Speaker 1: Who's your plug for all the tea? You know the
Speaker 1: man DJ, the the chiefs most Soul, the chi's Mossie.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If you're among the Latinos,
Speaker 1: the cheese man is like the gossip who always know everything.
Speaker 1: Oh I heard? Oh did you hear? Did you telling this?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. Are you telling that person
Speaker 1: any secrets? Are you telling that Are you're telling that
Speaker 1: person your business? How to hell? You surprised if your
Speaker 1: business in the streets? You think this person's treat you different.
Speaker 1: If you're talking to a chiefs mos sol and they're
Speaker 1: telling you somebody else's business, how to hell? You surprised
Speaker 1: that they're telling your business to somebody else. You should
Speaker 1: have known who you was dealing with. And it's not
Speaker 1: so much that you gotta hate this person. It's just
Speaker 1: you should just know what you get from this person.
Speaker 1: And if you find out that some of the stuff
Speaker 1: they're telling you ain't exactly what's going on, don't you
Speaker 1: think that they're telling your business wrong? Is somebody else?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you avoid that person? Yeah? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Or just know what you're dealing with and act accordingly.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about media literacy today, Y'allhood politics. It's
Speaker 1: so good right now, politics, y'all, so listen. It ain't
Speaker 1: hard players play. You know this nigga always got like
Speaker 1: four five. He put up with a new one on
Speaker 1: his arm every time you start dating this food. I
Speaker 1: don't understand who you're gonna what you're gonna change him?
Speaker 1: Liked you? What the hell is you surprised about? That's
Speaker 1: what he is. This man that told you what he
Speaker 1: is ain't have told you what it is. Oh no, babe,
Speaker 1: you're my only what you're surprised. Don't be surprised. Just
Speaker 1: play the game. So this episode is free game. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is I'm giving y'all. I'm letting y'all in as
Speaker 1: to how I process a lot of the information I get.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those you know, talking from
Speaker 1: the hood versus talking to the hood. Now I'm talking
Speaker 1: to the hood, but I think everybody else welcome to
Speaker 1: listen in. You know what I'm saying. This is a
Speaker 1: principle that I it's so necessary if our democracy is
Speaker 1: gonna survive, y'all gotta know how to process the information
Speaker 1: you're getting. You ever seen somebody walking to McDonald's and
Speaker 1: complain about the food. And don't you think to yourself, nigga,
Speaker 1: you have McDonald's. I don't know what the hell you expected.
Speaker 1: You go to McDonald's for McDonald's, like I go there.
Speaker 1: If you're going there, if you're going to Denny's, if
Speaker 1: you're going to waffle house, you're only there because it's
Speaker 1: open after the club. What you ordering the lobster roll?
Speaker 1: Ain't no, man, ain't got a lobster here. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Oh man, this chicken sucks. Nigg It's
Speaker 1: a dollar. The chicken sandwich is a dollar. The nugs
Speaker 1: are cent. What did you see? I mean, you ain't
Speaker 1: know when you walked in. You go there for what
Speaker 1: you know? They offer foods is mad about action movies
Speaker 1: not having depth, nigga, it's an action movie. You appreciate
Speaker 1: the movie for what it is. You know how why
Speaker 1: I watch the Godzilla versus Cancome because I just wanted
Speaker 1: to see two big old things crushed buildings. I mean,
Speaker 1: this ain't gonna this ain't twelve years of slave my nigga, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get no amazing commentary from this. Now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see a lizard fight a gorilla. That's the
Speaker 1: size of buildings. That's all I'm here for. And I'm
Speaker 1: appreciated for what it is. The dialogue gonna be terrible,
Speaker 1: I know, well. I mean, I don't understand why you
Speaker 1: walked in here thought it was gonna be something else.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it for what it is. Get what you know
Speaker 1: it's offering, you know, for you be t Look man,
Speaker 1: I'll be trying to take a little hommies out out
Speaker 1: the city, out the hood man, and bring bring it
Speaker 1: with me on the road. You know, we out in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: They're like, yo, let me, let me, let me, let
Speaker 1: me get it. Let me get a slice of pizza.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, what we have this bomb fish spot.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to show him like Poku and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like taco, you know, taco from Hawaii.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, I'm trying to show
Speaker 1: them like let's let's get some moose to be you
Speaker 1: feel me. They're asking for chicken strips. I'll be like, fam,
Speaker 1: everywhere you go, don't suck because it's not just like
Speaker 1: where you left. Come on, Fam, I'm gonna tell him
Speaker 1: my whole boy Lakrez. Here, once upon a time, Lucre
Speaker 1: had the most twelve year old taste buds I had
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. If y'all don't know Lucraig,
Speaker 1: look Greg one of my closest friends. So I could
Speaker 1: drag him real quick. Uh, send this to him because
Speaker 1: he'll remember this story. So we was he was out here.
