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Words Hurt, and Words Matter · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the Wes Carroll Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, 22nd day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Gabby Awards coming up this weekend. Excited about
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Speaker 2: the Gabby's. I'm nominated in the category of Best Podcast
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Speaker 2: Series for the Made of Stars podcast. If you haven't
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Speaker 2: listened to the Made of Stars podcast, you should check
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Speaker 1: Dr.
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Speaker 2: Sean Kruzan, Executive Director of Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space
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Speaker 2: Science Center, and I talk about space stuff. He's the
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Speaker 2: smart one, and I'm the guy who asks questions and,
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Speaker 2: you know, makes jokes and stuff. He makes jokes, too.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why we pretend, and occasionally I say
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Speaker 2: something smart. Sometimes. But you can check out the podcast
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Speaker 2: there that may very well be this weekend's winner of
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Speaker 2: Best Podcast Series. At the Gabby Awards, Georgia Association of
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Speaker 2: Broadcasters annual awards. We've won this award before. So we're excited. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, anytime you get a chance to put on
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Speaker 2: a nice suit and eat a meal and hang out
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Speaker 2: with other broadcasters from Georgia, it's usually pretty fun. My
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Speaker 2: good friend, Dr. Sean Cruzan, will not be there with
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Speaker 2: me this weekend because it's his birthday weekend and he
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Speaker 2: had other plans that involved not being in Atlanta. So
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Speaker 2: I told him I will make sure to take lots
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Speaker 2: as necessary in any photos. But yes, I appreciate the
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Speaker 2: Georgia Association of Broadcasters for having us be part of
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Speaker 2: this again. Whoever voted for us, thank you. to have
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Speaker 2: us in this, uh, level of contention for the Gabby awards.
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Speaker 2: Love it. It's always fun when we go. Uh, and
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Speaker 2: I'll get to hang out with my good friend, uh,
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Speaker 2: John Clark with the Georgia news network. Uh, he and
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Speaker 2: I want to Gabby award together along with Scott Miller
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Speaker 2: covering hurricane Michael back in the day. So, uh, first
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Speaker 2: thing I want to talk about, uh, speaking of weather,
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Speaker 2: I heard from a couple of you, um, yesterday about
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Speaker 2: when I was talking about my, uh, a lightning thing. Uh,
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Speaker 2: and the movie I didn't really want to talk about,
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Speaker 2: first of all, uh, it was, it's called powder. That's
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Speaker 2: the name of the movie. Um, and in so many ways, the,
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Speaker 2: the story for the movie, uh, should have been kind
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Speaker 2: of a story about people who were outsiders. Uh, it
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Speaker 2: probably could have been used as kind of a metaphor
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Speaker 2: for autism or, you know, people that kind of don't
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Speaker 2: fit in, in general. And, um, or, or at least
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Speaker 2: feel like they don't fit in. That was the movie. Uh,
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Speaker 2: the guy who made the movie, wrote the movie, directed
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Speaker 2: the movie, uh, had some inappropriate relations with people under age.
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Speaker 2: I was very vague about it yesterday, but he was convicted,
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Speaker 2: I guess, did some jail time. All that came to
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Speaker 2: light while the movie was being made. The movie got released. Uh,
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Speaker 2: at least one of his victims came out and said, uh,
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Speaker 2: not okay. Don't see this movie. So I was trying
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Speaker 2: not to give it any extra oxygen. And then, of course,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing leads to people looking it up.
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Speaker 2: And a few of you asked me about it. And anyway,
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Speaker 2: so other than the fact that the movie, one of
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Speaker 2: the storylines in the movie is this guy's born and
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Speaker 2: he's different and he's really smart and he's gifted and
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Speaker 2: he doesn't fit in and lightning for some reason is
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Speaker 2: attracted to him. like physically goes to him when there's
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Speaker 2: a lightning storm. And there was a lightning storm when
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Speaker 2: he was born and all these kinds of things. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: so that's why I kind of drew that comparison a
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Speaker 2: little bit for that movie because I could, elements of
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Speaker 2: that story from that movie, and I watched it, you know,
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Speaker 2: when it came out many years ago before I knew
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Speaker 2: any of the controversy with it. Because back then we
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Speaker 2: didn't know all the controversy with every movie and TV show.
