1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Too night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job The Weekend with 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: Michael Brown broadcasting Life in Denver, Colorado. Hey, so the 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you joining the 6 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: program today. We have rules of engagement on this program. 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: You should know them by now. If you don't, you 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: should talk to your kids. They'll tell you what the 9 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: rules are first. 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Brown and you'll find them. 20 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: I want to talk about it because we obviously I'm 21 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: part of the media. I'm an employee of iHeartMedia and 22 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 1: Premier Radio Networks, and as such, we pay a lot 23 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: of attention, as much attention as we should be because 24 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: the company is really revenue driven, and what drives revenue well, advertising, 25 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: and what drives advertising the ratings that you get from Nielsen. Now, 26 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: all the numbers that we get are proprietary, and obviously 27 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: I can't discuss those on air. But because I am 28 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: a consumer of media so that I can come on 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: here and talk about issues, I'm no different than you 30 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: in that regard, and I happen to have a and 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to go talk to them because it's just 32 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: you know, I got my bill and I'm thinking this 33 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: is outrageous considering what I pay for it. If I 34 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: have comcasts, you know, NBC Universal have Comcast which is 35 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: called Exfinity their cable package, and I don't know, I've 36 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: got either their you know, their Ultimate or their Premium 37 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: or whatever it is. It offers more than one hundred 38 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: and eighty five channels. One eighty five channels. And then 39 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: you think about all the radio stations across the country, 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: and of those one hundred and eighty five channels plus 41 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: all the radio stations, and then you think about all 42 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: of the websites. Then you think about social media, and 43 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: all the influencers on social media. I mean there's billions 44 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: of people on x probably you know, hundreds of billions 45 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: also on Facebook. Where are people getting their news? What 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: are they watching, what are they reading, where are they going? 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: And all that ties back to these numbers that I 48 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: want to give you in just a minute. Because of 49 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: a stupid exercise, I started going through. Now I don't 50 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: have well, actually I do have it somewhere. Hang on 51 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: a minute. So I started making the list. I'm not 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: going to tell you now, I left it at home. 53 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: I started making the list of all of the subscriptions 54 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: that I pay for. Now I'm talking hundreds of subscriptions, 55 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: and it ranges everything from obviously, you know, the Wall 56 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, the La Times, 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: the Denver Post, which, by the way, for those of 58 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: you that live in Denver, don't get upset. I didn't 59 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: really give them any money. They had a special going 60 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: on for a one year subscription for one dollar. So 61 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: I subscribed to the Denver Post for one year for 62 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: one dollar and then marked my calendar to be sure 63 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: and cancel it, you know, three or four days prior 64 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: to the renewal date. So I didn't get charged the 65 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: full rate whatever it is, you know, a couple hundred 66 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: dollars or something, because it's not worth it. But I 67 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: at least now have access to the liberal newspaper in Denver. 68 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: And I subscribed to the Denver Gazette, and then lots 69 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: of substacks, lots of websites that I pay a premium 70 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: to get their additional information. The stuff is behind the paywall. 71 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: And so I started making a list of all of 72 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: those and when I put them on, you know, in 73 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: a word document, it's front and back, single spaced, so 74 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: it must be I don't know, maybe a couple of hundred. 75 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: And I start using an artificial intelligence program to figure 76 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: out where am I overpaying? How much am I overpaying? 77 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: Where could I consolidate? Are there any deals that would 78 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: you know, reduce the cost of say a subscription to 79 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times. And as I started going through 80 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: all of that, it got me to thinking about, well, 81 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: how many people are out there subscribing to let's just 82 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: say cable television. There are sixty million folks best, and 83 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: there may be more or less. This is just one 84 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: place that I found some stats. Sixty million people subscribe 85 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: to some form of cable TV bundle. It's always a bundle. 