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Primary Election Day · 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.
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Speaker 2: Show Tuesday morning, nineteenth day of May. I'm Wes. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me a little closer to rolling into the
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Speaker 2: unofficial kind of start of summer that holiday for Memorial
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Speaker 2: Day weekend. I know I'll talk more about it, but
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Speaker 2: just a reminder. Fireworks and Memorial Day do not go together.
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Speaker 2: I know people think, oh, Memorial Day, red white and
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Speaker 2: blue and all those things, and you know, that's fine
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Speaker 2: if you want to do red, white and blue and
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Speaker 2: you want to do that, but just know that there
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Speaker 2: are people who will be appropriately remembering the fallen over
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Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend, which is what that holiday is about.
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Speaker 2: And if someone lost friend in combat or just someone
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Speaker 2: that they were close to, or even if they weren't
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Speaker 2: even friends, just someone they were fighting alongside at some point,
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Speaker 2: they probably may probably it was possible likely maybe that
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Speaker 2: they experienced some kind of PTSD that may or may
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Speaker 2: not have involved explosions, loud noises. It's just this thing
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Speaker 2: that we started doing in the last I don't know,
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Speaker 2: ten years or so. Really, I think it kind of
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Speaker 2: really kicked in big time post COVID of fireworks over
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Speaker 2: the holiday for Memorial Day not okay, it's not okay.
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Speaker 2: I know there's some of these things that you could
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Speaker 2: have different opinions on and you could say, well, maybe,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe people shouldn't be so worked up about
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Speaker 2: the song, maybe it's cold outside. Those kind of discussions. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's two sides to that. That's fine. There's not two
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Speaker 2: sides to this. Just because the fireworks go in stores,
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Speaker 2: because as they're trying to start selling them and get
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Speaker 2: you ready for Independence Day. This is a big Independence Day.
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Speaker 2: Save your fireworks for that. Blowing things up outside where
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Speaker 2: you know you're going to be having an impact on
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Speaker 2: people that they don't need to hear it over Memorial
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Speaker 2: Day weekend. They just don't, you know, they don't need
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Speaker 2: to hear it. And you could say, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: my uncle Joe was in the army and he saw
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Speaker 2: combat and he likes fireworks on it. Well, it maybe
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Speaker 2: go somewhere where you're not going to have an effect
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Speaker 2: on other people that maybe don't like fireworks over Memorial
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Speaker 2: Day weekend. Save them for Independence Day. It's a big
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Speaker 2: one this year. It's two fifty. Do it for that
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Speaker 2: that would be great. Hey, one thing that happened over
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Speaker 2: the weekend that it happened in washington't happened at some
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Speaker 2: churches around. I'm disappointed that I didn't really hear a
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Speaker 2: lot about it for local churches. But that was this,
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Speaker 2: you know, two hundred and fifty years ago, on the
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Speaker 2: seven teenth of May, John Adams and others they felt
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Speaker 2: it was important to dedicate America to God, and this
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Speaker 2: was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that. A
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Speaker 2: lot of churches decided to partake in a rededication process
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Speaker 2: at the two hundred and fifty year mark. I think
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Speaker 2: that would have been great for all churches to be
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Speaker 2: involved in that. I know some churches are very politically
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Speaker 2: motivated and they weren't kind of get involved in that.
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Speaker 2: Some churches I maybe just missed the memo. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Some maybe felt like getting into any of that wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be a great idea. I just I don't know why
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Speaker 2: that would ever be considered a bad idea by a church.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't necessarily a political thing, you know. It just
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Speaker 2: happened to be happening during the administration of a president
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Speaker 2: that a lot of folks on the left have a
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Speaker 2: very strong opinion against so maybe that kept them away
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Speaker 2: from it. I don't know, but I feel like that
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Speaker 2: was a big missed opportunity for a lot of churches.
