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Columbus Mayor's Race Run-off Is Coming · 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. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twenty, first day of May. I'm Wes, Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. Got a lot to cover today, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different things to cover today, So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to work our way through some of this stuff as
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  Speaker 2: much as we can. I talked yesterday about some of
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  Speaker 2: the statewide election results. I didn't really touch on much
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  Speaker 2: about the local election results.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Just to give a little time for a few things
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  Speaker 2: to settle. I don't think anything that played out in
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  Speaker 2: the mayoral race was a big surprise. Those of you
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  Speaker 2: listening outside of Columbus, Georgia, this part of the show
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  Speaker 2: may not be as much interest to you, but those
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  Speaker 2: that lived here in the past and have moved elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and there are many of you that listen in various places,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for that. I love that you still
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  Speaker 2: want Columbus to kind of be part of your routine
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  Speaker 2: and that you use this show to be part of that,
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  Speaker 2: and I hear from many of you that do that.
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  Speaker 2: But our and I've talked a little bit about this
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  Speaker 2: mayoral race. I think it pretty much played out exactly
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  Speaker 2: the way most people thought it was going to play out.
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  Speaker 3: A runoff.
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  Speaker 2: Seemed like it was likely we had, you know, six
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  Speaker 2: candidates running we had. I mean, you could maybe make
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  Speaker 2: a case that we had three candidates running that maybe
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  Speaker 2: should have been running. I don't know how this shakes
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  Speaker 2: out if it was just the three of them that
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  Speaker 2: were running, but we've had and listen, I can say,
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  Speaker 2: and I've only briefly met Chris Brault, who finished third,
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  Speaker 2: just in passing. We just kind of just a quick
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  Speaker 2: high on the street kind of thing. Don't really know him.
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  Speaker 2: I can't pretend that I do. I sat at like
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  Speaker 2: a banquet table with Jikitra Bryant, and for the record,
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  Speaker 2: she's the third I think maybe legit candidate that we
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  Speaker 2: had in this group. No offense to the others, but
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  Speaker 2: I think she she certainly did better than I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people expected her to do. Mark Lajoy
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  Speaker 2: nice guy. I've spent some time with him. I think
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  Speaker 2: Mark Lajoy would be great serving in a number of areas.
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  Speaker 2: He's just not had any luck running as a candidate,
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  Speaker 2: but nice guy, and I think he has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of potential as someone who really wants to serve the public.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Steve Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone took that campaign seriously at all.
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  Speaker 2: But anybody who's willing to jump in and run in
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  Speaker 2: a campaign deserves credit for it. It's not easy. It's
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  Speaker 2: not easy for people to do. It's not easy to
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  Speaker 2: do it and lose because you know, we're people who
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  Speaker 2: most people don't handle rejection. Well, it's just the reality
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  Speaker 2: of all of it. And and it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons that some people don't get into sales. It's that
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  Speaker 2: idea that you know, you got to you got to
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  Speaker 2: make ten pitches before you get one sale. And those
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  Speaker 2: nine pitches, those nine o's are rough for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people, which again, you know, credit to Mark Lejoy
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  Speaker 2: for running for a number of things that he has
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  Speaker 2: not you know, been able to win. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: easy to throw your hand up. So I don't knock
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  Speaker 2: any of them for running. I just you know, Steve Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: it's that's that's nine hundred and sixty eight votes that
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  Speaker 2: could have gone to another cannon. It when it seemed
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  Speaker 2: realistic that you probably weren't going to get very many votes.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that you know there's like less than thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand votes for mayor in a city the size
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  Speaker 2: of Columbus. I don't understand where everyone is. I know
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  Speaker 2: that not everyone votes, but it just amazes me how
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  Speaker 2: low the turnout can be on some of these local races.
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  Speaker 2: We take things so seriously when it's something like president that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we know the impact that the president and
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  Speaker 2: our senators and representatives on the national level have, But
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  Speaker 2: these local elections are so important and we just don't
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  Speaker 2: have the turnout for them. And you know, Mark Lejoy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, eighteen hundred votes that could have gone somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the Crisp Brought factor was in this.
