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What Ya Gonna Do, Brother? · 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: Monday morning, twenty eighth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me, kicking off another week together. Final week,
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Speaker 2: not even a whole week. We're days away from rolling
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Speaker 2: on into August, and the upcoming month of August means
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Speaker 2: we're almost to dragon Con. This year, the dragon Con
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Speaker 2: Pregame Show will premiere on two hundred or so radio
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Speaker 2: stations around the state of Georgia on August twenty third
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Speaker 2: and twenty fourth. And if you happen to live in
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Speaker 2: a city that is in a bordering state and it
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Speaker 2: has a station that is based out of Georgia, or
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Speaker 2: maybe a license maybe in another state but run by
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Speaker 2: someone in Georgia, may just get your chance to hear
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Speaker 2: it then as well, because it will be heard throughout
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Speaker 2: the southeast on a number of stations. Two hundred or
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Speaker 2: so stations are going to cover it, and I want
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Speaker 2: to thank first our friends at the Georgia News Network,
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Speaker 2: part of how we make all this happen, and then
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Speaker 2: also our sponsor four years of the dragon Con Pregame
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Speaker 2: we like to often discuss on the Mate of Stars
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Speaker 2: podcast elements of science and science fiction. This all ties
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Speaker 2: in great because my co host of the Mate of
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Speaker 2: Crusen from the coc Cola Space Science Center, and he
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Speaker 2: and I like to talk about science science fiction, the
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Speaker 2: connection between the two, and a regular sponsor of our
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Speaker 2: pregame show and the Dragon Con Pregame Show podcast, which
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Speaker 2: will also be dropping right around that weekend of the
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Speaker 2: twenty third. We do the show the weekend before dragon Con. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're new to this whole deal and you haven't
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Speaker 2: listened to me for years, then you may be going okay,
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Speaker 2: dragon Con. That is that one of those nerd conventions
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Speaker 2: that sort of sure, there's elements of that to it,
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Speaker 2: but it's more than that. It's a popular arts convention.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to be a nerd to be involved.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't hurt, doesn't hurt, but that's not really what it is.
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Speaker 2: So it's this huge convention. I guess there's now five
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Speaker 2: host hotels. Takes place in downtown Atlanta every Labor Day. Weekend,
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Speaker 2: and it also they take over America's Mark nearby. That's
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Speaker 2: where all the vendors are. If you want to buy
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Speaker 2: a t shirts, you want to get a tattoo, you
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Speaker 2: want to get a piercing, you want to buy a sword,
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Speaker 2: you want to buy a lightsaber, you want to buy
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Speaker 2: dice for games, you want to buy actual games, all
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Speaker 2: those sorts of things, any kind of fandom, anything that
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Speaker 2: you want represented, will be there for sale America's Mark.
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Speaker 2: But then also what goes on in the other hotels.
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Speaker 2: It's just a constant living convention that takes place all
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Speaker 2: weekend with guests from various fandoms appearing this year, including
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Speaker 2: some of the people who've been on past dragon Con
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Speaker 2: pregame show, radio and podcast and you can listen to
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Speaker 2: those now if you go to where wherever you're listening
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Speaker 2: to podcasts, go to the dragon Con Pregame Show podcast
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Speaker 2: and you can listen to interviews with people like William Shatner,
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Speaker 2: George t Ka, Mini Mouse, Donald Duck. I mean, lots
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Speaker 2: of great voice actors from over the years, some iconic,
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Speaker 2: but the current voice of Mini Mouse, the current voice
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Speaker 2: of Donald Duck, and then also Star Wars, Star Trek
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Speaker 2: and others. Now, speaking of crossover fantoms, I am today
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Speaker 2: ready to announce our first guest for this year's show,
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Speaker 2: and I'm very excited at someone that I've wanted to
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Speaker 2: interview for you years, and she is now booked for
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Speaker 2: this year's show, so you'll be able to hear her.
