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Putting the Interests of 510k Aside for 10 · 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 2: Thursday morning, nineteenth day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. We are now less than a week away
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Speaker 2: from Christmas, getting ready to kick off what is ultimately
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Speaker 2: probably an extended weekend. I know many of the kids
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Speaker 2: will be getting out of school tomorrow for the Christmas break,
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Speaker 2: if they're not already out. I know some schools have
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Speaker 2: already let their kids out. Mine will finish up tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: They're begging, at least one of them, begging not to
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Speaker 2: go at all tomorrow. But usually they try to do
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Speaker 2: some fun stuff that last day, even if they've wrapped
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Speaker 2: and they try to give them some fun things to
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Speaker 2: do to make it not such a terrible last day
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Speaker 2: before the break, while some kids are doing things to
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Speaker 2: get caught up, maybe if they've missed some worker assignments.
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Speaker 2: So some of that's going to be going on tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: But yes, could be a big travel day expected tomorrow
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Speaker 2: and Saturday, as a lot of people will be traveling
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Speaker 2: by car or by plane, maybe by train. I don't
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Speaker 2: may have been in a couple. But anyway, enough about
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Speaker 2: the final day of school, enough about travel, Let's dive
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Speaker 2: into this will be our next to tomorrow. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: largely about strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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Speaker 2: That's what we do on Fridays, and that'll be our
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Speaker 2: final show until, like, we'll take a week off because
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Speaker 2: of Christmas. That's what we'll do right here. Christmas, we
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Speaker 2: got Christmas Eve, we got what we got, Festivus Monday,
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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve, Tuesday, Christmas Day, Wednesday, Boxing Day, Thursday, and
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Speaker 2: then you know whatever, whatever Friday is, the twenty seventh,
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Speaker 2: you know, just another day to take off, is what
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Speaker 2: it is. But we'll be back soon after that, but
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Speaker 2: a final a show with a topic or a theme
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Speaker 2: if you will, and I you know, this one kind
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Speaker 2: of set things up for itself with Democrat Senator Dick
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Speaker 2: Durbin and his recent comments about the NCAA and women
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Speaker 2: and trying to protect women in sports or not protect
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Speaker 2: women in sports, or however you want to view this.
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Speaker 2: So basically, the on Tuesday this week, the president of
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Speaker 2: the NCAA, Charlie Baker, face some questions about transgender athletes,
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Speaker 2: and the Illinois Senator had some specific questions. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is one of those things where it often feels like
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Speaker 2: we have these kind of attempts, at least for gotcha
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Speaker 2: moments in politics. Sometimes they work for either side, sometimes
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Speaker 2: they don't work at all. This is one of those
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Speaker 2: cases where I think Senator Durbin thought he had a
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Speaker 2: gotcha moment and he thought he was going to spike
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Speaker 2: the old football and come out of this looking like
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Speaker 2: a hero. He did not. He did not at all.
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Speaker 2: Maybe to a very small minority of people, but not
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Speaker 2: to everyone. And just a reminder, as we are coming
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Speaker 2: out of a presentidential election where Democrats really on almost
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Speaker 2: every aspect of their platform, swinging a miss I mean
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Speaker 2: just an absolute swinging a miss on so many, so
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Speaker 2: many things. One of those ultimately was transgender transgender athletes
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Speaker 2: in sports, and it was one of those things where
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Speaker 2: the Trump campaign did a very good job or or
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Speaker 2: you know, some of the super PACs or whoever's running
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Speaker 2: the end, but the focus on laying out some of
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Speaker 2: the comments made by the Vice president in the past
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Speaker 2: about transgender athletes or transgender people in general, and the
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Speaker 2: Trump campaign utilized this idea of Harris being for they them,
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Speaker 2: not for you, and one of those things that appealed
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Speaker 2: to some voters that I think a lot of people thought, well,
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Speaker 2: I can't believe that that really hit the way that
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Speaker 2: it hit, And I don't know that they can specifically
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Speaker 2: say this was, you know, a huge turning point. I
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Speaker 2: think it was part of this election. I think the
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Speaker 2: left does a lot to try to specifically target a
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Speaker 2: very small group of people in the name of their
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Speaker 2: social justice, expecting it to be an issue that ultimately
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Speaker 2: is going to be like a groundswell of support for
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Speaker 2: these specific issues, and in some cases they go into
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Speaker 2: elections like they did this time, thinking well, this is
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Speaker 2: going to be you know, we've done all the things
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to do, and if everybody votes the way
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Speaker 2: that they're supposed to, you know, we talked about that
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Speaker 2: this week. If your racial background and your gender vote
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Speaker 2: the way that you're supposed to, we're going to win
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Speaker 2: this election. I don't know that they believe that they
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Speaker 2: were going to win this election. I really don't. And
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Speaker 2: I think in many ways, this was an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: unload Kamala Harris and just move on. Trump can't run again, right,
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Speaker 2: this will be his final four years as president. He
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Speaker 2: can't run again. So being able to sort of get
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Speaker 2: rid of her and know that we'll get maybe some
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Speaker 2: fresh candidates in four years. I don't know I speculate
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Speaker 2: all that I've said that. I think that Democrats badly
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Speaker 2: wanted this to be a DeSantis Newsome election this year,
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Speaker 2: and they didn't get that. They couldn't push Trump aside.
