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It looks is the the Supreme Court is leaning heavily
towards allowing the president to fire on good soldier. If
you're just waking up, the president's unveiling a twelve billion
dollar farm made package. Fed widely expected to announce an
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interest rate cut today or tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think it's more likely tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And do you remember the raccoon that went viral broke
into a Virginia liquor store, broke a bunch of bottles,
lapped up the booze, then got drunk.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How did it, By the way, how did they know
to go towards a toilet? I know rights he was
in search of it some water to dilute it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, they're using that viral video and raccoon to raise
an awful lot of money for local animal shelter. And
not like Jalen Hurts. It Hurts had four interceptions. I
believe that matches or it was more than his total
on the year going into the last night's game. Anyway,
Harbaugh and the Chargers get the win there now nine
to four, the Chargers twenty two to.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Nineteen over the Eagles on Monday Night football.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
All Right, Paramount has launched a hostile takeover of Warner
Brothers Discovery. Now I've played this game with David Sanati before,
because you basically have two or three or four companies
really dictating every experience you have. You know, when it
comes to news, they're all under one umbrella, Entertainment Amusement Park.
So let's find out how this will affect all of us.
(02:23):
And what's it play roy o'neiler National Correspondence here, what
all do they own? And how do I Why should
we care? I guess is the question?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, look, Netflix is already the eight hundred pound guerrilla.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Paramount Plus says if you allow.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Them to take up at Warner Brothers, there'll be a
nine hundred pound guerrilla that really stifles any competition. And
they warn that the movie theater business could be in
big trouble because instead Netflix and Warner Brothers will just
put all their stuff on streaming, skipping the movie theaters
all together. So why would you have a theater when
that's your competition and look for more shows instead, like
(02:58):
Game of Thrones rather than big individual releases like the
Harry Potter movie or something. So those are some of
the concerns Paramount is raising. The CEO of that company
also says that we have a better chance of getting
regulatory approval on our side of things. But boy, it
is a complicated mess of these companies and all their
subsidiaries and divisions all coming together. You know, on the
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paramount side, that would mean that CBS News and CNN
are under one roof, which then begs the question do
we need two newsrooms and those kinds of consolidations that
could also be likely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean I think what I was alluding to
in the introduction is if I say paramount, I don't
know if that means somebody. When I say Wonner Bro,
I don't know if that means somebody. You start getting
to all the brands they control, you know, like Disney
is all of the espns, it's ABC. So that that's
the point. And how big is too big? Number one?
I like where you were headed with the unintended consequences,
(03:56):
because that's really what has happened. I mean, there's two
problems on. It costs a lot of money to make
a big movie, and they don't pay off like they
used to, and so you can spend even if you
spend half of that amount, you could have a hit
series and make a lot more money. So we've shifted
from movies to series we've shifted from the theater to
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at home. Some of that's just got to be expected, right,
because I can pay for three months of Netflix for
just the price of popcorn at one movie.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Right, and it's fun.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I watched I don't know why the clip came up,
and it was Matt Damon actually talking about how one
thing that's really hurt the movie theater business.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is the end of the DVD. You know.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
He was explaining that, like, you know, you had a
movie that would come out, maybe you would sort of
barely make money, but then for nineteen ninety five, you
get all these DVD sales in the back end, and
suddenly a so so project is a big profit center
because of the DVD sales. Well, now you don't get
that with the streaming deals that are now on the
back end rather than DVD. So, you know, Hollywood is
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just another one of the industries all being sort of
turned upside down here by the new streaming model.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Bye Technology and Advancement.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The Federal Reserve Board begins meeting today at a time
when higher prices are forcing more people to steal from
self checkout kiosks. We're going to talk about rising costs
and crime roy O'Neil back in the third hour for that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rory got to get some of these voices in because
we've been away too long. Let's start with James. I
can't remember where James was from. I think Ohio, but
I'm not sure. FYI, OK, Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I have to disagree with, respectfully with your last caller
who said that they keep voting for bigger government. That's
been true in the past. However, if Trump has done
all this cutting in government, his polls would have been
horrific if people didn't agree with it.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, one party, I mean, this is the extremes you're
heading into. First of all, the Democrat Party doesn't exist
anymore and it's about to officially be taken over by
the Socialist Party. Is that something in the first hour
that I don't think anybody you know talking about Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And think about it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Bernie Sanders would have been the Democrat Party nominee for
President of the United States in twenty sixteen if the
DNC didn't rig it for Hillary. Bernie Sanders would have
been the Democrat nominee for President of the United States
in twenty twenty if the DNC didn't rig it for
Old Joe and Heidem in a basement. I suspect Bernie
Sanders would have been the Democratic nominee for President of
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the United States in twenty twenty four if they didn't
just wait long enough with an old Joe to secure
the electoral votes and then just hand it to Kamala.
Now here's the kicker. And Bernie Sanders wasn't even a Democrat.
He's a socialist independent. I mean, you'd have to chew
(07:00):
on your link sausage a little while and think about that.
This morning, and so we had this feeling that Bernie
had passed the torch to AOC so she would run
for president. Jasmin Crockett is the new outspoken AOC. Now
she got redistricted, so she's going to run for SENTI yeah,
don't think we have it all figured out. But here's
(07:21):
the bottom line. Starting next year in this midterm, it's
not Republican versus Democrat. It's going to really boil down
to maga versus socialism. How's that for extremes. I mean
not to disagree with your point, but there is one
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party that is all.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
About bigger government.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But their trust is twice as high, and the ones
that don't trust are represented in those that don't vote,
which is over fifty percent of America.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Apathy will kill.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Us, or at least keep us alive long enough till
we get around to a civil war and kill each other.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's all there. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Are polls difficult, Yes, there's a lot to understand in polling.
