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Nancy Guthrie Vs. Nuclear Iran · 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: Wednesday morning, eleventh day of March. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I hope you had a great Mario Day yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I know I spent a lot of time talking about
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Speaker 2: Mario Day. I'm not going to spend a lot of
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Speaker 2: time talking about it today. I'll just tell you I
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Speaker 2: did spend some time playing Donkey Kong, and that's all
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Speaker 2: that really matters, you know, I mean, that's what's that's
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Speaker 2: what's important. When you're going to celebrate a day as
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Speaker 2: great as Mario Day, you know, you got to play
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Speaker 2: a little something, little Super Mario Brothers. You could play
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Speaker 2: old school Mario Brothers. It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: I promise.
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking a lot of as much today, but
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Speaker 2: I had a good time playing Donkey Kong. Sometimes that's
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Speaker 2: all you need. You need a little break from life,
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Speaker 2: need to go back with an old school video game
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Speaker 2: and just kind of have a little reset. That's all
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Speaker 2: you need, you know, in life. Sometimes that's all that
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Speaker 2: you need, just a moment to hit that old reset button,
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Speaker 2: just a moment to take the cartridge out of the Nintendo.
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Speaker 2: Blow in it, put it back in there, push it in.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you put another game on top of it. Whatever
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Speaker 2: gets it to read the cartridge, that's what matters. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that blowing in it ever really did anything,
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Speaker 2: but psychologically it did.
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Speaker 3: You know, we were convinced.
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Speaker 2: This is doing something, this is doing something really important,
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Speaker 2: and you know, for us it was, and that's all
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Speaker 2: that matters. Sometimes you just need that. Sometimes you're taking
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Speaker 2: the sugar pill or the water pill. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: in your mind, it's helping. So sometimes we just need
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Speaker 2: that reset. I went to an event last night. My
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Speaker 2: good friend, the executive director for Tina, Derek Roberts, invited
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Speaker 2: me and Jill to this event, hosted us at his table.
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Speaker 2: Nice of him to do that. It was an event
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Speaker 2: for the teen Advisors for the staff. It's a fundraising
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Speaker 2: event and a chance for them to kind of show
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Speaker 2: off what they do in the community, what they do
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Speaker 2: for kids. I've known about teen advisors, you know, since
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Speaker 2: I was an age where I could have been in
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Speaker 2: teen advisors, and our school did not have a teen
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Speaker 2: Advisor's Chapter or whatever it was called back then, so
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Speaker 2: we weren't we didn't do that, but it's nice to
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Speaker 2: go to an event like that and see and be
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Speaker 2: reminded of what an organization like that does and what
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Speaker 2: it does for the community, what it does for a
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Speaker 2: lot of kids who really do need that influence in
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Speaker 2: their lives. They need people around them, a support system.
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Speaker 2: And you know, part of the message of the event
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Speaker 2: last night, and Derek talked about it last night, where
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Speaker 2: you know, you think about the loneliness epidemic that is ore.
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Speaker 2: You know, teenagers and young adults, they're struggling with it.
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Speaker 2: Gen Z is struggling with it right now, and it's
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Speaker 2: important for them to have community. And some of what
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Speaker 2: we've learned with the you know, the TikTok trials, some
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Speaker 2: of these trials for these social media companies, when a
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Speaker 2: lot of this stuff gets exposed and you learn a
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Speaker 2: little bit about their behind the scenes and the way
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Speaker 2: that they do business and the way their algorithms are
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Speaker 2: set up and all those things, it's it's you see,
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Speaker 2: the strategy behind what these companies are trying to do
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Speaker 2: reminds me of you know, and I'm not the first
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Speaker 2: to say it, but the movie Wally. You know, they
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Speaker 2: got the kids and they're just you know, morbidly obese,
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Speaker 2: shoved in these little pods on their little screens, and
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Speaker 2: that's a sad you know, art imity life for life
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Speaker 2: imitating art or whatever it is. I think that was
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Speaker 2: ahead of its curve and sort of here we are
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Speaker 2: in a lot of ways. So it's just a reminder that,
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Speaker 2: you know, community and being around other kids is a
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Speaker 2: good thing. Is an important for me to realize that
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Speaker 2: too with my kids.
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Speaker 3: They spend too.
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Speaker 2: Much time on screens, like probably yours.
