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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's talk about like five different things here real quick,
like like rapid fire. The weather was absolutely insane. Did
you see what happened on Saturday at the Iowa State Fair?
No record number of people the hardest ever, unlike one
hundred twenty eight thousand and change. That's a lot of people.
It broke the previous record by like five hundred. It's
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only the second time one hundred and twenty eight thousand
was usurped. Jelly Roll Jelly Roll was the was the
headline act sold out? Show you a jelly roll guy?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I can't say that I'm really familiar with any of
his music, but I've heard he is a musician.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Do you know what he looks like? Yeah, his name,
the name fits. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
He's a big guy with a bunch of face tats.
He's got those face tats and that jail time. Yeah,
I heard about that. I feels like it feels like
anybody with a face hat you're basically going to jail
at some point.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, or you get him in jail. Do you
think he got his in jail? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't think I care enough to know to be
honest with you, So I don't know. But yeah, it
was fun time last night my wife and I on Sunday.
Sunday night, my wife was over and we went to
see Austin Snell up and coming country music artists. He's
like country and rock bro. You'd love his stuff. You
gotta look into it. Austin Snell, good stuff. It was
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a great time. Then I got a picture, we got
to snap a picture with him. It was it was great.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I got to do a couple of social media posts
today because you know, you want to let people know
what the heck come up to.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You never know, you never know, all right, So Twitter,
remember that place, do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You remember when when the when we did the Twitter
thing and now it's x or whatever. But you remember
Donald Trump. I think Twitter is largely responsible for him
catching absolute fire in twenty fifteen ahead of the twenty
sixteen cycle. Just he was tweeting everything like anytime he
had something to say, it was on Twitter immediately. And
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then as Twitter, you know, was bouncing around, there wasn't
a whole lot going on.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I gotta tell you, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Lot of people weren't super happy with the way that
he was going on social media.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
They said it was unpresidential all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Twitter started to take some action and ban certain things
or shadow band or whatever, and I believe a lot
of that's true. I don't know exactly. I know a
lot of people on Facebook say they're getting shadow banned,
and they don't let like they not not to say
that doesn't happen. I'm just saying, just because something's underperforming
doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, you're getting shadow band.
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But it became pretty controversial what was and what was
not allowed or seen on the Twitter machine. So Donald
Trump was a huge Twitter guy until a lot of
that stuff went down. And then in January of twenty
twenty one, when all the the January sixth stuff went down,
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he was like, please support a capitol police and law enforcement.
They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful.
Then follow it up with said, I am asking for
everyone at the US capital to remain peaceful, no violence.
Remember we are the party of law and order. Respect
the law, and our great men and women in blue.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Thank you. And he did all that. The next day.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He had a little two minute presser that he put
on there a couple of days later basically said I
will not be going to the inauguration, and then he
goes cold. He's got people that make truth social. He
just disappears from Twitter. He did post his mug shot
on Twitter on August twenty fourth of last year. He
said Alexia interference, never surrender for his mug shot that
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obviously he knew he wanted to go viral, and it
does go viral, and then he pops back up on
Twitter three hours ago. It's got another two and a
half minute long kind of campaign video. He follows that
up by saying, are you better off now than you
were when I was president? Our economy is shattered, our
boy has been erased. We're a nation in decline. Make
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the American dream affordable again, Make America safe again, Make
America great again. Follows that up by retweeting or reposting
something that says Elon Musk will be interviewing and we
knew this was happening. Elon Musk interviewing Trump seven pm
tonight Central Time. It's eight o'clock Eastern, seven pm, and
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this will be happening on X. Essentially it is also
paid for by Donald Trump for president. But we know
Elon Lane's very conservative these days. He's in charge of X.
He has brought Donald J. Trump back to X and
Donald Trump has been posting away all day long, posting
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a couple of his campaign ads here as well, like
a couple of videos that were put together, and I
mean they're just firing them off, like bang bang, bang,
bang bang. A ton of different videos that you can
go find on the Donald Trump X account. So, Matt,
I'm gonna ask you, and then I'll ask the listeners,
what do you think, like Donald Trump strategically back on
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X here just inside of three months to the actual election,
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh, It's not really something that's going to change my
day or life because I don't really engage in that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah, I forgot. You're a bad guy to ask. Well,
you're you're like never on X anyway. I'm also I
send you a links, you know, then you're on Yeah. Well,
I mean I have an account, I just don't really
use it, I guess is the best way to put it.
Because he got because the way it's set up now
with Twitter, You're like you have to have an account
to actually like view stuff?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, Well, I mean the way that the way that
he Elon sets it up you basically could just say whoever,
you can pretend to be something you're not. I mean,
nobody has to know it's you. You could be one
of those burner account guys, right.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I think that, Like my instinct is, wasn't it late
last week that there was a report that his like
whatever it was, the the the media company that he
owns that's within his holdings that's publicly traded, had taken
some big losses. So you know, is this does this
mean he's basically abandoning the whole truth social situation that
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that's that's my first thought, my first curiosity.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I suppose, yeah, tru true social Yeah, I mean there
was a limitation to I think the ceiling there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I mean it is a very strategic timing for it,
for sure, especially with the interview coming up and it's
all about it's all about, you know, attention capture. So
this makes sense, very very logical for a for a
timing for it. Yeah, And I mean Elon being kind
of like the pied piper of trying to return the
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world of social media back to like the wild West,
kind of of just like, hey, we're not gonna like,
we're not going to tell you what you should and
should not be posting now. His business model is if
you pay the eight bucks a month to have the
little blue check mark, you're going to get your stuff
all the way up to the top of you know,
the post post right. If you don't pay for the
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blue check mark, your posts aren't going to get viewed
as much because that's what he's got set up. But
that's just kind of a pay for play scenario. It's
not necessarily like, hey, you said something weird, We're going
to censor you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's the opposite, and.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's inherently flawed. I don't know, I could, I could
find a lot of reasons to pick a lot of
holes into that whole idea. If he thought he was
bringing more free speech to the platform with that idea,
all that is is more elitism garbage.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
If you ask me, well, and I said this and
I have, there's at least one guy who called in,
calls in almost every time I say this, and I'm sorry,
it's just the truth. The app was better before Elon,
I mean, it just was now. I think that his
principles of what he wants social media to be are noble.
