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Careful, Now · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. This is the West Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, fourteenth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I've been over on Magnetic Island doing some
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Speaker 2: shows and now back over on the mainland in Townsville
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Speaker 2: in sunny North Queensland. I know temperatures have been a
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Speaker 2: little bit lower back home for a few days last
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Speaker 2: week while checking in with friends and family, is still
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Speaker 2: a very comfortable temperature here compared to what has been
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Speaker 2: going on back home for this time of year. It's
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Speaker 2: actually going to get a little bit better for us
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Speaker 2: because our next part of this trip will send us
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Speaker 2: down to Sydney, where it is significantly cooler. We're going
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Speaker 2: to be experiencing some forties and fifty while we're there.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting trip when you have to pack for
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Speaker 2: Australia in the winter. In the north, it's still pretty warm,
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Speaker 2: kind of a spring day or a fall day for
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Speaker 2: us most days here Sydney, though, we're going to actually
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Speaker 2: be getting down in some cold weather and we had
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Speaker 2: to pack for both and as you know, if you
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Speaker 2: overpack your suitcase you have some issues with that. When
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Speaker 2: you're traveling. So we are now repacking our suitcases so
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Speaker 2: that the warmer stuff is on top and the cooler
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Speaker 2: the warm weather stuff, I guess is down at the bottom.
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Speaker 2: So that's what we're in the process of doing before
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Speaker 2: we head out from here. And I'm mentioning all that
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Speaker 2: now because I want to say this. I know I've
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Speaker 2: been doing shows along the way. Sometimes I have to
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Speaker 2: record some ahead of time. I'm actually recording this a
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Speaker 2: little bit ahead of time because we are getting ready
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Speaker 2: soon to head to Sydney, and I don't know how
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Speaker 2: much of an opportunity I'm going to get to do
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Speaker 2: shows from Sydney I'll have. We'll be there for a
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Speaker 2: few days and then we head back home to the
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Speaker 2: States after that, so this will be possibly the final
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Speaker 2: show until we're back stateside. I wanted to get at
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Speaker 2: least one done at the start of the week. Whether
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Speaker 2: I get a show in on Tuesday or not remains
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Speaker 2: to be seen. That'll be a travel day for us
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Speaker 2: if you've done a flight like what we're about to do,
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Speaker 2: where you travel across the date line. Basically, we're going
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Speaker 2: to have a very long Tuesday. When we came down,
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Speaker 2: we lost a day we were traveling and we just
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Speaker 2: lost a Thursday. We left the US on a Wednesday
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Speaker 2: and arrived here on a Friday. We're going to get
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Speaker 2: that back when we travel back to the US, and
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Speaker 2: that will happen to us on Tuesday, as we will
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Speaker 2: leave on a Tuesday and then land back in Georgia
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Speaker 2: also on Tuesday, so it's a really long day of travel.
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Speaker 2: If I get a chance to do a show for Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: I will, And depending on what the situation is like
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Speaker 2: once we land and how much sleep I'm able to
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Speaker 2: get on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, I may do
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Speaker 2: a show Wednesday. I'm gonna try. If not, you'll definitely
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Speaker 2: hear from me again by Thursday. That's my deal for
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Speaker 2: you and those of you who have endured some of
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Speaker 2: my broadcasts from here. I know I've got listeners that
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Speaker 2: don't have noise issues. I hope the birds haven't been
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Speaker 2: too much. I've enjoyed having them in the background, and
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Speaker 2: my little spot here where I'm perched each morning with
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Speaker 2: the birds, I've enjoyed. I know there's a little bit
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Speaker 2: of traffic noise, but I'm juggling this. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if I really covered this properly. But between the park
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Speaker 2: bench where I am with the birds and my Wi
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Speaker 2: Fi connection, I'm exactly where I can have both. And
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Speaker 2: that's why I have to have the occasional vehicle go
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Speaker 2: by or kid walk up and wonder what I'm doing.
