Latest / Brian Thomas / Inside Scoop with Breitbart News -- 11/25/25
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Just Ibato five here at fifty five KRCD talk station.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, Kevin Gordon filling in for me tomorrow. I'm
- 0:08Speaker 1: taking the rest of the week off in hon't know, Thanksgiving,
- 0:10Speaker 1: and as I always start this time of week and
- 0:13Speaker 1: this moment in time on the Fikarssee Morning Show, Bookmarket,
- 0:15Speaker 1: Breitbart dot com, b R E I T B A
- 0:18Speaker 1: r T dot com, it's time for the insight scoop
- 0:21Speaker 1: at bright Bart News. The return and perfect timing. Welcome
- 0:24Speaker 1: back Tech editor Colin Maydin. It's always great talking with you.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, how are you today?
- 0:29Speaker 1: I'm doing great, And you know, I when I saw
- 0:32Speaker 1: you were going to be on the program this morning,
- 0:33Speaker 1: I was so happy because I just was beaming. And
- 0:37Speaker 1: in fact, Breitbart's where I found out about it. Elon
- 0:39Speaker 1: Musk has now labeled to count locations on his platform
- 0:43Speaker 1: X so you know, in fact, no, you're not dealing
- 0:46Speaker 1: with some guy in Texas screaming about MAGA or dividing
- 0:49Speaker 1: and stirring the pot of descent in this country. It's
- 0:51Speaker 1: actually somebody in Bangladesh or elsewhere. I want this feature
- 0:55Speaker 1: on every social media platform. Colin Maydin explained this to
- 0:58Speaker 1: my listeners.
- 1:01Speaker 3: Well, Brian, yeah, this is a doozy you know, and
- 1:03Speaker 3: I actually thought of you first as we were You're
- 1:07Speaker 3: the kind of guy who can who can you know,
- 1:09Speaker 3: pull us apart for the audience. So you know, we've
- 1:13Speaker 3: always had a problem.
- 1:16Speaker 2: With foreign influence.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Yes, of course, the two sides of the country kind
- 1:21Speaker 3: of disagree who's influencing what right, So you know, people
- 1:27Speaker 3: had been begging Elon and his team of Twitter now
- 1:32Speaker 3: known as X to have this feature saying what country
- 1:36Speaker 3: are these are these people trump that are posting?
- 1:40Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:40Speaker 3: They finally added it. They had it live for a
- 1:43Speaker 3: couple hours and turned it off because there was problems,
- 1:46Speaker 3: but then it relaunched over the weekend and you know,
- 1:49Speaker 3: suddenly all these eyes were opened. Because we have a
- 1:53Speaker 3: lot of accounts, especially in the political area, where they
- 1:58Speaker 3: are anonymous accounts. You know, they don't have a real
- 2:01Speaker 3: person name on there that is a known person, you know,
- 2:05Speaker 3: like a Brian Thomas account as you but you know,
- 2:08Speaker 3: American patriot.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Who the heck is that? Right?
- 2:12Speaker 3: A lot of those accounts, to your point, are in
- 2:15Speaker 3: places ranging from Romania to you know, Australia in some cases,
- 2:21Speaker 3: but a lot of them are in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- 2:25Speaker 3: So suddenly all these people go turn into super salutes
- 2:30Speaker 3: and they're looking at what these accounts are posting. Now,
- 2:35Speaker 3: the leftist response to this is haha, conservatism is fake,
- 2:39Speaker 3: Maga is fake because all these accounts are fake. But
- 2:43Speaker 3: that's not true when you look at it. The political
- 2:47Speaker 3: accounts based in these foreign countries are all posting divisions.
- 2:51Speaker 2: It's all about that the conservative movement for years.
- 2:56Speaker 1: And I'm so blas, I was so excited about this article.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I'm glad you thought of me because I've been saying
- 2:59Speaker 1: that out a lot on the program for years without
- 3:01Speaker 1: you know, support for what I was concluding. But social media,
- 3:05Speaker 1: it's so easy if you're a foreign actor and you
- 3:08Speaker 1: want to screw with America, and America is you know,
- 3:10Speaker 1: embracing under the umbell of freedom, that's one thing at
- 3:13Speaker 1: least you can unite under. Well, we need to disable that,
- 3:16Speaker 1: we need to interfere with that. Let us choose any
- 3:19Speaker 1: given subject matter and stir the pot of division. And
- 3:22Speaker 1: we can do that from remote control, from anywhere on
- 3:25Speaker 1: the globe. And this confirms what I've been saying. You're
- 3:28Speaker 1: listening to a bunch of foreign actors who want us
- 3:30Speaker 1: to fight amongst ourselves over literally anything.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Colin, Oh, absolutely true. Now there's you know, there's a
- 3:36Speaker 3: couple of important points here. Firstly, the concept of an
- 3:40Speaker 3: anonymous account is not by itself evil at all. We've
- 3:45Speaker 3: gone through more than a decade of social media cancel culture,
- 3:49Speaker 3: where if you're a conservative and you dare to share
- 3:51Speaker 3: your opinion, they're going to try to get you fired.
