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Activist, Talk Show Host, or Journalist? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, second day of February. Yeah, it's Groundhog Day again,
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Speaker 2: and I figure out when to fit that in today.
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Speaker 2: Got a why? I mean, if I don't get the
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Speaker 2: whole thing in, you at least get part of Groundhog
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Speaker 2: Day and you watch some of it. There's Christmas movies
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Speaker 2: that I may not watch all of them every year,
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Speaker 2: but I at least, you know, get a toe in
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Speaker 2: the water. Yeah, you gotta at least get one toe
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Speaker 2: in the water with Groundhog Day, right, just one single
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Speaker 2: toe in the water, and then you know, and then
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Speaker 2: it's been groundhog Day. Just feels like it's all part
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Speaker 2: of the experience for the day. That's what it feels like.
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Speaker 2: I talked a little bit about this end of last week,
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Speaker 2: and I've got my second funeral for a former colleague
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Speaker 2: over the last in the last two months, less than
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Speaker 2: two months. It's pretty pretty sad, but a funeral to
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Speaker 2: attend today for my former coworker friend, colleague Brian Waters,
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Speaker 2: who was a long time afternoon host for Rock one
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Speaker 2: o three. He was the program director of Rock one
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Speaker 2: of three for a long time. He's worked at a
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Speaker 2: number of radio stations around town over the years, and
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Speaker 2: Brian and I Brian certainly as my boss, there were
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Speaker 2: things in time that we I think we both learned
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Speaker 2: some things from each other. And he passed away from
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Speaker 2: a battle with a very rare type of cancer late
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Speaker 2: last week and that funeral is today, and it's just
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Speaker 2: it's one of those things where you just go why
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Speaker 2: why so many? And I guess I've been talking to
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Speaker 2: people saying, well, we're getting that age where it feels like,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's starting to happen more frequently. And I
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Speaker 2: know that you do get to an age where that happens.
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Speaker 2: But you know, Brian was only ten years my senior
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Speaker 2: approximately so, and I've got other very close friends who
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Speaker 2: are ten years my senior, and I don't want to
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Speaker 2: think about them being anywhere near a point. And I
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Speaker 2: know this was a rare situation with his cancer that
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Speaker 2: he had, but just you know, take time to appreciate
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Speaker 2: those people that are around you and understand, as we're
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Speaker 2: playing this game of midterm politics right now, just know
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Speaker 2: there's people in your life that maybe don't vote and
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Speaker 2: think the way that you do. And it's okay to
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Speaker 2: still love them. In fact, it's kind of required for
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Speaker 2: us to love them and appreciate them and know that
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Speaker 2: they're human beings and they should be doing the same
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Speaker 2: thing for you. I hope that they are. I hope
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Speaker 2: that we can all learn that. But I've just been
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Speaker 2: carrying some stuff around with me now for a little while,
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Speaker 2: because you have these people in your life sometimes that
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Speaker 2: you don't take time to tell them what you think
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Speaker 2: of them or that you appreciate them, and all that
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Speaker 2: they really hear from you is the things that you're
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Speaker 2: saying to other people or maybe on social media, these
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Speaker 2: loud and proud declarations of you're an idiot because dot
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Speaker 2: dot dot and you know, those kind of things obviously
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Speaker 2: can hurt, especially if when you're not hearing the things
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Speaker 2: from them that should remind you that they care about
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Speaker 2: you and that they're not talking to you. And it's
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Speaker 2: just something that we and I say, I've been carrying
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Speaker 2: some of this with me, And it's not so much
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Speaker 2: that I just I know people that have deleted social
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Speaker 2: media for these things. They've gotten away from social media,
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Speaker 2: and look, you be you, you do whatever you need
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Speaker 2: to do to function, I understand. But the people who
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Speaker 2: make whether it's Facebook, Instagram, x formerly, Twitter, whatever, if
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Speaker 2: you're one of the people that's making that an uncomfortable
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Speaker 2: space for other people, just know that there may be
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Speaker 2: people in your life that you should take a minute
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Speaker 2: to say, hey, how are you doing, and and I
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Speaker 2: care about you or whatever. Just just we've got a
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Speaker 2: limited amount of time on this globe. That's that's all
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. Our time here with each other is is
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Speaker 2: pretty limited. And in the great scheme of things in
