Watch this replay of a live episode of Barrett and Baxa and you’ll come away with a sharper eye for political headlines, AI misinformation, media spin, and the strange new ways America argues with itself. What starts as a patriotic Fourth of July conversation about America’s 250th birthday quickly swerves into CNN patriotism numbers, Betsy Ross flag controversy, “Queers for Palestine,” Russia gas-station fights, SNAP soda debates, and the shocking discovery that Donald Trump’s late-night snacking habits are apparently national news.

In this episode, Steve Barrett and Bob Baxa break down the stories behind the headlines with the kind of sarcastic, common-sense commentary you only get when two former news guys look at modern media and say, “Wait… this is the story?”

They also dig into the DuckDuckGo AI rabies hoax, a real example of AI misinformation/data poisoning that showed how fake internet claims can bubble into search results and look official fast. That issue has been recently reported as a broader AI search reliability problem after DuckDuckGo’s AI falsely claimed Trump died of rabies.