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Big Weekend at the Gabby Awards · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning, 28th day of September.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. It is the Monday after a long,
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  Speaker 2: busy weekend, but a fun weekend. I think I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: to you last week that I was headed up to
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta for the weekend and heading to GabCon. It's the
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Association of Broadcasters annual convention to bring broadcasters together.
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  Speaker 2: It also, part of the GabCon experience, encompasses the Gabby Awards,
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  Speaker 2: their annual celebration of, well.
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  Speaker 3: Of broadcasters and broadcast companies and.
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  Speaker 2: TV, radio, just broadcasts and podcasts, broadcasters throughout the state
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia. And I had been nominated and found out
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  Speaker 2: I was a finalist for the Best Podcast Series Gabby
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  Speaker 2: Award for the Made of Stars show that I do
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  Speaker 2: with Dr. Sean Cruzan from Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space
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  Speaker 2: Science Center. Sean and I were doing a version of
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  Speaker 2: Made of Stars on the radio for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: since about 2007. And we did the radio version of
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  Speaker 2: it for a really long time, and then we got
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  Speaker 2: to the point where we thought this should just.
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  Speaker 3: Be a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: And when I decided to launch a podcast company, it
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  Speaker 2: was this thing where I said, well, if I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do this, The flagship show in the podcast company
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  Speaker 2: for me needs to be made of stars.
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  Speaker 3: Now, we didn't have a.
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  Speaker 2: Name for it yet, but we knew we wanted it
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  Speaker 2: to be obviously a space-themed show. We were going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about space news. We were going to talk about astronomy.
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  Speaker 2: We were going to talk about the private companies. We
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  Speaker 2: would talk about what NASA was doing. We were going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about all those things. That was the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Anything that related and sometimes we're just getting into some
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  Speaker 2: astrophysics and sometimes we're diving into some theoretical physics. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we talk about movies and TV shows that relate to
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  Speaker 2: science fiction and things. I'm usually the one to bring
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  Speaker 2: those up. But anyway, and the whole idea was like
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  Speaker 2: we were doing this thing on the radio. We should
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  Speaker 2: do this as a podcast. And I reached out to
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  Speaker 2: Sean where he's very dear friend of mine. And I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: if I do this, I want to do this with you.
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  Speaker 3: And I want us to do what we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: on the radio. And he said, I'm in. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, but, you know, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: basically the weekly guest on the segment. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, and that's fine. I'm planning to do
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  Speaker 2: all the production things on it. But it's important that
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  Speaker 2: I have a weekly guest who understands what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in this world. You know, this is not an area
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  Speaker 2: that I'm an expert. And I, you know, I've learned
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  Speaker 2: a lot from him. over many years of doing this together. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I can't just jump in and start talking about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the physics behind everything. I can't tell you about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, exactly what's going on in the sky or
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  Speaker 2: why this particular phenomenon happens or whatever. So he's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in. Just consider me your, you know, weekly guest
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  Speaker 2: every single week and let's do this. So we went
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  Speaker 2: through a few names. We came up with the name
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  Speaker 2: Made of Stars after we checked a few that were
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  Speaker 2: taken or that just didn't quite hit and sound the
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  Speaker 2: way we wanted it to. And then we settled on
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  Speaker 2: Made of Stars. And if we haven't talked about this here,
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  Speaker 2: Sean and I have talked about this on Made of Stars,
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  Speaker 2: but this idea that the particles that have been around
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  Speaker 2: forever from early origins of the universe, those particles that
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  Speaker 2: make up the stars, make up us. They're part of
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  Speaker 2: our DNA, and so we're made of stars. That's where
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  Speaker 2: that expression comes from. So anyway, we started it in
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  Speaker 2: 2021 as a podcast, and right out of the gate
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  Speaker 2: in 2022, we won the Gabby Award for Best Podcast Series,
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  Speaker 2: effectively making us the best podcast in the state of Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of what it means, right, when
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  Speaker 2: you win? Anyway, so this year we were, we were
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  Speaker 2: up for the award. We were finalists for it. I
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  Speaker 2: reached out to Sean when we found out that we
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  Speaker 2: were finalists. And basically when you find out you're a finalist, you're,
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  Speaker 2: you're basically, you're kind of encouraged to show up. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be something going on and a reason to
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  Speaker 2: show up when you're a finalist, but you, uh, you know, they,
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  Speaker 2: they invite you and you should come.
