10.10: Friday Vibes - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Division alone, which that is but your town downtown Phoenix
Hill Portland in Russell and the LMPD crew shared an
update on the Facebook page crediting the First Division officers
for these efforts and certainly getting guns off the street
is something that can help curb violent crime.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
In a big way.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
But what I want to got me thinking here is
just the involved like guns being involved in in violent
crime more often than not, if you're somebody that is
having a gun that you're not supposed to have, you
have it by illegal means you're probably doing illegal things
in general. But the level of which a situation changes
when it comes to law enforcements response also the level

(00:38):
in which you can be charged and held accountable with
a gun involved. I'm just surprised that, I guess I'm
surprised many people choose to do what they do, But
involving a gun is oftentimes even you're going to commit
a crime not needed, and yet it can absolutely completely
change the entire situation.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, Nick, you're correct in that, but here's the mentality,
at least from my opinion on what it is with
a lot of people. Because a gun can make somebody
seven or eight foot tall and When you can do that,
the crime that they're trying to commit, it becomes a
little easier in their mind because they have the intimidation

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factor because generally they're preying on people who may not
have that option. So that makes them that makes the
crime that they're trying to commit in their mind's a
little easy, a little faster, and you know, usually when
people see a gun, they're going to comply and then
it's a quick, easy transaction.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
That's probably the mentality there.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
But that makes sense, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's I don't know if it makes sense, but that's
my well.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, when I say it makes sense, that would at
least give you a reason as to why, even if
there's not any intent to use it, you know, what
you're doing with it as far as inflicting fear in
people and you know, making it an easier process for
you to commit said crime.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, it used to be that most robbers a burglars
and stuff, they were looking to get easy entry exit
and really not have to confront anybody. But we've got
a different segment of folk now that don't care and
they have no value for their life or human life period.
Thus the violent crime has risen as a result of that,

(02:13):
and we're seeing younger people being involved and.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Their cognitive sense of what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
A lot of times it's not as mature as yours
and mind are going to be. But then some of
them are just as mature in that manner and they
just bound and determined to do what they do.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't want to blame it all on the on
the feet of juveniles, but it has we have seen
a horizon that.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Over the years, I've learned that I'm pretty naive to
certain things and I just don't I don't own a firearm.
I've never used one, don't really intend on ever using one.
I'm not anti firearm, obviously, if you want to have
one and you go about it the right way, then
you have every right to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
But what I guess I just been.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Blown away by is how many guns there are just
in Louisville, and a lot of them are done or
not just little everywhere, but a lot of them are
not obtained the legal way. And I just think that's
something that I was, you know, to see that that
they're making good progress here as far as seizing weapons.
And there's two hundred and fifty guns in just one division.
To me, that's just it's it's an eye opener as

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far as Yeah, one of the reasons why we do
have a violent crime issue that that clearly there's some
there's some progress being made, but guns has got to
be a big root of this entire thing.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well again, it is. And here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know, we're never going to be able to eradicate
sure crime, you know, in that sense, but we certainly
can't mitigate it.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So there's no finish line. I keep using that line.
Shout out to Chief Humphrey, Oh.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, and there is none. He's absolutely correct in that.
But in the process of that, what we hope to
do is we're seeing officers been a little more aggressive
getting out here. And you know, if you're doing that
in patrol, which is what we're doing, those are basically

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traffic stops.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
That's happening. Are things that.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Ask a question as far as what is the most
likely scenari Every situation is different, but I would assume
it's a traffic stop where yes.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I would saying the majority of them are or are
they catching people committing the crimes and as a result,
getting getting the guns that way as well, And they're
taking great pride in doing it, and that's that's the
key thing. And we hope that that permeates throughout the
department because a lot of times the journeys of a
thousand miles begins with the first step and the first
division is doing.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
How infectious are wins like these? Again, there's no finish line,
but obviously good work being done. It's certainly something that
should make folks feel good about curbing the violent crime.
But as a department overall, you know, that's a win
for the first division and obviously those guys specifically, but
you know, it's really everybody within the department. And again,
I just I would assume that like a locker room

