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Hey Steven, I did a billion views while you were still in diapers.
And no matter how much you train, I'll still eat you for lunch.
Your pal, Chuck.
Hey, I like to box!
No matter how much you train, I'll still eat you for lunch.
Your pal, Chuck.
Hey, I like to box.
Hey, yeah!
I like to box.
She brings me to this queen's house.
Steven Prowder is a self-styled comedian.
How'd you get into my house?
Time to listen up, you silly liberal...
I'm not a liberal.
Your show is you.
and lost.
Think about these things.
That never got loud at all.
You have an original!
I'm teared up.
My mind's flying.
I'm teared up.
Your show is huge.
It's huge.
So we are officially announcing the Louder With Crowder Mug Club for our daily program.
People are aware of how corrupt the media is and there's a void and we are going to take it back.
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Spectacular!
and waterboarding has to be done just properly.
We're stopping!
It's not the water!
By the way, hashtag tonight is Crowder hijacked Shia.
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And most importantly, the funny is on our side, a**hole!
We've been watching this s**t!
YouTube dragged its feet before taking any action against conservative commentator Steven Crowder.
So then we did announce the monetization change that Steven Crowder was.
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Number four, that's incredible.
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Hey.
Oh, no.
Hey, girl.
What?
Oh.
Baby, baby, baby.
Oh, no.
Oh, fuck.
Oh.
Throwback.
Leave right now.
Drop the bat.
Wow.
Uh, I just had a physical yesterday where they were testing for a heart murmur.
And they don't answer when you do a physical.
Whoa.
Hey, we're testing.
Well, do I have it?
I don't know.
We're going to have to wait for the results.
I'm like, you just listened to it.
Yeah.
You know.
Not sure.
They didn't hear it.
Did you record it with the stethoscope?
By the way, my half Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, is here.
Quarter Black Garrett is here.
Audio Wade is here.
Gerald A. is here.
What's the wine of the day?
We have Mt.
Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon.
Mt.
Veeder?
Veedel.
Veedel?
Veeder.
That's not a word.
It's not a word.
It's not a real thing.
You're making things up.
Veeder.
I don't know why you are still around.
Is Too Cute Mad Men here?
No.
No, she's not.
Listen, guys, we really appreciate it.
This is the One Billion View special.
Yes.
Billion plays.
I want to give a round of applause for all of you guys.
Not Gerald.
Not Gerald.
I do want to ask you, we'll be showing some videos or I think some tweets going into the break from you guys, but I want to know what's been your favorite moment with the show in the last billion plays, or how are you introduced to the show?
I would like to know.
We have some guests coming up.
We're going to have Donald Trump Jr., Ted Cruz, Alex Jones, James O'Keefe, Marco Petito, Jaco, Still has a job.
Still does have a job.
But he's very good at it.
He's working hard.
He's harder than ever.
Showing us the softer side of ISIS.
I hear the resume's out, though.
And I know that, by the way, some of you will think this is lazy.
We've used the term clip show in the past.
That being said, we're going to have some clips here from our favorite moments, a few montages, and also kind of give you a little bit of some inside baseball.
Oh, I didn't mention, promo code.
There's a promo code right now.
If you enter in Crowder Billion, I think for the next, I know at least for the next 48 hours, it might be a few days, you get $20 off if you join Mug Club.
Mug Club was never meant to be.
Let me say something first really quickly.
Garrett, Quarter Black Garrett and Audio Wade were the ones who said we should do this show.
I kind of floated the idea.
I didn't really want to do the Billion View show.
We did the 1 million subscribers, and I said that's enough of a benchmark.
Maybe if we hit 10 million subscribers at some point.
I don't want to be the guy who rests on the laurels of how many people tune in, or how popular something is.
Well, because we've seen people do that, and then they crumble because all of their identity is based on this sort of perceived success.
And I just want to put my head down and get to work.
You mentioned that it was more important not for us.
Yeah, it's for the fans.
It's for the fans.
It's for me.
I'm a fan, you know?
I want to see all the old stuff and remember, oh yeah, we've come a long way.
And we abuse you both physically and mentally.
All the time.
Yeah, and you're still a fan.
But within the bounds of the law.
Yes, within the bounds.
That's the key.
You go right up to the line.
It is Chinese law.
I don't think they're bound by the Geneva Convention.
We do what we want.
Bamboo woodchips up the thumbnails.
So I am really grateful.
I do want to let you guys know.
I really am so grateful that you've been here for a billion plays, that you've made this what it is.
You saw from that montage, I started back in 2006 on YouTube, and then really doing regular uploads in 2009 that were more political.
I really never anticipated it to get, I shouldn't say didn't anticipate it, but I had no idea that this show would become exactly what it is.
You know, I feel like now I'm being like, oh I'm so grateful, but I'm like Taylor Swift, like oh my god, I won my 45th Grammy, what?
What?
Me?
No!
And I should say, by the way, this is a billion what you guys will see publicly.
We've actually crossed a billion a long time ago, but we had to remove a bunch of videos because of the Vox apocalypse.
Fascist pricks.
Somewhere around a trillion, I think, now.
Well, actually, if you add up those who are not Mug Club members, lotofthecloud.com slash mug club, if you add up, because we do a daily show there, so four times the content that you get here on YouTube, and then you add up the website and Crowder Bits, it's actually closer to two billion.
Wow.
This channel, a billion, after all the videos had to be removed.
And still making no money on those billions right now?
Right now it's plus or minus zero.
Zero, just making sure.
At or above.
It's a great business model, by the way.
To be clear, there's some volatility in the market.
It's true.
Due to a certain component.
We don't try and pick monetization stocks.
We play the long ball.
And I assume that every 10 years, we zero our money.
Yeah, that's not a good strategy.
You might need a money manager.
But the good thing is, my finances are unaffected by corona.
Oh, well, there you go.
There's some stability there.
Invest and still grow.
Let me kind of give you a little bit of a brief for people who don't know you.
I started off as a stand-up comedian and actor, and really my first foray into doing more political videos was 2009.
I did work with PJTV, and then it was with Fox News for four and a half years.
God bless them, the person who's the president at Fox News now, Suzanne Scott, I have nothing but good things to say about her.
She actually, back then, she was a VP, would go in and advocate for me.
Because all I knew when I was at Fox was that Roger Ailes hated me.
He thought I was horribly unfunny.
Every time you get you, Susan.
But then I found out that he hated Norm MacDonald, so I took it as like a badge of honor.
By proxy, no.
He hated me for valid reasons.
He hated Norm MacDonald because he was crazy.
And Norm MacDonald didn't pass the twirl test.
It wasn't the best.
That's a tough one.
He has a good angle.
He's always shot from the right.
And Suzanne Scott was the one who went in and advocated for me.
With Fox News, they didn't know what they wanted to do with me.
They just knew they didn't want anyone else to have me.
And so I wasn't super happy there.
I was being paid, and I'm very grateful for it.
I was appearing a few times a week and writing articles.
But I always wanted to be doing something like this.
And so after that, this show that you're watching right now really just started off as a terrestrial radio show out of Detroit, and I went with them because I said, let me own 100% of the rights.
I didn't make a dime on terrestrial radio for a long time.
It got syndicated out to a bunch of markets, and then we started learning how to operate a TriCaster and broadcasting from the den.
And it just kept growing and growing and turned into, you know, what it is now.
So I say this because sometimes you may have dreams, and if you're inflexible, you think you're giving up on them.
This is so much better than anything I could have anticipated, and I am genuinely grateful to be able to do this.
It's a very, very hard job.
It's a lot of work.
But I do feel blessed to be able to do this for you guys, and that you have rewarded us with a billion plays.
Because think about it, a billion plays is worth nothing if not for the people watching it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like a billion!
Scroll over it like on Facebook and it counts as a play.
That's the amount of people with coronavirus.
Soon enough, you know what I'm talking about.
You and your secret bio-weapons facilities.
But we have toilet paper so apparently we're going to be safe.
We'll have barter money.
Does anyone have any, before we get into the cinematic opens, any of your kind of favorite stories as far as...
If I can jump in here, I know Bill might want to.
You can't do it.
So, you know, a lot of people don't understand success was never guaranteed in this.
And in fact, there were a lot of moments that you had throughout your career where you were like, I have no idea how this is going to go out.
And I remember one specifically, I can laugh at it now, but I felt so horrible.
We were having dinner, I think, or lunch.
Me, you and Hillary, we were talking about like, yeah, man, should I keep doing this?
Should I not keep doing it?
I was like, look, if you ever maybe for videos, don't get like 85,000 plays, you should maybe pick another career.
And you just like looked at me and you're like, 85,000 is actually pretty good.
Yeah, I remember.
You were saying a low bar.
Oh yeah, 85,000.
It was so funny, but at that point, you had no idea.
You had a desire for it and a passion for it, and you knew you could do something, but you had no idea how big it could possibly get, and you weren't assured of success.
Or money at all.
That's also something that I really love seeing, is now there are so many younger people who are conservative or leaning right.
Back then, and that's also, we'll talk about our top seven, seven plus one, loudest crowd of controversies over the years.
See if you can guess which ones they are.
But that's what allowed the Young Turks to go after me and really smear me back in the day when I had 30-40,000 subscribers and they were big.
We didn't have the firepower to correct the record.
So it was tough.
There were no conservatives out there.
It was when edgy atheism and liberalism dominated all of YouTube.
It's amazing how things have changed.
We don't know where we're going, but it's been a crazy ride when you think about this.
Yeah, absolutely.
So one of the funny stories that kind of the moment that it hit home about kind of the war that you've had to fight with some of the folks in traditional media was one time I was on vacation we were doing a copyright battle with Mashable and they were insisting on trying to take one of your videos down and I'm like at a resort in Mexico trying to deal with it and we ended up getting it resolved And keep in mind, for those who don't know, this was back then.
It was a manual thing where Bill was actually filing paperwork to counter a false claim.
We're like saying, hey, you're going to do this.
You've got to come sue us.
And then we're contacting YouTube and we're trying to fight through that system.
And it was that was the moment that I really realized I was in a hotel room at this resort, Mexico, and I was thinking to myself, Oh, what Steven's been saying about the war and how this is going on, and I don't mean war in the sense of what our soldiers are doing and what our troops are doing, but I mean in the sense of the war for audience, for eyeballs and ears, and knowing that there is a place for comedy and conservative channels.
Yeah, and that's how we met, was actually a man who was a groomsman at my wedding.
He's a Harvard lawyer, but I was like, hey, you're a lawyer.
And actually, Ben Shapiro negotiated my Fox contract.
