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Aug. 17, 2022 - Viva & Barnes

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Sidebar with Savanah Hernandez - Viva & Barnes LIVE!

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	There it is.
	There it is.
	Okay.
	This is perfect.
	This is perfect.
	Did you see the fish just jump at that?
	There was a fish that just jumped at that.
	It's a minute and 48 seconds in.
	We got a bite already.
	Amazing.
	Come on, fish.
	Come on, fish.
	I love watching my own work.
	Just need a big, brave fish that will come.
	And annihilate the jitterbug.
	For those who don't know what's happening.
	I just need someone to make sure my numbers are rolling.
	Are my numbers rolling?
	I'm trolling a jitterbug on a drone.
	Did a fish go after it?
	I didn't see that, but I saw one after a minute and a half.
	Watch this.
	I got a fish!
	I actually have a fish!
	Oh my gosh!
	Oh my gosh!
	Bring it!
	Guys!
	This is my go-to.
	Oh my gosh!
	Oh my gosh!
	Got multiple angles.
	Got the whole family in production with this.
	It's like catching lightning in a bottle.
	Oh, it's still on.
	It's still on.
	It's pulling.
	It's fighting, guys.
	It's actually fighting as we bring it in.
	Okay, now, there's still a fish on.
	Marion!
	Okay, it's still on.
	Take this!
	Take this!
	What do I do?
	Don't press stop yet.
	Don't press stop before you're on the phone.
	That's short hair viva for everyone who's new to the channel.
	Do not.
	I hope Mila comes back.
	People think this is easier than fishing.
	People think this is cheating.
	Take the pike, people!
	Look at this.
	It's a baby.
	No!
	It makes me nervous.
	It makes me nervous.
	No!
	No!
	If anybody wants to see the whole video here.
	Boom.
	That's the...
	Is it still on?
	It's a pike!
	It's a pike!
	That's a baby.
	That's a baby pike.
	It's okay about the shoot.
	Don't worry about the shoot.
	Oh my gosh.
	Okay, wait, wait, wait.
	Let me just get the hook out of this.
	I'm gonna put it on the weeds.
	Okay, people.
	Watch the hook, please.
	Watch the hook.
	Take a picture!
	Take the picture!
	I did it again, people!
	I caught a pike with a...
	Oh my gosh.
	The fish swings off.
	It's a baby.
	It'll be fruitful and prosperous.
	It's off!
	Oh my god, people!
	Okay.
	I can't waste too much time because I know that Savannah doesn't have all that much time.
	It was a 14-pound pike.
	You saw it with your own eyes.
	People...
	Standard intros.
	I'll bring up some super chats.
	I might be lesser with the super chats and comments.
	I don't want to distract Savannah Barnes.
	I think we found out why there was an outrageous amount of bot, spam, hate stuff in the chat earlier today.
	We'll talk about it afterwards.
	Savannah Hernandez is on tonight for the sidebar.
	I don't want to waste any time more than I think we don't have.
	That's crazy.
	We have a limited amount of time with Savannah.
	Barnes is in the house.
	Savannah, Barnes, get ready.
	I'm bringing you in.
	One, two.
	Hold on.
	Like this.
	There we go.
	Savannah, how goes the battle?
	Viva, I am so excited to be on with you.
	I followed you for such a long time, and of course, everybody in the space loves you, so I'm very honored and excited to be here with you today.
	Also, my hit got pushed to tomorrow, so I have extra time for you guys if we need it.
	Booyah!
	Robert, how are you doing, sir?
	Good, good.
	All right.
	So, Savannah, I was doing my research today, but before we get into it, for the chat for the crowd who may not know...
	Who You Are, a 30,000-foot overview, and then we're going to get into the juicy meat of the content you have been putting out on the webs for the last few years.
	Yes, so for anybody in the chat that doesn't know who I am, my name is Savannah Hernandez.
	I am an independent journalist.
	Well, now working as a contributor for The Post Millennial.
	I previously worked for Alex Jones for a time.
	That's how I got my start.
	I worked at Blaze TV, and now I am working as a contributor with The Post Millennial and working independently to break news stories across the nation that go uncovered by the media.
	I am triple banned on Twitter back in 2020.
	My essential entire reporting career.
	Got deleted after Donald Trump retweeted me.
	All of my BLM reporting got deleted and then I made a new Twitter account to expose Leah Thomas.
	The footage went viral.
	Tucker Carlson picked it up on his show.
	Twitter then deleted the second account, made a third account, and then I went and exposed the LGBTQ degeneracy in Washington, D.C. And after getting 4 million hits, breaking national news once again, Twitter deleted me.
	So I primarily live on Truth Social and these alternative platforms because my reporting is very, very off-limits.
	So that's a little bit about me.
	So where did you...
	Some of Viva's favorite questions.
	Where did you grow up?
	What did your parents do?
	Any siblings?
	Yeah, so I was born in Corpus.
	I grew up in California, in New Mexico, and now I live back in Texas.
	So I'm kind of from all over.
	I have two younger siblings.
	I have a little brother and a little sister.
	My little sister and I are six years apart.
	My little brother and I are 10 years apart.
	So they're a lot younger than I am.
	And they are also one of the main reasons why I work as hard as I do and why I am so passionate about just the country and about telling the truth because I just wanted to be a good role model for them and a good big sister.
	We're a big drive for me to just be a good person and work hard.
	Now, what did your parents do?
	So, my mom, she is a stay-at-home mom.
	She homeschooled us.
	So, yes, I was homeschooled from fourth grade on.
	She homeschooled my little brother and sister, so she stays at home, makes sure that, you know, we were raised properly, and then my dad works in the oil field, and he has for the past decade or so.
	So, you said born in Corpus.
	That's Corpus Christi?
	Yes.
	And raised in New Mexico?
	I guess so.
	I was raised for like the first seven years of my life in California in Orange County.
	So I used to go to Disneyland, Legoland, all that fun stuff.
	And then we moved to New Mexico from seven until I was 18. So I guess, yeah, you could say primarily New Mexico.
	It's not my favorite state though, so I don't like to claim it.
	But now I know I'm not supposed to ask this question as a matter of etiquette, but I'm asking it anyhow because it's relevant for the discussion tonight.
	You're a very young person, are you not?
	Yes, I am 25 years old.
	Okay.
	Ordinarily, I don't ask because I know etiquette, although I think it's improper gender etiquette in any event, but young.
	And there's a reason for that because what you're doing is kind of bodacious and age is relevant to disregard for all things that are safe and whatnot.
	Okay.
	You studied journalism at, if I got this correctly, in New Mexico, correct?
	Yes, at New Mexico State University.
	And the funny thing about that, Viva, is I was homeschooled, right?
	And I hated it.
	I absolutely hated it.
	Me and my mom fought every single day.
	I look back, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
	But at the time, I absolutely hated it.
	So at 16, I said, I'm taking my GED because I want to go to real college.
	So I started going to community at 16 years old, and then I graduated college at 20. And the reason I bring that up is because, you know, the way that my career actually started was because it was in my last six months of university.
	that I realized I liked broadcast journalism.
	However, I only had six months of experience under my belt.
	And typically you need about two years of experience to get into an entry-level broadcast job.
	So I was kind of floundering for a year after having my entire journalism degree already.
	I'm not sure where to go from there.
	Why did you enter journalism to begin with?
	I enter journalism because I just always liked writing.
	Whenever I was younger and I was going to public school, I loved writing stories.
	It was just something that I was always strong in.
	Math is...
	Something that, you know, is absolutely horrific to me, which is why I got into journalism, so I don't have to do it that often.
	But, yeah, I just cared about telling the truth.
	Like I said, I got into the broadcast realm in my last six months of college.
	I thought it was interesting, and I thought it was a more fun format than your typical writing or even just the typical, like, broadcast local news.
	So I wanted to make it more fun.
	I thought it was interesting.
	And then working for Alex Jones really solidified, I guess, the video journalism for me.
	Now, my internet went a little haywire for a second, so I missed a portion.
	But if everything didn't get interrupted here, all the better.
	I'm going to star some super chats that have questions.
	We'll get to them when the context allows for it.
	The question that I just had, though, is you studied journalism.
	You got it by age 20. Nerds.
	And then you went to the UK for a bit as well on an exchange or a study abroad?
	I did.
	I did go study at the University of Roehampton, which is, I believe, a little bit south of London.
	And I basically just wanted my six months abroad.
	The funny thing about that was I went in 2020 when Donald Trump...
	I was elected as President of the United States.
	Back then, I was not paying attention at all to politics, which is why it's kind of funny that I'm so outspoken about the issue now, because back in college, I was one of those dumb college students that probably didn't know the three branches of government.
	I was completely ignorant to what was going on, and so I'm in London for Brexit, and also during Donald Trump becoming President of the United States, kind of just watching it from across the pond.
	It was crazy.
	So, now, what was the culture and the politics like at New Mexico State?
	That's a really interesting question, Mark.
	I don't know, people like to hurt people like to hang out.
	I always tell people all day long, hey, if you want to get into journalism, my code is correct.
	It's a useless degree.
	And it's unfair for me to say because, you know, the reason I didn't get hired on with X was because I had the journalism degree.
	But when push comes to shove, I learned everything that I know being out on the ground, and I felt like my degree was quite honest.
