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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, twenty second day of June. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Good to be back. I've missed you.
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Speaker 2: I really have. It's strange when you're used to doing
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Speaker 2: a show of this kind with a regular audience. You
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Speaker 2: just kind of in your head imagine that you're still
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Speaker 2: talking to people, and I appreciate the fact that you're
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Speaker 2: there when I am actually talking to you, and bless
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Speaker 2: you for listening.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: And you basically just have this period where if you're
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Speaker 2: not doing the show, you start getting a backlog of
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Speaker 2: ideas and thoughts. I talked about this a little bit
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Speaker 2: before I took my vacation, and I do. I've got
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Speaker 2: a bit of a log jam of things in my
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Speaker 2: head to talk about, some of it relating to my vacation,
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Speaker 2: but basically, I spend a lot of my time thinking
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Speaker 2: of things that I want to do, like for the
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Speaker 2: next show, and if I don't get that out, like
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Speaker 2: don't get it expressed, I have to try to find
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Speaker 2: a way to write it down somewhere. I don't typically
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Speaker 2: during the week, do a lot of writing ideas down.
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Speaker 2: I just kind of really mentally stack them up for
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Speaker 2: the next show, and then when I'm like a whole
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Speaker 2: week behind, it just sort of is built up there,
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Speaker 2: and it's just I don't like plaque on your teeth.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what it is, but
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Speaker 2: it's there. And then I've just got to exercise. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's a plaques, probably not the right term, but you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, it's just got to get something,
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Speaker 2: got to get something out, got to you know, get
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Speaker 2: them out of my system and process them through the
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Speaker 2: old mouth hole. And then here we are, so our
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Speaker 2: our vacation that we were wanting to try to do.
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Speaker 2: We've been wanting to do this trip for a little
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Speaker 2: while and I have family in the Mobile area, and
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Speaker 2: I've never we've never been to Mobile. I've got like
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of cousins that live there, and we'd
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Speaker 2: always wanted to go there. And some of them we've met,
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Speaker 2: some of them I have not met, and I have
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Speaker 2: now but had not met. And we thought, you know, Mobile,
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Speaker 2: I've been kind of through that area. We've we've done
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Speaker 2: New Orleans before, but never never mobile, and I've just
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Speaker 2: wanted to go there and kind of experience that sort
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Speaker 2: of Gulf Shores area and Orange Beat some of those
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Speaker 2: places down there that you hear a lot about and
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Speaker 2: you think, well, this would be nice to go and
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Speaker 2: kind of experienced some of that. And that's what we did.
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Speaker 2: H We we we made a trek, uh you know,
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Speaker 2: last week and went.
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Speaker 3: To that area. Not a bad drive.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it's really not bad for us here in the
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Speaker 2: Columbus Georgia area to to trek down to the Gulf
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Speaker 2: of America. First time I've put my feet in the
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Speaker 2: Gulf of America with.
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Speaker 3: The new name. And we we.
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Speaker 2: Went and we just thought, you know, let's get down,
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Speaker 2: let's see family and and and and just have that
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Speaker 2: that experience for that area. And I've got, you know,
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Speaker 2: some some other people down that way as well, so
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Speaker 2: I just thought, let's let's just go and and check
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Speaker 2: it out.
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Speaker 3: And we've been wanting to do that.
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Speaker 2: And my my mom used to make this trip frequently.
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Speaker 2: One of her cousins who lived there in this kind
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Speaker 2: of house kind of out on the bay, would just
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Speaker 2: every year, you know, hey, when are you coming, When
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Speaker 2: are you coming? When you're come in and she would
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Speaker 2: go see her cousin and she would, you know, stay
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Speaker 2: at this house and she just loved it. She loved
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Speaker 2: being there, loved the experience, loved that whole area, and
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Speaker 2: they were just really close. Well, that cousin has now
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Speaker 2: since passed away, and the other family that's there, you
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Speaker 2: know that she she got to know over time, has
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Speaker 2: been basically saying, well, when are you coming back? And
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Speaker 2: so this this kind of all culminated into this trip
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Speaker 2: and we thought, we'll do that, We'll take her with us,
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Speaker 2: and she got to introduce us to all of this
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Speaker 2: family and it was great. So we got to spend
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Speaker 2: time with with our cousins there and actually go to
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Speaker 2: this house, this house out on the bay, the Bay
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Speaker 2: House they called it, and one of the other cousins
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Speaker 2: I guess now owns it and got to meet his
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Speaker 2: kid was there with a babysitter and they were at
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Speaker 2: the house. But we didn't get to meet the husband
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Speaker 2: and wife, the mom and dad of this kid.
