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Aug. 20, 2023 - Louder Than Crowder
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EPISODE 0: THE REPLATFORMING (AUGUST 8TH, 2023)

Well, Steven...we're here. In our first episode, we introduce ourselves, discuss motives, and break down the newly announced Mug Club roster.  Email: louderthancrowder@gmail.com Twitter/X: @thancrowder Music by DJ Danarchy

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This is an Audio World original.
This is an Audio World original.
Welcome to Louder Than A Crowder, a podcast where three white guys talk about the world
white guys in their 30s talk about a real shitty one and a bit about his friends.
My name's Byron.
I'm joined, as always, because always starts right now, by my good pals Dennis and Jared.
So, a couple acknowledgments up front.
Huge shoutout to DJ Danarchy for that intro song.
He's done some great work with a handful of folks I really admire.
Jared Holt's podcast, Posting Through It.
He did some remixes for the Majority Report.
And of course, drop an absolute banger after banger for the Knowledge Fight boys.
We're beyond thrilled to be working with him.
Also, speaking of Knowledge Fight, I'd like to say right now, personally, very inspired by the work that they've done in covering the Alex Jones Show, as well as QAnon Anonymous, their show, Will Sommer's old show, Fever Dreams.
If you don't listen to those shows, definitely queue them up.
Those were huge influences for me.
This project, though.
It's our exploration and analysis of and into the perspective of Stephen Crowder and his long-running web show Louder Than Crowder and the guests he chooses to platform.
Louder than Crowder?
With Crowder.
Thanks, Dennis.
I'm not looking to exclusively dunk on Stephen, rather highlight the misinformation and hate that he's spreading in a confident, manner-of-fact, rapid-fire way.
To press pause and actually see what his words look like in the sunlight.
Louder than Crowder, this show has been in the works for over a year now?
At least.
It's been a bit.
It's taken this long for a few reasons.
I think the biggest would be that he was kind of doing a good job of doing our jobs for us.
I'm sure at some point we'll dive deeper into the recent scandals like his Stop Big Con conflict with Jeremy Boring and Candace Owens at the Daily Wire after his Blaze contract ended.
There's the ex-staffers alleging that he would berate them, send photos of his genitalia, ask them to supply him with Klonopin, Percocet, and cannabis gummies.
Does he need somebody to help him get cannabis gummies?
I think in the state of Texas it is illegal.
Is it?
I don't even know.
But the thing is is that like a drug dealer could smell a narc from like a mile away.
I mean just look at him.
Yeah.
Guy wears a like a gun belt or whatever.
It's like kind of I'm not inviting that guy into my house but I'm selling drugs.
So there's also the, I mean, on a more serious note, the disgusting abuse that he pointed at his now ex-wife.
That stuff was revealed on Ring Cam footage.
We'll probably dig into that.
I put a big pause on this project, too, because I wanted to do some big bio on him.
You know, because he is more than just the voice of the brain on the hit children's show Arthur.
He was also a party kid in the Covenant.
Which is a film I think we're probably gonna do like a covenant?
Yeah, yeah.
I just want to share that I actually have a connection to Arthur as well.
Really?
My initials are DW.
Great.
Okay, wonderful.
I just wanted to share that.
Mine is actually that the balled-up fist meme.
Yeah.
That was a picture based on me from when I was like in seventh grade.
Wow, that's amazing.
Revolutionary.
So I wanted to do a larger bio and that kind of put the brakes for a long time, but I think we'll get to it.
I think in our discussions and explorations that will open doors for larger conversations about how we got to where we are.
I would agree with that.
Thanks.
Yeah, although severely wounded by his bad choices, Steven is still influencing folks with misinformation and culture war panic.
And I think as things get worse for him, he'll get more and more desperate and dangerous.
You know, there's the anti-vax stuff, election fraud conspiracy, transphobia, misogyny, unproven pedophilic panics, and more.
The point of this show is basically to hold him accountable.
That's kind of my goal.
And to dunk on his ass.
Michael Jordan, 1996 or something.
I don't know basketball.
I think that was a good year.
Jared Dennis, this isn't the first time that you've discussed conservative wackos with me for over a year at this point.
We've done a weekly Twitch stream.
What do you guys feel about this Steven Crowder fella?
Do you have any general ideas about the project?
I don't know as much about Steven Crowder as you do, but every time I've seen something about Steven Crowder, every time I've seen his show, I usually turn it off pretty quickly because it's very, very surface level, lacking a lot of explanation, specifically designed to drive outrage.
I think that... It's transparent.
Yeah, if you added any level of transparency to the things he was talking about, I think that people would be like, oh, well, there's a lot more to it than you're letting on.
And that's what I see a lot of.
Mm-hmm.
Jared, you think he's funny and cool.
He's the coolest.
I do and he's got great hair.
The gun belt is actually, I lied earlier, it is doing it for me.
It's really cool.
You know, really the thing that I'm watching Steven for is his just like acute facial reactions and his fidgety hands.
A tell, I think.
If this was poker, I think he's got a tell.
I think you can tell What's going on with Steven subliminally under the surface there by just looking at his eyes and Watching his hands.
He's he's very He's vocal in that way.
He's painfully insecure and that's I think he really is I think that's probably the best way to paint him I mean that that's at least a big, you know part of it for me that I noticed about him the The one that really stands out to me was when the FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Uh-huh.
How upset he got about it.
And it's almost like he was worried that could accidentally happen to him.
Have you ever accidentally stolen confidential documents?
No, but if it could happen to Trump, it could happen to me.
It could happen to me, exactly.
That's so true.
I really, I don't recall the episode exactly, but what I hated about that entire thing, not only just from Steven Crowder, but just in general from the right, was this, this, it could happen to you.
We're fighting for you.
I would hope that it would happen.
And it should happen.
Let me, let me ask you, you guys both this.
If you guys found out that the FBI raided Biden's home, would you feel offended?
If it was an alleged crime, I would say I would hope that we would investigate that.
Yeah, like I wouldn't feel personally like at risk of FBI raid.
No.
At the end of the day, I think what really freaks me out about that kind of thing, especially with all these new indictments, I feel like so many of the folks who are on the right are kind of in this thing that it's like Donald Trump could not have done anything illegal.
You could not prove anything.
Like if they found...
Oh gosh, if they found illegal drugs directly in his house, they would say they were planted.
It's funny because they did find illegal drugs in the wall.
Sure, sure.
If they found out that... I don't want to be too vulgar about these things.
Oh, careful.
But like, he could literally like be like holding the smoking gun and they'd be like, no, that was, it's fake smoke.
Yeah, it was an Alec Baldwin style.
It was an Alec Baldwin rust moment for Trump.
Think about that smoke on the side of the road on the Fourth of July weekend.
If somebody says, you know, nothing can convince me otherwise, they're going to have no good faith arguments going forward.
Convince me otherwise.
Very interesting.
Convince me otherwise.
A future segment on this show.
I do want to mention my introduction to Steven Crowder was actually an interesting one.
It was on YouTube, the platform that made him that he complains about constantly.
It was a change my mind segments on guns.
And personally, as a Montana guy, I kind of was like halfway into what he was saying.
So you're a Steven Crowder head?
I guess I'm a Steven Crowder head.
But what it was... Drink from the cup of chowder.
Well, see I took a sip and then watched a little bit further and you know, yeah, it's from a red pill.
Red pill?
Blue pill?
Green pill?
Two pill?
Some sort of children's book?
They weren't even his cool perks.
They weren't his cool Valium.
No.
And they weren't his little hemp gummies.
Yeah.
So here's here's what I'll say I think that you see what I'm saying is like he's backdooring people with some rational points But we've heard plenty of his other change my mind segments you and I Dennis like yeah, yeah well I mean, I think that at the end of the day people have to be able to separate points from people and You know and so if he makes good points, you know, I mean sure he might make some good points He might make points that I agree with and I think that that's something that we should be honest about when it does happen Oh totally, of course, but I think at the end of the day if you if you aren't open to that on both sides of issues You can't say that you're being honest or a centrist or that you're just telling the truth.
You're not it's just not how that works You guys ready to?
I mean, this is episode zero, guys.
Episode zero.
Negative one.
This is the bonus track when you hit play on the CD and rewind it backwards, like on that one lit album.
Kids aren't even gonna get that anymore.
I think, like, less than Jake had one?
I think so.
Yeah, it doesn't exist anymore.
The hidden track is gone.
The hidden track is dead.
Well, welcome to the hidden track, folks.
This is the re-platforming, or I guess just the... We-platforming?
The we-platforming episode of A Louder Than Crowder, which is going to be covering their replatforming conference, which isn't a typical show.