	Looking back on it, it definitely was very political.
	It was probably as any possible.
	Where people were some where I wasn't completely indoctrinated.
	And I do remember our head news director for a student news organization being very impact-run.
	But again, I wasn't in politics at the time.
	Wait.
	Wait.
	Savannah, I've got to stop you because apparently connection is bad.
	I wasn't sure if it was my end.
	Someone says just you.
	No, someone says nonstop robot voice.
	Okay, let's just check.
	It just broke up about midway through.
	Okay, so was that chat, was that the first time that we had any connection issues that anybody saw?
	At least that I saw.
	Yeah, she's a robot breaking up.
	Okay, Savannah, are you?
	I was trying to do my own live stream last night, and it cut off midstream, so it might be my horrific Wi-Fi, and if it is, I apologize.
	So yeah, chat, I'm sorry.
	I have horrible Wi-Fi.
	So yeah, you're about part of the way through on the culture of New Mexico State.
	Oh, it's just basically saying that I don't remember it being too, too politically charged.
	I wasn't that indoctrinated.
	I do remember my news director being anti-Trump, but I wasn't really paying attention to politics at that point, so it didn't affect me as much, I would say.
	Now, how does that London lead to Alex Jones?
	So, and again, this is why me graduating early is pertinent to this story.
	I graduated at 20 and I was living at home for a year with my parents looking for a job in broadcast journalism and I was throwing my resume out anywhere I could.
	I guess I applied for Infowars without even knowing it and I got a call and they go, hey, have you ever heard of Infowars?
	Have you ever heard of Alex Jones?
	And I was like, nope.
	No idea.
	Never paid attention to politics in my life.
	But they ended up offering me a production assistant position.
	And they said, hey, you know, we're in Austin.
	Come work for us as a production assistant.
	Check out our YouTube channel.
	They were still on YouTube at this time.
	They were like, check out our YouTube channel.
	See what you think.
	If, you know, you're open to it, call us back.
	And I was like, okay.
	So check it out.
	And I'm like, ah, you know, I need a job.
	I'm living at home with my parents.
	I'm in no position to say no, and I would love the experience.
	So I started off as a production assistant working for Alex Jones and then eventually worked my way up to fill-in producer, lead producer of The War Room with Owen Schroyer, fill-in radio host, on-the-ground reporter, one of the first...
	The riots, if you will, that I went and covered was actually in Hong Kong, because at that point, I was going and covering events on the ground here and there.
	When I first started, Alex wanted me to do Man in the Streets, but I was really intimidated, you know, by being on camera, by going and, you know, asking people political questions.
	But as I listened to Alex every single day, because I worked his show for two and a half years.
	I learned a lot about politics, and I didn't just learn the surface-level politics that we typically hear about from the mainstream or typically learn about in school.
	I was getting the deepest levels of government corruption dating back into history.
	We were talking about the Tuskegee Project.
	We were talking about MKUltra.
	Alex is talking about Operation Northwoods and all of this government corruption.
	So imagine this 20-year-old college kid, no idea about politics, gets a crash course personally by Alex.
	Hooks Jones on government corruption and what's really going on.
	Yeah, this sort of feels like my evolution with Barnes.
	He says things that I say, that can't be true.
	And it's true.
	And of course, what year was it that you started working with InfoWars?
	This is 2018?
	2018, yes.
	2018.
	So Jones is in the thick of what we call the culture wars by this time.
	He's had his issue.
	Well, he just got sued for Sandy Hook roughly that time.
	He's known.
	So you know.
	Or maybe you have no appreciation for the fact that you are going to be, I don't want to say unemployable, but you're going to be toxic to the mainstream.
	You have any sensitivity to that?
	Any awareness that that's going to happen?
	Or do you think, I'm just going to go work for an employer and nobody's going to care?
	So whenever I was working for Infowars, that was something that was always in the back of my mind because I knew that Alex was blacklisted and I was actually working for him when he got banned from everything.
	I remember waking up because usually I had all my news notifications on and I wake up in the morning, I'm getting ready to go to work.
	First thing I look at when I look at my phone, Alex Jones banned off of YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and I believe it was Facebook.
	I think those were the first three that kicked him off and I said, oh gosh.
	This is going to be an insane day.
	So it wasn't really like my own career that I was worried about.
	And it's actually really funny.
	Viva and Barnes, I keep thinking that I peaked in my career.
	Working for Alex, I was like, you know, this is my peak.
	I'm not going anywhere after this.
	And then, you know, it's like Tucker Carlson's using the clips.
	I got to sit down with him.
	Laura Ingram is asking me to break exclusives on her show.
	Bannon is getting me on his show.
	And so I think that there's this misconception that Alex is this off-limits character, when in reality, I think working for Alex Jones is one of the best things that could have ever happened for my career.
	I was actually talking with him today on his show about this, how he basically trained me.
	On the realities of what's going on in society, what's going on in politics, and what people like to hear, okay?
	Not in the sense of, like, I'm trying to butter anybody up or I'm lying to people, but in the sense of people don't want these polished, you know, teleprompter reading.
	News commentators.
	It's boring.
	It's not fun to listen to.
	And that's why so many people, especially in the right wing, are turned off the politics.
	People loved Alex because he was fiery.
	He was energetic.
	He went out on the streets and he talked to his fellow man in America.
	So that's one of the most important things that he taught me.
	And again, just utilizing all of those tactics has gotten me to, again, you know, getting my stuff on primetime news, which has been great.
	And I really do feel like I have Alex to thank for that.
	And what was it like going to Hong Kong?
	It was absolutely incredible.
	It was one of the most life-changing experiences for me.
	I went in 2019.
	This was at the peak of Hong Kong fighting back against the CCP, trying to take over their autonomy, their democracy.
	It was insane because you go over there.
	And this was also during the BLM.
	Well, it was right before the BLM riots, but obviously there were a lot of racial tensions, a lot of political.
	Tensions here in the U.S., a lot of hatred for Donald Trump.
	And I was already out on the ground conducting these men on the streets here and there, talking to these anti-Trump protesters.
	So I really understood at that point how divided we were as a nation.
	I head over to Hong Kong.
	They're waving American flags.
	They have cutouts of Donald Trump.
	Please, Donald Trump, save us.
	We want real democracy.
	We just want freedom.
	We just want autonomy.
	And it was so crazy to me to see how the Hong Kongers who were actually fighting against the CCP, actually fighting against government surveillance, actually fighting against a government that was disappearing them.
	It was so crazy to see the difference in culture and perspective for the Hong Kongers versus the spoiled and entitled Americans back home that were burning our flag in the streets.
	Thank you.
	Hold on.
	Hong Kong, I got to get into the understanding the style of the journalism that you were doing.
	When you were working with Infowars, you were not yet doing the person, the woman, the man on the street interviews.
	You were doing production and...
	What were you doing at Infowars?
	And then how did that sort of transition into what you became viral for having done?
	Sure.
	So, sorry, I kind of like breezed through that there.
	But when I first started off, I started off as a production assistant.
	But Alex also immediately wanted me to be a reporter because he was like, again, I always say this, Alex saw the potential in me before I even saw the potential in myself.
	And he still does to this day.
	And he, when he first saw me, was like, you need to be on camera, you need to be on air.
	And I was very intimidated by that.
	And so I worked production for about a year and a half.
	So from 2018 to 2019, I'm working behind the scenes.
	I'm understanding production.
	Switching Alex's show.
	I was, you know, behind the scenes, kind of working the cameras, doing all of that.
	But while I was doing that, I was still interested in the camera work.
	So I was still researching things.
	I was still putting out little reports here and there.
	I was still going and doing The Man on the Street.
	So I was still active as a reporter and a production assistant.
	From there, again, I worked up as lead producer of The War Room with Owen Schroyer.
	And then, you know, when Owen was out, I would fill in during his radio show for three hours.
	So I got more comfortable in front of the camera.
	And then I was doing...
	The man on the street.
	Because I genuinely saw the vitriol for Donald Trump.
	And I said, you know what?
	These people have the opportunity to change my mind because I don't really have like a set idea of what I think about Donald Trump.
	So these people hate Donald Trump.
	Let me go ask them why I should hate him too.
	And I basically realized that nobody had any idea why they hated him.
	I thought it was ridiculous.
	And I realized all these people were clowns.
	And so I was kind of doing the man on the street stuff at that time.
	And then Alex finally said, you know what, Sav, I think it's time for you to transition from producer to...
	Full-time fill-in host, a full-time reporter.
	And at that point, like I said, it started off with Hong Kong.
	That was one of the first big events he sent me to go cover.
	And then from there, you know, at the start of 2020, it was the BLM riots.
	It was me going and standing up for police during the BLM riots and during them targeting police officers.
	And so in 2020 is when I really launched my reporting and on-screen career, I would say.
	So, going from Hong Kong to covering the riots, what was that like?
	How risky was it?
	How scary was it?
	So the interesting thing about Hong Kong is that Antifa actually took a lot of their tactics from the Hong Kongers.
	Because for the umbrellas, for example, using umbrellas to shield Antifa members from police officers, that's a tactic that the Hong Kongers were using against the CCP.
	Putting traffic cones over smoke grenades and trying to extinguish them quickly using leaf blowers, using detergents and soaps in the streets.
