TRIGGERnometry - Careful What You Click On

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00:00:43.380 Can you believe it?

00:00:49.660 That is a common question around the metaphorical water-cooler trigonometry these days.

00:00:54.080 And for good reason.

00:00:55.660 Our journey so far is as improbable as they come.

00:00:58.440 Two unknown circuit comedians start a podcast in a room above a comedy club.

00:01:03.680 They borrow a camera from a photographer, buy 50-pound microphones, and launch.

00:01:08.540 Within three weeks, their producer quits due to ideological differences.

00:01:12.340 She's woke.

00:01:13.200 They're not.

00:01:13.940 At this point, their interviews average a few hundred views.

00:01:16.900 The next producer lasts nearly twice as long and quits for a different reason.

00:01:21.540 He likes to get paid.

00:01:22.560 Soon after, the comedy club, which lets them use the room, kicks them out.

00:01:27.080 Again, for not being woke in the middle of the pandemic.

00:01:30.320 Five years later, they're interviewing world leaders and averaging close to a million downloads

00:01:34.780 an episode.

00:01:35.220 As remarkable as the story is, what makes it satisfying is not actually how far we've traveled from a lowly start.

00:01:42.620 After all, every success story seems unlikely in retrospect.

00:01:46.780 What's special is that we've done our best to approach our newfound role as content creators in the right way,

00:01:52.820 and haven't been crushed by the algorithm or the competition in the process.

00:01:56.320 The right way does not actually belong in quotation marks, but I use them to emphasize that in today's

00:02:01.840 media climate, our incentive structures have perverted our understanding of right and wrong.

00:02:06.900 Today, merely claiming that there's a right way of doing things seems grandiose, arrogant, and presumptuous.

00:02:13.340 The slow but inevitable decline of mainstream media is, as I've written before, partly driven by

00:02:18.440 technological change.

00:02:20.060 Lowering the barrier to entry was always going to end the legacy media monopolies and information.

00:02:24.900 But the emergence of new media challenges coincided with the mainstream media showcasing its own

00:02:30.100 corruption and inadequacy.

00:02:31.940 Kathy Newman's hostile interview with the then-emerging Jordan Peterson became an internet sensation

00:02:37.120 because it revealed so clearly that much of journalism had ceased to be about truth-seeking.

00:02:43.540 Instead, it had become a tool to exert force against those who were seeking the truth.

00:02:48.480 The treatment of dissenters against government authoritarianism during COVID,

00:02:51.900 the deliberate lies such as the Russia collusion hoax, and the covering up of Hunter Biden's

00:02:56.860 incriminating laptop, all served to further underscore the partisanship, bad faith, and

00:03:02.280 corruption of the media.

00:03:03.760 As people often do when faced with an extreme they dislike, we proceeded to try out the opposite

00:03:08.920 extreme.

00:03:09.960 The problem, it was concluded, was not human behavior, the corrupting effect of power, or the

00:03:14.780 lack of competition.

00:03:15.940 The problem was gatekeepers.

00:03:17.760 This was a partial diagnosis at best, but it was felt by many that breaking open the oligarchic

00:03:23.520 cabal and democratizing the marketplace of ideas would lead to a better media environment.

00:03:28.980 And in some ways, it did.

00:03:31.080 The market is brilliant at two things at least, driving down prices and increasing consumer

00:03:36.320 choice.

00:03:37.460 Today, the array of media publications available for free is astounding.

00:03:41.660 In the process, however, it was decided that the problem was curation itself.

00:03:45.900 This is why much of new media is actively hostile to the idea of self-regulation, even at the

00:03:52.040 level of the individual.

00:03:53.780 Successful podcasters often reject the notion that they have any responsibility for the content

00:03:58.800 they produce, to suggest otherwise risks being accused of calling for certain people to be

00:04:03.820 no-platformed, cancelled, and so on.