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Speaker 2: So and the birds are right on Q this morning.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, if I get a chance to do one
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Speaker 2: from Sydney, I will. If not, you'll hear from me
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Speaker 2: again very soon. Okay, So the last show, one of
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Speaker 2: the last shows I did last week, maybe on Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: I was talking about the floods. I was talking about
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Speaker 2: the overall reaction I've had from people here in this country.
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Speaker 2: I was expressing my disappointment with the fact that we
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Speaker 2: have back in the States politicians who have turned this
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Speaker 2: into either climate change discussions or saying that the President
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Speaker 2: Trump had cut too many people from the National Weather
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Speaker 2: Service and that it was his fault that these people died.
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Speaker 2: Anybody who's been following all of this knows how ridiculous
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Speaker 2: that is. The alerts came out, people were notified. There's
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Speaker 2: really nothing that you can do when it comes to
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Speaker 2: severe weather in this type circumstance. There's just not a
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Speaker 2: lot to do with it, and I know the climate
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Speaker 2: change people will say, oh, well, it's climate issues and
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Speaker 2: that's the reason it's so bad. And I address that
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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. And one of the things that I tried
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Speaker 2: to voice on Wednesday was the fact that I had
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Speaker 2: gotten quite a bit of sympathy or empathy from people
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Speaker 2: here on this trip that we're expressing to me, you know,
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Speaker 2: condolences as an American, and I appreciated that and to
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Speaker 2: hear that back stateside, and I know that that's happening
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Speaker 2: state side, but I also know that there's this side
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Speaker 2: of it, this ugly side of it, that has put
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Speaker 2: politics in the forefront and has sidelined the actual compassion
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Speaker 2: and sympathy that goes with it. And I talked about
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Speaker 2: that on Wednesday, and then over the last couple of
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Speaker 2: days now, I've experienced the ugly side of it here
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Speaker 2: while on this trip, and I feel like it's just
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Speaker 2: worth noting that it was in a social circumstance where
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Speaker 2: I had to just sort of suppress what eventually would
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Speaker 2: sort of be a bit of outrage. I was a
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Speaker 2: bit angry about it later because of what was said
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Speaker 2: to me. I'm very much the kind of person who
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Speaker 2: tries to give people benefit of the doubt. I don't
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Speaker 2: always successfully do that, but I try because I try
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Speaker 2: to see the best in people when I can. I
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Speaker 2: do think that people in general are flawed, but I
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Speaker 2: do think most of us at least try to be
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Speaker 2: good people. The person who said this to me is
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Speaker 2: someone that I really wanted to give the benefit of
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Speaker 2: the doubt too. It's someone I've only just recently met,
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Speaker 2: and specifically who it is isn't really important to you listening,
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Speaker 2: other than for me to say it's someone who wanted
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Speaker 2: to talk with me about our president and to tell
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Speaker 2: me how much they didn't like him.
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Speaker 3: I have noticed that as the media, the news in
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Speaker 3: general that filters from the US to the rest of
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Speaker 3: the world largely comes from sources like some of our
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Speaker 3: main broadcast networks.
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Speaker 2: So they're getting NBC, they're getting ABC, they're getting CBS,
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Speaker 2: they're getting news from CNN, they're getting news from MSNBC,
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Speaker 2: they're getting it from in newspapers, certainly far left newspapers.
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Speaker 2: So by the time that gets filtered and makes it here,
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Speaker 2: then the media here will take probably another opportunity to
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Speaker 2: filter it and allow the people here to hear sort
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Speaker 2: of the worst of the worst, because they're not getting
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Speaker 2: our full news. They're just getting the things from the
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Speaker 2: news that they want to share. And I understand that
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Speaker 2: there are parts of the world that are certainly watching
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Speaker 2: the tariff talk for quite some time, very closely, and
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Speaker 2: they're concerned. They feel like, oh, we're going to take
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Speaker 2: a hit on these tariffs. It's going to be a
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Speaker 2: financial problem for us, and I get that. But what
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Speaker 2: they don't seem to understand when they talk to us
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Speaker 2: is that, you know, we're seeing the positives for the
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Speaker 2: US with the tariffs, and I do believe in most
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Speaker 2: cases the tariffs will end up being beneficial to both sides. Now,
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Speaker 2: the US has certainly been handed over to many countries
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Speaker 2: with when when it comes to tariffs or the cost
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Speaker 2: of goods in the past, and I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of Americans that understand that that's been the case are
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Speaker 2: excited about when this all eventually does level out, the
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Speaker 2: opportunities for maybe some goods and services to go down.