Speaker 1: This was like early in our friendship, early in his career,
Speaker 1: back when he still wore the tall teas, you know,
Speaker 1: just like seventeen tattoos ago. Right. We was downtown in
Speaker 1: like little Tokyo out here in l A. And I
Speaker 1: was trying to take him to like one of my
Speaker 1: favorite like Ramen spots. I mean he loves Ramen now, okay,
Speaker 1: is my man been on the journey. He loved Ramen now.
Speaker 1: But back then we was waiting in line. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: the Ramen's bomb, get you a bento box. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's dope. So we out here chopping. The waits pretty long,
Speaker 1: but we're out there chopping. That's a bunch of us.
Speaker 1: And then I look up and I can't fine. I
Speaker 1: was like, where did look Craig O? This Nick came
Speaker 1: back with a personal pizza. Them little tiny little pizzas.
Speaker 1: This nigga walked somewhere down. You gotta sabarro pizza. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we had a little tokyo. I'm about to show you
Speaker 1: some of the Bomba's food. This nigga went got. He
Speaker 1: was like, look, man, I like what I like. I
Speaker 1: was one of some cars. I was like, Nick, First
Speaker 1: of all, I'm impressed that you was able to find
Speaker 1: pizza over here. But secondly, I just I was so furious. Bro.
Speaker 1: He's like, I like what I like. It's not listen, man,
Speaker 1: like you somewhere else. You go and you appreciate where
Speaker 1: you are. You get what you get from that place
Speaker 1: because that's what they have to offer. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: try to force an area to be something that's not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna try to make a movie to be
Speaker 1: McDonald's McDonald's. I know what I'm getting from that. A
Speaker 1: gossip sagassa d d you feel me? A hustler is
Speaker 1: a hustler full over here talking about het jugging on
Speaker 1: the lig Don't get that, nigga. Nigga said, I just look,
Speaker 1: I just need five bills from you. Don't get that, nigga,
Speaker 1: Your money. It's true too, if you're talking to a gangster,
Speaker 1: you know he's a gangster. I know what I'm getting
Speaker 1: from you. It's not I love you, but I know
Speaker 1: what it is. I got a few actual relatives that
Speaker 1: I know when they tell a story, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: the victim in the story. I'm like, I know what
Speaker 1: I'm getting from you, But I know if I need
Speaker 1: a particular lens told, I might ask you. I need
Speaker 1: another particular lens told, I'm gonna ask somebody else, as
Speaker 1: my family. I know what I'm getting from you. On
Speaker 1: complain about you be something you're not. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: try to make you something you I'm not gonna expect.
Speaker 1: Like my homeboy dad says, I'm not gonna try to
Speaker 1: squeeze water out of a turn up, Like I never
Speaker 1: heard that phrase E said for him my own exactly. No,
Speaker 1: I guess there's no waters in turn ups. I thought
Speaker 1: they were vegetables. I thought they had water in them. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It's like, it is what it is. What DMX said it.
Speaker 1: You know one of his last interviews. You know, if
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a thief, I expect the thief to
Speaker 1: be a thief. I trust you. I transt you to
Speaker 1: be with you all. I trust the gangster to be
Speaker 1: a gangster. You know what I'm saying. And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be upset or surprised when you're something that you've
Speaker 1: already told me you are. But I understand when it
Speaker 1: gets frustrated when a person tries to present themselves as
Speaker 1: something that you and I know they're not. And I think,
Speaker 1: as we turn the page here, this is where y'all
Speaker 1: get frustrated with your news. It's when somebody presents themselves
Speaker 1: as something that we know they're not. People say, this
Speaker 1: is raw facts without no the no spin zone, full
Speaker 1: of course their spin. What is you talking about? Our
Speaker 1: job in media literacy is to know what we're looking
Speaker 1: at and to get what we need from what we're
Speaker 1: looking at. And I know I am saying this as
Speaker 1: participating in media, I take this stuff very serious. I'll
Speaker 1: make sure that like I at least know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. And it makes me nervous to think that
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes I'm misunderstood, misconstrued, or people miss the point,
Speaker 1: or I miss a fact and say something wrong like
Speaker 1: I mean, that stuff scares me. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so apply what I'm about to teach you even to me.
Speaker 1: All right, now, you're all ready, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: So our sort of information on political landscape as a
Speaker 1: lot of ways has been flattened in that we think
Speaker 1: that all leftists are just leftists in all right wing
Speaker 1: are just right wing, and apply these lenses that we
Speaker 1: got here in America to the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: and leftists in other parts of the country or other
Speaker 1: parts of the world are not at all like the
Speaker 1: leftist here. A matter of fact, leftists in our political
Speaker 1: landscape are pretty centrists. They're not very they're they're they're pretty,
Speaker 1: they're pretty center We like, Bernie, ain't that socialist? You
Speaker 1: just gotta know a little bit more in the world.
