NBA lost viewers big way by going woke. Conservatives strike back.

Welcome to Sound of Hope News. I'm your host, Wei Fang. I'm Cathy Zhang. Nice to see you again. Okay, so today there's a lot of things happening and first we want to bring you what is happening to our sports, NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. Yeah, right. And a lot of things are happening and we'll also give you the personal story of one of our viewers. And the second another thing is there is the conservative is counterattacking basically. What are they? The two websites have been set up and President Trump also spoke and gave a list of companies to boycott. And actually, as a matter of fact, if time allows, I want to bring you a story, a story in China in the 1940s, in the 1940s, which reflects the issue of today. Can you believe that? 1940, 2021. One is China, another is US. Are they related? I would say yes. So stay tuned. All right, now let's jump into our first topic. So what is happening to our... First, let's give a story of Chuck, right? Oh, yeah. Actually, Chuck is one of our viewers. Chuck, are you there? Yeah, I got permission to tell his personal story. It's kind of a sad story, but it tells. It's pretty revealing. And Chuck's business was called Party King Grills. And he said that's the number one, you know, football tailgate party barbecue grills. And they had a very good business before, but since 2016, the NFL player, which is, you know, from 49ers, San Francisco 49ers, which is here. And everybody knows Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick, he kneeled. He was the first NFL player to kneel down. First, let me insert, by October of that year, this is happening in September of 2016. By October, NFL viewership was down by 11% right away. Yeah. Yeah. And so Chuck said that since Colin Kaepernick started disrespect of the US flag, and he got the kneeling started, and their customer stopped going to the games. And so he said that they, you know, before the Party King Grills were loved by all tailgaters. And he said they still would be our customer, but they do not support the NFL. And the majority of the NFL fans who participated in the tailgate parties before the games were patriots. And disrespecting the US flag at America's sport was unacceptable. So basically, his business failed because a lot of fans stopped going to the games. And still, well, there are still some fans, but he said most of the fans left are not American first fans. They are gone forever, and they were not made up the tailgating. Yeah. Talk about the last year, 2020, and NFL rating. Basically, we're talking about the TV rating. We're down by 7%. That's a big deal. This is according to Nelson. For NFL, normally, they are the top, how to say, the most viewed program on the TV. But is it because of the pandemic? No, because so many people were locked down, and there's nowhere to go, but it's sitting in front of television. Actually, NFL was supposed to be able to take advantage of the situation. And another, like Netflix, in the third quarter of 2020, their viewership grew by 23% from the same period of time a year ago. And in the meantime, very same time, NFL's rating dropped by 7%. So that's pretty telling. NBA also suffering, right? Yeah. Now let's move to NBA, okay? Yeah. So for NBA, they are suffering another rating disaster. ABC falling 45% since the 2011 to 2012 seasons. And the TNT was down 40%. ESPN was off 20%. And the average viewership per game per week is 2.83 million people. Comparatively, like the crime drama, The Blacklist, the viewership is 3.3 million. And the medical drama, The Good Doctor, have over 400 million. And mind you, that's- Four million. Yeah. Sports used to be the top performer on those channels. The ABC, the ESPN, and also the TNT. They were. They are no longer. They cannot even match an average type of drama like The Blacklist. I don't know whether you watched it. That's about 20% above the NBA game. All right. Yeah. And in last September, there's a Harris poll found that 39% of the correspondents who identified as sports fans, they felt that the NBA had become too political. 19% said that they have turned off the pro basketball because of the NBA's deep links to China. Yeah. Yeah. And also the NBA commissioner. Okay. I'm sorry. NBA commissioner. So basically last year, NBA's coronavirus season, and they did this in a bubble, and then they launched it with heavy handed pins, okay, to the Black Lives Matter agenda. And then now recently, just in the last few days, the commissioner is saying this. He said, my sense is there will be somewhat a return to normalcy. That those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And I understand those people who are saying, I'm on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game. That's all right. That's how he, I guess, cover for himself. And yeah. Yeah. So our viewer, Chuck, he just said in the email that the left wing basically destroyed American sports. That's his point of view. Let's go back to another, the football poll. Okay. This is done by Morning Consult. And the communication director, Carol Kelber, he said, they did a survey of the group. 28% of the people who they surveyed said they were watching less frequently than before the pandemic. First, that's a surprise. But what's the reason? Okay. And Mr. Kelber said, we offer to respond in a blank space to provide the primary reason that they are watching sports less frequently. 