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Sneaky Tactics in Alaska · 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 Wes Carroll Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Monday morning, second day of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. As you could probably hear, the cold that
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Speaker 2: I was dealing with last week has not departed. At times,
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Speaker 2: it has gotten worse. And we'll see how we go
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Speaker 2: this morning. I am going to do my best to
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Speaker 2: get us through the final days, I hope, of this cold.
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Speaker 2: My 14-year-old, Luke, 14 for a few more weeks, has
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Speaker 2: been dealing with this cold, this cough, this congestion and
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Speaker 2: everything for, I guess, about three weeks now. And I
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Speaker 2: thought it was three weeks, a little sooner than it was.
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Speaker 2: And he corrected me the other day and he said,
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Speaker 2: I'm not quite to three weeks yet, but I'm close.
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Speaker 2: And I guess he's very close to that. He may
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Speaker 2: be there now. As of today, he was still coughing
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Speaker 2: a bit yesterday. So hopefully mine's not going to last
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Speaker 2: three weeks. But my brother, Matt, had a cold that lasted.
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Speaker 2: I think he said it was two different instances, but
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Speaker 2: I thought it was all kind of the same cold,
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Speaker 2: but a similar sort of thing. And I've heard a
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Speaker 2: lot of reports of different cases, like I guess around
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Speaker 2: the country. I've heard some doctors talking about it. One
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Speaker 2: biologist who has been doing some interviews and things talking
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Speaker 2: about the fact that there has been a spike in
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Speaker 2: number of long-form common colds that have been happening in
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Speaker 2: the last few years. He attributes it. to basically COVID vaccines,
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Speaker 2: and he's basically saying that he believes that that's the
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Speaker 2: reason for it. I don't know where the evidence is
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Speaker 2: behind all of that, but anyway, I thought it was
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Speaker 2: an interesting case for it. That's not going to be
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Speaker 2: the topic of today's show, where I would have done
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Speaker 2: a little bit more research on all this to talk
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Speaker 2: about it. I don't tend to do those kinds of shows,
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Speaker 2: although at some point maybe it'll be. If I still
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Speaker 2: have this cold in a week, If I have this
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Speaker 2: cold after two more weeks and I get to three weeks,
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Speaker 2: then maybe I'll consider that. It is an interesting concept, though,
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Speaker 2: that we've had the prolonged, what would have at one
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Speaker 2: time sort of been kind of a traditional coronavirus cold, right,
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Speaker 2: that might have lasted us four or five days. And
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Speaker 2: they seem to be experiencing an increased number of cases
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Speaker 2: of them lasting longer. and if it is, in fact, vaccine-related,
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Speaker 2: which it may very well be. There are some, at
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Speaker 2: least one person that's saying that, and a few others
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Speaker 2: have kind of been attributing it. But it's interesting, some
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Speaker 2: of the conversation, at least, about what the vaccine did
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Speaker 2: to people and the fact that it has caused some
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Speaker 2: problems with some people's hearts, blood clotting, a number of things.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, Again, that's not really the purpose of this
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Speaker 2: particular show today. I just thought it was an interesting
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Speaker 2: take on it, and I hope that, you know, if
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Speaker 2: that is the case, I hope this is not going
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Speaker 2: to be the new long-form version of what we have
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Speaker 2: whenever one of us gets cold. I am not typically
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Speaker 2: the stereotyped man when it comes to having a cold.
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Speaker 2: I'm not great at just recovering. My recovery mode is
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Speaker 2: not great. I don't just stay in bed until I'm better.
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Speaker 2: I would probably get well sooner if I was able
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Speaker 2: to do that. But I just don't do a great
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Speaker 2: job of being in recovery mode. And Jill's much better
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Speaker 2: at it. I think Jake is better at it. Luke
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Speaker 2: and I are the two that try to be active
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Speaker 2: if we can, although I think with this cold, at
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Speaker 2: least for a week while he was, wasn't out of
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Speaker 2: school a whole week. He was out of school like twice.
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Speaker 2: There was a day he went in and then he
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Speaker 2: was sick again. And I think he did spend a
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Speaker 2: decent amount of time in bed over a stretch. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I need to do better about just slowing things down.
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Speaker 2: But I have a tendency sometimes to do things, projects
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Speaker 2: that I don't want to do when I'm sick. because
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Speaker 2: I would rather not waste well time on doing something.
