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It's got a lot of bass!
Alright, sorry we're starting a little late today because there's been some breaking news, some developments here with Spotify and the Joe Rogan situation.
Before I move on to anything, my question to you is...
What do you think about the Joe Rogan Spotify situation and the apology?
Is it caving?
Do you think that there's... I think he's absolutely sincere, but do you even think that if someone is sincerely apologetic that this is how you handle it?
Of course, I think you know where we line up.
We've been in this exact situation before.
We're talking about that.
We'll be talking about GoFundMe, the communists at GoFundMe, what they've been doing here to try and stop the Canadian Freedom Trucker convoy.
There's a lot to get to.
There is a lot to get to.
It's a busy week, and as you know, I will not be here Wednesday.
Dave Landau will be filling in.
Crawdaddy will be in third chair because of some things with the half-Asian Kraken.
That's all I can talk about.
But by the way, live show Monday through Thursday.
That's the best way you can tune in.
You can hit the subscription and all that notification bell, but the best thing is tune in Monday through Thursday.
It's at 10 a.m.
Eastern.
Considering moving it a little later, because some people have asked us to, but right now it's 10 a.m.
Eastern, and if we're not here, you can watch on Rumble, you can watch on Mug Club, unless we tell you that we are not here, we're still streaming live.
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All right.
Before we move on, we've got to get right into it.
Gerald A. is here.
How are you?
I am well.
A little pissed.
This weekend was full of news that I didn't like.
Right.
So we'll be getting to that.
How are you?
I'm okay.
You know what?
For the first time, I slept in this morning.
And by that, I mean I slept like 6.45.
Do you have an alarm clock that plugs into a wall still?
Is that your excuse?
I have an internal clock, usually.
But then I hit the snooze.
So I'm okay, and you know him, you love him.
Actually, I will be doing some shows with him, touring with him.
He's taping his special at the Majestic this Saturday.
Don't ask for no more tickets.
There are two shows sold out.
But I will be with him March 26th in Evansville, Indiana, April 16th.
Royal Oak, Michigan.
You can see all the dates at louderwithcrowder.com slash tour.
Those are almost sold out.
We might be adding some shows this week.
Dave Landau, how are you, sir?
Ahoy!
Good, how about you?
Well, he already asked.
Oh, never mind.
Yeah.
He wanted to... I don't know, I said the whole slept-in thing.
Yeah, your biological clock.
Mine's ticking.
Your biological clock!
Our marriage!
Yes, mine is... Is there anything else?
I missed my... Is there any more shit that I could pile on top of this?
Is it possible?
Name that movie reference.
You guys can comment below.
Oh, that's easy.
Come on.
Okay, so before we move on to everything else, and you must be excited taping your special this week.
I actually am, yeah.
At the Majestic in Dallas.
That's a historical theater.
It's a gorgeous, gorgeous theater.
I'm really excited about it.
I think it's like 1,800 seats and it just sold out.
We added a show, so thank you guys.
This is what makes this program uncancelable.
We'll be talking about all this with Rogan, but you know, we're not employees to anybody.
Run this.
I've always owned this.
We have great partnerships.
And we are funded by actual viewers like you.
Lottowithcredit.com slash Mug Club.
Mug Club.
It's $99 annually.
$69 for students, veterans, active military.
And we take your chats.
We do an extra full hour of show every day.
Okay.
Let's move on.
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
I'm just glad somebody worked very hard on the architecture of such a wonderful building so I could tell penis jokes in it.
Yes.
Ah, yes.
Exactly.
We worked hard on that.
Blueprints.
Also, by the way, I didn't tell you we have a couple of hecklers in the wings.
Like, oh, who writes these horrible jokes?
My heart hurts.
That's just me.
I'd rather be home staving off death.
Oh.
Now, this, Luda, stop walking through the show map here.
I can see a little cursor.
This is a weird Monday.
This video has been making the rounds this morning showing Catholics in Poland defending
the, they have the gall, if you will, to defend the nuclear family, as we know, as Black Lives
Matter refers to it, in need of destruction.
How many Polaks does that take?
Oh, jeez.
Well, you know what, I tell you what, the Polak jokes are done because they're now like, we okay, we see how this ends.
No more.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, you want to open borders?
Okay, good luck.
No, we do not.
Any name that is Shaka Makalada, you're not welcome in Poland.
I think you understand why.
We protect our women, okay?
It's not that we are racist, it's that we don't want you to rape six-year-old girls, so you stay on that side of line.
We have line here in Poland.
We've been through this before.
No more.
Tellin' ya.
The Poles, they have a backbone.
Phenomenal accent for Polish people.
Oh yes, yes, stupid Polack joke, that's right.
How many border crossings you have this week?
Shut up!
It's just the Kazakh heckler.
So Catholics in Poland defending the nuclear family, they're being harassed by LGBT... You know what?
I'm just gonna say gay umbrella... I'm not going down that line of LGBTQAIP.
I'm not gonna be... It gets too long.
Someone will put together a highlight reel in 10 years like the equivalent of me saying the n-word because I didn't include the Q-A-A-I-P.
I don't care.
I don't apologize.
Here's some Polacks defending traditions from these angry gay activists.
I thought those were dogs.
They're barking.
In a manner of... Oh, wow.
Your moms must be so proud.
Yes, this is great PR for you.
We hold flag and you look like freaks.
Thank you for making our point.
You look like street urchins from a glow stick Joel Schumacher Batman scene.
Good for you.
You get free tote bag with barking.
I don't understand the barking.
Where did that come from?
Hey, this woman barks like a bitch.
I can say it because she is barking like a bitch.
It's because they're stupid.
Thank you for clarifying.
My preferred pronouns for you are screw and you.
How about that?
How about go screw and yourself?
She.
It.
How do they think that's being effective?
Like, I know what we'll do, we'll bark like dogs!
That will get them!
No, we're gonna dress up like Halloween and then go bark at them like dogs and make every point they're trying to make.
You know there's one guy that's like, finally a barking bagpipe band!
I've been waiting for it forever!
Oh, wait, this isn't that?
First Coldplay... Well, I'll take what I can get.
Gosh, imagine being that Scot going into battle who had to play the bagpipes.
You know they're taking you out first.
Oh, yeah.
By your own soldiers.
Hey!
You're breaking the rules of engagement!
Yes, but we have person with drum and trumpet, and you have sound like dying cattle, so we shoot first.
You're just sitting there nervously, going out there in the front lines like, and you're sure they won't shoot me, right?
They seem getting madder!
No, no, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine.
Keep going.
It seems weird that you actually put a target on my chest.
It's part of the uniform.
Just a wee bit further.
They're just barking out there.
The LGBT.
Did you just hear?
Q-P-E-T-A All right, as we continue with international politics, and we'll tie this into the fact that the United States government wants you to just take their word for everything.
They are the experts on medicine.
They are the experts on what will be a false flag.
They are the experts on what should and should not be allowed on Spotify.
They are the experts on who and who should not be deplatformed.
So before we get that, Saturday Night Live, of course, did more bidding from the government.
I'm laughing already.
Comedy?
Are we sure?
I really like it when Catherine McKinnon does that smile.
Every time.
Every time.
So SNL recently did this sketch about the Russian disinformation about the Ukraine.
How long, how much of this do we have to watch?
I don't know.
All right, by the way, before I talk about this, there's a couple of angry people on CNN right now saying U.S.
officials warn Russia could invade Ukraine any day.
Here's the thing.
The Ukraine officials say that's bullshit.
Not so much.
We'll get to that, but you see synergistically them operating, all the media, the government, and then of course SNL.
Here's the question.
How do all of them get it wrong?
How do all of them get it wrong, together?
What are the chances of CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Jen Psaki, former Vice President Joe Biden, and SNL getting this wrong?
Did they have a meeting behind our back and say, let's just screw everything up?
So, here's the SNL sketch about Russian disinformation.
Mr. President, the situation in Ukraine is growing tenser by the hour.
Putin has amassed over 100,000 troops at the border.
We're even getting some reports that Russia has already invaded, but those are from the same people who said Tom Brady retired.
So, take it with a grain of salt.
What about the NATO forces?
Are they ready to back us up?
He sounds more like George Bush than Biden.
Germany, they're staying out of it.
Oh man, Germany doesn't want to go to war.
You know it's bad.
Sir, if I may, Russia's military presence may be the least of our problems.
