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To the Moon, Alice · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need.
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Speaker 2: To start your day. You're listening to the West Carrol
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Speaker 2: Morning Show. Thursday morning, second day of April. I'm Wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. Back from a few days down
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Speaker 2: on the Florida coast. Had a good time, had a
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Speaker 2: little mini vacation. Our spring break sent us down to
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Speaker 2: Florida and you got to visit with a friend, got to,
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Speaker 2: you know, check out some couple of the Disney parks.
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Speaker 2: Here a whole lot of conversation about a rocket launch.
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Speaker 2: It was exciting stuff yesterday that seems to have been
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Speaker 2: some sort of a big news story that took place yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Go back to Saturday when we'll get to the vacation
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Speaker 2: part of it in a second. But go back to
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Speaker 2: Saturday when I told you last week we were doing
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Speaker 2: the Made of Stars live podcast that was going to
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Speaker 2: take place at Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science
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Speaker 2: Center on Saturday. We did the show and had a
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Speaker 2: live audience, had a great audience. We would have loved
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Speaker 2: to have had, you know, more people, but short of
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Speaker 2: having a max capacity inside the planetarium there, you know
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Speaker 2: you always want more. If you got one empty seat
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Speaker 2: you'd like more. We had a couple more than one
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Speaker 2: empty seat, but we still had a great turnout. We
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Speaker 2: had a great, lively crowd that was into it. We
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Speaker 2: took some questions at the end, and that show will
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Speaker 2: be officially releasing this morning. So Made of Stars podcast
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Speaker 2: the newest episode that will come out today April. The
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Speaker 2: second will have the Madi Stars Live episode that we
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Speaker 2: second Made of Stars Life. We did another one back
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Speaker 2: in November. This was our second one. I think we're
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Speaker 2: already going to be doing a third one maybe this fall,
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Speaker 2: and hope that we can, you know, get a date
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Speaker 2: that works for you so you can come and join
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Speaker 2: us for it. We had a great time. One of
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Speaker 2: the main things that we talked about, of course, was
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Speaker 2: Artemis two and doctor Sean Cruson, my partner on Made
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Speaker 2: of Stars. He and I went down to Kennedy Space
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Speaker 2: Center a couple of julys ago because it was twenty
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Speaker 2: four and we were there for the arrival of the
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Speaker 2: Artemis booster. Rocket talked about it here on the show
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Speaker 2: back then talked about it on Made of Stars. We
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Speaker 2: interviewed many of the project managers. They are all people
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Speaker 2: who slept well last night, and you know, feeling really
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Speaker 2: good about things that happened yesterday with Artemis two. The
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Speaker 2: rocket took off in the six o'clock hour Eastern time
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Speaker 2: and took four astronauts around the Earth for like a
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Speaker 2: slingshot thing. If you saw the movie The Martian, you
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Speaker 2: got a good feel for how that works. But using
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Speaker 2: the rotation of the planet to sling them basically where
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Speaker 2: they're gonna go to the Moon. They're going to go
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Speaker 2: around the Moon, and they're gonna come back. They're going
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Speaker 2: to be gone about ten days. That's the way it's
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Speaker 2: gonna work, about ten days. And this is exciting an
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Speaker 2: exciting time because this is the next step because we're
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Speaker 2: working our way towards the next mission being the one
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Speaker 2: that takes astronauts back to the surface of the Moon
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Speaker 2: where they are able to you know, walk around, check
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Speaker 2: things out, get back on and come back. And then
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Speaker 2: soon after that and that's I think early twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: and then soon after that they'll start sending gear down
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Speaker 2: to the Moon where the plan is to start building
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Speaker 2: a base, a permanent place. And you know, this is
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Speaker 2: the back to the Moon for good, and that of
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Speaker 2: course sets things up up for eventually our plans to
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Speaker 2: you know, go to another planet, which would be Mars
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Speaker 2: and start to colonize there. We are in a space
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Speaker 2: race now we are. We have other countries that are
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Speaker 2: trying to beat us to this, and yesterday's launch was
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Speaker 2: a big one. Couple things that I've got to talk
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Speaker 2: about concerning this mission, because one of the things that
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Speaker 2: Sean and I try to do is not necessarily talk
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Speaker 2: about politics on Nat of Stars. We want it to
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Speaker 2: be a show that everyone can enjoy, okay, And we
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Speaker 2: all know people that they just hear the name of
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Speaker 2: someone that is, you know, in the political party that
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Speaker 2: they're against, and then they just and then they tune
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Speaker 2: out and they get mad, and it's just the sad
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Speaker 2: reality of kind of where we are now. It's just
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Speaker 2: kind of who we are as a people. It's so
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Speaker 2: tribal and not everyone's that way certainly, but I do
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Speaker 2: think the people that are certainly what I would call
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Speaker 2: quite a bit more extremist fall into that category. And
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Speaker 2: it's just it's unfortunate because we can't just mention things
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Speaker 2: like what I'm about to mention without upsetting some people.
