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Real Life Anti-heroes Aren't Usually Worth Celebrating · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: Show Tuesday morning. At ninth day of December. I'm Wes,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. We have entered into tech week
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  Speaker 2: for the Nutcracker Ballet. I told you yesterday we got in,
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  Speaker 2: of the school show. If you're and they actually did
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  Speaker 2: a show in Manchester this past weekend. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned that yesterday. But it's a small stage and
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  Speaker 2: my character Mother Ginger does not fit on the stage
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  Speaker 2: in Manchester. It is a very difficult thing to pull off.
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  Speaker 2: I am in a very very large dress on stilts.
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  Speaker 2: There's not really a backstage or wings area there where
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  Speaker 2: the show is done. It's a challenge. I'm sorry to
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  Speaker 2: the people of Manchester. I would love to have been
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  Speaker 2: at the show, but that one's done. We have a
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  Speaker 2: show of Friday morning for the school kids. We have
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  Speaker 2: a show Friday evening that one is not open to
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  Speaker 2: the public. Neither is the show for the school kids.
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  Speaker 2: If your kids are going to the show on Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: they will get to see it. And again, I am
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  Speaker 2: working Columbus State University's graduation that morning, so Mother Ginger
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  Speaker 2: won't be It's a condensed version of the show for
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  Speaker 2: the school show on Friday morning, but I will not
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  Speaker 2: be part of that show either. I'm really disappointed. But
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: we got this Luigi Mangione guy. He's been in court.
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  Speaker 2: They've been arguing about some of the evidence that was
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  Speaker 2: gathered when he was arrested. He is the suspected United
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  Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO assassin. Okay, talked a lot about this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I have talked a lot about the strange fixation on him,
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  Speaker 2: the concerns that I have about this hero that he
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  Speaker 2: has become.
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  Speaker 1: To some.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird thing that we have done as a society,
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  Speaker 2: and I've not, and I know there's an age thing
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  Speaker 2: where this may be happens. I remember when I was young,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a teenager, seemed like every time something
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  Speaker 2: negative happened in the world, there was blame that was
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  Speaker 2: shifted to video games and movies, and it sometimes TV shows,
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  Speaker 2: dungeons and dragons got blamed. A lot of those things
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  Speaker 2: would get blamed, and I always just kind of rolled
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  Speaker 2: my eyes, like, come on, that's not really what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm trying as I slip into you know, I
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  Speaker 2: entered my fifties at fifty years old, and as we
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  Speaker 2: Gen xers make that move into that phase of middle age,
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  Speaker 2: trying to gauge where we are when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: at least with entertainment and video games. Look, we have
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  Speaker 2: some violent video games. There's a lot of games where
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  Speaker 2: people are shooting each other in head shots, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: cutting up grandmas with chainsaws or whatever is grown up.
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  Speaker 2: So wasn't it throwing them off the boat or whatever
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  Speaker 2: that was that game that they were supposedly playing where
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  Speaker 2: they were kind of mocking it. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: an actual cutting up grandma's game. Pretty sure that that
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  Speaker 2: is that is not the case. But anyway, so video
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  Speaker 2: games certainly will have a share of this. I've been
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to some kids recently that are actually
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the Nutcracker Show, and one of
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  Speaker 2: them made a joke about, oh, everybody plays Fortnite, and
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  Speaker 2: I looked at this kid kind of funny, and they said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just joking. I don't play Fortnite, And I believe
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  Speaker 2: this kid doesn't play Fortnite, but the fact that it's
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  Speaker 2: such a part of, you know, the ecosystem, and that's
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  Speaker 2: not even like the hot game right now, but kids
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  Speaker 2: are still playing it. So you have these shooter games,
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  Speaker 2: these first person shooter games, you have some very violent games. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: things like Grand Theft Auto have been out there for
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  Speaker 2: a while, and there is definitely a potential for that
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  Speaker 2: stuff to have negative effect on some people. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many it has a negative effect on. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know the statistics. I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: video game mindologist. I don't know how that works. I
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  Speaker 2: know that for a long time, music was something that
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  Speaker 2: people would say, oh, you listen to it backwards and
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  Speaker 2: it tells you to go kill a guy or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think most of the nonsense has
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  Speaker 2: kind of been blown out of the conversation. But I
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  Speaker 2: do think for a minute that maybe we should consider
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  Speaker 2: a few things when it comes to this hero worship
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  Speaker 2: for someone like Luigi Mangione now video games aside, just
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  Speaker 2: because he shares a name of Mario's brother Luigi, that's
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  Speaker 2: not the connection here at all. By the way, fun fact,
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  Speaker 2: Mario's last name is also Mario, so his brother Luigi
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  Speaker 2: is named Luigi Mario. Just in case you didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Take that fun fact around with you. Let's I want
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  Speaker 2: to just talk a little bit about TV and the
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  Speaker 2: reason or film too, but especially TV we have done
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  Speaker 2: I feel like for a long time, like in my childhood,
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  Speaker 2: I think about when we had these sort of anti
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  Speaker 2: hero types and I don't know that they're even qualified
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  Speaker 2: fully is anti hero You had these standing up to
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  Speaker 2: the establishment type. You had the Bandit from Smoking the Bandit.