Speaker 1: Bernie got views Canada? Guy, Like that's is Canada? This
Speaker 1: was is a Cuba? Like is it? Chairman? Mao? You
Speaker 1: feel me Like nah, it's like there's a scale Here's
Speaker 1: but we have a way of like flattening these things
Speaker 1: to say that there's these two motifs, these right wings
Speaker 1: and these left wings, and that's just not the case.
Speaker 1: But that's how our information comes to us. So again
Speaker 1: that's where we are. Let's just understand what it is. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I think it's important to understand that center. It's not neutral.
Speaker 1: A lot of times if we say you got left
Speaker 1: wing and right wing, we say a center is in
Speaker 1: the middle. It's not. The center is a position. You
Speaker 1: understand that it is its own position. I think it's
Speaker 1: a cupcake position, but it's a position. Nonetheless, there's parts
Speaker 1: of our country that are that may lean right or
Speaker 1: lean left, but really they're just trying to go back
Speaker 1: to brunch. They just rather just not think about any
Speaker 1: of this stuff. I wish everybody was just fine, we
Speaker 1: can just right. That's a position. It's not the all.
Speaker 1: I don't get into politics. No, that is your politics.
Speaker 1: I don't like discussing, you know, political things. I don't
Speaker 1: get political. That is a position. Your position is I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it, which by default either
Speaker 1: leaves the extremes to make all the choices for you
Speaker 1: and you're just cool with them, or you're just good
Speaker 1: with how things are. It's a position, so it's not neutral.
Speaker 1: And then thirdly, all information has a bias, all of it.
Speaker 1: You heard me, All information as a bias. Why because
Speaker 1: it comes out of a human mouth. We all have lenses. Now,
Speaker 1: is that a bias you agree with? Is that a
Speaker 1: fair bias? I don't know. It's just it's a position
Speaker 1: I can help. I can't help but see the world
Speaker 1: from my own eyes, and I'm bringing my full self
Speaker 1: to whatever I'm saying. What are you talking about? Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well two plus two us four. Well, that's that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a position, of course it does. That's just what
Speaker 1: it is. Okay, sure starts a position. The position is
Speaker 1: I believe in the ordered universe. I'm stating an absolute,
Speaker 1: I believe in absolutes. I'm stating that in every situation
Speaker 1: and every time. This is just what it is, because
Speaker 1: the universe is ordered that way. I know it seems
Speaker 1: like a reach, but I'm trying to get you to
Speaker 1: a point here. We all gotta lens, and so did
Speaker 1: your news. We'll just report the facts, facts according to who.
Speaker 1: If I were to tell you the story, like y'all
Speaker 1: was at this party and this food walked in and
Speaker 1: slapped the ship out of this other guy, is that
Speaker 1: is that? That's that's the facts from where I was sitting, right,
Speaker 1: it's earnest and honest what you saw, or is it
Speaker 1: somebody else said, Yo, I was at this funeral, this repass.
Speaker 1: It was may have been festive, but it was a repass, okay.
Speaker 1: And then a brother walked in and then tried to
Speaker 1: swat a mosquito off of his brother's cheek. Is that
Speaker 1: is that what happened? Which one was it? Who's right?
Speaker 1: Did he remove it aggressively? Well? They all has a lens,
Speaker 1: it's perspective, and what we gotta do is take the
Speaker 1: perspective for what it is. Maybe the guy that said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that fool winning there slaped ship out of that guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't even like that dude. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: what's going on, and it's fine. That's what they looked like.
Speaker 1: The other one says, well, no, it looked like he
Speaker 1: was pulling Who's right? Yes? The answers yes, Yo. When
Speaker 1: I started held politics, I told her I was very
Speaker 1: clear on my perspective and my lens and who I
Speaker 1: was talking to and what I was doing this for.
Speaker 1: And I told you, listen, don't let me be don't
Speaker 1: let me be your breaking news. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I'm just not hiding my perspective like I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a take on what we've
Speaker 1: seen it here. This is just to help understand. But
Speaker 1: just know what you're getting from me, You feel me.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm trying to say. How do you exist
Speaker 1: in the world where information is thrown at us all
Speaker 1: the time. It's just on you to know what you're
Speaker 1: getting from So everybody gotta lens. We all got a perspective.
Speaker 1: It's just it is what it is, because we're humans.
