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Bluesky Bad for Liberals · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews you need.
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Speaker 2: To start your day.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, June eighteenth. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: I am actually currently en route to Australia. No, I'm
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Speaker 2: not broadcasting from the airplane. I have recorded this a
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Speaker 2: little early for you, but when I headed out yesterday
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Speaker 2: after the show, we began our journey to Australia, my
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Speaker 2: wife's homeland. Will be there for several weeks and enjoying
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Speaker 2: some time there with family and with friends. And I
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Speaker 2: say that to you here comfortably because I do have
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Speaker 2: a house sitter. It's important that you have a house
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Speaker 2: sitter when you're away if anyone's going to know that
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Speaker 2: you're away, otherwise you keep it top secret. I'm not
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Speaker 2: one of those people who buys a new TV and
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Speaker 2: throws the box out in the yard with the trash
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Speaker 2: for everybody to see. I don't like to do that.
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Speaker 2: I don't want people to know what kind of TV
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Speaker 2: I have. I'm going to throw away my TV box
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Speaker 2: and very tiny, you know, one by one inch pieces
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Speaker 2: over the next like eight years. It'll be time for
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Speaker 2: another TV. By the time I get rid of the box.
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Speaker 2: That's just the way things work. I'm very secretive not
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Speaker 2: that I buy expensive TVs. I don't want to give
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Speaker 2: that impression either, because I don't. I don't have expensive
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Speaker 2: TVs at all. A lot of negotiating and a lot
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Speaker 2: of things going on for me just to get a TV.
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Speaker 2: You know, got to work out a good deal, got
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Speaker 2: to get the best possible deal. But I do have
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Speaker 2: someone there watching my dog, watching my house, so I'm
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Speaker 2: comfortable saying yes, I'll be doing some shows from Australia.
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Speaker 2: And at the moment, I am somewhere in the air.
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Speaker 2: I mean, as you're depending on what time you're listening
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Speaker 2: to this, If you're listening to this on Wednesday, I
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Speaker 2: am somewhere in the air. And here's the really fun
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Speaker 2: part about this. If you've never made a trip across
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Speaker 2: the international date line from California to Australia or wherever
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Speaker 2: in the US, Dallas, I guess you can do that.
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Speaker 2: We don't get Wednesday. Wednesday is not going to happen
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Speaker 2: for us. We'll lose that day because we'll depart from
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Speaker 2: California on Tuesday and we will land in Melbourne on
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Speaker 2: Friday or no Thursday. I get that right, Yeah, on Thursday.
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Speaker 2: So we'll completely miss We'll leave on Tuesday and then
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Speaker 2: we'll land on Thursday, and there'll be no Wednesday for us.
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Speaker 2: And that's just how it goes. Just it. You lose it,
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Speaker 2: but you get it when you come back. When you
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Speaker 2: come back. Now, if you move there, you just lose
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Speaker 2: that day. That's just what happens. The day's just gone.
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Speaker 2: It never happened. But if you're like Jill when she
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Speaker 2: moved here to the States, she gained that extra day
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Speaker 2: because when we come home, it's a really really long day,
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Speaker 2: and we get that day back as we travel back home.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, my point is, if you're listening to this
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Speaker 2: on Wednesday, I'm currently on a plane and I'm not
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Speaker 2: broadcasting from the plane. This is recorded early, and that's
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Speaker 2: just how you have to do things. So now planning,
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Speaker 2: because tomorrow is Juneteenth, that's a holiday that's kind of
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Speaker 2: built into this trip because we knew that would be
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Speaker 2: a day that Jill would be taking off from work
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Speaker 2: and I'm taking the day off tomorrow, So basically my
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Speaker 2: Wednesday won't exist for me, and then I won't have
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Speaker 2: a show on Thursday. But I'll be back on Friday,
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Speaker 2: and I'll be doing that show from Australia and it
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Speaker 2: will be another strange and bizarre news from around the
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Speaker 2: world kind of show. And I'm going to keep some
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Speaker 2: good news in there because it went over well last week.
