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Wicked Radio 1-2: CBS' New Year Promise - Do We Believe Them?, & Resolutions Everywhere! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Resolutions. Everywhere you turn, everybody's making resolutions. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a great thing. No, it really is. I think is
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Speaker 1: a certain good and right way to go about it
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Speaker 1: that's effective, some not so much. But what if I
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Speaker 1: told you that it's not just people in your personal life,
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Speaker 1: for people you see online that are making resolutions, you know,
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Speaker 1: New year changes, but an entire news organization. It is
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Speaker 1: really quite something. What CBS said on New Year's Day,
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Speaker 1: CBS News from their main anchor guy, it's pretty incredible.
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Speaker 1: Talk about that as well. And there's a new mayor
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Speaker 1: speaking of the New Year in New York City pretty
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Speaker 1: much went full Communist in his inauguration. And I'm going
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Speaker 1: to ask ask you to ask the question what's great
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Speaker 1: about that? And you're gonna say there's nothing great about that.
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Speaker 1: There's a communist mayor of New York City. Bill Wait,
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Speaker 1: hold on how he said it and how the mask
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Speaker 1: fell off should make it grateful? It does for me anyway?
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Speaker 1: What's great about it? They're not hiding it anymore. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to that as well in the actual New Year's Resolutions.
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Speaker 1: I've thought about this for a long time, and I
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Speaker 1: know this is more on the personal advice kind of
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Speaker 1: side which I try to stay away from. I mean,
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Speaker 1: why listen to me on that? But Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anold
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Speaker 1: had it post yesterday about making changes now that everybody's
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Speaker 1: doing it. That's fascinating that I think is the best
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Speaker 1: advice I've ever heard on this and it leaves clues.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that as we wrap up today too.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, before we get to all this stuff, thanks
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Speaker 1: for finding me. Happy New Year, I don't need to
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Speaker 1: even say that yet. Happy New Year to you. I
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Speaker 1: hope everything's going great for you. I think twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six is going to be great for you and me
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Speaker 1: and everybody in the country. I really do. I really
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Speaker 1: now before we get to the feature story about CBS
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Speaker 1: News is New Year Resolution. Let's go to the news news.
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Speaker 1: Did you see this New York City's new mayor. We
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Speaker 1: all knew it was coming, but this was a little different. Now,
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Speaker 1: Usually when you've got politician, you know, Bernie Sanders, and
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Speaker 1: by the way, he was there aoc a little bit
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Speaker 1: when they run as democratic socialists, you know, that's like
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Speaker 1: communism light. Usually when they're in office they shy away
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Speaker 1: from that. I think things have turned, guys. I don't
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Speaker 1: think they do that anymore. In fact, this was this
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Speaker 1: was mom, Donnie, just yesterday in New York City. The
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Speaker 1: mask has fallen off. And again this is why I
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Speaker 1: think we should be very very happy about this. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you why in a second. But here he we'll
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Speaker 1: draw this city closer together.
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Speaker 2: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
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Speaker 2: warmth of collectivism.
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Speaker 1: Well that didn't take long. It's always the thing now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever in your life encountered
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Speaker 1: somebody that has they died in the wool socialist or
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Speaker 1: full on communist, if you've ever talked to them one
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Speaker 1: on one, I don't know. Maybe in some life you've
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Speaker 1: debated them. Maybe it's just somebody at a dinner party,
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's somebody if you've ever had a conversation with
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Speaker 1: somebody that is a communist. There's no other way to
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Speaker 1: say it. And they fully support this. You know exactly
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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, the rugged individualism argument. It's
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Speaker 1: like there, it's like kryptonite to them, like they hate that. Nothing,
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Speaker 1: nothing gets them worked up like that, rugged individualism versus collectivism, right,
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Speaker 1: the collective hive mind of communism, socially and let's just free.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say socialism. It's communism. That's what
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Speaker 1: it is. But they don't usually say it when they're
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Speaker 1: elected and put it out loud like that. That was
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Speaker 1: right there in his inaugural address to New York City. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and I know the reaction so far online to that
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Speaker 1: has been, oh my god, that's they're flat out saying it. Now.
