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Masters of the Universe · 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: Tuesday morning, eighteenth day of November. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I am recovering from last night's birthday feast
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Speaker 2: for my son Luke. He turned fourteen yesterday. I mentioned
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Speaker 2: that on the show yesterday, and part of the feast
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Speaker 2: involved not only did my mom make him his favorite meal,
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Speaker 2: her legendary beef strogan off, but we also had what
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Speaker 2: I could only describe as a franken cake. We have
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Speaker 2: this thing that we do, and this is I totally
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Speaker 2: give my wife credit for this because Jill's mom when
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Speaker 2: she was a kid, she and her brother's growing up,
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Speaker 2: her mom always made them a homemade cake for and
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Speaker 2: I say homemade, just made it at home, I assume
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Speaker 2: probably withal like from scratch, but always made a cake.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't like we're going to go out and buy
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Speaker 2: a cake. And there's nothing against going to a bakery
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Speaker 2: and buying a cake. Those are great cakes, you know.
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Speaker 2: But Jill always felt like, look, my mom made the
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Speaker 2: effort of making sure there was a homemade cake. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure the same would have been there for me as well.
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Speaker 2: Jill just more aware of it, I guess, and said,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I'd rather do a homemade cake than
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Speaker 2: a bakery cake for our kid's birthdays. And that's what
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Speaker 2: we do, and most of our birthdays for she or me.
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Speaker 2: We you know, it's everybody usually gets homemade cake, and
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Speaker 2: lately I have been primarily the cake maker, and I
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Speaker 2: like to experiment. I'm not really hence the Frankin cake.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I do work out of box cakes to
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Speaker 2: begin with, but I also do the thing where you
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Speaker 2: add extra eggs, and you do butter instead of oil,
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Speaker 2: and you do milk instead of water whatever. The box
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Speaker 2: cake instructions are the Dolly parton cakes, by the way,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've had those, but they already
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Speaker 2: give you some suggestions on waste to fancy him up
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Speaker 2: a little bit. And then I also put the pudding
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Speaker 2: in there. You put instant putting in That means you
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Speaker 2: got to put a little more milk, and then I
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Speaker 2: add some chocolate chips in there. And anyway, so this
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Speaker 2: year's creation, Luke often in the past would ask for
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Speaker 2: like a cookie cake. He likes those, and I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: how about we take, but this year he wanted a
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Speaker 2: regular cake. I thought, well, how about we take the
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Speaker 2: best of both worlds. So it was layered. It was cake, cookie,
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Speaker 2: cake cookie, and then you know, cover it with the
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Speaker 2: homemade butter cream frosting. So that's what we did. And
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Speaker 2: needless to say, it was ridiculously sweet. So I'm recovering.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm doing for the next and then we've
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Speaker 2: got so much more of it because you really can't
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Speaker 2: eat very much of it to begin with, and what
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Speaker 2: little bit you eat really does kind of take it
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Speaker 2: out of you. I'm also recovering from This was my
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Speaker 2: this weekend. I didn't mention this yesterday, but Sunday was
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Speaker 2: my first weekend back on stilts rehearsing for the Nutcracker.
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Speaker 2: I've been in, I've met the girls, we've done some work,
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Speaker 2: but this was my first weekend back on the stilts
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Speaker 2: for the show. And I since I had surgery was
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Speaker 2: ten almost like ten and a half weeks ago. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm ten weeks out from surgery. I was cleared by
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Speaker 2: my surgeon. He actually cleared me before this, but this
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Speaker 2: was the first weekend that I thought I'm gonna get
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Speaker 2: up on these things, we're gonna do some dancing and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna go from there. So that's that was the idea.
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Speaker 2: You know that I would wait ten weeks post surgery,
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Speaker 2: so we're right on schedule for it, and we got
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Speaker 2: work in with the girls, and I was actually in
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Speaker 2: the dress, not the full get up, but the dress.
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Speaker 2: That's the important thing we have to rehearse in because
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Speaker 2: they've got to know how big the dress is while
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Speaker 2: they're in there and they come out. Anyway, most of
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Speaker 2: you listening, probably unless you're new to the show. I'm
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Speaker 2: in the role of Mother Ginger, which means I'm instilled,
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Speaker 2: so I'm in a dress. It's a role typically played
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Speaker 2: by a man, historically played by a man because of
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Speaker 2: how heavy all the gear is. And I did have
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Speaker 2: surgery right after labor days, so I'm ten weeks out.
