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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: If you're joining us A conversations sort of threading through

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Speaker 2: the first hour. What is the goofy stuff you believed

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Speaker 2: when you were little? And this kind of came as

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Speaker 2: we were talking about this woman who had a big

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Speaker 2: cist in her abdomen and needed to have that removed.

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Speaker 2: And then they did testing and they went, you're pregnant,

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Speaker 2: and the baby was. It was an ectopic abdominal pregnancy

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Speaker 2: that was hidden behind the cyst in her in her abdomen,

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Speaker 2: and it was really remarkable. She survived, the baby survived,

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Speaker 2: the cyst did not, and so a great story. But

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Speaker 2: I made mention that when I was young, because kids

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Speaker 2: believe goofy things when we were young, right, And I

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Speaker 2: believe that the babies came out of mom's feet.

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Speaker 3: Right. Don't ask me how I came up with that.

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Speaker 2: Although one person did have a good theory, I thought

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Speaker 2: it was a great theory when she said that when

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Speaker 2: I was little, I probably heard someone say something about

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Speaker 2: the fetus and that the fetus was the baby. To me,

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Speaker 2: I probably put that together. You're probably right on that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have no recollection, but that certainly makes

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Speaker 2: the most sense. So we asked to talk about question.

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Speaker 2: What are the goofy things you believe when you were little?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Chris, when I was a little boy, I used

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Speaker 4: to pick my scabs, Like when I would fall down

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Speaker 4: and get a scab, I used to pick the skin

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Speaker 4: off of it. And my mom told me that if

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Speaker 4: I picked my scabs, I was gonna get cancer. And

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Speaker 4: I believed it. So it was effective in helping me

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Speaker 4: not pick my scabs anymore. But that was something that

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Speaker 4: I believed was a direct reason you can get cancer,

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Speaker 4: was picking your scabs. Anyways, like your show, thank.

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Speaker 3: You, Thank You.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some parenting. I tell people I'm a terrible parent,

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Speaker 2: so I know bad parenting when.

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Speaker 3: I see it.

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Speaker 5: Chris, I used to think chocolate milk came from brown cars.

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Speaker 5: And not only that, also, if you swallow a see

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Speaker 5: it is going to grow a plant inside you. And

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Speaker 5: this is what I did when I was a kid,

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Speaker 5: maybe about six years old.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, didn't our parents all tell us that though,

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Speaker 2: if you eat a watermelon seed, you're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: watermelon grow inside you.

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Speaker 3: I mean then it was not a thing our parents

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Speaker 3: all told us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like that guy's voice. I would like him

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Speaker 6: to narrate an audio book.

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 2: Oh what would the book be, right, I'd take anything.

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Speaker 3: Make it a Stephen King book.

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Speaker 7: My family and other animals.

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Speaker 3: He sounded a little bit like Gene Simmons, didn't he.

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Speaker 8: Hmm, no Simmons, No, no.

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Speaker 6: No, Well, Gene Simmons combined with Jeffrey Holder, the colonet

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Speaker 6: guy from the old commercials.

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Speaker 2: See, I always rely on you to come up with

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Speaker 2: something highly relatable and recognizeble.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of a deep cut, I admit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Chris, I used to think that, like, what a

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Speaker 5: great character voice you would make? Chocolate now came from

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Speaker 5: brown cows and not only that.

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Speaker 2: Oh so like I'm imagining Charlotte's web and he's one

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Speaker 2: of the barnyard animals, right.

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Speaker 5: If you swallow his seed, yeah, it's going to grow

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Speaker 5: a plant inside you. And this is what I did

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Speaker 5: when I was a kid, maybe about six years old.

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Speaker 2: I think it is Jean Simmons. Actually, let's trace the

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Speaker 2: phone number, Nikki. You see if that's Geen Simmons, can

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Speaker 2: we get him to fill in his host some night?

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Speaker 3: And his voice is like treacle? Yeah? Yeah, I like that?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 9: Cool there's nothing like a childhood trauma that lasts a lifetime.

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Speaker 9: When I was about seven, my cousins tell me if

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Speaker 9: I slept with my hands on top of the covers,

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Speaker 9: a man would come and cut them off. Well, so

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Speaker 9: to this day I cannot sleep unless I have my

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Speaker 9: hands underneath the covers.

