Hi everyone, my name is Glenn Dyson and today I'm joined by Alexander Mercurice,

as well as Jimmy Dore, the comedian and the host of the very popular Jimmy Dore show.

Welcome.

My pleasure, thanks for having me.

And not just a comedian, but one of the most insightful and brilliant commentators around, and somebody who can see the absurdity behind all of these situations that we have to face today. Just saying.

Well, you know, the Greek comedy in ancient Greece, it was renowned for its political significance as well.

So the basic idea being that

it's imperative to be able to satirize and mock our own leaders. And I think as comedians can often

say what the rest of us will have to pay a very heavy social cost for saying. So and...

Well, as a Greek, of course, I'm a fan of Ari Stefani, so I know all about that.

Yeah, so, but also, I guess, one of your favorite targets over the years, Jimmy, has been the news media.

You covered very, very closely Russia Gate, also the way the elections have been covered, but also the news coverage of wars, of course.

I guess it's a very open-ended question, but do you see big changes with the media over the past few years?

Or I guess, why has it become so awful, in your opinion?

I think it's just been continuing to be awful, and we've just been noticing it more and more because of social media.

And that's why they need to control social media because they can't, because the establishment needs to control the narrative.

And if they can't control the narrative, then they need to start disappearing people.

And that's a lot harder,

not that they don't do it.

But they're doing it right out in the open

with Julian Assange,

you know,

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