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Speaker 2: Got some positive good news in there. We'll do it again.
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Speaker 2: Sprinkle some of those in there, especially while I'm on
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Speaker 2: this trip because i'll be on vacation for the most part,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna still be working. I'm gonna still bring a
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Speaker 2: new shows of the shows that I do weekly. They'll
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Speaker 2: be made of stars. They'll be this show as many
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Speaker 2: days as I can do it while I'm gone, and
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Speaker 2: I may have to miss a couple of the QLN shows.
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Speaker 2: If you are not listening to QLN. That's the comedy
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Speaker 2: podcast I do with some friends and people that I've
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Speaker 2: worked with over the years at various jobs, radio and otherwise,
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Speaker 2: and that's on Mondays. But that'll be taking a break
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Speaker 2: if you want to get caught up on qln's and
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Speaker 2: be ready to go when we get back with a
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Speaker 2: live Now, we may end up doing a show or two.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't figured that out just yet,
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Speaker 2: but that'll be the only one I will definitely miss
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Speaker 2: at least one or two of while I'm gone, maybe
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Speaker 2: even the entire time that I'm gone. But we'll be back.
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Speaker 2: Just a little hiatus, just a little time out, that's
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Speaker 2: all it is. But I'll be doing these shows as
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Speaker 2: much as I can while i'm there, and for the
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Speaker 2: most part, I don't have any reason to think that
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Speaker 2: I can't. There may be a couple of these that
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Speaker 2: I'll have to miss, and those of you who've been
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Speaker 2: listening to me over the years radio and here, you
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Speaker 2: know I don't miss a lot. I do have to
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Speaker 2: take some vacation days from time to time, and we'll
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Speaker 2: be doing that. And I've got some special Meta Stars
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Speaker 2: shows for you as well that we'll be doing while
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Speaker 2: I'm gone. Those will be pre recorded and Sewn Crusin
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Speaker 2: and I doctor Seawan Crusin and I have been working
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Speaker 2: on those. Coming up on June twenty sixth, we'll have
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Speaker 2: an Al Warden tribute astronaut who flew with Dave Scott,
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Speaker 2: and then a Dave Scott tribute coming up on July
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Speaker 2: the third. Shawn and I interviewed al Warden a long
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Speaker 2: time ago, and he was coming to Columbus for an
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Speaker 2: event and we wanted to officially make that part of
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Speaker 2: Meta Stars. And then Dave Scott Tribute for July the third,
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Speaker 2: so a couple of heroes and Dave Scott first got
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Speaker 2: to drive a car on the surface of the Moon.
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Speaker 2: And there's a special exhibit at the Bo Bartlett Center
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Speaker 2: in conjunction with Columbus State Universe City's Coca Cola Space
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Speaker 2: Science Center where you can see a bunch of things
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Speaker 2: donated by Dave Scott's family, his brother Tom Scott, who
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Speaker 2: lived in Columbus for a really long time. But all
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Speaker 2: that'll be coming up on shows on the Maid of
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Speaker 2: Stars podcast. Wherever you're listening to this show, you can
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Speaker 2: hear those shows as well. And then also once I
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Speaker 2: get back from Australia, I'll be in the really like
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Speaker 2: full on planning stages for this year's dragon Con pregame
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Speaker 2: show powered by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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Speaker 2: Always excited to have them on board as a sponsor
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Speaker 2: the podcasts. Now, I want to talk to you a
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Speaker 2: little bit about Blue Sky, because last week I did
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Speaker 2: a show where I talked about Riley Gaines and Simone Biles.
