WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.919 I've been thinking a lot more lately about the idea 2 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:09.919 of the media just not really being curious about something 3 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:16.160 and that just being a major factor in the bias 4 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.199 with which they report on the news. Kind of reminds 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:23.480 me of the Jerry Seinfeld joke that he's like, Oh, wow, 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:25.879 you just look at the newspaper and it really makes 7 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.760 you think, if only one more thing had happened the 8 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.679 day before, they had been able to fit all of 9 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.880 the news of the day just so just squarely on 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.719 the newspaper, just exactly there. If one more thing had happened, 11 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.799 they'd have to print another page. Which makes the point 12 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.560 the media selects what they're going to talk about. Local newspapers, 13 00:00:51.920 --> 00:01:01.240 local television stations, national newspapers, national television news, cable news, 14 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.799 et cetera. They all have a kind of selection, and 15 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.079 there is that This is part of the job of 16 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.680 editors and folks who work in newspapers is to assign 17 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:16.400 reporters to work on stories. How hard are you going 18 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.280 to dig? And I think the bias that infects these 19 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.719 people because it's pervasive, it's all up and down the 20 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.239 chain of command within newspapers, media outlets, et cetera. I 21 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.680 think we're now finally getting to the point where some 22 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:31.319 of the people who own some of the newspapers, some 23 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.799 of the media outlets, are realizing, Hey, this hard left 24 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:40.560 anti Trump posture doesn't make sense. He got way more 25 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.719 votes than he got more votes than Kamala Harris did. 26 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.120 He beat her in the popular vote. Clearly we are 27 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.159 out of step with much of the country here, almost 28 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:58.120 a majority of the country. Now, let me give you 29 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:03.359 a tale of two media stories to show you the 30 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:10.000 lack of interest, the lack of interest that the media 31 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:13.879 has in some things, and the extreme degree of interest 32 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:19.560 the media has in other things. Pete hag Seth versus 33 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:29.479 the young man who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh. So 34 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.080 some of you may recall barely. Maybe I don't know 35 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.919 if you actually do recall, because it just got buried 36 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:41.759 as a story. Nobody talked about it. In the spring 37 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:48.840 of twenty twenty two, the draft opinion, a draft opinion 38 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:52.560 of the US Supreme Court got leaked to the press. 39 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.520 It was a leaked draft opinion of what looked like 40 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:00.000 was going to be the majority opinion in the dis 41 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.479 versus Jackson Women's Health Organization case. This was the case 42 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.199 that was going to overturn Robie Wade Dobbs is going 43 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.280 to go down as one of the most significant Supreme 44 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:17.599 Court decisions in American history. Its draft decision got leaked 45 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:24.759 to the press, which immediately ramped up public scrutiny, focus 46 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.000 and anger on the political left against the conservative justices 47 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:33.240 on the Supreme Court, who it was assumed were supporting it. 48 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.639 Between the release of the draft document and the actual 49 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:48.680 issuing of the final Supreme Court decision, which I believe 50 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:54.120 happened on June twenty fourth of twenty twenty two, a 51 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.879 man was arrested at the home of Supreme Court Justice 52 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:03.120 Brett Kavanaugh. He had a gun, he had zip ties, 53 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.960 he had rope, and after he was arrested, he told 54 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:10.280 the cops straight up, my goal was to murder Brett 55 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:16.839 Kavanaugh and then kill myself, maybe to kill two other 56 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:21.240 conservative justices. But this guy wasn't a dummy. He did 57 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.839 the math. He knew how this would work if Brett 58 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.480 Kavanaugh had been murdered before the final issuing of the 59 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.279 Dobs ruling, which is where we That was temporarily where 60 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.240 we were. It was before the June twenty fourth release 61 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.480 of the document. After the release of the draft. If 62 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.720 Brett Kavanaugh had been murdered, the Conservatives wouldn't have had 63 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:51.519 five justices supporting that what became the majority decision. You 64 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:58.680 would have only had four, and then Justice Roberts's mealy 65 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.240 mouthed middle of the road concurrence would have been the 66 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:13.160 controlling ruling if Kavanaugh had died. So this guy that 67 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.399 you had the leak of the Supreme Court majority decision, 68 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.240 protesters were protesting outside of Supreme Court Justices houses, this 69 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:29.040 which President Biden and his Attorney General refused to enforce 70 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.839 the law that says people can't do that outside of 71 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:39.360 Supreme Court Justices houses. The draft decision was out there. 