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Grok Presents.... The Odyssey · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twenty third day of July. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Got about a week left in this
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Speaker 2: month of July, and took my kids yesterday for their
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Speaker 2: annual doctor's visits, and I guess this is like that
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Speaker 2: time of year where everybody's trying to get them in
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Speaker 2: before kids go back to school. And talk to someone
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Speaker 2: at their doctor's office yesterday and they were telling us
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Speaker 2: that that's been like people just getting the kids in,
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Speaker 2: getting their sports physicals, getting all those things done that
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Speaker 2: they are trying to get done before the school year
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Speaker 2: gets started. And it doesn't surprise me. I mean, is
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Speaker 2: we were trying to get appointments scheduled. You know, there's
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Speaker 2: challenges with all that, and they had kind of added
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Speaker 2: some i think even some weekend dates and times and
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Speaker 2: hours so that people could get their kids in for
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Speaker 2: all those So we're in that phase of all of it.
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Speaker 2: Not only are we knocking on the door of August
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Speaker 2: in the new school year, we are knocking on the
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Speaker 2: door for the fortieth Dragon Con that happens Labor Day
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Speaker 2: weekend in downtown Atlanta. I've been working on my request
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Speaker 2: for interviews for the dragon Con pregame show that is
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Speaker 2: coming up the final weekend of August. This is one
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Speaker 2: of those situations where because Labor Day is the latest
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Speaker 2: that it can be and it all falls in, you know,
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Speaker 2: obviously in September. The entire convention in Atlanta takes place
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Speaker 2: in September, so it's a little bit later in that sense.
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Speaker 2: And as I've been working on getting my interviews and
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Speaker 2: things gared eduled for the dragon Con pregame show, I
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Speaker 2: had to remind the people that helped me get those
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Speaker 2: interviews set up that we actually have a little bit
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Speaker 2: more time to get the interviews done because the pregame
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Speaker 2: show is at a later point because it's that final
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Speaker 2: weekend in August, and that dragon Con actually starts on
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Speaker 2: September third, there's a little bit more time. But the
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Speaker 2: pregame show will air on radio all around the state
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Speaker 2: of Georgia and some of the spillover into nearby states.
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Speaker 2: And the dragon Con coverage, as always or almost always
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Speaker 2: as always for a very very long time, is powered
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Speaker 2: by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center. We
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Speaker 2: appreciate them for that, and you know, we're about forty
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Speaker 2: one days at this point as we're recording this morning
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Speaker 2: before the convention gets started. If you haven't gone on
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Speaker 2: year forty is a cool time to step in for
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Speaker 2: the first time. And it's every kind of popular arts
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Speaker 2: and pop culture fandom. It's also actual science with science
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Speaker 2: tracks and things. Will have at least one guest, maybe
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Speaker 2: two guests scheduled for the Native Stars podcast that comes
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Speaker 2: from some of the scientists that attend dragon Con. We've
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Speaker 2: started doing that now the past few years. The parade
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Speaker 2: that happens on the Saturday of Dragon Con is that's
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Speaker 2: the fifth, right, Yeah, Monday is the seventh, so Saturday
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Speaker 2: the fifth the parade. By all accounts, they're doing everything bigger,
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Speaker 2: so I would think that the parade will be bigger.
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Speaker 2: But the dragon Con Pregame Show will have you covered
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Speaker 2: for everything you need to know to attend the convention.
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Speaker 2: And we'll have the Dragon Coon Pregame Show available to
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Speaker 2: you on the twenty ninth of August, and past episodes
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Speaker 2: are waiting for you at the Dragon Con Pregame Show podcast,
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Speaker 2: so check that out listen to some of those past interviews.
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Speaker 2: I've had a lot of fun over the years interviewing
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Speaker 2: people that are attending the convention as guests, and it's
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Speaker 2: a wide variety of guests. This year, there's a pretty
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Speaker 2: big Smallville contingency. If you were a fan of that show.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Who representation David Tennant just had to withdraw because
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Speaker 2: of another commitment that came along. Sometimes those guests get
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Speaker 2: booked and then they have to step aside because they
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Speaker 2: get booked for a job. It happened sometimes, but that
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Speaker 2: was a big one that they had planned. But they're
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Speaker 2: promising they'll replace them with someone else who is just
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Speaker 2: as big. But yeah, Doctor Who, Smallville, Star Trek always
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Speaker 2: represented some folks from Star Wars there this year. Voice
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Speaker 2: actors is always a big contingency. The show Firefly has
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Speaker 2: a pretty big group that will be there, including Nathan Fillion,
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Speaker 2: who is booked and scheduled to appear. And I'm just
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Speaker 2: scratching the surface. So whether it's artists or writers or
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Speaker 2: video gaming, whatever your thing is, it's there at this convention.
