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The First Lady Strikes Back · 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 and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, twenty eighth day of April. I'm wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. The First Lady called out Jimmy Kimmel
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Speaker 2: for the very thing we talked about yesterday that he
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Speaker 2: said where he said she looked like an expectant widow
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Speaker 2: and she had the glow of an expectant widow as
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Speaker 2: he was making some sort of attempt at set a
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Speaker 2: satirical look, spoofing, whatever you want to call it. The
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Speaker 2: Correspondence dinner a couple days before the attempted assassination, the
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Speaker 2: latest attempt at assassination of the president, and the First
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Speaker 2: Lady basically called on the heads of ABC to do
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Speaker 2: what they need to do to take care of that situation.
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Speaker 2: What amazes me about all of this with first of all,
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Speaker 2: good for her, Sorry I skipped that part. Good for her,
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Speaker 2: she should say that typically overall, historically we have had
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Speaker 2: a few different types of first ladies, right. Some have
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Speaker 2: been more prominent and more focused and more involved, Some
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Speaker 2: have been less involved, some have been a bit more
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Speaker 2: traditional sort of having some sort of a cause that
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Speaker 2: they worked with, and the First Lady now certainly fits
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Speaker 2: within that. And then we've had some that really just
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Speaker 2: kind of stay in the background, and we've had some
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Speaker 2: that you know, had ambitions for more. Is that a
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Speaker 2: fair way to put it. We had some that basically
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Speaker 2: were only there because they thought for some reason it
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Speaker 2: was a resume builder. And then we've had one kind
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Speaker 2: of recently who she was, you know, there as the
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Speaker 2: First Lady, did kind of the traditional first Lady approach
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Speaker 2: for you know, most of the time, I think, and
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Speaker 2: then she would occasionally, you know, step up and say
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Speaker 2: something ridiculous like, you know, I have never been proud
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Speaker 2: to be an American and things like that, you know,
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Speaker 2: some variation of that. And I know that's not the
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Speaker 2: exact quote, but Michelle Obama was one of those, you know,
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Speaker 2: she had her causes. She was trying to work with,
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Speaker 2: you know, against childhood diabetes and things like that and
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Speaker 2: childhood obesity. I always thought that was the administration to
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Speaker 2: get some things done. And one of the things I
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Speaker 2: thought maybe could have been gotten done during that Obama
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Speaker 2: administration with her working on that is, you know, make
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Speaker 2: some changes with like snap benefits and let's get rid
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Speaker 2: of some of the junk food, Let's get rid of
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Speaker 2: the like. If that's your cause and you're saying, we
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Speaker 2: want to work hard so that we can move away
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Speaker 2: from childhood obesity and we can move away from childhood
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Speaker 2: diabetes and things, maybe we make some strides towards you know,
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Speaker 2: the foods that are basically being provided by the American
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Speaker 2: taxpayer could be healthier foods, so that you know, people
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Speaker 2: that say, hey, I need some assistance. And there's nothing
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Speaker 2: wrong with needing assistance. Everybody has needed assistance at some point.
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Speaker 2: But when you come along and you say I need
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Speaker 2: some assistance, then you know, maybe you get some healthy assistance,
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Speaker 2: you get some things that might actually work towards your cause.
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Speaker 2: But there was nothing done towards that back then. It's
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Speaker 2: a tangent, I know, but I felt like I needed
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Speaker 2: to say it because I just always felt like that
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Speaker 2: was a wasted opportunity. But there were a lot of
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Speaker 2: wasted opportunities. We had the first biracial president of the
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Speaker 2: United States. We had an opportunity to make some significant
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Speaker 2: strides moving forward, and all of those were fumbled. And
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Speaker 2: so I digress back to this first lady who has
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Speaker 2: you know, had a little bit more of that traditional role.
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Speaker 2: But you know, she had a press conference kind of
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Speaker 2: recently where her name was thrown around as having something
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Speaker 2: to do with the Jeffrey Epstein and emails and accusations
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Speaker 2: and things. And she got in there and she stuck
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Speaker 2: up for herself. Good for her, that's what you should do.
