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Sept. 27, 2019 - Louder with Crowder
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#553 NEW YOUTUBE BLACKLIST UNVEILED! | Louder with Crowder
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Hey there, YouTube.
Before we move on with the show, I do ask that you bookmark this page because search results notifications aren't necessarily working, and we'll talk about that a little bit later on in the program.
But before that, I want to announce formally that our Halloween Spooktacular live show this year will be taking place at Texas A&M on Halloween, October 31st.
Go to louderwithcrowder.com slash tour to reserve your tickets now.
Space is limited, but we do have a huge overflow room.
There's going to be an after party October 31st.
Texas A&M.
It's gonna be a party.
See you there.
Three billion videos were demonetized on August 29th, 2016.
The platform that controlled the machines, YouTube Net, sent two computers back through time.
Their mission was to destroy the Mug Club of the Free Speech Resistance,
and to watch late-night comedy die a slow, painful death.
The first computer was programmed to separate this channel from its subscribers,
even disabling notifications.
It failed.
The second was sent to ban an event at Texas A&M on October 31st.
As before, the Free Speech Resistance was able to send a lone warrior, an entertainer to preserve the event, a protector.
It was just a question of which one would arrive first.
Come with me if you want to laugh.
You're a stranger in my life.
It is a wild and crazy show, I would say, if we only put in mediocre effort into our comedy.
Have you ever actually watched that sketch?
Too wild and crazy?
Guys, it's not funny.
No.
Outside of that quote, part of it, that's it.
Back in the heyday of SNL, it was this, it was Steve Martin going, they'll show us their big American breasts.
I was like, oh!
Steve Martin, you're incorrigible.
We're going to have Paul Joseph Watson on the show.
My half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here with us today.
Some legal updates that we have for you with YouTube.
Corda Black Garrett is there.
I'm winded from doing this.
I appreciate the performative art.
G. Morgan Jr., what's the wine of the day?
Because he didn't do his work either.
Where's Gerald B.?
He puts as much effort into his sommeliering as Dan Aykroyd did into comedy.
It was a late night last night.
We're going to talk about quite a bit.
We're going to talk about Donald Trump, the Ukraine, Greta.
More importantly, we do have some updates.
You saw the video yesterday regarding YouTube and how they've been screwing with not only our channel, but seriously seeming to try and sway the election.
I am winded.
I know.
It takes a second.
You know why?
Because I wasn't breathing.
Why would you not breathe?
I need to do the Kundalini Yoga.
Do we need to fat shame you again?
They do this, like Hicks and Gracie.
You're making it worse.
So my question of the day, have you guys noticed YouTube censoring not only our search results, but conservative content across the board, making it harder to access?
Listen, you guys are our data gatherers, so please screenshot it.
Tweet me your examples at scrowder or comment below.
We had a lot yesterday.
I think over 15,000 comments in 10 hours.
And tweet with the hashtag YouTube 2020 election blacklist because we have some developments and guess what?
It works!
All of the information.
Some guy named Brendan from YouTube reached out.
We have no idea who he is, but we have a lot of news to get to before those developments.
So first, twerk if you want to save the planet.
Oh, Jesus.
That man actually, I believe, run.
That Ari Shaffir twerk-a-like.
Run.
He's part of a non-profit that people are giving money to, thinking that it's actually accomplishing something.
I sincerely thought that was **** the first time that I saw that.
Don't use that name, beautiful and brave!
I did it!
How dare you?
It looks like him.
The truth is, it's actually a very effective bargaining tool.
Porter Black, Garrett, knows this better than anybody.
For him, every day is free and code day.
♪♪ The owner just goes,
All right!
Enough.
No waffle cones.
That's where I draw the line.
And then he just strips.
And he gets a waffle cone.
Every time.
Every time.
They bring the jugs out.
I mean, all the ice cream you could eat.
The big story this week, though, aside from the twerking, is a climate activist, Greta.
Greta Thunberg.
How ever you say it, someone says it's Thunberg.
That's how you do it.
Yeah.
Greta Swedish Chef-berg.
Shaggy beardy beardy gloomy worming piercing curtain climate changing.
Yeah.
She was telling global leaders, of course, that, quote, we will never forgive them for... Medina, you've seen the clip.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
How dare you?
Oh, my God.
Steven Murch has a toad on him.
That's as tough as we get on Greta, because I don't want this to be banned.
She is also brave and beautiful.
Though it should be noted, actually, her speech, despite what the media has tried to sell you, wasn't met with glowing praise across the board, with many people criticizing the young Swede's creative decision, I guess you would say, to bring her own hype man.
Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.
How dare you?
It's your birthday!
It's your birthday Mad respect for that.
I didn't know about the Hype Man until I opened up for Bruce Bruce.
Anyone out there know Bruce Bruce?
He's like a 400 pound black comedian.
Really funny.
It was at an improv.
I won a MySpace So You Think You're Funny contest.
It's a national contest and I won this contest and the prize was to open for Bruce Bruce at a theater in Tampa but I had to pay my way.
Oh my god.
And I didn't have any money.
What a prize.
So then when they were in my town, they said, oh, you know what, we'll have you go up and open for them for the whole weekend.
It was Black Boy, I believe, Two Eyes.
Oh, nice.
Right.
Bruce, Bruce, and me!
Steve, Steve.
And usually, you've done stand-up, half-face endorsements, so usually, you know, you introduce someone, you're the emcee, you introduce them, and maybe a little music plays, they come on out.
Well, I remember going, okay, thank you, give it up for Black Boy, Two Eyes.
So now, please welcome your headliner, Bruce Bruce!
And it goes dark.
Picture, like, the UFC in a stadium.
Right.
Like, who wants to be a millionaire?
It goes dark.
And I'm sitting there, Bruce, Bruce, everybody!
The music starts playing.
Bruce, Bruce, everybody!
The curtains open up at the back of the room.
This 400-pound black guy, hilarious, starts walking down, surrounded by an entourage like it's the Gracie Train.
And I was just up there for about two minutes.
Bruce, Bruce, let him know you love him.
Bruce, look at, hey, hey Bruce.
And there was a guy rubbing his shoulders like, you're the best man, no one can touch you.
I'm like, get to the stage, please.
So talking about Greta, I don't know if you saw Michael Knowles got into a lot of trouble for saying
that parents are exploiting a mentally ill child is what he said.
And that's what caught all his flack.
Listen, Michael Knowles, he's going to be on the show.
You have nothing to apologize for.
And I say this as someone who has struggled with mental illness.
I've talked about this.
Depression, ADHD, it is not offensive at all.
It shouldn't be offensive.
And the idea that naming something that this person has pointed out, Greta herself and her mother, talking about autism, talking about depression, talking about OCD, I really do think we've reached a point here where we're using children as human shields.
And keep in mind, Greta is the exact same age.
as the Covington kids.
Was it Nick Salmon?
Yeah, exactly.
Here's the big difference.
People tried to say that he was a dick.
He didn't do anything wrong.
Nothing, the Covington kids.
They were thrust into the spotlight, those Covington kids, because someone pulled up their phone and sent it to media out of context where it destroyed their lives.
They were unwilling participants.
This girl has chosen to be a climate activist, so I think she is open to criticism.
Of her ideas.
And you know what?
You can't say ad hominem is okay for Donald Trump, ad hominem is okay for those boys, but not for her.
We're not going to do it here.
Stephen Merchant is positively mild.
That's all we're going to do, right?
It's political point scoring.
