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Tough Stretch for the Media · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, sixteenth day of April. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Were you one of the people scrambling to
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Speaker 2: get your taxes filed yesterday? A lot of people still
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Speaker 2: do it at the last minute. I know, it's so
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Speaker 2: easy to do it online. You don't really have to
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Speaker 2: line up and go into the post office to do
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Speaker 2: it anymore. That used to be the thing. You had
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Speaker 2: to get it postmarked, gotta get it done. Now it's
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Speaker 2: so easy to do it online. There's so many options
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Speaker 2: to do it online. I know, some are free, some
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Speaker 2: charge you. There's some good free ones out there, by
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Speaker 2: the way. I can point you in the direction of
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Speaker 2: some of the good free ones by the way, just
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Speaker 2: for the future, just heads up so you'll know that
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Speaker 2: in time for next year. But as far as this year,
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Speaker 2: we're done. We're on the other side of it. Unless
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Speaker 2: you're one of those people who had to I don't know,
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Speaker 2: ask for an extension or whatever. There's some of those
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Speaker 2: people that can do that. Not everybody does that. Some
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Speaker 2: people do. Most people don't pay anything though that was
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Speaker 2: the really we've hit that point. There was an area
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Speaker 2: where it was almost fifty percent. Now it's more than
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Speaker 2: fifty percent of people that ultimately don't pay anything at all.
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Speaker 2: We talked a little bit about that yesterday. We have
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Speaker 2: this resentment towards the really, really rich people who basically
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Speaker 2: every single one of them individually ends up paying more
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Speaker 2: than everybody else combined outside of that dreaded one percent.
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Speaker 2: But we still look down on them. And then we say,
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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of people who don't pay anything,
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Speaker 2: some of them because they just don't have it, like
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Speaker 2: they're not making enough money, or they're in a position
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Speaker 2: where they just don't have anything. But it's just interesting
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Speaker 2: to me that we have a majority in our country
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Speaker 2: that don't pay anything towards taxes versus the less than
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Speaker 2: majority who have to cover everything as far as the
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Speaker 2: tax money goes. It's an interesting time. That's all just
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Speaker 2: pointing that out. That's where we are. And I know
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Speaker 2: people who don't pay and they're quite proud of it.
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Speaker 2: They do everything they can to make sure that they
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Speaker 2: don't have to pay anything at all. Yet we're critical
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Speaker 2: of wealthy people who try to cut corners so they
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Speaker 2: don't have to pay quite as much, even though they're
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Speaker 2: paying billions in taxes. But anyway, it's just where we are,
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Speaker 2: that's what we do. It's an interesting sort of a
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Speaker 2: couple of events that have taken place too, in particular
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Speaker 2: that you have to think that we have gone through
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Speaker 2: this period where the media has had their moment to
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Speaker 2: raise an eyebrow and go, is this a story we
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Speaker 2: can do something with? Is this something anything at all?
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Speaker 2: And then it turns out to be not what they
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Speaker 2: were hoping for it to be. And we've gone through
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Speaker 2: this a number of times. Sadly, you know, it's sometimes
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Speaker 2: it might be you know, remember when the shooting happened
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Speaker 2: at for before the baseball game with Congress. That was
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Speaker 2: one of the situations where it was like, well, tell
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Speaker 2: us about the shooter. And initially they wanted him to
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Speaker 2: be a Republican. They wanted to be a maga guy
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Speaker 2: that was shooting at Republicans. And then of course that's
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Speaker 2: not the case. It was quite the contrary Bernie Sanders
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Speaker 2: guy or whatever, and they were like, oh well, the
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Speaker 2: story just kind of goes away. Story doesn't really have
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Speaker 2: any teeth to it. The girl that shot up the
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Speaker 2: school in Tennessee or guy. I don't and I'm not
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Speaker 2: trying to be flipping at all. I don't remember. I
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Speaker 2: think it was a girl who wanted to be a guy.
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Speaker 2: I know that there was a transgender aspect to this story.
