January 9, 2026 • 20 mins
Are you consuming news—or just feeding your mind with media’s latest drug? In today’s world, neutrality is extinct and every story is spun to fit an agenda. From podcasts to cable news, the battle for your attention is fierce, and the truth is often lost in the noise. Today's Rant Network podcast dives deep into how technology, individual journalism, and sensationalism have transformed media into a tool for influence rather than information. If you’re tired of echo chambers and want to challenge your perspective, this episode is a must-listen.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:12):
Although the people in Minneapolis and Portland,
Oregon, and other places aroundthe United States aren't exactly
clapping because of what's beengoing on there.
But again, you know what'sfascinating?
And Stuart and I are not gonnareally get into ICE and our
commentary about ICE and and andpolice, uh, you know, whether
(00:32):
you support the police, defundthe police, it's not the issue
here today.
But you know, it's fascinating,Stuart, is this morning as I
woke up to the news locally herein Montreal, the opening, the
opening was what happened inMinneapolis, which is so
irrelevant in Canada, it's soirrelevant.
But this is how the news hasbeen right now.
(00:54):
The positioning on liberal news,you could tell based on without
even listening to the callletters, which TV station, which
newspaper, if you hit it alljust by the way they frame a
story or ignore stories orposition the story, you know
exactly where they stand.
(01:15):
Neutrality is non-existent, andbecause of this, because of the
fact that so many media housesnow are trying to pivot a little
bit here and there when thejournalist isn't happy.
Guess what they do?
They make their own podcast sothat you can follow them and
their agenda-based information,it's no longer neutral.
(01:38):
Now, has it ever been neutral?
Maybe, but it was a lot neutralat a certain point.
Today, in the 24-hour,seven-day-a-week cycle of
need-to-fill airtime, we'vecreated for ourselves a vacuum
that if you want to hear thatthe sky is green, there's a
(01:59):
media for you.
Welcome back, everybody to therant network.
I'm David Solomon, he is StuartBrisgale.
We do this every Monday,Wednesday, Friday at noon
Eastern.
Rants about stuff like themedia, stuff like politics,
culture, the insanity that weare dealing with on a day-to-day
basis.
This is our opinion.
We are not a media house,although we tend to do sometimes
more research than the media.
(02:20):
So sit back and relax as we getinto the topics that, folks, you
do not have a chance to talk atthe dinner table because someone
at the other end is going to getmad at you.
We do it anyways, Stuart.
You know, the the the amazingthing for me is ever since this
ICE incident happened inMinneapolis, I've been flipping
back and forth between Fox,Newsmax, CNN, and the rest of
(02:43):
the other liberal media here inMunch Canada and whatever.
And I'm like watching literallytwo versions, and I mean two
harshly different versions ofthe same thing.
Even this morning, as they'retalking about alleged gang
members being shot in Portland,Oregon, they're the media won't
(03:05):
go down the road that they weregang members, alleged gang
members, it's that ICE shot twopeople.
All the this media wants to talkabout is that.
Whereas the other media wants totalk about the illegality of
immigrants who are here.
Gee, whiz, Stuart, two sides ofthe same coin, but yet whatever
(03:27):
you want to hear is availablefor you today.
Stuart, you seem to be irked outabout media.
What say you, my friend?
SPEAKER_00 (03:35):
You know, even though that you're the history
major and I'm not, and uh,you're right, we do a lot of
research, and there's a lot oftechnology that helps us bring
this broadcast every Monday,Wednesday, Friday.
But let's go and simplify it.
It's power over the signal.
(03:56):
That began to be more exposedwith the current president of
the United States by thedismantling of the public
broadcasting system.
You know, we tell ourselves thattechnology is neutral, that
(04:17):
progress is inevitable, and thatconnections equal freedom.
Whether it's our kids demandingtheir their iPhones or their
Android phones and beingconnected, whether it's the
mothers or fathers wanting tohave connection with their
children running around.
(04:38):
But the argument is history hasnever agreed with us or this.