Speaker 1: The next question is how is a person processing and
Speaker 1: trafficking this information? Because information, in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: is power. Like I don't know how else to lay
Speaker 1: it out. Maybe we'll do a whole other episode on
Speaker 1: what I mean by that, but information is power, just
Speaker 1: but I think it's important to make a distinction here
Speaker 1: in this next part of this free game is knowing
Speaker 1: the difference between misinformation and disinformation. Information misinformation disinformation misinformation
Speaker 1: is just that you just misinformed. Maybe you just got
Speaker 1: some of the facts mixed up. Oftentimes those are just
Speaker 1: happens when the news is breaking and more information is
Speaker 1: coming in and you just kind of got the story wrong.
Speaker 1: Or maybe your source, uh, maybe you misquoted your source,
Speaker 1: maybe you're maybe there's a lot of times Misinformation happens
Speaker 1: to be you're you're just wrong, You're misinformed. There's there's
Speaker 1: bits of the stories. Maybe you just don't have the
Speaker 1: full perspective. That's just I mean, it is what it
Speaker 1: is like, that's it can be weaponized. But for our discussion,
Speaker 1: misinformation just means just that you're misinformed. Disinformation is purposeful misinformation.
Speaker 1: Disinformation is I'm actually consciously telling you something that's wrong.
Speaker 1: Now the listener is now misinformed, but they're misinformed by disinformation.
Speaker 1: Are you following me? Disinformation is usually trafficked by those
Speaker 1: trying to sell you something or trying to take down
Speaker 1: somebody bigger. Here you go like, oh, Jeremy said he
Speaker 1: wanted to see you today. Information misinformation would be oh
Speaker 1: Jeremy looking for you, homie. You misinformed because you don't
Speaker 1: know if Jeremy looking for him. He just said he
Speaker 1: wanted to see you. I don't mean he's actively looking Disinformation.
Speaker 1: Oh this Nika, Jeremy said when he see you, it's
Speaker 1: on site. He trying to beat your ass. Nigga, what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do? It sounds like you're instigating fam trying
Speaker 1: to weaponize the listener against their comment out you follow me.
Speaker 1: Another way to look at misinformation, it's sort of sifted
Speaker 1: too much through your own lens, too much through your
Speaker 1: political bias, to the point to where now this information
Speaker 1: is being sort of manipulated, if you will, to fit
Speaker 1: a particular narrative. And that's really where most of our
Speaker 1: mainstream media is. It's not so much disinformation as it
Speaker 1: is information sifted so much through a bias or a
Speaker 1: lens that it becomes deceiving, it becomes partial truths. And
Speaker 1: that's what I think people get so frustrated about. But again,
Speaker 1: you went to McDonald's. What the hell are you mad
Speaker 1: at these GMOs? For next free game? Is to remember
Speaker 1: as always keep your head on your shoulders and know
Speaker 1: that these are for profit entities. They're making money. It's
Speaker 1: also important to remember just like any social platform, uh,
Speaker 1: if the product is free, then you're the product. You're
Speaker 1: following me, I'm saying, they're they're selling you your information,
Speaker 1: your data if it's free. So just always remember that,
Speaker 1: like it well, Twitter is not free, it's they're selling you.
Speaker 1: Facebook game free, it's it's they're selling you. Remember that
Speaker 1: when you're looking at news sources, they selling ads. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying they're selling especially like cable news
Speaker 1: or or television news, like you're you're selling ad spaces.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, ocean might as well swim. I
Speaker 1: don't blame them for doing that. Somebody got paid for
Speaker 1: them cameras. I mean, unless you just down with public
Speaker 1: radio and you just down to here the listener tribe.
Speaker 1: Every five minutes, Hey, for hundred dollar donation will send
Speaker 1: you a free DVD of Vincent Van Gogh's toenail paintings.
Speaker 1: I don't know, just I mean, you can't either that
Speaker 1: or you watch commercials. Everybody got stakeholders, constituents, and a
Speaker 1: fan base, and you gotta serve them. There was a
Speaker 1: moment when CNN, and I'm gonna get into this more
Speaker 1: specifics on a lot of other places a little later,
Speaker 1: there's a moment when CNN picked up somebody from ESPN,
Speaker 1: picked up one of the program directors from ESPN and
Speaker 1: kind of took the sports analysis sort of lane with
Speaker 1: the split scream arguing and brought that into politics. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't it kind of seem like it like when you
Speaker 1: got the people around the table discussing, do the kind
Speaker 1: of seem like like you're arguing over sports. Don't it
Speaker 1: kind of seem like sometimes we talk about our our
Speaker 1: politicians like the athletes. Yeah, I know, because it's entertaining.
Speaker 1: It's either that or watch c SPAN, which is just
Speaker 1: turned the camera on and watch politics happen. That's not entertaining.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm guilty. I don't watch the C Span
Speaker 1: is hard. I don't know if you've ever read a bill,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's they're not fun. You gotta make the
Speaker 1: stuff entertaining. God need you to stay all the station.
Speaker 1: It's for profit. I need views, and you're dealing with
Speaker 1: a constituent of people that you know, you don't know
Speaker 1: what the philipbuster is. That's why I did the show.
