Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up as we kick off yet another week here living in the nightmare landscape that is the United States of America. It's Monday and I am happy to have Barry Ridholtz joining me today. We sat down on Friday. Had a great conversation. I think you're going to love it. I learned a as always, from him. If you want to jump to it, it starts about 30 minutes in. But first, I've got your headlines and clips as I do each and every weekday, getting up real early in the morning to finish it off for you. I hope you had a great weekend. I hope you had a great Mother's Day if that's something that you celebrated.

And I'm very happy to have you here with me. Thank you very much for your support. Can't do it without your paid subscription.

This is an ad-free show. Patreon.com slash Pete Dominic is the place to pay. Or you can get a paid subscription over on Substack at Stand Up with Pete where you can watch my interviews live most days. I want to share a couple of quick emails. My email stand up with Pete at gmail.com. David T. writes, I just finished listening to both conversations with Christina Greer and Christian Finnegan. Christina subtly intimated that the most recent assassination attempt against Trump was questionable. That was my take while listening to your conversation. David, I heard it and chose to leave it alone. We're at the end of the conversation. I didn't want to get into it. I figured I talked to her about it off the air. And then he said about Christian Finnegan, I disagree with his rationale regarding the most recent assassination attempts against Trump along with previous events. I cannot stress enough to you, Pete, how much I

completely agree with you. It just drives me nuts that so many people believe all of these conspiracy

theories. In fact, it boggles my mind. Keep defending your perspective concerning the issue. We must

not fall in the same vortex or lie on purpose to cash in. However, I do believe we are fighting

a losing battle, but I will never give up hope. David, I don't believe we are fighting a losing battle, but I will never give up hope, David.

I don't believe we are fighting a losing battle, and I will never give up hope. That's where we might

disagree, but I do appreciate that email very much. Elaine commented on the Patreon post. I'm with

you, Pete. I do not traffic in conspiracy theories. These people are heinous enough in provable ways. We don't have to make things up. And my friend Steve in Michigan said, Pete, 99.9% distraction. They're 0.1% fun. These conspiracy theories on the left. We're supposed to be the fact-based ones, the keepers of democracy, etc. By the day, it's harder to discern the truth. Thanks for standing up. And while you can't

burn bridges, some of us know that you put the ladder down for Dean and John and they sort of pulled it up after themselves. Just saying, no, I don't think they pulled it up after themselves, Steve. I've never thought that, but they're not me. I'm not them. And that's perfectly okay. Great to hear from you, Steve.

Thank you so much for all the emails.

You can email me to stand up with P. I'm not them, and that's perfectly okay. Great to hear from you, Steve.

Thank you so much for all the emails.

You can email me, stand up with pete at gmail.com.

And I would have read those who disagreed vehemently with me on any of these conspiracy theories that the left is platforming.

People who are progressive are platforming.

But I didn't get any of those emails.

I'm happy to engage further on it as we see these things coming up.

And my friend Susie emailed me on a different subject, completely show format.

And I thought it was really interesting because last week I mentioned that maybe I would

had some new ideas for the show format.

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