No, it is.
And you know one thing, two just very things that stood out to me on that is, I'm sorry, which side of it is deciding that we need to lower the voting age in order to get more younger and preferable voters?
I'm not quite sure, but we shouldn't criticize those folks because they should be voting, but unable to withstand any criticism about their ideas.
How dare you!
How dare you!
It's your country whose emissions have stolen my dreams to drive Kia!
Yeah, but not China or India though.
So, but here's the other point, though, is remember the discussion about mental illness.
The definition on the left has become even broader.
Anything to become a mental illness is out of bounds for attack, out of bounds for discussion, out of bounds for pushing back on it.
If you say you have something, you have it.
No matter what, no question, and everyone needs a kowtow, as opposed to actually evaluating whether or not this is scientifically based.
That's why they put her out there.
And then they say, we need to deal with the mental health problem in our country.
Okay, by the way, no one with mental health issues should own a gun.
Do you think that's going to stigmatize it more?
Or less.
Option C is you're a dick.
Let me just say something in Michael's defense.
Michael wasn't saying, ha, we shouldn't listen to her because she's mentally ill.
That's not what he said.
He's saying people are using her, they're using a mentally ill person, and that's not right.
That was his point.
The only reason that this blew up is because the idiot clown head on the other side said, you're a grown man, skinny.
Why don't you stop it?
Why don't you apologize?
He's like, he doesn't have anything to apologize for.
Fox, by the way, You screwed up!
You shouldn't have apologized!
Ridiculous.
The other big story, of course, Nancy Pelosi finally spoke the words.
Impeachment.
No one is above the law.
Did I hear?
Above or below it.
Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit ribbit!
Oh, ah!
What was he punching me?
Was it like a jelly sandwich?
A peanut butter jelly sandwich on his chest?
I have no idea.
This is a Trump-the-Ukraine story.
People have been wanting us to talk about it.
Here's the deal.
We don't know enough to offer you an informed opinion.
I know when you tune in to cable news, they all act like they have the insights.
No one really does.
But I will walk you through what we know so far because it's hard.
So Brendan, come in here.
You guys are familiar with Brendan from last week.
Let me walk you through what we know so far.
So let me walk you through what we know so far, the timeline.
Okay, yeah.
Bring in some visual aids.
Come on in a little bit closer here.
So step one, Joe Biden's son was receiving $50,000 a month from a UK gas company.
That's a lot of money.
That's a lot of money.
Visual aids, spared no expense.
That's a lot of money.
Okay.
After that, the company was, next slide, getting investigated.
There's the company.
There you go.
Very good, Brendan.
You had no reason to be nervous.
I'm not going to do that because I'm looking at the monitor and going, is that blind you?
I don't know.
Okay.
He needs his eyes.
Please don't do that.
Next slide.
Joe Biden withholds money from the Ukraine unless the prosecutor is fired.
Next slide.
Next slide.
There you go.
This is just a visual aid because it helps as a memory chip.
So the X is no money.
Yeah, no money.
Next slide.
And by the way, unless the prosecutor was fired, which the prosecutor was.
Next slide.
Next slide there, Brendan.
Next slide!
You guys, these aren't slides.
This guy was fired.
That one is just really, I guess, a palate cleanser.
I don't know why that's there.
Yeah.
Next point in the timeline, go ahead.
Donald Trump gets elected, as we all know, making America great again in the process.
Next slide.
Very nice, yes.
Then, as president, Donald Trump asks the Ukraine, hey, what's up with Joe Biden?
Right.
Just asking some questions, like Jesse Fincher.
What's going on?
I'm just asking questions.
Only sits in the Oval Office.
Next slide.
He allegedly alludes to withholding money from the Ukraine until he finds out what's up with
Biden.
Next slide.
After that, Democrats, as you can see, call for impeachment.
Then what happened yesterday, next slide, Donald Trump calls her bluff.
He releases the full transcript from the phone call, holds a press conference, revealing
yet again that there is no collusion.
By the way, Donald Trump also raised $5 million in 24 hours for Trump 2020, which leads to next slide.
AOC, as you can see, is hanging herself.
That's too bad.
She looks happy.
I believe those are gallows, just to clarify.
I don't know what gallows are necessarily, but I assume that signifies it.
Similarly, Nancy Pelosi throws herself in front of a moving house.
So that's what we have there.
So that's what we know in a nutshell.
Thank you very much, Brendan.
You're wonderful.
Good job.
Appreciate it.
Thank you for signing that waiver, uh, last week.
That's what we know.
We don't know a whole bunch else at this point.
No.
I don't think he's going to be, I think they may try and impeach him, but I don't think he's going to be.
I think they're going to try, but they, they basically came out, I think it was, uh, Schumer came out or Schumer, sorry, uh, came out yesterday and said, uh, yeah, it's all, it's not just... Are you still in Swedish chef mode?
A little bit.
We're going to, we're going to try and impeach... Son of a...
We're going to try and impeach him because of this phone call.
And then he's like, oh no, there's much more information than the phone call.
This transcript really doesn't cover everything that we were going to impeach him for.
We're going to still impeach him.
You know, like he's freaking out over there.
I am.
What do you think?
I love how they didn't have it before and now they're trying to move on to the next thing.
And the next thing is nothing again.
It's at the very least consistent.
When I read what's available right now at the time of this filming, I'm going, I assume this happens all the time.
Listen, you did some screwed up stuff, okay?
You had these no-bid contracts.
We've been very good to you.
Could you do the right thing?
That's pretty much what it is.
Exactly!
Why do they care if he gets to the bottom of something that could be illegal?
Like, Joe Biden's son didn't make it in the Navy, had a cocaine habit, had zero resume to speak of, and got a $600,000 a year job, and there was no hope that daddy would help?
You no say Ukraine is weak, you are weak!
Moving on, it appears, name that TV show reference, CBD infused tampons now are a thing.
Well, Day is a female-owned and lead, because that's important.
When I shop, as opposed to looking at lab results, contaminations, I want to know it's lead by women.
Or product satisfaction ratings, you know.
When it comes to consumables, I say, is there a vagina involved in this?
Because that's...
That's what I look for.
So CBD infused cotton tampons.
100% cotton tampons infused with CBD.
And this is not new.
This comes in the heels of similar hygiene products, actually, that have entered the market.
I think they had hemp infused sanitary napkins.
Midol had a new line of edibles.
And then there was the ill-fated THC-laden Depends, which sounds... Yeah, that explains... Doesn't seem laden should be a marketing term.
No.
I don't know who was there.
I blame Frank Luntz.
Now, does Leighton make you want to use your product more or less?
More or less.
Let me adjust the toupee.
Damn you, Luntz.
Leighton sounds like a lot, so yes.
Does anyone have my mid-90s Jerry Seinfeld sneakers?
Still on Frank Luntz.
Speaking of things down there in tampons, the world's very first vagina museum is going to open in London in November.
Oh, I thought that was Pelosi's house.
You're confused.
She's under the house.
It's a museum, I assumed, old and crotchety and cobweb.
I understand what you're saying.
You don't need to explain.
This won't make air, except it will.
Dang it.
The aim is to educate visitors on vaginas and everything surrounding them.
I don't know.
It says that they're looking to challenge, quote, heteronormative behavior, promote intersectional values,
and they've commissioned artwork from some of the best vaginal artists in the world, as seen here.
If you don't get that movie reference, you're a millennial and I have no time for you.
It's a beautiful movie.
