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Death Culture · 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: Wednesday morning, second day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Dragon Con week. This is like, it's Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: but this is kind of our Thursday-ish show because Thursday
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Speaker 2: will be our Friday show as I will be At
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Speaker 2: DragonCon on Friday. So we'll do our strange and bizarre news.
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Speaker 2: We'll kick off the weekend tomorrow for you. How about that?
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Speaker 2: I will be at DragonCon. I will have some content
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Speaker 2: from the convention for you. As you know, if you've
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Speaker 2: been listening at all, unless this is your first day
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Speaker 2: tuning into the show, I host the DragonCon pregame show podcast.
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Speaker 2: I've been doing that for a number of years now.
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Speaker 2: I've lost track of when I started. It's my 25th
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Speaker 2: year covering DragonCon. It's not my 25th year doing the
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Speaker 2: pregame show. But I've got about, I mean, 15, 16
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Speaker 2: years of pregame show content for you that goes back
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Speaker 2: to interviews with people like Ernest Borgnine and Lonnie Anderson
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Speaker 2: and Elvira. And those were some of the most fun
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Speaker 2: interviews I did, especially Ernest Borgnine. Well, those were all great.
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Speaker 2: Those were all great interviews. Those were all fun. But
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Speaker 2: the show has primarily been something where I do interviews
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Speaker 2: before DragonCon, so I can tell you who's going to
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Speaker 2: be there this year. Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica and Lucifer.
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Speaker 2: Not a show that I watched. This is not my thing,
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Speaker 2: but certainly a large fan base for that. And I
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Speaker 2: told her I haven't watched any of those Hallmark Christmas movies,
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Speaker 2: but I'll watch hers. You know, she told me the
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Speaker 2: best one to watch. That's part of the interview this year.
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Speaker 2: You should check that out. I'll check one out this year, hers.
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Speaker 2: I think she's got two or three of those, and
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Speaker 2: she's working on a Lifetime movie now. So she'll be
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Speaker 2: there with a lot of the cast from Battlestar Galactica
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Speaker 2: this year, and I had a great time talking with her. Now,
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Speaker 2: that was part of the pregame show for this year,
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Speaker 2: and it aired on radio. It's available on podcast, powered
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Speaker 2: by Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center. All right,
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Speaker 2: so that is what the pregame show is. And what
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Speaker 2: I've started doing now is sometimes when I'm at these conventions,
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Speaker 2: at DragonCon specifically, I do interviews or press conferences or
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Speaker 2: things with people that are there. get a chance to
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Speaker 2: talk with them, and then that interview becomes what I'm
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Speaker 2: now referring to as game day versions of the pregame show.
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Speaker 2: And I've had some post-DragonCon interviews, interviews about other things
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Speaker 2: that people have going on. I talked with Cooper Andrews,
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Speaker 2: who has become a friend over the years, and we
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Speaker 2: talked about some things that he was working on, and
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Speaker 2: that was a post-game uh, uh, thing. So it was
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Speaker 2: just something that we did.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Dan Fogler was the other, uh, his friend that
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Speaker 2: we were, uh, telling him who's great, you know? So anyway, uh,
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Speaker 2: so I'll have some, some game day, uh, versions of
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Speaker 2: some content for you, uh, while I'm there, uh, at
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Speaker 2: dragon con and it will be on the dragon con
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Speaker 2: pregame show, uh, podcast as well. So, uh, but I'll be,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'll be there. I'll be there Friday. I'll
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Speaker 2: be there Thursday. I'm just going to do a show
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Speaker 2: for you, and then I'm going to get on the
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Speaker 2: road because that's what you've got to do when DragonCon
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Speaker 2: starts on Thursday. You've got to be there for the
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Speaker 2: start of it. So that's the plan for this week,
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Speaker 2: and we'll roll into the holiday weekend, and I'll see
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Speaker 2: you guys back on this on Tuesday. So it'll be
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Speaker 2: a little break for shows for us, which is a
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Speaker 2: great opportunity to get caught up on past shows or
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Speaker 2: some of the other shows that I do. Uh, so, uh,
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Speaker 2: thank you for, uh, uh, checking that out. Uh, if
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Speaker 2: you've already listened to the pregame show, uh, a few
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Speaker 2: things I want to talk about today. And I think
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Speaker 2: it's interesting, uh, as it's a number of people have, uh,
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Speaker 2: been very, uh, worked up. I mean, that's, uh, about it.
