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INTERVIEW: Angela Rye Talks New Show ‘Cite Your Source’, Fighting Misinformation, Nolan Wells, Trustworthy News · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: We all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well. We
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  Speaker 2: got a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: She's always here, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: She's part of the show, damn it. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: Angela Rye.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Rye, daughter. What's happening?
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  Speaker 4: Hi. Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling?
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  Speaker 4: I feel really good. I feel better. I was congested
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  Speaker 4: last time I saw y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You were sick.
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  Speaker 2: You had the cooties last week.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. The cooties. It was kind of the cooties.
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  Speaker 4: It was the cooties.
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  Speaker 1: But you have a new show. Yes. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have the name.
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  Speaker 5: We have a new show, brother.
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  Speaker 6: Nice. What do you mean, we?
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  Speaker 4: You're not an executive producer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Girl.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to try that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean, we?
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  Speaker 7: Take two.
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  Speaker 1: God. But you already have the Native Land podcast. Cycle source.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but you already have.
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  Speaker 4: I was telling you because you're providing misinformation. It's misinformation already.
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  Speaker 4: You were like, we do?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Yes. He trying to be so damn humble.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is that what that is?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, yes.
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  Speaker 5: No, he just slow.
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  Speaker 1: Can we start this again? I want to stay right here.
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  Speaker 1: I want y'all to see what I got to deal
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  Speaker 1: with all the time. Start over. Now we got a
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  Speaker 1: new show. Start again. You got a new show.
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  Speaker 5: I love it when you're here.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to keep on that, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying start again.
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  Speaker 1: Got a new show. So you got a new show.
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  Speaker 6: We.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: One more time.
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  Speaker 1: So you have a new show.
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  Speaker 7: We.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm an executive producer, but it's still your show.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: But it's called Cite Your Source, but you already have
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  Speaker 6: Native Land Podcast. What is Cite Your Source? Why is
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  Speaker 6: it different from Native Land Podcast?
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  Speaker 8: Cite Your Source provides us an opportunity to check people
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  Speaker 8: on all of the misinformation that's spread online, on our
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  Speaker 8: news shows.
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  Speaker 4: How many of y'all still watch the news? I do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you do?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Local news.
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  Speaker 4: Local news. And then you still watch... All of them.
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  Speaker 4: To watch for facts?
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  Speaker 1: No, for entertainment.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so that's kind of my point.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm really frustrated by the ways in which news
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  Speaker 8: has switched to providing information to really just looking for ratings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that it is woefully dishonest. It's irresponsible.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we need something to make sure that...
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  Speaker 4: we can find our news somewhere.
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  Speaker 8: And so one of the things that came to mind
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  Speaker 8: was what happened with Jay, someone accusing him of being
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  Speaker 8: with an underage girl. And so that happens, but there's
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  Speaker 8: also things like, this is the greatest economy in the world,
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  Speaker 8: your president says, right? So all of these things need
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  Speaker 8: to be fact-checked, and there needs to be a home
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  Speaker 8: for that. And that's what I hope this becomes. We
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  Speaker 8: have someone who is really incredible on the show that said,
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  Speaker 8: it is going to be our two-step verification on the BS.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not just political.
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  Speaker 4: It's everything. And actually, Amy, what I'll tell you is
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  Speaker 4: so many of us have been hit.
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  Speaker 8: So hard by Nolan Wells and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 8: what happened to him. You all have kids, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and so you understand what it's like to not have
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  Speaker 8: your child return home and never know what happened to them.
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  Speaker 8: Our first show is going to be on modern-day lynching.
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  Speaker 8: And we're going to go with three claims. The first
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  Speaker 8: claim is, Black people don't hang themselves from trees. The
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  Speaker 8: second claim is lynching is a thing of the past.
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  Speaker 8: And the third claim is right now black lives don't matter.
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  Speaker 8: And so we'll work through those claims together with our
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  Speaker 8: panel to talk about whether or not these things are true.
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  Speaker 8: And then what supporting evidence do we have? And really
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  Speaker 8: get into the depth of the conversations. We don't know
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  Speaker 8: what happened to Nolan Wells. So we also have to
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  Speaker 8: be responsible about what we're putting out there. We can also,
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  Speaker 8: you know, fuel the flame by putting stuff out just
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  Speaker 8: to spark anger because that stuff lives in our bodies ancestrally,
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  Speaker 8: you know?
