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It's Okay to Watch the Cartoons · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Monday Morning. Star Wars Day twenty twenty six, May the
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  Speaker 2: fourth be with you. I'm wes planning to be celebrating
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  Speaker 2: early and often throughout the day today all about the
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars. Most of it, I mean, some of it
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  Speaker 2: isn't to be celebrated, some of it is. Most of
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  Speaker 2: it is, I think some of it. Enjoying the mall
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  Speaker 2: series Shadow Lord a lot. You can hear my interview
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  Speaker 2: that I did at around Dragon Con and the voice
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  Speaker 2: actor who is the voice of Darth Maul, Sam Whitwer,
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  Speaker 2: and I chatted about this series and his work and
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  Speaker 2: how he ended up getting the role of being the
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  Speaker 2: voice of Darth Maul and how that came to be
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  Speaker 2: and how moving forward, even in live action, when you
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  Speaker 2: see Darth Maul, you hear his voice. That was something
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  Speaker 2: that happened, you know, in the in the first well
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't him in the first appearance of Darth Maul
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  Speaker 2: and the Phantom Menace, but Ray Park who is the
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  Speaker 2: the face and the body and the stunt and the
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  Speaker 2: lightsaber techniques of Darth Maul, all of those things. Super
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  Speaker 2: nice guy too in my experience, that's all I can say.
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  Speaker 2: Super nice guy, but the uh. And I've had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of exchanges with him over the years. But and
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  Speaker 2: same with Sam Whitwre. I've interviewed him actually twice. My
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  Speaker 2: most recent interview with him part of last year's Dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con pregame show and you can hear that on the
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con Pregame Show podcast. That's the way to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars Day. Just jump into that. Several Star Wars
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  Speaker 2: performers as part of last year's show, so a chance
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  Speaker 2: to check all those out. But hearing him talk about
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  Speaker 2: this Darth Maul series, it's animated, so you know, some
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  Speaker 2: people just don't do the animation in Star Wars. You're
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  Speaker 2: missing out. I'm just telling you now. Rebels fantastic, Clone
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  Speaker 2: Wars fantastic. This mall series fantastic. I know some of them.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of them that I couldn't I just
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get into. But those are all fantastic animated series
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  Speaker 2: that you can watch. And I don't care. I'm an adult,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a middle aged man, and I like to watch
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars cartoons. It's Star Wars day. Don't judge me today.
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  Speaker 2: Judge me tomorrow or the next day if you want
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  Speaker 2: to for that. But I like to watch them, and
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  Speaker 2: you're missing out. That's all very least. You should be
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  Speaker 2: caught up on shows like and Or and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And if you didn't watch and Or, you missed out. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk about the ones that you don't
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  Speaker 2: need to watch. I'm not going to get into that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all know. You know Accolte. But I
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  Speaker 2: did it anyway, didn't I. But that's all right. Some
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  Speaker 2: people liked it. I know somebody who thought it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. There's no logical explanation for why.
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  Speaker 2: But he told me why he loved it and why
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  Speaker 2: I was wrong, And I said, you know what, it's
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  Speaker 2: we can live in a world where you liked it
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  Speaker 2: and I did not like it, and they canceled any
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  Speaker 2: future seasons of it. So I think that kind of
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  Speaker 2: gives a general idea of you know what the general
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  Speaker 2: attitude was. But I liked Solo. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 2: was great, but I liked Solo fine enough that I
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  Speaker 2: thought they should have kept going with that series, or
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't. I don't know if it was ever
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  Speaker 2: planning to be a trilogy, but very least a sequel
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  Speaker 2: for it. But anyway, so it is Star Wars Day.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you are able to enjoy some things that
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  Speaker 2: are Star Wars if you were so inclined. If you
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  Speaker 2: are not, then you know, it's just another day. That's
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  Speaker 2: all it really is. It's not an official holiday. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a fun holiday, that's all. And shame on you
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  Speaker 2: if you're not enjoying it. Just kidding. No judgment here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big judgment guy. In case you haven't
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  Speaker 2: picked up on that, I'm not a big judgment guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a you know, do your own thing. Let me
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  Speaker 2: do my own thing. Don't force me to participate in
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  Speaker 2: your thing if I don't want to. That's that's how
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  Speaker 2: Trump got re elected. People trying to tell us what
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to participate in, and people finally waking up
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  Speaker 2: to how ridiculous it was that we were told we
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  Speaker 2: had to participate in things. A few things I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about because we've been talking a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about the early voting in my hometown, Columbus, and we
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  Speaker 2: are into early voting for is primaries. We're early voting
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  Speaker 2: for our mayoral race. One thing that I would just
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  Speaker 2: like to point out that coming it's becoming more and
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  Speaker 2: more clear based on what's going on in this mayoral race,
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  Speaker 2: and I think realistic, just realistically, we have three candidates
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  Speaker 2: who could probably win. I think we're looking at some
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  Speaker 2: sort of a runoff with some combination of two of them.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think I got my impression on who
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  Speaker 2: the two are, but we'll see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't typically do predictions when it comes to elections.
