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No ID? Not In My Campaign Event · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twelfth day, February. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: Thank you all for the birthday messages yesterday. I try
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Speaker 2: to respond to all of them. That's my objective. I
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Speaker 2: think I caught most of them. I think I got
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Speaker 2: all of them, at least on social media. Some of
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Speaker 2: you reached out a few different ways. That heard it
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Speaker 2: on the show yesterday, which I wasn't really going for that,
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Speaker 2: but I appreciate you here. I always love hearing from
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Speaker 2: you guys whenever I can, and flattered when so many
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Speaker 2: people think about you enough to say happy birthday. And
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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people will just give a blanket,
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Speaker 2: hey thanks. I know some people who do the thanks,
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Speaker 2: like midday to try to generate more birthday messages. I
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Speaker 2: like to respond to each one. I know it's tough
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Speaker 2: sometimes and sometimes you're getting messages on social media for
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Speaker 2: people that you really don't even know. It's just how
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Speaker 2: it works sometimes, or people that maybe you barely know,
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Speaker 2: or people that think that they know you because they
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Speaker 2: think you're somebody else that has the same name. There's
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Speaker 2: a few of us. I don't know how many think
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Speaker 2: I'm the baseball player or the old football player. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. There's a math guy who beat boxes or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but the people that I do know,
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Speaker 2: I like to at least respond to all of you.
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Speaker 2: So thank you for that. And it was an interesting birthday.
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Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, I'm at an age now
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Speaker 2: where and I think there's an old I don't remember
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Speaker 2: who who had the joke, but that basically like there's
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Speaker 2: a certain age when birthdays should just be like, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's your birthday. And I think they said that the
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Speaker 2: age was like twelve, maybe eleven or twelve, like once
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Speaker 2: you turn twelve, you should stop trying to stop trying
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Speaker 2: to make a big deal. So I'm very much in
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Speaker 2: that now. I know that there are some birthdays that
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Speaker 2: you know, you have those milestone birthdays. I've just had
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Speaker 2: one of those a year ago, and my lovely bride
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Speaker 2: and my kids and my mother and many of my
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Speaker 2: friends all came together to make sure we had a
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Speaker 2: really nice gathering. And I talked about that last year
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Speaker 2: when that happened. Once you get past some of those dates,
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Speaker 2: those years, those anniversaries of your birth. It's just another day,
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Speaker 2: and yesterday was certainly reflective of that in a lot
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Speaker 2: of ways, because it wasn't much of a birthday celebration
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Speaker 2: in that my house. Now everyone is sick. I've been
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Speaker 2: trying to dodge it. I felt like Neo from the Matrix,
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Speaker 2: trying to dodge everything thrown at me. I've got some
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Speaker 2: version of it starting to come down with it. I
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Speaker 2: guess yesterday in the morning when I was doing the show.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm fighting a cough right now as we speak,
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Speaker 2: or as I speak is more appropriate. So I'm doing
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Speaker 2: my best, and I'll try to hit the button, the
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Speaker 2: mute button, the cough button, if you will. It's not
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Speaker 2: really a mute button in this setup. I've worked in
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Speaker 2: studios with the cough button before. This is really just
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Speaker 2: it's just a mute that's all it is. So my
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Speaker 2: point is yesterday it was kind of a rough day.
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Speaker 2: It was just me, you know, trying to take care
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Speaker 2: of my family, making sure everybody was taking there's zinc,
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Speaker 2: making sure everybody was getting the hydration that they needed,
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Speaker 2: making sure everybody was fed. And my mom, who will
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Speaker 2: typically visit for birthdays for all of us. Will my
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Speaker 2: boys really, well, all three of us, all four of
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Speaker 2: us really love my mom's beef stroking off that she makes.
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Speaker 2: Typically for me and the boys. She will like, show up,
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Speaker 2: make it for us, we eat it. It's part of
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Speaker 2: the birthday tradition. And this time I told her, like,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of sickness in the house, you don't
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Speaker 2: need to mess with that, and she just so she
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Speaker 2: made it and dropped it off. It's unbelievably kind and
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that from her, But it's birthing day for her,
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Speaker 2: so she's celebrating right there with us. So she did that.