Oh my gosh, what is the stigma surrounding... That's the sound of copyright infringement, go ahead.
No, no, you're totally fine.
What's the stigma?
What's the stigma surrounding vaginas?
That they're too beloved.
What is there to push back against?
Like men don't like them?
The only people who don't like them are gay men.
That's true, but she actually said the reason that she started this was there was a museum for penises in Iceland and she thought, well there's no museum for vaginas.
Yeah, and they raised 50,000 pounds for this.
You've got to be kidding me.
I do find it interesting that, like, if one individual or a small group of people decides to do something which is kind of weird, which is to say, oh, we should have a penis museum and the penis is the best in the whole world and better than everything else, and somehow it then becomes... I don't think that was an oppressor, but... No, no, no.
But that's, like, the way that it's been twisted, and some of the folks who are commenting on the penis museum, it then becomes, well, every man who has a penis is now... and woman that has a penis...
Has decided that now it's an attack on vaginas when it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah.
I mean, what is the most unifying thing?
Meniscus do attack vaginas.
Yes, but strategically, when are the gay men going to have, like, an a** museum?
When's it going to stop?
Why would you go there?
I'm just saying that's the next step and you know it.
I will not sign your petition.
Get another wine bottle.
Do your job.
Listen, I'm just telling you.
You will not sign that petition.
It will not end at vaginas.
I'm Miss Gerald B. In entertainment news, RuPaul was called out for, in case you didn't want to swallow a knife yet, a lack of diversity in the show RuPaul's Drag Race following the Emmys.
This comes from Pink News because of the stigmatizing vaginas.
A reporter said she was caught off guard to see so many white men behind the star in the press room.
Proving that if nothing else, both gay and straight black men have one thing in common, their love of white ass.
I am surprised at Ari Shafir's twerking capabilities.
Yeah, he's limber.
So, by the way, the drag superstar, of course, with Cancel Culture, the drag queen superstar, RuPaul, took the criticism to heart, pledged to increase diversity by adding both, I think it was Asian, handicapped drag queens to the show, along with, you know, a surprising pledge to include more intellectual diversity.
So that, you know, yeah.
Oh my god.
Wow.
Hormone blocker, don't care about your feelings.
It was just really poorly worded.
Ben is going to see that out of context and I'm going to text.
Dude, bro, what the hell?
What the hell?
What the ass?
You sandwiched me in between twerking and Hitler?
By the way, that's foreshadowing, because that's our next bit.
That's a call forward.
So finally, someone paid nearly $5,000 for panties belonging to former Mrs. Hitler, Eva Braun.
which are most important.
Huh?
Someone paid nearly $5,000 for panties belonging to former Mrs. Hitler, Eva Braun.
Huh?
That's a deal.
This comes from Brill Biolo.
There's no actual proof that the underwear was previously owned by Hitler's wife, only the auction house's word.
The smell.
And before we had this actually initially as a story in the show, but then it just changed today.
The initial reports were proven false.
The auction was actually just a pair of Hitler's tights from his community theater days.
Alas, poor Jeschitzko, a fellow of infinite yule, he hath whined of my moustache one thousand times.
And now, how bored my final solution is!
Here hung those lips that I have kissed.
I know not how soft.
Where be your diamonds now?
Your jugold, your gefilte fish, that you won't let me be the one who sits on the seat for...
Real velocity.
He was a man of many skills, I guess you would say.
Not a fan of his geopolitical worldview.
That wasn't the worst soliloquy.
It was bad, but it wasn't the worst.
political world view.
No.
Yeah.
No.
Only his hobbies.
That wasn't the worst soliloquy.
It wasn't the worst.
I've seen worse.
It was bad, but it wasn't the worst.
Take that Benedict Cumberbatch.
Imitation game that.
Alright, last week's trivia contest winner, was that Benedict Cumberbatch?
Cumberbatch?
Cumber Okay, so moving on to YouTube here really quickly.
And by the way, before we talk about any of this, please do just bookmark this page.
Check in every day.
We do a new video every single day.
Just check in every night if you're not a member of Mug Club because a lot of these changes are making it harder for us to reach you, the subscribers, to reach you, people who have already chosen to watch this content.
So we've uncovered some new alarming information about the YouTube policy changes over the last few weeks.
And we knew that leading up to the 2020 election, Big Tech, they were going to try and sway things for Democrats.
This comes from leaked videos, memos, whistleblowers.
They all showed us that Silicon Valley was devastated by Trump's win, and they were openly determined to not let it happen again.
I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too.
That's too bad.
And I think it's a very stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values.
What they're really saying about fairness is that they have to manipulate their search results so that it gives them their political agenda that they want.
Then she ran over a school of small children.
How is, by the way, a Democratic election offensive?
When Barack Obama was elected, people were like, OK, well it's not my guy.
But I wasn't like, that is offensive!
It doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he didn't walk up.
He didn't try to pork my mom.
Oh, he didn't.
Are you sure?
I have no idea.
Maybe the twerking guy.
That's just a rumor!
That's just a rumor and I don't, it's a joke, I don't stand by it at all.
I know he's completely straight, along with Brian Stelter.
And back during the Vox Apocalypse days, we talked about, we warned that YouTube would be seeking censorship, not just demonetization or banning, which everyone can see, but more pervasive, less noticeable ways.
About bringing awareness, or at least if you're not already aware, you need to make yourself aware, and then bringing as much awareness as possible, as you can to as many people as possible, to the most subversive form of censorship, the invisible censorship that occurs.
It's just muffled so that it can essentially cut your views in half, or down to ten.
It's an invisible rule, invisible punishment of that rule.
I think we're going to see more of this kind of censorship, because it goes unnoticed, therefore it has less possibility of bad publicity for YouTube.
So I just tossed to a clip of myself.
It's like the inception of low budget late nights.
And I really do realize how low budget it is when I see that horrible costume.
And then I see that Lilly Singh makes more in her salary than our entire budget with a fraction of the viewership.
But she's brown and bi, so good for you, beautiful and brave.
I just wish you'd get an open mic first.
So, couple of points here.
Just a little bit.
This is hard because people who don't necessarily work in the industry often hear the cries from conservatives, and we've talked about this half-Asian bill, they're often overblown.
You can't just talk about what you want YouTube to be.
You need to hold their feet to the fire of what they claim YouTube is.
YouTube, they've said that they are going to make it easier for people to find content from verified channels.
That was the most recent rollout.
They've done the exact opposite.
This is alarming because it can happen to anyone.
This is how a normal YouTube search works.
Let's say you search for Jenna Marbles.
Her video pops up.
And these are the first results.
All the videos are from her channel.
But right now, and this may change if you're watching this, unless you have a time machine, right?
Because videos go up forever.
Right now, at the moment of this taping, if you search Steven Crowder, our channel may pop up, but we're blacklisted from the video results.
The first video result from this channel is almost 70 videos in.
That's multiple pages of results.
If you type in my name and the name of this channel, let's get a little more specific.
You can say, well, I don't know, maybe you guys suck at SEO.
Fair.
Let's say you want, and this is how we found out, because one of our researchers, Reg, was trying to tell a friend, oh yeah, if you want to watch the, just search Steven Crowder, Change My Mind, it'll pop right up.
We did a little experiment.
If you type in Steven Crowder, change my mind.
Seems pretty specific.
Yeah.
All of the first page video results are from other channels.
Not some, all of them.
With fewer views, by the way.
With fewer views.
Way fewer views.
And some of them are taking you to local CBS affiliates.
