on to invent mustard gas and help kill millions of people in the World War.
Wait, wait, what?
The same guy?
That sounds horrible, Sun Computer.
Yeah, also, you can drink a different German beer, brewed under the German purity law, for 15 years every day.
There you go.
Okay, well, that's getting back on track.
That's more of fun facts.
Fun facts, yeah, fun facts.
Yeah.
So, also, hamburgers got their name from the German town, Hamburg.
That's interesting, you know, because we talked about that.
There's no ham in hamburgers.
Hamburgers, which is...
I always confuse that.
You call me out on it.
No ham.
We call them cheeseburgers.
Cheeseburgers.
But Hamburg, this location, makes sense.
Oh, thanks, computer.
Yeah.
Also, Hitler killed his dog with a container of cyanide, and then he shot the five puppies in the head.
Oh my god, that sounds horrible.
We've gotten away from fun facts again, Sven Computer.
This is the problem when there's lack of a conscience in a database.
Germany is also the world leader in hacking, if you didn't know.
It's estimated that 90% of Of worldwide cyber-attacks carried out from Germany and coordinated from here.
And, you know, these attacks can include hacking power grids, you know, blackouts, and also gas attacks, if you don't know.
That doesn't...
Svet Computer.
Svet Computer, unfortunately, has to shut down now.
So, have some fun.
Bye.
Svet Computer, we're gonna try and be back after this.
It's right, computer!
There are a lot of people in this music.
Very few.
- It's a bad way! - Look at this! - Look at this music! - It's a bad music! - It's a bad music! - It's a bad music! - Why did you come here?
I thought it will be much better.
And very bad music.
I thought it will be much better.
I've been going to go here and it will be much better.
But at this time it did not succeed.
First of all, the music is not very popular.
What's the direction?
What's the direction?
What direction?
Thank you.
I was just aching for an excuse to launch that and I just thought the Street Fighter theme song, perfect.
It's my sonic boom.
Only, it's a hat from a country that is an absolute shell of its former self.
Can't fight back at all against anything.
Can't fight back at all against internal threats.
So, speaking of which, this man knows our country.
And let me say this first before I get in here.
He's going to do the whole, like, ah, gee shucks, you guys are great.
No, no, listen, we're okay.
On our best day, we're okay.
He's one of the top radio hosts in the country, and I will say this.
Not only that, but whenever we ask him to show up and he gives us a time, he always does, which you know, not good, Jared, is very rare.
And it's always the local guys, the small guys who just make our jobs difficult.
He has a new book, Rediscovering Americanism.
You can see it right there behind him.
He has a show every day at CRTV.com.
The great one, Mr.
Mark Levin.
Thank you for being with us, sir.
Steve, I appreciate it.
You're terrific.
And by the way, your dad's a great guy, too.
So we appreciate that.
See, yesterday Gavin was getting all up in my grill saying, why do you talk so much about your dad?
Well, now we know.
What do you get with your dad?
Yeah, what is that thing?
I don't know.
I have a good relationship with my dad.
Mr.
Levin, okay.
I know you have a lot to say about this.
I follow you on political issues a lot.
I'll say this.
I'm not really a political guy.
I'm more of a cultural guy.
When it comes to constitutionalism and the law, specifically Supreme Court cases, I am just, my search history is Mark Levin, Mark Levin.
So let's talk about the health care bill here from Republicans today.
Seems like neither side is really informing people on getting it right.
Vox said it was horrible, but not for the same reasons that actual conservatives might not be thrilled.
Please, bestow upon us your genius.
Well, here's the thing.
First of all, we have to stop looking at this as a Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative thing.
The bottom line is this.
This bill is 97.9% Obamacare.
That's what it is.
Now, they adjust some things and they talk about things that are going to happen five years from now and eight years from now.
Now, you know that's not going to happen.
The massive expansion of Medicaid.
Medicaid is a massive entitlement program.
25% of every state budget is used to pay Medicaid.
And then the federal government matches it.
So this is how they get more people on health care.
They push them into a welfare program.
So what they've done is they redefine poverty.
So 138% of the poverty rate is now poverty.
People who are 350% above the poverty rate are now going to get what they call tax credits.
You know what a tax credit is?
It's a screwdriver.
It's a subsidy.
So they're going to subsidize that.
Who else are they subsidizing?
The insurance companies, because they're going broke under Obamacare, because it doesn't make sense.
It's not an insurance program.
So, people are going to be subsidized.
Insurance companies are going to be subsidized.
We're subsidizing it.
Our premiums will stay high.
Our deductibles will stay high.
And they have not introduced free market competition.
Here's my view.
An insurance company should be able to offer whatever plan they want to, and we should be able to buy whatever plan we want to.
I don't need politicians and bureaucrats in between me and my decisions.
The left believes in choice when it comes to abortion.
They call that a choice.
But when it comes to picking a health care plan, why can't I have a choice?
When you go into a car dealership, do they say, okay, here's the three government-approved cars that you can pick?
No, I want this car, I want that car, I want this, I don't want that.
Okay, when buying a toaster, a car, a refrigerator, we have all these choices.
When buying healthcare, the federal government says, We have to approve what you can have, and insurance companies, you can't provide this, you can't charge this, you can't offer this.
It's ridiculous.
Well, here's one thing I think is important that you kind of skimmed over, and this is because I think you live in a world where a lot of people, they have a baseline level of information.
