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Boycott Cracker Barrel? I'm Way Ahead of You · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 2: coverage of dragon Con this year. All right, now, let's
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Speaker 2: do this because this cracker barrel conversation has really, I think,
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Speaker 2: gotten out of control. It is really completely out of hand.
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Speaker 2: I understand where a lot of the concerns are by
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Speaker 2: a lot of people about what has happened at a
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Speaker 2: corporate level for this company Cracker Barrel. First of all,
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Speaker 2: if you're listening and you're not in the US, maybe
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Speaker 2: you're not familiar with Cracker Barrel. If you follow our news,
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Speaker 2: you've probably heard about it because it has been talked
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Speaker 2: about to an exhausting level. And I'm going to do
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Speaker 2: it again today. But I just feel like to some level,
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Speaker 2: we have to talk about this Cracker Barrel thing. And
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Speaker 2: I have a couple of things that I can add
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Speaker 2: to this as well, because I have a personal experience
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Speaker 2: to go with Cracker Barrel, and I've talked a little
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Speaker 2: bit about this over the years, but not a whole
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Speaker 2: lot about this over the years. This was something that
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Speaker 2: happened to me many many years ago when my sixteen
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Speaker 2: year old was still a toddler. He was still very young.
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Speaker 2: And Cracker Barrel, for those that aren't familiar, it's a
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Speaker 2: restaurant chain. It is known for its very sort of
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Speaker 2: farm like. I know people like to say it's this
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Speaker 2: you know, country thing. It is, but it's this essence of,
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Speaker 2: you know, the people at the end of the day
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Speaker 2: they go to the country store, they sit around the
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Speaker 2: around the barrels, the pickle barrels, the cracker barrels, and
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Speaker 2: they talk and they have a pop. You know, if
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Speaker 2: it was true Southern you'd call it a coke, even
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Speaker 2: if it was another beverage. But they're all coked. So
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Speaker 2: that's the idea, and it's got this very very country
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Speaker 2: feel to it. The walls have those like lattice slats
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Speaker 2: on them, at least they used to. I don't know
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Speaker 2: where we're at with that at the moment. And the
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Speaker 2: food you can get breakfast all day, and they were
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Speaker 2: strategically placed along highways so that while you were out
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Speaker 2: driving on your vacation, maybe you're traveling across the country,
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Speaker 2: you would see a cracker barrel off in the distance
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Speaker 2: or a billboard and you would think, oh, I can
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Speaker 2: pull in there and I can get pancakes. They got
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Speaker 2: really good pancakes, by the way. I guess they still do.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what the status is
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Speaker 2: of where things are with these changes they're making. But
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Speaker 2: when you get there and you pull up and you
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Speaker 2: think I could have a country fried steak or a
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Speaker 2: country fried chicken, or a chicken fried chicken or whatever
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Speaker 2: they call it, and then you could have your breakfast
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Speaker 2: anytime of day, you could have coffee, whatever you want
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Speaker 2: to get you back on the road. That was the idea.
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Speaker 2: Now often because these became stops for people along the way,
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Speaker 2: they would say, well, let's stop and have a meal,
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Speaker 2: or it would be a meeting point for people. If
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Speaker 2: you lived near it, you would go, hey, let's all
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Speaker 2: go to Cracker Barrel and eat. So you would get
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Speaker 2: there and they might be sort of busy, but that's
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Speaker 2: okay because outside the place is built to look like
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Speaker 2: it's got a porch. I mean, it is a porch,
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Speaker 2: but it's kind of supposed to feel like you're out
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Speaker 2: maybe just on the ranch or whatever. And you're sitting
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Speaker 2: there at the porch and they've got rocking chairs and
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Speaker 2: you can play on a giant checkerboard or whatever, chess, checkers,
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Speaker 2: all sorts of games. And then as you get inside,
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Speaker 2: you have to walk through this country store and you
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Speaker 2: go through and you're like, oh, wow, they have, you know,
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Speaker 2: Conway Twitty cassettes for sale. I think they probably, I
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Speaker 2: don't know that they still have cassettes, but and then
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Speaker 2: they've got candy and things that you certainly maybe hadn't
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Speaker 2: even thought about in years old versions of candies that
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Speaker 2: are still being made, and you think, oh, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get that because I'm an adult now and I'm going
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Speaker 2: through the cracker barrel store and if I want to
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Speaker 2: buy candy, I can buy candy now. But you know
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Speaker 2: when these things when I was a kid, I couldn't
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Speaker 2: get these because my parents wouldn't buy.
