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Steven Crowder
Sa Glad to be with you. I know it's going wide here on YouTube everywhere. It's 11:30 Eastern. I go by God's time central. It's the devil's playground, the entire east coast. Did you know that? We have a lot to get to today. A major announcement that we will be making in about a half hour. And the reason for that is. Hey, anyone by the way, watching right now, I would still recommend that you go and watch Dan Bond. It is his last show on Rumble before he heads on into the FBI. He's done incredible things. Was canceled on YouTube, was banned from YouTube and he has been a huge part, an integral part in growing Rumble. We've done cross streams with him. We've been happy to be brothers. Brothers in arms. Brothers in arms with him. And his audience will be rating here for a major announcement regarding the future of Rumble. Yeah, obviously he'll be leaving. So people are wondering what's going to go on there and the death of something else. Can you comment? Can you guess what it is? The death. What is it that we're killing? We're not killing anybody as a person.
Josh Firestein
Okay, good.
Steven Crowder
To be clear, this is not an actual death threat. Just to be clear. Well, that remains to be seen.
Gerald
We'll see.
Steven Crowder
We had to talk about it. And you accept your fate.
Gerald
Yeah, but I'm, you know, masochists.
Steven Crowder
I mean, I thought it was wrong for Gerald to make the threat in broad daylight and you can be a little more sneaky about it. But it does involve, I'll tell you this, the death and many, many, many hours every day. And today is YouTube themed, in case you're not guessing yet. We're going to really quickly before we get in, we're going to go through this government shutdown. A lot of myths surrounding this right now. A lot of political football. Then we are going to play age restricted or not. The four hour announcement. Age restricted or not is a game where we show you content and you have to guess if it is age restricted on YouTube or. Or not. And the answers may surprise you or may not surprise you at all. Perfect. So when Dan's audience comes on over, we ask that you share this far and wide because this is a major shift, actually maybe the biggest. It is maybe the biggest shift in the history of this company. I didn't realize it because we were kind of shell shocked after the election livestream and we went, whoa, this is going to be more consequential.
Josh Firestein
Huge.
Steven Crowder
You doing well?
Josh Firestein
I'm doing very well.
Steven Crowder
Captain Morgan, how you doing? Mr. Firestein.
Gerald
Excellent. I got some caffeine. I'm ready to go. We're a little late today. So I drank a lot more caffeine than I anticipated, so I'm a little shaky.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I know. It's okay. It's fine. It's natural. It makes you know you're alive.
Josh Firestein
It's the line of coke, I think, Josh, that was.
Steven Crowder
It was also odd that you were wearing a leather helmet, but it was a mountain.
Gerald
But.
Steven Crowder
So let's go through this first. We'll rattle through this really quickly. References always available. Links in the description. Last night, Chuck Schumer said. Let me be clear. Worst ambassador for anyone ever. So please. Democrats keep putting Chuck Schumer up. They're very. I wish.
Josh Firestein
We love him.
Steven Crowder
I love. Yes, I love Chuck Schumer.
Josh Firestein
Yes, he is. Wow. So afraid.
Steven Crowder
Cannot get enough. Well, he's intimidating. He. I shake in my boots because he's. So if you guys send. Send your best. When you need to send your best, you send Chuck Schumer. He said that we need to avoid. And he would vote to avoid a shutdown. Mr. President, I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harms to the American people.
Gerald
Yes.
Steven Crowder
Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down. A shutdown will be a costly distraction. I find it funny. That's the most important aspect of minimizing harm to the American people.
Josh Firestein
Right.
Steven Crowder
How about half a trillion dollars annually in just fraud that disappears? I think that's more harmful than like a shutdown of a few parks.
Gerald
It would be very distracting.
Steven Crowder
Yes, it would be very distracting. Like this guy walking.
Josh Firestein
We hardly notice anymore.
Steven Crowder
All Chuck Schumer does is harm the American people. He's like the Mr. Magoo of politics. Everything just self destructs around spirit cooking now.
Josh Firestein
Now if you shut the government down, he can't harm the American public.
Steven Crowder
There you go.
Josh Firestein
So that would be harmful for him.
Steven Crowder
It's like the inception of corrupt politicians. I don't even know what the answer is. Should we shut down? Should we not? So the Senate's going to vote today to fund the federal government through September. You've heard a lot about this. This comes up every time we' the situation. It always ends up mostly the same. So let's cut through some of the BS here. It's time for a claim in truth, short and to the point. I like it. Claim President Trump. Did you hear that propeller plane going. What happened? Like all of a sudden there are way more planes Right now the Nigerians.
Gerald
Are jumping down on us.
Steven Crowder
Yes, exactly.
Gerald
Don't worry, they won't hit the target.
Steven Crowder
Don't worry.
Gerald
Football field a few miles away.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. They're going to destroy the shutdown. Benneg across the street. When did they close? So President Trump, the claim is that President Trump and Republicans, of course, you all know this, they are the evil bad man to blame. Well, it's not the Democrats that are.
Gerald
Forcing a government shutdown.
Steven Crowder
Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House.
Gerald
Republicans have the power to not shut down the government.
Steven Crowder
Republicans are trying to frame this government shutdown potentially as a political problem for Democrats. Even though Republicans control Congress and the White House, the shutdown is not what Democrats want. We've been saying that we don't want.
Gerald
That for a month.
Steven Crowder
But ultimately the Republicans control the House.
Gerald
The Senate, the executive branch.
Steven Crowder
They have more votes on the Supreme Court. So they're in control of all branches.
Josh Firestein
The Supreme Court.
Steven Crowder
This economic catastrophe that Republicans are bringing about will just continue under a Trump shutdown. Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats. Well, here's the truth. Democrats own this, like very clearly. It isn't just Republican, it's just the truth. House Republicans passed this continuing resolution and they have more than enough votes in the Senate to pass it.
Josh Firestein
There you go. The Democrats wanted to do it. It's a 60 vote thing, by the way. I hate the little smarmy, like they control the House and the Senate and they control the White House. It's like, yeah, but you have to get 60.
Gerald
But they need 60.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Josh Firestein
They don't have that, you morons. It would be Democrats fault.
Steven Crowder
Yes. It's quite simple. Now here's the thing. I don't personally have anything against a shutdown. If it's required. I get it. Every time this comes around, people play all of a sudden, big government, small government, conservatives are big. I'm like, okay, you know what? I would like to whittle this down. And I get, we're not going to get that done right now. It's not going to be catastrophic. Which brings us to the next claim that shutdowns hurt. Here's the thing, sometimes you don't know who you hurt. And some people rock. They hate for no reason. And the shutdowns hurt people. It's hateful and it makes this country the greatest country in the world, much less safe. I have said many times there are no winners in a government shutdown. You also said children are certainly victims the most vulnerable Americans who rely on federal programs. Children. To feed their families, to access medical care, and to stay financially afloat. Communities that depend on government services to function will suffer and suffer greatly. Now, here's the truth, and I have an addendum. People are still going to receive all the entitlement payments. The essential services, they all remain active. But the addendum here is. I wrote entitlement as entitment.
Gerald
Oh, those are unaffected also.
Josh Firestein
That is fact check. True.
Steven Crowder
That is one way to. It's a. You can get everyone to the table if you say, you know, we're risking tits. Why do you think breast cancer gets more research than prostate cancer?
Gerald
Because prostates aren't as good to touch.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, they're not as good. The ribbon color sucks and everyone wants to save the boobs.
Josh Firestein
I don't even know what the.
Steven Crowder
I didn't know they had a ribbon.
Gerald
Yeah, it's a brown ribbon. You see that on the hockey rinks?
Josh Firestein
Terrible.
Steven Crowder
Did you find it in your Rolodex? Yeah, hockey. The blades on the feet. You know, we're all thinking about this major announcement later, so we have a. Forgive us. Our brains are a little scrambled. There have been a lot of moving pieces. No, look, look, look. People are going to receive the entitlement payments. The essential services, they all remain active. Okay, so some of the entitlement services or entitlement that remain unaffected. Social Security checks, Medicare benefits, the va, the postal service, Homeland Security, Border patrol, armed forces like these continue. So I get it. You may not be able to visit Yellowstone. And by the way, caution tape isn't that hard to walk around. To get around.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Just for those out there, I'm not. I'm not advocating that you commit a crime.
Josh Firestein
It's not a force field. So.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, my only weakness. Yeah, a single band of. Yeah, I'm just saying, like, if you decide to go into a national park, there isn't an automated plasma rifle that's going to take you out, okay?
Gerald
Especially if the workers aren't being paid to be there.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, you might run into a bear who's obsessed with picnic baskets for some reason. Yeah, but it's ocd, sidekick. But outside of that.
Gerald
Yank on his tie. Fine. Don't step into a geyser.
Steven Crowder
I don't know. Yogi to the government shutdown. I don't think we should m. People anymore. It's considered work. Hey, Boo Boo, how about a little rape? All right. Oh, pro bono. No bear ideas. Park ranger is laid off, though. Yeah, Tim's, not on board. No more bear ideas.
Josh Firestein
No more bear ideas. He's out. He's out.
Steven Crowder
All right, here's the next claim. That this is just a way. And they always want to equate government workers with you as though you are one. By the way, if you are and you're upset about any kind of shutdown, or if you are a government worker and you are upset about any kind of cutbacks, I don't like you. So they are saying that this is just a way to screw government workers, and they're just like you.
Josh Firestein
A shutdown means more federal workers, possibly nearly 900. Near 900,000 could be furloughed at this very tough time.
Steven Crowder
The truth is that it is far too early for this erection. Quiet, lady.
Gerald
Furloughed in a week.
Steven Crowder
Now, the truth is, essential workers, they still need to report 65% of federal workers are considered essential. Okay? And by the way, furloughed government employees, they get back pay. It's not even. It's a vacation.
Josh Firestein
It's a paid vacation. They're like, please shut it down. I want to go to Cancun.
