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AOC Sets Herself Up to Be the Next Useful Idiot · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, nineteenth day of February. I'm west thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Feeling quite a bit better, a little optimistic
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Speaker 2: maybe I can salvage some of the weekend ahead, but
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Speaker 2: feeling significantly better as of yesterday. About mid morning yesterday,
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Speaker 2: I think it started to really hit me. I was
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Speaker 2: starting to feel somewhat better, had a little bit of energy,
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Speaker 2: probably overdeaded at some point. Really, I thought, okay, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm on this side of the illness, not contagious anymore.
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Speaker 2: I can go, you know, comfortably without worrying about spreading
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Speaker 2: it everywhere. And I went to the store and did
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Speaker 2: a little shopping out a few things that we needed.
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Speaker 2: I typically have to this on the show quite a bit,
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Speaker 2: but I typically do our shopping, and I usually do
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Speaker 2: it on the weekends. Did not have the opportunity to
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Speaker 2: do that over the weekend because I was so sick
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. So some things that we just needed, some
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Speaker 2: basic stuff that we needed and just to kind of
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Speaker 2: limp through the rest of the week as far as
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Speaker 2: what we had.
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Speaker 3: And I ended up.
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Speaker 2: Kind of walking around, shopping around in the store a
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Speaker 2: little bit more than I probably should have, kind of
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Speaker 2: tired me out a bit. So I've got to get
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Speaker 2: my endurance back up. But probably sound a little bit better.
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Speaker 2: That's good, I think. I think I sound better, not
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Speaker 2: as croaky as I have been, and that's certainly a positive.
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Speaker 2: And I just still really need to get some good sleep.
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Speaker 2: I mean, a few more days of good sleep. I
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Speaker 2: think I'll do it. But as I've said, this has
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Speaker 2: been a humdinger of an illness. I haven't said that specifically.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I've ever said humdinger in a
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Speaker 2: long time. But my point is, if you have kids,
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Speaker 2: especially if you get kids in school, when they get
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Speaker 2: home from school, have them washing their hands just as
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Speaker 2: soon as they walk in the door. And really, when
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Speaker 2: you're out in public, this stuff is out there. It's everywhere.
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Speaker 2: People are dealing with it. I'm certainly not the only one,
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Speaker 2: but I appreciate those of you who've been listening this
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Speaker 2: week to me sounding like I'm gargling glass I think
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Speaker 2: while I'm talking. But I think it's a little better
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Speaker 2: today and it'll continue to get a little better. But again,
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Speaker 2: may not do like a full half hour. I'll do
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Speaker 2: as much as I can do again today and we'll
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Speaker 2: just kind of go from there and we'll work our
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Speaker 2: way into this weekend and just be careful out there.
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Speaker 2: That's all I can tell you. It's all I can
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Speaker 2: tell you. Be careful out there. This is not a
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Speaker 2: fun one. This has been rough, and.
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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people. There's a lot of
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Speaker 3: people getting the flu.
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Speaker 2: This isn't the flu, I don't I don't think the
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Speaker 2: doctor said it wasn't the flu. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: it is, but the flu's out there. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of people with the flu, so you know, you could
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Speaker 2: there's always the possibility of that. And as I pointed out,
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Speaker 2: you know we got pollen coming soon. So so today
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Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about the the Olympic.
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Speaker 2: No I did enjoy Yesterday. Luke and I were watching
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Speaker 2: the quarterfinal game with the US and Sweden.
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Speaker 3: That was fun. The men's hockey team.
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Speaker 2: As the advice, sorry if you've spoiler alert if you
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Speaker 2: dvard it, they advanced to the semifinals and collision course,
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Speaker 2: it looks it seems you don't want to get ahead
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Speaker 2: of yourself, but that collision course is certainly set for
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Speaker 2: a US and Canada gold medal game, assuming that they
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Speaker 2: both get to that point. But anyway, No, we could talk.
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Speaker 2: We could talk about curling, we could talk about ice hockey,
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Speaker 2: all the sports that involve skis and people kind of
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Speaker 2: flying through the air and skeletons and bob sleds and
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Speaker 2: all that. But no, no, no, I've enjoyed. I do
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Speaker 2: like the Winter Games. No, what I want to talk
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Speaker 2: about today is this whole thing with.
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Speaker 3: AOC.
