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Who Is This Jerry Mandering? · 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: Tuesday morning, fifth day of August. I'm West Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I hope everybody had a great start to
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Speaker 2: the school year. I think most of the kids are
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Speaker 2: in school. There's a couple in my neighborhood that I
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Speaker 2: saw that were not in school yesterday during the day
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Speaker 2: when they probably should have been. But I'm guessing that
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Speaker 2: whatever school they go to just hasn't started yet. So
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Speaker 2: I'm aware that there are some and this isn't just
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Speaker 2: one of those clown he's kind of a clown, but
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Speaker 2: not just one of those complete clowns in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: He's somebody who goes to a good school. I'm assuming
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Speaker 2: that they just haven't started yet. And I know that
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Speaker 2: there are a few that are getting started later this week,
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Speaker 2: and maybe even some getting started as late as Monday
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Speaker 2: in our area I've mentioned yesterday. I know we got
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Speaker 2: people that listen all over the country. We've got friends
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Speaker 2: that at least one whose kid goes back to school
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Speaker 2: after Labor Day, So you know, depending on where you are,
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Speaker 2: but if you're in an area where school started back
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Speaker 2: this week. I hope you're a kid had a good
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Speaker 2: first day yesterday. Both of mine did. No complaints, no
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Speaker 2: real drama, nothing too exciting. I do know that there
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Speaker 2: are a couple of schools, I guess in the Muskogee
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Speaker 2: County area that have now the metal detectors and the
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Speaker 2: entrance way. A couple of them apparently were active yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that they would be active. I know
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Speaker 2: there's some that are going to be becoming active as
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Speaker 2: we get through this first week of school, and it
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Speaker 2: will have an impact on time getting in the door,
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Speaker 2: getting in the building, getting the kids in. I may
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Speaker 2: have to open schools a little bit earlier. I know
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Speaker 2: that there's a certain amount of time, there's a window
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Speaker 2: that they allow for kids to get into the school.
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Speaker 2: But it is what it is. And sadly, this is
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Speaker 2: again part of our theme for yesterday, that this is
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Speaker 2: who we've allowed ourselves to become capable of and what
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Speaker 2: we have to do. But hey, I'll take more reassurances
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Speaker 2: as long as I know that the schools are doing
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Speaker 2: what they can. I like it. I like the idea
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Speaker 2: of being able to do the maximum amount of things
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Speaker 2: and having someone there to police it and also make
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Speaker 2: sure that people aren't coming into the schools. All those things.
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Speaker 2: These are the things that we've talked about for a
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Speaker 2: long time. Why don't they do these things? Why aren't
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Speaker 2: we doing these things? And I know that there are
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Speaker 2: some statistics that go in both directions when it comes
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Speaker 2: to metal detectors and things at schools. And you get
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Speaker 2: some people who want it to just be politics and
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Speaker 2: let it be a gun grab and say, why would
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Speaker 2: you do these things? We could just take all the guns.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I was very briefly at one of
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Speaker 2: the shopping malls here at Peachtree Mall over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: and I was ex the mall and I don't go
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Speaker 2: into that mall very often, and I was going in
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Speaker 2: for a very specific purpose. And I was leaving and
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Speaker 2: someone was running inside and they said, oh, there's been
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Speaker 2: a gunshot of some kind. And I thought what. And
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Speaker 2: I saw people running to their cars and it was
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Speaker 2: a bit of a pandemonium outside. It was chaotic, and
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Speaker 2: I said, well, I kind of assessed the situation saw
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Speaker 2: that it seems safe for me to be lined to
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Speaker 2: my vehicle and leave, which is what I did. And
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Speaker 2: I don't know where the specific shooting took place. I
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Speaker 2: saw some posts later that said there was some sort
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Speaker 2: of a fight that broke out and then a gun
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Speaker 2: came out. I smelled what certainly smelled like gunpowder in
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Speaker 2: the air. I don't know where the shooting took place,
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Speaker 2: but I was told that it was inside the mall
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Speaker 2: or near the mall, and I was told which store
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Speaker 2: it was near. All I can tell you is, again,
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Speaker 2: this is what we've allowed ourselves to become. This is
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Speaker 2: what's going on, and the less we do to try
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Speaker 2: to take preventive measures, the less we do to actually
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Speaker 2: enforce the laws prosecute people that break the laws. I
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Speaker 2: think we have this weird thing that we've been doing
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Speaker 2: for a while now where we just kind of say
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Speaker 2: people can just do whatever. We're not going to prosecute them.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to actually hold them accountable for what
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Speaker 2: they've done. We're not gonna, you know, we can't put
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Speaker 2: them in jail. You can't just leave them in jail.
