Consciously Unmasked #6: How Corporate News Controls the Narrative (Consciously Unmasked)

In this eye-opening episode, we pull back the curtain on corporate media’s stranglehold over public perception. How do powerful media conglomerates shape the news we consume, distort reality, and manufacture consent for war, economic policies, and political agendas? From subtle framing techniques to outright propaganda, we explore the tools of mass manipulation and expose the hidden interests behind your nightly news. Tune in as we dissect media bias, the illusion of choice, and what it really means to think for yourself in an era of information warfare.

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(0:02) Welcome, everybody. Hey, we are another Oh, hold on. I screw (0:09) this up.I was messing around with these guys earlier. Whew. (0:13) Whoo.Consciously unmask everybody. I’m gonna have to (0:17) delete that in the beginning. But it turns out.All right. So (0:21) Jason, (0:22) you want to not know who we are. (0:25) Oh, man.Hey, I think I met someone that looked very eerily (0:30) like you earlier this week. How was it? Was it weird? It was (0:34) really it was it was almost like deja vu. I thought I was (0:39) Yeah, so what’s up, man? So So what happens is my girlfriend.(0:45) She’s awesome. She knows that I watched Kyle Dunnegan and he (0:49) does the faceover things and he does voices and he just has fun (0:53) with it. And it’s fun.Like Rambo. His Joe Biden’s pretty (0:57) amazing. And he does all these shows like he did the Fresh (1:00) Prez of Bella of DC and stuff.Awesome stuff. My girlfriend (1:04) surprised me with two tickets. So I’m like, Oh, JC, you won’t (1:07) believe it.Kyle Dunnegan’s in town blah, blah, blah. And I’m (1:09) like, Oh, cool. I got people in town.Well, we’re gonna go too. (1:13) So then we end up meeting up down there, man. Our first (1:17) Yeah, first time first time.So we met we met our significant (1:22) others met, met some family people. So it was real cool. So (1:25) very nice to meet you in person, sir.We had a good time. It was (1:28) fun. And then it was over.Like, let’s go home because it’s late. (1:31) Because I know I only look this tall on the screen there. But (1:34) yeah, I’m six, four and almost 300 pounds.So (1:38) you are all of that, sir. And I did not think 300. But dude, I’m (1:43) let me put it this way.If I’m Israel, I know who I’m using as (1:47) a human shield. Let’s put it that way. (1:51) Yeah, man.That was a good time. I’m glad we did it. (1:55) Yeah, me too, man.Well, it’s funny, because we’re like, we (1:59) live like probably 45 minutes to an hour apart. Even though (2:02) we’re technically in the same area. And we’ve been talking (2:05) about trying to get an in person podcast because the quality is (2:08) better.We get to control like everything a little bit easier. (2:12) Gets it like, you know, recorded on higher quality and just get (2:15) better lighting and everything. And in person, the cues are much (2:19) easier to get the much natural, more natural flow.But what to (2:23) figure it out sometime. But right now for now is cool. It (2:26) was cool to me.So didn’t expect to happen. So it’s kind of cool. (2:29) You got me out of the house, man.That’s a feat on its own. (2:34) Yeah, same thing for me, man. But well, welcome, everybody.So (2:38) Jason, we’ve got something about the media, my friend, we got (2:43) going on today. (2:44) You have fake news. (2:47) CNN, you’re terrible.(2:51) It’s fake news. Did you see the Jimmy Dore clip where they (2:54) edited all the CBS stuff? Where CBS had had a whole (2:58) conversation, and they showed it side by side, and then they (3:01) blacked out where they edited it out, and he kept talking. And (3:05) they showed where they didn’t show this whole part, like whole (3:07) portions of it.So like, when we started delving into this topic (3:11) about the media and how they manipulate us and what they do. (3:15) Like, it’s just it must have changed our algorithm, because I (3:18) started getting all crazy stuff. How about you? (3:21) Oh, absolutely.Yeah, this is always a problem. But every (3:25) it’s like a cycle that just when something’s happening, the media (3:29) starts to lose their shit and just say all kinds of crazy (3:32) stuff. And we see it happening a lot right now.I think the thing (3:36) that sparked this that most people have probably seen going (3:38) around was the CBS free speech thing where the the reporter, I (3:43) think it was on Face the Nation. She was talking about Nazi (3:46) Germany and how free speech caused the Holocaust. It’s like, (3:50) okay, that’s a someone who lost their shit a little bit.(3:54) Yeah, and I think we have that clip up here. So we will (3:56) definitely be looking through it. Yep, definitely.So yes, (4:00) it’s, it’s pretty amazing, man. So what we’re talking about is (4:03) like the media. And once again, you and I have, I’d argue (4:08) a little bit outside of the norm, idea of thinking (4:13) ideology, like anarchy or whatever and cap.I’m trust me, (4:18) people who break from the system will get there. You just kind of (4:23) naturally get there once you get away from the other side. But my (4:28) job is not to tell you where to go.My job is not to tell you (4:31) what to think. It’s, it’s simply to be a messenger that they (4:36) they, the the people, they are the ones pulling the puppet (4:41) strings. And they manipulate you in ways you don’t even (4:45) understand you’re being manipulated.Now, the reason I (4:49) know this is because I was person who was manipulated. (4:55) Iraq was my, my thing where I bought into the WMDs and all (5:01) the nuclear stuff. And I want to get off he gone in the 80s when (5:05) they bombed them with the F 111 Douglas F 111 bomber fighter (5:09) bomber things after Berlin.So like, I, I know how they do it (5:15) now that it’s been exposed. And when we share these messages, (5:20) these are not criticisms of people who still believe the (5:24) stuff they believe this is this is a hi, we come with grace, (5:29) we’re offering you to share you with you an information that (5:33) you’re just not aware of maybe, because at some point, we weren’t (5:37) aware. So all we’re trying to do is share that message.What are (5:40) your thoughts on that? (5:42) Yeah, you could definitely find me in the mid 2000s. Defending (5:46) Iraq war, you know, post 911. Well, we got to fight them over (5:51) there, or else they’re gonna come over here and blow us all (5:54) up.So definitely, that was something I had to break through. (5:58) I don’t know if you had a moment where it was like, Oh, this is (6:01) really clear. Now for me, it didn’t fully hit until I saw the (6:05) way they talked about Trump.And we’ve talked about this. I’m not (6:08) a fan, obviously. But I could just see that what they were (6:13) saying was an obvious lies.They’re just lying, lying, (6:16) lying all day about Donald Trump doing everything they can to (6:20) make him look like he’s some Russian puppet or a Nazi or (6:23) whatever the hell. And so that was my really breakthrough (6:28) moment. 2016 ish.(6:31) Yeah, mine was mine was definitely after Iraq. And it (6:34) was very slow. We’re talking such a slow ember for me of the (6:38) transition.But like that pivotal moment that you’re (6:41) talking was probably 16 with Hillary. I mean, it’s like (6:46) Russian collusion, Russian this Russian that we know what she (6:49) is. We know what reptile snake she is.And you’re like, she (6:56) handpicked Donald Trump because she thought she could beat the (6:59) guy. Not because she wanted she she Oh, you should run Donald. (7:04) And he’s like, Okay, maybe I will.And I remember the 92 to (7:09) 8% that she was going to get and it was going to be a (7:12) landslide and how she was going to revolutionize. Oh my god, (7:16) just the whole pillow everything. And just the vomit (7:19) that came out then the steel dossier.Then Russia collusion. (7:23) Then yeah, Putin puppet all of a sudden for no reason Putin (7:26) puppet. No, not just out of the blue.Let’s just pick that out. (7:30) And then obviously COVID just absolutely exacerbated. But we (7:35) had our moments like 2008.You know, we had our Occupy Wall (7:39) Street. I wasn’t. I’ll be honest.In 2008. I was still on (7:44) this. I were like, Who are these? Who are these hippies (7:46) fighting this bullshit? Can we just get back to work? Like I’m (7:50) not gonna lie.Like, I honestly thought that they were just (7:54) people looking for stuff. Not people who had been crushed, (8:00) hurt, whatever. I thought they picked those guys up.And like, (8:03) yeah, they’re gonna grab a couple of those. But like most (8:05) of those people were victims. And what’s crazy about that? (8:09) What did Obama do with that? Oh, we’ve got this whole group of (8:13) weird people who normally wouldn’t be united.How do we (8:16) divide them? Well, this guy looks a little different than (8:18) that guy. And that was a woman and that person wants to be a (8:21) woman. So let’s divide them on.You know what I mean? Let’s (8:25) divide them in different ways with color and race and sex. And (8:27) it and that’s how they did it. Then.Oh, under Obama, who is (8:32) elected twice, mind you twice as an as a black man twice in the (8:36) United States was in the most racist country at the time. (8:41) That’s how it’s fun, right? That was a media spin. So like, (8:44) we’re gonna go through how they do this stuff.And it’s really (8:47) important that it’s, we’re not here to tell you what to think (8:50) or how to think. We just want to break what you’ve been probably (8:54) trained to think, because we’re gonna guess you’ve got you’re (8:58) gonna find yourself going, Oh, yeah, yeah, I do that. Or Yeah, (9:02) that’s Wow, that is an interesting way to look at it.(9:03) So hopefully we can break some of those, those things. (9:08) Yeah, I mentioned cycle. So that’s that was one.Sorry. (9:13) Occupy Wall Street was one that went around to the Trump, the (9:18) Trump stuff. And then it COVID obviously a huge one, I feel (9:22) like we’re about we’re entering a new freakout cycle, if that (9:26) makes sense.A new one starting because Trump’s in there with (9:29) Elon Musk, and they hate the guy. They used to love Elon, but (9:33) they hate him because he’s actually talking about cutting (9:36) the government. And that is their gravy train.So that’s (9:40) where we’re gonna start out. (9:42) Yeah, so let’s do that. And, and to the point, like, what I what (9:46) bothers me, and I think it bothers you to a little bit is (9:49) like, why are you forcing me to defend Elon? Yeah.Why are you (9:54) forcing me defend Trump? I’m not here to defend Trump. I literally (9:59) go when he has an idea I agree with. I’ll go that’s great.And (10:04) when he has a shitty idea, like take the guns first. I don’t (10:07) agree with it. It’s not that it’s not that difficult.Right? (10:11) It’s not that difficult. Like, the thing about you on giving (10:14) the checks back? Are you what? Burn the money, man. Take it out (10:19) of the day.What? What? Why? Why? I don’t think it’s gonna (10:24) stop, right? So anyway, so do you want me to start with the (10:27) first clip, sir? (10:29) Yeah, I just one more thing before we get to it. I just want (10:32) to say I hope this is like the dying the death throes of the (10:36) legacy media because they’re trying really hard. And each (10:40) time it goes through this cycle, it gets worse, it gets more (10:43) obvious how full of shit they are.So yeah, go ahead. (10:48) Yeah. So to your to your point on that, it’s like the same (10:52) thing with the tighter your grip, the more systems slip (10:54) through your fingers, right? They’re white knuckling it right (10:57) now.They are freaking out. And I watched the newest Dave Smith (11:00) today. And it’s funny.He called it legacy media. And then he’s (11:03) like, something’s switching his brain. He called it dinosaur (11:05) media.And I’m like, that maybe Dodo media might even be better. (11:11) But like, seriously, dinosaur media, you know, because they are (11:14) just not, they’re not evolving. They’re not evolving the way the (11:17) way the world is evolving.They just think they can hold on to (11:20) their thing, right? So and all you got to do is just tell the (11:24) truth, man. You can rail on Trump all day if you want just say (11:28) true things. There’s plenty to criticize, and then do it to (11:31) both sides.That’s why no one trusts them. (11:34) It’s it’s the hypocrisy of it, right? That’s, that’s a huge (11:37) part of it. Yes.So here we go. The first clip. (11:42) Everything we do is under fire.Elon Musk sits on Twitter every (11:47) day or x today, saying like, we are the media. You are the (11:52) media. My message to Elon Musk is you’re not the media.You (11:58) having you having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle in (12:07) 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. Any more (12:12) than me looking at your head and seeing that you have a brain and (12:14) telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn (12:16) neurosurgeon. Right? Like what we do what journalists do what (12:21) you did in Mississippi.What else is here it does in the Middle (12:26) East. Proclaim yourself to be a reporter. That’s nonsense.Like (12:33) being a reporter is hard. (12:37) That just cracks me up, man. It’s so hard.You guys can’t (12:41) just say a reporter. (12:45) I remember like real reporters when they look like crap, and (12:49) they slept in their cars, and they reeked of cigarettes, and (12:52) they didn’t shower for days. Those were the reporters.And it (12:56) actually got so elitist because of Woodward and Bernstein. We’ll (13:00) get into those two guys because I know Woodward’s a good one (13:02) that will definitely talk about like, who’s a plant? Who’s (13:06) actually a reporter? Who’s working for whom? Right? Like (13:09) Brzezinski. Come on.Brzezinski’s daughter just (13:12) happens to be with Scarborough. Right? So anyway, (13:20) he’s the most (13:22) there’s never been more cogent. All right.I’m sure I think (13:27) we’re gonna play that too. So this is the other thing to (13:29) everybody. We’re talking about the media today.We’re probably (13:32) going to have a hard stop in two hours, just so you know, we’re (13:36) 15 in. So we just want to do this because our brains will (13:39) explode because we start exchanging ideas in our head (13:41) start like warming up to like that weird temperature in that (13:44) mood. Remember that movie Paycheck, where you start (13:47) forgetting memories once they heat your brain temperature up a (13:50) certain core temperature, we get to that point, we can’t get (13:53) there.So if we go over, it’s okay, we’re not going to cut (13:56) anything from this. We’re just going to stop where we stop (13:59) wherever the natural stop is at the time. And then we’ll we’ll (14:02) continue the next time we have another podcast because we (14:05) literally clip like 20 clips for this.So we really came (14:09) prepared. (14:11) Yes. And by the way, if anyone’s just listening, they (14:14) can’t see the video.I don’t know if that’s possible for the (14:16) live stream. But for the recording later, that was Jim (14:20) Vande Heize, the CEO of Axios. And he was responding to Elon (14:25) Musk’s claims