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  • Morning Me 1.6

    Good morning, me and good morning you, I am of course your painfully photogenic host John Henry and this is the “Morning Me!”

    A few new things going on today. First, when I’m finished writing this I’m going to record it as video and audio and it will be published on my multimedia channels and social media in multiple formats, including showing up in audio as a new edition of my old “In My Room” podcast (for now).

    For right now I’m doing this as no-frills as it gets, just me and a mic and camera reading my morning newsletter. You may get the idea there’s more to all of this than I’ve gone into detail about and you’re right: essentially the MM newsletter is me building and testing the infrastructure to build all this up properly into what it was supposed to be in the first place, way back when. I want to be sure I can get a daily morning thing out in three formats regularly without that itself becoming the full-time thing.

    I know that these kinds of personal musings and “what’s up” content aren’t any big moneymaker or traffic attraction, and they’re not intended to be. There are three levels to “why” I’m doing this kind of content.

    The first, I’ve already said: this is where I work with new ideas and refine them and see how they are able to spin out as production, if I need to make adjustments before I’m committing myself to “the public” as an information source on a regular schedule, that kind of thing.

    So for today’s Morning Me what’ll happen is I’m going to finish writing this, then set up and record it on webcam real quick. I’ll probably go “naked” today with maybe just a url bug onscreen for the sake of getting this out while it’s still morning anywhere in the western hemisphere, then spend some time today in Premiere working up both traditional lower third graphics I can reuse specifically for this show and some kind of vertical framework so I can put a thirty-second pointer up for each show as well.

    Again you can probably see what I’m doing here – like a stand up comedian running new material unannounced in a small club or a band throwing a private party to debut songs. The second reason I’m babbling on so much about myself and the work I’m doing here right now is that it’s as close to zero effort source material as it gets. I don’t have to read the news or do any research to write these morning newsletters, I just write them. Harder than it sounds sometimes, but generally less time consuming than trying to do “real” news and information content. This allows me to focus on creating the infrastructure and meta-content necessary to ensure the actual content gets the best possible treatment I can give it.

    The third level is transparency and disclosure and making sure I’m communicating with you folks properly. Everything I do is crowdfunded, and I feel like that gives me some obligation to keep in touch with you about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it.

    All of this in service of being able to create better content and get it out to you faster, with broader distribution scope and therefore more positive impact in the world.

    As of this moment I’ve got nearly an hour in just writing this and figuring out what I was going to say – deleted a LOT of content for the sake of keeping it short – so I’m gonna let both of us get out of here, just want to say on the way out how much I appreciate you taking the time and supporting my work with your engagement and contributions. It’s a slow build but we’re on the ramp and rolling now, and things are looking very, very positive. Thank you all for being part of that, stay tuned right here and watch how it all plays out, and don’t forget to stay engaged, and of course if you’re able and willing you can help support the whole thing multiple ways including PayPal, Patreon, and more, you can find out more about all that at http://passionate-cyan-owl.192-250-227-172.cpanel.site/money! For now this is JH and the Morning Me saying see you tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

  • In My Room S1E03 – Who Is John Henry? Plus Matt Gaetz & More

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    Due to the nature of what I do online I’m often asked (and occasionally aggressively challenged) to describe who I am and what I’m trying to accomplish here, so I dedicated some time in this show to answering some of those questions. Plus the ongoing scandal with Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz trying to hook up with starry-eyed high school girls and other current events, framing a discussion about integrity in both performance and creative work and public service, journalism and other critical social functions, and how all that ties in to Gen X and Obama and progressive ideology.

  • The John Henry Show S1E021 – Free-For-All Friday #4

    Usually on FFAF I try to stay away from the political and social stuff and stick to more personal, light-hearted, and not-the-news stuff, but this week there’s just no avoiding the discussion.  I’m afraid I got a little passionate on this one, so there’s more NSFW language than usual; I’ve taken the step of self-censoring to avoid dropping any f-bombs on you if you’re listening with the kids around.  Video archive at https://youtu.be/R4rYgAJNW0Y

     

  • The John Henry Show – S1E007 – Free-For-All Friday #1

    The Friday evening show is going to be the weekly open-topic “free for all.”  This week it was so free I didn’t bother doing it until Saturday!  That won’t be the case every time 🙂 We’re discussing a range of things today including propaganda, socialism, an interesting look inside the administration of a large Facebook page and how you can see them choking traffic over time if you refuse to buy advertising (it’s not about the political cant, it’s about the MONEY), integrity in matters of both public and private life, and JH’s sense of where we’re at as an evolving species and where he thinks we may be headed if all goes well.

