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Maybe the Answer Is Air Conditioning · 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. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, thirtieth day of June. I am Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. We are getting ready to close out
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Speaker 2: this month of June and power our way on into July.
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Speaker 3: We'll get over sort of.
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Speaker 2: It's all quasi the halfway point. We've talked about that before.
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Speaker 2: It's not quite halfway through the year once you get
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Speaker 2: into that seventh month, because there's a couple extra days
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Speaker 2: built into the second half of the year.
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Speaker 3: But we're close once we finish up this month.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's being very technical, very semantic when you
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Speaker 2: start saying it's not quite halfway, but we're close to
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Speaker 2: that halfway point, and on the downhill slide towards I knows,
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Speaker 2: with heat as high as it is all over the
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Speaker 2: world apparently or I don't know. We'll get to the
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Speaker 2: heat in a second, but probably doesn't feel like start
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Speaker 2: thinking about the holidays that come at the end of
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Speaker 2: the year, the berd months. But we'll be sliding downhill
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Speaker 2: very quickly on that, so just prepare for all of
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Speaker 2: that before I get to the weather. I got something
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about quickly or I don't know,
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Speaker 2: as long as we need to. The announcements came in
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Speaker 2: yesterday for the Georgia Association of Broadcasters has announced the
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Speaker 2: finalists for the twenty twenty six Gabby Awards.
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Speaker 3: And this is for.
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Speaker 2: Content that was created and produced and aired in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five, but the Gabby Awards are in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: so it's referred to as that and that comes up
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Speaker 2: in September. And the last time I got one of
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Speaker 2: these emails that had my name in it for finalists
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Speaker 2: was about four years ago, and it was the first
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Speaker 2: time that the Made of Stars podcast. There were a
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Speaker 2: couple of things that I won for that year, but
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Speaker 2: four years ago we won for the Best Podcast Series
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Speaker 2: from Meda Stars. Many of you who listen to this
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Speaker 2: show do listen to Meda Stars from you know, interactions
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Speaker 2: that I have with you. Not everyone, not everyone who
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Speaker 2: listens to that listens to this, and vice versa. But
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Speaker 2: but we got an email saying that Made of Stars
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Speaker 2: is a finalist for Best Podcast Series. And I'm always humbled.
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Speaker 2: It's always flattering whenever they decide to throw my name
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Speaker 2: in a mix of anything and call it the best anything.
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Speaker 2: And it's happened now nine times, and every time it's humbling.
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Speaker 2: It's very much something that you know, it makes me go, Okay, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm doing what I do as a job, as a career.
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Speaker 2: There are things about this job that I absolutely love
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Speaker 2: to do.
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Speaker 3: It's a job.
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Speaker 2: There's things about it that aren't always great, and just
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Speaker 2: you know, it's like any job. But for the most part,
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Speaker 2: I get to play in a lot of situations. There's
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Speaker 2: levels of seriousness to what I do. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: take everything that I do very seriously, but Made a
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Speaker 2: Star is a little bit more fun. And then I
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Speaker 2: do a comedy show that I do on Mondays with
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Speaker 2: my brother and some friends, and that's significantly more fun
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Speaker 2: the dragon Con stuff I get to do for the
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth time covering dragon Con this year, and we'll
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Speaker 2: talk more about that once we get into into July.
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Speaker 2: But with dragon Con coverage powered by Colin State University's
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Speaker 2: Cooka Coal Space Science Center again this year. Thank you
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Speaker 2: to them for being a longtime sponsor of our dragon
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Speaker 2: Con coverage. But Made of Stars is kind of a
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Speaker 2: unique beast Sean cruise and I have been doing a
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Speaker 2: version of this show of Mate of Stars for since
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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, almost twenty years we've been doing
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Speaker 2: We did it on the radio. Some of those shows
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Speaker 2: were then converted into podcasts. Sometimes we would just record
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Speaker 2: a podcast maybe that mostly the content for it was there,
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Speaker 2: but we did it on radio. Our good friend Scott
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Speaker 2: Miller was part of that when we were doing it
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Speaker 2: on radio for a lot of those years. But we
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Speaker 2: got to a point where Sean and I were doing
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Speaker 2: you know, doing them in twenty twenty on and we
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Speaker 2: decided in twenty twenty one or at the end of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty, but in the start of twenty twenty one
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Speaker 2: is when we wanted to start doing it as just
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Speaker 2: a podcast series, and we thought, well, there should be
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Speaker 2: a home for a show that's a little nerdy, little
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Speaker 2: fun talk about current events, talk about what's going on
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Speaker 2: in space and discoveries and rockets and on Earth and
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Speaker 2: private space companies and all those things, and NASA and
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Speaker 2: opportunities to go to NASA and cover different events and things.
