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Back in the Studio (Sorry No Birds Today) · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, seventeenth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. No magpies in the air, no pelicans to
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Speaker 2: speak of. Other than now, I don't have the cacophony
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Speaker 2: of bird sounds all around. I could add some, maybe,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, would you like it? Thanks for being
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Speaker 2: patient with those of you who listened during my time overseas.
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Speaker 2: I know probably at times there was a bit of
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Speaker 2: road noise, there were probably too many birds, a couple
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Speaker 2: of interruptions from some kids headed off to school. Overall, though,
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Speaker 2: I had a great time and appreciated the ability to
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Speaker 2: take my little mobile studio with me. It's not the
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Speaker 2: same microphone, it's not the same recording equipment. That was
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Speaker 2: probably very evident at times. It did take me a
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Speaker 2: few days to get things all sorted out. I did
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Speaker 2: have days where I just couldn't do shows, and in
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Speaker 2: some cases had to record some content ahead of time.
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Speaker 2: For the most part, I was always about fourteen hours
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Speaker 2: ahead of where I normally would be, so thanks for
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Speaker 2: your patience with that. It wasn't the freshest of content
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Speaker 2: in that regard. Sometimes there were things that were happening,
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Speaker 2: and we got through a solid four week stretch of
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Speaker 2: being on the go as a family, just taking in
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Speaker 2: most importantly the people, the family that we were able
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Speaker 2: to visit with, the friends, the new friends that we
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Speaker 2: made along the way, all of those things. Just a
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Speaker 2: fantastic family trip. Couldn't have asked for really much better.
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Speaker 2: A couple of little hiccups, I'll get to that in
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Speaker 2: a minute, but for the most part, we just had
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Speaker 2: a great time being with people we wanted to be with,
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Speaker 2: namely each other. I mean, when you get to do
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Speaker 2: a trip like this with your three favorite human beings
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Speaker 2: on earth, that's a big plus certainly. And to be
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Speaker 2: able to get in as many sights, scenes, sounds, everything,
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Speaker 2: everything that you want out of a trip like this.
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Speaker 2: We were able to get out of it. And we
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Speaker 2: have different strengths. Each of the four of us have
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Speaker 2: different strengths and times of crisis, or in times of need,
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Speaker 2: crisis is probably a bit of an exaggeration, but there
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Speaker 2: were some panic moments. Again more on that coming up,
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Speaker 2: but we were able to thrive in those moments where
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Speaker 2: each of us just has some special talent that got
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Speaker 2: us through. We were like the X Men, running through
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Speaker 2: airports sometimes to get to the next flight because there
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Speaker 2: were issues with one particular flight or two particular flights.
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Speaker 2: More on that coming up. But overall, that's what you
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Speaker 2: like to see, and you like to see this type
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Speaker 2: of trip happen at various stages of your kid's lives.
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Speaker 2: That's what I've taken away from this. We did this
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Speaker 2: trip first with Jake when he was a toddler. He
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Speaker 2: was less than two, and he was a great kid
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Speaker 2: for traveling. We'd get on a plane, people would see
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Speaker 2: the baby and they go, oh gosh, here's this kid.
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Speaker 2: He's going to be that kid. And then as we
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Speaker 2: walk off the plane, people are saying, bless you. That
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Speaker 2: was a perfect child in an airplane. That's just how
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Speaker 2: he was as a toddler. There was one flight where
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Speaker 2: there were two kids on the plane. The other one
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Speaker 2: was not a good traveler, and that other kid screamed
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Speaker 2: and cried and did all the things that you don't
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Speaker 2: want of a passenger on a plane. And we had
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Speaker 2: people that kind of groaned at us as we got
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Speaker 2: off the plane, and someone corrected him and said no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: it was the other one. And they were like, ah, okay,
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Speaker 2: that was our first experience with this type of trip
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Speaker 2: with one of our boys. He doesn't remember it. We do.
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Speaker 2: We remember all of the things that he took in
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Speaker 2: along the way on that trip. We do, and we'll
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Speaker 2: never forget those things, even though he never was able
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Speaker 2: to remember those. We did the trip again five and
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Speaker 2: a half years ago, right before COVID. We were in
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Speaker 2: Australia for Christmas twenty nineteen. We got home about a
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Speaker 2: week into January, just before the kids went back to school.
