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Without further ado, we're 65 00:03:33.110 --> 00:03:34.879 going to go ahead and bring on our guest for today, 66 00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:38.500 the one and only Sam Anthony from Your News. Welcome 67 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:39.740 to the show, and glad we get to sit down 68 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:40.379 here and chat for a bit. 69 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.979 Jeff, it's been a while since I've been on. Probably 70 00:03:44.020 --> 00:03:45.120 two years. Good to see you. 71 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.699 Yeah, you as well. You as well. I always enjoy 72 00:03:48.979 --> 00:03:52.909 chatting with you and talking and all that. And it's 73 00:03:52.949 --> 00:03:57.509 fascinating too with what you've built with your news. It's 74 00:03:57.689 --> 00:04:00.490 interesting because when you think about it, it's a very 75 00:04:00.629 --> 00:04:04.069 stark contrast between what the mainstream media is doing versus 76 00:04:04.689 --> 00:04:09.699 what you are doing. Because obviously you've got the national news, 77 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:11.360 you've got all the normal stuff, but then you also 78 00:04:11.379 --> 00:04:14.379 go hyper-local in a way that nobody else is really doing. 79 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.899 Like what what really inspired you to go down that route? 80 00:04:19.209 --> 00:04:21.610 And what's been what's been the experience of like, you know, 81 00:04:21.629 --> 00:04:23.709 the writers and creators and readers and all that kind 82 00:04:23.730 --> 00:04:24.029 of stuff? 83 00:04:24.949 --> 00:04:30.250 Well, first of all, it's it's decentralized news versus centralized news. OK, 84 00:04:30.620 --> 00:04:34.220 for starters, the hyper local police is the only way 85 00:04:34.259 --> 00:04:36.800 you can do it. So, you know, from from the 86 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.120 business side, the legacy media is not going to survive. 87 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:42.189 A lot of people think it's because they're lying has 88 00:04:42.389 --> 00:04:44.629 absolutely nothing to do with it. It's just an antiquated 89 00:04:44.649 --> 00:04:48.329 product because people consume information differently. So, you know, I'm 90 00:04:48.329 --> 00:04:51.600 61 years old. You know, I remember in 1990, we 91 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:54.019 had three options, CNN, ABC and NBC. 92 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:54.279 Right. 93 00:04:54.339 --> 00:04:58.139 Maybe MSN. I don't remember. Fox didn't come around to 96. Today, 94 00:04:58.180 --> 00:05:02.199 YouTube has 115 million channels, TikTok, Instagram. I mean, there's 95 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:05.240 there's an endless supply of content creators that you didn't 96 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:11.060 have before. So the, everything is moving to platforms, creator-based platforms. 97 00:05:11.259 --> 00:05:14.250 And the only way to create a hyper local news 98 00:05:14.329 --> 00:05:16.470 platform and to create a platform for news, it has 99 00:05:16.490 --> 00:05:20.850 to be hyper local because you need scale and you 100 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:24.069 need to have millions of creators that are using your platform, 101 00:05:24.089 --> 00:05:26.879 which drives the audience. So for the, you know, look 102

00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:28.480 at this stage of the game, we're 20 years into 103 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:32.319 creator-based platforms. So everybody knows the creators drive the audience. 104 00:05:32.379 --> 00:05:35.879 So just imagine having a website that has a million 105 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:38.379 people that have their own page posting something on. Well, 106 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:39.870 they're going to be telling people to go to their 107 00:05:39.899 --> 00:05:43.750 page to watch their show. It's self-promotion, right? You're just 108 00:05:43.829 --> 00:05:47.529 a platform. So the unique part about our business is 109 00:05:47.569 --> 00:05:50.410 the ability of how we publish content. So it looks 110 00:05:50.529 --> 00:05:54.649 like a daily newspaper, like the Chicago Tribune or Miami 111 00:05:54.689 --> 00:05:58.490 Herald on steroids. But from the standpoint of how it looks, 112 00:05:58.509 --> 00:06:01.209 you have all the same sections, sports, business, politics, entertainment. 113 00:06:01.230 --> 00:06:04.480 You have lifestyle, home and garden. Remember the lifestyle section, 114 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:09.560 you had home and garden, food and wine, travel, health, 115 00:06:09.699 --> 00:06:12.350 you have all these different categories. So that's us. But 116 00:06:12.649 --> 00:06:14.829 we have the ability to be able to publish news 117 00:06:15.029 --> 00:06:17.470 right down to a specific city or a county or 118 00:06:17.509 --> 00:06:19.970 a market or state or regional or national. So the 119 00:06:20.009 --> 00:06:22.410 example would be the Monday night football game is national news, 120 00:06:23.069 --> 00:06:26.470 but somebody's little league game is not. It's city news specific, 121 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:29.430 still sports news, but the distribution goes to whatever city 122 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:33.050 that's in. And that's Now, because of the scale, because 123 00:06:33.069 --> 00:06:37.069 you have 20,000 cities in the United States, this is 124 00:06:37.389 --> 00:06:41.529 us estimating you probably excluding PR firms and nonprofits, which 125 00:06:41.569 --> 00:06:45.009 have content, and there's literally millions of them, and that's 126 00:06:45.149 --> 00:06:47.769 just in the United States. My guess is we'll probably 127 00:06:47.829 --> 00:06:52.209 need 50 monetized content creators per city. Certainly, New York 128 00:06:52.269 --> 00:06:55.990 is going to need more than Jupiter, Florida. One will 129 00:06:56.029 --> 00:06:59.149 probably need 500, and the other one will probably need 30. 130 00:06:59.149 --> 00:07:01.279 but I'm guessing about 50 people at Citi. So you're 131 00:07:01.300 --> 00:07:04.240 talking about a million news reporters. I mean, Jeff, we 132 00:07:04.259 --> 00:07:08.779 currently have over 6,000. So think about that, right? So 133 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.000 there is no news outlet that has that many news 134 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:16.019 reporters and it's completely decentralized. So I always tell people 135 00:07:16.259 --> 00:07:19.139 like you, I'm not in the news business, I'm in 136 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:25.300 the platform business. And creators use platforms for distribution and monetization. 137 00:07:25.579 --> 00:07:31.000 That's it. So The old days of the brand being 138 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:33.540 the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, or the radio or 139 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.220 TV station, that was the brand. They owned the audience. 140 00:07:37.259 --> 00:07:41.060 You worked for them. The model is reversed. The creator, 141 00:07:41.170 --> 00:07:44.470 Jeff Dornick, is the brand, and he uses Rumble or 142 00:07:44.509 --> 00:07:47.870 YouTube or whatever it is for distribution and monetization. So 143 00:07:48.350 --> 00:07:53.490 don't expect YouTube or Rumble to build your audience. You 144 00:07:53.529 --> 00:07:55.329 have to do it, right? And that's going to be 145 00:07:55.350 --> 00:07:59.180 the marketplace that decides the The good part is you're 146 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:01.699 on a platform that has a lot of other people, 147 00:08:02.180 --> 00:08:05.459 so people can find you while they're looking at things. 148 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:07.920 You know, like right now, we're on the front page 149 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.160 of Rumble. Did you know that? 150 00:08:09.790 --> 00:08:10.490 No, I didn't know that. 151 00:08:10.610 --> 00:08:13.120 I just checked. Yeah, so we're on the front page. Yep. 152 00:08:13.579 --> 00:08:15.990 That's cool. So anybody hitting Rumble is going to see 153 00:08:16.009 --> 00:08:16.569 this right now. 154 00:08:17.089 --> 00:08:17.269 Right. 155 00:08:17.509 --> 00:08:18.949 And they're going to go, who's that good-looking guy in 156 00:08:18.970 --> 00:08:22.410 the red shirt? I got to watch that show. Yeah. 157 00:08:22.629 --> 00:08:25.449 Well, you know, and the thing is that it's, I 158 00:08:25.490 --> 00:08:29.000 think– it's been interesting because, and I've noticed this, you know, 159 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:31.699 building out a social media platform where we're kind of 160 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.649 taking the anti-algorithmic approach, whereas most of the other platforms 161 00:08:34.789 --> 00:08:39.750 are algorithm-based, which is, which makes it more of a topic-based, 162 00:08:39.850 --> 00:08:44.370 theme-based platform, as opposed to a community networking, social network, 163 00:08:44.409 --> 00:08:46.700 all that kind of stuff. And it's, and it's fascinating 164 00:08:46.769 --> 00:08:51.100 to me watching how, watching the conditioning from a lot 165 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:52.919 of these platforms. And I know the same probably goes 166 00:08:53.019 --> 00:08:58.820 for in your industry as well, where They're almost training 167 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.919 creators to rely on the platform for their traffic, for 168 00:09:03.970 --> 00:09:06.879 their views, for their monetization and all that. And

then 169 00:09:06.899 --> 00:09:08.899 what I've realized is that a lot of times it's 170 00:09:08.950 --> 00:09:12.649 very easy for creators to just post and ghost and like, hey, 171 00:09:12.750 --> 00:09:15.350 I did my job. I posted the content. I posted 172 00:09:15.370 --> 00:09:18.070 the article. Why is nobody seeing it? Like, Sam, why 173 00:09:18.110 --> 00:09:20.509 are you not driving traffic to my article when in 174 00:09:20.549 --> 00:09:23.929 reality it's like the whole– principle behind like something like 175 00:09:23.950 --> 00:09:25.610 what you're building and something like what i'm building with 176 00:09:25.649 --> 00:09:28.240 pickaxe is this idea of like we are giving you 177 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:32.480 like a true meritocracy you can actually earn an audience 178 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.000 you can keep an audience but you actually have to 179 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.399 do something more than just produce the content but you 180 00:09:37.419 --> 00:09:40.830 also promote you retain you build community you build a 181 00:09:40.889 --> 00:09:43.830 following all of that and uh and i and i 182 00:09:43.870 --> 00:09:45.970 think it's one of those things where they're we're almost 183 00:09:45.990 --> 00:09:48.669 having to do a little bit of a retraining these 184 00:09:48.730 --> 00:09:52.100 days to take people back to the more meritocracy viewpoint 185 00:09:52.139 --> 00:09:54.899 as opposed to the entitlement viewpoint, if that makes sense. 186 00:09:55.659 --> 00:09:58.220 Well, I agree. And I will tell you this, the old, 187 00:09:58.269 --> 00:10:00.049 I call them the old guard, the people that used 188 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.379 to work for the newspaper, because most of my content's 189 00:10:02.419 --> 00:10:04.539 written news. I mean, we do audio video, but it's 190 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.820 mostly written content. It's the stuff you can't put on 191 00:10:06.860 --> 00:10:11.159 YouTube and TikTok and Instagram. But they're used to the paycheck. 192 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.899 You know, they don't build an audience. So this to 193 00:10:13.940 --> 00:10:16.500 them is just, you know, it's like reading Greek, you know, 194 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.320 they have no idea what to do. So I don't 195 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:21.279 think a lot of them are going to survive. I 196 00:10:21.299 --> 00:10:23.899 think it's going to be all new people that have 197 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:25.799 never been in the business before. I mean, hell, look 198 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:28.399 at YouTube. I mean, how many people on YouTube have 199 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.000 a broadcast degree? Do you have one? 200 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:32.350 I'm not allowed on YouTube, so. 201 00:10:33.149 --> 00:10:35.809 But, you know, from a journalistic standpoint, I mean, in 202 00:10:35.870 --> 00:10:38.450 order to, well, if you wanted to be a broadcaster 203 00:10:38.509 --> 00:10:40.470 on NBC, you had to go to journalism school. 204 00:10:40.690 --> 00:10:40.870 Right. 205 00:10:41.190 --> 00:10:43.590 That ship has sailed. Anybody can become a broadcaster in 206 00:10:43.610 --> 00:10:46.929 the marketplace makes the decision. So in our case, if 207 00:10:46.970 --> 00:10:49.600 you want to become a local news reporter, I could 208 00:10:49.620 --> 00:10:52.200 care less if you have a journalism degree. Hell, if 209 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.820 you want to set the bar, the media set it 210 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.019 so low, anybody can do better. All you have to 211 00:10:56.059 --> 00:10:58.799 do is tell the truth, right? That's all you got 212 00:10:58.820 --> 00:11:02.299 to do. But the new people coming in, if they 213 00:11:02.350 --> 00:11:05.129 can't write, they could just go take notes and plug 214 00:11:05.190 --> 00:11:07.370 it into AI and have AI write a story. And 215 00:11:07.450 --> 00:11:10.429 once they get what they want, AI is just a tool. 216 00:11:11.110 --> 00:11:13.230 That's all it is. But if you're plugging in what 217 00:11:13.269 --> 00:11:15.629 you want it to say, make this look better as 218 00:11:15.669 --> 00:11:18.169 a news story. Once you get what you want, you 219 00:11:18.190 --> 00:11:19.870 can push that out to the public. And now you're 220 00:11:19.889 --> 00:11:22.210 a news reporter. So I don't know how many of 221 00:11:22.250 --> 00:11:24.710 them we have because people, most of the people I 222 00:11:24.769 --> 00:11:28.450 have have been in the news business, not all. But 223 00:11:28.509 --> 00:11:31.429 some of them haven't. And I saw a story the 224 00:11:31.470 --> 00:11:35.649 other day. It was somebody out of Lexington, the creators 225 00:11:35.710 --> 00:11:39.240 out of Lexington. And the story they wrote was out 226 00:11:39.269 --> 00:11:42.830 of Miami. And it was some rapper that just got 227 00:11:42.870 --> 00:11:46.870 arrested for battery to his wife or something like that, whatever. 228 00:11:46.889 --> 00:11:49.669 And I'm like, what is he doing? So I grabbed 229 00:11:49.710 --> 00:11:53.190 the title. I threw it into Google to see if 230 00:11:53.450 --> 00:11:55.460 it was a month old or whatever it was. There 231 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:59.000 was one story. It was 26 minutes before that was 232 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.919 breaking the story. So I said to him, where did 233 00:12:01.940 --> 00:12:04.379 you get this? How did you find this out? And 234 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.590 he says, well, I instructed ChatTPT to find me breaking stories. 235 00:12:09.190 --> 00:12:13.100 And it said, a Miami rapper just got arrested for, 236 00:12:13.220 --> 00:12:15.960 you know, domestic battery. And then he wrote a story 237 00:12:16.059 --> 00:12:18.940 on it. Yeah. So I'm like, wow. I mean, the 238 00:12:18.980 --> 00:12:21.500 media industry is getting even easier now. So he's never 239 00:12:21.539 --> 00:12:24.600 been in the news business before, but now he's got a, 240

