August 6, 2025 • 29 mins
The Sydney Sweney American Eagle ad continues to be a trending story and it's driving some people crazy.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
your day when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Wednesday morning, sixth day of August.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm West thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're a little closer to Labor Day weekend, a little
closer to Dragon Conn. Look, some of you have even
reached out to me to point out Labor Day weekend
is when college football really gets started in full swing.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I get that. I know.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's just celebrate Labor Day for all the things that
it is. Let's don't limit ourselves just to college football
or to Dragon Con. Fandom is fandom. We can all
love every aspect of fandom.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I once had the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Great pleasure of hanging out with David Eckstein, who is
the husband of Ashley Exstein, and he also happens.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
To be a World Series MVP.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And he was at Dragon Con many years ago with
his wife, and she was there with fans and talking
with fans and get pictures and autographs and things with
people that came up to talk to her. A lot
of kids came up at the time. That was kind
of while the Clone Wars was kind of getting going
strong on a Disney Channel or whatever it was called.
(01:21):
Then I know there's a different version, but it's a
Disney product. And she was, you know, just great with
her fans. It's one of the great things that I
love about Dragon Con is watching voice actors interact with
their fans and seeing the way faces light up when
they see the face behind the voice that they do.
(01:44):
And her husband was there, and he and I were
just kind of hanging out talking watching her, talking about
how great things were and the way the fandom had
been for this Ahsoka character that she played, and so
he and I were talking just about the differences and
parallels between sports fandom and this sci fi pop culture
(02:09):
fandom that was going on, and he was saying, it's
really not that different. You know, you got people in jerseys,
you got people in costumes of their favorite characters. I mean,
you're dressing up and you're showing support, and you're showing
your passion and love for what it is. That coming
from an athlete, not just an athlete, but a World
(02:29):
Series MVP. So I like to remind people that, yes,
while we know there is sports getting started as far
as college football and getting ready for pro football to
get started, right after that, all of that is all
part of the excitement that is Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But dragon Conn also happens to.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Be going on in Atlanta that weekend, and there's going
to be you know, some games in Atlanta, kickoff games,
Chick fil A kickoff games and things both Saturday and Sunday,
and there will be many of fans they're celebrating, and
many of them end up stumbling into dragon Con the
way I did the first time I went twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Years ago and said, oh my gosh, what is this.
I need to be a part of this moving forward.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And I see some of them now that stumble in.
I remember the Georgia and Boise State game and all
these people that had come in Boise State fans like,
wait a minute, this is amazing. We're going to come back,
And I see them still they come back. So I'll
be covering dragon Con with the dragon Con Pregame Show,
on the DragonCon Pregame Show podcast, and on radio about
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two hundred radio stations around the state of Georgia with
special guests. The ones I can announce so far Katie Sackoff, Diane,
Ana Lee, and Asanto and some other voices that you'll
hear talking about the convention, some guests from the convention.
We'll talk with doctor Sean Crusin from Columbus State University's
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Coca Cola Space Science Center, who happens to be a
sponsor of our Dragon Con coverage this year, and we'll
talk with him about science and science fiction. And then
we've also got a guest coming to the Mative Stars
podcast that will be at Dragon Con. So a lot
of stuff concerning the convention, and again thanks to the
Coca Cola Space Science Center. And you can go back
and listen to past episodes, including ones that have interviews
(04:19):
with people that we've lost some recently, like Lonnie Anderson
interviewed her back I think it was twenty eleven Dragon Con,
So there you go. All right. I want to talk
a little bit about this struggle that's been going on
for the City of New York. We've talked a little
bit about this, this battle for Gotham, if you will,
(04:39):
and they've been looking for some sort of positive endorsement
and support from some of the heavy hitters in the
Democrat Party for this mayoral candidate, Mamdani, who is Democrat socialist.
