Chuck Todd

If anything has improved a lot over the last 30 years in the stories of the West, it has been that.

I don't want to bias your thought here.

It does feel like each successive decade, we get a little bit better at our depiction of Native Americans.

And, you know, it was sort of the middle manager class, if you will.

So I just think it the reason it worked for the right and I think it's less so now.

But it also gets it to the

Tell me how you discovered Little Wolf's story and how you thought you were able to verify it.

I really do.

I think in many ways, podcasts have, you know, everybody now has their, their channel.

You're right.

I think there's still what remains of talk radio really is targeting retirees, right?

Folks that still are sort of in the habit, but that were radio listeners of the nineties.

So I think there's a little bit of that.

No, I would just add in I think we still had scar tissue from the Civil War.

I think over time, you're going to see that, um,

We still had scar tissue from Reconstruction.

when these folks age out of voting, um, I think you'll see sort of talk radio, you know, and like I said, in some ways it's already shifted to this, you know, to, to this independent world, you know, whether it's Ben Shapiro or Tucker Carlson's doing, or, or, or even what Megan Kelly's doing and things like that.

Still had scar tissue from slavery.

And talking about the West, you could ignore all this other stuff.

It papers over the uncomfortable pieces of the 19th century history.