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Welcome to the Hollywood in Total Podcast. Entertainment news and reviews without the bloke
Hollywood narrative. Free speech, freeexpression. Now that's entertainment, and here's
your host, Award winning film criticPersian Total. This week on the Hollywood
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in Total Podcast, we dissect anuberwoke review of The Little Mermaid from justice
source who expected it to come from. We also dressed down a major news
outlet for its embarrassing bias against thecomedy legend, and we speak to an
Emmy winning journalist who refused to acceptthe narrative surrounding George Floyd's death and the
so called summer of love that fatherhood. You know, I think what the
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world needs now is more kink fromDisney Films. Yes, that's actually part
of the argument posed by a NewYork Time critic in his review A Little
Mermaid. Really, here's a tinysnippet joy fun, mystery, risk,
flavor kink they're missing. The dudeactually wrote that, and it went right
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past the editor's heads, or maybethey just not along. Just amazing.
But you know, that's not theonly thing that jumped out of me about
that particular review. I heard thewhole thing and yeah that the kink line
did get my attention for sure.Now the article, I think you look
at it, from top to bottom, belongs in the Museum of Woke,
and that's where people in the futurewill gather to examine just how far that
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woke culture infiltrated every part of ourlives. I think the artos is going
to have his own wing at thispoint. Now here's another part of the
review, commenting on the casting ofactress Hallie Bailey, who was black,
as Ariel. The colorization hasn't ledto a racialized radical adventure. It's not
a black adaptation and interpretation that abusewhite material with black culture until it's something
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completely new. It's not the Whiz. It's still a Disney movie. One
who's heroine now sigh, happens tobe black. Sorry, no progress here,
folks. Ariel isn't staging a BLMprotest midmovie. Therefore, it's a
wasted opportunity, according to The NewYork Times. But there's more. Here's
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what else he had to say abouta segment of the movie that was surprisingly
good. A very small scene inquestion. This is a witty, complex,
exuberant, breathless, deeply American number. That's also the movies one moment
of unbridled, unabashed delight, andI can't wait to see how Disney's going
to apologize for it in thirty fouryears. You get it, You're never
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woke enough. He even admits it. It's funny the movie ditch some of
the problematic song lyrics from the nineteeneighty nine original film. It also made
arial sisters a hodgepodge of nationalities.Have your Bardam is here as her father,
he doesn't exactly line with her particularnationality, and of course they swapped
the main character and wait for it, not woke enough. Apparently Disney bends
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over backwards who appease the woke mob? And awoke writer envisions of future in
which Disney has to apologize again,but this time for this version, not
the nineteen eighty nine version. Youknow, A wise man once wrote,
Hollywood went woke and lost its soul, and the same is often true for
film critics. Too many view filmsto a hardcore progressive lens, and their
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reviews reflect that mindset. Now I'ma conservative critic, and I'll know the
film's political and cultural messaging. Imight throw a sharp elbow or two now
and again, no apologies here.I'm very clear who I am and how
I approach films. But what Iwon't do is let that impact the bottom
line. Is it a good filmor a clunker. That's the prime directive
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for a film critic, first andforemost, no matter where you lean,
and I'm happy to praise good liberalfilms to do it all the time.
Markota also spend just paragraph after paragraphpounding a movie, especially at kids film,
to the minutest details because it isn'talign perfectly with my worldview. It's
just exhausting. But apparently some feeldifferently, and some work for The New
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York Times. Now that review isa perfect example of exactly what I'm talking
about. It's also perfectly hilarious,but I don't think it was intentional.
You're listening to my dad's podcast.He cried like a baby watching Snoopy Come
Home. Variety Magazine has woke tothe core, and they're not too keen
on free speech either. Sound crazy, sound like I'm going off the rails.
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Well, I read the site alot. It's kind of what I
do, and the evidence keeps tellingme just that. And here's another example
of what I mean John Kleets recentlycorrected the record about a live production tied
to his nineteen seventy nineteen seventy ninefilm Classic Live or Brian. The Monty
Python movie features a scene worth amale character played by Eric Idle to great
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Eric Idle says he's a woman andhe wants to bear a child, and
the film he's mocked as foolish.Now, that sentiment, that scene could
be seen as transphobic in some circles. Now, the media incorrectly reported that
Clice was agreeing to have that particularsequence taken out of this new adaptation.
