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Busy News Day and a Neck Update · 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: Wednesday morning, twenty fourth day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. I am about three weeks post surgery.
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Speaker 2: A few of you have asked how I'm doing. I said,
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Speaker 2: I haven't talked about it, given any updates. I had
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Speaker 2: surgery on my neck about three weeks ago Thursday. That's
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Speaker 2: where I'll be so about tomorrow will be officially three
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Speaker 2: weeks since the actual surgery day. I had two herniated
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Speaker 2: discs in my neck. They were best approached from the front,
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Speaker 2: so my surgeon, doctor Eric Westerland, went in from the front.
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Speaker 2: E Dubbs I call him, went in from the front
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Speaker 2: and went around my vocal cords and my esophagus. They
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Speaker 2: move all that stuff out of the way and they
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Speaker 2: get in there and they do their thing. It's better
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Speaker 2: than going in from the back because that involves cutting muscle.
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Speaker 2: It's a longer recovery when you have to do that,
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Speaker 2: and yeah, it sounds a lot more painful. So they
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Speaker 2: did the surgery and they put some spacers in which
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Speaker 2: helped I guess the collapsed vertebrae or things that were
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Speaker 2: in there that were going on. It was pushing into
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Speaker 2: my spinal cord. Before my Australia trip, my pain management doctor,
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Speaker 2: doctor Shaw said, I wouldn't go on any roller coasters
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Speaker 2: while you're on vacation. You're okay to fly, You're okay
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Speaker 2: to be in a car, just don't get in any accidents,
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Speaker 2: which you know is always the intention when I get
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Speaker 2: in a car. And he said, you're fine to fly,
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Speaker 2: just you know, don't do high risk things. Stay off ladders,
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Speaker 2: you know, don't don't get on roller coasters, don't do
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Speaker 2: any water slides, things like that. So I was good.
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Speaker 2: I did all of those things and I got through
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Speaker 2: my Australia trip. He doctor Shaw gave me an injection
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Speaker 2: in my spine to help me out, and I think
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Speaker 2: it helped. Certainly helped on leaving for the trip. May
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Speaker 2: have been wearing off on the way back, but anyway,
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Speaker 2: soon after dragon Con was when I had the surgery.
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Speaker 2: So I did that event again that didn't involve any
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Speaker 2: high risk activities for me except having too much fun.
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Speaker 2: And then I had the procedure and it's been about
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Speaker 2: three weeks and you know, it's most of the pain
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Speaker 2: that I was having before the surgery is gone. It's
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Speaker 2: a different pain that I have now the spacers that
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Speaker 2: they put in and then everything's fused through the spacers
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Speaker 2: and things. And I used to brag about my hips
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Speaker 2: because people often thought when I said I had hip
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Speaker 2: surgeries that that meant I had replacements. I had fai surgery,
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Speaker 2: which just meant that they reshaped the socket and the
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Speaker 2: head of the femur and all that and all original parts.
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Speaker 2: Now I've got extra parts for the first time. I've
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Speaker 2: got titanium in my neck that's holding things in place
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Speaker 2: and preventing me, I guess, from damaging it again. And
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Speaker 2: I'm good with that. I'll get back about three quarters
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Speaker 2: of an inch in height that I had lost, And
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Speaker 2: that's the update. That's where I am right now. I've
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Speaker 2: got something stretching my neck out and my muscles and
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Speaker 2: everything or fighting it, I guess that's the best way
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Speaker 2: to describe it. So overall, feeling pretty good. I'm back
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Speaker 2: to driving. I've cut back on pain meds and all
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Speaker 2: those things. One of the pain meds that I'm encouraged
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Speaker 2: to take is a set of minifin tailanol which we'll
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Speaker 2: get to that in a minute. But yeah, I'm you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm in a better place. Part of the recovery has
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Speaker 2: been my voice, and I've talked about that on the show,
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Speaker 2: just trying to get a little bit of the getting
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Speaker 2: the sound of my voice back, which I think is
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Speaker 2: pretty much back. A few of you said that you
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Speaker 2: never noticed a difference. It was also just about being
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Speaker 2: able to talk for longer periods of time, just getting
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Speaker 2: the stamina back in my voice. And when you speak professionally,
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Speaker 2: and you speak a lot professionally. I do at least
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Speaker 2: seven shows a week, some of them longer than others,
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Speaker 2: and I have other voice requirements that I have over
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Speaker 2: the course of a week. So and I also sometimes
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Speaker 2: get interviewed. There's just a lot that I do, and
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Speaker 2: I do other interviews like my dragon Con interviews from
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Speaker 2: the dragon Con pregame show and those sorts of things.