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Speaker 2: What are they gonna do when they're in jail. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna be in jail, They're gonna be punished for what
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Speaker 2: they've done. But we have this mindset now where you know,
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Speaker 2: raping somebody and then you just get out and that's it. Oh,
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Speaker 2: they came in the country illegally. They came from hardships.
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Speaker 2: They came from countries where it's okay to do what
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Speaker 2: they did, to have a relationship with someone under age.
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Speaker 2: That's where they come from. Imagine trying to use that
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Speaker 2: defense for just about anybody else, right, I mean, we
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Speaker 2: went through this a cultural shift that took place when
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Speaker 2: you know, just a few generations back, when you could
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Speaker 2: be fourteen years old and get married. You know, that
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Speaker 2: was something that could happen, and you could get married
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Speaker 2: to a twenty year old man and be a fourteen
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Speaker 2: year old girl, and that was the tone of society
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Speaker 2: back then. But a lot of people don't go back
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Speaker 2: and look at that with anything other than you, Oh
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Speaker 2: that Jerry Lee Lewis, and you believe that, and you go,
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Speaker 2: I mean, sounds horrible by today's standards. You got to
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Speaker 2: put yourself kind of in that tone of when it happened.
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Speaker 2: To say, am I saying it's not terrible by today's standards.
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Speaker 2: I'm just pointing out the fact that you have to
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Speaker 2: look at it from the lens of the time when
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Speaker 2: it happened and then say, well, that's when it happened.
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Speaker 2: We do that with we're supposed to do that with everything.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean we're going to go back and go well
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Speaker 2: it should be that way. Now, that's not what anybody's saying.
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Speaker 2: People just want to judge what people did fifty sixty
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Speaker 2: one hundred, two hundred years ago to today's standards. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: how about we just judge it from the standards of
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Speaker 2: if you break the law and you get prosecuted for
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Speaker 2: breaking the law, and there's going to be some kind of punishment,
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Speaker 2: and if you've come into the country illegally and you've
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Speaker 2: broken the law, you get sent back where you came from.
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Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I understand people are having a
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Speaker 2: hard time grasping this concept that you know, there's people
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Speaker 2: in the country illegally and that that itself is breaking
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Speaker 2: the law. They don't understand that. But anyway, that's not
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Speaker 2: even what we'll talk about today. I want to talk
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Speaker 2: about these this jerrymandering situation we got going on as
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Speaker 2: we have. Texas is working on doing some redistricting. The
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Speaker 2: left says that they're doing it because Trump wants more
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Speaker 2: seats in the House, and he wants the redistricting to
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Speaker 2: be done. And this is supposed to be something that
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Speaker 2: only happens right after a census. There should only be
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Speaker 2: redoing the districting basing based on that. A few things
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Speaker 2: to process here, first of all, and we know that
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Speaker 2: you have the legislators in Texas that left, they got
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Speaker 2: out of Texas, and then that's when Governor Abbott said, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have them arrested. I'm going to prosecute them
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Speaker 2: because they're supposed to be there. They're obstructing us being
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Speaker 2: able to do our business from a government standpoint. So
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Speaker 2: I just a couple of things to go with this,
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Speaker 2: and we can go into a few layers of this.