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Speaker 2: They could push Biden aside, but they weren't able to
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Speaker 2: effectively push the whole ticket aside, and they were stuck
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Speaker 2: with Harris. And I think in some ways maybe this
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Speaker 2: is sort of what they were kind of doing. Maybe
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Speaker 2: they thought there's a chance we can win on race
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Speaker 2: and gender and say, hey, it's going to be a
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Speaker 2: black woman, and maybe people will vote for her, and
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Speaker 2: if they don't, we're going to tell them how horrible
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Speaker 2: they are for not doing it. But one of those
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Speaker 2: areas that we have seen folks on the left repeatedly,
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Speaker 2: you know, they say, we're going to stand up for
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Speaker 2: the trans community and the LGBTQ plus community, and I
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Speaker 2: go a few things. I feel, because I haven't really
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Speaker 2: talked about this in a while, I feel it's important
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Speaker 2: sometimes to just kind of restate a few things. I
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Speaker 2: am very much an advocate for UBU. You live your life,
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Speaker 2: You do whatever it is that you would like to
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Speaker 2: do with your life until one of two things happens,
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Speaker 2: and the biggest, the most important of those things, and
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Speaker 2: they kind of relate, but until you hurt somebody else.
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Speaker 2: I think that's true of everything. I think that's what
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Speaker 2: the founders intended for this country. I think that is
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Speaker 2: a huge component of what they saw as the great experiment,
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Speaker 2: the great idea that is these United States of America.
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Speaker 2: They just believed that people should be left to their
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Speaker 2: own You can raise your children the way you choose,
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Speaker 2: you can live your life the way you choose. You
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Speaker 2: can worship the way that you choose whatever it is
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Speaker 2: that you want to do. I certainly believe that they
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Speaker 2: had intentions that this was going to be a nation
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Speaker 2: rooted in the basic belief system that they were coming from.
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Speaker 2: They just didn't want an oppressive government church to tell
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Speaker 2: them how they had to live their lives. But they
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Speaker 2: believed this was going to be a Christian nation it
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Speaker 2: was designed. Look at the state constitutions for the original
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Speaker 2: states and know that was their intention. But even at
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Speaker 2: its core, with most Christian beliefs, would be this idea
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Speaker 2: that God's not forcing his will upon you. You have
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Speaker 2: free will to do things, and in some cases you
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Speaker 2: might do the wrong thing, you might sin right, and
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Speaker 2: because we do. It's not that we might, we absolutely will.
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Speaker 2: That's what That's the kind of the whole basis of it.
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Speaker 2: That's what we're getting into the importance of Christmas, right,
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Speaker 2: We're getting we're getting to the importance of the birth
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Speaker 2: of Christ Christmas. So yeah, I think at its core,
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Speaker 2: our founders believed we're going to let people live their lives,
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Speaker 2: and we want people, we encourage them to live their lives.
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Speaker 2: Don't hurt anybody else, don't steal from each other, don't
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Speaker 2: kill each other, don't do things that you should not
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Speaker 2: be doing, that that are harmful to other people. But
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Speaker 2: live your life, do whatever it is that you want
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Speaker 2: to do. So I stress that repeatedly when it comes
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Speaker 2: to these issues. And I believe that if someone wants
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Speaker 2: to live their life and say I was born in
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Speaker 2: the wrong body and I'd like to be this other
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Speaker 2: par that's your call. If you're an adult, that's your call.
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Speaker 2: And I think about it in the same context like
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Speaker 2: you've heard me rail about. I think seat belt laws
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Speaker 2: are absurd. I'm pro seat belt I'm pro seat belt
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Speaker 2: laws for children. I think the idea of writing someone
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Speaker 2: a ticket because they chose not to wear a seat
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Speaker 2: belt when they were riding in their car, it's less
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Speaker 2: about protecting people and it's more about insurance companies. But
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Speaker 2: that's how things work. Sometimes. I think seat belts are great.
