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We've Known All Along · 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: Tuesday morning, twenty first day of October. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Quick reminder tickets for the Nutcracker Ballet.
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Speaker 2: It's coming thirteenth and fourteenth of December to the River
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Speaker 2: Center here in Columbus, Georgia. And don't get your tickets
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Speaker 2: from anywhere other than from the River Center box office
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Speaker 2: or online Rivercenter dot org Orthcolumbus Ballet dot org. Those
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Speaker 2: are the places to get your tickets. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you got a friend who bought you some tickets and
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Speaker 2: you're just paying them back, you know your venmo in
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Speaker 2: them or whatever, that's fine. Just don't go for the
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Speaker 2: You go online and you google and then you get
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Speaker 2: the ticket prices and they jack them up. Don't fall
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Speaker 2: for that. We're looking forward to putting on another show
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Speaker 2: for you. This is my seventh time in the role
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Speaker 2: of Mother Ginger. I love it. It's fun, have a great
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Speaker 2: time every year. It's one of the most fun things
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Speaker 2: I do every year. And I just I'm excited because
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Speaker 2: this weekend is my first week my first call sheet
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Speaker 2: for rehearsals. I'm on the call sheet. I'm going in.
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Speaker 2: We did some stuff over the weekend that was part
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Speaker 2: of a promo for the show, but that's not really real,
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Speaker 2: Like that's not you know, I mean it's real, but
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Speaker 2: it's not real. It's not me going in with the cast.
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Speaker 2: And we're doing that this coming weekend. So I'm looking
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Speaker 2: forward to, you know, meeting my new group of paulis
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Speaker 2: Chanel's aka Tabitha's and getting ready for the show coming
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Speaker 2: up in December. And we're excited about bringing the show
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Speaker 2: to you. And this is my you know, from next
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Speaker 2: surgery to Stilt's kind of thing. This is what's happening.
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Speaker 2: This is when I planned my surgery. I planned it
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Speaker 2: so that I would be healed in time for rehearsals
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Speaker 2: and then the show. This was all a strategic thing.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've really talked much about my
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Speaker 2: surgical team for my surgery, but doctor Eric Westerland and
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Speaker 2: his team, Ivy Holt, who is a personal friend, I
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Speaker 2: mean they're all friends. Now. Once somebody goes digging around
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Speaker 2: in your neck, you get real close with them. You know,
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Speaker 2: you get really friendly, and you know, your life is
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Speaker 2: in their hands moments, but Ivy helped get things scheduled
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Speaker 2: conveniently for the Nutcracker, for the show. She comes. I
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Speaker 2: guess almost every year that I've done it, she's been
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Speaker 2: many times. I always remember seeing her there, photos of
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Speaker 2: her with me as mother Ginger. So I really appreciate her,
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Speaker 2: her work in this whole process, not just you know,
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Speaker 2: in surgery, but also the you know, the behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes stuff helping to get things scheduled and get me
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Speaker 2: in and get things on a schedule that would get
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Speaker 2: me back on the stilt. So I appreciate her, Doctor Westerland,
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Speaker 2: the whole staff there, They've all done a fantastic job.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate everything that they did. Everybody was in the
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Speaker 2: operating room, all of it, the whole process to get
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Speaker 2: me ready for the show. So looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: Rivercenter dot org, Thecolumbus Ballet dot org, or the River
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Speaker 2: Center box office. That's where you get your tickets. Don't
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Speaker 2: get ripped off. Get your tickets for the fair price,
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Speaker 2: the actual price, not the markup price. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what it is about Nutcracker. I guess they know it's
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Speaker 2: going to be in demand, and I guess they know
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Speaker 2: that some people are willing to pay whatever to come
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Speaker 2: to the Nutcracker, and we appreciate that, but you don't
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Speaker 2: have to do that. Maybe instead of paying the markup
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Speaker 2: price by extra tickets and invite somebody that hasn't been before,
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Speaker 2: you can do that. So excited for that. We'll see
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Speaker 2: you in December for the show, all right. I would
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Speaker 2: love to be able to tell you where I got
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Speaker 2: this from. I don't remember where I got it from.
