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Dolly Will Always Be a Treasure · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show. Wednesday morning, 26th day of August.
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Speaker 2: I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Back and forth, back
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Speaker 2: and forth. Trying to take care of getting my mom
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Speaker 2: home from the hospital. Another good day yesterday. Hopefully today's
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Speaker 2: the day she goes home. That's where we're at in
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Speaker 2: all this.
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Speaker 3: Maybe no back and forth. Got to go back. Got
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Speaker 3: to get her home. Well, I got to go back.
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Speaker 2: And forth at some point. Obviously, the fourth part always comes.
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Speaker 2: When you go back, you got to go forth. Shouldn't
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Speaker 2: it be called forth and back? I feel like that's
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Speaker 2: the better way to say it, isn't it? You're going
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Speaker 2: forth and then you're coming back.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, she is.
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Speaker 2: Continuing to recover and sands gallbladder and finally started to
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Speaker 2: eat some regular food yesterday. So that's a big step
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Speaker 2: in this whole process. And they moved her yesterday into
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Speaker 2: a room that's kind of the room that you go
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Speaker 2: to before you go home. So we think we're close.
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Speaker 2: That's the good news. That's the really good news. The
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Speaker 2: successful surgery. And again, I can't begin to thank all
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Speaker 2: the staff at Wellstar Hospital in LaGrange. But Kelly and
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Speaker 2: Kara are two of the standouts that have done a
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Speaker 2: great job taking care of her while she was up there.
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Speaker 2: They were her nurses for a few days while she
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Speaker 2: was kind of in that middle room. She wasn't in ICU.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't in emergency care kind of thing. She was
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Speaker 2: in that middle area. And then now she's been, I
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Speaker 2: guess they're technically on the ICU floor, but now she's
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Speaker 2: been bumped to, yeah, the room that you go to
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Speaker 2: when they're just like, we're just making sure you're good
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Speaker 2: and you can go home.
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Speaker 3: So that's all good.
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Speaker 2: So that's where we're at right now. While I was
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Speaker 2: there yesterday, the news broke about the passing of Dolly Parton, 80.
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Speaker 3: Years old, just days ago.
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Speaker 2: Before she passed, she said, I still have so many
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Speaker 2: things I want to achieve. We know her health had
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Speaker 2: not been great. There had been reports of that for
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Speaker 2: a while. A lot of reaction on social media. One
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Speaker 2: of those truly beloved figures across the board. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if I've ever heard anybody have something bad to
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Speaker 2: say about Dolly Parton, really, ever. I mean, she's managed
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Speaker 2: to be this iconic figure, absolute legend of country music.
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Speaker 2: I would argue that if you're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: females in country music, is there any better?
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Speaker 3: Anyone at all?
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Speaker 2: I mean, you could maybe make a case for a
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Speaker 2: couple of people to be in the conversation, but I
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Speaker 2: don't think there's anybody that you could put above her.
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Speaker 3: Is there? Not a big country music fan. myself.
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Speaker 2: So there's names that I'm sure that I'm not aware.
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Speaker 2: And there's a few that I know that I would
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Speaker 2: at least think maybe are in the conversation, but the
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Speaker 2: fact that she crossed over to somebody who doesn't really
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Speaker 2: follow country music never really has, you know, I like
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Speaker 2: Marty Robbins.
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Speaker 3: Does that count? That's about it.
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Speaker 2: It's about the extent of my, my, and, and of
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Speaker 2: course the people who crossed over the, the Dolly Parton's that, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, became Bigger Than Life, the Willie Nelsons, those
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Speaker 2: people that crossed over from country that, yeah, you can't
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Speaker 2: help but know who they are. And that is certainly
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Speaker 2: the case here with Dolly Parton. And just one of
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Speaker 2: those people that unites the right and the left. I
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Speaker 2: heard a few people commenting on that yesterday, saw that
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Speaker 2: online where people were just kind of making those like
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Speaker 2: everybody misses Dolly, everybody loved Dolly.
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Speaker 3: And it's true.