Yeah, that's right.
Hey, you have a good last name for a lawyer.
And I remember our buddy, he said, well, this is not the kind of law I do, but you might want to call my buddy Bill.
Was it Engadget?
Gizmodo.
Gizmodo.
And that's where the article came out that someone who worked at Facebook long before the leaks, like James O'Keefe in Project Veritas, someone just leaked this memo that was at Facebook that people were basically putting code into pages to throttle and shut down some pages.
And this was Ted Cruz for president, Fox News, Breitbart, the Chris Kyle Foundation, and then me.
One of these things is not like the other!
And I was like, hey, I don't want to overblow this, but I sent it to Bill, and I remember I was at a hotel at that point, and you just called back, and you're like, yeah, this is not, like, I'm reading this.
It's not a conspiracy.
It's right there.
And I remember looking at the other ones, and I'm like, I know all these other ones, but who is this guy?
It was so weird because we were targeted when we were so much smaller.
And I think it's just because we were always pretty effective with the content because we were unique and because you guys have been so supportive.
I mean, we can't, you know, we'd love to do live shows.
We don't have the ability to do them because you fill up every venue and it becomes a security issue and we appreciate it.
You guys have been so supportive.
Demonetize, you guys have made up for it with Mug Club, you know, and you guys have joined and obviously now you have the entire Blaze catalog and it's just every time that we think, oh, we're going off a cliff, the Vox Adpocalypse, you guys came in and not only saved us but supported us more than before.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I know I sound like a broken record, but I cannot thank you enough.
Sometimes artists go out and say, like, I'm just going to do this.
I'm just going to do this for me.
It's self-important.
It's bullcrap.
If I create art that is only of value to me, I am valueless.
There is no use for what I do.
I want to create content that is enlightening, entertaining for you.
And we always try to listen to you guys.
We really do appreciate it.
Since we've grown, and I hope you guys have seen this directly since you've joined up at Mug Club, it's $69 for students, veterans, or military, just so you know.
Some people think it's a little bit steep, and right now everyone gets $20 off.
We've increased production value, and we've increased overall volume of content.
And so this brings us to our first montage.
When we first started, you know, it was a radio show.
We would do these fake little audio commercials because it was a terrestrial radio show.
We had 12 commercial breaks.
But I would sit down with, at that point, not-gay Jared, and just go, alright, here's an idea, the Swiss Family Robinson second generation, and I would do an audio sketch about a bunch of inbred kids.
And we found out we violated the law horribly, but it was okay because only on podcasts would we do the fake warnings, like, ah, ah!
Only do, like, Lena Dunham warnings, Velociraptor warnings.
And I don't know who it was who called in and said, this is highly illegal.
It's on a podcast.
It's an archive.
Whoever thinks that's a live warning is an idiot.
And they said, OK, but you should stop doing it.
So we did stop doing it.
So we have these 12 commercial breaks we just have to fill because we're doing a podcast.
And we didn't want you listening to it.
Come on down to Ann Arbor Ford, Ypsilanti Ford, where if we don't give you the best price,
we're just going to give it to you, something like that.
That's the stupidest ad campaign.
I don't want to subject my listeners to that.
So I'll do pedophile parodies of Michael Jackson classics.
And we'll just put these into the commercial breaks.
And then, after the controversy of Never Daily, which will get to 7 Plus 1 controversies,
and you guys joined up at Mug Club, we realized a lot of these ideas that we had, we could now
do.
And so we were able to do not only more on location videos, which are incredibly labor intensive,
but these big intros that you guys have really come to appreciate and kind of expect,
where sometimes there's some pressure, but it keeps us on our toes.
So this is actually before we'll come back with our 7 Plus 1 controversies throughout the history
of Light Earth Crowder.
Right now, I want you to enjoy a montage of, throughout the years, the best or your favorite
that you tweeted me at scrowder, cinematic or TV parody opens.
So I'm going to go ahead and start.
I Who's the head honcho around here?
I am!
Who are you?
No sir, my name is Steven Crowder, and these here are the Mug Club Z's from Lidarus Crowder, late night comedy of salvation to salve the soul.
And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.
Well that all depends.
You boys do conservative videos?
I have a show in constant sorrow.
It seems true.
Here is the Bob Ross scene!
He's using every illegal tactic in the book!
Drink it, you cis scum!
Be there, Mike.
Below tumblers.
Back then it was mostly just me uploading short videos and me talking to my camera.
Well back then the young turks used to make quite a bit of sport of me.
They teased me quite a bit.
How many subscribers you got on YouTube, son?
When you crossed over that one million mark, you were beautiful.
They found a way to stop your content, not at first, but right when you hit that three million subscriber mark.
You'll never hit 4 million subscribers.
I will hit 4 million.
I was always going to hit 4 million.
I see not funny people on cable television.
They don't know they're not funny.
We were demonetized before that broadcast even went live.
So what happens?
Cenk Uygur gets direct support from YouTube, and what do I get?
A one-way ticket to demonetization, Bill.
It's already been manually rejected for monetization.
There's no way they can review it that fast.
It seems that the YouTube algorithm has advanced beyond all comprehension.
Tell me you have some good news for me!
Right now, Captain!
They took out Gavin, Frigga, you got ambushed, bitch apparel's gone, and it gets worse!
It's not gonna get any worse!
Over 600 videos on the channel, all of them restricted in less than 12 minutes.
YouTube's new policies have been so secret.
No email notifications had been sent.
Throughout my years, I've come to realize there are seven words
you cannot ever, ever say on YouTube.
And these words reach our chink, tranny, faggot, fagfig, and Mexicans.
Yes, today, those are the words.
And most of them might be even more necessary than ever, because YouTube has become a liberal shithole.
Let me show you boys how a real lady does it.
I hired myself a half-Asian lawyer.
Chino.
Cortita.
Some people think he's half-Mexican, he's half-Asian.
Ah!
Thanks to our funding from Muck Club, those false plaintiffs have pulled their hard strikes again, right on time.
To the second!
They always do.
I bought them for you, and we win every time.
I hear you boys ordered a half-Asian ass-kicking.
Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman!
Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman.
I don't want no GoFundMes, I don't want no Patreons, there are too many damn white-ass conservatives on this platform.
$10,000 for me and my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, by ourselves.
We decide what gets heard or seen on YouTube.
Our Jihad is already won.
Yes.
The Ladder with Fronten Channel has somehow managed to stay afloat.
This is a tragedy, but a testament to the fact that Mug Club has allowed him the will
We no longer care!
Muck Club shall go on to the end.
We shall fight on the YouTubes.
We shall fight on the Twitters and the Instagrams.
We shall fight with unwavering confidence and growing strength even in the face of demonetization.
and demonetized.
And there we go.
Thank you.
Now, it's not only a clip show.
It's not only a clip show, but there's some of that.
Sometimes a billion views, you take a break.
Gosh, it's tough to pick my favorite.
Just look back like the volume of how many days and nights that we've worked on these yeah
So what's your what's your favorite of the montage is the intros that you I'm sorry montage the intros that we've
done You my favorite of the month. Yeah
Gosh, you know it's tough to pick the my favorite probably it still goes back to jaws the first jaws because that was
the first One we ever did yeah, and I said you know what I think I
can work on this impression And the green screening, the lighting was really good.
We matched.
I'm a big fan of matching tenor and tone.
That was up there.
Raging Bull and the recent Saving Private Ryan was technically kind of a marvel.
It was very, very nice.
I like it when Maddie dies in them.
Any of those.
When she blows up, gets shot in the head.
I'm just kidding.
Too cute, Maddie.
I'm just kidding.
How many times did I ask you to put on an outfit where you said no?
You know what's funny is I tell people all the time they're like oh wow I can't believe you like did that on the show.
Don't you like have another job?
And I said yeah for now but no I said you know it's funny like the other things the other things that are asked of me and I'm just like nope not gonna do that.
13... 27 times you've asked me to wear a dress and I've said no.
That wasn't even for the show.
It was just a two-way mirror at TJ Maxx.
I think that's why I ended up in a dress so many times is because he said no and I didn't have the balls.
Well you ended up in a dress because you made such a big deal out of it.
So you did it and you're like, I hate this!
I hate this freaking dress!
Guess what you're doing next week!
We just filmed you bitching about wearing a dress.
Oh, you never actually put it in the show.
As a matter of fact, we never actually request it.
Anytime you see Gerald in a dress, it's just our security cameras that we keep running.
And then we add him in like a Tupac hologram later on.
But this brings us to, speaking of strolls down memory lane, I think this is time to actually go through the top 7 plus 1 controversies that have happened here on Louder With Crowder.
So let's go to it.
7 plus 1.
You forgot the van in the chamber!
All right, and let me know before you pause it, if it's an archive, let me know which ones come to mind for you.
I guess, kind of starting in chronological, number seven would be the union incident in Lansing.
This was before this show existed, but I was on Fox News, and I went down, and it was a right-to-work rally, and we were in a tent.
There was this tent, it was AFP, and I was just there because, you know, there's somewhat safety in numbers.
And the guy there, there was this guy you could smell whiskey on his breath,
told everyone that I was the DeVos' grandson.
Like I'm related to the DeVos family, Betsy DeVos.
Because these leftists in Michigan, they hate the DeVos family,
despite the fact that they employ half the state.
Well above a living wage.
How darn you employ me!
So he was trying to get everyone against me for a while, like, he's the boss's grandson, get him, get him!
And then they started kicking down the tent where the right-to-work pro protesters were, cutting it in with box cutters.
And this guy tripped over a tent peg and I got just sucker punched.
You guys have probably seen this.
People often send it, like, on Twitter, like, it bothers me.
Like, I remember I was punched.
Did you realize I uploaded that?
That's the only footage that you guys have of our upload.
And the reason that was a controversy, though, was because the guy fell, got up, punched me, and then I just sort of walked away.
And then the rumor started, and it was the Young Turks, I believe, who started it, that I had shoved him first.
Because, you know, when you shove a guy, he falls this way into you.
And the prosecuting attorney in Lansing never took, there was a deposition, I didn't know about it, I was never there, he met with the head of the unions in Michigan, did it without me and said, it was pretty clear from the Young Turks footage, they didn't have footage, it was their commentary, it was pretty clear from the Young Turks footage that Stephen started it, so I let the guy go.
Is that common for a deposition like that?
For me to not know, not be there, and my evidence to not even be accepted?
It's not common that you would have been there for it to happen.
It is uncommon that they didn't come and ask you for it.
It's clear that they were looking for an answer.