Speaker 1: So this part of why I do the show because
Speaker 1: it's like I'm trying to fill those gaps, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean that like, how can you talk about
Speaker 1: infrastructure deals you don't know what infrastructure is? So that
Speaker 1: means that like I'm not saying they're dumbing it down,
Speaker 1: but I am saying they're dumbing it down, you know,
Speaker 1: And sometimes you could dump something down so much to
Speaker 1: where it becomes miss informed. They they're making money. Now, lastly,
Speaker 1: before we get into specifics. It's important to understand the
Speaker 1: difference between a new show and an opinion show. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is like interested in actually presenting facts? Usually those
Speaker 1: shows if we're talking about cable News or twenty for
Speaker 1: our news cycle, those are usually during the day and
Speaker 1: then the evening like after work shows. Those ones are
Speaker 1: actually opinion shows. They are entertainment. Carlson is entertainment. He even,
Speaker 1: like in a defense for himself in a criminal trial,
Speaker 1: was like, the listeners know, I'm like, this is commentary.
Speaker 1: It's entertainment. Like it's not it's not real news. That
Speaker 1: was this Nigga's defense when he was being sued for
Speaker 1: false information. He was like, well, it's not information our
Speaker 1: boy Don Lemon like and shows like around that time, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's their opinion shows. Maybe when he's he's
Speaker 1: giving his opinion on the news that happened, he's giving
Speaker 1: his take on it. I'm not saying they're one and
Speaker 1: the same or equal opposites. I'm just saying that's the
Speaker 1: type of show, right, I think in some ways Rachel
Speaker 1: madd Out like, I mean, I'll rock with her a lot.
Speaker 1: That's an opinion show, you know what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: she'd be doing her homework. This is an opinion, So
Speaker 1: understand the difference between an opinion show and a news
Speaker 1: information show. Got it, now, let's get to it. So
Speaker 1: my game to you is this is for first of all,
Speaker 1: be willing to eat from a lot of tables. I
Speaker 1: think it's very dangerous to have one source. I think
Speaker 1: it's important to have somebody you trust, you know, to
Speaker 1: have a main like entry point, you know. Uh. Black
Speaker 1: News channel is something that's that's just now popped up,
Speaker 1: which is like pretty dope, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I enjoy it, you know, uh, because but again
Speaker 1: that's because I'm black, you know what I'm saying. They're
Speaker 1: they're giving news from us, specifically a black lens, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's what the politics is. Uh. But
Speaker 1: that said, these these stories, you could go look at
Speaker 1: other places, you know, and kind of get other perspectives
Speaker 1: for That's media literacy. It's taken is taking these stories,
Speaker 1: accepting the source for what it is, and not not
Speaker 1: being mad for what it's not, Like this is what
Speaker 1: they are, Like I'm telling you, this is what we are.
Speaker 1: This is the way we're telling the story. It is
Speaker 1: incumbent on you as the listener to go Okay, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that for what it is. But my daughter walks
Speaker 1: in here and tells me her sister did this. I'm
Speaker 1: taking that for what it is. That's a sibling telling
Speaker 1: on another sibling. It might be something like that, it
Speaker 1: might be something else. It's probably somewhere in between. I
Speaker 1: don't know. The point is this is the way they
Speaker 1: perceived it, and I'm gonna take the information for what
Speaker 1: it is. I personally, I listened to a lot of
Speaker 1: Al Jazeera, I listened to a lot of AP News,
Speaker 1: and then I listened to a lot of CNN and Fox,
Speaker 1: mainly for the purpose of understanding where the listener is
Speaker 1: getting their information from, Like what is your main source?
Speaker 1: So that I can understand listen so that I can
Speaker 1: understand how you're understanding the news you follow me. I'm
Speaker 1: appreciating CNN for what it is. It's just the biggest.
Speaker 1: I appreciate Fox with it is just the biggest. It's
Speaker 1: the main entry point. But that don't mean it's the best.
Speaker 1: I know what they are and it helps me see
Speaker 1: how the world is seeing the world is in America,
Speaker 1: how the world is seeing particular topics, and then I
Speaker 1: do my homework to try to understand it's it seems
Speaker 1: charged to be like what really happened? But that's not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is to get
Speaker 1: a better scope and perspective of what's going on, and
Speaker 1: then formulate my opinion, knowing full well that it is
Speaker 1: an opinion. It's just it is what it is, and
Speaker 1: then reading primary sources because I'm that much of a nerd.
Speaker 1: Now check this out. So add font fontes, media A
Speaker 1: D F O N T E S put together this chart,
Speaker 1: and the charts got some issues, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but it's a great it's the most famous one. It
Speaker 1: is the great sort of start, right, it's a great start,
Speaker 1: an entry point to just kind of get a grip
Speaker 1: on what we're doing here. Okay, now y'all know how
Speaker 1: to read a graph? I know this is an audio media.
