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At Least the Marvel Artists Have Evangeline Lilly · 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, saye Toamayo, sixth day of May im West
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. Almost had a revolt in my
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  Speaker 2: house yesterday because I did not plan properly for the
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  Speaker 2: meals for the week. And I say, I jel and
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  Speaker 2: I but I'll take responsibility for this one. I suggested
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  Speaker 2: that perhaps my kids really love when we make and
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  Speaker 2: we're not. This was a partially homemade thing, but partially
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  Speaker 2: like from a jar, but we really like to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a jarred tak a ma sala sauce. We like
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  Speaker 2: to do a chicken tick a masaal at home. But
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  Speaker 2: I did make a homemade ali gobi, something I've always
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do. I made some turned out all right,
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  Speaker 2: could could have been better first attempt at it. It
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  Speaker 2: was something very new for me to make homemade. I
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  Speaker 2: partially went from a recipe, partially partially shot from the hip.
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  Speaker 2: It turned out okay, we ate it. We're very much
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  Speaker 2: in a pattern, especially during these very busy final couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks of school where you we've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: for a while. I think most parents with multiple kids,
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  Speaker 2: especially when there's a lot of activities and math teams
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  Speaker 2: and orchestra and band and all that. So prom coming
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  Speaker 2: up this weekend for one of our boys. But we
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  Speaker 2: very much when we make our plans for the week,
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  Speaker 2: well one meal is typically a two meal kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: so we make enough and one meal to have leftovers
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  Speaker 2: the next night or may be two nights whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, we have so basically we got like
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  Speaker 2: two meals to prepare and then maybe like a third
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  Speaker 2: meal by Thursday that's in a smaller quantity of it.
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  Speaker 2: And then that's kind of how we do the week.
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  Speaker 2: That's the five days, and then weekends it you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we we go out or do something special, but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so and sometimes it's three big meals and that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we have one night we go out or whatever. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So the plan was chicking, taking masala up for Sunday Monday,
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  Speaker 2: and I suggested I like to make beef stew. I
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  Speaker 2: suggested beef stew for Tuesday Wednesday, and I had made
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  Speaker 2: all ingredient purchases. I was ready to go. Uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was gonna be my turn to get things together for
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  Speaker 2: dinner for yesterday, and our boys could not have been
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  Speaker 2: more disgusted. Not not by the beef stew they liked.
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  Speaker 2: They like beef stew when I make it. They were
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  Speaker 2: disgusted that we did not, in fact have tacos on
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  Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday, on Sinco to Mayo. That I just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: failed on so many levels. I blew it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I forced you to eat something else. Sinco to Mayo
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  Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday, so is what it is. I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 2: hope that I can regain the confidence in my children
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  Speaker 2: one day. We typically you know, I'm usually on top
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  Speaker 2: of these things. Right now, it is such a beer
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  Speaker 2: busy stretch in these final a couple of weeks of school.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got twelve days left something like that,
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  Speaker 2: counting today the ones taking ap classes. My high schooler is,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have a few virtual days kind of in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of a little bit less but worth
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  Speaker 2: that twelve day mark. This is the final countdown, the
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  Speaker 2: final stretch, final twelve days of middle school for one,
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  Speaker 2: and we're just trying to get there, and I dropped
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  Speaker 2: the ball on Taco Tuesday. So I blew it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, maybe we make it up next year.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's what we can try to do. So
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  Speaker 2: I failed them in that regard. I did watch some
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  Speaker 2: Spanish TV yesterday, Spanish language TV, not Spanish TV, but
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  Speaker 2: you know Spanish. We watched some Spanish language TV, some telenovelas.
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  Speaker 2: You know, gotta watch some of those every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: One that I used to if you were ever a
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  Speaker 2: guest in the old radio studio where Scott Miller and
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  Speaker 2: I did our show together, you would if you if
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  Speaker 2: you came first hour, you know, early in the show,
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  Speaker 2: first hour and a half, maybe you were going to
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  Speaker 2: catch some kind of a news channel going in the background.
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  Speaker 2: If you came late in the show beyond that point,
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  Speaker 2: you might have caught us watching. We would like to
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  Speaker 2: watch the morning Spanish news show that would come on,
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  Speaker 2: like their version of The Today Show or whatever. And
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  Speaker 2: then sometimes it was shows that we would record on
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  Speaker 2: the DVR that we would watch. So some of these
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  Speaker 2: shows they're timeless. You can still watch them today. And
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of that yesterday, I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Revenge of the Fifth people saying we should have
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  Speaker 2: still been watching Star Wars. I get that. I watched
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars a lot. I don't stop when it's not
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  Speaker 2: May the fourth. So anyway, I did a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of that and one of our friends was over yesterday
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  Speaker 2: who goes to school with Jake, and I picked him
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  Speaker 2: up from school when he was hanging out with us,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, well, you know, if we're going to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate Sinco to Mayore, let's fire up the Spanish language shows.