that people on X are the media now.And (14:29) obviously, he’s pissed off. He was speaking at a some press (14:34) award ceremony. I forgot what it was exactly.But he’s talking to (14:39) his fellow reporters, media lab dogs for the government. (14:46) But, yeah, they’re eating it up, of course. But he’s like, oh, (14:49) it’s so hard to be a reporter.You can’t just say you’re a (14:52) reporter. No, it’s really not that complicated to be a (14:56) reporter. Yes, there are hard jobs.Yes, you could find (14:58) yourself in a dangerous situation. But it’s really not (15:02) that complicated. You find out information, and you share it (15:06) to people.That’s what makes you a reporter. That’s all you have (15:09) to do. (15:10) Right.And, and I get, well, and that’s the funny thing is, like, (15:16) what, what are you saying? Reporter journalists, right? (15:18) Like, is there a difference? Because a reporter, once again, (15:21) could just be like, I’m a person who collects everybody else’s (15:24) news, and then just reports it. Yeah, technically, that’s a (15:29) reporter. It doesn’t mean that you’re saying anything’s true (15:31) or false.You’re just reechoing the message, right? But (15:36) journalists are the ones who work hard where they roll up (15:39) their sleeves. It’s like, yeah, how many journalists don’t do (15:41) their own work? Because we’re going to get into some of that. (15:44) Obviously, we’ll see how we’ll see lazy journalism, and how it (15:47) bites them in the butt when they’re not prepared for (15:49) responses that they don’t expect.So (15:53) well, let’s go to the next one. Continuing this Vandahe, dude. (15:59) Part two of Vandahe.Being a reporter. So hard. (16:05) So hard.It’s so hard being a reporter. Like being a reporter (16:10) is hard. Really hard.Really hard. Hair. You have to do the (16:16) hard work.You have to get up every single day and say, I want (16:20) to get to the closest approximation of the truth (16:22) without any fear, without any favoritism. You don’t do that (16:27) by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an (16:30) opinion.You do it by doing the hard work. (16:38) First of all, I think Joe makes an appearance. (16:42) It needed to be said, yeah, it continues to need to be said (16:47) when all of the garbage is flying around on social media, (16:51) lying about reporters lying about the hard work they do (16:54) lying about the hard work editors do lying about (16:57) everything up and down about not only their alternative set of (17:03) facts, but alternative set of facts about what people like (17:06) you.(17:09) Yeah, that’s it. (17:10) Right. Hold on.Hold on. Top right corner. Top right corner.(17:15) That guy is very different from the guy I remember growing up. (17:20) Is that over that guy? That guy talking this guy, the guy I’m (17:24) circling. Can you see that possibly on the mouse? No.Okay. (17:27) Anyway, that guy in the top right corner. That guy was the (17:32) one who got together about the Duke boys and accused the Duke (17:35) boys of the rape of that of that prostitute that never actually (17:38) happened.And I think when they asked him about it to apologize, (17:42) he goes, Why should I apologize? We’ve been oppressed for 400 (17:45) years. Just FYI, just just FYI. I think that was that guy might (17:49) have been the other guy, the guy with the two J’s.But I always (17:52) get the AS and two J’s mixed up the double double J. So anyway, (17:57) yeah, once again, you get it done by doing the hard work. (18:02) That’s what reporting is. You just have to work hard.That’s (18:04) it. And you’re a reporter. He admitted it is hard.Yeah, and (18:11) then morning. The slow clap. scripted slow clap, man.That’s (18:17) great. Isn’t it great? It’s beautiful. And once again, (18:22) Oh, good.You’re lying. You’re just lying. You have an (18:25) alternative set of facts.It’s not fair. It’s like, Dude, who (18:30) do you work for? Who are you talking to? People have to do (18:34) this because you guys aren’t doing your fucking jobs. Yep.(18:38) That’s it. And it is crazy. Like these weird cycles that happen (18:42) just historically in general, right? We’ve got I don’t want to (18:48) get shades of 40s and 30s.But we’ve got a nationalist (18:51) movement. That is a total pushback to some globalist (18:54) thing that was going on. Right? And that that was to some speech (18:59) suppression, which pushed it underground, which now, now (19:03) erupted back to where we started.We started becoming (19:06) the reporters to your point, we became the media, because they (19:09) were no longer doing their job. Or maybe they were doing their (19:13) job too well. Right? Because that’s what we’re finding out is (19:16) what is the job of media? Is it really to find truth? (19:23) Yeah, I think if you still believe that you got much (19:26) bigger problems.Does anyone believe that like no one trusts (19:30) the media except I guess maybe if you’re older than 70 you’re (19:35) still watching Fox News in the nursing home. (19:39) All right. That’s exactly right.Did you hear the thing (19:42) about Fox News? I’m going to share this one this post in a (19:44) second. Did you see anything about something? Was it on Fox (19:47) News or CNN where they’re like, our people are too old to push (19:51) the button on the remote control. That’s like how they perceive (19:55) their audience.Like, literally, they’re just dying out. (19:59) Completely dying out. So um, so basically, Zach was sharing (20:03) something about his fat cat in a box.A while Aaron jumped on (20:06) Welcome, guys. So I’m assuming he’s talking about Schrodinger, (20:10) which we covered Schrodinger in another podcast episode. (20:14) There’s so many comments.I just realized. (20:16) I know. I literally just clicked on the comments and they popped (20:19) up.So I’m a little behind everybody. So apologies. But (20:21) yeah, but it looks like Aaron and Zach are very lively in (20:24) there.So feel free to jump on. (20:26) Take Zach’s Morning Joe comment right there. Morning Joe’s great (20:30) entertainment.I sometimes watch to laugh and how retarded they (20:33) all are. Yeah, that is the only value that they have left, man. (20:36) I kind of hope they don’t ever go away because it’s so great to (20:40) just pull clips of them being idiots and laughing and mocking (20:43) mocking them.(20:44) Right. And it’s beautiful because Brzezinski once again, that (20:48) woman is the daughter of the guy Brzezinski who if you look at (20:53) his head, US American foreign policy, that guy’s frickin (20:59) fingerprints are all over it. He’s all over Scott’s book and (21:04) provoked all over all over the 80s and all the time provoked (21:08) right there.There it is. He’s got it. So once again, it’s (21:13) crazy because Brzezinski is literally in everything.I mean, (21:17) like it’s like Kissinger Brzezinski. And then like, you (21:20) know, I mean, and then you’re like, wait, the daughter of the (21:23) most influential foreign affairs guy is the host or co host of (21:29) the most popular, you know, quote unquote, popular mainstream (21:35) messaging service. Like, because you can’t look at news is news.(21:38) It’s not like it’s like, you know, it’s a messaging service. (21:41) It’s just whatever the message is. It’s not always truth.(21:44) Right? It’s whatever the message is, right? And we’re going to (21:47) show that throughout some of these clips that we’ll shot (21:49) through that throughout this. (21:50) Yeah. I guess on the alternative set of facts thing, there’s there (21:55) really is like a difference between how people see the (21:59) world.And we kind of talked about that in our simulation (22:02) thing. And in our free will thing, like, maybe you don’t (22:06) control it. It’s influenced by what you what groups you’re in (22:10) what you watch, what you consume, who you hang out with.(22:14) So it’s, it’s hard to say. And I’m always like on guard to make (22:20) sure that I’m seeing the right, the right movie. It’s like the (22:23) two movies on one screen phenomenon.People are seeing (22:27) different things, different realities, and why it’s just (22:31) because of they Well, man, I’m really influenced by Andrew (22:36) talking to Andrew Heaton. Like, he really got in my head (22:39) thinking about these tribes. It’s really great podcast.(22:43) Yeah. And we and I love talking tribalism. Please go ahead.(22:47) It comes down to what tribe you’re in, what you believe and (22:51) you are perfectly your brain, maybe not consciously, but your (22:55) brain is perfectly happy to believe things that are not (22:58) true, when they fit in with what the tribe thinks. And so what (23:02) each side of the mainstream media is doing is feeding what (23:08) their tribe wants to hear and selling the fact that the other (23:11) tribe is just this awful, murderous, terrible, terrible (23:17) people that if they got in power, they will destroy everything (23:20) about your life. And none of that’s true.I mean, any (23:24) government’s gonna destroy your life, but at a certain level, (23:29) you know, (23:29) yeah, but on but on a broader scale, remember, the bigger (23:32) forces at play are actually the ones pushing both sides of the (23:38) buttons. So it’s like, even the two tribes aren’t really two (23:43) tribes. It’s an illusion of two tribes.It’s literally the (23:47) illusion so that we create some kind of choice when there really (23:52) is a pseudo choice. Now, I will argue, once again, not defending (23:57) who Trump is, I did not vote for Trump in 2020. 2024.I apologize. (24:02) Did not vote for Trump in 2024. When he won the presidency.Okay, (24:06) this last time, I did not vote for him. I voted no, no. First (24:09) time ever I broke, I broke free from the voting thing on on (24:13) actual people.I voted on like, you know, the like the policies, (24:16) the props and stuff, but on direct direct initiatives. But (24:19) anyway, that said, like, Trump is, is an atypical guy. But he (24:25) wasn’t.He wasn’t until they made him that. Yeah, honestly, (24:30) his first term, if they would have just shut up. He would have (24:34) won a second, it would have actually been over by now.It (24:39) would already been over. Honestly, nothing would have (24:42) changed because they wouldn’t have upset the hornets nest. (24:45) That’s just a dude you don’t mess with.It’s just, that’s (24:48) what I think they’re doing. I think they just picked the very (24:51) wrong person to screw with. (24:54) Yes, agreed.And I think they really kind of they really (24:59) messed up going too far with this division stuff, because it (25:03) doesn’t play well in the short term, it plays well for them to (25:06) get us to fight each other and not focus on what’s going on at (25:09) the top. But I feel like they pushed it way too far. Now (25:13) people are really seeing.It’s just absurd, right? Like, you (25:19) watch the news, like, oh, none of that’s real. Okay. It’s just (25:22) too obvious.They’re trying to make you think you hate your (25:26) neighbor. But when you go talk to your neighbor, you’re fine. I (25:33) hate everybody.But you know what I’m talking about? Does (25:38) that make sense? Yeah. (25:39) No, no, you make total sense. And and even on top of that.(25:44) What’s interesting is like, I don’t know, we agree on so many (25:49) things. Like, what do we really disagree on? You know what I (25:52) mean? So like, if you actually talk with someone, you can have (25:55) a conversation about pretty much anything without getting into a (25:58) fight. And that would be any stranger, you could figure (26:00) something to talk about.(26:02) Right, right. Yeah, so we don’t need to be hating each other. (26:06) This is all stupid.(26:08) Yeah. And that’s the thing is like, like, to your point, (26:10) you’re saying, you know, Fox, Fox is is not CNN. Okay, sure.And (26:16) I love it. Because I like I’ll talk to my mom. Yeah, but (26:18) there’s, but they have some truth to it.And you’re like, (26:20) yeah. Yeah. CNN has some truth to it, too.They do. It’s just, (26:25) it’s like 90% not. But if you ever go and align yourself (26:31) against what they align with war, far big pharma, any kind (26:37) of anything that pays their bills, the deep state, like, (26:41) they’re not gonna let you be on there.And we talked, you know, (26:43) we’re gonna go into those things as well. So it’s like, as long (26:46) as you’re playing within that range, you know, like even Norm (26:49) Chomsky, Norm Chomsky talks about, there’s a range. I mean, (26:52) Carlin, it’s a range of things they want you to work with.And (26:55) the greatest example here is this, you and I are arguing, (26:58) debating on troops in Iraq. And you say, I want 50,000 troops in (27:03) Iraq, we need 50,000 troops. And I come I go, you’re ridiculous.(27:07) You’re such a warmonger. We only need 25,000 troops. Well, what? (27:13) No, no, no, no, I should be saying zero.No, no, I should be (27:18) saying zero. But what do we say is we start we already set the (27:22) range between 25 and 50. Now.And that’s like to the public, (27:27) and they don’t even know it. Like, no one says zero. No, they (27:31) say 25.And the other guy says 50. Now we’re arguing between (27:34) 25 and 50. But troops are going and troops are going to die and (27:38) other people are gonna get hurt.That’s just how that’s just how (27:40) it’s going to end up. Right? (27:42) Yeah. And that’s that’s part of the good of Trump is that he (27:45) broke that Overton window, he broke out of it.He’s like, you (27:49) guys are talking about this, again, not saying Trump is good (27:52) at a lot of things, but he was good at making the media lose (27:56) their minds and reveal their game. So that’s, it’s not (27:59) nothing. (28:00) And that’s the truth is just he spoke like, he had gas, but he (28:04) didn’t give a shit.It wasn’t he wasn’t trying to get like hide (28:08) the gas. Like, Biden would misspeak on like, and screw up (28:12) and say a gas, which is basically a fact that he didn’t want (28:15) anyone to know about. But Trump’s like, they got all the (28:18) oil.We want the oil. Look at look at him with Ukraine goes, (28:21) we just invested 300 billion. We want it back in minerals.At (28:25) least he’s like, dude, the guy’s just not he doesn’t have (28:29) the same. It’s a different spirit. It really is like a (28:31) business mentality.And I think that kind of jives with our life (28:35) way more than like a governmental bureaucracy jives. (28:39) And I think that’s why people warm up to him. And I’m not once (28:42) again, not defending the person or whatever.But you know, (28:47) you’re you’re shaking, you’re not in your head in the first (28:49) 100, you know, first 100 days or whatever, so far has been pretty (28:52) darn crazy. 73. Exactly.Wow, man, I, I love that it’s now in (28:58) the conversation, that we can shut things down that there is (29:01) government waste everywhere. And that we can start to actually (29:05) make a difference in this. (29:09) Here’s a good one for me.While Aaron, if you want to take that (29:11) one, mocking has become a new form of art means that mock are (29:15) the new hot news. Yeah, definitely. (29:18) And it’s funny, because like, oh, good.Something you said (29:22) reminded me of Michael Malice, who says the the corporate press (29:25) is truth or no, they’re factual, but not truthful. I would say (29:30) they’re often factual, but never truthful. Sometimes they just (29:34) make up facts too.But a good example of that is just cutting (29:38) clips out of context, like Trump’s fine people, they’re (29:42) very fine people on both sides. That was really bad. Sorry.