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Speaker 2: And she also made us some chicken noodle soup, which
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Speaker 2: you know, always makes you feel better when you got
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Speaker 2: the homemade chicken noodle soup. So that was basically the
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Speaker 2: day me making sure that they were fed, and by saying,
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Speaker 2: I wanted to mention my mom because she was also
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Speaker 2: making sure that we were fed. And she brought us
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Speaker 2: plenty of all the other stuff that you need. You
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Speaker 2: gotta have crackers with your soup, you know, you gotta
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Speaker 2: have that. There were a couple of little things that
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Speaker 2: we had asked for as far as birthday in general.
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Speaker 2: She offered to bring us a cake. I said, we
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Speaker 2: still have a cake. We're good to go on cake.
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Speaker 2: We did a little get together over the weekend with
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Speaker 2: some friends and we had a cake for that, so
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Speaker 2: we still had a little bit of that cake left.
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Speaker 2: We're okay on the cake department. But I really appreciate
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Speaker 2: her doing that. So anyway, that was my day. That
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Speaker 2: was my birthday. And you know, I try to live
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Speaker 2: my life by the philosophy of it's not that we've
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Speaker 2: got to do it. It's not. Oh man, I got
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Speaker 2: to take care of my family. I get to take
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Speaker 2: care of my family. I get to give them their
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Speaker 2: Robitussin shots all day, and I get to make sure
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Speaker 2: that they're drinking plenty of liquids and all that fun stuff.
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Speaker 2: But it's been rough. Now today when the boys are up,
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Speaker 2: we'll see how they go for school. They've missed a
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Speaker 2: few days. I think Jake maybe well enough to go.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We took him actually to the doctor
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Speaker 2: yesterday and they said i'd probably give him tomorrow, which
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Speaker 2: would be today, and then that way he's got because
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Speaker 2: they got a holiday weekend, it's you know, President's Day, weekend.
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Speaker 2: There's that button. I was talking about Residence Day weekend,
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Speaker 2: and they get Friday and Monday off, so they've got
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Speaker 2: a four day weekend. Uh. And then Luke, I don't
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Speaker 2: know where we're at with him, but we'll see how
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Speaker 2: we go today. But it's gonna be. It's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be hopefully getting them back to it. I
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Speaker 2: feel like if I'm starting to get it now. It
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Speaker 2: maybe a long weekend for me. And we actually had
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Speaker 2: a trip planned for this weekend and last year we
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Speaker 2: were going to do a trip the same holiday weekend
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Speaker 2: and it didn't work out. And then I ended up
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Speaker 2: needing my next surgery, which would have had a big
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Speaker 2: effect on the trip. And not that I was going
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Speaker 2: to have the surgery before President's Day weekend, but it
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Speaker 2: would have had a could have had a really could
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Speaker 2: have been bad. Knowing the amount of issues I was
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Speaker 2: having with my neck, if we had done the trip
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Speaker 2: we were going to do, I could have gotten more
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Speaker 2: damage from it. So it worked out, and then again
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Speaker 2: we had to postpone this particular trip, and we're in
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Speaker 2: a situation now where we would have all been sick
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Speaker 2: or recovering or whatever. This weekend. So it's all working out.
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Speaker 2: And it's funny the way God will take care of
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Speaker 2: things for you in that regard. So that's good. A
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Speaker 2: few things for today for this Thursday. Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
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Speaker 2: That's always you know, I just missed the old Abraham
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Speaker 2: Lincoln birthday, but I got instead yesterday I got the
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Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds birthday and the Leslie Nielsen birthday. So those
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Speaker 2: are good ones. I like those birthdays. Those are good birthdays.
