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April 26, 2022 - Louder with Crowder
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Meltdown INCOMING: Elon Brings Back FREE SPEECH on Twitter! | Louder with Crowder
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Outro Music Will you fight?
Aye, speak out and you may be banned from YouTube.
Be silent and you'll keep your channels, at least for a while, and working in your cubicle many years from now.
Would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell the Fauci's, the Pfizer's, the Moderna's, that they may try and force the mandates, but they'll never take our freedom!
Guys?
No, I know, I know, we heard you, William.
It's just...
What if we get the COVID?
The what?
Aye, it's got a 0.3% mortality rate.
0.3?
That's almost half a point.
It's only a 98% survival rate.
And that warrants giving up your freedom.
OK, William.
You're not taking into account... What about the Omicron?
The Omicron.
He doesn't even do well with colds.
No, last year I had a sinus infection.
He was scratchy for weeks.
He was going like that.
For crying out loud, they're rounding up horses in camps!
Eh, okay, I hear they're not that bad.
Yeah, no, they have air conditioning.
They have Wi-Fi.
Oh, they've got air conditioning.
It's muggy enough as it is.
Yeah, I could use it.
I can't believe my ears and what I'm hearing from able-bodied young men.
Ah, William, that's not the whole story now, is it?
I've got a pre-existing condition.
Hey, and me too.
I've got fibromyalgia.
And social anxiety is no walk in the park.
No, it's crippling.
Oh, for cripes sake, I said able-bodied.
Well, William, able-bodied's a loaded word.
I mean, you're the one throwing able-bodied around.
You're throwing around terms.
You need to be more careful with your vocabulary, especially in a pandemic.
All right, all right, okay.
What would be required for you to fight for your freedom?
I don't understand the question.
Okay, alright.
It started with two weeks to flatten the curves, yeah?
Then masks... Actually, I'll stop you there, William.
It was, at first, no masks, but it... There was only, uh, there was only because of, uh, what is it, the PPE shortages?
The PPE shortages, right.
Right, but then it was masks, then no masks, but I understand, okay, I understand your point.
I get your point.
You really couldn't make... Alright, okay, so first it was lockdowns, then it was masks.
No masks.
And then... Masks, then no masks, right?
Then it was the vaccines.
And the boosters.
Yeah, like a seat.
Yeah, yep.
Like I got one.
Okay, so first it was lockdowns.
Then masks and no masks.
Then two vaccines plus a booster.
Then vaccine mandates.
Then vaccine passports in Europe, in New York, required simply to go to grocery stores, restaurants, movies.
Then countries started creating quarantine camps.
Yeah, no, don't forget about... Don't forget the... Don't forget the... Yeah, that sounds about right.
Yeah, no, I think he got all of it.
He did.
That's... Yes.
And you don't see any problem with this?
You know, it is what it is.
That's life, isn't it?
What would it take?
What freedoms will you fight for when you're dying in your bed many years from now?
If we're part of the 99.89%.
the 99.89% and if you're part of the 99.8% dying in your bed many years from now, would
you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance to
Just one chance?
Yes, absolutely.
Full stop.
♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
-♪♪ Well, I won't taste anything.
It's almost like I have the COVID.
Well, you made it yourself.
I did.
Self-loathing.
Burning hot tea.
I blame Mr. James Lipton.
He's not the same guy behind the tea, but I got it.
Hey, look, it's a happy day today.
I know it was a happy day yesterday, but yesterday when we were talking with you, the deal was announced, but it wasn't finalized.
Now, Elon Musk, it's agreed upon.
Purchasing Twitter!
Which, by the way, you can follow me on the Twitter, just crossed one and a half million, which I didn't even notice.
I didn't even know I was on there.
It's weird how follower accounts have gone up recently.
Yes they have.
In the last day specifically.
In the last day specifically, you can follow Gerald at gmorganjr, don't know why he has a horrible handle, and Dave Landau at landaudave, but that's not your official introduction, everyone shut up.
So, we have Sean King on the show today.
I'm excited.
Yeah.
Really?
Dr. King.
Junior.
Is he a doctor?
Yeah.
He has a dream.
Oh.
That he's actually a black guy.
Oh, is that it?
He's a doctor of blackness.
Yes, he's a doctor of... The only ginger Well, no, they're albino black guys.
But, I mean, the only white guy, Ginger, who's a black guy.
We should be nicer since we have him on the show.
We're glad he's at the end of the arena.
We have him on the show today.
Here's one thing I want to point out.
Everyone's talking about Elon Musk and Twitter.
Sure.
What I always look to, and I want you guys to watch for, you know, I've always said this, where I don't want you guys to look to my arguments if I make them.
I want you to learn how to create your own arguments.
That's why we try and make all the references available at loudearthcrowder.com.
The link will be in the description.
Used to be the pinned comment, but now we have pinned comment competitions, so it's in the description.
I try and make them available so that you can If nothing else, learn not how to think, learn how to learn.
People learn differently.
That's why you see boys, they don't do well in grade school, they don't do well in high school, but they tend to blow women out of the water on the SATs, or do significantly better.
And the reason for that is not that one is smarter or dumber as far as men and women, the reason for it is that men are now allowed to, with the SAT study, in a way that they effectively learn.
Everyone learns a little bit differently.
I did not learn very well in school.
So I try and provide you resources.
And one thing that I would encourage you to always do is look for the reaction away from the puck.
And what do I mean by that?
Well, people have talked about this with acting, you know, it's reacting.
Okay.
It's not that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter.
Don't look to the, you know, the touchdown dance that you see.
That's fun.
We'll do some of that.
But ask yourself why one side is so furious, and ask yourself, is it consistent with when they've been outraged in the past?
To me, what's more telling is not the purchase, is not the victory dance, is the left freaking out, melting down, losing their minds, and the why.
Because nothing has changed yet.
The only information that we have is Elon Musk has purchased Twitter.
It's been agreed upon.
And that he has said, well, he said he's going to get rid of spam bots, we should all be on board with, so no one's outraged about that, he's going to verify all humans, well, okay, no one should be mad about that, and he said he wants more transparency, no one should be mad about that, and that free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, of a free society, and he said that it will be more free.
That's the only information we have available right now.
Why is only one side freaking out?
Why is only when people say it's not left or it's not right, do you see people on the right?
Freaking out.
The freak out, I would argue, is people are now expecting not different treatment, the exact same kind of treatment as everyone else.
Because for a long time, there's been an imbalance of power.
For reference, see every single Jack Dorsey interview, whether it's on Joe Rogan or look at the Priya, whatever, I can't pronounce her name, but probably not going to work there anymore, at Twitter with Tim Pool.
The reaction and the why is what's most telling to me.
So let me ask you this.
Why?
Do you think there's this meltdown?
That's obvious.
But what do you think is going to change at Twitter?
That's the question of the day.
Comment below.
With Elon Musk in the ownership.
Do you expect big changes or do you think it's going to be more of the same?
I don't think it's going to be a monumental shift.
I think what's going to happen is just I'm going to get fewer suspensions.
People like us are going to get fewer suspensions.
Going to get fewer infractions.
I hope that they lift the algorithmic throttling Yes.
Which we don't know with Twitter, but obviously it was baked into the page at Facebook and they let us know.
And then with YouTube they let us know that these things were happening.
Twitter we really haven't been all that involved with for a long time.
It's just kind of tossing stuff up and let the cards fall where they may.
But we're going to be talking about that and more and have Sean King, Gerald A. at G. Morgan Jr.
on the Twitter.
How are you, sir?
I am well.
How are you?
I'm okay.
It's a free day.
I popped my rib out yesterday after the surgery thing, so I don't know if you can see.
I have this icy hot patch.
That'll fix a rib.
Well, it doesn't work because all the nerves are killed since the surgery.