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Speaker 2: The work that she did for charities, the work that
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Speaker 2: she did to grow music artists, to promote the industry,
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Speaker 2: all of those things, and just had this persona that
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Speaker 2: was larger than life. someone that, and I always found
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Speaker 2: it strange. And I love the fact that she, she
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Speaker 2: sort of had this role that she played for a
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Speaker 2: lot of her career, uh, as a performer that, uh,
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Speaker 2: for like now someone sort of acting that way would be, uh,
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Speaker 2: at least criticized by someone on either the.
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Speaker 3: Left or right.
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Speaker 2: Uh, she, uh, very rarely got deep into politics. Maybe
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Speaker 2: there would be some sort of very safe, very vanilla
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Speaker 2: answers to questions when people tried to pin her down
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Speaker 2: on politics. And that was refreshing. It continued to be
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Speaker 2: refreshing right up until she died. That's just not something that.
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Speaker 3: We're used to. We're used to people that.
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Speaker 2: Just can't help themselves. You know, they're going to walk
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Speaker 2: through the cow pasture and step in something every few feet.
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Speaker 2: And she's just not someone who did that. She managed
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Speaker 2: to avoid it. And I'm sure there had to be
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Speaker 2: some controversy at some point in her life. I just
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Speaker 2: don't know of it. It's not something that's top of mind.
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Speaker 2: And I thought to myself as I was prepping this morning, like,
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Speaker 2: I should look into this. And I thought, I think
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Speaker 2: it's better that I don't know. Because it says something
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Speaker 2: about the fact that someone who has been covering news
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Speaker 2: media for 20 years should have heard something. And I
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Speaker 2: certainly didn't hear it before that. So I've not ever
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Speaker 2: heard of anything with her that was overly controversial or
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Speaker 2: anything that would be something that would cause someone to
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Speaker 2: dislike her. She she largely stayed out of a lot
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Speaker 2: of the controversy, which is which is great.
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Speaker 3: And it's refreshing.
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Speaker 2: I wish that we had more stars like that. She
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Speaker 2: certainly is in this caliber with, you know, beloved performers.
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Speaker 3: Like the Betty Whites of the world.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, Dick Van Dyke, people like that, that
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Speaker 2: you just everybody likes them, you know. Uh, some, you know,
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Speaker 2: couldn't help themselves, but finally get into politics, the Andy
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Speaker 2: Griffiths of the world. And you just kind of, and
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Speaker 2: not that he was overly active, but he was definitely
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Speaker 2: one of those old Southern Democrats. That's what he always was. Um, but, uh,
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Speaker 2: but this is about Dolly. Uh, so some things today, uh,
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Speaker 2: Dollywood will be open today. Um, and they said, you know, she, she, uh,
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Speaker 2: lived her life, um, under the, uh, the old stereo, uh,
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Speaker 2: the old showbiz, uh, uh, I would say stereo, it's
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Speaker 2: not really a stereotype. It's the, the, well, I guess
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Speaker 2: it is, but it's the, the, the mantra. That's the
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Speaker 2: word I'm looking for. Uh, the show must go on.
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Speaker 2: And that's the mindset behind she would have wanted to open, uh, Dollywood. Um, so, uh, Basically,
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Speaker 2: I guess it was scheduled to be closed yesterday, so
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Speaker 2: it was.
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Speaker 3: So they opened up for today. So that's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: The plans to do her autobiographical show Dolly, a true
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Speaker 2: original musical, will go forward according to her wishes. They'll
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Speaker 2: get started with that with previews December 7th at New
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Speaker 2: York's St.
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Speaker 3: James Theatre.
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Speaker 2: And opening night will be January 19th, so that would
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Speaker 2: have been her 81st birthday. Funeral will be small and
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Speaker 2: intimate in Nashville, and she'll be laid to rest at
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Speaker 2: Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum. She'll be buried in her
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Speaker 2: signature high heels, like five feet tall, and always wore
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Speaker 2: her heels. And they say, according to reports, is that
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Speaker 2: she was happy and not in pain. I guess there
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Speaker 2: was a cancer battle. I know there were some other
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Speaker 2: health conditions. I know she struggled with kidney stones in
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Speaker 2: her life and complications from those. And they said that
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Speaker 2: she had been hospitalized, I guess, for four days. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, there were these reports, I guess, from family.
