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Off to Watch the Sydney Sweeney Ad Again · 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 when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, sixth day of August.
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Speaker 3: I'm West thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: We're a little closer to Labor Day weekend, a little
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Speaker 2: closer to Dragon Conn. Look, some of you have even
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Speaker 2: reached out to me to point out Labor Day weekend
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Speaker 2: is when college football really gets started in full swing.
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Speaker 3: I get that. I know.
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Speaker 2: Let's just celebrate Labor Day for all the things that
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Speaker 2: it is. Let's don't limit ourselves just to college football
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Speaker 2: or to Dragon Con. Fandom is fandom. We can all
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Speaker 2: love every aspect of fandom.
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Speaker 3: I once had the.
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Speaker 2: Great pleasure of hanging out with David Eckstein, who is
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Speaker 2: the husband of Ashley Exstein, and he also happens.
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Speaker 3: To be a World Series MVP.
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Speaker 2: And he was at Dragon Con many years ago with
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Speaker 2: his wife, and she was there with fans and talking
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Speaker 2: with fans and get pictures and autographs and things with
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Speaker 2: people that came up to talk to her. A lot
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Speaker 2: of kids came up at the time. That was kind
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Speaker 2: of while the Clone Wars was kind of getting going
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Speaker 2: strong on a Disney Channel or whatever it was called.
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Speaker 2: Then I know there's a different version, but it's a
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Speaker 2: Disney product. And she was, you know, just great with
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Speaker 2: her fans. It's one of the great things that I
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Speaker 2: love about Dragon Con is watching voice actors interact with
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Speaker 2: their fans and seeing the way faces light up when
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Speaker 2: they see the face behind the voice that they do.
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Speaker 2: And her husband was there, and he and I were
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Speaker 2: just kind of hanging out talking watching her, talking about
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Speaker 2: how great things were and the way the fandom had
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Speaker 2: been for this Ahsoka character that she played, and so
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Speaker 2: he and I were talking just about the differences and
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Speaker 2: parallels between sports fandom and this sci fi pop culture
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Speaker 2: fandom that was going on, and he was saying, it's
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Speaker 2: really not that different. You know, you got people in jerseys,
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Speaker 2: you got people in costumes of their favorite characters. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you're dressing up and you're showing support, and you're showing
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Speaker 2: your passion and love for what it is. That coming
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Speaker 2: from an athlete, not just an athlete, but a World
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Speaker 2: Series MVP. So I like to remind people that, yes,
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Speaker 2: while we know there is sports getting started as far
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Speaker 2: as college football and getting ready for pro football to
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Speaker 2: get started, right after that, all of that is all
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Speaker 2: part of the excitement that is Labor Day.
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Speaker 3: But dragon Conn also happens to.
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Speaker 2: Be going on in Atlanta that weekend, and there's going
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Speaker 2: to be you know, some games in Atlanta, kickoff games,
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Speaker 2: Chick fil A kickoff games and things both Saturday and Sunday,
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Speaker 2: and there will be many of fans they're celebrating, and
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Speaker 2: many of them end up stumbling into dragon Con the
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Speaker 2: way I did the first time I went twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Years ago and said, oh my gosh, what is this.
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Speaker 3: I need to be a part of this moving forward.
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Speaker 2: And I see some of them now that stumble in.
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Speaker 2: I remember the Georgia and Boise State game and all
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Speaker 2: these people that had come in Boise State fans like,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, this is amazing. We're going to come back,
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Speaker 2: And I see them still they come back. So I'll
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Speaker 2: be covering dragon Con with the dragon Con Pregame Show,
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Speaker 2: on the DragonCon Pregame Show podcast, and on radio about
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Speaker 2: two hundred radio stations around the state of Georgia with
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Speaker 2: special guests. The ones I can announce so far Katie Sackoff, Diane,
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Speaker 2: Ana Lee, and Asanto and some other voices that you'll
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Speaker 2: hear talking about the convention, some guests from the convention.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk with doctor Sean Crusin from Columbus State University's
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Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center, who happens to be a
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Speaker 2: sponsor of our Dragon Con coverage this year, and we'll
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Speaker 2: talk with him about science and science fiction. And then
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Speaker 2: we've also got a guest coming to the Mative Stars
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Speaker 2: podcast that will be at Dragon Con. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff concerning the convention, and again thanks to the
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Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center. And you can go back
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Speaker 2: and listen to past episodes, including ones that have interviews
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Speaker 2: with people that we've lost some recently, like Lonnie Anderson
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Speaker 2: interviewed her back I think it was twenty eleven Dragon Con,
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Speaker 2: So there you go. All right. I want to talk
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Speaker 2: a little bit about this struggle that's been going on
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Speaker 2: for the City of New York. We've talked a little
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Speaker 2: bit about this, this battle for Gotham, if you will,
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Speaker 2: and they've been looking for some sort of positive endorsement
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Speaker 2: and support from some of the heavy hitters in the
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Speaker 2: Democrat Party for this mayoral candidate, Mamdani, who is Democrat socialist.
