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Companies Are Making a Long Overdue Change · 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 and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, second day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me day after Labor Day, day after Labor Day weekend.
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Speaker 2: I hope you had a good one. I did want
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Speaker 2: to say thanks again to Columbus State University's Coca Cola
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Speaker 2: Space Science Center for sponsoring our Dragon Con coverage throughout
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Speaker 2: the lead up and then actually Labor Day weekend. Had
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Speaker 2: a great time there at the convention, as always, my
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Speaker 2: twenty fourth time they're at dragon Con covering the convention
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Speaker 2: and you know, starting to look ahead at number twenty
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Speaker 2: five for next year, but it's still early for that.
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Speaker 2: Enjoyed seeing some of my friends who have not been
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Speaker 2: before come this year for the first time in a
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Speaker 2: few friends who haven't been in a while coming back,
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Speaker 2: and it was great. It's always fun for me to
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Speaker 2: be able to witness this incredible, very overwhelming for many
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Speaker 2: experience that is Dragon Con through the eyes of someone
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Speaker 2: who's never seen it before. A lot of people come
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Speaker 2: into it and they think, well, this is what I
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Speaker 2: think it's going to be, and then they don't know
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Speaker 2: exactly what that means or what it is going to be,
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Speaker 2: and then they get there and it's so much more
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Speaker 2: than what they thought and people get hooked. That's why
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Speaker 2: I go every year. It's a great time. And next
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Speaker 2: year you hear me talk about it enough, I'll give
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Speaker 2: you plenty of heads up next year as we'll start
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Speaker 2: gearing up for next year's coverage in about ten months
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Speaker 2: or so something like that, we'll be really talking it up.
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Speaker 2: But again, thanks to Columbus State University's Cocola Space Science
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Speaker 2: Center and just a phenomen I'm on a weekend. They
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Speaker 2: the folks that run this convention, do it so well,
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Speaker 2: and they've been doing it for a while. Next year
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Speaker 2: will be the fortieth year, the fortieth Dragon con and
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Speaker 2: it runs like a convention that's been running for a
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Speaker 2: while and one that is focused on the fans. The
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Speaker 2: people that started the convention, we're fans the people that
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Speaker 2: run the convention or fans even now, and it just
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Speaker 2: has that feel to it while you are there and
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Speaker 2: there is some sort of fandom for you, whatever that
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Speaker 2: representation is, it just is there's something that's going to
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Speaker 2: be there for you. It's not just science fiction. It's
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Speaker 2: not as far as the costuming goes. Even that is
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Speaker 2: not just science fiction. You're going to see some creative
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Speaker 2: things that happen at a convention like this. One of
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Speaker 2: the size and just the guest list, it's always multifaceted,
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Speaker 2: people from various fandoms there. What I especially liked this
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Speaker 2: year was the amount of people that were there from
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Speaker 2: Star Wars. This is not something that has been really
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Speaker 2: the case for dragon Con for a while, and they
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Speaker 2: would have admitted it in a heartbeat. We don't get
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Speaker 2: a lot of people from Star Wars. If my memory
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Speaker 2: is serving me correctly. The only person from the Star
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Speaker 2: Wars sequel trilogy that appeared, and sorry, his name escapes
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Speaker 2: me at the moment, and I just was thinking of this,
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Speaker 2: But the only person I can think of from that
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Speaker 2: particular trilogy I believe that has been at dragon Con
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Speaker 2: since those movies came out is the actor who took
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Speaker 2: the place in the role of Chewbacca. So the newer
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Speaker 2: actor who's actually playing the role a Chewbacca, I believe
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Speaker 2: he is the only one who has been there now.
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Speaker 2: Peter Mayhew was there in the past, but obviously he
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Speaker 2: was the original and he is not, you know, was
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Speaker 2: not playing that role when these sequel movies came out. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: I'm really trying to look up his name now, Junis Suatamo,
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Speaker 2: and I know I'm not quite saying it right. And
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Speaker 2: I met him. He's a nice guy. I had a
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Speaker 2: great conversation with him there when he was there years ago.
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Speaker 2: But actually being able to have some of the newer
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Speaker 2: TV shows and things represented was nice this year. And
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Speaker 2: John Boyega, who played Finn in the sequel trilogy, was there.