86 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: You know, you don't want this, this, and this, but 87 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: what you really want is just these two things over here. 88 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: But to get the two things over here, you have 89 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: to subscribe to the bundle that gives you, you know, 90 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: eighty other stations that you don't really want. One analysis 91 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: shows that there are about sixty million people subscribed to 92 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: and getting most name brand cable TV networks as part 93 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: of a TV bundle that they pay for every single month. 94 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: And I'll just tell you what the bundle that I 95 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: pay for includes. Now don't laugh at me when I 96 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: tell you this, but it includes a vote, you know, 97 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: voice over Internet protocol telephone. Now, I don't want that void, 98 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: but if I take it out of the bundle, it 99 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: increases the cost of the bundle. So I have this 100 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: stupid what we call the home number that nobody ever uses, 101 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: nobody knows, and I'm not even sure we have a 102 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: handset for it anywhere. But it's an extra five or 103 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: ten dollars a month if I don't have it in 104 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: the bundle. I mean, that's just how stupid these things are. 105 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: So let's go back to the sixty million people subscribe 106 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 1: to and getting most of the name brand cable TV 107 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: in the works as part of the TV bundle that 108 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: they pay for every single month. As I was going 109 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 1: to say, my bundle costs I think about three hundred 110 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 1: and thirty five dollars a month just for the Exfinity. Now, 111 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: that may seem high to you, but one reason is 112 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: because I get the highest available speeds on the Internet, 113 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: so that when I'm producing commercials or doing the program 114 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: from home or from the undisclosed location, I have the 115 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: best possible Internet connection back to LA or back to Denver. 116 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: So yeah, I pay a premium for that, and that's 117 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: just you know, that's part of my business expense. But 118 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: for the bundles that these sixty million people pay for, 119 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: only one, only one, what I would describe as a 120 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: general entertainment network had over four hundred thousand viewers on 121 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: a given night. Sixty million people, and there's one network 122 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: that has on average four hundred thousand viewers on a 123 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: given night. Four of five general entertainment cable TV networks 124 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: had just slightly more than only three hundred and fifty 125 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: thousand viewers during the last week of September, the latest 126 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: for which I could get any sort of Nielsen numbers. Now, 127 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: that's about zero six zero point six percent of people 128 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: paying for cable TV watching one of the top four 129 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: rated non sports or news networks on any given night. 130 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: And of that zero point six percent, the vast majority 131 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: of those people are over fifty. They're my age, they're 132 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: fifty five or over. And remember the median age for 133 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: those three big cable news networks. I'm talking about the 134 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: big three ABC, NBCBS, all of their viewers are in 135 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: their upper sixties. This is really a sad record, and 136 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: it shows how the media landscape is totally changing. And 137 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: why if you're not engaged in talk radio, if you're 138 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: not engaged in social media, and you're not engaged in websites, 139 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: and you're getting your news from cable television and all 140 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: those stayed newspapers, most of which the don't even have 141 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: a print edition anymore, then you're missing out on most 142 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: of the news. Now, the folks over at Nielsen are 143 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: releasing some new weekly reports with their new big data 144 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: plus panel metrics, where they've changed the metrics by which 145 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: they garner and calculate the ratings for television and radio. 146 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: And it's not breaking news but when you look at 147 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: where things stand for the average linear TV audience on 148 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: cable TV networks in the final week of September, Wow, 149 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: the cable bundle has really become just sports and news. 150 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: That's it. More accurately. If you went and narrow it 151 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: down even further, the cable TV bundle is just ESPN, 152 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: the three cable the three cable news networks, Fox in An, MSNBC, 153 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: and one lifestyle network on any given evening, not Monday 154 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: through Friday, Sunday through Saturday, for the entire week. Elsewhere, 155 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: where are the viewers and what are they watching? Those numbers? 156 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: Coming up next to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text 157 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: lines open three three, one zero three, keyword Mike or Michael. 