We all live in the age of conspiracy and it is your job to find as many unfiltered angles as possible on the truth so that you can triangulate what's real and avoid getting lost in spin.

That's why, as we all march towards a hyper-divisive presidential election, I'll be bringing on more and more of the people at the center of this

drama. And my goal is to map out their thinking and understand their base assumptions so I know

where they're trying to take us. From there, hopefully we can all see a wise path forward.

In that spirit, I bring you entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramoswamy. Enjoy the episode.

Yes, sir, I think there are a lot of principles that are in common with the vision that I have

for rebuilding a media institution that has lost its way and the way you think about rebuilding

a country that has lost its way. You've got a managerial class, right, the hired middle bureaucracy

that has betrayed what the original mission of this company was supposed to be. And like so many

other media companies has really lost its way by systematically lying to its audiences. I think it

is put left-wing versus right-wing politics to one side.

BuzzFeed is a company that literally was the first to publish the now discredited steel dossier

that divided this country for years. It was a company that told falsehoods about the Hunter

Biden laptop story that forget about even American politics, just think about culture. A lot of the falsehoods about the Hunter Biden laptop story that forget about even American politics.

Just think about culture.

A lot of the falsehoods about, I mean, say what you will about the man, Kevin Spacey was

acquitted on criminal charges that were initially perpetrated by a takedown that came from

none other than BuzzFeed or a company that has elevated Che Gueera's, you know, I would say, disgusting, ugly practices and

whitewashing that. You could go down the straight list of journalistic failures across the board,

and it came from an institution that on one hand preaches diversity of thought, right? They mandate

diversity and inclusion and belonging trainings in the name of fostering

diversity of thought, which I think is critical for a media institution to actually care about

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