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Speaker 2: It was strange because I don't know that many in
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Speaker 2: the public were very aware of these accusations that had
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Speaker 2: been made about her, But she got in and defended
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Speaker 2: herself and did what she should do. Right. And then
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Speaker 2: this comes along where you've got Jimmy Kimmel, someone who
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Speaker 2: by the way, made light made jokes about the Charlie
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Speaker 2: Kirk assassination when he was reprimanded and punished by ultimately
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Speaker 2: you can say it was by ABC, and it was
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Speaker 2: this is Disney ABC. That was you know, ultimately the
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Speaker 2: one responsible for taking him off the air for a while,
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Speaker 2: But it was really about the owners of the groups
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Speaker 2: of stations that were deciding they weren't going to air
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Speaker 2: his show, and that's ultimately why, you know, Disney ABC
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Speaker 2: had to do what they did. But so he got
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Speaker 2: back on the air and he basically didn't mean to
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Speaker 2: make light. I wasn't trying to make light of violence,
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Speaker 2: and then here he is basically calling a shot. Now,
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Speaker 2: I'm not making a connection. I'm not saying that Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Kimmel knew what was going to happen over the weekend
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Speaker 2: was going to happen. I don't believe that to be
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Speaker 2: the case at all. However, when you've had it happen
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Speaker 2: a couple of times, attempts on the life of the president,
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Speaker 2: it's probably time to stop joking about it. I know,
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Speaker 2: based on the hate and the vitriol and everything that
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel has expressed, the fact that he cut people
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Speaker 2: family members and friends out of his life that he
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Speaker 2: just can't have in his life anymore because they don't
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Speaker 2: have the same views that he does on the president.
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Speaker 2: So we know that there's anger there, and we probably
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Speaker 2: all know someone who falls into this category. It's just
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Speaker 2: anger and bile and you know, spitting on the ground
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Speaker 2: kind of just you know, and spitting when they talk,
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Speaker 2: just hate that they're obsessed with the President of the
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Speaker 2: United States because they've been told to do that. They've
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Speaker 2: been told to do that by people like Jimmy Kimmel.
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Speaker 2: He really doesn't have much of an audience. I just
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Speaker 2: think back to the days when you know, the late
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Speaker 2: night talk shows were must watch and there was substance
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Speaker 2: to them, and it was about having a good time
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Speaker 2: and going to bed maybe with a smile on your face,
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Speaker 2: and not let's get you all amped up and you know,
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Speaker 2: mouthpiece for politicians. Jimmy Kimmel. There were accusations at one
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Speaker 2: time that you know, he was getting talking points straight
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Speaker 2: from Chuck Schumer and various Democrats, and it certainly seemed
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Speaker 2: like it and still seems like it. Maybe he's doing that,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know. I don't know that there's any accusation.
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Speaker 2: We know that they kind of have these little huddles.
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Speaker 2: The press teams at different media outlets have these little
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Speaker 2: huddles and they get together and they have discussions. And
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Speaker 2: the Biden administration all brought him in one day on
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Speaker 2: the carpet and told them, you got to be nicer
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Speaker 2: to us. You're not being nice enough to us. We
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Speaker 2: need you helping us out. And then they got in
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Speaker 2: line and then that's what they did. So Jimmy Kimmel
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Speaker 2: is one of the people that is promoting this kind
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Speaker 2: of violence. So for this attack attempted assassination to take
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Speaker 2: place after he kind of called the shot, it's I'm
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Speaker 2: sure it's a coincidence. But again, if you talk about
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Speaker 2: it enough, the things are going to kind of sync
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Speaker 2: up a little bit, aren't they. So First Lady said
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Speaker 2: that he you know, it's disgusting and that ABC should
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Speaker 2: do something about it. Good for her, I mean, this
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Speaker 2: was something that was addressed to her, and you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of typically the first ladies, unless they do or
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Speaker 2: say something that's overly controversial, they kind of get left alone,
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Speaker 2: unless it's clear that they've decided that they're entitled to
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Speaker 2: be the president one day, no matter what, no matter
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Speaker 2: what happens, they're entitled to it, no matter you know what,
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Speaker 2: accusers of their husband they have to attack verbally and
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Speaker 2: call them names and all those you're just entitled to it.
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Speaker 2: And then in that case, there's a little whack of
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Speaker 2: moble situation. You know, you pop your head up and
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get humbled a little bit. And obviously the
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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen election was the ultimate humbling that took place
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Speaker 2: for that particular First Lady. I think some of the
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Speaker 2: things that Michelle Obama has faced have been a bit excessive.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's been some that's been excessive. I know
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Speaker 2: she's her name comes up as oh, she should run
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Speaker 2: for president, But that's us being stupid, and I don't
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Speaker 2: mean you and me. I just mean that's us kind
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Speaker 2: of as a country just going first ladies should be presidents,
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Speaker 2: and that's just dumb. It's not to say that they
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Speaker 2: can't be, but the fact that that's who we just
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Speaker 2: kind of revert to whenever we're looking for someone and
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Speaker 2: we just go, you know, that'd be a good first lady.