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Speaker 2: I had a great opportunity to chat with him one
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Speaker 2: on one. I'll have that audio posted soon on the
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Speaker 2: dragon Con Postgame Show. It's the dragon Con pregame show podcast,
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Speaker 2: but I treated as a post game because it's an
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Speaker 2: interview that took place there at the convention, and we
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Speaker 2: talk about a few things, including some upcoming projects. And
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Speaker 2: you know, he is someone who has been in a sequel,
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Speaker 2: the sequel trilogy in Star Wars. He has some interest
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Speaker 2: I think in returning he does. He definitely has some
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Speaker 2: interesting returning to that role if the script is right.
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Speaker 2: As he said, he wants to do something that makes
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Speaker 2: sense for the character that he played, and we talk
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Speaker 2: about that in that interview. But I'll have that at
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Speaker 2: the Dragon Con pregame show podcast. It'll be a post
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Speaker 2: game version of it. I had a Game Day edition
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Speaker 2: this year where I talked to the vendors who were there,
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Speaker 2: and it was something new that we had done and
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Speaker 2: worked into the show for this year. But again, check
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Speaker 2: out that podcast with this year's interviews. It's very Star
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Speaker 2: Wars heavy. And we'll get that interview with John Boyega
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Speaker 2: up for you soon. Sort of a programming note just
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Speaker 2: to mention this also, and I mentioned this a little
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Speaker 2: bit last week, but I am having a surgery on
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Speaker 2: my neck. I have two herniated discs in my neck
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Speaker 2: and I am having a surgery later this week. And
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Speaker 2: we are in the week of the surgery, so I've
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Speaker 2: got a couple of days. It's actually Thursday, and I
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Speaker 2: am going to figure out exactly how to handle all
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Speaker 2: of this when it comes to doing a show. Because
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Speaker 2: of the way that they do surgery on your neck
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Speaker 2: when it is your spine, they go in through the
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Speaker 2: front when they can, and in this case they can.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what my voice is going to be
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Speaker 2: like in the latter part of the week. So I'll
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Speaker 2: do a show today. I'll do a show tomorrow. I
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Speaker 2: may try to get one in at some point, maybe
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Speaker 2: a Thursday show that I might be able to do
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Speaker 2: a little bit ahead of time, maybe even work in Friday.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but if I suddenly disappear and if
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Speaker 2: I plan to do this, I'll let you know kind
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Speaker 2: of on tomorrow's show what I want to do. But
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Speaker 2: those of you who listen every day, I appreciate you
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Speaker 2: for doing that, and I just want to give you
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Speaker 2: the heads up because it was a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a short week last week because of dragon Con, and
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Speaker 2: it's a shorter week with the holiday this week already.
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Speaker 2: But I'll probably need a few days to recover just
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Speaker 2: my voice because of the way that they do this surgery.
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Speaker 2: They go in, they work around you know, they go
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Speaker 2: around your esophagus, they go around some sensitive things in
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Speaker 2: the throat area, and it can be agitated. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know that I'm going to feel up to doing
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Speaker 2: this for a couple of days. So that's kind of
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Speaker 2: where we are on things. But I try when I
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Speaker 2: can to record ahead if it's appropriate, and we'll see
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Speaker 2: how this plays out for this week. But I do
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Speaker 2: appreciate you listening, and I try to give you that
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Speaker 2: heads up and if I'm going to record something ahead,
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Speaker 2: I try to let you know that i'm doing that
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Speaker 2: as well. How to do that when I was in Australia.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's jump into some content for today because
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about and one of the things
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Speaker 2: at Dragon Con that and I'm not tying this specifically
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Speaker 2: into Dragon Con. It's just it was something that it
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Speaker 2: comes up when you're around large groups of people sometimes,
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Speaker 2: whether it's the workplace, whether it's something like a convention,
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Speaker 2: it happens sometimes sadly, just when you're watching and it
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Speaker 2: pops up. We've just seen this happen with Bud Anheuser
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Speaker 2: Bush and Bud Light with their situation that happened with
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Speaker 2: the cracker barrel here more recently, and you know they've
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Speaker 2: their decision to go back to the old logo and
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Speaker 2: try to change things back and undo them. I saw
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Speaker 2: where someone said that maybe they were doing this intentionally
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Speaker 2: the whole time, as if they were you know, somehow
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Speaker 2: it was no harm, no foul in this, And what
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Speaker 2: ends up happening is that they open themselves up to
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Speaker 2: extra scrutiny. That's the downside of it. You can't just
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Speaker 2: say it's no harm because you got people digging into
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Speaker 2: their workplace practices and the woke things, and then that
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Speaker 2: you're exposed for that. There's an old adage in sports,
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Speaker 2: especially in university sports, and specifically it comes up in
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Speaker 2: the world of college football where they used to say,
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Speaker 2: you know, don't do anything. If you're not gonna do
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Speaker 2: anything you know wrong, you're not going to commit any infractions.
