August 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Why is the media afraid of free speech? We continue our journey down the Twitter rabbit hole by telling the story of how Milo Yiannopoulos became the canary in the free speech coal mine.
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Now onto the show.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Make gaming a more inclusive space for people of all genders.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The Wolk feminists didn't like the way women were portrayed
in some video games.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Women shouldn't be mere disposable objects and stories about men.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It is my honor to present the Game Developers and
Bassador Award to Anita Sarcusium.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Then that should tell you something about how bad game
journalism and game development in the indie scene is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So the gamers return to Twitter, the one online free
speech forum that wasn't censoring their discussions on the topic.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
A Twitter user dubbed the controversy hashtag gamer gate, a
heated debate in the video game industry has turned ugly.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But just when it looked like the carpet bomb approach
could work, a relatively unknown journalist entered the scene.
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You could think of red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
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Red Pilled America. We're at the third part of our
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series of episodes entitled Unfiltered. You've probably heard part one
and two, but if you haven't, stopped and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question why is the media afraid of free speech?
By telling the story of Twitter and how it drifted
away from being the free speech platform.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So in part one, we told the origin story of
Twitter and how Jack Dorsey's platform was eventually used by
new media pioneer Andrew Breitbart to take down a sitting Congressman,
Anthony Wiener. The scandal came to be known by the
hashtag wiener Gate, and it was perhaps the first major
sign that Twitter could be used to bypass the media gatekeepers.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
In Part two, we followed the outbreak of an unexpected
culture war known as gamer Gate. This battle began in
twenty twelve after feminist Anita Sarkisian launched a campaign branding
video games as sexist. Her critiques were effective because they
appeared to be coming from within the community and need
a claimed to be a gamer. The mainstream media amplified
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her message, and many within the industry began to fall
in line, praising her feminist message and declaring that reform
was needed. Gamers wanted to embark on a counter attack,
but they needed a weapon. That came in the summer
of twenty fourteen, when a disgruntled young man posted as
usallacious story about his ex girlfriend, a feminist game developer
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that went by the name of Zoe Quinn. Zoe's ex
accused her of canoodling with other men to benefit her career,
including a gaming journalist. The accusation was a nuclear bomb
in the joystick world. Feminists had been branding gamers as
misogynists all while one of their own was allegedly shacking
up with key players within the industry to get ahead.
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Gamers dug deeper and found journalists had donated to zoey Quinn.
This was no small deal. At the time. The gaming
industry was an over eighty billion dollar global industry. If
Zoe's ex boyfriend was right, what other corruption was lurking
behind the curtain. Gamers also uncovered footage of Anita Sarkisian
that showed that she wasn't a gamer at all. Now
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they wanted answers and demanded the media cover the scandal.
At first, journalists ignored the controversy. When that didn't work,
they censored comments about it on their platforms. So gamers
turned into the one social media website that wasn't banning
their discussions on the topic Twitter. They built on the
Wienergate tactic by adopting a hashtag for their controversy. They
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called it hashtag gamer gate, and a movement was born.
The gamers were able to apply pressure to media outlets
implicated in the scandal, and those outlets adopted policies designed
to eliminate corruption. As the hashtag continued to trend on Twitter,
which was by then the de facto dashboard of journalists,
the mainstream media could no longer ignore the controversy. They
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flooded news feeds with stories supported of their feminist gaming comrades.
The narrative they crafted was that females were under attack
by an industry saturated with sexists. But just as it
appeared that the media's carpet bombing approach was going to work.
A relatively unknown journalist entered the scene. His name was
Milo Unopolis and he was about to become the unofficial
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spokesman of the Gamergate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Movement, Miloyanopolis and Gamers. To an outsider, it looked like
an odd pairing. Milo was a thin, good looking, sophisticated
gay conservative from the UK. The Joystick jockeys, on the
other hand, were thought to be fat, stupid, perverse, basement
dwelling nerds, But that false branding masked the truth. Milo
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and gamers were a perfect fit. They were both whip
smart social outcasts that enjoyed nothing more than exploiting the
chinks in their opponent's armor. Milo first entered the Gamergate
arena in September twenty fourteen by chronicling the twists and
turns of the controversy, and in his first outing, he
quickly got to the crux of the conflict. Gamers believed
feminists were ruining their beloved hobby. They wanted them to
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get the fuck out of gaming, and the best way
to make that happen was to expose their involvement in
a corruption scandal. It seemed like a long shot to
prove that Milo was about to find some receipts. Red
Pilled America reached out to Mila for the story, but
he didn't respond to our request. Too bad for him. However,
we've been able to piece together his contribution to the
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Gamergate story and it would all eventually amount to a
monumental shift in pre speech. Shortly after Milo began reporting
on Gamergate, he uncovered a scoop. Someone leaked to him
emails that unequivocally proved the corruption in gaming news media.
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What the emails revealed was that the top gaming journalist
were part of a private mailing list called Game journal Pros,
and the leaked emails showed these journalists working together to
build a consensus on the Gamergate scandal. They discussed what
they should and shouldn't cover, what angle to take on
the story, who to censor, and how to prop up
the feminists within gaming. When Gamergate first started trending on Twitter,
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leftist journalists were desperately trying to control the narrative, and
it was all laid out in the leaked emails. What
Milo uncovered was a smoking gun, and it exposed the
exact journalistic corruption that supporters of Gamergate had long suspected
journalists were not working independently to reveal the truth about games,
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they'd become part of the woke narrative machine. Milo's new
revelation began to red pill gamers that were initially disinterested
in the controversy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Parker in Chicago, Parker, thank you for calling.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You're on My big question or a big issue was this.
I was very neutral coming in, but I tend to
just do a lot of reading. I had a little
bit of time, okay, And I think like the biggest
thing that stuck out to me was this game journal's
pros list serve. Basically, if I understand it correctly, it
was a group or a large group of journalists from
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across the gamut of game journalism, including mainstream media outlets,
that would discuss behind the scenes ways in to present stories.
And I think a lot of gamers are upset about this.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Hey, Parker, explains something to me, Because I'm not into
the gaming world, what would be the agenda of I mean,
they're just they're reviewing video games.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
What's the big deal?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, there's a lot of financial incentives the gaming industry.
They I mean, we're talking about you know, multi billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Okay, I get that, yep.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
And you basically, reviews, especially metacritics scores, metally affect the
game developer. I mean financially, you get a bonus if
you get a certain metacritics score.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And if let's say a game developer doesn't say the
thing that really drives with the media, a lot of
people will gang up and you know, bully them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Woke journalists were affecting the game developers, the storytellers of
their industry. That didn't only piss off your typical male gamer,
it pissed off the female ones as well.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
I want to ask the three of you one quick
question right here now that we have you here, because
we have three women who play video games who support
gamer Gate. Do you support a quality for women in
the gaming industry? And do you think it's an important
conversation to have and that the anti gamergators and pro
gamer gators can really come together on this one issue
that they really both seem to support.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
You keep moving this goalpost to say it's about women
and this has nothing to do with women.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It is about journalistic integrity.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Why do you think the word misogyny keeps coming up,
because it's an easy way to deflect any and all
criticism from the real issue.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And this is what we have a problem with.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
What's the real issue?
Speaker 11 (10:41):
Gamer Gate is essentially about corrupt journalism.