00:12:24.850 --> 00:12:28.009 he's got a distribution channel of 800,000 followers on socials. 241 00:12:28.330 --> 00:12:28.509 Yeah. 242 00:12:29.110 --> 00:12:31.789 So, yeah. So, you know, that story must have been 243 00:12:31.850 --> 00:12:33.750 read by, you know, the 50,000 people. 244 00:12:35.129 --> 00:12:36.850 Yeah, totally. Well, you know, and I, and I think 245 00:12:36.889 --> 00:12:39.590 the thing, the thing with, uh, that's, that's been interesting 246 00:12:39.629 --> 00:12:42.590 as well with, um, you know, the, you know, development 247 00:12:42.629 --> 00:12:45.830 of artificial intelligence and how they're, how they're implementing it 248 00:12:45.990 --> 00:12:47.809 is that on one hand, it can be, it's a 249 00:12:47.850 --> 00:12:50.990 phenomenal tool, but then I think as time goes on, 250 00:12:51.009 --> 00:12:53.669 it's going to be interesting because it's, I think a 251 00:12:53.730 --> 00:12:56.049 lot of the news organizations, just like what we're seeing 252 00:12:56.070 --> 00:12:58.200 in Silicon Valley, I was just on OAN yesterday talking 253 00:12:58.220 --> 00:13:02.399 about how Microsoft is trying to, is trying to get 60,000 254 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.500 of their employees to volunteer to, to, to quit working 255 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:07.059 because they're trying to get ready for the new era 256 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:09.610 of AI where AI does everything. And, And it's been 257 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.710 interesting because I've been seeing more and more news outlets 258 00:13:11.929 --> 00:13:14.730 using AI to write their articles to where all of 259 00:13:14.769 --> 00:13:16.429 a sudden you have all these journalists and they're like, 260 00:13:17.049 --> 00:13:18.629 I don't have a job because AI is writing all 261 00:13:18.649 --> 00:13:22.169 the articles. AI is finding where the breaking stories are, 262 00:13:22.230 --> 00:13:24.759 finding the right, the interesting angle, all that kind of stuff. 263 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:26.940 And to where I think, I think that there's going 264 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.679 to be an interesting new marketplace in the future where 265 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.279 I think there's going to be probably a minority, but 266 00:13:33.299 --> 00:13:35.039 there's going to be a certain segment of the population 267 00:13:35.059 --> 00:13:37.610 that's like, I don't want the AI content. I want 268 00:13:37.629 --> 00:13:40.970 to hear what somebody actually is saying, not just what 269 00:13:42.129 --> 00:13:43.149 the beast is feeding me. 270 00:13:43.230 --> 00:13:46.769 Yeah, so Jeff, in order for AI to write a story, 271 00:13:46.870 --> 00:13:50.570 it has to find it that somebody else wrote, right? 272 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:53.250 And then it has to change the words and make 273 00:13:53.289 --> 00:13:56.649 it your own. But you're still going to need boots 274 00:13:56.710 --> 00:13:58.990 on the ground. You're still going to need people to 275 00:13:59.049 --> 00:14:02.120 uncover this stuff. So I agree with you. I mean, 276 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:05.470 nobody wants to have just an AI experience. platform, number one. 277 00:14:05.509 --> 00:14:07.990 Number two, you're not going to get any traffic to 278 00:14:08.029 --> 00:14:10.549 it because AI is not going to promote its own articles, right? 279 00:14:10.590 --> 00:14:13.250 Who is it going to share it with? So it's 280 00:14:13.350 --> 00:14:16.490 still going to be news reporters. It's just going to 281 00:14:16.549 --> 00:14:22.230 be on platforms. And so in terms of what we do, 282 00:14:22.509 --> 00:14:24.909 there's nobody else in the space that does this. So 283 00:14:24.929 --> 00:14:27.840 we're kind of a monopoly. And what I'm really trying 284 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:29.700 to do is get this thing to where we have 285 00:14:29.740 --> 00:14:33.309 north of 50,000 creators, because I think at 50,000, It's 286 00:14:33.909 --> 00:14:36.850 not a lot in comparison to Elon Musk's 600 million 287 00:14:36.889 --> 00:14:42.230 or YouTube's 100 million creators, but we can never have 288 00:14:42.289 --> 00:14:46.190 that many. I'm guessing you're pushing it at a million 289 00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:49.669 for monetized content creators. I'd be happy with a couple 290 00:14:49.690 --> 00:14:53.289 hundred thousand. It would be massive. But the creator base 291 00:14:53.309 --> 00:14:58.509 is what drives the audience. I remember when it was 292 00:14:58.570 --> 00:15:01.240 about maybe 10 years ago, I looked up how many 293 00:15:01.970 --> 00:15:06.169 News Reporters Associated Press had, I think it was about 7,500. 294 00:15:06.169 --> 00:15:10.190 But then it went down to like 5,000. Last I checked, 295 00:15:10.210 --> 00:15:11.490 I think it was 1,500 people. 296 00:15:11.970 --> 00:15:13.070 Yeah. 297 00:15:13.090 --> 00:15:15.629 Because they're laying everybody off. They have nowhere to go. 298 00:15:15.649 --> 00:15:19.389 So it's actually kind of cool. So I'm starting to 299 00:15:19.429 --> 00:15:22.950 come out as I'm building an army of citizen reporters 300 00:15:23.009 --> 00:15:26.980 across the United States. And this is where the whole 301 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.580 world's headed. So what you're doing, you're trying to change 302 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:37.340 the way These systems are using algorithms to suppress your message, right? 303 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:42.320 In our case, think of the message suppression that went 304 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:46.590 on with mainstream media, right? So now with a citizen-powered press, 305 00:15:47.070 --> 00:15:49.370 we now have the ability to get all this stuff out. 306 00:15:49.409 --> 00:15:51.549 By the way, we don't fact check anything. Some people 307 00:15:51.570 --> 00:15:53.210 don't like that. I keep telling them we're not in 308 00:15:53.230 --> 00:15:55.669 the news business. And by the way, how much stuff 309 00:15:55.690 --> 00:15:58.070 did YouTube

fact check? Because it seems to me all 310 00:15:58.090 --> 00:16:01.700 the people that were telling the truth, they threw off. Yeah. OK, 311 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:05.259 so they say it was factual. Let's get rid of them. OK, so, 312 00:16:05.379 --> 00:16:09.720 you know, Rumble picked up those pieces. But I found that, 313 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.360 you know, the only thing that a journalist has is 314 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:16.240 their credibility. So the moment they lie, the public's going 315 00:16:16.259 --> 00:16:16.639 to know. 316 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:17.360 Right. 317 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.940 And it's over for them. So if they have followers, 318 00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:23.500 they're just going to disappear. So I have yet to 319 00:16:23.539 --> 00:16:27.159 see somebody lie. Somebody may put out an opinion that 320 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.139 you may not like or may not be factual. But 321 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.019 that's again, that's an opinion. Right. 322 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:34.139 Right. Well, you know, and I think that, you know, 323 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.539 it's like even like even with with pickaxe, I've had 324 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.610 a lot of people ask me, you can have community notes, 325 00:16:40.629 --> 00:16:43.470 you can have I'm like, no, like if you disagree 326 00:16:43.509 --> 00:16:46.330 with something that somebody says, like, provide you can reply 327 00:16:46.370 --> 00:16:49.190 to them and counter that with your own set of facts. 328 00:16:49.230 --> 00:16:50.899 I'm like the way the way that we deal with 329 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.159 bad information is with good information. And, you know, that 330 00:16:54.259 --> 00:16:56.320 that's up to each and every one of us individually. 331 00:16:57.169 --> 00:17:00.960 In the live chat, Mrs. Kuz asked, how many creators 332 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:05.819 do we currently have on Pickaxe? So we have 10,000 333 00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:09.599 users right now, or over 10,000 users on Pickaxe. We 334 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.509 have about 500 verified, you know, content creators that are 335 00:17:14.569 --> 00:17:18.670 on there. But it's interesting because, you know, and you 336 00:17:18.690 --> 00:17:20.920 pointed out as well, it's like, you know, I think 337 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.920 for both of us, we have a much smaller platform, obviously, 338 00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:25.849 than the mainstream. For me, it's like, you know, I'm 339 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.670 obviously smaller than X and Facebook and all that kind 340 00:17:28.690 --> 00:17:32.549 of stuff. But it's interesting because of the business model 341 00:17:32.569 --> 00:17:35.710 that we're building. Like, I can see us being a 342 00:17:35.750 --> 00:17:41.559 completely self-sustainable, profitable business with 100,000 monthly active users as 343 00:17:41.619 --> 00:17:44.660 opposed to needing millions and millions and millions before you 344 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:46.880 even turn on the spigot of advertising like a lot 345 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:49.480 of the big tech platforms. And I think that that's 346 00:17:49.539 --> 00:17:54.660 where I think being, being small, being a smaller platform, 347 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.440 but then opening it up to free speech and citizen 348 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.339 journalists and all that. I think, I feel like it's 349 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:03.460 a huge opportunity because also when you think about it, 350 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.490 like you're not having to pay the overpriced salaries of 351 00:18:06.569 --> 00:18:09.730 these journalists and reporters that, that are, you know, making 352 00:18:10.170 --> 00:18:12.349 a crap ton of money working, working for a lot 353 00:18:12.390 --> 00:18:14.690 of these, you know, bigger, bigger, you know, media outlets 354 00:18:14.750 --> 00:18:17.549 and things like that. When you can actually, you know, 355 00:18:17.650 --> 00:18:22.039 arm them and then give reporters and independent journalists and everyday, 356 00:18:22.059 --> 00:18:25.539 you know, citizens the opportunity to actually have a voice, 357 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.500 make money, earn their own way, and actually build their 358 00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:32.339 own business when you think about it. Like that to 359 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:33.980 me is like the true American way. 360 00:18:34.009 --> 00:18:37.710 And you're correct because that's what it is. It's their 361 00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:39.609 own business. And I don't think a lot of them 362 00:18:39.650 --> 00:18:41.980 really understand that. Right. You know, I mean, I put 363 00:18:42.019 --> 00:18:44.319 a video together in New York says become a citizen 364 00:18:44.339 --> 00:18:46.819 journalist where they can, you know, FAQs and stuff like that. 365 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.380 And I explained to him, you know, you're the boss. 366 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:51.940 You don't work for us. We work for you. Right. 367 00:18:52.109 --> 00:18:54.230 Your job is to build your own brand. We're just 368 00:18:54.250 --> 00:18:57.750 the ones that have to support you. So most people 369 00:18:57.789 --> 00:19:01.069 are not entrepreneurial, but for the ones that are, this 370 00:19:01.150 --> 00:19:04.109 is an opportunity for them to excel. And if they, 371 00:19:04.130 --> 00:19:07.150 you know, look, if you put if you produce great content, 372 00:19:07.690 --> 00:19:10.289 you'll get an audience. It's just that simple. And if 373 00:19:10.329 --> 00:19:12.450 you're producing stuff that, you know, not a lot of 374 00:19:12.470 --> 00:19:15.109 people want to see, you won't. So the cream always 375 00:19:15.190 --> 00:19:19.589 rises to the top. My niche is local news because 376 00:19:19.750 --> 00:19:21.769 anybody could get the Monday night football game, but who's 377 00:19:21.809 --> 00:19:23.230 giving me the high school football game? 378 00:19:23.670 --> 00:19:23.849 Right.

