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Yellow and Red Cards for Racism Accusations · 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: Thursday morning, ninth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Inching our way closer to the weekend. Coming
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Speaker 2: out of the holiday weekend. I know some maybe took
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Speaker 2: a vacation this week. I know a lot maybe did
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Speaker 2: it last week. But it just feels like this week
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Speaker 2: kind of went by specially slow. I don't know. It
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Speaker 2: just we're getting close to the weekend, but just feels
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Speaker 2: like something about that holiday weekend rolled into the week.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe it's just me. I want to
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Speaker 2: talk a little bit about racism today because we got
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Speaker 2: a couple of things that are bubbling up, already kind
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Speaker 2: of bubbled up, there's still some talk about it. And
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Speaker 2: then the other one is this upcoming release of Christopher
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Speaker 2: Nolan's new movie, The Odyssey. So I don't I guess
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Speaker 2: I'll start there now. I think I want to start
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Speaker 2: with the soccer thing. I think I want to go
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Speaker 2: to the World Cup first and then I'll get to
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Speaker 2: So we had the situation during the match with Egypt
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Speaker 2: and Argentina. That match happened in Atlanta. And look, I know,
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Speaker 2: not everyone is following the World Cup. A lot of
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Speaker 2: Americans just they don't get into it. This year, there
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Speaker 2: was a little bit more excitement to it as the
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Speaker 2: host country. There was a little bit more excitement to
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Speaker 2: it because the US team was actually playing well. I
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Speaker 2: think a few things at play. We kind of a
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Speaker 2: rest this already this week, but they kind of got
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Speaker 2: a favorable draw in that first group and that that
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Speaker 2: went well for them, thank you, FIFA. And then you know,
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Speaker 2: they get a win in a knockout round, which was
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Speaker 2: also big, and then you know, they ran into a
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Speaker 2: brick wall. As the as the as the tournament goes
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Speaker 2: on and the knockout rounds progress, the team should be
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Speaker 2: getting better and better. I mean that's the reality. It
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Speaker 2: should be more of a challenge. And yes, you're gonna
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Speaker 2: have some teams that get eliminated if early it feels
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Speaker 2: like feels like Germany's loss was you know, very premature,
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Speaker 2: and you know, they're one of the better teams in
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Speaker 2: the world, not in this case, not in this tournament.
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Speaker 2: They hit their brick wall and it's just where things are.
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Speaker 2: But you know, teams should be getting better and they're
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Speaker 2: should be a situation where you know, a team like
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Speaker 2: the US that was kind of playing over their heads.
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Speaker 2: You know, they run into a team like Belgium, who
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Speaker 2: again this is not Belgium of four or eight years ago,
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Speaker 2: but still it's a soccer country and that's the reality.
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Speaker 2: But the attention on this there's a couple of things
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Speaker 2: that play at host country. US played better than we
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Speaker 2: typically do. And then of course you have some players
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Speaker 2: that have been having their last run at this thing.
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Speaker 2: I know for many there were questions about whether or
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Speaker 2: not Messi would come back for another World Cup, and
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Speaker 2: he decided to. But after you know, winning the last
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Speaker 2: one and sort of I think solidifying himself by most
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Speaker 2: counts as you know, the best soccer player ever. I know,
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Speaker 2: Pele and others maybe in the conversation, but you know,
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Speaker 2: what Messi has done at his age, in his thirties
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Speaker 2: ridiculous from any sports standard. You know, you see this
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Speaker 2: happen from time to time with athletes and they do
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Speaker 2: it late in their careers, the Tom Brady's and people,
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Speaker 2: and you just go, this is incredible. So the interest
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Speaker 2: in Messi is there. Rinaldo has been knocked out, but
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Speaker 2: you know this this thing about is could Portugal make
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Speaker 2: a run, could Rinaldo get an actual shot at at
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Speaker 2: winning and maybe his and what would probably be his
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Speaker 2: last go at it. Naymar for Brazil another you know,
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Speaker 2: he hasn't been getting a lot of playing time in
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Speaker 2: this tournament just because he's, you know, kind of past
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Speaker 2: his prime and he's had injuries and things. But you've
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Speaker 2: just had some of these these legends that are kind
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Speaker 2: of making their last run at this thing. Brazil, Belgium
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Speaker 2: even has one on there who scored on the US late,
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Speaker 2: So that's the thing. And you know, there was a
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Speaker 2: real shot at Mexico making a run on this thing
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Speaker 2: as one of the host countries. The US and Canada
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Speaker 2: realistically weren't going to Nobody wanted to say it because
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Speaker 2: you want to kind of have some hope for it.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, but I think a lot of people paying
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Speaker 2: attention to Messy are aware of what happened in the
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Speaker 2: game just the other day with Argentina and Egypt. Egypt
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Speaker 2: goes up one oh, then they go up two oh.