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  Speaker 3: And all that. So we, we, I said, Hey, let's,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this again.
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  Speaker 2: And when we had gone to the Gabby awards back
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  Speaker 2: in 2022, uh, And he said, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: in Italy. It's my birthday weekend. And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: know when your birthday is. And that's why I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of excited. You'd be at the Gabby's on your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I'm going to be in Italy. So he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't able to join for this past weekend. But as planned,
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  Speaker 2: my bride Jill and I went. And Sean and his
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  Speaker 2: wife would have come. They came in 2022. So it
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  Speaker 2: also occurred to Jill and I at some point that
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  Speaker 2: our boys, because of the way the school schedule was
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  Speaker 2: set up, they were going to have Friday out of school,
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  Speaker 2: which they did, and Thursday was a virtual day. So
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  Speaker 2: we thought this is an opportunity for us to go
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  Speaker 2: as a family. There was never really a plan for
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  Speaker 2: them to come to the awards thing. They would have
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  Speaker 2: been bored out of their skulls. But except for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a five-minute window.
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  Speaker 3: They would have been locked in. So that would have
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  Speaker 3: been it, though.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the time, Luke would have been trying
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  Speaker 2: to watch an Alabama football game on his phone. Jake
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  Speaker 2: would have been doing whatever on his phone. So the
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  Speaker 2: plan was just for us to go up. We were
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  Speaker 2: going to do some things. And this particular GabCon and
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  Speaker 2: the awards took place in Atlanta and Duluth. So we
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  Speaker 2: just said, well, we're just going to go up. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to, you know, as a family and we'll
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  Speaker 2: spend as much time together as we can. But then
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  Speaker 2: the things that draw me into the Georgia Association of
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasters experience, we'll go to those and the boys can
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  Speaker 2: just hang out at the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the plan. So we went up.
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  Speaker 2: Friday and we did some touristy things. It's weird because
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  Speaker 2: there are parts of Atlanta that I have done so
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  Speaker 2: many times that I don't feel touristy when I'm there.
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  Speaker 2: There are some parts of Atlanta that you go explore
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. The last time I was in that
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  Speaker 2: particular area was for a math competition for Luke at
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  Speaker 2: the end of last school year. So we thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: we know some things we want to go up there
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  Speaker 2: and do. And so we had some restaurants where we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to eat and things like that. And, uh, boys
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  Speaker 2: love mini golf. So, and I usually play with them.
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  Speaker 2: So we did some mini golf. We did some of those.
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  Speaker 3: Kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, we had a really good family trip, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just a weekend, just get away, go up, come back
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of all of that was the, the
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  Speaker 2: networking and mingling that takes place with, uh, Georgia association
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  Speaker 2: of broadcasters at the convention. And I caught up with
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  Speaker 2: some people I haven't seen in a while. There were
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  Speaker 2: some people that I met. over the weekend that probably
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  Speaker 2: have seen them at GabCon before, but haven't really spoken
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 3: So some of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to hang out with my good friend
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  Speaker 2: John Clark years ago when Hurricane Michael came through. I
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  Speaker 2: was doing the morning radio show with Scott Miller, and
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  Speaker 2: we were asked to cover Hurricane Michael basically for the
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  Speaker 2: entire state of Georgia. And it was going to be a,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to start you guys and you'll cover it
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  Speaker 2: until it's over.
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  Speaker 3: And we thought, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Columbus was strategically placed in an area where we were
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  Speaker 2: going to have some bad weather, but nothing was going
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  Speaker 2: to be, we weren't expected to get it really bad.
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  Speaker 2: So this seemed to be the place that made sense
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  Speaker 2: as like the hub. And John Clark with Georgia News Network,
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  Speaker 2: our friend, came down and sat in with us. So
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  Speaker 2: the three of us did this for 13 straight hours,
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  Speaker 2: no commercials, no interruptions. It was just us talking about
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  Speaker 2: the weather for 13 hours and getting people through that experience.
