hey sorry for the reupload but the last
one that I did had audio that was a
disaster and I really wanted this video
to be something that was listenable so I
recently watched this interview with
Jordan Peterson on Vice and it will it
got a considerable amount of down votes
I'll show you what it looks like over
here and you can see that thirty six
thousand down votes 7k up votes and you
can see from the first hundred or 1000
comments that a lot of people seem to be
unhappy with the way they edited it and
if you watch the video from six minutes
and three seconds and then you watch the
change from six minutes and three
seconds to six minutes and let's say
seven seconds you can tell where they
skipped out on a lot of content where
they were purposely likely antagonizing
him since this was a two-hour interview
when they released six minutes of it
curating very rapidly at the moment in
terms of the relationships between men
and women
sexual harassment in the workplace yes
you don't have to be a genius to see
that they did something silly there and
I suggest you watch the entire interview
for yourself now I'm not going to get
into a critique of the interview because
hundreds and thousands of people are
doing that likely far better than I am
what I'd like to focus on is the
character of the individuals and the
company behind this piece of garbage
that that they call journalism so if for
those of you who haven't watched the
channel very long I received an offer to
be on a television show that was hosted
by Vice about let's see about two years
ago and I just wanted to go over some of
the fun parts of this contract so that
we can really give you an idea of the
content and quality of the character of
the company and the people who work
there about two or three times someone
had showed up to my office showing
interest in the idea of me being on
their program and the third time I
finally had a sit-down with one of them
and I spoke with someone from vice for
about two hours what they did is they
sent me this contract in response and I
like to go through it just so you can
have some idea of the contents of their
character and whether or not they
negotiate or deal in good faith when
debating whether or not the edits that
were done to that two-hour interview to
make it down to some more like three to
six minutes were there were edits made
in good faith so let's just look at some
the content that we have here so the
first part that's interesting in this
contract is where it says that I need to
furnish them with all of the equipment
so if you look at the description if you
look at the links below you'll see that
in many of my videos I've got a list of
the equipment that I use and that adds
up to somewhere between depending on you
know whether or not I bring everything I
have it adds up to somewhere between
three and ten thousand dollars if I were
to decide to bring everything you know I
got I had at a time a six or $700
hot-air station five hundred dollars of
soldering equipment between five hundred
to a thousand dollars of soldering
equipment nine hundred dollar 4k
television a thousand dollar microscope
and camera it goes on and on and on all
the stuff that I have in my desk and I
would have to repurchase all of that to
provide for them $1500 in episode and I
was told that they were looking to do
somewhere between nine to fifteen
episodes now I'll let you do the math of
nine to fifteen times fifteen hundred
and you tell me if that sounds like a
great salary to be in New York now if we
were to go ahead further I know what
you're thinking hey I wouldn't mind
getting that amount of money if I could
add that to what I'm already making that
sounds great except for the fact that I
can't if you look over here it says that
I would not be allowed to upload to my
youtube channel without speaking
directly to them first and while in the
beginning they seem to not care at all
about me uploading to YouTube when I
when I spoke after the reading this
contract they yeah they say we're very
hawkish on me being able to upload to my
own channel anymore and this contract
would mean that I would be barred if
they said so from being able to upload
to my current channel which would then
destroy that stream of revenue that's
the word I'm looking for now if we go
ahead to the some other parts here you
can also see that one of the ways that I
make money is by those affiliate links
down below so just an interest of full
disclosure in case you don't like me and
you don't want to see me make money if
you click those links below to check out
the equipment that I use and buy
something on Amazon anything on Amazon
at all I will get three to twelve
percent of the proceeds of your purchase
that is a stream of revenue for me and
that's a stream of revenue that just
like YouTube it's a small one but these
things add up and that's a stream of
revenue that would be taken away as
here I will not I shall not receive any
additional compensation for use of such
tools
nor shall artists endorse any brand or
mark whether it be on camera or social
media as defined below I spoke with an
attorney prior to publishing my first
video and they said very clearly his
Clause of the contract could be used to
say that you would no longer be allowed
to do any affiliate linking so I would
have to remove those links from my
videos and then remove a second stream
of income which depending on whether
people click the links below can be
significant or not now if we were to go
on to the rest of this you may say well
well that's even though it's not a lot
of money that's still that's still
decent right you don't get guaranteed
income from YouTube or affiliate links
well actually this isn't guaranteed
either no obligation of procede artist
acknowledges and agrees that vice shall
be under no obligation actually utilize
artist services and/or results and that
they should be free to develop the
project with additional and or
replacement talent this means that they
would be willing they they they they
would be allowed to do a single episode
of this television show with me and then
decide you know what we don't want to
use you anymore so sorry about that
here's where it hits the fan and becomes
completely ridiculous I'm just gonna
replace the word artist with me so that
it makes more sense
Luis agrees to pay advise 10% royalties