At the same time, he's a businessman. What's the worth
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billions of dollars, like billions upon billions of dollars, like
one of the richest men in the world. He's a
business guy, and so this is a business product. He's
not making this just like a public message board that
people can just pretend to be whoever they want to
be and nobody pay for it. No, there's people who
pay for advertising on it, and there's people who pay
for that Twitter Blue or Premium.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Or whatever they call it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And you pay like eight dollars a month, which to
me is insane. I'll keep my eight bucks and have
nobody see my post.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And if you go into like the popular post, you
gotta scroll way down to get past all of the
you gotta you know, break down all of the you know, gosh,
you have to scroll so much. If there's anything popular,
anything at all popular on this app, you basically have
to click it and then just be prepared to scroll
scroll because the first like fifty things are going to
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be unrelated to the actual topic. But people who pay
for Twitter Blue or Premium or whatever it is, can
like all their stuff is right at the top. Okay,
But because Elon's in charge in because Elon is a
you know, conservative guy, and he wants to promote that.
He knows it's good for his brand to have guys
like Tucker Carlson be like on X.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Tucker Carlson's not even on television anymore. He's on X
whatever that means, right, And it's working out for Tucker.
He's got a ton of followers, a lot of people
watch his videos. Well. Donald Trump certainly knows that, and
I think they were just waiting for the right time
for him to capitalize on returning to this giant platform that,
even with all of its faults, a ton of people
are on, a ton of eyeballs will see this. Him
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and Elon together are gonna blow this thing up. And
then Elon of course being associated with it, and the
fact that the Trump campaign paid for it. There it's
going to be mutually helpful. People are going to be
going out of their way to jump on X and
see this. It's gonna be good for business for Elon.
It's also going to be good business for Trump. I
think it's just a business play for both of them.
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How it'll affect the campaign, we'll see, because there's equal
numbers of you know, lunatics who are hiding behind fake
names and pictures on X from both sides of the aisle.
So I don't know how much it's going to factor
in all that, but the exposure is going to be
excellent for both Elon and his X machine, as well
as Trump in his campaign.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Right now two eighteen US some thoughts.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
What does Donald Trump's return to Twitter or X and
his relationship with Elon Musk, which we are going to
see plenty of tonight with this interview that is going
to drop at seven pm Central time? What does that mean?
You can call in at four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight eleven ten.
We'll talk more about it next.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Emrie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They alienated some people as time went on with the
way that he handled himself on social medium, made his
own social media company, Truth Social, and now he's making
his way back to X today several posts and a
run up to his interview with Elon Musk tonight at
seven o'clock our time on our phone line is Eric, Eric,
thank you so much for listening to the show.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You got some thoughts on this?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Hey, guys. Yeah, obviously I'm a Trump supporter, I'm a conservative,
and he's got my vote. But my opinion is that
I think he should probably take a break from social
media or maybe the Internet in general. He's picked a
couple of bizarre arguments lately, obviously the Ai Tarmac one
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with the Kamala Harris and yeah, really, I think the
one that is going to get a lot of people
is the pick the fight with Joe Rogan, of all people.
And while Joe Rogan's more of a centrist, He's got
a lot of conservative followers. And I don't see any
of this being a benefit to him other than being
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obvious that he's not able to check his ego, you know,
during a critical time where they got to form a
very concise message. I think it just needs to stay off.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, and I think a lot of people I like
in his presidency or even into the run up to
the twenty twenty election, said, if it wasn't for that
darn Twitter account, you know, I'd have no problem voting
for him. Again, I think a lot of people, even
people who lean conservative, were like they were just turned
off by the way that he talks on social media
because there is no filter there. He really just is
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anything that comes to his mind. He is fire them off.
There's no doubt about that. I just don't know if
you can retrain a guy like him, who really got
elected the first time because of his presence on social
media and all of a sudden tell him, hey, man,
you really should take a break if you want to
win this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I don't think you could retrain him to do anything,
but I think that would be advantageous to him.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, well for sure, Eric, Hey, I appreciate you listening
and thanks for calling in. Thank you all right.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't disagree with that. I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I do think though, that Trump doesn't care what we think, right,
Like I think he thinks. What do they say, Matt,
what do they say? It's a no there no bad
publicity is good policity or there's no such thing as
bad publicity or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That's yeah the ladder there, I've heard that. Yet, there's
no such thing as bad publicity? Right? Yeah? So does
that is that?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Like if I just started going crazy on social media
as people started like following me even though it was
like ridiculous stuff, and I was like electrocuting my nip
or something you think would be you think that you
think that'd actually be good for my career.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Eventually, it depends on your brand. If you're Steve Oh,
I think you could make it work. But well, I'm
not Steve O exactly. I don't think. I don't think
that would be good for your brand. I feel like
there's a lot of examples. See Howard Dean in the Dictionary.
I mean, I'm not everything you do exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know. It's pretty easy to poke holes in
that argument.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I feel like, kid, could are you okay with me
just doing Yeah? Every once in a while, I get
really excited and incented, just like laughing or something.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I just go, I think that's good for the brand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
If I if I could be your publicist you're publicist,
I would I would advise to do more of that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, are you sure? Yeah? Okay, I'll think about that.
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't know if that's the kind of advice I
need at this point, But I will keep that in
mind and take that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Think of the merch we could make, think of the
think of the imaging that I could make in between
the commercials. You know, every song will be right back
and then you give a hardy yeah you know.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, what does Trump need? One of the like okay,
so what's better or worse for Trump? Him going up
there and starting to make like crazy noises like that
hit like Donald Trump, blink, we don't need to be
giving more money to China, yeah, or or him just
going on like a several tweet rant on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh that's a tough one. Yeah, Like what would be
what is more help is? I don't know if either
are helpful right now, but if I could like just
funnel him one way or the other to like for
the better part of the campaign, I think him just
like showing up and be funny, like he went on
Fallon when he ran for president the first time, and
Fallen asked if he could touch his hair?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Did you have you seen this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, and and like Fallen just like gives him a
nouggie basically, and Trump's just sitting there laughing the whole time,
Like that's the kind of thing that everybody who hates
him is like, Oh, he's just a dude, you know
what I mean, that's the kind of thing if you
did that, if he did it that way, I don't know,
like there's a way that you can just be kind
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of goofy. And the people who say they're into the
policies are the people on the right. The conservatives are like,
we are voting policy. Yeah, Donald Trump is a little
bit crazy on social media. Yeah, he says some stuff
that either isn't true or is greatly in bellish. Sure,
he isn't a super likable guy if you're a person
that doesn't like a lot of Hollywood celebrities or New
York celebrities. In his case, however, the policies worked for
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four years. He was an excellent president in policies and platforms.