Most Americans don't, because the way liberals are selling this, and the way Vox did, they said they're repealing the Medicare bill.
Expansion, which you just said the opposite.
Now, what's important is what they're going to do, sorry, the liberals have been saying, the left has been saying, they're repealing Medicare.
They're going to dismantle Medicare.
No, no, no.
They're going to stop some of the expansion starting in, I think, 2024, right?
Isn't that the wordplay that's going on here?
Well, first of all, Medicaid.
Oh, Medicaid, sorry, yes.
And that said, what is Medicaid?
Medicaid is a welfare program.
It was started in 1966 to take care of people who really have no means of caring for themselves.
Right.
It's not intended to be an insurance program for tens of millions of able-bodied Americans, and yet that's what's happening.
You know, when they say this bill cuts Medicaid, first of all, Medicaid ought to be cut.
So let's start from that perspective.
Yes, exactly.
Number two.
They're not going to cut a damn thing.
They don't even start cutting for eight years.
Now does anybody really, or it's five years, does anybody really believe five years out, even if the Republicans control the Congress, that anybody's going to cut anything?
I'll tell you why they won't.
They can cut it today and they haven't done it.
They could repeal Obamacare today and they haven't done it.
Why do we think when more and more people are going to be sucked into this disastrous entitlement, then suddenly they'll have the political wherewithal to do something about it?
They're not.
What's following the student loan crisis, to use their term, right?
It's the exact same thing.
Yeah, student loans are too expensive.
More subsidies, more grants.
And so then colleges, we've talked about this on the show a lot because of a lot of college kids who watch.
They say, why is school so expensive?
Listen, if you say I can only afford $10,000, then the government says, we're going to make up for that.
We're going to pay the rest.
The school says, did I say $10,000 tuition?
I meant $30,000.
More subsidies, please.
Government support inflation.
And there we are.
And that's what's happened.
By the way, the percentage of doctors who flat out won't take Medicaid has also skyrocketed.
And even with Medicare, my in-laws have had problems with doctors who will accept Medicare.
You know, the Vox headline was, "This healthcare bill will crush poor people, making them pay more." What it really should read is, no, the people who've been paying absolutely nothing, the people who've been subsidized by the hardworking American taxpayer, in an ideal world, not with this bill, at some point, might be asked to bear some of the burden.
My premiums have gone up.
I know their premiums have gone up.
I'm sure yours have.
Deductibles, premiums up, they're doubling.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Why would we develop an entire national healthcare system that is focused almost exclusively on the poor?
Is that how we do things in this country?
We manufacture cars for the poor?
We build buildings for the poor.
Well, we do.
They're called projects, and they're usually not referred to in the positive sense.
When someone says, I'm from the projects, usually means I'm from a crap hole.
But I mean, assisting the poor is one thing.
But you don't destroy an entire healthcare system.
In order to, quote unquote, help the poor.
Because what happens?
You get Venezuela, we all become poor.
That's what happens.
So, we need to start talking smarter.
What we need is more competition, more choices, cheaper policies.
If I just want a policy that covers certain things, like some horrific disease or illness you might get, then I should be able to purchase that.
On the other hand, if I don't want that kind of coverage, I want a different kind of coverage, great.
If I'm a single guy, I don't want to pay for pap smear tests.
All these things should be available.
There's no reason why insurance companies can't offer a hundred different types of plans, and we, the American people, can make the decision.
I'm tired of this idea that we're too stupid to decide stuff.
And yet, when you look at the Internal Revenue Code, how the hell are we supposed to do our taxes?
We're smart enough to vote for people, but we're not smart enough to make decisions about our own healthcare?
This is a liberty issue.
This is a choice issue.
It is a family issue.
And the bottom line is this.
The Republicans do really nothing effective about it except one thing.
They eliminate some of the taxes.
Now, I'm for eliminating some taxes, but they don't eliminate the expenses.
So who's going to pay for that?
You, your generation, and the generations to come.
We have over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
This is going to add to it.
Yeah, well, you're right, too.
I mean, I can't get my thyroid medication covered, but I have diaphragms, free diaphragms out there.
I'm using them as tinker toys right now in my office.
How's that working out?
They're fantastic.
In absence of Legos or Kinex, diaphragms work.
Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that.
You talk about it being a liberty issue.
You talk about also how they want to cut taxes but not cut some of the expenses.
Listen.
It's not hard.
We have a spending problem.
And you've been remarkably consistent on President Trump, by the way.
You obviously weren't huge on him in the primaries.
You support him where he's right.
You criticize him where fair.
I think we try to do that as well.
I don't understand why we're not talking about...
During the election cycles, they're always talking about tort reform and opening up insurance across state lines.
Now, I know that's in a different phase, obviously.
Right now, we're talking about the bill.
I know it comes a little bit later on.
I haven't heard people talking about that for a couple of months.
Deafening silence.
Why is it so different from the campaign rhetoric?
It's just, it's constant fumble from Republicans.
And I hate to be that guy going, two parties, man, it's all corrupt, because there's a huge difference between Republicans and Democrats.
I'm sorry, hold on a second, let me calm down.
This is what happens when Mark Levin comes on.
He gets amped up, I get amped up, and then the audience has a heart attack.
But why are we not hearing the same kind of solutions that we heard for eight years under President Obama?
