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Protesters at the DNC · 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, Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Morning, twentieth day of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me,
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Speaker 2: Thanks for kicking off your Tuesday with me. We are
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Speaker 2: zipping right along in this week, aren't we. Probably because
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Speaker 2: there's a big exciting event going on in Chicago. It's
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Speaker 2: drawn people from all around. Tens of thousands of people.
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Speaker 2: Didn't they say at one point it was going to
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Speaker 2: be one hundred thousand. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't mean they got to.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot people just showing up ready to demand
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Speaker 2: time with Kamala Harris. They think that they are owed
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Speaker 2: time with her, and they have their list of demands.
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Speaker 2: They want people to know that they are fighting for
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Speaker 2: the rights of Palestine. That's who's showing up there in Chicago. Chicago, boy,
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Speaker 2: it's such a peaceful town normally, so what they need
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Speaker 2: is a bunch of people coming in from around, in
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Speaker 2: some cases paid to show up. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if these people are paid. I assume that
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Speaker 2: they probably are. Whenever there's protest season, and we're really
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Speaker 2: now into protest season again, aren't we. We had a
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Speaker 2: little break, we had a little off season. I guess
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Speaker 2: all the stuff during the graduation ceremonies, maybe that was
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Speaker 2: like preseason. You know, we had we had the early
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Speaker 2: the OTAs the optional, and then we had preseason. And
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Speaker 2: now we're into the real season as we're closing in
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Speaker 2: on these final couple of months before election day. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're in it now. This is we're going to have
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Speaker 2: this going on. It's interesting, isn't it that these people
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Speaker 2: that have come in to protest for the rights of
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Speaker 2: Palestinians and to free Palestine, and they want to cease fire,
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Speaker 2: and they hate Israel and all these things. So here
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Speaker 2: here's uh, and I want to stress I feel like
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Speaker 2: always I need to put in this little u precursor,
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Speaker 2: this this little addition at the beginning. It's preamble, if
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Speaker 2: you will. I know some people of Palestinian heritage that
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Speaker 2: they themselves are Christians, okay, that live here in the States.
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Speaker 2: They are not anti Israel. They are not anti Jewish people,
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Speaker 2: not that I've ever heard, not that they've ever expressed
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Speaker 2: to me. They are just in favor of you know,
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Speaker 2: they're one of the places that their family calls a homeland.
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Speaker 2: I understand that Okay, I do I get that aspect.
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Speaker 3: Of all of this.
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Speaker 2: When you have you know, there's some family heritage there,
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Speaker 2: that's where that goes. What we're seeing though in the
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Speaker 2: form of these protests is not that this is not
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Speaker 2: on us soil for them, and some of them probably
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Speaker 2: are there, okay, But when we start talking about trying
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Speaker 2: to make this into a political movement as part of
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Speaker 2: one of the two major parties in the US heading
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Speaker 2: into an election, because what has happened now is we
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Speaker 2: have a president who was running for reelection who was
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Speaker 2: pushed out the door, pushed aside, discarded, thrown out like
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Speaker 2: the trash, and then his vice president was just selected,
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Speaker 2: not by any sort of election. She was just picked
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Speaker 2: to be the candidate. And then came her time to
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Speaker 2: select a vice presidential candidate, and Shapiro was Governor. Shapiro
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Speaker 2: was the Pennsylvania was the most likely person to pick.
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Speaker 2: For a number of reasons. Kamala Harris needs the state
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Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania. By most accounts, you start looking at all
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Speaker 2: the numbers. Is there a way for her to win
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Speaker 2: if she went some other swing states? Sure, but for
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Speaker 2: the most part, easiest, most comfortable way for her to.
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Speaker 3: Get there is to win Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: So he would have been a nice pickup if you're
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Speaker 2: thinking about somebody who might get you thirty forty thousand
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Speaker 2: votes in Pennsylvania, that could be the difference in the
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Speaker 2: whole election. But he's Jewish, and this campaign did not
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Speaker 2: select him to be the VP pick. They went with
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Speaker 2: the governor of Minnesota, a state that they're going to win.
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Speaker 2: It's a solid blue state. This is not a state
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Speaker 2: that's up for grabs.
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Speaker 3: You got it.
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Speaker 2: So you know, the VP pick should not be the
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Speaker 2: determining factor in how you're going to vote anyway. I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe if you still had Biden as the candidate, maybe
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Speaker 2: you do that, because every day it looks less and
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Speaker 2: less like he's able to finish out even this term.