Why would we not vote for a guy who is
better in policies. The people that are voting for him
don't need him to be a certain type of person.
They call into this show right here and talk about
the country's better when a conservative like Donald Trump is
the president of the United States and can lead the
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conservatives that are in Congress. We have a lot of
people that say that that doesn't nothing to do with
his personality, has nothing to do with his social media following,
has nothing to do with his rallies. Now, his rallies
helped build that and got him elected. You got to
have people electable based on their personability with the voters
of America. But the people who are in the middle
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that are like, I don't know if this is a
good guy or not, I think they could use him
being just a little bit less serious, a little bit
more funny, maybe the sense of humor thing. And that's
why I love that Bryson too Shambeau video because it's
just him and Bryson out there messing around on a
golf course having a lot of fun. It was fun
to watch. They didn't really even talk politics hardly at all.
It was really just golf and life and stuff like that.
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And I was just like, Man, if more people all
the people watching this are Trump supporters or they like golf,
there's not a lefty liberal that's going to watch that
and be like, Oh, Trump's just kind of a regular guy. No,
because they don't want to expose themselves to that. If
he was like that a little bit more, maybe the
middle of the road people would be like, oh, yeah,
he's just a normal guy. The liberal media is just
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making him sound a lot worse than that. I don't know,
it's interesting, it's an interesting case study. You got thoughts
on Donald Trump returning to Twitter or X you can
fire away a phone call too is four H two
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Speaker 4 (17:15):
Maurice Soner on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What is your preferred method of selfie and what's the
right angle and what's the right face to make? Because
in my my position, I selfie quite a bit. I
don't I'm not always super comfortable with the way that
I look, but you know, I like to, you know,
put myself out there for the people and to let
them know, let everybody know what I'm up to. And
I've noticed that some people have different strategies about the
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angle in which you can selfie and also the face
that you make, so you feel a little bit more
confident in the way that you look.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What say you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That's a good question, you know, there's a lot of
different thoughts on this, not that I've ever thought about it,
but being facetious there of course I've I've thought about it.
I just like, well, you gotta you gotta consider the lighting.
Of course, of course, generally want lighting that's coming down
on you, right. I think that's how it is. You know,
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wants going up to you. You don't want it behind
you as well.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Think of it. Think of it as if you're on
a stage. Right.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's that's one of the first tips to people who
are taking pictures or videos. Don't like stand in front
of a window that's behind you and take a picture
like that. You want the light to be on you.
It's like you're on a stage. So think of it
that way. Yes, So that's like the first step one.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, and I agree with that, And that's and that's
pretty honestly, it's pretty easy to figure out if you're
in a situation.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, So, and.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I usually just hold it out like there's a way
to hold it to an angle and kind of like
have it at an angle to where you almost kind
of crop your arm so that it's not obvious. There's
a way to get a selfie where it almost doesn't
look like you're taking the picture.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in these days with your phone, you can edit
it right, Like you can like you can take a
little bit of a wider shot and then and then
you can crop it a bit.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, and then what's great I love the the iPhone
that you can There's so much you can do to
it that even if you don't have that great of lighting,
you can end up with a picture that looks like
it was done by a studio or at least something
close to that.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, and not every picture can turn out that way,
but you can definitely enhance the lighting.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and well, and this is this is my thing,
right of of how like crazy can I get with
the editing part of it?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Because me being super like I don't know, not.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Pleased with the way that I look most of the time,
I do like to play a little bit with like
the the blemish remover, and you can do things to
like enhance lighting or shadows and stuff within there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
M hm, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, am I superficial for thinking about that?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No? I don't think you are.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But also I think that, for God, there's different ways
to be handsome as a guy, So I wouldn't be
so hard on yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, you're right, You're right, I bet wouldn't you know?
Everybody out there?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Could?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We agree?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Like ninety percent of guys just aren't super like confident
with the way that they look deep down, yeah, and
what's in what's the Yeah, you're right, You're right deep down.
There's some guys that like exude a confidence that's kind
of an insecure confidence.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Uh, but what do you think about?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Like what what is kind of a trick to make
a guy feel more confident?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Do you need some validation from somebody specific?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Or how can you validate yourself in a way that
makes you feel good about what you you look like.
I say all this because you know, I've been taking
a lot of photos already during the Iowa State Fair,
and I gotta tell you, I just wish I looked different.
A lot of times I just looked at the photo
and was like, oh man, why do I look that way?
I know, I know not everybody feels that way about
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the way that I look, but I feel that way
about me. It's like a psychology thing, right, Like how
do I talk myself into the idea that I look
just normal for the most part?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, I there's a lot of forms of body dysmorphia.
Like you think about the people who look in the
mirror and still think they're overweight when they are in
fact quite a bit underweight. I think that a lot
of how you see yourself is filtered through the way
you feel about yourself before you even look at the picture.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So what you're saying is I need to feel that
way before I take the photo. Because all right, and
I showed you the picture I took at the DMV
when I got my license for Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Right, remember that photo? I do.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't remember what it looked like, but I remember.
You show again to me. Yeah, it's mortifying.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I want to go back and get a new one
because it really just like destroys my confidence every time
I see it.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Do you think that's okay?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It costs a little money to do, right, Is it
worth standing in line to get my license renewed? Just
because I personally feel like absolute dog turds looking at
my Nebraska driver's license in the photo they took me, well,
I mean, my brother, I look like, like, what's the
I look like I am a serial killer, probably in
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the way they kept telling me to look down. I
am not a fat guy, but it looks like I
have three chins, like the shadows, the lighting stinks, my
hair was awful.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That I just whole.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I know it's not about the photo, but I have
to look at this every day basically every day. Well,
if you're a dude and you're insecure about the way
that you look, and you can relate with me, if
you want to email me Emory at kfab dot com,
we can commiserate together. And if you follow me on
social media and you see what I look like and
you're like, I have no idea what this guy's talking about.
It's not about you and what you think I look like.
