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Blessing Kids Through Coaching While Being Blessed · 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 third day of October. I'm Wes, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. My son has a birthday today. You
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  Speaker 2: see Jake today or you know next couple days you
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  Speaker 2: can tell him happy birthday. He's my firstborn and growing
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  Speaker 2: up much too fast. But excited to celebrate him all
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  Speaker 2: day today. And you know every day are your kids,
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  Speaker 2: You celebrate them every day as much as you can.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to the topics for the day,
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  Speaker 2: but I wanted to quickly mention something personal on the
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  Speaker 2: subject of kids and I have talked a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about over the years. My one of my things that
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  Speaker 2: I have tried to do with a passion for It
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  Speaker 2: started with soccer, having kids that wanted to play a
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  Speaker 2: sport that they knew that I loved, They had an
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  Speaker 2: interest in the game. And it started with with Jake
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  Speaker 2: when he was four and we started playing him in
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  Speaker 2: the league for four year olds and I coached, and
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  Speaker 2: I just thought this is something I was still playing
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and I thought I'd like to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: take my hand at coaching and sort of developing these
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  Speaker 2: kids along the way and I felt like I would
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it. My dad was a youth football coach, and
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  Speaker 2: I've got other family that has coached. My brother has
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  Speaker 2: older brother's coach baseball. So this was just one of
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  Speaker 2: those things where I thought, you know, maybe there's a
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  Speaker 2: place here for me to do this. And I think
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  Speaker 2: I talked a little bit about this after I coached
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  Speaker 2: my final soccer game. I think that's about when I
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  Speaker 2: talked about this openly.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: And just encouraged people that if they feel like they
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  Speaker 2: have something to give to kids in a sport, that
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  Speaker 2: you know, to consider it. Yeah, it takes up your time. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there's days when you're on the practice field and the
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  Speaker 2: kids they've had you know, rough day at school or
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  Speaker 2: they're just all wound up from school and they're done,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're there on the field and they're not
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  Speaker 2: focused and you're trying to get them focused. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't be Nick Saban or Kirby Smart with those kids.
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  Speaker 2: You can't scream at them and yell at them and
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  Speaker 2: get them on track. They just kind of do what
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  Speaker 2: they do out at the field, and you have those
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  Speaker 2: days as a coach. Then you have some days where
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  Speaker 2: you work on specific things, and then your game comes
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  Speaker 2: up and then they do the things that you worked
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  Speaker 2: on and then you're just proud of them, or you
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  Speaker 2: work on some things and then you see them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making adjustments on the field during the game. We had
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  Speaker 2: a trick play that we would run sometimes and one day,
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  Speaker 2: without any you know, any anything for me, they're just
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  Speaker 2: on the field running this trick play and they scored
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, wait, WHOA nice. So you have
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  Speaker 2: those moments and those are rewarding, but the really rewarding
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  Speaker 2: stuff and it's it's you know, it goes beyond just
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  Speaker 2: the fact that I coach both of my boys in
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  Speaker 2: soccer and now Luke in tennis, something that I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see coming having an opportunity to do that, and and
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  Speaker 2: he's now this is his second season of club tennis
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  Speaker 2: for his school. And I've been the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the parent coach of the team when you have a
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  Speaker 2: club team and watching him learn a sport that you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's his mom's sport. So he's played my sport and
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  Speaker 2: now he's playing her sport. And but you get these
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  Speaker 2: opportunities when you commit of your time and you're you're
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  Speaker 2: giving to the community at large when you do it.
