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Denzel Is Right But... · 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, eighteenth day of August.
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Speaker 3: I'm West Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: We have the finalized lineup for this year's dragon Con
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Speaker 2: pregame show, unless.
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Speaker 3: One more interview comes through. There's one that I've been
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Speaker 3: waiting on.
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Speaker 2: I was told it looked like we were going to
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Speaker 2: have it, and that there was a potential scheduling hiccup
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Speaker 2: and all of it. And at this point that's where
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Speaker 2: we are. We're at a scheduling hiccup. It's probably not
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Speaker 2: going to work out before dragon Con, but if it does,
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Speaker 2: I will happily interview this final guest, the guest who
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Speaker 2: is still appearing at dragon Con, just at this point
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Speaker 2: not appearing on the dragon Con pregame show. And the
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Speaker 2: last time I had a guest of this caliber that
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Speaker 2: there was as a hiccup. We eventually made good on
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Speaker 2: it later, not necessarily that year, but you know, in
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Speaker 2: the in the very near future, we were able to
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Speaker 2: work that out. This year's guest. And this is no
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Speaker 2: in any way cut on the actor or his team
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Speaker 2: or any of that. This is I'm just telling you
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Speaker 2: who the person is because he will still be at
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Speaker 2: Dragon Con. I think he's a fantastic actor.
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Speaker 3: I was.
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Speaker 2: He was one of the first people I asked for
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Speaker 2: when the opportunity came in to start asking for guests
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Speaker 2: for the pregame show, and I may end up speaking
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Speaker 2: with him at Dragon Con, so any of those things
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Speaker 2: could play out. There's several interview requests I've put in
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Speaker 2: for while I'm there on site, and all of those
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Speaker 2: could become something that we have for later. But as
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Speaker 2: of right now, this particular guest will not be on
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Speaker 2: the show this year. I did on Friday speak with
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Speaker 2: Sam Whitwer. He has done a number of He's actually
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Speaker 2: been to Columbus in the past at the Coca Cola
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Speaker 2: Space Science Center for an event. But he is part
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Speaker 2: of the Star Wars universe. He plays Darth Maul. He
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Speaker 2: voices Darth Maul, and he has been in Star Wars
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Speaker 2: video games.
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Speaker 3: If you played any.
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Speaker 2: Of the Star Wars video games, there was a particular
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Speaker 2: game where Darth Vader had an apprentice, Starkiller is his name.
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Speaker 2: He played that character, and then eventually, because of the
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Speaker 2: work he did on that game, he ended up working
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Speaker 2: as part of the Star Wars universe as Darth Maul.
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Speaker 3: He took over for the voice of Darth Maul.
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Speaker 2: And I know we're getting nerdy in the weeds. I
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Speaker 2: don't try to get too deep into it, but I'm
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Speaker 2: explaining then. Sam Witwer was also in the show Battlestar Galactica,
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Speaker 2: the second edition of that, playing a guy named Crashdown.
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Speaker 2: He was in the show Dexter. He's done a lot
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Speaker 2: of acting and a lot of voice work, and it
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Speaker 2: was really fun, truly nerding out with him about Star
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Speaker 2: Wars for the pregame show. Could have talked to him
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Speaker 2: for four hours easily about layers of Star Wars stuff. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: that'll be part of the show, Katie Sackoff, I've told
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Speaker 2: you also Star Wars, also Battlestar Galactica, Diana Lee and Asanto,
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Speaker 2: Star Wars, and several other projects not Battlestar Galactica. This
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Speaker 2: is the first year that I have done a pregame
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Speaker 2: show where many of the guests were or all of
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Speaker 2: the guests in this case, unless this other guest ends
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Speaker 2: up happening, are all related to the same fandom. But
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Speaker 2: I was waiting to find out about Vincent Andofrio. He
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Speaker 2: is obviously a major name when it comes to actors,
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Speaker 2: and he was a dragon Con last year. He's back
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Speaker 2: this year. He will be back. And again this is
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Speaker 2: no cut on him. It was always going to be
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Speaker 2: difficult with scheduling, and like I said, something could still
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Speaker 2: come through. Something may come through next week. If so,
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Speaker 2: he'll be a part of what eventually is this dragon
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Speaker 2: Con pregame show podcast.
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Speaker 3: But at this point probably.
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Speaker 2: Maybe get an opportunity to talk to him at the
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Speaker 2: convention or at some point down the line. But dragon
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Speaker 2: Con is now really, you know, less than two weeks away.
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Speaker 2: It's a little over a week away. As we now.