Every time humanity invents anew way to communicate, we
celebrate and open the gates.
(05:01):
But is it neutral?
Is there any neutrality becauseneutrality grows more fragile
with each and every iteration?
Media is a cool infrastructure,and whoever controls that
infrastructure will control whatmoves, what spreads, what
(05:23):
survives.
Whether it's the idea, money,fear, or hope.
Just like David started, he'dwatched four different
broadcasts and thought he livedon four different planets.
I'm putting words in his mouth,but in essence, that's what is
going on.
It's a battle for who's got theright message.
(05:46):
You know, it's an illusion.
And you know, the first illusionwasn't Microsoft.
The first illusion wasn't 1984or 1994 with the uh allowing the
internet to exist, which wasGeorge Bush.
The first illusion was 1450.
Johannes Gurtenberg changed theworld with movable type with
(06:10):
printed words known as aset-free.
By the 1600s, the presses areall over, but the government
decides who can and cannot usewords until it became open
access.
Because the influence of ink ofthe 1800s triggered panic and
(06:34):
literally started wars.
Media moguls turned intopresidents of their audience.
Were they neutral?
They never promised to be.
You only assume that they were.
(08:07):
No license, no borders, nogatekeepers.
Anyone can speak, anyone canbuild.
So whether you're a communistlooking for an audience, a
terrorist looking for followers,or just you and I try to just
(08:28):
get along, be happy, and notconcern ourselves with some or
all of this noise.
You know, so it's kind of likehere we are looking and asking
for the quiet return ofgatekeepers.
(08:50):
The power of media has alsogrown alongside of all this
technology.
And David, it's it's long beforefiber optics cables were laid
across the world, they tooktheir seat in this distributed
(09:12):
public publishing house wherecensorship was editorial, not
government or parental.
This is a pattern, David, thathas gone on and on and on in
every iteration, whether we'redeciding politics, whether we're
trying to decide religion,whether we're trying to decide
(09:35):
financial fares, or were warsjustified or not?
Whether you looked at theVietnam War, you looked at the
Iraq War, or you're looking atthe terror caused by political
Islamists murdering, massacringhundreds and thousands of people
(09:56):
indiscriminately, with peoplelike Angelina Jolie, who feels
that she's become so irrevolenttraveling to Egypt to see the
victims of Gaza, but failing togo and see what caused the
event.
David, we've been doing this forfive years.
(10:17):
And yes, I have been mostly theerratic guy for five years who
comes in like a bull in a chinashot, considering I'm a tourist,
it's very normal.
But I'm frustrated.
I'm frustrated with everyone Iseem to speak to today.
They don't understand thedifference between fact and
(10:39):
editorial at all.
They have no capacity of freethought.
It's what they've been told,it's what they've heard.
Politicians like our sweetheartin Texan, who calls for violence
in the streets, disfuse lieslike AOC, and they have
(11:06):
absolutely no consequences.
The net neutrality debate isn'tgoing to be decided thing you
need.
Because clearly there's got tobe consequences to all these
actions that these people take.
I I just I'm very frustratedtoday, David.
(11:28):
I'm sorry for ranting for doingthat.
SPEAKER_01 (11:29):
No, no, no, but start you hit.
Listen, I think let's talk aboutreality.
Human beings don't like to beproven wrong, and human beings
want to be part of a community,right?
And community isn't just goingto your church or synagogue, it
doesn't mean living in ageography, it's also thought.
(11:53):
You want to be the outlier?
We've seen in history whathappens to outliers, right,
Stuart?
From Galileo and on.
If you are not part of thegroup, think you're an outsider,
an outlier, you know, thatpeople will do things to you.
And so people don't want to beisolated.
So once upon a time, and Iworked in a newspaper, so I
(12:16):
could say this journalism had anethic, had a code.
You had a story, you needed twosources, two credible sources.
You couldn't report it.
Editors had a code, but theyalso had they still had a
guideline.
If you're a governmentcontrolling journalism or a
corporation controllingjournalist, an editor, a person,
(12:39):
an individual controlled themessage.
