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This Is What We Have Become Capable of · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, fourth day of August. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me talk about climate change. I don't know about
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Speaker 2: where you are. I can just speak for where I live,
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Speaker 2: where a large chunk of our listeners live. We're based
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Speaker 2: out of the Chattahoochee Valley area. It's where this show
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Speaker 2: started on radio and worked its way into this format
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Speaker 2: as well. It went from you know, you could just
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Speaker 2: take you could just take shrimp, put them outside and
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Speaker 2: they would have steam cooked or boiled, just sitting outside
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Speaker 2: in the humidity and in the heat. That's what we
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Speaker 2: were dealing with. And then suddenly it just all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, we had this weather come through, this severe weather.
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Speaker 2: We had some heavy rain and we started our Sunday
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Speaker 2: with a lot of humidity, but the temperatures were down
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Speaker 2: and it was very deceptive because you thought, wow, we're
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Speaker 2: in the seven mid seventies to low seventies. Seems like
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be nice. And before church yesterday, Jelle and
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Speaker 2: I went for a walk with the dog and we thought,
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Speaker 2: let's get out there in this and enjoy it. And
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Speaker 2: as soon as we stepped outside, it was like walking
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Speaker 2: just into a steam room. It was very, very humid.
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Speaker 2: And we did our walk and thought, well, okay, well
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Speaker 2: this is what we're dealing with, okay, And then by
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Speaker 2: you know, mid afternoon yesterday, it started to feel really nice.
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Speaker 2: And it's been a nice break. Obviously it's not gonna last,
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Speaker 2: but we got a little bit of a break from
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Speaker 2: all of the heat and the nastiness. Now. I know
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Speaker 2: you may be saying to yourself, you know, shut up, Wes.
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Speaker 2: You were in Australia in wintertime, just like weeks ago. True,
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Speaker 2: and I can't say that I don't deserve to have
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Speaker 2: come back to boiling hot weather in the southeast US
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Speaker 2: and had to just endure it. Because we did. We
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Speaker 2: got quite a bit of a break from it. However,
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at it more like this, Hey, I brought
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Speaker 2: some cooler weather for everybody to enjoy. That's how I'm
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Speaker 2: looking at it. I like to think that that's what's happened.
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Speaker 2: It's not that I'm catching another break. That's not what
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Speaker 2: it is. I'm just trying to share what we were
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Speaker 2: enjoying while we were on our trip. That's all. It's simple,
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Speaker 2: not overly complicated. I just want to be able to
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Speaker 2: pass along what we were getting in some of our
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Speaker 2: nicer weather days, and we still had some heat and humidity,
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Speaker 2: not so much humidity, we had quite a bit of
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Speaker 2: heat at times. Relatively speaking, nothing what was going on here,
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Speaker 2: but for wintertime it was certainly warmer. But it's been nice.
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Speaker 2: One of those things where you just go sit outside
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Speaker 2: and enjoy just being outside. Just go outside. We have
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Speaker 2: a nice screened in deck. We just sit out there.
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Speaker 2: We haven't been able to do that since we've been
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Speaker 2: home from our trip because it's just been awful, you know,
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Speaker 2: like sitting on the surface of Venus. Awful. That's what
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Speaker 2: we've been. But you guys dealt with that while I
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Speaker 2: was gone, So I can't sit here and act like,
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Speaker 2: you know, boohoo cried too much about it. I just
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Speaker 2: know that it was nice to be able to sit
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Speaker 2: outside last night. A lot going on today. We got
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Speaker 2: back to school for many in our area. Some started
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Speaker 2: late last week, some starting later this week, depending on
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Speaker 2: where you are. I know, if you're outside of this
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Speaker 2: part of the southeast. I've got one friend his kid
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Speaker 2: doesn't go back until like after Labor Day, and that's
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Speaker 2: just all regional depending on where you live.
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Speaker 1: I get that.
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Speaker 2: But for many in our listening area, back to school today.
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Speaker 2: So in just a short while from when I'm recording,
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Speaker 2: people will be doing that first day of school drop off,
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Speaker 2: which it's hectic, it's crazy, it's confusing, especially if it's
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Speaker 2: your first day at a new school and then comes
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Speaker 2: the afternoon hallacious first day. Really the whole first week
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Speaker 2: of after school pickup, it's pretty nasty. It's not fun,
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Speaker 2: it's not good. We have to all work together to
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Speaker 2: get through it.
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Speaker 1: We can do this.
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Speaker 2: We can all do this together. We have to work
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Speaker 2: to make it work. We have to be considerate of others.
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Speaker 2: I know it's a tall order, but we can do it.
