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I'm Excited That There's a New Number 15 · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, third day
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of April. I'm West Thanks for joining me midweek now working through this first
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week of the month of April. Coming up this weekend in the Chattahoochee Valley
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area. I want to mention this because this is an event. It's one
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of those events that people have been asking for. We have had a couple
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of these that have had varying levels of success. One a little more successful.
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I think that happened last year late in the year, and it was
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a horror and pop culture convention. And now this April, this weekend,
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we're getting a It's called Georgia Comic Con, and this is a new to
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our area. It's put on by people who have been doing conventions all around
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the country for a while, and I'm pretty excited that this is coming to
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Columbus. Is it going to be one of those mega conventions that you see
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footage of on TV shows. No, this isn't going to be you know,
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San Diego Comic Con. This isn't going to be New York Comic Con.
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This isn't going to be Dragon con, but it is going to be
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an opportunity to meet and have photos, time to talk with get some autographs
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from some of the stars of your favorite TV shows, and I guess also
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artists, writers of comic books, as well as a number of other things.
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And I am excited myself because cause I interviewed him years ago. Ross
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Markwan from The Walking Dead and the Marvel Movies will be in attendance and looking
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forward to catching up with him again. This happens this weekend, April sixth
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and seventh at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center on Front Avenue, So there
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you go with that. There are going to be a few discounts on tickets
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that are available until Friday, and then that's when things will change a little
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bit as far as getting your pre sale tickets for this event. So yeah,
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check it out this weekend. Now, I do have one bit of
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bad news that I need to pass on about this convention because one of the
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guests that I know a lot of people were excited about was Luferigno, who
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is not now able to attend the convention for a number of different reasons.
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But I did want to pass along the info about the convention. I hope
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that you are able to check it out. I hope it's something that and
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they're having some Georgia Comic Con merchant things. But the advanced tickets, I
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wanted to get you the info on that. So single day tickets thirty five
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dollars, the weekend for both days, fifty five dollars, military, twenty
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five for individual, forty dollars for the weekend. Kids ten and under free
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with a paid adult limit to kids per paid adult. So there you go.
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And these tickets are available until Friday at those prices and then they'll go
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to the regular prices for it. So yeah, check it out. This
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is and I'm looking through the guest list. Here a few names that I'm
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really excited about that I want to mention for that convention. I mentioned Ross
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markwan a Booboo Stewart who is in the X Men Days of Future Pass movie.
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Sam Jones aka Flash Gordon will be in the building. We've got not
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one, not two, not three. Fourth it was four Power Rangers.
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I think at least three Power Rangers. I said, not three, but
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at least I think there's four. I think there's a fourth Power Ranger coming
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but two Red Rangers, Brutus the barber, Beefcake wrestling icon. He'd put
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you to sleep, and they need to give you a haircut. That's the
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way it worked. Anyway. It's this weekend, April sixth and seventh,
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at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center. So check it out. I see
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it says Columbus, Georgia, and I guess that's distressed that it's not in
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Ohio. Maybe that's the reason it says Columbus Georgia. All right, So
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there you go, check it out. I hope to see you there this
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weekend. I'm excited about the opportunity for to catch up with Ross at the
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very least great impressionist. Go up to him and ask him to do an
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impression. That's what you do while you're talking to him at the table,
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while he's signing your stuff, while he's taking photos all that stuff. All
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right, So, and you can check out. All of the guests will
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be there. They're on I know, on social media on Facebook. Just
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check out Georgia Comic Con. All right, I want to talk about this
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story about Meghan Rapino and the Corbin Albert, the twenty year old that has
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taken basically not necessarily taking her place on the team, but has taken Megan
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Rapino's number, so in a way, she'll be wearing fifteen on the team.
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She's kind of taken her place on the team. She's one of the
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newer players on the team, but has posted some content on her social media
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that reflects her Christian faith, she says, and Meghan Rapino does not like
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this at all, and she has, I guess, put Corbyn Albert in
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a position where she felt like she needed to apologize about something that she shared
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or something that she liked. So here's what we have in front of us,
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and I'm just gonna kind of run through a couple of things. So,
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yeah, twenty year old Corbin Albert, there's some sort of content that
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you and I don't follow any of these people. I don't. I like
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soccer, I do. I love the game. I love the sport.