Speaker 12 (10:45):
The vas majority of what gamergate is speaking about. If
you actually talk to the people and read the threads
and read their perspective, the vast majority of people are
talking about journalism.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
So often it seems that supporters of gamer gate also
support issues against feminism. They support statements against certain types
of feminism. How can gamer Gate really extricate itself from
seeming misogynistic and these threats, because it seems like you
really want.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
To Gamers do not hate women.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
What they are against is the radical feminist movement, the
ones that call themselves social justice warriors. These women and
men are essentially very negative. They want men to just,
you know, disintegrade. It's not right what they're doing. They've
become professional victims in a sense.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Now, the problem with injecting feminism into gaming is that
it's a strong ideology that's already got a predetermined conclusion
that women are oppressed.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And I don't think.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Someone's personal ideology should come into gaming journalism.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I don't think the people should be giving.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
You know, positive press to who they're sleeping with, who
they have a relationship with, a friendship with.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I don't think they should be donating to that Patreon
for just existing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The corruption in journalism angle was working so much so
that the media trotted out Anita Sarkissian to address the issue.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
What about the accusations of collusion between designers, feminists and journalists.
Do you understand how important it is we are talking
about ethics in gamer journalism? Do you understand how huge
that is? I mean, what if there was no ethics
in Hollywood journalism, if we can't trust entertainment Tonight or TMZ.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Where would we be?
Speaker 13 (12:37):
Is that what you want for gamer journalism?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think that that is a sort of compelling way
to reframe the fact that this is actually a tax
on women. Like game ethics and journalism is not what's
happening in any way. It's it's actually men going after
women in really hostile, aggressive ways.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That's what gamer gate is about.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's about like terrorizing women for being involved in this industry,
for being involved in this hobby.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
No matter how hard the media tried, the fact was
that they'd been caught red handed. Gamers had successfully pushed
back against the feminists and their media enablers by banding
together over a Twitter hashtag and meticulously countering their attacks.
The gamers showed that they could bypass the narrative gatekeepers
and force the truth out to the public, and it
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was Milo that gave them their most lethal weapon to
pull it off, and as a result, he became the
go to personality on the subject of Gamergate. The first
that seemed to notice Myla's skill in describing the significance
of Gamergate was public radio.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
This is Milo Yanopolis.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's writing a book about Gamergate from London.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Milo Yanopoulos joins US technology media society writer associate editor
at Breitbart. He's covered the gamer media ethics angle of
the gamer Gate controversy for months.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Milo had a way of insulting gaming feminists that seemed
to amuse public radio hosts or at least inject to
welcome edginus into their bland program.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
Twenty fourteen has a reasonable claim to being a year
when feminism went slightly out of control and game perhaps
the best example of that. I mean, the question you
asked me was about feminist bullies and do I think
that's a fair representation. Yes, I do. These women are
professional provocateurs.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
You call them, you're tough, you call them an army
of sociopathic feminist programmers abetted by Really is exactly what
some of them are.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Milo's star was rising, and it wasn't just public radio
that took notice in America. He began to catch the
independent media as well.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
So first thing that I want to ask you about
is I think I found out about you originally because
of gamer.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Game, Milo Ianapolis.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
What's the title for the book, Milo, Well, the working
title is just gam of Gates.
Speaker 15 (14:46):
Boom Mileon has only been here for five minutes. We've
already discussed cocaine, radical feminism, radical progressives that want to
take over the world, prescription drugs, tight shirts. We've gone
the full gamut we have. And I read one of
your b bar pieces and I was like, check this
mother out. And then I found out that you're gay,
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and you're you're a part of this gamer Gate, but
you were on the side of the people that were
not the ultra progressives, and then you were in these
debates against these radical feminism chicks and shutting them down.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
And I was like, you're very kind about me.
Speaker 15 (15:25):
You play some video Look at this motherfer you're a
unicorn like you. They don't like people like you.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
What Milo saw, perhaps before anyone else was it gamer
Gate could be used as a model for the broader
culture war. Normal Americans that just wanted to be left
alone could use the same gam or Gate tactics against
the Marxists that wanted to control their thoughts and behavior.
Milo saw Gamergate as a guide for how to defeat
the radical left.
Speaker 14 (15:54):
The interesting thing about the Game of Gate controversy, the
reason I think it's significant, the reason I think it
matchless to people who don't play video games and who
don't care about video games, is that the gamers have
been the first fandom, the first community to not only
to fight back against the language police, the social justice warriors,
the feminists, the censors, the trendy metropolitan liberal bloggers on
the East and West Coast. They're not only only been
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the first community to fight back, they've been the first
community to win. And they've provided a really interesting template
for other fandoms and for other sorts of people to
fight back. And basically, what it teaches us is what
I think we've known all along, which is if you
don't give in, if you don't budge, if you don't
give in, if you don't say, oh my god, we're sorry.
We did this poster with a sexy woman on it,
and it's really offended everybody. If you stand your ground,
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your consumers, your customers will reward you for it, and
the potential benefits are not just financial but also reputational.
The only thing you can do wrong is give in.
And gamers have demonstrated this with sort of fortitude and
thoroughness and extraordinary, particulous attention to detail in their campaigns
and all the rest of it like we've never seen before.
And it's been remarkable thing to watch video games as
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an eighty seven billion dollar industry, bigger than Hollywood. It
is going to be a very significant part of the
way that people communicate, the way people enjoy themselves, the
way they relate to other human beings, So very significant
and very important. It's a very important art form. It's
a very important cultural movement, and people of my children's
generation will communicate with one another and will come to
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find out about the world in large part through gaming,
gaming of some kind, and to sort of nip in
the bud, this poisonous ideology which is so thoroughly and
completely and effectively infected literature, comic books, sci fi fantasy.
To stand up to these people and say, you know what, No,
what you're saying is nonsense. Video games are assailed on
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all sides, from the left and the right, from everybody,
by people who want to restrict the acceptable limits of
a creative expression. I think that's dangerous. I think it's
dangerous wherever it happens. Video games are the most interesting
entertainment medium in which is happening now. Because the gamers
are the first people who rose up and said no
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to the social justice warriors, and it was a horrible
and humiliating defeat for them.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
By mid twenty fifteen, it was clear to people that
were paying attention that Gamergate red pilled an entirely new
community of young people, a community that saw firsthand that
the media was their enemy. Gamers provided a guide of
how to defeat the far left. Don't give an inch,
go on offense, don't give about what the media says
about you, and use Twitter to bypass their narrative machine.
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It was a true revelation, and someone was about to
enter the scene to take this lesson and run with it.
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When Donald Trump entered the election, he was no novice
to Twitter. He'd been using the platform for years to
force his message into the media.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Trump's provocative Twitter style predates his Republican presidential run for years.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
The birtha conspiracy was Trump's signature issue.
Speaker 17 (20:36):
If he wasn't born in this country, which is a
real possibility, then he has pulled one of the great
cons in the history of politics.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It propelled him to the forefront of American politics.
Speaker 18 (20:45):
I want him to show his bierstape.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
In twenty eleven, when the White House did release the
birth certificate showing the president was born in Hawaii, Trump
took a victory lap. I'm very proud of myself. But
one year later, Trump tweeted, an extremely credible source has
called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth
certificate is a fraud. It was one of sixty seven
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Trump tweets on the Bertha issue.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It'd later be proven that Obama's camp started the birther issue,
but that's his story for another time. But it was
through this burther controversy that Trump learned how to use
Twitter to force his message into the mainstream media. By
the time he started his twenty sixteen presidential run, he'd
become a Jedi master of the Twitter verse.
Speaker 19 (21:31):
Another day, another Twitter tirade from Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
This Trump so often does, He took his comments to Twitter.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Both messages were part of a recent late night Trump
tweet storm.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
I retweet, you know, I retweet for a reason, right,
I do a lot of things by myself. People would
be surprised.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Donald Trump seems to have elevated political trolling to an
art form.
