Radio Show Hour 2 – 05/20/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Extremely dangerous to our democracy. Unverified emails about Hunter Biden published by the New York Post about foreign business dealings are part of the bigger Russian disinformation. Russian disinformation. This version of Biden is the best Biden ever. He's sharp. He's focused. He's bright.

[00:00:42] I don't have any concern. You can't trust FEMA and trust basic weather reports, for example. Elon Musk has also pushed lies about the hurricane to his millions of followers. They set us the fuck up. That's what it is. They set us the fuck up. Antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak. So now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective. The mRNA vaccine, highly effective. Extraordinarily efficacious.

[00:01:12] 94 to 95 percent for mild to moderate disease and virtually 100 percent efficacious. Because the real world effectiveness is even more impressive than the results of the clinical trial. This is bigger than news. It's about truth. It's about freedom. It's about having the courage to say, we've had enough. Hi, I'm Sam Anthony, founder of Your News. For decades, the media told us what to think.

[00:01:41] They censored what didn't fit their agenda. They silenced anyone who stepped out of line. We're not waiting for permission anymore. We're building a platform that puts truth back in your hands. Where every citizen can speak freely, report honestly, and be heard. This is how we decentralize media. This is how we democratize truth. If you believe in freedom, if you believe in people, join us. Invest in your news.

[00:02:11] Let's take it back. Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. Sam Anthony and crew do a phenomenal job changing the landscape of the media. There's so many people getting into the media now. It's unprecedented. Really, the bottom line is we're catching them at all their lives. Think about what they just told you. They're like, ah, we got these vaccines. Hey, the real world is better than the case studies we've done. Well, they didn't do case studies. It was an experimental vaccine.

[00:02:40] They experimented on the people. Got caught doing it. Now Rand Paul's trying to prosecute Anthony Fauci. That's one that we really, really need to get done, too. The bottom line is, folks, it's truth versus error. It's honesty versus lies. And the new media is taking center stage. They can't stop it unless they literally shut us down, shadow ban, whatever, control all of us.

[00:03:07] They'd have to shut down the whole Internet because a lot of us, even Parler, for example, got shut down. And now they've rebuilt and come back and said, hey, we're shutdown proof. Now, I don't believe they're shutdown proof. I'm an IT guy for a living. And I'm telling you right now, the second you say that, somebody will take a challenge and shut you down. So be careful saying that kind of stuff. However, they have made it a lot more robust. And we're adapting and changing and growing. And there's no stopping us now.

[00:03:31] The question becomes how quick and how much and how big of a slog will it be along the way? Sam Anthony with me, yournews.com. He's the founder, CEO, and president of a parent company that's got your news and another collateral there. But you can be involved in this solution. That piece we played, Sam Anthony, is really a promo for people to get involved, right? Yeah. As a matter of fact, it just was created and sent to me last night. So it hasn't been aired anywhere.

[00:04:00] I just sent it off to you to listen. I didn't know you were going to play it. So I played the audio. It doesn't do it justice without the video, though. Tell people about that. And then when will they be able to see it? Well, you know, the video piece is, you know, as you were watching. And this is a promo that would be played on, like, you know, as a pre-roll on Rumble or YouTube or, you know, could be on Meta or wherever we decide we want to play it. It could be on Instagram. We also have a vertical one.

[00:04:29] I think I sent you the horizontal one, which it just depends on the platform. But what this is designed is to build brand awareness and to let people know that we're doing something called an equity crowdfund. And I do want to share that with you because, you know, my background is investment banking. It's raising capital. And normally, you know, like all the tech giants that are out there, I mean, they all came from Silicon Valley. I mean, all the money was raised through Silicon Valley. They funded these things with massive amounts of money to be able to scale them.

[00:04:58] And, you know, that's why, you know, all these companies are owned by all institutional players like BlackRock and Vanguard. And the reason we're in the mess we're in today and, like, at the beginning of that video started with St. Clair Broadcasting with those 50 TVs all saying the same thing at the same time. Well, we all know that it came from one person at corporate, and they're just reading it off in the different markets from a teleprompter.

[00:05:24] I mean, that's the reason we're in the mess today because there's no independent journalism anymore. Everything is corporate owned, and it's much easier to control six institutions than it is to control 20,000 independent news people, right? So, you know, what we do at the end of the day is completely decentralize the media business, and we democratize who gets to say it, you know? And that's the whole key to this whole game, decentralization and democratization.

[00:05:53] So the reason we're doing the equity crowdfund, because it's definitely different, is when you sell – when you're selling something pre-IPO before you go public, you're doing a capital raise. It's called a private placement. And you could only sell to accredited investors, which means, you know, it represents 1% of the population, Sam. Basically, it's like nobody can – And hold on. It represents the rich 1% too because to be in that status, you've got to have some real mojo, right? Oh, yeah.

[00:06:23] So that's why, you know, all the big players just keep making more money because nobody – like you never got a call from Silicon Valley saying, look, we have this thing called Amazon or eBay or Facebook that we're going to be taking public in a couple of years, and you could buy stock for a buck or two. That call never happened because you're not going to participate. It all goes – you're not part of the good old boys club, Sam. Neither am I.