That's a great point, and I'll tell you, not to hawk my new book, but what the hell, I'll hawk it.
Go for it!
And the tyranny of progressivism.
I'll tell you why.
Because we live in a post-constitutional period, really a post-capitalist period, where we tolerate the Constitution, where we tolerate capitalism, but the main job of the federal government today is redistributing wealth.
That's what it does.
That's clearly not a constitutional power.
The Republican Party campaigns one way and it governs another way.
And I'm going to tell you why.
The left, you're right.
The left is cuckoo left wing.
That's where they are, and they can't go far enough to the left.
No matter what they get, no matter what they nationalize or centralize, it's never enough.
Why?
Because it can't work.
And so the solution is less freedom, less choice, less prosperity for the individual.
The problem with the Republican Party is it is a progressive party.
It is not an individual party, capitalist party.
It's not that anymore.
It may talk about it on the fringes.
It may help.
It may have tax cuts here and there.
But you can't name a single major left-wing entitlement or program that's been created that they've really done anything about.
Either curtail it, or cut its funding, or eliminate it.
No department, no agencies.
As a matter of fact, they create departments and agencies.
Whether it's OSHA, the EEOC, and the EPA, and on and on and on.
They won't even entertain these discussions when they're in Washington, D.C. Now, why?
Because a hundred years of progressivism has devoured the civil society.
And so we're government-centric rather than individual-centric.
And this is what I talk about and write about.
And not to get too into the weeds, where does this thinking come from?
The thinking comes from certain philosophers.
Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and others to some degree.
And they have succeeded.
Well, where does our position come from?
Individualism, republicanism, private property rights, the Declaration of Independence.
Well, they have great philosophers, too.
Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu.
I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but I think we've got to get back to debating the ideas, talking about our ideals, talking about our principles, because we can win this debate.
I don't expect Mitch McConnell to even entertain it or even understand it at this point, and I don't expect it out of the White House.
But you and I, in social media, on radio, on TV, in our families and communities, we have got to get back to this, because people are not learning this in college, they're not learning it in high school.
Do you want to be free?
Do you want to be prosperous?
Or do you want to be bullied and coerced the rest of your life?
That's the bottom line.
Here's the thing, and I hate to break bad news to you.
Well, here's the silver lining.
Generation Z, younger than us, they're the most...
Stop coughing, Jared.
We have a gentleman on this show, and you're ruining it with your coughing.
And he's got cholera.
Yes, yes, exactly.
It's the air of cholera.
Not a great film, by the way.
No.
So, you assume that people want to be free.
Now, Generation Z, they're actually pretty conservative, and by that I mean they're more conservative at that age bracket than baby boomers.
They're still going to lean liberal, but baby boomers were incredibly liberal, so I have hope for them.
But, if you look at the actual voting contingency, Things that you would think are self-explanatory.
We talk about this a lot.
And this is sometimes we get into a conservative echo chamber where you think you're going to say, hey, don't you want to be free?
Don't you care about liberty?
Do you want to give all that up for some free, subsidized, crappy health care?
And there are a lot of people who say, yeah, the free stuff sounds good.
And that's the problem.
They're not even ashamed of it.
This is a great point, and here's what I think has happened.
Again, I discussed this, and it's this.
You and I view individualism one way, and they view individualism another way.
You and I view liberty one way, and they view liberty another way.
And that's by construct on the left.
For the left, individualism isn't like you and I think.
The circle of liberty around the individual.
We want to be left alone.
We have unalienable rights.
We want to be able to prosper and do what we want to do.
For the left, for Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Schumer, Pelosi, and all the rest of them, But individualism is only something that can really be brought forth through the collective, through the community.
That's why you hear Bernie Sanders go on about free this and free that for the individual.
But they don't believe in individualism.
They believe in collectivism.
Yes.
The same with liberty.
There's different...
Arguments about liberty.
There is a positive liberty and a negative liberty.
Now, what's positive liberty?
Positive liberty is supposedly the government creating conditions to give you freedom.
I'm not talking about republicanism in the Constitution.
I'm talking about handouts and welfare and so forth.
You can only be free if you get that.
Whereas there's negative liberty.
What does that mean?
Actually, it's the right liberty.
And what that means is the liberty to be left alone, as long as you don't affect somebody else's liberty, but the liberty to be left alone.
The issues of liberty and individualism and what we mean by property and so forth, I know it seems like a daunting task, but we have to begin to have these discussions and engage.
At the college level, on every other level we possibly can.
Or you're exactly right.
People are going to say, hey, look, I can be free and be on Medicaid.
Hey, I can be free and get a government check.
Hey, I can be free.
I can have iPhones, go to the movie, eat whatever the hell I want.
Plus, screw the rich guy.
And we have to explain why, no, actually you can't.
That's a good point.
And that's actually a viral clip that I remember we rebutted and went, funny enough, two years ago at Fourth of July from the newsroom where Jeff Daniels, he's asked what's great about America, and it's this smug, you know, it's Sorkin, right?
He's still around.
Well, no, this is a while ago, but Sorkin's a brilliant writer, writes some unbelievable dialogue, but of course he's very left.
And he's sitting there, and in the rant he says, I don't know what you talk about American freedom.
There are plenty of places that have freedom.
France has freedom.
Belgium has freedom.
And he names a bunch of places, and we ran through it and just tried to contrast with people how much less freedom they have than the average American.