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Speaker 2: The second goal was taken away because a foul that
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Speaker 2: happened that began the very next exchange, and basically like
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Speaker 2: Egyptian player fouls, one of the Argentina players steps on
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Speaker 2: his foot, they take the ball away, they go link
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Speaker 2: to the field and they score, and of course crowd
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Speaker 2: goes great, Well, not the whole crowd, the thirty maybe
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Speaker 2: percent Egyptian crowd or fans of Egypt, that's the better
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Speaker 2: way to say it, I think, go crazy. And then
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Speaker 2: they say we got to go back and review because
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Speaker 2: there may have been a foul. They see him step
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Speaker 2: on the foot, they say it's foul. Causes some anger,
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Speaker 2: some frustration. Game goes on. Egypt scores again, they get
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Speaker 2: their second goal, and at that point it seems like, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe this thing's over and you're getting into the final.
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Speaker 2: You know, eight minutes of the game, Argentina scores. Suddenly
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Speaker 2: it's two to one. You think, could they then MESSI
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Speaker 2: scores it's two to two, and it's like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: what's happening here? And then they get into the extra
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Speaker 2: time and or actually just the stop time, and then
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Speaker 2: they score again and game over and it turns into
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Speaker 2: just absolute chaos. You got there were there were multiple
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Speaker 2: times on the sidelines you could see Egypt's coach uh
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Speaker 2: who was throwing up this his arms in the in
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Speaker 2: an x you know, like family feud, like when you're
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Speaker 2: the family that's trying to get the uh, it's trying
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Speaker 2: to get a you know, wrong answer for the other team.
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Speaker 2: He's throwing that up. That's the symbol for anti racism.
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Speaker 2: Like they're there. He's basically like, you're throwing that up
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Speaker 2: to say that something racist has happened. Now, it happened
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Speaker 2: earlier in the match. It happened again, uh late in
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Speaker 2: the match when it was getting to the end, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Then cards came out. One of the assistant coaches I
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Speaker 2: think was given a red card and thrown out.
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Speaker 1: The other.
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Speaker 2: The head, the manager, if you will, the main coach,
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Speaker 2: uh says that he did it and got a yellow card.