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  Speaker 4: So we want to.
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  Speaker 8: Make sure we're also speaking truth based on what we
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  Speaker 8: know and the facts we have available.
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  Speaker 6: Digital dickheads right now typing, why should we trust you,
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  Speaker 6: Angela Rybread?
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Robbery. Oh, my God. I'm saying that's what they
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  Speaker 1: would say.
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  Speaker 8: Well, no, he just said that, and that is a
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  Speaker 8: throwback from elementary school, so thank you, Leonard, for that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they would say.
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  Speaker 8: I think that they have every right to want to
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  Speaker 8: take time for me to earn their trust, and I
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  Speaker 8: think that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I think that they should let the show speak for itself.
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  Speaker 8: We have a resident fact checker every show, and it
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  Speaker 8: won't be me, so they don't have to trust me.
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  Speaker 4: They can trust that fact checker.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of trusting sources, right, because that's, That's why I
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  Speaker 7: hear a lot of people say that they don't watch
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  Speaker 7: the news anymore. You just heard Charlotte say he watches
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  Speaker 7: it for entertainment when that's not even really supposed to
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  Speaker 7: be the premise of the news, right?
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  Speaker 4: What sources can you trust right now?
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  Speaker 7: Who can you give credibility to right now?
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  Speaker 8: I normally will look at two or three sources to
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  Speaker 8: see if they're saying the same thing. So papers that
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  Speaker 8: I go to, I still trust the black press. So
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  Speaker 8: there's Black Print Media, Washington Informer, Seattle Media, where I'm
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  Speaker 8: from in Seattle, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico. Depending
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  Speaker 8: on what I'm reading, there are a bunch of different sources,
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  Speaker 8: Financial Times, that I look to for information. And then
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  Speaker 8: I still will Google and check other sources to make sure.
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  Speaker 8: The one thing that I used to be able to
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  Speaker 8: rely on is the federal government, but now they're busy
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  Speaker 8: putting ads up with our taxpayer dollars every single week.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the problems is that there's so
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  Speaker 1: much opinion. I don't need an opinion.
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  Speaker 6: I want accurate information and then let me come to
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  Speaker 6: my Just give me the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Of the situation.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you that that will probably be the hardest
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  Speaker 8: thing about the show for me.
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  Speaker 4: I have an opinion about everything. I don't have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: With that as long as it's rooted in factual information.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes it's emotional.
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  Speaker 8: But I think that because it's emotional doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 8: it's automatically not logical. Sometimes it's a hybrid of both.
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  Speaker 8: But I'll try to be diligent about saying this is
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  Speaker 8: my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Who's on the panel?
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  Speaker 2: Because you mentioned there's a panel. So who's on the panel?
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  Speaker 8: So the modern day lynching panel will include Sabrina Fulton,
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  Speaker 8: which is Trayvon Martin's mother. She, of course, had her
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  Speaker 8: child killed at the hands of a vigilante. There's an
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  Speaker 8: argument about what is lynching. If it's one person, does
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  Speaker 8: that constitute a lynching? Roger Mitchell, who was the independent
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  Speaker 8: forensic pathologist that did Nolan Wells' independent autopsy will be
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  Speaker 8: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: We break some of that down, too, because I've just seen,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, a video of them cleaning the boat after
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  Speaker 2: they all got off. And they said it was weird
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  Speaker 2: that he was cleaning the boat at 3, 4 in
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  Speaker 2: the morning. Will y'all break all those stories down as well?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think that we should talk about what
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  Speaker 8: that is, but we don't have any real information on,
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  Speaker 8: you know, what happened on the boat.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know that Roger will talk about what
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  Speaker 4: happened on the boat.
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  Speaker 8: Because that, again, goes back to those theories. And those
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  Speaker 8: are the theories that enrage us. In addition to that,
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  Speaker 8: our independent fact checker will be Ernest Krim III. He's
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  Speaker 8: a history professor out of Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: Really incredible. If y'all don't follow him, you should. And then,
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  Speaker 4: who am I missing? I'm missing somebody. Oh, we have- Well,
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  Speaker 4: it changes every week. No, but he asked me about
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  Speaker 4: this panel on modern day literature.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 8: It's Deontay Johnson, who is the black, he's the president
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  Speaker 8: of the Black Conservative Federation.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely black.
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  Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson? You didn't tell me that. You looking at
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  Speaker 1: me like I can help you.