I didn't know your vagina was that high.
That's not nice!
Look at the profanity right away.
That's a medical term.
What do you mean, profanity?
Holy roller over here.
How much language.
Sailor Monster.
Haggard.
I'm sorry, show me your icy hot patch again.
Yes, I was doing it to be titillating.
Because that's what I do.
This is the male equivalent to lingerie.
This really gets the ladies revving.
You know.
I look like E.T.
when he's in Elliot, when they're all patched up and he's in that little, what is it, little frozen casket?
Icebox!
I'm just glad they switched all the guns to walkie-talkie so I can watch it with my child.
Yes, I know.
Makes it better.
Yeah, no, what scared me as a child was not so much the guns, but the tubes going down the suburban area and them walking in like spacemen and the dying alien.
Yes, yeah, the government trying to kill a Reese's Pieces eating alien.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, that was more terrifying.
A cross-dressing alien.
We all know aliens are transvestites.
Dressed as a girl, that'll trick everybody.
Oh, I don't know if you know this, a funny fact, fast fact about E.T., if you look closely enough in that closet scene, you can see the coke under Drew Braymore's nose.
She had a busy night the night before.
There from the beginning.
Phone!
He said, phone!
Now, you can follow him at Landau Dave, and I will be doing some dates with him.
The last one before the summer break is June 18th.
We will both be together.
Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs.
That's June 18th, and he'll be in Green Bay.
Saturday, lightoffcarter.com slash tour.
Big announcement for the fall tour.
Going to be some big cities.
How are you, Dave?
Good, ahoy, I'm good.
I got almost a thousand Twitter followers in the last day.
Really?
Not even kidding.
No.
Mine shot up too, I have no idea.
Is that what happened?
I'm not kidding.
Not even kidding.
I told Johnny Boy before the show, I was just like, hey, uh, oh my gosh, what's going on?
You guys should know this.
I know social media very well as far as the algorithms and what's going on politically and I had to learn this, but I really, I'm a very Private person, personally.
So I don't really like social media.
So I don't pay attention to followers.
That's the last thing I look at is follower counts.
So I guess mine shot up too.
And you guys can help continue shooting it up at S Crowder.
Shooting up like Drew Barrymore when she was 10 years old.
I'm glad she cleaned up.
Right.
It was Tylenol.
Yes.
No, it was Coke.
It's in her book.
When she was 11.
Seriously?
Yeah.
And then when she gave her acceptance speech at the Oscars, she was going, oh, I just, I couldn't ask for a better family.
I'm like, a family that let you do Coke at 11?
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
My cousins, my girl cousins, they couldn't even wear makeup.
I couldn't even stay up till midnight and watch movies.
She thought she could fly at 11.
That must have been awesome.
She's at Studio 54 doing rails, and I'm like, can I watch an R-rated movie?
Yeah, yeah, Drew, just have Mr. Halston drive you home.
You're going to have a great talk show when you grow up.
Therapies included.
Before we get to, because that's the bulk of today, Elon Musk, Twitter, the reaction, Sean King, and the fallout, and there's more to it than just, hey, yay, oh, we're mad.
The left is going to need to find some comfort somewhere, obviously, as they melt down.
We know that.
But these mentally stable children, and this comes, I think, we got from TikTok.
I don't know what's going on here.
Every thruple is made up of these three audios.
Audios?
Here comes the boy!
Hello, boy!
Welcome!
That's Sid?
Here comes the boy!
Here comes the man.
Hello adult man.
We're using that term a little loosely these days.
Welcome taxpayer.
Here comes the boy.
Hello.
Welcome.
There he is.
There he is.
Okay, they said thrupple.
Thruple is supposed to be like a three-way couple, right?
And they said it includes all of these audios.
Is this a term?
Are you familiar with it?
Honestly, I'm not.
No, no, I swear to you, I just learned the word thruple just now.
And audios.
Yeah.
I don't know what that means.
Does that mean members of the... And then they're saying here comes the boy and they show a girl who looks like Sid from Toy Story and then an overweight male and then that I mean, as someone who looks like the skinny version of the comic book guy from The Simpsons but in yoga pants, what is going on?
What is happening here?
This was released as though it was informational, educational from the left.
Can someone please comment below?
I know, I'm just not... I feel like I'm that old man who's out of touch.
Thrupple, audio, and I don't know what's happening.
I know what a thrupple is.
I knew that beforehand.
I've not heard the term audios before.
Have you?
No, but I saw that the audios were different.
By the way, I took offense that they didn't have any kind of fun song for the tax-paying man.
Did you see that?
I don't understand why they included a tax-paying man.
I don't know, but they were making fun of him.
Oh, is that what it was?
Maybe a little bit.
They were mocking the taxpayer?
They had this, like, eloquent song at the end, you know, and then at the beginning, these were all stupid.
God forbid we have anyone who supports your dead weight in this society.
What an awful, awful world.
Can somebody buy TikTok and blow it up, literally?
Well, I think China owns it.
It's going to be hard to outbid.
If you want China to blow it up, just have a few Uyghur profiles put on there.
That'll be shut down quickly.
No kidding.
Wasn't it Trump who said that they had to have corporate ownership in the United States?
They had to have a company that they partnered with in the U.S.?
Was that Trump who did that and tried to stop TikTok from taking over?
And they partnered with Jeff Bezos, Washington Post.
Well, I think Microsoft actually.
Even worse.
Oh, Bill Gates?
I thought it was Microsoft.
I don't know if the deal... somebody let us know.
Did they have to partner with somebody?
Has Bill Gates... has he had the baby yet, or is he still... he's about to pop?
Almost.
He's almost there.
I'm excited.
He's going to leave it $1 million, that's what he said.
He's eaten souls for two!
Let's set this up here.
It's obviously official.
Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion.
Now, we were yesterday on air and Brian Stelter was worried about this.
It happened yesterday around the same time, around 1045, where he was speculating.
Remember I said to you guys, look, look, he's only presenting one side when he was speculating yesterday at 1045.
Are they going to lose users because of, you know, it being the Wild West?
Super straight.
And then he had time to reflect.
And later, after we were off air, I said, well, is he going to find balance and look at both points of view?
Yeah.
This is the issue with CNN.
Again, it's look to the why.
Don't look at what's being said.
Look at what's not being said.
He had time to reflect upon it.
We've seen an increase in users on Twitter.
You've seen a lot of people sign up right now.
You've seen the stock price go up.
It's very clear how the market has spoken.
Now watch CNN and super heterosexual Brian Stelter speak in the face of all hard data.
Look, who knows?
I think that's an example of a broader question for Twitter, which is, if you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party?
Or are you going to decide to stay home?
And that's a question for Twitter users.
Some Twitter users might love the idea that there's going to be absolutely no moderation and no rules at all.
Others might not want to be anywhere near that.
Am I crazy, Matt?
No, no, you're right.
And what happens to the advertising?
I mean, if there's no moderation or little moderation, do the advertisers stay away?
What does that do to the business prospects for Twitter itself?
All this talk about parties, probably a stelter in his fields.
He's having flashbacks to all those parties.
He didn't get invited to it, Towson.
That's true.
Don't worry, he's got his own.
See how he presents that?
Some people might love no rules and anarchy and danger.
Look, there are already rules.
It's called the law.
You can't threaten someone with death unless they're conservative, like we've had, then they don't get removed.
There are laws that exist.
They want additional moderation.
Something else that's being said there.
What will happen with the advertisers?
This is something I don't know how much inside baseball I'm allowed to discuss here, but with YouTube, okay?
I'll discuss this with YouTube.
I haven't really spent that much time or effort into Twitter because, you know, I knew it was just, back then it was just sort of, you know, running in place.
With YouTube, this happened.