[00:06:43] So what equity crowdfunds allow is they allow everybody to be able to participate because it's done through a brokerage firm. So we use a platform called Issuance Express, but it's still owned by North Capital Partners, which is a broker-dealer, which means you have to go through all their scrutiny. It took me almost eight months to complete this and a lot of money. I mean, background checks, audits, everything, because there's no way a brokerage firm is going to get involved with something they think might be a problem.

[00:07:13] So they become liable. So all the background checks were done, and once that's done and you could actually go out and raise capital, people could spend $200 and everywhere in between. The reason that I decided we wanted this done was because I didn't want anybody to have a big enough power over us. It's one thing if you take – you raise five or 10 million people at $1,000 a pop, right? Nobody has any real control.

[00:07:41] But if you have institutional players that come in, you're signing their deals. They're not signing you. So if they – yours. So if they want to – if they want to replace you or get rid of you or they want to sell the company – and I'll give you a perfect example. I have a friend of mine that runs a $100 million private equity fund, and he's one of us, Sam. But he said if George Soros came in and offered $2 billion for this investment, we would take it. Did you hear what I just said?

[00:08:06] Yeah, and he would almost have to because if he didn't, everybody else would riot and force him to and shut him out. And there's no end to the ability they have to manipulate contracts at that level, right? Exactly. So when I went to the Reawaken America tour in Miami, I looked around. There were 5,000 people there. They were all MAGA people. I said, these are the people that really need to own my product, not institutional players.

[00:08:30] You know, I mean, I'm sure you've heard of Public Square, you know, which was a – you know, they're trying to become the next Amazon. And, you know, when you look at the ownership, because they did a SPAC, almost 40% of the company is owned by Vanguard. I mean, that's the point. I mean, if you look at Rumble even and you look at the institutional money in Rumble, it's BlackRock and Vanguard. They own the bulk of it. It's not their fault.

[00:08:56] I mean, if I were to go out and raise capital via a broker-dealer like doing a private placement like, you know, like they would do at Silicon Valley, all the money would be institutional money. They don't go to people and say, put in $500, put in $1,000. They're getting big money. Excuse me. Hold on. Sorry about that. So, anyway, the reason we're doing the Equity Crowd Fund is because we want the people to own the product, not the institutional players.

[00:09:26] That's the reason. And that's where the decentralization happens, ladies and gentlemen. You can't just decentralize the product or the news or the service. You've got to decentralize the funding and the money and the control as well. And I think that's where a lot of people make a mistake. They start out well. They eventually get some angel person that comes in. They think they're the benefactor and they're going to save them or protect them or help them. And lo and behold, it's really nothing but a back-end takeover scenario.

[00:09:52] And you end up on the outside of your own organization if you're not incredibly careful, Sam. Yeah, no, I get it. So here's the thing. You know, like I've been doing this for a while. So I completely understand my model. I know exactly what to do. I mean, you don't bring on 700 news reporters in the last four or five months without knowing what you're doing. So the next step is we need to scale that up to, you know, to 2,000 and then to 10,000 and then to 50,000 and 100,000.

[00:10:20] And we need to become the next mainstream media. So that's the ultimate goal is to build a platform that allows everybody to contribute, everybody to have a voice for local news reporting. Could be, you know, news could be, you know, could be submitted freely without censorship. All right, go ahead and skip the break. Continue, Sam. Oh, yeah.

[00:10:44] And so ultimately, at the end of the day, what we do as the legacy media goes away, there's a void that needs to be filled. And I don't know if you know this, Sam. I don't know if I ever showed you this. But on LinkedIn Navigator, if you were to type in freelance journalist, there's almost 500,000 people that are calling themselves freelance. For the audience, that means I don't have a job. Okay, that's what it means. They're part of the downsizing of the legacy media.

[00:11:10] There is 170,000 student journalists on LinkedIn, which means that there's probably a half a million that are coming out of school, the journalism school. And Sam, honestly, everybody's laying people off in the media industry. Who's going to hire these kids? And I know you know the answer, nobody, right?

[00:11:28] So ultimately, at the end of the day, because we could serve content to a specific city or a county, we could have hundreds of thousands of news reporters all over the United States. Because, you know, you could have people in Schaumburg, Illinois reporting or their passion might be a food critic or a theater critic. Or maybe they want to do, you know, local news, like talk about local businesses opening in the area. Maybe they write about travel. Maybe they write about faith.

[00:11:58] The point is that it's very broad in scope, but it's the content that drives the readership. So what all news organizations are is they're aggregators. What we are is an aggregator of the same content. We just have the ability to print it all because there's zero cost and we can organize it all by subject and geography. City, county, market, state, regional, national. Not only can we organize it by subject and all these different things, folks.

[00:12:24] Remember, all the mainstream press did was buy all the local newspapers, put national stories on it. No one cared because it wasn't local and it was just regurgitation stuff. Now you're going to make these communities alive once again because you're going to have people with passion, people with real desire, people with a real belief in what they're doing at the local level. You're going to revitalize local. And that's one of the biggest keys to success.