00:04:06.560 These same people are, of course, highly selective about the guests they have on their shows, but

00:04:11.500 the pretense that they're not is critical to maintaining their free speech credentials.

00:04:15.900 The impact of this is easiest to see in individuals.

00:04:19.360 Tucker Carlson, as a legacy media journalist at Fox News, was controversial, to be sure.

00:04:24.320 But he had to free himself of the shackles of his gatekeepers to descend into actual lunacy,

00:04:29.920 like claiming he's been scratched by a demon.

00:04:32.260 The power of Christ compels you!

00:04:35.100 Kanda Sowen spent her formative years doing excellent work at the Daily Wire, pushing back

00:04:40.020 against the progressive narrative on race in America.

00:04:42.980 Today, free of the oppressive gatekeeping of her former employers, she spends her time

00:04:47.640 focusing on whether Brigitte Macron is in fact a man.

00:04:50.600 You were born a man and you will die a man.

00:04:53.440 That's the point I'm making.

00:04:55.280 So give us a sample.

00:04:56.760 I'll send my doctors to take your blood.

00:04:59.160 We're revolting against the perverts that run the world.

00:05:02.660 And I want to be very clear here.

00:05:03.820 I count you among them.

00:05:06.060 This may sound like a critique of Carlson and Owens, but I'm afraid I'm actually doing

00:05:09.900 something much more taboo, criticizing their audience.

00:05:13.660 Their drift into insanity is understandable once you consider the dynamics of the new media

00:05:17.960 marketplace.

00:05:19.340 Born of opposition, but Kastastan cannot survive when its party is actually in power.

00:05:24.640 Trump's dominant victory and swashbuckling approach to government has left the right's

00:05:28.820 new media talking heads in a pickle.

00:05:30.460 Well, beating up on the Dems is like punching a man who's been knocked out and is lying

00:05:34.640 defenseless on the ground.

00:05:36.360 There is no election to get the vote out for, and even trans issues no longer generate the

00:05:40.980 same clicks.

00:05:42.240 Under this downward pressure and unable to create content that actually informs, moves

00:05:46.500 and inspires, the only way out is to crank up the crazy.

00:05:50.420 Over the last few months at Trigonometry, we've released episodes with historians, world leaders

00:05:55.240 and major media personalities.

00:05:56.780 As best we could, we've avoided the pitfalls of both legacy and new media.

00:06:02.140 On the one hand, we do not harangue our guests to impress fellow journalists, even controversial

00:06:06.780 politicians like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:06:10.320 On the other, we respectfully challenge them, whether they're on the right like Ann Coulter

00:06:14.380 or the left like Deborah Francis White.

00:06:16.640 This is why our growth is so satisfying.

00:06:19.180 We are proving that going tonto is not actually the only way out.

00:06:22.840 My point is, the power to shape the media landscape is not actually in the hands of the New York

00:06:27.940 Times, Jeff Bezos, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson or Constantin Kishin.

00:06:32.060 It's in yours.

00:06:33.340 The end of gatekeeping means that, for better or worse, you are now your own gatekeeper.

00:06:38.380 What you reward with your clicks is what you create more of in the world.

00:06:41.680 That is not a responsibility to be taken lightly.

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00:06:58.060 The news doesn't just tell you what's happening.

00:07:00.660 It so often tells you what to think is happening.

00:07:03.400 And these days, the biggest red flag isn't what's said.

00:07:06.400 It's what gets left out.

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00:07:21.180 Their blind spot feed is one of my favorite features.

00:07:24.000 It surfaces around 20 stories a day that are being overlooked by either the left or the right.

00:07:28.960 It's a simple but powerful way to track media bias in real time.

00:07:32.940 Like this, NIH scientists recently published a declaration

00:07:36.660 criticizing Trump's cuts to public health research.

00:07:39.740 That's a major move.

00:07:41.180 And yet, only 2% of the coverage came from right-leaning outlets.

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TRIGGERnometry - September 01, 2025

Careful What You Click On - Konstantin Kisin

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