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Sports and Race Baiting · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, twenty second day of July.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: I want to begin by saying something, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's important to stress it. I think this is a
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  Speaker 2: disclaimer that I know that I've made it before, but
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  Speaker 2: I think in this context, I think it's important to
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  Speaker 2: say it. And you know, when I talk about like
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  Speaker 2: mental health, when I talked about the very rapid decline
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  Speaker 2: as gradual and it was rapid decline of cognition for
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  Speaker 2: the former President Biden, I would always preface it by saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mocking him. I know some people have found
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  Speaker 2: some joy and laughter, and the fact that I'm in
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  Speaker 2: was struggling with cognition and memories and dementia and whatever whatever,
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  Speaker 2: all of the things that were there, all the things
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  Speaker 2: that he was dealing with, I find no joy in that.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: And if you've ever had anyone in your life who
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  Speaker 2: has been through those things, you know it's nothing to
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  Speaker 2: laugh about. It's not something you wish on anyone. You
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  Speaker 2: don't wish it on your worst enemy. You never do that.
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  Speaker 2: Now I understand that there are people on the left
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  Speaker 2: now that are like hoping, they're looking for any possibility
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  Speaker 2: of a sign that you know, oh, I think Trump's
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  Speaker 2: got those problems now, and you know they're they're you know,
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  Speaker 2: hoping and want to be gleeful about it. And there
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been anything.
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  Speaker 3: Close to anything like that was going on with Biden.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we've seen anything, but that's it's
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  Speaker 2: very different. Like we on the right, we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone murdered in the.
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  Speaker 2: Street because they work for an insurance company. Right, we
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  Speaker 2: don't find joy in that. We don't or not. We
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  Speaker 2: don't get gleeful about, Hey, a dad got murdered. We
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  Speaker 2: don't get gleeful about like a shooting like Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get gleeful about attempted assassinations of Trump.
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  Speaker 3: We don't do that on the left.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not everybody, but it often starts to feel
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  Speaker 2: like you got people that are you know, revel and
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  Speaker 2: celebrate in those things, and it's awful if you've lost someone,
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  Speaker 2: you've lost someone to cognition problems or Alzheimer's or with
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  Speaker 2: dementia or any of those things. It's not something you
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  Speaker 2: would wish on anyone. And if you are true people
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  Speaker 2: of empathy, which is what we often hear from the left,
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  Speaker 2: like the right just doesn't have that empathy and they've
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  Speaker 2: got all the empathy on the left, then you can't
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  Speaker 2: sit back idly and just have people that you know
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  Speaker 2: or gleeful and celebrate death and.
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  Speaker 3: Murder and things.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, and as we talked about yesterday, the
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  Speaker 2: hope and prayers of bringing in communism, you can't sit
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  Speaker 2: idly by and let those things take place in your
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  Speaker 2: party and just kind of let it happen. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I say all of this just to say that there's
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  Speaker 2: things that we should not celebrate, okay, and I know
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  Speaker 2: that murder is to me.
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  Speaker 3: At the top of the list.
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  Speaker 2: Then I think, obviously like a close second is you
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  Speaker 2: don't celebrate someone getting cancer. You don't celebrate someone dying
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  Speaker 2: of some horrible memory or with some horrible memory and
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  Speaker 2: cognition issues that they're happening. You don't You could never
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  Speaker 2: celebrate someone losing someone from Alzheimer's or someone having dementia.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not to say there weren't some people on
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  Speaker 2: the right that were very distasteful about it with Biden
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  Speaker 2: because they were and there were folks on the left
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  Speaker 2: who at the last minute decided they were going to
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  Speaker 2: take that approach to all of it as well.
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  Speaker 3: And it's awful.
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  Speaker 2: It's just all if you've lost someone to a chronic disease,
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  Speaker 2: if you've lost someone that has just basically you know,
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  Speaker 2: lost their function or lost their ability to know who
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  Speaker 2: they are and who you are and all those things,
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  Speaker 2: you would never be able to sit back and joyfully
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  Speaker 2: watch it. You just couldn't do it. You can't celebrate suicide.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that. And these are all like the
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  Speaker 2: more serious things. But there's another thing to me as
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  Speaker 2: we're working our way down this list that also there's
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  Speaker 2: certain circumstances well maybe you do it, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think this is necessarily fully one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: you would you should be able to do it now,
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  Speaker 2: And understand what I'm saying, there's a there's a big
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  Speaker 2: gap where we're working our way down the list, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just letting you know also on my list of
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  Speaker 2: things that as a human being, I just I try
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  Speaker 2: not to celebrate, Okay, a reunize.