(29:46) It’s fine people on both sides. (29:50) They just cut that out of context and said, Oh, yeah, (29:53) Trump said that Nazis are fine people. (29:56) I mean, to the point where an ex president uses that in his (30:01) speech, he called them very fine people.He’s other very fine (30:05) people. And you’re like, fucking Obama. Obama can fucking say (30:09) that shit.Like, are you serious? He can come out there (30:12) and be like, use that rhetoric. He doesn’t have something else (30:16) really. That’s how shout that’s where you’re at with like, (30:19) those.That’s the ammunition you have is like, crappy clips. You (30:25) know, completely out of context. While Meanwhile, meanwhile, (30:28) during the same time, the SUV killed six people in a parade.(30:32) Right? Another SUV killed some people in a parade. A gun shot (30:37) up 20 people in a school. Like, oh, yeah.Who was I’m sorry, (30:42) who is operating those things? Oh, that’s right. That would (30:46) ruin your narrative. Because those those facts would get in (30:49) the way.So you don’t want to share those facts. You know, it (30:52) is an SUV. You’re right.That did hit those people. But I (30:55) think the Saudi driver, whatever the you know, whatever immigrant (30:59) driver from Germany or whatever, was the one who got upset and (31:02) was the one actually intentionally trying to hurt (31:04) people. You know, just just as an aside, and I’m sure that’ll (31:07) get us off of YouTube for this one.But whatever. (31:11) Fuck you, dude. (31:12) Yeah, fuck YouTube.Also, I agree. Oh, yeah. And this one’s (31:18) yeah.Fuck the feds. (31:21) They’re everywhere. Mark’s probably a fed for all I know.(31:25) You know what, I think that’s what happened. You notice how (31:27) big my presence has come. I like 1865 followers at the beginning (31:31) of the week, and I’m down to 1810 or so.So I am. I’m well on (31:36) the way to be a Krasnstein 3.0. You look out. I want to be a (31:41) system 2.0 is what I want to be.(31:46) Let’s move on. Yeah, let’s move on. Let’s move on.So this, this (31:50) clip is what I mentioned at the beginning. So go this was going (31:53) around a few days ago, because it’s insane. You’ll know it (31:57) once you see it.But this lady on face the nation’s talking to (31:59) Marco Rubio, talking about a liberals favorite historical (32:03) period, which is also maybe the only one that they know about (32:07) World War Two, Nazi Germany. Yeah, let’s get into it. (32:14) Well, I’d argue they only know Hitler.They don’t even call him (32:16) Stalin ever. They’ve never said he’s a Stalin. Just saying, you (32:22) know, all right, that’s true.They only know the German part. (32:25) They probably don’t even know that Italy was part of it. (32:30) Exactly.Nor Japan. (32:32) Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was (32:36) weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the (32:40) head of a political party that has far right views, and some (32:46) historic ties to extreme groups.The context of that was changing (32:54) the tone of it. And you know that that the censorship disagree (32:57) with you. No, I have to disagree with you.(33:02) Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The (33:05) genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that (33:08) happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they (33:11) hated minorities, and they hated those that they had a list of (33:13) people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free (33:16) speech in Nazi Germany.There was none. There was also no (33:19) opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party (33:22) that govern that country.So that’s not an accurate (33:24) reflection of history. (33:28) Yeah, so kudos to Rubio for getting one right. For a guy (33:32) that’s full of shit most of the time.(33:35) And once again, we’ll talk about that. This is this is a great (33:38) one. These guys, Tulsi, RFK, Hegseth gets through with Vance’s (33:43) vote.I mean, he’s the only one who really just scraped by. But (33:46) all these people got through. Yeah, but basically 50-50, right? (33:50) Yeah.(33:51) Marco Rubio goes up. 99-0. 99-4.Yays. And Rand Paul is one of (33:59) them. I looked it up.Just by the way, I think you asked. (34:01) Yes, he did vote for Rubio. (34:02) I don’t know who the absent was, honestly, or whoever just was (34:07) abstained or whatever.But I did share that sheet. But that (34:11) scared us going in, right? It did. And we’re finding at least, (34:15) look, this is what actually bothers me about Rubio.And he’s (34:19) saying the absolute correct things. It’s hard to argue (34:24) against the correct thing. Like, Dave Smith argues all the time (34:30) for what I would argue most of the time is correct.I rarely (34:35) find myself in a disagreement. Now, there might be very fine (34:38) points that might disagree. But on whole general concepts, I (34:41) don’t.But when you watch a Marco Rubio, who also initiated (34:45) while he stood with Dick Durbin, to let in 500,000 Venezuelans (34:51) to disrupt their economy, to mess them up, to take American (34:56) jobs, 500,000. He signed on to that. Okay, no one does anyone (35:02) know? No, because Republicans don’t do immigration problems.(35:07) They don’t fucking allow people to come in the country. No, (35:10) they do. They do when it fits their agenda, right? So Rubio (35:15) signs on with Dick Durbin and all these other guys.Okay. And (35:19) he brings all those guys over from Venezuela back. It was (35:22) whatever, 2014, 16, 18, whatever.Now he’s talking like (35:26) this. And all that tells me is he’s a slimy, manipulative piece (35:30) of clay. That’s not dissimilar from Kabbalah.Would you ever (35:34) have heard Rubio talk like that on a Republican debate? He would (35:38) have taken some Republican neocon rhetoric bullshit. And he (35:42) would have tried to shove that and gotten collapse, right? (35:44) Imagine Ron Paul on a debate stage and saying something (35:48) that’s that Rubio could just whatever he wouldn’t be like (35:51) that. He just I just don’t see it.So like to think that, you (35:56) know what I mean? Not not to her point had any valid (35:59) validation. It was amazing what he said. But once again, let’s (36:04) take it with a grain of salt to the guy seems to be a piece of (36:08) clay right now.And he’s he knows right now, anything (36:12) against Trump is a death blow, politically. So I don’t think (36:15) he’s stepping out of line. He didn’t see many Republicans step (36:18) out of line.The only one who did was Mitch. (36:22) And we don’t know what happened after this clip ended. He could (36:25) have gone straight into.And that’s why we need to go to war (36:27) with Iran. (36:29) Is Iran, but it is around China. I mean, let’s not kid ourselves.(36:32) JD Vance. And those guys have a hard on for Iran and China for (36:36) some reason. So I mean, I mean, look, what’s his face? Gates (36:41) even has it.(36:42) I was told by people in the you know, the high deep state. They (36:45) told me that Iran did it all. It’s like, yeah, dude, Iran.(36:48) Iran did it. Sure. Okay.Anyway, yeah. But that that clip is so (36:52) beautiful. Watching.Watching. I mean, come on. What are your (36:55) thoughts about her waiting free speech? (36:58) Free speech caused the Holocaust is because they were allowed to (37:02) say that we don’t like Jews or something.That’s, that was the (37:06) problem. It’s just ridiculous. Like, how could you say that (37:10) with a straight face? I don’t get it.But so they’ll, they’ll (37:13) go after free speech when it’s convenient for them. But if (37:15) anyone dares to talk about the media, they’re like, No, First (37:19) Amendment, free press, it’s in there. So they’re just, again, (37:23) super hypocritical.It’s fucking stupid, man. In what? (37:29) It’s pretty. Go ahead.I’m good. No, no, it’s crazy. Because (37:32) like, I can tell you and watch Jordan Peterson, Jordan (37:35) Peterson does a very good job of how Nazism came to be.And and (37:40) trust me, I know it, because I exhibit some of that culture, (37:44) because literally, my grandfather was a Nazi soldier. (37:48) And he helped raise me here in America. So like the the (37:52) cultures in there, right? And how Germans did it was anything they (37:57) saw that they didn’t like, they saw with disgust.They didn’t (38:03) see it with a disagreement they saw with disgust. And when they (38:07) were able to make everything disgusting, what do you do to (38:11) things that disgust you, you eradicate them, you do not agree (38:14) with it, you don’t give in, you clean up the disgusting things. (38:19) And that’s how they got it.They started with rats and like whole (38:22) like this clean service and health. And they got they took (38:25) the state and they actually made the state bigger to think that (38:28) communism and fascism are different. They’re just state (38:31) wielded just different ways.They’re still state centralized (38:34) power. You know, yes. And I had that I had that great (38:38) conversation with Reiner Zittelman.Oh, good. (38:40) Just to know that. Yeah, the Nazi regime did not go around (38:45) saying, Hey, everyone can speak freely.If you spoke anything (38:48) against them, you’re out. You’re going to a concentration camp, (38:52) brother. Like this is just so ridiculous.Go ahead. I’m sorry (38:56) I interrupted you. (38:57) No, no, that’s all.And that’s the thing is like, you didn’t (38:59) even have to speak out. You you harbored one in your basement. (39:03) They made no noise.Didn’t didn’t bother. Obviously, (39:06) they’re in the flood. They’re in an attic.They’re not bothering (39:08) anybody in the attic when you’re feeding them just barely enough (39:10) to survive. Yeah, they had to get rid of them too, right? They (39:13) had to go through every house. You know, it’s like, and yeah, (39:17) free speech does not know when this stuff goes underground is (39:20) when this stuff happens.They started fighting free speech. (39:23) Look what happened to weather the weatherman, right or the (39:25) weather people or whatever they were in the 70s. Weather (39:29) over the universities, right? (39:31) Yeah.Now I forgot what I was gonna say. Just Oh, when when (39:38) Trump talks about like, putting people in a database and like (39:43) rounding up immigrants and Mexicans and whatever, like, (39:47) okay, that’s concerning. That’s at least getting towards (39:51) somewhere where you’d reasonably say, it’s similar to what (39:55) happened in Nazi Germany.Okay, I’m fine with at least drawing a (40:00) little bit of a comparison there. It’s extreme. But just to (40:04) say that free speech did it.It’s just retarded. (40:08) Yeah. I mean, look, free speech allowed Hitler to say what he (40:14) said, I guess.But then once an ideology took over, they shut (40:19) down any opposing viewpoints. Right? I mean, that’s just how (40:23) that’s how authoritarianism works. (40:26) Yeah.It wasn’t just like, the Jews are bad. It’s all their (40:30) fault that are no, no, not at all. No, it was we just got our (40:33) next stepped on by the West after they after World War One.(40:37) I mean, look how how he took power. What? It was ingenious. I (40:41) mean, he said it, he do what he did.And then he did it. And (40:44) then people are like, oops, we gave him too much. It’s like, (40:48) well, you also I don’t know.There’s a lot of so nuanced to it (40:51) right? Like Darrell Cooper, how much flack he’s still getting (40:53) for the whole Winston Churchill thing. Just even for making (40:57) like a little joke. You know, Dave Smith brought it up again (41:00) today.But anyway, all right. Let’s move on, sir. Where are (41:03) we at? (41:04) They’re there.Okay, so they’re talking about Holocaust. They’re (41:07) trying to draw these comparisons to what Elon and Trump are (41:10) doing. Cutting the government, which is ironic again, but in (41:16) this next one, Elon got asked about basically called out (41:21) saying he’s doing a hostile takeover of the government.This (41:24) is from CNN. (41:26) All right, let me pull it up. The Musk coup.The Musk coup. (41:36) I did what? Including a lot of Democrats. I am detractors.I (41:44) don’t believe it. Say that you’re orchestrating a hostile (41:47) takeover of government and doing it in a non transparent way. (41:51) What’s your response to that criticism? (41:54) Well, first of all, you couldn’t ask for a stronger mandate from (41:58) the public.The public voted. We have a majority of the public (42:05) vote voting for President Trump. (42:08) Can we pause it there? (42:10) Yeah, hold on.(42:12) The people voted. (42:14) It gets a little dry when Musk starts talking. But yeah, what (42:19) do you think about this mandate thing? Do you think that the (42:23) Trump administration now has this big mandate to go do (42:26) whatever the hell they want? (42:27) Oh, I know.But I also think that Trump is a lame duck (42:34) president who doesn’t need to worry about reelection. And I’m (42:40) on board with an upset of the apple cart right now. Now, I’m (42:44) not on board with creating power and putting power in the hands (42:49) of people to do it.You know what I mean? But like, I guess (42:53) you got to do that to do you got to push back with force, (42:56) right, to make the force that you created the first thing (42:59) with, like, I hate, I hate that that’s kind of the case. So the (43:02) disruption to me is beautiful. Now, on USAID’s case, that was (43:07) made by executive order.So all the people who talked about (43:10) Congress funding and all it doesn’t. The President has (43:14) control of USAID, for example. So whatever he did with that, he (43:18) could just pull the whole plug if he wanted.