Typically his show, Louder With Crowder, I'm gonna fuck that up a lot.
We're gonna fuck it up so much.
It's billed as an alternative to liberal-leaning late-night comedy show.
Alternative to liberal leaning late-night comedy shows.
I wrote that, so I guess I'm labeling it that.
That's fine.
That's what they say it is.
Okay.
And it usually starts off with kind of an offensive parody or skit.
Okay.
Stuff that... Let me get you guys' opinion.
Is it actually better than Jimmy Fallon's show?
I don't watch any of that at all.
Time for our new show, where we take down Jimmy Fallon, that son of a bitch.
We're coming for you, Jimmy.
These skits, though, often unfunny, poorly written, but not terribly shot.
They look pretty good, Dennis, I think.
The one thing I will say about everything I see coming from that realm is how quickly they can turn out content.
It's impressive, so impressive.
After the skit, a chiptune remix of Canadian prog synth pop artist Lawrence Gowin's 1985 hit, Strange Animal.
Fuck yeah, dude.
Strange Animal.
Do you know that one?
Nope.
Alright.
But I know that he still built his entire brand around a song he didn't write.
It seems like it, huh?
I mean, he even calls his listeners strange animals, which is kind of funny.
Can we try and get that guy, uh, what is his name?
His name is Lawrence Gowin.
Lawrence Gowin.
Can we get him on the show?
I think we're gonna have some interviews on the show and I would love to, I would love to invite Lawrence.
I want to talk to him about how he feels.
I also am reaching out to people that he went to school with.
Steven Crowder?
Yeah.
Okay.
Found his yearbook.
So I've been trying to figure out what kind of character he is.
Another reason that I've kind of put a pause on the production.
So a little point of trivia that I want to share from Steven Crowder's Wikipedia.
He was born one day before me.
Wow.
One day.
Exactly one day before me.
It wasn't like birthday twins.
Yeah, that's crazy.
You guys could celebrate together.
We should go celebrate his birthday.
We should celebrate his birthday and then transition into my birthday immediately after.
We could celebrate by each taking like a little too much perc.
Uh-huh.
And then we'll send each other dick pics in the group chat.
That'll be so fun!
And it's consensual.
This is how easy it is, Steven.
It's consensual, but we're all in points.
We all said yes.
Steven takes a big long sip of coffee and then starts his introductions of his cast of characters, which we'll get into at some point.
The former and current cast, I would imagine.
And then he lays out the roadmap of the show.
That's not how today's show starts because today is special.
Welcome to the Mug Club replatforming conference.
Hold on to your butts, folks.
Excuse me, I'm playing a clip.
What?
I saw the light come on.
I saw you turn the light on, but I needed to get this in.
We got a fucking Lando over here.
What?
So, Dave Lando, former third chair.
Ahoy Guy?
Yeah.
Ahoy Guy.
We'll talk a lot more about him at some point.
He left the show and on an interview with Michael Malice, exposed that Steven has a button he would push that would light up, that would signal for Dave to shut up.
And it's literally been on this whole time.
It's come off like 30 seconds.
Shut the fuck up, Jared.
Really?
Yeah, because he didn't want Dave to... Dave is a professional stand-up comedian.
I'm always stepping on Byron's toes.
You can hear it right here.
Steve wanted Dave to back him up, basically.
He didn't want her to be funnier than him.
So, if he was talking too much... Are there videos of him hitting the button?
Yeah, there is actually.
Why wouldn't you have a foot switch?
That's a much better idea.
Why the fuck wouldn't you have a foot switch?
Right on the side of his desk.
He wants to be like Inspector Gadget's nemesis?
The guy with the cat?
Mr. Claw.
Is that a Mr. Claw?
Dr. Claw.
Doctor.
He had an MD.
Of course.
Jared, what were you saying though before?
Strange animal.
Yeah.
Do you think that having really conservative, normative positions is strange?
No.
What?
He has just normative, conservative positions.
Stephen Chowder has normative, conservative... Oh, so he's not very strange.
Maybe in this... I don't think it says strange.
Maybe in this fucked up, left-leaning world... Yeah... He is a strange animal.
Well... Let's get... Can we... Can we... What?
That's all.
Can I start the conference for us?
Yeah, let's do it.
Let's go.
Conference.
Why can't we not condemn evil behavior?
♪♪ ♪♪
Audio jungle.
Hello, Mug Club and all you strange animals out there.
Whoo!
Yeah, not that strange.
Simply electric.
That was Gerald, right?
That voice wasn't Steven.
That's the CEO of Louder With Crowder Studios, as well as Mug Club.
Gerald Morgan Jr.?
Yeah, Gerald Morgan Jr.
He goes by Gerald A. Mug Club, we're going to talk about.
That is going to be heard a whole bunch, but it's a weird subscription service that Steven created.
Gerald, longtime on-air talent.
He's been working with Steven for over seven years.
Episode 67 was the earliest appearance that I've seen of him on the show, but I think that they were friends much much longer than that.
I think I'm confused.
Wasn't Gerald Morgan the Ahoy guy?
No, that's Dave Lando.
There's characters.
Gerald's the guy whose voice matches his haircut.
I looked at pictures of these people and I thought they were the same person.
Mm, they look a little, they're all just white guys.
I mean, we're white guys too.
I know, yeah.
But we're so much more handsome.
That's true.
We're about, we are equally as handsome as Steven Crowder.
I don't know.
When I started watching Louder with Crowder, Gerald, his only role on air was he was the wine of the day guy.
They'd start the show and then he would say, hey Gerald, what's the wine of the day?
And then Gerald would say, the wine of the day is blank, blank, blank.
And that makes sense because you see he's actually the owner and sommelier of Buen... Buen... Buen Vino.
Which is a... Buen Vino.
Yeah.
You can tell we're not wine guys.
He sure is.
Pinot Noir.
He's our personal wine concierge offering corporate gifts, wine club memberships, cellar management services, private tastings, stemware, and other wine accessories.
Everyday drinks with incredible values, restaurant only items, and free delivery to your house or office if you live inside the Dallas Fort Worth.
Dallas.
Don't fucking do that.
Dallas Fort Worth area.
He's just a weird fucking dude who I think probably was funding this somehow.
Okay.
In exchange for.
You think it was like some weird like investing?
Alex Jones had that like gold sales folks that kind of funded his operation.
I mean if you've got money you can invest in anything man.
Yeah.
Like there's lots of funky investments out there.
His early involvement as just this kind of like guy to point people towards his wine, online wine business.
Okay.
It seems like that makes sense to me, and I will get to the bottom of it.
I did just look them up again, I'm gonna be honest.
I looked them both up again, and I do remember how they are different people now.
Okay.
I just want to clarify.
Thanks for doing that.
I said, oh yeah, I see that they're different now.
I'm just not very good at remembering things.
Faces, well...
Started from the bottle, now we're here.
Awkwardly announcing a new collaboration between Mug Club and Rumble, as well as all the new talent partnerships that entails.
We've been hard at work with our friends at Rumble to bring you the first network controlled by creators.
And two of the biggest giants in this industry are joining forces under the same umbrella.
No more censorship.
So about that, real quick.
I was really hoping to just go through this episode and talk about those points, but there's some leaked audio that I found that was posted to Kiwi Farms that kind of taints this anti-censorship thing he's talking about.
Yeah, we're the re-platforming kind of space.
Now, look, that doesn't mean Nick Fuentes is going to come on and talk about it, right?
But if somebody's being silenced or if somebody is being, you know, deplatformed, We want to have a conversation with them if they fit our values, right?
Or close enough to our circle of values, right?
So if somebody is getting silenced by YouTube or anywhere else, it's potentially somebody that we'd like to talk to.
If the channel size is big enough, like, it has to make sense, right?
You can't just be anybody who has a webcam and wants to put on a show, but yeah, if somebody's out there that is getting silenced in some way, shape, or form, and it's a legit voice, and they're not Spreading, like, you know, anti-Semitic stuff, then I go back to Nick Fuentes.
So, I mean, that's just what I hear out of everybody who says they're anti-censorship.
Sure.
Anti-censorship, but.
But, exactly.
Yeah, and like, I'm of the mindset that certain voices shouldn't have a platform if they're dangerous.
Censorship doesn't mean what a lot of people think that it means or act like it means, right?
If I come into your house and I say, Byron, you're an asshole, and you kick me out of your house, I'm not being censored.
No, you are.
You're just, you're just saying, fuck you.
I don't want to have you around anymore.
And in this case, that was, was that Gerald or is that Dave talking?
Dave's gone.
Okay.
Gerald A. Yeah.
He's just approaching it like a business, right?
Sure.
He wants people to come onto this platform.
