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Rapinoe Says She Would Support a Trans Woman Taking a Spot from a Biological Woman · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twelfth day
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of July. Hi, I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Yesterday was
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a day. It was about six days crammed into one day, and it
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was a day. But we survived. We made it. We're here there
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doing a little Harry carry. There we survived, a little Will Ferrell doing
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Harry carry. Anyway, I managed to get through it. The Carol household
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got through it, and here we are, new day, new opportunity for
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I don't know. Stuff to happen, things to get complicated, things to
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be but that's what it's life. That's life. Things get thrown in our
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direction and we have to deal with it. We have to figure out how
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we're going to navigate through it, how we're going to manage, how we're
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gonna get through it. And that's what we do. That's just part of
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the process. Some days not a lot of obstacles, Some days lots of
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obstacles. Some days we have to learn to just jump all the hurdles.
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Some days, you know, we're not even in a race. It's all
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right overall, big picture though. We're kind of always in a race,
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aren't we. There Always something going on, some sort of challenge, it's
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going to come our way, but we get through it, and I realize
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I'm talking about things without going into specifics with it. Yesterday for me personally,
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but I got something going on with my eye. It's read. I
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don't know if it's pink eye. I don't know if it's allergies. I
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don't know what it is. But I was given some eye drops. I'll
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do that, and well, that was the first problem. There was an
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issue with my mailbox, there was some issue with text messages that didn't send
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or receive, and then other stuff. But that's enough. It was just
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a lot going on yesterday, having to navigate through things, but we did
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it. So here we are on a Wednesday morning together and I want to
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talk. We got this. Uh, you know, we're getting ready for
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the US women's national team, ready to try to go for another World Cup.
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It would be historic, it would be record breaking. And of course
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there's there's two sides to this. I enjoy watching the US women's national team
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play soccer. I do. I like they're they're very good, they're very
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gifted. They're very skilled, very talented obviously and have been for some time.
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And I, you know, like most I think of America kind of
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got on the bandwagon many many moons ago, Mia Hamm and co. Those
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that team that the Brandy Chastain taking her jersey off there and her sports brat
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after kicking the game winning penalty kick. And it's been fun following them ever
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since it has been. I've enjoyed that and I'm hopeful at progress is maybe
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going for the men, the US men's team, But in this following soccer
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or football, if you will, for the US women's national team has not
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been without complications, without hurdles, if you will. To have a call
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back to my previous statement, because we know there's been a long series of
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controversies, in controversial statements and things that have been said. There have been
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players who arguably some of the best players in the world, who have come
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forward and put themselves in a position to they want to be activists, They
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want to be a guess controversial. They don't. I guess they say that
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they don't want to be controversial, but they do put themselves out there and
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you know, they want to use their platform as they say. One of
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the women's players who has done this quite a bit has been Meghan Rapino,
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and Meghan Rapino, who herself is a part of the LGBTQ plus community.
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I think she's part of the L community. But I don't know. I
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don't. I don't keep tabs on all that. I know at the very
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least she's part of the L. But you have to understand some of those
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letters kind of involve L. But maybe don't. I don't know, but
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I think she's an L, right. I think that's where she is on
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the on the whole spectrum of things, right. And if she's not,
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I apologize, I'm I'm just but I believe that would be the letter that
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she identifies with as and as a group overall. But she has been someone
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who has taken offense with the national anthem. A lot of people taking offense
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with that. You're playing on a national team for a country that is,
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you know, in some way footing the bill. Right, we have these
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Olympics, we have you know, various competitions. Now, if she's not
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standing for the anthem at and I think all that maybe has stopped. Maybe
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I don't know, But if you're not standing at the anthem at a professional
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game, okay, for whatever country, wherever you are, If you're not
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standing for the anthem at that to me as much as I don't want to
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see it, But whatever you gotta do. I've always said, it's really
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easy if you take offense with it, and it's not about putting on a
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show. Just stay in the locker room. And I think some of that
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was what started to happen at some point. But Rapino is one who you
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know, wanted to kneel during the anthem or you know, I guess she
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did stay in the back during the anthem at times whenever she was told that
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she couldn't, you know, kneel, And that's there's different layers of that
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whole thing, and I have been very outspoken about I do think that as
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Americans' rights to protests should include many scenarios. Being part of a national team
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I don't think is one of those scenarios where you should be able to do
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it. That's all right, And I know people go, well, what
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about the soldiers and what about and it's more than that. There's more going
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on there, And I think about what our founders would have thought about someone
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you know, protesting the flag and being told you're not allowed to protest that.
