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Happy Holidays... Even the Ones Very Few People Celebrate · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, twenty ninth day of December. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Entering into these last few days of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, ready to springboard into the new year.
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Speaker 2: Some of us are, some of us not quite there yet.
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Speaker 2: We still have our Christmas decorations rolling right along for
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Speaker 2: an indefinite amount of time. Some people have a schedule
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Speaker 2: on a plan for when those Christmas decorations get taken down.
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Speaker 2: We in the past have been a family that we
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Speaker 2: get them down by the first of the year. I
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Speaker 2: grew up in a home where that's typically what we did.
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Speaker 2: I had a very superstitious grandmother on my father's side.
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Speaker 2: My paternal grandmother was very superstitious. She thought it was
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Speaker 2: bad luck to have them up into the new year.
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Speaker 2: You had to have them down, put away, packed up,
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Speaker 2: everything gone by January first, otherwise something bad was gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: She was superstitious about a number of things. She is
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Speaker 2: one of the few people that I know that I
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Speaker 2: would definitely say is superstitious. The emphasis on that super
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Speaker 2: so we just sort of grew up in that type
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Speaker 2: of household, and my lovely bride, who is not from
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Speaker 2: this country, you know, other parts of the world. It's
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Speaker 2: you know, people get into this twelve Days of Christmas
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Speaker 2: thing sometimes and let it roll on into the new
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Speaker 2: year and don't feel a need to hurry up and
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Speaker 2: take things down. We're more that way in our home. Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a superstitious person. I mean, tiny, tiny bit stitious,
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Speaker 2: but really it usually comes with things like sports, and
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Speaker 2: even then, I know it's silly, but there were certain
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Speaker 2: traditions and things that I did, and I say traditions,
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Speaker 2: certain consistent things I did when it came to me
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Speaker 2: playing sports. And I say tradition because you know, you
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Speaker 2: kind of have these things that, especially when it comes
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Speaker 2: to holidays or things that you sort of do on
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Speaker 2: some type of schedule where you do kind of do
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Speaker 2: certain things the same way each time, you know, and
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Speaker 2: when you're getting ready to play a sport I played
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Speaker 2: in high school. I played soccer in high school and
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Speaker 2: played you know, in a rec league's in my adult life.
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Speaker 2: So there's just certain things that you do to get
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Speaker 2: ready to play and they become kind of habit and
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Speaker 2: some people think, you know, you can't wash your socks,
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Speaker 2: or you can't change this type of uniform piece or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. That wasn't necessarily me. That's not the
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Speaker 2: way that I functioned. But there were certain things that
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Speaker 2: I thought, I'm going to do this, or this winning
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Speaker 2: streak is going on, I'm gonna keep wearing these socks.
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Speaker 2: Didn't have to, but you just kind of keep it going,
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Speaker 2: and in your mind, you know that socks have nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with a winning streak. But and then there's
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Speaker 2: certain things with the Nutcracker. I have a pair of
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Speaker 2: socks that I wear for shows. I have show socks
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Speaker 2: I wear, others for rehearsals. I have a special pair
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Speaker 2: of socks that I wear when I'm on stage. It's
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Speaker 2: not really superstitious as much as it's kind of tradition.
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Speaker 2: And I have some these little jewels that I've been
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Speaker 2: wearing on my face for several years, multi year Nutcrackers,
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Speaker 2: multiple shows per year that in the Mother Ginger wardrobe, Sarah,
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Speaker 2: who does my makeup with this show, started sticking these
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Speaker 2: jewels on me, and I remember her telling me the
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Speaker 2: first time, after the first few shows, she said, you
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Speaker 2: just throw those out. We'll get some more for next year,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, no, these are the jewels I
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Speaker 2: wear on stage. And that became sort of a tradition.
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Speaker 2: So in that sense, traditions, yes, not superstitious, not really.
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Speaker 2: And we've kind of pushed some of those things that
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Speaker 2: my grandmother was so worried about in my childhood, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of them related to the new year. Not
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Speaker 2: washing clothes on January first, that was not okay, and
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Speaker 2: if we ever did it in our home, we weren't
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Speaker 2: allowed to ever admit to her that we had washed
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Speaker 2: clothes on January first, for fear of there being significant issues.
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Speaker 2: Not something we so much worry about now, not in
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Speaker 2: our home. We don't really do that, and we're not
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Speaker 2: really you know, think you have to eat certain things tradition, Yes,
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Speaker 2: and that's probably a better description of it. If you're
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Speaker 2: eating certain foods this year on January first, out of tradition,
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Speaker 2: people will say, uh, you know this is going to
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Speaker 2: give you money, lots of money if you eat this
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Speaker 2: or that. And we have some of those traditions here
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Speaker 2: in the South, and you know, I did that for
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Speaker 2: a long time. I don't know where that money went.