158 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: Hang tip, I'll be right back. Welcome back to the 159 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. 160 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: We're talking about the changing media landscape and how that 161 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: affects it. Really, the reason I find this fascinating is one, 162 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: obviously I'm involved in the business. To you do this 163 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: in your daily life. You have cable TV, or you 164 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: haven't over the air antenna, or you're subscribing to Hulu 165 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: or Disney or Paramount or something or you know, YouTube, 166 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: you're subscribing to different things, and it's totally changed the 167 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: way that we consume entertainment and news. And if we 168 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: step back and we analyze some of these numbers, then 169 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: you'll realize that, perhaps, depending on how you look at it, 170 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: either the news is driving the agenda or because of 171 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: the numbers I'm going to tell you in a minute, 172 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: we may be actually driving the agenda. And I say 173 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: that because now, let's take this program for example. This 174 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: is this is a decidedly and unabashedly conservative slash libertarian 175 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: talk show. I don't have to go out and seek 176 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: an audience because you know, based on what I talk 177 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: about that, oh, I'm going to listen to Michael Brown 178 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: because he talks about things, and he talks about things 179 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: from a perspective that interests me, so you tune in. 180 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: So I don't sit here every day thinking and and 181 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: I've told my local audience this. I'm not sure I've 182 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: ever told you guys this, But I never come in 183 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: here thinking about doing a story because I think that 184 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 1: it's going to drive ratings or it's going to drive 185 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: you to listen longer or to an end. Next Saturday 186 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: and The reason for that is I don't fake it, 187 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: and I don't want to take time to try to 188 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: fake something that I'm not interested in it pretend like 189 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: I'm interested in it. So I only do things that 190 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: interest me, because if I do things that interest me, 191 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: then obviously you're going to either find it interesting or not, 192 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: and you're either going to listen or you're not going 193 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: to listen. And I know that in radio, an audience 194 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: turns over all the time, just like it does on television. 195 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: How many of you have worn out your remote control 196 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: because you're constantly changing channels, or you're fighting with your spouse, 197 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: you're a girlfriend, you're a boyfriend, or whomever, leaving the 198 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: dog over what you're going to be watching. So think 199 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: about in terms of these primetime audience averages, and then 200 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: think about the politics in this country in terms of 201 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: the news networks. Now, I'm only talking about cable right now, 202 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: because I'll tell you about the over the air the 203 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: networks in just a second. Let's talk about just the 204 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: cable networks, and let's first talk about news networks. Fox 205 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: News leads the pack with two point four to five million, 206 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: MSNBC is way behind at eight hundred and fifty three thousand, 207 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: and CNN's behind that at five hundred and thirty eight thousand, 208 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: So the combined MSNBC and CNN does not even equal 209 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: the average evening on any given time in primetime on 210 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: Fox News. But remember Fox News is at two point 211 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: four to five million. Well, let's go to sports for 212 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: a moment, meaning ESPN, because it's all e ESPN alone 213 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: is two point seven million, some three hundred thousand more 214 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: than Fox News by itself, and then Fox Sports averages 215 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: about sixty two thousand, so they're way behind. So obviously 216 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: the dominant, the dominant beast and sports is ESPN. All 217 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: other cable networks, all the other cable shows averaging at 218 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: least four hundred thousand viewers in primetime. There's only one HGTV, 219 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: and that's at four hundred and ninety two thousand, which 220 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: is obviously much less than even CNN, well one hundred 221 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: thousand less than CNN and forty nine thousand. So ten 222 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: percent of the viewers watching HGTV are under fifty years old, 223 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: meaning that ninety percent of they're more over fifty years old. 224 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: To see how this landscape is changing and affecting everything, 225 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: and so if you're an old fart like me, But 226 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: I really encourage you if you really want to understand 227 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: and have the same perspective that Now. I'm not asking 228 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: you to