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Speaker 2: So interviewing astronauts and engineers that work on rockets, and
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Speaker 2: that's what we did, you know, high ranking people at
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Speaker 2: SpaceX and things like that. So We started doing that
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, and right away, like that very
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Speaker 2: first year, you know, we won a won an award
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Speaker 2: for that for Best Podcast Series. And then when this
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Speaker 2: comes yesterday, the email came that had our names in
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Speaker 2: it again, and I just thought, oh my gosh, this
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Speaker 2: is something that I do. When I started a pod
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Speaker 2: cast company, Made of Stars was like the flagship show.
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Speaker 2: It might seem like this would would have been the
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Speaker 2: first show, but it wasn't. Made of Stars was the one.
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Speaker 2: I thought, that's the one I want to start it with.
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Speaker 2: I knew I had some content from the Dragon Con
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Speaker 2: pregame show that I do that I would be rolling
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Speaker 2: over into that, but as a fresh creation from the start,
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Speaker 2: I wanted it to be you know, the Made of
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Speaker 2: Stars podcast is sort of the flagship show. And that's
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Speaker 2: what we did. And I just Sean and I could
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Speaker 2: for hours just sit around and talk about the things
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Speaker 2: that we talk about in the podcast. But we really
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Speaker 2: love covering it. Sean's knowledge of everything to do with
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Speaker 2: the subject, I've acquired a bit of a knowledge about
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Speaker 2: it over the years of doing it. I feel like
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Speaker 2: I'm always taking a class with him. One of his
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Speaker 2: classes at Columbus State. But just knowing that we get
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Speaker 2: to do it, we have fun doing it, that you
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Speaker 2: guys seem to enjoy it. And then last year we
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Speaker 2: did our first. This year or a few months ago,
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Speaker 2: we did our second. But the opportunity to do Made
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Speaker 2: of Stars as a live show, and I guess that
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Speaker 2: had something to do with this award. And those of
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Speaker 2: you who came to the live show, we appreciate that,
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Speaker 2: and you're part of this. Your laughter and applause and
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Speaker 2: things there that gave help give us energy in the show.
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Speaker 2: We're part of this, so you're part of it if
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Speaker 2: you were there for it, and maybe part of next
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Speaker 2: year if they should decide to send an email our
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Speaker 2: way next year, but we'll go and accept some kind
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Speaker 2: of an award that will happen in September towards the
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Speaker 2: end of the September. But just very flattered that they
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Speaker 2: thought of us to give us this and to get
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Speaker 2: this email. So really proud of the work. When we
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Speaker 2: were there last at the Gabby Awards where the George
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Speaker 2: Association of broadcast Ers presents the awards for this and
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Speaker 2: there's a dinner involved in Sean's telling me, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm I feel like an impostor.
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Speaker 3: I'm looking around this room and he's like, you included.
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Speaker 2: But I'm looking around and I'm seeing all of these,
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Speaker 2: you know, broadcasters from all over the state of Georgia
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Speaker 2: that have been doing this as careers. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: you're winning an award and we won Best Podcast Series.
