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Looking Ahead at 2025 and a Little Strange and Bizarre News · 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: Friday morning, third day of January. My name is Wes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. Yesterday spent a good portion of
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  Speaker 2: the show talking about the terror attack in New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: Urban Street. Didn't get a chance really to do what
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  Speaker 2: I had intended to do, which was going to be
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  Speaker 2: to talk a little bit more about the new year
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  Speaker 2: and some of the trends expected coming forward. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: me dismissing anything with the New Orleans attack and any
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  Speaker 2: of the other connections with all of it. This is
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing thing. We'll be talking about it for quite
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  Speaker 2: some time. I am sure there's no doubt about that
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  Speaker 2: this will be and there's concerns about whether or not
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five could be a year for terror attacks.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be clear. I mentioned yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: the incoming President Trump, the president elect, the former and
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  Speaker 2: President elect Trump talking about his calls to Democrats, his
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  Speaker 2: calls to the media to get the southern border under control,
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  Speaker 2: and the potential for terror attacks and concerns that he had,
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  Speaker 2: and I mentioned that, you know, it was early in
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  Speaker 2: the game for what seemed like a politicized comment, And
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  Speaker 2: I just want to be clear I wasn't dismissing any
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  Speaker 2: truth to that. He has been warning about that. I've
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  Speaker 2: been warning about that. I've been saying that here and
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  Speaker 2: to people that will listen, trying to get that seed
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  Speaker 2: out there that this is a problem and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a problem. And I think that the you know,
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  Speaker 2: soon to be again president is going to be dealing
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  Speaker 2: a lot with potential terrorist problems as he takes over
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  Speaker 2: in the White House on the twentieth, when he's sworn in.
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  Speaker 2: He's already been very active on getting a number of
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  Speaker 2: things done. I'm sure this will push any of the
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  Speaker 2: terrorist concerns to the front line. With all of this,
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  Speaker 2: this is something that we need to be vigilant about
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  Speaker 2: again because we have had an open border for four years.
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  Speaker 2: We have had people flooding into the country from any
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  Speaker 2: and everywhere. And as I think it was Dave Berry's
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  Speaker 2: end of year like recap that I read the other day,
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  Speaker 2: Mexico is basically just America's vestibule. That's pretty much a
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  Speaker 2: good assessment for where we've been as far as people
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  Speaker 2: just flooding in and Mexico has just kind of been
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  Speaker 2: a doormat to just come on in and to do
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  Speaker 2: as you please. And we have not had people with
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  Speaker 2: good intentions coming in. Have come in with good intentions,
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  Speaker 2: but we've had people coming in that don't have good intentions.
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  Speaker 2: I should be clear on that concept as well. So
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  Speaker 2: terror is something that I'm concerned about for the new year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned about a number of things. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: starting with the economy, that was the that was the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing for the election. It was about the economy.
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  Speaker 2: It was about trying to get some sort of order,
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  Speaker 2: some sort of sense of justice, some sense of right
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  Speaker 2: and wrong, all of those things, because you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that's been missing for four years.
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  Speaker 2: It's just some sense of fairness, some sense of justice.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about forced fairness. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about a exact same outcome for everybody, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: much effort they put in. I'm talking about a meritocracy
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  Speaker 2: where you come in and you say, hey, I've got
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  Speaker 2: a fair chance to make my way in all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't necessarily all feel that that's It's been
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  Speaker 2: true across the board, and it hasn't been and it's
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  Speaker 2: not new. It's certainly not new, and you can go
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  Speaker 2: through various periods in history where different groups have had
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  Speaker 2: it harder, and right now there's just a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Americans who just kind of feel across the board like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're not getting a fair shake at all of this.