I want to explain to you when they are saying this about advertisers.
They're saying, what will happen with advertisers?
What they mean is they are going to try and influence advertisers, not the market.
The market has spoken.
The users can speak.
And then they want to try and change it and manipulate it.
This happened with YouTube.
Now, for a long time, I've run ads on YouTube.
And what I mean by that is literally just taking videos in a very low Dollar amount, but just so that we could continually kind of get access to more analytics.
Run ads where we'll just run a video, you know, as a pre-roll video ad before other videos.
And they were approved before they were disapproved, and then sometimes they were simultaneously disapproved and approved.
But I've run ads, so I've been an advertiser.
They cashed all the checks, though.
They cashed all the checks.
Yes.
Either way.
So I've run ads on YouTube.
I have been an advertiser.
I've also been a channel where advertisers have run their ads, okay?
Voluntarily.
Once upon a time.
Been demonetized for a very long time.
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I hope Elon Musk buys YouTube.
I do hope that he does.
Can I say that on here?
Well, here's the thing.
His influence might, uh, it might touch all these other social media platforms.
That's what I'm hoping because they'll have to compete.
But I've been on both sides with YouTube, okay?
So I have a little bit of insight.
I've been an advertiser and an advertisee, I guess, for lack of a better term.
As someone who runs a channel and we were being monetized, I would say, Hey, uh, is there a way to more effectively target ads?
Because for example, on my channel, Seth Meyers is running as an ad or something for GLAAD is running as an ad.
Could I have, I don't know, let's say companies like Walther or like Federal Ammunition or conservative companies, companies, or even athletic companies like under armor. Companies that would at least be inoffensive
to most right-leaning people.
And they said, well, we can't really do that. And I said, well, why? They said,
well, because advertisers don't want to advertise on your...
Well, first off, we don't allow firearm companies. And we don't... Oh, so
you've eliminated half of the pool. We don't allow them to advertise. And then the other
advertisers don't want to advertise on your platform. That's not what advertisers want. And I said,
hold on a second. You're talking to an advertiser.
Because as an advertiser, I would also like to target content that is more relevant, so that my videos don't run on Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert.
Like, well, you can't do that either.
So they determine who gets to advertise, and then they determine where you get to advertise, and then say, well look, advertisers are afraid to run on this.
No, you are.
The advertiser-friendly guidelines, YouTube has three rules.
And this is the problem with the lack of transparency.
They have community guidelines.
Which are ever-changing.
That's where you get a strike, right?
We get suspended if Gerald quotes the CDC.
Shut up!
Sorry.
Then there are advertiser-friendly guidelines, which determines whether you're monetized or not.
Now, this is really just another form of guidelines from YouTube.
It's not actually coming from advertisers.
You want to tell me that there aren't advertisers who would want to reach the half of America that elect presidents?
I'm sorry, usually, not in the freest and most fair election of all time.
Never.
And then they have borderline.
Content guidelines, which no one has really actually explained and no one knows who the advisors are.
So that's the issue they run into.
When they say advertisers, what kind of advertisers are going to want to run?
Well, the ones who aren't intimidated by you.
You're trying to, again, censor, culturally, it's cultural Marxism, the advertisers.
You're trying to make them afraid.
They're not afraid to advertise here.
Advertisers are not saying to YouTube, you better not allow Donald Trump, the most popular president, until Joe Biden, who's obviously the most popularist president, the mostest popular.
We don't want the most popular president of all time anywhere on that platform.
We're going to pull our ads.
You think they're saying that?
No.
You think Smith & Wesson's saying that?
Do you think Bass Pro is saying that?
No, it comes from YouTube.
And it used to come from Twitter.
And now, this is a dog whistle.
They use the term all the time.
When you say taxpayer, what you really mean is white!
That's your dog whistle.
Or maybe I mean taxpayer, like the thruple did.
But when you say, what are the advertisers going to do?
That's a call out to them to say, huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Make sure we still have an advantage with these big multimedia corporate conglomerates.
Brian Stelter doesn't stand a snowball's, doesn't stand a Stelter's ball's chance in hell of surviving on equal playing field.
You think he's gonna go tit for tat with someone like you on a battle of wits?
Of course not!
No, he's not.
So they go up to the end.
Well, they might go tits.
Elon Musk knows this is coming, too.
He knows that this is happening, and he has got a plan for it.
That's why he said he wants to get away from avatars.
But let me say something really quickly.
You addressed that he said that there was a problem with no rules, right?
And you said, no, no, no, we have the rules.
Do you know what his second scary word was that he was trying to make you go, oh my gosh, more freedom?
Yeah.
He said, there's freedom!
And that was a scary proposition for him and hopefully for you in his mind.
Oh my god, there's freedom.
There could be freedom!
We can't have that!
Wait, hold on a second.
I thought you meant freedom of choice.
That's just when it comes to killing somebody else.
Are you freedom of choice when it comes to what kind of car you can drive?
No, because of carbon emissions.
Are you freedom of choice when it comes to what kind of taxes?
No, because we need to tax the rich more.
Are you freedom of choice when it comes to what kind of content is allowed on platforms?
No, because people need to be protected from hate speech.
So you're freedom of choice on nothing except abortion.
And Funyuns.
Who do you buy the car off of, by the way, that you want to drive to protect the environment?
The Nazi that bought Twitter.
Tesla.
Yes.
Listen, I'll help you out.
Give me your Tesla right now and I will relieve you of the burden.
Right?
Just give your Tesla to a Republican.
Well, no rules and freedom simply means rules for the left.
That's the problem.
Rules they get to make and enforce.
That's what they want.
It means you can't threaten to kill everyone all the time and get away with it.
Or doxing.
No, no, that's journalistic integrity.
Yes, that's why we go to people's houses who are involved in it.
It was publicly private information.
All right, so look, let me just read some quotes.
Musk publicized one of his own previous interviews on Twitter, and I'll give you a montage of just the best meltdowns.
So he wrote, Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is a digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust.
Defeating spam bots and authenticating all humans.
Here's the thing, if I have a problem with what he just said, I'm not going to be stupid enough to just say, to transparency, to increase trust.
I'll act like it sounds good, and then try and frame it in a way that maybe favors my point of view.
The left, again, they're so used to Not fearing any kind of accountability that they don't even realize they should fake, like transparency to increase trust sounds like a good thing.
They can't even do that.
So unsurprisingly, I'm sure you've seen some of these, but some of these are gems, the left is not processing.
For a group obsessed with mental health, boy they are mental.
They are not processing this in a mentally healthy way.
When the richest guy in the world takes over the most important social media platform, that's just not a winning formula to me.
It reminds me of old Bond movies, where Dr. Evil and guys like that, or Goldfinger, were gonna take over the media.
There is a problem with this idea of free speech, and that is, where is the limit?
Free speech has the ability to incite some really horrific and hateful things.
Like, for instance, an insurrection.
Twitter will not be the only cesspool.
It will spill over.
And Facebook will get worse.
You'll see Trump and others having their Facebook accounts restored.
You'll see major social media networks unwind.
People are going to crap on your grandma's recipes.
To start grappling with the problems of disinformation and threats.
Okay.
By the way, I love how he says, like, Dr. Evil, as opposed to Jeff Bezos, who purchased the Washington Post and literally looks like a Bond villain.
Hold on.
Sorry, time out.
And built a balls rocket like Dr. Evil.
Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Evil comes in and says, more freedom?
Yeah.
That's what Dr. Evil has done.
That's what every Bond villain has done.
I'm going to hold the world hostage unless you let everyone speak freely.
I want one million dollars.
Are you serious?
What they're saying they're afraid of was already in place.
It was your guys running every social media, every news outlet out there, save for maybe one, and independent content creators on YouTube.
That was it.
You guys were the Bond villain.
