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There's a Reason We Need to Be Able to Trust 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. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, thirteenth day of November. I'm Wes, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. We are closing in on two weeks deep
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  Speaker 2: into November, we got Thanksgiving coming up. Fast started to
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  Speaker 2: hear a little bit of rumblings from some of the
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  Speaker 2: people in my life, upset that we don't do more
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate Thanksgiving in general. It should be a month
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  Speaker 2: long thing with Thanksgiving songs on the radio and all
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  Speaker 2: those sorts of things. I think we all know. I
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  Speaker 2: understand the sentiment, but I think we all know that
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  Speaker 2: you can't have a holiday full of songs when there's
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  Speaker 2: really you know, there's the Adam Sandler one, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple songs that just say thank you in it,
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  Speaker 2: but they're not really Thanksgiving songs. You know, they don't
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  Speaker 2: really fit. Thanksgiving songs would kind of more like church hymns.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you just listen to any of the
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  Speaker 2: Christian contemporary radio stations if you want Thanksgiving music. There's
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  Speaker 2: just not anything that fills that need. And maybe there
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  Speaker 2: should be. I don't know, I just don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you make it. You know, Christmas songs or about hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of years of tradition. You know, there's way all the
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  Speaker 2: way back to good Christian men rejoice for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 2: You know, got a lot going on in the Christmas
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  Speaker 2: song or a lot of tradition with it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you start forcing all these and I mean the only
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  Speaker 2: way you do it is you start making Thanksgiving songs.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't foresee a time anywhere in the
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  Speaker 2: future where people are sitting around listening to songs about
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  Speaker 2: you know, Pilgrims and Indians eating maize. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: know that that's going to be where things are heading.
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  Speaker 2: So people can just take a breath and understand. I
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  Speaker 2: get it, I get what you're trying to say. But
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  Speaker 2: I think people are just ready to enjoy I think
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  Speaker 2: people like Christmas and they want to enjoy it more
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  Speaker 2: and they want to know that the holiday is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: longer than just you get like a month. You don't
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  Speaker 2: even get a full month. This year, it's not even
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  Speaker 2: a full month. And you go from Thanksgiving to Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: it's less than a month, and then it's over and
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  Speaker 2: you're packing everything up, and you know, fireworks, Happy New Year,
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  Speaker 2: and then suddenly it's March of twenty twenty six. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way it goes. I know I go on and
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  Speaker 2: on about it, but I try to tell you guys,
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  Speaker 2: enjoy your life, enjoy your time, even if that means
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  Speaker 2: enjoying Christmas music and having your decorations up early. So
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  Speaker 2: we talked a little bit yesterday, and this is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a recurring theme. I know, we have this thing
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  Speaker 2: where we talk about the importance of truth, and the
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  Speaker 2: importance of being able to have a different opinion, the
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  Speaker 2: importance of being able to express yourself, and we also well,
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  Speaker 2: I just kind of want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: bit about why things are important when it comes to journalism,
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  Speaker 2: why things are important when it comes to truth, when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to clickbait. There's there's all these things that
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  Speaker 2: are at play, and I'll just I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you a little from my personal experience
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to and I haven't talked about some
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  Speaker 2: of these things very much. I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 2: talked about them. Maybe once. Have I touched on it here,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but there were times for me, I
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  Speaker 2: know I touched on an aspect of this recently. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about that, but there's a time where as
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  Speaker 2: I was transitioning into music radio into news talk radio,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a bigger leap than you would think for
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  Speaker 2: a few reasons. The way that you speak, the pacing,
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  Speaker 2: everything about it. It's just it's different. Music radio is
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  Speaker 2: all about just get to the next song, get into
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  Speaker 2: the commercials, get out of the commercials before people flip
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  Speaker 2: the station. That's the whole objective. That's what the objective
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  Speaker 2: used to be. It's not what it is now, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm just telling you it makes me sad
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  Speaker 2: to know that the radio industry, the broadcasters in general,
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  Speaker 2: so many of those jobs gone. The ones that are
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  Speaker 2: left are certainly in jeopardy. It's really not about any
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  Speaker 2: of the things that it used to be. It's not
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  Speaker 2: about having personality driven content or things for your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: If you whien's the last time you called a radio
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  Speaker 2: station expecting someone to answer the phone. They're not there.