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  Speaker 2: But these kids do a lot for you. They mean
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  Speaker 2: a lot to you. They grow on you their little
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  Speaker 2: personalities as they start to grow up and mature, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you get opportunities to coach them for many years,
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  Speaker 2: as I did with many of the kids. Uh, they
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  Speaker 2: just they start to mean everything to you and you
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  Speaker 2: you love them and you just want to see them
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  Speaker 2: do well and you're trying to teach them some basic
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  Speaker 2: principles that roll over from sports into life. And one
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  Speaker 2: of those principles that we often talked about at the
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  Speaker 2: soccer fields was about finishing, finishing games. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: games where you're gonna you know, it's a tough game
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  Speaker 2: and it's you know, it's basically like an even match,
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  Speaker 2: and it's important to finish the game. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: whistle starts the game, whistle ends the game. Everything in
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  Speaker 2: the middle. You just got to play hard. Gotta play hard,
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  Speaker 2: You gotta finish the game. And you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how tired you are, it doesn't matter, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you need to sub out let someone else in,
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  Speaker 2: but as a team, you got to finish the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you gotta do. And most coaches will say
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  Speaker 2: that and say that and say that. Then you have
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  Speaker 2: the games where it's you know, you're you're winning soundly,
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  Speaker 2: and you're, if anything, you're trying to ease the kids
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  Speaker 2: back and say, hey, you know, we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: run the score up, but you still got to finish
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  Speaker 2: the game. Don't let your guard down, don't give them opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: play good defense. Let's finish the game. Then you have
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  Speaker 2: the games where you're just getting killed. Things aren't going well.
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  Speaker 2: You're just you know, when team's up fourteen to oh
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, and it's just it's hard to motivate
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  Speaker 2: those kids to stay focused. It's hard to keep them,
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  Speaker 2: but you tell them you still got to finish. And
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  Speaker 2: there moments when I was coaching kids where we would
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  Speaker 2: we'd be playing in those kind of games and we're
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  Speaker 2: just getting smacked around other teams running the score up.
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  Speaker 2: They're not you know, showing any kind of sportsmanship at all.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, your kids keep playing and then
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  Speaker 2: they score a goal late and it just they go
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  Speaker 2: crazy and the parents go crazy and everybody and the
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  Speaker 2: other team's all worked up because oh no, we let
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  Speaker 2: them score on us. And it's about finishing the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's about giving it your all, everything you got, for
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  Speaker 2: your teammates, for the people around you. That's what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday morning, one of the kids that I had the
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  Speaker 2: joy of coaching for a couple of years, four seasons
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  Speaker 2: or so, we lost him to a mystery illness, something
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  Speaker 2: that he had been battling for about a year. I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand what was wrong with him, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that doctors have been able to answer questions for
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  Speaker 2: his parents. I don't know that they've been able to
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  Speaker 2: get the answers that they certainly want that you think, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: they deserve. But when it's these mystery illness things that
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  Speaker 2: have doctors just kind of chasing symptoms and chasing different
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  Speaker 2: types of failure in this young boy's body, twelve years old,
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  Speaker 2: and I found out yesterday that he had lost that
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  Speaker 2: battle with this mystery condition, and it just devastates you.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many things that go through your mind. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're twelve years old, and you ask questions like why,
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  Speaker 2: and your heart breaks for the family and his He's
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  Speaker 2: got two brothers, an older and a younger brother that
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten to know over the years. Out at the
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  Speaker 2: soccer field and you know, his mom and dad, his
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  Speaker 2: some of his extended family and friends, and it just
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  Speaker 2: it shook the parents that knew this kid from soccer
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  Speaker 2: and all of us. But I go back to the
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  Speaker 2: coaching thing and the kids that just they just grow
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  Speaker 2: on you. They grow on you, all of them. There
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  Speaker 2: were some kids that we had on the team that
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe one season and they left some kind
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  Speaker 2: of an impression with me, some kind of a mark,
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  Speaker 2: things that I remember about them, something that they said,
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  Speaker 2: something that they did on the field. They just they
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  Speaker 2: stick with you. And this kid was one of those kids.