Yeah.
No, that's exactly right.
We're defeating you!
Yes.
No, keep in mind, too, we're going to get to Jen Psaki now, and now all of a sudden, they want to talk about Section 230.
They want to talk about the changes.
I just want you to remember that we've been here since, talking about 230, since 2014, 2015.
and I've been here on YouTube since 2006, louder with crowds than a summoned since 2009.
So just go back. I just point you to the record. Now let's go to the NAACP, usually a bastion of freedom.
They put out a statement that said, Mr. Musk, free speech is wonderful. Hate speech is unacceptable.
Oh boy.
Disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech have no place on Twitter.
Let me just break this down for you for a couple of tweets.
They belong on CNN.
Yes. So how are they delineating?
Free speech is wonderful, hate speech is unacceptable.
By the way, one of the first change of minds I ever did when I didn't have a permit in Vermont was a sandwich board that hate speech is not real.
No, it's not.
Changed my mind.
And no one could make the case.
Hate speech isn't a thing in the United States.
Now if you look at countries where hate speech has been incorporated, and this is why when people say, why don't you just focus on policies, this is one of the most important issues.
I will tell you this, the freedom of Americans to access information And I will say also, for me, the idea that gender doesn't exist, that male and female are fundamentally interchangeable, are the two most important issues.
If those go away, guess what?
Everything else goes.
You destroy the family unit, and you destroy the American public's ability to simply access information.
Imagine if back in the day there was someone in front of the public library like, huh?
Huh?
You?
No!
No!
That little bent back paper clip saying, you can't use word processor or whatever the hell it was.
So free speech is wonderful.
Hate speech is unacceptable.
Define hate speech NAACP.
Disinformation.
Misinformation.
What is that?
Well, we now, we have examples.
We do.
You quoting the CDC.
That is, I guess it would be misinformation.
On flu deaths.
That was misinformation.
Or dis, I have no idea.
Us reporting on actual voter addresses and going there.
Misinformation.
And voter rolls being changed, which was confirmed to us.
By a local registrar, when we called them.
Removed.
As disinformation.
Misinformation.
I saw it with my own eyes.
An empty lot.
No, no, no, Dave.
No, you think you saw it.
You think you saw it.
You missaw.
In fairness, it was only 100% of the houses I visited.
I'm surprised in Detroit they actually had houses where you went.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, I mean, houses.
We thought something was up.
Intersections, fields, fences.
So disinformation, misinformation, hate speech have no place on Twitter.
So they've now declared, right, just full stop, there's no place on Twitter for something that hasn't been defined, and by the way is an ever-moving target.
This is what they don't want to go away.
I want to be clear about what this is.
It's not just, oh yeah, free speech, pet pay meme.
No, look at what the left is saying, look at why they're upset, and look at how they're trying to frame it.
That's where you will glean the most information.
This is what the NAACP also said, do not allow 45 to return to the platform.
Well now we have a partial definition.
Oh, oh, the former president, the president of the United States, President Donald Trump, he is a hate speaker.
The only president to go into office pro-gay marriage, ever, in the history of the United States.
Did more for black Americans than the black Americans before him.
He let Arsenio Hall win the Celebrity Apprentice, for God's sake.
That's true.
And he even did the woo woo woo.
That was a reality series equivalent of My Black Friend.
Yes it was.
Don't you see I let Arsenio win?
And he's talentless.
He sucks.
Look how much I must love black people.
Do not allow 45 to return to the platform.
Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech or falsehoods that subvert our democracy.
Oh, got it, got it, that subvert our democracy.
Do you mean like billions of dollars in damages, Black Lives Matter, who then used the money and ran off to buy multi-million dollar estates and non-profits that closed up shop and didn't really exist?
You guys were all led astray by the grifters with Black Lives Matter, just to be clear.
It was a bunch of frauds and then a bunch of white women saying, yeah, us too!
Subvert our democracy.
Oh, you mean a couple hundred thousand people protesting at the Capitol with, let's say, a couple hundred people who only one was shot and it wasn't a cop, as opposed to the dozens of, well, the hundreds of casualties over the course of the summer of... Hey, how about this?
How about this?
Misinformation.
Is the mayor held accountable in Seattle or Portland?
When they say, it's peaceful, it's the summer of love.
That's verifiably false.
Right?
When you're talking about Chaz, three people shot in a span of weeks.
Do you remove that person?
Oh, you remove President Donald Trump for saying, hey, it's time to make your voices heard.
Go and protest peacefully at the Capitol.
What about the people who verifiably, hey, do you remove the guy on CNN, the reporter with gay face in front of the car ablaze saying, Mostly, mostly flameless.
Mostly peaceful.
We can see the misinformation with our own eyes.
The problem is, for the left, they've just been able to say, it doesn't matter what you see, it doesn't matter exactly what you're experiencing, it doesn't matter what the data says.
We're going to lie to you, and we're going to remove the people who call us on our lies.
That's what they're terrified of losing!
How about the guys who said white supremacists guns people down in Kenosha?
This isn't new by the way. Do you remember when the media, you may not remember this Dave because
you weren't, I mean you weren't really conservative back then but the fairness, when people talk about
the fairness doctrine I believe is what it was called.
Liberals had ABC, they had all of television, right? They had FM radio, they had pretty much
everything at that point.
And then you have this guy named Rush Limbaugh who used an outdated, what was thought to be an archaic method, AM radio.
And then, because it was an alternative, sort of like you saw with social media, you're seeing it happen all over again, they said, you know what, we're going to take over this medium and it became the most popular show on earth.
The left said, we need to make sure that there is equal time on AM radio.
Remember there was that Air America or Radio America with Janine Garofalo and Al Franken?
And it didn't work and it failed.
So because they failed when they were on equal footing, on a medium that they wanted nothing to do with.
They weren't happy having all of network.
They weren't happy having all of cable.
They weren't happy having all of FM.
They said, we need to guarantee equal time on AM radio because no one wants to listen to us.
This is a constant pattern in the open market of ideas.
And I know that both sides say, I'm right, they suck.
But if you look at it historically, in the open market of ideas, the left always loses ground.
Then you see it with the internet.
You see it with Facebook.
You see it with YouTube.
You see it with Twitter.
There were no conservatives on YouTube when I was there in 2006, 2009.
And then when there started to be a momentum shift, they changed the algorithms.
And it was the same thing with Twitter.
And it was the same thing with Facebook.
Just like AM radio.
This has always happened.
All right.
Protecting our democracy... I'm reading more from the NAACP.
...is of the utmost importance, especially as the midterm elections approach, Mr. Musk.
Lives are at risk, and so is American democracy.
I'm sorry, look, NAACP, fuck you.
With a PH, of course.
Different word.
That's the French word for seal.
P-H-O-Q-U-E.
Fuck!
That's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He mentioned the midterm elections.
I would like to just kind of summarize We gon' lose!
Yes!
Everybody gon' die!
Oh shit!
Oh shit!
That was a quicker way that he could have just said it.
Speaking of elections, Twitter employees donate 98.7% for one side.
Would you guess which one?
Oh no.
I'm gonna guess Ralph Nader?
Yeah.
Yeah, the Green Party, no doubt.
Yes, the Green Party.
Yeah, Jill Stein.
Who was that witch who ran for... anyway.
So, they aren't the only ones who are afraid that Musk...
We'll not be silencing hate.
Sean King, before deactivating his account, and he deactivated it and then he came back on, just to be clear.
You're just admitting though, by all of this, in a day, that you've done nothing but take over social media, and now you're so upset that there's a small possibility it might not go your way.
Right, I know.
It's insane!
Just your reaction is like, but the thing we made everybody guilty about, they're taking!
We control the information!
If you take this away we won't control the information!
How are we going to lie to everybody if you lie?