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Speaker 3: People show up on Wednesday. Some people show up on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: I get it. I know there's excitement. I can't really
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Speaker 2: get there on Tuesday or Wednesday. I've done Wednesday once
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Speaker 2: and it was a little bit too much because there's
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Speaker 2: really nothing going on on Wednesday. It really gets started
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Speaker 2: on Thursday. So o're coverage this year, as has been
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Speaker 2: the case for many years, powered by Columbus State University's
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Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center. It's a fun convention. It's
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Speaker 2: a fun experience if you get a chance to go.
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Speaker 2: I highly recommend it. I had someone recently ask well,
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Speaker 2: if you go one day, what day would you go?
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Speaker 2: And typically the answer to that is Saturday. If you
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Speaker 2: can still get Monday passes, you go on Saturday, You
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Speaker 2: go to the parade, then you know, go do what
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Speaker 2: you want to do for the rest of the day.
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Speaker 2: And if it's a one day deal, then you head
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Speaker 2: home or you head to whatever hotel you're going to
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Speaker 2: stay in for the night, and then you head home.
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Speaker 2: However you want to play that. But it happens in
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Speaker 2: downtown Atlanta. The parade is a massive event. It's definitely
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Speaker 2: worth your time. It's one of the great parades that
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Speaker 2: happens in the Southeast. And a lot of fun, a
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Speaker 2: lot of great costuming that happens in the parade, a
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Speaker 2: lot of very clever interpretations of characters, if you will.
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Speaker 2: It's just a lot of fun. And that happens I
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Speaker 2: think ten am Saturday morning. They start lining up before that,
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Speaker 2: and I'm usually walking along the parade, not part of
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Speaker 2: the parade, but as part of press because I take
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Speaker 2: photos and things of the parade and cover that. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: and I haven't really talked much about this, but NAMI
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Speaker 2: is the charity partnership for this year and they are
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Speaker 2: helping people who struggle with mental illness and this year's
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Speaker 2: charity will benefit financially as well as through volunteers things.
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Speaker 2: As always with Dragon Compost, there's a huge blood drive
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Speaker 2: that goes on. And you know what, honestly, if you
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Speaker 2: come up for one day and you go for just
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Speaker 2: you know, Saturday or Sunday, and you want to be
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Speaker 2: part of the blood drive, you can do that as
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Speaker 2: well and be a big part of that. So thanks
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Speaker 2: to Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center, and
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Speaker 2: the pregame show will be available at the end of
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Speaker 2: the week as a podcast, and then Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 2: it'll be on a slightly shorter version of it because
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Speaker 2: I give you the long form in the podcast, but
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Speaker 2: the shorter form version of it will be on about
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Speaker 2: two under radio stations around the state of Georgia. All Right,
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Speaker 2: got that said, And again, Vincent and Afrio was the
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Speaker 2: one I've kind of been teasing that maybe we'll have
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Speaker 2: and I just didn't want to say it in case
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Speaker 2: it wasn't going to happen. And I knew there was
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Speaker 2: a possibility it wouldn't happen, and that's kind of why
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Speaker 2: I did that. But the others I've already spoken with them.
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Speaker 2: They were fantastic. I had a lot of fun talking
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Speaker 2: with all of them, and I'm looking forward to seeing
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Speaker 2: him in person at Dragon Con. All right, I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about this audio that has made its rounds
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Speaker 2: since it happened, and it's an interview Denzel Washington and
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Speaker 2: Spike Lee and it's mainly Denzel Washington. I know there's
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Speaker 2: a Spike Lee portion of this who says some similar
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Speaker 2: type things, and I've got the clip here. It's from
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Speaker 2: the interview was done by Complex News, and the question
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Speaker 2: that was asked was about whether or not they worry
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Speaker 2: about being canceled, right, the whole idea of cancel culture.
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Speaker 2: And here is a refreshing take on cancel culture. But
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Speaker 2: I want you to hear what he said and then
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Speaker 2: we'll come back to thoughts on it. But here's Denzel Washington,
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Speaker 2: and again, this is a Complex News who I don't
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Speaker 2: really know anything about Complex. Complex Pop are the two
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Speaker 2: sources I guess that posted this on Instagram.
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Speaker 4: Is consider being quote unquote canceled. What does that mean
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Speaker 4: you canceled. It means you lose public support.
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Speaker 3: Who cares?
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Speaker 5: What made public support so important to begin with?
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Speaker 4: I guess because followers now are currency.