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  Speaker 3: This has built it up a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it sound like I'm about to say another
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  Speaker 2: absolutely horrifying thing, and it's this is more in the
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  Speaker 2: category of like when you see someone go through a
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  Speaker 2: divorce or you see someone and this is the thing,
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  Speaker 2: they lose their job, Okay, and I don't there used
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of me sometimes where especially if
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  Speaker 2: it was someone that I obviously didn't know, and I
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  Speaker 2: would find out, like a coach maybe loses their job.
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  Speaker 2: And then in some cases, you know, you can see
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  Speaker 2: a coach and go, they don't know what they're doing in.
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  Speaker 3: Sports, and they just don't have a clue.
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  Speaker 2: They're just hopeless at what they're doing and they're making
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  Speaker 2: the team worse and the people around them worse, and
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  Speaker 2: it's time for them to go. So that happens sometimes
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  Speaker 2: in sports, and it doesn't mean that you're happy about
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  Speaker 2: what's happening to them personally. It just means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for them to go. I always struggle, especially with media jobs,
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  Speaker 2: when people lose their job, because I've been part of them.
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  Speaker 2: I've been part of those cutbacks with companies before, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's awful. It's and when you work for a
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  Speaker 2: company that's always just cutting people, it's just a really
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  Speaker 2: tough way to live. It's a tough way to function
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  Speaker 2: because you're you're constantly looking over your shoulder, you're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the knife in the back from the company. And
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  Speaker 2: I worked for a couple of companies that that was
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  Speaker 2: how they handled business.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: Awful and it and and you know, the reasons that
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  Speaker 2: you get told that you're being laid off or let go,
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  Speaker 2: or that maybe the company's being sold or that they're
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  Speaker 2: downsizing this department or that department often not truthful. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes when they are truthful, you hear it and then
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  Speaker 2: you go, it's.
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  Speaker 3: A horrible reason to let somebody go.
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  Speaker 2: And I just say all of that to say that
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of conversation that was taking place yesterday
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  Speaker 2: about a they had a block of on air talent
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  Speaker 2: and I'm using the word talent loosely at ESPN, where
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  Speaker 2: they let some people go. Now ESPN has done this,
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  Speaker 2: They've acquired some NFL network and they've got some staff
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  Speaker 2: that they picked up through that they've decided they're going
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  Speaker 2: to make changes. This is part of those changes. And
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  Speaker 2: I just the part of me that says that, and
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  Speaker 2: some of the people that they let go may have
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  Speaker 2: just been salary reasons, some of them very divisive figures,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what I guess you try to do, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you're on some of these talk shows, you have
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  Speaker 2: to try to make a name for yourself, and you've
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  Speaker 2: got to really know you're trying to build an audience
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  Speaker 2: and you're trying to get people's attention. In some cases,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you really need to. Cam Newton was
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  Speaker 2: one of the people who was let go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Auburn quarterback MVP when he was playing in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Famously in a Super Bowl had an opportunity to dive
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  Speaker 2: on a fumble with the game on the line and
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  Speaker 2: decided not to do it. That's always been one of
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  Speaker 2: those things I'll never forget about him. I think I
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  Speaker 2: saw where in the last couple of years he's mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that he regretted not making an effort to get that ball,
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  Speaker 2: but just very flamboyant with his dress, very flamboyant with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the things that he said. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that Cam Newton really needed to try to do this,
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  Speaker 2: because I think everybody just expected Cam Newton to kind
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  Speaker 2: of be Cam Newton on these shows. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know who Charles Barkley is. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: think when what is Charles Barkley going to say about
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  Speaker 2: this topic? You kind of know roughly where Charles Barkley's
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  Speaker 2: going to be. He doesn't apologize. He makes these jokes
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  Speaker 2: about San Antonio women and all those things. That's Charles Barkley,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just going to keep doing it unapologetically. Cam
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  Speaker 2: Newton was trying to do that, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he ever found.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the audience was. I could speculate
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  Speaker 2: all day, but I know there were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that he would say that were very divisive and
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  Speaker 2: that weren't appreciated in many by many pundits in various places.
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  Speaker 3: That's all you say. That's that's the thing with Cam Newton.
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  Speaker 3: Feel bad for the guy in that you know, he
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  Speaker 3: lost a job.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to feel bad when these are we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about people that are making millions of dollars, that have
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  Speaker 2: already made millions of dollars planned sports.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the other side of this.