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  Speaker 2: I did during this twenty twenty four presidential race and
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  Speaker 2: managed to somehow predict exactly the final count on the
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  Speaker 2: electoral college. That is not something I've ever done before.
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  Speaker 2: Felt pretty good about that. I felt like Trump was
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  Speaker 2: going to win all of those battleground states, the ones
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  Speaker 2: that were up for grabs. I felt really good about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I was still surprised when I was right in
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  Speaker 2: the end. So my electoral matt was exactly on point.
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  Speaker 2: And never done it before. Don't know if I'll ever
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  Speaker 2: do it again. I'll take it. Sometimes you get that
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  Speaker 2: and then you just go, you know, I called it
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  Speaker 2: it happened. I feel good about it, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: you move on and the next time, hope you have
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  Speaker 2: some credibility with it. I think I know who the
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  Speaker 2: realistic candidates are for mayor of Columbus. I don't say
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  Speaker 2: governor before it did may Sometimes those words become interchanged.
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  Speaker 2: I've also been kind of in the midst of following
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  Speaker 2: up on some things with the governor's race, but as
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  Speaker 2: far as the mayor's race in Columbus, we have a
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  Speaker 2: former city manager, longtime city manager. One of those situations
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  Speaker 2: where when someone is as involved in the day to
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  Speaker 2: day business of Columbus, if we're seeing a decline and
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  Speaker 2: have seen a decline on things, you're still gonna have
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  Speaker 2: someone that's going to run and say I've got the experience.
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  Speaker 2: I've got all this great experience, and if it's not
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  Speaker 2: good experience, I don't know that it should count. But
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what the voters say. There were a number
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  Speaker 2: of people that were going to vote for him no
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  Speaker 2: matter what. There was no question about it, and they
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  Speaker 2: will vote for him, and that's just what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: They were people that liked him as city manager, hated
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  Speaker 2: that he was fired as the city manager, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: would defend any of the things he's been accused of
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  Speaker 2: doing to the grave, you know, with no knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: any of it. They just would defend him because they
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  Speaker 2: like him. And that's how things go. We've certainly seen
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  Speaker 2: that in other races and other levels of government, so
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  Speaker 2: it's how things go. We have one of our city
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  Speaker 2: councilors that's running and she is I think one of
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  Speaker 2: the people who got you got the early start on
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  Speaker 2: all of it, and certainly I think owns the town
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to signage, at least any place that
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  Speaker 2: I go, it's probably like ten to one on the signs.
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  Speaker 2: And she's got a pretty solid support group, I think.