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It's about how I feel about the way I look.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You know, you should try.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You should go there and then have them use your
phone to take the picture and put it on one
of those snapchat filters. Yeah, and just have them used
one of like the puppy years. Yeah, I can give
you like puppy years and those like really shiny like
uh like the Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I feel like that's a
bad idea.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
If you were allowed to do that, then there'd be
people breaking laws all over the place. You never be
able to fully identify them based on their ID, that's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Anyway, that's that's just something I've been thinking about this week,
and it's just like, man, being honestly a lot better.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If I looked just a bit different, but.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Even if even then, Okay, so did you create players
when you played like basketball or football, baseball, video games?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And you try to create yourself like I would do
that all the time. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And I had a heck of a time getting it
to where it looked exactly like me. And I found
myself just like changing the guy's face and build to
what I wish I looked like. Is that a bad exercise?
Is that detrimental to me.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
As someone who can really relate to this conversation, like
I am giving myself advice too. I just think it
benefits you the most and me the most to just
like think.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Less about it, you know, Yeah, you're right, You're right.
I mean thinking about it is the problem more than anything.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think that because think about what attracts you to
other people in the different various ways. I think that
we're a lot harder on ourselves. I think what we're
looking for isn't is more than skin deep, and we
don't even realize it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You know, Yeah, just exude a sense of peace and
people will enjoy your presence.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wow, that is deep. Good job, Matt, that's good, good stuff.
From you, John's on a phone line four or two, five, five,
eight eleven ten? John, what say you?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah? That's just starting like on insecure snowflake conversation?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Is that right? Is that all you have to say? John?
So you called John?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You called me because you could me share my feelings.
Sounds like an insecure snowflake conversation. And it bothered you
enough to where you dialed in and wanted to tell
me on the air. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
John? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well John, John, I I I'm not trying to be
judgmental here, because this whole thing is about me being
judgmental about myself, something I think many people can relate to.
But if it bothered you enough to call in to
tell me that it sounded like a snowflake conversation, I
feel like that makes.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You the snowflake here. He hung up. Yeah, I bet
he did. I bet he did.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Look if getting into my feelings in a way that
I feel like could be relatable to many people, like
Matt himself said he could relate to that, I'm sorry
if that sounds like something that's insecure for you, that
doesn't mean ten other people for every one of you,
that ten other people aren't finding this to be Yeah,
you know what I do experience that I do have
(25:36):
a lack of confidence there. So so for John to
call in, that's fine. I totally understand that, totally get it.
I'm not saying that I think I'm ugly or anything.
I'm not begging people to tell me I'm handsome. But
what I am saying is that there is an actual
thing like in your body right where you're generally always
(25:56):
looking for yourself to look better, to feel better, wish
you had a better job, wish you had a better
social life, which you lived in a better house.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The grass is always greener, it really is. And this
is just one iteration of that conversation. I really do
think that talking about this stuff can be therapeutic for
many people who have similar feelings. And that's what I'm
here for now. If you want to share something positive,
that's what we're here for. That's what this four hour
radio show is for, for us to share feelings, for
(26:27):
us to you know, share our perspectives and point of
view on basically anything. And just because yeah, I wish
I looked a little bit better in photos, that doesn't
mean I'm trying to be an insecure snowflake. That means
I'm sharing a personal experience that I think many others
also are struggling with at various points, and just talking
through my feelings and maybe allowing some other people to
talk through their feelings as well. I'm getting plenty of
(26:48):
emails about it right now. So to John, I apologize
that this seems like an insecure snowflake conversation. But if
that's all you have to contribute to the conversation, maybe
you need to sit this one out. We'll finish this
one up. It's a two forty eight. We'll come back.
I wrap up the hour. If you got thoughts, call
us four h two five five eight eleven ten News
Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Emery's sung on news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Kfab talk about my driver's license and how horrific it looks.
They told me to put my head down, my hair
looks bad. They told me not to smile. They want
no facial expression, and it quite literally is the worst
photo ever taken of me in my face. Judith emailed
in and said, I cannot believe you're talking about this.
(27:30):
I thought this was just a problem I have with
my DMV photos. My driver's license pick is so bad.
My doctor asked me the last time if there was
a photo they had on file was mine because it
didn't look like me at all. And by the way,
it's the ugliest picture I've ever seen. In fact, I
keep it face down on my billfold just because seeing
it actually makes me depressed. I do the same thing.
I do the same thing. I literally do not.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Want to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Judith finishes up by saying, I do not know how
the DMV can take a photo that doesn't even look
like the person. Well, they just want it to look
like what we normally look like in real life. And
that's the depressing part is because I think because they
want to get our face perfectly in there. It's not
how people actually see us. And there's no vibrancy to it,
there's no lightness to it. The fact that you're an
(28:13):
unable to smile makes your face look kind of awkward.
I think our brains are just kind of hardwired to
having good, solid reactions to people who are happy, to
people who are smiling, even if their smile might be crooked,
or in my case, you know my teeth aren't straight,
or you know somebody that might have had a broken nose
somewhere and it's a little crooked or there they have
like something wrong with one of their eyes or something.
(28:34):
It still exudes that vibrancy. And there's something about people
smiling or laughing that I think allows us as other
people to see genuineness in vibrancy and other people. And
the DMV photos basically just zap every last bit of
that out of it. So not only are they horrible
photos from a terrible angle that nobody actually would ever
see in real life, but also you you're not allowed
(28:56):
to have any of the good stuff that allow your
facial features to be somewhat acceptable when you your biggest your
own biggest critic is like, come on, man, just can
I take another photo? I'm talking about the grass always
being greener? And how you know we can always battle
that because if you had the perfect face by a
textbook definition, you're probably going to be wanting to improve something.
(29:17):
I mean, you're nobody's ever fully happy or satisfied usually,
And Christian says, the grass is always greener, but it
still needs to be mode deep but true thoughts. It's
a good way of putting it. The grass is always greener,
but you do have to kind of work for it.
There's no doubt about that. I do feel I feel better.
I'm glad that I brought this up, even if had
(29:38):
John the caller, John say that sounds like a snowflke conversation.
Maybe it is, John, I don't know, but I'm not
gonna pretend like I'm not feeling it. I'm not gonna
fake my way, you know, around the conversation, especially if
I feel like it's something that people could enjoy, you know,
sharing with us. So, speaking of sharing, we'll talk about
(29:59):
what's being shared about Tim Waltz and the latest on
his service in the military, coming from somebody who really knows.
Coming up next, stick with us, Emery Songer with you
on news radio eleven ten KFAB
Let's talk about like five different things here real quick,
like like rapid fire. The weather was absolutely insane. Did
you see what happened on Saturday at the Iowa State Fair?
No record number of people the hardest ever, unlike one
hundred twenty eight thousand and change. That's a lot of people.
