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Thanksgiving Gets More Due Than People Think · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show Monday morning, first day of December. I'm Wes,
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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. Hope you had yourself a fantastic
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving weekend. It's more than just a holiday,
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Speaker 1: It's a whole weekend. We say at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the month when Christmas music starts and all the stories
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Speaker 1: start to fill up with green and red, and people
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Speaker 1: say Thanksgiving doesn't get its due, doesn't get its due.
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Speaker 2: And I think.
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Speaker 3: Lack of Thanksgiving songs, you know, other than the Adam
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Speaker 3: Sandler one and maybe a couple others, it's really hard
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Speaker 3: to make it something that's going to be just wall
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Speaker 3: to wall on the radio.
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Speaker 2: You know. We're on TV. I guess they do maybe.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Hallmark Channel know they do all the Chris Smith's stuff,
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Speaker 3: But do they do Thanksgiving related movies? I mean, I
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Speaker 3: know there's a few, We've watched a couple of them
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Speaker 3: over the past few there's not a lot that there's
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Speaker 3: way more Christmas movies.
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Speaker 2: Than Thanksgiving themed movies.
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Speaker 3: It just hit me over the weekend. Also, I think
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Speaker 3: Son in Law wasn't the poly Shore movie wasn't that
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Speaker 3: a Thanksgiving movie? Jill said, we're not watching that one
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Speaker 3: as a family. I could have fun with that. Maybe
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Speaker 3: the boys and I could watch it, but she's not
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Speaker 3: getting involved in a poly shore movie.
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Speaker 2: But I digress.
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Speaker 3: My point is that Thanksgiving when it actually gets into
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Speaker 3: the meat of the week and weekend and a lot
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Speaker 3: of kids get the whole week off from school. We
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Speaker 3: didn't get that back in the day. I think we
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Speaker 3: were happy if we got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday off. I
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Speaker 3: think it was largely Thursday Friday, and then all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden it became a full scale And that's part
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Speaker 3: of why the kids are in school for, you know,
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Speaker 3: ten months of the year now, so they can get
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Speaker 3: these longer holiday breaks.
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Speaker 2: I know my kids needed them. I know, as uber dad,
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Speaker 2: I needed them, just.
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Speaker 3: The breaks of just you know, having a pick them up,
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Speaker 3: move them here, take them there, go here, pick them up,
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Speaker 3: take them there.
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Speaker 2: All of those things.
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Speaker 3: We're all everybody with parents of a certain kids of
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Speaker 3: a certain age, we're dealing with that.
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Speaker 2: That's just part of.
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Speaker 3: Life, right, And I'm not doing close to what some
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Speaker 3: of my friends are. I've got half as many kids
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Speaker 3: as some of my friends so that's the other part
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Speaker 3: of it as well. So it's a lot for the weekend.
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Speaker 3: And then if you've got family that have come in
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Speaker 3: or if you've done traveling whatever that involves, that certainly
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Speaker 3: adds to all the stress and hassle of it. And
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Speaker 3: then you know, you get into this Wednesday night becomes
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Speaker 3: it used to be a big night for people to
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Speaker 3: go out. They'd go clubbing, they'd go to a bar, whatever,
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Speaker 3: And I assume that's probably not quite what it used
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Speaker 3: to be, but it's probably still happening, largely because people
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Speaker 3: come back to town and you know, maybe back home
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Speaker 3: or whatever it is, and then they go out with friends.
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Speaker 2: And then you.
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Speaker 3: Actually have the holiday, which sometimes can involve, you know,
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Speaker 3: two meals, ridiculous eating of food that takes place. I
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Speaker 3: mean estimated this is I saw the numbers for this
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Speaker 3: for Thanksgiving, estimated twenty about twenty one hundred calories eating
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Speaker 3: on average. That's a whole like just for one meal,
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Speaker 3: that's a whole day's worth of calories for most people.
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Speaker 2: For some people it's more than they should be eating.
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Speaker 3: But I think it's a round average about what you
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Speaker 3: should be eating for the whole day.
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Speaker 2: So in theory.