believe them, obviously, I'm not asking to believe 229 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: what they believe in. But if you want to understand 230 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: the perspective of say, Black Lives Matter, or Antifa, or 231 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: for that matter, the Democrat Party, or the Marxist and 232 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: the Communists and the Socialist and all of those, you 233 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: need to get your butt off Fox News all the 234 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: time and be looking at MSNBC or cn CNN or 235 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: maybe even going over to the Food, Hallmark or TLC networks, 236 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: because that's where the rest of the audience is. Out 237 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: of those sixty million, again, zero point six percent are 238 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: watching only four top rated and that's either News and 239 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: those three channels Sports, the two, ESPN and Fox, and 240 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: then HGTV. Now, if you want to break it down 241 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: even further, all the other cable networks that average at 242 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: least three hundred and fifty thousand years in primetime. The 243 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: Food Network has three hundred eighty three thousand, Hallmark has 244 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy eight thousand, TLC has three hundred 245 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: and sixty seven thousand. That's the best they can do. 246 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: You understand why this fascinates me because people are going elsewhere, 247 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: elsewhere to get their news. So when I tell you, 248 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: for example, hey, do me a favor and go follow 249 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: me over on X at Michael Brown USA, that's not 250 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: just because I want to build up my followers. It's 251 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: because if you want to know what I think about 252 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: a particular news item or something that's breaking in the news, 253 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: the best place to find that, Since I'm on air 254 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: for only four hours Monday through Friday and three hours 255 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: on Saturday. If you want to know about what I 256 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: think about, because I can't possibly cover everything in twenty 257 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: three hours of radio, you know, six days a week, 258 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: it's over on X And where do you think I 259 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: go a lot of times to find out what's the 260 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: big topic, because I'll use an AI platform for example, 261 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: or I might use e Google Trends to go look 262 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: and see, you know, what's most being searched. What's everybody 263 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: talking about? For the very sad part of this record, 264 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: and it is a sad part of the record, nine 265 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: networks out of all of these that everybody's subscribing to, 266 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: nine networks averaged a primetime number that was only somewhere 267 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: between three and four hundred thousand viewers at any given time, 268 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: any given night, seven days a week, and eighty nine 269 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: networks averaged less than one hundred and fifty thousand viewers 270 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: in primetime. Interesting those were MTV, free Form, E Paramount, TNT, 271 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: and v H one all fell in that category. You've 272 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: got to go to number one thirty nine on the 273 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: top two hundred cable network programs to find something that 274 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: is not sports or something on Fox News or on MSNBC. 275 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: To number one thirty nine, and that's something was The 276 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: Adventures Love Birding Movie on Hallmark on a Saturday night. 277 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: There were just four other shows on the top two 278 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: hundred cable network programs that were not news or sports TLC, 279 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: TLC C Ninety Day Finance, TLC, Sister Wives, Disco, Deadliest Catch, TBS, 280 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: Big Bang Theory. CNN doesn't even make the top two 281 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: hundred list until we number one eighty nine, and that's 282 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: Cassie Hunt Show. The whole purpose of this segment get 283 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: out of your cave. Get out of that cave of 284 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: cable TV, which I know you already are because you're 285 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: listening to this program. But once this program's over and 286 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: you go back to TV network or to the cable networks, 287 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: you're got your blind get the blinders off. I'll be 288 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: right back tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the former 289 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,959 Speaker 1: FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, 290 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job the Weekend with 291 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Welcome to the Beacon with Michael Brown. Glad 292 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 1: to have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. 