	These were all tactics that Antifa stole from the Hong Kongers, who again were actually fighting against a legitimate...
	It corrupt the government, but that's a different story.
	The difference in reporting on the two was, you know, Hong Kong was absolutely insane.
	I'm getting tear gassed alongside the Hong Kongers.
	I don't have a helmet on.
	I don't have a gas mask on.
	I basically like ran full speed ahead into the front lines of this.
	I'm getting tear gassed with these people.
	The Hong Kongers are digging bricks out of the street to throw at the Chinese police.
	It was absolutely crazy.
	And it was exhilarating, though.
	And I said, you know what?
	This is the type of journalism that I want to be doing.
	Why?
	Is this type of journalism not happening more in the United States when we do have a lot of issues, when we do have a lot of protests like this going on every single day?
	And so when the BLM riots did kick off, I realized that I needed to be on the front lines and I needed to show Americans what was going on because I immediately saw the lies that the media was pushing out regarding BLM and their narrative.
	I hear you say this.
	To me, we all have our different thresholds.
	This sounds crazy.
	You're in Hong Kong.
	When you're in Hong Kong, the risk there is the police and not the rioters, because you're sort of, I won't say on the side of the rioters, but you're certainly not on the side of the CCP police.
	So people throwing bricks, like just the risk of getting hit in the head with something random is one thing.
	But what about the risk about getting arrested by the CCP, getting put on a no-fly list?
	I don't know what lists they have, but just getting into trouble with the CCP police.
	How is that not like a major fear?
	Or a crippling, deterring factor for you?
	Viva, it was because I was young and dumb at the time.
	And I was, it's not that I was ignorant to the Chinese at all.
	And the reason why I went to Hong Kong was because I was already following what was going on between the Hong Kongers and the CCP, which is why as well, you know, Alex is reporting on and I was really focused in on COVID-19 in November of 2019 before we even really heard about it here in America, because I noticed what the Chinese were doing to the Hong Kongers.
	And many of them were speculating that the lockdowns were to quell the So I would say I was very aware of what the Chinese were doing.
	I was very aware that the Chinese would disappear.
	journalists were fellow citizens that pushed back against their narrative.
	Whenever we were over there, Alex was worried and he was like, please be careful, please, you know, let us know where you guys are at.
	I was just more excited to cover the Hong Kongers, cover their stories.
	I actually did go conduct Man on the Streets with them, and I had to interview them from...
	Either the nose down.
	A lot of them were wearing face masks just because that was Asian protocol back in the day before COVID.
	But I would have to interview them without their face in the camera because I was asking them questions such as, is it true that your government is going to disappear you?
	Is it true that the government is surveilling you via these facial recognition towers that you guys are falling in the streets every single day?
	Is all of this true?
	And again, we were getting the first-hand account.
	And that's real journalism.
	And to me, I think the risk was worth it.
	You know, I've talked to some people that are on the more pro-left or pro-China, whatever side you want to label it, who have told me that the social credit system is just a myth of the West.
	What did you experience in Hong Kong as to whether the social credit system is just a myth and conspiracy theories of anti-Chinese folks?
	Yeah, to the people who...
	To say that that's a myth, I personally watched the Hong Kongers take down a facial recognition tower, and the reason they did that was because the Chinese government was using these towers to surveil the people and either bring down their social credit system or disappear them if they had the audacity to walk in the streets and push back peacefully against the Chinese coming in and encroaching on their autonomy.
	Now, I want to flesh it out a little bit.
	Disappearing, I mean, what sort of things did you actually witness yourself in terms of Journalists getting arrested or protesters getting arrested stories.
	How do you know they never came back?
	What happened to them?
	What were the concrete stories that you have firsthand accounts of?
	First-hand account, I didn't see anybody get disappeared myself.
	I did see several arrests, but again, this was my first event, so my follow-up on these stories is not the best.
	But what I did go and do was talk to several Hong Kongers themselves, and I asked them, again, you know, is this something that really happens?
	Do you know somebody?
	Do you have somebody that has been disappeared by the Chinese government?
	What does disappeared mean?
	Does that mean that the government takes them and they don't come back?
	And again, they were corroborating a lot of these stories because we will often see the headlines.
	I'm here in the U.S. news about what can happen to people who dissent against the Chinese government.
	And basically, it was just the people's firsthand account corroborating that because it was their family member.
	It was a business owner that they knew that was just taken by the Chinese government.
	Sometimes, well, sometimes these people come back, sometimes they don't.
	So I firsthand didn't witness any disappearing.
	Again, I was only there for about a week, though.
	And did you upload your content when you were there, or did you come back with it and upload it from a safe country?
	No, I uploaded it while I was there.
	So I was uploading it to Alex's site, band.video.
	I was doing daily appearances on Alex's show, and I still had my Twitter account at that time.
	So I was posting the footage in live time of what was going on in Hong Kong.
	Now, what was it like being in Hong Kong independent of all the political craziness that was taking place in the sense of the food, the culture, the environment, things like that?
	It was interesting because, like I said, it was a culture I'd never experienced before.
	It was very different for me to see people actually defending, I guess what you would say would be like a real democracy, if you will.
	Americans so entitled, so opinionated.
	Just so spoiled.
	And to go over to Hong Kong and see how unified these people were.
	I believe it was like 4 million people who were marching in the street the week that I was there.
	It was an incredible sight to see.
	And then when the CCP or the Chinese police would come in and try to arrest people, you would have random strangers drive up in their car and say, get in the car.
	We're going to take you to safety.
	So like the whole entire...
	I guess Citi was so united and I've never seen anything like it.
	Something I'll never forget because I've never seen anything like that in America.
	Sounds like my neurotic nightmare.
	Get in the car.
	Dude, I'm running.
	But then where are you going to run?
	You're going to run into the CCP front lines.
	Nuts.
	So you mentioned your Twitter account.
	Your Twitter handle is still up then.
	What was your original Twitter handle?
	Well, all of my Twitter accounts are now gone, but the original one was at Sav Says.
	So that was my OG account.
	And again, the reason why that one was important was because that's where I put all of my BLM reporting.
	I was on the ground for a lot of the lootings of minority-owned businesses in Austin.
	I was on the ground covering what was actually going on when, you know, businesses were being burned down, people were being attacked, when cops looked the other way as Trump supporters got beat up.
	by Black Lives Matter and Antifa domestic terrorists.
	So all of that footage got deleted with that Twitter account.
	What was your scariest experience out covering the various riots?
	Let me think.
	I mean, the first one that pops up to mind, and it wasn't necessarily scary.
	It just pissed me off.
	I don't think that I really get...
	I don't want to say that I don't get scared.
	I mean, before going into any riot because, you know, you're running...
	Head first into essentially like GTA, right?
	That's what's happening.
	Like one time in Philly, there was an entire mile long area of shops that was being looted.
	So many people were looting that the cops just blocked off the entrance and exit to the road and then let people have at it.
	So that was kind of crazy because people were driving into the parking lots at like 40, 50 miles an hour.
	People were jumping out of the car.
	Others had dollies trying to leave away washrooms and dryers.
	It was like insanity.
	So that was crazy.
	I almost got run over.
	I was close at that point, and we had to do it live.
	And so that was kind of nerve-wracking, having to hold the camera off, pulling in the middle of a riot, and also hoping we weren't going to get up.
	That was a big issue.
	And then there was a panic on it, because Austin and Tifa knew Hold on.
	Savannah, let me stop you because you've gone full robo.
	Again, it's the chat saying robo Savannah.
	We'll wait for it to smooth out.
	I am so sorry.
	When I see your screen come back, we'll see if your audio is good, but in the meantime, I'll read.
	Oh, here.
	Well, no, I want to get to that question later.
	No, I'm not going to do that.
	Street interviews?
	Okay.
	But now you still look pixelated, Savannah.
	Maybe...
	Let's hear your audio.
	Is your audio okay?
	Can you guys hear me?
	I am so sorry.
	I'm moving in a week, Viva, because my Wi-Fi is so horrible.
	I'm literally moving to a different city.
	I think you have to.
	It's better now.
	Not having good Wi-Fi.
	I was staying in a place temporarily.
	It was insufferable.
	You have to find that one corner in the apartment that has a good connection.
	So you said your scariest moment was their looting.
	In one of the BLM protests, cars coming up, driving in fast, taking stuff, and then I think we sort of went full RoboSavanna.
	All right, so what I was saying was one of the nerve-wracking moments was I was with Julio Rosas and he had to do a live hit on Laura Ingram's show.
	And I was holding the camera for him.
	And it was a bit nerve-wracking because I'm trying to make sure his shot is good.
	I'm trying to make sure his background's good.
	And I'm also trying to make sure that I'm not about to get robbed or attacked because of all the chaos that's ensuing around me.
	So that was a little bit nerve-wracking.
	There was another time in Austin.
	Austin Antifa knew who I was because I was reporting on all of their criminal activity.
	Alex told me to go out with security and I was being stubborn because I was like, ah, you know, it's a little protest.
	It's not going to be anything big.
	I'm probably going to go for like 30 minutes.
	I ended up covering it for two hours because they were attacking another live streamer.
	I was undercover getting this great footage.
	And then they found out who I was.
	And then I had a mob of 12 Antifa members that mobbed me, robbed me, and tried to beat me up, but I punched back.
