Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

She wrote such a great book called Dope Sick on the origins of this crisis.

She's based down in Southwestern Virginia around Roanoke.

This is one of the things a fantastic author, Beth Macy, she wrote such a great book called Dope Sick on the origins of this crisis.

She's based down in Southwestern Virginia around Roanoke.

So right next door to West Virginia, that whole area has been hit so incredibly hard as has Kentucky.

All of Appalachia has been hit so incredibly hard.

And she really traces it back to people who were doing hard physical labor and they had terrible chronic pain.

I read this book that we bought in, I bought in 2019. It was called A Bright Future by Josh Goldstein and by Stefan Skobest, a Swedish nuclear scientist.

The book is very simple, lays out the facts where we came from in 1980, 2000 and now 2020 period to 2050.

And looking ahead, we just aren't going to make it. The atmosphere is going to get warmer and we're not getting rid of the carbon dioxide pollution that's all over the world.

And that's what this book is.

I read this book that we bought in, I bought in 2019. It was called A Bright Future by Josh Goldstein and by Stefan Skowist, a Swedish nuclear scientist.

The book is very simple, lays out the facts where we came from in 1980, 2000, and now 2020 period to 2050.

And looking ahead, we just aren't going to make it. The atmosphere is going to get warmer and we're not getting rid of the carbon dioxide pollution that's all over the world.

Oh, you didn't see this? No, I didn't. Oh, go watch the movie trailer. Oh my god, it's really something...

Oh, you didn't see this? No, I didn't. Oh, go watch the movie trailer. Oh my god, it's really something.

...but you know, they're definitely for Republican state control the House and Senate, they're gonna be doing a whole Hunter Biden investigation if it wasn't for the insane crackdown and concerted like media effort to stifle any sort of conversation about this I don't know that all of this has the same energy that it does now.

I was saying that the book, from my perspective, is extraordinarily well done. There's clearly a lot of talent went into it. I think the writing, the storytelling, the research are all impressive.

The craft is something that's really important and often is invisible for a general audience. They feel like, okay, this is a good book. I like it. It's fun. It's good pacing.

The main storyline in the book is tracing the arc of ideological development on the far left from the 1970s to the present, more or less.

For all of their faults, Davis, Cleaver, referring to Angela Davis, and black revolutionaries at least grappled with and appealed to the black lumpenproletariat. The critical race theorists, on the other hand, treat them like lepers.

The major corporations have made a simple calculation. They've achieved all of their desires from the political right on economics, tax cuts, free trade, deregulation. And so, they are looking to appease their potential enemies from the political left on culture.

what I would say is that the most dangerous thing about the book is how good it is.

It's not dangerous from my perspective. To me, the worldview that it articulates and advocates for is kind of nihilistic and antisocial, but it does it in such an impressively structured way.

It's like it's a piece of intellectual heft that has to be grappled with.

And I think it's filled with contradictions that hopefully we can--some which I think you'll agree with me on. Probably. And some of which you won't, but I'm curious to see how this goes.

I have another book out that you should look at called Died Suddenly that goes through all the Johns Hopkins data, which is the dashboard data that everybody uses and shows exactly what happened when the first of all, the even the vaccine, the case Western study that is probably the largest most recent shows that at most the vaccine gives you a very, very small amount of protection and that after seven months you go into negative efficacy.

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

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

It's not like there wasn't precedent for this in history. RFK says we need to save the Democratic Party from LBJ, Vietnam. The country is a disaster. Richard Nixon is going to win if I don't do this comes in.

I literally have the RFK book right behind me.

That's right. I've got the Bob Novak book behind me.

I've got the Bob Novak book behind me.

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published a landmark book. It was titled Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man.

the medium is the message

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published a landmark book. It was titled Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man.

The medium is the message.

Kevin Gostula, who's written a new book called Guilty of Journalism, he's doing a webinar.

He has authored a new book called I'll burn that bridge when I get to it heretical thoughts on identity politics cancel culture and academic Freedom,

You can get my book I from sublation SUV LAT I own don't ask me what that means I don't know separation calm or From Amazon and you just google my name I have a I have a presence and you'll figure it out if you can at the end of this show I'll send you a link for the access to book

And I'll tell you I've gone through Abraham X Kendi in my current book. You'll note I devote a hundred pages to his Books they're really comics, but let's call them books.

