The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0	They have two conflicting ideas of news which emerge from two different parts of our history.
0:07.0	News sort of starts to begin in ancient Rome. They were trying to control rumors. And as bad as we think the Internet is, ancient Rome was far worse.
0:17.0	In the 1400s, along the River Rhine, is this idea that free speech is necessary for social peace.
0:23.6	The Dutch ideas of the Rhine River tolerance come here.
0:29.6	The upper class of New York is terrified.
0:32.6	They fear the accountability of the opinions of people and what we're seeing playing out
0:39.1	with all of these battles on X and on YouTube.
0:44.7	These two different ideas are in a death match depending on which side wins.
0:50.4	It depends on how we will see reality in the coming decades.
0:56.8	This is your latest idea.
0:58.3	It's unique.
0:59.5	It's game-changing.
1:00.8	It's huge.
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1:16.0	Plus, share projects and collaborate seamlessly while keeping everything private and secure.
1:20.2	So, your excellent idea stays yours.
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1:28.3	Richard Minnetter, welcome back to Trigonometry. Well, it's great to be back, guys.
1:30.3	Well, it is great to have you back because the last episode we did with you, the first episode
1:34.3	we did with you, was on our last US trip.
1:36.3	I think it was one of the biggest interviews we've done, actually in the history of the channel,
1:41.3	absolutely crushed it, fantastic conversation about American history. Today,
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