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Speaker 1: Them for me.
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Speaker 2: So then you get to your table and they got
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Speaker 2: the little peg game and you play the peg game,
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Speaker 2: and if you know how to beat the peg game,
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Speaker 2: you inevitably have to show off every time, which is,
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Speaker 2: you know what I do and my brother does, So
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Speaker 2: you do that, and then then you get your meal
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Speaker 2: and you get either get the breakfast menu or the
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Speaker 2: lunch menu or both, and then you figure out what
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Speaker 2: you're gonna eat and then you have a tasty meal
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Speaker 2: and you get on with your life. So it was
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Speaker 2: an experience. And they bring out corn bread and biscuits
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Speaker 2: and all that, and you eat all the bread you
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Speaker 2: want like at many restaurants, except this is you know,
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Speaker 2: country food anyway. So the logo it's a man and
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Speaker 2: it's I guess the founder's uncle. Herschel is sitting there
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Speaker 2: next to a barrel on the logo, and that was
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Speaker 2: the logo, and it's like a brown and orange logo,
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Speaker 2: and you think, all right, and then inside they get
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Speaker 2: the decorps Is pictures hanging on the wall and various
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Speaker 2: advertisements of you know, products of old or old logos
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Speaker 2: logos that have been changed by other companies over the years.
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Speaker 2: You could see what the Pepsi logo looked like before
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Speaker 2: they tried to make it look like a smile or
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Speaker 2: whatever they were doing. All right, and oh, there's a
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Speaker 2: coke logo back before it had to be Coke Classic
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Speaker 2: and all those things. That's what it was. And then
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Speaker 2: became the great tradition of people going into Cracker Barrel
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Speaker 2: and sneaking photos of themselves on the wall. I think
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Speaker 2: that was one of the great viral things that's happened.
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Speaker 2: And I guess that's going away now too. But that's
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Speaker 2: what Cracker Barrel is. It's just a casual dining restaurant
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Speaker 2: that has this very farm like feel to it. And
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Speaker 2: now the CEO of the company says, we're updating it.
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Speaker 2: We've modernized our logo a bit. It's still orange and brown,
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Speaker 2: it still looks like a Cleveland Brown's logo. I feel
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Speaker 2: like it's the same people. Maybe that did the Cleveland Brown,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. But it's a yellow it's not really orange.
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Speaker 2: It's more of a yellow maybe a yellow orange and
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Speaker 2: then brown. And it just says cracker barrel. And it
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Speaker 2: doesn't have Uncle Herschel and it doesn't have the barrel.
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Speaker 2: It just has the logo or the words on it
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Speaker 2: around the shape of the logo and that's it. And
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Speaker 2: they're modernizing the inside apparently, and they're they're gonna make
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Speaker 2: everything inside have a cleaner white painting. They painting everything
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Speaker 2: white inside, and I think they're taking all the pictures
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Speaker 2: down and all those things, and that's what they're doing. Now.
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Speaker 2: There have been people who have lost their minds over this,
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Speaker 2: and they just you can't change it. We're gonna have to.
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Speaker 2: They're going the way of bud Light at Anheuser Bush
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Speaker 2: probably sounds a bit dramatic. It feels dramatic. And then
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Speaker 2: when people now are digging into well, this lady who
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Speaker 2: is the CEO now of the company, who's making these
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Speaker 2: changes and made these announcements and says, this is what
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Speaker 2: people want. No, they don't. First of all, they don't.
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Speaker 2: But apparently this company has been doing things over the
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Speaker 2: years that have supported LGBTQ causes and events not really
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Speaker 2: in tune with I think the average consumer at Cracker Barrel.
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Speaker 2: But they've been doing it and no one has cared.