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Speaker 2: We had to find out about it years later, decades
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Speaker 2: later sometimes. So, and yes, I don't, lightning isn't attracted
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Speaker 2: to me physically. It doesn't come to me while I'm
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Speaker 2: outside or whatever. It hasn't yet, thankfully. Hopefully it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: But I just, I feel it in the air. I
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Speaker 2: can just kind of feel it when it's around, and
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Speaker 2: that's what I was talking about yesterday. But anyway, that
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Speaker 2: was what I was talking about. Another quick thing I
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Speaker 2: want to touch on before I get to my topic
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Speaker 2: today is this, and this probably should be really the
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Speaker 2: topic for the day, but I don't know if I
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Speaker 2: can talk about this for 10 minutes. But Carrot Top,
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Speaker 2: improving according to reports after being hospitalized in Vegas after
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Speaker 2: a reported suicide attempt. And they say that he's awake now.
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Speaker 2: Breathing on his own has been, I guess, for a
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Speaker 2: couple of days, continues to improve. He's got family and
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Speaker 2: friends around him. And they said that people have been
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Speaker 2: sending messages of support and all these sorts of things.
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Speaker 2: I say he's been joking around with the medical staff.
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Speaker 2: I just want to say this. Carrot Top has long
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Speaker 2: been one of those people who has been teased for
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Speaker 2: for his brand of comedy over the years. Um, I
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Speaker 2: don't fully get it. Um, I think we've had comedians
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Speaker 2: very similar to him, prop comics and things over the
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Speaker 2: years that have, uh, I think back to Gallagher, you know,
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Speaker 2: was when I was a kid, we'd watch Gallagher specials
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Speaker 2: and things. Um, And I thought Gallagher was funny. I
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Speaker 2: thought Carrot Top was funny the first time I saw him.
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Speaker 2: And I kind of felt like the ribbing and things
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Speaker 2: that people gave Carrot Top, and even Gallagher probably, but
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Speaker 2: certainly not to the degree that Carrot Top has been teased.
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Speaker 2: I just kind of thought he was in on the joke.
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Speaker 2: I just felt like in general he appreciated it and
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Speaker 2: it was like, hey, at least they're talking about me.
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Speaker 2: He's been doing a residency in Vegas. And I guess
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Speaker 2: the Luxor in Vegas since 2005, he's been doing that.
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Speaker 2: And I guess tomorrow is the next scheduled day. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to be ready to go
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Speaker 2: for that by then. But anyway, I haven't heard the
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Speaker 2: details about the suicide attempt and the specific reason behind it.
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Speaker 2: I just want to say this, just as a reminder,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like it's not a bad thing. I
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Speaker 2: need to hear this sometimes myself, but it's not a
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Speaker 2: bad thing for us to remind each other of things
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Speaker 2: like this. Sometimes words hurt more than we know. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: words hurt more than it seems apparent that words hurt.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes they have a cumulative effect over time. And again,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that that's the reason behind this. I
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Speaker 2: just know that for someone who is incredibly wealthy, incredibly successful,
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Speaker 2: And for crying out loud, 11 years with a residency
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Speaker 2: in Vegas, he's done very well for himself. And I
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Speaker 2: can just say that career-wise, it's not the same career
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Speaker 2: path as a lot of other comics. Most other comics.
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Speaker 2: But he has certainly had success doing something that he loves.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody has that. And the fact that people want
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Speaker 2: to tear him down and the fact that people and
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Speaker 2: some make jokes, take shots at him. One of the
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Speaker 2: funniest things I've ever seen on TV in my entire
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Speaker 2: life was the infamous Norm MacDonald on Conan with Courtney
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Speaker 2: Thorne Smith, who made the movie Chairman of the Board
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Speaker 2: with Carrot Top. And she was promoting the movie and
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Speaker 2: Norm MacDonald fired a couple of shots of Carrot Top
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Speaker 2: on air. It was part of the show. And I
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Speaker 2: just sort of thought it was hilarious. And I just
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Speaker 2: assumed that he was just in on the joke and
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Speaker 2: he knew and maybe he was. But just a reminder,
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Speaker 2: these things start to stack up sometimes for some people.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, it may not be the reason. It
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Speaker 2: may have nothing to do with this situation with Carrot Top.
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Speaker 2: There may be other things going on. Who knows? This
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Speaker 2: couldn't have helped, though, the teasing and the ribbing and
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Speaker 2: all those things. That's all. I just wanted to say
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Speaker 2: that because sometimes I kind of need reminding of that.