Which is funny because that's their whole complaint.
I know.
No, I know that's the whole complaint is that they're like, oh, this is, you know, just change the business.
They don't want people to be, you know, entirely motivated by money.
But I'm gonna, I'm willing to bet that if we approach them and said, hey, can we have our show, Louder Than Crowder, on your platform, they would say, fuck you, man.
By the way, I don't know how long we should try to keep this a secret from them.
I think they'll probably find out, right?
What?
That we have a podcast about their podcast.
Oh, no, it's fine.
I mean, if they figure it out, that'd be great.
Do we want them to?
I mean, eventually they will, right?
Yeah, I would imagine.
I mean, unless this goes nowhere, which is possible, that's fine.
The over-under on how many episodes until we get a cease and desist?
I'm gonna admit, I don't understand over-under.
It would be like if we set 25 podcast episodes.
Two.
That's how you do the under.
Just real quick.
Real quick?
I think Steven's gonna call me tomorrow.
Wow, that's crazy.
He's gonna say, hey, happy belated birthday, fuck you, get off the internet.
Sure, wonderful.
No, but like, I think that Nick Fuentes shouldn't be platformed by Mug Club.
I think that's a good instinct.
But the problem is, you know who does platform Nick Fuentes?
I don't.
Band.tv or Cozy?
Sure, Band.tv is a good one.
I mean, we'll talk about it later, but there's a huge partnership, a huge merge.
One of the people that they're working with very much does platform Nick Fuentes.
So what does that say about their values, you know?
I don't know.
I just, I really, I really hate the whole fake, I'm being censored, I'm being censored.
If you have a platform in the world, right?
Speaking to the government, you have a platform, you can say what you want, right?
But you're using other people's shit.
So if you really don't want to be de-platformed, get your own servers, route all your own shit.
Which is what Alex Jones does with Banned Up Video.
Like, that's what you have to do.
And then you are in control.
Or even Nick with Cozy.tv.
And I promise, I promise when they say that this is this whole The first ever managed by the creators.
It's fucking not.
That's bullshit.
If we brigade it and we make it all just like left-leaning content, they're gonna be like, ah, back up, back up.
Well, I mean, yeah.
And it's not like they're giving the people we're going to talk about later in the show, like actual stake in the company.
No, it's, it's like a co-op.
Okay.
So they're communist.
This makes a lot of sense.
We're going to do a political co-op.
When it all boils down, it just seems like an odd line to draw in the sand, or like a dishonest line, to be saying all of this and then like, it's pretty fucking obvious that they don't want to platform antisemites.
Yeah, and that's fair.
And that is fair.
That's a good approach.
Overt antisemites.
Yeah!
People like Owen Benjamin will be on the show, and he's like, at this point, kind of crossed the line of overt into... Do we need to have some type of a disclaimer at the start of the show that clearly identifies that it's our opinions?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Uh, you ready to meet Steven, folks?
Let's hear his voice.
Let the replatforming begin.
Do it.
Democrats are afraid of this guy, the liberal media can't stand him, and Big Tech wants to cancel him, but you have made him uncancellable!
Welcome the strange animal himself, Steven Crowder!
You're a strange animal, that's what I know And I'm a-
I'm a- You're a strange animal
And I'm a- That's what I'm talking about, woo!
Alright.
He's got really normal, conservative ears.
He's not playing, trying to say nothing new.
Fight like hell!
Where did Fight Like Hell come from?
All right, welcome to the replatforming conference.
We have some members of the press and friends here.
Thanks for coming out.
We'll be taking some questions from them later.
Who from the press was there?
Believe me, there wasn't any press there.
Are you sure?
There's like 13 people in that room, maybe.
I'm fairly sure.
No AC running.
Not even.
It's just really noisy.
Is that the first time you've heard the theme song for Louder Than Crowder?
No, I've heard it before plenty of times.
Okay.
And honestly, I like chiptune.
I could listen to chiptune all day.
You've got incel tendencies.
What the fuck?
No.
No.
All right.
No, I like chiptune.
Sure.
Is liking chiptune an incel tendency?
It's kind of Doomer.
No, it's like a real Scott Pilgrim, right?
Cool, like Scott Pilgrim, he's really cool.
You know what's really cool?
You wanna hear what it sounds like if Tucker Carlson was gonna sight-read a first draft monologue about what Mug Club is?
We're about to get fuckin' scared into supporting this, man, I have a feeling.
Replatforming is a story about what's been lost, what's been risked, really, what's been taken from people, and what, starting today, we will all actively begin to regain.
And before that, Mug Club's been around for such a long time that it kind of occurred to me, for some of the folks new here, I haven't done a great job in explaining to you what Mug Club is.
What Phase 1, at least, has been up until now, before we get to the new announcements.
It's a simple concept, Mug Club.
We bleed, so you don't have to.
Oh, so it's like a blood transfusion thing?
Exactly, it's a blood bank.
It's like a blood streaming.
Not exactly that, Steve.
Is that why his papa is always next to him?
Is he doing blood play stuff for his daddy?
Oh, they call him Pop's Crowder.
Pop's Crowder's been sitting third chair because... Really?
His dad?
Yes!
Well, his dad's also his booker.
I don't know if you know that.
I didn't know that.
He's got a strong relationship.
Let me make sure I understand.
So Mug Club is like...
Barkbox for blood transfusions?
Well, so basically back in the Blaze days, which is the, what is that, Glenn Beck's network that Steve was on before this?
They used to just send you a fucking coffee mug when you'd sign up for Mug Club, which is just kind of a portal where for $89.99, which no monthly option, Just annually.
I tried to sign up for $0 and it's like $89 is the minimum.
Why put a fucking slider on there?
That's how Rumble works.
Folks can access all the content under this network umbrella.
So it's Patreon?
Come on man, those are dirty words.
So it's not Patreon?
Listen!
It's bleeding.
They bleed?
They do bleed.
Whose blood is it?
Before it was on Rumble.
It's more of a transfusion to his dad.
He's got Gerald's blood.
He's got his son's blood.
I heard he's got Oh, I won't spoil it.
Basically, before they came up with this network idea, it was just they would do like an extra hour of content.
It's kind of a lot like that, which we will have a Patreon, by the way, at some point.
I can't talk about that?
I wouldn't talk about it.
It's stuff that's too hot for YouTube, which... Nice.
So it's like spice.
It's kind of been a high bar, actually.
We've had people come up and say, hey, I wish I could say some of these things that you guys can say on there, but I'll get fired from my job.
Who's saying this to us?
I don't want you to get fired from your job.
But when you join up, when you give us your dollar, we have to be able to say what it is that you can't say.
Otherwise, we're stealing from you.
If we play ball with big tech, if we decide to take your dollar but then say we gotta make tens of millions of dollars off YouTube ad revenue, we're screwing you.
Okay, so it's like you hire him to say stuff?
So he bleeds and speaks for me?
He's gonna show up at your door, but it's a big cake, like the biggest cake you've ever seen.
Sure.
You wheel that thing in there.
So the cake shows up or he shows up with the big cake?
Okay, here's the thing.
Is he in the cake?
He's inside the cake.
Dude, that's sick.
So we're wheeling him in to the big party room, the big, you know, the big ball.
Uh-huh.
And you're coming out, it's quinceañera, whatever, and you really wanted to say the n-word.
You don't have to.
We hired Steven Crowder.
That's great.
He's gonna pop out of that cake, big bikini on, big old titties.
What?
And he's gonna say it for you.
You gotta stop.
So you don't have to.
How did we go off the rails so fast?
I don't know man, I'm back on it though.
First of all, I do think he says really heinous, gross shit.
YouTube has been really lenient with him.
Like the only things the major content strikes have been for stuff like targeted hate speech towards transgender folks or platforming Alex Jones who was banned from the platform in August of 2018.
Vaccine and misinformation in the middle of the pandemic.
But like other than that, they say a lot of other really bad stuff.
Of course.
But I think what they're doing is they're kind of weaponizing the illusion of censorship to monetize their audience.
Yes, a thousand, a thousand percent.
It's, it's, they, they want so bad to not be snowflakes that they are.
Uh-huh.
But like, um... It's the horseshoe.
Yeah, they like wear, like, their umbrage is like a badge of honor.
Yeah.
Well, like, I mean, in their episode on Monday, which I think we actually might talk about that one, they're like, we're back on YouTube, and if you think we're bowing down to them, check this out.
And they did a parody of like an Alanis Morissette song about anti-vax.
God.
And all they're doing is praying that they will be given a content strike or removed from YouTube so they can again make the point that they're being... But that's how I'm watching them.
Here's what I'm gonna say to anyone... You watch on YouTube?
