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A Need for Friends of Abe Says a Lot · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning, 31st day of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Final day of August. Means September is tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Also means Dragon Con's this weekend. As we have discussed,
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  Speaker 2: this year's DragonCon taking place all in September. Usually it
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  Speaker 2: starts in August and rolls into September. But this year,
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  Speaker 2: because Labor Day is so late, I guess the latest
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  Speaker 2: that it can be, we get DragonCon in Atlanta all
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  Speaker 2: in September this year. So we actually had a little
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  Speaker 2: extra week to prep for it. To those of you,
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  Speaker 2: all of you, who listened to the DragonCon pregame show
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, thank you for that. It was on
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  Speaker 2: about 200 radio stations around Georgia and neighboring states, as
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  Speaker 2: some of those stations are licensed into Alabama and South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina places. So thank you if you listened to the
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  Speaker 2: radio version. If you heard only the radio version, I
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  Speaker 2: got good news for you. There's a podcast version of it.
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  Speaker 2: called the DragonCon Pregame Show Podcast. And the interviews that
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  Speaker 2: you heard on the radio are much longer on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the great things about podcasts is you can,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, make it longer. So there you go. So
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  Speaker 2: check that out wherever you get this podcast. It is
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  Speaker 2: they keep sponsoring us, so I suppose they're still a
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  Speaker 2: proud sponsor of the show. And again, thank you if
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  Speaker 2: you listen to the podcast. Thank you if you listen
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  Speaker 2: to the radio show. We'd love for you to come
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  Speaker 2: over and check out the podcast as well, though. And
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  Speaker 2: it happens this weekend. It gets started officially, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday. There are already people at the hotels that
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  Speaker 2: host DragonCon in downtown Atlanta. And just a quick summary,
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  Speaker 2: it's a celebration of fandom is what it is. Everything,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not just, it's a lot of nerdy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just nerdy stuff. It's mostly nerdy stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. This is a world now that can handle
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  Speaker 2: mostly nerdy stuff being celebrated. I know that many from
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  Speaker 2: this area will be going up to Atlanta for the
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  Speaker 2: Aflac kickoff game as Auburn gets ready to kick off
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  Speaker 2: their college football season. in Atlanta, and that's just like
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  Speaker 2: 12 blocks away. So if you're going to go to that,
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  Speaker 2: you might as well swing by the Dragon Con host hotels.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably be in the Hyatt or the Marriott in
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  Speaker 2: downtown Atlanta. That's where you'll probably find me, but there's
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  Speaker 2: other hotels. There's three more hotels that are all part
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  Speaker 2: of this wonderful experience that is Dragon Con. But You know,
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  Speaker 2: come up early, watch the parade. The DragonCon parade happens
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  Speaker 2: at 10 a.m. on Saturday. So if you come up
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  Speaker 2: for the football game, you always can check out the parade.
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  Speaker 2: That's a free activity that happens, you know, just runs
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  Speaker 2: right past those hotels in downtown Atlanta. So, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: would love to see you there. And you can check
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  Speaker 2: out some incredible costumes. It's the 40th DragonCon that started
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  Speaker 2: back in 1986.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, 87, I think, was the first year. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's all running together. I get caught up. This is
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  Speaker 2: what I struggle with because I'm very schooled on this convention,
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  Speaker 2: and I've said it many times. 87, I guess, is
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  Speaker 2: the first year, and this is the 40th DragonCon because
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  Speaker 2: there's year zero, right? So anyway, the 40th year, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: becomes next year. 40 years of DragonCon is next year.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's confusing about it. Anyway, I got it now.
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  Speaker 2: I corrected myself. But we hope to see you there
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Bring a costume if you're going to just
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  Speaker 2: come walk around in the hotels. If you want to participate,
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  Speaker 2: you need to get a pass. You can get that
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  Speaker 2: at dragoncon.org. And learn more about DragonCon from the DragonCon
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  Speaker 2: pregame show on the podcast, including my interview with Tricia Helfer,
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  Speaker 2: who I met. This is my 25th year covering DragonCon.