[00:12:52] Well, that's what's important to people is really what's happening in the community. Look, you could get the Monday night football game anywhere, Sam. Can't get the high school football game anywhere. Right. And that's the point. And this drills down right down to the local where it could be if somebody wants me to publish their kids literally game, which I used to get that like in North Palm Beach, Florida. We had a bunch of teams use it a long time ago. It's kind of fun. But that's what I'm talking about. It's all the organization of information.

[00:13:18] And it's really a business model called the newspaper business model, which has been around for 200 years. I mean, the model works. We just replicated it online and created a more efficient marketplace for everybody. Put the power to press in the hands of the people. That's what I say. So at the end of the day, as the legacy media falters, it creates a void. And we fill that void and we're the only players in this space. I should know that. Okay.

[00:13:47] Now, let me tell you one of the other interesting things for people to understand about this. You look at the Glenn Beck's of the world. You look at the Bill O'Reilly's of the world. You look at the I mean, I can go on and on of all the people that have been let go. Right. And when they're with their corporate entity control, they use the velvet hammer against them, which means we bring in and tell you how special and incredible you are. But let's not talk about the IRS, Sam. Let's. And so it's a velvet hammer. It's like, hey, you're going to get a raise. You're growing. You're doing incredible.

[00:14:15] But you got to follow these guidelines and don't do that. And yes, do this. And the velvet hammer hits very soft and hard at the same time. Okay. Now, the reason I bring that up is because you look at Glenn Beck's trajectory or some of these other people and you go, they were toeing the line, telling the lies when they were getting a big check from the mainstream. Once they leave, every one of them goes truth teller on us. It seems how far they go is yet to be seen as truth comes to power.

[00:14:44] But it's very interesting how their whole motif changes. The reason I bring this up is because these citizen reporters that are coming to fruition, thousands of them, they won't have the velvet hammer over them. That means truth in reporting comes back, sir. Exactly. Sam, I want to share something with you that I think your audience is going to need to know.

[00:15:07] I got a call from a woman out of Tampa that was a – she's an investigative journalist. She's been doing it for like 30 years. And she was aggravated because the newspaper she works for, when she would go out and she said, Sam, I might work on this story six months to a year. And I put – she goes, I'm ethical and I put – I dot all my ads and I cross all my T's and this is a big story. She goes, do you know the process of how this works?

[00:15:37] I go, no, fill me in. She goes, well, if you bring it in to the editor, the editor then gives it to a review board. Sam, you ever heard of a review board before? Yes, I have. Okay, no, I have a backup story. Call the review board a shutdown board, a streamlined board, a put it through the matrix of what we're going to gatekeep board, and there you have it. Well, she told me the review board could nix the story because maybe it's a big advertiser.

[00:16:04] Maybe it's somebody's brother, I mean, or relative, you know, whatever it is. And then that story doesn't get run, and that was what was upsetting to her because there was a review board. So I was on with Sarah Westall and Alex Newman, and we were – Alex is a journalist. Alex Newman, another dear friend that joins us regularly. Great guy. Go ahead, sir. Now, Alex just sits on my advisory board. I don't know if you know that. It makes sense. I said, yeah, I said, Alex, is that true?

[00:16:32] He goes, Sam, it's even worse. Yeah, that's what he said. He goes, it's even worse. He goes, you know what they could do with your story? They could completely change the story and make it the opposite of what you said so it wasn't even what you wrote, and you can't do nothing about it because you work for them. They pay your salary. And you know what else they can do? They can make your life hell via the velvet hammer behind the scenes while they spike your story. Just ask Megyn Kelly.

[00:17:00] You know, ask Amy Robach and Jeffrey Epstein. There you go. That story was going to go that day, and they nixed it. Think about it. So it's the powers to be. So let me tell you how our platform works, and this is why it's important, because the news reporter is the review board. They look at their story. They go, is this the way you want it? Yes, it is. Well, we approve it. Boom. And it's gone. How do you like that?

[00:17:30] Ladies and gentlemen, things are changing. Now, tell me this then. With your organization, people can become citizens and journalists. All they need to do is go to yournews.com. They can download a form, fill it out, and submit it so you can kind of know who's who and keep track and set up an account for them. Is that how it works? Yes. So there's two types of content creators. We have non-monetized and monetized. Non-monetized would be, you know, somebody wants to post a classified or maybe like nonprofits have events, PR firms like have clients that are looking for press coverage.

[00:17:59] Maybe, you know, a lawyer just made partner at some law firm. I mean, that's stuff we don't pay people for. That's you. You just go to yournews.com. There's a green button that's up at the top. Submit your news. You create an account and you do it. For the people who actually want to do news reporting and get a monetized account, you would go to the bottom of the page of yournews.com, all the way at the bottom, and it says become a citizen journalist. You click it, scroll down, and there's an application. You fill it out.

