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Don't Carry Their Water · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, eighth day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Feels like it's been a while. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a little, little while. Just a little while. Glad to
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  Speaker 2: be back here with you. Missing Dragon Con already. Some
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  Speaker 2: people go and they, they get there. Like the, the
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  Speaker 2: convention is like, it kicks off like Thursday night and
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  Speaker 2: it runs, uh, through Labor Day. And, uh, this is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Con, the, uh, popular arts convention that takes place
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  Speaker 2: in downtown Atlanta every Labor Day weekend and wrapped up yesterday. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's some people who get there, like there was a
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  Speaker 2: point where people would get there, like it would start
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  Speaker 2: on Friday and they would get there on Thursday and
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  Speaker 2: And then it now starts kind of, there's like a
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  Speaker 2: kickoff sort of thing on Thursday night with a few
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  Speaker 2: things going on. Not a lot, but a little bit
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  Speaker 2: going on on Thursday. And then they probably added some
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  Speaker 2: more stuff this year. But then people would then get
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  Speaker 2: there on Wednesday. And some people get there Tuesday, Monday, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you this. I went once on Wednesday. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: because we wanted to get into our hotel room as
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  Speaker 2: soon as we could on Thursday and kind of get started.
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  Speaker 2: And we stayed with a friend who was going with us,
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  Speaker 2: but who lived not far from the hotel. And we thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get up there really early and we'll be ready
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  Speaker 2: to get straight into the room as soon as the
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  Speaker 2: room's available. That was one night too many. Now, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't go to any parties on Wednesday. We didn't do
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  Speaker 2: any of that. It just felt like this is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit too long to be here for this. But
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  Speaker 2: the people that are there for the party aspect of it,
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  Speaker 2: not specifically the convention, like they get there as early
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  Speaker 2: as they can. And there's, you know, organizing parties and
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  Speaker 2: get togethers and all that. And I'm sure it's great
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  Speaker 2: for the hotels. I just kind of observed that there
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  Speaker 2: were some people who were kind of, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: were getting a little like you're there long enough that
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of burned out a little from all the
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  Speaker 2: partying and stuff that goes on. And, you know, people
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  Speaker 2: that are there for the conventions, maybe had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more space because they were there for the conventions
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  Speaker 2: and uh by uh sunday night but uh i say
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  Speaker 2: the conventions the convention activities i mean um anyway it
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  Speaker 2: was uh you know i always miss it when it's
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  Speaker 2: over and uh look forward to to next year but
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  Speaker 2: uh you know i think you get to a point
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  Speaker 2: where you go you're there you have a good time
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  Speaker 2: it's time to go home it's just you know go
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  Speaker 2: to a sporting event you can have a good time
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  Speaker 2: at the sporting event and it's you know at some
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  Speaker 2: point you want to go home you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: just be at the sporting event forever So that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what happens. And we had a really good time.
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  Speaker 2: My group that was there and did some, did what
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  Speaker 2: I call game day coverage. I went and talked to
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  Speaker 2: some of the vendors at the convention for this year,
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  Speaker 2: and we had that uploaded on Friday. And any others
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  Speaker 2: that checked that out, thank you for that. And thanks
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  Speaker 2: to the vendors who hosted us for that early that
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  Speaker 2: morning before the vendor hall actually officially opened up on
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning at 10 a.m. So Uh, great with that, uh, to,
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  Speaker 2: to be part of that great, uh, as always, uh,
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  Speaker 2: part of it, my interview with Tricia Helfer caught up
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  Speaker 2: with her again. Uh, we look very different in our
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  Speaker 2: photo from, uh, 2013 and our photo from this weekend. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: both of us look very different. Uh, she still looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I look old. I don't know. Look older. How about that? We, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Caught up, though, a few others that I was able
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  Speaker 2: to catch up with as well. Alan Tudyk was someone
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  Speaker 2: that I was looking forward to catching up with. I
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  Speaker 2: interviewed him around that same time, maybe 2014, and just
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  Speaker 2: he blew up soon after that with so much that
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  Speaker 2: he was doing. Star Wars and Resident Alien and a
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  Speaker 2: number of others. He became a Disney legend, but had
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  Speaker 2: a nice chance to quickly catch up with him and
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  Speaker 2: chat for a little bit. and some others. But make
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  Speaker 2: sure to check out the DragonCon pregame show podcast. You
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  Speaker 2: can go back and listen to interviews with Alan Tudyk
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  Speaker 2: and Tricia Helfer and Ross Marquand, who was there this year.
