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Today’s Popcorn Moment: Trump talks about all the Chinese restaurants in the US. Parents banning phones from their kids. · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: My Bologna Tony casts in the Morning News ninety three WIBC.
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  Speaker 2: There it is ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,
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  Speaker 2: filling in, thrilled to be with you. It's time for
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  Speaker 2: our popcorn moment, which is brought to you by Boer Remodeling.
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  Speaker 2: We have an awesome piece of audio from President promin.
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  Speaker 3: Go hit to fire off the popcorn. There it is
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 2: See President of the United States, Well, speaking today in China,
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  Speaker 2: made a joke about the amount of Chinese restaurants we
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  Speaker 2: have fast food restaurants and whatnot here in our country.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a bit of that audio.
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  Speaker 4: As allies in World War Two, President Franklin Roosevelt's mentions
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  Speaker 4: of the brave people of China, that's what they were,
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  Speaker 4: crue loud cheers, and his speeches in the United States,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody loved what he had to say, just as
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  Speaker 4: many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans. Chinese restaurants
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  Speaker 4: in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains
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  Speaker 4: in the United States all combined.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty big state.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Chinese restaurants in town. Yes, depending
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  Speaker 2: on where you live. Some of them might be better
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  Speaker 2: than others. We all know this to be true, and
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  Speaker 2: truly authentic ones. I don't know if that's what you want,
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  Speaker 2: because if you've ever walked into like a truly authentic
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  Speaker 2: Chinese restaurant, some of the items on the menu feel
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  Speaker 2: like things we shouldn't be serving to people. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: trying to be mean. I'm just putting it out there.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm not alone. But all right, yes, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump making jokes about how significant of a Chinese population
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  Speaker 2: we have here in the United States as he is
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  Speaker 2: trying to get China to do some stuff we want
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  Speaker 2: them to do well. Also probably potentially, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe doing some stuff that China wants us to do.
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  Speaker 2: Other things out there that I thought were interesting. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of parents that are banning screens for
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  Speaker 2: their kids in all scenarios. This is including news. There
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  Speaker 2: are parents who did an interview for The New York
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  Speaker 2: Post in which they say that they don't want their
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  Speaker 2: kids to pay attention to anything other than real life
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  Speaker 2: for a while growing up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the age is where you'd stop.
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  Speaker 2: Some of these kids seem to be, you know, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten years old in some of the videos that are
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  Speaker 2: going viral and social media of parents talking about this.
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  Speaker 2: So probably too old to not have any idea of
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  Speaker 2: what's going on out there in the world. But part
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  Speaker 2: of me loves this that you keep smartphone use and
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  Speaker 2: screen use and any kind of stuff away from kids
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  Speaker 2: so they get to just be kids for a while,
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of people today seem to care way
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  Speaker 2: too much about things, especially young people, that they probably
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  Speaker 2: don't need to care about yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Matt Bear has a thought on
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 5: This would have been like taking away my Nintendo entertainment
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  Speaker 5: system when I was a kid. It would have made
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  Speaker 5: me hostile on so many levels. I kind of love
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  Speaker 5: this too, Craig, and I'll tell you why. It's there
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  Speaker 5: is a disconnect because of our phone's all right, I
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  Speaker 5: was thinking about it, I kid, you not as thinking
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  Speaker 5: about this. I take these nightly walks down messaf where
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  Speaker 5: I live, and I've just got strolled around in I
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  Speaker 5: didn't count, but I just noticed. I just happen to
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  Speaker 5: notice that the number of people are just looking down
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  Speaker 5: at their phones, and people close to my age. We're
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  Speaker 5: not talking about just kids here, so they're seeing their
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  Speaker 5: mom and dad do it and they're like, that's cool
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  Speaker 5: for me, And you're not getting the perspective of the
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  Speaker 5: real world, and I think we lack that right now.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, this is going to make
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  Speaker 5: the kids crazy, because what's the most.
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  Speaker 3: Important thing when you were a kid.
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  Speaker 5: It's fitting in And everybody else is talking about these videos,
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  Speaker 5: everybody else is looking at them on their phones, and
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  Speaker 5: your parents are like, no, no phones, you can't look
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  Speaker 5: at TikTok or whatever else.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to be out of the loop.
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  Speaker 5: And that sucks, especially when you're a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point, Matt is, no matter how much
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  Speaker 2: parents think they're doing the right things for their kids,
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  Speaker 2: if you wind up sending your kids to school and
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  Speaker 2: they stand out among all the other kids, that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be good for them. That's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be a quality you want there. So it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be some sort of push pull. I just thought it
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  Speaker 2: was interesting that they were also mentioning like news, like
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  Speaker 2: I don't want my kid up to dat the news.
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  Speaker 2: I want them to live a life where they don't
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  Speaker 2: care about it yet, because there does sound to be
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  Speaker 2: there sounds like there's something magical about that idea like
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  Speaker 2: walking around because so many people now have some sort
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  Speaker 2: of periphery understanding of the news that's going on because
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  Speaker 2: it's covered in so many places all the time, that
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  Speaker 2: like if you could truly escape it for like a
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  Speaker 2: week or a month or in this case, your entire childhood.