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Speaker 2: I'll be interviewing her soon in the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: Really looking forward to having her on the show. She
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Speaker 2: is and when I say, sort of a crossover fandoms
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Speaker 2: Battlestar Galactica, Longmire, Right, and Star Wars in the Mandalorian series,
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Speaker 2: as well as in Ahsoka. So Katie Sakoff, I've looked
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Speaker 2: forward to having an opportunity to talk with her for
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Speaker 2: quite some time. I've been anxious to get that interview,
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Speaker 2: and we got it set up. It's all ready to go.
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Speaker 2: We'll do that. I've got a couple of others I
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Speaker 2: can't announce just yet, but I'll have my chance to
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Speaker 2: announce them very soon. Very excited about the potential other guests.
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Speaker 2: I think one maybe I could go ahead and call,
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Speaker 2: but I'm not going to do it yet. Like I
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Speaker 2: think I could make one more announcement, but I'm going
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Speaker 2: to wait ntil it's official. When I know the time
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Speaker 2: and the date for the interview, i'll let you know,
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Speaker 2: but that may be I may have that for you tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: And this is a relative of one of the most
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Speaker 2: iconic people in movie history. Okay, sort of a relative,
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Speaker 2: how about that? Kind of there's a relation there. There's
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Speaker 2: a connection to this icon and I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 2: that interview as well, but not official yet, so I'll
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Speaker 2: wait again. Thanks to Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space
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Speaker 2: Science Center. Okay, Now for today's show, I want to
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Speaker 2: go back speaking of people that I've interviewed. Not for
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Speaker 2: Dragon Con though, although one of the elements of this
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Speaker 2: convention when I say it's not just nerds, wrestling is
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Speaker 2: a component of Dragon Con every year. And a friend
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Speaker 2: from back in the radio days, in the Top forty
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Speaker 2: radio days and from conventions and spend a lot of
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Speaker 2: time with this guy at a place places like Hooters
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Speaker 2: his choice, but the Iron Chic who I had a
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Speaker 2: nice rapport with over the years. We had him in
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Speaker 2: Columbus for a number of events, and he and Hulk
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Speaker 2: Hogan had this bitter relationship and it was really more
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Speaker 2: Chic than Hogan. Being honest, I don't Hogan. I never
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Speaker 2: heard anything really said about the Chic from Hogan. Chic
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Speaker 2: was just upset, like it was one of those things
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Speaker 2: in wrestling where when you get over on somebody and
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Speaker 2: you win, typically there's a chance for a rematch later
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Speaker 2: you get another chance to try to, you know, win
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Speaker 2: the title back. I guess that never happened between Hogan
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Speaker 2: and the Chic was bitter about it. If you ever
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Speaker 2: met him anywhere and mentioned Hogan's name, you heard about it.
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Speaker 2: If you followed The Iron Chic on Twitter, there were
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Speaker 2: a lot of things about Hogan on there.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: I had I booked an event with Hulk Hogan's daughter
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Speaker 2: Brooke to come to Columbus and she was launched a
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Speaker 2: singing career at the time, and she was opening for
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Speaker 2: another act that we had for a show, and I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: I'd love to have Brooke come in and sing, and
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Speaker 2: her dad was going to come with her, and so
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Speaker 2: he helped us promote the show and all those sorts
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Speaker 2: of things, and I got to know him from that,
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Speaker 2: and ultimately I had an opportunity to get him and
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Speaker 2: The Iron Chic on the phone together and patch things up.
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Speaker 2: And for Hogan it didn't seem to be patching things up.
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Speaker 2: He just was genuinely The Sheik had had some terrible
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Speaker 2: things happen in his personal life. Hogan. I let Hogan
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Speaker 2: know about it, and I said, if you want to
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Speaker 2: reach out, we can get you on the phone with him.
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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, let's call him, and they did. They talked.
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Speaker 2: The Sheik was really happy to hear from him. They
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Speaker 2: worked through some of their things, at least the things
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Speaker 2: that Sheic needed to work through, and it was one
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Speaker 2: of the cool moments of my radio career, my broadcast
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Speaker 2: career was being part of that moment. These two guys.