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Speaker 3: But we went to the house.
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Speaker 2: My mom loved getting a chance to go back there
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Speaker 2: and kind of relive some memories with that particular house.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, it was great. We did some things kind
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Speaker 2: of in the Mobile area. We got Beignet's. Actually one
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Speaker 2: of my favorite things about the trip, and it was
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Speaker 2: the most random, stupid West thing that you could do.
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Speaker 2: Is the if you remember, from I don't know how
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Speaker 2: long ago was this, like twenty years ago, the infamous
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Speaker 2: Leprechaun in the Crichton neighborhood in Mobile. You know the
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Speaker 2: famous sketch, the police type sketch of the leprechaun that
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Speaker 2: was spotted in one of the trees in this neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: It's one of the great just random kind of human
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Speaker 2: entry stories that's ever been on a local news station.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we were there and at some point
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Speaker 2: in planning the trip, I just sort of said to Luke,
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Speaker 2: you know the leprechaun tree. It's not still there, but
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Speaker 2: there's still a spot where the tree used to be.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we should go visit the Crichton Leprechaun tree.
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Speaker 3: So we did that.
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Speaker 2: That was one of our checklist items. I was humored
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Speaker 2: by my family and it was just a torrential downpour
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Speaker 2: the day that we decided to go do that, but
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Speaker 2: you know, I can check that off my list. I
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Speaker 2: went to the site of the Leprechaun tree. We saw
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Speaker 2: the stump, no tree, no people because it was raining,
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Speaker 2: but I at least ran out in the rain and
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Speaker 2: got a photo, and then we got out of there
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Speaker 2: because it's not the neighborhood is probably you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: not a neighborhood. I was told it's not a particularly
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Speaker 2: safe area when we said we were going to go there.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that specific street, but that was
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Speaker 2: just told you might not want to spend a lot
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Speaker 2: of time in that area. So we got in and
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Speaker 2: we got out. That's what we did. But we went
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Speaker 2: there and we did that. One of the other things
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Speaker 2: in this trip. One of the other experiences in this
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Speaker 2: trip that I had, and this kind of relates into
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Speaker 2: my story for today, is my topic for today, if
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Speaker 2: you will. And it was the hotel where we were staying.
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Speaker 2: It was a place that had breakfast in the morning
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Speaker 2: and you go downstairs. They had a couple of TVs
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Speaker 2: blaring CNN throughout.
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Speaker 3: You can hear it all over the hotel. It was
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Speaker 3: so loud.
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Speaker 2: But at one point we were wanting to just get
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Speaker 2: weather and we asked if we could flip it over
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Speaker 2: to a weather station, and they wouldn't do it. I
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Speaker 2: guess they just had to have it on the CNN.
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Speaker 2: That's part of your morning programming there while you're having
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Speaker 2: your breakfast in the morning. But I think they came
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Speaker 2: out like they were trying to change the station, but
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Speaker 2: they didn't do it. And I'll just say this, I
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Speaker 2: don't know how anybody watches it. I just I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time since I've sat down and
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Speaker 2: tried to watch CNN in any capacity, and it was difficult.
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Speaker 2: It was really challenging to sit there and just stomach it.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's so bad. The morning anchors. I've never
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Speaker 2: seen people that just look more miserable to be alive.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they look like they look like they are.
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Speaker 2: You know, they've never heard any of these people say it,
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Speaker 2: but you know there are people who say, nobody ever
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Speaker 2: asked me for my permission for me to be born,
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Speaker 2: and that's that's what they look like, just while they're
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Speaker 2: doing the morning news. Now, sometimes when I'm at the gym,
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Speaker 2: I end up on a machine that's kind of at
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Speaker 2: an angle where seeing ends in front of me. And
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Speaker 2: I've seen this, but I haven't actually heard the people.
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Speaker 2: What they're talking about. Fits that mold as well. They
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Speaker 2: just seem miserable to be forced to exist on this planet.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is a Trump thing.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it is that makes them so miserable.