Speaker 1: Do you know how to read a graph? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take you all back to seventh grade, your X access
Speaker 1: in your Y access. You know, up and down, left
Speaker 1: and right, B A B A select start anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a deep cut how to read your graph? Okay,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna start at zero, Okay, follow me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a math teacher at y'all at zero zero, right,
Speaker 1: that's my plot point in the bottom left, the X
Speaker 1: Y intercept. And as I go up on the graph,
Speaker 1: it becomes more act finding, like driven by facts. So
Speaker 1: if you closer to the bottom, you're like, yo, this
Speaker 1: is misleading or down right wrong, like fabricated disinformation all
Speaker 1: the way going north, going to the top of like, nah,
Speaker 1: we did our homework. This is fact finding. Now if
Speaker 1: I'm going left to right, the closer I am to zero,
Speaker 1: we're gonna say is left wing. And then the further
Speaker 1: I go right, so away from zero, is right wing.
Speaker 1: In other words, hopefully this helps saying like this bottom
Speaker 1: far right, nigga, that's info Wars, that's some Alex Jones,
Speaker 1: some o A n TV, you know, World Truth, dot TV,
Speaker 1: Natural News. What the hell is you talking about? Nigga?
Speaker 1: You made this ship up? You know what I'm saying, y'all,
Speaker 1: sound this is what is wrong with you? Like, I
Speaker 1: don't what the hell like them them shows over there.
Speaker 1: That's a very particular lick they're hitting because they know
Speaker 1: for a fact what they're saying is not true. It's
Speaker 1: what is being spun in a particular way as to
Speaker 1: incite a certain type of listener. You know, when you
Speaker 1: think about like the January six insurrection, you got the
Speaker 1: like proud boys oalthkeepers out there, who's out there to
Speaker 1: do some ship, to break some windows and to cut
Speaker 1: some necks. And then you got your boomers, your granddad,
Speaker 1: and them your grandmama. And then we're not my grandmama.
Speaker 1: And then but y'all's grandmama, and buy y'all, I mean
Speaker 1: white people, y'all's grandma and them who just got caught
Speaker 1: up into the Facebook thing. And you actually think you
Speaker 1: feel me like that that you're doing that. This is
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six, and you're actually doing your civic duty
Speaker 1: by doing this. Like that's a different person. So these
Speaker 1: are these shows are praying on that particular person you
Speaker 1: feel me that's on like the far far far far
Speaker 1: far right. So that's the that's the bottom right of
Speaker 1: this graph. Now the bottom left of this graph is
Speaker 1: like the Jimmy dor Show, which I know is a
Speaker 1: deep cut from most of my listeners, most of all,
Speaker 1: don't be going this far down the rabbit hole. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, but Jimmy dor that's like, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean he not as far as like the Oath,
Speaker 1: like info Wars, but very selective in his persuasion and
Speaker 1: like which stories he chooses to cover. So he used
Speaker 1: to be part of like the Young Turks Network, which
Speaker 1: again probably for my listeners, is like, what the hell
Speaker 1: are you talking about? But the point I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make is in that particular it's not so far as
Speaker 1: like the what the hell, but it's just as extreme
Speaker 1: left as info Wars is extreme right now, it don't
Speaker 1: traffic in in straight up what the funk are you
Speaker 1: talking about, but it traffics more into like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: pretty convenient to really just pick up this story, you
Speaker 1: follow me. So those are extremes now if we're gonna
Speaker 1: go fact finding, So this is the furthest to the
Speaker 1: top right, not right as in top right, but as
Speaker 1: incorrect is okay, somewhat middle, really close to the middle,
Speaker 1: super fact finding, like we really about what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do. That's where you get people like the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not dead center. They might skew a
Speaker 1: little to the left, sometimes skew a little to the right,
Speaker 1: sometimes Wall Street Journal that skews a little to the
Speaker 1: right sometimes, but for the most part, people like Associated Press, Reuters, PBS,
Speaker 1: Pro Publica, they're doing their best to be fact finders. Now,
Speaker 1: like I said before, everybody got to bias is coming
Speaker 1: out of a human lens. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: this is a good place to think as far as like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's how happening here? Just give me, just give me
Speaker 1: what happened? Now? What This is not a tape recorder
Speaker 1: saying only listen to them, because again, like I said before,
Speaker 1: you have to have media literacy, and that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: explain how the rest of the world. Because when the
Speaker 1: last time you turned into you tuned into Associated Press.