Clice himself on Twitter said Nope,not you at all. Here's the facts.
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So a head a Variety report thestory, Well, here's the lead.
Monty Python star John Cleese's expressed disdainfrom modern sensibilities and PC culture on
several occasions in recent years. Okay, stop disdain from modern sensibilities. It's
a very vague statement. It's almostlike he's saying, I don't want them
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women to vote. So it's vagueon purpose and a little bit cruel.
Plus the term PC culture, Yeah, they put it in scare quotes because
you know it doesn't really exist.Well, you know what it does,
and all the media scare quotes inthe world is not going to change that
fact. It's true. Or here'smore of this story from Variety and again
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it's a short story about boy.It's very efficient and packing an extreme bias.
The comedian found a new battleground forthose convictions by claiming that his plans
to mount a stage adaptation of thenineteen seventy nine comedy Life of Brian have
been misreported by The Daily Mail ina now amended article, particularly in regards
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to the potential decision to revive acontroversial scene involving a transgender character. Okay,
so the Daily Mail made up thestory, got it wrong, and
yet Variety blames John Clice for findinga new battleground. You know, I
think it found him finally this site. But the word misreported and yeah,
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you get it, scare quotes again, as if it didn't happen. The
article said that the original piece wasamended, meaning Clice was right and it
was fake news. Who again.What I love about the story is it's
not very long, but they it'sso condensed with bias and the narratives they
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want to push and anger towards theswits in general. It's just amazing.
You know, when the media hatessomeone and they absolutely hate John Cleese because
he skewers that woke mind virus andhe speaks up for free speech. Let
you know it, even if theyhave to make up facts along the way.
And I don't think there's an argumentin the world about that, is
there? Okay, we have agood argument for an argument. One arguments
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all the same as contradiction can be. No, I coun't arguments elected series
of statements to establish a definite proposition. Now it isn't is it is?
It doesn't just contradiction. Look,if I argue with you, I must
take up a country position. Butit doesn't just say no, it doesn't.
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Jurist Liz Collin went from being arespected part of the Minneapolis TV's landscape
to have her likeness beaten over andagain in her own driveway. How did
that happen? We'll blame the reactionto George Floyd's death three years ago,
following, of course, that faithfulinteraction with the city's police. We know
all about this story and about howthe riots, both peaceful and a bit
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fiery, engulf the country for quitesome time afterward, though Collins the story
might have got lost in the shufflehad she not taken complete control of it.
Now, she worked for about fourteenyears as an Emmy winning reporter for
WCCOTV in Minneapolis. It's a bigtime. But the trouble began for her
in large part because she was marriedto the police union president at the time
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and now Bob Kroll. And thatwas, of course at the time of
Floyd's death and everyone was raging againstthe police. She became a target for
police critics just by her marriage connection, even though she didn't cover the protests
or police issues before or after Floyd'sdeath, but that didn't matter. Months
later, more than one hundred BlackLives Matter protesters gathered peacefully outside this couple's
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home. They smashed effigies of bothColin and her husband. They screamed profanity
that their kids would hear from withinthe home, and an even more outrageous
detail of the story, one ofthe protesters was a local Democrat. His
name is John Thompson. Turns up, by the way that John Thompson got
crushed in the subsequent elections, SoI'm glad to hear that happen, but
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still just vile. Now Colin couldhave backed down. Many people would have
backed down. I might have backeddown. That's pretty scary stuff. But
she didn't. She left WCCOTV andshe joined Alpha News. It's a newer
media outlet. It's alternative. It'sright leaning, perhaps you could say,
but it really just covers the newsstories that the mainstream news media wound touch
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and that's just almost making you conservativeby defaults. But again, her story
doesn't end there. She also wrotea book about what she went through,
and specifically about what happened with GeorgeFloyd, his death, the media coverage,
and how different parties really weaponized itto make their ends. Meet books
called They're Lying the Media, theLeft, and the death of George Floyd.
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But now Colin is making a documentarybased on that book and those subjects,
and she's joined the show because shewants to share more about her journey.
