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Where's the Protest? · 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 third day of February. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for kicking off your week with me almost one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent pretty close to there. Might still have the urge
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Speaker 2: to cough, still kind of lingering around. We've started having
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Speaker 2: discussions about chronic COVID in the Carroll household. Well, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to more of that coming up in just a
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Speaker 2: little bit bit. For the most part, we're feeling better.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is basically where we are in that
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Speaker 2: phase of like the improvement is there, but we're just
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Speaker 2: kind of But it was really great to I heard
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Speaker 2: from a lot of you over the last week, and
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Speaker 2: some of you are who are now dealing with the
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Speaker 2: same apparently same illness. You didn't get it from me.
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Speaker 2: You can't transmit it through podcasts, you can't transmit it
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Speaker 2: over the airwaves, so least not that we know of
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Speaker 2: who knows. I mean, really, there were a lot of
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Speaker 2: things we've learned about medicine lately right in the last
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Speaker 2: I don't know, six seven years. More about that also
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Speaker 2: coming up, but hang in there. If you're dealing with it,
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Speaker 2: it is rough, and I can just tell you it
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Speaker 2: probably did not help me to know how long it
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Speaker 2: was going to last, just because I had seen the
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Speaker 2: rest of my family go through it. That part was tough,
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Speaker 2: but there was an element of just knowing that we
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Speaker 2: can see that there is a potential finish line about
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Speaker 2: a weekend to it. So if you're just getting started.
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Speaker 2: One of my very close friends just kind of fell
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Speaker 2: with it on Friday, and you know, probably going to
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Speaker 2: be dealing with it for most of the week and
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Speaker 2: it stinks. Again, didn't get it for me the moment
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Speaker 2: when the illness got into the Carroll household. We were
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Speaker 2: very much homebodies for the most part. There were a
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Speaker 2: couple of things that I needed. I had to go
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Speaker 2: out and buy medicine and things, but I was very
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Speaker 2: careful about all that. But once it was definitely in
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Speaker 2: the bloodstream for me more more importantly into the lungs
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Speaker 2: and the airways is probably the better way to say it.
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Speaker 2: But the upside of this is that there is a
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Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel, so a lot
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Speaker 2: of people are dealing with it. The best thing I
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Speaker 2: can tell you is get as much rest as you can,
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Speaker 2: and everything that they tell you about, you know, some
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Speaker 2: sort of a viral when dealing with a cold. You know,
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Speaker 2: hydrate just as much as you can. And it's interesting
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Speaker 2: in our household, Jake does not like anything in the
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Speaker 2: way of he's not going to do gatorade, he's not
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Speaker 2: going to do power aid, he's not doing any of
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Speaker 2: those sort of electrolyte beverages. He probably I mean, if
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Speaker 2: he drank water that sort of had the some extra
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Speaker 2: stuff in there, as long as he couldn't taste it,
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Speaker 2: he'd be fine with that. He's a juice guy. Jill's
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Speaker 2: a juice gal, like that's their thing. They would rather
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Speaker 2: just have juices for theirs. And Luke and I I
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Speaker 2: tend to go with like a power aid zero. Luke
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Speaker 2: likes the you know, the regular stuff that's probably age appropriate.
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Speaker 2: And so, I mean, if you can do those things,
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Speaker 2: it helps whatever is getting the basically the hydration in you.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's really that's really the key. Stay hydrated,
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Speaker 2: try to get it out of your system, and rest
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Speaker 2: as much as you can. And it did exhaust us
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Speaker 2: trying to get up and move around. We felt well
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Speaker 2: enough this weekend to go to one of our favorite
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Speaker 2: shows put on by Columbus State in the Schwop School
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Speaker 2: of Music, Kaleidoscope. They do it every year about this time,
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Speaker 2: and it is one of the most fun shows that
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Speaker 2: you can go to. They put on at the River
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Speaker 2: Center every year. Really an opportunity to show off all
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Speaker 2: of their students and the staff also involved in this
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Speaker 2: organizing and doing things just great. It's great. It's always fantastic.