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Speaker 2: You know, you share a birthday with them, there's nothing
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Speaker 2: wrong with that. But a few things to talk about
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Speaker 2: on this Thursday before we work our way towards the
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Speaker 2: weekend is that it's the hypocrisy and silliness, if you will,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to how things work in politics and
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Speaker 2: this and there's a few things related to local politics
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Speaker 2: for us here in Columbus. I'll just let me just
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Speaker 2: say this first of all, and I know those of
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Speaker 2: you not listening in Columbus, Georgia doesn't relate to you directly,
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Speaker 2: it kind of does in the sense that this is
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Speaker 2: politics and the way things work. We have an interesting
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Speaker 2: mayoral race shaping up here as the candidate that at
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Speaker 2: one time seemed like was going to probably be the
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Speaker 2: one to run away with the mayor's race, who was
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Speaker 2: our city manager, who was released as city manager by
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Speaker 2: our city council for a few things, one thing in
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Speaker 2: particular that they really didn't like, and he decided that
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Speaker 2: they were going to let him finish out as far
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Speaker 2: as being on payroll through the end of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: which would have been time for him to retire. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: that was his plan. There are all these stories and
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Speaker 2: rumors that he had been talking to people about how
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Speaker 2: soon Columbus would have an all black city council and
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Speaker 2: he would be the black mayor, or have a black mayor,
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Speaker 2: and it was all presumed that that he meant himself,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of that stuff kind of coming to
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Speaker 2: light is a good thing, because if we're going to
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Speaker 2: try to be a society of people that's not hyper
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Speaker 2: obsessed with race about everything, the people who have that philosophy,
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Speaker 2: if that's true, should be exposed. That the light should
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Speaker 2: be shined on that stuff because we don't need that.
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Speaker 2: We don't need it. It's not in the best interest
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Speaker 2: of us as a society. It's not in the best
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Speaker 2: interest of us as a city and if anybody is
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Speaker 2: running around saying that, you know, that's the objective and
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Speaker 2: that's the goal, it should be exposed. So another candidate
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Speaker 2: who is part of the city council that helped release
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Speaker 2: this city manager, this suddenly had has made this a
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Speaker 2: close race, and I think there's a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that are saying, well, this is going to be closer
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Speaker 2: than everybody thought. And there's several people in the race.
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Speaker 2: I think if those people would drop out, it would
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Speaker 2: help this other candidate. But I don't see that happening
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Speaker 2: because I think everybody thinks that they're in the best
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Speaker 2: place to do the job. But this other candidate had
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Speaker 2: a story break about how she's working with a political
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Speaker 2: consultant firm whose owner identified on Instagram as a Christian nationalist,
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Speaker 2: and how just having the word nationalist in anything now
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Speaker 2: immediately associates you to white nationalists. Christian nationalist, white nationalist.
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Speaker 2: It's not the same thing. It's not to say that
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Speaker 2: someone can't be both, but when someone is identifying themselves
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Speaker 2: as a Christian nationalist, you can't just immediately to well,
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Speaker 2: they must be a white supremacy. No, that's not what
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Speaker 2: the Christian nationalism movement is about. You can say they've
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Speaker 2: overlapped in some areas. Okay, well maybe they have, but
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Speaker 2: that doesn't automatically associate you with it. That's not what
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Speaker 2: it does at all. It's basically someone who is an
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Speaker 2: advocate for the idea. Remember, it used to be the
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Speaker 2: It used to be the norm to say that America
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Speaker 2: was founded as a Christian nation. That used to be
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Speaker 2: the norm, and then people have done everything they can
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Speaker 2: to tear it down. And then you had people like
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk that came in and said, let me explain
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Speaker 2: to you why it was. And they said, we can't
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Speaker 2: listen to Charlie Kirk. He's the devil. You can't listen
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Speaker 2: to his well thought out, well well intentioned, and accurate
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Speaker 2: breakdown of the founding of the country. We can't listen
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Speaker 2: to him. Do that he's dangerous? Is he must be
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Speaker 2: a fascist, he must be a white supremacist. But the
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Speaker 2: reality here is that someone who at least at one time,
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Speaker 2: and I think he's probably taken it down, the owner
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Speaker 2: of this firm, that he was a Christian nationalist. I
