Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.

Media freedom, if we can keep it.

Last week, I had the pleasure to again appear on Tucker Carlson's popular broadcast.

Although the program appears on several different platforms, on X alone,

the episode has been seen by more than two and a half million people.

That does not include the various clips and shorts that people made and posted themselves. It is incredible how the reach and

influence of the independent media has grown over the past decade or so. As I have often

said, while there are many evil things out there on the Internet,

at the same time we have the tools to communicate the unfiltered message of freedom like never before.

Even though Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News was enormously popular, number one in the nation, the network still

yanked the show from underneath him because they didn't like some of the things he was saying.

Now, Tucker and other independent media figures answer not to studio executives with their own

agendas, but rather they answer directly to the American people in the marketplace of ideas.

Carlson's reach as an independent is arguably greater than when he was on Fox.

And there are many more like him with large and not so large audiences who are appealing

directly to the consumer without the middleman to tell them what they can and cannot say.

Admittedly, sometimes what people say is ugly,

but we do not have the free speech to only talk about the weather.

Big media and big government are in bed together,

and they hate the fact that we can communicate

with each other without their filters and influence. They long for the days when they could

shovel down our throats just what they wanted us to hear and believe.

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