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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Monday morning, thirteenth
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day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Monday the thirteenth.
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Said this many many times before. My good friend Scott Miller and I
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said it for years on the radio. Monday the thirteenth way scarier than Friday
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the thirteenth. I mean, at least it's Friday. Now. You're starting
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your week with a Monday the thirteenth, So if you're superstitious, it's a
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scary day. And then you get through it, and then you still got
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four more days of work, presumably, I guess before you get back to
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the weekend. I don't know your work situation. I don't know what you
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got going on, but I'm just saying Monday it's always you know, we
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got a case of the Mondays. I like lasagna, all that stuff,
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all the Garfield stuff. You're dealing with, all the Garfield stuff, And
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it's the thirteenth. That's all I'm getting at. So you know, hang
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in there, try to survive this Monday the thirteenth. I want to quickly
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recap the weekend, and I feel like I'll go kind of to the beginning
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and I'll go back. I mentioned this on Friday show, and I guess
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on Thursday show. But the Columbus State graduation ceremonies another just great couple of
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days for the graduating students from Columbus State. This is, you know,
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my alma mater. I attended Columbus State. I graduated from there many many
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years ago. Always an honor that they asked me to do this and I
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get an opportunity to be a part of the graduation ceremony. And I make
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it a point to speak with each study if I can help it. Every
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student that's graduating, I like to have a conversation with them about how to
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pronounce their name because I know their family and I'm sure themselves they like to
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know that their name's going to be read correctly. And I do my best.
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There's a couple I know I missed, especially in that last ceremony on
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Friday at the final ceremony. I had one on the hooding ceremony for the
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postgrads on Thursday, and then I had three ceremonies on Friday, you know,
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three different ceremonies, So it's four that I did, you know,
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in that window of time in a twenty four hour period, I guess,
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and needed to rest the voice a little bit over the weekend, but all
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worth it. And interestingly, the timing of the Thomas Jefferson University graduation ceremony
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that went viral. Now, this ceremony happened, I guess on a Thursday.
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Also, they've got a few more coming up. And this was I
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guess for the some of the students. I know, the students that were
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part of the viral clip were I guess part of the nursing department. And
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you probably saw it if you missed it. It's the name reader is absolutely
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butchering most of the names from the viral clip, not all of them.
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A couple of them she gets exactly right, and the others she's And what's
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interesting is it seems to be sort of the harder ones that she seems to
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be getting right. The easier ones names like Virginia she can't say, Thomas
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she's struggling with. When I and I had a few people send it to
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me, his girlfriend sent it to me both within a short amount of time
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on a Thursday evening and then a few others sent it to me. There
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were people talking about it at the graduation ceremony on Friday, and I watched
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it on Thursday, and I'm gonna be honest with you, it was one
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of those things where as someone who reads names at graduation, I felt really
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badly for the person in the video. And I know a lot of people
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are going, what an idiot, She's a complete idiot. I can't attest
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to that. I don't know this person. I don't know that they've even
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revealed who she is. They've since issued an apology and a number of explanations
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for what happened, But before that came out, I was listening to it
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on Thursday night and it occurred to me what was happening and what the problem
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was, and I felt really bad for her. But what I think happened
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is either the students or someone decided to at least attempt to write out the
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names of the students phonetically. And I think she was trying to read the
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phonetic names rather than just look at the card and say, this guy's name
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is Thomas. I think it said to Moss something Toe, Ma May or
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whatever it was that she was trying to say. I don't really know how
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phonetically it would have come out that way, but that's that was my guess
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at the very least. And the first year that I did a graduation for
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clumb State, which may have been twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, somewhere in
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that window I don't remember exactly when it was, that came up as well,
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how long have you been doing this? And I really I don't remember.
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I could probably go back and check records and figure it out. But
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anyway, the first time that I did it, students were taking the card
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and trying to write out phonetically how to say their name, and I would
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look at their phonetic writing and I would say it to them and they're,
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no, no, that's not right it all, and well, that's what
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you wrote. So it's become my tradition now is to to sit there with
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the students, talk with them, meet with every one of them if I
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can, and then I write it out phonetically what makes sense for me.