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Speaker 2: It's easy to slip into this phase of an athlete
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Speaker 2: or a coach or something, and it's just you kind
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Speaker 2: of get caught up in their inability to do something
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Speaker 2: or their struggle as a fan or something, and we
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Speaker 2: just kind of get caught up in it and we
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Speaker 2: pretend like these aren't humans. We do that when people
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Speaker 2: get fired sometimes. We celebrate it. And we talk about
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Speaker 2: it here sometimes when it comes to people who sort
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Speaker 2: of celebrate somebody being canceled. And I'm not talking about everybody.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody gets happy on this canceling thing. Certain groups do.
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Speaker 2: Certain groups want people canceled. and they celebrate it. Not everybody.
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Speaker 2: All right, had to say that. Done it. Now I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about the governor of Virginia. As Governor
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Speaker 2: Abigail Spanberger ran for governor, on the idea that she
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Speaker 2: was going to be a moderate. That's what she was
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Speaker 2: going to do. She was going to be somebody who
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Speaker 2: was reflective of the very purple state or commonwealth. If
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Speaker 2: you want to be real technical, I know people get
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Speaker 2: into this commonwealth thing. You can say state too. We
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Speaker 2: say 50 states. We don't break it down by how
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Speaker 2: many states and how many commonwealths. But you can say
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Speaker 2: either one. I'm acknowledging the fact that I know that
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Speaker 2: there are both of these terms involved. So she ran
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Speaker 2: saying that she would be a moderate. She understands that
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Speaker 2: a state is very divided. We had a situation where
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Speaker 2: they were trying to re redo the district, the map,
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Speaker 2: because they had had a, somebody came in and they
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Speaker 2: were like, we're going to change this around. It was
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Speaker 2: kind of agreed on. We were going to have an
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Speaker 2: even amount of representation in our state. And, um, as
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Speaker 2: far as the districting goes. And, you know, it was like, no,
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Speaker 2: we're going to change that. Well, here's another, here's another change,
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Speaker 2: another change from Abigail Spanberger. And it has to do with, uh,
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Speaker 2: the scholastic sports based on, uh, sex, uh, legislation that
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Speaker 2: was moved forward during, uh, governor Glenn Youngkin's days. So
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Speaker 2: these are the protections for sports athletes in, at the
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Speaker 2: scholastic level based on their gender. And this has been
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Speaker 2: obviously a discussion that's been going on for a while.
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Speaker 2: This is not brand new, but I think for the
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Speaker 2: most part, we had kind of been working our way
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Speaker 2: towards this common sense, just kind of safe area, this
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Speaker 2: little compromise area, this little purple area, if you will,
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Speaker 2: to go back to that. Where people are kind of going,
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Speaker 2: you know what, we need girls to be able to
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Speaker 2: have protected sports and not have to compete against biological
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Speaker 2: males who are taking advantage of a system. Is it
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Speaker 2: happening everywhere all the time? Certainly not. Is there an
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Speaker 2: opportunity that gets created by allowing it to happen some
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Speaker 2: and are some female athletes being pushed aside for people
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Speaker 2: who are taking advantage of it? Yes. If that happens
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Speaker 2: even once, is that wrong? Yes, it is. And this
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Speaker 2: was something that had been put into place. And now, basically,
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Speaker 2: this is going to be, I'm going to read this
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Speaker 2: quote here from, let's see, this is Kim Taylor, who
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Speaker 2: is a Republican and talked with Fox News Digital Friday.
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Speaker 2: My jaw dropped when I saw the news. As a
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Speaker 2: mom of a daughter, I'm furious that protecting the privacy, safety,
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Speaker 2: and opportunities of Virginia's girls is somehow controversial. Governor Spanberger
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Speaker 2: had a chance to stand up for women and girls. Instead,
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Speaker 2: she turned her back. Our daughters should never be asked
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Speaker 2: to sacrifice their privacy or a fair playing field for
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Speaker 2: someone else's political agenda. And Taylor... who during her time
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Speaker 2: when she was in Richmond focused on her basically issues
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Speaker 2: concerning mothers and children's issues. And even to the point
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Speaker 2: of being an assassination target after an unsuccessful re-election bid
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Speaker 2: last year. So basically, and she calls out Spanberger for
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Speaker 2: the say one thing, do another thing. Oh, no, no.
