The MeidasTouch Podcast - EMERGENCY AM POST-ELECTION BRIEFING

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

Ben, Brett and Jordy discuss the fallout from the 2024 presidential election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario good morning Midas Mighty joined by my brother Brett certainly not the show that I wanted to do this morning. Certainly not the mode that I wanted this channel to go in to. I was excited to build upon the rights and freedoms and projects that I think President Biden did well. But I want to send a very clear message to all of you. The first very clear message is that the Midas Touch Network is not going anywhere. This community is not going anywhere. We are going to continue to grow this community together and we will never tire. We will never stop protecting, defending, and doing everything we can to save our democracy.

That is my promise to you. My other promise to you is that we will always be in this together. We will get through this together. And I'm not going to say it's going to be easy. I'm not going to say this is simple, but I am going to say that we will lead with the values that we all built this network on. And those are not values of hate. Those are not values of demeaning people. Those are not values of trying to hurt or harm or divide. It's what we've always believed this network was and is, is talking about the importance of democracy, talking about compassion, being there for our dominated by billionaire oligarchs who control the corporate media, there's frankly no choice. We need to build a people-powered pro-democracy network and continue to grow. Moving forward, I think we will increase our coverage on our federal court system, the ins and outs of the Supreme Court. We will continue our coverage, of course, on all of the day-to-day events

through a pro-democracy lens, not a propaganda lens that you will see elsewhere on CNN and NBC and all these other networks that have propped up Donald Trump. And I certainly see today people pointing fingers at other people. That's what the oligarchical billionaires want us to do. They want this group in ethnicity to blame that group and ethnicity and that group to blame this group and this one very self-interest and what's better for them and so i believe in this moment i'm not going to tell you how to feel i'm not going to if you need to spend some time and and and and whatever you need to spend some time and whatever you need to do to process this, take your time and process this. And I'm not trying to make this sound like it's easy, like this is somehow theoretical or philosophical. No, I understand this. It's human beings, especially marginalized communities,

especially women. But what I want to make to you as a promise is that we will be here for you. We will do everything that we can to continue to grow this network, to continue to lead with our values, and to do our little part each and every day. I think rather than pointing fingers at each other and saying, well, it was this group that screwed us and that group that screwed us and you're the one who really screwed us. I think you have to look at what were the billionaire oligarchs, what do they want today? They love when everyone's pointing fingers at each other rather than pointing fingers at them. The real bullseye of the situation is that mostly all of our media, mostly all of it, almost every single aspect of it, is a right-wing owned entity by some corporate conglomerate at best or a sheer right-wing propagandist operation

at worst that's basically the structure of corporate media even a lot of these digital websites are owned by um kind of corporate overlords with you know with agendas that they have to pursue. And we saw the consequence of that here in this election. We saw the outcome of what that means. And so we will continue to, videos every day, the shows go on and we're here with all of you. And I want you to know that. I want you to know that this community is still strong. This community will still grow and we'll be with each other every step of the way. And it's okay to cry.

It's okay to shed tears for our fellow human beings and for our democracy. But it's not in my heart to be idle and to allow people's rights to be trampled on. I'm not okay with giving up. That's not in my spirit. That's not in anything about me or this network and our great hosts. I think we have to, in a sober way, reflect. I don't think we have to or should ever sacrifice our values. I don't. I don't think that being a good messenger means you have to demean others. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to buy into that at all. But I wanted to make sure we went live

so you could hear from us directly. I want you to know that we'll be by your side. I want you to know that we have plans for the territory to corporate media, if we just tap out, then why? What does that do? What does that do? And I understand the impulse. I trust me. I get the impulse. I get the feeling. I get the thought sometime of like, I just can't. I just can't anymore. I just can't. I understand why. And I want to make sure you know that I hear those people. I hear you. You have every right to feel that way. But I'm just going to let you know that here at this network, we're not going to give up on you. We're not going to give up on the Midas Mighty. And we're going to find ways to continue to grow, to continue to expand, and to embark on this generational project together. You know I've always used that term.