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Sometimes I'm not even writing it out phonetically. Sometimes, like we had a
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we had a Gabriel and uh, well, I guess it was Gabriel's the
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best example, and I wanted to make sure because the rest of the name
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had some Spanish pronunciation to it, some Latin pronunciation to it, so I
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wanted to make sure I didn't say gabrielle. I wanted to make sure I
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got Gabriel before I got into the rest. There was some rs to roll
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and things in there. So I simply just wrote a halo above the G
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so that I knew it was like the angel Gabriel, and that was That's
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Those are the kind of things that I do. If they are last name
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is j O R D A n H, and they are not not the
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local pronunciation of Jordin, then I will put a twenty three next to their
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name. There's little things that I do that sort of as I'm quickly going
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through, aren't gonna pull my attention too far away from just reading the name.
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And if I look at it and I see a halo, and I
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say, okay, well I know that this is Gabriel, and I look
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and see the twenty three, I know it's not Jordin, it's Jordan.
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So those are the kind of things that you know I do. Those are
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some of my I've got a lot more shortcuts. So anyway, I saw
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the explanation. That's basically what the school ended up saying is that it was
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a phonetic read that she was trying to do, and that they were they
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felt sorry for the students, and you know, but I just my empathy
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kicks in and I just felt badly for her, for everybody involved, the
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students. I know how badly I feel badly when I mess up one or
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two. I had a Maria that I called Marie. We discussed it and
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I still missed it, and that last ceremony on Friday. But I had
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two Nigerian names and one name of a student from Ghana, and I got
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all three of those I think dead on it. At least I think I
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got them right, felt good about them when I said them anyway, So
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you know, it's not an easy gig. Not everybody's cut out for it.
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I would say most people aren't cut out for it. I can't say
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that, you know, I don't know what the percentage is, but I
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think most people don't want anything to do with it, and they say that
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they express it. But I had a good time doing it. As always,
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it's a challenge. I welcome the challenge. It's a strange talent to
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find out that you have, you know, in your forties. It's just
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it's a strange thing to suddenly go, hang on, this is something that
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I know how to do. This is something that I'm able to do somehow.
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Largely, I think it's just the time that you put into it,
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the hard work. I can't let someone else write it out phonetically and all
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that. But anyway, so that was my Thursday. And Friday, and
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then Saturday was a big recovery day for me, and we're still kind of
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in the process of recovering from some of our sickness that's been running through our
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house. Yesterday, of course, was Mother's Day. I hope all the
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moms had a just the best possible day and we're spoiled rotten. We had
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to put our Mother's Day activities on hold because everybody's still sick. I could.
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I wasn't even really comfortable seeing my mom. I talked to her yesterday,
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But other than that, you know, we just sort of kind of
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took it easy. The boys, you know, wrote in a card for
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their mom, and we did some things around here. We cooked a special
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dinner and those kind of things, but we didn't do a whole lot,
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because everybody needs to be really well and we weren't, so we're all still
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getting there, but we just hadn't really felt like, you know, going
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into celebrating something like that just yet. But I hope everyone else was spoiled
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rotten and had a great Mother's Day. So here the moms. I mean,
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I don't think the dad should be spoiled rotten for crying out loud.
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All right, So let's get into my Sunday evening. Last night, I
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was just kind of looking for something to watch on I went into Netflix,
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just kind of looking around, and there's a documentary in there called The Anti
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Social Network that I was curious about. Had a pretty good idea of what
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it was roughly about. I felt like I knew generally where things were going
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with it and was not wrong. Wasn't disappointed with as far as my predictions
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for it, but it was interesting. But there's also some elements of it
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that are kind of yeah, that's par for the course. Sorry, I
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had to get a sip of water. So the it's basically about the start
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of four Chan and the rollover into Anonymous, the group of hackers slash activists,
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the rollover into the Occupy Wall Street movement, and then ultimately, I
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guess, the rise of QAnon and then the the Trump presidency and basically the
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o G four and non anonymous people jumping in and trying to do everything they
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could to hack Trump and make him look bad and all these sorts of things.