72 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.839 A guy was motivated by that draft decision to murder 73 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.319 a Supreme Court justice to alter the outcome of what 74 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.240 everyone saw was going to be one of the most 75 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:53.439 monumentally important cases in the Supreme Court history. How much 76 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.920 have you heard about that story about that individual person 77 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.439 who tried to kill Brett Cavan. I honestly still don't 78 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.519 know his name. I have to like look up his 79 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.399 name in order to I have to like look up 80 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:08.920 his name in order to do a story about it. 81 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:19.000 We haven't heard anything about it for two years. We're 82 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.279 now starting to hear some stuff about it. There's some 83 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.199 stuff happening in the criminal trial. They're trying to his attorneys. 84 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.120 He's got federal public defenders representing him because I believe 85 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.279 it happened in the District of Columbia, or maybe the 86 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.360 FEDS are prosecuting Actually, I'm not sure if it happened 87 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:38.120 in DC or in either Virginia or Maryland. The Feds 88 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.199 are prosecuting it because he's trying to assassinate a Supreme 89 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:45.759 Court justice. They're trying to determine if his admissions to 90 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.040 the cops should be entered into evidence against him. They're 91 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:52.000 trying to determine if he is mentally competent to stand trial. 92 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:58.439 But you've heard nothing about it. Let me just guarantee 93 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:03.160 you if everything were reversed, If the Supreme Court, if 94 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:07.040 a draft decision from the Court had been issued indicating 95 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:12.040 that Rob Wade was going to be affirmed barely, and 96 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:16.040 some nutjob pro lifer had been arrested at the home 97 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.360 of Sonya Soda Mayor with the idea that he was 98 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.160 going to murder her, it would have been the trial 99 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.120 of the Center and the certainly the trial of the decade. 100 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.360 Everyone would know that guy's name, and it would have 101 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:37.600 become a universal referendum on the whole pro life movement. 102 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.560 Does the pro life movement of a violence problem? Every 103 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:43.519 pro lifer I would have been called that, do you 104 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.879 condemn the actions of this man who wanted to assassinate 105 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.040 Sonya Soda mayor every pro lifer would have been called 106 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.439 on to condemn this person's actions with this sort of 107 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.879 tone of like, hey, so when did you start beating 108 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:02.519 your wife? Assuming that we all like violence. It would 109 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:04.399 have been the trial of the century. But the media 110 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.040 is just not interested in it because it was from 111 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.519 their side. It was from the liberal side. It was 112 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:14.920 someone obviously motivated by liberal politics wanting to assassinate a 113 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.759 Supreme Court justice, and they just don't care. We got 114 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.920 basically no coverage of this guy who tried to assassinate 115 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:30.000 Breck Kavanaugh, and no further focus on the person who 116 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:36.039 leaked that draft in the Dobbs case back in the 117 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:40.799 spring of twenty twenty two, which obviously put the justices 118 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.360 of the Supreme Court at risk. I think the leaking 119 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:48.879 of that decision was deliberately done to try to intimidate 120 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.639 the justices in the majority to not rule as they 121 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:56.360 were planning to. It was a clearly politically calculated move. 122 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.759 Kui bono, who benefited? Who would have benefited from it? 123 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.120 Clearly the left would have benefited. The whole point of 124 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:08.960 it was to try to threaten, intimidate, put pressure on 125 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.200 the Conservatives in the majority of that decision, and it 126 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.960 put a target on their back because people realized, Hey, 127 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.480 if we murder a couple of these Supreme Court justices, 128 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.080 it can flip the outcome of the decision. And that's 129 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:26.039 precisely what almost happened to Brett Kavanaugh. A guy was 130 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.720 found right outside of his house with a gun in 131 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:42.159 zip ties. Now no focus on the Supreme Court draft 132 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.919 document leaker. They didn't identify the person. The Supreme Court 133 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.720 had their the Marshal of the Supreme Court, who's like 134 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.480 in charge of like security security guard work at the 135 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.080 Supreme Court building. Oh, she's in charge of it. No, 136 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:01.039 have the whole FBI investigated. It's amazing to me in 137 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.000 a town. One of the things I kind of picked 138 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.919 up on lately is how small of a town DC 139 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:15.360 is in some ways, Like I says, some reporter saying something, 140 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.960 this female reporter talking about a news anchor, this conservative 141 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.720 female reporter, and it was this really sort of mean 142 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.120 girl's ish comment about this one prominent news anchor and 143 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.240 how vain he is because he goes to her gym 144 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.559 and she sees and oh, he's always doing that. He's everyone. 