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What Does the W Stand for? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, tenth day of August time. Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. The WNBA has really stepped in it, haven't they.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be interesting to see how things
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Speaker 2: play out. And I don't know the answer to it.
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Speaker 2: I mean I think I kind of know the answer
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Speaker 2: to it. It's kind of like the Hey, they're going
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Speaker 2: to really go get doctor Fauci and prosecute him and whatever.
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Speaker 2: These states are going to do it. And we talked
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Speaker 2: about that some last week. Do I really think anything's
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Speaker 2: going to come of it. No, in the end, even
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Speaker 2: if they found some horribly incriminating thing to get him on.
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Speaker 2: I think in the end you got a lot of
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Speaker 2: people just going, yeah, but he's in his eighties. Nobody
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Speaker 2: wants to go to jail. I do you know. I
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Speaker 2: think if he's found to be criminally negligent for you know,
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Speaker 2: millions of lives lost, including you know a lot of Americans,
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Speaker 2: I think you got to do that, right. I think
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Speaker 2: you've got to go after him, especially if he's responsible
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Speaker 2: for you know, starting a worldwide pandemic and didn't really
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Speaker 2: do everything that could have been done to stop it.
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Speaker 2: I think if that ends up being the case with evidence,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think that's what you got to do.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, so the WNBA has now two men, I
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Speaker 2: mean women, two former men, two men who now identify
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Speaker 2: as women who have declared for the w NBA draft
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Speaker 2: and as Cantor Freedom, who added Freedom to his name
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Speaker 2: when he became a citizen and has been someone who
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Speaker 2: has seen some controversy. No longer in the NBA obviously,
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Speaker 2: and Royce White, also former NBA player, and they have
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Speaker 2: both said they would like to enter for eligibility. White
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Speaker 2: has gone as far as to say that he's only
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Speaker 2: been out as a woman for a few days and
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Speaker 2: has already been getting a lot of trans hate, and
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Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't think it, doesn't understand why people
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Speaker 2: are allowing that and celebrating that and all those things.
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Speaker 2: So how did we get here? We have seen a
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Speaker 2: professional sports league that has been self destructive. They started,
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Speaker 2: they tried to kind of find a couple of stars
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Speaker 2: and say this is who's going to be our big stars.
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Speaker 2: And they had a couple, but they weren't enough to
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Speaker 2: really attract a lot of eyes. They just haven't been
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Speaker 2: there the quality of the game hasn't been great, and
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Speaker 2: that's what you need for if you have to have
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Speaker 2: the quality product, and then you have to have the names,
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Speaker 2: you have to have the people that you're gonna put
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Speaker 2: in the in the league. We've gone through this with
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Speaker 2: these you know, uh UFL and all this stuff, like
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Speaker 2: these football leagues that come along and they go, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have this league and it's going to be something,
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Speaker 2: and you know, there was an attempt at one point
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Speaker 2: one league was like, we're gonna get Steve Spurrier to
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Speaker 2: coach and you know, and and try to but you're
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Speaker 2: getting Steve Spurrier well past his prime and all those things,
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Speaker 2: and it just didn't happen. It hasn't happened. It didn't
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Speaker 2: didn't happen the way they were hoping. They made some
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Speaker 2: effort to it, but the reality here is that there
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Speaker 2: are some sports leagues that are just they're they're they're
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Speaker 2: just damned to fail. That's that's the thing. You're not
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Speaker 2: going to get the audience for it that you want,
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Speaker 2: that you need for it to thrive. Maybe someday, but
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Speaker 2: there's just some that are are going to be dealing
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Speaker 2: with that. And the w NBA has had the advantage
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Speaker 2: of having the NBA to help prop them up and
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Speaker 2: keep them going. And I think there's there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of nobility in all of that when you then have
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Speaker 2: players in the w NBA saying, well, they should make
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Speaker 2: the same money the men do, and that's when it
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Speaker 2: becomes Okay, let's let's let's take a breath here for
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Speaker 2: a minute, think about what you're saying. But let's just
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Speaker 2: be realistic here. The league struggled for a long time
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Speaker 2: to find more than just a very small base audience
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Speaker 2: and attendance. It's certainly had moments where you've had a
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Speaker 2: little spike here and there, and and then of course
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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark comes along and becomes that that that messy
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Speaker 2: if you will, right, that shows up Messi and like
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Speaker 2: Lionel Messi and Messi like you know, Messi. It's gotten ugly.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, so she comes along and suddenly the league
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Speaker 2: has like it's a lifeline here. It is, here's the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to get butts in the seats. And it worked
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Speaker 2: that you had more attendance because of her games when
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Speaker 2: she was playing her team there. So there's this opportunity
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Speaker 2: to capitalize on it. And then what happened was, you know,
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Speaker 2: you had players in the league that just didn't like
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Speaker 2: that she was now the face of the league. They
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Speaker 2: didn't want it to be her. They refuse to let
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Speaker 2: it be her. They start pounding on her on the court.