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Speaker 2: And it's just one of those things that I think
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Speaker 2: doing that two hundred and fifty years ago certainly played
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Speaker 2: a big part in the decision to move forward with
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Speaker 2: some things, and this would have been a great opportunity
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Speaker 2: for doing that. All right, So today I got questions
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Speaker 2: because I know we're into this trial with this Luigi
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Speaker 2: maan Gioni guy, and people are saying that he's oh
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Speaker 2: and it's election day, by the way, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to get to that in a second. I just real quick,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about this. This is the guy
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Speaker 2: who you know, allegedly shot and killed the CEO of
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Speaker 2: the healthcare CEO and he was arrested. There were some
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Speaker 2: you know, issues with it. He was wearing the mask,
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Speaker 2: they saw his eyebrows, whatever it was, and he there's
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Speaker 2: questions and the defense side of things of you know, well,
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Speaker 2: did they read it Miranda rights before they looked in
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Speaker 2: it and all those things, and all that's been coming
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Speaker 2: up as far as the the trial moving forward, and
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Speaker 2: I've got I've just got some questions about all of this.
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Speaker 2: As far as it's this, he's accused of killing the
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Speaker 2: United Healthcare CEO. There were people who praised it. Good
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Speaker 2: for him. He's got you know, bills or whatever that
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Speaker 2: weren't claimed he didn't really have. If my understanding, if
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Speaker 2: this is still the case, and I don't know if
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Speaker 2: things have changed drastically, but it was a different healthcare
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Speaker 2: company he had beef with, and he decided to take
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Speaker 2: it out on the person that he had access to that,
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Speaker 2: you know, according to the charges, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: the people who praised him and said let him go,
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Speaker 2: and you know, dressed up like Luigi from Mario Brothers
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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. My question about all of this
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Speaker 2: is if this guy is like really proud and he was,
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Speaker 2: I guess at one point, you know, proud of it
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Speaker 2: or whatever. People were praising him for it. And I
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Speaker 2: know that from a defense, like a criminal, uh sense,
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Speaker 2: you you have to you know, plead not guilty and
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Speaker 2: go through the process and everything. You don't have to,
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Speaker 2: but it does seem to be you know, where things
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Speaker 2: typically go because you know you don't want to spend
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Speaker 2: you know, all your life, the rest of your life
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Speaker 2: in jail or thirty years or whatever he's facing. My
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Speaker 2: question is, if you do this and you're kind of
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Speaker 2: trying to be this hero to people, then why why
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Speaker 2: would you claim that you didn't do it. Doesn't that
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Speaker 2: defeat the purpose of you know, being this martyr that's
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Speaker 2: going to fall for everybody. I don't know. I just
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Speaker 2: got questions about that every time I see that there's
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Speaker 2: something going on in his defense. I just I don't
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Speaker 2: understand how you can say this guy is a great
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Speaker 2: hero and now he's gone. I didn't do it. I
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Speaker 2: was talking about I meant to do with it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: but you're our hero. I didn't do it. It wasn't me.
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Speaker 2: It was just another guy with you know, perfectly cut
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Speaker 2: eyebrows or whatever, just a completely different guy all together.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I got questions on that. It is
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Speaker 2: its election day in many places, as far as primaries go.
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Speaker 2: Here in Georgia, we have primary elections taking place today.
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Speaker 2: As we get closer to November's midterm elections, a lot
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Speaker 2: at stake, a lot of expectations of some runoffs happening.
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Speaker 2: Just when you get a full field and you think
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Speaker 2: are they going to be able to clear the fifty
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Speaker 2: percent plus one threshold. That's the question a lot of
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Speaker 2: people have. And some of these races aren't going to
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Speaker 2: be resolved by tomorrow. Some of them very likely will
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Speaker 2: be and it'll be pretty clear what's moving forward. And
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Speaker 2: you know, the Republican ticket for governor in Georgia certainly
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Speaker 2: feels like there's real candidates that are running against each other.
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Speaker 2: It was a pretty messy. It's been a pretty messy primary.