17% said politics, social justice, or general contempt for ethnics, athletes. The athletes. Athletes, yes. So basically that's what happened. And we don't know what happened to the major league baseball, the all-star game, which will be in Colorado, I think in July, right? July 13th. It will be very interesting, right? That's the all-American pastime type of sports. In our tradition, and attended by a lot of conservatives, and it'll be interesting what will be the turnout. Yeah. So are you going to go? Are you going to go? Are you going to watch? Yeah. Just type what's your preference. And the next thing we want to talk about is, well, another woke. Okay. As we know that there's a lot of companies that are now woke to this systematic racism in America. Okay. But there are two sides of this woke. A lot of sleeping Republicans and conservatives were awoken by the social media, banning President Trump, and banning a lot of conservatives now. So there's a growing chorus on the right, and that is demanding the conservatives, they marshal their own collective market power to fight the left's successful use of economic pressure to force corporate compliance with the progressive agenda. All right. So first, this organization is called Conservative Clergy of Color. They are a group of black ministers and pastors. They run the full page ad in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today. All right. So basically calling people to, yeah, calling people to take action. Two other websites I want to raise this with you. And because, you know, if you collect all the list of companies who just sign out under this statement against the Georgia voting law, they all together grow to 700 companies. Well, you have to say, you know, like a few hundred of them just explicitly said that they are against the Georgia voting law. But the other maybe 300, 400, they are just saying, you know, more generally speaking, they are for the voting accessibility, you know, things like that. But that's all happened after Georgia signed the law, right? Yeah. So we heard enough people asking, where are those lists? And, you know, in a way post that in our community ones, and it's far from being complete, okay? But if you still have that question, there's a website called investingadvicewatchdog.com. Investingadvicewatchdog.com. They are providing, you know, the guidance, the guide on spending and investing choices of consumer ready to pivot away from the, you know, financially supporting business that is, you know, that is attacking the voting law. And another website is called secondvote.com. Second, second is a two N-D, right? Yeah, I'm posting to the live chat right now. Yeah, secondvote.com. Their mission is to the principles of America by stopping companies and organizations from funding the attack on traditional American value. Okay. And then specifically William Foster of the investing advicewatchdog.com, he said this, he said, make, hear me out, make an example out of the one company in each of several categories in order to strike fear in other companies. This is a strategy that the PETA, I don't know what's PETA. PETA is the, the, the organization that they are, you know, they are for like ethnically treat animals. Okay. People for ethnically treat. Okay. Yeah. So PETA said, this is the strategy that PETA used when they selectively went after KFC, instead of going after all food chain, restaurant chains, serving chickens raised in poor living conditions. Yeah, that was actually, you know, we just finished our Chinese language show and some of the viewers, just audience, they suggested, because there are so many companies, right? Some of them suggest maybe just a target one each week or each month. That's what people are sharing the ideas. And you know why it's called secondvote.com. Yeah. So they explained on the website saying that their goal is to stop companies and organizations from funding the attack on traditional American values. And they said that your first vote is casted at the ballot box. Then your second vote is casted at the checkout. Oh, I see. Checkout line. Okay. And they said that corporations used a portion of the money you spent to fund a number of causes. Many of which are they, you know, this website believe that many of which are harming our family, our community and our future. So with the second vote, you become an informed consumer who knows how your money is used after it's spent. All right. Okay. So do you agree with them? Do you agree with this two website or what would you do? What do you think? Are you willing to boycott those companies first or second? Yeah. Are you willing to write a letter to them? So actually there are different views from even from the conservatives group. And from the report I read, one of the conservative group members saying that he doesn't necessarily agree with this type of boycott because he said that historically the conservatives boycott didn't really doesn't don't really work well. And he said how realistic it is before you go out to shop for shopping, you have to check the website from the other list of the several hundreds of the companies to check, you know, you make sure you don't buy from those companies. So what do you think? Do you think it's an effective way or not? And as you know, Wei