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  Speaker 2: And the three of us were nominated, and we won
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  Speaker 2: the Gabby for weather coverage that year for radio. So
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  Speaker 2: John's been a good friend for a long time, and
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  Speaker 2: so I got to spend time with him. I sat
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  Speaker 2: at the table with the Georgia News Network people. Liz
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy was a winner for Best Reporter. for large market radio. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and she was at our table. She's been with the
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  Speaker 2: Georgia news network for a while. Uh, and then the
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  Speaker 2: category of, uh, podcast series came up for large market
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  Speaker 2: radio and yeah, made of stars grab the Gabby award for, uh, for,
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  Speaker 2: for best podcast series. So, uh, bittersweet in that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sean's not there. But Jill and I were there to–
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  Speaker 2: she was there to support me, and I accepted the
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  Speaker 2: award on behalf– not just on behalf of you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sean and I winning the award, but also another part
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  Speaker 2: of the team that doesn't really, you know, they're on
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  Speaker 2: every episode, but they're not necessarily, you know, they're not
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  Speaker 2: live on every episode. The other two parts of the
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  Speaker 2: team for us, and that is Joey Williams, who's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic voiceover artist and a good friend of mine. And
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  Speaker 2: then Graham Hobson, if you've ever listened to the Made
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  Speaker 2: of Stars podcast, he came up with a theme song.
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  Speaker 3: I reached out to.
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  Speaker 2: Him and I was like, look, and he's in Australia
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  Speaker 2: and his wife sang it at my wedding in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: And I reached out to Graham and I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we're looking for. And he said, just
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  Speaker 2: send me like a sample of the podcast and then I'll,
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  Speaker 2: I'll work on it for you. And immediately he got
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  Speaker 2: the tone of the show, everything that we wanted. So
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of every show is Joey and Graham, uh,
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  Speaker 2: introing the show, uh, in their two different forms. So
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  Speaker 2: they were part of this too. And, uh, it's again, flattering.
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  Speaker 2: It's an honor to have my name on another trophy with, uh,
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  Speaker 2: with those three guys. And if you're one of the
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  Speaker 2: listeners that I share here with Made of Stars, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for listening to that. Thank you for listening to this.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you on every episode of each show for that.
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  Speaker 2: But certainly a great weekend, and we'll talk more about
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  Speaker 2: it on Made of Stars. Now, the tricky part of this,
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  Speaker 2: because of Sean's trip to Italy, we had to record
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  Speaker 2: this week's Made of Stars show that comes out on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: a week early. so we, we talk about the Gabby's,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't know when we were recording if we'd
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  Speaker 2: won yet or not. So, uh, that'll be on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: next week's show. So this week's show already in the can,
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  Speaker 2: as they say. And then, uh, next week we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: more about all of that, but, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, great weekend. Thank you to the GAB.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to whoever cast whatever votes to decide that
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  Speaker 2: we were in fact, the winners for this award. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I say it all the time. I mean, it's fun
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  Speaker 2: to have this experience. It's fun to go up and win. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: but just doing the show with my friend is, is,
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  Speaker 2: is serious. It sounds corny, but it's just, that's what,
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  Speaker 2: that was the whole point was to do this show
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 3: And when we started.
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  Speaker 2: It there, I don't even know that there, maybe I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know, or I don't know if they even had
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  Speaker 2: a best podcast series, Gabby award back then.
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  Speaker 3: But, um, That was never the goal.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, let's do this so we can win
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  Speaker 2: some podcast awards.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great feeling, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And to know there's a lot of very good podcasts
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  Speaker 2: that get done in the state of Georgia. So to
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  Speaker 2: rise to the top every now and then a couple
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  Speaker 2: times certainly feels good. And to know that you're even
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  Speaker 2: in that group with people. And large market is primarily Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: And we are, even though we do the show out
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  Speaker 2: of Columbus, we are part of the Atlanta hub because
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  Speaker 2: we get some promotion help with Georgia news network. So, and,
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  Speaker 2: and some interviews and things with them. So, and we
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  Speaker 2: are part of that. I heart radio podcast network. So,
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  Speaker 2: and you may listen on a different network and that's
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  Speaker 2: fine too, but anyway, so thank you for, if you listen,
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  Speaker 2: to that show. If you haven't checked us out before
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  Speaker 2: over there, uh, by all means, please check it out. Uh, quickly,
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  Speaker 2: just one thing that I want to talk about, cause
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of, I caught this, uh, over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and, uh, this whole idea, I saw John Fetterman
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  Speaker 2: talking about, he's again being pressed on the idea of
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  Speaker 2: him maybe changing parties. Would he become an independent or
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  Speaker 2: would he become a Republican? Um, He had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a slip in an interview that he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess this was at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: And he slipped up, and he was asked about that,
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  Speaker 2: and he said something about he couldn't change because he's
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  Speaker 2: been a lifelong Republican, and he was like, ah, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to.