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  Speaker 2: So there's that and also someone who's had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time in government here as part of our
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  Speaker 2: city council. And then we also have a lawyer who
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  Speaker 2: has jumped in the mixed mix of things and very
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  Speaker 2: popular in South and East Columbus. Has been for a
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  Speaker 2: while some questions about whether you know, he could really
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  Speaker 2: shake things up with this. He largely seems to be
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  Speaker 2: running on you know, we need to do things differently
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus. I agree with that some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that he has said he's going to do I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that the mayor can do it. A big part
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  Speaker 2: of the campaign is, you know, we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: have this data center. I don't know that the I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that the next mayor is going to get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to stop the data center. The data center
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  Speaker 2: center very much feels like it's happening no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you've got to have something, and he's
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  Speaker 2: found something to kind of try to unite a group
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  Speaker 2: of people on and that seems to be it. But
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  Speaker 2: what I'm my takeaway seems to be from what feels
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  Speaker 2: like most of the candidates and there's two other candidates
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  Speaker 2: in that mix that I've and I've met those three
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  Speaker 2: very brief encounter with with that lawyer, but two of
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  Speaker 2: the other candidates I've met and talked with, spent some
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  Speaker 2: time with. I don't dislike them as candidates. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know that they have any real possibility of winning.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people have been asking the question, well,
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  Speaker 2: why stay in it if you're just going to be
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  Speaker 2: taking votes away from someone who maybe could win, And
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  Speaker 2: that's ultimately what this runoff ends up being about. But
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  Speaker 2: my takeaway at this point, this just seems to be
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  Speaker 2: my bubble on social media, my bubble on and I
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  Speaker 2: don't spend a lot of time. Most of my time
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  Speaker 2: on social media is managing things on social media that
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  Speaker 2: I need to manage. I do. There are some people
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  Speaker 2: that I read their posts and comments on. There's some
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  Speaker 2: people that I don't. There's many people that when it
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  Speaker 2: gets to election time, I just kind of silenced them
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  Speaker 2: for a month. There are many many people that I've
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  Speaker 2: done that with because I just I don't need to
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  Speaker 2: hear some of the things that are in there. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't. It's not benefiting me. I know. My job
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  Speaker 2: is to know what the general consensus is anyway, So
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to especially national politics, and especially when
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  Speaker 2: it's like a post or a comment that's clearly just
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  Speaker 2: straight off of CNN or NBC or one of those
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  Speaker 2: places where it's it's clearly something that they're just getting
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  Speaker 2: and they don't really understand what they're even talking about,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe it's an inaccurate thing and it's it's the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the people that brought you very good people
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  Speaker 2: on both sides, those kinds of lies. So I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of mute those things I don't, but but the
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  Speaker 2: ones that I see and the occasional uh if I
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  Speaker 2: if I do dip into a post from someone that
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  Speaker 2: I don't normally follow for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The general consensus seems to be Columbus is a terrible
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  Speaker 2: place to live. It's what seems to be the message
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  Speaker 2: of this campaign is what an absolute crap hole that
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  Speaker 2: we are we have become and we're just awful, and
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  Speaker 2: there's no reason to want to live here, and there's
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  Speaker 2: no excellence, there's no accomplishments, there's no nothing that we
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  Speaker 2: can say is anything to be proud of. Everyone should
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  Speaker 2: get out of here. That's that's the vibe I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: from the candidates and the people that are supporting them.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's just what I'm picking up. And then you
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  Speaker 2: got one that's saying everything's great. Believe me, I know
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  Speaker 2: it's all great because I'm the one who helped make
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  Speaker 2: it great. And then all the stats that are being
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  Speaker 2: thrown around it looks pretty awful. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just think it's an interesting vibe to be in. But
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of the nature of things. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: we do that with presidential elections, where we say boh,
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  Speaker 2: everything's terrible, or you know, we've been the party in power,
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  Speaker 2: but still everything's terrible. I've never understood that. I've never
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  Speaker 2: understood when you know, especially in we've discussed this on
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  Speaker 2: the show. But you know, if you are a loyal
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  Speaker 2: Democrat voter and you're black, and you think that things
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  Speaker 2: are worse now than they've ever been for black people,
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  Speaker 2: and you know in times where Democrats have been had
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  Speaker 2: opportunities eight years of Barack Obama and we're not better off,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a problem. And I don't know that you
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  Speaker 2: can point the finger across the aisle and say it's
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  Speaker 2: Republicans because you had your chance, was a great chance.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great opportunity to move things forward for
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  Speaker 2: eight years, and for the most part, the consensus on
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  Speaker 2: statistics is that it got worse in that time. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know they argue it's because people are so racist
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  Speaker 2: and they hate him. But anyway, maybe another problem you got,
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  Speaker 2: and getting back to the on the national scale of things,
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  Speaker 2: is that you know, Democrats right now are rallying behind
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  Speaker 2: a candidate for Democrats nomination for Senate, Graham Plattner, who
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  Speaker 2: has a Nazi tattoo on his body, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: has said awful things that align with some of those
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  Speaker 2: values in the past, and they're supporting him like it's
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  Speaker 2: just no big deal, like there's just nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to support this guy because we want so
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  Speaker 2: badly to knock Susan Collins out of that seat, the
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  Speaker 2: very you know, left of center Republican there, because it's
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  Speaker 2: the nature of Maine, but to try to knock her off.