Speaker 16 (21:51):
People are shocked at how smart I am.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Right his preferred medium Twitter, day and night, Trump bates, criticizes,
and antagonizes his rivals. Like Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 19 (22:01):
Trump didn't hold back on Twitter, saying Bush's comment was
a clumsy move to get out of his anchor baby's dilemma.
Speaker 20 (22:07):
Previously, Trump has gotten into Twitter fights with the cast
off Hamilton the New York Times Saturday Night Live. Trump
recently also tweeted that people who burned the American flag
should lose a citizenship or go to jail.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I tweeted today at real.
Speaker 16 (22:21):
Donald Trump by tweet, you know it sounds off, don't worry.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I'll give it up after I'm president. We walked off,
not president.
Speaker 20 (22:29):
Also, Trump tweets in this way that makes everybody cover it,
and that expands those tweets reached beyond Twitter itself.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just put it off there on Twitter, and then every
news organization in the country and many internationally pick it up.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Some might say that he's using Twitter as your way
to get around the truth to avoid fact checking. As
Trump was elevating his Twitter skills on the campaign trail,
Miley Unapolis sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan, and he
discussed what everyone was witnessing of a movement that was
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finally fighting back against the woke left.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
One of the things that depresses me, as somebody who
enjoys reading and learning, is the oversimplification of life by
the left into okay people and bigots, yes, and if
you don't agree with specific and very often insane points
of view, if you do not go along with this stuff,
this increasingly mad stuff. You are in Bigotland. Well, the
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left has created by doing this the old right, me
Donald Trump, and a whole army of disaffected liberals, its
own former supporters, who are tired of being told what
they can think, say, do, how they can dress, how
they can speak, who they can hang out with, you
know what belief systems they can have. And it has
alienated an entire young generation from left wing politics.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
And isn't it hilarious that it kind of spawned out
of a dispute about video games. Yes, the left up
when they try to take the video games, they've got.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Up, well, because they were in bold. They've done it
in comic books, They've done it in fantasy, they'd done
it sci fi.
Speaker 21 (24:03):
But they took on the smart.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
They took on the smart exactly. They took on Fans
are nice, the comic book fans are nice. But gamers
computer hot, smart, They are determined, and they like to
argue because they're used to they. I mean, the problem
solved for a living right, Gamergate one. And it has
ignited so many fires in so many places, with so
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many unexpected consequences, and wonderful snowball effects elsewhere in culture
and politics and society. It's remarkable.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
He couldn't have been more right. Almost two rate, the
Gamergate movement that perfected the use of Twitter to take
out its enemy started a snowball effect that had monumental consequences,
consequences that would alter the idea of free speech. As
election day twenty sixteen approached, Twitter would play a central
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role in the outcome of the presidential race.
Speaker 22 (24:57):
Another batch of stolen emails published today by wiki Leaks,
offering an even deeper look at the calibrations of the
Clinton campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
In early October twenty sixteen, wikiliks began publishing emails from
a top Hillary Clinton aid John Podesta. Each day, over
the coming weeks, WikiLeaks would publish a new batch of
Podesta emails, then posted a link to the files on Twitter.
The information was going directly to the people, and the
media did everything they could to keep control of the narrative.
Speaker 18 (25:26):
Also interesting to remember it's illegal to possess these stolen documents.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
It's different for the media, so everything you learn about
this you're learning from us.
Speaker 22 (25:35):
It's a drip drip drip of distraction. With campaign chair
John Podesta's hacked emails now being released on a daily
schedule by Julian Assange. No bombshells, but a revealing look
at Clinton's strategy.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But of course there were bombshells. Twitter users began combing
through the emails when they found a newsworthy nugget they'd
posted to Twitter under a new hashtag Podesta emails, and
they found some whoppers that spread like wildfire.
Speaker 18 (26:00):
In one email, Donna Brazil, who is then of CNN
and now the acting Democratic National Committee Chair, is shown
to have emailed the Clinton staff ahead of a CNN
debate a question that she says she saw beforehand. The
title of that very email was quote from time to time,
I get the questions in advance.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
For the final days of the election, the Podesta emails
hashtag continued to trend on Twitter, keeping the Clinton campaign
busy responding to each revelation. But these emails would take
a back seat to breaking news that threw the whole
race up in the air. And let's get right to
the big story that fresh bombshell tossed into an election
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that's already been wilder than any in recent memory.
Speaker 23 (26:54):
You want to talk about a October surprise here it
is eleven.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Days to the election. The FBI director informing lawmakers he
is reviewing new email related to the Clinton email investigation.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Just days before Americans were to vote, FBI Director James
Comy announced he was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server while she was the
Secretary of State. The use of the private server was
potentially illegal, but earlier in the year, Director Comy recommended
not to file charges against her. However, new email surfaced
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and he reopened the case. Hillary was forced to respond
to the shocking news.
Speaker 24 (27:35):
The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the
emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I'm
confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached
in July.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And how did these email surface, Well, they were discovered
after a long chain of events that started with a
lude tweet by Anthony Wiener.
Speaker 25 (27:57):
Tonight, a federal sexting investigation into Anthony Wiener, leading to
an October shockering Hillary Clinton on the defensive.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
ABC News has just learned that federal investigators have obtained
a warrant to look deeper into a laptop. That laptop
belonging to Anthony Wiener, the estranged husband of Clinton's top
aid Huma Aberdeen. Emails on it may be linked to
Clinton's private server.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
When Andrew Breibert used Twitter to take down Anthony Wiener
five years earlier, it made national news. Wiener eventually resigned.
The salacious story reached everyone in the country, including an
underaged girl that wanted to see if the former congressman
was still up to his old shenanigans. So in January
twenty sixteen, she reached out to Wiener. The young girl
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was later asked about the incident.
Speaker 24 (28:44):
How did you first come into contact with Anthony Wiener?
Speaker 21 (28:48):
It was through a direct message on the application Twitter.
I just sent him a nice message, just hello.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 17 (28:57):
Why Anthony Wiener.
Speaker 21 (28:58):
I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for president
in the year twenty sixteen, and I wanted to see
if Anthony was still up to the same antics, and
he was.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wiener sent the minor lewd pictures. The girl told the authorities,
which led to the FBI seizing his laptop and discovering
more Hillary Clinton emails associated with her private server.
Speaker 25 (29:21):
The bizarre twist, it's all connected to the Toddry messages
of a disgraced former congressman. How will to impact the
presidential race?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
With Hillary Clinton now under investigation again, the news immediately
impacted public opinion.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Now the polls were already tightening.
Speaker 26 (29:36):
Our latest ABC News tracking poll shows Clinton with just
a two point lead.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
That's before any of this news broke.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
But our latest national tracking poll showing Clinton's lead has evaporated.
Clinton just one point ahead of Trump. A week ago,
she had a twelve point lead. But with nine days
left in the race, is she running out of time
to push.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Past this comy would exonerate Hillary for this new batch
of emails just days before the election, but with the
race closer than reported in swing states, the bombshell had
likely already taken its toll.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
When election night arrived, Trump shocked the world.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
This means that Donald Trump will be the forty fifth
president of the United States.
Speaker 20 (30:19):
Thank you very much, sir, Luca.
Speaker 27 (30:20):
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
Complicated business complicated.
Speaker 17 (30:25):
Well, let me tell about Twitter. I think that maybe
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter, because
I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
In his autopsy of the election, famed liberal data analyst
Nate Silver credited Comey's reopening of the Clinton email investigation
as the one event that measurably tipped the election in
Trump's favor. It was a conclusion that Hillary Clinton also shared.