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Speaker 2: Those two were feuding. They were feuding about a couple things,
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Speaker 2: really about whether or not men that have transitioned into
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Speaker 2: womanhood should be competing in sports against women. They also
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Speaker 2: talked about some body shaming, and it was really Simone
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Speaker 2: Biles who decided to fire shots at Riley Gaines taking
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Speaker 2: some shots at her body. That was really unfair. You
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Speaker 2: may have different opinions on the issue of trans athletes,
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Speaker 2: and I do understand that we have taken a very definitive,
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Speaker 2: like you know, red and blue stance. I guess in
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Speaker 2: a lot of ways on that particular issue. I have
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Speaker 2: conceded on this show and to friends, there are elements
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Speaker 2: of this discussion that aren't so black and white, if
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Speaker 2: you will, that it's not quite as clear. And I've
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Speaker 2: talked about this when it comes to bathrooms. I've talked
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Speaker 2: about this when it comes to a few issues. But
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Speaker 2: this idea of two world class athletes, one of them
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Speaker 2: attacking the other saying that she looks like a man,
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Speaker 2: it's pretty absurd. And it led to eventually an apology
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Speaker 2: that came from Simone Biles for that and for a
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Speaker 2: few things, and acknowledging that this isn't an easy topic
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Speaker 2: and that there's some complications to it. And I said
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Speaker 2: that one of the people that we should thank for
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Speaker 2: this exchange was Elon Musk. And I think that this
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Speaker 2: was able to take place because he bought X. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's what happened. He purchased X, and he basically put
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Speaker 2: the platform that was largely just a place for liberals
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Speaker 2: to say, we're running this, this is our show. We
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Speaker 2: decide what gets said and what doesn't get said, and
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Speaker 2: we control the narrative and a lot of people told Elon,
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Speaker 2: why don't you go start your own if you don't
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Speaker 2: like it? And he's like, why would I do that
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Speaker 2: when I can just buy this one? And I can
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Speaker 2: just I mean, it's it's the old son sou like.
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Speaker 2: You're not just stealing grain from your enemy to feed
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Speaker 2: your troops, you're also starving the enemy. It was a
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Speaker 2: double whammy in so many ways. And that's what he was,
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Speaker 2: you know, successfully doing. And that's what he did. And
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Speaker 2: he also now provided a format where two people can
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Speaker 2: have a discussion and back and forth and acknowledge some things.
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Speaker 2: And I do just quickly want to say this because
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Speaker 2: I'm going to get to blue Sky in a second,
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Speaker 2: but I just I want to acknowledge the fact that
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Speaker 2: when I say that there are some gray areas in
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Speaker 2: all of this, I think it largely applies to very
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Speaker 2: young children. The discussion about whether or not young children
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Speaker 2: should be allowed to decide that they want to say
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Speaker 2: that they're in a different body and live that's a
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Speaker 2: separate issue to this. It does relate to it, but
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Speaker 2: it's a separate issue. But if you have a child
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Speaker 2: and your child wants to live as a boy, and
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Speaker 2: they were born a girl or the other way around,
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Speaker 2: and you have decided that you're going to let them
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Speaker 2: do that for whatever reason, things do get very complicated.
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Speaker 2: If that child is going to a school, a new school,
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Speaker 2: living as a different gender, and you're having to with
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Speaker 2: a ten year old an eight year old, tell your
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Speaker 2: son they have to go in the girl's bathroom, or
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Speaker 2: your daughter they have to go in the boy's bathroom,
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Speaker 2: or whatever it is, based on how you've decided to
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Speaker 2: let that child live. That's the area where this gets complicated.
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Speaker 2: That's the area. Or even as an adult, if you
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Speaker 2: are a man who is living as a woman, who
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Speaker 2: looks looks like a woman, passes completely as a woman,
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Speaker 2: but someone tells them you have to use the bathroom
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Speaker 2: designated for your birth certificate. Well, that woman who was
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Speaker 2: born a man having to walk passable as a woman
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Speaker 2: walking down the street, no one knows. The wiser decides, well,
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Speaker 2: I got to walk in the men's room, I got
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Speaker 2: to use the urinal. That's complicated. That's not an easy solution.