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  Speaker 2: And they feel like this guy's got like a little
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  Speaker 2: sizzle to him, this could be the guy, and they're
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  Speaker 2: willing to look past anything. They don't care. They don't care.
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  Speaker 2: They just want the sizzle. They want somebody that they
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  Speaker 2: think is going to be one of their great leaders
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  Speaker 2: to move forward and that maybe he could win this race.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care that he has a Nazi tattoo on
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  Speaker 2: him a clan I say Nazi, but I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: a KKK Nazi tattoo on his body and he is
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's nuts. This is a it was a
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  Speaker 2: Nazi secret police or something tattoo. I just I don't, well,
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  Speaker 2: I do understand, because it's very much a do as
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  Speaker 2: we say and not as we do. And that's what's
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  Speaker 2: going on and it is a strong testimony to anybody
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  Speaker 2: that says that you know you are. You're basically saying
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  Speaker 2: that white nationalism is still so prominent in America. And
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  Speaker 2: then you've got Southern poverty law funding Nazi movements and
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  Speaker 2: actions and activities and over the years and now indicted
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  Speaker 2: for that. And then you have this guy with you
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  Speaker 2: know this, this this total cop of how you're saying it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: The skull and crossbones thing that is associated with nazis
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  Speaker 2: the specific ones that for this. And of course he
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  Speaker 2: claimed and we talked about this back in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five when this guy kind of came on a scene.
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  Speaker 2: He claimed he didn't know what it was when he
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  Speaker 2: got it. But he's also said some things that are
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  Speaker 2: very offensive to women and various groups. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that there should be a little bit more scrutiny to
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  Speaker 2: go with this, don't you think there should be some
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't just be, hey, this guy might be able
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  Speaker 2: to win. There should be some actual scrutiny here, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess he's covered it. I think he did
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  Speaker 2: cover the thing, if I remember correctly, with some like
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  Speaker 2: a Celtic thing. I don't have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 2: It should have been covered up. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: he was running around with it to begin with. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why he had it. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: this guy had this on his body and acknowledged enough
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  Speaker 2: to say, I need to take it off. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the things he said in the past should
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  Speaker 2: be enough to say, maybe the other candidate should be there,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's what will happen. Maybe the voters will
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  Speaker 2: will do the right thing and make sure this guy
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  Speaker 2: isn't the candidate, but they feel like he's the one
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  Speaker 2: that can beat Susan Collins, and they'll support him no
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  Speaker 2: the break, Well, we're into May and that means we're
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  Speaker 2: the final month of weeks, depending on how you look
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  Speaker 2: at it, but final month of the calendar spring. And
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  Speaker 2: I know the weather hasn't quite felt like it, but
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  Speaker 2: it's coming. I keep saying that. But we uh, summer
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  Speaker 2: means a few things. You know, it's the beach, it's vacations,
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  Speaker 2: it is weddings. A lot of things take place in
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  Speaker 2: the summer. And some kids playing video games and stared
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  Speaker 2: at screens. Another thing that's pretty common commonly associated with
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  Speaker 2: summer is the eating of watermelons. So there is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting situation that's gone on with some amateur fruit breeders
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  Speaker 2: in Virginia, a high school teacher named Delaney Raptis and
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  Speaker 2: her mother that have basically used a non GMO mutation
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  Speaker 2: technique to grow very small like watermelons, like I think
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  Speaker 2: the size of an egg, like a chicken egg. So
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  Speaker 2: these small melons, they say, taste exactly like regular sized watermelons.