	So they weren't able to get that far.
	And then, yeah, that was not a fun experience getting mobbed by like 12 people.
	That was not fun.
	So I've seen a lot of your stuff.
	I think I haven't seen all of it, but I've never seen anything where your man on the street interviews are like, I don't think it's bad.
	It's not the style of Steven Crowder-ish or Alex Stein.
	And I say that without judgment.
	There's just different types.
	It was not the mockery sort of satire type.
	It was just let them talk and I'm going to record.
	But at some point, you start getting recognized.
	At some point, they decide they don't like what you're doing because even though it's not overtly making fun of them, it is allowing them to be made fun of subsequently when you publish it.
	I'm not wrong about your style, and when did you start getting noticed and not getting liked?
	So, actually, when I did first start doing my man on the streets for Alex, they were a little bit more confrontational because it was with the anti-Trump crowd.
	And they were like, oh, Donald Trump's a rapist.
	Donald Trump's a racist.
	Donald Trump's a bigot.
	And so I would go and I would ask them these questions.
	And I was like, you know, I'm a brown Hispanic woman.
	Basically, I check all the boxes for hating Donald Trump.
	So tell me why I should.
	And they could never explain to me why.
	And it's so easy, Viva.
	Basically, you go, you do these man on the streets, right?
	And you just keep asking people, why?
	Why?
	Well, Donald Trump's a criminal.
	Okay.
	Why?
	Well, because, you know, he committed this crime.
	Are you sure?
	When did he do that?
	Why did he do that?
	They can never answer these questions.
	And so they end up, again, basically proving that they themselves have no idea what they're talking about.
	So when I first did get started, I actually made WorldStarHipHop for this because...
	I went to an impeachment rally and this woman was like, Donald Trump's a rapist, Donald Trump's a rapist.
	And I was like, okay, show me where he's a rapist.
	And she couldn't find it.
	And then I ended with a snarky comment and I was like, you know, you're just mad because you're calling Donald Trump a racist and you can't find any information to corroborate what you're saying.
	And then she pushed me off a ledge.
	Worldstar Hip Hop picked it up and that was probably one of my more viral moments.
	And that was, like I said, from my OG Twitter account when I was a little bit more snarky with people.
	But that's not really my style.
	And now the original...
	And my original man on the streets are just, hey, you know, why do you think the way that you do?
	That's why my third Twitter account got banned, because I went to Pride in Washington, D.C., and I simply asked Viva, hey, what are your pronouns?
	What do you identify as?
	Instagram took that down for hate speech, because...
	People made themselves look like idiots by saying, I don't know what I identify as.
	Wait, I'm gender fluid?
	Wait, I'm pansexual?
	Wait, am I queer?
	I don't know.
	And then, of course, they got roasted, and then I got in trouble for it.
	And I was like, I'm not even saying anything.
	I want to see if I can bring that one to pull up.
	Robert, go ahead.
	I know you have a question here.
	Sure.
	So how did you become natural, go from being behind the scenes, not out in the front, to covering international protests in the middle of riots, becoming globally viral on various videos?
	How did that transition come about?
	Thank you for re-asking that, Barnes, because I know Viva kind of asked that, and I kind of spiraled all the way over here.
	So thank you for bringing me back to the original question at hand.
	You know, to those watching who...
	Want to get into this type of career or want to, you know, become a public speaker.
	Just know that when I first started off, I was horrible.
	So Alex would have me fill in, like I said, for Owen's show when he was out.
	And it was just kind of like the thing with Infowars, right, is just they throw you in the deep end and you just sink or swim.
	So I remember hosting my first three-hour radio show by myself and I thought it was absolutely horrific.
	And I would get nervous.
	I would say, um, a lot.
	Alex was still on YouTube at this time.
	So people were roasting me in the comments.
	And so I basically took all the criticisms and I said, okay, I need to be comfortable with silence.
	I need to be...
	Be comfortable with sitting here and thinking through my thoughts.
	And then I need to come to what's like every five seconds because people on the internet are telling me I sound horrible right now.
	And so it was very much just a trial and error, looking like an idiot on screen.
	And again, just having to learn how to speak and how to present and how to, yeah, I guess be in front of the camera.
	So it's been a long time, Barnes.
	I used to be terrible at this.
	So Viva.
	If 12 people surround you and are going to attack you, are you going to do taekwondo?
	I'm going to run like a bat out of hell is what I'm going to do.
	Great runner.
	There you go.
	And I'm fast.
	I can run 30 plus kilometers an hour in Crocs.
	The thing is, your interviews, I'll bring up the one that we have on the side here.
	Once people decide they don't like you, and I interviewed counter-protesters in Ottawa, in Canada, where everyone's polite and no one's violent, I still didn't feel comfortable.
	And the problem is, I know that they're going to hate being made fun of, even if they're being made fun of or mocked by their own answers, not in an overtly antagonistic tone.
	And Savannah, I'll bring this up at the risk of having this stream run into a problem.
	This is it.
	Sav says, this is the last one that I saw that got removed from Twitter, but the basis was that allegedly...
	You created an account to circumvent a ban, which is a bannable offense itself.
	But this is a video.
	I'm gay.
	What age did you know that you were gay?
	I think at like 10, I knew that I...
	I think at 10, but I wasn't clear on my gender.
	Yeah, I think it was around like...
	10 as well when I started questioning if I was bi and then since then it was kind of like a Slippery slope because I kept I was like my bi omni lesbian and then I I'm kind of like Came to the point and on the now recently I've been like in my pan, but then I like I think now I'm starting to realize that I'm queer But yeah, it was it started around 10. It wasn't like fully formed But I guess like that's when I realized wait, that's a possibility.
	Yeah I am genderqueer, trans, mask, and queer.
	What's trans mask?
	Trans mask is, like, people under the non-binary umbrella identifying, like, or presenting mask.
	Masculine?
	Yeah.
	What about you?
	I'm trans, and my sexuality is unlabeled.
	I use he, him pronouns.
	Yeah, and I use he, him pronouns.
	Tell us what you guys identify as.
	We're asking everyone here today.
	Gay.
	Gay, cis...
	What is it?
	Cisgender man.
	I think we can stop here.
	She's my favorite.
	Okay, hold on.
	We'll go.
	I have no problem with any of these answers for the individuals.
	It's just the reaction that it elicits from other people.
	Gender neutral or gender fluid.
	I think that's what he said.
	I don't know.
	I'm confused.
	Do you identify as gender fluid?
	I don't know.
	She, her...
	It, I feel like, honestly, honestly, it should not be a bad thing.
	Like, I've talked to people who go with they and them.
	I'm like, well, in the grammar of things, how would you want to represent yourself?
	I was like, I mean, I guess it.
	Because it's like, you're it.
	You're the it.
	Like, it shouldn't be a bad name.
	It should just be owned.
	Gay.
	Yes.
	Yes, I love...
	She should identify it.
	She, she, her.
	Oh.
	She.
	Pronounsor he, him.
	Sometimes you say, I don't give a shit.
	I guess you could call me gay.
	I'm homoflexible, really.
	I do like some women, but mostly men.
	Thank you.
	So it's an interesting thing.
	Okay, you ask them questions.
	People are going to react to this because in some people's minds, this is going to show sort of a flippancy, an absurdity to the entire, what has become like a litmus test for political orientation.
	They're adults.
	They can do what they want.
	This goes viral because people start seeing the whimsical nature, seemingly, even according to the people themselves.
	Who gets mad at a video like this, Savannah?
	I would imagine the individuals being interviewed didn't get mad.
	Where did you get flack?
	From what entities?
	From Big Tech and from the Daily Beast writers, from the Media Matters, freaking SJWs.
	They monitor my account.
	There's this guy named Steven Monticelli who writes for the Rolling Stone.
	He lives here in Dallas.
	And he was stalking me on Instagram.
	He was trying to get my entire account taken down because of videos like this one.
	Because he said that I was...
	Like, basically stoking hate against the LGBTQ community by putting videos up like this.
	And I'm like, I'm letting the community speak for themselves.
	Whether I agree with you or love ya, you know, I'm gonna let you speak for yourself.
	If you go on my Instagram page, I have literally gone into the streets of San Francisco and interviewed people actively smoking crack cocaine out of their little bubble or their pipe, okay?
	So I'm interviewing everybody on the streets of America, whether I love them or hate them, and I'm allowing them to use my platform to have their voices heard.
	And that's the voice.
	That's the message.
	It's not my fault that that's that.
	I'm just, you know, exposing it or platforming it, really.
	How much of all of that was a shock?
	In other words, of going out there, talking to these people, and getting those kind of answers?
	I wasn't shocked by it at all because I...
	Have been hearing these types of responses for years already.
	Earlier this year, when my second Twitter account got banned for Leah Thomas, my interviews there, you had pro-transgender activists there for Leah Thomas.
	And I was asking them the same thing.
	I was like, can a woman have a penis?
	And they were like, yes.
	I was like, okay, can a man give birth?
	And they were like, yes.
	And I was like, can you see any biological difference between Leah Thomas when she stands next to her female competitors?
	Of course, I'm using the correct pronouns.
	Because I'm talking to the pro-transgender crowd here.
	And they're like, no, we can't see any biological difference.
