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God Bless Taylor Swift · 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 when you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, six day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me A couple days into the second two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty years of USNA. Well we make out another
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years, I hope. So. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to be negative. I don't want to be a downer.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. Nobody wants to do that.
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Speaker 2: I just think we have to be realistic about this
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Speaker 2: whole republic if you can keep it thing, and I
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Speaker 2: think it's important that we do a little inventory, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't we do that before I get into that and
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Speaker 2: the show and everything A few things. I hope you
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Speaker 2: had a good holiday weekend. I know many. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what the stats were. It feels like a lot,
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Speaker 2: but probably not really a lot. I think most people
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Speaker 2: with jobs were like retail jobs or restaurant jobs and things.
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Speaker 2: I think for the most part, many had had to
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Speaker 2: work on Fridays. It felt like I knew a lot
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Speaker 2: of people though, like offices closed because that was the holiday.
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Speaker 2: Since the actual holiday was on Saturday, which was special
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Speaker 2: in its own right. The fact that the actual anniversary
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Speaker 2: was on in the two fifty it's just nice. I
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Speaker 2: think twenty thirty seven is the next one. I think
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Speaker 2: we had eleven years before. The next time Independence Day
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Speaker 2: is on Saturday, not the next time we have two
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Speaker 2: fifty likes. That's in the past. That's done. So I
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Speaker 2: hope you had a good weekend. I know a lot
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Speaker 2: it was a bit very busy travel weekend. I know
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of people returning home yesterday, so
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Speaker 2: you may be a little, you know, a little either
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Speaker 2: jet lagged, or if not jet lagged, maybe you're just
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Speaker 2: a road weary or you know, maybe you went to
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Speaker 2: a really cool part of the country to celebrate. I
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Speaker 2: hope you were able to do that. We had a
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Speaker 2: pretty low key celebration here the Sonova's Park here in Columbus.
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Speaker 2: I still call it Golden Park. Sorry, that's what it's
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Speaker 2: always been. And I know it's got a different name now,
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Speaker 2: but to me, I'll always be Golden Park. And I
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Speaker 2: know a lot of the family from the Golden Family.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, they had like a Friday night event like
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Speaker 2: normally if they've got the Clingstones have a I was
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Speaker 2: gonna call them the red Sticks and say that's what
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Speaker 2: they are, darn it, but no, the Clingstones had When
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Speaker 2: they normally have a Friday game, they'll do you know,
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Speaker 2: fireworks or drone show or whatever they do, and because
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Speaker 2: there wasn't a home game on Friday, they just did,
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Speaker 2: you know, some activities there. You could go watch the
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Speaker 2: Braves game, like a watch party for that and then
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Speaker 2: too bad they couldn't do I mean, I know it's
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Speaker 2: a Brave, it's part of the Braves system, so of
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Speaker 2: course the Braves are the bigger priority, but there was
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Speaker 2: a really there was a really good soccer game going
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Speaker 2: on on Friday evening with Argentina and Cape Verde, and
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Speaker 2: it was you know, it would have been very interesting
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Speaker 2: to have been able to have that on the big screen.
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Speaker 2: I think there were more people staring at their phones
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Speaker 2: tracking that game than there were the Braves game. And
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Speaker 2: it's no offense to the Braves. It was just kind
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Speaker 2: of an exciting moment and the question like that game
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Speaker 2: was way closer than most thought it should be, and
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Speaker 2: there was a point where you're thinking, is Argentina going
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Speaker 2: to get knocked out of the world Cup by you know,
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Speaker 2: Cape Verde, and then that's the that's it. That would
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Speaker 2: have been it for the messy World Cup career. In
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Speaker 2: all likelihood, I think most I thought he was done,
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Speaker 2: you know last time. I didn't. I wasn't fully expecting.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't surprise me he's back. He's still
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Speaker 2: playing really well. But anyway, that was Friday night, watching
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Speaker 2: the Braves game on the screen and the big screen,
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Speaker 2: watching the soccer match on the small screens, and then
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Speaker 2: they did some activities like there at the park. We
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Speaker 2: weren't there for all of it. We showed up kind
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Speaker 2: of around the end and wanted to see what they
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Speaker 2: had going on for the drone show. I guess it
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Speaker 2: was pretty similar to the normal drone show. We were
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Speaker 2: hoping it was going to be a little more USA oriented.
