Boomers Are Wealth Hoarders, the AI Revolt, and California’s Cursed Governor’s Race with Brian Merchant and Andrea More

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

(In addition to your regularly planned episode of Factually, we’re bringing you a Friday news roundup where we check in on the week’s biggest stories as well as some that need amplification.)

This week, Adam is joined by journalist Brian Merchant and comedian Andrea More to talk about the mountain of wealth that boomers have hidden in a figurative mountain hoard, like some kind of greedy dragon that’s way too into Western shows on Paramount+. The group also talks about the growing cultural rejection of AI (whew!), and the already exhausting state of the California governor’s race.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:26.0	Hey, everybody.
0:27.2	It's Fridays on Factually.
0:29.3	So this is what we do on Fridays is I break down the news with a smart person, a funny person, and me.
0:35.1	And also the smart person is funny and the funny person is smart and I'm neither.
0:39.3	It's, and we're calling it a crisp 45.
0:42.2	That's the name.
0:43.0	We need to come up with a name for the segment and what we're going with is welcome to
0:47.4	a crisp 45 because that's how long we're going to do it for.
0:50.5	Can I change my mind about what we should call it?
0:53.6	Yes.
0:54.0	Okay, I think we should call it the Joe Rogan experience because I'm thinking about search
0:59.6	optimization.
1:02.5	Yeah.
1:02.6	And you're just, you know how when you Google like Macy's but Nordstrom comes up first?
	...

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