WEBVTT 00:00:13.011 --> 00:00:16.091 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:16.271 --> 00:00:20.331 And I am James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com, combining two of the greatest 00:00:20.331 --> 00:00:22.651 storytelling companies in the world. 00:00:23.171 --> 00:00:27.891 We've got that. Plus, it only costs a cool billy to join the Gaza Board of Peace. 00:00:28.071 --> 00:00:34.191 But first, BlackRock's Larry Fink says Davos feels just so out of step to many. 00:00:34.631 --> 00:00:38.971 Grabbing this from Yahoo Finance, the World Economic Forum has become a cloistered 00:00:38.971 --> 00:00:42.951 and self-congratulatory body out of touch with economic realities, 00:00:43.131 --> 00:00:48.331 its new leader, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at the opening evening of the 00:00:48.331 --> 00:00:50.311 2026 conference, for many people, 00:00:50.691 --> 00:00:52.951 this meeting feels out of step with the moment. 00:00:53.391 --> 00:01:00.271 Elites in an age of populism, an established institution in an era of deep institutional distrust. 00:01:00.471 --> 00:01:04.711 And there's truth in that critique. If WEF is going to be useful going forward, 00:01:04.831 --> 00:01:06.231 it has to regain that trust. 00:01:06.891 --> 00:01:10.431 He hinted that the forum, which holds occasional offshoots in China and the 00:01:10.431 --> 00:01:14.671 Middle East, will add new events in places where the modern world is actually 00:01:14.671 --> 00:01:18.991 built, naming Detroit, Dublin, Jakarta, and Buenos Aires. 00:01:19.491 --> 00:01:23.651 Larry Fink, who runs the world's largest money manager, 00:01:23.851 --> 00:01:29.031 took over as World Economic Forum last year after its founder and longtime frontman, 00:01:29.131 --> 00:01:32.891 boogeyman, Klaus Schwab, sat down following an internal investigation into his 00:01:32.891 --> 00:01:36.391 spending and his disgusting workplace behavior. 00:01:36.391 --> 00:01:39.531 It's more disgusting just to think about him doing that work. 00:01:40.117 --> 00:01:45.857 It's obvious that the world now places far less trust in us to help shape what 00:01:45.857 --> 00:01:50.577 comes next, he said, but noted that he wouldn't be leading the forum if he didn't believe in it. 00:01:50.697 --> 00:01:59.017 Despite this year's record attendance of 850 CEOs and 65 heads of state who wish they were CEOs. 00:01:59.757 --> 00:02:03.717 Davos faces a growing perception as an echo chamber for elites whose global 00:02:03.717 --> 00:02:08.077 standing has waned, seen both as unpopular and toothless. 00:02:08.077 --> 00:02:13.097 The 20th century multilateralism that Davos advanced is crumbling under U.S. 00:02:13.457 --> 00:02:17.497 President Donald Trump, who was set to arrive Wednesday after some weird, 00:02:17.697 --> 00:02:22.837 sketchy plane difficulties, bringing his brand of populism and militarism. 00:02:23.297 --> 00:02:28.897 Mini-lateralism is quickly emerging as the buzzword here for the week in the 00:02:28.897 --> 00:02:36.757 Alps. In some related notes, Denmark skips Davos Forum in protest over the deepening Greenland crisis. 00:02:37.597 --> 00:02:44.097 And is Davos 2026 the last chance saloon to save the old world order the Guardian frets? 00:02:44.737 --> 00:02:48.597 And I got one, James, from the Wall Street Journal. That's I'm trying to find 00:02:48.597 --> 00:02:50.837 the actual article. My thing is paywalled, I guess. 00:02:51.417 --> 00:02:56.577 Trump's truth social posts on Greenland darken the mood at Davos. 00:02:56.577 --> 00:02:59.437 And this is the thing that's been getting me here in the States, 00:02:59.557 --> 00:03:04.117 James, not only the last year, but now nearly the last nine or so years. 00:03:04.497 --> 00:03:08.057 Imagine this energy the past few decades. 00:03:08.237 --> 00:03:13.517 Trump's bellicose nature makes our sniveling technocratic slow boil seem too obvious now. 00:03:13.717 --> 00:03:19.117 The same feckless little Eichmanns that either actually took part in helping 00:03:19.117 --> 00:03:24.017 build the police state or through their tacit approval of doing nothing helped, 00:03:24.277 --> 00:03:26.157 you know, let the police state be built. 