Hey my friends, I'm Matt Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and a while back we went through this phase as a family well as an extended family where my dad in particular I'll just say it but you know maybe more

of us as well but particularly dad was really in a cable news phase and I don't

know if you've ever heard of cable news but it's this thing that happens on cable television.

It gained popularity in the 1990s, and then it just took over a cable television in the early 2000.

It's a place where talking heads talk about things and there was even a

claim for a while on one of these cable news stations it was like new news

every 15 minutes and implicit in that was like whether it's real or not.

They just make stuff up every 15 minutes.

So there would be new news and so you understand how it is these news stations

that are competing for attention so naturally the more

bombastic stuff they say the more likely people are to watch their channel and

not somebody else's over the years this has resulted in a news channel that orients toward the out of power

team's political views, getting a lot of ratings because they can rail on and complain

about whoever is in power

and then they go down when their team actually wins and so on and so forth.

This is probably not the healthiest thing for us,

but accepting that maybe I'm not qualified

to issue a judgment on the health of cable news for all of society.

I know it wasn't a healthy thing for us as an extended family.

And my mom felt the same way and I think we all just felt like we needed a break from the toxicity of this conversation.

And so we took a vacation one time to Breckenridge, Colorado,

which is beautiful, fly fishing, it's a ski area.

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