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  Speaker 2: The duo started the project about five years ago. Their
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  Speaker 2: mission was to find a way to make larger fruits
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  Speaker 2: smaller as a means of cutting food waste and then
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  Speaker 2: also fitting them into a single serve fruit market. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the novelty of this when there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people on the planet that don't have foods,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand this non GMO craze is there, but
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  Speaker 2: the idea of an app what we know to be
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  Speaker 2: an apple, you know, really being this small little, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a coumquat sized apple, and people saying, well, that's
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  Speaker 2: the better way to go. And the reason for the
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  Speaker 2: GMO thing was to the genetic modifications made them bigger
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  Speaker 2: and there was more of it so that more people
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  Speaker 2: could eat. So I don't know that I understand this
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  Speaker 2: as far as taking something like a watermelon that could
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  Speaker 2: be large and many people can enjoy it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: turning it into like a small hand fruit. But you
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  Speaker 2: know what, you know, if the anti GMO thing is
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  Speaker 2: is you, then I suppose that's it's right up your alley.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably exactly what you're looking for. I just know
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of studies on this. When you go, well,
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  Speaker 2: we need to go all organic farming, and we need
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  Speaker 2: to do the non GMOs, and in this whole mindset
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  Speaker 2: it's there's just not a lot of food. Then it's
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  Speaker 2: a significant drop off in what people are able to
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  Speaker 2: have as food for various people. So I don't I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's for science, yeah, do it. I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: about trying to push this as a novelty food item
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  Speaker 2: when it's going to feed like you know, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a nectarine that's that's not typically versus a watermelon that
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  Speaker 2: you can share with your whole family. So, but to
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  Speaker 2: each their own. According to a new study, beer may
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  Speaker 2: actually have some nutritional value. Researchers found that a standard
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  Speaker 2: serving of beer can contain about fifteen percent of your
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  Speaker 2: daily vitamin B six great for brain. Health Officials in
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  Speaker 2: the health fields say you can get the same dose
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  Speaker 2: of vitamin B six from a simple potato or a
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  Speaker 2: banana without, you know, putting alcohol in your body. But
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna have a beer anyway, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: nice to have that in the back of your mind
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  Speaker 2: that hey, maybe there is some extra goodness there to it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, and maybe you're not wanting a potato
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  Speaker 2: or a banana while you're standing at the bar and
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  Speaker 2: you actually want a beer. But again, it's to each
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  Speaker 2: their own. It's to each their own kind of day,
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  Speaker 2: I think. And astronomer who has been studying near Earth
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  Speaker 2: asteroids found a short cut to Mars and figured out
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  Speaker 2: a course that could allow for round trips and make
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  Speaker 2: take less than a year. Using a fast lane. That
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  Speaker 2: astronauts would be able to get to Mars and return
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  Speaker 2: home in just one hundred and fifty three days. Bit
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  Speaker 2: of a game changer because this has always been thought
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  Speaker 2: to be a multi year adventure and it could be
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  Speaker 2: a full thing in six months. So it's an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: Keeping an eye on it, and we'll be tracking it
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  Speaker 2: over on the Made of Stars podcast where we talk
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  Speaker 2: about things like that. But this is pretty interesting here
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  Speaker 2: as shortening that trip makes it a very real possibility
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  Speaker 2: for being able to start thinking about colonizing and actually
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  Speaker 2: being able to send shipments there, people being able to
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  Speaker 2: work on habitats and things, and being able to do
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  Speaker 2: the round trip thing. And then ultimately then it comes
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  Speaker 2: an issue of you know, could you know someone actually
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  Speaker 2: traveling there as a vacation could be a thing. So
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  Speaker 2: all of this is kind of at stake here as
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  Speaker 2: this possible shortcut could be have a very big impact
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  Speaker 2: on our trips to Mars. That'll do it for this
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