December 3, 2025 • 11 mins
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If your social media feed only shows one side—left or right—you’re not informed, you’re being used. In this episode, we break down how algorithms trap you in outrage loops, how cable-news “debates” are scripted entertainment, and why partisan influencers won’t touch stories that don’t fit their narrative. From green-room revelations to modern media hypocrisy, here’s how to break out of the bubble before it breaks you.
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WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:
https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
If your social media feed only shows one side—left or right—you’re not informed, you’re being used. In this episode, we break down how algorithms trap you in outrage loops, how cable-news “debates” are scripted entertainment, and why partisan influencers won’t touch stories that don’t fit their narrative. From green-room revelations to modern media hypocrisy, here’s how to break out of the bubble before it breaks you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's in your feed? Yeah, what's in your ex what's
in your social media feed? Let me ask you a question. Okay,
things you're looking at your social media feed? I mean
all kind of the same thing. Let's say, if it's
coming to politics, it's all this side, or it's all
(00:37):
that side and nothing else, nothing on the in between. Well, you,
my friend, you have a problem. One of the things
that I kind of pride myself on, quite frankly when
it comes to this program is my ability to, how
shall I put it, piss everybody off. I'm good at that,
(01:02):
he said. You may say, well, we got that great
Christmas movie Diehard, Remember uh. John mcclean's wife sees Han Groober.
It sees all the bad guys getting so upset and angry,
and she knows that her husband's alive. Becau's like, ah,
nobody can make people angry like that except my husband.
That's me. That's me at both sides I can aggravate.
(01:26):
One of the things that I really I would suggest, Okay,
you don't have to listen to me if you don't
want to. If your feed is one sided, if the
information that you're consuming on a daily basis, they're singing
the same tune, you're doing something wrong. You're doing something wrong.
(01:48):
And let me tell you you're being used. I mean,
do you like being a pawn? Because that's what you are.
That's what you are. Algorithms are rich to send certain
types of information to one side or the other side.
They want to keep you engaged. They want to keep
you scrolling as much as possible. They want to get
(02:10):
you fired up. They want to get you angry, rather
than taking a look at something, taking a look at
this side, taking a look at that side, and saying, well,
you know what, let's figure this out. Let me give
you give you an example of this. One of the
darlings in the media right now on the right, on
(02:30):
the right is Scott Jennings over at CNN. Oh boy,
the ARII and constantly see on social media. All right,
Scott Jennings really owned them here and oh boy, he
owned them in this one. And we could get the
same thing on the left. Oh, this one owned them
there and Scott Jennings. If you go back in time,
Scott Jennings was an anti Trumper for a period of time.
(02:52):
Now he's not. He is paid. He is paid by
CNN to have one opinion, and one opinion only if
someone presented to Scott Jennings a coherent argument against something
(03:13):
that Trump was doing his job. His job at CNN
is to counter that no matter what same thing holds
true with people on the opposite side. You could take
a look at Fox News Jessica Tarloff, whatever it may be. Again,
I'm gonna tell you a story. I've told his story
(03:33):
before here on the program. I can't remember what year
it was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It had to be two thousand and nine. I can't
remember exactly. I gotta go back and check. All of
these videos are up on my YouTube channel. So I'm
doing a Fox News hit. I mean, I remember Eric
Bowling was actually the host of this program, and they
had a left wing professor. Again, it's all coming back
(04:03):
to me. Left wing professor from what's that school? I
don't know. It's outside of Los Angeles in California. And
Scott Bowling thought she was used to call a professor hottie.
She was on the left. And we also had Oh
my god, his name will come to me in a second.
Bob Beckle, Holy cal Bob Beckele was there in studio
(04:26):
and me and Eric Bowling and the conversation again, this
is going back to two thousand and nine twenty ten
was the solvency of social Security. And people have been
listening to the show. Listen to his program. Now, I've
been talking about this for thirty years now, Okay, Bob
(04:47):
Beckle had no clue when I'm talking no clue, I'm
talking zip, zero, zilch, nada. He had no idea how
social Security work. He knew not a damn thing about it.
How do I know this well?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
He told me.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Sitting in the green room prior to my hit going
on Fox with this. Uh, Bob was asking me about it.
Didn't understand it. I tried to explain it to him.
He got distracted very easily, and I distinctly remember all
he wanted to talk about. All he wanted to talk
about was a book he just read, which was Keith
(05:26):
Richards just came out with the book. Now, I like
Keith Richard's a big Stones fan. I haven't read the book,
but whatever it is, what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Out of the corner of my eye, middle of the room,
green room, here here on you know six Samite Fox
News in New York are two lawyers, two lawyers about
ready to go on Megan Kelly's program.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They were basically working out their conversation, their debate, what
they were going to talk about before going on again.
Reminiscent of that scene in the movie The Wrestler with
Mickey Rourke where the wrestlers, the professional wrestler, professional wrestlers
(06:09):
are working on their routine before they go into the ring.
Do you think anything is any different? Let me explain
something to you before looking to these people in watching
watching these debate shows where you're truly wasting your time.
I'm telling you right now, you're truly wasting your time again.
