Joe Clements
Peter Schorsch hunkers down with Joe Clements, co-founder and CEO of Tallahassee-based Strategic Digital Services, a data analysis and online marketing firm. Clements also formerly worked for the Republican Party of Florida as the digital director for the RPOF house majority. Clements finds the silver lining in coronavirus-caused social distancing keeping many Floridians confined mostly to their homes in a scenario he speculates one day might be looked upon fondly as the golden age of family time, even as memories persist of the stress and anxiety associated with a global pandemic. Peter discusses his own family time, enjoying renewed snuggles from his daughter who had, before the age of social distancing, begun to grow out of it. The two also discuss the seriousness for which people are taking the virus and the concept of risk vs. reward. If someone is in their 80s and could die at any time, do they really want to be spending their final weeks or months trapped in doors? These are the questions some people are asking. And in another part of this extended interview, Clements criticizes the media for what he describes as inciting panic for the benefit of financial reward. Peter pushes back arguing it’s not the journalists themselves. The conversation gives way to a more robust conversation about the role of the media in the future, pondering who will survive and who won’t as traditional media models are further upended amid the virus. And find out how Clements thinks millennials might have a lasting impact on the post coronavirus world based on modern perceptions of adulthood. Special Guest: Joe Clements.