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Speaker 2: We had about three weeks overseas and we fit in
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Speaker 2: as much as we could for three weeks, and that
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Speaker 2: trip was primarily about celebrating Christmas with my in laws.
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Speaker 2: Everyone was able to make it up into the Northeast,
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Speaker 2: which is where Jill really calls home. She was originally
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Speaker 2: from somewhere out west in Australia, but the Northeast is home.
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Speaker 2: That's where my mother and father in law live. That's
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Speaker 2: where Jill grew up. Most of her you know, older
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Speaker 2: like teenage years, and I guess all of her teenage years,
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Speaker 2: but some of her years maybe younger than that. But
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Speaker 2: around then, up until she moved here, that's where she lived.
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Speaker 2: So that's home, and that's kind of my second home.
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Speaker 2: That's where I've spent a lot of time, almost a
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Speaker 2: year now of my life. When you add all the
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Speaker 2: months up and all the days up, it comes out
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Speaker 2: to almost a year. I'm just shy of a full
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Speaker 2: year of being in Australia and living in Australia in
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Speaker 2: some capacity, which is kind of a neat stat kind
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Speaker 2: of a fun thing to have done, and it means
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Speaker 2: I've made that trip many times. Seven to be exact.
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Speaker 2: Seven of the long haul flights that get harder to
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Speaker 2: do each time you do them, they just do. The
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Speaker 2: older you get, the harder they are. When I was
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Speaker 2: twenty and I did the first one, that was nothing.
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Speaker 2: I think I even had a middle seat on one
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Speaker 2: of those flights, and I had someone who fell asleep
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Speaker 2: with their head on my shoulder. And back then I
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Speaker 2: was not grumpy old man enough to say hey, get
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Speaker 2: off me. Now it's a different story, especially traveling with
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Speaker 2: a big group.
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Speaker 1: Four.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know that's not a big group, but
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Speaker 2: that's a big group for us. Four is a big group.
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Speaker 2: So we did the trip five and a half years ago,
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Speaker 2: and we learned certain things about our kids. Then you
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Speaker 2: do the trip when you got two teenagers and you
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Speaker 2: learn some other things, and they're good things. I think
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Speaker 2: our kids in some ways grew up along this trip.
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Speaker 2: In some ways, our kids learned things about themselves and
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Speaker 2: about their grandparents and about their aunts and uncles. They
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Speaker 2: just learned some things. We didn't get as much time
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Speaker 2: with everyone as we would have liked. We got a
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Speaker 2: lot of time with my mother and father in law
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Speaker 2: staying at their place. We got a decent amount of
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Speaker 2: time with one of Jill's brothers. The other brother and
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Speaker 2: his wife. We would have loved to have had more
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Speaker 2: time with them. Got to see most of the cousins.
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Speaker 2: Of the immediate cousins that there were three that we
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Speaker 2: weren't able to see, but we got in time with five.
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Speaker 2: That's a majority. Sometimes you just take what you can get.
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Speaker 2: We made the most of the time that we had
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Speaker 2: with them, even if it's just sometimes just a meal
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Speaker 2: at an airport, and we saw friends that we were
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Speaker 2: able to We were very blessed to have family and
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Speaker 2: friends go out of their way to come to an
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Speaker 2: airport just sit with us for a meal or for
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Speaker 2: coffee or whatever. And some of the times we were
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Speaker 2: extra stinky because we had been on long flights. And
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Speaker 2: that's also something that you don't take for granted is
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Speaker 2: when you do those kinds of trips, all you really
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Speaker 2: want when you land is a shower. That's what you want.