I want to share more about herjourney for sure, and also why
a documentary version of this book isso important to the overall story. Here's
my conversation with the brave, smartand talented Liz Colin. This is great
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to have you on the show,and obviously you're an award winning journalist,
you've done investigative work, not technicallya filmmaker, but obviously you're getting into
filmmaking now with layer Lyne the documentary. Talk about that transition, why you
did it, and what it's beenlike so far. You know, I'm
just getting started in this world,Christian. I appreciate you having me very
much to spread the word a bit, But this is based on a book
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that I wrote. They're lying themedia, the left and the death of
George Floyd. But since putting outthat book, I have heard from people
around the world. It's been anoverwhelming experience just to hear from everyone who's
who's been touched by this incident andthe lies that have been told That began
here in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whereI was a reporter for mainstream media and
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an anchor for fifteen years at theCBS station. But I just wanted to
go ahead and put this on filmnow from hearing from these people who are
now willing to tell their stories forthe very first time. And there is
something obviously about that visual aspect.People also have a hard time finding the
time to read books nowadays. Butbut this is my way of sort of
setting the record straight. I wantpeople to look back at history and actually
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know the truth about what went onand hearing it from the people that we're
actually involved. So that's what I'mdoing this this summer. The plan is
to shoot this summer and hopefully releasein the fall. Great Now, when
you think about documentaries that make adifference, you could say, Inconvenient Truth
with you no matter where you standon climate change. That film rocked the
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conversation, rocked culture. We weretalking about it for years and years.
I think we still use it asa touchdowne Are there other documentaries that you
could point to and say, gosh, if we can do it like that
with that spirit, that tone,that sense of bravery and truth, anything
come to mind, you know.I think that just just more more recent
documentaries. With two thousand meals,I thought was very well done and interesting.
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It's sort of like the line drawnin the sand that that certain things
won't get attention, And that's whatI found with this this topic. Um,
you know, this really ignited thefire for you know, racial injustice
and such. But there was somuch more to this story. And I
do believe that if the truth wastold about this from the beginning. We
didn't have to have buildings that burneddown. We didn't. We didn't have
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to, you know, switch thenarrative to these racial undertones that I think.
I've spoken to artists in the past, and when they make movies or
projects or any kind of artistic endeavoredthat bucks the system, it gets repercussion.
Sometimes they hire a crew member andhe or she quits, they get
other pressure. Have you faced anythinglike that along the way in the early
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stages of this documentary, or athing's gone more smoothly, you know.
Um, I am thankful, gratefulto say that I have faced nothing.
I will say that I'm a reporter, so I so I came at this
as a as a reporter, asa journalist, and I think that's why
the book has done so well.Also, it's really a book of fact.
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It's not anything I imagined and decidedto, you know, go ahead
and put out a fairy tale.So no, I mean, I've been
on tour with the book for aboutsix months now, just stopping around places
in Minnesota. I've been to otherstates now as well. To talking about
that, I would say the onlyreal pushback there was a twenty one year
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old cook threatening to quit at avenue that I was planning to visit to
talk about the book and talk tothe owner of the business, And I
said, well, did he actuallyread the book? I feel so strongly
about quitting his job, and theowner, um, you know promptly said
no, of course he hasn't readthe book. So, um, we
just went to a different venue intown that was that was happy to host
me instead. So it worked out, worked out just fine. But sadly
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we live in a generation now,um that there is a lot of um,
closed mindedness. People aren't willing tohave conversations. Uh. And I
come at a come at this frontas a reporter, as a journalist,
as I said, and I believethat we have to have these conversations.
We have to bring common sense back. We have to, um, you
know, be be critical thinkers becauseyou know, even this incident, it
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goes back to a Facebook video thatwent viral. Um, not body camera
footage that that clearly shows what ledup to the incident. Um. You
know, there's a lot more ofthis, this backstory, and it should
scare people that the body camera footagewas hidden. It was hidden for a
reason and many other things were hiddenas well when it comes to actual evidence
in this case. And that's whatI'm bringing out as a as a reporter
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in all of this. No,obviously with a book in a movie,
there are two different media formats we'reworking with. But time has passed since
you wrote the book, you're goingto be put it going into production soon
on the film. What are youable to include in the film that will
be if not radically different or importantor something gosh you wish you could have
put in the book, but justtime or whatever reasons you weren't able to.