We want to hear what Schenectady had to say.
And here are a couple of students.
I don't like it.
Back to you, Bill.
It's intrepid reporting.
What's interesting about that is the idea that when you go through and do the searches,
on YouTube every day and looking through those things and monitoring them, and no matter
what you search from, no matter what browser, whether you've cleared your cookies, whether
you're on someone else's phone or their device, I've tested it on many devices and having
many people do it, and it all comes up the same.
You're going to constantly, the Crowder videos and the Shows videos are constantly going
to the bottom of the search results, anywhere from 10 to 100 before you get to an actual
Steven Crowder channel video.
And by the way, this isn't just, that's what we've talked about, the blacklist, the 2020 election results.
We want you to understand that it's about more than just us.
But that being said, and I don't ever want to sound braggadocious, I'm incredibly humbled and grateful.
This is the biggest conservative channel that's ever existed on YouTube.
And they declared that we had never violated policies.
So that's where we stand.
If the biggest conservative channel that's ever existed that never violated policies, according to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, can be throttled this way, they can do it to anyone.
What do you think they'll do to smaller channels when they think you're not looking?
By the way, we ran some other searches.
This is why we want you to aggregate more for us.
Live Action has the same thing.
Paul Joseph Watson, who will be on next, has the same problem.
Lauren Chen, Breitbart News, same issue.
What's the effect?
What's the net effect?
Our weekly views and subscribership gains have dropped dramatically.
Dramatically!
Here you can see this area.
Here's the thing, though, that's important to note.
Because I know a lot of people say, well, you're just pissed that people don't want to tune into your channel anymore.
And that's valid.
Sometimes people just get, you know, get tired.
The thing is, you are not tuning out.
You guys have still been subscribed.
You've been bookmarking the page, checking in every day.
Here's the number that matters.
All of the videos, on a per video basis, the views are still growing.
Yeah.
We have more people watching individual videos than ever before.
We're getting 10 to 20 times as many views as the Young Turks or Seth Meyers on a per video, pound for pound basis.
The only thing that's gone down are the views and organic subscriptions from search.
So, this is what's happened.
Yes, we have more people.
Our videos are averaging close to a million, which is insane considering our subscribers.
Thank you so much for being engaged.
We really appreciate it.
Bookmark the page.
But think about that for a second.
We only eat what we've already killed and gained ourselves.
We can get no new fans.
We can get no new eyeballs on our content through organic search because of the blacklisting.
They can do that if they want, but it's the opposite of what they said they were going to do.
They held a press conference to say it was going to be the opposite of this.
We're verified.
They direct people away from right and it's so and it's so obvious whenever I go and search for Steven Crowder anything I'm not looking for John in his basement commenting on a video that you did that has 56 views There's no logical reason that your stuff shouldn't come up Especially with the number of views like if we had a thousand views on our videos, which we don't okay fine Maybe it gets lost in the wash.
Maybe we're like everybody else That's not the case.
There's no explanation for it at all, other than them wanting your content not to be out there.
And we're going to get into some more kind of legal developments here with Bill.
We'll bring him into the guest chair, so he'll be more special.
Oh wow, great.
I've never been in a guest chair.
It's not whether there are rules.
And by the way, the rules aren't followed at all.
But the rules are not applied equally.
We've talked about it on this show.
It's not whether a country has rule of laws.
It's whether the rule of law is applied equally, justice is applied equally.
We've searched similar left-wing channels.
Nothing like it.
Young Turks can celebrate Dan Crenshaw's eye getting blown out and apparently eye-fucked by terrorist heroes with IEDs.
This is from ACT.
These are word-for-word from Young Turks.
I don't want them banned.
I don't want them throttled, by the way.
And when you search, you only get videos from their channel right now.
Same thing if you search other leftist late-night shows.
You only get results from their channel.
Something else.
This will affect everybody.
These changes by themselves may not seem so drastic, but when you add it all up and you go through the history that we've had with YouTube specifically, we just have more data than most people.
We want to make you aware.
It does get to be pretty sinister.
There are no more live subscriber counts.
Right?
So Susan Wojcicki, she's always saying that the company has been striving, again, not what we want from YouTube, what they claim, that they're striving for more transparency on the platform.
We try to be really transparent with our community, with our guidelines.
We do get the request for transparency and we are working to continue to be more transparent and explain why it's a violation of our policies or not.
Is it opposite day?
We're gonna have to change that clip because, to be fair, that was just her up-talking about Jeffrey Tambor's latest season.
Fair point.
What?
I love how she carefully worded there, we're working on it.
We're working on it, we're working towards it.
Nothing you can hold them to, right?
Nothing you can hold them accountable to.
Trust us.
I know though, because in case they may have forgotten and got deprioritized, you know the tens or hundreds of emails and communications we've sent saying, all we need you to do is just tell us, just kind of roughly point in the direction of what we've done wrong.
Right.
Just a general area.
Essentially what they've said is like, there's something wrong.
Well, no, they said there's nothing wrong, but some people think there is, so you can make no more money!
Well, you know, what's become interesting is the demonetization has become the trumpet, right?
Now they have said, oh, well, look, we've taken action.
Even though we went back and re-reviewed, we said there was no violation, but then everyone was really upset, so we went ahead and reinterpreted the rules so that we could do some kind of punishment.
And now, look, we've done the punishment, and that's all we've done.
But yet, behind the scenes... This is the issue, right?
This is the part.
We've been demonetized.
Please, yeah, I would say subscribe, hit the notification bell, join up at Mug Club if you want this show to not go away.
This is the only thing that we have right now.
Mug Club and a couple of sponsors every now and then.
But bookmark the page and check it every day because notifications don't always work.
Nope.
It could go away.
There's a lot that's happening behind the scenes beyond demonetization.
Borderline material?
They've never defined it.
It's an invisible rule with invisible punishment.
But YouTube, they've now made the platform even less transparent with no more live subscriber count.
Look at this.
Right now, why would they do this?
Why would they make it less transparent?
Because they want to make it more difficult to see how this blacklisting and shadowbanning is having an effect.
So they said, we want to direct people to verified channels.
We can tell you objectively they're doing the opposite.
And they've removed the ability for, not just you publicly, I think a lot of you assume that we have some tools that we don't.
We can't see whether you're subscribing.
We can't see what's happening with our subscribers, how long you're staying.
They've made it harder.
That's incredible.
So they're becoming, essentially, some of the worst propagandist machines that we've seen throughout history.
And they're doing it under the guise of, we're for you, we're for the community, we're for helping everybody out.
But this is just propaganda.
What if it was the other way around?
What if only right-wing content was going on, and that was it, and left-wing was being muted?
And here's something else that's really unnerving for me.
We don't know what it's going to be yet, but there's an incoming new harassment policy they're planning in response, by the way, to the Vox Adpocalypse.
So I'm sorry that this happened to the rest of you.
We weren't looking for the Adpocalypse.
Nope.
They drew forced blood, not me.
But...
This comes from CNBC, right?
It says, the new update comes just after Vox journalist Carlos Maza, beautiful and brave former, that's more beautiful and brave, spoke out in May about harassment he said he experienced on the platform at the hands of conservative commentator Steven Crowder.
After flip-flopping on his policy, YouTube ultimately has said days later that it would take a hard look at our harassment policies with an aim to update them.
Okay, so what constitutes harassment?
And I know, why don't you sit down with your biggest conservative channel, let us know exactly.
We just, we were reached out to by a guy named Brandon.