(06:32):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pull, I'm gonna rewrite and I
can't stand that song imagined by John Lennon, but rewrite
all lyrics to imagine imagine all the people not tuning
into cable news and watching the stupid debate shows because
it's not real. Okay, it's entertainment program. It's there. It's
(06:53):
designed to keep you engaged, engaged and angry and angry.
At the other side, you would know a program was
legit if someone from time to time could actually concede
a point, I'd say, well, wait a second, you're onto
something there, but hey, let me know what, Let's look
at it maybe from a little bit of a different way,
(07:15):
rather than let's go down a rabbit hole. Let's engage
in personal attacks in one miners. Am I wrong on this?
You know I'm right? You know I'm right. And that's
that's where we are at this point in time. Is
people constantly scroll crolling, being fed by the algorithms. What's
going to get your angry? What's going to keep you engaged? Okay?
(07:39):
And it isn't beneficial by any stretch of the imagination.
A couple of topics were going to talk about other
podcasts today on the program. I'm going to give you
an example of this just recently. Did any of the
the right of center or MAGA influencers and magasites and whatever,
(08:04):
did they talk at all yesterday or were they critical
at all of Donald Trump pardoning the former president of
Honduras who was convicted, convicted of drug traffiing drug trafficking
tens of millions, if not more, dollars worth of cocaine
(08:27):
into the United States. He's in jail, not anymore. Did
they discuss that based upon the fact that we're killing
supposed narco terrorists in the Caribbean at this point in time?
Did Fox Did Handy get into an in depth discussion
about that yesterday on his program Flip Side? Did the
(08:54):
legacy media networks, did the left of center media networks?
Have they gotten into it at all? And yards to
what Tim Walls is responsible for in all of the
fraud that is taking place in the state of Minnesota.
Keith Ellison involved with this as well. Are they hitting
on that? No, well, you see that that's the problem.
(09:19):
That's the problem. They're both legitimate news stories. They're both
legitimate news stories. But again, it doesn't it doesn't fit
that networks or that outlets, it doesn't fit their narrative
what they're trying to push, what they're trying to engage.
(09:39):
That's not going to help their advertisers. Along with the
flip Side, this is why I'm happy. I'm happy. You
don't you don't think that you know, they do analysis
on my YouTube station, my app with all this stuff,
and they're like, you know, Chris, you know, the algorithm
(10:01):
working much better if you would just do things this way,
if you go down one side, if you just stuck
to this. No, no, I would never never do that,
you know, thinking that that scene in Goodwill Hunting where
(10:22):
Will basically dresses down the smarty pants grad school Harvard
grad student there that is basically plagiarizing all sorts of
things that he read and we'll do it right away.
And they get into an argument and the the Harvard
grad suit makes fun of him and so, oh, you
know you're going to be feed my kids that are
(10:44):
drive through when I go on a ski trip. And
what will Hunting say, Well, at least I won't be
not original. Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's in your feed? Yeah, what's in your ex what's
in your social media feed? Let me ask you a question. Okay,
things you're looking at your social media feed? I mean
all kind of the same thing. Let's say, if it's
coming to politics, it's all this side, or it's all
(00:37):
that side and nothing else, nothing on the in between. Well, you,
my friend, you have a problem. One of the things
that I kind of pride myself on, quite frankly when
it comes to this program is my ability to, how
shall I put it, piss everybody off. I'm good at that,
(01:02):
he said. You may say, well, we got that great
Christmas movie Diehard, Remember uh. John mcclean's wife sees Han Groober.
It sees all the bad guys getting so upset and angry,
and she knows that her husband's alive. Becau's like, ah,
nobody can make people angry like that except my husband.
That's me. That's me at both sides I can aggravate.
(01:26):
One of the things that I really I would suggest, Okay,
you don't have to listen to me if you don't
want to. If your feed is one sided, if the
information that you're consuming on a daily basis, they're singing
the same tune, you're doing something wrong. You're doing something wrong.
(01:48):
And let me tell you you're being used. I mean,
do you like being a pawn? Because that's what you are.
That's what you are. Algorithms are rich to send certain
types of information to one side or the other side.
They want to keep you engaged. They want to keep
you scrolling as much as possible. They want to get
(02:10):
you fired up. They want to get you angry, rather
than taking a look at something, taking a look at
this side, taking a look at that side, and saying, well,
you know what, let's figure this out. Let me give
you give you an example of this. One of the
darlings in the media right now on the right, on
(02:30):
the right is Scott Jennings over at CNN. Oh boy,
the ARII and constantly see on social media. All right,
Scott Jennings really owned them here and oh boy, he
owned them in this one. And we could get the
same thing on the left. Oh, this one owned them
there and Scott Jennings. If you go back in time,
Scott Jennings was an anti Trumper for a period of time.
