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California Is Still a Mess · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, seventeenth day of February.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me and I thought my voice sounded
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  Speaker 2: a little croky last week. Little did I know it's
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  Speaker 2: just getting started. It's not done yet either. We'll do
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  Speaker 2: a very condensed version of the show today. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much I can talk without trying to cough
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  Speaker 2: up along, and I don't know how much you want
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  Speaker 2: to listen to this anyway. This isn't the good kind
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  Speaker 2: of berry white, croaky deep voice or whatever. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not it. This isn't just pipes. This is a
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  Speaker 2: sick guy. But I wanted to come on since it
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  Speaker 2: was a long weekend and back to it with something
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  Speaker 2: for you today. And I'll plan to hopefully be able
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  Speaker 2: to do something tomorrow. If I've vanished for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days after this, just know it's me trying to recover.
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  Speaker 2: This thing has gone through the Carroll household and started
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  Speaker 2: with Jake. Took him about a full week to recover.
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  Speaker 2: Luke was in there next, took him about a full
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  Speaker 2: week to recover and to fully recover, and then Jill.
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  Speaker 2: She was back to work yesterday, very isolated in her
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  Speaker 2: office at work, and yeah, it's going on a week
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  Speaker 2: for her if the math all adds up in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: I got a couple more days.
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  Speaker 2: Of this, and it has been brutal. If you have
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  Speaker 2: had the pleasure of having this already, yikes, we're all
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  Speaker 2: there together. If you have not had whatever this is.
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  Speaker 2: And it was described by our doctors as a flu
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  Speaker 2: like non flu viruses, Okay, and Jill's doctor actually gave
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  Speaker 2: her a COVID test and it wasn't COVID. It's on
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  Speaker 2: par with our illnesses we had when we had COVID,
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  Speaker 2: except our boys. COVID didn't really affect them very much
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  Speaker 2: at all when they had it.
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  Speaker 3: This is I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm sicker than I was when I had COVID.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've managed to avoid it, I'll just say this,
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  Speaker 2: Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. Stay
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  Speaker 2: away from people that are coffining and hacking. That's the
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  Speaker 2: best thing I can tell you. And if you've got
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  Speaker 2: kids in school, it's probably going to make its way
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  Speaker 2: into your house because it is still making its rounds
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of kids that really needed this
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  Speaker 2: four day weekend that we got here in our school district.
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  Speaker 2: So just no, it's out there and it's rough and
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  Speaker 2: starts with a little maybe a little sore throat, just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of malaise, and the rough stuff is coming.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of drainage, it's a lot of sinus things.
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  Speaker 2: It is headaches, body aches, chills. I mean, it has
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  Speaker 2: some of the symptoms of a common cold and some
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  Speaker 2: of the symptoms of the flu, some of the symptoms
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  Speaker 2: of COVID.
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  Speaker 3: It's just weird that it's just this crazy thing.
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  Speaker 2: And am I going to be surprised later if we
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  Speaker 2: find out that it was, you know, something else whipped
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  Speaker 2: up somewhere. I don't know, can we be surprised by
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  Speaker 2: anything anymore?
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  Speaker 3: Like we've been.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, I'm not a full on conspiracy guy, I am
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  Speaker 2: not that at all. I talked to someone the other
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  Speaker 2: day that was talking about Kim trails, and I just thought,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not one of those conspiracy guys, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not the we didn't land on the
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  Speaker 2: moon or the moon is a big balloon. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: one of those conspiracy guys.
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  Speaker 3: But some of these other.
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  Speaker 2: Things that have ended up being much more true than
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  Speaker 2: not true. I don't think they're conspiracies anymore. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you can call yourself a conspiracy theorist if you're saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: somebody in a lab whipped this thing up and then
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  Speaker 2: it spreads around.
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  Speaker 3: If that's what ends up happening, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what this is.
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  Speaker 2: I just know it stinks and my throat already hurts,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not even five minutes into the show.
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  Speaker 3: But that's where we are.