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  Speaker 2: I told you after I had a conversation with Joe
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  Speaker 2: Anne Kogle that brought could be a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: wild card on helping to make this runoff happen. She
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  Speaker 2: and I had that conversation with each other and we
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  Speaker 2: were discussing that I think that that certainly seems to
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  Speaker 2: be at least to some degree, how this played out.
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  Speaker 2: He had almost five thousand votes forty seven hundred. Who
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  Speaker 2: knows where those votes go if he's.
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  Speaker 3: Not in there.
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  Speaker 2: He had a lot of supporters in South and East Columbus,
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  Speaker 2: and at least that was the speculation into this.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I don't know that he was ever.
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  Speaker 2: Taken very seriously as a candidate. He kind of came
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere at the last possible minute. I certainly
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  Speaker 2: think he may have played his role in all of
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  Speaker 2: this and getting us to this runoff. And you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a situation where about you know, seven thousand votes
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  Speaker 2: separated the former city manager Isaiah hugh Ley and Joeanne Kogel.
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  Speaker 2: But a few things worth noting in this, and I
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  Speaker 2: just and again my impressions overall of all of this
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  Speaker 2: is that again, we had three serious candidates in this election,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know that many thought that Jakiitra Bryant
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  Speaker 2: would be someone who would be in a position where
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  Speaker 2: she would play a role in this similar to what
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  Speaker 2: Chris Brought did. But I think she did, and I
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  Speaker 2: think I would like to see her and when I
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  Speaker 2: sat with her at this table and hearing her speak
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  Speaker 2: and hearing things that she talked about, some of the
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  Speaker 2: messages that she posted online, I think she might have
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  Speaker 2: a future in doing this again. I would certainly like
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  Speaker 2: to see her in the mix again at some point
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  Speaker 2: and maybe not this position, maybe something else. And she
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  Speaker 2: sort of kind of hinted at that in the conversation
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  Speaker 2: I had with her. It wasn't really an on the
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  Speaker 2: record conversation, but you know, I take those lines very
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  Speaker 2: seriously when I talk with people, and I tell you
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  Speaker 2: guys often that I talk to people at the national level,
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  Speaker 2: I talk to people at the state level. I talk
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  Speaker 2: to people at the local level sometimes, and those conversations
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  Speaker 2: are not always part of this show, but to try
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  Speaker 2: to kind of have a vibe and feel of where
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  Speaker 2: things are. And I think that she may have some
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  Speaker 2: aspirations to run for something else. I know she wants
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  Speaker 2: to serve. She's indicated that I haven't talked to her
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  Speaker 2: post election, but I think she should be proud of
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  Speaker 2: the numbers that she drew. Considering we knew there was
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  Speaker 2: going to be a lot of attention on Isaiah Hugley
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  Speaker 2: and joe Anne Kogel, who was one of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: parts of city council that it was part of him
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  Speaker 2: getting terminated from the city manager job. So that was
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  Speaker 2: of course going to be where a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: tension was. They were going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the oxygen in the room. And you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: someone you've heard me talk at great length about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we have in this country people that are
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  Speaker 2: die hard loyal to the Democrat Party that has been
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  Speaker 2: telling them, you know, since the sixties, how racist everything
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  Speaker 2: is and how they're going to make it better, and
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  Speaker 2: then it doesn't get better. And I just I wonder,
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  Speaker 2: after a long history of things not getting better, why
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  Speaker 2: do you put so much trust in it in them
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  Speaker 2: to do that? And I think that plays a part
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  Speaker 2: in a city manager who Columbus. You know, we heard
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  Speaker 2: a lot in this campaign about how behind Columbus was,
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  Speaker 2: how it's fallen apart, it's crumbling, things aren't going the
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  Speaker 2: way that they should. So I do think we need
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  Speaker 2: something different. I know Joeanne Kogle being on the city
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  Speaker 2: council is you know, you could say, well, she's also
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  Speaker 2: part of this government, but she's new to it, and
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  Speaker 2: I haven't you know, I've stopped short of an endorsement
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  Speaker 2: in many of these races. I wanted to see how
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  Speaker 2: things play out once you kind of get to the
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  Speaker 2: runoff situation that it's different. I do think it's time
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  Speaker 2: to move on from Isaiah Hugley and it's been time
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  Speaker 2: to move on from Isaiah Hugley.
