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Honestly with Bari Weiss

A Note from Bari on Honestly

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

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Never hitting play on its potential.

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and prize teas and Cs apply.

0:30.1

From the free press, this is honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.

0:34.2

The very first episode of this show aired in May 2021. It wasn't with a celebrity or a statesman.

0:42.1

It was with a man named Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American business owner based in Minneapolis,

0:48.3

whose livelihood had been decimated because his daughter had tweeted some terrible things as a teenager.

0:55.3

I remember from that conversation, Majdi told me, this is not America.

1:00.1

I have the right to say what I believe and what I don't believe, and I have the right to agree

1:04.0

or disagree with you.

1:05.7

In America, we judge people as individuals.

1:08.8

It was exactly the kind of story that has animated this show

1:12.6

and the free press from the very beginning, a story that complicated what had been a two-dimensional

1:18.5

headline, and that served to remind us of our most basic values, values that over the past few

1:24.9

years, too many seem to have forgotten.

1:34.4

Since that conversation with Majdiwadi, we have made nearly 400 episodes of Honestly.

1:42.4

We've covered everything from big ideas to difficult debates, from politics and culture, to technology, religion, and war.

1:46.1

We've been with you through moments of global crisis,

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