00:03:27.208 --> 00:03:32.988 They're now mad that someone is using, yes, using the ished out of it. It's all been built. 00:03:33.168 --> 00:03:38.708 The unitary executive, the decider in chief, didn't get figured out and taken by Trump. 00:03:38.868 --> 00:03:42.428 It's been built over the last couple of decades through Bush, 00:03:42.648 --> 00:03:47.428 through Obama, through the war of terror, through both parties of this fascist 00:03:47.428 --> 00:03:49.808 bird. James Davos, 2026. 00:03:51.019 --> 00:03:54.719 You're exactly right there, James. We are seeing levels of schadenfreude that 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:56.299 shouldn't be possible at this point, 00:03:56.519 --> 00:04:01.039 where watching these clowns wet their pants over the Trump bull in the Davos 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:07.179 China shop is delightful to watch in a number of ways and leads to craziness, zaniness, 00:04:07.559 --> 00:04:09.959 Looney Tunes level nonsense that we have never seen before. 00:04:10.179 --> 00:04:15.059 Like this from the Globe and Mail, military models Canadian response to hypothetical 00:04:15.059 --> 00:04:19.539 American invasion, reporting that the Canadian Armed Forces for the first time 00:04:19.539 --> 00:04:22.039 in its history has now modeled a hypothetical U.S. 00:04:22.219 --> 00:04:27.319 Military invasion of Canada and the country's potential response, noting that the U.S. 00:04:27.499 --> 00:04:31.879 Would undoubtedly overwhelm Canada's strategic positions on land and sea within 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.879 a week and possibly as quickly as two days. So what are they going to do? 00:04:36.059 --> 00:04:40.859 They're going to unleash unconventional warfare in response to such things using 00:04:40.859 --> 00:04:45.859 tactics used by the Afghan Mujahideen in their hit-and-run attacks on Russian 00:04:45.859 --> 00:04:49.699 soldiers during the 1979 to 1989 Soviet Afghan war, 00:04:49.939 --> 00:04:55.999 including using irregular military or armed civilians to ambush, 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.999 sabotage, use drone warfare or hit and run tactics. 00:04:59.579 --> 00:05:05.379 Total craziness that is taking place as people melt down over this spat over 00:05:05.379 --> 00:05:08.259 Iceland, as Dimension Dawn called it, 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:12.259 no less than four times in his World Economic Forum speech, where he was clearly 00:05:12.259 --> 00:05:14.839 talking about Greenland, but he called it Iceland four times. 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:21.899 I subjected myself to 45 minutes of Dementia Don's speech there at Davos until 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:25.859 he started rambling again about Biden and inflation and America's the hottest 00:05:25.859 --> 00:05:27.439 country on the planet, and I gave up. 00:05:27.679 --> 00:05:33.299 And I watched about 15 minutes of Carney's speech talking about the destruction of the old world order. 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:38.339 So yes, schadenfreude to be had there. And also in, 00:05:38.794 --> 00:05:42.974 In the very act of this total spectacle nonsense. 00:05:43.674 --> 00:05:49.594 Zaphod Beeblebrox-level stage show that's being put on for everyone right now, that is finally, 00:05:49.874 --> 00:05:53.834 totally eviscerating, completely melting down that image of, 00:05:53.994 --> 00:05:58.774 oh, the American presidency is such a pristine and prestigious position and honor and, 00:05:59.134 --> 00:06:01.734 oh, this sacred sacrament of the holy religion of the state. 