We've been tracking the spread of Russian disinformation in Ukraine, and there are some lies Ukrainians don't know what to believe anymore.
Russia tried that during our last election too, but it didn't work.
Well, 40% of Americans think you lost the election, so I kinda did.
Is he George C. Scott?
Take a look at these posts that are circulating on Ukrainian Facebook.
Is she Kamala?
She can't be.
She's not Indian.
on Russian troops. She's not Indian. Russian forces surrounding Ukraine just to give it big hugs.
Ukrainian president horny for drama, wants war, slap me harder daddy.
I'm gonna break my New Year's resolution and say it.
Milwaukee!
They're also bringing our country into it.
Why is he doing Bush Jr.?
I don't know why he's doing Bush Jr., and the thing is, it's not accurate.
The reason the George Bush impression was funny was because there was some truth.
The truth would be, you know, if he had a shart stain halfway up his back right now, and he didn't know where he was.
But they can't do that on SNL because, you know, they're buddies.
They're drinking buddies.
In real life, he would have had eight strokes already.
Yes!
worst way. I'm a junior at a vicious girls high school and y'all work for me now.
Let's just do something fun and simple that everyone can get behind like a drone
strike. Okay, okay, Mr. President, I think your generation can learn a lot from mine. Like, we don't believe in drone
strikes. We believe in breaking down our enemies psychologically. You've been doing it for years, SNL.
Yes!
That's how they got Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to talk.
They were saying, alright, we're gonna put on seasons 19 through 24 of SNL.
No, no, okay, I'll tell you, the bomb's in the children's school.
Okay, I give.
I don't understand what I just saw.
I don't understand it either.
This is the problem with, look, and whether we understand it or not, you have to acknowledge that it's a joke, that it's comedy.
Okay, fine.
However, there does...
There does need to be a kernel of truth to it to be funny, right?
For the same reason that people are outraged over some of the comments that Joe Rogan has made, there's a kernel of truth to the things that he says, and it offends people, it upsets people.
This doesn't make sense.
You can't parody Joe Biden and not acknowledge what the vast majority of Americans know, that he's not in his right mind.
Absolutely.
Well, the biggest laugh that they got was at the very beginning when the general said, Mr. President, and everybody's like, ha ha!
They must be some of that 40% who are victims of Russian disinformation campaign.
Whoops.
Yes, no, that's why Americans think that the most free, fair, secure election of all time might have had some foul play, because they spent $13,000 on Facebook ads, the Ruskies, that's what it is.
It's like Red Dawn with laptops, that's what happened.
Yeah, okay.
Slap Me Harder Daddy wouldn't have been irreverent in 1975 when the show came out.
Right, I know.
I mean, that's bad.
You're pushing the limits there, are you?
Yeah, really.
I'd have a special guest, Carol Burnett, and then I'd have someone or someone else come out from laughing, SOCK IT TO ME!
So this is all despite the fact, you know, talking about Russian disinformation, that Ukrainian president, or as, you know, he's labeled an unauthoritative source by Twitter, YouTube, and President Zelensky accused the West of causing, quote, panic over Russian invasion, said the threat was real but not imminent as the U.S.
has explained in a comment that he made a source close to Zelensky also quipped, quite frankly these Americans are safer in Kiev than they are in Los Angeles or any other crime-ridden city in the United States.
Oh wow.
He's not wrong.
That seems to be pushing back kind of hard.
Have you been to LA?
What did we do to deserve that?
Yes, no, this is Kiev, oh no, it's, you know, it's no Skid Row, but I hear that Jamie Foxx plays mean violin, so trade-off!
It's very good.
For crying out loud.
And so last week, too, talking about Russian disinformation, this is what, you know, SNL
has gone along with.
And of course, this is what all of big tech has gone along with.
And we're going to talk about GoFundMe, what's happening with Canada.
This is when people say it's not censorship unless the government is silencing you.
That's not true anymore.
When the government is saying, we want big tech to eliminate these voices, or we want big tech to mislabel these voices, or label them as disinformation, when they are calling out and having meetings with these people, they are acting as an arm.
They are acting as thugs for the government.
This is unprecedented.
This is no longer a libertarian argument if private business can do whatever they want, because they are beholden not only to people in our government, but foreign governments.
Like you see what happened with GoFundMe, shutting down a protest where zero acts of violence have ever been committed, by the way.
Not $3 billion in damages like Black Lives Matter, none of that.
Not like dozens and actually hundreds of felonies and thousands of casualties that had taken place, or sorry, hundreds of casualties and many thousands of felonies.
I mix that up, don't want to be mislabeled disinformation because I'm going off the cuff here.
This is an entirely peaceful protest and GoFundMe decided they were going to take, steal their money.
We'll get to it.
So anyway, last week, State Department, going back to Russia, the spokesperson, Ned Price, and I say spokesperson because I don't know Ned's preferred pronouns.
I think it would be Puss and E. Big capital E. It's a shim.
Yes.
Yes.
He gave this answer when AP reporter Matt Lee asked him about a Russian false flag campaign and he said, yeah, we really have, this is a really imminent threat.
And they said, okay, and what proof do you have?
He said, well, I just said it.
And that's the kind of accountability they expect from the press.
Watch.
What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?
Matt, this is derived from information known to the U.S.
government, intelligence information that we have declassified.
I think you know.
Okay, well, where is it?
Where is this information?
It's declassified.
It is intelligence information that we have declassified.
Well, where is it?
Where is the declassified information?
I just delivered it.
No, you made a series of allegations and statements.
Would you like us to print out the topper?
Because you will see a transcript of the typing that you can print out for yourself.
That's not evidence, Ned.
That's you saying it.
That's not evidence.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
What would you like, Matt?
You just see that moment on his face where he just wants out.
He's like, oh, I'm not going to get through this.
And that's for those who remember the Boom Goes the Dynamite clip, where you can see the moment that the kid mentally checks out.
Please get me off.
It's like punchline.
Tom Hanks, someone help me!
Exactly.
His entire thing, he goes on and on and on on this, telling that guy, because I said it, that is the proof that you need that it's real.
He's like, well, hold on.
You just said you declassified something.
Show me the receipts.
Right.
And he would never do it.
Just kept pointing back.
So who's spreading disinformation?
And at the very least, let's say we don't know that it's disinformation.
Okay, that's fine.
This is the White House.
This is your government.
And they are deliberately obfuscating providing information.
By the way, all references from today's show and every show available at loudearthcracker.com.
The link is in the description.
Not saying we get everything right, but we try to make sure that you are able to do your own research and that you can call us on it.
Take my word for it.
Even LeVar Burton had a couple six-year-olds to substantiate it.
I'm just surprised that we actually had a reporter pushing back.
Saying, no, no, no, sorry, we can't just take your word for it.
You can't just say it.
Where's the evidence?
Just show us the evidence if it's obvious.
Because you guys said everything about Russia when Donald Trump was president.
We just took it as being gossip.
And then we know that it was false.
And then all of these intelligence agencies say this as well, and so we took it as gospel.
And you can go back if you want.
If you want to use George W. Bush, weapons of mass destruction is what everybody wanted to plaster.
I know that there were other things going on, but we took it as gospel.
Right.
We have a reason to question government.
It's a good thing.
Well, no, the government are the experts, and this is the problem.
When people say, trust the science, what do you mean?
Coming from the CDC?
Oh, you only trust government scientists?
Now, I'm not saying that every single government scientist is corrupt, but what I'm saying is when you declare the only experts, and this is what is happening when things are being mislabeled, And the White House is calling for Joe Rogan to have his
podcast be mislabeled when he has doctors on.
What they are saying is anything that goes against the government-established science,
which by the way goes against itself from six months ago, needs to be mislabeled.
The barometer here that's being used for YouTube, Facebook, including Instagram, Twitter, Big Tech,
is the government.
That's the fact check mechanism, and these are the people in charge of it.
By the way, best thing you can do is we talk about comments.
Smash the like button if you're on YouTube right now.
If you want to make sure that this gets through that algorithm and people find it, which they still probably won't, I still just ask that you smash that like button.
Smash it hard like Brian Seltzer in the green room with the makeup artist.
No, no, no.
I didn't specify the gender.
No, he didn't.
Joe Rogan.
Beautiful wife.
This is a conversation here that we need to... Beautiful wife, he doesn't like looking at.
Can't stand to go home to.
Can't every day.