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Speaker 2: And yes, you can kind of go and dabble in
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Speaker 2: all of it, or you can go and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: I know people that go and they just play the games.
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Speaker 2: They just go play video games the whole weekend, and
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Speaker 2: that's what they order the whole day that they're there.
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Speaker 2: They have one day memberships and memberships that cover the
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Speaker 2: entire convention. You get those on their website DragonCon dot
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Speaker 2: org again Dragon Con Pregame Show powered by Columbus State
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Speaker 2: Universities Coca Cola Space Science Center. And I'll have some
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Speaker 2: names for you as we start getting the guests booked
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Speaker 2: for who will be attending the or will be a
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Speaker 2: part of the dragon Con pregame show. But guess it'll
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Speaker 2: be attending the convention that year. I want to say,
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Speaker 2: but I can't say just yet. I don't know. Once
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Speaker 2: they're officially booked, that's when I get more comfortable actually
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Speaker 2: getting into telling you exactly who they are. Uh. The
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Speaker 2: the the the diarrhea lettuce is apparently now under control,
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Speaker 2: at least according to RFK Junior, the outbreak under control.
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Speaker 2: I know it's not the diarrhea lettus, but that's what
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Speaker 2: everybody's been calling it. So he says that the parasite
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Speaker 2: is they've got it kind of under control again. The warnings,
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Speaker 2: of course, continue to be you know, taking precautions and
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Speaker 2: you know, being aware, like as far as food preparation
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Speaker 2: and things go for safety, be aware of recall notices
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Speaker 2: and all those things depending on where you live, and
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Speaker 2: you know, just uh, we'll get through this. It feels
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Speaker 2: like we kind of always have something now, and I
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Speaker 2: know that a lot of people are saying that we're
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Speaker 2: dealing with so many of these things one after another.
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Speaker 2: Now it does seem to be a little bit more
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Speaker 2: frequent when it becomes this public health emergency kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: But I'll remind you that prior to COVID, we were
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Speaker 2: getting these you know, it was we'd have a you know,
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Speaker 2: bird flu. They'd have a bird flu that would come along.
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Speaker 2: They'd have mad cow disease, they'd have the killer bees.
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Speaker 2: We had all these different things that they said, these
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Speaker 2: are coming and you got to be ready or we're
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Speaker 2: all going to die. And then usually they didn't pan
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Speaker 2: out quite to what you know, the hype was. COVID
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Speaker 2: was the one that panned out to the hype for
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Speaker 2: a number of different reasons. And you know, I've often
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Speaker 2: said on the show, I don't want to be a
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Speaker 2: little it because obviously and to say that, yes, people died,
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Speaker 2: I know people that died. I lost friends, I lost
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Speaker 2: one of my very dear friends and his family. Obviously
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Speaker 2: that also mean a lot to me. It lost his
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Speaker 2: dad from it, and so it's not to sit back
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Speaker 2: and say that this, you know, COVID was fake, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of people say that it's just the way
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Speaker 2: it was handled that was not correct, and just a reminder,
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Speaker 2: you know, mad cow disease and the bird flus, even
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Speaker 2: the regular flu, right the seasonal flu. People die. So
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Speaker 2: it doesn't make it, you know, any less of a
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Speaker 2: real thing, quote unquote, it's just the way that it
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Speaker 2: was handled, the way that you know, it was turned
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Speaker 2: into a political weapon. That part of it is the
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Speaker 2: part that stinks, because obviously it's it. But it does
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Speaker 2: make us now at least more aware when these kinds
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Speaker 2: of outbreaks and things take place. So I think that's
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Speaker 2: a positive from it. At least we can be just
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Speaker 2: a little bit more aware of all of it. I
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Speaker 2: want to talk for a minute, and I don't want
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Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time on this, but I
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Speaker 2: do today. I want to talk about this because it
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Speaker 2: came up yet again because Elon Musk has stepped into this,
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Speaker 2: and I'll just kind of say this, I've addressed this
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Speaker 2: once and I know that someone reached out to me
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Speaker 2: and said that there's another talk show host somewhere that
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Speaker 2: was using my words, almost word for word. I'm flattered
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Speaker 2: that someone would think that this person was listening to
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Speaker 2: me and ripping me off. I don't believe that for
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Speaker 2: a minute. But I also flattered that someone would reach
