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Kirk, five seconds ago, you told me what you wanted to talk about today and I said,

great, let me intro this. Because it's just one of those times where there are themes to what people

are doing in life. And what you wanted to talk about is what I started talking about with my

Phi-EG classes this week. Oh, well, I didn't know that. That is, we are telepathically in sync. Look at that. Okay. Well, continue. I already have questions. Well, you said that you want to talk about running influencers. Are they good for us? Are they bad for us? Is it a mixed bag? Like, is the industry a net positive or negative for having had them in there?

Are they a net positive or negative on the industry? And we just started a unit. Just once to twice

per week, we're going to touch upon how to consume media and claims and documentaries and

advertisements and how to consume it correctly so that you

understand who's really telling me this, who's behind this person, what is their agenda,

and having discerned all that, can I take them at face value or do I need to adjust my expectation

based upon what they're trying to accomplish? And then are they trying to sell me something?

Are they trying to influence me or are they just trying to make me aware?

So I assume this isn't in the curriculum. This would be a new age problem for young human beings and given recent discussions between

you and I on the podcast, it has come to light that there's a lot of good but also a lot of

garbage being consumed by people. And I have to imagine it's tenfold for that generation.

Yeah. It's really, it actually, it's in the state standards. Being able to make informed decisions on advertising claims is actually something they want that they've automatically, they've already put in the standards. So they want to set up. And the standard for physical education? Yeah. Really? There's so many things in there that I did not expect. Times are changing, yeah?

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