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Speaker 2: There was some of that, but there was also a
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Speaker 2: lot of cotton not cotton mouths, a lot of clean Stones.
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Speaker 2: I'm getting all my teams in here. A lot of
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Speaker 2: clean Stones commercials. That's what it felt like anyway, So
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Speaker 2: we enjoyed that. That was good, and that was after
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Speaker 2: we had we'd gone out for dinner and things. So uh,
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Speaker 2: but on this on Saturday, we thought we'll be a
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Speaker 2: little more low key and we just you know, spent
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Speaker 2: time by the pool. There were fireworks, neighborhood fireworks going
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Speaker 2: off while we were in the pool, so that was nice.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it was just kind of low key.
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Speaker 2: We had some hot dogs and I did homemade ice cream,
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Speaker 2: not my best batch, but I did my best. Jill
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Speaker 2: did a cake for you know, America's birthday. We had
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Speaker 2: a good time. That's all you need. You just need
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Speaker 2: some basic stuff. You don't if you're not going you know,
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Speaker 2: if you're not going to Virginia, you're not going to
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Speaker 2: d C. You're not going to Philadelia, You're not going
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Speaker 2: to one of those towns. You know, you're not going
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Speaker 2: to one of those you know, early America places to
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Speaker 2: I'd love to do. I'd love to do Virginia. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: had a good time, that's all that matters. We celebrated,
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Speaker 2: we saw fireworks, and you know, Jake had work early
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Speaker 2: yesterday morning, so we couldn't be out really late anyway
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Speaker 2: as far as fireworks went. So we you know, we
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Speaker 2: did our thing. That's what we did, and I hope
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Speaker 2: you were able to do the same as well. It
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Speaker 2: was special in a lot of ways. I have a
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Speaker 2: certain amount of frustration. I voiced some of this last week.
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Speaker 2: I just I feel like, if we are going to
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Speaker 2: take time to actually celebrate, and I know there were
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Speaker 2: a significant number of Americans who just didn't feel like celebrating,
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Speaker 2: that's a shame. I think. Even if you got a
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Speaker 2: friend that you know, maybe you're a little in the
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Speaker 2: outs with, but they're having a special birthday or anniversary
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Speaker 2: or something, and you get invited, you can go. You
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Speaker 2: go when you celebrate. I know, it's challenging when a
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Speaker 2: lot of the things that this country stands for you hate,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you despise and you spit on it.
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Speaker 2: I saw some reports over the weekend that the you know,
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Speaker 2: uh mayor Mom, Donnie, his wife, I guess left the
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Speaker 2: country to go or went away, I don't know, maybe
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Speaker 2: out of the country, but to went to some Muslim
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Speaker 2: retreat or something. I don't know. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: much that's true. I saw that report and I was like,
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Speaker 2: this is so stupid. I did check it on a
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Speaker 2: couple of sources. Apparently it was true. But it's just
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Speaker 2: you're the first lady of New York City, just you know,
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Speaker 2: go and be be part of the country. And it's
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Speaker 2: amazing to me that somehow not wanting to be part
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Speaker 2: of it is something that people are admiring and looking
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Speaker 2: up to. It's it's ridiculous. I think a lot about
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Speaker 2: our founders. I think a lot about the fact that
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Speaker 2: you know, obviously the ideas some of the things that
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Speaker 2: we we bicker about in America in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: they can't well, they wouldn't have been able to comprehend,
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Speaker 2: Like the idea of terminating pregnancies is something that they
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Speaker 2: would have been like, well, no, that's absurd, and it's
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Speaker 2: just one of those things that you know, they there's
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Speaker 2: just so many things like for it to be just
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Speaker 2: a mass idea that's you know, something that we would
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Speaker 2: be fighting about. They you know, they probably could have
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Speaker 2: seen well maybe you know, there are a few areas,
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Speaker 2: a few laws that maybe we could go back and
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Speaker 2: forth on. But the idea of just terminating pregnancies, you
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Speaker 2: know at three months or six months or eight months
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Speaker 2: or sometimes after a baby's born, they would not have
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Speaker 2: gone for that. And I think too that the number
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Speaker 2: of people that have settled here and gotten elected into
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Speaker 2: positions and have voiced how much they hate the country
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Speaker 2: and how much you know, they want to overthrow it.