379 00:19:24.210 --> 00:19:27.089 So that's the key. And I always tell people, if 380 00:19:27.150 --> 00:19:30.410 you could solve somebody's problem in business, you'll make money. 381 00:19:31.230 --> 00:19:33.900 And I tell these people, if you're If you're writing 382 00:19:33.940 --> 00:19:36.539 about national news, I'm not saying you could love writing 383 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:41.319 about the Monday night football game, but so does 100,000 384 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.009 other people doing the same thing. You're competing with them 385 00:19:44.390 --> 00:19:47.349 for market share, but you're competing with nobody for the 386 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:49.670 high school football game. So if you want to build 387 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:54.880 a foundation. give somebody what they're demanding and you'll build 388 00:19:54.930 --> 00:19:56.710 an audience there. It doesn't mean you can't write about 389 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.420 the Monday night football game, but those people are going 390 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:03.319 to read it. Who cares? So it's a business. At 391 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.180 the end of the day for them, it's the business. 392 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.359 It's like having a bunch of entrepreneurs that are out 393 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:13.609 there building their own business and not everybody makes it. 394 00:20:14.579 --> 00:20:16.970 It's just how it works. Right. How many, how many 395 00:20:17.009 --> 00:20:18.769 channels have you been to on YouTube where the last 396 00:20:18.809 --> 00:20:19.849 post was five years ago? 397 00:20:20.369 --> 00:20:20.549 Right. 398 00:20:21.009 --> 00:20:21.410 Exactly. 399 00:20:21.670 --> 00:20:22.130 Yeah. 400 00:20:22.890 --> 00:20:24.890 It's not because their bank accounts were too filled up. 401 00:20:25.150 --> 00:20:27.130 It's because they just weren't cutting it. 402 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:27.619 So. 403 00:20:27.660 --> 00:20:27.819 Yeah. 404 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:28.740 Yeah. 405 00:20:29.230 --> 00:20:35.210 Well, so with your news, right, and like you said, 406 00:20:35.250 --> 00:20:40.769 you've got thousands of individual creators that are writing and 407 00:20:40.789 --> 00:20:43.380 all that kind of stuff. What kind of content do 408 00:20:43.410 --> 00:20:46.359 you feel like rises to the top? Because I think 409 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.579 that's one of the things that I've found fascinating even 410 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:54.319 about like like on Pickaxe is that we have certain 411 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:56.359 things that it seems like there's a lot of people 412 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.980 interested in, but it's not necessarily what the algorithms will 413 00:20:59.019 --> 00:21:00.500 push if you're on X. You're not going to see 414 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:02.420 that kind of content on X or on Facebook or 415 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.759 things like that. Is there anything in particular that you 416 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:09.460 feel like dominates or are of most interest on your news? 417 00:21:10.509 --> 00:21:13.849 I think it's the local content. I do. Because the 418 00:21:13.890 --> 00:21:16.569 national stuff, I mean, look, we have it. Don't get 419 00:21:16.589 --> 00:21:19.529 me wrong. I mean, we have it. But you could 420 00:21:19.549 --> 00:21:22.319 get that on any you know, any website, you know, 421 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:25.460 anywhere it's, but you can't get the local stuff, but 422 00:21:25.539 --> 00:21:29.579 that's the key. So, you know, that's why I tell people, 423 00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:32.299 you know, stick with the local because this is what's 424 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:34.940 in demand because, you know, they could get their national 425 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:38.789 news anywhere and everybody has their trusted sources on where 426 00:21:38.829 --> 00:21:42.369 they get it. So, you know, but I can't force 427 00:21:42.390 --> 00:21:44.769 them to do it. So they got to do whatever 428 00:21:44.789 --> 00:21:46.509 the hell they want. But a lot of these people 429 00:21:46.569 --> 00:21:49.839 I bring out already have followings on socials. You know, so, 430 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:52.319 you know, I'm just an extension of what they're doing. 431 00:21:52.940 --> 00:21:53.140 Right. 432 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:55.420 And they could bring their own audience to the table. 433 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.029 The perfect match for me would be somebody that already 434 00:21:58.069 --> 00:22:01.309 has a big following on socials that uses me because, 435 00:22:01.769 --> 00:22:04.970 you know, putting on, let's say, were you doing NASCAR? Well, 436 00:22:05.009 --> 00:22:08.049 where are you going to put that? You know, if 437 00:22:08.130 --> 00:22:11.410 it's written news, is ESPN going to hire you? I mean, 438 00:22:11.430 --> 00:22:13.089 where are you going to put this stuff? You can 439 00:22:13.109 --> 00:22:15.839 do Substack, but this is I'm not saying you shouldn't. 440 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:17.980 Maybe you should have a Substack page and this. but 441 00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:21.000 this is a perfect fit for what you're doing because 442 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.920 we're a news outlet. So it's a perfect match. And 443 00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:27.269 then all their followers end up coming to me to 444 00:22:27.289 --> 00:22:28.289 consume their information. 445 00:22:28.869 --> 00:22:29.170 Totally. 446 00:22:29.549 --> 00:22:31.970 Well, and it's interesting too, because again, for me being 447 00:22:32.569 --> 00:22:35.390 a Christian and a conservative and all of that, it's 448 00:22:35.430 --> 00:22:41.109 interesting because especially in the conservative movement, there's a weird, 449 00:22:41.170 --> 00:22:44.579 almost like a conflict that's going on where conservatives traditionally 450 00:22:44.690 --> 00:22:48.509 always talk about you know, federalism and focus on hyperlocal 451 00:22:48.750 --> 00:22:50.390 and all that kind of stuff.

But then on the 452 00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:52.410 flip side, it seems like all we ever talk about 453 00:22:52.450 --> 00:22:54.519 is what happens in Washington, D.C. And like, nobody knows 454 00:22:54.579 --> 00:22:57.200 who's their local representative or who's running for office or 455 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:00.420 what's going on in your local, you know, especially like city, 456 00:23:00.460 --> 00:23:02.259 but also like county and state and all that kind 457 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.980 of stuff. And it's interesting because I feel like all 458 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.240 of the media and all of the big names that 459 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:13.230 everybody follows, it's all pushing us to only focus on Washington, D.C. 460 00:23:13.269 --> 00:23:16.150 And I feel like, again, that's where there's an opportunity 461 00:23:16.250 --> 00:23:21.369 to kind of refocus the attention, taking it back to hyperlocal, 462 00:23:21.390 --> 00:23:23.730 which is what conservatives preach but don't actually practice. 463 00:23:24.269 --> 00:23:28.400 They can't. I mean, up until what we're doing, where 464 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:31.019 else could you do it? So, you know, you have 465 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:33.460 your little local newspapers, right? Then you have the local 466 00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:38.059 TV stations, but they're owned by a handful of corporations. So, 467 00:23:38.509 --> 00:23:40.950 I mean, to give you an example, we have, you know, 468 00:23:40.990 --> 00:23:44.200 coming up on the on the election here in Florida, 469 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:49.299 I think it's called Proposition 3. It's for it's for 470 00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:53.319 taxes on homes and eliminating property tax, not completely, but 471 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:56.259 like giving you over a two year period, a total 472 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:58.740 of a quarter of a million dollars worth of deductions 473 00:23:58.849 --> 00:24:01.029 off of your property. And the purpose, the reason they're 474 00:24:01.049 --> 00:24:03.390 doing it is they want the they say the average 475 00:24:03.430 --> 00:24:07.099 home is 400 grand in in Florida. And they want 476 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:13.180 that number to have a zero tax base. So you 477 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:15.660 need a 60% of the vote in order to change 478 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.589 it to where you get that. And the media here, 479 00:24:18.789 --> 00:24:21.609 which is all the institutions, have been telling you how 480 00:24:21.690 --> 00:24:23.210 bad that is and how you're not going to have 481 00:24:23.250 --> 00:24:25.910 firefighters and policemen aren't going to get paid, which is 482 00:24:25.950 --> 00:24:28.049 just the biggest crock of crap. Let me tell you 483 00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:30.650 what happened. The housing prices in the last five years 484 00:24:30.690 --> 00:24:35.450 have doubled here. The municipalities have doubled their incomes. When 485 00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:38.430 it came to the property values for the tax, because 486 00:24:38.470 --> 00:24:41.150 we get charged, let's say, 2%. So if your homes 487 00:24:41.210 --> 00:24:44.170 were $ 250, 000 and now they're $ 500, 000, whatever it was, they 488 00:24:44.190 --> 00:24:46.539 just doubled, if not more. So now they had this 489 00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:48.680 influx of cash and they're like, well, we don't want 490 00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:52.920 to give it back. Let's take raises. So this is 491 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.380 not run like an HOA where you're trying to keep 492 00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:59.140 things at a bare bones minimum. This is, well, I 493 00:24:59.150 --> 00:25:00.640 was making a quarter million a year. Why don't we 494 00:25:00.660 --> 00:25:03.539 bump me up to 350? The firefighters were making 75. 495 00:25:03.539 --> 00:25:06.599 Let's take them to 100 and a quarter. And so 496 00:25:06.619 --> 00:25:09.380 now everybody's getting rich off of it because, but yet 497 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:13.750 the people are getting poorer. Yeah. So, you know, the 498 00:25:13.789 --> 00:25:17.470 mainstream media is just here to tell you lies. And 499 00:25:17.509 --> 00:25:20.569 this is what's got to end, you know. I mean, 500 00:25:20.910 --> 00:25:22.650 they're not here for the people. They're here for the 501 00:25:22.690 --> 00:25:25.339 people who pay them to be here, right? Mm-hmm. You know, 502 00:25:25.460 --> 00:25:28.039 that's all it is. So it's the same thing with politicians, too. 503 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:29.559 You know, I don't know if you know my opinion 504 00:25:29.619 --> 00:25:31.279 on that, but they ain't ever going to fix a 505 00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:35.660 thing ever, ever. The same story I heard 50 years 506 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:39.500 ago is still exists today. And we need to fix 507 00:25:39.539 --> 00:25:41.400 this and we need to fix Social Security. We need 508 00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:43.700 to fix the border. We need to have better gun legislation. 509 00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:46.849 And what else? OK, and nothing has ever been made. 510 00:25:46.869 --> 00:25:48.809 You need to give me money because we need to 511 00:25:48.869 --> 00:25:51.670 make sure they don't win. The only thing has changed 512 00:25:52.289 --> 00:25:57.779 is the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became the old 513 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:02.339 Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party became communist. That's not 514 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.779 the only thing that changed. That's all that's changed. So 515 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.279 I think the Democratic Party is doing themselves a disservice 516 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:13.099 because the moderates are just thinking to themselves, these people 517 00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:16.279 are freaking cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Who's the guy? I 518 00:26:17.660 --> 00:26:20.140 can't think of his name, but he's a Democrat, and 519 00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:22.640 he's even saying he's not voting Democrat because

he don't 520 00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:25.759 want communism. He's the guy they always bring on to 521 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:30.339 discuss politics and he makes predictions. But even he says, 522 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.019 I'm out. I don't want these people. They're nuts. They 523 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:33.859 want to take everything. 524 00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:34.539 Right. 525 00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:35.359 Yeah. 526 00:26:35.500 --> 00:26:38.160 Well, you know, and I think that that's the thing 527 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:43.420 is that people, there's a growing portion of the population. 528 00:26:43.529 --> 00:26:45.490 And I think we're looking at polling numbers. It seems 529 00:26:45.549 --> 00:26:50.160 like it's actually now a majority of people. that feel 530 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:54.240 like neither party actually represents their values. And it was 531 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:58.440 interesting because like the other day, I had Ted Rall 532 00:26:58.619 --> 00:27:02.160 on the show, who's a self-described communist, right? He's a lefty, 533 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.059 you know, kind of more of a populist left Bernie 534 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.180 Sanders type guy, right? And Robbie, you know, my producer, 535 00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:09.809 he produces his show as well. And Ted's one of 536 00:27:09.829 --> 00:27:11.589 my favorite people in the world to talk to. Like, 537 00:27:11.630 --> 00:27:13.650 it's fascinating, you know, getting to kind of pick his 538 00:27:13.690 --> 00:27:16.849 brain and stuff like that. But one of the things 539 00:27:16.869 --> 00:27:18.670 that we were both kind of talking about is that 540 00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:25.119 you know, neither party actually seems to represent their primary 541 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.839 base of voters, right? Instead, what they do is they 542 00:27:27.859 --> 00:27:30.250 tell the voters to vote for them to fix the 543 00:27:30.289 --> 00:27:33.289 problems that they're never going to fix. And both parties, 544 00:27:33.990 --> 00:27:36.990 the both parties, like, will kind of play this game 545 00:27:37.069 --> 00:27:39.509 of they'll talk a big game, but they both need 546 00:27:39.529 --> 00:27:42.019 the boogeyman on the other side in order to campaign against. 547 00:27:42.059 --> 00:27:43.859 And so, like, you know, I've told the story a 548 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:46.500 couple of times, but out here in California, when we 549 00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:51.119 had the recall of Gavin Newsom, I, um, I was 550 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:54.059 trying to put together a bunch of rallies, uh, out here. 551 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:55.640 And I, and I talked to all, like, I went 552 00:27:55.740 --> 00:27:57.740 up and down, you know, California talking to all the 553 00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:59.880 GOPs and like, none of them were interested. And I 554 00:27:59.900 --> 00:28:01.579 had like, I was going to do a debate with 555 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:04.579 Sean Farage and many

