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- Jason: I'm Jason Major. This is Subplots of Education, et cetera. Thank you for listening. So I'm going to talk to guests about education, but every other week I'm also going to just dive into something. I used to have a radio show in 2002, and it was sports-based, but I just talked about anything. So I dug up all the episodes and I thought it'd be fun to just go back and listen to something and comment on it as my 2026 self. So, this segment I wanted to revisit. I had a segment called Who Cares News, where I would talk about something that was ongoing in the media and just wonder why anyone cared about it out loud. So I'm gonna revisit one. I got a clip. This is from October sixth, 2002. My first ever Who Cares News segment. This was from my radio show in Memphis. Here we go. What was cool about that is that was Jason Lovkowitz, the producer. I've tried to track him down. He was such a good guy. He tried to reach out to me in 2008 because he'd started a show on MySpace. I can't find him online anywhere. I found some other Jason Lovkowitzes, but I have not found this one. I wonder what he's up to. Good dude, Jason. I call myself the head dork and charge. I was very self deprecating. I don't do as much of that anymore because I used it as armor. That took a long time to get over. But I'm I'm not doing the head dork and charge thing anymore. Not doing it. Lot to unpack there. Front page of the paper's hilarious for one. Front page of a website. I don't even know what that would be compared to now. Reddit? What is the front page of a website? Drudge, maybe, comes to mind. And the sports reporters. It was amazing how much influence those guys had. It was four guys sitting around a table talking about sports on Sunday mornings. Don't know anyone ever cared about that, but here we go. I don't even know if they still do that. Let me let me quickly Google this real quick. America's Cup. It is Rich Guys in the Boat. I do know that. You ever been to West Palm Beach? There is a place where all the yachts just sit there. It is You just sit there in awe a little bit. Apparently the America's Cup still goes on. I don't care about this anymore either. But it still goes on. Moving on. So this is still a thing. Networks will buy sports rights to places and then just bury the coverage and some channel they're trying to promote. That was probably the start of that. ABC family, not sure if that still exists. People will still complain about this. I don't even know how that's even a thing anymore. Cause if you have YouTube TV, all you have to do is just dial up the channel that you're gonna do and that's it. Another one that came up recently was you remember when Monday Night Football ended? This is probably 10 years ago now. They made a huge deal that Monday Night Football ended, but it didn't end. It just literally changed channels the next year. The people in the media really love to make themselves feel important. Monday night football comes to an era and it literally was called Monday Night Football the very next year. Back to who cares news. Cubs and Brewers, 24 years later, council goes from the Cubs to the Brewers. Brewers win the World Series. I don't remember Bruce Kem being the Cubs manager at all. That's right before they hired Dusty. So this was between the 02 03 seasons. So the Cardinals have won two World Series since then. The Cubs have won a World Series, and the Brewers just won the World Series. Still don't care about managers being fired, that's for sure. All right, back to who cares news. So you used to be able to just get music for free. Essentially you were stealing music. There were all kinds of sites. What were some of those called? Kazah, LimeWire. There was another one that was probably the best of all of them. I can't remember. But man, those were the days. You could just get any music you wanted online for free. I remember when iTunes first came out, it was like, why would I pay for this? Let's see what else I say about this. I love them essentially just admitting to stealing music online. What we deal with now is the AI companies have just loaded all this copyrighted material onto their sites and use it. And the corporations don't seem to care too much about that. It was just because some lay people were able to take music for free. Back to who cares news. Is The Bachelor still on? I don't know that either. I don't watch really any TV whatsoever. The Bachelor. What season was that? When that was going on. it started in 2002. How about that? The bachelor was new. Will there be a season 30 of the bachelor? my god. Season 30? All right. It's expected in January 2027. Hey, Jason. 2002, Jason. The bachelor's gonna be on for 27. No, 30 seasons. Choke on that. Would that be sophisticated though? It just sounds like he's rich. Well that was an interesting pivot. He probably can't play Waffle Ball. I love how my flex is the guy can you play wiffle ball or not? I'm pretty sure that became one of the seasons, didn't it? Weren't there those reality shows where they would intentionally deceive and trick people? let me stop there. The commercial appeal was the Memphis local Memphis newspaper. So that's what I was talking about. I that's a George Carlin joke right there. So George Carlin in back in town, I think, really ripped on pandas in the zoo. So let me see what I mentioned here. my god, there it is. Well, I still think exactly the same. All right, back to two thousand two, me. I think I literally just said the same thing word for word. Okay, this is two thousand two me again. Yes, it was. I do still like to complain about things. It is really interesting. We had a much more universal news experience back in 2002. So everyone was kind of reading the same things instead of having news that is catered directly to literal you. If pandas came to the Lincoln Park Zoo, because I live in Chicago now, I probably wouldn't know. I have no idea how they would reach me with this information. Anyways, thanks for listening to this. That's who cares news. I ended up having a theme song for it later. So perhaps I'll run some of these et cetera episodes and roll back some who cares news. There's just a Trevor a treasure trove of old stuff that I can revisit. But thanks for listening to the et cetera part of Subplots of Education, et cetera. I have four guests lined up. Gonna try to release one episode a week. So thanks very much for listening, subscribing, talk to you soon.