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Speaker 2: I just saw it. I read it. I thought that
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Speaker 2: was amusing and so accurate, So on point, I'd love
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Speaker 2: to get the original. But I know there's been a
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Speaker 2: few people who've expressed similar thoughts, so I can't credit
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Speaker 2: the entire thought to one person. But it's kind of
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Speaker 2: relevant to something that's just happened to me recently, and
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Speaker 2: I just thought i'd passed this along. We have entered
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Speaker 2: into sort of a different time, I think, in our
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Speaker 2: country's history, and I know there have been similar situations
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Speaker 2: in the past. This isn't completely unique or different or
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Speaker 2: it's different, but it's in its way it's unique. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to discount the fact that it's twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five and we live in a world that we
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Speaker 2: couldn't have even imagined I think twenty years ago. Certainly
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Speaker 2: not when I was a kid. I mean I really
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Speaker 2: think that. And work with me here. Other fifty year
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Speaker 2: old's are approximately fifty year old. We grew up in
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Speaker 2: this era where we were told of flying cars and
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Speaker 2: jet packs, and you know, all those things would be
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Speaker 2: a reality certainly by the time we got to fifty, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I can remember thinking as a kid. In
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, I'll be fifty years old, and surely
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Speaker 2: by then we'll all have personal jet packs and we'll
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Speaker 2: have flying cars. I remember watching. And go back with
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Speaker 2: me if you will. If you're not the same age
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Speaker 2: as me, these references won't mean a whole lot. Maybe
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Speaker 2: I don't know, But if you're about the same age
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Speaker 2: as me, maybe you watch The A Team as a kid,
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Speaker 2: Remember the A Team? Not the movie. The movie was
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Speaker 2: that was fine, it was nice to kind of revisit,
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Speaker 2: and it was fun, fun casting and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But I'm talking about the TV show And do you remember?
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Speaker 2: I remember, and I want to try to. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I would have been elementary school aged somewhere between. I
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Speaker 2: would say I've been around nine or ten, somewhere around there.
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Speaker 2: Maybe ten is probably a fair That would have been
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. I don't remember exactly what year The
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Speaker 2: A Team was on, but I remember somewhere around nine
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Speaker 2: ten eleven years old for me, there was specifically an
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Speaker 2: episode of The A Team where the character Murdoch was
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Speaker 2: in a like a fly like a little individual helicopter.
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Speaker 2: I mean, in essence, it was kind of a flying
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Speaker 2: car in a way. It was like a one person
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Speaker 2: He would fly around in it. And I remember we
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Speaker 2: got to school the next day and my friends and
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Speaker 2: I we were all talking about this thing. We were like,
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Speaker 2: how cool is that that's now a reality? How far
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Speaker 2: are we away from the actual flying cars? How close
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Speaker 2: are we to that being a reality? And for us,
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Speaker 2: that certainly felt like it was close. Eighteen ran eighty
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Speaker 2: three to eighty seven, so that's about the right window.
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Speaker 2: Around eighty five. Maybe Murdock flying around in a little
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Speaker 2: individual helicopter, and that's what we expected. That's exactly where
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Speaker 2: we thought we would be, certainly by this point because
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Speaker 2: those little individual flying helicopters. Maybe that was a reality
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Speaker 2: for a while. Maybe that was just for TV. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I like to think that that was some
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Speaker 2: sort of a real contraption, but maybe it was just
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Speaker 2: for TV. And we got it in our heads then
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Speaker 2: that this was going to be a really different place.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: We didn't imagine the Internet. We didn't imagine, you know,
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Speaker 2: constantly every piece of information ever would be at our fingertips.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to remember most things anymore. Whenever you're
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Speaker 2: with someone and someone says, who's that actor that was
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Speaker 2: in that one movie? You know, once upon a time,
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Speaker 2: this was a long process of trying to remember and
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Speaker 2: figure things out, and you have to do that old
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Speaker 2: alphabet trick where you go, okay, names just start with
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Speaker 2: a B. Yeah, to do that, remember that trick. You
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Speaker 2: don't do that trick. I do that trick. I used
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Speaker 2: to do that trick. I have to sometimes now, but
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Speaker 2: it's pretty uncommon these days because we just look it up.