145 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.799 He's notorious at our gym for doing blah blah blah 146 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:43.679 bla blah. So like this prominent national figure that everyone 147 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.000 knows about because they go to the same gym or something. 148 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:53.399 DC in the politics and media world is really a 149 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:59.559 pretty darn small town people know people. The idea that 150 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:05.799 the Meatia couldn't find the Supreme Court leaker find it 151 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.200 hard to believe. I really find it hard to believe. 152 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:14.399 I think they didn't want to find the leaker. That's 153 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.120 what I think. I think if the media had real 154 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:19.879 interest in it, they would have found the leaker. And 155 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.200 I say this because of the other story that I 156 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:28.279 want to contrast this with, where the media is very interested. 157 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:34.600 Pete hag Seth, now Pete hag Seth, as you know, 158 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.639 is Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Defense. His 159 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:47.679 initial hearings for his initial confirmation hearings actually started today 160 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.799 the Senate has taken up the Senate now that it 161 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:58.600 is under Republican control following January third. On January third, 162 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.600 new members of the Senate which worn in the new 163 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:05.159 Republican majority, was sworn in. So they're having their initial 164 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:08.039 confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth. As some of you may 165 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.639 may know, I think it was in twenty nineteen, Pete 166 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.279 Hegseth spoke for an event in Monterey. It was a 167 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:23.480 California Republican Women event, and the story is that he 168 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.279 met a woman at a bar. He slept with her. 169 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:32.360 She later tried to claim that it was sexual assault. 170 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:38.200 The Monterey police investigated it. They did not arrest mister Hegseth. 171 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.159 They did not charge mister Hegseath. They did not find 172 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:45.000 any evidence. They decided not to pursue any criminal action 173 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:50.399 against mister Hegseth. Now, I'll admit the story does not 174 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.840 make me like Pete Hegseth. He's got a sketchy personal life. 175 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.720 I like his attitude towards the military. I think it's 176 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.600 an interesting it's an interesting pick. I don't think it's 177 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.200 a bad pick. My caveat is his personal life is 178 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:08.960 kind of a train wreck, and frankly, I think that 179 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.440 can become a national security issue when you're talking about, 180 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.799 you know, the guy cheated on like two or three wives, 181 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:17.080 When you're talking about someone who's gonna be entrusted with 182 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:22.600 highly sensitive classified military information, I don't know, some pretty 183 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:27.799 young Russian thing in a skirt goes by, and you know, 184 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:33.600 it's not like our adversaries would be above doing something 185 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:41.399 like that. It's been known to happen in world history. Nonetheless, 186 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.440 I if you would, if we could completely put Hexas's 187 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.879 personal life to the side, I think he's an interesting pick. 188 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.799 Let me tell you how interested the media has been 189 00:13:54.799 --> 00:14:02.320 in that Monterey twenty nineteen event. Reporters from The Washington Post, 190 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:06.240 New York Times, et cetera have been crawling over that story. 191 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:12.360 Diane Pearce, who's a Clovis City council member, posted something 192 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.639 to her Facebook page to say, I have been contacted 193 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:19.039 multiple multiple times by reporters from various outlets. So I'm 194 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.039 just going to state here for the record what I know. 195 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.000 Because I was at that twenty nineteen Republican Women thing. 