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Speaker 2: They're hitting her, they're knocking her down, anything that they
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Speaker 2: can do to physically intimidate her. And you know, she's scrappy.
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Speaker 2: She's not somebody who's going to let that happen. She's
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Speaker 2: played in college and now professionally, so you know she's
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Speaker 2: out there doing it. But even she sort of fell
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Speaker 2: victim to some of this. She starts seeing her flopping
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Speaker 2: in games and things, and you're going, all right, now,
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Speaker 2: the flopping is celebrated when it's Lebron. It's certainly accepted
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Speaker 2: in soccer, but even that became like, what are we
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Speaker 2: doing here? An opportunity for each team and let's be
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Speaker 2: honest about this. Let's also take this into account. When Jordan,
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Speaker 2: playing in his prime, would come to town, you know,
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Speaker 2: there was a marketing strategy to it. The teams knew
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Speaker 2: this is going to get people to buy tickets. We
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Speaker 2: have to take advantage of the fact Michael Jordan's coming
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Speaker 2: to town. Think back to Bird and Magic in their prime.
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Speaker 2: Think about the Lakers with Shaq and Kobe, and you've
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Speaker 2: gone through these phases of some of these players, and
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Speaker 2: even with Lebron James. There's been these players that you go,
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Speaker 2: people are going to show up to see that one
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Speaker 2: of these soccer leagues around the world, they go, well,
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Speaker 2: we'd like to get a player that's going to attract
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Speaker 2: an audience, and Messi has been that guy for Miami.
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Speaker 2: And when you know, when Miami comes to town, those
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Speaker 2: tickets sell out and the upsell, the now legal scalping,
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Speaker 2: which I still don't get that of tickets. Suddenly you
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Speaker 2: know people paying seven eight hundred thousand dollars for a
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Speaker 2: ticket to go see Messi play. I guess those were
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Speaker 2: World Cup numbers, but you get what I'm saying, people
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Speaker 2: wanting to pay to see this kind of player. And
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Speaker 2: they didn't do that. Some teams, I guess did, but
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Speaker 2: for the most part, the WNBA dropped the ball on that.
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Speaker 2: So then then you also on the Indiana Fever have
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Speaker 2: another player who has become another lightning rod in Sophie Cunningham.
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Speaker 2: And again this is another player that should have been,
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Speaker 2: and you got both of them on the same team.
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Speaker 2: This should be like the package for you to go.
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Speaker 2: We should be in great shape moving forward at least
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Speaker 2: with this team. And Sophie Cunningham not only fun on
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Speaker 2: the court with what she's doing. She's attractive. That's not
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Speaker 2: a bad thing when you're trying to sell tickets. So
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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that that's the baseline of what's important.
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Speaker 2: I'm just pointing out the fact that you kind of
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Speaker 2: have this like package in these two players that you
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Speaker 2: should be able to, you know, at the very least
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Speaker 2: sell out some games when they come to town. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's all I'm getting at. And now she's taken a beating,
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Speaker 2: she's getting hit hard, a flagrant fouls and things, and
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Speaker 2: suddenly it's because you know, she's she made a comment
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Speaker 2: about how women's sports and girls sports should be protected
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Speaker 2: from from males playing. Right. People going after that saying, oh,
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Speaker 2: she hates trans people. That's what she's against trans people,
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Speaker 2: and you know, and she said, no, that's not what
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Speaker 2: I said. There's a big movement in the neurodivergent community. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's to do with you know, autism ADHD that kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff. The autism spectrum, I guess, is what it's
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Speaker 2: called now where it's like, you know, don't hear what
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Speaker 2: I didn't say. This would apply in this case with
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Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham. Don't hear what I didn't say. That's been
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Speaker 2: a long standing thing, by the way of a lot
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Speaker 2: of things from people more conservative or on the right.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know the politics of Sophie Cunningham. I'm
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Speaker 2: just pointing out the fact that there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: you know, don't hear what I didn't say. We went
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Speaker 2: through this with there's a number of issues this has
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Speaker 2: gone through. But like when people would go like, well, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know I attend to church and say, oh, well
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Speaker 2: that means you don't like gay people. Where where would
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Speaker 2: you come up with that from? Like in in what
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Speaker 2: world are we just jumping to, uh that that's what