AOC and then bring in some other, 556 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:06.299 you know, bigger names to speak and all that. And 557 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.319 it was going to be a cool event. Couldn't get 558 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:10.779 any GOP to be interested in. And finally, one of 559 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:13.509 them pulled me aside and was like, we were told 560 00:28:13.529 --> 00:28:16.190 by Kevin McCarthy not to spend any money on, on 561 00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:19.089 this recall of Gavin Newsom. And I was like, really? Why? 562 00:28:19.710 --> 00:28:22.230 And they're like, well, because he technically still wants Gavin 563 00:28:22.250 --> 00:28:24.890 Newsom to get to stay in power because they need 564 00:28:24.910 --> 00:28:28.099 a boogeyman to campaign against for the next round of 565 00:28:28.180 --> 00:28:32.440 congressional in the midterms. And I'm like, oh, that makes 566 00:28:32.539 --> 00:28:35.119 perfect sense. And so in the grand scheme of things, 567 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.250 the Republicans like Gavin Newsom and the Democrats being in 568 00:28:38.289 --> 00:28:40.170 charge of California because they can raise a crap ton 569 00:28:40.210 --> 00:28:43.029 of money off of the Republicans that hate the Democrats. 570 00:28:43.630 --> 00:28:47.009 And it's like, It's just a game. It's a power game. 571 00:28:47.049 --> 00:28:47.569 That's all it is. 572 00:28:48.650 --> 00:28:51.250 Nothing's ever going to be fixed because if they fix 573 00:28:51.269 --> 00:28:53.470 the problem, you wouldn't need them. It's like if the 574 00:28:53.490 --> 00:28:57.880 drug companies cured cancer, you wouldn't need them anymore, right? Well, 575 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:00.980 if politicians solved all the problems, because they're extremely easy 576 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.160 to solve, right? I mean, if you could eliminate all 577 00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:05.640 the politicians and just fix it yourself, it's a very 578 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:09.299 simple fix. Stop spending more than you bring in. That's 579 00:29:09.819 --> 00:29:13.130 the simple truth. Stop giving away our money. You wouldn't 580 00:29:13.150 --> 00:29:16.480 need them anymore. And this is a business model for them. 581 00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:19.400 How many politicians that went into office that you know 582 00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:21.859 came out poor besides Trump in the first year? 583 00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:22.640 Yeah. 584 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.619 In the first term. Nobody. I mean, even AOC is 585 00:29:26.660 --> 00:29:30.269 worth $ 20 million. So I don't know about you, but 586 00:29:30.289 --> 00:29:35.109 that just pisses me off. Yeah. Okay. An absolute waste 587 00:29:35.150 --> 00:29:38.329 of a human being that somehow got selected for this 588 00:29:38.470 --> 00:29:42.019 position and all of a sudden has a massive net 589 00:29:42.059 --> 00:29:45.079 worth while she's telling everybody how making money is bad 590 00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:48.609

and capitalism is bad. They've basically turned this into nothing 591 00:29:48.630 --> 00:29:51.329 more than a business model. For the record, these people 592 00:29:51.369 --> 00:29:53.309 don't work for us. They work for the people that 593 00:29:53.329 --> 00:29:57.339 pay them. That's it. And they gaslight everybody else into 594 00:29:57.380 --> 00:30:00.569 thinking that they're here to fix the problems when they're 595 00:30:00.609 --> 00:30:03.309 never going to fix anything. So watch what happens. I 596 00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:07.170 had a conversation about a month ago with one of 597 00:30:07.210 --> 00:30:10.109 the congresswomen over here in West Palm. And I said 598 00:30:10.150 --> 00:30:11.509 to her, I bet you any amount of money, our 599 00:30:11.529 --> 00:30:13.609 debt goes from $ 40 trillion to $ 80 trillion before it 600 00:30:13.630 --> 00:30:15.730 goes to $ 39 trillion. And she wasn't going to take 601 00:30:15.750 --> 00:30:17.650 that bet. She goes, no, you're right. And I go, well, 602 00:30:17.670 --> 00:30:19.759 there you go. So it's not going to be fixed. 603 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.559 So the people who could fix the problem are not 604 00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:25.509 going to fix the problem. Mm-hmm. So why do I 605 00:30:25.569 --> 00:30:27.630 even need you anymore? You're just here to hurt. 606 00:30:28.289 --> 00:30:28.470 Right. 607 00:30:29.069 --> 00:30:31.849 That's it. All you're going to do is you're destroying 608 00:30:31.869 --> 00:30:35.029 the value of the currency. And this is why we're paying, 609 00:30:35.130 --> 00:30:37.309 you know, something we paid 25 bucks at the grocery 610 00:30:37.349 --> 00:30:40.980 store 20 years ago. We're paying $ 100 now or more. 611 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:44.380 It's just gotten out of hand. And so watch what 612 00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:47.380 happens when the debt goes up and now you have 613 00:30:47.380 --> 00:30:50.740 $ 2 trillion in debt that, you know, in interest that 614 00:30:50.779 --> 00:30:53.529 you're paying, which, by the way, is another joke, simply 615 00:30:53.569 --> 00:30:59.069 because What idiot would control their own purse strings, borrow 616 00:30:59.089 --> 00:31:01.569 money against themselves and have to pay interest to somebody else? 617 00:31:02.009 --> 00:31:02.210 Yeah. 618 00:31:02.730 --> 00:31:05.289 Okay. You have to be dumber than dumb to do that. 619 00:31:06.509 --> 00:31:08.210 So we have to pay interest on our own money 620 00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:10.660 and that people are profiting from this and these people 621 00:31:10.700 --> 00:31:13.019 just keep spending. So my guess is they're just going 622 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:13.960 to bankrupt the currency. 623 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:15.740 Right. Yeah. 624 00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:16.019 Robbie? 625 00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:18.319 I have a question for you, Mr. Sam, and I 626 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.960 agree with you. I think that Local news has got 627 00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:24.119 to matter. I think a local election is going to 628 00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:26.920 matter more than a national election does. Your sheriff is 629 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.720 going to matter more than who the attorney general is, 630 00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:30.720 for example, at the end of the day, as far 631 00:31:30.769 --> 00:31:34.750 as your life goes. What my question is, is with 632 00:31:34.869 --> 00:31:38.390 what you've seen with your network, have you seen people 633 00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:42.210 who are covering local news actually get the support to 634 00:31:42.250 --> 00:31:44.720 get people in who actually give a crap about where 635 00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:49.109 they live to try to push back against what's going on? 636 00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:52.339 So you're saying apathy, just go, just go just to 637 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:56.039 the basement level. So, so the, most of the content 638 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.259 we get, you would think it'd be politics. It's not, it's, it's, it's, 639 00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:02.589 most of it is not political. You know, when you, 640 00:32:02.630 --> 00:32:05.390 when we bring on a creator, I mean, I have 641 00:32:05.430 --> 00:32:09.509 people that write movie reviews, theater critics, okay. Local theater critics, 642 00:32:10.390 --> 00:32:13.529 people that do high school sports, people that do national sports. 643 00:32:14.210 --> 00:32:15.710 So you would think you would get a lot of 644 00:32:15.769 --> 00:32:18.880 political stuff. but most of it isn't, which kind of 645 00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:20.900 blows my mind. Now we get a lot of national 646 00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:24.859 politics and a lot of national opinions, but we don't 647 00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.900 get what you would think. At least not yet. 648 00:32:29.089 --> 00:32:30.849 Do you think it's because of the apathy? Just people 649 00:32:30.890 --> 00:32:33.609 just think that Rome is burning. There's no fixing it. 650 00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:35.329 So they're just going to just go to the movies 651 00:32:35.390 --> 00:32:38.829 instead or like, what did your gut tell you? 652 00:32:39.269 --> 00:32:43.549 Well, from the creator side, um, I'm thinking the people 653 00:32:43.569 --> 00:32:46.809 that are interested in politics probably have a place where 654 00:32:46.829 --> 00:32:50.029 they're putting it for now. Where are you going to 655 00:32:50.069 --> 00:32:54.029 put movie reviews? I don't know. You can have a 656 00:32:54.049 --> 00:32:56.359 sub stack, but this is just another place to do it. 657 00:32:58.150 --> 00:32:59.720 Like I said, we get a lot of political news 658 00:32:59.779 --> 00:33:01.640 on a national level and even on a state level, 659 00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:07.059 but not a lot of local, hyper-local political news. We 660 00:33:07.099 --> 00:33:10.410 get hard news, bank robbery, car crash, you know, that 661 00:33:10.450 --> 00:33:12.990 kind of stuff, high school football game,

stuff like that. 662 00:33:13.369 --> 00:33:16.029 But I don't really see that stuff that you're talking about. 663 00:33:16.109 --> 00:33:20.529 But I do see as just imagine this, Jeff, you know, 664 00:33:20.549 --> 00:33:22.930 as your platform gets bigger and as you get to 665 00:33:22.930 --> 00:33:26.109 10 and 20,000 creators, this thing will start to mushroom 666 00:33:26.769 --> 00:33:29.329 because it'll start to attract more ad revenue. And then 667 00:33:29.490 --> 00:33:31.109 more people are going to start making money and more 668 00:33:31.150 --> 00:33:32.910 people are going to start moving over. And the bigger 669 00:33:32.950 --> 00:33:34.869 you get, the bigger you get. It just keeps kind 670 00:33:34.910 --> 00:33:37.950 of self-feeding. Then you're going to start to get all 671 00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:40.849 those people. Mm-hmm. And it's probably going to attract the 672 00:33:40.869 --> 00:33:41.430 nut jobs too. 673 00:33:42.450 --> 00:33:42.630 Yeah. 674 00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:48.099 I mean, there's always nut jobs in every platform. That's 675 00:33:48.140 --> 00:33:50.299 the reality. We've already dealt with a little bit of 676 00:33:50.339 --> 00:33:54.779 that every now and then. But I think it's interesting because, 677 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:58.200 especially with what you were talking about, how on the 678 00:33:58.259 --> 00:34:00.859 more hyper-local side of things, there's not as much discussion 679 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:05.289 of politics. And my thing is that I feel like 680 00:34:05.369 --> 00:34:09.510 there's a massive opportunity because like, like there's like, there's 681 00:34:09.610 --> 00:34:11.280 one reporter that I know that she's a good friend 682 00:34:11.300 --> 00:34:15.119 of mine, Anna Mattson, who's, you know, she's been, she's 683 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:16.920 been talking a lot and she, you know, cause she 684 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:19.960 was a Kennedy supporter. And so she had a big audience, 685 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.340 but then she started focusing hyper local and her local 686 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.300 like township. I forget if she's in Michigan or Illinois 687 00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:28.610 or somewhere back there. And like the shenanigans that are 688 00:34:28.619 --> 00:34:32.030 going on with like the town council. And like, it's like, it's, 689 00:34:32.210 --> 00:34:35.050 it's almost like a movie of how crazy and corrupt 690 00:34:35.090 --> 00:34:37.659 and all that kind of stuff. Like there's some, crazy 691 00:34:37.739 --> 00:34:40.559 stories that when you start looking at hyperlocal because they're 692 00:34:40.579 --> 00:34:44.599 not used to they're not used to having accountability right 693 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.139 and so it's like there's a massive opportunity for for 694 00:34:47.260 --> 00:34:51.480 creators and writers to actually start paying attention to your 695 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.159 local city council meetings or county board of supervisors and 696 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:56.559 all that because like there's a lot of there's a 697 00:34:56.579 --> 00:34:58.400 lot of stuff that would shock a lot of people 698 00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:01.739 locally that would be great news stories that you know 699 00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:03.599 it did they just go unnoticed because people aren't paying 700 00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:04.340 attention as much. 701 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.329 I get it. I totally agree with you. And I 702 00:35:07.389 --> 00:35:09.510 think as time moves on, you're going to start getting 703 00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:12.190 that stuff. I mean, because it doesn't matter if it's 704 00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:14.670 on a national level or on a local level. There's 705 00:35:14.849 --> 00:35:16.949 all kinds of corruption going on. There's all kinds of 706 00:35:16.989 --> 00:35:20.340 payoffs and bribes. And it's not going to stop until 707 00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:24.079 you take the money out of the system. So, I mean, 708 00:35:25.099 --> 00:35:27.860 if politicians had no way to make a nickel, they 709 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:29.940 wouldn't be there. The ones you have that are supposed 710 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:33.239 to be representing you that don't would leave. Yeah. And 711 00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:35.360 so I think Warren Buffett said it best. If you 712 00:35:35.389 --> 00:35:38.570 want to fix the problem, if you don't balance the budget, 713 00:35:38.789 --> 00:35:43.590 every single Congress and senator can't re-up for another term. Basically, 714 00:35:43.610 --> 00:35:46.489 you're terming yourself out the moment the budget isn't balanced 715 00:35:47.409 --> 00:35:50.570 and that would end it. But they have to vote 716 00:35:50.610 --> 00:35:51.030 that in. 717 00:35:51.630 --> 00:35:51.809 Right. 718 00:35:52.269 --> 00:35:55.780 Which is screwed up. OK, so you're not really working 719 00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:58.619 for us. You're here to steal everything we got and 720 00:35:58.659 --> 00:36:01.059 then bankrupt the currency and then start a new one. 721 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.480 that's how I see it. So I, I, I don't 722 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.179 know how anybody could see it any other way since 723 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.380 nothing has been fixed since I could remember. And it's 724 00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:14.590 all the same issues. We haven't even added another one. Okay. 725 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.429 The only guy that's ever tried to fix anything is 726 00:36:17.449 --> 00:36:22.130 Donald Trump. And the real problem that I see is 727 00:36:22.190 --> 00:36:24.929 really the debt, because if the debt wasn't there, you 728 00:36:24.949 --> 00:36:26.550 wouldn't have the inflation. Right. 729 00:36:27.010 --> 00:36:27.250 Okay. 730 00:36:27.489 --> 00:36:30.869 So the way he tried to solve the debt, was 731 00:36:30.949 --> 00:36:34.750 to tariff the other countries and have the money coming 732 00:36:34.769 --> 00:36:36.570 in where you

