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Thank You Columbus State · 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. Monday morning, eighteenth day of May. I'm Wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me, starting your week with me. If
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Speaker 2: you know my bride, please reach out to her and
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Speaker 2: tell her happy birthday today. We had some birthday related
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Speaker 2: activities over the weekend leading up to those. Monday birthdays
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Speaker 2: are kind of tricky, you know, they just are. We
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Speaker 2: got some things planned for today. I mean, we'll still
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Speaker 2: do gifts and I'm gonna bakery cake today. That's part
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Speaker 2: of our tradition here. My in laws, my mother in
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Speaker 2: law specifically, Jill, always says that when she was, you know,
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Speaker 2: a kid, her mom always made a cake at home.
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Speaker 2: They didn't do the store bought cake. There's nothing wrong
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Speaker 2: with store bought cakes. You know, certainly bought some cakes before.
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Speaker 2: It's not that, it's just she just always felt like, hey,
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Speaker 2: if my mom could make the effort of making, you know,
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Speaker 2: actually baking a cake. Her mom probably from scratch, but
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Speaker 2: she feels like baking the cake is like it's personal
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Speaker 2: and it's it's and it's I liked it. I liked it.
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Speaker 2: When she said it, she said, you know, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: do this for our kids. We're gonna bake them, I'll
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Speaker 2: bake them a cake. And and lately I've been the
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Speaker 2: one probably more likely to bake the cake. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to experiment a little bit when I bake and try
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Speaker 2: this or that, maybe make a little adjustment. And it's
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Speaker 2: kind of a little bit more in in in my
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Speaker 2: wheelhouse for that. But on my birthday, Jill definitely bakes
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Speaker 2: a cake. We haven't quite gotten to the point yet
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Speaker 2: where the boys are doing that, but we try to
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Speaker 2: do that. That's just something that's carried on, and I
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Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that my mother in law always did
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Speaker 2: that for for Jill and her brothers, and that it's
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Speaker 2: it's just nice, you know. I think it's nice. And again,
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Speaker 2: it's nothing against a lot of people will maybe especially
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Speaker 2: if there's maybe just two of you. You're an empty
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Speaker 2: nester and you've got a situation. You know, you don't
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Speaker 2: really need a whole big cake. You might just want
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Speaker 2: something sort of small. So I understand that, and I
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Speaker 2: don't know how that might change at some point in
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Speaker 2: the future. But for now, yes, the tradition will continue
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Speaker 2: on and I'll be baking her cake today. But if
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Speaker 2: you know her by all means this is the time.
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Speaker 2: Today's the day to wish her a happy birthday. Over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. I talked about this some last week a
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Speaker 2: couple times, but we're on the other side of it,
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Speaker 2: and I say over the weekend. It was Thursday and Friday,
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Speaker 2: but it went into Friday evening, so it feels like
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Speaker 2: it was the weekend. But truthfully, the weekend was my
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Speaker 2: recovery time after what ended up being a pretty hectic
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Speaker 2: week in general. And the Thursday evening hooding ceremony for
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Speaker 2: Columbus State University. I graduated from Columbus State myself. Jill
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Speaker 2: is a got her master's degree from Columbus State and
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Speaker 2: has been employed there for a really long time. So
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Speaker 2: and my good friend, longtime radio partner, Scott Miller, you know,
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Speaker 2: the voice of Columbus State Athletics for fifty years. So
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Speaker 2: this is the Columbus State very personal. You know, it's
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Speaker 2: where I went to school, it's you know a lot
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Speaker 2: of my friends went to school there, and it's such
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Speaker 2: a big part of this community, such a big part
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Speaker 2: of you know, the city and really the area of
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Speaker 2: the region. So the fact that they have me be
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Speaker 2: part of their graduation ceremonies is it's always flattering. They
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Speaker 2: it's been about ten years now. I started in twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 2: so it's been almost ten years or right around ten
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Speaker 2: years of me doing it. It was the fall graduation
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Speaker 2: of twenty seventeen was the first one I did for December.
