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So Long BW · 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: Thursday morning, twenty ninth day of January. I'm West thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. Found out late last night and it's
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Speaker 2: still kind of fresh, but passing of a former colleague friend,
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Speaker 2: someone I worked with for many years in broadcasting, Brian Waters,
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Speaker 2: who worked in the Columbus, Georgia area for a really
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Speaker 2: long time. More recently he had been working in media sales.
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Speaker 2: He had an extremely rare form of cancer. He had
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Speaker 2: been fighting cancer for a while, some people using that terminology.
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Speaker 2: He lost his fight with that cancer. I like Norm
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Speaker 2: McDonald's take on that when he says that it's a draw.
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Speaker 2: The cancer dies with you. The cancer doesn't win. It
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Speaker 2: goes with you and you take it with you, and
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Speaker 2: it's a way of beating it. I like. And of
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Speaker 2: course Norm McDonald died with cancer and when he made
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Speaker 2: those observations and no one really knew he had cancer.
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Speaker 2: But onto the subject of Brian Waters. Brian and I
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Speaker 2: worked together for a long time. I first, I guess,
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Speaker 2: first time I met Brian, I was doing my TV
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Speaker 2: show called Not Quite Late Night, and we invited him
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Speaker 2: and he had a midday host on. He was a
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Speaker 2: program director of Rock one of three at the time
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Speaker 2: and midday host on the station with someone named Reggie.
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Speaker 2: She went on to work on She's Right Rock one
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Speaker 2: of three for a while middays. She wanted to do
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Speaker 2: mornings on Sunny one hundred for a while, but the
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Speaker 2: two of them came on my TV show that we
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Speaker 2: were doing out of a friend of mine's apartment, and
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Speaker 2: they came in, and the first time I met him,
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Speaker 2: I think he was just like, what have we gonna do?
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Speaker 2: What is the show in this apartment? But they were
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Speaker 2: good sports about it. I had a good time doing
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Speaker 2: the show. It obviously, like many of my things I've
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Speaker 2: done in my job, my first episode of that show
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Speaker 2: led to my first radio job at Sonnay one hundred,
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Speaker 2: And in that case, there was some time passed and
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Speaker 2: the station I was working for, Sunny one hundred at
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Speaker 2: the time, that station was acquired by ownership that owned
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Speaker 2: Rock one O three and some other stations. So once
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Speaker 2: we sort of became part of that group, there was
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Speaker 2: an opportunity for me to go and work for Brian
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Speaker 2: and I did for years in some capacity. He was
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Speaker 2: my operations manager for a long operations director for the stations,
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Speaker 2: and we, you know, we had a friendship that came
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Speaker 2: from that. At work, we certainly were colleagues, but you know,
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Speaker 2: on the side, we we got to know each other
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Speaker 2: over the years, especially after we stopped working in the
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Speaker 2: same building, that continued on. He passed some opportunities on
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Speaker 2: to me over the years, some chances to some jobs
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Speaker 2: and things that he thought I was a good fit for.
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Speaker 2: He knew someone who was looking to learn about podcasting
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Speaker 2: and he's like, I don't know anyone who knows more
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Speaker 2: about it in this area than Wes Carroll, and this
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Speaker 2: is who you need to talk to. And that was,
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Speaker 2: you know, very kind of him and very well appreciated.
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Speaker 2: There were a lot of things that I did in
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Speaker 2: radio he didn't get. He was a very straightforward, by
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Speaker 2: the book guy. He was definitely a middle manager for
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Speaker 2: our company, and he was trying to keep the boss
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Speaker 2: happy and then also keep us all happy and creative,
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Speaker 2: and there were creative things at times that he just
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Speaker 2: didn't get. For me. There were things I did while
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Speaker 2: working for him that he absolutely did not understand. He
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Speaker 2: did not understand anything about my time at Dragon Con.
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Speaker 2: But he went along with it, and he's like, you're
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Speaker 2: coming back with some great content, so go do it.