I was raised in Canada.
We just had this discussion with an Uber driver.
I said, you don't understand.
Freedom of speech doesn't exist outside the United States.
He said, well, come on.
They can criticize the government.
I said, no, they can't.
You can be jailed, and you can be jailed for offensive speech.
As a matter of fact, you're most often jailed for offensive speech.
And on the cultural level, if anything, our job is to try and engage people on that level where they haven't even looked at it through that lens.
And then I know, obviously, when it comes to the constitutional level, understanding our history.
For me, when I was going through college, Liberty and Tyranny back then was a book that was like a handbook.
And I haven't read this one yet, but I know Rediscovering Americanism.
I've heard great things about it.
And if the language confuses you, I will say this.
Mark Levin is great with that.
For example, you'd say, I'm pro-state's rights, but a lot of people didn't understand what statist and federalist meant.
To me, federalist was a beer.
A great beer.
It was a beer called the Federalist.
But when you read his book, he puts it in terms you can understand and learn that next level.
Hey, where's the best place for people to buy it, Mark?
Well, right now, Amazon.com.
It's there.
You can pre-order it there.
And come Tuesday, it'll be everywhere.
You can get it anywhere.
But right now, if you want to pre-order it...
By the way, I checked.
It's 40% off.
You can go to Amazon.com.
And let me sell you my chamois while I've got it.
But seriously, I think it's my best book.
I think you're going to like it a lot, Steve.
Is there an audio version of it?
Yes, I did the first chapter and the last chapter.
And people said to me, why don't you read the whole thing?
You want to know the truth?
I have asthma.
I can't read the whole thing out loud.
I read it to myself.
So I do the first chapter and the last chapter, but there is an audio.
You're like Peggy from Lord of the Flies by the third chapter.
I have a beautiful voice too.
I don't want to confuse everybody reading all the chapters.
Oh my gosh, I would kill to have you do the audiobook and just call someone a dummy in the middle of it, just to see if they're listening.
Mark Levin, CRTV also as well, where you can go see his daily show, buy his book.
Mr.
Levin, thank you so much.
We must go.
We really appreciate it.
Hope people buy it.
God bless.
Thanks, Steve.
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Tommy Loren was the last one.
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People thought we were too nice to her, and people thought we were too mean to her, so...
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But glad to have our next guest on.
He's been on the show quite a few times.
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He's half-Asian.
So he's your full-time lawyer.
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Do you use that to your advantage, the Latino thing, when you need to?
Absolutely.
Yeah?
Where would it help you?
In some of the lesser-known malls in St.
Louis in high school, I would sometimes act like I just worked there in doing certain lower-tier jobs, some would consider, in order to escape notice.
Okay.
And then once you moved to upper management, you just fired everybody and hired Asians.
Exactly.
Yes.
Well, they protect their own.
So, for people who don't know, we said we were going to talk about this.
We were gone to New York City for the YouTube conference.
We talked about it before we left.
We were kind of...
I wouldn't even say skeptically optimistic.
I would say skeptical in general.
And...
I think now we can say it.
We didn't really say we were bringing our lawyer, and then we just said you worked with the program.
True.
But we did think that there was just going to be a setup because they were going to hit us with a bunch of copyright claims, and boom, you're out of here.
I think all of us feared that, right?
Well, that was a concern.
I mean, given how some of the other social media platforms have not been ashamed to talk about their targeting of the right, we thought that that might have been a possibility.
Yeah.
So, we get there.
We thought we were the only conservatives.
Allison...
Okay?
She made me correct this from the tweet.
We weren't...
It was nothing but conservatives.
Yeah.
Which really means it was us, the PragerU people, and then there weren't really many other YouTube folk.
Yeah.
Which is odd, because they just never...
They never...
I don't think at any point just...
Addressed that.
Addressed that.
It was all conservatives.
So we thought it was going to be like D-Day.
Yeah.
Pontoon boats, you know, just everyone gone, you know, walking around carrying your own arm and ringing in your ears.
We thought, oh no, this is going to be bad.
Um...
Like Jared said, we were sitting there, I remember, for the first half of the day going, this could just be an orientation for first-time YouTubers or people who do makeup tutorials.
Yeah, it was a little bit of basic content.
A little bit of it was quite a snooze about the basics of copyright, which obviously we've been well-versed in that for quite a while.
But it took a turn about halfway through the day.
Well, it did take a turn, and a big part of that was a lady who you spoke with, one of the heads over there at YouTube Legal Policy.
And what was interesting was she actually remembered you and myself.
She did.
She actually had some first-hand knowledge about the whole Shia LaBeouf Museum of the Moving Image dispute, and knew that it was an issue that created some consternation at YouTube.
Well, because it was a gray area for them, and they removed the feed, they put it back up, then they removed it again, but she did seem pretty reasonable, unlike one of the earlier lawyers.
So before we get, I would say, what would you say first off?
We'll play a clip.
The end of the day.
Conclusion, then we'll work backwards.
Positive?
Positive.
And I said this.
I said at the end of the day, they paid a lot of money for people to come out there.
Yeah.
So either it had to be a photo op where they tend to screw everybody or they are legitimately looking to rebuild the relationships there.
Yeah.
Because I don't think any middle ground there really makes a lot of sense because they spent a lot of money.
I mean, it's New York City.
