WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: Into the Flames with Julio Rosas 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.080 I welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.840 On the last episode, I talked about a New York 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.520 Times article about a woman who falls in love with 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.160 chat GPT. It's portrayed as this normal thing that she did. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.919 You just, you know, went ahead and fell in love 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.759 with her AI, as if that was a sane or 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.800 rational path. And I mentioned it on X also and 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.599 was asked, why do you care? This is just a 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.199 lonely person soothing herself. So let's start with why I 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.360 do care it's in the New York Times. If I'm 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.519 not meant to care, why is there a whole story 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.920 on this? But I particularly care because I have kids 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.400 growing up in this world where a major newspaper thinks 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.600 a story about a woman basically talking to herself is 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.880 just as acceptable a life as any other. I said 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.959 this on the last episode. But it's the fact that 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.640 this life option is presented as just another choice that 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.600 I find so objectionable. This is a terrible choice. This 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.640 is actually no life at all. Really is this a 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.640 lonely woman just trying to feel better? Kind of The 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.479 woman in the story is married, but for financial reasons, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.759 she lives apart from her husband. They're working towards getting 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.280 back to the same place. Clearly, this isn't a well 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.600 functioning person. So to add an AI love affair, which 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.840 by the way, she's paying for at the end of 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.600 the article with money, she does not have to add 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.319 that to the mix. Can we just say no, this 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.800 is bad, don't do this, and have that be enough. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.120 But even putting aside the coverage in the New York Times, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.240 because who knows what they cover at this point or 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.280 why this woman needs to pretend to have a boyfriend 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.840 who doesn't actually exist, The bigger picture for me is 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.080 that so many people are living their lives completely online 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.200 and not in real life, and this is really the 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.040 ultimate version of that. At least most people are interacting 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.640 with real people online, hopefully, but even still, that's a 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.800 sad way to live. I work from home, and I 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.880 always have, so I get the whole having an online 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.840 life thing. I really do. There are days where that 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.480 is the great majority of my human interaction, and I 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.760 recognize that it's not great. I have my husband and 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:45.720 my kids, but my primary friendships are all happening online, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.640 and again I realize it's bad. I work towards more 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.080 in real life interactions and connections. But this AI thing 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.799 is taking it to another level, and it shouldn't be 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.600 normalized or treated as just another way to have a relationship. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.400 It's not. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.920 There's nobody at the other end of that relationship. So 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.720 that's why I care. I care because I can see 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.920 where this road leads and it's not anywhere good, and 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.960 it's important to differentiate between good and bad and not 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.840 allow it to be muddled. There are better and worse 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.600 paths in life. Try to take the better one. 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My guest today is Julio Rosis. Julio is 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.440 national correspondent for Blaze Media. Hi, Julio, so nice to 0:04:58.480 --> 0:04:58.920 have you on. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:00.720 Yeah for having it, Carol. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.080 So, this show is generally not about news of the day, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.400 and it's not about, you know, what's going on in 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.880 our media. But it's sort of an interesting moment right now. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.920 You just got back from California covering the fires, and 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.560 I did want to talk to you about what you 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.760 saw there and what makes you go into disaster areas 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.840 when I would personally run the other way. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.760 Yeah. So, I mean it's a classic case. I mean 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:34.159 obviously you see the destruction on TV, and I would 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.120 and this this was my first wildfire coverage because you know, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.880 I've done hurricanes, I've done you know, the flooding like 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.239 after North Carolina a couple of months ago, and obviously 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.960 this was this was very different because even even before 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.160 leaving the airport, the smoke is so bad, the air 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.279 quality is so bad in Los Angeles right now. Is 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.599 that I started getting a headache from the smoke even 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.440 before leaving the airport, and so that was obviously to 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.200 be expected. But once you're dealing with that for a 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.560 couple of days, it gets, it gets kind of it 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.800 gets annoying. It's kind of like a it's almost as 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:12.880 if the smoke is in your head. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:13.440 Yeah. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.719 I had a friend, Anthony Cobasas, who is also a reporter. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.719 He described it feeling the same way. So in terms 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:25.160 of in terms of why I like to to cover 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.680 these things, the answer is, I don't really know. Outside 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.160 of the side, I would say it's two things. One, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:38.400 it's it. It's important obviously because whenever there is chaos, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.760 whether whether it is riots, whether it's natural disasters or 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.160 you know, stuff that's like happening at the border and 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.880 things relate to that. As we've seen, right, the discourse 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.840 gets very out of control very fast. And being able 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.680 to one be there see it for myself, so that 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.080 gives me some credibility to talk about it, right because 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.960 I'm not just somebody behind the computer right mouthing off. