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Carol Markowitz
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Tim Rice
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Carol Markowitz
Hi, welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on iheartradio. My guest today is Tim Rice. Tim is deputy managing editor at the Daily Wire. Hi Tim. So nice to have you on.
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Tim Rice
Hey Carol, thanks for having me.
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Carol Markowitz
Tell me about your path to becoming the deputy managing editor at Daily Wire. Did you always want to be in media?
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Tim Rice
Yeah. So it's funny, I kind of took a circuitous path to where I am, but I did.
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Carol Markowitz
Circuitous?
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Tim Rice
Yeah. When I, when I was in college, I really wanted to work in media and I actually had internships at, believe it or not, MSNBC and CBS News in New York. I was played for a slightly different team then, but after I graduated, it became clear to me two things. One was that there weren't a ton of jobs to get in TV news. And the other is that most of the jobs that were available I didn't really want. So I wound up kind of weirdly, after a couple months at home and sort of trying to take the next job that came my way. I took a job as a project manager at the Manhattan Institute working on the health policy team. And that was just sort of like a roll of the dice. I was, this was at the kind of the beginning of the campus free speech stuff. And that was the first thing that really sort of got me thinking that I was maybe interested in a more conservative kind of politics. You know, I wasn't necessarily there yet on economic matters or things like that, but I thought like, yeah, this is really bad. And being on a college campus where fortunately we didn't have that happen at Holy Cross where I went. But it felt like very, it felt very close to home, you know, because I was like, oh, if this happened here, that would be bad. So it turned out, though, that I kind of enjoyed health policy. And the more I was exposed to all the great thinkers and ideas at the Manhattan Institute, the more I realized that this was where sort of my intellectual and political home was. And also around that time, I started writing and editing. I was helping scholars write op eds. I started eventually publishing under my own name. And that's really when I thought, okay, this is something that I want to do. I moved to Washington, was working at a small consulting firm in Georgetown for a little bit. So that was sort of like, feel like that was my real crucible moment. I was just through copy all the time, still trying to do my own thing. Spent the smallest little bit of time in the first Trump administration. I joined, I think the second week of July 2020, and then just ran out the clock at the Office of Personnel Management. So that was fun. And then right when I was. I worked up until the last day, the Friday before Inauguration Day, and I actually, at the time, I started talking to the Washington Free Beacon. They were looking to hire an editor. And I actually left OPM on my last. The last day of the Trump administration.
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Carol Markowitz
Wow.
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Tim Rice
I walked outside and sat on a park bench across the street and I called to accept my job there. Started out as an associate editor there was there for about four years. Left as the senior editor. And, yeah, it's been just about a year since I joined the Wire, and it's been fantastic. It's a very great. It's a really awesome publication, as hopefully many of your listeners know, and a really cool theme. And it's an exciting moment. We're actually opening a D.C. bureau. We're days away from opening the brick and mortar. So in addition to my deputy managerial duties, I'm also going to be heading up the D.C. office, which we're hoping to grow and expand at the moment. Yeah, we can boast that. We have our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olihan, who.
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Carol Markowitz
She's amazing. She's been on the show, she's been on the program.
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Tim Rice
She's everywhere all the time, all at once, whatever that movie was.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah, that movie was not good, but. Yes, but Mary Margaret is very good.
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Tim Rice
So right now it's she and I just sort of trying to put some roots down here in dc, but, yeah. So kind of a crazy journey from MSNBC intern to Daily Wire's man in D.C. in the Swamp. But it's been a pretty fantastic journey so far.
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Carol Markowitz
Well, we're very glad to have you on the right. So do you feel like you have a beat? Like, is there. Are there kind of topics that you're more interested in than others?
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Tim Rice
Well, in terms of my interests, I'm still kind of. And we don't really do a ton of this. We're trying to. We're doing a little bit more of it now. But I mean, I'm still like a dyed in the wool healthcare guy. That's like. Me personally, I would say, in terms of policy issues, that's what I sort of gravitate to in addition to more just sort of like general culture things. And I don't write a ton when I do. That's actually not even really true anymore. I do write more for the Wire just because we're constantly cranking things out. But, you know, for the longest time, if I would write, I would just sort of write like more human interest pieces or, you know, sort of general cultural commentary. But no, in terms of my actual job, I just really. It's me and my good friend Brent Scher, who's our editor in chief.