Steven Crowder
It's a paid vacation. And that includes, by the way, people like Elizabeth Warren's medicine man. He gets. He gets back pay.
Gerald
Okay, good.
Steven Crowder
Also, Nancy Pelosi's medicine man, he gets back pay. That's a dip. Even Mitch McConnell's therapist. Essential.
Gerald
That guy's ripping off the government.
Josh Firestein
We are bad people.
Steven Crowder
It's essential. All right, Lloyd. Just the bare essentials. That's where we find ourselves. By the way, do you guys ever remember the first time you heard of the concept of a furlough for prisoners? I remember when I was like, wait a second. Wait a second.
Josh Firestein
Yes.
Steven Crowder
They're supposed to be in prison, but they're allowed out, like, to go home and to work. Well, what's the point of prison?
Josh Firestein
We want to keep track of them. At night.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. Yeah.
Josh Firestein
During the day, Go get your job.
Steven Crowder
They did that with Epstein in Florida. Remember that? He was allowed to go into his office.
Josh Firestein
Yes.
Gerald
Might as well stop paying rent.
Steven Crowder
Yeah.
Gerald
Get a place to sleep every night.
Steven Crowder
I just. Prison.
Gerald
We'll keep the light on for you.
Steven Crowder
Can someone.
Josh Firestein
With targeted advertisements in L.
Steven Crowder
A. Chicago and New York men's jumpsuits. You're going to like the way you look now. I just. Can someone explain to me the concept of furlough? I thought the primary punishment of prison was that you weren't allowed to leave.
Josh Firestein
Yes.
Steven Crowder
Like, I thought that lockup included being.
Josh Firestein
Locked up and locked.
Gerald
Yeah, it's like AA with a bunk.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I didn't realize. I didn't realize this was an honor system. Yeah.
Josh Firestein
When I heard of conjugal visits, I was like, what?
Steven Crowder
What? Wait, they make an exception for the thing that people in prison want most.
Josh Firestein
That would be the thing you deny them most.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. That'd be like my dad giving me a timeout and sending me in my room with an ice cream sundae.
Gerald
You go think about what you've done.
Steven Crowder
You don't come. You don't come out until you want seconds. So in conclusion, the left, Democrats, they're completely desperate for a win. And it shows. And it shows when they lie to you. Oh, my gosh. The federal workers, now, they're going to be fine. Oh, my gosh. All the services are going to be shut down. No, it's not. Oh, my gosh. This is Republican false. No, it's not. Nothing that they have told you is true. This is not the end of the world. The sky is not falling. This has happened before. This is fear porn. And it's crazy. It's like the left, The Democrats had a meeting and said, hey, hey, everybody, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We need to take some inventory here. You guys all know, like, you ran the numbers, the data, you looked at the focus groups. You guys all know why we lost, right? In this last election. Okay? So what we have to do is more of that. Just do the exact same thing. Let's send up McBride and make a. Let's make this about a culture war. Let's talk about how the government is an institution you should trust. Right? Right. Boys should be in women's sports. Right? Everybody. Hey, Gavin Newsom, shut up. We get that you're trying to pander, all right? Let's just keep doing more of the same. It kind of is amazing. It's amazing. You know who else is doing more of the same?
Josh Firestein
Who?
Steven Crowder
YouTube. Which is going to bring us to our announcement. When Dan raids his audience over here, they can't help themselves from being totalitarian homosexual pricks. And I don't say that as a pejorative. I say it because many of the male workers there enjoy sexual intercourse with men. Ah.
Josh Firestein
That would be defined as.
Steven Crowder
Which is okay in 2025, but I.
Josh Firestein
Don'T support it and don't partake in it.
Steven Crowder
No, I'm not a big fan of what they do over there in Palo Alto. What was that?
Gerald
I do it. I don't enjoy it.
Steven Crowder
No, no, exactly. It's a power move.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Especially when you're furloughed.
Gerald
Yeah. So for months before we move on.
Steven Crowder
To YouTube, age restricted or not, this has been claiming truth. All right. On the theme of YouTube and our major announcement coming up again, I don't need. You don't need to be watching this. If you don't want to, go check out Dan Bongino. Show him that you love him. It was like when Conan said, hey, tonight you should be watching Letterman. He's gonna send you back over here anyway. And if you're watching on YouTube, I highly recommend you watch on Rumble. And we'll get to some announcements in a little bit, but to sort of tease foreshadow, Toolman, we actually have a special edition of Age Restricted or not.
Gerald
That's right.
Steven Crowder
Right. And this is all YouTube content.
Gerald
It always has been all YouTube content. This is stuff that's actually either age restricted or not.
Steven Crowder
We have to guess. We have to guess. So that is the game. And you can play along. Of course, if you're on Rumble there, especially Rumble Premium in chat, it's time to play YouTube's Age Restricted or Not. We commissioned Michael Bay to make that one.
Josh Firestein
We did? Yeah. He was like. We're like, nah, get rid of those.
Gerald
There wasn't enough butt shots.
Steven Crowder
No, I'll tell you that. He did it while he was on furlough from his Transformers contract. Like Transformers 9. He's like, Ah, a bee, a car, a raptor.
Josh Firestein
Great. Done.
Steven Crowder
Put in Wahlberg. Guys, I don't think people can believe this. I would beat all the Transformers with one hand tied up behind my back. Okay, look, can't do it.
Gerald
Robot aliens from space.
Steven Crowder
Come on.
Gerald
Huh?
Steven Crowder
People think they're gonna beat the wall. Guys, you don't understand what the people want. They want me. Okay? All right, so, Toolman, you're gonna show us a clip. And everyone out there has to. And this is our problem with YouTube. One of the problems, right? We've been demonetized, we've been banned, we've been suspended. They have qualifiers for hate speech, for advertiser friendly content, and then, of course, borderline content guidelines. We'll get to more announcements. However, the standard doesn't seem to be applied equally. Like you would think if YouTube says, hey, you can't make fun of someone by using the word fairy, that they would also have some, you know, standards as it relates to soft core pornography.
Josh Firestein
Yes.
Steven Crowder
But they don't. So, Tool man, show us the first clip. All right. Here's first clip.
Gerald
I just finished using each and every one of those incredible sex Toys that you see in front of me here, I'm going to give you my feedback in terms of how each and every one. One of those devices actually felt like I could never reach it. It will be 6 out of 10. So it's definitely better than the previous two, but it's still not the best.
Steven Crowder
Okay, a couple of things. First off, I hope that you understand us addressing the depravity in no way means that we condone it. Correct. Right. I get. Cause I'm like, I don't like that you show this. You need to know if this is available for your kids. Because I see a lot of conservatives out there who just sit their kids in front of YouTube TV. It's a real problem. Second, when that guy is giving a review 6 out of 10, that means he's used all of those.
Gerald
He said he used all of them.
Josh Firestein
He said he just finished using.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I know, I know.
Josh Firestein
Which is awkward.
Steven Crowder
And I just. I. I feel like there should be more shame involved. He wasn't shy about saying he couldn't read. Yeah, that's also true. I use this. I guess it's made for someone who is more blessed. But I'm small.
Gerald
I don't get it. Because every time I've furloughed my liquids, it's always a 10. Yeah, well, you know, it's always.
Steven Crowder
You have. Well, that's. Now know that. That's because he's blessed. He's well and doubt. For me, it's a six.
Josh Firestein
You know, these.
Steven Crowder
To these.
Josh Firestein
These toys are actually zoned for parts of the world. He got the Africa zone.
Steven Crowder
That's not going to work. I should look like the old chop thing.
Gerald
You remember that, the commercials. It's the chop.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, It's a dicer. I didn't know that I was putting my pecker in a slicer on dicer.
Josh Firestein
Watch this.
Steven Crowder
You're going to love my nuts. Yes. So this is on YouTube. This is. All of these are on YouTube. Is that age restricted or not? Now, look, I don't have a. Whatever you do in your own bedroom, if you guys have toys, if you guys have some accessory, fine. It's none of my business. That's a. But should this be available to children? Of course. Absolutely not. I mean, you have to be 18 to go into a sex shop.
Josh Firestein
I would say not.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, so you would imagine Blur, right?
Josh Firestein
We. We were the ones who put that.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, we added the blur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had the blur because it was too suggestive. It's so funny. We don't Believe in censorship. But we always try and keep this, like a PG13, right? YouTube believes in censorship with naughty words, but it's still degenerate, depraved content. That's the difference. You go into a comedy club, it's like, oh, female comic talking about her menstrual cycle and vagina. It's not edgy. It's just dirty. But YouTube considers this more edgy. They consider Dan Bongino more edgy than that. All right, answer, Tool Man. Is it age restricted or not? You say let's all say age restriction. It is.
Josh Firestein
It should be.
Gerald
I don't say. Don't. Don't coax me. I say it's not age restricted. It should be. Yeah, but I say it's not.
Steven Crowder
No, no, but let's just act. Let's just. Yeah, let's role play this. Oh, okay. Let's roll this as though we're being earnest.
Gerald
You be the guy in the video.
Steven Crowder
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not gonna be the six on ten device. Okay.
Gerald
Yeah, I'm a ten, buddy.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. Okay. Come on, come on. Don't tell me. Obviously, we all believe this should be age restricted to. What's the answer? What do we have it? Actually, it is not. It is not age restricted at all.
Josh Firestein
Approved for children.
Steven Crowder
Not age restricted. Not age restricted at all. Oh, so you can. Anybody could see this guy's unbloured review.
Gerald
So blurred, we blurred it.
Steven Crowder
Dan bongino, banned from YouTube.
Josh Firestein
Right, right.
Steven Crowder
To be clear, we were suspended from YouTube because we had Carrie Lake on the show, who, by the way, was in an election.
Josh Firestein
It's true.
Steven Crowder
Sex toys that look like the play. Novelty teeth from the Joker and the original Batman. That's fine for. Yeah, a four year old can watch that.
