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Just Make Them the Way Women Liked Them to Begin With · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day.
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You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, fifth day
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of June. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Want to change up speed
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just a little bit because I know we've been talking quite a bit about the
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election. We've been talking quite a bit about Trump's trials. We've been talking
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a lot about that. I want to just change gears just a little bit
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because we have and I've talked a little bit about this, but we're seeing
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something that has now come up as it pertains to I mean, it falls
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into the sort of woke culture mentality, but it's not exactly that. It
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kind of is, but it's kind of not. It's just one of those
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things that I guess it probably is fair to put it there because it does
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fall into the dei mentality that we have in society and the people that are
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what I would say the small group that drive so many of the things that
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are pushed forward, especially in sports and entertainment and some of the decisions that
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get made sadly in our government. You can take a small group of people.
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They're the loudest, they're the ones who can make the threats, and
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it's this sort of I don't know, online terrorism is kind of what it
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ends up being. I talked a couple of weeks ago about this documentary that
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I had watched. Basically it was about the rise of the four Chan movement
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and how it ultimately they feel like ultimately it was hijacked and it became the
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cause of Trump's election of the QAnon movement that was a hijacked version of that,
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And I think a lot of that stuff is worth sort of being aware
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of and how it pertains to some of what's gone on in our entertainment world.
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So, and the reason that this is now relevant is we came out
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of the Memorial Day weekend movie Star that kind of that kickoff of the summer
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blockbuster season, and the movie that was really supposed to be the one to
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launch it. Now, I guess The Fall Guy came out before Memorial Day.
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I know they had high hopes for The Fall Guy, but I don't
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want to talk about The Fall Guy. That's not really what I want to
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talk about here. Who would have thought that The Fall Guy would not be
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this monster hit that was going to come in and officially kick off and launch
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the Summer Blockbuster season. Movie that was expected to kick off the summer blockbuster
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season was Furiosa, a Mad Max saga. Okay, this is you know,
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the Mad Max franchise. You know that this is kind of one of
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those deals where they they've I feel like, in so many cases, Hollywood
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has run out of ideas, they've run out of new things to do.
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They're revisiting these things from yester year, if you will. And obviously a
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couple of years ago we had, you know, the relaunch of Mad Max,
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and that's where this was sort of headed and they thought, well,
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maybe we make this prequel Furiosa movie and we'll go to, you know,
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a time when she was younger, and we'll jump into this and see what
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it does. And it was supposed to be you know, this female led
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I mean, I guess you call it sci fi, it's apocalyptic, it's
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it's you know, basically a prequel version of this character that Charlie's then played
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in Mad Max Fury Road. And then Anna Taylor Joy the actress playing the
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younger version of this character. And Anna Taylor Joy Fine actress. Okay,
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she's one of those people that she gets a lot of credit for her work,
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and she is a rising star in Hollywood. Okay, she's not a
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megastar yet, she's not an a lister yet. But they decided to throw
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her into this summer blockbuster movie and give it a shot. And that was
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sort of, you know, the idea. Chris Hemsworth also in this movie.
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So they throw it out there and they see what happens, and the
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movie with high hopes. I didn't really just see what happens. They had
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high hopes. They were expecting this to be a big blockbuster. It made
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thirty two million dollars for the Memorial Day weekend and that was the lowest earning
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number one Memorial Day opener since Casper in nineteen ninety five. Yes, Casper,
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the Friendly Ghost. So what does this say to us? What does
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this tell us about what's going It could be nothing. I mean, it's
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always possible that it's nothing. The fall Guy is an example of something that,
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you know, maybe it was going to be a big hit, and
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maybe it wasn't. It wasn't. I don't think it ever was. I
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never thought it was. It doesn't look like a movie that's going to be
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a big hit. Maybe that's the kind of movie that finds some life in
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streaming. I don't know, and maybe that's the same for Furioso. Okay,
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but there is a group of people that are excited about Furiosa. They
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were pumped about this movie being announced and they thought this is going to be
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a big hit, and they went and they watched it. It was thirty
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two million dollars worth of people that went to see it, probably also fans
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of Mad Max and all that. So I guess what I'm trying to get
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to is this idea that when you make movies, and you make a sci
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fi or fantasy series, that you go when you write the best story you
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could possibly write, and you cast the best actors that you can cast in
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it, and you tell the best story that you can tell, and it
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gets released and viewers say, wow, I really loved that. That was
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amazing. Please give us some more. And then a few years later you
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make a sequel and it comes out and people say, oh my gosh,
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fantastic, Please give us some more. More often than not, Hollywood says,
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we'll give you the third one, and then that's it for a while
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at least. So they do that, and then people say, oh my
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god, that was amazing. I loved it, all three of them.