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Carol Markowitz
He's great.
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Tim Rice
Yeah. Who I think has also been on the show. And if not.
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Carol Markowitz
No, he hasn't. I've tried. Yeah, he's very hard to get.
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Tim Rice
We can work on that. But it's Bret and I pretty much. And of course, you know, a million other people. We have a whole stable of editors, but Brett and I just sort of anything that's printed on the website goes, at least at some point through one of us again, in addition to a gazillion other people. So, yeah, no, I don't really see myself as having it. My beat is whatever my writers are doing at the moment. And so at the Beacon, that was. I had. By the time I was gone, I covered everything because I had writers who were our court reporters, our science reporters, education, foreign policy, investigative reporters. And now it's the same thing. We've got some great investigative reporters who are just doing, you know, whatever crazy things they can come up with. Like, Luke Rosiak is an absolute killer. I don't even know what Luke does or how he does it. I just know that. Awesome. And I let him cook. Then we've got Mary Margaret in the White House. We've got folks covering foreign policy, education, social issues. So, I mean, yeah, my. It's. It's honestly, one of my favorite things about the job is that every single day is different. It's just a constant, different permutations of who's working on what and what's happening in the news. And I hate long term projects. I've never been a fan of long term projects. I hate having.
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Carol Markowitz
This is the perfect job for you. Right.
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Tim Rice
I hate having every day, oh, you're at 15 more days until that's due or until that event. Like this is really just. I think it's the absolute.
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Carol Markowitz
Right now, it's out in an hour.
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Tim Rice
And then it's already basically irrelevant by the time it's published.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah, it's really hard. I find it really difficult when I write for places that have a long lead time. Having said that, this show has a long lead time. So this will be out in a few weeks. But it's very hard for me to wait for my piece to come out. If it's a week or something, it's tough for sure. So you're a health care policy guy. I feel like that's an undercovered topic on the right. And I think that there could be so much more on it. What do you think is undercovered or do you find it undercovered as well?
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Tim Rice
Oh, 1000%. I talk about this a lot. And if you think back to right before the 2016 presidential election, where everything sort of got upended for good reasons and bad reasons. Right. The good reasons being sort of the shift in President Trump coming in and kind of upsetting the status quo and things kind of a lot of things coming to a head and the bad ways of just all of a sudden, the main issue on Democrats, kind of polarizing everything. Like the biggest issue that everyone was talking about in September 2016 was EpiPen prices. Bernie was going crazy. People were defending. We had all these different bills. We were talking about Obamacare. It was huge. And there were, of course, good ideas and stupid ideas, weird ideas. But it was a really pretty productive policy conversation. If you go back and look at the things people were debating. Things got weird in the first Trump administration because the president and his team sort of started trying out things that had been kind of the purview of the left, and the left didn't really know what to do with that.
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Carol Markowitz
So. They don't. Yeah, they still don't.
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Tim Rice
So they stopped talking about it. And then Covid happened, and then for about five minutes, Republicans were like, see, big Pharma? We've been telling you for years, it's great. But then that flipped and now. And then Democrats were pro big Pharma, and now nobody's pro big Pharma and no one wants to talk about health insurance. And we're kind of having a good conversation about Medicaid now. But yeah. So, I mean, those are. I sort of think of it in those three buckets. I think of entitlements, prices, and just insurance in general. And I think it's all undercovered. I think that there is.
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Carol Markowitz
Is it because people just don't have, like, the background information? Like, I feel like a lot of stories on it would need a lot of, like, how we got here, like, why things are the way they are. Here's a whole book you can read about it.
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Tim Rice
I think that's part of it. And especially because, like, even, like a couple of years where no one was talking about it. Like, I'm sure that if I called my interns right now and asked them about, like, Obamacare, they wouldn't even think. Whereas, like, you know, I feel like I sometimes still think of Obamacare as this new thing that we should fight. It's been, what, 5th, 10 years, 11.
