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Wicked Radio 4-29: Q & A Catch Up From The Mailbag - Life And Everything Else · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Always wanted to do this. Let's just take something from
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  Speaker 1: the headlines and apply it to real life. It's the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I do this little live stream of ours.
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  Speaker 1: I like to call Wicked Radio, and thanks for finding me, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Bill Adams. And they explained yesterday God
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  Speaker 1: Willing and the Creed don't rise. I'm on a plane
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  Speaker 1: right now and you might have noticed the live sign
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  Speaker 1: is off. So I thought it's a good time to
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  Speaker 1: play catch up. Let's catch up with all of this
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's been going on in the news, and let's
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  Speaker 1: kind of apply it to real life, because otherwise, what's
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  Speaker 1: the point, right, It's the whole reason to do this,
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  Speaker 1: because anyway can talk about the news, and there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of people with plenty of opinion. But what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do was talk about the headlines and apply it
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  Speaker 1: and get a real good understanding of what we can
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  Speaker 1: learn about it in real life. So a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of background. So I gotta do some traveling, and the
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  Speaker 1: schedule for the live stream is gonna be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit tricky going here forward for the next about a
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  Speaker 1: week because everything's cool, but my daughter's having some surgery.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to be iffy and crazy, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: that takes priority. But and like I said, everything's okay
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  Speaker 1: with that. But I thought it was a perfect time
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  Speaker 1: now that today happens to be kind of a slow
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  Speaker 1: news day unless we want to talk about Canada going
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  Speaker 1: down the drain again, but that's a whole different issue.
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  Speaker 1: And now that I can pre record something and get
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  Speaker 1: it off to you, I thought, maybe, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and do this. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: do it and let's catch up. So what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do was clear out the mail bag over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of months, especially people you guys have reached
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  Speaker 1: out to me in my DMS, the messages, and that
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  Speaker 1: could be anything. Most of them came from X because
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  Speaker 1: I think it has the best direct message system, slot
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  Speaker 1: from Facebook, some on YouTube, but mostly on X. But
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  Speaker 1: my point being, my direct messages are always open for
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. And I want to work this in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. Maybe it'll be one Q and A
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  Speaker 1: a day in the live. Maybe we'll just take a
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  Speaker 1: Q and A Saturday and clear everything out. Then questions
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  Speaker 1: about life beyond the headlines and everything. Now, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the elephant in the room. And I talked about
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  Speaker 1: this a little bit yesterday in the live stream on
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Radio. Why Me. You know, you're asking the question,
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  Speaker 1: what perspective do you have to give about life? You're
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  Speaker 1: not an expert, true, but you said it right there,
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  Speaker 1: anonymous person. I have a different perspective, not saying mine's
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  Speaker 1: any better or any worse than yours, but it's different.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe I can add something. Not to get to
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  Speaker 1: corny on you here, but I think if we can
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  Speaker 1: all kind of add our own perspectives and we all
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  Speaker 1: have them to what else is going on in other
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  Speaker 1: people's lives, can help out a whole loss. Because everybody
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  Speaker 1: has experience. They call it. I have referenced this yesterday too.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, calls it a talent stack.
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  Speaker 1: We all have them, your individual unique experience and perspective
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom that you've gained throughout your life. Everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: a unique one. As it pertains to me, I got
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  Speaker 1: a really unique one. A lot of you know me
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  Speaker 1: from radio days. That's thirty years of going through the
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  Speaker 1: headlines and you know, discerning what news stories would be
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  Speaker 1: good for a particular audience at at a certain time.
