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Reporters Seem to Be Out of Practice · 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 Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, seventeenth day of December. I'm West thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. We are a week away from Christmas Eve.
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Speaker 2: All the magic, I mean it's starting, but Christmas Eve
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Speaker 2: feels like the day that all the magic starts to happen. Really, right,
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Speaker 2: I know, you got the twenty third, that's Festivus, that's
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Speaker 2: less than a week away. Christmas Day obviously is the day.
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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve is kind of when all the magic really
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Speaker 2: starts to happen. And really, with the weekend shaping up
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Speaker 2: the way that it is, we'll have you know, you're
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Speaker 2: going to go into this weekend, rolling into twenty third,
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Speaker 2: twenty fourth, twenty fifth. There'll be a lot of people
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Speaker 2: traveling On Friday, a lot of people travel like kicking off,
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Speaker 2: maybe there their travel on Friday. Maybe some kids won't
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Speaker 2: be at school on Friday if they can get a
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Speaker 2: real head start on it. But the folks that are
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Speaker 2: working in kids in school, they will be, you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe trying to leave a little early, a little checkout,
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Speaker 2: maybe some of that, or just maybe the general hey,
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Speaker 2: schools out works over, let's get on the road or
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Speaker 2: into a plane or whatever the travel is. We've been
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Speaker 2: talking this this week and last already about the amount
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Speaker 2: of folks expected to travel, how it will be some
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Speaker 2: record numbers. It's always record numbers, isn't it. It's always
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Speaker 2: record numbers. It's either record down or record up. I
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Speaker 2: don't know, but that should be a good opportunity with
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Speaker 2: you know, Christmas Day on Wednesday. Anytime you get a holiday,
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Speaker 2: you get like Independence Day on a Wednesday day, or
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Speaker 2: you know now that some folks are doing Juneteenth when
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Speaker 2: that's on a Wednesday. You kind of have that holiday
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Speaker 2: that is built with you know, that opportunity to either
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Speaker 2: take the days after, take the days before, maybe the
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Speaker 2: days before and after, depending on the holiday. A lot
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Speaker 2: of folks have the built in Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,
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Speaker 2: and in some cases even the twenty six built in,
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Speaker 2: so opportunities for folks to maybe get together and gather.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's part of what the season's about. See,
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Speaker 2: it's about a number of things, but that's part of
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Speaker 2: what it's about, all right. So for some, for some
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Speaker 2: they're perfectly content to just you know, sit at home
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Speaker 2: and stare at a wall all by themselves or with
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Speaker 2: a very small group of people they don't want to gather.
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Speaker 2: But if you can get friends and family coordinated enough
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Speaker 2: and behaving enough for you to have a nice Christmas.
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Speaker 2: And now that we're you know, well and truly past
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Speaker 2: the election, it's maybe the second opportunity for folks to
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Speaker 2: show that they can behave themselves around each other. As
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Speaker 2: we're seeing many Democrat politicians coming to grips with the
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Speaker 2: fact that Trump is going to be the president in
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Speaker 2: just a little over a month, and you know, they're
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Speaker 2: accepting it and in some cases some still not happy
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Speaker 2: about it. So another opportunity to get together and behave
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Speaker 2: yourself yourselves, multiple selves of people to behave One person
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Speaker 2: who has been talking a little bit about the election,
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Speaker 2: and that is the current president almost at former the
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Speaker 2: former nominee for president in this election cycle, talking about
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Speaker 2: also the former nominee of his party who was the
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Speaker 2: one that he was pushed out the door for. But
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Speaker 2: current President Biden was talking about Kamala Harris and assuring
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Speaker 2: people she's not going anywhere, She'll be around in whatever
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Speaker 2: it will be, and there's big things in her future
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Speaker 2: and all sorts of glowing things that he said, even
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Speaker 2: though I suspect, as many do, that he didn't even
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Speaker 2: vote for and that he and his wife voted for Trump.
