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Florida AG Has Questions for Fauci · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, sixth day of August. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. An interesting development now in the next step
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Speaker 2: concerning Anthony Fauci, and he has been now hit with
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Speaker 2: a subpoena as the and the aftermath of the Senate
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Speaker 2: hearing and the state of Florida is the one who
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Speaker 2: is getting on the board first. There are others that
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Speaker 2: seem to be ready to follow suit. So here's you
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Speaker 2: remember COVID, right, you remember what happened six years ago
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Speaker 2: in what we were dealing with and everything that took
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Speaker 2: place concerning lives upended, lives first of all, lives lost.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with that. I mean, yes, lives upended and
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Speaker 2: then eventually lives lost. And that was the whole process
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Speaker 2: for this. And I just say the up ended first,
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Speaker 2: because that was the beginning of it, you know, when
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Speaker 2: they're asking everybody to to, you know, hunker down and
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Speaker 2: take two weeks and whatever it was. And then it
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Speaker 2: turned into so much more than that. And what it
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Speaker 2: turned into, let's just be honest, here is it turned into.
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Speaker 2: Had it not happened in an election year, I still
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Speaker 2: believe it would have been handled much differently. I think
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Speaker 2: that true colors were shown pretty quickly by many strategists
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Speaker 2: on the left when they said, you know, this is
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Speaker 2: how we're going to get Trump. This is and publicly
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Speaker 2: like on then Twitter. See back in the day, this
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Speaker 2: is site called used to be called Twitter. You know,
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Speaker 2: this is for the kids. And you know they back
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Speaker 2: then too, you know when before I guess the left
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Speaker 2: had to get their own version of it and it's
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Speaker 2: I guess Blue Sky or whatever it's called, whatever that's called.
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Speaker 2: But back then, you know, they they Twitter was their
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Speaker 2: thing and they could say whatever they wanted. They had
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Speaker 2: zero dangers of ramifications, you know, nothing, nothing was going
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Speaker 2: to come back on them. They could say basically anything
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Speaker 2: they wanted to say on Twitter and they were going
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Speaker 2: to be safe. And that's a big part of why
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Speaker 2: the hate for Elon Musk became what it was, because
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Speaker 2: he came in and said, look, I got the money
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Speaker 2: to buy this thing, let me buy it and let
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Speaker 2: me make it, you know, something that is actually fair
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Speaker 2: and reasonable for everybody involved. The left lost their minds
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Speaker 2: and decided they're going to go make their own thing.
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Speaker 2: And you know, after they mocked Trump for making his
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Speaker 2: own thing. And then you know, there's more to the
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Speaker 2: Elon thing than just that, But that was a big
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Speaker 2: part of where the divide happened because Elon Musk back then,
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Speaker 2: you know, was he was left of center. He was
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Speaker 2: the environmental guy. He was trying to make electric cars
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Speaker 2: and trying to do all these things from an environmental standpoint.
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Speaker 2: And as soon as as he pointed out, everything got
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Speaker 2: moved to the left so far that suddenly he was
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Speaker 2: on the other side of the middle, and that he
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Speaker 2: was on the right by not even changing any of
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Speaker 2: his policies or thoughts or anything. And then you know,
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Speaker 2: pushing for free speech, pushing for Twitter to be a
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Speaker 2: place where people can actually go and share ideas and
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Speaker 2: thoughts and concepts and all that, and that's what he
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Speaker 2: did so back then as a little tangent. But back then,
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Speaker 2: you know, they could go on Twitter and say whatever
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Speaker 2: they wanted on the left, and they could say, hey,
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Speaker 2: this is how we're going to get Trump is COVID,
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Speaker 2: and they broadcast it for everyone online and a lot
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Speaker 2: of people don't talk about that. I like to remind
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Speaker 2: it every opportunity I get, because that's what they did,
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Speaker 2: and that's what it became the pandemic. I'm not discounting
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Speaker 2: that it was a true virus, that it was a
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Speaker 2: true problem, that people really died, and there were certainly
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Speaker 2: a lot of reasons to have health concerns with it.