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Speaker 2: I don't know where it is. It hasn't arrived yet,
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Speaker 2: but I'm hoping that not continuing that doesn't have an
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Speaker 2: impact on when that money arrives. But we're still in
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Speaker 2: the midst of and I don't know. It's possible that
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Speaker 2: later today Jill's going to say, yeah, let's get these
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Speaker 2: things taken down. Let's get a ton now there's a
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Speaker 2: window where we have to. I'm sure we'll be done
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Speaker 2: by the end of the week because we'll have the
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Speaker 2: kids going back to school. Jill will be going back
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Speaker 2: to work right now. She's, you know, enjoying another week
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Speaker 2: off from work. I'm working. I'm the only one in
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Speaker 2: the house doing any work this week. But it'll only
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Speaker 2: be a couple of days this week and then we'll
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Speaker 2: transition back over to the excuse me, we'll transition back
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Speaker 2: to coffee. Sometimes I still have some issues with this
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Speaker 2: surgery that I had on my neck, and sometimes my
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Speaker 2: throat will kind of aggravate, become a little aggravated, and
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Speaker 2: it will cause a little bit of that aggravation will
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Speaker 2: cause a little bit of an issue when I'm speaking.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, and thank you for bearing with me, and
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Speaker 2: I am told it gets better. It's just a little
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Speaker 2: bit of trauma to that, you know, everything in my
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Speaker 2: my esophagus and tubes in there that had to be
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Speaker 2: moved around during the surgery. So anyway, at some point
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Speaker 2: we'll get a couple of shows in this week, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I won't be doing anything for New Year's Day,
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Speaker 2: but I'll take that day off, possibly take the thirty
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Speaker 2: first off. We'll see how we go on that. But
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Speaker 2: but I'll be working a little this week and a
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Speaker 2: couple of things that I do want to talk about,
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Speaker 2: and I just there's a little discussion because of some
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Speaker 2: things that were posted by the person who is back
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Speaker 2: to being the presumptive candidate for president for Democrats coming
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Speaker 2: up in twenty twenty eight, and that is Gavin Newsom.
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Speaker 2: Now he has told us he's not running for president,
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Speaker 2: he doesn't want to be president, which we all know
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Speaker 2: is a lie. We all remember when he went to
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Speaker 2: the White House and walked around at his coat off
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Speaker 2: and thrown over his shoulder and was just kind of
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Speaker 2: posing for photos and videos and things so that people
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Speaker 2: could see him and think, boy, this guy is definitely presidential.
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Speaker 2: And he's done a number of things that involve him,
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Speaker 2: you know, telling us just blatant lies saying that he
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Speaker 2: never used LATINX as a term, no one on his
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Speaker 2: staff ever used it, and then immediately after people found,
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Speaker 2: you know, twenty plus examples of him using that term.
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Speaker 2: So it's not like this is someone who if he
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Speaker 2: tells us he's not running, then we can go, yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's not running. Because it's kind of like college football
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Speaker 2: coaches when they say I'm not going to be the
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Speaker 2: coach at this point, or pro coaches for that matter,
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Speaker 2: but it's tip in college where they say no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to go to that other team, and
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Speaker 2: then they go to that team. And as much of
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Speaker 2: a fan of Nick saban as I am, you know
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Speaker 2: he was with the Miami Dolphins saying I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to be the coach at Alabama next year, and then
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Speaker 2: sure enough, a couple days later, that's what happened. It's
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Speaker 2: the way things go sometimes, especially in politics, especially in sports.
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Speaker 2: But Gavin Newsom and some others posted some messages online
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Speaker 2: on social media wishing everyone a happy Kwanza, and couple
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Speaker 2: of folks on the conservative side were critical of that post.
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Speaker 2: And I want to say this upfront, first and foremost,
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Speaker 2: I have been long been a proponent radio podcast, anywhere
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Speaker 2: anybody will listen to me. I've long been a proponent
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Speaker 2: of the idea that everyone should live their life the
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Speaker 2: way that they want to live their life. I think
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Speaker 2: that's part of the America dream that for some reason
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Speaker 2: we have decided to flush down the toilet in many instances,
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Speaker 2: I don't think that anyone should tell anyone how they
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Speaker 2: should live, as long as it doesn't hurt someone else. Okay,
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Speaker 2: And that's the other important part of this, And I
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Speaker 2: have said on this show many times, you live how
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Speaker 2: you want to live. The government should be out of it.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't be involved in the decisions that you make, unless
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Speaker 2: your plan is to hurt someone else or even hurt yourself.