just mentioned, actually from these two websites, you can see that besides boycotting those companies, they actually suggest a call and email to those companies, not just a quietly boycott. Yeah. Yeah. Let them know what happened. Yeah. And that's a good segue for me to bring you guys back to 75 years ago. How about that? Can we do that? Can I do that? Ready for me to do that? All right. OK. This is a story. OK. It's a story from a Belgian, a Belgian father. OK. He's a he's a pastor. OK. He's a Catholic, Catholic pastor. And his name is Raymond the Yeager. OK. And then he wrote a book. OK. From 1930. OK. He went to China, stayed in China through 1949. All right. And he left China on the last, how to say, flight before the communist army moving to Shanghai. And then so pretty much between 1930 through 1949, he witnessed how communists grew and take over the power of China. So he wrote a book. The book is called The Enemy Inside, The Enemy Within. I'm sorry, The Enemy Within. And this page actually is from Amazon, right? If you want to buy it, you won't be able to buy it. Right. Look at the price. Hard copy. Two thousand seven hundred eighty nine dollars. Gosh, I want to buy this. I couldn't. OK. It indicated very few people read it. OK. Very few people read it. I spent the last weekend. I read it. OK. I read it twice. Very, very eye opening. So this is to me, Chinese. OK. I'm a Chinese American. I grew up in China. I came to the United States. So this is the first third party original account of how communists work in China, you know, before the 1949. You know, in 1921, that's the first time Chinese communists got born. Right. In the very meeting, 13 people, 13 people attended the first meeting. And then in 1949, they got five million, five million, you know, laborers, PLA people, their army, army people. And then they took over China just like that. How did they do it? I want to tell you a story that is written by by the father, Yeager. OK. OK. Actually, he wrote this book. This book was co-authored by Irene, Irene Corberley-Kahn. You may not know her. OK. She's the first female journalist who went to the Orient, went to Asia to do reporting. She's the first journalist also to do broadcasting from a Navy ship. OK. During the Second World War, Second World War. And he's very famous back then. And then his book was highly respected and endorsed by the 34th President Hoover and also General Albert Weidemeyer. Weidemeyer. Weidemeyer. I don't know whether you know him. He's the chief of staff of the allies in the China, how to say, China region, China, what's the word, theater. OK. China theater. And then he's also the top American commander in China, American army commander in China. So he's also, this is also endorsed by Senator Noland. You may not know him. He's from California. He was from California. He's the majority leader of the Senate after the Second World War. OK. When Truman was there, he's the majority leader of the Senate. He's a Republican. All right. So very well-endorsed book, but very, very little read. OK. Let me tell you a story. Maybe before you go on, how about we just check out some of the viewers. Sure. Yeah. Your question, your concern, your wish. Yeah. And I saw a lot of people saying I have boycotted Amazon, closed account, and the Spotify. And so some said already banned just watching those NFL, NBA, all those. And yes, like Shanda said, I'm willing to boycott them. I still have further questions. Would you be willing to write them a letter, even just two or three lines, one paragraph? Yeah. And I remember Kitty Hawk saying that, you know, need to write because the propaganda is, you know, bad out there. And so, yeah, many people said that Louis said, yes, boycott, but not enough for each patriot to do their part. We all need to bring just one more person into the light. Good point. Yeah. And David said we have to walk the talk and not just talk. What should be best to do? And Judy said, I have boycotted the mainstream news and several TV shows. Yeah. And so, Willie asked, how about McDonald's? You can check the list. Actually from, on the second vote.com, you can, they actually categorize it. So you can also search. Yeah, they do have a list, a full list. And I'm just trying to search as Kathy is talking. Hopefully I can find the answer for you. Yeah. And Louis said, I have checked the list. Thank you for the web link. And I have some stocks to sell, like AT&T stocks. Actually, it's very interesting. Okay. This advice that I read from one conservative author, he said, don't buy them so you save some money. Yeah. Then with that money, you buy a share of that company. Okay. You buy a share of that company. So as to make you a shareholder, then you can go to their share meeting. Yeah. Actually, that happened in Silicon Valley years ago. I remember I did an interview report on that. That actually, I think that was Yahoo. Yahoo. Yeah. They sell out some privacy to CCP. Right. There was an independent writer in China. He just sent out some information related to the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre from China. Actually, it's a public information, right? But he sent it through Yahoo email to overseas. And Yahoo company, they actually sell out his information to the Chinese Communist government. So he was arrested and imprisoned. So some of the stockholders here in the Silicon Valley