 Please tell us your name, Brad coats. Nice to meet you, Brad. So we are here outside Port Street Mall talking to folks about fake news. So what of your thoughts? Is there been a story that's come on lately that has either fooled you, surprised you, tricked you or you used to trick somebody else? The problem is that the real news is so depressing. I almost prefer the fake news. Okay, that is understandable, but also off topic. There's got to be something. We've all seen stuff in our Facebook feeds. The onion in particular I have to admit has fooled me before. I've seen something because there's such a fine line I think between some of the true stuff and some of the made up stuff. Well, I mainly get my news out of real news sources, so I don't spend a lot of time getting fake news off of social media. Fair enough, maybe that's a safe way. What are the sources that you prefer? Well, I've got to watch four different TV channels to get any real news anymore. The real news used to be when Jay Fidel and I were around, he listened to Uncle Walter Krunk, I tell you the news, and that was the damn news. Now you've got to listen to NBC to follow the MSNBC, to balance out Fox, to balance out CNN. Crazy. But most of the time I listen to real news, I have to get four different channels to get it. So there is sort of an element of sifting for yourself. Well, why not tell us a bit about some of the crazy or depressed things that have been depressing you in the news? Well, it's, you know, watching Trump go nuts is fairly insane. Watching the responses to Trump going nuts are equally insane, so it's pretty, everything seems to be pretty hardwired and dug in right now. You know, does it feel like, you know, do you feel, does it feel like that folks that you know, folks you know on Facebook are sort of more engaged with politics and the stuff that's going on since Trump took office? Well, I think everybody's gotten super engaged. Nobody's neutral about Trump. Everybody's got an opinion. So there's definitely a hardwired, you know, approach to going after him. Have you experienced people sort of having family arguments or friends? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tell us about something you made for that you don't have to use in the news. Well, you know, if I were to say anything remotely nice about Donald Trump as compared to Hillary Clinton, I'd be getting divorced. My wife is a self-made, self-made businesswoman and they all idolized Hillary Clinton and they just, you know, can't stand Donald Trump. So it's problematic. It's problematic. Even the stuff that he wants to do that may or may not be, you know, right is still going to get hammered, right? I mean, you know, even when he tries to do something that could be potentially a good idea, I mean, you know, trying to keep some idea of who's coming into our country was probably not a bad idea in the abstract. But by the time you get through everybody getting all charred up about it, it's a problem. I know it's really hard because, yeah, I mean, I think everyone wants to see America, not everyone, but, you know, people, good-hearted Americans, you know, we want to see, you know, good things happen in our country and we want to be able to take the good with the bad. It's too bad that social media can't do an more immediate gallant pull of, you know, some of the responses. I mean, you hear, you hear Fox News say, oh, all of America supports Trump and it's only this crazy court, circuit court of appeals, court of appeals that's blocking him. And then you hear everybody on the coast say, no, everybody hates Trump and his favors, you know, unlimited immigration and Trump's an ass. And there's got to be, you know, I'd be curious to know what the real sense of the country is. The closest thing we've got to the real sense of the country is that Trump got elected. So there may be more people that actually appreciate what he's doing than what the media is going to report. I mean, I was definitely underwhelmed. I'm not a Trump guy. I didn't vote for him. But when I saw after Director Comey came out with that FBI thing at the last minute and I saw all the media flip, thinking that, oh, my God, maybe we really are going to lose to this clown, then that was pretty much tipped their hand, too, as in what they were all up to. You know, all of a sudden every single station, except for Fox, suddenly went hog wild trying to nail him as they thought that the election might be slipping away. It gave up any pretense of neutrality. So that's not good either. Yeah, I think that it's increased distrust for the media and the news and it's something that Donald Trump seeks to do. Yeah. I mean, why else would he be so freaking stupid to keep tweeting the way he does? I mean, obviously that's bound to cause all kinds of problems. And he's not that stupid that he doesn't know that's going to cause the kind of he obviously feels that he's got to get out directly out to, you know, the masses unfiltered by the media. So he thinks that everything the media does is fake news, I guess. Hey, when you see a