Is the Culture Apocalypse Upon Us?

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So we are here to talk about Netflix and Warner Brothers. 00:01:35 Speaker 5: So Netflix Warner Brothers merger yet again. We've talked a bit about this, but you have a new piece in the American Conservative where you say it's quite the headline, it's Netflix swallowing Warner Brothers would create a monster. So that sounds like a fun discussion to have. So why don't we just give it to you? Why would you know you're from the Foundation for Freedom Online. How does giant media company buying other giant media company undermine freedom online? 00:02:05 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, first, there's a clear cut, you know, competition case to be made here, right, I mean, so Netflix is already the largest streaming platform in America with eighty one million subscribers. If this deal went through, there'd be almost fifty million subscribers, more than their closest competitor. So that's the clear cut and competition case. You know, concentration of markets always leads to declining consumer choice and declining consumer standards. So there's that, there's that issue, but there's also the workner's question. I mean, there's the there's the worker's question here as well. Most of Silicon Ballet, most social media platforms, I mean fairly sympathetic to where they've been going over the last three or four years. They've you know, they've gone they've done a little bit of a U turn, especially in case X on their twenty sixteen to twenty twenty four era censorship policies, they've rolled back some of those censorship policies. YouTube, for example, is on banned a number of prominent creators that had banned during the worst of censorship. So, you know, many of the social media platforms have rolled back their censorship policies, and in a way, social media, you know, it's inherently disrupted the legacy media. Right so even when even at the height of censorship, when trust and safety departments were banning conservative commentator is the logic of social media was to disrupt the legacy media, and the post war liberal order which it held up. Now, Netflix is not like that at all because there is studio first and a technology company second. So even though they're disrupting Hollywood, you could say that they've definitely done that because there are a studio first, they still have that ideological gatekeeping roles. In a way, they combine the worst elements of post twenty sixteen Silicon Valley wokeness with Hollywood liberalism to create something that's worse than both. So, I mean, I'm not sure why any Republican administration want to give a company like that more power. 00:04:01 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I like this line that you have in your piece where you just say what makes Netflix notable is not just its size, but its ideological consistency. So we saw that Microsoft retreated from its partnership with NewsGuard. They've cozied up to the administration. Meta Mark Zuckerberg came out and said, we're dialing back fact checking. We're not going to be the speech police. Google's cozied up to the administration. 00:04:24 Speaker 2: We've had all of this. 00:04:26 Speaker 5: But Netflix, it's sort of permanently twenty twenty over at Netflix. Would that be a fair description. 00:04:32 Speaker 4: That's a very fair description. You just have to look at read Hastings's reaction to Peter Teel backing Trump back in twenty sixteen. He sent him an angry email saying, I can't believe you did this. You have terrible judgment for backing Trump, where someone like Mark Zuckerberg was a lot more even handed, even when he was aligned himself personally against Trump. You know, he put out some statements saying he respected diversity of ideological viewpoints. So that really shows that Netflix is all a for progressive ideology. And that really makes sense when you consider that they're a combination of a Silicon Valley tech company where they're with a Hollywood studio. I mean, those are two two types of companies that tend to have very, very work liberal internal politics. 00:05:16 Speaker 2: So and you can see that. 00:05:17 Speaker 4: In the fact that that they put Susan Rice on their board in twenty eighteen and brought her back after herstint and the Biden administration. 00:05:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, so, Alan, I had like kind of more of a basic question actually, and you know, I was like, why do we even have why does this company even need to be sold? 00:05:33 Speaker 2: Right? 00:05:34 Speaker 3: I mean Warner Brothers Discovery, and this is by the way, it contains assets like CNN, TNT, HGTV, so it has the linear side, then they have this huge library of content. Is there an argument that this company doesn't have to be sold at all? Or is that off the table at this point. 