Yeah.
Anyone who says that Big Tech...
If anyone who says that Big Tech is against them, and you're on the platform, you don't really think Big Tech is against you.
I think they have made efforts to shift to Rumble now, especially since they have this deal with Rumble.
Get off of YouTube.
Yeah, so there's... Get off of YouTube.
I don't, I don't understand how it's not that hard.
If you want people... Steven.
If you want people to... Stay.
Jesus.
Are we doing like the, the classic, um... Devil angel on the shoulder?
Yeah, what the fuck is conscience?
Jesus, why can't I think of conscience?
Oh, sure.
I realize though, maybe we'll get these two out of the way because I didn't pull clips for two of the folks that are officially being announced as part of Mug Club.
The first is Mr. Guns and Gear.
Axl Rose.
Nope.
What?
The one with the hat.
Mr. Guns and Gear who's just a gun YouTuber.
Guns and Gear?
Guns and Gear.
Okay.
I mean, whatever.
This is just a guy that likes shooting pistols fast.
You know?
Like that.
Missed all of them.
Rapid fire.
I think that's fine.
Again, if people are responsible with guns, what the fuck ever.
I don't think we have time to unpack our Second Amendment views.
I kind of agree.
We have so many more episodes.
Yeah, just wait.
This episode's zero.
This episode's negative zero.
It'll transition to zero halfway through the episode.
And then the other one is Jim Brewer, who they keep throwing his name around, but he is yet- Is he that guy who pushes the buttons on MSN Business or whatever?
No, this is- No, he was the, uh, I guess really the roommate to Killer, the three-legged bitch of a dog.
You know, that's the guy I was thinking, that's not, I was making a joke about the guy on MSNBC, but that's the guy I thought.
What's his thing?
Jim Brewer?
He was goat boy on SNL?
Yeah, no, I know who he is, but like, is he super racist or something?
I meant to say Killer's mom was a three-legged bitch of a dog, not Killer themselves.
From the film Half-Baked, is that right?
That's correct, yeah.
So, Jim had a tough pandemic.
His wife is actively dying from cancer and he's always been religious and he's always been fairly conservative, but during the pandemic he really got mad that venues were requiring vaccination.
Okay.
So he canceled his tour and made a big deal about it.
I think he's got a podcast.
Stephen, I mean this is one of his comedy heroes.
Self-released his own stand-up special too.
Oh, Jim Brewer released his special or did Stephen?
Brewer did.
Really special.
You guys should go check it out.
Really special.
Is it good?
Oh, it's really special, Dennis.
I've heard clips of him at conservative conferences, and he's just not funny anymore.
Is he kind of like Rob Schneider?
Very much a Rob Schneider equivalent at this point.
I think Schneider's got one up on him because Schneider got the Netflix deal.
But was that adjacent to the Adam Sandler deal?
It could have been, but content's content.
Yeah, well either way it seems like Stephen has mentioned a couple times that he's building like an East Coast studio for Jim and several other things, but I have yet to really see Jim sit down and talk about this as if it's actually happening, so I will believe it when I see it.
Is he gonna be on Mug Club?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So his blood is the blood we'll get?
Yeah, his blood is the blood.
That's correct.
Okay.
I just want to understand where the blood's coming from.
They said they're bleeding?
For us, yeah.
Okay.
So let's introduce you to the first guy, another comedian, I don't know, and you might be familiar with this guy, Dennis.
Okay.
In the era of the Me Too Witch Hunt, when people were being falsely accused left and right, he not only had a top 10 podcast in the sports world, he not only was a central character on one of ABC's hallmark shows, his role was so popular he was given his own spinoff on ABC in primetime.
Smear campaign later, he lost all of it.
The term cancelled doesn't even cover it.
But now, he's ready to let his freak flag fly, and beyond being in third chair, and appearing in sketches, which he's done, he will be launching his weekly show on September 1st, The Brian Callen Show, but Mug Club will also be producing Brian Callen's next stand-up comedy special, more on that in a minute, one where he can finally pull no punches, show the world everything that he truly is, again, because of Mug Club.
So please, welcome to the team, part-timer to full-timer, Mr. Brian Callen.
A lot of people don't know who Brian Cowen is.
No, it's fine.
People may know him from... I thought he was talking about Tim Allen.
No.
Blackmailing Bobby Lee.
He did do a little bit of that.
Also on MADtv he was with Bobby Lee.
The show they were talking about was the Goldbergs and then he was apparently in some spin-off of the Goldbergs.
I don't watch ABC.
But also the Fighter and the Kid podcast, pretty popular.
Oftentimes he's seen on Joe Rogan as well, they're buddies.
That's Schwab?
Brendan Schwab?
The Fighter and the Kid was with Brendan Schwab, yeah.
He also might know him because he was accused in a July 31st report in the LA Times.
Actress Katherine Tigerman alleged that he pinned her down and raped her in 1999.
And the story also included allegations of sexual misconduct from three Other women.
Okay.
Why is he on?
Why is he on this?
Uh, well, what's his name?
Because he's Brian.
He's canceled and he's a comedian.
So now he has to, has to go here.
I mean, he, he's kind of been fence sitting for a while about his political leanings, but now he's dropping the gloves and, uh, pushing back.
Listen, let's get serious.
There are a lot of bad ideas out there that have very real consequences for our democracy.
It is no longer safe to speak the truth.
It is no longer safe to even question the edicts handed down.
From the establishment kings.
The gatekeepers today will crush you financially.
They will censor you.
They will de-platform you.
They will label you.
They will vilify you.
The rules grow more specific, weirder, and more plentiful by the day.
And as I speak, you'll even be punished if you stand with traditional beliefs and values.
Well, welcome to the pushback.
I like it. Look over here. See that?
That's so cool.
He's still over here. You can't see them.
Can we count the claps?
Can we like slow it down?
I mean, I think he goes into...
See that? How you guys doing in nosebleeds?
They can't hear me.
All right.
He's joking about how tiny the room is?
Yeah, he's most certainly discussing how no one gives a shit.
Steven also said that he's keeping it tight because someone might kill him.
I thought he had that Walter on him all the time.
Why is it that they feel so proud to be in trouble?
They want to be canceled.
It fuels the controversy.
I don't think Brian wanted to be cancelled.
I followed him for a long time.
He had a show with Will Sasso, too, called the Ten Minute Podcast.
Remember the Lemons bit with Will Sasso on Vine?
Yeah, that was kind of the same era.
I don't know, man.
Steven and the Louder With Crowder family have been battling it out on their own for a long time now.
Well, I am excited to be part of an ever-expanding group of misfits and comics that have had enough and want to join the fight.
The pushback isn't just about fighting bad ideas with better ideas.
It's not just about shouting into a microphone.
We're here to change hearts and minds, and we are going to do it the way Steven has always done it, with humor, satire, Humor.
And maybe a little screaming into the microphone.
You know what I'm saying?
A little screaming.
A little bit, yeah.
A little anger once in a while goes a long way.
We are going to entertain you so hard and so often that you can't help but hear and see the truth.
You can't help it!
There is no one in the conservative space pushing back on the left's terrible ideas with Stephen's level of funny.
No one's even in the same area code.
So when Stephen asked me to join the family, I was like, where do I sign up?
Yeah, he's talking about like from one side of LA to the other.
Let's see.
This is must-see pushback.
We are an army of funny people with a point of view.
Funny with a philosophy.
We are not your grandpa's conservative show.
This whole segment is devoid of anything.
He's not fucking saying anything.
This is his conservative outing here.
We ain't the strict chaperone standing in the corner telling everyone not to dance.
The party is here.
Hold tight, hold tight.
Let's keep it down until he's done saying his stupid bullshit.
Brian is officially conservative.
So cool.
What this sounds like to me is it sounds like an MLM hired a bunch of people and I gave them the notes right before.
A thousand percent.
And they're just like, I have to read the notes?
He's cold reading, yeah.
Yeah, it feels so strange.
Not cold reading in the like, He's reading this for the first time.
He's cold, and he's reading.
He's chilly.
He needs a sweater, and he's reading.
But that's honestly what it sounds like.
It sounds like it's just like, hey, here's our outrage notes.
Yeah.
And when it's bold, you yell louder.
You yell louder.
Of course.
He was not this guy at some point.
I think it just goes to show, like, the power of commiseration.
Uh-huh.
When people really want to band together over, like, some feeling of wrongdoing.
It's much easier to find someone who's had your problems than had your successes, I guess.
A thousand percent.
You know?
You guys ready for some story time about our next Mug Club program?
Yes.
This is a story, not even about what was lost, but what was taken from someone.
Take it!