Trends are unmistakable. Trends you can see and feel every
day are unmistakable. Roger Sacramento Morning.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Michael Jeffery read, Hey, as far as the seventeen percent
support a government, but yet people keep voting in the
same people. I think the big part of that disconnect
is self reliance. I think government has made themselves indispensable
to those that rely upon it, and if people were
more self reliant, we wouldn't need as much, a wouldn't
vote for as much. But that's just kind of how
(08:45):
I see it. I look at it as I'm self
reliant inspite of the government.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's what we talked about.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
First of all, if you want to be a socialist,
mob rule anarchy, go for it. But if you want
to be the republic that we were intended and established
as good luck if you're not able to self govern,
and good luck self governing if you have no morals, faith,
or personal responsibility. This was all predicated on that. This
(09:16):
was predicated a lot on self evident truth, which doesn't
even exist anymore. But I think if at this way, Roger,
how about whenever there's a tragedy, what's the first thing
to do a news conference? Who's there? The mayor, the congressman,
the senator, the governor, with the full cooperation of the
(09:40):
federal and state government, we're going to have. It's always
government presenting itself as why why doesn't anybody ever just
send him home?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Hey we got this, we know how to love our neighbor.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey we got this. We got a coalition of churches
that are going to meet all these needs. We don't
need you. Or how about in personal and visual lives?
Every time I'm wondering if people pray to the government
at night, dear government, somehow help my son see the
heir of his ways. Oh, dear government, somehow get me
a job or get me free insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh who thinks like that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We don't know how half the government or half of
the people of this country thing because they don't vote,
and I doubt they pay attention to anything, let alone
a polling call.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Let's not fool ourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
There's one side that does vote that wants more and
more government, and there is some insanity in it because
even if I look at Democrat numbers, now that doesn't
mean the socialist element of the Democrat party. But if
I look at the Democrat numbers in general, there's only
thirty three percent of the half that do vote the
(10:56):
do trust government. That suggests that there's still a pretty
good percentage that doesn't and is wanting the government to
have more and more control. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
I just get one last one in is this Joe
in Pa Joe.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I don't have much trust in much of anything anymore
in politics, especially with the polls. I just think that
they are more of a fear mongering tactic than anything else.
Because if you ever redefined print, it's like, oh, five
hundred people polled, a thousand people pulled. It's nowhere near
what should be polled.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, look, palling is all about. Palling has been made
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
People don't have landlines anymore, people don't have trust anymore,
so they don't answer things they don't know if you
call their smartphone and it just you know, if I
know you, I see your name, there's just you know.
Even with two parents and nursing homes, I very rarely
certain numbers. I kind of will answer because I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sometimes nurses call you on private phones. But I'm a
bad example. But by a large most people don't answer
the phone list. It's somebody they know. That makes pulling
very hard. So there's only two ways around that. You've
got to search harder, search differently, or use the same
people over and over again.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And that can get problematic as far as the number.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, the higher the number, the higher the sample, the better,
but not necessarily the way you think, not if you
have the proper sample size, and that's where they fudge
a lot and the makeup of the people that are
in it. But listen, when you've been doing a poll
asking the same question since nineteen fifty eight, there's enough
(12:35):
trend there, trust me.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right.
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You know, I finally saw Mary Poppins over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Really I didn't like it.
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You can see the film in theaters on Saturday and Sunday.
Dick Van Dyke is expected to attend some of his
birthday events coming up this weekend. Today is the day
people start reaching out with letters and cards for the
holiday season. Pre Tennis with Moron National Christmas Card Day.
Speaker 13 (16:32):
It's a day to gather a stack of cards, maybe
a family photo, and a roll of stamps to send
holiday cheer to about fifty people on your list. It's
a dying form. Back in the eighties, about seventy five
percent of us send holiday cards. American Greetings says this
year only about forty percent of us will do it.
And do check that list twice for worthiness, as the
cost of a card, photo and postage will set you
(16:54):
back at least two dollars fifty cents per card.
Speaker 12 (16:57):
I'm pre tennis.
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It really is thoughtful. It really can't get expensive. I'd
rather you just email me.
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Hey, it's Michael.
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And we're glad you're here for the podcast. Enjoy it's funny.
They did a news story that we're going to get
to a little bit later on where they rated all
of the the best Christmas movies and it ended up
being number one Christmas Vacation, which I don't know. That's said, yeah,
(17:56):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And then the Christmas story is another one with the
pellet gun that that's pretty much sounds like I'm on
the radio thirty years ago. Sure, because if you've never
seen Four Christmases, if you've never seen Feast at the
Seven Fishes, how about Naughty or Nice, which was a
Hallmark movie with Hillary Burton. Yeah, no, I should turn
it in. But she's Christy Kringle and she lives on
(18:20):
Candy Cane Lane. It's classic.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Who is it? What's her name? Hillary Burton? You'd recognize
her when you saw her. Say it's a Hallmark movie.