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Speaker 2: And this person was shooting up this Christian school because
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Speaker 2: they didn't think the school was, you know, being supportive
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Speaker 2: enough to the trans community or the LGBTQ plus community
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Speaker 2: or whatever it was. And that was like a school
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Speaker 2: shooting that just didn't get any traction. And it was
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Speaker 2: because it was a trans person ultimately why they didn't
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Speaker 2: really want to talk about it. They didn't want to
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Speaker 2: give any details. And even the media, this was a
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Speaker 2: person who was living by a different gender than their
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Speaker 2: biology what they were born, but even the leftist media
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Speaker 2: was reporting it by their biological identity. They want to
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Speaker 2: They didn't want to get into the to the trans
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Speaker 2: aspect of all of it. It was just a weird right,
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Speaker 2: just a strange place for all of it to be.
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Speaker 2: Uh anyway, uh, And that's what they do. They look
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Speaker 2: for the story, They look for the angle, uh, the excitement.
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Speaker 2: I guess that we had this uh uh person who
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Speaker 2: decided that they wanted to I guess, assassinate a number
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Speaker 2: of people, including the president, and basically ended up being
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Speaker 2: somebody who you know, wanted to assassinate Trump. They thought, oh,
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Speaker 2: this is somebody who is you know, a Nazi, want
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Speaker 2: to be maybe he'll have some ties to the right,
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Speaker 2: and of course he didn't, so that story just never
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Speaker 2: really you might not even heard the story. But the guy,
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Speaker 2: of course, you know, killed his parents or whatever, and
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Speaker 2: they were, you know, ready to I don't know, they
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Speaker 2: were one of his supporters, right, isn't that what they
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Speaker 2: were then, just because it was their kid. And then
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Speaker 2: we have this arsonist who decided to attack the governor's
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Speaker 2: mansion at Pennsylvania. That's getting a little bit of traction,
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Speaker 2: but not a lot. I think people were like, oh,
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Speaker 2: my gosh, this is somebody who's attacked the governor's mansion,
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Speaker 2: being a residence of a Democrat governor in Pennsylvania, and oh.
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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be it. This is going to
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Speaker 2: be the story that the media is going to be
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Speaker 2: able to get their teeth into, really really dive into
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Speaker 2: this and get a big old bite out of it
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Speaker 2: and have some traction to go with it. And they thought, well,
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Speaker 2: clearly this is going to be some far right crazy person. No,
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Speaker 2: the person who set fire horribly. I mean, this is
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Speaker 2: a horrific thing. The governor's mansion inhabited, by the way
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Speaker 2: by a Jewish family in Shapiro, who many thought would
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Speaker 2: have been the VP pick by Kamala Harris or not
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Speaker 2: whoever was making the decisions. She wasn't making the decisions.
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Speaker 2: But if he wasn't Jewish, because we had this whole
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Speaker 2: Palestinian movement that was trying to trying to really take
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Speaker 2: hold and be pretend grassroots movement that was really AstroTurf
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Speaker 2: in a lot of ways anyway, So we have and
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Speaker 2: some of it's genuine, but there's a lot of these
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Speaker 2: people that are being paid to do it now. So
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Speaker 2: they thought, here we go. And then the guy that
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Speaker 2: they caught socialist, pro Antifa, pro free Palestine, pro Black
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Speaker 2: Lives Matter and not a MAGA guy, and it just
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Speaker 2: all fell apart. They said, oh no, this guy was
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Speaker 2: just your classic free Palestine jew hater, That's what he was.
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Speaker 2: So they said, well, we can't do anything with this.
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Speaker 2: The story's got to fade away. This has got to
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Speaker 2: go away. We got nothing to go with on this.
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Speaker 2: It's selective. Media likes to be selective, and that's what
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about today is and just a
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Speaker 2: little touch on something. And I haven't experienced personally with this,
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Speaker 2: and then I have a friend who's had an experience
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Speaker 2: with it as well, and with the same media outlet,
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Speaker 2: and the media outlet is the BBC overseas. I was
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Speaker 2: approached a few years ago and they wanted to talk
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Speaker 2: to me, knowing that I was a conservative news talk
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Speaker 2: show host. They wanted to talk to me about Trump
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Speaker 2: and about my listeners and the relationship I guess between
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Speaker 2: my listeners and Trump, at their attitudes towards Trump, my
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Speaker 2: opinions of Trump, and they did. They wanted to have
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Speaker 2: me on their show, one of the news shows, to
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Speaker 2: talk about that. This was prior to the twenty twenty election,
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Speaker 2: and I did the pre interview. I had a producer
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Speaker 2: call me and I talked with them and I could
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Speaker 2: tell I wasn't saying the answers that they were hoping
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Speaker 2: to hear. And it's pretty obvious when I interview someone,
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Speaker 2: you know, the interview has a flow to It doesn't
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Speaker 2: always go the way that I think it's going to go.