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Carol Markowitz
Years since I still think we should fight it. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
I'm like, why are we just accepting this? And it's like, you know, my interns probably, like, basically grew up in a world with Obamacare, right? So I do think that's part of it. I think another part of it is that health care is other than education. Healthcare is one of the most personal policy areas. At some point, all of us are going to go through the health care system, just like all of us have gone through the education system. And it obviously can be more painful. And it's, It's. I don't want to. I don't want to diminish education policy, certainly. But, like, there is. It's easier to channel anger when it comes to. Right. Like, you figure out what your kids are learning, and then it's like, there's obviously, like, a lot that we have to do, but there's a very quick first step, which is like, fire the teachers, right? Or homeschool your kids. Or we got to think like. Like, we know where to stop it with health care because it's so multifaceted. I think that same impulse, right? Like, so much political interest, so much of what drives policy is when does this affect me and how moved am I am to fight it?
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Carol Markowitz
Right?
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Tim Rice
But it's hard to then latch onto it. Like, what's the problem? Is it Big Pharma? Is it the insurance companies? Is it the government? I mean, the answer is yes, it's all of that.
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Carol Markowitz
All of it, for sure.
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Tim Rice
And it's all interlocked. But so I think it's hard. And then people start really overemphasizing, like, this is why. And there's a lot of good stuff with the Maha movement, I think. You know, I would. I would love. I'll just say this. I would love if the Maha guys talked a little bit about more of the structural problems, about entitlement reform, about things like that, instead of just like, yeah, ban red dye number 40, make sure the meat is better, encourage people to exercise and live healthy lifestyles. Fantastic. But like, what about Medicaid? What about all these insane things going through Obamacare? What about bringing back some of the 2017 Trump era insurance regulations? What about coming up with a vision for what our health care system looks like? Because, yeah, you can make people so healthy. You really can. But like, people are still going to get sick, people are still going to die, people are still going to get hurt. People is always going to need to go to hospitals, see doctors, take drugs and pay for all of it. And we have yet to figure out how to do any of that. And so I do think that that is still something that is not necessarily covered as much as it should be. And I definitely think that it should be talked about more. For sure.
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Carol Markowitz
I feel like I just heard a book pitch and I expect your next appearance on the show. I'm gonna be talking about the book that all my listeners should buy because this is, I agree. I think this needs to all be, you know, it needs to be covered more extensively and I think you're the man to do it. I nominate you.
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Tim Rice
I accept. I accept. If there are any publishers listening, you can.
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Carol Markowitz
There are. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
I'm sure I've got the pitch somewhere in a, in a Google Doc. It's.
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Carol Markowitz
I love it.
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Tim Rice
I clearly think about this a lot.
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Carol Markowitz
So it's so funny because, you know, I follow you on X and I really thought you were going to say that your beat or your like topic that you're really interested in is culture. Like, you seem like you're a culture guy.
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Tim Rice
Yeah, I mean, that's, I didn't, I.
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Carol Markowitz
Didn'T picture health care wonk.
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Tim Rice
You know, I contain multitudes. You know this.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah.
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Tim Rice
Well, also, no one, I mean, look, no one cares when you tweet about health policy. There used to be good, there used to be like a really good section on X of like health care guys and none of this, none of them use it anymore. They're all either like retired or on blue sky or they've just like completely given up because it's not fun anymore. But yeah, no, I would say the culture stuff is absolutely. Also, it's interesting that you say that. I, I'm glad that comes across. I guess that is what I, what I mostly post about.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah. We're going to take a quick break and be right back on the Carol.
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Carol Markowitz
What do you worry about?
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Tim Rice
I used to worry about everything. I'm a very. I'm a very anxious person by nature.
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Carol Markowitz
Really?
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Tim Rice
Yeah. I. It not in like a crazy like. Like yeah, I don't know like. But I'm just always like. There was a. I used to just. I don't Know, I was a, I'm an overthinker or a worrier, I'm not sure. And I say used to because I have a almost two year old daughter. My daughter is going to be two in a couple of weeks and I have twins on the way.
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Carol Markowitz
Wow.
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Tim Rice
Okay.
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Carol Markowitz
Wow. So that's amazing.
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Tim Rice
Thank you. Yeah. But ever since I became a dad, I just worry about my kids in the future and like, in a way that I think is much more productive. And I'm sure as a parent, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, obviously for the first, I'm the typical dad. In that first few months I was terrified and always going in, right.
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Carol Markowitz
Check, you know, check and make sure.