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Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's right. And it's just
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Speaker 2: a strange talent to learn that you have kind of
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Speaker 2: later in life. A lot of times when you're young
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Speaker 2: you find out, oh, I can sing, or I can
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Speaker 2: musically inclined, I can play an instrument, or those sorts
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Speaker 2: of things, and I, you know, my ability to speak,
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Speaker 2: my ability to speak in you know, to public speaking
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Speaker 2: and things without really getting nervous or anxious, and all
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Speaker 2: those things, those all felt like natural gifts that came
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Speaker 2: to me. Radio came naturally, TV came naturally. All those
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Speaker 2: things that I always felt like, I you know, it
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Speaker 2: was comfortable with. But specifically, we're going to give you
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Speaker 2: a thousand names to read, and you don't know any
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Speaker 2: or maybe just you know one or two of the
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Speaker 2: people personally, and you're just going to sit up there
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Speaker 2: and read their names, and you know, we'll see how
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Speaker 2: you do, let's see how it goes. And I believe
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Speaker 2: eve before me. My understanding is that the past people
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Speaker 2: who did it, that's what they did. They showed up,
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Speaker 2: they were just handed the names, they read the names
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Speaker 2: the students walked across the stage. People would tell me
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Speaker 2: and they they told me, and I just assumed they
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Speaker 2: were joking. And then I've been told many times that
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Speaker 2: they weren't kidding when they said that they were hitting
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Speaker 2: about fifty percent accuracy on the names. And I remember
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Speaker 2: when it first was brought up to me to see
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Speaker 2: if I was interested in doing it, and I said,
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Speaker 2: I can definitely a higher than fifty percent. I felt
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Speaker 2: comfortable at the beginning saying that I could hit in
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Speaker 2: the eighty percent range, and they said, well, that would
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Speaker 2: be a vast improvement. And then it just sort of
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Speaker 2: occurred to me that if I put the extra effort
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Speaker 2: in on the day of the ceremonies, I can just,
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Speaker 2: you know, try to catch every student when they check in,
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Speaker 2: make little notes on their card that they're going to
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Speaker 2: hand me at some point for me to read their name.
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Speaker 2: And then so I've developed a bit of a shorthand
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Speaker 2: I've developed some shortcuts I've learned a lot about names.
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Speaker 2: I've learned a lot about name origins, I've learned a
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Speaker 2: lot about pronunciations in ten years, and I got to
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Speaker 2: the point where I said, well, if I can do
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Speaker 2: all of this, I can hit in the high ninety percent.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like that's kind of where I'm getting
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Speaker 2: with it. So the fact that they continue to ask
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Speaker 2: me to do it and they all just say, no
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Speaker 2: one else here wants to do it because it's hard,
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Speaker 2: and you have this knack for it, and I enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: I like being a part of this ceremony for these students.
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Speaker 2: I'm a graduate from the school. My wife is a grad.
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Speaker 2: I got to call her name when she graduated with
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Speaker 2: her master's degree. And anytime and in some of these students,
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Speaker 2: I called their names, you know, four years ago, and
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Speaker 2: then now they got their or whatever three four years ago,
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Speaker 2: and they'm getting their master's degrees now or their doctorate,
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Speaker 2: and I'm getting to call their names again. And anytime
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Speaker 2: those students come back or I just bump into one
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Speaker 2: on the street, are like, oh my gosh, you read
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Speaker 2: the name of graduations. It's just weird to be one
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Speaker 2: of those things that I'm known for I mean my
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Speaker 2: radio and TV career, you know, yes, my now run
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Speaker 2: with the Ballet and the Nutcracker. Yes, And I do
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Speaker 2: have people say, oh my gosh, your mother Ginger and
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Speaker 2: then this, and it's just not in soccer coaching and
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Speaker 2: those things. That's another thing. But this putting this in
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Speaker 2: that mix and just knowing that I have, you know,
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Speaker 2: been able to do this for as long as I have,
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Speaker 2: they keep having me come back. I hope to do
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Speaker 2: it for as long as I can. There is this
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Speaker 2: constant feeling that AI is looming over it. Some schools
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Speaker 2: have chosen to bring AI in the mix. By all accounts,
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Speaker 2: there's a high dissatisfaction rate with AI doing it. I
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Speaker 2: know it will get better, but it's just not personal.