They found one thing to support it, and they were just moving on.
And so this became a big thing.
It was a huge thing.
And the most frustrating part for me, just as your friend, because at that point, I don't think I was very involved with the show.
I'd call in every once in a while.
It was just like, I know Steven could have kicked that guy's ass without even thinking about it.
But you were in a mob of people.
Maybe not.
Well, the thing is, you'd hear, if you watch it, I think we have the B-roll, and you can't hear right now, there's a guy saying, I have a gun!
I'll kill a motherfucker with a gun!
That's a guy saying it.
That's a Union guy.
And I might be able to, maybe I can find some of this footage, but several of them followed me back to my car.
Yeah, I remember that.
You're like, look, you're just going to have to walk in front of me.
Yeah, that's right.
I said, just walk in front of me.
And I think that was the guy who said, I'll kill a motherfucker with a gun.
So this just was before Antifa, before Black Lives Matter.
I was the original, the knockout game, only I didn't go down.
And then I ran scared because they said they were going to kill a motherfucker with a gun.
Referring to me, I believe.
I was the motherfucker in question.
Yes.
So that's number seven.
That was the first time I ever had become sort of a national story to that degree.
Number six.
Do you remember this one there, Court of Black Garrett?
Wendy Davis at the Women's March.
So you guys remember this?
At the Women's March.
That was before we became pals?
No, no, no.
I felt like it was a moment where you guys should have been pals.
Right, yeah.
Well, we were.
Kindred spirits.
We got an interview with Wendy Davis at the Women's March.
Which is awesome.
The reason why, you know why?
We just had a producer go up and say, hey, will you give an interview?
I'm busy.
She's trans.
Yes, sure, absolutely.
Wendy Davis came out, and the reason I picked this, do you remember, because Wendy Davis, Texas, they were grooming her for a national run.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
With her tennis shoes and the whole deal.
Yeah, she was going to be the next Elizabeth Warner, Debbie Wasserman show.
Who failed miserably in an electorate.
Yeah.
Right.
But I think a big reason for it, so if you watch this, yeah, you can see this right now, this is at the Women's March.
Only got an interview because I claim to be transgender, and that's why we started using Stephanie undercover, because we realized I can do anything, and no one will say a word.
You get a pass.
I can piss hot at a planned parenthood for pregnancy, and they're just like, well, congratulations!
And that actually happened.
You can go back and watch that video.
By the way, if a man pees test positive for a pregnancy, as I did at Planned Parenthood, it means you have testicular cancer.
Yes.
But they didn't say that at Planned Parenthood.
They're like, I don't know.
It's a boy.
But with Wendy Davis, there's a moment right here.
Here, we'll play this right now where you can see it.
If you see, my hat blows off in the wind, and my wig shifts.
And I thought, this jig is up.
This is done.
And then she's just like, oh.
I said, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
And she's like, that's OK.
It happens to the best of us.
I'm like, it does?
I'm sorry.
Put it back on.
And then she never won any sort of elected office again after that.
Because I think that if she were to run for president or even some national office, like,
hmm, yeah, okay, well, we do see your record.
We do see this pamphlet on the issues.
Is this not you with a big tranny at the Women's March with his wig and cap flying off discussing
p****y economics?
I quote, p***y economics.
Miss Davis.
And there were all these articles about it and how it was misleading.
And that was one where I was like, yes, it was.
Yeah, on purpose.
We'll own that one.
That is the purpose of our cover.
Miss, no question.
That's awesome, though, because you can put her in a corner.
She can't do anything against you.
Like, the whole wig could have come off.
You could have started talking like a man again.
And she'd just be like, I can't, I can't not believe you.
I have to believe you.
If she questioned it, she would have been done.
Oh yeah, they give you all kinds of cover if you just claim it.
Because they say, well, you know what, you're a marginalized group.
OK.
I guess that's fine.
I can just go out and commit families.
Whatever.
Is this number five?
Yeah, that's right.
This is number five.
I was working with you at this point.
This was undercover Antifa.
Yeah.
And this was one where it actually led to the arrests of people, which is funny because the media coverage said no arrests were made.
Not only were arrests made, they were made based on the weapon that was handed to my producer on camera earlier that day.
We went down, there was a Ben Shapiro show in Utah, for people who don't remember, and you didn't go with us, right?
No, it was before my time.
Well, had you worked intermittently with us?
OK.
I came and worked in before.
And then you came back.
Yeah.
And I know my dad went down with me, because most people didn't want to go into this quagmire.
And obviously, Not Gay Jared was with me.
And we went down.
And they handed Not Gay Jared.
We thought it would be funny.
It was a goof!
It really was.
And then they hand him an ice pick.
He's like, oh.
This is not a goof.
A taser and a knife.
I'm like, just hold on.
I'm going to get my sawed-off shotgun.
He's like, ah!
Jared has a really jerry-rigged earpiece.
It was an iPhone with a headphone thing.
All I hear is him going, like, they're giving me knives.
I'm in the car with my dad.
They're giving me knives.
I'm like, what?
I'm sure if they heard his earpiece, they would just hear, did you just say they're giving you knives?
Oh my god.
And then he goes, oh, they're going to get a sawed off shotgun.
They're going to get a sawed-off shotgun and a K-Bar.
Did you just say K-Bar?
I'm like, yeah, okay.
He goes, you want me to stay?
And we go, you have to get out of there, Jared.
You have to get out of there.
And then we share, I don't know.
Oh, okay.
Hold on.
Hey guys, I gotta take a s***.
And he just left.
He just left.
But just for us to use the car.
No, no, not at all.
And so then after that, we're thinking, I texted Ben Shapiro.
Well, thank you.
And they were kind of standing with a K bar.
I'm like, you're welcome.
Just saved your life.
No, I did.
I told him.
I did tell him.
I said right away, hey, be careful.
He came in the back way.
And then we were dealing with the local police right there.
So the local police said, what do you have?
Do you have this footage?
We said, yeah.
We had brought in our laptops.
Yeah.
There was local news there.
And I said, hey, do you guys want this footage?
Because I know you're covering the protest.
Here is the action I was showing them.
Look, this is the actual footage.
See, they're handing him a knife.
They're handing him a taser.
They're saying that they're going to get sawed off shot.
This is on camera.
Yeah.
Every single local reporter turned it down.
Had no interest.
I said, by the way, this is legitimate.
We're going into the police van right now to offload the footage.
You can have the exclusive.
And with Ben Shapiro that day was that reporter from, what was his name there, Darren?
Do we know the name of that report from 60 Minutes?
The guy had a panic attack live on air.
Does someone remember the name of this guy?
That guy.
All right, someone will bring it up and give it to me afterwards.
Anyways, national news.
And he was looking at it, and we said, look, look, look, they're handing us a knife right here.
They looked in a taser, and he goes like, oh, OK.
And then afterward, we saw them all go out and say, a largely peaceful protest.
Exactly.
That night, the girl who handed us the taser, and we gave it back to her, TASED SOMEBODY with that weapon and was arrested, and then we sent on the, because we got into their cryptic messaging app, we sent them just us going like this, give them the middle finger.
Yeah.
And I swear to you, the girl who was arrested for using that taser was going, you better give my knife back, asshole.
Are you serious?
I'm in jail.
When I get out of this cell, I better have my knife waiting for me or I'm going to sue.
Give me my evidence back.
Good luck.
Yeah.
That's when Antifa was basically, you know, peaceful.
Everybody thought they were peaceful.
You guys turned into, like, undercover journalists there.
And it wasn't just that he was going back to get a shotgun.
It was, I have a fallback position.
If things go down, we can, like, fall back to my car.
I have multiple guns there.
We're like, what?
Is this peaceful protest?
It was like, was it in Patriot, where you're running back?
Or in Robber Hood, where then they come up from, like, the dirt trap.
Surprise!
Only it's, you know, people in bandanas who are gender non-binary.
And the guy who turned the story down is, let's see, Dan Harris.
Yeah, the 10% happier guy.
Meditation and all that stuff.
And then that girl was arrested and I was just, this was something to me, I learned, and the reason I picked these initially, the union issue and this, I learned really quickly that the media doesn't care about truth.
They really, really don't.
Listen, you can argue, okay, some people on the far right are aggressive and then some
people on the far left and they're fringe, but they weren't arguing that.
Like I said, they were arguing Antifa is a peaceful organization, like Vox, they're anti-fascist,
that's all it is.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a serious crime.
Serious crimes were committed, people were arrested, and it was not a peep.
So thank you guys so much, because we got tens of millions of plays on that, and it was covered.
That never would have happened if not for Mug Club, because we would have never been able to afford going out there and bringing a crew, and certainly would have never been able to afford uploading this and having the staff to do it.
That's something that I think changed the view of Antifa.
And we didn't go out and sort of champion our own cause, saying, hey, we're the ones who exposed Antifa.
But it really was the first undercover sting that showcased them to be not only as violent as they were, but the top story was the fact that the media wanted it to not be a story.
Exactly.
This next one is very much, this is three?
Four.
Four.
It's when Bob Ross.
This is the Bob Ross estate.
This is when we tested the retainer.
Yes, you did.
Now, Audio, you were new here, but when did you start watching the show?
I think the first thing I ever saw was the undercover Muslim bakery.
Oh, yeah.
That was just me with an iPhone.
Yeah, so I remember watching that and talking about the sting.
It was sort of like an undercover thing, but it was also funny.
Talking about what we were talking about earlier, it was so different from anything else that I was seeing because it was obviously like a right-wing video, but it was entertaining and it felt like news, but it also was...
I'm not looking to sue.
We were looking to entertain people.
Hey, look at this.
I was very clear.
I was like, hey, I don't think Muslims should have to bake a penis cake, but you do.
That was the point of the video.
And I used to have all these conservatives, and I think they approach you now with like,
hey, you know what?
You have a case here.
You should sue.
I'm like, first off, I'm not looking to sue.
I'm looking to create content.
Now, in the case of our show, let's say we're throttled, we're unfairly treated.
That's where if you look at the options of being litigious, but we can't just go out
looking for controversy and suing.
We always seek to create content.
And that was a Muslim thing.
And the hypocrisy was so funny.
Yeah.
Especially at that point in culture, it was all about that bakery.
It was a perfect time to drop that.
Just the balls.
The Muslims were very friendly in saying no.
Can you bake a cake?
I'm like, and two men?
And they're holding hands?
No.
So, did you see the Bob Ross, the original one?
I don't think I did.
It's the greatest video ever.
Well, this is a good example of it.
We were doing a three-hour show, so this was back when it was a radio show, and it was bizarre.