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Speaker 2: She was wearing a red dress on election day that
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Speaker 2: was supposedly a hint in the direction of people got
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Speaker 2: into that when Trump would go to you know, like
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Speaker 2: England and the queen would wear something that was gifted
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Speaker 2: to her by Barack Obama and people would say that
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Speaker 2: it's a good old screw you to him, or she's
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Speaker 2: wearing a gift that was given to her by the
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Speaker 2: previous president, and it meant nothing at all, but people
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Speaker 2: wanted it to mean something. And so, you know, is
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden wearing a red dress on election day? Is
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Speaker 2: that a sign that she didn't vote for Harris. We've
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Speaker 2: heard the stories that she doesn't like her. She said
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Speaker 2: some nasty things about Joe Biden when they were candidates
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Speaker 2: against each other, so you know, in twenty twenty, in
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Speaker 2: that primary season. So but what I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: point this out just as a side It's a small thing,
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Speaker 2: but Kamala Harris is sixty and Joe Biden kept referring
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Speaker 2: to her in his remarks about her. As you know,
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Speaker 2: she's a kid. She's a kid, and I know it's
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Speaker 2: just it can be a nickname. I call my wife kid.
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Speaker 2: I've called her that, you know, as long as we've
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Speaker 2: been together. That's one of the very early nicknames that
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Speaker 2: I've had for my wife. But that's not his wife.
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Speaker 2: And she's sixty. So that's an indication of exactly how
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Speaker 2: old he is that he's calling someone who is sixty
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Speaker 2: a kid. And she's a colleague. She's still a colleague.
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Speaker 2: She's technically an employee right by if you're going by
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Speaker 2: you know, chain of command there, she's a colleague, she's
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Speaker 2: an employee and all that. All right. I really want
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Speaker 2: to talk about today, though, is yesterday the president to
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Speaker 2: be the once and future president answered some questions from
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Speaker 2: the press for a long time, a good long ago
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Speaker 2: at talking to the press, that's what he did, and
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Speaker 2: they asked some tough questions. I've been concerned, quite frankly,
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Speaker 2: that maybe the press wouldn't remember how to ask hard
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Speaker 2: questions of our leaders. You know, we have had this
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Speaker 2: four years of just the easy cupcake stuff. Just you know,
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Speaker 2: if a question at all gets asked, it's a real
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Speaker 2: easy one. A softball, and we haven't actually seen any
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Speaker 2: sort of challenging questions. We saw some during this election,
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Speaker 2: but they were always asked of Trump or of JD. Vance.
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Speaker 2: We didn't really see anything difficult that Kamala Harris. We
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Speaker 2: did certainly didn't see anything at Joe Biden when he
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Speaker 2: was still the candidate. We didn't really see any tough
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Speaker 2: questions of him during this administration. We didn't see any
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Speaker 2: during his campaign. It's all about protecting him, all about
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Speaker 2: keeping him in his little bubble and his little safety
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Speaker 2: cocoon so that you know, no one could possibly understand
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Speaker 2: or know that he is, you know, dealing with issues
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Speaker 2: of cognition. That was part of the strategy, That was
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Speaker 2: part of the uh, you know, the way to get
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Speaker 2: him into office in the first place, and then to
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Speaker 2: protect him once he was in there. They were a
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Speaker 2: little tough on him in fairness, They were a little
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Speaker 2: bit tough on him early on, if you remember, because
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Speaker 2: they actually had a you know, come into Jesus moment
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Speaker 2: where they called in heads of networks, they called in
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Speaker 2: news department heads, they called in news directors. I guess
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Speaker 2: that's the word for that. I you still hold that
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Speaker 2: title at one time, they called in producers, they called
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Speaker 2: in in some cases hosts and pundits and things, and
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Speaker 2: they basically gave them a speech and they said, look,
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Speaker 2: you're you're destroying his presidency, you're destroying his legacy. So
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Speaker 2: we have to come up with some positive things to
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Speaker 2: say about him. And then things got worse in the presidency,
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Speaker 2: and they still never really, you know, held his feet
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Speaker 2: to it. So when things weren't terrible and we were
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Speaker 2: improving in some ways post COVID, they were harder on
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Speaker 2: him than they were on him once the economy went horrible,
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Speaker 2: once in inflation went sky high. They were harder on
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Speaker 2: him when things weren't really that bad, you know, right
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Speaker 2: out of the gate. I mean, they were bad because
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Speaker 2: of COVID, and blaming Trump for when things were bad
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Speaker 2: is absurd. We all know. Anybody that's got half a
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Speaker 2: brain knows the reason. And you can play politics with
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Speaker 2: it and say, well, if he was a better president,
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Speaker 2: or if he was better this or better that, if
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Speaker 2: he'd handled it differently. And he's admitted he listened to
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Speaker 2: people that were in leadership. He listened to people like
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Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci. Part of his remarks yesterday related to vaccines
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Speaker 2: and things and mandates, and he talked about mandates as
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Speaker 2: they pertained to COVID and he said, look, I'm not
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Speaker 2: a mandate guy. I listened to people, I listened to recommendations.
