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Minnesota Isn't the Only Place with Corruption · 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: Wednesday morning, a seventh day of January. I'm West thanks
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Speaker 2: for kicking off your day with me here midweek. I
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Speaker 2: used the hump day expression. I never really liked that one.
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Speaker 2: I probably used it at some point in my early
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Speaker 2: radio days because everybody else was, oh, humpday. A little boy,
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Speaker 2: it's hump day. Never liked it. Don't know it was silly.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. I understand the reason for
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Speaker 2: the expression. I just you know, I even said to
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Speaker 2: my kids yesterday when they got finished up with school,
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Speaker 2: they were over the hump into the second semester. They were,
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Speaker 2: you know, one day into the second half of the
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Speaker 2: school year, so they were over the hump. So I
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Speaker 2: get it. I just know something about the I think
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Speaker 2: I equate it too similar to the It falls in
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Speaker 2: the same category. I guess with things like small talk,
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Speaker 2: like I'm not a small I can do it. I
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Speaker 2: understand it's one of the things in society that we're
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Speaker 2: expected to do so that we may all function together.
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Speaker 2: I just think it's stupid. I don't I don't want
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Speaker 2: somebody to walk up its hope day. I know people
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Speaker 2: don't really do that anymore, thankfully that I hope that
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Speaker 2: doesn't come back. I know those Geico ads kind of
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Speaker 2: brought it back for a little while. I don't. I
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Speaker 2: don't need that in my life. I got enough of
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Speaker 2: the little chit chat. Boy, it's cold, boy, it's hot,
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Speaker 2: you know all that stuff, plenty of that. No, it
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Speaker 2: sure is raining, Yes it is, it is definitely raining.
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Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't need to invest any of my
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Speaker 2: time or conversation about it, like I didn't need to
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Speaker 2: do that. I didn't need to talk about any of
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Speaker 2: those things. I've got some very dear friends that often
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Speaker 2: talk about their hatred for the gen especially in the office.
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Speaker 2: That kind of small talk is really like I used
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Speaker 2: to get for that all the time, because I would
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Speaker 2: go into the office. I would go to my office
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Speaker 2: and when possible, close my door. If I did not
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Speaker 2: have a need specifically to justify closing my door, then
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Speaker 2: I would try to come up with a reason, you know,
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Speaker 2: note on the door, hey, working on the grammet reports
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Speaker 2: or whatever whatever it was breaking down qualitative analysis of
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Speaker 2: digital content, you know that kind of stuff. And I
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Speaker 2: could do that for a while, or walk around with
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Speaker 2: a clipboard and look like I was in a hurry,
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Speaker 2: which inevitably would occasionally lead to a you know what's
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Speaker 2: in a hurry? For? Where are you going? What're you
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Speaker 2: doing working? Let me alone, I'm going to the studio
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Speaker 2: next door or whatever. Like I would have those those
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Speaker 2: kinds of those kinds of exchanges, So I don't the office.
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Speaker 2: You know, boy, what about that game last night? What
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Speaker 2: about it? What do you want to do? What are
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Speaker 2: you gonna discuss? What part of it would you like
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Speaker 2: to do? Do you want to get into the ins
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Speaker 2: and outs? You're gonna break down the x's and o's.
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Speaker 2: Do we want a Monday morning quarterback it? Or do
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Speaker 2: you just want to general? Hey, boy, that was a game.
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Speaker 2: I'm connected to the world because I watched it. Is
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Speaker 2: that what you're looking for? Often that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's dumb, It's really dumb. I can do it. Believe me,
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Speaker 2: I can do it. I equate it to, uh, we
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Speaker 2: don't want to burn our like our time when there's
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Speaker 2: not gonna be a dopamine hit from it, right, We're
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Speaker 2: not gonna get that. We're not gonna get some sort
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Speaker 2: of a like if you can make someone laugh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: then I'm gonna get a dopaming. I'm gonna get my
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Speaker 2: reaction that I need for it to be worth my
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Speaker 2: part of the exchange. If I'm just you know, generic
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Speaker 2: basic conversation, I get nothing out of that. That doesn't
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Speaker 2: do anything for me. It really doesn't do anything for
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Speaker 2: innbody involved. But I know that some people they need
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Speaker 2: it to function in society. I can play the game.
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Speaker 2: I can do it. And you know, I'm not against people.