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  Speaker 2: That's what some of the polling showed leading into the election,
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  Speaker 2: and it certainly had to have some play in how
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  Speaker 2: the election turned out. But terror needs to be certainly
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  Speaker 2: on that list of things we need to be vigilant
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  Speaker 2: about and be very aware of. Just quickly looking back
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  Speaker 2: at twenty twenty four, a survey found Americans gave twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four a solid average rating of six out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Would some of the highlights being just a chance to
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  Speaker 2: reconnect with an old friend or family member for many
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  Speaker 2: folks in the US, having some creative and personal growth,
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  Speaker 2: maybe getting a new pet, learning a new skill or hobby,
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  Speaker 2: volunteering that's nice. I think that's great that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Americans were able to do that, Visiting a new
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  Speaker 2: state or city, overcoming health challenges, made a new friend
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  Speaker 2: or best friend, started a new job, experienced a once
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  Speaker 2: in a lifetime event, whether it was the eclipse, whether
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  Speaker 2: it was going to a concert of some significance, some
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  Speaker 2: other things in there, buying a car, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff that would you know, typically be on
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  Speaker 2: a list. And I thought it was interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: that traveling was a big part of it, and being
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  Speaker 2: able to reconnect with someone I think we have. That's
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  Speaker 2: certainly a sign that we are still trying to recover
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  Speaker 2: from COVID. We're still trying to recover from the damage
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  Speaker 2: that was done during that period where we were locked
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  Speaker 2: down and we were and I know it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're now into twenty twenty five, and it's crazy to
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  Speaker 2: think that five years ago, at this point, we weren't
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  Speaker 2: all locked down and things weren't going crazy yet we
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  Speaker 2: were getting there, we weren't quite there yet. Five years
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  Speaker 2: ago now, my family was still in Australia and we
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  Speaker 2: had you gone to visit family for the holidays down there,
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  Speaker 2: and we were getting back. I think we got back
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  Speaker 2: on the seventh and then, you know, it was very
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  Speaker 2: soon after that when all hell broke loose and COVID
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  Speaker 2: became so much bigger than any of the other pandemics.
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  Speaker 2: We had all these pandemics but none of them quite
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  Speaker 2: paid played out the way that COVID did or paid.
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  Speaker 2: If you were one of the companies making vaccines, they
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  Speaker 2: definitely got paid. All right. So now we look ahead
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  Speaker 2: into the new year, and this was a couple of
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  Speaker 2: the things I want to talk about as far as resolutions,
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  Speaker 2: and many saying that the reason that we fail at
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  Speaker 2: resolutions because of the way we think of them. We
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  Speaker 2: look at them from a negative standpoint. We say we're
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  Speaker 2: going to quit doing something or stop doing something, rather
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  Speaker 2: than focusing on a positive momentum type mindset where you
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  Speaker 2: say I'm going to start doing something, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to start not smoking cigarettes, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: find some way to turn it into a positive You're
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  Speaker 2: going to do something. I'm going to start a streak
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  Speaker 2: of not smoking cigarettes. I'm going to start a streak
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  Speaker 2: of going to the gym. I'm going to start a
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  Speaker 2: streak of eating healthier, eating vegetables every day. So far,
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  Speaker 2: so good on the vegetables. We've improved that a little
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  Speaker 2: bit here. We were already doing a lot of vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: Jill is the responsible adult in the house when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to that. But we're off to a good start.
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  Speaker 2: Making sure that we're eating a good variety of those
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  Speaker 2: vegetables so far this year. So to keep those resolutions
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  Speaker 2: they say, do that. Luke was telling me that he
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  Speaker 2: had read somewhere this idea about you do it as
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  Speaker 2: a Bingo card rather than you just say I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: stop doing these things, because then it's all streak based,
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  Speaker 2: and if the streak falls apart, then you've ruined all
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  Speaker 2: of it, Whereas with a Bingo card, you set yourself
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  Speaker 2: some goals for your Bingo card, and then that way,
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  Speaker 2: if something falls apart, you can still go back and recover.
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  Speaker 2: That was good. I don't know where he got that from,
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  Speaker 2: but I like it. He was sharing that as input.
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  Speaker 2: I myself not really a resolution person. It's not really
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  Speaker 2: my mindset for things. I think we should be fully
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  Speaker 2: prepared to say, hey, it's you know, Tuesday, the twenty
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  Speaker 2: third of August. I can start a resolution if you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: random day. I'm just giving out a random date. So
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  Speaker 2: it shouldn't have to be the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't have to be the third or the first
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  Speaker 2: first of January and saying hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: fix these problems. In my life. Some food trends expected
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  Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. According to the experts at the
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  Speaker 2: Institute of Culinary Education, they say six ingredients that will
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  Speaker 2: be trending. Seaweed will be high on the list, they say,
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  Speaker 2: especially for the folks trying to push the plant based eating.
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  Speaker 2: Sour dough and lots of sour dough showing up in
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  Speaker 2: they say, from breads, yes, but pancakes and pasta and
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  Speaker 2: things tamarin, the fruit, chutney, cocktails and things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I don't expect to see that one popping up
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  Speaker 2: a lot in my life. I could see the sour
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  Speaker 2: dough things popping in, and I could hear people talking
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  Speaker 2: about seaweed tea, and they say, look for tea to
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  Speaker 2: show up in some sweet and savory dishes. Peppers. Always
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  Speaker 2: a fan of the peppers. They expect to see even
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  Speaker 2: more peppers. And then it's the purple is the sweet potato?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that what It's called? The ube and a purple yam, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: or sweet potato. It's indigenous to the Philippines, And they say,
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  Speaker 2: expect to see lots of the purple yam in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. Again, I'll believe it when I see it,
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt it's a possibility. And for folks that
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  Speaker 2: are planning to try to do dry January, some of
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  Speaker 2: the experts say, maybe instead of looking at it from
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  Speaker 2: a dry January standpoint, maybe look at a damp January.