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I don't think they would have been okay with that, but I don't
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know. I've never spoken with them. I couldn't tell you. The closest
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I've come to speaking to one of the founders is, you know, I
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saw Benjamin Franklin plumbing truck drive by. That's as close to having a conversation
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with one of them as i've been so well, actually, I read James
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Madison's biography, but that's I guess technically that's closer, all right, so
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because you kind of get in his head right a little bit with the biography.
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So Megan Rapino is now saying, and I guess she has voiced support
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for transgender athletes in women's sports for a while now, but now that she's
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back within a position where she's back in the spotlight because of the Women's World
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Cup, and she says she would welcome a transgender woman onto the team,
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even if that meant replacing one of the biological women from the team. Yes,
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she wouldn't have a problem. Now, I guess the question would be,
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how would you feel about it if you were the player who was replaced
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by the trans woman. Rapino says that there's no unfair advantage for transgender women
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that you know, biologically male. She doesn't think that there's any sort of
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advantage, and she says that basically as a quote, it's particularly this isn't
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a something that she wrote, and she says, it's particularly frustrating when women's
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sports is weaponized. Oh, now we care about fairness, Now we care
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about women's sports. That's total bs, she said. And she said,
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show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in
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sports. It's just not happening. Well, there's a few examples. There's
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absolutely a few examples, and they have been very high profile, and the
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women who've been upset by those particular athletes have been really put in their place
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and mocked and made fun of and told to shut up and all those sorts
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of things. I think the fact that we had a you know, a
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college swimmer who was biologically male, not very successful as a swimmer. It
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became a trans woman and then absolutely dominated women swimming, that should be enough
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to say that this is possible, right, and then probably likely you know
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now not all enjoy that success. We saw in the Olympics there was a
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trans from New Zealand, a trans woman who competed in weightlifting and didn't do
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especially well, and people, some people said, well, there's an example
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right there, and it's like, but this was someone who was way past
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their prime and not exactly a college athlete who was in a position to dominate
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inside the pool. So I guess and excuse me. Meghan Drapino certainly is
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entitled to her opinion. She she's she's living a life that I can't particularly
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speak to. I do. I do call to use her term bs that
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she would not have a problem with a biological woman being kicked off the team
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if it was her. I mean, I just I can't believe that someone
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would work now she's she's also kind of past her prime. She's working as
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far as sports goes, she's she's I guess that's fair to say. I
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don't know. She's still pretty darn good, but she's getting ready to retire.
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And that's why I say pastor prime. I'm not trying to pull any
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Don Lemon stuff here, That's not what I'm saying. I'm just pointing out
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the fact that she's long in the tooth for a soccer player at this level,
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and that happens you play. She's still way better than I ever was,
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even now, and she will be when she's sixty. So I'm not
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pretending to in any way mock her skills as a soccer player. I'm just
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pointing out the fact that she says after this year she's going to retire and
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be done playing soccer for the national teams. She's ready to retire, she'll
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move on. So I guess what, And I just don't believe that even
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now, she would be happy being bumped off the team, especially not maybe
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if she was on the way up. I mean, what if she never
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got an opportunity to be on the team in the first place because a man
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who was on maybe didn't quite make the men's team, decided that he was
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gonna compete on the women's team. So maybe that could have played out and
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it would have put Rappino in a position where maybe she didn't make it on
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the team. So I would argue that she would not be comfortable with that
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particular scenario, even though she says that she would, and she says that
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she would be completely fine with it. I don't know that I necessarily believe
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that. I just don't. I don't know how that would play out.
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But back to her point where she says that this isn't really happening on a
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mass scale, I guess my question is, why isn't it? Why do
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you think it's not happening on a mass scale? Because I feel like it's
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a matter of time before we are going to see a country decide that in
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a scenario, in a sport, in an environment where it's welcomed, that
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we're going to see this play out professionally or in some sort of international competition.
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I mean, what stops a country from saying, yeah, we're going
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to do this. I mean, keep in mind, think back to the
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Cold War era Olympics. Russians didn't have. You know, there were all
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sorts of Soviet Union I should say the Soviet Union, not Russia, but
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there were all sorts of issues and questions about athletes and doping and things.