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Speaker 2: There was one morning that they seem to have a
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Speaker 2: little bit of a reprieve, and it was the morning
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Speaker 2: where they were getting ready to open up the Obama
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Speaker 2: Library and they were very happy. So they're capable of
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Speaker 2: having joy in their lives, well happiness, I don't know
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Speaker 2: it was joy. They all seemed void. They all seem
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Speaker 2: to have a void in their their their joy region
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Speaker 2: of their exist but just miserable, scowling while talking and
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Speaker 2: everything and everything that they talked about last week. By
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Speaker 2: the way, if you weren't watching CNN for your news
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Speaker 2: last week, I'll give you an update on the primary
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Speaker 2: topics for the week. And it was for the entire week,
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Speaker 2: the main news story on CNN in the mornings. All right,
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Speaker 2: just think through everything that's going on. Think about what's
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Speaker 2: happened in the last week, Think about where things got
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Speaker 2: to now by Friday, where things were concerning the whole
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Speaker 2: Iran deal that was starting to go through. And I
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Speaker 2: know there's been some rocky stuff this weekend. But you know,
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Speaker 2: and where they are currently this morning, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but I can just tell you that by Friday morning,
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Speaker 2: when the announcements were coming in, you know this deal
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Speaker 2: is going to happen.
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Speaker 3: It's there.
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Speaker 2: Price of oil was dropping. We already saw, like on
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Speaker 2: our trip home, we saw some of the prices of
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Speaker 2: gas that had gone down. They weren't happy about that.
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Speaker 2: They were miserable about that. But that wasn't the main story.
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Speaker 2: Iran was not the main story on CNN last week.
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Speaker 2: You might think, well, maybe they were just they had
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Speaker 2: World Cup fever. No, it wasn't the World Cup. That
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Speaker 2: wasn't the main story. The Obama Library. You would think
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Speaker 2: they would spend a lot of time on that. They
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Speaker 2: did dedicate a good chunk of one day to that.
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Speaker 2: That wasn't the main story. Would you care to guess?
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Speaker 3: With the main.
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Speaker 2: Story the most important story on CNN for the entire week,
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Speaker 2: and it was running the entire time. Oh not the
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Speaker 2: entire time. It was the main theme of the entire
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Speaker 2: time each day that I was in the area where
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Speaker 2: breakfast was being served, blaring for all to hear, all right,
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Speaker 2: it was that stupid fountain. It was the reflecting pool.
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Speaker 2: It was just the stupid fountain. Hey, we have the
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Speaker 2: reflecting pool, not even the fountain, the reflecting pool, in
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Speaker 2: Trump's effort.
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Speaker 3: To make it blue. That's what it was, the stupid
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Speaker 3: reflecting pool.
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Speaker 2: I know you might say, I don't say the reflecting
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Speaker 2: pool stupid. It's a sacred part of the Washington area.
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Speaker 2: It's a stupid reflecting pool.
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Speaker 3: I get it.
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Speaker 2: It's there's a historic significance to it. It's a it's
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Speaker 2: an area. But the reflecting pool does not reflect our
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Speaker 2: American values. It's a it's a it's a pool of water.
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Speaker 2: So that's all that they talked about for a week.
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Speaker 2: The attempts to clean the water, then to repaint the
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Speaker 2: inside of the pool, and then the paint peeling off
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Speaker 2: and the chips of paint coming off inside the pool,
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Speaker 2: and most importantly every single opportunity. They mentioned that fourteen
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Speaker 2: million dollars was spent to try to get this pool
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Speaker 2: ready for the Fourth of July celebrations, the two fifty
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Speaker 2: Independence Day, the ID two fifty celebrations, to get the
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Speaker 2: pool blue, American flag blue before the celebration. That's all
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Speaker 2: they talked about. Fourteen million dollars.
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Speaker 3: They spent.
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Speaker 2: Can you believe that he spent for he wasted fourteen
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Speaker 2: million dollars of your money? Now, listen, I'm I'm very
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Speaker 2: frugal when it comes to my spending here at my home.
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Speaker 2: I'm I try my best not to waste money. I
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Speaker 2: don't want the American government wasting my money. So I'm
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Speaker 2: I'm on the side of like, let's don't waste money,
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Speaker 2: all right, I'm on that side of things. Understand that
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Speaker 2: you probably have picked up on that of listening to
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Speaker 2: this for however long you've been a listener. I don't
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Speaker 2: like wasting money. Fourteen million dollars is not a lot
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Speaker 2: of waste in our federal government when you compare it
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Speaker 2: to a lot of other things, like, for example, they
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Speaker 2: know they've been going after Gavin Newsom and his wife
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Speaker 2: concerning some fraud things or some questions about it. They've
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Speaker 2: been saying, oh, the Trump's weaponizing the government to come
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Speaker 2: after them. Keep in mind California with some of the
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Speaker 2: fraud in alleged fraud in California, the state of California
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Speaker 2: is made it illegal for journalists to investigate it if
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Speaker 2: it involves illegal immigrants or legal immigrants. If it involves
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Speaker 2: an immigrant, you can't even investigate it as a journalist.