Speaker 24 (30:48):
I was on the way to winning until the combination
of Jim Comey's letter on October twenty eighth and Russian
wiki weeks raised doubts in the minds of people who
were inclined to vote for me, but Gott's off I
would say that in terms of affecting the momentum in
the race, the Callmi letter was the proximate cause. I
(31:12):
believe without the Cally letter, I would have won. I
think he was under pressure from certain elements of active
and retired FBI agents. I think Rudy Giuliani played a role.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
How did she lose hacked emails? A story amplified by
Twitter and Rudy Giuliani. This was the conclusion of the
leader of the Democrat Party. Something had to be done
so that this could never happen again. Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Max,
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(32:11):
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in the mind of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton lost
because of the combination of hacked emails, a story amplified
by Twitter and perhaps even Rudy Giuliani played. Something had
to be done so that this could never happen again.
In the aftermath of the shocking wind. One of the
media's priorities seemed to be Trump's use of Twitter.
Speaker 28 (33:13):
But you're going to be tweeting, and whatever you're upset
about just put out there.
Speaker 17 (33:20):
So when you're a modern form of communication, it's a
great form of communication. Now I think I picked up
yesterday one hundred thousand people. I'm not saying I love it,
but it does get the word out when you give
me a bad story or when you give me an
inaccurate story. I have a method of fighting back that's
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very different.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
But you're going to do that as president.
Speaker 17 (33:43):
I'm going to do very restrained if I use it
at all.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
But what most people didn't realize was it throughout Trump's
run for the presidency, Twitter had been going through a
radical change. In July twenty fifteen, just weeks after Trump
announced his run for the presidency, the Twitter CEO that
called the platform the free speech wing of Free Speech Party.
That CEO was pushed out, Jack Dorsey became the new
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CEO of Twitter. A few months later, the United Nations
launched a working group to discuss ways to combat what
they referred to as cyber violence against women and girls. Apparently,
mere words were now violence. Two feminists stepped to the
microphone to offer recommendations on how to stop cyber violence.
Those two women were Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkissian, the
(34:29):
central figures of the gamer Gate controversy.
Speaker 29 (34:32):
Well, let's talk to Anita and Zoe. Zoe, perhaps you first,
in your personal and work environment, what have you witnessed
as being most effective in addressing this kind of violence
against women.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
I can tell you right now that one of the
most effective things we see is an active and humane
response on tech partners side. That is one of the
most effective things, and it's also often sorely lacking. This
requires proper moderation, which takes into account things like intersexual feminism.
We need people to actually enforce their own terms of
service and shut down bad actors. Anybody could just go
(35:08):
look at my Twitter mentions right now where people are
impersonating my friends to tell me that I'm like to
basically ease gendered violence flurs against me. That's my day
to day and it shouldn't be on people like me
to have to prove this.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The feminists couldn't win in the free market of ideas
known as gamer Gate Now, so they wanted to change
the rules of the game. Anita Sarkissian spoke next.
Speaker 30 (35:30):
We've been hearing a lot about systemic change, and that
makes me really happy because I think that that's really
how we have to do this. And so one of
those approaches is I think that the online social media
sites and the places in which we are engaging on
these large platforms really need to step up and change
the way that their systems operate. So it's not enough
that they simply put band aids on the problem areas,
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that they need to completely reimagine what their systems look
like in order to build sites that actively deterr online
harassment that make it harder to do this. I'm not
going to go and convince every single person who does
horrible things online to stop doing those things, but we
can make systems that actively deter that kind of behavior,
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which would make a huge impact on the lives of
me and so many other people who are being harassed online.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Just a few months later, in early twenty sixteen, Twitter
acted on the feminist recommendations. The company announced a new
Trust and Safety Council. Its purported mission was to ensure
people can quote continue to express themselves freely and safely
on Twitter. End quote. And who did they name to
the council? None other than Anita Sarkissian. Milo Yanopolis's days
(36:42):
in the Twitter verse were numbered. Just five months later,
he was gone.
Speaker 23 (36:47):
On Monday, Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones Twitter following a series
of racist and sexist attacks. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reached
out to Jones directly, and the social media company promised
to take action. One day later, Miley Andopoulos, a conservative
writer form Brightbart dot com, was permanently suspended from Twitter.
Joining us now is Mileyanopolis, technology editor with Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 21 (37:10):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 25 (37:11):
You've been permanently banned from Twitter, I have.
Speaker 23 (37:14):
You've been pretty mean through the years on Twitter.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
I've been pretty mean through the years on Twitter. But
I don't think that's the reason to excize somebody from
the platform. You know, Actually, plenty of people enjoy what
I do, over three hundred and eighty thousand of them
as as you say, enjoy what I do. And there's
certainly no suggestion whatsoever that I was involved in any
kind of racist or sexist harassment of Leslie Jones. What
I did was dislike her movie and write a very
critical review that she didn't like. After that, I teased
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her a little on Twitter. If a journalist can't tease
a Hollywood blockbuster actress, I don't know what this platform
is about. You know, it's a very.
Speaker 23 (37:46):
Easy so at all many of your followers, not all,
but many of your followers started to attack her as well.
I mean some of those things were brutal when you acknowledge.
Speaker 14 (37:55):
Yes, of course, and some of them are completely disgusting.
But I'm not responsible for what other people post on
the Internet. It's Justin Bieber responsible when his fans cut
themselves with the hashtag cut from Biba. Is Beyonce responsible
when her fans go off to one direction as with
death threats and rape threats? Of course not. Twitter is
a private company. It's entitled to do what it likes.
The problem is it's lying to users. Jack Dawsey says
that it's the free speech winging of free speech platform,
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the free speech wing of the free speech Party. That
he wants it to be a utility like water, that
Twitter is the place you go if you want to
express yourself. That's a lie. There is a systematic campaign
against conservative and libertarian points of view on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Milo was the Canary in the coal mine. When Trump
won a few months later, the media immediately began saying
the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 26 (38:54):
Twitter should have kicked Donald Trump off Twitter a long
time ago because some of his tweets could be called hateful,
could be called offensive or even if abusive, and that's
exactly what Twitter is trying to crack down on.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
And the media took their gripe directly to the co
founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Do you feel responsible for
Donald Trump being president?
Speaker 27 (39:14):
America? Is responsible for Donald Trump being president.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He's like a Twitter savant.
Speaker 26 (39:19):
He really knows how to use the tools that you've
provided him from your brain.
Speaker 27 (39:23):
He does. He's known how to use it for quite
some time. How do you feel complicated? I feel very
proud of the role of the service and what it
stands for and everything that we've done, and that continues
to accelerate every single day.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
And what's the complicated part.
Speaker 27 (39:43):
The complicated part is just what does this mean to
have like a direct line to how he's thinking in
real time and to see that. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Next time on red Pilled America.
Speaker 28 (39:56):
The next day, I just spent several hours on the
phone just talking to Bob Costa and Rudy Giuliani about
this club of the laptop that they'd been sent by
this MacBook repair shop guy in Delaware.