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Speaker 2: And he says that he did it because someone was
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Speaker 2: raving waving an Israeli flag and that upset him because
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Speaker 2: he's pro Palestine. The fact that he had done it
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Speaker 2: earlier in the match is what would make me call
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Speaker 2: bs on that that's not what he was doing unless
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Speaker 2: the same flag was seen, you know, on more than
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Speaker 2: one occasion or whatever it was. But the point is
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Speaker 2: that you know this, this cries of racism as the
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Speaker 2: reason that they took the goal away, and that's continued on, uh,
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Speaker 2: and it's turned into you know, Argentina has the refs
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Speaker 2: helping him and all these things, and look, that's that's sports.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's let's be realistic for a minute here. There
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Speaker 2: are teams that will sometimes get calls. There are some
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Speaker 2: teams that feel like their team is just damn no
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Speaker 2: matter what, that they're never going to get a call,
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Speaker 2: no matter what the situation is. UH. There do seem
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Speaker 2: to be some teams in pro sports that you just
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Speaker 2: you watch them and you go there, they're going to
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Speaker 2: get this They're they're doing a they're doing an instant
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Speaker 2: replay on this call, and you just kind of know
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Speaker 2: where it's going to go. In college, you know Saban,
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Speaker 2: people would say Saban's going to get the calls. In
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Speaker 2: this case Argentina, there's gonna be people that are gonna say,
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Speaker 2: Messi's going to get the calls. And it's just the
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Speaker 2: reality here is that's part of sports. I understand that
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Speaker 2: there were people that were confused about the red card
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Speaker 2: with the US and the suspension and then ultimately the
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Speaker 2: suspension of the suspension, and I talked about that the
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Speaker 2: other day. By the letter of the law, you can't
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Speaker 2: use a slow motion replay to give someone a red
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Speaker 2: card and suspension. They're not supposed to do that. That's
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Speaker 2: what happened. That's why that was overturned. And the letter
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Speaker 2: of the law on this call with Argentina and Egypt,
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Speaker 2: as much as people are complaining about it, and I
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Speaker 2: get it, it was a long play that happened immediately after,
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Speaker 2: but no possession, no possession changed hands in that run.
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Speaker 2: It's not like Argentina took the ball away from Egypt
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Speaker 2: and then Egypt got it back again. This was all
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Speaker 2: one continuous play after the foul. So the foul is
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Speaker 2: what led to this full possession of Egypt and a
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Speaker 2: quick score. So by letter of the law, they're allowed
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Speaker 2: to go back and change it. Should that be the case.
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Speaker 2: You could make an argument about that as much as
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Speaker 2: you want to, and that's that's fine, but by the
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Speaker 2: way the rules written out, they did it that way.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, I just would like to point out the
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Speaker 2: fact that someone gets frustrated about a bad call in
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Speaker 2: the World Cup and they cry racism and then they
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Speaker 2: get carted for it, And I'm just kind of thinking
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Speaker 2: that maybe in general society we should have that as
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Speaker 2: an option when people are screaming racism where there is none,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just for the purposes of politics or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I think it would be nice if we could all
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Speaker 2: just carry around like a yellow and a red card
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Speaker 2: and you know, pull it out and just shut it down.
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Speaker 2: I think that would be nice. I think that would
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Speaker 2: be a great way for us to handle it. So
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Speaker 2: that's where racism has bubbled up, or arguments and cries
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Speaker 2: of racism or favoritism and all those things have come up.
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Speaker 2: Now here's another case where people are screaming racism and
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Speaker 2: I you know, here we go again, another movie with
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Speaker 2: questionable casting, and it's Christopher Nolan. And I want to
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Speaker 2: say this. Christopher Nolan, I believe personally is the best
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Speaker 2: director working right now. You can tell me otherwise, you
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Speaker 2: can disagree with me. You could talk about legacy careers
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Speaker 2: of other directors. But Christopher Nolan, you know, some of
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Speaker 2: his movies are better than others. But I would argue
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Speaker 2: that it would be hard for me to find one
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Speaker 2: that I would go this stinks. This is not a
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Speaker 2: good movie. I don't know that I can think of one.
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Speaker 2: I mean they're all pretty solid, and I think he's
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Speaker 2: gotten better as a director. I know he's had a
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Speaker 2: couple that are kind of mind bending and confusing and
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Speaker 2: all of those things. Tenant was one that maybe you know,
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Speaker 2: didn't quite hit the way he thought it would. I
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Speaker 2: still thought it was kind of fun. But he's made
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Speaker 2: some very good movies, and it makes sense that you go, well,
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Speaker 2: let's have somebody like Christopher Nolan take his shot at
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Speaker 2: the Odyssey, one of the great pieces of literature in
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Speaker 2: the history of humanity. I mean, that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: So let's you know, acknowledge it for that and let
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Speaker 2: him take a crack at it. And the casting is
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Speaker 2: where some of the issues have come up, because there
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Speaker 2: was there were reports that Elliott Page, who is the
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Speaker 2: now actor then actress that used to be known as
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Speaker 2: Ellen Page, and she was in some other movies with Inception.