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Speaker 2: So all of that, you have to get the stamina back.
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Speaker 2: You've got to get your endurance back, and that's what
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Speaker 2: I've been working on over the last three weeks. I'm
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Speaker 2: not supposed to turn my head more than about fifty
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Speaker 2: degrees one way or the other, so I'm still limited
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Speaker 2: on that that can create some pain if I don't
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Speaker 2: sleeping better. I've got all that going for me. So
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Speaker 2: that's where we are. Sorry, I haven't really given many
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Speaker 2: updates on it, but I just felt like I needed
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Speaker 2: to get a little more miles behind the surgery before
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Speaker 2: I talked about it too much. I didn't want to
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Speaker 2: go into it too much. So let's talk about ceedemniphin
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Speaker 2: because this came up, I guess in the last few
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Speaker 2: weeks when the Head of Health and Human Services RFK
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Speaker 2: Junior said that there was a potential study with a
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Speaker 2: link possibly to a cedamnifin use and autism. And now
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Speaker 2: President Trump has spoken about that, and he has talked
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Speaker 2: a little bit more about there being that possibility. Few
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Speaker 2: things that I feel like it's important to say, all right,
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Speaker 2: there's a number of different things in play when it
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Speaker 2: comes to autism. This is not something that's solely caused
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Speaker 2: by Taiwan Hall. Okay, that's not what it is. The
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Speaker 2: questions I guess raised in this study are at a
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Speaker 2: period of time when there were pregnant women were starting
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Speaker 2: to be encouraged instead of taking other pain medicines, taking
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Speaker 2: a seat of meniphin while they were pregnant or nursing
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Speaker 2: or whatever. I don't really I don't know the full
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Speaker 2: details of the study, but they say that this was
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Speaker 2: one of the things that they started to look into. Okay,
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Speaker 2: And I know there's been questions about some vaccines. There's
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Speaker 2: been questions about all of these things that have possibly
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Speaker 2: participated in an increased number of people with autism. And
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Speaker 2: I guess the main thing I feel like that should
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Speaker 2: be said is doctors were encouraging it. I don't think
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Speaker 2: moms should feel bad about this. I feel like they
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Speaker 2: really need to take a breath. This study is this
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Speaker 2: is still a work in progress, but possibly some links there.
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Speaker 2: The study suggests that there are science has to science,
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Speaker 2: and I know we've gone through this phase, especially with
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Speaker 2: medical science, where people don't necessarily trust it as much,
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Speaker 2: which as they used to. It got weaponized for the
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Speaker 2: purposes of a political election and getting rid of a
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Speaker 2: president who eventually got right back into office. Anyway, but
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Speaker 2: I feel it's important to say that to the moms
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Speaker 2: and the dads, anybody, and the doctors that maybe now
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Speaker 2: we're questioning it or they're looking into it a little
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Speaker 2: bit more. And here's the thing I don't know that
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Speaker 2: there's a better medicine for pregnant moms than tail and
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Speaker 2: all in that situation. I don't know, that's conversation that
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Speaker 2: you would have to have with your doctor if you're
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Speaker 2: expecting or you're going to be expecting, in all those things,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like it's important just to address that
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Speaker 2: part of it. A lot of conversation about this, a
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Speaker 2: lot of talk about it. So there's that. Another thing
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Speaker 2: that I guess came up yesterday. As I guess, there
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Speaker 2: was some conversation over the course of the day about
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Speaker 2: the rapture. Some people thought the world was going to
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Speaker 2: end yesterday. Here we are today. First of all, here
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Speaker 2: we are. I saw some people making jokes about it,
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Speaker 2: some of my leftist friends saying, Haha, it didn't happen,
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Speaker 2: and I survived another rapture or a potential rapture.