196 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.799 I didn't see Pete Haggseeth do anything. I didn't see 197 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.799 him do anything bad all. He gave a talk for 198 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:36.159 our event, and that was it. My own now, Diane 199 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:43.840 Pierce said that my own. I know other people who 200 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:52.600 were at this event, people who got contacted by national reporters, 201 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.879 people who are not prominent people. Somehow the national media 202 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.080 was able to get the guest list for this twenty 203 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:05.159 nineteen Republicans Women shindig. They were able to crawl through 204 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.639 that list and find all of the names of all 205 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.159 the individual attendees, whom clearly they called every single person, 206 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.799 crawling all over this twenty nineteen story about Pete hag 207 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:29.600 Seth and his this alleged sexual assault that the Monterey 208 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:33.879 Police thoroughly investigated and decided not to pursue, or as 209 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:39.559 thoroughly as one can, I suppose. They are clearly so 210 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.480 interested in this story they desperately want to make it 211 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.720 into a story, desperately, so desperately that they're calling up 212 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.519 random ladies from Fresno, California to try it. Hey, you 213 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.559 were at this event in twenty nineteen, five years ago, 214 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:02.320 six years ago, do you recall? You know? But we're 215 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.200 not covering at all the story of the guy who 216 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:09.080 almost assassinated Brett Kavanaugh. It takes us two full years 217 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:17.279 to confirm the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop. The bias 218 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.720 that the media has I think is most often being 219 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:26.440 exercised at this level of what are we interested in? 220 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:31.159 What are we going to cover? Because I think the 221 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:36.840 and sometimes I think it's honest. I think they honestly think, well, 222 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.519 no one wants to hear about that because they're liberals 223 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:44.879 and they don't want to hear about it. I think 224 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.679 sometimes it's honest, it's honest. I don't even know. Sometimes 225 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.639 that it's some sinister motive. I think somepot, some crackpot 226 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.799 thing a whole laptop allegedly full of Hunter Biden's emails 227 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.519 that Rudy Giuliani got to a well whatever, no one's 228 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.080 going to want to hear about that, and all these 229 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:09.680 intelligence operatives say it's probably Russian disinformation anyway, so they're 230 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.880 not interested in it. It just the compare and contrast 231 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:21.599 between how swarmingly interested the media is over this twenty 232 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:27.079 nineteen story about pig Pete hegseeth versus nobody cares about 233 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:31.559 the Supreme Court leaker. Nobody cares about the guy who 234 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.799 tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh no one cares that they 235 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:40.599 just don't cover it. When we return a local story 236 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.720 where maybe lack of interest led to a lack of 237 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.319 coverage bit Wise and the Fresno be next on the 238 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:53.920 John Girardi Show. My basic thesis is that media bias 239 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:57.759 is most often exercised in the form of what do 240 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.240 we actually cover? What stories do we actually cover or 241 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.960 not cover? And I think very often liberals just aren't 242 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.279 interested in covering Maybe it's a combo of genuine disinterests 243 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:13.799 versus sort of political motivations, et cetera. They're just not 244 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:19.279 really interested in covering stories that might be helpful to conservatives. 245 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.240 Helpful to conservatives are harmful to liberals. And I was 246 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:25.480 trying to think of a good example of this locally, 247 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.839 and I don't even know how much this cuts one 248 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.640 way or another conservative versus liberal. Although bit Wise did 249 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.519 kind of try to code itself as a liberal leaning entity. 250 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.039 They made a big deal about the fact that one 251 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:46.039 of their co CEOs, Irma Olgwin, was a lesbian woman, 252 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.799 and that she was the first lesbian CEO, one of 253 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:55.960 the first lesbian Latina CEOs, blah blah blah blah blah, 254 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.880 and that's the bit Wise story, the rise and fall 255 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:06.680 bit Wise as a prominent local company that got way 256 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.839 more press attention, way more press, adulation and love than 257 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:17.559 seemed fitting. And then it all came crashing down when 258 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.119 they all of a sudden they announced they were firing 259 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.799 a bunch of their employees, and all of a sudden 260 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.640 was like, Oh, they have no more money left, They're 261 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.359 going out of business. And then oh, they've builked investors 262 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:36.039 out of millions and millions, millions and millions of bit Wise, 263 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:42.000 and never I warned people don't invest in them millions 264 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.519 and millions of dollars. As Donald Trump would say, they 265 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.160 bilked their investors out of millions and millions of dollars, 266 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:54.559 and they might have given them false financials in order 267 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:56.799 to encourage them to invest those millions and millions of 268 