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Speaker 2: the you know, when you when you put it against eternity,
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Speaker 2: it's it's nothing. It's smaller than the tiniest bit of
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Speaker 2: sand on one single beach, and it's then you take
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Speaker 2: that and zoom out to all the universe. And and
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Speaker 2: I know we're getting into some heavy stuff there, but
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Speaker 2: my point is, just take that minute to appreciate the
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Speaker 2: people that are in your life, the people that you know,
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Speaker 2: the people that mean something to you, because when it's gone,
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Speaker 2: it's just suddenly gone. And that's all that's all I
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Speaker 2: want to say. And I've been kind of carrying that
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Speaker 2: because obviously, you know, losing a couple of colleagues, people
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Speaker 2: that I saw every day. In some cases, Brian was
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Speaker 2: someone that I worked with every day for years and
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Speaker 2: saw him every single day, and you know, now he's gone.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's just important that we need that
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Speaker 2: reminder sometimes, and it's one of the things for me
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Speaker 2: when it comes to funerals. I you know, I had
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Speaker 2: one friend whose mom passed and I went to the visitation.
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Speaker 2: It was out of town and it was visitation, and
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Speaker 2: I went to go see him. A friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: and I went to this out in the middle of
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Speaker 2: nowhere to you know, go see them for the visitation
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Speaker 2: the night before, and then the next day I went
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Speaker 2: back for the funeral and this friend was like, you
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Speaker 2: didn't you came yesterday. You didn't really have to come
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Speaker 2: to this funeral, And I said, well, yesterday was for you.
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Speaker 2: Funerals I think are for me, and I try to
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Speaker 2: use those to remind me that the time is short
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Speaker 2: and precious and we need to, you know, make sure
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Speaker 2: to to remember that sometimes, and funerals are important for that.
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Speaker 2: All right. I hope some of that made some sense,
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Speaker 2: and if not, you know, thanks for hearing my rambling.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes the show can be therapy for me. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm in actual therapy, and some of this may have
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Speaker 2: kind of come up in that. Not a lot of this,
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Speaker 2: but some things came up in that in my most
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Speaker 2: recent recent therapy session. But I've had friends tell me, like,
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Speaker 2: I think it's great that you talk about the fact
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Speaker 2: that you are in therapy and that you're doing It's like, well,
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Speaker 2: I want people to know that, you know, if they
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Speaker 2: feel like they need to do it, then they should
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Speaker 2: do it. And if they think there's a chance that
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Speaker 2: they may need to do it, they should probably do it.
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Speaker 2: And it's not going to help everybody, but I think
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Speaker 2: it can help a lot of people. So I just
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Speaker 2: passed that along and you know, trying to break down
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Speaker 2: that stigma of what that means to do that. All right,
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Speaker 2: with that said, and thanks for hearing me out in therapy. Sometimes,
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Speaker 2: by the way, therapy sometimes can be other things in
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Speaker 2: your life. For a long time, something that I've considered
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Speaker 2: a type of therapy in my life was when I
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Speaker 2: was playing still playing adult league sports, I was playing soccer,
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Speaker 2: or I was coaching soccer, and I got a certain
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Speaker 2: amount of therapy from the camaraderie of being still on
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Speaker 2: a team much too old, much too old for me
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Speaker 2: to still be doing it. But my teammates and my
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Speaker 2: friends that were there with us when we played. There
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Speaker 2: was therapy there for me, and that helped me kind
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Speaker 2: of put everything on a shelf for a little while
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Speaker 2: and step away and kind of just be in that
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Speaker 2: world of hey, I'm still out here doing something I
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Speaker 2: loved in high school. And you know, then you get
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Speaker 2: back to life after you get home, or somebody on
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Speaker 2: the field says something that's really obnoxious and then you're
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Speaker 2: just like, oh, carrying this around for a week. But
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Speaker 2: so just know there are things and service can be
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Speaker 2: that coaching for me with that as well, whenever I
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Speaker 2: had an opportunity to kids got frustrating at times when
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Speaker 2: I was trying to coach them, but you know, you
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Speaker 2: get the benefit of it, and you get those moments
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Speaker 2: where you know, you get a hug from a kid
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Speaker 2: that's like, hey, thanks, coach, you helped me with this,
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Speaker 2: or you know, you work on something specific in practice.