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Speaker 2: I almost yesterday spent part of the day while sounding
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Speaker 2: like this, feeling like this, mowed my grass probably for
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Speaker 2: like that last mow before we get into the proper
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Speaker 2: winter stretch of things, but didn't do it. And I've
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Speaker 2: done that before. I don't have a problem with mowing
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Speaker 2: my grass when it's when I'm sick. Cause I just,
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Speaker 2: I don't like doing it, especially as some days it's
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Speaker 2: all right. But for the most part, I'm not usually
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Speaker 2: looking forward to it. Cooler weather. I don't mind it
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Speaker 2: as much, but if I can do that while I'm sick,
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Speaker 2: then I don't have to do it when I'm well,
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Speaker 2: that's my thinking behind it. And again, it's another example
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Speaker 2: of how I don't do being sick very well. It
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Speaker 2: is the day before election day. And I I've seen
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Speaker 2: a number of reports, different, different reports around the country,
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Speaker 2: I just want to talk a little bit to my
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Speaker 2: Georgia listeners, first of all, because there has been reports
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Speaker 2: of a lot of early voting in Georgia. That's great.
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Speaker 2: I'm an advocate for that. I do have some friends
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Speaker 2: who have their whole lives, you go and you vote
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Speaker 2: on election day, They believe that there's just something to it.
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Speaker 2: There's a feeling to it that going on election day
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Speaker 2: has a little significance and that they have done that.
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Speaker 2: I know some that felt that way and they don't
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Speaker 2: do that anymore. I know some that are hard, hard line,
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Speaker 2: hard stance on going on election day. And I get that.
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Speaker 2: It makes sense to me to want to do it.
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Speaker 2: I just know that for me, Sometimes life happens and
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Speaker 2: it's hard for me to say with 100% certainty that
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be able to go on election day.
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Speaker 2: I have had days where I thought I'm going to
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Speaker 2: go vote early and the day got completely blown up
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Speaker 2: and I wasn't able to go. And I just think
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Speaker 2: I would really kick myself if I didn't at least go.
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Speaker 2: I have had an election day where I wasn't able
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Speaker 2: to get in and vote. I was in my 20s.
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Speaker 2: and had every intention of voting. I just couldn't get
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Speaker 2: there that day. And, you know, I just thought, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to eat this one. And that
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Speaker 2: thinking for me puts me in a position where I
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Speaker 2: definitely go and vote early. But so there's been a
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Speaker 2: large number of people who have voted early. I have heard,
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Speaker 2: and this is one of those unofficial, you know, the polls,
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Speaker 2: it's really hard to know polling anymore. There was a
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Speaker 2: point where the polling numbers always skewed very heavily to
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Speaker 2: the left. Got to a point where it felt like
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Speaker 2: they were kind of maybe getting a little bit more
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Speaker 2: information from people on the right. And then I think
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Speaker 2: since COVID especially, people really don't, Republicans don't tend to
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Speaker 2: even answer the phone. I've stopped answering or being involved
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Speaker 2: in any of the polling. I don't, you know, just
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Speaker 2: let them, just let Let the left think they got it,
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Speaker 2: I guess, is my thinking, because I feel like you
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Speaker 2: don't want to feel like you're so far behind you
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Speaker 2: have no chance. I think most of the key races
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Speaker 2: all around the country have been kind of within margin
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Speaker 2: of error, which is promising, I think, for Republicans in
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Speaker 2: a lot of ways. I've seen where the early voting numbers,
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Speaker 2: according to some of the reports, are saying that they're
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Speaker 2: skewing to the left. That tends to be the case.
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Speaker 2: I do think there are more folks on the right
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Speaker 2: that would rather wait and vote on Election Day. But
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Speaker 2: especially in the governor's race for Georgia, I do think
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Speaker 2: that that one has been one that is close and
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Speaker 2: within margin of error and depends on which poll you're
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Speaker 2: looking at. But if the information is accurate and we
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Speaker 2: have a case of early voting going heavily for the left,
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Speaker 2: as it tends to do, then I think it's going
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Speaker 2: to be important for folks to get out and vote
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Speaker 2: and support Rick Jackson. For folks on the right, I
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Speaker 2: think we have been very blessed with a very good
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Speaker 2: governor for a long time. And if we would like
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Speaker 2: to see prosperity continue in Georgia, we should support the
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Speaker 2: candidate that our current governor supports. That's my thinking behind it.