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Speaker 2: I mean some people in either in elected office or
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Speaker 2: just in I don't know, trying to run for elected office,
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Speaker 2: or you know, we saw a few people that were
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Speaker 2: really you know, spitting fire, and I just think about
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Speaker 2: what the Founders would have had to say about that,
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Speaker 2: and they're discussed with it. I've had a few people
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Speaker 2: tell me, you know, the Founders were very liberal for
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Speaker 2: their time. Okay, for their time, that doesn't mean anything
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Speaker 2: close to what it means now. It's a whole different concept.
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Speaker 2: Some people have tried to say, well, they were for
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Speaker 2: taxing for the purposes of national defense. Yes, that's it.
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Speaker 2: They did not want a system in place where you know,
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Speaker 2: we'd be the government would be responsible for the welfare
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Speaker 2: of the citizens. All they wanted to do was protect
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Speaker 2: your private property, protect your life, not allow someone to
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Speaker 2: encroach in those areas, and then yes, protect our borders
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Speaker 2: and that's all they and then leave everything to the
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Speaker 2: individual states and leave things to the individual people to
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Speaker 2: police themselves and govern themselves. And that works when you
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Speaker 2: have a basic you know, they weren't pushing a specific
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Speaker 2: religion like enforcing it on the national level. But they
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Speaker 2: were wanting people to have a certain religion, They were
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Speaker 2: wanting people to have a certain amount of moral standing
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Speaker 2: at the very least. And they definitely were not big
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Speaker 2: fans of you know, especially maybe not at the very beginning,
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Speaker 2: but soon after. They weren't big fans of you know, Islam,
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Speaker 2: not at all. No, not when you started. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's pirates and grabbing people and enslaving them and all that.
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Speaker 2: That was not they are big fans of that. Jefferson
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Speaker 2: particularly not a big fan of that anyway. It just
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Speaker 2: it's a weird thing as you celebrate two hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty years and people that laid down their lives to
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Speaker 2: protect and preserve and to build what we have, and
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Speaker 2: you know, our way of thanking them is electing people
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Speaker 2: that hate all those things that they died for. So
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Speaker 2: it's a weird way to say things. The other thing
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about, I know I'm kind of
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Speaker 2: all over the place, but the other thing I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about is maybe this is one of the
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Speaker 2: things that we could take a minute and appreciate. Where
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Speaker 2: we are two hundred and fifty years later, is on
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Speaker 2: the eve of our two hundred and fiftieth birthday. We
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Speaker 2: had this to me in a lot of ways. Nothing
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Speaker 2: event that took place. It was this wedding of Taylor
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Speaker 2: Swift and Travis Kelcey. It happened Friday night at Madison
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Speaker 2: Square Guarden. I told you week I thought it was selfish.
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Speaker 2: They were doing it this particular weekend in New York,
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Speaker 2: blocking traffic all those things. But that is what it is.
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Speaker 2: I don't get to say what they get to do.