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Speaker 2: I don't get it. I don't understand. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how you're getting these interviews. I don't know how you
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Speaker 2: are getting the content you're getting. But we'll take it.
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Speaker 2: We'll take all of the hits on our websites and
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Speaker 2: thank you. But I don't understand what it is. And
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Speaker 2: he didn't want to understand it. All he wanted to
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Speaker 2: know was that there was some benefit to it for
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Speaker 2: the stations. That was the way he was. And I
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Speaker 2: worked for him for a really long time. I vividly
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Speaker 2: remember once that there was a day that I worked
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Speaker 2: for him that he figured out how to spell my name,
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Speaker 2: my last name. A lot of people don't get Carol right.
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Speaker 2: It's two rs and two l's. That's that's how you
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Speaker 2: That's how a lot of people spell it. And I
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Speaker 2: can't say everybody spells it. Obviously, the first name of
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Speaker 2: Carol is Crol, but he often left off the second L.
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Speaker 2: And one day in particular, he wrote a note. It
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Speaker 2: was a post it note on some papers for something
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Speaker 2: that I needed to check out budgets or something from
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Speaker 2: my station and he had stuck this post it note
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Speaker 2: on there and he wrote my name on it so
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Speaker 2: that he could get it to me, and he put
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Speaker 2: it in my box outside my door, picked it up.
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Speaker 2: I looked at it and I went, huh, all right,
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Speaker 2: he spelled my name right. And I put the date
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Speaker 2: under the post it note and just inside the door
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Speaker 2: of my office, I stuck that post it note on
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Speaker 2: the wall and probably had to put a piece of
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Speaker 2: tape on it because post it notes aren't going to
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Speaker 2: stay there forever. But anyway, it sat there in my
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Speaker 2: office for probably a year, inside the door, right on
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Speaker 2: the wall. One day he was standing there. We were
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Speaker 2: having some sort of brainstorming session and we were talking
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Speaker 2: and he was just standing in my doorway and he
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Speaker 2: kind of looked around and I had a lot of
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Speaker 2: things that I'm sure he didn't understand in my office
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Speaker 2: and he looked over and he saw the post it
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Speaker 2: note and he said, is that my handwriting? And I
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Speaker 2: said yeah, And he said what is it? What is
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Speaker 2: it doing on the wall And I said, you wrote
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Speaker 2: that and put it on a note. That's the day
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Speaker 2: you figured out how to spell my last name. And
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Speaker 2: he said, why did you ever say anything, I said,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It just wasn't that important. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: like I had to go correct him. I just kind
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Speaker 2: of went with it and we had a laugh about that.
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Speaker 2: It was just kind of one of those things that
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Speaker 2: I won't forget. There's it's a small thing. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of other things that I won't forget, certainly about
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Speaker 2: my time working with him. When I found out he
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Speaker 2: had cancer, you know, I reached out and told him
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Speaker 2: that obviously I would pray for him and the people
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Speaker 2: that were close to him. We have mutual friends, and
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Speaker 2: I know that they're hurting right now. I'm hurting. I
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Speaker 2: hate the loss of this person who did a lot
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Speaker 2: for the community. He did a lot for animals in
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Speaker 2: the community. He was very active in Uptown Columbus, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of that was work related. But I think
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Speaker 2: he was good about finding a way to take his passions,
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Speaker 2: the things that he cared about and turn that into
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Speaker 2: work things. And I think that's that's what he did.
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Speaker 2: And really sad to learn about his passing last night,
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Speaker 2: and you know, see you on the other side, b W.
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Speaker 2: It's when when we found out about the very rare
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Speaker 2: cancer and how much it had progressed and gripped him.
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Speaker 2: We feared that this day was coming. But of course
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Speaker 2: you have hope and and you want to want to
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Speaker 2: see some progress and some things. But we had a
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Speaker 2: we had a nice our. Last couple of conversations were great,
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Speaker 2: and I just glad to know he's not suffering anymore.