00:06:02.054 --> 00:06:05.194 No one takes it seriously anymore, and that's to the good. 00:06:05.194 --> 00:06:08.574 But this schadenfreude is obviously tempered 00:06:08.574 --> 00:06:11.594 by a couple of facts one is that of course what 00:06:11.594 --> 00:06:15.294 we are seeing is the pre-planned engineered 00:06:15.294 --> 00:06:18.634 destruction of the old world order because you cannot erect a new world order 00:06:18.634 --> 00:06:21.794 without destroying the old world order something a point that i've made many 00:06:21.794 --> 00:06:25.834 many times but we are watching it happen in real time and we're watching it 00:06:25.834 --> 00:06:31.014 through for example fink's speech to davos where he was cloaking all of his 00:06:31.014 --> 00:06:33.074 agenda and taking the whole thing, 00:06:33.194 --> 00:06:37.734 but now packaging it up in populist terms that will float well with the plebs these days. 00:06:37.874 --> 00:06:41.414 Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, more wealth has been created than in any 00:06:41.414 --> 00:06:42.814 time prior in human history. 00:06:42.954 --> 00:06:46.974 But in advanced economies, that wealth has accrued to a far narrower share of 00:06:46.974 --> 00:06:49.894 people than any healthy society can ultimately sustain. 00:06:50.254 --> 00:06:54.474 Most of the people affected by what we talk about here will never come to this 00:06:54.474 --> 00:06:57.054 conference. That's the central tension of this forum. 00:06:57.394 --> 00:07:02.174 Davos is an elite gathering trying to shape a world that belongs to everyone. Yeah, that's all true. 00:07:02.454 --> 00:07:06.694 So what's he suggesting? Well, of course, he's trying to take the stakeholder 00:07:06.694 --> 00:07:12.214 capitalism idea, the ESG nonsense that he was pimping a few years ago, rebranded as populist. 00:07:12.394 --> 00:07:15.734 Because no, we're trying to share the wealth. We're just trying to come up with 00:07:15.734 --> 00:07:17.294 ideas about how to share the wealth. 00:07:17.554 --> 00:07:22.594 Like, for example, how to better make AI serve the people and not take away 00:07:22.594 --> 00:07:24.194 your jobs and all of that kind of stuff. 00:07:24.354 --> 00:07:28.454 How are we going to do that? Bada bing, bada boom. financial tokenization of 00:07:28.454 --> 00:07:32.114 everything by putting all natural assets on a blockchain, which is, 00:07:32.114 --> 00:07:33.974 of course, is exactly what Fink and... 00:07:34.131 --> 00:07:37.771 His fellow technocrats have been arguing for for years. So that's one of the 00:07:37.771 --> 00:07:41.091 reasons we should not necessarily be celebrating the meltdown of the old world 00:07:41.091 --> 00:07:44.191 order because they already have a new world order coming in to take its place. 00:07:44.391 --> 00:07:48.631 The other thing is the transition from old world order to new world order will be paved. 00:07:48.751 --> 00:07:53.031 That street will be paved with the blood of many millions and millions and millions 00:07:53.031 --> 00:07:55.971 of innocent people. That is going to happen. 00:07:56.351 --> 00:08:01.091 Welcome to the year of the storm, everyone. We are starting to see what that 00:08:01.091 --> 00:08:03.471 looks like, but we have not seen anything yet. 00:08:03.471 --> 00:08:08.631 And I am not relishing this in any way. As much as the schadenfreude warms the 00:08:08.631 --> 00:08:11.471 cockles of my heart, I am not looking forward to what comes next. 00:08:12.531 --> 00:08:17.191 Whether intentionally or not, you're invoking Kissinger. What is it? 00:08:17.411 --> 00:08:22.751 Millions of people will die in vain, throwing themselves against our world order 00:08:22.751 --> 00:08:25.171 and will continue to keep building it. 00:08:25.171 --> 00:08:27.831 But you do james i mean you got to give it 00:08:27.831 --> 00:08:31.711 to them in some ways for their for their rebounds and their pump fakes of how 00:08:31.711 --> 00:08:36.691 well they're able to kind of play this game and go okay like you said the esg 00:08:36.691 --> 00:08:40.671 the dei that thing just really blew up in our face the last couple of years 00:08:40.671 --> 00:08:44.871 but they can do a little you know evasive maneuvers and turn around and with 00:08:44.871 --> 00:08:46.451 the madison you know avenue. 00:08:47.535 --> 00:08:51.215 Culture creators, they can make a lot of people change a lot of minds. 00:08:51.435 --> 00:08:56.175 James, I've been playing real classic old episodes, earliest episodes of Media 00:08:56.175 --> 00:09:01.015 Monarchy and of New World Next Week on my Monarchy radio streams and doing them 00:09:01.015 --> 00:09:02.155 from this day in history. 