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  Speaker 2: All I really want to talk about today, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of quickly, is what's going on in California. Two notable
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  Speaker 2: stories that I think you have to kind of acknowledge.
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  Speaker 2: We have a governor in California who says he's not
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  Speaker 2: running for president in twenty twenty eight. He's repeatedly said
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  Speaker 2: he's not running for president. He told Sean Hannity once,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not running for president, and Sean.
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  Speaker 3: Hannity was like, well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if you're a man of your word. Everything
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom has done has been certainly leaning in the
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  Speaker 2: direction of he's going to run for president. When Biden
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  Speaker 2: first took office, Knewsome was you know, he made a
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  Speaker 2: quick visit to the White House, walked around, took pictures
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  Speaker 2: with his coat over his shoulder, posing in different places
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  Speaker 2: to look very presidential. That was a thing that took place,
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  Speaker 2: that happened in Washington. The guy has had aspirations for
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  Speaker 2: it for quite some time. Would I be shocked for
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  Speaker 2: him to run, Absolutely not. He's going to run. Everything
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  Speaker 2: he's doing as governor. He's trying to pretend that he's
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  Speaker 2: I'm not running. That's not what I'm doing at all. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: But he's gonna do this whole Ultimately, I had to.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a choice.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to run, but I was drafted into
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  Speaker 2: this because you need me to run. And I'm the
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  Speaker 2: opposition to Trump. And he's doing this thing now where
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  Speaker 2: he's meeting with world leaders on behalf of the state
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  Speaker 2: of California. He says, we're working on green energy stuff
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  Speaker 2: for you. You don't need the rest of the US.
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  Speaker 2: We can handle it for you. Our economy is big enough.
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  Speaker 2: If a Republican was doing this kind of negotiating withign leaders,
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  Speaker 2: people would be losing their minds. This would be a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. President Trump has given a warning to the
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  Speaker 2: UK and to Newsom and saying this is not all right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's interesting that he's doing all of this on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of the state of California, right on the heels
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  Speaker 2: of former President Obama on a YouTube channel, I guess
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Cohen, and he was basically saying the homeless problem.
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  Speaker 2: He calls it houselessness, right, the houseless people. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's morally, ethically speaking, an atrocity that in a country
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  Speaker 2: this wealthy, we have people just on the streets and
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  Speaker 2: we should insist on policies that recognize their full humanity
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  Speaker 2: people who are houseless and are able to provide them
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  Speaker 2: with the help and resources that they need. And he's
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  Speaker 2: specifically talking about in Los Angeles under the watch of
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. Say that, but let's just read all this
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  Speaker 2: that we can. He says, we should recognize the average
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  Speaker 2: person doesn't want to have to navigate gate around a
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  Speaker 2: tent city in the middle of downtown. That's a losing
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  Speaker 2: political strategy. And he says, we're not going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to generate support if we simply say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it's not our fault and they should be able to
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  Speaker 2: do whatever they want because it's a losing political strategy
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  Speaker 2: interesting taking place at the same time that the governor
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  Speaker 2: of California is working on making side deals with foreign
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  Speaker 2: nations while insisting, I mean, he hasn't said it in
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  Speaker 2: a while, but he has told us repeatedly that he's
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  Speaker 2: not wanting to be president, that it's not something that
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  Speaker 2: he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: We shall see.
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  Speaker 3: Well. It seems that age.
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  Speaker 2: As an impact on how women view beards. According to
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  Speaker 2: a new study, older women tend to like beards more
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  Speaker 2: than younger women do. Researchers found that as women age
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  Speaker 2: and move past having kids, they're tasting men shifts. Younger
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  Speaker 2: women usually go for strong, high testosterone looks, while older
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  Speaker 2: women care less about that and more about calm, steady vibes.
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  Speaker 2: That's my beards and less perfect body shapes score.