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Speaker 5: I don't care who's following. Okay, you can't lead and
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Speaker 5: follow at the same time, and you can't follow and
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Speaker 5: lead at the same time. I don't follow anybody. I
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Speaker 5: follow the heavenly Spirit. I follow God, I follow Man.
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Speaker 5: I have faith in God, I have hope and Man.
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Speaker 5: But look around, it ain't working out so well. Forget
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Speaker 5: being followed. You can't be canceled. If you haven't signed up,
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Speaker 5: don't sign up.
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Speaker 3: Get me started.
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Speaker 4: Talking about that. I could care less.
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Speaker 3: All right again.
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Speaker 2: And the source for that is complex pop complex news.
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Speaker 2: Whatever the source side is, I'm not really sure it's not.
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Speaker 2: I found it because the story was going viral and
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Speaker 2: not because I necessarily follow it.
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Speaker 3: But that's who.
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Speaker 2: Posted that, who was doing the interview. So it's an
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Speaker 2: interesting take on it, and it is refreshing, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of people are praising it for you know, first
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Speaker 2: of all, a lot of pointing out the fact that
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Speaker 2: he's acknowledging that God is the only one he follows
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Speaker 2: his heavenly Spirit. Denzel has been open about his faith.
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Speaker 2: In the past, he has been someone who has kind
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Speaker 2: of shunned some of this idea, the wokeness or the
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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of this stuff. He's kind of
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Speaker 2: had a similar take on things like this in the past,
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Speaker 2: So this part of it isn't something new, but being
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Speaker 2: able to put it out there in this form, this fashion,
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Speaker 2: to be able to say, look, like you said, you
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Speaker 2: can't be canceled if you don't sign up.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: The only problem with this, and I appreciate everything he said,
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Speaker 2: I would have loved and I know you can't in
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Speaker 2: this format. It's really hard for the interview. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not knocking them because this person doing the interview is
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Speaker 2: doing her job. They're promoting a project or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: So I guess Highest to Lowest is what. It's an updated,
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Speaker 2: modernized version of High and Low the Cure Soul movie.
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Speaker 2: So you can't really and the purpose of this particular
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Speaker 2: interview is to promote that this is a very much
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Speaker 2: press junket type situation. So I would have loved a
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Speaker 2: little bit more in depth in this because there are
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Speaker 2: a number of people in Hollywood who have been canceled
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Speaker 2: and if this is really how they feel both of them.
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Speaker 2: If this is the philosophy here of like you know,
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Speaker 2: you can't be canceled if you.
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Speaker 3: Don't sign up.
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Speaker 2: I would like to see some of the actors and
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Speaker 2: performers who have been canceled for different reasons get that lifeline,
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Speaker 2: get that opportunity from someone like this, because whether they
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Speaker 2: sign up for it or not, the bottom line is
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Speaker 2: is you take someone.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna give Gina Carano as an example.
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Speaker 2: We've been talking about Star Wars, might as well throw
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Speaker 2: in somebody that was part of Disney and part of
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Speaker 2: the Star Wars universe and the Mandalorian show. Gina Carano
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Speaker 2: basically ultimately lost her job from Disney for being an
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Speaker 2: outspoken conservative, for criticizing some of the things that you're
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Speaker 2: not supposed to criticize. Back then, you can get away
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Speaker 2: with a little bit more. Now we have a new
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Speaker 2: share in town, if you will. But she was critical
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Speaker 2: of some of the vaccines, some of the COVID things.
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Speaker 2: She was critical of the LGBTQ plus community in general,
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Speaker 2: not really the whole community. She was someone who was
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Speaker 2: attacked by members from that area, but.
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Speaker 3: It was mainly.
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Speaker 2: The people that come after the the b I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you've seen these things online where people are saying,
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Speaker 2: you know, the LGB needs to separate from everybody after that,
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Speaker 2: the t Q plus people that need to like all
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Speaker 2: of that needs to separate and we need to have
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Speaker 2: our own thing. Because there's the LGB community saying, we
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Speaker 2: have an identity, we know what our preferences are, we
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Speaker 2: know what we like. We don't know what you guys
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Speaker 2: are talking about. We don't understand that. That's not what
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Speaker 2: we're about. We're over here, we've come out of the closet.
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Speaker 2: We want to be able to do what we want
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Speaker 2: to do. We don't want to have to stick up
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Speaker 2: for your rights for all these other things so supposedly
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Speaker 2: like and it's more power with them as a group.
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Speaker 2: And they basically went after her because she wasn't putting
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Speaker 2: her pronouns on.
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Speaker 3: Her social media.