The problem is they were so used to being able to do it and no one being able to see it that they don't even realize now this is happening and people can see it.
They're like, oh wait we're not supposed to say that part out loud?
Someone at the NAACP should have proofread it and been like, yeah I don't know if you should tip your hand saying 45 shouldn't be allowed back and Elon Musk you need to affect the midterms.
I think we should maybe couch it in like, I don't know, just say hate speech, it's broad enough.
It was in front of our eyes.
They got that good at it where it's like, it's a peaceful protest and it's like, there's four car lots on fire.
And you're like, yeah, but besides that... They were already on fire before we got here.
Yeah, come on.
Who knows who started that?
Right.
Quit your whining, but I'm literally being rigged.
Come on, don't be a baby.
It's New York.
Come on, defund the police, whatever.
The police are bad.
Which, by the way, everyone has had to do an about face on them.
Before I get to shunking, that's an interesting point, to defund the police.
You can't find common ground and say, I think police need better training.
I think that police need to be paid for their time training because they're overworked.
Part of their work needs to be time training.
We've talked about submission methods so that they can de-escalate.
We've talked about actually being physically fit so that they don't have to reach for their gun.
But all of these solutions on which we would Perhaps Find Common Ground require more funding, not less.
What do you think is going to happen when you defund the police?
They're stressed, they're overworked, they're working longer hours, they don't have time to train, they're going in, they've got a vein popping out of their forehead like stressed Eric?
Well, you end up with all the cities that have defunded the police.
Good luck!
So, speaking of defunding the police, Sean King, before deactivating his Twitter account, he tweeted, At its root, Elon Musk wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left versus right.
That's how you know they're about to lie to you.
Not left versus right.
It's not conservative versus liberal.
Yeah, it is.
It's not about race, but it's all about race.
That was foreshadowing.
It's about white power.
He wrote, it's about white power.
me power. White powder. What? The man... Horrible film. The man was raised in apartheid by a
white nationalist. He's upset that Twitter won't allow white nationalists to target and
harass people. That's his definition of free speech. By the way, for reference, here's
Sean King as a child. Yeah, the black activist. Wow.
He's an eggshell.
He looks like halfway between Urkel and Stefan.
Yes.
But he's also dipped in Kid from Kid and Play.
Yes.
That's a white kid.
There are more pictures, by the way.
He's a white kid.
Listen, if you were going by, like, let's say you were, well, you can also go by his parents who are white.
Well, if you were painting your kitchen black, let's say, and you showed up and it was painted this.
Right.
Would you pay the contractor?
Yeah, this is a problem.
That's eggshell, friend.
Yeah, we cannot do this eggshell.
I distinctly wanted black because I'm a Wiccan and this is going to throw... Why would anyone paint their kitchen black?
I don't know.
Why would anybody buy that he is?
Now this morning, looks like he's returned to Twitter, and he's already back to talking crap.
He said, uh, when someone reported on the fact that his Twitter account had been removed, he said, You wish, motherfu- I didn't delete my account, you literally made that up!
I was getting death threats and hack attempts from your buddies who stormed the Capitol and had to make it more secure!
I'm right here, and you are a white supremacist!
But here's the thing, he did deactivate his account and notified everyone, though.
Yes, he did.
So, uh, Mr. King actually, uh, Dr. King Jr.
Jr.
Jr.
Wanted to, uh, clarify his comments, and so we're really excited to have him on the show.
He, uh, reached out to us to see if he could explain it himself.
And actually, you've had a lot of, you, you've wanted to, I've spoken with him before.
Yes.
You wanted to interview Mr. King.
I did.
Yourself.
And I actually have to go to the control room for some work.
So, uh, on the line now, do we have him?
We have the man himself, Dr. Sean King Jr.
All right, this is going to be funny.
I can't believe he's going to be on our show.
Did we lose him, or is he still there?
He's there?
We're getting the connection now.
Okay, you're bringing it up.
Awesome.
Awesome.
I hope he's not offended, sir.
Okay, alright, let's see here.
Alright, we got Dave.
Okay, you there?
I really, really... Is he there?
Yes, I am here.
As-salamu alaykum.
Good morning.
Yeah, thank you for calling in, Mr. King.
I know you're a busy man.
Oh, no, I am not.
Okay.
I'm not very busy at all.
I was sitting here waiting.
Oh, well, either way, thank you.
So last night you tweeted that Elon Musk was a fake African, a white supremacist, and then you deleted your account.
I deleted my account.
That is correct.
PSYCH!
PSYCH!
I'm back!
And I encourage all my brothers and sisters to as well fake leave like I did.
And then fake leave.
Come back.
Then fake leave again.
Triple D. Bombay up in this bitch.
Gordon Bombay.
Okay, so you didn't just, uh... I don't know the word.
Re... Anyway.
So, but some people have said that you're a fake African.
I mean, I just want to put that out there.
At least that you're pretending to be African-American.
Is that true?
Please!
I do black things.
Okay, that sounds a little... No, that's not.
A little racist, but that's not an answer at all.
Are you black?
I got, like, Dave!
I got, like, five kids!
What?
Okay, you're dodging the question.
No, I got scars on my face.
From the struggle of my non-acre estate.
What struggle?
Uh, well, I struggled to tie a proper Windsor knot while sailing.
I also found out that you don't use a Windsor knot when sailing!
Gotta do a slip knot.
So damn, I nearly got knocked off my schooner, Holmes.
Gangsta shit!
Okay, well... Plus, you've been on a boat!
You've been on a boat lately?
There's spiders all... There's a lot of spiders!
That's true, I guess.
Someone told me to get a mint plant and repel them.
I found a damn spider in the mint plant!
Don't do shiiit!
You have a mint plant.
That's... That is very... Interesting.
I wouldn't have called that.
No, I wouldn't have... That's very... Okay.
Well, anyway... Okay, so let's just... Let's just put it... Is there any black DNA in you at all?
I have seen...
And I cannot stress this enough, Dave.
Okay.
I have seen Madea's Christmas 11 times.
So no?
I sleep in a wave cap!
Last night I messed around and got me a triple-double!
It's hot out here for a pimp!
We was Kangs!
I'm frequently late!
Gimme curls!
Okay, that was just a mix of pop culture and, yeah, song.
Okay, so, you know what?
I knew you weren't black.
Oh, come on, Dave.
Look, you invited me on the show.
I just, I'm here to promote my, I'm here to plug my new book, man.
Okay.
That sounds, say that again?
Say that again?
I'm, look, you know, it's just not right to sandbag me like this.
I came here to promote my book and, you know, you guys are all just bagging on me.
Your voice, okay, you have a book?
Well, I haven't written it yet.
Thanks for calling.
You know that was very surprising, especially at the the end.
He just he kind of broke, you know, and finally let him himself come out.
You know, I always wanted to meet him, but I don't know.
That was ridiculous.
I think How did that go, guys?
I just, uh... Yeah.
No.
You're gonna love it.
I don't think... I feel like he might be some sort of imposter.
Really?
Yes.
Well, that's a syndrome.
Imposter syndrome.
Yeah, I don't know.
He did say Jerry Curl, so I guess?
Well, he said, messed around and got a triple-double, and so I'm like, oh, he does hip-hop.
He's definitely heard an Ice Cube song, so we can... Did Mama make the breakfast with no pork?
Yeah, with no hog, and I believe there was no smog.
Right.
Ah, well, he is from Los Angeles.
They do the smog check.
Yeah, I'm not sure if he had to use his AK or not.
There may have been a peaceful protest.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Everybody calls Sean King a pimp.
He did say he grabbed a nine on his herb of shag.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
All right.
Yeah, he did say Gordon Bombay, so that... Well, it's knuckle puck time.