293 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: If you like what we do on the weekend, you 294 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: got to listen to us during the weekday. You can 295 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: listen weekdays from six to ten Mountain time on your 296 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Just search for and then set as a 297 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: precept this station six thirty KHOW and Denver six thirty 298 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 1: KHOW in Denver. That way, you can listen live to 299 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: the program Monday through Friday from six to ten Mountain time. 300 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: Later in the program, probably at the beginning of the 301 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: next hour, we will get to this whole issue about 302 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: healthcare for illegal aliens. But as kind of a lead 303 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: up to that, I want to talk about something that's 304 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: going on in the United Kingdom that has as much 305 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: to do with societal control and socialized medicine as it 306 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: has to do with anything else you know I have. 307 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: I've complained, bitch and moaned about the United Kingdom and 308 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: how the Home of the Magnet Carta is just degenerating 309 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: into this kind of dystopian place where you can get 310 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: arrested in the middle of the night for posting a 311 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 1: meme that offends somebody that you leave. You don't even 312 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 1: who the person is, or your neighbor that lives, you know, 313 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: two blocks down and around the corner, just happens to 314 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: know that you're the person that posted a meme, so 315 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: they call the cops, and the cops come and knock 316 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: on the door in the middle of the night and 317 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: literally arrest you for posting something on Facebook or x 318 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: or some other social media platform that somebody found offensive. Now, 319 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 1: if I were to get arrested for everything that I 320 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: say that somebody somewhere finds offensive, I'm as well just 321 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: broadcast full time from the Colorado State Benedentiary because I'm 322 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: always saying something offensive to somebody, and quite frankly, I 323 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: just don't I don't give a right sass because I 324 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: come on the program. As I said earlier, I come 325 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: on to talk about what interests me, to tell you 326 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: the stories that interest me and what my perspective on 327 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: the stories are. And then you have the opportunity to 328 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: text me or to comment on X or whatever. You 329 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 1: send me emails, whatever it is, and trust me, I 330 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: read all the emails. I read all the text messages, 331 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: because sometimes you really do convince me. For great example 332 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: is I apparently made the comment in the last segment 333 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: about how you know, like over on Facebook, there must 334 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: be hundreds of billions of people, and somebody sent me 335 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: a text and said, you know, hate to break it 336 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: to you, but you just haunded like Joe Biden when 337 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: you said that, And I thought about it for a second. 338 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: I thought, oh damn, they're absolutely right, because there are things. 339 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: I think there's like three or four billion people. There's 340 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: not hundreds of billions of people. But it did sound 341 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden. And unlike the Democrats, who if you 342 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: point out something, if they say stupid, they get upset 343 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: about it. I kind of laugh about it. And I 344 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: laugh about it because Okay, you come and sit in 345 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: this chair and you do either three hours on a 346 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: Saturday or four hours Monday through Friday starting at six 347 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and you'll say some stupid stuff too, 348 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: And I'm sure I say stupid stuff, and I'm sure 349 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: I say offensive stuff. But England's taking it, and this 350 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: is this is a canary in the coal mine for 351 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 1: us to pay attention to. England has now implemented a 352 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: ban on buy one, get one free deals for certain 353 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: junk food and certain free soda frefills. Now, just as 354 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: a parenthetical, real quickly, somebody sent me a great article 355 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: about my addiction to diet coke and why I have it. 356 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 1: And I read the story and it's really interesting about 357 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: how McDonald's has such high standards for their diet coke, 358 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: which is probably why I prefer McDonald's diet coke to 359 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: any other diet coke anywhere in the world save maybe Europe. 360 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: Europe has they have coke let's call a Coca Cola 361 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: light and it's really good. So Garrett might have better 362 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 1: chemicals than the United States does. But in that story, 363 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: Bury deep in that story was the McDonald's is getting 364 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: ready to sometime over the next I think, I don't know, 365 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: a few years to get rid of their self service 366 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: soda machines, so that you will just get your machine. 