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Speaker 2: I wear mine. I tell people in my car to
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Speaker 2: wear their seat belt, especially my children. But I don't
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Speaker 2: think seat belt laws should be there. I think that's
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Speaker 2: one of those freedoms that we should have if we
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Speaker 2: decided that we didn't want to, or that we forgot
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Speaker 2: or whatever it is. And I think that's kind of
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Speaker 2: where we fit on some of the laws that we
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Speaker 2: have in place in general. And let's go to this
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Speaker 2: idea of Okay, well, now my five years child believes
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Speaker 2: that they were born in the wrong body, and I'm
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Speaker 2: going to start chemically altering their body. WHOA, Okay, this
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Speaker 2: is like the seat belt laws for kids. Let's protect
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Speaker 2: the kids. We'll let them be adults and let them
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Speaker 2: decide what they want to do with their life, forcing
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Speaker 2: someone into it or encouraging someone into it to make
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Speaker 2: a big life altering decision like that. So with that said,
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Speaker 2: I think we did a lot over a very long
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Speaker 2: period of time to make sure that women have the
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Speaker 2: ability to compete in sports. Girls and women, young women,
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Speaker 2: teenage women, college age women, and adult women have the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to compete in sports and have a fair shake
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Speaker 2: at it. And it's absurd to think we have done
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Speaker 2: so much to give them that opportunity and not forced
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Speaker 2: women in the past to compete against men. We gave
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Speaker 2: them the opportunity to have their own sport. Sure, we
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Speaker 2: got youth soccer here locally, there's a co ed league,
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Speaker 2: and then there's a girls league. If you want your
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Speaker 2: girl to play with the boys. That's great. If you don't,
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Speaker 2: then they play in the girls only league. Boys aren't
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Speaker 2: going over there to play. That's not the way that's intended.
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Speaker 2: So we've all heard the stories about transgender athletes mediocre
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Speaker 2: or poor men's athletes that decide to compete with women
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Speaker 2: and then absolutely dominate the sport, become the best in
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Speaker 2: the world and have a massive impact on that sport,
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Speaker 2: pushing other women out of place, pushing other women away
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Speaker 2: from opportunities to compete, other opportunities to win. I've talked
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Speaker 2: about swimming, so that obviously was a hot button sport
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Speaker 2: for this particular issue. The way swimming works, you want
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Speaker 2: to be in that final heat there's eight people competing.
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Speaker 2: If one of the places is taken by a transgender
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Speaker 2: man who is dominating the sport, guess what, You're pushing
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Speaker 2: a woman out of the opportunity to be in that
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Speaker 2: last heat and possibly win. And you're even pushing someone
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Speaker 2: out of that second heat because everybody, everything pushes down,
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Speaker 2: all right, So Senator Durbin, and I want to stress
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Speaker 2: this too, because I think this is also part of
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Speaker 2: what I've tried to say over the years. I understand
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Speaker 2: that there are complications. We've talked about the bathroom issue
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Speaker 2: on this show. I don't have daughters. If I had
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Speaker 2: a daughter, I'd be very uncomfortable with a man using
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Speaker 2: the women's bathroom while they're in there. I've never been
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Speaker 2: a big fan of and sometimes you don't have a choice.
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Speaker 2: But sometimes a dad has to take the daughter into
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Speaker 2: the bathroom because the mom's not there, and they've got
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Speaker 2: to let a small kid use the men's bathroom with them,
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Speaker 2: and they take them into a stall, hopefully right, And
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Speaker 2: so they got to do I mean, if the dad
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Speaker 2: is using the bathroom, I don't necessarily mean the girl.
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Speaker 2: Obviously the girl would use the stall, use the stall.
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Speaker 2: But my point is that that can be an awkward
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Speaker 2: situation for the men that are in the men's room
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Speaker 2: and a small girl comes in. It's just awkward. I
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Speaker 2: would not want my if I had a daughter, to
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Speaker 2: have to experience that. However, we do have some circumstances
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Speaker 2: where you have a child who's been raised as a girl,
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Speaker 2: born a boy, but living their life as a girl,
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Speaker 2: and everyone that knows them knows them to be a girl.
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Speaker 2: So when you tell that child, nah, you were born
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Speaker 2: a boy, you have to go into the men's room. Well,
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Speaker 2: now you aren't allowing them the opportunity to continue with
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Speaker 2: their life without, you know, pulling back the curtain and saying, look,
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Speaker 2: I get that, I do when we're talking about kids.