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Speaker 2: I understand that there's also complications with them going into
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Speaker 2: the other bathroom. I get that none of this is easy.
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Speaker 2: That's all I've ever tried to express with that. So
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Speaker 2: when you're talking about young kids that are trying to
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Speaker 2: play sports, yes, it may get a little complicated if
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Speaker 2: you're trying to say they need a chromosome test so
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Speaker 2: that they can compete in sports. That's not what the
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Speaker 2: discussion is really about. There are a lot of boys
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Speaker 2: leagues and co ed leagues in sports. Girls and boys
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Speaker 2: can compete together in co ed leagues. I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 2: said boys. There's girls leagues and then there's co ed leagues.
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Speaker 2: That's typically the way it's set up. I know that's
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Speaker 2: the way a lot of sports is set up around here.
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Speaker 2: You have a league for girls that just want to
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Speaker 2: play with girls, and then there's a co ed league
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Speaker 2: if the girls want to compete with boys. It's different
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Speaker 2: at that level. Post puberty, things get different, things start
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Speaker 2: to change, things start to become a little different. So
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Speaker 2: that's where we need to take some time to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: that there are some differences. And I think that some
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Speaker 2: of the folks on the left don't want to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: the differences. Some of the folks on the right want
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Speaker 2: to be absolute about it. This is the way it
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Speaker 2: has to be across the board, no exceptions, this is
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Speaker 2: the rules, and that's the only acknowledgment I want to
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Speaker 2: make that it does get a little bit complicated. Okay,
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Speaker 2: Now onto blue Sky. Blue Sky is the new platform
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Speaker 2: to replace Twitter. If you haven't heard of blue Sky,
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Speaker 2: I get to see about it every day because I
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Speaker 2: get asked, are you sure you don't want to add
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Speaker 2: your blue Sky account to this thing that you're doing?
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Speaker 2: And yes, I'm quite certain I don't have one. So
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Speaker 2: Twitter co founder Jack Dorsey started this thing called blue Sky,
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Speaker 2: and it's basically a straight up unabashed We're not even
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Speaker 2: going to pretend anymore that we're a fair platform. We
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Speaker 2: are blue Sky. We are for liberals to come on
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Speaker 2: and share our like minded, high minded mentality, not too
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Speaker 2: dissimilar to truth Social, which you know, there are people
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Speaker 2: that go into truth Social and sound off and chime
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Speaker 2: in and whatever people do on those things argue with
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Speaker 2: one another. But yes, blue Sky, I guess, is supposedly
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Speaker 2: the solution to not having Twitter under control anymore, or
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Speaker 2: to hey, Donald Trump has truth Social and it built
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Speaker 2: up a decent little following. I don't know how big
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Speaker 2: the following is, but they say that it was, you know,
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Speaker 2: record numbers. I guess. Jack Dorsey eventually quit the board
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Speaker 2: for Blue Sky. But I do have some numbers here.
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Speaker 2: Pew Research says that ten to thirty million users between
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Speaker 2: November twenty four and May twenty twenty five. So that's
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Speaker 2: a good bump. And then you got a lot of
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Speaker 2: people who left X than Twitter and said we're just
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Speaker 2: going to go here. People that like to just go
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Speaker 2: on and bash Trump and say horrible things about him. Well,
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Speaker 2: Mark Cuban, who yeah, he's on the left, has said
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Speaker 2: that it's become a hateful and toxic. He says that
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Speaker 2: it's just a lot of anger on display. He says,
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Speaker 2: even if you agree with ninety five percent of what
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Speaker 2: a person is saying on a topic, if there's one
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Speaker 2: point that you might call out as being more of
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Speaker 2: a gray area, they will call you a fascist, etc. Yes,
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Speaker 2: back to the aforementioned topic, you couldn't have had the discussion.