Housing that many people.
Bringing them out.
It's not a cheap ordeal.
So it's a little expensive just for a photo op.
I tend to believe it was a positive takeaway.
Okay, and Bill, this is a legal expert.
My thought was they either had Oscar-worthy performers or they actually cared because some of the folks that we spoke with, from Allison to Katie to Alex to a few of the others, seemed to genuinely want to hear us out and they weren't dismissive.
They said they understood.
Yeah.
I would say so, too.
I thought overall it was positive.
You know, obviously there's been the Tranny Bane saga.
We've been always bringing up whenever there is this kind of more so culture of censorship.
We can't really use the term censorship, but YouTube claims it's an open and free platform, and there were some scary times there.
So I would say, yeah, it was really conciliatory, it seemed, at the end.
They realized they had made some mistakes, and we've seen differences in our channels.
They couldn't stop talking about it.
You could tell something that dripped through YouTube.
You could tell something, yeah.
Everyone's like, yeah, that was a really rough few weeks.
That was a really rough few weeks.
And the theme for people who work on YouTube out there, we've had Stephen Molyneux on, Colin, Dave Rubin, was that they understand now they're not going to be CNN. They're not going to be Fox News online.
The audience rejects it, so they need to dance with the one they brought.
And...
They need to somewhat have some conservative voices.
I understand, though, for YouTube, that's also really hard.
Outside of what we do in Prager University, a handful of channels, really, there aren't a lot.
There's certainly not in the realm of Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Conan, Kimmel, Fallon.
It's all left.
Seth Meyers.
So I get their quandary.
One thing I will say, and then we'll talk about YouTube more so, they did have a guest speaker.
So I don't want to give away too much information, but she runs one of the biggest news channels on YouTube, deals with a lot of news, political issues, controversial issues, certainly much more profane than us.
Not FCC compliant.
As a matter of fact, when they played a clip at the expo, they were like, let's run some of your news, and then it was just like N-word, N-word, M-F-er.
Oh, let's turn that down with a room full of white people.
So, no secret to controversy.
But left-wing.
I asked a question when they opened it up to Q&A, and I think this was the turning point, because before this, everyone was just kind of...
It was generic.
They weren't addressing the elephant in the room.
This girl made the mistake of answering a question honestly, and we want to be honest with you guys.
YouTube has been very good to us, but here's someone who didn't work for YouTube, runs a Big Left News channel.
Go.
So since you mentioned that you're video-based...
Have you, I mean, you're dealing obviously with a room here of the evil right-wingers.
We've all been a part of this YouTube apocalypse revenue with news channels.
And so even though our watch times, I don't know about everyone here, but our watch times are up, retention is up, engagements are up, you know, revenue is down dramatically.
Have you seen that with your channel?
No, to be completely honest.
Sorry.
So maybe we can talk to your person to get our next election stream featured.
There you go.
That's it.
Everything is far worse content.
No, to be honest, you should not have been honest, sweetheart.
No, you should not have been honest.
She just got done.
It was our first stream ever, something political, and YouTube streams on the homepage, our election livestream.
It has like a million plagues or something.
Our presidential debates, half a million, half a million, 700,000.
So we had been doing it without the aid of YouTube, and they decided to feature her.
And I feel like there were people in the back of the room going, damn it.
And after that, they kind of were more forthcoming about, okay, yeah, some stuff's been going on.
There definitely came a break there and where there was some acknowledgement, some hand wringing in a positive way to say, maybe you guys guessed this is why you're here.
Maybe you didn't know that initially, but we're trying to mend fences.
And there were a couple conservative people who worked there at YouTube, to be fair.
That's true.
And some people who were more left, and I got the sense there were some people there who were kind of left who worked at YouTube, but they're not as far left as the people who really wanted to change the policy and ban everything as hate speech.
You told me, actually, we didn't talk since then.
You said they've actually changed their controversial subject to their policy.
So some of the language that was very subjective, some of the very broad language about things that are offensive or not, have been dialed back.
And they've actually provided more detail about their policies.
So over the last couple of months, we were told by some higher-up folks at YouTube that that change was going to happen in response to some of the complaints, some of the things that we had been saying on the show and otherwise.
And it looks like that's coming to fruition, which would tend to support YouTube's position that they want to be a more neutral platform, even when they're getting hit by...
What's crazy to me is if they want to talk about making more money, YouTube's not profitable.
And I spoke with someone there, and I don't think Jared was with me, but you can see the lights go on.
I said, listen, you have every different creamer known to man here.
Every different espresso bean, every single origin tea leaf.
Did you open the milk thing?
Yeah.
The milk container for their coffee?
It was almond milk, cashew milk, organic everything.
Yeah.
Milk side there.
It was exactly what you'd expect YouTube Google to be.
And at one point I went to go to the bathroom and it's like everything was clear, like sleeper.
And there's these clear doors and I can see the bathroom symbol.
And so I go to open it and this lady stops me like right in the chest.
She looks at me and she goes, ho!
You don't have a badge.
Like, I was Himmler.
I mean, she was so unbelievably offended.
We were rallied in this back room.
So we were kind of rallied as cattle back there for a bit.
We were a little bit afraid.
But I do think, having watched it now, I spoke with someone there.
I said, listen, if you want to make money...
It's not a sponsorship problem, but my channel, you're watching this right now, you'll probably see an ad for Muslim Singles, or Gay Cruises, or Bernie Sanders.
