Bari Weiss

If you asked me, like, what is the core free press persona, I would say it's a disaffected liberal in a hyper-woke environment.

But it's also a lot of other people.

And this is both the

bluntly, the huge opportunity and challenge.

I could tell you, there's a lot of Never Trump publications out there that are thriving and successful, and I'm a reader of many of them.

They have a very, very particular niche audience.

Ours is much wider than that.

So it's like, we're both read by people in the Trump administration, and we're read by people that were

pilloried or cast out or despise the Trump administration.

We are read by people in Manhattan and Los Angeles.

We are also read by farmers in Iowa and homeschooling moms in Texas.

Like, it's a very much like, here comes everybody.

Like, it's not a niche audience.

From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.

The very first episode of this show aired in May 2021.

It wasn't with a celebrity or a statesman.

It was with a man named Majdi Wadi, a Palestinian-American business owner based in Minneapolis, whose livelihood had been decimated because his daughter had tweeted some terrible things as a teenager.

I remember from that conversation, Majdi told me, this is not America.

I have the right to say what I believe and what I don't believe, and I have the right to agree or disagree with you.

In America, we judge people as individuals.