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Speaker 2: She says she's not running for president. We know she's
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Speaker 2: got every intention of running for president. It's quite laughable
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Speaker 2: to think that, you know, anything's possible. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to say, because you know, I was with the people
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Speaker 2: who thought that the Donald Trump campaign back in twenty
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Speaker 2: sixteen was a joke. I didn't think that was serious.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think he really wanted to win. I mean,
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Speaker 2: doesn't surprise me now, but at the time, I just thought, well,
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Speaker 2: he's buddies with the Clintons, maybe he's making it easy
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Speaker 2: for her, And that of course ended up not being
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Speaker 2: the case at all. And you know, rest has been history,
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Speaker 2: and it was history and it wasn't and then it
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Speaker 2: was history. Again, I don't know it's all history. But
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Speaker 2: my point is the idea of her running for president
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Speaker 2: is comical, but it fits right in with our discussions
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Speaker 2: we've had about useful idiots.
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Speaker 3: I think she would be.
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Speaker 2: She has thus far been a very useful idiot for
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. She's traveled overseas, and she's been answering
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Speaker 2: questions about you know, foreign policy, man, And I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: tell you what I know. There's been people that have
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Speaker 2: been talking about her embarrassing response to questions. I've got
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Speaker 2: it pulled up here for you. So this the question
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Speaker 2: she was asked was about whether the US, whatever she could,
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Speaker 2: they could ever see the US deploying troops to Taiwan
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Speaker 2: should China decide to make a move. And here is
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Speaker 2: what she had to say about that.
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Speaker 4: I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do
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Speaker 4: so because some people out there in our nation don't
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Speaker 4: have that. And I I believe that our education, like
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Speaker 4: such as South Africa and Iraq everywhere like such as
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Speaker 4: and I believe that they should Our education over here
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Speaker 4: in the US should help the US, or should help
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Speaker 4: South Africa and should help Iraq. In the Asian countries,
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Speaker 4: so we will be able to build up our future
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Speaker 4: for our child, Thank.
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Speaker 1: You very much.
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Speaker 2: Of course that's not her, but that's basically it's the
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Speaker 2: clip that is Miss South Carolina for Miss teen USA
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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, with Mario Lopez coming in trying
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Speaker 2: to trying to savor at the last minute, one of
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Speaker 2: the most infamous word slad moments in the history of television. No,
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Speaker 2: that's not AOC. This is AOC.
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Speaker 3: And tell me if you can hear any difference at all.
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Speaker 5: You know, I think that this is such a uh.
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Speaker 5: You know, I think that.
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Speaker 1: This is a.
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Speaker 5: This is of course a very long standing policy of
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Speaker 5: the United States.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 5: And I think what we are hoping for is that
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Speaker 5: we want to make sure that we never get to
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Speaker 5: that point, and we want to make sure that we
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Speaker 5: are moving in all of our economic research and our
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Speaker 5: global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that
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Speaker 5: question to even arise.
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Speaker 2: Okay, have you noticed a pattern in what's been happening
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Speaker 2: with the left. We'll go back just as our kickoff
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Speaker 2: point in all of this, and we'll start at Barack Obama.
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama is someone who always was perceived as being
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Speaker 2: very well spoken manned a room, at least sounded like
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Speaker 2: he knew what he was talking about. There were times
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Speaker 2: there's still times where he'll say things his and I
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Speaker 2: just talked about this yesterday. I believe about the way
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Speaker 2: that he's uh, he's been on this podcast. He was
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Speaker 2: talking about homelessness, I'm sorry, houseless people or whatever the
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Speaker 2: term is now, and uh specific in LA and places
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Speaker 2: like that, with ten cities and how we're you know,
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Speaker 2: we're a rich country. We have no excuse to have
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Speaker 2: so many people living in these ten cities and and
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Speaker 2: all these things and everything that he said in that
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Speaker 2: in that discussion, Uh, it didn't even really make a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of sense. It sounded like he was saying something,
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Speaker 2: but that that was his knack. He could say things,
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Speaker 2: he could quote things when and the things that he
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Speaker 2: talked about that made sense, you know, about deporting criminals
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Speaker 2: and us having too many people that have come across
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Speaker 2: the border and all these things, you know, all the
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Speaker 2: things that we used to stand for on both sides.