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Yeah, I think that in thebeginning, you know, I had
sort of heard from from people inone circle, but this is this is
kind of brand new faces and stories, but including officers who were trapped in
the third Precinct the night it wasIt was a planned surrender to the protesters
in Minneapolis, and just just talkingwith them about what they've what they've gone
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through is pretty remarkable. Basically beingserved up as skpegoats, scapegoats by their
administration, by the mayor of Minneapolis, etc. This is a planned surrender
that if they give the precinct tothese protesters, this rioting will stop in
Minneapolis, and that really, youknow, served as a you know,
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symbol in all of this that's spreadacross the country. I mean, the
match was lit here in Minneapolis,that that's spread across the country. So
talking to them, I think willbe um really quite something that will come
out in the film. And alsothe family members, the officers who are
in prison. Now you have twoof them that will be serving sentences until
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twenty twenty five, Thomas Lane whowas on the job for three days,
Alex King who was on the jobas a Minneapolis police officer for three days.
You know, they're they're in prisonnow after after pleading guilty, after
seeing what happened in Derek Schaubin's case. So their family is talking, families
are talking for the first time.And also the officers themselves who are in
prison, a couple of them speakingfor the first time and hearing in their
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own words what went on. Youknow, I think that your film,
like your book, could change somehearts and minds, that people would open
themselves up to check it out,to read it, to watch the film
when it's when it's out, Buta lot of people won't. They're going
to turn their heads away. They'regoing to prejudge it. They've got their
narratives, they've got their stories,and they ain't budget now. I think
it's one of the biggest problems wehave in the culture right now that people
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are unwilling to hear both sides.You mentioned that cook who didn't didn't read
the book but wanted to object inany case, how do we change that?
And do you think about that asyou're going into production with the film
where you want the film to somehowopen those minds, open their hearts,
give people a chance. How doyou incorporate that philosophy into the storytelling?
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Yeah, of course, you know, I do think about that, and
you know I think that again,Christian, just going back to what we
were told that this is racism,you have the mayor of Minneapolis apologizing to
Black America the next morning after thishappens, and we're going into that narrative
because because I think there is somuch more to that. But you have
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Alex King, who is a blackpolice officer who was with George Floyd twice
as long as Derek Schavan ever wasum and and just hearing his family story
is quite remarkable. Here's this Minneapolisfamily, his mom being a school teacher
in Minneapolis, living in North Minneapolisfor Alex's entire life. She has adopted
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kids from all across the globe andyou know, doesn't have a racist bone
in her body. But to youknow, be portrayed as this family responsible
for the most racist police interaction policesins and in history has really been quite
something to this family taking out secondmortgages on their homes in order to raise
the bail money to get their sonout of prison, and just you know,
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hearing about what all they've been throughand painted as these monsters that they
clearly are not, and pushing backon that. But we have many officers
who are black who are in inthe film, and that's not really by
by design. That's they're coming forwardsaying, you know, this is BS
and we've had to pay the ultimateprice losing hundreds of officers from Minneapolis Police
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Department being painted as these racists thatwe're not. I think we're maybe getting
ahead of ourselves a little bit.But what are your what are your thoughts
as far as the distribution of themovie. Imagine may main outlets may not
like it. I don't think astreaming platform is going to go near it?
Are you thinking that far ahead?And where do you think this may
be shown or seen? What's what'sthe future for this? Yeah, I
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think that we've actually had some interestin some streaming services. Oh good,
so there is hope, okay,Um yeah, and uh, you know,
and that's also what I thought withthe book. I thought, you
know, Amazon or they even gonnalet me, let me put it out
there. And you know, thebook was an Amazon bestseller for several months.
Um, so you know, censorshipclearly is a real thing. There's
been a few things here and therethat I've had to fight back on.
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Um. But again, I thinkwhen it is facts that you're putting out
there, the facts are on theside of truth here. Hey, that's
what facts are, um, eventhough they can make people feel uncomfortable,
because again we're sort of led tobelieve a lot of things about what's going
on in the world. And then, um, you know, minds are
minds and hearts are changed down theroad. And I have heard from a
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lot of people who've given the booka chance, who maybe, um,
you know, we're struck by thetitle and such, and they went ahead
and read it. Anyway, andthey've emailed, emailed or reached out to
me on social media and said thattheir their minds have been changed, and
in fact, they wish that peoplewould have told the truth and you know,
things perhaps would would look differently.But I think that you know,
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our goal is to offer this forfree. That's why we're doing a crowdfunded
documentary. And we've had a lotof success and luck with with donations so
far, and some some donors comingforward saying they want to they want to
see this um So we will mightbe distributing through Elphin News as well,
which is an independent media group,Conservative media in Minnesota. Excellent. You
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know, for me, I'm anrecovering art major who ended up in journalism.