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  Speaker 2: I feel really badly when someone loses a job and
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  Speaker 2: it's their one job they're using to feed their family
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  Speaker 2: and that's it, and that's the now they got to
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  Speaker 2: go find another job, maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: Paying the same thing. Cam Newton's going to be just fine. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to be clear on that. Some of
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  Speaker 3: these other guys with ESPN, I don't know where they go.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Where they land, where they're able to do other broadcasting jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't know where all that happened. So
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  Speaker 2: in some cases with this, like I just can't feel
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  Speaker 2: great about somebody getting fired from their job.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But the closest in this mix, as much as maybe
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like I'm saying, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, fooey to to Cam Newton, that's not what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Clark is someone who has really tried hard on
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  Speaker 2: ESPN to make that name for himself. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: initially I feel like Ryan Clark, former player who would
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  Speaker 2: would talk about football, and then he got to a
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  Speaker 2: point where he wanted to talk about everything else. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: he was dismissive of one of the co hosts on
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  Speaker 2: one of the shows where they're arguing, and that's He's
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  Speaker 2: just one of those guys that would go on these
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  Speaker 2: shows and they argue.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they do. They just get on there and
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  Speaker 3: argue about sports, argue about what teams better.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, when he was let go yesterday, it was in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of a broadcast where he was saying how
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys were going to be Super Bowl champs
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, that's what Luke told me. I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get the details on it. But that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of the.
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  Speaker 2: That's the meat, that's the red meat of those shows,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's you know, whether it's on Fox, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: on Fox Sports, whether it's on ESPN, whether it was
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  Speaker 2: on NFL network, any of these shows where they are
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  Speaker 2: in talk radio. Whenever they get on and they're arguing
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  Speaker 2: about sports, one of the main things that they have
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  Speaker 2: to do, the red meat of all of this is
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  Speaker 2: they have to talk about the Cowboys, they have to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Lakers, they have to talk about the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: They just have their little staples that they have to
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  Speaker 2: stick with because they know, for the most part, people
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  Speaker 2: either love the Cowboys or hate.
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  Speaker 3: The Cowboys, same with the Akers, same with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the.
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  Speaker 2: Way it is in sports, and that's the way and
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  Speaker 2: Alabama to a degree, I guess in college, there's a
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  Speaker 2: few teams that kind of fit with that.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame has a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of that, where people either love Notre Dame or they
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  Speaker 2: hate Notre Dame. So you have these topics, they come up,
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  Speaker 2: they get brought up, and they get they get brought
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  Speaker 2: up in the context of you know, yeah, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: win it all, No they're not. And then they know
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  Speaker 2: that people watching want to hear all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: They want to hear like, what do they think about
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  Speaker 2: how the Cowboys did this weekend? And the Cowboys won,
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  Speaker 2: so let's tune in the Cowboys loss, let's tune in.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of a it's a red meat thing
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  Speaker 2: for the audience, and it's it's slame. I mean it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's slame. It's you know, okay, the Lakers lost, they
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  Speaker 2: didn't play great, or you know, the Yankees, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: and they do it every day. I remember going to
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  Speaker 2: the gym in the last This would have been when
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers was I guess still with the Packers, So
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  Speaker 2: this was a few years ago, and I remember going
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  Speaker 2: to the gym. They had the TV on ESPN one
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  Speaker 2: of these talking head the arguing shows was on. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Clark was probably on there and they were showing this
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  Speaker 2: was Monday after weekend of football, and they've they only
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  Speaker 2: like in an hour, in the hour and a half,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I was on the machine. They only covered four games,
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  Speaker 2: and it was the Cowboys, the Chiefs, the Packers, and
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  Speaker 2: who was the other one? One more team that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of in their sweet spot. I forget who the other
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  Speaker 2: team was. It may have just been three. It could
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  Speaker 2: have actually just been three, but that's it. That's they
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  Speaker 2: They cover those teams and they show highlights from those
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  Speaker 2: games and everybody else be damned. They don't care if
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  Speaker 2: you're watching it. They want to they want to give
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  Speaker 2: you the kind of red meat. That's what they got.
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  Speaker 2: I could think of the other team. But anyway, Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Clark did those things, and then he graduated into the
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  Speaker 2: now we're going to race bait, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about topics of racism. We're going to talk about players
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  Speaker 2: that are racist. One of those shows where he was
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  Speaker 2: arguing with the guy, he told the guy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the credence that we do because you're
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  Speaker 2: not even an ex player. And this is a guy
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  Speaker 2: who's on the show to give his opinion and he'd
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  Speaker 2: belittle the guy. Apparently he apologized to him later, but
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  Speaker 2: tells you everything you need to know about the guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you don't count because you didn't play. Now
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't count because he's not on the show anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, he got fired yesterday during one of the
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  Speaker 2: shows he was on, I guess during a commercial break,
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  Speaker 2: they pulled him aside, let him know he was done,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't get to finish the show. So right
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the show these layoffs happen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: one report said that the layoffs were announced and he
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  Speaker 2: was working and he didn't want to find out. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't want him to find out while he was on
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  Speaker 2: the show, so they wanted to pull him aside so
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have to go through that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's these companies and the firings. And I saw Stephen A.