Brandon.
We've talked, you've spoken with Susan Wojcicki in the top brass at YouTube.
Have you ever met Brandon?
Uh, no, no, no.
I'm trying to think of a gentleman named Brandon and no, he would be yet another person who I'm sure will tell us, yes, something's happening and don't worry, we'll get you the information.
But we just don't have enough people working here and we don't have enough skill to pull the data that you're asking.
We don't have enough people to be put on the biggest controversy of the year as it relates to content guidelines on the number one conservative channel we've ever had.
So, you know, you're on the back burner.
Here's Brandon.
Well, what does he know?
Brandon, tell them.
I don't know.
I'm an intern.
What do I know?
Make it clear.
Publish the guidelines.
And we'll play ball.
Listen, if you're a publisher, you're not a private, but you're not an open platform, then make it clear what you'll publish.
We just want to understand your rules so we know how to play by them.
We can put the more controversial content, like, I don't know, criticizing anyone on the LGBTQ movement, we can put that behind Mug Club and make sure that it's just vanilla milk toast here on YouTube, but you've said you don't want that because you're an open platform.
Let us know And then we know how we can move forward, and let's find common ground.
That's what we're looking for.
And by the way, you know what?
Let's move Half-Asian Lawyer Bill Richmond.
Let's move him over here so we can talk about the legal action.
Yeah, come on.
Santoran, over.
And they're just keeping it an ever-moving target, right?
It just makes it so much easier for them to hem and haw and say, oh, we're just going to kind of go with the wind here and make it an ever-moving target so there's no actual policy.
Right.
So Half-Asian Lawyer, of course.
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For some of the inside baseball, what is it that we need to do?
What actions are we going to be taking?
Because it's reached beyond the point of just complaining.
Well, you know, what's amazing about this is that every time we think, you know, certainly this is the dumbest move that YouTube is going to make or this is the last action they're going to take behind the curtain or to, you know, take invisible action behind two Do something, especially considering the missteps from the Vox Adpocalypse, they continue to do more.
And some of the most recent things that you've seen and that we talked about just now are, you know, the changes behind the scenes that are only affecting, not only Louder With Crowder, but are affecting a whole slew of conservative voices as opposed to leftist voices.
And when we have reached out continuously, we haven't seen anything, haven't gotten that information.
And so the next steps are going to involve a kind of multifaceted.
One, we already know that there's an existing lawsuit that's been going on.
from leftist groups, specifically LGBT groups.
And for those who may be watching who are concerned about, well, hey, you know what?
I actually don't care if you get throttled.
Don't think about it of just this view.
Think about it if anyone can throttle any political views.
The problem with the LGBTQ lawsuit is they want an injunction so that YouTube cannot throttle
them, but they also want YouTube to have more strict policies
regarding hate speech to create a more safe space.
Throttle everybody else.
We want you to throttle them, just not us.
Hit.
That's the crazy part about their lawsuit is the inconsistency there.
Don't ban us, but make sure to ban other people.
But the one part that they do get right and that they go after YouTube for is the inconsistency and the lack of clarity about what the policies are time and time again.
So we're gonna take some action there, decide the right time to be able to jump into the fray on that side and go to the part that really is an important point because it does affect everyone.
Any political view whatsoever I think more important than just political views, people need to understand, YouTube is the central business model for a lot of content creators.
Let's remove politics from it.
This is how many people make a living.
And if you don't make a living directly on the monetization on YouTube, you use YouTube as an avenue to reach people.
And the biggest expense this company has ever had outside of employee costs has been running advertising on YouTube for a long time.
They courted us and said, they created the advertising campaigns.
Millions of dollars.
And that's what's crazy is that folks will always say, well, you could just go to a different platform.
You could just do something different.
But they forget that all of the creators, especially Loud Earth Crowder, have spent innumerable hours learning the system, working on it over the years, building a subscriber base.
They can't just follow anywhere else.
And by the way, flying out.
At their dime, flying out to YouTube conferences.
This is important for you to know.
Half-Asian Bill Richman went out to a conference and spoke with Susan Wojcicki.
Before that, I went out and spoke with their top legal.
We spoke with their people in charge of content marketing.
Numerous folks in their legal department.
They invited us, and we were there.
Constant conversation was, what are the guidelines?
Are we violating anything?
No, no, no, no.
No, not at all.
We want diverse voices.
Then when we leave the conferences, we see a different story playing out.
And policies change without us knowing.
Exactly.
And their story is either going to be, we've been doing this deliberately, or it's going to be, we just didn't know what was happening.
And that may be kind of reminiscent of the Facebook battle that actually brought us together.
The idea that, oh well, just some rogue employees put a policy together that blacklisted a few conservative voices and was going on for years and nobody knew about it up top, but we're real sorry about it.
But you did just, we are going to be taking action here.
So yes, so some of the action is of course, you know, we can only talk to a certain extent about what that is, but there's multi-faceted, it's not just action we'll take directly, but the thing that you did in the call to action to be able to say, hey, you know, pull up the examples, your own favorite conservative channels, your second favorite beyond Lava Crowder.
Yeah, please do.
If you want to help them and you want to help us, you want to help anyone who has a political view, whether it's conservative or otherwise, of course, YouTube.
And here's the thing is we know they're listening.
Remember back to the Vox Apocalypse.
Within a day, even less than a day, of HeWhoShallNotBeNamed, who's beautiful and brave, posted about a complaint.
Just a mere complaint.
We wonder how many millions of complaints they get.
And they knew that that happened and they immediately took action, worked all week to review all your videos.
And now, we get a reach out, again, who this person is and what they're actually going to do.
Yeah, it's just because they did a cell phone video that hit a million plays.
That's what's so sad.
And listen, it saddens me that I mean, I'm grateful that we have this platform, but I think of people where I was maybe six years ago, you know, just trying to grind it out.
You guys aren't going to be able to make enough of a stink with the view count for YouTube to answer.
I have a lawyer on retainer.
You're very expensive, by the way.
We're going to have to stop that wing in the new beach house.
We have a lawyer on retainer, and he can't get return calls.
What gets a point of contact is me putting a cell phone video out and you guys sending in screenshots.
So please keep doing it.
Then I guess we'll try and talk with Brandon.
Brandon?
Brandon.
Not Brandon.
I don't know who you are, Brandon!
I don't know.
It's nothing personal.
I want to talk to the manager!
Give me the manager.
My name is Karen.
So the idea that they're not listening or they're unable to respond or be able to do anything is crazy.
But what they do respond to is think about all the comments that the folks have put onto the videos and onto tweets that have been able to have.
And not only that, the folks who continually and repeatedly say, you know what, this is the moment that I've joined Mug Club.
And then they post about joining Mug Club.
If they're not going to listen to following their own guidelines, if YouTube isn't going to listen to just being intellectually honest, they're definitely going to listen when you hit their pocketbook and let them know that they're going to have to go to a different place where they know they can get the content.
Well, thank you very much, Half-Asian Buildersmen.
And just so you know, we are going to be taking legal action.
We can't talk about it a ton right now because with something like this, and I see a lot of conservative lawsuits where they just file them, file them, file them.
We're not litigious people.
It's bet once and bet right.
And so the more information you can provide to us, we really appreciate it.
This is something else to keep in mind.
They're not only trying to alter the results of the 2020 election, which they've openly expressed.
This is YouTube also being upset about Generation Z being more conservative than other generations, in part because of social media.
And I don't mean not all Generation Z folks are.