[00:18:28] Once you get approved, you'll get an email with instructions on how to use your dashboard. It is freaking simple. So just like YouTube, you could go to YouTube right now, rumble, bit shoot, and you could create and you could become a broadcaster. You create an account, you become a broadcaster, and the cream ultimately is going to rise to the top. So if you have a show on YouTube and nobody watches it, chances are you're not good. That's all it is, right?

[00:18:58] Or chances are you've been shadow banned and controlled where they don't want to shut you down and make a big stink, but they want to manipulate the reality. That's a possibility, too. It certainly is. But that's the point, is that how do I know that somebody who signs up anywhere in America isn't going to start reporting news and really become good at it? And as we grow and expand, they start making more money, and this becomes their lifelong ambition.

[00:19:26] They all of a sudden are a local news reporter, and they never even thought they were going to do it before. So yeah, I have no problem with that. I mean, this is what this is all about. I mean, think of Uber. Before Uber came out, you had yellow cab. And did you think, Sam, of ever becoming a cab driver? No. But all of a sudden, how many Uber drivers are there driving around the globe right now? Like 10 million? I mean, so you never know who's going to want to be a local news reporter.

[00:19:57] You never know who's going to want to be one, and you also never know who's going to be good, and you're also never going to know who's going to make the time. A lot of people are, you know, they're like a big star. They come out really bright, but they peter out, and they're gone. You look at people like Alex Newman or myself, and, you know, hey, we've been at it for years and years and years. And so one of the important things to understand about all this, people, is, hey, the cream's going to rise to the top. That's true.

[00:20:21] But we also need a mechanism by which the cream can be allowed to rise to the top. Right now, the shadow banning and the manipulation, it's like, hey, the gatekeepers still think they have control. I've got news for them, though. They're losing control. We're coming for them. And it's going to be truth to power. And the ones who are telling the truth are going to be the ones that are at the top, the ones who can deliver in a funny, unique, educational, honest way, the ones who can let their personality shine through.

[00:20:51] Those are the ones that are going to make it, sir. No question about it. Yeah. And by the way, in terms of sheer reach and numbers, alternative media is really the new mainstream media. You guys are it. I mean, you know, when Joe Rogan is bigger than all three networks combined, give me a break. OK, so. Well, and Joe Rogan didn't even start out to be a broadcaster in the first place. It just kind of happened, right? He fell into it. He was dang good at it. Yep. And that's all it is.

[00:21:21] And, you know, people like his format. They like what he has to say. They enjoy it. It's entertainment for them. And they watch them in the and. And by the way, did you see the numbers that came out from ad week about a month ago on network TV? Just that the numbers are way down. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you where they are, what they were, because I saw the numbers are dismal. It was Fox News was number one at three million people for the quarter.

[00:21:49] Now, can I stop you for a minute, though, and say number one at three million is it is a joke. And that's insane. That's an all time low, people. Yeah. Well, that's not the real news. OK. MSNBC was second with a million, a little over a million for the quarter. CNN was third at college 600,000. I think it was 588. But here's the this is what I've been saying. The average age of the cable news viewer and terrestrial radio is 70 plus. Not a secret. It's just the way it is.

[00:22:19] So there's a limited lifespan for everybody, no matter who it is. I mean, I'm part of the baby boomers. But the age demographic, this is the news between 25 and 54, which probably represents 120 or 130 million people, the viewership for all three networks for three months combined. I'm just adding them all was just over 500,000 people. Did you hear that? Say that again. I heard it. But say it again.

[00:22:49] OK. The demographic between the age of 25 and 54, which basically represents like 25 percent of the population, 28, 30 percent of the population. There was only 500,000 viewers in three months on all three networks total. Like like Fox had 380 and CNN had 79,000 and MSNBC at 53. Those were the actual numbers. So add those three up. Yeah.

[00:23:19] It reminds you of Bruno Mars. They're talking to the moon, buddy. Yeah. I mean, that's that's my point. So what do you do when the whole age demographic is all now 90? OK. Or 85? I mean, you know, most of their audience is going to be gone. The point is, is I have a kid. My kid's 30 years old. He doesn't have a television. He's married with two grandkids of mine. And you know how they watch cartoons? On tablets.

[00:23:47] There's no TV on the wall. I'm like, how do you not have a TV on the wall? He's like, well, we don't have. Well, what do I need a TV for, Sam? Sam? That's my point. I don't want cable. I don't have satellite. That's like, you know, that stuff belongs in the Smithsonian. What do I need a TV for, sir? That's the mentality of the next generation, ladies and gentlemen. We better get used to it. We better get used to it fast. But hey, man, we're making progress in very meaningful, productive ways. When we come back, I'm going to have Richard Mack join us, too. The good sheriff will join us.

[00:24:17] Get his input on this. But I also want to talk about this idea about the news. Okay? What is news going to be going forward? Right now, it seems like we have to have shorter and shorter and shorter vignettes to deliver. But what's the future? I'm going to talk about how I think we can revive long-form reporting as well. Sam Anthony with me. Yournews.com. Hang tight. More in seconds. Liberty. Roundtable Live.