How it would edit it, how it'dbe framed, how to be and that
was in jerk, that was in thenewspaper business since the day
since the first printing of anewspaper.
Radio did just amplify that, TVamplified it.
And today we're dealing with allthis kind of technology.
Stuart, what's happening todayis it's a it's so clear on who
(13:04):
you want and what you want.
Here's an example of a storythat I'm sure you have not heard
of, right?
The United Arab Emirates, okay,has now made a declaration to
students not to go to the UK.
Islam Muslim students should notgo to the UK for fear of being
radicalized.
(13:25):
Now, the incredible thing isthat this should be a story.
This should be a message.
But what will happen?
The house of cards built bycertain media houses will
collapse.
Therefore, they would have toadmit that they were wrong the
entire time.
That means that they would putinto question other things that
they do.
So there are two options (13:45):
report it and get pie in your face, or
ignore it to continue yournarrative.
And that's exactly what is goingon in the media today.
So what ends up happening withpeople like you and me?
We're looking for other sources.
Now the problem is that we'redealing with now with
individualism, individualjournalism.
(14:06):
It isn't no more corporations orgovernments that are controlling
it, it's individual journalism.
And because of that, you've goteverything like Pod Save
America, a podcast brought toyou by former Obama staffers,
whose only angle is to prop upthe Democratic Party, destroy
the Republican Party.
(14:26):
That's all they want to talkabout.
By contrast, you go to the otherside, you've got a guy like Ben
Shapiro, who's a conservative,who will give you a different
viewpoint.
Same story, different viewpoint.
This is what's happened today.
Who's controlling these folks oroverseeing it, if you don't like
the word control, becausethey're saying it's free speech.
(14:48):
So now journalism, and if welook at TV viewership of the
news, it's down.
And if we look at journalnewspapers, it's thinner than
they've ever been before.
And radio is consolidating andclosing down all over the world
because people are no longerconsuming that media because it
no longer fits their narrative.
And as a result, what we'reseeing now is greater
(15:12):
sensationalism in these mediapublications to try to get you
back for your eyes and your earsand your and your ad for
advertisers.
It's not about delivering thenews in the right way.
Stuart, good news never sold, itnever sold.
Only bad news, only controversy.
And how we frame controversy iswhat matters.
(15:34):
So when you go now to a podcastand you want to be told you are
right, what controversy are theygonna tell me in this podcast?
Now I don't want to listen toPod Save America.
I've I've heard clips, I alsodon't listen to Ben Shapiro,
okay?
Because I don't need those feedsto tell me how to think, what to
(15:55):
think.
I do my own homework, butunfortunately, others do not.
And so when I get a feed from areliable source this morning
saying, look what's happening inthe UAE, I know I've relied on
that source, and all of asudden, that's okay.
But media is no longer reallyour friend, it's our drug, it's
(16:16):
become a drug to continue topump up our good feelings, or
even worse, hype up our negativefeelings because the hate
towards the Trump administrationcan only be amplified if I stoke
that fire.
And like a drug, we're consumingthat to enrage us.
And when you wake up in on aFriday morning, Stuart, and you
(16:38):
hear ice is bad, defy ice,defund the police again,
marches, march again, marchagain without telling you what
happened, why it happened, thatstokes what the media wants.
Now you're gonna watch more.
I used to joke, Stuart, aboutCNN was the airplane crash, new
(16:59):
TV station, because that'ssensationalism.
Even today, they're stilltalking about the Malaysian
airline that disappeared.
They're still bringing it backbecause we have a lull in our
stories.
Let's go bring that back that wenever found that airplane.
Sensationalism.
That's why you see breaking newson all of these things.
Everything's breaking news.
It's not breaking news.
It's to catch your attention,it's to feed you with that media
(17:22):
drug.
And if you can't get enough ofthat, well, guess what?
Now journalists from CNN and Foxand all these guys have their
own podcasts.
So you could get even more ofthis kind of drug in your
system.