367 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: Probably you know, there'll be some robot that will produce 368 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: your diet coke for you, and then somehow put it 369 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 1: on a conveyor belt and you'll pick it up from 370 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: the counter and that'll be It didn't say anything about 371 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: whether you get a free refill or not. But I 372 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: tend to if well, I don't really tend to because 373 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: I don't go into McDonald's that often, but if I'm 374 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: having lunch somewhere and I'm having a diet coke, yeah, 375 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: I tend to get a refiller. Two. This rule in 376 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: the United Kingdom applies to grocery stores and all the 377 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: other major retailers, as well as online vendors. Now, if 378 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: they've been discussing these regulations for years, I never really 379 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: thought they would do it. It also bans free drink 380 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: refill promotions for specific beverages in restaurants and cafes. Now, 381 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: of course, that's caught the attention to social mediu another 382 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: reason why while social media may if you don't control 383 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 1: it and you don't know how to use it properly, 384 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: can be very poisonous and cancerous, but at least social 385 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: media users in the United Kingdom have expressed disbelief at 386 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: seeing signs appear on soda machines warning them that quote, 387 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 1: based on new government laws, they are only allowed to 388 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: refill low sugar soft drinks, with one asking wtf this country? Yes, 389 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: and they posted a picture what Coca Cola Classic, it's 390 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,239 Speaker 1: one glass only. Based on new government laws, we've had 391 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: to limit Coca Cola Classic to one glass per customer. 392 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: Still thirsty, it says, help yourself to any of our 393 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: low sugar fizzy bottomless soft drinks. So starting in January, 394 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: advertising unhealthy food and drinks some TV before nine pm, 395 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, gotta wait till the kids 396 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: go to bed will be prohibited, along with any online 397 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: promotions for those products. A Department of Health and Social 398 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 1: Care spokesman call the measures a crucial step toward ensuring 399 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 1: that children have a healthy and happy start in life, 400 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: quoting obesity robs children of the best possible start in life, 401 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: sets them up for a lifetime of health problems and 402 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: costs the National Health Service billions. Oh so that's why 403 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: you're doing it. You're doing it because in socialized medicine, 404 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: somebody consumes too many cheeseburgers. But now we already know 405 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: this to be a fact. You walk into a hospital 406 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: in the National Health Service and you need some life 407 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: saving surgery and you're obese, or you need bariatric surgery, 408 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: you need back surgery, you need some sort of surgery, 409 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: but you're too damn fat. Well, you're gonna get kind 410 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: of you're Gorny's gonna get pushed over into the corner 411 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 1: somewhere and then you're gonna eventually get set home and say, yeah, 412 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: we'll give you the surgery if and when you lose 413 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: some weight. Socialized medicine, that's how you control the population. 414 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 1: So the National Health Service has created a classification system 415 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: that supports this advertising band and now it's going to 416 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: target soda, candy, cakes, chocolate and potato chips coming to 417 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: a TV station, a radio station, an online advertisement or 418 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: to a store sign somewhere near you soon Because once 419 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: you decide that you're going to pay for everybody's health care, 420 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: then those costs are going to just rocket. And once 421 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: they rocket, your system is going to start imploding on itself. 422 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: And what's one way to reduce costs? Reduce services? And 423 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: how do you reduce services, Well, you tell people that 424 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 1: you can't have it because you're too fat. And by 425 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: the way, we're not going to let you start having 426 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: more than one regular coke because that's too much sugar 427 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: for you. You know, I have. In fact, I had 428 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: dinner with this friend on Thursday night and he's in 429 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: He's a few years younger than me. He's in very 430 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,199 Speaker 1: good health. He's in good shape, does a lot of 431 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: manual labor, and he probably drinks I don't know, three 432 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: or four cokes a day. Now, I'm not talking about diako. 