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  Speaker 2: They're just not there. They haven't been there for a
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  Speaker 2: really long time. There's just no one there. They record
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  Speaker 2: it and then they leave and they've got some other
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  Speaker 2: job that they've got to do. Because it's not about
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  Speaker 2: doing the show. And remember, at one point we were
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  Speaker 2: having a staff meeting at one of my recent jobs,
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  Speaker 2: and I was the digital content director for a group
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  Speaker 2: of stations throughout the state of Georgia, but we were
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  Speaker 2: having a meeting for stations that were more local, and
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  Speaker 2: I was telling the people that worked on the air,
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  Speaker 2: that recorded their shows and ran out of the building
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  Speaker 2: or wherever they went because they weren't sitting in their studios.
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  Speaker 2: And I told them all when questions came up about
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  Speaker 2: you know, what is the big push in digital and
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  Speaker 2: what are we working on, and I said, everybody needs
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  Speaker 2: to be working on some sort of a podcast something.
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  Speaker 2: It can be five minutes, it can be ten minutes,
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  Speaker 2: it can be you know, whatever you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Come up with something that means something to you and
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  Speaker 2: do it. And there was one person in particular, who
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  Speaker 2: I don't think is in radio anymore, who drew a
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  Speaker 2: line in the sand and said out loud the thing
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  Speaker 2: that you never want to say in a radio meeting.
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  Speaker 2: My listeners don't care what I think about things. I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't my job. I supervised her in
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  Speaker 2: a digital capacity, but I was not her supervisor of
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  Speaker 2: her work as a broadcaster, her job on air. That
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  Speaker 2: was someone else, and that person was there, And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why that this person wasn't released from responsibilities immediately.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a dumb thing to say, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a stretch, but I mean, at least the
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  Speaker 2: conversation should have been there of like, well, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing here? I mean, that would have been the
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  Speaker 2: question that I would have had if I was supervising
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  Speaker 2: in that capacity. But I digress. The idea that we
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  Speaker 2: once had people that worked in radio that provided information,
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  Speaker 2: accurate information, not rushing to get you information as quick
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  Speaker 2: as possible, whether it's accurate or not, not pushing things
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  Speaker 2: solely for the per purposes of clickbait, not avoiding news
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  Speaker 2: for the purposes of not disturbing or disrupting a relationship
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  Speaker 2: with someone or another entity. More on that in a minute,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to provide it in either an entertaining or
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  Speaker 2: just informative way. That's that was the job. That was
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  Speaker 2: always the job. News Talk gave me an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: continue to do that and then eventually working it into podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, some of what I do in podcasting
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  Speaker 2: is about information. Some of it is about being you know,
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  Speaker 2: I try to I've got a comedy show that I do.
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  Speaker 2: I try to be funny. It's a little silly, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, I try to help other people also get
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  Speaker 2: into you know, into podcasting, people that think people care
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  Speaker 2: what they've got to say. But one of the stories
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  Speaker 2: that I haven't talked about much over the years, and boy,
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  Speaker 2: this could be one of the things in the book
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  Speaker 2: Someday you got to write the the West Carrol story.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a point where we had a situation
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  Speaker 2: where there was an up and coming still I mean,
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  Speaker 2: had become a pretty big name, but wasn't a megastar
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  Speaker 2: just yet, but a young Taylor Swift and I honestly
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  Speaker 2: don't remember what it was. There was something she was
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  Speaker 2: still at the time, I guess doing country. She hadn't
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  Speaker 2: crossed over into pop yet, and there was something that
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  Speaker 2: she did she said or did in some public capacity,
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  Speaker 2: and it really upsets some people, ruffled the feathers, got
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  Speaker 2: some people worked up. And it was a big story,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. And we had people in our company
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  Speaker 2: that were talking about it on the air and had
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  Speaker 2: posted digital stories about it, you know, comments like a
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  Speaker 2: blog where they talked about it. Now, once you've said
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  Speaker 2: it live on the air, that's out there. Not a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot you can do about that. It's out. It's
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  Speaker 2: the old there's an old adage in radio where you go,
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  Speaker 2: you can't say that on the radio, and you go
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  Speaker 2: you can say it once, and that would be you know,
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  Speaker 2: some content that's controversial or goes against you know, guidelines
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. But it fits with that. But it sort
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  Speaker 2: of fits with this in the sense that anybody who
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  Speaker 2: said whatever it was that Taylor Swift did back then,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was out. That cat's out of the bag.