And if you don't like those,okay, go to the guys who quit
the Megan Kelly's, the DonLamonds, all the rest of these
people who are gonna feed youshit.
(17:43):
Tucker Carlson, Stuart.
Let me wrap it up with this.
Tucker Carlson was thrown out,was told that he was nuts.
And you could see how crazy heis on his thing.
This is me saying it.
This is my editorial punkstatement.
The man is a racist and istrying to dissuade you his way.
It's working.
We see it happening where JDVance is kind of captivated by
(18:06):
it, others are captured by it,and Candace Owens and all these
other ones, Stuart.
This these are former mediapeople who recognize the power
of this drug that if I catchyou, I've got you.
And now I'm gonna feed your headwith the shit that I want you to
believe in.
SPEAKER_00 (18:24):
David, every revolution in communication
starts with an open door andends by who holds the keys.
The internet is still open fornow in the United States, not in
China or Russia or some othercountries.
But the door doesn't closeloudly, they close it one lock
(18:48):
at a time.
By the time you hear click, thechoice has already been made.
David, it's Friday.
It's time to send them all.
SPEAKER_01 (18:59):
I want to I'm gonna just wrap it up with this.
When you you we you and I havetalked a lot about what's going
on in Gaza and in Ukraine and inother places.
If there was ever a time toreally take a look and see what
the media does and how it playsit up, that Ukraine at one point
back a few years ago was thenumber one story, not important
(19:21):
anymore.
Doesn't matter that Ukrainiansgot are getting killed.
But as soon as we had the war inGaza and the situation with
Hamas, it took front page news.
Why did the Ukrainian story nolonger matter?
And why are we here years laterand we're still not?
It still doesn't matter.
And this is the question you gotto ask yourself Does your media
(19:43):
that you choose really give youthe unvarnished truth?
Or should they just have adisclaimer on every episode
saying, We are no longer media,we're an editorial board?
With that, ladies and gentlemen,I want to wish you all a
wonderful weekend.
It is the end of the second weekof January.
We hope that you.
enjoyed yourself we're closingin on our sixth year anniversary
yeah still keep saying fiveyears but we're almost there
(20:05):
guys we love what you're doingfor us thank you so much keep
spreading the word on thispodcast yes our friends have a
wonderful week everyone
Although the people in Minneapolis and Portland,
Oregon, and other places aroundthe United States aren't exactly
clapping because of what's beengoing on there.
But again, you know what'sfascinating?
And Stuart and I are not gonnareally get into ICE and our
commentary about ICE and and andpolice, uh, you know, whether
(00:32):
you support the police, defundthe police, it's not the issue
here today.
But you know, it's fascinating,Stuart, is this morning as I
woke up to the news locally herein Montreal, the opening, the
opening was what happened inMinneapolis, which is so
irrelevant in Canada, it's soirrelevant.
But this is how the news hasbeen right now.
(00:54):
The positioning on liberal news,you could tell based on without
even listening to the callletters, which TV station, which
newspaper, if you hit it alljust by the way they frame a
story or ignore stories orposition the story, you know
exactly where they stand.
(01:15):
Neutrality is non-existent, andbecause of this, because of the
fact that so many media housesnow are trying to pivot a little
bit here and there when thejournalist isn't happy.
Guess what they do?
They make their own podcast sothat you can follow them and
their agenda-based information,it's no longer neutral.
(01:38):
Now, has it ever been neutral?
Maybe, but it was a lot neutralat a certain point.
Today, in the 24-hour,seven-day-a-week cycle of
need-to-fill airtime, we'vecreated for ourselves a vacuum
that if you want to hear thatthe sky is green, there's a
(01:59):
media for you.
Welcome back, everybody to therant network.
I'm David Solomon, he is StuartBrisgale.
We do this every Monday,Wednesday, Friday at noon
Eastern.
Rants about stuff like themedia, stuff like politics,
culture, the insanity that weare dealing with on a day-to-day
basis.
This is our opinion.
We are not a media house,although we tend to do sometimes
more research than the media.