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  Speaker 4: Like I can help you.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't tell me about this.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we talked, you didn't have the panel yet.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of EP are.
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  Speaker 6: You?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm studying his face like, I really didn't tell
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  Speaker 4: him this.
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  Speaker 2: So every week it changes depending on what you guys
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  Speaker 2: are discussing.
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  Speaker 4: So the next show will be on school choice.
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  Speaker 8: And part of the reason for that conversation, I know
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  Speaker 8: y'all have talked a little bit about Nicole Hannah-Jones' piece
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  Speaker 8: in the New York Times magazine that sparked a lot
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  Speaker 8: of discussion and debate, a lot of judgment too. But
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  Speaker 8: I think it's really important for us to have these
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  Speaker 8: conversations in earnest. We talk about things in big picture policy,
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  Speaker 8: but not necessarily how that policy impacts our homes. So like,
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  Speaker 8: if you're talking about school choice and you want public
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  Speaker 8: schools to be funded at the rates they should, of
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  Speaker 8: course we do. But are you sending your kid to
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  Speaker 8: that school as is right now with no changes?
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  Speaker 1: Is she going to be on, Nicole?
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  Speaker 4: I hope so. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I know the ask is out. Yes. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that, but I just... What do you know?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, this is an irresponsible-ass EP. I just don't
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  Speaker 8: even know. I just don't even know.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: How you happen with the show?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think we've reached a point?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you don't want to answer that question?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think we've reached a point where people don't
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  Speaker 6: actually care if something is true anymore, as long as
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  Speaker 6: it confirms what they already believe?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure that's true for some people, but I believe
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  Speaker 8: there are a lot more people who've checked out because
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  Speaker 8: they do want to know the truth, and they're like,
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  Speaker 8: if I can't find the truth here, I'm just going.
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  Speaker 4: To check out.
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  Speaker 6: I just wonder how many people approach these shows in
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  Speaker 6: good faith.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know what?
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  Speaker 6: I actually want to learn, and I'm willing to change
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  Speaker 6: my mind if I am actually presented with facts. Or
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  Speaker 6: do you approach it like, I already believe what I believe,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm standing on that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Honestly, if it were me, I think that it would
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  Speaker 8: depend on who was the host and who was the panel.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just not even going to lie to you. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, do I?
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  Speaker 8: Like, if Fox News is putting this on, I'm like,
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  Speaker 8: come on. Like, I don't believe anything that y'all got up.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe if it was PBS, like if it was something
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  Speaker 8: on PBS, I'd be like, okay. maybe NPR something more
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  Speaker 8: neutral you know.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that neutral is a thing in those
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  Speaker 3: because I was going to ask you how will you
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  Speaker 3: or will you guys even try to have that neutral
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  Speaker 3: straight through the middle point because there's not a lot
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  Speaker 3: of news like that you watch Fox for one thing
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  Speaker 3: CNN for another people would argue you watch PBS and
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  Speaker 3: NPR for another thing as well too but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is going to just it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be mostly black.
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  Speaker 8: Like I think that my if there's a middle of
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  Speaker 8: the road for me is black. Like what is right
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  Speaker 8: for black people? And we're like, where do we align?
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  Speaker 8: Where can we agree to disagree? And is there an
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  Speaker 8: end goal that we're trying to reach that's rooted in facts?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure there will be times where we have other people,
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  Speaker 8: other people of color, maybe white folks on.
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  Speaker 4: But right now I want to hit issues that are
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  Speaker 4: hardest hitting for us. Reparations.
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  Speaker 8: Who should get them? Should we use the N-word? You know,
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  Speaker 8: school choice. I know you did a donkey of the
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  Speaker 8: day on this.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. It's great.
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  Speaker 5: Now, is it just for.
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  Speaker 2: Political season or is it past that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: Because political season, we always do a big press, a
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  Speaker 2: big push.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Then once it's over, we kind of just.
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  Speaker 8: I think the thing you might appreciate about this is
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  Speaker 8: these aren't issues that we're dealing with directly that are
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  Speaker 8: on like the ballot.
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  Speaker 4: You know, at least not top.
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  Speaker 8: Like, we don't have a Medicare for All show coming
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  Speaker 8: up before the election. Or should there be Medicare for All?