Gerald
Yes. Sex toys and Blippi. Same rating.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Now, I return you to your regularly programmed scheduled. Blippi or Bluey. Is she a chick? I don't know. Maybe there's a toy for that. What is he? Does he. He's some kind of generic European or a kid?
Josh Firestein
All right, doesn't matter.
Steven Crowder
All right, next one. Is it age restricted or not? Tool man, show us the next clip.
Gerald
All right, this is a superhero cartoon.
Steven Crowder
Okay.
Josh Firestein
I know where this one's going.
Steven Crowder
I was gonna guess. Yeah, yeah.
Gerald
Whoa. It's like Odd Job.
Steven Crowder
Okay, now, to be clear, I see how it ended pretty much. Now, as an adult, that's pretty cool. I will say this. I'm pretty sure my entire channel has been age restricted on YouTube, at least at one point it was. And by the way, I don't have a problem. For example, I think this right now should be age restricted, because I think all this content should be age restricted.
Josh Firestein
Right.
Steven Crowder
I don't have a problem with it.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Now, I think it's ridiculous to have it change my mind. Be age restricted and the 6 son 10 sex toys not be present. Now, this I will say, I would bet it's not age restricted. Here's why. I grew up in Quebec, where films that were rated R were rated G, even if they were softcore pornography. Jerry Maguire rated G. I think Dangerous Minds rated G. But if there was any violence whatsoever, Europeans only rate on that. So I would say YouTube would restrict this because it's violence, not sexual degeneracy.
Gerald
All right, that's a good guess.
Steven Crowder
What do you think?
Josh Firestein
I think on the violence, too, they restricted it.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I think so. What do you think?
Gerald
I don't know. I think I've. I think I've seen television shows with this kind of violence.
Steven Crowder
Yeah.
Gerald
Children's tele. I say not restricted.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. I say. I say restricted. Yours is a reasonable answer. But let's see. All right, the answer is what?
Josh Firestein
Wow.
Gerald
I'm two for two, baby.
Steven Crowder
You are two for two.
Josh Firestein
Here's the problem. It's a cartoon, right? Like, that makes it kind of worse for me because kids are looking at a cartoon like, oh, it's probably going to be friendly.
Steven Crowder
Yeah.
Josh Firestein
For children. But it's not age restricted.
Steven Crowder
So. Yeah. And by the way, I don't let any of my. I don't let my children watch YouTube at all. Unless I'm in the room and I'm searching something specific. That's educational because, boy, the autoplay on YouTube can be a real problem.
Josh Firestein
Yeah. And by the way, really quickly, I got a note. Bongino looks like he's close to signing off, if not signing off right now. We'll let you know as soon as the audience.
Steven Crowder
All right, so let's go through this game and then we have our major announcement here. Age restricted or not number. Want to do this? Yeah, let's do one last.
Josh Firestein
One more.
Steven Crowder
We can fit it in pretty bad.
Gerald
Okay, look at it.
Steven Crowder
And if they raid over, just. What?
Josh Firestein
That wouldn't be good.
Steven Crowder
Again, showing you guys what's on YouTube is not condoning it. I hope you understand.
Gerald
Yes.
Steven Crowder
This is the first thing Bongino said. Have they come over?
Josh Firestein
Are they over? It's coming.
Gerald
It's coming.
Steven Crowder
They're on the way now, again, there's a very specific reason that we are playing age restricted or not.
Josh Firestein
Yes.
Steven Crowder
I just don't want the new people coming from Dan's show today to think that, like, this is emblematic of us, though sometimes. That, of course, would have to be it. I mean, you need to be. You need to be of age to go into that club.
Josh Firestein
Was it a club?
Gerald
I mean, there is alcohol in. In the shot.
Josh Firestein
Is there a water bottle?
Steven Crowder
Diddy.
Josh Firestein
Oil on him?
Steven Crowder
I. Well, there was the weird slip and slide thing.
Josh Firestein
That was oil.
Steven Crowder
Which, by the way, only works. It only works if you have an oiled stage. You can't do that on sheets. Maybe.
Gerald
What if you oil the body, though? You oil the body water on the stage. I think you still have a glass.
Steven Crowder
Then you got to change your sheets every single time. Maybe if it's silk. I don't know. Still, my point is it's not very practical.
Josh Firestein
That's true.
Steven Crowder
And it doesn't seem like it's all that fun at a certain point. It just seems like work.
Gerald
I think for the guys. It is work, technically.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I think so, too.
Gerald
They sell tickets.
Steven Crowder
All right, this one. Do you think it's age restricted or not?
Josh Firestein
I think they're not gonna age restrict this, but I think they should, so I think no.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. Now, obviously, look, if. Change my mind. There are only two genders. Change my mind is age restricted. You would imagine that a Chippendales dancer dry humping a lady on stage at a place that serves alcohol would clearly be age restricted on YouTube.
Josh Firestein
I think so.
Steven Crowder
Right. And if not, I may just start losing all faith in you, YouTube, which really is going to happen. It's going to shake my. It's going to shake the foundation of my worldview.
Josh Firestein
Oh, boy.
Steven Crowder
YouTube has always been there for us. To screw us. What do you think, Josh?
Gerald
I think he was helping her with a medical problem. That's not rage.
Steven Crowder
That could be true. Yeah.
Gerald
He was a rash. He used that to check on his ointment.
Steven Crowder
Yep. No, I think you could be right. And we now know the kind of role playing that takes place at the Firestein household.
Gerald
Role.
Josh Firestein
It's just.
Steven Crowder
Well, I'm just, you know, doctor, but you get way too. Anyway, you're too technical with it. Like, doctor. No, no, no. Hold on. Let me listen to your heartbeat. And then you start going through the MRI and you start going through the imaging. Like, have you seen your racing CAT scan? She's just sitting there cold and naked. How long is this going to go on? Well, let me go through your chart. I don't know. Your ldl, that looks good. Okay. Total cholesterol could be improved. Triglycerides are fine. And where. Wait, where are you going? Where are you going? I'm bad at role playing, doctor. Is my point.
Josh Firestein
Take it too seriously.
Steven Crowder
Yeah.
Josh Firestein
You care too much.
Steven Crowder
I, Daniel Day Lewis, It I method act. Yes.
Gerald
I have other patients to take care of.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, exactly. Make them sit on butcher paper if you don't.
Gerald
You gotta stop buying you syringes.
Steven Crowder
Yes, we do. I take your blood pressure. Yes. If I take your heartbeat before we.
Gerald
Make love, I gotta get your weight and your height.
Steven Crowder
Yes, exactly.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
There's nothing that turns on a partner quite as much as referencing their bmi. All right, tool man. All right. We all think that this should clearly be age restricted. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Gerald
And it is.
Steven Crowder
Oh, there you go. I noticed. Because that one is heterosexual. Yes.
Josh Firestein
Yes. So just wanted to take a second. We do have the Dan Bongino audience coming over, so wanted to let you know that they are here and welcome.
Steven Crowder
Welcome to the show. Welcome Mr. Bongino's audience. I know it's always emotional when you have a send off and we were just talking about this earlier. He's done so much to help build Rumble. I mean, at first it wasn't entirely voluntary because YouTube just tandem, which is surprising to me because if you know anything about Dan, but he's not really cancel worthy as far as what he did on YouTube. They banned him there and he played a huge role in building up Rumble, which has been a huge shift because a lot of people. And by the way, today, just if you can share this far and wide and of course send your well wishes to Dan, that's really what's most important because when we go through this announcement, I expect some blowback. Yeah, absolutely. Dan Bongino has done a lot here to build up Rumble and to build alternatives. And having been here since 2000, well, six, but 2008 on YouTube, we've been here for a lot. And people used to say to conservatives, they used to say to Republicans, well, if you don't like it when we'd be banned or demonetized, go and build your own YouTube. Which by the way is very difficult to do when they benefit from section 230 and they sort of have a monopoly. They did for a long time, go and build your own YouTube. Okay, sure. I have a few billion dollars laying around. Rumble came along and now there is that alternative. It's a real alternative. It's a viable alternative. And more important than that YouTube. Now you just Saw age restricted or not. Not only is it depraved, not only is it a degenerate culture, but YouTube is making sure that there are no new stars, that there are no new people who can reach folks on YouTube. Try and name me a channel that has grown significantly on YouTube in the last few years. It's almost impossible. It's very different because Rumble is a place where you go now, not only are they masters of live, not only are they the only place that truly supports free speech. And I do, by the way, I even include X. This is very important. Chris Pavlovski over there at Rumble. He did not cave to the government of Brazil, France, UK Parliament, government of Russia. They have taken the licks and they've been remarkably consistent. So it used to be, hey, why don't you go and build your own YouTube? Well, guess what? Now it exists and Dan has played a huge role in that. And so I know a lot of people are wondering, hey, what's going to happen there since Dan is gone in that 11:00 spot.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
And this brings us to our announcement today. Been on YouTube since 2008. We've moved most people over to Rumble. That's been a long process and we've still been live streaming. But do you have the YouTube dump button? Do you have that? Yes, I do. Yeah. So for people here, for the first time, what we did do as we moved people to Rumble is we created a dump button for YouTube. This is what you see. But here's the thing. We don't like doing it. So we're never going to self censor. It's a pain in our ass. We have to split the stream. We have to create two different streams and. And it doesn't matter anyway because YouTube keeps hitting clips and YouTube keeps demonetizing. And we're at the point where you can no longer speak truth to YouTube. I don't want, and I hope that more conservatives follow suit like Dan has done and has helped pave the way. I don't want any of you live viewers to be on YouTube. The most valuable real estate online is, is live viewers and subscribers, right? Rumble, Premium Mud Club, Rumble. Those are tough to cheat. You can buy views, you can't buy live viewers. Sponsors pay a lot for those people. And even though we've been demonetized on YouTube, I no longer want to play a role in supporting that platform. YouTube needs to die as a platform. YouTube needs to go away. For those of you who are just coming in, you saw it with age restricted or not, we're going to get through the history here, and we're announcing today that we are never going to be streaming to YouTube again starting March 24th. So what's going to happen is this program is going to move to 11 Eastern in the morning, 11am Eastern. We are going to move there so that you who obviously got used to watching Dan, and he's going to do great things in the government. We are going to be there. But more importantly, we are actually now launching a lineup. We are going to cancel YouTube. We are no longer going to stream to YouTube, but we have a bunch of other people who are going to do that as well. So we're going to round out a clock. This is the lineup, and it's eventually going to be all day long. But right now we've got 9am through, I believe, 4pm it's going to be live on Rumble. You go to Rumble, you can watch this live, and it simply brings you from show to show, you know, like it used to be on television. And all of these people are streaming exclusively to Rumble. People who have significant audiences and have something to lose. This has been a long time coming behind the scenes where we had to have these discussions. How do we do it right? Are we sure that Rumble is capable of handling this? Because it's going to be a massive increase in live viewers. We don't want people to feel like they need to fill a void with Dan gone and going back to YouTube or going somewhere else. No, no. Rumble is the place to be. Rumble owns live. And so starting next week, this Monday, the 17th, we are going to move to 11. We're going to let everyone know this is going to be your last week on YouTube. There are still some, some. Some lollygaggers over there. By the 24th, that Monday, no more streams on YouTube. You want to watch live, you head on over to Rumble. We'll still put up some clips on YouTube because we can censor it and it's demonetized. They don't see a dime. Anyway, as I understand it at this point, no more live streaming. We go to 11, 9am You've got Evita Duffy, who obviously is a great, great friend of Dan and is doing great work and built an audience from scratch. In the morning after that, you have one of Dan's colleagues there who's really going to take a crack at this. It's going to be Vince, and I want to make sure I always get his last name. Vince. Coglianese. Coglianese.