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Speaker 2: Hogan easily the most popular and iconic wrestler of all time.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he is for professional wrestling, the guy you
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Speaker 2: can make arguments about various you know, every there's always
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Speaker 2: these comments where people say, you know, who's the greatest
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Speaker 2: basketball player ever? And then people try to go generation
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Speaker 2: to generation about who's the greatest and you know, currently
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Speaker 2: will go oh, Lebron because he's the current one. That's
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Speaker 2: really the way things work in a lot of sports.
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Speaker 2: Tennis players, there's this talk of who the best is
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Speaker 2: currently at least in women's tennis. You know, people would
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Speaker 2: say Serena Williams and there's not really been someone to
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Speaker 2: come along and threaten to take that title from her,
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Speaker 2: but it will happen. At some point, there will be someone.
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Speaker 2: People will say, Wow, she's better than Serena Williams. There's
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Speaker 2: some people who say Serena Williams for tennis in general,
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Speaker 2: is arguably the best tennis player ever. Now, certainly wouldn't
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Speaker 2: beat the best men's players, but that's that's not what
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Speaker 2: we're talking about. Just as far as her importance to
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Speaker 2: women's tennis and things like that, you could make that case.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have a problem with that case.
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Speaker 2: The people who try to say that she could play
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Speaker 2: against the men and you know, she would say I
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Speaker 2: could play the worst ranked men's player and I would
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Speaker 2: get crushed, and that was those were her words. So
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Speaker 2: understanding that difference. But this isn't a conversation about biology.
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Speaker 2: That's what I want to talk about today. My point
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Speaker 2: is Hogan for the most part, not the best technical wrestler.
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Speaker 2: There are other guys that you would say, I mean,
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Speaker 2: you could make a case that, you know, Rick Flair
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Speaker 2: is the best wrestler of all time. But even Rick
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Speaker 2: Flair says Hogan was more of an icon than I was,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's accurate. I think there are guys
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Speaker 2: there's there's there's guys who were good wrestlers that weren't
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Speaker 2: necessarily this uh head and shoulders above everyone else's figure
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Speaker 2: that the whole Cogan was. And he had other things
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Speaker 2: working for him. He was in Rocky three, you know.
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Speaker 2: I guess he got fired from WWF back then for
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Speaker 2: doing that movie. He was told not to do it.
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Speaker 2: He did TV, he did movies. None of that stuff
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Speaker 2: really panned out as well obviously as wrestling did for him.
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Speaker 2: But he was this iconic figure. Now I know there
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Speaker 2: are reasons that people don't like him. We've learned more
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Speaker 2: things about him behind the scenes. We've heard all these stories.
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Speaker 2: We've learned about some of the things that he said.
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Speaker 2: There was the issues of steroids, when he lied about
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Speaker 2: the steroids and admitted later that he lied about the
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Speaker 2: steroids and those things. There were obviously the issues of racism.
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Speaker 2: These tapes of him, you know, using language that not okay,
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Speaker 2: and he took a beating for it, certainly in the
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Speaker 2: later part of his life. But he passed away last
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Speaker 2: week on Thursday of ultimately cardiac arrest. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if they've decided what caused it, if this was just
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Speaker 2: a specific cardiac event, or if it was anything to
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Speaker 2: do with anything else going on with him medically. And
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Speaker 2: I don't know that it's really our business short of
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Speaker 2: it saying, oh, this is a side effect of that
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Speaker 2: steroid use that he lied about, And I don't know
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Speaker 2: that we're ever going to find that out. But the
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Speaker 2: point is hul Coogan passed and for the most part,
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Speaker 2: in most sports media, they have treated him like this
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Speaker 2: icon that he was, with reverence, with respect. Sure there
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Speaker 2: was a time and a place for the things that
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Speaker 2: he said when he was alive. He's not here anymore
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Speaker 2: to defend that, and I don't know that he's ever
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Speaker 2: defended it. I think he's apologized publicly for it, and
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Speaker 2: over the past several years been a very outspoken born
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Speaker 2: again Christian. He was baptized a few years ago. He's
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Speaker 2: talked about trying to spread his faith to other people.