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Speaker 2: I don't pretend that I'm more important than everybody else,
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Speaker 2: so I get to the side. I just thought it
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Speaker 2: was a selfish thing to do. But about a thousand
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Speaker 2: people apparently were there at Madison Square Garden, and Adam
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Speaker 2: Sandler apparently officiated the ceremony. I think he and Travis
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Speaker 2: Kelcey became friends along the way. Kelsey was in Happy
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Speaker 2: Gilmore too. Jason Kelsey the best man. Austin Swift, the
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Speaker 2: brother of Taylor Swift, was the man of honor. First
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Speaker 2: time I read it, I thought it said made of honor,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, you know, whatever you wanna do,
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Speaker 2: I'm not against that as an IDEA star studied list
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Speaker 2: of folks who attended. Of course, and there were conversations
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Speaker 2: about some of the snow so oh, I can't believe
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Speaker 2: this player and that player from the Chiefs didn't get
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Speaker 2: to go and didn't be a part of it and
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Speaker 2: all these things. And yes, in spite of the fact
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Speaker 2: that the only thing Taylor Swift has ever said about
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Speaker 2: me was that that Wes Carol I love him. I
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Speaker 2: didn't get invited, and that's okay, that's all right, it's
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Speaker 2: you know, I wasn't in the top thousand. I didn't
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Speaker 2: expect to be. But the thing that I feel like,
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Speaker 2: and especially when you consider Taylor Swift is you know,
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Speaker 2: very far left, and you know, hates a lot of
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Speaker 2: the things that our founders either you know, fought for
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Speaker 2: us to have died, for us to have signed their
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Speaker 2: death certificates when they signed the declaration so that we
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Speaker 2: could have them. And she's against those things because you know,
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Speaker 2: that's what happens. You're you're young, and you it's what
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Speaker 2: you do, you know, sort of rebel thing, I guess.
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Speaker 2: But in spite of that, and in spite of the
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Speaker 2: fact that she votes and supports and obviously it doesn't
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Speaker 2: have a bearing on elections because it hasn't had a
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Speaker 2: bearing on elections, but the fact that she supports Democrat candidates.
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Speaker 2: She is kind of one of those American stories of success.
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Speaker 2: She's unbelievably wealthy, and she went from you know, this
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Speaker 2: kid trying to make a name for herself, trying to sing,
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Speaker 2: trying to perform, obviously incredibly talented. And then and then
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Speaker 2: also Travis Kelcey, a guy who you know as a
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Speaker 2: kid at some point fell in love with a game
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Speaker 2: of football and obviously was incredibly talented. Because the kids
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Speaker 2: that go pro at any sport, you have to be
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Speaker 2: exceptionally talented, and you grow those skills, both of them
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Speaker 2: growing their skills and their talents and putting in hard
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Speaker 2: work in every part possible way and everything that they
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Speaker 2: could do, trying to get themselves to the next level,
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Speaker 2: to the next step, and you know, they start to
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Speaker 2: have some success, they get to a level and in
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Speaker 2: his case, you know, college pro obviously get on the
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Speaker 2: right team. That's part of it. You could tell yourself
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Speaker 2: all day that in the NFL, one player is going
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Speaker 2: to make a big difference. That's incredibly rare. You know,
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Speaker 2: that's the Tom Brady's and there's some others, but let's
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Speaker 2: be honest there have been some great players in the
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Speaker 2: league that did not have a great team around them
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Speaker 2: and they just couldn't do anything. And then there's been
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Speaker 2: some players who, you know, honestly, were the team around
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Speaker 2: them help them be great players. You know, some team
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Speaker 2: some some people have won Super Bowls as quarterbacks and
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Speaker 2: you go, how did that happen? You know, at Dilfer,
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Speaker 2: Brad Johnson, there's a few and it's not to you know,
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Speaker 2: there's it's not to be insulting to them. It's just
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Speaker 2: the reality. Jeff Hosteller for the Giants, there's just a
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Speaker 2: few people that you go, wait a minute, I got
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Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl and they did. They had a
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Speaker 2: really good team around them. But the player like Tom
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Speaker 2: Brady is an exception. You know, that's somebody who, Okay,
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Speaker 2: he goes to Tampa Bay and wins the Super Bowl
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Speaker 2: and you know there obviously was a team in place,
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Speaker 2: but but Kelsey was on the right team and he's
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Speaker 2: won Super Bowls, had a Hall of Fame career. Taylor
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Speaker 2: Swift someone who you know, hit everything at just the
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Speaker 2: right point in her career. Started out, got started in country,
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Speaker 2: crossed over into pop you know, struck up a heck
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Speaker 2: of a deal with iHeartRadio. That basically is one of
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Speaker 2: those great business moves in this visions that was made,
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Speaker 2: and it put her in a position where you know,
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Speaker 2: she could start ripping people off, I mean, charging people
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Speaker 2: a lot of money for concerts. It's not a rip
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Speaker 2: off if it's worth it free markets. That's to my point.