Speaker 31 (40:07):
The Trump campaign is accusing Twitter and Facebook of censorship
after the social media companies blocked the spread of an
unverified story about former Vice President Joe Biden's son and
the laptop allegedly full of his old emails.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
This looks like your classic disinformation campaign.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Eric O'Neil is a former FBI operative. Who do you
think is behind this? Well, the Russians would be my
number one guess if I had to guess.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
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Now onto the show.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Make gaming a more inclusive space for people of all genders.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The Wolk feminists didn't like the way women were portrayed
in some video games.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Women shouldn't be mere disposable objects and stories about men.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It is my honor to present the Game Developers and
Bassador Award to Anita Sarcusium.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Then that should tell you something about how bad game
journalism and game development in the indie scene is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So the gamers return to Twitter, the one online free
speech forum that wasn't censoring their discussions on the topic.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
A Twitter user dubbed the controversy hashtag gamer gate, a
heated debate in the video game industry has turned ugly.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But just when it looked like the carpet bomb approach
could work, a relatively unknown journalist entered the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm Patrick Curlcy and I'm Adriana Cortez.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories stories.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
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You could think of red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at the third part of our
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series of episodes entitled Unfiltered. You've probably heard part one
and two, but if you haven't, stopped and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question why is the media afraid of free speech?
By telling the story of Twitter and how it drifted
away from being the free speech platform.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So in part one, we told the origin story of
Twitter and how Jack Dorsey's platform was eventually used by
new media pioneer Andrew Breitbart to take down a sitting Congressman,
Anthony Wiener. The scandal came to be known by the
hashtag wiener Gate, and it was perhaps the first major
sign that Twitter could be used to bypass the media gatekeepers.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
In Part two, we followed the outbreak of an unexpected
culture war known as gamer Gate. This battle began in
twenty twelve after feminist Anita Sarkisian launched a campaign branding
video games as sexist. Her critiques were effective because they
appeared to be coming from within the community and need
a claimed to be a gamer. The mainstream media amplified
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her message, and many within the industry began to fall
in line, praising her feminist message and declaring that reform
was needed. Gamers wanted to embark on a counter attack,
but they needed a weapon. That came in the summer
of twenty fourteen, when a disgruntled young man posted as
usallacious story about his ex girlfriend, a feminist game developer
(04:06):
that went by the name of Zoe Quinn. Zoe's ex
accused her of canoodling with other men to benefit her career,
including a gaming journalist. The accusation was a nuclear bomb
in the joystick world. Feminists had been branding gamers as
misogynists all while one of their own was allegedly shacking
up with key players within the industry to get ahead.
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Gamers dug deeper and found journalists had donated to zoey Quinn.
This was no small deal. At the time. The gaming
industry was an over eighty billion dollar global industry. If
Zoe's ex boyfriend was right, what other corruption was lurking
behind the curtain. Gamers also uncovered footage of Anita Sarkisian
that showed that she wasn't a gamer at all. Now
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they wanted answers and demanded the media cover the scandal.
At first, journalists ignored the controversy. When that didn't work,
they censored comments about it on their platforms. So gamers
turned into the one social media website that wasn't banning
their discussions on the topic Twitter. They built on the
Wienergate tactic by adopting a hashtag for their controversy. They
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called it hashtag gamer gate, and a movement was born.
The gamers were able to apply pressure to media outlets
implicated in the scandal, and those outlets adopted policies designed
to eliminate corruption. As the hashtag continued to trend on Twitter,
which was by then the de facto dashboard of journalists,
the mainstream media could no longer ignore the controversy. They
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flooded news feeds with stories supported of their feminist gaming comrades.
The narrative they crafted was that females were under attack
by an industry saturated with sexists. But just as it
appeared that the media's carpet bombing approach was going to work.
A relatively unknown journalist entered the scene. His name was
Milo Unopolis and he was about to become the unofficial
(05:57):
spokesman of the Gamergate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Movement, Miloyanopolis and Gamers. To an outsider, it looked like
an odd pairing. Milo was a thin, good looking, sophisticated
gay conservative from the UK. The Joystick jockeys, on the
other hand, were thought to be fat, stupid, perverse, basement
dwelling nerds, But that false branding masked the truth. Milo
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and gamers were a perfect fit. They were both whip
smart social outcasts that enjoyed nothing more than exploiting the
chinks in their opponent's armor. Milo first entered the Gamergate
arena in September twenty fourteen by chronicling the twists and
turns of the controversy, and in his first outing, he
quickly got to the crux of the conflict. Gamers believed
feminists were ruining their beloved hobby. They wanted them to
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get the fuck out of gaming, and the best way
to make that happen was to expose their involvement in
a corruption scandal. It seemed like a long shot to
prove that Milo was about to find some receipts. Red
Pilled America reached out to Mila for the story, but
he didn't respond to our request. Too bad for him. However,
we've been able to piece together his contribution to the
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Gamergate story and it would all eventually amount to a
monumental shift in pre speech. Shortly after Milo began reporting
on Gamergate, he uncovered a scoop. Someone leaked to him
emails that unequivocally proved the corruption in gaming news media.
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What the emails revealed was that the top gaming journalist
were part of a private mailing list called Game journal Pros,
and the leaked emails showed these journalists working together to
build a consensus on the Gamergate scandal. They discussed what
they should and shouldn't cover, what angle to take on
the story, who to censor, and how to prop up
the feminists within gaming. When Gamergate first started trending on Twitter,
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leftist journalists were desperately trying to control the narrative, and
it was all laid out in the leaked emails. What
Milo uncovered was a smoking gun, and it exposed the
exact journalistic corruption that supporters of Gamergate had long suspected
journalists were not working independently to reveal the truth about games,
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they'd become part of the woke narrative machine. Milo's new
revelation began to red pill gamers that were initially disinterested
in the controversy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Parker in Chicago, Parker, thank you for calling.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You're on My big question or a big issue was this.
I was very neutral coming in, but I tend to
just do a lot of reading. I had a little
bit of time, okay, And I think like the biggest
thing that stuck out to me was this game journal's
pros list serve. Basically, if I understand it correctly, it
was a group or a large group of journalists from
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across the gamut of game journalism, including mainstream media outlets,
that would discuss behind the scenes ways in to present stories.
And I think a lot of gamers are upset about this.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Hey, Parker, explains something to me, Because I'm not into
the gaming world, what would be the agenda of I mean,
they're just they're reviewing video games.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
What's the big deal?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, there's a lot of financial incentives the gaming industry.
They I mean, we're talking about you know, multi billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Okay, I get that, yep.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
And you basically, reviews, especially metacritics scores, metally affect the
game developer. I mean financially, you get a bonus if
you get a certain metacritics score.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And if let's say a game developer doesn't say the
thing that really drives with the media, a lot of
people will gang up and you know, bully them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Woke journalists were affecting the game developers, the storytellers of
their industry. That didn't only piss off your typical male gamer,
it pissed off the female ones as well.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
I want to ask the three of you one quick
question right here now that we have you here, because
we have three women who play video games who support
gamer Gate. Do you support a quality for women in
the gaming industry? And do you think it's an important
conversation to have and that the anti gamergators and pro
gamer gators can really come together on this one issue
that they really both seem to support.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
You keep moving this goalpost to say it's about women
and this has nothing to do with women.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It is about journalistic integrity.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Why do you think the word misogyny keeps coming up,
because it's an easy way to deflect any and all
criticism from the real issue.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And this is what we have a problem with.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
What's the real issue?
Speaker 11 (10:41):
Gamer Gate is essentially about corrupt journalism.