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Speaker 2: But you have to know as an interviewer that the
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Speaker 2: interview may not go the way you're expecting, and there
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Speaker 2: may be some conversations in there that you have to
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Speaker 2: try to direct it back in a certain direction, or
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Speaker 2: you have to give them leeway to go in whatever
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Speaker 2: direction they want to go, as the person who's being interviewed.
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Speaker 2: And I've been interviewed, and I've interviewed. I've done both
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Speaker 2: sides of this many times, interviewed more than Ben interviewed,
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Speaker 2: but I've done both, and as I'm doing the interview,
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Speaker 2: I can tell it's not going the way that they're
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Speaker 2: hoping that it will go. And then at the end
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Speaker 2: of it, I was told, Okay, we're going to take
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Speaker 2: this to a final producer and we'll let you know
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Speaker 2: if we're going to use you on the show. And
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Speaker 2: then the next day, unsurprisingly, I was told we're not
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Speaker 2: gonna use you. We're gonna go a different direction with
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Speaker 2: a story. And I thought, okay, well, that doesn't surprise me.
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Speaker 2: I didn't say what they were hoping. I would say
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Speaker 2: they wanted to do a story, but they were looking
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Speaker 2: for a specific type of witness, if you will, a
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Speaker 2: specific type of testimonial is what they were looking for,
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Speaker 2: and I didn't give the answers they were hoping for.
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Speaker 2: Then someone I know was approached more recently. I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to say the specific topic of the show. I'm
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Speaker 2: just going to say similar situation. They were approached to
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Speaker 2: talk about a subject that they're an expert in to
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Speaker 2: some degree, like the general field, they're an expert in
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Speaker 2: the specific questions that they were asking, they were able
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Speaker 2: to answer with confidence, with accuracy, and they went through
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Speaker 2: the first line of questioning and by the end of it,
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Speaker 2: he told me he had the same experience. He's like,
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Speaker 2: I don't think they I'm saying what they want me
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Speaker 2: to say. And he told me this after he was done.
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Speaker 2: I don't they I'm not optimistic that they're going to
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Speaker 2: have me eventually on the actual news show. But they
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Speaker 2: said i'd hear back from him in a couple of days,
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Speaker 2: and then he did, and they said, we have another
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Speaker 2: producer who's going to interview you. And he said he
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Speaker 2: got a different set of questions, but again they were
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Speaker 2: clearly trying to lead the interview into a certain direction,
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Speaker 2: and he didn't think He took the bait again the
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Speaker 2: second time, and then Finally the next day he got
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Speaker 2: a message that said, we're going to go a different
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Speaker 2: direction with the story, the same response that ultimately that
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Speaker 2: I got, And I think it's a sad testimony to
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Speaker 2: where we are when it comes to media and journalism
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Speaker 2: and these other examples that I've given about the you know,
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Speaker 2: hoping for something that's anti Trump or anti Maga or
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Speaker 2: anti conservative or Republican. That sort of stuff does seem
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Speaker 2: to have died down just a little bit with this
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Speaker 2: new administration in or the new old administration in. But
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Speaker 2: it is it is still there, and we have to
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Speaker 2: remember that it's still there. We still have media outlets
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Speaker 2: that are looking for whatever that angle is. It's going
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Speaker 2: to get their audience riled up. It's going to get
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Speaker 2: them in a position where they're able to report a
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Speaker 2: story in a way that's what the message that they
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Speaker 2: want to convey to that audience is. It's not necessarily
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Speaker 2: about looking for the truth, it's not necessarily looking for
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Speaker 2: different perspectives. It's about looking for a specific angle, a
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Speaker 2: specific storyline that they want to tell because there's a
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Speaker 2: message to go with it that they want to convey.
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Speaker 2: They want to make sure that the net end result
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Speaker 2: is what they want it to be so that they
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Speaker 2: can try to have some sort of an influence with it.
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Speaker 2: And we're seeing now the number of reporters that still
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Speaker 2: haven't given up on this notion that they are still
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Speaker 2: basically trend changers. They're the reason that attitudes and policies
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Speaker 2: are looked at a certain way. They feel like they
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Speaker 2: have this inflated sense of self worth that somehow they're
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Speaker 2: the ones that are shaping things rather than the voters
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Speaker 2: or even the politicians who are voted for by the voters.
