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Remember When Getting the Whole Story Was Important? · 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.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, 28th day of October. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Zipping right along through this week. Hope you're
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Speaker 2: ready for the holiday. All this talk of people expecting
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Speaker 2: to spend a billion dollars on Halloween. And we keep
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Speaker 2: hearing about how everybody's worried about the economy. I saw
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Speaker 2: there was a, I guess this was something that was
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Speaker 2: floating around on social media where there was a woman
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Speaker 2: who was saying that when it comes to your Halloween costume,
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Speaker 2: if you're the character or whatever that you're dressing up as,
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Speaker 2: your costume, if you're dressing up like as Wonder Woman
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Speaker 2: and you have blonde hair, you should invest in the wig.
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Speaker 2: Like you have to invest in the wig. You can't
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Speaker 2: be Wonder Woman with blonde hair. And if you're, you know,
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Speaker 2: dressing as a blonde character, you're a brunette, you have
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Speaker 2: to get the wig. Like you have to spend the
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Speaker 2: money and it's got to be on a good wig.
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Speaker 2: And I guess this was floating around. Just goes to
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Speaker 2: show there's people that are not struggling in the economy, right?
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Speaker 2: It just proves that every now and then we have
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Speaker 2: these moments where you can kind of say, okay, well,
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Speaker 2: apparently people are doing a little better than they're trying
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Speaker 2: to let on in, in some way, I guess. But, uh, anyway,
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Speaker 2: now look, let me say it this way. Uh, when
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Speaker 2: it comes to Halloween costumes, uh, don't take it too seriously.
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Speaker 2: It's Halloween. It's just supposed to be fun. Uh, if you're,
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Speaker 2: if you're like a hardcore, uh, dedicated cosplayer and you're,
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Speaker 2: you're going to, uh, events, competitions, uh, you know, conventions
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Speaker 2: and things, And you want to make that extra investment
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Speaker 2: in making sure that you have the right wig for
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Speaker 2: the job. Sure. Absolutely. And there are some costumes where
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Speaker 2: you want to make sure it's right. Like the year
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Speaker 2: that my family all dressed as the Golden Girls. You know,
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Speaker 2: we did that for Halloween one year. I had to
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Speaker 2: make sure that I had a wig that was as
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Speaker 2: close to Bea Arthur as possible. You know, you gotta
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Speaker 2: have that. I made sure Jill had a wig that
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Speaker 2: was as close to Who was she? Blanche. You got
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Speaker 2: to be... Jake needed a good blonde rose wig, you know?
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Speaker 2: And then... I'm trying to remember. I can't believe I'm
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Speaker 2: blanking on the... Still Getty's character's name. But Luke needed
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Speaker 2: a good blonde wig for that. You know? I know
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Speaker 2: some of you were screaming the name of the character.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, so.
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Speaker 2: In those cases, yeah. I mean, you got to have
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Speaker 2: something that's at least close to a screen appropriate, right?
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Speaker 2: And that's what you got to do, Sophia. I had
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Speaker 2: to look it up. I had to look it up.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why I was blanking on it. I
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Speaker 2: haven't watched Golden Girls in a while. It's been a while.
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Speaker 2: I used to watch it. I was watching it when
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Speaker 2: it was on originally. My brother Matt and I would
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Speaker 2: watch Golden Girls once. Some of that stuff, we didn't
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Speaker 2: know what they were talking about, but we watched it
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Speaker 2: for crying out loud. We just knew that inevitably they
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Speaker 2: might eat some cheesecake. We knew that was a possibility. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: spending on Halloween this year is certainly not struggling with
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Speaker 2: anything to do with the economy. What I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about today is.
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Speaker 2: And just, I'm fascinated by something that's taking place. And
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Speaker 2: we're less than a week now until the midterm, by
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Speaker 2: the way. Yesterday, news drops about this. Someone accused the
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Speaker 2: president of rape or sexual assault or whatever it was. 1993.