It broke the previous record by like five hundred. It's
(00:21):
only the second time one hundred and twenty eight thousand
was usurped. Jelly Roll Jelly Roll was the was the
headline act sold out? Show you a jelly roll guy?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I can't say that I'm really familiar with any of
his music, but I've heard he is a musician.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Do you know what he looks like? Yeah, his name,
the name fits. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
He's a big guy with a bunch of face tats.
He's got those face tats and that jail time. Yeah,
I heard about that. I feels like it feels like
anybody with a face hat you're basically going to jail
at some point.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, or you get him in jail. Do you
think he got his in jail? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't think I care enough to know to be
honest with you, So I don't know. But yeah, it
was fun time last night my wife and I on Sunday.
Sunday night, my wife was over and we went to
see Austin Snell up and coming country music artists. He's
like country and rock bro. You'd love his stuff. You
gotta look into it. Austin Snell, good stuff. It was
(01:21):
a great time. Then I got a picture, we got
to snap a picture with him. It was it was great.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I got to do a couple of social media posts
today because you know, you want to let people know
what the heck come up to.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You never know, you never know, all right, So Twitter,
remember that place, do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You remember when when the when we did the Twitter
thing and now it's x or whatever. But you remember
Donald Trump. I think Twitter is largely responsible for him
catching absolute fire in twenty fifteen ahead of the twenty
sixteen cycle. Just he was tweeting everything like anytime he
had something to say, it was on Twitter immediately. And
(02:06):
then as Twitter, you know, was bouncing around, there wasn't
a whole lot going on.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I gotta tell you, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Lot of people weren't super happy with the way that
he was going on social media.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
They said it was unpresidential all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Twitter started to take some action and ban certain things
or shadow band or whatever, and I believe a lot
of that's true. I don't know exactly. I know a
lot of people on Facebook say they're getting shadow banned,
and they don't let like they not not to say
that doesn't happen. I'm just saying, just because something's underperforming
doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, you're getting shadow band.
(02:40):
But it became pretty controversial what was and what was
not allowed or seen on the Twitter machine. So Donald
Trump was a huge Twitter guy until a lot of
that stuff went down. And then in January of twenty
twenty one, when all the the January sixth stuff went down,
(03:02):
he was like, please support a capitol police and law enforcement.
They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful.
Then follow it up with said, I am asking for
everyone at the US capital to remain peaceful, no violence.
Remember we are the party of law and order. Respect
the law, and our great men and women in blue.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Thank you. And he did all that. The next day.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He had a little two minute presser that he put
on there a couple of days later basically said I
will not be going to the inauguration, and then he
goes cold. He's got people that make truth social. He
just disappears from Twitter. He did post his mug shot
on Twitter on August twenty fourth of last year. He
said Alexia interference, never surrender for his mug shot that
(03:41):
obviously he knew he wanted to go viral, and it
does go viral, and then he pops back up on
Twitter three hours ago. It's got another two and a
half minute long kind of campaign video. He follows that
up by saying, are you better off now than you
were when I was president? Our economy is shattered, our
boy has been erased. We're a nation in decline. Make
(04:03):
the American dream affordable again, Make America safe again, Make
America great again. Follows that up by retweeting or reposting
something that says Elon Musk will be interviewing and we
knew this was happening. Elon Musk interviewing Trump seven pm
tonight Central Time. It's eight o'clock Eastern, seven pm, and
(04:25):
this will be happening on X. Essentially it is also
paid for by Donald Trump for president. But we know
Elon Lane's very conservative these days. He's in charge of X.
He has brought Donald J. Trump back to X and
Donald Trump has been posting away all day long, posting
(04:46):
a couple of his campaign ads here as well, like
a couple of videos that were put together, and I
mean they're just firing them off, like bang bang, bang,
bang bang. A ton of different videos that you can
go find on the Donald Trump X account. So, Matt,
I'm gonna ask you, and then I'll ask the listeners,
what do you think, like Donald Trump strategically back on
(05:08):
X here just inside of three months to the actual election,
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh, It's not really something that's going to change my
day or life because I don't really engage in that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh yeah, I forgot. You're a bad guy to ask. Well,
you're you're like never on X anyway. I'm also I
send you a links, you know, then you're on Yeah. Well,
I mean I have an account, I just don't really
use it, I guess is the best way to put it.
Because he got because the way it's set up now
with Twitter, You're like you have to have an account
to actually like view stuff?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, Well, I mean the way that the way that
he Elon sets it up you basically could just say whoever,
you can pretend to be something you're not. I mean,
nobody has to know it's you. You could be one
of those burner account guys, right.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I think that, Like my instinct is, wasn't it late
last week that there was a report that his like
whatever it was, the the the media company that he
owns that's within his holdings that's publicly traded, had taken
some big losses. So you know, is this does this
mean he's basically abandoning the whole truth social situation that
(06:08):
that's that's my first thought, my first curiosity.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I suppose, yeah, tru true social Yeah, I mean there
was a limitation to I think the ceiling there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I mean it is a very strategic timing for it,
for sure, especially with the interview coming up and it's
all about it's all about, you know, attention capture. So
this makes sense, very very logical for a for a
timing for it. Yeah, And I mean Elon being kind
of like the pied piper of trying to return the
(06:40):
world of social media back to like the wild West,
kind of of just like, hey, we're not gonna like,
we're not going to tell you what you should and
should not be posting now. His business model is if
you pay the eight bucks a month to have the
little blue check mark, you're going to get your stuff
all the way up to the top of you know,
the post post right. If you don't pay for the
(07:02):
blue check mark, your posts aren't going to get viewed
as much because that's what he's got set up. But
that's just kind of a pay for play scenario. It's
not necessarily like, hey, you said something weird, We're going
to censor you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's the opposite, and.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's inherently flawed. I don't know, I could, I could
find a lot of reasons to pick a lot of
holes into that whole idea. If he thought he was
bringing more free speech to the platform with that idea,
all that is is more elitism garbage.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
If you ask me, well, and I said this and
I have, there's at least one guy who called in,
calls in almost every time I say this, and I'm sorry,
it's just the truth. The app was better before Elon,
I mean, it just was now. I think that his
principles of what he wants social media to be are noble.