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  Speaker 2: He immediately just zoned out into his phone, and you know, appropriately,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what else you should have done. So
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  Speaker 2: that was our Sinco to Mayo. Big day of beefs too,
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  Speaker 2: and and and watching Spanish language TV. That's how we
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  Speaker 2: celebrated Cinco to Mayo. Topic I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: this came up a friend, very dear friend of mine
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  Speaker 2: sent this to me a few days ago, and I
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  Speaker 2: guess as it all went down, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: thought about properly addressing this. This is actually, I guess
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks old. It goes back maybe to
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  Speaker 2: mid April when this started happening, but I think the
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  Speaker 2: repercussions of it have started to fall and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's appropriate to do this around this time because just
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  Speaker 2: being a big fan of Star Wars. My family just
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  Speaker 2: did a trip to Disney very recently, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars is a Disney property. The Marvel franchise a
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  Speaker 2: Disney property for the purposes of the movies. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like this all should be addressed, and I want
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  Speaker 2: to point out a couple of obvious things that go
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  Speaker 2: with this, the fact that Disney has control over all
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  Speaker 2: of these things, and it really relates a lot to
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  Speaker 2: the motion picture industry in general when you think about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that if you go to the movies, in
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  Speaker 2: most cases you spend movie on a money You spend
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  Speaker 2: money on a movie ticket. It's my first day with
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  Speaker 2: his mouth. Sorry, I've had a couple of those already
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  Speaker 2: in the show. If you spend money on a movie ticket,
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  Speaker 2: then you are in some way sending money to a
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  Speaker 2: movie studio that is almost certainly using that money in
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  Speaker 2: some capacity to support candidates. That if you're the half
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  Speaker 2: of the country that doesn't support Democrat candidates, you're helping
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  Speaker 2: to fund campaigns and things for them. If you and
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  Speaker 2: they're paying the actors who are still, you know, out
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  Speaker 2: schlubbing for these politicians. They haven't quite figured out yet.
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  Speaker 2: People don't care that it doesn't work. There's now evidence
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  Speaker 2: of it, studies have been done. People just don't care.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going, oh my gosh, Will Ferrell knocked on
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  Speaker 2: my door. I have to vote for Stacy Abrams. That's
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  Speaker 2: not a story that people tell. If you voted for
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  Speaker 2: Stacy Abrams and Will Ferrell knocked on your door, chances
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  Speaker 2: are that the knock on the door had nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with your vote. And that's just the reality of
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  Speaker 2: where things are. If you're voting, if you are undecided,
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  Speaker 2: and then Taylor Swift makes your decision for you, we
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  Speaker 2: have bigger problems. I mean, we might as well just
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  Speaker 2: use the whole American idol method of electing presidents. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so this that has and I mentioned the Disney ownership
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  Speaker 2: of those things, because they're wildly popular, billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some, We've got a new Star Wars movie
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  Speaker 2: coming out this month. We've got another two huge Avengers
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  Speaker 2: movies coming up over the next couple of years. So
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of hype. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: much hype is in Sadly, this Mandalorian and Grogu movie.