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Speaker 2: Like a Miss Switzerland or Sweden or something. Yeah. we
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Speaker 2: had like a Democrat just sitting on this waiting until
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Speaker 2: we were like a week till the midterm just to
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Speaker 2: drop this out there. Um, you know, I, I, I
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Speaker 2: just feel like for one thing, we should all with
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Speaker 2: every story like this, every single story, like, first of all,
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Speaker 2: we should take all of them, um, give them the
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Speaker 2: serious attention that they need. Okay. Um, it's very serious. Um, Obviously,
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Speaker 2: if he's guilty, it's also very, very serious if he's
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Speaker 2: not guilty. And that's the part of this that I
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Speaker 2: think we have done a poor job of managing when
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Speaker 2: it comes to rape allegations, sexual assault allegations. We've gone
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Speaker 2: through this with a couple of Supreme Court justices. We've
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Speaker 2: gone through this. Remember, it was just a couple of
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Speaker 2: weeks ago. No one could stop talking about this, that
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Speaker 2: frat house case. And you just go, well, where did
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Speaker 2: all that end up? You know, it's, it does seem,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen this. There's a, I
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Speaker 2: wish I knew her name. There's a woman on, on
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Speaker 2: social media who has done a breakdown of how every year,
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Speaker 2: every two years, there is some sort of a sexual
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Speaker 2: assault or a sex crime case that has popped up,
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Speaker 2: you know, within like five weeks of election day. And
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Speaker 2: she breaks down every single one of them. And it
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Speaker 2: is kind of interesting. And not to be a conspiracy guy,
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Speaker 2: but I've told you, like, we go through these phases
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Speaker 2: where it seems like a complete coincidence, quote unquote, that
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Speaker 2: these things pop up at certain times. We know about
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Speaker 2: October surprises. And this is one that I guess somebody
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Speaker 2: was just sitting on and waiting until, you know, the
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Speaker 2: last possible minute to drop this thing a week ago. So, again,
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Speaker 2: it's serious. This is either a serious offense or this
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Speaker 2: is a serious offense of accusing someone that didn't do
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Speaker 2: anything when there's absolutely no way to have any sort
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Speaker 2: of evidence to go with it this far away. And
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Speaker 2: it's been a long time. It's been a really, really
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Speaker 2: long time since 1993. And it doesn't mean that it's okay.
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Speaker 2: If it happened, it's still serious. But the reason for
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Speaker 2: bringing it up a week until Election Day should at
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Speaker 2: least be something that we raise an eyebrow at. The
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Speaker 2: whole thing that we went through with Justice Kavanaugh, I mean, okay,
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Speaker 2: so it was just there, and then suddenly it became
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Speaker 2: way more serious because they were concerned about losing abortion rights.
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Speaker 2: So they didn't want him to be on the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: and they were trying to stall that as much as
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Speaker 2: they could. Anyway, I told you, it's just, it's weird.
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Speaker 2: We're at a weird period for things. Another thing that
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Speaker 2: we're at a weird period for is the fact that,
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Speaker 2: and it fascinates me that we've gotten to this stage
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Speaker 2: now when it's so easy, I think in many cases,
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Speaker 2: to debunk things. And we get these accusations and these
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Speaker 2: big stories that kind of take over in the news.
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Speaker 2: And people just figured out whatever's happened. They know because
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Speaker 2: they read something that was posted or they saw a
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Speaker 2: video or whatever it is. And you may have seen this.
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Speaker 2: There's this story about this kid who is a soccer player. Um,
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Speaker 2: I want to look at where it was cause in
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Speaker 2: my head it was in Florida. Okay. So, um, this is, uh,
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Speaker 2: a kid, his name is Nevada and he's three years
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Speaker 2: old and he was playing in a, uh, five U
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Speaker 2: beginner soccer league. So this would be, uh, probably mostly
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Speaker 2: four and five year olds. If it's, if it's U five,
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Speaker 2: it's under five. And if it's five U it's five
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Speaker 2: and under is the way that works. So this would
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Speaker 2: mean five-year-olds and four-year-olds, and then I guess some three-year-olds.
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Speaker 2: Probably not a lot of three-year-olds, but obviously this kid
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Speaker 2: is three and he's playing. So the story that we
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Speaker 2: all saw on social media was that the family of
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Speaker 2: this kid was, I guess, crying racism because it says
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Speaker 2: this is a predominantly white league. And he was too
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Speaker 2: good to And they were, they were getting grief from
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Speaker 2: the people who, uh, run the league and that, uh,
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Speaker 2: they just didn't want him out there cause he's so good.