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Speaker 2: You take out your phone, you take out your tablet,
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Speaker 2: you get on your laptop, whatever it is, and you
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Speaker 2: can just find the information or ask somebody else to
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Speaker 2: do it. I just was able to tell you within
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Speaker 2: what a minute while talking, I could look up and
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Speaker 2: tell you I don't have like a research team sitting
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Speaker 2: around here. That was all me telling you what years
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Speaker 2: the A team was on and that wasn't planned. That
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Speaker 2: wasn't I'd love to tell you that was all orchestrated
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Speaker 2: to make my point, but it just worked out that way.
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Speaker 2: So we didn't imagine that. So for me to say
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Speaker 2: that we're in a unique time, truly, there's some things
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Speaker 2: that have certainly cycled through, some tendencies and trends and things.
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Speaker 2: But for it to happen in a time that we're
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Speaker 2: in now, with the Internet and its impact on everything,
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Speaker 2: you know, every everybody, actual genuine people that are journalists,
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Speaker 2: to every jackass with a cell phone willing to watch
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Speaker 2: someone die in the street just so that they can
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Speaker 2: get video of it and you know, shop it around
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Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, that's that's where we are now.
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Speaker 2: That's that's that's part of this reality that I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know how you know, each moment is
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Speaker 2: certainly unique, but it's not drastically unlike you know, trends
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Speaker 2: that have happened before, because I've had people say, you know,
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Speaker 2: this is not too different from what's happened before. But
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Speaker 2: I will maintain the uniqueness of the time we're in
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Speaker 2: is what makes it different, but and it relates to
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Speaker 2: my version of the story. But we're at this phase
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Speaker 2: where we we had, you know, like a ten year
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Speaker 2: window of really just anyone on the right certainly felt
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Speaker 2: that oppression coming in their direction, and you weren't allowed
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Speaker 2: to express that. You were, you know, someone who is conservative.
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Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to have your views. You couldn't say
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Speaker 2: them out loud. If you flew a flag in your yard,
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Speaker 2: someone you know was going to see have a flagpole,
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Speaker 2: They're going to say, ah, I was racist. It depends
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Speaker 2: on where you live. It certainly is regional, and it
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Speaker 2: certainly is town to town. But you know, you'd see
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Speaker 2: videos of and again the internet relating to this, of people,
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Speaker 2: you know, grabbing Trump signs out of people's yards and
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Speaker 2: tearing them up, and you know, taking down their flags
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Speaker 2: and all these sorts of horrible things that people would
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Speaker 2: do used to be socially unacceptable. And we went through that.
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Speaker 2: We all experienced that in some way. I've told you
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Speaker 2: that on this show, I'm not someone who is overly
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Speaker 2: evangelical outside of this show when it comes to my politics,
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Speaker 2: and I realized the word is not exactly the right word,
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Speaker 2: But you get what I mean, I'm not knocking on doors.
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Speaker 2: For the most part, I don't have conversations with my
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Speaker 2: friends regularly about politics. Sometimes when someone comes to me
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Speaker 2: and genuinely wants to have a conversation, which is rare
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Speaker 2: for my friends on the left to want to come
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Speaker 2: to me and say, hey, let's have a conversation about
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Speaker 2: you know, this particular issue, it happens, it's not common.
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Speaker 2: My friends on the right often like to be in
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Speaker 2: misery together about certain things or you know, feel good
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Speaker 2: right now, and we're in that time where things kind
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Speaker 2: of feel better, things feel like we've got some positivity going,
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Speaker 2: even though there's a lot of things that still frustrate
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Speaker 2: me and frustrate most of the conservatives. I know, there's
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Speaker 2: also the part of me that believes in justice and
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Speaker 2: believes in you know, right and wrong, and I don't
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Speaker 2: understand that we have you know, judges and and leadership
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Speaker 2: and you know mayors, governors that are you know, still
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Speaker 2: encouraging and promotevating chaos and anarchy and the people. I
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Speaker 2: did a whole show yesterday about the stupid no King's thing,
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Speaker 2: which is obviously something that's bought and paid for. This
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Speaker 2: is there's no grassroots to it. This is something that
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Speaker 2: you know, people are doing to try to plant this thought.