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Speaker 2: don't know him, I know his family, I know them
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Speaker 2: not to be white supremacists. In any way, not in
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Speaker 2: any way. The name Garcia maybe should have been an
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Speaker 2: indicator because that's his last name. Maybe that should have
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Speaker 2: been an indicator that he's himself not a white nationalist,
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Speaker 2: but to call himself a Christian nationalist and understand that
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Speaker 2: just because you want to associate everything into one group
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean it belongs all in one group. That's not
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Speaker 2: what it means at all. So the reality here is, uh, oh,
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Speaker 2: someone's made this a close race. So we're going to
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Speaker 2: create this dynamic where we're going to say, hey, this
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Speaker 2: candidate is affiliated with this person who identifies as a
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Speaker 2: Christian nationalist and put her in a position where she
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Speaker 2: apologized cut ties with the group. And I'm not crazy
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Speaker 2: about that. I don't like the apology tour with things
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Speaker 2: like this, but it's the way politics gets done right now,
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Speaker 2: and in a city like Columbus, it could make a
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Speaker 2: difference if it's going to be a close race. Maybe
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Speaker 2: the bigger thing we should be paying attention to is
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Speaker 2: the fact that someone isn't just going to lay down
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Speaker 2: and let this other candidate have the title of mayor
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Speaker 2: of Columbus. I think maybe that's a bigger thing we
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Speaker 2: need to be paying attention to. We'll see how this
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Speaker 2: all shapes up. The fact that you got somebody nervous,
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Speaker 2: you got somebody who was so confident that this has
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Speaker 2: had to be brought out into the light, you know,
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Speaker 2: So there you go. All right, that's that, and then
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Speaker 2: the other thing. This is more on the statewide level.
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Speaker 2: This is more on the stand And I'm careful about
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Speaker 2: some of the I mean, I'm not I'm not diving
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Speaker 2: into names. I don't want to. I don't. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to make the wrong people mad, and you don't
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Speaker 2: want to, you know. I'm just lobbing out things that
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Speaker 2: you know who I'm talking about. If you live here locally,
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Speaker 2: if you live in Georgia, I can talk about our
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Speaker 2: senator jack ass Off. I'm sorry, John, John awes Off.
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Speaker 2: I wonder why our two senators currently don't really like
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Speaker 2: me very much. We got Reverend Erkele, uh and I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't, I don't know anything. I just
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Speaker 2: assume that jack ass Off is aware of some of
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Speaker 2: the things I say. I don't. I don't know for certain.
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Speaker 2: My encounter with Reverend Erkele at Disney World a few
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Speaker 2: years ago tells me that he listens or someone listens,
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Speaker 2: and he did not want to have a conversation with me,
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Speaker 2: and I was nothing but kind and cordial to him.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't do anything otherwise, I'd be nothing
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Speaker 2: but respectful someone in an elected office. But I'm going
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Speaker 2: to call him Reverend Rakele because he looks like Erkele
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Speaker 2: grown up. And you know, we're supposed to be separating
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Speaker 2: church and state. Right folks on the left, and they
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Speaker 2: want to talk about how he's as a minister. So
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Speaker 2: here's what we got. We got a Senator Jack oss
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Speaker 2: Off who is doing the I'm sorry John, who has
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Speaker 2: been at a campaign event where he required people attending
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Speaker 2: to show a government issued photo ID to attend the event.
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Speaker 2: There was an rs RSVP list. People had to RSVP
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Speaker 2: for the event, and then when you show up, you
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Speaker 2: got to have your government issued ID so that they
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Speaker 2: can let you into the event. Now, this is a
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Speaker 2: guy who was against government issued vo to IDs for
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Speaker 2: voting in federal elections. He opposes that, and he in
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Speaker 2: the sentiment behind opposing that. Whether he has said this
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Speaker 2: directly or not, I don't know, but the sentiment is
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Speaker 2: it's to keep black people from voting. They've called this,
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Speaker 2: you know, Jim Crow all over again, and they assume,
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Speaker 2: erroneously and very racistly by the way, that black people
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Speaker 2: aren't capable of getting an ID, like they don't know
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Speaker 2: how to do it, they're not competent enough to do it,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. They're in some sort of duress where
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Speaker 2: they're unable to go get a free voter ID so
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Speaker 2: that they can vote. And so what it tells me
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Speaker 2: if you have to have a government issued ID to
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Speaker 2: attend the event, is that to keep black people out?
