147 - Why Mainstream Media Sucks & How to Fix It with Saagar Enjeti
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the Episode:
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-saagar-enjeti
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Saagar Enjeti is the Co-Host of an American populist, anti-establishment political news and opinion series called, Breaking Points with Krystal Ball as his co-host. Launched in June 2021, Breaking Points has 850k Subscribers, with some videos getting millions of views—making Breaking Points a leading source of political news.
In today’s episode, Saagar shares the origin story of Breaking Points and his hot takes on social media, Elon, Twitter, de-platforming, 2024 political predictions, civil war, inflation, FTX, and how crypto can repair itself.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
6:19 Advice Talking to Politicians
15:29 Breaking Points Origin
23:45 Authenticity
27:42 Dealing With Trolls
33:04 Prevent Being Captured
37:00 Meta Breaking Points
40:38 Saagar’s Take on Social Media
47:28 Elon & Twitter
53:22 Deplatforming
58:06 Canada Protests
1:03:15 Lessons From Breaking Points
1:09:27 Old vs. New Media
1:12:15 2024 Political Predictions
1:15:23 Probability of a Civil War
1:16:43 Inflation
1:19:42 FTX
1:23:11 Breaking Points Community
1:23:50 How Crypto Can Repair
1:25:55 Closing
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Resources:
Saagar Enjeti
https://twitter.com/esaagar
Breaking Points
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
The Realignment
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-realignment/id1474687988
Read Snowball
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| 0:18.2 | more bankless. |
| 0:19.2 | Guys, we had Sogger from Breaking Point's podcast on the episode today. |
| 0:23.0 | We talk about why mainstream media sucks, and how to fix it. |
| 0:27.7 | Not just a problem, but a solution. |
| 0:29.7 | At the end of that problem, a few takeaways for you today. |
| 0:32.7 | Number one, we talk about mainstream media, why it's broken, and the prescription of |
| 0:37.9 | how to fix it. |
| 0:39.9 | Number two, we talk about advice Sogger has for crypto media. |
| 0:43.4 | How do we make sure we don't become them? |
| 0:45.6 | You know who I mean by them. |
| 0:47.7 | Number three, we talk politics because we had to, Sogger's into politics, and we asked |
| 0:52.0 | him about the candidates. |
| 0:53.4 | His guest on the likely candidate for the 2024 US election, and is all of this going |
| 0:58.0 | to lead to civil war. |
| 0:59.6 | There's a question on our minds. |
| 1:00.6 | Number four, what does Sogger think of the whole FTX thing? |
| 1:05.2 | He lost money in BlockFi, it turns out. |
| 1:07.7 | He watched the SBF plus four, he used to bait. |
| 1:10.0 | He's been in crypto since Bology introduced him to crypto in 2017. |
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