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They Don't Want to Look Back · 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: Monday morning, third day of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. First show into the new month and first
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Speaker 2: day of the school year for many of the area
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Speaker 2: kids from where we originate the show. Obviously, depending on
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Speaker 2: where you live, those back to school days may not
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Speaker 2: have quite happened yet. I know my friends the further
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Speaker 2: up the north, my friends further up the Northeast coast.
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Speaker 2: It seems to get later and later as you move
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Speaker 2: on up, even up into the far Northeast into New
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Speaker 2: England and things. But my buddy who lives in Charlotte,
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Speaker 2: his little boy has a few more weeks to go.
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Speaker 2: They got out of school much later than we did here,
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Speaker 2: but it is upon us here for many in this
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Speaker 2: Chattahoochee Valley area. I think some may have even started
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Speaker 2: back last week and some still have another week to go.
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Speaker 2: So we'll get it underway. For my kids at least today,
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Speaker 2: and I got my two were back in the same
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Speaker 2: school together for the first time since elementary school. They
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Speaker 2: are three years apart, so they didn't overlap at any
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Speaker 2: point in middle school, and it's just different when it's
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Speaker 2: high school, and you know, now we've got a senior
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Speaker 2: and a freshman, so it's a different dynamic. And as
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Speaker 2: I've talked about, I'll have a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: break from the dad uber responsibilities than what I've been doing.
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Speaker 2: So it's actually got me a little nervous because it
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Speaker 2: went from I knew exactly all the time when I
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Speaker 2: needed to beware and now all it's changed just a
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Speaker 2: little bit in that you know, some days will be
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Speaker 2: very different than other days as far as pickups. So
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Speaker 2: I gotta be on my toes. I got to try
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Speaker 2: to be on my toes. I don't know how much
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Speaker 2: I can actually be on my toes, but got to
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Speaker 2: do my best. At least. What else we got. Spider
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Speaker 2: Man made a whole bunch of money over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: No big surprise there. It is one of the biggest
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Speaker 2: box office draws that there is. That is a character
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Speaker 2: that just endures it always he always does, or it
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Speaker 2: the product or the franchise always endoors and fourth installment
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Speaker 2: for Tom Holland A Spider Man and most of that
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Speaker 2: cast all back together again and it was good. We
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Speaker 2: went to see it. We had some discount tickets and
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Speaker 2: we were able to go see it over the weekend
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Speaker 2: and went as a family on Saturday, and we had
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Speaker 2: a good time. It's when you go to a movie
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Speaker 2: in the theaters and it's a movie of this caliber
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Speaker 2: and it's opening weekend. It's a different experience, you know,
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Speaker 2: and some people really enjoy it, and sometimes I have
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Speaker 2: really enjoyed it in the past. I mean I enjoyed
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Speaker 2: the movie. I enjoyed being in a you know, decent
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Speaker 2: sized crowd. I just think, every every year I add
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Speaker 2: to my life, every pass that I have around around
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Speaker 2: this star we call the Sun. I just become a
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Speaker 2: little bit less tolerant of a lot of things. And
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Speaker 2: it's just natural. That's what happens. You get older. You
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Speaker 2: lose patience on things. I have one gripe about this
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Speaker 2: movie experience that I just have to kind of share.
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Speaker 2: But you know, for the most part now, And the
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Speaker 2: discount tickets, first of all, that we had were for
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Speaker 2: any any screening, any format, whatever. It was a flat
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Speaker 2: discount rate that we were able to get for all
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Speaker 2: four of us, and we thought, well, we'll watch it
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Speaker 2: in three D, and so that's what we did. We
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Speaker 2: did a three and I'm not usually crazy about three D.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't really mean anything to me normally. I thought
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Speaker 2: the three D in the movie was pretty decent. It
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Speaker 2: was better than some of the other three D exp
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Speaker 2: I think Avengers is probably the last three D movie
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Speaker 2: that I watched and I thought, this is worth it,
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Speaker 2: and in this case is probably it was worth it.