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Speaker 2: out to me and say, hey, did you hear that
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Speaker 2: so and so is doing your material? And that's not
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Speaker 2: the case. And I've told you before one of the
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Speaker 2: reasons that I don't listen to some of the shows
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Speaker 2: that a lot and people say, I can't believe you're
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Speaker 2: not listening to Joe Rogan every day, or you're not
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Speaker 2: listening to this podcast or that podcast, and it's I
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Speaker 2: want the ideas to be mine. By the way, it
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Speaker 2: wasn't Joe Rogan that they said was quoting me. It
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Speaker 2: was someone else, and and they weren't saying specifically quoting me,
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Speaker 2: but they were saying, you know, he was. He was
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Speaker 2: giving some of the same commentary that I gave. I
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Speaker 2: like my ideas to be original. I'm sure this person
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Speaker 2: does too. Uh. And if by some chance they're listening
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Speaker 2: for material, thank you. I'm defending you now. But I
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Speaker 2: just but I definitely I definitely had someone say to me,
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Speaker 2: uh yeah, check this out. But anyway, so the movie
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Speaker 2: the Odyssey, I want to be clear on a couple
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Speaker 2: of things I think. I do think Christopher Nolan is
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Speaker 2: the best direct working in Hollywood. I think he is.
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Speaker 2: His movies are incredible, Okay, I think he's making movies
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Speaker 2: at a level that people should be studying him and
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Speaker 2: how he's doing it because one of the challenges about
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Speaker 2: filmmaking I think in modern times is there's this sort
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Speaker 2: of and I mean no offense. We do have a
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Speaker 2: little bit of a dumb down audience that's going to movies.
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Speaker 2: They have an expectation for certain things. I think that
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Speaker 2: people making movies are making them for a dumb down audience.
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Speaker 2: Christopher Nolan doesn't do that. He makes very smart movies.
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Speaker 2: He takes takes into account the fact that his audience
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Speaker 2: that's coming to see his movies is capable of following
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Speaker 2: the story. I think he probably gets pressure sometimes, hey
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Speaker 2: you need to add this, just in case you got
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Speaker 2: some dumb guy in the audience. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: I just know that his movies there are people that
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Speaker 2: say and follow it, and sometimes you're not. Sometimes he's
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Speaker 2: going into theoretical physics, or he's going into some time
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Speaker 2: travel thing. You did that a couple of times where
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Speaker 2: you're just kind of going, you know, there's something to
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Speaker 2: this component, that there's a theoretical physics side to it
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Speaker 2: that people not everybody's gonna grasp it, and sometimes you
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Speaker 2: have to kind of go I mean, I do a
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Speaker 2: podcast that covers some of these things, and there's elements
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Speaker 2: of it that I finish it and I reach out
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Speaker 2: to Sean Cruising and I say, whoa, whoa, explain this
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Speaker 2: to me and you'll explain it. And I go, ah,
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Speaker 2: got it. So he's not making movies for dumb people.
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Speaker 2: And he's also now in a Hollywood that says you
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Speaker 2: can't win an award unless you have certain boxes checked
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Speaker 2: when you make your movie, and you have to do this.
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Speaker 2: You have to have a certain amount of representation in
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Speaker 2: the movie, a certain number of people working on the movie,
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Speaker 2: cast members. I've already done a segment on this, and
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Speaker 2: I believe that the reason that you go back and
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Speaker 2: you cast some of the people and you say, well,
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Speaker 2: we're going to cast a black Helen of Troy, We're
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Speaker 2: going to cast a number of people that aren't Greek
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Speaker 2: in this movie that should have had some Greek representation
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Speaker 2: for crying out loud, but it did not. But the
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Speaker 2: Greek representation is not going to get you Oscar eligibility. Okay,
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Speaker 2: casting Zendaiah in this to play Athena is going to
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Speaker 2: get you another box checked. It's just the reality of it.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to sit back and say that,
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Speaker 2: you know, there is not because that's the Hollywood influence
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Speaker 2: in it. I don't think this is someone who said
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Speaker 2: I want to make this movie and I don't want
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Speaker 2: to have anybody in it that's Greek. I think this
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Speaker 2: is someone who's playing the game. This is someone who
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Speaker 2: was saying, look, this is what you're telling me I
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Speaker 2: have to do to function in Hollywood. This is what
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. It caused some on the right to
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Speaker 2: say I'm gonna boycott it. I'm not gonna watch it.