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  Speaker 2: You had the Dukes of Hazzard. Okay, now, obviously the
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  Speaker 2: Dukes of Hazzard you're talking about a corrupt system and
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  Speaker 2: then they're trying to fight against them, and they very
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  Speaker 2: much kind of painted them as you know, Robin Hood.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there in the theme song. And then with
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  Speaker 2: Smoking the Bandit, you know they're trying to do this thing,
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  Speaker 2: they know it's illegal technically. You know, the police that
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  Speaker 2: are chasing them, including Sheriff Buford t Justice. They're portrayed
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  Speaker 2: as the bad guys, but they're really not. They're just
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  Speaker 2: doing their jobs. Now, does Bufford go a little too far?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, goes out of his jurisdiction and all that
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  Speaker 2: fun stuff makes it a personal vendetta. And those are
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  Speaker 2: the kind I know there are others, but those are
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  Speaker 2: kind of the ones that when we think back to
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  Speaker 2: a certain period of time seventies, early eighties, my childhood's
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  Speaker 2: that was the rebellious nature of it, right. And with
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  Speaker 2: Smoking the Bandit, it was a movie, and then it
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  Speaker 2: was a sequel, and then it was a terrible yet
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  Speaker 2: amazing to watch Part three some one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: movies of all time, and it's horrible, but it's great
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  Speaker 2: because it's horrible. But that was kind of that was
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  Speaker 2: kind of standing up to the system, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: then you had the movie and then it was done
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  Speaker 2: and then you got on with your life. Now we
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  Speaker 2: have this and I'm kind of basing some of this
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  Speaker 2: on conversation the creator of the show Breaking Bad has
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  Speaker 2: recently addressed the fact that we have done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this anti hero thing. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these Walter Whites, or think about the Shield, think about
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  Speaker 2: Tony Soprano. There are a number of these characters that
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  Speaker 2: we are told to look up to, and then we
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  Speaker 2: see them. We spend time with them, not just for
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  Speaker 2: two hours. We're spending a week in and week out
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  Speaker 2: with them. And it goes on for you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: like twenty episodes, and then you get a break, and
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  Speaker 2: then they come back, and then you do it again
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  Speaker 2: for like twenty up and then this goes on for
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  Speaker 2: sometimes like ten seasons. And I guess I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 2: where the lines are anymore. And I'm not specifically blaming.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Sopranos Breaking Bad among the arguably
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  Speaker 2: the two best TV dramas in the history of television.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're fantastic. Better call Saul right there with it
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  Speaker 2: just part of the whole Breaking Bad story. It's a
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  Speaker 2: separate series all so fantastic, and also someone who you're
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  Speaker 2: pulling for even though you shouldn't be pulling for him.
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  Speaker 2: Shields also very good. I don't want to discount that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just interesting to me that there's that difference between
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  Speaker 2: and I'll say another show that I really like, Justified.