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Speaker 2: I think not too hokey with some of the stunts
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Speaker 2: with it, just you know, enough to kind of add
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Speaker 2: to it, and some of the visuals and fight scenes
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Speaker 2: in it. It went with it. But on top of
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Speaker 2: the fact that you're you know, booking that and you're
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Speaker 2: booking it for you know people, I wanted to see
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Speaker 2: it in three D. I guess it was a pretty
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Speaker 2: full It wasn't a pack theater. It's pretty full. And
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Speaker 2: we booked the I booked the tickets on Friday and
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Speaker 2: book specific seats. I had seats in mind that I
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Speaker 2: wanted to play, and you know, you have to do
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Speaker 2: that when you do the online book And also part
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Speaker 2: of our discount seat tickets is that we didn't have
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Speaker 2: to pay for the online booking and all that. So
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Speaker 2: we booked our seats and I made a mistake. This
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Speaker 2: is partly on me. I don't typically like to sit
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Speaker 2: on the very end at the movies. I like it
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Speaker 2: at almost every other scenario. I like to sit on
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Speaker 2: the end. It's just how I want to be able
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Speaker 2: to get up. I don't. I get claustrophobic sometimes when
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Speaker 2: that's probably not the right word, but that's no way
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Speaker 2: to describe it. I just sometimes feel a little trapped there.
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Speaker 2: It's not really claustrophobic, and I don't want to discount
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Speaker 2: people that actually suffer from that, but that's the only
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Speaker 2: way to describe it. And I just want to have
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Speaker 2: access to gout if I need to get out, and
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Speaker 2: I don't like bothering people to get up and go out.
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Speaker 2: That's probably the bigger inconvenience for me. So and I
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Speaker 2: also have a fourteen year old who he likes to
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Speaker 2: get lots of refills drinks, and that means he's got
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Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom, and he's just as into
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Speaker 2: that as he is the movie. Not the bathroom, but
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Speaker 2: getting the drinks, so because he loves, you know, being
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Speaker 2: able to get all the different flavors and stuff from
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Speaker 2: those machines. So anyway, I booked like the second, third, fourth,
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Speaker 2: and fifth seats in the row. I didn't book the
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Speaker 2: first seat right there on the edge, thinking nobody's going
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Speaker 2: to get that seat, who's coming in and just picking
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Speaker 2: that one seat on the end. Well, I found out
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Speaker 2: who would do that as a gentleman came in and
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Speaker 2: sat down next to me. And I know some people
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Speaker 2: come to the movies by themselves, and you know that's fine.
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Speaker 2: I'm not knocking that some people do like to just
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Speaker 2: sit on the end of a row and come by themselves.
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Speaker 2: I just thought it was strange to sit in a
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Speaker 2: To me, that's like a it's a guy etiquette because
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Speaker 2: it's a guy and he just comes in and just
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Speaker 2: sits there in no buffer seat. And I know it's
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Speaker 2: on me and that I should have just picked the
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Speaker 2: end seat, and I should have booked you know, one, two,
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Speaker 2: three and four whatever instead of two, three, four and five.
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Speaker 2: That's on me. But still are we breaking some kind
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Speaker 2: of code. I don't know your thoughts on that. I
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Speaker 2: just feel like I would never do that. I would
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Speaker 2: never unless it's a completely packed auditorium. I would never say, Hey,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna book this one seat sitting here.
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Speaker 2: Clearly there's people sitting here. I'm just going to book
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Speaker 2: this one, and that's what I'm gonna do. Anyway, he
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Speaker 2: wasn't overly bothers. He muttered to himself a lot during
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Speaker 2: the movie. Other than that, he was fine. And I
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Speaker 2: know that Luke had to get up and walk in
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Speaker 2: front of him a few times, and that's on him.