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Speaker 3: It's becomes a crime.
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Speaker 2: So for the federal government to get involved, you would
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Speaker 2: think they would want to do that. They also got
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Speaker 2: mad at the billions in fraud in Minnesota that was
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Speaker 2: discuss So just know that the outrage over fourteen million
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Speaker 2: dollars seems very phony. And one of the people on CNN,
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Speaker 2: a pundit that came on, pointed out that Barack Obama's
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Speaker 2: president spent thirty four million dollars once to clean up
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Speaker 2: the reflecting pool and it didn't work either. That person
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Speaker 2: did not come back on CNN the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure that you understand
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Speaker 2: this is twenty million dollars less than was spent then
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Speaker 2: in an attempt to get it ready. But they just seem,
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Speaker 2: you know, this miserable look on their face while also
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Speaker 2: just expressing their disgust, probably while actually channeling some inner
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Speaker 2: glee that the pool isn't ready for the Independence Day celebration.
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Speaker 2: But there's still time. There's still time to fix it.
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Speaker 2: And that's probably what they're talking about this morning, that
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Speaker 2: they're just giddy, but through miserable faces all right. I
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Speaker 2: hope you had a good Father's Day to my dad's
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Speaker 2: that are listening.
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Speaker 3: I had.
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Speaker 2: I had a good day that you know, church, and
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Speaker 2: it's a great service that we had yesterday morning. And
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Speaker 2: then I did my normal sort of Sunday routine, followed
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Speaker 2: by doing like a big chore my brother Matt and
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Speaker 2: I did a big chore for for my dad yesterday
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Speaker 2: that was a bit of his kind of Father's Day.
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Speaker 2: And then I came home from doing that and Jill
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Speaker 2: had basically said, you know, whatever, what do you want
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Speaker 2: for Father's Day dinner? And she and the boys, which
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Speaker 2: this has never happened before, by the way, but they
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Speaker 2: all did a brinn you know breakfast for dinner. That's
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Speaker 2: what I said I wanted. So we had bacon, we
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Speaker 2: had eggs, we had ash browns, we had pancakes. Jake
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Speaker 2: made chocolate chip pancakes, Lou cook the eggs.
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Speaker 3: It was great. It was great.
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Speaker 2: I didn't I'm I didn't know my kids could do
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Speaker 2: all that. I didn't know they could be that organized,
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Speaker 2: playing sous chef with Jill in the kitchen.
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Speaker 3: So it was nice.
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Speaker 2: And then I mentioned the bacon. The bacon was a
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Speaker 2: key ingredient for this all happening for me. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: if you're a dad, maybe I should have said this
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Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show. I had so much
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Speaker 2: backlog I had to get to. But I hope you
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Speaker 2: had a great Father's Day. And as someone pointed out yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and it's the dad's it's the you know, the step dad's,
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Speaker 2: the in some cases grandfathers that are helping to raise kids.
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Speaker 2: In some ways, it's just like a coach or a
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Speaker 2: mentor or a teacher. It's helping kids, all of those
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Speaker 2: important roles for men in the lives of kids. So
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Speaker 2: I hope, I hope you had a great Father's Day yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and I hope it was a meaningful one for you
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Speaker 2: and for many maybe the first time or maybe one
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Speaker 2: of many times of having Father's Day without your dad.
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Speaker 2: And I know those are hard, they have to be hard,
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Speaker 2: So you know, I hope you had a chance to
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Speaker 2: just remember your dad and all of those sorts of
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, let's talk about dreaming.
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Speaker 2: Apparently a new survey found that your dreams might have
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Speaker 2: a bigger effect on your waking life than you think.
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Speaker 2: This new survey found that a quarter of Americans say
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Speaker 2: that a dream or nightmare has actually led them to
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Speaker 2: make a real life change, like ending a relationship or
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Speaker 2: quitting a job. Most people believe dreams have deeper meaning.
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Speaker 2: Nearly forty percent say they've seen their dreams play out
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Speaker 2: in real life. Experts say that's because your brain processes
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Speaker 2: dreams as if they're real, so the emotions can stick
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Speaker 2: with you after you wake up. So whether it's anxiety
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Speaker 2: from a nightmare or confidence from a good dream, those
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Speaker 2: feelings can push you to act. The takeaway is that
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Speaker 2: dreams might not predict the future, but they can definitely
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Speaker 2: influence how you feel and the decisions that you make.