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  Speaker 2: I wish there was more hype to it, just because
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  Speaker 2: I really like the series, I like the characters. I'm
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  Speaker 2: hopeful for some of the people that I know that
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  Speaker 2: are involved in this movie. But we'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of people predicting it to
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  Speaker 2: not do very well. We'll see. I hope it does
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  Speaker 2: well just for that, but there's that little bit of
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  Speaker 2: conflict that comes with it, right where you think, well,
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  Speaker 2: I hope it does well, but I know that if
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  Speaker 2: it does well, there's going to be some potential money
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  Speaker 2: going into political races. And it's just kind of it's
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  Speaker 2: not fair, you know, and we get told I've been told, well,
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  Speaker 2: too bad, just too bad. You either go and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the movies or you stay home and you don't enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the movies. And I know that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ways that this money gets to all of these places,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're paying for streaming services or going to the
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  Speaker 2: theme parks or whatever it is. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ways it gets there. And I know there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people that are very selective about on the left,
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  Speaker 2: that are very selective about not spending money on things
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  Speaker 2: at support candidates on the right. So and I think
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  Speaker 2: there have been a little bit there's been an uptick
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  Speaker 2: in people, I think on the right not supporting things
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  Speaker 2: on the left. I know some people who've complained that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the people aren't going to Disney theme parks
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  Speaker 2: as much because there's kind of a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a less interest from people on the right to go there,
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  Speaker 2: and that's caused some of the ticket prices to go up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of that is accurate. I
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  Speaker 2: just I've heard that from people and people that may
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit of knowledge of it. I say
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  Speaker 2: all of this to get to this, and this is
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  Speaker 2: something that's gone on here. We heard the story about
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  Speaker 2: you like a thousand people that were laid off by Disney,
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  Speaker 2: the new ceo there at Disney, and apparently it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just like jobs irrelevant to their movies. It was actually
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  Speaker 2: some people involved, particularly in Marvel Studios, and I guess
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  Speaker 2: they say that the entire Academy Award winning visual development
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  Speaker 2: team was let go, and some of the big names
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  Speaker 2: at Marvel associated with some of these projects were let go.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, a friend, dear friend of mine who
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  Speaker 2: listens here, sent me a link to a post on
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  Speaker 2: Instagram and it is actor of Angeline Lily, who played
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  Speaker 2: the Wasp in the marvel movies aka Freckles from the
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  Speaker 2: show Lost. I got to know Evangeline Lily a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago. We did an interview, We hung out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit at Dragon Con. She is, you know someone
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  Speaker 2: that you know. We've swapped a couple of texts. She
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  Speaker 2: is I think one of the people who stood up
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  Speaker 2: to the oppressive things that were happening during covid on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of the truckers and the people of Canada who
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  Speaker 2: were basically pushing things forward, saying well, this is what
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  Speaker 2: you are supposed to do, and you have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's been great for her for her career.
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  Speaker 2: She has semi retired. I know she said that she
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  Speaker 2: was ready to kind of step down, but she posted
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  Speaker 2: about this particular change that took place with these people
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  Speaker 2: being released. I want to just share a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of it in what the post had in it. This
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  Speaker 2: is from Evangeline Lily Official on Instagram, and this is
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  Speaker 2: what she had to say about this particular release and
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  Speaker 2: one of her friends who was released.
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  Speaker 1: Marvelle Studios just took the worst of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, the company laid off approximately one thousand employees company wide,
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  Speaker 2: and nearly the entire visual development team at Marvel was
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  Speaker 2: let go.
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  Speaker 3: Before I spread this post. When I saw it on
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  Speaker 3: social media, I needed to fact check it. So I
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  Speaker 3: reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was
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  Speaker 3: the genius behind creating the original Wasp super suit and
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  Speaker 3: the original Wasp concept drawings for the film at Man
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  Speaker 3: and the Wasp, and just said, is this true? Is
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  Speaker 3: this really what's happening? And he said, yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I have been let go, and I can't quite believe
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  Speaker 3: that that Disney have let go of the artists who
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  Speaker 3: brought the current Marvel universe to life through their imagination
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  Speaker 3: and their genius, that the people who invented these characters
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  Speaker 3: in the first place, who designed them in the first place,
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  Speaker 3: are now being replaced by ai ai that will take
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  Speaker 3: their designs and take what those artists created and use
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  Speaker 3: it to create iterations of that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Evangeline Lily. She goes on to talk more
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  Speaker 2: about all of this, and she's talking about Andy Park.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Park posting on his Instagram page basically listing the
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  Speaker 2: years of employment twenty ten to twenty twenty six. It's
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  Speaker 2: the end of an era. I was there at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of a unique team, broke the mold of Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: helped a studio gross over thirty billion dollars. I've been
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  Speaker 2: over for sixty here for over sixteen years, spanning forty
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  Speaker 2: films shows, fifteen of which I let as director of
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  Speaker 2: Visual Development, visual Development supervisor. More stuff about his credentials,
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  Speaker 2: he said, as I wrap up my final months here,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the creative freedom of a fresh start,
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  Speaker 2: eager to bring prospective and leadership to new challenges, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and looking forward to conversations ahead. I think the first
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  Speaker 2: conversation that has to be had, and Evangeline Lily's touching
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  Speaker 2: on one of those, is that when we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: AI replacing some of these creative jobs, this is one
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  Speaker 2: of the things we've been hearing from Hollywood that this
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  Speaker 2: is coming and this is going to be an issue.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, and this is awful, and I
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  Speaker 2: feel for everyone impacted by this, people who put their
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  Speaker 2: heart and soul into these movies, these projects. I try
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  Speaker 2: to say to people that are in these jobs that
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  Speaker 2: feel like maybe they can't be replaced, you are replaceable. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: you're replaceable now by artificial intelligence. It's coming for so
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  Speaker 2: many different jobs. Doesn't make it feel any less painful.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make it feel any more, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 2: to know that that's coming. I hope for you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of these people, like he's talking about getting another
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  Speaker 2: job and conversations, Hey, conversations need to be about AI.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope that there are going to be opportunities
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  Speaker 2: moving forward for people to work on these things. I
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  Speaker 2: just would like people to take a minute to realize
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  Speaker 2: how serious this is moving forward with a lot of jobs,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of careers, and this is a high profile one.