I wrote the book for the left. I Wrote the book because I wanted to make a statement to the new generations about what's you know, which way to go forward?

And a large part of the book is trying to convey what was good from my life's involvement politics and what was problematic and what was dead wrong and to say Try to avoid making the mistakes I make

I'll burn that bridge when I get to it: heretical thoughts on identity politics, cancel culture, and academic freedom.

I've gone through Abraham X. Kendi in my current book. You'll note I devote 100 pages to his books. They're really comics, but let's call them books. I go through it line by line.

I don't think that should be taught in college. I don't think it should be taught in grade school, high school, college - no. That to me, that to me is a complete corruption. It's a corruption of language, it's a corruption of thought.

I wrote the book for the left. I wrote the book because I wanted to make a statement to the new generations about what's, you know, which way to go forward?

I saw a lot of hope, a lot of promise, and I saw a lot of sabotage, and the book is about the sabotage.

every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse

every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

The Snowflakes' Revolt, how woke millennials hijacked American media.

What we uncovered and you know, what I write about in the book is the fact that the entire system of the WHCA is set up to benefit establishment and corporate media outlets.

I think the major problem in the media is that it's become an echo chamber filled with people who all basically have the same background.

The Snowflakes' Revolt, how woke millennials hijacked American media.

What we uncovered and you know, what I write about in the book is the fact that the entire system of the WHCA is set up to benefit establishment and corporate media outlets.

That's part of what Kevin Ruess talked about, the tech reporter for the New York Times who wrote a book about where some of this is going.

That's part of what Kevin Roose talked about, the tech reporter for the New York Times who wrote a book about where some of this is going.

The problem is that people see these coincidences. One of the new ones is the Ebola lab leak, which also is being blamed on us because we have been studying Ebola in Kenema and Sierra Leone.

And lo and behold, Ebola emerged just a few miles from there in 2014, right? Obviously across the border in Guinea, but it's maybe 100 miles or so away.

In the first place, it was reported that the index case of the outbreak, Emil Wamono, was a two-year-old child who they alleged was involved in the hunting and grilling and eating of bats that transmitted the virus to the child.

So that did not hold up.

So I traveled from Sierra Leone to Guinea and then met family members of Emil, the father. I spoke to the father who was never at the time mentioned by any of the reports. And that is what I documented in my book, basically part of the book or the main aspect of the book is to challenge that dominant narrative.

The problem is that people see these coincidences. One of the new ones is the Ebola lab leak, which also is being blamed on us because we have been studying Ebola in Kenema and Sierra Leone. And lo and behold, Ebola emerged just a few miles from there in 2014, right? Obviously across the border in Guinea, but it's maybe 100 miles or so away.

So I traveled from Sierra Leone to Guinea and then met family members of Emil, the father. I spoke to the father who was never at the time mentioned by any of the reports.

In the first place, it was reported that the index case of the outbreak, Emil Wamono, was a two-year-old child who they alleged was involved in the hunting and grilling and eating of bats that transmitted the virus to the child.

And that is what I documented in my book, basically part of the book or the main aspect of the book is to challenge that dominant narrative.

So I knew from my work as a journalist in the region that Kenema had been the center of biodefense research way back in 2004, subsequent to the anthrax incident here that increasing increased funding was going on.

It's a book that I have read, Crystal as well. It's a fantastic account.

Incredibly detailed.

It is not biased really in any way and just goes through who David Thibodeau is, the story of his interactions with David Koresh, and then a step-by-step account of exactly what happened during that siege.

One of the things I thought was really important about your book is it was a dispassionate view and a step-by-step case, not only of what happened at the compound, the events that led up to it, but eventually many of the dismantling the mainstream media's coverage of the FBI, the ATF, and the actions that they took on the initial raid.

It's a book that I have read, Crystal as well. It's a fantastic account.

Incredibly detailed.

It is not biased really in any way and just goes through who David Thibodeau is, the story of his interactions with David Koresh, and then a step-by-step account of exactly what happened during that siege.

It's called Future Proof. It's around the shelf behind me. And it's all about these kinds of jobs that I feel like are protected.

It's called Future Proof. It's around the shelf behind me. And it's all about these kinds of jobs that I feel like are protected.