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.920 dollars and to get loans and things like that. Kiddies, 269 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.240 let me give you some criminal law one on one. 270 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.119 There's a thing. There's a word we use for lying 271 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:11.880 to get money. Lying to get money is another way 272 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.480 of saying fraud. When you read the word fraud, just 273 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:22.759 think lying for money. And it's pretty good shorthand so. 274 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:29.119 And by the way, in retrospect, I'll admit, you know, 275 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.839 and it's not like I predicted it. I was not 276 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.799 on the radio here talking about how the other the 277 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.200 other shoes gonna drop on bit Wise. I'm not gonna 278 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.279 claim that I predicted it or anything because I didn't. 279 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.920 I do recall though, one time having a private conversation, 280 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.400 I gonna how much can I take credit for private 281 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.880 conversations with my buddy producer Colton A producer. Colton works 282 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.000 for me at Right to Life and he helps produce 283 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:56.039 Right to Life Radio, which you can listen to Saturday 284 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.359 mornings at nine. And he had started work for us 285 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:02.039 and he does kind of a lot of techy things 286 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:06.200 for us at Right to Life. And we were driving 287 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.480 doing some work stuff and we were driving by downtown 288 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:11.440 President we saw the sign for one of the Bitwise 289 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:16.279 buildings in downtown and I knew Colton was kind of 290 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:21.160 techie and he, you know, went to Presno State. I said, hey, Colton, 291 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:27.559 what does Bitwise do exactly? And he said, you know, 292 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.640 I applied for a job there and they were really 293 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.559 big like that, had a lot of presents for us at 294 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.839 Fresno State when I was there. I don't know what 295 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:40.960 they do, and that was that was always sort of 296 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.839 a sign to me of like, hmm, how solid is 297 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.960 this company that neither one of us actually knows what 298 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:49.359 they do? Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is 299 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:55.200 this bit Wise and the Fresno b literally shared the 300 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:05.920 same building, literally the same building, and the Fresno Bee 301 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:13.839 never found out anything bad about bit Wise until after 302 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:16.519 they announced they were firing all their staff, they were 303 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:23.640 laying off all the staff. So what is that? Is 304 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:29.519 that incompetence? Is that a lack of interest? Is it? 305 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:32.880 You know, there's bit Wise, this kind of liberal coded 306 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:35.440 kind of entity. Oh, we want to bring Silicon Valley 307 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.920 to the San Joaquin Valley, you know, oh tech jobs 308 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:41.599 and getting away from ag or. You know, they were 309 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.119 this sort of liberal coded sort of entity. So did 310 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:45.759 they just not want to look at bad things that 311 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:49.480 they knew about it? I mean, they're very eager to 312 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:53.799 go after you know, community Hospital or the asseemes or 313 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:58.039 whatever allegis shenanigans are happening. And with Clovis Community, you know, 314 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:03.359 I guess the asseemes are not as lib coded, but 315 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:06.039 we don't want to go after bit Why is this 316 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:09.160 company that's getting millions and millions of dollars in investment. 317 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:14.319 That's literally right here in your building, this building you share. 318 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:20.720 It's an interesting dynamic. Again. I just think the media 319 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.519 exercises its bias chiefly in the form of what they 320 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:31.240 are and aren't interested in. When we return the rise 321 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:36.519 of dumb online influencers on the right and ways they 322 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.720 are misleading young men next on the John Girardi Show. 323 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.000 One thing that's been kind of encouraging is to see 324 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:51.000 that Gen Z males shifting. They are shifting to the right. 325 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.279 And I've even noticed this kind of anecdotally, just I 326 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:58.039 do a lot of stuff with Right to Life of 327 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:03.079 talking to teenagers. I talk for a lot of church 328 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.640 confirmation programs and youth groups and things like that, all 329 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:10.559 up and down, all up and down the San Joaquin 330 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:15.839 Valley where it's usually some churches youth group or confirmation group, 331 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:17.519 and they have me come in as a guest speaker, 332 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.559 and I've seen more and more how open and accepting 333 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:25.359 young men are to some of our pro life messages. 