(05:02):
That was the term, by the way, that people like
Martin Luther King Junior said that you could call communists
to help hide them. I mean, let's be honest for
what this is when we say democrat socialist or democratic socialists,
I mean that's the term that people like MLK and
others used to say. This is a good way to
hide it. This is camouflage for communists. That's what the
(05:24):
term will be. Well, we now have one of I
think maybe the most high profile supporter, probably in the
sense that it's certainly comical that she's come out to
support him, and it's Elizabeth Warren, who has just not
long after she fell. Remember she just fell recently, and
that's not funny in its own right, but it's just
(05:47):
interesting that she falls. Ted Cruz is the one there
to pick her up, and then suddenly she decides she's
going to show up in New York and say, this
is the guy that's going to fix New York City,
and he's going to bring law and order to New
York City and he's going to get everything straightened out.
I saw where she was being interviewed by someone and
they kept asking her what happens when all the businesses leave,
(06:09):
and she's like, they're not going to leave. They've threatened
to leave forever and they're not going to leave. And
I said, well, you start taxing them en off and said,
why would they run away? Why shouldn't they pay taxes?
Why are you supporting why is the right? Why are
Republicans supporting all of these billionaires. Well, a lot of
these billionaires bring a lot of jobs, and a lot
of these billionaires specifically bring jobs to cities like New York.
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And if the jobs go away, and then the people
either have to decide I'm going to stay here and
not have a job, or I'm going to go with
them wherever the job and my coworkers go. And they
happen to relocate to other cities. And sometimes that's Florida,
sometimes that's Texas, sometimes that's Georgia, sometimes that's Tennessee. It's happening.
(06:54):
They're moving. They're moving into the South, that's what they're doing.
And there's other states also where they're doing it. But
those are some of the big ones where a lot
of jobs have relocated. And it's not fun. It's not
fun when your job up in leaves town. I know
this is a very sensitive and very sore subject for
(07:14):
many here in Columbus as we've gotten word that one
of our major companies is prepping to head on out
of town, and it's quite painful for the people who
are living it. We've actually got two large companies that
are looking at those scenarios, so it's not a fun
thing to have to deal with. But it's really like
it's one thing when you say, okay, as a company,
(07:36):
we're going to you know, we've been we've done a merger,
and we're going to relocate to where our main offices are.
That happened to remember Carmike Cinemas here in Columbus. You know,
the main office had to merge when it went to AMC.
Some of the people there had to make the decision
to move to Kansas or wherever it is, and that's
(07:56):
what they did. Some of them didn't even have the choice.
They were told, you know what, you're not moving, so
you don't have a job anymore. And that's the reality
of putting yourself in a position where you're forcing businesses
to either leave town or pay ridiculously high taxes in
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order to support your democratic socialist aka communist ideals. And
I love the fact that you're not supposed to call
it what it is. You're not supposed to say that
it is in fact communism because you get told it's
socialism and communism aren't the same thing. Well again, Martin
(08:38):
Luther King is one.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of the people who told us early.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
On that's exactly what it is. It's another way to
call it something different and have people not really know
what it is. I mean, he laid it out for us.
Those aren't his exact words, but that's basically what he
told us. It's going to be called something else, and
it will probably be called democratic socialism.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well here you go.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So now Elizabeth Warren jumps in and she says that
that's what you gotta do, and that people aren't going
to leave and there's no danger of that, and that
only these ideas that mom Donnie has are going to
be the things they're going to fix what's going on
in New York. It's not going to run people away,
it's not going to cause crime to go up, it's
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not going to make the city worse.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's gonna definitely make things better. I hope we don't
get to see.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I've seen a couple of reports that say that basically
the election was changed so that Mom, Donnie could actually
win without having to go through a runoff against Cuomo.
And it seems that that's what they did. That's interesting,
isn't it. So what happens when he actually has to
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have an election against someone else and they can't prop
him up. Is that going to be enough or do
they just need him to be there long enough to
get the attention that they're hoping for, because ultimately that
is what happens, right, It's about trying to get attention.
