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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The media has an important job. Press has an important role in society. But you don't have any idea how some of these people who have very popular YouTube channels are making $20 million a year pumping out hate content. The idea that like it's somehow the media and what they mean by that is legacy media, ABC News or whatever, that it's somehow their fault.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

When in reality, they are very willing to ignore the people who are getting paid $20 million a year to make fun of ABC News. This is somehow corrupt over here, but what you're doing is completely legit. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

When in reality, they are very willing to ignore the people who are getting paid $20 million a year to make fun of ABC News. This is somehow corrupt over here, but what you're doing is completely legit. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

When in reality, they are very willing to ignore the people who are getting paid $20 million a year to make fun of ABC News. This is somehow corrupt over here, but what you're doing is completely legit. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Also, the idea that some people are getting paid $20 million a year to like roll clip and then they watch President Biden like stumble on the steps of Air Force One and then they spend 15 minutes making fun of what an old guy he is. Those clips that go uber viral, that is a tremendously lucrative line of work if you have enough eyeballs on your content. Oh, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Also, the idea that some people are getting paid $20 million a year to like roll clip and then they watch President Biden like stumble on the steps of Air Force One and then they spend 15 minutes making fun of what an old guy he is. Those clips that go uber viral, that is a tremendously lucrative line of work if you have enough eyeballs on your content. Oh, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Also, the idea that some people are getting paid $20 million a year to like roll clip and then they watch President Biden like stumble on the steps of Air Force One and then they spend 15 minutes making fun of what an old guy he is. Those clips that go uber viral, that is a tremendously lucrative line of work if you have enough eyeballs on your content. Oh, yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And when you understand the business model behind the hate content that is online, it's very, very eye-opening. It pays far more to be a hyper-partisan pundit. I could make so much more money than I make right now getting a gig on some news network and talking about how shitty XYZ person is, why this person's an idiot, et cetera.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And when you understand the business model behind the hate content that is online, it's very, very eye-opening. It pays far more to be a hyper-partisan pundit. I could make so much more money than I make right now getting a gig on some news network and talking about how shitty XYZ person is, why this person's an idiot, et cetera.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And when you understand the business model behind the hate content that is online, it's very, very eye-opening. It pays far more to be a hyper-partisan pundit. I could make so much more money than I make right now getting a gig on some news network and talking about how shitty XYZ person is, why this person's an idiot, et cetera.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The amount of money that exists in that hyper-partisan space is so much more than somebody who exists There's not cash in common sense, right? And so if I have a choice between a giant check and having common sense, listen, it's very enticing to be like, I'll take the cash and I'll buy the sweaters.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The amount of money that exists in that hyper-partisan space is so much more than somebody who exists There's not cash in common sense, right? And so if I have a choice between a giant check and having common sense, listen, it's very enticing to be like, I'll take the cash and I'll buy the sweaters.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The amount of money that exists in that hyper-partisan space is so much more than somebody who exists There's not cash in common sense, right? And so if I have a choice between a giant check and having common sense, listen, it's very enticing to be like, I'll take the cash and I'll buy the sweaters.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The incentive structure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The incentive structure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The incentive structure.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Precisely. It's producing the exact result that is designed to produce. And everybody is willingly participating in it without even realizing what the incentive structure is. Yeah, right, right, right. And that's the problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Precisely. It's producing the exact result that is designed to produce. And everybody is willingly participating in it without even realizing what the incentive structure is. Yeah, right, right, right. And that's the problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Precisely. It's producing the exact result that is designed to produce. And everybody is willingly participating in it without even realizing what the incentive structure is. Yeah, right, right, right. And that's the problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I would love to.