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Speaker 2: That's the other part of it. It's not that I
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Speaker 2: don't like people, and it's not that I don't strike
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Speaker 2: up conversations with random strangers sometimes. I have nothing against
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Speaker 2: that at all. I just I need to get something
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Speaker 2: out of the exchange. That's not Boy it's hot today, Boy,
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Speaker 2: it's hump day. It's Wednesday, that's all I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 2: It's a long way to get to I don't really
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Speaker 2: like the term hump day, but it's Wednesday. Here we are,
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Speaker 2: thanks for thanks for starting your day with me. We're
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Speaker 2: like a weekend of the new year. Fifty one to
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Speaker 2: go and then we'll be doing this all over again.
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Speaker 2: And you know, well fifty two technically to get to
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Speaker 2: this point, but fifty one to go before we're going
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Speaker 2: what happened to twenty twenty six? I know, I call
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Speaker 2: that shot really really far off, and this is about
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Speaker 2: as far off as you're gonna hear me call it.
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Speaker 2: But I'm ready for how did we get to Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 2: Because that's where it goes. It goes very quickly, and
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Speaker 2: it's happening more quickly because we now have, you know,
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Speaker 2: a basically junior and a half in high school, and
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Speaker 2: all of those clocks are really ticking. We can feel,
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Speaker 2: you know, the propeller of those clockhands spinning. And my
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Speaker 2: friends that are half a year till their kids are
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Speaker 2: done with school at the high school level, God bless you.
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Speaker 2: I know what you're going through. Some of you have
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Speaker 2: vocalized it to me, and I still have another year
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Speaker 2: before all that. So I mean, it just makes things
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Speaker 2: go faster, That's all I'm getting at. I suppose I
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Speaker 2: could start leading with everybody when they say, hey, how
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Speaker 2: are you doing today, and I just say, well, my
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Speaker 2: kid's junior in high school and pretty soon he'll be leaving.
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Speaker 2: And the sadness of all of that is creeping over me.
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Speaker 2: Darkness and sadness of that, and then they will never
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Speaker 2: want to talk to me again, which would kind of
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Speaker 2: be a good thing. I don't want to do that, though.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to specifically specifically do that, all right,
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Speaker 2: So let's get into a couple of things, because I
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Speaker 2: feel like a lot of this attention. I know, I
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Speaker 2: spent some time talking about Minnesota yesterday and talking about
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Speaker 2: the useful idiot that is Tim Walls, and we have
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Speaker 2: some accusations from Trump or some quasi those Trump quality
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Speaker 2: accusations where he's not really accusing, but he's like, Hey,
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Speaker 2: when we dig into this, I get the feeling we're
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Speaker 2: gonna find dot dot dot and who knows. I can't
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Speaker 2: tell you definitively with any information that I have if
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Speaker 2: Walls and others in Minnesota were complicit where they useful idiots.
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Speaker 2: I feel like to give people benefit of the doubt.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like because of how badly they want
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Speaker 2: him to be the vice president so much so that
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Speaker 2: they were willing to tank the whole campaign because if
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Speaker 2: they had picked Shapiro, it would have actually given them
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Speaker 2: a shot at winning the White House. And as much
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Speaker 2: as they hate Trump, as much as they spend all
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Speaker 2: of their time and energy hating him, and you know,
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Speaker 2: spitting in his general direction and all those things. You
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Speaker 2: would think that they would have just sucked it up right,
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Speaker 2: swallowed the sandwich, if you know that analogy when they
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Speaker 2: talk about there's a certain type of sandwich when you
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Speaker 2: have to eat it, you don't want to spend your
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Speaker 2: time chewing and tasting it. You just swallow it. You
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Speaker 2: know the sandwich I'm talking about. It's not a real sandwich,
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Speaker 2: it's an expression. Maybe now you got it. But my
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Speaker 2: point is if they were have just done that, it
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Speaker 2: would have given them some sort of a chance to
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Speaker 2: maybe win. But again, we talked about this, I know
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Speaker 2: this week already, but they didn't want to risk upsetting
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Speaker 2: any of the pro Palestine people. And now we're in
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Speaker 2: the let's make all of the Maduro is a good
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Speaker 2: guy people happy. It's a weird time to be alive.
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Speaker 2: This is a weird place to be in. When the
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Speaker 2: Left hated this guy so much that Biden, on his
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Speaker 2: way out the door, or at least the auto pen
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Speaker 2: on the way out the door, offered up a twenty
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Speaker 2: five million dollar bounty on his head. And now suddenly
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Speaker 2: we shouldn't have done any of this, what are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Trump is bad? So the difference is when you've got again.