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Speaker 2: But apparently he's going to, So they pick a different candidate.
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Speaker 2: They don't pick the Jewish one. A lot of people
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Speaker 2: speculate that they would rather not win Pennsylvania and take
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Speaker 2: a chance on maybe still being able to win Pennsylvania
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Speaker 2: without someone who might be able to help them win.
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Speaker 2: It might be able to deliver the state, just so
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Speaker 2: that they don't upset the people, the angry mob of
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Speaker 2: people that are showing up in protest now in Chicago
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Speaker 2: because they want everybody to know that they have a
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Speaker 2: voice and that they're going to be heard in all
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Speaker 2: of this. And part of the criticism for many, I
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Speaker 2: think common sense people that look at this and when
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Speaker 2: we see the LGBTQ plus people marching for Palestine, is
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Speaker 2: that they don't fully understand even what they're marching for.
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Speaker 2: They're marching and protesting and doing horrible things in some cases,
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Speaker 2: threatening people, yelling anti Semitic statements, making intimidating and scaring people.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of terrorism, isn't it. When you try to
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Speaker 2: scare and intimidate people. I think that qualifies it. Should
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Speaker 2: I remember the good old days when catching something on
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Speaker 2: fire or throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car,
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Speaker 2: or you know, even what was going on really for
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Speaker 2: this group, what was going on during election season when
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Speaker 2: they were trying to intimidate people, trying to come on
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Speaker 2: campus to take their finals and trying to attend graduation ceremonies.
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Speaker 2: That was would have been considered terrorism. You're using fear
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Speaker 2: to try to manipulate the actions of other people. That's
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Speaker 2: kind of what it is. So this is a group
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Speaker 2: of people that are protesting, and they don't fully understand
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Speaker 2: if you're marching for the LGBTQ plus community and you
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Speaker 2: think that somehow, by standing up for Palestine and yelling
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Speaker 2: hateful things in the direction of Jewish people, that that's
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Speaker 2: somehow going to make the world a better place for
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Speaker 2: you or for or the LGBTQ plus community. Because as
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Speaker 2: has been pointed out, these people at any point could
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Speaker 2: go to the West Bank, they could go to the
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Speaker 2: Gaza Strip, they could go and over there and wear
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Speaker 2: their rainbows and show their support and see how well
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Speaker 2: they're received. Once they arrive. They won't be they won't
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Speaker 2: be well received at all. We're talking about a place
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Speaker 2: where it is, you know, ten up to ten years
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Speaker 2: in prison. It's a felony for being a homosexual. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's what they're standing up for. They're standing up for
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Speaker 2: their rights. Another thing that the folks on the left
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Speaker 2: like to scream about conservatives is they say, oh, they
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Speaker 2: want to ban books, they want to keep books off
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Speaker 2: the shelves. The issue for most conservatives, and I can't
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Speaker 2: speak for all of them, I can speak for me,
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Speaker 2: is that we don't want certain books in school libraries
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Speaker 2: or in libraries and sections where it's easy for kids
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Speaker 2: to get the books before they have a full understanding
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Speaker 2: of what it is. They shouldn't be in schools at all,
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Speaker 2: and they shouldn't necessarily be in public libraries where it's
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Speaker 2: easy for young kids to get their hands on them.
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Speaker 2: I think that's probably the real argument. But the left
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Speaker 2: likes the Oh they want to ban books because they
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Speaker 2: want it to sound like Nazis, they want it to
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Speaker 2: sound like fascist. So yeah, they're not afraid of ban books.
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Speaker 2: In Palestine, Crime and Ramala is one that was banned,
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Speaker 2: and you know, oh, this is going to cause some
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Speaker 2: problems in the country. We're gonna so they ban books.
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Speaker 2: They ban books. They don't support homosexuality, They don't treat
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Speaker 2: for the most part. You start talking about an islam country,
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Speaker 2: Islamic country, you're talking about the way women are treated,
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Speaker 2: You're talking about the way you're allowed to dress, You're
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Speaker 2: talking about all the restrictions that come with that. See,
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Speaker 2: they believe in a rule by their God. Right, that's
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Speaker 2: one of the things people freak out here. And they
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Speaker 2: got to keep religion out of it. They don't keep
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Speaker 2: religion out of it. It's very much part of it
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Speaker 2: for them, okay, for the people in power, the people
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Speaker 2: ruling there. Now, I guess my question is the people
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Speaker 2: here who seem to think that if only they had
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Speaker 2: their land back in that region. How I guess the
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Speaker 2: people here, the protesters, how they might be able to
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Speaker 2: change their views in the Palestinians, they might be able
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Speaker 2: to change their views on all of these issues. Dare
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Speaker 2: I say they might even want to colonize them with
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Speaker 2: their ideas, right?