    As always if you’d rather watch than listen you can check out the stream archive on YouTube at https://youtu.be/_ECTZQHlBvk

    A note about this particular show – there’s about twenty minutes cut out in which I’m discussing various aspects of the video production side of things, and an experiment intended to demonstrate some issues failed 🙁  Since there’s no point in an audio track of visual effects, I trimmed it out.

  • The John Henry Show – S1E006 – Democratic Debate Post-Mortem

    In today’s show I’m examining last night’s Democratic Party debate in Las Vegas, talking who won, who lost, and why.  Do people even care in general?  Did anything change?  Also some conversation with a long-time fan about one of the big pages I administrated on Facebook and much more.  Don’t forget you can also find video livestream archived on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJi-GAxkbU and of course as always please like, share, subscribe, comment.  This is as independent as independent media gets, and you are the fuel that keeps John Henry’s hammer swinging.

  • The John Henry Show S1E005 – History of Presidential Debates

    Who runs and controls Presidential Debates?  Why?  What regulates them, who makes the rules, and why?  Who benefits, and how?  JH digs deep into the history of the Presidential Debates to help you understand why they work the way they do, who’s in control, the pros and cons of the current system  We also touch on why we have a “two-party” system and what the real options are to get out of it.

  • The John Henry Show S1E004 – What Is Liberalism?

    In today’s John Henry Show we discuss what “liberal” and “liberalism” really mean to folks who use those words professionally, why it’s important to understand that meaning and how it differs from the popular usage, and much more including JH stumbling repeatedly to try and formulate an aphorism that never did quite come out right…

  • The John Henry Show S1E003 – Social Media Fakes (Archive)

    Today’s show got kinda rambly and off-topic, but the focus is still social media fakes in the context of political and other discussion where there’s a high rate of disinformation, misinformation, and manipulation. We discuss some common tactics they use, and some ways you can push back against them, along with a bunch of rambling about some other stuff because frankly I was out of spoons about 9am today so I really wasn’t at my best.  I’m going to do this topic again in a more organized, informative, and concise way, but it’s still worth a listen.

  • The John Henry Show Podcast S1E002 – Fairness Doctrine (Archive)

    In today’s podcast we’re talking about doublethink, how we fool ourselves, how we can trip over our own words without even realizing it, starting with an example from a prominent political page on FB where they invoked 1984, doublethink, and “Fairness Doctrine” all at once without ever realizing that in so doing, they were simultaneously warning against and advocating for government control of the media.

  • The John Henry Show S1E001 – Modern Monetary Theory (Archive)

    First episode of the new podcast.  Audio’s a bit clippy in spots, I’m not in the best possible environment; later eps should sound better.  These casts are archives of audio+video livestreams, most of which you can catch live at 8pm Eastern M-F at https://youtube.com/johnhenryus/live.

    In this inaugural cast, we’re talking about “Modern Monetary Theory” and what it tells us about how our money works and why the general public needs to basically forget everything they think they know about economics at the national and international levels and start over from scratch.

    Key concepts:

    • Federal taxes don’t fund federal spending, or anything else.
    • We don’t have to take from one thing to fund another
    • We must tax the rich, but not to pay for things; taxing great wealth is a preventative measure to stop the democratic process from being subverted by the ownership class
    • Stephanie Kelton and Bill Mitchell are your key figures in this concept
    • I’m a messenger, not an economist.  If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of it, start with those two websites above.
    • Orthodox and heterodox economists hate MMT, but they can’t build a cogent argument against it.  They’ve spent petabytes trying, but they can’t.
    • Fuck Paul Krugman.