Yeah, that's a little scary, because I don't know... I mean, I guess... Have you not seen impoverished black American youth in South Central LA playing rollerblade hockey on the basketball courts?
Yeah, that's why it seems, you know, suspect.
Also, sailing.
He's a sailor.
Well, hey.
I don't have anything for that one.
He was sailing?
Well, it could be therapy.
It's contact therapy.
It's getting over your fear.
Yeah, he wasn't good at sailing.
No, he didn't say he was good at sailing.
Yeah, he said that he had trouble tying certain knots and got hit with a sail.
He's not Blackbeard.
He's obviously not Blackbeard.
Well, he's also afraid of spiders, so you guys can commiserate on that.
Yes, yes, of course.
Also, he's terrified of magic.
Yeah, Ari is a trick.
Oh you a wizard is what?
so Also, other reactions, we have Ari Melber from MSNBC, and this is really telling where he doesn't realize what he's saying, but he's saying it.
Again, watch what the left... This is why we always use leftist sources, so if you check the references.
And by the way, smash the like button if you guys use the references.
Megyn Kelly uses the references, I didn't interview her.
If you use them, if you appreciate that we provide them, otherwise we're just going to stop providing them.
But we always use neutral or liberal sources because I'm far more interested in hearing what the opposing point of view.
To my own, I'm right-leaning.
I'm very open about that.
I'm very open about my bias.
I'm far more interested in what they're saying because it's more telling.
So Ari Melber on MSNBC, here he lists the problem with social media censorship.
The irony train's not stopping here.
You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you.
You don't have to explain yourself.
You don't even have to be transparent.
You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates.
Wow.
All of its nominees.
Or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election.
It's almost like he said this wasn't possible before.
Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech Okay, let me be clear here just for a second.
He's saying a member of one party.
Just to be clear, the guy he's talking about, as though it's Donald Trump who now owns Twitter, is the guy who spearheaded the modern electric car, has done more for the green movement than any other human being alive right now, and by the way, the man who creates the car That your party told people to buy!
With skyrocketing gas prices.
So that's who he's talking about as the evil villain who's going to throttle the party.
Meanwhile at the Twitter board, and if you look at people, not only at Twitter, not only at ABC, at NBC, CBS, MSNBC, you look at Netflix, you have actual members of the Clinton administration, the Obama cabinet!
These people sit on the boards!
Elon Musk is an actual African American guy who invented the most successful electric car of all time!
He was like, Harry, where'd you get your talking points?
Well, it's what Twitter said they were already doing.
I got it from June of 2020.
It was in a file called The Plan.
The DNC Plan.
Oh, crap.
Sorry.
No, no, no.
The RNC Plan now.
We had to change some letters.
Oh yeah, we just changed one letter.
He's using the dialer like he's, you know, getting Brian Stelter started.
Yeah, he added two lines to the D. It's an R now.
That is so terrible.
I feel really bad for that guy, too.
He's out there like, guys, this is a problem!
We're like, yes!
Thank you!
Finally!
He just admitted it!
That's a bad thing!
If somebody could do that, who would have thought?
He's like, this couldn't have happened before.
Several months later, this is exactly what happened.
Well, just to give you another example, how many times have you heard us talk about Section 230?
My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, we've discussed this many times.
We've been embroiled in many illegal battles.
Talk about it with Ted Cruz.
We talked about it with Ted Cruz.
We talked about it with Senator Ted Cruz.
It was incredibly important.
Yes.
And to Rand Paul, well here's Jen Psaki when asked about the Twitter situation, giving
a non-answer, but again, it's very telling.
The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms,
the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be
held accountable for the harms they cause.
He's been a strong supporter of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal, including reforms to Section 230, enacting antitrust reforms, requiring more transparency.
And he's encouraged that there's bipartisan interest in Congress.
In terms of what hypothetical policies might happen, I'm just not going to speak to that at this point.
Okay, so let me just inform you a little bit, if you're not necessarily aware, Section 230 is what provides protections to a lot of these social media companies, because it treats them similar to a utility, right, where it's a digital sort of town square.
So the idea is they're not held liable for anything that is said on their platform, as opposed to, say, the New York Times or Washington Post, who would be held liable if there's Any kind of defamation slander that's written there because they're a publisher.
Okay.
So, 230 gives them those protections.
Now, we have talked about this for a long time and my solution has always been these social media platforms get a choice.
Are you a platform or are you a publisher?
If you are a platform, it's very simple, because a lot of people say, well, if you declare them all to be platforms and you hold them liable, then you'll get rid of message boards.
No, no, no, no.
If Facebook, which enjoys safe harbor status, or Twitter, or YouTube, they enjoy the status
equivalent to a public utility, okay, they then, if they decide to enjoy that status,
cannot censor or remove anyone based on point of view or favor any point of view outside
The laws are very clear.
Things like death threats.
Things like active calls to physical violence.
For example, things that might actually be labeled slander or defamation.
Those people will be held liable, but not the actual platform itself.
Now, if they decide... So they have a choice with 230.
This is our solution.
Or, they can decide that they are a publisher.
For example, if YouTube says this content is allowed, but this content is not.
Or even if they say this content is allowed to be deemed monetizable, this content is not.
Or if Twitter says this information is allowed, but this information is not.
You are now a publisher like the New York Times or Washington Post.
You just have to pick, and you get to pick.
Now when she says reform to 230, and this is my problem when people say common ground, it's usually bullshit.
And this comes as someone who's done changed my mind and who has had more civil discussions with leftists than arguably any other host that I know of here on conservative platforms.
Because I try and match intensity and I try and give people the respect that I would, you know, hope I'd receive on their program.
I still tell you that most common ground is bullshit because that's how we believe.
We need to do something about this murder, right?
Yeah, we think it should be illegal.
support. They want more regulation and to crack down on companies for not removing points of view
enough. There is no common ground just because you're looking at a law. It's like saying we
need to find common ground on this murder law. Yeah. Really?
Okay, yeah. Well, we, good. So, look, we all agree we need to do something about this
murder, right? Yeah, we think it should be illegal. See, we think it should be legal though. You know
what it did?
It prevented Twitter from being sued when Donald Trump's tax records were illegally published.
Right.
Right?
But then, by the way, the Hunter Biden story was a violation of privacy.
Well, yes, yes, yes, because that was obviously stolen information.
I mean, forgotten and left somewhere thrice information.
Terrific crimes.
Maybe for laptops.
Is that not a clear enough example?
Yeah.
Donald Trump, illegally stolen, leaked, Hunter Biden, story that was legitimately obtained, would have affected the outcome of the election every single swing state.
Twitter decided yes and no.
When you're talking about democracies and midterms, what they're saying is we want to be able to continue to do that!
Hey, has the left ever apologized?
No.
Has the New York Times, the Washington Post, has CNN, has MSNBC, they then cover The Hunter Biden story and say, well, it seems like this is legitimate without saying, hey, we were wrong in supporting the removal of a story that would have directly affected the outcome of the election.
Hey, that was they never have to apologize.
That changed, you know, without even getting into mail-in voter errors, fraud, whatever you want to call it.
We've covered that at length without even getting into that.
Just that.
Just the Hunter Biden story.
Let alone pages like ours being throttled 90%.
I can only imagine with other conservatives.
Just that is enough to tilt the vote and change the history of the United States.
And all we want now is to say, no more of that!
No more of that!
And they're acting like it's the Third Reich.
Okay.
Well to them it is.
Yes it is.
It takes away all that power.
Yep.
All that white power.
Yes, that's what I meant.
I'm sorry.
You and your Ed Furlong jacket.
Listen, we have an African American that owns a big tech company, okay?
We are making progress.
Charlize Theron?
No.
Twitter employees have reacted, which is fantastic.