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Speaker 2: And a number of people have, uh, certainly, uh, been
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Speaker 2: vocal about it. People that I know that have been
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Speaker 2: very vocal about it. And it is something that has been,
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Speaker 2: depending on who you are, what your social media feed
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Speaker 2: looks like, what your algorithm looks like. But this, and
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend right now that I'm an
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Speaker 2: expert on this particular person because I've followed it only
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Speaker 2: very loosely in But I'm talking about this Lindsey Clancy
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Speaker 2: murder trial. And it's been interesting to me that like
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Speaker 2: a lot of true crime things, people, they hear a
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Speaker 2: little information and then suddenly they have a full grasp on,
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Speaker 2: they think that they have a full grasp on what's
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Speaker 2: going on, what's happened. They understand because of what information
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Speaker 2: has been disseminated to them. They certainly don't have all
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Speaker 2: the facts, and they certainly don't have any possible way
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Speaker 2: to have a decisive, definitive conclusion themselves being separated from
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Speaker 2: this whole thing. But this is the murder trial of
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Speaker 2: this woman who killed her three kids, five, three, and
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Speaker 2: eight months old. Five and three years old, eight months old.
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Speaker 2: And the prosecutors say it was intentional. The husband was
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Speaker 2: out doing errands. The defense says postpartum depression and cannot
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Speaker 2: be criminally responsible for the actions. That's the basis for
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Speaker 2: what all this was about. And it's just fascinating to
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Speaker 2: me how people can watch a little bit of this
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Speaker 2: trial or they can watch part of a documentary about
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Speaker 2: something else. and just say, I know, I know what happened.
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Speaker 2: I know exactly what happened because of what I was
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Speaker 2: told in this documentary or what I saw in this
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Speaker 2: trial or whatever it was. That's one part of this.
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Speaker 2: U2 has a lyric in a song called Last Night
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Speaker 2: on Earth. I love the song. It was on their
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Speaker 2: pop their Pop Mart tour, one of those albums that
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Speaker 2: some people like, some people didn't like, whatever. This particular
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Speaker 2: song may be my favorite song on that release, but
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Speaker 2: the lyric that I want to reference in this, and
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Speaker 2: it's a basic lyric, but it hits home on, and
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Speaker 2: when you think about what it means and how it's relevant,
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Speaker 2: But the lyric is, the less you know, the more
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Speaker 2: you believe. And it's one of those, you hear it
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Speaker 2: in a song and you cannot give it a second thought.
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Speaker 2: But if you're paying attention to a songwriter who has
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Speaker 2: crafted this and they put this in the song, and
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Speaker 2: that's what goes on in this scenario. People think they
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Speaker 2: know everything and they don't. There's an absence of information
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Speaker 2: that they have about whatever happened. But because they think
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Speaker 2: that they know, they're ready to throw their full belief
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Speaker 2: into this because there is a void. There is a
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Speaker 2: void of what they know and don't. There's information they
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Speaker 2: can't possibly know. Now, this lyric could apply to a
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Speaker 2: number of things, but I definitely think It applies here.
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Speaker 2: It applies a lot in politics. It applies a lot
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Speaker 2: in the things that we argue about online for no reason. Because, again,
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Speaker 2: I know. I know what happened. And I try to
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Speaker 2: tell you here on this show, and I've tried to
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Speaker 2: say it on radio, I don't know everything. I've had
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Speaker 2: people critical of me and my show before. They say,
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Speaker 2: I love listening to you, but I wish you were
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Speaker 2: just more, you'd get in there and kind of, kind of,
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Speaker 2: you know, I know, uh, like be more in and,
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Speaker 2: you know, just get people worked up. And that's not
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Speaker 2: what I do. That's the opposite of what I do. That's,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get you worked up. I just
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Speaker 2: want you to think that's all I want you to
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Speaker 2: pursue that knowledge that you're missing. That makes you believe
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Speaker 2: things that might not be true. That's all I want.