I think it was a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Naughty or nice or naughty and nice, one of the two,
but you know it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Got a really nice meeting at the end.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Hey, when we look at this last poll on the
on the gen Z struggling, we started comparing it to
me watching finally after twenty six years mad men, and
that got us comparing what the workforce looked like in
(19:00):
nineteen sixty drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, Jason skirts and that's
when they're at work compared to today. And you will
see how unrecognizable the picture is, beyond even wokeness. I
will do that coming up for you next. The President
is headed to Pennsylvania today. The Fed is expected to
lored the interest rates tomorrow, and John Decker is here
(19:23):
to talk about the president's visit to Pennsylvania and what's
on the agenda and different whether or not you're weight
at home or travel with him.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Yes, the President doing a day trip to Mount Hokano, Pennsylvania,
and he's going to be talking about the economy, talking
about the Trump economy, and touching on an issue he
doesn't like to use the word, but he is talking
about affordability. That's been an important issue in so many
elections that we've seen over the course of the past
few weeks. Those governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia,
(19:59):
of course, the mayor race in New York City, the
special election that took place in Tennessee, all touching on
the issue of affordability. The President recognizes, his team recognizes
this is likely going to be the most important issue
for the midterm elections, which will happen less than a
year from now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, so you better, you know, start changing that perception. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I know, the president's unveiling the twelve billion dollar bailout
for farmers. This is of course an unintended or, as
some would argue, an intended consequence of the tariffs that'll be.
You know, that's another one that I think is intended
to shift this perception.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But good luck.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It's picking and choosing winners and losers much the same
as the the rebate is.
Speaker 14 (20:43):
Well, that's right, you know, the President unveiling that twelve
billion dollars a package for farmers that have been hard
hit because of the tariffs, soybean farmers in particular, because
as a result of the President's tariffs, China up until
just a few weeks ago go essentially shut off all
purchases of soybeans from America and that has hurt those
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soybean farmers quite a bit. So that aid will be necessary.
But you know, I think that the President said it himself,
of those of farmers would rather have a level playing
field than taking aid from the federal government.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, and John, I know this is kind of off agenda,
but and probably more for Colonel Bucci, who we're going
to talk to next hour. But things have certainly gotten
off the rails with Russia and Ukraine. We were all
so hopeful, many of us were praying and hoping and
beginning to see signs of peace by the holidays between
Russia and Ukraine. Well, those talks have stalled, the bombing
has resumed. Now Trump Junior is indicating his dad's ready
(21:43):
to abandon Ukraine. How do we get this back on
a trajectory towards peace. I mean, at some point, you
know we always talk about what Putin has to get
real about. Well, so does Zelensky. I mean he didn't
think this was going to end. Well, he said, well,
we can't give up any session of land. That's why
we're fighting. No, you were fighting because they were going
to take over all of you. I mean, at some
(22:05):
point there's going to have to be some concession on
both sides or how long does he plan to keep
this fight up? But it's very discouraging how it's come off,
and it looks like the president's strong arming Zelenski again.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well it does.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
He hasn't strong armed Putin at all, you know, over
the course of this war since the president took office,
and you know that he certainly could do it. You know,
there's this bill languishing in the US Senate. It's got
the support of eighty five US senators.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's a sanctions bill on Russia.
Speaker 14 (22:37):
And what John Thune has said is he's waiting for
the green light from President Trump to put that bill
on the table, and that hasn't happened yet. So that's
something folks, I'm certainly looking to see if the president
pulls the trigger on that. No indication that he'll pull
the trigger on that anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, there's a lot of pressure to, you know, on
the president. You're spending too much time on foreign policy,
not enough time on domestic policy. You started this whole
tariff thing, and and again where the President needs to
be honest is yeah, I started all this tariff thing
and it's going to cost us in the short run,
but it's going to pay off in the long run.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Now everybody's in the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Payment and pain side, and he's trying to, you know,
change the trajectory of the perception. It's a it's a
tough battle, and he has months to do it because
right after the holidays we'll be in full swing for
the midterms. John will be following from the right, right
from the White House, and you'll have more in your
The White House Briefing Room with John Decker podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It'll be up at nine Eastern eighth Central. Talk to
you tomorrow, my friend. Thank you, Michael, appreciate it, Bye bye. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I was explaining to the to the audience that I
had never seen mad Men, and I'm a huge John
Ham fan. It's a great cast period beyond John Hamm
and over the years it grows to be quite a
few big names. I guess I never watched it. I
don't know that time of life. You know, we weren't
able to have kids and tried and tried, and then
(24:00):
all of a sudden, God said, oh.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I can give life.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And then we had twins, and then we had another,
and then we were raising three kids and we didn't
have any family help, and I guess I blinked in
the decade was over. And then after that I kept
trying to go back, you know, once we all started
binging different things, and I said, that's one I'd like
to binge because I never saw that, and it was
really hard to find and if you found it, it
was very, very expensive.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So I just never did it. Finally, HBO, NOTHBO, what
do they call it, HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Max decided to release it. So I was all over it,
and I binge like five episodes. I mean, it's just
so good.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But looking at nineteen sixty, the way they dress, the
way they act, the way they talk, the way they
treated women, the way the women stayed at home and
the men worked. There was one scene where the woman
that he eventually I believe I would. It looks like
he's going to fall in love with her, and she
was the wife and billions, she's worthy of falling in
love with her. But anyway, she criticizes him in a
(25:02):
meeting or challenges him in a meeting, and I won't
sit here and have a woman talk to me this way,
and he leaves, you know, and so but it just
gives you this whole visual because you know, you think
of wokeness and stuff and all the negatives, there's some
positive too. I would have never wanted my daughter to
live in a culture like that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
These guys are just womanizing, drinking, smoking, and this is
all at work, and it got us kicking around how
different that is from today? Let alone, how did most
people meet their spouses at work? You can't, it's a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Now. How different are Christmas parties today?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I remember our debaucherous Christmas parties. I mean, you guys
can have fun with that in the talk back? How
different things are today compared to the past. But as
much as you watch mad Men and see the dysfunction
and say, well, I'm glad we're not locked in an
office all smoking, wondering why we're dying cancer. I'm glad
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we're not pouring drinks at ten am while we're discussing
a new account. And thank god, we're not treating women
like this in the workplace. And women aren't. Women aren't
in the workplace just to try to have an affair,
not even get an osmond I just have an affair.