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Speaker 2: And I lean over and I'm like, you know, you
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Speaker 2: won Best Podcast Series. You're a broadcaster. Whether you realize
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Speaker 2: it or not, you are a broadcaster. So you're not
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Speaker 2: an impostor. And but you know, he feels like, I'm
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Speaker 2: a teacher, I'm a professor, I'm all these things. But
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Speaker 2: we've been doing this for a while now, and I
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Speaker 2: hope now with another acknowledgment in this capacity, he's ready
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Speaker 2: to accept that, but flattered and excited about it and
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Speaker 2: just wanted to share it. And if you're not already
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Speaker 2: listening to the Native Stars podcast, you can check it
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Speaker 2: out wherever you're getting this show. Okay, Now, what I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about concerning the weather is the heat waves.
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Speaker 2: It's almost comical to me the way we can go
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Speaker 2: from just months ago we were i mean even into
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Speaker 2: the beginning of June it was much cooler temperatures than average,
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Speaker 2: and earlier this year we had people like Bill Gates
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Speaker 2: saying that we're in better shape with climate change than
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Speaker 2: we thought we were. We're not in this dire emergency anymore.
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Speaker 2: And this is after hearing him and other scream for
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Speaker 2: decades about how we were all we were going to
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Speaker 2: kill the planet, we were killing each other, and how
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Speaker 2: horrible all of it was and if we didn't do
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Speaker 2: something right away, we were going to you know, twelve years,
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Speaker 2: we were all going to die. And I mean that
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Speaker 2: part's not comical. That sounds terrible. And then you know,
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Speaker 2: twelve years goes by and it's like, no, no, no, twelve
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Speaker 2: years from now. And then we kept hitting the reset
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Speaker 2: button over it. And that came after, of course, that
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Speaker 2: long period of time in the seventies and early eighties
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Speaker 2: when they were saying that the whole planet was going
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Speaker 2: to freeze up and we were going to all die
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Speaker 2: from global cooling and then global warming and then climate change,
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Speaker 2: because it became the go to defence way to say, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's not getting hotter. Sometimes it gets hot
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Speaker 2: and sometimes it gets cold, and the greenhouse gases can
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Speaker 2: cause it to get hot. And then the greenhouse gases
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Speaker 2: can cause it to get cold, So whatever you're doing,
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Speaker 2: you're not doing enough. But we were told repeatedly we're
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Speaker 2: not doing enough. Everything that we're.
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Speaker 3: Doing is making it worse.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of discussion came up about well, if
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Speaker 2: the things that they say we need to do can
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Speaker 2: be done to fix things, well, we're really going to
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Speaker 2: have to get countries like India and China to do
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Speaker 2: better because they're making it worse and there's really nothing
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Speaker 2: that we can do to offset what they're doing. But
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Speaker 2: a lot of questions have come up about well, are
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Speaker 2: we really having the kind of impact that they're saying
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Speaker 2: that we are. Now Listen, I'm a strong advocate for
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Speaker 2: taking care of our home. Right, we should do that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the reality of things that we
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Speaker 2: should be responsible and we should take care of where
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Speaker 2: we are. It's the only planet we got for now.
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Speaker 2: They're working on maybe another one. But I'm just I'm
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Speaker 2: a stewardship environmentalist because I think that we should be
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Speaker 2: taking care. We were told, you know, you could go
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Speaker 2: Old Testament, we're to take dominion over the earth, that's
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Speaker 2: what we're supposed to do. I don't think that taking
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Speaker 2: care of the planet is something that should ever be
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Speaker 2: a oh, we're all going to die if you don't
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Speaker 2: give us money. I'm not an advocate for that. I
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Speaker 2: think there were many things that should be improved. I
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Speaker 2: think there are many things that we can do better.
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Speaker 2: I think the first thing that we should do is
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Speaker 2: if we're going to scream from the roof to that,
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Speaker 2: you know, any of our carbon emissions or a problem
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Speaker 2: and we're ignoring nuclear as a solution to the problem,
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Speaker 2: I think that's what we're missing. And it's just the reality.
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Speaker 2: And I know there are not they're not it's nuclear
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Speaker 2: is not a perfect option, but is it? You know,
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Speaker 2: are we saying that the planet's going to die and
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Speaker 2: we're ignoring the fact that it's a better option than
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Speaker 2: what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: And you know, the.
