Jonathan Schneider is a local business owner, the name of which, due to its strict compliance department’s regulations, cannot be shared here today. He also happens to be Brett’s best friend, a fact that is clearly evident as, together, they engage in a lively conversation that covers a vast array of topics in this latest episode of Hudson Valley Uncensored.

Everything from the history of the press to current events such as the Rittenhouse trial to the Black Lives Matter movement are discussed in this wide ranging conversation. Jonathan and Brett also delve into the topics of media, religion, the January 6 Capitol attack, woke culture, cryptocurrencies, and the latest tax system legislation, among many others. A thought provoking conversation between two highly knowledgeable individuals, delivered with the ease and openness that one only finds between the very best of friends, today’s episode is as entertaining as it is informative - one you definitely don’t want to miss.

Episode Highlights:

·   Brett Freeman and Jonathan talk about media as the most unregulated industry in America protected by the First Amendment above the right to bear arms.

·   Highlights and examples of mutual respect between the British and American soldiers that acted nobly, from the TV show Turn which is about the spy network of George Washington.

·   The Kyle Rittenhouse case and its contrast with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.

·   In an article about Kyle Rittenhouse, Tucker Carlson writes, "Where is the governor? He was under too much political pressure to protect his own people. Talk about cowardly, blaming a 17-year old who shows up because the city his dad lives in is on fire and wants to do something. He shouldn't have been there in the first place. He shouldn't have had to have been there. The adults should have been there. They're the cowards."

·   The difference between Christians and messianic Jews; lessons and relevance of the New Testament.

·   Jonathan shares a story about an email filled with misinformation from a veteran organization.

·   Highlights from the January 6 United States Capitol attack trials.

·   Scrutinizing the police shooting, or rather murder, of Daniel Shaver.

·   The issue of harmful discretion. Creating a powerful movement through open discussion where people understand different points of view, upbringings, experiences in life.

·   The likelihood of being put down for being a rioter in Putnam County.

·   The '90s was the beginning of PCU (Politically Correct University).

·   The evolution of the woke culture and its influence.

·   The media as journalists, community cheerleaders, and salespeople.

·   Gun violence as reported by the media.

·   Analyzing the high rate of inflation in the country, its outcomes, and workarounds.

·   Outlook on cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) in today's economy.

·   Prediction for when people can no longer claim a tax refund for getting their credits from the child tax credit ahead of time.

·   The nightmare of claiming the Rebate Recovery Credit (RRC).

Quotes

"I don't remember when I was a kid growing up, but I always feel like I heard my father talk about Walter Cronkite, and this is the nightly news. And it was really just about an unbiased projection of what was happening in the world at the time, trying to be as unopinionated as he could be while just delivering facts."

"It's one of those situations where you think how crazy the situation must have been where you literally had brothers who were torn. ‘Am I for this independent nation that we're going to try to make, or am I really for this colonization that we were really brought here to do from Britain?’"

"I'm going to talk about the judge. From what he said right off the bat is, 'You can't label these three adults who were shot with firearms at close range; you can't call them victims. You can call them rioters. You can call them protesters.' I think he said, 'You could call them looters, but you cannot call them victims in this case.'"

"Bad people shouldn't die because people do stupid things."

"For every action, there's a reaction. I don't believe that violence is the reaction, but violence, unfortunately, is sometimes the way that everything happens."

"When someone's house is burning, you don't say, 'All houses matter.' You say, 'That one house is burning; that house matters.'”

“America was founded on being that melting pot, being able to assimilate, appreciate, and keep our individual cultures yet mesh into what is supposed to be the beautiful net of freedom of America.”

“You should feel an energy through that religion that makes you feel better, that makes you feel more in tune, that makes you want to be better, and maybe help people be better.”

“This is what we're fed with. It's like information overload, but it's not even factual information. There's so much stuff that we're being fed that unless you really look it up and you fact check it, and you cross-reference, you have to do so much research.”

“Is it ridiculous that you have governors of states and mayors of cities that say, ‘Police let this be an anti-law zone.’”

“The Capitol Building takes on more symbolism and more importance over, I think, any physical property.”

“Every national riot that we've been seeing has been stemmed from situations where one or multiple people have had bad discretion.”

“I'm hoping that Black Lives Matter doesn't support riots and vandalism and attempted anarchy. I hope it’s a more powerful movement through open discussion where people can at least understand differences, different points of view, different upbringings, and different experiences in life.”

“If you're a rioter in Putnam County, you're going to be put down pretty damn quickly.”

“I believe that the beauty that we have here in this area is, if you are a protester, you will be given the courtesy of protection at your organized events.”

“The appropriate way that we need to address this is with community policing, where we work together as a group of humans who have a collective goal for the betterment of the area that we're working in or live.”

“I don't want people to get canceled. I don't want movements to cancel out opinions. I'm good with movements canceling out horribly racist and opinions that are based on fiction and things that are actually dividing.”

“Because I think your avenue of media, no offense really, you guys tiptoe around things in the end.  You want to keep good relations, and you want to be able to continue to maintain a good publication that exists that glorifies the area that you represent in your publication.”

“Everyone in media is a good salesperson because they have to get the story.”

“Never blame someone else for your own decisions.”

Links:

Halston Media Group website