(02:20):
So sit back and relax as we getinto the topics that, folks, you
do not have a chance to talk atthe dinner table because someone
at the other end is going to getmad at you.
We do it anyways, Stuart.
You know, the the the amazingthing for me is ever since this
ICE incident happened inMinneapolis, I've been flipping
back and forth between Fox,Newsmax, CNN, and the rest of
(02:43):
the other liberal media here inMunch Canada and whatever.
And I'm like watching literallytwo versions, and I mean two
harshly different versions ofthe same thing.
Even this morning, as they'retalking about alleged gang
members being shot in Portland,Oregon, they're the media won't
(03:05):
go down the road that they weregang members, alleged gang
members, it's that ICE shot twopeople.
All the this media wants to talkabout is that.
Whereas the other media wants totalk about the illegality of
immigrants who are here.
Gee, whiz, Stuart, two sides ofthe same coin, but yet whatever
(03:27):
you want to hear is availablefor you today.
Stuart, you seem to be irked outabout media.
What say you, my friend?
SPEAKER_00 (03:35):
You know, even though that you're the history
major and I'm not, and uh,you're right, we do a lot of
research, and there's a lot oftechnology that helps us bring
this broadcast every Monday,Wednesday, Friday.
But let's go and simplify it.
It's power over the signal.
(03:56):
That began to be more exposedwith the current president of
the United States by thedismantling of the public
broadcasting system.
You know, we tell ourselves thattechnology is neutral, that
(04:17):
progress is inevitable, and thatconnections equal freedom.
Whether it's our kids demandingtheir their iPhones or their
Android phones and beingconnected, whether it's the
mothers or fathers wanting tohave connection with their
children running around.
(04:38):
But the argument is history hasnever agreed with us or this.
Every time humanity invents anew way to communicate, we
celebrate and open the gates.
(05:01):
But is it neutral?
Is there any neutrality becauseneutrality grows more fragile
with each and every iteration?
Media is a cool infrastructure,and whoever controls that
infrastructure will control whatmoves, what spreads, what
(05:23):
survives.
Whether it's the idea, money,fear, or hope.
Just like David started, he'dwatched four different
broadcasts and thought he livedon four different planets.
I'm putting words in his mouth,but in essence, that's what is
going on.
It's a battle for who's got theright message.
(05:46):
You know, it's an illusion.
And you know, the first illusionwasn't Microsoft.
The first illusion wasn't 1984or 1994 with the uh allowing the
internet to exist, which wasGeorge Bush.
The first illusion was 1450.
Johannes Gurtenberg changed theworld with movable type with
(06:10):
printed words known as aset-free.
By the 1600s, the presses areall over, but the government
decides who can and cannot usewords until it became open
access.
Because the influence of ink ofthe 1800s triggered panic and
(06:34):
literally started wars.
Media moguls turned intopresidents of their audience.
Were they neutral?
They never promised to be.
You only assume that they were.
(08:07):
No license, no borders, nogatekeepers.
Anyone can speak, anyone canbuild.
So whether you're a communistlooking for an audience, a
terrorist looking for followers,or just you and I try to just
(08:28):
get along, be happy, and notconcern ourselves with some or
all of this noise.
You know, so it's kind of likehere we are looking and asking
for the quiet return ofgatekeepers.
(08:50):
The power of media has alsogrown alongside of all this
technology.
And David, it's it's long beforefiber optics cables were laid
across the world, they tooktheir seat in this distributed
(09:12):
public publishing house wherecensorship was editorial, not
government or parental.
This is a pattern, David, thathas gone on and on and on in
every iteration, whether we'redeciding politics, whether we're
trying to decide religion,whether we're trying to decide
(09:35):
financial fares, or were warsjustified or not?
Whether you looked at theVietnam War, you looked at the
Iraq War, or you're looking atthe terror caused by political
Islamists murdering, massacringhundreds and thousands of people
(09:56):
indiscriminately, with peoplelike Angelina Jolie, who feels
that she's become so irrevolenttraveling to Egypt to see the
victims of Gaza, but failing togo and see what caused the
event.