That's not what I'm saying.
But if you compare them at this stage in their life to Baby Boomers, to Gen Xers, they are more conservative.
And a big part of that is because of social media.
You look at First Amendment, you look at Second Amendment issues, you look at neo-feminist issues.
This is because the left is overreached, and now they have access to the information.
So, by the way, Silicon Valley calls this radicalization.
What do they consider radicalization?
That's why we're radicalizing the youth, apparently, along with Philip DeFranco, if you look at that New York Times article.
Radicalization is apparently using someone's biologically correct pronouns.
Big Tech wants to change an entire worldview of a generation.
That's why they don't want you to see Change My Mind.
And here's the thing.
If you can think of anything more benign, when people go out and preach, hey, let's find common ground.
Let's stop the shouting matches.
Let's stop the cable news hyper-edits where we're just looking to score points.
If you can think anything that crystallizes that more effectively than Change My Mind, completely unedited, on a campus with students who are there of their own volition, you let me know.
Because if Change My Mind is considered radicalization to the point that YouTube is going to try and ghost it from search results, well, you know what?
I guess I'm the radicalizer of the youth, and I'll wear that title proudly.
Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, thank you very much.
We must go to Paul Joseph Watson.
Let's go!
Let's go!
To Tumblr or not to Tumblr?
That is the question.
But this man can answer for you.
You must choose, and now it is time for you to do the choosing.
I am the...
To Tumblr or not to Tumblr?
That is the question.
But this man can answer for you.
He chose the Tumblr.
How was the Tumblr?
Was it fresh?
Was it selected?
He can't answer.
Because he's dead.
The tumbler killed him.
It's not coming back.
Think about it.
You will join my club at louderthiscrowder.com slash my club.
Sir, whatever you want, just take it and leave.
Ha ha ha!
Gonna get ya!
Sir, I have a firearm and if you don't leave, I will use it.
Ho ho!
I'm coming for ya!
I will shoot.
Here I come!
Owwww!
What the hell?
What did you expect?
I am gonna sue you!
So hard!
Guilty.
What?
No, I don't understand it.
I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.
Firearmslegal.com slash LWC.
If you have a gun and you don't have this, you're an idiot.
Again, that's Firearmslegal.com slash LWC.
For $0.25 a day, you can buy bubblegum from a vending machine.
For $0.24 a day, you can feed a starving child.
But for $99 a year, you can give a better life to our motion graphics designer, Brendan.
Still valuable. Brendan needs your help.
He's never lived on his own before and he's having trouble adapting.
How about some milk?
I've been out for like three weeks.
It's like welded to the thing.
Like I can't get it out now.
Because brilliant motion graphics designers who may be slightly on the spectrum deserve a better life.
Even Brendan.
I It's kind of unnerving
Maybe unsettling is the word.
Could be.
For a child.
You don't even know what I'm about to say yet.
I don't.
I'm just agreeing.
For a child to threaten to stick up.
Especially in the wake of Trayvon.
It is a little triggering.
It seems a little insensitive.
I don't think they understand in Australia the context of that.
Alright, I'm glad to have our next guest on.
We haven't had him on in a while.
Let me give you a hint as to who our next guest is out there.
there. He's a globetrotter. Either that or he's too cheap to afford a set that is not
an unfolded map.
You can follow him on Twitter at Prison Planet.
His website is summit.news, and more recently, band.video.
Mr. Paul Joseph Watson, how are you, sir?
I'm good, Steven.
How's it going?
Terribly.
Now, your hair is short, so that's cool.
Yeah, I had a bit of a dodgy haircut, so it had to be cleaned up, so... Not always great for the videos.
Not always great for the videos.
But you insist on having the old sort of mop top with the cigarette in a lot of your display pictures.
Is that just because, you know, that looks like...
That's... that's... that's the classical fashy haircut.
That's what the media says.
In fact, the Guardian wrote an article the other day saying they were afraid of Ivanka Trump's new haircut.
So they're literally terrified by haircuts at this point.
That's the level of the derangement syndrome.
I tried to go floppy on top and with the short sides back inside.
So that's a normal fashy look.
How are they afraid of Ivanka's haircut?
They said that it proves that she's trying to rebrand herself to be more credible because she's about to run for office.
So they're terrified.
Oh, okay.
So they're scary because they think she could hold office as opposed to holding sway over the most powerful office in the land as we see right now.
We see her fingerprints all over it sometimes, which, I'll be honest, sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of.
Mr. Paul Joseph Watson, this kind of ties in with your website, band.video, and we just talked about, we sort of exposed some of the new YouTube changes with verified profiles and how difficult this has been, but you were telling me this, this all ties in together, your video on Greta Thunberg?
By the way, you Europeans, you're closer together.
You're as far away from Sweden as Florida is from California, approximately.
I have no idea.
Is it Thunberg?
Thunberg?
I heard an actual Swedish person pronounce it as something like Greta Thunberg.
So I'm not even going to try to appropriate that.
That's way off.
So I'm going for Greta Thunberg.
No, well, we don't care about the Swedes.
What we can just do is we can start a war and watch them do nothing.
So, your video, the one, Little Greta, we'll call it Little Greta, it was removed from YouTube entirely, if I'm not mistaken.
Completely, yeah.
And a warning on the channel, you tend not to, now I tend not to make a big deal out of these things because it's just like a red flag to a bull and then a bunch of people go and try and flag all your other videos to get others deleted.
But yeah, it was a video that was, it was on the channel for about two weeks, had almost a million views.
They banned it, they removed it for bullying and harassment.
Now the worst thing I did in that video, Baring in mind that Susan Wojcicki says, yes, we welcome offensive content, as if they actually do that.
The worst thing I said was to compare her style of messaging and her appearance to some kind of children of the corn situation, which, funnily enough, is what Laura Ingram did on her Fox News show the other night.
Yeah, plus she has a scary haircut.
Yeah, it was up for about two weeks. Banned. I appealed it over two weeks ago. No response
over two weeks later. And yeah, I mean, it's still on bit.shu, but it's permanently gone.
And then obviously this disincentivizes you criticizing her again. I could re-upload the
video and remove a couple of the slightly edgy insults.
This is a, well, it would be a legal adult in the UK who constantly talks about having Asperger's or being on the autism spectrum.
But if you say that, as Michael Knowles did on Fox News and they caved in and apologized, he called her mentally ill.
Even though Asperger's is a quote, neurological disorder, it is a mental illness.
So if she's making that part of her messaging and we can't even reference it, that's a double standard, right?
Right, and I do always love having you on because, you know, across the pond, cultural differences, and you may be vexed as to why the spokesperson, I don't want to indict all of Fox News, the spokesperson said that and walked back.
That's because that person at Fox is what we call here stateside, is a pussy.
So I want to make sure that we're clear.
Yeah, I don't think Michael Knowles said anything wrong, and I try to be as objective as possible.
You know, there are some people who, it's like, Oh, and you start talking about Hitler and saying, like, oh, it's not really good to invoke his name, even if you're trying to say maybe some national policy was good.
Like, ah, you veered into it.
Michael Knoll said nothing wrong.
For people who missed the story, you know, it was trending.
It was a flash in the pan.
It was trending for a few minutes because someone at Media Matters got a bug in their panty.
I don't know if that's the term.
That was my Obama equivalent to wee-weed up.
I just made it up.
They got a thorn in their side.
Got stuck in their craw.
The point is, I don't know what my point was, but Michael Knowles did nothing wrong in pointing out that she has Asperger's.