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Speaker 2: And Thursday night I did the hooting ceremony. Have only
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Speaker 2: been doing the hooting ceremony and doing that quite as long.
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Speaker 2: But that's really more my wheelhouse because not only am
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Speaker 2: I learning the names, announcing the graduates reading something, they
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Speaker 2: can put a comment that they want for their family
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Speaker 2: and friends to thank you, or their professors or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and having that as part of it. But then also
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Speaker 2: there's there's room for me to you know, make a
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Speaker 2: joke comment on maybe one of their names. We had
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Speaker 2: someone who graduated whose last name was Champagne, and I,
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Speaker 2: you know, you talk about that, it's graduation. Of course
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Speaker 2: we need Champagne. Things like that that come in the mix.
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Speaker 2: There was a master's graduate whose last name was Doolittle,
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Speaker 2: and I asked him when he checked in if there
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Speaker 2: was any chance he was going to get his doctorate
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Speaker 2: and he said yes. So I reference that in the
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Speaker 2: ceremony because you can't, you know, can't believe that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you got a chance to be doctor Doolittle. You take
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Speaker 2: the chance. So being able to do that, I feel
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Speaker 2: like is also something AI can't do, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know when it will be able to do it. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm flattered to be part of it. I appreciate Columbus
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Speaker 2: State for letting me do it again and again and again.
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Speaker 2: I really do enjoy it. And people go like you're
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Speaker 2: sick when it's wrong with you that you enjoy it,
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Speaker 2: But I do. I enjoy it and I like being
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Speaker 2: a part of it, and it's it is challenging, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes you have those moments where you know you have
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Speaker 2: this chance to do something that's difficult, that other people
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Speaker 2: don't want to do and if you can do it
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Speaker 2: and have people. I mean, one of the ceremonies on
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Speaker 2: a Friday, the furrent front, like three two three rows
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Speaker 2: all clapped for me as I was walking away after
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Speaker 2: everybody had been clapping for them, and they wanted to acknowledge.
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Speaker 2: And these were the doctorate and master's graduates that were
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Speaker 2: clapping me up, and that was really flattering to have that.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, and then you know outside the building when
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Speaker 2: parents come up to me and say thank you, No
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Speaker 2: one's ever gotten my kid's name right the whole time
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Speaker 2: they've been here, and those sorts of things. So I
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Speaker 2: hope to be there in December doing it again, and
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Speaker 2: that will be once again right in the mix with
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Speaker 2: a Nutcracker, and it'll be in Tech Week, rolling right
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Speaker 2: into Nutcracker shows. It feels hectic now in May because
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Speaker 2: there's so there's more graduates in May. You know, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of the traditional the mid year graduation in December,
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Speaker 2: which they'll be students that you know, maybe just missed
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Speaker 2: it now that will do it in December. But doing
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Speaker 2: it with Nutcracker going on, it's a different sort of
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Speaker 2: juggling thing that goes on. So anyway, enough about that,
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Speaker 2: Let's move on into our top. Tomorrow's election day for primaries,
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Speaker 2: we have a what looks like it may be a
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Speaker 2: really close mayor's race. By all accounts, I think most
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Speaker 2: people are predicting, at the very least some sort of
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Speaker 2: a runoff with you know, we have we have a
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Speaker 2: pretty heavy field in that mayoral race here in Columbus.
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Speaker 2: You know, it seemed for a long time like this
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Speaker 2: was very much a two horse race. I still kind
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Speaker 2: of think it is. We have a third candidate that
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Speaker 2: has been, you know, really campaigning pretty hard and going
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Speaker 2: after the two front runners, and we'll we'll see how
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Speaker 2: all of this plays out. I did the early voting
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Speaker 2: last week, in the midst of all of the craziness,
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Speaker 2: managed to get my early voting in. I've seen reports
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Speaker 2: that in the early voting the Democrats have far outnumbered
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Speaker 2: the Republicans in Georgia for the early voting. That tends
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Speaker 2: to be the case. I've talked a little bit about this.