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Speaker 6: An how we're talking and the feet hanging over the

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Speaker 6: side of the bed. You don't want to do that either.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because that's that's how the boogyman gets you. Right, huh,

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Speaker 2: that's good, all right? What's the stuff you believe when

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Speaker 2: you were a kid? Love to hear what you what

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Speaker 2: your mind came up with, or what your parents or

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Speaker 2: cousins or whatever else convinced you when you were little.

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Speaker 3: It's great stuff. Love that.

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Speaker 2: So Australia did just launch their social media ban for

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Speaker 2: anybody under the age of sixteen, and this is going

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Speaker 2: over teenagers.

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Speaker 7: Noah and Macy are taking their government to court in

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Speaker 7: a fight to stay on social media, taking.

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Speaker 10: Away how we communicate to the world. This is how

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Speaker 10: we do it. It's a modern day in social media.

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Speaker 7: From Wednesday, Australia in force a world first law banning

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Speaker 7: children under sixteen from many of the biggest platforms, supported

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Speaker 7: by a freedom advocacy group Macy, and Noah's case asserts

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Speaker 7: a right to political communication. The High Court has agreed

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Speaker 7: to hear it next year. So what will you lose

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Speaker 7: when social media is taken away from you?

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Speaker 11: Well, we will lose connections, but we will lose our democracy.

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Speaker 12: This law is saying that democracy begins at sixteen, which

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Speaker 12: is condescending and it's incorrect.

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Speaker 3: Listener, M yeah, I'm not buying that argument.

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Speaker 2: No, No, we have lots of laws that restrict your

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Speaker 2: freedoms based on age. So but I don't know, baby,

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Speaker 2: they don't have laws like that in Australia. Are babies

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Speaker 2: allowed to vote in Australia.

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Speaker 8: No, but it is compulsory to vote in Australia. You

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Speaker 8: have to as soon as you turn at eighteen, you

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Speaker 8: have to register and vote, and if you don't vote,

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Speaker 8: you get fined, and if you don't pay your fines,

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Speaker 8: they do things like revoke your driver's license.

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Speaker 3: Okay, But do you get a driver's license when you

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Speaker 3: turn four?

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Speaker 8: No, you get your learners permanent age sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean we already there are already laws

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Speaker 2: based on age. So this notion that. Oh, they're saying

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Speaker 2: democracy doesn't start until we're sixteen. No, no, there are

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Speaker 2: plenty of laws that restrict your your rights while you're

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Speaker 2: still a minor.

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Speaker 3: Okay, back to the cut from CNN.

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Speaker 10: Listen, there are definitely negatives on social media. I'm not

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Speaker 10: denying that. I completely agree with saying that getting rid

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Speaker 10: of the kids is not the solution. We didn't do

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Speaker 10: anything wrong.

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Speaker 7: The government says it is active to protect children.

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Speaker 2: From I mean, we didn't do anything wrong, right, and

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Speaker 2: that's why that's why small children should have to be

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Speaker 3: They didn't do.

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Speaker 7: Anything wrong from potentially harmful content, harmful people, and addictive algorithms.

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Speaker 6: And there are these powerful harmful.

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Speaker 2: Oh now, addiction is something we have to address with you. Now,

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Speaker 2: what you're telling me, I can't give twelve year old

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Speaker 2: cigarettes because they're addictive.

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Speaker 3: So taking my democracy away?

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Speaker 11: Harmful deceptive design features that even adults are powerless to

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Speaker 11: fight against, like AutoPlay and endless scroll and snapstreams.

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Speaker 3: So what chance do our children have?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I understand the basis of the law.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a bad law. I think it's

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Speaker 2: an impractical law. I do Australian teenagers have taken to

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Speaker 2: social media for They did this on Tuesday night. They

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Speaker 2: that shaped their lives. Right before the first the world's

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Speaker 2: first ban took effect. However, it's not even working in Australia.

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Speaker 2: We are all of well, they're a day ahead of us, right,

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Speaker 2: so we're all of two days into this. The Australian

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanize is how you say his name?

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Speaker 3: Been? Easy?

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Speaker 2: Okay, very good acknowledge that some young people were still

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Speaker 2: on social media after the world's first ban on under

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Speaker 2: sixteen ers went live, saying that the rollout was always

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Speaker 2: going to be bumpy but would ultimately save lives. Just

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Speaker 2: one day after the law took affect, Australian social media

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Speaker 2: feeds were flooded with comments from people claiming to be

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Speaker 2: under sixteen, including one on the Prime Minister's TikTok account

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Speaker 2: saying I'm still here.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI on demand.

