over 50 different digital media
companies have already gone
under so in the last 12 months or so
it's been for lack of a better word a
bloodbath and so every day I'm since I'm
also on the business side I read the
business stuff and every day 800
employees laid off 10% of their
Workforce laid off 2,000 employees laid
off company goes under another one goes
under right so look I'm it's I know it's
kind of raw but I'm going to show you
some of the things here let's show you a
graphic about the news industry uh this
gives you a tiny taste of it there's
like dozens and dozens of headlines like
this this is from Sienna news industry
off to a brutal 2024 start as mass
layoffs devastate Publishers raising
questions about the future of Journalism
so that's where we are so in just last
couple of months BuzzFeed news gone
cheddar
gone um Sports Illustrated old school
gone uh Vice world
news
gone um and that's just the last two or
three months and by the way we didn't
put all of them messenger gone you want
to go a little further back Mike gone
Mashable gone Upworthy gone HuffPost
Live we thought HuffPost Live was going
to run us out of business gone that was
gone what a decade ago yeah so look when
you look at the past you know there's a
I'm going to keep it real there's a
little bit point of pride of all these
people that had all this money but they
didn't have you
guys my theory was get people first
worry about money later a lot of people
hate that theory okay and everyone
else's theories get money and then worry
about how you'll get people with the
money that's that is very true actually
that is very true yeah yeah and so yeah
we never got the scale of money that
they got right but we got something
better we got you guys and so whenever
we're down you guys pick us back up no
it's so much better it's so much better
because even if let's say on any given
day I have a take on a story that the
audience doesn't like and inevitably we
might lose some members as a result of
that the members who support the show
give us our voice there's no one hitting
me up to tell me like hey hey be cool be
cool don't attack fossil f because BP is
a sponsor you know there's no one
telling me what I can and can't say and
that's freedom freedom to actually
investigate these issues from an honest
Place uh that's also the reason why I
feel Beyond comfortable in correcting my
errors if I get a story wrong because I
feel this deep commitment and
responsibility to our audience because
you guys have allowed me to live my
dream so even if we have a little bit of
a tiff over disagreements on political
issues or whatever it might be I hope
you guys feel that you're with family
when you're watching the show because
that's the way I think of you and I
would never betray my family I love my
family I look out for my family I want
to protect my family and I want to give
them what they need to thrive and
prosper in life and I hope I'm doing
that to you or for you to the best of my
ability okay if you're wondering what
happened to the industry why is it now
just the graveyard and there's tyt and
just a couple of companies left right
and and I don't even know if they
survive this storm um I'm going to tell
you all about that in a second okay I'm
going to tell you the meteor storm that
we're in and the business side of of
what's going on but first to Anna's
point about how she won't hold back and
she cares about you guys and is
passionate Etc this is maybe our most
successful clip of all time and
ironically by the way this is so fitting
I had even thought of this until I was
just about to say it it's not even ARP
it was taken from the show but one of
our viewers took it from the show and
put it up on Tik Tok and last I checked
which was like I don't know six months
ago a year ago it had already gotten 60
million views and then it just everybody
started doing their own version of this
clip and then and there was a really
cool moment where it would get hot in
Brazil and then die down then we get hot
in Mexico and die down hot in Germany
it's it's amazing yes so this is Anna at
her best
watch I don't care if you're Christian
in fact I will fight for you to have
your religious liberty and practice your
Christianity I believe in that I don't
believe in Christianity which means that
you do not get to dictate the way I live
my life based on your religion I don't
care what the Bible says you have every
right in the world all those women who
identify with your religion have every
right in the world to not get an
abortion to not take birth control but
they do not have the right to dictate my
life and what I decide to do with my
body I don't care about your goddamn
religion I'm so tired of having non-stop
conversations about what the Bible says
you live your life in the way that you
interpret the Bible again I don't care
but you don't get to take the Bible and
tell me Well the Bible says this in this
chapter in this verse I don't care I
don't care I don't believe in it and I
have the right based on our constit U to
not believe in
it love it can't get enough of it you
have any idea how well literally
sacriligious that would be in mainstream
media you would get taken off the air so
quick that is oh you are going to offend
our religious viewers and the most
important viewers of all Christian
viewers so you cannot do that and I get
it country's majority Christian right
and so
but I love that there's that we provided
an outlet or you guys provided an outlet
where we could say that and people
across the world go yeah of course have
your religion we'll have your protect
your we're progressives we're for
justice for everyone so of course we'll
protect your right to have that religion
but I'm sorry brothers and sisters that
doesn't get to rule Our Lives that's not
how Freedom works and that's not how
democracy works if you enjoy this video
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