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Speaker 2: She was in that movie with a Christopher Nolan that
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Speaker 2: he did, and he likes to use familiar cast, similar
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Speaker 2: cast member in his movies when possible. So it was, oh,
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Speaker 2: my gosh, they've he's Elliott Page is going to play Achilles.
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Speaker 2: They're going to have this transman playing Achilles, the Great
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Speaker 2: Warrior and that was report that was widely reported, and
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Speaker 2: I thought, this, this doesn't seem right. This is a
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Speaker 2: weird casting choice if that's what they do. And that
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Speaker 2: didn't end up being the case. It's a different role,
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Speaker 2: less significant role. And then Lupita Nyongo who has been
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Speaker 2: cast as Helen of Troy. Now that one is true.
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Speaker 2: Now Helen of Troy is is you know, these characters
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Speaker 2: are all Greek, right, and this is uh, you know
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Speaker 2: there's not a single Greek actor cast in this, so
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Speaker 2: Helen of Troy and you know this is uh an
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Speaker 2: African African born actress. Okay, so cast is Helen of
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Speaker 2: Troy who in in you know, Homer Homer in writing this,
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Speaker 2: Homer describes Helen's having white arms. So anyway is what
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Speaker 2: it is. I think these things sometimes get blown way
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Speaker 2: out of proportion, and then sometimes I think they're exactly right. Uh,
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Speaker 2: And and this is kind of this is one of
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Speaker 2: those things where you go, this is a weird casting choice.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to point out the fact that the
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Speaker 2: oscars them to win an Oscar now, to be considered
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Speaker 2: an Oscar contention, they have all these guidelines. Now you
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Speaker 2: have to have so much representation outside of just going
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Speaker 2: I've written this great movie, and I'm gonna produce this
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Speaker 2: great movie, and I'm gonna direct this great movie, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna cast this movie. We're gonna make it, and
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make the best movie it's ever been made.
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Speaker 2: And then we're gonna release it, and people are gonna
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Speaker 2: receive it, and they're gonna go, oh, my gosh, this
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Speaker 2: is incredible, what a great movie. We love it. And
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Speaker 2: then critics see it and they go, my gosh, this
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Speaker 2: is incredible, and they go, surely this could be the
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Speaker 2: winner of the Best Picture at the Oscars. And then
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Speaker 2: they go, all right, so the nominees for Best Picture
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Speaker 2: of the Oscars and they go, wait a minute, that
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Speaker 2: movie's not even in there. You go, well, you didn't
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Speaker 2: have enough non white representation in your movie or non
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Speaker 2: you know, straight you gotta have some people that are
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Speaker 2: you have to have like a transactor in this thing
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Speaker 2: you got to have in this movie would be you know,
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Speaker 2: rife with white people considering, you know, there should be
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Speaker 2: it should be an all Greek cast, shouldn't it to
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Speaker 2: some degree? Maybe mostly So that's what they that's what
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Speaker 2: they got. That's what they've done, They've they've done some
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Speaker 2: casting choices and people are upset, and now he has
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Speaker 2: cut Christopher Nolan, I guess is basically with the backlash
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Speaker 2: and the review, what do they call it when you
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Speaker 2: just give it all the thumbs downs on the review
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Speaker 2: for the trailer, people are saying, no, we don't want
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Speaker 2: to see this. I'll be honest, I would think Christopher
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Speaker 2: Nolan probably made a really good movie. So for that reason,
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Speaker 2: at some point I'll watch it. I've told you I don't.
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Speaker 2: I'm not lining up. If I get sent a copy
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Speaker 2: of it, I'll check it out. I'm not. I'm not
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Speaker 2: so like arms folded and lip out that I won't,
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Speaker 2: you know, at least check it out. But my point
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Speaker 2: here is that they've canceled screenings with they call them.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to have movie influencers getting an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to see this movie and bash it Nolan is allowing.