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Speaker 2: If you think that they don't have IDs, is that
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Speaker 2: what you're trying to do. I don't think they said that,
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Speaker 2: But if we're playing the game the way that they
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Speaker 2: play it on the left, can't we say that on
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Speaker 2: this can we assume that this is to keep black
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Speaker 2: people from coming to his campaign event? It is a
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Speaker 2: bit of a double standard, isn't it. You can't ask
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Speaker 2: people to have a government issued photo ID eight to
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Speaker 2: show up and vote, but you can ask them to
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Speaker 2: have it to show up in his rally. Was it
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Speaker 2: much of a rowty? I don't know if it was
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Speaker 2: a rally. How many people showed up for the rally?
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Speaker 2: So as the voter roles are being dealt with in
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Speaker 2: Georgia and have been getting dealt with, and as things
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Speaker 2: are starting to get exposed more and more in Fulton County,
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Speaker 2: this will be interesting see how the selection goes, get
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Speaker 2: a better perspective on who's voting, how many people are voting,
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Speaker 2: and how many people are voting with or without their
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Speaker 2: government issued photo ID. But they were not allowed in
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Speaker 2: after the break. So the promise of AI easing people's
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Speaker 2: workloads is a lie, at least according to a new
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Speaker 2: study done by people and not robots. Uh. The Harvard
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Speaker 2: Business Review study following two hundred tech workers using generative
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Speaker 2: AI for eight months found to that sure, people got
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Speaker 2: faster at first, but that just meant they ended up
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Speaker 2: taking on extra tasks that used to belong to other coworkers.
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Speaker 2: And because AI makes it super easy to jump into
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Speaker 2: new work, people started letting it spill into their breaks, evenings,
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Speaker 2: and even early mornings. The early productivity hid didn't last long.
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Speaker 2: Over time, workers felt mentally drained, burned out, and overall
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Speaker 2: work quality slipped so much for AI giving everyone more
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Speaker 2: free time coming from an industry like radio broadcasting, and
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Speaker 2: I know it's affected TV as well. Yeah, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people said, Wow, we've got these automation systems in place,
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Speaker 2: it's going to make things easier. We can get more
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Speaker 2: work done. And what it ended up meaning was we
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Speaker 2: don't need any people to work here. That's what it
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Speaker 2: ended up meaning. We can do this without And then
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Speaker 2: the handful of people that are there are stressed out
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Speaker 2: of their minds because they're stretched very thin and they're
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Speaker 2: doing the jobs of all of their other former co workers,
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Speaker 2: and it's about survival in that sense. But that's right.
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Speaker 2: Many of the radio people you hear are just working
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Speaker 2: their part time if they're really doing any work at all.
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Speaker 2: So just keep that in mind. New And it's not
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Speaker 2: me being bitter. It's just me saying this is how
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Speaker 2: it's going, and that's what AI is going to do
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Speaker 2: to a lot of jobs, So just be prepared. I'm
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Speaker 2: doing just fine. I'm not bitter. A new survey of
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Speaker 2: men over twenty five fine that they're getting more elaborate
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Speaker 2: in their grooming routines. Sixty eight percent said they care
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Speaker 2: more about their appearance than they did five years ago.
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Speaker 2: Seventy percent seek outside help to slow their aging, and
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Speaker 2: the average man now follows a seven step routine for
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Speaker 2: their grooming, focusing mostly on body care, facial hair, hair maintenance.