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Speaker 1: Let me just.
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Speaker 2: Remind you, and something I've talked about on the show
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Speaker 2: many times, we've also survived several of the world is
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Speaker 2: going to end, will be underwater now hoaxes. So let's
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Speaker 2: just let's just keep that in mind. If we're going
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Speaker 2: to start handing out these joke punch cards, we can
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Speaker 2: start doing them with the because I've equated the environmental
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Speaker 2: religion to the street preachers screaming about the end of
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Speaker 2: the world. And we've seen it all the way back
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Speaker 2: to al Gore, And I guess before even al Gore,
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Speaker 2: it was the we're going to have an ice age
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Speaker 2: that didn't happen. We've got twelve years before the ice age,
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Speaker 2: and we're all going to freeze and it's going to
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Speaker 2: be worst thing. Ever, then it suddenly became no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be underwater, ice caps melting, no more
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Speaker 2: polar bear, all of that stuff. So we got a
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Speaker 2: bunch of those twelve years we're gonna all be underwater,
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Speaker 2: twelve years, we're gonna.
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Speaker 1: All be dead.
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Speaker 2: We're not talking about that very much right now, are we.
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Speaker 2: Seems to be a lot more focus just on Trump.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Trump at the UN and I guess, first
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Speaker 2: of all, he and the first lady going up an escalator,
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Speaker 2: the escalator magically just turns off on them, and then
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Speaker 2: his teleprompter messed up. That was probably better for him,
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Speaker 2: because he seems to do better just off the cuff,
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Speaker 2: not necessarily from a teleprompter. Some questions though about now
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Speaker 2: they say they've tested them. They say that no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: this was just completely an accident and just shut off,
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Speaker 2: just a coincidence that it just happened to happen to
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Speaker 2: the two of them. Caroline Levitt saying if someone did
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Speaker 2: it on purpose, they should be fired period. Folks at
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Speaker 2: the un saying no, no, no, no, no, that's not what happened.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know. So speaking of Trump, I told
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Speaker 2: you it was a lot of news yesterday, a lot
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Speaker 2: to cover. Ryan Ruth was found guilty on all counts.
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Speaker 1: He's the.
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Speaker 2: Golf course attempted assassin. Now that he's been found guilty,
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Speaker 2: we don't even have to say alleged anymore. He's the
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Speaker 2: guy that was hiding at what the sixth Green, waiting
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Speaker 2: for Trump to come in and was going to try
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Speaker 2: to shoot him through a fence. That was the allegation.
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Speaker 2: That's what the jury has decided, and yes, found guilty.
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Speaker 2: And here's where the next step comes. Reports saying I
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Speaker 2: didn't see the footage or anything, but apparently he pulls
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Speaker 2: out not a knife, he pulls out a pen and
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Speaker 2: tries to stab himself in the neck right after the
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Speaker 2: verdict was read, and they say he was trying to
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Speaker 2: set himself up as a martyr. Story was weird, weird
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Speaker 2: from the beginning his arrest, all of his demeanor at
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Speaker 2: his arrest, him representing himself in court, one of those things.
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Speaker 2: You know, a man who represents himself in court has
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Speaker 2: a fool for a client, that sort of mentality, that's
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Speaker 2: that's been there for a long time. He was very
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Speaker 2: much one of those guys. And his family says that
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Speaker 2: this was this was all a setup. This was all
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Speaker 2: a biggest setup. So all right, there's that. Next, we
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Speaker 2: mentioned the fact that Jimmy Kimmel back on last night,
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Speaker 2: but not on all the stations. The two groups that
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Speaker 2: own most or a large chunk of the stations. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if it's the majority of the ABC stations,
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Speaker 2: but they own a bunch of them. Sinclair and What
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Speaker 2: Next Star decided, Nope, we are not going to run
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Speaker 2: a show and we don't want anything to do with that.
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Speaker 2: That's not in our best interest or in the best
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Speaker 2: interest of our audience. And that's the way it plays out.
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Speaker 2: And whether or not him not being on those stations
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Speaker 2: will make a big enough of a difference for ABC
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Speaker 2: to decide whether or not they want to continue moving forward.
