Mark Reardon: St. Louis Radio, AI Fears & the Generational Divide

“So this happens a couple times and finally they're like, all right, what are we gonna do? Well there's a bunch of young guys, you know, 18 to 26 that don't have jobs. Why don't we pay them a little bit of money at night that the community security and then they'll just kind of go around. Eventually they decide, you know what, we know who it is. It's those people from that other town and we're gonna, we know they just got released from jail, so we're gonna go to their house. We're gonna bring pitchforks and torches, pull 'em out, drag 'em back to the city, put tires over and pour kerosene on 'em, light 'em on fire and kill 'em. And people do that when they're afraid and they don't think justice is coming.”

“I think we are reentering a phase where people will want lynch mob style justice because they don't feel like the courts and the executive branch are legislative branch are, are doing right by them.”

“It strikes me that, you know, in I'm in an information bubble and what the boomers hear about what's going on in the news is completely different. It's, if I go talk to my father-in-law, for example, he may be up to date on whatever it is that the boomers are up to date on. But it's a wildly different media diet to the extent that we are not talking about the same events.”