00:05:55 Speaker 4: I'm not sure why it has to be sold either. It seems nothing more than a power grab I Netflix to increase its market share even further. I like I said, it's already the biggest, the biggest company in the market for streaming, and this would make them even huger. And like you said, it also gives them more power over the new cycle in addition to a monopoly on storytelling and entertainment franchises with their ownership off CNN. 00:06:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and so that's interesting. I kind of wonder what's going to happen with CNN in this this mad dash to sell. 00:06:29 Speaker 5: So I think something we've seen this where there's been pressure where they might just have to spin it off or change that or dial it back. And I do wonder if that could be the cheap way that they satisfy the administration. Is this administration, I think would be fair to say they President Trump. He's a very television age person. He watches a lot of TV. He's on TV all the time, he thinks a lot about Fox. CNN newsbacks all of those, right, and so he would view CNN as an extremely important part of this deal. Yet in the big picture, it is clear these networks are shrinking in importance, especially CNN. I think they're still dead lasting ratings and the future. Is the future in twenty years going to be defined by these news networks. I'm skeptical. It is going to be much more decentralized. There will be more options, there will be more independent shows, and I guess I would express the worry that if we just see this as a CNN thing, when it's really much more about who's controlling the commanding heights of popular culture. 00:07:30 Speaker 4: Yes, it's the cultural economy, and we shouldn't underestimate that the power of storytelling, especially it's influence over young people. And Netflix is already a meme. I mean, if you go on X and you search for, you know, Netflix adaptation, you'll see all sorts of jokes about, oh, Netflix is going to adapt Beowulf and then they're gonna make Beowulf into a black lesbian immediately. I mean you'll see jokes like that, and it's not exactly an exaggeration. These companies really are probably the most liberal and progressive companies in a today, and you know, do you really want to get companies like that more power? I think we should be thinking more about how we're gonna how we're going to disrupt, how the market can disrupt Hollywood, disrupt these big entertainment studios and the choke hold over culture and the gatekeeping role that they play over you know, the major the you know, the great Western stories that they all control through these IP controller contracts, and you know, I think there's there's a Silicon Valley definitely has a role there, especially with AI. But Netflix is definitely not not a disrupting agent like some other tech companies have been. 00:08:33 Speaker 3: So so to bring the audience up to speed here, so Netflix had the winning bid at seventy two billion dollars cash and stock deal for the studios, HBO, Max DC and gaming assets. So this excluded the cable networks in you know, the expectation is going to close in twelve to eighteen months, pending regulatory approval, which is a big, a big way, a big big thing there. So then Paramount comes in with a hostile counter on December eighth, so earlier this week, and all cash one hundred and eight point four billion dollar offer for all of W. Warner Brothers Discovery at thirty dollars per share. So, and this is backed by the Ellison Family, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and Middle Eastern Sovereign Funds. 00:09:18 Speaker 2: Oh boy. 00:09:19 Speaker 3: So it promises a faster closure and six billion dollars in synergies, but raises anti trust flags due to further is it better to have is it better to. 00:09:28 Speaker 5: Have the the Emir of Abu Dhabi? 00:09:31 Speaker 2: Oh hbo. 00:09:33 Speaker 3: I mean we probably wouldn't get as many like Trans probably woulds. You probably would and you know gay Trans, you know whatever, character adaptations. And so President Trump hasswayed in demanding CNN's sale in any deal. So to Blake's point, I mean, that's that's that's where we find ourselves. So you know, it was interesting as well. Allan went on the other side of this break. So ponder it. 00:09:56 Speaker 2: Now. 00:09:57 Speaker 3: You know, you got President Trump come in and kind of he took a shot at paramount CBS with sixty minutes in Leslie Stall and he's demanding an apology. So he's sort of applying pressure equally on both on both sides of this ledger. So it'll be interesting to see how this does play out. But I think your point is well made. The cultural implications are profound, and I think we would be I think we'd be wrong Blake to downplay too much the power of television and storytelling, even in twenty twenty five. 00:10:30 Speaker 6: This is Lane Schunberger, chief investment Officer and founding partner of y Refi. It has been an honor and a privilege to partner with Turning Point and for Charlie to endorse us. His endorsement means the world to us, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Turning Point for years to come. 