SIO173: Voicemail: Ethics, Robots, FGM Laws, and More!
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Got a great voicemail episode for you fine folks! There were a lot of really excellent calls this month. Please keep them coming for next month! This week's topics include: doing business with conservatives, robots taking all the jobs, FGM laws in the US, the QED mental health panel, meditation, and how I stopped being a conservative!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only this episode 173. I'm your host Thomas Smith and I hope you had a very happy Christmas. I really like the word Mary. I don't know what it is. |
| 0:41.0 | It always bugs me. I don't use it for anything else except Christmas. |
| 0:45.0 | And I mean, I guess that's not a great argument, but something about it bothers me, but pleasant Christmas or and or any other holiday you |
| 0:55.7 | guys celebrate. So I'm really excited to do this episode we've got some great |
| 1:00.9 | voicemail, lots of ranging topics, different stuff spanning from, of course, |
| 1:07.6 | last month I put off a couple voicemails that I had. So I'm going to do those first. They're going to be a little |
| 1:14.4 | bit dated but not in a way that I think really matters. But so a couple |
| 1:20.2 | November voicemail and then I got some great December ones and I'm just really so happy to have this |
| 1:26.7 | interaction with you folks and I hope you'll take advantage of this again next month |
| 1:32.1 | for the end of January make sure to get those |
| 1:34.2 | voicemails going any reactions you have to anything on the show or or even not on the |
| 1:39.5 | show news article whatever it may be So all right let's do it. It's time to check the |
| 1:47.1 | voicemail and of course if you'd like to leave a message that's 916 750 |
| 1:52.0 | 4 SIO that's 916 750 4sIO. That's 916 750 4 746. Let's check out this week's messages. changes. for an email marketing company, I won't say which one, but I've just finished helping out about |
| 2:16.3 | five different Republican action groups email their constituents to get out the vote and throughout the last month I've not had a single Democrat group call to send out emails to get help with that. |
| 2:34.0 | Now, that either means Democrats don't need help with their emails or that we're just not getting |
| 2:39.5 | out as much information as Republicans. |
| 2:41.9 | And it's something that's consistently worded me and |
| 2:46.0 | put me in a little bit of a moral dilemma because my livelihood depends on |
| 2:49.6 | helping people I fundamentally disagree with. I've even in the past had to help out people equivalent to the |
| 2:56.2 | Westboro Baptist Church and I don't know I was just wondering what your |
| 3:00.6 | thoughts are on that kind of moral situation you know is it right to |
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