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Turn Off News · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question from American mamas. Do your mamas
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  Speaker 1: do you ever get the urge to just turn off
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  Speaker 1: all the news and disconnect from the world. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Alma and joy Is now are American mama's turn out
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  Speaker 2: Ofville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's been a whole bunch of news
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  Speaker 1: that just hasn't been a lot of fun. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there's been. You know, if you're looking at it, you
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  Speaker 1: can certainly get overwhelmed by all the information, all the
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  Speaker 1: different sources of information constantly just flowing in on social
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  Speaker 1: media and on your iPad and on your TV, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's constant. Well, and look, you got people
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  Speaker 1: on the radio talking to you about stuff all the
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  Speaker 1: time too. All Right, you guys ever get that urge
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  Speaker 1: just to completely tune out and walk away?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what, it's funny that you asked that,
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  Speaker 3: because that had a weird situation happened. I went on
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  Speaker 3: a trip. I was gone for ten days. We were
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  Speaker 3: outside of Calspill, Montana, and we had no WiFi outside
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  Speaker 3: of where Callous Fell, Montana.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So when you're outside of a place that almost
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  Speaker 1: no one has heard of outside of that, that's pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Rural like only it's like an only is the name
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  Speaker 3: of it? Okay, And so outside that a beer a
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  Speaker 3: bear like like crossed our paths in the front yard
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  Speaker 3: that I'm talking okay. So no WiFi, no self service, nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I was so out of touch that it was kind
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  Speaker 3: of like a weird experience. So days into our stay there,
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  Speaker 3: the the IT guy comes. He sets everything up, so
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  Speaker 3: we get our TV set up for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the moment that I saw what was
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  Speaker 3: happening in La and the anxiety, the fear, the anger
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  Speaker 3: that that just went through. Every single cell in my
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  Speaker 3: body was on fire and I felt myself. It was
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  Speaker 3: like so weird because I wasn't feeling this way. I
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  Speaker 3: was feeling happy this whole week. Everything was doing good,
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  Speaker 3: and suddenly I went into a rage in anger that
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  Speaker 3: the tantrum was starting again, and I was like hating
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  Speaker 3: on these people. I was so frustrated. How can you
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  Speaker 3: tell it was manufactured? I saw it immediately. I saw
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  Speaker 3: the guy in the blue truck and then like figure
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  Speaker 3: out who he was, and he worked for the Union,
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  Speaker 3: for the Democrats and supplying this and that and the
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  Speaker 3: bricksby I knew it was the same that they always
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  Speaker 3: operate under. And I felt this rage that I hadn't
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  Speaker 3: felt in a long time. And after we turned it off,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my friend I was with, She's like, Kimberly,
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  Speaker 3: let's just turn this off because I mean I was angry,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, wow, that peace I was feeling
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  Speaker 3: that tranquility, just like that was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting. How about you.
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  Speaker 4: You know when Summer was younger and she went to camp,
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  Speaker 4: she loved that week because you had to put your
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  Speaker 4: all of your electronics away uh huh, and you had
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  Speaker 4: to be in the present moment and you were away
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  Speaker 4: from all of the news. And I remember thinking, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I would hate that, but she loved it. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of people love that, And like Kimberly was just saying,
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  Speaker 4: it's because you are able to be surrounded by nature,
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  Speaker 4: you feel a sense of peace. You know you can
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  Speaker 4: hear God through the whispers of the wind and all that.
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  Speaker 4: And then when you get back on the news and
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  Speaker 4: you see there's such division. If there wasn't, I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you this, if the news would report the truth, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think all of this would be going on. If
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  Speaker 4: they had to report the truth. I think everybody would
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  Speaker 4: be on this your soul and so it's like this
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  Speaker 4: manufacturer division that is constant, and they will not let
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  Speaker 4: us take a breath. They didn't let us take a
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  Speaker 4: breath his first term. But I thought this would be
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  Speaker 4: different because we have a new administration with him, a
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  Speaker 4: new cabinet, and I thought they're going to see, They're
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  Speaker 4: going to see, and a lot of them have and
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  Speaker 4: we've gotten a lot of people that have moved to
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  Speaker 4: the right. But I think that if I were to
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  Speaker 4: go a week without any outside, you know, ability to
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  Speaker 4: hear anything that's going on, I want all of my
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  Speaker 4: family extended. I'd want us all to be at the
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  Speaker 4: beach somewhere together where everybody puts that stuff away and
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  Speaker 4: we can kind of enjoy the moment. But if I
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  Speaker 4: feel like the whole world is privy to information and
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  Speaker 4: I'm somewhere where I cannot receive it, there's a little
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  Speaker 4: panic inside of me. I want to know what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of felt that way. I felt a panic,
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's kind of a weird thing because
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  Speaker 3: I caught it kind of like after Trump had already
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  Speaker 3: intervened in a big way, and so I thought, I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad I didn't watch this at the very onset because
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  Speaker 3: it would have been days of that kind of like
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  Speaker 3: sick feeling. And so I saw it when Trump was
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  Speaker 3: coming in to fix everything that I did. I felt
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  Speaker 3: the rage, but I felt like he's got it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's got it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of sad. A friend that called me,
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  Speaker 1: so Bernie Sanders is coming to our town doing his
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  Speaker 1: oligarchy tour. Yeah, And the friend was calling and they're
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  Speaker 1: enraged by this, like how dare he come into Mike
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's district to do his oligarchy tour? Or aren't you
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  Speaker 1: in rage? And I was like, no, I really don't care.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, how could you not care? How can
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  Speaker 1: you not care? I'm like, because I know who's in charge,
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  Speaker 1: So I stay. I stay in touch with the news.
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  Speaker 1: I read. I'm constantly reading news all day long, every
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  Speaker 1: single day, even on the weekends, usually by Sunday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and again, I'm reading news again, but it doesn't generally
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  Speaker 1: affect me. I actually get more frustrated by watching bad
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  Speaker 1: production of mood course than just the news itself. And
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  Speaker 1: again it's because I know who's in charge, and I
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  Speaker 1: know who's eventually going to win, and so I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't get the ups and downs, even though I
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  Speaker 1: stay inundated with news all the time. But I absolutely
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  Speaker 1: understand that the urge to step away and get some peace,
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  Speaker 1: I do, and I'm glad Kimberly you were able to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much. Thank you,