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Speaker 2: I'm at a good, good point for recovery to be
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Speaker 2: able to get up and do some things that are
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Speaker 2: a little more high risk. I'm not going on the
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Speaker 2: roof yet, you know, I'm not doing anything. I'm not
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Speaker 2: in roller coasters just yet. But you know, working through
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Speaker 2: our routine for the Nutcrackers, So get your tickets for
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Speaker 2: can get your tickets. But yes, got some work in
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, so I'm recovering from that. It was that,
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Speaker 2: and then it was you know, this whole cake thing,
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Speaker 2: just way, way too much sweetness and a big meal.
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Speaker 2: But the meal, I don't have any guilt for the meal.
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Speaker 2: I have a little guilt for the cake. But you know,
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Speaker 2: got to be able to fit in this mother ginger
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Speaker 2: dress for at least another month. They're about a month,
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Speaker 2: three more weeks. Got to be able to do that,
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Speaker 2: and we got Thanksgiving coming up. And so I want
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Speaker 2: to talk a little bit today about this crazy thing
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Speaker 2: that's happening as people are still trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: how Trump won. They're still trying to understand this and
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Speaker 2: basically a It's basically like an interview with Dave Portnoy,
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Speaker 2: His commentary on sports, it's kind of like any sports
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Speaker 2: commentary you either love it or you hate it, because
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Speaker 2: that's how sports works. As a reason, ESPN only really
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Speaker 2: talks about the Cowboys and the Lakers and the Yankees
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Speaker 2: because they know you either love them or you hate them,
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Speaker 2: you just want to shake your fist at whatever they're saying.
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Speaker 2: It's just kind of how that works. And that's one
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Speaker 2: of the things he does when it comes to his
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Speaker 2: sports commentary. But he's also one of the people who
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Speaker 2: has been outspoken in support of Trump and of conservatism
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Speaker 2: and things like that, at least in this election, and
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Speaker 2: taking some flag for it, of course, as is the case,
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Speaker 2: but just the way things are these days. But he
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Speaker 2: was asked in this interview, you know, somebody who kind
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Speaker 2: of represents guys and has a high guy fan base,
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Speaker 2: male fan base, and he's asked in this interview why
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Speaker 2: so many men have turned to conservatism in this last election.
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Speaker 2: Why did why did they vote for Trump? Why did
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Speaker 2: they specifically go for Trump? And you know, his answer
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Speaker 2: was sort of one of look, white men are tired
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Speaker 2: of you know, people telling us what to do. That
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Speaker 2: was the simplest form of the an. I'm, you know,
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Speaker 2: shortening it down for you. But and and yes, I
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Speaker 2: mean that's the most condensed ver. And again I shortened
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Speaker 2: even what he said because you could tell he's still
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Speaker 2: in this mindset of you know, their landmines. But he
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Speaker 2: just said, you know, hey, white men are tired of it. Yes,
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Speaker 2: yes they are. It's something that we've just discussed here
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Speaker 2: on this show in different forms for a while. And
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Speaker 2: the fact that people don't seem to understand that that
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Speaker 2: is a thing. Think about this, and this is something
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Speaker 2: I think we've discussed this a little bit on the show.
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Speaker 2: But a long time ago, there's a series I think
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Speaker 2: it was on Netflix and it was like the Story
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Speaker 2: behind the Toys I think it is what it was called.
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Speaker 2: And they do they'll go through g I. Joe or
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Speaker 2: Transformers or whatever, and they'll talk about how the origin
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Speaker 2: of the toy and how it came about. And there
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Speaker 2: was an episode on the he Man Toys he Man
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Speaker 2: and the specifically the Masters of the Universe that's what
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Speaker 2: that was called, and how they came about. They had
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Speaker 2: made some toy line. It was these little muscular guys
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Speaker 2: didn't really you know. They got to a point where
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Speaker 2: they're like, we still have the mold for this, what
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Speaker 2: can we use this for? And they created these original
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Speaker 2: characters that they were going to go, we're going to
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Speaker 2: sell these toys. And then they had to come up
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Speaker 2: with a story, and they had to come up with
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Speaker 2: you know, they gave out little comic books when you
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Speaker 2: bought the toy, and the comic book told the origin
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Speaker 2: story for he Man or the story for he Man,
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Speaker 2: so you could get familiar with it. And eventually they
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Speaker 2: made a cartoon to really sell the toys. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of the way things worked back in the day, back
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Speaker 2: in the eighties. That's the way they did it, you know.