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Speaker 2: And the rights not you know, they're not they're not
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Speaker 2: doing it about the first lady. But there's been people
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Speaker 2: on the right that have gone, maybe you know, the
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Speaker 2: Trump kids, one of them should run for president, or
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Speaker 2: maybe we should just move on. It doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: all be this legacy thing. It doesn't have to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, we've had a couple of you know, father
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Speaker 2: and son and father and grandson, sorry, grandfather and grandsons
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Speaker 2: in our history, but those should be rare. I think
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Speaker 2: here locally in Columbus, my hometown, we're doing this thing
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Speaker 2: where it's like, well, your your peep hall was this
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Speaker 2: particular position, so you should have it. Your dad had
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Speaker 2: the job. We're just going to use the same campaign
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Speaker 2: signs and put them around and just people are going
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Speaker 2: to be dumb enough to not even realize they're not
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Speaker 2: voting for the same person anymore. That's what we do.
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Speaker 2: That's what we do for some reason, because we just
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Speaker 2: we don't want to have to come up with a
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Speaker 2: new idea. And it doesn't mean that the relatives aren't
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Speaker 2: capable of doing the job. It's just, come on, is
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Speaker 2: this really what we need to do? So that part
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Speaker 2: of the Michelle Obama thing, Yeah, once, once her name
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Speaker 2: starts getting thrown around, don't be shocked that people are
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Speaker 2: going to go after her. And when she says dumb
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Speaker 2: things like you know how racist we are and how
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Speaker 2: we're worse now than ever or whatever. I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: once and you start a podcast and you're trashing the
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Speaker 2: president and you're doing all these things, you're you're asking
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Speaker 2: for it now, all of the you know, big mic stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's that's what I mean. That's that's that's too much.
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Speaker 2: That's that's a bit much. Don't you think it's not
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Speaker 2: just me? I can't be the only one that thinks
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Speaker 2: it's a bit much. So just imagine if this is
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Speaker 2: flipped and it's Jimmy Kimmel and he's doing the big
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Speaker 2: mic stuff. Think about how that would how different that
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Speaker 2: would be received anyway. So, uh yeah, Michelle Obama absolutely
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Speaker 2: should be sticking up for herself and the country, and
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Speaker 2: you know, making the points. Here we go again with
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Speaker 2: and I think maybe you get to a point with
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Speaker 2: some of these guys where they're just wanting to get fired.
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Speaker 2: I do. The Colbert thing is almost over. That experiment's
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Speaker 2: almost done, and it's ultimately a failure. There's things about
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Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert. I really like some of his old comedy stuff. Man,
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Speaker 2: it was really funny. I liked his work with you know,
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Speaker 2: some of the past stuff. Anyway, I thought the Dana
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Speaker 2: Carvey thing that they did was just brilliant and wish
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Speaker 2: that it had survived. But anyway, that's almost over. We're
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Speaker 2: almost done with that. And then speaking of Barack Obama,
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Speaker 2: and this is just a little bit of a transition,
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Speaker 2: but it's all on the same topic. You know, he
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Speaker 2: was taking up a bit of a hit because he
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Speaker 2: went on onto X and telling everybody, we don't know
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Speaker 2: the details all the motives and this was right after
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Speaker 2: in his defense. But it's one of those moves that
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Speaker 2: we have where people are, you know, they want to
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Speaker 2: get that message out first. You want to get the
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Speaker 2: message out. It was pretty obvious who the target or
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Speaker 2: targets were at the Correspondence Center. I don't think anybody
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Speaker 2: that's pretending, and you just can't say that. You know,
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Speaker 2: the guy that runs into the stadium and picks a
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Speaker 2: fight with all the Yankees fans wearing a Red Sox
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Speaker 2: jersey and you're like, we gotta wait and see. You
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Speaker 2: can't have you know, the guy in the Auburn T shirt,
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Speaker 2: you know, running into a bunch of Georgia guys in
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Speaker 2: Georgia or Alabama jerseys and going I wonder what he
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Speaker 2: was there for. I wonder what the deal was. Sure,
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Speaker 2: it could have been something else, but you know, it's
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Speaker 2: kind of clear. I think it should have been at
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Speaker 2: least reasonable to assume. But that's the game. You have
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Speaker 2: to get the word out and say, well, we don't know,
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Speaker 2: and then the people that are just blindly loyal to
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama will go, yeah, you know, we don't know.