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Speaker 2: But as we were navigating our way through it and
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Speaker 2: we started to realize something's not adding up. There's just
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Speaker 2: so many aspects of this that don't make any sense
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Speaker 2: at all, And we were realizing we were being lied
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Speaker 2: to in a number of ways. And you know, were
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Speaker 2: their precautionary things that we did that it's good that
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Speaker 2: we did them? Sure, were their precautionary thing that we
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Speaker 2: did that were I think put in place just so
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Speaker 2: that we would be scared? Probably to me, yes, I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, I can tell you opinion on a lot
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Speaker 2: of these things. And the more that we learned about
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Speaker 2: what doctor Fauci, if he's retired, is he still doctor?
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Speaker 2: I don't know that we still have to call him that,
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Speaker 2: especially if we have no respect for him at all.
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Speaker 2: Some of us don't. But as we learned from his journals,
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Speaker 2: and we learned from emails, and we've learned from things,
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of things that he wasn't being
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Speaker 2: truly honest with us on everything, and that started to
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Speaker 2: come out more and more over the past few years.
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Speaker 2: And once these journals came out and we realize, oh, okay,
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Speaker 2: well it's time for them to get him in front
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Speaker 2: of the Senate and have a committee and let's talk
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Speaker 2: to him. And he pulled his one hundred and eleven
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Speaker 2: plead the fifth moments. And that's because previous President Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden decided, or someone decided, and I don't know that
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Speaker 2: it was Biden. I don't know who did it. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. When you when you have the auto pen,
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Speaker 2: when you have a device that can just sign whatever,
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Speaker 2: and and you have a very senior man with cognition problems,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not mocking it, who's who's there at the wheel?
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Speaker 2: And as his son Hunter told us, they were choking
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Speaker 2: ambient into his dad. I feel like that's elder abuse.
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Speaker 2: But it's also kind of the way business has been
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Speaker 2: done in the White House in America, which is horrible.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just horrible that we've had situations where
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Speaker 2: we've had presidents who weren't really doing much somebody else
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Speaker 2: was making decisions behind the scenes. If you want any
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Speaker 2: justification for while a lot of people hate left and right,
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Speaker 2: some on the right hated Donald Trump. That's why, because
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Speaker 2: he got in the White House and said, why is
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Speaker 2: everybody doing everything I'm supposed to be running things? And
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Speaker 2: they didn't like it. So an autopen while I think
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Speaker 2: it actually is one of those signature's pardons that took
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Speaker 2: place during the I guess it was during Trump's inauguration
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Speaker 2: and just behind the scenes, you know, going on just
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Speaker 2: before the handoff took place, and a lot of people saying,
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Speaker 2: how could Biden have signed that? And that's part of
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Speaker 2: how they found out about the autopen the level that
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Speaker 2: it was being used. So a pardon was given just
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Speaker 2: for a large span of time that covered Fauci, to
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Speaker 2: make sure that he couldn't be prosecuted for anything, because
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Speaker 2: you know, God forbid we go after somebody who might
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Speaker 2: have been doing something wrong. What a crazy idea, What
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Speaker 2: an absolutely banana's notion that we might hold someone accountable
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Speaker 2: for doing something and just giving them a path because
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Speaker 2: let's be honest, It certainly points to, hey, this was
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Speaker 2: a strategy to aid in the twenty twenty election strategy
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Speaker 2: right or the victory to aid in pushing things in
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Speaker 2: a certain direction. It itself was part of the strategy.
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Speaker 2: So it certainly looks guilty when you do that and
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Speaker 2: then you sit up and you say, I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to answer any questions. I'm going to plead the Fifth
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Speaker 2: on everything, because they told him at the start of
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Speaker 2: the hearing, your pardon doesn't cover lying here in front
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Speaker 2: of Congress, so you know, be warned. So that's what
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Speaker 2: he did. So anyway, he did everything he could to
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Speaker 2: avoid it. It looked really bad. Certainly in a lot
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Speaker 2: of ways, looks incriminating. But that's not the way our
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Speaker 2: system is supposed to work. We're supposed to have this
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Speaker 2: Fifth Amendment where if we don't answer questions, it's not
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Speaker 2: supposed to imply or suggest that we are in fact guilty.