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Speaker 2: But the first thing I'd like to point out is
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Speaker 2: keep in mind we have Democrat legislators that left Texas
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Speaker 2: in the name of standing up for what's right and
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Speaker 2: preventing the actual government of the state of Texas to
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Speaker 2: conduct business. And this comes after the This comes right
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Speaker 2: after we had a sitting member of Congress House of Representatives,
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Speaker 2: Eric Swalwell, who is one of those people who is
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Speaker 2: basically saying that he was sent home along with like
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Speaker 2: the the on a federal level. Congress was not able
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Speaker 2: to do business. They were sent home because they were
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Speaker 2: trying to He says that Congress was trying to keep
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Speaker 2: anybody from talking about Jeffrey Epstein, and they were all
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Speaker 2: sent home. And he made all these videos. We talked
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Speaker 2: about these last week, made all these videos where it
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Speaker 2: was him, you know, lifting weights. I should be at
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Speaker 2: work right now, but instead I'm pumping iron at the gym,
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Speaker 2: or you know, I should be at right now, and
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Speaker 2: stead I'm in a pool playing basketball. That's what you
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Speaker 2: do when you're an adult man. You get in a
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Speaker 2: pool and play basketball by yourself and make videos of it.
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Speaker 2: Now that I got anything against playing pool basketball, I'm
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Speaker 2: a fan. I like it, don't really do it by
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Speaker 2: myself and make videos of myself doing it. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: it's very Uncle Rico, isn't it that aside? We had
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Speaker 2: that as the battle cry, if you will, for someone
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Speaker 2: who some think maybe one of the potential they call him.
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Speaker 2: I think it's ridiculous, but they call him one of
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Speaker 2: the possible rising stars for the Democrat Party for the
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Speaker 2: next presidential cycle. And this is someone who was critical
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Speaker 2: of saying we were sent home and we're not there
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Speaker 2: doing work. And then Democrats in Texas say, well, we're
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Speaker 2: going to run away so that we're not going to
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Speaker 2: do work. So that's interesting. That's one aspect of this.
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Speaker 2: I've heard a few Democrats also point out on a
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Speaker 2: national level, just say, hey, we tried to implement a
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Speaker 2: few years ago a legislation that would stop gerrymandering. Period.
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Speaker 2: It's redistrict and if you don't know, it's just redistricting
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Speaker 2: a state, and it does start to it's supposed to
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Speaker 2: make adjustments for population changes. God knows, we've had population
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Speaker 2: changes over the last few years. Because while illegals that
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Speaker 2: come into the country aren't able to vote, or they're
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Speaker 2: not supposed to be able to vote, they come into
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Speaker 2: the country, but they do count when it comes to representation,
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Speaker 2: so they go to a district or they go to
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Speaker 2: an area, and it does end up helping some I
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Speaker 2: think California is set to gain two or three more seats,
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Speaker 2: even though people are leaving California, but there's the possibility
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Speaker 2: that California could pick up some seats because of that.
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Speaker 2: And I think New York is close to picking up
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Speaker 2: one based on the number of migrants that are there.
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Speaker 2: It's an absurd thing to begin with, because they do count.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons that this has been
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Speaker 2: allowed to take place. It's one of the reasons that
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Speaker 2: they let people just come into the country that and
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Speaker 2: they know that whenever at some point we have this
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Speaker 2: decree and they say, you know what, we're going to
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Speaker 2: just allow them to stay. We're going to give them
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Speaker 2: a path to citizenship, and about eighty percent of the
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Speaker 2: time they end up voting for Democrats. That's the other reason.
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Speaker 2: So we have this redistricting that they want to do
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Speaker 2: in Texas. And yes, there was an opportunity at one
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Speaker 2: point for Democrats push legislation that we're going to stop
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Speaker 2: doing this, We're not gonna do this anymore. And Democrats
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Speaker 2: all voted for it, Republicans all voted against it. It
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Speaker 2: didn't pass. Now some Democrats are saying this, I got
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Speaker 2: to make that clear on the explanation of what I
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Speaker 2: just gave. That comes from Democrats and they say that
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Speaker 2: that's how it went down. So when states that have
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Speaker 2: a long history of ridiculous redistricting gerrymandering, they're all blue states.