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Speaker 1: I know the argument has been and we can all
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Speaker 1: and if you're following me, you agree. I mean this
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Speaker 1: is I I'm all about the individual, individual freedoms, individual thought,
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Speaker 1: you know your own destiny, you make in your own decisions.
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Speaker 1: This is why I'm so against communism, and you probably
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Speaker 1: are too. So that's obvious. That was That was That
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Speaker 1: was the most obvious thing when he made that comment.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows that, but for him to say it out loud,
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Speaker 1: to say, we're gonna, we're gonna drop this whole concept
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Speaker 1: of rugged individualism, which obviously is what made this country
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Speaker 1: what it is, the individual right not this collective hive
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Speaker 1: mind for him saying that, I'm telling you, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like it at first, but it's a great thing
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Speaker 1: for them to be so arrogant and so cocky to
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Speaker 1: drop the mask so quickly. And there he was, and
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Speaker 1: by the way, there it was Bernie Sanders, who's in
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Speaker 1: the front row. Yes, I can't wait the breadlines. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be great. And there he was talking about his
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Speaker 1: policy about you know, if if if your your landlord
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Speaker 1: or or boss isn't treating you correctly in this in
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Speaker 1: this collective hive mind, the city will step in all
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Speaker 1: of the platforms. The bottom line is for them to
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Speaker 1: be so brazen about what they plan to do, I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you it is great news for all of us.
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Speaker 1: First of all, it's a massive wake up call. But secondly,
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Speaker 1: now you know how to combat it. Now you know
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Speaker 1: exactly what they're all about. Nobody claim Nobody in that
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Speaker 1: city can claim that they weren't warnant. They knew it.
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Speaker 1: For this guy was gearing up for a year and
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Speaker 1: a half before that election. You knew was coming, you
6:08
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna win. It is what it is.
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Speaker 1: Nobody can claim to be surprised. But for the rest
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Speaker 1: of us who don't live in New York City, this
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Speaker 1: is a great thing because now you have something you
6:16
Speaker 1: can pinpoint to. They were always shadowy in the background,
6:19
Speaker 1: and I'll use Bernie Sanders as an example. No, I
6:22
Speaker 1: just I'm not a communist. Yeah you are, but now
6:25
Speaker 1: they have identified themselves as that. So now anybody running
6:27
Speaker 1: against that concept, right, this collective communist beehive. Mind. Now
6:31
Speaker 1: you can point to this and say, look at New
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Speaker 1: York City, Look what they're doing. This is what we
6:36
Speaker 1: don't want. And as their policies, as they invariably do,
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Speaker 1: lead to disaster in that city, which is going to
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Speaker 1: be an absolute mess, now we can all point to
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Speaker 1: this and say that's why rugged individualism, that's why capitalism,
6:52
Speaker 1: that's why freedom is important, not what they happen. So now, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: our biggest city, the shining exams sample, the financial capital
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Speaker 1: of the world, is going to be a mess. If
7:04
Speaker 1: it's not already, that sucks, obviously, but now it's a big, shining,
7:09
Speaker 1: big example of where we don't want to go. And
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Speaker 1: that actually is a good thing. I take that as
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Speaker 1: a good thing. It sucks if you're struck stuck there.
7:18
Speaker 1: I mean, there's going to be an exodus the likes
7:20
Speaker 1: of which you've never seen, and things are gonna shift.
7:23
Speaker 1: I saw somebody who was it David Sachs. Was that
7:27
Speaker 1: who it was? Some Trump advisor, some financial guy. He said,
7:30
Speaker 1: flat out said it. The new financial capital of the
7:33
Speaker 1: country is going to be Miami, that's his prediction, not
7:35
Speaker 1: New York. They're going to move out of there. And
7:38
Speaker 1: the tech center of the country is going to be Austin,
7:41
Speaker 1: not San Francisco Silicon Valley area. Maybe things shift, they do,
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Speaker 1: and it sucks if you're stuck there, but you've gotta
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Speaker 1: make changes. But for the rest of us, you can
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Speaker 1: look at that as a shining example. Now they're saying
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Speaker 1: it out loud. That's the first step to combating it.