	And I was like, I'm pretty sure that's a six foot tall man with big ass shoulders.
	But OK, I guess we can't see the difference.
	Let's just go ahead and pretend here.
	But, you know, the thing I wanted to point out to Viva is the reason why my first Twitter account got banned was for ban evasion.
	So that's why I finally said I don't give an F and I'm going to make two more Twitter accounts because the second ban evasion, I guess, was a real ban evasion.
	But I don't understand how I was evading a ban with.
	That's what I was going to ask.
	So your first account was taken down.
	Was there a specific video that triggered it or just a date?
	Well...
	What ended up happening was Donald Trump retweeted one of my clips from the Million MAGA March.
	It went super viral, got about 10 million views.
	A week later, my entire account was deleted.
	And then a month later, they came forward and said, yeah, we deleted you for ban evasion.
	And I appealed it and I said, this is my only account.
	I've never had a prior suspension.
	The ban, it was my first day off in two weeks.
	I was so excited to finally have a day off.
	And at the end of my day, I was like, okay, let me just check Twitter.
	My entire two years of my career was gone.
	And the excuse was ban evasion, appeal rejected, and F off?
	Yep, and I never heard from them again.
	So that's why I made my second account, because I was like, how are you going to ban me for ban evasion?
	How do I evade a ban on my only account?
	I don't understand that.
	I've never been banned before.
	I've never been suspended before.
	Well, what does this mean?
	And so then with the second account, I even had writers for the post-millennial reach out to Twitter, and they were like, we have no comment on this.
	What is vacation for you?
	Ruben goes totally off the grid for the whole month of August, doesn't do any interviews, no social media, tries to avoid it all.
	He's missed a few things this August, but that is what it is.
	A couple.
	How do you try to escape it all?
	What is a vacation like for you?
	I love being in nature.
	I think that it is the best reset possible.
	I hate being surrounded by technology.
	I absolutely abhor social media.
	If I didn't have to do this for my career, I absolutely wouldn't because I do feel like it is very detrimental to, you know, mental health, physical health, everything.
	So, you know, vacation for me or even just a day off is going paddleboarding in the river in Austin, putting the phone away, just being in nature, tanning in the sun, going to the gym and lifting weights.
	I just love being active, and I love being outside and just, again, connecting with the beautiful earth that God created for us.
	Savannah, now that you mention God, may I ask, are you of religious in nature in any way, shape, or form?
	Yes, I am a Christian.
	I know there's a bunch of labels for Christianity.
	I'm still kind of researching, I guess, the different factions myself, but I would just say, as of now, I'm...
	Yeah, I don't know.
	A Baptist?
	I have no idea.
	I'm a Christian.
	I just read my Bible.
	I try to follow it as best as I can.
	And that's where I'm at with my religion right now.
	So give me a couple more years to really solidify that down better too.
	Were your parents or your family religious?
	Yes, yes.
	My mom and dad both non-denominational Christians.
	So I was baptized when I was seven.
	They raised me up with very religious values and ideals.
	And I think that's obviously like to why I...
	I feel so strongly about the modern day, and I'm so anti-feminism, and I do believe in gender roles because of the conservative values I was raised up with, the Christian values I was raised up with.
	Where were your parents born?
	Were they born south of the border?
	No, my dad was born in California, and then my mom is from the island of Guam.
	So they're both American.
	My grandfather, it was my great-grandfather that emigrated over here from Mexico.
	So it's already been two generations prior to myself that have been here in America.
	And before anyone in the chat or on the interwebs tries to cancel me, it's because the research that I did online said you were of Mexican descent, that you love Languina.
	Oh, Languai.
	No, I was like, oh, what's that?
	It's tongue.
	And then people say, oh, that's gross.
	As a Jewish boy, we grew up with tongue.
	It's like one of the delicacies.
	Cow tongue, if anybody's never seen it, it's a big-ass tongue.
	And all you see in the cow's mouth is like 40% of it.
	There's 60% in the throat.
	It's got bumps on the tongue.
	You boil it.
	You peel the skin off.
	So which way do you have it?
	My dad makes it.
	He roasts it in the oven overnight.
	Oh, it's so good.
	Because, okay, the thing with lengua is, like, I cannot eat it if I see it in its, you know, real form.
	I'm, like, disgusting.
	Like, even if there's a taste bud on the actual, like, cooked meat, I just can't eat it.
	So my dad, he makes it for the family.
	He puts it in the oven overnight.
	So good.
	It's, like, melting your mouth the next day, and he shreds it up for all of us.
	Obviously, like, takes off all the skin and weirdness and shreds it up.
	So we have lengua tacos in the morning.
	So good melt-in-your-mouth recipe.
	It's the best.
	Every single time I go home, I'm like, God, please make me Lengua.
	It's my favorite.
	Really?
	Now, I admit, I've never heard of that.
	That's it.
	Ah, I learned something.
	Fascinating.
	So, if it's cooked right, it's really good.
	It's a delicacy.
	Yeah, you gotta get it cooked right, though, Barnes, or else you might have a horrible time.
	It looks like exactly what you'd think a cow tongue looks like.
	Yeah, it's like this big.
	It's like a tongue, and it's this big.
	You could see the taste buds on it, and I had an argument with somebody who said you could taste the last thing the cow ate by eating its tongues.
	I'm like, no, you can't.
	No, you can't.
	But the way we have it, you boil it, and then you peel the skin off the tongue, and then you slice it.
	It's just like deep pink.
	It's almost like liverish in texture, but salty and not liverish in taste.
	Barnes, Barnes, the next time I run into you in Austin, I'm going to have my dad make you some language.
	Don't worry, it'll be shredded and you're going to try it.
	Trust me, you're going to love it.
	You're going to be like, alright, this is amazing.
	Yeah, I thought the weirdest thing I've ever eaten was veal brain.
	Which, by the way, taste and texture is definitely like, you know you're eating brain.
	Oh, yeah.
	Brain is one of the two foods I cannot eat.
	Brain and liver, but...
	I'll introduce everyone to bulls balls at one point.
	Prairie oysters.
	Mildly delicious.
	So Savannah, okay.
	So scary incidents.
	You get banned.
	You effectively cannot have a Twitter account.
	So where do you go?
	My face is banned.
	Yeah, my face is banned from Twitter.
	So where do you go then to spread the message on social media?
	I guess you could still surf Twitter so you could still get information, but where do you go to actually spread and be followed?
	So, for example, I just broke a news story of an MVM Inc.
	employee.
	This is the same company that was caught chartering flights for illegal immigrants in the middle of the night to New York.
	I had a whistleblower come forward and, you know, talk to me about this story.
	So I'm writing for the Postmillennial.
	So I basically use my YouTube channel to put out my piece and then I write an article for it via the Postmillennial.
	And then I have to cut social clips and then personally send them to all of my connections.
	I think this is my seventh news hit for today.
	That story specifically.
	So, you know, I basically just have to work twice as hard to get the content out since I am very banned on Twitter.
	Specifically for my type of reporting, Twitter is the best platform to get it out.
	However, I still have Instagram and I'm able to break news on there a little bit.
	I'm good friends with a lot of people at Newsmax.
	I have some friends at Daily Wire, Blaze TV, of course, Alex Jones, InfoWars, Fox News.
	And so I'm just sending my content to them.
	And then a lot of these shows will broadcast the pieces.
	So, you know, I'm basically having a...
	Go back to, like, OG journalism, where I go on shows to have the piece sing.
	Now, the other members of your generation have gone in a very different cultural direction.
	What do you attribute that to?
	Is it the effect of public education, the effect of the contemporary trends in culture?
	Why were they so susceptible to what a lot of us see as very unusual, odd, and unlikable beliefs that people like yourself did not get caught up in?
	I honestly think that we just have a very ignorant and subservient society.
	You know, we live in an instant gratification culture.
	That's one of the biggest issues with the modern day, right?
	Everybody's reading headlines.
	Everybody's on TikTok.
	Everybody's on to the next thing in a 10 to 15 second time frame.
	It's a very fast moving society where we're used to this instant gratification via social media, via dating apps and all of this nonsense.
	Nobody's actually out in real life talking amongst each other, having real conversations.
	So I think that You know, our society is just very entitled.
	We're very spoiled.
	We've never had to fight for anything.
	Truly, you know, the millennial generation, what is it that we've had to truly work for as a society?
	We've been handed everything and we have really squandered our rights and freedoms, I do feel, in this country.
	We've taken them for granted and that's why everybody is so willingly giving them up.
	That's why we're seeing an entire generation that is ushering in communism and socialism and we can get into how...
	You know, the Confucius Institute has infiltrated our universities and how our education system has been co-opted.
	I've always said that America is a very strong country, so we have to be Trojan-horsed, essentially, and destroyed from the inside.
	But I think that at the root of the problem is that we are a country that has gotten away from God.
	We are a country that has gotten away from morals, values, from a hard work ethic, from going through adversity.
	Everyone wants everything to be so easy for them in life, right?
	So they're not going to the gym.
	They're not going out and they're not working hard.
	They're not having to do anything in society.
	They've never had to fight for anything.
	And that's why they so easily give up their rights, freedoms, and their country, essentially.
	Savannah, remind me again, what was the story that you broke today?
	What was the big story?
	So the story that I wrote today, I actually had two whistleblower interviews last week.