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Speaker 2: I think her sister, it was her sister, posted a
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Speaker 2: message basically saying that if, you know, kind of giving
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Speaker 2: updates on the, when the shows that she had had scheduled, uh,
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Speaker 2: her run of shows was canceled and, you know, kind
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Speaker 2: of giving an update on her health. And then she
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Speaker 2: came out and she, she let everyone know that she
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Speaker 2: was okay. Uh, that was several months back and, you know,
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Speaker 2: other things about Dolly that stand out, um, you know,
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Speaker 2: this idea that she would never leave her house without
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Speaker 2: her makeup on and without being dressed, you know, to
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Speaker 2: the nines. Um, and that's just also, that's something that
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Speaker 2: has this kind of old Hollywood feel to it, doesn't it?
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Speaker 2: She just feels like she was, you know, this timeless
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Speaker 2: person who, um, you just had, there was an expectation
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Speaker 2: that she was always going to deliver for it. And that's, uh,
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Speaker 2: also something that I think is really refreshing about this
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Speaker 2: legacy that she leaves behind.
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Speaker 3: So, um, yes, we.
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Speaker 2: Lost a true legend, uh, yesterday in Dolly Parton. I
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Speaker 2: have not talked about the Phoenix city baseball team in
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Speaker 2: the little league world series.
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Speaker 3: For a few reasons. Yes.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to largely blame my back and forth schedule.
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Speaker 2: I have been following the games. I have been watching
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Speaker 2: the games and, it's been challenging for me some days
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Speaker 2: when it comes to recording the shows because I don't
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Speaker 2: know what time of day I'm going to be able
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Speaker 2: to do them.
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Speaker 3: So that's part of it.
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Speaker 2: And there have been some days where I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: I want to record something about the team, but I
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Speaker 2: didn't know if I was going to be able to
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Speaker 2: really do a show that next day and if I
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Speaker 2: was going to have the full show put together, and
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Speaker 2: I didn't want that to be something that's sort of
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Speaker 2: out of time. So at this point, after yesterday's win,
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Speaker 2: which was, you know, they had to play back-to-back, and
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Speaker 2: they're going to have to do that to get through to,
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Speaker 2: you know, to Saturday, which would be the, I guess,
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Speaker 2: the U.S. championship before they then move on into the,
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Speaker 2: you know, play against the world representative. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm as caught up in it as everybody. Little League
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Speaker 2: World Series is always a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 2: It's especially fun when we've had the fortunate side of
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Speaker 2: having a local team that has been in it. That's
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Speaker 2: happened now a few times, or that's done well in it.
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Speaker 2: And that's certainly happened a few times. And the Rasmus family,
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Speaker 2: no stranger to this. You know, you go back to, what,
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Speaker 2: 99 when, you know, the Rasmus kids were playing. This
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Speaker 2: is a family of baseball giants for the area when
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Speaker 2: you've got major leaguers involved and a grandfather and the kids,
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Speaker 2: the parents, I should say, with now the kids. So
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Speaker 2: you've got a grandfather, you've got two sons, major leaguers
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Speaker 2: that now have these kids that are playing. It's a
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Speaker 2: great family legacy there for all of them. Obviously, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people are caught up in Kenley Rasmus, but
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Speaker 2: there's other Rasmus kids on the team. But Kenley, the
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Speaker 2: one that is kind of the standout here, who is,
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Speaker 2: you know, the fear of the bow slogan that they're
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Speaker 2: using as a team. She's obviously just a fantastic all-around
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Speaker 2: player and the kind of player that, yeah, you're going
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Speaker 2: to lean on as a team. But what's great about
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Speaker 2: getting to this level of the League World Series, and
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Speaker 2: as good as she is and as much fun as
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Speaker 2: that story is, these are all-star teams that are coming
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Speaker 2: from regions. And the kids in our area here in
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Speaker 2: this Chattahoochee Valley, if you're not someone listening in my
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Speaker 2: hometown or nearby my hometown, or you're not listening and
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Speaker 2: used to listen to me on the radio in my
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Speaker 2: hometown— And if you're listening somewhere else in the world
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Speaker 2: and those of you listening around the world, thank you.