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Speaker 2: Reality here is we've had a lot of people for
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Speaker 2: a very long time with interests in green energy that
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Speaker 2: have managed to cash in on a lot of the
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Speaker 2: government stuff that's happened. But anyway, that's my thoughts. And again,
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Speaker 2: I'm not an environmentalist. I'm not a you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: a scientist by any means. I'm just telling you we
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Speaker 2: need to do better. I don't think that screaming from
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Speaker 2: the rooftops that we're all going to die is the solution.
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Speaker 2: And I think that every time someone stands on a
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Speaker 2: street corner and says that the world's going to end
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Speaker 2: and you've got to find Jesus. And when people aren't
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Speaker 2: equating that to Al Gore saying the world's going to
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Speaker 2: and you got to, you know, buy carbon credits from me.
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Speaker 2: I think the fact that there's people that don't understand
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Speaker 2: that this has become a religion for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got all these years of we're not
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Speaker 2: making it better, we're making it worse. We got to
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Speaker 2: catch up, and then all of a sudden, one day,
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Speaker 2: you know, Bill Gates and others are kind of going, well,
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Speaker 2: it's not as bad as we said. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know how you can take anything they say seriously because
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Speaker 2: at that point, to me, you've just you know, thrown
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Speaker 2: everything out the window. But I digress. I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's fixed. I just think we're not doing the things
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Speaker 2: that we need to do to fix it. That's my opinion.
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Speaker 2: And when you hear stories about towns that say, hey,
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Speaker 2: recycle and you can do everything you want to do,
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Speaker 2: put everything you want to put in your recycle bin
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Speaker 2: that's supposed to go in there, and you know, do
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Speaker 2: your part in doing that. And then you hear it
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Speaker 2: well in some places are not even putting it in recycling.
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Speaker 2: They're bumping it in a landfill, and you go, what
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Speaker 2: are we supposed to do? What are you supposed to
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Speaker 2: do to fix the problem. So now we've got countries
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Speaker 2: across the pond that are saying, you know, it's our fault,
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Speaker 2: that it's the planet's so hot. They're blaming us for everything.
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Speaker 2: They're mad because there are people are coming here, I
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Speaker 2: guess and enjoying the Olympics, I think that's what it is,
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Speaker 2: and enjoying America.
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Speaker 3: Not everything we got.
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Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, we'll talk about there's one
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Speaker 2: thing in particular that they're not big fans of, at
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Speaker 2: least one, but one that kind of stands out. But
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Speaker 2: you got people the in Paris, the mayor, and they're
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Speaker 2: Americans and they're air conditioning. That's why it's so hot,
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Speaker 2: and there they're killing us over here because it's one
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Speaker 2: hundred and four degrees and we just don't know what
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Speaker 2: to do and we're trying to get cool and the
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Speaker 2: technology of air conditioning has been around for a while.
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Speaker 2: I understand that there are parts of the world that
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Speaker 2: maybe are normally very hot and they don't have air
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, very cold and they don't have air conditioning
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Speaker 2: for that reason, or they're very hot and they don't
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Speaker 2: have heat for that reason. But the technology for heat
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Speaker 2: and air conditioning has existed for a long time. We
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Speaker 2: should have had the ability by this point to say, look,
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Speaker 2: we can have this in place for when there's emergencies, okay,
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Speaker 2: And then they're saying that this is an emergency and
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Speaker 2: they've had multiple people in France and other countries have
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Speaker 2: died because of heat, and you've got people that are
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Speaker 2: basically saying, well, you know, we still can't turn on
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Speaker 2: the air conditioning in London, in England and the UK.