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Speaker 2: And it's made other countries nervous because our president does
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Speaker 2: talk tough, and I get that. If I lived here,
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Speaker 2: or if I lived in Canada, I'm sure I would
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Speaker 2: have frustrations as well. I don't know how you don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you don't look at what's going
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Speaker 2: on and say that this may be a burden on them.
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Speaker 2: Americans are concerned. We have Americans that think this isn't
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Speaker 2: going to pan out well for Americans in general. I
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Speaker 2: do find it interesting that the people who seem to
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Speaker 2: think the worst of the tariffs and the possibility of
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Speaker 2: deals are the same ones that had no problem when
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Speaker 2: inflation was at record highs because there was a different
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Speaker 2: president in the office. But I digress. That's all a
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Speaker 2: separate conversation. So this person that wanted to talk to
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Speaker 2: me about Trump and wanted to talk to me about
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Speaker 2: tariffs then threw something at me that I wasn't expecting,
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Speaker 2: and it was inappropriate. It was offensive, and it was
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Speaker 2: very insensitive, and I think that they thought it was funny.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to express again before I say
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Speaker 2: what was said to me, that what I did was
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Speaker 2: I exercised my ability to not be obligated to be outraged.
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Speaker 2: We have this thing we do, and it happens all
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Speaker 2: around the world. But I just will speak to back
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Speaker 2: home where the people that something happens to them they
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Speaker 2: get offended, and then they feel like they have to
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Speaker 2: be outraged, they have to make a video about it,
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Speaker 2: they have to put it on the internet. How offended
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Speaker 2: and upset and outrage they are. And while I do understand,
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Speaker 2: I am expressing that here on this show, putting it
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Speaker 2: on the internet, putting it available in podcast form for
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Speaker 2: people to hear it. And I get that, I understand,
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Speaker 2: but this isn't me doing a boy I'm angry at someone.
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Speaker 2: This is me saying this offensive thing was said to me,
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Speaker 2: and I was able to in the circumstance of it
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Speaker 2: and not feel like I had to express my outrage.
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Speaker 2: And I know some people would say that I should
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Speaker 2: have said how inappropriate it was to this person. But
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Speaker 2: again back to the point, and this doesn't make me,
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Speaker 2: you know, a good person. This doesn't make me better
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Speaker 2: than anyone else. It's just my nature to say, you know,
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Speaker 2: to move on, I guess from the subject and not
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Speaker 2: feel like I have to say, how dare you, sir?
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Speaker 3: How dare you?
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Speaker 2: I don't feel like I have to do that. I
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Speaker 2: don't think it would have been out of line to
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Speaker 2: do it, but I didn't have to do it, and
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Speaker 2: I didn't have to make an awkward social circumstance worse.