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Speaker 2: This is according to reports that Nolan is only allowing
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Speaker 2: approved critics to see it in advance, and that this
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Speaker 2: could mean a sign that they know that this is going
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Speaker 2: to be a giant disaster that's coming. Now. I did
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Speaker 2: see someone who saw it that said it was you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe the best movie ever made. This kind of leads
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Speaker 2: to this idea that he's hand picking the people that
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Speaker 2: will watch it so that they can have a better
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Speaker 2: control over where things are. When it comes to what
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Speaker 2: the early reviews are going to be, Is it going
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Speaker 2: to be a giant flop? I wouldn't think so. I
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Speaker 2: think that if it's a good movie, people some people will.
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Speaker 2: I know there's going to be some people that won't
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Speaker 2: watch it. Absolutely not. I don't think it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: the runaway smash it that it might have been if
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Speaker 2: he had cast it in sort of more traditional ways.
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Speaker 2: And for that, I say, you know, and he may
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Speaker 2: win an Oscar. He may win Best Picture for this thing.
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Speaker 2: You know, they just he just won for Oppenheimer. You know,
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Speaker 2: in the past couple of years. He very well may
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Speaker 2: win Best Picture for this, something he would not have
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Speaker 2: been able to be in consideration for unless you know,
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Speaker 2: he has the right amount of representation. I think he
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Speaker 2: maybe checks Zendaia's in it, Zendaya, which is it? Zindaya
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Speaker 2: is in it? So because because you know, Spider Man's
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Speaker 2: in it as well, so you know Tom Holland's in it,
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Speaker 2: and people are making fun of his acting because he's
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Speaker 2: not hitting the accent or whatever. Don't. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's I can't. I can't. I haven't
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Speaker 2: seen it, and I'm not knocking any of the people
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Speaker 2: involved in it from an acting standpoint. According to this
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Speaker 2: one person who said it's the best movie ever made,
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Speaker 2: that the acting is all great, the direction is great,
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Speaker 2: and there's nothing for anybody to complain about. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: if they're crying racism when it doesn't make its money back,
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Speaker 2: I just, you know, wonder if we can at least
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Speaker 2: pull out one of our yellow cards at that point.
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Speaker 2: after the break on the subject of movies, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of discussion about how movies just aren't drawing the
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Speaker 2: audiences in theaters that they are used to drawing. And
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Speaker 2: apparently there is a patience issue with at least Americans
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Speaker 2: when it comes to actually going to the theaters and watching
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Speaker 2: movies and losing patients with long movies. I think a
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Speaker 2: lot of people have shortened attention spans. I think that's
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Speaker 2: a big part of all of it as well. I
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Speaker 2: know that's an issue I've talked on this show about
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Speaker 2: screen time and the fact that when people say that,
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Speaker 2: you know, you should keep the kids off of devices,
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Speaker 2: and they say, well, it's not so much about screen
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Speaker 2: time as much as it's about the really short little
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Speaker 2: bites of information that they're getting, and if you can
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Speaker 2: get them watching movies or TV shows, that it's better
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Speaker 2: because it is helping with that attention span. According to
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Speaker 2: new Talker research survey that was done, the ideal movie
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Speaker 2: run time is eighty eight minutes. Ninety two minutes was
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Speaker 2: the answer to the same question back in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Only ten percent of respondent said that a movie should
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Speaker 2: run two hours or longer. Just three percent or interested
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Speaker 2: movies that exceed two and a half hours. The survey
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Speaker 2: also found a clear generational divide. Baby Boomers were most
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Speaker 2: tolerant of longer movies, preferring an average run time of
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Speaker 2: ninety three minutes. Gen Z viewers favored much shorter movies
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Speaker 2: at eighty two minutes, gen X eighty nine minutes. They say,
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Speaker 2: was just write Millennials come in at eighty six minutes.