It's a slow drive.
He has mirrors on the ceiling just so that he can look at himself because he's, you know, that's all he sees.
Parks down the street for three hours.
Eating Wendy's.
Honey, it was a long night. So sorry. Gotta go to sleep.
Oh yeah, I had to see you later at the office.
There's just nothing more that I love than coming home to you, hopefully being on a business trip.
Oh, man.
Oh, you're here.
Oh, gee.
I had to sleep on the couch again, and the pillows that I put in the shape of a guy.
She's cooking naked with an apron. She's like, I know what I'm gonna do for Brian when he comes home.
Which, by the way, ladies, always a crowd pleaser for your husband, just so you know.
Not Brian Stellish.
That's not, you could have like a grief burn.
You should, you should, could you put on like a, like a polar fleece?
Yeah, that is not sanitary.
You could get germs in my big delicious food.
He's buying her Valentine's lingerie.
He's like, look, it's a parka from REI!
Would you like your favorite meal?
Dessert?
It's a full barka!
I will have the baked Alaska with a side of a baked Alaska.
The second one I'll put in my purse to go.
So.
Alright.
Let's talk about... Completely straight.
Guys, I'm super straight!
Stop it, you guys!
I'm reliably straight.
It's a heterosexual man bag.
Yes.
Yes, of course.
Sometimes you need a place to put your keys and... Stuff.
You know.
And your Rolodex of strange male prostitutes.
Exactly.
And your black book of men you don't have sex with that you have sex with.
list of guys that I would never have sex with.
Ever. Because I love my wife more than any... I love my wife more than any... thing.
These are not keys to a series of condos.
Now, why do you have this list of cardinals?
Stop it!
So, um...
I'm confessing, Skelter!
Now, let's talk about Joe Rogan.
This is something that obviously happened this weekend, but I think some people have missed the mark.
I'm not going to lie, I was upset.
Yes.
I was angry with... no, with Joe as well.
And I'll explain to you why.
I'm more angry, of course, with the people who've tried to... I hate to use the term cancel culture, but the people who've tried to destroy his life and his livelihood.
Now, Joe Rogan is bigger than them, so good for him.
It shouldn't affect him.
I hope he understands the power that he has.
Unfortunately, he's caved a little bit, and I just... That makes it harder for everybody else, and I have a lot of respect for Joe.
I think he's a good guy.
I've spent some time with him.
So it's always hard for me, just full disclosure, to be objective when I know somebody.
Um, so Joe Rogan has, uh, you know, gotten in trouble.
Last week it was about COVID misinformation, and do you know how you know that it wasn't about COVID misinformation?
Because when that didn't work, now they decided they're going to, oh, you know what, actually, look, he's also racist.
Someone put together a montage out of context of Joe Rogan having said the n-word in case you guys have missed it, uh, and you must be living under a rock at this point, or, you know, Or just hiding out from your home like Stelter.
What's going on?
If he emerges, there's going to be six more weeks of winter street fairs.
Six more weeks of gay pride fest.
Hot dog eating contests.
Oh my gosh, he just has that tape of Kobayashi on a loop like a morphine drip.
He loves it.
I'm just training.
So here is Joe Rogan, the hit piece that they put together, which really if you look at every clip individually is not a hit piece of him saying the n-word over the last 12 plus years.
Nigger. Aw, you've already said nigger. D is just like nigger.
Nigger. She's calling you a nigger. It's like this boy that he's a nigger, starts calling them niggers.
Nigger. There should be a word like nigger. Especially the word nigger. That's our nigger. Niggers. He says nigger.
Guy a nigger. And there are niggers. Start saying nigger.
Chris Rocker team, I know exactly what you're doing. Nigger.
Say nigger and he couldn't say nigger. This tape was already out I think.
Uh, no, no, they added to it, but you can watch all those.
Right away when I watch, I go, oh, that's him quoting a Chris Rock routine.
Oh, that's him telling a story about a racist who called someone an n-word.
Oh, I know that where he's talking about, hey, how this word is different in the English language.
Here's the thing.
Oh, I thought he was ordering coffee.
Yes!
Oh, you mean this was out of context?
That's crazy.
I thought he was saying goodnight to his kids.
Oh, so strange.
It's almost like they did it on purpose to make him look bad.
It's almost like that, yeah.
Here's what it is, though, too.
It's not that they think he's a racist.
Look, they don't think that Joe Rogan is a racist, because you know who wouldn't be upset by this?
An actual racist.
You're not going to use this against a Robert Byrd type because they just go, like, yeah, I said it, because they're still saying it, they don't care.
They use this against people who they know are not racist so that they have to defend themselves as not racist.
They wouldn't use it against an actual racist.
This is not a mode of attack that would be used.
against someone like whoever, a David Duke, a Robert Burd, someone who was actually in the Klan.
They wouldn't use it.
When you see this line of attack, you know that it is exclusively used against someone who they know is not racist because that person will be forced into defending themselves as not being a racist.
Now Joe Rogan issued an apology.
with which I strongly disagree. Yeah. And I'll explain to you why I think it was very thoughtful,
though. And I think the way that he delivered the apology was as well delivered as an as an
ill-advised apology like this could be delivered. But for people who missed it, he posted this on
his Instagram. And we'll have, of course, links to all the full clips. Lot of credit with the
sources, the references. Here's your organs. Hello, friends.
I'm making this video to talk about that a terrible neck or no neck, regretful and
shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly.
There's a video that's out that's a compilation of me saying the N-word.
It's a video that's made of clips taken out of context of me, of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it's all smooshed together, and it looks f***ing horrible, even to me.
Now, I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast.
And I agree with that now.
I haven't said it in years.
But for a long time, When I would bring that word up, like if it would come up in conversation, instead of saying the N-word, I would just say the word.
I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.
Like that context was part of the clip we were talking about Red Fox, how Red Fox said that word on television in the 1970s, and how times have changed so much since then.
Or about how Richard Pryor used it as one of the titles of one of his albums.
Actually two albums.
That this can be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn't realize how offensive that word can be coming out of a white person's mouth in context or out of context.
My sincere and humble apologies.
I wish there was more that I could say, but all of this is just me talking from the bottom of my heart.
It makes me sick watching that video.
And there was also something about a Planet of the Apes joke that he made where he, you know... Yeah, which I mean, in fairness, he was on Ambien and they're gonna overdose him and then next season his show's just gonna be called The Rogans with John Goodman.
Yes!
Surprise cameo from Whoopi.
It's not about race!
I think genuinely, I understand what he's saying.
I genuinely do.
But I just feel that this shows that it's being, you know, this is being forced.
I feel, I don't know, I just feel it's being forced to make you feel this way.
Right.
Yeah.
They want you to believe that this is how you feel.
Yeah.
I don't understand why saying it coming out of a white person's mouth.
It doesn't matter whose mouth it comes out of.
I disagree.
I would say the inverse is true.
That the only time it should be considered completely impermissible is if you are using it in a racist context, accusing someone, calling someone the n-word.
If you're quoting a Richard Pryor album, I don't think so.
He actually, the name of the album, he said that he named these albums to screw with white people.
He wanted to make them uncomfortable.
Of course!
Who am I to rename his art?
Who am I to sing along with Tupac or sing along in my car with Kanye and say, and Word?
It's almost offensive to the artist because this is something that's meant to be consumed by many people.
There's a huge difference between the context of quoting somebody or the context of actually being supportive of a black person's art and the context of using it To deliberately insult somebody.
And by the way, my entire life, I have never once heard a white person say it in its racist context outside of one time at a Bob Evans in Virginia, and I told you I was incredibly surprised because it was that abnormal.
Let me just say this about Joe Rogan here.
His Planet of the Apes joke that he made.
Okay.
Now, I've been on Joe Rogan's show a bunch of times, and I've been talking about this for a long time.
Keep in mind, I've been dropped by managers back in 2009.
Agents.
I had problems with meetings with people at Viacom.
And I remember saying, This is what's happening.
They're going to come for you.
And so many people who were on this show, and even I think the first time I appeared on Joe Rogan saying, no, not with comedy.
Comedy is the last bastion.
It's different.
So they didn't believe it.
Joe Rogan was imprudent back then to make his Planet of the Apes comment joke, not because the joke is impermissible, not because the joke is that offensive, not because anything he said was offensive, but he was imprudent because he thought they wouldn't come for him.
He said that.