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  Speaker 2: I've interviewed him a few times. He was in Columbus
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  Speaker 2: for an event not long ago, a few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and had him on. He's one of my few multi-time
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  Speaker 2: guests that I've had on. But we had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: You can start thinking about DragonCon maybe for next year
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  Speaker 2: and checking out some of the interviews that we've done
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  Speaker 2: over the years. And I want to thank Columbus State
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  Speaker 2: University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center for sponsoring our coverage of
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  Speaker 2: the convention. And by all means, check out those past episodes.
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  Speaker 2: A few things that I want to talk about. One
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  Speaker 2: of those things that's great about a convention like DragonCon
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  Speaker 2: is you get together with a lot of different people. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people have varying, uh, fandoms that are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: part of when they're at a convention like that, but
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  Speaker 2: also it's a lot of different opinions. It's a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: it's a gathering of just a lot of different types
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  Speaker 2: of people. And you get together with, you know, 70,000
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  Speaker 2: plus people that, you know, coming from all walks of
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  Speaker 2: life and, and interests and things. Um, It can make
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  Speaker 2: you feel small when you're in an event like that
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  Speaker 2: and you're just looking around at the number of people
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  Speaker 2: that are there and then you see, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: there's 3,000 people going to a panel for this particular
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  Speaker 2: movie or TV show and several hundred that are going
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  Speaker 2: over here to watch somebody do a reading of a
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  Speaker 2: book and then there's all the people going to the
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  Speaker 2: science track and there's people going to a concert and
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  Speaker 2: all these things are going all these different directions all
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  Speaker 2: at once and it's like being in heavy traffic on
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  Speaker 2: a highway. And one of the things that you do, too,
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  Speaker 2: is you get a chance to talk with people and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, varying points of view, varying political backgrounds and
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  Speaker 2: beliefs and all these things. And I just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that came up at some point
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, and I feel like it's worth mentioning
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  Speaker 2: this sometimes because I think a lot of people get
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  Speaker 2: caught up in one thing in particular, one aspect of
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  Speaker 2: this whole political thing. And I'm not telling you or them,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, how to... Long weekend, a lot of talking,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of having to talk very loudly with people.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's, you know, music and places that you're in
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. And just a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, before I get to this other
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  Speaker 2: part of this, one of the other fun things about
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  Speaker 2: an event like DragonCon is... Very accommodating to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of needs for people. One of my friends in our
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  Speaker 2: group was having some difficulty walking and needed to be
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  Speaker 2: in a wheelchair for the weekend. And I was pushing
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  Speaker 2: her around a lot. There were several in our group
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  Speaker 2: that were pushing her around, but I often was the
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  Speaker 2: one pushing her just because I was like, I can
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  Speaker 2: and I'm happy to do it. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of event where people are getting out of the
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  Speaker 2: way for wheelchairs, people that have mobility scooters or wheelchairs
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  Speaker 2: or strollers or things where there's elevators involved. And people
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  Speaker 2: offering to get off elevators when they realize, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is a packed elevator, but you've got to get a
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  Speaker 2: wheelchair on. And so they step off. I've been on
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  Speaker 2: that side of it many times before. This was kind
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  Speaker 2: of the first real time that we've been through it
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of it with one in our group.