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Speaker 2: You couldn't have had Riley Gaines and Siman Biles having
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Speaker 2: a fair discussion back and forth. According to Mark Cuban,
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Speaker 2: so and basically just saying it point blank, you've got
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Speaker 2: this area where people are it's just that it creates
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Speaker 2: this bubble where you're not getting engagement from elsewhere. Cuban
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Speaker 2: went on to say engagement from great convos on many
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Speaker 2: topics to agree with me or you are a Nazi fascist.
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Speaker 2: We are forcing posts to x is what he said.
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Speaker 2: He also said that the Blue Sky bubble hurts liberals
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Speaker 2: and their causes. He shared a I guess a post
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Speaker 2: from Washington Post, a column from them, So basically he's
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Speaker 2: saying that it's a lack of diversity in thought and
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Speaker 2: that hurts its usage. Yes, this is what the problem
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Speaker 2: was with Twitter to begin with. This is what the
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Speaker 2: problem is when you have any sort of forced think right,
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Speaker 2: they're pushing thought police on you and they're trying to
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Speaker 2: train you or curb you into having views and opinions
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Speaker 2: that they share. And yes, this is dangerous. This is
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Speaker 2: also part of why Trump won again and it's part
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Speaker 2: of why the Democrat Party is struggling so much right now.
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Speaker 2: This doesn't have to be a single solid thought process.
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Speaker 2: You're able to actually go and have exchanges with other
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Speaker 2: people and other places like X. And we saw that
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Speaker 2: last week, and we saw it play out in a
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Speaker 2: way where two people were able to find some sort
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Speaker 2: of compromise and agreement even though they didn't agree completely
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Speaker 2: assuming whoever thinks this way doesn't live in the southeast
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Speaker 2: where it becomes ridiculously hot, But I guess think about
21:11
Speaker 2: getting into warmer weather. In general, people can get outside
21:14
Speaker 2: and exercise. They don't need to necessarily do it indoors.
21:18
Speaker 2: That means gyms are more willing to negotiate this time
21:22
Speaker 2: of year, So it's a possibility there you can negotiate
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Speaker 2: a deal with a gym, or maybe they're willing to
21:27
Speaker 2: cut you some deals or some good rates. So keep
21:31
Speaker 2: that in mind. If you need to get a gym membership,
21:33
Speaker 2: you don't have to do it in January. Basically, is
21:37
Speaker 2: what we're trying to say. All Right, Nostalgia is the thing,
21:43
Speaker 2: and it continues to go through these cycles of things.
21:47
Speaker 2: As we look to the announcement last week about the
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Speaker 2: new Spaceballs movie, and my kid said, you know why now,
21:55
Speaker 2: and as my wife very correctly pointed out, because it's
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Speaker 2: been long enough that you have a generation that's ready
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Speaker 2: to see it again. And take their kids to see
22:04
Speaker 2: it and get them introduced to it and all that.
22:06
Speaker 2: There's a cycle for this for everything. It's not a
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Speaker 2: coincidence that the Transformers were a big thing in the
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Speaker 2: eighties and then you jump ahead thirty forty years and
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Speaker 2: suddenly they're ready to make movies about the Transformers. And
22:18
Speaker 2: they've done that with Gi Joe, They've done that with Barbie,
22:21
Speaker 2: They've done that with everything. It's just a way to
22:23
Speaker 2: kind of introduce a new art. I think there's a
22:25
Speaker 2: new Smurfs movie coming out. Any opportunity to introduce a
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Speaker 2: new audience to something that maybe the parents will also like,
22:34
Speaker 2: you're kind of catching two different audiences with it. It's
22:36
Speaker 2: also true with things like people are using digital cameras again,
22:41
Speaker 2: even though they've got a phone that takes better pictures
22:44
Speaker 2: than whatever. The digital camera is. Yes, teenage kids using
22:48
Speaker 2: digital cameras for some reason. It's nostalgia. There's something to it. Well,
22:54
Speaker 2: how about this Blackberries getting ready to come back? This
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Speaker 2: has been trending now on social media with folks saying, yes,
23:04
Speaker 2: we're we're ready for the BlackBerry all over again. So,
23:09
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it makes sense some people looking
23:13
Speaker 2: for it's a streamlined version of a smart Those were
23:16
Speaker 2: kind of the og smartphones sort of, right, I mean
23:20
Speaker 2: an opportunity to get your hands on one of those
23:23
Speaker 2: again and relive it all over again. I don't know.