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Speaker 2: That's where things should be, that's where we should be,
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Speaker 2: but it's not. We have these people who really think
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Speaker 2: that they're and really the politician should be taking lessons
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Speaker 2: from this, because if they're not listening to the people
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Speaker 2: who put them in office, things like what happened in
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Speaker 2: November can be quite shocking when they realize all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, out of nowhere, oh my gosh, the voters
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Speaker 2: have spoken and they're not buying what we're selling. And
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Speaker 2: it's a sad place that we are. It's a sad
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Speaker 2: place because we fight for the right for free press
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Speaker 2: and for free speech and free expression. But if people
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Speaker 2: aren't responsible with it. There's an obligation as a free
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Speaker 2: press to, especially if you're going to come out from
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Speaker 2: the angle of press, to say, look, we're going to
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Speaker 2: cover this as a journalist, We're going to cover this
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Speaker 2: news story from an unbiased point of view. But when
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Speaker 2: you've got a news outlet, it's basically and I can't
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Speaker 2: tell you for certain what the BBC's motives were with
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Speaker 2: what they did, it's what I feel like they were doing,
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Speaker 2: and it's what my friend felt like they were doing,
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Speaker 2: And it turns out that's exactly the way both of
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Speaker 2: them played out for that certainly seems to be that
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Speaker 2: they had a story that they wanted to tell, and
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Speaker 2: we didn't do a great job of conveying the message
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Speaker 2: that they wanted us to convey. And these stories that
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Speaker 2: I mentioned at the start of the show are basically
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Speaker 2: the same kind of thing. They're looking for a narrative.
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Speaker 2: They're looking for this next horrific thing that they can
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Speaker 2: talk about. Why if you want to talk about guns
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Speaker 2: and you want to talk about school shootings, why would
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Speaker 2: you not cover a school shooting because you're concerned about
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Speaker 2: the message of the fact that the person who did
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Speaker 2: it is a trans person. Why would you not do
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Speaker 2: that if you honestly believe that guns are such a
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Speaker 2: horrible thing, and then we have to do everything we
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Speaker 2: can to get all of the guns taken away, Why
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Speaker 2: wouldn't you report every single one of those shootings with
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Speaker 2: the same kind of verocity. Why wouldn't you do it?
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Speaker 2: Because there's another part of the story that they didn't
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Speaker 2: want to have told. They didn't want to express that.
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Speaker 2: They didn't want to hear my take on Trump's supporters
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Speaker 2: and Trump voters and what they were telling me while
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Speaker 2: I was doing interviews. They didn't want to report that
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Speaker 2: they wanted to cover it. From a perspective, it certainly
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Speaker 2: seemed that they had in mind they had an outcome determined.
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Speaker 2: It's like the guy who did the supersize documentary to
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Speaker 2: go after McDonald's, he had an outcome that he dictated
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Speaker 2: by going to McDonald's and not just eating a burger
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Speaker 2: every day, but by drinking milkshakes and drinking full sugar
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Speaker 2: sodas every day. That was ultimately the way he got
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Speaker 2: to the outcome. And if we're treating a basically news
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Speaker 2: story the same way that this guy treated the McDonald's experiment,
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Speaker 2: that was supersized me. We're not going to get to
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Speaker 2: right after the break. Well, now that we're on the
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Speaker 2: other side of tax Day, it seems according to the experts,
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Speaker 2: especially the National Retail Federation and their annual report on
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Speaker 2: tax refunds spending, they say that about fifty percent of
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Speaker 2: those surveys said they planned to put their refund money
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Speaker 2: towards savings, compared to twenty eight percent a year ago.