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  Speaker 1: You do that long enough. That is why I talk
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  Speaker 1: about the headlines all the time. You understand exactly what
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  Speaker 1: fake news is, what propaganda is, how the news cycle works,
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  Speaker 1: how they get it out to people who they want
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  Speaker 1: to reach, what's true, what's not. Besides the fact that
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  Speaker 1: doing that for so long, the way I did it
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  Speaker 1: in my particular career is getting out in the perspective,
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  Speaker 1: if you deal with every I have dealt with and
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  Speaker 1: had conversations with every kind of person you can possibly imagine,
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  Speaker 1: anybody name them. On the radio side of things. I
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  Speaker 1: have interviewed presidents, I have rock stars, regular people, sports people, criminals,
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  Speaker 1: experts of all different kind gives you a unique perspective. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: just doing that, you get an idea of sales and
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  Speaker 1: marketing and all that good stuff that involves with that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, corporate radio career. Besides that, being at myself,
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  Speaker 1: which many of you are, that's a whole different perspective
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  Speaker 1: as well as I'm a business owner, have been for
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  Speaker 1: quite some time. And from another perspective, this goes into
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  Speaker 1: the mindset stuff I talk about all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: do have a background. I don't talk about it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: In self defense. My particular area was Kravmaga. That was
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  Speaker 1: my choice. And yes I have a certificate that says
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  Speaker 1: I have a black belt, but that means nothing unless
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  Speaker 1: you apply it to real life. But all it is together,
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  Speaker 1: not saying, like I said, my perspective is any better
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  Speaker 1: or worse than yours, but it's different and maybe a
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  Speaker 1: guy can add something to something that's going on in
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  Speaker 1: your life. So with that said, my direct messages are
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  Speaker 1: always open. We'll call it the mail bag, but you
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  Speaker 1: can ask me anything beyond the headlines. Start talking about
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  Speaker 1: some life, all right, let's get to it. And did
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  Speaker 1: I cherry pick these questions? Why? Yes I did, because
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  Speaker 1: there were certain things I wanted to talk about anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Yes I did. But you felt comfortable enough with me
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  Speaker 1: to reach out and I really appreciate that. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get to it. So I'm ready to go. I got
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  Speaker 1: my better call saw coffee cup ready, all loaded with caffeine.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take a we'll take a few SIPs of that
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  Speaker 1: is through the entire thing as we go, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of see how it goes here. I've always wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do this, all right. Question number one again completely
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  Speaker 1: cherry picked because these are the things I love talking
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  Speaker 1: about anyway. And oh, by the way, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to use your names on this. I'm gonna keep it
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  Speaker 1: completely anonymous unless you want me to. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't mind me using your name, put that in the
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  Speaker 1: in the message. But these are these are direct, honest
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  Speaker 1: to God, from the from the direct messages. I call
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  Speaker 1: it the mail bag Number one. Billy. You talk about
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  Speaker 1: fake news and propaganda a lot. Yes, I do. Haven't
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  Speaker 1: had any success keeping my kids away and showing them
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Any tips, oh near and dear to my heart,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I just said right there my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't do thirty years of corporate broadcasting and
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  Speaker 1: be on the air basically every single day and going
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  Speaker 1: through because I was always news, right, news and information
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  Speaker 1: and then news talk. You can't go through that much
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  Speaker 1: information for a particular audience and not get a clear
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  Speaker 1: understanding of how news works and how propaganda works. And
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  Speaker 1: I call it propaganda because it's exactly that, and it
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  Speaker 1: comes from both sides. Guys. Let's be completely honest here.
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  Speaker 1: The news cycle is such as it is to reach
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  Speaker 1: as many people as possible, and they're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: it through in a certain way to a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different people, right, and they want to get through to
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  Speaker 1: a message. If I didn't understand that and understand exactly
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  Speaker 1: and also getting to know the news directors and understanding
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  Speaker 1: what they were all about, if after doing that for
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  Speaker 1: three decades and not understanding how that works, I would
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  Speaker 1: have been an idiot. Right. But to your question, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for the question and keeping kids
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  Speaker 1: away from that and showing them the truth, well, I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you what doesn't work, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this is just from me doing things that were a
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  Speaker 1: complete and total fail. I would come home and again
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  Speaker 1: after understanding and talking about it all day, understanding exactly
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  Speaker 1: what was fake and what the propaganda was and what
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  Speaker 1: was not real, and then I would hear my kids
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  Speaker 1: just like you are with the question, you know, talking
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  Speaker 1: about certain things in the news and set a certain
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  Speaker 1: way which you know was pure propaganda, and you know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they're getting it from, and more often than not,
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  Speaker 1: they would get it from first social media with snapchat stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then when TikTok developed from that. Now you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine and I can sense your frustration to hearing the
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  Speaker 1: question being able to guide kids from that, because it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like you lose control. Right as a parent, you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you've lost control. Is like you try to