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  Speaker 8: Or what's really wrong with Medicare? Although I think that's
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  Speaker 8: a discussion worth having. I really just want to engage
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  Speaker 8: people in factual debate so we can break through, not
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  Speaker 8: just for voters, but I want people to have, like,
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  Speaker 8: I want there to be an engaged, not just electorate,
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  Speaker 8: but engaged citizens.
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  Speaker 4: So if we can have some role in that, I
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  Speaker 4: think that would be great.
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  Speaker 2: So my question to you, before you go, my other
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  Speaker 2: question to you is, how do we know that you
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  Speaker 2: are supplying the right facts, right? Because sometimes we'll look
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  Speaker 2: online and somebody that we think should have the right
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  Speaker 2: facts has it wrong. Or some newscaster or some newspaper
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  Speaker 2: has the wrong facts. And we're like, we know that's
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  Speaker 2: not right, but people are believing it because of where
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  Speaker 2: it's coming from. So How do we know that you
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  Speaker 2: won't be following the same line that they follow and
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  Speaker 2: that actually have.
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  Speaker 1: The right facts?
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  Speaker 4: Well, two things.
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  Speaker 8: The first thing is we have a resident fact checker.
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  Speaker 8: So if I say something wrong, fact checker got to
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  Speaker 8: get me too.
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  Speaker 1: But you're paying them though. What?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not paying them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, people are paying the fact check.
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  Speaker 4: Are you paying the fact check?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. Because he said people.
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  Speaker 6: Look at him.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, or people.
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  Speaker 5: The fact checker.
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  Speaker 1: Is it an independent fact checker?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the fact checker is not getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. First of all. The fact checker not your friend.
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  Speaker 4: The fact checker.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're cool. So Charlamagne's not the fact checker.
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  Speaker 5: Charlamagne cannot be. Obviously, he don't know nothing. So here's
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  Speaker 5: the thing.
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  Speaker 8: I think the other thing is, it's important, is I
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  Speaker 8: hope people at home start to fact check us. Start
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  Speaker 8: to fact check us. Their Instagrams start to fact check
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  Speaker 8: the news they're reading. So we want people to fact check.
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  Speaker 8: That's not true because this, cite your source. What are
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  Speaker 8: the sources that you're relying on?
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  Speaker 4: So Envy, watch. And if we get something wrong, tell
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  Speaker 4: us we're wrong and then cite your source.
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  Speaker 2: But my thing is, is there an independent fact checker?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody that you don't know, that they don't know, that
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  Speaker 2: the other side is biased.
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  Speaker 4: Now how are we going to get them on the
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  Speaker 4: show if I don't know? We got to get them somehow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously that, but to make sure that they're
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  Speaker 2: an independent person, that they're just checking the facts and not...
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  Speaker 2: basing off of I lean towards this side or I
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  Speaker 2: lean towards that side.
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  Speaker 1: Angela will be getting fact-checked too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 8: I think that where we will land is the fact-checkers'
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  Speaker 8: most important role and how they present themselves online and
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  Speaker 8: everywhere else is they want to make sure people know
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  Speaker 8: the truth about black history, for example, for this show.
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  Speaker 8: So if I'm saying something that's incorrect or just overly
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  Speaker 8: inflammatory just to incite the audience, they're going to say, well,
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  Speaker 8: I understand why you might feel that way. But here
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  Speaker 8: are the actual facts. I think that's the one commitment
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  Speaker 8: we can make. And hopefully even the panelists come on
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  Speaker 8: with that intention in mind. Now, we do have a
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  Speaker 8: conservative on this show. I don't know where he lands
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  Speaker 8: on lynching, on modern day lynching. He may think that
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  Speaker 8: lynching is a thing of the past. The facts don't
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  Speaker 8: necessarily bear that out to be true.
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: So we'll see. Have you ever repeated something that was wrong?
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, all the time. And then you go back.
• 12:48
  Speaker 7: You later find out, like, oh, damn, that was wrong.
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: I used to do it, especially on CNN.
• 12:53
  Speaker 8: I would get a statistic wrong, and I would go
• 12:54
  Speaker 8: on Twitter and be like, I'm so sorry I said
• 12:56
  Speaker 8: this online, but I really meant 90%.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I said 9%.
• 12:59
  Speaker 8: Or something like that. I don't mind fact-checking myself. I
• 13:01
  Speaker 8: definitely do not want to give bad information.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: There's a big difference between 9 and 90.