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Speaker 1: So good, I say, good. Keep Let that guy keep
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Speaker 1: on talking to our feature story. Not just you making
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Speaker 1: a new year resolution, not just your friends, an entire
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Speaker 1: news organization is Did you see this? It's quite remarkable,
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Speaker 1: it really is. I'm with you. I haven't paid attention
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Speaker 1: to the CBS Evening News in a long time. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I had to write it down on this card to
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Speaker 1: remember the guy's name. Tony Deakoople Tony Dakouopel is the
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Speaker 1: main anchor of the CBS Evening News. Think about it.
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Speaker 1: That's an example of how far they've fallen. Did you
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Speaker 1: ever have to write down or try to remember way
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Speaker 1: back in the day Walter Cronkite or Connie Chung or
8:36
Speaker 1: who else was a CBS news I don't know whatever,
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Speaker 1: but they were household names. This is how fallen. See
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Speaker 1: how far CBS has fallen. I couldn't even recall the
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Speaker 1: guy's name, the main anchor of their newscast. And they
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Speaker 1: know this, they know this for sure. But something quite
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Speaker 1: remarkable happened just yesterday. They're promising changes, and their big
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Speaker 1: promise out of CBS is to tell the truth. Did
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Speaker 1: you ever imagine a media world where he'd have to
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Speaker 1: have the main CBS anchor say we're making changes, We're
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Speaker 1: gonna start telling the truth now. Wow, But they're doing it.
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Speaker 1: So let's take that as good news. Again. But here's
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Speaker 1: the relevant question we all have to ask ourselves. Do
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Speaker 1: we believe them? Do we believe that CBS coming out
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Speaker 1: saying they're gonna start it, They're gonna start telling you
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Speaker 1: the truth now? Do we have any reason to believe
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Speaker 1: they're gonna hold true to this. I'll tell you why
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Speaker 1: I don't. But let's go to it. And we're gonna
9:31
Speaker 1: have to take this in pieces, and they're gonna have
9:33
Speaker 1: to jump around because there's a lot in here it's
9:34
Speaker 1: not worth editing. So here he is again, Tony da Koople,
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Speaker 1: CBS Evening News and their big announcement. I've never quite
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Speaker 1: seen anything like this. It's quite remarkable. We'll take it in,
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Speaker 1: We'll take it in little pieces. Here here he is,
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Speaker 1: take it away, Tony.
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Speaker 2: Changed since the first person sat in this chair. But
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Speaker 2: for me, the biggest difference is people do not trust
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Speaker 2: us like they used.
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Speaker 1: That's a hell of an opening line, and he's exactly right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at that. I always talk about this
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Speaker 1: every time they come with a national survey of trust
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Speaker 1: in legacy and legacy media, single digits. Nobody believes them
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Speaker 1: and for good reason. Okay, go on, Tony.
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Speaker 2: It's not just us, it's all of legacy media.
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Speaker 1: True. And I get it.
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Speaker 2: I get it because I've been hearing about it from
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Speaker 2: just about everybody for more than twenty years as I've
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Speaker 2: traveled America on this assignment or that my mom's neighbors
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Speaker 2: in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City,
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Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of conversations in.
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Speaker 1: Between, until I'll get back to it in a second,
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Speaker 1: until you finally had to do something about it. And
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Speaker 1: that's relevant, I think, to this entire thing. All right
10:38
Speaker 1: here he is morn I'm gonna skip ahead a little
10:40
Speaker 1: bit here because he get the general gist of where
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Speaker 1: he's going here.
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Speaker 2: Times people want to talk to me about our coverage
10:45
Speaker 2: of NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times it's all
10:49
Speaker 2: about Hillary Clinton's emails, or Russia Gate, or more recently,
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Speaker 2: COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's fitness for office.