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  Speaker 3: Have to clip that out.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things that he addressed, and he
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  Speaker 2: has no plans to leave the Democrat Party, but he
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  Speaker 2: talked about this whole idea of the Democrat Big Tent.
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  Speaker 2: and how it seems now that there is more room
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  Speaker 2: for the America Deserve 9-11 crowd than.
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  Speaker 3: There is for those who support Israel.
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  Speaker 2: The way that he made the remark, and it sounded
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  Speaker 2: like he kind of slipped up and said it like
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  Speaker 2: he was a supporter of America Deserve 9-11, but he
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  Speaker 2: was specifically talking about Hassan Piker, who has been connected
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  Speaker 2: with many of the DSA candidates, People that people, especially
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  Speaker 2: in Michigan, should be paying attention to Hasan Piker. We've
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  Speaker 2: discussed that here several times. But he went back and
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  Speaker 2: had to make sure to clarify that he's saying, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the I support Israel side and not in
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  Speaker 2: the America Deserve 9-11 side. He's just saying it feels
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  Speaker 2: like there is more room under this big tent for
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  Speaker 2: them to than there is for people who support Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And the number of Democrats showing support for Israel has
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  Speaker 2: dropped tremendously. And it makes you wonder, are Jewish Americans
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to this? Are they more concerned with what
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  Speaker 2: they voted in the past than they are about where
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  Speaker 2: things are headed for the party? But what does it say?
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  Speaker 2: that Fetterman is actually aware of the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: could be pushed out. And he has said, if they
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  Speaker 2: decide they don't want me in the party anymore and
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  Speaker 2: they decide to push me aside because I'm willing to
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  Speaker 2: vote with Republicans, because I do support Israel, if they
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  Speaker 2: decide they don't want me anymore and that happens, then
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. But to know that this
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  Speaker 2: is a party that will not stand up to candidates
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  Speaker 2: supported by Hassan Piker, That is not a party that
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  Speaker 2: will say we do not, because I'm baffled at the
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  Speaker 2: idea of candidates getting support from the Democrat party and
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  Speaker 2: saying that they want them in, they want them under
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  Speaker 2: the tent because they're more concerned with that extreme far left,
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  Speaker 2: to me, very dangerous ideology. And you can say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we don't support Israel, but we support Jews. That's not
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  Speaker 2: what everybody is saying. That's what some people are saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what everybody's saying. And it's not what some
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  Speaker 2: of these candidates have consistently said. It's what they may
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  Speaker 2: be saying now, because they know we're a little over
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  Speaker 2: a month away from election day. But it's scary to
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  Speaker 2: me to think that they could potentially excommunicate Fetterman from
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  Speaker 2: the party, and he's aware of this, but they're completely
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  Speaker 2: fine with some of these extremist people on the far left.
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  Speaker 2: It's a scary place that we're in, and I still
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  Speaker 2: say that party has got to get things under control
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  Speaker 2: or they cease to become a party. Or, as I've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to say, if they do, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: blue wave happens and and they are able to take
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  Speaker 2: control of both parts of Congress, and they're able to
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  Speaker 2: take the House, they're able to take the Senate, then
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  Speaker 2: there could be justification for continuing with this push to
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  Speaker 2: the left even more. And it could be a bigger
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the new words added to the dictionary.
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  Speaker 2: This is not one of the new words being added
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  Speaker 2: to the dictionary. Not yet.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it will be at some point.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I would like to see this one
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  Speaker 2: added with some of those other words because I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not overly familiar with this practice. This is not
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  Speaker 2: something that has intruded into my life yet. But I
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  Speaker 2: think it is probably one of those situations where my
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  Speaker 2: age is probably what prevents it because I'm probably more
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  Speaker 2: endangered I'm probably more in danger of being in the
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  Speaker 2: age group that would actually create this rather than being
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  Speaker 2: the victim of this in some way. So here's what
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  Speaker 2: we got. The term is grandma slop. Now you've heard
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  Speaker 2: me talk about AI slop and you've heard me talk
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  Speaker 2: about how much my family loves the slop thing when they,
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  Speaker 2: when you see these ads that are and I, and
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  Speaker 2: I talked about the, the one that's clearly cloned and
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  Speaker 2: is using Steve Harvey's voice in it. And that's horrible, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you shouldn't be borrowing anyone's voice in any
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  Speaker 2: capacity to use in an ad. And it's clearly an
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  Speaker 2: attempt at trying to piggyback off of Steve Harvey's voice.