	The first one was with an active National Guard member who came out against Joe Biden and exposed what he is witnessing as a result of the open border policy.
	He showed me pictures and videos of, again, seven-year-old girls being abandoned by smugglers at the border for National Guard to find.
	He showed me mutilated bodies that were left on the U.S. side of the border for National Guard and Border Patrol to find.
	The cartels leave them there as an intimidation tactic.
	So he provided me with all of that.
	And then the second whistleblower, this is the video that came out today, MVM Inc., again, that company that was flying migrants in the middle of the night to New York, this employee came forward and exposed to me how they're putting 200 to 300 children on a charter flight, shipping them throughout the U.S. to New York, California, Washington, Oregon.
	And the bigger and more sinister angle of this story, because we already knew that that was happening, was that with these 30,000 to 40,000 children that they're shipping out of Texas per month, allegedly...
	Actually, we have the email to corroborate this.
	Per my source, the employees are not properly identifying the adult sponsors that they're handing these children over to.
	So, you know, it's being alleged that these employees are essentially like handing migrant kids off to strangers.
	And you've actually covered things right at the border.
	What has been some of the more shocking coverage that you've either been part of or information that you've seen?
	I would say that one of the most shocking things is just being at the border in Yuma, Arizona and watching hundreds of people pour over our wide open border every single minute of...
	The night, right?
	I got out there around, let's say midnight, and I stayed out there until 6 a.m.
	At the beginning of the night, we started out with a small group of 25 illegal immigrants, ranging from countries such as India, Uzbekistan, Russia.
	Okay, this is not just Central or South Americans that are coming through anymore.
	America's open for everybody, so we are seeing a big uptick in migrants from other countries coming in.
	So one of the craziest things is we start out at the beginning of the night with a small group of 25. By 5, 6 a.m., there's 400 illegal immigrants lined up at the border wall.
	They just walked right on in, waiting for Border Patrol to process them.
	And Border Patrol can only process about 40 to 45 people per hour, they were telling me.
	So a lot of these people get tired of waiting.
	They just run into the fields.
	They just start running towards the city.
	They start walking towards America because they're tired of waiting.
	That was insane, just watching these people flood in.
	Explain what that means to people who don't know the processing.
	Where does the processing take place?
	They're at the physical, there's no wall, but they're at a physical border.
	Yes, so if people want to see what I'm talking about, they can go to my YouTube channel, and I have a video titled like a B-roll border invasion at Yuma, Arizona, and it's just basically a five-minute clip of all of the people walking in.
	So you have the southern border wall.
	Pardon me.
	There's a gap that's wide open.
	The cartels on the Mexican side of the border, or the human smugglers, if you will, will drop off a group of about 50 to 60 people near the river.
	I believe that's the Colorado River, not the Rio Grande.
	I believe it's the Colorado.
	So then this group of 50 will have to cross over the river and the cartel members will basically tell them, hey...
	The wall's up that way.
	Just keep walking straight.
	And then, you know, take a right and you'll find that gap.
	That's where you're going to go.
	So one of the craziest things is you're seeing these hordes of people crawling up these rocks.
	It's kids.
	It's adults.
	It's, again...
	People from all different ethnicities, nationalities, and backgrounds crawling up these rocks, going towards the border.
	They walk on into the U.S., and then Border Patrol is standing there.
	They're lining them up.
	They're trying to identify these people.
	A lot of them do throw away their IDs before they cross into the U.S. because they know it will be easier for them to stay here if they don't have any form of identification.
	So they walk into the border.
	They wait for the Border Patrol to process them.
	That usually entails Border Patrol coming with a big bus and, you know, Vetting these people somewhat, making sure they don't have any weapons on them, and putting them onto this bus, taking them to a processing center.
	I'm going to bring this up here.
	Oh, sorry, Robert.
	This video here.
	I don't know if this is the one.
	It's almost midnight and we just got here.
	We're outside of the Cocoa Power.
	So this is the beginning of the night.
	But yeah, as you can see, if you continue to just go through this and you can turn the sound off and just pan through for B-roll so people can get an idea.
	But this was the night.
	No, she just told me right now.
	So what side of the border are they on right now?
	It's about 2 a.m.
	You're on the American side.
	This is the Mexican side.
	And so this is the Mexican side of the border, but right on the other side is the American side.
	So I'm basically standing right in front of that gap.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	So Mexico is...
	Where I'm standing right now.
	Yeah, but now there's a fence behind you there, and there's a fence behind you.
	So your back now is facing which country?
	The U.S. Okay.
	I'm on the other side of the border wall, and this has been a very active spot all night.
	Large groups continuing to pour into the United States throughout the night.
	So when they get dropped off by the smugglers and by the cartel, you just see them running through.
	Ever worried about your safety in that circumstance?
	Justin Botas.
	I'm a little bit nervous for this one because the thing is, is I go in and do my border coverage with Jorge Ventura.
	And the thing about Jorge is he is ready to get the story.
	And I am as well.
	Like, I like being on the front lines.
	I like seeing exactly what's going on with my own two eyes.
	And I like getting the footage myself.
	But granted, it's 4 a.m.
	I'm a small female on the Mexican side of the border while there are active human smugglers dropping off migrants.
	So it was a little bit intimidating.
	But there were a couple of Mexican nationals that were guiding us through the area.
	So, I mean, I was a bit nervous, but that's just when I start praying and I go, you know, Lord, please don't let me get abducted by the cartel today.
	And so far, we've been okay.
	One of the questions from our live chat at vivabarneslaw.locals.com is...
	From your interaction and experience there, how much do the migrants know what they're getting into?
	In other words, do they think they're about to get into Santa Claus land, everything's going to be great and wonderful?
	Do they understand the political controversy?
	I mean, a lot of these migrants are no longer Mexican migrants.
	Many of them are from Central America, smuggled in through Mexican cartels.
	What is their perception as to what's going to happen if they cross that border?
	It really depends.
	I have seen things from migrants acting so entitled that they don't want to walk anymore and they will tell landowners, hey, can you call Border Patrol so they can come pick me up?
	All the way to people who have kissed the American soil as they arrived from Cuba and Venezuela because they're so happy to escape, you know, socialism or their degrading country.
	So it really does vary case by case.
	But I was recently in Piedras Negras and I was...
	I was interviewing the migrants coming in through.
	That's probably one of the last cities in Mexico that they go through.
	That is the last city in Mexico that they go through before passing into Eagle Pass, Texas, which is one of the hotspots here at the Texas border.
	So I went to the Mexican side and I was asking them, hey, do you think the border's open for you?
	Why are you going to America?
	A lot of them responding with, well, we know that Joe Biden is in office.
	And this is the really interesting thing too, Barnes, because I know a lot of conservatives will say, oh, let the Cubans in, let the Venezuelans in, like they're escaping socialism, so they're not going to re-vote it into office.
	The thing that people need to understand...
	About the immigrants crossing over is that one, the play on words for Democrat, they equate to democracy.
	And because there's that language barrier, they immediately vote Democrat because they think it stands for democracy.
	So that's one thing.
	The other thing is a lot of them are viewing Joe Biden as this nice man who is giving them the opportunity to come into America.
	And so they then vote for Democrats, despite the fact that they are a very family oriented people, that oftentimes these immigrants are very God fearing.
	They don't like abortion.
	They don't like the LGBTQ.
	You know, propaganda.
	They're very anti all of this, but because they see the Biden administration, because they see Democrats giving them these free handouts and this opportunity, then they vote for them, which is why it takes a couple of generations for these immigrants to wake up and understand the realities of what they're voting in.
	That's why right now we're seeing a big pushback from the Hispanic community who is seeing the realities of the open borders now that the illegal immigrants who came over here, and maybe even some of the illegal immigrants too who've been here for a while and understand what the Democrats are doing.
	To a noob like myself and other people who may not appreciate what happens, some go and get processed.
	So the border agents process 45 an hour, give or take.
	And then others just make a mad dash and try to get through.
	What happens to the ones that are processed?
	What is the process by which they're processed?
	What happens once they get the okay or no okay?
	Do they say, Asylum, help me.
	And then they say, okay, we'll come back to court in whatever.
	Now you go.
	What happens after they're processed?
	And what happens to the ones who don't get processed and just try to make a dash for it?
	So this is the issue right now.
	Let's talk about the adults first.
	So when the adults are processed, sometimes they are ejected back to Mexico.
	What we're seeing right now is the border is so overwhelmed that Mexican officials are working with Greg Abbott.
	Not the Biden administration, but Greg Abbott is trying to work with some of the governors in Mexico, some of the political officials in Mexico, to get a lot of these migrants turned around and bust back away from the Texas border because of how bad things have gotten.
	And so we are seeing some deportations on that front here in Texas.
	However, the big issue is these migrants are being given a notice to appear.
	So when they come into the U S they're prodding, And then if you want to talk about the children, and that's the report I most recently put out.
	The children are put through the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
	They're given documentation such as this one right here.
	What this document is, is the government basically giving these kids a social security number and then giving them a sponsor, right?
	So this is the sponsor's information that these MVM Inc.
	employees are handing them off to.
	And the reason why these adults would want to sponsor these kids, because keep in mind sometimes they're not related, is because the sponsors can then take this paper to a sanctuary city across the...