It's about trying to draw attention to yourself. It's about
trying to draw attention to your party. It's about trying
(10:12):
to draw attention to some of these ideals that, let's
be honest, have been fading very quickly and have been failing,
been failing the party. When you get to a point
where you're saying, they're so desperate that they're willing to
try this, even though many are splitting away and saying no,
they're not going to support this guy in.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
New York anyway. So Elizabeth Warren, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And I think the New York Post had the headline
that the African American meeting the Native American when those.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Two got together with the photo of the two. Do
with that as you please.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hey, speaking of photos, so going to take a minute.
I feel like, with all the talk that has happened
about Sidney Sweeney and her American Eagle AD, feel like
I just need to watch it again and make sure
that there's not something that I'm missing. I've probably watched
(11:09):
it upwards of one hundred times, and it really does
get better each time. I can't really put my finger
on what it is that I like about the AD.
I mean, there's multiple things to like about the AD.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I like this idea.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
First of all, let's just say this that I know
this isn't going to be the popular spin on it
by any means, but you're talking about a company, an
American Eagle, that I don't think is anywhere, like maybe
not even top five prior to this AD of being
(11:49):
a company that people think I got to buy jeans,
I gotta go get American Eagle genes. Now, some people,
I'm sure do think that. And maybe maybe there's a
gender thing because she's selling genes in general, but these
are women's genes, I assume.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
From the AD.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I haven't really I haven't really noticed the genes in
the ad.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's what's so weird about it too. You would think
it would be the first thing that I would see
in the ad, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
At best, it's the third thing that I see in
the ad, and maybe even further down the list. So
the ad is definitely got people thinking about this company
when it comes to Genes, that's what you want your
ads to do. That's what you you thrive for, this
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kind of attention to come off of advertising. And there
used to be this adage that no publicity was there's
no such thing as bad publicity. Any of it is positive.
And we went through this phase for a number of
years where we basically were saying no, no, you can
have bad publicity because if you know, this very small
mind minority of people in the country decides that whatever
(13:02):
you're saying is a bad message, and they can destroy you,
and they can, you know, docks you, and they can
try to take away your house, they can try to
take away your livelihood, they can threaten members of your
family and.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Get away with it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And we're kind of in this phase now where that
has certainly started to back off, doesn't seem to be
and I don't know, I don't want to underestimate us, because,
as we've discussed this week already a couple of times,
the things that we're now capable of, or at least
we've put ourselves in a position to be capable of
or horrible when you think about what happened, it's not
(13:38):
just there but just kind of recently fresh on the brain.
Cincinnati as by the way, the narrative on that whole
story gets more and more absurd of the way that
the left has handled it, specifically the left in Cincinnati
has handled it. It's ridiculously absurd. But anyway, so this
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ad gets made and it's got people talking about American Eagle.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, as far as names.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Go for this type of thing. When people, especially people
on the right, are really embracing this, companies called American Eagle,
American Eagle, it's just all right there for this to
all be this amazing thing. You got this very attractive actress,
one of the it girls in Hollywood right now, and
(14:30):
I'm underselling it by saying attractive. There are you know,
this massive fan club type groups for this girl, and
I get it. Look the first time I saw her
in something, I was amazed at what a great actress
she was. She's just, you know, just a great actress,
(14:53):
and she's got so much talent as an actress, and
you see her performing and you just you can't help
but just think, who taught this girl to act this way?
How did she become such a great actress? And she's
just doing all the right things when it comes to
her performances. And I say all that, and you can
(15:17):
feel there's some tongue in cheek to it, but in reality,
she is. She's very good at what she does. You
can listen to other actors talk about her, and especially females,
and they say, we wanted her to not be a
good actress, and then she was. We just didn't want
it to be that because she looks like supermodel. She
looks like she could be in the swimsuit issue, one
(15:40):
of the ladies in the swimsuit issue, and she could
easily do that. And then she's also this very talented
actress on top of that, and that's true. So you
got this exactly who you'd want to be the spokesperson.