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Speaker 3: Or yours did.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I spend too much time. I do
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Speaker 2: it for work in many cases, but not always. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: I'm just you know, staring at screens when I don't
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Speaker 2: need to be so. And there's different components to it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think my kids are doing the dangerous stuff,
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Speaker 2: but you know, you got to be careful. That's all
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Speaker 2: that was. That's a big part of what the message was,
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Speaker 2: and it's just a reminder and I offer that up
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Speaker 2: to you here this morning. The other thing I did
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Speaker 2: is two of the candidates for mayor of Columbus were
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Speaker 2: at this event. One was actually sitting at my table
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Speaker 2: and the other was sitting on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the room, And you know, I don't know, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what that says, what that says about me, that
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Speaker 2: we had one at the table and then we had
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Speaker 2: one across the room.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I had some time. I had an opportunity.
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Speaker 2: To talk with both of them last night. Obviously, the
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Speaker 2: one at the table I got more time with than
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Speaker 2: that was Jaquita Bryant, and it was.
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Speaker 3: Fun having her at her table.
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Speaker 2: We chatted a bit beforehand, and then when the briefly
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Speaker 2: I saw Joe Anne Kogel before things got started, and
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Speaker 2: then after I went over and talked with her for
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Speaker 2: just a little bit and more than anything else, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think this is true certainly of anyone who runs
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Speaker 2: for office like this, especially when and I you know,
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Speaker 2: I didn't really get into Jiquiitra, did I say, q
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Speaker 2: is Jiquitra right, didn't get into her like her reason.
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Speaker 2: She said she felt the need to serve, and she
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Speaker 2: wanted to serve, and she didn't know in what capacity.
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Speaker 2: And you know, she had always kind of thought that
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Speaker 2: that's what she was gonna, you know, maybe do one day,
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Speaker 2: might be on a statewide level, might be on a
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Speaker 2: national level. She just didn't know and she thought that
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Speaker 2: this was an opportunity. But and but anytime you're running,
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Speaker 2: you know that that understanding of why someone's doing it,
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Speaker 2: what the motivation is behind it. And especially if you're
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Speaker 2: in a situation where you're actively on a city council
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Speaker 2: of a city, you see some things that have been
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Speaker 2: that have been going on, and you're part of a
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Speaker 2: city council that says, look, our city manager has been
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Speaker 2: doing things for a while that we just need to
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Speaker 2: look into, we need to understand. And I'm not putting
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Speaker 2: words in the mouth of Joe and Cole. I'm speaking
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Speaker 2: specifically of the whole city council. And ultimately they came
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Speaker 2: to a decision where they decided that, you know, Isaiah
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Speaker 2: huge Lee was no longer fit for the job, and
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Speaker 2: they released him. He was six months away from retiring,
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Speaker 2: He was six months away from you know, he was
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Speaker 2: gonna be It was no secret he was running for
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Speaker 2: mayor like two years ago. He infamously said in a
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Speaker 2: room full of people, this doesn't leave this room, but
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Speaker 2: we're going to have an all black city council and
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Speaker 2: a black mayor in two years or whatever. And it
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Speaker 2: certainly seems that that's you know the plan that's been
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Speaker 2: in place for a while. So anyway, they released him
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Speaker 2: six months go by, and he was suing Columbus because
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Speaker 2: you know, in spite of the fact that he had
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Speaker 2: the job for like forty years, he decided or a
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Speaker 2: version of the job worked for the city for forty years.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't city manager for that long. But you know
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Speaker 2: that suddenly it was a racist city for letting him go.
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Speaker 2: And you see that, and you know that we may
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Speaker 2: have a problem here, like this isn't just a normal
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Speaker 2: mayor's race like this, this is kind of well, it's
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Speaker 2: kind of become the normal. I guess for Columbus. We've
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Speaker 2: had some entertaining debates and things over the years. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: you could just tell, you know, we had to set
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Speaker 2: up for something interesting with this race. And I wanted
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Speaker 2: to take a minute really with Joe Anne. I guess
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Speaker 2: I first met her our kids. I think we're in
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Speaker 2: elementary Britt David Elementary school together when they're really young,
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Speaker 2: and just take a minute to go and talk to
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Speaker 2: her and just say thanks for running.
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Speaker 3: And I can't tell.
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Speaker 2: You, you know, from the conversation I had with her
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Speaker 2: last night, went like what the like I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do this. You know what made her I didn't have
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Speaker 2: the conversation where we had this moment of this is
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Speaker 2: why I ran because I wanted, you know, the kind
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Speaker 2: of conversation that I had with doctor Bryant. But the
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Speaker 2: situation of your running, you know, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be kind of ugly. The potential is there for it
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Speaker 2: to be ugly. So I wanted to thank her for running.