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Speaker 2: She wasn't saying, you know, she her or whatever on
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Speaker 2: her page, and they were pressuring her to do so
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Speaker 2: because they said, well, you should have something up there, right,
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Speaker 2: that's the idea. The idea there is that you should have.
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Speaker 2: So she put beat boop or something like that on there,
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Speaker 2: and it wasn't appreciated and they get really offended and
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Speaker 2: upset about it, and whoever went after her, and then
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Speaker 2: it became a full on we have to eliminate her
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Speaker 2: from working for Disney. So one of the things that
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Speaker 2: she posted was a comment about just relating the way
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Speaker 2: people were going after each other. Citizens were going after
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Speaker 2: each other in the name of COVID they're not vaccinated,
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Speaker 2: or they're going out in public and all these things,
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Speaker 2: or going after people for being a conservative. You can't
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Speaker 2: be a conservative, people are, you know, you're being asked
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Speaker 2: to turn each other in, whether it's vaccines, whether it's conservative.
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Speaker 2: She made a reference paralleling it to Notz Germany, and
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Speaker 2: that was it. At that point, it became, oh, it's
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Speaker 2: anti semitic. They're going to let her go, and they did.
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Speaker 3: They made a decision to let her go.
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Speaker 2: Now she has since sued Disney. She has won, there's
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Speaker 2: been a settlement, but she's not getting her job back.
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Speaker 3: So this refreshing.
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Speaker 2: Idea about the idea that you can't be canceled if
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Speaker 2: you don't sign up. But the reality is not everybody
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Speaker 2: is Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, And again I'm not being
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Speaker 2: critical of them. I think they're saying the right things.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what the attitude needs to be. And I
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Speaker 2: do think there has been a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: shift in it.
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Speaker 3: But you've got.
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Speaker 2: People now that have been critical of Adam Sandler and
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Speaker 2: Happy Gilmore two for putting Rob Schneider in the movie
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Speaker 2: for about five seconds. He has one line of dialogue
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Speaker 2: and he's in the movie about five seconds and that's
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Speaker 2: about it. Bet you can't guess what the one line
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Speaker 2: of dialogue is if you haven't seen it. But he's
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Speaker 2: in it, and he delivers a line and then that's it.
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Speaker 2: And there's people who've been critical of that. He's a conservative.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Adam, you can't do that. Keep in mind
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Speaker 2: Adam Sandler, you know, he's got a lot of friends
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Speaker 2: who've said a lot of very conservative things.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't a lot of grief.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody's given him grief about putting
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Speaker 2: John Lovett's in it, who I think has also said
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Speaker 2: some very conservative things over the years. Anyway, the point is,
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Speaker 2: if you're Denzel Washington and Spike Lee, you kind of
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Speaker 2: have this ability to stay above the fray. People are
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Speaker 2: gonna still want to see Denzel, They're gonna still want
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Speaker 2: to see Spike Lee movies. It's not like Morgan Freeman
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Speaker 2: has survived some of the things he said, dismissing the
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Speaker 2: notion of trying to insert race into every conversation, and
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Speaker 2: he's like, the only way we're gonna make it go away,
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Speaker 2: stop talking about it. That's why it's still a thing.
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Speaker 2: That's why it's still an issue. And it had that
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Speaker 2: same kind of feel as this where people were saying, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: but doesn't change anything.
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Speaker 3: The only way you change.
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Speaker 2: Something in all of this is you have to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: or realize that there are people like Gina Carano and
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Speaker 2: Rob Schneider that aren't getting roles anymore. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 2: cast them. Their struggle to find now I say nobody
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Speaker 2: will cast them. I think Ben Shapiro made a movie,
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Speaker 2: his company made a movie, and they cast Gina Carano
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Speaker 2: in it. And obviously Adam Sandler is going to take
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Speaker 2: care of his friends. That's what he's always done. But
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Speaker 2: it's refreshing. This is great. This is the attitude that
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Speaker 2: we all need to take because who can cancel who?
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Speaker 2: Who's going to be able to do that? Who should
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Speaker 2: have the power and ability to cancel you and shut
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Speaker 2: you up? But we know we still have this mob mentality.