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Speaker 2: He's right. It's a good point. We don't know, but
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Speaker 2: he took a minute to acknowledge the Secret Service, so
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Speaker 2: that you know. It's one of those one to two
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Speaker 2: punches where you say something that's ridiculous and then you
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Speaker 2: say something that everybody's going to agree with and you
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Speaker 2: leave it. It's a psychological thing. You leave it thinking,
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Speaker 2: you know, I feel good because of what he said
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Speaker 2: at the end there. But I think the manifesto puts
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Speaker 2: it to rest, doesn't it. A lot of people calling
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Speaker 2: him out on that particular thing. There's a manifesto, the
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Speaker 2: guy released it. He was going to No King's rallies.
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Speaker 2: Is the time? I mean, I'm all for expression and
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Speaker 2: protests and free speech and everything, but is it time
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Speaker 2: to stop that? I mean, are we just breeding problems?
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Speaker 2: Is that what we're doing? We're just I'm not for
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Speaker 2: shutting them down, I'm really not, but they're ridiculous. I'm
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Speaker 2: not for shutting them down on a government level. I'm
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Speaker 2: for shutting them down because people need to start telling
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Speaker 2: their friends and neighbors, you look like a an a hole.
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Speaker 2: You look like an a hole going to these things.
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Speaker 2: We don't have a king. We got a two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday coming up. There's no there's no king.
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Speaker 2: There hasn't been for a long time, like in our
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Speaker 2: entire history of this country, since being our own country,
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Speaker 2: there hasn't been a king. Last king predated that. So
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Speaker 2: you know that's what you look like. Let's knock it off.
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Speaker 2: You don't need to waste your day. Go enjoy something.
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Speaker 2: Go just to go touch some grass somewhere instead of
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Speaker 2: pavement and asphalt. Go do that. Don't wait. You know
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Speaker 2: we're talking about wasting you know, cutting down trees and
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Speaker 2: what a waste of oxygen standing around or marching around
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Speaker 2: is for a cause that doesn't exist anymore. And their
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Speaker 2: wait the trees, you know they're they're using all the
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Speaker 2: you got these people that are manufacturing these signs and
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Speaker 2: pretending like they're homemade, cutting down trees to do that,
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Speaker 2: or plastic or whatever it is. It's always interesting, isn't it,
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Speaker 2: Like you could waste plastic on making these signs. That's
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Speaker 2: okay if they're making they're making these corrugated plastic signs.
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Speaker 2: That plastic's okay, But you know, a normal receptacle to
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Speaker 2: hold something that's plastic, we're not supposed to do. I'm
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Speaker 2: not supposed to do that uh so, uh yeah, I one,
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Speaker 2: you know, be better when you know it was clear.
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Speaker 2: This is to the former president you can be better
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Speaker 2: than that. And to the first lady, you know, kudos.
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Speaker 2: Good for you. And I hope someone is at least
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Speaker 2: paying attention because the Jimmy Kimmel thing, like, it's about
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Speaker 2: time to wrap it up to it. Wouldn't it be
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Speaker 2: nice to get both of those shows off the air
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Speaker 2: even mandatory anymore. Etiquette pros say that modern weddings less
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Speaker 2: about rigid rules, more about the intention, the budget, and
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Speaker 2: what it actually feels meaningful to the couple. So a
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Speaker 2: lot of changes in the world of weddings. Not a
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Speaker 2: big surprise, though. I just think that the planet has
22:23
Speaker 2: gotten smaller because of the Internet, and I just think
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Speaker 2: some of these things that were once held so sacred
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Speaker 2: in small circles aren't such a big deal anymore. UT's
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Speaker 2: my take on it. Anyway, It's pretty common to see
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Speaker 2: people with earbuds in and it's a little bit more
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Speaker 2: than just kind of tuning everyone out, and basically it's
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Speaker 2: kind of a comfort audio thing to a lot of people,
22:54
Speaker 2: and it's really popular generationally. There's more of a trend
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Speaker 2: of it, more and more as you kind of move
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Speaker 2: through the groups. A gen Z apparently one that's really
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Speaker 2: embracing this idea of comfort audio listening to radio, listening
23:10
Speaker 2: to playlists, ambient sounds, podcasts, definitely podcasts, and basically the
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Speaker 2: audio is keeping them company without demanding the constant attention
23:22
Speaker 2: of screen. So they're trying to get away from doom
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Speaker 2: scrolling and then still being able to enjoy some sort
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Speaker 2: of audio in the meantime. So it's in some cases
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Speaker 2: less about tuning out the world more about finding something
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Speaker 2: that makes the world feel maybe a little less chaotic.