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  Speaker 2: I met her 2014, and she's tall. She's an attractive
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  Speaker 2: human being. You know, some people you just meet and
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  Speaker 2: you just go, you are stunning. I didn't say that
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  Speaker 2: to her, but, you know, you just see people and
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  Speaker 2: you go, my gosh, like this is not even fair
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  Speaker 2: to everybody else. It's just how things go sometimes. But
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  Speaker 2: she's a wonderful interview. Somebody great to talk to. And
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  Speaker 2: I've now talked with her a few times and loved
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  Speaker 2: having a chance to talk with her. There's also some
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  Speaker 2: interviews with some of the scientists who will be– at
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  Speaker 2: DragonCon as part of the space and science tracks there,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even some of the skeptic stuff that's going on there.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be involved. They'll be all around, but you can
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  Speaker 2: check them out with interviews I did with them. Kim
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  Speaker 2: Stedman and Trina Ray, who are formerly with NASA JPL,
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  Speaker 2: and Dr. Sean Cruzan and I interviewed them on the
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  Speaker 2: Made of Stars podcast. So a lot of DragonCon content
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  Speaker 2: for you. Getting ready for the fandoms.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I want to quickly mention this because I talked a
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  Speaker 2: little bit last week about this and I missed a
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  Speaker 2: show because of this last week. And I've been sharing
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about my mom and her medical procedures
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  Speaker 2: and things that she had done. She's doing great. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you to those of those of you who have reached out.
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  Speaker 2: She's doing much better. She's at home. She's been home
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  Speaker 2: now for several days. And I have been continuing to
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  Speaker 2: do the very best I can and try to be
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful, amazing son and take care of her as
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  Speaker 2: much as I can. And she is slowly but surely
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  Speaker 2: getting everything back. Ultimately, the main thing that you need
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  Speaker 2: to know is that she had pancreatitis and she had
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  Speaker 2: her gallbladder removed. And she, after having surgery and just
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  Speaker 2: the infection from the pancreatitis, she's doing great now. And
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  Speaker 2: she's back home. It was like nine days in the
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  Speaker 2: hospital and now back home. And, you know, I go
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  Speaker 2: and prep her meals and cook for her and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have everything ready for her for her day, get all
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  Speaker 2: of her pills lined up, a lot of pills that
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  Speaker 2: she has to take because of the procedures. And she's
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  Speaker 2: doing great. So that's a positive. So any of you
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  Speaker 2: who have reached out, thank you again. And anybody who
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  Speaker 2: has said a prayer for my mom or for me
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  Speaker 2: and my brothers and all this, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: And she's doing much, much better than she was. So
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  Speaker 2: a few things that I want to talk about, because
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  Speaker 2: as you're driving back and forth, my mom does not
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  Speaker 2: live in Columbus. So I've had to drive, not a
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  Speaker 2: huge drive, but I've had to drive back and forth
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  Speaker 2: to where she is a few times. And spend some
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  Speaker 2: nights at her place and those sorts of things. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you just get time to think about stuff and just
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  Speaker 2: kind of rattle around some thoughts and everything. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I have found quite fascinating over
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  Speaker 2: the past several days, and I talked a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton last week after her passing. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those things that I have found very interesting,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Sirius XM has dedicated one of their
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  Speaker 2: channels as just Dolly Parton Radio for a while. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how long they're going to do that. I
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  Speaker 2: just know that I listened to it on some of
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  Speaker 2: my driving and it's been great. Many songs I knew
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  Speaker 2: and what feels like many more songs I had not
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  Speaker 2: really heard before. I knew she did a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work with other artists' collaborations. Didn't know how many. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: know who all the artists were. Didn't know she did
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  Speaker 2: covers of songs that make sense. When I heard her
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  Speaker 2: singing Shine by Collective Soul, I thought, okay, this makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: And it makes perfect sense. I get it. And didn't
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  Speaker 2: know I needed this, but I did. So what I
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  Speaker 2: found a little fascinating, though, and I talked about some
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  Speaker 2: of this, but it's really been kind of stretched into
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, the number of people that have tried to
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  Speaker 2: take ownership of Dolly Parton. You know, she's one of
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  Speaker 2: those people that she did a really good job of
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  Speaker 2: kind of staying in the middle of I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that anybody can say they know how Dolly Parton voted.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. I think she did a very good
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  Speaker 2: job of saying things in a very safe way, and
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  Speaker 2: I applaud her for that. As someone who is a celebrity,
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  Speaker 2: or was a celebrity, somebody who was in the limelight,
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  Speaker 2: And I wish that there were more athletes and musicians
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  Speaker 2: and actors that would understand. What I have to say
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  Speaker 2: about politics isn't important, and how I vote isn't important.