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Speaker 2: And that's what I chose to do, was to not
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Speaker 2: do that and to move on. And if this person
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Speaker 2: ends up hearing this, then so be it. But for
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Speaker 2: the purposes of this show, I'm just going to share
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Speaker 2: with you what was said to me so you can
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Speaker 2: understand as I spent an entire show last week expressing
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Speaker 2: how proud I was of the of the Australians that
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Speaker 2: I've been around that hadn't really expressed anything like this,
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Speaker 2: that I finally have experienced it fully and at its
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Speaker 2: worst right. And I'll say this. Let me just I
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Speaker 2: know I'm really dragging this out, but I want to
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Speaker 2: say this also, many Australians that don't like our president
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Speaker 2: just choose not to talk about him. They don't want
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Speaker 2: to think about him, they don't want to hear about him,
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Speaker 2: they don't want to they just don't want to focus
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Speaker 2: on it. I even met someone recently who basically expressed
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Speaker 2: that while flying, I guess they were going to be
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Speaker 2: flying and they had an opportunity to land somewhere in
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Speaker 2: the US and they redirected it because they didn't want
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Speaker 2: to give the US any money because of Trump, which
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Speaker 2: I thought was, you know, they were probably spending more
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Speaker 2: money by flying to a different place that probably would
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Speaker 2: end up having some sort of a tariff deal with
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Speaker 2: us where we ended up getting a share of it
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Speaker 2: anyway or whatever. I don't know, but my point is
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Speaker 2: there are people here who just don't want to talk
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Speaker 2: about it. They don't want to to the point that
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Speaker 2: when someone brings it up, they might even be rude
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Speaker 2: about it, and just we don't do that. I've encountered
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Speaker 2: that a few times, and that's fine. I understand that
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Speaker 2: I wish that we were better about sort of diverting
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Speaker 2: conversations away from politics, because we certainly have this feeling
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Speaker 2: back in the States where we feel like we have
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Speaker 2: to constantly talk about politics all the time, and it's
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Speaker 2: just one of those things that you're better off not doing.
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Speaker 2: Let's be honest. There's certain topics that aren't something that
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Speaker 2: you need to talk about at all times. And it
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Speaker 2: goes back to this thing that I talk about where
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Speaker 2: I say I'm not evangelical about politics. I do this show.
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Speaker 2: I express to you what I feel. I know most
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Speaker 2: of you who are listening to this show are probably
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Speaker 2: like minded, at least in most of the things I
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Speaker 2: talk about, I know some of you are not. I
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Speaker 2: have friends who listen that absolutely disagree with me on
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Speaker 2: most things. That's a real friend, by the way, someone
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Speaker 2: that will support you and what you do, and they
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Speaker 2: can be completely against the ideas that you share and reflect,
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Speaker 2: but they support you anyway. That's the kind of friend
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Speaker 2: that you keep forever. I just want to share with
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Speaker 2: you now what was said to me and do that.
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Speaker 2: So what was said to me about our president by
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Speaker 2: this person was that they've like to drown him. This
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Speaker 2: is someone who was completely aware of the fact that
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Speaker 2: our country has just gone through the flooding. This is
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Speaker 2: someone who knows what's happened in Texas. This is someone
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Speaker 2: who was well aware of it. It was addressed at
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Speaker 2: one point, and then to say that they would like
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Speaker 2: to drown our president. It took some restraint to divert
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Speaker 2: the conversation to something else and move on. And then
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Speaker 2: as time went on, I really couldn't help but think,
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Speaker 2: what a very deliberate thing to say, What an intentional
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Speaker 2: thing to say, What a horrible.
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Speaker 3: Thing to say.
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Speaker 2: And I just have to accept the fact that, I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe this wasn't Maybe it wasn't. Maybe this is just
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Speaker 2: an expression that I'm not familiar with. I've been coming
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Speaker 2: to Australia now for almost thirty years, off and on.
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Speaker 2: I've spent almost an entire year of my life in
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Speaker 2: this country with the trips that I've done, because typically
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Speaker 2: when I come, it's for a long periods of time.
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Speaker 2: And I still haven't encountered that one boy. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to drown that guy. I don't think it's a common expression.
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Speaker 2: I think it was intentional. I think it was deliberate.
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Speaker 2: But the part of me that wants people to be
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Speaker 2: a little better than that wants to give them the
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Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. The part of me that wants
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Speaker 2: us to be better than that as a people, as
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Speaker 2: a planet wants to assume that that wasn't being said intentionally.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know. Is this a sentiment that's being
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Speaker 2: floated around online. I haven't encountered it yet. It wouldn't
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Speaker 2: surprise me. It sounds like a very far left thing
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Speaker 2: for people to say in the US. Sounds like something
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Speaker 2: that the you know, free Palestine paid agitators might say.