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Speaker 2: Don't turn on your air conditioning. You could be fined
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Speaker 2: or arrested or whatever. I don't know, but you're hearing
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Speaker 2: stories about seniors and babies that are indoors and they
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Speaker 2: can't have anywhere to go and they can't use their
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Speaker 2: air conditioning that they have because it's going to be
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Speaker 2: bad for the climate. So in blaming us because we're
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Speaker 2: running our air conditioning, and that's what we've always done
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Speaker 2: because we have the technology and we use it and
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Speaker 2: we you know, like to live comfortably. And I understand
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Speaker 2: that some of these countries don't want to be stubborn
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Speaker 2: about it, but just know that if your country is
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Speaker 2: not letting you run your air conditioning and they're just
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Speaker 2: letting people die, they're using that tragedy of you as
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Speaker 2: some sort of political weapon, and they're using it in
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Speaker 2: some way to advance some agenda, some religion, if you will.
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Speaker 2: That they're pushing and not wasting the tragedy. They want
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Speaker 2: to take that tragedy and go, well, they're dying, and
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Speaker 2: the Americans are at fault, and anybody that's choose in
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Speaker 2: air conditioning is at fault. So you have to do
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Speaker 2: things our way. I wouldn't be okay with that. I'm
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Speaker 2: not okay with that now, and I'm not in those countries.
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Speaker 3: It's awful.
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Speaker 2: It's something that we do here. Of course, we have,
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Speaker 2: you know, situations where people are put in a position
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Speaker 2: where they can get harmed or injure or killed, or
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Speaker 2: they go after the police and they get killed. And
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Speaker 2: our media and are a lot of folks on the
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Speaker 2: left like to say, well, look what happened.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to let that go to waste.
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Speaker 2: And that's what they're doing with some of these people
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Speaker 2: dying in Europe that don't have a means of functioning
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Speaker 2: in the heat.
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Speaker 3: Oh well they're dead.
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Speaker 2: It's the American's fault. Anybody that's running air conditioning can't
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Speaker 3: More West Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Right after the break, well, we knew all of the
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Speaker 2: people coming into the US to enjoy all of the
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Speaker 2: great things that make America what it is, and all
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Speaker 2: of the social media and everything that people have been
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Speaker 2: saying about, oh my gosh, this country is so great,
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Speaker 2: and it's not what they've been telling us. There have
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Speaker 2: to be a few things that don't sit right with
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Speaker 2: people that have come into the country. And one of
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Speaker 2: those things, of course is the American tip culture. Huge
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Speaker 2: boost to local economies with people coming in, of course,
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Speaker 2: and different cities that are hosting and people that are
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Speaker 2: staying even in suburbs of those cities.
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Speaker 3: And you know, airbnbs and things or.
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Speaker 2: Hotels, and people got to eat and they've been going
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Speaker 2: to restaurants and bars, and basically there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of people from other countries who don't understand the concept
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Speaker 2: of tipping or just refuse to tip because that's not
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Speaker 2: what happens where they're from. So some restaurants and bars
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Speaker 2: in places like New York, Kansas City, Atlanta, Philadelphia have
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Speaker 2: been the restaurants and bars have been adding a twenty
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Speaker 2: percent service fee onto checks to protect their workers who
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Speaker 2: need the tip money to survive. And there's some folks
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Speaker 2: from other countries that I'm big fans of that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they like a lot of the stuff here, but the
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Speaker 2: tipping thing, they find that to be the person who's
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Speaker 2: funding the staff's problem, not their problem. And basically that
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Speaker 2: of course, has led to more conversation here.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people in stateside that don't like tip.
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Speaker 2: Culture, just don't like it at all, and they think,
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Speaker 2: you know, just build it into the price, let people
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Speaker 2: decide if they want to eat there or not. And
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Speaker 2: then there's some people that you know, receive tips that
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Speaker 2: are saying, hey, we're not paying tax on them now,
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Speaker 2: so we'd like to keep the tip thing going. And
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Speaker 2: I suppose if it was built into the price and
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Speaker 2: then the tips were optional, that could be the best
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Speaker 2: case scenario for everybody.
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Speaker 3: I guess, I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: If that would just lead to people not giving tips.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how that works, but it couldn't all
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Speaker 2: be great, of course, it just can't. According to a
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Speaker 2: new Farm Bureau survey, a traditional Fourth of July cookout
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Speaker 2: for ten people is expected to cost a record seventy
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Speaker 2: three dollars and eighty two cents this year. That's up
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Speaker 2: three dollars from a year ago. The survey tracks twelve items,
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Speaker 2: including ground beef, pork and beans, strawberries, and hamburger bunds.