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Speaker 3: Chris Marilyn.

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Speaker 2: back or question this evening is what is the goofy

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Speaker 2: thing you believed when you were a little kid, because

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Speaker 2: we all believed dumb things when we were little.

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Speaker 13: My mom used to tell me when I started school

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Speaker 13: that if I misbehaved, the teacher will take me onside

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Speaker 13: and whip me until she gets hired.

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Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid, That's exactly what

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Speaker 3: We need to go back to the good old days.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Michelle.

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Speaker 11: My mom used to say, you swallowed your gum, it

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Speaker 11: would stick to your rips.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think my grandparents used to tell me

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Speaker 2: that too, or didn't They used to say that if

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Speaker 2: you swallowed your gum, it took seven years to digest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would come out of your system for like

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Speaker 3: ten years or so. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 6: A lot of fear based safety tips back, isn't that right? Okay,

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Speaker 6: you don't want to cross your eyes either, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, your face look at stuck that way? Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: It is funny that we all have that, like those

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Speaker 2: shared weird threats from when we were little, like those

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Speaker 2: have become almost cultural benchmarks for raising children. Now, make

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Speaker 2: sure you scare the hell to your kid by saying this,

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Speaker 2: and make sure you scare him by saying that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the watermelon seeds will grow in your belly, the gum

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Speaker 3: You'll get hair on your palms.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, hello, oh yeah, is this thing on?

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Speaker 3: You'll go blind? Yeah, there we go. Now we know

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Speaker 3: he's back. Hair and palm, nothing moving on, nothing.

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Speaker 13: Nikki, my darling, how are you okay?

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Speaker 3: Down boy?

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Speaker 13: Anyway? The weirdest thing that I ever thought of was

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Speaker 13: marsh and to keep track of my whereabouts. So somewhere

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Speaker 13: one of them out. What and needless is saying I

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Speaker 13: haven't been bothered by Martians since?

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Speaker 3: No? I mean, you got that going for it? What? Right?

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Speaker 3: But what were they? Was it just like moles or something?

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Speaker 2: What was I want to know what the black spot was?

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Speaker 6: Was he cursed by a pirate? He should have slept

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Speaker 3: Let's get call back to another one.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, all right, it's coming up after Mark's eight

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Speaker 2: thirty News how to go broke and look rich doing it.

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Speaker 3: That is still ahead.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, Australia has banned social media for kids

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Speaker 2: under the age of sixteen, and now Ram Emanuel remember

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Speaker 2: Rama Manuel used to be in the Obama administration that

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Speaker 2: he was the mayor of Chicago for a while. Now

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Speaker 2: he comes out and he says, oh, no, you know what,

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Speaker 2: this is a really great idea. We should do that.

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Speaker 2: We should do that here too. When it comes to

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Speaker 2: our adolescents, it's either going to be adults or the algorithms.

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Speaker 3: You gotta have that? Do I sound like those girls?

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Speaker 3: Then you have other parents that are like, don't tread

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Speaker 2: The tech companies need it. Tech companies already have some

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Speaker 2: We want to be the station that the kids want

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Speaker 2: so don't expect them to go down without a fight. Right,

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Speaker 2: you're scrolling through your your feet. It's full of yachts

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Speaker 2: reason you keep flexing the money you don't have is

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to everybody that has checked in on the app too,

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Speaker 2: and let us know what the goofiest things are that

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Speaker 2: Appreciate appreciate everybody telling me that they also believed goofy things,

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Speaker 2: because when I was we started the show by talking

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Speaker 2: I think all of us were kind of dumb kids.

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Speaker 2: I think we all believed goofy things when we were little.

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Speaker 3: The world was new. We didn't know what to believe.

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Speaker 8: Hey, I remember another goofy thing I've thought as a child.

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Speaker 8: When you took a flight somewhere, I thought, you stay,

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Speaker 3: They just say the plane world underneath you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the plane stays where it's at, but everything else changes.

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Speaker 8: And that's why you have to be on the plane

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Speaker 3: That's kind of fun. That's stupid, like.