23:26
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with the lea Boo boo dolls? I
23:29
Speaker 2: guess I'm even saying that, right, I don't know. They're
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Speaker 2: big craze right now, and just like with any other craze,
23:36
Speaker 2: people doing crazy things shelling out large amounts of money
23:42
Speaker 2: for the adorable toothy plushies as they're described, and not
23:47
Speaker 2: just any La boo boo. It's a life size La
23:50
Speaker 2: Boo boo. I hope I'm saying that right. I feel
23:53
Speaker 2: like Yogi Bear just saying it. The one of a
23:56
Speaker 2: kind giant mint green plushy, which stands four feet tall
23:59
Speaker 2: and has been selling in an auction in Beijing for
24:02
Speaker 2: more than one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. That's happened.
24:05
Speaker 2: A second La Buboo, standing even taller at five feet,
24:08
Speaker 2: sold for more than one hundred thirty thousand dollars. Typically
24:13
Speaker 2: these dollars go for about twenty eight bucks. People are
24:18
Speaker 2: into the Labooboo. How could you not at least get
24:23
Speaker 2: a little into the la buobu right, Hey, the I
24:26
Speaker 2: don't even know what it is. The Nintendo switches off
24:29
Speaker 2: to a great start, selling over three and a half
24:31
Speaker 2: million units worldwide right out of the gate in just
24:34
Speaker 2: the first few days, and that makes the switch to
24:37
Speaker 2: the fastest selling gaming device for a Nintendo to date.
24:41
Speaker 2: If the sales number continues at this pace, industry insider
24:45
Speaker 2: say fifteen million will be sold by next spring. Expect
24:49
Speaker 2: a very, very big holiday season for the folks at Nintendo.
24:54
Speaker 2: A new study found that gray hair might actually be reversible.
24:57
Speaker 2: Researchers at New York University found that certain stem cells
25:01
Speaker 2: that are responsible for producing hair pigment can become stuck
25:05
Speaker 2: in hair follicles as we age, and when these cells
25:08
Speaker 2: get stuck, they can't produce pigment, which leads to gray hair.
25:11
Speaker 2: But as scientists think that there may be a way
25:13
Speaker 2: to unstick these cells and reverse or prevent graying. More
25:17
Speaker 2: research is needed, but the breakthrough has scientists optimistic and
25:22
Speaker 2: thinking that hair could be turned back to its original color.
25:25
Speaker 2: Probably the folks that the hair dye places don't think
25:28
Speaker 2: this is a great idea, probably not too happy about it.
25:31
Speaker 2: The just for men people probably not excited. I don't know.
25:33
Speaker 2: Maybe they can figure out a way to be involved
25:37
Speaker 2: at the ground level on unsticking these things. Engineers at
25:41
Speaker 2: MIT have developed a high speed robotic arm that can
25:43
Speaker 2: play table tennis with impressive precision. The thing has high
25:47
Speaker 2: speed cameras program to estimate the speed trajectory of an
25:50
Speaker 2: incoming ball, and then it executes various swing types loop, dive,
25:55
Speaker 2: chopped to return, drive, I guess to return to a
25:59
Speaker 2: desired location on the table. Amazingly, the robot achieved an
26:02
Speaker 2: eighty eight percent success rate across all three swing types,
26:06
Speaker 2: with strike speeds reaching up to forty two miles an hour.
26:09
Speaker 2: That's not bad. That's Forrest Gump level stuff. That'll do
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26:24
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