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Speaker 2: And we try to keep it as you know, centrist
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Speaker 2: as we can in so many ways. But the reality
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Speaker 2: is when it comes to the space race and when
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Speaker 2: it comes to politics, when it comes to NASA, you know,
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Speaker 2: which is funded by tax dollars, and as an administrator
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Speaker 2: that is appointed by the you know, the president, changes come.
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Speaker 2: Changes do come when administrations change. They don't have to,
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Speaker 2: but they often do. You know, when administration comes in
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Speaker 2: and says, we want somebody who's more aligned with our
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Speaker 2: values and our budget ideas, and things and changes happen
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Speaker 2: stop some momentum that takes place. I wish that we
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Speaker 2: could keep a NASA administrator who knows what they're doing
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Speaker 2: in there for a while. Our new NASA administrator who's
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Speaker 2: been there for a little while now, Jared Isaacman, is
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Speaker 2: someone who has worked on the commercial side and knows
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Speaker 2: quite a bit about NASA, seemed like a good mix.
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Speaker 2: Seemed like the perfect, you know, chocolate and peanut butter
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Speaker 2: scenario for someone to run NASA. And in the Meta
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Speaker 2: Stars episode that comes out today with Sean and I
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Speaker 2: Made a Stars Live, we talked about some of the
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Speaker 2: plans that were scrapped with the new administration and some
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Speaker 2: of the plans that are pushing forward and I think
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Speaker 2: it's important to just to say this because I think
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Speaker 2: this space race that we're in now is very important.
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Speaker 2: It is. We're at a point now where as people
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Speaker 2: are racing to get to the Moon, they're racing to
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Speaker 2: get to Mars for different reasons I say different, not
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Speaker 2: necessarily opposing reasons, just for different reasons that you know,
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Speaker 2: America wants to get there and show what we're capable
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Speaker 2: of and what the world's capable of. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: part of it. I know of that as a country,
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Speaker 2: we've kind of lost that idea of American exceptionalism and
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Speaker 2: we act like we're not supposed to be proud of things.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of people said that, you know,
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Speaker 2: we shouldn't have we should have treated the Neil Armstrong
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Speaker 2: landing as more of a world accomplishment and less of
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Speaker 2: an American accomplishment. But the reality is, if China beats
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Speaker 2: us to the moon, they're not going to look at
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Speaker 2: it as a world accomplishment. They're going to say, look
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Speaker 2: what China did, And that's just how things are. And
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Speaker 2: sometimes you need that bit of drive to push forward. Now,
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Speaker 2: can we say look what humankind has done? Sure, as
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Speaker 2: a as a as a as a group, we have
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Speaker 2: collectively accomplished these things. That's true. But there is a race,
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Speaker 2: there is a competition. This isn't a everybody gets a trophy.
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Speaker 2: This isn't a everybody hold hands and you know, sing along.
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Speaker 2: It's it's sad that that's not who we are as
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Speaker 2: a planet. But we're just not. We're I don't know
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Speaker 2: that we're ever going to get there. Last time we
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Speaker 2: all spoke the same language. You know, people tried to
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Speaker 2: build a tower and get to God and he said, nop,
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Speaker 2: stop it, stop it. It's just the reality of where
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Speaker 2: things are. So this is something that needs to happen.