who are Chinese Americans who are really empathized to this writer. So they actually went to the shareholders meeting and raised a shareholders resolution to condemn Yahoo for doing that. So that's what the Wei was talking about, right? Yep. Okay. So let me just talk about the story that I just have. So the pastor talked about this specific story. So actually before 1949, the entire, how to say, student body of Beijing has been largely become a very, very communist prong. Okay. They do parade, they do rally. They just very, very strongly supporting the incoming communist force and denounce the, it's called a nationalist government. Okay. We all knew that. Okay. We are familiar with that. Okay. The student's body has been converted, has been converted. Okay. But, okay. Mr. Jirga said, by the time the PLA, the CCP's army marched into Beijing, there are actually a very, very small number of pro-communist students in Beijing. Yeah. In 1949, right? What do you mean? What do you mean by that? He told a story, okay, exactly how that happened. How a small group of communist, how does a communist student is able to manipulate and control the entire student body. So basically there are 70,000 college students in China at that time in 134 colleges. And three of them actually are Catholic universities. Okay. 12 of them are run by Christians or Protestants. So, and most of them are in Beijing. Okay. Most of them Beijing. And the top university is called Beijing University. All right. So he told about this story that, because he's, I would say his accomplishment is he recorded in firsthand, in close range, he record the account of what is the communist CCP's action, each action, so that they can grow from very weak to be very strong. They can finally, they can take over the country and how that happened. So this is the first third party observation and a detailed account, accounts of how communist took over China back then. We may look at another takeover, right? That's why I think it's valuable. All right. So let me tell you the story. He said, pretty much the scheme work like this. They pick a few students from another city, let's say Shanghai. And then that person is a college graduate. He already graduated. Okay. Somehow they were able to convert him into a communist. Okay. So this 23, 24 year old person, they move him to Beijing and attended this college entrance examination again. So he's able to get admitted because he's already went through everything, right? He knows how to answer those questions and score high in examination. And even, even he's able to get some scholarship because he outperformed at the entrance examination with some fake, okay, fake ID. All right. Because he went through that already. He know much better than those young people. So he become the freshmen of the university, re, re go through the college. Okay. Another four years there. And then this kind of students is called a professional student, or in other words, they are called activist student. So his main job, he still go, go through classes. He go to the examinations and because he knows everything, he's very quick and he's very smart. Okay. But his main job at Beijing university is to grow and expand the communist influence. He tried to convert more people, you know, to his side, right? So he worked very hard. So in a couple of years, he can, he's able to convert a few, a few. Okay. And because communism was not very popular in Beijing among the student body. All right. So this is what happened. So first in the Beijing university, there's this so-called wall newspaper. Okay. People just go to the wall. That's a piece of, they, they just write up something there and they like to post it and they post it on it. A student during lunchtime, they just read it and things like that. It's called a wall newspaper. There are about 30 wall newspapers at that time. About 20 of them is about a political issue or current affairs. All the others about lifestyle and so on and so forth. Among the 20 wall newspaper on politics, 19 of them are pro-communist, communism. Only one is against. However, after the pastor carefully studied the origin and the content of all those 19, he knows that they all come from the same place. So behind them, only a few, four or five professional students, they create all those 19 newspapers. All right. Each newspaper, each wall newspaper have a different beginning, different ending, and the main bodies are similar. And then there's the signature. The organization behind that is a new one. It has its own name. So for anybody who passed that area and, you know, see this, you know, casually read, they come up with the feeling that, wow, the communist atmosphere were very strong at this school, at this campus. That's their impression. But behind that, only a handful, only a few, these professional students that create this atmosphere, create this so-called field. So for people to feel, wow, this is, gosh, this is very, very pro-communist campus. All right. So this first thing. Another thing they do is they got, eventually they grow about, you know, between 30 or 40 students. And then they would select and target a few very, very strongly, you know, against communist professors. They go to the class and every time, every time one or two students, they took turn, they took turn. One or two of them will stand up and criticize and, you