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I have been someone who has cheered on the women's national team for a number
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of years. Okay, I got caught up in the hype the Brandy Chastain
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taking her jersey off in the sports bra winning on penalty kicks. I was
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right there. I was on that whole ride all the way through that final,
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and since then, I have followed the team in all of the big
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tournaments, whether it be the Olympics, whether it be World Cups, I
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have followed them. Okay, this past competition for them, this past World
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Cup, was the first time that I was just eh, and I'm just
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being honest. It's become too much of a distraction to the game. When
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you tune into soccer and you watch or football as they call it overseas,
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and you tune in to watch countries be represented by the teams and the players
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from all around the world, even horrible countries stand up there and sing their
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anthems loud and proud because they're just happy to be there. They're getting to
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play a game to represent their country, and they've got people watching, and
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they've got people that are just happy to be cheering them on. But we're
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in the era of, well, I have a platform, so I need
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to be able to say whatever I want to say and disagree with everybody if
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I want to. And that's fine. It's one of the great things about
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being an American. We have that ability. We don't have to go with
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what everybody says. We're not supposed to have to do that. But we
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see these instances that come along where people are pushed into these things. So
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we know. We went through this whole thing with Colin Kaepernick. We went
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through this I'm gonna kneel at first. It wasn't even kneeling at first,
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it was I'm going to sit on a cooler. Right, That's where this
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all started. Colin Kaepernick didn't stand up. He was sitting on a cooler,
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and that became I don't even know that that was really an intentional thing.
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He was just sitting there on the cooler. Probably injured. He was
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almost always injured late in his career, wasn't he It seemed like it,
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or at least, you know, not knowing that. He probably wasn't even
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going to need to put a helmet on at any point. So we went
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through this, well, I can kneel during the anthem, or I can
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protest during the anthem, or I don't have to be proud of the country.
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And I look, I have said many times, and I know people
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who agree with me, I know people who definitely disagree with me. But
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when it comes to our right as American citizens to not support our national anthem,
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to not stand there and say I'm proud of it. I have said
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many times, if you're a professional athlete and you are playing a professional sport
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and you are being paid to do it, and the ownership of your team
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does not have a problem with you doing it, this isn't something for me
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that it's been a deal breaker. I think that they should stand and be
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proud of the fact because they really ignore the fact that there's so many freedoms
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and there's so many rights, and there's so many things that we have as
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Americans that they're kind of spitting on that by not standing up because there's one
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thing, maybe or two things that they decide is not enough. Okay,
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keep in mind some of the same athletes all over the world that protest trans
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rights and that protest, you know, more gay rights in America. You
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know, they've gone to countries to compete where those countries are benefiting from them
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being there, right, and they didn't have a problem with that. They
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get there and they say, well, these people should think like we do.
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We should change the way that they feel. It's their own version of
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being colonizers, right, It's their own way of trying to say no,
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no, no, no, we know better than you. But of course
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that doesn't change anything. Katar Is still has the same rules. I think
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they're still throwing people off buildings and roofs if they're gay. I don't know.
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I don't know what they do there. It's horrible, it is.