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Speaker 2: And the last time America was involved in a space race,
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Speaker 2: we won. I mean, it's the reality. Russia got to
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Speaker 2: space first with a person. But you know, in the end,
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Speaker 2: we got to the moon. We're the only ones who've
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Speaker 2: done that thus far. And we got some astronauts headed
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Speaker 2: back to circle and come back. And there's some firsts
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Speaker 2: in this which are important. The first black astronaut who
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Speaker 2: is the commander of this mission is going to the moon.
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Speaker 2: And you know, well some people are confused when they
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Speaker 2: hear the verbiage to the moon. They're not landing on
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Speaker 2: the Moon. This time there's also a woman on board,
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Speaker 2: first time a woman has done this, so these are important.
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Speaker 2: It's also the first time that a non American has
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Speaker 2: gone on one of these missions. A Canadian has gone,
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Speaker 2: so you know, and all he had to do to
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Speaker 2: catch a ride was admit America was better at hockey. No,
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Speaker 2: I'm kidding, kidding, Sorry, Olympics just happened. Important things are
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Speaker 2: taking place, and it's important to note that the first
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Speaker 2: time we went to the Moon, we had a president
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Speaker 2: named Kennedy who said, let's let's get to the Moon.
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Speaker 2: We're going to go, We're going to do this. We
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Speaker 2: have a timeline, let's get it done. And it was
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Speaker 2: something that he pushed for. There's a reason it's called
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Speaker 2: the Kennedy Space Center there is now and he was
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Speaker 2: praised for that, for having the drive to push that forward.
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Speaker 2: Now we have another president named Trump who is saying,
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Speaker 2: I want this done during my administration, I wanted to
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Speaker 2: see it done before. I want to see it done. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's get this done before I'm out of office, which,
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Speaker 2: by the way, should be an indicator that there's no
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Speaker 2: need for a no King's protest. He understands he has
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Speaker 2: a finite amount of time as president, and then he
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Speaker 2: moves on. So if you still think the No Kings
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Speaker 2: thing serves any purpose other than benefiting the people who
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Speaker 2: profit off the protests, you're crazy. But anyway, I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe there's some benefit and maybe crazy is a harsh word,
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Speaker 2: but it's you have to be realistic sometimes are these
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Speaker 2: things the no Kings protests are. They're silly? They are
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Speaker 2: all right. So we have people in this country who
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Speaker 2: were hoping this mission would fail because they don't want
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Speaker 2: Trump to have the accomplishment, the same reason that astronauts
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Speaker 2: were left on the International Space Station for an extra months.
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Speaker 2: And you know when SpaceX and Elon Musk said we'll
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Speaker 2: send something up to get them. The ship that took
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Speaker 2: him up there is not really good for bringing them
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Speaker 2: back home. We'll send a ship up to get them
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Speaker 2: in the middle of an election, and the Biden administration
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Speaker 2: did not want Elon Musk and Trump to get a win.
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Speaker 2: They thought it was bad political move. And you know
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Speaker 2: this comes from you know, one of the two people
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Speaker 2: who was stuck there. So a reality here is we're
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Speaker 2: politicizing everything. Now. We can't just celebrate a major accomplishment
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Speaker 2: for America, which will more By the way, is that astronaut.
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Speaker 2: He's written a book and he was pretty open about
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Speaker 2: it being a political move to leave them up there. So,
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Speaker 2: but we can't celebrate something positive. We can't just celebrate
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Speaker 2: a win. We can't celebrate a win for humankind. Even
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Speaker 2: because people don't want to give Trump credit. They were
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Speaker 2: hoping for a failure. They were hoping for something horrible,
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Speaker 2: so that people because they're willing to sacrifice human life
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Speaker 2: for the sake of Yeah, it made Trump look bad.
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Speaker 2: There were people saying, you know, he's going to send
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Speaker 2: him up there before it's ready, and they're gonna get
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Speaker 2: him killed, and it's going to be horrible to be
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Speaker 2: blood on Trump's hands. And the reality is you shouldn't
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Speaker 2: think that way at all. Period. These are the same
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Speaker 2: people that were happy about the CEO who was murdered Healthcare. Oh,
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Speaker 2: you got to kill this guy because he works in healthcare.