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Speaker 2: I just can't imagine anybody wanting the former mayor of Atlanta,
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Speaker 2: who by all accounts was a failure as a mayor,
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Speaker 2: to be our governor other than any reason than, you know, hey,
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Speaker 2: she has the same letter next to her name as
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Speaker 2: candidates that I support. Or, and I've seen a lot
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Speaker 2: of these ads now on Twitter, some of the streaming
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Speaker 2: services where the ads pop in, just a blatant ad
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Speaker 2: that I've seen several times that is basically telling, it's
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Speaker 2: addressed to black voters and telling them that you have
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Speaker 2: to vote for the black person. That's the ad. The
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Speaker 2: ad is not, there's no punches being pulled. There's no
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Speaker 2: dancing around the issue. It's just an ad that runs
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Speaker 2: and it just says, hey, this is our chance to
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Speaker 2: elect a black female governor in Georgia. We've never had
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Speaker 2: one before. We made history with Senator Reverend Warnock and
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Speaker 2: we should make it again. So get out there and vote.
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Speaker 2: We just needed, I think it said 21 votes per
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Speaker 2: county was the difference in the last election. And blatant,
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Speaker 2: blatant racism. And I know we're not supposed to say
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Speaker 2: that only white people can be racist. That's been the
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Speaker 2: mantra for quite a while now, if you're believing that.
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Speaker 2: If you're also believing that every Muslim that's come in
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Speaker 2: the country has pure and wholesome intentions since they've been here,
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Speaker 2: another thing you're not supposed to say. I'm not knocking.
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Speaker 2: I have friends that are Muslims, former co-workers, colleagues and
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Speaker 2: things that are absolutely peace-loving people. I'm not talking about them.
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Speaker 2: I've told you before when people address, when people start
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Speaker 2: talking about Palestinians and they start talking about Gaza, And
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Speaker 2: they say, oh, those people there. And it's like, wait
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Speaker 2: a minute, there's a lot of Christians in that area,
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Speaker 2: Palestinian Christians in that area. You have to be very
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Speaker 2: clear on the difference. But we have certainly seen a
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Speaker 2: spotlight all around the world on a lot of people
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Speaker 2: who are not peace-loving. And they've gone into countries and
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Speaker 2: have done everything they can to destroy it. And we're
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Speaker 2: seeing some of that right here on our soil. We've
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Speaker 2: seen some of that, what seems to be playing out
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Speaker 2: in elections. So I know you're not supposed to say
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Speaker 2: that this is a racist thing to say, to call
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Speaker 2: for black voters to get out and vote for the
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Speaker 2: black person. But at least now, this has kind of
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Speaker 2: been the undertone. Now they're saying it out loud. It's
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Speaker 2: like I've told you, we're going to get to a point,
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Speaker 2: and if tomorrow is the day that Democrats have a
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Speaker 2: big blue wave, big win tomorrow riding on these candidates
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Speaker 2: that are democratic socialists slash communists, we may start seeing
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Speaker 2: people and candidates using the word communist. We may start
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Speaker 2: seeing it. We may start hearing it. I feel like
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Speaker 2: they want to say it so badly. It's like you
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Speaker 2: can't handle the truth scene in A Few Good Men.