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  Speaker 4: I have definitely done it. Talking too fast.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: I'll be doing that all the time.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: And then I'll be like, I meant this. And he'll
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: be like, it doesn't matter what you meant. Your word
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: is your word.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, How are you going to listen to
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: somebody that replaces H's for K's?
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right.
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: But I mean, sometimes the stuff he be screaming be like.
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: That's not what it's called.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: You don't like shrimp or grits?
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: I do, but I just don't like the way you
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: hear you say it. I'm going to say shrimp. Yeah,
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: hearing you say it just sounds like you're about to
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: spit on me.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: I'd like to hear you talk, period.
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: That's not okay. That's not okay. All right.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Good job, Jess.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Cut her off. Shut up.
• 13:37
  Speaker 7: Shut up.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Stop.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: That is so rude.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: So I don't know exactly what it was, but I
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: heard something a few months ago, right, that there were
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: about to be.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: All the news stations were about to be ran by
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: one group.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: Whatever, right?
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: Like, is that true or was that fake?
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're talking about the Paramount?
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Paramount merger, Warner Brothers merger.
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: That is pretty significant and I think if it happens,
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: you know, second to state-run media, that could.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Be really scary.
• 14:04
  Speaker 8: Particularly if you look at how This initial group that
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: purchased Paramount began to run CBS News. They put someone
• 14:11
  Speaker 8: in place named Bari Weiss, who is super conservative. One
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: of the first things she did was go into this,
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: you know, 60 Minutes.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: Which is a source that I normally would have told
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: you I would rely on. they've changed quite a bit.
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: I think maybe the last credible thing that we saw
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: in there a little bit was Lil Boosie on there
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: talking about his pardon.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: So that was his story.
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: I believe his story.
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: He definitely got bopped for 600K for paying for a
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: pardon he didn't get. But I think that if they
• 14:39
  Speaker 8: don't have some barometers in place, like an editorial board
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: and other things to ensure that the news remains fair
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: and balanced and trustworthy, factual, they'll continue to have a problem. Especially,
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: I think, The day that Donald Trump said that he
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: wasn't going to allow Politico, CNN, or MSNBC into the
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: White House press corps, they launched Trump TV, a state-run media.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, how close to communism are we right now? So, yeah,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: it is a real issue.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: And they need some cultural integration in that whole situation. Who?
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: That whole merger. They need some cultural integration.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: But all of these outlets do, really.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: You know, like there was a commitment post the murder
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: of George Floyd. You all know all this money flowing,
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: opportunities for us, and then they were like, okay, we
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: fired away from that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Now we're anti-DEI again. That's not good.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: My final question, if the mission of Cite Your Source works,
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: what do you want somebody to do differently after watching it?
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: One of the things we're going to do, every time
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: there's a fact-check moment, the independent fact-checker, hits the buzzer,
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: record scratches, the whole show stops to cite your source.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I want everybody to do that when they're scrolling online.
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: To hear a record scratch, to hear a pause, like
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: this can't go on. I'm going to put in the
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: comments that this is wrong.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: I'm going to put in the community note, this is wrong.
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: In conversation, you know, when people reference the Willie Lynch letter,
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: you know, maybe they're like, how you know that's real?
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: I want people to stop and really ask the questions
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: that we were taught to ask in school.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: This shouldn't be that hard for us.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: And I think If we start having more earnest conversations, one,
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: we'll be less prone to canceling somebody just because their
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: opinion is different from ours.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: And two, agree on the end goal and work backwards
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: from there. That's what I hope happens.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: When does this launch? When can people start watching it?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: So Cite Your Source is at Cite Your Source on YouTube.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: It will be launching at 9 p.m.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Eastern on Wednesday.
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: So we want to get those subscriber numbers up and
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: we definitely want folks to engage. I want it to
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: feel like a town hall where everybody has a role
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: to play.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: And it'll be on the Native Land Podcast YouTube page
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: as well. Yes.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Native Land Pod and I think in our audio feed too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: We want to make sure everybody has access to this.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Y'all can post it too. Reason Choice Media?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: No, we definitely will.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: This is all from Reason Choice Media?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Well, Native Lampot is a part of it. And then we.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: Have some other folks who are very interested in seeing
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: facts out there.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: So we're grateful for them, too.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Well, cite your sources. Check it out this Wednesday at 9.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: And we appreciate you for joining us.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Thanks, y'all.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Miss Angela Rye, it's The Breakfast Club.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Good morning.