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Click Bait Isn't Helping Our Media Trust · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: Let's get into a couple of things today. I have
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Speaker 2: one topic that I wanted and it just relates to clickbait.
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Speaker 2: It relates to how unbelievably untrustworthy our media is now
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Speaker 2: in this little game that we now play in society
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Speaker 2: where media say something solely for the purpose of either
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Speaker 2: you know, getting clicks, you know, full scale clickbait, or
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Speaker 2: they're you know, trying to somehow incite something, make something
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Speaker 2: be something that it's clearly not, something that there's no
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Speaker 2: evidence of, and it's it's it hurts my soul, it
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Speaker 2: really does. We're supposed to have some sort of trust
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Speaker 2: in in our media, and we haven't for a while
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Speaker 2: now it hasn't earned our trust, and it's got to
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Speaker 2: re earn our trust before we'll ever do it. And
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Speaker 2: I don't know how we get back to that point
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Speaker 2: where there's any trust in it. We went through COVID,
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Speaker 2: and COVID was a great example of how now we've
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Speaker 2: started to stop trusting science, we've started to stop trust. Well,
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Speaker 2: we were already at science with I think with climate change,
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Speaker 2: but we were starting to really distrust medicine, distrust certain doctors,
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Speaker 2: and it made it worse. It was already there, we
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Speaker 2: had element of it at one point, and then it
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Speaker 2: certainly got worse with everything how things were handled with COVID,
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Speaker 2: and of course the media jumped in piled on top
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Speaker 2: of all of that. It made us not trust a
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Speaker 2: lot of politicians. We went through this, we're back to
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Speaker 2: where you got a growing number of people who don't
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Speaker 2: trust vaccines. So just know, some of the vaccines good,
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Speaker 2: some of them you can you know, question them. The
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Speaker 2: ones that haven't gone through a proper vetting process. It's
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Speaker 2: almost like a vetting process is good when it comes
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Speaker 2: to vaccines, and you know, candidates for president, you would
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Speaker 2: think we would want a vetting process with both of those.
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Speaker 2: But you know, basically, we were in a time with
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Speaker 2: COVID where people were ready to get something. They wanted
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Speaker 2: something to make themselves feel better about, trying to get
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Speaker 2: back to society and get back in the world. And
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Speaker 2: of course the Trump White House was a big part
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Speaker 2: of fast tracking things and getting a vaccine. And you know,
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Speaker 2: at the beginning, we didn't really understand and there were
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who had questions. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people lost their jobs. Shame on anyone who fired someone
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Speaker 2: for that. That's awful. It's awful that someone wasn't able
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Speaker 2: to say, no, thanks, I don't want to put this
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Speaker 2: in my body. I don't really know what it is.
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Speaker 2: And then of course there's a lot of people that
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Speaker 2: now question every time someone has a blood clot, every
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Speaker 2: time someone has some sort of strange complication that doesn't
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Speaker 2: have anything to do with any medical problems they've ever
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Speaker 2: had in the past. All of a sudden you got
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Speaker 2: people that are saying, well, this is probably the cause
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Speaker 2: for it. It may have something to do with that. And
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Speaker 2: is that I mean, that's now that's the pendulum, right,
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Speaker 2: the byproduct of all of this, because during the pandemic,
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Speaker 2: people were dying, and sometimes they weren't dying from anything
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Speaker 2: related to COVID, a car accident, and then they get
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Speaker 2: to the hospital and then the hospital says, well they
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Speaker 2: had COVID, say well, that's probably why they died. You know,
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Speaker 2: anytime there's a situation where there's government funding going to
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Speaker 2: someone because of you know, when there were accusations of
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Speaker 2: all of that, so it caused people to have less
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Speaker 2: trust in medicine, less trust and science. We were already
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Speaker 2: there because of climate change. We understand climate change is
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Speaker 2: a money driven thing, and we understand that the more
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Speaker 2: they tell us things that don't really fit with science,
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Speaker 2: the more things that they tell And I'm not denying
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Speaker 2: climate change at all. Climate change has been going on
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Speaker 2: since the beginning of time. I just got a lot
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Speaker 2: of questions about the logic behind spending billions and billions
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Speaker 2: and maybe we're at trillions now, I don't know of
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Speaker 2: dollars to try to fix a problem that we have
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Speaker 2: no chance of fixing. Right, there's no way to fix
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Speaker 2: it unless the entire planet decided universally we're going to
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Speaker 2: do the following things that are financially unstable, unable to
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Speaker 2: be done, and that will bankrupt the large parts of
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Speaker 2: the world, and ultimately we'll cause a series of problems
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Speaker 2: so big that we won't be able to all have
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Speaker 2: electricity anymore, you know that kind of stuff. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so people had distrust there. You know, you start hearing
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Speaker 2: about these you know, the hottest summer or the hottest
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Speaker 2: day on record, and the history of all of our
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Speaker 2: record keeping unless you count you know, those days in
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Speaker 2: the thirties and forties. There were some days it was
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Speaker 2: really hot back then, but we don't they just ignore that.
