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Kids Are Gonna Rebel · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, twenty ninth day of January. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Still got a little bit of snowman left.
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Speaker 2: There's someone else in our neighborhood looks like they've got
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Speaker 2: a very large piece of snowmen left. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if maybe there's like a core to it or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how it's still so big. It's packed
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Speaker 2: with leaves or something on the outside, or you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a human head in there or something. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's something creepy about it, but it's just we saw
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Speaker 2: it while we were out walking in the neighborhood yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Ours is now, you know, like he's like a hershey kiss.
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Speaker 2: He's just barely hanging in there. It was cool enough
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Speaker 2: last night to keep the dream alive just a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but not a whole lot left. You know, a good week,
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Speaker 2: that's a good life. I've got a friend who lives
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Speaker 2: in the Charlotte area and he I guess every year
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Speaker 2: when they get snow and they make a snowman, they
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Speaker 2: retrieve a piece from the freezer of the previous year
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Speaker 2: Snowman and make it part of the new Snowman, and
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Speaker 2: then that before the Snowman goes away, they get a
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Speaker 2: little bit more and put it back in the freezer,
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Speaker 2: and then that way that snowman continues to be, you know,
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Speaker 2: part of the previous That's nice. That's a nice the
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Speaker 2: snowman Mike, they call him, that's really nice. He kept
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Speaker 2: telling me that I should do it, and I guess
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Speaker 2: I've got you know, I don't know. I'm surprised that
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Speaker 2: our snowman has lasted as long as he has. One
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Speaker 2: of them, well, we actually had three. We had a
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Speaker 2: really small one that was not very well protected from
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Speaker 2: the sun. The other two were in an area where
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Speaker 2: they weren't getting a lot of direct sunlight. So I
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Speaker 2: think that's probably the sole reason that one of them
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Speaker 2: has the small Hershey Kiss size piece remaining. But and
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Speaker 2: he may not survive me recording this morning. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's a possibility. So let's let's get into a couple
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Speaker 2: of things this morning, because a few things to kind
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Speaker 2: of give an update on, and then one just kind
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Speaker 2: of personal experience that I had, And I guess maybe
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Speaker 2: I'll start with that because I've got a few people
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Speaker 2: in my life, some friends, some are you know, friendly
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Speaker 2: or acquaintances. And there's this thing and I think one
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Speaker 2: of the things that came up in this past election,
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Speaker 2: and it's it's there's a there's some research coming out
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Speaker 2: now about adult parents of college age or you know,
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Speaker 2: late high school aged, of voting age, kids that are
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Speaker 2: going against their politics but more conservative. I feel like
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Speaker 2: maybe we're in this. It's almost the Family Ties thing,
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Speaker 2: where if you don't remember the show Family Ties, the
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Speaker 2: original stars of the show were supposed to be the
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Speaker 2: parents on the show, Michael Gross, Mereth Baxter, Bernie. They
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Speaker 2: were playing these hippie parents that had kids, and now
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Speaker 2: the kids are teenagers in the eighties, and you know,
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Speaker 2: it's about these you know, these hippies grown up and
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Speaker 2: then now they're domesticated with a family. And of course
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Speaker 2: that's the show that became the breakout from Michael J. Fox,
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Speaker 2: and he played the teenage son who was ultra conservative,
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Speaker 2: pro Ronald Reagan, anti hippie, anti leftist, and it was
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Speaker 2: just a standout role. It was a standout character. It
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Speaker 2: was sort of that nice flip of what you sort
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Speaker 2: of expect to see when it comes to rebellion. And
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Speaker 2: I've said this for a little while now. I couldn't
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Speaker 2: have predicted it the way it went in this election,
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Speaker 2: to be completely honest, But there's a point where you're
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Speaker 2: basically in a position where things that you do against
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Speaker 2: your parents to rebel against them. We became very quickly
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Speaker 2: this society of accepting so many things. And I don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily think that's a bad thing. There's certainly elements of
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Speaker 2: things that we have I think improved on. There was
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Speaker 2: a time when someone like me who honestly just says,
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Speaker 2: you live your life. You be You don't ask me
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Speaker 2: to participate, don't ask me to encourage a behavior that
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Speaker 2: I don't necessar necessarily agree with. But you be you.