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Speaker 2: When we're talking about children, Now, there are some people
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Speaker 2: living their life as men or women that were born
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Speaker 2: the opposite, and you can't recognize that they're not what
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Speaker 2: they're living their life as. It would be very awkward
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Speaker 2: if you had a woman who looked just like a
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Speaker 2: woman and wore a dress and everything looked just like
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Speaker 2: a woman and she walks in the men's room and
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Speaker 2: uses the urinal. That would be an awkward moment for her,
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Speaker 2: an awkward moment for the men in the men's room. Right,
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Speaker 2: all of those things, I get it. I understand that
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Speaker 2: it's a complicated issue. But here we go into the
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Speaker 2: idiocy of this week. Senator Dick Durban, Illinois. Basically, after
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Speaker 2: asking some questions and thinking he's having this massive spike
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Speaker 2: the ball moment, he asks the NCAA president how many
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Speaker 2: NCAA athletes are there ten? How many are transgender athletes
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Speaker 2: less than ten? Or he says about ten that he
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Speaker 2: knows of. So Dick Durbin goes to X five hundred
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Speaker 2: ten thousand NCAA athletes, ten or few transgendered NCAA athletes nationwide,
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Speaker 2: let's focus on ways to actually improve women's sports. This
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Speaker 2: did not go over the way I think he expected,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people asking the question, so it's
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Speaker 2: okay for ten to cheat, you don't have a problem
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Speaker 2: with the ten cheating. Now. My first question, I guess
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Speaker 2: would be, if we're talking about five hundred ten thousand
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Speaker 2: NCUBA athletes, how many of those are men? How many
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Speaker 2: of those are women? Because that's another aspect of this,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think he means five hundred ten thousand
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Speaker 2: female athletes, but a lot of people basically asking the question,
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Speaker 2: you know, if there's men in it, is it still
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Speaker 2: women's sports? Great question, That's one of the things that
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Speaker 2: came up during this election that people were concerned about.
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Speaker 2: And basically, I think there should be this idea of
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Speaker 2: if there's only ten, that should mean that looking out
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Speaker 2: for the interest of the other, you know, five hundred
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Speaker 2: and ten thousand minus ten, to make it comfortable for
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Speaker 2: them to be able to compete, to not have to
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Speaker 2: share a locker room, to not have to worry about
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Speaker 2: their own safety and for them to be able to
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Speaker 2: compete at a very high level, because basically, you're pretending
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Speaker 2: that these ten people are being oppressed so badly, while
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Speaker 2: you have five hundred and ten thousand people that could
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Speaker 2: make the case that they are being oppressed and that
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Speaker 2: they are the victims. And for some, it's more important
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Speaker 2: to protect the ten than it is to protect everybody else.
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Speaker 2: It's so important to protect this small group. And I
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Speaker 2: don't dismiss the small groups, not at all. But let's
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Speaker 2: be honest. These ten athletes that are competing, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: are all born as men competing as women in the NCAA.
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Speaker 2: You don't really hear anything about it going the other way,
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Speaker 2: do you. You don't hear about one of the you know,
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Speaker 2: top ten athletes in a sport born a woman who
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Speaker 2: decides I want to go compete in men's sports now
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Speaker 2: and I want to be, you know, the worst person
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Speaker 2: competing at that level against men. You don't hear that.