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That is y r e f y dot com private student loan debt relief yrefight dot com. 00:11:39 Speaker 3: Allan explain what's going on. We've talked about it a little bit on the show already. What's going on with the DSA elon musk X versus Meta. It's over these blue check marks that you pay eight dollars a month to be verified on the platform. They're saying something was untoured there. But doesn't Meta also have paid verification? 00:11:59 Speaker 2: It does. 00:12:00 Speaker 4: And you know, the Just Puss and Contents of EU Digital Services Act is probably the most dangerous censorship law in the world when it comes to online speech. It was brought in a couple of years ago actually with the cooperation and encouragement of the Biden administration and the X has become was the first company to be investigated under the DSA, after you know, months and months of threats from European bureaucrats that actually began right after Must took over the company. So as soon as Must took over, Twitter turned it into X and started talking about how it's going to dismantle its internal censorship process. That's when the threats from European bureaucrats started. X became the first company to be investigated, first company to be fined. It's one hundred and twenty million dollar years. It's about one hundred and forty million dollars. And if X doesn't comply, then the EU has the power to impose periodic penalties of up to five percent of a company's average daily worldwide turnover for each day of non compliance. That's a massive, massive fine. No company can withstand that. And let's tell let's talk about why they were fined. So the EU points to three things. One of them, as you said, was subscriber check marks. That's the second two things. Number one not giving researches. Quote unquote researchers access to Twitter's ad repository, and not giving those same researchers access to Twitter's data, or land researchers to scrape the platform for data. Now, all three of those things are directly related to online censorship, even if they don't seem so at first. The subscriber check marks is how Twitter insulates itself from advertiser pressure because it gives us a stream of revenue that's not connected to ad revenue, so add boycotts have less of an impact. Number two getting making sure researchers have access to add repositories. That's so the so called disinformation researchers who are the foot soldiers of censorship. They're the ones who build lists of disfavored content, who build lists of speech to sensor, and lists of advertisers to pressure for boycott. That's how they operate. That's why they need access to excess ads and they can see what ads are running. And they also need access to Twitter's public data so they can analyze it at scale, figure out which uses are talking about the wrong things, which narratives are going viral. Without that access, disinformation researchers are blind, and disinformation researchers are essentially the Stazi of the worldwide censorship complex. It's been funded, that was funded by the previous administration and is funded by Western governments to control the. 00:14:30 Speaker 5: Internet exactly exactly do you know about Travis Brown Andrew no Yeah, you remember this story right right, Alam, that's this He's the Antifa aligned researcher. The German government funded this guy named Travis Brown to scrape the data off of I believe it was still it was Twitter at the time, off of Twitter and then x and then he would just give this to people aligned with Antifa, to docs people. So for example, I believe when libs of TikTok got Docks, it was within that. 00:15:00 Speaker 2: He got off the website. Andy was involved. 00:15:03 Speaker 5: Yeah, he either went after Andy Noah as well. And I think the post millennial I think all of them got targeted by this guy. And he's considered a researcher. And this is one of the researchers that the European Union is saying you need to give open access to data. I just think it's the most obvious thing in the world. What they want is to permanently use misinformation, hate speech. 00:15:26 Speaker 2: Safety like these. 00:15:27 Speaker 5: Are all the buzzwords that they've used, that they used in America before twenty twenty two to just justify unlimited censorship. 00:15:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Alan, I mean you do have an accent. We can hear you're not from here. You know, Musk is is calling. He's basically saying Western civilization can only be saved if the EU is abolished. I mean, these are musk Is not holding anything back. He is he is painting the EU as the chief villain in this story. Do you agree what can be reformed? I mean they seem wholly committed to censorship. 