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  Speaker 2: And I can speak personally, just for a moment about
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  Speaker 2: working for a large company that decided that it's air
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  Speaker 2: staff on radio stations nationwide were not important anymore. They
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  Speaker 2: did the same type of thing. They decided to go
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  Speaker 2: with automation. They decided to go with you know, people
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  Speaker 2: piped in from other cities. They decided to give you
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  Speaker 2: kind of a part of my expression, but a half
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  Speaker 2: assed version of people on local radio. I can speak
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  Speaker 2: to what you're kind of hearing in Columbus, Georgia. You're
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  Speaker 2: you're getting a for the most part, in many cases,
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  Speaker 2: either someone from another city or you're getting a pre
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  Speaker 2: recorded version of people just kind of you know, phoning
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  Speaker 2: it in from the house, putting in ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes or whatever it is to get it recorded, done
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  Speaker 2: and move on. In some days, you may notice they're
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  Speaker 2: not even on the air because they couldn't bother to
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  Speaker 2: record the show. You may have also noticed in some
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  Speaker 2: cases you're hearing the same traffic report for nine to
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  Speaker 2: ten months with no update in it. It's just the
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  Speaker 2: exact same thing, weather updates that don't always get properly
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  Speaker 2: put into the system. And you're talking about replacing people
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  Speaker 2: that put their heart and soul into helping to build
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  Speaker 2: brands for this radio company. And I'll say this, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want in any way to sound like a bitter
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  Speaker 2: former employee, and maybe I do, but I'm just pointing
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  Speaker 2: out the fact that at least in the case of
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  Speaker 2: these art directors and these high profile people working at
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  Speaker 2: Disney and Marvel, they have someone, thank God, like Evangeline
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  Speaker 2: Lily to speak up and defend them and talk about
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  Speaker 2: what an atrocity this is. They've got people like Zachary
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  Speaker 2: Levi speaking against AI in these situations, acknowledging where things
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  Speaker 2: are going. They at least have that. There wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: during the great radio purge of twenty twenty. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there was no And I could call a few out
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  Speaker 2: by name in the company that I feel like should
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  Speaker 2: have stepped out and said, you know what, this is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: What we're doing is cutting a lot of the people
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  Speaker 2: that helped make these stations what they are in the
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  Speaker 2: name of pushing forward. Just a handful of people, but
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  Speaker 2: they weren't going to say anything because they were one
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  Speaker 2: of the handful of people that were chosen to represent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, country morning radio. I know people personally that
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  Speaker 2: listened to like the syndicated country morning personality for the
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  Speaker 2: company I'm talking about, and they say, oh, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: eat at a chain restaurant, fast food restaurant that comes
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  Speaker 2: into town when it's new. You shouldn't eat there. You
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  Speaker 2: should shop locally. But they're happy to support basically the
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  Speaker 2: chain generic morning show host for all the country radio stations.
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  Speaker 2: And there's those elements of all of this that play out,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I just say, at least at least
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  Speaker 2: these people at Disney Marvel have someone to speak up
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  Speaker 2: on their behalf. It doesn't surprise me that it's Evangeline Lily.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't surprise me that it's Zachary Levi. There's others
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  Speaker 2: as well. These are both people by the way that
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  Speaker 2: I have you know, I've interviewed, I've talked to not
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  Speaker 2: specifically about some of these things, but about their experiences
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  Speaker 2: in Hollywood, their experiences in this industry, their experiences with
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  Speaker 2: negativity in it, the pluses and the minuses, the ups
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  Speaker 2: and the downs that go with it. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: surprise me that these are two people that are willing
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  Speaker 2: to stick up for them and I'm happy that there
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  Speaker 2: is someone doing that on their behalf. And I just
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  Speaker 2: say to the folks in radio that you survive the
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  Speaker 2: Great Purge, the same thing that I said to people
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  Speaker 2: back then in twenty twenty. You're not replaceable yourself. And
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  Speaker 2: just because maybe things are going your way at the
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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  Speaker 2: the break Well. The indie bookstore is having a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a comeback right now. Is gen Z falling in
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  Speaker 2: love with these tiny little independent bookstores and it's not
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  Speaker 2: just about buying books. Younger readers turning to indie bookstores,
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  Speaker 2: modern third places, somewhere that's not home or work or school,
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  Speaker 2: but it feels welcoming and low pressure. Basically, they use
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  Speaker 2: read or peruse or whatever their interests are. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's It doesn't surprise me with some of
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  Speaker 2: the conversations we've been having here lately about people just
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  Speaker 2: looking for some sort of interaction or some sort of
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  Speaker 2: it's good. The smart watches are obviously not going anywhere
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  Speaker 2: and better and better. I've got a marginally intelligent watch.