Give me back my show.
this moment in time for the first time can be regained and will be regained. And because of
all of this he was called of course, look, before you were racist, sexist, homophobic, you name it,
his entire career here at Mug Club and myself personally, we called him, sorry.
Of course.
They set these up like they're like, you know who it is?
Yeah.
Who's the most racist guy you know?
The problem is that I would know who these people are because these people have all been like on third chair just being tested.
It's pretty much the only people he knows.
He took all of them.
Yeah.
Nick DiPaolo.
Yeah!
Shorty's watching Shorty.
I don't know this guy either.
How do you not know DiPaolo, man?
He's a legend in racism.
here we go here's his opening speech uh... i'm part of my club honestly because it's the only
source for the truth right now as far as i let people know what's being
done to this country and what deep shit were in thanks to the left this elitist
uh... scum that make up both the mainstream media and that vast criminal
enterprise known as the democrat party
Pause for the last, pause for the last.
Yeah so all of that is on a teleprompter that he is struggling to keep up with and read.
Pretty cool.
Can we get teleprompters?
I mean we could probably.
I have one on my phone.
In the budget, yeah we could use that.
I don't know this guy.
How do you spell his name?
I tried looking it up and it... D-E-P-A-L-O.
DePaulo.
Not Nepaulo.
No, DePaulo.
He looks like he would have just like the sickest like fat Tony-ass like slicked-back haircut.
And he totally does.
Nick DePaulo?
Like D-I-space?
Yeah, D-I.
No, it's D-I, actually.
Is it?
Yeah.
Nick D space.
We don't even have its name written down.
D-E-P-I-Z-Z-A.
Okay, okay, cool, cool, cool.
I really don't know too much about him.
I've heard his name in the comedy world, of course.
Longtime writer.
He's not really my thing.
Okay.
And I did some... Why, you don't...
You don't dig racism?
I don't really have any problems with people.
Are you a racism guy?
Yeah, I'm a big racism guy.
Sorry, I'm stepping on you.
No, you're fine.
Lights on.
You just keep your eye on the light.
I knew it was on, but it's just, I have impulse control.
When it's on that long, it's hard to identify.
I did a little surface level digging and, you know, I did find some really funny stuff.
Can I get this a little louder, please?
Seriously.
I need it so these people are in pain.
Ladies, shut up.
Put in your earplugs, you faggot.
Please, now.
Please.
I'm wearing a miracle ear.
I'm picking you up fine.
It's so funny.
Say something funny.
I've seen the other 190 people like it.
I guess you're retarded.
Anyways, yeah.
I found the liberal in the crowd.
I found the unhappy woman.
And that means she votes Democrat.
WEEEEEEE Now we're finished, so...
Okay.
Um, also, was he flexing 191 people in the crowd?
191?!
Such a sold out.
Is that what he was flexing?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, I just wanna make sure that's what he was flexing.
I mean, yeah, what a fall.
I think... Old school racist, though.
It's just really dumb, lazy stuff.
Well, actually, let's be honest, he didn't say anything racist.
In this moment, he was misogynistic and homophobic and then ableist.
Nothing about race so far.
Not yet.
Not yet.
You went digging though, right?
No, this was just me like clicking the first thing.
Most viewed YouTube short.
You went to YouTube and you said Nick DiPaolo says something racist.
Oddly enough, I did write Nick DiPaolo racist and that came up, so it's kind of weird.
I don't know, folks.
I'm not too excited about Nick, and apparently he's been doing a show on Mug Club for the past, I don't know, couple months, and no one really seems to care.
A daily show?
He's been doing a daily show on Mug Club?
Yeah.
What does a show entail if they're bleeding?
Okay, we're still talking about the blood.
I heard it's a nice, like, quick-witted commentary on, like, the day's politics, the daily show.
Speaking of stealing ideas for shows, now it's time to steal something that was barely working.
Hell yeah.
He's pretty right when he says that this idea isn't financially viable.
His Project Veritas ripoff called Mug Club Undercover.
Because this is about a whole lot more than just business.
I'm very excited today to announce our first full-time investigative unit, Mug Club Undercover.
Yeah.
I have ten years of investigative journals with sleeper cells in every major metropolitan
area.
Oh, fuck, man.
Man...
The medical army will for the first time allow our experienced field operatives to track down leads.
Expose corruption.
Bring light to the shadows.
Avengers, assemble!
Unintelligible.
Just absolute trash.
It's just Steven.
Yeah, probably just Steven.
And listen, obviously it's a visual medium here, right?
And then this is how this thing is gonna come out, just totally visual.
So y'all can see this Amazon Rave mask that is light activated through sound.
Yeah, it's an LED.
He's got a Teemu LED mask.
He's got one of those Guy Fawkes LED masks, yeah.
So how can you not listen to that and know it's just like pandering to you?
Like does anyone listen to that and go fuck you let's fucking do it!
I think people are actually kind of excited because it's hard to nail down the target audience for Steven because I've heard people say that he's most popular with men in their early to mid 20s and I kind of have trouble believing that but Yeah, I don't think so.
I mean, everyone we've looked at so far has been like in their 50s and 60s as far as the people who he has on the show.
Yeah, that would lead me to believe that... How old's Dave?
Dave was probably in his 40s as well.
Okay.
First of all, the name... Mug Club Undercover?
Mug Club!
We're talking about your Fucking coffee mugs that you gave away to people?
Mug club.
Yeah.
Don't love it.
Just rebrand.
Sure.
Call it something else.
Morning Brown.
MC Undercover.
MC Undercover, yeah.
But also this blatant ripoff of Project Veritas or James O'Keefe work.
It's just, they got lucky one time.
There's a video from a couple years ago where Steven went undercover with Antifa, of course.
Yeah.
Did you renew your membership?
The gang Antifa.
I did.
Don't talk about my Antifa membership on the air.
I, you know, I didn't, I didn't re-sign mine because Soros stopped sending the checks.
Fuck, dude.
Yeah, Soros well run dry, dude.
He's gotta reach out to Andrew now.
His dad's not in town.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So what happened is at this protest he was offered a knife by an Antifa quote-unquote Antifa person.
Antifa yeah, okay, and I mean whatever that was like his big breakthrough and then he reported it to the fucking sheriff like a weird narc, but This bleed I don't know if he thinks it's gonna happen again like no Yeah, it will happen again because Antifa is always handing out night.
There's an Antifa that character from Final Fantasy 7 Okay, that was- A backpack full of- For the ones in the back.
For the ones in the back?
You?
I just- I just don't see anything coming out of this, but they do have a tip line that they're providing people.
They're gonna start- So we're gonna just call it and fill it up with nonsense, right?
The thing I think- Yeah, of course.
Can we reverse it?
Flip that shit around on them?
Yeah, the number will be in the show notes of this episode.
The things that they're planning on targeting are like... Can we get our own Mug Club undercover?
Jesus, I can't wait to launch that.
Let's undercover do a double undercover.
Uh-huh.
Oh wait, I just had a really good idea.
What if we had our own?
Our own.
What if we did what they did to them?
And what if we could get them to call us?
What should we call it?
The Shrug Club?
They're targeting like colleges and abortion clinics now and like trying to get people to fuck up in terms of Offering support services.
So that's really fun and cool.
Fuck man.
Yeah, it makes me it makes me angry Well, I think that might be the most angry you're gonna get.
I don't think so.
The rest is pretty fun.
It's all pretty light Yeah, it's time for some double trouble.
Great double trouble.
Yeah, I didn't even realize that we were, I already had moved past Nick DiPaolo very quickly there, but I just wanted to point out one of the things that he said towards the end, and I just wanted to say, you know, Nick, you're probably right, is he says, this is probably my last chance to do anything with comedy.
Yeah, he said something akin to that like right at the end of his little stump speech there and it drove the nail home for me because I was like there's truth in comedy and Nick DiPaolo, the reason why people, you know, Steven was flattening him up pretty good saying about your favorite comedian calls him on the DL on the sly and he asked him how do you write this joke?
I got this idea and you know to get Nick DiPaolo to Walk them through it cuz he's so good at it, which I'm not even denying.
That's probably true.
I bet that there's some truth to that.
Yeah, but he says afterwards This is if this doesn't really work out.
This might be it for old Nick Mr. DiPaolo He's only 62, man.
It kind of was rough too.
I think what's crazy, man, is like, I know a lot of 62-year-olds.
Uh-huh.
I cannot imagine any of these kind of things coming out of their mouth.
Yeah.
Remember my really good double trouble comment?
Yeah.
No one told you that these are the guys you should be paying attention to.
These are people who built this over the long haul.
They had to play the long game.
And this is going to be a long clip, folks.
Okay.
A lot harder, too.