00:15:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean and Union has and European bureaucratic elites have the most incentive to shut down online free speech because little what's happening in their countries France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden. In all of these countries, young people are turning towards the populist right. And they're turning towards the populist right because they have free speech on the internet, because they can see information the challenges in mainstream narratives, and European elites know if they don't shut that down, it'll be over for them and the parties, the political parties that support them, they'll just melt away as young voters take over. 00:16:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you would know better than us. However, what's happening in these countries is truly remarkable, Alam, And I mean you're you're seeing the disintegration of the Christian West by mass migration, and young young Europeans are fed up with it as we are. Honestly, in the United States, however, we do have a more robust free speech culture. The whole world sort of looks to American conservatism to get their to get their talking points, to get their inspiration. Alan, we hope you'll join us again as this story unfolds. I know there's going to be more twists and turns in the coming weeks. So thank you so much, Alum. Thanks guys, connection, open dialogue. These are the things that build communities. Charlie Kirk and TikTok share in that knowledge. That's why TikTok has built a space where that kind of listening actually happens. People don't just post, they respond, They build on each other's ideas. You'll see a teacher simplifying a tough lesson so it finally clicks, or gardener sharing a trick that saved their crop. But what matters most is in the video. It's what comes next. Someone asking a question, someone else answering with a story of their own, and suddenly people who've never met become a community built on curiosity. 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So why don't you just describe what TPSA front Lines is as a starting point? 00:18:45 Speaker 7: Well, first and foremost, I mean Charlie was the original Frontlines reporter, right, I mean he was out there demonstrating what it's like to be a man in the arena, and we're just carrying on that mission, right, So out of the twenty twenty riots would b be l in and protests and all that stuff. A couple of years into it, Frontlines emerged as this like on the ground journalism wing of Turning Point USA, where we're going out and covering these protests, these riots, and we're getting this exclusive, raw, unfettered, on the ground footage and posting it directly to social media, so that way people are getting the real truth of what's happening out there instead of the mainstream media, which I was working for at the time, they would cut away from these protests and these riots and they would show the more peaceful time, mostly peaceful thought side of things. So you know, Frontlines was one of those gorilla journalism style teams that was giving you the raw access to what was happening on the ground. We had a show for a while. It was a half hour show where we would kind of break down the news through original reporting. But now we've grown into this nationwide network of videographers and journalists emphasizing truth, objectivity, and integrity, you know, through the turning point lens. And you know, our our videos are often going viral. We're picking up content that is the mainstream media is now forced to recognize because of its virality. And you know, it's just a really exciting time. We you know, we've obviously have made an impact. We've broken stories, We're we're getting we're expanding all the time. We're on campuses showing things that are happening, like for example, at Berkeley the other week. 00:20:31 Speaker 2: Well, let's let's give the audience. 00:20:33 Speaker 3: I mean, then if you're watching, you can see it, but let's give the audience a little taste of some of the what Frontlines does play. Cut to eighty two fault We're wrong, accepting your mind. 00:20:48 Speaker 8: God, Aileen, So, I think he's scared that we're trying to stop the fascism that he's trying to do. 00:20:56 Speaker 9: In America, the epidemic of left wing violence and antifa inspired tera has been escalating for nearly a decade. These are agitators. 00:21:21 Speaker 7: Hopey, pressure are on the way home, you transphobic. 00:21:25 Speaker 9: Anarchists, and they're paid. 00:21:36 Speaker 8: We're trying to prevent fashions and not bring it all. 00:21:44 Speaker 2: Standing be fight. 00:21:45 Speaker 8: Oh it's eight of the political alliance concern. 00:21:51 Speaker 5: Those on the right. 00:21:59 Speaker 8: It's never the crimes, it's it's always Republicans. 00:22:05 Speaker 9: They've used armed gangs to assault local police and cities nationwide. 