Speaker 12 (10:45):
The vas majority of what gamergate is speaking about. If
you actually talk to the people and read the threads
and read their perspective, the vast majority of people are
talking about journalism.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
So often it seems that supporters of gamer gate also
support issues against feminism. They support statements against certain types
of feminism. How can gamer Gate really extricate itself from
seeming misogynistic and these threats, because it seems like you
really want.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
To Gamers do not hate women.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
What they are against is the radical feminist movement, the
ones that call themselves social justice warriors. These women and
men are essentially very negative. They want men to just,
you know, disintegrade. It's not right what they're doing. They've
become professional victims in a sense.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Now, the problem with injecting feminism into gaming is that
it's a strong ideology that's already got a predetermined conclusion
that women are oppressed.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And I don't think.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Someone's personal ideology should come into gaming journalism.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I don't think the people should be giving.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
You know, positive press to who they're sleeping with, who
they have a relationship with, a friendship with.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I don't think they should be donating to that Patreon
for just existing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The corruption in journalism angle was working so much so
that the media trotted out Anita Sarkissian to address the issue.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
What about the accusations of collusion between designers, feminists and journalists.
Do you understand how important it is we are talking
about ethics in gamer journalism? Do you understand how huge
that is? I mean, what if there was no ethics
in Hollywood journalism, if we can't trust entertainment Tonight or TMZ.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Where would we be?
Speaker 13 (12:37):
Is that what you want for gamer journalism?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think that that is a sort of compelling way
to reframe the fact that this is actually a tax
on women. Like game ethics and journalism is not what's
happening in any way. It's it's actually men going after
women in really hostile, aggressive ways.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That's what gamer gate is about.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's about like terrorizing women for being involved in this industry,
for being involved in this hobby.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
No matter how hard the media tried, the fact was
that they'd been caught red handed. Gamers had successfully pushed
back against the feminists and their media enablers by banding
together over a Twitter hashtag and meticulously countering their attacks.
The gamers showed that they could bypass the narrative gatekeepers
and force the truth out to the public, and it
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was Milo that gave them their most lethal weapon to
pull it off, and as a result, he became the
go to personality on the subject of Gamergate. The first
that seemed to notice Myla's skill in describing the significance
of Gamergate was public radio.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
This is Milo Yanopolis.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's writing a book about Gamergate from London.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Milo Yanopoulos joins US technology media society writer associate editor
at Breitbart. He's covered the gamer media ethics angle of
the gamer Gate controversy for months.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Milo had a way of insulting gaming feminists that seemed
to amuse public radio hosts or at least inject to
welcome edginus into their bland program.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
Twenty fourteen has a reasonable claim to being a year
when feminism went slightly out of control and game perhaps
the best example of that. I mean, the question you
asked me was about feminist bullies and do I think
that's a fair representation. Yes, I do. These women are
professional provocateurs.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
You call them, you're tough, you call them an army
of sociopathic feminist programmers abetted by Really is exactly what
some of them are.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Milo's star was rising, and it wasn't just public radio
that took notice in America. He began to catch the
independent media as well.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
So first thing that I want to ask you about
is I think I found out about you originally because
of gamer.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Game, Milo Ianapolis.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
What's the title for the book, Milo, Well, the working
title is just gam of Gates.
Speaker 15 (14:46):
Boom Mileon has only been here for five minutes. We've
already discussed cocaine, radical feminism, radical progressives that want to
take over the world, prescription drugs, tight shirts. We've gone
the full gamut we have. And I read one of
your b bar pieces and I was like, check this
mother out. And then I found out that you're gay,
(15:09):
and you're you're a part of this gamer Gate, but
you were on the side of the people that were
not the ultra progressives, and then you were in these
debates against these radical feminism chicks and shutting them down.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
And I was like, you're very kind about me.
Speaker 15 (15:25):
You play some video Look at this motherfer you're a
unicorn like you. They don't like people like you.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
What Milo saw, perhaps before anyone else was it gamer
Gate could be used as a model for the broader
culture war. Normal Americans that just wanted to be left
alone could use the same gam or Gate tactics against
the Marxists that wanted to control their thoughts and behavior.
Milo saw Gamergate as a guide for how to defeat
the radical left.
Speaker 14 (15:54):
The interesting thing about the Game of Gate controversy, the
reason I think it's significant, the reason I think it
matchless to people who don't play video games and who
don't care about video games, is that the gamers have
been the first fandom, the first community to not only
to fight back against the language police, the social justice warriors,
the feminists, the censors, the trendy metropolitan liberal bloggers on
the East and West Coast. They're not only only been
(16:15):
the first community to fight back, they've been the first
community to win. And they've provided a really interesting template
for other fandoms and for other sorts of people to
fight back. And basically, what it teaches us is what
I think we've known all along, which is if you
don't give in, if you don't budge, if you don't
give in, if you don't say, oh my god, we're sorry.
We did this poster with a sexy woman on it,
and it's really offended everybody. If you stand your ground,
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your consumers, your customers will reward you for it, and
the potential benefits are not just financial but also reputational.
The only thing you can do wrong is give in.
And gamers have demonstrated this with sort of fortitude and
thoroughness and extraordinary, particulous attention to detail in their campaigns
and all the rest of it like we've never seen before.
And it's been remarkable thing to watch video games as
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an eighty seven billion dollar industry, bigger than Hollywood. It
is going to be a very significant part of the
way that people communicate, the way people enjoy themselves, the
way they relate to other human beings, So very significant
and very important. It's a very important art form. It's
a very important cultural movement, and people of my children's
generation will communicate with one another and will come to
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find out about the world in large part through gaming,
gaming of some kind, and to sort of nip in
the bud, this poisonous ideology which is so thoroughly and
completely and effectively infected literature, comic books, sci fi fantasy.
To stand up to these people and say, you know what, No,
what you're saying is nonsense. Video games are assailed on
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all sides, from the left and the right, from everybody,
by people who want to restrict the acceptable limits of
a creative expression. I think that's dangerous. I think it's
dangerous wherever it happens. Video games are the most interesting
entertainment medium in which is happening now. Because the gamers
are the first people who rose up and said no
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to the social justice warriors, and it was a horrible
and humiliating defeat for them.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
By mid twenty fifteen, it was clear to people that
were paying attention that Gamergate red pilled an entirely new
community of young people, a community that saw firsthand that
the media was their enemy. Gamers provided a guide of
how to defeat the far left. Don't give an inch,
go on offense, don't give about what the media says
about you, and use Twitter to bypass their narrative machine.
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It was a true revelation, and someone was about to
enter the scene to take this lesson and run with it.
Speaker 16 (18:32):
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Speaker 16 (20:07):
I am officially running for president of the United States,
and we are going to make our country great again.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
When Donald Trump entered the election, he was no novice
to Twitter. He'd been using the platform for years to
force his message into the media.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Trump's provocative Twitter style predates his Republican presidential run for years.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
The birtha conspiracy was Trump's signature issue.
Speaker 17 (20:36):
If he wasn't born in this country, which is a
real possibility, then he has pulled one of the great
cons in the history of politics.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It propelled him to the forefront of American politics.
Speaker 18 (20:45):
I want him to show his bierstape.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
In twenty eleven, when the White House did release the
birth certificate showing the president was born in Hawaii, Trump
took a victory lap. I'm very proud of myself. But
one year later, Trump tweeted, an extremely credible source has
called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth
certificate is a fraud. It was one of sixty seven
(21:09):
Trump tweets on the Bertha issue.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It'd later be proven that Obama's camp started the birther issue,
but that's his story for another time. But it was
through this burther controversy that Trump learned how to use
Twitter to force his message into the mainstream media. By
the time he started his twenty sixteen presidential run, he'd
become a Jedi master of the Twitter verse.
Speaker 19 (21:31):
Another day, another Twitter tirade from Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
This Trump so often does, He took his comments to Twitter.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Both messages were part of a recent late night Trump
tweet storm.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
I retweet, you know, I retweet for a reason, right,
I do a lot of things by myself. People would
be surprised.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Donald Trump seems to have elevated political trolling to an
art form.