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Speaker 2: This is a success story. These are both American success
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Speaker 2: stories with people who are incredibly wealthy, who have benefited
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Speaker 2: from at times being in the right place at the
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Speaker 2: right time. You have that sort of privilege in place,
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Speaker 2: going to the right team, being signed with the right
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Speaker 2: record label. I know people who worked with Taylor Swift
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Speaker 2: and helped build her into Taylor Swift, Right, I do.
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Speaker 2: I'm a I Anyway, My point is they're an American
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Speaker 2: success story. That's my point. Both of them are. And
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Speaker 2: they both make significantly more money than most of the
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Speaker 2: socialists and communists that you know are pushing and driving
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Speaker 2: the left right now, would even believe someone should have
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Speaker 2: although many of them, all those politicians, also have that
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Speaker 2: kind of money. But good for them. They were able
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Speaker 2: to have this extravagant, expensive wedding in New York and
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Speaker 2: celebrate over the weekend. So I say good for them.
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Speaker 2: Good for them, be that success story, be that person
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Speaker 2: who has more money than you probably should have by
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Speaker 2: the standards of many on the left. And I say
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Speaker 2: good for them. If they're able to demand that money
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Speaker 2: as an athlete, if you're able to demand that money
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Speaker 2: as a person having a concert, Go celebrate and be
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Speaker 2: proud to be an American in the in the eve
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Speaker 2: of the two hundred and fiftieth birthday. And then now
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Speaker 2: on the other side of it, good for you. You're married,
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Speaker 2: the break, Minions and Monsters topped the box office over
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Speaker 2: the holiday weekend, narrowly beating out Toy Story five on
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Speaker 2: the Move, Monsters and Minions thirty six point four million,
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Speaker 2: Toy Story five thirty one million. Uh so, basically the
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Speaker 2: number one weekend, the opening for it, basically the Monsters
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Speaker 2: and Minions. It was the lowest debut for a Despicable
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Speaker 2: Me movie in the in the franchise, So read whatever
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Speaker 2: you want to read out of it. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of questions about people going to movies and then paying
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Speaker 2: for movies and all these things. Interpret that as you will, Okay, Like,
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Speaker 2: I just we'll get to that in a second. Young
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Speaker 2: Washington twenty point eight million makes sense, and this was
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Speaker 2: Angel Studio's third place the opening for that one. Nice job,
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Speaker 2: great weekend for that to come out, and then Supergirl
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Speaker 2: went down to fourth place nine point six million, a
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Speaker 2: seventy four percent drop in its second weekend, Spielberg's disclosure
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Speaker 2: day rounding out the top five with six million. I
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Speaker 2: saw Supergirl last week, and yeah, sorry, you know, I think,
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Speaker 2: I know people want to talk about superhero fatigue and
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Speaker 2: they want to say that that's what's going on, and
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Speaker 2: I think the reality for that, to me is less
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Speaker 2: of it being superhero fatigue, and it's just the numbers
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Speaker 2: aren't really what they used to be in a lot
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Speaker 2: of cases with movies. We'll see what happens with Spider Man,
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with Avengers Doomsday, what those are
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Speaker 2: able to do. But I just I don't think you
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Speaker 2: can take a character like Supergirl and say, let's use
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Speaker 2: this as a litmus for where things are at the
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Speaker 2: box office, especially when people know that, you know, HBO
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Speaker 2: Max is gonna have this movie in a couple of
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Speaker 2: months on and you can watch it at home and
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Speaker 2: decide whether you like it or not. And all of
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Speaker 2: this conversation about you know, people aren't gonna watch it
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Speaker 2: because they don't like the way she looks, They don't
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Speaker 2: think she's attractive enough. People don't want to, you know,
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Speaker 2: spend the money anymore. Maybe they were just busy over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. I don't know what all those things are,
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Speaker 2: but I can just tell you this. You people aren't
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Speaker 2: going to the movies as much as they used to.