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Tim Rice
And now I'm slinging my daughter over my shoulder like a sack of potatoes just to like go to go or something. But I worry about, I worry about my kids. I worry about, you know, what life is going to look like in the future, what the country is going to look like. I want them to grow up and be happy and healthy and all the things that every parent wants for, you know, for their kids. And so that's, that's, that's pretty much it.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah.
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Tim Rice
And it's funny, I don't even worry in, I don't even worry about raising them. Like, I don't, I say that sometimes and people, oh no, you're, you're going to be a great dad. And I'm like, I'm actually, I'm pretty confident that I'm going to be. Yeah, I'm wife is going to be, is a fantastic mother. It's like, I'm not worried. It's going to be crazy. Like having twins is going to be insane. But I'm not worried about it because like, what am I going to do? I'm going to figure it out. They're coming. I'm more worried about like down the line. And you know, sometimes that veers into political things. It's definitely made me a little bit more reactionary on some things that I didn't care about before I had kids.
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Carol Markowitz
It's amazing how that happens, right? Suddenly you're like, wait a minute, all of this is crazy all of a sudden.
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Tim Rice
Right. It's like the libertarian leaving my body when I realize I can't say, well, it doesn't affect me because now it's.
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Carol Markowitz
It'S completely, totally, yes, absolutely. I'm very libertarian adjacent. But like having kids defin moves you firmly into the conservative column 100%.
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Tim Rice
But yeah, I would say that's pretty Much. It. But yeah, once you have. It's really. It is kind of amazing. I know a lot of. You know, this is. We're only the. Only the 7 millionth people to talk about why everyone should have kids, especially on the right.
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Carol Markowitz
But I should. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
You know, one thing that I feel like, people certainly say it. This is not an original thought to me, but, like, it really does put everything into perspective. Like, for sure, I feel like I'm so much happier, not just because my daughter is just, like, this amazing creature who I love, and it's been amazing to become a father and have a family, but, like, you're just so much happier because you don't have time to be unhappy about things that don't matter. Like, that's it. You can just. And it's like, yeah, maybe you have, like, fewer concerns, but, like, it really is just that simple sometimes. Not parenthood. Parenthood isn't.
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Carol Markowitz
But no, you get.
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Tim Rice
You sit down with your husband or your wife, you have a glass of wine or a. You put on a movie, you read a book, you go for a walk, and it's like, this is kind of it. This is really. This is what it's all about. So I. I don't really worry about anything anymore because love it. I'm in. Dad.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah, that's the. That's the right perspective. I've also. I've gotten really into country music, and country music is all, like. It literally is like, you get married and you have a child and you bury the dog in the backyard, and, you know, and that's your life right there. And I'm, like, crying in my car.
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Tim Rice
My wife and I have a really good friend who puts. Is it. Next thing you know, next thing.
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Carol Markowitz
Next thing you know, I can't even. I, like, as soon as it comes on, I have to change it.
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Tim Rice
We have a friend who puts that on, like, every playlist. It's just like. It won't even fit the. You know, It'll be all, like, 70s, like, funk classics, and then that'll come on. And whenever my wife and I are in the car, we're like, what is wrong with you? Why are you doing this to us?
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Carol Markowitz
That song brings the house down for me every single time. It just. It's too much.
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Tim Rice
It's like our generation's Cats in the cradle. It's kind of worse. It's about the.
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Carol Markowitz
It's really good. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
Rapid passage of time. Yep.
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Carol Markowitz
And nothing really happens in that song. Right. He just lives, like, a normal life and he has a. You know, marries a girl and has a family and just nothing happens that is unbelievable or unique and yet it's like so powerful and amazing and I can't listen to it at all. My kids are just like, oh, change the song. Like mom is going to start crying right now.
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Tim Rice
Yep, yep. Yeah, yeah.
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Carol Markowitz
But it's amazing. It's amazing how having kids puts everything into focus and like how all the doom scrolling and the nonsense doesn't matter anymore. It's. I always say it's like my husband having, you know, being in a good relationship also like puts a force field around you. Like you just don't care about anything but the kids part for sure as well.