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I mean, that's roughly what the whole documentary is about a few things
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that I had as far as takeaways from it. And what's interesting is it's
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it's a documentary where some criminals are portrayed as the heroes. They come out
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of this and they basically look at this original four Chan movement that they sort
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of founded and created and just say, you know, we were just trouble
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makers, you know. I mean, they were just kind of anarchists trying
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to see what they could stir up and and you know what problems that they
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can make. And they went after a few sort of small targets before they
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decided to go after scientology, and that's when it sort of took ground and
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became this huge movement. The guy Fawkes masks and all those sorts of things,
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and ultimately, because it got bigger and bigger and there were sites being
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hacked and you know, various government sites being hacked in things, and at
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least one of these guys went to jail for ten years. The others scattered
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like roaches, deleted everything and vanished and you know, basically hid for a
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while. And they said that that's ultimately what opened the door for some of
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the other movements, as you know, eight Chan started and then QAnon took
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ground and all those sorts of things. What's interesting to me about all this
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I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this today, but
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it's it's one of those things where this fits into that narrative of if we
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you know, as just human beings running around on this blue marble hurtling through
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space, if we find that something that we believe in is a just cause,
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we can justify doing just about anything. They wanted to go after Scientology
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for starters, and I don't I don't. I think that the origin of
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the Scientology thing was that they, you know, they were just looking around
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at things. They found some video of tom Cruise that wasn't really supposed to
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be available online. They found it, Scientology took it down and they were
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like like, hell, you're gonna take it down. We're gonna find it
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and put it up for everybody to see it, because how dare you take
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it down? And which of course put them in a position that made them
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feel justified in hacking. Now, I'm no apologist for scientology, not in
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any way, shape or form, but quite the contrary. But I understand
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also you're crossing lines once you start hacking into sites and start basically these movements
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of people that decide we're going to go out and occupy locations. We're going
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to go out and just block traffic and be in the way. Does it
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sound familiar? I mean this is sort of the birth of this movement.
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I guess this ultimately leads to things, you know, like Antifa and whatever
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the current thing is going on now. I mean it's sort of all rooted
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from that same origin of Again, you got the people that are and they
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talk about this in the documentary, these lonely people that are just sitting there
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looking for ways to connect with other people, and in some case cases it
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comes through just you know, hey, we're anonymous online. We can talk
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about things, we can create these memes and stir up trouble and troll people.
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And again I'm not anti trolling, I'm not. I don't do as
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much of it as I used to, and my trolling now is very different
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than what it might have been back when I was doing it at nineteen ninety
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five. I mean I was. I was trolling in doss based chat rooms.
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I may be one of the og trolls, but that's another story for
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another time. Nothing dangerous, nothing damaging, just you know, me having
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a laugh at getting other people riled up. That's what I was doing way
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back in the day, by much younger days. I know your thinking,
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you can't possibly have been doing it then, you can't be that old.
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But anyway, and I do it now. You know, my brother and
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I have have an Instagram page where we have a little fun with some photos
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and memes and things, and it's it's harmless. We feel like the joke
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is on us. It's we put the wrong picture of a dead celebrity.
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That's what we do. Somebody dies, somebody famous dies, we put the
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wrong picture up and to us, we're the idiots for getting the picture wrong.
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To us, we're the butt of the joke, not the person that
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died. But it does get people worked up. But my point is when
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people are doing that, and they're finding a way to come together. Anything
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that brings people together that have sort of that similar need or desire for whatever
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it is. When it's something pulled up, there's that potential to cause some
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problems, for things to get worse, for hate towards women, and that
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gamor Gate thing came up in the documentary, and that's ultimately I guess what
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caused people to leave four Chan and drive people towards the I guess the whole
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QAnon thing. But what's interesting to me is that you have some of these
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people that kind of created this dynamic and then they want to wash their hands
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from the fact that it sort of continued to grow and have this life of
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its own without their involvement, and they were like, what are these people
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doing. They're just continuing our legacy, They're stealing our thing. Yes,
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you're responsible, you're responsible for all You're not responsible for everyone's actions, but
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you're responsible for creating this movement and you're still really quite proud of it.