Speaker 1: You ain't never tuned into that. Do y'all got the
Speaker 1: olgas of your network on your No, you ain't watching
Speaker 1: those things right. So now, now let me let me
Speaker 1: walk y'all through this. So if we're gonna start roughly
Speaker 1: on the bottom left and then try to move to
Speaker 1: the right, Um, it's again it's important to understand who
Speaker 1: these people are and what they're trying to do. So
Speaker 1: the Jimmy dor Show far left on the bottom listen.
Speaker 1: He was used to be a comedian and then he
Speaker 1: became abundant. So so so take that for what it is, right,
Speaker 1: It helps you understand the way people that think like this,
Speaker 1: This is how they see in the same topic we
Speaker 1: all looking at. I'm just I'm not gonna go through everybody,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna name a few of them that I
Speaker 1: I kind of go to. The Young Turk Network. These
Speaker 1: were some journalists that came around. They started a radio
Speaker 1: show in two thousand two, and they, like I said,
Speaker 1: they skewed pretty left. It's highly opinionated, they're pretty selective
Speaker 1: and what they choose to cover. I think that sometimes
Speaker 1: kind of leans towards their bias. But it's all good.
Speaker 1: Know what you're getting. You know what you're getting from it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You got the Palmer Report
Speaker 1: with like Bill Palmer. This is from like two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen, that's where it started. Again, leans pretty left,
Speaker 1: but it's good to know what you're looking at. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's get into something that's like a little more familiar
Speaker 1: like Pod Save America, The Daily cost Uh, Jezebel, The
Speaker 1: New Republic, the Root. These are pretty partisan, they're pretty left,
Speaker 1: they're highly opinionated, but they're giving things that are analysis.
Speaker 1: Do you understand they're interested in analyzing, so you come
Speaker 1: to them to understand, and anal assists of something based
Speaker 1: on the lens you know they're getting from them. So
Speaker 1: I'm not again, I'm not mad at you for what
Speaker 1: you are. That's what you are. You helping me understand
Speaker 1: what it is. Now, I'm saying left and right as
Speaker 1: if I'm accepting that the definitions of left and right
Speaker 1: are the ones that we somewhat agree to in America then,
Speaker 1: and a lot of these places may not self identify
Speaker 1: by these terms. You know, I'm just using this as
Speaker 1: a just a way for us to enter the conversation.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the route may not necessarily identify yourself as
Speaker 1: left leaning. They like were black, you feel me. But
Speaker 1: it's just it's more the point of helping us understand
Speaker 1: this conversation. So like, don't sue me. The Daily Beast
Speaker 1: that's from two thousand eight. I like the Daily Beast,
Speaker 1: you know, they you know, we're getting more into sort
Speaker 1: of h understanding, a little more like m more fact based,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Let's see the intercept MSNBC.
Speaker 1: Of course, these are leaning left, but they're much more
Speaker 1: left center. You feel me, Rachel Maddow and them right
Speaker 1: Vice Media like they're skewing left. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying now this political Uh we'll move into like CNN
Speaker 1: the New York Times like they're left, but they're but
Speaker 1: their center left, they only skew left. You feel me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be again selective on the stories that they cover,
Speaker 1: and they and they're gonna give you the information from
Speaker 1: their lands. Now I know this is where we're getting
Speaker 1: into the frustrating space Cuomo because you know the Cuomo
Speaker 1: Report is because again they got constituents, they feed in
Speaker 1: their constituents, and they're gonna give you probably the same
Speaker 1: story but with a totally different headline a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Now we're getting into the area these people try to
Speaker 1: present themselves as if they're the most responsible, they're the
Speaker 1: most accurate, and they're the most nonbiased. But I think
Speaker 1: that's when it gets frustrating because like I mean, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of like these are the places that
Speaker 1: I have a lot of critiques over as far as
Speaker 1: like ah no, this, don't you just you're not being
Speaker 1: who you say you are. In my opinion. And notice
Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned like Daily Show, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher
Speaker 1: because listen, those are entertainment. They're covering the news. But
Speaker 1: this is it's entertainment like and you're supposed to see
Speaker 1: them shows. Is that? Having said that, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: dismissed them. I'm saying understand them. It's also very important
Speaker 1: to understand their position because it helps you know how
Speaker 1: to get a grasp on what your position is. I
Speaker 1: don't yell at them for what they are, I just
Speaker 1: know what they are now again removing removing more to
Speaker 1: the to the middle, you know, which is not necessarily centrist.
Speaker 1: It's middle in the sense of like fact finding and
Speaker 1: whether we skew left or skew right, it's still a position.