- 3:54Speaker 3: They're going to try to get you, you know, kicked
- 3:56Speaker 3: out of polite society. So that you know, that's okay,
- 4:00Speaker 3: But what this has revealed is very sophisticated actions by
- 4:07Speaker 3: people to portray typical Americans. To your point, you know,
- 4:11Speaker 3: you have an account that portrays itself as a as
- 4:14Speaker 3: a you know, a gun slinging Texan likes the barbecue
- 4:19Speaker 3: for lunch, and you know drives a jacked a pickup truck.
- 4:23Speaker 3: It's a dude in Pakistan that probably works for the
- 4:25Speaker 3: Pakistani governments. So you know, big problem. And you know
- 4:33Speaker 3: Twitter already had problems with foreigners because you know, the
- 4:38Speaker 3: Twitter was one of the one of the big changes
- 4:41Speaker 3: under Elon was they launched a program where you can
- 4:43Speaker 3: make money as a verified account. You know, if you're
- 4:47Speaker 3: driving traffic. If you're doing big numbers, you can make
- 4:49Speaker 3: money like advertitles and India, Pakistan accounts base. These places
- 4:55Speaker 3: were completely gaming that system. So your real influencer sitting
- 4:59Speaker 3: in the U, we're barely making any money because the
- 5:03Speaker 3: system was being completely you know, tricked by folks overseas,
- 5:07Speaker 3: and he's been trying to straighten that out. Now it's
- 5:10Speaker 3: taken a much, much deeper and frankly more sinister turn,
- 5:14Speaker 3: because you know, exactly to your point, you and others
- 5:18Speaker 3: were saying, these aren't Americans, these are people trying to
- 5:21Speaker 3: screw with us. Now we know that's true.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, And you know, I love that he anticipated
- 5:26Speaker 1: the VPN workaround. You know, I'm a big fan of
- 5:28Speaker 1: epns even for example, and I use this as an illustration.
- 5:32Speaker 1: You got a teenager in a state which doesn't allow
- 5:34Speaker 1: teens on pornography sites that state, All you need to
- 5:37Speaker 1: do is get on a VPN and pretend like you're
- 5:39Speaker 1: in some other state or as the case, maybe some
- 5:41Speaker 1: other country. That's where your IP address shows up. That
- 5:44Speaker 1: defeats the whole ID check thing because that other state,
- 5:48Speaker 1: like Illinois, doesn't have the ID verification. So that's a workaround.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Same thing goes here. You could be a foreign actor
- 5:55Speaker 1: saying that you're in the United States, but if you
- 5:57Speaker 1: use a VPN from Bangladesh, it might look like you're
- 6:00Speaker 1: in Chicago or Saint Louis or Cincinnati. That's what the
- 6:03Speaker 1: VPN will show. But Elon must anticipated that, so he's
- 6:07Speaker 1: got the little exclamation point feature that's going along with
- 6:10Speaker 1: that exactly.
- 6:12Speaker 3: So you know, for anyone that that's not familiar with
- 6:14Speaker 3: how this works, you can look in an account and
- 6:16Speaker 3: click on the date that it says they joined the platform.
- 6:20Speaker 3: It's going to give you all the additional information, including
- 6:23Speaker 3: the country they're based in. And to your point, Brian,
- 6:27Speaker 3: you know, yes, anyone could VPN and say hi, I
- 6:31Speaker 3: am an American, you know, but with that exclamation point,
- 6:35Speaker 3: you know they're on a VPN.
- 6:36Speaker 2: You don't know where they're.
- 6:37Speaker 3: Based, but you know if they're saying American patriot or
- 6:43Speaker 3: my favorite of all these accounts is Republicans against Trump,
- 6:47Speaker 3: you know, which is not Republicans against Trump because it's
- 6:51Speaker 3: not American.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Uh.