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  Speaker 2: So another cool thing about a convention like DragonCon that
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  Speaker 2: people are typically very friendly for things like that. All right,
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  Speaker 2: back to my other thing, because this is, you know, just,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people, and I think I talked
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  Speaker 2: about this a year ago, maybe two years ago. They just,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of get caught up in, they're there, they
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about politics or something. And I just,
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  Speaker 2: I get to this point where I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're at this thing. Why does, why does politics have
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  Speaker 2: to be injected into the conversation? Like, why do you
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  Speaker 2: feel a need to inject it into everything? And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know this is something that's important to people and
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  Speaker 2: they believe that, you know, this conversation is going to
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  Speaker 2: be the tipping point This one-on-one conversation with someone on
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  Speaker 2: the street or at a convention or, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Con or a sporting event or, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: the mall, whatever it is. Like they feel like every
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  Speaker 2: conversation is going to be the tipping point in the
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  Speaker 2: next election. And there's a reason for that. And it's
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  Speaker 2: because that's kind of the way that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times politicians want you to feel. And it certainly feels
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  Speaker 2: like both sides over the years have done this. definitely
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  Speaker 2: feels like on the left it's a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: especially with Trump in office it's the you know fire
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  Speaker 2: and brimstone and we're all going to die and oh
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  Speaker 2: no you know you got to get the word out
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  Speaker 2: and we're in the revolution and all the silliness and
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  Speaker 2: you're not in a revolution that's the first thing I
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  Speaker 2: think is important to remind you is you're not you
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  Speaker 2: may feel like you are you may have convinced yourself
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  Speaker 2: that you're in some kind of a revolution you're not
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  Speaker 2: there's no revolution going on been talking about that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit over the last few weeks But just the
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  Speaker 2: reminder that you're allowed to enjoy life, and you're also
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  Speaker 2: allowed to opt out of the part where they expect
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  Speaker 2: you and want you to carry the water for them,
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  Speaker 2: like they want you to be the pawns in this
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  Speaker 2: whole experience that is the election cycles. Sure. go vote,
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  Speaker 2: be informed, be educated and go vote. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your social media or your time, your conversations with people,
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  Speaker 2: that's still your time. I just want to encourage people
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  Speaker 2: to like reclaim their time. Reclaim your social media, reclaim
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  Speaker 2: the things in your family, the things that are important
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  Speaker 2: to you, because you don't have to talk about this
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  Speaker 2: stuff all the time. And I really highly encourage you
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  Speaker 2: to not do that. I mean, sure. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: have these moments where you're going to have a conversation
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  Speaker 2: with someone and you say, Hey, what'd you think about that? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a, you know, intro. Yeah, I do too.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have, that's normal. I'm not telling you
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  Speaker 2: to shut people down. I'm just pointing out the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you don't have to jump in the echo chamber
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  Speaker 2: all the time and just fire off thoughts. Because you're
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  Speaker 2: being a pawn for people. You're being a pawn on
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  Speaker 2: the chessboard. And you don't have to. There's nothing that
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  Speaker 2: requires you to do that, to participate in our political system.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to do any of those things. You're
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  Speaker 2: allowed to just live your life. love your family, love
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  Speaker 2: your friends, go to work, you know, and, and do
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  Speaker 2: your job. And then, you know, go home. You, you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be something that they want you to
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  Speaker 2: be because it's what they need you to be. They
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  Speaker 2: want you stoking the fire so that more people will
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  Speaker 2: show up on midterm election day. And you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do that. Nothing requires you to do that. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And this is coming from someone who I know. I
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  Speaker 2: have this opportunity to talk with many of you over
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  Speaker 2: the years, radio and here. And I know that that's
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  Speaker 2: coming from me. It probably seems, oh, well, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: got people that will hear what you got to say.
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  Speaker 2: And I am blessed in that opportunity. But I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you this. There's many times when people want to
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  Speaker 2: talk politics with me or they want to talk some
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  Speaker 2: current event thing. They want to talk about this trial,
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  Speaker 2: this mistrial that happened. And look, I've told you here,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know enough about all that to have an
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  Speaker 2: opinion on it. I've told you a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: what I think, some interesting takes on it, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's weird that we're just so obsessed with thinking
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  Speaker 2: that we can know what happened, and you don't know
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  Speaker 2: what happened. The same people who say, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm agnostic or atheist when it comes to religion, But
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  Speaker 2: I know what happened at some house from these people
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  Speaker 2: when these kids were killed. I mean, start with kids
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  Speaker 2: were killed. Let's all just feel horrible about that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Let's focus on that. But we can't know. And is
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  Speaker 2: it normal for us to have a curiosity as a society?
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been fascinated with trials and things over the years.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes our justice system, while it is the best
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  Speaker 2: in the world that's ever existed, is a justice system.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they get it wrong. You know, sometimes we have
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  Speaker 2: people that are convicted that are innocent, and sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: have people that are innocent that are, I'm sorry, that
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  Speaker 2: are guilty and they, you know, found not guilty and
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  Speaker 2: they get to walk. It's just how it goes sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they take a crime that used to be a
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  Speaker 2: misdemeanor and they make it into a felony, kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, back into a situation where they can say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a felony now, so we're going to, try to
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  Speaker 2: get people from, keep them from running for president anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still a good system that we have. It
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  Speaker 2: really is. And we're still in a position where you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be vocal about it. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be evangelical. You don't have to. You can. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not telling you that you can. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that you remember you don't have to. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to spend your time talking about it. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to spend your time trying to be evangelical
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  Speaker 2: about it. You don't have to try to convert people
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  Speaker 2: to your opinion. You don't. You're allowed to go on
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  Speaker 2: about your day. You're allowed to go to brunches. The
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  Speaker 2: left doesn't want you to have brunches. They want you
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  Speaker 2: to feel like you're constantly active in things. I do
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  Speaker 2: want to mention also in the subject of all of this,
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  Speaker 2: I saw the story about– this Georgetown thing with the
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  Speaker 2: students that are planning a Charlie Kirk lookalike contest coming
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  Speaker 2: up on the 10th anniversary of his assassination. And now
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  Speaker 2: this is, you know, this is what got out, whether
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  Speaker 2: this is really going to end up happening or not.
