#1071 - Steven Crowder & NotGay Jared

Joe Rogan (0:00)

The dragon's mouth and his thing. Five, four, three, two, one.

Yes, and we're live. Gentlemen, hello.

Steven Crowder (0:10)

You still have the ability to go live, that's nice.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Oh yeah, you guys got fucked. Who'd you get fucked by, Mr. Rogers fucked you?

Steven Crowder (0:15)

Yeah, Mr. Rogers. It's funny, the people who go after us, the Bob Ross estate, and now Mr. Rogers.

Jared (0:20)

The age of 90s dream.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

But this is what's confusing, most of what you guys do in terms of the Bob Ross thing in particular, first of all, that was, that took a lot of balls, because this is, you had Bob Ross painting Muhammad, which is-

Steven Crowder (0:34)

In Period Blood, the second one, because the Buzzfeed women were doing the painting, it was YouTube, this was actually after a meeting with YouTube, remember what I said?

Jared (0:41)

Never ask him how you can top something, because we'll, the Period Blood.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Pull the sucker right up to you, there you go.

Jared (0:46)

It's almost like a-

Steven Crowder (0:46)

You should know, you're in SM7 in our studio.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

But yeah, we were, the Bob Ross estate got after you, but that's parody, how can they mock you, or how can they get you in trouble for mocking something or doing parody?

Steven Crowder (1:00)

Here's why, you have a system with YouTube, right? Where they just strike, they just strike you, and you lose your privileges whether you win or not. We've never lost.

So the Bob Ross estate sent us a message, right? And it was saying like, first off, have you no decency? You know this isn't in accordance with Islamic law. We're just like laughing our asses off.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

In accordance with Islamic law? Like you're supposed to be in accordance with Islamic law when you're doing parody?

Jared (1:18)

They thought that we didn't know that it was offensive.

Steven Crowder (1:20)

Yeah, they thought we didn't know. Like we stumbled across this. And so then-

Joe Rogan (1:24)

Oh, that's hilarious.

Steven Crowder (1:25)

We responded to the lawyers as Bob Ross.

Welcome back to the Joy of Painting. We're gonna draw our lawyer friends eating from a nice big pile of shit. And we painted them eating from a pile of corn-infested shit. And then at the end of the video, we're like, and it looks like they need a friend and put Mohammed right next to them in the pile. And it hangs above our bathroom. And we've never heard from them again. They sent us cease and desists, and we ran it past our lawyers.

Jared (1:49)

We think the shock may have killed them. Yeah.

Steven Crowder (1:51)

And now we have Mr. Rogers.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Now what does Mr. Rogers matter about?

Steven Crowder (1:54)

We did a parody. We did a few parodies of Won't You Be My Neighbor intros. That was it.

Jared (1:59)

Like a year ago.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

But again, how could someone put a strike on you for a parody? I mean, I thought that is protected.

Steven Crowder (2:06)

Well, you get into the realm of parody and satire, but even then, it depends on who looks at it. That's the problem with YouTube. Last time, we got our privileges back. This time, we didn't.

We're like, listen, we've never lost a case. We've counter filed. We've always won. This is clearly parody. Mr. Rogers was actually your brother doing it on keyboard.

Jared (2:23)

So we didn't even borrow any of their logos, their nothing.

Steven Crowder (2:27)

Nothing.

Jared (2:28)

100% original.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Now, here's what's fucked up. You were telling me about a meeting that you guys had when you went to New York for YouTube.

And they were comparing what is demonetized and what's not demonetized. And they had something, just explain what happened.

Steven Crowder (2:44)

We don't exactly know because it's boilerplate answers, right? We get brought out, a bunch of conservatives get brought out to New York.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Who is worthy with you?

Steven Crowder (2:53)

The Daily Wire people, the Prager, who are really cool. Ben Shapiro's guys, those guys are at Forward Publishing.

Jared (2:58)

And then a bunch of think tanks.

Steven Crowder (2:59)

And everyone sat there and played nice. They bring out this whole spread, they bring you into the Google offices.

Jared (3:04)

Give you a tour of the place.

Steven Crowder (3:05)

They give you a tour. This is in New York.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

Do they fly you out or they ask you to fly out?