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Speaker 2: You know that record keeping wasn't great. It was actually
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Speaker 2: not bad then. It was better than it was. Remember
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Speaker 2: the guy in the UK that was supposed to be
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Speaker 2: keeping up with the official temperatures and he forgot and
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Speaker 2: he went back and just sort of wrote some temperatures
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Speaker 2: down or whatever that accusation was. Anyway, I think he
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Speaker 2: admitted to that, didn't he. I don't know. My point is,
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Speaker 2: we got to be able to trust a number of people. Great,
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Speaker 2: if we could trust our politicians, it'd be great. If
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Speaker 2: we could trust the media'd be great. If we could
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Speaker 2: trust medicine, it'd be great, if we could trust science.
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Speaker 2: So let's go back to medium. This is a good
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Speaker 2: example of what I'm talking about as it pertains to
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Speaker 2: the media. So there was a this is Vance County,
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Speaker 2: North Carolina, a young black man, twenty one year old
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Speaker 2: j ViOn McGee, a twenty one year old truck driver
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Speaker 2: from Chicago or nearby Chicago. They found him. He was
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Speaker 2: sitting against a tree, a smallish tree, not a tiny tree,
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Speaker 2: you know, not a big tree, not a small tree,
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Speaker 2: a medium tree. And he had a rope around his neck,
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Speaker 2: and the rope was apparently attached to the tree. There
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Speaker 2: was no indications of physical harm, according to the reports.
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Speaker 2: There was no indication of him being you know, you know,
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Speaker 2: being forcibly like, this wasn't a lynching, this wasn't a
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Speaker 2: they're not calling it a fat They're saying no foul play,
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Speaker 2: not suspected. The belief is that it was a suicide.
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Speaker 2: And you know, they're not officially saying that. They're saying
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Speaker 2: that could have been a suicide, suggested a suicide. In fact,
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Speaker 2: this young man, who I guess, drove his truck into
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Speaker 2: Vance County, stopped at a I guess he was making
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Speaker 2: a delivery at a Walmart. He went into this Walmart,
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Speaker 2: he went to sorry, he had driven a truckload to
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Speaker 2: a Walmart distribution center, then went to a Walmart store
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Speaker 2: and bought some items that included the rope that was
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Speaker 2: draped around his neck, and then he took the rope
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Speaker 2: and then what he did from there, they don't know,
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Speaker 2: but there's surveillance footage that was obtained from Walmart, and
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Speaker 2: they said, and this was not, I guess released as
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Speaker 2: part of the investigation officially, but anyway, they said, his
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Speaker 2: body did not necessary according to the authorities. There sheriff
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Speaker 2: of this county, Vance County, Curtis Braime, who himself a
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Speaker 2: black man. It's sad that we have to point that out,
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Speaker 2: but it's worth noting, said that the body of McGee
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Speaker 2: did not appear to be disfigured in any former fashion
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Speaker 2: when he was found, so certainly no evidence of a lynching,
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Speaker 2: certainly no evidence of foul play. As they said. However,
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Speaker 2: the headlines on various news outlets were about how he
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Speaker 2: was found with a rope around his neck, How he
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Speaker 2: was found, you know, with a rope around his neck
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Speaker 2: next to a tree. The headline from wc NC saying
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Speaker 2: black man found dead against tree with rope around his
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Speaker 2: neck in North Carolina and the sheriff there stressed McGhee stress,
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Speaker 2: this is not a lynching, but that was the accusation.