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Speaker 2: And even when he would talk about things that maybe
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Speaker 2: he didn't really know what he was talking about, it
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Speaker 2: at least sounded like he knew what he was talking
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Speaker 2: about right. He at least had that ability to convince
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Speaker 2: you that he knew what he was talking about. And
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Speaker 2: then then, of course we got into a Trump presidency,
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Speaker 2: and then we go to Joe Biden. Now, at one
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Speaker 2: time Joe Biden again, he would say things, and I
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Speaker 2: think it was pretty clear what he was talking about.
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Speaker 2: Back in the day. It was probably very sexist, It
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Speaker 2: was probably very racist. It was corn pop. It was
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Speaker 2: you know, the white hair on the legs, the kids
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Speaker 2: rubbing his legs, it was sniffing the little girls or whatever.
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Speaker 2: It didn't talk about that, but it was all of
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Speaker 2: those things, you know, the I'm not going to send
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Speaker 2: my kids to a racial jungle, and you know, all
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Speaker 2: that stuff, friends with.
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Speaker 3: Bird, all the things that they would like you to forget,
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Speaker 3: you know, all of those things. But he was clear.
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Speaker 2: And then you get to a point where he's very senior,
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Speaker 2: and they knew he was he was done politically, and
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Speaker 2: they sort of like just drafted him to run for president,
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Speaker 2: and they saw an opportunity that, hey, maybe he's likable
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Speaker 2: enough we can beat Trump, but he's also going to
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Speaker 2: be checked out enough that, you know, we can kind
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Speaker 2: of convince him. It's the same job as VP, and
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Speaker 2: all you gotta do is just show up every day
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Speaker 2: and we'll take care of the work. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's what they did. They just kind of were like, hey,
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Speaker 2: we got this. You know, we're gonna set up the
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Speaker 2: auto pen. We'll put your signature in.
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Speaker 3: You're good to go. You're good.
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Speaker 2: You just go over there, you watch TV, take naps,
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Speaker 2: take some out here. Take this ambient you don't want
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Speaker 2: to no, no, no, take it. Take it. It's good for you. You
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Speaker 2: take It's a vitem, and take it. And then they're
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Speaker 2: going to run the country behind his back, the useful
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Speaker 2: idiot thing. And again, this is not me making fun
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Speaker 2: of the guy's cognition issues. I don't make fun of that.
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Speaker 2: It's not funny. It's sad. And I think it was
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Speaker 2: elder abuse. I think we had multiple years of elder
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Speaker 2: abuse in the White House in America for the job
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Speaker 2: perceived as the most powerful person in the world. And
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Speaker 2: it's horrible. It's a tragedy that that was taking place.
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Speaker 2: And then came time for him to run for reelection
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Speaker 2: and they said, well, we've got this vice president that
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Speaker 2: we picked solely because of her race and gender. That
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Speaker 2: was the entire everything that we were basing on who
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Speaker 2: we were going to pick was going to hinge on that.
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Speaker 2: And we found this person who was a terrible candidate
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Speaker 2: for president, and we decided that this is going to
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Speaker 2: be the person that we want to be the VP,
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Speaker 2: because if something happens to him, we're gonna need another
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Speaker 2: useful idiot lined up ready to go. And then when
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Speaker 2: he couldn't run and they had an opportunity to say,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna open it up and let people vote, and
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Speaker 2: they didn't open it up and let people vote. They
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Speaker 2: just decided, no, it's gonna be her. We're taking the
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Speaker 2: democracy out of this process and then accusing the right
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Speaker 2: of being anti democracy, and we're gonna let the useful
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Speaker 2: idiot be there.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: We need a VP with her, And then they picked.
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Speaker 2: They didn't go with the guy that made sense. They
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Speaker 2: didn't go with Shapiro in Pennsylvania that maybe could have
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Speaker 2: helped her win that state. No, instead, they went with
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Speaker 2: another useful idiot in Tim Walls in Minnesota, and since
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Speaker 2: losing horribly, we've learned what a complete useful idiot he
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Speaker 2: really is as governor there and allowed fraud to take
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Speaker 2: place under his nose and the fiasco that was everything
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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, and uh with with the ice protests and people,
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Speaker 2: you know, everything just escalating to a point it didn't
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Speaker 2: need to let your law enforcement work with police and
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Speaker 2: ICE and everybody, or let your police officers work with ice,
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Speaker 2: get an opportunity to do what most of the country's
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Speaker 2: do and get the bad people and then let them
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Speaker 2: move on to the next city, prolonging it making it worse.
