Find Out: How to disarm MAGA’s disinformation machine

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, we dig into the world of right-wing disinformation. After an eye-opening experience for Rich and Luke at a MAGA event in Texas, we break down how fear and confusion are being weaponized by the right. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about democracy, the spread of propaganda, and the long-term risks to America's future.Follow us on Substack at findoutpodcast.substack.com

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out podcast, episode seven. We have a lot of things to cover today, and we literally just got some breaking news we're recording on Friday that George Santos, the disgraced former congressman, was just sentenced to 87 months in prison, which is seven, over seven years.
0:21.6	Witch hunt.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.8	The DOG is weaponized.
0:25.6	I'm not even sure which of the charges, but, you know, it'll be old news by the time you
0:29.8	guys listen to it, but we had to get a reaction because it is kind of funny because
0:32.8	that guy is just pathetic.
0:34.3	But anyways, on to better things.
0:37.1	So Rich and Luke participated in something
0:41.3	called the UnFuck America Tour last week down in Houston, Texas, going up against Charlie Kirk
0:47.9	and his minions. Could you guys just tell us what happened down there?
0:53.2	College Station, Texas. And we were at texas a&m come on tim
0:56.8	come on all i know is austin because i'm from new york of course so anyways go ahead well we uh we went down
1:04.5	there we were supposed to debate him supposed to that's that's his whole schick right as he sets up
1:09.1	in the middle of a of a campus and he's got a big fucking banner that says, prove me wrong. Then he lines people up and you get to debate him on a topic of your choosing. And we got there and it was immediately a cluster fuck and through no fault of our own. I mean, we got there and we were asking, okay, where's the line to wait? And they told us all
1:28.5	about 50 different places to wait. And so we all spread out hoping to be the one that got picked.
1:34.9	And like, I think one of our people actually got to debate him. None of the rest of us did.
1:38.7	They came up with different excuses. You know, you don't have any permits, but we did. And then also it was held in the free speech amphitheater and, you know, Charlie Kirk is such a big free speech guy, but that's
1:48.6	neither here nor there. And then it was like, you're not students at A&M, but also the people who
1:53.1	drove four hours aren't students at A&M either. So he was, he was fully coming up with as many
1:58.2	reasons to run as fucking possible. But I think the organization on a
2:02.2	whole did a pretty good job pivoting. We ended up holding our own debates and pulling some of
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