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  Speaker 2: I would hope that the school would not be in
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  Speaker 2: favor of this. I would hope this is something that
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  Speaker 2: would be discouraged and But Fizz is a social media
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  Speaker 2: platform that Georgetown students use. And I guess it's an
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  Speaker 2: anonymous thing. You can go in and, like, that's never
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  Speaker 2: been bad, has it? It's never been bad to have
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  Speaker 2: people that are anonymous when they're firing off stuff online. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like 2,200 people, more than 2,200 people with upvotes on
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  Speaker 2: this or likes from that. And, uh, people just saying
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  Speaker 2: that they went to the undergrads, by the way, about 6,000.
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  Speaker 2: So you, you do the math on that, on how
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  Speaker 2: many people are at least interested or find this comical,
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  Speaker 2: this idea that someone being assassinated in front of their
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  Speaker 2: family and on a campus event that everybody was unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: able to see.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. It's just this is kind of who we are
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  Speaker 2: with our sick fascination with things. And this is amongst
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  Speaker 2: the most tacky things. It's just awful. And I've seen
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  Speaker 2: people here lately making comments about they didn't like something
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  Speaker 2: someone said. And they said, oh, maybe they should get,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Luigi Mangione. And you go, really? This is.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that you think, like, you're using that
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  Speaker 2: as a verb now. So you're encouraging murder. I just,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I understand the encouraging of killing
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  Speaker 2: being something that is allowed. I think there's a term
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  Speaker 2: for it if you tell someone that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: kill them. It's terroristic threats. You can be charged with
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  Speaker 2: that in many places. But doing it online, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: is not necessarily... Like, they can't charge you with that, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Terrorism in general. Trying to scare people into doing whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is that you want instead of being able to
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  Speaker 2: have their own opinion and thoughts. And I understand why
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  Speaker 2: some people on the right feel a need to do
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  Speaker 2: this sounding off and letting people know, because they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be afraid. They don't want to seem like
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  Speaker 2: they're afraid. And I'm not telling you, again, not to
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  Speaker 2: do it. I'm just telling you that you don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: There's no obligation for anyone to do it. And just
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  Speaker 2: reclaim your space, your time, your social media. Let it
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  Speaker 2: and also check out when the next astronomy night's coming
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  Speaker 2: up where you can get outside. Sometimes you do it
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  Speaker 2: at the Coca-Cola Space Science Center. Sometimes you get outside,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere outside the city lights. You don't want any light interference,
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  Speaker 2: and you can do that as well. Upcoming Astronomy Night
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  Speaker 2: events also on their website. It's ccssc.org. As Sean Cruzan says, charliecharliesamsamcharlie.org.
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  Speaker 2: I just remind you that it stands for Coca-Cola Space
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  Speaker 2: Door Company of Columbus. For all of your garage door needs, commercial...
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  Speaker 2: or residential maybe you have regular maintenance that it's time
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  Speaker 2: be and you need some repair work done to the
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's making a noise when your garage door opens
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  Speaker 2: and closes. Maybe it's some sort of insulation issue that
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  Speaker 2: you've got with colder or warmer weather. Sometimes that stuff
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  Speaker 2: gets in and it's inconvenient. Maybe you're looking at a
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  Speaker 2: your garage door system that you can put down and
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  Speaker 2: you can use your garage space as a sort of outdoor,
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  Speaker 2: your own cars in there, or maybe you just want
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  Speaker 2: And again, they do after hours calls. There's nothing worse
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  Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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  Speaker 2: did you travel over the holiday weekend? Apparently a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people did. This Labor Day weekend is one of
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  Speaker 2: the busiest travel times of the year. Millions of Americans
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: took to the road, airports, cruises, all these things. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it's kind of that official, unofficial end of summer. That's
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the way they.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it.