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Speaker 2: There's there's this thing I personally will say I kind
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Speaker 2: of understand it, but it doesn't really fit with the
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Speaker 2: way that my brain is wired. But there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of Republicans. They like to go on election day. They
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Speaker 2: want to go on they'll want to go, and of course,
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Speaker 2: now that early voting is ended, they don't have a choice.
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Speaker 2: But I just feel like, you know, what happens if
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Speaker 2: something comes up on election day and you just can't go,
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Speaker 2: you can't make it, then what do you do? You're
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Speaker 2: just out? And you know, if a lot that happens
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Speaker 2: for you know, a few thousand people for some reason,
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Speaker 2: that could be you know, a decider in some of
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Speaker 2: the local races and things. But I understand this mentality
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Speaker 2: of feeling like you're a part of it on the
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Speaker 2: day of it. I've got friends that have specifically said
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Speaker 2: that they just like feeling like it's the day and
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Speaker 2: they're part of it on that day. And I understand
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Speaker 2: that there's a community aspect of it, I guess, or
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Speaker 2: there's that participation in the midst of all of it
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Speaker 2: that you feel like you're you know, connected in all
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Speaker 2: those things. For me, I'm the guy that you know,
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Speaker 2: I've got a I've got a nine am appointment. I
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Speaker 2: want to be there a quarter till it's that sort
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Speaker 2: of programming for me. When and my wife Jill loves
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Speaker 2: to be at. You know, she'll plan out, she's got
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Speaker 2: a nine o'clock appointment. She'll get there, you know, eight
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Speaker 2: p fifty nine, maybe a little earlier than that, but
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Speaker 2: she knows how long it takes to get there. She's
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Speaker 2: timed it out. She's got more time to get things
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Speaker 2: done on the front end, and then on the back
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Speaker 2: end she arrives at the time of the appointment. I'd
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Speaker 2: rather be there early. Maybe you get to your maybe
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Speaker 2: your appointment can start early and you can get on
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Speaker 2: with your day. That's kind of my mindset. So it's
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Speaker 2: it's partially that programming for me and just the way
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Speaker 2: that my brain works. I'd rather just be there and
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Speaker 2: waiting than take a chance on being late. And I
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Speaker 2: think that's what I worry about with election day. But
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Speaker 2: look at this point, at least for these mids not
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Speaker 2: for the midterms primaries, is what I mean, because the
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Speaker 2: midterms obviously coming up in November, but these primaries, I
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Speaker 2: believe I said midterms earlier too, And partly because this
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Speaker 2: is also kind of special for us. We have a
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Speaker 2: seventeen year old who has now just registered to vote.
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Speaker 2: He will not be able to vote in this primary election.
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Speaker 2: Now but he will be eighteen before November, so he
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Speaker 2: will be able to vote for the first time in
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Speaker 2: the midterms. So that's a part of why. And he
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Speaker 2: and I just over the weekend we're discussing something. And
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Speaker 2: last week really when we got him registered and we
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Speaker 2: started talking about things, we wanted him to go with
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Speaker 2: us because Jill and I went to vote together. We
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Speaker 2: wanted him to go with us. He's been with me
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Speaker 2: before when I voted, but we wanted him to be
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Speaker 2: able to go kind of with us one last time,
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Speaker 2: just to kind of get a feel for it. Because
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Speaker 2: this was a long ballot on the Republican side, a
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Speaker 2: lot of candidates. Obviously, there's a lot at stake, and
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Speaker 2: there's a very been a very heated race in the
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Speaker 2: governor's race for the Republican nomination. So and this is big,
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Speaker 2: you know, we we have I think a great governor.