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  Speaker 2: I vote just like you do, and I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to tell you. I don't have to show up at conventions.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to, you know, wear colors. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: able to tell you, and as she would say, look,
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  Speaker 2: I love God, and I love people, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she said that that's her thing. And everybody said, well,
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  Speaker 2: she supports the gay and trans community. Well, I think
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  Speaker 2: by saying that I love the gay and trans community,
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  Speaker 2: that's a way of saying, if you want to say
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  Speaker 2: that's supporting them. I don't know that I ever once
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  Speaker 2: heard her say, yes, children should get surgery and hormones.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I ever once heard her say
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  Speaker 2: men should play in women's sport. Like she stayed away
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  Speaker 2: from the things that people were on edge about. And
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  Speaker 2: she did a good job of that. And I think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some people on the right have been critical
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  Speaker 2: and said, well, she shouldn't have supported the COVID vaccine
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  Speaker 2: and she shouldn't have supported that. Ricky Schroeder got some
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  Speaker 2: grief about that. Ricky Schroeder, of course, the star of
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  Speaker 2: Silver Spoons and NYPD Blue, wasn't he on that? And
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  Speaker 2: he played Dolly Parton's dad in a movie and he
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  Speaker 2: decided on X or Twitter or whatever, made some comment
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  Speaker 2: about he was glad that he had gotten to play
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  Speaker 2: her dad in a movie and that he, you know,
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  Speaker 2: other than the fact that she supported, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: trans community or something and then you know, the COVID vaccine.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he really loved her and people went after him.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you say anything? And in the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: what I was just saying and of Dolly and her legacy, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he would have been best just saying, hey, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to miss you, Dolly. It was an honor to get
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  Speaker 2: to play your dad in a movie and he could
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  Speaker 2: have said that. But the same people on the left
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  Speaker 2: who say LeBron James and Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick
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  Speaker 2: have an obligation to speak their mind are saying that
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  Speaker 2: he should keep his mouth shut. So, You know, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have felt a need to say anything other than,
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  Speaker 2: you know, glad I got to play your dad, rest
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  Speaker 2: in peace. He's allowed to say whatever he wants. You
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  Speaker 2: can have your repercussions if you want, but you're just
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  Speaker 2: shining more light on it by telling him to shut
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  Speaker 2: his mouth. And I think that's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that people on the right need to still learn about
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  Speaker 2: athletes and musicians. But anyway. And then people on the
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  Speaker 2: left who are just, boy, she was such a strong
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  Speaker 2: advocate for the trans community. She was such a strong advocate.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, maybe I missed something. But
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  Speaker 2: people seem to miss a lot, I think, on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: And I could be missing something on that. I just
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  Speaker 2: know that she did a good job of kind of
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay somewhat vanilla about all of it, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think that there should be more of that.
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  Speaker 2: I find that to be incredibly refreshing, and I just
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  Speaker 2: wish that there was definitely more of that. And there's not.
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  Speaker 2: I think this may be one of the last people
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be like this from a celebrity standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of celebrities, and I don't know that I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have time to do this justice, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I need to talk about it. But this whole idea...