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Speaker 2: it is? Right? So there's a lot of that. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of just reading in between the lines. You
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Speaker 2: go like I like Tesla, oh you must like Elon Musk,
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Speaker 2: you must be a Nazi. And Chris Pratt, by the way,
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Speaker 2: was the kind of the poster child for the you know,
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Speaker 2: his church. I guess at some point there was some
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Speaker 2: connection to you know, something about homosexuality and it being bad,
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Speaker 2: and they go, weh, Chris Evans must this must be
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Speaker 2: his stance on it, and it's like, don't hear what
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Speaker 2: I didn't say. I think it's a great I think
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Speaker 2: the expression applies so well to so many things in
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Speaker 2: life in general. Right, there's so many times when this
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Speaker 2: could be relevant. So then you got Sophie Cunningham with
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Speaker 2: her you know, don't hear what I didn't say moment
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Speaker 2: of I didn't say I hate trans people. I didn't
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Speaker 2: say I don't support the trans community. I didn't say
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Speaker 2: any of that. All I said was we have to
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Speaker 2: protect girls and women's sport. So you have this flagrant
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Speaker 2: foul situation, all these things starting to happen, and people
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Speaker 2: are like, oh, don't you just love the power of
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Speaker 2: the trans foul and some of these comments coming for
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Speaker 2: these I love a trans foul was a comment made
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Speaker 2: by I guess Sidney Colson, who played with with Cunningham
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Speaker 2: and Indiana at some point, and reacted to it. It's
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Speaker 2: it's absurd where things go when you just make a
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Speaker 2: comment and you say, I support you know, girls, I
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Speaker 2: support support women and girls and sports. So people say, well,
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Speaker 2: this isn't a thing, like you know this, this isn't
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Speaker 2: a thing. So it was pointed out that the WNBA,
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Speaker 2: while it says only women can play in the league,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't specifically define what that means to be a woman.
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Speaker 2: This has been one of the problems that's come up,
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Speaker 2: you know, over the years. Now, so what does that
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Speaker 2: mean if you just say, well, it has to be
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Speaker 2: a woman. Okay, Well can a guy be a woman
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Speaker 2: that you know used to be a guy and now
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Speaker 2: be a woman. And you know, in many cases in
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Speaker 2: the trans communities, yes, that's what they say. That's you know,
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Speaker 2: if that's what you feel that you are. And some
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Speaker 2: of this has been challenged by the questioning of things
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Speaker 2: like so if a you know, a man decides that
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Speaker 2: he's an eight year old girl, like a fifty year
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Speaker 2: old man, can he be an eight year old girl?
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Speaker 2: And they go, oh, come on, that's ridiculous, But it's
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Speaker 2: a fair question if you're just saying that feeling like
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Speaker 2: you're something can make you that something. In mind, This
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Speaker 2: is also part of the abortion debate and conversation. When
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Speaker 2: you say I want this child, then the child is alive,
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Speaker 2: I don't want the child. It's not really a child.
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Speaker 2: It never was alive in the first place. You carry
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Speaker 2: a child and you say this is a child that
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Speaker 2: I want to have. Someone kills you and it kills
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Speaker 2: the baby. It's a double homicide. It's a double murder.
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Speaker 2: But if you don't want the child, you can do
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Speaker 2: whatever you want to do with the child because you
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Speaker 2: didn't want it. That's been the long standing thing. See,
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Speaker 2: there's this this stilted reality of what it can mean
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Speaker 2: just by saying this is what I feel like, this
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Speaker 2: is what I want. Therefore dot dot. So these two
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Speaker 2: men that are now claiming that they are women, have
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Speaker 2: I missed the part where I guess Klay Travis from
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Speaker 2: OutKick said, you know, he would give ten million dollars
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Speaker 2: to the winner of a game between the champions and
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Speaker 2: the WNBA. The Aces could play a high school team
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Speaker 2: that he would pick of his choice, play them in
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Speaker 2: a game, and the winner would get the ten million dollars.
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Speaker 2: And of course the WNBA not having it. They don't
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Speaker 2: want anything to do with this competition, which you would
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Speaker 2: think if it was truly going to be fair. Now,
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Speaker 2: remember that the women's national team in soccer for the US.
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Speaker 2: They played some fourteen year old boys and lost really badly.