433 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,719 Speaker 1: Come talking about all of the sugar. I don't have much. 434 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: I don't have any grams of sugars in a regular coat. 435 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: But I'm sure it's more than what my doctor wants 436 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: me to consume, which is somewhere between seven and fifteen 437 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: grams of sugar, you know, per day, trying to keep 438 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: it on the lower end. I bet he consumes thirty 439 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: forty fifty grams of sugar a day. But he's in 440 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: good health. But that wouldn't be acceptable. Even if he's 441 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: in good health, that's still not acceptable under the National 442 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: Health Service. So while they're trying to tell you what 443 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: you can post, and if what you post offend somebody, 444 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: you can be arrested for that. Then they're telling you 445 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: if you want a regular coke, well you're limited to 446 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: one because we're trying to solve obesity. I always thought 447 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: obesity was either genetic or is based on individual habits, 448 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: and those individual habits were probably learned in childhood, and 449 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: that the parents, the parents were the ones that needed 450 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: to take care of that. But we live in a 451 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: world now where government has become the parent. We live 452 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: in a world where the government is deciding, and it'll 453 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: come to this country. It already is in many ways, 454 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: it'll come to this country where we're told, well we 455 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: can think, well, we can say how much we can 456 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: eat and how much we can drink. If you don't 457 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: pay attention to what happens in other parts of the world, 458 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: because just as in this country, we often look to 459 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 1: say New York or Illinois or California. And now I 460 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: hate to say it, but now you can watch Colorado 461 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: too to see how a blue state starts to overtake 462 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: your lives. Well, if you want to see how countries 463 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: overtake your lives, just look to the north to Canada, 464 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: or look to the east to the United Kingdom, or 465 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: look down under to Australia. All of those he know. 466 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: That's what I pointed out. I pointed out three or 467 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: four countries that are not tyrannical dictatorships, although they may 468 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: be on the way. I didn't point to say Saudi Arabia. 469 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: I didn't point to communist China. I pointed to parliamentarian 470 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: governments that operate on some basic principles of democracy but 471 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: are turning tyrannical. We need to pay attention to what 472 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: happens overseas. I'll be right back. Welcome back to the 473 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. 474 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: Appreciate you tuning in text lines. Always open the numbers 475 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: three three, one zero three. Key word is Michael or 476 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: Mike or Michael. Be sure and follow me on X 477 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,239 Speaker 1: formerly Twitter. It's at Michael Brown USA. You'll find that 478 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: I tend to go in spurts on X. I'll go 479 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: on a tweet storm and then I'll move on to 480 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: something else, and then I'll come back and be another 481 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: tweet storm. But I think you do enjoy it. So 482 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: we talked. We started the hour out by talking about 483 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: these cable news channels and the ratings and the bundles, 484 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: what you're paying for, but what you're really watching. Well, 485 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: one of the examples I gave, obviously was CNN. But 486 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: Don Lemon, a former prime time CNN anchor, has left 487 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: for various reasons, some of them are probably true and 488 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: some of the probably which are not. And he's now 489 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: hosting a podcast another place that people can get a 490 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: lot of news and really good information. But if you 491 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: want to see festering bigotry based on race and sex, 492 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: it's really unpleasant to behold. But Lemon launched into a bizarre, 493 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: explosive rant blaming white men as the real issue behind 494 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: violence in America. He snarled, you keep talking about ooh 495 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: Chicago and black on black crime. I want to know 496 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: white men, are you okay? Because that is the real 497 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: issue here. Now. What he means by that is that 498 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: even though blacks are many more times likely to commit 499 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: violent crimes, white people are the problem. This is how 500 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: they keep racism in the forefront. He added this, this 501 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: country keeps waking up to bodies in the pews, blood 502 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: on the floor, gunfire and public places, and the faces 503 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: behind the trigger looks the same nearly every single time. Now. So, 504 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: according to Don Lemon, a famous journalist and social commentator, 505 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: The most relevant characteristic of the issailants during the ongoing 506 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: wave of violence that's targeting Christians and conservatives is their 507 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: skin color. However, noting the pervading skin color of the 508 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: hordes of criminals who have been making Democrat hell holes 509 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: like Chicago so unlivable for whites and blacks, apparently that's 510 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: taboo and you can't talk about that. Sure, if you 511 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: want to isolate the Charlie Kirk assassination or the attack 512 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: on a Mormon church. If you want to isolate those 513 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: incidents and say, oh, look, they were all white guys. Okay, well, 514 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: that's one common denominator, but