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Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to do something that could
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Speaker 2: get you in trouble with the NCAA. But even if
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Speaker 2: you're running a clean program, you don't want someone digging
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Speaker 2: around in there anyway looking for things. It's like getting
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Speaker 2: audited with your taxes. Even if you're doing everything to
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Speaker 2: the letter of the law. What if you missed something
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Speaker 2: and it never would get caught if you didn't do
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Speaker 2: something that gave them a flag and got them to
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Speaker 2: dig around in there in the first place. And that's
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Speaker 2: what's happened with Cracker Barrel and some of their practices
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Speaker 2: as a company. It's caused this dynamic of people, you know,
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Speaker 2: what have they been doing, What have they been doing
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Speaker 2: things that don't appeal to my sensibilities anymore? And I
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Speaker 2: think that's the issue that's happened with cracker barrel. So
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Speaker 2: if people that are saying no harm, no foul, I
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Speaker 2: can't help but feel like there's a little harm, there's
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Speaker 2: a little foul. It's just the reality of it. But
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Speaker 2: there were small pockets at times of people at Dragon
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Speaker 2: Con even that we're talking about politics. And I miss
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Speaker 2: the days where we had escapism. You could go to
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Speaker 2: something fun, a sporting event or a convention or you know,
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Speaker 2: the movies, turn on your TV, whatever it is, and
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Speaker 2: you could shut those things out. You could just say,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I want to just watch a sporting
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Speaker 2: event and just see the sports. I don't need the politics.
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Speaker 2: I don't need special messages in the end zone. I
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Speaker 2: don't need special messages on the backs of the jerseys.
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Speaker 2: I just want to watch sports and I want to
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Speaker 2: enjoy it and not think about all the heavy things
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Speaker 2: in the world. I want to go to a convention
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Speaker 2: or go to a theme park, or I want to
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Speaker 2: go some you know, movies especially, And it's been happening
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Speaker 2: more and more in companies in the last ten years,
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Speaker 2: and now it seems that this trend is finally reversing,
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Speaker 2: and it's amazing to me. That we had to have
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Speaker 2: what seems like this huge shift before people would get
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Speaker 2: on board with the fact that we don't need to
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Speaker 2: know your politics, you don't need to express it, you
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Speaker 2: don't need to make it where we're going to work
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Speaker 2: it into a message that is in you. Whatever you're producing.
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Speaker 2: You don't need a special person whose job at a
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Speaker 2: children's TV network to say we're going to sneak in
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Speaker 2: some agenda driven things in the programming that kids watch
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Speaker 2: so that we can make sure that they're getting exposed
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Speaker 2: to it and it's winning them over somehow to their message.
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Speaker 2: And now this is apparently something that's happening where it's
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Speaker 2: starting to go back in the other direction. This came up,
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Speaker 2: I guess on CNN where a conversation came up. One
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Speaker 2: of the people discussing this was Van Jones, who of
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Speaker 2: course was an adviser for the old bomb administration, and
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Speaker 2: he was talking about people and politics at work and
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Speaker 2: it was ridiculous and it's time to move on. One
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Speaker 2: of the hosts It's CNN. Abby Philip over the weekend
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Speaker 2: said for some companies, the new message to employees is
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Speaker 2: to check your politics and activism at the door when
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Speaker 2: you come to work. CEOs are making it clear that
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Speaker 2: the office is not a public square, and they're probably
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Speaker 2: not wrong about that. Yes, many of us have been
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Speaker 2: saying this and expressing this and trying to get people
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Speaker 2: to understand this for a long time. You don't have
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Speaker 2: to tell everyone everything all the time. Everyone doesn't need
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Speaker 2: to know everything that you stand for. Now, we went
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Speaker 2: through this with some This comes up every now and
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Speaker 2: then about you know, companies that will say what's a
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Speaker 2: good trying to think there's a couple of companies that well,
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Speaker 2: Chick fil A is one. I think that people say, well,
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Speaker 2: Chick fil A, they make donations to this particular.
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Speaker 1: Cause or.
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Speaker 2: And it caused people to start, you know, boycotting it.
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Speaker 2: Then you take something like the movie industry or TV shows,
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Speaker 2: and they do it because they know that most of
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Speaker 2: the other networks and TV shows are right there and
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Speaker 2: step with them, and it makes it hard for people
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Speaker 2: to dodge them. You don't want to watch a Disney product.