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Speaker 2: The point is, on too many stories, the press has
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Speaker 2: missed the story.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's where it gets a little shaky. You didn't
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Speaker 1: miss the story, you intentionally in some cases, and CBS
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Speaker 1: is guilty, like they all are lying about the story,
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Speaker 1: misrepresented the facts, or completely ignoring it on purpose. That's
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Speaker 1: not missing the story. That's not like getting it wrong.
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Speaker 1: That's like complete negligence. Anyway, he goes on, I'll skip
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Speaker 1: a little ahead in this one.
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Speaker 2: Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocate simply
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Speaker 2: weren't being asked. So here's my promise to you today
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Speaker 2: and every time you see me in this chair, you
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Speaker 2: come first, not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests, and
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Speaker 2: yes that does include the corporate owners of CBS.
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Speaker 1: That's the part that got me. I'm like, okay, Wow,
11:52
Speaker 1: you don't hear I don't think honestly, I've ever heard
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Speaker 1: any news organization, any media outlet in legacy traditional media
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Speaker 1: come out and say advertisers, advocates, politicians, and ownership. So
12:06
Speaker 1: that's where it actually is pretty relevant where he mentioned that,
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Speaker 1: And that's how you know that they had to make
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Speaker 1: this kind of statement.
12:12
Speaker 2: I report for you, which means I tell you what
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Speaker 2: I know, when I know it, and how I know it,
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Speaker 2: and when I get it wrong, I'll tell you that too.
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Speaker 2: It also means I'm going to talk to everybody and
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Speaker 2: hold everyone in public life to the very same standard.
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Speaker 1: After all, I became a journalist to talk to people.
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Speaker 2: I love talking to people about what works in this country,
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Speaker 2: what doesn't, and not only what should change, but the
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Speaker 2: good idea is that should never change. I think telling
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Speaker 2: the truth is one of them. I'm Tony Dkoppel, the
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Speaker 2: anchor of the CBS Evening News, hold me to it.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to. But again, here's the thing. Do
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Speaker 1: we believe them? A little bit background of what led
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Speaker 1: up to this whole thing. You're probably aware of this story.
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Speaker 1: So Barry Weiss's natural journalist, she's like, actually a good one.
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Speaker 1: She's now in charge of CBS New to start this cleanup.
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Speaker 1: And to be fair, she has fired a bunch of
13:12
Speaker 1: those advocates he talked about, and the you know, propagandists
13:16
Speaker 1: that have just lurked in CBS News forever. Fired a
13:20
Speaker 1: ton of them. So she is in charge of this
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Speaker 1: now and more recently. I think there's just like two
13:25
Speaker 1: Sundays ago, I believe at the last minute, at her direction,
13:29
Speaker 1: they did pull a sixty minute story because it was
13:32
Speaker 1: just not factual at all, completely biased and complete crap.
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Speaker 1: So to be fair, you know there is that. Here's
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Speaker 1: the question, do we take them at their word what
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Speaker 1: Tony d Koople just said there CBS. Do we believe them?
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Speaker 1: I don't, And I'll tell you why. I've just experienced this,
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Speaker 1: whether it's an organization like them, or somebody in your
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Speaker 1: personal life or anybody online whatever, or a politician, anybody, anybody,
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Speaker 1: any human being, if they vowed to make any kind
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Speaker 1: of a positive change, I always ask what led them
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Speaker 1: to do this, And if it's because they were forced to,
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Speaker 1: not because they internally looked at themselves and said they
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Speaker 1: need to make a change. If they were forced to
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Speaker 1: do it, I don't think they really mean it. I
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Speaker 1: really don't. And isn't that the case with CBS? Ask yourself?