He said that before.
They always will come for you.
And now, I believe he is wrong to apologize because that's done under the guise that they have any Of course they don't.
It was COVID, now it's this, you apologize for this, they're just going to move on to something else.
And this makes it more difficult for other people because it sets a precedent where people think they have to apologize for things that do not require an apology.
I think he was wrong back then to think that they wouldn't come for him, and I think that he's incorrect right now to apologize.
Look, even if you think you're wrong, and I want to be clear about this, this is a difference There's a difference between a consensual relationship and an abusive relationship, a loving relationship and an abusive relationship.
In a loving relationship where both parties are actually trying to make a relationship work because they care about each other, when you think you're wrong, you apologize.
It's a very good rule to follow.
If you're married, if you're in a long-term relationship, be quick to apologize, be quick to forgive.
You do that, The relationship works no matter what happens quick to apologize quick to forgive quick to say you're sorry recognize your faults quick to give grace an abusive relationship is where someone is trying to gaslight you someone is trying to manipulate you into apologizing and then they will use that to hammer in your faults because they have no interest in
and accepting your apology in the first place.
That's what's happening now.
This is not a loving relationship.
This is not the left wanting Joe Rogan to recognize some faults and improve upon it
so they can have a working relationship going forward.
This is a relationship where they want to destroy him, where they want to take everything that he has.
So here's the deal.
Even if you think you're wrong, people out there, even if you think you're wrong, even if you do regret it,
if you were in a loving relationship, sure, you apologize.
You don't apologize in front of the enemy, even when you think you're wrong.
Down the line!
But if Winston Churchill thought that he made some strategic errors in World War II, you don't say, man, I made a mistake while Hitler's still on the march.
Afterward, you say, maybe this would have been a better idea.
So I actually don't even agree.
If you think you're wrong, a lot of people say, if I think I'm wrong, I need to apologize.
Not right now.
You don't do it right now.
Because they're not going to forgive you.
They're just going to use it to attack you.
You do not bend the knee to the mob ever, even if you think you are wrong.
You do it later on.
That's just the ABC.
Those are the ABCs of me.
That's what I think.
You guys can comment below and let me know what you think.
If you're in a relationship with someone you care about, you apologize.
If it's someone who's seeking to hurt you, you don't apologize.
You don't show weakness at that point in time.
And here's the thing.
It's not just Some people on Twitter.
This is the, and we've been through this, we're going to go back to the Vox Apocalypse and talk about it because I've lived this exactly, exactly when people tried to get us removed from YouTube here.
And then I was mentioned by sitting senators and CNN, the exact same thing, a hit list, a reel, and we survived it.
So let's look at this sort of gaggle of bullies, Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter.
Hear them talking about how Joe Rogan should be kicked off Spotify.
What does Joe Rogan now say?
He is now apologizing, and we're going to find out if that's enough for Spotify, the company that has an exclusive distribution deal with him.
Jim, this is all coming to light because of the recent controversy about anti-vaccine rhetoric on Rogan's podcast.
How are the two related?
They're not.
They decided to quit the service.
One of them, India Aree, pointed out this video, this compilation video, and pointed
Oh boy.
out that the language Rogan has used around race in the past is just as or maybe even
more problematic than his rhetoric about vaccines.
Typically, in the past, when a video like the one at the beginning of this segment that
we aired of Joe Rogan saying the N-word repeatedly over and over and over again over the course
of many of his episodes, I mean, that would be enough for somebody to lose their job.
There are many examples, including in Hollywood and entertainment, where people have lost
their roles for less than this.
And that may be why Spotify is being so quiet.
At the same time, I want to recognize there are reasons why Rogan has lots of fans, millions
of fans, people wanting Yeah.
Okay.
Couple of things.
First off, there are a few flaws there.
Do you notice he said people were unsubscribing?
Really?
Do you have those numbers?
They're not available.
Where's the misinformation label?
People aren't subscribing because of what Joe Rogan said?
Are you sure about that?
And by the way, does it counterbalance all of the new paying subscribers because Joe Rogan was signed to Spotify?
That's misinformation right there.
And he's saying other people have been cancelled for saying far less.
Well, here's the thing, Joe Rogan's not an employee, dummy!
Joe Rogan's not an employee of Spotify.
They have some kind of, whatever it is, a distribution deal, a licensing deal.
He's not like you.
He's not a patsy for the higher-ups hoping for Jeff Zucker's job.
People need to understand this difference.
And certainly of all, most of all, my God, Joe Rogan!
I hope that Joe Rogan understands he can't be fired by these people.
Look, this is the same thing.
I'll get into what happened with us.
No unemployed?
I don't have an employer.
I am the employer.
Some people sign the backs of checks.
Some people sign the fronts of checks.
And the only reason I'm able to do it is because of you, the viewer.
Not like PBS where we say viewers like you, but then we get tens of millions of dollars in federal funding.
Just you.
We're not funded by a foreign caliphate.
We're not funded by someone at CNN who tells us what to say.
It's Mug Club.
You guys can join up.
Lodderwithcrowder.com slash Mug Club.
We appreciate the support.
You'll always have free content here on YouTube as long as it's a loud rumble, but we do an extra hour of show that we know we can never do on YouTube every single day.
This is the only way that we make revenue and some sponsorships with sponsors who have the balls to not run off, right?
But yeah, but yeah, I'm with you.
No, I just think you're absolutely right about all of it.
I think that when it comes down to apologizing to a mob, it doesn't matter.
If he's apologizing to black people specifically who were offended for using the n-word, that's one thing, but I don't believe that he ever used it maliciously.
So the reason why he thought he was untouchable, which I don't believe that he thought he was untouchable to be honest, I think it was because At one point, comedy was supposed to be all in context.
Right.
Comedy cannot exist unless it's within context.
Right.
And if anything is looked at as a joke, it is a joke, and it's that simple.
That's why you would love it if everything that we did was looked at like it was supposed to be.
And I don't think he, to clarify if people think that that's what I was saying, I was never suggesting that he thought he was untouchable, but exactly what you said.
Here's the deal.
I lived in a very different world.
Right.
Where back when I was 19, I was banned from a college because this is a, when I was 19 years old, so it would have been 2000, Seven?
I was banned from a ladies' footlocker, but that's... Go on.
Well, see, that's okay, because now I'm allowed in every ladies' footlocker, because I just set the Penn State records.
But he thought... And I was always telling people, look, you're saying that, that comedy is untouchable in context, because you haven't gone through what I've gone through.
You don't know.
Right now, what I am saying is permissible, but it's going to get worse.
I've had this conversation with many comedians, and comedians would be on this show and say, no, I don't think that's what's going to happen.
Comedy...
I've lived it.
I've had agents drop me.
I've had managers drop me.
I've been banned from school.
I've been banned from comedy clubs.
I've had bookers complain.
At this point, it's a clean act, but I would say things that would be considered politically incorrect.
And I experienced it.
And I was trying to sound the alarm, saying, Before the term existed.
The social justice warriors are coming!
And they're going, no, it's not going to happen in comedy.
Yes, it will.
And if it hasn't happened for you yet, it's either because that Overton window hasn't been moved far enough yet, or you are not big enough yet.
That's the only reason they are coming for...
All of you, and it's not because they actually think that you're racist.
What they want to do with Joe Rogan is this.
What they want to do is Joe Rogan has to go interview Francis Ngannou or Curtis Blades or someone like that after a UFC fight, and he's afraid, does this guy think I'm a racist because he saw something out of context?
What they want to do is, again, it's like an abusive relationship, alienate you and isolate you from all of the people who were your friends who now may have this misconception of you.
That's a big component of this too.
Yeah.
They wanted to do it with me and make it seem like I was homophobic.
This is what they wanted to do.
And, you know, that being said, I mean, you know, it's like a spider.
Like, I don't want to have to touch it!
You're not afraid of gay people at all.
That's the stupidest term.
Does anyone know anybody who is afraid of homosexuals?
It's the stupidest term.
Again, it's a made-up term just to silence you fearfully into submission.
Now, let's remember this.
In context, I don't know if you know who else has said this, and I don't think... I think he's a racist for different reasons, but...
Former Vice President Joe Biden.
Hard R. We already have a nigger mayor, we don't need any more nigger big shots.
What?
Weird.
And by the way, he's still saying it.
Is he on Spotify still?
He's still saying it.
Nigger here next.