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Speaker 2: I can't I intentionally pick those seats for a reason
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Speaker 2: because I knew Luke was going to be getting up
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Speaker 2: and moving around. But anyway, I want to follow up
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Speaker 2: a little bit on the conversation we were having last
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Speaker 2: week about the Fauci hearing, and just a second before
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Speaker 2: I really get to that, though, I just want to
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Speaker 2: mention that we're into August. That means we have August, September, October,
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Speaker 2: and then we're basically into the midterms, and I just
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Speaker 2: want to point out a few things that we have
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Speaker 2: going on because with that three month window, this is
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Speaker 2: where some of this Fauci stuff is coming up. And
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Speaker 2: it's important because the Fauci stuff I don't think has
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Speaker 2: much of a bearing on the midterms. It shouldn't, I
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Speaker 2: don't think, and some maybe it should. I know some
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Speaker 2: of the Republicans made sure to point that out. I
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Speaker 2: think Hawley and others brought it up at least in
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Speaker 2: just saying as far as accountability goes, and some of
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Speaker 2: the things that were the defense that they made of
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Speaker 2: Fauci and the show that he put on last week.
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Speaker 2: But the bigger thing that they're certainly trying to focus
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Speaker 2: on is on Iran. And I just want to point
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Speaker 2: out the fact that Iran wants this war to last
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Speaker 2: until the midterms. I think China wants this to last
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Speaker 2: until the midterms. I think Russia wants it to last
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Speaker 2: until the midterms. Democrats definitely want this to last until
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Speaker 2: the midterms. They see this as an opportunity to say, hey,
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Speaker 2: look at this. But I just would like to point
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Speaker 2: out to you that as they're you know, reveling in
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Speaker 2: this war not quite ending and not going and we
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Speaker 2: had a moment where it looked like it was over. Maybe,
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Speaker 2: but they see this as again much like and this
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Speaker 2: is my connection back to the Fauci thing, They see
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Speaker 2: it like COVID as this is the opportunity to go
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Speaker 2: after Republicans, to go after Trump, to go after them
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Speaker 2: by saying, well, look at this mess that we're in.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to talk about Fauci they don't want
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Speaker 2: to talk about what we now know about Fauci. They're
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Speaker 2: trying to blow that off and pretend like there's nothing
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Speaker 2: to talk about. But if you look at the fact
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Speaker 2: that Iran, that China, that Russia all want this war
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Speaker 2: to go to the midterms, to me, there has to
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Speaker 2: be a point where you step back and you say, well,
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Speaker 2: who's who am I pulling for here? Is this just
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Speaker 2: about a power grab or is this about ending a war?
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Speaker 2: Is it about moving forward? And you can make your
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Speaker 2: case about whether we should have gotten in it, and
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Speaker 2: some of the cases that's been the cases that have
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Speaker 2: been made about you know, was it justified? Was it not?
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Speaker 2: Those are all conversations to have. You see, it's interesting
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Speaker 2: now as we're looking at an Iran war and saying, well,
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Speaker 2: let's go back and retroactively look at the origin and
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Speaker 2: how it started and should it have and all these things,
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Speaker 2: versus Democrats who don't want to go back and look
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Speaker 2: at six years ago and say should COVID have played
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Speaker 2: out the way that it did. Should Fauci have done
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Speaker 2: the things that he that he did, Because they're all
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Speaker 2: saying we don't want to talk about that anymore. We're
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Speaker 2: ready to talk about other things. We want to talk
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Speaker 2: about what's going on now, as if there's no accountability,
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Speaker 2: as if there's no possibility for accountability. That tells you
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Speaker 2: that they don't have any sincere interest in getting to
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Speaker 2: the truth. There was a method that was put into place,
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Speaker 2: there was a strategy that was executed, and they don't
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Speaker 2: want you looking back at it, not at all. Why
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Speaker 2: would you want anyone looking back at it. It even
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Speaker 2: came up, as you know, RFK Junior talking with Dana
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Speaker 2: Bash from CNN, and he basically told her, you know,
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Speaker 2: you were part of the problem and said that they
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Speaker 2: were the ones that were scaring people and you know
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Speaker 2: that it was press malpracticed. Dana Bash didn't want to
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Speaker 2: talk about it. We can talk about other things. It
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Speaker 2: is interesting to me that he's one of those people
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Speaker 2: that a quote unquote journalist, a reporter, a journalist in
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Speaker 2: that capacity, a host will talk over him because of
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Speaker 2: his disability. You know, he's got issues with his vocal cords,
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Speaker 2: and they like to shut him down because he sort
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Speaker 2: of struggles to get the words out. They see that
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Speaker 2: opportunity to pounce on that. Think about that, by the way,
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Speaker 2: you can take somebody who struggling with that as a disability,
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Speaker 2: and it's okay to just talk over them because they're
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Speaker 2: not in a position where they can do anything back.