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Speaker 6: An impossible episode, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: I actually liked that one. I think that's great. I

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Speaker 2: that's great. Thank you, thank you for that. Gen Z

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Speaker 2: USA Today reporting that influencers and esthetic pages are fueling

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Speaker 2: up everywhere, from dating to weddings to every day spending,

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Speaker 2: and that I found it from a series called OMG Stories.

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Speaker 2: This is very British, by the way, you may need

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Speaker 14: That sixty nine percent of sixteen to thirty four year

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Speaker 14: I've come shopping with Samantha, a sound confessed drip aholics

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Speaker 14: what's the drip?

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Speaker 3: You guys are younger than me, What's what's when they

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Speaker 3: Outfit like a cool outfit? Okay, s spendive thing you've

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Speaker 12: Probably my Chanelle bag?

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Speaker 12: My mom was a chocoholic, really, and obviously the gene

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Speaker 3: So we go out and look at some jewelry.

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Speaker 12: My mother got ill, so she started to spoil my

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Speaker 3: What do you call it? A little bit of inheritance

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Speaker 12: To say the figure? Can I say, like, you don't

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Speaker 6: Right, yeah, but that I mean business class to the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not cheap. No, and three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah so, and staying at the nice places and everything

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Speaker 2: More than half of gen Z admit that they exaggerated

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Speaker 2: all men have gone into debt to impress a woman

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Speaker 2: coping mechanism. Great, that's just wonderful. Look, we all make

444
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Speaker 2: bad decisions when we're young, right, I mean I signed

445
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Speaker 2: up for a credit card that eventually got sent to

446
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Speaker 2: collections because when I was in college. They were giving

447
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Speaker 2: away two leaders of Mountain Dew if you signed up

448
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Speaker 2: for the credit card. Okay, that's not a good business

449
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 2: decision's serious. Yeah, not real smart from a financial standpoint.

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Speaker 2: You know, we got the Mountain Dew right, So we

451
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Speaker 2: all do dumb things when we're younger. But it seems

452
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 2: that with the rise of social media, the image, the

453
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Speaker 2: aura is the most important thing in so many lives now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was always like that when you're in

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Speaker 2: high school. You wanted to have the you wanted to

456
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 2: have the cool clothes, you wanted to have the drip.

457
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 2: I guess because you wanted to you wanted to appear

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Speaker 2: a certain way when you were in high school. And

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Speaker 2: I get that, but it sounds like this is happening

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Speaker 2: even beyond high school. I mean, beyond high school. You

461
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Speaker 2: almost it almost like reverses where you go, hey, I

462
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Speaker 2: went thrift shopping. Everybody's like, hey, you're you're you're you're

463
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Speaker 2: cheap chic and uh. But for some people it's like, no,

464
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Speaker 2: I have to I have to live up to I

465
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 2: have to go on these vacations and I have to

466
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Speaker 2: go do this, and I have to go do that. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes, everything's actually just garbage. I mean, imagine

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Speaker 2: you see a designer bag and you see a BMW

469
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Speaker 2: and none you see some gen z or get out

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Speaker 2: of the beamer to go start their shift at Chipotle, right,

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Speaker 2: And you got to wonder if anybody under thirty actually

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Speaker 2: knows where their money goes.

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Speaker 3: The answer to that is not flattering. It's a new

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Speaker 3: trade off. And that's next.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Chris Merril k if I AM six forty more stimulating

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Speaker 2: talking on demand anytime iHeart radio app. As we were

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Speaker 2: asking what's the goofy thing you believed when you were

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Speaker 2: a kid?

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Speaker 16: My mom would tell me she could see through the walls.

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Speaker 16: So when I played Barbies, I made sure I was

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Speaker 16: behind my bed because she couldn't see through.

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Speaker 7: My bed, just the walls.

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Speaker 16: And then they could be like kissing, like while they

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Speaker 16: were naked.

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Speaker 9: That's what I thought sex was.

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Speaker 3: I took an unexpected turn.

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Speaker 2: I know what is it? Weren't barbies? How Like half

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Speaker 2: the neighborhood kids sort of explored human anatomy. Like I

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Speaker 2: just remember I didn't have any sisters, but I we

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Speaker 2: had girls in the neighborhood, and I remember I took

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Speaker 2: the Barbie's clothes off just to see what.

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Speaker 3: Was under there.

