The 10 Commandments in Class, ‘Personality Hires’ & Women in the Draft

ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Tiffany Hobbs filling in with a look at a new law in Louisiana that mandates schools display the Ten Commandments in classrooms AND the concept of being a ‘Personality Hire’ at your company…PLUS – Thoughts on Congress weighing the idea of including women in the US military draft and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Later with Mo Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
It's Later with Moke Kelly. I'mTiffany Hobbs. I love Louisiana. I
love it, I visit I enjoyNew Orleans. But I do recognize that
New Orleans is somewhat separate from theoverall state of Louisiana. And what I

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mean is, if you've ever visitedNew Orleans or have aspirations to visit New
Orleans, you'll see that it operatesindependently of the rest of the state of
Louisiana. New Orleans is its ownentity because Louisiana tends to make very clear
lines in the sand when it comesto certain things. Politically, it's often

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right leaning, and none other thanlegislators currently working on putting the Ten Commandments
in every single classroom to bolster thatconservative leaning that Louisiana is now known for.
Again, they've drawn a clear linein the sand between what they care

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about and what can kiss where thesun don't shine? And what do I
mean? Louisiana is wonderful for manythings. One of the things that it
is not great for is literacy.Louisiana currently ranks as the fifth lowest state
in terms of literacy. But Louisianalegislators have made it pretty clear that they

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don't care if students can necessarily readthe academic textbooks as long as those students
can read biblical text. What doI mean, Louisiana is putting the Ten
Commandments in every classroom. Some ofyou might applaud that you might be well

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versed in biblical theology, might notnecessarily want a separation of church and state.
But on the other hand, thereare complications to putting up Biblical texts
in a public space or in privateclassrooms. As it were, these Ten

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Commandments are to be displayed in everyclassroom. Gone is the wall again between
church and state. Critics are goingcrazy because they're saying that civil liberties be
damned. People should have the choicebetween whether or not they're subjected to theology
or anything. In this case,Louisiana is taking that choice away from its

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teachers, from its school staff,and from its students, and from those
students' parents. People are split,but critics are very vocal. They're saying
that this will lead to a veryclear indoctrination of students and possibly other school
staff as well. But the Louisianalegislators doesn't care what they think. They

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want the commandments right there, rightthere, next to the adjectives, right
there, next to the format ofwriting an essay, right their, next
to the algebraic equations. They wantthem prominently displayed in the classroom so that
they can be referenced at will,and so that students can familiarize themselves with

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that biblical text. But it's notas easy, not as simple as that.
You might know some of the commandments, the popular ones, or thou
shalt not murder, thou shall notcommit adulterery. There's also the thou shalt
keep the Sabbath holy one that oneoften sneaks by. And if I'm a

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savvy student in Louisiana, i amcertainly gonna use thou shall not work or
do anything on the Sabbath to getme out of doing an essay or doing
any sort of homework assignment. Hey, miss Johnson, it's the Sabbath I'm
not gonna do when you work onthat day. That's what the commandment says,
right miss. And what can yourteacher then argue, Because it's right

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there, it's law, it's lawin the classroom, it's law in the
Bible, and the two are nowmerging. God said, don't work on
the Sabbath. If I'm a savvystudent, I'm using it. The commandments
are very rigid. Whether you believethem or you don't, whether you're a
follower of them or you're not,whether you are familiar with them or not,

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you should know that they are veryrigid. They don't leave a lot
of wiggle room. And that's wherethe Louisiana legislator has taken it upon themselves
to somewhat interpret those commandments. They'resimplifying them, They're kind of watering them
down for the children, so tospeak, kind of giving the layman's terms.

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And in that simplification comes editing,comes subjectivity. And I'm not sure
that in anyone, let alone,legislators in a state where literacy ranks fifth
out of all of the fifty contiguousstates should be editing scripture to their specific

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agenda. It's concerning at best,and it's irresponsible at worst. But either
way, all of this just createsa bigger conversation around legitimacy, because what
Louisiana is doing with this implementation issaying that this religion is right and just

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and we can display wording from it. But this other religion over here,
No, not so much, becauseif you're thinking about it like I've been
thinking about it, what then stopsother religions from saying, hey, display
my teachings or display my commandments ormy rules. What then stops the Church
of Satan from coming and saying,hey, put this up on the wall,

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Because what argument could the legislator haveagainst it. You're making legitimate I
meant one religion while saying that othersare not. And why is that okay?
It's not. That's my opinion.I'm not one of the Louisiana legislators,
thankfully, because they're being faced withsome really real conversations, and at

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this point they're going forward with theirplan to implement those Ten Commandments. Again.
I love Louisiana, but let's bereal. They're not necessarily the bastion
or beacon of higher consciousness. Idon't know. I'm a teacher. I
would not display the Ten Commandments orany sort of religious anything on a wall

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because I wouldn't want to push myideologies or anyone's ideology and the faces of
unsuspecting and captive audience members such asstudents. But that's just my opinion.
I might be considered to be apersonersonality higher amongst my educating official body.