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Speaker 2: And I know that this by most accounts looks like
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Speaker 2: we're looking at a two horse race in general. I
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Speaker 2: know Chris Brault got in there, and how he will
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Speaker 2: impact this race remains to be seen. I do think
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Speaker 2: that he could have an impact on some of the
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Speaker 2: voters for Isaiah Hugley. I think that that's a possibility.
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Speaker 2: Hadn't fully even considered that until yesterday, but now really
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Speaker 2: thinking about it, I think that there's a good possibility
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Speaker 2: that the potential.
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Speaker 3: For him to be a little bit of a boiler
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Speaker 3: in things is there.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, We're going to see how this
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Speaker 2: all plays out. I know Mark Lajoy also spent some
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Speaker 2: time with him. I think Mark would be you know,
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Speaker 2: as a law enforcement guy, he would bring some expertise
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Speaker 2: to the job, and I don't know, you know, I
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Speaker 2: don't really know Chris. I met him once just in passing.
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Speaker 2: He was coming out of his office. I was probably
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Speaker 2: doing something for the ballet and just passed him quickly
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Speaker 2: and we spoke for a second, but it wasn't any
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Speaker 2: sort of a formal introduction. You know, Isaiah Hugley I've
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Speaker 2: known just because of being in radio for so long.
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Speaker 2: And Steve Kelly's the only one I have absolutely no
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Speaker 2: haven't met him at all, have had no contact with him.
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Speaker 2: But you know, those are the candidates. We're going to
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Speaker 2: see how this all plays out. But I do appreciate
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Speaker 2: any of them running.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 2: It's it's a thing. I mean, some feeling entitlement, some
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Speaker 2: say two years ago, this is what's coming. And I
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Speaker 2: think some think that this is just automatic. And we've
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Speaker 2: seen this play out on the presidential level when you
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Speaker 2: have candidates to just think it's supposed to be theirs
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Speaker 2: and this is where this is all going, and you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe not, maybe not at all. But it was good
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Speaker 2: to see both of them there at this teen Advisor's
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Speaker 2: event last night. I know doctor Bryant, I think her
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Speaker 2: son has done teen advisors, and I think that was
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Speaker 2: her connection there was through him, and I think he
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Speaker 2: was actually volunteering at the.
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Speaker 3: Event last night.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, that was my evening and that was the
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Speaker 2: way things were playing out for me. Other thing I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about this morning is Woopy Goldberg says
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Speaker 2: that I don't know who's watching the view, like, what
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Speaker 2: is the purpose of this show? Wooby Goldberg says that
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Speaker 2: the reason that we have been so active in Iran
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Speaker 2: is to distract the American people from the Nancy Guthrie case.
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Speaker 2: What listen, I feel horribly for the Guthrie family.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking to think about what's going on with them,
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Speaker 2: what they're dealing with. It is absolutely heartbreaking. And I
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Speaker 2: don't mean to sound insensitive. I think Savannah Guthrie is
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Speaker 2: a public figure. It's somebody that it's more than just hey,
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Speaker 2: here's a family who lost a loved one, like it's
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Speaker 2: someone that you kind of almost feel like you know
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Speaker 2: because of the job. I've experienced that in this job
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Speaker 2: on a smaller scale, where people that have connected with
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Speaker 2: me over the years and they come up and they go, look,
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Speaker 2: I know you don't know who I am, but we
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Speaker 2: met and you know, I feel like we know each
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Speaker 2: other from talking. Sometimes I can surprise him and say,
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Speaker 2: I remember exactly who you are. And sometimes it's the
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Speaker 2: sad reality of I meet a lot of people with
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Speaker 2: what I do. But she's one of those people who
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Speaker 2: because of how long she's worked in media, in news,
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Speaker 2: multiple stations. Look, she's someone who people go you kind
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Speaker 2: of feel like you know her, and you do. And
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Speaker 2: this situation with her mom gone thirty days plus, it's horrible.
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Speaker 3: It really is.
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Speaker 2: What I don't think that Whoopi Goldberg and the host
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Speaker 2: other hosts of the View seem to know is while
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Speaker 2: it certainly is the perfect recipe for a story to
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Speaker 2: grab the attention of the country, this is not really
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Speaker 2: a national news story if not for the fact, if
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Speaker 2: this is.