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Speaker 2: With the show. I have said that if the administration
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Speaker 2: had been involved, then yes, you could make the case
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Speaker 2: about this being a First Amendment thing if they were
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Speaker 2: putting pressure by the FCC on ABC. But now that
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Speaker 2: ABC and Disney have said no, no, this was our call,
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Speaker 2: this was our decision, and we made this call. So
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Speaker 2: that should shut all of that up. Shouldn't it shut up?
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't a couple other things? And I just kind of
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Speaker 2: wanted to discuss this just a little bit, and it's
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Speaker 2: just one of those things I've heard a few people
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Speaker 2: have pointed me in the direction of a few other
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Speaker 2: shows or commentators or hosts that have actually been talking
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Speaker 2: about the fact that conservatives need to get more violent,
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Speaker 2: need to be more aggressive. I can agree maybe a
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Speaker 2: little bit with the aggressive, but not aggressive towards violence.
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Speaker 2: I don't think getting more violent is the way to go.
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Speaker 2: I do think that the fact that we have been
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Speaker 2: pressured so much by the left to support Democrats on
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Speaker 2: all issues, to support the gay community, support the trans community,
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Speaker 2: to support Black Lives Matter, to support you know, the
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Speaker 2: Palestinian movement, or supporting the idea of all police or aggressors,
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Speaker 2: that everybody that that disagrees with them as a fascist.
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Speaker 2: All conservatives are racist, all police officers are racist. All
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Speaker 2: of these things have been building and building and building,
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Speaker 2: and we've been told over and over again. I've got
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Speaker 2: people that one time I would have called a friend
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Speaker 2: until they decided one day that all conservatives are racist.
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Speaker 2: And then I think, well, you're talking about me, So
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Speaker 2: it's going to be hard for me to be friends
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Speaker 2: with you. That's going to be a challenge. And I
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Speaker 2: feel like now that we've gotten to this point where
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Speaker 2: someone like Charlie Kirk becomes in the crosshairs, then it
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Speaker 2: does make things more difficult for me to be friends
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Speaker 2: with people who think that it's good that he was killed.
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Speaker 2: It makes it harder for me to want to sit
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Speaker 2: down and break bread with them. I know that I
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Speaker 2: still should, but that's as far as I think the
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Speaker 2: aggression can go for me. I can't be someone who
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Speaker 2: says I have to get in their face and I
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Speaker 2: have to go after them, and I have to call
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Speaker 2: them names, and I have to point out when something
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Speaker 2: that they do is closer to fascism than Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 2: But we're not going to change their minds for the
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Speaker 2: most part, and I've done that show, and I told
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Speaker 2: you to my liberal friends that might listen, or if
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Speaker 2: you have someone in your life. It is a common
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Speaker 2: sense kind of liberal. It's left of center that understands
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Speaker 2: that this extreme talk is not helping any of us.
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Speaker 2: It's on them to try to win over the extreme
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Speaker 2: people on the far left. It's up to them. They
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Speaker 2: have to do it. We can't do it. We're just
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Speaker 2: going to get more name calling and we're just going
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Speaker 2: to put ourselves in the crosshairs. But here's the other
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Speaker 2: part of this. And I've addressed this a few times
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Speaker 2: because I know someone who I've talked about this before.
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Speaker 2: They were going to transition their gender from male to female,
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Speaker 2: and they basically said, I appreciate those of you who
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Speaker 2: have reached out to me privately to say good for you,
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Speaker 2: we support you. But if you're not doing it publicly,
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Speaker 2: you're not really my friend. If you're not doing it publicly,
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Speaker 2: you're not an ally. If you're not doing it publicly,
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Speaker 2: your silence speaks loudly, and by being silent, you're actually
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Speaker 2: hurting the trans community and you're against what we're doing.
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Speaker 2: It's violence towards me. It's violence towards all of us.