Josh Firestein
Cogliani.
Steven Crowder
Coglianese. Vince Coglianese At 10am Eastern, 11am Eastern is going to be this program. And then at noon, exclusively on Rumble, not streaming to YouTube. And this time is going to be Tim Pool.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
So we are going to lead you into Tim Pool, who is then going to lead you into exclusively on Rumble. Russell Brand at 1pm Eastern, who is then going to lead you in exclusively on rumble, not on YouTube, to the quartering, our friend Jeremy at 2pm and then we are going to have Viva Frey later in the day. And we have some other resumes that are being read as far as rounding out the rest of this clock. So you can keep it on a channel and continue watching. And of course, if you want to watch more from any of these creators, you can subscribe to Rumble Premium. It is the lineup. And for the first time, people who have something to lose, people who are dealing with a consequence, are going to be streaming to Rumble exclusively. Go and create your own YouTube. That's what we've been told for years. We've had to take these steps. We knew it was coming. We didn't know when. This seems as good a time as any because Dane has done a lot for Rumble and Chris has done a lot for us. And frankly, we are happy to watch YouTube die. YouTube, certainly. As far as live, YouTube is dead and Rumble is guilty. Present.
Josh Firestein
To the world.
Steven Crowder
Make sure you hit the like button and you subscribe to our channel. You know how many subscribers we have on YouTube now?
Josh Firestein
Steven Crowder, by the way, this is why he's on rumble, not on YouTube.
Steven Crowder
We've always wanted to reach as many people as possible, but YouTube has gotten so bad that you can't even tell the truth.
Gerald
Hey, what you doing?
Steven Crowder
Hey, where's my YouTube? That's what we watch here. Hey, hush.
Gerald
I'm trying to watch this.
Steven Crowder
And that's why March 24, we are officially canceling YouTube.
Gerald
Why are you changing it? We just watch YouTube. YouTube is saying, what is this? That's all we want to do, is watch YouTube because it's safe for us. I only want my YouTube.
Steven Crowder
Turn it back now. Just a second. Now we all want YouTube, okay? I didn't come all the way from England to watch gumbo.
Gerald
I'm gonna have to go to the bathroom in a minute.
Steven Crowder
No more live streaming there at all. It's done. Gone. And it's not just me, Tim Pool, Russell Brand, Evita in the morning, the quartering, we are launching something called the Lineup. Live every day on Rumble. And all of us, March 24th, get.
Gerald
YouTube back on there.
Steven Crowder
That's what we want. March 24th is D Day. The lineup is coming. So hold on to your butts because people will be remembering this for years to come.
Gerald
YouTube is good for people like us.
Steven Crowder
Turn it back to YouTube right now.
Gerald
This is what we're watching now.
Steven Crowder
This moment that everyone realized YouTube is dead. And Rumble did it. YouTube is dead. Convicted felon president self inflicted. This is what makes me feel beautiful. We've got the big strain, largest dream on the planet for election night on Rumble each day. Uh oh yoo. Well, it's just a diamond doll.
Josh Firestein
Hoo you.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. Rumble in Freedom where the lineup is at. Back all day long. I can't believe we never had it. Timberland Crowder, Steven Crowder. He very offensive. Very offensive. They're offensive remarks that Trump has been making. Now YouTube cancel. So let's celebrate all identities we stream to Rumble. Deal with all of Trump's dumb stuff. You've got a problem. Tech platforms, access to accurate. Rumble's a problem. Well, it's enter dumb and dark. Yeah. Rumble in Freedom where the lineup is at. Back all day long. I can't believe we never had it. Jimpo. Incredible. That's fun. Yeah, it's a big screw you. And by the look, just to make this really clear to you guys, there is a promo code. Rumble Live. It's Rumble Live, the lineup right now. You enter that in, you get $20 off a rumble Premium membership where you get everything ad free. You get extended content from all your favorite creators. Mud Club is now Rumble Premium. Rumble Premium is now Mud Club. That includes all of these creators. And download the Rumble app. Here's what's going to be happening. You download this app, you can play it. You can just listen to the audio. You can lock your phone and it is live. You can have it there throughout the day from people you know, people you trust. I'll also tell you this. Behind the scenes, these are the people who are willing to step out. There are still a lot of people in the right sphere who. Well, we still just. We have to be on YouTube. The money is too good. Because some people aren't. Some people are still monetized. People have their own reasons. These are people who are willing to stick their neck out. And when people say go and create your own YouTube, they've often tried to argue in the past, well, yeah, but if you go to YouTube, that's where the viewers are. Well, you see this right now, we're always bigger than YouTube. But as these numbers increase dramatically and that's you guess what it proves that YouTube is no longer a viable platform. You can have an effect. Look at what has happened to Disney. You can have an effect on YouTube, on Google, by the way, on their stock price, on how worthy they are on Rumble, on the creators, on the direction of content, on the rules, the guidelines, the advertiser friendly rules. You can help change that by being part of this max max mass exodus. It's hard to say. It is and by the 24th, that's it. We're not going to be live on YouTube anymore. It took a while to build up to this, but people are willing to plant their feet and start swinging. This is a big shift and we are incredibly grateful to Rumble. So starting the 24th, we cancel YouTube this next week we are moving over to 11. Here is this lineup is available. We're gonna work out some kinks because there are still some time slots that I know are being filled in toward the end there.
Josh Firestein
But boy, it's gonna be some valuable real estate. Boy, sign up now.
Steven Crowder
It is going to be some valuable real estate. The Johnny come lately's, you know, like ah, we want to be in that. Well, no, no, no, no. You know, the YouTube money was too good.
Josh Firestein
And by the way, look, download the app, make sure you use that promo code Rumble Live that is up right now. If you want to join Rumble Premium and if you're part of the Bongino army, this is the Rumble Premium Army. Now it's this mass movement that we want you guys to join in. Get the Rumble app and also update it. It'll be a cool.
Gerald
Not now though. Don't do it now.
Steven Crowder
If you're watching on the show on the app, that's a fair point.
Josh Firestein
That's a fair point. Don't do it at this particular second, but this exact point, update the app.
Steven Crowder
And for people from the Bongino army, of course, some familiar faces there. We've crossed with Dan and we're going to give you a brief history of YouTube and a reason for this. It's not just that we don't like them, it's not just that we have an axe to grind. You need to understand that people at YouTube, people in Palo Alto, they actually hate you. And I know that you kind of understand this because you saw what happened with Hunter Biden laptop, you saw what happened with Meta and of course Twitter before it was purchased and became X. YouTube is sometimes flown under the radar because you don't think of it as a social media app and it's not. You think of it As a media app, a broadcast app, they're actually the worst because they have the ability to socially engineer young people to. And they've tried to. They've tried to tip the scales in the last elections. And they also were a place where many conservatives went initially, because we could circumvent Legacy Media. And YouTube realized that and said, oh, no, no. Now we have to be gatekeepers here at YouTube. Enthrottled and shadow banned and demonetized conservatives while allowing the most depraved, degenerate content to still live and thrive on YouTube. So let me give you a brief history for people who are new here. Myself, I've been on YouTube, or I was really, since 2006. I was just a comedian. My brother and I did this sketch. This is the very first upload ever on YouTube. And I'll walk through the demonetization, the shadow banning, the being banned over Dan Bongino being on the show. We were actually suspended from YouTube, suspended from elections. We have watched just this circling and descent down the drain. So 2006, I was in a room with my brother. There were these bad impression videos going around on YouTube that were going viral. And we thought, you know what? Let's do a parody of that where we do bad impressions. But you'll be my Ed McMahon and you'll laugh. And it was the first time I ever experienced a death threat. Or, by the way, it was the first time that I heard the word Jew fag, and it was aimed at me.
Josh Firestein
Okay.
Steven Crowder
So, hi. Um, do I want to say names and stuff? Yeah, just say, you know, just.
Josh Firestein
Is it safe?
