https://youtube.com/live/-lHdJseXSiA

Yeah, that's kind of a fear.

Getting pigeonholed.

But I really like the Wayne's World reference since we're in Chicago.

It's probably... we are not

worthy

by pre-date picture of my audience.

Um, but, uh, one of, one of the greatest movies of all time, probably my, my camera has like the tone now, which is past.

Um, but yeah, it's, uh, it's interesting points about, you know, how you had that gentleman who's doing stuff on Tik TOK.

I could never figure out a billion years trying to make something bite worthy on Tik TOK.

It's like literally Mandarin to me.

Um, and a bit of a pun, but the, uh, The tail-long question on that for me, the final question about that strain is independent media is kind of ahead of the game in a lot of ways, right? Like you mentioned, and I look at something like the war with Iran, the war on Iran, where people like Dan Davis or Judge Napolitano or any number of well-sourced, what I would call actual journalists doing real old-school journalism, although not tied to the corporate entities, are getting information out in front of what the government wants to release.

And that creates, shall we say, heartburn or a headache.

And one of my worries, one of my chief worries, now that primarily that this is my job now, is that at some point, there will be like a crackdown on independent journalism from the security state itself.

I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but it's something that sticks in the back of my head.

And I'm just wondering what your guys' thoughts about the accounts for that might be.

Yeah, well, I mean, that's already underway.

I mean, there's going to be a panel this afternoon about whistleblowers and the risks that they've taken.

Guys we were just having breakfast with talking about their run in with the legal system and the state, you know, weaponizing itself against them.

Yeah, it's a risk that people, you know, in this space already live with, you know, just in the conversations we had last night, hearing people's stories who have done this for longer than we have.

Yeah.

And, you know, who are more journalists than we are? I mean, we're in the commentary space.

Every once in a while we'll cover events or something.

I suppose that's journalism of a kind.

But, you know, we're not contacting sources on encrypted platforms and digging into stories.

We kind of keep a distance from it in the way that a lot of people do.