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  Speaker 2: He stuck with me. And I just I just say
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  Speaker 2: this to say that when you really are able to
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  Speaker 2: do something like give in a way that you're you're
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  Speaker 2: you commit some time as a coach, you commit to
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  Speaker 2: seasons or even as an assistant coach, even as a
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  Speaker 2: team manager, even as a team mom, team dad. So
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where you're just you're there to
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  Speaker 2: support maybe a coach when kids are coming up. You
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  Speaker 2: don't understand the rewards that you'll get from it until later.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes it's in the moment, but sometimes it's much later,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes it's years later. And Uh. And I talked
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  Speaker 2: with one of my assistant coaches over you probably the
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach that I had more than any other over
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  Speaker 2: the years. Uh, yesterday Mark about the passing of this kid,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we just talked about some of the
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  Speaker 2: times that we had with him and the team that
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  Speaker 2: we had, and just how all of it is just
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  Speaker 2: part of our whole experience as coaches. And I just
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  Speaker 2: I can't say enough, even in the midst of Hey,
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  Speaker 2: this kid, this loss, this really sad story. And some
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  Speaker 2: of you listening may know the family, It's worth it.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth it to get to know the kids. It's
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  Speaker 2: worth it to get to know the families. It's worth
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  Speaker 2: it to have them be a part of your life
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  Speaker 2: for even if only for a short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth it. And I encourage it. And if you
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  Speaker 2: think you have something to give in that way as
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  Speaker 2: a coach, as some sort of a mentor in that capacity,
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  Speaker 2: I encourage you to do that. Let's get to I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think I was going to get through that without crying.
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  Speaker 2: I think I cried all of it out yesterday. It
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  Speaker 2: was a lot. And when I called Mark, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm done. You're not gonna hear me cry anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. You're not gonna hear me cry. And then
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  Speaker 2: it came out and I said, sorry, man, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about a couple of things, because we're now
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  Speaker 2: less than two weeks from election day. Jill and I
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  Speaker 2: got out yesterday and voted early. Voting wasn't bad. We
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  Speaker 2: went to Columbus Technical College in and out. Not a
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  Speaker 2: bad line you can do. We did it close to lunchtime,
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  Speaker 2: a little before lunch. Not bad. Get out and do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm encouraging you to go do it, especially if you're
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  Speaker 2: voting for common sense. Get out and do it and
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  Speaker 2: cast your vote. Get it done. Then there's no chance
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna miss it on election day. No reason for
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  Speaker 2: you to miss it on election day. Something that is
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  Speaker 2: apparently going to happen here in the next couple of
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  Speaker 2: days before election day, and this is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: wild thing, is the big announcement for oh Rogan's podcast
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. He's going to be interviewing former President Trump
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  Speaker 2: on his show on Friday. Now he'll tape it on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how quickly his turnaround is on releasing
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  Speaker 2: the shows, but he'll tape it and then it'll be released.
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  Speaker 2: He has seventeen point four million subscribers on YouTube, fourteen
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  Speaker 2: million followers, more than fourteen million followers on Spotify, massive
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  Speaker 2: audience for this show, almost as much as almost as
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  Speaker 2: many people listening to that as listen to this show.
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  Speaker 2: So there was talk about he's I guess invited both candidates,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing yet from Harris as of I guess this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. Is this something that might possibly move
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  Speaker 2: the needle in any way at all? Rogan has not
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  Speaker 2: always been somebody who who has spoken favorably about Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has not always spoken favorably about Rogan. At one
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  Speaker 2: point earlier this year, I guess he spoke, Rogan said
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  Speaker 2: that he thought Harris would win. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he still feels that way. He voted for a libertarian
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  Speaker 2: or a third or fourth or fifth party candidate, I
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  Speaker 2: believe last time talked about that because he did not
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one to vote for either of those candidates.