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Speaker 2: It's all about planning thoughts. We went through the felon thought.
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Speaker 2: We went through you know, with Trump, and we went
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Speaker 2: let's get him off the ballots because he's a felon,
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Speaker 2: Let's get he's been impeached, you know, all these different things, Nazi, fascists,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. So we've gone through this phase where
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Speaker 2: we all kind of felt like, you know, if you
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Speaker 2: if you speak up, you're gonna put yourself in danger.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna put yourself in a position where something could happen.
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Speaker 2: Some people said, I don't care. I'm gonna speak up
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Speaker 2: no matter what because that's what I'm supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: And good for them. Look when the time was right
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Speaker 2: for me to speak up, I speak up. I do
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Speaker 2: this show five days a week. You know, this is
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Speaker 2: this is where I get a lot of my stuff out.
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Speaker 2: This is where I'm able to express myself. And those
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Speaker 2: of you that listen, those of you that I've interviewed
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Speaker 2: over the years that have gone on to carry some
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Speaker 2: of the things that I've said on to I've talked
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Speaker 2: about this before. I'll hear someone on a talk show
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Speaker 2: and I'll go, hey, this is my line. All right,
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Speaker 2: it's out there. But I feel like this is this
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Speaker 2: is my aspect of the fight. I don't. I don't
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Speaker 2: go to my friends and tell them they need to
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Speaker 2: have different views. That's not what I want to do, right.
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Speaker 2: I just like I'm not, you know, I'm not a
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Speaker 2: door knocking religious evangelical. I'm prepared when I need to
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Speaker 2: talk to someone about it. Someone recently let me know
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Speaker 2: that conversations with me helped lead them to Jesus, and
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Speaker 2: I thought, that's that's so flattering for them to give
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Speaker 2: me any credit for it. And I appreciate that I
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Speaker 2: was any part of it, but that's for me. That's
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Speaker 2: that's more about Jesus. That's not about me. And you know,
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Speaker 2: but that's about being ready when someone asked questions. You
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Speaker 2: need to be ready to have conversations with people, and
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Speaker 2: I think that's my calling when it comes to politics
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Speaker 2: as well. I don't. This isn't. I'm not a confrontational person.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to live in constant confrontation. That's not
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Speaker 2: what I want to do. And some people thrive in it,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of my friends on the left thrive
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Speaker 2: in it. They just want to constantly do it. They
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Speaker 2: want to be in it. I go to events sometimes
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Speaker 2: and there's people there trying to have a good time
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Speaker 2: a concert or you know, a convention or something, and
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Speaker 2: there's people there that're just they're bickering and fighting about whatever,
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Speaker 2: and it's just, this is what you're doing at this
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Speaker 2: thing that's supposed to be fun. So I say that
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Speaker 2: just to kind of say to lead to this, And
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Speaker 2: I've gone through these moments where I have felt a
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Speaker 2: little bit more. It feels with some people like you
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Speaker 2: can kind of express things without feeling like you are
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Speaker 2: being confrontational because people are a little bit more out
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Speaker 2: there about what they feel. And the Charlie Kirk thing
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Speaker 2: certainly makes people feel more like they need to speak
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Speaker 2: up more, and that's great. I certainly feel that way
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Speaker 2: as well. Again, still not confrontational. So someone I know
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Speaker 2: that I don't talk politics with, never have. I know
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Speaker 2: that we're on different opposing views because this is someone
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Speaker 2: who's very outspoken about their views on social media, or
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Speaker 2: at least they have been, and I'm not I don't
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Speaker 2: believe that's what social media should be used for, but
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Speaker 2: you know, whatever you be, you if that's what you
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Speaker 2: want to do. I think a bit it's part of
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Speaker 2: the downfall of that as a viable thing, because I
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Speaker 2: wish that people could just stay connected to each other
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Speaker 2: and not feel like they're trying to change each other's
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Speaker 2: mind or judge each other or whatever. So this person
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Speaker 2: sent me a link to a video and it was
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Speaker 2: just a comedy thing. It was just a bit. It
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Speaker 2: was like twenty minutes, and it was done by the
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Speaker 2: talk show host parading as a journalist. But you know,
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Speaker 2: let's be honest, the talk show host people, it's a
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Speaker 2: lot of they come at it with an agenda in
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Speaker 2: the guise of it's comedy show, but you know, it's
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Speaker 2: really about trying to spread a message. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: what it is. They're in for the left in this
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Speaker 2: particular one, certainly it's John Oliver, and I'm not you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't particularly like John Oliver. I mean, even if
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Speaker 2: he was just doing a twenty minute comedy bit. I
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Speaker 2: can handle small doses of John Oliver. There's things I've
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Speaker 2: seen him in and I go, that's pretty good. I
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Speaker 2: liked him in the show community, you know, that was
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Speaker 2: fun to me. I like that show, but I don't
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Speaker 2: twenty minutes of a John Oliver bit about anything. That's
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Speaker 2: a lot of John Oliver. For me, that's a lot
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Speaker 2: of John Oliver. And I couldn't watch this whole bit
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Speaker 2: that he had sent me, and I just was kind
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Speaker 2: of curious, and I even messaged him to kind of say,
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Speaker 2: you know, am I looking for something specific in here?