00:09:02.315 --> 00:09:07.515 Today, playing 16-year-old episodes of New World Next Week. We weren't numbering them yet. 00:09:07.655 --> 00:09:10.935 I think it's probably down in the single digits. 00:09:11.795 --> 00:09:16.635 But it's that build over and over and over again. That's the story that I see 00:09:16.635 --> 00:09:18.695 playing 16-year-old episodes. 00:09:18.915 --> 00:09:22.255 This is what they'll do. They'll bring it on. Something will happen. 00:09:22.355 --> 00:09:23.375 It'll blow up in their face. 00:09:23.515 --> 00:09:28.935 But they'll have moves to turn the Ron Paul Liberty movement into the Tea Party 00:09:28.935 --> 00:09:33.415 and this mutation of anything that might kind of try and grow and help people. 00:09:33.575 --> 00:09:35.295 They don't like that kind of competition. 00:09:35.555 --> 00:09:41.675 James, possibly Canada might get some tips from that Ukrainian Nazi they hosted 00:09:41.675 --> 00:09:44.655 in their parliament. He might give them some unconventional, 00:09:44.815 --> 00:09:47.255 you know, fourth generation war tips. 00:09:47.475 --> 00:09:54.135 And yeah, again, the idea that, you know, back in my day, the president wasn't some actor front man. 00:09:54.315 --> 00:09:56.915 Oh, wait, we had eight years of that as Reagan. 00:09:57.435 --> 00:10:02.535 Well, back in my day, the Democrats were just abusing interns in their office. 00:10:03.355 --> 00:10:09.095 Good grief. James, I've got a clip of President Clinton's weekly radio address. Do they still do that? 00:10:10.535 --> 00:10:16.495 Now I wonder. Hey, if Trump's going to save AM radio, maybe they still actually 00:10:16.495 --> 00:10:18.715 do the presidential radio address. 00:10:19.295 --> 00:10:23.335 I've got one from the Clinton era where he's talking about we've got to get 00:10:23.335 --> 00:10:25.055 rid of all these illegal aliens. 00:10:25.275 --> 00:10:29.935 And he uses that language. He uses the gross illegal alien language. 00:10:30.455 --> 00:10:34.575 The same exact things. Again, sometimes they get a spotlight on them. 00:10:34.775 --> 00:10:38.355 Other times that spotlight very purposefully is moved away. 00:10:39.605 --> 00:10:45.065 Our second story on This New World Next Week, episode 616. We take yes from 00:10:45.065 --> 00:10:47.405 RonPaulInstitute.org, and 00:10:47.405 --> 00:10:51.765 all our wild accusations are always sourced and cited in our show notes. 00:10:51.865 --> 00:10:56.645 Trump wants a billion-dollar fee from states looking to join the Gaza Board of Peace. 00:10:56.785 --> 00:11:00.305 According to a Bloomberg report, the Trump administration is asking nations 00:11:00.305 --> 00:11:05.565 interested in holding a permanent seat on a proposed Gaza Strip Board of Peace 00:11:05.565 --> 00:11:10.405 to pledge at least a billion dollars in funding. Bloomberg described that U.S. 00:11:10.545 --> 00:11:13.865 Allies and regional partners have already been briefed on the concept as part 00:11:13.865 --> 00:11:18.545 of wider diplomatic efforts to influence and direct Gaza's future after the 00:11:18.545 --> 00:11:20.325 Israel-Hamas conflict. 00:11:20.665 --> 00:11:23.485 So already saying again, what? You're still talking about that? 00:11:23.625 --> 00:11:28.505 We've already planned for the new world order after we destroy this certain setup. 00:11:28.505 --> 00:11:33.445 The intent of the funding threshold is reportedly to ensure that participating 00:11:33.445 --> 00:11:37.365 countries have substantial financial involvement in stabilizing the territory 00:11:37.365 --> 00:11:39.645 and supporting long-term redevelopment. 00:11:39.805 --> 00:11:44.125 Washington seems to be arguing that spreading the financial burden internationally 00:11:44.125 --> 00:11:50.765 is critical to preventing American taxpayers from shouldering most of the reconstruction costs. 00:11:50.825 --> 00:11:54.305 So, of course, most Americans are going to go, boom, okay, I'm in. 00:11:54.445 --> 00:11:57.885 It's not going to cost me any more than the trillions you've already given to 00:11:57.885 --> 00:12:00.625 Israel? Okay, I'll tacitly go along with this. 