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Speaker 3: They don't.
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Speaker 2: They want to go in and do this other horrible
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Speaker 2: thing that we tell all the colonizers, all the European colonizers.
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Speaker 2: They come in, they spread their religion, their beliefs, their rights,
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Speaker 2: their freedoms, They spread those things around, They colonize, they
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Speaker 2: take over, and the people who live there lose all
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Speaker 2: of their culture and heritage. Hey guess what if their
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Speaker 2: religion and their culture and their heritage is all of
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Speaker 2: these things and you try to change them, eh, I mean,
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Speaker 2: what is it that you're hoping to accomplish there without
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Speaker 2: going there? I mean, by all means, if these protesters
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Speaker 2: wanted to, you know, I think they should wait it
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Speaker 2: out through this particular convention. I mean, you're already in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: You should take in the sights, you know, have some
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Speaker 2: hot dogs. They got those Chicago style hot dogs with
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Speaker 2: all the peppers and all the stuff all over it.
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Speaker 3: You should do that.
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Speaker 2: And then the deep dish pizza. I didn't have a
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Speaker 2: great deep dish pizza experience my first time there. I
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Speaker 2: feel like I should try it again. I don't know
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Speaker 2: when I'll go to Chicago again. I've been a couple
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Speaker 2: of times, once on the set of The Dark Night,
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Speaker 2: second time for a Star Wars celebration convention. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: not at pizza experience in Chicago. More of a New
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Speaker 2: York style myself.
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Speaker 3: That's just me. But the point is they're there.
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Speaker 2: Stick it out, man, hang out, enjoy the sights, enjoy,
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Speaker 2: you know, just being able to walk the streets. No problems,
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Speaker 2: no conflicts, no nothing they have. They rarely have any
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Speaker 2: gun violence in Chicago. It's a it's a very it's
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Speaker 2: a state where it's hard. A city strict gun laws.
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Speaker 2: It's not possible for if you get their hands on guns,
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Speaker 2: there is it. I mean, it's really tough. So you
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Speaker 2: don't hear a lot about crime in Chicago. You really
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Speaker 2: don't hear about all of it. You should there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of it. We should hear about all.
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Speaker 3: Of it, shouldn't we.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's a strange place to be as far
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Speaker 2: as this convention and what's going on there and what
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Speaker 2: the people that are protesting there are protesting. What their
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Speaker 2: protests are really all about, because they're they're they're saying
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Speaker 2: that they're there to fight for the rights of the
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Speaker 2: palest Inn and so what are they really doing, Because
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Speaker 2: it can't be that they're really pro Palestine. They can't
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Speaker 2: be pro all of these things when some of them
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Speaker 2: are in direct conflict of what they actually stand for.
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Speaker 2: It can't be that they really think they're going to
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Speaker 2: colonize and change them, can it. So what's it really about? Well,
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Speaker 2: who are they shouting hateful stuff about? Who are they
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Speaker 2: screaming and yelling you know that they need to be
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Speaker 2: wiped from the earth. It's about anti Semitism, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it really what this has mainly been about. Again,
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Speaker 2: we can go back to there's some that are really
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Speaker 2: just fighting for their homelands. Okay, if it's part of
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Speaker 2: your homeland experience, I understand, I get it. It's something
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Speaker 2: that's very close and very dear to you, if you're
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Speaker 2: just part of this group of people that just show
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Speaker 2: up and protest whatever is being protested, if you can
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Speaker 2: be duped into just walking up and screaming and yelling,
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Speaker 2: wearing a rainbow outfit and a unicorn hat and screaming
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Speaker 2: free Palestine and go Palestine and go LGBTQ plus, and
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Speaker 2: think that those two things can in any way coexist.
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Speaker 2: Right now in that part of the world, you've been
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Speaker 2: duped and you're showing up for something and protesting in
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Speaker 2: the name of something that doesn't even make sense. This
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Speaker 2: is the problem that we're in right now in this
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Speaker 2: country is that it's only okay to hate a group
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Speaker 2: of people if you've been given permission to hate them.
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Speaker 2: And right now, permission has been given to hate Jewish Americans,
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Speaker 2: to hate Israel. Permission has been granted. You have permission
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Speaker 2: to do it. It's a weird place to be in.