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Speaker 2: Those people was the wrestler Roddy Piper, who he said
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Speaker 2: that they didn't get along at all when they were wrestling,
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Speaker 2: and that Roddy Piper, I guess ultimately became a Christian
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Speaker 2: before he passed away. And he said that he got
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Speaker 2: a message from Roddy Piper, a voicemail that he says
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Speaker 2: he got from him after he had passed away, and
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Speaker 2: he thinks that it was from Beyond. I mean a
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Speaker 2: wild story, and Hogan tells it that like it sounds
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Speaker 2: like he believes it. Being a wrestler, being a performer,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe he's selling it better than other people would,
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Speaker 2: but he certainly seems like he believed the story. And
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Speaker 2: then there's social media that used its opportunity to just
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Speaker 2: attack him relentlessly since he's passed away. One a wrestler
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Speaker 2: from the WWE, Chelsea Green, has actually left social media.
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Speaker 2: She says there was too much backlash from people because
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Speaker 2: she basically called him an absolute eye and people said,
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Speaker 2: you know, he got involved in the election and he
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Speaker 2: supported Trump, and he said racist things in the past,
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Speaker 2: and he's despicable and he's horrible human being and he
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Speaker 2: deserves to die, and those kinds of things floating around
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Speaker 2: on social media, which brings me to my point today.
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Speaker 2: First of all, if we can't have some respect and
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Speaker 2: reverence for an athlete, and I understand we're talking about wrestling,
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Speaker 2: but these guys are athletes in so many ways. Professional
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Speaker 2: wrestlers are like they're almost like straight out of comic books.
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Speaker 2: They're colorful characters. You know, they're doing these superhuman feats
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Speaker 2: in the ring. Sure there's a script involved to some degree,
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Speaker 2: and it's not script by script. There's you know, predetermined
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Speaker 2: outcome things that you don't really talk about. But they
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Speaker 2: have to put on this performance and they have to
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Speaker 2: put their bodies on the line at times, their lives
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Speaker 2: on the line so that they can do these these performances,
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Speaker 2: these shows. They're very much circus entertainers in some way,
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Speaker 2: but they're also very much athletes. And it's insulting to
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Speaker 2: try to take something that was said, which, by the way,
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Speaker 2: many wrestlers, many non white wrestlers, have defended him in
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Speaker 2: this time, saying, you know what, that was a long
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Speaker 2: time ago, wasn't okay. One of the people that he
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Speaker 2: said language about that he shouldn't have said was The Rock,
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Speaker 2: who had a nice tribute to him on social media.
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Speaker 2: And I guess my question is this, and I realize
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Speaker 2: I'm borderline kind of doing the same thing, but It
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Speaker 2: does make me wonder because one of the conversations that
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Speaker 2: comes up about and this isn't fresh after his death,
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Speaker 2: this is now many years later. But we have this
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Speaker 2: tendency sometimes where we will forget some of the horrible
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Speaker 2: things that people did or were accused of doing. When
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Speaker 2: you start having conversations about about, you know, the greatest
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Speaker 2: ever in basketball, and when I hear people talk about
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Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant, I think people forget that he was actually
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Speaker 2: accused of raping someone and that there was a settlement
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Speaker 2: that was done. And then he went on TV and
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Speaker 2: he gave an apology that was really kind of an admission.
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Speaker 2: If you go back and you listen to what he
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Speaker 2: said during that apology, he's basically saying, eh, I didn't
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Speaker 2: realize that's what I was doing, but apparently that's what
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Speaker 2: I was doing. I mean, that's kind of what he said.
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Speaker 2: That's the way it sounded to me, and so sounded
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Speaker 2: to a lot of people. And then he was just
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Speaker 2: we just kind of moved on because he was really
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Speaker 2: good at basketball, and we collectively moved on, and then
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Speaker 2: he died in this horrible way, and we just kind
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Speaker 2: of forgot about any of the bad stuff. That's a
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Speaker 2: pretty bad thing. I'm not defending anybody using racist language
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Speaker 2: by any means. Hogan himself had a I think he
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Speaker 2: was he extorted, like he had a tape someone had
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Speaker 2: recorded him with them having some personal time, and they
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Speaker 2: tried to extort him. And I don't think they ended
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Speaker 2: up paying them or whatever the result was of all that.