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Speaker 2: It really has. You know, you got two candidates that
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Speaker 2: have been throwing a lot of mud and it's been ugly,
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Speaker 2: spending a lot of money, a lot of mailers, a
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Speaker 2: lot of ads on podcasts and radio and TV, and
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Speaker 2: it's just been it's been a lot and it's been
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Speaker 2: kind of exhausting, a lot of text messages. I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure how this, I mean, I got a general idea
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Speaker 2: of how this plays out for Georgia. I do feel
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Speaker 2: like there's the chance we're going to get to a
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Speaker 2: runoff scenario in Georgia for that primary. But I do
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Speaker 2: think one of those two guys may may take it,
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Speaker 2: and we'll see. On the Democrat side, definitely feels like
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Speaker 2: what we've been experiencing a lot with some of these
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Speaker 2: races with Democrats where they just they have that one
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Speaker 2: candidate that is going to be the one everybody else
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Speaker 2: is just going to get out of the way, and
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Speaker 2: it does feel like that's where it's headed. I've seen one,
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Speaker 2: one single campaign sign for Keisha Lance Bottoms and in Columbus,
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Speaker 2: in my hometown, I've seen one single sign for her.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the thought here is that, you know,
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Speaker 2: the Republican side spending a lot of money getting ready
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Speaker 2: for a race against likely her, where that all seems
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Speaker 2: to be going and just kind of that decided. You know, well,
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Speaker 2: I was the mayor of Atlanta, so that's where things
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Speaker 2: just kind of seem to be heading. And I think
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Speaker 2: that if you don't actually go through, if you don't
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Speaker 2: go through the primary, I just don't know that you're
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Speaker 2: quite ready for what comes in the next stage. And
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Speaker 2: I think when you have these candidates that things are
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Speaker 2: just sort of handed to then they're not battle tested.
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Speaker 2: They don't go into it ready for a they just
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Speaker 2: don't go through the process of getting ready the thick
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Speaker 2: skin that you need to be in one of these
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Speaker 2: you know, statewide races. And I just think that you're
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Speaker 2: you're setting them up for failure when you do this.
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Speaker 2: That's just what I feel like. I know there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of Democrats in Georgia that do not want Kisha
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Speaker 2: Lance Bottoms to be the nominee for a number of
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Speaker 2: different reasons. It just feels like it's going to be her,
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Speaker 2: and we have to see what comes out of this
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Speaker 2: Republican side of things to see where it goes. We
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Speaker 2: got really what's been an ugly and messy race for
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Speaker 2: mayor in my hometown here in Columbus. That one also
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Speaker 2: feels like there's a runoff that is going to eventually
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Speaker 2: happen in it, and we'll see there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of It feels like there's the possibility of
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Speaker 2: maybe moving forward, moving away from some of the things
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Speaker 2: that have been happening in this town for a really
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Speaker 2: long time. This data center issue has been a big
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Speaker 2: thing in this campaign cycle for mayor and it's not
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Speaker 2: even on the ballot. I mean, this is one of
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Speaker 2: those things I love so many things about my hometown.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that I don't really love about
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Speaker 2: it is the way does feel like a lot of
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Speaker 2: decisions get made by closed doors. People get an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to go to a public forum and talk about decisions
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Speaker 2: as if they're getting some kind of fact finding mission
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Speaker 2: that they're on. But it doesn't feel like there's really
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Speaker 2: any fact finding. And we've had a number of things
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Speaker 2: that have just happened. We've just had these things that
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Speaker 2: just happened, and I don't necessarily think they're bad things.
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Speaker 2: I think that there could be some good things to
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Speaker 2: come out of a number of things. The baseball team here,
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Speaker 2: we've got the minor league Braves team, the Klingstones. That
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Speaker 2: feels like it was just decided. People had a chance
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Speaker 2: to give a little comment or two on it, but
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Speaker 2: it was done. It was already in the works. And
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Speaker 2: I don't hate it. I just I would like there
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Speaker 2: to be a genuine, like above board conversation about it.