It's a generational project. I said, there's short-term stuff that needs to be done. Certainly coming into this game three and a half years versus 40 years that the right wing has had to build their ecosystem. You know, we, we, we were definitely out-matched, but I think we put up a hell of a fight. But that continues. It continues together. And so I ask all of you to continue that with us, continue to grow, continue to support independent media. And again, I just thought it was so critical that in this moment where i've gotten

so many calls from people so many calls it's my phone's been ringing off the hook the whole day with people what do i do i don't know what to do can you tell me what to do and i've been saying to everybody, lead with your values. Be yourself. Don't compromise. Don't tap out. Don't give up. You owe it to yourself, to your family, to this country, and to this world. And there's hope at the end of darkness. There's hope at the end of this period of deep confusion and uncertainty. There's hope. And we'll continue to build and move towards that and we'll lead,

as I said, with the values that I hope you've appreciated about this network and what's differentiated it. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. And it's a different mode, as I said, when I started this video, but it is a moment that we're prepared to meet. Brett. Yeah. Nice words, Ben. And hello to all the Midas Mighty, and thank you for being with us through the good times and the bad times, and in, and we certainly don't have all the answers.

But here we are, and despite everything that we've seen of Donald Trump, his attempts to overthrow our democracy, his attacks on free speech, the stripping away of women's rights, his felony convictions, his stealing of classified documents, his Epstein relationship, his disastrous handling of COVID, the fact that he tanked the economy. I could go on and on and on and on, but you get it. This is something we all have to confront here at this network and in this country. And I'm still trying to make sense of it all. And I know you are as well. And one of the tough things is that it's difficult because it's incongruent with a lot of the things that we have seen, especially in the past few weeks and few months.

I mean, we saw voters abandoning Trump in the primaries. We saw these empty rallies. We saw close insiders to Donald Trump raising the alarms. We saw all these things that we've never seen in American history happening. And on the other side, we had Vice President Harris's campaign, which had messages of hope and unity and actual policies, and it was all about the American dream. And yet, that's not what the American people chose at the end of the day. And I think that's what's shocking to me. And what's most troubling is that we've seen so much progress over these past few years, and you would hope that would mean something.

You would hope that would mean something. You would hope having historically low unemployment and a record high stock market and wage growth outpacing inflation and us being the best at inflation, beating inflation better than any country in the entire world and leading on climate and energy independence and everything. right? You would think that successful governance would mean something to people, but it went completely unrecognized. And this propaganda, unfortunately, worked. And the American people decided that they wanted to bring back the person who caused all of that damage. And so that's where we are right now. And I just need you to understand this kind of media landscape that we're in, right? We face this corporate media that has networks like CNN and

newspapers and whatnot who are pushing messages that sanewash the reality of what's going on, that downplay the actual threats of Donald Trump, that at a time in the most crucial period of our country's history, declined to even endorse a candidate, took that extraordinary measure. I mean, it's insane. It's absolutely insane that that's like the corporate media that we have that's supposed to be protecting us, right? That's the fourth estate. Then on one side, you have networks. You got Fox and you have Newsmax, which are pure propaganda. They're designed to be propaganda networks and you have billions and billions of dollars behind that. And then the new thing, this election cycle that really rose was all of this digital ecosystem that rose up.

And obviously, we get a ton of views here. We have a ton of reach here at the Midas Touch Network, but there was this MAGA-dominated digital ecosystem that was funded by billionaires. They poured billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars into this. And that includes Twitter, which was purchased by Elon Musk and turned into a propaganda machine to radicalize people. That includes all of these other sort of right-wing networks, including like the tenant medias that were funded by Russia and things like that. And so I think people need to realize that we're up against, it's really a David and Goliath story right now. And we are up against this massive machine, this really well-funded machine that has never existed before in history that is able to reach people farther in history.

The good news is that we here at the Midas Touch Network are also able to reach a lot of people and we're going to continue to grow. And I think what we've accomplished in these past few years alone has been absolutely incredible. And so I hope that pro-democracy forces out there understand that now is the time to be focused on alternative forms of media, if you want to call us that. It's now the time to invest in alternative media networks because we got to understand the fourth estate as we knew it isn't going to save us. That's what we found the entire time. The entire time, what did we see them do? We saw them criticize every positive development from the Biden-Harris administration, and we saw them sanewash every crazy thing that

Donald Trump said. And we were all looking at each other like, what is going on here? How could they possibly be treating this person like he's a normal guy? How could they say Donald Trump gave a riveting speech on the economy when he was giving oral sex to a microphone or whatever he was doing that day? These were the headlines that we saw. And it was just so appalling and shocking to us. But I think that's why our fight matters now more than ever. I mean, we can't rely on the fourth estate to protect democracy. We certainly can't rely on this right-wing media ecosystem that has cropped up. It's up to us and you and us being you and a few other pro-democracy creators out there. And I hope that more rise up.