had so much money coming in that 733 00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:39.329 it was paying down the debt and then to eventually 734 00:36:39.389 --> 00:36:44.530 eliminate income tax. He got resistance from Republicans. And then 735 00:36:44.590 --> 00:36:48.809 ultimately the Supreme Court shut it down. So even your 736 00:36:49.050 --> 00:36:51.969 own court system doesn't want prosperity. 737 00:36:52.869 --> 00:36:56.880 Right. And this is my thing, especially with the debt, 738 00:36:57.019 --> 00:37:02.340 is that And he's talked about this a couple of 739 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:05.300 times about how he wants to use inflation to our 740 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.320 benefit because it devalues the dollar, which makes it easier 741 00:37:09.340 --> 00:37:11.579 for us to pay off the debt to China and 742 00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.780 all that kind of stuff. The problem with that is 743 00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:18.809 that the strategy only works if you can get into 744 00:37:18.849 --> 00:37:21.650 a surplus, right? Because as long as you're spending more 745 00:37:21.670 --> 00:37:26.409 than you're bringing in, it doesn't matter how you fund it. it's, 746 00:37:26.769 --> 00:37:28.789 it's just going to continue to skyrocket. Right. And so, 747 00:37:29.170 --> 00:37:31.300 so it's like, this is where that was my biggest 748 00:37:31.340 --> 00:37:33.880 criticism of like the big, beautiful bill is that we're 749 00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:37.280 still spending at, at a higher rate than what we're 750 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.340 bringing in. If we could just even, even get it 751 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:43.619 down to like where we're, we're, we're it's, it's breaking 752 00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:46.380 even like that would be a net positive. And then 753 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:47.820 you throw the tariffs on top of that. Then you 754 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:49.719 could throw all of that at the debt. And it's like, 755 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.099 That makes perfect sense to me. But if we're going 756 00:37:52.139 --> 00:37:54.480 to continue to spend more and then think that we 757 00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:58.679 can use inflationary tactics to pay it off, that's where 758 00:37:58.699 --> 00:38:01.469 I'm just like, we're not going to get anywhere. But 759 00:38:01.489 --> 00:38:06.090 then also, he's also dealing with the neocon establishment, Republican Party, 760 00:38:06.530 --> 00:38:09.230 who they don't want to fix the problem because they 761 00:38:09.250 --> 00:38:11.769 can just continue to campaign on, we'll fix the problem, 762 00:38:11.809 --> 00:38:13.650 give us money, and then they never actually fix it. 763 00:38:14.150 --> 00:38:16.710 And it will never be fixed. But you're correct. It's 764 00:38:16.769 --> 00:38:19.230 not a hard fix. It's actually pretty easy. If you 765 00:38:19.269 --> 00:38:21.369 could leverage the assets of the United States, turn it 766 00:38:21.409 --> 00:38:24.630 into a business, you'll be able to generate enough revenue 767 00:38:24.650 --> 00:38:26.510 to pay this down, which personally, I don't think we 768 00:38:26.570 --> 00:38:29.780 owe it anyway. I think that most of it should 769 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.599 be just washed. But that being said, you could do it. 770 00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:34.840 They ain't going to let him do it. So he 771 00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:38.800 was the only person that actually tried. So from here 772 00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:40.559 on out, it's just going to get nothing but worse. 773 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:43.760 Jobs are going to become less. You have AI that, 774 00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:45.480 I mean, think about it. You don't need a lawyer 775 00:38:45.739 --> 00:38:48.210 right now, at least when it comes to documents. Did 776 00:38:48.230 --> 00:38:50.730 you do any of your documents, you know, terms of 777 00:38:50.889 --> 00:38:53.550 use and all that stuff? I mean, AI just spits 778 00:38:53.570 --> 00:38:54.230 this stuff out. 779 00:38:54.630 --> 00:38:55.570 Totally. 780 00:38:56.090 --> 00:38:58.260 And literally in 10 seconds. I mean, like it'll give 781 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:00.920 you a whole thing and you're like, wow, that just 782 00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:01.940 saved me 500 bucks. 783 00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:02.519 Right. 784 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:03.920 You know. 785 00:39:04.739 --> 00:39:05.219 Yeah. 786 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:06.380 Now, I have a question for you, Mr. 787 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:06.719 Sam. 788 00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:09.889 Before I just stop talking about Trump, you said they 789 00:39:09.909 --> 00:39:12.389 wouldn't let him fix it. I don't think he wanted 790 00:39:12.409 --> 00:39:14.719 to fix it. Because if he wanted to, he would 791 00:39:14.739 --> 00:39:17.250 have vetoed every omnibus bill that. 792 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:18.010 Came to him. 793 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:20.989 He could have said, he's the president. He could have said, 794 00:39:21.010 --> 00:39:24.050 you send me standalone spending bills instead of all this 795 00:39:24.170 --> 00:39:27.650 crap just lumped into one big old gigantic bill. And 796 00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:29.969 if you don't, I will shut the government down until 797 00:39:30.090 --> 00:39:31.349 you give me something to work with. 798 00:39:31.710 --> 00:39:32.269 He didn't do it. 799 00:39:32.590 --> 00:39:35.010 He did not do it. And my guess was he 800 00:39:35.050 --> 00:39:37.210 thought the tariffs were going to be the thing that 801 00:39:37.250 --> 00:39:39.630 was going to take this thing to another level and 802 00:39:39.650 --> 00:39:41.510 be able to pay it down. But he was wrong. 803 00:39:42.269 --> 00:39:44.409 Isn't this a self-inflicted wound on his part? I mean, 804 00:39:44.650 --> 00:39:47.940 between that and Iran, what's the difference between him and Kamala? 805 00:39:49.409 --> 00:39:51.989 Well, first of all, so it depends on how you 806 00:39:52.050 --> 00:39:54.380 look at it. To me, this Iran problem should

have 807 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.860 been fixed 50 years ago. I personally think that Iran 808 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:02.800 should not be allowed to exist. These are people that 809 00:40:02.820 --> 00:40:06.050 are not here for the best interest of anybody, period. 810 00:40:06.699 --> 00:40:08.690 And the fact that they created all these problems and 811 00:40:08.710 --> 00:40:12.429 then creating and funding terrorism across the globe, this regime 812 00:40:12.449 --> 00:40:14.550 should have been eliminated a long time ago. But if 813 00:40:14.590 --> 00:40:17.690 you notice, we have a Congress that doesn't fix anything. 814 00:40:18.309 --> 00:40:20.670 So that would have never been fixed. So going in 815 00:40:20.690 --> 00:40:23.789 there now and making sure these people never have nuclear weapons, 816 00:40:23.829 --> 00:40:25.730 my personal opinion is they should go in there and 817 00:40:25.750 --> 00:40:27.889 take over the country and just name it a territory 818 00:40:27.909 --> 00:40:30.539 of the United States. That's what I would do. It's 819 00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:33.079 no longer yours. The oil's ours. Thank you for your time. 820 00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:35.519 We're building golf courses and any U.S. citizens could play 821 00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.539 for free if you fly over. That's how I see 822 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.530 it because they've been the problem. So if you notice, 823 00:40:42.550 --> 00:40:44.619 they're not really much of a problem anymore. And if 824 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:46.920 you want to know about why oil prices are still high, 825 00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:49.139 I don't know what you're paying, probably $ 7 in California. 826 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:54.360 We're paying $ 3. 50. That's your taxes. There's more oil moving 827 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:57.199 around the globe right now than ever before. But the 828 00:40:57.260 --> 00:41:01.230 reason it's up is because insurance costs went up five times. 829 00:41:02.710 --> 00:41:04.630 So I don't know what it costs for insurance, but 830 00:41:04.670 --> 00:41:06.769 if you were paying a million per vessel, it's now 831 00:41:06.769 --> 00:41:07.369 $ 5 million. 832 00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:08.170 Right. 833 00:41:09.809 --> 00:41:13.170 That's the reason why. But there's plenty of oil. So 834 00:41:13.210 --> 00:41:15.130 I don't know what this Venezuela thing is going to do. 835 00:41:15.190 --> 00:41:17.869 I don't know, because the market's still the market. And 836 00:41:17.909 --> 00:41:19.869 even though we have oil coming from Venezuela, you don't 837 00:41:19.909 --> 00:41:22.130 need to really insure those boats like you do coming 838 00:41:22.170 --> 00:41:25.889 out of the Straits of Hormuz. But I don't know 839 00:41:25.909 --> 00:41:29.860 if it's going to drop the price. But the market's 840 00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:32.960 the market. So the market's now based on what insurance 841 00:41:33.019 --> 00:41:35.300 rates are. Maybe if you shut down the Straits of 842 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.900 Hormuz and everything we buy is from Venezuela and maybe Canada, 843 00:41:38.940 --> 00:41:43.219 it'll change everything. Because now, I don't know. this is 844 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.159 above and beyond my pay grade. Yeah. 845 00:41:45.980 --> 00:41:49.820 Yeah. Well, I think, I think it's interesting. It's all 846 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.780 of this stuff is, is an interesting conversation because there's 847 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:55.590 so many different moving parts about all of this. And, 848 00:41:56.090 --> 00:41:58.829 and I think that there's like, for me personally, I 849 00:41:59.429 --> 00:42:03.590 think that there's, there's good arguments on, on both sides. 850 00:42:03.630 --> 00:42:05.630 And I think both sides also make bad, bad arguments, 851 00:42:05.670 --> 00:42:07.690 which is kind of my, my takeaway on almost every 852 00:42:07.710 --> 00:42:09.309 single issue is I feel like I can poke holes 853 00:42:09.349 --> 00:42:12.650 on both sides and, of most of these issues everybody's 854 00:42:12.690 --> 00:42:15.550 fighting over. But I think it's one of those things 855 00:42:15.570 --> 00:42:19.219 where it's like, yeah, I mean, Iran's not a good 856 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:23.360 country at all. At the same time, I'm also like, 857 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.659 we've got so much crap we have to deal with 858 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:29.719 here in the United States that we're not. And then 859 00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:31.599 we're going to invest all this time and energy and 860 00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:36.159 focus and also deal with the economic ramifications of that 861 00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.000 that we're all having to deal with. And as we 862 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:41.429 all know, as prices... you know, go up, they very 863 00:42:41.530 --> 00:42:43.530 rarely come back down. So we're going to continue to 864 00:42:43.550 --> 00:42:46.349 see that kind of stuff happen. So it's just, it's a, 865 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.000 I feel like it was a very unfortunate situation. And 866 00:42:50.980 --> 00:42:53.139 I also think based upon a lot of the conversations 867 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:54.739 I've had with people that are, you know, close to 868 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.960 President Trump, it seems as if he thought that they 869 00:42:58.980 --> 00:43:00.679 could go get in and out in the same way 870 00:43:00.699 --> 00:43:03.980 they did with Venezuela. And you're not taking into consideration 871 00:43:04.019 --> 00:43:06.400 that that's a much larger country there with Iran. And 872 00:43:06.420 --> 00:43:08.579 then also you have to, you've got the religious component 873 00:43:08.980 --> 00:43:12.440 which even going back to George Bush, we underestimated the 874 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.610 religious component, component of the Islam of the, of the 875 00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:19.570 Islamic motivations of the people, because like that adds a 876

00:43:19.670 --> 00:43:22.849 whole other, that adds a whole other, you know, level 877 00:43:22.869 --> 00:43:25.849 of commitment to the war that we don't have. Cause 878 00:43:25.869 --> 00:43:28.230 we don't have that reload or that religious motivation to 879 00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:31.340 go to war, but they do for defending. Right. So there's, there's, 880 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:33.079 there's a lot, there's a lot of nuance. I feel 881 00:43:33.099 --> 00:43:34.960 like that goes into a lot of these conversations that 882 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.679 like not a lot of people look at, you know, Oh. 883 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:41.699 I did. You're right. The whole religion thing. I mean, 884 00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:43.780 Allah has told them to do this. This is their 885 00:43:43.820 --> 00:43:46.199 mission in life is to make sure they kill the 886 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:51.360 infidel and anyone that's not a Muslim. I mean, so 887 00:43:51.659 --> 00:43:54.429 that in itself to me is a problem. You can't 888 00:43:54.510 --> 00:43:56.090 coexist with other people. 889 00:43:56.610 --> 00:43:56.829 Right. 890 00:43:57.409 --> 00:43:59.610 And so this should have been fixed 50 years ago, 891 00:43:59.789 --> 00:44:01.550 but they didn't do it. And all they did was 892 00:44:01.590 --> 00:44:03.809 let them get more power and more power and more power. 893 00:44:04.309 --> 00:44:07.639 I can assure you, based on what I've heard, They 894 00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:09.840 really don't have much of a military anymore. They certainly 895 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:14.099 don't have any air bases with planes anymore. They certainly 896 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.579 don't have any ships. They're pretty much stuck back in 897 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.420 the dark ages again. And I think as long as 898 00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:24.280 you could keep them from getting any kind of financial support, 899 00:44:25.809 --> 00:44:28.210 the markets will go down on the oil. The markets 900 00:44:28.230 --> 00:44:30.289 will come down. The good news about oil is it 901 00:44:30.309 --> 00:44:32.809 goes up and down. It's a market-driven thing. Right now, 902 00:44:32.869 --> 00:44:36.889 it's just the insurance. But I think this had to 903 00:44:36.929 --> 00:44:40.449 be done. Because let me ask you this question. Do 904 00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:42.530 you think if Iran had the ability to put a 905 00:44:42.570 --> 00:44:44.900 nuke into the United States, they would do it? 906 00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:49.760 If they did, I think that they would probably do 907 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:51.000 Israel before they did. 908 00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:55.920 Well, certainly closer. Yes. Okay. So, but I agree with that. 909 00:44:56.260 --> 00:44:59.210 So the point is, is that's to me is a problem. 910 00:45:00.210 --> 00:45:03.719 I mean, this is like a psychopathic killer. And if 911 00:45:03.739 --> 00:45:05.960 you let him out of his cell, he's going to 912 00:45:05.980 --> 00:45:08.179 create a lot of damage. So just shut it down 913 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:10.239 before you get into the problem. Right. 914 00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:13.639 Well, I think that this is where, when you think 915 00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:20.280 about it, this is another somewhat self-inflicted wound of the 916 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:24.739 Trump administration, strictly from the messaging standpoint. And I think 917 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:28.510 that that's been one of the weaknesses, ironically, of Trump 918 00:45:28.530 --> 00:45:32.289 administration is Trump himself, especially when he campaigns. He's a 919 00:45:32.349 --> 00:45:37.360 phenomenal politician, phenomenal campaigner, and all of that. But for 920 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:41.880 whatever reason, his administrations oftentimes don't do the best job 921 00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:45.199 of selling things, right? So it's like, for example, with 922 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:48.349 everything that's going on in Iran, I think a big 923 00:45:48.449 --> 00:45:51.869 part of why there's so much blowback is the way 924 00:45:51.929 --> 00:45:55.090 that they sold it, right? So we were told after 925 00:45:55.130 --> 00:45:57.230 the first missile strikes that happened, what was it, last year, 926 00:45:57.710 --> 00:46:01.050 that we obliterated their nuclear program because they were two 927 00:46:01.070 --> 00:46:02.389 weeks away. And then all of a sudden we go 928 00:46:02.409 --> 00:46:04.710 to war because now they're back to being two weeks 929 00:46:04.769 --> 00:46:08.380 away from achieving nuclear weapons. So we have to go 930 00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:10.340 and we have to stop them. And it's like, but 931 00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:14.920 did we obliterate it then? Or have we obliterated it now? 932 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.739 What's going on? And I would actually make the argument 933 00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:22.510 that if the case was okay, they've been killing our 934 00:46:22.570 --> 00:46:26.090 soldiers in the Middle East, and there's been threats, and 935 00:46:26.429 --> 00:46:30.170 there was the allegations that Iran was involved with the 936 00:46:30.210 --> 00:46:34.429 attempt on President Trump at Butler, and all these different things. 937 00:46:34.869 --> 00:46:37.409 If that was the case, I feel like that would 938 00:46:37.429 --> 00:46:39.130 have been a legitimate argument to go to the American 939 00:46:39.150 --> 00:46:41.989 people and say, look, they tried to assassinate President Trump. 940 00:46:42.070 --> 00:46:44.050 They tried to do this. They killed this. We have 941 00:46:44.090 --> 00:46:47.320 to deal with this ASAP. But I think the problem 942 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.610 was in how they sold it. And then people kind 943 00:46:50.630 --> 00:46:53.969 of call BS because the arguments that the Trump administration made, 944 00:46:54.590 --> 00:46:57.429 it's like it doesn't always hold up to scrutiny as 945 00:46:57.489 --> 00:46:59.920 opposed to just

