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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with text stuff from how stuff?

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Speaker 1: What's that? Hey, there, it's text stuff. I'm Jonathan Strickland

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Speaker 1: and I'm Lauren Boglebaum, and today we want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about social media. Do you use it? Do

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Speaker 1: your kids use it? Are you worried? Could it possibly

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Speaker 1: be turning you into an irritated hermit who likes to

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Speaker 1: scream at people as they walk by your front door?

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Speaker 1: Or is that just the natural progression of the way

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Speaker 1: I'm aging? I might have share too much information just

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Speaker 1: now there there is there's Jonathan's partially joking, but but

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of I really do yell at people.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, Yes, there's a lot of fear

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Speaker 1: of news stories that are kind of amping up that fear.

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Speaker 1: And there's been several studies that that talk with this

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Speaker 1: doom and gloom about like about like, oh, no, social

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Speaker 1: media is so big that we're not going to talk

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Speaker 1: to each other in person anymore. Um, total communication breakdown.

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Speaker 1: Captain Donn's looking together that that kind of thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's this is not pop stuff. But I

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Speaker 1: like to just yes anyway, yeah, no, no, no, we

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Speaker 1: quote documentaries all the time here on tech stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: perfectly fine, and I agree entirely, Lauren. I mean from

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Speaker 1: an armchair psychology perspective, if I were to just look

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Speaker 1: at the whole idea of social media and human interaction

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Speaker 1: in general, uh, part of me would think, hey, social

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Speaker 1: media is replacing that face to face human interaction that

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Speaker 1: we tend to think of as being really important as

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Speaker 1: part of our development as a person, right, or that

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Speaker 1: seems to be really important for a very long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's part of socialization. And the worry

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Speaker 1: is that without that face to face interaction with something

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Speaker 1: else replacing it, we would be less capable of dealing

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Speaker 1: with those interactions when they come up. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of the the information about this tends to be anecdotal,

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Speaker 1: which anyone who has done any science knows is not

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Speaker 1: reliable when it comes to actually measuring it's not actually science. Um.

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Speaker 1: There have been a few studies. There's a one one

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Speaker 1: that you will hear quoted all the time was from

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Speaker 1: the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. UM.

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Speaker 1: And uh this one said, this one is was in

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Speaker 1: two thousand five, to be fair, so This was a

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Speaker 1: few years ago, before Twitter and Facebook were really huge.

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Speaker 1: But um, but it found that um, compared to people

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Speaker 1: who do not use the internet frequently, those who do,

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Speaker 1: um uh, spend seventy minutes less per day interacting with

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Speaker 1: their family, twenty five minutes less per day sleeping, and

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Speaker 1: thirty is less watching television. Although I'm not sure why

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Speaker 1: that's necessarily a bad thing. Yeah, that could o but

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Speaker 1: but but that but that family thing, that's seventy minutes

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Speaker 1: less a day talking to your family, that sounds that

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Speaker 1: sounds awful until of course you're interacting with your family

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Speaker 1: online exactly. And that's and that's what we're I think

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Speaker 1: it turns out that that is what we are doing

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Speaker 1: right right. Yeah. Again, it's one of those things where

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Speaker 1: I think the stereotype, the thing that we all imagine

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Speaker 1: the only interaction they get is never whomever is online.

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Speaker 1: Is there a keyboard and never a microphone? Right, And

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Speaker 1: that's it. And it could be a synchronous communication, meaning

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Speaker 1: that you know, you leave a message, then later on

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Speaker 1: This is essentially the way email works. It's a synchronous

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Speaker 1: generally synchronous unless you're talking to me, in which case

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Speaker 1: it is just a monologue. But uh, that's the way

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Speaker 1: social media could ultimately be dehumanizing us, at least in

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Speaker 1: the sense of how we define what a human is

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Speaker 1: right now right, And to be fair, isolation is a

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Speaker 1: very scary thing. Um. There's all kinds of studies about

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Speaker 1: healthy and diverse social network. Yes, whenever I get lonely,

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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of anything. It's just me and Supernatural,

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Speaker 1: show they are. I'm like, I believe you know. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: So anyway, yes, that these are these are all perceptions. Now,

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to science, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of different stays that look at this, and there's some

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Speaker 1: the studies are not necessarily looking at the exact same criteria, right,

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Speaker 1: So it could be that one seems to contradict another,

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Speaker 1: but it maybe then a broader perspective, they're not really contradictory.

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Speaker 1: It's just that they're looking at they're looking at different

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Speaker 1: aspects because when people are talking about social isolation, um,

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Speaker 1: they're they're talking about the size, the intimacy, the diversity,

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Speaker 1: and the location of your social network. Right. Yes, there's

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Speaker 1: lots of different terms for this as well, about whether

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Speaker 1: are not something you would talk about to just you

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Speaker 1: you go to when you're upset or when you're happy.

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Speaker 1: It's the first person that, if you're me, you text

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Speaker 1: message when when something terrific happens to you haven't received

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Speaker 1: text messages. Okay, so awkward, Uh, moving on, I'm dealing

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Speaker 1: with a little heartbreak here. But it's okay, I I

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Speaker 1: the thing is that people that people really um, the

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Speaker 1: depending upon depending on which survey, Because some of these

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Speaker 1: one of the one of the surveys I really looked at,

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Speaker 1: So I thank you, Lauren, because without it I would

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Speaker 1: have nothing to talk about. But it was a Pew

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Speaker 1: But within that sample they drew some pretty big conclusions.