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Speaker 2: He deserves to die. He's the CEO of United Healthcare.
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Speaker 2: Kill him and let the guy out because he's kind
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Speaker 2: of a hunk. Whatever. Same people who wanted Charlie Kirk murdered,
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Speaker 2: same people who wanted Trump murdered many times, upset because
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Speaker 2: they only shot him in the ear and then said, oh,
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Speaker 2: they didn't even shoot him in the ear. We all
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Speaker 2: saw it on live on TV. It happened. But that's
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Speaker 2: what we have. That's what we're dealing with, sadly. And
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Speaker 2: I think it's great that we have a president who's
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Speaker 2: pushing for this to happen. And I hope that the
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Speaker 2: plans they're able to move forward, we're able to get
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Speaker 2: a Moon base and a Mars base and all the
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Speaker 2: things that they want, because this is important moving forward.
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Speaker 2: It's important for science, it's important for all stem but
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Speaker 2: it's important for our understanding of the universe, of you know,
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Speaker 2: origins of planning. It's important for all of this, and
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Speaker 2: it's important also for us to see what we're capable of.
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Speaker 2: Always have to push yourself, all right. I spent the
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Speaker 2: first part of the week down in Florida. I went
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Speaker 2: to two of the Disney parks. I always have a
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Speaker 2: good time at Disney. You know, it's expensive, it's really expensive,
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Speaker 2: but you know, have a good time there. You're gonna
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Speaker 2: eat something good, you're gonna have some fun on some
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Speaker 2: maybe watch some shows. All those fun things. One thing
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Speaker 2: that I found to be disappointing about this particular and
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into great detail with it,
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Speaker 2: but I've just found this to be disappointing. And I
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Speaker 2: learned this from doing some research talking to a lot
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Speaker 2: of people. Apparently they've changed their policy on disability services
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Speaker 2: and it's now basically very limited on who has access
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Speaker 2: to specific disability services in their parks. Now I understand
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Speaker 2: there have been people abusing it, but I just found
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Speaker 2: it interesting that and this is according to some research
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Speaker 2: that I've been doing since all of this I learned
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Speaker 2: about it very strict on as far as different disabilities,
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Speaker 2: it's hard. You have to basically do you have to
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Speaker 2: be in a situation where if you're in a wheelchair,
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Speaker 2: you know, sit in the wheelchair and they can push
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Speaker 2: you through the line. If you are on crutches or something,
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Speaker 2: they'll sometimes let you leave your group and come back
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Speaker 2: and join them back up at the end of the line,
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Speaker 2: and those kinds of things. Those are accommodating, of course,
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Speaker 2: but people that are maybe neurodivergent on the autism spectrum
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Speaker 2: and have issues with crowds of people and things, And
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about from an autistic perspective, not necessarily just hey,
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Speaker 2: I don't like crowds or you know, I don't like
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Speaker 2: you know, I feel claustrophobic sometimes talking about people that
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Speaker 2: are diagnosed on the spectrum with autism. Apparently they're just
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Speaker 2: really not allowing that anymore unless you're a really young child,
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Speaker 2: and it's disappointing. We saw some people that were really
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Speaker 2: struggling with lines their situations where clearly there was some
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Speaker 2: impact and effects on it, and I hope that they
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Speaker 2: change that. There's a video process now you have to
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Speaker 2: go through where they will basically talk to you, interview you,
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Speaker 2: and you kind of are in a performance art situation
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Speaker 2: with autism, and that's pretty sad. That's a sad that's
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Speaker 2: a sad situation to be in. And if that's completely
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Speaker 2: the case, all of that is the case, they could
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Speaker 2: do better. That's you know, having autism isn't a performance art.