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What an incredible trilogy of movies. Fantastic. Please give us some more in
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Hollywood says that not right now. We'll give it some time and we'll come
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back and we'll do it again. This is kind of what normally happens,
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right. I think Star Wars. Star Wars is the best example that I
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can give for it. So Star Wars did that, and then, you
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know, years later, George Lucas said, you know what, We're gonna
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go back and we're gonna make the prequel movies that lead up to this because
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I got more story I want to tell. So here's what I got ideas
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for the three the sequel trilogy. But I'm gonna do this prequel trilogy.
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That's what I'm gonna do. So he did it, and people went,
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hey, you know, it's not as good as the originals, but please
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give us some more. We want to see how this plays out. And
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then the second in the you know, Attack of the Clones came out and
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people were like, hey, we want another one, though, give us
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another one. And then the third part of the prequel trilogy came out and
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people went, there you go that's more like it. Can we have some
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more? And then George Lucas said, no, I'm done. I'm done.
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That's it. You got two sets of trilogies from me. That's all
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we're doing. So years past he sells the lucasfilm and all of his properties
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to Disney, and Disney said, ah, now we're going to make some
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movies. And what we've decided is that because these movies were so immensely popular,
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but they weren't just popular with men, they were also popular with women.
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Women would like to watch Star Wars and be able to enjoy it too.
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So what we'll do is we're going to make the lead character in our
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sequel trilogy be a woman. They even made a movie that ins inserted in,
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you know, had its place just wedged into the right before episode four,
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which was the original Star Wars. The true Star Wars purist will go.
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That movie is called Star Wars. It's not called a New Hope,
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it's not Episode four. It's called Star Wars, okay, but they put
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it it's called Rogue One. Who was the star of that movie. It
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was a woman. She was the lead character in that movie. But it
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was really well done, great story fit right in and had the tone of
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the old original movies while kind of just feeling like an old World War two
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movie. Loved it, loved it a lot, I really did. I
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thought it was great, very well done, very well put together. But
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Disney says, we're gonna make these sequel movies and we're going to have the
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main character be a woman, and we'll get as many women characters in here
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as we can to carry this franchise moving forward. That's what we want to
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do, and we're gonna put a lot of the focus on this sequel trilogy
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on Princess Leiah, the real star of the original Star Wars movies. I
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don't know. I kind of thought it was Darth Vader. I mean,
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I think that episodes one through six were a movie series about Darth Vader.
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It was his story from childhood spoiler alert to death. That's what it was.
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That was the main character. I know, everybody goes, well,
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there's Luke Skywalker. Of course, Luke certainly played a big part in it.
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I mean, he's he's number two. You want to start ranking importance
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of characters, you got Luke Skywalker two, Darth Vader at one, and
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then if you're going into the prequelor you gotta start looking at Obie Obeys certainly
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important to this, but we know where his story ended. So anyway,
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Princess Leah is important, not the most important character in that, but women,
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certainly, men liked her, especially in the Gold Bikini. But men
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liked Princess Leah certainly. It's it's the whole. All the characters are great,
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most of them. There's a couple that aren't so much. And I'll
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still defend jar Jar Binks. I know people don't like Jorgo Binks. I'll
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defend I watched them originally. When I watched episode one, I watched with
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my cousin who was really young, she was about five at the time.
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Every time Jarjar was on screen, she laughed. That was my original take
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on jar Jar. I went, this is George Lucas doing George Lucas things.
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But anyway, so Disney says, we're going to make the Star Wars
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movies and we're going to make a major focus on women characters in this because
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we want women to be able to enjoy this too. And here in lies
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the problem, and this is what we're running into with movies like Furio So
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this is what we're running into with the Marvels. This is what we're running
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into time and time again as we're seeing these movies that are trying to be
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written in a way that women can enjoy them, when in reality, women
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enjoyed them to begin with. I don't know any women who think that the
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sequel trilogy of Star Wars is better than the original trilogy. I don't know
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any. If I do, I've never heard them say it. Most women
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that I know that are fans of science fiction and fantasy and they're going to
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say in the space opera that is Star Wars. I don't know any of
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them that would make a case why the Race Skywalker storyline is more important,
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why it's better than the original Star Wars trilogy. They enjoyed it, they
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loved it, they thought it was great. And what did Disney ultimately do
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saying, well, we want to do some things to make them like it
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more. I know women who enjoyed the original Ghostbusters. They liked it,
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they even put up with I guess the sequel. I don't know the first
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sequel that we had Ghostbusters two, which I thought it was a fine movie,
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until you know the statue of liberty starts walking around. That's a bit
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much, but the uh, I mean it was silly. But then you
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make a Ghostbusters movie and you said, well, we're gonna get rid of
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all those characters that you loved and we're gonna put all these women in because
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that's the only way to get women to like it. And women, rather
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than say we like the original one, rather than speaking up right away,
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they get defensive and say, well, why can't we have a Ghostbusters movie
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with women in it? Why can't we have Star Wars with women in it?