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Speaker 2: That means you're not going to watch Star Wars or
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Speaker 2: Marvel movies. And because you're upset about where their political
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Speaker 2: donations go. And it's one thing to say that they're
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Speaker 2: making these donations behind the scenes. It's another thing when
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Speaker 2: the employees are actively talking about it and addressing it
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Speaker 2: at work. One of the things I've done over the years,
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Speaker 2: I jokingly say to people that I am the Forest
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Speaker 2: Gump of professional wrestling. I have stumbled into a number
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Speaker 2: of situations I've witnessed. I've seen historic moments in wrestling,
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Speaker 2: and not being someone who really watches wrestling very much.
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Speaker 2: Every now and then, I probably once every five to
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Speaker 2: ten years I might watch WrestleMania or something just to
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Speaker 2: kind of see what's going on because I'm just out
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Speaker 2: of the loop and I don't watch it. I watched
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Speaker 2: it as a kid, I don't really watch it. I
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Speaker 2: don't know all the storylines. I have an appreciation for
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Speaker 2: it as an art form, but it's not something that
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Speaker 2: I follow our watch. But one of the things that
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Speaker 2: I have been able to do over the years is
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Speaker 2: interview a number of wrestlers, and what many of them
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Speaker 2: say is they appreciate the fact that as a company,
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Speaker 2: the WWE, at least under Vince McMahon, was a company
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Speaker 2: where no one really ostracized you for having different political
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Speaker 2: views than everyone else. Everyone had their views, everyone could
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Speaker 2: talk about things, but it wasn't something that everyone was
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Speaker 2: so hyper focused on. It was a collection of people
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Speaker 2: that were there to perform, be part of this performance
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Speaker 2: art that is professional wrestling, the sports entertainment, and to
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Speaker 2: be able to say we can talk about whatever. We
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Speaker 2: don't have to be in lockstep with our politics. And
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Speaker 2: the fact that that was there and it was successful,
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Speaker 2: and of course over the years there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of criticism about management and some of the things that
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Speaker 2: happened there that I honestly think that maybe if they
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Speaker 2: had been lockstep with one political view or the other,
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Speaker 2: they probably would have had more coverage. And by coverage,
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Speaker 2: I mean defensive coverage, being able to keep some of
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Speaker 2: that stuff hidden as far as any inappropriate things. But
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Speaker 2: when you've got people that want to expose it because
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Speaker 2: they don't like the fact that people talk. See, that's
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Speaker 2: the thing. If you're able to talk about things at work,
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Speaker 2: there's that danger that you're going to be able to
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Speaker 2: convert somebody to a different view. And many companies haven't
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Speaker 2: wanted that. But now it's interesting to hear the folks
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Speaker 2: at SEENN saying, well, wait a minute, this is something
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Speaker 2: that's now changing, and it's this whole idea This was
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Speaker 2: another back to the comments thereby Abby Philip, and she says, basically,
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Speaker 2: it's not to say that she can't have free speech
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Speaker 2: in your life, but employers are just like, do your
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Speaker 2: job and don't do anything else, and that's where things
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Speaker 2: should have been for a very long time. Van Jones,
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Speaker 2: in the same interview says, this is not going to
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Speaker 2: make me popular, but I'm not mad because he's talking
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Speaker 2: about the change because it got ridiculous. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 2: an employer and a certain point, your slack channel just
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Speaker 2: turns into Vietnam every other day because something happened and
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Speaker 2: that you had nothing to do with In the workplace.
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Speaker 2: This isn't camp, guys. We're trying to make money. That
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Speaker 2: should be the focus of business, to make money, not
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Speaker 2: to shape politics, not to determine who is going to
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Speaker 2: win which election. It should be about running your businesses.
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Speaker 2: And we start thinking about the businesses and states where
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Speaker 2: that's still going to be a focus, You've got to
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Speaker 2: wonder how many of those businesses are going to stay put.