And then you've got these places trying to out her
as being a Republican or conservative and all those things,
(16:02):
and of course that led to Trump and Vance and
others commenting on what a great actress she is.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So I don't see.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I know that there haven't been official numbers as
far as the amount of genes that have been sold,
but there's been there's a story there, there's something happening
with this company, and if that happens to be the
company that's embracing the old school values of look, we're
going to put an attractive girl in some denim and
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she's going to roll around on TV, and then we're
going to put the name.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Of the genes on there. Now you may be wondering.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I had someone ask me just a couple of days ago,
what is all the fuss about this ad?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
What is the problem?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And it's because she says she has blue eyes and
that means she has good genes, and of course that
means to some, well, clearly this is Nazi speak. Clearly
that's what they're going for as they're trying to promote
Nazi ideals. They're trying to promote blue eyes and genetics.
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And then you got some that say it's just plain
racist because you know, blue eyes tend to be a
white people thing, so it's absurd, And I think I
probably just to make sure I've got a good grasp
of this, need to probably just take another minute and
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watch the ad at least, I don't know another seventy times.
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lot of different kinds of phones you can have, and
one of the phones that has come out and it
seems to be one of those novelty things, and a
lot of people thought, I'd like to get the phone
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(21:29):
talking about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold seven is the
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A lot of people want to know, and I think
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It's a fair question.
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(23:22):
and State Fair Nerds beer. So yeah, I mean, what
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(24:05):
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It's you know, circle of life and all that stuff.
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rather than just turn the rat or guinea pig or
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and the connections between where science fiction sometimes leads to
science science sometimes leads to science fiction. It's just a
weird connection that's already there. It's built into it, and
I say it's weird, but it's really not. It makes
perfect sense. The two go together very well. Learn more
about the Coca Cola Space Science Center at CCSSC dot org.
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Learn more about this year's dragon Con the website, which
is DragonCon dot org
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
your day when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Wednesday morning, sixth day of August.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm West thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're a little closer to Labor Day weekend, a little
closer to Dragon Conn. Look, some of you have even
reached out to me to point out Labor Day weekend
is when college football really gets started in full swing.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I get that. I know.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's just celebrate Labor Day for all the things that
it is. Let's don't limit ourselves just to college football
or to Dragon Con. Fandom is fandom. We can all
love every aspect of fandom.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I once had the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Great pleasure of hanging out with David Eckstein, who is
the husband of Ashley Exstein, and he also happens.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
To be a World Series MVP.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And he was at Dragon Con many years ago with
his wife, and she was there with fans and talking
with fans and get pictures and autographs and things with
people that came up to talk to her. A lot
of kids came up at the time. That was kind
of while the Clone Wars was kind of getting going
strong on a Disney Channel or whatever it was called.
(01:21):
Then I know there's a different version, but it's a
Disney product. And she was, you know, just great with
her fans. It's one of the great things that I
love about Dragon Con is watching voice actors interact with
their fans and seeing the way faces light up when
they see the face behind the voice that they do.
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And her husband was there, and he and I were
just kind of hanging out talking watching her, talking about
how great things were and the way the fandom had
been for this Ahsoka character that she played, and so
he and I were talking just about the differences and
parallels between sports fandom and this sci fi pop culture
(02:09):
fandom that was going on, and he was saying, it's
really not that different. You know, you got people in jerseys,
you got people in costumes of their favorite characters. I mean,
you're dressing up and you're showing support, and you're showing
your passion and love for what it is. That coming
from an athlete, not just an athlete, but a World
(02:29):
Series MVP. So I like to remind people that, yes,
while we know there is sports getting started as far
as college football and getting ready for pro football to
get started, right after that, all of that is all
part of the excitement that is Labor Day.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But dragon Conn also happens to.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Be going on in Atlanta that weekend, and there's going
to be you know, some games in Atlanta, kickoff games,
Chick fil A kickoff games and things both Saturday and Sunday,
and there will be many of fans they're celebrating, and
many of them end up stumbling into dragon Con the
way I did the first time I went twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Years ago and said, oh my gosh, what is this.
I need to be a part of this moving forward.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And I see some of them now that stumble in.