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.280 Sadly, this was of no concern when those same taxpayers were footing the bill 00:12:05.280 --> 00:12:09.660 for billions in weaponry and foreign aid for Israel over prior years, 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:13.240 even as Palestinian neighborhoods got flattened by U.S. bombs. 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.240 Officials privy to internal deliberations told Bloomberg several European nations 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.200 have been invited to join the peace board. 00:12:20.420 --> 00:12:24.360 The draft appears to suggest Trump himself would control the money, 00:12:24.780 --> 00:12:28.060 something that would be considered unacceptable to most countries who could 00:12:28.060 --> 00:12:29.400 have potentially joined the board. 00:12:29.940 --> 00:12:32.900 The Times of Israel has obtained a copy of the text of the board's charter, 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.780 which says, quote, each member state shall serve a term of no more than three 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:42.740 years from the charter's entry into force, subject to renewal by the chairman, Chairman Trump. 00:12:43.300 --> 00:12:47.740 The three-year membership term shall not apply to member states that contribute 00:12:47.740 --> 00:12:53.220 more than $1 billion in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first year 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:55.000 of the charter's entry into force. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.980 Again, James, it does feel like it's a more honest empire. 00:13:00.380 --> 00:13:03.600 Hey, give us your cash. We're also going to do a bunch of wars and stuff. 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.900 We call it the Department of War. We're not really lying or hiding anything 00:13:06.900 --> 00:13:08.100 about the empire anymore. 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:12.760 Trump's Gaza Peace Board faces opposition as France pulls back. 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:16.460 France, the second largest arms dealer on the planet. 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:23.540 France pulls back as Canada refuses to pay. In other news, Trump appoints Blair 00:13:23.540 --> 00:13:28.960 Rubio Kushner as Gaza Board of Peace chairs. Have we already reported that, James? 00:13:29.180 --> 00:13:34.660 And finally, of course, Netanyahu rejects Turkish and Qatari inclusion in Trump's 00:13:34.660 --> 00:13:38.580 Board of Peace for Gaza. So they got this whole plan and they already know who's 00:13:38.580 --> 00:13:42.180 not going to be allowed and who can pay to get on board. James. 00:13:43.332 --> 00:13:48.892 That's exactly right. It's, you know, paying to be part of the gangster roundtable 00:13:48.892 --> 00:13:53.412 as to how to divvy up the world, because, of course, this isn't just about Gaza anymore. 00:13:53.572 --> 00:13:56.772 They're now starting to talk about expanding the scope of whatever this board 00:13:56.772 --> 00:13:58.672 of peace. And I'm with you. 00:13:58.852 --> 00:14:01.772 Yeah, Department of War, call it for what it is. Why don't they call it the board of war? 00:14:02.052 --> 00:14:05.112 Because I think that's ultimately where we're heading. Or maybe there's an even 00:14:05.112 --> 00:14:08.072 more apt term, which we can get from Middle East Eye. U.S. 00:14:08.132 --> 00:14:12.872 Announces Palestinian technocratic rule for Gaza under Trump's Board of Peace. 00:14:13.092 --> 00:14:16.972 Specifically, who announced this technocratic rule? Of course, Trump himself. 00:14:17.192 --> 00:14:21.332 As chairman of the Board of Peace, I am backing a newly appointed Palestinian 00:14:21.332 --> 00:14:24.992 technocratic government, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, 00:14:25.132 --> 00:14:28.392 supported by the board's high representative to govern Gaza during its transition. 