But we need to build this platform even bigger than ever because this sort of media has never been more important, has never been more critical. And at the end of the day, we won't give up, mainly because we can't give up. The stakes are too high. We can't give up. And we hope that you feel the same as well. So with that, I want to again thank you are devastated because I am too. Truthfully, don't feel like you need to hold in your tears. Don't feel, uh, like you need to put on a happy face and act like everything's okay. And I'm not going to tell you that everything's okay. It's not, not my job, not what I'm going to do, but I will tell

you that we are going to be here. We're going to do our job. We're going to report the news. We're going to get these messages out and we will be a check on power like nobody has ever seen before. Because if our institutions won't be a check on power, if the media institutions won't be a check on power, that basically leaves us and you, this community. So we need you. We need you, Midas Mighty. That's my call to action right now. We need you to fight with us. We need you to join us. We need you to keep your head up after it's all settled. And by the way, if you need to take

a day, if you need to take a week, if you need to take a month, you need to chill. I get it. If you need to be like, this is all too much. I can't watch. I get it. But I'm telling you, we're going to be here. We're going to be reporting the news. We're going to be covering Donald Trump. We're going to be covering him accurately. We're not going to be sane washing the things that he does. We're going to be covering what happens in Congress.

We're going to be covering what happens in the House and the Senate. We're going to cover what happens across the country. And you could see how quickly the country could shift in just a single election in a two-year period. And so now's the fight of our lives. And it's an honor to be in this fight with you all. And I just want to send my love to all of you and let you know that we are here in solidarity with you and that we will always be by your side. And Jordy, it's great to see you here. Do you have anything to add, Jay? You guys both put it perfectly. I just want to reiterate, it's okay to feel what you're feeling right now, Midas Mighty. Trust me, I read everything. I see the comments. I get the DMs.

I read all your tweets. I see it. And so I know everyone's feeling what they're feeling right now and might differ from person to person. But as Brett and Ben said, it's okay to feel whichever way you're feeling. And exactly to Brett's point, if you need to take a day, a week, a month, a couple months, we're here for you. The Midas Touch Network is not going anywhere. We're going to double down on how we report the news and how we check corporate media for their sane washing of this utterly despicable behavior that led to the reelection of this deranged person. We're here for you. We're not going anywhere. There is deep love in this community. The might is mighty are truly the best, the best pro-democracy warriors that frankly exist. We're here for you guys whenever you need us. And again, we're not going anywhere. So thank you all for continuing to fight alongside us whenever that is. We're here for you guys no matter what. And we're going to be doing our part every single day to hold truth to power. So thank you guys for everything. I want to see this too, if I can. Could everybody who's watching this right now,

could you put a blue heart in the comments? Throw some blue hearts in the comments right now. I want just to show everybody how many people are here right now and how many people feel the way that you feel and how many people are standing in solidarity with you because in community that is our strength and we need to continue to show our strength and show that there are a lot of us out there who still care about our democracy who still care about the american experiment it's great to see everybody doing that right now i just want to show, these are all real people who are affected by this. These are all people who care about our country, who care about the values that we've been espousing here. And I'm so grateful that you guys are in this with us and understand your role and what you are playing in all of this right now? To that point, Brett, there are currently 46,000

people who are watching this live right now. 46,000 people. And we just went live without saying there was going to be a show. 46,000 people joined. That's like a football stadium or a baseball stadium filled with pro-democracy loving people without even telling people when the game was going to take place. That's not a testament to us. We're messengers. We're part of this community. It's a testament to you and what you have all built here. I saw people say, I don't need a support group right now. This network can become a pro-democracy network and we can support each other. And I see the comments by some trolls in the chat, but that doesn't make me happy to ever be a troll. This community is not about attacking each other. If you're here and you're trolling, I want you to experience actually what

it looks like to have a football stadium filled up with people who actually love our democracy and love our constitution and people who are sad right now because certain freedoms have been taken away from people that we loved. If you want to troll on that, then go ahead. But we're always going to lead here with our values. I saw some people saying, hope is gone. Hope is not gone. You have the right to be scared. You have the right to feel fear.