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Speaker 2: And then they would get rid of some characters and
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Speaker 2: then I'm thinking Transformers. Remember the Transformers movie. Sorry spoiler alert,
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Speaker 2: but you know there were some characters they killed off
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Speaker 2: to make room to make new ones, and people were traumatized.
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Speaker 2: If you're my age or a few years younger, that
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Speaker 2: movie was traumatic. You know there's one scene in particular,
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Speaker 2: You're going, what's happening here? Why is this happening? Not
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Speaker 2: something that would happen now? I don't think on a
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Speaker 2: cartoon anime, yes, but not just a regular Saturday morning
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Speaker 2: cartoon type show, not that that's when they come out anymore.
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Speaker 2: But the story of he Man, they said, look, we're
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Speaker 2: going to do this, so what are we going to
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Speaker 2: call this? Someone to had the idea of calling it
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Speaker 2: the Masters of the Universe. And the reason that he
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Speaker 2: said they called it that is because most most boys
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Speaker 2: of a certain age, you know, they're in this window
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Speaker 2: of you know, four to eight or something like that,
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Speaker 2: and their biggest complaint was always I just want to
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Speaker 2: I just want to do what I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm tired of people telling me what to do. And
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Speaker 2: they said they that's what they tapped into and they said, well,
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Speaker 2: we're going to call it, Matt. We wanted the kids
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Speaker 2: to think these are masters of their universe. These are
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Speaker 2: people in control of their own universe. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know that young boys grow out of that. I don't
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Speaker 2: know that they ever do. And I'm not saying that
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Speaker 2: women don't have that. I'm just I'm speaking about this
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Speaker 2: specific story because this is all about this answer that
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Speaker 2: was given in this interview and things that we've talked
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Speaker 2: about here. And I think you get to a certain
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Speaker 2: point where boys become men, and I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: men can go along with certain things, They can go
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Speaker 2: along with so much boys do too. But eventually you
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Speaker 2: get to a stage where you just go I'm tired
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Speaker 2: of people telling me what to do all the time,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's what we were experiencing for a while.
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Speaker 2: You must think this way, you must talk this way,
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Speaker 2: you must act this way, and if you don't, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna eliminate you, like you don't get to speak anymore.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna take away your ability. They're still doing it
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Speaker 2: in the UK, by the way. That you don't say
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Speaker 2: something that's not supposed to say on Twitter, boy, they'll
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Speaker 2: shut you down. You can go to jail for a
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Speaker 2: Twitter post if they think it's violent. Gotta be careful.
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Speaker 2: And I think people saw that, and I think I
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Speaker 2: don't know that people were really looking overseas, but I
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Speaker 2: do think there were people saying, I'm just tired of
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Speaker 2: being told that I'm supposed to be okay with my
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Speaker 2: daughter playing in a sport against a biological man or
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Speaker 2: boy and being dominated. I want to know that my
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Speaker 2: daughter could be the best at a sport and go
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Speaker 2: compete and win, not be the best girl at a
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Speaker 2: sport and go and compete against a biological man and
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Speaker 2: finish second or third because there were biological men ahead
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Speaker 2: of her that were winning. So I think men were
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Speaker 2: tired of hearing that. There was also this thing that
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Speaker 2: was going around about trans women, where people were being
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Speaker 2: told men were being told you should date a trans woman,
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Speaker 2: not you should date them if you find them attractive,
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Speaker 2: but that you're wrong if you don't find them attractive
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Speaker 2: and want to date them, you're wrong for that. It
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Speaker 2: was also and I don't want to spend too much
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Speaker 2: time on but you know, showering got to be comfortable
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Speaker 2: with women, your wife showering in a gem with a
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Speaker 2: biological man in their showering next to her. There were
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Speaker 2: a number of these things. They were tired of it,
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Speaker 2: tired of being told you can't just say I'm okay
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Speaker 2: with people living their life. I want people to be
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Speaker 2: able to live their best life, and we were told
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Speaker 2: that's not okay. You can't say if someone says there's
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Speaker 2: a line in Ted Lasso where one of the guys
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Speaker 2: comes out and he says Ted basically says that he says,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to tell you it's okay. We're going
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Speaker 2: to tell you it's okay, and we support you. Like
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Speaker 2: that's the rest of the message. It wasn't just for
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Speaker 2: people to go, look, you go be the best you
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Speaker 2: you can be. It's your life, you live it the
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Speaker 2: way you want to. But we started to get told, no,
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Speaker 2: you can't just do that. You have to you have
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Speaker 2: to tell people that you support them and that you're
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Speaker 2: in their corner and you support them doing what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: You're on their side, and you encourage them, and you
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Speaker 2: tell everybody that it's okay. People were tired of it.