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Speaker 2: But it was a unique thing for me to hear
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Speaker 2: from someone, and I bring it up just so that
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Speaker 2: you know, for full disclosure, because I did rave about
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Speaker 2: how Australians seem to be a bit more supportive of
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Speaker 2: what we were going through then what seems to be
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Speaker 2: going on in the States with our politicians. So I
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Speaker 2: needed to share that with you. I needed you to
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Speaker 2: know that, no, we have those people all over the
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Speaker 2: world apparently, and I have definitely encountered one, and I
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Speaker 2: did my best to shake it off, and face to face,
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Speaker 2: I did and moved on and just expressed that not everyone,
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Speaker 2: in spite of what maybe people are hearing in the media,
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Speaker 2: not everyone in the States hates and in fact, least
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Speaker 2: according to the most recent election, most of the America
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Speaker 2: electorate was for him, not only popular vote, but electoral vote.
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Speaker 2: And that's why the mandate was there, and that's why
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Speaker 2: the ability to get some things done has been in place.
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Speaker 2: So there are these people all around the world. They
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Speaker 2: do exist, and some still don't really understand that. There's
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Speaker 2: just some things that you don't say about leadership in
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Speaker 2: other countries to people. And I express this with the
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Speaker 2: Clinton Monica Lewinsky conversation when people would say, boy, what
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Speaker 2: a clown, and back then thirty years ago, The response was,
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Speaker 2: I can talk about him, you can't. It's like the
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Speaker 2: people who want to insult your family, they're my family,
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Speaker 2: They're not your family. And honestly, the people I've encounter
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Speaker 2: here that have questions I respect. So help me understand
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Speaker 2: what it is that had you, guys reelective. That's a
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Speaker 2: valid question, even if it's coming from the perspective of
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Speaker 2: I don't like him, But that's a valid question. Telling
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Speaker 2: me that you want to drown our president after this
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Speaker 2: horrible tragedy with one hundred plus deaths, that's just not okay.
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show right after the break. All right, so
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Speaker 2: what's the most motivating thing at your job? You probably
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Speaker 2: think it's pay. That's certainly a big part of what
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Speaker 2: motivates us to go to work. I mean, let's be honest,
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Speaker 2: some of us really love what we do. But if
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Speaker 2: we weren't getting paid for it, I don't know that
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Speaker 2: everybody would necessarily do it. But there is something apparently
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Speaker 2: that is now a bigger priority than salary. And I
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Speaker 2: kind of think that maybe COVID may have played at
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Speaker 2: least a part in it, because it's introduced this idea
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Speaker 2: a little bit more for people as people were working
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Speaker 2: from home. Okay, so basically this is Ranstad's twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five work monitor report, where eighty two percent of those
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Speaker 2: surveys said that the biggest motivator was their salary. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's not a big shock that amount at eighty two percent,
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Speaker 2: but at eighty three percent, people say that work life
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Speaker 2: balance is actually more important as a motivator. And I
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Speaker 2: think we're seeing this with people that are making decisions
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Speaker 2: to take jobs maybe that pay a little bit less
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Speaker 2: but allow them a little bit of flexibility and things
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Speaker 2: that they're able to do with their careers and spend
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Speaker 2: more time focusing on other interests, whether it's travel, whether
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Speaker 2: it's family, whether it's just having time to themselves. And
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Speaker 2: I think this isn't a big surprise to me. I
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Speaker 2: guess I'm maybe surprised that finally surpassed salary, but not
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Speaker 2: a surprise to me that the numbers are close. Mattel
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Speaker 2: has now introduced its first barbie with type one diabetes.