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Speaker 2: You do whatever it is you want to do, as
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Speaker 2: long as you're not hurting someone else. Even that would
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Speaker 2: have been kind of considered, you know, far too liberal,
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Speaker 2: far too liberal for society. When I think of it,
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Speaker 2: to me is it's the most conservative of things. It's
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Speaker 2: the idea that everybody should be able to live their life,
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Speaker 2: don't hurt anybody else, don't take anything from anybody else,
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Speaker 2: and don't try to force anybody to participate. And I
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Speaker 2: think that goes back to at its core what the
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Speaker 2: founders intended for this idea that is America. So the
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Speaker 2: more accepting you are of things, the more extreme I
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Speaker 2: think the next generation has to get when it comes to,
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Speaker 2: you know, rebelling. When you know, a few generations back
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Speaker 2: and you go, well, you know, you shouldn't get those tattoos.
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Speaker 2: What are you going to do when you get old
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Speaker 2: and those things look terrible? And then the next generation
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Speaker 2: is like, yeah, you know, I'm going to get the
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Speaker 2: tattoos because you know they don't like them. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get those tattoos. Mom and Dad hate them, and Granny
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Speaker 2: and Graham certainly hate them. And then you know, then
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Speaker 2: the next generation is like, well, I'm gonna put them
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Speaker 2: on my face. It's just come all. I think it
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Speaker 2: probably was a leap there. You go to like, you know,
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Speaker 2: having them, I'm gonna have them, but they're not going
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Speaker 2: to be visible so I can go to work. And
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Speaker 2: then eventually you get you know, a couple of generations
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Speaker 2: going they're all over their face and you know, there's
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Speaker 2: little like song lyrics and stuff on your face and
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Speaker 2: you're like eh, and then eventually it's like what else
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Speaker 2: can you do you just cover your whole body in them?
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Speaker 2: And then then then what how do you rebel against that?
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Speaker 2: It became you know, hey, that guy is uh, he's
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Speaker 2: he's gay. He's going to live his life as a
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Speaker 2: gay man. And then you know that's not okay. You
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Speaker 2: can't do that to Eventually, you know, you you you
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Speaker 2: live your life, you do what you want to do,
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Speaker 2: and then we then we got you know, seventy five genders,
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Speaker 2: and then you kids want to go to school and
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Speaker 2: say that they're cats or people have said I'm going
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Speaker 2: to marry my cat and people that would never happen.
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Speaker 2: But then eventually you kind of get there because the
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Speaker 2: rebellion's there. Music has always been one of those core
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Speaker 2: things that people did to rebel and the people that
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Speaker 2: the boomers that say, nah, it's not true. Elvis was
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Speaker 2: a bit of a middle finger to your parents and
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Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, and that's just the reality.
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Speaker 2: That's what happens sometimes. But you eventually get to a
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Speaker 2: point where you're sort of out of things, there's nothing left.
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Speaker 2: You can only go so far, and then eventually you
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Speaker 2: have to rebel against your parents that are so enlightened,
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Speaker 2: they're so just they love the world, Kumbaya and then
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Speaker 2: the only way that you have to be Alex P. Keaton,
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Speaker 2: you have to be Michael J. F And then you
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Speaker 2: become a conservative. You go against the hippie family. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's you're Michael J. Fox, Alex P. Keaton and family ties.
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Speaker 2: That's that's the only way. So I think people this
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Speaker 2: trend from this past election is that there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of young adults who've identified with Trump. They've identified with
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Speaker 2: this idea of that's a way to rebel against their parents.