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  Speaker 1: teach them what's going on in the world and your
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  Speaker 1: perspective and things, and then there you wonder whether they're
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  Speaker 1: getting it from school or friends. Social media is where
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  Speaker 1: most of this misinformation comes from with them, and I've
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  Speaker 1: lived it. I've experienced it directly, and you can imagine
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  Speaker 1: my frustration of in corporate broadcasting talking about this stuff
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  Speaker 1: all day and then hearing them sbout the exact same
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  Speaker 1: thing that I just tried to, like, you know, downplay.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what didn't work is explaining it exactly the way
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  Speaker 1: I just did to you. Because if I explained it
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  Speaker 1: to like a twelve or thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year old kid,
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  Speaker 1: even in their twenties exactly like we just said it,
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  Speaker 1: as adults, tune out exactly. Maybe I haven't tuned you
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  Speaker 1: out right now, I don't know. But that doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: You can't explain to them, and you can't say everything
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  Speaker 1: that they've heard is wrong, doesn't work, doesn't do doesn't
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  Speaker 1: won't They'll shut down. Then we'll listen to you. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what I found that works. Questions, just question everything, keep calm,
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  Speaker 1: like you hear them spouting off stuff and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear it coming, you know you hear you
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  Speaker 1: can hear the mind virus stuff coming. Just question like, well,
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  Speaker 1: who said that? What are the sources there? Are you
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  Speaker 1: sure is that really what they meant? And pepperham with
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  Speaker 1: questions to get them to think, and they'll turn you
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  Speaker 1: off after a while, but they'll start to question these
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  Speaker 1: things themselves. I've found that's the most effective way to
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  Speaker 1: deal with all of this information, which still happens as
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  Speaker 1: they try to get through to kids. Because I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I especially realize this with TikTok. If you
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  Speaker 1: were design a propaganda mind control weapon, honest to god,
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  Speaker 1: that's how it's been described, you would build it exactly
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  Speaker 1: like TikTok. It's unbelievable how effective and how good that
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  Speaker 1: thing is. They can control anything you want. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: say this, and my younger daughter taught me this about TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: They said, Dad, but the algorithm is completely different the
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  Speaker 1: stuff you're talking about. We don't see that. Like we're
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  Speaker 1: into like you know, pop stars and fashion and dance
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  Speaker 1: and music, different things. We get most of that, but
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  Speaker 1: not all of it. And we'll say I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, and thank you so much for the question. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you this through using those questions over years.
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  Speaker 1: It took me this I got. I choke with my
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  Speaker 1: friends about this. I've got my kids about eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: out of the wold mind virus, but like eighty just
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  Speaker 1: by asking questions, because now they're critical thinkers themselves, mostly
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  Speaker 1: on most things where they asked these questions themselves. So
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  Speaker 1: preaching to them about things, telling them they're wrong, that
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  Speaker 1: what they're hearing is wrong doesn't work. Getting them to
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  Speaker 1: ask questions themselves. That's what works. That's what That's what
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  Speaker 1: I found anyway, So good luck. That's a great question,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, and you can tell it's so near
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  Speaker 1: and dear to my heart. That's why I let off
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  Speaker 1: with that one second question for the mailbag. As we're
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  Speaker 1: here on Q and a catch up. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: call it Wicked Radio? We used to cover the When
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  Speaker 1: I first started doing the live stream, I talked about this. Remember,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out a name, and I
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  Speaker 1: was settled on Wicked for the easiest reason of all.
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  Speaker 1: So Ever, since I was in college, being from Boston,
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  Speaker 1: my nickname was wicked, Wicked Bill, Wicked Bill Adams. So
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  Speaker 1: when it was time to find social media handles on
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  Speaker 1: anything x, YouTube, Facebook, stuff, anything, I would just sign up.
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  Speaker 1: Because Bill Adams is such a common name, I would
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  Speaker 1: always use Wicked Bill Adams. The wicked stuff, right, and
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  Speaker 1: wicked radio seem to apply because for the live stream
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  Speaker 1: version of what we do, I just figured it was
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  Speaker 1: like it kind of goes along. It's just kind of
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: makes sense. It's like wicked radio. And I'm so and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so used to it now and more like an
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  Speaker 1: adjective and more like a regional kind of thing. I
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  Speaker 1: had somebody say, speaking of the mail bag, I had
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  Speaker 1: somebody right to me once they said, wicked radio, boy,
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  Speaker 1: you must be you just must be evil. And it
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  Speaker 1: hit me and I said, wow, you know what, most
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  Speaker 1: of the country might see that as a bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just regional. To me. I see it as an adjective,
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  Speaker 1: like like wicked. It's to the extreme. It's like that's
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  Speaker 1: wicked wicked anyway. That's the reason why there's not a
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  Speaker 1: big there's not rocket science to it. But now now ever,
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  Speaker 1: since I got that mail back question speaking of that,
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  Speaker 1: that direct message, I'm like, oh, people don't think it's evil.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean it that way. It just means like
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: edgy cutting edge as much as I can be anyway.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next question, and thanks so much for being
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  Speaker 1: here again. I appreciate it. I remember you did an
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  Speaker 1: interview with a guy once about how to start an
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  Speaker 1: exercise program. Can't remember who it was either, can I?