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Speaker 2: In some cases, there's situations where they should not be
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Speaker 2: involved most of the time. Occasionally, you know, I think
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Speaker 2: even if you want to do something that's going to
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Speaker 2: be detrimental to you know, you want to make a
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Speaker 2: bad decision that's going to affect your livelihood and things,
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Speaker 2: I don't think the government should be involved in that.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you should be allowed to hurt other people.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what our founders intended. That's what I
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Speaker 2: think in its purest form, what this country was supposed
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Speaker 2: to be about. So I want to express very much
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Speaker 2: that anyone celebrating any sort of holiday over this period
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Speaker 2: should be free to do. So I'm not critical of
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Speaker 2: that in any way with anything that I am about
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Speaker 2: to say. And if you are one of the approximately
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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand people in the US who celebrate Kwansa,
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Speaker 2: and you just happen to be someone who listens to
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Speaker 2: this show, I hope it's been a fantastic quanza for you,
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Speaker 2: and I hope it continues to be all the way
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Speaker 2: into the new year. I hope that that is what
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Speaker 2: you have. But I understand as someone who has a
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Speaker 2: very I'm certainly not a statistician or a statsologist or
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Speaker 2: whatever you know made up version of it I would use.
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Speaker 2: I understand statistics. I understand that if about a half
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Speaker 2: a million Americans celebrate this holiday that was made up
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Speaker 2: in the sixties, this isn't a holiday that goes back,
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Speaker 2: you know, thousands of years of tradition or things. It's
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Speaker 2: a holiday that you know will celebrate like it's sixtieth
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Speaker 2: anniversary in twenty twenty six. So and that's not to say, hey,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's lasted that long, and it's not
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Speaker 2: to say be dismissive of it. I would just like
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Speaker 2: to point out the fact that about a half a
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Speaker 2: million people do now. They some estimates say as many
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Speaker 2: as two million. And even if you go on that
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Speaker 2: stat it's not a lot. We're talking less than three
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Speaker 2: percent of Americans or whatever it is, probably celebrate this.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to point out the fact that
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Speaker 2: as much as I'm all in favor of anyone celebrating
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Speaker 2: whatever they want, I just would like to point out
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Speaker 2: how this holiday which was invented, created in the sixties
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Speaker 2: by a non religious person, and it's not intended to
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Speaker 2: be a religious holiday, and it's intended to be a
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Speaker 2: holiday specifically for African American people. Now, in spite of
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Speaker 2: the fact that their website and I just went to it,
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Speaker 2: the official website for Kwanza says it is practiced all
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Speaker 2: over the world, there's not really a whole lot of
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Speaker 2: evidence than anyone in Africa actually celebrates it. Now. It's
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Speaker 2: got Swahili terminology. The word Kwanza comes from Swahili, so
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Speaker 2: it's not like this is a holiday that came from
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Speaker 2: Africa to the us. This is basically someone who was
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Speaker 2: in the Black power movement, someone who was sort of
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Speaker 2: as a black separatist, wanted this holiday to be something
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Speaker 2: for Black Americans to take pride in themselves and all
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Speaker 2: of these things. Separatest part of it is the part
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Speaker 2: that concerns me, and I just think that when we
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Speaker 2: but this is what we do, and the bigger deal
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Speaker 2: we make about a holiday that quite frankly, if you
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Speaker 2: set out to create a holiday and in a sixty
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Speaker 2: year span, as far as traction goes, you only had
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Speaker 2: about half a million people that were actually celebrating it,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that you would really call it a
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Speaker 2: big success. I mean, they talk about people all over
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Speaker 2: the world celebrating it. It's something that's you know, started
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Speaker 2: in the US and has gone out to some different places,
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Speaker 2: and there are celebrations in Africa. I'm not saying that
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Speaker 2: Africa does not have celebrations that you could say Kwansa
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Speaker 2: borrowed from all right, that's that's a fair statement. But
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Speaker 2: the intention of this wasn't necessarily, hey, we're gonna do
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Speaker 2: these African traditions. It's that we're going to come up
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Speaker 2: with this thing that we're going to do in the
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Speaker 2: States as part of the black separatist Black Power movement,
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Speaker 2: which is that's all fine, you be you again. I'd
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Speaker 2: like to stress that what gets me is that sixty
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Speaker 2: years in, we're still, you know, dancing around the subject
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Speaker 2: of this holiday as if it is some sort of
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Speaker 2: long standing, hundreds or thousands of year old tradition that
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Speaker 2: you know, you don't want, or that it's religious in
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Speaker 2: some nature, to say, well, people have a right to
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Speaker 2: celebrate this holiday because it's not a religious holiday. And
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Speaker 2: maybe you didn't know any of these things. Maybe you
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Speaker 2: didn't know that this isn't a religious holiday at all.