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Speaker 2: That was the term, by the way, that people like
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Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Junior said that you could call communists
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Speaker 2: to help hide them. I mean, let's be honest for
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Speaker 2: what this is when we say democrat socialist or democratic socialists,
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Speaker 2: I mean that's the term that people like MLK and
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Speaker 2: others used to say. This is a good way to
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Speaker 2: hide it. This is camouflage for communists. That's what the
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Speaker 2: term will be. Well, we now have one of I
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Speaker 2: think maybe the most high profile supporter, probably in the
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Speaker 2: sense that it's certainly comical that she's come out to
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Speaker 2: support him, and it's Elizabeth Warren, who has just not
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Speaker 2: long after she fell. Remember she just fell recently, and
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Speaker 2: that's not funny in its own right, but it's just
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Speaker 2: interesting that she falls. Ted Cruz is the one there
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Speaker 2: to pick her up, and then suddenly she decides she's
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Speaker 2: going to show up in New York and say, this
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Speaker 2: is the guy that's going to fix New York City,
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Speaker 2: and he's going to bring law and order to New
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Speaker 2: York City and he's going to get everything straightened out.
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Speaker 2: I saw where she was being interviewed by someone and
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Speaker 2: they kept asking her what happens when all the businesses leave,
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Speaker 2: and she's like, they're not going to leave. They've threatened
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Speaker 2: to leave forever and they're not going to leave. And
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Speaker 2: I said, well, you start taxing them en off and said,
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Speaker 2: why would they run away? Why shouldn't they pay taxes?
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Speaker 2: Why are you supporting why is the right? Why are
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Speaker 2: Republicans supporting all of these billionaires. Well, a lot of
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Speaker 2: these billionaires bring a lot of jobs, and a lot
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Speaker 2: of these billionaires specifically bring jobs to cities like New York.
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Speaker 2: And if the jobs go away, and then the people
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Speaker 2: either have to decide I'm going to stay here and
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Speaker 2: not have a job, or I'm going to go with
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Speaker 2: them wherever the job and my coworkers go. And they
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Speaker 2: happen to relocate to other cities. And sometimes that's Florida,
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Speaker 2: sometimes that's Texas, sometimes that's Georgia, sometimes that's Tennessee. It's happening.
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Speaker 2: They're moving. They're moving into the South, that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: And there's other states also where they're doing it. But
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Speaker 2: those are some of the big ones where a lot
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Speaker 2: of jobs have relocated. And it's not fun. It's not
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Speaker 2: fun when your job up in leaves town. I know
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Speaker 2: this is a very sensitive and very sore subject for
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Speaker 2: many here in Columbus as we've gotten word that one
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Speaker 2: of our major companies is prepping to head on out
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Speaker 2: of town, and it's quite painful for the people who
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Speaker 2: are living it. We've actually got two large companies that
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Speaker 2: are looking at those scenarios, so it's not a fun
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Speaker 2: thing to have to deal with. But it's really like
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Speaker 2: it's one thing when you say, okay, as a company,
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Speaker 2: we're going to you know, we've been we've done a merger,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to relocate to where our main offices are.
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Speaker 2: That happened to remember Carmike Cinemas here in Columbus. You know,
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Speaker 2: the main office had to merge when it went to AMC.
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Speaker 2: Some of the people there had to make the decision
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Speaker 2: to move to Kansas or wherever it is, and that's
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Speaker 2: what they did. Some of them didn't even have the choice.
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Speaker 2: They were told, you know what, you're not moving, so
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Speaker 2: you don't have a job anymore. And that's the reality
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Speaker 2: of putting yourself in a position where you're forcing businesses
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Speaker 2: to either leave town or pay ridiculously high taxes in
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Speaker 2: order to support your democratic socialist aka communist ideals. And
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Speaker 2: I love the fact that you're not supposed to call
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Speaker 2: it what it is. You're not supposed to say that
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Speaker 2: it is in fact communism because you get told it's
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Speaker 2: socialism and communism aren't the same thing. Well again, Martin
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Speaker 2: Luther King is one.