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Speaker 2: But I think we should for just a minute, address
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Speaker 2: the fact that there are a lot of people that
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Speaker 2: we look at with reverence. I don't know that we
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Speaker 2: ever really got answers on the whole ray Lewis Atlanta thing,
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Speaker 2: did we. Ray Lewis was an outst I mean, Kobe
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Speaker 2: Bryant was, you know, yes, one of the great basketball
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Speaker 2: players of all time. Ray Lewis one of the greatest
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Speaker 2: linebackers to ever play the game of football. Completely this
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Speaker 2: is just two examples, but these are both people that
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Speaker 2: we've just kind of ignored the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 2: somebody got killed in Atlanta and there were accusations, maybe
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Speaker 2: not that ray Lewis did anything, but that he was
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Speaker 2: somehow involved in cleaning things up. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: the real story is. I don't know that we ever
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Speaker 2: got answers. Did we ever get answers to that, or
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Speaker 2: do we just move on from that and go, man,
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Speaker 2: that guy can play football some circumstances, we don't do that.
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Speaker 2: Ray Lewis is still alive, and I'm not accusing him
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Speaker 2: of anything. I'm just pointing out the fact that there
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Speaker 2: was a point where people went I think ray Lewis
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Speaker 2: might have held hot a body. We never found that
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Speaker 2: suit he was wearing that night, Like later he was
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Speaker 2: seen in a different suit. Why wasn't he still wearing
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Speaker 2: that white suit? Those were things that were said, And
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Speaker 2: again I'm not saying that he did anything wrong, but
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Speaker 2: I just assume that on the day that he dies,
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Speaker 2: that's not going to be the first thing that's brought up.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to assume that probably no one else is
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Speaker 2: ever going to bring up the whole rape accusation thing
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Speaker 2: with Kobe Bryant. Nobody talks about it. People happily go
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Speaker 2: out and buy his jersey and wear it and T
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Speaker 2: shirts and talk about what a hero he was. They're
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Speaker 2: all flawed human beings, these pro athletes, they all are.
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Speaker 2: And if we're going to focus on a period of
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Speaker 2: time for a whole Cogan or we're going to focus
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Speaker 2: on his political stance. God forbid somebody take a political
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Speaker 2: stance that's not popular. Apparently it's more popular than we
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Speaker 2: thought it was, at least when he was doing it.
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Speaker 2: It did take guts to stand up there and endorse
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Speaker 2: Trump on, rip his shirt off and have on the
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Speaker 2: Trump shirt. It did so. I say this a whole Cogan.
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Speaker 2: When I was around him, he was a nice guy,
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Speaker 2: loved his daughter, loved his family, loved his son, loved
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Speaker 2: his family. And it took time out of his day
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Speaker 2: to reach out to the Iron Cheek when he knew
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Speaker 2: Sheic was going through something tough and called him. I
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Speaker 2: heard part of the conversation, and then he stepped away
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Speaker 2: and they had a private conversation. And I can tell
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Speaker 2: you this. A few months later, I saw the Iron
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Speaker 2: Cheek and he ran up to me and thanked me
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Speaker 2: for making that happen, told me what a good guy
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Speaker 2: Hogan was after all the horrible things he'd said about him.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make everything okay. Does it take away anything
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Speaker 2: that happened behind the scenes. You know it does. When
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Speaker 2: he starts telling us that he's given his life to Jesus,
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Speaker 2: that he got baptized, that takes away everything. Does it
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Speaker 2: mean that people aren't going to bring it up? Obviously not.