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Speaker 2: They want to say it. They just want to be
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Speaker 2: pushed to that point or have that victory that's going
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Speaker 2: to let them say it out loud. So I think
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Speaker 2: it's important here in Georgia, we got to do our
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Speaker 2: part as far as keeping that state leadership conservative and
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Speaker 2: on the path for business, on the path for doing
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Speaker 2: things to help keep fuel costs down, which we have
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Speaker 2: been very blessed with for a very long time with
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Speaker 2: Governor Kemp. So There's that. And as far as any
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Speaker 2: local races, more local races, as far as different parts
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Speaker 2: of the state, obviously you got to do your part
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Speaker 2: on those as far as the state leadership. You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel one way or the
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Speaker 2: other about this Senate race in Georgia, but a couple
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Speaker 2: of Senate races that really are drawing a lot of
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Speaker 2: attention and we know what's going on. In Alaska, this
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Speaker 2: has been a breaking news story, and it continues to
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Speaker 2: have some updates to it, as the Department of Justice
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Speaker 2: will be appealing that ruling about Decoy Dan in the
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Speaker 2: Alaska Senate race. If you're not familiar with this, the
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Speaker 2: incumbent senator that is up for re-election is Republican Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 2: And the case against having this independent on the ballot
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Speaker 2: is the accusation here is that his opponent in the
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Speaker 2: race went out with others and basically recruited a school
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Speaker 2: teacher who has the name Daniel J. Sullivan and got
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Speaker 2: him to enter into this race just to confuse voters
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Speaker 2: in Alaska. What does it say about the Democrats, especially
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Speaker 2: in Alaska, if they believe that the people of Alaska
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Speaker 2: are too dumb, first of all, to know the difference
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Speaker 2: between who this candidate is and see through whatever this
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Speaker 2: little ploy is that's going on? And It could work.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the sad part is it could work.
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Speaker 2: It could confuse people enough that if enough people vote
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Speaker 2: for the wrong candidate, this is a possibility of something
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Speaker 2: that could ultimately have at least a part in deciding
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Speaker 2: who controls the Senate. It's shady. It's really shady. And
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Speaker 2: you even have a lot of folks on the left saying, no,
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Speaker 2: this is not okay. This is tacky. This is not okay.
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Speaker 2: And so we'll see where all of that goes over
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Speaker 2: the next day. But yes, the DOJ is saying, no,
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Speaker 2: we're not just going to stand by and let this happen.
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Speaker 2: We're appealing it. But he's on the ballot. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's where we are. The other thing that, of course,
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Speaker 2: is taking place is Michigan, where Haley Stevens is has
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Speaker 2: endorsed Republican Mike Rogers. She lost very narrow race to
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Abdul Muhammad. I don't like when you say
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Speaker 2: his middle name. I'll say it. El-Sayed, who she basically
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Speaker 2: says he's unwilling to condemn anti-Semitism of some of his supporters.
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Speaker 2: His buddy, Hassan Piker, who is a leftist extremist, only
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Speaker 2: other way to put it. And he's fired back at
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Speaker 2: her saying she's weirdly obsessed with Israel and has had
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Speaker 2: a bunch of negative things say about her. Trump has
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Speaker 2: said he would love to bring her into the fold
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Speaker 2: with the Republicans. We'll see. It's kind of late in
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Speaker 2: the game for the endorsement. It's kind of late in
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Speaker 2: the game for this to be making a whole lot
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Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. Trying
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Speaker 2: my best to stay motivated today, this morning after the
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Speaker 2: time change yesterday, the extra hour of sleep used to
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Speaker 2: mean something. And then when I had kids, it became
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Speaker 2: to me the hard day to adjust to, but I'm adjusting.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing the best I can. None of my kids
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Speaker 2: are older. I don't know. Maybe it'll be a little easier,
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Speaker 2: but I think it's just one of those challenges in
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Speaker 2: a lot of ways when you are just having to
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Speaker 2: reset your schedule and Uh, I do prefer this clock
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Speaker 2: to the other one. I actually do, but anyway, uh,
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Speaker 2: and of course the, uh, I was not able to,
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Speaker 2: to do the, uh, annual trick or treating walk with
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Speaker 2: my kids. Um, we're big advocates of just let kids
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Speaker 2: trick or treat. I don't care how old they are.
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Speaker 2: I don't care if they're in a costume. I don't
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Speaker 2: care what's going on. Uh, I, and the people that
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Speaker 2: say that, uh, you know, if a kid has a
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Speaker 2: a non-visible disability. They should have a pumpkin that's a
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Speaker 2: certain color to reflect it. I'm not an advocate necessarily
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Speaker 2: for that. I think if it helps, sure. But I
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Speaker 2: don't know that really it should matter. And if a
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Speaker 2: kid knocks on your door, rings your doorbell, give them
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Speaker 2: some candy and let them move on. And I say kid,
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Speaker 2: let them be, I don't care, 40 years old, you
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Speaker 2: can ring the doorbell, we're good. But I didn't, and
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Speaker 2: that wasn't it. We had this conversation with Jake because
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Speaker 2: he was like, I mean, I like candy. And we're like, go,
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Speaker 2: just go do your thing, man. It doesn't matter. Shouldn't matter.