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[00:30:18] Live and on your radio, ladies and gentlemen, Sam Bushman, SamAnthony, yournews.com. We also welcome to the roundtable the good sheriff, Richard Mack. What is it? Happy anniversary? Welcome, sir. Thank you, Sam. It's great to be with you this beautiful Tuesday morning on Big 5-0 for the lovely Don and myself. 50 years married, SamAnthony, for the good sheriff today, and he takes time out of his busy schedule to join us on the radio.

[00:30:48] Well, I have to tell you, she was bossing me around a little bit this morning, so I told her she was going to be really lucky if I was going to stick with her another 50 years. There you have it. Very interesting, though. So Sheriff Mack's taking time out of his anniversary day, believe it or not, to spend a little bit of time with us. We're talking about yournews.com, the incredible news site. I'm a writer for the citizen reporter for the organization as well. I don't take any credit. SamAnthony built it.

[00:31:18] It's tremendous. It really upends the mainstream press like never before, and they've got ways people can become citizen journalists. You've also got ways people can help fund this effort. When does that all start, Sam? Well, it already is in motion. That's what we've been doing is, you know, we do this thing called an equity crowdfund. And, you know, we decided to raise capital, you know, from we the people who are funding this versus the institutions.

[00:31:45] So people are familiar with, I think it's Angel Studios where, you know, they do movies and they do it via something called an equity crowdfund. So you're still buying stock. It's not a donation. But the way they would do it is they just go to yournews.com and scroll down to the bottom. And there's a thing that says invest, which takes it to a portal, which is called issuance express, where you could read all about it. And then if you like what you hear, you can make an investment and it could be anything from $200 on up. That's how it works. All right. There you have it.

[00:32:14] So we're talking about taking the news cycle back to the American people. The First Amendment citizen reporting taking center stage, Sheriff Mack. You've seen a lot of articles and a lot of this. I've forwarded you several things from it and everything else. And, man, they've got 700-plus reporters over the last several months, and it's growing by leaps and bounds. Sheriff Mack. Now, explain to me what the 700 reporters means.

[00:32:43] I mean, most – even New York Times doesn't have that many. Okay. Do you want me to – I'll explain it to you, Sheriff Mack. So we're a unique product. My website, when you log in, looks like the Arizona Republic or the Miami Herald or the Chicago Tribune, but I'm in every city in the United States with the ability to target ads by zip code.

[00:33:10] We're a news content distribution platform, so I could run a story to a city, to a county, to a market, state, regional, or national. So the reason I say we have 700 – I think it's a total of 710 news reporters is – remember, there's 20,000 cities in the United States. There's like 3,300 counties. So if I only have five news reporters in a city, and we all know that Phoenix is going to take more than five people, you're talking 100,000 news reporters.

[00:33:37] So the legacy media, what you probably don't see, but I'm in the business, is LinkedIn Navigator. If you were to type in freelance journalists, there's almost 500,000 people that are calling themselves freelancers. Most of them are part of the downsizing of the legacy media. In addition, there's 170,000 student journalists which are on LinkedIn, but there's probably a half a million coming out of school, and nobody's hiring these people.

[00:34:05] So when I say we have 700 journalists, the news reporters that we bring on are monetized news reporters, and the way our platform works is very similar to YouTube, where you know how on YouTube you could become a broadcaster, and then if you get a big enough audience, you could share in the ad revenue? What we bring on is news reporters or content creators. So somebody could write a story about the high school football game in, I don't know, Glendale plays Scottsdale,

[00:34:32] and that content's going to be distributed in the sports section to the call it Maricopa County market. And then what happens is they share that on their social media pages to people that follow them because they like their content. We sell the ads. They get a percentage of the ad revenue. So the content creators ultimately, at the end of the day, what I do will replace the legacy media. There's no other player in my space. So that's what I say we have 700 news reporters.

[00:35:01] We have 700 monetized news reporters and growing. So by the end of this year, I want to get it to 5,000. That's my goal. Wow. Yeah. And that's just the beginning. What a corporation. There's 20,000 cities. I haven't even covered a quarter of the United States. I haven't even started. Think about that. So here's the interesting thing, Sheriff, in the past for the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association,

[00:35:27] you and I have worked together and we basically paid people for press release opportunities and worked with a press release company. This can circumvent all that because you can literally create an account that's free and you can post your own press releases. I know it's the web and I know it doesn't have distribution everywhere. But as the mainstream press dies, this becomes more relevant day by day, Sheriff. Wow. What an amazing operation. My goodness. How did you have time to be on the show with us?

[00:35:57] Well, no, this is, I mean, look, what I do, you know, I'm kind of the front guy. So I'm out talking about what we're doing and how it works. The beauty is, like, from the equity or from the news reporter standpoint, it's all automated. People sign up. They create an account. All we do is look at them to make sure that nobody has, could be like an absolute nut job. We activate them.

[00:36:22] The system sends them an email with instructions on how to use their dashboard and the content starts coming in. So it's the whole system is automated. Oh, okay. It's actually pretty brilliant. I wish I could show it to you. It is brilliant. Yeah, yeah, that is. It is very brilliant. This, the void that I fill is the literally hundreds of thousands of people that are out of work that have nowhere to go.