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  Speaker 2: That's done. But if it's been posted online, if it's
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  Speaker 2: been posted on a website, if it's been posted in
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  Speaker 2: social media in some capacity, that can be changed. And
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  Speaker 2: we were told to change it. I heard from management
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  Speaker 2: in the company that I was working for that it
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  Speaker 2: needed to be taken down. I needed to get with
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  Speaker 2: everyone who had posted about it and tell them not
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  Speaker 2: to post about it again, and that through programming they
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  Speaker 2: would be told not to talk about it again. And
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  Speaker 2: all I could I really do was make sure that
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  Speaker 2: everything was washed of this story. As I was understanding
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  Speaker 2: that journalism, not that they were really doing it from
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  Speaker 2: a journalistic standpoint, but in general, this is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing you would think that that would be a
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  Speaker 2: good clickbait on some of these websites, when in reality,
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  Speaker 2: there was a blossoming relationship between this company and Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift and they didn't want to upset her and they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to help her with her public image and
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  Speaker 2: all these sorts of things. So one of those things
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  Speaker 2: that happens behind the scenes, that's the way things go.
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  Speaker 2: But I was told off the record, get it off
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  Speaker 2: the websites, and we're not sending it in an email.
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  Speaker 2: This is a conversation that we're having. This is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing that they were doing. So I say
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  Speaker 2: all of that to just say that whenever you hear information,
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  Speaker 2: we have this thing now that we do where we
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  Speaker 2: often don't even trust it. It's hard to trust it,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to believe it. You hear it and it
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  Speaker 2: sounds so absurd that you say, wait, is that really happening.
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  Speaker 2: Megan Kelly had Ben Shapiro on her show and they
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  Speaker 2: were discussing. Something came up about Candace Owens, and Megan
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  Speaker 2: Kelly said something about Ben Shapiro. Candace Owens. Ben Shapiro
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  Speaker 2: just said something about how there were implications from Candace
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  Speaker 2: Owens that Turning Point USA had killed Charlie Kirk and
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  Speaker 2: that Erica Kirk was also maybe in on it or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And Megan Kelly was like, is that she really saying that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that because she didn't know? And she said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't digest her content. I don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: but that reaction fits in with what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It said, wait, did she say that? Someone just told
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  Speaker 2: her that she said it? Someone that you would think
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  Speaker 2: would be somewhat trustworthy. But again, you're talking about Ben Shapiro,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe she's looking at him going, wait, are you
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  Speaker 2: making this up? And then she hears that Candice Owen
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  Speaker 2: said it? And what did Candice Owens really say that?
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  Speaker 2: So it's like watching it go through this series of
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  Speaker 2: filters as Megan Kelly is trying to process it. It's
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  Speaker 2: an interesting moment in time in media for all of
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  Speaker 2: that to play out. But I mention all of this
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  Speaker 2: now because we had we've just had this whole thing
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  Speaker 2: with resignations overseas with the BBC for taking a Trump speech,
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  Speaker 2: chopping it up, you know, regurgitating it in a different
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  Speaker 2: way so that people will hear it and digest it.
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  Speaker 2: And so now here we are at a time where
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  Speaker 2: we're about to get this Epstein email file dumped. Some
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  Speaker 2: of these are starting to come out, and it's so
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  Speaker 2: interesting to me that the first comments to come out
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  Speaker 2: of some of the emails are being, you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of blasted out as, oh my gosh, this is a
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  Speaker 2: big thing, this is big news, and you know, people
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  Speaker 2: are going to be talking about it and it's huge,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of it is just things that we've
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  Speaker 2: already heard before, nothing new, nothing shocking, but it's being
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  Speaker 2: sort of marketed, it marketed and played out as if
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  Speaker 2: it was some big breaking news story when the reality
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  Speaker 2: of all of this is one of the emails had
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  Speaker 2: something in it and it's between Epstein and I guess,
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  Speaker 2: his lawyer, and it basically says that at some point
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  Speaker 2: Trump was aware of the fact that there was some
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  Speaker 2: stuff going on with some underage girls, and that he
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  Speaker 2: was in a room with a girl who was one
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  Speaker 2: of the victims. But the way that it's being sort
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  Speaker 2: of portrayed is that while she was a minor, which
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  Speaker 2: apparently she wasn't, and she herself already said that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I worked at mar Alago. Donald Trump never did anything
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  Speaker 2: inappropriate around me. To me, he was nothing but polite
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  Speaker 2: to me. But now that this email comes out, it
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  Speaker 2: immediately becomes this thing that depending on the lens that
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at it through, you're going, ah, well, now
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  Speaker 2: this email says Trump was with one of these underage women.