Not to mention, he uses the F word, you know, what he says about the Nazis.
Nazi fags.
Now look.
Fairness, though, his brain is firing.
Yes.
Yeah, just every human being on this planet, everybody has said vile things.
Everybody has said awful things.
We are all human beings.
Right.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Everybody does things right and wrong.
And when I even see that video, I go, yeah, a lot of that's just people talking.
Right.
Yeah.
Sorry, that's just the reality.
If you're sitting there throwing stones at somebody, there's no part of this that is genuine.
No.
The only part of this is to take control.
Well here's a good example of that is you know we were talking about context and of course the left says there is no context in which it's permissible.
So now people have been circulating the former Vice President Joe Biden video but if you look it's been defended by people on the left.
They say right here's a headline from media Joe Rogan defenders have been circulating videos of Joe Biden saying the n-word.
Here's the full story and it goes on to explain the context of it and why it's permissible.
So oh so context applies To the sitting former vice president, but context doesn't apply to a comedian on a podcast who, by the way, was saying it in a far less pernicious way.
This is the point.
It's not about whether it's wrong.
It's not even about the context.
You don't apologize.
They're not demanding an apology of former vice president Joe Biden.
Right.
Because, well, context.
But you're demanding one of Joe Rogan.
Not only that, you're demanding that he lose his livelihood because you don't care about the context.
Don't apologize to those people.
They're animals.
Well, and when we had the Kyle Rittenhouse trial— Isn't that the total opposite?
Yeah.
We had the trial on for Kyle Rittenhouse, the guy that ran around saying, shoot me inward, shoot me inward, right?
We actually said, we want you to see this.
You mean the BLM advocate?
Can we pause one second?
I want to hold your thoughts.
This right now, Pete Buttigieg is on CNN, look at this.
It says, Delta CEO asks Justice Department to put unruly passengers on no-fly list.
Do you see the problem now?
That's not a free market.
How many bailouts has Delta received, by the way?
You want to look at the companies that received the most amount of bailouts?
You have banks, you have car companies, you have airline companies.
These are the industries, of course, that Americans know and love.
Now, they're saying they're asking the Justice Department to put unruly passengers on no-fly list.
Well, what if you have a medical condition and you don't put a mask on?
We've had videos circulate where those people have been asked to exit a plane.
I'm not talking about people punching each other!
That's different.
Right?
Obviously Spirit Airlines is not making this request because that's their clientele.
Or the Golden Corral, neither one.
Send your unruly mother- Send them on over to Spirit!
If you want the big front seats, you better put up your dukes.
Right.
Well, they just merged with Frontier, so... This is the Wild West up out in this bitch!
Delta got $5.4 billion, by the way.
$5.4 billion, and now they're saying, hey look, you bailed us out.
Justice Department, can you get rid of these unruly passengers?
We know that Delta is a woke company.
You've seen what they've been doing in the past.
And now, how do they define unruly?
It's already illegal to start a fight.
It's already illegal to make a bomb threat.
It's already illegal to actually cause a disruption on a commercial airplane.
You know that, right?
That's the law.
It's just like hate speech.
It's already illegal to violently threaten someone.
It's already illegal to call people to violence.
But then we establish, no, no, we mean speech that people don't like.
So I want to see what they're asking here and what Pete Buttigieg is,
oh look, he must be using his Rogaine.
You looked at at a moment like this.
And at the same time, we also have to recognize that there's clearly something deeper that's going on
in our society that makes anybody think that it's acceptable or tolerable to behave this way.
You simply should not behave this way on an airplane.
You shouldn't behave this way on the ground either.
But in air travel, it's a unique risk.
And it's especially important that we're backing up flight attendants and flight crews
that are essential workers.
They have been heroes in our travel and transportation sector through this pandemic.
They deserve respect.
They deserve support.
And of course, they deserve respect.
You mean the rudest people on the planet?
We've never seen this in our lifetime.
We've never seen this in our lifetime, the amount of control from only a handful of big companies, and they are so blatantly comfortable with letting you know that they are working hand-in-hand with the government to eliminate from society people who have a specific point of view.
The half who elects presidents.
You were saying something about Joe Rogan.
I was saying, yeah, so when Rosenbaum was running around earlier in the day and they had video of him shouting, shoot me, inward, right?
We had that and we played that and they were bleeping it and we're like, no, no, no, no, no.
We need you to see what he actually said because the context of what was going on really matters.
You don't need to have this bleep to cover it.
Joe Rogan, in most of those, was quoting other people and what they were saying.
I understand that you don't like a word.
I get it, that it's Voldemort.
Nobody can say it other than black people or when you're singing a song or in the private of your own home, apparently, because they said you can't say it and have another black person see it, right?
You can't say it in public or, my God, on a podcast.
It is totally unbelievable that there is a word that is okay for some people to say and other people to say in quoting them and go, wait a minute, you're white, you can't say that, right?
How is that not racism?
I don't mean anything by the word, by the way.
I'm only saying what Tupac said.
They want you to believe that the person who quotes in praise of a black artist, someone who quotes that is just as racist as the person who's beating the slave in roots.
Exactly.
They want you to believe it's the same.
It doesn't make any sense.
You're talking about Red Fox and Richard Pryor, who broke the mold in the 70s as black comedians following, you know, like Cosby and Dick Gregory, who was, I mean, I would probably say the pioneer of that kind At least Cosby never used the N-word.
No, it's very, very, very true.
You know what's crazy?
His stuff's still on Spotify, by the way.
He was an OBGYN that worked out of his basement on the Cosby Show.
Who knew?
Wow, that is weird.
Worked from home.
No, but when you look at that, though, you're like, of all the professions to pick, why did his recliner have stirrups?
All he did was leave just little seedlings.
Yeah, little breadcrumbs.
Little breadcrumbs all the way.
Little roofies.
Maybe just a little trail of rubies all the way up after my basement and my den.
Pick them up as candy if I got a gingerbread house.
I'm just a monster.
Don't pull your pants down and don't use the n-word.
I'm gonna rape you.
You know, it's not just Bill Cosby who's still on Spotify.
R. Kelly, still on Spotify.
Marilyn Manson is still on Spotify!
Exactly!
What the hell's the matter with you?
The people who are pulling off of Spotify are just anybody who wants attention.
It's like, oh, Chumbo Wumba wants to take a stand?
Talking to Darren, he's like, yeah, Hermits Hermits is finally coming out.
Lara Trump polled, she's like, I'm pulling my podcast from Spotify and they're just, they're stuck, went up 9,000%.
Maroon 5 said, get them off or we're going to add our music to Spotify.
Oh no.
Oh God.
Was it Hathaway?
We'll be banned.
Oh no.
Oh God.
Was it Hathaway?
Hardaway?
Yeah, no, Penny Hardaway has a podcast and he's also removing that.
Penny-wise?
Oh, Marcy Playground's gone.
I'm sorry, Joe.
We just gotta cut ties.
We're done.
It's just, everything behind... We try to walk away, but we can't.
He tried to say the word and he stumbled.
Now it's clear, Spotify, we're still here.
I'm tired of hearing everyone say... It's so stupid.
It's a comic.
Here's the thing.
I knew this was going to happen.
I was sounding the alarm.
And let me tell you how I know.
I only know one way to handle things just so people understand.
Maybe there's a more tactful way to do it.
Just not the way I do things.
It's a Mack truck, you pull out the emergency brake.
That's about the only way I know how to be successful at anything in life.
I'd like to learn a greater skill set where I can have some more finesse, but I'm not there yet.
Vox.
Of course, partnered with NBCUniversal, one of the biggest companies in the world, tried to do this with yours truly for people who have missed it.
This is, sorry, the Vox Adpocalypse happened.
It was a big deal.
I'm sorry to all the creators who were harmed.
They created a new set of rules, the Crowder Rule, because it wasn't a violation of any guidelines.
And then there's advertiser-friendly guidelines.
Now there's the borderline content in the industry.
People refer to that as, behind closed doors, the Crowder Rule.
Sorry!
It's all your fault.
And this is exactly what they did to me back in 2019.
I appreciate that they put the reel together because, you know, now I don't need to address it anymore.
Before we get to the video, with our favorite, favorite lispy sprite from Vox.
It's ridiculous!
It's bonkers!
You're being given a free pass as a crappy writer because you're gay.
That's the center line on his little queer graph there.
Well, now the graph is queer?