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Speaker 2: Has that happened? I'd like to know has that even happened.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it has. I remember there was a
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Speaker 2: woman competing. I think it was for Canada's Women's soccer
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Speaker 2: team who I think identifies as a man, but was
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Speaker 2: definitely still competing on the women's team, So you don't
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Speaker 2: see it go that way. So who is this effect
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Speaker 2: affects girl, It affects teen girls, it affects college age girls,
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Speaker 2: it affects even at the pro level. It's a way
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Speaker 2: to keep women from being able to compete at that
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Speaker 2: highest level when there are men that are taking those
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Speaker 2: after the break, a new study from the University of
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Speaker 2: Bath at the University of Melbourne revealed what most families
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Speaker 2: already know. Mom is the house manager. Moms know everyone's schedules,
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Speaker 2: the names of the kids, teachers, friends, coaches, the pediatrician,
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Speaker 2: what food supplies, the families running low on, and so
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Speaker 2: much more. Researchers call it the mental load, and most
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Speaker 2: moms carry more of that load than dad's seventy one
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Speaker 2: percent versus forty five percent to be exact. Now, I
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Speaker 2: don't want to seem like an idiot, but those two
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Speaker 2: numbers from after one hundred more and more Americans are
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Speaker 2: looking to ditch traditional Christmas customs in favor of something
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Speaker 2: more non traditional. According to a new survey, thirty one
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Speaker 2: percent of people said they'd like some alternatives, starting with
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Speaker 2: the Christmas meal instead of a typical turkey, Forty one
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Speaker 2: percent said they'd prefer to feast on pizza. I guess
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Speaker 2: home alone s save Kevin some cheese pizza. Thirty eight
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Speaker 2: percent said they'd rather have tacos. Thirty four percent said
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Speaker 2: they'd love to just order some Chinese takeout and that could,
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Speaker 2: you know, be a Christmas story impact. Maybe Christmas is
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Speaker 2: a time of giving and receiving, but also of reselling
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Speaker 2: and regifting. A survey done by badcredit dot org finds
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Speaker 2: that more than one hundred and ten million Americans admit
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Speaker 2: to regifting or reselling unwanted presents. Yeah, I've done it.
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Speaker 2: The state with the most regifting is Rhode Island, where
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Speaker 2: eighty three percent said they have no issues with dumping
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Speaker 2: unwanted gifts off on someone else. Behind Rhode Island Nevada,
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Speaker 2: New York, Arizona, and Utah. But if you're going to
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Speaker 2: offload run wanted gifts, you should know that. The survey
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Speaker 2: also found that forty eight percent of people have been
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Speaker 2: caught regifting or selling a gift. It could be awkward.
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Speaker 2: I think it's really bad when you accidentally give it
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Speaker 2: back to the same person, or maybe you intention only
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Speaker 2: give it back to the same person. Now that's some
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Speaker 2: that's a Jedi move. I don't recommend it, but it
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Speaker 2: could be a way to send a message loud and clear.
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Speaker 2: If you need a break from holiday stress, just step
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Speaker 2: out into the forest, whether you're near one or not.
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Speaker 2: Tree dot fm as a site that lets you listen
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Speaker 2: to the sounds of random forests from around the world.
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Speaker 2: The sight explaining that people around the world recorded the
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Speaker 2: sounds of their forests so you can escape into nature
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Speaker 2: and unwind wherever you are. So take a breath and
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Speaker 2: soak in the forest sounds as they breathe with life
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Speaker 2: and beauty. You know, it's a good thing. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to go to a place where they're cutting down
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Speaker 2: Christmas trees, though, because you could hear them screaming, and
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Speaker 2: that would be pretty terrifying, wouldn't it. Sorry. I know
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Speaker 2: that took a dark turn, I know it did, but
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Speaker 2: I just think about those Christmas trees being sawed down
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Speaker 2: or hacked down with an axe. Parents know how hard
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Speaker 2: it is for kids to part with their toys, even
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Speaker 2: ones they never play with any more. Here's a way
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Speaker 2: to do that. Give your kids a sense of the
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Speaker 2: real spirit of the seasons where and we've heard of
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Speaker 2: parents doing this sort of thing. They pick a gently
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Speaker 2: used toy, maybe books, games, dolls, placed them unwrapped under
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Speaker 2: the tree so that Santa can pick them up and
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Speaker 2: delivered them to some other kids who need them a
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Speaker 2: little bit more. Just a reminder of that idea. It's
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Speaker 2: a good good way to kind of get those recycled
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Speaker 2: if you will get them back out there where they
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Speaker 2: could be played with. Those toys they just want to
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Speaker 2: be played with. They don't want to just sit there.
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Speaker 2: And finally, two brothers in England, Owen and Connor Gray,
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Speaker 2: have earned a Guinness World Record for their massive collection
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Speaker 2: of forty eight three and thirty nine different Pokemon cards.
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Speaker 2: Their collection includes cards from multiple countries in different languages,
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Speaker 2: and among their most valuable cards are two gold Star Shareizards.
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Speaker 2: Am I saying that right? Cherizards? I know nothing about Pokemon.
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Speaker 2: They're both worth up about thirty thousand dollars each. The
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Speaker 2: Guinness World Record is a if I know somebody is
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Speaker 2: dying that I said it wrong. The Guinness World Record
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Speaker 2: big deal for the brothers will be taking their cards
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Speaker 2: on a tour of the US collector shows over the
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Speaker 2: next year. Good stuff. You know. I'm a big fan
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Speaker 2: of those Guinness records. That'll do it for this Thursday
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