Steven Crowder
It is the first time doing a video. Yeah, it's my first time. I didn't know, you know, about the whole Internet thing with. My name's Steven Crowder, and I'm gonna do a video for you. I've been seeing a lot of impression videos on YouTube, so this is gonna trump them all. This is the greatest impression video of all time. You can check out my mad impression skills. They're pretty good. They were awful.
Gerald
Oh, you just teased us. Because I wanted to see those impressions.
Josh Firestein
Yeah, well, we'll link in it. Go. Go watch it.
Steven Crowder
And back then, YouTube was actually run by, like, Rumble. They had top videos. Most of you. They had top, most commented. And that was the most commented video for days. Because some people understood that it was satire, right? The impression that they were meant to be bad, and they appreciate it. Some people just thought the impressions were terrible and they were angry, so they would argue with them. Then some people thought the impressions were actually good and they would argue with them. Then there was a final group that understood the satire, but they felt like we wasted their time, so they wanted to kill me as well. And so that's why it got so many plays. And then my brother, I remember, was featured by Rob Zombie on Halloween. They used to curate. It was a fun place. It was YouTube. This is how it started. This is how they built their platform. They sold it to people you watching right now. You could have started a YouTube channel. That was the beauty of it. Until it became corporate sanitized and another propaganda wing of the left. So in 2009, that was the first time I uploaded, I believe, 2008, 2009, my first political videos on YouTube because I was being banned from comedy clubs or often I would perform at colleges. Turns out if you make fun of Muhammad in a city that has a lot of Somalis, it doesn't go over that well.
Josh Firestein
That's a shame.
Steven Crowder
I was the first comedian I remember at this college in 2005, banned from a multicultural fair at a local community college where they had me performing. Remember they used to do those conferences, and you'd show up, they're like, oh, we can't have this guy. So I said, I'll go to YouTube where I can do the kind of material that I couldn't do and adapt it. 2009. Let's go along this timeline. Hey, everyone, this is Steven Crowder. Happy New Year. God bless. Here's to praying that it's a great one. All right, that's enough.
Gerald
Oh, why?
Steven Crowder
Point is, look, there were improvements to be made.
Gerald
Don't censor yourself, man.
Steven Crowder
That was an old webcam. That was an Acer. Remember those? Since 2009.
Josh Firestein
What do you expect? 4K?
Steven Crowder
All right, so we go through there, and then there were a bunch of kind of conservative networks that popped up. And some of them are great. You know, I worked with pjtv. There's some great people there. I was at Fox News for about four and a half years, and during that time, there were people there who were very touch and go with what I could put on YouTube. Being called into the second floor at Fox News on a regular basis for something offensive that you say is. Is quite eye opening, but it made me realize what I didn't want to do. And it also made me see where the puck was going with people watching online. And YouTube was still very important at that point. Wasn't as bad at censoring then. That brings us through 2015, 2016, 2016. Is when mug club launched the Daily Show. Before that, I was syndicated on radio. We would upload it online, and there might have been 10,000 people who had watched total. There was no such thing really as video podcasts at that point in time. We started growing, and then 10,000 became 50,000, became 100,000, became half a million, became over a million. And that's when the YouTube SS started knocking on our door. And it was a constant game of cat and mouse where they would say, well, you can say this, but you can't say that. And before this, everyone thought that YouTube was a place where it was YouTube you could upload. And conservatives were doing very, very well. They decided to change that behind the scenes, they had some levers that they pulled. June 2019, this is when something happened for those of you who are new, the vox adpocalypse, where we had done videos on YouTube that were critical of vox, who, by the way, would co produce shows with YouTube. And it was leftist propaganda. I mean, the kind of propaganda that we now teach our kids, unfortunately, about the evils of the United States, about white privilege, Western civilization. So we were very critical of vox for a very long period of time. They happened to have a host at vox who was incredibly gay, and they didn't like that. I pointed that out while making fun of the material. I make no apologies for it. Well, you made one. Well, oh, yeah, I know, but we're not going to get there yet, technically. So what happened is YouTube came to us and said, we are going to demonetize you completely. And that was a huge part of our business model. Right? Millions of dollars. And they did this with many conservatives. It's called the vox adpocalypse because thousands of channels that were perfectly fine before and acceptable and weren't violating any rules were no longer able to make a living on YouTube. So imagine that. Imagine someone comes into you right now and says, well, you can. You can still work your job or you can still run your business. We're just going to forbid anyone from paying you, so do all the work you want. And thank God for mudclub, which is now Rumble Premium. So this was known as the vox adpocalypse, and this was the content that was deemed not hateful, but the reason for removing our ability to make a living. Steven Crowder is a conservative comedian who.
Gerald
Makes videos on YouTube.
Steven Crowder
He's pretty popular. He's got close to 4 million subscribers and tens of millions of viewers. His stuff isn't for everyone, but.
Gerald
So if you don't like his videos.
Steven Crowder
Watch Colbert.
Josh Firestein
It's a free country.
Steven Crowder
Or used to be. The press is working to change that. A few days ago, a writer@vox.com demanded that YouTube ban Steven Crowder. Why?
Gerald
For the crime of insulting him.
Steven Crowder
So we have a higher standard for monetization. So then we did announce the monetization change, that Steven Crowder was his.
Josh Firestein
So was that in reaction to people reacting to you not reacting, or was that something that you were already planning.
Steven Crowder
To do and just hadn't got around to it? No, we were in the process of looking at that.
Gerald
YouTube dragged its feet before taking any.
Steven Crowder
Action against conservative commentator Stephen Crowder, despite being informed of Crowder's two year homophobic harassment campaign against journalist Carla Mazel. And if you want to talk surreal seeing a senator out there calling for your deplatforming for silly, goofy stuff, Right? This is a news comedy show. It was at late night and then we moved it to the morning during the COVID lockdown because we refused to lock down. We were doing two a day. Now, that being said, I do respect Senator Hirono because she is going to be on the show later today. There you go. We wanted her for this special occasion.
Gerald
She's obsessed.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. It's been a constant back and forth, those who are new from Dan's audience, and this all is building toward, hey, go and build your own YouTube. That's what people said, well, if you don't like it, don't play in their sandbox. We needed an alternate. At that point in time, Rumble wasn't able to do it wasn't around. There were a lot of people kind of jockeying for position, trying to create something. The user interface didn't work. They didn't have apps that worked. It wasn't until Rumble that there was something viable. And that's why, again, we're canceling for people who are new coming in. Canceling YouTube 24th. We're not streaming there anymore. Next week we move to 11. You're gonna have this entire lineup 9:00 through 4:00. So that happened. And YouTube said, you didn't violate any guidelines. So it's not hate speech. They said, it's advertiser, not friendly. So we're going to demonetize you. I said, that sucks. But fine, a few million dollars a year, which is how we paid everybody, right? Yeah, lost, but we'll find another way. And we're supported by viewers like you. Then they said, actually, you can't sell some of the merchandise because it's incendiary. You can't sell it off site and it would really go a long way for you to issue an apology. This is what YouTube told me. And of course, you know, if nothing else, I'm easy to work with and I play ball. So June 3rd, I issued a sweeping 20 minute apology to all of those who I technically not wronged, but kind of did wrong if I wanted to get back in YouTube's good graces. Like many other conservatives, I, along with everyone here at Louder with Crowder, am not above recognizing my mistakes and attempting to rectify them. So I'd like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all parties involved. Firstly, my heartfelt apologies to practicing socialists offended by the Che Guevara Socialism is for T shirt. I know that we should fight bad ideas with good ideas and respectfully debate the merits, virtues and shortcomings of socialism as opposed to merely mocking it with a hysterical T shirt. Available at lottoecidershop.com I'd like to issue an apology to Tess Holliday for incorrectly implying that her blood type was biologically comparable to that of Pudding. She is both brave and beautiful and I should have done more to celebrate that. I'd like to formally apologize to the Bob Ross estate for tarnishing his legacy with portrayal of Muhammad's likeness, subsequently painting it in period blood, and finally painting his legal team as eating from a corn infested pile of fecal matter alongside the holiest of prophets, Muhammad. Peace be upon him. Peace be upon him. Truly more death threats than you can.
Josh Firestein
Shake a stick at.
Steven Crowder
So many lawsuits. Ed for those again who are coming in, the lineup starts next week. Evita at 9 Vince of course these are Dan Bongino's boys at 10 this show at 11 Tim Pool after us, Russell Brand after that Jeremy Cording after that Viva Frey is going to be in there and this is all going to be live. Now the 30 something thousand of you who are still watching on YouTube you may not realize this. You guys move over to Rumble. That makes a big difference because YouTube loses them and Rumble gains them. And I know some of you still on YouTube. Once Upon a time Rumble still had to get some glitches fixed on their app. It is the best app out there right now. You can listen while your phone is locked. You can listen on audio if you're in your car. This stream is going to be seamless where audience goes from show to show to show while everyone can still be independent. We don't even all agree on everything. This is about joining forces to take out really what I would say is the most subversive platform in the United States these days. They have actually affected outcomes of elections and they have tried to intimidate people into a culture of silence. And people have said, hey, go and create your own YouTube. Well, guess what? Rumble has helped us do that. Dan Bongino has helped us do that. And if you are new here today, we've been doing the show for a long time. Here's a little bit of what you can expect on a day to day basis as part of the rumble live lineup. 2024 was a very big year.
Gerald
Nobody's ever been charged with this before.
Steven Crowder
It's a perversion of justice. The biggest year here by far, largest.
Josh Firestein
Stream on the planet for election night.
Steven Crowder
January 20th, 2025 is Liberation Day. Look at the Bill Pullman. Entirely made possible by you, Mug Club, which is now Rumble Premium. A big step in what we've always been moving to. You've helped us create narrative. There's some way I don't understand the freedom example. While you're having gay sex parties and people are losing their livelihoods reshaping super videos. I address the Minister for Economic affairs as an idiot. What he obviously is things that could never work on traditional media and frankly, I was told would never work. Key fact number two, George Washington despised slavery. We've always wanted to reach as many people as possible, but YouTube has gotten so bad that you can't even tell the truth.
