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Enough was enough. And I said, Let Trumpomania run wild, brother. Let Trumpomania rule again. Let Trumpomania make America great again. And that had to be one of the high moments at RNC DNC of all last year, last summer.
Hulk Hogan decides to come out and really take everything over. Dana White was supposed to be the main speaker and he was good, but Hulk Hogan stole the night, in my opinion. With me right now is Emily Worthmore. Emily's been interning with us for the last few months. We've had a lot of interns.
She's amongst the best in the building. Great personal background. Already been featured in a documentary in the middle of finishing up school next year.
So we want to give Emily some time. But you're passionate about politics, right? Yes. Your thought about the passing. He's 71 years old.
You're 20, but you knew who he was. You understood his impact. It's a tragedy. I mean, just watching him and the way he was able to speak, you know, without even necessarily scripting. Anything, moving speaker, and obviously had a huge impact on this past election campaign.
Does a big-time reality show and is a big hit, and was coming back as an entrepreneur. But Emily, tell us what got you here at Fox. Yeah, so I've been working in broadcast since I was in high school. I started at a Christian radio station in St. Louis and moved into politics.
I kind of work on a conservative format right now. And I was also in a documentary. It was an Apple TV documentary called Girls State. And that followed me through the program Girls State, which is a program that every state has, and it's a mock politics program. And they made a documentary.
So that really helped propel my career, I think. All right.
So it was a documentary. It's available on Apple right now if I wanted it. Yes, I think you should watch it. And it's based on you as a student. Does it show you as a student at what school?
Yeah, so I was a student, and this is like a summer camp program, and it was hosted at Lindenwood, which at the time I did not know that's where I was going to attend college. But Girls' State was a really pivotal program for me just this one week. And now I attend Lindenwood full-time. And because you went there, they got a chance to see you and made you an offer? Yeah, they gave me a scholarship.
So I did get a full tuition scholarship to Lindenwood that week based off my application and my background in high school. And that was also the week the documentary was being filmed.
So it was a life-changing week. I didn't look back, that was one of the most pivotal points. Points in my life, I think. All right, so here's a little of that documentary, CUP 50. I have so much adrenaline that I woke up at 4:30 today and just read through the manual.
Every election that I've put myself in at my school, I've won like since fourth grade. Do you want to go through our spirit tunnel? Yeah. At my school, and kind of known as that kid: Culture Club, Keith Club, Environmental Sustainability, FCA, Student Council, Connect, Melville Media, STEP Team, La Crosse. Am I missing things?
Did I say Science Club? Oh, and I started a Bible study at my school. There we go.
So, if you're a Federalist, Nationalist, that's my lucky number. Oh my gosh, you're running for president. Emily Worthmore for America 2040. Oh, my goodness. They asked us our freshman year to pick your top three careers, and mine says: President of the United States, broadcast journalist, rock star.
I think I can do all three. People at my school don't know if I'm conservative or liberal, and I kind of like that. When people ask me what party I am, I don't want to say what I am and then have half the room stop listening before I even get a chance to speak. But I'm really hoping that coming out of Pearl State, I'm going to be just openly I'm conservative like let's talk about it. And Girl State, the name of the camp?
Girl State is the name of the camp. And so you've always been passionate about running for student government. Yeah, and running for president had been a goal of mine since I was in fourth grade. I have it engraved on my class ring 2040 as my year. Because I just look at it and I'm like, somebody is going to be the president.
Somebody is going to be in the position that you want. And I still, I won't kill the bit until it's dead. You know, I'll run with it. Who knows what will happen? Who will be president still?
Potentially. I have an interest in running for office. I think broadcasts is what I want to do for the upcoming years in my future. But then once I kind of get to build a platform for myself, maybe eventually go into politics.
So we're going to watch this. We're going to watch a bunch of 18 to 20-year-olds make their way through and try to stand out. And there's a vote at the end? There is a vote at the end. And we were actually all seventeen at this program.
So it was the summer after my junior year of high school.