I mean, it's pretty despicable. We're in a whole different
place now. Gen Z admits to struggling with office small talk.
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That's the name of the study, the headline of the study.
A million questions go through your mind just reading that headline.
Why because they're busy scrolling in.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Their phone.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Or because technology from their earliest ages was how they
comfortably communicated.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Oh, they can be bold, they can be opinionated, they
can be flirtatious, they can.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Be bullies, they can do anything online, but look another
human in the eye and do it. They want to
peel their skin off, really communicating, really socially interacting.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's a xanax moment.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's a new study came out from the UK and
it reveals that office small talk is becoming less and
less common. I I am picturing something in my head.
It's a very large business. And I'm telling you, most
of the building is always empty, and it's a giant building.
And even the few people are there, they're talking to
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no one. They don't look to their left, they don't
look to their right, their head is down. Nobody's interacting,
let alone the way we used to remember the old
water cooler moments. Nobody meets at a water cooler anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
People walk right by it and not say hello, not
even look up and make eye contact with you, let
alone the wild office parties or the common term meetings
were we're all drinking a nice high end bourbon and
smoking cigarettes with our ashtrays.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
You go ahead, I hear you breathing, going out to
like Fridays or Bennegan's.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh yeah, Thursday or Friday gone, says the guy who
dated his supervisor.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That's a lawsuit, right, Well, I met my wife making
fun of beauty pageants, and you know that could be
perceived as it is. About seventy four percent of adults
say they struggled to make light conversation. Oh firm, immediate, controversial,
bold opinions on sex, on marriage, on politics, on religion,
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No problem, but to really look in another human beings
eyes and go how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And mean it, when's the last time that's happened? Hey,
how you doing okay? Or Hey, how's your son doing?
I heard he was sick. None of that. This is
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the social dilemma. This is the real view of it.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh, there's the sad view that I think one day
we would rather live an alternate reality with goggles on
in a ten by ten room, thinking we're on the surface.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Of the moon than really interacting. Obviously, I read C. S. Lewis.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So I'm haunted by this and I almost have to
throw it out like a beltie.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Do you realize today I met somebody new yesterday? Oh
my god, I loved him, loved him. We have the
gift of passing by and interacting with eternal beings all
day long.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I don't know where they're going to spend that eternity,
but they're eternal beings. There a sacred God made them.
They are this safe, good creation of a divine and
sacred God, and we get to interact with them. Hey,
when you pass by, look at them, say hello. Nobody's
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capable of doing that. What has made us socially incapable?
Social media? Chew on that one for a while. About
seventy four percent of adults say they struggled with making
light conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nearly fifty percent prefer using WhatsApp, teams, or email to communicate.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh, put me in my little square like the Hollywood
squares on a team's call, and I'm fine.
Speaker 15 (30:44):
I can function as I'm looking around. They got around,
They got around. Then I'll make my little comment like
I'm mere sit in a room with them. They want
to jump out the window, just like everything else, everything else.
It's like COVID revealed more than an extortion did. But
then it was like the final accelerant, wasn't it? But
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the changes in the workplace dynamics. Forty percent of gen
Z workers say remote flexible work has made in person
small talk feel very unfamiliar, uncomfortable, comparing it to learning
a new language.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Listen to this wording.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Additionally, twenty eight percent of employees avoid common areas all together.
I used to master the common areas and avoid work
all the together. Thirty three percent of millennials and twenty
four percent of gen Zers expressed difficulty making off of
small talk. Why you should care small talk matters? Half
(31:44):
of those surveyed believed quick casual chats make workplace happier
and boost morale. Plus twenty two percent of respondents planned
to prioritize being more social. That's not becoming a new
New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean, I'm gonna talk to my coworker. Now, what
can you do? Well? They encourage office chit chat, start small,
ask open ended questions, find common ground, share light personal updates.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Even a quick how is your weekend can go a
long way to building more connection in the workplace. However,
avoid controversial topics. Hey you're looking really fat. Yeah, that's
not a good starter. You know, if you don't repent,
you're gonna go to a crisis hell and burn forever.
(32:36):
Employers can help by creating a welcoming space and fostering
team building activities. You know, the minute we got to
do little thing, little komba cheesy things because we can't
even socially interact with each other.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Well, that last one, I think that's defeat. That's not
the way out, that's just given in. But anyway, it
just goes to show you how social media has destroyed
our social interaction. Nobody wants to go to work anymore. Oh,
they want to get paid, but they don't want to work. Yeah,
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and you miss all the creation, all the innovation, all
of the collaboration. How do you have a team when
nobody's on the field. You know, high fives, you get
no knuckles, you get no hugs. I mean, come on,
and then you wonder why when it's time to fire you.
It's a teams calm.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
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It's the fiftieth anniversary of the song why Can't We
Be Friends? And they're out with a holiday song Marlo
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It looks is the the Supreme Court is leaning heavily
towards allowing the president to fire on good soldier. If
you're just waking up, the president's unveiling a twelve billion
dollar farm made package. Fed widely expected to announce an
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interest rate cut today or tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think it's more likely tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And do you remember the raccoon that went viral broke
into a Virginia liquor store, broke a bunch of bottles,
lapped up the booze, then got drunk.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How did it, By the way, how did they know
to go towards a toilet? I know rights he was
in search of it some water to dilute it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, they're using that viral video and raccoon to raise
an awful lot of money for local animal shelter. And
not like Jalen Hurts. It Hurts had four interceptions. I
believe that matches or it was more than his total
on the year going into the last night's game. Anyway,
Harbaugh and the Chargers get the win there now nine
to four, the Chargers twenty two to.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Nineteen over the Eagles on Monday Night football.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
All Right, Paramount has launched a hostile takeover of Warner
Brothers Discovery. Now I've played this game with David Sanati before,
because you basically have two or three or four companies
really dictating every experience you have. You know, when it
comes to news, they're all under one umbrella, Entertainment Amusement Park.
