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Why Do People Love Fake News? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  My phone says that it's Wednesday, December 24th.
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  That means tonight is Christmas Eve and for some reason I'm up
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  at 5:30 in the morning drinking some coffee and now it's a
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  little after six. And did you know it's going to
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  be in the high 60s today? And on Christmas tomorrow, it's
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  going to be in the 70s. Now Christmas is Thursday and
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  it's going to be in the 70s. But on Monday here in St.
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  Louis, MO, the high is going to be 26°, 2636465666, like a 45°
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  drop. Talk about some wild ass
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  weather. All right, Last night I was
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  watching our public broadcast system, Channel 9 Amanapore.
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  I just sometimes I turn on channels that most people won't
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  watch. And there was a really good
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  documentary on there, a guy that writes about fake news, and
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  that's what he called it, fake news or truth.
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  And did you know that people are, what is it?
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  Five more times likely at least. Humans like fake news.
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  It's unbelievable. Why is that?
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  Respond right here. Why do we all like fabricated
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  fake news? Now, I got a lot of a lot of
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  stories about this. I don't want to share them with
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  you. When I was a kid and I'd go
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  grocery shopping with my mom, we'd get ready to check out and
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  there was this sensationalized newspaper called the Inquire.
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  In my day in my mom loved buying that fake ass Inquire.
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  And that's why I always tease. It would say Bigfoot found
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  walking around town. It's like why the are we buying
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  this mom? It's all fake in hell.
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  I was like 10 years old and I knew it was fake, but we bought
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  it. Why do people like fake news?
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  Why? Because it it's this book
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  written about people enjoy five times more.
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  They don't like, they don't like real news.
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  They like fake news. And it's real.
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  Another example. I mean, right now, to this day,
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  I'm on Facebook and there's this.
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  I just saw the headline as I scrolled by.
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  I didn't stop and read it because I knew it was fake news.
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  It said Dale Earnhardt Junior was holding a press conference
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  at Eldora Speedway in the middle of the winter talking about Greg
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  Biffle. I mean, up is that and I've
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  looked and sure enough, thousands of people watched it.
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  Why would people press on that? What's what's in the brain?
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  What's in the brain that makes people do that?
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  Dale Junior's at the dirt track at Eldor Speedway in December in
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  the infield holder press conference and they get away
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  with this now in this documentary they said that, you
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  know, on PBS, I'm giving you my source just because I want to
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  let you know where I dream this up.
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  The man said that, for example, World Wrestling, like the, you
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  know, World Wrestling Mania, the company already has the
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  predetermined outcome. So they already know, you know,
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  they practice all this. They're great athletes,
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  WrestleMania, they're a great athletes.
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  I admire them, but it's fake. They already know what the
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  outcomes going to be, but real wrestling, like kids that
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  wrestle and real we, we don't watch that.
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  Now the mom and dad will watch it, but they don't care about
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  it. What is it about society that in
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  our brain, we would much rather watch fake stuff even when we
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  know it's fake? I had a buddy of mine that went
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  to, you know, World Wrestling Federation, and I said this
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  fake, look, they're not even hitting each other.
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  He goes, yeah, but if you drink enough beer, it's believable.
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  So I just with, with artificial intelligence now and the people
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  that are making these AIS, you know, I got some friends that
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  it's fun to talk about fake and the ability to like my brain, I
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  can't do it. I cannot go along with it
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  because it's fake. Now, with artificial
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  intelligence and my friends, they enjoy putting fake because
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  it's funny, it's comical. But I mean, this stuff has been
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  going on forever. Fake news.
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  Fake what? What is going on with all of us?
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  Are we headed down a path of destruction?
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  Really. You know, it reminds me of a
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  kid. Don't you know that story about
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  crying wolf? Don't, don't cry wolf.
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  Too many times. Wolf, wolf.
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  And the parents come, and there's no wolf.
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  There's a wolf wolf. And the parents come, and
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  there's no wolf. One day the kid cried wolf, and
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  the parents didn't come, and the wolf ate the kid.
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  I'm afraid that there'll be a day that there'll be no truth,
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  and we'll never know the truth unless mature people study it
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  and verify it. You, you can find the truth.
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  I'll leave you with this. You can find the truth if you
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  want to know it. But if it's a lie and you know
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  it's a lie, but it kind of fits the way you feel, But I will
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  never forget going back to as a kid, looking at my mom and
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  going, why indeed are we buying this in this artificial
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  intelligence on Facebook now? Why the are people watching it?
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  What's wrong? What's wrong with you?
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  I just keep on scrolling. I see it but I keep scrolling.