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Speaker 2: It feels like that's what's happened with the data center,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people just have questions about it.
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Speaker 2: And if you really object to it, and you really
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Speaker 2: feel like that we don't need to continue doing those things,
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Speaker 2: and you still think that you know, somebody who was
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Speaker 2: city manager here for you know, many years, worked for
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Speaker 2: the city for forty years, is the best pick to
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Speaker 2: be the mayor and keep doing the old things. Then
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Speaker 2: you know, you just can't get progress. You're going to
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Speaker 2: keep doing things the way that they've been done for
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Speaker 2: so long under someone's watch. You're not making a change.
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Speaker 2: You're just having a different person doing the same thing.
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Speaker 2: And that's my thoughts on that. I just I can't imagine. Well,
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine because it's just a very Columbus thing
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Speaker 2: to do for, you know, people to want to just
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Speaker 2: continue with what's been going on because they're comfortable with it,
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Speaker 2: or they've got a relationship with a person who's been
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Speaker 2: in a position for a while and they want to
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Speaker 2: utilize that, and they don't want to see something as
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Speaker 2: maybe something a little different to do. Now there is
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Speaker 2: a drastically different option that's in the mix. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not necessarily saying that's the way to go either. But
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Speaker 2: I don't typically get on here and tell you who
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Speaker 2: you should vote for. I don't typically even always talk
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Speaker 2: about who I vote for. I did my early voting already,
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Speaker 2: and I just remind you it's election day. You got
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Speaker 2: to vote today. You got to do it. If if
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Speaker 2: that was your plan, just make sure to do it.
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Speaker 2: Follow through with it. I know that a lot of
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Speaker 2: Democrats voted early. That tends to be the case. Republicans
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Speaker 2: like to vote on election day, So don't miss it.
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Speaker 2: If you're going to get out there and cast your vote,
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Speaker 2: today as your day to do it. And I appreciate
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Speaker 2: those of you who want to be part of the day.
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Speaker 2: I really do. It's not the way I'm wired, but
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Speaker 2: I appreciate the fact that it's it's something that you
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Speaker 2: want to be a part of, and you want to
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Speaker 2: you want to do that. So this is it. I mean,
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Speaker 2: for these who's going to be the next Republican candidate
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Speaker 2: to run for governor potentially be the next person to
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Speaker 2: lead Georgia. We've been spoiled. We've got a great governor now,
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Speaker 2: we've been very spoiled for a while. And folks in Columbus,
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Speaker 2: in my hometown, this is your chance as well, a
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Speaker 2: chance to do something different, just a little different. Doesn't
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Speaker 2: have to be drastically different. But but here we go
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Speaker 2: and see where this goes. And and honestly, you know
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Speaker 2: there's been a history now with and you know Trump
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Speaker 2: has given his endorsement in this governor's race. We know
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Speaker 2: there's been a history with some the Atlanta area and
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Speaker 2: with the you know Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms who will
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Speaker 2: likely be the nominee on the left, and again just
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Speaker 2: trying to continue a legacy of a governor we have
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Speaker 2: that we can continue to move in a certain direction
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Speaker 2: and do some things. That's to me the biggest concern,
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Speaker 2: that's the biggest, most important thing as far as those
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Speaker 2: races go. Getting things on track in my hometown and
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Speaker 2: by on tra I mean to change into a direction
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Speaker 2: and you know, in this governor's race, just keeping things
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Speaker 2: going the way they've been going. So much progress made
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Speaker 2: in the state of Georgia under this current governor in
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Speaker 2: Kemp that we just can't we can't let this fall
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Speaker 2: away and we just can't do it. So today's to day.
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Speaker 2: If you're putting it off till today for whatever personal reasons,
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Speaker 2: here you go. Today's day. You got to get there,
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Speaker 2: avoided using AI because of the moral, environmental, or privacy issues.