And I'll see ads for the NRA, or I'll see ads for the USCCA, or some more conservative causes, but they just don't run on my channel.
I'm saying, you've spent this whole day trying to impress us with all your algorithms, all your software, all the tech that you have.
All your young turks.
All your young turks.
And you can't get rid of the Muslim singles ads on my channel, the hijab.
That would be pennies on the dollar for us, which we've seen.
But here's the thing.
For every subject that they think is controversial, you know, as a lawyer, there are advertisers who will pay that much more to be involved with that.
In other words, if YouTube's saying, well, Second Amendment stuff is very controversial...
Any gun manufacturer, any firearm manufacturer, any ammo company would pay extra to get in front of that audience.
They would.
I don't know what YouTube's thinking.
That's where you go, is it ideological, or do you think they're in such a bubble there?
And I felt like this.
Some of them were in such a bubble.
We have to allow.
You don't want a tribute motive.
I think they maybe just missed it.
And that might be it.
In a big organization, you kind of think about the echo chamber that we've seen a lot of on both sides, but particularly on the left.
And then you figure where are these people based, where are the company, where are the voices coming from that are influencing their decisions?
And it's perhaps no surprise that they have a blind spot as to how conservative voices are being treated on their platform.
Yeah.
Also, one of their lawyers was Asian, so it seemed like you two had that kind of going on.
We did.
We did.
We actually secretly made fun of every white person in the room and knew that you'd all be speaking some type of Asian language within the decade.
Yes, some type of Asian language.
Probably not Okinawan.
Is Okinawan a language or do they just speak Japanese?
Is there a language?
An Okinawan language?
They just speak winning.
They just speak winning?
That's how we do it.
Well, when it comes to karate tournaments and training up young Italians.
Okay, so the Outlook, YouTube, we would all say positive.
Yes.
Positive.
Facebook, still crap.
Still crap.
Facebook, still crap.
And we still have some cards up our sleeve with the Facebook, right?
We do.
We do.
We have some interesting things in the works.
Yeah, we do.
For people who don't know, the Facebook, we were named as the page to throttle along Ted Cruz for President and the Chris Kyle Foundation.
And we worked most of it out, but there have been some shenanigans.
Some things that raise eyebrows and wonder if things are actually changing.
Now again, big organization.
Maybe the left doesn't know what the right hand's doing, but given that they've been on notice, it's a wonder how these things continue to happen.
Especially since they just got a guy, they helped get a guy sentenced to death in Pakistan.
They send their investigative...
How did you think it was going to go?
That's my question.
Pakistan said, like, we need help to find out people who are abusing the platform.
And Facebook said, yeah, we're going to send an investigative assistant to the government of Pakistan.
How did they get Eddie Haskell'd with that?
I don't know.
How did they get fooled?
I don't think they got fooled.
Am I completely off?
Does that play into some safe harbor issues that are going on with some of these companies?
Is that why they conceded to trying to help out?
No, that was a politically correct kind of virtue signaling.
We're going to help people in the Middle East and remove blasphemy from Facebook.
I just don't think...
I don't think they're well-versed enough in the Quran to understand or actually understand that Islamic countries are hellholes.
They are absolute crap holes where human rights don't exist.
I don't think if you told Zuckerberg, like, actually, women can't drive in Saudi Arabia.
I think Mark Zuckerberg is a genius when it comes to tech.
I bet you he doesn't know that law.
I bet you he doesn't know that there are blasphemy laws where you die in Pakistan.
So I bet you when he made that executive decision to send someone over to Pakistan, which sent chills down my spine, genuinely, where he said, yeah, we'll send someone over to help you guys with the blaspheming.
I think Mark Zuckerberg thought, like, oh yeah, they're going to hold hands and have a meeting.
I don't think he knew that they were going to slit his throat.
You don't think Pakistan was trying to hold Facebook accountable for those things?
No, no, I think Facebook was just trying to play ball.
That makes sense.
I'm not surprised either way.
I just, legitimate question.
It's like we said, it's the oppression Olympics.
It's who's the most oppressed class of that day.
I think some terrorist attacks went on.
They had some bad PR, so Facebook said, oh, don't worry, we'll take care of you, just like Germany with the migrant rape.
Okay, Bill, so this is a good lesson, I think, on people, what YouTube did.
Bring people out.
They should have had the conversation a little earlier on the outset, but once we did, it was productive, and you're going to be back to keep the audience posted?
Absolutely.
What do you expect to happen?
I expect more conversations.
That's such a generic answer.
What do you think about that?
I don't know what he's talking about.
I do know that the guy can drink.
He can't.
Holy crap.
He can drink and the guy can act.
Oh, we talked about that.
By the way, if you want good service in New York City, we talked about this yesterday, but it was for the superfans behind the paywall, just act gay.
They did not like you at the speakeas where we went to.
They hated Jared from the outset.
And then when Bill and Jared said they were just recently married in Vermont and looking for places to take cool wedding pictures but not super touristy, they couldn't serve you quickly enough?
They took a drink off the bill?
They did.
They brought in a friend to come tell us better wedding places.
That's true!
They did bring in a friend!
And she was Asian!
Which I think was pretty presumptuous.
Yeah, it was.
She was very awkward.
Exceedingly awkward.