David, we've been doing this forfive years.
(10:17):
And yes, I have been mostly theerratic guy for five years who
comes in like a bull in a chinashot, considering I'm a tourist,
it's very normal.
But I'm frustrated.
I'm frustrated with everyone Iseem to speak to today.
They don't understand thedifference between fact and
(10:39):
editorial at all.
They have no capacity of freethought.
It's what they've been told,it's what they've heard.
Politicians like our sweetheartin Texan, who calls for violence
in the streets, disfuse lieslike AOC, and they have
(11:06):
absolutely no consequences.
The net neutrality debate isn'tgoing to be decided thing you
need.
Because clearly there's got tobe consequences to all these
actions that these people take.
I I just I'm very frustratedtoday, David.
(11:28):
I'm sorry for ranting for doingthat.
SPEAKER_01 (11:29):
No, no, no, but start you hit.
Listen, I think let's talk aboutreality.
Human beings don't like to beproven wrong, and human beings
want to be part of a community,right?
And community isn't just goingto your church or synagogue, it
doesn't mean living in ageography, it's also thought.
(11:53):
You want to be the outlier?
We've seen in history whathappens to outliers, right,
Stuart?
From Galileo and on.
If you are not part of thegroup, think you're an outsider,
an outlier, you know, thatpeople will do things to you.
And so people don't want to beisolated.
So once upon a time, and Iworked in a newspaper, so I
(12:16):
could say this journalism had anethic, had a code.
You had a story, you needed twosources, two credible sources.
You couldn't report it.
Editors had a code, but theyalso had they still had a
guideline.
If you're a governmentcontrolling journalism or a
corporation controllingjournalist, an editor, a person,
(12:39):
an individual controlled themessage.
How it would edit it, how it'dbe framed, how to be and that
was in jerk, that was in thenewspaper business since the day
since the first printing of anewspaper.
Radio did just amplify that, TVamplified it.
And today we're dealing with allthis kind of technology.
Stuart, what's happening todayis it's a it's so clear on who
(13:04):
you want and what you want.
Here's an example of a storythat I'm sure you have not heard
of, right?
The United Arab Emirates, okay,has now made a declaration to
students not to go to the UK.
Islam Muslim students should notgo to the UK for fear of being
radicalized.
(13:25):
Now, the incredible thing isthat this should be a story.
This should be a message.
But what will happen?
The house of cards built bycertain media houses will
collapse.
Therefore, they would have toadmit that they were wrong the
entire time.
That means that they would putinto question other things that
they do.
So there are two options (13:45):
report it and get pie in your face, or
ignore it to continue yournarrative.
And that's exactly what is goingon in the media today.
So what ends up happening withpeople like you and me?
We're looking for other sources.
Now the problem is that we'redealing with now with
individualism, individualjournalism.
(14:06):
It isn't no more corporations orgovernments that are controlling
it, it's individual journalism.
And because of that, you've goteverything like Pod Save
America, a podcast brought toyou by former Obama staffers,
whose only angle is to prop upthe Democratic Party, destroy
the Republican Party.
(14:26):
That's all they want to talkabout.
By contrast, you go to the otherside, you've got a guy like Ben
Shapiro, who's a conservative,who will give you a different
viewpoint.
Same story, different viewpoint.
This is what's happened today.
Who's controlling these folks oroverseeing it, if you don't like
the word control, becausethey're saying it's free speech.
(14:48):
So now journalism, and if welook at TV viewership of the
news, it's down.
And if we look at journalnewspapers, it's thinner than
they've ever been before.
And radio is consolidating andclosing down all over the world
because people are no longerconsuming that media because it
no longer fits their narrative.
And as a result, what we'reseeing now is greater
(15:12):
sensationalism in these mediapublications to try to get you
back for your eyes and your earsand your and your ad for
advertisers.
It's not about delivering thenews in the right way.
Stuart, good news never sold, itnever sold.
Only bad news, only controversy.
