All right, welcome David Sarota to Useful Idiots.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Glad to be here.

Actually, there's a question I want to ask you before we even get to the political stuff.

There's been a lot of talk about Substack.

You're on Substack and you're one of the few people that's already gone to the next

step of sort of hiring other reporters and doing and making it more like a new service.

Can you talk about your thought process for that and what you would say to the people

who've been criticizing?

Sure.

I mean, whether it's Substack or Ghost or anywhere else, I mean, there's clearly a move

to more independent media.

The public has lost faith in the media.

I mean, frankly, I'm shocked it took so long for the, for polls to show that lots and

lots of people have lost faith in the media.

I mean, this is the corporate media.

And I don't like speaking in total generalities as like a model it.

There is nothing that's like the media, but when we're talking about sort of corporate

elite legacy media outlets, I mean, these are the outlets that promoted the lies that

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