The first Bob Ross sketch, you can just see some B-roll here a little bit, and then you can go and watch these clips, and I'll actually toss to the final clip.
So, it was just an idea.
This was in the middle of a three-hour show.
We didn't upload it as a clip, I don't think, for a while.
It was just, hey, let's do Bob Ross.
It might have been after Charlie Hebdo.
I'm not sure.
I might have just wanted to piss some people off.
It had been a while.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It had been a while.
So I figured I was due for, I'm like, oh, that head is fatwa-less.
I was about to say, did your fatwa expire and you wanted to re-up or what?
And so we just did that.
We threw it into the three-hour show, where I was painting Bob Ross as Muhammad.
And we thought that was it.
Well, that was not it.
That was definitely not it.
That blew up.
It became very big.
And then we did it a second time.
Oh no, that first time, I remember Nick DiPaolo was on that show.
God love him.
Nick DiPaolo, one of the funniest people on earth.
But we had a thumbnail, and it's a picture of me, Nick DiPaolo, and the Muhammad.
Painting.
Yeah.
And I just got a phone call.
Sorry, the censor button today, but I get a phone call.
Ring, ring.
I'm like, Nick DiPaolo.
I remember I was driving.
I was driving in downtown Grand Rapids.
I was going to a coffee place.
What was a coffee place?
I can't remember what it was.
Madcap.
And then I get another call from Nick DiPaolo.
I'm like, oh, that's two calls.
Maybe it's an emergency.
I pick it up.
Hello?
Are you out of your f***ing mind?
What?
You know, I think, like, you're talented.
You got balls.
But you have me next.
Are you kidding me?
You have my picture right up there next to a f***ing painting of Muhammad?
What, are you crazy?
You gotta change it!
You gotta change it now!
Get me off!
I'm like, well, yeah, you know, you're no stranger to controversy.
Yeah, but there's some f***ing context!
It's not just my face next to Mohammed!
And I said, well, I can change it, but I'm not home.
It's gonna take me a couple hours.
He's like, get home!
So that was the first one.
Nothing happened.
Yeah, nothing on the legal side.
And then there was BuzzFeed Boldly painting in period blood.
And this was featured on YouTube front page.
And I think we spoke with some people at YouTube, and I think they did something that was also religious.
It was something with Christ.
It was like Piss Christ, and I don't remember exactly what it was.
So we said, well, okay.
Now this is happening.
And we brought back Bob Ross to paint Muhammad in menstruation.
And this was just because they had featured it from BuzzFeed Boldly.
We said, let's add a different layer to this.
And that was a problem.
It's always the layering that gets us in trouble.
The Muhammad layer.
Not long after this, we receive a letter.
We receive an actual letter, right?
And you tell them what the letter was.
It was from... Yeah, so it was from the estate of Bob Ross, who owns the rights to his likeness and his materials and whatnot.
And they were upset over the painting and the sketch and the content and every minute and second of it.
And they were very interested in demanding that we take it down, and they listed out some legal arguments which we responded to.
One of them was also that, as you know, is a flagrant disregard for Islamic law and customs.
Yes.
So it was that.
There was a couple, you know, legal arguments about copyright and some other, you know, use of likeness and a few other things.
So we wrote back... Which we knew we were in the clear on that.
Yeah, we knew we were good on that stuff.
I mean, we knew, you know, there may have been some, you know, social mores that we were crossing, but certainly no legal lines.
But you knew that when you signed up for this right anyway.
I was like, on the copyright front, we're fine, right?
Yeah, you're fine, but you probably shouldn't paint Mohammed in period blood.
I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter.
That's not your domain.
That's not the question for you, lawyer.
I could find any lawyer to tell me, no, I want you to show me yes.
It's like the Jerry Maguire, yeah, exactly.
And so we responded, you know, tore apart their arguments, you know, show why there was just no way it was gonna happen.
So they wrote back again and they said, you know, just if you have any human decency.
Will you take it down?
They gave up on the legal arguments.
They gave up on the social more arguments.
But they were still pretty jerky, because they were telling us we didn't have any decency.
Yes.
And that is why.
And this is one of the times where I said, hey, half-Asian Bill.
And I think now, if I were to ask, you would dress up as Bob Ross now, because you dressed up as Tattoo.
Bob Ross is nothing.
But at the time, it was the first request where I said, Bill, will you respond as Bob Ross?
And he said, no.
No, I think I will always be happy to be Bob Ross.
What I'm painting is Bob Ross.
That's a difference.
I think one of my favorite conversations with Bill I've had is he's looking at a script that I wrote and he's going through it silently and then, yeah, I'm not gonna lick my lips.
That was my only line.
It was like, Bill, stand there.
And then it was in like one change.
It was like, stand, stand, stand, stand, lick lips.
I was like, nope.
Who am I, Drake?
Nope, not happening.
Am I doing this?
No, I'm not doing it.
But you know, we wrote back in response to that last letter.
They were like, please just take it down.
In kind of a snarkier part of the letter, I just said, if you've ever watched the show, you know we're not going to take it down.
I remember there was one final communication where then we responded by video and that is where it could be half-Asian Bill said he wouldn't dress up as Bob Ross but I think it was more so that he didn't want to be involved in painting said legal representatives as Bob Ross eating from a pile of corn infested shit.
Yes.
This is the moment I was like, this show, the greatest show of all time.
Along with Muhammad.
We just tossed it in there and here's actually a clip to the grand finale of the Bob Ross controversy
Welcome back to the joy of painting I'm Bob Ross.
Now, painting can be used as more than just something that's beautiful to look at.
It can be used to express oneself.
Sometimes it can be used to express frustration, tranquility, or sometimes gratitude, as we'll be doing today, expressing gratitude in response to some passionate fan mail we've received.
We have a lot of different viewers here at the Joy of Painting.
Some viewers are policemen, some are firemen, and some are lawyers who we'll be responding to today.
Who have talked about this show with great vigor that Bob Ross is in violation of copyright law.
So we want to respond to them and make sure they know they're welcome on this program so you can grab your palette.
Today we'll be working with a lot of Browns.
A lot of browns.
The beauty of brown here is you can mix it with any color and it's a different brown.
Become a bay or a taupe.
For our passionate lawyer friend, we're gonna start by drawing a pile of s**t. Just with little short strokes.
There you go.
It's a little, starts off as a molehill and turns into a mountain.
Just a big old mountain of s**t.
And there we go.
Just a valley of piping hot shit.
We'll mix up some color, add some red in there.
It'll make it a little bit more of a cocoa flavoring at that point.
Give it some depth.
And now we're going to move into portrait mode and paint our lawyer friend who sent us the fan mail falsely notifying us of a violation of copyright.
Like a gazelle at a familiar watering hole, bending over on all fours to eat from our steaming hot pile of s**t. Let's draw a few lawyers.
I'm sure with a firm they have some lawyer friends.
I'm still going with brown.
You can use any color you like.
Taupe or sand.
Depends on the diet.
Here's another lawyer.
And there you go.
Or sent out in droves onto YouTube to flag as violations eating from our firm but corn infested pile of s**t. Oh, there you go.
Everyone's sharing.
There's plenty of this pile of s**t to go around for the entire firm.
If you feel like there's not enough, you can wait your turn.
There's plenty of room for you to eat at this big old mountain of sh**.
And there we go.
Oh, that's lovely.
And you know what? We're a big fan of traditions.
you Here at the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, and they look like they could use a friend.
So let's finish this up with a nice little portrait of Muhammad.
Joining them and eating from this big old pile of sh**.
There he is, Muhammad.
Holiest of prophets, peace be upon him.
With a team of false, trademark-flagging lawyers.
Eating.
From a big pile of personally drawn s**t. From me to you, I'm Bob Ross.
Happy painting, and God bless you, my friend.
♪ And then we never heard from them again.
Yeah.
Like I said, we are not the sharks of YouTube, but we can be a puffer fish.
In that, you bite us, you hurt your mouth, or even if you capture us, and you kill us, and you cook us up, we're going to poison you.
One way or the other.
Either way.
Unsafe, really.
It's all coming up Crowder.
So number three.
This one we don't really need to go through for that long.
It was the ABC Disney Oscars stream that was pulled.
And the reason this was pretty significant was because we'd been dealing with false copyright stuff a lot.
And what happened was we would have all these claims.
We've never lost any of those hard claims.
They've changed the system now, but back when they used to actually have to file a claim and you would manually counter-file, not a single one have we ever lost, to be clear.
But then they realized, sure there's a two-week process, but then the video ultimately gets up, they realized they could hit us with live streams.
Because at that point, you lose those viewers, you never get them back.
Exactly.
And this was the second or third year we were doing the Oscars.
It wasn't the first year.
It was the second.
And it was ABC-Disney, and they were waiting because it happened very quickly where the Oscar stream was taken down right away.
And the reason I bring this up is because obviously it got up later.
We won this because we were in the right, but you don't get those viewers back, and so we were really upset.
But so many of you, so many people in that moment, you joined up at Mug Club.
You went right to the livewithcredit.com.
It was huge.
And then we had, I think we had live stream over at Mug Club, or was it The Blaze?
At that point we didn't have live streaming, I don't think, at The Blaze.
No, we didn't.
It was still on Facebook, I believe.
It was on Facebook.
Then we went to Instagram.
Instagram, just with my cell phone video, and the amount of viewers was shocking.
So not only did you watch, but once it was removed, you guys said, you know what, I'm going to sign up.
So many people actually double signed up, or renewed their subscriptions for three years.
Just because they saw the foul play, and it was just something where we said, oh, wow, okay, we really need to do right by these supporters.
It was a moment that the fans and the people that are watching saw it in real time.
They see us saying it later, or, you know, like, oh, we got this taken down, we're losing monetization on these videos, and that's something that's kind of like In the ether, almost, to them.
But they saw it, in real time, as they're watching the show, us get taken down.
So I think it was a big moment.
I saw it as the tip of the iceberg, where people are finally seeing what the problem is, and they actually had a moment to glimpse the entire iceberg.
Not just the little part that they see when we talk about it here, and asking for support from Mug Club, and the very best fans in those moments stepped up.
Every time we talk about Mug Club and what Mug Club does, literally the show cannot happen No.
This is the only, we have no Patreon, we have no GoFundMe, because you see what they do
with conservatives.
We said we only want to be funded by you and if you select sponsors, which we'll get to
in a minute, we've really only had, can I talk about the sponsors that have dropped
us?
No, no, no.
