by Guy Page
VDC-TV’s Friday at Four enjoyed – and from a production angle, endured – its biggest audience ever as co-hosts Guy Page and Paul Bean interviewed Gen. Michael Flynn Friday afternoon, July 26 in a live telephone interview.
Flynn promoted the screening of his documentary film ‘Flynn,’ which will air 4 PM August 3 at Ignite Church on South Brownell Road in Williston and 4 PM August 4 at the VFW in Morrisville. Gen. Flynn will provide a live Zoom introduction at the Williston screening. Lt. Col. Ivan Raikman will provide a Q&A following both screenings. Tickets can be purchased by clicking on the ads on the VDC homepage.
Kudos to Mark Coester of Westminster, the GOP candidate for the Vermont House who has been endorsed by Gen. Flynn, for helping VDC arrange the interview.
As viewers can tell, the Friday at Four production was going swimmingly until the screen suddenly froze. That happened a second after the Flynn team shared the VDC-TV link on Gen. Flynn’s X account, which has 1.6 million followers. The good news – no GREAT news – is that Friday at Four suddenly had a huge, international audience. Views on all three platforms – Facebook, X, and YouTube – all jumped. Fortunately the audio was unaffected and the interview went forward.
Numbers per se don’t matter. A singing cat can get two million views, but so what? What matters is that Friday at Four took a big step towards fulfilling one of our primary goals, which is to show the world a different side of Vermont than Ben & Jerry’s and Bernie Sanders.
We’re still trying to determine why the screen froze and how to prevent it from happening again when we interview Gen. Flynn after the August 3-4 screenings – which he has committed to do. His next visit may be in person, possibly during the Northfield Day Weekend. Our people are talking with his people.
Several takeaways from the interview –
- The political persecution that led to Flynn’s forced resignation as NSA came not only from the Obama national security team, but from within the Trump administration, Gen. Flynn said. The movie gets into that in detail.
- Gen. Flynn has a grudging admiration for Bernie Sanders. NOT for his socialist politics, but for his independent streak. He thinks Sanders as the Democratic nominee would have had more success than Hilary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
- He had deep New England roots (born and raised in Rhode Island, lived in Massachusetts, and visited Vermont to play college sports and ski at Mt. Mansfield).
The screen freeze taught us that we need to learn more and possibly upgrade our equipment in order to fulfill one of our goals for FAF: to show the nation and the world a younger, different alternative to the mainstream image of Vermont as safe house from which aging leftist hipsters launch progressive political movements.
You can help us make that happen.
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