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Speaker 2: And it's tough when it's a very rare type of cancer.
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Speaker 2: You really, I mean all cancer, you're gonna say why
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Speaker 2: when it's a very rare one, you really ask that question.
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Speaker 2: So sad news. Certainly in the area broadcasting community will
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Speaker 2: mourn him, and this is happening too often. We just
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Speaker 2: lost Chuck Leonard and now Brian Waters. It's hard to
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Speaker 2: transition from that into anything else, but I'm gonna try
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Speaker 2: to do that. This morning, I want to talk about
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Speaker 2: the craziness that is the NFL Hall of Fame. I
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Speaker 2: don't normally do this, and I don't normally have much
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Speaker 2: say about it, but Bill Belichick eligible for the Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame first ballot. Look, you can make a case
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Speaker 2: for a very small handful of coaches in the NFL
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Speaker 2: to say that they're the best NFL coach of all time.
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Speaker 2: There's a very small group of coaches that you could
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Speaker 2: put into this club right that you're going to have
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Speaker 2: this discussion, and you're going to say that these are
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Speaker 2: the people that you would say are in the conversation
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Speaker 2: anyone who makes a list and Mount Rushmore, if you
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Speaker 2: want to do that, four coaches that you're going to say,
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Speaker 2: these are the four greatest NFL coaches of all time.
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Speaker 2: If you want to do that, Okay, if you want
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Speaker 2: to say here's my top five, you want to say,
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Speaker 2: here's my top three. If Bill Belichick isn't in your
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Speaker 2: top three, it's not a list. There's no like you
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Speaker 2: could make. I think you'd have a hard time making
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Speaker 2: a case that anyone other than him is the best
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Speaker 2: coach in NFL history. And you can say, well, he
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Speaker 2: had the little drop off at the end. That aside
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Speaker 2: his legacy of winning, the dynasty that he built, how
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Speaker 2: long he was able to maintain it, the fact that
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Speaker 2: it wasn't just him as a head coach winning, the
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Speaker 2: fact that you go, okay, he won as defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 2: He's part of those Giants Super Bowls back in the day.
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Speaker 2: The guy. His tree of coaches that he worked with
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Speaker 2: includes Nick Saban, who you have to in your Mount
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Speaker 2: rushmored of college football coaches. Nick Saban is there on
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Speaker 2: anyone's list, and to say otherwise, it's not a list.
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Speaker 2: And you think of the tree that Nick Saban has,
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Speaker 2: You think of Kirby Smart, who's probably the best coach
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Speaker 2: in college football now, is off of that Nick Saban tree.
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Speaker 2: So you have to appreciate the legacy that is Bill Belichick.
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Speaker 2: And if you want to dig into some of the others,
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Speaker 2: you want to go back to the forty nine ers
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Speaker 2: that like, there are other coaches that you could talk about.
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Speaker 2: But if you're top three, your top four, your Mount
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Speaker 2: Rushmore of NFL coaches doesn't include Bill Belichick. It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It has no credibility with me none. Bill Belichick eligible
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Speaker 2: for the Hall of Fame this year and did not.
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Speaker 2: He is not a first ballot Hall of Famer. What
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Speaker 2: are we doing here? Is there any credibility to the
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame at all? If Bill Belichick isn't in
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Speaker 2: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, how does this happen?
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Speaker 2: I thought it was absurd and in full disclosure, I
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Speaker 2: am a New York Giants fan. When I was a kid,
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Speaker 2: I just like Lawrence Taylor became a Giants fan because
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Speaker 2: of that. That's back when Belichick was co I mean
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Speaker 2: defensive coordinator at the Giants. I became a fan of
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Speaker 2: the New York Giants and that's been my team ever since.
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Speaker 2: So for full disclosure, Eli Manning wins two Super Bowls,
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Speaker 2: two Super Bowl MVPs, two game winning drives to win
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, beating Belichick and Brady and the Patriots.