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and sports, you know, you know that it's infectious to
where it's gonna you know, And again every situation is
different as far as each division and whatnot, but still
good for another good morale booster for you guys, I
would imagine.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It is, and we hope that, you know, because each
division is unique, and you have a unique like the
fourth division, which really is mostly the old Louisville area,
goes out in the Iroquois. All of that, it is
probably the most eclectic part of the whole police department.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
In terms of patrol. You got all types of people from.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
All different one of the more eclectic parts in Louisville,
no doubt.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
And so therefore that challenge, you know, may not be guns,
It may be other things.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
It may be over uh.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know, we have officers now that we're dealing with
people with coming from other countries, multiple languages and things
like that. That may be what those officers have to
get more involved in and the quality of life of
those people and what they were used to in coming
here and having to deal with the rules of America
and understand how police work here.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
So there's different.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Facets in each division of what we need to be
concentrated on to make our cities.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
How many divisions are there, They're eighty patrol divisions. Yeah,
and just thinking of how big and really different and
diverse this city is from top to bottom.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
I mean your day to day routine depending upon division,
could be night and day different.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh, absolutely, And it's you know, they are invisible lines,
you know, because you don't say, oh, you know, all
of a sudden you go over the street, you might
be in another division, but the situation may speel over,
and you know it's a challenge, but police work is ebomming,
just like every facet of life is. And you can't
have nineteen fifty tactics in the twenty first century.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
It just doesn't.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And that's what we're trying to get to to be
able to be more holistic as a police department.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I learned so much with these with these conversations each
and every week, because I knew there were divisions, but
I hadn't really given a whole lot of thought to
just how you really could have not a different job necessarily,
but the day to day of it'll be different depending
upon divisions have. I'm sure certain officers have learned to
kind of take some ownership of a division and understand, hey,
this is kind of my area. I want to stay

(07:05):
here because I feel like I'm most comfortable here and
I can do a better job to this community because
of my experience here.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Absolutely, And I think personality has a whole lot to
do with where you are and what you want to.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Do relating to that community just because of the time there.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, and you gain valuable experience, and then you know,
many officers want to go up and shore the department,
and they can take those lessons that they learned there
and take them to other aspects of the department. They
go to in the other areas that they do. So
it's every bobbing thing. And I keep using that term
because it's true sure that that's how how it works.

(07:40):
And since we merged in two thousand and three, obviously
there's a lot more opportunities for officers to move around
than and move with separate department.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
So you have that dynamic there.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
But the backbone of the police department is and will
always be patrol.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
You've said that many times. Chief Humprey said it when
he was in with us a few weeks ago. And
I'm sure there are some that have taken a step
in a different direction as far as a different role
within LMPD, but they've realized, hey, I patrol is what
I want to do. I mean, that's probably not that uncommon, right.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's interesting because I've talked to some of the top
brass of the police Department over the years and I
always ask them the question, you know, what was the
happiest time, and it said, obviously, you know, you reach
some of the pinnacles, you do. But when I was
in patrol doing real police work. That's what they, ultimately
a lot of them say, because you know, sometimes you

(08:33):
don't miss your water to the whale runs dry and
you find out this is why I really decided to
become a police officer to do that type of work.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
So that whatever, and I'm sure there are some that
say that because it was probably more interesting active. Clearly
there's with you when you're on patrol. You know, it's
probably you just never really know what you're going to get,
and that alone just adds some some I shouldn't say
excitement to it, but it's just a different experience than
someone who may have a job where you're doing more
of an office thing or you're doing more of a

(09:02):
pr kind of thing. But also I think it really
speaks to the fact that the vast majority of those
that get into this they look back on that experience
because it's truly it's the day to day that that
you you not to say that you're not making an
impact if you're not in patrol right now, but your
boots on the ground you are, as you mentioned, that's

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that's the backbone of it, and you were when you
were in that even if you didn't realize it then,
and even if you don't realize it now, necessarily it's
truly what hit you hit you the most in your
you know, in your in you as a human being
that you are protecting and serving because you're out there
every day, you're interacting with people that are victims or
that are perpetrators.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
And that's the root of what all this is.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, you know, there was a song we sing in
church every now and then say if I could help somebody.
Was Martin Luther King's things, if I could help somebody
along the way, And I think that's the you know,
when you ask offices first what they why they want
to be a police officer, this says and help somebody.
As long as we keep that thing throughout whatever capacity