of any and all gross amounts received
and /or credited to Luis in connection
with the use of Louis's services
likeness or name or in connection with
producing writing endorsing or
sponsoring or appearing in any product
merchandise promotion etc etc and I
actually discussed this with an attorney
before doing my first video that could
be used to say hey Rossman repair group
that's Luis Ross fence company he's
using his name there huh and that's his
business and those are his services and
that's his likeness well every time you
sell flux we get 10% every time a new
subscriber shows up on my forum and Duke
answers a question that $29 a month we
get 10% every time Louis does a time
Louis fixes something and charges $200
will you get 10% you say what this is
ridiculous that a company that I've had
for the last five seven years now I just
oh this new company 10% of all the
revenue that I make using my likeness
because I sign this contract so let's
just get this straight
I would pay up front about
five to ten thousand dollars to buy all
the equipment needed to do a show they
would then pay me $1500 in Episode four
about nine nine to fifteen nine to
thirteen episodes around there
I would then not be allowed to do any of
my affiliate marketing which makes me
money I would not be allowed to upload
further videos to YouTube which makes me
money they don't have to do the show
with me they can at any time decide
we're gonna have somebody else do the
show and stop paying you while at the
same time for about one to two years
after I sign this that at two years date
is two years following the initial the
initiation of the contract that they are
have a right to ten percent of my
pre-existing business does this sound
like negotiating in good faith does this
sound like the contract written by
honest people that I spent two hours
having a discussion with going over
requirements concerns and what it is I
had to offer what it is they had to
offer does this sound like that
I don't think it does I think this
sounds like a complete pile of and I
hate using this commie word exploitation
this is a clear-cut example of
manipulation deception and any clear-cut
attempt at exploitation that didn't work
but this is how they operate this is how
their legal department operates this is
how they're the people that reach out to
new content creators operate and when I
look at how it is they handled this
interview with Jordan Peterson it's very
clear that that's how they're
interviewing that's how they that's how
they interview people and that's also
how their editing department conducts
itself as well it's a company culture
from top down that very clearly
obviously is totally okay with just
screwing people and I you know you see
you see it in a lot of what they say
they they very clearly are okay saying
things that are not true they say things
they're journalists are happy to say
things that are not true as if they are
true and they often get away with it
like right here not true
absolutely not true jessa even points
out very clearly not true and this is
just whipping us into a frenzy in
society of very hyperpolarized people
that are misinformed that are programmed
to think that these terrible things are
happening
these evil people are against us on both
sides when there is actually a much more
nuanced discussion of the issues that
should be going on so what should we
take from all of this I think we all
play an important role in discrediting
these outlets that do a disservice to
their viewers and I know people are
gonna say how dare you try and undermine
and discredit our institutions of
journalism that of it no no you don't
get to play the high ground stuff these
institutions have been discrediting
themselves on every side for a very long
time this whole idea where we're going
to play you know somebody's gonna be on
screen and telling you what somebody
else said that's why I don't watch the
news anymore I reject that in its
entirety when you know this reminds me
of these times and the pre Middle Ages
when people were not able to read so
they would have to go to somebody else
who would interpret what religious texts
were saying for them and you can imagine
this led to quite a bit of deception and
manipulation very similar to what's
going on now when I'm listening to
someone on the screen tell me what
another person said I don't take that at
face value I reject that in its entirety
I want to hear the source material I
want the whole entire I want the context
I want everything and I we are at a time
where when it comes to media you can't
have everything this is a website right
here where anybody can from a blue phone
hit upload and or hit live stream and
have a conversation with somebody and
share and host that conversation to
millions of people in real time and
doesn't cost them a dime this is very
unique and this is a tool that I think
we're just now starting to realize the
power of these types of conversations
you see here this stuff this crap that
you see on Fox News or MSNBC where you
have guests come on and throw [ __ ] at
each other for two minutes to try to get
the other person to say something stupid
so they can say they won that's not how
you talk about important subjects that's
not how we delve in to topics that
affect millions of people in society
because when you try to reduce these
important conversations to two to
three-minute interrupt fests where
people are just smashing each other it
doesn't work it has polarized as people
more it makes people angry it keeps
people uninformed and it's obsolete this
entire system
was based on a time when time was very
valuable because one network could not
broadcast more than you know more than
one thing at a time this is very
obsolete this is based on 1940s to 1980s
nonsense
we have distribution networks now where
you can broadcast hundreds of thousands
of discussions simultaneously and they
can be as long as you want there's no
limit anymore you don't have to shove
everything and cram it into this little
box because when we exist in a time
where you need to cram these discussions
into these little three minute clips so
that the so that it'll fit along with
every other piece of programming you
allow people that have an ideological
agenda to filter through what it is you
see through the prism of their
ideological agenda and that's what