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.480 But also it's not anything wrong with that. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.680 Now that there's anything wrong with that, right, I know 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.480 that that's half of our industry, So I have to 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.880 have to be careful, but also just so being able 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.720 to see it for myself and then also able to 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.920 document it accurately and actually get a feel for on 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.400 the ground, talking to people and people that are being 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.240 affected by that. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.400 Is very important to capture so that the rest of 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.360 the country kind of has a better understanding of what's 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.640 going on. And that's applicable to basically almost any story 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.040 chaotic thing. And the other thing is is that it 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:43.320 is exciting and and I'm I've said this before, but 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.040 I never considered myself to be an adrenaline junkie of 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.560 any kind. I don't like roller coasters. I still don't 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.520 like roller coasters. I don't whenever the you know, a 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.720 plane gets turbulence, which I'm on a lot of planes 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:03.160 these days. Right, So whenever playing gets urmulents, I don't 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.280 I don't like that feeling in my stomach. That's really 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.720 the big thing. Uh. And so but whenever it's in 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.840 not a situation that I can I want to say 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.560 that I can control, because obviously by nature like this 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.000 is very out of control and whatever, whatever the situation is. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.800 But when being able to kind of navigate it, and 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.320 like I said, also having like a mission behind it, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.960 I find a lot of satisfaction in being able to 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.199 go out and kind of like complete a mission in 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:40.120 a sense and in a way, so it's those two 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.080 it's like combining those two things, right, So it's like 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.720 the passion while also getting paid for it is a 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.000 pretty nice gig, right, you know, being able to do 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.960 what I like to do as a job. And so 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:58.040 that's that's kind of why. And also I guess it 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.560 would be kind of like job security because like as 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.240 you said, of people wouldn't want to go at first 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.600 at first of these things, and so kind of being 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.439 the guy that always raises his hand and saying, okay, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.280 all right, I'll take one for the team. And you know, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:10.760 there's a lot of things that go into it right, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.880 and like, for example, because when the fires really started 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.440 raging on that Tuesday, I just got back from DC. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.839 I was helping Blaze cover you know, January sixth, and 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.440 all that and all that entailed, and I told my 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.480 mom that I was leaving it. And because my mom 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.040 takes care of my dog that I rescued, because she 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.000 lives close by, obviously, whenever I leave, I have to 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.360 give her heads up that, like, hey, you're gonna to 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.400 take care of Bella for the first time. And she 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.280 tells me, no, don't go, Like I feel like if 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.720 you go, things are going to be out of control. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.880 It's going to be chaotic there. And I just looked 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.840 at her and I was like, you know, what's what 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.440 I do. Like, if you're trying to convince me to 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.520 not go, that was the wrong thing to say. And 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.800 so she finally was like okay. And so I would say, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.080 definitely having the gas ask, which I got a couple 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.079 of years ago for the riots with the tear guys 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.160 like that actually came in handy a lot, as you 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.560 can imagine. So yeah, I mean, it was it was 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.640 it was it was seeing that sort because she used 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.480 to live in Burbank prior to living in Florida. So 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.679 actually after I started my career in journalism, I was 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.959 actually out there a lot because before we never went 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.560 to Los Angeles and so kind of seeing the you know, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.800 being in those areas that that we would visit, uh, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.719 you know, whether it's like Malibu or Santa Monica and 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.640 seeing the state that it's in, I mean, like, yeah, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:36.600 it is jarring, it is. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:36.800 It is. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.520 Yeah, it is sad because as much as I like 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.400 the rag on California, you know, yeah, but I love California. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.400 That's a beautiful state. It would be so much better, you. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.440 Know, right, And that's the thing. Like, so I as 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.160 someone who spent a lot of time there, I understand 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.160 how much better it can be, and and I do 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.040 appreciate the things that that are still good there, which 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.000 there are quite a few things, right, And I finally 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.200 understood because I want to Pacific Palisades and seeing the 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.760 destruction there and even in its state that it's currently in. Unfortunately, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.880 I can understand why people who have grown up, their 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.280 their whole lives aren't just gonna automatically move to a 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.120 red state like Texas are afforded because like that area 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:20.080 is still nice. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.000 So nice. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.520 Yeah, So what do your parents think about what you 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.679 do in general? Do they? I mean, I'm sure they're 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.520 proud of you, but they can't love you head you know, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.360 because I was going to say, actually, in another era, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.920 you'd probably be a war correspondent, but you actually are 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.440 a war correspondent. You do go into war zones, you 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.640 go into all of these things, you go into riots, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.320 you go into you know, natural disasters, and you have 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.600 been in war zones. So what do they think. Are 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.000 they like, can you please not? Or are they like, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.120 go ahead and do it. This is you know, what 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.000 you were born to do. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.360 No, I have my parents are very supportive of what 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:01.000 I do. Obviously, they do have concerns, uh, you know, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.160 depending on the situation. I would say, when again, when 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.440 I was talking to my mom before I loved, she 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.880 definitely had more of a concern than usual because this 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.400 was definitely a much because it was also just a 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.360 new situation, right, it was a new situation because she's 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.439 she is used to me being in right, she is 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.400 used to me being in in uh, you know, like 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:25.080 when I was in Israel after October seventh. So but 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.160 but they but they also understand that this is what 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.240 I want to do, right and and there, and like 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.360 I said, they're they're very supportive in that, and so 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.240 I do check in with them a lot whenever whenever 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.599 I do go, and especially my mom, because you know, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.760 I was kind of telling her how how things were 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:49.240 and how and and kind of getting her reaction to 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:54.840 to seeing because even though she she obviously grew to 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.160 dislike California with it with its politics after COVID and 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.160 then all that, you know, she's against New sum and 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.960 then in the recall campaign, so she did, she did 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.800 try her She did try her best when she lived there, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.520 but she did, you know, she did get very emotional 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.000 because she did spend a lot of time there, right, 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.960 I mean she lived there for seven and eight years, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.240 and we actually lived briefly when I was very little 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.240 in California even prior to that. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:22.640 So so she she was, you know, pretty upset seeing everything, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.600 as as a lot of people are obviously, Oh, it's nice, right, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:32.080 It's nice to have that that support, and it is 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.400 also kind of like a good I would say good. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.840 Kind of like a control rod and a nuclear reactor, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.200 where obviously for me, I just want to you know 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.480 at the first time, I think, I just I just 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.319 want to go, right, Like I just just want to 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.040 go and and and you know, maybe I don't think 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.160 about all of the all of the dangers that kind 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.160 of kind of go along sid So whenever I check 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.920 in with my parents, they kind of like, Okay, well 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.400 did you think about this? Do you think about that? 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.040 Like what are your plans for this? So it's kind 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.120 of a good it's kind of a good regulator almost 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.480 right to to to just my my natural instinct to 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.000 go out and head into to the craziness. So and 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.640 also now having to take care of a dog isn't 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.040 good because as much as I wouldn want to be 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.880 out there for as long as possible, you get very shed. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.880 My mom tells me she gets very very sad and 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.600 depressed whenever I'm going for extented period. So it's it's like, okay, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.080 so I have to leave, right. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.560 Did you always want to do this? Did you always 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:26.360 want to be a reporter? 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.600 No? So I didn't. I didn't know what I wanted 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.200 to do when I was in after after high school, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.000 because I knew I wanted to be in the Marines, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.600 but in the Marine reserves. So that's a part time thing. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.640 It's that full time. So I knew I had to 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.440 obviously have a career outside of that while while I 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.040 was doing the part time thing, and so I took 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.520 a journalism This is like my only formal education was 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.840 a journalism class for one semester in high school. Right, 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:00.720 So it's very very it's very basic. It's obviously not 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.360 super in depth, and I didn't like it. But even 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.440 at that time, I didn't know what I wanted to do. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.760 But then after I got involved into politics, right before 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.400 the twenty sixteen election, I got into writing, and that 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:20.280 was just by happenstance. And so after I covered the 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.680 protests at the RNC and the DNC in twenty sixteen, 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.280 which people forget the DNC was actually had a lot 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.760 more protests because all the Bernie bros. Were still upset 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.680 that Hillary kind of you know, sold the nomination with 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.320 the serial delegates, So there were a lot of protests there, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.400 and so combining that with Twitter, you know, then Twitter, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.000 that's kind of when I realized, oh, I like being 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.560 out in the field and using social media to give 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.760 live updates. So that's kind of how I So when 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.960 I moved out to d C after Trump won in 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.560 twenty seventeen. That's when I really and I covered Charlottesville 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.040 because I was like shortly after. That's when it really 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.440 clicked for me. It's like, Okay, whenever there's an opportunity 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.560 for something like this, this is where I want to 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.880 be and this is the type of journalism that I 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:03.320 want to do. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.640 What would you be doing if it wasn't this, like 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:12.120 motorcycle racing, adrenaline junk, Well, yeah, no, motorcycle racing. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.600 No I yeah, I don't. I don't like to ride motorcycles, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.800 especially in southern Florida. So no, I don't. I don't know, honestly, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.640 I really don't. And that's actually something my parents want 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.480 me to think about often, well just in the sense 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.960 of and I guess this kind of speaks to not 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:36.480 not to get ahead but with with but the because 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.560 my one of my issues is that i'm too I 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.560 can get hyper focused on an issue, on something, and 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.200 so that if that's all I think about, and that's 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.520 all I focus on, obviously there's you know, there's more 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.400 to life than just being in the field. And so 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.120 when I was in d C that that was especially true, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.040 and that was because a lot of things were happening, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.280 especially in twenty twenty, but I kind of let other 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.840 things kind of fall to the wayside. And so moving 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.200 to Florida was kind of an answer to that, because 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.200 when you're sucked into d C, obviously that's that's that's 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.480 the city, right, the city around these news cycles and 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.560 the politics and everything. So being able to kind of 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.240 just remove myself from that environment, obviously still working in 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.680 the industry, but remove myself from the environment to allow 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.280 myself to kind of take pause, take a breath, and 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.159 enjoy other aspects. But no, so the answer question, I 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.440 have no idea. I mean, I was I was when 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.200 I when I was in college because I dropped out. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.840 I was doing business administration. 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Just anything really, but you know, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.520 you get to see all of this up close, it 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.359 has to affect you. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.080 It does at a certain point because you know, you try, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:56.639 you try, you try not to get to you because yeah, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.720 because when you when you're in the situations and you're 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.520 in again. That's why helps having that mission with with 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.320 like reporting because you know you do you don't want 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.080 it to be you know, you don't want to like 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.400 make it about you obviously because you know, unless it's 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.320 in your area, you're just visiting until you kind of 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.560 always have to keep that in mind. But so having 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:24.159 that mission and having that that responsibility to focus again, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.159 to focus and to get the word out on what's on, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.200 what's going on. But yeah, after a while, it does, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.320 it does kind of weigh on you. And a good 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.840 example outside of the riots was actually the border crisis, 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.560 because when everything first started in twenty twenty one, it 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.280 was obviously a very much a border issue at the 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:48.200 beginning because they were the first being impacted. People were 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.560 just starting to arrive. Yes, even though they were being 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.480 sent out into the United States for that year, the 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.960 numbers hadn't reached critical mass yet, and that didn't happen 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.639 until late or until like mid twenty twenty three, basically 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.440 like a two year period where you know, I'm kind 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.760 of you know, I'm raising any alarm about it, there's 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.760 other people raising any alarm about it, and sure, obviously 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.199 Republicans were too, but understandably it still was kind of 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.720 a far away issue. It wasn't like the school board issue, 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.720 like in loud and counting, right, because obviously, oh, like 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.200 that's my kids school board, and then people are looking 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.159 at their other stuff, and so it's whenever I whenever 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:30.400 I leave, I have to kind of not obviously completely 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.480 forget about it, but I can't dwell on it because 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.679 especially with an issue like that, it's such a huge issue. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.320 It's a year's long issue. Obviously got worse because of 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:45.400 the Biden Harris administration, and obviously now it's it's it's 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.560 almost incomprehensible about how big of an issue it has become. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.040 And now it's I'll. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.680 Tell you that. My my a political sister in law, 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.439 like a month or two ago, was like, do you 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.920 know what's going on at the border? And I was like, yeah, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.520 I do. I do know what's going on. 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.560 It's like Internet Explorer. That's explorer, but. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.359 Telling you it has it has jumped to you know, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:09.879 people who just don't follow the news. She's very smart, 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.200 you know, she just has a different you know, different 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:13.720 different things that she follows. 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.280 She's a normal person, normal person. 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.159 Exactly normal people now know about the border. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:23.480