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Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know. I do think for some
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Speaker 2: it is still about tuning out the world. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I've had mine in at the gym
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Speaker 2: without listening to anything because either what I was listening
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Speaker 2: to stopped or I had stopped it on purpose and realized, oh,
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Speaker 2: people aren't coming up to small talk with me because
23:59
Speaker 2: I have ear buds in. They're just leaving me alone.
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Speaker 2: And then there's the people who don't understand that you
24:04
Speaker 2: have earbuds in and you are listening to something and
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Speaker 2: you still have a hard time shutting them out because
24:08
Speaker 2: they want to get your attention for some reason. So
24:11
Speaker 2: one guy in particular wanted to make a joke about
24:15
Speaker 2: I was pushing against the wall while I was stretching,
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Speaker 2: and he felt the need to say that I was
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Speaker 2: holding the wall up. I don't know. It wasn't even
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Speaker 2: a good joke, but you know, and speaking of technology
24:29
Speaker 2: and shutting people out and some of the reasons that
24:31
Speaker 2: people are doing it, Apparently there is a trend moving
24:35
Speaker 2: for many people to crave simpler times. We've had stories
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Speaker 2: like this over the past really months, it's been probably
24:44
Speaker 2: even a couple of years, as more and more people
24:46
Speaker 2: are kind of almost wishing they didn't live in current times.
24:52
Speaker 2: A new survey done by NBC slash survey monkey. Always
24:57
Speaker 2: good when you get two reputable sources that's actually probably
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Speaker 2: right their own par isn't it. Forty seven percent of
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Speaker 2: adults between ages eighteen and twenty nine said that if
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Speaker 2: they had the option, they choose to live in the past.
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Speaker 2: One third said they'd like to go back to a
25:13
Speaker 2: time less than fifty years ago. Another fourteen percent said
25:18
Speaker 2: they'd choose to go back even further in time more
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Speaker 2: than fifty years. A majority think that life will be
25:26
Speaker 2: worse for them for generations before them, so they think
25:30
Speaker 2: what's coming is going to be worse, and that's why
25:32
Speaker 2: they would rather have lived. Then, sixty two percent of
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Speaker 2: gen Z surveyed said they expect life will be worse,
25:38
Speaker 2: and compared to the twenty five percent who said they
25:41
Speaker 2: think it will actually be better thirteen percent who thought
25:44
Speaker 2: it would be about the same Nostalgia isn't about music
25:48
Speaker 2: and fashion, although we've seen some of those things pop up.
25:52
Speaker 2: It's about craving a sense of community. We hear that
25:54
Speaker 2: a lot fewer screens, a slower pace, and they say
25:59
Speaker 2: that they feel that those things are really missing today.
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Speaker 2: Here's an idea, you know, just a crazy thought. But
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Speaker 2: stop making things worse. That's the first thing I would
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Speaker 2: say to the younger generation. Take a beat, take a breath,
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Speaker 2: and you know, try not to make things worse. Try
26:20
Speaker 2: not to you know, have this mindset of you know,
26:23
Speaker 2: murdering people is okay. It's not all young people. I
26:26
Speaker 2: know that, but this idea that murdering people is okay
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Speaker 2: if it's in the name of something that you think
26:31
Speaker 2: is right and not actually having conversations with each other.
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Speaker 2: I know I'm being extreme. I should be nicer right now.
26:38
Speaker 2: I'll just say this, Maybe just have conversations with people.
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Speaker 2: Sit down and have a conversation with someone who has
26:44
Speaker 2: a different opinion than you. That would be nice. What
26:46
Speaker 2: a novel concept, that's one way. Oh my kid and
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Speaker 2: AI's coming. AI's coming, And it wasn't I mean, it
26:53
Speaker 2: was still coming fifty plus years ago. It was just
26:57
Speaker 2: not anything we could comprehend yet fifty plus years years ago.
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Speaker 2: Is that fair? I don't know, I get it, I guess,
27:04
Speaker 2: but you know, there are some things we can do
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Speaker 2: to try to slow down whatever they think is coming
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Speaker 2: and what very well may be coming. That'll do it
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