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  Speaker 3: Higher with older women. So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: I though beards were a sign of high testosterone. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was supposed to be the thing growing that beard.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: A new survey has found that most Americans use AI
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  Speaker 2: for personal tasks and not for work. It seems so
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  Speaker 2: far people are mostly working with chatbots for stuff like
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  Speaker 2: creating workout plans, mixing cocktails, while only one third said
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  Speaker 2: that they used.
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  Speaker 3: It in the workplace.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting because that's kind of what we've been told. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: using it in the workplace right. A startup company in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco called Weave has just launched Isaac zero, a
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  Speaker 2: specialized robot designed to fold laundry. While it can fold
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  Speaker 2: a single load in ninety minutes, the machine still has
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  Speaker 2: its limits. It can't handle large blankets, bedsheets, or inside
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  Speaker 2: A human remote operators are still needed to help with
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  Speaker 2: the robot with trickier folds, but it's a step in
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  Speaker 2: that direction. And if you've got eight grand, because that's
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  Speaker 2: what it costs, seven nine hundred and ninety nine dollars
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  Speaker 2: to be exact, you know, you take that dollar off
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  Speaker 2: to make it not seem like it's eight thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 2: but it's kind of still eight thousand dollars even when
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  Speaker 2: you don't count.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's.
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  Speaker 2: Tax, you know on top of that. So and where
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  Speaker 2: did I say this was? This is in San Francisco. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it would be really expensive on top of that.
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  Speaker 2: Even more, this is the tax alone, it's gonna get
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  Speaker 2: you pretty hard. Anyone who had Valentine's Dinner over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend knows that dating has gotten expensive. According to a
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  Speaker 2: new survey, the average American now spends about twenty three
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  Speaker 2: hundred twenty three dollars a year on dates.
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  Speaker 3: And that sounds made up.
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  Speaker 2: When they give us a number that's like twenty three
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, it just sounds made up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They spend that much now on average a year on dates.
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  Speaker 2: And if you got kids, good luck. A babysitter for
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  Speaker 2: two kids runs about thirty bucks an hour. Dinner can
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  Speaker 2: cost about one hundred dollars before you've ordered an appetizer.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 2: Many married couples feel like romance is slipping into the background. Well,
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  Speaker 2: daily life takes over. You know, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: spend one hundred bucks on a meal have romance. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to do that, right, have to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm rather thrifty. McDonald's is cheap, is the
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  Speaker 2: word I've been told to. McDonald's is already not by
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  Speaker 2: my wife. She's also thrifty. McDonald's is already looking ahead
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  Speaker 2: to the next holiday and getting into the Saint Patrick's
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  Speaker 2: spirit a little early this year. Chane announcing that two
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  Speaker 2: fan favorite green treats making their annual comeback, the Classic
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  Speaker 2: Shamrock Shake and the Oreo Shamrock Mcflurry, both hitting menus
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  Speaker 2: as of today, exactly one month before Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 2: So we got that to look forward to. And could
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  Speaker 2: a popular GLP one weight loss drug also protect your
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  Speaker 2: vision as you age? New research suggests yes. A ten
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  Speaker 2: year study from Oregon Health and Science Universe followed more
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  Speaker 2: than ninety thousand adults over fifty five who do not
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  Speaker 2: have diabetes. Half we're taking golp one medications for weight loss,
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  Speaker 2: half were on other weight loss drugs. Researchers found that
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  Speaker 2: those using the golp ones had a dramatically lower risk
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  Speaker 2: of developing dry age related macular mascular degeneration, the leading
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  Speaker 2: cause of vision loss and older adults. After five years,
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  Speaker 2: though risk went down to eighty four percent lower after
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  Speaker 2: ten years ninety one percent lower. Importantly, these results apply
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  Speaker 2: only to people without diabetes. Researchers suspect that the reduced
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  Speaker 2: inflammation may play a role, and early evidence hence that
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  Speaker 2: glp ones might lower the risk of cataracts, but experts
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  Speaker 2: caution it's far too soon to use these medications to
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  Speaker 2: prevent eye disease. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition
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  Speaker 2: of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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