00:22:10 Speaker 2: Well, they're going to fireworks and orders. They just put fireworks and we have to step back. We have to step back. 00:22:17 Speaker 9: And then they have attacked journalists reporting on their crimes. 00:22:24 Speaker 2: Come on, next sort has just been assaulted. 00:22:33 Speaker 8: Exploring yourself and join antifault wrong except the new numbers. 00:22:49 Speaker 9: Well, these are bad people. 00:22:50 Speaker 4: These are people that want to destroy our country. 00:22:52 Speaker 9: We're not gonna let it happen. 00:22:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, gosh, you guys put yourself in some pretty radical positions. Really truly. How many frontline reporters do we now have? 00:23:07 Speaker 7: So we have four full time reporters and then we have about five contractors. We're bringing on new people to just have boots on the ground in every part of the country. 00:23:17 Speaker 3: That's a lot, actually, that's a lot of that's a bit. I mean you worked at the Caller. I mean to have nine journalists out in the field doing independent journalism, original journalism, that's like starting to become. 00:23:30 Speaker 5: That's a significant operation. 00:23:31 Speaker 2: That is lots of stuff going on. 00:23:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, plus all the staff that you have, the camera crews, the travel, the I mean, it's a whole operation to make this happen. I want to give some of these guys a shout out because some of them have been on the show. Of course, you know, go ahead at two eighty nine. This is Choe Show, Jonathan Choeing. Tell us about Jonathan shoe. 00:23:53 Speaker 7: There's one in There's there's nobody like the Choe Show. I mean, this guy was in the mainstream media for decades and you know he was just too based for them, right, so he joined our team. He's he's in the Pacific northwest West. He covers a lot of Seattle and Portland stories. He's embedded with all these different underground networks where he's getting leads and you know, often breaking these stories again that nobody else has. He infiltrated two Antifa book fairs recently with one of our other contractors, Kevin Calb six seven. Kevin and they went and discovered where these militants plan and recruit for direct action, and it's at a book fair, right, and so like, for example, the riots that happened at UC Berkeley at our at our Turning Point event the other week, we we knew about that ahead of time because we got the flyers from the book fair. 00:24:48 Speaker 3: Well, and you need to give us a heads up so we can alert authorities too. Absolutely, that was the one note I got back from some of our friends was like, hey, next time, like this is going to happen, please let us know. 00:25:00 Speaker 2: But yeah, so let's hear it. Here's let's go. 00:25:02 Speaker 3: To everybody knows Savannah Hernandez two ninety one. Uh, Savannah Hernandez been on the show a number of times. But by the way, she's been on a lot of shows, she's become a huge star. Savannah Hernandez. There she is the great Savannah Hernanda. She's I would say, as far as on the ground immigration story, there's nobody better. 00:25:20 Speaker 7: Nope, and there's only one sav as well. I mean, sav happens to be in the right place at the right time every time she travels, which every time, which is which is ironic because her travel always gets disrupted so it just goes to show that, you know, there's something, there's something with her. But she's really good with covering immigration. You know, she's exposing black markets that have been on, you know, a thing for decades, but she's actually showing it in real time and showing how you know, when the police come or ice comes there, they have a really operate like a way of what do they do. They like pack everything up and then get out of the city situation really quickly. And then oftentimes some of these big city police departments they're complicit in it, like they'll turn away, and she's exposing that. 00:26:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. 00:26:09 Speaker 3: Julio Rosas two ninety So Julio's also with the Blaze. But Charlie and Julio knew each other from like the very beginning of Turning Point, so they go back at like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. 00:26:21 Speaker 7: Yeah, so Julio's a new addition to the team, and he was recently embedded with Board Patrol and Louisiana for Operation Catalua Crunch, where yeah, he got a couple of the arrest happening in real time some of the protesters. He was also in Mexico City recently covering that big gen Z protest riot that erupted, you know, against this younger generation that are fed up with the cartels down there. 