So these next guys, they didn't come through this with a non-profit, their backing.
They weren't built by a conservative billionaire.
They weren't even political.
They were just massively popular YouTubers in the bodybuilding community when YouTube was really just getting started.
I was a fan.
And so I invited them on the show as guests.
And on that very show, we not only found out that we shared values, but the world literally found out for the first time that they voted for Mitt Romney because they were just that disappointed with Barack Obama.
As black twins.
They're going to be exclusively members of the Mug Club Army and their show is launching October 1st.
A full weekly show for the first time.
Hodge twins uncensored.
They couldn't be here today, so I give you the reel of the Hodge twins.
They couldn't be there.
Really important.
Couldn't be there.
Jim Brewer couldn't be there.
Guy Fawkes, brave guy, had a gig.
Okay, so they're actually saying this is such a groundbreaking thing, but no one can make it to it?
It seems like it, but let's hear what the reel says.
Okay.
I'm out of here.
I'm so proud of you.
You got a damn good shot.
My dad is a piece of ass.
What the fuck?
My daddy, he spoke fast.
What?
Like, Black Africa?
Gays from Zimbabwe.
That place is a s***hole.
We talk about my reparations for my ancestors' pain and suffering.
Yeah.
It's time for me to get paid.
Time to make us whole.
Yeah.
Damn.
That's just gay sending me pictures of you flexing.
Who do I look like?
Justin Smollett?
You gay as hell, man.
I don't do that daisy stuff.
Well, just because you use day protein, it don't mean you can't talk trash about it.
You know days are dumbass, right?
You guys said that you voted for Obama at least the first time, right?
First time, second time, Mitt Romney.
Oh, wow!
That's surprising, because he's like the whitest guy ever.
He's pretty white.
I get a little scared being falsely accused of rape.
And dark sometimes.
I'm saying that Merkel might be more necessary than ever, because YouTube has become a liberal shithole.
Is that the reel he played?
Yep.
That's the best they could get.
What?
And I actually, I saw, I don't know if you guys saw this, but the leaked notes from the replatforming.
Did you guys see this?
Oh no, I didn't.
And it actually, on there, when it gets to the Hodge twins, it says we're going to give them exactly three-fifths the time that everyone else is going to get.
Oh no.
Oh dear.
Oh no.
That's, I mean, it came from Steven.
Yeah, it came right from the notes.
It leaked it right onto my 2012 MacBook.
What an idiot.
Yeah, I was at the airport and I just got this little notifier and said, from Chounder?
Okay.
I think he disguises it a little bit when he's out there.
But anyway, that's what it said.
Keith and Kevin Hodge, super funny content creators, and their accents most certainly haven't gotten more Southern as they've gotten more conservative at all.
Promise you.
Promise you.
I've been watching these guys' career for quite some time.
As their beards get more pointy, more Southern.
Do we need pointy beards?
I think so!
Mine's too soft.
I need to sharpen it.
This is kind of the bad side of the YouTube to stand-up comedy pipeline.
Okay.
A friend of mine who does stand-up in Los Angeles had done some shows with them at some points.
I don't want to come off as lazy, but I just don't think they're funny and I also don't think they're very smart.
It's really lazy comedy.
Well, I learned that Zimbabwe is a shithole, so I don't know about you guys.
Did you?
Two shithole jokes in that same... Yeah, two shithole jokes.
There was, you're right.
And I thought you had just started it over at some point.
And they just like pick random, we hate these people and make jokes about them.
Yeah.
Yeah, I hate Zimbabwe too.
I can spell the fuck out of Zimbabwe.
You got it.
I'm not going to do it on the air because I will do it wrong.
I feel a little bit bad for the Hodge twins because I think they're kind of in over their head, but we'll see what happens on October 1st when their show drops.
I'll be honest, I think that Mug Club's gonna be a pretty big flop.
You think?
I mean... I like this real, like, earnest...
Yeah, dude, no fucking shit!
I think, how do you think it's gonna do, if we had to say on a range of truth social to frank speech TV, where do you think Mug Club's gonna land?
Oh, closer to the frank side, for sure.
I think so, for sure.
Someone put out a chart of the viewership of Stephen's show on Rumble.
I remember you sent that to me.
It definitely, it tumbles, it rumbles and tumbles.
It doesn't look great when it launched in February.
Are we gonna do pictures like this by the way?
These really like high contrast?
Yeah, of course.
Off the clarity, make him look tired at pictures?
It launched at the kind of the beginning of the new year and was upwards of somewhere between 2.5 million average daily views per video.
And now we're back under a million at this point.
That's definitely more than 191 at least.
Yeah, that's true.
Remember when he leveraged that he was worth 50 million dollars?
That makes sense.
That's really cool.
That's so sick.
Let's give it to the Hodge twins, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Congrats to them.
You know what?
Everyone else kind of feels like they're maybe coming down to a level.
Yeah.
You know, DiPaolo and Callan aren't really anyone anymore, it seems.
So they kind of have no choice, but they're still like bigger names than maybe Crowder, but Hodgetwins, this is kind of a come up for them.
It's a vertical move for sure.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Well, let's see what you think about their number one draft pick.
Okay.
Trying his hardest.
What's your guess?
Yeah, who's our guess is?
I think it's... I think it's that one guy who shouted, they're stealing it.
They're stealing it guy!
Awesome.
They're stealing a guy from that one election.
My money's on don't tase me, bro.
Bill O'Reilly.
Bill O'Reilly.
What the fuck is he doing?
He's an easy get.
All right.
Well, this guy, he's trying his hardest to avoid financial obligation to the victims of the Sandy Hook Massacre.
Oh, I think I know who that is.
Their number one draft pick.
I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!
I wish it was the Undertaker.
Well, I don't wish it was the Undertaker.
Hitler took the guns.
Stalin took the guns.
Mao took the guns.
Fidel Castro took the guns.
Hugo Chavez took the guns.
And if you try to take our guns, 1776 will commence again!
Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
Yeah.
Sticking with Facebook, it is one of several companies today that are limiting the content of Far Right podcast
InfoWars.
Facebook, Apple, and YouTube have all taken that content from Jones and his InfoWars channel.
Whenever I talk about Alex Jones, my wife will not let me into the house until I've been deloused.
Anyone who believes in Alex Jones and believes these theories, you really gotta go get help.
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million.
No one has that much money, Trevor.
Look how there's a move to control information.
There's always been.
And it ought to scare people, but you've got a move to indoctrinate the children of America.
If they can get you to be part of a group, an environmentalist, or part of your minority group.
Black, Latino, and indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately.
The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
Wait, was that also Alex Jones talking?
Yeah, it's Alex.
Why did they put all these clips of Joe Vibin and Kamala Harris in there?
Like they were trying to be as cool as Alex Jones or something?
How could they?
Or is he like, because we take them down.
He's the fucking president bro.
No you didn't.
Alex Jones.
No real need for a bio, of course.
No, the guy fucking sucks.
Conservative talk show host.
He's the fucking king, dude.
King of conspiracy theory.
Go listen to Knowledge Fight if you want to learn more about his show.
He's doing a great job.
And some more DJ Danarchy songs.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's so funny.
That's my impression of Alex Jones.
No, it's great.
Folks!
This is just brutal what he's doing.
So Alex, of course, he was found guilty of an unimaginable amount of money that he owes to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Massacre.
Does he still have a show somewhere else?
Or is the Mug Club exclusive?
Well, he's still gonna have his regular The Alex Jones Show.
Okay, so what's he doing on Mug Club then?
Trying to find alternate ways to make income.
Is he bleeding?
God damn it.
They're not bleeding.
They said they're bleeding.
They said they were for us.
Yeah No, he's he tried this other thing by launching a podcast and the courts were like you can't make money doing this Podcast like that's illegal So does he think he found a loophole with Mug Club?
Do you think Mug Club's gonna be taken down by some court putting a TRO on Alex Jones?
I can't imagine there is.
this weird Friday show. Do you think Mug Club's gonna be taken down by some court putting
a TRO on Talks Jones? Do you think there's some loophole with it being behind a paywall?
I can't imagine there is. I mean, I don't know. Or it going through another shell company?
I have no idea how this is gonna work.
They don't even like each other.
Alex and Stephen.
Stephen and Alex don't like each other.
Alex is a huge liability.
It's just two desperate people pooling their shrinking audiences.
Yeah, it's like the network of misfit boys.
Like Brian Callens had it.
Okay.
I can't see this relationship working and it even existing now is just a sign of this thing being a fucking disaster.
It feels like if when our band started breaking up when we were in high school that we decided it'd be really good for us to release like a fat Missoula or Montana compilation.
It would be a good idea.