Talman Smith's source at Twitter provided some reactions of the employees, so here are some quotes.
I feel like I'm going to throw up.
I hate him, Musk.
Oh, that's wrong.
You're not supposed to hate.
You're supposed to be gentle creatures, Twitter workers.
I hate him, Musk.
Why does he even want this?
Hmm, I can guess.
I feel like he's this petulant little boy and that he's doing this to troll.
We're just going to let everyone run amok?
And then Robert Reich... What, so fire you?
Just for fun?
I just walk in and be like, hey, guess who's not eating?
No, no, no, I have a better idea, Dave, and so does Governor Greg Abbott of the great state of Texas.
He's like, hey, Elon, you brought every other company here, why don't you bring Twitter here?
I would love for them to do that.
And he's in a wheelchair!
He is in a wheelchair, that guy.
So, Robert Reich... People don't even listen to him.
No irony there.
Robert Reich, without even seeing a hint of irony here, in that he is Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor.
Still alive, too.
He had these takes.
In other words, when someone who is a former secretary of a president, one of the most corrupt ever, the Clinton family you could argue the most corrupt ever, you could argue, one could argue, not saying they killed multiple people, He had some of these takes.
He said, anyone who is saying Twitter's ban violates the First Amendment doesn't know that Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment protects individuals against government.
That was a year ago!
That was his take a year ago.
A little over, right?
Good job, Robert.
Which you would think now, it's like, it's a private company!
Okay, great!
There you go.
Should apply again.
It was a wrong take back then, by the way.
But, again, just hold them to their own standards.
Surely nothing has changed.
No, now, he says, Musk and his apologists say if consumers don't like what he does with Twitter, they can go elsewhere.
But where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach millions of people other than Twitter?
The free market... Well, might I suggest your favorite public bathroom stall?
The free market increasingly reflects the demands of big money.
Come on!
Come on, just be consistent, Robert!
You're a hack!
Yeah, how about your anonymous, hyper-sexual personal ads?
He is a professor at Berkeley!
He has millions of followers!
I cannot believe people are dumb enough to listen to this guy who can't even be consistent with his own opinions!
Well, he's a professor at Berkeley, that's why.
Well, that's always what they used to say, right?
If you were to say, hey, look, I think we need to reform the Section 230 because these companies are very big and they enjoy, not only do they lobby the government, but there are former government officials who work here, there are people who donate 98% of their money, these are the most powerful companies in the world, entirely to the Democratic Party, and we just think that they need to be transparent and be beholden to the same rules as other companies that enjoy these benefits as public utilities.
And they would say, it's a private platform!
For the first time, they care about free enterprise.
And now, immediately, they say, we gotta do 230!
Well, we've been saying 230 for years, what do you want?
The government to take control over everything?
Oh, okay, we get it.
Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor.
Prick.
Now, I do understand why he's scared.
Is that what he was holding the whole time?
He's 5'2".
Well, yeah, so he's scared of everything.
The man's scared of his own shadow.
It's like Peter Pan, where he sees a shadow with a pan flute, and he's running.
He's a little Julie Andrews.
I just like that he's a secretary.
It's always just funny when it's a guy.
Well, he's probably that kind.
He didn't have as much fun in the White House.
Held the bulls.
Look at what Elon Musk posted.
This sounds like Stalin reincarnated.
Before the purchase was announced he said, I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter because that is what free speech means.
Absolutely disgusting.
And it's terrifying.
I just broke out in a cold sweat.
That's the icy hot patch.
That might be it.
Yeah, tricked me.
I was like, who am I, Stelter?
Is this tit sweat?
No, it's just the icy... Oh, oh, really?
Again?
I'm in a meat sweat from Cracker Barrel.
So, here's another quote from Yahoo, from a Twitter employee.
And to be fair, I wasn't able to find the original tweet.
I'm going to trust that Yahoo is an authoritative source, because why would they lie?
But it's funny enough that I wanted to include it, and Yahoo claims it's real.
I understand Yahoo's serious.
Yes.
So here's a quote from Yahoo, from someone who works at Twitter.
50 billion spent on a social media site when people are starving to death.
This is the kind of insight they have.
Here's something that really bothers me about this, aside from everything.
50 billion spent on a social media site when people are starving to death.
Don't you work at Twitter?
Hey, you're working in Silicon Valley!
What are you doing for people starving to death?
How much of your paycheck do you give?
When you take your vacation, are you feeding the homeless?
For some reason, people just go, when someone's rich, why are you allowed to spend money on anything other than other people's problems?
Well, you're rich compared to 99.9% of population Earth, certainly the people who are starving to death.
Why are you allowed to purchase, I don't know, anything?
A coffee?
Urban Outfitters, your silly little t-shirt that says, uh, do you know how I don't like you?
Because you're talking, huh?
Or Hot Topic, whatever the hell it is that you do.
I don't know, I just assume you embody everything that I hate over there.
The only language I speak is sarcasm.
Yes, exactly.
Here's the thing, Elon Musk...
Elon Musk just gave every Twitter shareholder an opportunity to go and solve the problem.
He just gave you $44 billion.
Go and do it.
And by the way, Elon Musk, $50 billion ain't gonna mean all that much to him.
So let's be clear, $50 billion to him is comparatively, maybe to you, what let's say, you know, the average salary for people who work in these tech companies is over $100,000 a year.
Let's call it $150,000 a year.
Okay, so $50 billion to him is maybe the equivalent to, let's say $20,000 a year.
Are you giving $20,000 of your salary to the poor?
To starving people?
For some reason, it's only expected of people once they have a certain... And by the way, if that's the crossover where they are required to do what you want in feeding the... What's the number?
Because if you talk to kids in Somalia, you talk to kids in Uganda, guess what?
They would probably make that number.
Well, anyone who's making over Five dollars a month!
And I don't have the numbers in front of me.
I'm giving you a general figure because those countries don't do very well financially.
Oh, that's racist.
No, no, it's true.
What are you doing to help them?
This is the class warfare that they wage, and it's a brilliant way to constantly apply standards to other people that they never apply to themselves.
We see it with free speech.
We see it with Section 320.
230?
230!
We see it now with Elon Musk with his money.
By the way, with the other billions, he was busy creating the only viable electric car that your folks told people to buy!
Wasn't gonna work with the Prius, it was a glorified shopping cart with a battery, and every asshole who couldn't drive decided to have a secret meeting behind our backs and say that they would buy one!
Nah.
And by the way, just so you know, when Elon Musk was shamed for not sending six billion dollars to end world hunger, he replied, if you can prove that you can end world hunger for six billion dollars, I'll write the check.
Well, the bluff was never called.
The problem is, is that's the immediate go-to to have, you know, this fake moral ideology.
You immediately go to, okay, why don't you solve world hunger?
Okay.
Well, the problem is, is we're going to throw relief rice out of a helicopter, but then all of the warlords confiscate it and still starve out their people.
There's so many other third world problems that are just cause that hunger than just the inability to get food.
It doesn't solve the problem.
It's so stupid.
There's so many layers of it, and it's like, yeah, why doesn't he give the poor all his money?
Same reason you do.
It's the same reason they go, this is absurd.
Hey, why don't we just change from fossil fuels to renewable?
Here's a five-page bill that I think covers all of it.
I think you'll find all the details in there.
Yeah, I donate to a homeless shelter in Detroit, and I donate to Special Olympics in an animal place.
That's what I do, because that's what I can afford to do.
Right.
And it's like, I can't, and I don't know, maybe somebody just keeps the money.
I don't know if they're corrupt.
Half the charities are.
Their Green New Deal, they go, we're going to write a 5-page... Is this the 5-page one or is it 16 pages?
Which bill was 16 pages versus 5 pages?
I believe the Green New Deal was 5 because you read it on air live.
I think it might have been 16 pages.