No, I view that as a turning point too because, you know, people can use a gimmick like, oh
You gotta support us.
You're the only way.
And I know that we tell them, like, hey guys, this is the only way that this exists, is if you are a part of Mug Club.
That showed everybody.
It showed them just, like you said, live, but it also gave them this feeling of like, oh my gosh, if they want to take conservative voices off of this platform, they can.
They can just do stuff like this to them.
They'll just screw them somehow.
They'll figure out a way, and so we've gotta get around it.
And they really screwed the pooch with that one, because the big legal term you can tell, I guess educate the audience, is whether the content is transformative.
Right, so the fair use question is, are you transforming the underlying copyrighted content, and there's a few other factors, and transformative being one of the bigger ones, and of course, you know, over the, you know, commenting on an event that's occurring, and costumes, and a set, and guests, we added it up, I think it was like 12%, the actual Oscar stream was up for 12% of the time.
Right, it was so obvious.
Tiny, tiny percentage.
So, and then you guys got us back up and stronger than ever.
Okay, this brings us to number two.
This is one that many of you may have forgotten about because it happened a little while ago.
This was my favorite.
Literally my favorite one.
This might be my favorite one too.
Well, because there were also some internal issues that went on with there, where we had some other internal counsel who were saying that we shouldn't do this in the first place.
And I will say, Bill took my side, where he said, no, no, you can do this.
Absolutely.
So Shia LaBeouf, if you don't... Okay, number two, when we were sued by Shia LaBeouf.
Context.
You know, you're bearing the lead here.
We beat Shia LaBeouf.
We beat Shia LaBeouf in a lawsuit, that's true.
So he did the He Will Not Divide Us, you remember, after Donald Trump became president.
He will not divide us!
He will not divide us!
And so he set up this camera in a public space in New York, outside of some kind of art museum, where anyone could go and say he will not divide us.
And so we're like, OK, so this is up there.
This is a stream that's up there.
Not many people were watching it, but it was making some headlines.
And so I said, hey, I have an idea.
How about we go to New York and we broadcast our entire show from Shia LaBeouf's stream?
And here's the thing, this is one thing I will say again with Mug Club and what you guys do that support us.
Anyone can just go there and go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah So this is why I love Half-Asian Bill, because he said, that's probably a no, but what if?
And so what we did was we created these sort of, almost like a snare drum, neck band, soundboard.
It's like a cigarette lady.
Yes, exactly, like a cigarette lady.
And a desk with a microphone and mugs, and we went there to Shia LaBeouf's live stream and broadcast our entire show.
And also, God love him, Dean Cain was there to fill in the holes for Good Morning America.
That's right, he showed up.
extra day so that while we were doing the he will not divide us live stream and
now we started having fans flooding in right yeah security and officers going
what's going on here we have Dean Cain walking like hey Dean Cain!
And we have Dean Cain on Shia LaBeouf's he will not divide us live stream. And a side note from Dean Cain.
Dean Cain is the kind of guy who makes you very sad because he's so he's just
He's very good looking.
He's very smart.
And when you spend time with him, you realize he's actually really quick and kind of acid.
He's an acid-tongued Asian.
Oh, wow.
At one point, I just remember this.
I have a necklace, mug, and microphone.
And we're in a Mexican restaurant.
It's right around the corner from You Will Not Divide Us.
And I'm getting ready.
And Dean Cain is sitting there with me.
And he's eating.
He has an entire bowl of guacamole.
He's on his second bowl of guacamole.
And a big-ass margarita.
It looks like pink with salt around the rim.
And I'm trying, you know, before the show, I'm focusing on a million different things.
I'm like, I'm about to go out.
I'm gonna get my ass kicked by Shia LaBeouf.
And so, I mean, you know, like, body shots.
Just do the pullback.
And I go, oh, wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
Dean, Dean, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize no one's here with you at the restaurant, because you're going to be here for 20 minutes when we start the show.
Do you need any help?
Do you need anything?
And he goes, no.
Really?
Are you sure?
He goes, yeah.
You know why I'm sure?
And he takes a nacho, guacamole, and a sip of his margarita.
He goes, because I'm a grown ass f***ing man.
This is my life So do you remember in the beginning of the live stream when you were doing it?
There were actually some people who were not fans of the show didn't know the show came right and you were giving them mugs and they were like that the day before yeah, that was the day before we gave them mugs with hot chocolate We went down there, we gave them mugs full of coffee and hot chocolate, and so all these people are on Shia LaBeouf's stream going like, yeah, shout out to a lot of those crowded guys that gave us this coffee.
Mug club, you guys should join.
And you know he's just so pissed that he did this, right?
Well, he got pissed and right away they basically came after us to sue us.
It was Lebev Ronko Turner, I think was the firm or whatever, and it was, I think, the
lesser Lebev Ronko Turner, it was Ronko.
Yeah, it's the other creators, you know, they each share in the alleged copyright.
And he was threatening to sue.
And of course, one, we argued that it was transformative, but the reason he was really upset was because it was the highest viewed portion ever of the He Will Not Divide Us livestream.
They saw a spike, like, we gotta stop, we gotta put a stop to this.
And then after that, that's what spurred, they moved the He Will Not Divide Us to other places, and all these people on Reddit, and I guess back then 4chan, would triangulate where they set up the new camera, and it just became a game of taking it down.
Yes, it was like, capture the flag.
So it was good.
So we were sued by Shia LaBeouf, his guys, and we won.
Number one, and we have a plus one, but number one should be no surprise to anyone, and this is really in the last, this last year, the number one controversy that we've had here at Lighthouse Crowder is, yeah, the Vox Adpocalypse.
Boom.
And I want to get all of your thoughts on this here, and I want you to let me know where you were, what you remember from the Vox Apocalypse.
I mean, we had talked a lot about being demonetized.
Most of our videos had been demonetized.
We'd been throttled, where our videos weren't showing up in subscriber feeds.
It was like 90% of videos.
Right.
But that being said, we didn't have this kind of a consequence ever before.
No, right.
And it all of a sudden burst out, this highlight reel, this hit reel on me.
I remember the Hodge twins saying it.
They were like, yeah, I was seeing you and your dad.
You were on Don Lemon's show going, quack, quack, quack, quack.
And John Lim is saying, disgusting!
And this, actually, the reason this is the biggest controversy is not only because you guys stepped up and, again, supported us to a degree that we had never seen up until then.
Insane.
But this changed policy for YouTube.
Yeah, it did.
Because we did not violate the policies, which, by the way, New York Times, we're looking for that retraction.
We coming for you!
We didn't violate any policy at all, but people were so mad.
And people really weren't mad.
It was a leftist hate mob trying to go after us.
They demonetized us, even though most of our videos didn't run afoul of demonetization.
And I will tell you this, I've talked about this kind of on air.
But not so much.
When YouTube called after this was going on, the highlight reel, and it was trending everywhere, and I was on the phone.
Half-Asian Bill was not with me.
You were somewhere else.
And they were reading a statement.
Remember?
It was people from YouTube, faceless, nameless.
They didn't give names.
We had no idea who they were.
Well, just to be clarified, we asked for their names, and they said they felt uncomfortable even identifying who they were, these people giving the message.
Yes.
They started reading a statement, and the first portion of the statement read like they were going to remove our channel from YouTube.
But then it ended up being, we're just going to demonetize you.
And I was like, well, OK.
All right.
We're not making that much money from you guys anyway.
But at first, for about a good 23 seconds, I thought, oh, no.
Oh, no.
They're going to have to switch because these angry gay folks at Vox are trying to manipulate policy.
And I remember the room started spinning, and my knees went out, and I thought I was having a heart attack.
Really?
I remember I thought I was having a... turns out it was like a... I don't even think it was a panic attack.
I don't know what a... I've sort of had panic issues before in the past, but this was actually... I just felt like I couldn't breathe and the room was spinning.
Yeah.
And I fell back and I remember thinking just, oh my gosh, everyone works for us.
What are we going to do at this point?
Because we hadn't really been super public about it.
We hadn't fought back yet.
This is before we had done the apology video.
So I was thinking if they just remove our channel, then it goes away in the dark.
You know, we wanted this to be a firefight in public.
And then when they said, OK, you're just demonetized.
I mean, that for me was a relief.
Like, whoo!
OK, good, you know?
Like, I just did the Snickers commercial, where someone just shoved one in my mouth.
Which, by the way, don't do if someone's having a seizure.
Do not shove a Snickers in his mouth if he's having a seizure.
And remember, we came back in.
And I came back into the room.
I don't think you guys knew how rattled I was.
And I said, OK, this is what we're going to do.
And we did the apology video that was 16 minutes of insulting everybody.
It was going through all of our worst bits, all of our most offensive jokes, and we even threw some new ones in there for good measure just in case.
Yeah, we just wanted to be careful.
And you guys joined up so much to the point where when YouTube spoke of this afterwards, going, do you use YouTube memberships?
We said...
No.
We don't.
I do like Vice News.
They reported that the whole thing just made the show stronger.
Yes.
They were furious about it.
And it absolutely did.
Yeah, it made it a whole lot stronger.
We had more subscribers than ever.
And by the way, there could be another Vox Adpocalypse.
But this is what really stood out to me.
This was the first time that someone had done an all out assault.
Make no mistake, this was something that was a long time in the making.
Yeah.
from Vox and Media Matters.
Poorly produced them all.
They pulled all of the worst things they could pull.
Everyone, the Young Turks, New York Times, I don't know if it was Samantha Bee, some of the late night hosts, they all wanted to make me out to be this monster.
Which, like I said, sent more people to our show.
This was the first show that had that happen and we won.
And we weren't de-platformed.
And I will say this, there have been unjust de-platformings that we've gone in and we can't do it for everybody.
But we all... General rule is, unless someone is breaking the law, they shouldn't be de-platformed.
Okay?
Right. Yeah.
But, um, it was, uh, it was one of those things where, um, I forgot what I was about to say, but...
Go ahead.
Well, I think, I think this was probably for me because I was on the outside.
Because a lot of people don't know.
I don't stay around the studios all day.
I come in for the shows.
We do prep and some stuff.
I was on the outside looking in and I was really concerned because I started seeing stuff happening on Twitter before I got a chance to talk to you guys.
I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's really going after us.
And I wasn't worried that he was upset.
I was worried that everybody seemed to be kind of like, yeah, this is a bad, like big players were coming around and I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is like a concerted effort to try to take this show down.
And not to mention that Vox was invested in by NBCUniversal, which is one of the biggest media conglomerates ever.
And they're the ones who put on the Recode conference where Susan Wojcicki was talking about it.