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Speaker 2: And this is another slap in the face. This is
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Speaker 2: where it becomes you're not even allowed to opt out
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Speaker 2: of the discussion. You can't just tap out and say
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get involved in this. The expectation
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Speaker 2: on the left by many continues to be you have
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Speaker 2: to say something. It's the reason that so many of
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Speaker 2: them felt like they had to say something negative about
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. It's the reason they felt like they needed
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Speaker 2: to quote something that was not the correct quote. It's
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Speaker 2: the reason that they had to say something like Pink said,
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Speaker 2: Playpop goes to the weasel. It is memorial, or that
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Speaker 2: people who went to them memorial said, this isn't just
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Speaker 2: a regular memorial, this is a Nazi rally. Even Don
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Speaker 2: Lemon said that it was a negative thing. It was
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Speaker 2: a bad thing that memorial and he had to leave
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Speaker 2: early because it just was really concerning him because he
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Speaker 2: felt like it was a revival disguised as a memorial.
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Speaker 2: Probably is what it was. And it says a lot
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Speaker 2: about Non Lemon that a revival makes him uncomfortable, says
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Speaker 2: a lot about anybody that a revival in this country,
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Speaker 2: which is what we've needed for a long time, and
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Speaker 2: it can't just be on the right.
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Speaker 1: We need it.
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Speaker 2: We need it across the board. It's the only way
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Speaker 2: people are going to reach across the aisle. It's the
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Speaker 2: only way it's going to happen. People are going to
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Speaker 2: have to take a minute and say, you mean this partial,
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Speaker 2: tiny bit of a quote that if I read the
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Speaker 2: full quote doesn't say what I said. It said maybe
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Speaker 2: I was wrong. It takes a revival for that. It
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Speaker 2: takes a revival times for us to realize that we
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Speaker 2: overstated something or we just were wrong, or we lied
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Speaker 2: or whatever. It is. Takes a lot sometimes for that.
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Speaker 2: So just kind of understanding a little bit this mentality
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Speaker 2: of you have to say something or you're not participating.
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Speaker 2: It's part of why these people felt like they had
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Speaker 2: to say something. Doesn't make it right, still very wrong,
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Speaker 2: but might have something to do with the reasoning behind it.
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show right after the break Well. It seems
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Speaker 2: Americans are hitting the brakes on subscriptions from streaming to
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Speaker 2: food delivery apps. After years of signing up for everything,
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Speaker 2: people now cutting back, and cutting back hard. According to
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Speaker 2: a new survey, the average household went from four point
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Speaker 2: one paid subscriptions in twenty twenty four to two point
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Speaker 2: eight this year. It's a thirty two percent drop. Why
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Speaker 2: the sudden shift, well, money in short. Thirty five percent
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Speaker 2: blamed the high cost of living, thirty three percent said
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Speaker 2: prices had risen too much, twenty six percent said they
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Speaker 2: were cutting expenses. Nearly half the subscribers surveyed said that
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Speaker 2: they won't tolerate any more price hikes. Passwords sharing crackdowns
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Speaker 2: haven't helped either. Instead of converting shares into paying customers,
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Speaker 2: many are just walking away. Food delivery apps also losing steam,
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Speaker 2: mostly because of high delivery markups cancel any of the
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Speaker 2: savings that you might have gotten. Bottom line, people are
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Speaker 2: just tired of paying more. I mean, that's really what
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Speaker 2: it's about. And every time a subscription cost goes up,
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Speaker 2: or there's some sort of we're going to add this
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Speaker 2: for you, but we're going to also bump the cost up,
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Speaker 2: all of those things end up being a problem. And
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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people who cut chords in general,
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Speaker 2: and they got rid of their cable or their satellite
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Speaker 2: TV and thought, I'm going to ride this out a
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Speaker 2: little bit with some of these streaming services, and then
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Speaker 2: the content on some of the streaming services isn't quite
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Speaker 2: what they were expecting, and it doesn't mean they're going
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Speaker 2: back to cable. I think people are realizing that they're
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Speaker 2: able to live without cable. And that's what starts to
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Speaker 2: get dangerous for some of these streaming platforms, is once
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Speaker 2: you realize that you can live without them, then that's
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Speaker 2: when it becomes dangerous for them, because as soon as
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Speaker 2: you know, look, I can do without this, and I
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Speaker 2: can do without some of these streaming platforms, then you
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Speaker 2: never really want to necessarily go back. So we'll see
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Speaker 2: all of this plays out. Some of the services basically
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Speaker 2: just aren't putting out great content necessarily, and some are
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Speaker 2: and some I think are frustrated with some of the
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Speaker 2: companies behind them. But that's another reason altogether. We're still
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Speaker 2: splurging on Halloween, even though I just told you that
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Speaker 2: there's people complaining about the cost of living and people
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Speaker 2: are saying it's cost too much to have all these
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Speaker 2: subscription services, but people are still spending money on Halloween.