Violence, filth.
Okay, so the little queer could eat his chips all nonchalantly.
This is what Mr. Gay Vox wants to do.
Mr. Lispy Queer from Vox.
Even his hand movement in fast motion is gay.
Now we're here with the short-haired angry lesbian on Skype.
Two gay guys sitting there eating a banana.
We get the symbolism there.
The truth is hiding in a closet two weeks later, probably along to his next Pride Parade outfit.
This guy on the gay, semi-Latino Vox... Oh, okay, so I'll just name you a little queer.
Alright, I can't deal with this Sprite anymore.
Okay, he just sashays across without a... Like, just... Oh!
The gay Vox Sprite is wrong!
Now he could be a tranny, Your Honor!
How many lispy, angry sprites of Vox sashay across your screen and try and tell you otherwise?
You, by the way, the gay Mexican guy.
The gay Latino v-neck.
Gay Mexican.
Mexican gay guy used to work.
Mexican gay Latino there at Vox.
Gay Latino from Vox.
The token Vox gay atheist sprite with surprisingly, surprisingly flaccid chest considering how thin he is.
It is very bizarre to me.
Ad hominem?
Yes?
You are gay.
That feels less at gay people and more at one guy.
Right.
And by the way, we did plenty of critiques of other people at once, too, but it was also because, you know, the guy's handle was Gay Wonk.
Yes, it was Gay Wonk.
We used those terms.
And of course, the grossly offensive 1940s term, sprite.
Yeah.
By the way, YouTube co-produced.
Just a show with Vox, we later found out.
I found that out when I was at the movie theater.
I was at the movie theater, and they were announcing some new show on YouTube, and it was Vox something, and it was YouTube producing.
I'm like, what?
Oh!
Of course!
So, here's the thing.
After that, Same thing as with Joe Rogan.
The media, sitting senators, politicians were forced to address and some were calling for me to lose my ability, because they can't fire me, but lose my ability to broadcast freely to you.
We heard the allegations from Mr. Carlos Maza, who uploaded a video on Twitter with a compilation.
Who works at Vox.com.
Who works at Vox.com, yes.
As they speak in front of a Vox-sponsored replay.
Different video pieces from Steven Crowder's channel, putting them together, right, and asked us to take action.
Like, again, I want to say there were many videos, and I looked at the, you know, certainly at the compilation video.
So when the team said, we believe this is non-violative, this doesn't violate our rules, you agreed with that?
Well, let me explain to you why.
If you interrupt me again, I will speak to the manager.
I agree that that was the right decision.
YouTube dragged its feet before taking any action against conservative commentator Stephen Crowder.
Despite being informed of Crowder's two-year homophobic harassment campaign against journalist Carla... Harassment!
We've also got Carlos Maza.
He's the host of the series Strike Through on Vox.com.
He says he's been harassed for years by this controversial YouTuber named Steven Crowder.
He recently tweeted a whole montage of offensive so-called jokes.
YouTube was about to start Pride Month and rock the rainbow colors and claim to care about LGBT people and they were Helping this guy build an audience base of four million subscribers whose only real content was making fun of me for being queer.
Why are you gay?
Yeah, that was our only content.
And by the way, YouTube was helping us.
They just could not stop helping us build that platform.
What if it was just the one person who I know sits right behind the camera that when they talk and go LGBTQ, they go...
The Hodgetwins came in, Don Lemon had on a show like, man we were in an airport man, and then we walk into the hotel, CNN's on the screen, and we just see Steven and his dad going queer, queer, queer, queer!
And Don Lemon go, disgusting.
Because he called my dad!
It was Carlos Maza that was disgusting, I think.
Well, he got fired from Vox and all this stuff.
And look, it was never about that guy.
I don't wish him any ill will.
The issue was... Why did he get fired from Vox?
I have no idea.
Producing terrible content.
But the point is, Vox, it didn't work.
YouTube, Google took a nosedive, actually, when they did that.
The Vox apocalypse happened.
Yeah.
And I mean, you know, you guys want to go... People have already put together the hit reel.
You know, good luck.
Here's what I think now.
Um, we survived, we grew through it, and of course at that point we had a record number of you guys signing up, Mug Club subscribers, and that usually is what happens because you understand that not only, uh, it's the only way that we can continue to survive, and we have a lot of you now, surprising amount of you watching at Mug Club, uh, I think probably now because you also, you know, you get like an hour of extra show.
Yeah.
But you know that it could go away at any moment.
So we did apologize, but this is how I think Joe Rogan and everyone moving forward just It worked for us.
The blueprint.
This is how we apologized.
I would also like to apologize to Drake, the rapper, for referring to him as a quote, butter soft bitch, and claiming that his only redeeming quality as a performer was when he was shot into permanent paralysis on Degrassi.
I'd also like to apologize to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for implying that she's long been deceased.
And even though I don't have verifiable proof to the contrary, I do realize my observations were conducted in poor taste and ill-timed.
I'd also like to retract my comment about Representative Dan Crenshaw, implying that his mugshot would, quote, resemble that of an angry pirate shift manager in a Brooks Brothers catalog store, and that it would be, quote, the stuff of children's nightmares.
To my dear friend and esteemed colleague Ben Shapiro, I sincerely apologize for implying
that you're a greedy shekel hoarder. I'd like to issue an apology to Tess Holliday
for incorrectly implying that her blood type was biologically comparable to that of Pudding.
She's both brave and beautiful, and I should have done more to celebrate that.
Also, an apology to the Jell-O Pudding Corporation for associating their product with Tess Holliday.
That's the only way I know how to do it!
So sorry.
Smash that like button right now if you're watching on YouTube.
And I think what just happened is back then I had a tan.
It's not like I aged 20 years and 5.
No, it didn't happen.
Not at all.
By the way, I know that we're not supposed to mention these guys, but there's another compilation floating around out there of other people.
I'm not saying their name.
If you watch this show, we've buried them in the past.
Just look at that.
Is it my OnlyFans?
YouTube, you've got another problem.
If Rogan's a problem for Spotify, then that's gotta be a problem for YouTube, right?
Which, by the way, you might want to change the URL from OnlyFans.com slash DaveSaysTheNWord to just throw him off the scent.
But I thought people find it spicy when I do.
Well, they do find it spicy, but I don't know if the juice is worth the squeeze.
Also cancelled South Park.
It's just me pulling up and yelling it at bus stops.
And your ass kicked.
Just me being beaten.
Then pulling up on the tarmac to Spirit.
Hey!
Hey guys.
And then the next shot is just you in an ambulance.
Dave here again.
I'm on the south side no matter what city it is.
I'm about to get the shit kicked out of me in front of cricket wireless.
I'm at the corner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
This ought to be fun.
Let's roll these dice.
Going to the Golden Corral to take the last stake.
Yeah.
Heading on in.
What spirit seed is mine?
We're gonna find out in a minute.
I'm about to send back this Popeye's chicken sandwich, see how it goes.
I'm about to purchase the last one and let everyone know.
It's all just jokes.
And what I think, you know, look, if I like Joe Rogan, go ahead and just keep supporting who you support.
The fact that this is like, sounds like we're going into war is so weird.
Like, life is not that bad.
It's just a podcast.
Right.
Listen to who you want to listen to, enjoy it, and I'm really glad that you support us, you support Stephen, who has the balls to keep doing his show, even when I'm just shocked that I even watch these clips and these people are talking about you.
It's so weird, man.
This is what they want to do, and you know, just like Joe Rogan, obviously we're not as big as Joe Rogan, but certainly bigger than any Any show on CNN and any late night show as far as you viewers in the demo, and they want to eliminate it.
And that's really what it comes down to.
They want to eliminate competition, and they have the assistance and the full support of the United States government, and that is what's scary.
Yeah, the United States government is becoming a mafia strongman.
Basically you just call these guys when you have a problem and they come in and fix it with the power that they have.
But everything that Dave just said, watch whatever you want to watch, listen to whatever you want to listen to, that's what they want to take away.
That's what they want to take away.
That's why if you type in Steven Crowder changed my mind abortion maybe they fixed it you'll find something from PBS.
They make it so you can't even find what you want to find and that's why we always tell you Monday through Thursday 10 a.m.
Eastern.
You guys have to tune in.
Bookmark it.
Best thing you can do is subscribe over at Rumble Mug Club because even if you subscribe, even if you hit the notification bell, You may not find this show.