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Speaker 2: This is coming from Wren Williams, also there in Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Say one thing, do another. Don't tell anyone. Ignore them
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Speaker 2: if they ask about it. See, all this being done
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Speaker 2: kind of in secrecy. That's the other part of this.
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Speaker 2: So the idea of this is what we're going to do.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be a moderate governor. We're going to
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Speaker 2: have a moderate state. We're going to represent values of
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Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats and then go behind everybody's back and
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Speaker 2: do sneaky stuff. That's the problem. And that's the reason
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Speaker 2: that you can't accept the fact and just assume the
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Speaker 2: fact that this issue I'll give, for example. And I
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Speaker 2: was talking with a friend the other day who much
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Speaker 2: more to the left than I am. And I was
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Speaker 2: just asking the question. And believe it or not, it
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Speaker 2: is possible to have friends that have different political views
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Speaker 2: than you and you can have conversations with them. And
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Speaker 2: it can just be a normal conversation. It doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to be aggressive. It doesn't have to be agitated. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be anything. But I asked this friend specifically, like,
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Speaker 2: do you have concerns with the midterms about whether or
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Speaker 2: not we kind of have this situation where there's a
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Speaker 2: little Trojan horse, kind of got a little situation where
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Speaker 2: we got the democratic socialists, the communists kind of slipping in,
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Speaker 2: maybe taking control of the party. And he was up front.
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Speaker 2: He's like, I don't think they're taking control of the party. Um,
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Speaker 2: you know, it may be a few that will get
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Speaker 2: into office this time. And I said, but is there
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Speaker 2: a concern as a much more, and he's a much
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Speaker 2: more moderate, uh, person. And I, I, I've never asked
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Speaker 2: him specifically where he votes. I think I know approximately
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Speaker 2: where he votes. He seems to be left of center.
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Speaker 2: And I just asked him point blank, are you concerned
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Speaker 2: that this could become like if, if some of these
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Speaker 2: democratic socialists, AKA communists win, um, Does this open the
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Speaker 2: door for there to be, well, this is where people
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Speaker 2: want to go. Let's push it further that way. And
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Speaker 2: he said, not really, but it was something to think about.
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Speaker 2: And it was, I think, a valuable conversation for us
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Speaker 2: to have. I wanted to hear from someone who I
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Speaker 2: know not to be extreme far left. And I think
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Speaker 2: this is one of the things that we have to
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Speaker 2: be aware of is when we have people that come
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Speaker 2: in and say, in this case, running for office and
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Speaker 2: saying what the voters want to hear. I'm a moderate.
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Speaker 2: I'm a moderate. I'm going to see, but I'm going to,
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Speaker 2: I'm a moderate. And then not being a moderate, not
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Speaker 2: doing the things that basically 80 plus percent of the
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Speaker 2: country has said, this is where we stand on this
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Speaker 2: particular issue when it comes to women's sports. So you
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Speaker 2: have to understand this is not a time for trusting
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Speaker 2: someone who just says that they're a moderate. You have
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Speaker 2: to look at who they are and what they've said and,
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Speaker 2: And not what they said here recently that we're getting
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Speaker 2: down to the last weeks, what they said a month ago,
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Speaker 2: two months ago, three months ago. What have they been
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Speaker 2: saying for the past few years as they push for
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Speaker 2: an agenda that is extremely far left? And the same
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Speaker 2: would apply for anybody who goes from I'm extremely far
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Speaker 2: right to now I'm going to pretend to be a moderate.
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Speaker 2: You have to pay attention to those things. Because you
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Speaker 2: have to understand, if you don't want extreme far right
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Speaker 2: or extreme far left, and you're convinced that someone's going
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Speaker 2: to be a moderate, are they? And this is a
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Speaker 2: perfect example of someone who has now twice tried to
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Speaker 2: play a little sneaky, play a little ooky-doo with us, right?
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Speaker 2: Or the people of Virginia, not with us, but with
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Speaker 2: the people, if you're listening in Virginia, with you. And
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Speaker 2: be aware of that. when the next election time comes around.
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Speaker 2: And it's something to think about as we get into
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Speaker 2: the midterm cycle, this final weeks of that. Can you
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Speaker 2: trust them when they tell you they're going to be
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show right after the break. Well, we know
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Speaker 2: all the conversation about AI concerning our future and dangers
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Speaker 2: and all of those things. Well, In the meantime, I
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Speaker 2: guess we continue to try to utilize AI for the
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Speaker 2: good things while we still have those things, I suppose.