(43:22) Yeah, agree. I don’t believe in a mandate. I don’t believe that (43:27) they can do whatever the hell they want.Yes. Like you said, I (43:29) am happy that they’re turning the cart over. They’re shining a (43:33) light on some things.We’ll see if it makes a big difference in (43:37) the long run. I don’t know. But what I want people to see if (43:41) you’re against this, if you’re freaking out right now, because (43:45) Elon is doing this, this is democracy.This is what you (43:49) voted for. Right? Whoever we vote for gets all the power. And (43:54) if you feel like it’s too much, and they’re just free to do (43:57) anything they want.Can you understand that this is not a (44:00) good system? This is not working for people. We don’t have to (44:04) have the same shit. Like go do your own thing in New York.Go (44:07) have one in California. Let us be our own people. (44:12) It’s excellent points.And that that is really what it is about. (44:16) Right? Because we talked about the power thing. Like, yeah, if (44:19) you agree with it, like I said, I’ve talked about this RFK as a (44:23) president would be dangerous.Because yes, he want to do good. (44:28) Okay. But once again, you and I define what good is for you and (44:31) me and for everybody.It’s different. It’s different, (44:35) right? So what you and I do is why give them the power in the (44:39) first place. Take away the power so that no matter who has it, (44:44) it’s only like a reference point at best.Not a tyrannical (44:49) authority, you know? (44:51) Yes. So yeah, I’ve talked a lot about the common good. We’re (44:56) gonna do things for the common good.It’s just like, what is (44:59) that? Define it? What’s good? What’s good? (45:02) Three, three seats in the Senate and a couple seats in the House (45:07) of 435. Like that’s not a mandate. Like we definitely it (45:12) definitely spoke with like, this country is pretty 5050.And (45:16) it just, it just kind of is, you know? (45:20) Anyway, (45:22) when the popular vote is something that doesn’t happen (45:26) very often. (45:27) No. And that was a rare thing.So that that speaks to it. (45:30) Because like, if you ever looked at the US map and elections by (45:33) county, it’s like all red except for a few huge blue spots, which (45:37) happen to be highly dense, popularly popular urban areas. (45:41) Yeah, but even that it’s still it wasn’t even a majority.It was (45:44) 49 point something percent. So it’s not you can’t even say it’s (45:48) a majority of people that voted and then take into account people (45:51) that didn’t vote because they don’t like their choices. It’s (45:55) not it’s not a mandate.(45:57) No, no, sir. No. And like, to your point is like, the person (46:01) though that got elected, you got you’re getting what you wish for (46:04) in a weird way.And then you’re saying it’s too much where you (46:07) and I, before the pendulum even started swinging back was like, (46:10) be cautious of what they’re going to do with it. Because of (46:14) what they’re going to do with the power you give them, right? (46:16) Like, no, you want them to do it. So we’ll just give them the (46:20) power.But then the next people aren’t going to use it the same (46:23) way. You know, like, I don’t know how you can be that myopic. It (46:27) just, it makes no sense how you play that short sighted, like (46:29) 1d checkers, you know? (46:32) Yeah, I’ll continue.(46:34) Yep, let’s keep going. (46:37) For major government reform. There should be no doubt about (46:41) that.That was on the campaign. The President spoke about that (46:45) at every rally, the people voted for major government reform. And (46:49) that’s what people are going to get.They’re going to get what (46:50) they voted for. And a lot of times that you know, people that (46:54) don’t get what they voted for. But in this presidency, they are (46:57) going to get what they voted for.And that’s what democracy is all (47:00) about. (47:05) There’s your democracy. (47:07) That’s democracy in a nutshell.You get what some people vote (47:12) for. (47:13) And the founding fathers understood the republic portion (47:17) of this having a representative democracy. Like people directly (47:23) in a mass psychosis kind of way.And we saw that with with (47:28) Robert Malone talked about a mass psychosis as well as diary (47:31) of a psychosis with Tom Woods. We’re seeing like groups, you (47:35) know, people are good. Individual people are good (47:38) person good groups of people to your point get very dangerous (47:42) very quickly.(47:44) Yeah, and a lot of people aren’t even voting for the person. It’s (47:47) just like, wow, fuck the other ones just so much worse. I (47:50) couldn’t stand that.So I’ll vote for this guy. (47:55) Yeah, it’s like, oh, it’s my Oh, red’s my favorite color. So I (47:58) guess I’ll vote Republican this year.(48:00) That doesn’t mean you get to be a dictator. Although again, I’m (48:03) not going to be mad when they shut down government agencies (48:06) that I’m just not some libertarian will be some are (48:11) already complaining. Oh, this is still state action.I don’t (48:15) care. Shut it down. If it takes that.Do it. (48:18) Hey, and and correct. It is.It’s like a yes and to me right (48:22) now. I do agree. I but if there’s a reduction in (48:28) government, if there’s a net reduction, what my concern was (48:32) doge was going to be created in some weird frickin way, and then (48:36) wasn’t going to do anything with it.Now, if it’s going to be (48:40) created, and the net is an is a net cut on things that there’s (48:47) nothing wrong with that. Because they’ve already taken our money. (48:50) Right? I mean, they’ve they’ve they’re stealing our money as it (48:53) is.So I’d rather you just blow it less poorly. (48:57) I’m telling you, I want the $5,000 check. And I want the IRS (49:02) shut down.It doesn’t have to be one of the other guys. Give me (49:05) some of my money back. That’ll be a small drop in the bucket of (49:08) everything I’ve paid so far in Texas.(49:11) Is that 5000 every person won’t do anything to inflation. (49:17) It’s already out there, man. The money’s already there.(49:21) Right? Right. (49:24) All right, my friend, people that actually pay taxes. (49:27) Well, there you go.True. And only ones that pay more than (49:30) 5000. Maybe.And then you just get your money back up to five. (49:36) And then (49:38) I don’t know, even if you paid 1000, you probably paid at least (49:41) five in your lifetime. You can have a go.(49:44) Bring it all back. Bring it all back. (49:47) Bring it back.I’m kidding. But anyways, yeah, so they’re mad at (49:53) Elon Musk again. They used to love the guy.But (49:58) I know it’s so crazy how he was just the innovator, the creator (50:01) of the electric car, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I (50:04) remember initial top gear. I remember there being some (50:07) controversy behind that when they got the first Tesla Roadster, (50:11) because like it was all the gearhead, like petrol industry (50:15) that was going to shit on the electric car industry.So they (50:18) beat the living shit out of the car and made it kind of seem (50:21) like it wasn’t up to snuff. I don’t know if you ever saw that (50:25) But like, they kind of, and then you watch it, you’re like, Oh, (50:28) really? Because it because I think Jeremy Clarkson talked (50:30) about it, because he got pulled in some, you know, weird (50:33) conspiracy thing where they went after him, you know what I (50:35) mean? And he’s like, screw it. You know, here’s all the secrets (50:39) he should know.Everything’s rigged. You know, everything’s (50:42) fucking rigged. (50:44) Yeah, right.It really is. Everything is. And there’s some (50:49) irony here about Musk talking about unelected bureaucrats (50:52) because he is one.But it’s a much bigger irony for the media (50:57) to be talking about Musk as this big unelected bureaucrat when (51:02) that has been our system of government forever. Forever. At (51:07) least 100 years, (51:08) Rockefellers didn’t create the Fed, right? Like, no one pushed (51:11) anyone into wars.Lockheed Martin doesn’t advocate, you (51:14) know, like, what? Yeah. (51:17) I mean, it’s even in. It’s in the Constitution, right? Like (51:21) the President picks these people for his cabinet.And yes, (51:25) Doge is not a cabinet position. But does it matter? It’s just a (51:29) title. Anyway, so I’m, yeah, like Justin says, I can’t (51:36) imagine how anyone whose ultimate goal is the reduction (51:38) of size and scope of government can be upset at this first (51:42) month under Trump.Yeah, it’s things are happening that I (51:45) never thought I would see. So yeah, again, I’m skeptical about (51:49) the long term effects. Is it going to stick? Is it going to (51:52) actually do anything? Are they going to stop it somehow? But or (51:56) is it going to come right back as soon as he gets out? I don’t (51:59) know.But yeah, I’m not. I’m not mad about it. (52:03) At all.And it’s funny, because like, once again, you see the (52:06) point from the people who live in different worlds. And I have (52:09) a buddy who posted something about Trump enriching (52:12) billionaires. And you’re like, the message isn’t the rich need (52:16) to pay their fair share.That’s not what you should be (52:19) spreading. The message should be no fucking taxes, period. (52:27) taxation is theft across the board.Not they got to pay their (52:32) fair share because they’re making me pay my fair share. No, (52:36) we should all be fighting to pay and pay any share. The (52:39) government should stop printing any money should have no role (52:42) in that should have no business in that.And if things would be (52:45) much different, much different if we had if we had most of (52:48) those people are probably billionaires because they cozy (52:52) it up to the right people in government because they got (52:54) special favors. (52:56) Zach still talking about this is a quick break. Alright, so we’ve (53:03) got a couple people on chat.We’ve got a wall Aaron, we got I (53:06) am for I am we got Zach, we got Justin, welcome, everybody, (53:10) whoever else. It’s funny Valley girls send me a message on on (53:13) the X. I don’t want to get too personal about it. But she was (53:18) unable to attend right now.But hopefully she’s okay. Hopefully (53:22) everything’s okay. Yeah.Okay, so Zach bought some filter some (53:27) water filter thing. And I don’t know, can you pull that up (53:29) Jason on your Twitter anywhere? Do you have that in the next (53:33) starts email. So he got some water filter.If you could post (53:38) that water filter in the comments. And Zach’s had five (53:42) glasses of this water today. I don’t know what he’s really (53:46) excited about it.So we want to share we want to share in his (53:50) excitement. I won’t let me post a picture. Okay, anyway, is it (53:55) does it have the post what it’s called or something that’s just (53:57) the link or anything? Copy link? I don’t know.I don’t know (54:00) anything about anyway. So here we go. So Zach’s got this cool (54:04) water filter.If you want to put the link in Zach, go ahead and (54:06) put it in the comments. We’ll post it up there. An aqua gear (54:09) filter container.That’s what he said it is. Oh, Justin does (54:14) the kang kangin. So but it’s the one Justin what’s it called? (54:20) Aqua gear.Aqua gear container filter. (54:24) Aqua gear. There it is.All right. You want to read that one (54:26) to Forrest Jason? Justin? (54:28) Yeah, Justin says they’re going after Elon because that is who (54:32) they can charge up their base. Trump is too popular.Their (54:35) other option is defending corruption. So the only choice (54:37) they have is attacking Elon’s access. Yeah, they’re all worried (54:41) about his clearance and oh, he’s got your information bro (54:44) like everyone’s got your information.The government has (54:47) had your information. At least since the Patriot Act. They’ve (54:51) got everything.You don’t have to worry about that. (54:54) Yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s going after my tax return for 2016. (54:58) Yeah.I’ll post my tax returns if you want them. I don’t care. (55:02) I know.I love people are like, Oh, be careful your identity (55:05) theft. I’m like you want it? You want it? You know, I’m always (55:11) happy to offer a different identity. So there it is.(55:15) We got to get a sponsorship from this company. (55:18) Yeah, we’re gonna need this Aqua gear sponsorship. (55:22) Again, until they pay me pay up, bro.(55:24) I guarantee one of the 36 people that are watching right now. 37 (55:29) people live are are one of them is an Aqua gear representative (55:33) and they will reach out to us. Oh, we’re up to 38.Look at this. (55:36) We were just flying through everyone. Welcome.Welcome to (55:39) another Consciously Unmasked. Top right logo shows it all. It (55:44) is Jay.It is Jason’s Guy Fawkes mask on top of some both of our (55:48) swollen brains I think is what it is. But we’re talking about (55:51) the media and how effed up they are. So where shall we (55:55) continue, sir? (55:56) Let’s go to the next clip.This is from the Daily Show. One of (56:01) the days where Jon Stewart is not hosting. So sorry about (56:04) that.But they’re talking about (56:06) it wrong too. (56:09) But at least it’s better. (56:12) Yeah, it’s true.100% Are you ready, sir? Yeah, go ahead. All (56:18) right. It’s good that we have Elon Musk here, because we’ve (56:25) been watching him slashing programs and shuttering agencies (56:28) for a month now we can finally ask Elon, why are you doing (56:33) this? (56:33) If the people cannot vote on how they will be decided by their (56:38) elected representatives in the form of the president and the (56:42) Senate and the House, then we don’t live in a democracy.We (56:45) live in a bureaucracy. So it’s incredibly important that the (56:49) president of the House and the Senate decide what happens as (56:52) opposed to an a large unelected bureaucracy. (56:56) Wow.What? Wow. I mean, you see why this guy’s a genius. You (57:02) don’t want an unelected bureaucrat running the country.(57:05) It makes a lot of sense. No questions here. I do have one (57:08) question though.(57:20) Am I going crazy? Because it feels like I’m watching Drake (57:24) saying not like us at karaoke. (57:33) Yeah, I guess the point is, does he not know that he’s an (57:38) unelected bureaucrat at this point? Yeah. But the irony is (57:42) that they don’t give a shit about the ones that are there (57:46) doing fucked up things.They care about the ones that are (57:48) shutting down the gravy train. That’s really it. (57:52) And it’s funny, because once again, Musk got it wrong, (57:56) because what does he say? Democracy, and he talks about (57:59) the three branches.And the whole point about the checks and (58:02) the balances is about the being a republic, right? Like, it’s (58:05) kind of the way it’s not really designed the same way, right? (58:08) Because the SCOTUS, not a single SCOTUS member is elected by the (58:13) by the public, not a single one. So there’s a whole branch of the (58:18) electorate that he mentioned that, you know what I mean? So (58:21) like, it would be nice if we all actually were taught this (58:27) stuff, actually how civics worked. Because like, when we (58:30) did, I think we had a little bit better handle on stuff.And (58:34) yeah, we had only one form of news that told us all the lies (58:38) versus like, five sources of news to tell us all the lies. (58:41) But, you know, at least we thought we had a little more (58:43) information or felt we were a little closer to it. (58:48) Yeah, the sad thing is, it doesn’t really work like they (58:50) teach it.It just, yeah, they say that, oh, yeah, the house (58:55) votes on stuff. And then blah, blah, blah, the court decides on (59:00) the law, they’re unbiased. Yeah, no, that’s just impossible.It (59:03) doesn’t work that way. (59:05) Yeah. And it’s funny, when did the Supreme Court did the (59:07) Supreme Court eat or not eat before they made the ruling on (59:10) on the 2A decision? I would like to say they had full tummies.(59:14) They came right back from lunch. And they’re like, this is (59:16) bullshit. This 2A thing, this bump stock thing, this is (59:19) bullshit.But some of the other shit they kept, you’re like, (59:22) man, they must have been really hungry when they made that (59:24) ruling. (59:26) Yeah, I don’t know. So Elon, I mean, Elon has a lot of bad (59:30) takes too.Like when he was asked about Roger Ver. But he’s (59:35) like, nope, he gave up his citizenship, no pardon for him. (59:38) It’s only for you’re only in the club if you’re an American.So (59:41) it’s like, dude, fuck off, man. (59:44) Considering he’s a he is a nationalized American. Like, it (59:48) and maybe I think he’s allowed to have the opinion of that.