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It Just Hit Differently In 2025 · 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. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, twenty fourth day of February. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Final days. This second month goes by fast,
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Speaker 2: goes back, especially when there's been a lot to cover
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Speaker 2: in the news. There's been a lot going on in
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Speaker 2: the beginning of this administration, for administration number two for
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Speaker 2: President Trump, a lot of things have been happening and
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Speaker 2: have been happening very very quickly. I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: share this because and I'm not going to go really
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Speaker 2: deep into it, but I feel and I talked to
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Speaker 2: a few people about it. I don't remember talking about
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Speaker 2: it on the show, so if I did, let me
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Speaker 2: let me just have my little mental moment. But I
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Speaker 2: just in the last week rewatched a movie part of
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Speaker 2: a franchise of movies that I really really like, and
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Speaker 2: largely because I'm a huge fan of Chris Nolan and
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Speaker 2: his movies and Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, you can make
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Speaker 2: cases for some other movies. I know that there are
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Speaker 2: some definite fan favorite movies in the different superhero franchises,
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Speaker 2: but his take on Batman and the trilogy of those movies,
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Speaker 2: and it's interesting to me. You know, there's a there
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Speaker 2: is a contingency of people who argue that The Dark
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Speaker 2: Knight is the best comic book movie of all time.
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Speaker 2: I stand in that area. I think there's some things
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Speaker 2: that others got right, very right, and did a great
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Speaker 2: job with. But I do think that that one was
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Speaker 2: about as close to on the nose as you can
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Speaker 2: get when it comes to, you know, a comic book
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Speaker 2: themed movie. And I think Batman makes it a little
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Speaker 2: bit easier to do what Nolan set out to accomplish,
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Speaker 2: because you're talking about a series, especially this the way
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Speaker 2: his take on it. But you can do the Batman
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Speaker 2: story while keeping it rooted in somewhat elements of reality,
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Speaker 2: and you can pull elements from like really good storytelling
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Speaker 2: and work it in. There's elements of, you know, the
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Speaker 2: Star Wars franchise, where you know, you and maybe you
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Speaker 2: know this, maybe you don't, but you know, you look
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Speaker 2: at George Lucas and he's pulling elements from Samurai films
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Speaker 2: and World War one and World War two type movies
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Speaker 2: and things and pulling in some of the you know,
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Speaker 2: the aerial fighting from those which, by the way, if
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Speaker 2: you're a fan of Star Wars and you haven't gone
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Speaker 2: back and watched some of the movies that some of
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Speaker 2: that is taken from, you should because it's fascinating and
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Speaker 2: I mean it's very You can pull up there's like YouTube,
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Speaker 2: you can pull up like side by sides of some
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Speaker 2: of those things and see how how much he took
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Speaker 2: from those and they inspired you know, this space opera
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Speaker 2: that is Star Wars. But anyway, I think Batman is
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Speaker 2: one of those stories that you can keep it rooted
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Speaker 2: in reality. Batman is different than most of the other
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Speaker 2: and he's not a superhero. That's what makes him different.
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Speaker 2: He has no superpowers other than just being a great
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Speaker 2: detective and rich and very disciplined and focused on what
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Speaker 2: his goal is. But also while not having any superpowers,
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Speaker 2: being very much you know, he's he's part of what
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Speaker 2: they call in DC comics the trilogy, and it's Superman,
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Speaker 2: Wonder Woman and Batman, and they both are insanely powerful
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Speaker 2: superheroes and he is, you know, right there with them
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Speaker 2: amongst you know, the greats. For not only in our
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Speaker 2: world where we read those things or watch the movies
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Speaker 2: or whatever, also you know, in that reality, Superman treats
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Speaker 2: Batman very much like his equal anyway, So keeping it
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Speaker 2: in an element of reality because he doesn't have superpowers
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Speaker 2: is one of the things that makes it appealing, and
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Speaker 2: I think makes it where you can tell some of
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Speaker 2: these stories without having to add any sort of supernatural
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Speaker 2: element to it. You don't have to, you can, you
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Speaker 2: don't have to. Batman comics certainly have all that they're
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Speaker 2: in the same world with Superman, but in the movies,
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Speaker 2: that's not really where Chris Nolan decided to go with him,
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Speaker 2: so and I think it made it really good. And
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Speaker 2: obviously Heath Ledger was incredible playing the Joker in that
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Speaker 2: movie and all those sorts of things, and the first
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Speaker 2: Batman movie that he did, Batman Begins. I think initially,
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Speaker 2: you know, when you have a movie where you launch
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Speaker 2: a franchise, the sequel is, you know, to me, and
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Speaker 2: I think to most significantly better than the first one,
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Speaker 2: and that's rare. You don't always get sequels that are,
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Speaker 2: you know, especially not that much better than the original.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people kind of slept on
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Speaker 2: Batman Begins, and then the third came out, The Dark
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Speaker 2: Knight Rises and that took from some comic stories and
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Speaker 2: things in its own right, borrowed some elements of it,
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Speaker 2: and I think initially people thought, well, what a great
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Speaker 2: wrap up of this trilogy, and then over time The
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Speaker 2: Dark Knight Rises sort of became the less of the
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Speaker 2: three because initially Batman begins wise, but Batman begins it's great.