know, question the professor very strongly. It basically just stirs things up, just mess things up, create chaos. And so that, so that other students cannot, you know, cannot listen well, so that to create a disarray there, so that those professors cannot teach. So they just question that and wage a fight in the classroom. Every class, you know, just take turn, one or two people, next time another a couple of students. Then, okay, actually after that chaos, they actually went to the president of the Beijing University. At that time, they're very courteous. They're very polite. They said, we're really worried about this professor who's not doing his job. He doesn't seem to be qualified and we are here to want to learn knowledge. We're very concerned that we're not receiving the best education here. Okay, so they just take another, you know, tactic and try to convince the president those professors are bad ones. This is another thing that they do. And then, and then they also want to try to set up this so-called self-governed student union, student union, right? And how they do that, okay, because they only have a handful of them. So they put together, they put together an announcement, a poster, and then in a very small font, okay, they just post it in the corner of the wall newspaper, how to say, area. So very few people took note of that. And just saying that we are establishing the self-governed Beijing University student union. You're welcome to attend the first meeting. We're going to elect all the main, how to say, you know, officers and so on and so forth. Because it's very small, you know, very few students actually went to the first meeting. And so who went there? All their people. These 20 people will elect the president, the vice president, the secretary, and so on and so forth. And then the second time when they do this, when they make the second announcement, it's going to be big posters, okay, clear, a big font, and clear, and a strong message, and wording, and saying that we have got established, and this is our second meeting, and please everybody join. So that caught students' attention. When they went over there, the so-called student union has been established, and the leadership is already there. Okay, now this self, so-called self-governing student union becomes the representing voice of that university. So this is kind of their scheme. With only a few people, they're able to create such an atmosphere. So then the father, the priest, the pastor, pastor Yoger, right, yeah, Younger, and he's able to actually defeat them. But that's probably another time, okay. So the takeaway is this. This is a real story, okay. The takeaway is this. They can create an atmosphere, a field, so that it appears to be everybody's against, you know, certain professor, or the university, or certain, you know, anti-communist type of stance or opinion, right. But behind that, it's all just worked out. I share with you guys, on the fourth day, on a Saturday, after the November 3rd election, all this, nearly two dozen international leaders congratulate Joe Biden, right, in the same voice. On that moment, I just smell it has just worked behind. They create a field, create an atmosphere. And the same thing with these companies, right. Cathy, what do you think? Those 700 companies or 300 companies, how do they come together? Yeah, and, you know, those companies, many of them probably just, we noticed, actually I noticed that on one of the websites called the Civic Alliance, something like that, there are over almost like 300 companies listed there with one name from the company, say, most of them are CEOs, right. So, but can this one CEO represent just this company's value, right? This is the first question. And second question is, actually, these, you know, names are, they are putting on there just really proactively, or they will put on there. They'll drag on to it. Yeah, just due to some peer pressure, or, you know, for some reason, they will put up on there. But anyhow, they are on there, then if people don't let them know, and they just feel more comfortable being on there to avoid maybe some troubles, right, from the leftist, because we know that those side, the leftist side can just create troubles for the companies who may not agree with their agenda. So, but, you know, as these two websites, as we shared with you, suggested, you know, the boycott, they've suggested that it also includes you need to write or call the companies to let them know your opinion. So, you know, that's probably the reason. Yeah, possibly. Actually, I do believe so. There are actually very few people, far, far fewer people, you know, ultra-leftists who put this together compared to the people in the middle ground and people on the conservative side. It's not balanced, but they are very well-organized. There's, they have all those schemes, and they have no, you know, just, I would say, values. I would say their value is not, you know, telling lies, telling lies is not a problem to them. Back then, just like in the 1940s, good people don't lie, right? They don't create things that cheat on people. But the communists, they do. You know, they're atheists. They don't care. Yeah. They do something, they can get away. You know, the goal always decides on the means. Yeah. And we know that I saw some of our friends are talking about the congresswoman from