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Speaker 2: I think by most accounts, most at least based on
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Speaker 2: the re election, I think most Georgians feel most Georgia
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Speaker 2: voters at least feel like Brian Kemp has done a
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Speaker 2: great job. I don't think he let up at all
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Speaker 2: in the second term. I don't think that he in
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Speaker 2: any way has let us down big shoes to fill,
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Speaker 2: and you know you're gonna have this push of folks
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Speaker 2: on the left trying to say that, you know, we
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Speaker 2: have to make some changes and move away from things
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Speaker 2: and what I'm hearing a lot of and this is
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Speaker 2: true in many states. We're going to hear about voter suppression.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to hear about issues. We're not hearing
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Speaker 2: about that. We're hearing about redistricting, we're hearing about gerrymandering,
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Speaker 2: We're hearing about all and those are things Democrats have
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Speaker 2: to be concerned about. But they're making these accusations that
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Speaker 2: Republicans are taking away voting rights for people because there
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Speaker 2: have been states that you know, districts have been drawn
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Speaker 2: up based on race, and the Supreme Court has said
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Speaker 2: you can't do that, and that's why you've got these
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Speaker 2: states that are ready to make these changes some you know,
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Speaker 2: moving forward right away. And when you look at how
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Speaker 2: many states have almost somewhere between forty thirty six and
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Speaker 2: forty five percent Republicans in the state and they still
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Speaker 2: have zero representatives in those states because of the way
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Speaker 2: there they've been the maps have been drawn. So you're
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Speaker 2: going to hear a lot of that as we get
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Speaker 2: closer to November. That's a big push for this and
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Speaker 2: this push to to you know, make sure that Republicans
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Speaker 2: can't even things out, that they can't kind of make
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Speaker 2: things more fair, and that ultimately should be the push, right,
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Speaker 2: that should be the pust. But it's always different when
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Speaker 2: it's not your side. I remember I had a friend
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Speaker 2: who many years ago, in an election, was saying that
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Speaker 2: we had a Congress was controlled by Republicans, the Court
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Speaker 2: was leaning right, and he was saying to me that
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Speaker 2: you had to vote for a Democrat just to keep
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Speaker 2: things even. And then later when things were flipped the
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Speaker 2: other direction, he was all for a Democrat president. It's
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Speaker 2: just interesting the way, you know, the balance is only
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Speaker 2: supposed to be there when it works your way against
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Speaker 2: your side maybe. So that's what we're looking at. And
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Speaker 2: this is a big day tomorrow, and I know we'll
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Speaker 2: be talking more about all of this this week because
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Speaker 2: we're going to get it. We've already seen a couple
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Speaker 2: of cases where we've seen in Louisiana some folks that
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Speaker 2: went against Trump. The Massy race is going to be
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Speaker 2: interesting up in Kentucky. But the folks that went after Trump.
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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what happens to them and
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Speaker 2: how much the Trump influence in this Republican race for
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Speaker 2: the nomination for governor, How Trump's endorsement will play out
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Speaker 2: in that, how all that goes, All that remains to
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Speaker 2: be seen. But here we go. Tomorrow is the day
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Speaker 2: you didn't early vote. You got to show up tomorrow
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Speaker 2: because Democrats came out early and represented in the last
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Speaker 2: O dccolumbus dot com More West Carol Morning Show right
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Speaker 2: after the break. So we're into the week that leads
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Speaker 2: into Memorial Day weekend. We know that the significance of
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Speaker 2: that and how that should not be just overlooked as
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Speaker 2: start of summer, but it is kind of that start
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Speaker 2: of summer that we get into and this summer is
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Speaker 2: a special one for a number of reasons. We've got
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Speaker 2: the Independence Day two fifty celebration that's going to be
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Speaker 2: going on this year, has already been going on. It's
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Speaker 2: all started, and it's got me kind of looking into
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Speaker 2: a couple of things because we know that we have
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Speaker 2: foods and things here that we refer to by names
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Speaker 2: from other countries or like you know, someone over the weekends,
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Speaker 2: it's our Friday. I guess said something to me about
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Speaker 2: you know, China were making the joke. Chinese food in
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Speaker 2: China is just called food. And you know, there's certain things.