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Speaker 2: You want a shower and a change of clothes. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: you're rushing to get to the next plane, and if
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Speaker 2: someone does bless you with their appearance at an airport,
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Speaker 2: you have to warn them, sorry, I might stink. I
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Speaker 2: tried to brush my teeth on that plane in that
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Speaker 2: tiny little bathroom with a tiny little sink, and sometimes
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Speaker 2: that doesn't always go well or anywhere close to what
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Speaker 2: you hope it will, but you do what you can
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Speaker 2: to spend time with them. And it was such a
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Speaker 2: blessing to spend so much time with so many people
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Speaker 2: along the way, and we did most of the things
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Speaker 2: that you want to do when you go to Australia. Notably, no,
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Speaker 2: we did not go out deep into the outback. We
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Speaker 2: did not go to the Australia Zoo of the Steve
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Speaker 2: Irwin family Australia Zoo fame. That's one of the things
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Speaker 2: that people often ask. We did not do that. We
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Speaker 2: didn't go surfing. It was winter down there. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: hot summer. Although we did go quickly for a couple
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Speaker 2: of stops of a couple of beaches. We went to
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Speaker 2: Bondi Beach. We did nothing more than walk on the
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Speaker 2: sand and put our feet in the water because we
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Speaker 2: were at Bondai Beach. It is an infamous, legendary beach
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Speaker 2: that people like to visit when they're in Sydney. We
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Speaker 2: did that just because we had to at least put
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Speaker 2: our feet in it. It was freezing and the people
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Speaker 2: that were swimming probably wearing wetsuits or complete psychopaths. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how you get in the water when it
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Speaker 2: was that cold. Now, it wasn't you know, I probably
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Speaker 2: a New England winter water. It wasn't that, but it
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Speaker 2: was pretty cold. I didn't want to spend any time
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Speaker 2: in that water more than just tipping my toe in it.
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Speaker 2: Now I actually did kind of stand in it. I
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Speaker 2: think Luke probably literally put a toe in it and
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Speaker 2: ran away because he was like, this is way too cold.
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Speaker 2: But we did those things and we saw the animals
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Speaker 2: that you want to see when you're in Australia. We
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Speaker 2: held animals or touched animals or saw them in the wild. Yes,
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Speaker 2: kangaroos running around in the wild. That's part of the
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Speaker 2: fun of being in a place like that. We saw
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Speaker 2: koalas in the wild. Yes, while we're on a long walk.
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Speaker 2: There's a very scenic and historic walk that you can
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Speaker 2: go on in one of the vacation spots that we
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Speaker 2: went to, and we saw six koalas in the wild.
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Speaker 2: I think the most that's ever been seen by our
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Speaker 2: group in some capacity was fifteen ones last time, five
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Speaker 2: and a half years ago. We were there and I
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Speaker 2: took a photo of a koala and I could have
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Speaker 2: just touched him, but you don't touch him in the wild.
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Speaker 2: The ones that you touch are the ones in the
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Speaker 2: zoos that's usually allowed, but you don't want to touch
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Speaker 2: a wild one for your sake or theirs. And they
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Speaker 2: do sleep a lot, so it's not like this is
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Speaker 2: an active animal. Possibly could have touched it and only
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Speaker 2: just slightly disturbed him, but I wouldn't do that to him.
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Speaker 2: But we did that. Got to see lots of animals
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Speaker 2: in the wild and the birds, and to be able
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Speaker 2: to broadcast show from an area where the birds were
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Speaker 2: so cooperative and gave us that background. And again, if
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Speaker 2: you're one of those people who doesn't like the bird
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Speaker 2: sounds or the background noise or any of those things,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you for just dipping your toe in the
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Speaker 2: water with us. If the water was too cold for that,
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Speaker 2: that's okay. I appreciate you coming back. Maybe you got
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Speaker 2: a little tired of hearing about me being there or
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Speaker 2: any talk I've said about cooler weather. I know my
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Speaker 2: brothers weren't especially happy about me getting so much cool weather.
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Speaker 2: At least one of them vocalized it. The other didn't
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Speaker 2: say anything. But I know it's been hot, and I
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Speaker 2: know people have been experiencing extreme heat in parts of
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Speaker 2: the country, and I've addressed that over the past few weeks.
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Speaker 2: I get back into Georgia and discover that, yes, it's hot.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday wasn't quite as bad as what I was expecting,
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Speaker 2: and I know it wasn't as bad as it has been.
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Speaker 2: But I also know August is coming. We all know
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Speaker 2: it's coming, and we know it's going to be ridiculously hot. Now,
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Speaker 2: the couple of hiccups that we had along the way,
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Speaker 2: where we had a few issues with one particular airline,
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Speaker 2: and it involved delays in flights. I understand that happens.