- 6:53Speaker 3: You know, it's a great that you can see, Hey,
- 6:56Speaker 3: I don't know where they are, but they're not here,
- 6:57Speaker 3: and that's enough information for us.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Well, it provides you an opportunity to exercise some logic
- 7:03Speaker 1: and reason. I wonder why they're using a VPN, and
- 7:06Speaker 1: the result is the obvious question. Answer to the question
- 7:09Speaker 1: is because there's someplace else. It's just you know, just
- 7:11Speaker 1: put two and two together. It's simply it may not
- 7:13Speaker 1: necessarily be true, but more than likely in connection with
- 7:17Speaker 1: these divisive posts related to American politics and other topics,
- 7:20Speaker 1: it more than likely is a foreign actor. And I
- 7:23Speaker 1: was surprised in the reporting on this that the China
- 7:26Speaker 1: didn't come up more often, because I mean you had
- 7:28Speaker 1: mentioned Bangladesh, Congo's even mentioned in India Pakistan, but no
- 7:34Speaker 1: specific mention of China, who I kind of figured would
- 7:37Speaker 1: be the biggest foreign actor involved in this activity.
- 7:40Speaker 2: It's it's a method of warfare.
- 7:43Speaker 3: It is, you know. And for our Democrat friends, I'm
- 7:47Speaker 3: sure you have some Democrat listeners. Yes, Russia wasn't in
- 7:50Speaker 3: there either, so you know, we could talk all day
- 7:56Speaker 3: about that, Brian.
- 7:57Speaker 2: There's a lot going on.
- 7:58Speaker 3: For one thing, China may not be as concerned about
- 8:05Speaker 3: what happens on Twitter because they have much larger scale
- 8:10Speaker 3: influenced operations. For example, TikTok that is clearly a Chinese
- 8:14Speaker 3: thiop right. In other cases, probably some of these people,
- 8:22Speaker 3: if you're talking about the true you know, nation state
- 8:25Speaker 3: security practice level, they might be hiding out in India.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Because one of the very interesting things that we're going
- 8:34Speaker 3: to be following up and researching on with this is
- 8:37Speaker 3: typically when you're dealing with scammers and basically financial influencers,
- 8:44Speaker 3: you know, people who are not spies but rather doing
- 8:47Speaker 3: stuff for money, which is some of what's going on here.
- 8:50Speaker 3: The English is bad, you know, they don't know how
- 8:55Speaker 3: We get scam emails all the time that are poorly
- 8:59Speaker 3: written in English, right, because it's not English as the
- 9:02Speaker 3: first language speakers who are writing those these are all
- 9:06Speaker 3: you know, the Texans sound like Texans, right. That is
- 9:09Speaker 3: a level of sophistication that is not there for normal scammers.
- 9:14Speaker 1: But it will be if it isn't here already called
- 9:16Speaker 1: in a moment's time, it will be with artificial intelligence, right,
- 9:20Speaker 1: I mean with a statement in you know, proper English,
- 9:26Speaker 1: you know, with a Texas flair, even you can get
- 9:28Speaker 1: AI to do stuff like that. It'll tailor a message
- 9:30Speaker 1: for it, it'll actually be grammatically correct or maybe even
- 9:33Speaker 1: come out in a very colloquial way that'll make it
- 9:35Speaker 1: look convincing.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Very true.
- 9:38Speaker 3: You know. So when I look at things, when I
- 9:41Speaker 3: look at these fake accounts, when I see him coming
- 9:43Speaker 3: out of Europe like Romania, I'm thinking to myself, this
- 9:47Speaker 3: is the EU trying to mess with us. Right when
- 9:50Speaker 3: I see him coming out of India, I'm thinking, that's
- 9:54Speaker 3: more people trying to make bucks because there's nothing there's
- 9:58Speaker 3: no better way to make money on social media. Then
- 10:01Speaker 3: divide people, enrage people. This is kind of the how
- 10:04Speaker 3: it's third model of radio applied to applied to social media.
- 10:10Speaker 3: But clearly there's much more than that going on. And
- 10:13Speaker 3: I think we're going to see this unfold over time.
- 10:15Speaker 2: No question.
- 10:16Speaker 1: And further to my point on China, maybe it isn't
- 10:19Speaker 1: so much that and I point well taken on them
- 10:22Speaker 1: being you know, in other countries. Obviously they're expanding their
- 10:26Speaker 1: global footprint China is so they could operate these bot
- 10:28Speaker 1: farms elsewhere, but that they are perpetuating the we're all
- 10:33Speaker 1: killing ourselves with the climate CO two eradication messaging that
- 10:37Speaker 1: that is in their financial best interest. In other words,
- 10:40Speaker 1: it's a glorified global marketing campaign to get us to
- 10:43Speaker 1: be stupid and buy windmills and solar panels and cut
- 10:45Speaker 1: our own throats in terms of energy generation column.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, keep in mind, the Chinese mindset is they'll
- 10:53Speaker 3: hang us and we'll sell them the roAP.