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  Speaker 2: Smith was one of the people that was talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the people have been talking about it,
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  Speaker 2: and these other guys that are the high money people
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  Speaker 2: at these networks are the reasons when these guys don't
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  Speaker 2: get to keep their jobs. And that's just the reality
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  Speaker 2: of it. You know, there's a handful of these guys
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  Speaker 2: that make huge money on these networks, and then everybody
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  Speaker 2: else is just kind of there to see what's left over.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like a sports team if you're one
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  Speaker 2: of the high profile athletes on the team. Anyway, And
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  Speaker 2: I say this because he's someone who always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: inject race into everything with sports. What he had a
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  Speaker 2: reputation for, he did it all the time. And I
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  Speaker 2: just that and then I'm going to just segue to
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  Speaker 2: this other thing. And I'm not happy when somebody loses
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  Speaker 2: their job. I feel badly for them, just because I
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  Speaker 2: think I've been there, and anybody who's been there, anybody
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  Speaker 2: who's ever been part of a you know, a mass
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  Speaker 2: layoff at a company knows what I'm talking about. It's
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  Speaker 2: not fun. It's not fun to go through it. This
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  Speaker 2: guy was, you know, he had plans for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the week at work, and that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: So let me just quickly transition over to this. And
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  Speaker 2: I say all this because I just thought this was comical.
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  Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett, Representative of Texas, the one who called the
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  Speaker 2: governor their hot wheels because he's in a wheelchair and
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  Speaker 2: that's hilarious. Of course, it's always funny to mock people
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  Speaker 2: that are in wheelchairs. And you know, said he didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anything to do with that. Basically said that the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup and the fandom around the World Cup was racism.
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  Speaker 1: This was this was.
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  Speaker 2: Like she's during a house hearing, she brings up the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup and she's talking with this has had to
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  Speaker 2: do with the Smithsonians National Museum of American History, and
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  Speaker 2: she starts making a case about the all the fans
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  Speaker 2: around the world pulling for Argentina, and they're like, there's
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  Speaker 2: so many racist history that exists as it relates to Argentina.
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  Speaker 2: And she's just trying to understand why so many people,
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  Speaker 2: like all these racist people pulling for Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: They were playing Spain. They were playing Spain.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to point out the fact that they
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  Speaker 2: were playing Spain. Now, the person that she was talking
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  Speaker 2: to about this basically said, I don't know, Spain had
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  Speaker 2: the best team. Maybe that's why they were rooting for them.
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  Speaker 2: But see, she saw racism in Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: How many how.
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  Speaker 2: Many places in because we learned about how colonizing is bad,
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  Speaker 2: how many places did Spain?
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  Speaker 3: Colin colonize, Spain's.
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  Speaker 2: Role in this life trade and things I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. It doesn't surprise me that she doesn't understand
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  Speaker 2: world history at all in any capacity. It's just fascinating
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  Speaker 2: to me that she continues like here, she is trying
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  Speaker 2: who's let go because he's it's he's just too much
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  Speaker 2: of what he was doing. But he's one of those
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  Speaker 2: people that wants to inject race into everything. And then
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  Speaker 2: now here is a representative in a House committee about history,
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  Speaker 2: and she's trying to bring in thoughts of racism towards Argentina.
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  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, you know anything about post
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  Speaker 2: World War two, you know Argentina. But but if we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to if we if we're playing the game of
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  Speaker 2: who should fall under the bigger racism umbrella, and colonizing
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  Speaker 2: of course being their big litmus for who's racist, she
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  Speaker 2: probably needs to read up a little bit on Spain,
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  Speaker 2: right after the break. Could raccoons someday become household pets? Well,
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  Speaker 2: apparently it is a possibility. I mean, they're cute, they
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  Speaker 2: look like they should be pet friendly or household friendly,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: A pit friendly mean something else, doesn't it. But my
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  Speaker 2: point is when you see a raccoon, you think, wow,
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  Speaker 2: it would be really cute.