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Speaker 2: And that's what I try to do. I can't sit
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Speaker 2: here and pretend I know everything. I've got a baseline
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Speaker 2: and I've got a baseline for things. I know what
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Speaker 2: I believe when it comes to my faith. I know
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Speaker 2: what I believe when it comes to what the founders
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Speaker 2: intended for this country. I know, uh, what people died for.
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Speaker 2: And I know that we've effectively tried to urinate it away.
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Speaker 2: You know, this isn't on radio. I can say pit.
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Speaker 2: We're trying to piss it away. I mean, that's what
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Speaker 2: we're trying to do. Effectively, we have people that are
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Speaker 2: actively trying to take it down. So I'm telling you
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Speaker 2: about this particular case. These are people that think they know.
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Speaker 2: And then there's also the people who are defending this woman.
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Speaker 2: And they're just saying, you know, she should have a
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Speaker 2: right to do this. Or she's misunderstood. Or, you know,
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Speaker 2: the psychosis part of it is real. Now, maybe it is.
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Speaker 2: I certainly believe that that should be a baseline for
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Speaker 2: some kind of defense. You know, if somebody is really,
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Speaker 2: truly not criminally able to or not psychologically able to
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Speaker 2: face criminal charges. I think that's valid in some cases.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's valid in this case. I
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Speaker 2: have no idea. I saw that Edward Norton movie. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. And I can't pretend that I know one
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Speaker 2: way or the other. I just know that when I
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Speaker 2: see a group of women. crowded together outside a courthouse
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Speaker 2: defending this woman's right to kill her kids and not
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Speaker 2: be punished for it. I just think that sounds like
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Speaker 2: something else. It sounds like other things. It doesn't sound like, hey,
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Speaker 2: this woman had postpartum depression and it's not fair to
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Speaker 2: prosecute her. I think it sounds a little like other things.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's not it at all. I don't know. But
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Speaker 2: I do know that we've done a very good job
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Speaker 2: for a long time now in this country of saying,
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Speaker 2: we don't have to take care of the unborn. We
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Speaker 2: don't have to take care of the barely born. There
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Speaker 2: is a contingency of people. It's not a lot of them,
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Speaker 2: but there are people who think that a decision should
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Speaker 2: be able to be made right after the baby's born.
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Speaker 2: That's a sickness. That's a sickness. So I don't know.
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Speaker 2: And then you got comedians that joke, no, you should
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Speaker 2: be able to give them six months. Give them that
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Speaker 2: first report card. I've seen that in stand-up. And I go, eh.
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Speaker 2: That kind of sounds a little like this. Five, three,
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Speaker 2: and eight months old? Has that feel to it, doesn't it?
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Speaker 2: Let me offer this up, and I'm not the one
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Speaker 2: who specifically thought of this. I saw this just kind
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Speaker 2: of being thrown around by a few people in the
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Speaker 2: wrestling community. But there was a wrestler named Chris Benoit,
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Speaker 2: and he was a superstar in the WWE. And he
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Speaker 2: ended up killing his wife and kids and committing suicides
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Speaker 2: And this horrible story that happened. And then he kind
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Speaker 2: of got erased from like, they don't talk about him
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Speaker 2: in the WWE, uh, his whole career. Like, I don't
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Speaker 2: even know if you can still see any of his
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Speaker 2: matches anywhere online. You know, he's just kind of one
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Speaker 2: of those people that they don't talk about. And what
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Speaker 2: they did was after he died, they started like analyzing
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Speaker 2: his brain. And they basically came to the conclusion that
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Speaker 2: he had a CTE, like very bad CTE and had
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Speaker 2: basically the brain equivalent of someone with Alzheimer's in their
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Speaker 2: eighties and a very, um, uh, non-functional. And I would
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Speaker 2: say in, in, in this case, maybe somebody who wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have been able to be prosecuted for what happened. I'm
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Speaker 2: not defending it. And I wouldn't stand outside a courthouse
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Speaker 2: with a sign saying that he had a right to
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Speaker 2: do it or whatever. I don't, I don't know what,
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Speaker 2: I don't, I'm just pointing out the fact that we
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Speaker 2: have a very different approach to this. And maybe it's
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Speaker 2: because she's still alive and he's not. And people don't
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Speaker 2: feel this need to defend him. I don't know. But
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Speaker 2: it is a very different, like, it sounds to me
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Speaker 2: like if you're going to say that that would have
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Speaker 2: been the case, you should certainly say this other thing
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Speaker 2: would have been the case. I just know that in
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Speaker 2: a world where Luigi Mangione is considered a hero by
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Speaker 2: a lot of people. And I know some people who
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Speaker 2: think I'm not, I wouldn't say friends, but I know
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Speaker 2: some people who think Luigi Mangione was right in what
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Speaker 2: he did. I know people who had complaints about the
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Speaker 2: fact that the people who tried to kill Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: just missed or weren't trained well enough or unprepared hiding
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Speaker 2: outside the golf course and all those things. Like I
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Speaker 2: know people who have that mentality. I know people who
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Speaker 2: have the mentality that people being invited into the Capitol
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Speaker 2: was an insurrection, but the people who went to the
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Speaker 2: White House and were trying to get in the gate
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Speaker 2: to get Donald Trump out and kill him on the
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Speaker 2: lawn of the White House would not have been an insurrection.