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Speaker 2: It's an awkward placement on the pork and beans. I
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Speaker 2: thought it was separate things pork and beans and strawberries
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Speaker 2: and hamburger bunns, among other things. The bottom line, ten
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Speaker 2: of the twelve items went up in price from last year.
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Speaker 2: Only potato, salad and chips saw a price decrease imtaters.
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Speaker 2: So basically, if you cut back on meat and fresh produce,
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Speaker 2: load up on carbs and it's a little bit more affordable.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Speaker 2: It's it's USA two fifty, right, you just got to
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Speaker 2: do what you gotta do to celebrate whatever that means.
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Speaker 2: A record seventy two point two million Americans expected to
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Speaker 2: travel at least fifty miles over the extended holiday weekend
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Speaker 2: to celebrate Independence Day two fifty. It's a little bit
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Speaker 2: higher than a year ago. According to tripaa. Most people
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Speaker 2: hit the road, with about sixty one million traveling by car,
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Speaker 2: even as gas prices higher than a year ago, although
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Speaker 2: they are starting to drop finally, flying is nearly flat.
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Speaker 2: About five point eight million travelers will be doing that. Buses, trains,
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Speaker 2: and cruises seeing the fastest growth, with destinations like major
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Speaker 2: US cities New York, Orlandos, Seattle, Chicago, with international hotspots
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Speaker 2: in Canada and Europe, Traffic expected to be the heaviest
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Speaker 2: beginning on Thursday. Prepare accordingly, and drivers urge to plan ahead,
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Speaker 2: leave early, and drive safely during one of the busiest
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Speaker 2: holiday travel periods. Ever, some of these cities are also
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Speaker 2: you know, World Cup host cities, so that probably has
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Speaker 2: something to do with people that'll be traveling as well,
25:16
Speaker 2: so be ready for that. Amazon drivers delivering hundreds of
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Speaker 2: packages every day, no matter how big or small they are,
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Speaker 2: but one driver going viral after sharing the three items
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Speaker 2: she absolutely dreads bringing to customers. Doors and a TikTok
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Speaker 2: video viewed over a million times. Jennifer Monique, who works
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Speaker 2: for Amazon as a driver, says the packages she hates
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Speaker 2: delivering the most or cat litter, dog food, and bottled water.
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Speaker 2: She says they're extremely heavy and the items are ordered frequently.
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Speaker 2: She says drivers have to carry these heavy packages and
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Speaker 2: don't get paid any extra for it, making the job
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Speaker 2: even more physically demanding. She says, some of these dog
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Speaker 2: foods like eighty pounds. What sized dogs do you have
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Speaker 2: in your house? Why is the dog food in kitty
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Speaker 2: litter so heavy? She added that these bulky items are
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Speaker 2: also the ones customers sometimes expect to be carried inside,
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Speaker 2: making the job even more physically demanding. You know, there's
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Speaker 2: a couple of thoughts to this. It's like, if you're delivering,
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Speaker 2: and that's your job and you're delivering packages, I think
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Speaker 2: you gotta be ready to deliver some heavy packages. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I guess if she's just saying, hey, these are heavy,
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Speaker 2: but if you're upset by it, I don't know. Is
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Speaker 2: it really a good idea going on TikTok telling everybody
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Speaker 2: you don't like delivering them.
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Speaker 3: That's just my thoughts on it. Right.
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Speaker 2: Remember there was a guy who for a while, was
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Speaker 2: just ordering and returning an anvil that he was ordering
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Speaker 2: on Amazon, and I think they finally stopped selling anvils.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why they were selling anvils, but it
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Speaker 2: made me laugh to know that somebody was ordering it
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Speaker 2: and returning it, just back and forth, back and forth.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he had a situation like this particular driver and
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Speaker 2: he was just having fun with all of it. That'll
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Speaker 2: do it for this Tuesday edition of the show. Thanks
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