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  Speaker 2: Did you see this? I guess Patricia Heaton has been
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  Speaker 2: talking about this Friends of Abe group. She says that
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  Speaker 2: there was a time during the Obama administration that conservatives
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  Speaker 2: in Hollywood felt so, and this isn't breaking news, but
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  Speaker 2: hearing her talk about it as one of the high-profile
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  Speaker 2: people to talk about it. But basically, during the Obama administration,
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  Speaker 2: there were conservatives who felt so targeted in Hollywood and
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  Speaker 2: they would risk losing their jobs. by coming out as conservative,
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  Speaker 2: that they made these like secret groups. They were having
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  Speaker 2: to get together and meet in secret to talk with
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  Speaker 2: each other. And they had, you know, they would message
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  Speaker 2: each other and, and I guess have meetings. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how far this goes. I just know that she
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  Speaker 2: talked about people like Kelsey Grammer, who was, uh, one
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  Speaker 2: of the people in the group. Uh, you could probably
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  Speaker 2: guess who some of the others are, uh, to know that, um,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's you could just kind of you could
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  Speaker 2: probably guess who some of them are. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: some conservatives in Hollywood and there were back then. But
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  Speaker 2: Patricia Heaton was one of those people who kind of
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  Speaker 2: did not come out back then as a conservative. And
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty sad that we're at a point where you
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  Speaker 2: have to feel like you have to keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody who says nobody's job would have been in danger
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  Speaker 2: as Gina Carano. Ask her if her job was in
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  Speaker 2: danger because she came out as a conservative and people
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  Speaker 2: lost their minds. But you work on a Disney show,
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  Speaker 2: and one of your co-stars, the star of the show
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  Speaker 2: that you're on, has a sister who's trans. And how
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  Speaker 2: could you possibly do that to the trans community? And
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  Speaker 2: you don't have your.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have your pronouns listed on your social media handles.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no obligation for her to do that, but
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  Speaker 2: there was. And because she didn't do it, ultimately she,
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  Speaker 2: you know, basically just gets booted out of a TV
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  Speaker 2: show because she commented that conservatives shouldn't be treated as
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  Speaker 2: lesser people. So yes, it is in fact something that
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  Speaker 2: you are, uh, going to suffer from during that period
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  Speaker 2: of time. Has it gotten a little better?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And she said it, uh, it, it has gotten better
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  Speaker 2: for her because, um, and you can see that things have,
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  Speaker 2: have gotten better because that's why she's comfortable coming out
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  Speaker 2: about it now and why this, uh, friends of Abe group, um,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Pedro Pascal who they said has a sister,
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  Speaker 2: I think, who's trans or a brother who's trans, whatever. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: as far as Gina Carano. But if you think that
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  Speaker 2: it's not possible, you just have to look at the study,
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  Speaker 2: the case of Gina Carano, and you have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the criticism that's been issued to a number of
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  Speaker 2: celebrities just for supporting Trump. You think about Hulk Hogan
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  Speaker 2: got so much grief for supporting Trump. You think about
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  Speaker 2: the hate towards Elon Musk and trying to attack him
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  Speaker 2: in every possible way for supporting Trump. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's not even, neither of them really Hollywood people, even
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  Speaker 2: though Hulk Hogan's name literally was Hollywood Hulk Hogan for
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  Speaker 2: a while. But it's interesting to know that it's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being a Christian in China where you have
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  Speaker 2: to kind of hide behind in secret places and And
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  Speaker 2: worship together and secret knocks on the door and handshakes
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  Speaker 2: to get in. That's basically, you know, what conservatives in
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood felt like they were dealing with. Not just during
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  Speaker 2: They can do that for you as well. And again,
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  Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. A
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  Speaker 2: small but growing number of U.S. restaurants are saying goodbye
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  Speaker 2: to tipping culture and folding the full cost of service
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  Speaker 2: into menu prices instead. The idea is simple. What you
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  Speaker 2: see is what you pay. Restaurants like San Francisco's La Cicale.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I said that right. Cigale. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a G, not a C.
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  Speaker 2: Higher prices help fund predictable wages, with some employees earning
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  Speaker 2: double what many servers make elsewhere. Supporters say that the
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  Speaker 2: model is fairer for staff, especially kitchen workers, who typically
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  Speaker 2: don't share much in tip money and removes any bias
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  Speaker 2: that can affect gratuities. The problem, though, is customers often
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  Speaker 2: see the higher menu prices and get sticker shock, even
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  Speaker 2: if they're no longer expected to leave a 20% tip.
