The People v. MrBeast [TEASER]

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prolog Projects. On this week's subscriber only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are talking about the biggest star on YouTube, MrBeast. MrBeast is a content creator who is all about breaking records. And he may now have broken one he didn't want. Most famous YouTuber to be sued for sexual harassment, workplace gender bias, and violating the Family and Medical Lead Act. This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and this week only, MrBeast, will suck. Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have destroyed our civil rights, like Jeff Bezos destroying the Washington Post. I'm Peter, I'm here with Michael. Hey everybody. And Rhiannon. Hey, there's a real bad Washington Post podcast. Are we blaming Jeff Bezos for that? Oh, it's embarrassing. We are. Yeah. Obviously, like the Post is sort of collapsing subscriber-wise anyway, but they have launched a podcast or like a series of podcasts, perhaps, and some clips have been circulating. And their metrics are unreal. Like you couldn't do this badly if you tried. The podcast has a blue sky account with eight followers, or at least it had eight followers yesterday. It might be a little more. How is that even possible? You were just saying some stats, Michael. You were scrolling through the YouTube videos. Yeah, the YouTube videos, their view counts are like, like their best videos are like 600 views. They had one that was like 83 views in a month. 83 views. It was about birthright citizenship, which like should be, yeah, like that should be relatively topical and hot. Yeah. 85, 83 views. Like how is it possible to get views that low when you have the Washington Post resources? What's going on at the fucking post, dude? If you like, it's just one link somewhere on the Washington Post website to their podcast should get you more than 83 views. To say nothing of what it looks like, you know, like everybody's doing the video thing, a little more, but you look at the video, Ali, producer Ali sent us some screenshots. I'm looking at four white men in whatever the downgrade to like a Brooks Brothers without the jacket outfit, every single one of them can't tell them apart, can't tell them from Adam and the lighting is horrible. There's these big random windows. There's huge windows behind them, which they look like they're in the shittiest office space. This is like the first thing you learn if you're on a video or no windows behind you, because it fucks up your lighting, your back lit. And also, yeah, it looks like they're in a hotel conference room, like the business center at the Hill. You know what I mean? God, it looks like shit. Yeah. How are you getting lapped by the New York Times that badly in like the roundtable podcast space? Yeah, very bizarre. And substantively, this podcast is like a bunch of center right white folks or something like that's like sort of free press style. Right. Like sort of right wing stuff, trying to package itself as like sensible centrism or even left of center thought. Just a few common sense people who just agree with the Republican Party about stuff, you know? Yeah. I'm going to read you some video titles. Okay. Here we go. Weed isn't as harmless as you think. 289 views the last we checked. Ridiculous. Pathetic. What the media got wrong during COVID, 282 views, by the way, the things that they think the media got wrong are like, you should be worried about COVID. That's sort of, they're not worried about people dying of COVID. Yeah. Right. Debunking, the rich aren't paying their fair share. 418 views, 33% increase. Is there a hottest video yet, folks? California. Which is rage bait, so that makes sense. Yeah. Californians get free diapers, but at what cost? Dun dun dun. This one was ridiculous. For your mental health's sake, dear listener, don't click into that one. It's just a short video, so I watched it. And conservatives think they're blowing your mind with like, but taxpayers have to pay for it. Hey, folks, if you want to hear the rest of this episode, you're going to have to subscribe. This episode is one of our premium, Patreon-only episodes. Membership starts at just five bucks a month. If you want to hear the rest, join us at patreon.com. That's five, four, pod. That's five, four, pod. All spelled out. Members get a bunch of stuff. Not only do you get access to the premium episodes, but access to subscriber-only events, discounts on merch. And at the $10 a month level, you get bigger discounts on merch and membership in the incredibly rowdy five to four slack. So again, that's patreon.com. Five, four, pod. All spelled out. Become a member today.