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Speaker 2: Having autism isn't something that you should have to prove
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Speaker 2: other than you know, have you got paperwork? All right? Well,
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Speaker 2: that's another thing, right, Other than that, we had a
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Speaker 2: good time. And I say all of that just because
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Speaker 2: it's the beginning of Autism Awareness Month. Yesterday was the
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Speaker 2: start of that, so it was kind of fresh on
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Speaker 2: the mind as that was taking place. And I hope
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Speaker 2: that they will reconsider the way that they limit some
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Speaker 2: of those disability services. That's all. That's all I gotta say.
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Speaker 2: I would hope that they would consider that. And I
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Speaker 2: also think, you know, the people who you know didn't
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Speaker 2: have autism and said that they did or you know,
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Speaker 2: we're trying to fake it in the past, and made
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Speaker 2: it difficult for other people. This is this is the challenge.
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Speaker 2: This is one of those things that I've talked about before.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to you know, people said, why don't
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Speaker 2: why don't all states have medical marijuana. Well, the states
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Speaker 2: that did kind of made a joke out of how
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Speaker 2: easy it was to get a prescription for it. It was,
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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, you can blame you could directly
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Speaker 2: blame people like Seth Rogan some of those movies where
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Speaker 2: they just, ah, look how easy it is. I just
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Speaker 2: got a prescription. I can get any time I want to.
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Speaker 2: And that's why that's why. You know, seniors who couldn't
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Speaker 2: eat and really needed some help when it came to
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Speaker 2: you know, like a cancer treatment and they weren't able
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Speaker 2: to eat, well, they couldn't get it because you know,
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Speaker 2: people like Seth Rogan made it a joke kids that
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Speaker 2: they say, oh, they could have benefited from some types
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Speaker 2: of you know, medical marijuana byproducts and things, well, made
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Speaker 2: it difficult to get it approved in places because people
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Speaker 2: were abusing it or at least made a joke out
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Speaker 2: of it that they were abusing it. So that's another
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Speaker 2: reason that it's important that you know, you can't abuse
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Speaker 2: those things, you can't fake those things. So I understand
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Speaker 2: there's a need to you know, let's make this a
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Speaker 2: smaller number of people who can get approved, but it
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Speaker 2: can't be so small that there's people that are suffering
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Speaker 2: Show right after the break. So we all know that,
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Speaker 2: well say we all know most of us know that.
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Speaker 2: For a very long time, there was some mystique and
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Speaker 2: some sort of mysticism around the Lady in Red. You know,
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Speaker 2: the Christaburgh song, or it was the movie. The movie
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Speaker 2: wasn't Lady in Red. It was the Woman in Red,
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Speaker 2: and it was Gene Wilder and Kelly LeBrock. Kelly LeBrock
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Speaker 2: was the Woman in Red. But it's something there was
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Speaker 2: always this thing about women in red dresses and red
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Speaker 2: lipstick to you know, get your attention throwing the red heels.
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Speaker 2: That's the lady or the woman in red, right, So
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Speaker 2: there was always a certain mystique to that. Well, times
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Speaker 2: have changed, apparently, and relationship experts say that is no
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Speaker 2: longer the attention getter that it once was. That apparently
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Speaker 2: that men are now more into you know, rather than
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Speaker 2: those like attention grabbing colors, fiery, bold colors, they're more
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Speaker 2: into warm, approachable colors, soft colors, powder blues, blush, pink, sage, green, rust, orange,
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Speaker 2: and the experts say that the shift reflects something bigger
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Speaker 2: than fashion. Experts say that the modern dating world has
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Speaker 2: moved away from look at me into you know, comfort, authenticity,
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Speaker 2: emotional connection. So the idea isn't so much to be flashy,
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Speaker 2: it's to feel easy to be around and red not
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Speaker 2: necessarily out. It's just no longer the automatic scene stealer,
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Speaker 2: and that in today's dating world, colors that signal calm,
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Speaker 2: trust and realness take the spotlight. So there you go.