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Speaker 2: We did things. But there's been questions now about the
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Speaker 2: trust in vaccines. The the president elect was asked questions
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Speaker 2: about the impact on vaccines and conditions like autism. Does
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Speaker 2: he believe that? I don't really know. It's a strange
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Speaker 2: question to ask an incoming and previous president. Honestly, it's
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Speaker 2: a weird question. It's a weird place to be in.
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Speaker 2: But they're trying to make news, they're trying to grab headlines,
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Speaker 2: they're trying to catch him in things. At this point,
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Speaker 2: what he believes to be the case in those things,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Other than just trying to frame things
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Speaker 2: for him. They've probably already found a way to take
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Speaker 2: his answers where he says, look, we're going to look
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Speaker 2: into all this. They started asking him about polio and
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Speaker 2: polio vaccines. So I think they're out of practice on
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Speaker 2: how they're going to ask these quote unquote tough questions.
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Speaker 2: And you know, maybe this was a slightly friendlier group
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Speaker 2: that was talking to him, but they were all shouting
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Speaker 2: at him and trying to get his attention. But he
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Speaker 2: talked for a really long time. I think he talked
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Speaker 2: longer yesterday in that press conference than I believe. It
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Speaker 2: was certainly longer than I've seen the Joe Biden and
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris combined. Now I didn't follow all their press conferences,
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Speaker 2: but it was a long one. So anybody who thought
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Speaker 2: that Trump and his stamina for those things has possibly
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Speaker 2: gone away in the last four years, it didn't look
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Speaker 2: like it was he being Trump. Was he being hyperbolic?
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Speaker 2: Was he exaggerating everything he could exaggerate? Of course he was.
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Speaker 2: That's what he does. Now we have an indication that
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Speaker 2: things really aren't going to change as far as how
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Speaker 2: he does business. I don't know. I think he was
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Speaker 2: a little bit more dipplicce. But he'll still do press conferences.
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Speaker 2: They're going to still be long, They're going to still
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Speaker 2: be full of hyperbole, They're going to be full of
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Speaker 2: him praising his own decisions or decisions of people around him.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't changed in that regard. That's still who he
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Speaker 2: is and who he's going to be. So if you
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Speaker 2: enjoyed that. Brace yourself. There'll be more of it, it appears.
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Speaker 2: If you didn't like it, probably don't want to watch
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Speaker 2: those probably don't want to tune in, you know, if
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Speaker 2: you're in one of those gotcha people. And it seemed
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Speaker 2: at the very least that the reporters yesterday were trying
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Speaker 2: to play gotcha even though there was really nothing to get.
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Speaker 2: What were they trying to get? What exactly were they
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Speaker 2: going for? Do they want him to say that he
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Speaker 2: didn't believe polio existed, Because if that's what they were
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Speaker 2: going for, that's not what they got. If they wanted
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Speaker 2: him to say that people shouldn't get the polio vaccine,
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Speaker 2: or that schools shouldn't mandate vaccines, I mean, and I
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Speaker 2: don't like mandates, but I think they were pressing angles.