Hope is not gone. There was certainly a setback, big setback. But I really ask you, do not lose your hope. Do not lose your will and your drive to just be a good human being each and every day and to make sure that those in your community, those in your family, those in your loved ones, that you're doing your best to spread positivity and to be helpful in life in this short period of time that we all get to spend together. We're going to use each and every day from here on out, again, to just be a voice of positivity, to tell the news, to call out the corruption. And we'll be here again, each and every step of the way. And you can think about it if you want, like a support group or a network or however you want to do it. But most importantly, I want you to know we're not going anywhere.

They may try to pull us back, but we're not going back. And we're going to do everything we can in a world filled of billionaire oligarchs to build this. And again, just think about it right here again. 50,000 people right now, 50, think about that. 50,000 people here at this moment, virtually shoulder to shoulder. Do you think if CNN went live right now, they can get on YouTube, they could get 50,000 people to join live? No, they couldn't. You think ABC could? No, they couldn't. You think NBC could? No, they couldn't. We cannot cede this territory to them. We're not going to seed this territory to them. A people-powered media network is necessary right now. It's needed right now. And we're going to continue that

mission. So I want you to know too that we're here for you. We're going to keep growing. It's my own view that, and you may disagree, but it's my own view that right now a media network that gets out the actual truth is needed more than ever. Needed more than ever at this very moment. I'm positive about that. And in order to accomplish that, we need you. We need to keep growing. We need to keep getting out these messages each and every day. That's my promise to you that that's what we are going to do. So again, thank you from the bottom of our heart. If you haven't subscribed, make sure you hit subscribe, turn the notifications on. I want you to know that the content that we're going to be putting out though, if you're wondering, it is over the next few days as well. It's going to be

very intentional. Maybe there's not going to be videos every 60 minutes like we used to do for now, because I understand too that probably doing so many videos every day. We all need some time and we don't want to just go video, video, video, video. But I think that we will, I know we will be making videos that are very intentional, that are directed about how we grow this pro-democracy community together, what we can do. And if I may, I really want to give, of course, a shout out to the core of this network, which is all of you, the Midas Mighty. This is your network. This is the network you built. This is the network that when it goes live, 50,000 people immediately join. It's your network. So I really mean this. Do not give up. Do not lose hope. I haven't lost hope. I will be here with you every step of the way. I have not

lost hope. In fact, my spirit has been buoyed. I am more ready than ever right now to meet this challenge, to meet this moment. And I'll be here with you each and every step of the way. But I'd be remiss if I also didn't talk about some of the great hosts that we have on this network. And they're all superstars, whether it's the Legal AF channel that's led by Michael Popock and Karen Friedman Agnifilo and others, the Legal AF YouTube channel, Adam Mockler's channel, Adam Mockler Gen Z. I mean, he's a superstar. He has about 700,000 subscribers. I want to try to get his platform to a million subscribers. I think you got to give a shout out as well to Michael Cohen, who's on the network, who put it all on the line.

So thank you so much, Michael Cohen, his YouTube channel at the Michael Cohen Show. You have Tennessee Brando, Blue Dot in a red state. He's been incredible to work with, such a voice of reason, and it's been incredible. And then just all of our hosts from Anthony Davis, who helped last night, to Dina Dahl, who's been incredible. I could go on and literally list the 50 hosts that are on this network, but they've done an incredible job. They've worked tirelessly. And so I wanted to thank them as well. So the show goes on. We fight for our democracy. We become the resistance to fascism together. Every day we fill football stadiums together. 50,000 people, 60,000 people, 100,000 people. Let's get this to 500,000 people.

Let's get this to a million people every single day. And I know how you're feeling right now, but I'm asking you one question before we go. And that question is, are you with us? Are you with me? Because I'm with you. And if you're with me right now, all 50,000 of you, please put the blue heart. Please put the blue heart emoji because I'm with you. Are you with us? And are we going to not be idle, not let fascism take over? Are we going to do this together? Are we going to grow? Are we going to grow? I promise you we're going to work our asses off each and every day for you. We love you. God bless you. God bless our troops. God bless Ukraine. God bless NATO. God bless the United States of America. Thank you for watching. Shout out to the Midas

Mighty, Jordy. Shout out to the Midas Mighty.