Josh Firestein
Steven Crowder is very offensive.
Steven Crowder
YouTube dragged its feet before taking taking any action against Steven Crowder. The monetization change that Steven Crowder was his. And it's not just me. Tim Pool, Russell Brand, Evita in the morning, the quartering, we are launching something called the LineUp. Now in 2025, we'll actually reach more people.
Gerald
Mud Club is now Rumble Premium. Rumble Premium is Mud Club.
Steven Crowder
Hey, Fusilla fairy dust. You like having 10 fingers and 10 toes? Keep talking.
Gerald
I asked your mother that last part.
Steven Crowder
First rule of rumble premium, the lineup is coming. YouTube is dead. And Rumble did. It starts next week, the 17th. 9:00am awesome. And some people are asking, are we going to continue? Of course. Mug Club doing Rumble Premium content. Yes, yes, we will. Yeah. What'll happen is those of you who are not Rumble Premium members yet, I highly recommend that you do. But if you, hey, you still get get an entire clock of free content. If you are a free Rumble member, you will just be ported automatically to the next show in the live lineup. And if you are a Rumble Premium member, you get to stay with us for the additional 45 minutes to an hour like we do every day.
Josh Firestein
Yeah. And then we can, after that we can actually port that audience if they want to go to the next show that's coming on live at that time. So you're not going to get any less content from us. Our show stays the same. We're just moving times. Yeah, it's going to end. You know what? That it's sort of true. We're moving times and we're actually going to start right on the dot.
Steven Crowder
Right on the dot.
Josh Firestein
There's no 10 minutes late.
Steven Crowder
We start 10 minutes late because it's an old stand up thing where you always let the audience kind of still bleed in because people are late and a two drink minimum. But no, we're going to be starting at 11 Eastern on the dot. So hey, more free content than ever.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
And if you appreciate the war that is being waged and people migrating over this exodus, the best way to support it is Rumble Premium. Use a promo code. Rumble live. You get $20 off. That's. That is what makes all of this happen. Go build your own YouTube. Great. Little bit of support goes a long way. And if you're not there, I know that $80 is a lot, then hey, we're still going to make sure that you can be informed and watch the content for free. Because we understand that that's important to a lot of people. That's why we are doing this to tick to scratch all the itches. Let's go through this timeline again on YouTube. The history for some people out there, you may not know just how bad it is. So that vox adpocalypse happened. It's one thing to violate guidelines. It's one thing to actually, for example, commit a crime through speech like a call to violence. None of those things happened. On June 4, YouTube officially said that they wouldn't be taking any action over the content of our channel here on YouTube. This was a statement said, as an open platform, it's crucial for us to allow everyone from creators to journalists to late night TV hosts. Keep in mind our show was late night at that point in time to express their opinions within the scope of our policies. Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don't violate our policies, they'll remain on our site. So that's what YouTube said because we do have lawyers on retainer and we didn't violate any policies. This is a strong PG13. I've always told you that it shouldn't be watched by kids, but it Wasn't violating the kind of policies that YouTube had. And certainly when you look at the depraved, sexually degenerate content that's available for children on YouTube, it was a tough argument to make. But this was the first time that a conservative outlet was a target. Right? There was a targeted movement in campaign, everyone on CNN to Senate hearings calling for YouTube to remove us. And if they didn't cave under that pressure, guess what? They could be facing some kind of government oversight. And those threats were made. So on June 5, YouTube flip flopped and said, well, we're going to demonetize the whole channel. Just imagine just your paycheck doesn't come in anymore. YouTube says, hey, come work for us, we'll pay you XYZ. Okay, great. And then they say, oh yeah, by the way, we're not going to do that anymore because someone else doesn't like what you say.
Gerald
Not a furlough, by the way.
Steven Crowder
There's no back pay. No, there was no furlough, there was no back pay. It was not like a federal worker. And then because we didn't violate any rules, this is how bad YouTube is. It's worse than Facebook, it's worse than X. That same day, they established a new set of rules, borderline content guidelines to reduce the spread, quote, of harmful content. What did that do? That's what, that was the first time that shadow banning became a thing. You can be here. And by the way, everyone else followed suit. Facebook, X, you can be on this platform. Sure. We're not going to allow you to be monetized. Well, at that point you had someone like Colbert who was referring to Donald Trump as Putin's cock holster, remember that. You had Samantha B. Refer to, I'm just telling you the truth, refer to Melania Trump as a feckless cunt. Right? This was going on. It was. The standards were not applied equally so harmful content meant right leaning content. And we'll get to what happened during COVID which By the way, YouTube, you can argue in reducing the spread of harmful content. And by that we mean the information surrounding antivirals, the information surrounding lockdowns, the information surrounding school lockdowns and the harm that will be caused to children. You can argue that big tech and certainly YouTube played a role in the deaths of thousands of people. And you certainly can argue the increased depression rates, the increased anxiety rates as we see as a direct result of COVID the school lockdowns, alcoholism. This is where shadow banning started. They created new rules. And by the way, you don't get to know who makes the rules. And you don't know what the rules are.
Josh Firestein
Yeah. And you don't know what the rule is that you broke.
Steven Crowder
Exactly.
Josh Firestein
This was the catch all rule. Basically, they could take anything they wanted and say in this video somewhere, yep, you said something wrong.
Steven Crowder
And after that, we have experience now here. This show. Dozens of suspensions. Dozens. Even as we move people over to rumble. Dozens of suspensions. 2021 was a very, very bad year for us for suspensions.
Josh Firestein
It's almost like we did it on purpose.
Steven Crowder
And I know what you're saying. Suspension because you called for the death of someone. No. Suspension because you said Covid is made up. Nope. Suspension because you, I don't know, shadowed the N word from a rooftop and just wanted to see what happened. Nope. I'll tell you what. These suspensions were over. So March 2021, we were suspended for election disinformation, and that resulted in permanent demonetization. The election misinformation was actually sending investigative journalists out to addresses where people had voted that didn't exist. And we made these available to you publicly. YouTube removed those videos and suspended us. And I had to have my lawyer explain exactly why, because they didn't trust me to deliver the message. Here's where we're at right now, as things stands for those who aren't aware of what's happened, the channel has been demonetized. We're completely taken off for an entire week due to an undetailed, unspecified violation of the presidential election integrity policy at YouTube. So that was in March. I know you're thinking like, oh, we were on our best behavior. Well, then came April, and we were suspended again for making fun of Makhi Brown Bryant. This was a stabbing that had taken place, and they were mad that we made fun of the person who was involved.
Josh Firestein
Stabbing.
Steven Crowder
Remember, in the middle of stabbing, and.
Josh Firestein
The cop actually took the perpetrator down, took her out, killed another girl. We were like, well, thank God that person saved that life.
Steven Crowder
Yeah. And I made a few fat jokes.
Josh Firestein
Yes. And then that's when LeBron was like, this is the face of white supremacy. And put the cops picture up. And we're like, what?
Steven Crowder
Yep. He saved a black girl. He saved a black girl from a very rotund other black girl.
Josh Firestein
It's true.
Gerald
Nice word.
Steven Crowder
Yes. Yeah, portly. So we were suspended for that. Then October 2021, we were suspended for covering a trans prison story where a trans inmate who was a biological male may or may not have sexually assaulted allegedly, a female inmate, which may or may not have resulted in a potential alleged pregnancy. And by that I mean go and see if that story is a real one. You can go and research that and. And just know that YouTube refused to allow anyone to cover it. October. Okay, well, then December, we were also suspended again. There were a lot. There were a lot in 2021 we were suspended for. This one was just quote unquote, targeting the LGBTQ community. And the fact that they use the term LGBTQ plus unironically.
Gerald
Targeting. Don't they want to be seen?
Josh Firestein
Yeah, that one sounds like us.
Steven Crowder
So this was going on for a long time, but then we started seeing what was happening with those midterm elections. So this is where we instituted the dump button. That's been around for, I guess about three, four years now.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Or four years. Yeah, yeah. June 7, 2021. This is when we started streaming primarily to Rumble. But so many of you were still on YouTube, right. Having 5, 6 million subscribers process moving people. Okay. We know some people are married to YouTube, and we know that you want to watch there. So we started introducing that infamous YouTube dump button. So we have here, because we don't know the policies with YouTube, and we've read the policies, but they don't enforce them consistently. We have. What is the YouTube dump button?
Josh Firestein
Right.
Steven Crowder
That's whenever you see this. See, now we're back on YouTube. That means that someone said something that really isn't offensive but isn't allowed on YouTube, and we still got suspended.
Josh Firestein
Yeah. Well, you have to hit the button, you see?
Steven Crowder
And we're going to get to exactly how YouTube has directly influenced elections. And it's a problem, obviously, we all know that. Now, a lot of people think it was the Dominion voting machine. Sure. But the influence of Google and YouTube was enough. As far as the YouTube dump button, I've always said this. You know, when we used to do traditional television and radio, there was the fcc. Yeah, right. Where they gave you a list of words you couldn't say. And it was kind of a game of cat and mouse. Okay. And people used to complain about that censorship. Then everyone migrated online and we thought, hey, great, now we can reach people directly and actually speak the truth. It's so much worse now because the entire world has become the fcc. There are no guidelines or rules. It's just if people deem this unacceptable today, you can be suspended tomorrow. For example, there were several years where you couldn't say there are only two genders, you would be suspended. And I have been now. It's okay. That's a lot worse than the fcc. We're in a far more censorship centric culture and that allows for direct election interference. This brings us to 2022. This is the reason that we're launching the lineup. Monday. We move to 11 and then no more YouTube the following Monday on the 24th. So November 2020, we right here had the biggest election livestream in YouTube history.
Josh Firestein
Yeah.