Speaker 16 (21:51):
People are shocked at how smart I am.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Right his preferred medium Twitter, day and night, Trump bates, criticizes,
and antagonizes his rivals. Like Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 19 (22:01):
Trump didn't hold back on Twitter, saying Bush's comment was
a clumsy move to get out of his anchor baby's dilemma.
Speaker 20 (22:07):
Previously, Trump has gotten into Twitter fights with the cast
off Hamilton the New York Times Saturday Night Live. Trump
recently also tweeted that people who burned the American flag
should lose a citizenship or go to jail.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I tweeted today at real.
Speaker 16 (22:21):
Donald Trump by tweet, you know it sounds off, don't worry.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I'll give it up after I'm president. We walked off,
not president.
Speaker 20 (22:29):
Also, Trump tweets in this way that makes everybody cover it,
and that expands those tweets reached beyond Twitter itself.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just put it off there on Twitter, and then every
news organization in the country and many internationally pick it up.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Some might say that he's using Twitter as your way
to get around the truth to avoid fact checking. As
Trump was elevating his Twitter skills on the campaign trail,
Miley Unapolis sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan, and he
discussed what everyone was witnessing of a movement that was
(23:04):
finally fighting back against the woke left.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
One of the things that depresses me, as somebody who
enjoys reading and learning, is the oversimplification of life by
the left into okay people and bigots, yes, and if
you don't agree with specific and very often insane points
of view, if you do not go along with this stuff,
this increasingly mad stuff. You are in Bigotland. Well, the
(23:28):
left has created by doing this the old right, me
Donald Trump, and a whole army of disaffected liberals, its
own former supporters, who are tired of being told what
they can think, say, do, how they can dress, how
they can speak, who they can hang out with, you
know what belief systems they can have. And it has
alienated an entire young generation from left wing politics.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
And isn't it hilarious that it kind of spawned out
of a dispute about video games. Yes, the left up
when they try to take the video games, they've got.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Up, well, because they were in bold. They've done it
in comic books, They've done it in fantasy, they'd done
it sci fi.
Speaker 21 (24:03):
But they took on the smart.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
They took on the smart exactly. They took on Fans
are nice, the comic book fans are nice. But gamers
computer hot, smart, They are determined, and they like to
argue because they're used to they. I mean, the problem
solved for a living right, Gamergate one. And it has
ignited so many fires in so many places, with so
(24:25):
many unexpected consequences, and wonderful snowball effects elsewhere in culture
and politics and society. It's remarkable.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
He couldn't have been more right. Almost two rate, the
Gamergate movement that perfected the use of Twitter to take
out its enemy started a snowball effect that had monumental consequences,
consequences that would alter the idea of free speech. As
election day twenty sixteen approached, Twitter would play a central
(24:55):
role in the outcome of the presidential race.
Speaker 22 (24:57):
Another batch of stolen emails published today by wiki Leaks,
offering an even deeper look at the calibrations of the
Clinton campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
In early October twenty sixteen, wikiliks began publishing emails from
a top Hillary Clinton aid John Podesta. Each day, over
the coming weeks, WikiLeaks would publish a new batch of
Podesta emails, then posted a link to the files on Twitter.
The information was going directly to the people, and the
media did everything they could to keep control of the narrative.
Speaker 18 (25:26):
Also interesting to remember it's illegal to possess these stolen documents.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
It's different for the media, so everything you learn about
this you're learning from us.
Speaker 22 (25:35):
It's a drip drip drip of distraction. With campaign chair
John Podesta's hacked emails now being released on a daily
schedule by Julian Assange. No bombshells, but a revealing look
at Clinton's strategy.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But of course there were bombshells. Twitter users began combing
through the emails when they found a newsworthy nugget they'd
posted to Twitter under a new hashtag Podesta emails, and
they found some whoppers that spread like wildfire.
Speaker 18 (26:00):
In one email, Donna Brazil, who is then of CNN
and now the acting Democratic National Committee Chair, is shown
to have emailed the Clinton staff ahead of a CNN
debate a question that she says she saw beforehand. The
title of that very email was quote from time to time,
I get the questions in advance.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
For the final days of the election, the Podesta emails
hashtag continued to trend on Twitter, keeping the Clinton campaign
busy responding to each revelation. But these emails would take
a back seat to breaking news that threw the whole
race up in the air. And let's get right to
the big story that fresh bombshell tossed into an election
(26:52):
that's already been wilder than any in recent memory.
Speaker 23 (26:54):
You want to talk about a October surprise here it
is eleven.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Days to the election. The FBI director informing lawmakers he
is reviewing new email related to the Clinton email investigation.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Just days before Americans were to vote, FBI Director James
Comy announced he was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server while she was the
Secretary of State. The use of the private server was
potentially illegal, but earlier in the year, Director Comy recommended
not to file charges against her. However, new email surfaced
(27:30):
and he reopened the case. Hillary was forced to respond
to the shocking news.
Speaker 24 (27:35):
The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the
emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I'm
confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached
in July.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And how did these email surface, Well, they were discovered
after a long chain of events that started with a
lude tweet by Anthony Wiener.
Speaker 25 (27:57):
Tonight, a federal sexting investigation into Anthony Wiener, leading to
an October shockering Hillary Clinton on the defensive.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
ABC News has just learned that federal investigators have obtained
a warrant to look deeper into a laptop. That laptop
belonging to Anthony Wiener, the estranged husband of Clinton's top
aid Huma Aberdeen. Emails on it may be linked to
Clinton's private server.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
When Andrew Breibert used Twitter to take down Anthony Wiener
five years earlier, it made national news. Wiener eventually resigned.
The salacious story reached everyone in the country, including an
underaged girl that wanted to see if the former congressman
was still up to his old shenanigans. So in January
twenty sixteen, she reached out to Wiener. The young girl
(28:43):
was later asked about the incident.
Speaker 24 (28:44):
How did you first come into contact with Anthony Wiener?
Speaker 21 (28:48):
It was through a direct message on the application Twitter.
I just sent him a nice message, just hello.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 17 (28:57):
Why Anthony Wiener.
Speaker 21 (28:58):
I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for president
in the year twenty sixteen, and I wanted to see
if Anthony was still up to the same antics, and
he was.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wiener sent the minor lewd pictures. The girl told the authorities,
which led to the FBI seizing his laptop and discovering
more Hillary Clinton emails associated with her private server.
Speaker 25 (29:21):
The bizarre twist, it's all connected to the Toddry messages
of a disgraced former congressman. How will to impact the
presidential race?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
With Hillary Clinton now under investigation again, the news immediately
impacted public opinion.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Now the polls were already tightening.
Speaker 26 (29:36):
Our latest ABC News tracking poll shows Clinton with just
a two point lead.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
That's before any of this news broke.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
But our latest national tracking poll showing Clinton's lead has evaporated.
Clinton just one point ahead of Trump. A week ago,
she had a twelve point lead. But with nine days
left in the race, is she running out of time
to push.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Past this comy would exonerate Hillary for this new batch
of emails just days before the election, but with the
race closer than reported in swing states, the bombshell had
likely already taken its toll.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
When election night arrived, Trump shocked the world.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
This means that Donald Trump will be the forty fifth
president of the United States.
Speaker 20 (30:19):
Thank you very much, sir, Luca.
Speaker 27 (30:20):
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
Complicated business complicated.
Speaker 17 (30:25):
Well, let me tell about Twitter. I think that maybe
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter, because
I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
In his autopsy of the election, famed liberal data analyst
Nate Silver credited Comey's reopening of the Clinton email investigation
as the one event that measurably tipped the election in
Trump's favor. It was a conclusion that Hillary Clinton also shared.