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  Speaker 2: Was she under age at the time or was she
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  Speaker 2: not underage at the time? And was there anything inappropriate
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  Speaker 2: happening or was there not anything inappropriate happening? Did she
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  Speaker 2: work for Trump at mar Alago? Would that have been
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  Speaker 2: a reason for them to have been in the same
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  Speaker 2: room together? Did she herself? But now you've got people
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  Speaker 2: on the left saying, well, of course she said that
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  Speaker 2: she's afraid. I think she's deceased now, But this idea
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  Speaker 2: that she would have been afraid when she said it,
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  Speaker 2: that that would be the reason for it. And then
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  Speaker 2: of course people on the right immediately defensive of all
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  Speaker 2: of it, and it doesn't matter what comes out, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to defend it. This is a strange place that
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  Speaker 2: we're at. It's a strange crossroads that we have gotten
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  Speaker 2: to where you have this again, Megan Kelly Ben Shapiro
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  Speaker 2: conversation where we're all sort of as Americans looking at
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  Speaker 2: all of this, going hang on, what is the real thing?
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  Speaker 2: What is the reality in this? How many different news
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  Speaker 2: channels do you have to watch? How many different sides
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  Speaker 2: of the story. And I get told sometimes by people
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  Speaker 2: who listen to this show that they appreciate the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I don't go into this. I'm not diving into
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  Speaker 2: the conspiracy stuff all the time. I don't understand a
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  Speaker 2: lot of where these I don't know what Tucker Carlson's
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  Speaker 2: doing now, I don't know what Candice owens. I don't
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  Speaker 2: fully understand it. I don't get it. There was a
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  Speaker 2: time when you could have listened to them and gone okay,
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  Speaker 2: But like I saw a Babylon b thing that said
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  Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson was interviewing you know, bigfoot sasquatch or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, I mean, it almost seems like that
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  Speaker 2: could be that could be a reality. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. And it's not that I'm being critical of
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  Speaker 2: any of these people, because again, I, much like Megan
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  Speaker 2: Kelly said, I don't digest this content. I've told you before.
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  Speaker 2: I like my opinions here to be mine, and I
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  Speaker 2: like to look at things from the perspective of let's
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  Speaker 2: take in all of the information before I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you something with any certainty. And what I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you about these emails is what we've seen so far
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  Speaker 2: as of recording this show today. There's nothing in this
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  Speaker 2: email that we didn't already know, but suddenly it's becoming this,
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, we got some emails from this, and so
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  Speaker 2: I guess as more emails come out and maybe eventually
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get to the list. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when this is going to happen. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the reason for the delays are. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: think that they know what the reasons are. All of
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  Speaker 2: that is just gonna have to play out in time.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, we have to continue to ask questions
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  Speaker 2: similar to what Megan Kelly asked, Did she really say that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what she's doing now? Is this a real thing?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's really all that we can do if we're
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  Speaker 2: have you watched the new trailer for Toy Story five? Oh? Man,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I'll be honest, I hadn't. I knew
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  Speaker 2: But it's not like they're, you know, sitting around going,
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  Speaker 2: just not that. However, they'll they'll want to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: then I saw what the story is and I went, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh. So I'm not gonna say what the story is.
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  Speaker 2: year in the wake of boycotts over its new DEI policy.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know that that's gonna fix it because
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  Speaker 2: with that. Do you cook with your kids? Experts say
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  Speaker 2: Admit that they just don't want to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: when they're teenagers all right, Still, nearly half say they'd
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  Speaker 2: do it more if they had extra time, and over
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  Speaker 2: a quarter wish that they were simpler friendly for kid
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  Speaker 2: recipes that they were able to use. That would be
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  Speaker 2: the case with teenagers. We're getting to that point now
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  Speaker 2: we're going to start teaching them how to, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: actually cook things. I think we're getting to that stage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got a junior in high school and
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  Speaker 2: kids that are in high school in that regard, and
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  Speaker 2: we're got to have to start teaching them how to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they can make a grilled cheese. One doesn't
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  Speaker 2: sometimes with banana. But that's about it. There's not a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot else. There's maybe one or two recipes they got.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have to get on that, all right. If
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