Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• If you’re a content creator, be prepared for people to make clips of your work and take it out of context
  • Often times people try to make the clips as outrageous as possible to get more eyeballs
    • “The internet has democratized outrage” – Jon Stewart
    • “You get these little sounds bites so there are little video clips and you don’t understand the full context of the conversation or what was actually said and then people get outraged at that” – Joe Rogan
• “The only thing standing between American socialism is an inability to reform to meaningfully reform capitalism…and if we can’t do that, then the people take to the streets” – Jon Stewart
  • Reform will save capitalism, not destroy it
    • Jon recites a quote from JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
• “It’s always about money. We always have money for war but we almost never have money to pay for what are the absolutely could have seen a mile away consequences.”  – Jon Stewart
• The government denies a lot of soldiers’ injuries or illnesses that happened during war so that they aren’t responsible for the medical bill
  • “There are people who are still fighting the government over Agent Orange and still being denied…Stop fucking with these people and help them” – Jon Stewart
• “The project of this next generation is to build a stronger foundation, a granite bearing for everyone to stand on” – Jon Stewart
  • “We built a great middle class in the ‘50s for white people, we have to do the same now for the country” 
• What does Jon believe the government should do to help people out during COVID?
  • “Suspend and extend” – Jon Stewart
    • Suspend rent and mortgage payments and extend the amount of time people have to pay it back. And give the landlords a real estate tax break.

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Jon Stewart is a comedian, director, writer, producer, activist, and television host. He's the director fo the new film "Irresistible" that releases on June 26, 2020.