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  Speaker 2: So they say, limit yourself on how many drinks you
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  Speaker 2: can have rather than trying to cut them out completely.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this ties back in to that idea
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  Speaker 2: about resolutions. Cuts back to this notion that if you
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  Speaker 2: say I'm going to cut out and not have any
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  Speaker 2: alcohol at all, and then you have a drink and
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  Speaker 2: then you think, well might as well booze it up,
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  Speaker 2: let's go crazy, So you know, the damp might be
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  Speaker 2: the better way to go if you know there's a
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  Speaker 2: risk of trying to ruin it. But they do say
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  Speaker 2: if you can do dry January that giving up alcohol
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  Speaker 2: for a month. They say between fifteen and thirty five
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  Speaker 2: percent of drinkers are going to be swearing off booze
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  Speaker 2: for the month are swearing at all. And they say,
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  Speaker 2: according to research from Morning Consult, ninety percent of those
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  Speaker 2: taking the booze break for the health benefits, seventy three
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  Speaker 2: percent to save money they say, if you're participating in
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  Speaker 2: Dry January, you'll have improved mood, better sleep, weight loss,
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  Speaker 2: more energy, lower cholesterol, decreased diabetes risk, and lower blood pressure,
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  Speaker 2: all of those things playing out. All right, it is Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't forgotten that. You know, we usually do strange
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  Speaker 2: and bizarre news from around the world. I thought we
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  Speaker 2: would touch on a couple of those. Haven't built up
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  Speaker 2: a bunch yet for the new year, but we'll at
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  Speaker 2: least get a couple in here, and we'll have a
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  Speaker 2: Florida story to start it off. Florida drunk driver under
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  Speaker 2: arrest despite his girlfriend's best effort to take responsibility for
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  Speaker 2: his reckless driving. A sheriff's deputy stopped fifty three year
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  Speaker 2: old Ronnie White after seeing his vehicle nearly strike the
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  Speaker 2: curb multiple times. The deputy approached the driver's side window
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  Speaker 2: and immediately detected the smell of alcohol on White's breath.
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  Speaker 2: He asked White if everything is okay, and that's when
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  Speaker 2: his female companion, forty eight year old Diane Dash that's
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  Speaker 2: a great name, interrupted and explained that his reckless driving
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  Speaker 2: was her fault because it's my birthday and I was
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  Speaker 2: rubbing all over him to get him excited. The deputy
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  Speaker 2: then asked White, other than her rubbing all over you,
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  Speaker 2: is everything else okay with you? White said yes and
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  Speaker 2: agreed to a field sobriety test, which he failed. He
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  Speaker 2: then refused to take a breath test and was arrested
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  Speaker 2: for driving under the influence. You know, it's a good
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  Speaker 2: attempt at trying to spare him the arrest. The I'm
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  Speaker 2: just rubbing all over him, you know, I mean, could
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  Speaker 2: have been a reason, could have been. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: worth a shot, I guess. A Missouri man who was
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  Speaker 2: clocked doing one hundred and seven miles per hour on
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  Speaker 2: Interstate thirty five told the trooper he had no idea
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  Speaker 2: he was speeding because he was busy playing video games.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five year old Dakota Trevon Crater was pulled over
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  Speaker 2: and a Nissan Center ultimately charged with a number offenses,
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  Speaker 2: including speeding and driving on a suspended license. He admitted
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  Speaker 2: to playing a video game while driving, but didn't say
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  Speaker 2: which game. Scheduled to appear in court on April the fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: That really just kind of seems to be doubling down
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  Speaker 2: on I mean, first of all, one hundred and five
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  Speaker 2: on the one hundred and seven, sorry on the interstate'
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be in some pretty significant trouble unless you're
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  Speaker 2: in one of the places it doesn't have a speed limit.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously this one did. I think you just cut your
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  Speaker 2: losses at that point, and the video game thing is
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  Speaker 2: not going to help. That's not going to make things
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  Speaker 2: break well, one of the ways AI is being used.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like like the headline saying that it's being
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  Speaker 2: used this way should probably be worded and say that
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  Speaker 2: there's an attempt to use it this way because I'm
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  Speaker 2: not really sure how successful this is. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: understand until we know more, we can't possibly make a
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  Speaker 2: determination on it. I mean that's the essence of how
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  Speaker 2: science works, right, you have to like science it out,
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  Speaker 2: you have to go through the processes. However, in this case,