(59:53) Saying like, look, I worked hard to become a nationalized (59:55) citizen. I’m offended that anyone would want to willingly (59:59) give that up. And that’s why I have this viewpoint.But he (1:00:03) didn’t, right? Like he came at it to your point, like no. And (1:00:07) you’re like, if he said it that way, isn’t that a different (1:00:11) isn’t a different approach? Even like, you could still disagree (1:00:14) and be wrong. But like, you don’t have an issue with his (1:00:17) viewpoint, if he can express it in a way that’s a lot more (1:00:20) cogent.(1:00:22) He’s cogent. (1:00:24) I just had to say because like, it’s coming. (1:00:28) Zach has a good comment.Do the shit lips forget that Bill (1:00:31) Gates and George Soros run the Democrats? Yeah, of course. They (1:00:35) we’ve been talking about that for years. They don’t care.(1:00:39) This guy on my Facebook. He’s some dude. I don’t know why.But (1:00:45) his his reply to me is some gif, gif, whatever it’s called, that (1:00:50) says stop. And it’s some different version of stop. And (1:00:54) then all right.What? Let me guess. I’m protecting the (1:00:58) billionaires, right? Because I know where he’s gonna go. All (1:01:01) he says, it’s the funniest rhetoric.You’re protecting the (1:01:05) billionaires, you’re protecting the billionaires. And then I (1:01:06) play him the clip from the DNC. Remember the guy who’s like, I’m (1:01:10) a true billionaire.He doesn’t even know what a billionaire is. (1:01:13) And all the DNC guys are like cheering. You’re like, Oh, who’s (1:01:17) protecting billionaires? Yeah, who’s got the bill? No, both of (1:01:22) us do.And you the funny thing you’re putting me in once again, (1:01:25) you’re making me defend the fucking orange hair. I’m not (1:01:29) here to defend. I’m here to talk about ideas.And there is (1:01:34) specific pieces of an idea like this issue would be good. This (1:01:39) would be bad. This would be you know, this would be good.This I (1:01:42) don’t care about. This is how I want to deal with it. I don’t (1:01:45) want to be all this because I’m blue all that because I’m red.(1:01:48) And it’s just like, it’s so silly. How people have to do (1:01:53) this, to your point, the tribalism, and he talks about (1:01:56) it so well, like, do you want to share a little bit about the (1:01:59) heat and story with the line the drawn line about the length of (1:02:02) it? I thought that was so fast. Oh, did you remember that? (1:02:07) Because I can remember.Yeah, so so this was a social (1:02:11) experiment, probably done at a university or something. But I (1:02:14) guess the teacher had had the students look at two lines. And (1:02:18) these are the same length of line, right? But I think this is (1:02:23) the one you’re thinking of the experiment was actually (1:02:26) noticeably longer than the other.Okay, yeah. So one’s (1:02:29) noticeably longer. They ask, which one is shorter? Right.(1:02:33) And I think they had some actors in the in the game. One guy was (1:02:37) an actor, but one who said that the longer line, the clearly (1:02:41) visible longer line was shorter. So he this guy, the one that’s (1:02:47) not in on the, the illusion here, he goes and sees this, and (1:02:52) he actually selects the one that is longer, even though the (1:02:56) question was, which one is shorter.And that just goes to (1:02:59) show that people will follow tribe. That doesn’t have to be (1:03:03) a repetitive repeated time and time again, too. It wasn’t like (1:03:06) a one time thing.Yeah. And that’s the thing, too, is like, (1:03:11) look, let’s be honest, you’re in a room with 10 people. Now, I (1:03:16) am wired differently.I swear to God, I would be I would not (1:03:19) say that. I just wouldn’t. I don’t know why.To my own (1:03:23) detriment. I’d be the dude at the outside of the tribe. I’d be (1:03:26) the one clubbed in the head, whatever.But imagine you’re a (1:03:30) one of 10 people. And nine of them are saying this thing is (1:03:33) blue, and it’s red or something. And you’re just like, does it (1:03:38) really affect my life if I say it’s blue? Whereas if I say it’s (1:03:42) red, like I’m gonna get undue nervousness, tension, anxiety, (1:03:48) I’m gonna my heart rates gonna go up because these other nine (1:03:50) people are gonna argue with me like, is it worth is the juice (1:03:54) worth the squeeze at that point? And think about that.Right. (1:03:59) And, and that’s the point, though. If it’s not, then you (1:04:04) are way more malleable, way more susceptible to those (1:04:08) things.Because like, if you think those little things don’t (1:04:11) matter, there’s nothing wrong. It’s okay to feel that way. (1:04:14) There’s, there’s no, but to people like you and I, who know (1:04:18) that the attention to detail is the mortar that holds the stuff (1:04:21) together, or the foundation that keeps the stuff going.That’s (1:04:24) the stuff that needs to be addressed. We feel those are the (1:04:27) issues. And sometimes you and I miss the big picture with the (1:04:32) fineness that we search into something, right.So we do. This (1:04:36) is why the variance of people so great, because some people can (1:04:39) see the big picture when we’re confined that micro thing. (1:04:46) Yeah.Anyway, (1:04:48) I’ve seen a version of that where it’s like people in a (1:04:50) waiting room. And there’s one real person, but then they have (1:04:53) a bunch of actors that go into the waiting room. And there’s a (1:04:56) beep happening.And every time there’s a beep, everyone stands (1:04:59) up. And it takes two or three times for this beep to go off. (1:05:03) But finally, the real person in there starts standing up with (1:05:06) the group.It’s very interesting. It’s like, there’s (1:05:10) no consequence if you don’t stand up, right? No one’s gonna (1:05:13) come in there and beat you up, but everyone’s doing it. So I (1:05:17) guess I got to do it.(1:05:19) Because because once again, evolution is the consequence (1:05:22) could be if you don’t do what the tribe does. You’re out. (1:05:25) Yeah.And when you were out back in the day, you were dead. You (1:05:28) didn’t you couldn’t do everything yourself. You just couldn’t.(1:05:32) And I’m starting to think that people are libertarians because (1:05:34) they don’t have that. There’s just something like wires got (1:05:39) missed or crossed or something. People are libertarians or (1:05:42) anarchists because they’re just like, No, I don’t care if it’s (1:05:46) blue or red.And it doesn’t matter if I say it’s red when (1:05:49) it’s blue. I still cannot tolerate not telling the truth. (1:05:52) Like it just can’t.So there’s probably just some defect of (1:05:57) humanity that we have. (1:05:59) I mean, look, let’s be we talk about the spectrum. And it’s (1:06:04) not like autism hasn’t been around.It’s just been it’s (1:06:07) just exacerbated just exponentially gone. It’s outside (1:06:10) of the realm of normal now. But yeah, it always existed to some (1:06:14) extent.People are disagreeable. People see other people as (1:06:18) means to an end. People like you and I like, we’re kind warm (1:06:22) people.We met totally genuine, nice to each other. But like (1:06:26) honestly, we would we could have easily been like, Yeah, I’m (1:06:29) cool. Not mean today, whatever, like, not because this is how (1:06:32) we’re wired, like not it has nothing to do with the (1:06:34) disrespect for you or whatever.Just be like how we feel about (1:06:37) it, like the experience or something. So like, that does (1:06:41) happen. You know, it’s and it’s real important to know that (1:06:45) like, and you’re right, libertarians are kind of just (1:06:48) wired a little, they’re a little off, just a little different.(1:06:53) And then when you isolate, then you isolate, and then it gets (1:06:57) then it gets exacerbated, man. Then you get boot on head guy, (1:07:01) you get naked guy, you get all those other weirdos who are (1:07:05) vermin supreme. Anyway, you want to share this, this, this (1:07:09) adjustment is this piece, (1:07:11) Justin, their outrage, as always, is completely (1:07:14) disingenuous.They only care about their own power, the (1:07:17) people, the debt or anything else they claim to champion the (1:07:20) cause for is all bullshit. That’s, of course, 100% true. (1:07:24) They don’t care, as long as they can keep their shit going, (1:07:28) keep their power going, keep the money coming in.That’s all (1:07:31) they care about. They’ll say whatever they need to say, to (1:07:34) get you to believe in their cause. And it’s never true.It’s (1:07:39) never what they really want to do. So to see like, Trump (1:07:45) actually going in and doing what he said he was going to do. (1:07:48) Yeah, we’re gonna shut shit down.We’re gonna shut the (1:07:50) Department of Education. To see him actually going in and at (1:07:54) least trying to do that is pretty amazing. (1:07:57) Yeah, what I really do is let’s be honest, we talked about it (1:08:00) too, is he’s moving so quickly that they can’t keep up.And I (1:08:03) think we get into that a little later, too. Yeah. And that’s a (1:08:06) beauty thing is just the this initial rush that he came in, it (1:08:11) seems like he came in prepared.It’s like he had a game plan. (1:08:15) Now, you can argue with what he wants to do with Gaza and (1:08:19) Edelson. You can ask, and I think you and I probably all do.(1:08:24) Okay, you can argue with all the other stuff. But he’s kept some (1:08:30) of his bar, he’s kept his, his, like campaign promises. He and (1:08:36) Angela work, you know, obviously, Thomas Massey has (1:08:39) always been pushing for Ross’s release.Okay? Yes, he has. But (1:08:45) we remember Trump and Massey kind of felt, you know, Massey (1:08:48) fell out of Trump’s good graces because he, he backed to Santa. (1:08:51) So it took a little while to get back.Meanwhile, Angela kept (1:08:54) carrying the torch for Ross, right? Ross got freed. Angela (1:08:57) did bring him to that convention. And I guarantee he (1:09:01) got votes from that convention.100% got votes from that (1:09:04) convention because you were not voting Kamala. And you (1:09:07) certainly vote weren’t voting who they forced in for the (1:09:09) libertarians. The guy who actually got less votes than the (1:09:13) guy who said don’t vote for him.Like literally, it’s it’s (1:09:16) unbelievable that the third party can it now. I’m not in (1:09:21) that party. But just as an outside observer, it kind of (1:09:24) hurt.But look, stuff got done. So Adelson was his biggest donor. (1:09:29) So when he does it when he when he’s doing his thing with gas, (1:09:31) it’s like, he’s doing what he said he he’s, he’s living up to (1:09:36) the what he said he made deals to get to be the president.Now (1:09:41) he’s doing the deals. It’s as simple as that, you know. Anyway, (1:09:45) so everybody, we got about 15 minutes or 45 minutes before we (1:09:48) call it a day.So I just want to let everybody know that we’re (1:09:51) gonna like, you’re like, Oh, crap, it’s seven. We’re out. (1:09:53) We’re gonna shut it down.But we’re just going to continue the (1:09:55) conversation. Like I said, we’ve got we’re on clip six. We (1:09:59) haven’t even played that one yet.But we’ve got 18 clips or (1:10:02) something. So we’re and I’ve even got more. So we’re just (1:10:04) going to talk about this till we run out of the topic.So it (1:10:07) might be two episodes or so. So we just want to let everybody (1:10:10) know about that. (1:10:11) Yeah, it might be two more after this.We’ll see. (1:10:13) Might be two more. (1:10:18) So back to Elon, just to kind of show where the media was a few (1:10:22) years ago, I pulled a couple of clips.This one’s from Elon Musk (1:10:26) on Stephen Colbert, just kind of having some good natured fun (1:10:30) with him. (1:10:32) Wasn’t it great? Like when they had the good times with him? (1:10:35) Yeah. I mean, yeah, just again, like, Elon hasn’t really (1:10:40) changed.Like maybe he’s more outspoken politically. But yeah, (1:10:45) just the fact that you get into politics gets people to hate you (1:10:49) and maybe there’s a good reason for that. We can talk about it.(1:10:53) Absolutely. And we will. And the other thing is, too.Well, I (1:10:57) mean, we’d argue that Elon is probably on the spectrum in some (1:10:59) way, and he’s probably been working on the social stuff. And (1:11:02) some of his earlier stuff, he was more quiet, and it seemed more (1:11:05) humble or whatever, but it might have been discomfort. And as (1:11:08) he’s gotten more and more comfortable, he’s gotten just to (1:11:10) be more expressive, as well.(1:11:13) Something I’m working on. (1:11:19) The TISM team’s on it, my friend. (1:11:21) People have called you the real Tony Stark.Okay, you’ve got your (1:11:25) finger in so many different advanced technologies. As I said, (1:11:29) SpaceX, Tesla, now you’ve got SolarCity and the solar pack that (1:11:33) people put in their houses. Are you sincerely trying to save the (1:11:39) world? (1:11:41) Well, I’m trying to do good things.Yeah, I mean, (1:11:46) yeah, that was it. Just a quick clip. He’s like, oh, teasing him (1:11:50) about, oh, are you a superhero or a supervillain? Are you trying (1:11:53) to save the world? It’s just it’s all positive.You know, there’s (1:11:57) some teasing, but it’s like, they like the guy. They had no (1:12:00) problems with him. (1:12:02) Absolutely had zero issue with him.Right. And like, to his (1:12:05) point is like, we’ve seen the meme, right? AWOL Iron mentioned (1:12:08) about the meme being like the news. And it’s like picture of (1:12:11) the Democrat or some donkey pushing out Tulsi, and then (1:12:15) pushing out RFK, and then pushing out Elon, and then (1:12:18) pushing out.And then like, why are you leaving us? Why are you (1:12:21) turning your back on us? Like, who threw who threw whom out? (1:12:25) Let’s see who turned on him. Right? Let’s be honest. The (1:12:29) shift when super, you can call it left or whatever.It just (1:12:33) went super non realistic. And crazy. It was para realism.Like (1:12:38) the whole world being Froot Loops and sprinkles and (1:12:41) unicorns and, and rainbows. Like, one can live that way as (1:12:46) an individual, but a society cannot live that way as it just (1:12:49) doesn’t work because like, shit needs to get done. It just (1:12:53) doesn’t work in that society.Right? Like, we were clear. And (1:12:56) that’s what he that’s what his, he was, he’s a blowback. Like, (1:13:00) he’s Ron Paul, just like RFK and Tulsi.They’re all blowback to (1:13:04) what the Democrats are had done to them as a party. (1:13:09) Yes, yes. I’ve been hearing this a lot.Just like, Oh, can you (1:13:12) believe they’re just coming out of nowhere and doing this stuff? (1:13:15) It’s like, No, Trump and Elon are there for a reason. It’s a (1:13:19) reaction to the crazy. There’s been so much crazy.