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Speaker 2: A little bit of that notion of law and order,
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Speaker 2: a little bit of notion of right and wrong. There
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Speaker 2: is a right and wrong. There are some lines that
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Speaker 2: we can all draw as a society. And there's some frustrated,
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Speaker 2: you know, Keaton parents out there that are just like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. My kid likes Trump.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how this happened. I would never go
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Speaker 2: for that. And I think one of the things that
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Speaker 2: I try to encourage parents my age, right this gen
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Speaker 2: X and I'm I realized my kids. I start with
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Speaker 2: my wife and I started a little bit later with
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Speaker 2: our kids than many of our friends. We have friends
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Speaker 2: that have adult kids now and our kids could be adults.
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Speaker 2: So I'm old enough that I could fit into this
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Speaker 2: category of, you know, one of those parents that has
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Speaker 2: a kid that's rebelling. But I've always felt like, just
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Speaker 2: as a precautionary I've never gone to my kids and said,
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Speaker 2: this is what you have to believe, this is what
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Speaker 2: you absolutely have to believe. You have to have the
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Speaker 2: same political views as me or ah never, that's not me.
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Speaker 2: I encourage them to think for themselves. I explain to
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Speaker 2: them why I have the views that I have. I
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Speaker 2: want them to understand that there's a reason, a logical
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Speaker 2: reason for me to have the opinions that I have,
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Speaker 2: and in some cases there's an emotional reason that plays
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Speaker 2: into it. I'm not strictly one of the other. And
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Speaker 2: I know there's long been this idea that, you know,
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Speaker 2: conservatives or cerebral liberals, everything's about the fields. It's all
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Speaker 2: coming from the heart. They're they're emotional, and you know
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Speaker 2: there's there's I'm not soulless. I don't think conservatives are soulless.
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Speaker 2: I think many of them come from a very religion
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Speaker 2: is not Christianity or religion period. It's not owned by
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Speaker 2: one party or the other. But there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of with all much criticism, there are a lot of
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Speaker 2: religious a lot of Christian conservatives, and they take flak
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Speaker 2: for it. Oh you don't You want to save those
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Speaker 2: babies' lives, but you don't want to protect them when
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Speaker 2: they're out there. Your your religion doesn't make any sense,
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Speaker 2: and it's thinking, Okay, that's an oversimplification of a thing
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Speaker 2: that doesn't really fit anything.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: In fact, in fact, conservatives have a lot of things
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Speaker 2: that they'd like to see happen with babies once they're
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Speaker 2: born that don't happen with babies. But that's another topic.
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Speaker 2: The point is, if we take our kids and we
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Speaker 2: just beat them over the head with the things that
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Speaker 2: we hate. If you're spouting off how much you hate
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump all the time, there's a chance your kids
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Speaker 2: are going to rebel against that and they're going to
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Speaker 2: start to like him. They're not going to understand what
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Speaker 2: it is that you don't like about him, other than
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Speaker 2: you're just hearing it from some talking head on the news.
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Speaker 2: I also have friends who have that are adult friends
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Speaker 2: that are my age or about my age that their
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Speaker 2: parents do that with. You know, Oh, this is what
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Speaker 2: I heard on Fox News today and they're kind of
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Speaker 2: At one time the kids were kind of more conservative,
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Speaker 2: and they're tending to kind of push away from it
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Speaker 2: even as adults. There's this thing that's happening, and I
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Speaker 2: know people that have this thing where they like to
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Speaker 2: just come up to a random people me sometimes and
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Speaker 2: knowing what I do for a living, knowing what my
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Speaker 2: job is, knowing that this is out there, maybe they listen,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but they like to bring it up
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Speaker 2: to me, some talking point that they've heard, and it's
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Speaker 2: just I hope that they understand if you're going to
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Speaker 2: be that person, you're running a big risk with your kids,
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Speaker 2: if you're if you yourself are struggling with your relationship
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Speaker 2: with your parents over differences in political views, if you
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Speaker 2: act the way that your parents act your kids as
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Speaker 2: a good possibility, you're going to turn your kids into
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Speaker 2: that very thing that you can't stand. They might connect
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Speaker 2: a little bit more with the grandparents than with you.