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Speaker 3: Of the people who told us early.
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Speaker 2: On that's exactly what it is. It's another way to
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Speaker 2: call it something different and have people not really know
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Speaker 2: what it is. I mean, he laid it out for us.
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Speaker 2: Those aren't his exact words, but that's basically what he
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Speaker 2: told us. It's going to be called something else, and
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Speaker 2: it will probably be called democratic socialism.
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Speaker 3: Well here you go.
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Speaker 2: So now Elizabeth Warren jumps in and she says that
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Speaker 2: that's what you gotta do, and that people aren't going
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Speaker 2: to leave and there's no danger of that, and that
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Speaker 2: only these ideas that mom Donnie has are going to
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Speaker 2: be the things they're going to fix what's going on
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Speaker 2: in New York. It's not going to run people away,
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Speaker 2: it's not going to cause crime to go up, it's
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Speaker 2: not going to make the city worse.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna definitely make things better. I hope we don't
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Speaker 3: get to see.
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Speaker 2: I've seen a couple of reports that say that basically
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Speaker 2: the election was changed so that Mom, Donnie could actually
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Speaker 2: win without having to go through a runoff against Cuomo.
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Speaker 2: And it seems that that's what they did. That's interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. So what happens when he actually has to
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Speaker 2: have an election against someone else and they can't prop
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Speaker 2: him up. Is that going to be enough or do
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Speaker 2: they just need him to be there long enough to
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Speaker 2: get the attention that they're hoping for, because ultimately that
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Speaker 2: is what happens, right, It's about trying to get attention.
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Speaker 2: It's about trying to draw attention to yourself. It's about
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Speaker 2: trying to draw attention to your party. It's about trying
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Speaker 2: to draw attention to some of these ideals that, let's
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Speaker 2: be honest, have been fading very quickly and have been failing,
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Speaker 2: been failing the party. When you get to a point
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Speaker 2: where you're saying, they're so desperate that they're willing to
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Speaker 2: try this, even though many are splitting away and saying no,
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Speaker 2: they're not going to support this guy in.
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Speaker 3: New York anyway. So Elizabeth Warren, that's the one.
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Speaker 2: And I think the New York Post had the headline
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Speaker 2: that the African American meeting the Native American when those.
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Speaker 3: Two got together with the photo of the two. Do
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Speaker 3: with that as you please.
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Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of photos, so going to take a minute.
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Speaker 2: I feel like, with all the talk that has happened
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Speaker 2: about Sidney Sweeney and her American Eagle AD, feel like
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Speaker 2: I just need to watch it again and make sure
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Speaker 2: that there's not something that I'm missing. I've probably watched
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Speaker 2: it upwards of one hundred times, and it really does
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Speaker 2: get better each time. I can't really put my finger
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Speaker 2: on what it is that I like about the AD.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's multiple things to like about the AD.
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Speaker 3: I like this idea.
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Speaker 2: First of all, let's just say this that I know
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Speaker 2: this isn't going to be the popular spin on it
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Speaker 2: by any means, but you're talking about a company, an
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Speaker 2: American Eagle, that I don't think is anywhere, like maybe
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Speaker 2: not even top five prior to this AD of being
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Speaker 2: a company that people think I got to buy jeans,
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Speaker 2: I gotta go get American Eagle genes. Now, some people,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure do think that. And maybe maybe there's a
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Speaker 2: gender thing because she's selling genes in general, but these
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Speaker 2: are women's genes, I assume.
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Speaker 3: From the AD.
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Speaker 2: I haven't really I haven't really noticed the genes in
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Speaker 2: the ad.
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Speaker 3: That's what's so weird about it too. You would think
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Speaker 3: it would be the first thing that I would see
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Speaker 3: in the ad, but it's not.
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Speaker 2: At best, it's the third thing that I see in
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Speaker 2: the ad, and maybe even further down the list. So
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Speaker 2: the ad is definitely got people thinking about this company
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Speaker 2: when it comes to Genes, that's what you want your
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Speaker 2: ads to do. That's what you you thrive for, this
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Speaker 2: kind of attention to come off of advertising. And there
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Speaker 2: used to be this adage that no publicity was there's
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Speaker 2: no such thing as bad publicity. Any of it is positive.