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Speaker 2: And especially if you're in a major city that has
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Speaker 2: did you do any running over the holiday weekend? Apparently
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Speaker 2: yesterday or at least through the weekend, but yesterday certainly
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Speaker 2: part of it. As far as the holiday weekend, there
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Speaker 2: were a number of long races that took place across
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Speaker 2: the country. Eighty six or so. That seems like a lot.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what the average number is for a
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Speaker 2: holiday weekend, but makes sense. It feels like Labor Day
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Speaker 2: would be a great weekend as far as doing runs
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Speaker 2: and things. For a few reasons. It's not a holiday.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of those holidays that people will
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Speaker 2: kind of spend together with family as far as maybe
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Speaker 2: on a trip, like a weekend trip that kind of thing,
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Speaker 2: but not necessarily sort of one of those family vacations,
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Speaker 2: you know, like many of there's a meal involved, or
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Speaker 2: there's people that are piling into your house or those
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Speaker 2: kinds of things. So it seems to be sort of
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Speaker 2: built for that kind of weekend, and it gives that
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Speaker 2: little extra time maybe to recover, especially if you're around
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, get an extra day to recover if you're
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Speaker 2: doing a race that you've never done before. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: I hope that you if you're a runner, you took
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Speaker 2: advantage of that, and maybe you can start training for
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Speaker 2: next year. All right. So, following out coming out of
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Speaker 2: a labor day weekend, four years of research, scientists have
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Speaker 2: come to a clear conclusion that when people work from home,
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Speaker 2: it makes them feel happier and they're healthier. The study,
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Speaker 2: which comes out of the University of South Australia or
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Speaker 2: South Australia, Australia. However you want to say it, there's
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Speaker 2: a few ways you can say it. I found that
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Speaker 2: remote work gives employees more control over their schedules, reduces
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Speaker 2: commuting stress, and improves work life balance. People report feeling
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Speaker 2: more productive, less burned out, generally more satisfied with their lives.
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Speaker 2: They also sleep better, eat better, and are more physically active.
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Speaker 2: The research found that for workers' flexibility, whether they're working
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Speaker 2: remotely or in a hybrid schedule, it's a major contributor
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Speaker 2: to their mental and physical wellbeing. And while working from
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Speaker 2: home isn't perfect for every day jobs in some cases,
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Speaker 2: or it doesn't fit for every personality for that matter,
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Speaker 2: the data shows that for many it's a game changer
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Speaker 2: and makes sense. I don't think this is anything crazy
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Speaker 2: for people to study and discover and realize that people
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Speaker 2: like working from home. Yes, there's a reason that companies
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Speaker 2: are trying to force people to go back and get
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Speaker 2: back into the office because people enjoy this flexibility and
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Speaker 2: this opportunity so that they are able to enjoy all
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Speaker 2: of these things. I think more than anything else, it's
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Speaker 2: that work life balance. And I think the idea of
23:51
Speaker 2: not commuting, especially if you're in a large city, why
23:53
Speaker 2: would you want to go back? So I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's a big shock that people enjoy and will continue
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Speaker 2: to enjoy it. Right. There's a new dating trend that
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Speaker 2: is called shreking, like Shrek, Yeah, the ogre from the movies.
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Speaker 2: The dating term, though a little less lovable maybe than Shrek.
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Speaker 2: Shreking means dating down, typically in the looks department, and
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Speaker 2: I hope that they'll treat you better. So not prince charming,
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Speaker 2: but a heart of gold kind of mentality. So here's
24:27
Speaker 2: the twist. Shrekking often leads to getting shreked, which means
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Speaker 2: the person that you gave a chance to ends up
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Speaker 2: hurting you anyway. As some on social media are saying
24:38
Speaker 2: that we've all been there and you give somebody a
24:42
Speaker 2: chance that you're not necessarily attracted to, and then they
24:45
Speaker 2: end up not treating you well either. So whether you're
24:49
Speaker 2: shreking or you're getting shreked, the idea, it sounds pretty
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Speaker 2: bad in general, doesn't it. You get this idea, you
24:56
Speaker 2: get this mindset of you know, you look at people,
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Speaker 2: and if you're basing things off of their physical appearance
25:03
Speaker 2: or maybe how much money they make or how they
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Speaker 2: dress or those kinds of things, is that really a
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Speaker 2: good formula in general for gauging whether two people can connect,
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Speaker 2: and you're probably not going to make any great progress
25:19
Speaker 2: in the relationship world. That's all right. Girl Scouts rolling
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Speaker 2: out a new body appreciation program that encourages girls to
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Speaker 2: value their bodies for what they can do, not how
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Speaker 2: they look. It's about promoting body positivity, confidence and self expression,
25:35
Speaker 2: especially in a order where social media and bullying can
25:38
Speaker 2: make kids feel really insecure. The aim is to be
25:41
Speaker 2: confident with the abilities they have and avoid comparing their
25:44
Speaker 2: bodies to others. All right. As the girls work through
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Speaker 2: the program, they are awarded new badges things like me Time,
25:54
Speaker 2: Uniquely Us, Fun with Movement, and they do it for
25:57
Speaker 2: every age group. From kindergarten through twelfth grade. So all right,
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