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Speaker 2: We have to take the opportunity that we have presented
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Speaker 2: to us to go. If your child gets in the
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Speaker 2: car and you've got a clear path in front of
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Speaker 2: you and there are no kids, no other cars, no
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Speaker 2: other adults, no humans, no animals, just go. Paul Riser
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Speaker 2: had a great bit from his book and his stand
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Speaker 2: up from back in the Day, back before he did
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Speaker 2: Mad About You. I guess where He just said, look
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Speaker 2: there'd be no traffic if everybody would just go. It's wise,
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Speaker 2: it's funny, it's observational, it's true, there would be none
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Speaker 2: if you would just go. So keep that in mind.
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Speaker 2: Be aware that the speed zone cameras that none of
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Speaker 2: us are especially happy about. There's some people who say
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Speaker 2: that they are, but they're not going to be happy
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Speaker 2: when they get popped because the camera. You know, there's
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Speaker 2: all these stories of people saying, I was driving through
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Speaker 2: that area and it was it was Sunday, and I
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Speaker 2: still got a ticket and I just paid it, and
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Speaker 2: I thought, well's you probably shouldn't have paid that. Those
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Speaker 2: are only supposed.
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Speaker 1: To be getting you.
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Speaker 2: And again, you gotta be going, they said, according to
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Speaker 2: our mayor, according to skip you know, eleven miles over
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Speaker 2: the speed limit. I think you said eleven, but all right,
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be getting you for doing up to ten or
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Speaker 2: eleven over the school zone speed limit on a Sunday.
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Speaker 2: So if you were doing eleven twelve over on the weekend,
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Speaker 2: that's on you. But I know there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people are that aren't happy with it, just because of
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Speaker 2: the fact that this has got a private company that's
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Speaker 2: put these things in and you know, a portion of
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Speaker 2: it goes to the city, which schools became the main
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Speaker 2: focus for it. All those sorts of things. I get it.
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Speaker 2: I understand. You just need to be aware of the fact.
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Speaker 2: Probably shouldn't drive on those roads unless you have to.
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Speaker 2: I don't like it because one of the roads in
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Speaker 2: particular that has those cameras now one that I regularly
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Speaker 2: drive on. Not happy about it. I get it, it's inconvenient,
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Speaker 2: but I kind of have to go around it if
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Speaker 2: I can help it, especially on the first week of school.
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Speaker 2: That's the other thing I got to tell you. Look,
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Speaker 2: today you don't have a kid in school, there's going
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Speaker 2: to be that window of time when schools are getting out.
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Speaker 2: Just don't go near a school. You gotta remember you
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Speaker 2: got to put a you know, put a rubber band
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Speaker 2: on your wrist or something today and if you start
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Speaker 2: to head out and you're driving and you see the
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Speaker 2: rubber band, go oh, it's three o'clock. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to go anywhere near school. It's all you can do.
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Speaker 2: Stay away from the school best you can. All right,
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Speaker 2: this is the part where I got to talk about
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Speaker 2: Dragon on pregame show. But there's a reason I'm talking
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Speaker 2: about it today more so than just to mention our
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Speaker 2: sponsor at Columbus State University's co Cola Space Scienset. I've
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Speaker 2: done that. I appreciate their sponsorship of the show. I
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Speaker 2: have to talk about a past edition of it back
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Speaker 2: in twenty eleven available on the podcast for the show.
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Speaker 2: You can listen to it now. My interview with Lonnie
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Speaker 2: Anderson back in twenty eleven. The pregame show featured Lonnie
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Speaker 2: Anderson and a TV icon okay, Elvira an icon period
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Speaker 2: and the great Ernest borgnine Ernie film and TV icon
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Speaker 2: as well Oscar winner Ernest borgnine. That was the pregame
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Speaker 2: show then. I mean three of these legends for this
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Speaker 2: show back in twenty eleven. But Lonnie Anderson, who and
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Speaker 2: Ernest borgnin of course has passed away years ago, and
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Speaker 2: he was a sweet man. Loved my conversation with him,
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Speaker 2: loved talking with Elvira, getting to know her a little bit.
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Speaker 2: She was a lot of fun, great with her fans
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Speaker 2: at Dragon Con. But Lonnie Anderson I talked with her
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Speaker 2: before obviously before Dragon Con that year for the pregame
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Speaker 2: show and spent some time with her at the convention.
