Sticks and Stones

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Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

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🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Is it true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you? Yes, but only if you choose to not let words hurt you. Comedian Tom Shillue, host of Red Eye on Fox News Channel, explains how growing up in a politically incorrect, rough-and-tumble America was the only thing that could have prepared him for the real world, and still is the only thing that can prepare teenagers and college students alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm always telling my daughter stories from when I was a kid.
0:04.0	By comparison, the world of my youth was rougher and meaner than the world the kids grow
0:08.6	up in today.
0:10.4	So here's my question.
0:12.0	Did this rougher and meaner world better prepare me to be a well-adjusted, happy adult?
0:18.2	I say yes.
0:20.4	When I was a kid, you could say we were less sensitive about a lot of things.
0:24.6	I mean, just look at the commercials we watched.
0:28.0	We had the Frito Bandito.
0:30.8	The cartoon spokesman for Fritos.
0:32.9	He was a three and a half foot tall.
0:35.8	Mexican thief.
0:39.0	Can you imagine pitching that at an ad agency today?
0:42.2	Uh-huh.
0:43.2	The Frito Bandito, okay.
0:45.2	Um, all right.
0:46.2	I feel you don't work here anymore.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	You gotta go clean out your desk right now.
0:52.0	Some were violent.
0:53.4	Hawaiian punch.
0:55.2	Every commercial was the same.
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