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Speaker 2: Just offering that as a little suggestion, and based on
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Speaker 2: some of the stats and things that we've seen in
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Speaker 2: some of the surveys since this election, it seems to
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Speaker 2: be at least the case quickly. We have a White
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Speaker 2: House Press secretary who's a rock star. She did a
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Speaker 2: great job yesterday. Didn't go to her notes once. That
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Speaker 2: was fantastic. It's like a whole new regime has taken over.
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Speaker 2: Didn't have to cheat, didn't have to go to the book,
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Speaker 2: didn't have to break out a binder. Wasn't just relaying
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Speaker 2: generic talking points to every answer. There were times there
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Speaker 2: were some talking points, but this wasn't a let me
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Speaker 2: read my script, this is what I've been told I
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Speaker 2: have to say about this. It was nice hearing from
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Speaker 2: media outlets that haven't been heard from in a while,
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Speaker 2: being able to ask questions, have those questions answered, their
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Speaker 2: working new media, and God bless them. As a member
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Speaker 2: of new media, I thank you for that. So I
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Speaker 2: think this is a great opportunity for more voices to
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Speaker 2: be heard and more opportunities for you know, building some
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Speaker 2: trust back. Just building some trust back. That's what we need,
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Speaker 2: and it has to go both ways. One of the
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Speaker 2: things that came up in the meeting though, was the discussion.
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Speaker 2: Obviously there was a lot of talk about deportations immigrants.
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Speaker 2: The focus of this administration was initially, Hey, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: begin working on getting the dangerous criminals out of the country.
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Speaker 2: But we're going to get criminals out of the country.
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Speaker 2: And there was a lot of questioning yesterday about well,
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Speaker 2: are the people who haven't broken any laws really criminals,
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Speaker 2: and she said, well, if they're in the country illegally.
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Speaker 2: This is Caroline Levitt, if that's her name. If they're
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Speaker 2: in the country illegally, then they've broken laws, so they're
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Speaker 2: subject to being deported. There are people who've been leaving
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Speaker 2: the country on their own. The folks coming across the
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Speaker 2: border has slowed down. We can only hope that there's
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Speaker 2: some progress that's made. We can only hope that the
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Speaker 2: people who are supposed to be here can stay. We
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Speaker 2: can only hope, I mean that's that should be the plan.
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Speaker 2: We hope there's not a single case of someone getting
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Speaker 2: taken away that wasn't supposed to be taken away. I'm
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Speaker 2: getting very tired of hearing from people that if I
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Speaker 2: leave the country with my family to go visit my
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Speaker 2: in laws in Australia, I'm not going to be able
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Speaker 2: to come back. I've heard that from two people, two people.
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Speaker 2: That's got to be talking points. I guess it's coming
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Speaker 2: from somewhere. It's such a weird thing because that's not
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Speaker 2: happened anywhere at any point. Not allowing American citizens to
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Speaker 2: come back in what a strange little piece of nonsense.
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Speaker 2: It's coming from a place of ignorance. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: get that, but to just say that, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: that's not where things are headed at all. There's no
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Speaker 2: indication of that. But one of the other questions came
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Speaker 2: up or this wasn't even a question. I get, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe at some point questions were asked, but basically we
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Speaker 2: got a little bit of an answer, at least according
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Speaker 2: to Levitt. She said that she had a statement the
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Speaker 2: from President Trump saying that the flying objects the drones
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Speaker 2: had in fact been FAA authorized and they were doing
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Speaker 2: research and other purposes. She said many of these drones
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Speaker 2: were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying drones.