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  Speaker 2: You have a marshal, a deputy marshall who is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of not afraid to kind of cross the line
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  Speaker 2: a little bit when he's right, but he's not the
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  Speaker 2: villain in the show. Walton Goggins plays in the villain
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  Speaker 2: in the show, and he's fantastic and again hard not
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  Speaker 2: to pull for him. You get heroes like Dexter in
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  Speaker 2: shows this is sort of this is a thing now
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  Speaker 2: where we're in Dexter just won't go away, Dexter ended,
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  Speaker 2: and it just keeps coming back. But we don't, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we don't ever really fully break away from some of
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  Speaker 2: these characters. And I just wonder, is that there is
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  Speaker 2: that part of this, this idea, this notion that we
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  Speaker 2: are truly now so used to rooting for villains that
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  Speaker 2: when we get someone who's accused of murdering someone in
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  Speaker 2: cold blood and now he's in there's people outside when
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  Speaker 2: he goes it's into court each day, they're cheering him on,
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  Speaker 2: they're wearing Luigi Mario hats. They are still celebrating this
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  Speaker 2: guy because he murdered someone allegedly according to the according
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  Speaker 2: to the authorities. So and we know what happened with
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. We know where that nonsense went and how
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  Speaker 2: quickly it went there. It did that for both of
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  Speaker 2: these guys, how quickly it went to celebrating it. Because
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  Speaker 2: we have done this thing where we have decided that
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  Speaker 2: anyone who stands in our way, anyone who doesn't agree
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  Speaker 2: with us, anyone who doesn't support the things that we support,
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  Speaker 2: is evil, deserves to die because they are bringing about
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  Speaker 2: And then you fill in the blank the end of democracy,
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  Speaker 2: on set of fascism, the Hitler, they're going to be Nazis,
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  Speaker 2: all of the things that you think about. Oh well,
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  Speaker 2: if you could go back in time and you could
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  Speaker 2: kill Hitler, think of all the lives you could have saved.
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  Speaker 2: That mindset has now crept into this everyday thing where
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  Speaker 2: you see, oh, someone's been accused of murdering someone their hero.
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  Speaker 2: It happened with the Marvel franchise. It happened with the
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  Speaker 2: villain Thanos pretty clear cut. He wants to kill half
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  Speaker 2: of all existence in all the universe. And there were
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  Speaker 2: people in the end saying, hey, Thanos was right, we're
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  Speaker 2: overpopulated here, What what are we talking about? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was definitely a little metaphor there into planned parenthood.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of stuff that you could have
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  Speaker 2: read from it, and I think maybe that's why people
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  Speaker 2: were drawn to him, and that you start getting into
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  Speaker 2: some eugenics type themes. That's a conversation for another time
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  Speaker 2: and another show. I'm concerned. I continue to be concerned
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  Speaker 2: at the fact that we have people that are still
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  Speaker 2: celebrating Luigi Mangioni, the accused. I'd be clear on that
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  Speaker 2: who's facing charges for murder? And I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: say I just think it's interesting that the creator of
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  Speaker 2: Breaking Bad, and this was the thing he pointed out
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  Speaker 2: is that we need more actually good guys. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember the exact quote, but it was some version
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  Speaker 2: of we need a little less Walter White, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more Andy Taylor. And I thought that was an
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  Speaker 2: interesting quote coming from the guy who gave us Saul
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  Speaker 2: com More West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break,
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  Speaker 2: how do you hang the lights on your Christmas tree?
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing the horizontal go around the tree? Not
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  Speaker 2: really horizontal because you're kind of working your way either
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  Speaker 2: down or up right. I guess typically they work their
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  Speaker 2: way up because the power cab on everything's at the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you go vertically top to bottom. Well, both
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  Speaker 2: methods work, but experts say that if you're doing it horizontally,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing it wrong. And ultimately what's important is that
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  Speaker 2: you have lights on the tree and they look fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it really matters. But experts say that vertical
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  Speaker 2: is the way to go. And here's some of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons why. First, they say the tree will have better coverage,
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  Speaker 2: therefore end up needing fewer lights. Also, the lights will
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  Speaker 2: be less likely to get tangled and caught up in
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  Speaker 2: branches and ornaments, making them easier to take down after
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  Speaker 2: the holidays. And if you want a fishing see in
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  Speaker 2: a modern, evenly lit look, they say go vertical. And
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  Speaker 2: that they say the more traditional warm look is horizontal.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thoughts on this, I just on a whim
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  Speaker 2: this year decided that I was going to make the change,
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  Speaker 2: not specifically to vertical, but to vertical, but back and