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Speaker 2: I mean, some people have voiced concerns and they've been
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Speaker 2: showing up at LGBTQ plus events with rainbow rocking chairs
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Speaker 2: and things like that. But if it didn't bother you
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Speaker 2: then and now this is the final straw. This is
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Speaker 2: what concerns me because I just I don't understand fully
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Speaker 2: why this is. People are going berserk. First of all,
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Speaker 2: back to my story. When Jake was young, and he
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Speaker 2: was not even two years old, my mom and I
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Speaker 2: and Jake went to have a meal at Cracker Barrel
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Speaker 2: and while I was there, I bit into something that
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Speaker 2: I was eating that broke off one of my teeth
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Speaker 2: right at the gum line, just snapped it right at
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Speaker 2: the gum line. And thankfully, my dentist is a fantastic person.
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Speaker 2: He's a friend, he's a great dentist. I've been going
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Speaker 2: to him for a very like twenty five years, I
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Speaker 2: guess something like that. And Jamie Mallick, Maholic innovative Dentistry.
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Speaker 2: He's not paying me to tell you that, but I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you that. So I call him and he says,
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Speaker 2: I'm at the beach, but I can be there in
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Speaker 2: four hours. You know, I'll meet you at the office.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, don't, don't because this was on
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Speaker 2: a Sunday, and I said, don't end your vacation early,
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Speaker 2: just finish your vacation and work me in in the morning.
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Speaker 2: He said, well, i'll be back tonight and if you
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Speaker 2: want to, just call me if you want to come
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Speaker 2: in tonight and then we can do that if you're sure,
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Speaker 2: but I can meet you there. No, no, no, We'll do
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Speaker 2: this in the morning. So he worked me in in
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Speaker 2: the morning, and yeah, the tooth was done, and the
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Speaker 2: people that were working at Cracker Bear when it happened.
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Speaker 2: I tried not to make a scene. I didn't want
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Speaker 2: to make a scene. I didn't want to just other
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Speaker 2: people are in there trying to enjoy their lunch or
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Speaker 2: their brunch or whatever it was, and I was trying
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Speaker 2: not to be a distraction. But the manager on duty said,
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Speaker 2: you do what you need to do. We're gonna pay
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Speaker 2: for this. Right, this is our bad and that began
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Speaker 2: this process of me getting an implant, which I have
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Speaker 2: a great new tooth that's in there. I went around
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Speaker 2: for several months with like what they call a flipper tooth,
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Speaker 2: a temporary tooth, until they could get the implant in,
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Speaker 2: let it heal and be ready to have a tooth
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Speaker 2: attached to it. So, and it's right in the front
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Speaker 2: by the way, right. It was a biting incident that
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Speaker 2: I had, so anyway, Crager Barrel finally said, we're not
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Speaker 2: gonna pay for that. We shouldn't have to pay for that.
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Speaker 2: I thought, well, who should? Someone should? And I found
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Speaker 2: an incident where there was an older couple that found
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Speaker 2: something very hard, like a piece of metal out of
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Speaker 2: a machine or something. And I was having Hamburger steak
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Speaker 2: by the way, and they found it in their food,
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Speaker 2: and thankfully they didn't bite into it. And they basically said,
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Speaker 2: we love Cracker Barrel. I wonder if they still do.
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Speaker 2: We love Cracker Barrel, and we just wanted them to
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Speaker 2: know that this was there. So this was all information
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Speaker 2: that I had, and I said, this is now at
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Speaker 2: least two people this has happened to, and they weren't
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Speaker 2: going to pay for the tooth. They didn't want to
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Speaker 2: do that, so I made them pay for the tooth.
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Speaker 2: That's sometimes what you have to do. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: a litigious person. I just think they should They they
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Speaker 2: first of all, it was their fault. Second of all,
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Speaker 2: they should pay. They wanted the company that provided the
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Speaker 2: meat to pay for the tooth, that's up to them.
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Speaker 2: They can figure that out. I don't. I don't, you know,
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Speaker 2: work that out behind the scenes. I'm not buying it
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Speaker 2: from them. I'm buying it from you, and you put
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Speaker 2: it on a plate and cost me my tooth. So,
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Speaker 2: needless to say, I don't go to this restaurant very often.