tell us why we're going to war 946 00:47:00.019 --> 00:47:01.619 and then maybe we can get behind it. 947 00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:06.739 I get it. Yeah. And it was only supposed to 948 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:07.800 be a short period of time. 949 00:47:07.940 --> 00:47:08.119 Right. 950 00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:12.389 And I actually believe Trump believed that because even I said, Well, 951 00:47:12.409 --> 00:47:14.980 how long can these people stand to hold out? I mean, 952 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:18.800 you know, once you sink all the ships and once 953 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.199 you destroy all the planes and once you hit all 954 00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:26.179 their infrastructure, what do you got left? Camels? Swords? I mean, 955 00:47:26.199 --> 00:47:30.079 like what's left? But, you know, these people just aren't quitters. 956 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:32.500 They hate. And, you know, now they hate you even more. 957 00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:33.159 Right. 958 00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:35.659 So I think if he's going to do it, he 959 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.039 should finish the job and, you know, somehow get rid 960 00:47:39.059 --> 00:47:40.809 of all of them as much as. As much as 961 00:47:40.889 --> 00:47:43.130 nobody wants ground troops in there, you got to eliminate 962 00:47:43.150 --> 00:47:48.659 these people. These people should not control anything. Nothing. Yeah. Yeah. 963 00:47:48.739 --> 00:47:52.519 Well, it's, it's, it's interesting because like, like, like you said, 964 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:56.059 like the, the, what, what we're told by the Trump 965 00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:59.199 administration and by the media and stuff like that is, again, we, 966 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.300 we've obliterated them back into the stone age and, you know, 967 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:04.039 like all that kind of stuff. And, and I'm just like, 968 00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.980 but if we did, wouldn't, wouldn't we just be able 969 00:48:07.019 --> 00:48:08.539 to just roar it in and take over? 970 00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:13.820 You would think. To me, this is the weird part. 971 00:48:14.659 --> 00:48:16.679 Why have we not went in there and taken this 972 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:17.829 thing over? 973 00:48:18.130 --> 00:48:21.630 Why are we still negotiating if literally they have no power? 974 00:48:22.090 --> 00:48:22.650 You know what I mean? 975 00:48:22.989 --> 00:48:25.809 I do think they have power. You're talking about electricity. 976 00:48:25.969 --> 00:48:28.750 I don't think he took out the grids. I don't 977 00:48:28.769 --> 00:48:31.250 know if that would be a good thing or a 978 00:48:31.269 --> 00:48:33.650 bad thing. From the standpoint of knocking them back into 979 00:48:33.670 --> 00:48:35.590 the Stone Ages, if you don't have the ability to 980 00:48:35.630 --> 00:48:38.739 build back your grids, you're screwed. So that would certainly 981 00:48:38.780 --> 00:48:40.360 do it, but you're going to affect a lot of people, 982 00:48:40.380 --> 00:48:42.139 a lot of families that don't want to be there. 983 00:48:42.179 --> 00:48:45.559 How many people did Iran kill when they were rising up? 50,000, 60,000? 984 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:48.940 Some of that, yeah. I mean, it was some ridiculous amount. 985 00:48:49.019 --> 00:48:51.139 I mean, could you imagine if we did that here, 986 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.760 what kind of uprising there would be? 987 00:48:53.780 --> 00:48:56.380 Well, I mean, we kind of had that with COVID 988 00:48:56.420 --> 00:48:58.320 and there was no uprising. 989 00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:02.880 Isn't that the strangest thing? So, so far, the biggest 990 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.739 mass murder on planet Earth is Fauci. It's Fauci. And 991 00:49:08.510 --> 00:49:10.489 my personal opinion is he's going to get away with 992 00:49:10.550 --> 00:49:12.969 it just like everybody else. I mean, so remember when 993 00:49:13.010 --> 00:49:16.530 Trump got elected, everybody said, okay, we're waiting for all 994 00:49:16.550 --> 00:49:20.559 the arrests, right? So how many people got arrested so far? 995 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:22.380 Not very many. 996 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:26.260 And who do we have right now that they actually 997 00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:28.699 have the goods on? Ilhan Omar. So they now know 998 00:49:28.739 --> 00:49:32.750 she has the same last name as her brother. I'm 999 00:49:32.789 --> 00:49:35.570 assuming they'll be able to connect the dots and say, okay, 1000 00:49:35.610 --> 00:49:38.829 these two were married. Now, I understand there's a discrepancy 1001 00:49:38.909 --> 00:49:42.329 with her age when her father brought her into the 1002 00:49:42.389 --> 00:49:46.449 United States. I guess she was 18 and they put 17. 1003 00:49:46.449 --> 00:49:49.130 But wouldn't this be enough to get a conviction and 1004 00:49:49.170 --> 00:49:49.650 go grab her? 1005 00:49:50.869 --> 00:49:55.690 You would think. But this is my thing. Because I've 1006 00:49:55.710 --> 00:49:58.639 had Kash Patel on my show before and different people 1007 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.079 in the Trump administration and all that. And they all 1008 00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:02.440 talked a big game and we're going to drain the 1009 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:05.739 swamp and root out the deep state. And Epstein files 1010 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.590 this and that and the other thing. And then they 1011 00:50:07.630 --> 00:50:10.550 get in there, and then we get gaslit. And I'm 1012 00:50:10.570 --> 00:50:14.090 just sitting here, and I'm just like, okay, what's going 1013 00:50:14.170 --> 00:50:16.769 on here? Because it's like, literally, I had Kash Patel 1014 00:50:16.809 --> 00:50:19.820 on my show talking about how the entire infrastructure of 1015 00:50:19.860 --> 00:50:23.039 the FBI is corrupt, and they're all, in his words, 1016 00:50:23.179 --> 00:50:26.480 based on his documentary and his book, a government of gangsters. 1017 00:50:27.019 -->

00:50:32.199 And then he said the black book of Epstein is 1018 00:50:32.300 --> 00:50:34.780 literally in the desk of the FBI director. And then 1019 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:36.440 he gets in there, and he's like, there's no black book. 1020 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:37.900 What are you talking about? And he, and he said, 1021 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:41.320 before he got in, I saw it last time around. And, uh, 1022 00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:43.820 and it's, and I think that that's, that's the thing 1023 00:50:43.900 --> 00:50:46.679 that I think really throws me for, for a loop 1024 00:50:47.570 --> 00:50:49.989 is people that I know that I've talked to over 1025 00:50:50.030 --> 00:50:52.309 the years that I've connected, whatever it is, they get 1026 00:50:52.389 --> 00:50:54.869 into the administration and then all of a sudden they 1027 00:50:54.889 --> 00:50:57.829 do a complete about face. And it's, it's, it's the 1028 00:50:58.130 --> 00:51:01.320 craziest thing. When you think about like the Epstein files, 1029 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.500 it's like, did they actually release all of that? What's 1030 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.000 actually going on there? I don't know if you've been 1031 00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:09.599 following that case with that kid that they arrested Brian 1032 00:51:09.619 --> 00:51:13.599 Cole Jr. for the J6 pipe bombing that happened. Like 1033 00:51:13.619 --> 00:51:17.179 that case, like any investigative journalist should be looking at C. 1034 00:51:17.219 --> 00:51:19.619 Baker on like what happened with there because that's clearly 1035 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.250 a setup by the FBI to cover up for a 1036 00:51:22.289 --> 00:51:25.849 CIA agent that basically actually planted the bombs. It's wild 1037 00:51:25.889 --> 00:51:27.550 when you look at this and you're like, But I 1038 00:51:27.570 --> 00:51:29.349 thought we were supposed to bring back transparency and we 1039 00:51:29.369 --> 00:51:30.530 were going to drain the swamp and we were going 1040 00:51:30.550 --> 00:51:32.389 to deal with the corruption and all that kind of stuff. 1041 00:51:32.409 --> 00:51:35.429 And I feel like that's where there's a certain segment. 1042 00:51:35.489 --> 00:51:37.670 And this is what makes it concerning for me heading 1043 00:51:37.690 --> 00:51:40.449 into the midterms, where there's a segment of the of 1044 00:51:40.510 --> 00:51:43.880 the Republican Party that feels like, OK, we voted for 1045 00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:47.989 you to accomplish X, Y and Z. You're not doing it. 1046 00:51:48.059 --> 00:51:49.599 Why do we think that you're going to do it 1047 00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:50.380 if we keep you in? 1048 00:51:50.659 --> 00:51:55.500 You know, I completely agree with you. I mean, I'm 1049 00:51:55.539 --> 00:51:58.679 just as frustrated as you. I've come to the conclusion 1050 00:51:58.699 --> 00:52:01.139 that nothing is going to get done. Remember? 1051 00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:01.840 Okay. 1052 00:52:02.380 --> 00:52:05.199 Nothing is going to be fixed. And it's because we 1053 00:52:05.219 --> 00:52:08.599 don't pay them enough money. Apparently, $ 175, 000 a year is 1054 00:52:08.659 --> 00:52:12.059 not enough. So they have to look elsewhere to get 1055 00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:14.820 their money because they have $ 5 to $ 10 million worth 1056 00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:18.199 of property taxes to pay on. And they need to 1057 00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:20.820 get that money from somewhere else. And we're not going 1058 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.699 to give them $ 5 or $ 10 million a year in salary. 1059 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:27.179 that would actually probably be cheaper if we actually paid 1060 00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:30.989 them that much money to actually do good. Okay. You 1061 00:52:31.010 --> 00:52:33.710 probably get the right result. And we said, look, this 1062 00:52:33.789 --> 00:52:35.969 is the moment you send money. Any money going out 1063 00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:39.869 has to come from your check. That could be another thing. 1064 00:52:40.269 --> 00:52:41.929 You're paying for it. If you want to send money 1065 00:52:42.010 --> 00:52:44.719 to teach chimpanzees how to masturbate, it comes out of 1066 00:52:44.739 --> 00:52:47.760 your check. We're all in as long as it's going 1067 00:52:47.780 --> 00:52:50.170 to you, or you could keep it yourself. But it's, 1068 00:52:50.449 --> 00:52:52.349 you know, I'm of the same opinion with you. Nothing's 1069 00:52:52.369 --> 00:52:55.530 going to be fixed. We'll see who the next administration is, 1070 00:52:55.630 --> 00:52:59.989 but this whole, this whole system has to come to 1071 00:53:00.030 --> 00:53:03.289 an end. I'm talking about the system of corruption because 1072 00:53:03.329 --> 00:53:06.730 it's all about money. The money needs to be removed. 1073 00:53:07.329 --> 00:53:07.550 Right. 1074 00:53:07.969 --> 00:53:10.940 And other than that, that's all these people are interested in. 1075 00:53:10.969 --> 00:53:14.050 They see trillions of dollars coming in and they're like, 1076 00:53:14.150 --> 00:53:17.480 how do we get our hands on that money? And, and, 1077 00:53:18.530 --> 00:53:21.780 They're lawyers. They craft these things called NGOs. Did you 1078 00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:24.320 ever hear of an NGO before this crap? Okay. 1079 00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:27.219 Yeah, I have, but most people haven't. 1080 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:29.880 No, I never heard of one. And they created these 1081 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.460 NGOs to be able to give money away to people, 1082 00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:34.960 but ultimately funnel it back to themselves. And there's no 1083 00:53:35.019 --> 00:53:37.940 paper trail on any of it. And, you know, they're 1084 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.250 just as shocked as we are. You know, yeah, whatever. Okay. Meanwhile, 1085 00:53:42.289 --> 00:53:44.369 this is where all your campaign money was going. And 1086 00:53:44.429 --> 00:53:46.170 it's not just Democrats.