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Speaker 2: What what did you mean to send this to me?
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Speaker 2: And they just I just thought it was funny, and
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Speaker 2: you like humor, and I thought you would find it funny,
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Speaker 2: and that's flattering, hey, someone who you know, I get
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Speaker 2: paid to be a humorist sometimes, so I thought, okay,
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Speaker 2: well that's flattering. I'll take that, but I can't watch
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Speaker 2: I can't watch twenty minutes of John or it would
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Speaker 2: I'd have to watch, you know, ten two minute clips
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Speaker 2: maybe just to get through it. It probably is very funny,
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Speaker 2: and maybe at some point I'll finish it. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: but it was the first, like my reaction for the
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Speaker 2: first time in a long time was to say, I
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Speaker 2: don't I don't think John Oliver and it's not about
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Speaker 2: his politics. I just don't find him that funny. And
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Speaker 2: you know, the very fact that the politics is in
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Speaker 2: play as part of it too. Look, one of my
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Speaker 2: idols that got me into broadcasting, and I've shared this before,
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Speaker 2: David Letterman. He used to be funny and then he
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Speaker 2: decided at some point doing a show that this had
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Speaker 2: to be about politics and agendas and you know, spreading
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Speaker 2: a message and it was too important and all those things.
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Speaker 2: And it made me lose respect for someone that I
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Speaker 2: greatly respected, still have a lot of respect for what
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Speaker 2: he did in the early days. So I say that
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Speaker 2: because it was my first moment where I thought, maybe
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Speaker 2: I'll just say I don't like John Oliver, but I
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Speaker 2: don't want this to turn into a confrontational thing. And
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Speaker 2: this is a colleague, This is someone that I have
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Speaker 2: other work dealings with and it doesn't need to come
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Speaker 2: into play. I assume he knows what all of my
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Speaker 2: job is, so I don't think it would come as
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Speaker 2: some great surprise to him that I don't particularly like
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Speaker 2: John Oliver. I don't care for his humor that much.
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Speaker 2: But what it made me think about was this, and
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Speaker 2: this is the thing I wanted to reference and I'd
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Speaker 2: love to be able to say the person who And again,
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Speaker 2: it's not a completely you know, borrowed thought. But there's
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Speaker 2: someone who it reminded me of and I had a
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Speaker 2: very similar sort of thought to it. It related to
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Speaker 2: all this, but this idea that now that people are
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Speaker 2: starting to say their conservative views may be on social
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Speaker 2: media to each other, they're still having this thing with
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Speaker 2: people that are going, well, you know, I didn't realize
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Speaker 2: you had those views. We can't be friends. And it's
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Speaker 2: that realization that all this time we on the right
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Speaker 2: have known what your political views were and just not cared.