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Speaker 2: I think it may have something to do with the
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Speaker 2: fact that there's a lot of other things to get
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Speaker 2: your attention everywhere, especially the Internet, And I think that
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Speaker 2: may have something to do with it, and the fact
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Speaker 2: that on any social media platform there are you know, thousands,
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Speaker 2: I guess millions of models, entertainers, performers that are just
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Speaker 2: right there. They're just right there, and god forbid you
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Speaker 2: click on any of their posts, then they're in your
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Speaker 2: algorithm and then they're everywhere. So I think that may
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Speaker 2: have something to do with it, and I think there's
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Speaker 2: a little bit less of that. There are people when
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Speaker 2: they're looking for a relationship, they're looking for someone more
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Speaker 2: real and authentic. I think that connects with some of
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Speaker 2: these things. So a lot of streaming choices on TV,
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Speaker 2: including Love on the Spectrum new season came out yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Older shows continue to be very popular, and it's basically
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Speaker 2: a way for people to slow down. So when everything
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Speaker 2: feels loud, fast and overwhelming, watching a show we already
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Speaker 2: know feels comforting and low pressure. Friends the Office, Gilmore, Girls, Seinfeld,
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Speaker 2: those kind everybody loves Raymond comfort TV shows. It's predictability,
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Speaker 2: a nostalgia, sense of being held in an era of
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Speaker 2: endless choices and decision fatigue. People tend to go back
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Speaker 2: to something that's familiar, and it's a bit of self care, yes,
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Speaker 2: especially if you are someone who needs a TV as
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Speaker 2: background noise. This has been something I've been talking about
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Speaker 2: for years. If you are watching a show that has
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Speaker 2: you on the edge of your seat and you're just
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Speaker 2: gripped with you know, oh my gosh, what's gonna happen
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Speaker 2: next in the story? Think better call Saul breaking bad Sopranos,
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Speaker 2: you know, shows that had these shock value things to it,
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Speaker 2: Walking Dead, you know, early Days, things that would you know,
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Speaker 2: grab you it. Then you oh my gosh, I can't
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Speaker 2: believe what I just saw. What's going to happen next week? Ah,
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Speaker 2: it's the it's the cliffhanger ending. What's going to happen next?
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Speaker 2: With these old shows, you already know and you can
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Speaker 2: kind of jump in and out and you don't feel
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Speaker 2: like you're glued to the TV. Right. Think about it
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Speaker 2: kind of the way that people watch like Nascar. I'm
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Speaker 2: not talking about the people who watch every lap, but
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Speaker 2: the people who just kind of come in and out
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Speaker 2: of the room and watch it. Some people, so they
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Speaker 2: watch the Super Bowl, they kind of a if they
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Speaker 2: don't have a team in it, they're just kind of
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Speaker 2: grazing over the super Bowl. I think that's what it
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Speaker 2: is for TV shows, and it is it's comforting, and
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Speaker 2: if you fall asleep watching it, it's not you wake
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Speaker 2: up and you're like four episodes later, no big deal, right,
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Speaker 2: So new survey says that the average a mayor American
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Speaker 2: only has a three month savings cushion before they'd be
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Speaker 2: out of money. For forty percent of adults, a job loss,
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Speaker 2: a medical issue, or one too many price hikes say
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Speaker 2: they'd be tapped out in ninety days. Ten percent said
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Speaker 2: they'd be out of money in two months if their
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Speaker 2: income suddenly stopped, and over a five percent said less
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Speaker 2: than a month. On the other end of the money scale,
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Speaker 2: just three percent said that they could stretch their savings
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Speaker 2: out beyond six months. That's interesting. On average, they say
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Speaker 2: it would take about sixty three hundred dollars in extra
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Speaker 2: debt to push a household toward bankruptcy filings already increasing
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Speaker 2: higher costs or what's driving at cost of living higher tariffs.
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Speaker 2: Part of it, certainly the inflation that we underwent for
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Speaker 2: four years in the last administration with no sympathy, no
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Speaker 2: empathy for the fact that we were all struggling post COVID.
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Speaker 2: These are all factors driving bankrupt see far outweighing issues
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Speaker 2: like overspending or just being bad with money in general,
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Speaker 2: and the fact that there's a lot of jobs that
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Speaker 2: the pay hasn't gone up. You know, everything else went up,
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Speaker 2: the PAI didn't go up, and that's still taking time.
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Speaker 2: So all right, that'll do it for this Thursday edition
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