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Speaker 2: And we went through this phase for a number of
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Speaker 2: years where we basically were saying no, no, you can
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Speaker 2: have bad publicity because if you know, this very small
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Speaker 2: mind minority of people in the country decides that whatever
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Speaker 2: you're saying is a bad message, and they can destroy you,
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Speaker 2: and they can, you know, docks you, and they can
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Speaker 2: try to take away your house, they can try to
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Speaker 2: take away your livelihood, they can threaten members of your
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Speaker 2: family and.
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Speaker 3: Get away with it.
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Speaker 2: And we're kind of in this phase now where that
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Speaker 2: has certainly started to back off, doesn't seem to be
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Speaker 2: and I don't know, I don't want to underestimate us, because,
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Speaker 2: as we've discussed this week already a couple of times,
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Speaker 2: the things that we're now capable of, or at least
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Speaker 2: we've put ourselves in a position to be capable of
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Speaker 2: or horrible when you think about what happened, it's not
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Speaker 2: just there but just kind of recently fresh on the brain.
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati as by the way, the narrative on that whole
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Speaker 2: story gets more and more absurd of the way that
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Speaker 2: the left has handled it, specifically the left in Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: has handled it. It's ridiculously absurd. But anyway, so this
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Speaker 2: ad gets made and it's got people talking about American Eagle.
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Speaker 3: I mean, as far as names.
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Speaker 2: Go for this type of thing. When people, especially people
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Speaker 2: on the right, are really embracing this, companies called American Eagle,
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Speaker 2: American Eagle, it's just all right there for this to
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Speaker 2: all be this amazing thing. You got this very attractive actress,
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Speaker 2: one of the it girls in Hollywood right now, and
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Speaker 2: I'm underselling it by saying attractive. There are you know,
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Speaker 2: this massive fan club type groups for this girl, and
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Speaker 2: I get it. Look the first time I saw her
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Speaker 2: in something, I was amazed at what a great actress
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Speaker 2: she was. She's just, you know, just a great actress,
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Speaker 2: and she's got so much talent as an actress, and
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Speaker 2: you see her performing and you just you can't help
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Speaker 2: but just think, who taught this girl to act this way?
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Speaker 2: How did she become such a great actress? And she's
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Speaker 2: just doing all the right things when it comes to
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Speaker 2: her performances. And I say all that, and you can
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Speaker 2: feel there's some tongue in cheek to it, but in reality,
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Speaker 2: she is. She's very good at what she does. You
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Speaker 2: can listen to other actors talk about her, and especially females,
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Speaker 2: and they say, we wanted her to not be a
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Speaker 2: good actress, and then she was. We just didn't want
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Speaker 2: it to be that because she looks like supermodel. She
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Speaker 2: looks like she could be in the swimsuit issue, one
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Speaker 2: of the ladies in the swimsuit issue, and she could
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Speaker 2: easily do that. And then she's also this very talented
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Speaker 2: actress on top of that, and that's true. So you
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Speaker 2: got this exactly who you'd want to be the spokesperson.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got these places trying to out her
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Speaker 2: as being a Republican or conservative and all those things,
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Speaker 2: and of course that led to Trump and Vance and
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Speaker 2: others commenting on what a great actress she is.
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Speaker 3: So I don't see.
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Speaker 2: And I know that there haven't been official numbers as
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Speaker 2: far as the amount of genes that have been sold,
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Speaker 2: but there's been there's a story there, there's something happening
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Speaker 2: with this company, and if that happens to be the
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Speaker 2: company that's embracing the old school values of look, we're
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Speaker 2: going to put an attractive girl in some denim and
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Speaker 2: she's going to roll around on TV, and then we're
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Speaker 2: going to put the name.
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Speaker 3: Of the genes on there. Now you may be wondering.
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Speaker 2: I had someone ask me just a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 2: what is all the fuss about this ad?
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Speaker 3: What is the problem?
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Speaker 2: And it's because she says she has blue eyes and
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Speaker 2: that means she has good genes, and of course that
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Speaker 2: means to some, well, clearly this is Nazi speak. Clearly
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Speaker 2: that's what they're going for as they're trying to promote
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Speaker 2: Nazi ideals. They're trying to promote blue eyes and genetics.
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Speaker 2: And then you got some that say it's just plain
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Speaker 2: racist because you know, blue eyes tend to be a
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Speaker 2: white people thing, so it's absurd, And I think I
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Speaker 2: probably just to make sure I've got a good grasp
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Speaker 2: of this, need to probably just take another minute and
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Speaker 2: watch the ad at least, I don't know another seventy times.