[00:36:48] Also, just like YouTube, which I said this to the audience earlier, most people on YouTube were never broadcasters on any network TV stations. They just said, you know what? I'm going to start a cooking show or I'm going to start a political show. And the cream rises to the top. Not for nothing, but somebody in Scottsdale, Arizona, who already shows up to all the high school football games, that has a social media following, could start reporting on that and make money off of it.

[00:37:17] All right, so tell me, Sam, how this is going to work then. Right now it's news reporting via, you know, posting articles and everything else. Is it backing into videos and radio? And, you know, people can post just about anything, right? Yeah, we have, as long as you have an embed code. So like we have a lot of people on Rumble that submit their content to me and it really plays from their Rumble channel or from their YouTube if they have a YouTube channel.

[00:37:43] So I have people that do cooking shows that goes in my food and wine section, but they're coming from YouTube. If you have an audio podcast like on Spotify, Spotify has an embed code. You just put the embed code in and it just streams through from us to Spotify. So it looks like it's within us, but it's not. So it's basically multimedia is what we are at the end of the day. I could do anything from somebody's kids little league game, which is only going to appear in one city.

[00:38:13] You know, it could be in Surprise, Arizona in sports to the high school football game, which is going to be in all Maricopa County in sports to the Monday Night Football game, which is national. So with independent journalism reporting on these things, which people that may or may not have been in the media industry before, it doesn't really matter. Just because you weren't in the news business doesn't mean you can't articulate a news story. Right.

[00:38:38] So it's bringing in a whole new wave of journalists. And my personal opinion on the whole thing is name one paradigm shift, like where the old was part of the new, meaning name all the people that were part of the telegraph that became part of the telephone. Pretty much nobody. Right. And the same thing happened with the horse and buggy to the automobile. So I don't believe that the old guard is going to really transition into new media. I think it's going to be all new people.

[00:39:08] Just my personal opinion. Well, because the old guard is too used to a massive paycheck, a massive audience. They think they're rock stars from the get go. And what they've got to understand is in this new world, they got to earn it, buddy. Yeah, they have to earn it. Right. They're used to getting those big paychecks that were paid for by U.S. tax dollars. They're USAID. Well, that ship has sailed. So, yeah, you're right. So it's going to be a whole new set of news reporters.

[00:39:38] That's what that's where it's all going to end up going. And, you know, somebody said to me once, well, you know, how do you how do you track all this stuff? You know, how do you know that they're telling it? They're they're they're producing good content. I go. Have you watched mainstream media? I mean, anybody can beat them. All they're doing is lying to you. Yeah. It reminds me of my buddy, Pat Shannon, who's a reporter, and he wrote a book called Everything They Ever Told Me Was A Lie. Yeah, no kidding.

[00:40:07] But it's a shame that we had to get to this level. And it's a shame. It's a shame that this all had to happen. But, you know, let's hope that we can fix this and move through it. And look, I've said it a million times. And, you know, the media really is the problem. They've been the problem the whole time. That entity is not going to be around for much longer. And what will replace it will be a platform like mine. One hundred percent. There's no shot I'm wrong on this. And the platform will evolve over time to become more and more and more capable.

[00:40:37] In other words, he's mentioned to you that he's bringing in all kinds of media content. Well, that means that as things evolve, so can his website. Because it can embrace all the new technologies coming along. Go ahead and skip the break. This is just too good. So, Sheriff Mack, to me what we do is we create a CSPOA account. And we start publishing articles from Richard Mack, from our different state leaders, from me.

[00:41:03] And we can start to create this whole news feed of articles from the CSPOA now. And we don't have to pay a ton of money to get it done. And it can be distributed to the whole world, to the nation, to a local city. Based on wherever we're trying to target for whatever we're doing. If it's an event, hey, we can narrow it down to a given city. If it's an article that relates to, for example, helping free Scott Jenkins. Oh, baby. Yournews.com can be the platform to let that happen.

[00:41:33] Yeah. Well, I think it sounds fantastic. And how, though, do we conquer the legacy or the stronghold of the world media or the international media or the lamestream media? How does this conquer them? You want me to answer that? Sure. Yes, sir. Please. Here's what's happening.

[00:42:02] The average age of the cable news viewer and people who listen to terrestrial radio is 70 plus. Okay? So there's a limited lifespan there. We just got through talking numbers. The younger generation doesn't watch cable news. My kid doesn't have a television, for God's sake. He's 30. I have two grandkids. Okay? They just don't.

[00:42:23] So when we talked about the numbers, and, you know, I won't reiterate what the numbers were, but if you look at the age demographic between 25 and 54, which represents like 30% of the population of the United States,

[00:42:40] the ad we came out with the numbers for Fox, CBS, and ABC, and combined for the quarter, Sheriff Mack, for the quarter, there was only 500,000 people in that age demographic watch that watch Fox, CBS, or ABC in three months. So you don't have to worry about combating them. They're going out of business. You got to call it geriatric TV going forward. It's not cable TV. Geriatric TV is the deal. It's inevitable.