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Tim Rice
Yeah. Well in marriage it's also like it could kind of like yes and no. Because if you also are in a good relationship, that, that also means that you have someone who you can like complain to or like talk about these things to all the time. So it's like it's not, it gets you there. And of course like if they're supportive they'll talk to you but it's like you have someone instead of just like, you know, kind of putting it out of your mind. Oh, maybe I should just talk.
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Carol Markowitz
Right?
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Tim Rice
Yeah, the kids are really interesting but.
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Carol Markowitz
If somebody's mean to you on the Internet you're like, I don't care. Like oh yeah, exactly. My real life is unbelievable. Like, you know, I am watching encanto.
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Tim Rice
For the 75th time this week and it's awesome. It's so good. I have so many thoughts about the movie Encanto. It's my daughter's like, it's the only thing that she wants to listen to and the music is nice enough that it's like my wife and I are happy to throw it on in the car instead of like just nursery rhymes.
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Carol Markowitz
For sure.
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Tim Rice
We talk a lot about Encanto in this house now.
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Carol Markowitz
That's so good. Yeah, that's a great movie. You know, they really know what they're doing over there.
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Tim Rice
Yeah.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah. So what advice would you give your 16 year old self? You have a daughter, you have two more on the way. But when you think about your own life, what advice would you give 16 year old Tim?
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Tim Rice
Yeah, I honestly, and I mean this sort of goes back to the answer of my last question. I would tell 16 year old Tim to just stop worrying so much. You know, that was probably, I would.
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Carol Markowitz
Say like, did he worry a lot?
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Tim Rice
Yeah, but again, you know, not like I was just a very like I was, I was like a high achieving nerd. In high school, you know, like, oh.
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Carol Markowitz
Those are the biggest worriers. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
Yeah. I didn't worry that the sky was falling, but I worried about getting a BI on the test, getting into a college, getting into getting the right extracurriculars, you know, intern. What am I worrying about? Not worrying enough. Right. Like should I already? And then the second you, you know, I was that kid, you know, someone else on the school paper. Oh, I got a summer internship at the local paper. I'm just planning to work as a camp counselor again all of a sudden.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah.
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Tim Rice
Well, there goes my dream of working at the New York Times, which, you know, lol. Like. Right. Like that sort of. So I would, I would tell 16 year old Tim, you know, stop worrying. It doesn't really matter that much. There's no real way to know what's going to happen. Right. Like, and not even like it's funny, I, even as I think about it now, I did worry about all those things, but I wasn't, I was also like, I wasn't. I said type A. I actually wasn't type A. I was more just like I wanted to like be the best at things, but I actually wasn't that.
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Carol Markowitz
Good at type A. No.
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Tim Rice
But I wasn't good at planning. So like I really have a plan. I was like, I just want to like get good grades so I can go to a good college. Go to a good college and then crush it. Like question mark. You know, it's not like I had like. And then I need to be pre.
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Carol Markowitz
Law and I need to take over the world. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
I basically chose Holy Cross as an accident and it was probably one of the best things that I ever did. So like stuff like that, you know, like I had these vacuous ideas of who I wanted to be as an adult and what I wanted to do. I don't think that family and kids figured into it that much. Not in like an anti way but because I was 16 and if you're a 16 year old boy who doesn't grow up on country music, you know, I didn't think about like having a wife and kids. I thought about like having like cool suits and living in an apartment in New York or something.
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Carol Markowitz
Right. Drinking martinis.
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Tim Rice
Exactly. Yeah. Like, yeah. It was like, you know, that was like peak like USA network shows about guys just kind of like look cool and have awesome jobs and make a lot of money. And I was like, that seems good. I'll do that. The fact that I thought journalism was the way to that sort of like.
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Tim Rice
A hilarious sort of. And honestly, this might sound cliched, but I was, you know, I'd probably tell them to like be. Do like a little, let's do some more bad things. Like I, I talked to like my friends or my wife even, like none of them were bad kids, but you know, oh yeah, like all the time, like snuck out and had like a party in the woods or what. And like, listen, it's not that I didn't, you know, I had, I had a good time in high school. I was fun. I wasn't that much of a nerd. But like, I probably could have done more. I probably could have chilled out a little. I could have cared a little bit less about, you know, whatever I thought I was supposed to be caring about. Which again, I think is probably like the most generic advice that like a 30 year old guy can give to his high school self. But like, you know, it's, it's. I think it's Effy.