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Speaker 2: That was what was implied by this headline. It's despicable.
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Speaker 2: Why do we have to This is clickbait at best.
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Speaker 2: At worst, it's about trying to create some sort of
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Speaker 2: a race complication or trying to create some kind of
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Speaker 2: a you know, a fight, a struggle something as we
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Speaker 2: get closer to election day. Right, I don't know. This
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Speaker 2: has been our pattern the past few elections, So it's despicable.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely despicable that this would take place. Other thing
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about is Taylor Swift. I just
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Speaker 2: thought this was interesting that a Piers the Taylor Swift
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Speaker 2: endorsement will have no impact on the election, according to
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Speaker 2: a couple of polls that were done. There's a poll
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Speaker 2: from ABC News says eighty one percent of those responded
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Speaker 2: said the endorsement of Taylor Swift for Kamala Harris would
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Speaker 2: have no effect on their vote none. That's eighty one percent.
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Speaker 2: Thirteen percent said the endorsement would make it less likely
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Speaker 2: that they would vote for Harris. Now, the question is,
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Speaker 2: would any of those people have been undecided. That's the
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Speaker 2: only thing that would matter and have any effect on
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Speaker 2: it at all. I think that it's interesting that former
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Speaker 2: President Trump and I talked about this just a little
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Speaker 2: bit yesterday. But it's a classic sort of Trump move
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Speaker 2: to harp on this and focus on this so much
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Speaker 2: with his I Hate Taylor Swift that he did on
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Speaker 2: truth Social on Sunday. I don't know that there's any
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Speaker 2: benefit in going down this path. He does predict that
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Speaker 2: it will have an effect on Taylor Swift's sales, record
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Speaker 2: sales and concert sales and all that, and I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you would think it might have some impact,
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Speaker 2: but you know, she is at a level now where
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Speaker 2: she's selling concert tickets for so much. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how average people can afford to go. I don't know
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Speaker 2: why they would even try to spend that kind of
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Speaker 2: money to go. I have not been to a Taylor
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Speaker 2: Swift show. Back in my radio programming days, I gave
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Speaker 2: my tickets to one of the shows to someone else
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Speaker 2: who badly wanted to meet Taylor Swift before she was
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Speaker 2: you know, megastar Taylor Swift. But I thought that person
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Speaker 2: would enjoy them more than me and Taylor Swift, as
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Speaker 2: I've pointed out, only said good things about me to
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Speaker 2: this person that I gave the tickets to. That's very nice,
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Speaker 2: she said of me, And I quote, I love him,
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Speaker 2: say that's a good thing. That's a positive thing. I'll
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Speaker 2: take that, you know, I don't take it enough that
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go. Man, I have to let her
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Speaker 2: decide who I vote for. That's the weirdest thing. Isn't
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Speaker 2: that a strange thing that we do as a society,
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Speaker 2: as a culture, somehow we have convinced ourselves that it
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Speaker 2: is important who a celebrity that we like is voting for.
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Speaker 2: Why what is the benefit of, Oh, this is celebrity endorsement.
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Speaker 2: The candidate either supports the values that you stand for
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Speaker 2: or they don't. And if they don't, then maybe they're
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Speaker 2: at least somebody that you think, this is somebody that
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Speaker 2: I believe will at least get us on track. Even
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Speaker 2: if they don't support all of the things that I support,
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Speaker 2: perhaps they can get us on track with the following
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Speaker 2: maybe two or three things. And if you're voting for
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Speaker 2: someone for a reason anything other than that, you know
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Speaker 2: you're at your core, you know you say, well, these
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Speaker 2: are the principles that I stand for, and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to vote based on these principles, right. And I've stressed
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Speaker 2: before it's important. I think that we're letting our faith
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Speaker 2: have an impact on our you know, choices on our politics.