At the same time, he's a businessman. What's the worth
(07:45):
billions of dollars, like billions upon billions of dollars, like
one of the richest men in the world. He's a
business guy, and so this is a business product. He's
not making this just like a public message board that
people can just pretend to be whoever they want to
be and nobody pay for it. No, there's people who
pay for advertising on it, and there's people who pay
for that Twitter Blue or Premium.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Or whatever they call it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And you pay like eight dollars a month, which to
me is insane. I'll keep my eight bucks and have
nobody see my post.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And if you go into like the popular post, you
gotta scroll way down to get past all of the
you gotta you know, break down all of the you know, gosh,
you have to scroll so much. If there's anything popular,
anything at all popular on this app, you basically have
to click it and then just be prepared to scroll
scroll because the first like fifty things are going to
(08:37):
be unrelated to the actual topic. But people who pay
for Twitter Blue or Premium or whatever it is, can
like all their stuff is right at the top. Okay,
But because Elon's in charge in because Elon is a
you know, conservative guy, and he wants to promote that.
He knows it's good for his brand to have guys
like Tucker Carlson be like on X.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Tucker Carlson's not even on television anymore. He's on X
whatever that means, right, And it's working out for Tucker.
He's got a ton of followers, a lot of people
watch his videos. Well. Donald Trump certainly knows that, and
I think they were just waiting for the right time
for him to capitalize on returning to this giant platform that,
even with all of its faults, a ton of people
are on, a ton of eyeballs will see this. Him
(09:19):
and Elon together are gonna blow this thing up. And
then Elon of course being associated with it, and the
fact that the Trump campaign paid for it. There it's
going to be mutually helpful. People are going to be
going out of their way to jump on X and
see this. It's gonna be good for business for Elon.
It's also going to be good business for Trump. I
think it's just a business play for both of them.
(09:39):
How it'll affect the campaign, we'll see, because there's equal
numbers of you know, lunatics who are hiding behind fake
names and pictures on X from both sides of the aisle.
So I don't know how much it's going to factor
in all that, but the exposure is going to be
excellent for both Elon and his X machine, as well
as Trump in his campaign.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Right now two eighteen US some thoughts.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
What does Donald Trump's return to Twitter or X and
his relationship with Elon Musk, which we are going to
see plenty of tonight with this interview that is going
to drop at seven pm Central time? What does that mean?
You can call in at four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight eleven ten.
We'll talk more about it next.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Emrie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They alienated some people as time went on with the
way that he handled himself on social medium, made his
own social media company, Truth Social, and now he's making
his way back to X today several posts and a
run up to his interview with Elon Musk tonight at
seven o'clock our time on our phone line is Eric, Eric,
thank you so much for listening to the show.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You got some thoughts on this?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Hey, guys. Yeah, obviously I'm a Trump supporter, I'm a conservative,
and he's got my vote. But my opinion is that
I think he should probably take a break from social
media or maybe the Internet in general. He's picked a
couple of bizarre arguments lately, obviously the Ai Tarmac one
(11:07):
with the Kamala Harris and yeah, really, I think the
one that is going to get a lot of people
is the pick the fight with Joe Rogan, of all people.
And while Joe Rogan's more of a centrist, He's got
a lot of conservative followers. And I don't see any
of this being a benefit to him other than being
(11:28):
obvious that he's not able to check his ego, you know,
during a critical time where they got to form a
very concise message. I think it just needs to stay off.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, and I think a lot of people I like
in his presidency or even into the run up to
the twenty twenty election, said, if it wasn't for that
darn Twitter account, you know, I'd have no problem voting
for him. Again, I think a lot of people, even
people who lean conservative, were like they were just turned
off by the way that he talks on social media
because there is no filter there. He really just is
(11:58):
anything that comes to his mind. He is fire them off.
There's no doubt about that. I just don't know if
you can retrain a guy like him, who really got
elected the first time because of his presence on social
media and all of a sudden tell him, hey, man,
you really should take a break if you want to
win this thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I don't think you could retrain him to do anything,
but I think that would be advantageous to him.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, well for sure, Eric, Hey, I appreciate you listening
and thanks for calling in. Thank you all right.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't disagree with that. I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I do think though, that Trump doesn't care what we think, right,
Like I think he thinks. What do they say, Matt,
what do they say? It's a no there no bad
publicity is good policity or there's no such thing as
bad publicity or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That's yeah the ladder there, I've heard that. Yet, there's
no such thing as bad publicity? Right? Yeah? So does
that is that?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Like if I just started going crazy on social media
as people started like following me even though it was
like ridiculous stuff, and I was like electrocuting my nip
or something you think would be you think that you
think that'd actually be good for my career.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Eventually, it depends on your brand. If you're Steve Oh,
I think you could make it work. But well, I'm
not Steve O exactly. I don't think. I don't think
that would be good for your brand. I feel like
there's a lot of examples. See Howard Dean in the Dictionary.
I mean, I'm not everything you do exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know. It's pretty easy to poke holes in
that argument.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I feel like, kid, could are you okay with me
just doing Yeah? Every once in a while, I get
really excited and incented, just like laughing or something.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I just go, I think that's good for the brand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
If I if I could be your publicist you're publicist,
I would I would advise to do more of that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, are you sure? Yeah? Okay, I'll think about that.
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't know if that's the kind of advice I
need at this point, But I will keep that in
mind and take that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Think of the merch we could make, think of the
think of the imaging that I could make in between
the commercials. You know, every song will be right back
and then you give a hardy yeah you know.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, what does Trump need? One of the like okay,
so what's better or worse for Trump? Him going up
there and starting to make like crazy noises like that
hit like Donald Trump, blink, we don't need to be
giving more money to China, yeah, or or him just
going on like a several tweet rant on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh that's a tough one. Yeah, Like what would be
what is more help is? I don't know if either
are helpful right now, but if I could like just
funnel him one way or the other to like for
the better part of the campaign, I think him just
like showing up and be funny, like he went on
Fallon when he ran for president the first time, and
Fallen asked if he could touch his hair?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Did you have you seen this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, and and like Fallen just like gives him a
nouggie basically, and Trump's just sitting there laughing the whole time,
Like that's the kind of thing that everybody who hates
him is like, Oh, he's just a dude, you know
what I mean, that's the kind of thing if you
did that, if he did it that way, I don't know,
like there's a way that you can just be kind
(15:11):
of goofy. And the people who say they're into the
policies are the people on the right. The conservatives are like,
we are voting policy. Yeah, Donald Trump is a little
bit crazy on social media. Yeah, he says some stuff
that either isn't true or is greatly in bellish. Sure,
he isn't a super likable guy if you're a person
that doesn't like a lot of Hollywood celebrities or New
York celebrities. In his case, however, the policies worked for
(15:35):
four years. He was an excellent president in policies and platforms.