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Speaker 2: But Jill and I were able to finally just go out,
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Speaker 2: have dinner, go to the show, and enjoy ourselves. So again,
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Speaker 2: kudos to everyone involved in that, and we just I
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Speaker 2: would have been so disappointed to miss out on it,
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Speaker 2: and just a great job there all around. And there's
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Speaker 2: a couple of songs that are kind of annual songs
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Speaker 2: that they put on and I love seeing them every
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Speaker 2: year and the same songs and they're great. So we
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Speaker 2: were able to get out and do that. And you know,
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Speaker 2: the boys obviously got back to school this past week
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Speaker 2: and they've been playing catch up on all the work.
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Speaker 2: Some of the teachers, by the way, and if you're
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Speaker 2: a teacher and you're listening and you've got kids that
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Speaker 2: have been out the teachers that will mean a lot
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Speaker 2: to my kids the rest of this school year are
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Speaker 2: the ones who actually would stop and ask, how are
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Speaker 2: you guys doing on the makeup work? Are you drowning
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Speaker 2: in it? Do you need a little extra time? And
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Speaker 2: that means a lot. These kids are doing a lot
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Speaker 2: of work. My kids are in, you know, two very
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Speaker 2: tough schools, and when you get behind, you get behind,
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Speaker 2: and it's it's a challenge to dig your way out
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Speaker 2: of it. And the teachers that kind of went that
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Speaker 2: extra mile with them means a lot. So so other
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Speaker 2: thing for the weekend, the Winter Olympics wrapped up. What
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Speaker 2: a fantastic couple of days for the US women's and
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Speaker 2: the men's hockey teams, I mean Olympics in general. Obviously
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Speaker 2: it's Winter Olympics. Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics are so
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Speaker 2: different in so many ways, and when you start kind
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Speaker 2: of zeroing in on kind of the and it's not
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Speaker 2: taking away from anything of the other sports, but hockey
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Speaker 2: has been obviously the story for a while now, and
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Speaker 2: forty six years after the miracle on ice, US claims
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Speaker 2: gold again in hockey over Canada art rival. It's basically
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Speaker 2: an NHL All Star Game, where you've got the American
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Speaker 2: All Stars playing the Canadian All Stars. That's kind of
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Speaker 2: the way it works out. In Australia, they have a
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Speaker 2: rugby I don't know, it's kind of a special thing,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know how you would describe it. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's I mean, I know how to describe it. I
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Speaker 2: don't know what you would sort of call it. It's
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Speaker 2: just and it's probably the closest thing I can think
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Speaker 2: to something like that for the Olympics, where you've got
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Speaker 2: so many athletes that are playing for their home country
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Speaker 2: and you know, maybe their teammates with people on the
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Speaker 2: other side on their normal team. But in Australia they've
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Speaker 2: got this thing called state of origin for rugby, where
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Speaker 2: you basically are playing for your home state Queensland, which
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Speaker 2: is Jill's home state, playing New South Wales, which is
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Speaker 2: you know, home of like Sydney, so it sort of
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Speaker 2: comes it's a North versus South kind of thing, and
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Speaker 2: it's a big deal. I mean it's I've been down
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Speaker 2: Under while this was going on, and it's the closest
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Speaker 2: thing that I experienced in that country to some of
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Speaker 2: our big like I've been to a you know, Alabama
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Speaker 2: Auburn games. That's a big deal in the Southeast. Auburn
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Speaker 2: Georgia is a big deal in the Southeast. Alabama Georgia
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Speaker 2: is a big deal. But you know, those sorts of
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Speaker 2: rivalries when it comes out into that kind of competition
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Speaker 2: in rugby. I've been to a Red Sox at Yankees game.
