Brett Cooper

I obviously don't really feel great about what's happening globally at the moment, but I just wanted to put that out there because I'm not like totally doom and gloom, but emotionally I'm like...

I'm not really in like a fighting spirit.

Now, all of that being said, I will say I am not one of those people that is going to sit here and say like, opt out, don't vote, go vote for Democrats.

Like, I think that is ridiculous.

Obviously I am not in support of that, but I do understand people tuning out, why they feel demoralized and why they might even go so far as to say those things, even though I don't agree with them.

And yes, obviously, there are podcast wars that are raging.

You have Mark Levin and Megyn Kelly, like, yelling at each other on X about what's going on in each other's pants, unfortunately.

Horrifying that we all have to read that.

But I don't think that they created what is going on right now in the real world.

Like, yes, that is indicative of bigger debates in politics right now, but that is just drama that's going on in our weird little, like, con-ink bubble.

Like, most people in the world...

are just done because life moves on.

They have children to raise.

They have bills to pay.

They have jobs to go to that they hope are not taken by AI.

And by the way, it isn't the podcaster's fault that the White House had Melania walk out with a robot talking about how AI should take over teachers' jobs.

Like when everybody's reading about how AI is coming for all entry-level jobs and everybody's going to be out of work, the only people that are going to be able to have jobs are plumbers.

That was probably not the best thing to promote.

Just like image-wise, even if that might be the future in like 20 years, maybe we shouldn't be talking about that or promoting that when everybody feels so insecure and so scared about the future.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that yes, I do think that the podcast wars have created drama, but let's not pin the root of the problem on that.