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Speaker 2: I used this yesterday. I couldn't stop thinking about how
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Speaker 2: much it really feels like the scene. It was Cannonball
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Speaker 2: Run too. I had to check. So in Cannonball Run two,
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Speaker 2: you had Mel Tillis and I forget who was in
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Speaker 2: the car with him, the two of them in the back,
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Speaker 2: Tony Danzer or somebody I don't know. They're in the
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Speaker 2: back of the limo, and then it's like an open
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Speaker 2: air convertible. In the front. They're really driving the car,
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Speaker 2: but the chimp is in the front seat, so that
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Speaker 2: when the car gets pulled over by the police, they
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Speaker 2: talk to the chimp. They're confused, they don't know what's
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Speaker 2: going on, and then you know, ideally the guys are
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Speaker 2: safe in the back seat. That's the idea, And the
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Speaker 2: cannon Ball Run is this big race that they're in,
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Speaker 2: and that really feels like what we had going on
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Speaker 2: in the White House. We had, you know, a president
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Speaker 2: who just kind of sitting there with his hands on
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Speaker 2: a steering wheel. It wasn't the steering wheel, but he
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Speaker 2: had his hands on a wheel. And then there were
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Speaker 2: people behind him that we're doing all the you know,
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Speaker 2: auto penning and signing things, and that was that was
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Speaker 2: what was how it went down, right, That was basically
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Speaker 2: the way things kind of played out for four years,
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Speaker 2: or at least a good chunk of the four years. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you have a useful idiot. Uh, they're driving the car,
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Speaker 2: and then you need a useful idiot ready to go
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Speaker 2: in case something happens to him. He was a very
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Speaker 2: senior guy. And then when they had to pull him
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Speaker 2: off the ticket, they handed it over to their VP
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Speaker 2: useful idiot and picked another VP usefully. But the Trump
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Speaker 2: administration seems to think at the very least there may
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Speaker 2: be some evidence coming out showing that they were involved. Now,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to just pick on the state of Minnesota,
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Speaker 2: because we've had some Shenanigans in Georgia, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we have we have a situation where you we've had
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Speaker 2: a couple of like people part of state Congress have
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Speaker 2: stepped down because of accusations at their expense. So it's it.
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Speaker 2: But again, Democrats, and it's not to say that there
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Speaker 2: aren't Republicans who do these things, but when Republicans do it, it
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Speaker 2: becomes a very different news story. Did you know that
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Speaker 2: we have Republicans that have dealt with this? Did you know? Yes,
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Speaker 2: when it happens, you know, you absolutely will hear about
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Speaker 2: it in every possible way. However, when it's the Democrats,
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Speaker 2: we don't hear so much about it. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you even knew this was going on in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. Karen Bennett House District ninety
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Speaker 2: four suddenly retired. Did you miss that? Over the break?
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Speaker 2: And they basically say that she turned in her resignation
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Speaker 2: for the thirtieth to retire twelve years in office. And
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Speaker 2: Theodore Hertzburg, us attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Court filing said, as a result of the false application
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Speaker 2: and certifications, Benet collected a total of thirteen nine and
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Speaker 2: forty dollars of pandemic unemployment assistance program benefits and federal
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Speaker 2: supplements to which she was not entitled. So scamming, according
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Speaker 2: to the accusations here, scamming the people of Georgia, scamming
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Speaker 2: at a federal level, just scamming in general. According to
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Speaker 2: the filing, it says, in reality, Bennett was not prevented
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Speaker 2: from performing her work for metro Therapy. This was one
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Speaker 2: of her side jobs reaching her place of employment because
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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen quarantine before the pandemic. Her actual role with
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Speaker 2: metro Therapy was an administrative one and she worked from
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Speaker 2: her home office. She did not provide in home services
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Speaker 2: for clients. It went on to say she was not
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Speaker 2: prohibited from reaching her home office because of the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: We were told to stay at home. She was able to.
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Speaker 2: That's worry. That wasn't part of the actual filing. She
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Speaker 2: was me adding a little extra to it. She was
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Speaker 2: able to continue working as usual from her home to
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Speaker 2: support metro Therapy throughout the pandemic, and the therapists who
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Speaker 2: provided actual services to clients were able to continue their
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Speaker 2: work after a brief disruption. This all in the court filing. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: where's we haven't heard a whole lot about this, right
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Speaker 2: We haven't really heard a lot about it. It's just
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Speaker 2: kind of one of those things that gets brushed aside. Now.