00:26:48 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:26:49 Speaker 3: Well, and Julio was also I think he was in Kenosha for Kyle Rittenhouse. He was one of the journalists on the ground there. Yes, next step Bow. He's a newer addition to the team. So there's our graphic TPOSA welcomes content creator bo Diddle bo I remember when I saw some of his original content. And he kind of does man on the street stuff. He'll do protest stuff all, he'll do all the things, but he's really good at man on the street getting people's reaction to current events. 00:27:21 Speaker 7: Absolutely, he's he's a personality, right, I mean he's he's very observant and he loves asking questions. And that's one of the famous lines. When the left tries to deny him or block him, he'll just say, hey, I'm just out here asking questions. And he asked really objective questions. But he's just got that that personality that everybody can identify with. 00:27:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then here's Kaylen del Meta at two ninety three. So Kaylan is he's kind of an og. 00:27:50 Speaker 2: On the Frontline's crew. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, he has. 00:27:54 Speaker 3: The video with the most views of anybody besides Charlie, I would say, because Charlie had some like runaway ones, But besides Charlie, Kaelin had the most viral video. And I think it was a it was a sort of a pedophile like illegal illicit sex sting thing that he was involved in. 00:28:12 Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, he's he's got a couple. One of them involved a pedophile sting. Another one involved him. I mean it was in that video that we just showed where he got knocked in the face. 00:28:22 Speaker 2: Oh that's right, he got assaulted, yeah, and everywhere. 00:28:25 Speaker 7: Yeah, so that was another one that went viral. But he's been on the ground. I mean, he was out there in LA at the beginning of the summer. He got flash pained by one of the cops because he was just in the midst of all the chaos. 00:28:37 Speaker 3: A new addition that I think she's doing an amazing job. Two ninety four Monica page. She is our she's our White House reporter sort of DC. She covers everything over kind of in the the Acela Corridor for us. If you will she's doing a phenomenal job, and you'll she's asked the President a bunch of questions, but then she'll go out on the streets. 00:28:56 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:28:57 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean she's primarily at the White House, but you know, if there's a protest happening, or if there's like some sort of man on the street interview that we want her to get. We now have access to the Pentagon. We're part of the new Pentagon Press car Prenagon sorry, Pentagon Press Corps, and she will be covering that as well if there is any major breaking news happening. 00:29:15 Speaker 3: Last, but not least, and maybe I'm forgetting somebody, but two ninety five, this is Vicky Richter. 00:29:21 Speaker 2: She's new on the team, right. 00:29:22 Speaker 7: Yep, Vicky Richter. She specializes in international expose as we did a really good piece on Brazil and it's alleged CCP ties and this narco communism ties. And she's doing another one about the Islam takeover of the West. It's going to be coming out pretty soon, so stay tuned for that as well. 00:29:44 Speaker 3: Thanksgiving holds so many memories and I'm sure it's the same for you. Right now, there's a girl finding out she's pregnant in the next couple of weeks, She's going to make a decision, and whatever decision she makes will become her memory of this Thanksgiving for the rest. 00:29:58 Speaker 2: Of her life. 00:29:59 Speaker 3: What will she thankful for a year from now you, She'll be thankful that you introduced her to her baby by providing a free ultrasound, and she'll be thankful that she chose life as she prepares for her baby's first Thanksgiving. Take a stand for life by providing an ultrasound with preborn. 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I mean, you saw her running, you saw you can hear her breathing because she's just chasing down these Ice agents that are you know, going after these protesters and rioters that are disrupted. 00:31:32 Speaker 3: That National Guard I think that might have been that National Guard. Yes, but that yeah, that's I mean, that was a wild scene. And by the way, you saw Nick Sorder getting assaulted, Kaylon getting assaulted. I mean, these reporters are putting themselves in harrowing positions to cover these stories that matter. I mean, the amount of courage they display on a daily basis is truly remarkable. And uh, we are very proud and grateful to them. Here at turning point in the Charlie Kirk Show, Blake, I think you would make a really good frontlines reporter. I think, though, I think it's time to send you out on the field. 00:32:05 Speaker 2: We got Brandon here. What do you want to cover? I don't know. 00:32:09 Speaker 5: I always think of like I like to read, like papers and stuff. 