- 10:55Speaker 2: That's what they want.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Yeah, they use to commit a theyse to assassinate their
- 11:00Speaker 1: political operatives and then build a family for the bullet.
- 11:02Speaker 1: You may just remember those days back in the you know,
- 11:04Speaker 1: shoot them in the back of the head and then
- 11:05Speaker 1: charge the family.
- 11:06Speaker 2: For the bullet.
- 11:07Speaker 1: That's China, and they're doing that to us each and
- 11:09Speaker 1: every day. Colin made iin tech editor with Breitbart b
- 11:12Speaker 1: R E I T b a rt Breitbart dot Com.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I was totally blown away and really disturbed by a
- 11:18Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal article I read just from yesterday. Teens
- 11:21Speaker 1: are saying tearful goodbyes to their AI companions. Some really
- 11:24Speaker 1: unbelievable problems these young people are having getting involved with
- 11:28Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. And they just have this perception that these
- 11:32Speaker 1: fake characters that they create and interact with conversationally and
- 11:35Speaker 1: literally spend hours and hours online with them, they perceive
- 11:40Speaker 1: them to be almost real. So when you say sorry,
- 11:43Speaker 1: young people are not going to let you have access
- 11:44Speaker 1: to this anymore. They break down emotionally. Oh my god,
- 11:47Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get they're not real people. I mean,
- 11:49Speaker 1: where is that message getting out?
- 11:51Speaker 2: Colin?
- 11:52Speaker 1: Sadly, it appears that Meta also was painfully aware of this.
- 11:55Speaker 1: But so rather than look further into the details of
- 11:57Speaker 1: the harm social media does the people, they just shut
- 12:00Speaker 1: down their research on it.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Yeah, that's uh, you know, that's a fun story, Brian.
- 12:05Speaker 3: I want to correct one thing you said. Oh, the
- 12:07Speaker 3: young people don't think the ais are almost real. There's
- 12:11Speaker 3: no almost don't believe they're real and that generation. Right,
- 12:17Speaker 3: What you're seeing here, Brian, is a perfect illustration of
- 12:20Speaker 3: the economics concept of opportunity costs. Opportunity cost is if
- 12:24Speaker 3: you're doing one thing, you can't do another. So our
- 12:26Speaker 3: young people are falling in love with AI, you know,
- 12:30Speaker 3: warning it when they lose it.
- 12:32Speaker 2: What are they not doing.
- 12:33Speaker 3: They're not meeting that real human right, They're not forming
- 12:37Speaker 3: relationships that are going to make the next generation of Americans.
- 12:41Speaker 3: We're going to have a population crisis light China if
- 12:44Speaker 3: we don't have people fall in love and get married
- 12:47Speaker 3: and so forth. Right, and so you know, the Meta
- 12:51Speaker 3: story you just mentioned is very insidious because what's happening
- 12:54Speaker 3: there is as they're internal researchers who I'm actually starting
- 12:59Speaker 3: to admit because they're very sharp and they're they're reaching
- 13:02Speaker 3: the right conclusions, they just get turned off. So you know,
- 13:06Speaker 3: we have these internal researchers talking to each other saying, gosh,
- 13:11Speaker 3: this is a drug and we're pushers, and you know,
- 13:15Speaker 3: they're realizing the ugly truth. It's kind of like there's
- 13:18Speaker 3: a meme of the Nazi saying, are we the bad guys?
- 13:21Speaker 3: That's that's what's happening in Silicon Valley. But they just
- 13:24Speaker 3: keep pushing forward and not slowing down.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Well, here's someone's got to slow them down.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Illustrative quote exactly on that point, Doctor ninovssan director at
- 13:32Speaker 1: Stanford's Medicine's Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation. Quote the
- 13:37Speaker 1: difficulty logging off meaning interaction with the AI chatbots. The
- 13:41Speaker 1: difficulty in logging off doesn't mean something is wrong with
- 13:43Speaker 1: the team. It means the tech worked exactly as designed.
- 13:48Speaker 1: That is, I think that just like hammers. The point home, Yes,
- 13:52Speaker 1: they want your children to spend all of their hours
- 13:55Speaker 1: engaging with artificial intelligence.
- 13:59Speaker 3: The strong comparison that I have yet to see breakdown.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Brian is Big Tobacco and Right Channel and right. But
- 14:12Speaker 2: you know, here, here's why I mentioned Big Tobacco.