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Speaker 2: I don't want anything to do with it. There was
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Speaker 2: a rumor for a long time that you know, about
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Speaker 2: the casting of Achilles, and it wasn't even who they
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Speaker 2: said it was gonna be. And you know, oh, you
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Speaker 2: can't cast a transactor to play Achilles and it's like,
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Speaker 2: oh you can. It didn't seem like a good idea.
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Speaker 2: And I told you also here that that was the rumor.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think that was going to be the case,
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Speaker 2: and it didn't end up being the case. Anyway, he's
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Speaker 2: played the game. He's done it the way that you
14:37
Speaker 2: have to to be eligible for an oscar. But by
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Speaker 2: most accounts, the movie's great, that it's incredible. You got
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Speaker 2: to decide if you want to watch it or not.
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Speaker 2: I haven't watched it yet. At some point I will.
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Speaker 2: Jake and I are huge fans of Chris Nolan's movies.
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Speaker 2: We've watched most of them together. There's a couple that
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Speaker 2: I was waiting on him to get a little bit older.
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Speaker 2: Now he is old enough to watch the so we'll
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Speaker 2: do that. But anyway, but now, because of the controversy
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Speaker 2: around it, Elon Musk has jumped in and said he'll
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Speaker 2: make a historically accurate Odyssey movie and he'll do it
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Speaker 2: with GROC that's his AI service that can be used
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Speaker 2: to make videos. He says he'll have Grock make it.
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Speaker 2: I'll be honest. Normally I don't advocate necessarily for AI
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Speaker 2: doing that. However, it's kind of a funny thought that
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Speaker 2: he would do that. I will say that I know,
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Speaker 2: with layoffs happening in some of these student I saw
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Speaker 2: there were more layoffs at Disney. I haven't really looked
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Speaker 2: into that, but more layoffs at Disney. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what those are. So it's a little bit still a
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Speaker 2: sensitive issue in general. But him saying he wants to
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Speaker 2: make a historically accurate Odyssey movie is it's I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm curious. Now. I don't know if he's really gonna
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Speaker 2: do it or not, but it's enough for me at
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Speaker 2: least to say I kind of would like to see it.
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Speaker 2: And I kind of think that if they're going to
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Speaker 2: do this, if they're going to make these AI movies,
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Speaker 2: we should start having a brand new category at the
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Speaker 2: Oscars for that where you can make a movie that
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Speaker 2: is all AI and possibly when I mean, it's a
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Speaker 2: type of animation, isn't it. So I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: I think that's the reality of what we're dealing with here.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not telling you you have to go see it.
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Speaker 2: I think that there's folks on the right that just
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Speaker 2: shut it down immediately and said we're not going to
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Speaker 2: watch it. It's woke, garbage, whatever. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: if they're just going to immediately jump on board and
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Speaker 2: watch the Grock version of it if it gets made.
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Speaker 2: But I'm just trying to point out to you that
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Speaker 2: if this guy wants to win an Oscar for this movie,
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Speaker 2: and by a lot of accounts he should be eligible
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Speaker 2: for it, he would not be eligible if he weren't
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Speaker 2: playing by their games. And you can say, well, he
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Speaker 2: should stand up to him. I don't disagree with that,
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Speaker 2: but this is the world that they're in when they
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Speaker 2: make these movies, and it's a strange place for a
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Speaker 2: Hollywood director who wants to continue making movies. It's a
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Speaker 2: strange hill to die on if he decided to do that.
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Speaker 2: So that's where we as an audience get to decide
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Speaker 2: if we're gonna watch it or not, if we're gonna
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Speaker 2: pay to watch it, if you're gonna wait for it
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Speaker 2: to come on streaming service that you're maybe already paying for,
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Speaker 2: it's already contributing to the calls. I'd like to remind
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Speaker 2: you of that. But I'm very curious to see whether
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Speaker 2: or not we're going to get a Grock produced odyssey.