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  Speaker 3: And all of that is slop.
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  Speaker 2: Although, from a slop standpoint, that's some of the best
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  Speaker 2: slop because it's terrible what they're doing. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that sounds like it's contradictory, but to me, when you
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  Speaker 2: hear it and you go, they're faking Steve Harvey's voice
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  Speaker 2: so that they can do this commercial that clearly he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't given authorization to use his voice in.
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  Speaker 3: And I go, bad form.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking as someone who uses his voice professionally, who's gotten
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  Speaker 2: these offers before where they say, oh, if you sign
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  Speaker 2: over your voice, we'll do all the work for you
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  Speaker 2: and it'll just be your voice and you'll.
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  Speaker 3: Get paid for it. And it's like, that's not how
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  Speaker 3: this works.
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  Speaker 2: But at some point, as many podcasts as there are
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  Speaker 2: of me in existence, somebody could just steal my voice.
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  Speaker 2: And I would be very upset by that and would
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  Speaker 2: do everything that I'm sure Steve Harvey would do. I
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  Speaker 2: hope he's doing. Anyway, so you've heard me talk positive
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  Speaker 2: about slop. But this is one of those slop situations
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  Speaker 2: that I could have a laugh about. But I understand
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  Speaker 2: people are concerned about it. So grandma slop. is basically
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  Speaker 2: when grandparents are going into AI services, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Muse one, whatever it's called, the Facebook one.
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  Speaker 2: And they're basically creating photos, AI photos, fake family memories, storybooks,
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  Speaker 2: and Things like taking the grandkids and making it like
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  Speaker 2: they're on the Polar Express or that they're posing with
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  Speaker 2: Santa in a photo that never really happened. And these
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  Speaker 2: things never existing, but the photos and videos coming into existence.
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  Speaker 2: Some grandparents see it as a way to celebrate family,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of parents not appreciating it. Their concerns
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  Speaker 2: range from privacy and consent to the idea of creating
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  Speaker 2: memories that never existed in the first place. Trend is
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  Speaker 2: highlighting that growing generational divide. Older relatives think it's harmless fun.
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  Speaker 2: Younger people worry about what happens to those images once
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  Speaker 2: they're uploaded into AI platforms. It's a real thing, and
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  Speaker 2: it's similar to this whole voice thing. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep all that in mind if you start getting tempted
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  Speaker 2: to dive into the world of grandma slop. Your kids
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  Speaker 2: may not appreciate it. And even long-term, the grandkids may
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  Speaker 2: also not appreciate it. So keep that in mind as well.
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  Speaker 2: KFC has teamed up with the UK cereal brand Surreal.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's like cereal, but Surreal.
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  Speaker 2: To create a limited edition cereal season with KFC's famous
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  Speaker 2: 11 herbs and spices. I think they call it herbs
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  Speaker 2: in the UK. I know they do in Australia. But
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  Speaker 2: here we would say 11 herbs and spices. But for
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  Speaker 2: their purposes, maybe 11 herbs and spices. And no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not making that up. That's really how they say it
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  Speaker 2: in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about the UK. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So they don't want you to put milk on it.
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  Speaker 2: They want you to pour gravy on the cereal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So chicken and gravy for breakfast. It's like biscuits and gravy,
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  Speaker 2: I guess. But there's no actual chicken in... The cereal
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  Speaker 2: has 19 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar, and
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  Speaker 2: I guess even gravy cereals need you to be able
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  Speaker 2: to hit your macros. So available in the UK for now,
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  Speaker 2: but if it does catch on, could be making its
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  Speaker 2: way to the US. Maybe a side of biscuits, because
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  Speaker 2: if you've got biscuits and gravy, it's all good, right?
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show.
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