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Speaker 3: A TV host, if.
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Speaker 2: This just happens to just some random family, we're all
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Speaker 2: heartbroken for them, we feel for them, we can pray
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Speaker 2: for them. I have prayed for the Guthrie family. I'll
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Speaker 2: do it again today. But this is not when you
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Speaker 2: want to try to compare. And I understand for that family,
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Speaker 2: it's the worst thing in the world.
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Speaker 3: I get that.
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Speaker 2: But for the world, most of the world has no
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Speaker 2: knowledge of this. Most of the world doesn't know who
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Speaker 2: these people are. Most of the world. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of places in the world. I might say most, but
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of places in the world that go
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Speaker 2: this happens every couple of days where I live. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of people in the world that can't even
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Speaker 2: comprehend putting a lot of attention on this family. And
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Speaker 2: I'm not taking anything away from the family. It's horrible
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Speaker 2: what they've been through. It really is. My heart breaks
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Speaker 2: for them for what they're dealing with, because I think
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Speaker 2: about what I would feel like if that was my
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Speaker 2: mom or my dad or my loved one. And that's
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Speaker 2: what you do when you have a soul, But when
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Speaker 2: you have no concept that I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you know.
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Speaker 2: Trying to prevent a nuclear weapon from detonating in Israel
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Speaker 2: and you know, obliterating Israel, that might have a little
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Speaker 2: bit higher stakes in the geopolitical world. That might be
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Speaker 2: a bigger deal to the rest of the world. If
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Speaker 2: you're trying to prevent Iran from blowing up Israel and
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Speaker 2: in their mind bringing about the end of times, the
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Speaker 2: end of the world, which would have been the intention.
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Speaker 2: That's what they think they're supposed to do. They're supposed
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Speaker 2: to rain fire from heaven or whatever. That's kind of
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Speaker 2: a bigger deal. And I understand we could get into
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Speaker 2: an ethical discussion, we could start talking about, you know,
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Speaker 2: which is worse. Let's have this debate, and we don't
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Speaker 2: have to do that. But you have to look at
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Speaker 2: big picture and if you honestly think that the President
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Speaker 2: of the United States is going and how do we
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Speaker 2: keep people from talking about Nancy Guthrie, why would it matter? Like,
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Speaker 2: what does that matter to the leader of the free world?
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Speaker 2: Other than he's reached out to the to Savannah Guthrie
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Speaker 2: and the Guthrie family. He's thrown support behind anything he
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Speaker 2: can do. He's tried to involve as much law enforcement
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Speaker 2: as he can put on it, and they've just had nothing.
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Speaker 3: That's where they've been.
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Speaker 2: So how I don't understand in what universe are we
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Speaker 2: trying to Let's we're gonna we're gonna cover this up.
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Speaker 3: We need a distraction.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna go drop some bombs so that people aren't
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Speaker 2: talking about this thing that you know, it's kind of
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Speaker 2: a Nancy Grace kind of story. Again, I'm not dismissing it,
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Speaker 2: and I don't want to come across as flippant or
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be a jerk in any way.
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Speaker 2: But if we're trying to compare, let's prevent Israel from
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Speaker 2: being blown off the planet and keep Iran from having
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Speaker 2: nuclear capabilities, or let's focus all of our attention on
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Speaker 2: one person.
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Speaker 3: Let's do that.
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Speaker 2: I think she also says it the Epstein. She is
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Speaker 2: compensated for it, you're not alone. A new study found
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Speaker 2: that a lot of workers are basically juggling now three
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Speaker 2: jobs at once, and most aren't getting paid anything extra
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Speaker 2: for the extra work. On average, people get nine new
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Speaker 2: tasks added.
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Speaker 3: To their workload every year.
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Speaker 2: Seventy eight percent say that they've been voluntold to take
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Speaker 2: on duties that they never agreed to. The biggest reason
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Speaker 2: short staffing, and often these extra responsibilities become permanent without
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Speaker 2: any real conversation. More than half of workers who get
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Speaker 2: extra duties never see a raise or promotion Many say
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Speaker 2: that the tasks aren't even part of their job description.
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Speaker 2: Most say that the added work hurts their ability to
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Speaker 2: do their actual job, and that causes a lot of burnout.