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Right, a lot of like, oh, man, the East Germans,
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look at that. Look what's going on there with the East Germans and all
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of the potential doping that's going on there. So it is feasible that there
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would be someone who would say yeah, we'll cheat. Well, absolutely cheat.
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We're gonna take advantage of this loophole. And I don't know that we're
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not going to see that happen at some point. Now, could we see
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it happen in the WUNBA? And how long would it be tolerated? How
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long would it be allowed to happen if you had a team of former NBA
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players or maybe up and comers that didn't quite get drafted and didn't quite make
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it that we're comfortable just saying, hey, we want to know what this
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feels like to succeed at this level. You can't kid yourself and say that
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this hasn't at least been discussed. It's got to have been discussed somewhere in
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some scenario, at some level. Why have we not had a minor league
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team in some capacity do this? Why? I mean, it is feasible,
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it is possible. It is something that people have to have discussed.
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So why hasn't it happened? I don't know the answer. I'm asking this
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really hoping that somebody maybe has an answer for the question. I know that
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there's people that don't want to feel the way it would make them feel.
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I know that there are some people who would just say it's just it's not
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fair, it's cheating, and I would hope that that's the thing that's holding
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it back. But we know that there's people that are capable of cheating.
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We know that there's people who want to cheat right because they figure they can't.
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As the old Bobby the brain Heenan from a back in the WWF,
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back then days before it became World Widelife Federation. But it's uh, you
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know WWF Bobby Heenan. If you can't win fair, cheat that was one
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of his slogans. And there are people who have that mindset. There are
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people who have that mentality. So don't kid yourself. It is possible.
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But there is some sense of morality that's holding it back, isn't There isn't
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there's some sense of morality that's holding it back because the numbers don't really make
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a lot of sense overall. They don't make sense when you start talking about
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the number of people who were now identifying as LGBTQ plus. Brown University has
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had a significant spike in the number of people who are identifying that way.
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It's like forty percent identifying as gay. Is that right? Forty percent.
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That's significantly higher than the numbers have ever been. And if that's where things
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are, there's got to be a lot of people thinking, hey, this
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is an opportunity. But the reality is that there are people who could have
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gotten maybe ahead a little bit with affirmative action. There's people who've said,
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well, we have a Native American lineage in my family, I could take
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advantage of that. And they say, I don't want to get ahead that
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way. I don't want to cheat that way. I don't want to cheat
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the system that way. I'd like to earn it. I'd like to put
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in the work and earn it. So I would like to think that's what's
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holding it back. But it's eventually going to happen, isn't it. We're
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a eventually gonna have I mean, we're having it in beauty pageants, We're
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having it in a number of different awards being given out to men as the
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Woman of the Year. So there's people who aren't afraid to get ahead with
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it. But I'd like to think in a wide spread. I mean,
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is it possible that we're going to have an MVP of the w NBA at
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some point? It's going to be a transwoman who didn't quite make it into
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the NBA but is dominating now dunking, And I mean, isn't that a
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plot of a movie? Did somebody do this as a movie? I think
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that was a movie, So I don't know. I'd like to think that
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it's there's some sense of morality that's holding it back. But it just gives
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somebody like Megan Rapino the opportunity to say, it's not happening in Mascale.
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It's not happening. So there's no way that they're really that much better.
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Show. Right after the break, well do you put sunscreen on your pet?
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We're in sunscreen season. If you're not putting on sunscreen every time you
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go outside, you're just asking asking for problems, asking for complications. Wrinkles.
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I don't even want to say the word, but you know the C
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word they talk about that you get it on your skin. People get it.
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If you're outside and you're not wearing sunscreen. You gotta do it.
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You gotta you gotta wear big floppy hats. You gotta have it. But
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are you putting it on your pet? Because a new survey says fifteen percent
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of pet owners put sunscreen on their pets in summer. Fifteen percent make sure
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that the pavement where their pet is walking isn't too hot. Those people are
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called decent human beings. If you're walking your pet and it's just boiling hot
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on the ground, you don't want your pet doing it. Their pads are
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really sensitive on their feet, you know, I'm assuming we're talking about a
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dog here. I don't know many people that walk their cats. I know
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some do. Some people walk birds. I don't understand why birds would walk.