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  Speaker 2: as a discussion about researchers, and again they're sciencing that
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  Speaker 2: are using AI to try to translate animal sounds into
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  Speaker 2: human language. And basically there's even cash prizes being awarded
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  Speaker 2: to scientists who can crack the code. There's expectations for
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  Speaker 2: some breakthroughs in twenty twenty five, because there are so
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  Speaker 2: many working on it. So here we go. Well, and
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  Speaker 2: I've we've done similar stories about this without the cash prizes,
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  Speaker 2: without the big lottery other than you know, what's the
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  Speaker 2: obvious where there's grants and things at stake whenever you
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  Speaker 2: can do this. But if they're just offering cash prizes
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  Speaker 2: to people who can figure out what the animals are saying,
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  Speaker 2: I've said before just being a general skeptic of this
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  Speaker 2: whole process. Just be aware that at some point we're
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  Speaker 2: going to learn about animals through AI telling us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: chickens saying hey, hey, don't eat me, don't eat my eggs,
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  Speaker 2: cow saying we fart a lot. You need to stop
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  Speaker 2: eating us. Whatever it is. I mentioned the farts only
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  Speaker 2: because of the climate change people. That's the only reason
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned the farting. So just know we'll have commercials,
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  Speaker 2: Hey been running AI on your dog. They really like
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  Speaker 2: Purina dog chow, you know, those kinds of things. Just
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  Speaker 2: be aware, have a little bit of skepticism as this
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  Speaker 2: kind of science progresses. That's all that I'm saying. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, all right, Let's go to the This is
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  Speaker 2: a recap for twenty twenty four The Apple stores most
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  Speaker 2: downloaded games for the year, a mix of old and new.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, Top ten the free games downloaded from iPhones.
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  Speaker 2: Block Blast It's an oldie but of goodie, right, Monopoly
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  Speaker 2: Go Roadblocks, Call of Duty, War Zone, Mobile Township, Last
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  Speaker 2: War Survival, Royal Match, Brawl Stars, Subway Surfers, Oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: that one's sticking around, and then My Perfect Hotel. My
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  Speaker 2: kids were playing Subway Surfers as toddlers. So and then
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  Speaker 2: the rundown for the top ten iPhone games that are
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  Speaker 2: paid for the year, Minecraft, Play with Friends, Heads Up,
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  Speaker 2: Geometry Dash. My kids are still playing that one. Bloon's
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sorry, Papa's Free Freezeria, to Go Balloons, TD six,
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  Speaker 2: Five Nights at Freddy's Plague, Inc. Monopoly, the board game
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  Speaker 2: Hey Monopoly, getting some both categories Stardu Valley and Red's
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  Speaker 2: First Flight. So I think that's an Angry Birds game,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. So there you go. And Simone Biles was
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  Speaker 2: named the Athlete of the Year. That's that's, of course,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: a high honor for Simone Biles. She is a great
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: sportsperson of the Year. I guess is the term for
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: sports illustrated after her comeback. I guess to the perisol
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: it was a big year for the comeback twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four was whether it was Donald Trump, whether it was
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  Speaker 2: Simoan Biles. So in spite of that, however, she was
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  Speaker 2: only third on the Google list of trending athletes for
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  Speaker 2: the year. Mike Tyson takes the top spot there. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it had something to do with that a certain
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  Speaker 2: boxing match with Jake Paul, who, by the way, was fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Simone Biles was third, Scotti Scheffler was fourth, Amani Khalif
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  Speaker 2: was number two. I don't really know Imani Khalif, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest. Anthony Edwards, now I'm assuming that's not Goose,
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  Speaker 2: you know from er, that's basketball player Caitlin Clark Harrison. Butker,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you'd start giving those speeches, man, you get people worked up.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Chiles and Brandon Ayuk And if I didn't get
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a name right, sorry, some of these athletes are foreign
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  Speaker 2: to me in some cases literally, but I don't some
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of these names I don't know. And the cities voted
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: for best sports cities for fans according to wallet Hub,
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  Speaker 2: and Atlanta didn't crack the top ten. LA Boston Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: New York, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, DC, and Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: are their top ten picks out of the four hundred
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  Speaker 2: that they studied. Atlanta couldn't crack into the anywhere into
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the top ten at all. Actually, Atlanta was number thirteen.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: As I dig just a little deeper, but still not
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  Speaker 2: being able to crack into the top ten. Charlotte was
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: number twenty eight. Just kind of looking around some of
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  Speaker 2: these cities in the southeast. All right, now, I'll do
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