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Speaker 2: And they had scored something like 40 goals and two
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Speaker 2: or three games or whatever it is. Uh, seeing the
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Speaker 2: video of the kid, he's got a lot of skill
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Speaker 2: for a three-year-old. There's no denying that at all. Um,
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Speaker 2: There's a few things, though, that kind of are playing
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Speaker 2: out with this because this was being shared by everybody
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Speaker 2: on social and everybody, the people that were sharing it
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Speaker 2: on social media. Some people I know from the soccer community, referees,
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Speaker 2: coaches and things that I know were sharing it and
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Speaker 2: saying that it was a shame that this was happening
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Speaker 2: to this kid. Well, now the police body cam footage
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Speaker 2: of the incident shows a different story than what this
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Speaker 2: family is accusing. including the person who's talking with police,
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Speaker 2: who himself is black, is basically addressing the fact that
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Speaker 2: some of the problem was disruption by the family of
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Speaker 2: this kid. And that I guess this is what it
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Speaker 2: seems to show on this body cam footage is that
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Speaker 2: the kid According to the guy who's running the league
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Speaker 2: was saying that the kid was pushing other kids down
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Speaker 2: or pushing them away so that he could score all
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Speaker 2: these goals and that he's good, but he's just pushing
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Speaker 2: these kids away and that he had addressed it. You're
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Speaker 2: not supposed to do that. This is a beginner league
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Speaker 2: for small children. And that's what was happening and that
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Speaker 2: he was saying that they needed to stop pushing the
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Speaker 2: other kids. And then he kept doing it. And then
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Speaker 2: at some point, I guess it was being addressed. And
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Speaker 2: that's when the family got upset and the family was
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Speaker 2: part of the disruption at the field. The police officer
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Speaker 2: is asking, well, do they need to be trespassed from
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Speaker 2: the property? You know, it's a little more complicated. There's
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Speaker 2: discussions about whether they should get a refund or whatever
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Speaker 2: it is. But then the family, I guess, has been
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Speaker 2: using this claim of the mistreatment of their child to
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Speaker 2: raise $ 25, 000 plus in a GoFundMe. And now that more
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Speaker 2: information's coming out, again, if you give it time and
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Speaker 2: let things sort of play out, maybe you get a
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Speaker 2: better understanding of what actually happened rather than deciding that
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Speaker 2: you have to choose a side in all of this.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of the people that I've seen shared
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Speaker 2: are like, well, what do you think? Where do you think?
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Speaker 2: And you can't know. You can't know what happened based
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Speaker 2: on one side of a story, and we probably are
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Speaker 2: getting two sides of it and still don't know everything
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Speaker 2: that took place. But a few things that I would
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Speaker 2: just like to comment on this, because there's another side
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Speaker 2: to all of this that should be addressed, I think,
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Speaker 2: for me, I think it should be addressed. And I just,
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Speaker 2: let me just offer another perspective on all of this.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of someone who has coached kids at
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Speaker 2: these ages. I never coached a three-year-old that I'm aware of.
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Speaker 2: Certainly not one with that skill level. But I did
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Speaker 2: coach from four-year-old and up. I had some of the
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Speaker 2: same kids from four until they were 12 that I
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Speaker 2: was coaching before I stopped coaching them. I had them
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Speaker 2: for that entire period. And what I can tell you
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Speaker 2: about a beginner league for these kids that are five
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Speaker 2: and under, and I coached a 6U is what I
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Speaker 2: was coaching. So I can tell you this. The objective
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Speaker 2: here is not to have one kid on a team
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Speaker 2: score 40 goals in a couple of games. That shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be anyone's intention or goal or anything. Sure, the kid
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Speaker 2: wants to get out and play soccer and show off.
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Speaker 2: I get that. He's a kid. He's three years old.
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Speaker 2: All he's going to do is whatever his parents are
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Speaker 2: telling him, maybe his coach. But the coach's perspective at
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Speaker 2: this age should not be, let's go out there and
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Speaker 2: beat the brakes off anybody. That shouldn't be any youth
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Speaker 2: coach's perspective, by the way. If your kid is playing
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Speaker 2: in a sports league where the goal is to beat
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Speaker 2: the brakes off of another team, there's concerns there. It
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Speaker 2: may not bother you. You may be all, oh, we
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Speaker 2: got to get out there. But the objective of these
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Speaker 2: sports leagues, and I'm not talking about travel leagues and
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Speaker 2: that stuff. I'm just talking about club teams like this.
