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Unless you are one of those perverts who thinks the Vanity Fair pictures of Miley Cyrus are hot, women in puberty are not attractive. Of course, you could be a 14 year-old boy, or someone online pretending to be a 14 year-old boy, but I digress.  Dean and I had gossip and media expert Shawne Duperon on our radio show on Saturday morning to talk about the work she is doing in the world of gossip and media. Listen in to this quick clip from the show when she unveils an interesting find about what type of conversation media really is!

 

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After listening to this part of the show again, it really got me thinking about the media. More importantly, it got me thinking about the type of conversation that the media is, and the type of conversations that I have with other people. I looked at some of the most popular televisions shows. They are mostly geared towards a 14 year-old conversation. Some of the most popular music on the marketing: same thing.

Then I started thinking about politics. The Democratic Party race is stuck in this conversation. Hillary is making the same arguments you’d expect to hear at a high school political debate. I remember those years. I remember those debates. I remember my attitude at the time. I remember the sense of ego and pride and fear of being wrong or publicly humiliated.

I also remember the simpleness and naivety of my thinking. At the age of 14, I would have thought that a gas tax holiday was a great idea. After years of economics courses and one professor who helped me understand that most economic theory is garbage, I can’t help but laugh at the gas tax holiday.

Yet, this is the conversation that is taking place. I sometimes find myself in that 14 year-old boy conversation of malicious gossip and egoism. Realizing that I certainly contribute to the over all conversation, I can’t help but ask myself what I can do to change that conversation. I keep coming back to the same answer: Keep doing the Jared and Dean Words Cause Radio Show!