(10:05):
you moved through the department, If you keep that mentality,
that's what's going to make us a great department. And
I believe that's the direction that we're heading.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I choose to believe that even if that was in
the frame of mind, but it may not have been
the ultimate route. Maybe they just felt like, hey, this
is what I'm fit for. I was in law enfor
or I was in military. But then once you get
out there and you do it. It's got to be infectious.
It's got to hit you when you are making an
impact and you have situations where you've either helped someone,
I mean, helped the community, helped an individual.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I like to believe that we as human beings. It's
the human element to where even if it wasn't maybe
something that you were motivated for years to get into
it to do it, once you're doing it, you can
feel the value in it and a very rewarding gig.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
No doubt it is all that comes with it.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
But that rewarding of knowing you're making an impact has
got to be the powerful thing.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Isn't it. You know, just as apparent as you are.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
You know, when you have the influence on your kids
and then especially the lessons you keep teaching, and then
you start seeing it permeating in the life and they
start believe.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
There's nothing better than that, There's nothing better than looks
at you.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
And she's very proud.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, she tells me a lot, and I certainly appreciate her. Yes,
all right, well, I appreciate you stopping by. And I
always enjoy these conversations. I mean, it's one of the
one of my favorite parts of the week. So Dwight,
as always, we appreciate your time, enjoy your weekend. My man,
I'm gonna do it. We'll see you next week, ok,
my friend. All right, let's get to a quick time out.
We will get to some updates on the roadway. See
how traffic's looking. Also an update on the forecast. It

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is news ready to wait forty whas it is seven
thirty five year.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Old a Friday morning. That's right, we made it.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
The weekend is uh, it's almost here, at least for
us that it's hopefully almost here for you. Everybody's schedule
is different, but the weekend's a state of mind. That's
why Friday is a workday, but it doesn't feel like
it as much because you know, if you have the
standard Monday through Friday nine to five type of gig,
you just know, hey, you got you got a couple
of days off, and sometimes it's nice to have a

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couple of days off and really not having anything you
gotta do. You just let it play out the way
it's going to play out. That's kind of where we
are this week. And other than one thing, we do
have something. I'm really excited about tomorrow morning. And I
do want to use the platform here to share something
that I think would would serve a lot of people
good if they if they really took it upon themselves
to dedicate some time and experience something that has been

(12:20):
a big, big thing for me, and it's.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
The Miracle League of Louisville.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
So my daughter, she's nine years old, and she is
she's a special needs child's she's autistic and she is
intellectually disabled, So think nine year old, but as from
an intellectual standpoint kind of more so like a three
year old. So she's been a part of this special
needs baseball league for a couple of years now. This

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is the third time she's played, but this is our
first time doing fall ball. And they are wrapping up
their fall ball season tomorrow playing at Jim Patterson Stadium,
which I'm super excited about. But the whole the whole
league will have their games tomorrow at Jim Patterson Stadium.
Game will start at nine o'clock and then they've got
games going all the way.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Up to two pm.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
So just to give you so and by the way,
they usually play at Fern Creek Park, a field that
was specifically designated for wheel to be wheelchair accessible with
certain certain field set up to where you know, it's
convenient for those of special needs and we go there
every Saturday, and it's it's the highlight.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Of my week.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
It it is something that I just I can't get
enough of just to be involved in that. And for
me personally, this league absolutely helped me sort of just
with the reality of being the parent of a special
needs kid instead of just always worrying about and I
still worry, but worrying about you know, potential hardships along

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the way with with our situation, I don't I don't
spend as much time consumed by that really at all.
I just enjoy my daughter and the off the the
you know, the the awesome life that that she has
and the life that she's living and being around other
special needs children and other families that that was so

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rewarding for me personally and my wife as well to
where uh, this league just means the world to me
from just you know, a selfish standpoint, but also I
know many that have come out to watch games and
they're usually there because they know someone or they're there
because they know me, and they know my daughter and
I can sense how genuine they are when they when

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they tell me what that did for them. Just to
be around that environment and to see the purity and
the the love that that that special needs kids have,
it's it's a beautiful thing. And I want to thank everybody.
I learn each week of other of different people who
have helped put this league together long ago. And again