happens on Fox that's what happens on
MSNBC that's what's happening on Vice
here and it's incredibly intellectually
dishonest but it's also a disservice to
you there are many independent outlets
that allow you to watch full one to two
to three hour interviews and debates
with people that they disagree with
intensely we saw that last year at the
political conferences you know you
didn't watch a shank from Young Turks
versus Ben Shapiro for 20 seconds where
one said something silly and they take
it out of context you got to watch the
whole one-hour long thing you got to
watch this we and you would take away
something from it there would be a
nuanced discussion you would have things
to learn you would have things to Google
and you would come away from it not
feeling like you was just some little
arm wrestling match that one person
totally won and and left you noted this
isn't this is not helping us have these
have real discussions with each other
and when I see that these types of
things are happening advice all I have
to think to myself is okay well was it
an accident or is this what they usually
do and I look back to my contract and I
show you what they showed me and I
remember my conversations with them and
their shady people they're dishonest
they're very dishonest very deceptive
very manipulative and very I hate to use
it it's the commie word but very
exploitative of the people that are
their viewers and of the people that
they work with that's what happened over
here three to six minutes of a - ow
interview does that sound honest to you
and what I'm really happy about is that
people saw through it for the BS that it
was I think that maybe ten or even five
years ago people would have watched
something like this someone wow I can't
believe he said dad that's terrible oh
my god
but when you read through the comments
here you can see that almost every
comment is so what you're saying is here
we go again where is the rest of the
interview the every single one of these
comments is just smashing them for only
showing a portion of the interview
people are waking up because here's the
thing with Jordan Peterson whether or
not you agree with him people were
introduced to Jordan Peterson by hearing
these 30-minute to two hour-long clips
and lectures from him
so people got used to a proper diet when
people were introduced to Jordan
Peterson they got used to the proper
diet of hearing everything that a
commentator said and the full drawn out
interviewer debate so then when you give
them the McDonald's or the KFC of this
three-minute hyper edited [ __ ] they
realize it when you get people used to
KFC and McDonald's
okay fine they'll be okay with KFC and
McDonald's once you start feeding people
real food real cooking then they go to
KFC and McDonald's I'm like what the
hell is this [ __ ] and the same thing I
think happened here people who would
have otherwise viewed this and said this
is normal once you got them used to the
two to three our conversations to the
nuanced conversations with people all
over the ideological spectrum with all
different political views that he's
spoken with when you get to hear those
discussions fleshed out where it's
things are not taken out of context or
hyper edited and then you watch this
garbage people realize for this [ __ ] for
what it is this is the McDonald's of
media this is the you know this is the
$1 pizza of of political and ideological
discussion and everybody saw through it
7,000 likes over 30,000 dislikes
I mean the worst video I've ever done on
YouTube in my history the worst absolute
worst one had something like a hundred
dislikes less than likes I mean people
saw through this everybody saw through
this and I think you all can see through
this too so what do we do going forward
how do we take power away from these
establishments that
seek to lie and screw over people and
manipulate people for their own for
their own agendas well what we do is we
stop giving them power by not watching
their shows we stop subscribing to these
shows we stop buying these crappy
newspapers we stop watching and paying
for television that's owned that's
telling us what someone else is saying
with an ideological bent we go to the
source we watch the content we watch the
full interview go to YouTube where you
can support content creators directly
that are real journalists I mean whether
or not I agree with some individuals you
know I'll watch some things by Tim Poole
where he'll talk about what both sides
do and he'll travel around the world and
have real discussions and actually look
things up and show you what he sees you
know don't always have to just agree
with him to like and respect the fact
that some of what he does is really good
journalism there are lots of people on
YouTube that will sit down and have a
one to three hour discussion with
somebody or a one to three hour debate
with somebody and they'll often even do
it live there'll be a live debate so
that you can see the comments from
people and then they'll take after they
watch the debate
they'll take comments from the audience
and then use that to create further
discussion and you you leave that
feeling truly fed you leave that feeling
truly intellectually nourished but when
you leave crap like this you leave i
watch MSNBC or fox news or vice all
right you know I read these articles and
so on and I I feel I feel dirty I just I
feel like taking a shower it's awful and
now this this is what we do to stop
giving them clicks stop giving them
advertising revenue and one of these
days these advertisers are going to look
on independent media and they're gonna
look at this and say huh all the people
that all the real discussions are
happening over there and people kind of
got sick and tired of watching this so
they're all over there so why don't we
advertise over there with the
independent content creators support
independent content creators stop
supporting this this crap and if the
independent content creators starts to
do the same [ __ ] that that the old
traditional media does stop supporting
them - let's put our money our time our
eyeballs and our resources into people
who are dedicated to pursuing the truth
rather than people who are dedicated to
manipulation
and peddling [ __ ] that's it for
today and as always I hope you learned
something and if you're looking to do a
TV series with Vice don't