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Speaker 2: And we talked about Bert Reynolds, We talked about her career,
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Speaker 2: We talked about her work as a voice actor. She
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Speaker 2: was Blondie on the TV series The Cartoon for you know,
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Speaker 2: bringing Dagwood and Blondie to life, and her just multiple
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Speaker 2: roles on TV, but obviously the one that most people
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Speaker 2: knew her for was for WKRP in Cincinnati. A lot
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Speaker 2: of radio people is the reason they got into radio
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Speaker 2: in some way, that show had an influence. There probably
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Speaker 2: was some influence there. For me, it wasn't a lot.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't one of those things. For me, it was like, man,
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Speaker 2: this is why I have to get into radio, just
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Speaker 2: being honest. Show was fun. I liked it. It was funny.
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Speaker 2: There were a lot of things about it that I liked.
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Speaker 2: I can't say that, you know, WKRP made me not
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Speaker 2: want to be in radio, but I can't specifically like
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Speaker 2: many people say, boy, I just had to do it.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there was something to it there. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: that there was. And when I interviewed Lonnie, I probably
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Speaker 2: at the time may have even felt more so like
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Speaker 2: it was an influence. But anyway, so I chatted with her,
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Speaker 2: got to spend some time with her at dragon Con.
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Speaker 2: She was such a nice lady. She was so sweet
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Speaker 2: and I really appreciated every bit of time that I
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Speaker 2: had with her talking with her and in person and
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Speaker 2: on the phone for the interview. And you can check
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Speaker 2: that out on the Dragon Con pregame show podcast twenty
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Speaker 2: eleven show Lonnie Anderson. I also recommend listening to the
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Speaker 2: others on there, the Ernest borgnine and Elvira. I had
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Speaker 2: fun with him as well. But I had a chance
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Speaker 2: to talk to Ernest borgnine about a movie that was
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Speaker 2: important in my childhood but not really a popular movie
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Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination. It was a movie
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Speaker 2: he did called super Fuzz. It wasn't a good movie
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Speaker 2: at all, but I enjoyed it. I forced one of
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Speaker 2: my kids to watch it. Forced the other one yet,
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Speaker 2: but it's coming. His day's coming. Sometimes you have to
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Speaker 2: be able to appreciate bad movies. So check it out.
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Speaker 2: And again our sponsor for this year's coverage, and we
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Speaker 2: they say, I've got to do some editing on it,
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Speaker 2: but had a great talk with her. They'll both be
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Speaker 2: part of the pregame show. I got two more interviews
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Speaker 2: that I'm waiting to get booked, and I hope to
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Speaker 2: have those announcements soon. All right, So, speaking of Cincinnati,
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Speaker 2: thought it was worth taking a little time to talk
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Speaker 2: about this. Look, this beating that took place in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: Two people who got jumped and just absolutely pummeled in
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Speaker 2: the streets. And there's not a lot to say about
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Speaker 2: this other than I get scared when I think of
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Speaker 2: what we have become as a society, what we've become
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Speaker 2: capable of. I think that's probably the better way to
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Speaker 2: put it, more so than what we've become, but what
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Speaker 2: we've become capable of. I know there's more things that
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Speaker 2: are coming out about the reason, the cause for this,
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Speaker 2: and what it was we've had this now. I guess
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Speaker 2: there's you can hear someone yelling a racial slur out
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Speaker 2: right before everything happens, and that's been one of the
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Speaker 2: things people have said, Oh, these people said something racist,
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Speaker 2: that it was race related, and I know the mayor
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Speaker 2: basically has said there is it's a racial issue, but
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Speaker 2: he's vowing charges for everyone involved. And I guess this
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Speaker 2: comes after the pastor was calling it a racial issue.
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Speaker 2: But the mayor, they're saying there's going to be charges,
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Speaker 2: and I know they've arrested I think four people or
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Speaker 2: five people, whatever it is. What concerns me other than
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Speaker 2: just how graphic this beating was. And now the images
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Speaker 2: we've seen of the woman who was sucker punched and beaten,
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Speaker 2: and now she's saying or that her people are saying,
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Speaker 2: it's severe brain trauma and it's not acceptable. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to defend someone calling out racial slurs. That's
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Speaker 2: not what I'm doing. But we have to remind ourselves
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Speaker 2: that if we're going to say that we have free speech,
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Speaker 2: if we're going to say that we defend free speech,
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Speaker 2: we have to understand that free speech sometimes involves people
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Speaker 2: saying things that we don't like. Imagine if every time
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Speaker 2: someone yelled out, you know, from the river to the sea,
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Speaker 2: or you know, kill the Jews. Are all these things
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Speaker 2: that are going on in this what people are calling
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Speaker 2: we just want the rights for Palestine. We're gays for Palestine,
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Speaker 2: and these things, And imagine if some of the really
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Speaker 2: hateful rhetoric that's been said was taken this seriously by
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Speaker 2: the Jewish people who've been you know, called to be exterminated,
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Speaker 2: and you would think that we've calls that serious. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of surprising we haven't had more fights or conflict there,
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Speaker 2: but good for people involved that haven't, because if we're
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Speaker 2: going to say that people have free speech, if we're
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Speaker 2: going to say that people can say whatever they want
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Speaker 2: to in the context of these protests, or if we
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Speaker 2: want to say that people have the right to say
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Speaker 2: whatever it is that they want to say in public
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Speaker 2: short of you know, the things that could specifically cause
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I think about how we've had people
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Speaker 2: calling or Trump's assassination or you know, haha, I'm glad
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Speaker 2: they tried to shoot him. They just missed. They need
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Speaker 2: to sight in their scope better in those things. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I saw all of that, and those people weren't dragged
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Speaker 2: out in the street and beaten by people in red hats.