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  Speaker 2: So a reason for that. People wanting to get out
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  Speaker 2: and experience things. AAA basically says the top destinations for
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  Speaker 2: this year were Seattle, Orlando, Boston, Denver, New York, Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: the LA area, Vegas, Anchorage, and then Atlanta. I think
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Con and college football both probably had some impact
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  Speaker 2: on Atlanta being a big destination for the weekend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're back into the Burr months, and I guess we're
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  Speaker 2: getting a little bit of a break in temperatures. It
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  Speaker 2: was hot in Atlanta for Dragon Con. It was a
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  Speaker 2: really hot... Last year, temperatures dropped right before Labor Day,
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  Speaker 2: and we had that little bit of a break in
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  Speaker 2: those temperatures over the course of the convention last year.
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  Speaker 2: And we were able to... Our room with our balcony
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  Speaker 2: just kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of opened the door, and it was.
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't much warmer, especially kind of early in the morning. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't much warmer outside if at all. And we
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: were able to do that and kind of enjoy being
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  Speaker 2: able to, uh, to do that and get some fresh air, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in our room. But there was no way we could
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  Speaker 2: have done that this year. It was, we were just
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  Speaker 2: cooking up there, uh, anytime we had to be outside
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  Speaker 2: for any reason. Uh, but now that we're into the
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  Speaker 2: Burr months and we're now, you know, a week into
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  Speaker 2: the Burr months, um, And that's, by the way, September, October, November, December.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people are excited about getting a little break
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  Speaker 2: maybe soon on the AC.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, getting back into being able to wear
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  Speaker 2: like a hoodie or a sweater and all those sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things. And of course, people get into the all
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  Speaker 2: the pumpkin spice stuff, blankets and warm drinks and all
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  Speaker 2: those things. So We're here. We've made it. We just
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: have to get the temperatures to cooperate, at least where
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: we're able to enjoy them. It's coming. Soon, it's coming.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Healthcare may be your best bet for a six-figure career.
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  Speaker 2: New Labor Department data identifying the fastest-growing jobs that pay
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  Speaker 2: more than $ 100, 000 a year. And many of them in
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  Speaker 2: health care, nurse practitioners topping the list with a projected
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  Speaker 2: job growth of 41% through 2035 and a median salary
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  Speaker 2: of about $ 132, 000. Physicians assistants, health service managers, physical therapists,
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  Speaker 2: and medical scientists also making the cut. Tech jobs also
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  Speaker 2: well represented. Data scientists, information security analysts, and computer research
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  Speaker 2: scientists all expected to see strong demand and six-figure salaries.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if AI is helping any of that stuff. Or,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you know, the need to be on the human side
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  Speaker 2: of it. The report says that the aging population and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: rising rates of chronic illnesses fueling the healthcare boom, while
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: cybersecurity and data-related roles remain in demand, despite concerns about
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: AI disrupting things. 13 fastest growing jobs that pay over $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 2: a year. And I say 13, I'm not going to
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: hit all these, but 13 on the list, physical therapists.
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  Speaker 2: Industrial engineers are in the list, occupational therapists, computer information
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  Speaker 2: and systems managers, health specialties teachers, post-secondary and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Computer and information research science, medical and health service managers,
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  Speaker 2: data scientists, and yeah, nurse practitioner. up at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the list. PAs also pretty high on the list.
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  Speaker 2: So keep that in mind if you're ready to go
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  Speaker 2: back to school or you're starting school and you're trying
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to figure out exactly where you would like to be
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: at the, you know, getting into the six-figure numbers. Young
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: people are looking for community. We've talked about that a lot.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And some say that they're finding event slop instead. That
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: term referring to quirky viral gatherings like celebrity lookalike contests,
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  Speaker 2: aura battles, niche meetups that seem designed much about social
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  Speaker 2: media content as actual human connection. And a linguist who
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  Speaker 2: coined the idea, arguing that many of these events are
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  Speaker 2: built to generate clicks and algorithm-friendly videos first, with community
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  Speaker 2: coming second. Not everyone sees it as a bad thing, though,
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  Speaker 2: as organizers say that young people enjoy being part of
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the content creation process. And if a goofy event gets
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: people off their phones and into the same physical space,
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  Speaker 2: they say that it's still a win. So if you're
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: looking for community, look for some event slop. That'll do
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  Speaker 2: it for this Tuesday edition of the show. Thanks to
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  Speaker 2: our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening. I'll catch
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  Speaker 2: you back here tomorrow morning.
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