WEBVTT - Going to the Chapel... 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.360 Hey, the folks. You all sent in your questions. We 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.600 have been asking them in part one of the Q 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.280 and A. If you already heard that. If you haven't, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.440 please check it out. But we're going to start this 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.080 one with the number one question we are told that 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.720 has been asked by you all. And with that, everybody, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.560 welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. That it's 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.960 not a stress. It's not that difficult. Wonder what the 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:28.080 question would be? Right? 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.520 Yeah, what would be the question that most people want 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:33.280 to know the answer to? 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.760 You know, it might be too that might be to one, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.040 the other might be professional. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.559 That's true. But on a personal personal note, if you 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.120 can think of what the question would be, I think 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.120 we can all come up with it before Andy actually 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:46.720 asks it. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.480 But we're gonna let him do his thing. So Andy 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.519 is a super producer. Andy has been guiding us through 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.680 the questions in part one of the Q and AH. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.040 He's going to do it for us again in this one. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.760 So Andy, you go right ahead, all right. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.319 Number one most asked question, when are you guys going 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:04.000 to get married? 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.280 It's not if it's when. I like that, wow, you know, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:16.000 instead of if it's when. And I actually appreciate that. TJ. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.120 You told me that I should never propose to you. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.200 So propose to me. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.880 Yeah, Remember we were talking about women proposing to men. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.120 But I'm just saying, if I answer this, I feel 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.639 like that'd be kind of in part what me saying 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.440 when I would like to get married. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.600 Then answer after this set up, Now we all waiting 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:35.040 to hear this. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.480 Well, we don't have a date obviously, and we haven't 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.840 even decided what we're going to do. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.040 But how's that sigh into you proposing to me? 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.199 Because if I said I want to and and I'd 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.760 like to in the fall, that would be like akin 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.120 to me proposing to you. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.000 So you think the next fall, Why don't you answer 0:01:55.040 --> 0:02:02.360 the question? Yes, let me answer the question win sooner 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:07.960 rather than later. And I say that based on my 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:15.200 exclusive conversations with the bride. I say that because it's 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.680 we're we are not trying to figure things out. We 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.880 are not trying to see if we want to be together. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:27.240 We're not trying to to kind of, I don't know, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.040 do a trial run of some kind to see if 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.839 this thing can work. That's not where we are. So 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.680 the decision has been made to spend the life together. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.639 So I mean the marriage, the wedding. When are you 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.840 guys getting married? That's going to be a byproduct of 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.480 what's happening, and it's just it's coming. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.360 Yeah, and I I hey. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.880 Hey, you told me the answer because you were over 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.679 there on some babble about don't try to chime back 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:57.919 in that. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.360 Okay, well done. I'm going to leave it with Jay's 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.840 last word. There, we get it. I'll stop talking. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:13.720 I feel like, well, this one, I guess is asking 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:14.760 about the wedding. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.200 Okay, okay, well good. Maybe I can say something now, if. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.320 You decided to get married, would you guys be open 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.320 to doing a podcast from the party? 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:33.240 No? I mean I think we would do a podcast afterwards, possibly, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.880 But no, I think we've talked about marriage. We haven't 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.480 talked about a wedding, and there's a difference between the two. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.480 But you know what, we can start the planning now 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.480 and we will take that off the list. That will 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.600 be one mic and the wedding singer will be using it. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.040 That's it. No podcast mics, no recorders, no nothing. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.920 This one is what is the hardest lesson that you 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.240 had to learn. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.400 To learn in life? In life or recently oh, let's see, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:08.200 how would you put that? The hardest lesson that's ti 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.560 we keep learning this lesson, but the idea that this 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.080 too shall pass. I've learned that repeatedly, but for some 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.279 reason I can't get that through my head sometimes to 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.039 help me when I'm going through a new mess, because 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:25.880 every single mess did pass. We all know this. That's 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.840 a difficult one to learn over and over lessons I'm 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.479 thinking about mistakes, I ain't thinking about mistakes, and I've 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.320 gotten to a place now where I guess I don't 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.200 qualify so many things as mistakes anymore. I qualify them 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.200 as experiences that I had. So I don't know. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.400 I mean, it's hard. It's hard to pick just one 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.760 because I have learned so many lessons through my life, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:56.440 but especially over these past couple of years. I think 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.880 one of the most important lessons I've learned is if 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.480 you have something to say, say it, or someone else 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.560 will speak for you. And that has and was a 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:13.600 big mistake that I made in this whole situation. I 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:21.040 want to feel confident enough to say what I believe 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.279 and what my truth is versus letting someone else tell 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.160 everyone else. Because I've learned the perception becomes reality, and 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.360 that's unfortunate because it isn't reality, and yet it's hard 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.719 to undo it once it's been accepted as such. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.680 That was really good advice, actually, I like that. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:44.400 Uh sorry, going back to marriage on this one, would 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.839 you all want to elope? 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.480 We want to make it as difficult on our family 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.000 and friends as possible. They're going to send invitations to 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.760 like an island in Italy off the coast somewhere, just 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.599 some tiny, tiny little place that you have take a puddle, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.120 jump over to one island and then you have to 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.640 get on the ferry to go to the next one. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.560 And that is where the wedding is going to be. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.120 And we're only going to invite people that have to 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.640 show up, right, they have to. That's what we're gonna do. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.200 Oh wow, okay, this is all news to me. I 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.120 thought they were gonna ask if we wanted a beach wedding, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.960 a destination wedding. Oh, okay, we'll wait for that. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.479 Well, I guess why not just do announce? Okay, would 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.520 you rather do a beach wedding or something else? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.520 I saw some people. I saw a gay couple on 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.120 the steps of the city hall, not too long ago, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.800 and it looked great. Yep, it looks kind of awesome. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.159 Yes, And I think you know, anyone who's been married 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.080 more than once, you know, the whole big white dress, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.480 you know, it's you know. And I don't fault anyone 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.799 for this, but my younger self was in this headspace. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.400 A lot of people want the wedding right. They want 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.320 the pomp and circumstance that's so exciting, the dress and 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.960 the boutineer and the bouquet and the flowers and the 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.080 I think, once you've been there and done that, and 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.040 we've talked about this before, I want the marriage. I 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:11.040 want the partnership. I want the relationship, and that's what 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.080 I want more than anything. So this may sound hokey 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.480 and maybe maybe not even believable, but I really don't care. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.560 I honestly don't care about where we get married, how 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.280 we get married. I might care when we get married eventually, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.240 but if we get married, and I definitely care if 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.280 but I the details, I really it doesn't it. It 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:42.080 doesn't even cross my mind. Interesting whatever he wants. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:47.480 Yeah, Part one was a little easier. Yeah, what is 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.440 your most prized possession? 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.080 And why? 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.360 Oh, prize possession? I don't know. I think if if 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.840 the house was on fire, what would I make sure 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.640 I grab and get out of there? I don't have it. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.040 You know, you used to say photographs, but now everything's 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.480 in the cloud. You can always buy a new phone, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.280 and I you know, I think, interestingly, having covered so 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.640 many tragedies in our careers, fires included, I learned, honestly 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:19.040 through that coverage that everything can turn to dust. And 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:24.360 the only valued possession I have is and it's is 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:25.480 my relationships. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.960 This is crazy. I cannot think of a prize possession. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.800 I mean, that's stuff that's valuable that I like, that 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.559 I love that I'd hate to see gone. But man, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.199 if that house was on fire we had to run out, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.000 what would I grab? My passport and my phone that 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.679 might be it. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.480 And your chapstick, your cherry chapsick. No, I'm teasing no, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.000 And I actually your past, my passport and my crazy 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.120 because it's a pain in the butt to have to 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.679 re you know, get all of that reissued. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.960 But yeah, I actually don't family heirlooms. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.000 Like jewelry or dazzled roach that you had. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.080 No we can replace it. Yeah, I mean it is. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.800 Nice man brooch, but yeah, and I actually think having 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:15.760 gone through divorce, having had to sell everything, it just 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.160 you realize you get so upset if there's a scratch 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.880 on the table or if your car gets a ding, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.120 and when you go through enough of life and you've 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.880 had to sell it or get rid of it for 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.079 whatever reason, you realize they're just things. And so the 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.600 only I mean, I genuinely can tell you I don't 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.800 have something I can't live without. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.480 I don't, all right? Would you rather someone be honest 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.559 and hurt your feelings or lie to protect them? 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.160 This can go both ways, it depends. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.160 I don't think I can give you a resolute answer 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.200 to that, because it would depend in some instances. Yes, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:52.720 I don't want to be the last person to know. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.320 And if I can do something about it, if I 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.319 can fix it, if I can, if I can make 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.400 it better than I'd want to know. But if it's 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.800 just something that would hurt my feelings, I don't mind 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.120 if you tell a little white lie, because if there's 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.920 nothing that can be gained from telling me this, then yeah, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.120 maybe ignorance is bliss. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.960 Yeah, I'm okay with that. And it just depends on 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.200 the situation. Nobody a little we all do it, but 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.280 a little white lie to protect somebody's feelings. We do 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.080 it all the time. Do I want to I don't know. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.480 You hate the idea of being lied too. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:25.719 Or manipulated. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.040 I think I would always want to know. I don't 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.440 know if what would hurt smoke, what would it be? 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.719 I got DJ that's an ugly sweater that you have on. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.160 I mean I would rather hear that opinion, go look 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.480 in the mirror a couple more times and deal with 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.959 it instead of walking out, possibly looking like an idiot. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.440 Yeah, I always appreciate if there's food in my teeth 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.320 or that kind of thing. I'd like to say, a 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.200 bat in the cave, like, I'd always rather know. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.840 What are your biggest turn on and turn offs? 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.400 Smoking is the off yours? 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:04.760 The biggest turn off would just be like basic, like 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.000 someone who isn't as hygienic as I'd like them to be, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.360 Like if they didn't like, yeah, showering and deodorant and 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.360 all those things. I mean, you laugh, but it's an issue. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.400 So that would be a huge turn off just to me, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.679 if someone didn't have the same hygiene practices that I do. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.520 Wow, okay, and turn on. So there I assume they're 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.720 talking about in a relationship or whatnot. Okay, that turn 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.679 on I it's a weird way to This is the 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.400 only way to put it. It's not a matter of 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.600 a feature. But if a woman cannot put on jeans 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.680 and a T shirt, belly up to a bar, order 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.120 a draft beer, and watch an SEC football game, probably 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.120 we're probably not gonna get along. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.080 Well that's a turn on for you, then its turn on, yes, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.880 turn yeah, Well wow, we've been doing that for a 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.240 long time together, so it's making sense now. And I'm 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.599 usually in a jeans, jeans and a T shirt. The 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.880 biggest turn on to me is someone who can make 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.240 me laugh. If I can laugh with someone, that is 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.040 a huge turn on. If you're because I think you 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.920 have to be very clever, he's tickling me. You have 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.840 to be very clever, and very intelligent and very you 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.240 have to be observant to be funny. And so when 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.400 you find someone who's truly funny and can make you laugh, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.199 they have all those other qualities. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.079 Okay, this one asks what do you wish someone taught 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.280 you a long time. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:35.120 Ago that they actually do print lies in newspapers. I 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.880 didn't know that until very recently. I didn't know it 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.679 was a thing. I thought it I had to be 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.840 based on something or a mistake was made or I 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.480 didn't know. And I'm not talking about may I say, newspapers. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.880 I'm talking about a lot of online public online publications. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.320 I should say I didn't know that it was. It 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.880 just is done like a flaut one hundred percent nothing 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.280 based on just lie can be made up. I didn't 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.040 know that. I wish i'd have been taught that very 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.880 early on. And I'm somebody who spent that long in media, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:14.920 has been continuous in media that I didn't get that 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:16.720 about the industry. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.320 Yeah, it was shocking going through it because you don't 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.640 know it and you don't realize it until the lies 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.800 are about you, and then you're like, oh wait, I 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.560 actually know for a fact that is not true, and 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.520 yet here it is in print. And we would actually 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.280 end up laughing at some of them because they were 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:40.560 so like bold face lies with zero, zero attribution or 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:42.680 anything other than sources. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.320 So it's weird now, Andy, how we I can read 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.360 something now like it'd like to be the worst thing 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.600 about whoever they're saying is the worst guy, the worst 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.360 woman doing the worst thing that I'll wait on this one. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.679 Like everything I'm waiting to I just don't believe anything 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.360 almost that I read in these online publications anymore. So 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.880 that's that was a shocker for me, to be honest 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:05.160 with you. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.959 Something that I wished I had it's learned or can 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.120 you tell me what the question is? Again? 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.400 What do you wish someone taught you a long time ago? 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.720 Someone taught me a long time ago. Yeah, this is 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:17.520 a tough one. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.080 For me, But I think your mom's going to take 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:19.480 this personal. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:24.000 My mom's sitting right next to me, right because my 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:31.880 I think to trust that I know best about what 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:38.440 I need. I think I was much more, especially when 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.840 I was younger, willing to take what someone else said 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.560 I should do, or what you know, some religious doctrines 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.760 said I should do, or I was always looking for 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.880 outside validation, and so I wish that I could have 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.240 been taught in a way that it resonated and I 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.560 believed that I actually know what's best for me. You 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.080 seem confused. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.280 I'm trying to follow. Yeah, but the question that what 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.400 do you wish you were taught what to. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:16.200 Basically that you are the best, you know more about 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.800 yourself than anyone else. It's about about relying on yourself 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.800 and trusting yourself. And maybe people say trust your gut, right, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:27.600 But I think I was always very willing to trust 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.080 what someone else said instead of trusting what I thought 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.280 or believed, and I doubted myself. And when I think 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.280 about most of the mistakes I've made in my life, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.520 it has been because I trusted what someone else said, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.000 or I put more stock into what someone else said, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.880 or what something else. You know, something else I read 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.240 said versus what I knew in my gut. And what's 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.280 right for me isn't necessarily right for someone else. So 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.480 and and I don't think I thought that I thought 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:59.200 there was right wrong, black, white, good, bad. And I 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.800 just I wish that I had learned earlier to truly 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.600 listen to my gut. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.880 I think this one goes into what you were saying before. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.360 Do you see the news business differently now, with the 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.120 rise of fake news and Greek distrust and journalism. Has 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.600 that rubbed off on you guys at all? 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.280 Rubbed off? Oh my god? This goes both ways right there. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.360 In some ways we're glad we're out of it, and 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.280 in other ways we wish we could be right in 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.240 the middle of it to actually have more of an 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:48.080 impact or say or sway over places that have such 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.320 big as big a reach as they do. And I 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.360 don't know, it's been difficult for me to watch for 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.080 us Rose, we turn, we do not watch news. We 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.720 don't watch news at all. In the morning. We have 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.680 it on it first when we up at three four 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.679 am and make sure we don't miss headlines, but we 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.800 don't watch news at all. We read our news. So 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.320 but I hate they'd taken some deans and they probably 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.320 will continue to take some deans. And I don't think 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.520 this election cycle helped, and I don't know if the 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.440 next administration is going to help necessarily. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.720 For media, yeah, yeah, we don't watch morning news. But 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.800 when we do watch news, it's usually following a debate, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.520 leading up to a debate around the election. So we 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:36.480 have watched news reacting to the political cycle, for sure. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.359 And that's almost for sport. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.439 It is, and that's what it's become because we'll have Fox, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.639 we'll have CNN, we'll have MSNBC, will have all of 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:50.680 the the major cable outlets. And it is astounding because 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.280 usually we were in the thick of it, we were 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.400 covering it, we were there on the floor of these 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.240 different arenas covering so to actually be sitting on the 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.080 couch and watching it has been a very unique experience 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.439 for me, and it's been disheartening because you just see 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.879 what's actually going on. We know what happens in newsrooms, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.000 we know what happens behind the scenes, and it's just 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.280 it's frightening to now see it from a different perspective 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.040 on the couch, but with the knowledge we have about 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.120 how things work. So I have absolutely been disheartened by 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.320 what I've seen, and I think we've actually felt empowered 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.000 in our podcast to be able to try and do 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.960 things in a non partisan way. We can still add perspective, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:37.960 we can still have our thoughts, we can still bring 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.320 what we've learned with thirty years in the business without 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.919 having something feel mean spirited. I think I've sometimes we 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.800 have the volume down when we watch this, and seeing 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:54.800 some broadcasters' facial expressions, the snarkiness, the almost like laughing 0:18:55.000 --> 0:19:00.159 at what's happening. It's been kind of disgusting a lot 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.040 of moments and hard to watch. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.320 So that's that's where we are. But look, we enjoyed 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.080 what we did, we would have been still a part 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.520 of this whole cycle and a part of this and 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.800 hopefully we could have contributed in a certain way. But 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.480 it's stuff to watch sometimes. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.679 This is just a question that I have. I've been 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:24.120 asking you, guys, but did you notice in the changing of, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.000 like the way the news is reported since twenty sixteen? Like, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.840 did you see that firsthand when all like election reporting 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.919 was going on. Obviously I've covered several elections, but did 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.920 you see that as being as big as it now 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.960 seems it was in how we report politics? 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.800 I think in twenty sixteen The only thing I can 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.320 speak to specifically is that the news organizations we were 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.919 working news organization we were working with, didn't take it 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.760 very seriously, and they thought it was sport. They thought 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.040 it was more entertainment. And then and they were out 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.800 of touch with how a lot of America means were 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.480 actually really feeling and what they were really thinking and 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.399 how they were actually going to vote. And that was 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.080 called considered a wake up call. And yet it's happened again. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.720 And actually I feel like, in a weird way, I've 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:20.120 seen broadcasters double down almost on knowing more than you 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.840 know about yourself. Or thinking they know better than you, 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.960 or thinking that they just have a better idea because 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.560 of their intellect and their perspective and their research. But 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.280 in truth, I don't feel like I feel like sorry 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:39.199 that broadcasters that I've seen are even further disconnected from 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.680 a lot of Americans than they were in twenty sixteen. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.360 Look, Trump got people paid. I mean there were news 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.320 organizations beefing up their staff in DC once that dude 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.719 got there, right, And so now I don't know if 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:54.960 we're getting ready for our whole cycle of this again, 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.840 because people do view it as a circus and you 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.359 go there and you cover and so what are we 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.880 just going to see a constant circus again? I don't know. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.600 But it's to your point you're saying about what we 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:15.000 saw twenty six It's gotten much worse, I think since 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.359 twenty sixteen, because people have made careers out of Trump's presidency, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.240 and there are people who have anchorchairs now and have 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.840 podcast shows, not all kinds of they do because this 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.960 du got to the White House. So it's not gonna 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:34.080 slow down, unfortunately. So it's and is disheartening. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.879 It's something to remember and we know this, but news 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:41.399 is a business. And ratings are how you get paid. 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.960 So consider that when you're looking at your news source, 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.320 it has to be considered. It has to be in 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.800 your mind that it isn't some altruistic thing that I 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:54.439 think a lot of us got into the business to 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.159 do and to be a part of. And yes, I 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.879 think that's in the hearts of a lot of journalists, 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:02.359 but the reality is it is a business. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.639 This person wants to know how much prep do you 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.920 need for the morning run and how early do you 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.720 guys wake up to record it? And what does the 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:12.639 daily workday prep look like. 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:17.360 I appreciate that question, thank you whoever wrote that, because 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.200 I think, yeah, it's like fifteen twenty minutes that we're 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:24.520 putting out there. But it is not that. By the scenes. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.760 We start around noon the day before, collecting headlines. We're 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.480 constantly checking to see what's happening, what's going on. We 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:33.679