[00:43:10] They're never going to survive. So there's always a product that replaces something else, right? I mean, there used to be something called the telegraph. Well, when was the last time either of you sent a telegraph? You didn't because somebody created a telephone. Well, the legacy media, there's still a demand for news, but people don't consume it that way anymore. Now, I'm 60. Okay? I grew up watching cable news. My neighbors that are next to me are 83 years old. They don't even know what rumble is. All they watch is CNN.

[00:43:40] That's it. They have no idea there's alternative news out there. It's just what they were raised with. But when you talk to my kid, he doesn't even know what Fox is. He just doesn't watch it. He's like, no, I don't watch that. No, everything I get is on the internet. And there you go. Well, and they lied to creating a credibility crisis, too. Fox used to say, we report, you decide. And they were supposedly the most conservative of the bunch. They lied. We all know about that lie, Sheriff Mack.

[00:44:07] And so the trust factor is just gone to the toilet, to the tank. People are just like, you know what? These people are clowns. They're a waste of my time. And they're looking for answers. They're looking for solutions. They're looking for places where there's a trust built. And that's where the new media takes center stage. And that's where the citizen reporter starts to shine. Their whole name, their whole ability to grow and become the cream of the crop depends on their honesty and their ability to bring, you know, real news to the table. That's their whole gig.

[00:44:36] If they don't get that right, they're done before they ever get started. If they get it right, they can rise to the top. And that's what's changing the game, too, because Salmon Crew does not control your story. Nope. Nope. So if you want to lie to people, go ahead. You want to know who's going to let us know? It's the public. They will let you know in a minute. If somebody, like, if somebody writes a story that's false about some city council meeting, I guarantee you I'll get 15 emails in here in less than a day telling me we were there. That's a lie. It never happened.

[00:45:06] And if that is true, we just 86 them. We do, we pull a Comey on them. We remove them, right? Yeah, we don't take them out, though. We just de-platform them and say, hey, you lost your credibility. So, and, but Sam hit it on the head, Sheriff Mack, that the only thing a journalist has is their credibility. The moment they lose it, it's over. So what I do is I'll give you a perfect example. I was on with SG Annons the other day, last week, I think it was.

[00:45:35] He's now one of my contributors. He has an audience of people that trust him. So what he does is he submits his content to me, and then he shares it with the people who trust him so they're already coming to their trusted source. Make sense? I'm just hosting his content. We're selling ads for him. He gets paid for the ads that appear around his content. That's, I'm a platform. At the end of the day, I'm a platform. I'm Facebook for news.

[00:46:07] Hope that makes sense. There you have it. It's new media taking center stage, and a lot of these social media networks are evolving and changing and everything else. And what's unique about this is most of the social media networks that you see are controlled by the big clowns. We're starting to see a little bit of change in Truth Social and see a change now in X compared to the way it was under Twitter. But Sam's taking the lead in this because there's really nothing more than a court of public opinion clarion call for honesty and integrity here.

[00:46:35] Hey, we're going to spend our time watching people who have developed credibility, watching people that bring unique content and educational content to the table and fact-based reporting and everything else. Those are the people that the cream is going to rise to the top. They're just going to gravitate to this, and it's just going to happen all by the court of public opinion. Right? Yeah. And on another note, Sheriff Mack, I was talking to Sam about this earlier.

[00:47:02] I have a person that has a national organization that has 5 million people. She just sent me a text. She's creating an account. Well, it's all about public policy and getting stuff done that's America first, and they deal on a local level with all the politicians running for office in every single state. And so what they're going to leverage me for, they need media coverage. The last thing somebody running for political office wants is bad press.

[00:47:31] And she told me when we take the gas off of these people, they immediately fall back into the swamp and become swamp creatures again. So we have to constantly be in their face. You want to know how they're going to do it? They're going to leverage my platform. They're going to put out stories. And they're going to not only share them with the local community, but they're going to share them with that particular politician and all the people in his office. And that's what they're basically going to bully him into getting. Just imagine a CSPOA article going to the right people.

[00:48:01] Oh, yeah. How about AI? Let's finish on this because we're running out of time way faster than I want to, Sam. I apologize to interrupt. Tell me what role AI plays in this. I think AI is a phenomenal tool. You're never going to see AI walk into the football game and write a story, obviously. And if you did, you better run because they call it the Terminator. But artificial intelligence is I use it all the time. So I could take something and I could say, look, I need you to write a story about this.

[00:48:30] Here's the facts I want put into it. And please spit me out something, you know, write me a news article. And it will. And if I want paragraph three fixed, I can say fix paragraph three like this. So the reason I'm bringing this up to you is because you take somebody who maybe doesn't write well. Like I don't write well. I write like I speak. So, you know, it just doesn't read well. Well, you could take somebody who is like me that says, you know what? I want to be the investigative journalist.