So let's find out how this will affect all of us.
(02:23):
And what's it play roy o'neiler National Correspondence here, what
all do they own? And how do I Why should
we care? I guess is the question?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, look, Netflix is already the eight hundred pound guerrilla.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Paramount Plus says if you allow.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Them to take up at Warner Brothers, there'll be a
nine hundred pound guerrilla that really stifles any competition. And
they warn that the movie theater business could be in
big trouble because instead Netflix and Warner Brothers will just
put all their stuff on streaming, skipping the movie theaters
all together. So why would you have a theater when
that's your competition and look for more shows instead, like
(02:58):
Game of Thrones rather than big individual releases like the
Harry Potter movie or something. So those are some of
the concerns Paramount is raising. The CEO of that company
also says that we have a better chance of getting
regulatory approval on our side of things. But boy, it
is a complicated mess of these companies and all their
subsidiaries and divisions all coming together. You know, on the
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paramount side, that would mean that CBS News and CNN
are under one roof, which then begs the question do
we need two newsrooms and those kinds of consolidations that
could also be likely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean I think what I was alluding to
in the introduction is if I say paramount, I don't
know if that means somebody. When I say Wonner Bro,
I don't know if that means somebody. You start getting
to all the brands they control, you know, like Disney
is all of the espns, it's ABC. So that that's
the point. And how big is too big? Number one?
I like where you were headed with the unintended consequences,
(03:56):
because that's really what has happened. I mean, there's two
problems on. It costs a lot of money to make
a big movie, and they don't pay off like they
used to, and so you can spend even if you
spend half of that amount, you could have a hit
series and make a lot more money. So we've shifted
from movies to series we've shifted from the theater to
(04:18):
at home. Some of that's just got to be expected, right,
because I can pay for three months of Netflix for
just the price of popcorn at one movie.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Right, and it's fun.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I watched I don't know why the clip came up,
and it was Matt Damon actually talking about how one
thing that's really hurt the movie theater business.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is the end of the DVD. You know.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
He was explaining that, like, you know, you had a
movie that would come out, maybe you would sort of
barely make money, but then for nineteen ninety five, you
get all these DVD sales in the back end, and
suddenly a so so project is a big profit center
because of the DVD sales. Well, now you don't get
that with the streaming deals that are now on the
back end rather than DVD. So, you know, Hollywood is
(05:00):
just another one of the industries all being sort of
turned upside down here by the new streaming model.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Bye Technology and Advancement.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The Federal Reserve Board begins meeting today at a time
when higher prices are forcing more people to steal from
self checkout kiosks. We're going to talk about rising costs
and crime roy O'Neil back in the third hour for that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rory got to get some of these voices in because
we've been away too long. Let's start with James. I
can't remember where James was from. I think Ohio, but
I'm not sure. FYI, OK, Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I have to disagree with, respectfully with your last caller
who said that they keep voting for bigger government. That's
been true in the past. However, if Trump has done
all this cutting in government, his polls would have been
horrific if people didn't agree with it.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, one party, I mean, this is the extremes you're
heading into. First of all, the Democrat Party doesn't exist
anymore and it's about to officially be taken over by
the Socialist Party. Is that something in the first hour
that I don't think anybody you know talking about Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And think about it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Bernie Sanders would have been the Democrat Party nominee for
President of the United States in twenty sixteen if the
DNC didn't rig it for Hillary. Bernie Sanders would have
been the Democrat nominee for President of the United States
in twenty twenty if the DNC didn't rig it for
Old Joe and Heidem in a basement. I suspect Bernie
Sanders would have been the Democratic nominee for President of
(06:36):
the United States in twenty twenty four if they didn't
just wait long enough with an old Joe to secure
the electoral votes and then just hand it to Kamala.
Now here's the kicker. And Bernie Sanders wasn't even a Democrat.
He's a socialist independent. I mean, you'd have to chew
(07:00):
on your link sausage a little while and think about that.
This morning, and so we had this feeling that Bernie
had passed the torch to AOC so she would run
for president. Jasmin Crockett is the new outspoken AOC. Now
she got redistricted, so she's going to run for SENTI yeah,
don't think we have it all figured out. But here's
(07:21):
the bottom line. Starting next year in this midterm, it's
not Republican versus Democrat. It's going to really boil down
to maga versus socialism. How's that for extremes. I mean
not to disagree with your point, but there is one
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party that is all.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
About bigger government.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But their trust is twice as high, and the ones
that don't trust are represented in those that don't vote,
which is over fifty percent of America.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Apathy will kill.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Us, or at least keep us alive long enough till
we get around to a civil war and kill each other.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's all there. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Are polls difficult, Yes, there's a lot to understand in polling.