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Speaker 2: But the important thing is he says at least he's
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Speaker 2: professed publicly that he's moved on from those things in
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Speaker 2: his life and he was living a new life. And
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that at least we have the assurance that
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Speaker 2: he did that. And while it's sad, seventy one is
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Speaker 2: really young for somebody who fitness was a big thing,
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Speaker 2: and I know he did a lot of things to
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Speaker 2: his body over the years. I know he did. He
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Speaker 2: talked about that, he's talked about the steroids, he's talked
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Speaker 2: about some of the things that he did, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of wrestlers die young. But I do get some
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Speaker 2: reassurance in knowing that he made that decision and then
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Speaker 2: he put those other things behind him, even if social
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Speaker 3: on the service of the Moon. Because Dave's brother, Tom
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Speaker 3: Coca Cola Space Science Center. And again that's that collection
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Speaker 3: got so overwhelmingly large we couldn't put it on display here.
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Speaker 3: That's why we're doing the exhibit at the Bow Bartlet Center.
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Speaker 2: the other day we were giving you a report on
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Speaker 2: and we have another report on this. So I just
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Speaker 2: think it's fair we represent the flavors that win the
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Speaker 2: polls correctly. So here we go. Recent data that comes
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Speaker 2: across the US. Now we just told you chocolate was
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Speaker 2: number one. I don't remember whose pole that was. Now
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Speaker 2: we've got instacarts, which says no, no, no, not so fast.
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Speaker 2: Chocolate's number two, Vanilla is number one, Cookies and cream three,
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Speaker 2: strawberry four, which is higher than it was on the
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Speaker 2: other pole as well. That seems like the real top
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Speaker 2: four to me. That's just my impression, and I realize
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Speaker 2: I'm just gauging off of my gut. That seems like
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Speaker 2: an accurate representation of the top four. Number five mint
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Speaker 2: chip or mint chocolate chip. That probably is about right
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Speaker 2: to me. I know there's some other flavors that could
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Speaker 2: be up there at five. Cookie dough, coffee, butter, pecan, neapolitan,
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Speaker 2: and peanut butter. Chocolate is in the tenth spot, and
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Speaker 2: this is according to instacar, based on what people are ordering.
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Speaker 2: So there you go. Now, I realize we could slant
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Speaker 2: of people that like vanilla just buy a lot of it,
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Speaker 2: as much vanilla as some of the other flavors. So
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Speaker 2: the other person's putting no effort in at all. Are
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Speaker 2: probably have some issues going on there. But yes, minimal effort.
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Speaker 2: They don't talk about the relationship specifically, they avoid that,
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Speaker 2: some effort, not just minimal effort. So uber has added
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Speaker 2: a female driver option This seems like something that's a
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Speaker 2: little like should have been done a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Remember there were some issues where some questions about and
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Speaker 2: across the US, giving both the rider and driver some
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Speaker 2: control and sense of safety. There are some situations where
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Speaker 2: I would say this reeks of something foul, but in
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Speaker 2: this circumstance, this seems like if it makes everybody comfortable,
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Speaker 2: I think we need things where people feel comfortable. I
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Speaker 2: think that's important. Does it mean they're definitely should feel comfortable.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not, but it's giving them that option and if
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Speaker 2: be it. According to a new Internet national study, switching
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Speaker 2: it actually improved. So there you go, all right. Finally,
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Speaker 2: one thing they say you should never ever do on
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Speaker 2: a no no. They say, first of all, it's a
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Speaker 2: safety hazard, especially during takeoff and landing if there was
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Speaker 2: with no shoes on. They say it's gross for people
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Speaker 2: around you. Nobody wants to see or smell your feet.
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Speaker 2: And they say it's also gross for you. And you
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Speaker 2: wouldn't take off your shoes on a subway or bus,
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Speaker 2: very dirty, So keep all those kind of things in mind.
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Speaker 2: And it's as possible there could be glass on the
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Speaker 2: floor or something that could actually hurt you, so don't
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Speaker 2: typically do it on planes. I must admit I've done
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Speaker 2: wear while you're on the plane. I don't go barefoot
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Speaker 2: on the plane. I definitely don't do that. But there
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