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  Speaker 2: I think anybody who knows anything about watches knows I
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  Speaker 2: don't have like any kind of fancy smart watch. I've
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  Speaker 2: things that I need it to do, and actually it
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  Speaker 2: does a few things that I don't need it to do.
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  Speaker 2: I went years without wearing a watch at all. And
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  Speaker 2: when I actually started wearing this watch for a few
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  Speaker 2: different rea, I like being able to see my text
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  Speaker 2: and those kinds of things without having to take my
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  Speaker 2: phone out. And people, you're wearing a watch when you
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  Speaker 2: start doing that, and said, well, I used to wear
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  Speaker 2: a watch, and then I went a long time without
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  Speaker 2: wearing one. But this is just me kind of catching
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  Speaker 2: up with the trends. Well, the trends apparently are changing
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit as now. Gen Z and millennial
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  Speaker 2: women are trading in some of these big smart watches
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  Speaker 2: for grandma watches, small little think about that watch that like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're my age, that your mom would
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  Speaker 2: have worn, or maybe if you're a little younger, your
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  Speaker 2: grandmother might have worn those small, little like dainty watches.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently they're getting popular again because you get rid
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  Speaker 2: of that bulk and you get that vintage sort of
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  Speaker 2: look about it where it's small. They say it basically
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  Speaker 2: works well with gold bracelets that you might already own.
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  Speaker 2: Luxury brands like Rolex getting back in the action, shrinking
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  Speaker 2: their standard sizes down to tiny one point one inch
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  Speaker 2: designs One industry insider saying, turns out Grandma had spectacular
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  Speaker 2: taste all along. So it doesn't surprise me there either
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  Speaker 2: that I think whatever is old is always new again,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think it's a big shock that this
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  Speaker 2: has happened. But I haven't seen them on many risks yet,
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  Speaker 2: or any that I'm aware of other than you know,
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  Speaker 2: Grandma's or wearing them, and I don't think that's a
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  Speaker 2: wearing smart watches now, or at the very least like
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  Speaker 2: a fit bit or whatever. So speaking of fitness, a
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  Speaker 2: new fitness trend involves rage workouts with people blowing off
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  Speaker 2: stretching and calm cardio, they do high intensity sessions include
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  Speaker 2: battle ropes, laying into punching bags as hard as possible,
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  Speaker 2: kicking those bags, all those kinds of things, And they
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  Speaker 2: say metal music is often involved as well, blaring in
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  Speaker 2: the background. They say the goal is to channel all
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  Speaker 2: that pent up frustration from a rough day into an
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  Speaker 2: activity that leaves you feeling lighter and completely gassed. So hey,
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  Speaker 2: whatever gets the workout done. You know that's what you
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  Speaker 2: need to do. You just need to just get the
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  Speaker 2: workout done. Starting July one, driverless cars in California are
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  Speaker 2: were immune to traffic tickets because state law technically only
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  Speaker 2: allowed police to cite a human driver. But thanks to
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  Speaker 2: a new rule from the DMV, police can now issue
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  Speaker 2: notices of non compliance whenever a robot car blows through
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  Speaker 2: a red light or cuts off a pedestrian. Instead of
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  Speaker 2: an officer pulling the car over and asking for papers,
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  Speaker 2: has to respond to the complaint within seventy two hours.
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  Speaker 2: If a company racks up too many of those robot tickets,
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  Speaker 2: California can actually pull its permit and kick it off
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  Speaker 2: the road. Sounds like they need some revenue, That's what
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like to me. They need some kind of
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  Speaker 2: revenue coming in. Sounds like could be coming maybe to
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  Speaker 2: New York City. If that's the case, I don't know
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