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Back to episode — Episode 2495 CWSA 06/04/24

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a drug addict who hasn't had a drug for a little while, do you get to say that you're not one when you fill out your federal form? Because that would be a lie. So does everybody who ever used to be drinking too much or used to be on drugs, do they never get to have a gun? Because they would be lying if they say they're not drug addicts. That would definitely be a lie. What if — and this is how I w…

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omes available? You going to sign up for that? Here's a problem. Are you like me? You've lost all faith in everything medical. I just don't believe anything from a doctor or the science or the — just I've lost all credibility is just gone. I don't know what to do about that.

Let's talk about the fake news. So the Washington Post had a big shakeup. They had a new attitude. And here's the funny part. So the CEO Will Lewis, he was having an all-hands meeting, I guess, telling people what the changes would be. And he was asked at the meeting whether he had interviewed any diverse candidates or women to be the new executive editor. Because he replaced a woman who was the executive editor, and I guess they must have picked a white man. And

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so the staff said, I don't know about that white man. Have you talked to anybody who wasn't a white man? Because we don't really think we're comfortable having a white man there unless you worked really, really hard to make sure it wasn't a white man and there was just nothing you could do about it. He was just the only person who could do this job. And we're kind of frankly a little bit skeptical…

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