	And can you, one of the big narratives, particularly during the Trump era, was that the children coming over were part of family units and that they were being broken up and that, you know, kids in cages and all of that.
	Those who've done a study and done the on-the-ground work that you've done.
	What is, in fact, the reality?
	Are these whole families coming across?
	Like, you know, it's 1900 German immigrants coming into America.
	Or is there something else taking place?
	I have definitely seen whole families coming across.
	And you can usually tell when they're family units because it's a mother or father and then, you know, four or five kids.
	I have seen that.
	However, the majority of people coming across are single-aged men.
	And again, the thing with this, Barnes, and the reason why it's really hard to tell if these are family units.
	It's because we don't know if these children are being passed off to these adults by cartel members or by the human smugglers.
	I have heard from Border Patrol and also from this whistleblower that they are oftentimes seeing the same child once, twice, three times because what these human smugglers will do is recirculate these children and pass them off to adults so they can get into the United States easier as a family unit.
	So to be quite honest with you, I can't give you like a concrete answer regarding...
	If these are or are not family units, but again, based off of everything that we're seeing, the majority of people coming over, yes, single adult males and Border Patrol and various other whistleblower employees are saying they are seeing the same child time and time again.
	So they get a notice to appear, Robert, Savannah, it's going to be just a tremendously ignorant or naive question.
	They get a notice to appear, off they go.
	Where do they go?
	Where do they go?
	With sponsors?
	Or are they just literally out on the street, no money, no job, no ability to work in theory?
	Where do they go?
	So, yeah, no ability to work in theory.
	There's actually a lot of...
	Stories that I'm actually looking into right now of migrants being hired for less than a living wage, obviously, because they're migrants and they're being taken advantage of by specific companies.
	I think I was hearing from a couple of sources that a lot of these migrants will go to processing plants or food plants and they'll go work in those types of areas.
	You know, I was in New York City a couple of weeks back.
	These mascots in Times Square that charge you $20 to take a picture, I could tell right off the bat that those were illegal immigrants.
	If you look at New York City Mayor Eric Adams right now, he's saying that the homeless shelters in New York City are overrun with illegal immigrants.
	So these immigrants are overrunning homeless shelters.
	They are utilizing these NGO groups, which are busing them around the U.S. that are flying them around.
	So they're basically being dispersed throughout the U.S. They're getting federal funding and they're getting money from a lot of these federally contracted companies.
	Again, I really have only been focused in on the border exclusively for the past six months.
	But again, in six months, this is what I've learned.
	Like, this is the process.
	They go through processing and NGO will come pick them up and help them out, ask them where they want to go, try to get them a bus ticket to San Antonio and then a flight to New York.
	And then they start their new life in New York.
	Sometimes the immigrants have family that are already over here.
	When I was in Piedras, people can go listen to this interview as well.
	I said, you know, how many of your friends are already in the U.S.?
	And a lot of the immigrants were saying, oh yeah, I already have my brother over there, or my sister just crossed, or I have friends that just crossed and I'm meeting them.
	So they're meeting their friends who already illegally crossed over.
	Speaking of work, how difficult is it to make a living doing what you do?
	In the sense that I often tell people that the reason why the left dominates large cultural institutions is not just their...
	Power at the top, hierarchical.
	But also that if you stick with the script on the left, you get an easy paycheck.
	If you challenge it or contest it, you face every means of obstacle and adversarial situation that you can.
	How difficult has it been and how difficult is it to support yourself while doing this independent investigative work?
	Luckily for me, now that I have gotten to the position that I have, keep in mind, I've been in this industry for, what, four or five years.
	I have people that reach out for sponsorships.
	I have a community that is very supportive of me, and so they will donate oftentimes to my work.
	So for me, it's just a lot of community support, and it's just the work speaking for itself, and then people reaching out and wanting to partner with me.
	Like I said, like post-millennial.
	Or various other sponsors and groups and whatnot.
	So I do get funding in that way from that.
	But like I said, when I first started off and I was trying to do this type of journalism, yeah, you definitely have to spend money, especially in this industry.
	And this is something I talked to Jack Posobiec a lot about, too.
	He was like, when I first started and Twitter was brand new and I was first doing this type of journalism, I didn't make any money for like two years.
	And I was like, yeah, that sounds about right.
	Savannah, I'm going to read some superchats.
	I'm going to apologize in advance because I don't know them.
	I don't know what they're talking about.
	But I don't want to look like I'm avoiding them because that creates suspicion.
	Savannah, you've made comments that you believe the moon landing was fake or convenient.
	I have no knowledge of this.
	I wonder if you've watched the over 2,000 hours of videos NASA recorded over many landings, not just one.
	Savannah, did you say that?
	Is this strawmanning?
	And I say it without judgment.
	Are you one of the skeptics who thinks that this might have been, that the US might not have been the first country to the moon?
	I think that it's an interesting situation.
	And I will say, I've only looked into more of the conspiratorial aspect of the moon landing being fake.
	So yeah, I've speculated about it because oftentimes I'll do streams where I'll be like, oh yeah, I've looked into this conspiracy or that conspiracy.
	And regarding the moon landing, I was like, yeah, I don't know.
	It seems kind of suspicious.
	So I've never, you know, point blank come out and said it was fake.
	But I am leaning more towards being suspicious about it, especially since we were in a space race with Russia at the time.
	I don't know.
	Seems interesting to me.
	And the government has lied to us so many times before.
	So I just...
	It's like questioning them on everything, to be quite honest.
	And not to add fuel to that fire, I believe it happened just because it's one of those things that you're told from childhood.
	But I must say, flags went off when I heard one of those NASA guys say, we can't go back because we destroyed the technology and we can't reconstitute the technology to get to the moon.
	With that said, okay, thank you.
	Now, I'm reluctant to ask this one because I don't know about the drama.
	I'll get both sides of this.
	Someone says you called out Tim Pool like a boss, and someone else...
	Breaking real news to care about Tim Pool drama or beef, again, as is Tim Pool.
	You know, so people keep trying to bring this up because I made a comment, but it's like I should be allowed to, you know, call out when people are being hypocritical, especially to their fellow American.
	And I'll tell you one thing.
	Tim's not a sensitive person.
	He's got thick skin.
	He can deal with it.
	I'm going to go watch it afterwards because it's an interesting debate, and I'm glad I brought it up.
	Robert?
	Yeah, the...
	Well, I mean, Tim has been known to have...
	Small cojones when it comes to certain topics.
	Somebody should have spoken out a little bit more.
	If you get your show boosted substantially by Alex Jones, then you can have competent commentary on a case that is a disgrace concerning Alex Jones.
	He failed to do that.
	Thank you, Barnes.
	Thank you.
	That's all I'd have to say about that, too.
	And that's my frustration, is every single time he gets Alex on, he freaks out, and he's like, Alex, Alex, relax, relax.
	And I'm like, you're getting Alex Jones on your show, Tim.
	You're going to have to be prepared to get Alex Jones on your show.
	Now, someone in the local chat wants to know, is that an Anthony Fauci little thing behind you?
	Yeah, you guys want to see something funny?
	Watch this.
	Funny or horrifying?
	This is going to be horrifying.
	His head popped off.
	I dropped him and his head comes off.
	Great.
	You just issued a threat.
	Now people are going to...
	Oh my goodness.
	That was a dog whistle.
	That's an Anthony Fauci elf?
	Gnome?
	Yeah, it's an Anthony Fauci gnome.
	My friend was making them during COVID and I hosted his show for him and I thought they were hilarious.
	He has like a little vaccine and a little face mask and tiny glasses that are kind of wonky right now because he fell down.
	You can replace your gargoyles with that to keep the demons away.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	One of the most horrifying Christmas gift ever.
	I thought it was a bobblehead, but I guess it's a one-way bobblehead.
	So, Savannah, that's what you're working on these days.
	No intention of slowing up.
	No intention of letting up on any of this.
	Nope.
	I'm more fired up than ever.
	I really enjoy doing these whistleblower interviews.
	And, you know, the reason I got into this industry was because I just want to give my fellow man a voice and I want to platform the Americans that are going unheard.
	It's one of my favorite things to do.
	I love going and talking to people out on the streets, whether it's people using fentanyl on the streets of San Francisco or crazy New Yorkers reacting to Hunter Biden doing crack cocaine.
	I love talking to everybody.
	And I think that's something that's lacking in society is us talking to people, especially those that we don't agree with.
	You know, I plan on being full steam ahead regarding these issues on the border, regarding a lot of the underreported issues with, you know, maybe an experimental medication that we were given the past two years.
	I don't know.
	I just, you know, have a lot to investigate.
	Now, what do you think?
	One of the other questions from the locals chat was long-term future.
	Well, what are some of the things you want to do?
	In other words, some people want to go into writing.
	Some people want to go into documentaries.
	Some people want to stay in the broadcast content creation space permanently.
	What do you think?
	I really am looking into documentaries because I think that documentaries do a great job of capturing people's attention in a long-form format, and you can get more stories across.
	You can get more footage across.
	So I think my next big projects will be documentary making.
	And also, I'm really into health and fitness, and I think that there's a big problem in the right wing right now, right, with women who are basically being told, go get married and have kids, okay?
	Well, what about the right-wing women who would love to get married and have kids like myself, but just don't have the opportunity yet?