(1:13:23) Yeah. And, and from 2016, Trump was a reaction. We were done.We (1:13:30) were done. Look, Bush was exposed for Iraq. Obama (1:13:34) continued with Afghanistan.The most drone strikes was another (1:13:39) eight years. So we had 16 years or 14, whatever, 14 year, (1:13:44) whatever, depending on when you want to really count it. But (1:13:46) 2001 was 911.So let’s go with 15 years from 2001 to 2016. End (1:13:52) of Obama, 15 years of this war mongering in the Middle East, (1:13:56) the stealing of our, of our, of our data. And I’m talking about (1:14:01) by our government, like the whole Freedom of Information Act, (1:14:05) the Patriot Act, or whatever, all that stuff, NSA, FISA 702, (1:14:09) that they just reinstated.And you’re like, now the Fourth (1:14:12) Amendment can be violated because they don’t even need a (1:14:14) warrant. And you’re like, and, and what I love is like, the (1:14:19) report that stated not a single thing was discovered from it. So (1:14:24) let’s double down on our surveillance.It’s like typical (1:14:28) government shit. Let’s fuck it up. (1:14:31) We just didn’t do it hard enough.(1:14:33) Right. (1:14:33) That’s always the answer. (1:14:34) Fuck it up.So let’s get double the funds to fuck it up twice as (1:14:37) badly. Like, I don’t, it never made sense. We didn’t govern (1:14:42) enough.We didn’t government enough. You know, any, any, any (1:14:46) posts you see up here you want to read off? (1:14:49) Justin says, Mark, you’re being very strong with your tone (1:14:52) showing your aggressively toxic masculinity. I’m going to need a (1:14:55) safe space.Thanks, Justin. (1:14:58) I had a testosterone shot yesterday morning, man. I’m a (1:15:00) little out of time.(1:15:02) He also mentioned the Five Monkeys experiment. I have, (1:15:05) it’s not ringing a bell for me, but we’ll have to look it up. (1:15:07) Maybe we’ll talk about it next time.(1:15:09) We’ll talk about it next time. Because we definitely will have (1:15:11) a second episode about this. (1:15:13) Yeah.Yeah. Well, anyway, speaking of 2016, let’s go to (1:15:17) the next clip here. This was the last time that anyone in the (1:15:21) media was allowed to treat Trump like a human being.(1:15:25) This is the last time. God, look at that beautiful hair. (1:15:30) I just want to mess it up.(1:15:50) The answer is yes, but the people in New Hampshire, where (1:15:52) I’m going to be in about an hour from now, I hope they’re going (1:15:55) to understand. (1:15:58) With my hair. (1:16:07) Real.(1:16:12) It’s real. (1:16:14) Yes. (1:16:15) Yeah.(1:16:16) The last, like I said, the last time that they were allowed to (1:16:20) talk to Trump like a person. After that, he was Hitler, (1:16:24) literally Hitler, orange Hitler, whatever the adjective is for (1:16:27) Hitler, but he’s that. (1:16:30) It’s just like, man, and you remember Fallon had to come out (1:16:34) and apologize for doing that for humanizing Donald Trump.(1:16:39) I do not remember the apology. Oh, geez. Yeah, that that’s (1:16:44) hilarious.And what’s interesting. What’s funny is I (1:16:48) didn’t see the clip. I literally just saw his hair.I did not (1:16:50) know that was a hair messing up clip. I totally so maybe. But to (1:16:53) that end, I think maybe I saw the clip a million times.So (1:16:56) like trigger something in my memory. And it probably triggered (1:16:58) me to think that. So I want to be clear that was probably a (1:17:02) like a memory refresh.Or is it you know, it’s deja vu in the (1:17:06) simulation. We had a glitch. That’s what it was.It was a (1:17:09) glitch for me. So anyway, yeah, but like, look at him. And look (1:17:12) at Trump.Trump just like, how do you think Obama Clinton would (1:17:17) let you like Clinton played the sax? I was pretty humanizing (1:17:19) right? You think Hillary would let you look in her purse? You (1:17:26) how? How humanizing? Can you make Hillary Clinton? The (1:17:31) reptile? (1:17:34) You remember the fly? Can you eat this fly? Okay, here you’re (1:17:38) humanized. I don’t even get it. (1:17:41) You’re is that what you were referring to the hot sauce thing? (1:17:44) Right? (1:17:45) Yes.Okay. Yeah, yeah. Like, come on.And like, once again, (1:17:51) we’re gonna get into Jon Stewart. But Jon Stewart brings (1:17:54) up the the lab leak thing. Right? And then he gets shunned.(1:17:59) He gets on Colbert makes that joke. The audience is silent. (1:18:03) Going Oh my god.Holy. What like they’re literally processing the (1:18:09) truth as he’s speaking it. Then he goes on sabbatical.I don’t (1:18:13) know what the hell had the reconditioning camp, whatever you (1:18:15) want to call it. Then he comes back. And then he puts the puts (1:18:18) the metal on a is off at battalion Nazi.And then he goes (1:18:23) and licks Condoleezza Rice with Hillary Clinton together. As the (1:18:27) two girls are holding hands giggling about murder in the (1:18:30) Middle East. Like, we just had to kill them all.Haha, Gaddafi. (1:18:35) Oh, what a card. You know, like, and he just sat there and then (1:18:39) you’re watching them the thing we’re gonna get into a sake.And (1:18:42) it’s like, once again, you guys need to realize people like (1:18:46) Stewart are given a lane they’re allowed to be in. And they do (1:18:50) dance against it. Sometimes they cross it.When they do. They (1:18:55) are quickly told that they were and they quickly fold and they (1:18:59) go and they go back in their lane. It you’ll see it happen.(1:19:02) Because he’s like that. He’s like a, you know, like a bad (1:19:05) bowler when they had the gutter, the gutter things that you (1:19:07) inflate, so you don’t get gutter balls. He’s just throwing the (1:19:10) bowling ball and he’s just doing this is going down the lane (1:19:13) before he’s trying to hit the pins.You know what I’m saying? (1:19:15) Like, that’s literally what it is. He just plays within that (1:19:18) range that they give him to play. And that’s all what the (1:19:21) media is.It’s all fabrication. (1:19:24) Yeah, he made he made it work for him. Another example of how (1:19:28) just how much bullshit this is, is how they treated George W. (1:19:31) Bush, like he was enemy number one, he was a war criminal.But (1:19:36) after a few years, they’re just like, Oh, buddy, buddy. Again, (1:19:39) everyone’s cool. George Bush, they even were like, Oh, we miss (1:19:42) Bush.He was such a good Republican compared to Trump. (1:19:45) It’s just like, we know you’re full of shit. You’re calling the (1:19:48) guy a freaking war criminal.That is not something you just (1:19:52) it’s been a few years. It’s fine. Who can remember? It’s (1:19:56) like, you guys are not serious people.We don’t buy it. (1:20:01) Remember, they brought Dick Cheney in under Biden. They (1:20:04) brought Cheney into the into Capitol Hill.Nancy Pelosi is (1:20:08) Hello, Dick. So glad to see you again, Dick. Let me put my hands (1:20:14) around you.Like, oh my god, watching that sleaze fest of (1:20:19) dick fucking Cheney getting like literally a handjob in the (1:20:23) middle of Capitol Hill. Like, (1:20:24) Oh, no, it’s like, Oh, you know, it’s bad. You know, Trump is (1:20:28) really bad because even Dick Cheney’s come over to our side.(1:20:36) Oh, that’s right. Dick Cheney. That’s it.That’s not what I let (1:20:40) why I left the Republicans in the first fucking place. I (1:20:43) totally forgot. I totally forgot already.(1:20:50) All right, my friend, where we (1:20:54) scaring. You’re scaring Zach with your Nancy Pelosi. (1:20:59) Oh, was that so scary? Oh, my bony hands are so happy to see (1:21:04) you today.I bought some stocks and the stocks went up. (1:21:10) Dunigan’s impression of Nancy Pelosi. (1:21:14) He was good, man.He had some good ones. (1:21:17) He was fun, man. It was a good time.(1:21:19) Although I think we’re better at RFK. We got that one. (1:21:22) Yeah, you know, you know, but I did send you the Ilan RFK (1:21:26) thing.He’s really good on that little clip. (1:21:28) Yeah. Oh, yeah.(1:21:29) He got it down. (1:21:33) All right. Anyway, back to Ilan.Yeah. So they’re mad. He’s (1:21:41) running the government.He’s a billionaire. Oh, the billionaires. (1:21:44) Of course, we only care about the point one percent of (1:21:46) billionaires that are not in the Democratic Party.(1:21:50) But really, I think what they’re mad at is he’s kind of a kid. (1:21:54) He has fun with it. (1:21:56) And another part of it.(1:21:58) He’s like trolling them in a weird way. (1:22:01) He’s live trolling them. (1:22:03) And like, it’s great.I think this next clip is going to help (1:22:06) with the trolling. Would you not agree? (1:22:08) Yes. Let’s get into it so people can see what we’re talking (1:22:12) about.I know you guys know this. (1:22:14) I know you guys have seen it, but enjoy it again. (1:22:17) It’s great.It’s great because it’s like, imagine Ilan’s like, (1:22:22) OK, OK, who do we do one in this group? (1:22:24) OK, OK. Oh, we need it. (1:22:27) We need that name.We need we need that person. (1:22:29) We need that person right there. We need him.(1:22:30) Right. We need that name right there. (1:22:32) We need him.I can’t do it. (1:22:34) I’m still working. I’m still working on Ilan.(1:22:36) It’s not good, but I’m getting there. (1:22:37) All right. Let me share this guy.(1:22:39) I’ll shut up now. Thank you. (1:22:43) Finally, the director in chief, Ilan Musk, who apparently has (1:22:49) adopted the alias, at least he changed his social media handle (1:22:52) to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning, democracy in America is (1:22:57) being destroyed by judicial coup.(1:22:59) So this is a 19 year old high school graduate who has used the (1:23:03) unfortunate nickname Big Balls online. (1:23:06) So that would be one way that we could refer to one of the (1:23:09) individuals, multiple companies, including one with another (1:23:13) unfortunate name, Tesla dot sexy LLC, which he established in (1:23:18) 2021. He would have been around 16 years old.(1:23:20) Now, this LLC controls dozens of Web domains. (1:23:22) So, Kara, you know, you hear this and you have known Ilan Musk (1:23:26) for years. So now you look at these young men who are now in (1:23:29) data and in the private information about maybe hundreds of (1:23:32) millions of American citizens as young as 19, the big balls here (1:23:35) that he’s talking about.(1:23:38) I just love how they’re so uncomfortable with it. (1:23:42) I got CNN. (1:23:43) We got the fake news saying Harry Big Balls.(1:23:47) It’s all Harry Balls is coming. (1:23:49) Big Balls right behind them. (1:23:51) They’re turning Trump gay.(1:23:52) He’s listening to YMCA. (1:23:54) We got to stop it. Stop it right away.(1:23:56) They’re turning the frauds gay with this big balls, hairy balls. (1:24:01) We’re going to have Ilan’s big hairy balls running the government (1:24:05) for four years. (1:24:06) It’s going to be the best.(1:24:08) You’ll never see anything like it comes out. (1:24:10) Fucking great. (1:24:14) Oh, God.(1:24:15) Yeah. So that’s comes in with wrecking ball and shit. (1:24:19) Anyway, that’s just for your guys’s enjoyment.(1:24:21) Just seeing CNN anchors having to say (1:24:26) Big Hairy Balls on TV. (1:24:30) That might be the best thing that’s come out of the Trump (1:24:32) administration so far. (1:24:34) Big Balls, Big Balls, just hilarious because it was before (1:24:37) Harry Balls came out, it literally was like Big Balls is causing a ripple (1:24:41) in waves, you know, like what a big, big balls would cause ripples in waves, (1:24:46) wouldn’t they? If they were.(1:24:47) I I don’t know. (1:24:48) They depend on the size of the body of water. (1:24:50) But yes, absolutely.(1:24:54) Oh, man, that’s so crazy. (1:24:56) These people are fucking unhinged is what it is like. (1:25:01) Like and that they they they they have to make that part of the news (1:25:06) because they can’t not because like you can’t not look up (1:25:09) hairy balls because that’s what it is.(1:25:10) So you have to mention it to connect it to the propaganda (1:25:13) that you’re trying to push. (1:25:15) So like imagine Elon Musk is able (1:25:19) to get the news to say things they don’t want to say. (1:25:24) But they have to say it to connect it to the story.(1:25:27) You know what I mean? (1:25:28) Everyone’s talking about it. (1:25:29) Yeah, because everybody’s saying it. (1:25:32) It’s like, how do I make it connected to that (1:25:34) where they have to say big balls and hairy balls? (1:25:37) Like, how do we do this? (1:25:40) Honestly, it’s the best.(1:25:41) It’s so good. (1:25:42) Oh, I feel like you should know. (1:25:44) Oh, good.(1:25:45) I feel like we should skip over a couple of things. (1:25:47) Come back to it later. (1:25:49) Can we get to how how the newsroom works? (1:25:51) Because Jimmy Dore did a good recap of some tweets (1:25:55) that I want to talk about, because speaking about the news, (1:25:59) we know we don’t get real news.(1:26:01) We get it through an ideological filter. (1:26:03) It doesn’t matter if it’s Fox or MSNBC or CNN. (1:26:07) They do the same things.(1:26:08) They just have maybe a little different (1:26:11) a different owner that they have to please. Right. (1:26:14) But it’s none of it is in service of just getting us the truth.(1:26:19) So is that for media machines or media machine? Yeah. (1:26:22) Yeah, absolutely. OK, thank goodness.(1:26:24) What’s funny is I just loaded that one. (1:26:27) Because we’re starting to come up on it, (1:26:28) I wanted to get into anticipation, so give me one second. (1:26:31) Oh, good.Yeah. (1:26:32) So he’s got it on tweets. (1:26:34) I don’t know who the guy is.(1:26:37) That’s who you’re talking about or who? (1:26:40) No, the guy that wrote the tweets that he’s going to talk about, we’ll see. (1:26:45) I don’t know who it is, but he explains how the news really works (1:26:49) on the from the inside, right? (1:26:54) Yeah, well, deep state command and control system is broken. (1:26:59) The entire liberal deep state command and control system is broken.(1:27:02) Oh, I said that we watch DNC thing. (1:27:04) They look like they’re not getting transmissions no more. That’s right.(1:27:07) Too many cows and not enough ranchers. (1:27:09) So first, let me explain to you what the liberal deep state (1:27:12) command looks like. Right.(1:27:15) Well, the New York Times primary function is in journalism. (1:27:18) It’s narrative coordination, setting the frame. (1:27:20) So the entire political media machine knows how to think about an issue (1:27:24) before it takes off.(1:27:26) Ever notice how overnight everyone starts saying (1:27:28) Biden is as sharp as a tack or J.D. Vance is weird. It’s not random. (1:27:32) There’s a system in place.(1:27:33) Yeah, I say it over and over the narrative pipeline. (1:27:36) It’s how the blob operates. (1:27:37) The New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, CNN and the rest (1:27:40) don’t just react to news.(1:27:42) They function as as a distributed, decentralized mission command system (1:27:46) for the Democratic Party and the broader blob. (1:27:49) Step one, local bureau chiefs. (1:27:51) These guys are stationed across the country watching which stories gain traction (1:27:54) and fielding calls from Democratic operatives, feeding them narratives, (1:27:58) stories that they need to start controlling.