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Speaker 2: So basketball, I'm sure Klay Travis could have put together
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Speaker 2: a team a high school found the high school team,
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Speaker 2: I guess, not really putting one together. They It could
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Speaker 2: have been ugly if they would take him up on it,
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Speaker 2: but they didn't. They just said we're not going to
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Speaker 2: be part of a political stunt. Then you get to
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Speaker 2: the point where you have these two guys that used
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Speaker 2: to play in the NBA saying we're women now and
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Speaker 2: we're going to declare for the draft. So again you're
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Speaker 2: getting this statement from the league, from the players Association,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to be a political stunt, all these
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Speaker 2: sorts of things. But the question becomes by saying that
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Speaker 2: they're women and by not defining what it is to
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Speaker 2: be a woman in the WNBA, then they're kind of
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Speaker 2: pushing forward with this by saying, well, you define what
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Speaker 2: it means or we get to play. Now. How far
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Speaker 2: this is going to go, I don't know. I can't
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Speaker 2: imagine that we're going to get to a point where
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Speaker 2: they're going to actually be like in the pool that
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Speaker 2: can be drafted. If they are, I don't know how
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Speaker 2: as a general manager of a team, you don't do it.
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Speaker 2: I know it would be frowned upon, but it would
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Speaker 2: be frowned upon as you're winning, you know, the next
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Speaker 2: ten championships, especially if you get both of them, you're
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Speaker 2: the only general manager and only owner that's like, we'll
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Speaker 2: take them. It would be I mean, they could really
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Speaker 2: just kind of play two on five. It's the harsh
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Speaker 2: reality of it, but it's the reality of it. They don't,
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Speaker 2: you know, the other three on the team would just
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Speaker 2: be there to kind of inbound the ball. I guess,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know what, like, what do
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Speaker 2: you do?
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Speaker 1: What do you do?
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Speaker 2: If you're the other three people on the court with
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Speaker 2: those guys, one team would have to draft the other
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Speaker 2: one just to say, all right, well maybe we can
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Speaker 2: you know, back and forth. Who's gonna win the championship
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Speaker 2: every year? It'd be like one thing stopping one of
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Speaker 2: them from going undefeated every year. So this is now
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Speaker 2: the corner that they've painted themselves into what this is
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Speaker 2: the joke of what this league is because they they
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Speaker 2: don't know, they're gonna have to define it. They're gonna
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Speaker 2: have to be able to say what's possible and what's
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Speaker 2: not possible in the league. By the way, the other
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Speaker 2: part of all of this is that when Sophie Cunningham,
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Speaker 2: I guess was in high school, the kicker on their
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Speaker 2: high school team got injured and I think it was
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Speaker 2: high school, maybe it was college. I think it was
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Speaker 2: high school. And then the injured kicker, they didn't have
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Speaker 2: a kicker, and they got her a kick from the
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Speaker 2: soccer team or whatever got her to be the kicker,
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Speaker 2: and she kicked I think a field goal or an
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Speaker 2: extra point or something in the game. And people are going,
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Speaker 2: what I thought, you can't play in other sports. That's
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Speaker 2: not what she said. Again, don't hear what I didn't say.
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Speaker 2: She didn't say that women shouldn't be able to play
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Speaker 2: with men. She just said that women shouldn't be forced
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Speaker 2: to play with men, and that you have to protect
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Speaker 2: the game for the girls. See, co ed sports has
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Speaker 2: never been the issue. The issue has been this is
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Speaker 2: a women's league, or this is a girls league, but
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Speaker 2: we're gonna let Leah Thomas swim and dominate in the pool.
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Speaker 2: That's been the issue. It's never been an issue of it. Well,
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Speaker 2: is it okay to play in a co ed league?
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Speaker 2: That's never been the issue. If that's what you're getting into,
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Speaker 2: then you understand it's fair. Everybody wants to have a
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Speaker 2: former NBA player out there. If every team gets won,
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Speaker 2: then it's more fair, isn't it. But again, that's not
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Speaker 2: the discussion. These guys aren't doing this so that they
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Speaker 2: can play in the league. They're doing this to force
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Speaker 2: the hand of the league to say we're the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: So you've probably heard of websites and apps that give
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Speaker 2: you the opportunity to earn money as you lose weight.
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Speaker 2: Have you seen those? And they say how much money
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Speaker 2: would it take for you to lose, you know, fifty
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Speaker 2: pounds and there's an opportunity there for you to win
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Speaker 2: money if you lose weight as you go. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how those things work. I remember seeing an ad
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Speaker 2: for it, and I thought, is it an honor system
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Speaker 2: or how they tracking this? Do you get a special
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Speaker 2: scale they send you? I don't know. Maybe they do
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Speaker 2: those things. I'm not really sure how any of this works.