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Speaker 6: G I Joe did that half the I mean half

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Speaker 6: the time that I was like at my cousin's house,

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Speaker 6: who are all girls, they never had clothes on in

497
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Speaker 6: general because they was changing them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was naked. That's so funny. And she

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Speaker 2: didn't want to get caught. I don't want. My mom's

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Speaker 2: thing is she can see through walls because our parents

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00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 2: always had eyes in the back of their heads.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's great.

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Speaker 17: Here's a weird thing I thought as a kid. I

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Speaker 17: always thought there's people, little tiny people behind my TV

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Speaker 17: or behind the wall unit of my parents TV or whatever,

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Speaker 17: acting out the whatever I was watching on TV. So

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Speaker 17: like Star Wars Punch, the little guys behind the TV

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Speaker 17: doing stuff and I would periodically check behind there and

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Speaker 17: nothing happens.

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Speaker 3: That's funny.

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Speaker 2: I can see that too as a little kid, because

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Speaker 2: I got I had a dog that used to watch

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Speaker 2: TV and he loved watching horses on the TV.

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Speaker 3: And he always thought it was kind of a window, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, when you're a kid, doesn't that make sense that

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Speaker 2: it looks like a window in the same way my

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Speaker 2: dog would watch horses on the TV and the dog

518
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Speaker 2: would get all excited.

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Speaker 3: Then the horses would run off the screen he could

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Speaker 3: peek around behind the TV. I'm it makes perfect sense

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Speaker 3: for an undeveloped brain to think that.

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Speaker 15: When I watched all the Star Wars growing up as

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Speaker 15: a kid, like the first six, yeah, I thought they

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Speaker 15: were all done at the same time. So when I

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Speaker 15: got the original I was just like, what is what

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Speaker 15: happened to the quality?

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Speaker 2: Like they would have were having like slick modern consoles

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Speaker 2: and fighter jets to what you saw in there?

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, what happened to the quality? What they're tech?

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Speaker 3: Really took a step backwards here all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: Like is this black and white? Like that's going on here?

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Speaker 3: I watched that series and Or, and I thought they

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Speaker 3: did a really great job. Mark you, I know this

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Speaker 3: is your your bag here to talk entertainment. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: and Or's terrific. I thought and Or was great.

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Speaker 2: But I think one of the hardest things that they did,

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Speaker 2: I thought they did a pretty good job of it too,

538
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Speaker 2: was trying to make the technology from that series sort

539
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Speaker 2: of matched the original nineteen seventies technology, but also not

540
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Speaker 2: look quite so old, but also kind of the big

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Speaker 2: square buttons and the and you know, the screens that

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Speaker 2: were very similar in order to offer some continuity.

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Speaker 6: It had a real cool kind of retro futuristic look.

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Speaker 6: And so like when you you get into Stellin's Scarsguard's

545
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Speaker 6: spy Layer and they pull out the spy drawer with

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Speaker 6: the radio in it, You're like, oh, I want that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought they did. Whoever it was that

548
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 2: was designing on that did such a great job. I

549
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 2: thought they really nailed that well.

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Speaker 6: Tony Gilroy was the boss of the whole thing, and

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Speaker 6: I just think he did a bang up job from

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Speaker 6: start to finish. That's a smart show, especially for Star Wars.

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Speaker 6: Totally agree with you. Totally agree, so smart, so smart.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk speaking of a you know, the films and whatnots,

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Speaker 2: a little more on the Warner Brothers deal and as

556
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 2: you've got more and more fallout coming from that, people

557
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: are freaking out. In the meantime, I was talking about

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Speaker 2: gen Z first of all. Gen Z and Australia is

559
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Speaker 2: losing their social media. Politicians in the United States are

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00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: saying we should do the same thing. That's not gonna work.

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Speaker 2: Especially because you've got a number of gen z ers

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Speaker 2: who are going broke to try to look rich. And

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00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 2: now I'm finding this is really fascinating because gen Z

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00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: is headline from Axios. Gen Z is embracing a trade

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Speaker 2: down economy. So imagine that you're trying to look like

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Speaker 2: you've got drip.

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Speaker 3: I guess, did I use that right? You're dripping? You

568
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 3: got No, you got a nice drip ache for that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm trying to keep up with it. I'm trying

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00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: younger Americans getting choose here about how they spend. They're

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Speaker 2: cutting back on things like dining out. Okay, cool, that

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00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 2: makes sense. Oh, look, gen Z's having trouble getting jobs.