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Speaker 2: It would be criticized by others, for sure, but anyway,
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Speaker 2: so they don't want to look back, They don't want
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Speaker 2: to acknowledge mistakes were made, but they want to basically
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Speaker 2: go back and dissect everything about this current war for
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Speaker 2: the purposes of politics. And you should be able to
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Speaker 2: do that. I think you should. I think and especially
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Speaker 2: if there's any sort of a war or a conflict,
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Speaker 2: you should be able to go back and look at it.
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Speaker 2: But I think you definitely when millions of people died
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Speaker 2: worldwide and a million Americans died, and you have to
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Speaker 2: be able to go back and say, did we do
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Speaker 2: the right things? And was there a person who was
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Speaker 2: largely responsible and should be held accountable for it? Should
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Speaker 2: we be able to go back and look into that.
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Speaker 2: Did the media simply report the facts or did the
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Speaker 2: media push a narrative? And that's the difference. We talked
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Speaker 2: a little bit about that last week. There was a
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Speaker 2: point for me covering it. For a large media company,
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Speaker 2: report the facts, get the message out. That's being put
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Speaker 2: out by the White House. The message, it's being gotten
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Speaker 2: out by the Surgeon General, the message is being gotten
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Speaker 2: out by the experts, but not offering the conjecture, not
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Speaker 2: offering the hey, don't do this, don't do that. You
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Speaker 2: heard me many times say, talk to your doctor. If
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Speaker 2: you don't want to get the injection the vaccine and
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Speaker 2: you don't want to get injected by it, talk to
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Speaker 2: your doctor. If you don't want to wear a mask
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Speaker 2: and you think that there are things that you need
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Speaker 2: to do differently, talk to your doctor. I think that
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Speaker 2: should be a standard message for everything to do with medicine.
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Speaker 2: Not talk to Tony Fauci or whoever happens to be
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Speaker 2: in charge of the Go to your doctor. That should
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Speaker 2: be your standard, right. I say this to my doctor.
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Speaker 2: I had an annual check up recently with my doctor
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Speaker 2: and I told him and we were talking about something.
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Speaker 2: He said, well, listen, let me give you my opinion
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Speaker 2: on it. I'm like, look, you're my doctor. I didn't
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Speaker 2: trust you, I wouldn't be here. And if I stop
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Speaker 2: trusting what you're saying, I'll go find another doctor. I'll
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Speaker 2: make that deal with you. You don't have to try
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Speaker 2: to explain it in a way that you know, justifies
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Speaker 2: the fact that I'm I'm there because I trust you
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Speaker 2: and you're my doctor. That's the starting point. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: wanting to keep this conflict going and definitely not looking
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Speaker 2: back at what happened six years ago or all part
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Speaker 2: of the same strategy and it's about trying to get
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Speaker 2: those things very well. Under the silicone scan are dozens
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Speaker 2: of tiny motors that recreate human facial movements, while hidden cameras, microphones,
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Speaker 2: and speakers allow it to interact with people. The catch
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Speaker 2: is that the most advanced version costs about one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty grand. The company says it's just the beginning
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Speaker 2: in Hope's future versions will be able to understand not
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Speaker 2: just what people say, but also their emotions, their tone
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Speaker 2: of voice, and things like that. Yeah, this is a
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Speaker 2: pretty big step, and looking at the images in the video,