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Speaker 2: Always strange to me when I hear someone like it's
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Speaker 2: a devout Catholic that they themselves say, you know, I
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Speaker 2: follow the you know, all of the Catholic ways, but boy,
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Speaker 2: I got to make sure that abortion is available. It's
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Speaker 2: it's always one of those you just kind of say,
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Speaker 2: that's a strange, you know, but it's it's kind of
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Speaker 2: become more of the norm, right, And that's true with
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Speaker 2: a lot of things. It's true with people try to
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Speaker 2: they try to say, well, Christians aren't charitable enough and
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Speaker 2: Republicans aren't charitable enough. No, Conservatives would like to be
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Speaker 2: able to say, we want to take our money and
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Speaker 2: not have it taken by the government and used to
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Speaker 2: give charity to people in order and exchange to make
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Speaker 2: an exchange for a vote. We'd rather be able to say, look,
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Speaker 2: I want to give this money to my church. I
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Speaker 2: want to be able to give this money to this
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Speaker 2: organization that I support and let them help people that
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Speaker 2: are in a bund let them do some thing with
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Speaker 2: it that will help others. That would be our preferred
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Speaker 2: way to go. You know. But back to my point.
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Speaker 2: You know, and I've said this many times before, and
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Speaker 2: I'd like to stress it. Your faith should be dictating,
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Speaker 2: you know, your politics. Your politics should not be dictating
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Speaker 2: your faith. You shouldn't be saying, well, I'm a Democrat,
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Speaker 2: therefore I'm going to change my opinion on the following
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Speaker 2: things to make it fit. We've done that with churches.
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Speaker 2: Churches are pulling away from the more classic, classic tenants
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Speaker 2: that they once stood for, the creeds that they once
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Speaker 2: stood by. Well, I understand that this, you know, was
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Speaker 2: considered a sin for a long time, but now I
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Speaker 2: want it to be okay. So I'm going to make
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Speaker 2: sure that it bleeds into my faith. I want to
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Speaker 2: let it push my faith in a certain direction. I
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Speaker 2: want to let you know, my church continue to be
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Speaker 2: part of I don't know, you know, large Methodist group,
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Speaker 2: rather than break away like some are doing because they're saying,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, this isn't really what we're supposed to
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Speaker 2: be standing for. You know, you got to let your
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Speaker 2: faith dictate your politics and your vote. You can't let
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Speaker 2: your politics dictate your faith. And if you do, I've
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Speaker 2: after the break. All right, we talked about coffee back
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Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show. Let's talk about coffee again.
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Speaker 2: Coffee shops known for being remote workspaces almost as much
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Speaker 2: as they're known for their coffee, which is why one
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Speaker 2: New York City woman was shocked to discover that her
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Speaker 2: local coffee shop was charging customers using their laptops a
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Speaker 2: ten dollars daily membership fee. The woman named Nicole took
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Speaker 2: to social media event saying that she realized she couldn't
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Speaker 2: just take up space there without buying something, but thought
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Speaker 2: the pricey coffee that she bought was enough. She said,
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Speaker 2: I totally get buying something at the cafe to sit
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Speaker 2: there and do your work. The problem is, she said,
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Speaker 2: that on top of that drink was the drink was
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Speaker 2: nine dollars, and you have to pay one of those
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Speaker 2: prices to be able to use the laptop. Apparently, the
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Speaker 2: coffee shop charges ten dollars a day, thirty dollars a month,
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Speaker 2: or three hundred a year to work from one of
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Speaker 2: their tables. She says you have to become a member
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Speaker 2: of Comments mixed, some siding with her, some siding with
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Speaker 2: the shop, saying it's coffee shop, not an office. You
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be there every day for too long. I don't
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Speaker 2: know your thoughts on that. It seems a bit much,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it?
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Speaker 1: All Right?
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Speaker 2: It's the world's most expensive martini A Dallena, an Italian
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Speaker 2: restaurant in Chicago. Sorry if I didn't say it right,
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Speaker 2: is leaving patron shaken and stirred by serving up a
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Speaker 2: cocktail with the eye popping price tag of thirteen thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars plus a ten dollars membership fee to sit there
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Speaker 2: and drink it. No, just kidding. In addition to the
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Speaker 2: high end drink, the Marrow martini includes oh sorry, the
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Speaker 2: includes a nine carrot diamond tennis necklace in it, and
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Speaker 2: it features one hundred and fifty diamonds set in fourteen
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Speaker 2: carrot gold sourced from the jewelry store directly downstairs. Let's convenient.
