My physical therapist's office also plays the news in the lobby, but I've slowly been tuning it out to the point where I can ignore it now.

But one benefit it had was that one day, my parents video called me from Miami. It was the middle of the day, but my mom always there at home instead of at work, and she asked me if I could guess why. Now there are a hundred reasons why she'd be at home that day. But lucky me, the news was showing something about flooding in Miami that day and I happened to catch it. I guessed that, and it turned out the school she worked at was closed because of it and everyone had a day off 😁