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Speaker 2: I didn't go to this restaurant for many years for
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Speaker 2: that reason alone, and then I slowly worked my way
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Speaker 2: back in. But I don't. I occasionally, if I'm with
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Speaker 2: someone who says I'd like to go to Cracker barrew,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to make a well look at this
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Speaker 2: fake tooth I've got. I don't want to do that, which,
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Speaker 2: by the way, it looks like a regular tooth, thanks
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Speaker 2: again to Jamie Mahalay. So when I do go on
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Speaker 2: the rare occasion, I eat something like pancakes, I eat
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Speaker 2: something soft, eggs, I eat something like grits. I might
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Speaker 2: dip into the hash browns, and I'm not dipping into
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Speaker 2: the you know, the ground beef. I'm not doing that.
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Speaker 2: I got no interest in that. So this is not
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Speaker 2: for me a huge deal. It's disappointing in this company
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Speaker 2: that you think, well, this is always just going to
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Speaker 2: be what it is, and now it's not. But I
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Speaker 2: guess my question that people who are losing their minds
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Speaker 2: is like, did you get upset when Pepsi changed their logo?
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Speaker 2: Did you get upset when Coke changed their logo a
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Speaker 2: little bit? Did you get upset when any of these
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Speaker 2: companies change their logo? And I understand it feels a
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Speaker 2: little personal if you like going there. It feels a
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Speaker 2: little personal to me. And you know, I barely go there.
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Speaker 2: I think I've been there about four times maybe in
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Speaker 2: the last fifteen years total total. So yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: that is accurate. I think it's four because I didn't
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Speaker 2: go for at least ten years after that. Anyway, the
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Speaker 2: people that are losing their minds, I get it. You
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Speaker 2: feel like this is another company that's gone woke and
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Speaker 2: it's going this direction. And doing these things. But here's
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Speaker 2: what you can do. Just don't go there. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to express everything, and so you don't have to
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Speaker 2: get on social media and you know, provide oxygen to
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Speaker 2: the fire. Just don't go this decision to rebrand and
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Speaker 2: change the way that they're doing things. You know, people
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Speaker 2: are calling it an assault on a specific set of values.
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Speaker 2: I mean, is it is their company. If they want
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Speaker 2: to change it, let them change it. You just don't
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Speaker 2: have to eat there. Trust me, I'm proof. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to eat there. You don't have to fact, it
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Speaker 2: might make it easier for me to not go there.
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Speaker 2: I do really like the pancakes. Though there's no danger.
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Speaker 2: I don't think of finding anything metal or whatever. I
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Speaker 2: bit into it was hard. It hurt a lot, by
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Speaker 2: the way, it hurt a lot, and I had that
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Speaker 2: moment of I'm going to hide this. I've got blood
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Speaker 2: coming out of my mouth where it broke my tooth,
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Speaker 2: actual blood, and I didn't want people to see it.
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Speaker 2: So I hit it because that's who I am. I
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Speaker 2: could have made a scene, but that's not what I
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Speaker 2: wanted to do, and that's not me. By the way
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Speaker 2: they comped my meal, But made my mom pay for hers.
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Speaker 2: That's another issue altogether. It's a weird decision that got
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Speaker 2: made by somebody at the register. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: that happened, but you know, is what it is. They
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Speaker 2: did pay for my tooth eventually, and a couple other things.
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Speaker 2: That's the end of my story with them. Look, it's
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Speaker 2: a company that's made a decision. It doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: be an outward boycott. I know we got people on
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Speaker 2: the left that would do that. They would be standing
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Speaker 2: outside picketing, they'd be hiring people to stand outside cracker
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Speaker 2: barrel voicing their concerns. But is it really that big
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Speaker 2: of a deal. Can you not just make some eggs
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Speaker 2: and pancakes at the house? I get it. If you
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Speaker 2: like the food, you'd like the food, you can keep
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Speaker 2: eating there, or you can stop. It's your call, whatever
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Speaker 2: you want to do. And if you feel like it's
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Speaker 2: an assault on your personal values, that's fine. Don't go
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Speaker 2: there anymore. If you think it's a company that's making
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Speaker 2: really bad decisions, that is eventually going to go back
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Speaker 2: to the good decision. Remember Coke went through this once,
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Speaker 2: and that could be the case. But when Coke changed
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Speaker 2: on their website. It's CCSSC dot org. As Sean Crusan
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Speaker 2: Wallet Hub has put together their annual list of the
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Speaker 2: most fun states in the US and they looked at
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Speaker 2: twenty six different factors, they say, including number of tourist attractions,
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Speaker 2: the weather of the beaches, the price of wine and beer,
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Speaker 2: number of music festivals, and according to wallet Hub, California
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Speaker 2: is the most fun state to live in Florida, Nevada, Illinois,
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Speaker 2: and New York rounding out the top five. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, these are large states and they have the
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Speaker 2: biggest cities, and Nevada is home of Las Vegas, so
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Speaker 2: no big surprise there. There's going to be things to do.