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Speaker 2: I've been to a Braves at Mets game. You get
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Speaker 2: some of those rivalries that you can really feel it
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Speaker 2: it's there. But anyway, that's that's kind of the way
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Speaker 2: it shapes up when when you got the Canadians and
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Speaker 2: the Americans playing, and you know, it wasn't long ago
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Speaker 2: we had the you know, booing during the national anthem
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Speaker 2: for the Canadians and that led to the fights at
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Speaker 2: the start of the match. So all that's kind of
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Speaker 2: fresh shaw that's there, but just a great and Jack
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Speaker 2: Hughes who plays for the New Jersey Devils, that's the
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Speaker 2: team that I adopted when I first started watching hockey,
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Speaker 2: and he just that became my team right out of
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Speaker 2: the gate. And I bought a New Jersey Devil's hat
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Speaker 2: and that was just as a kid, like this is it.
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Speaker 2: This is the team I'm going to pull for and
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Speaker 2: have stuck with him. Not always been good years, they
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Speaker 2: had a good stretch, not always been great years, but
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Speaker 2: I've gotten to see them live. And anyway, Hughes plays
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Speaker 2: for the Devils. It was exciting he got the game
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Speaker 2: or the gold medal winning goal, the golden goal, if
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Speaker 2: you will, So Luke and I were watching that and
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Speaker 2: excited to see him deliver on that. But anyway, so
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Speaker 2: on the subject of rivalries, on the subject of the Olympics,
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Speaker 2: and it was great to see the Americans all standing
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Speaker 2: there singing the national anthem. Really excited. Hughes gave his
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Speaker 2: postgame interview he had just had teeth knocked out in
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Speaker 2: the game, and him talking about how much he loves America,
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Speaker 2: playing for America, how proud he was to represent the country,
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Speaker 2: all the things that are supposed to be what the
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Speaker 2: Olympics are about. So it is refreshing whenever you get
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Speaker 2: to hear that and you get to see people that
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Speaker 2: are just excited to be there and they're it's not
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Speaker 2: an agenda, it's not political, it's nothing more than just
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Speaker 2: this is my country. I had an opportunity to play
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Speaker 2: for it, and I hope I did them proud and
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Speaker 2: you did, Jack Hughes, you did, Quinn Hughes, you did
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Speaker 2: to the whole American team, his brother Quinn on the team.
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Speaker 2: There were another pair of siblings on the team as well.
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Speaker 2: Just just a fantastic thing to see and to hear
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Speaker 2: him in his press conference on the subject. And it's
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Speaker 2: been nice also to have an Olympic Games where there's
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Speaker 2: obviously going to be the fact that we had, you know,
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Speaker 2: some countries not there, one in particular that wasn't there
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Speaker 2: that has connections obviously to the nineteen eighty miracle on
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Speaker 2: ice game, the last time the US won gold, before
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Speaker 2: this past weekend, before yesterday, and to them not being
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Speaker 2: there and for the reasons that they're not there. It's
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Speaker 2: anytime there's war and there's an undertone that's there, but
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Speaker 2: you take a you step back from it, you break
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Speaker 2: away from it for the Olympics. And it's something that
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Speaker 2: we haven't been able to do necessarily in the Summer Games.
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Speaker 2: It's something we haven't been able to do in the
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Speaker 2: World Cup. It's something that we just I say, we
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Speaker 2: haven't been able to do. We refuse to do. We
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Speaker 2: can't have this escape from those things. And it's not
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Speaker 2: to say that there wasn't some of that in the Olympics,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't so prominent that you couldn't just enjoy
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Speaker 2: it and enjoy the escape of these games. So on
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Speaker 2: the subject of those things, and on the subject of
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Speaker 2: this idea of protesting, and on the idea that we
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Speaker 2: just to further prove that protesting is really more about
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Speaker 2: some agenda that isn't necessarily what's being protested. Our conversation
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Speaker 2: yesterday for a little bit shifted to our colds and
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Speaker 2: the sickness that we've had. We talked a little bit
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Speaker 2: about long COVID or chronic COVID, and I just kind
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Speaker 2: of made the comment, you know, if only there was
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Speaker 2: someone who should be held accountable for COVID and a
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Speaker 2: mishandling of it and all those things. And it really
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Speaker 2: got me to thinking about the fact that we play
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Speaker 2: this game where we pretend to be angry about something
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Speaker 2: as Americans. You know, we go, oh, we're mad about
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Speaker 2: the way Ice is handling things. We're mad at aggressive
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Speaker 2: handling of deportations. We don't take a minute to step
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Speaker 2: back and say, well, how much of the it's been aggressive?