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Speaker 2: It's just the opportunity to not have to give any
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Speaker 2: testimony that would incriminate yourself. And by its nature, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it's incriminating yourself because you do plead
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Speaker 2: the fit. That's not what it's supposed to mean. But
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Speaker 2: in this case, it certainly looked really bad. It's going
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Speaker 2: to look bad if you're in a situation where there's
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Speaker 2: some evidence that is there in these journals and things
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Speaker 2: that were done and said by you that show that
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Speaker 2: there was some level of incompetence or some level of
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Speaker 2: blood on your hands. You know, millions of people died
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Speaker 2: around the world, Americans died. A lot of very bad
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Speaker 2: decisions were made, and certainly seem to be things that
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Speaker 2: were done, maybe to intentionally tank the economy, maybe to
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Speaker 2: you know, let some people die and scare people and
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Speaker 2: put people in a position. I'm not saying Fauci was
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Speaker 2: like I'm going to kill these people. I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: that at all. But when incompetence takes place and someone
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Speaker 2: doesn't step up and say, look, we were working on
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Speaker 2: this gain of function thing, and it was happening in China,
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Speaker 2: and what we were trying to do was we were
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Speaker 2: working on gain of function. We wanted to see what
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Speaker 2: it would do. This thing got out, it got around
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Speaker 2: the world. That was certainly never the intention. We never
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Speaker 2: wanted that. But no, there was no admission of any
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Speaker 2: of that anywhere other than behind the scenes and emails
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Speaker 2: and things and discussions about it. So it certainly looks
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Speaker 2: bad when you have someone who very well could have
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Speaker 2: been responsible for this being created and escaping. And then
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Speaker 2: don't forget the fact that when people pointed out that
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Speaker 2: it came from this lab in China, that you were
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Speaker 2: accused of being racist and anti anti Asian, whatever that
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Speaker 2: term they had a term for it. I forget what
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Speaker 2: it was. And you aren't allowed to say anything about
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Speaker 2: where it came from because God forbid, you know, it
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Speaker 2: gets out that this is where it came from, and
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Speaker 2: people said, oh, there's they're just beating up Asian people
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Speaker 2: in the streets and this is a you know, a
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Speaker 2: worldwide phenomenon because of this, And sure, I'm sure there
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Speaker 2: were cases of that. I'm sure that there were cases
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Speaker 2: of that, where there's many cases of that. As what
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Speaker 2: we're purported or what we heard, I just don't believe it.
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Speaker 2: I don't like, I don't believe when people start saying, oh,
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Speaker 2: you abortion is healthcare and there's just there's women dying
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Speaker 2: every single day because they're not able to get the
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Speaker 2: health care that they need because of abortion, and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: where are these numbers every day? Again? This is I
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Speaker 2: would think that much like when we hear about, you know,
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Speaker 2: there was a mass shooting, and now, of course a
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Speaker 2: mass shooting is any like two people get shot and
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Speaker 2: it could be a domestic thing, and they go, well,
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Speaker 2: it's a mass shooting. Two people got shot. Okay, every
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Speaker 2: time that happens, we hear about it. We're not hearing
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Speaker 2: about We don't hear about all of these women dying
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Speaker 2: because they're not getting healthcare. We don't hear about that.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, all right, So back to the point he
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Speaker 2: was he was pardoned and wouldn't sit in there and
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Speaker 2: answer any questions because he didn't want to criminate himself,
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Speaker 2: and his journals and all that stuff certainly seemed to
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Speaker 2: incriminate him. But the only way they could get him
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Speaker 2: in that regard was, you know, if he actually spoke
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Speaker 2: up and admitted to anything. And my first question on
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Speaker 2: all this was, well, what about a civil situation? Because
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Speaker 2: as they were questioning him in this hearing, they were asking, well,
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Speaker 2: what about these prizes, these cash prizes he was pushing for,
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Speaker 2: and book deals and awards and all the stuff that
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Speaker 2: he was doing. And I wanted to know, like, what
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Speaker 2: are the ramifications on this from a civil standpoint? How
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Speaker 2: do they how could somebody maybe go after him in
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Speaker 2: that regard. Well, the first answer to that question is
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Speaker 2: that you can't in the sense that if you sue
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Speaker 2: someone who's working in an executive like federal capacity, then
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Speaker 2: and is my understanding not a lawyer, not a big shock,
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Speaker 2: I know, but when you sue someone who is operating
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Speaker 2: in a federal capacity, ultimately the defendant, if they're doing
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Speaker 2: things under the confines of their job and their responsibility,
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Speaker 2: if you sue them, the defendant becomes the federal government.