Right behind her.
They consistently tried to frame it as though we had violated policies, and even Susan Wojcicki, to her credit, was like, they didn't violate policies, but it's borderline, and I hate the fact, obviously we weren't looking to change policies so that more content is borderline, and a lot of non-political channels were affected, but not only did our audience come to our defense, but also the entire YouTube community, and people who hate me, rightfully so!
Yeah, I saw a ton of people that were like, I'm not even political, I don't watch political stuff, but I'm gonna go become a mug clubber because this is messed up, this is not I thought the really exciting thing is that essentially YouTube couldn't operate under cover of darkness anymore with regards to their policy and how they were doing things.
So the whole result of it was that people got to see more of what was actually happening.
Again, kind of seeing the whole iceberg.
But then the other part was the number of times I've run into people or like we were at the A&M show and they said the turning point for them and understanding and like actually checking out the content.
was saying, okay, I saw the clip video, I've seen some of the tweets and the stories,
I'm going to go watch this for myself. These were thinking young adults,
teenagers, older adults who were all saying, I was like, I'm going to go check and see whether
the news I'm being told is correct. So they went and watched the videos and came away thinking,
I'm shocked I'm not already a subscriber.
Right, right.
And they signed up for Mud Club.
Well, I think three main points, actually, that I wanted to touch on.
One was I'm actually really grateful because they've already done their legwork in trying to find the best.
So it's all out there.
Just go watch the Vox Highlight Reel.
There you go.
That's the worst to me, baby.
Until the apology video, which was, of course, worse.
Which was insanely funny.
So they did the Highlight Reel, right?
And that sent more people to us at this point.
And I think something that did save us with YouTube is Word...
Kind of two things that you'll hear if you work in this industry.
One is that we work harder than every other program out there.
Everyone here works really hard.
I wouldn't say I'm necessarily the most talented or gifted person, but I will say that it's pretty known that I work hard and everyone in this team works hard.
We all expect to work hard.
Another thing is people know that we have more subscribers than any other exclusive, over-the-top service out there, period.
It's well known.
That Mug Club is the biggest, period.
Outside of pornography and the early aughts, you guys have signed up en masse.
To the point where if YouTube were to have removed us, still many tens of thousands of views would be on our response on Mug Club, and that would look even worse.
So I think that forced the hand a little bit where they were like, ooh, you know, if we remove this, this isn't someone who's just going to go away with a few hundred people who are doing a Patreon.
These are a lot of people who are going to be mobilizing.
And I think the reason that we weren't deplatformed was, and it wasn't just because of us trying to refuse to apologize.
I apologize all the time when I'm wrong.
But we knew that we weren't wrong, and because of your support, we knew we had to do right by you and stand fast and stand by our principles.
And so the apology video, rather than a lot of people who either apologize in a soft way or kind of make it about, please don't remove us, we did the apology video, which was, OK, Here you go, it's only going to get worse.
And no one had done that.
That's what I love about this show.
And what they missed is that said Vox guy's videos were so horrible, and that's what we were commenting on.
And the entire thing, and it just kept coming back up.
It wasn't even the Vox guy.
We did plenty of rebuttals.
That also saved us.
We did rebuttals to Vox where it didn't involve this guy.
No.
He was incidental.
But the videos that were coming out were so bad that we had to respond to them.
Yep.
OK, and then that's the top seven.
Then there's a plus one.
This is one I will personally, speaking of which, personally apologize for, because I lied to you.
Yeah.
What?
I lied.
Now, is this B-roll or is there a clip that we're throwing?
There's a clip.
OK.
How long is the clip?
It's two minutes.
Oh, two minutes.
OK.
So this controversy here, I will, by the way, hit the notification bell if you're watching on YouTube,
because apparently subscriptions don't mean a whole lot right
now.
Hit all notifications.
And this is a good time to tell you, Crowder Bits is a channel where we upload other content,
sketches, all that kind of stuff.
And of course, iTunes.
I guess that's Apple Play now.
Podcast.
Podcast.
Yeah.
And Mug Club is the main thing.
But I lied to you guys for years.
Yeah.
Years.
I used you and abused you when I told you that we were, hashtag never daily, that we were never
going to go daily with this show.
And I did so, and I would say that our exploratory committee was definitely never going to allow us to go daily.
Full disclosure, I apologize, I was doing that all along, planning on going daily.
And you deserve better.
But you didn't get it.
You got Daily instead.
And that's also something that a lot of people don't know if you're not a member of MugClub.
You only get a clip on YouTube.
But people at MugClub, they get Ash Wednesday, they get all kinds of stuff.
So this is the timeline of the Never Daily?
Yeah.
Okay, I apologize for this.
I did it.
I was wrong.
I'm a work in progress.
Proudly introducing the MugClub.
Lotter with Crowder has gone daily.
We are too wild and overrated sketch artists.
Oh, you're scaring the screens.
I just wanted to mess with you guys.
You'll notice it's very different, there's no standard intro for today's show, that's because this is the first installment of a bi-weekly, is bi-weekly every other week?
I don't know about taking your questions.
My girlfriend is nine... My girlfriend of nine months.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for the small font, Johnny Boy!
I hope you saved a hell of a lot of ink, asshole!
Looking for dead people.
Jeez!
Where?
They sent a 14-year-old?
This is Faces of Death!
Is this Nazi Germany?
Oh my god!
She's forgiven her husband after he hired a hitman to kill her.
So she's bad at picking out husbands.
He's really bad at picking out assassins.
Yeah.
We don't want to be this.
You made up that.
Let's just make this and enjoy it.
We'll just sit back and talk.
Back, kind of harkens back to the radio days, which is when you started following, uh,
Quarter Black, Garrett.
Everybody, go blow it and jump.
Don't blow smoke at me, you little bastards.
I'm gonna smell it.
Turn three, friend.
Yeah!
Shoot it.
Every joke that makes the show, every bit, we probably, what would you say we write,
Like, four, five, six get cut every day.
This definitely has a Courtney flair to it, right?
This is not going on YouTube.
It would be immediately demonetized.
Let's have Griff read number six pitched Jeffrey Epstein vehicles.
Number six.
I can't read.
Son of a bitch, Grif!
Grif!
You know what? I'm out.
Hey, you know what? I'm out.
Hey, you know what? I'm out.
Hey, you know what?
I'm actually going to make the first Thursday ever Ash Wednesday.
It looks like a nice cigar, too.
Is that the one that had the electrical tape as a band?
It did, yeah.
Hold on a second.
Someone else carry the mic here while I get this going.
So, for people who haven't subscribed to Mug Club yet, you're terrible.
But second, We love you anyway.
The fun thing about the S1C...
Mr. Coronavirus.
Mr. A2 receptors, genetic proclivity toward pandemics.
If Trump wants to have another trade war with China, we will keep bringing the coronavirus.
Oh wow, that's a great response.
So the thing I love most about the stuff that's behind the paywall and Mug Club and is available is we get a lot more
in depth.
We talk about a lot of different topics.
We're really engaging with a lot of different fan questions and comments and stuff like that.
And you really get to see another side of everything that's done here.
And more of what a lot of people like about what they see on YouTube.
But like we said, we can't do any of the rest of it without Mug Club.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
Sorry, I tossed that thing.
It was going to be a timeline of the Never Daily, but we told you we were never going daily for a long time.
And I will say this.
The reason why, all joking aside, was because we knew that at the time we didn't have... I knew that we didn't have the capacity to do a daily show.
Yeah.
And so we launched on election night when we were going daily.
That's right.
You were with me.
That was a long...
Long night and a long 18-hour drive across the country afterwards, where we knew that if we had enough sign-ups, and that was actually a bit of a risk, because we said, okay, if we announce that we're going daily, maybe enough people will sign up where we can afford the resources we need to go daily, and we hit that number within the first four hours of election night.
And again, I own 100% of this, and we worked with CRTV, now we have a partnership with The Blaze, where you get access to all their catalog, and of course they help handle this back-end, these apps that now work really well.
The Blaze app is just stuff that we were never able to afford, so we've been able to do this without having to take money from Al Jazeera.
Yeah.
Though it was offered many times.
They've never taken outside money.
That's something people don't understand either.
It's you, and then we have partnership agreements, you know, where we either give a percentage or get a percentage from some other folks.
Okay, so we do have to go on a lot of memory lanes to stroll down.
How many memory lanes are there in the United States?
There's got to be at least one.
We've done quite a few of these and actually we'll be releasing the album soon.
So, something that's relatively new, we've done quite a few of these and actually we'll
be releasing the album soon.
Everybody's been asking for it.
I don't know if it's going to be at Spotify or wherever, but we've done enough musical
We started off where we would do them every now and then, just intermittently.
Sometimes it'd be on a Thursday show, sometimes it'd be on a Monday or Tuesday show behind the paywall, you know, Mug Club.
And I say Mug Club, I need to say it because you haven't seen it, but I'm talking about this content.
And then actually we started doing more of them when Audio Wade came in, because Audio Wade is a skilled singer.
And also able to produce some music.
Yeah.
And so before that, I would have to write all the lyrics and then send off to this other guy, who's unbelievable, but he's abroad.
He's remote.
And so it would take a long time.
So we started doing more of these musical parodies.
And we hear you.
We appreciate you.
We are always trying to do more of them.
But again, some of these music videos take a lot of production.
They do.
Yeah.
So before we go, what's your favorite track that we've done as far as music?
What was the one we did in the montage earlier, where I'm in the back playing the guitar?
Is it Dr. Trump?
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
It's one of my favorites.
Mine was Dr. Trump, just because the costumes were outrageous.
That one was fun.
The lyrics were awesome.
That was pretty fun.
And we shot that here at the new studio before it was a studio.
We're like, we need a warehouse!
Wait, we have a warehouse!
Because until we get new Mug Club subscribers, we can't afford to furnish it!
Audio-wise, you're the music guy.
I think Nirvana is my favorite one.
It smells like two-spirit.
Yeah, I like that one.
And I do like Long Time Ago because it's kind of raw.
I like the Rocket Man Kim Jong-un just because that was awesome.
Just because of Gerald A. as Dennis Rodman.
He looks so much like a white Dennis Rodman that we had you back on the show as Dennis Rodman.
I wrote it into the show.
I'm like, I don't know how we get there.
But it ends with Gerald A. as Dennis Rodman.
Yeah, I get to the studio, and they're like, uh, yeah, you have a costume.
I'm like, what?
I have a what?
Yeah, yeah.
OK, I've come to correction.
My favorite one is Audio Wade in Got an Itch Girl.