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And what's a personality higher? Youmight be asking, Well, it's someone
full of personality, full of charisma. But that personality can be positive and
it could also be negative on theother side. We're definitely going to get
into what it is to be apersonality higher, and I'll give you some

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tips and tricks to decide whether ornot you were a personality higher at your
place of employment. You might bea little shocked to find out what your
fellow employees think of you. Mark, I know that Mo tells you all
the time what he thinks of you. Do you think that you might be
a personality higher? I think it'stime to invoke that quote from pulp Fiction

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where Harvey Kaitel says, just becauseyou are a character doesn't mean you have
character. We're going to find outjust what your character actually means in the
workplace. Mark Ronner, Oh God, I'm not feeling so well ready yourself.
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. It's later with

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mo Kelly. I'm Tiffany Hobbs.You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty Laterwith mo Kelly, I'm Tiffany Hobbs.
The question I asked you before weleft for the break and before we went
to Mark Ronner with the news wasare you a personality higher? And I
actually anchored it by asking Mark himselfif you felt that he was a personality

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higher? Mark, Well, letme ask you something that might help you
determine a little bit more about whetheror not you're a personality higher, because
there are some criteria. Okay,do you consider yourself to be bubbly?
Bubbly? Uh? Not exactly?No, I don't. I don't think
I would describe myself as bubbly.Are you effervescent? Aren't those the same

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that they can be depending on that? Are we talking about a soft drink
or a human? Yes? What'sgoing on here? Yes is the answer.
Are you well liked by your fellowemployees? Nobody more popular? Are
you kidding me? Please ignore thehelp? Sure? Sure, sure,

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sure, okay, but this lineof questioning reminds me of saying that maybe
somebody that you want to go outwith has a nice personality as opposed to
being otherwise appealing. It can be. And I'll tell you why this is
a new terminology present in the workforce. People might be saying, what the

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heck is she talking about? Whatis a personality higher? Well, there's
all these kind of fun new phrasesthat are present in workplace environments. You
might have heard of terms used likequiet quitting or the lazy girl job.
All these terms have been generally adoptedby the younger millennials to expe it's plain

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somewhat mundane experiences or situations in theworkforce. Well, a personality higher has
to deal with an employee who isbeing labeled because they're either really bubbly effervescent
like Mark Ronner, or they arereally annoying, and the line between the

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two seems to be quite thin.Here's why the personality higher is the bubbly
employee. They're the charismatic one,the one who first thing in the morning,
when you've not even had your coffeeyet, they're all in your face
saying good morning, Hi, howyou doing, where you've been, how
was your weekend? How was yourday? Nice? People might be a

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little over ambitious in that regard,but they're generally positive. Often I might
be described as someone like that,and I've been told by people, you
know, you're you're very energetic.I'm not yet ready for that. Respected
I'm kind of like a rabbit inthe morning. I'm hi, hi,
hi, because I'm trying to getmy own energy up, and I kind

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of expect others to do the same. But not everyone is ready for that.
So with all of that charisma,with all of that bubbly bubbliness,
sometimes they come to be known asthe fun coworker. They're the one who's
hanging out in the hallway, they'retalking to you. None of these are
bad things, by the way,I'm not pegging anybody is negative for doing

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these thing. It's just kind ofgiving you the profile we're painting. They're
the ones who will walk up toyou and again strike up a conversation,
maybe sit at your desk around you, leaving you to wonder when are they
actually doing any work? When arethey actually completing the tasks that are assigned
to them. They seem to havean inordinate amount of time to make small

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talk, but you're working and they'renot. So something's a little off here.
That's where the personality higher takes toturn again, all the positives that
come along with having a positive personality, a charismatic personality can be translated negatively
if the output required of that employeeis not present, and if they're compromising

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other employees' abilities to do their jobas well. So again, what are
they doing when they're doing all ofthat talking. The personality higher may go
over very well with managers in thebeginning. Hey, this is a person
you can kind of put out front. They can be the welcoming committee.
They can be this or that,they can be on that or this.