And by the way, this is important to remember, Greta Thunberg is the same age as the Covington school kids.
Now people say, well they were kind of dicks.
First off, I don't agree with it.
Second, they were thrust into the media spotlight against their will.
Greta chose it, and so I think that that opens one up to valid criticism.
And if they're an adult of age, some ad hominem, and good fun.
Well, this is the point, isn't it, Stephen?
Because the left exploits these children as human shields for their agenda.
And then they say, oh, by the way, they're beyond question.
They then ban and cancel culture people who dare challenge them.
And they did the same with David Hogg.
A bunch of videos on YouTube, a bunch of channels got taken down when people started challenging what David Hogg was saying.
But of course, if it's a 16-year-old conservative kid in a MAGA hat smirking, then they're fair game for the media to ruin their entire life.
There was another guy yesterday called Avi Yemeni.
You've probably heard of him.
Yeah, I know.
He did the Jim Jefferies thing.
He was on the show.
Yeah, he was banned.
He's gone.
He's done on Twitter for saying Greta is being exploited by the people around her and saying,
quote, she had an extremist message, completely banned.
His account's gone.
It's not coming back.
So, again, they use the intimidation tactic of this deplatforming system that they've
set up and this cancel culture system to shield their political propaganda, to use children
as human shields.
And it's insidious, and it keeps happening over and over again.
Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I think I have that one right.
Human shields.
Children of shields.
Hamas.
They're not too far off.
So, birds of a feather.
I'm just gonna go on with all of these.
Be careful what you wish for.
Look before you leap.
Now that's just Aesop's fables.
Those aren't idioms.
These are just morals, two horrible fairy tales.
It's not a fairy tale, it's a fable.
The other aspect of this, in using those kids as human shields, they're also traumatizing an entire generation of young people.
A lot of psychologists in the UK are talking about this now, this new phenomenon of climate anxiety or eco-anxiety
where children are literally being told that everyone's gonna be dead in 12 years.
Of course, we know that's abject nonsense.
Even one of the head authors of the IPCC report for the UN, Miles Allen, called out Greta the other day
for being alarmist because of course, there's this whole debate about a 1.5 degree warming
by 2040, of course, there are a bunch of other factors they don't even take into account in that.
But again, they're literally traumatizing kids, dragging them to protest.
They're crying in the streets, thinking their parents, their friends and themselves are going to be dead within 12 years, when even the IPCC report says, well, maybe the problems will start in 12 years.
And of course, AOC echoed this with her Green Deal thing.
Yeah, screen deal thing.
I appreciate that you are so dismissive.
Because I think it was a young turkey.
Like, why don't you, why don't we do the Green New Deal?
Because it's five pages and it has an addendum that says, end social justice for all.
That's why.
It's silly.
Yeah, and I mean, the other thing is, again, these are some of the same people who fear mongered about a new Ice Age in the 70s, you know, Newsweek, Time Magazine.
They told us, people like Paul Ehrlich, that overpopulation will lead to mass starvation.
That was the dominant consensus scientific opinion for years and years in the late 70s.
None of it happened.
So why should we believe them now?
And then it's just it's the hypocrisy of it that stenches.
She's palling around with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a dude who literally has a garage full of muscle cars and tanks.
You know, she's palling around with Leonardo DiCaprio, a dude who takes private jets to collect environmental awards.
Prince Harry's up there on the stage with her.
He took four private jet trips in 11 days.
He wasn't on a mission to save the planet.
He was partying at Elton John's mansion. But here I am, you know, like washing out my jam
jars and recycling my plastic Evian bottles. I'm taking a handful of commercial plane trips a
year, but I'm bad and I need to be lectured. Forget about India and China. They're fine.
Well, to be fair, Prince Harry was, I mean, he was, there was a two for one special at
Bosley. Now, let me ask, you mentioned this with YouTube and we're going to go to WebExtended
Have you been following the changes here with YouTube since they've now said that they're going to try to direct people toward verified accounts?
And we've talked about this where, just earlier, you probably didn't see it, where if you search our video name with my name, it doesn't show up.
You'll see other channels before.
And this didn't happen before.
And of course, we've never received any answer from YouTube.
It's getting to be pretty severe.
And now, of course, I don't know if you've read about this or what you're expecting from the new harassment policy that should be forthcoming.
But that's very scary to me.
I didn't read about the new harassment policy and that's going to get them in trouble based on the fact that some of the biggest creators on YouTube are drama people who literally pick fights and in some cases stage fights with each other and have these back and forth insults and of course boxing matches and everything else and that's the entire basis of their channel and these people have got upwards of 10 million subscribers some of them so they're going to have problems with that.
The thing about the search and the YouTube election blacklist which you tweeted about I checked your channel about an hour ago and I think maybe because you made a big deal out of it it's gone back and it's flipped back where if you do search Stephen Crowder changed my mind your videos do come up for the past I would say probably four to six months
You can go on Google itself, of course Google owns YouTube, search my name, Paul Joseph Watson YouTube, for the past four to six months.
Not only was my channel like buried down the first page or on page two, it was not even returned on Google search results.
This is a channel with over 1.7 million subscribers.
They completely buried it.
They broke their own search engine just so people couldn't find my channel.
And I was getting messages saying, what a shame you don't make YouTube videos anymore.
I haven't seen them in months.
I was getting good views because the emails are still going out to the subscribers, but it was completely expunged from a Google search itself.
It only came back a few days ago and it's like an off link to an uploads playlist.
It's not even the front page of the channel, but they literally changed the algorithm and they did this with other creators as well as you for a time.
I'm sorry about that because I think a large part of it is due to the Vox Adpocalypse.
They made some changes and it's not what I wanted, but you know, I apologize.
What the f*** are we doing now?
I heard he lost his show, right?
I don't know, but we're going to have to bleep his name.
You mean the beautiful and brave... The beautiful and brave member of the LGBTQ community from the stellar journalists at Vox.
That's what you meant to say.
That's what I meant to say.
I want to make sure they have it right.
And you know what?
We're going to go to a web extended here for people who do not follow our guest, Prison Planet, but then his website is summit.news banned.
Is it banned.video?
Banned.video, yeah.
Banned.video.
The one I actually do get banned.
Come on, I don't think so.
I mean, I think that they probably would ban you, but, you know, just look at that wonderful punim.
Still not Jewish, folks.
We are going to go to a WebExtended.
I want to talk about some of the measures that you've had to take in order to sort of circumvent these different changes to the algorithms that come up almost every other day, it seems now.
So thank you so much.
We're going to continue to close this up.
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It's me.
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Potato.
Tell you why.
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You just can't think of anything fun to do.
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That's a good thing.
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No one buys it.
Don't talk about me like that.
No one buys it, Kyle.
I was that kid at one point.
Everyone was like, I don't want to wear a t-shirt.
I'm still that kid.
No, you're not.
You're not that kid.
Trust me at this point.
And then I realized that the wet t-shirt, the wet sheer t-shirt that shows your puffy nipples is far more unflattering than just biting a bullet.
Yeah.
Just rip it off.
By the way, thank you to everyone out there who so readily fat-shamed me upon request last week.
It squirms my heart.
I'd like to apologize to Watson for people who missed it.
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We do know that if you want to continue watching this content for free, even on YouTube, it goes away without Mug Club.
And that actually kind of brings me to something I wanted to talk about this week.
I guess let me state this just on the outset and then work my way backwards, because I've talked about this before.