I remember the Georgia and Boise State game and all
these people that had come in Boise State fans like,
wait a minute, this is amazing. We're going to come back,
And I see them still they come back. So I'll
be covering dragon Con with the dragon Con Pregame Show,
on the DragonCon Pregame Show podcast, and on radio about
(03:34):
two hundred radio stations around the state of Georgia with
special guests. The ones I can announce so far Katie Sackoff, Diane,
Ana Lee, and Asanto and some other voices that you'll
hear talking about the convention, some guests from the convention.
We'll talk with doctor Sean Crusin from Columbus State University's
(03:56):
Coca Cola Space Science Center, who happens to be a
sponsor of our Dragon Con coverage this year, and we'll
talk with him about science and science fiction. And then
we've also got a guest coming to the Mative Stars
podcast that will be at Dragon Con. So a lot
of stuff concerning the convention, and again thanks to the
Coca Cola Space Science Center. And you can go back
and listen to past episodes, including ones that have interviews
(04:19):
with people that we've lost some recently, like Lonnie Anderson
interviewed her back I think it was twenty eleven Dragon Con,
So there you go. All right. I want to talk
a little bit about this struggle that's been going on
for the City of New York. We've talked a little
bit about this, this battle for Gotham, if you will,
(04:39):
and they've been looking for some sort of positive endorsement
and support from some of the heavy hitters in the
Democrat Party for this mayoral candidate, Mamdani, who is Democrat socialist.
(05:02):
That was the term, by the way, that people like
Martin Luther King Junior said that you could call communists
to help hide them. I mean, let's be honest for
what this is when we say democrat socialist or democratic socialists,
I mean that's the term that people like MLK and
others used to say. This is a good way to
hide it. This is camouflage for communists. That's what the
(05:24):
term will be. Well, we now have one of I
think maybe the most high profile supporter, probably in the
sense that it's certainly comical that she's come out to
support him, and it's Elizabeth Warren, who has just not
long after she fell. Remember she just fell recently, and
that's not funny in its own right, but it's just
(05:47):
interesting that she falls. Ted Cruz is the one there
to pick her up, and then suddenly she decides she's
going to show up in New York and say, this
is the guy that's going to fix New York City,
and he's going to bring law and order to New
York City and he's going to get everything straightened out.
I saw where she was being interviewed by someone and
they kept asking her what happens when all the businesses leave,
(06:09):
and she's like, they're not going to leave. They've threatened
to leave forever and they're not going to leave. And
I said, well, you start taxing them en off and said,
why would they run away? Why shouldn't they pay taxes?
Why are you supporting why is the right? Why are
Republicans supporting all of these billionaires. Well, a lot of
these billionaires bring a lot of jobs, and a lot
of these billionaires specifically bring jobs to cities like New York.
(06:32):
And if the jobs go away, and then the people
either have to decide I'm going to stay here and
not have a job, or I'm going to go with
them wherever the job and my coworkers go. And they
happen to relocate to other cities. And sometimes that's Florida,
sometimes that's Texas, sometimes that's Georgia, sometimes that's Tennessee. It's happening.
(06:54):
They're moving. They're moving into the South, that's what they're doing.
And there's other states also where they're doing it. But
those are some of the big ones where a lot
of jobs have relocated. And it's not fun. It's not
fun when your job up in leaves town. I know
this is a very sensitive and very sore subject for
(07:14):
many here in Columbus as we've gotten word that one
of our major companies is prepping to head on out
of town, and it's quite painful for the people who
are living it. We've actually got two large companies that
are looking at those scenarios, so it's not a fun
thing to have to deal with. But it's really like
it's one thing when you say, okay, as a company,
(07:36):
we're going to you know, we've been we've done a merger,
and we're going to relocate to where our main offices are.
That happened to remember Carmike Cinemas here in Columbus. You know,
the main office had to merge when it went to AMC.
Some of the people there had to make the decision
to move to Kansas or wherever it is, and that's
(07:56):
what they did. Some of them didn't even have the choice.