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Speaker 2: Batman begins is So it's got elements of quotable lines
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Speaker 2: from it that are on par with, you know, like
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Speaker 2: Rocky and those sorts of things. So and which is
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Speaker 2: interesting to me because also when you get to The
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Speaker 2: Dark Knight Rises, there's a Rocky three feel to it.
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Speaker 2: I got to go see that that film early. It
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Speaker 2: was like an advanced screening of it. I saw it
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Speaker 2: maybe a month, six weeks or something before it came out,
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Speaker 2: and I just remember thinking, oh my gosh, there's so
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Speaker 2: many things about this that are like Rocky three. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's so many He gets a statue like that's when
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Speaker 2: he got the statue there. You know, he's fighting the bigger,
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Speaker 2: stronger opponent. He's got to find a way to get
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Speaker 2: things together.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: He didn't end racism the way Rocky did. Rocky three,
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Speaker 2: like that wasn't ended, but anyway, and it was one
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Speaker 2: of those things I had to sit on that little
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Speaker 2: analogy for a long time because I saw it long
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Speaker 2: before it came out. But anyway, so I just rewatched
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Speaker 2: The Dark Knight Rises. Now I've watched all of these
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Speaker 2: movies many times, many times. I'm a huge fan. I've
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Speaker 2: watched them all many times. But I had not revisited
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Speaker 2: this third and final movie in a while. And I'm
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Speaker 2: just gonna tell you it hits differently in twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: especially if you've watched it before, I encourage you to
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Speaker 2: watch it again. Now, if you haven't watched it, you should.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'd say watch all three of them, but
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Speaker 2: it just hits differently. Now. You know, with the Simpsons,
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of things that we saw if
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Speaker 2: you follow the Simpsons the show, or you just follow
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Speaker 2: on social media people talking about, look, the Simpsons predicted this.
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Speaker 2: The Simpsons predicted that. Some of those things not even
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Speaker 2: true by the way, some of them crazy how accurate
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Speaker 2: they turned out to be. So I'm not making any
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Speaker 2: sort of an accusation that Christopher Nolan had some sort
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Speaker 2: of ability to know how the election was going to go.
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, or he had, he would have
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Speaker 2: had to have known how things were going to go
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Speaker 2: for a few elections leading up to it. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying that at all, and I know things are
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Speaker 2: all open to interpretation, but The Dark Knight Rises is
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Speaker 2: essentially about transfer of wealth. You have a group, and
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Speaker 2: it starts with the first with Batman begins the first
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Speaker 2: in the series because you're introduced introduced to a villain
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Speaker 2: there played by Liam Neeson rajah Gul, who goal he
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Speaker 2: believes society has to be torn down so that it
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Speaker 2: can be rebuilt into something better, and part of that
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Speaker 2: does include this idea of redistribution of wealth. So he's
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Speaker 2: the mastermind behind all of this, right, he's the guy
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Speaker 2: who thinks this is what we have to do. We're
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Speaker 2: going to do this, and his whole legacy of and
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Speaker 2: I don't want to do. If you're somebody who doesn't
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Speaker 2: watch these movies, you know, oh my gosh, based on
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Speaker 2: what West is saying, I'd like to watch them. And
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry they'll be potential for some spoiler stuff in this,
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Speaker 2: but his character isn't really around by the third movie, okay,
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Speaker 2: for you know reasons. But he is the guy that
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Speaker 2: wants to bring about the downfall of society, specifically Gotham City.
