WEBVTT - Free Game: Chismosas gon Chisme 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:02.880 Who's your plug for all the tea? You know the 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.560 man DJ, the the chiefs most Soul, the chi's Mossie. 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:08.959 You know what I'm saying. If you're among the Latinos, 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.360 the cheese man is like the gossip who always know everything. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.000 Oh I heard? Oh did you hear? Did you telling this? 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.560 Let me ask you something. Are you telling that person 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:19.799 any secrets? Are you telling that Are you're telling that 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.520 person your business? How to hell? You surprised if your 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.400 business in the streets? You think this person's treat you different. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.880 If you're talking to a chiefs mos sol and they're 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.240 telling you somebody else's business, how to hell? You surprised 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.880 that they're telling your business to somebody else. You should 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.000 have known who you was dealing with. And it's not 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.080 so much that you gotta hate this person. It's just 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.160 you should just know what you get from this person. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.160 And if you find out that some of the stuff 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.199 they're telling you ain't exactly what's going on, don't you 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.800 think that they're telling your business wrong? Is somebody else? 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.880 What do you do? Do you avoid that person? Yeah? Maybe? 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.920 Or just know what you're dealing with and act accordingly. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.360 I'm gonna talk about media literacy today, Y'allhood politics. It's 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:11.199 so good right now, politics, y'all, so listen. It ain't 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.280 hard players play. You know this nigga always got like 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.080 four five. He put up with a new one on 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:21.960 his arm every time you start dating this food. I 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.800 don't understand who you're gonna what you're gonna change him? 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.600 Liked you? What the hell is you surprised about? That's 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.360 what he is. This man that told you what he 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.640 is ain't have told you what it is. Oh no, babe, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.959 you're my only what you're surprised. Don't be surprised. Just 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.440 play the game. So this episode is free game. Okay, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.160 this is I'm giving y'all. I'm letting y'all in as 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.080 to how I process a lot of the information I get. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.840 And this is one of those you know, talking from 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.640 the hood versus talking to the hood. Now I'm talking 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.200 to the hood, but I think everybody else welcome to 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.840 listen in. You know what I'm saying. This is a 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:09.120 principle that I it's so necessary if our democracy is 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.320 gonna survive, y'all gotta know how to process the information 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.120 you're getting. You ever seen somebody walking to McDonald's and 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.200 complain about the food. And don't you think to yourself, nigga, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.840 you have McDonald's. I don't know what the hell you expected. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.040 You go to McDonald's for McDonald's, like I go there. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.040 If you're going there, if you're going to Denny's, if 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.680 you're going to waffle house, you're only there because it's 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.600 open after the club. What you ordering the lobster roll? 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.560 Ain't no, man, ain't got a lobster here. You know 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.960 what I'm saying. Oh man, this chicken sucks. Nigg It's 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.640 a dollar. The chicken sandwich is a dollar. The nugs 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.000 are cent. What did you see? I mean, you ain't 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.120 know when you walked in. You go there for what 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.480 you know? They offer foods is mad about action movies 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.160 not having depth, nigga, it's an action movie. You appreciate 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.040 the movie for what it is. You know how why 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.920 I watch the Godzilla versus Cancome because I just wanted 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.440 to see two big old things crushed buildings. I mean, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.040 this ain't gonna this ain't twelve years of slave my nigga, Like, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.000 I'm not gonna get no amazing commentary from this. Now 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:15.480 I'm gonna see a lizard fight a gorilla. That's the 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.519 size of buildings. That's all I'm here for. And I'm 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.280 appreciated for what it is. The dialogue gonna be terrible, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.680 I know, well. I mean, I don't understand why you 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.480 walked in here thought it was gonna be something else. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.480 Appreciate it for what it is. Get what you know 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.400 it's offering, you know, for you be t Look man, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.560 I'll be trying to take a little hommies out out 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.320 the city, out the hood man, and bring bring it 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.040 with me on the road. You know, we out in Hawaii. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.440 They're like, yo, let me, let me, let me, let 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:42.720 me get it. Let me get a slice of pizza. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.520 I'll be like, what we have this bomb fish spot. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.320 I'm trying to show him like Poku and you know 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.440 what I'm saying, like taco, you know, taco from Hawaii. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.800 You know what I'm saying. Like, I'm trying to show 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.240 them like let's let's get some moose to be you 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:00.800 feel me. They're asking for chicken strips. I'll be like, fam, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.800 everywhere you go, don't suck because it's not just like 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.400 where you left. Come on, Fam, I'm gonna tell him 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.360 my whole boy Lakrez. Here, once upon a time, Lucre 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.480 had the most twelve year old taste buds I had 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.200 ever seen in my life. If y'all don't know Lucraig, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:16.760 look Greg one of my closest friends. So I could 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.520 drag him real quick. Uh, send this to him because 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.039 he'll remember this story. So we was he was out here. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.400 This was like early in our friendship, early in his career, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.960 back when he still wore the tall teas, you know, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.599 just like seventeen tattoos ago. Right. We was downtown in 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.279 like little Tokyo out here in l A. And I 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:35.640 was trying to take him to like one of my 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.839 favorite like Ramen spots. I mean he loves Ramen now, okay, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.279 is my man been on the journey. He loved Ramen now. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.160 But back then we was waiting in line. I was like, yo, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.600 the Ramen's bomb, get you a bento box. I mean, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:52.560 it's dope. So we out here chopping. The waits pretty long, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.840 but we're out there chopping. That's a bunch of us. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.120 And then I look up and I can't fine. I 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.400 was like, where did look Craig O? This Nick came 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.520 back with a personal pizza. Them little tiny little pizzas. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.520 This nigga walked somewhere down. You gotta sabarro pizza. I'm like, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.360 we had a little tokyo. I'm about to show you 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.880 some of the Bomba's food. This nigga went got. He 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.880 was like, look, man, I like what I like. I 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.719 was one of some cars. I was like, Nick, First 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.600 of all, I'm impressed that you was able to find 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.880 pizza over here. But secondly, I just I was so furious. Bro. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.520 He's like, I like what I like. It's not listen, man, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.040 like you somewhere else. You go and you appreciate where 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.920 you are. You get what you get from that place 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.159 because that's what they have to offer. I'm not gonna 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.360 try to force an area to be something that's not. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.040 I'm not gonna try to make a movie to be 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.160 McDonald's McDonald's. I know what I'm getting from that. A 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.840 gossip sagassa d d you feel me? A hustler is 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.479 a hustler full over here talking about het jugging on 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.320 the lig Don't get that, nigga. Nigga said, I just look, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.440 I just need five bills from you. Don't get that, nigga, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.080 Your money. It's true too, if you're talking to a gangster, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.839 you know he's a gangster. I know what I'm getting 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.600 from you. It's not I love you, but I know 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.839 what it is. I got a few actual relatives that 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.600 I know when they tell a story, they're gonna be 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.760 the victim in the story. I'm like, I know what 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.120 I'm getting from you, But I know if I need 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.880 a particular lens told, I might ask you. I need 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.800 another particular lens told, I'm gonna ask somebody else, as 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.560 my family. I know what I'm getting from you. On 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.920 complain about you be something you're not. I'm not gonna 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.479 try to make you something you I'm not gonna expect. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.600 Like my homeboy dad says, I'm not gonna try to 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.440 squeeze water out of a turn up, Like I never 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.560 heard that phrase E said for him my own exactly. No, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.760 I guess there's no waters in turn ups. I thought 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.040 they were vegetables. I thought they had water in them. Anyway, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.520 It's like, it is what it is. What DMX said it. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.719 You know one of his last interviews. You know, if 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.920 I'm talking to a thief, I expect the thief to 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.120 be a thief. I trust you. I transt you to 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.680 be with you all. I trust the gangster to be 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.719 a gangster. You know what I'm saying. And I'm not 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:03.600 gonna be upset or surprised when you're something that you've 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.440 already told me you are. But I understand when it 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.840 gets frustrated when a person tries to present themselves as 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.960 something that you and I know they're not. And I think, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.520 as we turn the page here, this is where y'all 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:27.720 get frustrated with your news. It's when somebody presents themselves 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.920 as something that we know they're not. People say, this 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.960 is raw facts without no the no spin zone, full 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.600 of course their spin. What is you talking about? Our 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:44.600 job in media literacy is to know what we're looking 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.280 at and to get what we need from what we're 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.679 looking at. And I know I am saying this as 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.640 participating in media, I take this stuff very serious. I'll 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.280 make sure that like I at least know what I'm 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:02.000 talking about. And it makes me nervous to think that 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.840 maybe sometimes I'm misunderstood, misconstrued, or people miss the point, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.240 or I miss a fact and say something wrong like 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.800 I mean, that stuff scares me. You know what I'm saying, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.480 so apply what I'm about to teach you even to me. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.600 All right, now, you're all ready, let's get into it. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:51.079 So our sort of information on political landscape as a 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.200 lot of ways has been flattened in that we think 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.960 that all leftists are just leftists in all right wing 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.840 are just right wing, and apply these lenses that we 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.880 got here in America to the rest of the world, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.640 and leftists in other parts of the country or other 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.080 parts of the world are not at all like the 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.640 leftist here. A matter of fact, leftists in our political 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:21.240 landscape are pretty centrists. They're not very they're they're they're pretty, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:26.240 they're pretty center We like, Bernie, ain't that socialist? You 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.080 just gotta know a little bit more in the world. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.880 Bernie got views Canada? Guy, Like that's is Canada? This 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.280 was is a Cuba? Like is it? Chairman? Mao? You 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.240 feel me Like nah, it's like there's a scale Here's 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.280 but we have a way of like flattening these things 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.760 to say that there's these two motifs, these right wings 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.560 and these left wings, and that's just not the case. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.280 But that's how our information comes to us. So again 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.840 that's where we are. Let's just understand what it is. Secondly, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.000 I think it's important to understand that center. It's not neutral. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.600 A lot of times if we say you got left 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.800 wing and right wing, we say a center is in 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.240 the middle. It's not. The center is a position. You 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.559 understand that it is its own position. I think it's 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.920 a cupcake position, but it's a position. Nonetheless, there's parts 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.400 of our country that are that may lean right or 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.559 lean left, but really they're just trying to go back 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.200 to brunch. They just rather just not think about any 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.439 of this stuff. I wish everybody was just fine, we 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.959 can just right. That's a position. It's not the all. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.440 I don't get into politics. No, that is your politics. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.480 I don't like discussing, you know, political things. I don't 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.920 get political. That is a position. Your position is I 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.559 don't want to talk about it, which by default either 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.600 leaves the extremes to make all the choices for you 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.360 and you're just cool with them, or you're just good 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.400 with how things are. It's a position, so it's not neutral. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.920 And then thirdly, all information has a bias, all of it. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.400 You heard me, All information as a bias. Why because 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.560 it comes out of a human mouth. We all have lenses. Now, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.240 is that a bias you agree with? Is that a 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.680 fair bias? I don't know. It's just it's a position 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.520 I can help. I can't help but see the world 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.880 from my own eyes, and I'm bringing my full self 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.240 to whatever I'm saying. What are you talking about? Like, Okay, 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.240 well two plus two us four. Well, that's that doesn't 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.480 have a position, of course it does. That's just what 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.000 it is. Okay, sure starts a position. The position is 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.280 I believe in the ordered universe. I'm stating an absolute, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.440 I believe in absolutes. I'm stating that in every situation 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.680 and every time. This is just what it is, because 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.080 the universe is ordered that way. I know it seems 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:27.880 like a reach, but I'm trying to get you to 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.800 a point here. We all gotta lens, and so did 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.480 your news. We'll just report the facts, facts according to who. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.120 If I were to tell you the story, like y'all 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.520 was at this party and this food walked in and 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.040 slapped the ship out of this other guy, is that 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.080 is that? That's that's the facts from where I was sitting, right, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.520 it's earnest and honest what you saw, or is it 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.360 somebody else said, Yo, I was at this funeral, this repass. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.920 It was may have been festive, but it was a repass, okay. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.200 And then a brother walked in and then tried to 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:07.480 swat a mosquito off of his brother's cheek. Is that 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.480 is that what happened? Which one was it? Who's right? 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.280 Did he remove it aggressively? Well? They all has a lens, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.480 it's perspective, and what we gotta do is take the 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.319 perspective for what it is. Maybe the guy that said, yeah, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.880 that fool winning there slaped ship out of that guy. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.240 Maybe he didn't even like that dude. So maybe that's 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.600 what's going on, and it's fine. That's what they looked like. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.800 The other one says, well, no, it looked like he 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.240 was pulling Who's right? Yes? The answers yes, Yo. When 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.360 I started held politics, I told her I was very 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.120 clear on my perspective and my lens and who I 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.040 was talking to and what I was doing this for. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.680 And I told you, listen, don't let me be don't 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.360 let me be your breaking news. You know what I'm saying, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.800 because I'm just not hiding my perspective like I'm telling you, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.560 this is a this is a take on what we've 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.160 seen it here. This is just to help understand. But 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.640 just know what you're getting from me, You feel me. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.760 That's all I'm trying to say. How do you exist 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.800 in the world where information is thrown at us all 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.400 the time. It's just on you to know what you're 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:32.640 getting from So everybody gotta lens. We all got a perspective. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 It's just it is what it is, because we're humans. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.640 The next question is how is a person processing and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.960 trafficking this information? Because information, in a lot of ways 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.960 is power. Like I don't know how else to lay 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.800 it out. Maybe we'll do a whole other episode on 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.640 what I mean by that, but information is power, just 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.959 but I think it's important to make a distinction here 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.720 in this next part of this free game is knowing 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:08.720 the difference between misinformation and disinformation. Information misinformation disinformation misinformation 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.920 is just that you just misinformed. Maybe you just got 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.360 some of the facts mixed up. Oftentimes those are just 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.320 happens when the news is breaking and more information is 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.240 coming in and you just kind of got the story wrong. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.040 Or maybe your source, uh, maybe you misquoted your source, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.320 maybe you're maybe there's a lot of times Misinformation happens 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.520 to be you're you're just wrong, You're misinformed. There's there's 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.160 bits of the stories. Maybe you just don't have the 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.000 full perspective. That's just I mean, it is what it 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:46.080 is like, that's it can be weaponized. But for our discussion, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:53.920 misinformation just means just that you're misinformed. Disinformation is purposeful misinformation. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:15:00.320 Disinformation is I'm actually consciously telling you something that's wrong. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:07.760 Now the listener is now misinformed, but they're misinformed by disinformation. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:13.800 Are you following me? Disinformation is usually trafficked by those 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.680 trying to sell you something or trying to take down 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.600 somebody bigger. Here you go like, oh, Jeremy said he 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:29.080 wanted to see you today. Information misinformation would be oh 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.080 Jeremy looking for you, homie. You misinformed because you don't 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.680 know if Jeremy looking for him. He just said he 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.360 wanted to see you. I don't mean he's actively looking Disinformation. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.480 Oh this Nika, Jeremy said when he see you, it's 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.560 on site. He trying to beat your ass. Nigga, what 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.960 you're gonna do? It sounds like you're instigating fam trying 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:49.520 to weaponize the listener against their comment out you follow me. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.200 Another way to look at misinformation, it's sort of sifted 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.840 too much through your own lens, too much through your 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:05.640 political bias, to the point to where now this information 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.880 is being sort of manipulated, if you will, to fit 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.320 a particular narrative. And that's really where most of our 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.920 mainstream media is. It's not so much disinformation as it 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:21.280 is information sifted so much through a bias or a 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:27.880 lens that it becomes deceiving, it becomes partial truths. And 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.760 that's what I think people get so frustrated about. But again, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.240 you went to McDonald's. What the hell are you mad 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:38.000 at these GMOs? For next free game? Is to remember 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.400 as always keep your head on your shoulders and know 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:48.160 that these are for profit entities. They're making money. It's 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.800 also important to remember just like any social platform, uh, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.360 if the product is free, then you're the product. You're 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.520 following me, I'm saying, they're they're selling you your information, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.479 your data if it's free. So just always remember that, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.680 like it well, Twitter is not free, it's they're selling you. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.679 Facebook game free, it's it's they're selling you. Remember that 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.359 when you're looking at news sources, they selling ads. You 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.840 know what I'm saying they're selling especially like cable news 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.160 or or television news, like you're you're selling ad spaces. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.560 I mean, you know, ocean might as well swim. I 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.399 don't blame them for doing that. Somebody got paid for 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.520 them cameras. I mean, unless you just down with public 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.520 radio and you just down to here the listener tribe. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.200 Every five minutes, Hey, for hundred dollar donation will send 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:44.080 you a free DVD of Vincent Van Gogh's toenail paintings. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.160 I don't know, just I mean, you can't either that 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.399 or you watch commercials. Everybody got stakeholders, constituents, and a 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.080 fan base, and you gotta serve them. There was a 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.040 moment when CNN, and I'm gonna get into this more 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.360 specifics on a lot of other places a little later, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.200 there's a moment when CNN picked up somebody from ESPN, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.439 picked up one of the program directors from ESPN and 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:11.679 kind of took the sports analysis sort of lane with 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:16.560 the split scream arguing and brought that into politics. I mean, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.000 don't it kind of seem like it like when you 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.160 got the people around the table discussing, do the kind 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.240 of seem like like you're arguing over sports. Don't it 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.600 kind of seem like sometimes we talk about our our 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:33.040 politicians like the athletes. Yeah, I know, because it's entertaining. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.800 It's either that or watch c SPAN, which is just 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.280 turned the camera on and watch politics happen. That's not entertaining. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:44.080 I know, I'm guilty. I don't watch the C Span 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.280 is hard. I don't know if you've ever read a bill, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:52.720 I mean, it's they're not fun. You gotta make the 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.840 stuff entertaining. God need you to stay all the station. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:01.000 It's for profit. I need views, and you're dealing with 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.959 a constituent of people that you know, you don't know 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.359 what the philipbuster is. That's why I did the show. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.640 So this part of why I do the show because 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.320 it's like I'm trying to fill those gaps, you know 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.080 what I mean that like, how can you talk about 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.399 infrastructure deals you don't know what infrastructure is? So that 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.080 means that like I'm not saying they're dumbing it down, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.119 but I am saying they're dumbing it down, you know, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.840 And sometimes you could dump something down so much to 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:33.840 where it becomes miss informed. They they're making money. Now, lastly, 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.439 before we get into specifics. It's important to understand the 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:42.480 difference between a new show and an opinion show. Okay, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.120 what is like interested in actually presenting facts? Usually those 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.000 shows if we're talking about cable News or twenty for 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.600 our news cycle, those are usually during the day and 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.680 then the evening like after work shows. Those ones are 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:02.440 actually opinion shows. They are entertainment. Carlson is entertainment. He even, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.480 like in a defense for himself in a criminal trial, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.600 was like, the listeners know, I'm like, this is commentary. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.679 It's entertainment. Like it's not it's not real news. That 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.119 was this Nigga's defense when he was being sued for 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.679 false information. He was like, well, it's not information our 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.199 boy Don Lemon like and shows like around that time, Like, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.920 I mean, it's their opinion shows. Maybe when he's he's 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:31.200 giving his opinion on the news that happened, he's giving 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.639 his take on it. I'm not saying they're one and 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.080 the same or equal opposites. I'm just saying that's the 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.000 type of show, right, I think in some ways Rachel 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.560 madd Out like, I mean, I'll rock with her a lot. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.280 That's an opinion show, you know what I'm saying. Like 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.520 she'd be doing her homework. This is an opinion, So 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.320 understand the difference between an opinion show and a news 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:57.280 information show. Got it, now, let's get to it. So 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.639 my game to you is this is for first of all, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.760 be willing to eat from a lot of tables. I 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:10.240 think it's very dangerous to have one source. I think 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.800 it's important to have somebody you trust, you know, to 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:19.240 have a main like entry point, you know. Uh. Black 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.080 News channel is something that's that's just now popped up, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:23.920 which is like pretty dope, you know what I'm saying, 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.800 Like I enjoy it, you know, uh, because but again 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.160 that's because I'm black, you know what I'm saying. They're 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.160 they're giving news from us, specifically a black lens, which 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.359 is I mean, that's what the politics is. Uh. But 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.800 that said, these these stories, you could go look at 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.720 other places, you know, and kind of get other perspectives 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:50.000 for That's media literacy. It's taken is taking these stories, 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.840 accepting the source for what it is, and not not 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:55.840 being mad for what it's not, Like this is what 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:57.880 they are, Like I'm telling you, this is what we are. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.199 This is the way we're telling the story. It is 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.199 incumbent on you as the listener to go Okay, I 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.000 appreciate that for what it is. But my daughter walks 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.960 in here and tells me her sister did this. I'm 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.280 taking that for what it is. That's a sibling telling 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.960 on another sibling. It might be something like that, it 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.679 might be something else. It's probably somewhere in between. I 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.120 don't know. The point is this is the way they 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.399 perceived it, and I'm gonna take the information for what 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:28.399 it is. I personally, I listened to a lot of 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.879 Al Jazeera, I listened to a lot of AP News, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.320 and then I listened to a lot of CNN and Fox, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:38.800 mainly for the purpose of understanding where the listener is 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.240 getting their information from, Like what is your main source? 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.880 So that I can understand listen so that I can 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:51.000 understand how you're understanding the news you follow me. I'm 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:53.760 appreciating CNN for what it is. It's just the biggest. 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:55.960 I appreciate Fox with it is just the biggest. It's 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.320 the main entry point. But that don't mean it's the best. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.080 I know what they are and it helps me see 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.200 how the world is seeing the world is in America, 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.679 how the world is seeing particular topics, and then I 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.399 do my homework to try to understand it's it seems 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.800