Trends are unmistakable. Trends you can see and feel every
day are unmistakable. Roger Sacramento Morning.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Michael Jeffery read, Hey, as far as the seventeen percent
support a government, but yet people keep voting in the
same people. I think the big part of that disconnect
is self reliance. I think government has made themselves indispensable
to those that rely upon it, and if people were
more self reliant, we wouldn't need as much, a wouldn't
vote for as much. But that's just kind of how
(08:45):
I see it. I look at it as I'm self
reliant inspite of the government.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's what we talked about.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
First of all, if you want to be a socialist,
mob rule anarchy, go for it. But if you want
to be the republic that we were intended and established
as good luck if you're not able to self govern,
and good luck self governing if you have no morals, faith,
or personal responsibility. This was all predicated on that. This
(09:16):
was predicated a lot on self evident truth, which doesn't
even exist anymore. But I think if at this way, Roger,
how about whenever there's a tragedy, what's the first thing
to do a news conference? Who's there? The mayor, the congressman,
the senator, the governor, with the full cooperation of the
(09:40):
federal and state government, we're going to have. It's always
government presenting itself as why why doesn't anybody ever just
send him home?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Hey we got this, we know how to love our neighbor.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey we got this. We got a coalition of churches
that are going to meet all these needs. We don't
need you. Or how about in personal and visual lives?
Every time I'm wondering if people pray to the government
at night, dear government, somehow help my son see the
heir of his ways. Oh, dear government, somehow get me
a job or get me free insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh who thinks like that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We don't know how half the government or half of
the people of this country thing because they don't vote,
and I doubt they pay attention to anything, let alone
a polling call.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Let's not fool ourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
There's one side that does vote that wants more and
more government, and there is some insanity in it because
even if I look at Democrat numbers, now that doesn't
mean the socialist element of the Democrat party. But if
I look at the Democrat numbers in general, there's only
thirty three percent of the half that do vote the
(10:56):
do trust government. That suggests that there's still a pretty
good percentage that doesn't and is wanting the government to
have more and more control. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
I just get one last one in is this Joe
in Pa Joe.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I don't have much trust in much of anything anymore
in politics, especially with the polls. I just think that
they are more of a fear mongering tactic than anything else.
Because if you ever redefined print, it's like, oh, five
hundred people polled, a thousand people pulled. It's nowhere near
what should be polled.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, look, palling is all about. Palling has been made
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
People don't have landlines anymore, people don't have trust anymore,
so they don't answer things they don't know if you
call their smartphone and it just you know, if I
know you, I see your name, there's just you know.
Even with two parents and nursing homes, I very rarely
certain numbers. I kind of will answer because I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sometimes nurses call you on private phones. But I'm a
bad example. But by a large most people don't answer
the phone list. It's somebody they know. That makes pulling
very hard. So there's only two ways around that. You've
got to search harder, search differently, or use the same
people over and over again.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And that can get problematic as far as the number.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, the higher the number, the higher the sample, the better,
but not necessarily the way you think, not if you
have the proper sample size, and that's where they fudge
a lot and the makeup of the people that are
in it. But listen, when you've been doing a poll
asking the same question since nineteen fifty eight, there's enough
(12:35):
trend there, trust me.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All right.
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Trump spoke from the White House.
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The company's H two hundred chip as a full generation
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I'm Jim Roup. The FED is widely expected to announce
an interest rate cut tomorrow. On Wednesday, Tammy Trio has
the details.
Speaker 12 (15:22):
That investors caution the Fed's Policy Committee could be sharply divided.
A handful of members of expressed worries about possible tariff
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Acting legend Dick Van Dyke turns one hundred years old
on Saturday. That's the same day the director Steve Betcher
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Hundred years been making you think about it, and we
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For his career.
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You know, I finally saw Mary Poppins over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Really I didn't like it.
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You can see the film in theaters on Saturday and Sunday.
Dick Van Dyke is expected to attend some of his
birthday events coming up this weekend. Today is the day
people start reaching out with letters and cards for the
holiday season. Pre Tennis with Moron National Christmas Card Day.
Speaker 13 (16:32):
It's a day to gather a stack of cards, maybe
a family photo, and a roll of stamps to send
holiday cheer to about fifty people on your list. It's
a dying form. Back in the eighties, about seventy five
percent of us send holiday cards. American Greetings says this
year only about forty percent of us will do it.
And do check that list twice for worthiness, as the
cost of a card, photo and postage will set you
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back at least two dollars fifty cents per card.
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I'm pre tennis.
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It really is thoughtful. It really can't get expensive. I'd
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And we're glad you're here for the podcast. Enjoy it's funny.
They did a news story that we're going to get
to a little bit later on where they rated all
of the the best Christmas movies and it ended up
being number one Christmas Vacation, which I don't know. That's said, yeah,
(17:56):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And then the Christmas story is another one with the
pellet gun that that's pretty much sounds like I'm on
the radio thirty years ago. Sure, because if you've never
seen Four Christmases, if you've never seen Feast at the
Seven Fishes, how about Naughty or Nice, which was a
Hallmark movie with Hillary Burton. Yeah, no, I should turn
it in. But she's Christy Kringle and she lives on
(18:20):
Candy Cane Lane. It's classic.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Who is it? What's her name? Hillary Burton? You'd recognize
her when you saw her. Say it's a Hallmark movie.
I think it was a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Naughty or nice or naughty and nice, one of the two,
but you know it's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Got a really nice meeting at the end.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Hey, when we look at this last poll on the
on the gen Z struggling, we started comparing it to
me watching finally after twenty six years mad men, and
that got us comparing what the workforce looked like in
(19:00):
nineteen sixty drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, Jason skirts and that's
when they're at work compared to today. And you will
see how unrecognizable the picture is, beyond even wokeness. I
will do that coming up for you next. The President
is headed to Pennsylvania today. The Fed is expected to
lored the interest rates tomorrow, and John Decker is here
(19:23):
to talk about the president's visit to Pennsylvania and what's
on the agenda and different whether or not you're weight
at home or travel with him.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Yes, the President doing a day trip to Mount Hokano, Pennsylvania,
and he's going to be talking about the economy, talking
about the Trump economy, and touching on an issue he
doesn't like to use the word, but he is talking
about affordability. That's been an important issue in so many
elections that we've seen over the course of the past
few weeks. Those governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia,
(19:59):
of course, the mayor race in New York City, the
special election that took place in Tennessee, all touching on
the issue of affordability. The President recognizes, his team recognizes
this is likely going to be the most important issue
for the midterm elections, which will happen less than a
year from now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, so you better, you know, start changing that perception. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I know, the president's unveiling the twelve billion dollar bailout
for farmers. This is of course an unintended or, as
some would argue, an intended consequence of the tariffs that'll be.