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Speaker 2: In fact, founded by someone who was certainly a non
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Speaker 2: Christian and non I don't know that he was religious
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Speaker 2: in any way. But it wasn't intended to be a
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Speaker 2: religious holiday. It was intended to be an American cultural holiday.
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Speaker 2: And it continues on now as a lot of Americans
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Speaker 2: try to figure out a way to say you, you know,
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Speaker 2: happy Kwanza, you celebrate it, and there's just there's not
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Speaker 2: a lot of people that are hearing it. They're hearing it,
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Speaker 2: but they're not hearing it the way when you say
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Speaker 2: Happy Hanukkah to your Jewish brothers and sisters, and they go, Yes,
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Speaker 2: there's millions of us that are celebrating this. You know,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people around the world celebrating it. I
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Speaker 2: just think it's important that we take a minute, and
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Speaker 2: it's not to denigrate it as a significant thing. As
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Speaker 2: I said, if you're celebrating it, that's great. You celebrate it.
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Speaker 2: If you and your family are celebrating it. I guess ultimately,
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Speaker 2: I don't know anyone who celebrates it or has ever
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Speaker 2: celebrated it. And I think that you know, there's not
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Speaker 2: a lot more people celebrating just on the statistics if
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Speaker 2: you go five hundred thousand and you say there's about
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Speaker 2: ten to twenty thousand people who celebrate Festivus every year.
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Speaker 2: That was a made up holiday that was featured on
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Speaker 2: an episode of Seinfeld Right, not intended to be something
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Speaker 2: to pick up traction. It just sort of happened. I'm
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Speaker 2: just pointing out the fact that making up a holiday
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Speaker 2: and then going out of your way to make sure
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Speaker 2: that you know, as we tend to be in this country,
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Speaker 2: especially the very liberal white American who wants to try
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Speaker 2: to not step on toes and try not to offend anybody,
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Speaker 2: and believe me, the last thing I'm trying to do
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Speaker 2: right now is to offend anyone. That's not my intention.
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to point out the fact that a
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Speaker 2: lot of people don't know the history of the origins
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Speaker 2: of this holiday, and they don't realize that it's, you know,
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Speaker 2: fifty nine years old. That's it, that's all it is,
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Speaker 2: and they don't know that it was started again, not
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Speaker 2: with any religious intentions at all, and that it is
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Speaker 2: very much an American thing and this is not a
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Speaker 2: holiday that came from Africa. Influences of it did. But
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Speaker 2: that is all that I'm trying to point out to
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Speaker 2: you and say, and that there's probably not a lot
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Speaker 2: of people in your life that are celebrating it, just
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Speaker 2: based on statistics. If you are, I hope it's been
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Speaker 2: a great one and continues to be a great one.
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Speaker 2: But if you are a politician who is pandering to
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Speaker 2: a very small group of voters hoping that you're going
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Speaker 2: to make some kind of traction with them by addressing
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Speaker 2: the fact that so many people around the world or
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Speaker 2: celebrating this holiday, then you know, maybe you're just not
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Speaker 2: reaching a large chunk of the voting block. That's all
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Speaker 2: I'm offering up. And I'd also just like to add
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Speaker 2: this that the gentleman uh Malana Karenga, who invented this
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Speaker 2: holiday wanted it to be specifically an alternative to Christmas,
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Speaker 2: and he believed that Christianity was for white people and
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Speaker 2: it was a white religion, and that black people should
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Speaker 2: shun Christmas and that Jesus was actually psychotic. And this
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Speaker 2: is something that he sort of changed a little bit
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Speaker 2: over the years because he was worried that many Black Christians,
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Speaker 2: which there are a lot more Black Christians than there
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Speaker 2: are that celebrate Christmas in their arms Black Americans who
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Speaker 2: celebrate Kwansa, he sort of took some of that away
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Speaker 2: over the years because he did not want to alienate
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Speaker 2: them from participating in this holiday that he'd made up.
