58: Facts or Feelings

Deep breaths. We have a new president and (female!!) vice president. Some people still want to believe conspiracy theories, how do we have productive conversations with them? Joy’s health issue update, and a reminder to please not comment on people’s bodies. www.joyandclaire.com email: [email protected] instagram: joyandclaire_ This is Joy & Claire Episode 58: Facts or Feelings Transcript: Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: And this is Joy and Claire. And I’m really excited because when you are listening to this, we will have a new president. Claire: Officially. Joy: Don’t say it too loud because I don’t want to jinx anything. Oh my gosh, a new, new world. Claire: So good, I know. But you know what, it’s Monday night, a brand-new week. You guys are going to hear this toward the end of the week, and I feel like now after our first episode of 2021 when in between our recording and the release there was a violent mob that tried to attack the Capitol Building and knowing that there is a large presidential event planned for this week, who knows what could happen. Anything could happen. Joy: Anything could happen. And I apologize in advance if you listen to this and the crap hit the fan.  Claire: I apologize if you’re listening to this from a panic room. Joy: Oh my gosh. Claire: I know. Funny, not funny. Joy: Funny, not funny. But here we are. You know what, I noticed? So, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I listen to a lot of news podcasts, and I try to vary my news. Scott and I try to be very good about that. We’ll watch Fox News sometimes for a mere moment just to see what they’re doing, but most of my podcast I kind of check – is the media bias chart still an accurate way to check where your news comes from? Claire: I mean, I think so. And I think that they update it pretty regularly? Joy: Okay, good. So I always look at the media bias chart to make sure that my news is not far, far left. Right. So I listen to NPR. I listen to the Daily, New York Times, and then I’ll listen to some other podcasts sometimes like NBC, ABC, whatever. And so I’ve noticed – I may be jinxing this too, but as of today they’re not talking about the president. They’re not talking about him. They’re moving on. They’re talking about Kamala. They’re doing interviews with Kamala. They’re talking about Biden’s rollout to vaccinate the entire United States. It feels really good to not have that negativity in my ears first thing in the morning. I know it’s my choice, but every day you hear some catastrophe. I’m really excited to not have that. Claire: Well, I mean, who knows if we’ll still be hearing catastrophes. Joy: Well, you know what I mean. The person who’s causing most of the catastrophes. Claire: We don’t have to hear his voice anymore. I was getting to the point where I couldn’t even hear his voice and it would create this knee-jerk reaction that if I heard it on the radio I would just have to change the channel. I was like, I can’t have this stress reaction so much anymore. Okay, one thing though. Some people have called this out and I’m curious about it.