That's the issue.
People are not allowed to choose.
That was what we thought would be the beauty of the internet, right?
Well, there's no more gatekeeper.
The gatekeepers are the same as always, and now they're more powerful than ever because they learned, oh, wait a second, it's no longer the FCC.
We can just have the government declare something misinformation.
It doesn't have to actually be set guidelines or regulations that we understand, like you did on radio or television.
And worse than the FCC is the mob now, who works hand-in-hand with big tech and often people in government, to Try and eliminate your career, even though there's no actual violation.
Yeah.
And don't be like The Rock, who was like, oh, I totally side with Rogue, and then all of a sudden was like, no, no, I don't.
That man stood by the movie Jungle Cruise.
Yes.
I'd rather be sodomized with a Coke bottle while being called a chalk demon for an hour and a half than watch that movie.
Well, Dave, how did you know what Stelter did Tuesday?
You have to pay for that, typically.
I see.
It's called Tipsy Tuesday.
Yes.
Face me well.
I'd like to share the world a coke.
A coke and a smile for me.
For perfect harmony.
One in the front.
One in the rear.
There's one thing for sure.
I'm not queer.
Reliable sources.
That's me.
Now.
Yesterday, going on with this, now we have GoFundMe.
So here's the thing, are you free on Spotify?
Well, not really.
Are you free on YouTube?
Well, not really.
Are you free on Facebook, Twitter?
Now, what about GoFundMe, which was supposed to be, again, all of you.
GoFundMe!
It's supposed to be FundMe!
YouTube!
FundMe!
YouTube!
It's supposed to be about you, not CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, not Viacom, NBC, Universe, none of that.
GoFundMe was supposed to be anyone could go out there and start raising money.
What happened?
The screws got tightened.
Let's tighten the vice a little bit here.
There was the Freedom Convoy, of course, in Canada.
The biggest uprising that I've ever seen as far as a peaceful protest in Canadian government.
Finally.
And they raised $10 million, actually.
But, you know, before we go to that, let's show you How the arms of government are treating entire... The police acknowledged not one act of violence.
Let's see how the Ottawa police government is treating these protesters.
They came in and they were taking the fuel.
They were having force there and not letting anybody in.
Taking fuel from protesters?
Yeah.
With their weapons.
Looks cold there.
Yeah, not letting anybody in.
They're taking the fuel out of the trucks.
Not out, but they can't resupply them.
Yeah, they're seizing them.
The police also, by the way, lest you think that's been taken out of context, the police announced anyone trying to supply protesters with any materials would be subject to arrest.
Now I could understand that, for example, like if it was Black Lives Matter and, you know, pallets of bricks.
Sure.
Yeah, of course.
Or, you know, like pipe bombs, that kind of thing.
Or, you know, anything that might be used to burn down a wall, greens.
But when there's never been one single act of violence, it's just truckers honking their horn.
They did vandalize the Terry Fox Memorial by draping it with a flag.
They'll never untie that.
And then they took it off.
Never.
So this is the kind of horror that has been seen at these protests in Canada.
And again, really what it comes down to is you either believe in the idea of peaceful protests or not.
And in Canada, you don't really have First Amendment protections, but contrast with Black Lives Matter, Seattle, CHAZ, CHOP, all of these For crying out loud, the Women's March had more acts of violence and vandalism, and people don't say we need to stop supplying them, so GoFundMe was trying to steal.
Let me be clear, steal.
There was $10 million raised for these truckers at GoFundMe.
And GoFundMe was trying to steal it.
Now there's a little bit of a happy ending here, but not entirely.
GoFundMe took down the Freedom Convoy 2022 page on Friday, claiming the protest was now an occupation.
That's important, the word occupation, because they don't care.
GoFundMe originally stated that donors had two weeks to ask for a refund before it was redistributed to, quote, credible and established charities.
And we'll get to what those have been there from GoFundMe in the past.
By the way, one's an actual occupation.
So this redistribution plan got a lot of people upset.
Of course, DeSantis, being the bulldog that he is, the Florida governor said that they were going to be investigating for fraud.
There are a lot of AGs that said, all right, this is something we're going to do.
So then GoFundMe immediately reversed their course and said everyone will be automatically refunded.
Now, what would have been best is if GoFundMe said, all right.
Of course we're going to allow the GoFundMe, what's supposed to be an independent platform for raising money.
We're going to allow it to go to the people who haven't committed an act of violence and they're peacefully protesting their government.
Instead, by the way, you think the Canadian government didn't know about this?
You don't think there were some calls that were made?
It's not a conspiracy when you have Jen Psaki saying, we think Spotify should do more.
You don't think that Trudeau made a call from his bunker to GoFundMe?
I can't substantiate that.
I just believe it to be so.
Has he come out of hiding yet?
No.
Has anybody actually seen Trudeau?
Well, there's gonna be six more weeks of blackface.
Oh, no.
He's been hiding $10 million of shoe polish.
Yes!
Been hiding a banana.
Kiwi stock just went up, but their supply chain went down.
That's totally acceptable again, and that's in context.
Yes.
Let's look at some other conservative, right-leaning people causes that GoFundMe removed.
Again, you don't live in a free society if the rules are not applied equally.
Right.
It's not that we have rules, it's not that we have laws.
How would you feel if there were laws, and people actually complain about more black Americans being caught for minor drug offenses.
That's true, there's a little more to that story because usually these are offenses that are congruent with either other offenses simultaneously, or there have been multiple offenses before, especially if you look at Clinton instating the three-strike law.
But that being said, I understand why people are upset, and if you believe that black people are simply being arrested for smoking some marijuana, Even though they smoke it at the same rate that white people do.
The point is, that would be injustice.
Why?
Because we have a law, but it's not being applied equally.
Now imagine if it were more severe than that, and the law said white people can smoke marijuana and black people can't.
Not that it was being enforced unequally, but that was the law.
That's what we're seeing here with these big tech platforms who are arms of the government.
You are not free just because you have laws.
You are only a free country if the law is applied equally.
So let's look at GoFundMe.
They discontinued Kyle Rittenhouse.
They discontinued an anti-vaccine mandate lawsuit.
They discontinued Trump rally fundraisers.
And the company vowed in January 2021 that they would continue to remove fundraisers that, quote, spread misinformation about the election, promote conspiracy theories, and contribute to or participate in attacks on US democracy. Now let's compare attacks on US democracy.
Well that makes sense. Here are the other ones that they actively supported.
Black Lives Matter riots. Jacob Blake, the man who by the way his
I don't know wife, his partner was the one who called because he had raped her and she
called the cops when he was there kidnapping his own children and he tried to
attack the cops with a knife. Jacob Blake.
That was allowed to stay on.
There was bail money for pedophiles.
Not to mention Chaz Chop.
So we're talking about an occupation.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
That sounds... That's an actual occupation.
Yeah.
Where they set up roadblocks and handed out guns and everything.
And declared it an autonomous zone.
By the way, also lit stuff on fire.
There were also multiple people murdered in Chaz Chop.
This is not news to anyone.
References available at LottoCrowder.com.
You can go back and watch our entire episode.
These were allowed to stay, but truckers Most of whom are vaccinated, but are protesting a government mandate entirely peacefully.
It's not even an accusation that they haven't been peaceful.
Getting removed.
Is the law, are the rules applied equally?
That's what this is about.
Yeah.
And the answer is absolutely not.
And I think this pissed me off more than anything over the weekend.
Because if GoFundMe can take money from people, and like you said initially, saying we're going to redistribute it, fine.
Look, if you're going to be a socialist and you're not going to allow us to do anything, if you're going to be a communist, whatever, the authoritarian, fine.
We get it.
We understand who you are.
We've got other people we can go to to get funds to causes that we support.
You don't just get to give that to other people.
Because people gave you money.
You immediately give it back.
And that's where people were.
They were like, look, we'll do chargebacks on it.
Which would have been fantastic.
Do you know how many thousands and thousands of chargebacks would have happened to them?
That would have destroyed part of their business.
That would have been great for everything.
Can you explain to people who don't know what chargebacks mean?
A chargeback on a credit card thing, it's like, they've taken my funds and they're not using it for what, like if somebody comes and buys wine, And I charge them for wine they didn't actually buy.
You can charge back and it would actually hit me.
I would have to pay that back to the credit card company.
So I would be left holding the bag.