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Speaker 2: They're all blue states for the most part, And I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about the ones that have absurd levels of it,
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Speaker 2: places where Republicans get forty to forty seven percent of
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Speaker 2: the vote in the state but only have like twenty
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Speaker 2: percent representation in the state, and it's because of this redistricting,
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Speaker 2: this gerrymandering. And you look at some of the states
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Speaker 2: and you can see where like the blue heavy areas
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Speaker 2: are or the red heavy areas are. But most of
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Speaker 2: the states that are notoriously good at this. But can
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Speaker 2: I say good? Because this is something that if you
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Speaker 2: do it correctly, you can control more seats in the
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Speaker 2: House of Representatives. California, Illinois, Oregon, Massachusetts. We're talking about
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Speaker 2: states that have been able to manipulate this for such
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Speaker 2: a long time and then all of a sudden they
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Speaker 2: got it to a point where they went, Okay, now
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Speaker 2: we're going to stop it. Why would Republicans vote to
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Speaker 2: stop it when they could see the wave coming that
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Speaker 2: they were going to get an opportunity to try to
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Speaker 2: course correct some of this? Is it something that is
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Speaker 2: a ridiculous thing when you just hear about it on
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Speaker 2: the surface, Sure it sounds Bad's like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: they're trying to But we don't hear about it when
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Speaker 2: the left does it, we hear about it when the
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Speaker 2: right does it, and we go, oh, my gosh, this
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Speaker 2: is terrible, what a horrible thing to happen. I can't
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Speaker 2: believe this is something that people really do. But when
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Speaker 2: the left does it, it's you know, under cover of night,
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Speaker 2: very little conversation about it. Maybe one or two news
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Speaker 2: networks talks about it, but for the most part, it
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Speaker 2: just happens and that's it. So yeah, I would say,
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Speaker 2: based on this whining explanation of but we tried to
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Speaker 2: stop it, it's like trying to stop a game when
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Speaker 2: you're ahead and I given the other team a chance
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Speaker 2: to try to come back, right, isn't that what that
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Speaker 2: sounds like. So yes, it's a mess in Texas, and
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Speaker 2: eventually it's going to happen. They can try to be
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Speaker 2: heroic and feel like they're doing something heroic with it,
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Speaker 2: but in the end, what's going to happen is what's
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Speaker 2: going to happen, and Republican are probably going to pick
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Speaker 2: up seats in Texas. Of course, you've had Gavin Newsom
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Speaker 2: say oh and do the same thing in California make
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Speaker 2: you lose some So in the end we'll see how
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Speaker 2: it all plays out, but it's a bad look for
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Speaker 2: a party that's struggling already. It's a bad look because
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Speaker 2: right now Democrats are losing, they're continuing to lose, and
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Speaker 2: I understand they want to hold on to whatever seats
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Speaker 2: they can hang on to because I think one of
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Speaker 2: the seats up they could be lost is Jasmine Crockett seat,
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Speaker 2: and that's one of their people. They think, oh, she's
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Speaker 2: going to be a star, even though she's been anything,
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Speaker 2: but she's been quite the clown. So of course they
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Speaker 2: want to dig in and try to stop it from happening.