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we're still relatively new to it, but I'm so grateful
for it. I know many others are as well, and
and uh, it's it's it's awesome.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
So three hundred and twenty five other Miracle Leagues, I mean,
two hundred and fifty thousand plus children.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
That's amazing. Yep.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
And just here in Louisville, there's one hundred and fifty
children that are that are part of it. And it's
you know, I've gotten to know some of them because
you know they're not maybe on Maya's team, but you
know they're you just you see a lot of regulars,
and you know, it's it's been, it's been an awesome
I'm rambling here because I'm trying not to get emotional.
But tomorrow, if you've got nothing going on and you

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want to come out to Jim Patterson Stadium. You will
not regret doing it. And I imagine some Louleville baseball
folks are going to be there. Louis the mascot as
well as Homer. Homer is the mascot for the Miracle
League's he's my daughter's favorite.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
He's a big hit there.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So it's the Shriner's College Showdown, youth experience presented about
cos air for kids. And again they're they're bringing the
Miracle League out there to wrap up their wrap up
their season. They got special jerseys for them, and and
and what makes it awesome, among many things, is that
you know, it's true inclusion as far as they they

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they put They've got a big video board. They put
picture the picture that you take on picture day, they
put it up on the big screen when you walk.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
And I'm not talking about a Jim Patterson brother.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm talking about at Fern Creek Park where they've set
this up for this league. So whenever I'm helping her
walk to the plate and she's getting she's picking out
her bat, they're getting the tea set up for her.
You know, I hear the announcer and next up it's
Maya coffee and you look up at the screen and
there she is. It's just it's such a it's such
a beautiful thing. And I was a little not worried,

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but just I didn't know what to expect as far
as just how I would how I would deal with
sort of you know, our life and and it's crazy
to even say that out loud now, because I wouldn't
change a thing because we're lucky, we're blessed, and yeah,
there may be some things along the way that are
just different for us than others. But this league has
helped me not view that the way that I used to,

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and it's meant a lot to make.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Do you find it helpful also for you and your
wife to be around other parents that are in the
same thing you're going through.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, and we never you know that that would have
made since I just said it before, but to actually
experience that and feel it, Oh, it's changed.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I mean it's it's uh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
It that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
It's changed every sing I've seen your videos and thank
you for posting those. And if you don't, if you
haven't seen them, go you'll see what Nick's talking about.
There their emotional videos and you know, parents of any
child will appreciate what it is. And if you want more, Nick,
I was just what you were talking about it. They
have an amazing website, Miracle League Louisville dot org is
just and there's Homer right there. You see what great

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work dude that is. I'm so glad that you and
your wife have had this experience, and I'm glad they're
they are, and not only just here but across the
United States.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
And I've met a couple of people this year that
have told me that me sharing it and I'm not
trying to give myself credit, but it did.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
It made it me.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Made me feel good to know that, like I go,
I do talk about it a lot and certainly share
a lot of it on social media, but to see
that lead to other grand parents or parents of kids
with social needs or special needs and just wondering, hey,
could this be for me? And I say, look, no, yes,
no matter what the situation is, you will benefit from
it and you won't regret it. And to have people
say that they you know, they now get it, it's uh,

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it's beautiful things. So again tomorrow, if you want to
come check out some high level baseball and a lot
of kids having fun and a nice distraction from maybe
some of the some of the bad that's going on
in the world. You will be able to get that
with this experience.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
And coach Dann McDonald's an honorary chair. Yep.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
So again, like I'm learning, Jeff Brohm, the brom family,
even when when when Jeff was at Purdue and Dan
of course was Louisville at the time, still is you know,
they made big donations to help with the field together
and like I just everybody who had a role in
Louisville having their miracle League and making it possible. And
I meet I meet some of these people every week.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
You you won't know how much you've you've done for
for for a lot of people, including myself.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
So big thanks. All right, let's get to a quick
time out. We'll get traffic and weather updates to you.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
And uh, there's a country that's going to ban social
media for users that are fifteen years old or younger.
And I don't know a whole lot about any movement
for this to happen here in America, but I do
ask what would be the real harm there? Right, So
we'll get to that in more right here our news radio.
Wait forty whs. So Denmark is considering banning social media