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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, there was one kid I coached
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Speaker 2: one of the first years that I coached who when
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Speaker 2: he started, he was very young. This was that really
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Speaker 2: young age getting him started, and he said to me, Coach,
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Speaker 2: I want to score a goal this season, and I said,
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Speaker 2: let's work on it, and we worked on some very
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Speaker 2: specific basic things for him, and then one of the
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Speaker 2: next games, maybe even the very next game, he scored
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Speaker 2: his first goal and he was so excited he gave
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Speaker 2: me a hug and he ran over it. Anyway, and
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Speaker 2: that kid now is in a high school kicking field
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Speaker 2: goals on a football team, doing well. And I got
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Speaker 2: to watch him in a championship game for the city
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Speaker 2: score the only goal of the game and won that
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Speaker 2: championship for his team. So it just those kinds of
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Speaker 2: things that that can be therapy. And that's all I'm
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Speaker 2: getting at all, right, I want to get onto this
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Speaker 2: Don Lemon thing. We talked about Don Lemon and the
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Speaker 2: fact that he seemed to be trying to get himself
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Speaker 2: arrested and was kind of what seemed and to give
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Speaker 2: now that it's become a criminal case, I guess we'll
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Speaker 2: get into this as approaching it sort of almost from
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Speaker 2: a as people are saying, the press have to have freedom,
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Speaker 2: The press have to have this freedom to go and
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Speaker 2: do their jobs. And I understand that Don Lemon was
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Speaker 2: at one time working for some major news organizations. He's
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Speaker 2: now an independent journalist. I'm not knocking that at all.
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Speaker 2: I've seen a few people kind of knock that. But
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Speaker 2: basically one of the things that I think is very
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Speaker 2: important when it comes to to this free press, that
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Speaker 2: we're talking about, this protected free press, and if we're
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Speaker 2: gonna jump on this high horse and say, well, he's
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Speaker 2: press in this situation where he went into this church
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Speaker 2: with a bunch of protesters who were by all accounts,
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Speaker 2: disrupting a church service because they disagreed with the politics
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Speaker 2: and support of Ice of the minister of this church.
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Speaker 2: This was in Minneapolis, by the way, And I'm jumping
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Speaker 2: right into the story as if I'm hoping that you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. But I'll explain this, I
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Speaker 2: guess in Saint Paul specifically, but in the Twin Cities,
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Speaker 2: a church where the pastor supports supposedly has some ties
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Speaker 2: to ICE, support of ICE more conservative. What a shocker
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Speaker 2: that someone at a church may be more conservative about
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Speaker 2: things like law and order, you know, that might think
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Speaker 2: that it is important to have law and order and things.