It's Republicans. 1087 00:53:46.670 --> 00:53:46.789 Mm-hmm. 1088 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:52.699 So to me, I'm frustrated now, as I always tell people, 1089 00:53:52.739 --> 00:53:54.400 the only way to solve this problem is either with 1090 00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:56.980 a civil war or, you know, you have to control 1091 00:53:57.019 --> 00:53:57.420 the press. 1092 00:53:58.260 --> 00:53:58.420 Right. 1093 00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:01.059 And I think to that point, kind of as we're 1094 00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:02.960 wrapping up, too, I think it brings it back to 1095 00:54:03.420 --> 00:54:07.179 the importance of the citizen journalists and people that are 1096 00:54:07.219 --> 00:54:09.400 like on your news and people that are on pickaxe 1097 00:54:09.860 --> 00:54:15.190 to hold people accountable and. no matter who the administration is. 1098 00:54:15.210 --> 00:54:18.210 And again, I think we can separate out whether you 1099 00:54:18.230 --> 00:54:20.190 want to vote Republican or not. And even if you 1100 00:54:20.210 --> 00:54:23.510 vote Republican, we still need to put pressure on the 1101 00:54:23.570 --> 00:54:27.739 administration and the different departments to actually root out the corruption, 1102 00:54:27.820 --> 00:54:30.239 to do the things that they promised that they were 1103 00:54:30.260 --> 00:54:33.219 going to do and expose things and reveal things when 1104 00:54:33.239 --> 00:54:35.099 they don't do it. That's a part of being a 1105 00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:37.679 part of the press. If all you're going to do 1106 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.730 is support your team when they get in, then you're 1107 00:54:40.789 --> 00:54:44.050 not actually in the media, you're actually a propagandist. And 1108 00:54:44.130 --> 00:54:46.050 what we need is we need to hold people accountable. 1109 00:54:46.070 --> 00:54:49.400 And that's where it's like, yeah, I voted Trump, I 1110 00:54:49.420 --> 00:54:52.800 supported getting Kash Patel in there as head of the FBI. 1111 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:55.340 But also, we need to hold them accountable to actually 1112 00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:56.980 do the things that they said that they were going 1113 00:54:57.019 --> 00:54:59.510 to do. Because otherwise, we're just we're never going to 1114 00:54:59.530 --> 00:55:01.650 get anything done. You know, and I think if we're 1115 00:55:01.769 --> 00:55:04.929 if we have a shot at holding anybody accountable and 1116 00:55:04.949 --> 00:55:08.119 putting pressure on it would be when Our side are 1117 00:55:08.139 --> 00:55:09.739 the ones in power because the Democrats, they're not going 1118 00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.699 to listen to us if we expose them. They're just 1119 00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:13.610 going to pretend like it's all fake news. But at 1120 00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:16.130 the very least, with Republicans, I feel like in general, 1121 00:55:16.429 --> 00:55:19.769 if we're conservative, we have somewhat of a voice if 1122 00:55:19.809 --> 00:55:22.130 we start putting pressure because then they're like, oh, well, 1123 00:55:22.170 --> 00:55:24.090 that's our voting base. We don't want to lose a 1124 00:55:24.170 --> 00:55:27.090 segment of that population. So I think this is where 1125 00:55:27.510 --> 00:55:30.889 the citizen journalists, I think, are so vitally important to 1126 00:55:30.929 --> 00:55:33.650 the future of the country. Because they're the ones that 1127 00:55:33.690 --> 00:55:35.989 they don't owe anything to advertisers. They don't owe anything 1128 00:55:36.030 --> 00:55:38.570 to a big mainstream media outlet or things like that. 1129 00:55:39.050 --> 00:55:42.139 They can actually pursue the truth and expose it wherever 1130 00:55:42.179 --> 00:55:42.500 it leads. 1131 00:55:42.500 --> 00:55:48.500 100%. Yeah. It's decentralizing the news business is what it's doing. 1132 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:51.500 So what I am is the aggregator of the content, right? 1133 00:55:51.739 --> 00:55:55.630 Form like a newspaper, sports, business, politics, entertainment. So it's 1134 00:55:55.699 --> 00:55:59.380 not just political dues. I have people coming for movie reviews, right? 1135 00:55:59.460 --> 00:56:01.699 I have people coming for faith-based stuff. I have people 1136 00:56:01.739 --> 00:56:03.639 that come here. We have a food and wine section. 1137 00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:08.059 I have creators that write about wine, travel, all kinds 1138 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:11.409 of content. So it brings them all in. It draws 1139 00:56:11.469 --> 00:56:14.809 an audience. And this is what I keep saying. The 1140 00:56:14.849 --> 00:56:18.530 next mainstream media is going to be a citizen-powered press. 1141 00:56:19.070 --> 00:56:20.730 And what we're going to do is put the power 1142 00:56:20.750 --> 00:56:22.550 of the press back in the hands of the people 1143 00:56:22.610 --> 00:56:25.989 where it belongs. And the only way to do that 1144 00:56:26.210 --> 00:56:28.610 is the model that we have, right? Because you could 1145 00:56:28.650 --> 00:56:31.750 have all different walks of life reporting. And remember this, 1146 00:56:31.829 --> 00:56:34.329 the Daily Newspaper, no matter whether you liked it or not, 1147 00:56:34.730 --> 00:56:37.730 that was always the 10,000-pound gorilla for years and years 1148 00:56:37.789 --> 00:56:42.280 and years. The Chicago Tribune did, I think, $ 800 million 1149 00:56:42.739 --> 00:56:44.960 in revenue in 2000. The LA Times and the New 1150 00:56:44.980 --> 00:56:47.780 York Times in 2000 did over a billion in revenue. 1151 00:56:48.980 --> 00:56:55.230 But every single... Magazine, radio station, newspaper combined into the 1152 00:56:55.269 --> 00:56:58.550 city of Chicago didn't even get to half of what 1153 00:56:58.570 --> 00:57:02.099 the Chicago Tribune was doing. So that model works because 1154 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:06.599 it was everything to everybody. I mean, it was sports, business, politics, entertainment. 1155

00:57:06.619 --> 00:57:11.010 So that's our model on steroids, except it now allows 1156 00:57:11.070 --> 00:57:14.489 the public to participate in the narrative, which is what 1157 00:57:14.530 --> 00:57:18.110 they want. And so as mainstream media dies, This is 1158 00:57:18.179 --> 00:57:19.849 what's going to take over. It's going to be a 1159 00:57:19.869 --> 00:57:23.210 complete citizen-powered press, but there's going to be no censorship. 1160 00:57:23.969 --> 00:57:29.090 So there's no gatekeepers. Did you know, Jeff, in newsrooms, 1161 00:57:29.849 --> 00:57:31.750 when you write a story, I mean, of course it's 1162 00:57:31.769 --> 00:57:33.960 going to go to the editor, but let's say you're 1163 00:57:33.980 --> 00:57:36.139 an investigative journalist. You've been working on a piece for 1164 00:57:36.179 --> 00:57:41.059 a year. You get this big story. It's absolutely factual. 1165 00:57:41.099 --> 00:57:43.519 You have all the documentation to prove it. Do you 1166 00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:46.519 know there's an editorial review board that could turn it 1167 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:51.250 down for any reason? I was told this by journalists. 1168 00:57:51.269 --> 00:57:54.110 I'm like, are you kidding? It could be because it's 1169 00:57:54.130 --> 00:57:56.760 somebody's brother or cousin or maybe it's a big advertiser 1170 00:57:56.800 --> 00:57:58.900 or something like that and they won't run the story. 1171 00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:04.280 Wouldn't that drive you nuts? Think about it. Somebody told 1172 00:58:04.340 --> 00:58:06.980 me that they can even change the story to make 1173 00:58:07.019 --> 00:58:09.420 the villain the good guy because they own the rights 1174 00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:11.639 to the story you wrote because you're on their payroll. 1175 00:58:12.739 --> 00:58:15.389 I went, you've got to be kidding me. Imagine a 1176 00:58:15.469 --> 00:58:19.360 day where we've got you know, a million news reporters 1177 00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:23.780 covering news all over the United States, but there's no gatekeepers. 1178 00:58:24.099 --> 00:58:28.050 Meaning when you write the story, it comes out exactly 1179 00:58:28.110 --> 00:58:30.849 as you wrote it. And there's, you're the review board, 1180 00:58:30.869 --> 00:58:33.769 you're the editor, you're the reporter, the editor, the review board. 1181 00:58:34.070 --> 00:58:36.630 So once you say it goes, it goes. And I 1182 00:58:36.670 --> 00:58:39.230 think this is what's going to start shedding light on things. 1183 00:58:39.449 --> 00:58:41.659 And this is what's ultimately going to fix the problem 1184 00:58:41.699 --> 00:58:43.400 because you can't put the genie back in the bottle 1185 00:58:43.460 --> 00:58:46.559 once it's out there. And the stories that gain traction, 1186 00:58:47.059 --> 00:58:49.679 are going to be the stuff that really matters in communities. 1187 00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:52.860 Those are going to be the ones, not the fluff stuff, 1188 00:58:52.940

--> 00:58:56.659 but some guy that made law firm partner at some 1189 00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:59.690 law firm. Nobody cares, but his wife and his mom 1190 00:58:59.750 --> 00:59:02.409 and dad. But you get what I'm saying. The stuff 1191 00:59:02.449 --> 00:59:04.630 that's going to gain traction is going to be the 1192 00:59:04.650 --> 00:59:07.909 stuff that's big in the community. So it's all heading 1193 00:59:07.969 --> 00:59:11.699 this way. And then we're what we're looking to do 1194 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:16.059 is bring on more content creators, more news reporters. And coincidentally, 1195 00:59:17.260 --> 00:59:21.960 with AI taking away all these jobs, all these creator-based 1196 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:26.739 platforms are growing because of it. YouTube went from 60 1197 00:59:26.739 --> 00:59:31.449 million to 100 million creators in two years. 115 million creators. 1198 00:59:31.809 --> 00:59:34.269 It's because nobody could get jobs, all these young kids. 1199 00:59:34.710 --> 00:59:37.050 So they're all trying to be on TikTok and Instagram, 1200 00:59:37.349 --> 00:59:39.809 trying to figure out a way to make money. So 1201 00:59:40.030 --> 00:59:44.780 this is just another creator-based platform, but it's local news. 1202 00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:47.920 There's your difference. So it's not you getting up and 1203 00:59:47.940 --> 00:59:51.099 telling jokes on TikTok. It's not the kind of product 1204 00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:54.840 it is. It's local news stories. So yeah, I think 1205 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:58.530 we have a shot. Simply because we want to make 1206 00:59:58.590 --> 01:00:01.610 sure this is what becomes the next mainstream media. I mean, 1207 01:00:01.650 --> 01:00:04.329 it is, but we also want to keep institutional money. 1208 01:00:04.210 --> 01:00:04.500 Out of it. 1209 01:00:04.530 --> 01:00:07.369 So, you know, you're you don't have any institutional money 1210 01:00:07.429 --> 01:00:10.960 in your deal. I know you don't. Yep. And that 1211 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:14.000 therein lies not you, but it lies the problem of 1212 01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:16.780 the mainstream media is owned by six institutions. It's very 1213 01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:20.380 simple to control six people in the in the, you know, 1214 01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:23.389 let's say in 1990, we had three options, you know, ABC, 1215 01:00:23.469 --> 01:00:27.719 NBC and CNN. Right. I mean, Fox came around in 96. 1216 01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:30.880 Today you got hundreds of millions of options from, you know, 1217 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:34.619 radio to, you know, I'm talking about audio video. You 1218 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.480 got all these different creators that you can get news 1219 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.440 for them. So there's literally, when I say hundreds of millions, 1220 01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:43.480 it's not even a joke. Right. Yeah. So at the 1221 01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:46.550 end of the day, I think this is the only 1222 01:00:46.610 --> 01:00:49.530 way to solve the problem is to, is to become 1223 01:00:49.789 --> 01:00:54.309 the next mainstream media and have the people own the product. So, 1224 01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:57.699 I'm looking for creators. How long do we have, by 1225 01:00:57.719 --> 01:00:59.880 the way? Anytime. 1226 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:03.900 We'll wrap up anytime. Yeah, there's no rush. You're good 1227 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:06.320 to go. Because I wanted you to be able to 1228 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:09.659 give a pitch for your news, for readers and users 1229 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:10.599 and all that kind of stuff too. 1230 01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:15.800 Yeah. So for the audience, we're a hyper-local news platform. 1231 01:01:16.300 --> 01:01:18.780 Our website looks like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, 1232 01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:21.360 Miami Herald. We're in every city in the United States. 1233 01:01:22.739 --> 01:01:25.400 We have a monetization model for creators where they could 1234 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:28.199 create accounts, submit content, make money off of it. Then 1235 01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:30.320 a self-service ad platform where somebody could buy an ad, 1236 01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:32.380 target it to one zip code and everywhere in between. 1237 01:01:32.380 --> 01:01:36.309 20 years ago, this model would have been new. But 1238 01:01:36.369 --> 01:01:41.389 because of YouTube and all the other models, Rumble, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, 1239 01:01:41.969 --> 01:01:45.429 everybody kind of understands platforms. So at the end of 1240 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:50.789 the day, everything will become creator-based platform. Everything. And the 1241 01:01:50.849 --> 01:01:53.969 reason is they imagine having a million people, 100 million 1242 01:01:54.010 --> 01:01:57.380 people having channels on your network. They're all promoting their 1243 01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:01.219 own content. You're just hosting it. That's what attracts the eyeballs. 1244 01:02:01.619 --> 01:02:04.280 So having a single Web site for like, you know, 1245 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:07.719 the Miami or for Schaumburg, Illinois, is never going to 1246 01:02:07.780 --> 01:02:11.309 cut it because there's no scale to it. So most 1247 01:02:11.449 --> 01:02:14.849 likely what I do will become the next mainstream media, 1248 01:02:15.110 --> 01:02:17.989 but it'll most likely be global. It'll be a global 1249 01:02:18.030 --> 01:02:20.099 media giant because for us to open up Canada is 1250 01:02:20.139 --> 01:02:21.980 just a zip code table. The UK is just a 1251 01:02:22.019 --> 01:02:26.440 zip code table. But what we're doing normally, companies like 1252 01:02:26.500 --> 01:02:30.340 this get funded through Silicon Valley, like what you're doing. 1253 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.199 I mean, think about it. Twitter got funded from Google, Amazon, Netflix, eBay. 1254 01:02:34.219 --> 01:02:37.920 Venture capitalists. Yeah. So it's all venture money. And the

