0:00 Intro
1:08 Resistance Media in Trump 2016 vs 2024
3:51 Joy Reid Is Fired, Will MSM Learn Their Lessons?
6:41 Explaining elite journalists' disconnect from reality
9:21 How Amber got into journalism and conservative media
15:37 How Trump 2016 set the ground for Trump 2024
20:30 How The WHCA cartel gatekeeps media access
25:45 White House's New Media push
27:00 How MAGA became mainstream
28:28 MAGA vs Tech Bros - Immigration, Trade, America First
31:31 Illegal Immigration, cheap labor, and the Border Crisis
37:56 Elon Musk and Ashley St. Clair - Traditional Conservatives?
44:10 Abortion Politics
46:12 Andrew Tate, 'High Quality Men' and the Gender War
51:34 Modern dating is broken
54:12 Au Pair - a stranger raising your child
58:08 Can the modern woman have it all - Work and Family
1:04:34 Amber's dating experience and getting married
1:08:16 God's plan

Amber Duke is a friend, Senior Editor at The Daily Caller, cohost of Rising On The Hill, and cohost of Free Media on at ReasonTV .  We discussed what it was like covering Trump during the 2016 liberal media era and how it compares to today, the wave of mainstream media layoffs, the corruption of the WHCA, and, most importantly, why modern dating sucks.

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