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00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 2: They're not saving us quickly. They're not having you know,

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Speaker 2: gen Z's got these different challenges. School is more expensive,

575
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Speaker 2: this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

577
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: So it says they're willing to trade down or trade

578
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: out on everyday expenses in order to afford meaningful indulgences.

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Speaker 2: According to a report from PwC, about half of gen

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Speaker 2: Z respondents said that they plan to cut back on

581
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 2: spending around the holidays and cut back on dining out

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00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: and cut back on home delivery. They also plan to

583
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 2: spend less on clothes and alcohol.

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Speaker 3: So what are they doing that? Is this because they

585
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 3: don't have the money.

586
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: No, it's because they want to go splash on things

587
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 2: like Coach handbags and other brands that they like. So

588
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: they're shifting from necessities or comfort items to luxury items.

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00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: It just does not make logical sense to me. And look,

590
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Speaker 2: I try to have this logic conversation with my wife.

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00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 2: She goes, oh, I really want to Louis Vuitton bag.

592
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: And I go why She goes, Oh, they're just so great.

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00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: And what's so great about him? She goes, oh, they're

594
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 2: just everyone knows. Okay, So the logic is everyone knows.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 2: That makes no sense to me, and I go, so,

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00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: you know, I first meet my wife from you know,

598
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 2: how much is a Louis v tombag. She goes, oh,

599
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: it's like four thousand dollars. I'm having a heart attack.

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00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: Four thousand dollars, I thought, thank you? Does it come

601
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: with a used car?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 3: What is it four thousand dollars for a bag? She goes, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but they last a long time.

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Speaker 2: I said, there is no way that your four thousand

606
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: dollars Louis Vaton bag lasts longer than the number of

607
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 2: reasonable Walmart bags that I can buy with four thousand dollars.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's their selling point, their durability.

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00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 3: That's what my wife says. Yeah, she goes, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's it.

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Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no no

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Speaker 2: no no no no no no.

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Speaker 3: And I realized what it was like.

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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: She wants She wanted to convey the image, and me,

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00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: I wanted to spoil her. And if that's what made

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Speaker 2: her happy, fine, I got her. I got her a bag,

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00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: but I saved for it, right, and I had make

618
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: some cutback, so I saved for it. She got it

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Speaker 2: for a Mother's Day one year, and she still has it.

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00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: She's still her bag, and she's paid to have it

621
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 2: fixed a few times. And every time something goes wrong,

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00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: she's like, oh, the strap broke, and I go, oh.

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Speaker 3: No, strap broke on that.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I thought these things were indestructible. I thought that was

626
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Speaker 3: the big selling.

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Speaker 2: Point, that they lasted much longer than than any other bags.

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Speaker 2: You tell me, I could have gotten you, like a

629
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: fifty dollars bag from from Walmart. I could have gotten

630
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 2: you eighty fifty dollars bags from Walmart and they would

631
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: have not lasted as long as your expensive Louis Vuitton.

632
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 2: She's like, you don't get it. I didn't, And now

633
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: I realized she was after the drip. She was she wanted,

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00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 2: she wanted drippings, she wanted to I have no idea

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00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 2: what this. Okay, she wanted wanted to drip. She wanted

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Speaker 2: to drip. Okay, so I did say she wanted to drip. Okay, good,

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00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 2: I got it right. Anyway, that's what she wanted, right, Okay, whatever.

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00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: I think it's a terrible expense. But also I'm a

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00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: dude who buys golf clubs, and I golf like once

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00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: every three years. So look, we all spend things on

641
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: dumb stuff, but gen Z doesn't have the money to

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00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: do it, and they're more interested in the drip than

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00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: they are you know, the savings, but really the behavior.

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00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: And it's easy to point at gen Z, but the

645
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: behavior is not new. We've been trying to keep up

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00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: with the Joneses from Lennia. What's different now, though, is

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00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 2: that we have this this easy axis.

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00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: We've got like the.

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00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: Visual confirmation, the influencers and then the clout and all that.

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00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: The constant bombardment of the temptation of these things, and

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00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 2: it's so easy to click a button and buy it

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00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: on an impulse. That's what's different now, All right, streaming Warris,

653
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 2: we've got your wallet in their crosshairs. You thought cable

654
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: was predatory, but in this case, the strategy could backfire

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Speaker 2: on the big streamers when the purge begins is next

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Speaker 2: Chris Merril KFI AM six forty relive everywhere in the

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app, KFI A six on demand