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Speaker 2: The goal is to grow the game. The goal is
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Speaker 2: to grow the kids in the game and teach them
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Speaker 2: to play and have sportsmanship. If you've got a three-year-old
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Speaker 2: who's trying to score 40 goals and he's pushing people
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Speaker 2: out of the way and he's not learning basics of passings,
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Speaker 2: Because at some point, if you've got a kid that's
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Speaker 2: rattled off 15 goals in a game or whatever, that
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Speaker 2: kid should be told, don't shoot anymore. Pass it to
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Speaker 2: another kid. Help them score. Let them know what it
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Speaker 2: feels like to score. And a lot of these leagues
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Speaker 2: aren't even keeping score. I doubt this league was officially
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Speaker 2: keeping any kind of score anyway. That's typically not how
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Speaker 2: it's done. But this is in Florida. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I can't speak to how they do it. When I
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Speaker 2: was coaching that age group, I think the point when
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Speaker 2: goals started to be– like there was an actual scoring
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Speaker 2: where the game would end and you would sign a
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Speaker 2: scorecard and they would post a score. I was probably
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Speaker 2: at that point coaching U8. So that was six- and
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Speaker 2: seven-year-olds at U8. Then you get to– no, they weren't
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Speaker 2: keeping score then. I take that back. U10, so like eight,
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Speaker 2: nine-year-olds is when they started actually keeping score. I believe.
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Speaker 2: And that's about right. I mean, you have a game
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Speaker 2: you're trying to win. There's a score that's posted. And
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't have a kid, even at that age group,
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't have a kid out there scoring 20, 30,
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Speaker 2: 40 goals in a couple of games. That shouldn't be happening.
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Speaker 2: You're doing a disservice to the other kids on your
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Speaker 2: team at that point. And you're doing a disservice to
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Speaker 2: this kid because I don't care how good he is
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Speaker 2: at three. if he doesn't learn how to play soccer
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Speaker 2: on a team and he wants to be the only,
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Speaker 2: he's going to get to a point where other kids
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Speaker 2: are going to catch up with him. And if he
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Speaker 2: can't play a complete game, he's not going to be
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Speaker 2: a very good soccer player. And that's true in any sport.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you, you have some sports where you're going
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Speaker 2: to stand out, you know, a five on five basketball,
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Speaker 2: you're going to stand out. He's probably playing four on four,
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Speaker 2: five on five, no goalies in this league. It says so.
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Speaker 2: that's just the other perspective on this. There's no reason
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Speaker 2: for a kid to be scoring this many goals. It's just, it's,
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Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with his race. It has
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with his age. It just has everything
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Speaker 2: to do with the league and the coach would be
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Speaker 2: failing him if they were telling him that this behavior
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Speaker 2: is okay. And if his parents and if other, other kids,
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Speaker 2: parents are all okay with it and they're just, well, boy,
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Speaker 2: our team is winning. And if that's the only thing
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Speaker 2: that matters to the kids, but their kids are being like,
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Speaker 2: they're not getting the experience they should be getting. So
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Speaker 2: now that we have this footage, I'm curious to see
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Speaker 2: if this is going to get spread around and people
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Speaker 2: actually go, well, wait a minute. It sounds like we've
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Speaker 2: been told something that may not be true. And I
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Speaker 2: just wish that we could all take a minute with
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Speaker 2: everything and say, wait a minute, we're being told something
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Speaker 2: that may not be true. And that's true with all
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Speaker 2: of it. We should take all of it. with that
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Speaker 2: seriousness of, wait a minute, maybe this isn't even what happened.
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Speaker 2: Because there's a good possibility here, based on this police footage,
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Speaker 2: body camera footage, that the story that these families have
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Speaker 2: that they're using to raise money on GoFundMe may not
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Speaker 2: even be the way things happen. And if so, is
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Speaker 2: GoFundMe going to step in and go, these people shouldn't
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Speaker 2: get to keep the money? Because sometimes they step in
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Speaker 2: and say, you shouldn't get to keep the money because
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Speaker 2: we don't like what your cause is. So I hope,
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Speaker 2: if nothing else, people can walk away from this understanding.
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Speaker 2: Coaching kids at this age is very difficult. It's supposed
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Speaker 2: to be fun, but it's also supposed to get them
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Speaker 2: to a point where they're ready to move up to
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Speaker 2: the next level and then the next level and then
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Speaker 2: the next level. And then hopefully get good enough to
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Speaker 2: Noah Wiley when he was on ER and in his prime.
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Speaker 2: You know, whatever. I think for people to be worked
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Speaker 2: up about it is kind of silly because what exactly
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Speaker 2: is the point of getting worked up over who was
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Speaker 2: named the sexiest man alive? Unless, of course, you were
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Speaker 2: the person who actually was the runner-up. I mean, that
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Speaker 2: would be one of those deals where you could be
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Speaker 2: upset about it. Otherwise, what are you really upset about?
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Speaker 2: You got nothing else going on in your life that
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Speaker 2: this is something that's on your radar as a concern.