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Speaker 3: If that's your meal, you shouldn't have anything else, and
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Speaker 3: you should be just drinking water the rest of the day,
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Speaker 3: maybe just some ice cubes. Just suck on an ice cube.
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Speaker 3: You should be doing that. But people don't. They don't
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Speaker 3: do that. They eat way too much. And we didn't
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Speaker 3: do too badly. I don't think collectively we did too badly.
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Speaker 2: Not in my home.
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Speaker 3: I mean we were with people who were eating a
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Speaker 3: lot at times, maybe a bit much. And I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying that we were perfect, but.
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Speaker 2: You know I didn't.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I went crazy. I think I kept
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Speaker 3: it under control. It can be hard. It's food that
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Speaker 3: you don't normally get to eat. It's right there, it's prepared,
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Speaker 3: maybe by somebody you love. It's stuck in front of.
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Speaker 2: You, and you go, well, here we go.
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Speaker 3: Let's just start eating it and stop when my pants
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Speaker 3: don't fit anymore.
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Speaker 2: That's what often happens.
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Speaker 3: And so you have that, and then you got into
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Speaker 3: the Black Friday, which I didn't realize. Black Friday isn't
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Speaker 3: really quite what it used to be at the stores.
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Speaker 3: I knew it had changed, but I talked to some
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Speaker 3: employees in stores, and this wasn't Friday. I wasn't out
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Speaker 3: shopping Friday, definitely, not early in the day. But when
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Speaker 3: you talk to people working retail and they say, no,
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Speaker 3: it's really nothing close to what it used to be,
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Speaker 3: it's just not it's not really what we do anymore.
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Speaker 3: People shop online, some people will come in, but it's
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Speaker 3: nowhere close to what.
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Speaker 2: It used to be.
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Speaker 3: And this notion idea of doorbusters, that was the old
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Speaker 3: thing to get you in the door right as they
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Speaker 3: open at five am or six am or whatever it
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Speaker 3: would be, and people use that term now, but it's
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Speaker 3: not really a thing. There's no man, We've got these
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Speaker 3: cyber doorbusters, right, So that's different, but it's still people
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Speaker 3: still like to kind of participate in it. They like
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Speaker 3: to get out and shop. It's tradition. They like to
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Speaker 3: go out and do it, and that's what people often do.
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Speaker 3: And then you get into the actual weekend of recovery
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Speaker 3: from it, and for many that means maybe decorating for Christmas.
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Speaker 3: So that's what we did. We spent a few days
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Speaker 3: doing that. I think we started in the evening on
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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving and a little bit and we're really or maybe
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Speaker 3: even in the morning, I guess of Thanksgiving we started,
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Speaker 3: at least the cleaning part. Jill likes to clean everything.
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Speaker 3: She likes to get all of the fall decorations, all
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Speaker 3: of the Halloween and not Halloween, but the you know,
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Speaker 3: we she puts up Thanksgiving like fall decorations up for
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Speaker 3: you know, around Halloween, all the pumpkins and things were gone,
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Speaker 3: but we just still had sort of, you know, some
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Speaker 3: different little decorations around the house. And I say, the
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Speaker 3: pumpkins were gone, the scary pumpkins, the fall pumpkins, they
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Speaker 3: were still around, but those went away.
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Speaker 2: And then the cleaning started. And then then.
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Speaker 3: We started with our Christmas decorations and all of that done.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know why.
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Speaker 3: It was really struggling to get that done. But that's
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Speaker 3: part of our weekend that I'm talking about. It's part
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Speaker 3: of what you do. You get the tree ready, you
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Speaker 3: get all, you know, all of those things. We're artificial
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Speaker 3: tree people. I think once in my whole life, when
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Speaker 3: I was really young, did we ever have a real
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Speaker 3: tree in our house. And we've just done the artificial tree.