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Speaker 2: About half of men say that they're spending more money
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Speaker 2: on grooming to boost confidence, appear more attractive, and to
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Speaker 2: make better professional impressions. So why the change over the
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Speaker 2: last five years? Basically, gray hair and wrinkles freaks younger
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Speaker 2: guys out. They don't like it, they don't want any
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Speaker 2: part of it. This ties in with this story we
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Speaker 2: had spent in the last week or so about men
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Speaker 2: spending more money on things like facial creams, trying to
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Speaker 2: take care of crow's feet and things like that. So
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Speaker 2: this is all connected. I think there's a vanity thing
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Speaker 2: here at play with all of this. I think also
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Speaker 2: the fact that everyone thinks that they're a social media
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Speaker 2: influencer and they're looking at themselves more in their phone, right,
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Speaker 2: I think that's part of it. I think that's absolutely
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Speaker 2: part of it. They are constantly looking at themselves and
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Speaker 2: they're kind of, Eh, what's going on with that? That's
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Speaker 2: not great? I don't like that. I think that's part
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Speaker 2: of it. Don't you think if you're wondering whether it's
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Speaker 2: time to look for a new job or not. There's
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Speaker 2: an HR expert named Madeline Mann. She suggests what she's
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Speaker 2: It's basically something that she calls a dinner table test.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of a little gut check for you with
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Speaker 2: your job, she says. Imagine sitting down with loved ones
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Speaker 2: and they ask how was work today, And if you're
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Speaker 2: usually excited to talk about your projects or your day,
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Speaker 2: then your job is a good fit potentially. But if
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Speaker 2: you regularly launch into a bunch of complaints, that's a
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Speaker 2: big red flag that it might be time to move on.
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Speaker 2: Of course, life isn't that black and white. Money stability
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Speaker 2: and occasional bad days can complicate things, but still the
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Speaker 2: test can give you a quick read on your overall
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Speaker 2: job happiness and whether it is worth exploring some other options.
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Speaker 2: So keep that in mind, the dinner table test. We
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Speaker 2: have all gotten very attached to our phones. You know that,
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Speaker 2: you know that this is the reality, and leaving home
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Speaker 2: without your phone can be quite traumatic for a lot
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Speaker 2: of people. And think about if you were going, like
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Speaker 2: on a vacation or a work trip, and you had
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Speaker 2: to leave your phone behind. Depending on where you were going.
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Speaker 2: It's probably not really the case anymore. If you're going
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Speaker 2: to get on an airplane to travel somewhere, you probably
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Speaker 2: don't have to leave your phone behind anymore. You maybe
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Speaker 2: can't use it in flight, but you know, you can
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Speaker 2: at least take your phone with you. Right. There are
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Speaker 2: some jobs though that you're not allowed to take your
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Speaker 2: phone with you. One in particular, at least until now,
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Speaker 2: has been astronauts leaving the planet without their phones. Well,
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Speaker 2: NASA administrator Jared Isisigman says astronauts will now be allowed
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Speaker 2: to bring smartphones with them when they go to space,
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Speaker 2: and it's getting ready to happen maybe tomorrow. The crew
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Speaker 2: launching on NASA and SpaceX's upcoming Crew twelve mission will
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Speaker 2: be the first to carry iPhones and androids into orbit,
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Speaker 2: and the timing lines up with preparations for Artemis too,
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Speaker 2: the ten day mission that will send four astronauts around
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Speaker 2: the Moon as early as March. Isaacman says that the
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Speaker 2: goal is simple, give astronauts better tools to capture personal
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Speaker 2: monde moments, share images and video from space. Astronauts have
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Speaker 2: long been taking breathtaking photos from orbit, and NASA's outdated
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Speaker 2: rules could make documenting life in space now a whole
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Speaker 2: lot easier now that they're taking care of it, updating
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Speaker 2: those rules and basically you just want to make sure
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Speaker 2: you don't accidentally leave it on the International Space Station.
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Speaker 2: You do all that work and you go, hang on,
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Speaker 2: where's my phone, wallet, keys, right as you're heading out
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Speaker 2: the door to come back home. Don't want to do that.
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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the show.
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