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Speaker 2: We have French fries, we have London broil. We have
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Speaker 2: these things that we associate with other countries or cities,
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Speaker 2: and there are some things that other countries associate with us. Similarly,
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Speaker 2: some countries, some places, I guess cities and countries refer
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Speaker 2: to ranch dressing as American dressing. Don't have a problem
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Speaker 2: with that. I don't know that. I think that as
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Speaker 2: you know, but maybe it is. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: guess that makes sense to be ranch dressing. I think
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Speaker 2: the word ranch is kind of something that just they
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Speaker 2: substitute with the word American, because in many places around
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Speaker 2: the world, cool ranch doritos are called cool American doritos.
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Speaker 2: So again, I guess ranch and and American kind of
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Speaker 2: you know, go together, you know, I don't Yellowstone. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's some things to go with it. I guess the
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Speaker 2: cowboy culture and things. But anyway, potato wedges in the
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Speaker 2: Czech Republic are referred to as American potatoes, all right.
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Speaker 2: The Dutch have filet American, which is basically steak Tartar
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Speaker 2: with Mayo no connection to the US. But I know that,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of things that we have
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Speaker 2: that don't really connect the country that we associate them with.
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Speaker 2: But like, and here's another one, Like in restaurants in Hungary,
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Speaker 2: if you hear them refer to it's an American kitchen,
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Speaker 2: it means it's an open floor plan for the restaurant.
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Speaker 2: So interesting. I don't know, I just thought that would
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Speaker 2: be kind of something interesting. We'll try to do some
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Speaker 2: more of those as we get closer to or similar
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Speaker 2: type things, as we get closer to the big birthday. Well.
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Speaker 2: Going to a new survey of office workers, eighty six
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Speaker 2: percent use words like please and thank you when interacting
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Speaker 2: with AI. Sixty four percent believe it's important to show
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Speaker 2: AI common courtesy. We'll come back to that. Twenty seven
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Speaker 2: percent say please and thank you every single time they
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Speaker 2: use it. Eighty seven percent treat it like another human being,
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Speaker 2: and they feel that it can work as a personal
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Speaker 2: assistant for them. That's what the companies with many of
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Speaker 2: the AI, at least the vocal ones, they want you
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Speaker 2: to think of it as that. And then there's this
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Speaker 2: sixty four percent of respondent said they'd be open to
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Speaker 2: seeing AI as a coworker someday if it can match
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Speaker 2: the qualities of real human colleagues. Executive surveyed were twice
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Speaker 2: as likely to consider AI as a coworker compared to
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Speaker 2: the staff. I think we can see where that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: The executives see the way to say some money versus
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Speaker 2: the staff going, wait a minute, we're the ones that
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Speaker 2: would be replaced by AI or people being polite with AI,
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Speaker 2: because we've all seen Terminator, we know Skynett, we know
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Speaker 2: where this all goes eventually, or where it seems like
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Speaker 2: it would go eventually, and maybe being polite is one
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Speaker 2: of those things. It could save you one day. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. I think for some people,
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Speaker 2: and we have I can't say it now, or to
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Speaker 2: start talking to me because I have one here in
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Speaker 2: my office. But we have one of the devices that
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Speaker 2: you talk to and you ask it questions. And they
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Speaker 2: are making an effort to make this particular model more
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Speaker 2: of a personal assistant, and they want it to learn
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Speaker 2: more of your conversations. And I have kind of been
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Speaker 2: testing that I'll say something to it, I'll tell it
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Speaker 2: a different definition for something. Maybe a more like regional definition.
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Speaker 2: And then I'll go back a week later and I'll ask, Kay,
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Speaker 2: do you remember that conversation we had about blank? And
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Speaker 2: then you know, it takes it so sometimes it has
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Speaker 2: to think a minute and say, oh, that's right, we
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Speaker 2: talked about whatever. And kind of interesting that it's learning
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Speaker 2: or at least making some attempt to file the responses
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Speaker 2: so that it can go back and pull from those things.
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Speaker 2: Kind of interesting just the way that the whole thing works.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, that'll do it for this Monday edition of
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Speaker 2: the show. Thanks to our sponsors and our patrons. Thank
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Speaker 2: you for listening. I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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