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Speaker 2: But when I talk about the Chattahoochee Valley for my
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Speaker 2: hometown and the area where I live, it involves Columbus, Georgia.
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Speaker 2: It involves Phoenix City, Alabama, and then the neighboring area
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Speaker 2: of Fort Benning, Georgia is part of that. And then
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of, you know, small little like suburb
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Speaker 2: type towns that are part of it that are nearby or,
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Speaker 2: you know, just little, uh, little places, little cities that
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Speaker 2: are just kind of part of this area. Uh, but
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Speaker 2: primarily those are the three it's Columbus, Phoenix city and
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Speaker 2: Fort Benning and, and, and the others, but the, the three.
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Speaker 2: So Phoenix city and Columbus are kind of a part
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Speaker 2: of one, one metropolitan type area. That's, that's where we are.
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Speaker 2: It's different sides of the river. uh, in, uh, Alabama
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Speaker 2: or Georgia. So when the kids in Phoenix city do well, uh,
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Speaker 2: we cheer them on in Columbus. I mean, they're, they're us, uh, friends,
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Speaker 2: family of the, the kids on the team, like, and
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Speaker 2: some of them may be listening now. I know that
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Speaker 2: you're proud. Uh, we're all proud of what those kids
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Speaker 2: are doing and we're excited for this deep run that
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Speaker 2: they're making and, you know, coming through, getting in that
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Speaker 2: loser's bracket, uh, And then having to fight their way
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Speaker 2: through the loser's bracket, which they've been doing. And it's
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Speaker 2: been exciting. It's been really fun to watch. So, yes,
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Speaker 2: fantastic stuff. Okay, one more thing before I'm done with
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Speaker 2: this for the day. And I just thought it was
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Speaker 2: worth mentioning, as I briefly talked about the tariffs with Canada. Canada,
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Speaker 2: not happy about it, obviously. They're now planning some tariffs
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Speaker 2: back towards..
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Speaker 3: The U.S. And, you know, as only Trump can do..
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Speaker 1: And.
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Speaker 2: This is the kind of stuff that, on one hand,
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Speaker 2: you can kind of go, do we really need to
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Speaker 2: do this?
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Speaker 3: And then when.
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Speaker 2: Trump does it, we just kind of... You can't help
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Speaker 2: but laugh. I know there's some people who aren't finding
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Speaker 2: it particularly funny. But Trump says that now the plan
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Speaker 2: is to move forward with renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, this is..
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Speaker 2: This is just turning into one of those.
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Speaker 3: Urination matches.
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Speaker 2: That's the slightly cleaned up way to say it. But
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Speaker 2: that's what this has become. And that's what it's going
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Speaker 2: to be for a little bit. But there is going
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Speaker 2: to be an impact, a significant impact on Canada. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, eventually you would think they're going to come
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Speaker 2: around on some of this. There will be a bit
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Speaker 2: of an impact on the U.S., but the long-term plan
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Speaker 2: here is to make things fair and make things right
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Speaker 2: between the two countries because we have been in a
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Speaker 2: period where our government has allowed some other countries to
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Speaker 3: So, you know, Lake America, I guess. Bring it on.
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Speaker 2: health-focused homes, those kinds of things are becoming the status
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Speaker 2: symbol that people are looking for. The global wellness industry
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Speaker 2: now worth nearly $ 7 trillion and continues to grow rapidly.
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Speaker 2: Supporters say it's a positive change because people are aspiring
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Speaker 2: to better health instead of more stuff. And critics pointing
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Speaker 2: out that wellness can also become a class marker since
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Speaker 2: wealthier people often have better access to healthy food, trainers,
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Speaker 2: health care, and free time. The good news, though, experts
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Speaker 2: say that the biggest health wins, walking, sleeping well, exercising,
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Speaker 2: eating real food, managing stress, largely free. Not all free,
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Speaker 2: but largely free, according to them. Yeah, and the people
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Speaker 2: that have money tend to be the ones that can
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Speaker 2: afford the biohacking treatments and the health-focused homes and longevity clinics. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you know what? If that's what you're going to
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Speaker 2: spend your money on, and as someone who is pro-free market,
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Speaker 2: I don't like the word capitalism because that's Karl Marx's word.
