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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast Today. I am blessed

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Speaker 1: to have Todd Ricketts with me. He is a former

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Speaker 1: called freespoke Search, which I find fascinating because this is

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Speaker 1: going to allow us to see a lot more news.

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Speaker 1: I hope you've heard me talk before about sites like

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Speaker 1: Breitbart that get completely pushed out of the Google search engine.

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Speaker 1: You can't find it at all, So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: hear more about this. Todd, welcome to the program. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about free Spoke.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, thanks a lot, Titter, thanks for having me

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Speaker 2: here today, and really just what you hit on just

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Speaker 2: a moment ago. I feel like a few years ago

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Speaker 2: results that didn't match what I expected. And if you

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Speaker 2: scratch a little deeper, what you find out is that

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Speaker 2: these search engines do have a little bit of bias,

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Speaker 2: and they do suppress information, and interestingly enough, like Google

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: And so we started building a new search engine called

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Speaker 2: free Spoke, and really what we did is the idea

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Speaker 2: was to try to surface as much information on all

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Speaker 2: these topics as best we could, to give all sides

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Speaker 2: which finds which finds sources from both sides on all

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Speaker 2: these topics and lets you kind of find like that

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Speaker 3: You have to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: So if I wanted to hear about I don't know,

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Speaker 1: something like if I wanted to hear about the Ukraine

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Speaker 1: War in America's involvement and I searched that, it would

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Speaker 1: literally show me two different sides of that story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What we do is we sort of label these sources,

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Speaker 2: whether they be left, right, middle, But then with the

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Speaker 2: AI trained a large language that is just the facts man.

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Speaker 2: We designed when I talked to the programs, it just

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Speaker 2: has to be just the facts, man. So we try

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Speaker 2: their own mind. And really, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of faith in Americans if you

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Speaker 2: give them the good information that they can make up

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Speaker 2: in our mind and.

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Speaker 3: Do the right things.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but you make a great point if you

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Speaker 1: have to have enough information to make up your own mind.

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Speaker 1: And that's something that I think we're even seeing Last night.

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Speaker 1: I was hearing that the White House is getting together

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Speaker 1: do you actually get that out? Though, regardless of what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's definitely. It's definitely out there.

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Speaker 2: And then there's sources that come on both sides, which

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Speaker 2: when you go to free spoke, what you find is

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Speaker 1: When you say they're not. There are sources that you

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Speaker 2: And yet Google acknowledges that they suppress information, which I

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Speaker 1: This is a big project to undertake to help people

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Speaker 1: get to the truth. What made you say I want

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Speaker 2: Know, really it was just my own experience of how

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Speaker 2: And at Free Spoke, we just wanted to be given

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Speaker 1: I do love it because I being someone who is

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Speaker 2: Well, and on top of that, one of the things

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Speaker 2: for something like you said on Ukraine War. If there's

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Speaker 1: So that's actually fascinating from the standpoint of people who

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Speaker 2: We have an election portal too that kind of gives

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Speaker 2: so we have that functionality as well. So it's really

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because we are trying to figure out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the media is going to be who

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Speaker 1: Is that within Free Spoke it is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So how to explain how you get there?

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. So, Okay, you were obviously very involved with

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Speaker 3: Yeah about that? About that, yeah, I think so you.

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Speaker 1: Were involved during this time where things are I would

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Speaker 1: a heightened level of emotion is also out there. We've,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned, we've just heard that the White House

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: He said, I feel like the EU should have a

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a really interesting statement, especially considering

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Speaker 1: I think that they are in a similar way, pulling

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Speaker 2: I mean, they've tried it from an economic point of view,

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Speaker 2: really Europe has a lot of homework to do. They

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Speaker 2: need to decide if they're going to, you know, unwind

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Speaker 1: It's interesting as we watched this past week what was

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Speaker 1: happening at that conference, I was feeling like, we need

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Speaker 1: to be able to have a better understanding of what's

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Speaker 1: happening country by country. So I want to go back

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Speaker 1: to free spoke for a minute, because obviously we want

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Speaker 1: back and forth. Are we able to do that on

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Speaker 3: For sure? For sure? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'd really encourage you to kind of go and look

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Speaker 2: and see what our search engine will find on these

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Speaker 2: different places, and I think you're going to find like

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Speaker 2: a really balanced view, kind of highlighting the different sides

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Speaker 2: of those arguments, not just in the United States, but

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's the perfect time to talk about

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Speaker 1: this because so many people who are listening to this

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Speaker 1: the benefits of what you're doing is that you are

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Speaker 1: showing us both sides of the argument, which you should

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Speaker 1: know to be able to talk to the other side,

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Speaker 1: because it's better to have an understanding of what they're

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Speaker 1: thinking if you want to come around them, come beside them,

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Speaker 1: try to even convert their thinking, you have to kind

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Speaker 1: of know what they're thinking and what the alternative version is.

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Speaker 1: So I encourage everyone to download the app. If you

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Speaker 1: go to the store, it's just free Spoke. Is that

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you can go to the app. You can

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Speaker 1: get the app, or you can go to the website,

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Speaker 1: but the app I would love. I think the app

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Speaker 1: you can just go there every day. Really, you can

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Speaker 1: go there every time you have a question. That should

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Speaker 1: be like your go too. So we appreciate what you've

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Speaker 1: done here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and as you use it more, Tutor like, I'd

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Speaker 2: love to hear your feedback so we can make whatever

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Speaker 2: tweaks and changes you think we might be able to do.

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Speaker 1: That sounds great, absolutely, I will, and I and for

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Speaker 1: all of you who are listening, give us your feedback too,

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Speaker 1: because we'll get it to Todd. Okay, great, Thanks Todd Ricketts.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on the podcast today.

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Speaker 3: No, it was good fun. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and thank you all for joining us on the

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Speaker 1: Tutor Dixon Podcast. As always, you can get this wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcast, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Rumble

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Speaker 1: or YouTube, but just make sure you join us and

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Speaker 1: have a blessed day