00:32:13 Speaker 3: Charlie was always like scientific, I mean, you are kind of like the token intellectual that we have around, the white paper guy, the white paper guy. So because Charlie was always we're not a think tank, We're a battle tank. That was Charlie's line. And then we hired Blake and then you know, we sort of had to you know, find just kidding, No, I think I think that's Uh. This leads into my question though it's inspired by an actual question, which is, as you guys have grown, how do you determine your editorial decisions where you're deploying these now nine reporters across the country. 00:32:49 Speaker 7: Well, it's a case by case basis. I mean, we're getting leads. Again, our reporters are embedded into these networks where they're hearing different stories that are about to break or where ever. Right, So it just really depends. You know, we'll look into protests and riot potential protests and plan riots online to see how big they're actually going to get based on social media engagement. You know, we'll go on Reddit, will go on a blue sky. You know, we're looking on X, we're looking on Instagram, we're looking. 00:33:17 Speaker 2: At Blue Sky. 00:33:18 Speaker 3: So we don't have to exactly right exactly was gruesome? 00:33:22 Speaker 5: Gruesome I know it's dark out. It'll destroy your soul over time. 00:33:26 Speaker 2: It really will, man, honestly. 00:33:28 Speaker 7: And but like simultaneously, like it's it's so unimpressive, right, Like you go on there and the content that they're talking about or stories are talking. 00:33:37 Speaker 2: That's an interesting angle. 00:33:38 Speaker 3: So so when you guys are diving into like the underworld, the underbelly of the modern left, you're saying, you sort of you sort of realize the emperor has no clothes. 00:33:48 Speaker 2: You're sort of realizing. 00:33:49 Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's just how unimpressive as you said it is. 00:33:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's the same song over and over again, right, they they have the same talking points. They're not of all, they're not changing their tune. They're not thinking outside of the box. They're not letting anybody poke a hole in their argument. So they stick in the same place over and over again. And when you see him in the streets protesting, they have the same chant over and over again, right. 00:34:14 Speaker 3: Like, Uh, well, it's just coordination too, that they're all chanting the same stuff. 00:34:19 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:34:19 Speaker 7: And the and they're they're totally planned, right, Like we we see these meetings that are planned where they're teaching all of the protesters the chance where they're teaching them how to not engage with press like us, right or just they have preferred press and they know. 00:34:35 Speaker 2: You as well. 00:34:36 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they know who you guys are, they know your pictures, they have your images. 00:34:40 Speaker 6: Well, they love Bo. 00:34:41 Speaker 7: They love Bo out there because anytime Bo is on the street, you have like five volunteers, right, volunteers quote unquote surrounding. 00:34:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, why why Bo? 00:34:52 Speaker 7: Because because his content goes viral, so they know that if they talk to him, they're gonna end up looking sort of like a clown. 00:35:01 Speaker 2: That's fascinating. 00:35:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean are are what are we doing? From a I mean, there's got to be a lot of stories that you don't pursue because they they it's just you can't guarantee the safety of the team, right, sure some of that. I mean, you guys are considering they're well being obviously, and then reporters have discretion whether they'll accept the story or if they want to pursue one. Maybe you guys have to say no, no, no, don't do that one. 00:35:30 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:35:30 Speaker 7: Absolutely, I mean there's look, my reporters will tell me all the time, like please let me go do this, and I say no, just because we need to make sure that A it's legit and B you're gonna be safe. But like when Choe and six seven Kevin went to those book fairs, they were undercover, they were wearing masks, they had hidden cams on, so it just again, it depends. 00:35:52 Speaker 3: It's my last question for you is if we have a lead. If somebody out there in the audience is a lead and they want Frontlines to cover, how did they get get in touch with you? 00:36:00 Speaker 2: Guys? 00:36:00 Speaker 7: You can reach out to us Frontlines at TPUs A dot com. 00:36:05 Speaker 2: So just that you have an email from an email at A. 00:36:08 Speaker 7: Dot there's a there's a tip sheet on on our Turning Point website, and you could always contact through X as well. 00:36:14 Speaker 3: Brandon Dre thank you so much. Thank you for you guys are doing amazing work. 00:36:18 Speaker 7: Thank you 00:36:22 Speaker 6: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com