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Speaker 2: People are tired of being told they have to think
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Speaker 2: a certain way about a crime that took place, so
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Speaker 2: they have to be okay k with people looting, or
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Speaker 2: your Twitter page or your Instagram, or if you don't,
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Speaker 2: then you're racist. People were tired of it, And I
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Speaker 2: think that's the simplest form. You get tired of being
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Speaker 2: told what to do. So that's the answer to the
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Speaker 2: question that he summed up. You know, and I'm even
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Speaker 2: summarizing what he said. I think that men supported Trump
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Speaker 2: is going to spend about one thousand dollars for Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 2: covering food, drinks, travel, decorations, and extras. Food alone averages
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Speaker 2: about one hundred and seventy five dollars drinks one ten,
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Speaker 2: do you need for miscellaneous? A new TV? Or what
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Speaker 2: are we doing for three hundred bucks? I don't know. Interestingly,
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Speaker 2: about sixty percent say Thanksgiving now feels like a whole
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Speaker 2: five percent are cutting budgets by forty one percent, opting
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Speaker 2: for smaller gatherings, some pot lug meals or skipping the
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Speaker 2: travel part general, maybe skip the miscellaneous all right? Spending
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Speaker 2: so much on miscellaneous Generationally, Boomers expect hosts to pay,
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Speaker 2: while gen Z prefers splitting costs evenly. I've seen this
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Speaker 2: house to eat, like it's a restaurant and you're, you know,
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Speaker 2: paying for it. I don't know, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: why come to Thanksgiving dinner? You gotta tip. I'm not
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Speaker 2: against tipping. I just hate those posts that say that
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Speaker 2: if you can't eat out, or yeah you can't tip,
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Speaker 2: don't don't eat out. I wonder how the bosses at
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Speaker 2: the restaurants feel about that, you know, and then if
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Speaker 2: to tip there also. It just gets really ugly with
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Speaker 2: the tipping. I don't I don't understand why it's so.
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Speaker 2: It's so nasty when it comes. I guess it's just
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Speaker 2: a social media bout product, isn't it. Holiday travel still
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Speaker 2: on the agenda for many Americans, but plans look a
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Speaker 2: little different this year. A new survey showing fifty percent
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Speaker 2: say that they'll stay home, thirty four percent say they
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Speaker 2: will visit someone else, nine percent say they're just taking
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Speaker 2: a vacation. Thanksgiving travel is modest. Twenty eight percent say
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Speaker 2: they'll travel more than fifty miles. That jumps to thirty
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Speaker 2: four percent for Christmas, one in ten going five hundred
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Speaker 2: miles or more. Air travel down because obviously we've just
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Speaker 2: gone through a whole mess with the FAA and fewer flights.
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Speaker 2: That's getting sorted out now, but I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people had already made their plans, about seventy four
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Speaker 2: percent saying that they would not fly because of the
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Speaker 2: problems with the FAA. Assume the survey was done during
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Speaker 2: the shutdown. Fourteen percent opting for long road trips instead,
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Speaker 2: budgets playing a role in all of that as well,
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Speaker 2: twenty one percent skipping trips due to cost, twenty percent
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Speaker 2: cutting back on gifts to a four trips, and about
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Speaker 2: thirty percent expect to spend a thousand or more on
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Speaker 2: holiday travel. How much on miscellaneous while you're traveling? I
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Speaker 2: guess that would be like a book at the airport maybe,
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Speaker 2: or whatever you spend at Bucky's. Does that count as miscellaneous?
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Speaker 2: Plenty of people will still be leaving home, not everybody
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Speaker 2: found that higher salaries do improve overall life, overall life
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Speaker 2: don't make people happier at work because just because you
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Speaker 2: work itself continues to be one of the least happy
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Speaker 2: activities in life. Again, it depends on the job, right,
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Speaker 2: and you need that money for miscellaneous. Have you ever
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Speaker 2: taken something from a hotel room? If so, you're not alone.
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Speaker 2: Survey found that eighty seven percent of travelers admitted to
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Speaker 2: Fifty percent never occurred to me to take a hanger.
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Speaker 2: I've been gifted a bathrow by a hotel. Well, I've
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Speaker 2: never stole them. Wh I've definitely never stolen a towel. Pins, Yes, guilty,
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Speaker 2: I've got lots of pins in my bags from various hotels. Cosmetics,
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Speaker 2: what are we talking here is that that doesn't count
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