Oh, that one's pretty good.
I've probably watched it 50 times.
I mean, also, you got Quarter Black with his swivel hips over there.
Of course.
It's unbelievable.
He steals the show with those hips.
I just forgot about that.
Unfortunately, Father Mother.
His hips.
Oh, yeah, Father Mother.
That was awesome.
His hips are mostly straightforward, but occasionally they fib.
This is, I hope you enjoy it.
Let us know what other musical parodies you would like to see.
This is an episode where we want to hear from you, we want your feedback, and we want to see your comments because that will help dictate the direction of the show.
Let us know.
Here are our favorite musical parodies.
We've only just begun with your C's and D's.
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I said, welcome to A2 City.
Every place, everywhere we go.
Yeah, they want try to ban our show.
They call me Dr. Trump.
I've got the winter treatment on.
We want control and contention. Hear us cry now, that avengers.
We want control and contention. Hear us cry now, that avengers.
Crowder gon' give it to ya!
YouTube, we can do it on our own!
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Knock, knock!
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Trigger motherfuckers wonderin' damn, did he say it?
Yeah, right, and I'll say it again!
Got a half-century life, so I got to win!
And there we go.
You would think I was the one who was quarter black.
No, it was pretty good.
It's this one.
And you just thought he was Mexican.
All right, we are going to have to go, actually, to a commercial break really quickly.
And I should have said, this is where we're going to have our guests.
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He wasn't involved, and they were dropped so quickly.
It was one week.
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Steven, congratulations on an incredible milestone.
When I first heard about it, I figured it was maybe a thousandth episode, something like that, but one billion views.
That's the real deal, man.
I'm surprised that they're still allowing you on the platform, frankly.
Well, it just goes to show you what you can achieve with a little bit of effort, ingenuity, and a small, rent-free space in your parents' basement.
I suppose we all need our hobbies.
Steven!
Mahmoud here from ISIS headquarters to wish you congratulations on your one billionth murder.
What do you mean, view?
It kind of reminds me of an adage in the business, which is, if you never leave the stage, eventually somebody will clap just so you go.
Congratulations on getting a billion downloads or views or whatever.
A grown man having your daddy call people to congratulate you and tell you a good job.
Congratulations on what I hear is one billion people that are now watching your steaming program Crowder on Chowder.
That's quite an achievement.
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Almost got it!
But now, you've been loud to over a billion listeners.
This is crazy, my friend.
But you know what?
You are telling the truth, and the truth will set this country free.
Congratulations!
Up to two billion.
Woo-woo!
Congratulations from the Williford family.
Keep up the good work, and keep defending our rights.
I guess a billion is good.
I mean, it means quality.
All you need to do is look at a McDonald's sign to realize that a billion is the number you're aiming for.
But I'm happy for you, um, I mean, I'd be happier if it was my channel that had a billion views, but I'm happy for you because you have me on your show.
From everyone here at Walter Arms, to everybody there at Lauderruth Crowder, congratulations on one billion views.
Your one billionth view, and I just want to say, truly, from the bottom of my heart, uh, this is a sign of the end of days.
I believe this is actually in the Bible. You were mentioned by name.
Tell me, what does that magnificent hand-etched mug do?
Oh, that.
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and destroy it.
♪♪ -♪ Ha la ha, ba ha la, wa ba la la la ♪
Steven, congrats on one billion views.
Just to be clear, that's not even a fraction of the world population.
Steven Crowder, congratulations on passing over a billion views despite shadowbanning, censorship, and all the attacks you've gone through.
But, I am here to criticize you.
It's not a good thing to joke around and have humor.
It hurts a lot of people's feelings and they can be confused.
When you told me you were going to get to a billion views, I didn't believe you.
But then you explained it was really simple.
All you needed was a Russian bot farm, and you could have artificial views into the billions.
And I gotta say, it is remarkable.
Crowder's got a billion views.
What a pile of crap that is.
Only because he's paying Google off.
Hey, Steven!
Congratulations.
Hi, Steven.
How you doing?
A billion?
One billion YouTube views.
I'm just sitting down here in my basement bunker.
Thank you so much to everybody.
Thank you, Rand Paul.
Thank you, Mahmood Al Mahmood.
Thank you, James McKeith.
Thank you, Glenn Beck.
Thank you, Mark Ripto, Jaco, Jim Norton.
All of you.
Thank you.
We really appreciate it.
I already said Ted Cruz.
I said it again.
And during the break, my half Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, said I couldn't get two billion.
Yeah.
Really?
Couldn't.
I think we're going to skip it.
I think that's why I said it.
We're just going to go to three.
Lightning pass right there to 45, Bill.
Well, we're going to do our best.
And by the way, we are going to do a special live stream live with your tweets when we pass the Young Turks subscribers.
And then afterwards, we'll never talk about them again, because you cannot punch down.
And this is one thing, too.
When we say a billion views on this channel, it's closer to two if you add up Mug Club, the rest of it.
This is with one piece of content on YouTube per day.
It's not like a lot of these other networks that are doing 50 pieces or 30 pieces.
It's incredible.
We are so grateful.
And a big part of this, we will say, that brings in the most amount of new subscribers here on YouTube, because search results we've talked about, a lot of these algorithms aren't necessarily favorable to us.
We've had a lot of problems running our videos as ads.
Well, the problem is, like, how do we reach new audiences?
Like, well, people search.
Steven Crowder changed my mind for the longest time.
It didn't show up.
And then we were no longer able to, like, run videos as ads.
So it's just like, how do you reach new people?
The thing that does cut through and helps us reach new people more than anything else are what we call sort of super videos.
And these are videos where we go on location, like Antifa we've talked about.
And there are two really ones that stick out.
Change My Mind is obviously within the last three or four years.
And then a subsidiary of that, Crowder Confronts, which usually occurred because someone threatened to kill me at a Change My Mind.
So it's two for one.
Double the Steven!
But these super videos, what often happens is they go viral.
They sort of become a news story, as opposed to commenting on the news.
They became a news story in and of themselves.
And that ultimately leads to more people subscribing to the channel.
And here's the thing.
I appreciate how much everyone out there understands that sometimes if you join Mug Club, we'll have a week where we maybe miss two shows or something.
So usually we'll pre-tape, but sometimes we can't.
We just have to run and go do a hidden camera deal where we don't have 140-something writers or staff like Jay Leno has, or 100-something like Seth Meyers has.
We have 12 people here, and I think 15 if you count part-timers abroad.
And so we just have to pack up everything, go out, and tape a super video where we can't do this show and that.
And we would never be able to afford to do these super videos if not for you.
I mean, to give you an idea, doing like the change my mind you'll see in front of the
White House.
That's getting 12 people to Washington, D.C., several hundred pounds of equipment, making
sure that we have security when we get there, getting travel back, not to mention the editing
software, food, hotel, typically for two days.
I mean, you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars often to do these.
And we wouldn't be able to do it if not for Mug Club.
And I know it's one of those things that sometimes you don't see because these go up on YouTube,
but Mug Club is paying for that.
It's paying for us to reach new people because that cuts through the algorithms.
And I can't thank you enough.
We've actually shot a few that are in the hopper, and we're planning on doing more of these in the coming year.
Coronavirus has made it a little bit tough.
You know what I'm talking about, Half-Asian Bill.
Yikes.
But let's go right now to a montage of actually top moments from, funded by you, on location, super videos.
Thanks again so much.
Hi, my name is Steven Crowder.
He will not divide us.
He will not divide us.
Okay, okay.
This is not about dividing.
What do you think would happen if we went into a Muslim bakery and asked for a gay wedding cake?
You can write on it, Ben loves Steven forever.
And have our hands maybe holding.
Can I get a gun here without a background check?
No.
I thought at gun shows you didn't have to do a background check.
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
What you're asking is for somebody to commit a felony.
Was it because of the magazine capacity?
No, look at it.
Yeah, it does look really sinister.
Would you be on board with common sense gun reform?
Depends on what that means.
Do you own any firearms?
Shotgun.
Well, sorry.
Welcome to Detroit.
We have a nice two-story in the Detroit area.
Cozy.
Rustic.
You guys have papers?
I need papers.
He's gonna coalesce, you motherfuckers!
Wait until these homos get a load of me.
The price of my walls, not a price that you're willing to pay.
Yes, bitch!
Slick!
Are you familiar with the term manspreading?
We'll see what women think using our homemade apparatus.
I get why men sit like this.
Yeah?
I'm not shocked by it.
I've decided to go through the socialized Canadian healthcare system to show you exactly what it's really like.
This is triage.
That means we wait and we get judged by the nurse.
We decide how important we are.
But there's a private clinic.
Would you like to pay?
Wait, hold up.
A government employee recommending a private clinic?
Can I take a piece?
How much?
We've been tracking Antifa for a long time.
He was just down there at President's Circle and they were handing out sharp objects to stab people with.
Said they had someone come in with an AK.
Why did it take two late night hosts, comedians, to find this out?
We took a hidden camera to an abortion clinic in Colorado, where late-term abortions have been legal for years, to show you exactly what it is that they, we, and you are talking about.
This woman was going to end her 32 week, that's 8 months, her 8 month old baby's life.
There's nothing wrong with it, I mean, there's nothing wrong with it.
I can say like, I know I said it all the time, I was like, you're an arrogant puss, like, you don't need to do this.
Hi, I'm Stephanie, with all the frequencies of a feminism.
Hold on your pussy!
I'm Stephanie and I'm pretty sure I'm pregnant.
Really?
We wanted to talk with someone about plan B.
I'm going to be in the video.
Later.
Shout out to them, man.
Really nice mugs.
Not cheap mugs.
Nice mugs, man.
Louder.
Louder with Prouder, man.
Shout out to them, man.
People are triggered.
Do we need to call security?
You're going to have to leave.
I think that it's time to go.
People are triggered.
Got it.
What you're about to watch is a new segment we call Change My Mind.
Pretty simple.
We go out and set up in public and pick a topic and we actually allow people from other points of view to come up and proactively change my mind.
You are more than welcome to change my mind if you think I'm wrong.
I am open to having my mind changed.
Fetus is literally a parasite.
Like, it is sucking the life from a mother.
Yeah.
Every single day.
Like, that's literally what happens.
That's not even like...
Not a mother, I'm guessing.
Whoa.
Whoa.
I just found the keys to a city.
The beams are big and the lights are pretty.
So why can't we get to the busy where the dreams are in the sky?
Would you be willing to maybe in a follow up, we could do a segment on this, go with
me to a range, shoot for the first time, and purchase a firearm?