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Speaker 2: They don't think of that as in any way insurrection.
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Speaker 2: Setting fire to a church to try to lure people
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Speaker 2: out so that maybe they could get in. They don't
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Speaker 2: see that as insurrection and that the people were right.
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Speaker 2: for trying to kill him and the number of people
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Speaker 2: who've talked about trying to kill Donald Trump or dreamed
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Speaker 2: about killing him or whatever. I know that we have this,
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Speaker 2: there's something that there's a sickness that is among us.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know about this Lindsay Clancy thing. I don't,
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Speaker 2: I can't tell you, uh, you know, exactly where her
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Speaker 2: mental state was. I don't know. I just know when
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Speaker 2: I see people standing outside defending her, it makes me
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Speaker 2: think of Luigi Mangione. A guy who allegedly, did he
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Speaker 2: finally plead guilty, I guess? He entered a plea. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, you kill somebody. I think he changed his
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Speaker 2: plea or whatever it was. Now I've got to look.
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Speaker 2: The point is, when you hear and see people Basically
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Speaker 2: saying that he, yeah, he did plead guilty. Okay, I
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Speaker 2: want to make sure. Because now I don't have to
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Speaker 2: say allegedly anymore, right, if he pleads guilty. Brian Thompson,
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Speaker 2: by the way. We don't say that guy's name enough,
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Speaker 2: the guy who was murdered. It's what it makes me
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Speaker 2: think about, the people that defend him. Well, he's a
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Speaker 2: good-looking guy. We should defend him. We should stick up
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Speaker 2: for the guy because he's kind of handsome. All right?
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Speaker 2: Remember the Deadpool killer? There's still, I think, women mailing
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Speaker 2: him underwear and stuff. Like, what are we doing? It's
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Speaker 2: a weird sickness that we have. It's fascination we have
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Speaker 2: with people that do bad things and we just excuse
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Speaker 2: it for whatever reason because it's kind of like abortion.
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Speaker 2: It's all right. Not a big deal. Comedians joke about it.
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Speaker 2: Get that first report card. I wish I could remember
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Speaker 2: the comedian who had that joke. Um, But the people who,
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Speaker 2: healthcare is bad. He killed a healthcare guy. That's what
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Speaker 2: he did. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Yeah, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot wrong with that. So this is kind of where
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Speaker 2: we are. We're just in this weird place where we
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Speaker 2: can get sucked into some headline story. We can just
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Speaker 2: watch a little bit of it on the news. We
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Speaker 2: can defend it. We can say, oh, she didn't do
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Speaker 2: anything wrong. How could she have done something wrong? We
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Speaker 2: can say that because we know a little bit of information.
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Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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Speaker 2: are you participating in a sober September? You know, dry
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Speaker 2: January is a thing. That's where people get through the holidays.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess they just start like Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: and they're just chugging down alcohol. Just, you know, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, by the keg full, they're just chugging, just
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Speaker 2: use like a can opener and crack open a keg
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Speaker 2: and they're just drinking and drinking nonstop. From Thanksgiving all
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Speaker 2: the way until Christmas is over and then New Year's
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Speaker 2: sober September is the time to not drink before the holidays.