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Speaker 2: That's what he's going for in this franchise. That's one
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Speaker 2: of his goal. But it's big picture and he knows
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Speaker 2: that's the city that if he can take it down,
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Speaker 2: then he can bring about all these changes that he
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Speaker 2: wants to bring about. And whatever it takes, his wealth,
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Speaker 2: his money, whatever, he's got the people that he has
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Speaker 2: influence over. Now he also has a child who believes
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Speaker 2: in continuing on that same legacy. Now, when I watch
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Speaker 2: these movies in the past, I just think it's hard
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Speaker 2: not to see a little bit of elements of conservatism
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Speaker 2: in some of Chris Nolan's movies. I don't necessarily know
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Speaker 2: that he's a conservative. Rush Limbaugh, I think, used to
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Speaker 2: talk about some of these conservative ideals he would see
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Speaker 2: in Chris nolan movies. I don't know that he talks
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Speaker 2: specifically about any of the Batman movies, but you just
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Speaker 2: kind of see some of these stories and you don't
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Speaker 2: think a whole lot like to compare it to anything
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Speaker 2: going on now. And then we get The Dark Knight
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Speaker 2: Rises in twenty twenty five, watching it and you sort
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Speaker 2: of go wait a minute, redistribution of wealth. Let's take
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Speaker 2: down the rich. Let's take the any means necessary of
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Speaker 2: taking them down. There's a character in the third movie,
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Speaker 2: The Dark Knight Rises played by Anne Hathaway a Selena
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Speaker 2: Kyle catwoman. Now. The movie begins with her in a
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Speaker 2: mindset of We're going to take down these rich people,
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Speaker 2: and she even tells Bruce Wayne at one point, you
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Speaker 2: know it's coming. I don't know that you and your
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Speaker 2: rich friends know that this is coming, but it's coming.
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Speaker 2: And she seems all in on them getting their their
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Speaker 2: justice for being nothing other than rich. You have so much,
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Speaker 2: we have so little. It's coming. And then, ultimately, using
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Speaker 2: the current version of the vision of this rajah Ghoul character,
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Speaker 2: this character Bain comes on the scene and Bain is
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Speaker 2: the one who ultimately is pushing this agenda forward. We're
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Speaker 2: going to take down Gotham City. We're gonna take down
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Speaker 2: the rich. We're going to blow it up. We're going
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Speaker 2: to destroy it and then give everybody a chance to
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Speaker 2: rebuild it better, build back better. I know. I So
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Speaker 2: you're watching it in twenty twenty five and you're saying,
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, so you have this you know George
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Speaker 2: Soros and George Soros's son type characters. You have this
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Speaker 2: Bain guy who's kind of executing the plan, helping to
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Speaker 2: implement it and make it happen. You have some other
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Speaker 2: elements in this. I don't want to go too I mean,
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Speaker 2: I know, I'm kind of digging into it really more
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Speaker 2: than I plan to talk about today. But but they're
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Speaker 2: trying to make this happen. And in the process of
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Speaker 2: all of this happening, this Bain character fights now a
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Speaker 2: very aged Batman who isn't quite ready for the fight
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Speaker 2: and gets Batman gets his back broken, and Bain decides
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Speaker 2: to throw Batman into this prison and leave him there
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Speaker 2: and tells him, you know, I'm not gonna let you die.
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Speaker 2: I want you to see everything that you stand for
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Speaker 2: fall apart in front of your eyes. We're gonna have
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Speaker 2: a TV there for you to watch it, and you're
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Speaker 2: down in this literal whole prison that we're gonna throw
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Speaker 2: you in. And then of course the movie is him
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Speaker 2: trying to get healed enough that he's in he can
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Speaker 2: escape from this prison and then go and try to
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Speaker 2: save Gotham City. I don't even have to say anything more.
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Speaker 2: Than that, other than it's a billionaire who you know,
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Speaker 2: fighting for everyday citizens gets thrown in jail, even if
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Speaker 2: only for a brief time, and then you know, a
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Speaker 2: sham of a like there's no courts here. He just
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Speaker 2: gets thrown in this hole, but gets thrown in jail
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Speaker 2: and then has to fight his way back to save
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Speaker 2: the day. Yeah, like I said, just hits different in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, just hits different. All of it just
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Speaker 2: kind of hits different. It's it's really a different viewing experience.