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  Speaker 2: Some restaurants have successfully made the switch, while others have
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  Speaker 2: gone back to traditional tipping. Still, with tipping fatigue on
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  Speaker 2: the rise, the debate on whether America's tipping culture needs
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  Speaker 2: a makeover isn't going away anytime soon. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup certainly helped bring some of this forward,
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  Speaker 2: some of the attention to it. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: also is probably some fatigue, largely because, as we've discussed
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  Speaker 2: on this show, there's a few things that just don't
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  Speaker 2: make any sense. One, why are you tipping someone when
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  Speaker 2: all you do is you pick it up? They've put
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  Speaker 2: it in a bag, and you just say, I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to pick up this order, and they hand it to you,
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  Speaker 2: and a tip is expected for that. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody is expecting any of the food delivery people to
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  Speaker 2: tip when they pick it up. You know, they show
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  Speaker 2: up and they're, you know, Uber Eats or DoorDash or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: They don't tip you when they pick it up and
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  Speaker 2: you've done the same exact thing for them. So why
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  Speaker 2: should anyone that just shows up at your restaurant to
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  Speaker 2: pick it up tip? And then also just flipping that
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  Speaker 2: thing around and, you know, you did nothing. You're just
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  Speaker 2: the person who just rang it up and somebody in
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  Speaker 2: the back did it and they put it in a
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  Speaker 2: bag for you and that's it. In those circumstances... And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the eternal favorite that never will make any
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  Speaker 2: sense at all to me. Why are we tipping a
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  Speaker 2: percentage of the meal? A $ 10 tip on a $ 50
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  Speaker 2: meal or a $ 100 meal just because the food costs more.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand. You're getting the same exact service. It
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  Speaker 2: makes no sense to me. And you can tip and
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  Speaker 2: be generous all you want to, but if we get
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  Speaker 2: to this point where we're just going in and we're
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  Speaker 2: doing what they do in other countries, guess what? In Australia,
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  Speaker 2: no tipping. And you go in and you go, you
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  Speaker 2: either want to pay for the food or you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to pay for the food. And that's basically the
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  Speaker 2: way it works. And it's simple, but what a big shock.
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  Speaker 2: The president decided that there was no tax on tips.
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  Speaker 2: And now people are really finally doing something about the tipping.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is what it takes to finally go after
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  Speaker 2: the tipping is you have to get to a point Where, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you gotta do. You gotta do that to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it. Anyway, uh, a woman who thought
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  Speaker 2: she'd gotten the absolute worst seat on a flight, the
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  Speaker 2: middle seat last row, right by the bathroom with no
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  Speaker 2: window in sight. Uh, but she made, uh, realized that
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  Speaker 2: that miserable seat ended up putting her exactly where she
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  Speaker 2: was needed. When her seat mate arrived, it became clear
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  Speaker 2: she was suffering from severe claustrophobia and was on the
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  Speaker 2: verge of a panic attack and rather putting on headphones
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  Speaker 2: and pretending not to notice. Amanda Hamilton stepped in, offered conversation, distraction,
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  Speaker 2: even a hand to hold for the entire flight. The
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  Speaker 2: two talked about life, school, pets, everything in between. By
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  Speaker 2: the time they landed, Hamilton realized that what seemed like
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  Speaker 2: the worst seat on the plane had actually been the
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  Speaker 2: best one. Stories gone viral and a reminder that a
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: little kindness goes a long way. And yes, sometimes you're
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  Speaker 2: put exactly where you're needed, exactly where you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be with the people that you're supposed to share that
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  Speaker 2: time with. And that's fantastic. How much social media is
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  Speaker 2: too much? A new long-term study could have the answer
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  Speaker 2: for us as researchers tracked people over 11 years and
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  Speaker 2: found that about 150 minutes of social media per day,
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  Speaker 2: roughly two and a half hours, appears to be the
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  Speaker 2: tipping point. Beyond that, users were more likely to report
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  Speaker 2: declines in mental well-being while more moderate use wasn't linked
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  Speaker 2: to negative effects. The findings add to growing evidence that
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  Speaker 2: it may not be the social media itself that's the problem,
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  Speaker 2: but how much time we spend on it. Experts say
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  Speaker 2: excessive scrolling can contribute to anxiety, depression, information overload, and FOMO,
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  Speaker 2: especially when use becomes compulsive. So the bottom line is
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  Speaker 2: social media isn't the problem by itself, but if a
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  Speaker 2: quick scroll turns into three hours of disappearing down a
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  Speaker 2: TikTok rabbit hole, it may be time to come up
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  Speaker 2: for air. Makes sense. That'll do it for this Monday
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  Speaker 2: edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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