Really?
I don't think so.
I could be giving them more credit.
But AOC and the squad said, you know what?
We think something needs to be done about this climate crisis.
They wrote and said, we think you'll be really happy with what we've provided.
I think you'll be thrilled with what's on the back.
And you turn to the back, it just says, turn to the first five pages.
There's nothing more.
And they're like, your move.
It's just pictures.
Yeah.
It's like the front is a headshot and the back is just a picture of the back of their head.
Really?
It's a choose-your-own-adventure book?
Yeah, whatever you get to makes no sense.
It's a nonsense adventure.
You always end up killing yourself.
It's weird.
But there's a silver lining.
At least Jack Dorsey is happy.
Well, good for him.
He said Elon's goal of creating a platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is the right one.
What?
This is the right path.
I believe it with all my heart.
I think he's just happy that he got to cash out.
He was like, I'm never going to make any money on this.
No, I would just retire forever.
I would shave, change my name, take out the ridiculous nose ring and move on.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
I'm not giving Jack Dorsey too much credit.
No, I'm not giving him credit either.
And you guys can comment below why you think he's... What is that?
Sorry if I've been distracting.
Have you been hearing that weird noise?
It's like he's snoring.
It's coming from the edit bay?
Can we check in?
Over there I think, yeah.
Back on the road.
Rip Van Winkle is finally waking up.
Dude, how long was I out?
Like, 200.
Like, 200 years?
Oh, that was a rager, dude.
Last thing I remember is, uh... Wait, what happened to that dwarf?
Dave's not a dwarf.
Oh, come on!
What?
Oh, this, yeah, needs a little bit of a trim.
Uh, not the drapes, the carpet.
You need Manscaped.
What the hell's Manscaped?
It's a company that provides skin-safe tools for a man's more... sensitive areas.
Yeah, and it leaves you feeling hygienic and confident.
I like that.
Here, try their new Lawn Mower 4.0.
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I'm trying to get it in the light here.
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They do free worldwide shipping.
By the way, this is also, it's Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.
Those breast cancer ladies don't get to have all the fun, now do they?
What about a little something for us here?
You know what, there's never been a major movement to save the balls.
Save the Balls.
Yeah, they both matter.
They do.
All I'm saying is they all matter.
Let's say Save the Wave.
I think it's because they have to come up with the nickname.
They're more responsible for crimes than breasts.
Well, that's probably true.
Something about the bell curve.
Now, they have the new Lawn Mower Testicular Cancer Society Edition, and they're going to give $50,000 to their longtime partner, the Testicular Cancer Society.
So they have this new, I think it's We Save Balls Edition, Yeah.
The lawnmower 4.0.
One thing I will say about this, look, I have you know that sometimes I've had to go in costume and shave everything and when I had surgery I had to shave everything.
There's a light on this trimmer.
I've had a lot of trimmers.
Yeah.
It really makes a difference.
Huh, where?
Well I'm just saying wherever you shave there's a light that rakes across for the same reason a light raking across your skin is unflattering.
Yeah.
You get to see everything that you miss and also things that No man should ever see.
It's why for the ad, Reed, we wanted to make sure to mention it, because it really is, like, it's impressive.
Yeah, it's impressive.
It actually makes a difference.
You're like, oh wow, I had no idea there was that mole with the hair that's smiling at me.
By the way, that ceramic guard?
Yeah.
Thank you, Manscaped.
Oh boy.
I don't have a bloodlust.
No, no.
I was going to say, I don't think we really have time to talk about Google right now.
You know what?
We're going to talk about this.
Do you want to talk about it on a mug club?
Sure!
Or do we want to still play What the Flag?
Let's do it tomorrow.
We've got a whole segment.
We'll do it.
Because it's a fun one.
Yeah, we have a whole segment on Google right now.
I don't know if you know this.
We'll tease, just so you know, along with Elon Musk, you know, Google, if you guys use Google Docs, things like that, they launched a new initiative where they're going to auto-correct words that were offensive.
And we've run into it.
The words aren't even necessarily offensive.
This is just, again, it's who determines what's offensive.
For example, mankind.
That's all I'm going to say.
Mankind will be auto-correct when you see a little cursor.
It's just back to that bent back paper clip.
It's person-kind.
What was it?
Gonzo?
Bonzo Buddy?
The Purple Gorilla?
Yeah, except the bent back paper clip has blue hair and is yelling at you.
Exactly.
You're a white supremacist.
I'm just Googling.
You wanted to ask Jeeves, but now it's ask Jess.
Ask Jeffrey from Befresh Prints.
Yeah.
It's like, I wanted to research, uh, say, did you mean sexual reassignment surgery?
Nope.
No!
No, Jeeves!
Slap Jeff.
No, I just want to know if there's a good pizza place.
I cut my paperclip off.
A good penis removal place.
So look, if you guys are watching right now, we're going to go to Mug Club.
Please do consider joining.
What we're about to hit is What The Flag.
These are all new gender flags, which of course, once upon a time, would have never been allowed on Twitter.
But you know what the good thing is?
We'll probably be able to post some clips from Mug Club, short clips, on Twitter now.
What?
Without being removed.
I bet you Twitter won't even remove us for our merchandise.
So hit the like button, leave a comment below.
The winning comment gets pinned and a lock of Gerald's back hair.
Oh, that was... YouTube!
Do you have it timed right now?
Yeah, I got it.
Piss off.
stern downtrodden
dance dance
Hold on a second.
Hold on one second here.
This is, you guys are experiencing what I'm experiencing.
I'm very confused.
Are we playing with the flag, or are we not?
Because you're saying that we have a problem with the mime, Togan Owen?
We may not have a mime, but we'll have someone in here to act out the genders.
Okay.
I don't know if I'm comfortable, because the mime helps.
The mime does help.
It does.
That's the only reason I get any of them.
We could play the game Make a Mime Talk.
Yeah.
That's a fun game.
This is loaded.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Like, we really could have some fun.
That's always the plan B. Just tie him down and manscape 2.0 him.
4.0.
2.0?
Manscape him, hook a car battery up.
That's one way to get rid of the air.
Just put an electrical current through this little patch.
Like trellises!
So do we have a mime?
If not, we can do the Google segment, or do we want to, uh... Do we want to ask the audience which one they prefer?
Yeah, hey guys, okay, you know what, you guys let us know, but if someone... We'll track right now.
I feel like we've made a false promise to YouTube, then.
Well, the thing is, I didn't realize that we didn't have a mime, so this is, you know... Mimeless.
Yeah.
Someone missed their mark.
Do you guys want to see us play What the Flight?
Or do you want us to talk to you about Google Docs and Google now getting rid of offensive language on Google Docs?
What are they going to do with Excel?
This is going to screw the accounting world.
It's going to mess things up.
It really is.
This actually ties back into the story we covered yesterday, where the European Commission, the DSA, we were talking about, where they're going to say, you know, cloud computing, internet, internet, sorry, jeez, the internet.
We've made our choice.
Thank you, Dave.
Everything that you put out there now, they're going to say, no, no, no, no, no, this is now something that we can block, right?
So they're saying, oh, this is just autocorrect to keep you from being hateful.
Really?
This means you're just looking at more of my information.
Not that you weren't already, but now you're correcting it.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, a soulless robot is telling you, like, maybe you mean this, so it's not getting it accurate all the time, which is the best.
We could also just argue about artificial intelligence, because while we were going through Run-Thru this morning, people got really heated.
What was your point?
My point is this, you have all these nerds who are talking about artificial intelligence and they're acting like it's Skynet and AI is going to take over the world and how dangerous it is because it stems from Elon Musk.
It could.
I don't buy it.
Siri, Google, Home, Alexa, they're just glorified Furbies.
They can't even give you a news briefing.
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