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Speaker 2: The findings come as we're getting ready for this launch
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Speaker 2: of some of the summer blockbusters. We were just talking
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Speaker 2: about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which is one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy two minutes. It's long. That's almost twice the recommended link.
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Speaker 2: It's almost three hours. However, it's you know, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of content for this movie. Spider Man Brand New
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Speaker 2: Day is one hundred and fifty minutes long according to
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Speaker 2: those numbers, those reports. So basically, filmmakers and moviegoers may
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Speaker 2: not be on the same page when it comes to
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Speaker 2: movies in runtime. Now, I would say this about this,
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Speaker 2: These are two movies that probably need a lot of runtime.
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Speaker 2: Spider Man Brand New Day is kind of a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a relaunch of Spider Man going on here.
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Speaker 2: It's not a reboot, but it's if you've followed the
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Speaker 2: Spider Man movies, you know what happened in the last movie.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of new things taking place in this,
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Speaker 2: hence the name Brand New Day. And then the odyssey.
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Speaker 2: It's just a long story. There's a lot to the story.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, Uh yeah, I would say that it doesn't
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Speaker 2: surprise me either that boomers and gen x is okay
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Speaker 2: with longer movies, because we want to get that we're
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Speaker 2: going to get value for our dollar. That's what we want.
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Speaker 2: A new report from restaurant technology company Toast shows that
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Speaker 2: despite frequent complaints about tipping fatigue, Americans are still leaving
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Speaker 2: fairly generous tips when dining out. The average tip at
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Speaker 2: US restaurants is eighteen point eight percent, with customers leaving
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Speaker 2: about nineteen point three percent at full service restaurants and
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Speaker 2: fifteen point eight percent at quick service spots. The numbers
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Speaker 2: have remained surprisingly steady over the past few years. The
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Speaker 2: report also found big differences on where you live. Delaware
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Speaker 2: ranked as the nation's most generous tipping state, with average
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Speaker 2: tips at about twenty two percent, California landing at the
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Speaker 2: bottom with just about seventeen percent. Other strong tipping states
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Speaker 2: included West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Indiana. Overall, the findings
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Speaker 2: suggest that all the manyners say they're tired of being
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Speaker 2: asked to tip everywhere, they're still rewarding restaurant runts restaurant
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Speaker 2: service rates close to twenty percent. Keep in mind, don't
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Speaker 2: tip on the tax and watch when they give you
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Speaker 2: those recommended tips at the bottom and they say, here's
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Speaker 2: what twenty percent is. They've probably factored in the tax
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Speaker 2: in that, and you shouldn't be tipping on the tax.
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Speaker 2: You just shouldn't be doing that. You can certainly, don't
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Speaker 2: feel like you have to, that's all. And if they're
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Speaker 2: just putting it in a bag for you, it's up
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Speaker 2: to you. Don't feel obligated. My question always is, so
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Speaker 2: do the door dash people tip when they pick it up? Well? No,
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Speaker 2: all right, so somebody else picking it up should tip anyway.
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Speaker 2: You certainly can, and if it's what you want to do,
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Speaker 2: go for it. I just don't like the forced obligation
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Speaker 2: to it, that's all. And finally, learning another language might
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Speaker 2: do more than help you travel or boost your career,
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Speaker 2: could actually help your brain be younger. Researchers used brain
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Speaker 2: scans and AI to compare brain age of people who
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Speaker 2: spoke different numbers of languages. They found that bilinguals had
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Speaker 2: brains that appeared about six years younger than monolinguals, while
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Speaker 2: people who spoke three languages looked about seven years younger.
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Speaker 2: Those who spoke four languages showed the biggest benefit, with
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Speaker 2: brains that appeared up to thirteen years younger, but they
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Speaker 2: spent thirteen years learning the languages. The study also found
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Speaker 2: that the earlier people learned the second language, and the
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Speaker 2: more fluent they became had greater effects. So that'll do
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