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Speaker 2: And something that AI could now be used for is
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Speaker 2: acting as an early alarm system for your love life.
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Speaker 2: They say it can spot relationship trouble before you even
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Speaker 2: notice it. A mathematician has found that love is actually
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Speaker 2: very predictable and and follows clear patterns using math rules
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Speaker 2: originally used to track wild animal groups. He proved that
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Speaker 2: every couple has a basic score for relationship health. The
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Speaker 2: score depends on natural chemistry, stress, and how partners treat
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Speaker 2: each other. By pairing these simple math rules with AI,
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Speaker 2: new apps could act like a GPS for your love life,
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Speaker 2: warning you that when you're drifting apart, and it could
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Speaker 2: show you that you could fix things before it's too late. Interesting,
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Speaker 2: and it's, you know, math. Normally, when you get those
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Speaker 2: premixed cocktail brand buzz balls, there's 17 flavors to choose
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Speaker 2: from if you were wanting to get in on the
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Speaker 2: buzz ball craze, and 17 flavors just wasn't enough. Well,
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Speaker 2: Buzz Balls has teamed up with Pop-Tarts to launch two
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Speaker 2: more limited edition canned drinks packed with intense nostalgia and
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Speaker 2: and intense sweetness. Be on the lookout for frosted s'mores
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Speaker 2: and frosted brown sugar flavors. That's what I was trying
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Speaker 2: to say. And they come at about 15% alcohol content,
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Speaker 2: and they say taste just like your favorite Pop-Tarts. Listen,
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Speaker 2: I'm all about the frosted brown sugar. S'mores, not so much.
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Speaker 2: So don't presume that they're my favorite flavors. mr and
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Speaker 2: mrs pop tart people because they're not those aren't my
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Speaker 2: it comes to pop tarts uh beer brand shock top
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Speaker 2: has partnered with spirit halloween to launch a limited edition
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Speaker 2: fall collaboration featuring a candy corn flavored beer and an
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Speaker 2: exclusive mascot costume i guess this could go with the
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Speaker 2: candy corn perfume or cologne or whatever it was we
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Speaker 2: talked about last week. And the new release includes Shock
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Speaker 2: corn flavor profiles. And as part of the fun, Spirit
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Speaker 2: Halloween is selling an official easy-to-wear wedgehead jumpsuit. It's a costume.
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Speaker 2: And they're selling it online. It allows fans to dress
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Speaker 2: So if you need more Halloween in your life, the
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Speaker 2: costume and the candy corn beverage, all of these things
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Speaker 2: could probably make your Halloween a little better. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: According to a new study, Dungeons & Dragons and other
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Speaker 2: tabletop role-playing games significantly boost players' mental well-being. their self-esteem,
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Speaker 2: and social confidence. Researchers found that players rated their D
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Speaker 2: & D groups among the most positive and supportive networks
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Speaker 2: in their lives. These gaming groups were reported as being
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Speaker 2: more positive and supportive than traditional groups of friends and family,
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Speaker 2: even though the gaming groups met less frequently. The study
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Speaker 2: results were especially encouraging because so many people are dealing
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Speaker 2: with loneliness. And something as simple as playing a game
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Speaker 2: around a table can go so far to improve social connections.
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Speaker 2: I just remember when I was a kid, we got
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Speaker 2: made fun of for playing it. You know, we got
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Speaker 2: made fun of and it was not a positive experience.
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Speaker 2: And then we got told that they're ultimately going to
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Speaker 2: lead to everyone's death because your character dies and then
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Speaker 2: you die. That was the other thing we got told. So,
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Speaker 2: you know. It's positive. I like the fact that we
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Speaker 2: got some positivity for the D & D crowd in
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Speaker 2: a study. So I think that's pretty good. So just
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Speaker 2: keep all that in mind. Well, despite constant jokes about
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Speaker 2: the finance bro culture, the quarter zip sweater is still
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Speaker 2: interest spiking in 2026 past previous record highs. Fashion insiders
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Speaker 2: say that the lasting power of the quarter zip has
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Speaker 2: getting decked out in a blazer and a stiff shirt.
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Speaker 2: So that'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening.
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Speaker 2: I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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