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Speaker 2: Many workers have considered quitting, while companies keep rolling out
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Speaker 2: AI tools only as tiny groups say that it actually
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Speaker 2: lightens their workload when they're using AI. For most, it
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Speaker 2: just adds more to it. I used to work with
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Speaker 2: someone who every single time someone was released from the
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Speaker 2: company that I was working for, this person was the
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Speaker 2: first one to run in and say, ooh, I'll take
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Speaker 2: over some of their stuff. And the idea for them
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Speaker 2: was that this was some sort of job security, or
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Speaker 2: this was some sort of opportunity to get promoted or something,
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Speaker 2: And in reality, all it did was make work so
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Speaker 2: much worse for everyone else there, because what it told
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Speaker 2: the company was you don't have to pay anybody anymore,
22:37
Speaker 2: because this person wasn't asking for more money. They were
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Speaker 2: just running in and I mean, kissing up is what
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Speaker 2: they were doing. And they thought, and that's a strategy,
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Speaker 2: that's what some people do, but it does hurt a lot.
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Speaker 2: And then the same company that I worked for, there
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Speaker 2: was a phase where they released a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that person, by the way, was one of the very
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Speaker 2: first ones that was released, because again they just don't
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Speaker 2: need anyone there because they dwindled so many of the
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Speaker 2: jobs down and added responsibilities to other people just handling
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Speaker 2: all the work. So when it comes time to cut people, yeah,
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Speaker 2: they're going to cut whoever. And this person got cut.
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Speaker 2: But they decided that they would eliminate a lot of
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Speaker 2: the jobs and then a very small handful of people
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Speaker 2: back in a very limited part time capacity.
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Speaker 3: And this is one of those people.
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Speaker 2: So again, you had the chance for more and I
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Speaker 2: don't know, it would have probably happened anyway.
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Speaker 3: I can't point the finger.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, it's just where things are right now. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people just trying to survive, and they worry
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Speaker 2: about AI and they worry about how it's going to
23:46
Speaker 2: have an effect on jobs in the future. So people
23:50
Speaker 2: are just trying to survive and they take on that
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Speaker 2: extra work hoping that will keep them around, and it
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Speaker 2: often does not. That's the lesson I take from that
23:58
Speaker 2: story with my previous worker. A new study found a
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Speaker 2: surprisingly simple way to boost mental health turn off the
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Speaker 2: internet on your phone. The study asked four hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty seven people to disable the Internet on their phones
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Speaker 2: for two weeks, and even though only a quarter fully
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Speaker 2: stuck with it, ninety one percent still saw at least
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Speaker 2: one positive change. They said better focus, improved mood and
24:23
Speaker 2: sometimes less stress was another factor. And the idea is
24:28
Speaker 2: that it removes the most addictive part of the phone,
24:30
Speaker 2: the scrolling, the social media, the apps, constant dopamine hits,
24:35
Speaker 2: while still letting you call or text. People who tried
24:39
Speaker 2: it found themselves spending more time offline, going outside, actually
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Speaker 2: talking to humans. Previous research actually does already back it up.
24:48
Speaker 2: Even a one week social media detos can reduce anxiety
24:53
Speaker 2: and depression. Now my question is to truly do this,
24:57
Speaker 2: you kind of have to, like also try not to
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Speaker 2: be on your computer on these things too, right, because
25:03
Speaker 2: that's another part of this, isn't it?
25:07
Speaker 3: Love got a real workout.
25:09
Speaker 2: In southern England, about two dozen couples took part in
25:12
Speaker 2: the UK's annual wife carrying race, a delightfully old competition
25:18
Speaker 2: where partners haul each other up and down a grassy
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Speaker 2: hill in Surrey. Costumes are encouraged, water is thrown. Wives
25:26
Speaker 2: can be anyone over eighteen, as long as they weigh
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Speaker 2: at least one hundred and ten pounds. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what that is in centipedes. Oh fifty kilos, Yeah that
25:38
Speaker 2: makes sense. I did know that. I just wanted to
25:41
Speaker 2: make my stupid centipede joke. When you have an international
25:44
Speaker 2: family and some use metric, some use English, you know,
25:49
Speaker 2: the jokes are just there. Most teams use the method
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Speaker 2: known as the Estonian hold, where they carry their partner
25:57
Speaker 2: upside down on the runner's back. This year's champions came
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Speaker 2: from Finland.
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Speaker 3: TEAMU. Is that the is this? The TMU guy.
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Speaker 2: To Vinin and Jada Linnonan finished the course in one
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Speaker 2: minute forty five seconds walked away with a barrel of
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Speaker 2: local ale for their efforts. So congratulations, well done Jada
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Speaker 2: in Temu. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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