So it's really surreal to watch it back now at 20 years old and see how I operated. I mean, you hear in that clip, I was like a ball of energy at the time. And I think I still am. But like. I should have slept more when I was in high school, honestly.
Slept more? Yeah, I mean, did you hear that? I got up at 4:30 this morning and I was like, it was like Brian Kilmead, but back when I was in high school. You have to. I wasn't doing that in high school.
And I didn't have a morning show in high school either. Here's some of the other contestants talking about why they voted for you, Cup 50. You voted family. I don't necessarily think she's going to win. Actually, I know she's not going to win.
But I think that. She went and talked to a lot of people. She heard a lot of people. She heard a lot of voices she didn't necessarily want to hear. She had a lot of hard conversations.
That's not easy. That takes guts. Guts I don't have. And I don't agree with the policies she would create. But I think she is a good human being.
Wow, who was that? That's my liberal friend Maddie.
So the funny thing about the documentary is, I was one of the only conservative people they followed, and I thought Missouri Girl State was going to be pretty Republican. But then when I got there, it was not because the demographic of 17-year-old girls just, it wasn't necessarily the popular thing to be.
So I went in, like, thinking I was going to be fine. I ran a more conservative campaign and we all knew that wasn't gonna win at the end, but I I thought it was more important to kind of stay true to myself because at the end of the day, you know, it's not who won that week. But I feel like I won in the end because it's like I was myself. I made a lot of great connections. I didn't win, but I got a scholarship to college.
I feel like I won. And Maddie and I are still great friends. All the girls in Girl State have very different opinions than me, but I think I'm a good listener when it comes down to it. But you got spotted also by turning point from that, correct?
Somewhat. Through that, I've gotten to make a lot of networks that have reached out to me. Turning Point, through like CVP, which is Campus Victory Project, they. they work together kind of. And just elected student government officials as well, just like through running for student government, have gotten to work with a lot of great connections.
Wow, it's pretty interesting. That's interesting.
So it's been a big help. And now have you done broadcasting at college? Yeah, so I work at our campus radio station. It is a music station, so it's a little different, but I'm the music director at our campus station in KCLC. And then also outside of our campus station, I work at 1019 News Talk SDL, and that's a conservative format station.
And I've loved it. Everybody there is amazing, and it's just really done a great job bringing me up and giving me opportunities to talk.
So tell everyone your personal background. You have not had an easy life. Yeah, it's been a really rough go. Um Not even all of it's covered, but My dad passed away when I was younger. He was a pastor.
I was in a single-parent household, and that was pretty rough.
So I got out when I was in high school still. I'm an independent fully. Got out of your house. Yeah. I I left home when I was it was my senior year, so I went on to graduate early.
At that time I was working seventy hours a week between three jobs, you know, because I'm fully health insurance, you know, going to college, all of that's on me. And it's really hard and really stressful, but I will say that I think it's helped me to stand apart from my peers, and it's given me a lot of respect for my peers who do know my full story. Just because it's something that you don't see a lot. And it has given me a bigger appreciation for the American dream because anybody who says it's not real I need to believe that the American dream is real, that I can come from A mess. I'm the first one to go to college.
You know, I'm the first one, I think, to graduate high school without a family. Yeah. And you know, you don't have any brothers and sisters? No brothers and sisters.
Now I'm going to go, you know, build my own family. And I'm really excited to get to do that because I believe in the power of family. And I believe in the power that when you come to America and when you're born in America, you can make a life for yourself out of nothing and you can become something big. And I think that I've made really great steps towards that. And I'm just so excited to see what the future holds for me because.
I really want to have that success story that one day I can tell somebody who's in a similar situation. You can get out and you can build the best life for yourself. And it really doesn't matter what you were born with or what you had. It's like the grit and determination to come from nothing and become something. And would um and who do you credit with inspiring you to work so hard rather than make yourself a victim?
