Welcome to another edition of Cognitive Dissidents.

This is Khurwe from Geopolitics and Empire.

I'm Parallel Mike of the Parallel Systems Broadcast. And I'm Monica of the Monica Perez Show. All right. So we're going to sort of do Carmen San Diego-style trip around the world with what's happening. And I thought I'll kick it off with some pieces of news here.

And all media stuff.

You know, this is before we hit record, we were talking a bit about this.

And Lynn Alden shared a great comment.

She says, analysts, podcasters,

influencers, and so forth that catered to their audience don't actually respect their audience.

They respect the algorithm, the money feeding the ducks. Those who are willing to challenge

their audience actually respect their audience. It's a discussion. And on the heels of that,

some website called The Last Refuge wrote a great piece on understanding the Fox News podcasters.

And they said what all of us have been thinking. What you will notice in all of these enmeshments is a system of podcast tribalism.

Tribalism now captured within the corporate dynamic.

It says when a podcaster is interviewing a podcaster for podcast content,

you are essentially watching a circle of narcissists discussing each other.

I think they're talking about a particular set.

But, you know, they're pointing out how a lot of the mainstream folks like Tucker and others have transitioned to podcasting.

And it's basically, that's what I call legacy alternative media, what David Nye calls,

what does he call it, the fake alternative media?

And here it says, if your participation in the podcast sphere is akin to watching WWE wrestling,

then you have the appropriate filter for the performances within each broadcast.

And as the years were unfolding, you likely recognize the Wall Street corporate media system was going to respond to the changed and collapsed credibility environment.

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