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Speaker 2: According to Adelina's owner, the martini receives a bold flavor
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Speaker 2: by being paired with other garden inspired ingredients like airloom, tomato, water, chili, liqueur,
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Speaker 2: and lemon basil olive oil. That I say that the
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Speaker 2: American way, Basil Basil. I said, basil. Okay, here in
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Speaker 2: this house we say it the Australian way, and we
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Speaker 2: say basil. But I said it right That time got
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Speaker 2: me on an Applebe's commercial. I did once because I
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Speaker 2: said basil and an understatement. The restaurant says, well, it's
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Speaker 2: not something we expect to see sold frequently. It has
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Speaker 2: sparked a lot of interest among our clientele. All right,
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Speaker 2: we're rolling our way into autumn. We talked about that
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Speaker 2: sum yesterday, and soon you'll be getting into all your
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Speaker 2: favorite pumpkin dishes. It's easy for me. I don't have any.
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Speaker 2: Here's an interesting fact you may not. I kind of
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Speaker 2: like the pumpkin bread. That's all right. My friend Tammy
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Speaker 2: Terry made a really good pumpkin bread. I should ask
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Speaker 2: her to make me another one. It's really good. A
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Speaker 2: fixed or computer I wonder for computers broken. I need
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Speaker 2: to reach out and find out. Here's an interesting fact
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Speaker 2: that you may not have known about. That can of
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Speaker 2: pumpkin puree in your recipe, it may not actually be pumpkin.
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Speaker 2: They can may say one hundred percent pumpkin, but it's
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Speaker 2: most likely not the kind of pumpkin you think it is.
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Speaker 2: You probably think the kind that you carve up into
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Speaker 2: jack o lanterns and displaying your front door, not what's
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Speaker 2: going in the can. It's most likely another kind of squash.
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Speaker 2: For example, Libby's brand mostly uses a type of squash
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Speaker 2: called Dickinson squash for its canned pumpkin. Other brands have
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Speaker 2: been known to use Boston Marrow squash, Golden Delicious squash,
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Speaker 2: even butternut squash. The companies are able to get away
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Speaker 2: with labeling their products one hundred percent pumpkin because there
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Speaker 2: are so many different varieties of pumpkin squash, a lot
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Speaker 2: of gourds, a lot of gourds, you know, to pick
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Speaker 2: from whatever they want. Amid so much doom and gloom
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Speaker 2: negativity in the world comes the announcement from astronomer Paul Wiger,
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Speaker 2: who says that an asteroid could collide with the Earth
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Speaker 2: on April thirteenth of twenty twenty nine, which happens to
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Speaker 2: be a Friday of the thirteenth, just to trigger superstitious folks.
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Speaker 2: The asteroid, named Apofus for the Greek god Chaos, is
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Speaker 2: a quarter mile long and was first identified in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and four. Wygard has previously ruled out any chance
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Speaker 2: of the giant rock hitting the Earth, but has since
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Speaker 2: reviewed the data and now says that if another space rock,
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Speaker 2: even one as small as eleven feet wide, should come
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Speaker 2: into contact with it and knock it off course, it
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Speaker 2: could slam into the Earth. The good news is the
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Speaker 2: odds of that scenario happening is about one in two billion.
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Speaker 2: This is the kind of thing I was talking about
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Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show when we were talking
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Speaker 2: about clickbait. This is clickbait, that's all it is. Luke
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Speaker 2: has come on from school asking me about this on
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Speaker 2: more than one occasion. So, yeah, it's not going to happen.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's right, it technically could happen, but it's
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Speaker 2: not going to happen. Finally, new data from the Center
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Speaker 2: of Disease Control reveals that America is the heaviest it's
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Speaker 2: ever been with a what ever been? There's another one
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Speaker 2: of those stats. How do they know it ever been?
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Speaker 2: I'm wapping twenty percent of Americans classified as obese, which
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Speaker 2: is defined as having a BMI of thirty or more.
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Speaker 2: The Midwest and the South report of the highest levels
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Speaker 2: of obesity in West Virginia tip to scales as the
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Speaker 2: fattest state with an obesity rate at forty one point
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Speaker 2: two percent. Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana we're not far behind, with
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Speaker 2: forty percent of its citizens considered obese. The only state
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Speaker 2: that checked in as mostly healthy was Colorado. That'll do
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Speaker 2: it for this Tuesday edition of the show. Thanks to
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