You know. I don't know if there's any one person, but I will say that God, I believe it's God, has always placed people in my life exactly when I need them. You know, it's impossible, almost nearly impossible, to survive when you're on your own at such a young age. But I've had friends, parents of friends, who have been like, stay with us. And people who have just not even known my situation and been like, hey, do you want to come over for dinner?
Things like that. You wouldn't have been able to eat that night.
Well, I mean, I could have like figured something out. I'm sure I would have like, but it just like to have that family environment and to have people come up, like, you know, invite me over, just like things like that. Scholarships to college, like, that was totally got there. I think somebody's looking out for me. Because I didn't know how.
And what's that experience been like? They knew everybody's living on their own in college, right? Yeah. And but, but to an extent, I mean, it is a little annoying when, you know, I'm trying to pay for health insurance and, you know, some people don't even work and they're just getting to go to college and have fun. But I don't I want to be happy for them and not jealous.
You know, that's the that is the 20-year-old girl in me is like, oh, I wish I could just, you know, shop and not care and all that and just go to school and party. And, but at the same time, I think my work ethic is a lot stronger because I do have a reason to like have to work and it's brought me a passion for working. Like, I love it now. Right.
So, listen, we have some other news things we want to cover. The President of the United States is now speaking before going on a five-day trip over to Scotland. As you know, he takes every question from everybody, and there's a lot of topics he is discussing. Also, there's a brand new study out for this. It should have been given before your generation, and it's about smartphones and the impact.
I'm going to tell you what the stats say, and you tell me what your friends say and what your reaction is. More with Emily Worthmore, her last week of her internship here, what a remarkable journey she's had, and we'll bring you the latest comments from the president. Don't move. Hi, everyone. It's Brian Kilmead here.
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So we have great numbers we just announced. I don't have to go over it because you've seen them, but we have great economic numbers. The deal with Japan is amazing. You give us 550 billion and We have totally open access into Japan. Those numbers are great.
I mean the kids actually just said very very cute actually. I walked up and they said, sir, there's too much winning. They picked up on a little routine, you know. The President of the United States is in a real good mood as he heads out for five days over in Scotland through the EU. We'll have some important meetings, visit some properties.
He hasn't been over there in a while, and he has some comments also about Gaza. He essentially said, I knew when they went down to 10 or 20 hostages that they're going to be tougher and tougher because that's the only way they can survive by holding on to these hostages. I said, what's going to happen? He goes, they're going to be hunted down. With still is Emily Worthmore.
According to reports, she's going to be leaving today. Unfortunately, I don't want to. But that's true. But the President of the United States is speaking right now. Don't you think he gives respect to the press and to the people when he's this open about everything?
You know, Caroline Levitt always says the most transparent president. in history and I I see where she's coming from because at least you know he might not always be eloquent. But at least he is out there talking to the press himself. He is talking to the press himself, and Caroline Levitt, also 27 years old, and she's press secretary, the youngest ever, and she'll probably walk right off that job into an anchor job somewhere if that's what she wants to do. Although I could see her also staying in government for a while.
So there's this new study out that I want you to comment on, Emily. And it says early smartphone ownership is associated with feelings of lower self-image and lower self-worth among boys and girls. This is the first time we're getting. Studies done that have concluded this first, second generation of smartphone children that are getting their 20s are how they're being affected by this communication. I mean we all know The kids that are around your age, young adults, can't communicate, right?
Can't look you in the eye. They don't feel comfortable meeting people, asking questions. They feel much more comfortable on their screens. We see people your age and younger, six people sitting together on their smartphones, not talking to each other. Nonverbal phone time, yeah.
So, the impact of smartphones on kids: the girls who reported suicidal thoughts: if you had a smartphone at 13, 48% said that suicidal thought. If you had a smartphone, smartphones after age 13, it's down to 28%. The conclusion is wait till at least 13. The impact on smartphones for girls, less confidence and less emotional resilience. For boys, less stability, calmness, and empathy.