are there's another co common 515 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: denominator too, and that is they themselves are bigoted. Clearly, 516 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: the guy that assassinated Charlie Kirk had had a bigotry 517 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: toward his political philosophy, and the guy that rammed his 518 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: car in and burned down the Mormon church in Michigan 519 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: clearly had a bigotry against Mormons. So why not add 520 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: that to the to the denominator too, And then you know, 521 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: occasionally we'll do a Chicago Weekend crime report so on 522 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: on Monday or Tuesday, we'll walk in and we'll be 523 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: talking about some crime story, and then we'll realize, oh, 524 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: let's go look and see how many people were shot 525 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: or killed or shot and killed in Chicago on the 526 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: South Side over the weekend. And it's freaking unbelievable. But 527 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: don Lemon, what have you believe that you should not 528 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: when you're thinking about violence in this country? You should 529 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: not think about race except in terms of whites and 530 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: black the black on black crime that occurs, which is 531 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: disproportionate to their makeup of the general population. You'd understand 532 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: that really black on black crime is much worse than 533 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: on a white crime proportionally speaking, but noting the prevailing 534 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: skin color of the hordes of criminals say on the 535 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: South Side of Chicago that you just cannot talk about. 536 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: Lemon really wants you to know how much he hates 537 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: white people, saying white men, something is broken, something is 538 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: cracked deep inside you. So many of you believe the 539 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: answer is violence. But apparently there is one white guy 540 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: that Lemen is okay with, which I find interesting because 541 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: you make a broad generalized statement that white men something 542 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: is broken with you white men, not any particular group 543 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: of white men, not white men that live, say north 544 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: of the thirty eighth parallel, or white men that are 545 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: of a certain demographic or economic status, or not white 546 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,399 Speaker 1: men that are asexual, bisexual, or homosexual, not white men 547 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: that are a Republican or Democrat, but just white men 548 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 1: in general. Something is cracked deep inside of you, and 549 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: so many of you believe the answer is the violence. 550 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if he says that to some guy named 551 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: Tim Malone, you know who Tim Malone is. Tim Malone 552 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: is the white guy. Yeah, that Don Lemon, the black 553 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: guy is married to you. See, there is there's this 554 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: double standard in our national conversation that allows, I guess, 555 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: black men or men of minority status of whatever it 556 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: might be, whether it's minority status or social status or 557 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: political status or your racial status, whatever it is, that 558 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: you clump everybody into those categories and then you try 559 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: to say, oh, but then that represents everybody. No, that's 560 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: not how we do things. It's not how we do 561 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,720 Speaker 1: things at all. Every individual is responsible for their choices 562 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 1: and their actions, and you can't lump groups of black 563 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: men together anymore than group groups of white guys, or 564 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,839 Speaker 1: Hispanic or Latino guys or Asian guys or Vietnamese guys, 565 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: or Australian guys or South African guys or whatever. You 566 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 1: just cannot do that. But this is what the left does. 567 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: They lump everybody together. I recognize that. As I've said before, 568 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: I think on the left side of the political spectrum 569 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,720 Speaker 1: that the old liberals and I always think of mainly 570 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: because he's in the intro to this program. One liberal 571 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: that I got along famously with but we themly disagreed 572 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: on policy was Chris Matthews, who used to host a 573 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: program on MSNBC. He used to be the chief of staff, 574 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: Chief legislative aide to former Speaker Tip O'Neil. He's a 575 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:23,880 Speaker 1: Massachusetts Liberal. I think he's of a dying breed because 576 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: I think the Chris Matthews of the world. I've been 577 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: spoken to Chris in years. He's kind of retired and 578 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: gone off into hiding. Pops his head up once in 579 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 1: a while. But that version of liberalism is gone, and 580 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: the new vision of liberalism is pretty much personified by 581 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: the Don Lemons of the world, who see everything through 582 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: the lens of race, Marxism, and socialism. And it's truly 583 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: hard to debate somebody who does only that, so we 584 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: came with Michael Brown, hang typed. We'll be right back, mhm.