00:14:28.592 --> 00:14:33.492 These Palestinian leaders are unwaveringly committed to a peaceful, 00:14:33.492 --> 00:14:38.152 all caps, future, as the Trumper-in-Chief penned on Truth Social, 00:14:38.312 --> 00:14:42.012 which is, I guess, the replacement for those weekly presidential radio addresses. 00:14:42.352 --> 00:14:47.712 Now it's Truth Social, where we get to hear what the Commander-in-Chief thinks of all of this. 00:14:47.852 --> 00:14:50.832 And yes, it's going to be a technocratic government, but beyond that, 00:14:50.912 --> 00:14:55.412 this Board of Peace is, as some of the Europeans who are now starting to, 00:14:55.492 --> 00:14:58.312 oh, I don't think we're gonna join up to this, are starting to intimate. 00:14:58.472 --> 00:15:02.252 Well, this is going beyond the boundaries of Gaza, and this is essentially becoming 00:15:02.252 --> 00:15:05.392 some sort of counter UN sort of institution. 00:15:05.712 --> 00:15:09.292 So perhaps this is the follow-up to our story. Last week, US withdrawing from 00:15:09.292 --> 00:15:12.332 all these UN institutions and trying to create its own. 00:15:13.132 --> 00:15:17.472 I'll create our own UN with hookers and blackjack. Pay me a billion dollars 00:15:17.472 --> 00:15:19.352 and you might be included on the board. 00:15:19.872 --> 00:15:24.012 That is where this is going. And I don't, you know, meet the new boss, 00:15:24.132 --> 00:15:26.072 same as the old boss, as far as I'm concerned. 00:15:26.312 --> 00:15:32.772 It does all sort of give sort of echoes, as I have talked about before, Or echoes of World War I. 00:15:32.852 --> 00:15:37.572 Well, I'd say this is echoes of the World War I, World War II interwar period 00:15:37.572 --> 00:15:41.512 with the League of Nations falling apart and people trying to scramble with 00:15:41.512 --> 00:15:44.412 ad hoc institutions to try to keep some sort of world peace together. 00:15:44.412 --> 00:15:45.592 We all know how that ended. 00:15:46.420 --> 00:15:49.760 So once again, we come back to the year of the storm and how all the pieces 00:15:49.760 --> 00:15:51.600 are being put on the table for the future wars. 00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:55.740 Anyway, here we are, guys, 2026. Hope you're enjoying it so far. 00:15:56.940 --> 00:16:02.940 Again, I would I would note they've they stopped nothing before. 00:16:03.420 --> 00:16:08.800 They built nothing but death and destruction. But now they're somehow mad about 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:14.160 it because Trump is bad and he's doing it with I don't know that I would say with precision. 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:20.000 It is sort of like a ham-fisted cudgel that, again, would not work had not the 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.440 unitary executive been built up and let run wild over the last, 00:16:24.580 --> 00:16:26.860 what, I believe, 25 years. 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.060 We've got a big anniversary coming up a little later this year, James. 00:16:31.629 --> 00:16:36.669 Vertical, vertical video instead of a classic radio address by the fire. 00:16:36.829 --> 00:16:39.129 That's, you know, that's where we are in 2026. 00:16:39.469 --> 00:16:44.729 Our third and final story this week of bag men and their pallets of cash. 00:16:45.189 --> 00:16:50.509 Netflix revamps its Warner Brothers bid seeking to thwart Paramount. 00:16:50.929 --> 00:16:54.389 Grabbing this from the New York Times, Netflix announced that it had modified 00:16:54.389 --> 00:16:58.809 its December offer to acquire major parts of Warner Brothers Discovery. 00:16:58.809 --> 00:17:02.849 A rejoinder to Paramount and its chief executive, David Ellison, 00:17:03.049 --> 00:17:05.589 who is also in hot pursuit of Warner Brothers. 