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Speaker 2: Maybe on RFK Junior. I don't know. I don't know
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Speaker 2: where they were going with all that, but that's what
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Speaker 2: they were trying to do. They're out of practice. They
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Speaker 2: haven't had to ask a president or a presidential candidate
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Speaker 2: really tough questions for a long time. I mean, they
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Speaker 2: did ask Trump some tough questions when he was running,
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Speaker 2: but they haven't had to ask an actual president or
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Speaker 2: president elect hard questions in a while. When you're able
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Speaker 2: to go four years without really getting pressed or grilled
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Speaker 2: on things, I mean to not even get a press
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Speaker 2: conference in tough questions in a press conference as a
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Speaker 2: byproduct about the pardoning of his son after saying that
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't do it, no big shock. He's not really
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Speaker 2: even answering questions about some of the other pardons as
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Speaker 2: he's trying to pardon as many people as possible. I
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Speaker 2: guess he's going for the records, or he's broken the
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Speaker 2: record or whatever it is. But he's pardoning some people
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Speaker 2: that I know. There's always some that you go, really,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna pardon that guy. There's been a couple of those,
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Speaker 2: a lot of those, actually, but there's been some high
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Speaker 2: profile ones. Another thing that Trump talked about was the
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Speaker 2: United Health CEO Brian Thompson, who was shot and killed.
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Speaker 2: He was asked about they asked about that incident. When
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Speaker 2: he was asked about the killer, said some similar things
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Speaker 2: to what we've been saying on this show. The people
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Speaker 2: that are supporting the shooter pretty horrible people. I think
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Speaker 2: the word he used was it's a sickness, it's a
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Speaker 2: strange place to be in. It's a strange decision to
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Speaker 2: make that. You feel like this guy, somehow, by killing
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Speaker 2: this man in cold blood, is somehow Robin Hood, He's
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Speaker 2: somehow some kind of you know, folk hero for doing this.
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Speaker 2: He's not. He's not at all. He has some mental
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Speaker 2: health issues. If you're celebrating the fact that he's doing this.
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Speaker 2: I think anyone who's capable of justifying a crime like this,
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying mental health as far as a diagnosis,
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying someone who's capable of crossing that line
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Speaker 2: with someone that they've never even met, there's a breakdown somewhere.
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Speaker 2: What's the line? I think it was King of Queens,
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Speaker 2: you got two wires touching that shouldn't be touching. I
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Speaker 2: think Doug said that to Arthur Ones. And that's kind
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Speaker 2: of That's why I say it feels like it's a
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Speaker 2: mental health thing. I don't know, something just doesn't seem
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Speaker 2: to be where it should be. Trump said it's a
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Speaker 2: sickness for him to do it, it's a sickness for
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Speaker 2: people to support him. And as we've been saying here,
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Speaker 2: I agree with both of those counts. So yes, another big,
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Speaker 2: long press conference for him with reporters asking tough questions,
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Speaker 2: and again these reporters had to kind of get back
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, I didn't talk
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Speaker 2: about the box office uh yesterday. Do want to touch
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Speaker 2: on it a little bit here today because something happened
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Speaker 2: in there that's, you know, in the entertainment world, it's
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Speaker 2: newsworthy and it's getting the treatment that it often gets
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Speaker 2: that I don't think is the correct wording for it.
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Speaker 2: But Maana two was number one, Wicked was number two,
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Speaker 2: and then Craven the Hunter was in third place and
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Speaker 2: it had eleven million dollars. Gladiator two, Lord of the
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Speaker 2: Rings latest installment, finished in fifth place. But what I
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Speaker 2: wanted to and that was the animated one that you know,
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Speaker 2: it's another Lord of the Rings movie. Four point six
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Speaker 2: million for an animated Lord of the Rings movie. To me,
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Speaker 2: that's probably doing all right. I thought it might have
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Speaker 2: done a little better than that. But back to what
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Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about, is this Craven the Hunter.