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Speaker 2: And if anybody gives you grief, you just say thanks
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Speaker 2: and move on to the next house. I think you'll
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Speaker 2: find that most people don't. And no one really did.
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Speaker 2: No one objected. No one had a problem with it.
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Speaker 2: At least that nothing was said out loud, but I
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Speaker 2: wasn't able to, to go with them this year. I
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Speaker 2: was very much under some blankets and you know, watching,
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Speaker 2: I didn't watch scary movies that night. I watched Rogue
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Speaker 2: One because I just felt like watching Rogue One while
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Speaker 2: I was at home alone. But anyway, so I have
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Speaker 2: been dipping into the dad tax, though, a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Not much. I can't eat a lot of it because
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Speaker 2: I'm still not feeling great and I'm not eating much
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Speaker 2: of anything. So I need to eat something that actually
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Speaker 2: has some vitamins to it. Anyway, all right, let's talk
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Speaker 2: about this. I guess we're seeing more and more cases
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Speaker 2: of people that are relying on AI or chatbots when
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Speaker 2: it comes to their medicine. And a new talker research
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Speaker 2: survey found that among people who use AI for health advice,
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Speaker 2: 60% say that they believe AI even if the advice
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Speaker 2: conflicted with what their doctor told them. Nearly two-thirds admitted
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Speaker 2: that they have followed AI-generated health recommendations without checking with
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Speaker 2: a doctor first. The trend showing up in parenting, many
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Speaker 2: AI-using parents saying that they've acted on chatbot health advice
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Speaker 2: for their kids. And the reason, responders say AI is
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Speaker 2: available 24-7, delivers fast answers, offers reassurance. The problem, though,
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Speaker 2: is people don't realize that how they phrase the question
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Speaker 2: can influence the AI answer response. that they get back. Uh,
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Speaker 2: one of the things not listed here when it comes
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Speaker 2: to like, they say it's available 24 seven fast answers
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Speaker 2: offers reassurance. Uh, it's also free. That's a big one.
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Speaker 2: I think for a lot of people, if they just
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Speaker 2: feel like it's a sort of smaller issue, you know,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't change a medication based on AI. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: do that. But I think if AI, if you're asking it, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, This cough medicine or that cough medicine, you know,
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Speaker 2: that's a little different, I think. So anyway, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten to the point yet. I did this
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Speaker 2: with my car once. I recorded audio of a noise
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Speaker 2: that my car was making, and I submitted it, and
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Speaker 2: AI confirmed to me what I thought the problem was,
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Speaker 2: and I was able to address it. I haven't done
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Speaker 2: that yet with a cough. Like, hey, tell me what
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Speaker 2: this cough sounds like. I haven't done that yet, but anyway.
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Speaker 2: All right, so here's another thing that's kind of interesting,
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Speaker 2: something related to Gen Z that's kind of interesting as
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Speaker 2: far as a generational thing. But basically, Gen Z is
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Speaker 2: kind of saying not so much, we're not that interested
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Speaker 2: when it comes to larger vehicles and SUVs. A recent
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Speaker 2: study found younger drivers showing surprising preference For smaller cars
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Speaker 2: over SUVs, stark contrast to the SUV heavy market their
25:54
Speaker 2: parents helped to create, experts say that that's not unusual. Historically,
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Speaker 2: younger generations often reject whatever mom and dad drove, sometimes
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Speaker 2: even voting against, you know, whatever their parents voted for.
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Speaker 2: It's a rebellion thing. The shift may come down to
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Speaker 2: cost as well, as sedans typically less expensive to buy
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Speaker 2: are cheaper to fuel, easier to maintain, making them attractive
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Speaker 2: to younger consumers that face high housing costs and tighter budgets.
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Speaker 2: Can't really call the SUV dead, but if the preferences hold,
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Speaker 2: that the sedan could be headed for a pretty big comeback.
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Speaker 2: And maybe it would take, you know, Gen Alpha to
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Speaker 2: bring back The SUVs in rebellion of their Gen Z parents,
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Speaker 2: I guess, or whatever. What's the one after Alpha Beta?
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Speaker 2: Are they Gen Beta? That'll do it for this Monday
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