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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio.

I got a listener note recently that I wanted to answer,

and it's been on my mind because this is a topic that

everybody's talking about. So let's get into it. Hi, Carol, you talk about not losing your

friendships over politics, but I have two friends who have fallen deep into the rabbit

hole of conspiracy podcasters and I'm not sure what to do. These friends were moderate

or right of center, and it's not that we have policy disagreements. It's that they don't believe

anything they hear other than from podcasters who are obviously lying to them. One of the

friends has mentioned Jewish power to me, and while I'm not Jewish, it was jarring to hear my normal friend say something like this.

What do I do?

So it's true.

I have often talked about not losing friendships over politics.

But I do think that some things are transcending of politics and that when you go too far and it's no longer about just policy or

supporting a politician or a policy idea or any kind of thing like that, then it's a different step.

Bridget Fetasy had this great line on X. She tweeted, it's actually like being in a zombie

apocalypse movie. And when someone you love starts talking about the Zion tweeted, it's actually like being in a zombie apocalypse movie. And when someone you love

starts talking about the Zionists, it's them pulling up their sleeve to reveal they've been

bit and you're like, oh shit, not you too. That's what rings true to me. It's not that you

disagree with them on politics. It's that they are going through something. I like to imagine that

maybe people can come back from that zombie apocalypse, but, you know, we haven't seen it happen yet.

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