Commentary: Podcasts V Mainstream Media

Question: Is there an attempt by Mainstream Media through movies and ads to ILLEGITIMIZE Podcasts?

Recently, Netflix released a limited series called The Beast in Me. The series seems to use sly tactics to sow doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of podcasters. Renaldo discusses this in his soliloquy raising the alarm about mainstream media's attempts to re-centralize and re-monopolize its hold over communication and information.

Renaldo plays an excerpt of the series and presents his arguments.

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Episode Transcript

(00:04):
This is the Neo Liberal Around podcast.
Jarvis matters to you. Clearly you felt compelled to
warn me. You think he's that dangerous
and if he has something to do with Fennec and you could prove

(00:24):
it. Nothing you've said is anything
close to proof and you you want to go to the police.
You can't. But honestly, anyone who hears
this is going to think you're listening to any podcasts.
Ladies and gentlemen, that particular, there is a drive to

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demean, there is a drive to belittle and there is a drive to
remove campaign by mainstream media, by big money backers to
remove podcasting out of the narrative, out of the
conversation. They're trying to take back
control. They're trying to re monopolize
and to centralized communicationor their power over

(01:11):
communication so that they can continue with their pragmatic
truth. I am watching this show The
Beast in Me unlimited series that's that Netflix has.
And I want to know who is sponsoring this series The Beast
in Me on Netflix. Because some time ago, two weeks
ago, I heard another show or an ad.
And in that ad the somebody saidto another person, why don't you

(01:34):
go to a podcast or something? There is a drive to, to to to
remove podcasting or to, to showin your mind doubt about
podcasting. So that shows so that it doesn't
be so that because podcasting isis is too competitive, it's too

(01:54):
competitive. So now there's a drive by
mainstream media and by powerfulpeople to remove podcasting and
podcasters and streamers out of the narrative because the
problem is podcasters and podcasting is competitive.
The competition, the competitionto mainstream media, the

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competition to CNNMSNBC, Fox andbig name, big name, the the
power brokers of this of this world.
Their power, the monopoly over the news, over communication is
challenged. When so many people have access
and can now put news out, that'sa problem.

(02:37):
So now these people know psychology very well and I study
clinical psychology in addition to the many things I study.
They can't fool me. They are trying to show doubt in
your mind so that you don't takepodcaster seriously, so that
they can re monopolize, so they can re so they can re
centralized power over communication.

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Because podcasting, streamers, Youtubers, this what that is
doing is deep because people arenow getting their news from
podcasters and so on and so forth.
OK, independent journalists who are not connected by big name
people. That's a problem for for for
some people. And so now you look at the
little one minute, one second, it only take two and three

(03:22):
seconds, bits and pieces over time to show doubt in your mind
about podcasting. Podcasting is powerful.
They're afraid of it. And so now you watch Netflix and
these shows they're inserting, they're inserting narratives,
small narratives, little bits and pieces, two word line to

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show doubt in your mind. So that now when people say on
my podcast, they say, Oh, no, you can say, oh, people, you
listen to some, you know what I'm trying to say here, but I'm
smarter than that, that I was just playing the beast in me on
Netflix. This is on a quick note on the
Neoliberal Podcast. Welcome to another episode of

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the Neoliberal Podcast. And this is on a quick note.
I'm here watching a new series on Netflix that's about to
break. So usually when Netflix is about
to release a new series, they drop a limited series to whet
your appetite. But I'm watching it.

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It's called The Beast in Me and clearly.
But as I watch the this this series, I'm on season 2, I mean
season 1 episode 2. And in episode 2, the the main
one of the main characters is talking to an FBI agent about

(04:58):
something that has happened. And the FBI agent in the movie
said in the film in the series says, oh, you listen to too many
podcasts. And as I heard it, it peaked it
something in me jumped because about a week or two ago, I was
watching another show. And on the show they say

(05:24):
somebody said to one person saidto another person on this show,
why don't you go to a podcast orsomething?
Why don't is there anything you can do?
Why don't you go to a podcast orsomething?
And when I heard these two things, something jumps at me.
One is that podcast. They were trying to be little

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podcast. They were trying to make
podcasting irrelevant, unimportant.
Podcast is one of the greatest thing that has ever.
One of the greatest is podcast of the 21st century.
Podcast is one of the greatest thing that has ever happened to

(06:10):
to. I don't even know why I'm
recording it like this, but what?
But it's one of the greatest things that has ever happened to
to media, because what I have said about podcasting is that it
decentralizes monopoly over communication.

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Many people don't like that, butI believe it is important for us
to decentralize the monopoly over the news.
But mainstream media is trying to take back their advantage.
They're trying to wrest control because podcasting is is the

(06:52):
competition. And So what is happening now is
there is a concerted effort, there is a concerted effort
between mainstream media, Netflix, CNNMSNBC, big news, big
name news and big name media to to to take back control and to,

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to destroy and to inoculate any competition.
And in this sense, and not only and to and to re centralized
power, their power, their monopoly over the news so that
they can continue to control thenarrative with the pragmatic
truth. Yes.

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And so they in a very sly way, you don't even know, but in a
very sly and it, and if you study psychology, I study
clinic. I, I have AI study clinical
psychology in addition to the, in addition to the myriad of
things that I do, but in a very sly way.
What they have done is that theyare trying to create in people's

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minds, doubt about podcasts, making it look unimportant,
belittling it. Yes, by by by inserting
conversations in shows and ads that make podcasts seem dumb.
But I'm sorry, it will. I don't I it's people like me

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can fish out things easily. I, I can, we can people.
I am not easily fooled and tricked.
I see what people are doing thatOK power, those who have all
mainstream, those who have always had the power and how
they're trying to maintain that power.
But guess what, we see you. We see what you're doing.

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I have a podcast, and I will do everything in my power to make
sure that podcasting become partof the conversation because we
need competition because competition is, we know what
competition does. If you don't have competition,

(09:09):
then it creates unfair advantages.
Yes. So I mean, I don't know what
Netflix was trying to do by inserting this particular
section into the movie, into theseries.
Oh, oh, they people think you'recrazy.
But, but listen to it though. You gotta I'm going to I'm going

(09:30):
to play it for you. If I could find it.
Let's let's take it back a minute.
Here it is, The Beast in me on Netflix.
If Niall did this because of me,I need to know.

(09:53):
Look, I wish I could help you, Ireally do, but I have been down
this road before and I can't. So my advice is to go home, let
it be sorry. Here, here we go.
Compelled to warn me. You think he's that dangerous
and if he has something to do with Fennec and.

(10:14):
And you could prove it. Nothing you said is anything
close to proof and you you want to go to the police you can, but
honestly anyone who hears this is going to think you listen to
too many podcasts. There we go.
Anyone who hears this think you're listening to too many
podcasts. An effort to demean, to belittle

(10:36):
and to take podcasting and to sothat people may not think so now
when people say I'm a podcaster,you already think, oh, podcast,
Oh, you listen to too many. You can go with that.
You can you run with that narrative.
I'm sorry, Netflix or whoever pay big money for you to to
people pay big. There is a campaign.

(10:57):
There is a campaign to remove the podcasting and Youtubers and
streamers out of the conversation by belittling it,
belittling, belittling it by using it in conversations like
this. But guess what?
We've seen you. It won't happen.

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This is Anna. Quick note, and I'm Ronaldo
McKenzie of the Newly Buron podcast.

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This is the Neoliberal Around podcast.