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Speaker 2: It's a character Marvel character, Spider Man universe. This was
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Speaker 2: a Sony Marvel movie. This wasn't a Marvel movie, but
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Speaker 2: people are already using the well, this is that superhero
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Speaker 2: fatigue that people are ex experiencing. No, it's sort of
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Speaker 2: a standalone, if you will movie. This isn't part of
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Speaker 2: the big overarching Marvel universe. I don't think people are
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Speaker 2: as interested. Worst opening for a Sony Marvel movie and
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Speaker 2: that includes Morbius that made thirty nine million was considered
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Speaker 2: a bomb, and then Madam Webb fifteen point three million
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Speaker 2: definitely considered a bomb. So with eleven million, a major
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Speaker 2: disappointment there for this. But again, to say this is
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Speaker 2: about superhero fatigue, I just don't think that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: I think people like the stories that are connected. I
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Speaker 2: think people like especially if it's a character that they're
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Speaker 2: familiar with. Craven the Hunter. Fans of the Marvel universe
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Speaker 2: certainly know who he is. If you've read Spider Man comics,
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Speaker 2: you know who he is. Even if you just watch
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Speaker 2: the old Spider Man cartoon from back in the nineties,
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Speaker 2: you know who he is. Average people just see Craven
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Speaker 2: the Hunter. They don't know what it is, and if
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Speaker 2: it's not part of the overall Marvel story, it may
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Speaker 2: not quite be as interested. And apparently that's happened yet again,
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Speaker 2: because that's what happened with the other two as well well.
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Speaker 2: The transition into a new year often offers often offers
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Speaker 2: feelings of optimism for people. At twenty twenty five, we've
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Speaker 2: talked about this. It's not only a new year, but
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Speaker 2: it's also a returning president, and people are feeling optimistic
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Speaker 2: about where things are going. A survey done by Bank
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Speaker 2: rates as forty four percent of Americans are expecting more
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Speaker 2: money in their pockets in the new year. Number marks
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Speaker 2: an increase from surveys from previous years. Last year, only
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Speaker 2: thirty seven percent said that they were optimistic, and in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, just thirty four percent expressed financial optimism.
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Speaker 2: That said, forty four percent said they're so concerned about inflation.
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Speaker 2: The most optimistic group of people are gen Z, a
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Speaker 2: significant group that voted for change, which surprised some people.
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Speaker 2: So that upper level gen Z those voters. So have
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Speaker 2: you heard of sledging? It's a new dating term for
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Speaker 2: the holiday season, but there's really nothing new about it.
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Speaker 2: Sledging is when you drag someone along through the holidays,
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Speaker 2: so you don't have to be alone. Could be dragging
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Speaker 2: out dates with someone you're not interested in, or just
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Speaker 2: to have someone to go all the holiday events with you,
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Speaker 2: or it could just be delaying a breakup with someone
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Speaker 2: until the holidays are over. Sometimes you know you're being sledged,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes you don't be aware of this. Just in
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Speaker 2: case it's you, you know, all right, well, snowbird migration
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Speaker 2: going on. People living in cold weather places go to
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Speaker 2: warmer cities for the winter, and the past snowbirds were
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Speaker 2: typically retirees, but now, because of remote work, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people all ages really flock to warmer weather places
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Speaker 2: for the winter months. So where will you spot more
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Speaker 2: snowbirds showing up this year? The top five places according
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Speaker 2: to research Naples, Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, Las Vegas, Nevada, McCallan, Texas,
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Speaker 2: and Charleston, South Carolina. I've been to a few of those,
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Speaker 2: not all of them, but I hear really good things
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Speaker 2: about Naples, and you know, Vegas is Vegas. And there's
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Speaker 2: a reason we can't stop watching all the corny Christmas movies.
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Speaker 2: Most holiday movies are cheesy and predictable, and apparently that's
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Speaker 2: why we like them. You would almost be disappointed if
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Speaker 2: they weren't a little cheesy and predictable, because that's why
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Speaker 2: you're there. You're there to have a feel good movie.
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Speaker 2: This comes from doctor Pamela Rutledge of Media Psychology Research Center.
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Speaker 2: She says, this lower stress. It reinforces feelings of hope
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Speaker 2: and renewal and all of those things that Christmas is
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Speaker 2: supposed to bring. Well, that's a nice thought. I like that.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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