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for children fifteen years and younger. So I suppose it's sixteen,
you'd be given the green light to get on social media.
So they're claiming this is a step they're taking in
order to protect kids from the negative effects of social media.
So their Prime minister says the mobile phones and online
platforms are quote stealing our children's childhood. Can't really disagree

(19:44):
with that. That's a strong way to word it. I
think there's also the other side, which maybe childhood is
just different for people because things evolve over time, including
social media now existing when it didn't exist, probably when
this Prime minister was a child. So but no, I
also understand the side, like there are things that we

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really it's the ultimate unknown, and that is a generation
that is on one end kind of currently entering the
world of being grown ups and having children and you know,
being able to vote, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
That the that I.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Guess eighteen ish to maybe twenty three, twenty four. Maybe
I'm wrong with my ears there, but that's an era
that really since they've been able to remember, really they've
probably had social media, and of course younger than that,
it's always been a thing. And I'm sure there are
some parents that didn't let their kids get on social media,

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so it's not everyone, But we really have no clue
what the impact of that is going to be long term.
Is just how people are as human beings. I mean,
I'm somebody that I'm sure some of you would still
consider on the younger side, and I appreciate that, but
I'm third. I didn't grow up with social media being
a thing. I didn't grow up with the Internet being
what it is now. In fact, the Internet became a

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thing whenever I was a kid, but it was really
i mean, yes, it's the Internet, but like AOL dial
up and what we have today, I.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Mean, it's got those aren't the same things at all
or not.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean really it's yes, it's still called the Internet,
but it's not the same thing at all.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
No. And you know, as we were saying, my daughter's
generation she's twenty six, now, that was the first generation
that came along where parents their parents couldn't parent the
way they were parented, if that makes sense. And so
to your point, you're seeing all kinds of different kids
now coming up. I mean, you got a whole group
of kids coming up now with chat GPT. As far
as homework's concerned.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
I had a nice brain's gonna be numb, dude.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
I had a nice, in depth, long conversation with myself
when he was home this weekend about the impact chat
GPT is having not only on him but other students
where he goes to school. So, I mean, you know,
you can ban social media. I get that, and it
can't hurt. It's moving the right direction. I'm not discouraging it,
don't hear me say that. But kids will find a
way around. It's just like, yeah, they figured out how

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to get around the.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
TikTok and I you know, the whole thought of not
having to learn something for yourself, that's that's one layer
of it. But I think another another real issue is
that the mindset won't even.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Be to utilize the brain.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
You have to try to think for yourself, to try
to do something because you just know you don't have to.
That's what That's where it really worries me. And look,
one of the other things here is that the Prime
Minister says is that social media is fueling anxiety and depression.
Among young people. That's fueling anxiety and maybe even depression among.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Old people too.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yes, it's a toxic thing if you know, if if
you don't use it the right way. And look, I
was able to sort of figure myself out and and
you know kind of I guess, get a feel for
who I am and establish who you know, there's a
lot of things in life that had I had this
phone in front of me that I'm on way too

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much as it is right now, I don't know if
I would have been able to And I don't want
to present it like, well, look at me, I'm so
great and if I didn't have social if I had
social media, maybe I wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm not positioning it like that, but like, you know,
just sitting alone with my thoughts and and and thinking
for myself and you know, finding what you know, being creative,
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Like I don't know if I would have been wired.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
The same had I had access to what kids have
access to now. And that's a scary thing, right, Like
you don't I mean, you become robot because you don't.
You don't really, you don't go through life experiences the
same way to where you're really going to learn for yourself,
learn who you are. And that's just a wild thing
to think about. But again, we're in that. We're in
that that that that transition here to where again a

(23:46):
lot of even a lot of people younger than me
still didn't have what the kids have to this day.
But eventually, whenever the young teenagers now are in their
late twenties or something, I mean, who knows what life
looks like just because I mean, they still going to
be the you know, the the whole process of hey,

(24:06):
get you know, and everybody's different. You can do whatever
you want, but like the whole life of hey, I'm
gonna get married and then we're gonna start a family,
that kind of stuff, Like I think, to see that
just start dwindling in decades to come wouldn't shock me.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And that you know, it's.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
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