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I don't care if the young people like me and you shouldn't either. I'm Terry Christoff

and this is Smart for Politics.

I want to go over those words again for you because I think they're important.

I don't care if the young people like me, you shouldn't either. And those are some very, very wise words written by podcaster, Normie, and my fellow Gen X, or Bridget Fetasy, over on X earlier this week, to describe what I think and maybe you think of the insanity that seems to have descended upon the conservative podcaster space. These are people who are supposed to be dealing in truth, reality. They're supposed to be

grownups telling the truth so they can inform their audiences, something that the mainstream

media abandoned a long time ago. They started spinning in fake news. Fake news became a thing.

These podcasters came in, in theory, to fill a space being left completely vacant by just the absolute demise

of the mainstream media. The problem is, many of these conservative podcasters have followed

mainstream media. Hadlers of fake news again, and the people that they were going to take the place of,

they follow them right off the cliff by spinning contrived fantasies of their own. A lot of, it's the Jews, it's the Jews. And why is this happening? Like, I don't know, maybe you stop to think about it. Maybe you feel betrayed by some of these people. I certainly did. I worked for some of them. I worked with some of them. and I'm utterly disgusted by what I'm seeing from

these days. But I wanted to read a little bit more about what Bridgett wrote, because she's

really on to something here. Some were grifters from the get-go. They just were. They're in it

for the fame, the fortune, the clout. And it's, I mean, to say it's clouding their judgment is

really probably quite an understatement. They seem to glory and enjoy chaos. And that's not what our side's supposed to do. So I wanted to take a little bit more look into what Bridget thinks might be going on with some of them. Some of them, I mean, they're living out the Steve Yushemmy meme. And I'm going to, I'll post it just to remind you of it. They're living it out. How do you do fellow young people? And it's a little embarrassing. I am, as I've said before, on the senior end of the Gen X movement. So these are people my age, maybe slightly younger, but mostly my age. And I'm a little embarrassed for them. But let's see what Bridget had to say. I want to share it with you. I don't care if the young people like me. You shouldn't either. Here, this is Bridget. I caught clips of Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes, and the thing that struck me was the body language. Here was a man, again, this is a man my age, who had the biggest show on cable news, who once commanded an audience of five million adults, sitting across from a 20-something new age shock jock with the energy of a guy trying to impress his son's friends.

See how cool I am? See how I'm not afraid to go there? An astute culture commentator, John Gabriel, a pal of mine from back in the

conservative blogosphere days, recently posted on X, John Stewart embracing Zoran Mandani, Tucker

embracing Nick, two aging hosts, desperate to impress the young and scared of being left behind.

We've got some smart people here. A little bit more about from what Bridget wrote. You start reading the room instead of saying what's true. You notice your audience is getting younger, more online, more radicalized. And instead of pushing back with the credibility, you spent decades building, you chase them. Every take gets a little edgier. Every interview pushes a little further. You tell yourself

you're being brave, but you're just performing for an algorithm and a demographic that will forget

your name the moment someone edgier comes along. So much of what you're seeing in the media right now

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