Very pleased today to be joined by Dave Packman, whose show I had a great time being on and really happy to reciprocate today.

A really interesting voice out in America.

Huge audience of people listening to Dave Packman, being educated, informed, and inspired on his show.

One of the things that, you know, I wanted to ask you is, you know, in this era of complete and total

collapse of trust in media, in institutions, how do you account for the growth of your show for the things

that you're doing? I think it's two things. I think number one, it's just a result of the

changing media landscape, people consuming content asynchronously, less of a sort of leaning on 24-hour news stations.

And I think I've benefited hugely just from timing, essentially, that these technologies and

high-speed internet mobile phones, which account for probably 70% of the content by time

that's consumed that I produce, I think that's been helpful to everybody

in my space.

In addition to that, it does seem as though at least for the people that are in my audience,

when the risks to the core tenets of our democracy seem most at risk. There's a desire to find whatever to those

people seems like sanity, seems like someone who just is going to support. Political differences

aside, some of the basics that the country is funded on. And so I think that without question,

the threats to our democracy that go back to the Trump term and obviously January 6th have made people seek out, okay, minor

political differences aside, who can I count on that no matter what are going to support some of these basics

that seemed sacred at one point? And that's the sort of environment I try to create. So I think

it's all those things. When you look at Trump, tell me the threat that you think he poses.

And what I mean by that is I have a Canadian wife.

I've been very outspoken about Donald Trump.

And I was talking to somebody who would be recognized in the country as a very, very prominent commentator, has been for a long time, would be recognizable.

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