Hello there, you awakening wonders. If you want to free yourself from this prison planet that sees you merely as fodder, one of the tools you're going to need is an independent media.

That's what me is independent media. Me and him over there, we're doing our best to bring you stories that are at least attempting to be transparent.

We care about what you think.

That's why we need you to let us know in the comments and chat,

what stories you want to see covered,

and how you think we're covering today's stories.

Like, we're going to be talking about...

We're also not funded by the government, are we, Russ?

They give us nothing.

Every week I go back to the government, any of them.

Hong Kong one, Burma, I've

spoken to people in Senegal and I've said, would you be interested in investing in some

independent media? They go, what is your main aim? We say, well, we just want to bring the government

down really and they go, well, we're not going to contribute to that. Actually, we are the government of Senegal in this case.

That was the most recent one.

We've got some great guests and stories coming up just for you.

If we knew you weren't interested, we'd stop doing it.

Dave Rubin's coming on.

The inventor of locals, we're going to be looking at those French protests. What we love about it is the way they targeted Black Rock.

They started protesting outside an investment firm.

So even though they're protesting, of course, about their age of pension being raised in France,

robbing them of a couple of years of lazing about sipping wine and being all French,

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