Why would we not vote for a guy who is
better in policies. The people that are voting for him
don't need him to be a certain type of person.
They call into this show right here and talk about
the country's better when a conservative like Donald Trump is
the president of the United States and can lead the
(15:55):
conservatives that are in Congress. We have a lot of
people that say that that doesn't nothing to do with
his personality, has nothing to do with his social media following,
has nothing to do with his rallies. Now, his rallies
helped build that and got him elected. You got to
have people electable based on their personability with the voters
of America. But the people who are in the middle
(16:16):
that are like, I don't know if this is a
good guy or not, I think they could use him
being just a little bit less serious, a little bit
more funny, maybe the sense of humor thing. And that's
why I love that Bryson too Shambeau video because it's
just him and Bryson out there messing around on a
golf course having a lot of fun. It was fun
to watch. They didn't really even talk politics hardly at all.
It was really just golf and life and stuff like that.
(16:37):
And I was just like, Man, if more people all
the people watching this are Trump supporters or they like golf,
there's not a lefty liberal that's going to watch that
and be like, Oh, Trump's just kind of a regular guy. No,
because they don't want to expose themselves to that. If
he was like that a little bit more, maybe the
middle of the road people would be like, oh, yeah,
he's just a normal guy. The liberal media is just
(16:58):
making him sound a lot worse than that. I don't know,
it's interesting, it's an interesting case study. You got thoughts
on Donald Trump returning to Twitter or X you can
fire away a phone call too is four H two
five five eight eleven ten four H two five five
eight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten KFABH.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Maurice Soner on news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What is your preferred method of selfie and what's the
right angle and what's the right face to make? Because
in my my position, I selfie quite a bit. I
don't I'm not always super comfortable with the way that
I look, but you know, I like to, you know,
put myself out there for the people and to let
them know, let everybody know what I'm up to. And
I've noticed that some people have different strategies about the
(17:43):
angle in which you can selfie and also the face
that you make, so you feel a little bit more
confident in the way that you look.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What say you?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That's a good question, you know, there's a lot of
different thoughts on this, not that I've ever thought about it,
but being facetious there of course I've I've thought about it.
I just like, well, you gotta you gotta consider the lighting.
Of course, of course, generally want lighting that's coming down
on you, right. I think that's how it is. You know,
(18:14):
wants going up to you. You don't want it behind
you as well.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Think of it. Think of it as if you're on
a stage. Right.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's that's one of the first tips to people who
are taking pictures or videos. Don't like stand in front
of a window that's behind you and take a picture
like that. You want the light to be on you.
It's like you're on a stage. So think of it
that way. Yes, So that's like the first step one.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, and I agree with that, And that's and that's
pretty honestly, it's pretty easy to figure out if you're
in a situation.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, So, and.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I usually just hold it out like there's a way
to hold it to an angle and kind of like
have it at an angle to where you almost kind
of crop your arm so that it's not obvious. There's
a way to get a selfie where it almost doesn't
look like you're taking the picture.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in these days with your phone, you can edit
it right, Like you can like you can take a
little bit of a wider shot and then and then
you can crop it a bit.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, and then what's great I love the the iPhone
that you can There's so much you can do to
it that even if you don't have that great of lighting,
you can end up with a picture that looks like
it was done by a studio or at least something
close to that.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, and not every picture can turn out that way,
but you can definitely enhance the lighting.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and well, and this is this is my thing,
right of of how like crazy can I get with
the editing part of it?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Because me being super like I don't know, not.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Pleased with the way that I look most of the time,
I do like to play a little bit with like
the the blemish remover, and you can do things to
like enhance lighting or shadows and stuff within there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
M hm, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, am I superficial for thinking about that?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No? I don't think you are.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But also I think that, for God, there's different ways
to be handsome as a guy, So I wouldn't be
so hard on yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, you're right, You're right, I bet wouldn't you know?
Everybody out there?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Could?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We agree?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Like ninety percent of guys just aren't super like confident
with the way that they look deep down, yeah, and
what's in what's the Yeah, you're right, You're right deep down.
There's some guys that like exude a confidence that's kind
of an insecure confidence.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Uh, but what do you think about?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Like what what is kind of a trick to make
a guy feel more confident?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Do you need some validation from somebody specific?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Or how can you validate yourself in a way that
makes you feel good about what you you look like.
I say all this because you know, I've been taking
a lot of photos already during the Iowa State Fair,
and I gotta tell you, I just wish I looked different.
A lot of times I just looked at the photo
and was like, oh man, why do I look that way?
I know, I know not everybody feels that way about
(20:55):
the way that I look, but I feel that way
about me. It's like a psychology thing, right, Like how
do I talk myself into the idea that I look
just normal for the most part?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, I there's a lot of forms of body dysmorphia.
Like you think about the people who look in the
mirror and still think they're overweight when they are in
fact quite a bit underweight. I think that a lot
of how you see yourself is filtered through the way
you feel about yourself before you even look at the picture.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So what you're saying is I need to feel that
way before I take the photo. Because all right, and
I showed you the picture I took at the DMV
when I got my license for Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Right, remember that photo? I do.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't remember what it looked like, but I remember.
You show again to me. Yeah, it's mortifying.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I want to go back and get a new one
because it really just like destroys my confidence every time
I see it.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Do you think that's okay?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It costs a little money to do, right, Is it
worth standing in line to get my license renewed? Just
because I personally feel like absolute dog turds looking at
my Nebraska driver's license in the photo they took me, well,
I mean, my brother, I look like, like, what's the
I look like I am a serial killer, probably in
(22:13):
the way they kept telling me to look down. I
am not a fat guy, but it looks like I
have three chins, like the shadows, the lighting stinks, my
hair was awful.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That I just whole.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I know it's not about the photo, but I have
to look at this every day basically every day. Well,
if you're a dude and you're insecure about the way
that you look, and you can relate with me, if
you want to email me Emory at kfab dot com,
we can commiserate together. And if you follow me on
social media and you see what I look like and
you're like, I have no idea what this guy's talking about.
It's not about you and what you think I look like.
