Steve Krakauer's book talks about how corporate media has gone off the rails over the last seven years, and it features interviews with people like Tucker Carlson, reporters from the New York Times, and others. It also covers Hunter Biden's laptop and the media's coverage of it.
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Yeah, so I'm a journalist, I've had a lot of different jobs over the last 15 years or so, most recently I just wrote a book, "Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People".
I mean, this is a guy who was in the establishment in that way, was, was, I'm the first chapter of the book is about Hunter Biden's laptop, Tucker tells me, I knew it was real from the minute I saw it because I have emails with me and Hunter Biden to get sober.
He was in the laptop, yes, in the world, in the laptop, you know a guy who knew the Biden family, I mean he tells me in the book that he knew Biden has dementia because he's heard from Biden's family that he had to mention this was before he ran, so this is a guy who was in that world and then became the turncoat in a lot of the same ways that Trump did in the New York media scene and so you're not going to be able to find that you're not going to be able to get the guy who knew what was going on in DC who knows all the same people and can expose that the left and the right.
I mean he goes after the right harder than anyone else on Fox, and if you're looking for a reason why you want a guy like that to not be on the air for the next year which is like the length of his contract there, there's your reason.
I just want to make sure we don't leave out our good friend Cuomo who scored 26,000 viewers in the key demo holy crap and then Cuomo 11 p.m. get this eight, 8,000, the demo, yeah eight, eight thousand holy crap he probably made a whole 20 bucks off that show.
I write about this a lot in "Uncovered", it's like there's, there starts with the seed of something, whether it's you know, the steel dossier, Russia gate, the media covers something in a specific way, I call it glance journalism like you could you get it at the glance and initial story, and then they just move on to the next thing and and they never go back and start to correct it. They're they're so addicted to to Trump and to anything that's kind of the ancillary, the January 6th or the election process.
I've talked to people that could not sleep, that had to take pills because they were, we're just, just so overcome with with this feeling that they're in this existential fight with Donald Trump during the Trump presidency and and it made them completely put the guardrails of journalism out when they tried to, to try to take him down, and it was so obvious to the audience and to this day. I mean, they've not learned a single lesson.
I mean I detest absolutely everything the man stands for, I don't have to take sleeping pills president it's insane to have such a small petty outlook on life. My goal is to go after this person and take them down, for some bizarre reason, they saw him as the embodiment of every principle that they hated despite the fact that he was basically a New York Democrat in many ways, at least with respect to his economic policy decision-making. He was more socially conservative even there, he was like somewhere between center right and centrist. This was not some far-right political leader and even if he was to be.
I mean I didn't work with him, but I was a media reporter, a super smart guy ended up getting involved I think in, uh, with marijuana hydroponics and farming.
I mean I in the book I track you could spend about an hour and a half and hit the headquarters of fox news which is across the street from the headquarters of mbc, CNN, CBS, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, it's all in a very like 20 block radius, it's and in fox news, you know, they yes, they cater to a different audience, but they're right in that same area. It's, it's not as different as people think.
I write I describe them as anti-speech activists, these people that should be about free speech and allowing a free flow of ideas on social media or wherever are now saying no, no, these people are dangerous and I actually think that that young people see that and say I'm not, I'm not gonna be a part of that. That's not who I am. It's the cult versus the not cult. Yeah.
I'm specifically site there was a magazine Cosmo that put on the cover this gigantic obese woman and then just with the headline, this is healthy, this is healthy now.
I do think conversations like this are encouraging, and the fact that these conversations are successful on platforms that people may be finding other junk food and yet can have kind of real deep conversations, can be part of a community, even if it's a digital one can, it is actually a sign and again I know we started with Tucker Carlson, the demise of Fox News. It's another sign that corporate media is junk, and that conversations like this are going to win out and and actually connect with people in ways that it should. These are the kinds of common, you know connections that people should be having if you guys ever seen a Bronx Tale?
I've said this before and I won't launch into my whole explanation for why I put it this way, but leftism is social decay. That's what it is.
I just tweeted, we need to start asking ourselves why young people are so desperate to be someone else instead of themselves? And it's gotten like in 9,000 retweets or whatever the funny thing though is the left responses immediately talking about trans issues, right, and I was just like I'm just, I was speaking generally.
I'm outright saying why are there people who are dying their skin? Why are there people who, who are trans? Why are there people who are trans species? Why are there people who create fake personas? Why are the people who use different names? Why, why don't they just want to develop who they are? And someone responded to me, a conservative person was like, it's normal for kids to want to be someone else, and then I'm just like, is that a projection, because when I was a kid, I didn't want to be anybody else that didn't exist in my mind. I was just, I just was what I was. There's a, there's a viral video from a show called The Good Doctor.
He's autistic, so he's like, you're a boy because you have xy chromosomes, not xx. And then the kid says, how did you know you were supposed to be a boy, other than you know, other than biology and he goes, that's your question makes no sense. I'm not supposed to be anything. I am a boy and I was like, that's a perfect line, you're not supposed to be anything. You, you're supposed to be who you are, what you are? Yeah, why are people so desperate, young people so desperate to not be themselves?
I think it's a large part of it, but some of this is being directed from within these, these children's own homes, because their parents have their own issues that they haven't sorted out, and that's even before social media, right? 1994, I mean, I, I agree with you. I think social media has a huge factor, and not just because of the incentives of it, but because you go from maybe you grew up wanting to be famous or you wanted to be you know successful, but now you want to be special and you're doing it in a way that is performative. It's, it's public in in a way that never existed before, I mean, I, you know, whether it's the media, whether it's kids growing up, the, the incentives of, of getting feedback from friends from family from fans in, in the moment, it's very hard to, I can't even imagine growing up in a, in a society where you are living in public and and you have in your mind the potential of is this the thing that's going to make me famous or special? And, and you're doing it on Instagram, you're doing all these platforms that, that have that ability. And then you're also doing it with all these, the, the normal pressures that you have with being a kid, right, in its school and dealing with things and then, and even with when it comes to, to bullying. And the, again, the normal things that you would just go through an elementary school in junior high and high school.
There's not an off switch anymore because of these platforms, you go home, you're still dealing with it online through DMs to other people tweeting and tick talking and sharing your post. It never goes away. So, we have an entire culture that's sick, right now and again when we talk about things like school shootings, this is part of the reason we've created a culture that is completely, completely ill and in needs a little bit of reformation. We've taken God out of people's lives.
I'm not saying that having a legal system doesn't work, that having police departments doesn't work, but what I am saying is the thing that works the best is the family, in the family unit.
I just gotta say to the rumble guys, it says Timcast IRL 500,000 followers, we, we don't have 500,000 followers on rumble. Wow, hold on, let me see what you have on rumble right now, 375 or 400 or something, you don't deserve a one of them advance, but the actual account has like a million or something.
Yeah, so uncovered is my book, read uncover.com, read uncover.com to find it. It doesn't just look at what happened the last seven years, but why it happened, how it happened, be prepared for when it happens again. I kind of give you the tools to do that.
I also have a podcast and live stream at the chain, the channel Shamer on rumble. So that's rumble.com/shamer if you'll want to go check that out, word.