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Speaker 2: lot of different kinds of phones you can have, and
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Speaker 2: one of the phones that has come out and it
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Speaker 2: seems to be one of those novelty things, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of people thought, I'd like to get the phone
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Speaker 2: because it's a great novelty thing and it looks like
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Speaker 2: it could be neat, but I don't know how durable
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Speaker 2: it is and how long it's gonna last. And we're
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Speaker 2: talking about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold seven is the
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Speaker 2: new version of these big screen foldable phones. Consumers like it,
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Speaker 2: and I guess there's been a question since the first
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Speaker 2: of these type of phones came out, is how many
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Speaker 2: times can you fold the screen before it actually breaks?
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Speaker 2: A lot of people want to know, and I think
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Speaker 2: it's a valid question.
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Speaker 3: It's a fair question.
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Speaker 2: Well, a YouTuber in Korea decided to put it to
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Speaker 2: the test and did a live folding of I guess
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Speaker 2: decided I'm going to fold this thing two hundred thousand times.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the kind of test that we need.
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Speaker 2: For a product like this, you just need somebody who's
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Speaker 2: going to sit there and be dedicated enough to fold
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Speaker 2: it and fold it, and I guess you have to
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Speaker 2: unfold it and fold it again. So I think that's
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Speaker 2: it's ongoing. I don't know that we've got results yet.
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Speaker 2: I think it's ongoing. All right. It's that time of
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Speaker 2: year where you start talking about the county and state
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Speaker 2: fairs and you get all these ridiculous deep fried butter
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Speaker 2: or deep fried kool Aid stuff like that. Well, the
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Speaker 2: Iowa State Fair, which is of course one of the
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Speaker 2: ones that gets things started, and it is one of
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Speaker 2: the state fairs that has the most ridiculous of foods
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Speaker 2: and beverages. As this year they are doing some non
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Speaker 2: alcoholic drinks like Bubblegum soda, frozen hot chocolate pickle, State
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Speaker 2: Fair lemonade, and then they're doing some for people that
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Speaker 2: are over twenty one with funnel cake beer, Mini Donut beer,
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Speaker 2: and State Fair Nerds beer. So yeah, I mean, what
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Speaker 2: took them so long to get beverages in the mix,
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Speaker 2: That's what I was wondering. But now it's nice to
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Speaker 2: know that they are in fact getting this, getting this
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Speaker 2: done so there you go. How about this is Zoom
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Speaker 2: in Denmark trying to work on animal control and also
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Speaker 2: their zoo. It's an interesting approach to this by they're
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Speaker 2: asking the public to donate unwanted small pets, yeah, to
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Speaker 2: feed their animals.
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Speaker 3: It's you know, circle of life and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Basically, they're just trying to find some of these small
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Speaker 2: animals to feed the predators. I don't want to talk
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Speaker 2: about the specifics of it because it's a little disturbing,
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Speaker 2: but you can use your imagination. Maybe you got a
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Speaker 2: pet rat and you don't really want it anymore. So
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Speaker 2: rather than just turn the rat or guinea pig or
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Speaker 2: whatever loose, they could find a use for it, and that,
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Speaker 2: in its own way, is making a contribution.
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Speaker 3: To the zoo.
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Speaker 2: And keeping the animals fed. Hey, have you got any
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Speaker 2: debt that you're hiding from your partner? Well you're not
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Speaker 2: alone if you do. A survey found more than eighty
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Speaker 2: percent of Americans are carrying debt, with an average amount
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Speaker 2: of forty two thousand dollars. Sixty six percent of those
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Speaker 2: carrying debt lie about it to their loved ones, and
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Speaker 2: the reason that they lie is shame. Thirty percent of
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Speaker 2: respondent said embarrassment was the main reason they hid their
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Speaker 2: debt from others. Twenty percent said they didn't want to
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Speaker 2: burden their loved ones. Seventeen percent said the fear of
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Speaker 2: being judged was the reason for holding for hiding their debt.
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Speaker 2: And of course, mental health takes a toll as a result,
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Speaker 2: with those in debt suffering from depression, constant worry, and
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Speaker 2: difficulty sleeping.
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Speaker 3: Not good. Got to find a.
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Speaker 2: Way, got to find a way to unburden yourself of
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Speaker 2: the debt and the anxiety of it. Are you hesitant
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be alone because this comes from language learning platform
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Speaker 2: traveling to countries where they can't speak the language. Over
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Speaker 2: sixty four million people letting language anxiety shape their travel plans.
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Speaker 2: The survey found that while eighty percent of Americans say
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Speaker 2: them through the day before traveling, abroad, only fifty eight
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