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Speaker 2: One of them was an undefeated team. And the whole
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Speaker 2: package of a player. There's a lot of things, and
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Speaker 2: I mean his you could say his win loss record,
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Speaker 2: that's the thing that people kind of hold against Eli.
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Speaker 2: But his iron Man status of playing, you know, fourteen
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Speaker 2: years or whatever it was in the league without missing
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Speaker 2: a game when and the only reason he missed a
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Speaker 2: game was they had a terrible coach who took him
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Speaker 2: out and didn't start him in a game, which was idiotic.
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Speaker 2: But you take that, you take the work that he
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Speaker 2: has done for the NFL since, like the stuff he
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Speaker 2: does with the Manning Cast, the things that he does
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Speaker 2: to promote the league now the New York Giants organization,
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Speaker 2: all of that is part of the consideration for Hall
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Speaker 2: of fame, and I think Eli Manning not getting in
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Speaker 2: first ballot is absurd, and people to say, the voters
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Speaker 2: would say, he's certainly a Hall of Famer, we're not
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Speaker 2: going to put him in first ballot. And that's a
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Speaker 2: ridiculous notion to me. But that's fine Bill Belichick. However,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you justify not putting him in
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Speaker 2: first ballot. I don't understand. Even my mind is blown.
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Speaker 2: This has been the thing a lot of sports radio
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Speaker 2: has been talking about. And I don't listen to sports
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Speaker 2: talk radio. I don't don't want to hear people just
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Speaker 2: blabbing by the bah. There's certain occasions when I might
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Speaker 2: listen if there's a specific story, and this would be
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Speaker 2: one that I'd be curious to hear the takes on it,
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Speaker 2: but I had other things to do. The things to
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Speaker 2: do then listen to some of those guys scream about
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Speaker 2: and ultimately come back to why they think that the
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Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys are great or terrible. That's what sports talk
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Speaker 2: radio is. It's the Yankees, it's the Cowboys, it's the Lakers.
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Speaker 2: They're either great or they're terrible. And that's the way
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Speaker 2: they get people to listen and I know the game,
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Speaker 2: I know the way it's played. I don't care. I
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Speaker 2: don't want. I don't want to be manipulated into that
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Speaker 2: er Cowboys or yay cat don't I don't care. But
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Speaker 2: anyway that they're talking about it, and there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of very upset Hall of famers saying this is absolutely
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Speaker 2: in absolute insanity. Bill Belichick is in a first ballot. Now.
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Speaker 2: Side note on Eli Shannon Sharp, who is easily Hall
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Speaker 2: of Famer, one of the great maybe the greatest tight
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Speaker 2: end ever played the game. His brother Sterling Sharp, who
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Speaker 2: I like a lot. He played for the Packers. He
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Speaker 2: was a great commentator as well. I think he played
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Speaker 2: seven years in the league. Okay, he had injuries. Couldn't
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Speaker 2: continue on. I think Sterling Sharp was an absolute class
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Speaker 2: act as a player. Did he have a Hall of
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Speaker 2: Fame career, Well, not really. I think some of what
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Speaker 2: he did post football probably counted towards it. But his
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Speaker 2: brother had a very emotional moment at his Hall of
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Speaker 2: Fame induction and he begged the Hall to let his
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Speaker 2: brother in. He thought, you know, Sterling's a better player,
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Speaker 2: better man than I am, and he should be in
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Speaker 2: and please consider him. And then they let him in,
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Speaker 2: and it's a weird, Like I don't fully process that
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Speaker 2: if you're basing it on siblings, Like some people hold
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Speaker 2: it against Eli because you know, he's in Peyton's shadow,
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Speaker 2: and Peyton was obviously statistically the better player, and they
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Speaker 2: both ended up with two. I mean, he won MVPs,
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Speaker 2: but both ended up with two Super Bowls one Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl MVP. I guess Eli had two. So I think
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Speaker 2: it's just a weird dynamic to me. But still Eli aside,
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Speaker 2: How is Bill Belichick not a first ballot Hall of Famer?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't understand Eli. By the way,
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Speaker 2: finalist again this year. He was a finalist last year.