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  Speaker 3: That's my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: But he has a base that is supporting him. We
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  Speaker 2: have groups of people in Columbus that sort of vote
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  Speaker 2: in a block. That's what they do. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: the idea of not making up your mind when you
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  Speaker 2: vote and having people tell you how you're going to vote.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really get that. I'm much too independent for that.
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  Speaker 2: I voted for some people that I think would have
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  Speaker 2: surprised a few.
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  Speaker 3: People in some of these other races.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's just not even you know, Jill
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  Speaker 2: and I, we don't sit down and say, well, here's
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  Speaker 2: how we have to vote. You know, we're both voting
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  Speaker 2: on our own. This isn't a household where one of
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  Speaker 2: us makes the decision for the other. If this had
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  Speaker 2: been a Chris brought Isaiah Hughgley runoff, we would have
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  Speaker 2: probably had some very house divided moments on where we
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  Speaker 2: were in that case. But I'm just relieve that that's
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  Speaker 2: not where we are. So it will be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: But a few things I think we have to and
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  Speaker 2: this is maybe where we can have people kind of
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  Speaker 2: even if you.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Jump ahead a little bit because the Columbus election isn't
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  Speaker 2: really for you. I just want to say this. There
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  Speaker 2: are a number of people that on social media were
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  Speaker 2: confused at why Isaiah Hughley wasn't named the winner at
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  Speaker 2: forty four point seven percent of the vote. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have this thing in Georgia you got to get
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  Speaker 2: one vote more than fifty percent to win. You can't
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  Speaker 2: even win with just fifty percent. You got to win
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  Speaker 2: with fifty percent plus one vote. That's the way it works.
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  Speaker 2: It's the way it's always worked. If you are not
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  Speaker 2: aware of this, you should be educated on these things.
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  Speaker 2: And it's scary to me to think that people who
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  Speaker 2: think just because he got forty four percent of the
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  Speaker 2: vote that he should have been named the winner. It's
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  Speaker 2: not the way we've done things, and it's just not
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  Speaker 2: how it works. So there are a number of runoffs
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  Speaker 2: that are taking place, and those are going to be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, moving forward. We got a couple of them
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  Speaker 2: in the city council races, including the at large seat
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  Speaker 2: with John Anchor and Kathy Cook. Yes she's doctor Kathy Cook.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to say that.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to the elections. Our head of elections here.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Board made that clear as far is not having
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  Speaker 2: to say doctor jaquitra Ryant. But anyway, that's one thing
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  Speaker 2: that scares me just a little bit. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: is the number of people who've made comments about redistricting
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  Speaker 2: inside our city and how it would play out in
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  Speaker 2: the mayor's race. Again, I'm sad that people saying that, seriously,
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  Speaker 2: their vote counts the same as everyone else's. It just
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  Speaker 2: seems like maybe it shouldn't. But ignorance has never been
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  Speaker 2: a reason not to allow people to vote. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially if they're part of a block vote system and
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  Speaker 2: they have a group of people that you know, they
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  Speaker 2: went to college with, maybe you know, eighty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: that are telling them how to vote or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't This is one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the fascinating things for someone who has lived in
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  Speaker 2: Columbus his entire life.
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  Speaker 3: It just blows my mind that that that is.
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  Speaker 2: A thing that we we continue you to experience. I
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  Speaker 2: just it's fascinating to me that that's the case. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of other things I said we'd get to some more.
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  Speaker 2: There are a few more things I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 2: about this thing. First of all, the Democrats that are
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  Speaker 2: saying that college colleges in states where there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be redistricting happening, that the black players on the teams
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  Speaker 2: should withdraw from those schools or not play if they're
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  Speaker 2: at those schools because the redistricting. Now that the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court has said you can't do the you can't have
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  Speaker 2: any districts in your state that are drawn up for
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  Speaker 2: representation based on race.