(1:28:00) Step two, New York editors, bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to New York (1:28:05) where an editor triage is it. (1:28:07) Will this explode nationwide? (1:28:09) Will it simmer for days or should we bury it? (1:28:11) Step three, editorial meetings. (1:28:13) The most concerning stories get flagged here.(1:28:15) Editors decide on the narrative framing and who’s assigned to write it before. (1:28:20) But before they assign a journalist, they make one critical call (1:28:23) to the deep state. Why? (1:28:26) To give the government a head start on controlling the story.(1:28:28) At this point, the steep, deep state doesn’t just say, hey, here’s what (1:28:32) here’s what happened. (1:28:33) They strategically select sources based on the tone they want. (1:28:37) If they need a hawkish China rhetoric, they have a China hardliner (1:28:40) expert on speed dial.(1:28:41) If they want to downplay a Chinese spy cartel, they go to a dovish (1:28:44) China expert who will say it’s being blown out of proportion. (1:28:47) If it’s a military scandal, they pick a trustworthy retired general (1:28:51) to suddenly steer the discussion toward a desired conclusion. (1:28:54) This isn’t journalism.It’s perception warfare. (1:28:56) That’s what you’re reading in The New York Times. (1:28:58) What you’re posting.(1:29:03) So there you go, man. (1:29:06) It’s manufactured. (1:29:08) It’s all manufactured.(1:29:09) It’s really it’s a good explanation. (1:29:13) There’s also there’s always some like (1:29:16) back and forth, like who controls who, because the media does have power (1:29:21) to set the narrative. (1:29:23) But that’s mostly because they get the sources (1:29:27) from the government backing them up.(1:29:29) So it’s kind of like who’s the dog? (1:29:32) Who’s the tail? Who’s wagging who? Right. (1:29:35) There’s a little bit of both going on. (1:29:37) But in this case, yeah, it’s the news calls their sources in the government.(1:29:42) The government says, oh, we’ll give you this guy (1:29:45) who’s going to talk about and set the frame, set the way (1:29:47) that we’re going to talk about this story, because they can’t hide things (1:29:50) completely the way that we have Internet, social media. (1:29:54) There’s no way they can just completely hide anything. (1:29:57) So they have to talk about it like with the hairy balls or the big balls thing.(1:30:02) They have to. (1:30:03) This is a big deal. (1:30:05) They can’t just let it go.(1:30:06) So they have to say it. (1:30:08) But they come in with, oh, how are we going to frame this? (1:30:10) And they work together with the government, these legacy media companies. (1:30:16) They’re one in the same.(1:30:17) And it’s not just Democrats for people that think that. (1:30:21) Yeah, it’s it’s and we’re going to go into that, too. (1:30:24) I think we’re going to get deeper is who actually is running it.(1:30:27) And if you go back to Clinton. (1:30:30) Clinton got all like, was it 30 some news agencies (1:30:33) and made them whittle it down to six alone by G.E. (1:30:37) Westinghouse, the corporations, the corporations (1:30:40) both drive the regulations because they pay off the politicians (1:30:43) to create the lobbies. (1:30:46) And they created the the news outlet for the advertising (1:30:50) to make you both the audience, you know, both the product (1:30:54) and the person to whom the product is being pitched.(1:30:57) You’re both sides of it. (1:30:58) It’s pretty impressive how. (1:31:01) I don’t know if impressive is the right word, but I guess it’s like (1:31:04) weird how much they squeezed out of each side of it.(1:31:08) Like they maximize every bit, you know what I mean? (1:31:12) Yeah, it’s impressive. (1:31:13) Not in a good way, but it’s like, OK, that actually took some work. (1:31:18) You know, absolutely.(1:31:20) So where would you would you like me to go to the next door one? (1:31:23) Yeah. Any other thoughts on that? (1:31:25) Do we get any comments? (1:31:27) Let’s take a look. (1:31:28) Oh, Kash Patel got confirmed as FBI director.(1:31:32) Yeah. So here you go. (1:31:34) I got and read that one and then we’ll go through that.(1:31:35) Yeah. He got confirmed. (1:31:37) Well, cash shut down the FBI.(1:31:39) Can you clean it without closing it and rebuilding it? (1:31:42) Agents could go to the DAA marshal’s office, et cetera. (1:31:44) Yeah, I don’t think you can clean it, but I may be biased. (1:31:50) I don’t think government can be fixed.(1:31:52) I think shut it down. (1:31:54) That’s my opinion. (1:31:56) Yeah, and I would I would argue once again, the FBI since 2001.(1:32:02) Well, look, the CIA is now in the United States, (1:32:05) which they may always have been like, let’s not kid ourselves, (1:32:08) but they were really officially never supposed to be. (1:32:12) And now they’re like cooperating with the FBI (1:32:15) because, oh, local terrorism. (1:32:19) Oh, it’s terrorism.(1:32:20) So terrorism is like a global thing. (1:32:22) So let’s bring the CIA in. (1:32:24) And you’re like, this is this is the country that we built.(1:32:28) This is the ones that everyone died for. (1:32:30) This is the ones that they fought the monarchy and the oppression (1:32:33) and the, you know, and the empire for. (1:32:36) And like, this is the one that my parents fought tooth and nail to get to.(1:32:41) You know what I mean? (1:32:41) Like as as a teenager, you know, as a teenager, it’s like, are you kidding me? (1:32:45) This is not. (1:32:48) And just like I love America, you know what I mean, I know it sounds crazy, (1:32:51) but it’s like, what’s that mean? (1:32:53) Once again, the mean thing, a wire, and I think he mentioned is like (1:32:55) when people ask me about America, it’s like me, where the macho man (1:32:59) Randy Savage with the United States thing will be like, oh, yeah, dig it. (1:33:03) You know, like wearing the whole US of A and the whole like lumberjack, (1:33:06) like hacksaw Jim Duggan, you know, America.(1:33:09) But when you ask about the government, it becomes V for Vendetta again. (1:33:14) It’s Guy Fawkes. (1:33:15) You know, it’s boom.(1:33:16) So it’s like the government is not the country that we grew up believing in. (1:33:21) Those are two separate things. (1:33:24) And that’s a hard.(1:33:25) Yeah, it’s a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people (1:33:28) because of the patriotism that’s been baked into a lot of people. (1:33:33) And it’s sad because loving your country (1:33:36) shouldn’t have anything to do with the government. Right.(1:33:39) Your country is just the people around you, your communities, your, (1:33:43) you know, maybe a geographical region. (1:33:46) But we all had this, (1:33:48) at least allegedly, we had this ideal of freedom. (1:33:52) America is a free country.(1:33:53) And that just doesn’t exist anymore, I don’t think. (1:33:58) Yeah. And and techno and the problem is not (1:34:01) that technology exists, it’s what we’re doing with it.(1:34:04) We’re using it. (1:34:07) We’re using it to to to cinch the noose. (1:34:10) Right.Like imagine East Germany, what was it like to two to one spy (1:34:15) to citizen ratio? (1:34:17) Imagine the paperwork and all the notes that you had to handwrite. (1:34:21) There’s no way you can consolidate all that. (1:34:23) There’s no way you could do that.(1:34:25) But with AI coming and with the data that they can get and all the location, (1:34:29) every click, every keystroke you put in is monitor data recorded. (1:34:34) And you’re like, for what? (1:34:36) And it’s got to be to be able to get us to do something. (1:34:39) We don’t know that we’re not doing or doing, you know? (1:34:43) Yeah.Right. So there’s a method. (1:34:47) So if Trump succeeds, I am for I.M. (1:34:50) says if Trump succeeds at cleaning up the government, (1:34:53) then government will continue to exist and strip our freedoms.(1:34:57) Overreach happens just like shit happens. (1:34:59) Yeah, that’s the problem, right? (1:35:01) Is if you’re just making it more efficient, (1:35:05) then one, people are going to relax. (1:35:07) They’re going to stop worrying so much about it.(1:35:10) Like, oh, Trump cleaned it up. (1:35:11) Must be all good now. (1:35:13) But of course, that’s not the reality.(1:35:15) Everything in there is corrupt. (1:35:17) Everything in there is bad. (1:35:19) Take it all down.Take it all down. (1:35:22) And once again, you and I. (1:35:24) I think I think you’re you’re a borders guy, right? (1:35:28) You’re not like a Chase Oliver, no borders guy. (1:35:30) You like believe in borders to an extent.(1:35:33) I mean, no, I think I’m more open borders. (1:35:37) OK, I’m I’m a little bit of a borders guy, more for the nation thing (1:35:40) to keep the sovereignty of the ideals that we’re talking about. (1:35:46) If that makes sense, right? (1:35:47) Like for us to have a community like we’d have to have it like a border around it.(1:35:51) That’s our community. This is our group. (1:35:52) It’s like some way to designate this is us, I guess.(1:35:55) Right. Let’s let’s just keep it back. (1:35:57) We’re not going to argue over the border right now.(1:35:58) No, I get the argument. It makes sense. (1:36:01) Exactly.So you get that. (1:36:03) OK, so let’s get rid of illegal immigrants. (1:36:06) OK, the criminals are easy.(1:36:07) They’re fucking committing crimes right now. (1:36:09) So they’re obviously blatantly doing bad shit out in the streets. (1:36:13) They’re easy to get rid of.(1:36:15) But what about the one that’s in your attic? (1:36:18) And you’re an American citizen. (1:36:20) And you, as an American citizen, wanted to have someone in your house (1:36:25) that you’d like to feed because they can’t get it any other way. (1:36:29) And your heart goes out to them as an American citizen.(1:36:32) They are not harming anyone. (1:36:33) They are just in your house. (1:36:35) At what point does the Fourth Amendment get usurped? (1:36:40) It’s like I got to go in order to get rid of every illegal immigrant.(1:36:43) I have to search every building in America. (1:36:46) That includes violating your Fourth Amendment right. (1:36:49) Well, I know I’m not for that.(1:36:52) I’m not for my my Fourth Amendment right to be violated for that (1:36:56) for that purpose, even if I agree with that purpose. (1:37:00) The core piece is my natural born right (1:37:04) of the illegal search and seizure, right? (1:37:07) Well, it’s like the war on drugs, right? (1:37:09) Like we don’t want like nasty drugs coming in and fucking people up (1:37:14) and killing people. (1:37:16) That’s obviously a bad thing, right? (1:37:19) But what does it cost you to go enforce that? (1:37:22) And that’s why the war on drugs has been such a failure (1:37:25) is because, one, you can’t enforce it.(1:37:26) And to our government, the CIA took it over. (1:37:30) And just decided this is how this is what we’re going to do. (1:37:33) Well, it’s interesting about that.(1:37:35) We already have a history case of it. (1:37:39) We did prohibition. (1:37:40) Yeah, look what happened.(1:37:43) Look who look who came. (1:37:45) Look who came to power from prohibition. (1:37:48) And then when it switched to marijuana, when the gangs who did the alcohol, (1:37:53) they just did the other thing.(1:37:54) They just moved to drugs, right? (1:37:55) Hello. Why? (1:37:58) Gambling, drugs, all the things that you do. (1:38:01) This is, you know, humans will regulate themselves.(1:38:04) They might overstep in the beginning. (1:38:05) Like somebody who might try marijuana for the first time might take too much (1:38:09) and get a little freaked out in their head the first time they’ll learn. (1:38:13) Hopefully they don’t overdose like not marijuana.(1:38:15) You would. But I mean, hopefully, like if you took something, (1:38:17) you wouldn’t overdose and you learn your lesson and you regulate or something. (1:38:22) And if you can’t, you know what? (1:38:23) That’s your choice to not regulate.(1:38:25) Then as long as you’re not hurting me, we’re good. (1:38:29) You know, and people are much harder to find and track down than drugs. (1:38:34) Like you don’t have immigrants sniffing dogs.(1:38:37) Right. Oh, this one smells like. (1:38:39) Oh, my God.You smell like an immigrant. (1:38:42) Imagine that. Yeah.(1:38:44) Yeah, I’m not even touching. (1:38:46) Oh, I’m really. Yeah, I’m against the mass deportations.(1:38:48) I don’t like it. (1:38:50) If you want to go after the people that are criminally charged. (1:38:52) Great.Go ahead. (1:38:54) Like Zach says, yeah, the mass deportations are setting more precedent (1:38:57) to kick in your door without a warrant. (1:39:00) So, yeah, fuck off.(1:39:02) I don’t care that people come in the country. (1:39:05) I do care that we’re paying for it. (1:39:07) We’re paying for luxury apartments (1:39:09) for people who are allegedly asylum seekers when they’re not.(1:39:14) Right. And and I’ll make a clear border position for me is (1:39:18) I am a beneficiary of immigration. (1:39:22) I believe in immigration.(1:39:24) I just think that you got to be vetted. (1:39:26) You know, I mean, like if if you’re vetted and we have a certain number (1:39:29) or something that we allow in, then I’m all for up to up and including that number. (1:39:33) And I just think we should do it better.(1:39:36) You know what I mean? That’s just how it is. (1:39:37) But I also think we need to lock it down. (1:39:40) I mean, we need to know, like who does the vetting, vetting for what? (1:39:46) We I mean, and it would be more it would be basic criminality if we can, (1:39:50) you know, and if you can’t see anything, you just can’t see anything.(1:39:52) There’s nothing you can do. Right. (1:39:54) But and once again, not everybody gets in.(1:39:56) Not everybody qualifies. (1:39:58) But coming here. (1:40:00) It used to be certain things that were accepted to come here, (1:40:04) but now it’s like for economic asylum.(1:40:06) But we created the fucking economic problems in their countries. (1:40:09) Right. We bombed them and then they migrate.(1:40:13) And then we go, OK, well, no, that that’s intentional. (1:40:17) Right now, like the like the Venezuela thing, the thing of Marco Rubio sign (1:40:21) off, that was to destabilize Venezuela, then economic sanctions. (1:40:25) And then and then you add like the wars and you add all the other stuff (1:40:29) in the Middle East.(1:40:30) Of course, they’re going to go to Europe and everything. (1:40:32) That’s that’s how Germany is suffering right now. (1:40:35) And that’s not about compassion.(1:40:36) That is about your existence as an actual nation to keep those ideals (1:40:42) like American ideals are special because there’s no place, (1:40:46) even though they’re limited, even though you and I would call them limited. (1:40:49) Right, because they’re not perfect. (1:40:50) Nothing’s perfect.(1:40:52) But it’s it tried to address the things that we talk about. Right. (1:40:55) And even when even when it’s when it’s like that, you’re like, (1:40:59) it’s trying to do it.(1:41:00) We need to keep those ideals and watering that down (1:41:04) with people who don’t believe that just because they want to come here. (1:41:08) That’s not it’s it’s like beyond. (1:41:10) You got to have more than a want to come here.(1:41:13) You know what I mean? (1:41:13) Like there’s a there’s something behind it. (1:41:16) And it’s once again, it’s like you got to put on your oxygen mask (1:41:19) in order to help anyone else put theirs on. (1:41:22) And if we get to the point where we suffocate, (1:41:26) we no longer exist at all as a nation the way we were.