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Speaker 2: I guess this gives him an extra slot. Maybe he
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Speaker 2: gets in. I don't know. But putting in Eli Manning
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Speaker 2: returning to Earth and are directly linked to the balance
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Speaker 2: issues many astronauts face upon landing. When astronauts usually find
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Speaker 2: their footing within a week. Scientists say these long lasting
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Speaker 2: structural shifts show the effects of microgravity on the human
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Speaker 2: body and will be something to keep an eye on
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Speaker 2: as more and more space tourists become involved in missions
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Speaker 2: and the visits that start to go a little bit longer,
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Speaker 2: trips to Mars and wherever we decide to go. So
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Speaker 2: keep all of that in mind if you decide you
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Speaker 2: would like to be, you know, an astronaut. Speaking of astronauts,
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Speaker 2: the crew of Artemis two, they are going around the
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Speaker 2: Moon and coming back, and that mission could happen as
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Speaker 2: soon as you know, week and a half something like that,
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Speaker 2: possibly even February the eighth, I think, is the day,
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Speaker 2: the day before the Super Bowl. Today's Made of Stars podcast,
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Speaker 2: Shawn Cruisen and I will be talking about a great
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Speaker 2: length about the Artemis two mission, what's going on with
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Speaker 2: the actual rocket and what's going on with the astronauts,
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Speaker 2: and the fact that they've now entered quarantine and what
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Speaker 2: that means as far as the mission moving forward, and
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Speaker 2: also some of the concerns people have about the mission.
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Speaker 2: So the idea is, yes, this one will go around
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Speaker 2: the moon. The next Artemis three rocket will actually land
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Speaker 2: on the Moon. That is the plan, and Trump says
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Speaker 2: he wants this to happen during his administration, so that
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Speaker 2: means three years get back to the moon. So kind
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Speaker 2: of an exciting time. But anyway, check that out on
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Speaker 2: the Mat of Stars podcast. Wherever you're listening to this podcast,
23:46
Speaker 2: you can listen to that a little bit later on today. So,
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Speaker 2: a major explosion and fire broke out at the headquarters
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Speaker 2: for Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland and the lead
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Speaker 2: developer behind the highly anticipated grand Theft Auto six. Thankfully
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Speaker 2: no one injured, but the fans concerned the resulting structural
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Speaker 2: damage to the studio could lead to yet another delay
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Speaker 2: for the game. The good news, though, is that the
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Speaker 2: studio has been reopened and as long as everyone can
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Speaker 2: get back to work at full capacity, the game should
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Speaker 2: hopefully still be released in mid November. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people excited for this game been waiting for it for
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Speaker 2: a long time, so needless to say this one is
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Speaker 2: people were concerned. They just didn't want this fire and
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Speaker 2: explosion to affect it. It's kind of like when the
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Speaker 2: Wu Tang mansion flooded and they had to delay putting
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Speaker 2: out them. I just remember all those guys living in
24:52
Speaker 2: like the projects built together into a mansion, and then
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Speaker 2: it flooded, and I don't know what happened. Eighty two
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Speaker 2: percent of households currently own a vehicle in the US,
25:03
Speaker 2: and Arizona State University did a study that found that
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Speaker 2: nearly one fifth of American car owners are definitely interested
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Speaker 2: in going car free. Researchers were surprised to find that
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Speaker 2: this interest isn't just a trend for young people or
25:19
Speaker 2: for those who are focused on the environment. Instead, the
25:21
Speaker 2: idea of going car free is gaining momentum with people
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Speaker 2: of all ages, races, and income levels, and researchers also
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Speaker 2: found out that the biggest hurdle isn't the public willingness,
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Speaker 2: but rather outdated city zoning and parking laws that make
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Speaker 2: living without a car nearly impossible in most neighborhoods. Interesting stuff,
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Speaker 2: all right, that'll do it for this Thursday edition of
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