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Speaker 2: Holidays coming up, and we're just going to do a
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Speaker 2: quick conversation about things that happen sometimes over the holidays,
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Speaker 2: specifically around Christmastime. I've got a good friend who's an OBGYN,
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Speaker 2: and she was telling me that September was a very
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Speaker 2: busy month for her. And I said, and it means,
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Speaker 2: you know, we know what people were doing around Christmastime.
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Speaker 2: And she's like, yes. Um, and I thought this would
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Speaker 2: be an interesting thing to look into. So, uh, I
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Speaker 2: found this, uh, analysis of us birth records and it
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Speaker 2: finds that birthdays, um, there's a lot of common birthdays
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Speaker 2: in the month of September, September dominating the list of birthdays,
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Speaker 2: as far as most common birthdays, uh, between September 9th
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Speaker 2: and September 20th, you know, like nine months after Christmas
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Speaker 2: and the holidays. Um, So the 10 most popular birthdays
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Speaker 2: in America, yes, the 9th and the 20th are the
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Speaker 2: 1 and 2. September 19th, 14th in the top 10.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to the others, but September 12th, 10th, 18th, 21st,
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Speaker 2: all really common birthdays. That's eight of your top 10
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Speaker 2: are in September. July the 7th is in the list
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Speaker 2: and December 28th. Otherwise it's, it's all September in the list. Uh,
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Speaker 2: now the rare, more rare birthdays, the most rare birthday. And, uh,
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Speaker 2: so the rarest, if you take just a second, you
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Speaker 2: can know what the most rare birthday is. Uh, leap day, uh,
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Speaker 2: February 29th. That's the least common birthday. Uh, Christmas day is, uh,
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Speaker 2: December 25th is a second on the list. Uh, January one,
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Speaker 2: December 24th. January, I'm sorry, July 4th, January 2nd, and
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Speaker 2: then December 26th, November 26th, November 25th, November 24th. And
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Speaker 2: it just has to do with kind of what we're
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Speaker 2: doing nine months, I guess, before that. So it all
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Speaker 2: makes sense when you start doing the breakdown on it.
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Speaker 2: But I thought that was an interesting conversation I had
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Speaker 2: with her because when she said how busy things were
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Speaker 2: in September for, you know, work for her, I thought, wow,
24:52
Speaker 2: I'm really curious to know what the breakdown is on
24:55
Speaker 2: all of this. Remember when grabbing dinner out once a
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Speaker 2: week felt normal or more and more Americans deciding that
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Speaker 2: it's not worth the hit on the wallet. We just
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Speaker 2: talked about this the other day. New Gallup survey found
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Speaker 2: only 39 percent of Americans eat at a restaurant once
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Speaker 2: a week. That's down 47 percent from 2022. I think
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Speaker 2: this is more info from that other that particular survey.
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Speaker 2: And they basically say takeout order slipping as well as
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Speaker 2: restaurants trying to come up with ways to get people
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Speaker 2: back in, value deals, limited time menu options, some gimmicks
25:35
Speaker 2: and things, trying to compete with the cost and sometimes
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Speaker 2: the ease of just eating at home. So that's kind
25:44
Speaker 2: of a follow-up on that story from what we had
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Speaker 2: just the other day. If you are feeling a little
25:52
Speaker 2: down in London, they now have a pharmacy that gives
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Speaker 2: you flowers and not pills. It's called a flower pharmacy
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Speaker 2: and it opened up prescribing customized bouquets designed to lift
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Speaker 2: your mood, calm your mind, boost your energy, yellow blooms
26:08
Speaker 2: like sunflowers and roses meant to promote happiness while blue
26:12
Speaker 2: and green flowers are aimed at relaxation and brighter reds
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Speaker 2: and oranges for an energy kick. Uh, The pop-up was
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Speaker 2: inspired by research showing that more than a third of
26:22
Speaker 2: people struggle emotionally when the clocks fall back and the
26:25
Speaker 2: days get shorter. So people respond well to fresh flowers.
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Speaker 2: Flower pharmacy, I think they used to have another name
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Speaker 2: for this. It was called florist. I mean, what are
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Speaker 2: we giving it a special name for? It's a florist.
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Speaker 2: Go to a florist and buy flowers for somebody. That's
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Speaker 2: what you do. Cheer them up with flowers. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to come up with a gimmick name. Just go
26:51
Speaker 2: to a florist. I can give you some florist names
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Speaker 2: that you can go to, a couple of good ones.
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