Speaker 1: Like I said, BBC, PBS, pro Publica, NPR is like
Speaker 1: I know a lot of there are such leftist now
Speaker 1: they're pretty they skew left, of course, but it's fam
Speaker 1: they definitely don't skew right. You're right, but it ain't. Listen, dog,
Speaker 1: you ain't know Jimmy Dore out this mug. You feel
Speaker 1: me now, things that are starting to skew right and
Speaker 1: still more into like analysis or mix of like fact
Speaker 1: and analysis is things like The Hill Stuff you Should
Speaker 1: Know podcast, uh, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, right, the
Speaker 1: Ramassen Report. Those are like things that are moving more
Speaker 1: towards uh the center right now into more like this
Speaker 1: is this is some commentary, and you getting really dangerous
Speaker 1: space into your analysis becoming what the hell is you
Speaker 1: talking about? Right? You got people like you know, the
Speaker 1: Fox News website, the Blaze, Fox and Friends, New York Posts,
Speaker 1: which I don't know why anybody would trust anything out
Speaker 1: the New York Post, right, Uh, the Federalists, News Max,
Speaker 1: Like all right now, I kind of I don't know, Homi,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the you talking about? We're getting there,
Speaker 1: but it's important to know there are millions of people
Speaker 1: that are getting their news this way and this is
Speaker 1: how they're seeing the world, so appreciate it for what
Speaker 1: it is. Then you getting into like super selective way
Speaker 1: far right that's like the Sean Hannity Show, Hannity listen,
Speaker 1: that's not news, that's analysis, and it's super unfair. It's
Speaker 1: like you're not you're picking stuff, and then all the
Speaker 1: way to the far far right to what the fund
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Then him the American spectator Mike Adams,
Speaker 1: who's like just a straight anti VAXX propagandists. Nigga, what
Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about? Okay, now, these extremes,
Speaker 1: I highly suggest that you keep a very small light
Speaker 1: diet of those shows because if you know anybody that's
Speaker 1: like a conspiracy theorist, dude to dude, that's like the
Speaker 1: government lied about nine eleven, it was an inside job.
Speaker 1: Like them niggas can get you riled up. You know,
Speaker 1: you only listen so much to that gossip, to that
Speaker 1: hood gossiper. You know what I'm saying, Like, because that
Speaker 1: nigga get you caught up, you start really thinking that
Speaker 1: the sun finn fall out the sky because he's so
Speaker 1: she's so worked up into the ship. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, you can only take so much time
Speaker 1: with that person. The niggas looking at jay z videos
Speaker 1: talking about the Illuminati and your ap news, I understand
Speaker 1: the middle ones they kind of bored because they do
Speaker 1: there's that ain't nuts juice to it, right, And maybe
Speaker 1: you don't know what to think about the information you're seeing.
Speaker 1: I don't see no problem with that. So what I'm
Speaker 1: suggesting is eat from a lot of tables. I eat
Speaker 1: from me personally, like I said, Al Jazeera in pr
Speaker 1: ap news, CNN, I eat from Fox, I eat from
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, I eat from Cuomo, I eat from
Speaker 1: uh NPR. But I also eat from UH well, I
Speaker 1: don't eat from I'll nibble on some like Tucker Carlson,
Speaker 1: I'll nibble on some on some Hannity, I'll nibble on
Speaker 1: some of them shows. I'll nibble on some Fox News,
Speaker 1: Fox News because I need to understand the whole scope
Speaker 1: of the map. And we'll we'll, I'll put I'll put
Speaker 1: a lot of this information into our show notes, just
Speaker 1: because I want to make sure that y'all have this.
Speaker 1: But the free game is this, use your antennas you
Speaker 1: feel me, y'all. Keep y'all head. Don't expect McDonald's to
Speaker 1: not be McDonald's. If you go into McDonald's, know what
Speaker 1: you're getting from them. Okay, if you're going a red lobster,
Speaker 1: which was like you know you from the hood, that
Speaker 1: was like maybe you made it. That's somebody graduation, you know,
Speaker 1: Get get them buttered, you know what I'm saying, Get
Speaker 1: them chatter biscuits, but know what they are. They chatter biscuits.
Speaker 1: That's it. And and remember this is still just a
Speaker 1: chain restaurant. It's not your steps. You may think you
Speaker 1: made it, you just now okay, it's still a chain.
Speaker 1: It's still just a chain restaurant, Applebee's, Nikkie, it's a chain,
Speaker 1: you know. I ain't gonna get into the five guys
Speaker 1: in and out water Burger argument because y'all they just burgers.
Speaker 1: I'm not, okay. I know what I'm getting from here
Speaker 1: in and out on mind West West. The point is,
Speaker 1: here's the game. Whatever news source you're eating from, just
Speaker 1: read the ingredients you feel me and use that for
Speaker 1: your advantage. You ain't gotta trust them, but you trust
Speaker 1: them to be what they are. I trust the hustler
Speaker 1: to be a hustler. I trust the gangster to be
Speaker 1: a gangster. I trust the guy us up to be
Speaker 1: a gossip players play. I know what I'm getting from y'all,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna use it to formulate my game politics. Y'all.
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