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  Speaker 1: Part of me loves that that can happen. But you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to stand out and be the one
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  Speaker 2: weird kid who doesn't know stuff in the classroom, that's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm going to This is going to sound
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  Speaker 5: weird because I work at a news station, but I
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  Speaker 5: would ban my kids.
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  Speaker 3: From what you're looking at the news. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: When I was a teenager, and I'm not saying this
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  Speaker 5: is for everybody, I was not mature enough to handle
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  Speaker 5: the news or understand what it been to add. I
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  Speaker 5: would see, you know, I lived in a small town,
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  Speaker 5: but in like southeast Missouri, so we'd had Saint Louis stations,
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  Speaker 5: and I'd see things regarding murders and everything else, and
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  Speaker 5: it would scare me the yea and I would have
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  Speaker 5: this like overlayer of the world just being this murderous,
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  Speaker 5: violent place, and maybe sometimes it is, but you're not
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  Speaker 5: getting the good stuff with it.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I've never been a paras so I feel really weird
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  Speaker 5: talking about this right now. But tell I see a
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  Speaker 5: certain maturity out of my son or daughter. I really
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  Speaker 5: don't want them into that stuff. I want them playing
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  Speaker 5: with their friends. I want them outdoors, baseball. If you're
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  Speaker 5: in the video games, you can do that too, but
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  Speaker 5: you're doing something on some kind of social level with
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  Speaker 5: your brothers, sisters, or friends. And then we'll get into news,
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  Speaker 5: and then you and I will have a conversation about
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  Speaker 5: how to digest that news.
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  Speaker 3: That's how it happened for me, probably.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, I think that's a great idea, And I think
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of parents would probably say, depending on
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  Speaker 2: how their kid reacts if they're paying too much attention
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  Speaker 2: to the news, that instead of having it be an
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  Speaker 2: outright ban, you immediately try to change things if it's
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  Speaker 2: having a negative impact on kids. But I think you
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  Speaker 2: and I could, probably without kids, assume that news today
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  Speaker 2: seems to have a negative impact on a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of young people who might not be able to process it,
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  Speaker 2: especially the bias nature of news, and it gets delivered
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  Speaker 2: in so many places.
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  Speaker 3: Like Greta Thunberg.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, she's like completely paranoid and whacked out of
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  Speaker 5: her mind because she believes that the world's gonna come to.
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  Speaker 2: An end, right, and she's been thinking that since she
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  Speaker 2: was like a sixteen something year old person. But she
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  Speaker 2: probably should not have been having these conferences, like right,
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  Speaker 2: she's more miserable than she has to be because of
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  Speaker 2: her obsession with news. I wonder, but it seems like
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  Speaker 2: it's a great thing, the idea, and some parents are
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  Speaker 2: doing this. They're banning kids from everything, so.
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  Speaker 1: Darn it, it'll be good for you.
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  Speaker 2: You just won't understand it when they're making funny on
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  Speaker 2: the playground up at some point.
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  Speaker 3: The worst I've been on both sides of that baby.
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  Speaker 3: It's such when you're a kid. It really was never good.
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  Speaker 2: Another story that I saw that I liked this is
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  Speaker 2: a social media influencer who went viral for talking about
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  Speaker 2: Craigslist missed connections.
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  Speaker 1: The influencers seem to think, yep, I know.
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  Speaker 2: The influencer seemed to think that these were new that
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  Speaker 2: people are getting, you know, frustrated with dating apps or
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  Speaker 2: all these other things.
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  Speaker 1: And so now suddenly lee they're turning to the.
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  Speaker 2: Craigslist pages to write about the people that they saw
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't actually wind up talking to in public places.
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  Speaker 2: A bad news for the influencer and anyone else on
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  Speaker 2: like Reddit that doesn't know this.
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  Speaker 1: Misconnections have been around for a while. This is not new.
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  Speaker 2: This was a darker part of the Internet, I think
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  Speaker 2: for quite some time, a humorous part of the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: To me, I remember in college my friends, a couple
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  Speaker 2: female friends and then another a buddy of mine, would
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  Speaker 2: write these on purpose and then send them to each
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  Speaker 2: other like they weren't real. We just make stuff up
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  Speaker 2: and then send and then send the things that we
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  Speaker 2: got and emails about it. And the two women if
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  Speaker 2: they wrote anything suggestive in a Craigslist misconnection and put
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  Speaker 2: it up on the Internet and said they were women
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  Speaker 2: a woman, they got disgusting, horrible things in the Craigslist email.
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  Speaker 1: It was amusing, but then it was also.