They were told, you know what, you're not moving, so
you don't have a job anymore. And that's the reality
of putting yourself in a position where you're forcing businesses
to either leave town or pay ridiculously high taxes in
(08:17):
order to support your democratic socialist aka communist ideals. And
I love the fact that you're not supposed to call
it what it is. You're not supposed to say that
it is in fact communism because you get told it's
socialism and communism aren't the same thing. Well again, Martin
(08:38):
Luther King is one.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of the people who told us early.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
On that's exactly what it is. It's another way to
call it something different and have people not really know
what it is. I mean, he laid it out for us.
Those aren't his exact words, but that's basically what he
told us. It's going to be called something else, and
it will probably be called democratic socialism.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well here you go.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So now Elizabeth Warren jumps in and she says that
that's what you gotta do, and that people aren't going
to leave and there's no danger of that, and that
only these ideas that mom Donnie has are going to
be the things they're going to fix what's going on
in New York. It's not going to run people away,
it's not going to cause crime to go up, it's
(09:21):
not going to make the city worse.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's gonna definitely make things better. I hope we don't
get to see.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I've seen a couple of reports that say that basically
the election was changed so that Mom, Donnie could actually
win without having to go through a runoff against Cuomo.
And it seems that that's what they did. That's interesting,
isn't it. So what happens when he actually has to
(09:50):
have an election against someone else and they can't prop
him up. Is that going to be enough or do
they just need him to be there long enough to
get the attention that they're hoping for, because ultimately that
is what happens, right, It's about trying to get attention.
It's about trying to draw attention to yourself. It's about
trying to draw attention to your party. It's about trying
(10:12):
to draw attention to some of these ideals that, let's
be honest, have been fading very quickly and have been failing,
been failing the party. When you get to a point
where you're saying, they're so desperate that they're willing to
try this, even though many are splitting away and saying no,
they're not going to support this guy in.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
New York anyway. So Elizabeth Warren, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And I think the New York Post had the headline
that the African American meeting the Native American when those.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Two got together with the photo of the two. Do
with that as you please.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hey, speaking of photos, so going to take a minute.
I feel like, with all the talk that has happened
about Sidney Sweeney and her American Eagle AD, feel like
I just need to watch it again and make sure
that there's not something that I'm missing. I've probably watched
(11:09):
it upwards of one hundred times, and it really does
get better each time. I can't really put my finger
on what it is that I like about the AD.
I mean, there's multiple things to like about the AD.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I like this idea.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
First of all, let's just say this that I know
this isn't going to be the popular spin on it
by any means, but you're talking about a company, an
American Eagle, that I don't think is anywhere, like maybe
not even top five prior to this AD of being
(11:49):
a company that people think I got to buy jeans,
I gotta go get American Eagle genes. Now, some people,
I'm sure do think that. And maybe maybe there's a
gender thing because she's selling genes in general, but these
are women's genes, I assume.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
From the AD.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I haven't really I haven't really noticed the genes in
the ad.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's what's so weird about it too. You would think
it would be the first thing that I would see
in the ad, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
At best, it's the third thing that I see in
the ad, and maybe even further down the list. So
the ad is definitely got people thinking about this company
when it comes to Genes, that's what you want your
ads to do. That's what you you thrive for, this
(12:39):
kind of attention to come off of advertising. And there
used to be this adage that no publicity was there's
no such thing as bad publicity. Any of it is positive.
And we went through this phase for a number of
years where we basically were saying no, no, you can
have bad publicity because if you know, this very small
mind minority of people in the country decides that whatever
(13:02):
you're saying is a bad message, and they can destroy you,
and they can, you know, docks you, and they can
try to take away your house, they can try to
take away your livelihood, they can threaten members of your
family and.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Get away with it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And we're kind of in this phase now where that
has certainly started to back off, doesn't seem to be
and I don't know, I don't want to underestimate us, because,
as we've discussed this week already a couple of times,
the things that we're now capable of, or at least
we've put ourselves in a position to be capable of
or horrible when you think about what happened, it's not
(13:38):
just there but just kind of recently fresh on the brain.
