Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

If you wanna understand the collapse of Musk's free speech revolution, just go reread your copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm and remember how quickly the revolutionary animals reinstituted the old farms rules and hierarchies after they'd taken over and even invited the humans back on the farm.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which.

If you wanna understand the collapse of Musk's free speech revolution, just go reread your copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm and remember how quickly the revolutionary animals reinstituted the old farms rules and hierarchies after they'd taken over and even invited the humans back on the farm.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which.

He has a new book out and he's talking about, you know, he was with BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed obviously is going under. He was part of that whole 2010s media buildup.

Traffic, genius rivalry and delusion in the billion dollar race to go viral.

Yeah. And thanks for having me on and congratulations on the show.

When I was in, after I left BuzzFeed in 2019, I went to the Times and was their media columnist for a couple of years.

And I guess found myself feeling like it was, as you say, kind of the end of an era. But also then wondering kind of, okay, what was that? What did we all just live through? Where did it begin and why?

He has a new book out and he's talking about, you know, he was with BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed obviously is going under. He was part of that whole 2010s media buildup.

Traffic, genius rivalry and delusion in the billion dollar race to go viral.

When I was in, after I left BuzzFeed in 2019, I went to the Times and was their media columnist for a couple of years.

And I guess found myself feeling like it was, as you say, kind of the end of an era. But also then wondering kind of, okay, what was that? What did we all just live through? Where did it begin and why?

I encourage everybody to go buy the book. We'll have a link down in the description of this video.

It didn't occur to me that my depiction of the Oompa Loompas was racist, Dahl said back in 1973, but it did occur to the NAACP and others which is why I revised the book.

He did say he was quote mildly ashamed by the original depiction.

It didn't occur to me that my depiction of the Oompa Loompas was racist, Dahl said back in 1973, but it did occur to the NAACP and others which is why I revised the book.

He invoked the quote last days of the British Empire as he sought to explain the decision to originally depict the Oompa Loompas that way.

Maybe he would have been a little bit more body positive, but the changes to Dahl's books reflect something important about the broad issue of political correctness.

I have been an investigative reporter covering laboratory accidents for 15 years.

Pandora's Gamble is looking at the whole question of did COVID-19 come from a laboratory accident in the larger context of these kinds of accidents happen all the time?

On the Friday before Memorial Day in 2018 at Fort Dietrich, one of the premier labs run by the U.S. Army, USAMRIID, they had a wastewater tank, a 50,000 gallon wastewater tank, which by the way was rusting and had a variety of other problems.

And in the weeks before that happened, those labs had been working with anthrax, Ebola, Marburg virus. I mean, a variety of the most dangerous pathogens in the world.

But why that happened, other than that there were various safety issues, was not known until now.

So I have been an investigative reporter covering laboratory accidents for 15 years.

Pandora's Gamble is looking at the whole question of did COVID-19 come from a laboratory accident in the larger context of these kinds of accidents happen all the time?

On the Friday before Memorial Day in 2018 at Fort Dietrich, one of the premier labs run by the U.S. Army, USAMRIID, they had a wastewater tank, a 50,000 gallon wastewater tank, which by the way was rusting and had a variety of other problems. One of the pipes burst on it and it shot over a containment wall as much as 3,000 gallons of unsterilized laboratory waste.

And in the weeks before that happened, those labs had been working with anthrax, Ebola, Marburg virus. I mean, a variety of the most dangerous pathogens in the world.

The thing that's really concerning about accidents with Corona virus or various kinds of avian flu viruses are that those are pathogens that can spread from person to person.

we actually recently had richard reeves on to discuss his book Of Boys and Men and we got a tremendous response from our audience and it's something we want to tug on a little bit more

I don't think people realize his book, I think it was the Real Anthony Fauci, was one of the best selling books in the country for almost a year.

He sold at very least hundreds of thousands of copies, lots of copies.

So look, we don't have a way to know the exact number, but I would guess probably a million books that he was able to sell throughout the pandemic.

I don't think people realize his book, I think it was the Real Anthony Fauci, was one of the best selling books in the country for almost a year.

He sold at very least hundreds of thousands of copies, lots of copies.

So look, we don't have a way to know the exact number, but I would guess probably a million books that he was able to sell throughout the pandemic.

He's going on a tour. He's got a new book out. Apparently he's going to South Carolina and New Hampshire and Iowa.

He's got a new book out. Apparently he's going to South Carolina and New Hampshire and Iowa.

It's a fake excuse to go to Iowa.

I read the whole thing. Not one disparaging word about president Trump.

arming yourself with the concept quote small is all from a from Adrian marine Brown's Emergent Strategy framework outside of its global fractal context to resist taking responsibility for a larger scale intervention or growing your community group into a mass organization

arming yourself with the concept quote small is all from a from Adrian marine browns Emergent Strategy framework outside of its global fractal context to resist taking responsibility for a larger scale intervention or growing your community group into a mass organization

I'm reading this book I finally got around to it that This Will Not Pass the recent book about the January 6th and the first year of the Biden presidency and they talk there specifically about how Cheney and Romney and George W. Bush were all allied with Nancy Pelosi in order to speak out about Donald Trump

I'm reading this book I finally got around to it that This Will Not Pass the recent book about the January 6th and the first year of the Biden presidency and they talk there specifically about how Cheney and Romney and George W. Bush were all allied with Nancy Pelosi in order to speak out about Donald Trump

The book is full of nude cartoon teenagers having intercourse, giving each other oral sex and more.

