Hey everyone!
This week we are not doing a regular episode, instead we're gonna
answer your questions!
Because we asked you to ask us anything.
So I'm joined by my producers and writers
and we're gonna answer your burning questions, like
"How come Francesca doesn't have her own late night show?" and
"Is Francesca a full-blown communist?"
Answers to those questions and more
right after this amazingly obnoxious intro song.
Hi, I'm Kate, I'm the lead producer of Newsbroke.
I'm Jesse, I'm a producer, I write jokes, I direct sometimes.
I'm Matt Lieb, I'm a host, producer and comedy writer.
I help write, research, edit, report, direct.
If you've written to us, it's probably me who's written you back ...
so ... surprise! [off-camera laughter]
Also, I've been told that I chew very loudly at my desk
because I like to chew with my mouth open
because I can't breathe out of my nose.
Doesn't keep them from laughing at me.
[off-camera laughter]
I also, um, cheer up everyone by playing the recorder around the office, right guys?!
[plays recorder]
"Careless Whisper."
[off-camera laughter]
I don't know! Call my managers!
When in doubt, blame the algorithm.
The algorithm is the reason why we can't get a late night show and
also, funnily enough,
responsible for the meth epidemic in Appalachia.
The answer to the question "Where's Francesca"
which I get pretty much every time I do a video, uh ...
doing something, else all right?
Otherwise I wouldn't be hosting. Sometimes she got other things to do and
she calls on old Matty Lieby Boy to step in,
and I'm here and I would like you to be present with me when I am here.
Yeah, we had a super long list.
We had 'SPLAINT, we had NO FILTER
YES WE CAN'T EVEN ...
TRAGEDY PLUS TIME I really liked ...
My favorite names honestly were MINOR MELTDOWN ...
I also liked WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.
If I was here when they were deciding I would have gone with
NEWS BLUES CLUES.
My absolute favorite was LOL-JAZEERA.
I to this day maintain
that that would have been the best name for Newsbroke.
"Welcome to Lol-Jazeera!!!! Hahah!
In Syria today ..."
[off-camera laughter]
So yeah, we took the "News broke" sentence
and we we put it together into one word --
Newsbeoke!
Also it kind of implies that
you know, it's news and it's broken, like weird ...
Thank you so much, Mike!
So for the camerawork and lighting, we have an awesome studio crew.
We have Hugo Lopez
who's behind the camera right now,
and we also have in the control room, Christine LaMonaca. And they're great.
Our research process is insane. We all collectively
create a document that's about 30 pages long.
We cross-reference our news sources
and information with other news sources and other academic articles.
Recorder break! [plays "Take on Me" by A-Ha]
We start refining the angle that we want to take on the piece, based on
the information that we've found so far.
I usually take the first stab at every
script, I write about 75 to 80% of every episode.
Lunch break, I hear there's
a good grilled cheese place nearby ... what is camembert? I don't know, I like new things,
I'm gonna get that ...
My awesome team helps us take it all the way and
helps, you know, punch up the jokes, helps fact check, make sure everything makes sense
and it wasn't just like a Franny brain fart, that just, you know, PLAH.
[plays "Ironic" on the recorder]
And then I sit for about 12 hours and just squeeze it all in like,
like intellectual Spanx
[off-camera laughter]
and we just squeeze the information into a ... just a tight
10 minutes .... sometimes 11 minute piece.
It's a lot of work, but because this team is so
great and tight-knit, we make every piece BLAT!
[more recorder]
And then I tell them "great job" and
I make sure they've each gotten their snacks,
and I make sure they've got the
right amount of light and food and water,
and I just close up the cage.
One of my favorite pieces that I got to research individually
was our "No Lives Matter To The Pro-Life Movement" video.
Also, I got to write a really funny parody song for that one.
"It's the circle of pro-life."
Anytime I get to do music, I like it.
Right guys? Where's my recorder?!
[off-camera] DON'T.
I really like the piece that we did about fake news
and we sort of found
these hilarious little moments of fake newsery and weird shadow accounts
and YouTube accounts trying to fake Americans into basically not voting for Hillary Clinton.
"That was the thing about YouTubers like Williams and Calvin,
whose account was pulled from Facebook in August for being tied to Russian propaganda.
I am probably the most proud, in terms of one of my pieces,
of "The White Genocide" piece,
mostly because we were able to uncover a bunch of different dog whistles.
"I've decided to blow the whistle on these dog whistles
with my very own Dog Whistle Whistle.