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They are so well representing the company. They're just full of love and light.
But on the other side, employeesmay be resenting that personality higher.
That person may be the talk ofthe town, the person others are whispering
about. Managers see the personality hireas someone who's doing well. They must

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be doing their job great. It'sa lot of smoke and mirrors around them,
and it may even result in themearning a promotion. That's happened a
lot of times. I've experienced that. I've seen it, and you might
be thinking to yourself when you dowitness it. How did Bob get a
promotion he doesn't do anything? Orwhy are they always how come they still

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have their job? Well, thebosses think highly of that employee, whereas
you may be seeing the reality ofwhat they're doing or not doing. It
can cause resentment in the workplace.It can cause the workplace to become very
toxic, very unhappy, and theworkplace doesn't need anything to add to the

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stress that people are feeling. Becausea recent Gallup poll just conducted this year
Could They Do These Annually, saidthat forty nine percent of current employees are
interested in new job opportunities or areactively up applying for new jobs. People
want out, they're not happy.Others are saying that they're not really engaged

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in their jobs. That job engagementis at an all time low. They're
fittling about on social media, they'retaking longer breaks, they're using that PTO
up, they're just doing whatever becausethey don't really have the want to be
invested in that position. And it'sbecause of stress. They feel overwhemed.
Employees are saying that they're overworked.So all that fun fuzzy stuff, all

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that hi hi hi, that rabbitenergy, that energy that I sometimes zoo,
I have to kind of curtail andscale back on that's not necessarily welcome,
because whereas you're happy, someone elseover here might be considering that they
can't afford that nine hundred and sixtytwo thousand dollars home. They have their
sites set on, but they can'tmake that eighty one percent down payment,
whatever the case. They can't maketheir rent, they can't pay their utilities,

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they're unhappy in their job, andit just continues to balloon from there.
So that personality higher can make anotherwise stressful situation really agitating, and
no one wants to work in anagitating situation because now you have employees going
at each other, and you haveBob over there, who was once a
part of the group on his ownby himself feeling alienated, exiled, and

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then you have all of that thatgoes on. The concept of a personality
hire actually crystallized on social media.We have social media to thank for personality
hire, quiet quitting, lazy girljobs, and all these fun phrasing,
and it came from employees basically sharingtheir experiences in the workforce as being the

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personality higher they're proud to be thatpersonality higher. It's almost a caricature that
they've embodied. But in that embodimentyou have others who are saying, this
isn't a game, this isn't fun. I actually don't enjoy it. It's
not really a badge of honor.And so now those personality hires are being

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looked at through different lenses by employers. See it comes full circle. What
once may have made you the interestof the employer could now make you public
enemy number one if people aren't feelinglike you're actually doing your job and aren't
as happy with you as your employermight feel they should be. When everyone's

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getting along, it leads to greatercollaboration in the workforce. We all know
that. It's pretty common knowledge.When people are happy at work, you
can feel it. Energy is veryobvious. When people aren't happy, then
you get all this sort of dissension. So you don't want to be the
personality higher. You don't want tobe a character, a caricature. Ultimately,

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you just want to be yourself.Ah right, Mark, I think
this bob you're talking about might needan old fashioned full metal jacket style blanket
party with some bars of soap ina sock Bombs is being himself. You
know, I think Bob needs tobe taught a lesson. I think you
need a hug. Well, Iprobably do it. Okay, we'll do

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it on the break. Okay,thank you. I am six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You'relistening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty. It'sLater with Moe Kelly. I'm Tiffany Hobbes.
When movies come out about the military, they can often lead to the
numbers of people enlisting in the militarygoing up. It's part and parcel.

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It's kind of an association, ifyou will. People feel invigorated. The
same thing happens with The Fast andthe Furious Fast car driving movies. People
drive faster. There are lots ofspeeding tickets in the wake of these movies
being released. People are highly influencedby entertainment. Same thing goes for the
military. After Saving Private Ryan,numbers of enlisting active soldiers went up after

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other movies. The same things canbe said to be true. But we
must be in need of another militarymovie at this point because the numbers of
people interested and enlisting in the militaryhave dramatically decreased, and they continue to
decrease annually. When the US militaryis interested in bumping up those numbers to

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meet quotas. Yes, yet anothergovernment or organization that has quotas. There's
been discussion about bringing the draft backfor men or making it active again.
It's been inactive, and that's notunusual, and there's conversation around age and
how young should a young man be, how old can a person be.