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Speaker 2: It has happened to me before. I have been involved
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Speaker 2: in flights or a trip where flights delays in flights
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Speaker 2: caused complications, but never quite like what happened on this trip.
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Speaker 2: Our flight from Atlanta to LA to start the trip
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Speaker 2: was delayed by more than six hours, which put us
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Speaker 2: in a position where we were going to miss our
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Speaker 2: flight from LA to Melbourne. We ended up in a
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Speaker 2: hotel in La. We spent some time in LA. We
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Speaker 2: lost an entire day of our trip, an entire day
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Speaker 2: with family, with friends, all the things that we had planned.
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Speaker 2: It threw off one of our stops that was going
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Speaker 2: to be time more time with some of the family
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Speaker 2: in Melbourne. We had to be redirected to another airline.
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Speaker 2: Now for all of the complications that come from this,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know where the challenge is exactly in
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Speaker 2: this particular airline having a lot of flights rescheduled, and
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Speaker 2: there seemed to be a lot of them. The impression
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Speaker 2: that I got walking through the airport is that American
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Speaker 2: Airlines was really struggling with getting flights on time, and
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Speaker 2: there seemed to be lots of complications with things. I
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Speaker 2: don't know what the complications were. We were told mechanical problems,
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Speaker 2: and we just think, okay, that's not what you want
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Speaker 2: to hear before you get on a plane. But we
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Speaker 2: were told mechanical problems, they would get them resolved and
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Speaker 2: then the plane would take off. That plane ultimately we
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Speaker 2: took off. We landed in la much later than we
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Speaker 2: wanted to and certainly not with enough time to get
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Speaker 2: to Australia on that day. Coming back, we had a
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Speaker 2: problem from Dallas Fort Worth to Atlanta. The flight was delayed.
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Speaker 2: The flight was delayed almost six hours that was going
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Speaker 2: to be delayed. We finally worked with someone in customer
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Speaker 2: support that was able to get us on a flight
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Speaker 2: into Atlanta at least, because at that point it looked
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Speaker 2: like that plane wasn't even going to leave Dallas and
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Speaker 2: we were not going to be able to get into
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Speaker 2: Atlanta for that particular flight, which ultimately was yesterday, because
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Speaker 2: it was early in the morning when we landed in Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: So it's just as well that I kind of planned
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Speaker 2: to not do a show yesterday. I told you there
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Speaker 2: was a possibility that I would not be able to
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Speaker 2: do it. I didn't expect it to be this particular problem,
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Speaker 2: considering it happened on the way out. But again I
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Speaker 2: noticed lots of the flights were being delayed or rescheduled
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Speaker 2: or whatever they were having to do concerning American Airlines,
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Speaker 2: and we were in the American Airlines hub, which is Dallas,
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Speaker 2: so we thought, well, that should be easier for them
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Speaker 2: to get us redirected. We did get on another flight
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Speaker 2: and it involved us landing at a different time than
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Speaker 2: our luggage, which ultimately did come three hours later, which
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Speaker 2: had to be resolved also yesterday. With that said, some
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Speaker 2: of the staff with American Airlines, some of the customer
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Speaker 2: service staff were absolutely excellent. They did the best they
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Speaker 2: could with what was given to them. You can see
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Speaker 2: that they were frustrated, but they worked through a lot
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Speaker 2: of problems and they worked with us the best they could.
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Speaker 2: Now I can't say enough positive things about Quantus, So
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Speaker 2: if you're flying to Australia, we haven't had a bad
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Speaker 2: experience with other airlines, but we've always had lots of
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Speaker 2: success and lots of positive customer service experiences with Quantus,
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Speaker 2: and I appreciate all of them along the way. And
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Speaker 2: the customer service people, even with American who did their
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Speaker 2: best to work through some complicated problems, don't have a
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Speaker 2: lot of confidence at this point in American airlines. If
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Speaker 2: I've got a book a flight in the future and
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Speaker 2: it's going to have a connecting flight, even six hours,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to be enough. We had two flights
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Speaker 2: delayed by about one more than six hours, one almost
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Speaker 2: six hours. It's not all right. Creates a lot of complications.