Cincinnati as by the way, the narrative on that whole
story gets more and more absurd of the way that
the left has handled it, specifically the left in Cincinnati
has handled it. It's ridiculously absurd. But anyway, so this
(14:00):
ad gets made and it's got people talking about American Eagle.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, as far as names.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Go for this type of thing. When people, especially people
on the right, are really embracing this, companies called American Eagle,
American Eagle, it's just all right there for this to
all be this amazing thing. You got this very attractive actress,
one of the it girls in Hollywood right now, and
(14:30):
I'm underselling it by saying attractive. There are you know,
this massive fan club type groups for this girl, and
I get it. Look the first time I saw her
in something, I was amazed at what a great actress
she was. She's just, you know, just a great actress,
(14:53):
and she's got so much talent as an actress, and
you see her performing and you just you can't help
but just think, who taught this girl to act this way?
How did she become such a great actress? And she's
just doing all the right things when it comes to
her performances. And I say all that, and you can
(15:17):
feel there's some tongue in cheek to it, but in reality,
she is. She's very good at what she does. You
can listen to other actors talk about her, and especially females,
and they say, we wanted her to not be a
good actress, and then she was. We just didn't want
it to be that because she looks like supermodel. She
looks like she could be in the swimsuit issue, one
(15:40):
of the ladies in the swimsuit issue, and she could
easily do that. And then she's also this very talented
actress on top of that, and that's true. So you
got this exactly who you'd want to be the spokesperson.
And then you've got these places trying to out her
as being a Republican or conservative and all those things,
(16:02):
and of course that led to Trump and Vance and
others commenting on what a great actress she is.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So I don't see.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I know that there haven't been official numbers as
far as the amount of genes that have been sold,
but there's been there's a story there, there's something happening
with this company, and if that happens to be the
company that's embracing the old school values of look, we're
going to put an attractive girl in some denim and
(16:33):
she's going to roll around on TV, and then we're
going to put the name.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Of the genes on there. Now you may be wondering.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I had someone ask me just a couple of days ago,
what is all the fuss about this ad?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
What is the problem?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And it's because she says she has blue eyes and
that means she has good genes, and of course that
means to some, well, clearly this is Nazi speak. Clearly
that's what they're going for as they're trying to promote
Nazi ideals. They're trying to promote blue eyes and genetics.
(17:07):
And then you got some that say it's just plain
racist because you know, blue eyes tend to be a
white people thing, so it's absurd, And I think I
probably just to make sure I've got a good grasp
of this, need to probably just take another minute and
(17:27):
watch the ad at least, I don't know another seventy times.
Today's show brought to you by Columbus State University's Coca
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It's unlike any concert experience that you can get anywhere else.
It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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(18:34):
I mean This is a major city attraction that happens
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Cola Space Science Center and the new season of Music
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(19:16):
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Morning Show right after the break. All right, there's a
(21:08):
lot of different kinds of phones you can have, and
one of the phones that has come out and it
seems to be one of those novelty things, and a
lot of people thought, I'd like to get the phone
because it's a great novelty thing and it looks like
it could be neat, but I don't know how durable
it is and how long it's gonna last. And we're
(21:29):
talking about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold seven is the
new version of these big screen foldable phones. Consumers like it,
and I guess there's been a question since the first
of these type of phones came out, is how many
times can you fold the screen before it actually breaks?
(21:51):
A lot of people want to know, and I think
it's a valid question.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's a fair question.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Well, a YouTuber in Korea decided to put it to
the test and did a live folding of I guess
decided I'm going to fold this thing two hundred thousand times.
I think that's the kind of test that we need.
(22:17):
For a product like this, you just need somebody who's
going to sit there and be dedicated enough to fold
it and fold it, and I guess you have to
unfold it and fold it again. So I think that's
it's ongoing. I don't know that we've got results yet.