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Speaker 2: In time, it got worse because of curiosity. This was
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Speaker 2: not the enemy, and this is kind of what we
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Speaker 2: were sort of getting from the Biden White House back
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Speaker 2: in December, when a spokesperson John Kirby said, we assessed
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Speaker 2: the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial
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Speaker 2: drones hobbyist drones, law enforcement drones, as well as manned
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Speaker 2: fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, and even stars that were mistakenly
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Speaker 2: reported as drones. So about four hundred reports that came
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Speaker 2: into the FBI about drones sightings over New Jersey that
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Speaker 2: started back in November. So getting a little bit more
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Speaker 2: information on this, and we speculated then this might be nothing,
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Speaker 2: This could be something that was authorized and some research
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Speaker 2: that they didn't want to really tell us what the
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Speaker 2: research was. I told you I got mixed feelings on that.
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Speaker 2: On one hand, I can see benefits of that. On
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Speaker 2: the other hand, you know, in the sense of freedom
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Speaker 2: of information, the need for information, I think it'd be
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Speaker 2: nice to know some of those things, especially when people
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Speaker 2: are starting to panic a little bit. But a little
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Speaker 2: bit more specific information certainly helps. And maybe there needs
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Speaker 2: to be some questions about what kind of research that
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Speaker 2: they were doing, or is this the kind of thing
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Speaker 2: that we shouldn't be asking that question about. And I
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Speaker 2: know that's a thin line. I've told you that it's
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Speaker 2: a weird place to be. I don't like being in
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Speaker 2: this spot, but I can kind of see, but kind
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Speaker 2: of not see. So I said not see all right,
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Speaker 2: we got enough of the Nazi accusations flying around that
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Speaker 2: I can kind of see and not see. All right,
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Speaker 2: don't need any games, That's what I said, not see,
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Speaker 2: because there's a lot of people and a lot of
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Speaker 2: the news outlets that are calling the president a Nazi
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Speaker 2: again because that's worked so well in the past with
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Speaker 2: winning over the American people, but basically saying that these
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Speaker 2: deportations relate to that. So hi, yeah, yeah. Back to
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Speaker 2: the same old, same old story and playbook out of
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Speaker 2: the Communist Party's playbook from back in the forties the
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Speaker 2: mid forties when they used to say, this is what
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Speaker 2: you should do. Call everybody a Nazi until everybody believes it.
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Speaker 2: the break, what did you see that the state of
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Speaker 2: California is having a bit of a gold rush again.
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Speaker 2: The original gold rush started in the eighteen forties, and
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Speaker 2: of course everybody likes the idea of striking gold right
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Speaker 2: about too close to two hundred years later, now, California
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Speaker 2: continuing to see the largest number of new gold discoveries
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Speaker 2: of any state in the country. Scientists believe that only
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Speaker 2: ten to fifteen percent of the gold in California has
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Speaker 2: been found. So with that in mind, people keeping their
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Speaker 2: eyes open sometimes at panning for gold. Again, that's old school.
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Speaker 2: And whenever the rain is happening in California, they say
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Speaker 2: that sometimes that helps push down gold from tops of mountains.
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Speaker 2: So all over again. Could this be the thing when
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Speaker 2: people start heading out west to look for gold? Hey,
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Speaker 2: this is terrifying. Back in April or coming up in April,
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Speaker 2: I should say, Beijing will be hosting the world's first
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Speaker 2: ever long distance race that pits humans against running robots.
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Speaker 2: Twelve thousand runners will be racing alongside humanoid robots in
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Speaker 2: a thirteen mile course. The race, not a joke, prizes
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Speaker 2: up for grabs for the top three finishers in both categories.
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Speaker 2: The robots, developed by over twenty companies, must walk on
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Speaker 2: two legs, cannot have wheels. Both remote controlled and fully
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Speaker 2: automatic humanoids are eligible to race, and batteries can be
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Speaker 2: replaced along the race route. That doesn't see fair?
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Speaker 1: That?
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Speaker 2: See? I mean, I guess that's like handing a cup
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Speaker 2: of water to a runner. And the reason I was
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Speaker 2: starting to say back is there have been these some
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Speaker 2: of these stories posted of these robots that run, it
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Speaker 2: is pretty terrifying looking because you know, we had the dog.