[whistles]
I like any piece that makes the
connection between social and economic justice.
Media doesn't really discuss how
stagnating minimum-wage exacerbates xenophobia,
or that not pricing
environmental costs disproportionately affects marginalized groups,
or that dynastic, classist inbreeding creates people with almost fluorescently orange
skin and abnormally tiny hands.
And I also love the George Soros piece because
I got to do my "EXPOSED" voice.
"Exposed! Soros is a neo-nazi!"
We have pitch sessions just like
any newsroom, we'll get together and we'll throw out ideas.
We also will
respond to the news that week, and will spring into action, like we did, let's say
around the Puerto Rico piece that we did.
We thought, "Is this still gonna be a
story in a week?" and guess what?
It's still a stories six months later.
Because we're a weekly show, we tend to do pieces that are a little more evergreen, so they
live on later than just the week that they happened.
And also I think it's
probably for the best that we're not always covering what the crazy thing
that President Trump just said, because I think we would all go crazy.
Well, I do actually run screaming.
That's why I got a treadmill desk,
so I can not stop working while I do that.
[LOUD SCREAMING]
I do a lot of sit-screaming.
You know, I'm just like:
AUGH!
AH!
I do scream. I scream inside. I scream with my eyes.
It's called "screysing." Check it out.
It's because it's an incredible amount of production work
and we're a team of only four people and we
can't really justify to our company --
Al Jazeera --
that we need to, like, rent a bobcat for an afternoon ...
We take what we can get, and we love these monologues and we
loved our sketches too ... ideally we'd do them all the time,
but you know ... get us a deal.
Get us an HBO deal!
That's actually a really good question.
It's one of my absolute favorite sketches that we've ever done.
"You can get White Noise on two CDs or two cassettes
for only $19.39!
So order it now and help establish
the White European ethnostate we've always dreamed of."
"Wait, what?!"
"Hahaha, CHECK IT OUTTT!"
And it was funny until
Donald Trump actually won the election, and then the alt-right came to power.
And now, it's too real. It's just way too real.
So we probably won't make another one.
I like my politics like I like my food,
like a variation.
I'm a political omnivore.
You know, like, I'm an anti-capitalist
but I love Nordstrom Rack.
Aw.
The best way to be friends
with me and Francesca is to come to one of our live comedy shows.
Go onto our websites,
check out our calendars, and, you know, come say hi after a show.
You should do that.
I would say that you should get more news, not less.
Branch out a lot. Go to the BBC and New York Times,
but go to also smaller sources like The Intercept and Democracy Now.
In order to follow a bunch of news sites, what I do is I have an RSS feed, just a little pro-tip,
I use Feedly, I love it, I put all of my favorite news channels and outlets
into that, they have an app.
It's a lot. It's a lot, but if you really want to stay informed,
you have to read a wide swath of reporting.
I dunno, I have the best job ever,
I get to work with hilarious and super-duper smart people.
Francesca is an amazing reporter and journalist ...
Matt and Jesse are also here.
[off-camera laughter]
I love working with Francesca, she's --
[Matt: Francesca is God!]
Francesca's not intimidating whatsoever,
so it's really great because ... totally not intimidating ....
[FRANCESCA: Do it again like you mean it!!]
Ok I'm sorry!
They are the funniest people, like, we just laugh all the time in the office.
I really like joke writing, that's kind of what I do a lot.
I'm super into politics, so you kinda, you put those together
then it's kind of the perfect job for me.
I enjoy that we have the ability to respond directly to this
insane news cycle that we've been put through for the last two years.
It's kind of a dream job.
Except for within a nightmare
It's a dream job within a nightmare.
NO! Nooooo!
And for those of you who are wondering how I
got so orange for the Oompa Loompa joke that we did in our last video,
that was thanks to our amazing animator Marisa Cruz, who crushes it every single week.
Also there's an entire team of animators, we shout them out after every single video.
But she made me orange. And I did not like it.
The other person that
we haven't mentioned is our editor Holly Gibson,
who is such a doll every week
as we sit behind her, and whisper little cuts in her ear like
oh ...
oh what about ....
but do it...
As always thank you for watching Newsbroke.
Again follow me @franifio on Twitter.
Follow me on Twitter @Lieb123456789,
literally the worst handle on Twitter to be verified with a
blue checkmark, no big deal.
I'm on Twitter, but I'm not ... so like,
tell me how to work Twitter.
@JesseFernandez!
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