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Speaker 3: And we got a really nice one for really good
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Speaker 3: price about three years ago, and we've just really like,
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Speaker 3: we really like this tree. Our previous tree, our original
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Speaker 3: tree that we got when Jill first moved here is
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Speaker 3: now our deck tree. So I had two trees to
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Speaker 3: deal with. I know people that do seven or eight
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Speaker 3: all over the house, So I'm not complaining, I'm just
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Speaker 3: for me. Just getting motivated to do those two trees
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Speaker 3: was difficult, but we got it done. And then we're
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Speaker 3: into today now, and yesterday was just kind of well,
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Speaker 3: Rivalry weekend for college football is now part of Thanksgiving
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Speaker 3: weekend typically.
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Speaker 2: And you know that was.
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Speaker 3: Look, Georgia, George Tech, Auburn, Alabama, that's in our that's
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Speaker 3: in our area, that's in our largely in our listening
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Speaker 3: area as far as our home base. Those were the
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Speaker 3: games that were on people's radar, people keeping an eye
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Speaker 3: on where things were going with that, a lot of
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Speaker 3: a lot of the schools keeping a close eye on
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Speaker 3: of those sorts of things that added to it, of course,
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Speaker 3: talk for a minute a little bit about this Lane
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Speaker 3: of sports talk on this, but obviously a sought after
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Speaker 3: coach in college football. He's one of those guys. He's
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Speaker 3: someone that he admired. And there was always the speculation
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Speaker 3: that he could end up someday at Florida for that
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Speaker 3: reason as their coach, as their head coach. He's he's
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Speaker 3: done the NFL. He was offensive coordinator for Nick Saban
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Speaker 3: and Alabama during one of their national championships.
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Speaker 1: And he.
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Speaker 3: Just he's got a mind for offense. But he's done
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Speaker 3: well at Ole Miss. That's the current or the now
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Speaker 3: previous job that just has opened up. But as we
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Speaker 3: started to get to a point in the season where
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Speaker 3: some of these teams were losing their coaches and by
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Speaker 3: losing them, I mean dismissing them, there were questions about,
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Speaker 3: you know, would this guy go to one of those schools?
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Speaker 3: And when Flora opened up, it was like, Okay, well.
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Speaker 2: Maybe this is it.
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Speaker 3: The LSU job is obviously a hot ticket. That's a
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Speaker 3: hot job folks at LSU. Over the years, they have
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Speaker 3: been a team that many of their coaches have at
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Speaker 3: least enjoyed the opportunity or had the ability to win
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Speaker 3: a championship there. So they seem to be in a
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Speaker 3: good place recruiting wise. It's just it's one of the jobs,
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Speaker 3: especially in the SEC. It's just one of them. There's
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Speaker 3: a couple of others. They're just currently filled and they
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Speaker 3: have coaches that don't seem to be going anywhere. There
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Speaker 3: was some speculation about whether Alabama's coach could possibly go somewhere.
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Speaker 3: Kirby Smart is not, Steve Sarkisian is not. And it's
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Speaker 3: no disrespecting any of the other schools, but I mean,
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Speaker 3: those are the jobs that people are kind of keeping
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Speaker 3: a close eye on and you know what's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: There's been talk in the past at least of Lane
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Speaker 3: Kiffen wanting to go to Alabama, and there's some speculation
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Speaker 3: that if that job had somehow come available, and when
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Speaker 3: the Penn State job became an opening, and again that's
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Speaker 3: another it's not the SEC, but that's another school that
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Speaker 3: had one of those. It's one of those jobs that
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Speaker 3: has some status to it, and there was questions about
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Speaker 3: whether Kailen to board Alabama.
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Speaker 2: I might want to go to that job.
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Speaker 3: Just speculations about pressure at Alabama on all these sorts
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Speaker 3: of things, and that doesn't seem to be the case,
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Speaker 3: he seems quite content where he is.
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Speaker 2: He's getting ready to play Georgia for the.
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Speaker 3: SEC Championship this coming weekend, and you know, in a
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Speaker 3: position where you know a playoff run as a possibility
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Speaker 3: and it looks like, you know, any of that can happen.
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Speaker 3: So didn't look like it was going to open up
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Speaker 3: for Lane Kiffin. And there were questions about whether maybe
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Speaker 3: he won't even leave Ole miss and he'll just stay put.