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Speaker 2: About eighty two percent plan to make Halloween purchases, even
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Speaker 2: many already having started their shopping, and according to the
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Speaker 2: survey done by retail Me Not they say spending is
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Speaker 2: expected to hit a record thirteen point one billion, with
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Speaker 2: the average person shelling out about ninety two dollars. Candy
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Speaker 2: still the top buy, not a surprise, you want to
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Speaker 2: have something for the trigger treaters seventy percent of shoppers
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Speaker 2: planning to stock up. But people are also investing in
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Speaker 2: home and yard decorations, costumes, and tickets to events like
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Speaker 2: haunted houses. There's a trend that is sparking debate on
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Speaker 2: social media grandma showers, as in baby showers for grandmothers,
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Speaker 2: instead of celebrating the mom to be, parties that are
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Speaker 2: putting the spotlight on the soon to be grandmother. Reactions
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Speaker 2: have been mixed, as you might guess, many questioning the
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Speaker 2: need for the parties in the first place. Supporters say
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Speaker 2: it makes sense, especially if the grandmother is going to
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Speaker 2: be helping with childcare. Ah, you didn't think of that
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Speaker 2: at first, did you? Having baby stuff at her house?
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Speaker 2: Crib diapers those can be practical to have on hand. Critics,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, call it taki, and they call
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Speaker 2: it peak Boomer entitlement, and they say it shifts the
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Speaker 2: attention and gifts away from the actual parents. Still, others
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Speaker 2: suggested alternatives like a brunch that wouldn't require gifts. But
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Speaker 2: if the goal is to help the grandmother to be
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Speaker 2: stock up on supplies for when the kids are going
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Speaker 2: to be there, it just depends on I guess what
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Speaker 2: the intention is. I don't know. If you feel like
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Speaker 2: you're just going through the motions every day, it's because
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Speaker 2: you maybe are. A new global study found ninety percent
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Speaker 2: of our daily actions happen automatically without us really thinking
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Speaker 2: about them, from brushing your teeth to making coffee to
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Speaker 2: your daily commute. Most of what we do driven by
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Speaker 2: habit rather than conscious thought. Another sixty five percent of
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Speaker 2: our daily activity triggered by environmental cues, like grabbing your
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Speaker 2: phone when it rings or buzzes or vibrates or whatever
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Speaker 2: it does. One exception exercise people tend to start workouts
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Speaker 2: out of habit, but once they're moving, they need to
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Speaker 2: stay mentally engaged though, to keep it going. I think
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Speaker 2: that's also partly because that's a longer activity. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's not brushing your teeth a couple of minutes, and
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Speaker 2: you probably are you know, doing that out of habit.
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Speaker 2: You know about how long it's supposed to take. You
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Speaker 2: know about how long exercise is supposed to take. But
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Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen models apparently scratch easily. Owners of the new
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Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen, which was released a week ago, mazed by
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Speaker 2: how sleek and shiny the gadgets are, but some early
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Speaker 2: users and reviewers noticing that the finish is beautiful but
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Speaker 2: also fragile. They're going as far as to say the
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Speaker 2: iPhone seventeen is a scratch magnet, with models particularly prone
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Speaker 2: to visible scuffs and marks. The issue appears to impact
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Speaker 2: the black iPhone Air in, the Blue iPhone Pro and
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Speaker 2: Promax the most, so I'm one of those people that
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Speaker 2: has to have his phone in a case. I'm a
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Speaker 2: big otter Box fan because I dropped mine a lot
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Speaker 2: and touch wood or whatever I got to touch. So
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Speaker 2: far the otter Box has been very good for me.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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