Brian Barrett

Do you have a sense?

And it's too early to say, well, I guess I assume.

But do you have a sense of this is if he's going to be able to contain this or if this is going to turn into a real four alarm fire for him, especially as the midterms come up?

I live in the deep south and the midterm races, the advertising has already started and they are still overwhelmingly who is the most Trump Republican is still what people are running on.

Very curious to see if that changes.

And I cannot imagine a world in which that becomes who is the most J.D.

Vance Republican.

Before we wrap up for today, I want to get into a story from E.J.

Dixon that we published and got a lot of attention this week.

It's a story that honestly kind of perfectly encapsulates the times that we are living in.

So E.J.

talked to a medical student based in India.

We call him Sam.

It's not his real name.

Who was trying to make some money to cover expenses and hopefully migrate to the U.S.

after he graduated.

After trying a few things, he tried selling his med school notes.

He tried making YouTube videos.

He landed on a more specific and potentially more lucrative idea.

He decided he was going to create an AI-generated woman using Google's Gemini Nano Banana Pro.