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  Speaker 3: To have them in the house.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, you see Rocket from the Marvel
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  Speaker 2: movies and you think, wow, wouldn't it be great to
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  Speaker 2: have a pet raccoon named Rocket? Well, a new study
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  Speaker 2: found that city raccoons are starting to show some of
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  Speaker 2: the same physical traits that are seen in animals that
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  Speaker 2: have gone through early stages of domestication. Researchers compared urban
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  Speaker 2: raccoons with their rural cousins and found subtle changes in
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  Speaker 2: features like skull and snout, shape, suggesting that living alongside
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  Speaker 2: humans may be influencing their evolution. Doesn't mean that you
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  Speaker 2: should rush out and adopt a raccoon that you find.
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  Speaker 3: No, don't do that at all.
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  Speaker 2: Experts ay raccoons are still wild animals and known for
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  Speaker 2: getting into mischief, rummaging through garbage, generally doing whatever they want,
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  Speaker 2: but as they've become increasingly comfortable living near people, some
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  Speaker 2: scientists are wondering if raccoons could eventually follow a pass
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  Speaker 2: similar to the one that dogs took thousands of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they often carriers of I don't know, rabies, should we?
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  Speaker 2: I mean not talking about domesticated ones down the line.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying the like they gave all these warnings about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, don't go out and grab a wild panda
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  Speaker 2: and think you're gonna you know, from your trash, because
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  Speaker 2: they might go through your garbage. No, maybe because you could,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have some serious issues if they do still
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  Speaker 2: carry rabies. Right, I'm not just making that up, am I.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when there would be a dead raccoon in
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  Speaker 2: my neighborhood and they would say, well, we got to
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  Speaker 2: get somebody out to test that thing. We got to
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: find out what's going on with it? Have you noticed
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  Speaker 2: on social media that there's a growing trend surrounding the
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  Speaker 2: game Majong And if you're not familiar, it's the classic
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  Speaker 2: tile based strategy game. Well it's seeing a major resurgence
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  Speaker 2: as younger players are embracing it as a fun way
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  Speaker 2: to connect in person and take a break from screens.
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  Speaker 2: They also have versions of it you can play on screens. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: defeating the purpose, isn't it? It's happening at country clubs,
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  Speaker 2: social groups, tournaments, all attracting newcomers who say the appeal
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  Speaker 2: goes beyond the game itself. It's also about building community
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  Speaker 2: and spending time face to face. Players say they love
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  Speaker 2: the mix of strategy, luck and friendly competition, while others
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  Speaker 2: see as an alternative to activities that revolve around phones
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  Speaker 2: and food or drinking. So as the digital world continues
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  Speaker 2: to dominate everything, apparently Majong is providing that old school
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  Speaker 2: fund that has proven that.
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  Speaker 3: The game is not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I have noticed a number of friends asking, Hey, is
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  Speaker 2: anybody available to teach me how to play? Does anybody
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  Speaker 2: know where I can get together with some friends to
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  Speaker 2: play and join other groups? And have you know more
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  Speaker 2: and more people and those sorts of things. It's interesting
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  Speaker 2: that the game has had this. It doesn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: Everything kind of gets this little comeback in some form,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just interesting.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, adult coloring books and legos as things
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  Speaker 2: that adults have been basically, you know, using as a
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: means of occupying their time or burning some stress or whatever. Well,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: the latest childhood toy getting a kind of grown up
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  Speaker 2: makeover is Plato. Hasbro has introduced a new line of
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Plato craft kits called Blooms, designed for adults. The kits
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: let people create colorful flower bouquets that look surprisingly realistic.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at some right now, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: best way to describe it. Surprisingly Really, it's part of
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: a growing trend of adults rediscovering childhood hobbies is a
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  Speaker 2: way to relax and unwind. I do wonder about the
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  Speaker 2: stems of the flowers. You have to do the old
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  Speaker 2: you know, roll it out. You got to roll out
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  Speaker 2: that long snake so that you can that's what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Maybe that's involved.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, if you ever feel like you need
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: an extra weekend in your month so that you can
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: recover from your weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You're not alone.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And apparently the way people are resolving this is they're
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: booking an empty weekend in each month, So just one
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  Speaker 2: weekend a month that goes completely unscheduled, no parties, no errands,
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  Speaker 2: no packed social events. And fans say that a plan
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  Speaker 2: free weekend helps reduce stress, recharge batteries, and leaves room
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  Speaker 2: for whatever sounds good in the moment, whether it's a
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  Speaker 2: day trip, a chance to get caught up on movies
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: or TV shows, or just do nothing at all. So basically,
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  Speaker 2: as people are trying to do all the maxing and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: get in all the activities, this is like the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just kind of doing it one weekend a month.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if all of my weekends were full, I would
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  Speaker 2: have to do this, but I feel like I do
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  Speaker 2: this at least every other weekend. That's kind of where
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm at, and I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't suffer from the FOMO.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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