That's kind of how I learned.
Give me the concept.
Did I say concept?
Learned.
That's how I learn.
Give me the concept.
Geez, I don't know what happened there.
Did I have a stroke?
This is how I learn.
Give me the concept and I'll sort of work my way backwards.
I cannot do things step by step.
Talked about this with instruction manuals, whether it's building a grill or putting together some, you know, Greta.
Greta's furniture there, you know, a bed that folds into a bookcase.
It's another reason to not be a big fan of Sweden.
We've been incredibly reserved, by the way, in our addressing of Greta.
I think that if I'm a public figure and get away with nothing more than a comparison to Stephen Merchant, it's basically unscathed.
It's almost a compliment.
It's almost a compliment.
So, let me give you that so that we can work our way backwards.
There is no virtue in being vulnerable.
What does that mean?
Let me explain it.
We hear this a lot.
It's beautiful.
This person was being so vulnerable.
There's nothing good about being vulnerable for the sake of being vulnerable.
It's the wrong word.
It's the wrong phrase.
And it's important.
Let me explain why.
I'm guilty of using this, by the way.
Here's an example.
When I used to get hurt early on in my marriage, I've talked about this, I would often express it, and I think a lot of men do, through anger.
I had someone tell me that, you know, most women don't really respond well to anger.
And I don't mean anger necessarily directed at my wife, but overall anger, frustration.
Anger is usually kind of a dishonest emotion.
It veils what's actually hurting you.
And so the same person told me that it would be more effective to be vulnerable with my
wife to express what was bothering me.
And the advice was right, contextually.
The wording was not.
Same thing with, you've heard me talk about it this week, mental health issues.
I've openly talked about my struggles on air because, you know, I do believe, or at least
I hope, that it can help people.
Often we've talked about the people just trot out kind of a me too when a celebrity dies
from mental health issues or whenever it becomes the topic du jour because there's been some
kind of a mass shooting.
And it rings hollow.
I know as someone who's had to deal with it, it doesn't help anyone.
I go, well, you're just saying that because of Heath Ledger.
And you're trying to tap into a trend right now.
It doesn't help anyone.
So I used to think, mainly because this is what I was told, that in being open about my struggles, I was making a conscious decision to be vulnerable.
Technically I was, but that wasn't the reason.
We hear it all the time.
Someone was saying this the other day.
That's what kind of spurred this thought.
I had to come to a really honest place with this piece and be vulnerable.
And whenever I say piece, that's how you know it doesn't really mean anything.
That could be anything from abstract theater to a character in a film to Poop literally on a canvas that you have been awarded some kind of postmodern prize for.
I just had to be vulnerable.
We hear this all the time, and everyone goes, oh, that's so brave.
That's so brave, exposing your vulnerability like that.
And it's gotten to the point where we almost seem to seek opportunities to be vulnerable.
And as a society now, we reward vulnerability for vulnerability's sake.
And it's bullcrap.
And I think it's important to point out why this is bullcrap.
One reason is, not the least of which, it confuses young men.
And women, sure, but for right now I'll speak to what I know a little better.
No penis, no opinion.
Young men don't want to be vulnerable.
It's not a desirable place to be.
And that's not societal conditioning.
It's an innate defense mechanism.
It's hardwired in.
And so, these young men who hear this mantra, just be vulnerable, just be vulnerable, they often feel confused.
Why?
Because in trying to make young men feel safe, we've actually just delivered a message that guilts them into feeling conflicted about their biological instincts.
It's also wrong because it's attaching virtue to a concept where none actually exists.
Just like when we, as a society, shun all violence, including righteous violence.
What kind of example?
I don't know.
Ending the Holocaust?
Stopping a rape?
Not all violence is equivalent.
So just as when we shun all violence, praising all vulnerability, it does a remarkable disservice as to why those vulnerable instances are valuable in the first place.
And hint, it's not because of the vulnerability itself.
Some vulnerability is stupid.
You reveal your soft underbelly to an enemy who wants to kill you, you're dead.
That's it.
No one's going to be praising you for how vulnerable you were in your eulogy.
Is it your eulogy, or are you the one delivering a eulogy?
You're affected, Audio Wade.
It could be your eulogy.
I saw it get low.
And if you find yourself constantly and maybe, I guess, unwittingly or uncaringly being vulnerable, you will be perceived as weak and you'll ultimately begin to feel weak.
So, what's the virtue here?
Why is it better to be vulnerable with your wife than to be angry?
Why is it productive to talk about mental health issues which people may use against you?
Let me laser in.
It's not about vulnerability.
It's about truth.
And if you watch this show, that shouldn't come as a surprise.
To put a finer point on it, rather than vulnerability, it's about telling the truth, or living truthfully, even when you know it will be immensely uncomfortable.
So see, when I would get angry, and I'd just yell, or I'd storm off in a fight with my wife, the truth is that I was hurt.
that I was damaged.
But because that truth was so uncomfortable to face, I instead chose to smokescreen it with rage.
See, vulnerability there was a byproduct of honesty.
For a long time, you know what?
I never did.
I never did discuss my struggles with mental health issues, with depression, things like that.
Why?
Because I knew that in today's political climate, despite it being a favored talking point of the left, which we know you love, that it could ultimately be used against me.
And I've always known, you know, in a lot of ways that I'm abnormal.
And the truth is being abnormal isn't always fun.
Acknowledging it is even less fun.
Taking steps to work within those boundaries and finding acceptance within those limitations is even less fun.
So the truth there involves exposing my flaws to the world, not for the sake of vulnerability, but because speaking the truth is the right thing to do.
And it can help people.
If it saves one life, great.
And if I have the ability or the opportunity to save one life by simply facing the truth, that is my duty, regardless of vulnerability.
It's the duty of all of us.
It's yours.
I cannot stress this enough, and this is why so many young people, specifically men, are confused.
They've been bombarded with these ideas of toxic masculinity or the concepts of... It's sort of all been merged into this amalgamate of false machismo in an attempt to sort of, I guess, stifle the righteous indignation of young men, which is how we're designed.
We fill their heads with visions of weakness as though it's something to be emulated So that they can shed their skin of ego and they can live an enlightened life.
It's bullshit!
You can be vulnerable and simultaneously be wrong, even evil.
The flip side of that coin, you can be strong and simultaneously right and good.
It doesn't change a damn thing, the vulnerability.
It comes down to truth.
It comes down to doing the right thing regardless of the comfort level.
So here's the exercise.
For this week.
Okay?
I want you to take a minute.
Take inventory.
Maybe do a scan.
Do an internal scan of some things that have been holding you back.
I don't know.
Maybe in the back of your head there's been this voice nagging you to do something.
You've been too afraid to do it.
Maybe it's addiction.
Maybe it's depression.
Maybe it's a holding pattern that you don't know how to break.
It doesn't matter what it is.
I want you to think of something that you need help with.
That you've been putting off.
Something difficult.
Pause it if you've got to.
Got it?
Okay.
Now, I want you to go share that with someone.
Someone you trust.
Ask for help.
Ask for advice.
Seek wise counsel.
Start the process of healing.
Start the process of creating and executing a solution.
Sure, you'll feel vulnerable because you are vulnerable, but be mindful that you're doing it not for the sake of vulnerability, but because you are being honest and it's the right thing to do.
Regardless of how unpleasant it may be.
Because someone who makes themselves vulnerable without honesty is just a fool.
Alright, hope that helps.
Maybe it doesn't.
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