You know, that's another one that I think is intended
to shift this perception.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But good luck.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It's picking and choosing winners and losers much the same
as the the rebate is.
Speaker 14 (20:43):
Well, that's right, you know, the President unveiling that twelve
billion dollars a package for farmers that have been hard
hit because of the tariffs, soybean farmers in particular, because
as a result of the President's tariffs, China up until
just a few weeks ago go essentially shut off all
purchases of soybeans from America and that has hurt those
(21:05):
soybean farmers quite a bit. So that aid will be necessary.
But you know, I think that the President said it himself,
of those of farmers would rather have a level playing
field than taking aid from the federal government.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, and John, I know this is kind of off agenda,
but and probably more for Colonel Bucci, who we're going
to talk to next hour. But things have certainly gotten
off the rails with Russia and Ukraine. We were all
so hopeful, many of us were praying and hoping and
beginning to see signs of peace by the holidays between
Russia and Ukraine. Well, those talks have stalled, the bombing
has resumed. Now Trump Junior is indicating his dad's ready
(21:43):
to abandon Ukraine. How do we get this back on
a trajectory towards peace. I mean, at some point, you
know we always talk about what Putin has to get
real about. Well, so does Zelensky. I mean he didn't
think this was going to end. Well, he said, well,
we can't give up any session of land. That's why
we're fighting. No, you were fighting because they were going
to take over all of you. I mean, at some
(22:05):
point there's going to have to be some concession on
both sides or how long does he plan to keep
this fight up? But it's very discouraging how it's come off,
and it looks like the president's strong arming Zelenski again.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well it does.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
He hasn't strong armed Putin at all, you know, over
the course of this war since the president took office,
and you know that he certainly could do it. You know,
there's this bill languishing in the US Senate. It's got
the support of eighty five US senators.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's a sanctions bill on Russia.
Speaker 14 (22:37):
And what John Thune has said is he's waiting for
the green light from President Trump to put that bill
on the table, and that hasn't happened yet. So that's
something folks, I'm certainly looking to see if the president
pulls the trigger on that. No indication that he'll pull
the trigger on that anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, there's a lot of pressure to, you know, on
the president. You're spending too much time on foreign policy,
not enough time on domestic policy. You started this whole
tariff thing, and and again where the President needs to
be honest is yeah, I started all this tariff thing
and it's going to cost us in the short run,
but it's going to pay off in the long run.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Now everybody's in the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Payment and pain side, and he's trying to, you know,
change the trajectory of the perception. It's a it's a
tough battle, and he has months to do it because
right after the holidays we'll be in full swing for
the midterms. John will be following from the right, right
from the White House, and you'll have more in your
The White House Briefing Room with John Decker podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It'll be up at nine Eastern eighth Central. Talk to
you tomorrow, my friend. Thank you, Michael, appreciate it, Bye bye. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I was explaining to the to the audience that I
had never seen mad Men, and I'm a huge John
Ham fan. It's a great cast period beyond John Hamm
and over the years it grows to be quite a
few big names. I guess I never watched it. I
don't know that time of life. You know, we weren't
able to have kids and tried and tried, and then
(24:00):
all of a sudden, God said, oh.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I can give life.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And then we had twins, and then we had another,
and then we were raising three kids and we didn't
have any family help, and I guess I blinked in
the decade was over. And then after that I kept
trying to go back, you know, once we all started
binging different things, and I said, that's one I'd like
to binge because I never saw that, and it was
really hard to find and if you found it, it
was very, very expensive.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So I just never did it. Finally, HBO, NOTHBO, what
do they call it, HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Max decided to release it. So I was all over it,
and I binge like five episodes. I mean, it's just
so good.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But looking at nineteen sixty, the way they dress, the
way they act, the way they talk, the way they
treated women, the way the women stayed at home and
the men worked. There was one scene where the woman
that he eventually I believe I would. It looks like
he's going to fall in love with her, and she
was the wife and billions, she's worthy of falling in
love with her. But anyway, she criticizes him in a
(25:02):
meeting or challenges him in a meeting, and I won't
sit here and have a woman talk to me this way,
and he leaves, you know, and so but it just
gives you this whole visual because you know, you think
of wokeness and stuff and all the negatives, there's some
positive too. I would have never wanted my daughter to
live in a culture like that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
These guys are just womanizing, drinking, smoking, and this is
all at work, and it got us kicking around how
different that is from today? Let alone, how did most
people meet their spouses at work? You can't, it's a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Now. How different are Christmas parties today?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I remember our debaucherous Christmas parties. I mean, you guys
can have fun with that in the talk back? How
different things are today compared to the past. But as
much as you watch mad Men and see the dysfunction
and say, well, I'm glad we're not locked in an
office all smoking, wondering why we're dying cancer. I'm glad
(26:02):
we're not pouring drinks at ten am while we're discussing
a new account. And thank god, we're not treating women
like this in the workplace. And women aren't. Women aren't
in the workplace just to try to have an affair,
not even get an osmond I just have an affair.
I mean, it's pretty despicable. We're in a whole different
place now. Gen Z admits to struggling with office small talk.