And how we frame controversy iswhat matters.
(15:34):
So when you go now to a podcastand you want to be told you are
right, what controversy are theygonna tell me in this podcast?
Now I don't want to listen toPod Save America.
I've I've heard clips, I alsodon't listen to Ben Shapiro,
okay?
Because I don't need those feedsto tell me how to think, what to
(15:55):
think.
I do my own homework, butunfortunately, others do not.
And so when I get a feed from areliable source this morning
saying, look what's happening inthe UAE, I know I've relied on
that source, and all of asudden, that's okay.
But media is no longer reallyour friend, it's our drug, it's
(16:16):
become a drug to continue topump up our good feelings, or
even worse, hype up our negativefeelings because the hate
towards the Trump administrationcan only be amplified if I stoke
that fire.
And like a drug, we're consumingthat to enrage us.
And when you wake up in on aFriday morning, Stuart, and you
(16:38):
hear ice is bad, defy ice,defund the police again,
marches, march again, marchagain without telling you what
happened, why it happened, thatstokes what the media wants.
Now you're gonna watch more.
I used to joke, Stuart, aboutCNN was the airplane crash, new
(16:59):
TV station, because that'ssensationalism.
Even today, they're stilltalking about the Malaysian
airline that disappeared.
They're still bringing it backbecause we have a lull in our
stories.
Let's go bring that back that wenever found that airplane.
Sensationalism.
That's why you see breaking newson all of these things.
Everything's breaking news.
It's not breaking news.
It's to catch your attention,it's to feed you with that media
(17:22):
drug.
And if you can't get enough ofthat, well, guess what?
Now journalists from CNN and Foxand all these guys have their
own podcasts.
So you could get even more ofthis kind of drug in your
system.
And if you don't like those,okay, go to the guys who quit
the Megan Kelly's, the DonLamonds, all the rest of these
people who are gonna feed youshit.
(17:43):
Tucker Carlson, Stuart.
Let me wrap it up with this.
Tucker Carlson was thrown out,was told that he was nuts.
And you could see how crazy heis on his thing.
This is me saying it.
This is my editorial punkstatement.
The man is a racist and istrying to dissuade you his way.
It's working.
We see it happening where JDVance is kind of captivated by
(18:06):
it, others are captured by it,and Candace Owens and all these
other ones, Stuart.
This these are former mediapeople who recognize the power
of this drug that if I catchyou, I've got you.
And now I'm gonna feed your headwith the shit that I want you to
believe in.
SPEAKER_00 (18:24):
David, every revolution in communication
starts with an open door andends by who holds the keys.
The internet is still open fornow in the United States, not in
China or Russia or some othercountries.
But the door doesn't closeloudly, they close it one lock
(18:48):
at a time.
By the time you hear click, thechoice has already been made.
David, it's Friday.
It's time to send them all.
SPEAKER_01 (18:59):
I want to I'm gonna just wrap it up with this.
When you you we you and I havetalked a lot about what's going
on in Gaza and in Ukraine and inother places.
If there was ever a time toreally take a look and see what
the media does and how it playsit up, that Ukraine at one point
back a few years ago was thenumber one story, not important
(19:21):
anymore.
Doesn't matter that Ukrainiansgot are getting killed.
But as soon as we had the war inGaza and the situation with
Hamas, it took front page news.
Why did the Ukrainian story nolonger matter?
And why are we here years laterand we're still not?
It still doesn't matter.
And this is the question you gotto ask yourself Does your media
(19:43):
that you choose really give youthe unvarnished truth?
Or should they just have adisclaimer on every episode
saying, We are no longer media,we're an editorial board?
With that, ladies and gentlemen,I want to wish you all a
wonderful weekend.
It is the end of the second weekof January.
We hope that you.
enjoyed yourself we're closingin on our sixth year anniversary
yeah still keep saying fiveyears but we're almost there
(20:05):
guys we love what you're doingfor us thank you so much keep
spreading the word on thispodcast yes our friends have a
wonderful week everyone
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