Gender Queer is the most challenged book nationwide last fall, was the most challenged book, followed by a book called Flamer.

The left stokes this cultural war by putting porn in middle school and high school libraries, a critical race theory for five-year-olds, then defending it with the ACLU and with unions.

The book is full of nude cartoon teenagers having intercourse, giving each other oral sex and more.

Gender Queer is the most challenged book nationwide last fall, was the most challenged book, followed by a book called Flamer.

She got a new book out. It's a really fun book called Doppelganger.

I could offer a kind of equation for leftists and liberals crossing over to the neo-fascist and authoritarian right that goes something like narcissism times grandiosity plus social media addiction plus midlife crisis divided by public shaming equals right wing meltdown

Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History.

Todd, thanks so much for joining us. His new book out February 21st is called Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. He's also a senior national security fellow at the Conservative Center for Immigration Studies.

You wrote a Newsweek op-ed that I think we can get into and Ryan might even have some points of debate to bring up last week called I liked the title of it too. It was basically, I think it was called Joe Biden's magic trick.

The American public will indeed see sharp declines in the monthly illegal apprehension statistics following Biden's new moves on the border starting with the January report, which comes out next month. And the Biden administration will tout these as evidence of vastly improved border security thanks to new quote, enforcement system that it had just expanded. But this claim of enforcement success is founded on a purposeful accounting cheat. The illusion would impress Harry Houdini.

Pelosi has a book out on power.

That's true.

It just came out.

I desperately want to read this book.

I have a copy, I can give you one.

Jillian bought one at Costco.

She just put out a book, I think The Art of Power is what it's called. Is that what it's called?

Yes, that's right.

Something like that. The Art of Power.

Available at Costco, by the way. Recently saw it.

I did an interview with Nita Farahani recently who is super interesting, has that new book, Battle for Your Brain, out.

I did an interview with Nita Farahani recently who is super interesting, has that new book, Battle for Your Brain, out.

I think there's a book Surveillance Economy. I forget exactly It gets to much of what you're talking about I recommend people go and check it out but this really just shows The conundrum and the absolute Just weakness of the U.S. state Which is that you have this app Which is controlled by the CCP Which is now one of the most popular ones In the U.S. Our president at the time Idiotic president tried to do something About it but did it so foolishly And so terribly that everybody Just accepts that this is the case They can lie before Congress Or at least de facto admit That they are controlled by a foreign adversary And nobody will do anything about it That is just you know That's America to me the story Okay let's move on Baldwin

I think there's a book Surveillance Economy. I forget exactly. It gets to much of what you're talking about.

Dinners with Ruth

the story about her long friendship with RBG makes me very uncomfortable as far as I'm concerned both women practice their professions with integrity in old time value that is being questioned these days

she recently published a book called Dinners with Ruth in which she goes through her 40 year friendship with the late justice openly admits as the Politico editor Michael Schaefer writes that she had inside knowledge about Ginsburg's health that she did not report to the nation

Totenberg revealed that during the COVID lockdown the only place that RBG would go to break quarantine was Totenberg's house for a weekly Saturday dinner

in the July of 2020 she was so weak she could not even climb upstairs she could not make it through a meal without falling asleep and she had to wear gloves to cover up massive bruises on her hands as a result of IVs that she needed

Totenberg writes that RBG openly acknowledged her own mortality and thought she was going to die near the end and all of this is a painful memory one friend of another

the story about her long friendship with RBG makes me very uncomfortable as far as I'm concerned both women practice their professions with integrity in old time value that is being questioned these days

Operation Pineapple Express, the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan.

in April an urgent call was placed from a special operations operator.

Operation Pineapple Express, the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan.

in April an urgent call was placed from a special operations operator.

Actually my boss, my having way wrote a great book about this called Rigged which a lot of people would look at be like on the left they'll look at them be like this is crazy like blah blah you read the book.

the roughly 400 million dollars that he had put into boosting quote electoral infrastructure

This is the language of the time magazine story

Zuckerberg in this letter, Joe Jim Jordan said he doesn't agree with those analyses but he won't be contributing nonetheless

in the context of all of the concerns about what happened that is a response I think probably most prominently to my former boss Molly Hemingway who wrote a book basically about what happened after Zuckerberg made those contributions called Rigged

Nick is the author of a stunning but not surprising new series of reports over in The Intercept about Henry Kissinger and Vietnam. Again, I say stunning but not surprising. It's called Kissinger's Killing Fields.

You can read Nick's story in The Intercept. You can also go get his book, Kill Anything That Moves.

Nick is the author of a stunning but not surprising new series of reports over in The Intercept about Henry Kissinger and Vietnam. Again, I say stunning but not surprising. It's called Kissinger's Killing Fields.

You can read Nick's story in The Intercept. You can also go get his book, Kill Anything That Moves.

I'm actually going to talk about Katie Couric's memoir. She had an Epstein dinner.

So when Couric's new memoir came out...I was actually really curious what was really going on at the iconic morning show behind the scenes.

In fact, she might be on average more ethical in principle than most in the industry, having done some genuinely good things...things like raise millions for cancer research after her husband died of cancer at a young age.

And yet, buffeted by the realities of corporate media and access journalism, she perpetuated the very worst of our media hellscape.

But there's a story that's woven throughout this book that I think really gets to the root of how the media operates and why anchors and journalists prefer to punch down rather than to ever hold the powerful to account.