But to watch journalism collapse in thelast few years. Yes, it's
always been left leaning, that's youknow, that was the status for a
while. But just to see what'shappening today, the corruption is it kind
of takes my breath away. Honestly, you worked in the belly of the
beast, you were there for along time. Did you hear whispers from
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your colleagues, did people talk behindthe scenes saying, gosh, what's going
on? In our industry or didthey people stay quiet? I know you
did something about it. You youstruck out on your own. And we'll
talk about Alpha News in a minute. But was anyone bemoaning the fate of
journalism, you know, off hours? Because I can't imagine there aren't some
good people in there who aren't agas to what's going on. Oh?
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Absolutely, And you know, justjust backing up of it. For my
background, you know, I spenttwenty years and in mainstream media and I
feel like it was about five sixyears ago. I was just so troubled
with poisoning the population. Not It'snot so much what the news was telling
you, it's what they were not. Um. And there was so much
information um. You know, andwhen you're in a market for a long
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time, you're the whole point isto you know, build up your sources
and um, you know, besomeone that that the public can trust.
And that was something I really tookseriously. UM. And I wasn't a
political person, UM, so Iwasn't doing it anything from you know,
political gains. But with with COVID, there was so much more to that
story that we were just not willingto share. Um. You definitely saw
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this this push for you know,you really need to to focus on painting
police as the bad guys, um, which I never really felt comfortable with.
I always felt with a lot ofthese stories, there was so much
more and it was sort of like, you know, you'd see reporters pick
and choose what they decided um todo and how they would blend a story
and put it together, but youknow, more importantly, what they would
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they would leave out out of stories, um. And so I was always
bothered by that, you know,I'll be honest, there was a lot
of things going on behind the sceneswith a hatred, of helpable hatred of
then presidential candidate Donald Trump, um, president Donald Trump, you know.
And I think that's because obviously hewas pointing the finger at the media and
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telling a lot of things. Youknow, he's obviously with his frank style
that he has, pointing out thingsthat they weren't happy to have out there.
But yeah, certainly there were therewere many of us that would whisper
behind the scenes. I talk aboutin the book that even after George Floyd
a week after, doesn't seem likethere's any sort of care or concern to
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to understand the case in context.Instead, WCCO, where I worked,
implemented a policy that at half ofthe people we interviewed had to be non
white or from a protected class.That was the mandate. UM. So
I just felt very uncomfortable with theas a reporter, I now have to
care about your skin color, orI have to worry about who you're sleeping
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with. UM. I just thoughtthat, you know, this is just
a very bizarre UM. And I'venever really been, you know, faced
with anything like that, but thatthat happens sort of again and again,
and I think you know, youlook at all of this so all of
you know, everything can be understoodif you follow the money and follow the
power and you know the money comesfrom Big Pharma when it comes to a
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lot of the ad revenue at thesetelevision services. UM. So you understand
then, UM, you know wherethe money is coming from and why you're
not going to do a story aboutsomeone who is vaccine injured after receiving the
COVID jeb or Um, you knowthese other alternatives to treating COVID that are
that are much cheaper, you know, etc. That part of the conversation
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is just going to be cut outbecause of where the money is coming from.
So I've covered how comedians used topoke fun at big Farma quite a
bit, but that seems to havedried up in recent years. Ye I
wonder why you know? You mentionedone of the biggest things about journalism and
bias is what's not covered, thestories that are ignored, the narratives that
aren't explored. Of course, you'rewith Alpha News, which is in Minnesota,
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offering the stories the mainstream media won't, which is a great angle.
It's a great tagline, and ofcourse we need it. But is that
the future of news for the momentthat that other platforms pop up and pick
up the pieces in a sense,or do the work other people aren't.
Is that is that where we needto be right now? Or and can
you sometimes does does your work sometimesshame traditional journalists to cover a story that
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they've been ignoring for a while.Yeah, we we really do that.