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All of that's to say, thenumbers of enlisting as if duty members in
the military are dwindling, so theUS military wants to pump them up.
And what easier way to pump upthose numbers than to mandate that people enlist.
If you can take a guaranteed portionof the population, then you'll meet
your quota. But again, whilewe are in an inactive period, those

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numbers are dwindling, so to curbthat decrease, the US military, with
the backing of some not all,government officials, is interested in bringing women
into the military via a mandatory draftfor service. Yes, women will be

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if this goes through, required toenlist in the draft, and you'll be
between a certain age, likely eighteenand twenty five or twenty six, so
those women, those young women willbe required to sign up for the military
draft. This has been discussed before, it's never gone into effect, and

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many are saying that it's not goingto pass because it will be blocked.
And I'll tell you who's going toblock it in a moment. It's not
going to be too surprising. Butrecruitment challenges overall are causing Congress to weigh
reforms to the draft system. Theyhave to fix what's going on. They
have to stop this bleeding. It'skind of an inverse of bleeding. It's

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drying up in fact, and theywant to boost again the number of active
service members. The US military hasrecruitment goals, as I said earlier,
just like other governmental bodies and organizations, they want to enlist a certain number
of people every year. But everyyear they don't meet that goal. It's
a continuous annual slip. Last year, the recruitment goal was just over forty

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thousand, and the US military fellshort. Fell short. Adults between the
ages of eighteen and twenty nine saidin a recent survey that they do not
look at the military in favorable ways. Others have said the same across different
age groups, across different gender,socioeconomic backgrounds. The view of the military

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is varied, but it is oftenskewing toward or trending toward, a more
negative perspective, and people don't wantto serve. There's respect paid to those
who do, but people don't wantto subject themselves to being a part of
that group as well. Republicans arethose who are thought to be the ones

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blocking this new idea, and Republicansare often in the news and have been
just this year because of their ideologiesaround what they consider to be as conventional
jobs for women, often their conservativeleaning, and in that Republicans like Senator
jobsh Howley from Missouri don't want womenin the military. He said, and

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I quote, we need to getreality back in check here. There shouldn't
be women in the draft. Theyshouldn't be forced to serve if they don't
want to. Yes, I agree, but I also realize that that's coded
language coming from this particular senator becausehe, like others, would rather relegate

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women to again more conventional, moreconservative, more stereotypical, gender trope based
workplace environments, home based environments wherethe military does not mesh with that it
doesn't mess with that ideology. Theydon't want women fighting because that's a man's
job. It's a man's job togo out there and fight against the enemy.

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It's a man's job to carry weapons. Women should be, as they
were in the twenties, at home, ready to receive the men back into
their homes, not an active duty. If Republicans are unsuccessful at stopping this,
then women may very well in thenext couple of years be required to

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enlist in the military. I'm happyI've aged out of that. But who's
to say that as the goalpost continuesto move as far as what's required or
who's required, or what's needed duringwartime. And again, we're inactive right
now, knock on wood. Butduring wartime, who's to say that those
limitations won't be stretched or released abit. It could very well be where

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that people over the age of twentyfive or twenty six are asked to enlist,
or people who are not the firstborn or the only child are asked
to enlist. There are all theseregulations that keep certain enlisting very particular,
but it's starting to stretch. Womenare next on that list. Next,

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proverbial and literal target. So theSenate is looking at the bill and again,
if it becomes law, then that'ssomething that we'll be looking toward for
the future. If you have kids, you can prepare them now. When
we come back, we're going totalk about the idea of marrying up.
If you don't want to enlist inthe military and you kind of want sequester

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yourself on a private island somewhere,then you might want to marry up so
that you can flee the country andnot have to be subjected to a mandatory
draft. We'll talk about it whenI come back. You're listening to Later
with Mo Kelly on demand from KFIAM six boarding. It's Later with mo
Kelly. I'm Tiffany Hobbs. Whenyou've been interested in someone and you've gotten

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all googly eyed and gotten those butterfliesin your stomach, what's the first thing
you were taken aback by? Wasit their good looks? Was it they're
perfectly quafft was it their charisma?Or as the kids are saying today,
they're riz parents out there. That'sa new term. So if a kid

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comes up to you and says youhave or don't have any riz, they're
talking about charisma, charisma, you'rewelcome, or maybe who was none of
those things or in the combination ofthose things. And if you're honest with
yourself and with me right now asI'm talking to you, you might admit
that what actually caught your attention wasthe size of their invisible or visible wallet,

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the luxury that that person might beable to afford you. Maybe it
was through them having a fancy carthat they picked you up in a high
earning job. We've been talking aboutjobs. Maybe they've had something high earning.
Maybe they've been able to afford ahome. They're a homeowner. That's
a luxury. They've been able tomake that down payment. Right for many

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today in a struggling economy, theperks of luxury, the perks we just
talked about, home ownership, anice job, well dressed, some money
in their pocket. All of thatoutweighs shared interests like ethics and morals,
or maybe how you want to spendolled age together, and maybe how you
want to have or raise a family. No, those things aren't important anymore.