1255 01:02:38.059 --> 01:02:41.940 issue with venture money is, you know, and I, you know, 1256 01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:43.440 I don't know if I told you, but I got 1257 01:02:43.500 --> 01:02:47.099 an email last week from a venture fund out of Switzerland. 1258 01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:51.199 that understood this thing. I've never had a conversation. I never, 1259 01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:53.260 I never reached out to them. I don't reach out 1260 01:02:53.300 --> 01:02:56.340 to institutional money and they were interested in making an 1261 01:02:56.380 --> 01:02:58.889 investment in the company. And I told them we're too 1262 01:02:58.929 --> 01:03:00.469 early stage. The funny part is if you go to 1263 01:03:00.510 --> 01:03:04.190 their website, they're an early stage venture fund. So it's like, 1264 01:03:04.210 --> 01:03:06.650 they probably went, what is he an idiot? Um, but 1265 01:03:06.730 --> 01:03:09.630 here's the reason why it's because what will happen is 1266 01:03:10.659 --> 01:03:13.139 they're not interested in political control. That that's not what 1267 01:03:13.179 --> 01:03:15.179 they're doing. They're just thinking this is a good idea. 1268 01:03:15.699 --> 01:03:18.800 And I'm, and I'm, And I'm happy because it's one thing, Jeff, 1269 01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:20.719 if you think it's a good idea, but these are pros. 1270 01:03:21.260 --> 01:03:23.849 And every one of these companies, these all venture funds, 1271 01:03:24.610 --> 01:03:27.329 all the owners have had exits on their own. So 1272 01:03:27.369 --> 01:03:29.510 these guys know what the hell they're doing. And when 1273 01:03:29.550 --> 01:03:32.230 they step in and they like something and they apply 1274 01:03:32.269 --> 01:03:34.750 the money to it, then they start bringing in their friends. 1275 01:03:34.869 --> 01:03:38.989 But here's how it works. They're going to want an 1276 01:03:39.170 --> 01:03:42.429 equity stake that's controlled. And the reason is, and I'm 1277 01:03:42.449 --> 01:03:44.030 just going to tell you the reason why, because I've 1278 01:03:44.070 --> 01:03:47.639 seen it many times. typically the guy who's the founder 1279 01:03:47.659 --> 01:03:51.460 of the company can't execute. And so imagine you come 1280 01:03:51.500 --> 01:03:54.940 in and you give me $ 10 million and I'm just 1281 01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:57.480 screwing things up, but I own the control so you 1282 01:03:57.519 --> 01:03:59.760 can't get rid of me. And you're like, well, but 1283 01:03:59.840 --> 01:04:02.760 you're going to waste all my money, right? So it 1284 01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:05.219 makes logical sense to me that they would have the 1285 01:04:05.260 --> 01:04:06.820 ability to be able to get rid of you. And 1286 01:04:06.860 --> 01:04:10.469 so then what they do is once you start scaling up, 1287 01:04:11.190 --> 01:04:14.389 they bring in their friends at higher valuations. And so 1288 01:04:14.989 --> 01:04:16.789 Once you get it to the point, then they dress 1289 01:04:16.829 --> 01:04:18.469 these things up for the dance and then they take 1290 01:04:18.489 --> 01:04:20.840 them public. And that's where the big exits are. And 1291 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:22.969 that's where the public gets to get in. 1292 01:04:23.460 --> 01:04:23.659 Right. 1293 01:04:23.940 --> 01:04:27.820 So by the time that happens, Jeff, I'll probably own 5%. 1294 01:04:27.820 --> 01:04:30.539 So the reason that I told them, I didn't turn 1295 01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:32.360 them down. I just said, look, we're too early stage. 1296 01:04:32.409 --> 01:04:34.489 I'd like to revisit this, you know, down the road. 1297 01:04:35.010 --> 01:04:37.409 We'll see if it's even open today. It won't matter. But, 1298 01:04:37.989 --> 01:04:40.329 you know, our creator base, I want to get that 1299 01:04:40.550 --> 01:04:43.780 to 50,000 because I told you the other day, You 1300 01:04:43.820 --> 01:04:46.829 have a platform. Your creators have a value of about 100. 1301 01:04:46.829 --> 01:04:53.050 Just take the 600,000 creators on X and what do 1302 01:04:53.070 --> 01:04:54.329 you pay for it? 46 billion? 1303 01:04:54.730 --> 01:04:55.769 Yeah, something like that. 1304 01:04:55.789 --> 01:04:58.489 Divide 600 million into 46 billion. That'll give you the number. 1305 01:04:59.170 --> 01:05:01.369 Facebook has 2 billion. I have no idea what the 1306 01:05:01.409 --> 01:05:03.250 value of Facebook is because it's part of meta. I 1307 01:05:03.269 --> 01:05:06.179 don't know what the market cap is. But Rumble's easy 1308 01:05:06.429 --> 01:05:08.860 because it's got a $ 2. 8 billion market cap and it's 1309 01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:11.599 got a quarter million creators. So that would make it 1310 01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:15.449 worth about 11,000 creators. Say 10, you know, it doesn't matter. 1311 01:05:15.530 --> 01:05:17.449 And YouTube is the same because they have a trillion 1312 01:05:17.469 --> 01:05:19.510 dollar value and a hundred million creators. So if you 1313 01:05:19.530 --> 01:05:21.789 take a hundred million into a trillion, it's 10,000 creator. 1314 01:05:22.449 --> 01:05:25.110 So we want to get this thing. And by the way, 1315 01:05:25.150 --> 01:05:27.369 you're always going to have more to me. I can 1316 01:05:27.389 --> 01:05:30.329 never beat you because everybody can have an X account 1317 01:05:30.489 --> 01:05:34.469 or a pick X account, but not everybody's a news reporter. 1318 01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:38.300 Like for every one news reporter, you're probably a 500 people, right? 1319 01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:40.239 Or a thousand, you know, so there's never going to 1320 01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:43.730 always be way less. But that's how these digital properties 1321 01:05:43.789 --> 01:05:45.909 are valued. So what I want to do is as 1322 01:05:45.949 --> 01:05:49.199 you scale this up, you get it to the point 1323 01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:51.500 where you've got 100,000 creators. And now if you go 1324 01:05:51.519

--> 01:05:53.900 to raise 100 million, you have a billion dollar value. 1325 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:54.800 Right. 1326 01:05:55.139 --> 01:05:58.780 So we're raising capital doing something called an equity crowdfund, 1327 01:05:59.219 --> 01:06:03.480 which allows the public to be able to interact, not 1328 01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:07.869 just institutional money and accredited investors. So basically, I'm open 1329 01:06:07.889 --> 01:06:11.380 to everybody. And for people that are interested, you know, 1330 01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:13.260 you could go to yournews.com and go down to the 1331 01:06:13.300 --> 01:06:15.199 bottom and there's a little button that says invest. It'll 1332 01:06:15.219 --> 01:06:17.019 take you to our equity crowdfund page. It's run by 1333 01:06:17.059 --> 01:06:20.179 a broker dealer. You can spend $ 300 or anywhere in between. 1334 01:06:20.550 --> 01:06:23.110 This is how we capitalize the company to scale this thing. 1335 01:06:23.889 --> 01:06:25.610 And then there's also a way if you want to 1336 01:06:25.630 --> 01:06:27.889 be a news reporter, it'll say become a citizen journalist. 1337 01:06:27.909 --> 01:06:29.789 You could, you know, read about it, listen to some 1338 01:06:29.809 --> 01:06:32.849 videos and you can sign up, but it's your company, 1339 01:06:33.110 --> 01:06:35.210 you know, you're in a, you're in a unique situation 1340 01:06:35.250 --> 01:06:37.449 because you have funding for yours. So it's kind of, 1341 01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:40.989 it's kind of nice, but, There was a day where 1342 01:06:41.030 --> 01:06:43.550 you had your idea on a napkin, so to speak, right? 1343 01:06:43.630 --> 01:06:47.130 It was like, hey, I got this idea. And the 1344 01:06:47.190 --> 01:06:50.309 value of that idea was going to be less than 1345 01:06:50.349 --> 01:06:52.809 where it is today because it's operating, right? So if 1346 01:06:52.829 --> 01:06:55.340 you came to me and said, I need money for this. 1347 01:06:55.409 --> 01:06:56.659 And I say, well, I'll give you a half a 1348 01:06:56.679 --> 01:07:01.119 million dollars, but I want half the company. There's huge risk. Huge. Okay. 1349 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:04.079 But by the time you get it operating and you're 1350 01:07:04.099 --> 01:07:08.190 starting to move, the risk gets less. So- as you, 1351 01:07:08.829 --> 01:07:10.829 this is just for the audience, for any company, whether 1352 01:07:10.849 --> 01:07:13.469 it's Jeff's or mine or any other company, as the 1353 01:07:13.510 --> 01:07:16.329 further you get down the road, the less risk there is, 1354 01:07:16.889 --> 01:07:19.429 the more valid, but then the higher you pay. So 1355 01:07:19.769 --> 01:07:22.500 the napkin price was a great deal when you look back, 1356 01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:24.679 but most of them fail. But then by the time 1357 01:07:24.699 --> 01:07:27.559 you got 100,000 creators, you're going, well, yours is worth 1358 01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:30.579 a billion bucks. Well, what could I have bought in 1359 01:07:30.619 --> 01:07:33.199 back here? Well, we can't go back in time. So 1360 01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:36.630 I always tell people, you know, you got to ask yourself, 1361 01:07:36.690 --> 01:07:39.010 is there a market for what I do? And then 1362 01:07:39.050 --> 01:07:41.809 the second thing would be, if you fast forward five years, 1363 01:07:41.869 --> 01:07:44.400 are we going to have less reporters or more? And 1364 01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:47.199 that's the easiest way. So if you think there's going 1365 01:07:47.219 --> 01:07:48.860 to be more than you don't want to buy in 1366 01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:50.900 when there's 50,000 creators, that gives me a half a 1367 01:07:50.940 --> 01:07:53.239 million dollar market cap, half a billion, sorry. 1368 01:07:53.579 --> 01:07:53.760 Right. 1369 01:07:54.099 --> 01:07:56.750 So anyway, that's it. Yep. 1370 01:07:56.829 --> 01:07:59.269 No, no, totally. So I'll have the link in the 1371 01:07:59.309 --> 01:08:00.730 show notes. People can just click in there to make 1372 01:08:00.750 --> 01:08:02.949 sure you guys are going to check out yournews.com. You 1373 01:08:02.969 --> 01:08:05.670 guys can also follow your news on Pickaxe as well. 1374 01:08:05.710 --> 01:08:07.050 Just go to at your news. You guys can do 1375 01:08:07.070 --> 01:08:09.949 that as well. But Sam, I appreciate you coming on. 1376 01:08:09.969 --> 01:08:11.630 It's a blast talking to you. We'll definitely have you 1377 01:08:11.650 --> 01:08:14.329 back on again on the regular because there's always so 1378 01:08:14.369 --> 01:08:17.210 much going on in the news. And again, you've got 1379 01:08:17.489 --> 01:08:20.060 all the news articles right there on your website. So 1380 01:08:21.069 --> 01:08:21.539 it's crazy. 1381 01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.739 We're now probably at 11,000 now. I think we're doing 1382 01:08:24.779 --> 01:08:27.119 a month of news stories coming in, which is nuts. 1383 01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:29.600 It's like I'm a mini newsroom with all this content 1384 01:08:29.619 --> 01:08:32.189 flowing in. So yeah, I mean, Jeff, if you want 1385 01:08:32.210 --> 01:08:33.550 me on once a month, I mean, I'm on a 1386 01:08:33.569 --> 01:08:36.329 lot of shows. I'd be happy to jump on. Absolutely. Totally. 1387 01:08:36.390 --> 01:08:39.300 Yeah. We'll definitely keep in touch and we'll get you 1388 01:08:39.310 --> 01:08:41.399 back on really soon. But I appreciate you coming on 1389 01:08:41.579 --> 01:08:43.779 and I highly encourage everybody to go check out yournews.com. 1390 01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:45.560 And if you guys are a creator, set up an 1391 01:08:45.579 --> 01:08:46.939 account and you guys can start posting your articles and 1392 01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:48.939 stuff over there. So definitely, definitely do that. But I 1393 01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:49.619 appreciate you coming on. 1394 01:08:50.180 --> 01:08:51.600 Thank you, Jeff. Good to see you. 1395 01:08:51.899 --> 01:08:54.970 You as well. Everybody else as well. Again, go to 1396 01:08:55.250 --> 01:08:58.050 your news.com. You guys can also follow them on pickaxe 1397 01:08:58.449 --> 01:09:00.609 at your news. And then as well, make sure you 1398 01:09:00.630 --> 01:09:02.130 guys are subscribing to this show. 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