Speaker 24 (30:48):
I was on the way to winning until the combination
of Jim Comey's letter on October twenty eighth and Russian
wiki weeks raised doubts in the minds of people who
were inclined to vote for me, but Gott's off I
would say that in terms of affecting the momentum in
the race, the Callmi letter was the proximate cause. I
(31:12):
believe without the Cally letter, I would have won. I
think he was under pressure from certain elements of active
and retired FBI agents. I think Rudy Giuliani played a role.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
How did she lose hacked emails? A story amplified by
Twitter and Rudy Giuliani. This was the conclusion of the
leader of the Democrat Party. Something had to be done
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in the mind of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton lost
because of the combination of hacked emails, a story amplified
by Twitter and perhaps even Rudy Giuliani played. Something had
to be done so that this could never happen again.
In the aftermath of the shocking wind. One of the
media's priorities seemed to be Trump's use of Twitter.
Speaker 28 (33:13):
But you're going to be tweeting, and whatever you're upset
about just put out there.
Speaker 17 (33:20):
So when you're a modern form of communication, it's a
great form of communication. Now I think I picked up
yesterday one hundred thousand people. I'm not saying I love it,
but it does get the word out when you give
me a bad story or when you give me an
inaccurate story. I have a method of fighting back that's
(33:40):
very different.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
But you're going to do that as president.
Speaker 17 (33:43):
I'm going to do very restrained if I use it
at all.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
But what most people didn't realize was it throughout Trump's
run for the presidency, Twitter had been going through a
radical change. In July twenty fifteen, just weeks after Trump
announced his run for the presidency, the Twitter CEO that
called the platform the free speech wing of Free Speech Party.
That CEO was pushed out, Jack Dorsey became the new
(34:07):
CEO of Twitter. A few months later, the United Nations
launched a working group to discuss ways to combat what
they referred to as cyber violence against women and girls. Apparently,
mere words were now violence. Two feminists stepped to the
microphone to offer recommendations on how to stop cyber violence.
Those two women were Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkissian, the
(34:29):
central figures of the gamer Gate controversy.
Speaker 29 (34:32):
Well, let's talk to Anita and Zoe. Zoe, perhaps you first,
in your personal and work environment, what have you witnessed
as being most effective in addressing this kind of violence
against women.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
I can tell you right now that one of the
most effective things we see is an active and humane
response on tech partners side. That is one of the
most effective things, and it's also often sorely lacking. This
requires proper moderation, which takes into account things like intersexual feminism.
We need people to actually enforce their own terms of
service and shut down bad actors. Anybody could just go
(35:08):
look at my Twitter mentions right now where people are
impersonating my friends to tell me that I'm like to
basically ease gendered violence flurs against me. That's my day
to day and it shouldn't be on people like me
to have to prove this.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The feminists couldn't win in the free market of ideas
known as gamer Gate Now, so they wanted to change
the rules of the game. Anita Sarkissian spoke next.
Speaker 30 (35:30):
We've been hearing a lot about systemic change, and that
makes me really happy because I think that that's really
how we have to do this. And so one of
those approaches is I think that the online social media
sites and the places in which we are engaging on
these large platforms really need to step up and change
the way that their systems operate. So it's not enough
that they simply put band aids on the problem areas,
(35:52):
that they need to completely reimagine what their systems look
like in order to build sites that actively deterr online
harassment that make it harder to do this. I'm not
going to go and convince every single person who does
horrible things online to stop doing those things, but we
can make systems that actively deter that kind of behavior,
(36:12):
which would make a huge impact on the lives of
me and so many other people who are being harassed online.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Just a few months later, in early twenty sixteen, Twitter
acted on the feminist recommendations. The company announced a new
Trust and Safety Council. Its purported mission was to ensure
people can quote continue to express themselves freely and safely
on Twitter. End quote. And who did they name to
the council? None other than Anita Sarkissian. Milo Yanopolis's days
(36:42):
in the Twitter verse were numbered. Just five months later,
he was gone.
Speaker 23 (36:47):
On Monday, Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones Twitter following a series
of racist and sexist attacks. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reached
out to Jones directly, and the social media company promised
to take action. One day later, Miley Andopoulos, a conservative
writer form Brightbart dot com, was permanently suspended from Twitter.
Joining us now is Mileyanopolis, technology editor with Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 21 (37:10):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 25 (37:11):
You've been permanently banned from Twitter, I have.
Speaker 23 (37:14):
You've been pretty mean through the years on Twitter.
Speaker 14 (37:17):
I've been pretty mean through the years on Twitter. But
I don't think that's the reason to excize somebody from
the platform. You know, Actually, plenty of people enjoy what
I do, over three hundred and eighty thousand of them
as as you say, enjoy what I do. And there's
certainly no suggestion whatsoever that I was involved in any
kind of racist or sexist harassment of Leslie Jones. What
I did was dislike her movie and write a very
critical review that she didn't like. After that, I teased
(37:39):
her a little on Twitter. If a journalist can't tease
a Hollywood blockbuster actress, I don't know what this platform
is about. You know, it's a very.
Speaker 23 (37:46):
Easy so at all many of your followers, not all,
but many of your followers started to attack her as well.
I mean some of those things were brutal when you acknowledge.
Speaker 14 (37:55):
Yes, of course, and some of them are completely disgusting.
But I'm not responsible for what other people post on
the Internet. It's Justin Bieber responsible when his fans cut
themselves with the hashtag cut from Biba. Is Beyonce responsible
when her fans go off to one direction as with
death threats and rape threats? Of course not. Twitter is
a private company. It's entitled to do what it likes.
The problem is it's lying to users. Jack Dawsey says
that it's the free speech winging of free speech platform,
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the free speech wing of the free speech Party. That
he wants it to be a utility like water, that
Twitter is the place you go if you want to
express yourself. That's a lie. There is a systematic campaign
against conservative and libertarian points of view on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Milo was the Canary in the coal mine. When Trump
won a few months later, the media immediately began saying
the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 26 (38:54):
Twitter should have kicked Donald Trump off Twitter a long
time ago because some of his tweets could be called hateful,
could be called offensive or even if abusive, and that's
exactly what Twitter is trying to crack down on.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
And the media took their gripe directly to the co
founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Do you feel responsible for
Donald Trump being president?
Speaker 27 (39:14):
America? Is responsible for Donald Trump being president.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He's like a Twitter savant.
Speaker 26 (39:19):
He really knows how to use the tools that you've
provided him from your brain.
Speaker 27 (39:23):
He does. He's known how to use it for quite
some time. How do you feel complicated? I feel very
proud of the role of the service and what it
stands for and everything that we've done, and that continues
to accelerate every single day.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
And what's the complicated part.
Speaker 27 (39:43):
The complicated part is just what does this mean to
have like a direct line to how he's thinking in
real time and to see that. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Next time on red Pilled America.
Speaker 28 (39:56):
The next day, I just spent several hours on the
phone just talking to Bob Costa and Rudy Giuliani about
this club of the laptop that they'd been sent by
this MacBook repair shop guy in Delaware.
Speaker 31 (40:07):
The Trump campaign is accusing Twitter and Facebook of censorship
after the social media companies blocked the spread of an
unverified story about former Vice President Joe Biden's son and
the laptop allegedly full of his old emails.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
This looks like your classic disinformation campaign.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Eric O'Neil is a former FBI operative. Who do you
think is behind this? Well, the Russians would be my
number one guess if I had to guess.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!