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Speaker 2: I don't understand. And when people scream Republicans are Nazis,
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Speaker 2: Trump is a Nazi. And then it's this group of
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Speaker 2: people that want to vote Democrat, that want to vote
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Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris, that want to show up for her,
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Speaker 2: they want to sit down and meet with her. They're
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Speaker 2: the ones who are screaming out. Some of them are
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Speaker 2: screaming the anti Semitic slogans and jargon and just hate speech.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't make any sense, does it. Why have we gotten
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Speaker 2: to a point where all of a sudden, now it's
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Speaker 2: okay to do that and show up and fight and protest.
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Speaker 2: So that's really what it's about, isn't it. It's really
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Speaker 2: about people showing their true colors, showing and the fact
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Speaker 2: that it's very easy to be duped into just supporting
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Speaker 2: something because it's popular, or because maybe you're showing up
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Speaker 2: to get paid, or because you just love the anarchy.
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Speaker 2: It's easy to get people to just show up and
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Speaker 2: be riled up about things apparently, you know, you just
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Speaker 2: have to point them in the right direction and say go,
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Speaker 2: and they're willing to show up and do whatever it
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Speaker 2: is they have to do to support whatever cause they
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Speaker 2: think they're supporting, or just because they're hanging out. And
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Speaker 2: in many of these cases it's people that are just
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Speaker 2: showing up and someone sticks a microphone in their face
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Speaker 2: and says, what are you here protesting? And they go,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, something about Palestine, whoo? Because there's
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Speaker 2: people that are doing that. So how have we gotten
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Speaker 2: to this point? How have we gotten to the stage
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Speaker 2: of that? And this is where folks on the right
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Speaker 2: start asking the question, when can we get back to
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Speaker 2: some common sense? And I can tell you right now
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Speaker 2: the common sense party is on the right. They are
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Speaker 2: They're the ones on the right. They're the ones that
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Speaker 2: are looking at things and scratching their heads and going,
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Speaker 2: how do we get here? And there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: left of center liberals that are scratching their heads, going
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Speaker 2: how do we get here? There's a lot of common
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Speaker 2: sense there too. It's the extreme far left. It's the
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Speaker 2: people who would not let Shapiro be the VP pick
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Speaker 2: for Kamala Harrison. I don't think it was her. I
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Speaker 2: don't think she's picking anything. I don't think Biden's picking anything.
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Speaker 2: I don't think Harris is. I don't think they're doing anything.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're running anything. She's telling everybody, and
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Speaker 2: she's going to spend this whole week, the whole party's
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Speaker 2: going to tell everybody all the great things that are
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Speaker 2: going to get done if we would just elect her
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Speaker 2: as if she's not currently serving as vice president. See,
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Speaker 2: they tell us that all of Biden's accomplishments are also
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Speaker 2: her accomplishments, and that we should all be proud of
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Speaker 2: the work that she's done. But when she stands up
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Speaker 2: in front of an audience, any sort of group of people,
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Speaker 2: and she says, these are the things I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do when you make me president. If you're working alongside
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Speaker 2: the president, why haven't you already done these things? I
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Speaker 2: know I'm not the only person asking this question, but
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Speaker 2: it needs to be asked as many times as we
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Speaker 2: can ask it. Why aren't you doing it now? If
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Speaker 2: you're going to fix the border when you're president, why
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Speaker 2: don't you fix it now? If you're going to fix
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Speaker 2: the economy when you're president, why don't you fix it now?
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Speaker 2: Why aren't you doing these things instead of dangling them
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Speaker 2: like a carrot for people to say, eh, eh, look
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Speaker 2: at this, Look at this. If you'll just cast your vote,
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Speaker 2: I'll do this for you. It's like the guy with
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Speaker 2: with a long time illness. At one time the top
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Speaker 2: rated daytime TV show, getting like nine million viewers a day.
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Speaker 2: At one point, Oprah Winfrey came along might have heard
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Speaker 2: of her and knocked him off of that top spot
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Speaker 2: during daytime TV. I had a friend yesterday called me
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Speaker 2: and was venting about some things and was just kind of,
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Speaker 2: you know, really going on and on and on about
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Speaker 2: some stuff and then apologized, as people tend to do
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Speaker 2: after they vent, especially when they just kind of call
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Speaker 2: you up and they kind of hit it full stride
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Speaker 2: and it's like, let me tell you all this stuff
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Speaker 2: and it just comes out and he's like, I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: about that, And I said, no, no, no venting. I think
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Speaker 2: there's there's some benefit to it, and by all means
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Speaker 2: you can vent anytime. Well. Now, a study from UCLA
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Speaker 2: found that venting isn't just about emotional release. It's actually
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Speaker 2: a means of boosting your social status. And they say,
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Speaker 2: when you complain about one friend to another, you may
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Speaker 2: be unconsciously trying to make yourself look better as well
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Speaker 2: as strengthening your bond with the listener. I don't think
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Speaker 2: this is what my friend was doing. We weren't venting
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Speaker 2: about a one particular friend, a mutual friend, or anything.