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Speaker 2: Thirty three percent said they'd use their refund to pay
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Speaker 2: off debt, compared with twenty percent a year ago. A
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Speaker 2: Credit Karma survey found that forty nine percent of people
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Speaker 2: said they were depending on their refund to help with
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Speaker 2: their finances this year, more than a year's past. Of
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Speaker 2: the millennial and gen xers poll, thirty percent said they
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Speaker 2: needed the money to pay bills. What's interesting about this
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Speaker 2: and it seems that according to this research, that a
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Speaker 2: lot of people aren't necessarily using them for big ticket
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Speaker 2: items as many at least as has done so in
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Speaker 2: the past. And I have a suspicion on this. My
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Speaker 2: thinking on this is it relates a little bit to
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Speaker 2: the way spending happened at Christmas. Remember, we were as
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Speaker 2: we got into the election season and we got to
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Speaker 2: the point where we had post election, and we talked
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Speaker 2: a little bit about there was a feeling of some
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Speaker 2: relief coming, that there was going to be some financial
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Speaker 2: relief coming. We had just gone through four years of inflation,
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Speaker 2: We had just gone through four years of uncertainty in
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Speaker 2: a lot of ways, and it seemed that there was
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Speaker 2: at least hope that we were going to be getting
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Speaker 2: back to a place, going back to a familiar president.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's probably what happened, because there was
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Speaker 2: a lot of spending over the holidays, and there was
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Speaker 2: some criticism from the left saying, well, wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: why are so many people spending so much money this
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Speaker 2: time of year? And I think that's what it was.
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Speaker 2: They knew that there was going to be an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to pay off any of those things they wanted to
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Speaker 2: have a nice Christmas or a nice holiday. So I
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Speaker 2: guess that does kind of check and does line up
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Speaker 2: with this particular thing when it comes to people deciding
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Speaker 2: that they wanted to use their tax refunds to pay
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Speaker 2: off those bills, and I think a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that probably already got their refunds that they filed very early,
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Speaker 2: maybe have already done that. It seems more and more
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Speaker 2: people are making the decision not to have kids. According
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Speaker 2: to a recent study done at Michigan State University, the
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Speaker 2: percentage of adults who don't want kids as nearly doubled
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Speaker 2: from fourteen percent in twenty two to twenty nine percent
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and the trend continues to grow.
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Speaker 2: The research didn't pinpoint the exact reasons why Americans were
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Speaker 2: opting out of parenthood, however, factor is like the current
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Speaker 2: state of the world, Economic quarries and the allure of
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Speaker 2: having more freedom certainly play a part. Social media full
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Speaker 2: of content creators who share serene, child free lives and
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Speaker 2: promote that very lifestyle, and maybe that's appealing to some people.
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Speaker 2: This is a concern. We hear people that are basically
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Speaker 2: worried about the future of the planet and the future
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Speaker 2: of where we're going as far as being able to
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Speaker 2: continue with our population. You got some on the left say, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're overpopulated, the population needs to drop down, But really
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Speaker 2: we could be According to experts just a couple of
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Speaker 2: generations away from making ourselves extinct if we're not careful.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that we're hitting that level, but there's
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Speaker 2: concerns that maybe we could get to that point. And yes,
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk is one of those people warning about that.
23:34
Speaker 2: Speaking of warnings, here's a warning to anyone relying on
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Speaker 2: chat GPT to write college or high school essays or
23:41
Speaker 2: work for presentations. It's time to be your own editor
23:45
Speaker 2: and check for dashes before you turn it in. It
23:49
Speaker 2: seems the dashes chat GPT hyphens as some are calling them,
23:54
Speaker 2: are a telltale sign that you're using AI to do
23:57
Speaker 2: your work. The program loves them, but the program also
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Speaker 2: often fails to add a space on either side of them,
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Speaker 2: which is another big sign that the work is AI generated.
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Speaker 2: So watch out for the dashes. I'm not advocating cheating.
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you the dashes might be a tell
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Speaker 2: if you are, in fact using it. According to a
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Speaker 2: new study from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas,
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Speaker 2: mixing sports gambling with alcohol can lead to risky behaviors.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people will do those two
24:29
Speaker 2: things together, don't they, and have those risky behaviors. Researchers
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Speaker 2: found that sports gamblers are nearly twice as likely to
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Speaker 2: binge drink compared to non gamblers, and that binge drinking
24:40
Speaker 2: increases the frequency of gambling, so be careful those two
24:45
Speaker 2: should not mix. And Vanguard one the oldest satellite still
24:49
Speaker 2: orbiting the Earth. It's about the size of a grapefruit
24:52
Speaker 2: and has been up there circling the planet sixty seven years. Now.
24:55
Speaker 2: Scientists are putting together plans to bring it back home
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Speaker 2: with hopes of studying how it is held up over
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Speaker 2: the years. If everything goes according to plan, Vanguard one
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Speaker 2: could be placed at the Smithsonian for display as a
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Speaker 2: sort of time capsule and a reminder of the history
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Speaker 2: of spaceflight. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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