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Speaker 2: Georgia at number eighteen on the list and Alabama much
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Speaker 2: further down at number forty four on the list. I'm
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Speaker 2: assuming they didn't factor in SEC football. That's just a
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Speaker 2: hunch that I have. Alaska, by the way, is at
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Speaker 2: thirty one on the list, with Alabama deep down on
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Speaker 2: the list much further south. Carolina's at twenty one, Tennessee
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Speaker 2: at twenty. Just to get an idea, so yeah, I
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Speaker 2: don't know how much they really factored in college football
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Speaker 2: on the list, just saying while fast food restaurants like KFC,
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Speaker 2: Pizza Hut, Popeyes are watching sales dip, full service casual
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Speaker 2: places like Chili's, Applebee's, Olive go Ard and Cheesecake Factory
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Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel isn't on that list. They like better portions,
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Speaker 2: it's not just about the food, it's the whole experience.
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Speaker 2: So people still dealing with inflation from the past four years,
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Speaker 2: makes sense. Everything about that makes sense, And it also
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Speaker 2: isn't a big surprise that the very high end restaurants
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Speaker 2: are probably not the choice of the average person. Just
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Speaker 2: a hunch. So is there an ideal time to eat dinner?
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Speaker 2: Nutritionists say that the best time of day to eat
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Speaker 2: hours before you go to bed. So, yes, there is
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Speaker 2: an ideal time for you to eat your dinner, and
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Speaker 2: time you're going to bed. According to a new report
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Speaker 2: from Entertainment Software Association, gaming not just for kids anymore,
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Speaker 2: as grandparents definitely in on the action. And this follows
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Speaker 2: trend from a report we had a couple of months ago,
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Speaker 2: this report showing adults aged fifty and old er Wait
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Speaker 2: a minute, this feels personal now make up twenty eight
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Speaker 2: percent of gamers in the US, up from just nine
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Speaker 2: percent back in nineteen ninety nine. I mean, the people
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Speaker 2: that are fifty now weren't fifty back in nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 2: and we grew up gaming US gen xers. It seems
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Speaker 2: gaming as a pastime for almost every group and almost
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Speaker 2: every walk of life. The average age of gamers is
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Speaker 2: thirty six and even gender splits are relatively even, forty
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Speaker 2: seven percent of a total number of gamers out there
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Speaker 2: being women. I don't think this is a shocker anymore
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Speaker 2: than it was with the previous study. People fifty to sixty.
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Speaker 2: We're playing video games growing up. We were around in
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Speaker 2: the eighties, we were around in the early nineties. It's
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Speaker 2: not a shocker that we enjoy still playing video games.
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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. There's a free diver in Croatia
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Speaker 2: named Victor Mariecheach. Yeah, there we go, because it's a
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Speaker 2: CIC and it's Croatian. So Maricheach just shattered the the
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Speaker 2: Guinness World Record by holding his breath underwater for us
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Speaker 2: staggering twenty nine minutes and three seconds. What that's nearly
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Speaker 2: five minutes longer than the previous record. Marie each prepared
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Speaker 2: by breathing pure oxygen for ten minutes, then went under
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Speaker 2: make it to twenty nine minutes. How about that? A
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Speaker 2: new study says enjoying steak at dinner might go a
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Speaker 2: who ate balanced diets, including lean red meat, were less
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Speaker 2: likely to report depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder,
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Speaker 2: among others. To be clear, it's not a green like
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Speaker 2: to just eat hamburgers instead. The findings were encouraging to
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Speaker 2: and you don't have to completely cut out foods like
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Speaker 2: red meat. They still recommend you cutting back, just not
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Speaker 2: cutting them out for these reasons in the study. That'll
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