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Speaker 2: But and according to reports, there was some scouting of
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Speaker 2: this particular pastor of this particular church. Some of the
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Speaker 2: accusations in all of this say that Don Lemon was
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Speaker 2: allegedly involved in scouting all of this and leading this
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Speaker 2: particular protest into this church while they were trying to
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Speaker 2: have a church service. Don Lemon there saying that he
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Speaker 2: was there as media, as a member of the press
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Speaker 2: covering the event, and seemed to kind of think he
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Speaker 2: was in I don't know, Washington, walking the halls of Congress,
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Speaker 2: you know, running up to a member of Congress and
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Speaker 2: saying how dare you think this or why would you
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Speaker 2: support that? Or whatever. It was. The pastor of a
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Speaker 2: church trying to have a church service and violating their
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Speaker 2: ability to have a church service is in fact against
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Speaker 2: the law, and Don Lemon seemed to be trying to
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Speaker 2: get himself arrested for this. There was discussion about some
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Speaker 2: other charges that may have come up. I saw at
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Speaker 2: one point they said that he could be charged with
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Speaker 2: the KKKA Act, which would have, you know, back in
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Speaker 2: the day, would have prevented clan members from interrupting church
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Speaker 2: services and people being able to exercise their First Amendment rights. However,
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Speaker 2: we do have this thing called the Face Act now
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Speaker 2: and it says basically, you can't go in and interrupt
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Speaker 2: church service and prevent people from having their faith exercise.
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Speaker 2: Because while we can say the First Amendment protects our
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Speaker 2: rights as members of the press, it also does not.
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Speaker 2: It also protects our rights to allow people to exercise
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Speaker 2: their faith as they see fit. The government can't make
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Speaker 2: restrictions on it, can't violate your right to do that
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Speaker 2: very thing. And we have seen this particular Face Act
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Speaker 2: exercised a few times. We have seen it where people
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Speaker 2: were outside abortion clinics peacefully protesting and they were told, well,
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Speaker 2: you're protesting andilating someone's rights on the inside. And so
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Speaker 2: we have seen this kind of thing exercised before. I
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Speaker 2: don't really know the connection to the faith part of
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Speaker 2: the Face Act, but anyway, when it comes to abortion clinics,
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Speaker 2: but I suppose it is a religion of some sort,
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Speaker 2: it kind of is. But don lemon going into this
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Speaker 2: church and kind of bum rushing the pastor in his
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Speaker 2: face and asking questions and talking to him while he's
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Speaker 2: people are carrying out this, you know, blocking people from
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Speaker 2: being able to get to their children in the church,
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Speaker 2: people saying horrible telling the children and people that you
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Speaker 2: know they're Nazis, and telling the children their parents are Nazis.
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Speaker 2: In the middle of a church service. And I think
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Speaker 2: as much as I understand, there's an importance to the
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Speaker 2: press in America, and I do, and I think that one,
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair that every single human being
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Speaker 2: that has a cell phone can call themselves media or press.
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Speaker 2: I think that that's a bit ridiculous because then we're
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Speaker 2: basically saying everyone should be able to have that free
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Speaker 2: press ability with zero training, with zero understanding of journalism,
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Speaker 2: with zero understanding of things like maybe you should understand
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Speaker 2: and know what the face act is before you can
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Speaker 2: call yourself a journalist. Maybe you should be able to
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Speaker 2: be able to have some general idea of where you're
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Speaker 2: crossing that line. And unfortunately, a lot of our press
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Speaker 2: crosses many of the journalism lines all the time. So
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Speaker 2: now that this has become these charges against Don Lemon,
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Speaker 2: now that he has officially been arrested, and he's now
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Speaker 2: saying quoting Bible verses and things a truth will set
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Speaker 2: you free and things like that, nothing like And he
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Speaker 2: talked to the minister saying that he himself was a Christian,
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Speaker 2: and he said that while he was in this particular
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Speaker 2: church city's church and this was all about anti ice.
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Speaker 2: This is all about, first of all, trying to create
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Speaker 2: this feeling of revolution. Did you see John Carlo Esposito,
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Speaker 2: that's his name, right, It said that the actor from
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Speaker 2: a Breaking Bad and other things said that we need
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Speaker 2: a revolution now, and that you know, fifty or five
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand or million or whatever might die, but we'll
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Speaker 2: be on the other side of it, or whatever ridiculous quote.