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Speaker 2: So I say all that to say, would it surprise
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Speaker 2: me if AOC who has been a useful idiot, she
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Speaker 2: wasn't a real uh you know, politician when she came
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Speaker 2: on the scene, just a little music history lesson the Beatles,
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Speaker 2: you know, were a thing. And at some point someone said,
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Speaker 2: we need to just kind of make a let's make
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Speaker 2: another version of we want to ready for TV and
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Speaker 2: movies and music group. We're gonna make this group and
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Speaker 2: they're the Monkeys. We're gonna make this group the my
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Speaker 2: Davy Jones and Mickey and Mike and who's Thellen Peter right.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have this group.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have this group, the Monkeys, and you know,
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Speaker 2: they had some hit songs and they had TV shows
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Speaker 2: and movies and hey, hey, we're the monkeys people say
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Speaker 2: were monkeying around or monkey or whatever the song is,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just know the one about the
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Speaker 2: shaven razor. I think of that song every time I shave,
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Speaker 2: every time I shave by the way. So that was
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Speaker 2: a we need to create something that we're gonna use
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Speaker 2: to fill this gap that we have, and that's what
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Speaker 2: they did with her. They kind of campaigned for an
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Speaker 2: actress to play this part.
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Speaker 3: That's what she was.
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Speaker 2: They went out and found somebody. Hey, anybody can win
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Speaker 2: in this district of New York, let's get her. She
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Speaker 2: can pretend that she's, you know, Jenny from the Block type,
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Speaker 2: you know, even though that's not her background, but she's
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Speaker 2: gonna go with that, convince everybody that that's who she is.
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Speaker 2: She fights for her people in that area. You know,
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Speaker 2: she's a she's a woman of the people, and occasionally,
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Speaker 2: you know, she has these little wins that the people
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Speaker 2: on the left like, they're not wins for the country,
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Speaker 2: but they're wins for her. So of course she's going
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Speaker 2: to be someone who's going to run for president, And
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Speaker 2: don't count her out as a potential actual person to
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Speaker 2: get the nomination or at the very least be the VP.
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Speaker 2: The top person on the ticket has to be a
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Speaker 2: useful idiot, and then she could be the number two
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Speaker 2: useful idiot.
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Speaker 3: Just no, she's not that far off from Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 3: She's not.
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Speaker 2: She very easily is like then, like the baton was passed,
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Speaker 2: just a quick little like okay, you you and I
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Speaker 2: know there's other people that want to run. There's other
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Speaker 2: people that people think, oh, yeah, you know Pritzker or
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Speaker 2: some or any of these people. But now that this
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Speaker 2: embarrassing thing has happened to AOC, she says, you know,
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Speaker 2: everybody want to talk about me running for president. I
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Speaker 2: didn't care about that.
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Speaker 3: Here you do, you do? You do?
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Speaker 2: It's not the first time it's come up. I know
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Speaker 2: you're embarrassed. You should be. You should have gone in
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Speaker 2: there ready. You gotta do the homework. You don't just
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Speaker 2: show up one day and go you know.
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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna wing this.
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Speaker 2: I haven't gone to class the whole semester, but uh,
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Speaker 2: let me take the let me take the final exam.
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Speaker 3: Do you know a lot about world history?
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Speaker 1: Nah?
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Speaker 2: But don't be all right. I can manage. And that's
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Speaker 2: what she tried to do and she got caught. It's
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Speaker 2: all right, it happens to people. This is an opportunity
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Speaker 2: for her to go and you know, maybe all the
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Speaker 2: people who you know decided this actress would be great.
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Speaker 2: You know, they can go back in school or on
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Speaker 2: a few things so that next time maybe she'll be ready.