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Carol Markowitz
No, I think caring less. Like, it's funny because I've had people on the show say that they would advise their teenage self to care more because they didn't care a lot and they kind of like skated through high school and maybe they should have worked harder. I think, you know, with the power of being able to look back at your, at what your life was, I think that people maybe just say the opposite of what they were. Right. I was a solid B student. I didn't work at all. There was no woods in Brooklyn. But if there were, I would have partied in the woods. I partied at the clubs in Manhattan instead. But, you know, yeah, I wish I had worked a little harder. I wish I had taken myself a little bit more seriously. It just, it's the, the opposite of whatever you did, really.
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Tim Rice
Exactly. And that's, that's such a sign of like that it turned out okay, right?
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Carol Markowitz
Exactly.
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Tim Rice
If you hadn't worked hard and like had partied in the clubs of Manhattan, but it all went badly for you, like, you wouldn't be saying like, oh, I probably should have. You'd, you'd either be like constructing a mental castle around why it actually turned out right, or you'd just be like devastated. But the fact that it worked out for you, you get same for me, Right?
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Carol Markowitz
Like, that's the only reason you're here for me, right? If it hadn't gone well, yeah, 16.
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Tim Rice
Year old Tim should have like chilled out and like, I don't know, like, you know, stolen beer from somebody's garage.
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Carol Markowitz
Or something like, you know, 16 year.
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Tim Rice
Old, like I probably did. I probably kept on a good path and it probably helps. But like that, you know, that's the luxury that we have now.
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Carol Markowitz
I love it. We're going to take a quick break and be right back on the Carol Markowitz Show.
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Carol Markowitz
Well, I've loved this conversation. You are awesome. I really feel like I got to know you. Leave us here with your best tip for my listeners on how they can improve their lives.
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Tim Rice
I don't know. Drink lots of water. I don't have like a good, you.
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Carol Markowitz
Know, again, it doesn't have to be like, you know, some deep advice. I would say one of the most popular pieces of advice on the show was Buck Sexton in my very first episode said read before bed. And so many people refer to it when they, when they message me they say, oh, I started reading before bed and it's gotten, it's so good. Drink more water. I like it.
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Tim Rice
Honestly, that's, I do have a. I have a drink. More water is good water. I'm big on hydration. But here's my actual answer, which is if you make coffee at home, which probably should set your coffee up the night before. Set it up the night before.
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Carol Markowitz
I don't do that. But I always think I should set.
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Tim Rice
It up the night before. It's way easier. It's even better. If you don't have a grinder. Get the grinder. That'll incentivize you to do it. Because you don't want the loud noise in the morning. You do it at night. You set it up. There's nothing better than just stumbling downstairs and flicking the switch on. This is something that my wife and I learned.
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Carol Markowitz
So smart. Yeah.
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Tim Rice
One of our very best friends, parents. That was, like, their advice to us when we got married. And that's what they, to this day, still do. And like, when we stay in their house, last person to go to bed has to set the coffee up for the morning after. And it is an absolute game changer. Even though, yeah, six months pregnant, she's not drinking coffee. But I still, like, there are some days where I think I can let go.
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Carol Markowitz
I drank coffee the whole way through three pregnancies. Like, don't worry about it.
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Tim Rice
This is more honored. This is like the last time she did. This time she didn't.
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Carol Markowitz
Yeah, we'll see which kids are smarter.
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Tim Rice
Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Set your coffee up the night before. It's a real game changer.
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Carol Markowitz
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Tim Rice
And I'm gonna try that out. I'm in need of a new coffee.
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Carol Markowitz
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Tim Rice
We've sort of been like, grabbing Duncan. When I go to Duncan to get a cold brew, and it's just like, it's fine, really.
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Carol Markowitz
Crockett's been life changing again. I'm not sponsored, totally. Just believe in it.
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Tim Rice
So, all right, I'm gonna buy Crockett. You start setting it up the night.
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Carol Markowitz
Before, and then the next time I.
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Tim Rice
Come on, we can circle back and see how it turned out for both of us.
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Carol Markowitz
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Tim Rice
So maybe before that, I'm gonna take.
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Carol Markowitz
Thank you so much for coming on. He is Tim Rice. Check him out at Daily Wire. Thank you so much, Tim.
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