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Speaker 3: He's built something really special there, and these questions about
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Speaker 3: whether or not he could you know, do something long
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Speaker 3: term there or would he be ready to move on.
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Speaker 3: And he announced yesterday that he's going to LSU. Not
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Speaker 3: a huge shock. I don't think. It was kind of
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Speaker 3: weird the way the whole thing played out, And I
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Speaker 3: just it's just interesting.
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Speaker 2: To me that, you know, these schools.
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Speaker 3: That have these high profile coaches that you know will
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Speaker 3: have these huge buyouts and get fined. That was not
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Speaker 3: the case with Kiffin, but it is with some of
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Speaker 3: these other schools. Auburn's just gone through it, Florida, LSU,
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Speaker 3: these coaches with these huge buyouts, and you know it
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Speaker 3: comes down to like like it just feels like, oh,
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Speaker 3: they say, well, the school's got the money to pay that.
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Speaker 2: Where does that money come from?
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Speaker 3: Is that fair to do that to any of the
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Speaker 3: people that are contributing to the money that go to
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Speaker 3: those schools. Now, I'm not saying that you don't have
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Speaker 3: coaches that are worth their weight in these salaries, because
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Speaker 3: I believe that to be the case. And whatever they're
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Speaker 3: going to pay Lane Kiffin to go there, I'm sure
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Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin will do well for them, and I'm sure
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Speaker 3: he will be worth a large salary. But if they
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Speaker 3: pay him a really large salary and he doesn't work
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Speaker 3: out and then they fire him again, who's eating that?
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Speaker 3: Where does that go from the people that are contributing
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Speaker 3: to that money at the school. That's the thing that
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Speaker 3: frustrates me. And I just feel like we're way too
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Speaker 3: quick to blow some of these coaches out.
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Speaker 2: And be ready to move on.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know, I don't know what expectations are
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Speaker 3: in some of these cases. I just don't know where
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Speaker 3: some of these schools think.
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Speaker 2: You know, hey, we need to be.
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Speaker 3: We should be in contention after hiring this coach and
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Speaker 3: we've had him for a year and a half, so
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Speaker 3: let's just blow him out and pay him eighty million
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Speaker 3: dollars to sit at home. That's all I'm getting at.
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Speaker 3: It just seems like a bit much at times, and
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Speaker 3: it definitely feels like they're not really taking a whole
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Speaker 3: right after the break Well, it's always a question this
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Speaker 3: time of year, the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend and that
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Speaker 3: question of how long can you keep eating the leftovers?
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Speaker 3: There's a few factors at play. One of them, of course,
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Speaker 3: is what the food is exactly. Another would be how
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Speaker 3: the food is stored and then how long it's sat
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Speaker 3: out before you decided to put it in the refrigerator
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Speaker 3: or the freezer. Leftovers that are put away within two
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Speaker 3: hours of being served, stored in the correct containers. Experts
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Speaker 3: say they're safe in the refrigerator up to four days.
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Speaker 3: Here we are, and the freezer could be stored up
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Speaker 3: to six months. So if you're really wanting to relive
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Speaker 3: thanks Giving in six months, stick it in the freezer especially,
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Speaker 3: would have been a good idea to go ahead and
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Speaker 3: have put it in the freezer.
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Speaker 2: Friday.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, but it's a busy day, the busiest day of
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Speaker 3: the year, not just for shopping. I don't even know
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Speaker 3: that it's the busiest day of the year for shopping anymore.