00:17:05.809 --> 00:17:10.909 In December, Warner Brothers Discovery agreed to sell its streaming and studios 00:17:10.909 --> 00:17:15.809 business to Netflix in an $83 billion cash and stock deal. 00:17:16.369 --> 00:17:20.749 This week, Netflix said it would pay that sum exclusively in cash, 00:17:21.009 --> 00:17:23.269 small bills, unmarked, in bags. 00:17:23.269 --> 00:17:27.289 Please don't put the money sign on the outside it's too obvious simplifying 00:17:27.289 --> 00:17:30.049 the deal for investors who will no longer have 00:17:30.049 --> 00:17:35.569 to account for netflix's fluctuating stock price as has been going on ever since 00:17:35.569 --> 00:17:40.129 any of all this started today's revised merger agreement brings us even closer 00:17:40.129 --> 00:17:43.929 to combining two of the greatest storytelling companies in the world and you 00:17:43.929 --> 00:17:47.609 you thought i was talking about media monarchy and corbett report at the opening of the show. 00:17:48.311 --> 00:17:53.031 So says David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Brothers Discovery in a statement. 00:17:53.191 --> 00:17:58.991 The move puts pressure on Paramount Sinai to further revise its own bid for months. 00:17:59.391 --> 00:18:02.691 Hollywood has been on a cliffhanger, which is one of their movies. 00:18:03.091 --> 00:18:07.511 As Paramount and Netflix have duked it out for control of Warner Brothers Discovery, 00:18:07.791 --> 00:18:12.751 a messy tug of war that could help determine the trajectory of the entire entertainment industry. 00:18:12.991 --> 00:18:19.651 The battle is now being waged among Warner Brothers shareholders who must ultimately approve any sale. 00:18:19.811 --> 00:18:24.091 And really, the sentence can stop right there because that's the end of the story. 00:18:24.311 --> 00:18:28.811 The shareholders get to decide whether and how this is going to go forward. 00:18:29.011 --> 00:18:33.691 The battle is now being waged among Warner Brothers shareholders who must ultimately approve any sale, 00:18:34.031 --> 00:18:39.711 comma, and in the hearts and minds of Hollywood's besieged creative class who 00:18:39.711 --> 00:18:44.371 have already been reeling from decades of technological disruption and unending 00:18:44.371 --> 00:18:45.731 corporate consolidation. 00:18:46.351 --> 00:18:49.691 James, it does not include the Warner Music Group. And honestly, 00:18:49.891 --> 00:18:53.811 I think it is all about the DC Comics intellectual property. 00:18:54.331 --> 00:18:59.491 Disney's got Marvel. Netflix can have Superman and Wonder Woman and Batman. 00:18:59.811 --> 00:19:01.991 James, that's my media update for you. 00:19:02.912 --> 00:19:07.652 Yeah, and it seems to me that we are being positioned to, in some way, 00:19:07.752 --> 00:19:10.472 in some level, at the very least, we're being presented. 00:19:10.592 --> 00:19:15.272 Well, here are the two choices for the future of cinematic entertainment, as you have known it. 00:19:15.452 --> 00:19:19.252 On the one hand, we have Netflix, which I don't know if people, 00:19:19.352 --> 00:19:23.332 I personally wasn't watching Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on Joe Rogan recently, 00:19:23.452 --> 00:19:26.852 but apparently they were on there, in which, as Hollywood Reporter reports, 00:19:27.232 --> 00:19:32.192 Matt Damon says Netflix wants plots reiterated three or four times in the dialogue 00:19:32.192 --> 00:19:34.112 for phone distracted viewers. 00:19:34.412 --> 00:19:38.212 So he's talking about the way Netflix is already starting to lean on filmmakers 00:19:38.212 --> 00:19:44.152 to change the way films are structured for the ADHD riddled fondle slab viewers 00:19:44.152 --> 00:19:46.172 who are now the majority of their audience. 00:19:46.512 --> 00:19:50.012 I'm talking about how traditional action movies have three acts, 00:19:50.132 --> 00:19:53.692 act one, act two, act three, and there's a big set piece action piece in each 00:19:53.692 --> 00:19:58.232 one of the three acts and the big explosion extravaganza is in act three and 00:19:58.232 --> 00:19:59.252 it's kind of the finale, right? 00:19:59.252 --> 00:20:02.872 Well, now Netflix is starting to lean on on producers and say, 00:20:03.012 --> 00:20:05.092 can't you put it all in the first five minutes? 00:20:05.272 --> 00:20:09.532 Because we want to get people's attention so they won't stop watching after the first five minutes. 00:20:09.972 --> 00:20:14.332 And and they're saying it would be good if you include just basically go over 00:20:14.332 --> 00:20:18.092 the entire plot a few three or four times in the dialogue so that people don't 00:20:18.092 --> 00:20:19.292 forget because they're they're distracted. 