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Speaker 2: Are we just hearing from you know, media outlets that
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Speaker 2: maybe aren't even there on the ground, or we see
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Speaker 2: these situations where people say, you know, they're they're being
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Speaker 2: so aggressive in and you know, we've actually had ICE
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Speaker 2: agents say, you know, we're going after an actual pedophile
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Speaker 2: that raped a child, and you're defending them and making
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Speaker 2: it hard for us to capture them. So this whole
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Speaker 2: notion of this being about some justice while you're preventing
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Speaker 2: actual justice from being carried out. And you know the
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Speaker 2: things that we say, oh, you know, I'm they're protesting Trump.
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Speaker 2: They're not protesting anything to do with deportations. And we
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Speaker 2: know that. We know that because you know the number
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Speaker 2: of deportations that happened during the Obama administration or how
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Speaker 2: many happened when Bill Clinton was president. So we know
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Speaker 2: that this isn't what it's really about. That it really
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Speaker 2: is about just standing up and protesting and trying to
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Speaker 2: shape the outcome of the next election. That's what it is.
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Speaker 2: We know that, but we pretend that that's not really
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Speaker 2: what's going on. And you would think that there would
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Speaker 2: be people and I'm not advocating violence. Please understand that
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Speaker 2: that's not what I'm doing. I'm not advocating that someone
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Speaker 2: should drag Anthony Fauci out of his house by his
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Speaker 2: ankles and he should be punished in the streets. I'm
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Speaker 2: not advocating for that at all, and this is not
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Speaker 2: some you know, signal to do that. But there has, strangely,
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Speaker 2: in all of the time since COVID, there's been no
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Speaker 2: conversation about doing anything like that. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: that anyone should. I'm just speaking specifically of this people,
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Speaker 2: this far left mindset of you know, people have to
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Speaker 2: be punished. I'm not advocating anyone hurting anyone. That's not
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Speaker 2: what I'm doing. I'm just pointing out the fact that
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Speaker 2: we've had all this conversation and all this talk about
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Speaker 2: people wanting to do these horrible things, but no real
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Speaker 2: talk of accountability other than a couple of politicians, you know,
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Speaker 2: one in particular from Kentucky, who wanted to make sure
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Speaker 2: that Fauci was held accountable for it, but nothing. We
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Speaker 2: look at England right now and we say, hey, you know,
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Speaker 2: Prince Andrew, former Prince Andrew was arrested and released and
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Speaker 2: is facing all sorts of investigations in scrutiny for the
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Speaker 2: things that are laid out in the Epstein files. And
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Speaker 2: all we really hear here in the US is this, Oh, well,
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Speaker 2: so and So's name is in there. Trump's name is
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Speaker 2: in there this many times. Well, what are the accusations
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Speaker 2: in there that are horrible? Like, what are we talking about? Well,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just know his name's in there
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Speaker 2: a lot. And we're screaming about midterm elections. That's not
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Speaker 2: specifically what they're saying, but that's really what they're saying.
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Speaker 2: That's really the message that's constantly being relayed is this
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Speaker 2: is about the midterm elections. That's what this is. It's
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Speaker 2: about shaping the outcome of an election. When this year's started,
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Speaker 2: and I told you, get ready, this will be a
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Speaker 2: year with some riots. We're going to see riots, We're
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Speaker 2: going to see protesting because it's a midterm election year.
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Speaker 2: Little did I know. It was about two days after
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Speaker 2: that that all hell broke loose. And I didn't know
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Speaker 2: that was would be that soon. But it's just predictable now.
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Speaker 2: And how how is someone who was so angry and
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Speaker 2: violent and put your mask on and all the things
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Speaker 2: that people wanted to see during COVID from the left
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Speaker 2: no rioting and protesting outside Anthony Fauci's house. Nothing, we've
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Speaker 2: done nothing. We've just moved on. We moved on from
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Speaker 2: that as if he had no reason to be held
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Speaker 2: in any way question or accountable or anything for that mess. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: We just move on.