(22:42):
It's about how I feel about the way I look.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You know, you should try.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You should go there and then have them use your
phone to take the picture and put it on one
of those snapchat filters. Yeah, and just have them used
one of like the puppy years. Yeah, I can give
you like puppy years and those like really shiny like
uh like the Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I feel like that's a
bad idea.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
If you were allowed to do that, then there'd be
people breaking laws all over the place. You never be
able to fully identify them based on their ID, that's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Anyway, that's that's just something I've been thinking about this week,
and it's just like, man, being honestly a lot better.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If I looked just a bit different, but.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Even if even then, Okay, so did you create players
when you played like basketball or football, baseball, video games?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And you try to create yourself like I would do
that all the time. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And I had a heck of a time getting it
to where it looked exactly like me. And I found
myself just like changing the guy's face and build to
what I wish I looked like. Is that a bad exercise?
Is that detrimental to me.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
As someone who can really relate to this conversation, like
I am giving myself advice too. I just think it
benefits you the most and me the most to just
like think.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Less about it, you know, Yeah, you're right, You're right.
I mean thinking about it is the problem more than anything.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think that because think about what attracts you to
other people in the different various ways. I think that
we're a lot harder on ourselves. I think what we're
looking for isn't is more than skin deep, and we
don't even realize it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
A lot of times.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You know, Yeah, just exude a sense of peace and
people will enjoy your presence.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wow, that is deep. Good job, Matt, that's good, good stuff.
From you, John's on a phone line four or two, five, five,
eight eleven ten? John, what say you?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah? That's just starting like on insecure snowflake conversation?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Is that right? Is that all you have to say? John?
So you called John?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You called me because you could me share my feelings.
Sounds like an insecure snowflake conversation. And it bothered you
enough to where you dialed in and wanted to tell
me on the air. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
John? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well John, John, I I I'm not trying to be
judgmental here, because this whole thing is about me being
judgmental about myself, something I think many people can relate to.
But if it bothered you enough to call in to
tell me that it sounded like a snowflake conversation, I
feel like that makes.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You the snowflake here. He hung up. Yeah, I bet
he did. I bet he did.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Look if getting into my feelings in a way that
I feel like could be relatable to many people, like
Matt himself said he could relate to that, I'm sorry
if that sounds like something that's insecure for you, that
doesn't mean ten other people for every one of you,
that ten other people aren't finding this to be Yeah,
you know what I do experience that I do have
(25:36):
a lack of confidence there. So so for John to
call in, that's fine. I totally understand that, totally get it.
I'm not saying that I think I'm ugly or anything.
I'm not begging people to tell me I'm handsome. But
what I am saying is that there is an actual
thing like in your body right where you're generally always
(25:56):
looking for yourself to look better, to feel better, wish
you had a better job, wish you had a better
social life, which you lived in a better house.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The grass is always greener, it really is. And this
is just one iteration of that conversation. I really do
think that talking about this stuff can be therapeutic for
many people who have similar feelings. And that's what I'm
here for now. If you want to share something positive,
that's what we're here for. That's what this four hour
radio show is for, for us to share feelings, for
(26:27):
us to you know, share our perspectives and point of
view on basically anything. And just because yeah, I wish
I looked a little bit better in photos, that doesn't
mean I'm trying to be an insecure snowflake. That means
I'm sharing a personal experience that I think many others
also are struggling with at various points, and just talking
through my feelings and maybe allowing some other people to
talk through their feelings as well. I'm getting plenty of
(26:48):
emails about it right now. So to John, I apologize
that this seems like an insecure snowflake conversation. But if
that's all you have to contribute to the conversation, maybe
you need to sit this one out. We'll finish this
one up. It's a two forty eight. We'll come back.
I wrap up the hour. If you got thoughts, call
us four h two five five eight eleven ten News
Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Emery's sung on news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Kfab talk about my driver's license and how horrific it looks.
They told me to put my head down, my hair
looks bad. They told me not to smile. They want
no facial expression, and it quite literally is the worst
photo ever taken of me in my face. Judith emailed
in and said, I cannot believe you're talking about this.
(27:30):
I thought this was just a problem I have with
my DMV photos. My driver's license pick is so bad.
My doctor asked me the last time if there was
a photo they had on file was mine because it
didn't look like me at all. And by the way,
it's the ugliest picture I've ever seen. In fact, I
keep it face down on my billfold just because seeing
it actually makes me depressed. I do the same thing.
I do the same thing. I literally do not.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Want to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Judith finishes up by saying, I do not know how
the DMV can take a photo that doesn't even look
like the person. Well, they just want it to look
like what we normally look like in real life. And
that's the depressing part is because I think because they
want to get our face perfectly in there. It's not
how people actually see us. And there's no vibrancy to it,
there's no lightness to it. The fact that you're an
(28:13):
unable to smile makes your face look kind of awkward.
I think our brains are just kind of hardwired to
having good, solid reactions to people who are happy, to
people who are smiling, even if their smile might be crooked,
or in my case, you know my teeth aren't straight,
or you know somebody that might have had a broken nose
somewhere and it's a little crooked or there they have
like something wrong with one of their eyes or something.
(28:34):
It still exudes that vibrancy. And there's something about people
smiling or laughing that I think allows us as other
people to see genuineness in vibrancy and other people. And
the DMV photos basically just zap every last bit of
that out of it. So not only are they horrible
photos from a terrible angle that nobody actually would ever
see in real life, but also you you're not allowed
(28:56):
to have any of the good stuff that allow your
facial features to be somewhat acceptable when you your biggest your
own biggest critic is like, come on, man, just can
I take another photo? I'm talking about the grass always
being greener? And how you know we can always battle
that because if you had the perfect face by a
textbook definition, you're probably going to be wanting to improve something.
(29:17):
I mean, you're nobody's ever fully happy or satisfied usually,
And Christian says, the grass is always greener, but it
still needs to be mode deep but true thoughts. It's
a good way of putting it. The grass is always greener,
but you do have to kind of work for it.
There's no doubt about that. I do feel I feel better.
I'm glad that I brought this up, even if had
(29:38):
John the caller, John say that sounds like a snowflke conversation.
Maybe it is, John, I don't know, but I'm not
gonna pretend like I'm not feeling it. I'm not gonna
fake my way, you know, around the conversation, especially if
I feel like it's something that people could enjoy, you know,
sharing with us. So, speaking of sharing, we'll talk about
(29:59):
what's being shared about Tim Waltz and the latest on
his service in the military, coming from somebody who really knows.
Coming up next, stick with us, Emery Songer with you
on news radio eleven ten KFAB
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