	And then they're feeling disenfranchised and turning into feminists because all of these right-wing men are telling them that if they don't have kids and if they are working in their career, they're wasting their lives and their eggs are dying and they're going to get old and ugly and sad.
	So another thing that I want to do is just be like essentially a good role model for women in the right wing and teach women, you know, how to...
	How to be mentally strong.
	Basically everything that Jordan Peterson says for men, I kind of want to reformat that for women and help women in the modern day because I think so many of them have fallen victim to the ideology of feminism and a lot of right-wing women, like I said, they just don't have anybody to really look up to regarding what to do with their lives if they do want to get married and have kids but they don't have that option right now and then they're just being demonized by all these right-wing men.
	So I'm kind of interested in that too.
	Savannah, you tell women to make their bed, you might get cancelled for that.
	That's a Jordan Peterson joke, people.
	You know what's funny there too, Viva, is I was talking to my friend the other day and I was like, I make my bed every single morning.
	You know why I make my bed every single morning?
	Because all of the motivational speakers that I listen to, and they're usually millionaires, right?
	It's like people like Elon Musk, another guy named Robin Sharma, David Goggins, Jordan Peterson, they all say, you know, if you start these habits and just something as simple as fixing your bed every day, those lead to long-term better habits.
	I have this argument with my wife every day.
	What's the point of making your bed in the morning if you're going to get it messed up in the afternoon?
	But she has implemented the rule with the kids.
	They've got to make their bed.
	If you want successful kids, Viva, they have to fix their beds.
	That's the rules.
	I'm sorry.
	One of the questions from the locals chat is, what is the source of your accent?
	I don't...
	America?
	I don't know.
	This is just how I talk.
	It's a California accent to me.
	Is it?
	Yeah, I don't notice anything discernible.
	It's not Midwestern or anything.
	Here, hold on.
	This chat right here says, Sav should go to the El Paso border from Fort Stockton to Sunland Park, New Mexico.
	El Paso has been a border city for hundreds of years, and there's a lot more perspective.
	I grew up in El Paso, Juarez, where the two cities are one.
	I started my first day at school on an ESOL?
	What does that stand for?
	I don't know what that means.
	English second language?
	No.
	A table with three kids who would take the bus from Juarez every morning speaking no English.
	Mexican culture became my culture.
	And then we got one more here.
	Let's just see what this is.
	The word you're looking for is Tim's opinion is naive and Sav is right.
	Poole is very much one inch deep.
	I don't want this to turn into a ragging on Tim Poole.
	I like Tim Poole.
	I think he's wrong on a couple of things.
	People are entitled to be wrong without being qualified as being wrong people.
	So with that said, okay, Austinite is her accent.
	Robert, what do you think?
	I think...
	Well, where can people find you, given you're not going to be on Twitter probably anytime soon?
	Please go follow me on Truth Social.
	I have a pretty big platform there and that's where I'm putting all of my lifetime reporting.
	Truth Social at Sav Says.
	Go follow me on the Post Millennial.
	I have a lot of articles up there.
	Instagram at Sav with one N and YouTube Rumble.
	Sav Says I do my own show twice a week when I can called Rapid Fire with Savannah Hernandez.
	So on top of the on-the-ground journalism, I also do political commentary and, you know, everything that I can because I just want people to be very informed about what's going on.
	And also to the super chatters that said that they lived in what is...
	I went to school in Las Cruces, so I'm very familiar with the area.
	Amazing.
	I was going to ask one thing.
	Chat, just get any questions that we might have missed in, super chat or not.
	Robert, any more questions in locals?
	Nope.
	Okay, and your next part, so you're going to continue with the border issue.
	You're going to start looking into some Fauci juice issue and see where that goes.
	Savannah, just a news out of Canada.
	Alberta.
	The now leading cause of death in Alberta, the province?
	Ill-defined or unknown causes?
	I'm coming to Canada, Viva, and I'm breaking you out.
	I'm not joking.
	I'm freaking freaking Canadian.
	I'm here.
	I'm in Florida now.
	I'm here legally.
	And I don't say that with...
	It's just an amazing thing.
	The whole illegal crossing and then the problems it leads to in terms of exploitation for labor, the fact that it might be encouraged specifically so it can be exploited for labor, that...
	Done illegally, people made the joke.
	Like, it's tough to get visas to the States.
	I had a lawyer on Monday, an immigration lawyer going through the options.
	Everyone jokes, just go down to Mexico and walk over and claim asylum or just, you know, do it that way.
	But the risk is, or not the risk, but when you're here illegally, I don't know what you do for work without having the problems that people have.
	Sav should do a documentary on how the Austin camping ban saved Austin.
	Does anyone know what that is?
	Yeah, so that's actually funny that somebody brought that up.
	So I'm moving back to Austin.
	I'm super excited about that.
	And I will be focusing in on the homeless issue there.
	I was living in Austin when they first issued the camping ordinance where anybody could go camp on the side of the street.
	And then all of those homeless cities grew.
	I believe what ended up happening was the citizens voted against it because they...
	Did not like the rising crime it was bringing.
	They did not like the homeless encampments that were springing up everywhere.
	So that is an issue that I will be focused on as well.
	Does Sav consider herself from El Chuco?
	And I don't know what that means, and I hope I'm not getting in trouble.
	Viva los cruces.
	What does that mean?
	I have no idea.
	It's so funny because everyone's always like, Sav, do you speak Spanish?
	And I'm like, I'm American.
	I was born in America.
	I was raised in America.
	I speak English.
	That's it.
	I'm sorry.
	Viva better come back and save Canada.
	I think I can do more to save Canada from here than within Canada because it's only a matter of time.
	They're going to pass that Bill C11 and channels like mine in Canada are going to have big problems.
	Savannah, you can't even have a sponsored surrogate.
	If people post your content too much on Twitter, that account is going to get taken down even if it has nothing to do with you?
	Do you know of anybody who's tried to post your content consistently and had the Twitter handle taken down?
	I mean, I have had friends that I will send my clips to and I'm like, hey, can you tweet this out?
	And I've run some pretty good campaigns that have still been able to go viral.
	But again, it's not like they're posting my stuff all the time.
	They're maybe posting one tweet a year of mine.
	So I think people can still repost my footage.
	Benny Johnson is somebody that does repost quite a bit of my stuff and he hasn't gotten banned yet.
	I think, yeah, if it's me, if it's my account and they figure out it's me and I'm posting videos of myself, then it's banned.
	It seems that the internet has gone sour.
	Okay, sorry.
	The internet cut you out again there.
	Savannah, Robert, I think we have to do this maybe not regularly, but again in the future when you have interesting stories to break and to spread out there.
	Your channel's great.
	I was watching some of the stuff doing my homework today.
	Got distracted by that.
	10 things you didn't know about Savannah Hernandez.
	I got to the tongue.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm going to pin your links to the pinned comment in this comment section.
	Any comment on Next News Network?
	Do you know what that is?
	Yes, I worked with them for a small period of time.
	They were great.
	They do a lot of news reads and news stories.
	They're more of like a broadcast, like traditional network, if you will.
	I don't really work with them anymore, but they're great.
	All right.
	And I think we had one more here.
	That was any comment on News Network again.
	Okay.
	Savannah, stick around.
	We're going to talk.
	Robert, anything else before we end it?
	No, just that I was with Alex years ago when I think you were interviewing somebody out in the early stages.
	And when you were off air, he was like, she's going to be a star.
	And he was right.
	He's got a natural eye for talent.
	Alex is the best.
	He really is.
	And that's the thing.
	You know, Viva, it was fun because Tucker Carlson actually sat me down for an interview on his show, Tucker Carlson, today, which was Crazy to me because I was like, who the hell am I to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson?
	But I remember talking to his producers and I was like, look, I got my start with Alex Jones and I want to be able to talk about that on the podcast.
	I don't know how Fox News feels about it, but I want to bring him up.
	And they were like, we love Alex.
	Please bring it up.
	Tucker would love it.
	So me and Tucker were just gushing over Alex.
	And then Media Matters wrote a hit piece about it.
	It was beautiful.
	It's amazing.
	We had Alex on the channel.
	I was nervous when he was discussing.
	I wasn't nervous about anything really substantive of the channel being taken down or whatever.
	I was more nervous in terms of blowback from people who think they know Alex and then think they can judge someone who has given Alex a platform as though Alex needed me to give him a platform.
	And some of that did in fact happen.
	But Alex proved to be incredibly insightful, a little hyperbolic in descriptions of things, but accurate nonetheless.
	When he was talking about some stuff during our stream, and I'm like, I'm going to look this up afterwards.
	And sure enough, He wasn't wrong on the substance of anything we discussed.
	It was a very interesting stream.
	If anyone hasn't seen it, go check it out.
	But let's do this again, because this was great, and I'd love to follow up on the work that you're doing.
	It pisses me off that Twitter, the biggest platform for newsworthy, up-to-date, in-real-time stuff, shuts you down time and time again.
	I saw that last video start going viral on Twitter, got taken down.
	I understood they were going to justify it based on an evasion ban.
	It's bullcrap.
	In any way that we can help, reach out to the world.
	We'll do it.
	Stick around.
	We'll say our proper goodbyes.
	Everyone in the chat, thank you very much.
	Snip, clip, share away.

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