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Speaker 2: And they're trying to call attention to it and say,
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Speaker 2: look at what these Republicans are doing. Just days really after,
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Speaker 2: Eric Swallwell says they won't let me work, They're not
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Speaker 2: letting us conduct business, and that was his battle cry
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Speaker 2: for these Republicans aren't letting us do business, and I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to work. And then less than a week later,
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Speaker 2: or about a week later, Democrats just bail on the
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Speaker 2: new people, whether it's at a hotel, bar, on a cruise,
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Speaker 2: or during a spontaneous weekend getaway. The idea is that
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Speaker 2: if love isn't happening in your hometown, maybe it's waiting
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Speaker 2: for you in another time zone. Folks on social media,
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Speaker 2: especially TikTok, are all in sharing stories of meat cutes
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Speaker 2: on airplanes and vacation flings. It beats worrying about the
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Speaker 2: apps right the dating sites. It beats that, I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: at least, at the very least, you're getting out and
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Speaker 2: you're experiencing the world. You're seeing things that you wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have been able to see. That's your worst case. You
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Speaker 2: have a trip somewhere positive, maybe meet somebody that you like, now,
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Speaker 2: what if you go somewhere and it's a place that
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Speaker 2: you don't like, but you meet someone that you do.
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Speaker 2: Think about that? I mean, that would be a conundrum,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't it all? Right? If you have any contact with
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Speaker 2: anyone in Gen Alpha, you may have heard the term
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Speaker 2: aura farming. If not, here's the quick rundown for Gen Alpha.
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Speaker 2: The word aura isn't about spiritual in energy or colorful vibes.
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Speaker 2: It's about someone's cool factor. If someone has aura, then
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Speaker 2: they're effortlessly cool. But when someone tries hard to look cool,
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Speaker 2: they're accused of aura farming. Term borrows from video games,
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Speaker 2: where farming means that you're grinding for points, in this case,
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Speaker 2: aura points. Other generations may have called it being desperate
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Speaker 2: or opposer, or trying too hard. Here's where things get tricky, though.
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Speaker 2: If you successfully or a farm without looking like you're trying,
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Speaker 2: you might actually gain more aura. But if you flop,
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Speaker 2: you're just a try hard. So in true Gen Alpha fashion,
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Speaker 2: the goal is to look cool without looking like you
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Speaker 2: care about looking cool. Isn't that what it's always really been?
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Speaker 2: I think that's been the case for a really, really
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Speaker 2: long time. I don't know, I don't know why this
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Speaker 2: is something different, but at least maybe you're picking up
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Speaker 2: some slang from the Gen Alpha crowd that maybe could
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Speaker 2: possibly be a benefit. I don't know. Switch To demand
23:55
Speaker 2: is surging. The launch of the Nintendo switch To earlier
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Speaker 2: this summer was a success, sales over six million units,
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Speaker 2: making it the fastest selling console in Nintendo's history. There's
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Speaker 2: still a big time demand for the switch To consoles,
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Speaker 2: as Nintendo predicts sales of fifteen million units by next April.
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Speaker 2: So far, Nintendo has done a decent job of getting
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Speaker 2: the game into the hands of customers, but that could
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Speaker 2: be changing as demand is outpacing supply in many regions.
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Speaker 2: The company does not want to fall too far behind,
24:28
Speaker 2: so they've promised to boost production as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: There's a holiday season coming up, I would imagine there'll
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Speaker 2: be a lot of people really wanting to get their
24:39
Speaker 2: hands on those switch toos. A new study found young
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Speaker 2: men who passively consume news through social media and more
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Speaker 2: likely to believe false health claims. Researchers found these guys
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Speaker 2: have a tendency to rely on accidental information exposure and
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Speaker 2: don't spend a lot of time verifying their sources, they
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Speaker 2: read it, they believe it, which can lead to poor
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Speaker 2: choices with their health related decisions down the road. Yes,
25:03
Speaker 2: I know some of these people. According to a new survey,
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Speaker 2: people from the US, Denmark, and Sweden are the least
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Speaker 2: polite when interacting with AI, as they are least likely
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Speaker 2: than others to say the words please and thank you
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Speaker 2: when telling their chatbot what to do. On the other
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Speaker 2: end of this spectrum is India, Mexico UAE. More than
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Speaker 2: fifty percent of those users in those countries always or
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Speaker 2: at least often say please and thank you AI. It
25:31
Speaker 2: sounds nice. It's also known as wasting your time. It's
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Speaker 2: not real or is it? Is that going to save
25:38
Speaker 2: them in the end? When Skynett comes for us? All?
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