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And see ultimately it ends up being the defense of why they make the
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decisions rather than just stepping up and saying you didn't have to change it.
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We liked it, We love Princess Leiah. We would have loved to have
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seen Luke Skywalker in episode seven other than like eight seconds at the end.
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We would have loved to be able to enjoy more Luke Skywalker. We missed
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an entire movie of being able to enjoy seeing Luke Skywalker. What is he
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up to? Now? Where is he? Instead of trying to make it
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like an episode of Lost, or you just stick him at the end and
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ooh, he's on the island. It's a mystery. Where's the smoke monster?
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Blew an opportunity because they wanted to put focus on ray Leah. And
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there's some new characters. I know that, But in reality, women liked
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them just the way they were. Any woman that watched any of the Mad
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Max movies that was going to jump in and say, we want to watch
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a sequel or prequel to this Mad Max story, I don't know that they
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really think, O wow, it has to be centered on a woman.
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It's a little different because this Furiosa character was a breakout character from the last
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Mad Max movie, the Fury Road Movie in twenty fifteen. But nine years
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have passed. It's been nine years since that movie came out, and people
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went, Wow, Tom Hardy and Charlie's therein Okay, Now let's cast a
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pretty much unknown and here you go. By the stats, eighteen to twenty
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four year olds, most frequent that most frequently attending movies in theaters just didn't
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go, just not interested, didn't care. Now there is hope and plans
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to make another one of these movies. They wanted to make. They wanted
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to see how this one went. I don't know that it's quite quite gotten
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there yet. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. But it's just that
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reminder you don't have to say we're all in on trying to make a movie
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that women are gonna like when they already liked them. Women liked Iron Man
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just fine, women liked Thour you know, women that are into this,
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and they liked Captain Marvel. They don't necessarily need that moment in the movie
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where all of the women characters come together in the movie Endgame and say,
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oh, we're all the women, We're gonna go fight together, a moment
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that takes you out of the movie. We're seeing this kind of stuff over
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and over again, and I can't help but feel like it is. It
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kind of ties back to this movement of people that are online, going back
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to this four Chan that lady later became the QAnon movement. You got people
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that are just saying, let's see how much of an influence we can have.
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Star Wars was certainly one of those things. They cast a woman in
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the sequel trilogy, a Korean woman that was going to come in to them,
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and I remember I was at Star Wars celebration when they first announced her
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character, and they announced Kelly Murray Trance. She came out. Everybody cheer,
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yay, look good diversity. She's gonna be somebody unique and different.
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And the character just wasn't a great character. And people say, ah,
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but it was a great character. No, it wasn't. She wasn't really
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interesting. There was nothing. She did. One of the dumbest things anyone's
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done in any of the Star Wars movies ever ever, tried to kill herself
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and another person to save that person's life, which is dumb. It's terrible.
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It's not an interesting characters. It's awful. It's not the actress's fault.
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And then when you know, then it was Twitter bots and things from
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Russia came in and poked the bear at Americans and pretended to be all these
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xenophobic and racist people and got bailed. Oh they only didn't like her because
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she's Korean. No, they just didn't like the character. You can't defend
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everything by saying, but we were doing this for this group and you like
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it, so you must not like that group. I don't think people that
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feel like Star Wars could have been continually written for its original audience and allowing
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everybody to enjoy it. Just let everybody enjoy it. And then if women
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come along and say, we're not gonna watch this anymore unless you make it
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the way that we say, you've got to make it. Because I don't
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even know that that happened. I don't think that happened with any of these
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movies we were talking about. I think they somebody somewhere, an executive sitting
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in their tower, said we're going to change the way we do this.