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Speaker 2: That seems to be the case. There's just too many
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Speaker 2: other options. And I think if you can watch it
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Speaker 2: at home, people are gonna watch it at home, and
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Speaker 2: they're gonna save that bit of money and do that.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's just hard. It's hard now to
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Speaker 2: compare movies in twenty twenty six to where they were
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Speaker 2: pre COVID, and you know, especially very pre COVID. A
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Speaker 2: lot of those things really made a big change. And
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Speaker 2: it's just the reality of where we are now with movies.
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Speaker 2: And Supergirl wasn't great. It was okay, it wasn't great.
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Speaker 2: I still want to see Young Washington. I'm looking forward
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Speaker 2: to being able to do that at some point. So
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Speaker 2: so Bachelor parties. We're now into July. This is we've
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Speaker 2: gone through June, now we're into July. Wedding seasons are
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Speaker 2: still going on, so bachelor parties are now apparently, or
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Speaker 2: bachelorette parties i should say, are now becoming a bit
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Speaker 2: of a thing of the past. Soloret parties are the
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Speaker 2: new thing, and I guess instead of having sort of
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Speaker 2: the you know, booze field party, there's kind of this
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Speaker 2: quiet self care thing that's trending. So a chance for
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Speaker 2: the bride to spend some solo time focusing on self care, wellness,
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Speaker 2: me time all before the day, maybe a weekend get
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Speaker 2: away by yourself, spa day staycation, whatever, But this trend
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Speaker 2: is there. I would think that this trend, but maybe
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Speaker 2: with a small handful of friends, might be If the
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Speaker 2: concern is that it's gonna get you know, crazy out
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Speaker 2: of hand, then you know, maybe you don't want that
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Speaker 2: if you're trying to do something low key. But the
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Speaker 2: idea of just having you know, four or five friends
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Speaker 2: get together and doing some of this self care stuff,
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Speaker 2: that might be a fun way to do it. Again.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not a lady, you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: not a bachelorette. So I don't know, but I think
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Speaker 2: you could maybe find some kind of, you know, common
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Speaker 2: ground in between the two. I don't know. Coming out
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Speaker 2: of this holiday weekend, Americans have apparently very strong opinions
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Speaker 2: on naming government buildings after people. I don't think this
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Speaker 2: is breaking news by any means at all. Basically Americans.
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Speaker 2: There's some names that Americans have strong opinions about, one
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Speaker 2: way or the other. Most people agree that naming government
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Speaker 2: buildings after Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, MLK are fine, but
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Speaker 2: not every American enjoys that. Some examples, eighty one percent
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Speaker 2: say yes to Abraham Lincoln for naming rights like calling
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Speaker 2: it that six percent saying no, twelve percent unsure. MLK
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Speaker 2: is a seventy eight percent positive and nine percent no.
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Speaker 2: Rosa Park sixty nine percent yes, twelve percent no. Ronald
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Speaker 2: Reagan fifty five percent yes, twenty five percent no. Elvis
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Speaker 2: thirty five percent yes, thirty eight percent, and Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: thirty one percent yes, fifty three percent no, with fifteen
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Speaker 2: percent unsure. I think most people are probably sure by
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Speaker 2: this point one way or the other. I think most
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Speaker 2: of them are sure that'll do it for this Monday
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