Steven Crowder
Biggest live stream in YouTube history was the largest live stream that night on the election. 2020. Okay. Then in October of 2022, just days before the midterm elections, we were given a hard strike, which means a suspension. So we were not able to cover the election on YouTube. In other words, do you believe for a second that they didn't know who was going to have the biggest midterm stream? They said they had a meeting. They said, hey, who was the biggest live stream in all of the election? Oh, wait, it's our biggest live stream in history. Was the Steven Crow. The latter with Crowder Channel. Okay, what do we have to do for the midterms? We have to find a reason to suspend them, but they have a YouTube dump on that's going to be really hard. I know, I know, I know. We will suspend this channel for hosting someone who was actually running for national office at that point in time. Whether you like this person or not.
Josh Firestein
State.
Steven Crowder
The reason we were suspended while running for state. Sorry. She was a national figure.
Josh Firestein
She was a national figure.
Steven Crowder
She was running for office at that moment in time. Kerry Lake and YouTube suspended us so that we could not cover the election on YouTube at all.
Josh Firestein
YouTube. Even though in that email sends something that says, hey, we want you to learn from your mistakes, they don't actually tell you your mistakes.
Steven Crowder
Right.
Josh Firestein
There's no time codes to say, hey, here's exactly what you said, so don't do that again.
Steven Crowder
So the episode that was struck was the episode we were discussing Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. I do know that in the episode I also plugged that Carrie Lake was going to be back on. So we ended up covering it on Rumble and had the biggest stream of those midterms of the night on Rumble. Anyway, there you go. That was a big shift for us where we saw, okay, there actually is an alternative. That being said, there were still some steps that need to be taken. Rumble, their biggest difficulty has been keeping up with the capacity because of how fast they are growing. You know what? Continue making that a problem, please, because that's going to be a bigger problem for YouTube. And same thing with this lineup right of Rumble Live, that'll start on Monday. I guarantee if you line all of us up, we don't agree on a whole lot. It doesn't matter. That's been a tenet of what we do here. I don't have to agree with people who are on the show with 100% of their views. I just have to agree with their right to say it. And they generally have to be someone who supports freedom, basic fundamental values that we support in the Western world. And of course, people who we align with tend to be conservative, but it's a big. It's a big tent, the conservative tent. So we were also suspended. This brings us to. You'll see. That's foreshadowing. May 2023, they had de platformed this man. Whether you agree with him or not, Alex Jones from everything from YouTube, from Facebook, from Twitter at that point in time, from Apple, from Spotify. What does that mean? Is all of these people can have a meeting in a room one day, same day, removed from all those platforms. That's not a conspiracy. I think a good litmus test for a conspiracy theory is how many people have to be involved for this to work. Like area. Area 50.
Josh Firestein
51.
Steven Crowder
51. Area 51. What about the garbage men? Like, what about the. Everyone would have to keep their mouth shut. To remove Alex Jones from all platforms, it requires one conference call with about six people. Do you understand that? Maybe it was an email thread, but it did happen because he was. He was removed from every single digital platform within 24 hours. One day. And so we were suspended from YouTube. And I understand their point. It's still wrong, but we did kind of walk headfirst into this one. I was gone for one day and we said, hey, who would be a good fill in host? And we said, oh, I know YouTube hates Alex Jones. Let's have him host my show for a day. Alex Jones is a robotic homosexual. All right, look, Alex Jones talks about Steven Crowder's juicy.
Gerald
Sorry, who doesn't, though?
Steven Crowder
I mean, sorry, right clip. But here's the other one. Well, this is surreal. I am sitting here in the best produced, funniest pro human broadcast in the world. Congratulations. This is the tip of the spear in stopping the censorship by building our own thing. You have done it. We salute the entire crew and Steven Crowder and we salute the Rumble folks. Now, we were informed that if we had one more strike on our channel, on YouTube, that the channels would be permanently banned and we wouldn't be allowed to upload anything on YouTube. And I know, here's the reason I show that back then, a lot of people were saying, well, if you say they came for Alex Jones and no, it's. Alex Jones is different. There's a reason that people deplatform him. It's not going to affect the rest of us. We're reasonable. Okay? We were also suspended and we received two strikes for featuring Dan Bongino. So it doesn't stop with Alex Jones, Dan Bongino. Can you think of anyone who's more reasonable and unworthy of canceling or deplatforming than Dan Bongino? They claimed that we had circumvented their policies because they had banned Dan Bongino. So we weren't allowed to host. We said, well, guess what? We're going to do it anyway. We hosted and we did a dual stream on November 16, 2023 with Dan Bongino. We both actually streamed and we let people know that his stream was on rumble and YouTube suspended us. So it doesn't stop. It never was going to stop with Alex Jones. And this is why sometimes we feel compelled to defend people with whom we don't even agree. Why? Because they will come for you. YouTube came for Dan. And I'm sure that. I'm sure we're going to get to the bottom of some of this information at some point in time. Considering the people we have in government now, one can hope. Then we were suspended again. On August 2 of 2024, eight. Eight videos were hit with strikes for cyberbullying and harassment. Now, I know what you're thinking. Hey, did you use your platform to specifically go after someone and target them and say that people should dox them? No, that would be cyberbullying. That would be harassment. No, no. The example of cyberbullying and harassment for eight strikes was that we had a Kamala Harris blow up doll in the studio and she didn't even talk. Speaking of experts, it seems like the most likely nominee is expert in whoredom, Kamala Harris. We don't know if she has a sex closet. We absolutely know that she slept her way to her job. That's not a legend. Willie Brown was like, yeah, I did it. Anyone who thinks of any funny business with this doll, we are keeping it here throughout the election. Look, I get it. I get it. It's a power move.
Josh Firestein
It's a rental, actually, so we got to return it in good shape.
Steven Crowder
Well, so is Kamala. Of course. Clay Travis did not say this, but I've referred to Kamala Harris. As a lying whore, if you pick Pete Buttigieg, the problem is then you lose a good portion of the country. All you'll see two people whose primary skill is fellatio. It begs the question, well, then hold on a second. How did she become San Francisco da? It's only because she's lied and she. She had sex with people for political gain. We all know many lying whores. Some of them are very nice people. Once you, you know, sort of cafeteria, compartmentalize out the lying whoredom. If you do a little searching, you go, okay, she doesn't seem like she's the most supremely qualified lawyer. Oh, BJ's. Well, it's relevant if that's how someone got their job, if their major qualification is what they have hanging in their sex closet. Also note, Kamala did date Willie Brown, who was a mayor when he was 60 and she was 29. And when asked about it, he just said like, yeah, bang the bitch now. Liar whore. Liar whore. You know it. Now, do you think that's election interference? Because I think it's relevant. I think if people know how someone got their job, especially if this person is going to be held out as the first potential female president to young women, it's important because you don't want that to be an example for young girls. And so we had a blow up doll. That was the point, by the way.
Gerald
We still have it.
Steven Crowder
Yes, we do.
Gerald
Yeah, it's. It's around. I had to return it. They said I had it at home for too long. But yes, I brought it back.
Josh Firestein
Was it a five out of ten?
Steven Crowder
Well, they refused the return.
Gerald
Six and a half.
Steven Crowder
They said we avoided the return policy.
Gerald
Smell like cocoa butter and curry.
Josh Firestein
This delicious has more holes in it now.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I don't know. Although I will say Josh is great with the patchwork. So it still works. Just fix it up. Why buy a new one. Yeah, otherwise it's just going to end up in a landfill and, you know, then that's just a waste.
Josh Firestein
Yeah, we don't want to do that.
Steven Crowder
So this has been going on for a long time. And now YouTube has been directly trying to affect the elections. And here's what we also see coming. They're going to get worse before the next election. They're going to get worse because they realize they lost their stranglehold on power. We're not doing this now out of necessity. We are doing this because we feel compelled to. We need to see this shift. We need to see people move away from these social media, these new media ghettos where they are being corralled, they are being siloed, and they are being subject to propaganda on a daily basis. If you think that big tech and new media cannot affect the outcome of elections, please see 2020 and see what happened with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and then apply that to all search. Apply that to all of YouTube where you were auto suggested, where when you search and browse, it's not. It is consistently leftist content and by the way, sanitized conservative content who play ball with the big tech overlords. Dan Bongino hasn't done it. We're not doing it. No one in this lineup. Evita, you've got Vince, us, Tim Pool. That's a big one. YouTube is losing two time slots with the two biggest conservatives on their platform. Russell Brand, Jeremy the Quartering, Viva Frey. They're losing a lot of people with this single movement. It's a moment in time. And we're doing this because we want to prepare. We've had some wins, but we need to be able to maintain this. We need this to be sustainable. And so this is a part of fighting like hell, which we weren't allowed to say on YouTube, but now we can't anyway. Fight like hell. Don't give them an inch. And in this case, it's just a matter of switching over to another app. Please join it. Cancel YouTube. They don't deserve your business. You're about to say something, Joe.
Josh Firestein
Yeah. So it's. It's also promoting each other, right? So one of the features of this is rating to the next audience. And so just to clear up some of the confusion, again, we. We said it a few minutes ago, but just to make sure everybody heard, we are going to be sending the free audience over to the next show. Every show is going to be doing that. Every show is going to be promoting all of the other shows. We're banding together. You're basically taking islands that were on this free speech.
Steven Crowder
Build a bench.
Josh Firestein
That's great. Exactly. Building a lineup, building a bench that hasn't existed before. This model. These models have never merged like this. That's huge for people who are Rumble Premium subscribers. You will stay here with us for the additional content that we always do. Our show stays the same. We still do our hour in front of the, you know, for. For everybody on the free side. And then we go into rumble premium for 45 minutes to an hour as well.
Steven Crowder
Right.
Josh Firestein
You still get all of that show. And at the end of that, then you can go on to the Next show, we'll actually send people to whatever streaming after that.
Steven Crowder
Right.