00:20:19.512 --> 00:20:23.172 They're watching it on phones. So that's the Netflix vision of the future. 00:20:23.352 --> 00:20:26.632 On the other side, we, of course, have the Zionist Ellisons that we've talked 00:20:26.632 --> 00:20:28.072 about before in Paramount. Right. 00:20:28.212 --> 00:20:36.132 So which flavor of propaganda and nonsense and ADHD inducing media comatosis do you want? 00:20:36.872 --> 00:20:40.512 However, the reality, of course, the one that they don't want you to think about 00:20:40.512 --> 00:20:42.812 is it's not a choice of those two. 00:20:43.172 --> 00:20:49.472 What is it? Netflix Brothers or Para Warner? No, we have a different idea of a choice, 00:20:49.772 --> 00:20:54.152 like actual real people creating their own media for their own enjoyment and 00:20:54.152 --> 00:20:57.492 consumption and spreading that in alternative communities, these independent 00:20:57.492 --> 00:20:59.372 communities, it's possible guys. 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:05.799 Maybe the two media titans that are merging that everyone should talk about 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:10.999 is Corbett Report and Media Monarchy, more so than Netflix and or Warner Brothers 00:21:10.999 --> 00:21:13.959 and or Paramount or whatever stew they come up with. 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.579 So anyway, I just want to keep that third space open of, hey, 00:21:17.679 --> 00:21:20.259 we don't need their crap and we can start making our own. 00:21:21.399 --> 00:21:25.499 Well, isn't it interesting? I mean, you're basically describing what movie trailers 00:21:25.499 --> 00:21:29.019 have been for the last, what, maybe always. 00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:33.739 But put everything into the trailer so that there's no surprises and that you'll 00:21:33.739 --> 00:21:36.859 know exactly what you're buying when you get that McDonald's Big Mac, 00:21:37.019 --> 00:21:40.879 whether you're in Oklahoma City or Albuquerque, it'll still be this sort of 00:21:40.879 --> 00:21:42.539 same homogenized entertainment. 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:47.719 James, Netflix will also get Turner Classic Movies in this deal, 00:21:47.899 --> 00:21:52.659 which, speaking of the blipvert TikTok kind of generation, 00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:58.319 Turner Classic Movies is the old thing with no commercials, no interruptions whatsoever. 00:21:59.579 --> 00:22:03.719 What would they do to it? Would they leave it alone? Would they use it and maybe 00:22:03.719 --> 00:22:05.399 even prop it up a little more? 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:11.359 It might even just turn into, here's the funny old thing that Grandpa likes. We'll leave it alone. 00:22:11.939 --> 00:22:17.319 Who knows? But again, you're absolutely right. We all have the power to make all of our own media. 00:22:17.419 --> 00:22:20.019 It's kind of like that thing I've said on my show for a long, 00:22:20.099 --> 00:22:22.679 long time about not railing and hating the media. 00:22:23.379 --> 00:22:28.359 If you even want to get into the battle, don't worry about hating it. 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We email you very rarely 00:22:55.780 --> 00:22:59.620 about new stocks, new items, discounts, and goodies, James. 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:04.200 And I get to run the exclusive audio of these New World Next Week episodes on 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:09.540 my own Monarchy Radio, which anybody can find at MediaMonarchy.com/listen. 00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:12.120 James, there is episode 616. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:16.100 I hear a cat behind me getting very mad that the door is shut. 00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:20.820 Well, we better let that cat in. So thank you again for the three stories. 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:24.060 Looking forward to doing it again. Thanks so much, buddy. Take care.