Patrick spotlights mounting media manipulation and the challenge of separating truth from spin, especially as AI fact-checking tools collide with human bias. Caller perspectives spark lively exchanges on finding trustworthy news and balancing faith with real-world concerns, while Patrick’s reflections on current events and media mishaps keep the conversation fresh.

• Email – Can we even trust AI to fact check? (03:31 )
• Pete - What Todd said is not true. The mics are what was manipulated. (04:01 )
• Patrick asks Grok if it’s true that Fox News manipulated audio by adding applause to a Trump speech to make the audience sound larger (05:55 )
• Elly - You are learning more to the left. How can you worry about the applause? You mix politics and religion. (15:37 )
• Steve - I worry that Grok will count as a religion one day. It may say religion contradicts science. (20:01 )
• Rich - NBC, Google, and Yahoo say FOX is manipulative. It seems like one-directional bias. (29:24 )
• Nick - We keep looking for the truth in news and media. I think this distracts us from Jesus, the truth, and the light. (32:52 )
• Keaton (email) - I want to remind you of what President Nixon once said: “Never forget that the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.” (44:24 )