334 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:31.839 Sort of anecdotally, but it's been sort of impressive how 335 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:36.960 the left has so often banked on younger people voting 336 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.599 for them and then those young people over time get 337 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:43.519 smarter and start actually paying taxes and realize, hey, maybe 338 00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:47.640 it's dumb to keep voting for Democrats, wasn't. It's a 339 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:50.000 quote assigned to Winston Churchill that if you're not a 340 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.799 communist when you're twenty, you have no heart, and if 341 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.000 you're not a conservative when you're fifty, you have no brain, 342 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:02.200 or something like that. So for young men to already 343 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:06.119 be kind of conservative leaning is sort of a head start. 344 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:11.480 And now it's contrasted with the overwhelming liberalism of young women, 345 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:15.839 which is kind of disturbing. It's sort of disturbing to 346 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:20.200 see this dichotomy between boys and girls in their or 347 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:25.480 young men and young women in their twenties to teens. Nonetheless, 348 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.079 one of the things I've seen with this sort of 349 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.119 right word shift among young men, which is not altogether positive, 350 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:36.079 and I think any of these kind of political and 351 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.920 social shifts and movements we have to be clear eyed 352 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:43.200 about and not just uncritically accept them as either great 353 00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:52.480 or terrible. Is the rise of the right wing media influencer. Now, 354 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.079 one of the interesting things about the right wing media 355 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.680 influencer is that they get sort of labeled as right 356 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:03.960 wing by the media and young men on the right 357 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:06.839 tend to like them, even though most of these people 358 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:10.039 were not very conservative to begin with. Like, people are 359 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:13.440 referring to Joe Rogan as a right wing podcaster or 360 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:16.200 a right wing media influencer or something like that because 361 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:22.559 he endorsed he ultimately wound up endorsing Donald Trump. Joe 362 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:27.799 Rogan was a Bernie Sanders supporter, like five minutes ago. Okay, 363 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:31.240 Joe Rogan was not a conservative. He's not He's not 364 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.079 very conservative on a lot of things. A lot of 365 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:39.559 these alleged right wing influencers are not even really all 366 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:47.960 that political some of them, and if they are political, 367 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:53.559 they're not even really necessarily that right wing. They have. 368 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:58.680 They were sort of disenchanted with Kamala Harris and he's 369 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:02.279 sort of fascinated by Donald Trump, but I wouldn't. I mean, like, 370 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.039 you have comedians who have podcasts like Theo Von. This 371 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:09.079 was like a kind of a significant moment in the campaign. 372 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:14.279 Theo Von, who's a comedian from Louisiana who's really funny. 373 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.880 He had Donald Trump on his podcast and it was 374 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.079 kind of a fascinating interview where he talked about his 375 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:25.240 prior addiction to cocaine and Trump was talking with him 376 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:28.359 about it because Trump Trump famously is something of a 377 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:33.480 teetootler and doesn't touch alcohol, in part because Trump's own 378 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.279 brother sort of destroyed his life through alcoholism, and so 379 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.000 Trump has it was actually this really almost kind of 380 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.519 a moving conversation that you would have never expected from 381 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.079 these two people. But theo Von's not like a political 382 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:52.279 guy at all. He's a comedian. And more and more 383 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:57.960 you're seeing conservatives going to these platforms that are not 384 00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:01.920 necessarily very right wing or very left wing, just because 385 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.200 that's where a lot of young men are. And you 386 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:08.920 saw Kamala Harris not go to them. Why because she 387 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:17.200 was surrounded by dumb, stupid moron millennial staffers who remember 388 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.359 that one time in two thousand and nine, Joe Rogan 389 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:26.200 said the N word, not because he was calling someone 390 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.920 an N word, but like saying it to discuss it 391 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:35.559 or something, And therefore Joe Rogan is a bad or. 392 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:39.799 Theovaughn said a bad word about in a comedy special 393 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:43.160 one time. So oh, we can't go on there. Because 394 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:47.559 Kamala Harris's campaign was full of the stupidest human beings imaginable, 395 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.160 who are so convinced that this and this is oh 396 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:57.200 my god, this is such a millennial versus Zoomer cultural difference. Okay, 397 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:03.039 Millennials being people born more or less from I don't know, 398 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.240 nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety five, I don't know, 399 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:10.319 nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety five ish, and then 400 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:16.440 Zoomers being people born after nineteen ninety five. Basically, the 401 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:22.640