And I'll be honest, I waslike, I don't know what the I
don't feel comfortable what I'm doing here. Um, you know, and it's
sort of like, you know,turn on the news and it's every it's
everybody has the same story. Everybodytells it the same way, and it's
twenty seconds here there and then heyhere's weather. Um. But I just
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know that there's so much more goingon. UM. So I did,
you know, jump ship and sortof took the leap of faith and it's
been, um, it's been reallyincredible. I mean, we have hundreds
of thousands of people seeing, um, seeing our content every day with with
Alpha News, and and that's whyI think the if you're of news is
just online. I mean it's theway people live now. They're not gathered
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around the television at six o'clock.They're you know, out there going to
sports and you know, living theirlives. And then they can go ahead
and consume news however they want,whether it's just on the weekends or um,
you know, early mornings at youknow, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Yeah, so it's pretty easy tocompete with these platforms that are that
are pretty old. UM. Butyou know we've found that at Alpha News
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just in the last year, we'veby far, I'm broken more stories than
the mainstream media is because we're justnot really afraid. I think there is
a fear in media that oh thisis too controversial to touch, or oh
I have to be careful about this, or that we don't really have those
conversations at Alpha, which is whatI enjoy. And then we see the
mainstream media go ahead and follow whatyou've gone through, the name calling,
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the incidents, the attacks. Ijust, you know, in researching you
before our conversation, it turned mystomach honestly because it seemed just patently unfair.
But that's where what happens when youbuck the system. If you were
talking to someone else who had somethingimportant to share that was truthful, but
they knew you knew that he orshe was going to face something similar,
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what do you say to them?How do you prepare them for what happens
next? Yeah, I would saythat it's worth it. I mean I
I was again a little hesitant,but I'm so glad I did. I
just felt like I can't even sleepat night the fact that this has been
allow allowed to happen, and youknow, sort of knowing the truth and
knowing the people involved, Um,you got to do it, I mean,
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because I'm not sure what our worldlooks like. You know, people
would ask me, you know,aren't you afraid by putting this out there?
And I'm really afraid if we don't. Um That's that's where I come
at this. Um So, Iwould encourage anyone who um you know,
is looking to take take that jumpto do it because I have had really
overwhelmingly nothing but support. Um So, I want to go ahead and write
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my own story as a journalist.I'm not going to let somebody else write
it for me. I love that. Liz, thank you so much for
being what a good journalist is andfollowing the truth and not the narrative.
Of course, the upcoming film isThey're Lying and it's a documentary that shreds
the media lies about George Floyd,BLM and so much more. Please go
to their Lying themovie dot com.That's where you can donate to the crowdfunding
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campaign. Again, without your help, the story can't get out there and
we need to see it as soonas possible. And of course you can
pick up They're Lying the Media,The Left and the Death of George Floyd.
That's available right now. I'm bestas a bestseller on Amazon dot com.
Liz, thank you so much,and stay safe. Christian, thank
you so much. Take care allright, before we go, it's time
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for your weekly tip. Now.The Glass Castle was a movie that came
out in twenty seventeen. I sawit at the time, enjoyed it didn't
get much love. It made abouttwenty two million, which is not horrible
by today's standards for a drama,but back then it really wasn't a strong
finish and critics were not in lovewith the film. A lot of them
complain that the fact based story wasmaybe a little bit too uplifting at the
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end. And I get that.It's a tale about a father who was
charismatic and thoughtful and passionate and funand also a heavy drinker and wildly delusional.
He's played by Woody Harrelson. It'sone of I think one of his
best performances. He's a very goodactor and he's terrific in this movie.
And it's all about he has afamily. His wife is Naomi Watts,
and she's god. She's co dependentand kind of in her own world as
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well at times. But it's allabout how the father ruled over his clan.
The kids loved him, they hejust disappointed them again and again and
again. It's a really intrigue thestory very powerfully told, but again I
think it just didn't hit the markat the time, people just missed.
It wasn't what they were looking for. Who knows what. There's many reasons
why a movie just doesn't connect withaudiences. But the good news is it's
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was just added to Netflix's streaming platformand I highly recommend it. I think
that Glasscastle is one of those unsungmovies that people missed the first time,
and through the glory of streaming,you can check it out all over again
right now. Again, thank youto radi America for having me on their
platform. I really appreciate it,and of course I love it. If
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