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  Speaker 2: Terrifying to be honest, to get that inside look. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: this has been around for a long time. It's not
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  Speaker 2: an effective way to get that person you might have
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  Speaker 2: seen in public that you thought was attractive to know
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  Speaker 2: you to talk about you to like, anyone who's checking
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  Speaker 2: this for themselves is not the kind of person anyone
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  Speaker 2: wants to date.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to insult to anybody, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it's not the best of us that go to
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  Speaker 5: Craigslist looking for dates.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to become consti or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: But if you're a woman and you're putting things on Craigslist,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you have to go through it with a
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  Speaker 5: fine tooth comb.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have an editor or somebody look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Because I've heard stories just from like Facebook dating, the
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  Speaker 5: most innocent dating app of the world, and I do
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  Speaker 5: use that sometimes just these women are like, we hear
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  Speaker 5: the most horrible things, man, you know, and wow, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Craigslist what it is?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, well, Craigslist was big when we were kids,
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  Speaker 5: and it was exactly what you were doing. It was
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  Speaker 5: funny to look at, even though it was really sad,
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  Speaker 5: but there was some good cop not only misconnections but
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  Speaker 5: looking for one night stand, we need couples or whatever
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  Speaker 5: else everybody's into. But it was I mean, we were
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  Speaker 5: kind of getting degenerate sometimes when we're right on the crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Now my favorite, my favorite all time Craigslist post was
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  Speaker 2: the guy who was selling a used refrigerator that called
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  Speaker 2: it a time machine, and he said it was just
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  Speaker 2: missing a flux capacitor, but he wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that it fell into the right hands. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: six paragraph post about how only the right person can
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  Speaker 2: buy his used refrigerator because it'll travel back in time.
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  Speaker 3: I would have bought that refrigerator in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was only like a thousand bucks or something,
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  Speaker 2: which for a time machine is cheap.
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  Speaker 1: For a used refrigerator is terrible.
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  Speaker 5: You have some Purdue level technology there, man, for just
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  Speaker 5: a thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah there go, Yeah, a thousand bucks to change the world,
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  Speaker 2: which is amazing. One last thing before we take a
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  Speaker 2: break here. I thought this was interesting too, that this
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  Speaker 2: is a more adult topic, but I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to do it because it's the.
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  Speaker 1: Next one on my list. Adult material is way too
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  Speaker 1: accessible online.
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  Speaker 2: According to a lot of individuals out there. We're not
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  Speaker 2: saying anything. We don't have to say pro or on
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  Speaker 2: that version of the topic, but apparently it's ruining young
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  Speaker 2: men's brains. A ton of studies are out there to
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  Speaker 2: say this that the current generation of twenty somethings have
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  Speaker 2: grown up with a capability since they were way too
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  Speaker 2: young to be able to find some adult content on
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  Speaker 2: the internet if they go looking for it, and it's
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  Speaker 2: made things horrible for all of us. I don't love
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  Speaker 2: the context of this story because it sounds like it
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  Speaker 2: blames men instead of like the totality of society for
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  Speaker 2: this thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I just thought it was really should We probably
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  Speaker 1: have nowhere near.
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  Speaker 2: Enough time to talk about this, Matt, But if I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, if you want to jump in for a
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  Speaker 2: quick second on it to say it plainly and simplistically.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's early in the morning. Porn is damaging
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  Speaker 1: our brains.
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  Speaker 5: Too, and I agree with that, I really do. And
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  Speaker 5: the reason being is, again, a lot of us aren't
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  Speaker 5: mature enough, say in our late teens or early twenties,
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  Speaker 5: to look at that kind of content and say that's fake.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's exactly what it is. It's acting, and I
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  Speaker 3: know that's hard to believe. And everybody's like, oh, you
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  Speaker 3: know that the greatest job in the world. No it's not.
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  Speaker 5: And some of the things you read about some of
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  Speaker 5: these entertainers are absolutely horrific. So we again, I can
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  Speaker 5: see this being accurate. I don't want to be PC
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  Speaker 5: or anything like that, but I can see this being right.
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  Speaker 5: That this is because the guy sees that and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I want that, and then he tries to do it
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  Speaker 5: and it's bad, right, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't want to make it an end all.
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  Speaker 5: Again, it's up to the individual and what they can handle,
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  Speaker 5: and it shouldn't be regulated. But yeah, there may be
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  Speaker 5: something to this. I think this could have some accuracy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's hard to figure out what the path
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  Speaker 2: would be to actually regulate it, did you just said,
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  Speaker 2: or prevent it because you don't want the government to
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  Speaker 2: step in. But it's so easy on the Internet to
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  Speaker 2: get around most blocks, whatever those blocks might be, to
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  Speaker 2: find things, especially younger people who grow up with the
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  Speaker 2: Internet and know all these different tricks that they might
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  Speaker 2: talk about, you know, you know, if you even put
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  Speaker 2: up certain blockers on your computer, I think people can
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  Speaker 2: get around them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And remember we were hearing the same thing about cinemacs
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  Speaker 5: and weird kids. You know that's going to run our brain.
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  Speaker 5: And then we sat there in front of the TV,
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  Speaker 5: in front of a scrambler just so we could see
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  Speaker 5: a part of a woman. I mean, we've been hearing
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  Speaker 5: this since we were kids, but it is much more
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  Speaker 5: dangerous now, I think, just because of the accessibility.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said so well, and the fact that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't scrambled, because you know the scrambled. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what I was looking at, man, but I was
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  Speaker 2: trying all right anyway.