- 14:15Speaker 3: What came out about Big Tobacco eventually was all of
- 14:19Speaker 3: their advertising, from the Marlborough Man to Joe Campbell was
- 14:22Speaker 3: aimed at fourteen year olds. Because if you start a
- 14:25Speaker 3: fourteen year old smoking, they'll smoke for life. That's the
- 14:29Speaker 3: big tech model. Big Tech desperately wants younger and younger
- 14:33Speaker 3: people because if they get you, you're going to stick
- 14:36Speaker 3: with them and you can't stop. And you know, we
- 14:41Speaker 3: have to the legal system in a sense, and our
- 14:44Speaker 3: politicians have to catch up with that cutting edge of
- 14:47Speaker 3: what's happening in kids, because even millennials struggle with this
- 14:51Speaker 3: because it didn't happen to them when they were ten.
- 14:54Speaker 3: It happened to them when they were, you know, teenagers
- 14:58Speaker 3: reaching twenty years old.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Suddenly on social media.
- 15:01Speaker 3: They warn't ten year olds on social media talking to
- 15:04Speaker 3: fake accounts from India exactly.
- 15:06Speaker 1: And Colin the other plant made about to acco companies,
- 15:08Speaker 1: they had their own internal research which confirmed that yeah,
- 15:10Speaker 1: tobacco is bad for you, but they hid that evidence,
- 15:13Speaker 1: which sounds me along the lines of what Meta is
- 15:15Speaker 1: doing so terrible stuff? It just keeps getting worse every day,
- 15:18Speaker 1: I suppose. I mean, is there a legislative solution? I mean,
- 15:23Speaker 1: I was screaming early in the program about TikTok. I
- 15:26Speaker 1: want this X feature on TikTok. Not that the Chinese
- 15:28Speaker 1: is going to provide it, but is there some mechanism,
- 15:31Speaker 1: some simple solution or even complex solution that helps save
- 15:34Speaker 1: our young people from this disaster? Or do we just
- 15:38Speaker 1: need to take our kids off the damn apps.
- 15:42Speaker 3: I have several answers to that, and I'll keep them,
- 15:45Speaker 3: keep them brief. You know, eventually we're going to need
- 15:48Speaker 3: some legislative solutions.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Right.
- 15:50Speaker 3: What I firm believe in my heart is that when
- 15:53Speaker 3: I watch I've been watching Kojak from the seventies, right,
- 15:57Speaker 3: and it's a little shocking because every scene, you know,
- 16:01Speaker 3: Telly Savalas and others are smoking everywhere in hospitals.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Police stations.
- 16:06Speaker 3: We look at that, you know, I'm fifty, I look
- 16:09Speaker 3: at that, and I'm a little shocked. Right. I believe
- 16:12Speaker 3: in twenty or thirty years, people are going to watch
- 16:15Speaker 3: our TV and movies of teenagers staring at phones, and
- 16:18Speaker 3: they're going to be shocked. How on earth did these
- 16:21Speaker 3: people let these kids ruin their lives with AI condanions
- 16:25Speaker 3: of phones?
- 16:25Speaker 2: Right?
- 16:26Speaker 1: Yeah, as we as we crawl from the wreckage of
- 16:29Speaker 1: allowing them to do that for so many years. So yeah,
- 16:32Speaker 1: it's like looking back at the Great Depression.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Wow.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Oh right, So how do we get there? That's the trick.
- 16:38Speaker 3: That's a tricky question. But you know, you and I
- 16:40Speaker 3: have talked before. It really comes down to parents. Parents,
- 16:45Speaker 3: right now, you have to be all over your kids
- 16:49Speaker 3: when it comes especially to AI, because AI will ruin
- 16:52Speaker 3: them in a heartbeat, whether it's cheating on school so
- 16:55Speaker 3: they don't learn anything, or you know, getting into sort
- 16:59Speaker 3: of this roman antic entanglement, or for those you know,
- 17:02Speaker 3: for people listening who if your child, grandchild, whoever loved
- 17:07Speaker 3: one has any sort of you know.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Mental issue they've dealt with in the past. AI can
- 17:13Speaker 2: make that a thousand.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Times worse in about a week. Takes a little to
- 17:18Speaker 3: take responsibility.
- 17:19Speaker 1: You have to you have to say no, they're not
- 17:21Speaker 1: your friends or your children, help them out, stop it.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Colin made on tech editor breit Bart, thank you Colin
- 17:27Speaker 1: for joining the program, and on Behalf of my listening audience,
- 17:29Speaker 1: and my family. To you and everybody at Breitbart, I
- 17:31Speaker 1: hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
- 17:33Speaker 2: My friend, same to you and everyone in Sincy.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Look forward to having you back on real soon. Colin,
- 17:39Speaker 1: have a great day eight twenty two. Right now if
- 17:40Speaker 1: you've got KRCD talk station, no cool wit