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Speaker 2: So as long as you're aware that this is a
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Speaker 2: big aspect of this holiday and you want to continue
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Speaker 2: the break, well, if you're planning to get married in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, sometime in the new year, well, maybe
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Speaker 2: you should think about this trend that has caught on
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Speaker 2: called well women that are skipping bachelorette parties and getting
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Speaker 2: out of that whole. You know, parties with lots of
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Speaker 2: alcohol and instead focusing on quiet self care. Solouret parties
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Speaker 2: are trending now, so it's a time for the bride
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Speaker 2: to spend some solo time focusing on self care, wellness
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Speaker 2: and me time before the big day. Could be a
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Speaker 2: weekend get away by yourself, a staycation, just a chance
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Speaker 2: to be alone with no stress and no to do list. Now,
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Speaker 2: this would obviously depend on the person who is getting married.
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Speaker 2: Some women would much rather have an agenda and you know,
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Speaker 2: were friends around and all of that. But some I
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Speaker 2: could definitely see would greatly benefit by having time alone,
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Speaker 2: especially when you consider there will be lots of time
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Speaker 2: for friends and your new husband and all of these
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Speaker 2: people in your life once you get married. So it's
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Speaker 2: an interesting idea and something that maybe some women should consider.
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Speaker 2: Moms in the US are having babies later in life
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Speaker 2: than before is a new report from the CDC says
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Speaker 2: the average age of women giving births has climbed to
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Speaker 2: about thirty years old. It's up from twenty eight just
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Speaker 2: a few years ago. And it's not just for second
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Speaker 2: or third time moms. First time moms are also going
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Speaker 2: a bit older, with the average age rising from twenty
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Speaker 2: six point six years back in twenty sixteen to twenty
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Speaker 2: seven and a half in twenty twenty three. Experts say
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Speaker 2: the reason for the shift of things like changing in
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Speaker 2: social norms, better fertility technology, and the rising cost of
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Speaker 2: raising kids. Many families are waiting until they feel more
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Speaker 2: financially stable before they start or grow their family, and
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Speaker 2: there's been a big drop in teen pregnancies as well,
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Speaker 2: down from nearly twelve percent of first berths in twenty
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Speaker 2: sixteen to under nine percent in twenty twenty three. Could
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Speaker 2: be a few reasons for that as well. I would
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Speaker 2: think that maybe screen time is somehow having an effect
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Speaker 2: on that. I think on both sides. And I think
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Speaker 2: that some people are you know, they're getting those dopamine
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Speaker 2: hits other places, right, that's what they're doing. They are
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Speaker 2: getting whether they're just playing a video game online, whether
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Speaker 2: they are, you know, using the internet for whatever they're
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Speaker 2: going to use it for and then playing games and
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Speaker 2: chatting and things with people, and they're not really having
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Speaker 2: those face to face interactions as much. I don't think
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Speaker 2: that dating has go on away, but I do think
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Speaker 2: it's changed the way that people date and in many cases,
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Speaker 2: you know, some of those dates involved two people sitting
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Speaker 2: across the table and staring at a screen. I guess
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm getting at. So there you go. Americans
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Speaker 2: do apparently have varying opinions about naming government buildings after people.
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Speaker 2: So basically, whether you're talking about a school or a
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Speaker 2: military installation named after what's been considered an important historical figure.
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Speaker 2: But here's what Americans kind of think. They think that
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Speaker 2: naming government buildings after Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Martin
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Speaker 2: Luther King Junior. Okay, but not every American icon enjoys
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Speaker 2: the support. So basically, yeah, Lincoln eighty one percent favorable
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Speaker 2: of it, MLKA seventy eight percent, Rosa Parks sixty nine percent,
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Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan fifty five percent. And then we've name a
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Speaker 2: couple of others that are, you know, Donald Trump at
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Speaker 2: thirty one percent, Elvis Presley thirty five percent. So I
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Speaker 2: don't know they are we naming the schools after Elvis?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess there probably are some in some places,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know that I've encountered that anywhere. And
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Speaker 2: if you live somewhere or you went to an Elvis
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Speaker 2: Presley School. Apologies, but yeah, I don't know that I
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Speaker 2: would get behind you start getting into musicians and singers
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Speaker 2: that could You know if you had a Diddy High school,
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Speaker 2: that would have gotten really or a Bill Cosby High School.
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Speaker 2: That's all very different now, isn't it. Then it would
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Speaker 2: have been had that happened. I don't know in the
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Speaker 2: eighties when The Cosby Show was on, we would be
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Speaker 2: having a very different conversation about that school, now, wouldn't we.
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