Yeah, like here's what we need to do to revive the scene boys.
We need to do a A great compilation of the best punk rock bands in Montana.
It's going to turn everything around.
It's going to turn it all around for us.
It definitely will not be us spending our last amount of money on pressing a bunch of CDs that'll end up in our garage.
Exactly.
We have a whole bunch of those.
A whole bunch of those old CDs.
If anyone wants our old CDs, that'd be great.
That's our first our first Shrug Club bonus.
Perfect.
Stephen has had Alex on his show.
I think he uses Alex.
He's trying to get Alex's viewers and that's it.
But what is he gonna do with Alex's viewers?
You can't you can't take a more extreme person's audience unless you're more extreme.
Like it doesn't translate.
So maybe it's this is going to be his Rocky montage for Crowder.
You think so?
And it's just him punching the side of beef, but it's just, you know, he's learning more conspiracy.
He's getting the rarest of racial slurs dumped into his brain.
Well, I gotta spoil this a little bit.
I was listening to Stephen's show today, which is Tuesday, August 15th, and he is actually echoing a conspiracy theory that Alex shared with his audience last week.
Friday, I think.
What is it?
Something about a tick in Texas that makes you allergic to meat.
Red meat.
Yeah.
He's implying that it's bioengineered.
Yeah, it's not.
I don't know.
You seem to know what it is.
Yeah, there's there's a tick that basically causes some like amino acid in your blood to prevent you from being able to process red meat.
Sure.
Or meat in general, I think.
It makes you remarkably sick if you eat it, basically.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, like, no, I mean, like, where does the meat go?
Do you just get like a pile of meat in your stomach?
Yeah, well, it just condenses and then it forms its own gravitational field.
Stephen talked about this conspiracy theory on his podcast today, and until now it seems like Stephen's only been leaning into more political conspiracy theories.
Do you have any conspiracy theories you believe, Byron?
Not one.
I believe that the ugly Sonic was made as a marketing stunt for the pretty Sonic.
I don't even know what that means.
Okay.
You want to hear from the... I want to talk about the tics.
Okay.
Sure.
Just really quickly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just, I want to share that one time I was waiting in line to get my internet fixed.
Okay.
And there was a guy complaining about how his internet never works and then complaining about the chips in the vaccines.
Cool.
He was under the impression that the only function of his modem is to provide internet and that can't do it, but a microscopic chip in his blood gets the best 5G reception.
Really strong.
And he was asking why that is.
Yeah, he was there to ask why.
Can you just take that 5G out of my blood and put it in there?
Can I tether it to my blood?
Can I tether my blood to my modem?
Can we get him connected to Crowder?
We need Crowder to bleed for you, and then you can tether to your modem.
We could just get him a job at Crowder.
Oh, smart.
He's doing Crowder Blood.
Smart.
I hear there's some openings, honestly.
There are.
From the prize-winning Horse's Mouth here.
But we kind of knew each other, but as soon as I got deplatformed, he saw as a threat and he said, I want you on immediately.
The day after, when everybody else was running away, including my friends, he was like, no, this is a danger to everybody.
I see what this is.
And then again, everybody else was shutting down during the lockdown.
I didn't.
He didn't.
And so it's that type of instinctive courage that I really respect.
We've become good friends the last three or four years.
Since then, I love coming up here.
I love the energy.
And let's be clear, Infowars isn't going anywhere, or Austin Operation, my regular show that's on Talk Radio Everywhere.
But yeah, so that's that's kind of the typical mass flattery that Alex usually pays Stephen Talking about his his wonderful operation his massive audience how he's making the best most important content I think Alex Jones is gonna try and run for some political office.
No fucking way the way he said let's be clear there Yeah, that's a fucking like debate tactic.
Well, I mean Honestly, who knows I do have a gut feeling.
I mean, he's not gonna There's no way he's gonna give like a cocaine field analogy.
I don't think, I mean that's pretty far-fetched.
But he's been able to do it because of you, the Mug Club members, and that gives him that independence.
So you literally aren't just the tail of the dog, you're the whole shoot match, you're the whole dog, the teeth, the brain, you know, the feet, the guts, the heart, the brain, the eyes and ears with the investigative unit and everything.
You are both brains of the dog!
We're all parts of the dog, folks.
I am the tits.
I want to hear that again.
Yeah, one more time everyone.
We have fun here.
We're able to do it because of you, the Mug Club members, and that gives him that independence.
So you literally aren't just the tail of the dog, you're the whole shoot match.
You're the whole dog, the teeth, the brain, you know, the feet, the guts, the heart, the brain, the eyes and ears with the investigative unit and everything.
What's the tail of the dog mean?
I'm not really sure, but the tail wags the dog.
The tail wags the dog.
Tag the whale.
Alright.
Tag the whale.
Brain of the dog.
Double brain of the dog.
And actually, you know what?
You and I are not Mug Club, but Byron is.
Well, I don't want to talk about that.
Did you sign up?
I guess you had to get these recordings, right?
We're rumble boys now.
We're out here, we're on the rooftop, we're calling our shots, we are in the rumble.
Royal rumble.
Alex has big plans on how he's gonna use Stephen.
So we've been talking for six months about doing this, and I said, well, I'm going to keep InfoWars going, the great crew we do.
And they thought, and I said, what's your idea?
And I had my idea already written down.
They said, a once a week show, build off that, then start building some other shows.
And with the funding we get from this, we'll be able to hire back more reporters, do more investigative stuff on the ground, at the border, and at Bilderberg, and at Davos, and at the RNC, and DNC.
What?
His plan, his plan.
Is to take Steven's money and use it for his own operation.
No, he's like, he's like, this is, I imagine the note that he wrote down.
We're going to do a show and then we're going to do some more shows.
And that's, that's the paper he slides across.
One show, more shows.
And then more shows.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Good idea, huh?
He's also talking about using the funding to do the stuff that he used to be able to do, which is, he shouldn't be able to.
Are you talking about when he ambushed Cirque Unger?
Oh, Cenk Uygur.
No.
Yeah.
Is that his name?
Yeah.
No.
Young Turk.
Cenk did spit on him after that, which is pretty kind of fun.
But no, I was thinking more like during the pandemic he was trying to accuse Christian organizations of trafficking children from Mexico.
Okay.
And the only thing he was able to get them on was that they were transporting children in a minivan without seat belts.
That's a big bust.
I mean, it's not great.
They put him on a school bus.
They don't have seatbelts on those either.
Yeah, they don't, that's fair.
And then of course there's him saying that he snuck into Bilderberg, which has been widely debunked.
What is Bilderberg?
Bilderberg is a group of all of the- It's like Build-a-Bear, but for burgers?
No, it's for the uh- Well, it's more blood transfusions.
Oh, okay.
Well, no, actually he didn't.
I was thinking Bohemian Crove.
Bilderberg is the annual meeting of all of the elites and higher-ups in governments.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
They don't do it that way anymore.
Now it's in, like, Sun Valley, Idaho.
Yeah.
And it's just, like, business leaders now.
Yeah.
But it's all just bullshit conspiracy theory that he makes into a bigger deal than it is.
It's all one-world governments, Illuminati stuff in his head.
Okay.
So it's kind of like when they had the ugly Sonic?
And then they replaced it.
And he had the teeth, right?
He had the teeth.
The sonic teeth.
Sonic teeth.
Sonic, and he had the sonic teeth.
I think I get it.
I think you do.
Let's finish this clip.
Everybody needs to tell your friends, your family, your neighbors, hey, you want a second American Revolution?
You don't like what's happening?
Well, this is the group, this is the organization that is the best there is.
Big deep breath.
Holy fuck.
He's really thinking that Mug Club is like the second American Revolution.
Shots are fired.
It doesn't even matter that he knows that it's not.
It's just that he can like he could sell a fucking, you know, a ketchup popsicle to a lady in a white shirt.
That's where you got to give him credit.
He's a great broadcaster.
You think that's why Steven Crowder doesn't like him because he could never?
He would run circles on Crowder.
Crowder... Crowder's... He's doing it right now.
He is, and honestly... He's taking his money.
He's like... I think you listen to this.
He's doing a better, more interesting thing than he could ever do.
Alex spoke for 25 minutes and I had to stop cutting clips because he just... he filibusters.
It's an amazing thing to witness, but when you're doing a press conference and you become like the ringmaster instead of like the act, it's kind of offensive to Steven.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm surprised at how little we've heard from Steven, honestly.
Right?
And really though, Steven knows that Steven could never.
Well, and Alex, he even fucks up the Mug Club offer.
It's supposed to be a free shirt.
Go now to the Mug Club.
Go now, ladies and gentlemen.