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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I'm in the group of people who
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Speaker 2: just thinks it's just your brain purging out information, just
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Speaker 2: you know, junk that needs to go away, like those
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Speaker 2: old Remember we used to have to run those scans
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Speaker 2: and then purge out the old data on the old computers.
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Speaker 2: You know, That's kind of what it feels like to me.
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Speaker 2: I have been kind of following this study where they
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Speaker 2: say that the reason that we dream. This is kind
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Speaker 2: of fascinating to me that the reason that we dream
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Speaker 2: is because like a third of every day we're asleep
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Speaker 2: and we're not using anything to do with our eyes.
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Speaker 2: One of our senses is basically completely shut down for
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Speaker 2: eight hours because our eyes are closed and we're sleeping.
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Speaker 2: So dreaming is the brain's way of keeping the receptors
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Speaker 2: for what your eyes would do functional, and it helps
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Speaker 2: preserve brain health, and that's why we dream. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of an interesting concept, makes sense, and I think it's
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Speaker 2: kind of.
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Speaker 3: A growing.
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Speaker 2: Theory about the origins of dreams and why our brains
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Speaker 2: do that. But makes perfect sense. You know, if you're
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Speaker 2: not if you basically have done something so that you
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Speaker 2: can't you know, your other senses are shut down because
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Speaker 2: the others aren't necessarily shut down while you're sleeping. But
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Speaker 2: if you know, went eight hours during your day with
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Speaker 2: your ears plugged and you couldn't hear anything, well, and
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Speaker 2: think about what happens to you know, people with dementia
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Speaker 2: or Alzheimer's or you know, memory loss as it relates
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Speaker 2: to hearing. You know, if you need hearing age, you
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Speaker 2: need to wear them. You have to hear, otherwise you
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Speaker 2: can cause some long term damage to that part of
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Speaker 2: the brain.
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Speaker 3: It's interesting stuff.
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Speaker 2: The average ice cream loving American eats about four gallons
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Speaker 2: a year. Everybody has a Favorite. New report giving us
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Speaker 2: a snapshot of America's ice cream cravings and its most
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Speaker 2: popular brands. According to research based on Google search trends,
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Speaker 2: the most searched ice cream brand in the US is
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Speaker 2: Halo Top. How about that the lower calorie ice cream option,
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Speaker 2: more traditional favorite still rank high, though Coldstone Creamery comes
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Speaker 2: in second, followed by Briars Talenty, Hoggindaw's. The data doesn't
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Speaker 2: specifically track sales, it's just what people are searching for,
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Speaker 2: so it's really about what's catching Americans' attention. Doesn't surprise
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Speaker 2: me that people would be searching the Halo Top. You know,
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Speaker 2: you're looking for something for lower calorie options, So it
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Speaker 2: does make some sense, doesn't it. For young adults, waiting
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Speaker 2: to start a family is becoming a bit more of
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Speaker 2: the norm. New report from the UK shows that Gen
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Speaker 2: Z women pushing motherhood later than ever, with the average
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Speaker 2: age for a first child is now thirty five, and
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Speaker 2: that's quite a bit older than past generations. A lot
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Speaker 2: of it comes down to practical realities, basically the cost
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Speaker 2: of housing, student debt, apartment rentals, wages being down. All
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Speaker 2: of those things come into play, and they say, basically,
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Speaker 2: it's hard to feel financially ready. At the same time,
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Speaker 2: more women are prioritizing education, careers, personal growth before settling down.
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Speaker 2: So there are bigger cultural shifts as well at play.
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Speaker 2: So gen Z dating less, having less special time, facing
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Speaker 2: more mental health challenges, all of which can slow down
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Speaker 2: long term relationships and family plans. So it's not about
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Speaker 2: a lack of interest in having kids. It's basically just
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Speaker 2: a timeline for adulthood has shifted quite a bit, and
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Speaker 2: that puts people in a position where they maybe don't
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Speaker 2: feel ready to have kids and all that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: The world's first official teenage mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria, is
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Speaker 2: opening its stores in southern California. The pizzeria will be
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Speaker 2: decked out in wall to wall retro turtle decorps, complete
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Speaker 2: with glowing green ooze and neon lights. Fans can enjoy
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Speaker 2: specialized pizza menu, a secret bar tucked away in the
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Speaker 2: back that will serve up adult drinks on the weekends,
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Speaker 2: and lots and lots of merchandise. They should get some
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Speaker 2: of the original cast to show up too. I think
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Speaker 2: that would be nice. Those guys will show up. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure you can book them to show up. Good guys too.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening.
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Speaker 2: I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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