Hey Johnny Boy, sorry my guy out there, make sure that we call up Gerald's wine clientele list.
I have something I'd like to talk to them about.
Exactly.
But this only happens because of the pressure.
It's like when you sell a kid oregano.
Yeah, well, you know, and he charges you back.
You don't use your credit.
What are you, writing a check?
I do.
Jerry Springer did.
I want to hear from you, the people who comment, because I know we have a lot of libertarian people.
Do you think this is still a question of the free market?
I think it's silly at this point.
No, not at all.
Go make your own, okay?
Well, you know what?
I will.
I'll go build my own platform.
I'll start out with GoFundMe.
Oh, GoFundMe removed you.
Well, you know what?
I'll create an app.
Well, the Apple Store removed you.
Well, I guess I'll start a channel.
Well, they removed you.
I think I'll stay alive in my truck.
Well, we can't give you gas even though it's freezing cold.
Or food.
Or anything else.
And by the way, one thing we didn't mention, Shopify, one of the largest online e-commerce platforms in the universe.
No, Steven Crowder, you can't sell merchandise through it.
Oh yeah, that's true.
I've been banned from Shopify.
There's a bad shirt.
No, it wasn't a bad shirt.
They said they didn't like what I said.
Ah!
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
You can go to CrowderShop.com.
We have a different... By the way, people who are talking about how some shirts have been... Yeah, we've had to change vendors.
Thrice.
Thrice.
Because people said, oh, we don't want to be... We don't like what you say.
Yeah.
Alright.
That's fine.
But this is what happens.
This is how it starts.
And then they feel emboldened, of course, by the government.
If you're Delta, you just saw it.
Delta says, well, we've got the full backing of the United States government.
Great.
Do you think there's going to be an investigation into GoFundMe from the federal government?
No, of course not.
They're doing their bidding.
Do you think that former Vice President Joe Biden, do you think Nancy Pelosi, do you think any of these people want to push for transparency laws with big tech?
No, they want to push for more regulation so that they can have more control over these companies.
When you talk about fascist authoritarian governments, People tried to say that Donald Trump was a fascist.
Donald Trump never tried to shut anyone, didn't try to shut these places down.
He was saying they need to lose their tax-exempt status because they need to be, they need to pick.
Are they a public platform or are they a publisher?
They need to stop censoring.
Right now you have a government telling people to censor.
So if you believe that only the government can censor, what happens when the government is telling other people to censor. And of course they have
the purse strings where they can say, if you censor, we'll give you a little bit of a tax break
here. If you censor, we'll make sure we have a meeting, we'll have a summit, and
you'll be included. If you don't, well, you know what? We don't know what's going to happen
to you. It would be a shame if you woke up with concrete shoes. It would be a shame if somebody
investigated your companies and found some infractions. No, instead they audit Dave Landau.
Exactly!
That is what they do.
That is absolutely what they do.
There's this other site.
For lots of money.
Yeah, so here's a silver lining.
You guys can go and support them.
It's GiveSendGo.
Hold on, GiveSendGo.
They've already raised 4.3 million dollars.
That's fantastic.
So if you want to go, we have the link.
Give.
Send.
Go.
For me?
Screw this Go Fund for this convo.
Never ever use them again.
Don't ever send them any money again.
If anybody wants some money from you, find a different way.
We're running late here today, so tomorrow we'll talk about Biden and his silly comments about the firearms.
Was he wrong again?
Yeah, he was wrong again.
He thought it was a flashlight.
I'm sorry.
You know what?
Look, you can't just go by rallies like Donald Trump would do, but there's a level of enthusiasm.
I mean, Dave, you were the highest selling white comic ever at the Denver Imprint.
White comic?
I just found out, yeah.
That's racist.
Why would you even have that category?
Well, the point is black comics are generally better, so it's graded on a curve.
Yeah, it's true.
And they tend to support their own people, so they draw very well in comedy.
Absolutely.
It's absolutely true.
I mean, have you seen Tyler Perry's pocketbook?
That's true.
He does a great Madea.
The guy makes a billion dollars in Madea, too.
He doesn't even need the Chinese market.
It's Madea's pocketbook.
Yes, it is Madea's pocketbook.
It's a deep pocketbook.
His wallet's pretty thick.
Madea has the same purse as Brian Stelter.
Oh, my lord.
Now, I think this is it.
Well, people have misused the term cancel culture.
I don't want to say anything.
People have gotten tired of the term cancel culture.
Let's stop using the term cancel culture.
What I'm talking about is people attempting to remove your ability to make a living.
This is an attempt to ruin, to destroy lives.
That's really what it is.
Cancel culture, people are like, oh, you're not canceled if you're still on Spotify.
No, look, they're trying to ruin Joe Rogan's life.
privately through things that he said on a public platform, by the way, in the open.
They're trying to destroy your life privately.
They're trying to remove, in Canada, all of this.
There's a through-line.
Them not allowing gas to get to these truckers is the exact same as the government saying, Spotify, you need to do more to throttle Joe Rogan.
It's the exact same as them creating the Crowder rule over at YouTube for borderline content and Senator Hirono saying, why didn't they remove this person?
It's all a symptom of the same problem.
And it's no longer about the free market versus the government.
I understand that at one point people would say, well look, if you don't like that restaurant, don't shop there.
If you don't like this show, don't watch it.
Sure, got it.
But the government wasn't saying...
Yeah, but this market's going to be allowed.
We're going to allow only Tom Thumbs.
We're going to make sure that Kroger is subject to separate regulations.
That would be what we're dealing with right now.
They didn't used to say, you know what, we're going to make sure that every single television can get ABC, but they can't get NBC back when there were only three stations.
Now we have that, actually.
Imagine if the government did that.
But the government has come out now and said, you know what?
One America News is misinformation.
And guess what?
They're dropped from cable providers.
Imagine if they'd done that with NBC.
Think that would have changed the landscape for ABC and CBS?
And by the way, what kind of messaging do you think would come from ABC or CBS?
I had to watch this in Canada.
I'll leave you with this.
And then we're going to play They Don't Make Them Like They Used To on Mug Club.
There's no way we could play that here on YouTube.
In Canada, I don't remember the exact numbers.
But I know I'm close, so I'll make sure afterwards that we have these numbers and the references available.
They were campaigning for Canadian Prime Minister.
This is before Trudeau, Prime Minister Blackface made it in.
And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, someone from the NDP said that if they won, they would give like a hundred million dollars, maybe it was 75 million, but a huge sum of money to the CBC.
For Americans, what's the CBC?
It's the only news, effectively, that we had in Canada when I was growing up.
It's the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
So a candidate Who's running for office was saying, if I win, you're going to get more money.
How do you think they're going to cover him?
But then Trudeau came in and I think if the other person said $75 million or $100 million, Trudeau added like 50% and he said, I'll give $150 million to CBC.
Oh boy.
Who do you think got the favorable coverage?
That's the issue.
When these networks, when these powerful companies believe That they can get not only favorable financial incentives, but treatment in an uneven playing field, of course they're going to do the bidding.
Because it's not just about money, it's about power and the power enables you to make more money.
Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube.
Now we see GoFundMe.
You can add Patreon to that list.
If they know that the government has their eye on them and that the government will give them a leg up and eliminate their competition as we've seen, or at least Call for it.
Give them the support publicly.
Guess what?
They're going to be emboldened, and they're only going to be emboldened to do the bidding of the government.
All the Bernie bros out there, all the people who are liberals who complain about campaign finance, who complain about Citizens United, who don't fully understand what Citizens United was about, and you complain about corporatism.
Where are you on this?
Where are you on this?
There's no more clear example of crony capitalism outside of maybe the big bank bailouts, which I know you guys think was necessary, too big to fail, just like Elizabeth Warren, right, with BlackRock.
Where are you on this?
Does this not scare you?
Where are the code pinks?
We're the people who were against the Patriot Act when George Bush was president.
This is so much worse.
This is so much more of an abuse of power.
It's unprecedented in American history.
And if you go along with it, or if you apologize to these people, you are apologizing to evil.
Because people who do not have a heart for forgiveness, the Bible talks about that, those are evil people.
Smash that like button if you're watching here on YouTube right now.
It helps with the algorithm.
Comment below.
Do you apologize?
Even if you think you're wrong, I think you know where I line up.
And, uh, we're going to play.
They don't make them like they used to.
So, YouTube, you know what?
Thank you, but not really.
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