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Speaker 2: But there's another take kind of on this. Maybe your
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Speaker 2: employer might just pay you to lose weight, or at
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Speaker 2: least give you the tool to lose weight. That's what
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Speaker 2: Bank of America has going on. Basically, the company says
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Speaker 2: that they are or the bank, it's a company. The
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Speaker 2: right says that they're spending more than two hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars a year to provide GLP one weight
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Speaker 2: loss drugs like ozipic and we go V to its employees.
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Speaker 2: CEO Brian moynihan says that it's money well spent. The
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Speaker 2: banks roughly two hundred and eleven thousand workers are covered
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Speaker 2: under a healthcare program where the medications now account for
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Speaker 2: about thirteen percent of total health care spending, and while
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Speaker 2: many employers have scaled back coverage because of the high cost,
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Speaker 2: Bank of America is sticking with it, citing healthier employees
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Speaker 2: and potential long term savings. So the company pairing the
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Speaker 2: medications with health coaching and wellness support, saying it's already
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Speaker 2: seeing positive results makes sense because some of the complications
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Speaker 2: that come with obesity would be other problems in health
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Speaker 2: care coverage down the line. So, you know, I always
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Speaker 2: wondered this, and it was one of the really frustrating
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Speaker 2: things to me about the one of several, but one
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Speaker 2: of the frustrating things at least about the Obama administration.
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Speaker 2: Michelle Obama's thing was about, you know, childhood obesity, and
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Speaker 2: that was something that they were focusing on with her
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Speaker 2: as the first Lady. And it's great to be focused
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Speaker 2: on that. And I just remember the calls of why
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Speaker 2: aren't we making some changes on some of the foods
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Speaker 2: that are fed in schools or that are provided on
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Speaker 2: snap benefits that could actually make a difference in childhood obesity.
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Speaker 2: It was just kind of one of those that we
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Speaker 2: doing it or are we not doing it? Also on
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Speaker 2: the subject of GLP ones, you know, you think about
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Speaker 2: a resort vacation or cruise or something like that, and
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Speaker 2: those kinds of things. Well, now there are some wellness
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Speaker 2: ozempic station catering to people using GLP one weight loss drugs,
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Speaker 2: rolling out programs combined with specialized meals, nutrition coaching, fitness plans,
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Speaker 2: lifestyle guidance, charging thousands of dollars a week. The trend
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Speaker 2: reflectlecting the growth in the medications. According to a Gallop survey,
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Speaker 2: the percentage of Americans using GLP one drugs has nearly
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Speaker 2: quadrupled in just a few years, rising from about three
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Speaker 2: percent of adults in twenty twenty two to about eleven
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Speaker 2: percent today. And as the popularity of medications is growing,
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Speaker 2: even the vacation industry adapting to meet demand in that
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Speaker 2: maybe they should team up with Bank of America. Seems
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Speaker 2: like there could be some benefits there to for that
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Speaker 2: team up. See how all that pike play out for
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Speaker 2: you know, could be a good thing. Those numbers three
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Speaker 2: percent in twenty twenty two to about eleven percent now
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, was it still primarily like a
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Speaker 2: drug for people with diabetes? Because if that's the case,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, as soon as it became a hey,
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Speaker 2: this is going to be a weight loss drug, which
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Speaker 2: was just a side effect from all of it anyway.
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Speaker 2: New survey showing that today's college students aren't waiting for
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Speaker 2: the classroom to prepare them for the future. Nine and
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Speaker 2: ten say they're learning new skills on their own outside
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Speaker 2: of school, and the reason is anxiety about AI and
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Speaker 2: the job market. Nearly seven to ten students worrying that
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Speaker 2: AI could make it harder to find a job after graduation,
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Speaker 2: and less than half feel optimistic about the job market
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Speaker 2: that they're going to enter. And instead of panicking, though,
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Speaker 2: many are just adapting, with more than forty percent using
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Speaker 2: AI to help learn new skills, and most say understanding
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Speaker 2: AI is essential for their careers. At the same time,
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Speaker 2: students are concerned about becoming too dependent on technology and
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Speaker 2: losing critical thinking skills. It's a combination of things. It's
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Speaker 2: a catch, isn't it. And you want to be in
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Speaker 2: a place where you can utilize the tools available, just
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Speaker 2: not over really depend on them. All makes sense, and
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Speaker 2: they've also got to kind of figure out what those
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Speaker 2: jobs are that are going to exist even in a
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Speaker 2: world dominated by AI in the next ten twenty years.
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Speaker 2: You gotta think long term career options, and that's part
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Speaker 2: of it interesting. I wonder what happens if you just
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Speaker 2: go into AI and ask, hey, what are the jobs?
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Speaker 2: It'll be safe when AI takes over. I'm not comfortable
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Speaker 2: asking AI those kind of questions though. That'll do it
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