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Speaker 2: So this is like the bookend thing. Sounds good to me.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I go many months without drinking any alcohol,
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Speaker 2: so it's not a huge challenge for me to have
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Speaker 2: any of these dry months. I will probably have a
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Speaker 2: couple of beverages at Dragon Con this weekend on different days.
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Speaker 2: I'll probably have one maybe on Thursday night. And then
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Speaker 2: I'll probably have one at some point over the course
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Speaker 2: of the weekend, but that's about it. Like never the same,
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Speaker 2: not the same day. I just spread them out. Um,
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Speaker 2: but I know that people like to use them as
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Speaker 2: a way to celebrate, uh, holidays and things. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to be, uh, you know, cracking open
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Speaker 2: the keg and just, uh, guzzling might be a good
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Speaker 2: idea to have your sober September. And then, uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: just start drinking like a madman, October, November, and December
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Speaker 2: and then dry January, you know. Or, you know, just
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Speaker 2: some basic moderation year-round. That would be a good plan.
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Speaker 2: Just some basic, you know, self-control moderation. And I know
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Speaker 2: not everybody has different levels that fall under moderation. You
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Speaker 2: be you. You do your thing. Sorry, sounds a little judgy.
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Speaker 2: I'm just... pointing out the fact that a little moderation,
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Speaker 2: maybe then you don't have to stop drinking for a
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Speaker 2: whole month if that's not what you want to do.
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Speaker 2: All right, speaking of celebrating the holidays, some people celebrate
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Speaker 2: being single, right? Some people like to celebrate being out
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Speaker 2: on their own. There's a new study that says personal
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Speaker 2: growth could be a benefit of being single. Researchers found
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Speaker 2: that people... who view being single as an opportunity rather
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Speaker 2: than a problem, are more likely to try new experiences,
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Speaker 2: learn new skills, explore hobbies, and expand their social circles.
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Speaker 2: It's tough to say, social circles. It's a little tricky
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Speaker 2: if you go real fast. The study introduced the idea
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Speaker 2: of singlehood self-expansion potential. That's a lot to say, too. Basically,
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Speaker 2: the idea is that being single can help you grow
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Speaker 2: as a person. Participants who embrace that mindset reported greater
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Speaker 2: life satisfaction, less anxiety about being single, and stronger feelings
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Speaker 2: of independence and confidence. And contrary to the stereotype of
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Speaker 2: the lonely single person, many weren't doing these activities alone.
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Speaker 2: 82% said friends and family played a major role in
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Speaker 2: these enriching experiences. So it's good, right? If you can
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Speaker 2: find something positive with it and It's the old adage of,
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Speaker 2: you know, you got to like yourself before you can
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Speaker 2: hope someone else would like you. I think that maybe
24:53
Speaker 2: falls a little bit under this, doesn't it? There's a
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Speaker 2: new dating trend that has some men intentionally missing showers
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Speaker 2: before a date. And they say it's in the name
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Speaker 2: of attraction. It's known as pheromone maxing. It encourages guys
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Speaker 2: to avoid deodorant, cologne, and bathing. So their natural scent
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Speaker 2: is more noticeable. Supporters believe a stronger body odor can
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Speaker 2: boost attractiveness by highlighting natural pheromones. Some true believers take
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Speaker 2: it to extremes like wearing unwashed shirts, drinking their own urine.
25:30
Speaker 2: Sorry if you're having Cheerios right now. So that you
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Speaker 2: can sweat out toxins. All right. Let me just say this.
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Speaker 2: And you know I love going to conventions like Dragon Con.
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Speaker 2: Really looking forward to it. But I'm going to tell
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Speaker 2: you this. When you're at DragonCon, if you're doing this
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Speaker 2: pheromone maxing thing, please, please let's pause it for that weekend.
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Speaker 2: Because we don't need that. There's 75,000 plus people all
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Speaker 2: crowded together. Bathe, deodorant, brush your teeth, all of those things.
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Speaker 2: And please don't drink your own urine. There's plenty of
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Speaker 2: water around the hotels. You shouldn't have to do that.
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Speaker 2: Not at all. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition
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