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Speaker 2: the conditions that go with it, yes, diarrhea is or
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Speaker 2: is more. Freeman says it in that commercial diarrhea, stomach
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Speaker 2: cramps and many digestive problems that come with it. And folks,
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Speaker 2: I guess it's on TikTok. They call it skinny talk,
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Speaker 2: people trying to say it wasys to lose weight, and
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Speaker 2: I guess people are celebrating weight loss after actually getting
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Speaker 2: sick from it, and health experts say this is dangerous.
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Speaker 2: It's water weight, it comes back. This is not a
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Speaker 2: way to actually lose weight or improve your relationship with food.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it was just a matter of time before
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Speaker 2: someone you know, jumped in the likes game and just
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Speaker 2: did it for likes. I guess when you're doing your
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Speaker 2: back to school shopping, make sure you don't forget crayons
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Speaker 2: and the crayon soda to go with it. Jones Soda
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Speaker 2: teaming up with Crayola and a limited edition six pack
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Speaker 2: of SODA's in spotired by some of Crayola's most iconic colors,
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Speaker 2: is in the works. Know the soft drinks don't taste
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Speaker 2: like crayons. The collection includes flavors like fruit punch inspired
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Speaker 2: by Rasmataz, orange and cream inspired by Sunset Orange, pineapple
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Speaker 2: cream inspired by Dandelion, Verry lemonade inspired by Robin's Egg Blue.
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Speaker 2: The promotions is part of the Jones Soda thirtieth anniversary
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Speaker 2: celebration named Tapping into Childhood Nostalgia. The special packs available
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Speaker 2: online and at retail stores during the back school season.
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Speaker 2: Wild supplies last. So there's always been a joke about
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Speaker 2: people being crayon eaters. Here you have crayon drinkers. I
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Speaker 2: guess I don't know. It's kind of cool. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the flavors all sound good as long as they don't
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Speaker 2: taste like crayons. I don't need that waxy taste in
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Speaker 2: my mouth. A move over, Ava, liam No, and Emma.
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Speaker 2: Because Charlotte, Sebastian, Alexander and others are becoming the short
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Speaker 2: names are going away. The longer names are making a comeback,
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Speaker 2: and the trend shows that parents are increasingly choosing classic,
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Speaker 2: multi syllable names like Amelia, eleanor Penelope, Alexander, Theodore, and Julian,
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Speaker 2: and experts say traditional names never really go out of style.
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Speaker 2: Parents may be looking for names that feel more distinctive
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Speaker 2: while still offering easy nicknames. The data also shows that
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Speaker 2: there's a growing interest in double names, the Emma Clair
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Speaker 2: Noah Gabriel type names, families looking for a way to
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Speaker 2: stand out while keeping names familiar. Inevitably, every single person
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Speaker 2: I know that has the double name, they get really
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Speaker 2: touchy about it. I mean, I understand it's their name,
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Speaker 2: but they seem to be really touchy when someone gets
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Speaker 2: it wrong. Some of them. Maybe I don't know how
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Speaker 2: many times they let it slide. I just have witnessed
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Speaker 2: them correcting people, and it's very harsh. That's Noah Gabriel,
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Speaker 2: you know kind of deal. And it's usually the parents.
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Speaker 2: That's what I think it is. I think the parents
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Speaker 2: want the kid to have the double name. Therefore, the
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Speaker 2: kids grow up probably hearing the parents say it a lot.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what it is. That makes sense. Halloween
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Speaker 2: countdown's begun. We're past the Independence Day season and there's
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Speaker 2: not really decorations that go with Labor Day, I mean
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Speaker 2: unless you're at Dragon Con. So we're kind of in
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Speaker 2: this phase of now. Halloween Countdown going on home depot
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Speaker 2: rolled out. It's twenty twenty six Halloween Collection online products
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Speaker 2: arriving in stores in August. The twelve foot Skelly Skeleton
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Speaker 2: is back. I've already seen them up in neighborhoods around town.
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Speaker 2: Now packed with new tech that lets owners control it's movements,
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Speaker 2: customized sounds, even speak through the skull using Bluetooth. They
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Speaker 2: are adding new giant decorations, including an eleven foot mummy
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Speaker 2: and eight foot animated plant monster. Other highlights include an
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Speaker 2: interactive undead parrot that answers yes or no questions, a
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Speaker 2: creepy animated pixie, and an upgraded version of the fan
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Speaker 2: favorite known as Lethal Lily. So there you go. It's begun.
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Speaker 2: Very soon you will be able to start purchasing some
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Speaker 2: of these new decorations. That'll do it for this Thursday
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