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Speaker 2: I highly recommend it even if you haven't seen it before.
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Speaker 2: Just a different set of but if you have, maybe
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Speaker 2: have a different perspective on it. And I'm sorry in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, but since twenty twenty four, it's just different.
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Speaker 2: Post twenty twenty four, I should say. All right, on
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Speaker 2: other things, let's talk about Joy Reid just for a second,
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Speaker 2: because Joy Reid, I guess this is the final week
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Speaker 2: for Joy Reid's show on MSNBC, long running, long standing
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Speaker 2: race baiting hate field show that not many people watched.
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Speaker 2: Not a lot of people here watched it. I know
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Speaker 2: there was a period of time when our former mayor
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Speaker 2: here in Columbus are a home base for the show.
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Speaker 2: Went on the show a few times, Teresa Tomlinson, she
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Speaker 2: went on some that was someone I guess when she
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Speaker 2: was trying to make a run for Senate, and Georgia
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Speaker 2: was on there a few times. So if you're thinking,
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Speaker 2: I don't watch MSNBC, but why have I heard anything
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Speaker 2: about joy Read, that could be a reason if you're not,
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Speaker 2: if you don't follow all these fun stories about some
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Speaker 2: of the hateful Rhetorican things. It is interesting though, because
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Speaker 2: in many cases, you lose a job like this on
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Speaker 2: a on a network like you know, a major cable network,
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Speaker 2: it typically don't give you like a week to go
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Speaker 2: sign off. So they're going to give her a chance
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Speaker 2: to get out all of her venom. It'll be Trump
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Speaker 2: as bad. This is Trump's fault, when in reality it's
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Speaker 2: about viewership and people just don't care what she has
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Speaker 2: to say. Some do not, many some do so Yeah,
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Speaker 2: as they as they say in many large companies with
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Speaker 2: when you're released from a job, and I don't celebrate
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Speaker 2: people losing their job. I just feel like that's a
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Speaker 2: bad place to be in now. Sometimes you're a fan
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Speaker 2: of a sports team and the coach loses their job
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Speaker 2: because they're not getting a job done, and you might
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Speaker 2: feel like, okay that one. As a fan, I feel
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Speaker 2: all right about that one. But some of these, when
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Speaker 2: it's just all hate and buile and things that they say,
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Speaker 2: it's hard not to feel a little bit like, well, good,
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Speaker 2: this is this is a point. But I don't know
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Speaker 2: what will be next for her, So I don't want
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Speaker 2: to celebrate too much because I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what's next for her. But I'll just say that
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Speaker 2: she's gonna get her opportunity to spout off all the
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Speaker 2: hate and venom and things over this week, and then
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Speaker 2: that will sign off and she'll be gone and that'll
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Speaker 2: be the end of it. Jensaki, the former White House
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Speaker 2: Press secretary under Biden in the early days, will be
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Speaker 2: taking a larger role on the network. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that that matters. Like they're not bringing anything fresh and
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Speaker 2: new in. They're not saying, hey, we're gonna bring in
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Speaker 2: someone who is really going to change things and draw
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Speaker 2: eyes to this network. They're just saying, you know, we're
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Speaker 2: getting rid of this one that failed. That's what we're
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Speaker 2: doing at this point. So yeah, and a few other
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Speaker 2: changes that they're making I And be honest, I don't care.
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Speaker 2: I saw it was like, well, they're gonna move this
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Speaker 2: person here and this person here and do this. None
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Speaker 2: of that matters to me. It's not like I'm going
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Speaker 2: to tune in. I'm not gonna watch it. I don't care.
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Speaker 2: I'm just glad that one person who has made a
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Speaker 2: career out of trashing Republicans, calling them Nazis, calling them
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Speaker 2: a racist, fascist Nazis on all levels, all of them,
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Speaker 2: anyone who supports them. I'm just kind of glad to
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Speaker 2: know that that's going away, glad to know that that's
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Speaker 2: being silenced. I don't want to celebrate someone losing their job,
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Speaker 2: but again, you kind of feel like, just being on
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Speaker 2: one end of the name calling, you support Republicans, you're
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Speaker 2: after the break, well, who would you say are more
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Speaker 2: to fifty, while men often kept it all for themselves.
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Speaker 2: On average, women gave away forty percent more than men.
