%%Post image thumbnail below.%%  # Episode Overview > - **Date Aired:** [[08-05-2023]] > - **Title:** Feed the Beast > - **Episode:** 232 > - **Description:** A show full of topics that would get me banned from Twitch all over again. 😎 > - **Link:** <https://rumble.com/v350v60-big-dig-energy-232-feed-the-beast.html> # Replay <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v32fgf8/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> # Greetings & Announcements I will be out of town for the Tuesday, August 22nd show. Gonna be on Timcast. B) # Segments Free speech is killing us, and I have proof:  Archive: <http://archive.today/eQDRq> It was written by this nerd, Andrew Marantz, who at the time was trying to drum up interest in yet another "a liberal take on social media speech" type of book.  I just want to read you the opening paragraph:  It's no secret that I hold a significant amount of disdain for quite a few people, regardless of whether they have an "R" or a "D" listed in their voter registration. I do agree that social media is largely just a toxic wasteland full of people willfully refusing to see the point that anyone else is trying to make. Either that, or it's full of people who have sold their timelines to the highest bidder. Or.. lowest. Think Conservative Brief or "Resist the Mainstream" influencers. And then there's people like [[Benjamin Ryan]]. Back in June of this year, Ben and I [had it out](https://twitter.com/SomeB1tchIKnow/status/1669473919168905220) over this tweet:  I said:  He said, then I said:    I didn't even realize at the time that I had already added a page for [[Benjamin Ryan]] in the index over his [article on Monkeypox](https://www.bigdigenergy.info/Archives+%F0%9F%92%BE/Articles/LGBTQ+Pride+events+offer+a+make-or-break+moment+for+monkeypox) from last June:  You might also recall him from a hilariously embarassing typo last July:  Which was in response to:  > [!grid|masonry] >  > >  In fact, if you read any legacy media articles about Monkeypox back when that was still a thing (or at least the media talked about it) Ben might have had something to do with writing it.  Well today, Benjamin got ratioed HARD on Twitter… and not just for a typo that suggested that he was the one spreading Monkeypox. I present to you… this: Archive: <http://archive.today/Gxolo>   Live Tweet for comments: <https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1687820778895536128> The article was not written by Benjamin, he just wanted to add his two cents in I guess.  The article was written by Charles Homans.  From [Twitchy](https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/08/05/journalist-explains-how-conservatives-leveraged-a-sexual-assault-as-fodder-for-the-culture-wars-n2386020): > We have written a ton of posts about Loudon County, Virginia, where the school board seems to consider every parent the enemy and school officials keep lists of problematic moms and dads. There was outrage that a school district had kept quiet about the rape of a girl in a girls' restroom by a boy in a skirt. [[The New York Times]] has decided to revisit the incident to see if right-wingers just used the explosive allegation as a cudgel against transgender rights. No, seriously. Article Archive: <http://archive.today/lbmPH>  Ben's Twitter Archive: <https://archive.is/offset=280/https://twitter.com/benryanwriter*> --- Chris Tyson:  Anthony Padilla from SMOSH… remember SMOSH?????! <iframe title="I spent a day with KRIS TYSON" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c9_20kflptY?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;" allowfullscreen="" allow="fullscreen"></iframe> Voice Video: <https://www.tiktok.com/@anthonypadilla/video/7259864669723118890> --- Kai Cenat  Archive: <http://archive.today/HHilo> --- [FBI Fake Bomb Plot](https://truthout.org/video/judge-says-fbi-invented-a-conspiracy-in-fake-bomb-plot-orders-release-of-3-men/) --- Tizzyent  Link to my Tweet: <https://twitter.com/SomeB1tchIKnow/status/1687956798798548992>  %%Footer Starts Here%% ---  --- # Keep Digging %%Space%% ## Tags #Stream/BDE ### Footnotes & References