The Highwire with Del Bigtree - DELS PLEDGE FOR 2022

Episode Date: January 14, 2022

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I just wanted to take a moment to talk a little bit about our culture, what the high wire is, because coming into the end of last year, we were accelerating, growing exponentially. We are now speaking to millions of you around the world as you watch this show right now in your homes. We want to thank you for being a part of our family. But many of you don't really know what the highwire is. Maybe you're thinking, well, it's like all those other podcasts out there where they, you know, tell the truth or they jump on these stories that no one else. we'll cover. Or, you know, it looks a little bit like television. I know Dell came from television,

so it's sort of like a news show. But to be clear, we do things a little bit differently here, and I want to lay that out because as we go into our investigations this year, I really want you to understand what you can expect from us on the high wire. It's not going to be any different than what we've delivered for the last several years on this conversation than all of those before when we started. But here's what the high wire really is. It's, It's a bit of a dream of mine, certainly, and many of my team members that come from different places. But for those of us that worked in television together, what you don't understand when you watch a show where they're having a guest and they're interviewing them is there is what is called a pre-interview that is done. That is when a producer sits down and, you know, discusses everything that could possibly be spoken about with that potential guest.

And all of that conversation is written down, all the questions, these amazingly talented people that can. like ask questions, then type it all out at the same time, all the answers. And then they set about producing the show so that when that guest comes on, you make them say exactly the parts of what you like that they said and leave out the parts that you didn't so that you can sort of push the agenda of the network that you work for or of your sponsors that are paying for the commercials. Now, that's how television is done. And it makes a lot of sense because you don't want to have things that are out of your control and you want to know where everything's going. Well, here in the highway, we,

We wanted to do something different. For those of us and I worked in television, as many of you know, on the doctor's television show. Before that, I was a producer on the Dr. Phil show. But what you miss out on when you watch television is the amazing discoveries that happened in that phone call, in that first pre-interview with a guest and what's going on, and then you sort of get involved with sort of manipulating it to just push the part of the story you want.

We didn't want to do that. I said, imagine if we did a television show where the investigation is happening. in real time, where the producer, which in many cases is me in this scenario, is doing the interview for the first time and learning what the guest has got to say or what their perspective is or the theory is for the first time in front of everybody, making it much more of an interactive experience with you and I, meaning as I'm learning this information, so are you. Now, there's obviously risks to doing a show like this, meaning it's all live and there's nothing we can take back once it's happened. In fact, this camera I'm looking at, if I was on any other set

in television, would be a teleprompter that has basically set up this entire monologue that I'm giving you right now. I don't use a teleprompter. We do not write out a script. I don't know what I'm going to say prior to the moment I come in here because I want to be honest with you. I wanted to do something where we're all having conversations all the time. This is really a conversation between you and I. We're normal people. We're trying to figure out what's going on in conversations with the best experts in the world that I can find to answer the questions that I have. Now, I have an amazing team behind me that is studying the science and is looking at, is finding these guests, is finding where the breaking science and stories are happening.

But here's what's going on. When I'm doing an interview, as I said, I don't know where it's going to go. We have a light, sometimes that they've written a book, I'll have read the book, but when I'm getting that interview, we don't know where it's going to go. And because of that, sometimes there are things that will come out in the show that may, or may not prove to be true in the end. They are the theories or the ideas of our guests, which we are letting them present freely.

Now, in our minds, that is the best way to do journalism. We believe that that really represents the scientific method, because any decent, real scientists on this planet would have to admit that in the scientific method, a scientist comes up with a theory or develops a product and then writes a paper or puts that product out for the judgment of the scientific world. And then they read that paper.

in that study or analyze that theory and they attack it from every position that they can until to see if they can bring it down or tear holes in it. At which point, that scientist then, usually in the journal he's been published in, has the opportunity to rebut or make some adjustments to that paper as the entire world helps that scientist move in the right direction. If their theory proves to be true or maybe makes the adjustments, everybody is involved in the process of learning and understanding and evolving the concept. That is what we think our job is here as journalists, not to choose a side and to pick one singular side and only represent that side and censor everybody else. That is what mainstream media has been doing over the last several

years, and we all know it. It's dangerous. It's terrifying, but it's even more terrifying that science has taken up this approach too. When Tony Fauci tells us that if you question me, you question the science, we should all be horrified as listening to one of the least scientific, most terrifying statements ever made by a scientific person in any type of leadership position. That is dangerous. It is terrible. And it could be devastating in the consequences if we don't allow all the voices to be heard. So when you watch the high wire, know that when we're doing these interviews, it's the first time I've heard it too. And we may come back weeks later with a different perspective from another scientist. Because as I told you, we are involved in a live,