So, what have you noticed amongst your friends? I will say that I do notice when somebody's really good at eye contact, and that's probably why, because it's just not as common with my generation, unfortunately. I had a flip phone until I was 18, and I even had social media on an iPad that I would use very rarely. Did you feel like you were missing out?
Sometimes, yeah, I was I did feel like I was missing out. People had apps and ways to stay connected and they'd have to work around it for me because it's integrated into schools now. In public school, you're I don't know, probably private school too. It's just like, hey, download this app. This is how we're gonna communicate.
And then I'd have to be the one that's like, oh, we'll text Emily separately or something like that.
So I did feel like I was missing out, but I at the same time kind of made it part of my personality. Everybody thought it was so funny I had a flip phone.
So I like, it was part of the bit then. And to the point where I didn't even want a smartphone until I really needed it for keeping up to date with everything. I mean, with a flip phone, you do text, but it's predictive text, right? You have to do it. No, I was sitting there one, two, three, C.
You know, like you have to type, you have to click it multiple times. And it's just not worth it. I mean, I loved my flip phone. I highly recommend. They're like making them obsolete now, but flip phone was great.
I have to have a smartphone now because I need to be. you know, getting my email and I get itchy without it sometimes.
So you are addicted to say yeah, I I would say I'm a little guilty of it. Um, unfortunately, especially now that I know, oh, you can check my email, you know, you get all these notifications. You probably know more than anybody. You probably have a phone that blows up all the time, do you? Uh I'm on my phone, but I feel like it's uh I feel like it's work-related.
I think they do a pretty good job, and it's easier for me because I didn't grow up with it. A good job of saying, okay, I'm at dinner now. All right, I'm at home. You know, put the phone down and I'm kind of on. I have a daughter your age and another daughter slightly older.
They don't really have a big problem. The younger one uses a lot more. But I feel like now that she's home, she's going to realize. I think also. Your age was abused.
They never briefed you on some of the downside of this. And all of a sudden, you look around and you read Social Dilemma. Did you watch that Social Dilemma documentary? I've heard of it. I have not watched it.
But she just talks about how Facebook and all these companies manipulated you and addicted you. Yeah, and Brian, and don't even get him started on TikTok because that's too far. TikTok, I know you don't like it. TikTok is the rage. But it's also everywhere, though.
That's how you reach people. You see candidates now. Right? Like they're using it and that's where the young generation is at.
So it's interesting to see how people will move forward, especially with legacy media, like making sure that we can still reach Gen Z and the generations to follow without things like that.
Well, how do you feel about their conclusion that kids should not have a smartphone until thirteen? I agree. I agree, 100%. I thirteen is too early in my opinion. I think before high school, I don't know what you're doing with the smartphone.
That's No. Don't they say that, I'll simplify with anecdotal story. They say, for example, let's say you have a couple of friends. But you go online and you go to Facebook or whatever you're looking at, Instagram, TikTok, and you see what all your friends did over the weekend. And there were parties that were happening, and you were not even invited to those parties.
What was that like? I mean, that would be very upsetting. And that's what a whole generation is dealing with. Yeah, that's so sad. I feel bad.
I don't think that they should be doing that before high school. I don't think there's a reason to have a smartphone before high school. All right, so you thoroughly agree with that.
So, teens are online for an average of. Nine hours a day. In many cases, that's longer than they spend at school. or sleeping.
So they say on average, education, you're on a smartphone four hours and 32 minutes, or whatever it is, the laptop or iPad.
Socializing. What do you think? One day, kids your age. Yeah. Five hours.
One hour, thirteen minutes. Really? That's actually better than a lot of my friends' screen time.
So that is good. That's good. But you would like more socializing, I would think, than you have homework, one hour, playing sports, because so many kids don't. You get some zeros in there. 45 minutes.
That is pathetic. Everyone used to be playing sports. Volunteering, 25 minutes. Reading, 25 minutes. Eight minutes.
So that's it. Hey, Emily, you did a fantastic job. Thank you. I want you to stay in touch with everyone, and I know you're going to come by and visit here in New York. I will be.
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