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Speaker 2: And I look through some of the other flights that
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Speaker 2: we're trying to leave that same day on Tuesday, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of those, or many of those that I saw,
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Speaker 2: were also being delayed or moved or rescheduled. A lot
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Speaker 2: of confusion in the airports with people running around thinking
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Speaker 2: they've missed a flight. It's not easy. It's complicated. I
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Speaker 2: get it. Running an airline can't be easy. But some
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Speaker 2: people seem to have figured it out. And I think
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Speaker 2: some of the staff working for those airlines, especially like
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Speaker 2: a quantists, that have figured it out and they give
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Speaker 2: you good customer service. The people that American I can't
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Speaker 2: speak for all of them, but we dealt with some
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Speaker 2: that had great service, and we appreciated them. For that.
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Speaker 2: So in summary, that's what happened. I mean, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of stories I could tell. I've got some reflections
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Speaker 2: on healthcare. I've got some reflections on some other things
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Speaker 2: I think that tie into healthcare, some observations to make.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll have those to work in for you
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Speaker 2: in the coming weeks, because at times we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: some health care conversations. Anyway, it's gonna come up, and
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Speaker 2: we can work in some conversations about the way they
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Speaker 2: do things in Australia, because of course you have a
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Speaker 2: lot of people who think it's great. Oh it's free healthcare,
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Speaker 2: go to Australia, that's amazing. If you're paying taxes, and
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Speaker 2: you're paying high taxes, it's not free healthcare. It's just
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Speaker 2: built into it. If you don't use it, then you're
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Speaker 2: paying for it. Don't use it. I got friends there
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Speaker 2: that pay into it and don't use it. They don't
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Speaker 2: have a lot of confidence in it. I guess I
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Speaker 2: don't know. But that's conversations for another day. But overall,
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Speaker 2: loved getting to see my kids thrive in some of
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Speaker 2: these high stress environments where we're rebooking flights, rescheduling flights,
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Speaker 2: telling them, hey, grab your bags, we gotta go. We
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Speaker 2: got to hustle to another terminal, We have to hustle
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Speaker 2: to another gate, whatever it was, and seeing them thrive,
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Speaker 2: and seeing them as we're going picking out the things.
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Speaker 2: Hey go that way and it's a sign that I
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Speaker 2: missed and them, oh, no, they're right. We have to
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Speaker 2: take a rite to get to where it's a shortcut.
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Speaker 2: This is where we need to go. They did all
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Speaker 2: those things. It's great traveling with kids at different stages,
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Speaker 2: and this was a great experience seeing them thriving as teenagers,
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Speaker 2: knowing that someday they're maybe going to do a big
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Speaker 2: world trip with their kids, and they at least have
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Speaker 2: a little bit of experience now doing this as teenagers.
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show right after the break. Well, we are
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Speaker 2: now more than halfway through the month of July, and
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Speaker 2: that means we are we're starting to get into the
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Speaker 2: weeks left before Labor Day weekend, which will mark the
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Speaker 2: unofficial end of summer, and of course happens to be
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Speaker 2: Dragon Con weekend in downtown Atlanta for every Labor Day.
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Speaker 2: It's what they do. That's what they do, the biggest
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Speaker 2: popular arts convention in the known universe, and it's something
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Speaker 2: I look forward to, as you know, if you're a
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Speaker 2: regular listener and covering it again as always, we'll have
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Speaker 2: the dragon Con pregame show coming up. The weekend before
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Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend, and we give you a highlight of
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Speaker 2: what to expect and what you will be able to
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Speaker 2: partake of, what you will be able to witness, which
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Speaker 2: celebrities you might get an opportunity to have a chance
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Speaker 2: encounter with out on the floor or just go up
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Speaker 2: to their table and talk to get a photo with,
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Speaker 2: get some autographs, whatever you want to do. We'll give
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Speaker 2: you the full rundown on all of that. Plus we'll
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Speaker 2: have interviews with some of the guests who will be
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Speaker 2: attending this year, and our very regular, very tied end
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Speaker 2: the science behind the science fiction, and doctor Sean Cruisin
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Speaker 2: and I will be also addressing some dragon Con information
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Speaker 2: for you and some tie ins with science as we
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Speaker 2: get closer and closer to dragon Con at weekend coming
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Speaker 2: For your passes, your memberships, they call them memberships. It's
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Speaker 2: dragon Con and you check it out and it's a
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Speaker 2: great time. We're coming up on twenty five years of
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Speaker 2: me covering this convention as media and I just it's
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Speaker 2: one of my favorite weekends of the year. So I
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Speaker 2: hope you'll join us and join us for the dragon
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Speaker 2: Con Pregame Show. Coming to radio and coming to podcasts.