interactive investigation to find the truth with you. So we will continue to do our best to let you know what may be a theory. I say it all the time if someone's coming on the show. This is their theory or their idea about what's taking place. There are also times where we feel like the science and the evidence is now lined up to a place where we can call it a fact and we let you know that. All along the way, we are not asking you to trust us implicitly. In fact, I have said to you and I will always say this to you. We are not trying to tell you what to think. We're trying to teach you how to think, how to research your information, and how to test the things that you're hearing. That's why if you are signed up to our newsletter at the highwire.com, just put your email in there,

then you are a part of a team that can now do your own investigations because every single Monday, after our Thursday show, we send you a hyperlink to every single study, everything we present, all of the videos so that you can read them, watch them in their entirety yourself so that you can decide whether Del Batry appears to have cherry-picked this information or where it came from or it appears that this isn't a fully published. This is a pre-print that hasn't even come out yet. That's right. Sometimes we're presenting brand new breaking scientific information that we will watch as scientists

attack it. We're putting you on the front line of the investigation. And for those of you that are with us and the millions that have joined, I think that you enjoy that process. But to be clear, there are certain stories that we've done, and let me just put one out there. I've been attacked a few times right at the end of the year by newspapers that said that I spread misinformation and put out the false narrative that there's graphene oxide inside of the vaccine, for instance. Well, I want to let you know that we did have a scientist come on and show, you know, images through a microscope that what, you know,

showed what he believed was graphene oxide. But I've also been talking to scientists that said that they can prove that graphene oxide is not there. In that case, we're about to perhaps bring a scientist like that on, or to be totally honest with you, we're trying to secure a laboratory. We're trying to figure out how to legally get a hold of some vaccines so that we can put them into a microscope because I want to see this thing with my own eyes. If there's little creepy, crawly aliens in there, I'll let you know if I see them once I see them in my own eyes. I'm not going to report things that I cannot prove. In this case, we have an ongoing investigation. We're going to continue to look, is there really grapian oxide there? I'm just letting you

you know. Some of you are saying, of course there is dealt. I know it for a fact. That's you. That's not me. I'm still not convinced. The jury's still out. That's something you're going to watch us investigate as this year goes on. There's a lot of things like that. And we're trying to be clear with you as we go through this process. So all of that being said, before we get started jumping into 2022, I want to talk about where we've been. I want to know where our baseline is as we're starting out to move into this next incredible year. Who knows where all of this is leading? Obviously, it feels like crazy time, a lot of the time. And I know many of you talk about coming to the high wire because at least it gives you some sense of reasonability and they're looking at all the ideas. But over this last

now, it's actually been 100 episodes we've done, 100 weeks of flattening the curve, 100 weeks of the COVID pandemic that we've covered. And in order to do that, we have. We have, you have, you know, not every single segment that we do is, you know, on the coronavirus, but most of it has been, or the pandemic or the vaccine. But in total, we've had about 153 hours of programming, and that's 9,310 total minutes packed back to back, usually at least an hour and a half long, even though we'd love it to be shorter, giving you the information. For those of you that are here, you know, some of those videos have been literally like

masterclasses, getting so deep into the weeds, no other television producer on Earth would ever risk boring their audience with that much detail. That's what we do here. I believe part of what the high wire does is we are building a time capsule. Even though our governments and health officials around the world are trying to bury the truth to hide the data, we have gone out of our way to find every piece of data we can find in every database using an international team of investigators and scientists and lawyers so that we can put it into the time capsule known as the highwire. They will never get away with saying we did not know that. If it was to be known, if it did exist, you could find it and we'll be able to see the archives

of the highwire where it exists. In that process, we reached out to world-renowned scientists all over the world that were being censored and silenced for trying to give a different narrative, a perspective that didn't believe that the lockdowns worked, that didn't think rushing a vaccine into every single human being on the planet was a good idea. People that had worked for Pfizer, people that worked for the best universities in the world. The high wire has become a beacon and a landing place for those scientific voices that are not allowed to be heard anywhere else. We are still nurturing relationships with scientists that have been giving us information for many months now, but are still

not comfortable risking their credibility, their name, their lives to come onto the high wire and share it with the world. But let it be known. Those heroes, that have stepped beyond their comfort zone. These are not Hollywood movie stars. They are real scientists that are not used to being in the public eye, but are so troubled by what is happening, the destruction of science, that after we talk to them many times for weeks or months, finally say, Del, you know what, I'm willing to come forward now.

The world needs to hear this, and I will take whatever repercussions follow. And because of that, we have broken more stories and introduced you to more of the world's leading scientists than I think any other show there is. There are many shows now that are following our lead that are jumping on board. And we are happy about that. We are not in competition with anyone. And I want you to know that we take the transcripts of every show after it's finished and we send it to multiple mainstream news agencies. They don't ask for it, but we found their producers and we sent it to them and said, you were allowed to use any of this information. It is totally bedded by our scientific team.

We would love for you to share it with the world. And on occasions, we do see that, you know, blaze across the screen of televisions in this nation and around the world. We are doing our part to make a difference. We don't care who gets the credit. And that is the culture of the high wire. We're all about change. We're all about transparency. And I'm going to continue to be as honest with you as I possibly can.

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