Yeah, I'm down.
Yeah, I'm down.
I'm down.
Good!
Good!
Hey, right on target!
You okay?
Yeah.
Should we grab hands?
Is that okay?
You gotta connect it over there.
Alright.
Excuse me, sir.
Alright, look.
Alright, look.
This is where it's going.
There it is.
There it is.
All the way around.
Look at this!
How about that?
Look at this!
All different races, genders, the power of dance!
Of course, there are always those who aren't so excited to see us.
I think y'all are racist.
F*** Steven Crowder.
F*** y'all.
I would probably punch him if I saw him.
I just wanted to tell you, you're a white bitch.
Whiteness is a cancer and parasitic to society.
We're f***ed.
Oh!
Oh, what?
What happened?
They get away without on this motherf***ing campus!
Exactly!
Really?
Yes, they f*****g do!
If nobody invited him here, should we ask him to leave this campus?
Is this being handled?
Shut the f**k up!
Hey, s**t!
You f*****g ass!
F**k you!
Jesus Christ, ladies and gentlemen!
Yeah!
That's right from me!
Jesus Christ!
Eat my butt!
No!
Did I just come straight out?
No! No!
Men need to respect women! Period!
So you should respect women?
I'm sorry, I am a woman, so f*** you!
Why people are cancer, I hope you'll get f***ed.
We want to sit down with people in an ideal scenario and be able to exchange ideas,
but when they don't want to, and they're acting like little spoiled rats slash domestic terrorists,
we've got to make them afraid of somebody!
Hey kids!
Yeah!
I didn't f***ing want a piece of me for a long time!
Go f*** yourself, you piece of s***!
Hey, a**hole!
How are you, man?
Steven Crowder.
What's going on?
We can discuss it at a neutral meeting place.
I'm not discussing with people who have made threats against my son, who follow those who have made threats against my son.
When you threaten violence against someone, part of being a man is taking ownership of your actions, taking responsibility.
These guys are fascists, you know that?
When you said you didn't even post this and acted like you didn't know me, I think you're a liar.
What did you mean by that?
Was it like what you meant with killing members of ICE for $500 a pop?
I don't look all that bad.
Why would you want to light me on fire?
I never said that.
Yeah, you did.
It's like I'm in Bizarro Land of Lies.
There is a reckoning.
And we do have to get going here.
I do want to let you guys know the promo code is Crowderbillion.
You get $20 off.
And all of that, by the way, was funded by you.
Some of those, you can see the progression.
The Muslim bakery was literally a friend acting like he was on his phone.
Right.
Filming.
Hey, why he talk long time?
No he doesn't.
No, he hasn't said a word actually.
I don't bake the cake.
I don't bake penis cake.
Why he talk?
And we missed a lot of like early on, we missed a lot of filming
because we didn't have the budget for the equipment.
So then you can see Change My Mind, Crowder Confronts.
You can see the progression was all because of Mug Club.
So we do ask you, because there can be another Vox Apocalypse, Crowder Billion, get $20 off.
And the Change My Mind thing just stemmed from sitting down and me going like,
oh, we have so many good conversations, but off air.
And we've done plenty of debates on this show on air, by the way.
Change My Mind is not a debate.
We just said, man, I wish we could just talk with normal people without doing political sort of point scoring in a quadrant view.
Yeah.
And we did not think, at this point, every single person who was involved with content, when we floated the idea, said there's no way that'll work.
That'll never work.
Unedited, long, just people talking.
No one will watch this.
To the point where I feel lazy when I do it, because I'm like, I don't want to do another Change My Mind, because I want to do something new, and then you guys obviously want us to do it.
So that's, like I've said, I want to provide you with what it is that you want, and do some new things.
But I really am grateful.
We have everyone here.
I've met everyone.
They all get to work with the show.
Let me ask you, Half-Asian Bill, what would you like, what do you think is next?
What would you like to see next for this show?
I'd say more of the content we're already doing, getting more around the country, seeing more of the fans.
I know we've got fans all over the world.
I know we were, I think just this week, making fun of the University of Western Australia, and I saw a number of comments of students at the University of Western Australia who were like, dang, man.
I can't afford those carbon offsets.
Hey, the fires are down, it's fine, we can go to Australia.
No, I think doing more of that content and being able to get around the country is the number one thing.
More of it would be more exciting for everyone, and I just love the energy and the sense of community that people have to be able to just hear some great viewpoints, some honest feedback, and some hilarious s***.
So there you go.
We need enough of you to join so we can get a plane to go to Australia.
Actually, I'm only half joking, because sometimes when we do live shows, it ends up costing less to rent a plane.
We don't get jets, but we get a turboprop to get all of our team out and all of this equipment, because you're talking about so much to go to campus.
So obviously we don't expect you to pay for a Learjet, but we can travel to Australia.
You know, we can take a week off the show, because that's a lot of travel.
I think we're going to send actually even Brendan on that flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires with a GPS just to prove that the earth is not flat.
But he doesn't know it yet.
He just found out right now.
I want to concur, but for another reason, it gives you an opportunity.
My favorite memory of everything that's ever been done with this show was when we did the first thing at SMU.
What was it?
The Halloween Spooktacular?
I can't remember which one it was, but it was the first time and you filled the auditorium and that was just such a big moment for you.
I really didn't fill the auditorium.
They all filled the auditorium.
You guys made it happen.
I want to be clear.
There's no way I could have ever done this show, that scale, like at SMU and these live shows at school.
I had done stand-up before, and I may go back to doing some more stand-up in small clubs.
We've talked about this when I have more free time.
Could not have done it without this team of people.
There's so much that goes into it.
What's the insurance, right?
Like a million dollars just in equipment?
We have to be there a day and a half in advance.
That's just, that's not false humility.
I am so grateful to be able to do that kind of show because it was in here, but I could never make it here and everyone here has made it.
Well, and you get to see fans because you deal with a lot of people pushing back on you, right?
In life.
Like you get us, obviously, but everybody else seems to be trying to attack you in different ways.
And so it's great to be around fans, but it's also great for them because they get to be around a bunch of other people that are exactly like them.
They're conservative people when it's not popular to be conservative.
And so it's great for both that we get to do those live events.
So let's get it done at Notre Dame.
Let's go there.
Notre Dame.
Notre Dame, baby.
I know we talked about it.
I did St.
Mary's a long time ago before this show was daily, and I remember there were like 400 people who showed up, and I thought that was all the people in the world back then.
It was just me doing stand-up, and some kids showed up, and half the questions at the Q&A were about my time being the brain on Arthur.
Didn't exactly have the same familiarity with my catalog.
Well, thank you guys all very much.
And we do have to get going.
That promo code is CrowderBillion to get $20 off.
And I will say, in watching that, there have been some things, obviously, we've created, we're proud of, the intros and the Change My Mind.
And that's probably something I'm pretty proud of, because I see a lot of other people trying to do it, do the Change My Mind and approaching conversations in that way in real life.
And if I can serve to help you with that and help equip you with that in a way that professors have failed you, then I'm grateful.
But I was even watching that lady at the abortion clinic.
We never talked about that.
She didn't have that abortion.
Really?
She didn't have that abortion.
That's fantastic.
We couldn't show that in the video because we didn't want to.
This was actually, it was a real kind of moral dilemma because we were going, well, what's more important?
Is it stopping this abortion that this woman is getting anyway?
Or is it showcasing the horrors of abortion so that thousands of other people don't abort?
And what we did was, with my permission, some of the girls who went in undercover, I said, uh, they knew she was going in like the next week for the abortion.
I said, we're going to release this video before then.
So don't reach out to her right now.
Let us release this so we, you know, we can still serve this purpose and get this out to the public.
And then I want you to reach out to her.
And I don't know exactly what happened, but I do know that that woman did not have that abortion.
And we also had that girl who we did the change my mind with, who came back on the show and then she was pro-life.
Yeah.
It's seeing those things like that that really make the change of minds and the super videos kind of more important, you know?
It's doing something for the culture war.
And also, when I look back and see that one where I was shooting at the range that I sounded like death warmed over.
That's right, a bronchial infection, pneumonia, all of the above.
And I was at a gun range with nothing but gunpowder.
And it turned out they couldn't buy it.
That's what's great about you, though, is even whenever you're down and you're sick, or you're really stressed out, or there's bigger things going on, you're always really focused and able to do what you need to do.
Yeah, we force you to work.
Yeah, exactly.
Coronavirus be damned.
Whip me.
I build a mead and pyramid as well.
There you go.
Who knew?
And then those girls tried to buy that firearm.
They wanted, of course, they wanted the Walther.
I will tell you this, we didn't lead them.
We let them try a Walther, Glocks, different firearms, and they all preferred the Walther.
That's why we'll just say try the Walther.
And then they couldn't purchase it because they weren't 21.
I mean, maybe 21 for a handgun.
But afterwards, they had changed their view completely that you can just purchase a gun without a background check.
I mean, I was just seeing kind of Hopper in there, and I kind of tugged on my heartstrings a little bit.
And I appreciate, by the way, the support.
Like, yeah, I get a lot of pushback.
I think a lot of times people focus on haters, or they focus on negativity.
And you get that when you're in the public sphere, right?
You get a lot of people who aim that at you.
But it is so far outweighed, I would say, by what we do here.
And how many lives that we see we've touched, how much this show means to you guys.
And honestly, you mean every bit as much to us.
You know, I would say more.
To me, when I look at the billion, I go, oh my gosh, this is what these people are choosing to tune into this.
At a time when media is so fractured, at a time where you have a million different options at any given moment.
Remember when we thought media was getting too fractured because of cable, because of dish?
People have like 200 stations.
Wow.
200 more just in that pause were just created.
And the fact that you choose, and one thing too, people at YouTube, people in these social media consulting companies, they often look at our numbers, and they're dumbfounded at the number of people who just come in every day to watch our videos, whether you're a subscriber or not.
And so we've been able to survive a lot of these algorithms.
It's a changing landscape because of your loyalty.
And man, I hope that we've earned it.
I hope that we have billions more.
And this really means a lot to me.
The show.
I don't mean the billion views, just the show.
Being able to do this, and I will do it as long as I can and my body allows, which, you know, may not be that long because I'm not only on the FBI ISIS kill list, I'm on the premium frequent flyer list.
So thank you, Walter.
We appreciate your security help.
Promo code is CrowderBillion.
We are going to be releasing some super videos here coming up next week.
We'll be back to our regular schedule.
Thank you so much.
I look forward to reading your comments and hearing back from you.