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Speaker 2: thanks to Commistate University's Coca Cola Space Science Center. All right,
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Speaker 2: let's talk about something else nerdy. Let's talk about Internet.
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Speaker 2: A team of scientists in Japan have now shattered the
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Speaker 2: record for the fastest Internet speed by developing a new
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Speaker 2: type of fiber optics. The breakthrough pretty extreme, maybe even shocking,
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Speaker 2: considering the system was running four million times faster than
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Speaker 2: the average US broadband speed. They transmitted over one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand gigabytes of data per second over
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Speaker 2: more than one thousand miles. Just for perspective, imagine that
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Speaker 2: you download everything on Netflix in one second, everything, all
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Speaker 2: of it, all of Netflix in one second. You could
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Speaker 2: also basically download the entire Internet archive in less than
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Speaker 2: four minutes. That's kind of fast. Now will it be
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Speaker 2: used for good or evil? That is the question? What
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Speaker 2: will you do with this team of scientists in Japan?
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Speaker 2: How will you use this amazing technology? All right, supposedly
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Speaker 2: it's also a little nerdy because it's some science stuff,
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Speaker 2: but with some scientific proof, Drinking Korean pear juice before
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Speaker 2: you drink alcohol results in a twenty percent improvement in
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Speaker 2: hangover symptoms the following morning morning. Nashi pear juice has
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Speaker 2: become a big hit with drinkers in Australia. And now
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Speaker 2: I did not drink any of this because I didn't
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Speaker 2: drink that much at all. Nashi is rolling out their
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Speaker 2: magic pear juice in England and they say, depending on
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Speaker 2: how sales go in England, the company could reach out
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Speaker 2: to other countries like I don't know the US. It's
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Speaker 2: a possibility could happen. I didn't experience any Nashi. I
26:54
Speaker 2: did have a few beverages of an adult nature when
26:57
Speaker 2: I was there, because you know, they say, when in Rome,
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Speaker 2: when in Australia, you're probably gonna drink a beer, mate,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna probably happen. Might even have a whiskey, which
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Speaker 2: I had a whiskey mate, but could happen. So in fact,
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Speaker 2: all right, they say, no matter where you fall on
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Speaker 2: the side of this new Superman movie, is it too woke,
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Speaker 2: is it not woke at all? Whatever your thoughts are
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Speaker 2: on it, you can't argue though that it did have
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Speaker 2: a nice weekend and one hundred and twenty five million
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Speaker 2: dollars opening in the US. And they say it wasn't
27:32
Speaker 2: just the box office that has people talking, because they
27:36
Speaker 2: say there's some inspiring themes. Hope core is what the
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Speaker 2: internet is calling it. And they say instead of the
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Speaker 2: you know, the gritty tone of the last few Superman movies,
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Speaker 2: this one is kind as well as powerful, and some
27:55
Speaker 2: basically saying, hey, this could be I'll believe it when
27:59
Speaker 2: I see it though, or people really going to make
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Speaker 2: some kind of a change in their life because of
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Speaker 2: a movie. Now I know people are saying, hey, there's
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Speaker 2: this theme about illegal aliens and all that. I haven't
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Speaker 2: seen the movie yet. I haven't been in the country,
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Speaker 2: but there are people complaining about this whole alien concept
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Speaker 2: and how much attention was done on that. But we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Are people gonna be nicer to each other because of
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Speaker 2: a Superman movie? Is that possible? Is there any way
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Speaker 2: possible that we can start being nice to each other
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Speaker 2: instead of setting each other's cars on fire and scratching
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Speaker 2: them up because they don't like somebody that voted for
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Speaker 2: the wrong person. I don't know. I don't know. Remains
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Speaker 2: to be seen, but you know, truth justice and it's
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Speaker 2: not the American way anymore, though, is it. That'll do it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't make that up. That's just what they say. Now,
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Speaker 2: that'll do it. For this Thursday edition of the show.
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