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Speaker 2: But guess what, unless you're walking into friendly fire where
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Speaker 2: they're gonna ask you the questions that you need them
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Speaker 2: to ask, uh, there's always a possiblity they're gonna ask
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Speaker 2: you another hard question. You walked into the fire, got burned,
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Speaker 2: and now you're gonna pretend you're not gonna run. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna run, and based on what history's taught us for
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Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 3: Right after the break.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy to think that in twenty twenty six there
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Speaker 2: are still companies trying to figure out how to lure
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Speaker 2: employees back into the office, back to work in the
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Speaker 2: office environment. I mean, you would think at this point
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Speaker 2: you would probably be like, Hey, you're probably managing just
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Speaker 2: fine on your own, right.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I've expressed this in the past. We went through this
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Speaker 2: with COVID and twenty twenty. The fact that you know,
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Speaker 2: there's this idea that some people can manage themselves remotely,
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Speaker 2: there were some people who just cannot. There are some
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Speaker 2: bosses who can supervise with remote workers, and there are
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Speaker 2: some who cannot. So you would think some of this
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Speaker 2: would have maybe sorted itself out by now six years
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Speaker 2: later or working on six years later, but no, there
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Speaker 2: are still offices trying to get people to come back
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Speaker 2: into the office to work. And one of the things
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Speaker 2: that some companies are doing is they're trying to work
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Speaker 2: in free meals and not your typical office meals you
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Speaker 2: would certainly hope, not pizza and bagels or whatever. Companies
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Speaker 2: from big tech and finance are offering everything from basically
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Speaker 2: high end food from different restaurants and things, and they're
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Speaker 2: also looking at coffee stations, smoothie bars, and some businesses
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Speaker 2: have figured out that free lunch is cheaper than bonuses,
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Speaker 2: so it helps deliver a morale boost, gets employees in
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Speaker 2: the office talking to each other, staying longer probably I guess,
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Speaker 2: interacting over lunches and coffee breaks and things. And basically
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Speaker 2: now nearly half of caterers now say corporate dining is
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Speaker 2: their biggest revenue source as companies shift from occasional treats
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Speaker 2: to full on daily meals and menus.
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Speaker 3: So how about that.
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Speaker 2: It seems that rosters aren't just a thing for sports
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Speaker 2: and fantasy sports anymore. Oh No, they've made it into
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Speaker 2: the dating world as there's a new thing called roster dating,
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Speaker 2: and it's basically a dating trend where singles who have
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Speaker 2: a small lineup of people that they're talking to or seeing,
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Speaker 2: not exclusively, while they figure out what it is they're
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Speaker 2: really wanting. So basically they have starters and bench players
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Speaker 2: and backups, and used to call them back burners, right,
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Speaker 2: you had people that were on the back burner, maybe
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Speaker 2: for later. I remember that term from many years ago,
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Speaker 2: thirty plus years ago that I was available, not that
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Speaker 2: I ever used the back burner thing, but basically they're
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Speaker 2: calling it like a dating team. So it's less about
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Speaker 2: being ruthless and more about emotional efficiency. You spread out
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Speaker 2: in your energy so you're not crushed if one person
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Speaker 2: decides it's over. Therapists say it's a way to protect
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Speaker 2: yourself from getting hurt, but there can be a downside
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Speaker 2: if you start feeling calculated with it or lonely when
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Speaker 2: someone becomes a strategy rather than it becoming something organic,
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Speaker 2: so you gotta be careful with that. A new survey
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Speaker 2: says that the secret to a happier marriage might be
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Speaker 2: as simple as going to bed at the same time.
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Speaker 3: Bedtime gaps are real.
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Speaker 2: Most couples only tuck in together about three nights a week,
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Speaker 2: and the average gap between partner's bedtimes is sometimes eighty
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Speaker 2: to ninety minutes. Happiest couples they tend to hit the
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Speaker 2: pillow at the same time about four nights a week,
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Speaker 2: so those who were both night owls and early birds
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Speaker 2: more likely to say that they're very happy in their
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Speaker 2: marriage compared to couples who have that one early bird
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Speaker 2: and one night owl pairing. So the survey found that
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Speaker 2: going to bed at the same time helps partners feel closer,
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Speaker 2: boost intimacy and respond, and say they sleep better when
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Speaker 2: they sink their bedtimes. If you have a snore, sometimes
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Speaker 2: one of you likes to get to better earlier than
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Speaker 2: the other for getting that head start before the snorer
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Speaker 2: gets started. Some of us fall asleep very quickly and
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Speaker 2: start to snore almost immediately. That's all I'm saying. So
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Speaker 2: research says that playtime is important for adults. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: research shows the grown ups who make time for fun
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Speaker 2: actually happier, healthier, and less stress. Play doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: mean toys or games. It could be anything that brings curiosity, humor, movement,
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Speaker 2: and creativity into your day. Dancing in your kitchen, joking
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Speaker 2: around with friends, or trying a hobby just for fun.
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Speaker 2: They say it's the mindset that matters. So play strengthens relationships,
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Speaker 2: builds emotional intelligence, even improves resilience. So basically, experts say
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Speaker 2: you should make time for some silliness in your life'd
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Speaker 2: be good for you. That'll do it for this Thursday
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