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Speaker 2: We just pretend it didn't happen. Meanwhile, people are still
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Speaker 2: suffering from long COVID, people are still suffering from chronic COVID.
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Speaker 2: There are still people who are dead from COVID, A
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Speaker 2: lot of them, some of them you and I know. Oh,
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Speaker 2: some of them were friends, some of them were important
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Speaker 2: to my childhood. Gone nothing, No accountability. We want to
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Speaker 2: be mad at because an ICE agent yelled at somebody
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Speaker 2: while they were arresting a pedophile or a murderer, a rapist.
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Speaker 2: But he was mean to that rapist. So we're pretending
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Speaker 2: that that's what we're really going after. We're pretending that
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Speaker 2: that's where we're Oh, we have to sit back and
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Speaker 2: really be so offended and upset that somebody would yell
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Speaker 2: at a rapist that they're trying to deport from the country. Well,
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Speaker 2: we're claiming that it's about accountability and justice, but we
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Speaker 2: just let things slide. We let so many things slide.
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Speaker 2: And look, I'm not an advocate for some of the
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Speaker 2: many of the arrests that have taken place in England
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Speaker 2: when it comes to free speech and things. But they
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Speaker 2: arrested Prince Andrew. I mean they arrested him, they took
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Speaker 2: him into custody, and they're continuing to dig. What do
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Speaker 2: we think is gonna happen this week when the Clintons
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Speaker 2: give their testimony about things. What do we think is
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Speaker 2: gonna happen there? Where do we think things are going?
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Speaker 2: Think we're going to get some kind of accountability of
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Speaker 2: any kind. We think we're going to get some kind
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Speaker 2: of digging. And I'm not pretending to be an expert
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Speaker 2: on it. I'm not pretending I haven't read all three
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Speaker 2: and a half million pages of the Epstein files. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to do that. I say, I'm definitely not
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Speaker 2: going to read all of them. I mean, there's some
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Speaker 2: that should be. But I know people who far left
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Speaker 2: media that I know personally that all they've done is
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Speaker 2: dig through it looking. They're looking for the smoking gun
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Speaker 2: with Trump and they're not finding it, and they're they're
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Speaker 2: angry that they haven't found it, and they're angry that
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Speaker 2: no one has found it, and they're frustrated that it
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Speaker 2: had hasn't been found because it's not about justice, it's
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Speaker 2: right after the break Well, it seems that solo dining
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Speaker 2: is having a moment. According to a new survey, nearly
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Speaker 2: a third of Americans eat out alone at least once
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Speaker 2: a week. Gen Z and millennials are leading the trend,
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Speaker 2: and they're saying, what used to kind of feel like
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Speaker 2: a sad or awkward thing is now being seen as
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Speaker 2: self care. Basically, it's about carving out a little peaceful
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Speaker 2: me time in your hectic schedule. Restaurants taking note too,
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Speaker 2: especially considering their research finds that people are willing to
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Speaker 2: spend more when they dine alone. Well, yeah, they're used
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Speaker 2: to spending maybe for two people, and then when they're
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Speaker 2: there by themselves, they kind of want to spoil themselves,
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Speaker 2: I would guess, and they say, well, I can spend
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Speaker 2: a little bit more. I'm just paying for me. Right,
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Speaker 2: Speaking of self care, here's another tip for ways that
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Speaker 2: maybe you can take care of yourself. That's what self
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Speaker 2: care is, right, So, basically it's an idea about creating
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Speaker 2: instead of to do lists, things that you have to
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Speaker 2: get done, things that you're obligated to accomplish. And it's
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Speaker 2: basically about putting a list of things that are ta
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Speaker 2: da lists. That's what people are calling it. So basically,
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Speaker 2: instead of stressing about the things you haven't done on
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Speaker 2: you jot down the stuff that you have actually accomplished,
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Speaker 2: whether big or small, and then you say, okay, well,
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Speaker 2: todaw I did that. I accomplished that little thing, even
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Speaker 2: if it's a small thing. And it's like an email
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Speaker 2: that you were dreading writing and you finally got around
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Speaker 2: to writing it and you go, oh, to dah, I
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Speaker 2: did it. Took an extra long walk maybe that day,
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Speaker 2: and you go, all right, I did, or maybe just
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Speaker 2: a walk at all, got up and walked around while
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Speaker 2: you were at work and sitting in your chair all day.