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They can fly for crying out loud. But it's just the reality,
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just the reality. You gotta take care of those feet. You gotta take
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care of the skin, gotta put it. I don't know where you put
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sunscreen on a dog. They got fur, I'm hoping they got I'm kind
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of fur. If you got one of those cats that has no fur,
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god bless you. But if you got one and you got to put sunscreen
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on that cat, That's what I'm saying. And according to fifteen percent say
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that they I don't know. Do they spray it on there? What do
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they do? How does that work when they've got because don't I make sure
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the ground's not too hot. It's my dog's birthday today, by the way,
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all right, and if you see him, tell him happy birthday.
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Do you like being bored? If so, you're probably the creative type.
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A new study from the University of Arizona found that creative people are able to
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entertain themselves during downtime without being on their phones or watching something on TV.
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I call that. Trying to fall asleep, That's what I call that.
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That's my time. It's just my time. I try to fall asleep and
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I do creative projects in my head. I think, Man, if only
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I could harness this power in the real world, Oh the things I could
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do. I build houses in my head. That's what I do, Like
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tiny houses. I build them in my head until I fall asleep. Sometimes
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I get really far into it and then I fall asleep, and then I
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got to start over because it's hard to save it right before he falls.
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You got to save your documents as you go, you got to do that.
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Bad news for if you like diet sodas, drinks, diet cokes,
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whatever you want to call them, This story says sodas. Nutritionists keep finding
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new evidence that diet soft drinks. How about that, even though they have
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fewer calories than these sugary counterparts, may be just as bad for you.
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The new findings come on the heels of a recent World Health Organization report saying
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cardiovascular diseases. Nutritionists all sorry, nutritionus now site evidences suggests diet sodas may
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not actually aid in weight loss, and in fact may lead to weight gain
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by increasing cravings for more calorie dense foods. Neither is great for you.
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And nutritionists suggests drinking water or simply having sparkling water. And I see this
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is where this is some of that backwards logic we got going on here,
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So Nutritionists is a stray from the article. Nutritionists site evidence that suggests diet
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sodas may not actually aid in weight loss and may in fact lead to weight
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gain by increasing cravings for more calorie dense foods. So what if they don't.
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What if you're craving a soft drink and by having the diet soft drink,
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you're not having the calorie dense soft drink, You're having the diet version
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of it. See nutritions suggests drinking water sparkling water as how it finishes.
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So some people say that the harbonation alone is not good for you. It's
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bad for bone density or something. I don't even know if that's still a
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thing, but I remember reading that once and going, what is this sparkling
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water? I think people were trying to say, oh, you can't have
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carbonated because you know, you know all that CO two in the atmosphere or
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whatever. That's right, all right, if you're a geek and you're proud
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of it, let your geek flag fly in one of the geekiest cities in
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America. You would you like to know based on a study the geekiest city
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in America, I'm gonna tell you right now, I take I don't know
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what I was trying to look at the protocols on this study, but they
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say the geekiest city in America is New York City. I think that's just
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by population alone. I don't know they say, but a number of collectibles
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available, number of costumes available, community events, all of those things I
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guess factor into this. La San Antonio, Chicago, Vegas, or the
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top five. Atlanta comes in at number eight. Finishing now, Orlando is
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number one for events. New York is number one for collectibles, costumes,
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and community in sixth for events. Orlando is number one for events, Atlanta
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number two for events. And I would just like to point out that one
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of MC geekiest events that exists in the whole universe is coming up Labor Day
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Weekend's dragon Con. And I'm gonna be talking more about dragon Con as we
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get closer to it. But so there you go. Raleigh, North Carolina
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at number thirty six. I'm just trying to look for a few cities to
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pinpoint along the way. Nashville at number fifty eight. I mean, I
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hit Florida and I hit Georgia. I'm trying to see if there's anybody.
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New Orleans is in here at number thirty two. So yeah, I mean,
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just trying to figure any more kind of in the southeast. Worth noting
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Memphis is in there at fifty one, So Memphis finishing higher than Nashville.
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I think that's fair. Chattanooga at sixty five. Okay, so let's rep
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in the southeast there, Birmingham. That's what I was looking for. Huntsville
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and Birmingham at eighty and eighty one, Huntsville at eighty, Birmingham eighty one.
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I was trying to see if we had some Alabama representation in there.
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I guess Huntsville maybe because obviously, you know there's a there's a space center
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up there. I think that may have something to do with it. So
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there you go. All right, that'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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