Is MLB Producing Propaganda? | Hour 2
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I don't want to be overly self-serious and I don't want to lament too much during a happy time what we're doing around here. But yesterday after the show, while everyone was having a lunch, they seemed to be enjoying very vigorously. Let's go to that Pollo. Well, you you started to have Pollo and everyone seemed to be enjoying their lunch. But when we as a media company interrupted our lunch to do what we did yesterday, I watching everyone, an army of soldiers scurried to attention, having their lunch interrupted. I thought it was the lowest point of my journalistic career. when I saw on a camera that we were rushing in, a guy was wearing a mask of some sort, and then very soon into talking to him, he said, yeah, this whole thing started because I said to Tyler Herro, retire, ho.
And when that happened, like I took inventory of my life and the decisions we've made over the last 20 years around here, I'm like, and there it is. They're the lowest point of my journalism career.
Why does Dan call yesterday's Tyler Herro whistleblower interview the 'lowest point' of his journalistic career?
You guys still smell like puerco asado. I smelled onions all over the place. They were half eaten.
Lechon was good, yeah.
They were half eaten. Plates of food outside. There was grease on some of the faces. And then I'm interviewing someone whose face I could not see because he did not want to be seen after taking the private thing that Tyler Hero did and showed it for everyone to be seen. And then getting him punched by Bam Adebayo. And I'm rushing into place as the... Founder of a Pulitzer Prize winning company. Am I right to view that as the lowest point of my journalistic career?
Nope. It was great journalism. We got someone no one else could get to be on camera and it's going mega viral.
Yeah, but the goal to me isn't to go mega viral. It's to do good work.
Maybe you should run your company differently.
Well, it's to do good work.
Yeah, but what does Pablo do, really?
Well, he wins Pulitzer. Yeah, but did he get anyone as good as this? Yeah, better than that. I don't know about that.
These two better numbers, if you want me to be real honest. Yeah, and we got this guy.
Did Pablo get this guy? So wait a minute. Now, I will delight, though it was the lowest moment of my journalistic career. What are you shaking your head about?
The whole thing made me feel gross. I felt gross after talking to him yesterday.
And if you want to feel gross, you can watch it exclusively on the Levitard YouTube channel.
Jeremy, your standard is not the standard around here, so let's lower your standard here when it comes to you saying we're doing the right thing by being viral instead of good. So I go outside, lowest moment of my career. I also want to take a shower. I'm also like, ooh, okay, so this started with someone just trolling Tyler. This person got Tyler Hero in trouble, got Tyler Hero... betrayed Tyler Hero, has been trying to bother Tyler Hero since this started, has been a nuisance, a fly around an elephant's tail since December. And I'm now going to give him his anonymity, the shield of, I'm going to give him cover and present to the audience a quote unquote get when this all started with retire ho for a 26 year old player, an all-star.
Zad, you understand why I feel dirty about this.
Yeah, I thought the whole thing was gross. I mean, I'm fine with us talking to him because I think people are clearly interested in it. It's why the clips have gone viral. But just, you know, we're platforming a troll. That's just what he is. He's just a troll. We challenged him on that. We did. No, we did. Proud of what we did.
Ask him if he was a wasteman. We did good work. I don't know what that means, man. You keep saying that. We did really good work. We held him accountable for being such a hatin' ass hater. And I'm proud of the work that we did. That was entertaining. It was hard-hitting journalism. It was a timely story. We were all interested in how that whole thing came to be. We got insight. We illuminated an audience that was thirsty to know.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:19
2
Why does Dan call yesterday's Tyler Herro whistleblower interview the 'lowest point' of his journalistic career?
1:19–5:24
3
How did the hosts debate whether publishing a masked whistleblower interview was responsible or viral-driven?
5:24–14:52
4
What pop culture topics (Kraven, He‑Man, The Odyssey) do the hosts discuss and why do they matter to the show vibe?
14:52–20:45
5
Which upcoming movies and franchises (I Play Rocky, Rocky sequels, Stallone) spark the hosts' conversation about storytelling?
20:45–38:14
Speakers
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