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Speaker 2: Researchers found across several experiments that venting consistently led to
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Speaker 2: listeners liking the venor more than the target of their venting,
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Speaker 2: So just keep that in mind. I think there's value
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Speaker 2: in just sort of that release from the pressure that
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Speaker 2: builds up. But this is an interesting I think this
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Speaker 2: sort of study kind of confirms what a lot of
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Speaker 2: us maybe have suspected about venting about a coworker, or
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Speaker 2: about a supervisor, or maybe a teacher for kids that
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Speaker 2: are in school, or maybe even college students. And I
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Speaker 2: think that probably helps because you're finding that mutual connection
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Speaker 2: about both of you, maybe venting about.
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Speaker 3: The same person.
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Speaker 2: Arts and crafts really help us with our creativity, and
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Speaker 2: according to a recent study, they also bring out happiness.
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Speaker 2: This recent study from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England,
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Speaker 2: found that engaging in arts and crafts like painting, knitting,
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Speaker 2: woodworking greatly improved levels of happiness and life satisfaction. They say.
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Speaker 2: The study found that arts and crafts can increase your
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Speaker 2: happiness more than having a good paying job. It also
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Speaker 2: gives your life a greater sense of purpose than a job. Crafting,
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Speaker 2: another artistic activity, showed a meaningful effect in predicting people's
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Speaker 2: sense that their life is worthwhile. According to the study
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Speaker 2: author Helen Keys. Indeed, the impact of crafting was bigger
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Speaker 2: than the impact of being in employment. Not only does
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Speaker 2: crafting give us a sense of achievement, it also has
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Speaker 2: a meaningful route to self expression. This is not always
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Speaker 2: the case with employment. Quote so interesting. You know, anytime
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Speaker 2: I get into a creative project something and I really
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Speaker 2: sort of throw myself into it, there is a nice
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Speaker 2: sense of accomplishment that comes on the other side of it,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I feel like that.
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Speaker 3: This probably generates happiness. So I like that, all right.
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Speaker 2: Jen Z apparently has a love hate relationship with social media.
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Speaker 2: A recent survey found that gen Z blames social media
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Speaker 2: for damaging their mental health, but they're not exactly departing
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Speaker 2: from social media. According to the survey, seventy five percent
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Speaker 2: of gen Z respondents say platforms like Instagram and TikTok
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Speaker 2: are bad for their well being, and almost half of
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Speaker 2: them feel stressed or anxious just thirty eight minutes after scrolling.
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Speaker 2: Despite that, they still spend five and a half hours
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Speaker 2: a day scrolling, and boredom is to blame, wanting a laugh,
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Speaker 2: staying informed, knowing what their friends are up to, all
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Speaker 2: main reasons that they say they can't get away. I've
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Speaker 2: got a theory of my own. It's not really part
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Speaker 2: of this particular survey, but I have a theory about it.
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Speaker 2: What else do we sometimes do as people that's bad
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Speaker 2: for us, yet we continue to do it, whether it's
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Speaker 2: maybe the food we eat, maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's drugs,
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Speaker 2: and you know, saying I know it's bad for me,
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Speaker 2: but I'll do it anyway. I know I shouldn't smoke this,
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Speaker 2: you know, cigarette or you know, weed or whatever, but
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Speaker 2: I do it anyway. You're gonna get me on the weed.
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Speaker 2: I know some of you are gonna get really defensive
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Speaker 2: on the wheat. I'm just saying, we have seen studies
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Speaker 2: that say the dopamine levels get affected, that's all, and
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Speaker 2: pointing out they say, Okay, the alcohol, all right, I
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Speaker 2: know alcohol, I shouldn't drink it, it's bad, but I
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Speaker 2: do it anyway. I think this kind of relates to
25:49
Speaker 2: the addiction aspect of social media, and I think that
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Speaker 2: maybe what's playing out here because it's like, I know
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Speaker 2: it's not good, but I'm gonna do it anyway. That'll
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