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Speaker 2: That's not what happened. Again, I'm not defending anybody throwing
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Speaker 2: out racial slurs, That's not what I'm doing. But someone
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Speaker 2: throwing out racial slurs doesn't constitute them being beaten within
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Speaker 2: an inch of their life. That's not who we are,
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Speaker 2: that's not our justice system. That's not what we're supposed
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Speaker 2: to be about. We're supposed to be better than that.
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Speaker 2: We're all the people that were there that could have
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Speaker 2: stepped in and tried to help. Were they just scared?
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Speaker 2: Do they see this mob and they think and I
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Speaker 2: know at the very end, I guess someone stepped in
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Speaker 2: and helped. But do they just see the mob and
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Speaker 2: they just think, I can't get involved. I started thinking
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Speaker 2: about it, and I thought, Man, what what do you
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Speaker 2: do if you're witnessing this and you're the only person
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Speaker 2: that seems willing to step up and defend them?
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Speaker 1: Do you do it?
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Speaker 2: And then you hope that other people will step up.
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Speaker 2: The finale of the show, Seinfeld featured this ridiculous premise.
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Speaker 2: They called it the Samaritan law. They were seeing someone
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Speaker 2: getting mugged and they didn't do anything to help, and
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Speaker 2: that's what they got charged with. And that's what brought
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Speaker 2: about the ridiculous ending for that show, unless you count
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Speaker 2: the Kurby your Enthusiasm kind of correction that they kind
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Speaker 2: of did, because they kind of did fix it in
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Speaker 2: the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, But but it
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Speaker 2: does you think that it's ridiculous to think of a
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Speaker 2: Samaritan law. But I'm not pro any new laws that
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Speaker 2: basically tell people what to do. But sometimes you think,
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Speaker 2: if only there was a way to charge. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're having a hard time charging the people involved, so
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Speaker 2: they can't really charge the people who didn't help. But
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Speaker 2: you think about it and you go, well, if people
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Speaker 2: were just standing around recording it, which is what they
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Speaker 2: were doing on the Seinfeld episode. Interestingly, it wasn't cell phones,
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Speaker 2: it was an actual camcorder I think the Kramer had.
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Speaker 2: But it is an interesting thought. Would we do anything
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Speaker 2: any differently or would people just saying, ah, I gom,
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Speaker 2: I right to record it. I got to do that. Again.
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Speaker 2: I'm not advocating for that law. It's not what I'm doing,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not defending anybody throwing out racial slurs. That's
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Speaker 2: not what I'm doing at all. But it scares me
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Speaker 2: what we've become capable of. They were able to just
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Speaker 2: be an angry mob of people and attack somebody because
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Speaker 2: of something that they said, and that no one seems
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Speaker 2: willing to try to stop it. They're only worried about
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Speaker 2: getting the video so that they can get whatever the
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Speaker 2: five minutes or fifteen minutes or whatever you get out
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Speaker 2: of having that video shared on the news. And that's
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Speaker 2: all that they want. They don't care about the human
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Speaker 2: there's no humanity. I mean, looking at the images of
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Speaker 2: this woman, her face, and you can tell just beaten
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Speaker 2: to within an inch of her life. I don't even
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Speaker 2: know that we know who said the racial slur. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that it should matter. This is what we've
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Speaker 2: become capable of. It's pretty scary. Today's show brought to
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Speaker 2: the break, well, do you have August blues? Now that
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Speaker 2: the month of August is upon us, it can be
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Speaker 2: a downer for a lot of people. Basically summer's winding down.