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Speaker 3: I suppose it is, but it's different. It's a big
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Speaker 3: day of the year for plumbers. Brown Friday is what
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Speaker 3: it's called for plumbers. I was making that joke long
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Speaker 3: before I even knew this about it being a busy
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Speaker 3: day for plumbers. I just know that a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: you know, they've had a big feast day the day before,
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Speaker 3: So I just kind of always made that joke. I
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Speaker 3: didn't know it was an actual thing for plumbers. But
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Speaker 3: according to Roto Ruter, plumbers average fifty more calls on
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Speaker 3: Brown Friday than any other friday of the year. Main
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Speaker 3: causes for the calls is clogs in kitchen, sinks, toilets,
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Speaker 3: and garbage disposals. Sure, all of those things, a spokesperson
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Speaker 3: for Rota Ruter explaining often the case is that the
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Speaker 3: house already has a partially clogged drain that's gone unnoticed
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Speaker 3: until holiday guests arrive and overwhelm the system. Even more
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Speaker 3: problematic is that virtually every traditional Thanksgiving dish is a
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Speaker 3: draink clogging culprit h okay, pro you wouldn't want to
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Speaker 3: hear that right before you're getting ready to eat. But
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Speaker 3: now that it's Monday, maybe it's not such a big
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Speaker 3: big deal to hear it. So yeah, so just keep
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Speaker 3: that in mind in the future as it's a fun
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Speaker 3: thing to bring up at the table. Maybe Hey, you know, tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: it's called brown Friday because it's one of.
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Speaker 2: The busiest days of the year for plumbers. So there's
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Speaker 2: a there's that.
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Speaker 3: Astronaut researchers are in the International Space Station decided to
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Speaker 3: put some moss spores into outer space, where it's a vacuum.
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Speaker 3: A was zero oxygen and gets down a negative tw
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty degrees fahrenheit. The moss was hanging around
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Speaker 3: out there for nine months. It was also dealing with
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Speaker 3: cosmic radiation, and the moss sample came back to Earth.
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Speaker 3: It germinated like nothing ever happened. More than eighty percent
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Speaker 3: of it made it home alive. Most sprouted normally in
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Speaker 3: the lab. It was a cool breakthrough because it might
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Speaker 3: someday help us grow things on the Moon and on Mars,
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Speaker 3: or at least be able to survive long trips through
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Speaker 3: deep space.
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Speaker 2: It's a pretty cool story.
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Speaker 3: It's one of those bits of science that takes place
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Speaker 3: on the International Space Station. I've had a few people
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Speaker 3: when I talk about the fact that I do have
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Speaker 3: a space podcast that I do with doctor Seawan Cruisin
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Speaker 3: from Columbus State University's co Cola Space Center.
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Speaker 2: It's called Made of Stars wherever you get your podcasts.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes people will say to me, like, it's so
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Speaker 3: dumb or waste of time and money that.
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Speaker 2: We have people up in space on a space station.
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Speaker 2: It's just a waste.
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Speaker 3: If we were meant to be up there, God would
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Speaker 3: have we'd be up there already, we wouldn't had to
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Speaker 3: get up there. And I just think, well, that would
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Speaker 3: be true of airplanes and cars and you know boats.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that could apply to But
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Speaker 3: you know, they're allowed their opinion. That's fine, even if
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Speaker 3: it's wrong. And when people say, you know, why in
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Speaker 3: the space station, why are there people up there? And
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Speaker 3: this is the kind of science that's being done up there.
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Speaker 3: It's the kind of things that's being tested for the future.
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Speaker 3: So this is one of those great stories for the
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Speaker 3: purposes of STEM. According to a new survey, nearly three
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Speaker 3: out of five kids plan to ask for a video
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Speaker 3: game related gift.
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Speaker 2: This year.
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Speaker 3: Survey also found surprisingly that a bunch of kids don't want.
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Speaker 2: A video game related item.
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Speaker 3: They want their parents to play the game with them.
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Speaker 3: How about that fifty eight percent said that kids just
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Speaker 3: want to play more video games with their parents, that
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Speaker 3: number jumping to seventy three percent for ages five to
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Speaker 3: seven and starts to drop a little bit fi sixty
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Speaker 3: six percent for ages eight to nine, sixty two percent
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Speaker 3: for ages ten to twelve. All that video game bonding time,
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Speaker 3: it can come at a cost, though, because there's plenty
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Speaker 3: to spend money on. Not only are their physical games
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Speaker 3: and consoles to purchase, but also in game currency, video
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Speaker 3: game accessories, and then sometimes video game subscriptions as well.
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Speaker 2: So parents, your kids want to play video games with you.
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Speaker 3: If you need an excuse, there you go that I'll
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Speaker 3: do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks
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