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  Speaker 1: But can you highlight what works? I do remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember what you were talking about. And I found
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  Speaker 1: this too. Again, this whole thing is just my perspective.
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  Speaker 1: It's not any better than yours, not any worse than yours,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a perspective what's worked for me my entire life,
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  Speaker 1: just to get into an exercise program, just to get moving,
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  Speaker 1: because movement is life, it truly is. There's anything I've
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  Speaker 1: learned in my life, you know, in my mid fifties now,
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  Speaker 1: for God's sakes, it's that movement is life and me
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  Speaker 1: personality wise, and you may be different. I have to
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  Speaker 1: do something that's fun for me. That's like I can't
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  Speaker 1: even I can't get start in exercise. Like I hate running,
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  Speaker 1: I hate jogging. I hate it. It's not fun for me.
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  Speaker 1: So I tend to put it off unless I have
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  Speaker 1: to unless it's part of a like I said, they're
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  Speaker 1: like part of a Kravma god test or something. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. They have to do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of running. That's not my thing, but it may be
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  Speaker 1: your thing. And you may love running, maybe it maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was years ago. You love to run and get
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  Speaker 1: going with that and you find it fun. Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Do what's fun. That's the entire thing. But just do something.
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  Speaker 1: I can't express enough. We talked about this before. Actually
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  Speaker 1: this came up on one of the social surveys. I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you how good for you. I can't tell
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  Speaker 1: you enough how good for you walking is. Walking is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Just walk, walk a little bit. Walk. It didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have to be a lot. But if you do it
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  Speaker 1: consistently every single day. And I think that's what the
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  Speaker 1: guests I can't remember his name either, the guest I
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  Speaker 1: talked about quite some time ago. He said the exact
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  Speaker 1: same thing. If you start just a little bit. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about the intensity of it, yes, it's just about
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  Speaker 1: getting going with something. That was the main point he
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  Speaker 1: talked about. And again I guess this goes back to
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  Speaker 1: a parenting thing. If you're trying to get a family
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  Speaker 1: exercise program going, you gotta make it fun or you're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna turn people off. So that's that's my takeaway anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And if you you know, and if you like it more,
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  Speaker 1: just distant increase. That's all. That's what I've found. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm no expert. I just have a different perspective. All right,
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  Speaker 1: next question, what are we here? Just move to a
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  Speaker 1: h I love that this was actually from like a
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  Speaker 1: month ago, and I dug it up because this is
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  Speaker 1: so important to me. Just move to a new area.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't have the best school zone? Isn't that common these days?
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  Speaker 1: Worried about my elementary age school son and bullie maybe
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  Speaker 1: just being paranoid. Is there any way to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to the school? Would that even be effective? Don't do that. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that, because you're gonna label your kid as
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  Speaker 1: like some sort of a you know, fragile kid at first.
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  Speaker 1: Good God, don't do that. Please, don't reach out to
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  Speaker 1: the school at first. But you can find out exactly
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  Speaker 1: what a new area is like. We've all gone to that,
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  Speaker 1: right And if you're a parent or a young person yourself,
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  Speaker 1: move into a new area can be so so dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: Good God. I remember I was in the suburbs when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid and we moved and that's still
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  Speaker 1: traumatized by that. It's still have PTSD from that. But
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  Speaker 1: can imagine going to an area for whatever reason and
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  Speaker 1: it happens to be a really tough area and you're
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  Speaker 1: worried about your kid, and maybe that I don't know
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  Speaker 1: enough from the male bag question, but maybe that's somebody
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  Speaker 1: that like has been picked on before. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. So you can get a sense
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  Speaker 1: for where the danger zones are and you can teach
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  Speaker 1: in the basic things about you know, safety and keeping
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  Speaker 1: your head up. But the reason why Cherry picked this
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  Speaker 1: question for the mail bag as well is because this
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  Speaker 1: I told you there. I don't talk about this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but a big part of my life is self defense training.