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It's horrible to kill a person for something, But you can't go to another
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country and tell them you've got to change your laws because this is how we
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feel, this is what we like. That's what people got mad at colonizers
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for. But anyway, now I think it's different when you're competing as an
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athlete on behalf of a country. You can't stand there and at least be
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respectful to your anthem. Maybe you don't sing along, but if you can't
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be respectful, don't go. Don't go and represent it. Don't do that
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and know that you're sacrificing your platform where you can stand up and you can
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say the things that you hate. Megan R. Pino decided that this Corbin
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Albert and I look, I don't know, there's something about there was a
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person with a disability in one of these videos and talked about changing their gender
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transition, and they said that people were thought that the video made people think
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that feeling transgender was wrong, and apparently at some point, Albert deleted a
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post a year ago where different members of her family said that they had their
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pronouns were USA. Okay, keep in mind this is also what got a
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certain Disney actress fired from her job right fired from her job because she wouldn't
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do the pronouns. But we just talked about this the other day. So
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I guess there's been memes that this girl has liked. There has been a
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posts that she's liked, and basically I guess some offense that's been taken by
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now. One in particular that upset her is when Meghan Rapino got injured in
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I guess her final game representing the US or whatever where she got injured,
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and I guess the post was God taking time off performing miracles to make sure
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Megan Rapino sprains her ankle in her final game. Ever, that may be
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what this is all about. That may be really what this is about,
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because that probably if you like that post, probably gonna get Megan Rapino's attention.
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But anyway, so Megan Rapino pressuring this girl to apologize, maybe she
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should have apologized for like in that comment she's going to go in and represent
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I think that is crossing the line. But you want to have your beliefs,
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have your beliefs. Megan Rapino says that this girl is hiding behind her
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faith, hiding behind her Christianity. Her post is for people who want to
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hide behind quote unquote, my beliefs. I would just ask one question,
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are you making any type of space safer, more inclusive, more whole,
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any semblance of better bringing the best out of anyone? Because if you aren't,
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all you believe in is hate, and kids are literally killing themselves because
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of this hate. Wake TF up. Yours truly number fifteen, and it
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says, for all my trans homies enduring this horrific treatment, day in and
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out, I will see I see you, and I hear you, and
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I'm with you. Okay, And I want to go back to this because
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this is really, I think the biggest issue that we face over and over
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again. Okay. This is this notion of every time someone says something that
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is critical of folks transitioning, even if you point out that there are people
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who've done it, regret it, even if you point out there are people
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who have they themselves been emotionally unstable, mentally unstable, and taken their lives
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or wanted to take their lives after having transgender surgery. But the only thing
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that gets pointed out is that if you say anything in support of people who
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decide they don't want to transition, or if you're in support of having young
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people wait until they're older to make these decisions as adults, you're literally killing
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them. That's the attitude. If you don't do what we want you to
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do, you are killing people. You were causing them death by not doing
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what they want you to do, by not acting the way you're expected to
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act. I've told this story before. I know someone who was transitioning,
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someone that I knew in a professional capacity as one gender, and then all
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of a sudden one day I see on social media somebody had kept in touch
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with a colleague, not a radio person, but someone who announced, you
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know, I'm transitioning. I'm going to be living a different life. This
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is who I've always been on the inside. My wife and kids are not
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taking this well, and I am, you know, struggling with it,
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but I'm this is what I need to do. Okay. Now. My
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reaction to it was, oh, Wow. I wouldn't have seen that coming,
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not at all. I know someone who has transitioned that I've known for
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a very long time, and when I found out this person had transitioned,
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I went it sounds about right, just the reality of it. Now,
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can you always see that? No, this was a surprise for me.
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It was a surprise for me, especially after this person went as far as
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to make sure to announce to everyone that yes, it's destroyed my family.
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That also was one of those things. Ah, it's tough. So this
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person, after some time, decided that it wasn't enough to just follow the
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this is my name now, this is my gender now, and please address
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me that way. That wasn't enough. It was if you aren't actively supporting
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me, if you aren't telling me that I'm doing the right thing, if
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you're not telling me that what I'm doing is okay and that you support it
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and you encourage other people to do it, then you're not actually my friend.