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Speaker 2: It's easy right now because the Minnesota thing is such
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Speaker 2: a big deal, and just as someone speaking of someone
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Speaker 2: who believes in law and order as many Americans do,
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Speaker 2: I think that's a big part of why Trump just
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Speaker 2: won this second term. It's frustrating to know that there
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Speaker 2: are so many people that may or may not actually
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Speaker 2: end up being prosecuted. I know they've taken some people in,
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Speaker 2: they're working on prosecuting people, But are people actually going
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Speaker 2: to pay for this? That's the question that I have.
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Speaker 2: I continue to have that. It just always seems like
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Speaker 2: in these kinds of cases, things just get brushed aside.
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Speaker 2: We feel like this should be an easy slam dunk.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't this be easy to say, hey, you got
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Speaker 2: caught a defrauding tax payer of billions. You know, each
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Speaker 2: person wouldn't have done billions, but there should be some punishment.
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Speaker 2: Should there be some punishment for the governor who says,
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Speaker 2: you know, Buck stops with me, well does it are you?
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Speaker 2: Are you going to have any sort of punishment? Will
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Speaker 2: there be any repercussions for him other than he doesn't
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Speaker 2: get to run for governor again? Amy klobashar by the way,
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Speaker 2: it seems to be the likely she could be the
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Speaker 2: person to step in, and she's been someone who's always
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Speaker 2: tried to, you know, really pat up that resume for
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Speaker 2: a presidential run. She's tried, didn't work. There's there is
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Speaker 2: zero sizzle there with her. I mean she is She's
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Speaker 2: probably a really nice person. Like if you got to
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Speaker 2: know her, she'd probably be a nice person. She seems
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Speaker 2: like she's got that Minnesota ybetcha kind of thing that
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Speaker 2: you know, Sarah Palin had kind of not that she
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Speaker 2: was Minnesota. But you know what I mean, she's probably
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Speaker 2: a nice lady. I don't agree with her politics, but
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying she has zero sizzle as an actual
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Speaker 2: White House run that didn't work out before. I can't imagine,
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Speaker 2: but you know, you pad the resume a little bit.
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Speaker 2: You want to be governor of Minnesota, you want to
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Speaker 2: step into that mess. Maybe she just kind of sees, hey,
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Speaker 2: this is a good place to step in if you
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Speaker 2: want to try to bring about the end of the
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Speaker 2: state and the country. I don't know, I don't know
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Speaker 2: what her thinking might be, or maybe she wants to
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Speaker 2: really fix it. I hope I would hope whoever gets
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Speaker 2: in there might want to actually try to fix it.
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Speaker 2: You would hope, just like you would hope there would
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Speaker 2: be people around the US, and you talk about when
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Speaker 2: we always talk about this idea of you know, people
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Speaker 2: that say you can't like, be a white person and
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Speaker 2: go to Mexico and learn how to make burritos because
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Speaker 2: you're stealing that culture. You come back to American and
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Speaker 2: you go, we're gonna make burritos authentically. Remember this happen.
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Speaker 2: And these ladies did that and they were doing great.
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Speaker 2: People were like, these are the best burritos we've ever had.
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Speaker 2: They're like, we learned how to make them in Mexico.
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Speaker 2: And people went, oh, you're stealing their culture. You can't
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Speaker 2: do that. You can't steal their culture. So what happens
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Speaker 2: to the people that are clearly paid agitators in the
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Speaker 2: US that are complaining about Maduro by the way, they're
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Speaker 2: out in the streets and they're rioting and saying, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we can't. We got to let this guy out of jail.
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Speaker 2: We got to send him back home. He's the real
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Speaker 2: leader there. And the people of the Venezuelan people in
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Speaker 2: America are going, who are these people? One single one
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Speaker 2: of them is Venezuelan, None of them? How can they
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Speaker 2: speak for us? Who are they to step in and
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Speaker 2: steal that from us? Cultural appropriation? Isn't that what that is?
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Speaker 2: most reliable used cars in the US. The new Consumer
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Speaker 2: Reports survey of vehicle owners about recent problems with cars
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Speaker 2: ranging from zero to twenty five years old, found that
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty Chevrolet Sonic topped the list with ninety
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Speaker 2: three out of one hundred reliability score, beating out last
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Speaker 2: year's champ, the Nissan Maxima. The most reliable automaker overall, though,
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Speaker 2: was Toyota. I got a sixty six out of one hundred.
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Speaker 2: How about that for a excellent score. That's not just
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Speaker 2: you know, sixty six out of one hundred doesn't seem great.