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Speaker 2: in New York recently added a twenty twenty Chevrolet Corvette
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Speaker 2: Stingray to its fleet, but it's not for high speed chases. Instead,
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Speaker 2: the car was seized from a repeat offender caught driving
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Speaker 2: under the influence back in twenty twenty two, and it's
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Speaker 2: now being used to remind drivers exactly what they stand
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Speaker 2: to lose if they drink and drive. Corvette features a
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Speaker 2: full police rap lights, massive DWI seizure graphics to make
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Speaker 2: sure the message hits home at parades and community events.
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Speaker 2: I like it. It doesn't seem like a very New
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Speaker 2: York City or New York State for that matter, thing
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Speaker 2: to do to someone you know actually have consequences for actions.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't, you know, it doesn't really feel that way.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, are concerts still a big thing? Are they
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Speaker 2: still fun? Summer concert season has officially started, but a
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Speaker 2: new article asking an interesting question, are they still fine?
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Speaker 2: The answer, of course yes, but also no, Some people
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Speaker 2: still love going to see live music. Concerts don't feel
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Speaker 2: quite as carefree as they used to. There's a new
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Speaker 2: layer of pressure involved, mostly from social media. People just
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Speaker 2: aren't going to enjoy music anymore. They're filming, curating outfits,
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Speaker 2: kind of proving that they were there. And of course
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Speaker 2: there's the high ticket prices that raise the expectations as well,
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Speaker 2: making the whole night feel like it has to be perfect.
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Speaker 2: This all makes concerts feel more like a performance than
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Speaker 2: something that you can just go and enjoy. The blue
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Speaker 2: dot syndrome is real. And I don't want to specifically say, hey,
23:44
Speaker 2: it's Taylor Swift's fault, but kind of is. Ticket prices
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Speaker 2: were so high for her, and you know, I'm very
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Speaker 2: much a free market person. So if Taylor Swift can
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Speaker 2: get those ticket prices, then you know, do your thing.
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Speaker 2: And if people are willing to pay for it, which
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Speaker 2: they were, you know, ridiculously high prices. I know people
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Speaker 2: who had no business paying the prices they were paying
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Speaker 2: for Tailor Swift tickets. I know some people who it
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Speaker 2: was nothing, made no impact on their daily life. They
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Speaker 2: just bought some tickets and went. But I know a
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Speaker 2: few people that had a little bit of regret after
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Speaker 2: and were like, I can't believe I paid that much
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Speaker 2: for a ticket, you know, And that's life. That's how
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Speaker 2: it goes sometimes. But with the blue dots syndrome, her
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Speaker 2: ticket prices went up, everyone else said, hey, I should
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Speaker 2: be making that kind of money on tickets too, which
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Speaker 2: means there are a lot of artists that have canceled
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Speaker 2: shows because you go on the ticket websites to buy
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Speaker 2: the tickets and pick out the seats, and there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of blue dots, which means empty seats. So it's
24:46
Speaker 2: had a very negative effect on it. So I think
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Speaker 2: that's also a part of it as well. Uh, think
24:54
Speaker 2: back to the days before everyone had a cell phone,
24:57
Speaker 2: maybe even think back to the Zach Moore Morris giant
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Speaker 2: cell phone that era maybe a little after that even
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Speaker 2: And apparently there are a few folks in gen Z
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Speaker 2: trying to recreate that time because there's a growing trend
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Speaker 2: of phone free parties where people literally check their phones
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Speaker 2: at the door and just spend the night talking to
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Speaker 2: each other. And it turns out it's actually helping. Without screens,
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Speaker 2: people are actually making eye contact, meeting new people, building
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Speaker 2: real world social skills. Again, eye contact is overrated, but
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Speaker 2: maybe that's just me. These events are popping up more
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Speaker 2: and more as young people try to break out of
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Speaker 2: constant scrolling and feel more connected in real life. That's good,
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Speaker 2: I like it. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition
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