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Speaker 2: But experts say, basically, it's a way to help your
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Speaker 2: motivation towards more, you know, significant or larger accomplishments, maybe
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Speaker 2: those things that actually are on your to do list.
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Speaker 2: So it's small little things that you can feel a
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Speaker 2: little bit of a whin about. It's different than the
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Speaker 2: idea of swallowing the frog. You know that expression where
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Speaker 2: you basically, there's something you've kind of been dreading and
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Speaker 2: you really don't want to do it, and then you
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Speaker 2: finally get around to doing it. But there is a
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Speaker 2: little bit of that to it, right because you're having
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Speaker 2: your little tada moment, like I did it, I accomplished it,
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Speaker 2: I got it. Now we can move on all those
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Speaker 2: sorts of things anyway, another just a little self care.
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Speaker 2: That's all just offering up some tips on how to
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Speaker 2: kind of reinforce things. Well, it seems that apparently there's
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Speaker 2: a survey that may suggest that the baby boomers are
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Speaker 2: retiring a bit early because they can't handle working with
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Speaker 2: gen Z folks. And it's got to do with different
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Speaker 2: work styles, and yeah, I could see where if you
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Speaker 2: were a boomer and you were like, I don't know
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Speaker 2: about this. New survey found about twenty percent of boomers
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Speaker 2: or playing to retire early because they just they don't
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Speaker 2: like their coworkers, and apparently the coworkers don't like them either.
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Speaker 2: Almost thirty percent of gen Z workers said they were
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Speaker 2: looking for roles where their interactions with the boomers would
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Speaker 2: be minimal. This is just agism playing out, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Both directions thirty nine percent of gen Z said they
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Speaker 2: would rather be managed by AI than a Boomer, and
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent of Boomer said they'd prefer working with
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Speaker 2: AI over gen Z. Basically boiling down to very different
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Speaker 2: work philosophies. Boomers valuing the old school grind gen Z
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Speaker 2: about work life balance, and it seems instead of fighting
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Speaker 2: for it, some boomers are choosing just to move on.
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Speaker 2: That's where us gen X is that you know, we're
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Speaker 2: handling that gap. We're bridging that gap, if you will,
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Speaker 2: trying to help make sure that we can keep things calm.
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Speaker 2: You need more management in the gen X, That's what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. You need more of us handling all that business,
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Speaker 2: trying to help fight all this agism that's going on. Hey,
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Speaker 2: Las Vegas dealing with a decline and number of visitors
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Speaker 2: and weekends still bustle, but the Vegas Strip looks a
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Speaker 2: little different Monday through Thursday. Plenty of open parking, plenty
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Speaker 2: of room to move around. Something to keep an eye
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Speaker 2: on if you're interested in visiting. Hotels already offering deals
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Speaker 2: and discounts during weekdays to attract new visitors. So I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you want to go to Vegas and
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Speaker 2: you can do it, you know, Monday through Thursday. That
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Speaker 2: would be the time to do it, apparently. A new
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Speaker 2: survey found thirty one percent of workers say that their
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Speaker 2: workload has increased since AI was introduced at their company,
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Speaker 2: some reporting that they're now expected to do two to
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Speaker 2: four times as much work as before. About one in
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Speaker 2: five workers say it would be difficult or impossible to
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Speaker 2: keep up with their current workload without AI, another thirty
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Speaker 2: two percent saying it would be somewhat challenging. Forty six
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Speaker 2: percent say they feel confident that they could maintain their
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Speaker 2: current pace without AI support. Yeah, they probably couldn't. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if they're being asked to do it that much, probably
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Speaker 2: would be struggling with it. All right, that'll do it
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