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Speaker 1: One of those was that of American adults said they

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Speaker 1: used the Internet, So wow, didn't but anyway said they

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Speaker 1: used the Internet. And nearly half of adults, or of

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Speaker 1: like Facebook, Twitter, linked in, that kind of thing, and uh,

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Speaker 1: this is sort of tangential to our community. Are our

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Speaker 1: Facebook is one of the ones I use, used my Space,

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, when was the last time use my space?

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Speaker 1: before social networking services are a thing like three people

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Speaker 1: It's becoming more and more socially acceptable in the sense

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Speaker 1: that everyone's doing it, but but I still I am

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Speaker 1: a little bit eked out by it. Yeah, it can be.

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Speaker 1: It can be insulting if you're talking to someone and

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Speaker 1: you just see them looking because you know. But the

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Speaker 1: reason why I brought it up, there's a restaurant in

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Speaker 1: sure it's not the only restaurant that does this. But

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Speaker 1: Eva restaurant has a policy which is if you come

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Speaker 1: inside the restaurant and you surrender your cell phone to

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Speaker 1: the waiter when you come in, you get a five

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Speaker 1: percent discount on your bill. That's a delightful. So you

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Speaker 1: come in. The waiter explains the policy, especially in l A. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you have the choice of yeah, especially yeah, no kidding

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Speaker 1: all those actors waiting for the breakout call or those

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Speaker 1: agents waiting for their actors to call them. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it means that you you just you hand it over

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Speaker 1: and then you concentrate on the food and the experience.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the restaurant's policy is that this way,

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Speaker 1: you're really focusing on the meal and you're enjoying it

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Speaker 1: for what it is, as opposed to distracting yourself and

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Speaker 1: the meal is just something you're doing in between tweets. Right.

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Speaker 1: It also means Instagram hates it because there's so few,

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Speaker 1: so many fewer pictures of food flooding the Internet, which

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Speaker 1: which we are in in dire lacking of food and cats. People,

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Speaker 1: We need more food and cats on the Internet. Staff

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Speaker 1: I'm i'm, I'm starting my my me and my Tumbler

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Speaker 1: followers are starting a drive for more acute hedgehogs on

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Speaker 1: the internet. I think that this is a thing that

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Speaker 1: needs to happen. Had a good run, it did well.

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Speaker 1: That bucket, that bucket, it was a bucket list. Oh no, oh,

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Speaker 1: dear that one. That one that was such a stretch.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't that joke? Wasn't that that was not sure?

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Speaker 1: It was just words, That's what that was. But but

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Speaker 1: but but no, but I mean, it is, it is.

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Speaker 1: It can divide our attention, and I do um. I've

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Speaker 1: seen a couple of news reports lately that that had

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Speaker 1: this announcer being shocked shocked. Did you know that when

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Speaker 1: young people wake up, they check their cell phone before

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Speaker 1: getting out of bed, And I'm like, I'm like, people

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Speaker 1: don't do that. First of all, my cell phone is

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Speaker 1: my alarm. Of course my mind too, Yeah, because that

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Speaker 1: means by turning off my alarm, I am checking my

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Speaker 1: cell phone, right, And I don't get out of bed

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Speaker 1: to throw off my alarm because that's just ridiculous. That

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Speaker 1: would be that would help me wake up. Probably I

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Speaker 1: should do that, but no, I do not. I'm a

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Speaker 1: morning person anyway, So as soon as as soon as

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Speaker 1: those eyes pop up and I'm ready to go. I'm

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Speaker 1: not happy about it. I'm not a sureful morning person.

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Speaker 1: I'll still be grouchy at you. I just I'm just alert,

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Speaker 1: that's all. But but yeah, but but but that that

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Speaker 1: in the kind of behavior where you see more people

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Speaker 1: at a concert, for example, um, taking photos of the

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Speaker 1: concert than you do watching the concert. Yeah. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: that's the thing, And that's you know, yeah, I get

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Speaker 1: grouchy at concerts too. That It's that's why I reconcert

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Speaker 1: needs to be a private show of just me and

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Speaker 1: the and the musician when one of those get off

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Speaker 1: my lawn kind of moments. Yeah, there's only a couple

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Speaker 1: of musicians I know who would be willing to do that, oh,

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Speaker 1: to to actually do like, okay, it's just me and you,

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Speaker 1: I'll play my songs for you. Someone that we know together.

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Speaker 1: But that's because she's nice and it would be you

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Speaker 1: know she she'd essentially be doing a favor for me,

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Speaker 1: So I like hear anything. But yeah, no, I think

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Speaker 1: it's a good discussion. I mean it's I think ultimately

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Speaker 1: the takeaway we have to have is that we do

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Speaker 1: not have a full spectrum of data to really support

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Speaker 1: this one way or the other. But it looks like

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Speaker 1: it's not as damaging as we would first think perhaps,

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Speaker 1: and it may in fact be helpful. Uh, since it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a social science thing, it's what we call

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Speaker 1: one of the soft sciences, and whenever you get people involved,

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Speaker 1: it really messes with the variables. So because we're not

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Speaker 1: all the same as it turns out crazy. Yeah, funky

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Speaker 1: about that, right, So ultimately it may we may not

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Speaker 1: be able to come down and say definitively whether it's

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Speaker 1: good or bad. It just it looks like it's not. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And and that's a good thing for me. I actually

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Speaker 1: really depend on my social network networks to stay in

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Speaker 1: touch with my friends because my schedule is so busy

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Speaker 1: I don't get to spend as much time with them

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Speaker 1: in meat space as I would like. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: I think of it as a good thing, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that it looks like it's not going to bring

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Speaker 1: the world to its knees. So yeah, do you have

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Speaker 1: anything else to say before we sign off? And that's

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Speaker 1: about all I got. All right, Well, guys, if you

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