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  Speaker 2: So is this enough? Is it possible that Trump is
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to win over Joe Rogan on
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  Speaker 2: his show or some of his audience. I think there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of the Joe Rogan audience members that
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  Speaker 2: probably are already prepared to support Trump anyway, So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see where all of this may go. And nothing about
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  Speaker 2: Harris just yet. I wanted to mention this too, and
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  Speaker 2: this I don't often go into some of the specific sites,
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  Speaker 2: but I saw this. It was a Fox News story.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Lee is the person who wrote it, and apparently
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  Speaker 2: he says that a town hall that happened in I
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  Speaker 2: believe Pennsylvania. No sorry, in Michigan, says journalist Maria Shriver
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  Speaker 2: admitted during a town hall event for Vice President Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harrison Michigan that only questions that had been predetermined would
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  Speaker 2: be allowed to be asked. Now that's different than hey,
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  Speaker 2: tell the you know what kind of questions you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to ask. We'd like to pick some questions out, but
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: sort of teeing them up is a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: as in this case. But basically, I guess someone in
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  Speaker 2: the audience asked Shreiver if the voters will be able
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  Speaker 2: to ask questions of Harris directly. Shreiver said those in
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  Speaker 2: attendants would have to settle for asking questions that might
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  Speaker 2: be in your head. And she says, you're not Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: we have some predetermined questions and hopefully I'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to ask some of the questions that might be in
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  Speaker 2: your head. I hope. So she told the audience, what now,
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  Speaker 2: how long has this practice been going on without letting
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  Speaker 2: us know? Right? How long has that been going on?
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  Speaker 2: So the predetermined questions that are laid out, and I
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  Speaker 2: assume answers on a teleprompter. That seems to be the
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  Speaker 2: way that Harris does things. One last thing, the current
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  Speaker 2: President Joe Biden, who many people have been critical of
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  Speaker 2: for his Justice Department going after Trump and trying to
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  Speaker 2: lock him up and put him in jail and doing
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  Speaker 2: everything they can to keep him from being a candidate
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  Speaker 2: for president. This year, he was speaking at a New
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  Speaker 2: Hampshire event and he said that Trump should be locked up.
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  Speaker 2: He said, he thinks this is a Biden talking of Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks he has a version of the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: ruling on immunity to be able to, if need be,
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  Speaker 2: if it was the case to actually eliminate, physically, eliminate,
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  Speaker 2: shoot kill someone who is he believes to be a
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  Speaker 2: threat to him. I don't know where any of that like,
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  Speaker 2: that's just rambling, And where did any of that come from.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like
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  Speaker 2: if I said this five years ago, you'd lock me up.
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  Speaker 2: We got to lock him up. And he kind of
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  Speaker 2: corrected himself a little bit. Course great, he said, well, politically,
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  Speaker 2: lock him up, lock him out, that's what we have
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  Speaker 2: to do. That's that's a bad look, bad look on
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  Speaker 2: the heels of all of this conversation about you know,
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  Speaker 2: they need to put Trump away. They got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure he can't run, They got to get a you know,
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  Speaker 2: make him a felon all these things. So there you go,
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  Speaker 2: maybe just some of this truth coming out. We got
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  Speaker 2: can use it to write scripts, you can use it
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  Speaker 2: to write screenplays. You can use it to write episodes
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  Speaker 2: of Seinfeld. You can use it to do your homework.
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  Speaker 2: Probably shouldn't be doing that. You can use it for resumes.
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  Speaker 2: You can use it for, you know, writing your cover letter.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this is unconventional, but maybe one of the I mean,
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  Speaker 2: some of those are good, some of those are not
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  Speaker 2: so good. I think there's one where you tell it
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  Speaker 2: some ingredients and it'll give you a recipe you can
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  Speaker 2: make with it that seems useful. Maybe what you just
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  Speaker 2: got in the house and you don't want to run
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to the store. How about this one? Because this is
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a non conventional use for it. Apparently couples are now
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: turning to chat GPT to help them win arguments instead
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: of the old fashioned way. They're going to AI to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: come up with some good comebacks to settle disputes. It's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like having a virtual referee that can provide witty responses
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  Speaker 2: and logical points. Some say it's making their relationship stronger
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  Speaker 2: by add a bit of humor and perspective to the disagreements.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe the next time you're having a disagreement about
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  Speaker 2: where to eat, want to spend your money on where
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  Speaker 2: to go for the holidays, just let chat GPT get
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  Speaker 2: involved or not. But I mean, that's something that's out there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have thought, hey, let's
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  Speaker 2: use this to settle an argument. Another sign grocery stores
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: are becoming places to you know, meet people. It seems
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: there's a trend in the UK right now called the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Bell Pepper code, which people are using to signal to
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  Speaker 2: other supermarket shoppers that they are interested in more than produce.