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This is what it's going to take to get women to like this franchise of
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movies that women have been saying that they've liked for forty years. That's the
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only way we can get them to like it, even though they've liked it
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since the very beginning. It's exhausting because the opportunity. I still haven't gotten
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dot com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. All right,
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fifth day into June, and of course, uh summer travel is here and
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got some summer related stories for you today. First and foremost, it's not
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just about the beach. It's not just about the pool. Summertime is also
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kidney stone season researchers warning that one in ten Americans will develop a kidney stone
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this summer due to insufficient hydration. Kidney stones develop and can be I guess
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assisted in development when you are dehydrated. It's that mineral deposit that forms in
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the kidneys and they hurt. I've done this a couple of times, and
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it is not fun. And when you're already someone who maybe isn't drinking enough
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anyway, you get into summertime, you're sweating more, and then you're not
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drinking enough, and of course you get into a situation and they say,
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June is it's really common for people to develop kidney stones because they haven't adapted
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to the normal routine of needing to drink more water. So wa water with
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citrus and avoid drinking too much coffee and alcohol. And that's another thing that
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contributes to it. Of course, if you're dehydrating yourself with drinks that have
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that diuretic effect, and then you know, you get out and you sweat
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a lot. So keep all of that in mind as you're making your summer
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vacation plans or just you know, maybe you just need to start drinking more
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water today right away, all right, So let's talk about summer vacation and
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travel. According to a new survey that we ask people, what is something
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that you have to do before you leave for vacation, and the top answer,
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seventy five percent of people said that they have to give their home a
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thorough cleaning before they leave for vacation because they don't want to come home to
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a dirty house. Makes sense. Nobody wants to finish their vacation, come
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back home and then have stuff that you've got to do to clean up the
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house. So there's that, it makes sense. I don't know that.
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Now. What I do when I get home immediately from vacation is I start
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laundry. I have to unpack and start laundry straight away, one of those
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things that I do. It's one of those things that my wife does.
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It's great Jill and I have that in sync. I don't know of anybody
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that can get unpacked faster as a family than this household. We get unpacked
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and laundry running straight away. But Jill's more likely to want to clean the
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house before we leave than I am, and I am willing to admit that
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out loud. But I also don't want to come home and have to clean
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the house. So I respect the fact that she's diligent about doing that,
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and I try to help as much as I can. All Right. Another
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thing for summertime is, and I'm just gonna mention this because I spent many
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years when I was in high school and in my early college days working at
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a job at a large grocery store, and I have a respect for Now'm
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not talking about it's a little bit different when you get into the box stores
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and they've got those robots that do the work for them now. But this
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idea of having to return shopping carts back inside to a grocery store, Okay,
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I had to do it. I had to do it in summer heat.
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It's not fun. It's not great. You have to go round them
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up around the parking lot. It's not great. I know this has become
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one of those it's almost like a scientific experiment. It's a social experiment that's
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been done on people that don't return the shopping carts at least back into those
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corrals. So and I've seen people say, oh, you must be a
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sociopath if you don't put it back in there. No, I think it's
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other reasons that people don't do it. In fact, the folks that scientific
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Americans say that there are multiple reasons that people don't do it, starting with
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sometimes it's just too far to walk to put it away. For some people,
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they have a child with them, they don't want to leave the child
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unattended. Bad weather contributes to it. Maybe they have a disability, they
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know that someone's getting paid to gather up the carts, or they think that
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they're leaving it at a convenient place for someone else to use it. I
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don't think you're a sociopath if you don't return it. I do try to
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make sure that I put them in there or take them back into the store,
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which is common for me in places that don't have the robot machines to
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gather up the carts. But just keep in mind in the heat of the
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summer, and I know it makes you maybe less likely to want to do
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it, but if someone has to go out and gather them all up and
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they're, you know, in a giant parking lot made of asphalt, it's
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really hot out there, So just kind of keep that in mind. It's
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one of those little empathy things that we can do to look out for other
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people. Or you know, you just do your thing. I mean,
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I don't think people should be judging you and calling you a sociopath just because
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you decide you're not going to put the shopping cart back where it goes.
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It is kind of an interesting little social experiment that I think people are trying
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Cheese was found to be the most protective food against cognitive problems, and interestingly,
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other red meats did not have the same effects on the brain as lamb.
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Worst food for the brain was salt. Researchers found that the risk were
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Alzheimer's was significantly worse when high levels of salt were consumed. While acknowledging the
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genetics play a role neuroscience, PhD candidate Brandon Klindenst said that I believe the
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right food choices can prevent the disease and cognitive decline altogether. Perhaps the silver
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bullet we're looking for is upgrading how we eat. Knowing what that entails contributes
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to a better understanding of Alzheimer's and putting this disease in a reverse trajectory.
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So just keep that in mind. You know, cheese, red wine,
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and work some lamb into your diet. That would help. That'll do it
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