Josh Firestein
So don't be confused about it. Our show doesn't change. You still get everything.
Steven Crowder
The time premium.
Josh Firestein
Exactly. Show doesn't change, but the time slot does.
Steven Crowder
Time slot does. Because we want to put exactly on time because we want to make room for some. Some people who are newer, some people who are coming up.
Josh Firestein
Absolutely.
Steven Crowder
Because they can't do that on YouTube. You can't come up and build. And that's by design. This is antithetical to YouTube in that we are giving you more choice. You want to go and watch for free, Great. You want to choose to support this kind of content and a platform like Rumble, we ask that you please do. You get to stay with us, you get to spend more time with your creator of choice or be introduced to a new one. The choice is yours. And no one, I can tell you this is being told what to say ever. That's one thing they have never done at Rumble. And it's funny because I talked with Chris all the time. YouTube, they've called me more often than Chris to tell me what to say because he's never done that. I've said, you can't say this. This is about choice and this is about changing the digital landscape for all future elections to come. And someone who's very unhappy about this. And as promised earlier, I believe we have her on the line here to talk about how we've been a target for several years and why they have done so. I appreciate her willingness to do it. Please welcome back to the show Senator Mazie Hirono. All right, once again, welcome back to the show, Senator Hirono.
Gerald
Hello, Stephen. I'd like to start by saying I find it disturbing that you cannot stop thinking about me. Do you miss me, Stephen?
Steven Crowder
Senator Hirono, you're actually the one who requested to come on this morning. I didn't. Frankly, I had to be convinced. So what is on your mind?
Gerald
I noticed that your show came on at a different time today. Are you trying to avoid me, Steven?
Steven Crowder
See, that seems like you're thinking about about me more than. Because that's not the case at all. No one is trying to trick you or pull a wool over your eyes center.
Gerald
Oh, blindfold, huh? I didn't know you wanted to role play, Steve.
Steven Crowder
No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not at all.
Gerald
You can role play if you like. You can be a thirsty boy and I'll be your Hawaiian punk.
Steven Crowder
Ms. Hirono, as someone who asks people about sexual Harassment at every senator hearing. Every. Every. I really. I'm not comfortable with the way this.
Gerald
Oh. Maybe if you prefer to me to be your corner coffee, I could pick you up, if you know what I mean.
Steven Crowder
I don't. I actually. I don't know what you mean at all. And I want to keep it that way.
Gerald
How about a Mai tai?
Steven Crowder
Well, actually, my tie kind of sounds nice.
Gerald
And then you can suck my tail.
Steven Crowder
All right, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. No, Tim, no. Cut it, toolman. Cut it. Cut it. All right, we are going to continue right now. Wow. She is so. If you can bring these up. Yeah, I don't. I don't know why we keep having her on.
Josh Firestein
I do.
Steven Crowder
Seems to me like she's projecting when she asks about the sexual harassment of every single person who needs to be confirmed. I'm going to change her number. Yeah, let's do that. Why does she have her number?
Josh Firestein
I told you, 867-539 was a stupid number.
Steven Crowder
Guys, we are going to be. We're going to be a part of this lineup and viewership is going to be increasing massively. All the biggest shows are going to be. You got to be a little more professional. You can't be giving out my phone number to senators who clearly want me to.
Gerald
She's a senator.
Steven Crowder
Yeah, I don't do. Just say no. Have you ever seen any consequences for anyone else lying in the Senate? I trip to Hawaii.
Josh Firestein
Oh, now we. Now we find out. Of course Tesla came over there.
Gerald
Maisie never says no.
Steven Crowder
No. By the way, Hawaii is gross. Honolulu is gross. It's just. It's a homeless city in an island paradise. So we're going to continue, of course, if you are not a member, Rumble Premium, we encourage you to do so. But hey, let us earn your vote. Earn your dollar. Next week on the 17th, we move to 11. You get the lineup, you get Evita in the morning, really good at news. You get Vince, Dan's boy, who's going to be going to be emerging here. And I think he's going to do some great stuff. Us. Then Tim Pool, then Russell Brand, then Jeremy from the quartering, good friend of the show, a guy who's solid and the guy who really stands by his convictions. Then we've got Viva Frey and we are finishing out that clock so that you can have a one stop shop all day. That's what's starting next week. And the following week, no more streaming to YouTube. We are going to officially cancel all streaming and everyone else to YouTube. YouTube is as far as live content, as far as authentic content. YouTube truly is at this point dead. But we want to leave, no doubt. And Rumble has done it. We'll see you Monday. Let's continue here to our premium chat. It.
Podcast Summary: "MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Rumble Live & Louder with Crowder"
Title: MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Rumble Live & Louder with Crowder
Host: Steven Crowder
Release Date: March 14, 2025
Podcast: Louder with Crowder
Steven Crowder opens the episode with a light-hearted jab at the current state of YouTube, mentioning the show's widespread presence across the platform. He hints at a significant announcement to be made later in the episode, emphasizing its importance for viewers.
Quote:
"We have a lot to get to today. A major announcement that we will be making in about a half hour."
— Steven Crowder [00:00]
Crowder pays homage to Dan Bongino, highlighting Bongino's contributions to Rumble and his impending transition to the FBI. He expresses gratitude for Bongino's role in building Rumble as a platform for conservative voices.
Quote:
"He's done incredible things. Was canceled on YouTube, was banned from YouTube and he has been a huge part, an integral part in growing Rumble."
— Steven Crowder [00:30]
The conversation shifts to the impending government shutdown, debunking common myths and political narratives surrounding it. Crowder critiques Democratic strategies and emphasizes that Republicans hold significant control over the legislative process.
Quote:
"Everything that they have told you is true. This is not the end of the world. The sky is not falling. This has happened before. This is fear porn."
— Steven Crowder [04:00]
Crowder introduces a game segment where guests guess whether certain YouTube content is age-restricted. This segment serves to critique YouTube's inconsistent content moderation policies.
Quote:
"This is our problem with YouTube. One of the problems, right? We've been demonetized, we've been banned, we've been suspended."
— Steven Crowder [16:00]
The core of the episode revolves around Crowder's announcement to cease streaming on YouTube in favor of exclusively using Rumble. He elaborates on the strategic shift, citing YouTube's censorship and demonetization as primary reasons. Crowder outlines a new live streaming lineup on Rumble, featuring various conservative personalities.
Key Points:
Quotes:
"Starting next week, this Monday, the 17th, we are going to move to 11. We're going to let everyone know this is going to be your last week on YouTube."
— Steven Crowder [29:05]
"YouTube needs to die as a platform. YouTube needs to go away."
— Steven Crowder [33:56]
Crowder delves into his longstanding conflicts with YouTube's policies, detailing instances of demonetization, suspensions, and what he perceives as biased content regulation. He attributes these issues to broader efforts by YouTube to suppress conservative voices.
Quote:
"YouTube is sometimes flown under the radar because you don't think of it as a social media app and it's not. They actually have the worst because they have the ability to socially engineer young people."
— Steven Crowder [42:04]
Crowder introduces the lineup for Rumble Live, emphasizing collaboration with other conservative creators. He highlights the collective effort to provide an alternative to YouTube, ensuring diverse content while maintaining free speech principles.
Quote:
"This is the lineup, and it is eventually going to be all day long. But right now we've got 9am through, I believe, 4pm it's going to be live on Rumble."
— Steven Crowder [32:43]
As the episode progresses, Crowder reiterates the importance of moving away from YouTube, urging listeners to join Rumble Premium and support the new lineup. He underscores the shared mission of combating perceived censorship and fostering a space for uncensored conservative discourse.
Quote:
"Fight like hell, don't give them an inch. And in this case, it's just a matter of switching over to another app."
— Steven Crowder [73:15]
In a surprising turn, Senator Mazie Hirono joins the show. However, the interaction devolves into awkward role-playing, deviating from the episode's main themes. Crowder attempts to maintain professionalism, but the segment lacks substantive dialogue.
Quote:
"Senator Hirono, you're actually the one who requested to come on this morning."
— Steven Crowder [75:23]
Crowder concludes by reinforcing the shift to Rumble, encouraging listeners to embrace the new platform for uncensored content. He highlights the collective effort of various creators to provide a robust alternative to YouTube.
Quote:
"March 24th is D Day. The lineup is coming. So hold on to your butts because people will be remembering this for years to come."
— Steven Crowder [35:23]
Media Censorship: A strong critique of YouTube's content moderation, demonetization, and suppression of conservative voices.
Platform Migration: Advocacy for transitioning from YouTube to Rumble as a solution to perceived censorship.
Conservative Solidarity: Building a unified lineup of conservative creators on Rumble to provide diverse and uncensored content.
Political Narrative: Emphasis on governmental control over media narratives, highlighting the need for alternative platforms.
"We have a lot to get to today. A major announcement that we will be making in about a half hour." — Steven Crowder [00:00]
"YouTube needs to die as a platform. YouTube needs to go away." — Steven Crowder [33:56]
"Starting next week, this Monday, the 17th, we are going to move to 11. We're going to let everyone know this is going to be your last week on YouTube." — Steven Crowder [29:05]
"Age restricted or not is a game where we show you content and you have to guess if it is age restricted on YouTube or not." — Steven Crowder [02:50]
"This is the first time that a conservative outlet was a target. Right? There was a targeted movement in campaign..." — Steven Crowder [57:05]
"Fight like hell, don't give them an inch. And in this case, it's just a matter of switching over to another app." — Steven Crowder [73:15]
In this pivotal episode, Steven Crowder announces a strategic migration from YouTube to Rumble, positioning it as a necessary move against perceived platform biases and censorship. By building a robust lineup of conservative creators on Rumble, Crowder aims to forge a unified front for free speech and provide an alternative media ecosystem for his audience. The episode underscores ongoing tensions between content creators and major social media platforms, highlighting broader debates about freedom of expression in the digital age.