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  Speaker 1: And I happen to choose because I started as an adult,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like fifteen years into it now. I happen
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  Speaker 1: to choose kravm God, which is a fighting fitness program
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  Speaker 1: and I still train to this day. It works for me.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I chose it, because for me, it was
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  Speaker 1: the most real life applicable system that you can train
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  Speaker 1: in it and it's just great. I like it because
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  Speaker 1: it puts you in a situation. Every technique you learn
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  Speaker 1: in kravm God and most self defense systems are like this.
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  Speaker 1: They put you in the worst possible position that you're
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  Speaker 1: in and you learn how to turn that into a
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  Speaker 1: position of power. That's what I like. That's why I
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: talk about mindset stuff all the time, is because that's
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  Speaker 1: really what you need to do. Life comes at us
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: with all kinds of shit every single day. It's all about,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it turning that around and turning it into a
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  Speaker 1: positive at turning the losses into wins. And in her perspective, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what, I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: that's a mom or a dad, not too sure, can't
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  Speaker 1: really tell from the mail bag. But from this particular
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  Speaker 1: parent situation, I can't recommend enough if just for self confidence,
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  Speaker 1: getting any kid, every kid you have, into some sort
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: of self defense training. Anything could be anything BJJ Brazilian
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: jiu jitsu is great for kids, or karate program at taekwondo,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: there's krab for kids. There's everything. They even have like
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: little MMA fight clubs. It might be too extreme for you,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: but still it's great, some sort of self defense program
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: for a kid. The very first thing is yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it doesn't come to that. But there are fight
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: skills and self defense skills, but it's the confidence that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: they that they teach and what they learned throughout that
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  Speaker 1: The first thing they ever tell you, and the first
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: thing I ever learned, and even in Krav Magaw was
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: bad guys don't have an alternate plan. They have an
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: alternate victim. In other words, they're not smart enough to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: rethink something. If they're going to do bad things, they
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: just look for if you look like you could put
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: up a fight, they're not going to mess with you.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: They go to the next one. That's why you see
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: so many people who are crime victims, not all of them,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and not to blame the victim, but so many crime
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: victims have their head down, they're not paying attention, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they look weak instead of projecting a position of power.
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  Speaker 1: The confidence in a kid and if it ever came
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: down to it, the ability to defend him or herself
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: is so key. That's what I in my perspective, that's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: what I would recommend to you. Not only that, there's
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: another reason why Jerry picked this question. I have believed
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: for years that in the school system, public, private, whatever
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: it is, charter school anything, Let's get rid of gym
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: class Let's replace that with what's applicable now. You want
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to stop bullying in schools, you want to stop that,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: make it a required self defense program. Give these kids
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: mutually assured destruction, and you've got to stop bullying in
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: its tracks. That's exactly what's going to happen. I can't
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: recommend it enough, not only the exercise we were talking about
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: exercise programs before, but also just the confidence and the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ability to know you can defend yourself in most situations.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable change. It's like incredible. So for this person,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: God love you, and I hope everything And I know
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: this is like a month old. In the mail back question,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: we're just catching up today, but I hope everything worked out.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And I can't recommend enough, excuse me getting that kid
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: into some sort of a self defense program, if for
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: nothing else, just the confidence it develops. So good luck
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: with that next question for the mail bag, And this
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: is just a Q and a catch up if you're
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: just joining us too. Things in the mail bag question,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I pre record it here just to get up because
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I hopefully am on a flight right now, so just
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: catching up in the mail bag. And you guys were
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: comfortable enough with me to reach out here, so good
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: day to catch up. It's a slow news day too.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Hey Bill, love the pod, Thank you so much. I'm
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: surrounded by let what oh not using that word. We
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: got to cut that out because of the second half
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of the word lib blanks. You know what I'm talking about.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: This is this person's perspective of not mine. I don't
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: use the word, but anyway, I'm surrounded by those people
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: at work, including my boss. What do I say to them?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: You know, you say to them nothing? And I would
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: have told you something different pre election, but now you
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: don't have to say anything. First thing I said when
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we were doing the live stream and talking about Trump
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: two point zero the second term was if you were
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a Trump supporter and if you had lived through what
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we lived through the previous four years for this and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: now this happened. This is my perspective on this, and