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Speaker 2: Remember they made the robot dog and it was crawling
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Speaker 2: around and it was like, that looks a little terrifying.
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Speaker 2: But if only it gets up on two legs and
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Speaker 2: then gets you know, AI, and then learns to self replicate,
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Speaker 2: and that point we're irrelevant, right, I mean, at that point,
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Speaker 2: if it's running, are we not just one step away
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Speaker 2: from fighting? It feels like that's what's coming next.
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Speaker 1: Hey.
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Speaker 2: According to a new study, men have been growing taller
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Speaker 2: and heavier. Oh well, there you go. That's how we'll
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Speaker 2: fight the robots at a rate twice the rate of
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Speaker 2: women over the past century. Researchers found that the average
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Speaker 2: height for men increased by about one and a half
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Speaker 2: inches and weight by around fourteen pounds women, saying an
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Speaker 2: increase in height of about zero point six six inches
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Speaker 2: and six pounds in weight. Seems the increased size is
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Speaker 2: due to better health than nutrition over the past hundred years,
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Speaker 2: and that it's possible that guys are growing at a
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Speaker 2: rate faster than women because women tend to prefer taller men,
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Speaker 2: which keeps those tall genes rolling. Women not getting taller
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Speaker 2: in general, because women's height isn't so important to men
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Speaker 2: so at all that all checks. Will we be strong
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Speaker 2: enough to fight off the robot army that can chase
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Speaker 2: us down and kill us. That's the question. Did you
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Speaker 2: do any vacation planning yesterday? Turns out yesterday was national
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Speaker 2: plan for a vacation day, and a lot of people
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Speaker 2: I guess are going to be taking cruises. Triple A
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Speaker 2: says that an estimated nineteen million Americans will go on
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Speaker 2: a cruise this year, a four point five percent increase
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Speaker 2: from last year, and continue a trend since the end
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Speaker 2: of the pandemic. You know, we weren't really cruising so
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Speaker 2: much on the pandemic. Seventy two percent of all cruisers
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Speaker 2: will be sailing to the Caribbean, six percent to Alaska,
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Speaker 2: five percent will make the Mediterranean at their destination. We
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Speaker 2: did a little vacation planning yesterday. We didn't know what
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Speaker 2: was planned for a vacation day, but we absolutely did
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Speaker 2: some planning for a vacation. More on that to come.
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Speaker 2: I'll be doing some shows from vacation at some point
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Speaker 2: at a later date, but we'll cover all that at
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Speaker 2: that later date. Glassdoors latest report on best Places to Work.
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five named business consulting company Bain in
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Speaker 2: Company as the best company to work for. The list
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Speaker 2: is based on anonymous ployee reviews over the past year.
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Speaker 2: It's the second year in a row that Bain has
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Speaker 2: been named the best large US employer and has ranked
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Speaker 2: among the best places to work for the last seventeen years.
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Speaker 2: Crew car Wash in and out Burger. I'm just going
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Speaker 2: and finally, a strong relationship is one where both parties
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Speaker 2: are open and honest with each other and keep no secrets.
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Speaker 2: But a new survey from Bank Rates says that nearly
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Speaker 2: half of people in committed relationships have financial secrets they're
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Speaker 2: keeping from their partner. Forty percent say they have a
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Speaker 2: bank account or credit card their partner does not know about.
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Speaker 2: The biggest reason for keeping the secret account is to
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Speaker 2: keep their partner from knowing about their spending habits. The
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Speaker 2: majority of Americans say that they keep at least some
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Speaker 2: of their money separate from their partner. Thirty eight percent
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Speaker 2: say they only have joint accounts. Forty five percent say
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Speaker 2: they consider financial secrets to be a form of infidelity.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight percent say it's as bad as physical cheating.
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Speaker 2: There you go. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition
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