I think it's ongoing. All right. It's that time of
year where you start talking about the county and state
(22:39):
fairs and you get all these ridiculous deep fried butter
or deep fried kool Aid stuff like that. Well, the
Iowa State Fair, which is of course one of the
ones that gets things started, and it is one of
the state fairs that has the most ridiculous of foods
(22:59):
and beverages. As this year they are doing some non
alcoholic drinks like Bubblegum soda, frozen hot chocolate pickle, State
Fair lemonade, and then they're doing some for people that
are over twenty one with funnel cake beer, Mini Donut beer,
(23:22):
and State Fair Nerds beer. So yeah, I mean, what
took them so long to get beverages in the mix,
That's what I was wondering. But now it's nice to
know that they are in fact getting this, getting this
(23:44):
done so there you go. How about this is Zoom
in Denmark trying to work on animal control and also
trying to I guess, feed some of their animals in
(24:05):
their zoo. It's an interesting approach to this by they're
asking the public to donate unwanted small pets, yeah, to
feed their animals.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
It's you know, circle of life and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Basically, they're just trying to find some of these small
animals to feed the predators. I don't want to talk
about the specifics of it because it's a little disturbing,
but you can use your imagination. Maybe you got a
pet rat and you don't really want it anymore. So
(24:44):
rather than just turn the rat or guinea pig or
whatever loose, they could find a use for it, and that,
in its own way, is making a contribution.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
To the zoo.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And keeping the animals fed. Hey, have you got any
debt that you're hiding from your partner? Well you're not
alone if you do. A survey found more than eighty
percent of Americans are carrying debt, with an average amount
of forty two thousand dollars. Sixty six percent of those
carrying debt lie about it to their loved ones, and
the reason that they lie is shame. Thirty percent of
(25:21):
respondent said embarrassment was the main reason they hid their
debt from others. Twenty percent said they didn't want to
burden their loved ones. Seventeen percent said the fear of
being judged was the reason for holding for hiding their debt.
And of course, mental health takes a toll as a result,
with those in debt suffering from depression, constant worry, and
(25:42):
difficulty sleeping.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Not good. Got to find a.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Way, got to find a way to unburden yourself of
the debt and the anxiety of it. Are you hesitant
to travel overseas because you're worried you won't know what
to say once you'll end again? New surveys saying you
wouldn't be alone because this comes from language learning platform
Preply and they say one to three Americans deliberately avoid
(26:07):
traveling to countries where they can't speak the language. Over
sixty four million people letting language anxiety shape their travel plans.
The survey found that while eighty percent of Americans say
it's important to learn the local phrases that could get
them through the day before traveling, abroad, only fifty eight
percent actually do it, and when they do, forty percent
cram at the last minute, grabbing phrases at the airport
(26:30):
instead of prepping ahead. You don't need to know where
the biblioteca is while you're on vacation. The countries that
intimidate Americans the most are China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand,
and France.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
One of these is not like the others that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
For this Wednesday edition of the show, thanks to our
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you live in the State of Georgia or one of
the states near enough to the State of Georgia to
pick up a radio signal coming from the network of
stations in the State of Georgia that'll be carrying the show,
and there are many in Alabama and Tennessee and the
Carolinas that'll have a chance to hear it, even down
into Florida, or simply listen to it on the dragon
(28:09):
Con Pregame Show podcast wherever you listen to your podcast, yes,
where you're listening to this podcast. You can also find
past editions of the dragon Con Pregame Show podcast with
interviews with William Shatner, other stars from Star Trek, The
Walking Dead, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many animated stars, some
(28:31):
of your favorite Disney stars. Chances to hear interviews with them,
and this year's dragon Con Pregame Show will drop to
the podcast on August twenty third, and you can hear
this year's interviews. It's sponsored by Columbus State University's Coca
Cola Space Science Center, where doctor Sean Cruisin and I
often like to discuss the science behind the science fiction
(28:56):
and the connections between where science fiction sometimes leads to
science science sometimes leads to science fiction. It's just a
weird connection that's already there. It's built into it, and
I say it's weird, but it's really not. It makes
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