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: again not right, not wrong, It's just different from yours.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Here's mine. You don't have to say anything, which is
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: ironic for a guy who gets on here and says
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: something every single day. A big mouth. But it's true.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: In a personal situation, dinner with friends and family and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: people at work and all this stuff, what do you
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: have to say? It's it's kind of like that sports analogy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: You know what, somebody's talking trash, but they're losing. You
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: just scoreboard. Do I have to say to you? I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: don't have to say anything. If you did, If you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: did choose to say something, the calm person wins. He
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: who stays calm wins. Get hysterical, don't you know, get argumentative,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: especially in a work situation if you're surrounded by them
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: where you think you're gonna be in trouble for offering
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: up your opinion. That hits close to home to me
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: too as well. You don't have to really say anything,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: but if you do, keep it calm, keep it simple,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and again, just like we were talking about with kids,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: ask questions, really, uh oh, why do you feel that? Okay?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: All right? Well, where did you hear that? Where did
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you hear that particular story? Is it? Oh? Okay? Ask questions.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: That's how you get around it. But don't get mad.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I know that. I wrap up the live stream every
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: single day by saying don't take any crap from anybody
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean starting fights. That just means you don't have
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to take crab from anybody. That's all that means. All right,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: next question, catching up in the mail bag. That's all
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we're doing today. What was the real reason? Yeah, that's right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do this, but it did. What was
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the real reason you were left radio? And what actually happened?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: So this is obviously somebody local that remembers me from
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: radio days. But my fault I and it wasn't left radio.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was fired. That's what happened. There was I was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: let go, invited to leave, and nothing bad whatsoever. But
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I can't We're gonna, okay, August what was the date?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: August twenty first, twenty twenty five. This is coming August
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: twenty first. I'll tell you exactly what happened because I'm
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: not getting paid from them anymore. But that's about it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: But right now, yeah, I'm gonna stay away from that one.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: But the answer is, no big deal. It wasn't. It
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: wasn't really anything. It was just common business practice. That's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that's all. That was. Last one. We all we have
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: time for it because I have to get on a plane.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Love the podcast, Thank you so much. My question is
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: when and where could we get Wicked radio merchandise? Thank you,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh, you're too kind. Oh I used your name.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I said I wasn't gonna do that. We
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: are far away from that, that's not We have to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: build up an audience before anything like that would happen.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And even if that happened, I don't think I would
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: be in a position to sell any merch But you
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: know who knows personal idea of mine coming down the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: road and really just extending it out of what we
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: do every single day, taking the headlines and taking the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: lessons we learned from that and applying it to your life.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Hopefully a book someday with Wicked Wisdom. We'll see who
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the heck knows? All right, Well, that said, that's it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Schedule coming up. The reason why we're doing it like
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: this today is because it's going to be kind of
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: crazy for me personally going forward for the next week
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: or so, because, like I said, everything's fine, but my
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: daughter has some surgery. We've got a flight in New York.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: We'll be up there for that for a little while.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Schedule schedule is going to be iffy. I'll be on
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: with you, talking to you guys as much as I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: possibly can throughout that. But other than that, EXTP finding
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: me as always a little bit different. I like you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: know what. I love this though, and it was time.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It was a good time, but been meaning to do
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it for a while. To catch up on the mail
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: bag you guys writing in questions about anything life in general,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: whatever perspective big or small, right or wrong that I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: can add to it. Maybe I can help out who
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the heck knows. I think we can all help out
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: each other. But we'll do this maybe one question a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: day if there's enough during the live stream, or we'll
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: just do a Q and a catch up on Saturday.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Who the heck knows. But that's the main goal is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to make it more interactive. And like I said, I
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: won't use your name except for Josh. Sorry about that, Josh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I kind of outed you on that one. Unless you
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: want me to. I'll keep it completely anonymous, but whatever,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes from there. A lot to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: catch up on the next time we talk, which I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: sure will be more news related and what the heck's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: going on hopefully it's good news. Who knows. With all
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that said, yes, I'm still gonna I'm still gonna say this.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Don't take any crap from anybody, Gonna have a wicked
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: awesome day. This is fun. I like it. I'll talk
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to you soon.