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Speaker 2: We weren't the ones deciding we're going to decide your
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Speaker 2: value based on what your politics are. We've been happy
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Speaker 2: to be your friend for a decade, with you being
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Speaker 2: very outspoken with what your politics are. It doesn't affect
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Speaker 2: us me knowing this person's politics who sent me this
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Speaker 2: thing about John Oliver, and it has changed nothing about the relationship,
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Speaker 2: the working relationship, the friendship and all that. I don't
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Speaker 2: I assume this person knows this aspect of my job.
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Speaker 2: This person really knows more about other things that I do.
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Speaker 2: I assume they know this, but I don't know for certain.
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Speaker 2: So if I come back and I say I don't
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Speaker 2: really care for John Oliver, does that immediately trigger some
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Speaker 2: sort I don't think so. But it's an interesting thing
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Speaker 2: that we've gone through, isn't it. We're in a phase
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Speaker 2: now where people on the right are more comfortable expressing
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Speaker 2: themselves and saying these are my views post Charlie Kirk,
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Speaker 2: these are my views, and we're getting this phase again,
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Speaker 2: and I've shared that back goes back to as far
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Speaker 2: as you know, twenty one years ago when I had
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Speaker 2: someone tell me we can't be friends if you don't
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Speaker 2: vote for John Carey, and it was like, what does
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Speaker 2: that have to do with it? And we're still doing
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Speaker 2: that twenty one years later. We're still in a phase
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Speaker 2: of people doing that, or at least feeling like it's
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Speaker 2: and it happened to me that far back. But it's interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it That we have people who have drawn that
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Speaker 2: line we can't be friends, and many of us on
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Speaker 2: the right have sat back and looked at all the
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Speaker 2: people we know that are on the left, and we
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Speaker 2: haven't cast them out of our lives. We haven't thrown
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Speaker 2: them into the trash pile, into the basket of deplorables.
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Speaker 2: We haven't done that on our side. We just kind
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Speaker 2: of go well, that's their views. We won't talk about politics,
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Speaker 2: and honestly, I don't talk about it a lot with anybody,
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Speaker 2: not even my conservative friends, because on the conservative side
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Speaker 2: there's these there's been a long standing thing of layers
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Speaker 2: of conservatism, and I've had people tell me I don't
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Speaker 2: I'm not aggressive enough here, and I genuinely try to
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Speaker 2: express my aspect of things, my opinion of things based
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Speaker 2: on faith, based on you know, my understanding of our founding,
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Speaker 2: my understanding of where we're supposed to be as a country.
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Speaker 2: That's where I am. I'm not digging into conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 2: I'm not digging into connections between this and what doctor
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Speaker 2: did this to Charlie Kirk and what was their ties
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Speaker 2: to Israel or what. I'm not digging into that. That's
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Speaker 2: not who I am. You've probably figured that out by now.
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Speaker 2: But it's interesting, isn't it That we have all these
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Speaker 2: people on the left still looking for reasons to cut
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Speaker 2: not everybody. I've got dear friends on the left. Some
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Speaker 2: even listen to the show, and I appreciate that a lot.
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Speaker 2: I express that often, and I appreciate that a lot.
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Speaker 2: If you're on the left, you don't vote the way
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Speaker 2: after the break. So is it possible that all the
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Speaker 2: positives societally in a scientific way related to drinking alcohol
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Speaker 2: JAMMA found a sharp rise in pickleball related eye injuries,
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Speaker 2: fast moving balls, paddle hits, or falls. Seventy percent of
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Speaker 2: the injuries happening to players aged fifty or older, and
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Speaker 2: contributing factors, especially for newer or less physically fit players.
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Speaker 2: Despite the risks, eye protection isn't required for pickleball yet
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Speaker 2: expert or not yet anyway, experts now recommending it though
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Speaker 2: can continues to grow. So, you know, experts saying, maybe
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Speaker 2: throw some goggles on, you know, go Kurt Rambus with it,
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Speaker 2: those eyes. Don't you want to have a blue eyed
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Speaker 2: yet if it worked, but she's getting roasted by people
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Speaker 2: There's some Is there some connection to all of all
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Speaker 2: of that? I don't know, but good luck to this lady,
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Speaker 2: I mean, for her thinking in it. I just don't
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Speaker 2: sound like it's got some real teeth to it, but
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