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  Speaker 3: Because there were states, many of them.
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  Speaker 2: That had said in the past, we have to have
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  Speaker 2: districts that are going to give more black representation in
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  Speaker 2: our state, and the Supreme Court has said that is
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  Speaker 2: not legal, that is not anything that we can vote
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  Speaker 2: to uphold. So we have states that are working on
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  Speaker 2: getting those district's taken care of, like you've got to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of them.
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  Speaker 3: They're not legal. They never have been legal, and.
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  Speaker 2: This is well, they were legal until the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: so they shouldn't have been legal. But it's this absurd
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  Speaker 2: thing that you have folks that are you know, in government,
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  Speaker 2: that are standing up and saying, hey, don't don't take
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  Speaker 2: those scholarships and opportunities to play sports something that you're
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  Speaker 2: gifted at, and that you have the ability to possibly
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  Speaker 2: go pro and make some money. No, no, no, sit
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  Speaker 2: down and do as you're told. We're going to tell
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  Speaker 2: you what you're supposed to do. Again, it's similar to
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  Speaker 2: the way voting happens in this city for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: But this sort of block mentality of we're going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you what you can and can't do, what you
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  Speaker 2: should and shouldn't do, and your your future interests be damned.
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  Speaker 2: We don't we don't need football players. We need obedience,
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  Speaker 2: and we need obedience for the sake of punishing these
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  Speaker 2: states that are trying to make things fair, so that
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe some of these states that have
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty six percent of the state are considered
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  Speaker 2: registered Republicans and they have zero representation in the House
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  Speaker 2: of Representatives and the way that their district drawn that
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  Speaker 2: you don't get a chance to have any representation. And
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  Speaker 2: there are people that just don't have any representation. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting to me. It's fascinating to me that that
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  Speaker 2: is something that they're asking people to do and that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the way to punishment. It won't punish them,
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  Speaker 2: and it won't stop there. Punish the states I mean
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  Speaker 2: because obviously, if you live in a state, if you
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  Speaker 2: live in Georgia, you're a Georgia fan, and they're telling
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  Speaker 2: athletes not to play at Georgia because Georgia is going
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  Speaker 2: to be fixing some of the districts. Another quick thing
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  Speaker 2: is we have once again had a scenario where in
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta and Fulton County they had a well, we had
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  Speaker 2: some crisis and we had to delay how late.
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  Speaker 3: People could vote.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for that show to end. We thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: we were moving on from that, but we've had the
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  Speaker 2: infamous we had a pipe burst that never oh no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that was a mistake, that didn't really happen. All these
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  Speaker 2: things that they look for ways to just keep the
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  Speaker 2: polls open just a little bit later, it's time for
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  Speaker 2: that stuff to stop. Can we be just done with that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's time for that to be a distant memory.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible to fix it, and it's possible to move on.
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  Speaker 2: we have talked about the thing with GLP one's ozimpic
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  Speaker 2: face ozimpic what is it chin ozimpic nose? I think
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  Speaker 2: was a thing ozempic arms. There's all these different things
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  Speaker 2: that are side effects of people having a pretty rapid
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  Speaker 2: weight loss when it comes to the GLP ones. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a new one apparently that people are talking about,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not a physical thing. They're calling an ozempic
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  Speaker 2: personality as being a thing where people just kind of
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  Speaker 2: feel emotionally flat less excited about things they used to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean food, for starters, it's a drug that makes
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  Speaker 2: you not hungry and not enjoy certain foods. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: knocking that that's the idea behind it. It's supposed to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, try to help keep you and from eating
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  Speaker 2: those foods, curb your appetite for those foods that aren't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily good for you. So, yes, you probably would be
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  Speaker 2: a little less excited in general if you're not able
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy sweets or you know, fatty foods and things.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying it's not an overly common side effect, but
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  Speaker 2: that it is a real one. Doctors say that it
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  Speaker 2: may be tied to how the drugs affect the reward
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  Speaker 2: system that does draw down those cravings and basically draws
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  Speaker 2: down pleasure overall. Experts say that if you're taking the
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  Speaker 2: drug and your mood feels off that you should in
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  Speaker 2: fact be talking to your doctor about that. So keep
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  Speaker 2: that in mind. If you or someone you know is
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  Speaker 2: experiencing that and they are taking a GLP one, it
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  Speaker 2: is a conversation they should definitely have with their doctor.