Use the promo codes that are there to get a month off.
Do it now.
Go to Mug Club.
Take action because the globalists want war.
They want to destroy us.
Well, guess what?
We didn't start this fight.
We don't want it.
But if you want to fight, you better believe you've got one!
Woo!
All right.
So later on in the conversation- It's not a free month at all, right?
No, it's not a free month.
And Stephen actually says, it's not a free month.
We can't do that.
Like, we can't- It's like you pay for the year.
Yeah.
Well, and he, he had in past promos, like added an additional year free or done a trial month free.
But at this point with their infrastructure, they cannot afford to give away trial subscriptions, which is a bad sign for the model.
Yeah, that's a really rough start.
So... Well, they gave me... Really?
They can't?
They gave me mine for free.
Did they actually?
When he dropped me all the show notes.
Oh, yeah?
Nice.
He airdropped you a special promo code.
He said, why don't you throw this little promo in there?
And it said, Big Jared 42069.
Oh, yes, dude.
It was a personalized promo code?
That's sick.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
That's really kind.
And we're gonna... And folks, you're gonna see a lot more of these coming up down the pipeline.
Are you ready?
You just hear Alex Jones yelling from the bathroom where he's recording.
I don't have a note for what this clip is.
Let's go for it.
Let's just jump in.
I do want to say real quick before we move away from Alex, or actually let's talk more about this promo code.
Tell me what you think about this.
For a while they were offering free, it was between one and three months, subscriptions if you send them proof of subscription to any other conservative platform.
Wait, oh, like you like to say, hey, I subscribe to Fox Nation.
Sure.
Which it was the one that I was going to send him because that's the one we did when we were watching Tucker Carlson Originals.
Yeah, when we would use fake emails to get lots of free trials for Fox Nation.
But what do you think he's doing with that information?
Do you think he's just scraping it?
He knows then who his competitors are.
Like, what is he using that for?
Uh, I have zero fucking idea.
Yeah.
I think it's probably just like a hoop.
Sure.
Just make them jump through one.
Just make them do something to prove they're conservatives, I guess, maybe.
I guess.
You wouldn't want to pump the numbers, though.
Yeah.
The whole thing is really interesting to me because, like, does he want people to be able to look at what's behind the paywall?
I don't know if we legally can cover stuff that's behind the paywall.
That might be beyond, like, what we can actually do.
So, if I was starting a network, what I would do is I would do everything I could to maximize signups immediately so I could say we have 12 million people on this network.
Yeah, it's a great thing for ad, well, they're not doing advertisers.
Yeah.
But, I mean, the size of a network still dictates its worth to, like, investors and shit.
I would think so, yeah.
But they don't want to be beholden to investors.
Yeah, because that's what they can claim, like, what the daily wire is.
It's mostly funded by outside investors.
Yeah, but it's not a fucking co-op.
I agree, this is a business, so... Yes, people will pay money, and no one's voting.
No one is voting on what's gonna actually come, right?
Alright, let's see what number clip 19 is real quick.
Change my mind?
Yeah, this is a good one.
Yeah, we're working on it.
We're working on it.
So Alex is a huge fan of Stephen Crowder, obviously.
Yeah.
He remembers all of the famous segments like, what was it?
Sit Down With Me and Talk, and the other one that he does.
Ask me anything.
He's doing a Reddit.
Yeah, he's a Reddit.
Hey, you bringing back that Ask Me Anything?
So good.
And then I was gonna cover the rest of this.
They did throw it to the press.
Okay.
They didn't identify who the press was, which is really interesting.
There's Jekyll.
Subscribers.
Well, they did have a couple questions from like the chat, but it was all being moderated by Gerald A., who I find just to have zero charisma.
So it's really hard for me to listen to him.
This is gonna be the biggest challenge of this entire show is me trying to listen to Gerald, but... Just listen to Dave instead.
Remember when you heard him talk about the Bible?
Oh my god.
Well, maybe that one's... I died.
I walked on water and then I died.
That's on my list of possible, like, if we have an off week.
It's a conversation between Gerald A. and Alex Jones about the end times, the apocalypse, and if we're actively going through it.
It's such a hoot, those two.
And you said that we were actually going to go line for line through Revelations and discredit what they were saying.
That'll be a lot of fun for you guys to hear later on.
It'll be so cool for all y'all.
God damn that guy, man.
Like he... Gerald, I did a little research.
He claims to be a theologist and an expert on the Islam.
Okay.
Just means he's racist.
So like... He's just a talking haircut.
I don't know if he...
I don't know.
So we'll explore those characters.
All of that to say I skipped the Q&A segment.
It was all just softball bullshit.
There was no one was like actually asking real questions.
They're just saying like, do you believe that Rumble is like not part of the Deep State?
Yeah, they were definitely questions that were like...
How many millions of viewers do you think you're gonna get next week?
It's so ridiculous!
So skip that and I mean it's a good time to like talk about we're gonna be getting into a regular schedule of covering one of his shows a week.
And we'll be, I mean we'll be back in his studio, not some weird, I don't know, I imagine that was still the studio they were doing this press conference in.
It was just the PAs and Alex Jones and the audience.
But it's gonna be a different show, like we're gonna be talking about his actual show.
I think I'm already putting together the next one which will cover a lot of the rumors that happened while he was off for the summer.
Things about his divorce, which he... I heard that he was out and he was dating and he was having a lot of meaningful relationships.
Yeah, you caught that too.
So I don't know, this isn't gonna be like a rumor show, but I think that we should probably cover the things that are like actually actively important, like the way he's treating his staff.
There's four folks that left because of a pretty unrealistic NDA request.
Allegedly.
Allegedly, thank you Dennis.
We're just going to be digging in and I'm really excited to do that with you boys.
Yeah, I'm excited too.
I think it's going to be a really tough show and I just want to be really clear that what I really care about Is people caring about each other more, I think?
Okay.
You know, like, I think when I see this Steven Crowder stuff, what I hate is I hate that he's getting people so riled up, and it's just doing everybody a disservice.
Like, nobody's coming out on top when they get all pissed off about the things he's getting pissed off about, generally.
Not only are his haters fueling him, The hate that he creates in his audience fuels him, too.
Yeah, yeah.
You're definitely not wrong.
But, you know, like... Take a little... The mayor of New York City... America's mayor?
No, not Jules.
Jules Ziani, but Eric Adams.
Ah, yes.
Let your haters be your waiters at the table of success.
Thank you very much.
Did he literally say that?
Oh, yeah, he said that.
That's cool as hell.
Just last week.
Very cool.
Very cool.
I hear what you're saying, Dennis.
I think that overall, like, the point of this is to highlight the absurdity of what he's doing and, you know, defang it a little bit.
It's just, it's stupid.
It's...
Episode 0, you're gonna say it's stupid?
It's stupid.
It sucks.
It's just, it's not helpful.
It's not helpful to anybody except for his pocketbook.
That's all it is.
Do you think he's doing well?
He can only afford one car.
I'm just gonna say, if Steven wants to really make a change, he should run for office.
Sure, okay.
Like, that's definitely gonna be more impactful than him shouting about surface-level bullshit.
I mean, he really doesn't care about this stuff.
He's a failed actor.
He's an unfunny comedian.
Isn't that all these guys, though, right?
Yeah, I mean, that's the reality of all of this.
And me, as a non-failed actor and funny comedian.
Sure, perfect.
If you're failing in your trade, all you need to do is add conservative in front of it, and you'll get instant support.
Well, I also think it's easy to blame your failures on things.
Sure.
If you aren't at a place you want to be, that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that, right?
We all get into those places, but I don't know.
It's just, it seems so unhelpful, and it seems so, like, bitter.
Just disingenuous.
It's just not authentic.
Yeah.
Well, this is gonna be fun, guys.
He's just a strange animal.
He's such a strange, freaky animal.
Super strange animal.
But he has such normal positions for a conservative.
He's a trad conservative.
He is a trad conservative.
It's not strange, Stephen.
Drop the act.
Oh, he might be shifting his views on divorce, and we'll be talking about that in the next episode, guys.
Oh no.
We'll be in my meaningful relationship.
So we'll have all of our social links in the in the episode description.
It's all kind of still coming together, but I know for sure there's louderthancrowder.com Yep, we also have louderwithcrowder.net.
Which you can check out for sure.
Definitely, that's a good one to check out for sure.
Thank you guys so much.
Share this with your friends if you're interested in this kind of thing.
Again, thanks so much to DJ Danarchy.
Also, I just want to say that if you're on the left, we're gonna bleed for you.
We're gonna fight for you.
Dennis, Jared, for both of you, I'm Byron.
We'll see you next time.
Later.
Ahoy.
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