[00:48:58] I want to be the news reporter to go cover these local events. And they come back and they take notes. They plug it into AI. And once it spits out the article that they want, they can now take that article to market and publish it. So I think it's a phenomenal tool, but it's never going to be what does the actual reporting. You still need boots on the ground. Here's what I do. I basically do a short form video under three minutes long. So it hits the YouTube shorts and everything else. And then what I do is I use AI to translate that into text.

[00:49:27] And then I say, give me a summary of it. And then I say, hey, I turn this into a story. And then I basically look at the story and I personalize it and I make sure that it's accurate and everything else. And then I submit it to yournews.com. It's my article. Now, AI helped, but I wrote it. And it comes from my content originally from a video transcribed to a text, converted to summary, converted to formatted for news and data. And that's how I produce the stories that I write for your news. Perfect. See that? Yeah. So the world's changing, Sheriff Mack.

[00:49:57] I mean, that stuff wasn't available. Yeah. I can't think of a better time to get this changed because the media has been a huge part of the corruption problem. Are we going to work with whitehouse.gov slash wire? Because that's a new service that just kind of came out, too. How do we plug that in, Sam? Well, first of all, let me say it again. I want to pull it off. Whitehouse.gov. It's whitehouse.gov slash wire. It's Donald Trump's latest news service.

[00:50:27] You can get it daily in your email or go to their website and check it out. And it's stories from the administration's perspective. Now, I don't only want Trump's perspective, but in the past we haven't had his perspective. So this has now changed and it's an incredible adding to the landscape. Whitehouse.gov slash wire. I'm on it. Yeah, no, I want to take a look at this and show my editor because, you know, we may be able to incorporate some of this stuff and just have it come in. Absolutely. And again, you know, hey, call it the administration's point of view. That's fine.

[00:50:57] I at least want to hear their side of the stories, don't you? A hundred percent. I mean, you know, it could be opinion pieces, right? I mean, if this is their perspective, it could be an opinion. It could be in politics. It depends on how it's written. But yeah, I'm glad you brought this to my attention. Yeah, my whole point with it is that, hey, I don't want to hear what people say Trump says. I want to hear what Trump says. Okay. I don't need the middleman. I don't need the curator. I don't need the thug in charge of the gatekeeping. I just want the news.

[00:51:25] And hey, you say, well, this is Donald's perspective. Fine. But all we've heard is your perspective as you mainstream thugs forever. We're done with your perspective. We want to hear everybody else's perspective now for a change, right? Exactly. Did you hear what he just said? You're bypassing everybody and hearing it straight from the horse's mouth. Who do you trust more? The person who translates it and changes it or the one who's telling you? That's what this is all about. So this is where, you know, this is like a wet dream for people running for political office

[00:51:55] because everybody seems to think, oh, well, we need the local media to cover up. And then when they do, it's all bad press. This is where you can speak straight to your constituents and you can tell them exactly, this is what I'm going to do if you vote for me. And you have carte blanche on press every single day. You'd have to be crazy not to use something like that. It's a great political tool. Things are changing. Things are changing fast. The mainstream press doesn't know what to do when they're cornered. They attack.

[00:52:23] Keep an eye on that ball, ladies and gentlemen. But let's just move forward nobly, independently, and let's tell the tale of truth. Truth. That's what we're gathering as truth tellers right now. So the question becomes, do you want to be a truth teller or at least a truth reader? Yournews.com is where you start. You can invest in the organization and help it grow faster. You can become a citizen journalist or you can just simply go there and get the news. Either way, what you're getting is you're getting truth in reporting.

[00:52:49] You're getting different people's perspectives and you can then decide for yourself, right, what you think about that stuff. And you can look at alternative views. You can, you know, compare my reporting versus Donald Trump's reporting versus Sam Anthony's reporting. And you can say, hey, I read it all. And my opinion, my view, my focus is this. Welcome to America, baby. Sam? That's right. That's right. That's what it's all about, right?

[00:53:17] I mean, in order to have a real democracy, you really need to have both sides that are being heard. You can't censor one side. What we just experienced over the last four years with, you know, with the censoring of the tech giants and free speech and having the legacy media lie through their teeth. You know, the reason that and I understand why they did it, because the left went all the way left. They went communism left.

[00:53:41] So anybody that would get up and argue it, anybody's argument would make more sense than the crap that they're dishing out. So they had to censor it. Well, now the whole game has shifted where now we actually do have platforms where we can have free speech. What's really going to stick them in the ass is going to be that the legacy media is going to fall. They're going to fold and go under. Ladies and gentlemen, I got one final quick story and I've only got a couple of seconds to get it in. Sam Anthony, thank you so much. Yournews.com, Sheriff Max, CSPOA.org.

[00:54:11] But check this last story out. Our dear friend Scott Adams announces his own cancer diagnosis. The cartoon creator expects to die this summer, he says. Yeah. The creator of the well-known comic strip said, hey, I got this thing too and it's going to kill me. It's not fun. My life expectancy is probably this summer. So our prayers are with him and his family as well. Thank you, Sam. Welcome.

[00:54:42] Thank you, Sheriff Max. God save our republic.