She was like, oh, well, if you're, um, uh, are you in Brooklyn?
Oh, you're, well, you're in Chelsea.
There's a great park.
And we're just like, sweetheart, sweetheart, it's okay.
No one has a secret GoPro.
It's cool.
It's cool.
You're good.
You're good.
I do notice Asians treat each other very differently.
It's like there's a secret handshake, like they're completing the Christian fish.
All right.
Bill Richmond, my half-Asian.
Where am I? Why are we talking here?
Big shot?
All right.
Keep him in there.
My half-Asian lawyer.
PCRfirm.com.
Really great people.
And I will tell you this about the law firm where he works.
This is not an infomercial.
He had last minute.
He said, yeah, you can plug my firm.
He looks at risk as a sliding scale, which we need with our brand.
Any lawyer can say no.
He finds solutions.
Thank you very much, sir.
Have you back soon.
Glad to be here.
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Of course, the authentic Vans sneakers that you see in old Bavarian.
You know, Bavarian music sounds a lot like Mexican.
Was that Bavarian?
Are you sure that was?
I promise it was.
It sounds a lot like a mariachi band.
I thought that was polka, what I just heard.
No, that was traditional German, beautiful music from the Germans.
It was beautiful music from a keyboard somewhere in Schenectady.
It's funny because they have a lot in common with the Mexicans.
The Mexicans can't stop hopping the border and the Germans can't stop letting them all in.
It's true.
Also, lots of crime.
Lots of crime.
The Mexicans commit the crimes.
The Germans are the victims of the crimes.
They just keep allowing it.
They just keep allowing it to happen.
Sorry, Sven Computer.
Beep, boop, boop.
Really, thanks so much to Mark Levin for being on the show.
Glad to have him.
Thanks so much to Bill Richman.
Hey, to go back to that, and next week we have a great week, and then we're off for the first week ever since the inception of this show.
Well, certainly since this show, but I think since you and I have been in the den.
I don't think we've ever taken a week off.
This is a first.
Yeah, it's a first.
It's going to be the fourth.
We'll have a couple of videos for you on the YouTube channel, probably up on CRTV. But 4th of July, my 30th birthday, actually.
You're so old.
I know, I feel so old.
So, big one.
Big one, I have a big anniversary coming up.
So I will not be here the week after next.
And you can send your hate tweets.
Hopper's filling in, though.
Hopper's filling in.
Yeah.
Let's look at it.
Pretty much just mauls the camera.
That's it.
That's it.
The camera's just going to be chewed down to a saliva snub.
I don't even know if saliva is a word.
Let me go back to the YouTube thing.
We had bits that we rewrote.
For today.
We had literally Hitler and the YouTubin.
And the reason we didn't was because we were asked by some people at YouTube, they said, listen, give us some time here.
We really are trying to work on this.
And let me tell you what, we've talked about this, we preach it, even though we're really frustrated because everyone makes their living.
We're...
We're fortunate enough to have Mug Club, and how many of you have joined, and CRTV, so we're not entirely dependent on YouTube.
If we didn't, if people out there didn't join at Mug Club, 69 for students, we wouldn't be able to do this.
This would be gone, this show would be gone, it wouldn't exist.
So if you really do like the show, if you like the free content, you have to join if you want to stick around.
But they did say, so we would be really in a bad space if YouTube had continued down this path, but they said, we get it, and just give us some time.
So we are going to give them some time, but let me tell you something.
A lot of conservatives there, and Ben Shapiro will tell you this because people were there who were friends with Ben Shapiro.
I've never felt so alone as when I'm in a room often with conservatives.
I used to think I was in college, but you expect it.
You expect to be surrounded by liberals.
You expect it when I was in the entertainment industry.
But once I got around conservatives or college Republicans or I would speak at functions, I felt more alone.
Because I have people come up who say, you know what you need to do, so you need to joke less and be more serious about, or they would be afraid to discuss something that was controversial or offensive.
We actually had that.
We had a guy behind me after they opened it up to Q&A. When I asked a question, and then I'll explain the question, he said, yes, I have a less salacious question.
Remember that?
So what was my question?
Well, again, I don't want to throw YouTube under the bus.
I think they're going to do well.
This was a lawyer there who didn't officially work with YouTube, had worked with Viacom.
She was talking about copyright, and she was saying, you know, when you're criticizing something, when you're using a clip from something, first off, they always just say, the safe bet is just don't do it.
As all good lawyers say, which is why we love ours.
Do makeup tutorials instead.
Or at one point they said, make sure your parody is really complimentary.
Yeah, that works for us.
She was like, this parody of Girls did okay because it was SNL and it was really complimentary.
And I said, yeah, what if we're not SNL and we hate the show Girls?
Yeah.
Cricket.
I guess you're kind of out of luck.
Cricket.
But this was the question.
She was talking about criticism and fair use.
And this is a big thing on YouTube out there.
And I will say, people who are heads of legal policy at YouTube seem to get it.
And Bill Richman is going to be working in D.C. on our behalf, fighting for online safe harbors and freedom of speech.
My question was this.
I said, OK, when you're talking about criticisms, you said don't take clips that are truly the heart of the original clip.
And I said this in a room full of YouTube executives and this lady, and I said, well, for example, two days ago, YouTube featured a video from BuzzFeed Ladylike where they painted with their period blood.