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  Speaker 2: A new global survey shining a light on the best
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  Speaker 2: work on a big work place issue, pay transparency. It's
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  Speaker 2: not the best one's a big one. It turns out
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are feeling like they're underpaid, about
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  Speaker 2: one in five saying that they'd need a major raise
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  Speaker 2: about thirty percent just to feel fairly compensated. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not just about money, it's about honesty. More than eight
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  Speaker 2: and ten workers say that pay transparency matters to them,
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  Speaker 2: yet only about a third say their company actually practices it,
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  Speaker 2: and that gap is a problem. Employees say that if
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  Speaker 2: their company isn't open about your pay, they'll either push
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  Speaker 2: for change or walk away. So that could be the
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  Speaker 2: next phase in things. With a lot of people uneasy
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  Speaker 2: about what's coming down the line with AI and things
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  Speaker 2: and trying to keep people working. Still have places that
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  Speaker 2: are wanting employees to come back to the office in
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  Speaker 2: the workplace, and they're saying no, no, no, We'll keep working here,
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  Speaker 2: but we have to still be working from home, and
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  Speaker 2: that seems to still be a battle that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's a new dating red flag that's popping up. It's
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  Speaker 2: called emotional outsourcing. It's where people rely on chatbots to
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  Speaker 2: write text, craft apologies, even figure out how they feel
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  Speaker 2: about another person. And now getting a little help with
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  Speaker 2: wording isn't the issue. It becomes a problem when someone
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  Speaker 2: starts using AI to dodge uncomfortable, vulnerable parts of intimacy
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  Speaker 2: that take honesty, patients, and some actual effort. The concern
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  Speaker 2: is that relationships are built on awkward, honest, human moments,
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  Speaker 2: and if those are getting handed off to a chatbot,
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  Speaker 2: then the connection can fall apart. The connection feels insincere,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it. I mean, that's where it really feels like
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  Speaker 2: maybe there's not really a connection there at all. Russian
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  Speaker 2: Sandwich Shop is getting a lot of attention on social media,
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  Speaker 2: not because it has a large menu of creatively crafted
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  Speaker 2: artisan sandwiches, but because it doesn't has a small menu
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  Speaker 2: and the sandwiches are as simple as they can be.
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  Speaker 3: The restaurant's name a.
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  Speaker 2: Booter Brodick sixty six. It's in Saint Petersburg, and it's
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  Speaker 2: all about simplicity. They only serve white bread with butter, cheese, boloney,
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  Speaker 2: maybe an egg. And you know you could make that
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  Speaker 2: at home. That's pretty easy to make at home. But
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  Speaker 2: customers line up because the sandwiches cost just over a dollar.
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  Speaker 2: For many, they tap into a sense of nostalgia. It's
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  Speaker 2: a period of time in you know, Russia where that
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  Speaker 2: nostalgia would probably ping.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's a good time you want
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  Speaker 3: to revisit.
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  Speaker 2: But but it reminds them of simple meals from the
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  Speaker 2: Soviet era.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: The owner says that the idea started as a cheap
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  Speaker 2: snack stand that was meant to cheer people up, and
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly it worked. Even the location reflects the concept. It's
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  Speaker 2: in the outskirts of the city, no frills building, it
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  Speaker 2: keeps costs load. Do you have to stand in line
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  Speaker 2: for a really long long time to get your food
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  Speaker 2: weeks at a time, and then they tell you they're
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  Speaker 2: out of bread, those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the show.
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