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And then you got back into the hacking business because Trump got elected and that
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upset you and you wanted to say, oh, well, you get all
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these alt right people, we got to get them, We got to take
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them down, We got to expose all the people that were involved in the
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Capitol and all these things. But if you're hacking, you're hacking. You
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know, you can say I'm justified in my hacking, But if that's what
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you're doing, that's what you're doing. But I think the documentary wanted us
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to think of the people involved as heroes. Maybe some watching it feel that
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way. That's not what I took away from it, And I feel like
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it's there's some very sad people involved in all of this, sad and that
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this is what you know, this is what brought them together. But they
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used their skill set to create this beast, to create this thing that just
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grew and grew and grew, and in some ways we're still dealing with it,
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we're still dealing with subsets of it, different things, different branches off
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the tree. When it comes to whether it's and TIFA, whether it's what's
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going on now with the protests, the Palestinian protests, And it's interesting politically
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the way either side can sort of allow something and encourage it a little bit
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if it's advantageous to them, but if it's not, they're going to send
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in people to kick in the doors and come after the hackers rather than you
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know, I mean, I think universally the hackers they should go after,
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right. I mean you could say, hey, maybe they're a hero because
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they exposed something that was wrong, but they're still hackers, right, They're
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still digging around and posting people's private information or passwords or phone numbers or whatever
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it is. I mean, they're still doing all of those sorts of things.
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Anyway. Anyway, I don't necessarily recommend This is not me endorsing the
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documentary. There was some things in it that were really interesting, but in
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general, I think the takeaway from it is that, you know, maybe
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we should try to get away from the screens every now and then connect with
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each other. Not a bad idea. Or and again, you know,
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we talk about this all the time. Just be a little skeptical of whatever
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you read online and understand every now and then that if you see something and
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you think these people are idiots, maybe they're just having a go with you.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes topped the box office for the weekend fifty
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six and a half million. The Fall Guy still not doing great, dropping
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rapidly challengers Tarot and Godzilla X Kong, The New Empire. That is how
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you say it? Or is it times call? I don't know. Legendary
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filmmaker Roger Korman has passed away at ninety eight. That is, let's see
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how he passed away. I missed that part of the story. I mean,
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other than, of course, the fact that he was ninety eight.
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I just was curious if maybe it was a skydiving accident or something. You
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know, I never know. Sorry, it's a long running, long running
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joke. How did he die? Anyway? So a lot of directors and
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even actors say that he had an influence on their career. A lot of
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directors especially commented about his passing, and needless to say, anytime somebody like
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that goes, that had such an influence on people. There's a lot of
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celebrities talking about his influence. So what age do you stop being cool?
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You can make a case that anybody could be cool at any age. I
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mean, there's a couple of very senior people that you might go, wow,
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they're holding strong with their coolness. But according to a new survey,
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lots of people say he stopped being cool at the age of thirty nine.
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They say that's when they start feeling out of touch with what's going on in
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pop culture. And when it comes to what they are in touch with,
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seventy two percent said that food and sixty percent said that they were in the
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know about music. So they stay in touch on food and music popular music,
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but they say they're pretty confident about their social media as well as movies
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and the latest tech on the market. They say, slang celebrities in the
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latest fashion of the things that they don't feel in touch with. I'm gonna
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say this and this is really for me only. Ben, maybe in the
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last six months and I'm a bit on the other side of thirty nine,
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I'll like it's starting to happen with me with some celebrities, Like a commercial
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will come on and I go, I don't know who these people are,
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and a couple of times I've looked them up and I've gone, I still
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really don't know who that is. There's a couple of spokespeople I think for
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T Mobile no On, I talk about the guys from Scrubs, the two
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maybe they were in the show suits. I don't really know who they are,
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but they pop up in these T mobile commercials like we're all just supposed
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to know exactly who they are, and I don't, and I don't know
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if other people do. I don't know how that works exactly, but anyway,
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but they're certainly famous on those T mobile commercials. Again, I'm not
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talking about the guys from Scrubs. I know who Zach Braff is. I
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know who Donald Phase. I've actually met Donald fase On. So anyway,
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if you're one of them, now I might confuse him for Dak Prescott,
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but I know who he is. If you're one of those people who wants
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The tropical bank breakers are already a big hit in Japan, and when
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consumers have been known to spend one thousand dollars for odd looking square water melons
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in Japan, so it makes sense that this would be a big deal.
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I guess a press release from the release from the company. So there will
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twenty five. So if you're up for it, it costs one hundred and
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twenty five dollars just to get in the waiting list for the possibility of getting
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your hands on one in the future. I'm looking at a photo of this
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particular ruby glow pineapple, and I gotta be honest with you, it looks
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like a pineapple. It's just in a fancy box. I don't know that
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I really need to get involved in this. I mean, I'm not I
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can't imagine a scenario where I would think I need to get into the mix
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the one hundred and twenty five dollars just to get in the line to maybe
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get the privilege of spending four hundred dollars for it. Yeah, I'm out.
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That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to our
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