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Speaker 1: So what led to this? What led to this big
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Speaker 1: New year resolution from a major news organization, legacy media,
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Speaker 1: we're going to start telling the truth now, which still
14:28
Speaker 1: is just an unbelievable thing. What led to all of this? Well,
14:31
Speaker 1: what just recently happened over the past ten days. The
14:34
Speaker 1: biggest fraud story in American history was just exposed by
14:38
Speaker 1: a YouTuber twenty three years old, Nick Shirley. That happened
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Speaker 1: that had a massive, massive impact on all of these
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Speaker 1: guys and CBS. Looks like the strategy was they're going
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Speaker 1: to get ahead of all of this and start to
14:51
Speaker 1: say we're going to make major changes now, and then
14:54
Speaker 1: probably NBC and ABC and CNN and all those other
14:57
Speaker 1: fraudsters will probably do the same exact thing that don't
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Speaker 1: discount it. The impressions that that kid, that journalist, a
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Speaker 1: real one, Nick Shirley got on YouTube. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a one hundred and forty hundred and fifty million now,
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Speaker 1: that had a massive impact on this for them to
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Speaker 1: start telling the truth now. And what's the other thing
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Speaker 1: he said it right there, the trust in legacy media
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Speaker 1: like CBS and they they he flat outs at it
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Speaker 1: in the beginning, there is at an all time low.
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Speaker 1: Nobody trusts them anymore. It's not only just not only
15:26
Speaker 1: watching them. Nobody find find me. Somebody in your personal life. Now,
15:31
Speaker 1: find them, Go ask them, probably an older person, and say,
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Speaker 1: do you still believe CBS News like everything they're telling you?
15:37
Speaker 1: Most people will say, even if they're fans, they'll say sometimes,
15:41
Speaker 1: I don't know. That never used to be the case.
15:43
Speaker 1: Go back again to Walter Cronkite days, way back in
15:46
Speaker 1: the day that people used to watch him. It was
15:48
Speaker 1: like gospel like, no one even questioned it. It wasn't
15:51
Speaker 1: always telling the truth either, But that's how far legacy
15:53
Speaker 1: media has fallen. That's what forced them into this, not
15:57
Speaker 1: them looking internally saying, you know what, we're making a
16:01
Speaker 1: ton of money gratings are great. CBS News has never
16:06
Speaker 1: been more powerful. But you know what, let's be even better.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't the case here. That's why I don't believe
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Speaker 1: them now. Barry Wise, to her credit, she's in charge
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Speaker 1: of CBS News now is making these changes, and I'm
16:17
Speaker 1: sure a lot of this came from her, because I
16:19
Speaker 1: bet you Tony de Koople didn't want to do this
16:21
Speaker 1: on his own. I mean, it kind of played like
16:23
Speaker 1: a hostage video there for a little bit in the
16:25
Speaker 1: middle of it. But also to this, I'm not the
16:27
Speaker 1: only one that doesn't believe them. Elon's latest post on
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Speaker 1: X remember he's the biggest X user about CBS, didn't
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Speaker 1: believe it either. He said this specifically about sixty minutes
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Speaker 1: when they pulled that segment last minute. See sixty minutes
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Speaker 1: as a propaganda machine that lost their credibility a long
16:44
Speaker 1: time ago. Barry Barry Wise needs to clean house big time,
16:49
Speaker 1: not dabble around the edges. Doesn't sound like he believes
16:53
Speaker 1: it either either. Until they're just completely washed. There's a
16:56
Speaker 1: lot of other people. I saw Megan Kelly say nothing's
16:58
Speaker 1: going to happen. This is their promise, but there's no
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Speaker 1: reason to believe them whatsoever, because again, what was the
17:04
Speaker 1: motivation of making their change? They were forced to do it,
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Speaker 1: Otherwise they wouldn't if they didn't have such low ratings,
17:11
Speaker 1: if they weren't getting absolutely squashed by independent journalists out
17:15
Speaker 1: there everywhere where people are actually getting their news from
17:18
Speaker 1: now in new media, would they make this change? Nope,
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Speaker 1: That's why I don't believe them. Love to see it
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Speaker 1: happen would be great, but take away a grain of salt.
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Speaker 1: But that's the relevant question. All right, how about real resolutions?