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  Speaker 2: The code is you place two bell peppers in your
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  Speaker 2: cart with the stems facing down, which apparently is a
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  Speaker 2: signal that you're, you know, looking for something casual. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a little fling, just a little casual thing that
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for. So heads up, now there's people that
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  Speaker 2: weren't aware of the pineapple thing and gotten I've been
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  Speaker 2: on that a few times. So you just need to
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: know if you need to have your morning coffee before
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: your morning workout or the other way around. You may
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: be interest a new product that lets you do both
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: at the same time, it seems. Chinese online retailer Ali Express,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: how you say that I've seen it written, I don't
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: know that I've ever pronounced it Ali Express Ali Express.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Ali Express maybe selling a twenty two pound metal coffee
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  Speaker 2: mug so you can get in your reps while you're
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: drinking your coffee. The twenty two pound Dumbbell mug, which
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: is the largest of the options available, can accommodate up
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  Speaker 2: to three cups of coffee. You may experience some soreness
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: in your wallet, though, because the mug costs two hundred
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and nineteen dollars. That's a lot for a coffee mug.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: An englishman believed to be the world's oldest paper boy
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  Speaker 2: is finally hanging things up after delivering the morning news
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  Speaker 2: on his bicycle for the past seventy years. Eighty two
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  Speaker 2: year old Joe Wardman started delivering papers in nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 2: four when he was a little eleven years old. The
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  Speaker 2: family owned news stand, and he took that over in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four after the death of his father. He
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  Speaker 2: continued cycling through town, delivering papers to homes and businesses
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  Speaker 2: every day until this passed September twenty first, when he
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  Speaker 2: handed over his final copy of the evening Mail to
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  Speaker 2: a local pub. Joe says, I wonder if that was strategic.
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  Speaker 2: He says he finally decided to retire because I've done
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  Speaker 2: my seventy years and I thought there's nothing else I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: can achieve with it. Now, he says, he's handed the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: route over to a young kid who's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Although he's riding an electric bike. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 2: getting with the times.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe if you'd gotten your own electric bike, you'd still
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: be delivering paper. I think he may be stopped at
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the pub for a drink. You'd earned a drink by
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that point. The days of high school kids smoking in
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the bathroom long gone. A new report from Centers for
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Disease Control and Prevention shows that fewer high school students
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: are smoking. Teen smoking dropped twenty percent over the last
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  Speaker 2: year to an all time low of about two point
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: twenty five million teen smokers. This includes cigarettes and e cigarettes.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Back in two thousand, about thirty percent of high school
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: students smoked. This year just one point seven percent. That's
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: a good sign. Now, I don't is the e cigarettes
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: count as the same as vaping. I don't know that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: that's the same thing. I don't know that that's I mean,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: e cigarettes I think are different. Maybe it's the same thing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is there a time of the day
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: where you're most likely to get online and shop? Well,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: apparently there is that time two thirty six pm on
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a Saturday. A survey found that's the time you're most
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: likely to finally buy that thing you saw on social media.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: While Saturday is the most optimal shopping day, according to
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: forty two percent of those surveyed, Friday was close, with
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: forty one percent As far as the buying habits, gen
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Xer is more likely than any other generation to shop
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: on a Sunday to keep their Sunday scaries away, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: gen Z likes that's when you're afraid about going to
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: work the next day or school. Gen Z likes to
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: buy things to beat the Monday blues. Same thing, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: all generations admit to browsing for things to buy during
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the workday, Millennials being most likely. It's seventy two percent
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: that'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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