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Speaker 2: So it's not a way to really go after Fauci
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Speaker 2: in that capacity. However, this is where things have now
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Speaker 2: gotten interesting. As the Attorney General in Florida, James Uthmeier,
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Speaker 2: his probe is targeting the book deals, the awards, and
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Speaker 2: the as he says, self dealing, and this is now
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Speaker 2: an investigative subpoena and they want to know, well, what
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Speaker 2: was he doing by having his staff also not something
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Speaker 2: you're allowed to do go after some of these awards
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Speaker 2: in his capacity from a federal employee standpoint, that may
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Speaker 2: be where this actually becomes something. Will they be able
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Speaker 2: to get him? I don't know. Senator Tommy Tubberville in
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Speaker 2: Alabama also pledging to have him investigated, because the question becomes,
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Speaker 2: do the people of Florida, the people of Alabama. Did
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Speaker 2: the people of the US were they negatively impacted by
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Speaker 2: Fauci who was seeking these financial gains, these prizes, these awards,
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Speaker 2: these book deals, all of these things to the detriment
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Speaker 2: of the people of their state or to the people
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Speaker 2: of the country. And I would argue the people of
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Speaker 2: the world, but you know, we can only do one
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Speaker 2: thing at a time here. So this is an interesting
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Speaker 2: development in this. This is the angle I think, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know how far this can actually go, but
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Speaker 2: you know, uth Meyer says that this is where they're
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Speaker 2: going to go with it. I guess this was reported
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Speaker 2: by Fox News. He said, we issued a formal subpoena
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Speaker 2: to doctor Fauci under Florida state law, seeking a breadth
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Speaker 2: of documents ranging to what he knew and when he
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Speaker 2: knew it, his doubts about the safety and efficacy of
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Speaker 2: vaccines that he's out there promoting, and we're really focused
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Speaker 2: in on his self dealing. He went on to say,
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Speaker 2: evidence has come to light that he was trying to
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Speaker 2: personally profit off of this. This is outside of his
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Speaker 2: government duties, his official role. He's trying to pursue book deals, awards,
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Speaker 2: get connected with high rollers that might help him come
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Speaker 2: into millions and millions of dollars. This is wrong and
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Speaker 2: it could go towards a deceptive trade practice, fraud, public nuisance,
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Speaker 2: you name it. I think there's many aspects of Florida
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Speaker 2: law that are now implicated. So there we go. That
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Speaker 2: is possibly the way for this to work. If this
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Speaker 2: moves forward, I think we could potentially see other states
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Speaker 2: following suit, and this might be the angle on being
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Speaker 2: able to actually get him and hold him accountable for
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Speaker 2: from the National Retail Federations, as parents have kindergarten through
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Speaker 2: twelfth grade, students are expected to spend an average of
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Speaker 2: eight hundred and sixty four dollars per child. That is
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Speaker 2: up from eight hundred and fifty eight dollars a year ago.
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Speaker 2: College family is feeling an even bigger squeeze, the average
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Speaker 2: family spending going up to as high as fourteen hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty seven dollars per student, up from thirteen to
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Speaker 2: twenty six a year ago. TAG takes the top spot
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Speaker 2: in both shopping less, with electronics leading overall costs. There's
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Speaker 2: plenty of spending on clothing, shoes, and school supplies as well,
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Speaker 2: plus dorm furnishings, food, personal care items, and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: For college kids. It's all expensive. It's all expensive. It's
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Speaker 2: always been expensive. The dorm thing that was going to
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Speaker 2: hit you hard. I got friends that have been dealing
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Speaker 2: with dorm situations, and it is rough. According to a
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Speaker 2: new study, people who read books for as little as
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Speaker 2: thirty minutes a day lived nearly two years longer than
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Speaker 2: non readers. That's say twenty percent reduction in mortality risk.