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Speaker 2: And I know someone who just in the last week,
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Speaker 2: I have seen a friend of mine advocating for mob
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Speaker 2: mentality on dealing with a sensitive topic. I saw them
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Speaker 2: saying it. I don't like to advocate for mob mentality,
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Speaker 2: but I'm advocating for mob mentality about this thing that
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Speaker 2: this needs to be shut down, and this is how
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Speaker 2: it needs to be shut down. So don't think it's
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Speaker 2: gone away. It's a little different, it's not what it
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Speaker 2: used to be. But don't think it's gone away, because
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Speaker 2: this particular thing that they're advocating for mob mentality for,
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Speaker 2: it's not in order to save a baby. It's not
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Speaker 2: in order to save a life. It's in order to,
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Speaker 2: you know, protect a few people's feelings about something. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you want to go mob mentality on, hey, we
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Speaker 2: have to stop an execution, we have to stop the
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Speaker 2: killing of the unborn. And again I'm not advocating that,
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Speaker 2: but I understand that more than we need to get
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Speaker 2: an angry mob involved because a few people might get
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Speaker 2: their feelings hurt. We got some people who might get
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Speaker 2: their feelings hurt. So let's get us an angry mob.
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Speaker 2: And now they weren't advocating for violence. This particular person
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Speaker 2: was not advocating for violence, not at all, thankfully. But
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Speaker 2: this hasn't gone away. And I like what Denzel said,
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Speaker 2: But Denzel has to realize he's not someone who's trying
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Speaker 2: to get started in the business. He's not someone who's
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Speaker 2: kind of a mid level in their career and really
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Speaker 2: trying to grab more roles. He's somebody who has gotten
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Speaker 2: to a point where he's going to get cast. And
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Speaker 2: obviously the fact that he's talking about it and saying, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's making my chest hurt, this is obviously not something
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Speaker 2: Right after the break, my slwhere Spirit Halloween is gonna
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Speaker 3: That's what they do. They move into places that have.
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Speaker 3: And you know, they were in another.
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Speaker 2: about Halloween and all of those things. I know, it's
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Speaker 2: but it's time to kind of start thinking about some
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Speaker 2: of these things when it comes to Halloween. And one
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Speaker 2: of the things that ends up being discussed in spooky
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Speaker 2: time of year is ghosts, and a new Gallup poll
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Speaker 2: says thirty nine percent of Americans believe in ghosts. The
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Speaker 2: most likely, according to the survey, are women, and people
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Speaker 2: who don't observe any religion, and people who do.
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Speaker 3: Not have a college degree.
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Speaker 2: You do with that information, what you choose. I'm just
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Every year there seems to be a new high school
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Speaker 2: high school seniors are walking the halls with cartoon backpacks Elmo, Barbie,
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Speaker 2: Scooby Doo, Disney princesses, even Shrek. The trend gaining traction
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Speaker 3: I can believe that to a point.
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Speaker 2: I can also believe that it's just something that kids
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Speaker 2: that that age at this point haven't really grown up.
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Speaker 2: I'm not, you know, in any way bashing it. Good
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Speaker 2: want to do. I just don't think it's exactly that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it is, but I also wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: whenever they go off to college or whatever. All right,
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Speaker 2: as long as Starbucks has been around, customers have been
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Speaker 2: sitting down to get work done while they're there, the
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Speaker 2: company describing their stores as a welcoming third space. Now
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Speaker 2: being reasonable. Laptops and smaller at least here they are.
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Speaker 2: Laptops and smaller personal devices are still welcome. Desktop computers,
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Speaker 2: printers and other bulky items are not. As spokesperson explained,
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Speaker 2: they limit seating and impact the shared space.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. It's not a good idea.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you're bringing in a fax machine or
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Speaker 2: a copier, you don't need that. It's a little section
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Speaker 2: for a secretary to answer your phone. You're kind of
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Speaker 2: pushing it at that point. So a new survey reveals
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Speaker 2: that sixty percent of US parents have taken on debt
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Speaker 2: to cover the cost of raising their children, with nearly
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Speaker 2: half of those describing that debt as unmanageable. The financial
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Speaker 2: seventy seven percent carry some form of debt, with the
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Speaker 2: average parent in debt taking on an additional one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty one dollars a month. For parents with kids
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Speaker 2: between the ages of five and twelve, the number jumps
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Speaker 2: to one hundred and ninety four dollars a month. Single
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Speaker 2: parents are especially affected, fifty three percent saying their debt
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Speaker 2: is overwhelming. The emotional toll is significant to with parents
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Speaker 2: in debt reporting higher stress levels and are more likely
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Speaker 2: to skip meals and often worry more about finances than
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Speaker 2: their child's health or development. So does this have an
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Speaker 2: impact on the birth rate.
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Speaker 3: I would think so, I would think it would.
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Speaker 2: And you hear from people all the time that say
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Speaker 2: they're worth it, and you take on the debt and
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Speaker 2: you manage it and you figure it out as you go.
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Speaker 2: And apparently some people in this case and this survey
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