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  Speaker 2: forth vertical. So I've got lights that and I start
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom and I work my way back and
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  Speaker 2: forth up to the top, and it actually did work
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  Speaker 2: out a lot better. It was a lot easier. And
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this the other day. We for for a
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  Speaker 2: few different reasons, we have our tree on wheels, which
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  Speaker 2: and we have a not one of those massive trees,
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  Speaker 2: but for us, it's a pretty good sized tree. It
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  Speaker 2: takes up a lot of space, so for us to
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  Speaker 2: do the horizontal thing getting harder and harder to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And we're by the way, we're we're artificial tree. I've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this, but we have a rather large bottomed artificial tree.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the whole thing is pretty big. But again
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  Speaker 2: we've been in people's homes that have, you know, ten
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  Speaker 2: twelve foot trees and that's not us. But for us,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty big, full tree, and it just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make any sense for us to do horizontal. We can
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  Speaker 2: move it on the wheels, it's still difficult to get
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  Speaker 2: around it, and I just thought it would be worth
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  Speaker 2: the try this year, and it actually worked out I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot better so far. Now we haven't taken
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  Speaker 2: it down yet that way, but we'll see how all
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  Speaker 2: that goes. We've talked about Christmas movies. I know we've
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  Speaker 2: talked a little bit about Christmas music. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I did talk to you about Wammageddon and the song
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  Speaker 2: Last Christmas. I did that show that morning, and then
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  Speaker 2: that same day I forgot to mention this. That same day,
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  Speaker 2: I went to Best Buy and I walked in the
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  Speaker 2: door and within like five minutes of being in, there
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  Speaker 2: was waym Last Christmas. So I was out pretty much
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  Speaker 2: that fast. And you're gonna hear it. It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I've heard Mariah Carey yet this year,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, But so let's talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about positivity and Christmas music. Some of the happiest Christmas songs,
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  Speaker 2: and they say science has cracked the code for the
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  Speaker 2: happiest Christmas songs, and you have to believe the science.
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  Speaker 2: The science would never lie to you for the purposes
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  Speaker 2: of financial gain. That would never ever happen. It would
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  Speaker 2: only happen if there was also a critical election at state.
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  Speaker 2: Not that that's happened, but I'm just saying that's the
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  Speaker 2: only conditions that could possibly ever cause something like that
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  Speaker 2: to happen. Music psychologist doctor Claire Renfrew listed I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: listened to thousands. That's a typo, thousands of festive tunes
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  Speaker 2: in discos that it comes down to a simple formula,
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  Speaker 2: the song being in a major key. It needs to
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  Speaker 2: be lively, and it needs to have vibrant vocals, a
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  Speaker 2: tempo between one hundred and one hundred and forty beats
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  Speaker 2: per minute. Say, this is where the science comes in.
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  Speaker 2: And of course that's simple yet irresistibly catchy. And here
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  Speaker 2: we go, according to science, the number one happiest Christmas
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  Speaker 2: song of all time. I don't think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: come as a shock when I tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Mariah Carey, so relax on that she's at
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  Speaker 2: number eleven. She didn't even make the top ten. Number
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  Speaker 2: one on the list is Brenda Lee rocking around the
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Tree. You can't go wrong. That's a solid number one.
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  Speaker 2: Philly's Navidad is two jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't need to mention jose Feliciano, but all right
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  Speaker 2: for Phillies. Michael Boo Blaze Holly Jolly Christmas is in
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  Speaker 2: there at four. I wish it could be Christmas every day, wizard.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most wonderful time of the year. Andy Williams.
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  Speaker 2: I got a little issue with that one so high
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  Speaker 2: on the list. It's fine, there's nothing wrong. It's a
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  Speaker 2: classic and all those things. I just don't know how
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  Speaker 2: happy I mean, it's all right. Sleigh Ride, Harry Connick Junior,
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  Speaker 2: Santa Claus Coming to Town, Jackson five, Wonderful Christmas Time,
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  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney and Wings and Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarkson.
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  Speaker 2: In case you were wondering, Wham's Last Christmas is at
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  Speaker 2: number fifteen and Happy Christmas War is over? Is it
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  Speaker 2: actually Happy Xmas? No, it's Happy Christmas, but it's spelled
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  Speaker 2: the next. John Lennon and Yoko Ono is nineteen, Little
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  Speaker 2: Saint Nick by the Beach Boys, twenty three band Aids?
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  Speaker 2: Do they know it's Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty four? Deck the Hall? Nat King Cole at twenty
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  Speaker 2: five I skipped over some Those are kind of the
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  Speaker 2: highlights in there. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition
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  Speaker 2: of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank
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