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Speaker 2: Researchers found that this boost in longevity only worked with books,
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Speaker 2: not newspapers or magazines. The study the authors, I wonder
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Speaker 2: if it works with digital Probably not, study authors suggesting
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Speaker 2: that deep reading, holding a complex narrative in your mind
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Speaker 2: over many days exercises the brain in ways that quick
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Speaker 2: skimming cannot match. And I jokingly mentioned the digital component
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Speaker 2: of it for the reading, but now I'm really thinking
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Speaker 2: about it. This is very similar to some of those
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Speaker 2: things we've talked about concerning screen time. People say all
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Speaker 2: screen time with kids is bad, and it's like, no,
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Speaker 2: long form screen time can be very good. It's the
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Speaker 2: ten second, twenty second, thirty second things that they're watching
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Speaker 2: and just doom scrolling, And I say, they a lot
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Speaker 2: of people obviously are doing that. So this just fits
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Speaker 2: in with that whole narrative things that are good for
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Speaker 2: your brain. Longer term processing of things rather than that
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Speaker 2: short attention span stuff is obviously going to be better
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Speaker 2: for you in the long run. We talk not too
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Speaker 2: long ago about how researchers are saying they believe that
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Speaker 2: raccoons can be domesticated at some point in the future.
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Speaker 2: In the future is the key part. They're not there yet.
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Speaker 2: They may look cute. You don't want to just grow
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Speaker 2: grab a wild raccoon and try to domesticate it, but
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Speaker 2: domesticating them over time, similar to the way dogs were domesticated.
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Speaker 2: State of Tennessee has taken a step in that direction
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Speaker 2: now with a making things a little bit easier to
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Speaker 2: bring a raccoon home. There's a new state law where
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Speaker 2: residents no longer have to pay a thirty one dollars
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Speaker 2: permit fee to keep a pet raccoon. So you still
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Speaker 2: can't catch it in the wild, but you can legally
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Speaker 2: get one from an out of state breeder as long
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Speaker 2: as it's vaccinated and it wasn't taken from the wild when.
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Speaker 1: You got it.
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Speaker 2: So it's a step closer to having a little pet
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Speaker 2: rocket raccoon in the house or whatever. So it's kind
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Speaker 2: of neat. Speaking of neat, and I like this back
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Speaker 2: to this whole thing about screen time. Coke the soft
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Speaker 2: drink company, Yeah, Coca Cola is encouraging people to put
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Speaker 2: down their phones and make time for meals with family
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Speaker 2: and friends. The company's new global campaign, called The World
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Speaker 2: Will Wait, is targeting Gen Z and millennials who distracted
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Speaker 2: by work or school, or screens, busy schedules, whatever. One
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Speaker 2: ad featuring a dad so consumed by work on his
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Speaker 2: laptop that he missed his family dinner until he realizes
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Speaker 2: what he's really been missing. The campaign also includes billboards
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Speaker 2: with messages like no one ever said this meal could
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Speaker 2: have been an email. I like that a lot, along
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Speaker 2: with social media influencers urging followers to unplug and be present.
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Speaker 2: Coke says the goal is simple remind people that emails,
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Speaker 2: chores and notifications can wait, but quality time together should not.
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Speaker 2: Coke's always been at the forefront for some of these
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Speaker 2: types of advertising over the years. This is not exactly
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Speaker 2: in the spirit of the public's ads, which will be
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Speaker 2: you know, they can get you with the tear jerker things,
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Speaker 2: but this is thoughtful and this is about bringing people together.
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Speaker 2: You know, they did the bring the world together. This
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Speaker 2: is about just bringing families together and maybe not quite
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Speaker 2: focusing so much on bringing the world together. So this
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Speaker 2: is some good stuff there from Cope. All right, that'll
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Speaker 2: do it for this Thursday edition of the show. Thanks
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