(02:52):
Now he's not. He is paid. He is paid by
CNN to have one opinion, and one opinion only if
someone presented to Scott Jennings a coherent argument against something
(03:13):
that Trump was doing his job. His job at CNN
is to counter that no matter what same thing holds
true with people on the opposite side. You could take
a look at Fox News Jessica Tarloff, whatever it may be. Again,
I'm gonna tell you a story. I've told his story
(03:33):
before here on the program. I can't remember what year
it was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It had to be two thousand and nine. I can't
remember exactly. I gotta go back and check. All of
these videos are up on my YouTube channel. So I'm
doing a Fox News hit. I mean, I remember Eric
Bowling was actually the host of this program, and they
had a left wing professor. Again, it's all coming back
(04:03):
to me. Left wing professor from what's that school? I
don't know. It's outside of Los Angeles in California. And
Scott Bowling thought she was used to call a professor hottie.
She was on the left. And we also had Oh
my god, his name will come to me in a second.
Bob Beckle, Holy cal Bob Beckele was there in studio
(04:26):
and me and Eric Bowling and the conversation again, this
is going back to two thousand and nine twenty ten
was the solvency of social Security. And people have been
listening to the show. Listen to his program. Now, I've
been talking about this for thirty years now, Okay, Bob
(04:47):
Beckle had no clue when I'm talking no clue, I'm
talking zip, zero, zilch, nada. He had no idea how
social Security work. He knew not a damn thing about it.
How do I know this well?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
He told me.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Sitting in the green room prior to my hit going
on Fox with this. Uh, Bob was asking me about it.
Didn't understand it. I tried to explain it to him.
He got distracted very easily, and I distinctly remember all
he wanted to talk about. All he wanted to talk
about was a book he just read, which was Keith
(05:26):
Richards just came out with the book. Now, I like
Keith Richard's a big Stones fan. I haven't read the book,
but whatever it is, what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Out of the corner of my eye, middle of the room,
green room, here here on you know six Samite Fox
News in New York are two lawyers, two lawyers about
ready to go on Megan Kelly's program.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They were basically working out their conversation, their debate, what
they were going to talk about before going on again.
Reminiscent of that scene in the movie The Wrestler with
Mickey Rourke where the wrestlers, the professional wrestler, professional wrestlers
(06:09):
are working on their routine before they go into the ring.
Do you think anything is any different? Let me explain
something to you before looking to these people in watching
watching these debate shows where you're truly wasting your time.
I'm telling you right now, you're truly wasting your time again.
(06:32):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pull, I'm gonna rewrite and I
can't stand that song imagined by John Lennon, but rewrite
all lyrics to imagine imagine all the people not tuning
into cable news and watching the stupid debate shows because
it's not real. Okay, it's entertainment program. It's there. It's
(06:53):
designed to keep you engaged, engaged and angry and angry.
At the other side, you would know a program was
legit if someone from time to time could actually concede
a point, I'd say, well, wait a second, you're onto
something there, but hey, let me know what, Let's look
at it maybe from a little bit of a different way,
(07:15):
rather than let's go down a rabbit hole. Let's engage
in personal attacks in one miners. Am I wrong on this?
You know I'm right? You know I'm right. And that's
that's where we are at this point in time. Is
people constantly scroll crolling, being fed by the algorithms. What's
going to get your angry? What's going to keep you engaged? Okay?
(07:39):
And it isn't beneficial by any stretch of the imagination.
A couple of topics were going to talk about other
podcasts today on the program. I'm going to give you
an example of this just recently. Did any of the
the right of center or MAGA influencers and magasites and whatever,
(08:04):
did they talk at all yesterday or were they critical
at all of Donald Trump pardoning the former president of
Honduras who was convicted, convicted of drug traffiing drug trafficking
tens of millions, if not more, dollars worth of cocaine
(08:27):
into the United States. He's in jail, not anymore. Did
they discuss that based upon the fact that we're killing
supposed narco terrorists in the Caribbean at this point in time?
Did Fox Did Handy get into an in depth discussion
about that yesterday on his program Flip Side? Did the
(08:54):
legacy media networks, did the left of center media networks?
Have they gotten into it at all? And yards to
what Tim Walls is responsible for in all of the
fraud that is taking place in the state of Minnesota.
Keith Ellison involved with this as well. Are they hitting
on that? No, well, you see that that's the problem.
(09:19):
That's the problem. They're both legitimate news stories. They're both
legitimate news stories. But again, it doesn't it doesn't fit
that networks or that outlets, it doesn't fit their narrative
what they're trying to push, what they're trying to engage.
(09:39):
That's not going to help their advertisers. Along with the
flip Side, this is why I'm happy. I'm happy. You
don't you don't think that you know, they do analysis
on my YouTube station, my app with all this stuff,
and they're like, you know, Chris, you know, the algorithm
(10:01):
working much better if you would just do things this way,
if you go down one side, if you just stuck
to this. No, no, I would never never do that,
you know, thinking that that scene in Goodwill Hunting where
(10:22):
Will basically dresses down the smarty pants grad school Harvard
grad student there that is basically plagiarizing all sorts of
things that he read and we'll do it right away.
And they get into an argument and the the Harvard
grad suit makes fun of him and so, oh, you
know you're going to be feed my kids that are
(10:44):
drive through when I go on a ski trip. And
what will Hunting say, Well, at least I won't be
not original. Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
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