California, Waters, right? She's calling for more riots, the riots not to stop until the police in Minnesota was, you know, indicted as guilty. So, actually, we were reading a book, a very good book we recommend to you. It's Nine Commentaries of CCP, Nine Commentaries of the Chinese Communist Government. And at the foreword, at the last sentence, remember what it's saying? It's that, you know, usually something like that, the disaster happens because of people's cowardness, right? And people's silence. Good people's silence is even worse than bad people's bad deeds. This is also, this is Martin Luther King. That's what he said. The biggest tragedy is that. Because of the same nature, same effect. Yeah, if people feel like, oh, I want to avoid the trouble they could be making for me, I will just go along. And this representative from California, Waters, right? Maxine Waters. Let me quote her original word. We have got to stay on the street and we have got to get more active. We have got to get more confrontational. We have got to make sure they know what we mean business. All right? And the former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he said this. He said, well, the more patient we are, the more radical they are. Right? Wrong? This seems clearly to be the case. And actually, I talked to a professor, a law professor today. I just asked him, what is the common sense of those corporations? Don't they know they hurt themselves? But what he said is exactly what I shared with you a couple of weeks ago. He said, because they are afraid of trouble. They care about only two things, bottom line and no trouble. So when somebody, when the leftists threaten them, if you don't go our way, we're going to find trouble with you. We're going to boycott you. They want to do away with the trouble. So they sign their name. Because the people on the other side don't speak. They don't voice out. So there's only pressure from one side. Anyway, so I think at this special time, each of us, we're facing something we never faced before. Although Cathy and I, we have the luck or have the bad luck to live through communism ourselves. So we know what is behind that. Sometimes it's just a hideous scheme with a very small number of people that can pull together a big game and intimidate people. The key thing is to stay morally, how to say, upright and don't be afraid. Never be afraid. Yeah. Okay. I guess that's it. Joke of the day. Joke of the day. Okay. Put it this way. When the first, when the Soviet Union, right, when they first got established, they confiscated everything, right? They just, you know, destroyed the order then. They confiscated the houses, the cars, and then the furniture and the farmland and so on and so forth. They want to create this, what is that? People's communion. People's communion. Yeah, communion or the collective farms, right? And then starting after doing all those work, Stalin was settled down. Gosh, I finished creating a Soviet Union. Now I need to rest, enjoy my life, okay? So he sent for his grandma from the countryside, okay? The grandma never come to the Kremlin before. And then he just sent for her and she came in the vehicle, in the car, which she never experienced before, and came into the palace, right? So Stalin was really, really, you know, happy and just showing off everything to her old grandma. He said, this is my luxury, you know, residence hall. This is my, you know, luxury car. This is the best furniture in Russia, and so on and so forth. As the old lady was just following his grandson and watching everything, she started to become very, very worried. She's just frowning over there and just, you know, just very, very unhappy. So Stalin was very confused, you know, curious. What's going on here? Don't you like what I have? And the old lady, the grandma said, of course, of course I do. I like what you have. But what if the communists came? Please laugh. Anyway, the poor lady didn't know. I'm sorry. I just surprised my staff in the back room. So the laughter didn't come. So the punchline is, son, grandson, this is all very good, but what if the communists came? What if the communists come, right? So that's her puzzle. And you know how Stalin would deal with that, right? Okay, that's the little joke today. Hope you, you know, have a laugh there. And thank you very much. Oh, I just saw some discussion on the chat room. Yeah. Yeah. Twinkly said Falun Gong parade in New York. Anyone see? Ah, you saw that, didn't you? This weekend, I think. The past weekend. Yeah. Yeah. And that parade is to commemorate the, oh boy, 22, 22 year anniversary of the persecution against this peaceful meditation group by CCP. Tens of thousands of people died. Died of torture. Tens of thousands of people died of organ harvesting. Think about that. Humankind. One type of people would kill the other people, take their organs, sell for profit. It happened by tens of thousands. Has been happening in China. We may just talk about that in more details in another day. Yeah. That's April 25th, 1999. That's the starting time of the persecution against Falun Gong. And a lot of suffering in China. We will not let that happen in this country. That's why we're doing this program. That's why you're watching this program. I hope. And thank you for watching. Yeah. Take care. All right. Take care. So see you on Wednesday. All right. Bye. Bye-bye.