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That's where the participation part of this comes in. That's where you have
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to be actively involved in whatever their activity is. And that's where it majorly
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crosses the line for me attacking this girl's faith and again I didn't watch this
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video. I don't know what the video is this girl shared. I don't
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know what the story is behind why she decided to like the post about Megan
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or Pino spraining wrinkle. But this all reminds me of the bullying. That's
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the right word. This is bullying that Chris Pratt faced. And this isn't
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even getting into the Gina Krano and I referenced her a minute ago, but
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this is different. Gina Kurana was absolutely bullied. Chris Pratt was bullied just
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because he came out and talked about his faith, talked about being a Christian,
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and people said, well, he goes to a church that had some
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ties towards trying to cure gay people and trying to oppose transgender methodology. And
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Chris Pratt's like, I don't know what you're talking about. No, my
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church hasn't talked about any of that, and a lot of people are saying,
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what are you talking about? What do you mean? Where did this
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come from? He goes to that church and it still gets said, still
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gets said. I don't know why that church gets lumped into this. I
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don't know, but it's an attack on somebody who has been outspoken about their
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Christian faith and here another case of it. That's all this is, how
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dare you be a Christian? How dare you comment on that? It's going
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to be interesting because their platform person, their biggest platform, first person on
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the team, and there's others is gone. But she still finds a way
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to keep herselves real in this kind of conversation. But will some of these
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newer players cause people like me to maybe start showing an interest again? If
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she's going to talk about her faith, then she's going to walk the walk.
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That interests me a lot more than the other stuff. But again,
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Morning Show right after the break well. A new study from University of Arkansas
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seems to suggest that AI may have the potential to be more creative than humans.
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That gets scary, That gets really scary. That was supposed to be
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the area that they couldn't handle with the AI right. As part of the
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study, one hundred and fifty one human participants competed against chat GPT four in
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three tests designed to assess divergent thinking in short, being unique and creative in
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answering questions that don't have a right or wrong answer for example, what if
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humans no longer needed sleep. The results chat GPT four performed better than humans
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overall, and this is from the author's overall GPT four was more original and
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elaborate than humans on each of the divergent thinking tasks, even when controlling for
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fluency of responses. In other words, GPT four demonstrated higher creative potential across
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the entire battery of divergion thinking tasks. Wow, that is a little terrifying.
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Also, on the subject of AI and robots, a company called Escape
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I guess that's how you say it, ae Scape, So it's a escape.
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I don't know. Maybe it's just like people who say a egg.
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Maybe it's a Escape has created a fully automated AI massuse. And we're not
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talking about the chair at the mall. That's not it. It's robot hands
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that scan your body see where the trouble spots are, and the hands are
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heated and modeled after human hands. They also do work in half the time.
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in the spring. There's an app and I guess for sixty dollars you can
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book that thirty minute massage, and you don't have to be an equinox to
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do that. If you're in the New York area and you need a massage,
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if there's just ten locations that might be in high demand. I guess
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you also expected to tip the robot because that's the other thing, right,
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is the expectation that you're gonna tip or get tip shamed. Well the robot
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caffeine directly to the skin. Caffeine constricts blood vessels and reduces puffiness a vasoconstrictor.
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I skipped over that word, and I wanted to come back to it.
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There are I creams that contain caffeine. But you can also place cooled
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caffeinated tea bags on your eyes. I've seen where people do that with tea
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bags, and that makes sense. The caffeine is I guess what you're going
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for pretty much right, all right. If you've ever had a bad flight,
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there's a lot of things that could have contributed to it. Probably not
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this though, before, unless you're this one particular guy. In the story,
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a man flying British Airways from London to Toronto was forced to endure seven
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hours with a one inch metal bolt poking him in the back of his head.
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When the man took his seat on the plane, he noticed his seat
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was missing a headrest and there was an exposed bolt. The flight attendant told
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him that the flight was fully booked and there was no other seat to move
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him to. He was offered the option of getting off the plane and rebooking
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on another one, or using a pillow from first class to cover up the
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bolt. He chose the latter option because he did not want to take another
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flight um and it got very uncomfortable. He was forced to sit sideways in
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his seat for the entire flight to avoid leaning back because the bolt would basically
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poke him in the head through the pillow. The airline apologized and offered him
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a voucher worth about sixty three dollars, but after he went public with his
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ordeal, they upped the amount. I don't see what the new amount is,
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but he did decide I guess that's the better option there. Ah,
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Yeah, that stinks. London to Toronto. That's a long flight to have
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a bolt poking you in that. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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