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Speaker 2: These people want us to feel like civil war is
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Speaker 2: about to happen. And you've had people like Governor Walls
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Speaker 2: or whoever saying, you know, is this Fort Sumter. They're
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Speaker 2: trying to plant these seeds of insurrection, They're trying to
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Speaker 2: plant these seeds of civil war, They're trying to plant
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Speaker 2: these seeds revolution. And then now saying that a member
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Speaker 2: of the press who was part of a group of
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Speaker 2: some kind, some sort of an organized protest hijacking a
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Speaker 2: church service and saying that he should be protected even
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Speaker 2: though he was actively part of it. It's one thing
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Speaker 2: if he goes into the church and he's standing in
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Speaker 2: the back and they're just getting video of what's going
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Speaker 2: on in there, and he's just standing there with a
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Speaker 2: microphone and he's saying, hey, you know, this is what's
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Speaker 2: happening right now, and this is wild. That's not what
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Speaker 2: he was doing. What he was doing was running up
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Speaker 2: and you know, talking to the pastor who was trying
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Speaker 2: to have a church service. There's a big difference in
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Speaker 2: those things, right, I mean, I'm not crazy to say
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Speaker 2: that there's a difference between covering it from a distance
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Speaker 2: and actively being part of the whole process. So as
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Speaker 2: we've seen more and more of this idea that we
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Speaker 2: have people planning these seeds about revolution and hate and division,
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Speaker 2: and then now it's become one journalist who at some
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Speaker 2: point and I mean, was he a journalist or was
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Speaker 2: he a talk show host? There's a difference. There is
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Speaker 2: a difference, and I think it's one of those things
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Speaker 2: that we have to step back and say, we can't
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Speaker 2: call every talk show host a journalist. I mean, are
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Speaker 2: we calling Jimmy Kimmel a journalist or is he a
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Speaker 2: talk show host? Is there a difference between the two there?
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Speaker 2: I think there is. I do think that there is,
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Speaker 2: although I will acknowledge as someone who is a talk
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Speaker 2: show host who occasionally has to do journalism that whenever
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Speaker 2: I cross into that world, I'm very aware of what
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Speaker 2: it means to be a journalist, and I separate the
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Speaker 2: talk show host side of it from that. At least
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Speaker 2: after the break Well, in case you haven't noticed the
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Speaker 2: growing number of male skincare commercials, apparently it is in
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Speaker 2: fact becoming more of a thing. However, men aren't big
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Speaker 2: on the word beauty when it comes to doing some
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Speaker 2: sort of embracing comme some kind of skincare or grooming,
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Speaker 2: and the general get ready with me routines are catching on.
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Speaker 2: You know, I did one of these for the Nutcracker
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Speaker 2: as a promo for me as Mother Ginger getting ready
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Speaker 2: with getting ready with Mother Ginger, little promo ad that
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Speaker 2: we did for that. That's not the same as what
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Speaker 2: we're talking about here. That's very very different, although you
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Speaker 2: know it was there for me. But however, this whole thing,
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Speaker 2: it's not necessarily about beauty culture. It's apparently about men
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Speaker 2: embracing different and social media, I guess is certainly a
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Speaker 2: part of it. But guys kind of becoming a little
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Speaker 2: more comfortable with wanting to look good, whether it's trying
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Speaker 2: to remove wrinkles or crows feet or you know what,
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Speaker 2: those are the same though, right, I mean, I know
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Speaker 2: it's a specific type of wrinkle, but anyway, and then
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Speaker 2: it's also you know about there's always been the long
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Speaker 2: tradition I guess for you know, some guys to say, well,
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Speaker 2: I want to look a certain way as far as
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Speaker 2: my body goes, And I guess this is just adding
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Speaker 2: that other element to it, as social media starting to
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Speaker 2: say hey, it's okay guys to take care of your skin.