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Speaker 2: But the fact that there are people that are seizing
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to provide a service to people and people
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Speaker 2: are willing to pay for it, that's the way the
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Speaker 2: markets are supposed to work. And I'm sure somewhere there's
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Speaker 2: a Democrat that are licking their chops and trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out how to get their hands on that $ 7 trillion.
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Speaker 3: Because who needs that much money? Who needs it?
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Speaker 2: More older women are saying absolutely to the idea of
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Speaker 2: dating someone who is 10 years younger. A new survey
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Speaker 2: found that more than a third of people in their
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Speaker 2: 60s and nearly a third in their 50s would consider
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Speaker 2: dating someone at least 10 years younger. Researchers say it
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Speaker 2: reflects a major shift in dating priorities. Many women today
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Speaker 2: financially independent. and no longer focused on finding a partner
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Speaker 2: for security. Instead, they're looking for chemistry. They're looking for fun.
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Speaker 2: They're looking for shared interests, someone who matches their energy level.
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Speaker 2: The trend is showing up everywhere from social media, Hollywood movies.
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Speaker 2: I guess there's a movie called The Idea of You
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Speaker 2: and Lonely Planet. Never heard of them, but I'm assuming they're, yeah,
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Speaker 2: movies that have older women and younger men.
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Speaker 3: So basically..
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Speaker 2: For many women, age is becoming less important than connection, compatibility,
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Speaker 2: and finding someone who brings excitement to their lives. I
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Speaker 2: thought this was like a cougar trend. Wasn't that a thing?
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Speaker 2: It was like the cougars. It was older women, younger guys.
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Speaker 2: We just found another way to, like, they let it
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Speaker 2: kind of die down a little bit. And then now
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Speaker 2: it's like, no, no, no, we're doing the cougar thing.
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Speaker 2: We're just not going to call it that. Nobody wants
24:21
Speaker 2: to call it cougar anymore. Now we're going to call
24:24
Speaker 2: it this, uh, this other thing. And, uh, that's what
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Speaker 2: we're going to do. Uh, good for people. That's what
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Speaker 2: I say. You know, good for people. Go out there
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Speaker 2: and enjoy yourself, right? That's what you want to do.
24:37
Speaker 2: You find somebody that makes you happy and you can
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Speaker 2: date them and have a, you know, relationship and maybe
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Speaker 2: find true love.
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Speaker 3: Go for it.
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Speaker 1: Age.
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Speaker 3: Does it really matter?
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Speaker 2: A new home design trend encouraging people to unplug, literally
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Speaker 2: with designers saying that analog rooms poised to be one
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Speaker 2: of the hottest home trend items this fall. The screen-free
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Speaker 2: space is designed for activities like reading, listening to music,
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Speaker 2: playing board games, doing puzzles, or just having conversations. Designers
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Speaker 2: recommend arranging furniture to encourage face-to-face interaction with warm lighting. books, games,
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Speaker 2: swapping Bluetooth speakers for record players.
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Speaker 3: The goal isn't a specific look.
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Speaker 2: It's about creating a space that helps you slow down
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Speaker 2: and connect with others and take a break from the
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Speaker 2: non-stop digital world.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, you know, the record player.
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Speaker 2: I know it's had its comeback and it fades and
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Speaker 2: it comes back and it fades. I mean, I know
25:38
Speaker 2: some kids that are like teenagers that have like digital
25:42
Speaker 2: Polaroid cameras now That's made a comeback.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, record players are just like John Travolta.
25:48
Speaker 2: He used to have these phases where he would have
25:51
Speaker 2: his big comeback and then he would kind of fade away.
25:53
Speaker 2: And then he'd have a big comeback again and then
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Speaker 2: he would kind.
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Speaker 3: Of fade away. Record players kind of do that. So
25:59
Speaker 3: maybe it's just time for that.
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