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Speaker 2: For some that means all the fun that comes with
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Speaker 2: summer and warm weather goes away. Some it just makes
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Speaker 2: them aware of the fact that maybe they didn't do
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Speaker 2: a lot for their summer break, if they had a
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Speaker 2: summer break or their family had a summer break, didn't
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Speaker 2: do the things they hoped to do or plan to do.
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Speaker 2: Others get overwhelmed by back to school, back to work,
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Speaker 2: or scheduling starts to become a thing, especially if there's
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Speaker 2: someone going back to school in your life, and then
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Speaker 2: I suppose it's the thing that I talk about a lot,
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Speaker 2: and it's not so much that I dread it. I
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Speaker 2: just the thing that I have dread and issues with
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Speaker 2: myself is how quickly time goes by, especially that I'm
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Speaker 2: now a parent of two teenagers and one is now
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Speaker 2: a junior in high school. The other is in eighth
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Speaker 2: grade taking a tenth grade class in high school. So
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Speaker 2: that's where my reality is right now, and I'm feeling
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Speaker 2: all of those things going by so quickly, and we're
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Speaker 2: coming up on that time of year where it all
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Speaker 2: starts to go. It seems so much faster, So I
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Speaker 2: get it. I don't really have so much blues about August,
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Speaker 2: but I do have that dread of where it just
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Speaker 2: feels like someone is slamming their foot on the gas
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Speaker 2: and we're going to be full throttle, and it'll be
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Speaker 2: January before we know it, and we're going to be
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Speaker 2: going what just happened? So, when it comes to dating,
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Speaker 2: gen Z started doing it on a budget. A new
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Speaker 2: survey by Bank of America says that fifty percent of
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Speaker 2: gen Z respondents said that they spent no money at
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Speaker 2: all on dating none. How does that work? Those who
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Speaker 2: did spend money on dates spent next to nothing. Twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent of men thirty percent of women say they
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Speaker 2: shelled out less than one hundred dollars a month. Instead
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Speaker 2: of spending money on nights out, they focused on their
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Speaker 2: financial future. More than half said they were putting more
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Speaker 2: money into savings, twenty four percent said they were paying
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Speaker 2: down debt. It's interesting that we have a generation that
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Speaker 2: is very focused on that apparently, and it's great. I
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Speaker 2: think that's one of those things that we should be
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Speaker 2: focused on. But I think it's also interesting that we're
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Speaker 2: hitting this time where some say that we're in danger
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Speaker 2: based on our birth rate of going extinct as a population.
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Speaker 2: There are people who say that one of them is
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk with concerns about low birth rates. It's something
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Speaker 2: that's been addressed even in this current administration at one point.
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Speaker 2: So interesting that folks are apparently not dating in a
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Speaker 2: certain age group, or they're doing very minimal with dates. Now,
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Speaker 2: I would like to hear this story with a follow
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Speaker 2: up on their finding thrifty or economical ways to go
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Speaker 2: on dates, rather than just that they're not going on dates.
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Speaker 2: At all. That's a little bit concerning speaking of dates.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to dating advice, it seems people would
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Speaker 2: rather turn to a bot than a friend. A survey
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Speaker 2: found that fifty seven percent of respondents said that they
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Speaker 2: trust AI more than the people they know when it
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Speaker 2: comes to dating advice, and the reason they see AI's
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Speaker 2: neutral and non judgmental advice is more useful than the
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Speaker 2: more biased opinions of family and friends. Fifty six percent
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Speaker 2: say AI is a helpful tool for dating, helping with
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Speaker 2: everything from generating first date topics of conversation to analyzing
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Speaker 2: text messages for red flags. I can get that. I
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Speaker 2: just think we got to be careful of how much
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Speaker 2: for trusting it, that's all. We have had this break
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Speaker 2: in hot temperatures, obviously, but a lot of the country
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Speaker 2: has been dealing with hot weather for a really long
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Speaker 2: time in the sense that it is summer. Everybody acts
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Speaker 2: so shocked that it gets so hot. But you know
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Speaker 2: the term when people talk about the dog days of summer.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry, we're going to get hot again. So we've
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Speaker 2: heard the term before and you just go, okay, well,
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Speaker 2: it means long hot days in the middle of summer.
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Speaker 2: But there's actually an ancient astrological origin to the term.
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Speaker 2: It dates back about five thousand years. The dog Days
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Speaker 2: were named after the dog star, serious which rises and
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Speaker 2: sets with the sun during that time of year. Ancient
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Speaker 2: Romans believe that the star's presence added extra heat to
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Speaker 2: the season, hence the name. They also believe that the
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Speaker 2: dog days were responsible for fevers, drought, bad luck, and
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Speaker 2: One is a classic Reese's Peanut butter cup with Oreo
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