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Speaker 2: It's okay to try to make certain parts of your
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Speaker 2: face look a little better. So yeah, I would say,
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Speaker 2: if you're one of those guys, just know that it's
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Speaker 2: becoming more trendy to do it and doesn't mean you
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Speaker 2: have to buy you have to buy those things in
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Speaker 2: those ads, But you know, I guess it probably means
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Speaker 2: that if you shouldn't feel badly, if you're watching those
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Speaker 2: ads and going, hey, maybe this is not so bad.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I need to think about this. Hey, you're looking
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Speaker 2: to live a long, healthy life. You may not quite
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Speaker 2: have as much control over that as experts used to think,
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Speaker 2: because a new international study suggesting that genetics may contribute
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Speaker 2: to up to fifty five percent of your lifespan, much
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Speaker 2: higher than previous estimates of six to thirty three percent.
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Speaker 2: That's because things like height, body fat distribution, muscle bill
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Speaker 2: or roughly half genetic half behavior doesn't mean that you
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Speaker 2: shouldn't try to live a healthy life. Forty five percent
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Speaker 2: is still a pretty significant number of things that you
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Speaker 2: can have a make a difference with if you're not
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Speaker 2: taking care of yourself at all, So it won't matter
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Speaker 2: what your DNA is. So it's just kind of a
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Speaker 2: balanced thing, right. It's one of those things that we
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Speaker 2: really need to, you know, got to take care of yourself,
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Speaker 2: that's all. Did you know Bill Gates can eat as
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Speaker 2: much McDonald's as he wants for the rest of his
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Speaker 2: life without worrying about costs. I would have assumed that anyway,
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Speaker 2: because I know he's worth over one hundred billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: But he is one of only three current holders of
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Speaker 2: what's called a Mcgold Card, and it's basically a lifetime
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Speaker 2: pass for free McDonald's. Gates can use the card to
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Speaker 2: get food at any location around the world. Warren Buffett
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Speaker 2: also has one, but it's on good in his hometown
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Speaker 2: of Omaha. The only other person who has one not
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Speaker 2: a billionaire, and he's not someone that people have even
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Speaker 2: heard of or remember. Andrew Hammond is his name. A
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Speaker 2: retired pro hockey player who appeared in only sixty seven
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Speaker 2: NHL games as a goalie, but in the twenty fourteen
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen season, the Ottawa Senators called him up from
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Speaker 2: the miners and he became the hottest goalie in the
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Speaker 2: league down the stretch, leading the team into an unlikely
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Speaker 2: playoff Berth. Hammond won twenty games of the twenty four
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Speaker 2: he played and was nicknamed the Hamburglar right because of
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Speaker 2: you know his name, and then the classic McDonald's character.
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Speaker 2: By the way, they all used to have all these
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Speaker 2: mascot characters. You may not know the Hamburglar if you're
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Speaker 2: young enough. So the chain decided to present him with
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Speaker 2: a mcgold card and he says he's never even tried
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Speaker 2: to use it. It's hanging on his wall in a frame.
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Speaker 2: You know, it might be worth grabbing the occasional Big
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Speaker 2: Mac for free, just saying. And if you've seen this,
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Speaker 2: there's a stuffed horse that looks like it's crying and
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Speaker 2: it's become the hottest new toy in China. It's a
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Speaker 2: plush red pony and it was a production mistake that
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Speaker 2: caused this sad horse. The toy was supposed to be
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Speaker 2: a smiling celebration for the year of the Horse, but
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Speaker 2: the smile was sewn upside down, making the little horse
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Speaker 2: look sad and the nostrils look like falling tears. Apparently
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Speaker 2: people in China can't get enough. Fan say that the
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Speaker 2: sad little face perfectly captures the vibe of being overworked
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Speaker 2: as a young professional. The relatability factor has since sales
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Speaker 2: skyrocketing from a few hundred a day to tens of thousands.
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Speaker 2: One shopper even said, the horse looks just like the
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Speaker 2: way I feel at work. Communist China, Baby, Communist China.
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