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Speaker 2: The doll, created in collaboration with Breakthrough t one D
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Speaker 2: features realistic medical accessories such as an insulin pump, a
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Speaker 2: CGM that's a continuous glucose monitor, a heart shaped medical tape,
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Speaker 2: and a smartphone displaying a CGM app. She's wearing a
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Speaker 2: blue polka dot outfit symbolizing diabetes awareness. Fans have responded emotionally,
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Speaker 2: sharing how meaningful the representation would have been during their
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Speaker 2: own childhoods. The doll set to be officially released on
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Speaker 2: August twenty fifth, available for pre order now on Amazon
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Speaker 2: and Walmart. It's nice. I mean, I know some people
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Speaker 2: say that they go a bit too far with some
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Speaker 2: of the barbies, but in this case, I'm sure there
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Speaker 2: are people that some kids growing up that would love
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Speaker 2: to know that they can have a connection with their
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Speaker 2: toy that sort of represents them in this capacity. So
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Speaker 2: good for them. It's not something you think about in
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Speaker 2: the aftermath of a catastrophe like the recent flooding in
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Speaker 2: Texas or the LA Fires, but young survivors and families
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Speaker 2: who may have lost a child have definitely experienced this.
25:35
Speaker 2: What happened to their favorite stuffed animal that was always
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Speaker 2: on their bed, or it was in their arms, or
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Speaker 2: it was with them on every trip. Well, someone else
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Speaker 2: thought about it too and is doing something about it.
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Speaker 2: It's the Lost Stuffy Project, created by sisters in law
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Speaker 2: Randy Jaffe and Jenny Jaffe, and they work to reunite
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Speaker 2: children with they're lost stuffed animal or to replace them
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Speaker 2: with a new one. It began with the LA Fires
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Speaker 2: when they asked a family to DM photos of children's
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Speaker 2: lost stuffed animals, lovies, and blankets. They then used their
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Speaker 2: social media network to locate replacements. In Texas, rescue workers
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Speaker 2: are finding stuffed animals as the river recedes, cleaning them up,
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Speaker 2: and the Lost Stuffy Project is getting them back to
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Speaker 2: where they belong. They have an Instagram profile where you
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Speaker 2: can check out what the work is that they're doing there.
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Speaker 2: That is great work. That is something that and for
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Speaker 2: certain children it means everything. You may have a kid
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Speaker 2: who says, I love my stuffed animal, and then they
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Speaker 2: lose it and then they're able to move on. You
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Speaker 2: may also know some kids that that would not be
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Speaker 2: the case, and that stuffed animal or that toy or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is means absolutely everything in the world to them.
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Speaker 2: And they've already been through a lot and to be
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Speaker 2: able to get that toy item back. And I would
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Speaker 2: also imagine back to the story sort of started with
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Speaker 2: talking about losing a child, being able to have something
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Speaker 2: that you can reconnect with your lost child through having
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Speaker 2: this toy that they were always with or you associate
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Speaker 2: with them. That's another way for this group to help
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Speaker 2: benefit people that have already suffered so much. All Right,
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Speaker 2: that'll do it for this Monday edition of the show. Again,
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Speaker 2: I just want to mention this, this is my final
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Speaker 2: day in North Queensland. We're going to be heading to
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Speaker 2: Sydney and doing a show from Sydney is going to
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Speaker 2: be really difficult. We're only going to have a few
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Speaker 2: days in Sydney and then we'll be heading back. So
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Speaker 2: the current plan is to do a show for Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 2: It'll be Thursday morning get the very latest, So final
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Speaker 2: show for a couple of days. If I get an
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Speaker 2: opportunity in Sydney to do one, I will do that.
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Speaker 2: If I do not get an opportunity in Sydney then
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Speaker 2: I will definitely be back at it by Thursday morning
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Speaker 2: sunny North Queensland has been enjoying doing the shows here.
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Speaker 2: We're back over from the island and getting ready to
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Speaker 2: head to Sydney. So again, thank you for listening and
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Speaker 2: I will catch you back here next time.
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