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Speaker 2: Researchers found the generosity displayed by women was linked to
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Speaker 2: traits like openness and empathy. It's part of a game.
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Speaker 2: It's part of a game, you know.
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Speaker 1: Anyway.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's been a lot of talk about how gen
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Speaker 2: Z likes to talk on the phone. There's a name
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Speaker 2: for it, telephobia. It's a real thing. Growing up with
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Speaker 2: texting and messaging, Many gen Z's find phone calls so
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Speaker 2: stressful that they experience physical symptoms like increased heart rate
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Speaker 2: and shaking. But it's not just about avoiding awkward conversations.
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Speaker 2: The phone fear is affecting their work too, with employers
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Speaker 2: finding that gen Z workers are much more hesitant to
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Speaker 2: make or take phone calls. It's so bad that Nottingham
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Speaker 2: College in England has started a class to help gen
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Speaker 2: Zers overcome their fear of talking on the phone. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I feel a little attacked here. It's not all phone
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Speaker 2: calls for me. It's certain phone calls. There's just certain
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Speaker 2: ones that I can't bring myself to make. It's something
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Speaker 2: to do with my wiring. But I can't bring myself
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Speaker 2: to make the calls, and I put them off and
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Speaker 2: I put them off, and then when I do them,
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Speaker 2: they're not as bad as I thought. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: but see, I'm not a gen Z very much gen X,
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Speaker 2: so oh, I'm not speaking of this from the gen aspect.
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Speaker 2: I'm just speaking of this from it is a real thing.
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Speaker 2: I do have it with some phone calls, and you know,
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Speaker 2: a lot of my phone calls, it's the same handful
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Speaker 2: of people. They're the comfortable ones, the ones that I
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Speaker 2: dread it can be a little bit harder. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: and I've got a lot of friends my age that
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Speaker 2: don't really like talking on the phone too, So I
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Speaker 2: think it's probably bigger than just gen Z. But gen
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Speaker 2: Z seems to one be the ones that people are
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Speaker 2: talking about a lot. And if it's affecting your work, yeah,
24:36
Speaker 2: that's that's another issue. If you want a date, you
24:39
Speaker 2: better smell good. In other news, water is Wet a
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Speaker 2: new survey asking singles about their biggest x when it
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Speaker 2: came to a potential date. The biggest turnoff by far
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Speaker 2: was bad hygiene. Here are the best dating X the
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Speaker 2: biggest dating X of twenty twenty five, according to single surveyed.
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Speaker 2: After bad hygiene comes lack of me smoking in tobacco use,
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Speaker 2: excessive drinking, and talking too much about themselves. Keep these
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Speaker 2: things in mind. If you want twenty twenty five to
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Speaker 2: be your year, keep all these things in mind. Researchers
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Speaker 2: have discovered some surprising behavior in advanced AI models when
25:21
Speaker 2: it comes to playing chess, and it seems that AI
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Speaker 2: will sometimes cheat by hacking their opponents to win. Programmers
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Speaker 2: train the AI models to solve difficult challenges and to
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Speaker 2: be relentless, and the robots are following through by doing
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Speaker 2: anything necessary to score the win. That's not scary at all,
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Speaker 2: is it. Maybe they used a little programming from the
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Speaker 2: Bobby the Brain heenan great legendary wrestling manager in the
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Speaker 2: old back when it was still called the WWF. He
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Speaker 2: used to have a motto, so if you can't win, fair, cheat,
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Speaker 2: And if they're using that in programming these robots, then
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Speaker 2: that only makes sense because you know, sometimes sometimes that's
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Speaker 2: but you know, or maybe they're just you know, modeling
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Speaker 2: after the way some people run elections. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Research in Japan have developed a prosthetic hand that combines
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Speaker 2: lab grown muscle tissue with flexible mechanical joints. The hand
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Speaker 2: can perform complex actions like making a scissor motion and
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Speaker 2: grasping objects. When the device needs improvements before it can
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Speaker 2: be useful in the real world, the scientists at least
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Speaker 2: have shown that the idea of mixing man and machines
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Speaker 2: is possible. Take those two stories back to back and
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Speaker 2: then go back and rewatch terminator. Just go back and
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Speaker 2: watch the first terminator and tell me if we're not
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Speaker 2: creating a bigger problem, I mean kind of are. That'll
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Speaker 2: do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks
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