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Speaker 2: it is a significant step in that direction. Surprisingly, number
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Speaker 2: of American employees, especially in the gen Z age bracket,
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Speaker 2: are taking the idea of remote work to a new level,
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Speaker 2: or an international level, you might say, by secretly working
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Speaker 2: from foreign countries and not telling their bosses. The new
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Speaker 2: survey that was done found more that one in five
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Speaker 2: US workers have set up a secret workstation in another country,
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Speaker 2: with over a third of gen Z employees admitting to
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Speaker 2: pulling off the stunt. Half of remote workers say their
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Speaker 2: managers don't know where they're working from on any given day,
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Speaker 2: usually just because the boss doesn't ask. HR experts weren't
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Speaker 2: about potential tax, visa and data security headaches. Employees claim
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Speaker 2: the change of scenery actually helps their productivity, reporting that
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Speaker 2: they get three times more work done when working away
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Speaker 2: from their home base. Look, if you're able to do
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Speaker 2: the job and your boss doesn't care enough to ask,
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Speaker 2: does it matter if you don't have a job where
23:26
Speaker 2: they might say, hey need Gen in the office this
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Speaker 2: afternoon for a meeting, or hey going to need Gen
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Speaker 2: in the office for the rest of the week starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I think you're probably safe, aren't you. Does it really matter?
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Speaker 2: And as far as I know, there's probably some tax
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Speaker 2: loopholes and things concerning you know, working out of the country.
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Speaker 2: But truthfully, if you were you know, working remotely while
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Speaker 2: you were on a trip, like if you were on vacation,
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Speaker 2: but you were you know, like with your family and
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Speaker 2: you were working, does it matter. Is it really really
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Speaker 2: that big of a deal. It's interesting that people have
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Speaker 2: gone as far as to have you know, a separate
24:06
Speaker 2: you know, workstation set up, I guess. But anyway, it's
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Speaker 2: interesting and it makes sense why they're so adamant about
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Speaker 2: how much more work there it will get done. I
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Speaker 2: mean I would be advocating hard for it too if
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Speaker 2: that situation were set up for me and I was
24:24
Speaker 2: trying to, you know, take advantage of being able to travel.
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Speaker 2: And look, you see a lot. I mean I see
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Speaker 2: it a lot because of my algorithm. But people that
24:34
Speaker 2: you know, work out of like a camper, you know,
24:38
Speaker 2: whether it's like a bus they've converted into a camp
24:41
Speaker 2: or I see a lot of those videos and people
24:44
Speaker 2: just that's where they travel and work. So maybe the
24:47
Speaker 2: bosses just don't care. How about this for a comeback
24:51
Speaker 2: story time shares? It seems like it was kind of
24:55
Speaker 2: a once upon a thing and then it began once
24:57
Speaker 2: upon a time thing, and then it became a plot
24:59
Speaker 2: for lot of sitcoms over the years, and now apparently
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Speaker 2: they're making a comeback. A new industry report finds that
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Speaker 2: millennials now make up about half of all time share owners.
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Speaker 2: Gen Z accounts for more than half of the recent
25:17
Speaker 2: purchases of time share. Supporters say that today's time shares
25:20
Speaker 2: are more flexible than the ones in the past, using
25:23
Speaker 2: point systems similar more like airline miles, rather than locking
25:28
Speaker 2: owners into specific weeks. Many younger buyers see them as
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Speaker 2: a way to prioritize travel and create memories, even if
25:35
Speaker 2: it means spending less on other things. Of course, time
25:38
Speaker 2: shares still come with hefty upfront costs and annual fees,
25:42
Speaker 2: but for some travel loving gen zers, they've viewed it
25:45
Speaker 2: as an investment in experiences rather than in possessions. Kind
25:53
Speaker 2: of surprising to think that it's making a comeback, but
25:57
Speaker 2: if it's evolving so that it becomes more accommodating for
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Speaker 2: you know, the next generation, makes sense that the next
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Speaker 2: generation would embrace it. I guess that'll do it for
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