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What's important is can you afford tolive? And will that person take
care of your needs? Not justhelp you navigate through the economy, but
actually furnish the luxurious lifestyle that youfeel you deserve. People want romance with

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the side of cash, cold heartcash. They might like you, but
they like your money more, andthey're willing to put up with you and
things that they may not like ifagain, you can afford them that luxurious
lifestyle. This is called dating up. It's not old. This has been
happening since it's the dawn of time. You can harken back to any movie,

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TV show, popular figure, andthere are many examples of dating up.
In fact, people joke about it. It's common knowledge that people date
up. But now, now intwenty twenty four, there are studies being
conducted to find out what that reallyentails and what the motivation is. Because

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it's being tied to the economy,economists and other organizations are looking at the
behavior of people in the dating world. They're looking at singles and at people
who are in relationships to see whatkeeps them in those relationships. There's a
study commissioned by luxury dating site seekingdot com and conduct it by Talker Research

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to find out who was interested inmodern hypergamy. Hypergamy is a form of
romantic attraction, where one person isdrawn to another who has a higher socioeconomic
status than themselves, thus supporting andenhancing their own life and lifestyle. Dating

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up, dating out of your economiczone. Right. And in this recent
study, seeking dot com revealed thatforty seven percent of the two thousand respondents
feel like dating up is a goodidea. They're not shy about it either.
They're saying, Yep, this iswhat we're doing, and we like

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it, and there's nothing you cantell us that makes us feel bad about
it. No, we're not datingagain for ethics and morals. We're not
dating for love. We're dating forsustainability. Have you seen the economy?
Have you tried to buy a house? We're dating so that we can afford
ourselves the modern conveniences and extras thatwe want. But with that comes criticism.

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Of course, there are others whofeel like this is kind of a
slippery slope. Right. Sixty fivepercent of people say they want to be
economically swept off of their feet.So of this two thousand respondents on this
luxury the fact that there's a luxurydating website. I know there's a dating

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website for everything, but a luxurydating website, which really just narrows it
down to those people who are probablybetter known as goal diggers. This is
probably the common term for it,goal digging, right, not hypergamy.
That's the nice kind of psychological terminology. But it's really goal digging by another

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name, right, A rose ofany other name still smells as money hungry.
These respondents say that sixty five percentof them want to be economically swept
off of their feet. So youhave this control group, this sample,
and most of them, an overwhelmingmajority of them, are saying that there's
nothing wrong with focusing on someone else'smoney. That's kind of it's kind of

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scary. I'm not in the datingworld, thank god, because it seems
to be hellish out there. Hellishof my friends who I speak to who
are in the dating world. Thisis something that does come up often.
My friends who are women are onthe flip side of it. They're the

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higher earners. In Los Angeles,men typically earn more money per dollar than
women. That's something that's known,but in my friend group that in versus
true. My friends are earning moremoney than the men they choose to date,
and they are they wrestle with whetheror not they want to be the

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high income earner in the relationship.Often they're not comfortable with that positioning.
They would like to live what's calleda softer life. They'd like to extol
the virtues of hypergamy. They don'twant to be the breadwinner. And that's
just their own personal prerogative, andit's also a part of what our American

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society has created around those gender rolesand biases. But overall, men and
women who've been interviewed in this inthis survey all went to data. Women
wanted, men wanted. Everyone wantsa better lifestyle. You get to choose
how invested you are in that.If you are single, I feel for

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you, I pray for you.I hold space for you. Because it
is rough out there. I cannotimagine mark you're making faces. No,
I wouldn't dream of it. ButI am curious if they actually use the
term sugar daddy or sugar mama inthis report. That's what I was going
to step in there. Yeah,it's not here. I was looking for
it. I hoped they used it. They didn't even use gold digging.

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They're using hypergamy. They want tobe PC. It's all implied. It
reminds me of like how they putcutesy names like boom Mats from last night.
Yeah, that's kind of what they'redoing. And I was like,
that just sounds like a gold digger. It's just it's a gold digger by
any other name. Quiet quitting allthese terminologies that these younger millennials are coming
up with just to kind of,you know, obscure the obvious. But

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we know it to be gold digging. But if you're a gold digger,
hey, there's a site for you, seeking dot com right there. You
can go ahead and get your jolliesoff. Kf I am six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It'sLater with Mo Kelly. I'm Tiffany Hobbs.
There's a lot of misinformation out there, man, none of it is
allowed here. K f I andkost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County

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