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Speaker 2: That's you know, two thirds. It's not great, but it's
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Speaker 2: great enough to make you the most reliable automaker. So
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Speaker 2: there's that. I'll be honest with you, if you drove
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Speaker 2: a Chevy Sonic into my driveway, I wouldn't know what
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Speaker 2: it was. I can't say I've ever heard of that car.
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Speaker 2: I mean, really, the Chevrolet Sonic. I guess I need
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Speaker 2: to look it up. Maybe I will do that, but
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Speaker 2: not familiar with that car. I guess I've probably seen
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Speaker 2: them on the road. Good to know if I hear
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Speaker 2: that one is for sale and it's you know, around
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty year, that would be probably a good idea.
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Speaker 2: All right. So you know, when I was a kid,
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Speaker 2: we got told constantly how bad Dungeons and Dragons was.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't play that it will lead you to the devil,
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Speaker 2: people would say. Or your character gets killed off, so
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Speaker 2: you decide to kill yourself. Those were things that we heard.
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Speaker 2: We also heard that there was apparently people all over
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Speaker 2: town sticking razor blades and apples and giving them out
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Speaker 2: at Halloween. And I don't know that there was ever
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Speaker 2: one single documented case of that actually happening, thankfully. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: Dungeons and Dragons never was a diehard Dungeons and Dragons player,
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Speaker 2: played it a few times with friends, never got so
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Speaker 2: into it that, you know, if my character died it
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Speaker 2: would be tragic for me personally. I was a you know,
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Speaker 2: video game guy. You just start a new game. That's
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Speaker 2: what you do when your guy dies. Anyway, So there's
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Speaker 2: a new study though, that says board games and tabletop
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Speaker 2: role playing games actually could improve mental health and well being.
22:51
Speaker 2: Researchers found that games like Dungeons and Dragons and Dixon
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Speaker 2: can help boost confidence, assertiveness, and real world social connection,
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Speaker 2: especially for players that might be on the autism spectrum.
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Speaker 2: So I tend to think you might gravitate to that
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Speaker 2: if you're on the autism spectrum anyway, just based on
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Speaker 2: life experiences and the fact that I've played some when
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Speaker 2: I was a kid. Badminton playing robot developed by a
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Speaker 2: Chinese company broke a Guinness World record with the help
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Speaker 2: of some of the country's top human players. This particular
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Speaker 2: robot successfully returned fourteen hundred and fifty two consecutive hits,
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Speaker 2: setting the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive badminton
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Speaker 2: counter hits with a mobile robot. The Athletic robot was
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Speaker 2: designed with vision and motion controls that are timed down
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Speaker 2: to the millisecond. Pretty impressive. Just the next thing, the
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Speaker 2: next job that AI will be taking away from someone
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Speaker 2: professional badminton player. Walmart having a news stores built with
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Speaker 2: three D printers. Speaking of AI, it's a matter of
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Speaker 2: time before the AI makes its way into the three
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Speaker 2: D printers and then they do not need us anymore.
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Speaker 2: Start making more robots with three D printers and making
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Speaker 2: more once they can self replicate we're in trouble. Walmart
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Speaker 2: has placed the largest corporate order ever for three D
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Speaker 2: printing buildings. The retailer partner with a company called Alquist
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Speaker 2: three D to construct new US facilities using giant concrete
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Speaker 2: printers instead of traditional construction methods. The company says three
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Speaker 2: D printing as faster, cheaper, produces far less waste, while
24:40
Speaker 2: also reducing the need for hard to find construction labor.
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Speaker 2: If the pilot projects succeed, Walmart could expand the approach
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Speaker 2: to warehouses and distribution centers, potentially changing how big box
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Speaker 2: buildings are constructed nationwide. Little scary jobs going away right there,
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Speaker 2: Big w unfell swoop and jobs go away for this
25:05
Speaker 2: gigantic company that is Walmart. So according to a new study,
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Speaker 2: swearing during a physical challenge makes you stronger, and it's
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Speaker 2: not about blowing off steam. Instead, swearing triggers a state
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Speaker 2: of psychological flow and self confidence that helps the brain
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Speaker 2: bypass hesitation and distraction. The author of the study, doctor
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Speaker 2: Richard Stevens, I was thinking it would be funny if
25:27
Speaker 2: his name had a swear word in it, but it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It went as far as to call swearing a calorie neutral,
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Speaker 2: drug free tool that's available whenever we need a quick
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Speaker 2: performance boost and it doesn't make your head swell up
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Speaker 2: like Barry Bonds. So you got that going for you
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Speaker 2: as well. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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