(26:26):
That's the name of the study, the headline of the study.
A million questions go through your mind just reading that headline.
Why because they're busy scrolling in.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Their phone.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Or because technology from their earliest ages was how they
comfortably communicated.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Oh, they can be bold, they can be opinionated, they
can be flirtatious, they can.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Be bullies, they can do anything online, but look another
human in the eye and do it. They want to
peel their skin off, really communicating, really socially interacting.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's a xanax moment.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It's a new study came out from the UK and
it reveals that office small talk is becoming less and
less common. I I am picturing something in my head.
It's a very large business. And I'm telling you, most
of the building is always empty, and it's a giant building.
And even the few people are there, they're talking to
(27:36):
no one. They don't look to their left, they don't
look to their right, their head is down. Nobody's interacting,
let alone the way we used to remember the old
water cooler moments. Nobody meets at a water cooler anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
People walk right by it and not say hello, not
even look up and make eye contact with you, let
alone the wild office parties or the common term meetings
were we're all drinking a nice high end bourbon and
smoking cigarettes with our ashtrays.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
You go ahead, I hear you breathing, going out to
like Fridays or Bennegan's.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh yeah, Thursday or Friday gone, says the guy who
dated his supervisor.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That's a lawsuit, right, Well, I met my wife making
fun of beauty pageants, and you know that could be
perceived as it is. About seventy four percent of adults
say they struggled to make light conversation. Oh firm, immediate, controversial,
bold opinions on sex, on marriage, on politics, on religion,
(28:44):
No problem, but to really look in another human beings
eyes and go how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And mean it, when's the last time that's happened? Hey,
how you doing okay? Or Hey, how's your son doing?
I heard he was sick. None of that. This is
(29:10):
the social dilemma. This is the real view of it.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh, there's the sad view that I think one day
we would rather live an alternate reality with goggles on
in a ten by ten room, thinking we're on the surface.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Of the moon than really interacting. Obviously, I read C. S. Lewis.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So I'm haunted by this and I almost have to
throw it out like a beltie.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Do you realize today I met somebody new yesterday? Oh
my god, I loved him, loved him. We have the
gift of passing by and interacting with eternal beings all
day long.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I don't know where they're going to spend that eternity,
but they're eternal beings. There a sacred God made them.
They are this safe, good creation of a divine and
sacred God, and we get to interact with them. Hey,
when you pass by, look at them, say hello. Nobody's
(30:16):
capable of doing that. What has made us socially incapable?
Social media? Chew on that one for a while. About
seventy four percent of adults say they struggled with making
light conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nearly fifty percent prefer using WhatsApp, teams, or email to communicate.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh, put me in my little square like the Hollywood
squares on a team's call, and I'm fine.
Speaker 15 (30:44):
I can function as I'm looking around. They got around,
They got around. Then I'll make my little comment like
I'm mere sit in a room with them. They want
to jump out the window, just like everything else, everything else.
It's like COVID revealed more than an extortion did. But
then it was like the final accelerant, wasn't it? But
(31:05):
the changes in the workplace dynamics. Forty percent of gen
Z workers say remote flexible work has made in person
small talk feel very unfamiliar, uncomfortable, comparing it to learning
a new language.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Listen to this wording.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Additionally, twenty eight percent of employees avoid common areas all together.
I used to master the common areas and avoid work
all the together. Thirty three percent of millennials and twenty
four percent of gen Zers expressed difficulty making off of
small talk. Why you should care small talk matters? Half
(31:44):
of those surveyed believed quick casual chats make workplace happier
and boost morale. Plus twenty two percent of respondents planned
to prioritize being more social. That's not becoming a new
New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean, I'm gonna talk to my coworker. Now, what
can you do? Well? They encourage office chit chat, start small,
ask open ended questions, find common ground, share light personal updates.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Even a quick how is your weekend can go a
long way to building more connection in the workplace. However,
avoid controversial topics. Hey you're looking really fat. Yeah, that's
not a good starter. You know, if you don't repent,
you're gonna go to a crisis hell and burn forever.
(32:36):
Employers can help by creating a welcoming space and fostering
team building activities. You know, the minute we got to
do little thing, little komba cheesy things because we can't
even socially interact with each other.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Well, that last one, I think that's defeat. That's not
the way out, that's just given in. But anyway, it
just goes to show you how social media has destroyed
our social interaction. Nobody wants to go to work anymore. Oh,
they want to get paid, but they don't want to work. Yeah,
(33:11):
and you miss all the creation, all the innovation, all
of the collaboration. How do you have a team when
nobody's on the field. You know, high fives, you get
no knuckles, you get no hugs. I mean, come on,
and then you wonder why when it's time to fire you.
It's a teams calm.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
It's your morning show with Michael del Choano.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If I was an artist sitting, you know, painting off
on a patio in France, or somebody saying, hey, could
you do me a favorite? Could you paint me a
picture of everything wrong with politics in America? I would
paint you one of our sounds of the day. I
mean all of them are doozies. And I have cleared
(33:54):
so we have enough time. I may only do two.
It's quality and not quantity. Bill Maher talking to a
about the difference between Israel and some of these very
dangerous Muslim nations and the hypocrisy of ignoring women's rights
as you're supporting Palestine and Muslim nations. But then there
(34:14):
is Senator Tammy Duckworth. This one I absolutely love. This
is the one that if I were to paint a
picture of everything wrong with politics.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You do not want to miss Sounds of the day
and the Colonel himself, Stephen Bunjie to help us try
to get Russia and Ukraine back to the peace talk table.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
We're all in this together. This is your morning Show
with Michael nil Joano
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