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Speaker 1: I know this is more on the personal advice kind
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Speaker 1: of side, but today is the day to talk about it. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's making resolutions. You know, I've just found this in
17:38
Speaker 1: my personal life. The resolutions that work are ones that
17:42
Speaker 1: are based around systems. A bunch of people have said this,
17:46
Speaker 1: you know. It's like, don't make it about a certain goal,
17:50
Speaker 1: don't make it work yourself into a system. In other words,
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Speaker 1: what usually doesn't work is I'm gonna lose ten pounds
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Speaker 1: this month. Go to the gym every day and you're
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Speaker 1: all psyched up and you're all exciting. Eventually something happens
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Speaker 1: that hype, that motivation, that charge it only lasts so long.
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Speaker 1: Something gets in the way. One day, you hurt your foot,
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Speaker 1: you don't go to the gym, that snowballs, you don't
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Speaker 1: go to the gym again, you don't walk. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know do that you got you gotta work call
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Speaker 1: you had to deal with when it was usually your
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Speaker 1: gym time, that threw out of it. You know that.
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Speaker 1: I've heard that said a lot. First person I ever
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Speaker 1: heard say this was the great Scott Adams with his podcast.
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Speaker 1: Yeah he's the Dilberg guy. But I just read a
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Speaker 1: post that summed this up perfectly from Arnold Schwartzenega. Arnold.
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Speaker 1: He wrote this just yesterday and I thought it was brilliant.
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Speaker 1: He said this, and I gotta read it for you.
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Speaker 1: My best advice is to stop using motivation. Sorry, I'm
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Speaker 1: just kidding. I won't do Arnold voice the whole time
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Speaker 1: because it's really long. I wouldn't do that to you,
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Speaker 1: I promise, But he writes, my best advice is to
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Speaker 1: stop using motivation is your only fuel. I know it
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Speaker 1: feels great when you're fired up, but it's short term
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Speaker 1: fuel source. That's why the vast majority of people who
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Speaker 1: start anything diet, fitness new don't finish, they run out
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Speaker 1: of gas. The only lasting fuel is routine, and only
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Speaker 1: you get a routine by dragging yourself on the days
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Speaker 1: when you have no motivation, over and over and over.
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Speaker 1: It's the same thing. People have talked about this for
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Speaker 1: a long time. Scott Adams said, system's over goals. Same
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Speaker 1: thing what Arnold is saying here, But he's saying routine.
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Speaker 1: In other words, he means a system, and it's just this,
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Speaker 1: instead of the goal, do a system that'll get to
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Speaker 1: your goal. In other words, it's like instead of saying
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose ten pounds this month, you gonna say
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna, for example, I'm gonna walk two miles every
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Speaker 1: single day. I just do it. I just do it, right.
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Speaker 1: That's a system or a routine over a goal. That's
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Speaker 1: what works. That way, When the motivation and the fuel
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Speaker 1: and the hype runs out, you feel like crap one day,
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Speaker 1: you still just do it. The systems work, not the goal,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think he's exactly right
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Speaker 1: on that. And I've seen this over and let's be fake.
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Speaker 1: Let's be completely honest Arnold, whether you're like him or
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Speaker 1: not as an actor or a governor, as a person,
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Speaker 1: as a bodybuild or whatever it is. That's a pretty
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Speaker 1: damn accomplished guy in his life. Think about what he's accomplished,
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Speaker 1: and you look at other people who say the exact
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Speaker 1: same thing. Systems and routines, over goals. They know what
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Speaker 1: they're doing. Some pretty successful people. So I know that's
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Speaker 1: a little bit more on the personal side, but that's
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Speaker 1: what it seems to. That's what it seems to find
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Speaker 1: success these days for that kind of stuff. Because we're
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Speaker 1: all making resolutions, but the big resolution, the New Year
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Speaker 1: resolution from CBS News. Do we believe them?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Ask yourself that question. If you're determining that kind of change,
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Speaker 1: ask yourself, why should I believe them? What led to
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Speaker 1: the change? Was it from them or were they forced
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Speaker 1: to make it? If they're forced to make it, I
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Speaker 1: don't believe them anyway. That's my take. Thanks for finding me.
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