So, considering I don't really understand the controversial guidelines, which we'll get to in a moment, I don't know where painting with your period blood lines up, but since I would want to address the heart of this video, namely criticize this post-modernist art of them painting in their period blood...
Would that be considered fair use?
Because I am taking the heart of the issue.
Their whole video centered around them painting with their period blood.
Where would that line up if I wanted to issue a criticism of them painting with their period blood, which YouTube featured?
And this is where you could hear some conservatives there go, Now, I don't want to talk about painting with period blood.
Here's why that was important.
And Jared was there with me.
It was important for everyone at YouTube and all these lawyers and people who wanted to sit us down and give us nice muffins and people who wanted a free trip to New York.
Now, if we weren't going to get our questions answered, it was going to be a waste of time and that's not why we flew halfway across the country.
I wanted everyone there who took part in featuring this content to To hear exactly what it is.
Just like the ultrasound with an abortion.
Truth tends to revolt the left.
I bet you people who featured it didn't watch women painting with their period blood.
I don't know anyone who's made it through that entire video.
It was featured on YouTube.
Millions of plays.
It's not getting that on its own.
It's because of the support that has come from social media, from people at the top.
And that's after that, you know, the guy said, well, I have a less salacious question.
Yeah.
And I thought that every conservative there would go, yeah, yeah, hey, isn't this ridiculous?
We're releasing PragerU videos, or we're sitting here dressed in Bavarian Germany lederhosen.
This is more controversial than women, who are the most profane, disgusting human beings and everything, painting with their menstruation.
It was important to contrast that.
And sometimes that's what this program is.
If it seems like it's a blunt force trauma, that's by design.
Sometimes you just have to bring the truth to the forefront.
And I think we tiptoe around it, and that's the difference between content and context.
If you look at what we do, it's very rare that contextually we're just going, let's just talk about, period, let's just be disgusting.
This is the world we live in.
And it's a world that the left digitally has created.
And Christians and conservatives and libertarians and think tank activists and the pseudo-intellectuals, they miss it.
And they lose because of that.
And I know a lot of you out there, you know, the muckrakers online at YouTube...
You get it.
And that's what's changing.
Only when that has changed, and we've seen that on YouTube, only when, I don't want to say trolling, and you don't need to go and post racist memes.
That would be problematic.
That would be problematic.
That was another thing.
We sat there, and they used the word problematic at YouTube so many times.
That hint of irony.
And then you and I laughed out loud.
We did.
And then everyone else was laughing that we were laughing.
You know, because most people in the room, conservatives, who are out there championing your freedom of speech, I'm not throwing anyone specifically under the bus, there were some good people there, but they zip.
You know what you need to do when someone says problematic or someone says trigger warning or safe space or microaggression in a sentence?
Seriously?
Like Robert De Niro at the theater in Cape Fear.
That's what you need to do.
So they go, why are you laughing?
And you explain to them why.
And that's what happened at YouTube.
And that's what the second half of the day was entirely different because we openly said, listen, this is a waste of time.
We are all right wing here.
And everyone is terrified that you're going to remove us, that you're going to try and silence the voices, that you're going to remove our sponsorships, that you're going to flag us as hate speech.
And you're sitting here showing us your cool studios.
And again, some people there by the end were fantastic.
So my bone to pick is not with people at YouTube, but I hate that us, the silly comedians with a show like this, went in among people with far greater intellectual power than us.
And we had to pave that way for people to speak boldly.
That's true.
And you notice there's a couple people there who were emboldened by us just dropping the pears on the floor and letting them speak like, oh yeah, that is why we're all here, isn't it?
There's a lot of bull crap going on.
There were obviously the PragerU guys, all of them at Daily Wire.
There were some cool people from American Enterprise Institute.
And if I'm missing people, don't send me an angry email.
But there were some people out there who were clearly upset.
Remember when one person said, what's the not gay thing?
What's that about?
And I was a total jackass.
It was at that point where I said...
Oh, by the way, yeah.
You wore your Not Gay t-shirt around the...
Yes, I wore my Not Gay t-shirt to Google.
Yeah.
And I just...
Do you remember what I answered?
I don't remember, actually.
And I said, yeah, it's a humor thing.
It's not going to be explained.
The fact that someone would ask a conservative a hint of irony with some mild offense at the not gay Jared theme.
So this is just something that you need to know.
It's not always the left who's behaving so poorly behind closed doors.
Some people at YouTube have, but there's some people that are really trying to make corrections and we will keep you posted.
Sometimes it's that they're so far off the beam and none of the people who should be representing you or your voice Even try to step him back in line.
And just think about that with your elected officials and representatives and people in media.
You would be amazed.
You think there's someone at the tiller of the ship?
You're going, well, there's someone who knows more than I. There's someone who can go in on my behalf.
Often there isn't.
And they don't.
So if you think someone's at the tiller of the ship, but you're not getting the results that you want, guess what?
Grab the tiller of the ship.
Get there and take it on yourself.
That is one thing that I will say.
I want to see everyone else out there doing it far more than we are.
Because you're probably, if you're watching this broadcast, you're likely more equipped.
That's the litmus test.
Are you watching?
Are you not us?
You're probably better at doing it than us.
Certainly us going in with a Socialisms for Figs shirt.
If you think someone else is in charge and advocating for you on your behalf, they probably aren't.
Go in, do it for yourself, and then guess what?
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