(1:41:31) Yeah, right. (1:41:33) We should probably talk more about this. (1:41:34) But yeah, I would first just like to end the incentives.(1:41:38) Stop paying people when they cross the border. (1:41:41) Stop having to live here for free when our citizens aren’t treated that way. (1:41:46) We have thousands, maybe millions of veterans who get treated like shit.(1:41:52) There’s homeless people everywhere like we don’t pay for them, (1:41:56) but we pay for people to cross from Mexico and come in and live (1:41:59) downtown New York in this fancy apartment for free. (1:42:03) Yeah, I don’t like that. (1:42:05) And then, like you said, the bombings just fucking end the wars.(1:42:08) Stop displacing people. (1:42:10) Stop ruining their homes so they don’t have to immigrate. (1:42:13) They don’t have to go somewhere else.(1:42:15) I want to start there. (1:42:16) That’s where I would. (1:42:17) I would.Yeah, let’s start. (1:42:19) We’ll start with just stop displacing people. (1:42:21) I mean, remove sanctions.(1:42:23) And stop bombing people. (1:42:25) Literally, Cuba, all of it, remove all the sanctions. (1:42:28) Let them be prosperous.(1:42:30) Let them figure out. (1:42:31) And who gives a shit if it works? (1:42:34) If their system works for their people on a small scale, on a small island. (1:42:40) But we’ve we’ve obviously seen it’s not scalable (1:42:42) because we’ve seen it not work in the Soviet Union.(1:42:45) What what is your fear? (1:42:47) What is your fear that a small little fucking island can make it work? (1:42:51) If if which we never see it actually succeeding in the first place. (1:42:57) Yeah, you know what I mean? (1:42:58) So what we we put economic sanctions on them (1:43:01) and then they’re just a poor socialist country like (1:43:03) let them let them go through the growing pains of what socialism really is (1:43:08) by giving them the prosperity to get them like then be greedy about it. (1:43:12) You know what I mean? (1:43:13) Like that would probably destroy it more than more than anything (1:43:16) would be like actual freedom and capitalism.(1:43:20) Like, yeah, be the example, right? (1:43:22) Be be the change you want to see. (1:43:25) Let them fail. (1:43:25) So people like Jimmy Dore don’t claim that socialism only fails (1:43:29) because the United States fucks with their countries.Right. (1:43:33) And once again, you and I, I think you and I would like (1:43:36) like some of the things Jimmy Dore says, and it’s not all of it, (1:43:38) but the antiwar stuff, for sure. (1:43:40) But we certainly don’t agree with his entitlement bullshit.(1:43:43) None of us agree with like the way he thinks the state should work (1:43:46) is like it should be giving you things that sound like, fuck that. (1:43:49) It should have no fucking power. (1:43:52) Jimmy, I don’t know how Jimmy doesn’t get there yet.(1:43:55) I really don’t know how Jimmy hasn’t broken to the point. (1:43:58) It’s like, Jimmy, dude, I really admire his mind. (1:44:03) I actually saw him in improv a couple of months ago.(1:44:05) He was in a month or two with Steph. (1:44:07) Steph opened up for him and was great. (1:44:09) A good time.But like and I admire him. (1:44:12) But it’s like, dude, I can’t I can’t buy that. (1:44:15) Why would you want to give anybody that power? (1:44:17) You just saw you want to take it away.(1:44:19) You saw what they do with it (1:44:21) every every turn. (1:44:22) It’s like Peter’s same thing. (1:44:24) He like talks about authoritarianism and then he goes and takes a shot (1:44:27) because he’s like, well, I thought I’d comply and then they leave me alone.(1:44:31) Oh, right. (1:44:31) Because that’s what that’s what they do when you comply. (1:44:34) They don’t ask for more.(1:44:36) They don’t take more. (1:44:37) Like, come on, man. (1:44:39) Just seems like a myopic excuse and just lazy, I guess.(1:44:43) I don’t know. Yeah. (1:44:45) Well, we got a little off track there, but let’s get back to Jimmy.(1:44:48) All right. Let’s get back talking about how the news works. (1:44:53) All right.Which six, which one are we on? (1:44:56) Number two, the door. (1:44:59) Oh, yeah. Media machine to got it.(1:45:03) One second. (1:45:07) I’m discombobulated because I started ranting and raving. (1:45:11) Zach says a border debate for March.(1:45:17) Yes, is that’s the first week of March, right? (1:45:19) I think for the friends, let’s do border debate. (1:45:21) All right, boys, we’ll do border debate. (1:45:24) And once again, welcome, everybody.(1:45:25) We’ve got 44 on right now. (1:45:27) And I will play this clip. (1:45:33) But once the tone is set, the editor assigns the story (1:45:35) and suggests the approved sources to call.(1:45:37) The journalist’s job is simple. (1:45:39) Get quotes from the right experts, write it up and stick to the approved angles. (1:45:43) If something goes wrong with the angle, for example, a source (1:45:45) exposes it as a lie.(1:45:47) They return to the editor for guidance. (1:45:50) Occasionally, a journalist oversteps. (1:45:51) If it’s minor, it passes.(1:45:53) If it’s major, the editor kills the piece, buries it on page 16 (1:45:56) or reassigns it to a more trusted writer to correct the framing. (1:46:00) Overstep too many times and you’re reassigned to local news or gently, (1:46:04) if not your fault, we love your spark, just downsizing your let go. (1:46:08) Do a really good.(1:46:09) That’s crazy. Keep us right there. (1:46:10) We’ll get awards or book deals and travel.(1:46:12) They gave. (1:46:16) Yeah, that’s wild, man, you (1:46:17) you start to tell a little too much truth, you’re relegated to local news. (1:46:24) Yeah, kitties and trees.(1:46:26) This is so this is so good for people to understand, right? (1:46:30) Journalists are not free to tell the truth. (1:46:33) So even if they go in there wanting to, which I think a lot of them do. (1:46:37) They’re caught in a system.(1:46:38) And we’re going to talk about manufacturing consent more probably next time. (1:46:42) But this is the start of it. (1:46:44) This is how you begin to understand the inner workings.(1:46:48) Anyway, we can go. (1:46:49) You yeah. (1:46:50) And to your point, you clip you clipped a really important part.(1:46:52) He’s going to talk about. (1:46:54) And what it is, is watch everyone watch this. (1:46:58) Watch and just process how it happens.(1:47:02) Then look at your life, reflect on your life (1:47:05) and watch. You have done this in your life. (1:47:09) You’ve gotten along to get along.(1:47:11) I guarantee it. (1:47:13) It’s how my grandfather became a Nazi soldier. (1:47:15) I guarantee it.(1:47:17) You got along. (1:47:18) And sometimes you got along too late. (1:47:20) You know what I mean? (1:47:21) Before you realize it.(1:47:22) So here it is. (1:47:24) Pulitzers to the guys who wrote garbage about Russiagate, (1:47:27) the guys who pushed Russiagate got Pulitzer prizes. (1:47:30) Guys who told lies about the Syria gas tank all attack (1:47:33) also got Pulitzer prizes.(1:47:35) Rachel Maddow got a thirty five million dollar reward contract (1:47:39) for lying about Trump Russiagate at the top of her lungs for four years. (1:47:44) Nobody flatly says this award isn’t for towing the party line (1:47:47) because that would expose the scam. (1:47:49) No, these journalists are smart.(1:47:51) They either pick up on the reward incentives or they get gently pushed aside. (1:47:55) Cults, suddenly every news outlet, late night host and blue check (1:47:58) is reinforcing the exact same message like during Covid. (1:48:01) You saw that.(1:48:02) And because they aren’t technically taking or just like right now, (1:48:05) they’re calling Trump’s a fascist. (1:48:07) And because they aren’t technically taking orders, (1:48:09) they think it’s their own independent analysis. (1:48:12) This is why.(1:48:12) So this is what I talk about (1:48:14) when I say that the people in those editorial meetings (1:48:17) have been groomed to be in them since they were in kindergarten (1:48:20) and they don’t know it. (1:48:22) It’s just like Chomsky told that reporter. (1:48:24) Reporter says, I’m not told what to say.(1:48:25) He says, I’m not saying you are. (1:48:26) I’m saying that if you wanted to say something different, (1:48:28) you wouldn’t have that job. (1:48:31) Mm hmm.(1:48:33) That’s the point I wanted to get to. (1:48:35) If you’re not saying what they want you to say, you don’t get the job. (1:48:39) You don’t get the big anchor job on CNN.(1:48:42) It’s not happening. (1:48:45) And to your point, let’s be honest, you and I are fledgling podcasts. (1:48:49) We just talk about messages of whatever we think is truth.(1:48:52) And we’re wrong. (1:48:53) But I don’t think we ever come from dishonesty. (1:48:56) I think we come from what we think is right at the time.(1:48:58) And sometimes that information changes and we might change our mind. (1:49:02) I really do think we’re more fact seekers than truth seekers, (1:49:06) if that makes sense. (1:49:07) But that all said, like we can get stuff wrong, (1:49:09) but you don’t see our numbers growing exponentially (1:49:12) like the people who tow these lines.(1:49:14) And it’s not this isn’t like sour grapes. (1:49:18) OK, I’ve seen a little natural or it’s a little bit right. (1:49:22) I’ve seen natural organic growth, though, from real channels (1:49:25) that have just been amazing.(1:49:27) That’s not what I’m talking about. (1:49:29) I’m talking about clearly you and I have para normal, (1:49:32) like next to normal, outside of normal, outside of the box ideas (1:49:37) that are just disruptive to the general narrative. (1:49:41) And that’s why no one’s promoting or pushing those types of things.(1:49:46) So what we’ve done recently is kind of started collaborating (1:49:49) and it’s become a lot more successful that we are in our own little group, (1:49:53) which sucks because it almost makes it like a try. (1:49:55) But it’s like not, you know, we’re just like talking about (1:49:59) exchanging the ideas. Right.(1:50:01) But it is interesting how how that works, because we’re not (1:50:04) ourselves not being pushed by any algorithm. (1:50:07) As a matter of fact, I’m getting ticked on YouTube every day (1:50:09) for some violation of fact that I spoke. (1:50:14) Alternative facts, brother, that’s your mistake.(1:50:18) You got to sub in the other alternate facts, (1:50:21) the alternative to the alternative. (1:50:24) All right. (1:50:25) We got about five to 10 minutes, sir, before we call this a day.(1:50:28) Thank you again to everyone who joined us today. (1:50:30) We got I see 45 on right now. (1:50:33) We thought we started talking about the media and we will.(1:50:36) We’ve got a whole other. (1:50:38) Podcast questions or. (1:50:40) Oh, yeah.(1:50:41) We yeah. Run in chat. (1:50:43) Anybody in chat.I am for him. (1:50:44) I know he took off, but Zach, jump on. (1:50:47) Justin, feel free to ask a question and a wall.(1:50:50) A wire and come on in there. (1:50:52) And do we. Zach’s still here.(1:50:55) Forty five. Which one? (1:50:58) Forty five. What’s that? (1:51:01) We got 45 viewers.(1:51:02) Oh, yeah. Forty five. (1:51:04) I’ll take it.Or he’s a big fan of Donald Trump. (1:51:06) I don’t know. (1:51:07) And we said we weren’t growing.(1:51:09) No, we are grateful for everyone who once again, people who share their time (1:51:12) with us, just this is amazing. (1:51:14) And if anybody is doing organic, you and I are certainly doing it organically. (1:51:18) It’s not like we have anybody behind us, like pushing these things.(1:51:21) So do we have any other before we call it a day on that? (1:51:24) Or is this where you want to wait for that CIA check to come in (1:51:28) so I can start telling the real truth? (1:51:31) Woodward 2.0. (1:51:33) The government approved truth. (1:51:35) Perfect. That’s what we’re waiting for.(1:51:37) We’re waiting to disrupt just enough for them to give us a call (1:51:40) and to get us to change our minds with the shmamoola. (1:51:43) Is that basically what they’re trying to tell us? (1:51:47) Yeah, you won’t know I’m rich, I’m not going to tell anybody, (1:51:49) but there will be signs. (1:51:53) Yeah, the ideology will be one of them.(1:51:55) You’re like that Kamala. (1:51:57) You know, I’ve been thinking about I’ve been ruminating on Kamala. (1:51:59) And she you know what? (1:52:01) I was the right choice.(1:52:03) She was not at all about her. (1:52:07) We want anything before we call it a day on this one, sir. (1:52:09) I know it’s good.(1:52:10) I think that’s it, man. (1:52:11) Thanks, everybody, for joining us. (1:52:13) Come back and see us next time.(1:52:15) We may be picking up the media. (1:52:16) We may be with Valley Girl. (1:52:18) I don’t know.(1:52:19) I don’t know what’s going on. (1:52:21) We’ll figure it out. (1:52:22) But to everyone, thank you so much for joining us.(1:52:25) It’s been a lot of fun. (1:52:26) And once again, we’re not here to tell you guys what to think. (1:52:30) It’s not our job.(1:52:31) I’m happy to debate what we think if we think different things. (1:52:35) That’s not about it either. (1:52:36) But you’ve been programmed.(1:52:39) You’ve been programmed. (1:52:40) I’m telling you, if you have an ideology, (1:52:44) chances are someone put it there. (1:52:46) Some people, groups, your whole life, your whatever.(1:52:51) Live on your experiences. (1:52:52) Take a step back. (1:52:54) Try to untangle those those program moments.(1:52:58) Get out of that operating system. (1:53:00) Just just look at the world slightly differently. (1:53:03) Trust me, things change.(1:53:04) It will change when you perceive slightly differently. (1:53:09) Absolutely right. (1:53:11) Nothing to add to that.(1:53:13) Well, thank you, sir. (1:53:14) Great meeting you this week. (1:53:16) I look forward to actually a face to face podcast.(1:53:19) We’ll have to actually do one. (1:53:20) So maybe we’ll do a barbecue at the house (1:53:23) and then just bring bring people and bring everybody over. (1:53:26) And we’ll just do like a little bit of that while we’re doing that.(1:53:28) So there you go. (1:53:30) Everybody on the chat here, you’re invited. (1:53:32) Come fly in.Yes, absolutely. (1:53:34) Justin, Justin can come over. (1:53:35) I think we can bring Justin.(1:53:37) I know he lives in the area. (1:53:39) OK, so anyway, everyone, thank you again. (1:53:43) This has been another Consciously Unmasked.(1:53:45) I’m really having a fun time, Jason. (1:53:47) Thank you so much for doing this with me, because like it’s hard to (1:53:50) it’s hard to do this alone and it’s hard to find some people (1:53:53) that are similarly motivated to do it, but but have challenges (1:53:57) like with the solo part of it. (1:53:59) So I like the back and forth a lot more.(1:54:02) Well, like I said, I don’t like very many people. (1:54:04) So for me to spend this much time with you is definitely a compliment. (1:54:09) Thanks, buddy.(1:54:09) I won’t take it as that. (1:54:10) I think you’re mentally deranged to actually actually spend that day. (1:54:14) I have total imposter syndrome, bro.(1:54:16) It’s not going to help. (1:54:17) All right. Well, thank you, everybody.(1:54:19) Have a great night. Take care. (1:54:21) Bye bye.